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VAT registration

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:32:00 GMT

RISC OS Open is, once again, a VAT-registered company. We’ve done this voluntarily because it looks like there’s a danger (!) our turnover could get towards the threshold for compulsory registration by the end of our financial year.

This is clearly great news in that it shows just how popular our various merchandise items are (mind you, ROOL only gets a small cut in the end from most of it and please remember that turnover does not mean profit), but it does mean our prices to ordinary users are affected.

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Intermittent web site service

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:25:00 GMT

ROOL is currently having some trouble with its web site, partly related to the surge in visits following the release of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi.

Some sections of the web site will not be available at all during this time (you may see “Not Found” pages or similar errors).

We are taking steps to try and maintain a minimal service level until we can get to the bottom of the underlying issue. Please bear with us in the mean time; sorry for the service interruption.

If the forum is up, you may find further information in this discussion thread.

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RISC OS Open on Facebook

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:28:00 GMT

RISC OS Open has (belatedly!) created a Facebook page for our company. We’ll occasionally put the odd message on there for those of you who are part of the social networking thing… :)

For the time being, I might pop a few things on the timeline there to fill out a bit of the history of how ROOL has developed over the years.

Enjoy!

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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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