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RISC OS is open for business!

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:02:00 GMT

RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are hugely proud to announce that we will be working with RISC OS Developments (ROD), following their recent acquisition of the RISC OS intellectual property through the purchase of Castle Technology Ltd (Castle), in the next phase of the mission to reinvigorate the RISC OS market.

Image by Mark Moz, CC 2.0

ROD will be working alongside community maintainers ROOL to republish the source code to this popular niche operating system under the Apache 2.0 License, in a move aimed at removing existing barriers to entry for developers from the Open Source community and enabling free-of-charge use in commercial products for the first time in RISC OS’s history.

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Where to store all those noughts and ones

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

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Pico embiggened once more

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:10:00 GMT

> LIST

10 We’ve not stopped partying since we celebrated 50 years of BASIC back in May 2014 (so it’s nearly 53 years now!) by releasing ‘Pico’, a cut down version of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi which boots straight into BASIC.

20 In the intervening TIME the PI Foundation haven’t STOP-ped producing more MODE-ls either, even bringing out a 64 bit variant using the Cortex-A53 PROC-ess-OR.

30 Perfect FOR educational use AND for hackers TO use for industrial control, Pico RETURN-s with updated GPIO support so you can control pins directly from BASIC.

> RUN

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Pain free upgrade to Desktop Development Environment

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 11 Jan 2017 23:27:00 GMT

With an eye to the forthcoming zero page relocation we’ve made an update to the DDE – the tools for developing the operating system itself.

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