London Show: ROOL at Ten
Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 28 Oct 2016 12:56:00 GMT
ROOL is ten years old this year and we’ll be celebrating at the London Show tomorrow at the Hotel St. Giles, Feltham, near Heathrow. The show will be open to the public from 11am to 5pm.
ROOL merchandise
There will be plenty of RISC OS related things to buy, with no postage to pay, including:
- Commemorative ROOL badges
- The full range of SD cards and micro SD cards for the Raspberry Pi from the tiny Pico to a newly updated NutPi
- ROM sets for the Risc PC, A7000 and A7000+ of RISC OS 5.22
- Printed copies of the Style Guide
- The three book Desktop Development Tools box set
- Emulator and Native variants of the ROOL branded USB sticks
Don’t forget to bring along your developer number for discounts on the electronic download version of the DDE26 and printed matter. All items subject to availability.
Have a chat
We hope to be presenting with our usual round-up of events from around the RISC OS community over the past year, as well as a sneak peak at what’s planned for the near future.
We’ll be manning the stand until 5pm, so if you have any question about the ROOL project and its aims now is a great time to ask. You can also donate to the open bounties in person by cheque or cash (sorry, no card facilities) and find out about the progress of the existing ones.
See you there!
Happy Birthday.
A huge thank you to everyone at RISC OS Open for making this happen, everyone at Castle Technology for agreeing to it, and to everyone who has contributed their expertise, effort and valuable time to this venture.
RISC OS has really grown up over these past few years, with an ever expanding range of compatible hardware targeting different price points for end users. The Operating System itself has become far more stable than it ever was in the past, with current developments pointing to some exciting changes and improvements.
Looking forward to the next ten years.
Steve’s talk at 1530 was quite informative and covered what had happened in the last year, i.e. since the last London show, described the update to the NutPi, talked about the bounty process and provided a preview of the near future.
ROOL was now ten years old (since June 2016). The NutPi was a joint venture with commercial software providers to showcase cut-down versions of their software for the Pi. The model 3 (ARM v8) had introduced two issues – it was less easy to ‘lock down’ software to run on the Pi only and the lock down mostly failed to recognise the model 3 was permitted. Also ARM v8 compatability – some instructins were no longer supported and thus some applications needed to be recompiled. The Nut Pi had now been updated to include Pi model 3 capability and was on sale from the ROOL stand.
Turning to the Bounty scheme he noted that the JPEG bounty had been successfully implemented and Paint, Draw, ChangeFSI and Pinboard as well as the OS had all benefited. EDID work was currently under testing and the Paint and USB bounties had been claimed and were being worked on. New bounties being considered included the RISC OS network stack and WiFi.
He drew attention to a few projects which were not yet quite complete but were ‘coming soon’:
A new RISC OS Pico release was imminent, which would include the model 3.
A new RC-xx SD card image was a ‘few weeks away’, would include GPIO fixes and was expected ‘this side of Xmas’.
An update to the DDE with zero page fixes was waiting on two things – video driver and ‘delete on power on’ (and similar start up adjustments) during HAL initialisation. The User Guide was 52% complete. A suggestion was made that where bids had been made for a bounty then the ‘progress’ could show not just ‘money received’ but also ‘money required’ – Steve offered to look into this.