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• RISC OS 5 pictured running on ARM Cortex-A8 kit
  Picture exclusive - This grainy photograph shows a port of RISC OS 5, sourced from the RISC OS Open project, running on a Beagleboard - a device powered by a 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor with a built-in graphics chip. The port, developed by Jeffrey Lee with help from Uwe Kall and ROOL staff, is seen as a major breakthrough for the shared-source project as it proves the OS can be ported to new hardware without the need for a large team of engineers.
   75 comments, latest by rjek on 30/4/09 3:15PM. Published: 25 Apr 2009
  
  
• ARM-powered computer firm in RISC OS port talks
  US-based company Genesi, which builds ARM Cortex-powered appliances that could be compatible with the RISC OS Open Beagleboard work, is said to be in talks with RISC OS companies over a possible port of the OS to its products. It's hoped ROS 5 could be made to run on the lightweight EFIKA MX Open Client, which sports a 800MHz Cortex-A8 processor, 3D graphics hardware, 512M RAM, wifi networking and more. Genesi analyst Matt Sealey said: "RISC OS is really popular in the UK and the last dedicated RISC OS box - the Iyonix - has been discontinued for six months. We are currently questioning the relevant companies in the UK, including [ROS 5 owners] Castle, about collaboration and marketing efforts, and the support they'd need to make it a reality." The EFIKA MX Open Client costs about 160 quid in real money.
   71 comments, latest by rjek on 7/9/09 9:03PM. Published: 30 Aug 2009
  
  
• ARM in half of all netbooks by 2012, says analyst
  Linux Today reports that an industry analyst reckons that ARM chips will surpass Intel's Atom chips in 55 percent of netbooks by 2012 - however, another analyst suggests ARM will only get 10 to 20 percent.
   1 comment, latest by torbenm on 23/3/09 3:16PM. Published: 13 Mar 2009
  
  
• Should ROL concentrate on a new ARM port of the OS?
  Should RISCOS Ltd focus on porting its OS to new ARM-powered devices, such as the recently unveiled prototyped netbooks, following work on bringing the RISC OS Open flavour of the OS to the ARM Cortex-A8 platform?
   22 comments, latest by rjek on 28/3/09 8:25PM. Published: 1 Mar 2009
  
  
• ARM shows off prototype netbooks
  A number of RISC OS users have called for a port of their favourite operating system to the range of ARM-powered netbooks unveiled last week. It is understood at least one of the devices features a processor compatible with the ARM Cortex-A8, for which a RISC OS port is being brewed over at RISC OS Open.
   6 comments, latest by tinopeners on 18/3/09 11:52AM. Published: 26 Feb 2009
  
  
• ARM Cortex-A8 port of RISC OS 5: first screenshot
  An ambitious attempt to port the RISC OS Open sources to the new-fangled ARM Cortex-A8 architecture (as used in various gadgets) has produced its first promising screenshot - although there is still plenty of work to be done. However RISCOS Ltd is still grumbling about licences, claiming that a non-Iyonix ROM image from ROOL sources can't be released. Meanwhile, RISC OS Open has joined an ARM community programme to boost its profile among other developers.
   16 comments, latest by bucksboy on 4/3/09 7:38AM. Published: 23 Feb 2009
  
  
• Will new ARM mobile platform boost RISC OS?
  Firefox and plugins aimed at low-power ultra-portable gadgets
   4 comments, latest by rjek on 16/10/07 5:39PM. Published: 14 Oct 2007
  
  
• Work starts on a RISC OS 5 ARM Cortex port
  An attempt to port RISC OS Open's flavour of RISC OS 5 to the Pandora, a 450MHz ARM Cortex-A8-powered ultra-portable net book, is underway, according to programmer Jeffrey Lee.
   26 comments, latest by Stoppers on 2/2/09 8:04AM. Published: 22 Jan 2009
  
  
• A guide to overclocking Kinetic and StrongARM CPU cards
  Charlie Lane has compiled a package of notes and photos on overclocking various StrongARM processer cards, including Castle Kinetics, for RiscPCs. Overclocking is the process of ramping up the digital timing signals of the computer to force the processor to work faster. Charlie told us: "I thought it would be fun to investigate the possibilities of speeding up my Kinetic RiscPC - only to find suitable information on Kinetic cards was rather hard to come by so I set about working it out for myself." Note: Follow the instructions entirely at your own risk.
   9 comments, latest by rjek on 20/1/09 4:23PM. Published: 6 Jan 2009
  
