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Batch Five source code released

Andrew Hodgkinson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:36:00 +0100

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.

Batch Four source code released

Andrew Hodgkinson — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:00:00 +0100

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.

Batch Three source code released

Andrew Hodgkinson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:33:00 +0000

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.

RISCOS Ltd / RISC OS Open Ltd Joint Press Release

Steve Revill — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:00:00 +0000

Right back to the days of Acorn, there have been two distinct strands of RISC OS development. These two strands were developed to exploit different markets and hardware platforms. The Castle Technology strand is used in a number of products, including the IYONIX PC and various set top boxes. The RISCOS Ltd strand is also used in a number of different products, including the A9Home, the VirtualAcorn range of software emulators and as upgrades to existing Acorn computers via the RISC OS Select scheme.

Sources to both strands are available free of charge to developers. One strand is gradually being published under the Castle Technology Shared Source initiative by RISC OS Open Ltd. The RISCOS Ltd strand is available to Registered Developers and Hardware Manufacturers under NDA or as part of the Authorised Manufacturer Scheme, for both commercial and non-commercial exploitation.

Today, RISC OS Open (ROOL) and RISCOS Ltd (ROL) are pleased to announce an agreement to enable co-operation in the development of these two strands of RISC OS.

Batch Two source code released

Andrew Hodgkinson — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:20:00 +0100

Guildford, 20 October 2007

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

ROOL at SE Show

Steve Revill — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:39:00 +0100

On Saturday 20th October, the team from RISC OS Open will be attending the South East Show at Guildford College.

We are aiming to have our next batch of RISC OS sources released in time for the show. This will include more of the ‘core’ components such as the Printing System, Window Manager, Toolbox suite and the Font Manager.

ROOL "Mats for Code" Offer

Steve Revill — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:40:00 +0100

RISC OS Open are offering a free “Map of the RISC OS community” mouse mat and double matching coaster set to all of the first one hundred people who submit useful changes to the released RISC OS sources.

The mat and coaster sets would normally retail at £6.20 but we’re going to give them away for free (we’ll even pay the postage and packing) to everyone who submits code to us.

Castle and RISC OS Open announce release of RISC OS sources to the community

Andrew Hodgkinson — Sat, 19 May 2007 08:08:00 +0100

Wakefield, 19 May 2007

Castle Technology Ltd (Castle) and RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are pleased to announce that they are now in a position to begin the release of RISC OS source code. This follows a previous announcement between the parties declaring their intention to make RISC OS sources available to as wider audience as possible. Since that announcement Castle and ROOL have been working to put into place the necessary source management infrastructure and accompanying licence agreement to enable the controlled release of the sources.

ROOL Mouse Mat Project

Steve Revill — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:49:00 +0100

We at ROOL are planning to start selling mouse mats to help raise funds to contribute towards our work on the Shared Source RISC OS project. We are planning on having a “map of the RISC OS community” as the mouse mat design. All of the profits that we make from selling the mouse mats and from donations are put towards administration of the Shared Source RISC OS project. The project is reaching a new phase now so all contributions are very welcome!

RISC OS Allocations Changes

Steve Revill — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:41:25 +0000

As a continuation of the move towards the opening up of RISC OS sources, RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) have today been officially authorised by Castle Technology Ltd (owners of RISC OS) to take over the Allocations system previously run by Alan Glover.

Those wishing for an official RISC OS allocation should visit the allocations page on our website where there is more information and where allocations can be initiated.

Allocations can be requested from:

allocate@riscosopen.org