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RISC OS London Show 2014

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:39:00 GMT

This year, we decided to celebrate the wonderful fact that our growing community of users and developers now spans every corner of the globe by asking some friends to translate our London Show announcement into a variety of languages.

Many thanks to Alberto Bonamico (Italian), James Byrne (Japanese), Jose Manuel Ventoso Picos (Spanish), Katalin Szalay (Hungarian, Romanian), Lixin Cheng (Chinese), Martin Würthner (German), Moniek Hopman (Dutch) and Tina Evans (French).

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Birthday celebration

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:44:00 GMT

Today ROOL are celebrating the 20th birthday of the launch of the revolutionary Risc PC.

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More expansion cards join RISC OS 5

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:27:00 GMT

Background

Since the first fully 32 bit RISC OS appeared over a decade ago a relatively small proportion of expansion cards have been updated compared with the number of general purpose applications that have been.

This need not be the case – the platforms running RISC OS 5 which have an expansion bus inside (Iyonix PC; Risc PC; A7000; and A7000+) are all electrically unchanged when the processor talking to them is in 32 bit mode, so a podule which works on the Iyonix PC can just as easily plug into an A7000.

It’s just the software that needs attention.

The process of updating an expansion card driver is fairly formulaic, and by using official operating system calls the result is still backwards compatible with earlier versions of RISC OS. This makes maintaining the driver a lot easier as there’s only one version to keep track of!

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RISC OS Open Christmas down time

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:26:00 GMT

We hope everyone is ready for an end-of-year break – we certainly are. RISC OS Open is planning to shut down over the holidays from Sat 22nd Dec 2012 to Sun 6th Jan 2013 inclusive. We may still keep an eye on emails and the site but cannot guarantee anything!

Please also note that any orders or other enquiries placed over this period will probably not be dealt with until we return.

See you all in the New Year!

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