Batch Five source code released

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:36:00 GMT

Guildford, 18th October 2008

RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are pleased to release Batch Five of the RISC OS source code on CD at the Wakefield RISC OS show. Batch 5 includes a greater number of low level components, audio components, a RiscPC hardware abstraction layer, an Ethernet driver and the nVidia graphics driver. Batch 5 will be released on the RISC OS Open Limited web site soon.

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Latest source code updates

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:40:00 GMT

The published RISC OS source code has been updated with the following changes:

• The Wimp has had some bug fixes and has new enhancements which will allow better themes for the desktop (Fred Graute)

• A new version of Alarm has a number of improvements to its windows which make it easier to use (James Lampard)

• The DebugLib library now has new facilities for directing your debug output to SysLog or to Reporter.

• The official Acorn Clipboard module has been finished! This fully implements the Clipboard protocol and includes some new test programs, notably PutClip and GetClip (Fred Graute).

Some interesting background information about the clipboard module (from Fred himself) will be published on our wiki.

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Batch Four source code released

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Wakefield, 26th April 2008

One year on from the first shared source code release, Castle Technology Ltd (Castle) and RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) were pleased to release Batch Four of the RISC OS source code on CD at the Wakefield RISC OS show. Batch 4 includes long-awaited low level components such as the RISC OS kernel, hardware abstraction layer and the Shared C Library. Batch 4 will be released on the RISC OS Open Limited web site soon.

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Batch Three source code released

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:33:00 GMT

Cambridge, 22nd February 2008

Castle Technology Ltd (Castle) and RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are pleased to announce the release of Batch Three of the RISC OS source code, following on from the first release in May and second release in October.

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