ROOL News: Latest news

Latest source code updates

Steve Revill — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:40:00 +0100

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.

PCL printer dumper source code

Steve Revill — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:39:00 +0100

RISC OS Open are pleased to announce the availablility of a new printer dumper for RISC OS. PDumperPCL has been contributed by Herbert zur Nedden and based upon PDumperLJ, this is a dumper designed for PCL printers that support duplex printing, such as the Canon i-Sensys MF4690PL.

At the moment, this is a source code only release, with the source code living in the repository at:

castle/RiscOS/Sources/Printing/PDumpers/PDumperPCL

See the PDumperPCL/!Info file for full details. It should be treated as beta quality code for the time being. The PrintDefs component has also been updated to include a new printer definition file for the printer listed above.

An updated release of !Printers will be made available soon with this new dumper included.

Thanks,

The RISC OS Open team.

Problem with some Wakefield CDs

Steve Revill — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:49:00 +0100

It has come to our attention that the ISO file one one of the machines being used to burn our CDs at the Wakefield Show became corrupted at some point during the day.

If you have any problems with a CD bought from us at Wakefield, please send us an email describing what your problems are, the names of the file(s) that are causing you trouble and your postal address.

We will send out a replacement CD free of charge. Please accept our apologies on this matter.

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.

New tool to aid RISCOS Ltd and Castle RISC OS development

Andrew Hodgkinson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:36:00 +0000

As a part of the joint co-operation between RISC OS Open and RISCOS Ltd, we are please to announce the availability of a tool which we hope will help to make life a little bit easier for developers. It is aimed at gathering some specific statistics from a wide range of RISC OS users in order for us to better identify where the main problem areas lie with respect to the differences between the RISCOS Ltd RISC OS branch and the Castle Technology RISC OS branch.

ROOL wins Drobe Award

Steve Revill — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:22:00 +0000

The guys at RISC OS Open are very humble and happy to find that we have received a coverted Drobe award (our second one). This year’s award is in the category of “Best show of initiative”.

It’s been hard work for us all to find any time over the Christmas period but we’re all looking forward to getting started on the next batch of RISC OS sources to release sometime soon.

The full awards news article can be found on the Drobe. web site.

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.