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Beeb@30

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:43:00 GMT

RISC OS Open are happy to be attending the Beeb@30 celebrations at the ARM offices in Cambridge this Sunday 25th March.

This event will include guests such as key members of the Acorn Computers team who created the original BBC Micro, Chris Serle (the presented of the BBC’s “The Computer Programme”) and Eben Upton from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Steve Revill and Ben Avison, both formerly employees of Acorn Computers, will be going along to join the celebrations, meet some old friends and spread the message about RISC OS Open. :)

Tickets are still available here (for a limited time only).

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Do you sell software for RISC OS?

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:18:00 GMT

If so, ROOL are very keen to speak with you about an idea that we feel could bring you more customers and bring more users and developers into the RISC OS scene.

If your software is free, then don’t worry – ROOL are planning on speaking to active developers of free RISC OS software over the coming weeks, too!

Commercial developers, please get in touch with ROOL by sending an email to oem@riscosopen.org including the following information:

• Subject: ENQUIRY
• The name of your business
• Your website URL
• A list of your commercial RISC OS software (and very briefly what it is)

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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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EEPROM carrier boards ("CMOS widgets") now on sale

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:05:00 GMT

RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are pleased to announce that we’ve teamed up with Sprow to bring you an EEPROM carrier board (or “CMOS widget”) for the BeagleBoard, BeagleBoard xM and PandaBoard.

You simply plug this little board onto the relevant header pins on your board and newer versions of RISC OS (5.18 or newer) will automatically detect it and start saving your RISC OS configuration over reboots.

These boards are an essential add-on for BeagleBoard and PandaBoard users. They cost just £5 plus £1.50 P&P.

Find out more here.

About ROOL

RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL) manages the source code to RISC OS. We are an organisation run on a largely voluntary basis. We also offer professional services to anyone who is interested in developing commercial products using RISC OS.

About Sprow:

Sprow is an independent hardware and software developer who’s been involved in the Acorn/RISC OS scene for many years. He has a range of products available on his personal web pages and is an active contributor to the ROOL forums and CVS repository.

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