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Save a Frog!

Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 05 Jul 2014 21:29:00 GMT

Many users might remember playing the BBC Micro version of Hopper (Acornsoft, 1983) having loaded all its 8 colour goodness off an audio cassette.

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Meteoric Return to RISC OS

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:43:00 GMT

The old favourite game “Meteors” has been added to the ‘Diversions’ in our standard RISC OS disc-based software release. This can be downloaded in the ‘beta’ HardDisc4 image from our downloads page.

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RISC OS 5.20 (stable) is now available

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:00:00 GMT

RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL) are pleased to announce the immediate release of the latest stable RISC OS ROM release, it incorporates a massive 625 changes for the Tungsten platform (used in the IYONIX pc from Castle Technology) and 654 changes for the OMAP3 platform (used in the ARMini from RComp).

For the first time the stable release includes the IOMD platform (used in Acorn’s Risc PC, A7000, and A7000+), and users can purchase this on physical ROMs for their computer too.

You can download RISC OS 5.20 free of charge from the ROOL downloads page and there are some brief upgrade instructions on this wiki page

This software is subject to continual improvement and work has already commenced on RISC OS 5.21! 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 5.20 at the Midlands Show

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:57:00 GMT

RISC OS Open are very pleased to announce that we will be attending the Midlands RISC OS Show this Saturday, 13th July.

At the show this year we will unveil the latest stable release of RISC OS, version 5.20, which has well over 600 changes, improvements and bug fixes since the previous stable release.

RISC OS 5.20 is an even-numbered release so it has been verified as stable for the Castle Iyonix PC, the RComp ARMini and – for the first time ever with RISC OS 5, on Acorn-branded hardware such as the RiscPC and A7000.

There will be a lot of show exclusives so come along and take a look! If you want to buy any of these items online, more information will be following on the ROOL site next week.

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