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Looking to spark your imagination?

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 26 Feb 2023 11:20:00 GMT

SparkFS is undoubtedly one of the must have RISC OS applications when it comes to working with compressed files/archives, so much so that we’ve bundled a read-only version as part of RISC OS 5 since as far back as 2014.

Having worked closely with David Pilling, SparkFS’ original author, we are very pleased to announce that from today, the full read-write version is now included for free with RISC OS 5.

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We're here to guide all RISC OS users

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:03:00 GMT

With a little help from our friends at CJE Micro’s we’re now delighted to be able to offer a free download of the User Guide for the latest stable release of RISC OS 5.

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Charting our way

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 24 May 2020 11:23:00 GMT

As countries around the world grapple with the COVID-19, many people will currently be required to stay indoors, or to change their work patterns and switch to video conferencing. Drinking more? Exercising less? It certainly feels like an interesting time to see what the data says about what’s happening in our community.

Take a look with us at various metrics from ROOL’s data banks for the period January to April, to see how things looked heading into the “new normal”.

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New Desktop Development Environment reaches out

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:39:00 GMT

Last year’s London show saw the snappily titled DDE29 becoming generally available.

Packing in some 300 changes, the main highlights are:

• Latest Norcroft C compiler
  • Code generation now tailored to use ARMv6/v7/v8 extended instructions where possible
  • Optimisations to substitute selected code sequences with ARMv6/v7/v8 media instructions where possible
  • Inline assembler updated to accept ARMv6/v7/v8 mnemonics
  • Literal pool reductions where available and enabled through use of MOVW+MOVT
  • New intrinsic functions to get access to operations not normally accessible from C
• ABC (the BASIC compiler) now supports hexadecimal entered in mixed case
• Revised User Interface Toolbox and ABC manuals plus detailed change logs for all the provided tools
• Library improvements to the TCP/IP library adds RFC2553 supporting functions, part of the TCP/IP bounty work getting ready for IPv6, and stronger type checking for all functions in the Toolbox library
• DDT (the desktop debugger) now uses the same disassembly engine as other tools, and can step the new instructions which the compiler emits
• Technical enhancements to AMU, CMHG, and ABC’s command line processing

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