ROOL Diary 2012 (changes)

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ROOL diary 2012

24 Feb 2012:

RISC OS 5.18 is released.

5/7 Jun 2012:

The first ‘bleeding edge’ pre-alpha ROM image for the Raspberry Pi is made available to users. USB is (mostly) working although the bottom 5% of the screen is blank.

8 Jun 2012:

RISC OS Open and Piccolo Systems announce the release of a general-purpose MMC/SD filing system for RISC OS, the SDFS.

18 Jun 2012:

The first pre-alpha distribution SD card image for the Raspberry Pi is made available to users with sufficient on the SD card for the RISC OS desktop to boot up using SDFS (and initially RAMFS as well) with working networking and visible iconbar. No external storage is required.

2 Jul 2012:

SDFS on the Pi now much improved, supporting a much wider range of cards and with faster access.

8 Aug 2012:

Alpha SD card image for Raspberry Pi frozen and handed over to ROOL for testing and further developemnt.

18 Sep 2012:

Merge the RPi branch with the HAL branch, ending RPi branch development.

26 Sep 2012:

Fix to work properly with latest RPi firmware.

10 Oct 2012:

Some of the last tweaks for the Raspberry Pi ‘design freeze’ are being applied.

26 Oct 2012:

The official RISC OS distribution for the Raspberry Pi is announced and available for download.

27 Oct 2012:

RISC OS London show at Feltham.