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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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RISC OS 5.28 now available

Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 24 Oct 2020 13:41:00 GMT

Slightly delayed from our original target in Spring, we’re pleased to announce RISC OS 5.28 is now available for all platforms that met or exceeded our stable release criteria.

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Charting our way

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 24 May 2020 11:23:00 GMT

As countries around the world grapple with the COVID-19, many people will currently be required to stay indoors, or to change their work patterns and switch to video conferencing. Drinking more? Exercising less? It certainly feels like an interesting time to see what the data says about what’s happening in our community.

Take a look with us at various metrics from ROOL’s data banks for the period January to April, to see how things looked heading into the “new normal”.

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