Earlier this month we reported on RISCOS Ltd [ROL] possibly undertaking legal action against RISC OS Open Ltd [ROOL], with the latter being the shared source project started by Castle. This news came down pretty hard on the already small RISC OS community, but it did have a number of positive effects: representatives from both ROL and ROOL were quick to explain that there is absolutely no animosity between the two companies, and that the community has nothing to fear.
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2005-07-13
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2005-07-06
I cannot see any direction for RISC OS, it's a shame as I can remember them from my school days.
For example:
http://www.thea6.info/
Available in three variants, all A6 machines come complete with DVD drive or DVD/CDRW, fast hard drive, Floppy disk, Barton-core AMD Athlon 2500+ processor, 333/400MHz dual-channel DDR memory, UDMA 133 drives, Geforce 4MX graphics, 56K internal modem, 10/100BaseT networking, 4xUSB ports, 2xIEEE1394 ports (windows only), SPDif optical (input windows only, output RISC OS/windows), Windows XP Home and VirtualRPC-Adjust. Keyboard and mouse are of course included, along with speakers for those machines where they are not part of the monitor.
All software is installed, leading to a "ready to go" RISC OS environment. Of course users may easily switch out of RISC OS into a windows XP environment should the need arise.
The machine variants are:
A6B : Base unit/DVD/40G hard drive/256MB memory : UKP599 ex VAT
A6 : 15" TFT monitor/DVD/CDRW/80G hard drive/512MB memory: UKP899 ex VAT
A6DB: 17" TFT monitor/DVD/CDRW/120G hard drive/512MB memory: UKP999 ex VAT
Surely this site is out of date or do they really want people to run an emulator for RISC OS?
They have avoided platforms such as x86_64 / amd64, how is this better?
I fail to understand why they don't make their product easy to download or buy.
Member since:
2007-11-27
A6 (the company) make a tiny RISC OS machine called the A9. However, some people also want windows but cant buy 2 machines. That is where the A6 comes in. I beleive it is a x86 winxp box with a JIT app that lods the roms (in windows).
RISC OS Ltd (ROL) recently announced a £5 download of RISC OS 4 that you can run on an ammulator in linux, windows and mav via RPCemu or redsquireel. So you can download it now. :-D
Cheers
Bob
Member since:2005-07-06
For the same kind of size Asus Eee Box and the Mac mini are both more powerful and less expensive while using less energy than your standard ATX / BTX PC.
Again we can either buy a A9 or run RISC OS via an emulator, why can't RISC OS be updated to run on more platforms?
I like RISC OS but still cannot understand its direction.
Edited 2008-12-17 17:22 UTC
Member since:2007-11-27
Yes the EEEPC is cheaper. I bought one in Nov2007 when they came out here. However, it is just a celeron and the new ones are Atom's. There would have to be a HAL eating upa bit of that power.
The main problem with porting RISCOS (which I suggested in 1997/8) is the OS is a pig in a poke. It is nice, but it has lots of old chunks of BASIC and hard to rewrite assembler (ARM Assembler). That is probably wher the speed came from. I remember a home written Imaging app we used in 1992-1995 that was ARM Assembler with a BBC Basic front end running on an 8Mhz machine. It aws actually quite fast. :-) Anyway I digress.....
It would take a lot of time and effort to do this and there is no money (real money) in the OS to make it worth while.
Cheers
Bob
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2005-07-08
