Don’t worry, you can clear the entire stock – mine’s already ordered! This Saturday’s Southwest Show will be when anyone holding their breath in anticipation of the arrival of the Pinebook Pro running RISC OS can finally breath again: R-Comp will be bringing along a selection of the ARM-based laptops from PINE64 to the show, not just to show off, but for people to buy – along with a range of accessories.
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Count ’em. You’ll see. No, wait, don’t – that’s meant to say 4té2, not 42! The 4té2 machine, released last year, was R-Comp‘s follow-up to their previous Raspberry Pi-based computer, the 4té – and the company has confirmed that there will be a small supply of stock available at the Southwest Show on Saturday, despite the ongoing shortage of the Pi-boards.
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These days, RISC OS laptop computers are a proper real thingtm (again – we did have Acorn’s A4 once upon a time), with devices like the Pinebook and Pinebook Pro able to run the operating system. However, while a laptop is a handy thing to have when away from the desk, it’s probably not ideal to use as a main machine in its standard form: The screens can be a little on the small side, the keyboards horribly flat and fairly cramped, and a touchpad is a long way from…
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If you have an Archimedes computer that sports the mini 9-pin round socket for connecting the mouse to the computer, thanks to Karl Clark you now have a wider choice of mouse to use. Karl is selling a new interface called ArcMouse, a compact adapter that allows a standard USB mouse to be connected.
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Well, okay, shockingly good ones, anyway! Following on from yesterday’s ‘Not the London Show’ offers, RISCOSbits’ stock of Raspberry Pi 4-based machines hasn’t quite been depleted, so the company has decided to extend the offers to cover the Halloween and Bonfire Night period – at least while stocks last.
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A regular exhibitor at RISC OS shows, RISCOSbits would have been at the one originally planned for tomorrow. However, as we (hopefully) all know, the London Show isn’t going ahead – but over the Summer and early Autumn Andy Marks from RISCOSbits has been working on a few new bits and pieces; things that would have been launched, released, shouted about from the rooftops (or at least a set of tables) at the show. So let’s pretend we’re there, and look at what Andy would be telling us on the…
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With the new sixteen hundred 4té2 machine.1 Following up their 4té computer, a Raspberry Pi 4-based system in a custom designed case, R-Comp Interactive has now launched the next machine in that line – the 4té2.
Read More(Oh, and by the way, there’s a new RISC OS system available for that day only!) If you’re a bit fed up with those pesky Overpuddlians bringing their practices and other atrocities over here, such as the increasingly common use of ‘invite’ as a noun, or annual sales events like ‘Black Friday’ (which tend to last longer than that one day) – and even worse, certain operating systems, when we have a rather nice (if slightly flawed) home grown one that runs on a family of processors which also began…
Read MoreStrap yourselves in… there’s a lot in this post! Andy Marks of RISCOSbits has been busy in the extended period between the last physical show and Saturday’s London Show, and has a number of new products that he’ll be bringing along to show – and hopefully sell – to you.
Read MoreRISC OS users who were Acorn users long before the Archimedes and our favourite OS was ever a thing will remember that the BBC Micro had a younger, more limited sibling – the Acorn Electron. And they will also therefore have observed that the Raspberry Pi 400, a small computer built into a keyboard, could be seen as a nod to computers like the Electron – especially given that the Pi can run RISC OS, and therefore BBC BASIC (albeit a greatly improved version, and using much more memory), the…
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