Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:54:00 GMT
We’re very pleased here at RISC OS Open to have received several great awards from this year’s annual RISC OS Awards, over at RISCOSitory.
This year, ROOL has won in the following categories:
For our NutPi product.
Best show of initiative, again for the NutPi.
For SDFS – from Piccolo Systems.
Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:29:00 GMT
The various ROOL volunteers will be having holidays during the Christmas and New Year period. Broadly speaking, this means that for the two weeks from Saturday 21st December through to Sunday 5th January we are likely to be relatively unavailable. So please expect some delays in us responding to any correspondence during that period. Also note there will be delays fulfilling any orders from the ROOL site during this period.
Normal service should be resumed from the week commencing Monday 6th January.
Have a very merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year, from everyone at RISC OS Open.
Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:27:00 GMT
Since the first fully 32 bit RISC OS appeared over a decade ago a relatively small proportion of expansion cards have been updated compared with the number of general purpose applications that have been.
This need not be the case – the platforms running RISC OS 5 which have an expansion bus inside (Iyonix PC; Risc PC; A7000; and A7000+) are all electrically unchanged when the processor talking to them is in 32 bit mode, so a podule which works on the Iyonix PC can just as easily plug into an A7000.
It’s just the software that needs attention.
The process of updating an expansion card driver is fairly formulaic, and by using official operating system calls the result is still backwards compatible with earlier versions of RISC OS. This makes maintaining the driver a lot easier as there’s only one version to keep track of!
Read more...Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:03:00 GMT
Don’t forget – next Saturday, 28th September, will be the RISC OS Portsmouth Show at Innovation Warehouse Portsmouth. Doors open to the public at 11am and the show runs until 5pm. Admission is free.
2nd Floor, Innovation Space building
1 Hampshire Terrace
Portsmouth, PO1 2QF
We currently have the following exhibitor line-up:
This is ROOL’s first attempt at organising a show so please help us to make it a success!
and
Buy RISC OS Open merchandise here, including SD cards for Raspberry Pi and more.
