Who'll do the "da Vinci" workstation, then?

In this context I repeat the question, does anyone know the fate of (R.I.P.) Edward Detyna and The Electronic Font Foundry?s massive catalog of over 1300 fonts for over 60 languages?

This has already been explained to you. Edward Detyna passed away several years ago and his family/estate were not interested in carrying on with the work. So its been lost sadly. Although there are still copies of the 2 CD’s with hundreds of fonts that were made available for free still floating around.

“RISC OS for phones”

It’s never going to happen! you need to come out the dream world (as nice as it might be) and see what actual resources we have for development, i.e. very few.

We have someone (ONE person) looking at using multi-cores and indeed there is a test ROM around somewhere, but it does not do a lot, lotsof work to do it properly.

We have a modern web browser (Iris) but as it will be in premanent beta I suspect as it is a constant battle to keep up with the moving ‘standards’. It uses the webKit engine I believe.

Both ROOL and ROD have been looking at how to move to a 64 bit world in the future somehow with the few resources we have. But 32 bit chips will be around for awhile yet.

The new ROD TCP/IP stack can now do IPv6 as well as IPv4 and soon have Wi-Fi if the development work can continue.

Shouldn’t be too tricky to supply appropriate keyboard layouts, too.

Methinks you’ve never used an IME.

I’m not even going to bother with the rest, DNFTT.

Shouldn’t be too tricky to supply appropriate keyboard layouts, too.

Sveinung, could you do me a favour and download the source and then look at the keyboard handler code?
It would be useful to have you in the right frame of mind when the next bit of this discussion occurs.

Are you trying to light the blue touchpaper, Steve? Nemo pissed on it ages ago, and I’m standing on it in wet boots.

Nothing a Flammenwerfer won’t sort out, I’m sure.

Are you trying to light the blue touchpaper, Steve?

I’m betting Rick read it and may still be snickering and giggling tomorrow.
As it’s Xmas, I’m being festive. This is my code equivalent of concentrated sprout juice.

No, Rick is swearing at you in Québécois ¹ while wiping yogurt off the duvet…
But, damn, well played. Now we just need to sit back and wait for the inevitable whooshing sound.

¹ It’s great for getting crap past the radar, as to most Frenchies it’s just random mispronounced liturgical words.

What’s new. RISC OS users are an endangered species. We need good new days.
The CPU/GPU power is certainly here. Going maintainable by translating RO assembler to pure C is the lifeboat with good and transparent 26/32-bit emulation. That’s a foundation for a possible RISC OS revival with the WIMP system intact.