Richard Walker has released an alpha version of a module to allow the use of USB joysticks on RISC OS. With the module running, any games that use the Acorn and Serial Port joystick SWIs should respond and work with a modern USB HID-compliant joystick.
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News bit: Updated isochronous USB modules
Colin Granville has released updated Isochronous USB drivers, needed to play USB audio, incorporating the changes made to the recently completed USB bounty part 1.
Read MoreNews nybble: RISC OS Open holds up a finger
No, not THAT finger – one to indicate counting to, er, one! The first of RISC OS Open’s bounties to overhaul the USB stack has now been completed, bringing a number of benefits to the operating system, including the ability to use power-on-keypresses to recover the system when things go a little awry at boot; something that was present on older hardware, but lost when we made the shift to USB for our input devices. The plans for updating the USB stack were broken down into two steps in order…
Read MoreJim Lesurf’s USB audio apps updated
I bet you thought I hadn’t noticed? Well I hadn’t, until now. Jim Lesurf announced updates to some of his USB audio applications recently – which somehow slipped by RISCOSitory unnoticed until today. The first of these, announced on 29th May, was an update to USBPlayer, an application that allows suitable wave (.WAV, &FB1) files to be played via USB Audio devices that follow the USB Audio standards.
Read MoreUSBRecorder version 0.61
Announcement from Jim Lesurf, 21st May, 2014 USBRecorder is a program that can be used to make audio recordings via a suitable USB audio device. I have now released a new version (Version 0.61) which has some changes and improvements over earlier versions.
Read MoreUSB audio
Announcement from Jim Lesurf, 26th February, 2014 This to announce that I have now put links to copies of some test/demo programs for USB Audio on my main software page. It also gives links to where you can find the required modules along with a list of some of the audio devices known to work correctly.
Read MoreSnippets – 21st June 2011
David Higton reported on the RISC OS Open forums that at the Southamton Acorn Users Group meeting on 14th June, to which he took his BeagleBoard for the purposes of this, he “demonstrated copying the files from a bootable SD card to an empty (formatted) SD card and booting from the latter.”
Read MoreCash prize offered for USB audio functionality
Hot on the heels of the announcement from RISC OS Open Ltd about their bounty scheme, Jim Lesurf has announced a ‘cash prize’ of £300 for someone (or a group): To develop the USB stack/interface, user API, etc, to allow [modern high quality USB devices like the Halide Bridge, Arcam rDAC, etc] to be ‘plug and play’ with ‘native’ ARM hardware running RISC OS. Thus enabling RISC OS users to make use of modern USB devices for high quality audio playing (and recording). Jim goes on to detail on the…
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