Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley. 2015 has been a very busy year for us here at R-Comp and RCI. With lengthy back-orders on ARMX6 all year, we’ve been rushing to complete machines and develop new products and improvements. As such, we’ve not had any holiday time this year, and so have decided to take some “family time” as the year draws to a close.
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Speed away with a Cortex-A15 based Titanium computer
Curve ball thrown before London Show finally lands! First announced the night before this year’s London Show, at which it was being demonstrated on the RISC OS Open stand, Elesar Ltd‘s Titanium motherboard is now on sale and shipping.
Read MoreVoting is now open in the RISC OS Awards 2015!
The third annual RISC OS Awards poll undertaken by RISCOSitory on the RISC OS Awards website is now able to take your votes! Between now and the end of January, you have the opportunity to vote for your favourite piece of software, the show you enjoyed the most, the project you find most interesting, and more besides.
Read MoreSouthampton RISC OS User Group meeting – December
In Southampton? Itchen for a meeting? Look no further… RISC OS users living in an around Southampton get to meet up on the second Tuesday of each month in the Sports Centre of Itchen College – and this month is no different: Dave Higton, who usually organises the meetings, has announced that the next meeting will be at on 8th December at the usual time of 7:00pm, running on until around 9:00pm.
Read MoreReporter lets you read all about it…
…in SysLog! With the last major release being over three years ago, Martin Avison has announced a new version of his debugging/logging tool, Reporter, then quietly updated it again.
Read MoreSnippets – 28th November, 2015
With the end of November rapidly approaching, and with it the deadline for preparing the RISC OS Awards poll for 2015 (coming soon, folks), here are some news items that have previously either slipped under the RISCOSitory RADAR (it came with the bunker, doncherknow), or which were held back for a snippets post. Like this one!
Read MoreNew Raspberry Pi model released today
Not quite as cheap as chips – but not far off at all! When the Raspberry Pi was first announced, some people joked about its proposed price, saying things like if it was much cheaper, it wouldn’t be long before a computer was included as a free gift in a box of breakfast cereal. And while that hasn’t happened – yet – today saw something not that far removed: A computer provided as a free cover gift on a magazine.
Read MoreWROCC December meeting cancelled
It’s okay, I was washing my hair anyway that night. The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club have regrettably announced that their December meeting – which would otherwise have taken place on Wednesday 2nd December – has had to be cancelled. This, apparently, is a result of a double-booking by the venue.
Read MoreReturn of the red keys
Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight. Red keys on the keyboard? Well, that’s just right! Visitors to the recent London Show – and readers of the RISCOSitory account of the event – will know that one of the items on display was a keyboard on the RISC OS Open Ltd stand. However, this wasn’t just any old keyboard, but something a little more interesting.
Read MoreShow report: London 2015
The who and the what. The only why is why weren’t you there? The 2015 RISC OS London Show took place on 24th October, 2015 – and while the number of visitors was (I believe) just shy of 110, there were plenty of RISC OS users unable to attend. So what did they miss?
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