RISC OS  OPEN

Birmingham MUG Show, Sat 10th July

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:10:00 GMT

RISC OS Open will be attending this year’s Midland User Group (MUG) show on Saturday the 10^th July at:

St John's Church Hall
205 Warwick Road
Kenilworth
Warwickshire CV8 1HY

This will be a great opportunity for you to come and find out what the latest developments are in the RISC OS scene and see some demos of RISC OS running on new ARM-based hardware platforms, emulators and native RISC OS machines.

For more information, take a look at the official MUG Show site.

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RISC OS Open at Acorn World

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:26:00 GMT

This weekend, RISC OS Open will be attending the Acorn World part of Britain’s largest celebration of vintage computing: the Vintage Computing Festival in Bletchley Park from 19th-20th June 2010.

We will be proving that RISC OS is still alive and well with a range of demonstrations, including:

• RISC OS on the Beagle Board
• RISC OS under emulation
• Future RISC OS hardware platforms (Touch Book)

Come along and find out what all of the fuss is about! You can also help support the cause and pick up some ROOL merchandise, including:

• Mugs
• T-shirts
• Show CDs with the latest software and sources
• Developer tools

The Acorn World section is supported by the RISC OS User Group of London.

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ARM Ltd. FPEmulator sources published

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 26 May 2010 17:25:00 GMT

RISC OS Open (ROOL) are pleased to announce the immediate release of source code supplied by ARM Ltd. (ARM). This source code has been published as Open Source software under the New BSD licence and it comprises the FPA support code (FPASC) and emulator (FPE).

The FPE is a key part of the RISC OS operating system and as such the availability of these components in source form is a key step towards completing the publishing of the full sources to RISC OS. You can find the new FPASC source code within the ROOL CVS repository as part of the FPEmulator module.

Until now, the FPASC and FPE have only been available to the public in binary form. This is equally true for other operating systems, such as the BSD derivatives. ROOL will be contacting the maintainers of various ARM BSD projects in due course.

Note to editors: this press release does not constitute an endorsement of RISC OS or of the FPE by ARM.

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New IYONIX ROM release (version 5.16)

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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