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Official release of RISC OS for Raspberry Pi - updated

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:02:00 GMT

We have updated the official release of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi (RISC OS Pi) to address a number of issues that were spotted in our first release. The updated image has now been made available for download here.

Take a look at the first official announcement from the Foundation on the Raspberry Pi web site.

If you’re new to RISC OS, you can find a quick overview here and in the “A Stroll Around RISC OS” PDF document here (plus, of course, on the RISC OS Open site!).

Don’t forget, for your convenience and enjoyment, you can buy RISC OS Pi pre-imaged and tested on an SD card from RISC OS Open, as well as the fantastic NutPi add-on pack. See our store pages for more information.

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Nut Pi pack now available for the Raspberry Pi

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:45:00 GMT

RISC OS Open have joined forces with some of the leading software developers in the RISC OS community to bring you the Nut Pi – a package of flagship RISC OS software specifically for RISC OS Pi.

The Nut Pi comes on a specially branded SD card, formatted specifically for RISC OS machines containing the following fantastic programs:

• MoreDesk (7th software)
• SparkFS (David Pilling)
• PhotoDesk (Fourth Dimension)
• WimpWorks (Jaffa Software)
• luafox (luafox)
• Iconizer (MathMagical)
• Gutenprint (MW Software)
• Writer+ (MW Software)
• Organizer (Organizer)
• CloneDisc (Piccolo Systems)
• DataPower (RComp)
• Grapevine2 (RComp)
• Messenger (RComp)
• NetFetch (RComp)
• MusicCDtest (RComp)
• NetworkPrinting (RComp)
• SafeStore (RComp)
• TouchType (RComp)
• Desktop Development Environment (RISC OS Open)
• Impact (Sine Nomine)

For more information about these great programs, read out more detailed descriptions here.

As well as being a great collection of some of the best commercial RISC OS software available, this represents a fantastic deal; the total retail value of the bundled software is over £600 but the Nut Pi is available for just £35 plus P&P – that’s cheaper than the Desktop Development Environment on its own! You can buy it from the ROOL shop today.

Please note: the software supplied with the Nut Pi is specifically built for Raspberry Pi hardware and will not function correctly on any other hardware platform. Use on any other platform is completely unsupported by ROOL and the individual software vendors. You need RISC OS running on your Raspberry Pi to use Nut Pi – please see this page for more information.

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SD card support comes to RISC OS

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:26:00 GMT

RISC OS Open and Piccolo Systems are very pleased to announce the release of a general-purpose MMC/SD filing system for RISC OS.

ROOL have signed an agreement with Piccolo Systems to publish the source code to the driver and related software under an Open Source licence within the ROOL CVS repository. It will be integrated into the OMAP3 developer ROM build, found on our downloads pages to give native support for SD cards on the Beagleboard, Beagleboard-xM, DevKit8000 (untested) and IGEPv2 (untested).

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Do you sell software for RISC OS?

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:18:00 GMT

If so, ROOL are very keen to speak with you about an idea that we feel could bring you more customers and bring more users and developers into the RISC OS scene.

If your software is free, then don’t worry – ROOL are planning on speaking to active developers of free RISC OS software over the coming weeks, too!

Commercial developers, please get in touch with ROOL by sending an email to oem@riscosopen.org including the following information:

• Subject: ENQUIRY
• The name of your business
• Your website URL
• A list of your commercial RISC OS software (and very briefly what it is)

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