RISC OS London Show 2014

This year’s RISC OS London Show is on Saturday 25th October, open 11am-5pm, at its usual venue of the St Giles Hotel, Feltham, TW14 9AD. Entrance is £5 with under 16s free.

http://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/

The exhibitors list is still growing, but already has lots of regulars and new faces:

http://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/exhibitors.php

We’ll have on display the biggest ever RISC OS desktop with a 3840×2160 resolution on a 40inch ultra-hidef 4K TV.

Also a first chance to see an early port of RISC OS running on the ARM Cortex-A15 based IGEPv5 board.

Plus for retro fans, there will be some new Beeb games to play big smile

Then there are the usual suspects:

- ROOL with RISC OS 5 running on a variety of hardware, including the new Raspberry Pi B+
- RComp with the ARMini and ARMiniX, plus the latest updates to their software collection
- CJE with the PandaRO and RaspberryRO, along with an extensive set of accessories
- Archive and Drag n Drop have new issues for your reading pleasure
- RiscDJ and 3rd Event will be tickling your ears
- Riscy Robots will have a Pi controlled model railway

There will also be a theatre programme of talks throughout the day.

Keep an eye on the website for the latest news – http://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/

Bryan.

PS. There is also this news item about the show from the cunning linguists at ROOL :-)

https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2014/09/29/risc-os-london-show-2014

STOP PRESS

With just two weeks to go ROUGOL have heard that a major new product that has been in development for a year will be announced at the show.

However we are not allowed to say what it is yet! So get yourself along to the show and don’t miss out on the chance to be one of the first to see this exciting development in action :-)

I’m going on holiday on the day of the show, it’s almost worth cancelling the holiday….Well maybe not, but it’s a close one!
Unless I’m thinking of the other massively exciting news, well there’s four separate seriously exciting exhibits really!

[Update] Looks like it is other news, wow, this should be a nice show! Guess I’ll be following the show remotely :-(
[Update] Removed twitter comment as it was confusing people, the twitter comment I was referring to was for ImpressionX beta which is already on the London Show Website.

It has not been on Twitter yet AFAIK – this is new news!

Only one week to go!

Latest news:

- Sine Nomine will have a new release of their RiscOSM mapping software, with support for postcodes and a wider range of countries.
- CJE’s theatre talk should be an interesting one as they have the latest news on their laptop project, plus “one and hopefully a second significant item to demonstrate”.
- A new book by David Bradforth, A Potted History of Acorn, will be released.
- Soft Rock will have a custom Acorn themed case for the Raspberry Pi, the RiscPiC, as well as the usual collection of games and utilities.

Don’t forget to bring along any spare RISC OS hardware or software to donate to the charity stand (no CRT monitors or x86 PCs). Then pick up some bargains yourself and help raise money for Combat Stress.

If mw-software attending this year?

Is mw-software attending

I don’t think so – I believe Martin will be on holiday around the time of this year’s show.

Only two days to go…

Latest news from Archive magazine:
“A coalition of parties is set to make an exciting announcement at the show. They are burning the midnight oil to get a new product ready. They won’t say any more until unveiling it on the day, except that it has been in development for a year”.

get a new product ready

Here’s hoping it’s cutting edge.

What’s cutting edge these days? A tablet? Hmmm, I think it’d take at least a year to figure out an API for the OS to deal with tablet style gestures!
Maybe a laptop, which is sort of a “pre-tablet” for the Generation Xers. ;-)

Hardware GPU support would be nice. It’s kind of depressing that I need to swap OS to watch videos on the Pi.

Also nice would be merging the ROLtd sources into the ROOL sources, knocking out RISC OS 7, and finally unifying everything. Well, hey, I can dream.

We know it isn’t Impression for that’s already been mentioned, unless there is some sort of mindscrew going on.

