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Sep 24, 2017 8:32pm
Avatar ronald-scheckelhoff (2262) 60 posts

Risc OS really needs to compete very hard with mac and windows. Looking for opportunity in mobile OS as well.

It’s lightweight, and runs on a mobile-suited device (Pi). So, I would tend to agree.

My latest fun with RiscOS is trying to use it as a nav ticker. With RC15 in combination with the SerialUSB module and !Connect program working well with my BU353 GPS puck on a Pi2, I have half the battle won there. Now looking for some nice parsing software for the NMEA output.

 
Sep 24, 2017 9:52pm
Avatar Martin Avison (27) 770 posts

Take a look at http://www.svrsig.org/HowTo.htm and RaspberryPi GPS.
Software is at http://www.svrsig.org/software/SatNav.htm

 
Sep 25, 2017 1:52am
Avatar ronald-scheckelhoff (2262) 60 posts

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the link. I’ll give that program a whirl … it looks interesting.

 
Jan 30, 2018 11:18am
Avatar Chris Johns (3727) 28 posts

Currently I have just dug my RiscPC out of storage and have installed RISC OS on one of my R-Pis. Longer term I am thinking of coupling a touch screen to the pi and using it as networked music player. We will see how time allows for that – two young kids means little time for projects!

 
Mar 9, 2018 8:22pm
Avatar James_P (4233) 4 posts

Got an A3000 downstairs but I’m not sure it still works. Have a few emulators set up on my PC though, mostly to have access to ARM BASIC for just quickly throwing things together (if that counts!)
Despite the shortcomings, it’s a lot less effort than dealing with Windows and Microsoft’s ever-more-complicated APIs, heh.

 
May 24, 2018 8:51am
Avatar John Sandgrounder (1650) 372 posts

post moved to the General Forum; where it should have been in the first place.

 
Jun 25, 2018 2:09am
Avatar Butter Fingers (5137) 2 posts

Hi all

I’m making the switch to RISC OS as my new main desktop OS.
i love using the Raspberry Pi 3+ for this purpose instead of a big clunky tower.
All I really need is IRC with SSL support, and a browser with JavaScript support.
I want to use it for my work purposes and these two are all I really need i’m not already positive RISC OS fully supports?
But I hope to be able to do Audacity-like audio editing in RISC OS as well.
I think there is a great opportunity to expand the userbase of RISC OS.
More people want a lightweight and minimal OS and are looking for alternatives to Linux.
With the presence and ubiquity of Pi’s it is only natural!

TY

 
Nov 12, 2018 6:06am
Avatar Jared Falvo (6086) 27 posts

If I can browse the internet, print on my printer (HP Laserjet 1022n), use my Epson V37 scanner (USB), and view .PDF’s, I’d be pretty happy. Can I do all that on a Raspberry Pi 3B, running RISC OS 5.26?

 
Nov 12, 2018 11:20am
Avatar patric aristide (434) 422 posts

Well NetSurf would be my preferred browser but there’s also !Otter which provides better JavaScript support but comes with a speed penalty. The HP LJ 1022 is listed as supported via Gutenprint (commercial) but since it’s a network printer there’s also a free JetDirect/PCL solution, so you’re good.
Scanning should work, no problem re PDF handling either.

Gutenprint
network printing
Scanning

Have a look at !Plingstore and !PackMan for stuff like !PDF, !PDFTest and !Otter

 
Nov 12, 2018 12:06pm
Avatar David Feugey (2125) 1955 posts

browse the internet

Limited.
Browse the Internet: yes
Use web apps: good luck

HP LJ 1022

The RISC OS PCL driver could work too.

Scanning should work

No, but since the Twain2 source code is available, a Sane backend could be ported.
Twain2+Sane would be perfect for a bounty, and direct integration into RISC OS 5.

https://www.davidpilling.com/wiki/index.php/TWAIN

 
Dec 2, 2018 11:22pm
Avatar Alan Robertson (52) 293 posts

What am I doing with RISC OS?

Well, I finally got round to learning ‘C’ and am working on my very first RISC OS program using the OS_Lib library installed via PackMan.
And I’m absolutely loving it. So much fun.

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