Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley, 18th October, 2014. R-Comp is pleased to announce a special promotion running from now through ’til Christmas, with an emphasis on the London show this weekend.
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Snippets – 12th October, 2014
If news were a hot dog, this would be the ketchup. (Ketchup? Catch-up? Geddit? No? Ho hum – where’s my coat?) Here at the RISCOSitory/Soft Rock Software top secret underground bunker (whose entrance is cunningly disguised as a ramshackle shed) things have become somewhat busy positively hectic over the last couple of months, which has resulted in no news being posted to the site whatsoever for almost a month – not even in the ‘press release’ format whereby an announcement is simply quoted in full. So, in order to catch…
Read MoreFrom RiscPC to Raspberry Pi at the September WROCC meeting
Yet more attention for the RiscPC, which really only wanted to celebrate quietly, with family and close friends. With the RiscPC having celebrated its 20th birthday earlier this year, the next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club will feature Peter Richmond taking a look back at some of the hardware expansion options that have been available in that time for Acorn’s iconic and most powerful computer.
Read MoreSnippets – 16th August, 2014
A selection of hitherto unreported items from the past few months. B gets beefed up to become B+ On 14th July, just a couple of days after the Midlands Show, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced a new version of the Raspberry Pi. The Model B+ is the same size as its predecessors (give or take – well, take – about half a millimetre or so in one dimension) but features an improved layout and specification.
Read MoreFeature: Black PiCano case for the Raspberry Pi
Pi looks good in a little black number. Steve Royd-Marker, the designer of the PiCano case for the Raspberry Pi, first launched at the RISC OS eXperience, 2013, and sold in the UK by R-Comp, has been in touch with a couple of photographs of a black PiCano case, and some explanatory text to go with them. Here are those photographs and what he wrote:
Read MoreRISC OS Open to demo Pi Compute module at Wakefield
Announcement from Steve Revill, 24th April, 2014. RISC OS Open are very pleased to exclusively reveal that we will be bringing a Raspberry Pi Compute module along to the Wakefield Show this Saturday, along with the associated IO Board.
Read MorePiCano case for Raspberry Pi now available in the UK
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley, 23rd April, 2014. We are pleased to announce that the popular “PiCano” case for the Raspberry Pi is now available in the UK. As the exclusive UK distributor, we will have PiCano on display, and for sale, at the Wakefield Show this weekend.
Read MorePiPlus Super Pack 2 released for members
Announcement from R-Comp’s Andrew Rawnsley, 26th September, 2013 We are pleased to announce that “Super Pack 2” (aka SP2) has been released to members of our PiPlus support scheme. It is now available for download from our private PiPlus members’ area1. SP2 provides a “drop on” upgrade to bring PiPlus members up to date with the latest PiPlus disc image.
Read MoreOS updates from R-Comp
Three! Count ’em! And new micro-SD cards, too! Just prior to the Midlands Show, R-Comp announced that “Super Pack 6” was available for owners of the original ARMini computer, as well as BeagleBoard users who have subscribed to the BeagleBoard Support Scheme, shortly followed by the option to upgrade to 16/32GB micro-SD cards. Later in the same month, the second OS upgrade for members of R-Comp’s PiPlus scheme was made available, that being a similar arrangement as the BeagleBoard Support Scheme, but for Raspberry Pi owners. And, not leaving out…
Read MoreSetting up the Raspberry Pi just got easier
…thanks to Beginners New Out Of Box Software. Earlier this month, the Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced a piece of software called NOOBS – an acronym standing for New Out Of Box Software – which aims to make it much easier to install a suitable operating system on an SD card, suitable for booting the Raspberry Pi.
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