Draft 2015 RISC OS awards page

The draft form has been updated:

• I’ve added a couple more items (both of which have seen recent updates) to the commercial software category, bringing that up to six.

• Stardot is now included in the online resource category.

• The publication category now includes the updated Style Guide, and one of Bruce Smith’s books.

What I’d like is suggestions for the games category – it currently stands at four, and two of those are from the same source. It would be better to include just one of the AmCoG games, but then three items is possibly a little too sparse.

And does anyone have a URL for ArchiEmu? The only link I found for that seems to be out of date.

ArchiEmu ist here: http://www.tellima.nl/riscos/

The publication category now includes the updated Style Guide

There’s also the even heavier tome from rool for the dde books, if you can permit a second entry in the same category

There’s also the even heavier tome from rool for the dde books,

Quote from that page: The Desktop Tools manual is the companion text to the Desktop Development Environment and has been further updated for the printed version to include the new tool !A8Time (a timing simulator for the Cortex-A8 pipeline)

Has the PDF version been updated to cover !A8Time? I’m having a hell of a time trying to figure out what A8Time actually wants as input. It seems to want textual assembler (not binary), but not in a format that matches objasm. Or resembles objasm much. The (very few) times I’ve managed to get it working, it’s been just random experimentation and a piece of code so utterly hacked about with that it doesn’t resemble the original.
I’m not coding specifically for the A8, but if I can see how the dual-instruction setup works in the way A8Time is supposed to show it, I can learn a little more about how code interacts on the more complicated processors, and maybe be able to write code that works better on them by avoiding obvious bottlenecks. I used the output of A8Time on my blog to demonstrate such a thing; and you’ll note that I couldn’t get SWI/SVC to be recognised. Hmmm…

Obviously I don’t want to quote the entire chapter, but:

A8Time takes as input a text file containing a list of ARM assembler instructions. To make it easier to copy chunks of code from source files, it knows a limited amount of ObjAsm syntax:
It recognises ObjAsm’s RN directive.
Anything else left-aligned is assumed to be a label and is ignored.

Does that help at all?

Thanks Steffen. I see David posted that link earlier in the thread for RegGraph, but I didn’t make the connection. I’ll add that in shortly.

There’s also the even heavier tome from rool for the dde books, if you can permit a second entry in the same category

I can – and I have done in the games category, but as I said yesterday, I’d rather avoid it if possible.

I did consider the DDE manuals¹, but concluded the Style Guide was the better option because it has a wider appeal. Both are for programmers, but the DDE manual is kind of limited to those who use the DDE, while the Style Guide is of use to people programming in BASIC, RiscLua, using GCC, and so on.

¹ And they’re also something I meant to buy at London, but forgot. Southwest, then.

Noting that there have been no further suggestions since I updated the draft page yesterday, I guess it’s time for me to think about making it live and announcing it. Probably tomorrow or Tuesday. It can then stay live until mid-February.

(And at the same time, adding the [experimental] page for people to nominate stuff for next time.)

Unless there are any further suggestions?

The Titanium from Elesar is now showing ‘in stock’ and so is commercially available.

Good to know.

It’d be showing 50 if I had my wallet with me – unfortunately I’ve left it at home.

Actually, I’ve just checked; it’s now showing 50 – so it’d be showing 49 if I had my wallet with me.

Need to get money in stock now… :)

It says 49 now. And no, I wouldn’t know anything about that… BTW, where can I buy an ATX-case? :-P

Hm, should I have bought http://shop.elesar.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=25_61&product_id=59 ? It says spare, so that would probably mean one is included with the board as well? Hm, getting off-topic here…

so it’d be showing 49 if I had my wallet with me.

I, on the other hand, don’t need. It’s nice to have RISC OS on better and better hardware, but I’m afraid I can’t justify the price for very short bursts of (admittedly epic) speed, given that 99.9’% of the time the machine is twiddling its thumbs waiting for me to do something. ;-)

the current exchange rate makes it to expensive for me to justify it to her indoors will have to save some more dollers

should I have bought http://shop.elesar.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=25_61&product_id=59 ?

I’ll let you know later this week. Stock now down to 47 and counting.

46 now. (^_^)

Should be 45 now that I’ve ordered mine.

It seems I didn’t need to wait until I got home – I didn’t realise what the payment options were.

I’ll wait until it’s in my hands before I start thinking about cases and stuff. But bearing in mind I’m not really a hardware person, how hard would it be to use it in a RiscPC¹ case? What about a Phoebe case?

¹ I had to correct that from RiscPiC. It definitely won’t fit in one of those.

I’ve been looking at my Iyonix-case since it’s not doing anything anyway, but I’m a bit reluctant. Even though it’s no longer in use, it does work. Would be a pity to canibalise it…

I’ve been looking at my Iyonix-case

Ah, now that’s where you’d probably want to mount a Pi – without removing the Iyonix. Two video outputs, two keyboards, two mice…

Unless you did a port of Synergy or built in a hardware KVM.

How does that help with providing a case for the Titanium?

How does that help with providing a case for the Titanium?

Not in the least, but it does give you a working use of the case and an interesting project.

That said the Iyo case is fairly standard and some of the mount points probably match the Titanium.
Then all you have to do is figure out where to put the Iyo board…

People might be interested to know that on our tests our RapidO Ig has the fastest SATA transfers on any RISC OS hardware:-)

I’m just waiting for the debugged version of the SATA driver for the RapidO Ig/Titanium to do our final benchmarking and release the figuers.

the Iyo case is

ITYM cases are – they released the computer in a range of different cases.

fairly standard

And that’s what’s wrong with them. :)

I got feedback from Elesar, and apparently the shielding thingy isn’t standard, so I’ve ordered it now.

I got feedback from Elesar, and apparently the shielding thingy isn’t standard, so I’ve ordered it now.

Designed to fit the port placement and the hole in the chassis.
So all you need now is a chassis with the same size hole.

Before you rush into cases etc, be aware that the low power nature of Titanium etc may rule out some PSUs etc. It might be worth consulting a friendly dealer if you have any doubts. I know we’re still conducting/finalising compatibility/stability testing at this end, and I’d imagine the same is true for CJE.