The Icon Bar has got a live show report from the floor of this weekend’s RISC OS show. So far seen there is the A9 Home machine, which runs RISC OS on an ARM9 processor, VirtualRiscPC for MacOS X, allowing MacOS users to run RISC OS on their Macs amongst other things.
Wakefield RISC OS show report (live)
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the a9home is TINY! I want one so badly! its so much smaller than my risc pc 700 its not even funny.
Just a quick note that more photos are now available at http://www.iconbar.com/news/wakefield2005/report/ along with a few short videos
where can someone find more information regarding virtualriscpc on mac osx? i can’ really find something when googling for it and on the page pages of virtualacorn they doesn’t mention virtualrpc on osx 🙁 ?
its not out yet. they are demoing it right now. thats it.
Any Risc os’s out there for pa-risc? Tried Gentoo but a machine with a 180mhz processor is a dog at compiling a whole OS.
risc os is ONLY for arm processors. totally different from pa-risc.
There’s another live show report over here on drobe:
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1349.html
thanks – so i hope it will be available, soon 🙂
To the person who took the pictures… Please update your camera… The photo are realy low quality! Where they from a camera phone?
And the A9, darn it’s small!! Any date for VirtualRiscPC for the Mac?
Yes, they were taken with a camera phone – the page was updated live throughout the day.
For better quality pictures see the main report at http://www.iconbar.com/news/wakefield2005/report/index.html (these pics are slightly reduced in size and compression – I didn’t fancy uploading 300MB of pics last night
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Judging from the comments I’ve heard this was indeed a very successful show and the next few months promise to be very exciting for RISC OS users.
The A9home includes a hardware not yet exploited by RISC OS that could allow some major improvements to be made in the multimedia area. The low price compared to other RISC OS systems will put it within reach of many users with older hardware.
Nice to hear that Castle are also have some success outside of the traditional market.
All in all, great news that makes me want to smile.
The photos were taken on a Nokia 7600 0.3MP camera phone. I could have got better quality out of the phone, but MMS’ are restricted to 100KB maximum, and this was the best quality I could get whilst not going over the 100KB limit.
As monkeyson said, there are some better quality pictures that were added after the show.