RISC OS  OPEN

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

Scheduled downtime

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:36:00 GMT

The server hosting the ROOL web site and source repository services will be offline for maintenance work later today. It should only take an hour or two.

Posted in Miscellaneous, Web site | Tags downtime, server | 1 comment

RISC OS Open at Wakefield Show 2010

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:22:00 GMT

On the 24^th of April, ROOL will once again be attending the ever-popular Wakefield Show. We will be bringing with us the usual range of systems along with some you may not have seen before, including:

• IYONIX pcs running the very latest RISC OS
• Laptops running virtual RiscPCs on Linux and Mac OS
• One or more Beagle Boards running RISC OS 5 and various applications
• A Touch Book which may or may not be running RISC OS (if we have time!)

We will be bringing a range of exciting ROOL-related merchandise along with us and will be telling everyone about the latest developments in and around RISC OS. We look forward to seeing you there!

Posted in Community | 2 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.

Posted in Community, Web site, New product, Press release | 2 comments