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ROOL at the RISC OS London Show

Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:23:00 GMT

RISC OS Open are pleased to announce that we will be attending the ever-popular RISC OS London Show on Saturday 23rd October 2010 at the St. Giles Hotel, Feltham, London.

We will be bringing a number of exciting developments along with us, including:

• The latest version of RISC OS on the Beagle Board
• RISC OS 5 running on the Touch Book
• The free RPCemu emulator running the equally free RISC OS 5
• Some other bits and bobs

ROOL are also looking to speak with the community about how to move forward with our proposed roadmap for RISC OS development.

Take a look at the official show site here.

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Roadmap for the future of RISC OS

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:51:00 GMT

Following from the publishing of the source code on the ROOL site, RISC OS development has gained momentum over the past couple of years. We are close to a point where we can say one flavour of the OS, RISC OS 5, can run on most of the current platforms: Beagle Board, IYONIX pc, RiscPC, A7000 and emulation.

Within ROOL, we don’t want things to stop there. What we would like to see is for all of the talented developers out there to be paired up with tasks that they are interested in working on which contribute to the ‘greater good’ of the system.

As a tentative first step in that direction, we have published a list of the sorts of tasks which we feel could be adopted in order to move things along. We haven’t prioritised them or done anything more than simply enumerate everything (significant) that we can think of.

We’re sure there are more good ideas out there and there is probably some stuff in our Wish Lists forum that we’ve missed. We would very much welcome feedback from the community – so add the things to our list that you think are important to the future development of our favourite operating system.

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Birmingham MUG Show, Sat 10th July

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:10:00 GMT

RISC OS Open will be attending this year’s Midland User Group (MUG) show on Saturday the 10^th^ July at:

This will be a great opportunity for you to come and find out what the latest developments are in the RISC OS scene and see some demos of RISC OS running on new ARM-based hardware platforms, emulators and native RISC OS machines.

For more information, take a look at the official MUG Show site.

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RISC OS in The Register

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:48:00 GMT

They say that any publicity is good publicity, but it’s even better when it’s good publicity to start with! We were surprised and pleased to see that the efforts of the RISC OS community have been noticed by the mainstream press.

To have a look at this coverage, take a look at The Register.

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