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RISC OS London Show 2014

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:39:00 GMT

This year, we decided to celebrate the wonderful fact that our growing community of users and developers now spans every corner of the globe by asking some friends to translate our London Show announcement into a variety of languages.

Many thanks to Alberto Bonamico (Italian), James Byrne (Japanese), Jose Manuel Ventoso Picos (Spanish), Katalin Szalay (Hungarian, Romanian), Lixin Cheng (Chinese), Martin Würthner (German), Moniek Hopman (Dutch) and Tina Evans (French).

Posted in Miscellaneous, Community | Tags 2014, countries, flags, global, languages, london | 7 comments

Shellshocked?

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Sat, 27 Sep 2014 06:39:00 GMT

Within the last couple of days, you might have heard about a really nasty security problem that’s so important it has already been given a name and an unofficial logo (!):

• Shellshock on Wikipedia

The server running the ROOL web site was vulnerable to this issue but has been patched, with another patch due for a secondary, much less serious aspect of the bug for which a fix is not yet available.

Posted in Web site | Tags bug, critical, security | 1 comment

Raspberry Pi Model B+

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:44:00 GMT

The folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation have been busy producing an enhanced version of everybody’s favourite credit card sized ARM11 computer, to arrive at the “Model B+”.

This mirrors the line up that Acorn provided with it’s educational microcomputer range in the 1980’s – the cut-down Model A, the more common Model B, and an enhanced Model B+.

The Model B+ has a number of features including doubling the number of USB sockets and switching to a micro SD card for booting and storage.

Fortunately RISC OS Open have had the inside track on this new development ahead of time and Ben Avison of Piccolo Systems has been able to update the SD card filing system hardware drivers to talk to the changed hardware.

Users of the Model B+ should ensure that they use the RC12A beta release of the software, as this includes the necessary changes but is otherwise identical to the RC12 download.

To jump start your adventures into the Model B+ you might want to buy this on a ready-to-go micro SD card from the ROOL Store. The great value NutPi is also now available in micro SD card format.

Due to the popularity of anything new from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, please be aware that stocks may become exhausted quickly or be subject to longer than normal despatch times.

Posted in Press release, New product | 2 comments

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.

Posted in Community, New component, Press release | no comments