New IYONIX ROM release (version 5.14)
Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:12:00 GMT
RISC OS Open (ROOL) are pleased to announce the immediate release of the very latest RISC OS ROM release from Castle Technology (Castle) for the IYONIX pc desktop computer.
This is an official release from Castle and represents the first formal ROM release to include changes and improvements which have been fed back into the shared source project.
You can download your copy of RISC OS 5.14, either as a softload (to try it out) or as a ROM programmer tool, from this page.
Users should be aware that whilst every effort is made to ensure this is fully functional, there is a (small) risk of an error creeping in during the merging of the sources released originally to ROOL and the sources used to build the previous official RISC OS release from Castle.
The new ROM image is believed to work in softload form on all IYONIX versions of RISC OS from 5.10 or later. In flash programmer form, it should work on all versions of RISC OS from version 5.07 or later. This release is free of charge.
Please note that only the IYONIX pc ROM is official and usable.
The 5.15 ROMs, especially the OMAP and IOMD (RiscPC / A7000) ports, are works in progress and are not yet usable. They are not finished – you are unlikely to be able to get as far as the Desktop and many basic features are missing. Only developers are likely to be interested in downloading them at this stage.
You can keep up to date on progress of the various ROMs through the forums and we’ll make news page releases if anything significant happens, so watch this space!