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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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COVID-19 update

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:07:00 GMT

As I’m sure you are all aware, RISC OS Open places our user and developer community at the very top of our list of priorities. In the light of the current pandemic and the very latest advice from the UK Government, we find ourselves in a position of seeing no alternative but to withdraw from all face-to-face social engagements, such as user group meetings and shows, including the up-coming Wakefield Show.

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Three interesting topics for our march towards April

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 09 Mar 2020 18:04:00 GMT

With the added productivity of our bonus leap day behind us, there is still a lot to look forward to in the next couple of months. For example:

• Setting off towards our new RISC OS 5.28 stable release
• Journeying to Wakefield, UK for the 25th WROCC show on 18th April
• Reaching new heights of bounty goodness

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New Desktop Development Environment reaches out

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:39:00 GMT

Last year’s London show saw the snappily titled DDE29 becoming generally available.

Packing in some 300 changes, the main highlights are:

• Latest Norcroft C compiler
  • Code generation now tailored to use ARMv6/v7/v8 extended instructions where possible
  • Optimisations to substitute selected code sequences with ARMv6/v7/v8 media instructions where possible
  • Inline assembler updated to accept ARMv6/v7/v8 mnemonics
  • Literal pool reductions where available and enabled through use of MOVW+MOVT
  • New intrinsic functions to get access to operations not normally accessible from C
• ABC (the BASIC compiler) now supports hexadecimal entered in mixed case
• Revised User Interface Toolbox and ABC manuals plus detailed change logs for all the provided tools
• Library improvements to the TCP/IP library adds RFC2553 supporting functions, part of the TCP/IP bounty work getting ready for IPv6, and stronger type checking for all functions in the Toolbox library
• DDT (the desktop debugger) now uses the same disassembly engine as other tools, and can step the new instructions which the compiler emits
• Technical enhancements to AMU, CMHG, and ABC’s command line processing

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