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Happy birthday RISC OS Open! We've reached double figures.

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 20 Jun 2016 08:40:00 GMT

We’d just like to say a big thank you to everyone who has contributed to RISC OS since 2006. It is hugely improved from the sorry state it was in back then.

It was ten years ago tomorrow that we incorporated RISC OS Open Ltd. It’s been and eventful decade and I think it’s fair to say we’ve all made a real difference. ROOL has achieved pretty much every major milestone that we originally set out and it’s definitely a more vibrant scene.

Here’s to the next ten years!

— Steve Revill

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JPEG bounty captured, parrot unharmed

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 02 Jun 2016 20:06:00 GMT

Ahoy there! Any land lovers who watch the recent changes to RISC OS will have noticed a recent wave of activity in the area of JPEG, marking the completion of this bounty.

JPEG images are most commonly encountered from digital cameras or similar real life pictures. They achieve very high compression ratios by relying on the design of the human eye (the one without a patch over it) where brightness detail is more important than colour detail.

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RISC OS Open attending Wakefield Show

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:45:00 GMT

RISC OS Open are happy to announce that we will be attending this year’s Wakefield Show on Saturday 16th April.

Wakefield 2016 will be held in the Cedar Court Hotel, Calder Grove near Wakefield and next to junction 39 of the M1. The full address is:

The Cedar Court Hotel
Denby Dale Road
Calder Grove
WAKEFIELD
WF4 3QZ

The stand will be packed with a range of merchandise from our store including the DDE Manuals box set and Style Guide. Don’t forget your developer number to get a 20% discount off these items.

Come and see ROOL and catch up with everything that’s new in the community.

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Get connected with ROOL

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:20:00 GMT

The bonus binaries launched last October have just gained a whole extra utility application, !Connector, originally written by Andreas Zieringer for the Archimedes.

Connector¹ is a terminal emulator program which supports the XModem, YModem, ZModem and plain ASCII protocols to transfer files and data with a remote terminal.

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