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ROOL doubling-up bounty donations

Steve Revill — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:20:00 +0100

ROOL is hereby pledging to match, pound for pound, the first £1000 donated into our bounty scheme, spread across all bounties. This means that every £1 you donate is worth £2 to a developer who implements your chosen bounty. It also means that it’s in your interest to donate early, while this money is still available! We will keep the remaining amount available visible on the bounty page so you have some idea how much longer you can take advantage of this scheme.

There is one exception: we won’t be matching donations to the RISC OS Open administration bounty, since this would just be paying money back into the same fund from which we’re making the matched donations, so this would be pointless!

We will be starting by matching the donations already made into the bounty scheme. The donation matching process will be performed manually by ROOL staff so don’t be surprised if it takes a few days before the matching donation from ROOL appears in the relevant pot!

For more information, please take a look at this page.

RISC OS Open Bounties

Steve Revill — Thu, 26 May 2011 02:00:00 +0100

Development of RISC OS has been increasing in pace since the first batch of source code was published here on the 19th May 2007. There have been people purchasing the development tools from us all over the globe, from the US through Europe, Russia and out to New Zealand and Australia. We’re seeing more and more people getting stuck in and contributing to the future of the OS.

We are extremely grateful to all of those who are contributing their time and energy in return for little more than the knowledge that they have contributed. Things being the way they are, however, it’s sometimes difficult to find the time to put into such a labour of love.

What could sometimes help an enthusiastic developer to find a bit of extra free time is a small financial reward. And we think there is a way to do this: the ROOL Bounty Scheme. It is an opportunity for the RISC OS community as a whole to make their voices heard by voting with their wallets…

C tools release 20

Steve Revill — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:39:00 +0000

RISC OS Open are pleased to announce the formal release of version 20 of the C/C++ Tools CD. This version includes a number of new components, bug fixes and updates. A full change list can be found here.

Free ISO download for existing developers

This release is available free to all current users of the ROOL Tools CD. Simply drop us an email quoting “ISO image”, your name and your Developer Key. ROOL will then point you towards a custom ISO image download for you to burn your own update/installation CD. Your unique ISO image will be uploaded onto the ROOL site for a period of one week for you to download.

Half-price CD for existing developers

Alternatively, existing users of the ROOL Tools CD have the option to purchase the upgrade on our printed CDs at half of the full price, which will then be posted to you. Send us an email stating “Post CD”, your name and your Developer Key

ROOL Tools CD for new developers

If you don’t already own the ROOL Tools CD but want a copy, you can buy it online from the ROOL store for £50 (plus P&P). We will send you the CD and add you to our database of registered developers.

Birmingham MUG Show, Sat 10th July

Steve Revill — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:10:00 +0100

RISC OS Open will be attending this year’s Midland User Group (MUG) show on Saturday the 10^th^ July at:

St John’s Church Hall 205 Warwick Road Kenilworth Warwickshire CV8 1HY

This will be a great opportunity for you to come and find out what the latest developments are in the RISC OS scene and see some demos of RISC OS running on new ARM-based hardware platforms, emulators and native RISC OS machines.

For more information, take a look at the official MUG Show site.

RISC OS Open at Acorn World

Steve Revill — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:26:00 +0100

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.

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.

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.

C/C++ Tools Upgrade for half price!

Steve Revill — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:58:00 +0100

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!

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.

New IYONIX ROM release (version 5.14)

Steve Revill — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:12:00 +0100

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 first 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 5.14, either as a softload (to try it out) or as a ROM programmer tool, from this page.