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RISC OS is the superbly efficient operating system designed in the 1980's by Acorn Computers, and its latest incarnation is used by thousands of people around the world. However, many may never have even heard of RISC OS - so if you're one of them, you've come to the right place. Pre-dating both Windows and Mac OS to use a task bar or 'Dock', RISC OS includes many revolutionary features which are only just being copied by other systems. Its anti-aliased font technology is still the envy of the computer world and its drag 'n' drop, stackable windows GUI, flexibility and ease of use make it arguably the most productive computer system in the world today. Thousands of applications and utilities are available, often developed by small companies and individual users, mean that you should be able to find software on RISC OS to cater for all your computing requirements. It is hoped that new developers will come on board to help promote and enhance RISC OS even more. RISCOS.org seeks to not only introduce newcomers and experts alike to this wonderful system, but to act as a resource centre and help forum for existing users around the world. Our software database is probably the most comprehensive repository of RISC OS links anywhere on the internet, and we update it frequently with new releases.
News Headlines from other RISC OS Portalscsa.announceSome news summaries maybe truncated. This is a limitation with GoogleGroups RSS feed and beyond our control unfortunately. IconBarRougol September 2025 meeting on monday - Publishing with Ovation Pro
The September 2025 Rougol meeting is on Monday 15th September with guest speaker Gavin Crawford WROCC September 2025 meeting - Chris Johns talks Filecore and Block devices
Wakefield's September speaker was Chris Johns diving into the depths of RISC OS filing systems. WROCC September 2025 talk on Wednesday - Chris Johns
The September 2025 WROCC talk is on Wednesday 3rd September and starts at at 7.45pm on Zoom. August 2025 News Summary
Some things we noticed this month. What did you see? August 2025 Rougol report - Mark Moxon
The August 2025 talk featured the welcome return of Mark Moxon, who last spoke in November 2022. RISC OS OpenStreaming Video in 1994?
In 1994, Acorn Computers, through its Online Media division, played a central role in one of the earliest practical demonstrations of video-on-demand over a broadband network. The Cambridge (UK) Digital Interactive Television Trial, developed in collaboration with Anglia Television, Cambridge Cable (now Virgin Media), and Advanced Telecommunication Modules Ltd (ATML), anticipated many of the features that would later become standard in streaming media. Pi memory freed from its 32 bit shackles
The period between stable releases is the perfect time to try out some experimental changes to RISC OS. If you’ve bought one of the top-of-the-range Raspberry Pi 4’s with 4GB or 8GB of RAM the good news is that that extra memory can now be unlocked by dropping the Beta RPi ROM (8GB Support) onto your SD card. Moonshots Rocket is Fuelling Up
Back in March the Moonshots Initiative outlined an ambitious plan to migrate the source code of RISC OS away from hand crafted assembler to reach a 64-bit destination before all the 32-bit chips run out. Already the initiative has generated a number of people asking to be involved, promising leads in the areas of focus, and we’re grateful to have received some financial donations from the community already. Set sail for the RISC OS eXperience
Why not pop along to the Big Ben Club’s annual day in the Netherlands?The show is on the 10th May 2025 from 10am to 4pm and is located in Koog aan de Zann. It’s easy to reach being only a short distance north of Amsterdam by car, public transport, or even by bicycle.RISC OS Open will be travelling to the Netherlands, equivalent to 0.106% of the distance to the moon, and expanding on 2022’s theatre topic of the path to 64 bit. "Moonshots" Initiative to Secure the Future of the OS
Cambridge, UK - 28-Mar-2025 - RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL) is calling on the global technology community to support a bold new initiative to secure the long-term future of RISC OS. The company today announced the launch of its Moonshots programme – a strategic shift away from incremental development, towards large-scale engineering efforts aimed at modernising the operating system for next-generation Arm architectures.RISC OS, originally developed alongside the first Arm chips in Cambridge, remains a uniquely simple and efficient desktop operating system. It has found renewed interest in recent years thanks to its availability on the Raspberry Pi and its open-source licensing model. However, the platform now faces an existential challenge. And maybe of interest....The RegisterUS tech giants pledge $42 billion in UK investment as Trump tours Blighty
Datacenters galore, plus some vague cooperation on AI, nuclear, quantum, and moreAmerica and the UK have announced a $42 billion (£31 billion) trade pact, funded by Microsoft, Google, and others, that predicts bit barns will spring up over Britain's green and pleasant Land. But there's a lot more than money involved.Scale AI says 'tanks a lot' to Pentagon for data-classifying deal
First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong?Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.[an error occurred while processing this directive]AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software
House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen softwareAMD closed the performance gap with Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators with the launch of the MI355X this spring. Now the company just needs to overcome Nvidia's CUDA software advantage and make that perf more accessible to developers.Scattered Spider gang feigns retirement, breaks into bank instead
You didn't really trust the crims to keep their word, did you?Spiders don't change their stripes. Despite gang members' recent retirement claims, Scattered Spider hasn't exited the cybercrime business and instead has shifted focus to the financial sector, with a recent digital intrusion at a US bank.Social Security admin denies DB data leak, DOGEs questions about a copy
Carefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical databaseThe Social Security Administration (SSA) has disputed a whistleblower's allegations that claimed DOGE made an unauthorized, unsecured copy of a critical database - but it's what the denial doesn't say that speaks volumes.Stuff.tv Latest GadgetsGet a year of Paramount+ for just $30
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