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Did you notice? We changed everything

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:27:00 GMT

There’s a surprising amount of behind-the-scenes work required to keep the services you’re using on the RISC OS Open website running, but it’s not glamourous work:

• Deleting spam accounts (thanks Dave!)
• Administering bounty donations and taming the beast (thanks Andrew!)
• Maintaining package lists (thanks Theo!)
• Keeping host OS versions patched and up to date (thanks James!)

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Fruit of community effort ready to pick

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 29 May 2018 10:59:00 GMT

Updating the User Guide from the parrot’s previous outing in 1996 has been a huge task. We’ve incorporated some of the introductory chapters about using RISC OS from the Welcome Guide (your supplier should still give you specific instructions about plugging the computer together), plus adding new chapters to cover the extra bundled applications and features in RISC OS 5.

A total of 62 chapters and over 900 images were brought together, with contributions and reviewing from the community. There’s now also some tutorial material included in the latest HardDisc4 to accompany the text.

In light of the community input we’ve squeezed the price down to just £20.00 (plus delivery, cost depends on destination) with an electronic copy following shortly for those who prefer to read on screen.

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ROOL goes dutch at RISC OS eXperience 2018

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 07 May 2018 08:38:00 GMT

Saturday 12th May sees the Big Ben Club hosting this year’s international RISC OS eXperience show. We look forward to seeing you there!

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RISC OS 5.24 stable is now available

Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:57:00 GMT

After a long run up RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL) are pleased to announce the much anticipated latest stable RISC OS release for many of the computers your favourite OS currently runs on.

CC-BY Richard Humphrey

What’s stable, and how is it different to what I’m running now?

The stable release criteria are used to evaluate which ports are awarded a 5.24 badge, and which need some more work to finish them off. Using the convention of even numbers for stable editions and odd numbers for development editions, work has already commenced on RISC OS 5.25, we hope to add more stable ports for when RISC OS 5.26 comes along.

For the Tungsten platform (used in the IYONIX pc from Castle Technology) it incorporates a massive 633 changes, 707 changes for the OMAP3 platform (used in the ARMini from RComp), 708 changes for the OMAP4 platform (used in the PandaRO from CJE Micros and ARMiniX from RComp), and 633 changes for the IOMD platform used in the Acorn Risc PC/A7000/A7000+.

For the first time the stable release includes the hugely popular Raspberry Pi series (costing less than £30), and also the Titanium port (used in the Rapido-Ti from CJE Micros and TiMachine from RComp).

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