Posted by Steve Revill
Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:34:00 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 second 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 5.16, either as a softload (to try it out) or as a ROM programmer tool, from this page.
Please note that in order to fix the incorrect date bug seem on some machines in 2010 with RISC OS 5.15 or earlier, you must program the ROM into Flash.
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Posted by Steve Revill
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:22:00 GMT
Many of you will be aware of a bug in the handling of a year counter in the IYONIX pc which means that the date on some machines changes to 2012 when they are booted. This is a software problem and a number of work-arounds already exist.
However, Castle Technology feel that this is a sufficiently severe fault to justify starting work on the next official release of RISC OS 5 for the IYONIX pc – RISC OS 5.15.
The latest version will not only address the date problem mentioned above, but will include many of the changes and improvements implemented since RISC OS 5.14 was released back in April 2009. Once it is available, users should program the new release into their machines using a supplied flash programmer to ensure that the date bugfix is correctly installed.
Keep an eye on the RISC OS Open web site over the next week or two for further news on the testing and release process.
Note to developers: the development version of RISC OS will move to 5.16 (beta) as soon as the new official version is released.
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Posted by Steve Revill
Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:29:00 GMT
We are very pleased to have been awarded with the 2009 Icon Bar Best New Development Award for the ongoing Beagle Board porting work.
A special thanks must go to Jeffrey Lee for all his hard work, and to everyone else who helped him. It’s been great to see people starting to turn our vision for the future of RISC OS into a reality.
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Posted by Steve Revill
Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:30:00 GMT
As Christmas and the New Year is upon us, the team at ROOL is taking a well earned holiday for a couple of weeks. As such, please expect that allocation requests, source code submissions and other enquiries will take longer for us to process than normal.
Don’t panic though; we will be back in the New Year and dealing with things as normal again.
May we take this opportunity to wish you all a happy holiday and prosperous New Year!
—the ROOL team
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