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RISC OS Open at South West 2017

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 24 Feb 2017 20:07:00 GMT

RISC OS Open are happy to announce that we will be attending this year’s RISC OS South West Show on Saturday 24th February at the Webbington Hotel.

We’ll be on hand to answer any questions about the RISC OS Open project as a whole, and demonstrating a robot arm controlled by the recently updated Pico.

Along with our ever widening range of merchandise, including show exclusive badges celebrating ten years of ROOL, you can also make bounty donations in person – it’s worth looking at the new bounties as there’s almost certainly one area you’d like to see improved.

See you there

Doors open at 10:30am with tickets available on the door.

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

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Pico embiggened once more

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:10:00 GMT

> LIST

10 We’ve not stopped partying since we celebrated 50 years of BASIC back in May 2014 (so it’s nearly 53 years now!) by releasing ‘Pico’, a cut down version of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi which boots straight into BASIC.

20 In the intervening TIME the PI Foundation haven’t STOP-ped producing more MODE-ls either, even bringing out a 64 bit variant using the Cortex-A53 PROC-ess-OR.

30 Perfect FOR educational use AND for hackers TO use for industrial control, Pico RETURN-s with updated GPIO support so you can control pins directly from BASIC.

> RUN

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Bounteous extra bounties

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 19 Feb 2017 17:39:00 GMT

The bounty scheme opened its doors in 2011 as a mechanism to build a pot of cash large enough to tempt a bounty hunter to collect.

Ready to collect? CC-BY DocChewbacca

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Pain free upgrade to Desktop Development Environment

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 11 Jan 2017 23:27:00 GMT

With an eye to the forthcoming zero page relocation we’ve made an update to the DDE – the tools for developing the operating system itself.

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