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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.

Posted in Press release, New component | Tags ARM, BSD, floating, FPACE, FPE, point | 3 comments

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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C/C++ Tools Upgrade for half price!

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:58:00 GMT

RISC OS Open will open a new special offer at the London Show on Saturday. All existing owners of the C/C++ Tools CD with a C compiler newer than version 4.99 qualify for a half price upgrade to the latest version of the tools.

If you own the C/C++ Tools CD with a compiler version 5.00 or newer, you can update to the current newest toolset (version 5.68) for half price! Once your purchase has been confirmed, this tools update will be posted direct to you.

Come and see us at our stand at the London Show to place your order tomorrow!

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