What are you doing with RISC OS?

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Sep 24, 2017 8:32pm 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 Martin Avison (27) 703 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 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 Chris Johns (3727) 10 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 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 John Sandgrounder (1650) 321 posts	post moved to the General Forum; where it should have been in the first place.

Jun 25, 2018 2:09am 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