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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. New Fireworkz Pro update available
R-Comp is pleased to announce a new release of Fireworkz Pro, the popular integrated Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Database system for RISC OS. The main improvements in this release have been to Excel import, with significant enhancements to the handling of later .xls format files (there are several versions of the .xls format). The release also Simtec USB & OtherDevs
Hi all, For those wot are using the Simtec USB, I have managed to update the OtherDevs list on the RISC OS wiki with many more device details. [link] There are now more than 100 I think. It was a bit tricky to do as in the OtherDevs file in MassFS, there are lines Midland User Group (MUG) - January 12 Meeting
The next meeting of the RISC OS Midland User Group (MUG) will take place on Saturday, 21st January 2012. At this, the first meeting of 2012, MUG will be be looking at and discussing our favourite RISC OS apps. The meeting starts at 2.00pm at The Methodist Church Hall, Greenhill, Blackwell Bromsgrove B60 1BL. A small entrance fee will be payable to Orpheus and RCI announce SW Show 25th Feb 2012
Orpheus Internet and R-Comp Interactive are pleased to announce the RISC OS SouthWest Show, 2012. Given that there was some doubt over the show this year, the two companies have joined forces to ensure that "the show must go on"! The date for the exhibition will be Saturday 25th Feb, 2012. Impact version 3.40 released
A new version of the Impact relational database application has just been released. Impact now is at version 3.40. It is available as a free upgrade for all users who have purchased 3.37 or later. Anyone using version 3.37 - 3.39 is urged to download the upgrade and install as soon as possible, as it fixes nasty bug in card design DrobeBBC4's Micro Men: an interview and review
Ahead of tonight's Micro Men programme, which charts the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair and Acorn Computers in the early 1980s, drobe.co.uk spoke to the film's producer, Andrea Cornwell, to find out more about the show - and now you can read our review of the film 'Threaded' Firefox for RISC OS build released to test
An experimental build of the RISC OS port of Firefox that promises a smoother experience has been released for people to test. You'll need the latest 2.0.0.20 version and then replace its executable with the one from here. The technical bit: developer Peter Naulls has moved the browser's polling for user interaction into a separate thread to aid multitasking with the rest of the RISC OS desktop. In brief: Acorn World show this weekend
Archive editor Jim Nagel summarises what to expect at the retro-themed show. Official website here [Update 2] A report by iconbar.com's Phil Mellor of the sell-out show is here - with pictures RISCOScode.com webzine publishes autumn issue
Drobe man Martin Hansen has updated his personal web publishing endeavour, RISCOScode.com, with a new issue for the autumn. It includes interviews with an organiser of the inaugural London RISC OS show, to be held in October 2009, and Richard Hallas, plus more bits and pieces. Go check it out. It's free. Tanks a lot! Double USB toy driver joy
RISC OS USB guru Dave Higton has released drivers for two remote-controlled gadgets: an 'executive mayhem' tank and a mini car. Get ready to order your armoured, missile-firing kit into position and destroy your office colleagues, or instead swap your computer's circuits for your own race track with a remote-controlled banger. The source code is available and the software should work on Simtec and Castle USB stacks. IconBarNewsround
Here's a quick roundup of everything that's happened over the past few weeks.New software releases Oldschool Reviews - Burn 'Out
It's about time we had another one of these, isn't it? As you've probably guessed, this time I'm looking at Burn 'Out, an arcade-style racing game released by Oregan in 1995, and rather heavily influenced by the arcade classic Power Drift. Audio news quickie
Andre Timmermans, author of DigitalCD, has released an update to his tracker music playing module TimPlayer. The new version adds support for several new tracker file formats, as well as including many other changes and fixes. Have I Got Old News For You
Here's a quick round up of all the interesting things that have happened over the past few months that we didn't find the time to report on.ROOL bounty scheme Getting Unicode Working With RISC OS 4 (and 6?)
