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RISC OS Open at Acorn World

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:26:00 GMT

This weekend, RISC OS Open will be attending the Acorn World part of Britain’s largest celebration of vintage computing: the Vintage Computing Festival in Bletchley Park from 19th-20th June 2010.

We will be proving that RISC OS is still alive and well with a range of demonstrations, including:

• RISC OS on the Beagle Board
• RISC OS under emulation
• Future RISC OS hardware platforms (Touch Book)

Come along and find out what all of the fuss is about! You can also help support the cause and pick up some ROOL merchandise, including:

• Mugs
• T-shirts
• Show CDs with the latest software and sources
• Developer tools

The Acorn World section is supported by the RISC OS User Group of London.

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RISC OS Open at Wakefield Show 2010

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:22:00 GMT

On the 24^th^ of April, ROOL will once again be attending the ever-popular Wakefield Show.
We will be bringing with us the usual range of systems along with some you may not have seen before, including:

• IYONIX pcs running the very latest RISC OS
• Laptops running virtual RiscPCs on Linux and Mac OS
• One or more Beagle Boards running RISC OS 5 and various applications
• A Touch Book which may or may not be running RISC OS (if we have time!)

We will be bringing a range of exciting ROOL-related merchandise along with us and will be
telling everyone about the latest developments in and around RISC OS. We look forward to
seeing you there!

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New IYONIX ROM release (version 5.16)

Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:34:00 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 second 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 5.16, either as a softload (to try it out) or as a ROM programmer tool, from this page.

Please note that in order to fix the incorrect date bug seem on some machines in 2010 with RISC OS 5.15 or earlier, you must program the ROM into Flash.

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IYONIX pc 2012 date problem

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:22:00 GMT

Many of you will be aware of a bug in the handling of a year counter in the IYONIX pc which means that the date on some machines changes to 2012 when they are booted. This is a software problem and a number of work-arounds already exist.

However, Castle Technology feel that this is a sufficiently severe fault to justify starting work on the next official release of RISC OS 5 for the IYONIX pc – RISC OS 5.15.

The latest version will not only address the date problem mentioned above, but will include many of the changes and improvements implemented since RISC OS 5.14 was released back in April 2009. Once it is available, users should program the new release into their machines using a supplied flash programmer to ensure that the date bugfix is correctly installed.

Keep an eye on the RISC OS Open web site over the next week or two for further news on the testing and release process.

Note to developers: the development version of RISC OS will move to 5.16 (beta) as soon as the new official version is released.

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