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Raspberry Pi release RC7 out now

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:44:00 GMT

The latest release candidate of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi can now be downloaded as a compressed SD card image from the Raspberry Pi downloads page.

This release is primarily intended to address problems with compatability with Raspberry Pi hardware using Hynix RAM chips. There are no changes to the Filecore partition (the RISC OS boot sequence and disc image) between this release (RC7) and the previous release (RC6).

A summary of all the changes in the RISC OS ROM image can be found here with the full-fat change list here.

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Nut Pi pack now available for the Raspberry Pi

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:45:00 GMT

RISC OS Open have joined forces with some of the leading software developers in the RISC OS community to bring you the Nut Pi – a package of flagship RISC OS software specifically for RISC OS Pi.

The Nut Pi comes on a specially branded SD card, formatted specifically for RISC OS machines containing the following fantastic programs:

• MoreDesk (7th software)
• SparkFS (David Pilling)
• PhotoDesk (Fourth Dimension)
• WimpWorks (Jaffa Software)
• luafox (luafox)
• Iconizer (MathMagical)
• Gutenprint (MW Software)
• Writer+ (MW Software)
• Organizer (Organizer)
• CloneDisc (Piccolo Systems)
• DataPower (RComp)
• Grapevine2 (RComp)
• Messenger (RComp)
• NetFetch (RComp)
• MusicCDtest (RComp)
• NetworkPrinting (RComp)
• SafeStore (RComp)
• TouchType (RComp)
• Desktop Development Environment (RISC OS Open)
• Impact (Sine Nomine)

For more information about these great programs, read out more detailed descriptions here.

As well as being a great collection of some of the best commercial RISC OS software available, this represents a fantastic deal; the total retail value of the bundled software is over £600 but the Nut Pi is available for just £35 plus P&P – that’s cheaper than the Desktop Development Environment on its own! You can buy it from the ROOL shop today.

Please note: the software supplied with the Nut Pi is specifically built for Raspberry Pi hardware and will not function correctly on any other hardware platform. Use on any other platform is completely unsupported by ROOL and the individual software vendors. You need RISC OS running on your Raspberry Pi to use Nut Pi – please see this page for more information.

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See ROOL at the unmissable RISC OS London Show

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:17:00 GMT

RISC OS Open will be attending what promises to be a very special RISC OS London Show tomorrow (27th Oct 2012).

Not only will there be all kinds of new and exciting demonstrations from all the usual people, but there will be a zone dedicated to the Raspberry Pi and all the great uses people have found for it.

ROOL will be demonstrating:

• The first public demonstration of RISC OS Pi
• The NutPi pack for RISC OS Pi
• A Beagleboard running the latest version of RISC OS 5

as well as selling a selection of merchandise:

• RISC OS Pi on SD card
• The NutPi SD card
• A ROM upgrade for the EtherB network card
• USB sticks containing:
  • A RISC OS emulation solution for Windows, Mac OS and Linux (updated)
  • A native ‘Filecore’ format disc image for booting RISC OS machines (updated)
  • The latest Desktop Development Environment (release 24)
• CMOS widgets for modern RISC OS hardware

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SD card support comes to RISC OS

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:26:00 GMT

RISC OS Open and Piccolo Systems are very pleased to announce the release of a general-purpose MMC/SD filing system for RISC OS.

ROOL have signed an agreement with Piccolo Systems to publish the source code to the driver and related software under an Open Source licence within the ROOL CVS repository. It will be integrated into the OMAP3 developer ROM build, found on our downloads pages to give native support for SD cards on the Beagleboard, Beagleboard-xM, DevKit8000 (untested) and IGEPv2 (untested).

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