What is Unicode? MyRISCOSVoting now open for the RISCOScode Awards 2011
RISCOScode is running this year's RISC OS OscarsHere's how you can join in and vote... Charm version 2.4.9 released
Charm version 2.4.9 [32 bit] the set of high level language tools and demos for RISC-OS computers and emulators is now freely available under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 license. NetSurf 2.8 released
The NetSurf developers have made available the newest stable version of RISC OS' premier web browser, NetSurf. 2.8 sees a number of major improvements and fixes over previous versions, and as always, it's free to download - http://www.netsurf-browser.org. NetSurf is also available for other platforms, BeOS/Haiku, Linux, AmigaOS and Atari are amongst the supported systems. In order to run on a RISC OS system, RISC OS 4.02, 6 or 5.07 is required as a minimum, as well as a number of modules which can be downloaded freely online. Operating System update for ARMini owners
R-Comp Interactive have released an Operating System upgrade (to RISC OS 5) to ARMini users, this new update contains a bundle of new features and polishes up the overall ARMini experience. Messenger Pro 6.03 now available
R-Comp have released version 6.03 of Messenger Pro to registered users. This update provides better compatibility with all RISC OS machines, and makes it much simpler to switch users "on the fly", thanks to new toolbar buttons. The application's printing features have also been improved. Messenger Pro is RISC OS' most feature-rich email application, it is fully compatible with any modern RISC OS machine, 26-bit or 32-bit. Messenger Pro is now compatible with ARMini and BeagleBoard computers and is available to purchase directly from R-Comp. RISC OS OpenROOL Christmas break
The RISC OS Open team will be taking a long-overdue break for the festive season from the 22nd December to the 2nd January (inclusive). During that period, we will not be responding to email enquiries or processing orders, but will catch up again when we’re back.Have a happy Christmas and here’s to a prosperous New Year! Bug tracker temporarily offline
A fault has developed in our bug tracker that causes it to consume all CPU on our web server when we attempt to start it. The problem seems related to the Subversion repository and causes sufficient load of the back-end database that the rest of the web site becomes unable to respond – this was the cause of our brief site down time earlier this week.I’m investigating the problem but other commitments mean it may be a while before it can be resolved. In the mean time, if you have bugs to report or discuss, please use the bugs forum.Thanks for your patience! USB sticks available from ROOL site
ROOL are very happy to announce the immediate availability of two different ROOL-branded USB sticks to buy from the ROOL store.These sticks represent a proud milestone for RISC OS Open; we’ve been working towards creating a stand-alone RISC OS solution for Windows and Mac users since we formed in 2006. Thanks to everyone who made this possible! Changes to the Bounty scheme
ROOL are pleased to announce that we are refreshing the list of bounties available on our bounties page. We’ve expired a couple of bounties which aren’t really attracting any interest and we will be rolling-out a couple of new bounties for things which we believe are very important items for the roadmap of RISC OS development. Keep watching this space… :) New offers and new prices for the latest Developer Tools
RISC OS Open is pleased to announce the formal release of version 22 of the ROOL Desktop Development Environment (DDE) tools. Building upon the interim version 21, which was released earlier this year, the main feature of these releases is a major upgrade to the assembler ObjAsm and its associated documentation. ROOL is also announcing new reduced prices and special offers.ObjAsm UpdatesObjAsm now fully supports the new UAL variant of the ARM instruction set, including over 400 new instructions. UAL syntax is supported up to ARMv7, VFPv4 and NEON™, for CPUs up to the Cortex™-A9. Pre-UAL syntax for ARM and Thumb is extended to its final version for ARMv6 and VFPv3. A significant number of extensions to the supporting assembly language have also been added, many of which have up to now only been available in ObjAsm’s counterpart in ARM’s RVDS™ toolchain, and the ObjAsm manual (supplied in PDF format) has been fully revised and updated so you can make best use of these.All the new instructions, and some related new relocation types, are fully supported by Link and the disassembly tool DecAOF. An extension to the AOF object file format, to support new types of floating point linkage (mainly related to the introduction of VFP support) is supported in ObjAsm, Link and DecAOF.Other UpdatesUpdated versions of SparkFS and !PDF are included. Squeeze has been adapted for compatibility with the A9Home. There have been a number of bugfixes to various components too. For full details, see here and here. And maybe of interest....The RegisterNewt Gingrich wants Moon to be 51st US state
Promises permanent Moon base by 2020, Mars as next targetPresidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is telling the people of Florida about his plans for a permanent base on the Moon, and suggesting it may be possible for the satellite to become the 51st US state.Planet-hunting Kepler hits EXOPLANET JACKPOT
11 systems, 26 planets added to inventoryNASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has identified a slew of new subjects, adding 26 planets in 11 systems to its inventory.Untangling the question of antimatter mass
Boffins spin up positroniumA group of researchers at University of California Riverside hopes to chip away at one of physics' 'question of questions' - why the blazes we're here at all. Their hope is to make electron/positron pairs live long enough to measure the positron's mass and find out if it's different to the electron.![]() Most EU states sign away internet rights, ratify ACTA treaty
European Parliament observer resigns in protestRepresentatives of 21 of the EU's member states, including the UK, have signed off on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) - the European version of the US SOPA and PIPA rolled into one and cranked up to 11.Two Megaupload execs bailed
No net for Batato or van der KolkTwo of the Megaupload executives arrested in last week's raid on the company in New Zealand have been granted bail. Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato will have to submit to strict bail conditions including electronic monitoring.Think GeekT-Shirts & Apparel : Zombie Friendship Necklace Set
T-Shirts & Apparel : Anatomical Brain Pendant
T-Shirts & Apparel : Star Wars Cufflinks
Geek Toys : Deluxe Starcraft Figures
T-Shirts & Apparel : LoveCraft Ladies' Shirt
Stuff.tv Latest GadgetsBlackBerry Porsche Design P'9981 unboxed
Main image: Apple patent outlines plans for a universal touchscreen remote
It's no secret that Apple is out to rule the living room. There's been a lot of talk surrounding iTV - which we could have in our living rooms as soon as the end of this year - but what about the remote? Main image: iLuv iMM155 Vibro II wants to shake you awake
Sometimes the resounding cacophony of an alarm (or your mum shouting "wake up") isn't enough to get you out of bed in the morning. Just ask Stuff.tv editor Paddy Smith, who uses four different types of alarm to rouse himself from his slumber.Some of us require a bit more of a push when it comes to rolling out of bed. iLuv's IMM155 Vibro II dock wants to give you that boot up the backside - and the clue is in the name.Main image: Aurasma and Bandai give toy packaging an augmented reality check
If you thought it was hard dragging your kid away from the toys section at your local Sainsbury's, prepare for it to get around 50 times worse - Aurasma's added its augmented reality magic to toy packaging from Bandai, letting you play with a toy without even taking it out of the box. Which, in some cases, could prove more exciting than the actual toy.Main image: (external news feeds last updated at 4:04am and took 4 seconds)
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