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Clock ticks towards 5:30 finishing time

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:13:00 GMT

Every eighteen months or so the hands on the clock point at stable-o-clock, the time when we assess all the platforms on which RISC OS runs and determine which are polished enough to meet the unchanging stable release criteria. In addition, new features and any particularly irksome faults are added to the mix.

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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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