Updates on the ROOL website

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:00 GMT

In advance of the London Show this weekend, RISC OS Open have updated a large number of the downloads to the latest and greatest versions.

All of the source code archives are automatically updated each night but prebuilt items, such as ROM images and applications, are only updated when we perform builds.

To assist with the on-going work on the Beagleboard, all of our pre-built components are now ARMv7 safe and the OMAP ROM build is up to date. We’ve updated the RISC OS 5.15 ROM build (for IYONIX softload) to use the latest sources in CVS, too.

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Batch Five source code released

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:36:00 GMT

Guildford, 18th October 2008

RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are pleased to release Batch Five of the RISC OS source code on CD at the Wakefield RISC OS show. Batch 5 includes a greater number of low level components, audio components, a RiscPC hardware abstraction layer, an Ethernet driver and the nVidia graphics driver. Batch 5 will be released on the RISC OS Open Limited web site soon.

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Latest source code updates

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:40:00 GMT

The published RISC OS source code has been updated with the following changes:

• The Wimp has had some bug fixes and has new enhancements which will allow better themes for the desktop (Fred Graute)

• A new version of Alarm has a number of improvements to its windows which make it easier to use (James Lampard)

• The DebugLib library now has new facilities for directing your debug output to SysLog or to Reporter.

• The official Acorn Clipboard module has been finished! This fully implements the Clipboard protocol and includes some new test programs, notably PutClip and GetClip (Fred Graute).

Some interesting background information about the clipboard module (from Fred himself) will be published on our wiki.

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PCL printer dumper source code

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:39:00 GMT

RISC OS Open are pleased to announce the availablility of a new printer dumper for RISC OS. PDumperPCL has been contributed by Herbert zur Nedden and based upon PDumperLJ, this is a dumper designed for PCL printers that support duplex printing, such as the Canon i-Sensys MF4690PL.

At the moment, this is a source code only release, with the source code living in the repository at:

castle/RiscOS/Sources/Printing/PDumpers/PDumperPCL

See the PDumperPCL/!Info file for full details. It should be treated as beta quality code for the time being. The PrintDefs component has also been updated to include a new printer definition file for the printer listed above.

An updated release of !Printers will be made available soon with this new dumper included.

Thanks,

The RISC OS Open team.

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