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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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ROOL at the RISC OS South West Show

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:35:00 GMT

After a (relatively) mild winter of hibernation, we’re pleased to announce that some of the ROOL team will be making our annual pilgrimage to Bristol for the RISC OS South West Show.

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We're throwing open the doors to our lab

Posted by Ben Avison Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:57:00 GMT

Following a period of beta-testing by a small group of volunteers, ROOL is proud to announce that our GitLab is now accepting sign-ups for anyone wanting to contribute to developing RISC OS. Dive in, the water’s lovely and warm!

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