Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:56:00 GMT
Following the success of step 1 of the TCP/IP stack overhaul, we’ve been watching with interest as over one hundred community donations have filled our step 2 bounty pot almost to the brim. Today we’re able to announce that the bounty has been claimed and under way.
Read more...Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 24 Oct 2021 20:04:00 GMT
Saturday 30th October heralds the return of the RISC OS London Show at its usual location in the St Giles Hotel, Feltham, UK. After the previous show moved online due to government restrictions, the situation is looking more favourable this year, and we’re looking forward to seeing users and developers from the RISC OS world.
Drop by and ask us anything about what RISC OS Open is doing, we’ll try our best to answer. It’s also an opportunity to add to one of the currently collecting bounties, or take home something tangible like a T-shirt.
Even if you can’t make it to see us on our stand, please drop into the show theatre for an update on ROOL’s activity with our favourite OS. We’ll take a look at recent changes available to download and try out yourself, status of the bounty projects we’re coordinating, and big topics on the horizon. It’s highly likely the show talks will be streamed online, so follow there if you cannot come along in person.
As the venue is an indoor setting a face covering is recommended, and please don’t be offended if we don’t shake your hand. If you decide to buy something from our selected merchandise our preference is contactless payment by card rather than cash.
Also take note of any specific advice on the day from the show’s organisers and other relevant sources.
Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:53:00 GMT
All of us at RISC OS Open are very proud and thankful to everyone who voted in the RISC OS Awards. In keeping with the delay of a year to these awards, its taken us a while to spot the fact we’d actually been both nominated and had some success!
Thanks also to Vince Hudd / Soft Rock Software for organising this event.
Best new development
And the winner, with 44% of the vote, is: RISC OS 5.28, from RISC OS Open Ltd and contributors.
Read more...Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:21:00 GMT
Portable Network Graphics, with file extension PNG and often pronounced Ping, is a common bitmap graphics format which offers lossless compression for faster transfer over the internet. PNG sits somewhere between Sprite, which is uncompressed, and JPEG used for photos, which uses lossy compression (throwing some information away) to shrink the file even smaller.
There are two aspects to the new PNG support:
Underneath this there’s a new support module, called CompressPNG, which does the real work and which other applications will be able to make use of.
If you are a developer and you’d like to add PNG export to one of your own applications it’s simply a case of making a few system calls from whatever language you prefer to use. It’s very similar to the CompressJPEG module which has shipped since RISC OS 3.60, so much so that Paint has also gained the ability to save out as JPEG via that same approach.
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Buy RISC OS Open merchandise here, including SD cards for Raspberry Pi and more.
