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EEPROM carrier boards ("CMOS widgets") now on sale

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:05:00 GMT

RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are pleased to announce that we’ve teamed up with Sprow to bring you an EEPROM carrier board (or “CMOS widget”) for the BeagleBoard, BeagleBoard xM and PandaBoard.

You simply plug this little board onto the relevant header pins on your board and newer versions of RISC OS (5.18 or newer) will automatically detect it and start saving your RISC OS configuration over reboots.

These boards are an essential add-on for BeagleBoard and PandaBoard users. They cost just £5 plus £1.50 P&P.

Find out more here.

About ROOL

RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL) manages the source code to RISC OS. We are an organisation run on a largely voluntary basis. We also offer professional services to anyone who is interested in developing commercial products using RISC OS.

About Sprow:

Sprow is an independent hardware and software developer who’s been involved in the Acorn/RISC OS scene for many years. He has a range of products available on his personal web pages and is an active contributor to the ROOL forums and CVS repository.

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RISC OS 5.18 for Iyonix and Beagleboard

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:46:00 GMT

New RISC OS ROM release (version 5.18)

RISC OS Open (ROOL) are pleased to announce the immediate release of the very latest stable RISC OS ROM release featuring no less than 340 improvements since the last even numbered release.

This is an official release that has been vetted by Castle Technology (Castle) for the Iyonix PC desktop computer and RComp Ltd (RComp) for the BeagleBoard xM based ARMini.

You can download RISC OS 5.18 free of charge from this page.

This software is subject to continual improvement and work has already commenced on RISC OS 5.19! Using the convention of even numbers for stable editions and odd numbers for development editions, users can feedback any issues seen to make it into the next version.

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RISC OS Open travel to the South West

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:05:00 GMT

For the first time for a few years, RISC OS Open are very happy to announce that we will be attending this year’s RISC OS South West Show, near Bristol, on Saturday 25th February.

We will be showing the very latest RISC OS on the Beagleboard, the development version of the “Live RISC OS” ROM image and talking to people about progress on porting RISC OS onto the RaspberryPi.

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

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