Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 08 Oct 2017 10:27:00 GMT
Join us in raising a glass to the 20th birthday of the RISC OS network stack last being updated. That’s right – 1997 marked the release of Internet 5 as part of RISC OS 3.70, and a big step forward in its IP networking capabilities.
Read more...Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:35:00 GMT
Join us on stand 15 at the Wakefield show this weekend and witness previously unheard of amounts of storage on RISC OS. We’ll be demonstrating a 2TB (yes, that’s 2,000,000,000,000 or 2 × 10 12 bytes) drive in native Acorn FileCore format attached directly to the disc controller.
Spinning rust still has the edge for storage density
Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 02 Jun 2016 20:06:00 GMT
Ahoy there! Any land lovers who watch the recent changes to RISC OS will have noticed a recent wave of activity in the area of JPEG, marking the completion of this bounty.
JPEG images are most commonly encountered from digital cameras or similar real life pictures. They achieve very high compression ratios by relying on the design of the human eye (the one without a patch over it) where brightness detail is more important than colour detail.
Read more...Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:20:00 GMT
The bonus binaries launched last October have just gained a whole extra utility application, !Connector, originally written by Andreas Zieringer for the Archimedes.
Connector1 is a terminal emulator program which supports the XModem, YModem, ZModem and plain ASCII protocols to transfer files and data with a remote terminal.
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