RISC OS 5.16 for the IYONIX now available

See this page for more information.

A big thank you from the ROOL team to every one of our enthusiastic community members who have contributed to the RISC OS source tree since the previous official release back in April 2009. Every one of the changes in this build (and there are a lot) have come from your contributions. :)

Soft loading this on my Iyonix, results in the year being set to 2110. If I reset the year, once I reboot, it’s set back to 2110!

Anyone else having the same problem??

As you’ve discovered, you can’t fix the date problem by softloading RO5.16. It needs to be flashed, because otherwise – whatever you do – the older flashed version runs first when starting up and messes up the date.

Thanks Adrian!

Also, there are reports that the “ClockFixer” program clashes with RISC OS 5.16 and results in nonsense dates. You should remove this from your boot sequence after flashing the new ROM.

People who use network time (e.g. the NetTime module or similar) to get the time/date from a network time server won’t have this problem and will be able to use the 5.16 softload normally.

With 5.16 flashed, I’m still seeing as per 5.14 and 5.15 that USB mouse and/or keyboard don’t come up reliably. Once the machine starts, I have to unplug then plug them back in. As a reminder, I have a dev era machine.

Also in 5.15, that I never got around reporting is an odd wrapping in filer windows.

e.g.: http://www.riscos.info/downloads/test/screen.jpg

If you could file fault reports in the bug tracker for those issues I’d be grateful. As far as I can see, there are no similar fault reports there at present. ROOL are unfortunately unlikely to remember issues reported in the forums.