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USB bounty complete, only 1 finger needed

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:35:00 GMT

We can now count on just 1 finger the number of steps remaining to overhaul the aging RISC OS USB stack following the completion today of step 1. This initial bounty was carved off a larger block after recognising that the scale of the task couldn’t reasonably be achieved prior to the next stable release of RISC OS (version 5.24), yet we needed some of the work to help towards the Raspberry Pi port.

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H-IP h-IP hooray

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 08 Oct 2017 10:27:00 GMT

Join us in raising a glass to the 20th birthday of the RISC OS network stack last being updated. That’s right – 1997 marked the release of Internet 5 as part of RISC OS 3.70, and a big step forward in its IP networking capabilities.

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Where to store all those noughts and ones

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:35:00 GMT

Join us on stand 15 at the Wakefield show this weekend and witness previously unheard of amounts of storage on RISC OS. We’ll be demonstrating a 2TB (yes, that’s 2,000,000,000,000 or 2 × 10 ¹² bytes) drive in native Acorn FileCore format attached directly to the disc controller.

Spinning rust still has the edge for storage density

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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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