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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.

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.

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.

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.

Information for Building RISC OS

Steve Revill — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:48:00 +0100

Now that we have published some sources, we would like everyone to have all of the information they require in order to build and modify the components which have been released.

This is something which will evolve over time so keep your eye on the documentation because it is a moving target!

The first place to look if you have any problems or questions will be our wiki here at our web site.