New tool to aid RISCOS Ltd and Castle RISC OS development

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:36:00 GMT

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.

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ROOL wins Drobe Award

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:22:00 GMT

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.

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RISCOS Ltd / RISC OS Open Ltd Joint Press Release

Posted by Steve Revill Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT

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.

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Batch Two source code released

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:20:00 GMT

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.

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