OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/17949/Top_Apps_in_First_ROS_5_Source_Release Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 02:27:48 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Huzzzza! http://www.osnews.com/thread?241864 http://www.osnews.com/thread?241864 I do actually find this a quite exciting prospect for us in risc os land... erm.. yea... just gotta wait and see i suppose... just waiting for someone to rip out win ce of a nice sleek ARM laptop and replace it with RO now.. and the nintendo DS.. and erm.. erm.. some random xscale scisi card... and.. erm.. my nokia 3330 and erm... erm... erm...


for those of you that have never had the joy of using !paint.. huzza! ( !summink means its an application ) Sun, 20 May 2007 11:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nexie) Comments RE: Huzzzza! http://www.osnews.com/thread?241867 http://www.osnews.com/thread?241867 Yes, very exciting ;)

>for those of you that have never had the joy of using !paint

Dont forget !draw ;)

>!summink means its an application )

Just to make that a little clearer, if a folder has a pling infront of its name it is indicating that it is an application directory instead of a standard folder. Sun, 20 May 2007 12:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RISCOSMike) Comments RE[2]: Huzzzza! http://www.osnews.com/thread?241881 http://www.osnews.com/thread?241881
Just to make that a little clearer, if a folder has a pling infront of its name it is indicating that it is an application directory instead of a standard folder.


A 'pling'? That's the first time i've heard an exclamation mark referred to as that. Sun, 20 May 2007 15:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nicholas) Comments RE[3]: Huzzzza! http://www.osnews.com/thread?241889 http://www.osnews.com/thread?241889 Well thats what its name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark#Computers Sun, 20 May 2007 16:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RISCOSMike) Comments huzzazaa! http://www.osnews.com/thread?241893 http://www.osnews.com/thread?241893 yes, i rember the first time i heard the word pling.. i think it's a great word for a !

anyway, yes, !draw, these mac and pc adobe lovers could learn alot from draw, and artworks ( xarax on the doze ) draw is like how getting things done should be, like paint it is a little short of features, but that is again what makes it great.

any mac monkey who uses draw for a while will be like me when (if) they go bac to thier mac tastic programs.. just like.. what the fonze.. why, why why does it have to be like this. clunky unituitive crazy tape and string interfaces, pointless endless over engineering, if you are actually good at computer design you dont really need the filters special effects etc. Sun, 20 May 2007 18:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nexie) Comments RE[3]: Huzzzza! http://www.osnews.com/thread?241894 http://www.osnews.com/thread?241894 My brother and his acorn programming friends used to call it ping too, but only inrelation to computing. Sun, 20 May 2007 18:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Coxy) Comments I wonder how long... http://www.osnews.com/thread?241897 http://www.osnews.com/thread?241897 it will be before we have the whole kernel in the Open Source tree...And after that, I wonder how long it will be before we have a DS port. Heh. A DS running RiscOS would be the ultimate portable device. Sun, 20 May 2007 20:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (madcrow) Comments RE: I wonder how long... http://www.osnews.com/thread?241916 http://www.osnews.com/thread?241916
it will be before we have the whole kernel in the Open Source tree...And after that, I wonder how long it will be before we have a DS port. Heh. A DS running RiscOS would be the ultimate portable device.


More correctly, how long before the assembly bits are re-written in C and someone ports it to another architecture? Mon, 21 May 2007 02:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments RoN http://www.osnews.com/thread?241917 http://www.osnews.com/thread?241917 Waiting for a Psion netBook port! Mon, 21 May 2007 03:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Abdullah) Comments RE[2]: I wonder how long... http://www.osnews.com/thread?241930 http://www.osnews.com/thread?241930 The licence prevents ports to other architectures Mon, 21 May 2007 08:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments RE[3]: Huzzzza! http://www.osnews.com/thread?241971 http://www.osnews.com/thread?241971 yeah i used to call it a pling during my risc os days, but now i know better ;-)

# = sharp
! = bang

sharp+bang = shebang, as in shell scripts: #!/bin/sh

anyway, its a shame that its only the applications and a few modules so far that have been released, not the kernel, or enough to actually build risc os 5.

it looks like castle want ro5's !paint and !draw to be updated to select's featureset by someone for free.

anyone know what version of !browse has been "opensourced" as i remember having a copy of !phoenix, which was !browse 2.09 (or something higher than 2.07 that us clan folk got) with javascript and stuff. Mon, 21 May 2007 14:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (simo) Comments