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SD card support comes to RISC OS

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:26:00 GMT

RISC OS Open and Piccolo Systems are very pleased to announce the release of a general-purpose MMC/SD filing system for RISC OS.

ROOL have signed an agreement with Piccolo Systems to publish the source code to the driver and related software under an Open Source licence within the ROOL CVS repository. It will be integrated into the OMAP3 developer ROM build, found on our downloads pages to give native support for SD cards on the Beagleboard, Beagleboard-xM, DevKit8000 (untested) and IGEPv2 (untested).

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RISC OS 5.18 for Iyonix and Beagleboard

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:46:00 GMT

New RISC OS ROM release (version 5.18)

RISC OS Open (ROOL) are pleased to announce the immediate release of the very latest stable RISC OS ROM release featuring no less than 340 improvements since the last even numbered release.

This is an official release that has been vetted by Castle Technology (Castle) for the Iyonix PC desktop computer and RComp Ltd (RComp) for the BeagleBoard xM based ARMini.

You can download RISC OS 5.18 free of charge from this page.

This software is subject to continual improvement and work has already commenced on RISC OS 5.19! Using the convention of even numbers for stable editions and odd numbers for development editions, users can feedback any issues seen to make it into the next version.

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USB sticks available from ROOL site

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:53:00 GMT

ROOL are very happy to announce the immediate availability of two different ROOL-branded USB sticks to buy from the ROOL store.

These sticks represent a proud milestone for RISC OS Open; we’ve been working towards creating a stand-alone RISC OS solution for Windows and Mac users since we formed in 2006. Thanks to everyone who made this possible!

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New offers and new prices for the latest Developer Tools

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:25:00 GMT

RISC OS Open is pleased to announce the formal release of version 22 of the ROOL Desktop Development Environment (DDE) tools. Building upon the interim version 21, which was released earlier this year, the main feature of these releases is a major upgrade to the assembler ObjAsm and its associated documentation. ROOL is also announcing new reduced prices and special offers.

ObjAsm Updates

ObjAsm now fully supports the new UAL variant of the ARM instruction set, including over 400 new instructions. UAL syntax is supported up to ARMv7, VFPv4 and NEON™, for CPUs up to the Cortex™-A9. Pre-UAL syntax for ARM and Thumb is extended to its final version for ARMv6 and VFPv3. A significant number of extensions to the supporting assembly language have also been added, many of which have up to now only been available in ObjAsm’s counterpart in ARM’s RVDS™ toolchain, and the ObjAsm manual (supplied in PDF format) has been fully revised and updated so you can make best use of these.

All the new instructions, and some related new relocation types, are fully supported by Link and the disassembly tool DecAOF. An extension to the AOF object file format, to support new types of floating point linkage (mainly related to the introduction of VFP support) is supported in ObjAsm, Link and DecAOF.

Other Updates

Updated versions of SparkFS and !PDF are included. Squeeze has been adapted for compatibility with the A9Home. There have been a number of bugfixes to various components too. For full details, see here and here.

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