http://www.drobe.co.uk/ Latest RISC OS news and information http://www.drobe.co.uk/images/rss.png http://www.drobe.co.uk/ 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. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:05:11 GMT news@drobe.co.uk http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2522 http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2522 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. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:35:40 GMT news@drobe.co.uk http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2520 http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2520 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. Sun, 31 May 2009 18:57:23 GMT news@drobe.co.uk http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2515 http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2515 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. Sat, 23 May 2009 17:13:15 GMT news@drobe.co.uk http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2514 http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2514 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. Sun, 10 May 2009 19:01:35 GMT news@drobe.co.uk http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2512 http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2512 Opinion - Drobe man Paul Stewart offers a few suggestions to RISCOS Ltd to ensure the company and its platform survives over the coming years. Sun, 10 May 2009 18:58:49 GMT paulstewart@phawfaux.co.uk http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2511 http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2511 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. Tue, 5 May 2009 21:46:41 GMT news@drobe.co.uk http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2507 http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2507 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. Tue, 5 May 2009 21:40:34 GMT news@drobe.co.uk http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2506 http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2506 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. Tue, 5 May 2009 20:32:33 GMT news@drobe.co.uk http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2505 http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2505 Links to interesting things from RISC OS Open, Organizer and more, including a RISC OS-themed podcast. Mon, 4 May 2009 22:40:16 GMT news@drobe.co.uk http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2504 http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2504