Wrapped up well, fed hot soup. RISC OS Open Limited have released a new version of the Desktop Development Environment (DDE), the set of tools used by many developers for writing software for RISC OS, as well as anyone working on the operating system itself. The primary focus of the new release (aka DDE27) is the relocation of zero page, currently only included in release candidate versions of the operating system, but which will eventually find its way into a formal release version. As such, this version of the tools…
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Click and collect Elesar gear at the Southwest Show
…by way of ROOL – that’ll be RISC OS Open Logistics, then! If you’re in the market for some swanky new hardware from Elesar Ltd and want to shave off the price of shipping, you can purchase it online and arrange for collection at the Southwest Show, which takes place on Saturday, 27th February.
Read MorePreview of a whole new platform
Announcement from Steve Revill, 23rd October, 2015. Visitors to the London show this weekend may wish to drop by the ROOL stand to take a sneak peek at a brand new Cortex-A15 motherboard designed with RISC OS in mind, which has kindly been loaned to ROOL for the duration of the show.
Read MoreRISC OS Open Ltd: London show news
Announcement from Steve Revill, 22nd October, 2015. We’re packing our kit ready for the London show, which starts at 11am on Saturday 24th October 2015 and look forward to seeing you there.
Read MoreROOL roll in to ROUGOL – 21st September
ROOLing, ROOLing, ROOLing… ROUGOL! 21st September is the date of the next husking bee for ROUGOL – the RISC OS User Group of London – and this month the group’s guest speaker will be Rob Sprowson (aka Sprow), who will be there yammering about what RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) have been up to over the past year, as well as what they have planned for the future.
Read MorePip-sized Pico now available
Pint-sized would be, like, MASSIVE! Last year the BASIC programming language celebrated its 50th birthday, having first appeared (as Dartmouth BASIC) in 1964, and in May RISC OS Open Ltd joined in the celebrations by releasing RISC OS Pico for the Raspberry Pi.
Read MoreAnswer: the RISC OS Open stand at the Southwest Show
Question: Where can you find a Raspberry Pi 2, a new Style Guide, and a robot arm, all together? (Um. Have I got the question and answer the wrong way around?) RISC OS Open Ltd have confirmed that they will be appearing at the RISC OS Southwest Show on Saturday, 21st February, at the Webbington Hotel, Loxton – and that they’ll have some interesting goodies to entertain and/or sell to visitors.
Read MoreRaspberry Pi morphs into version 2
Turbo-ish boost! Monday of this week saw the surprise launch of a new version of the credit card sized Raspberry Pi – the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B.
Read MoreBounty boosting at ROOL
Show ’em the money! RISC OS Open Ltd, responsible for managing the RISC OS 5 source code, have announced another run of bounty matching for this month. The bounty scheme was launched in 2011 as a way to allow members of the RISC OS community to contribute funds towards the development of certain aspects of RISC OS. A number of different bounties are listed on the RISC OS Open website, and people can send money to go towards whichever one(s) they see fit.
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.
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