This week on RISC OS FR: new server, new website

We’re back!

This week, we have finished some important tasks. A new web server, much faster than before. A new FTP server, a better place for our files. A big update of our website, with smaller pages, less subdivisions, etc.

But that’s not all: we also putted new emulators on line, with RISC OS 5.22. And a new offer, BootToBasic, that boots directly into Basic, with a small footprint: a simple zip of 2.4 MB.

Last announce, a microsite for french users dedicated to Psion EPOC World. Not a lot of content yet here, but a light and cool ‘old school’ design (see http://www.riscos.fr/psion.html).

See you soon for other news on www.riscos.fr.

Let’s switch to french…

Nous voici de retour !

Cette semaine, nous avons achevé plusieurs tâches importantes. Un nouveau serveur web, plus rapide que précédemment. Un nouveau serveur FTP, réceptacle idéal de nos fichiers. Une mise à jour conséquente de notre site web, avec des pages plus compactes, moins de subdivisions, etc.

Mais ce n’est pas tout : nous avons également mis de nouveaux émulateurs en ligne, avec RISC OS 5.22. Et une nouvelle offre, BootToBasic, qui démarre directement en Basic, avec une faible taille : un simple fichier zip de 2,4 Mo.

Dernière annonce, l’arrivée d’un microsite dédié au monde Psion EPOC. Il ne propose pas encore beaucoup de contenu, mais il adopte un design léger et ‘old school’ que nous vous invitons à découvrir (sur http://www.riscos.fr/psion.html).

N’oubliez pas la liste de discussion RISC OS FR. Vous y retrouverez des discussions, mais aussi des services exclusifs : information et alertes eBay sur les produits susceptibles de vous intéresser. Plus de détails ici : http://www.riscos.fr/discutez.html.

À bientôt sur RISC OS FR.
Cordialement, David Feugey.

Last announce, a microsite for french users dedicated to Psion EPOC World. Not a lot of content yet here, but a light and cool ‘old school’ design (see http://www.riscos.fr/psion.html).

And for those of the SIBO persuasion (series 3), there is some old info at:

http://www.heyrick.co.uk/software/pb2/

…along with a “teardown”, because the insides of things are always interesting. ;-)

Dernière annonce, l’arrivée d’un microsite dédié au monde Psion EPOC.

Et, pour les gens avec le gamme SIBO (serie 3), voir le lien au dessus – mais désolé, c’est tout en anglais…

BTW, most people refer to the 16 bit system (series 3) as “SIBO” (SIxteen Bit Operating system or SIxteen Bit Organiser), reserving the name “EPOC” for the series 5 machines. It makes things easier than 16/32 suffixes.

Best explanation here: http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/pdas/psion/sibo/

Update:

Those interested in the old Psion machines will find this interesting.

For my part, I used my organiser right up until I got an Android phone, as absolutely nothing came anywhere near; and it hasn’t been until the fairly recent release of Google Docs that a basic text editor with styles became available “as standard” with such devices. I use Docs on my iPad as well as – for all of Apple’s greatness – out of the box it doesn’t have anything more powerful than a Jotter app. [recent Apple purchasers can download “Pages”, but I was a couple of weeks too early for that offer]
To be honest, SIBO and the Psion 3 showed us ages ago how an organiser should be put together. Database app? Yes. Word processor with basic styles? Yes. Spreadsheet? Yes. Ability to add your own apps? Yes. Can organise the home screen how you like? Yes. Expandable storage? Yes. Can connect to other machines? Yes. Runs for ages on two AA cells? Yes.
This isn’t to say it is perfect, the ~40KiB/doc limitation or ~64KiB/prog limitation proved difficult at times, however it has been a long long long time before handheld devices could match things that were just so easy on the ancient organiser.

Seems to be more SIxteen Bit Organiser, dixit Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPOC_%28operating_system%29

Before the Series 5, SIBO referred solely to the hardware architecture used by the Series 3, et al, and EPOC referred to the operating system. When the Series 5 was released by Psion, and Symbian was formed to develop the software for it, the decision was made to have EPOC refer only to the new 32-bit version of the operating system, and SIBO was to perform double-duty to refer to the both the hardware architecture and the 16-bit version of the operating system.

That’s one explanation. The other one is that they decided to use EPOC16 for old OS (EPOC32 for the new one and EPOC for both). Not very important anyway :)