RISC OS Developments

RISC OS Developments London Show news – including a public Iris release

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 VinceH

With this year’s London Show drawing ever nearer – the doors will be open to the public in just two days on 25th October, at the Harrow District Masonic Centre – another announcement has landed in the RISCOSitory bunker, and, amongst other interesting news, this one includes something we’ve all been eagerly awaiting for a very long time: a public release of web browser Iris from RISC OS Developments. Over to Andrew Rawnsley for all the gory details:

Latest news from R-Comp: WROCC meeting, 1st October

September 26, 2025September 26, 2025 VinceH

The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will be holding their next meeting on Wednesday, 1st October, with Andrew Rawnsley taking centre stage to bring the group up to date with all things R-Comp.

New Pinboard 2.07 and Iris 1.031 from RISC OS Developments

March 23, 2025March 23, 2025 VinceH

RISC OS Developments are behind the next announcement in my queue, so over to Richard and Andrew for this joint announcement:

New user or news seeker – come to RISC OS North

March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 VinceH

If you’re a seasoned RISC OS User, you’ll know all about the operating system’s history, and you’ll be familiar with the people that look after it today – but you’ll want to find out the latest news. If, however, you’re a new user, or if are thinking of trying it out, you’ll want to find out more about it.

Talking RISC OS North in London – 17th March

March 14, 2025 VinceH

The last RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting before the next show – RISC OS North – will take place on Monday, 17th March, and that very show will be the topic of the evening; a pre-show fireside chat with Richard Brown of RISC OS Developments Ltd and Orpheus Internet taking the floor.

RISC OS Developments comes to WROCC – 6th November

November 4, 2024 VinceH

In the run up to the recent London Show, RISC OS Developments released an updated version of RISC OS Direct, their customised and more user-enticing distribution of RISC OS – and it was a very important update, because it also marked the first public release of their web browser, Iris, which is now bundled in the distro.

RISC OS Developments TCP/IP stack opens up portals!

October 24, 2024October 24, 2024 VinceH

Don’t worry – these are the good kind, not the dangerous ones depicted in some sci-fi movies! Another announcement has come out from the direction of RISC OS Developments, this time bringing news of an updated and enhanced version of their TCP/IP stack – which some people might find particularly useful this very weekend at the London Show if they still have time to install it this close to the event!

RISC OS Direct 5.31 now available

October 24, 2024October 24, 2024 VinceH

With Wi-Fi and web browser! Some very welcome news from RISC OS Developments, just a couple of days before London 2024 is the release of RISC OS Direct 5.31 – which includes a new internet stack and Wi-Fi facilities, as well as Iris, the web browser the company has been developing for quite some time.

Icon bar’s cloak of invisibility improved in Pinboard 2.05

July 19, 2024July 19, 2024 VinceH

A new version of Pinboard 2 has been released by RISC OS Developments. The software is a replacement for the standard ‘Pinboard’ supplied with the operating system – the component that looks after the desktop background, allowing backdrops to be displayed, icons to be pinned to it to save navigating to the relevant files or applications using the filer, and so on – and provides quite a number of new features that make it a worthy replacement.

Meet Andy Vawer at ROUGOL – 20th May

May 16, 2024May 16, 2024 VinceH

The RISC OS Developments programmer behind Pinboard2, the Wi-Fi drivers, and more Since its inception, with the original aim of producing a web browser, there have been a lot of good news coming out of RISC OS Developments Ltd (ROD) – from the browser itself, Iris (albeit still in testing and not yet ready for public release), taking on ownership of the operating system and releasing it under a truly open licence, and much more, including development of additional software.