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On ARM Cortex-A8 port of RISC OS 5: first screenshot:

@Mark7: the screenshot is in the "visit this news quickie" link, specifically here: [link] Jaffa on 25/2/09 10:29AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On Wakefield 2008 show photos:

The ARM upgrade for the Beeb is not a Kortink invention - it's a genuine Sprow. Indeed, thought it was. Available to buy, too: [link] Jaffa on 30/4/08 1:11PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On Ditching desktops for portables: The way forward?:

I think the limitations that RISC OS has on desktops are just as problematic on portable devices. One of the reasons Psion eventually died is because of the lack of a good Internet experience, poor interoperability, no toys like decent audio or video playback etc. Portable devices these days already do much more than RISC OS desktops can. My Nokia N810 can: * Use an iPod as external harddisk * Play high quality video from DivX or MP4 files. * Poke my friends through Facebook and other Web 2.0 apps with the Firefox browser * Go online through a wireless access point or Bluetooth mobile phone - where are the drivers and stacks for RISC OS to enable this? * Use "native" YouTube through its Flash plugin * Run Java applications (almost) through the in-progress Jalimo * Run NetSurf natively * Run ArcEm It's just as programmable and hackable as RISC OS (if not more so) etc; runs on a 400MHz ARM processor with 128MB of RAM and has advanced power management. RISC OS would be a cool distraction on such a device but it'd be useless for getting any real work done, and you'd lose so many of the features and gain very little. The expectations of a mobile device already exceed what RISC OS can do. There is *no* consumer market for RISC OS, it's too old, too archaic and is supported as a hobby. It should be viewed - for most people - not as an investment, but as a hobby as much as a Hornby train set. Jaffa on 4/1/08 9:59PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On Java and RISC OS:

Java would be most useful as a language, rather than a platform - or perhaps even Groovy now. I did start playing with a Java-as-a-language-not-a-platform implementation of the Java Language Specification (targetted at the Beeb, but'd work on RISC OS too), but never got beyond the stage of being able to run [link] The Java language would provide a much easier mechanism for programming applications than any other language - however, it's almost certainly past the point now of being worth attracting new developers, and all the existing ones can obviously develop already! Jaffa on 23/09/07 8:52PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On RISC OS-on-Linux project prepares live CD:

See also [link] - a ROX AppDir based Linux-kernel-running OS which I was starting it. Jaffa on 12/9/07 9:57AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

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