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ARM Ltd. FPEmulator sources published

Steve Revill — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:25:00 +0100

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.

Updates on the ROOL website

Steve Revill — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:51:00 +0100

In advance of the London Show this weekend, RISC OS Open have updated a large number of the downloads to the latest and greatest versions.

All of the source code archives are automatically updated each night but prebuilt items, such as ROM images and applications, are only updated when we perform builds.

To assist with the on-going work on the Beagleboard, all of our pre-built components are now ARMv7 safe and the OMAP ROM build is up to date. We’ve updated the RISC OS 5.15 ROM build (for IYONIX softload) to use the latest sources in CVS, too.

Batch Five source code released

Andrew Hodgkinson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:36:00 +0100

Guildford, 18th October 2008

RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are pleased to release Batch Five of the RISC OS source code on CD at the Wakefield RISC OS show. Batch 5 includes a greater number of low level components, audio components, a RiscPC hardware abstraction layer, an Ethernet driver and the nVidia graphics driver. Batch 5 will be released on the RISC OS Open Limited web site soon.

Latest source code updates

Steve Revill — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:40:00 +0100

The published RISC OS source code has been updated with the following changes:

The Wimp has had some bug fixes and has new enhancements which will allow better themes for the desktop (Fred Graute)

A new version of Alarm has a number of improvements to its windows which make it easier to use (James Lampard)

The DebugLib library now has new facilities for directing your debug output to SysLog or to Reporter.

The official Acorn Clipboard module has been finished! This fully implements the Clipboard protocol and includes some new test programs, notably PutClip and GetClip (Fred Graute).

Some interesting background information about the clipboard module (from Fred himself) will be published on our wiki.

PCL printer dumper source code

Steve Revill — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:39:00 +0100

RISC OS Open are pleased to announce the availablility of a new printer dumper for RISC OS. PDumperPCL has been contributed by Herbert zur Nedden and based upon PDumperLJ, this is a dumper designed for PCL printers that support duplex printing, such as the Canon i-Sensys MF4690PL.

At the moment, this is a source code only release, with the source code living in the repository at:

castle/RiscOS/Sources/Printing/PDumpers/PDumperPCL

See the PDumperPCL/!Info file for full details. It should be treated as beta quality code for the time being. The PrintDefs component has also been updated to include a new printer definition file for the printer listed above.

An updated release of !Printers will be made available soon with this new dumper included.

Thanks,

The RISC OS Open team.

Batch Four source code released

Andrew Hodgkinson — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:00:00 +0100

Wakefield, 26th April 2008

One year on from the first shared source code release, Castle Technology Ltd (Castle) and RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) were pleased to release Batch Four of the RISC OS source code on CD at the Wakefield RISC OS show. Batch 4 includes long-awaited low level components such as the RISC OS kernel, hardware abstraction layer and the Shared C Library. Batch 4 will be released on the RISC OS Open Limited web site soon.

Batch Three source code released

Andrew Hodgkinson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:33:00 +0000

Cambridge, 22nd February 2008

Castle Technology Ltd (Castle) and RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are pleased to announce the release of Batch Three of the RISC OS source code, following on from the first release in May and second release in October.

New tool to aid RISCOS Ltd and Castle RISC OS development

Andrew Hodgkinson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:36:00 +0000

As a part of the joint co-operation between RISC OS Open and RISCOS Ltd, we are please to announce the availability of a tool which we hope will help to make life a little bit easier for developers. It is aimed at gathering some specific statistics from a wide range of RISC OS users in order for us to better identify where the main problem areas lie with respect to the differences between the RISCOS Ltd RISC OS branch and the Castle Technology RISC OS branch.

Batch Two source code released

Andrew Hodgkinson — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:20:00 +0100

Guildford, 20 October 2007

Castle Technology Ltd (Castle) and RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are pleased to announce the release of Batch Two of the RISC OS source code, following on from the first batch release in May.

CVS access now available

Ben Avison — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:30:00 +0100

We have now opened up access to the CVS repository for the sources previously released in the Batch One source and patch tarballs. This means that for the first time, you now have access to the full changelogs for those components, and you can retrieve old versions back to those present in RISC OS 3.60.