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RISC OS 5.20 (stable) is now available

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:00:00 GMT

RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL) are pleased to announce the immediate release of the latest stable RISC OS ROM release, it incorporates a massive 625 changes for the Tungsten platform (used in the IYONIX pc from Castle Technology) and 654 changes for the OMAP3 platform (used in the ARMini from RComp).

For the first time the stable release includes the IOMD platform (used in Acorn’s Risc PC, A7000, and A7000+), and users can purchase this on physical ROMs for their computer too.

You can download RISC OS 5.20 free of charge from the ROOL downloads page and there are some brief upgrade instructions on this wiki page

This software is subject to continual improvement and work has already commenced on RISC OS 5.21! 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.

Posted in Press release, New component | Tags armini, Castle, harddisc4, IYONIX, omap3, rcomp, tungsten | 18 comments

New IYONIX ROM release (version 5.14)

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:12:00 GMT

RISC OS Open (ROOL) are pleased to announce the immediate release of the very latest RISC OS ROM release from Castle Technology (Castle) for the IYONIX pc desktop computer.

This is an official release from Castle and represents the first formal ROM release to include changes and improvements which have been fed back into the shared source project.

You can download your copy of RISC OS 5.14, either as a softload (to try it out) or as a ROM programmer tool, from this page.

Posted in New product, Press release, Community | Tags 5.14, Castle, ROM | 1 comment