News nybble: OS and software updates from R-Comp

R-Comp Interactive will have a selection of OS and software updates for ARMSX ARMX6 and TiMachine computers, which they’ll be demonstrating at this weekend’s Southwest Show. OS update 11 for the ARMX6 brings with it a number of new features and improvements, in areas such as 16, 4K, and 64K colour modes, MODE 7, support for a 3840×1600 screen resolution, a new version of BASIC optimised for hardware-floating point, improved memory performance, and more. For the TiMachine, there is v4 of the high resolution graphics/multi-head driver, adding support for 256…

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News nybble: Experimental multi-core ROM in the wild

Cor Cor, blimey! In the 483rd post to a thread on the RISC OS Open forum that was started over six years ago and runs to twenty pages, Jeffrey Lee has made available a new toy for those users that want to try it out –  a ROM build for the Raspberry Pi that includes support for those versions of the board that feature multiple cores (i.e. the version 2 and 3 Pis). The release includes the source for the current HAL and kernel changes and SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) module,…

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