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PCL printer dumper source code

Steve Revill — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:39:00 +0100

RISC OS Open are pleased to announce the availablility of a new printer dumper for RISC OS. PDumperPCL has been contributed by Herbert zur Nedden and based upon PDumperLJ, this is a dumper designed for PCL printers that support duplex printing, such as the Canon i-Sensys MF4690PL.

At the moment, this is a source code only release, with the source code living in the repository at:

castle/RiscOS/Sources/Printing/PDumpers/PDumperPCL

See the PDumperPCL/!Info file for full details. It should be treated as beta quality code for the time being. The PrintDefs component has also been updated to include a new printer definition file for the printer listed above.

An updated release of !Printers will be made available soon with this new dumper included.

Thanks,

The RISC OS Open team.

Problem with some Wakefield CDs

Steve Revill — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:49:00 +0100

It has come to our attention that the ISO file one one of the machines being used to burn our CDs at the Wakefield Show became corrupted at some point during the day.

If you have any problems with a CD bought from us at Wakefield, please send us an email describing what your problems are, the names of the file(s) that are causing you trouble and your postal address.

We will send out a replacement CD free of charge. Please accept our apologies on this matter.

New tool to aid RISCOS Ltd and Castle RISC OS development

Andrew Hodgkinson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:36:00 +0000

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.

ROOL wins Drobe Award

Steve Revill — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:22:00 +0000

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.

ROOL at SE Show

Steve Revill — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:39:00 +0100

On Saturday 20th October, the team from RISC OS Open will be attending the South East Show at Guildford College.

We are aiming to have our next batch of RISC OS sources released in time for the show. This will include more of the ‘core’ components such as the Printing System, Window Manager, Toolbox suite and the Font Manager.

ROOL "Mats for Code" Offer

Steve Revill — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:40:00 +0100

RISC OS Open are offering a free “Map of the RISC OS community” mouse mat and double matching coaster set to all of the first one hundred people who submit useful changes to the released RISC OS sources.

The mat and coaster sets would normally retail at £6.20 but we’re going to give them away for free (we’ll even pay the postage and packing) to everyone who submits code to us.

CVS access now available

Ben Avison — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:30:00 +0100

We have now opened up access to the CVS repository for the sources previously released in the Batch One source and patch tarballs. This means that for the first time, you now have access to the full changelogs for those components, and you can retrieve old versions back to those present in RISC OS 3.60.

Patch update for Batch One release available

Steve Revill — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:12:00 +0100

A patch update, called patch-one.tar.bz2, is now available from the tarballs page. The aim of this first patch is to fix various issues in the Batch One release which should mean that you will be able to build every component which has been released up to this point.

ROOL Mouse Mat Project

Steve Revill — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:49:00 +0100

We at ROOL are planning to start selling mouse mats to help raise funds to contribute towards our work on the Shared Source RISC OS project. We are planning on having a “map of the RISC OS community” as the mouse mat design. All of the profits that we make from selling the mouse mats and from donations are put towards administration of the Shared Source RISC OS project. The project is reaching a new phase now so all contributions are very welcome!

Free Upgrade for C/C++ Tools Owners

Steve Revill — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:58:00 +0000

For the next two months (until the end of March), RISC OS Open and Castle Technology will be running a special upgrade offer to any owners of a recent release of the Castle C/C++ tools suite.

If you own a version of the Castle C/C++ tools which was purchased on or after the 1st January 2006, then get in touch with Castle Technology and have your serial number handy. You will be sent an upgrade to the latest version of the tools free of charge.