Given the size of the RISC OS market, I have but two observations:

• To make everybody’s investment in the project worthwhile, I hope it has application beyond the direct RISC OS crowd (it can also help “spread the word”).
• Given a “coalition of parties” in a tiny market, it’s impressive that the main players and all the assistant players and playerettes have managed to keep their mouths closed for an entire year.

I guess there’s a better class of speculation going on in comp.sys.acorn.* – but I never sorted out newsgroup access since Orange France pulled the plug on usenet… never really felt a pressing need for it.

I guess there’s a better class of speculation going on in comp.sys.acorn.*

Not that I’ve seen.

Well, I think the big announcement involves Rcomp and some sort of Freescale i.MX based hardware. Given the rather cryptic clues;

“i.am.coming”, “i.aM.near”, “i.am.needed”, “i.am.neXt”

some sort of Freescale i.MX based hardware. Given the rather cryptic clues

I was working on a cryptic comment. Clearly too cryptic.
JB has been working on an iMX6 HAL, anyone looking at source commits would get that, and a commonly available iMX6 dev board is called?

Which, BTW, would make an easy to construct laptop, with the chocolate¹ option making a better fit in a tablet.

¹ OK, chocolate, caramel etc

“i.am.coming”, “i.aM.near”, “i.am.needed”, “i.am.neXt”

Clever.

Well, I think the big announcement involves Rcomp and some sort of Freescale i.MX based hardware. Given the rather cryptic clues;

Oh.

I was wondering if I’d missed one, and it was something bearing the MSX brand of yesteryear.

I was wondering if I’d missed one

Evening Vince. When I saw your name in the thread I was expecting it to be a reaction to the word chocolate :)
Now there’s your Xmas product – A little mini RPC case full of chocolates ©¹.

¹ Free use of copyright idea by people who have allowed me to nick sweeties. Still think the mini case deserves a mini display unit when displayed on a show stand

… and a commonly available iMX6 dev board is called?

Udoo for example? Just needs some packaging…

The Udoo would be even nicer than the board with the cutting edge. Mainly because of the price and that the Udoo guys managed to put all ports on one side of the board. (Provided that I got the “cutting edge” clue right.)

The Udoo would be even nicer than the board with the cutting edge

Looks like a thicker slice :)

Provided that I got the “cutting edge” clue right

Your speculation is probably matching my wish list, but I was thinking lighter¹ – i.e. not @ 399 ukp
Of course wishes rarely come true.

¹ Or use modernistic USA style spelling

Now there’s your Xmas product – A little mini RPC case full of chocolates

Funnily enough, I did think this morning that a nice little promotion would be to plonk a Raspberry Pi in one of the cases so that a random customer ends up with a free Pi.

However, I concluded that it’s not sensible to do it for the RiscPiC-mini cases (which is all I have for this show. (The latest prototype standard RiscPiC features a very noticable fault.)

So that little wheeze will have to wait until I have standard cases available.

Free use of copyright idea by people who have allowed me to nick sweeties.

There will be sweets again. I’ve resisted buying them until tomorrow – so that I don’t eat them myself in the meantime.

Still think the mini case deserves a mini display unit when displayed on a show stand

Like this you mean?

Like this you mean?

See? I told you it finishes things off nicely.

That was taken at the Midlands Show – I took the RiscPiC over to CJE’s stand to pop it under one of their displays. (Clue: The display is showing RISC OS, but there’s no power lead going into the Pi in my RiscPiC!)

One of the nicest i.MX6 gadgets is the CuBox. Also cool: the HummingBoard, which IIRC is size-and-port compatible with the RaspPi.

I took the RiscPiC over to CJE’s stand to pop it under one of their displays.

That I recall – thought you’d invested.

Any new fast ARM hardware will be welcomed by the RISC OS community.
Let’s hope they have a few extra cores that we can use in the coming month/years.
a Quad core would be nice to have, even if only 1 is currently used.

I live in Australia, so cannot attend, but looking to find out about it very soon.