http://www.iconbar.com/ Technology news and views http://riscos.me.uk/images/logos/rss-TIB.gif http://www.iconbar.com/ http://riscos.me.uk/comments/rss/news1259.html This Saturday sees the Midlands User Group Midlands Midsummer Mugshow in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. All the usual suspects will be there including [commence lazy cut and paste] RISCOS Ltd, ROOL, RComp, CJE, Drag 'n Drop, Soft Rock Software, Orpheus, Qercus, Steve Fryatt Software, Netsurf, MathMagical, Serious Statistical Software [end cut and paste] and of course the Midland User Group themselves. 2010-07-06T13:38:00Z Richard Goodwin http://riscos.me.uk/comments/rss/news1258.html Tech-centric news site The Register have an article up that gives a brief overview of Acorn, the BeagleBoard, and the fact that RISC OS runs on it. Not exactly new news to the average RISC OS user, but the article is still worth a look just for to see the comments from old hands such as Eddie Edwards, Heyrick, and Hugo Tyson, and some extra trivia tidbits linked to by commenter jlocke. 2010-06-25T21:00:00Z Jeffrey Lee http://riscos.me.uk/comments/rss/news1257.html Thanks to the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Group for putting on another great show - the turnout was good and the atmosphere was relaxed and friendly. Sorry, there's no detailed show report from me this year, but to give you an idea of what went on here's a summary of the tweets that I posted throughout the day, interspersed with various comments from the peanut gallery Scroll down for my photos from the show (and Joel Rowbottom has uploaded more here). 2010-04-25T19:00:00Z Phil Mellor http://riscos.me.uk/comments/rss/news1256.html 2010-04-22T20:26:00Z Chris http://riscos.me.uk/comments/rss/news1255.html Watching video on RISC OS isn't very easy. We've run an article here on how you can download and convert YouTube videos into a format RISC OS can understand. Though it's very clever, and the tools involved are actively developed, it's not as simple as clicking 'Play' in a browser window. 2010-04-19T14:25:00Z Chris http://riscos.me.uk/comments/rss/news1254.html There's been a fair bit of effort to get RISC OS software working on ROOL's port of RISC OS to the Beagleboard and other OMAP-driven boards. The shift from software that works on the Iyonix to software that works on the OMAP family isn't as big as the shift to 32-bit of a few years ago, but there are still some issues. Most importantly, the OMAP family of processors use the 'ARMv7' specification, which means that certain instructions that work on the Iyonix's IOP processor (or earlier) fall over. 2010-04-08T15:08:00Z Chris http://riscos.me.uk/comments/rss/news1252.html We celebrated the 10th anniversary of our first article on March 10th. Where were you? Come to think of it, where were we? Yeah, we forgot about it too (but we are getting on a bit). 2010-04-01T11:00:00Z http://riscos.me.uk/comments/rss/news1253.html APDL, long-time distributor of Public Domain and not-so Public Domain software, have taken the next logical step from distributing their PD/freeware collection on floppy disc or CD and have begun distributing it online instead. Apart from the obvious advantage to the end-user of being able to access the software immediately, APDL have also decided to forgoe charging any nominal download fees, making the archive truly free. 2010-03-25T14:15:00Z Jeffrey Lee http://riscos.me.uk/comments/rss/news1251.html There's an interesting article up here with Steve Furber, one of the designers of the BBC Micro and ARM processor. It's been linked to from Slashdot, which is where we came across it. 2010-02-26T12:06:00Z Chris http://riscos.me.uk/comments/rss/news1250.html Ever since Jeffrey Lee began work on porting RISC OS to developer boards such as the BeagleBoard and IGEPv2 there's been interest in putting a case around them to make them into proper computers. Both ports are still firmly in progress, so a finished-off A9-style computer isn't likely to appear for some time. That hasn't stopped some hobbyists having a go at making their own. 2010-02-21T15:18:00Z Chris