Latest RISC OS news at 05:38, 3 July 2009

• Richard Brown takes over day-to-day running of ISP Orpheus
  Richard Brown - IT consultant, friend of Castle and best-known for overseeing sales and support of RISC OS browser Oregano 2 and the demise of Oregano 3 - will take over the day-to-day running of the late Paul Vigay's ISP, Orpheus Internet. Richard has also joined the company's board of directors.
   10 comments, latest by 2307 on 30/6/09 8:18PM. Published: 29 Jun 2009
  
  
• BBC to record film on Acorn versus Sinclair in the 1980s
  A film to be called Syntax Era, that will document the rivalry between Clive Sinclair and Acorn co-founder Chris Curry, will be screened by the BBC with the help of The Centre of Computing History. The programme will star Martin Freeman, from The Office, alongside Alexander Armstrong, of Armstrong and Miller sketch show fame, who will play Sinclair. It is likely to be aired in the autumn on BBC4, we're told. Filming starts on Monday, June 22 in London. It was written by Tony Saint. More to follow later.
   14 comments, latest by Monty on 26/6/09 10:30PM. Published: 20 Jun 2009
  
  
• New London RISC OS show to be held in October
  More details to follow. It is understood this is to replace the annual South East RISC OS show, which is usually held in Guildford but will not take place this year as the venue that hosts the event is unavailable. Freeware developers are invited to exhibit their work for free at the London show. To book a space or for more information, email the organisers.
   20 comments, latest by epistaxsis on 22/6/09 8:20PM. Published: 31 May 2009
  
  
• Bug-fixed NetSurf 2.1 released
  A bug-fix release of the NetSurf web browser has been released. Version 2.1 improves on page layout, mouse click handling, and for RISC OS users, improves drawfile export.
   3 comments, latest by hzn on 7/6/09 1:50PM. Published: 23 May 2009
  
  
• First screenshot: Beagleboard runs RISC OS 5 desktop
  Picture exclusive - This is the first screenshot of Jeffrey Lee's port of RISC OS 5 for the ARM Cortex-A8-powered Beagleboard reaching the familiar ROS desktop and running several built-in applications. The port was produced using source code made available by the RISC OS Open initiative.
   250 comments, latest by rjek on 5/6/09 5:01PM. Published: 10 May 2009
  
  
• Five tips for ROL over the next five years
  Opinion - Drobe man Paul Stewart offers a few suggestions to RISCOS Ltd to ensure the company and its platform survives over the coming years.
   182 comments, latest by jess on 5/6/09 12:46PM. Published: 10 May 2009
  
  
• Entry-level animation app Flicker goes on sale
  Flicker is a new application that can playback animations made from standard RISC OS sprites and can combine these simple films and music from tracker modules to produce complete packages. It comes on a CD-ROM with seven sample movies to show off its capabilities and was developed by Drobe man Martin Hansen. Animations produced by Flicker can also be created from sprites generated by Complete Animator and Martin's ArtGraph Film Studio.
   Discuss this. Published: 5 May 2009
  
  
• New version of database package Impact available
  Sine Nomine Software has announced that Impact version 3.33, launched recently at the Wakefield 2009 show, is now available on general release. Users can now edit data for almost all field types direct from the enhanced table view of the database, among other updates.
   Discuss this. Published: 5 May 2009
  
  
• New RPCEmu Spoon version with RISC OS 5.15 support
  Open-source emulator RPCEmu Spoon Edition 0.8.4 has experimental support for the latest RISC OS Open ROM for RiscPCs and other IOMD-chipset machines, plus a couple of other bug fixes and updates.
   1 comment, latest by Becky on 16/5/09 8:24AM. Published: 5 May 2009
  
  
• News in brief
  Links to interesting things from RISC OS Open, Organizer and more, including a RISC OS-themed podcast.
   1 comment, latest by egel on 5/5/09 6:05PM. Published: 4 May 2009
  
  
• Bitmap graphics package Photodesk updated
  PD 3.09 users can from this week download a free update: full list of changes here.
   5 comments, latest by CJE on 5/5/09 11:39AM. Published: 30 Apr 2009
  
  
• CJE seeks programmer to resurrect data entry package
  RISC OS dealer CJE Micros is after a C programmer to further develop Dalriada's TableMate Designer II and hopefully produce a 32bit-compatible build. CJE this week confirmed it was able to continue supplying the software to RISC OS end users.
   7 comments, latest by Hoyt on 5/5/09 8:01AM. Published: 30 Apr 2009
  
  
• Text editor StrongED 4.68 available for download
  Drobe favourite StrongED 4.68 is now available: see here for a list of updates.
   2 comments, latest by lym on 3/5/09 12:03PM. Published: 30 Apr 2009
  
  
• Is there a way out of RISC OS version number hell?
  With the two streams of RISC OS being developed separately by RISC OS Open and RISCOS Ltd, the version numbering of the operating system's modules needs to be brought back into check as well as ways of allowing software to determine which features are present in any given OS release. ROL and ROOL are said to be cooperating on how to coordinate this and tonight ROOL staffer Andrew Hodgkinson opened the issue to the community to discuss the technicalities.
   56 comments, latest by adh1003 on 8/5/09 4:44PM. Published: 28 Apr 2009
  
  
• RISC OS Open 5.14 now available for free download
  As covered over the show weekend, RISC OS Open has merged Castle's final 5.13 release of the OS (which features USB 2 support) with the ROOL shared-source OS that has benefited from contributions from third-party programmers to create an official RISC OS Open 5.14 release. It can now be downloaded for free and softloaded on Iyonixes. An experimental build, version 5.15, is also available for RiscPCs, A7000s and Iyonixes - bringing RISC OS 5 to Acorn-era hardware for the first time.
   10 comments, latest by jess on 5/5/09 9:43AM. Published: 28 Apr 2009
  
  

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