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New IYONIX ROM release (version 5.16)

Steve Revill — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:34:00 +0000

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.

"New IYONIX ROM release (version 5.16)" by Andrew Hodgkinson (6)

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:37:29 +0000

I’ve updated the article text to stress the importance of programming the ROM into Flash if you want to fix the 2010 date bug on your Iyonix.

"New IYONIX ROM release (version 5.16)" by Steve Revill (20)

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:13:31 +0000

Here is a brief overview of the changes since the previous official ROM release, in plain English:

Alarm:

updated templates (including German translation) and tweak to avoid a known bug

Filer:

added -NoShift parameter to Filer_Run
added Filer_DClickHold command
can now sort objects in reverse order
updates to templates (including German translation)

FileCore:

minor performance improvement
various minor bugfixes

FileSwitch:

bug fix to SWI OS_File 5

DMAManager:

various fixes and improvements

FPEmulator:

fix significant bug #225

PCI:

no longer crashes on machines with no PCI bus

NetBSD:

miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

Territory Manager:

corrected the notation in the timezone syntax message

Kernel:

fix error handling with sparse dynamic areas
fix bug in OS_SetVarVal for creating code variables
fixed RTC bug leading to incorrect dates (2012 rather than 2010)

SharedCLibrary:

bug fix to kernel.s.k_body

Unicode:

fix bugs and inconsistencies in encoding handlers
fix inconsistency in handling illegal byte sequences
convert surrogate codepoints and U+FFFE, U+FFFF to U+FFFD
added some extra mappings

LanManFS:

lots of bug fixes and significant improvements

PDumpers:

eliminated clash with 3rd party module that had an unallocated name

Debugger:

lots of improvements, including support for ARMv5TEJ / ARMv6 CPSR flags

ColourTrans:

performance improvement and bug fix

Draw:

bug fux #193
fix of pointer corruption in Draw_ProcessPath

Font Manager:

Font_EnumerateCharacters bug fix
now validates paths to *FontInstall and *FontRemove

SpriteExtend:

performance improvement (doesn’t thrash OS_CLI when plotting JPEGs)