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:

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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Batch Four source code released

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Wakefield, 26th April 2008

One year on from the first shared source code release, Castle Technology Ltd (Castle) and RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) were pleased to release Batch Four of the RISC OS source code on CD at the Wakefield RISC OS show. Batch 4 includes long-awaited low level components such as the RISC OS kernel, hardware abstraction layer and the Shared C Library. Batch 4 will be released on the RISC OS Open Limited web site soon.

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Batch Three source code released

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:33:00 GMT

Cambridge, 22nd February 2008

Castle Technology Ltd (Castle) and RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are pleased to announce the release of Batch Three of the RISC OS source code, following on from the first release in May and second release in October.

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New tool to aid RISCOS Ltd and Castle RISC OS development

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:36:00 GMT

As a part of the joint co-operation between RISC OS Open and RISCOS Ltd, we are please to announce the availability of a tool which we hope will help to make life a little bit easier for developers. It is aimed at gathering some specific statistics from a wide range of RISC OS users in order for us to better identify where the main problem areas lie with respect to the differences between the RISCOS Ltd RISC OS branch and the Castle Technology RISC OS branch.

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