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RISC OS Pi released (RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi)

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:35:00 GMT

RISC OS Open are very pleased to announce the official release of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi, “RISC OS Pi”. This is a watershed moment for RISC OS and represents the culmination of many months of hard work from a whole community of developers, testers and other contributors. It also means the Raspberry Pi can now boast support for the quick, compact, original ARM-based operating system.

This is the first ‘official’ release of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi. It is intended to be programmed onto an SD card (2GB or larger) and can be downloaded free from the Raspberry Pi download site, as an SD card image or as a torrent. Alternatively, you can buy a specially-branded SD card already programmed and tested direct from RISC OS Open.

Eben Upton, from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, had the following to say about the RISC OS release: “Having spent a lot of time in my youth pining over Acorn Archimedes and RiscPC products, it’s a great moment for me personally to see an evolved version of the original ARM operating system brought to the Raspberry Pi. From the Foundation’s point of view, we welcome the arrival of an alternative desktop environment, offering a rich suite of applications, and with BBC BASIC only a few keystrokes away.”

Steve Revill, from RISC OS Open, added: “We’re proud and excited to have achieved this milestone in the development of RISC OS. It’s so good to see some great British software engineering to complement the fantastic British Raspberry Pi hardware.”

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See ROOL at the unmissable RISC OS London Show

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:17:00 GMT

RISC OS Open will be attending what promises to be a very special RISC OS London Show tomorrow (27th Oct 2012).

Not only will there be all kinds of new and exciting demonstrations from all the usual people, but there will be a zone dedicated to the Raspberry Pi and all the great uses people have found for it.

ROOL will be demonstrating:

• The first public demonstration of RISC OS Pi
• The NutPi pack for RISC OS Pi
• A Beagleboard running the latest version of RISC OS 5

as well as selling a selection of merchandise:

• RISC OS Pi on SD card
• The NutPi SD card
• A ROM upgrade for the EtherB network card
• USB sticks containing:
  • A RISC OS emulation solution for Windows, Mac OS and Linux (updated)
  • A native ‘Filecore’ format disc image for booting RISC OS machines (updated)
  • The latest Desktop Development Environment (release 24)
• CMOS widgets for modern RISC OS hardware

Posted in New product, Community | Tags etherb, london, nutpi, os, pi, risc, show | 2 comments

RISC OS Open at the Midlands Midsummer Show

Posted by Ben Avison Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:36:00 GMT

ROOL is pleased to announce we will be attending the Midsummer Show organised by the RISC OS Midlands User Group, on Saturday 7th July.

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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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