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Bounties earn 10 year merit badge but want 3 more

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:31:00 GMT

It’s hard to believe, but the RISC OS Open bounty scheme was launched in ten years ago and in that time has delivered £39,249.91 of improvements to the OS, with a further £13,990.72 currently work in progress.

How does it all work in practice?

You can see how we select bounties and what the current status of those running are at any time by clicking on the ‘More information’ link beneath the totaliser.

Each of the currently active bounties also include an overview of what they are trying to achieve, as well as a guide target amount. The target is based on costing a rough project plan as a way of comparing one with another; so a high target is more work than a low one, rather than a guarantee that a developer claims it the moment it reaches 100%.

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ObjAsm becomes self-aware in latest DDE update

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 25 Feb 2021 22:27:00 GMT

The assembler tool, one of the cornerstones of the Desktop Development Environment (DDE), has taken on a life of its own in the latest update which was made available to eligible developers today. The main changes include:

• The addition of support for instructions from ARMv8.0 to the very latest ARMv8.6
• Support for the IEEE half-precision floating point instructions in the VFP instruction set
• A new data type for BFloat16
• More thorough rules checking around ‘IT’ blocks
• A number of bug fixes and improvements to warning and error text
• The table of known CPUs to target has been updated, right up to the Cortex-X1
• Extra built-in variables to allow conditional assembly for a given target

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Pi 400 coming in to land

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:31:00 GMT

It’s been a bumpy flight through 2020 but RISC OS Open airways would like to welcome the Raspberry Pi 400 as it joins the other frequent flyers of the Pi family of educational computers.

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Development easier than A-B-C

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 30 Oct 2020 21:16:00 GMT

At the recent London show we launched DDE30, the new edition the Desktop Development Environment, to a wall of miniature faces via Zoom. If you weren’t able to attend, read on…

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