R-Comp Interactive’s already great ARMSX ARMX6 computer has just got better, thanks to an operating system update just released by the company. The headline feature of the update is support for ultra-high definition monitors. UHD monitors provide a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels – sometimes (arguably incorrectly) referred to as 4K or UHD 4K – giving twice the horizontal and vertical resolutions of high definition (1920×1080) displays, and thus offering four times the overall number of pixels and, therefore, four times the amount of desktop real estate.
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Snippets – 31st August, 2015
News nuggets for you to chew on. The last few months have been very busy with stuff unrelated to RISC OS, so unposted news – particularly smaller items – has built up again. It’s time, therefore, for a snippets post to round up these smaller items.
Read MoreDocumentation updates at ROUGOL – Monday, 17th August, 2015
Announcement from ROUGOL, 14th August, 2015. The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be: Documentation updates Presented by Bernard Boase Monday 17th August 2015, 7:45pm
Read MoreSouthampton RISC OS Users Group – August meeting
Announcement from Dave Higton, 8th August, 2015. The next meeting of the Southampton RISC OS Users Group will take place on Tuesday August 11 in the Sports Centre of Itchen College, Deacon Road, Southampton, from 19:00 until 20:30 – a slightly short meeting, sadly, as the venue is closing a bit earlier than usual.
Read MoreWROCC meeting – Robots and lights with the Pi – 5th August
Announcement from the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club, 2nd August, 2015. Robots and Lights with the Pi Meeting on Wednesday 5th August 2015 at 7.45pm Terry Marsh will be talking about the robot he built to use with the Pi, and ‘Lights’ with the Pi.
Read MoreMPData+ at ROUGOL, Monday 20th July, 2015
Announcement from ROUGOL, 16th July, 2015. The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be: MPdata+ Presented by Kevin Wells, KevSoft Monday 20th July 2015, 7:45pm
Read MoreRONWUG meeting/venue disruption – Wednesday, 15th July
Announcement from Steve Potts, 12th July, 2015. RISC OS North West User Group – 15th July, 2015; Venue disruption and no August meeting RONWUG’s next meeting is this Wednesday, but… Possibly not quite at usual place!
Read MoreSouthampton RISC OS Users Group – July meeting
Announcement from Dave Higton, 10th July, 2015. The next meeting of the Southampton RISC OS Users Group will take place on Tuesday July 14 in the Sports Centre of Itchen College, Deacon Road, Southampton, from 19:00 until 21:00.
Read MoreImportant software compatibility notice
Announcement from RISC OS Open Ltd, 5th July, 2015. Starting from tomorrow, July 5th1, the Iyonix, OMAP3, OMAP4 and Raspberry Pi development ROM images will be making use of “zero page relocation”, a change to the RISC OS memory map which moves the kernel’s “zero page” workspace away from address zero and up to the high end of the memory map. This greatly increases the system’s resilience to a common type of software bug known as a “null pointer dereference.”
Read MoreCJE & 4D at the Midlands RISC OS Summer Show/Recursion
Announcement from CJE Micro’s, 30th June, 2015. The RISC OS Midlands User Group are hosting their Summer Show as part of the Recursion Computer Science Fair 2015, this Saturday, 4th July, at King Edward Vi School, Stratford-upon-Avon from 11:00am – 4:00pm.
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