  
• The ARM Club disbands after 18 years
  The ARM Club, which has organised shows and provided support and products to RISC OS users since 1990, has closed its doors and stopped publishing its Eureka magazine. Its committee members agreed to stop taking on new club members after membership figures went into free fall and no one was willing to help run the organisation. Archive has agreed to take on Eureka subscribers and their first issue, edition 21:11, is due to arrive in the post by Monday.
   4 comments, latest by bucksboy on 9/12/08 6:32PM. Published: 6 Dec 2008
  
  
• Experimental RISC OS emulation layer for ARM-powered devices
  Programmer David Given has started work on a miniature reimplementation of the RISC OS kernel and plugged an ARM emulator into it to allow simple RISC OS programs to run on Unix-like operating systems. His work includes modules taken from the RISC OS Open sources. Meanwhile, another coder has spoken of writing a similar emulation layer for Intel-powered PCs - although he wouldn't be the first to attempt such a project.
   10 comments, latest by lym on 25/11/08 11:15AM. Published: 23 Nov 2008
  
  
• BBC4's Micro Men: an interview and review
  Ahead of tonight's Micro Men programme, which charts the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair and Acorn Computers in the early 1980s, drobe.co.uk spoke to the film's producer, Andrea Cornwell, to find out more about the show - and now you can read our review of the film
   Discuss this. Published: 8 Oct 2009
  
  
• ARM processors to power cute netbooks
  As so many of you have pointed out, a number of little notebook computers, which are all the rage these days, are to be powered by ARM chips, paving the way for a possible RISC OS port to such slimline devices (especially given the recent Ubuntu Linux on ARM announcement) - however there are countless ARM Linux-powered systems available already and yet there's no sign of any RISC OS port for them either...
   Discuss this. Published: 17 Nov 2008
  
  
• ARM reveals new 1GHz multi-core processor
  Denies waving red flag at Intel's bull
   34 comments, latest by bluenose on 08/10/07 7:28PM. Published: 5 Oct 2007
  
  
• Dinosaur software made StrongARM-safe
  Educational and graphical programs back from the digital dead
   7 comments, latest by Jon on 13/3/08 5:30PM. Published: 8 Mar 2008
  
  
• Prototype Acorn Unix-powered A680 lands on eBay
  A rare Acorn A680 running an ARM port of BSD 4.3 has hit online auction site eBay with a minimum opening bid of 100 quid. According to the seller, believed to be ROL's Paul Middleton, there are only a half a dozen of these pre-production systems left in existence. The A680 was developed by Acorn for Olivetti in 1988, and features an ARM2, 8MB of RAM, a 66MB hard drive and an early version of Acorn 4.3 BSD Unix kernel in ROM.
   13 comments, latest by diomus on 25/8/09 12:09AM. Published: 16 Aug 2009
  
  
• RISC OS 5 port hopes for netbook now in production
  The new Touch Book netbook, which uses the Beagleboard ARM-powered hardware, could run RISC OS 5 thanks to efforts to port the RISC OS Open flavour of the OS to the ARM Cortex processor family. The tiny netbook is available now to buy, and Bryan Hogan has offered to test the OS port on his Touch Book. Click here here for more potential products that have a realistic chance of running RISC OS 5.
   40 comments, latest by Pete on 1/9/09 9:10AM. Published: 26 Jul 2009
  
  
• First screenshot: Beagleboard runs RISC OS 5 desktop
  Picture exclusive - This is the first screenshot of Jeffrey Lee's port of RISC OS 5 for the ARM Cortex-A8-powered Beagleboard reaching the familiar ROS desktop and running several built-in applications. The port was produced using source code made available by the RISC OS Open initiative.
   250 comments, latest by rjek on 5/6/09 5:01PM. Published: 10 May 2009
  
  
• RPCEmu Spoon updated to version 0.8.3
  Open source RiscPC emulator has faster dynamic recompiler for 64bit machines, bugs in the ARM emulation fixed, small speed boost to the dynamic recompiler for 32bit machines and other updates.
   3 comments, latest by bucksboy on 18/4/09 6:07PM. Published: 16 Apr 2009
  
  
• South West 2009 show report
  Martin Hansen describes his time as both a punter and an exhibitor at this year's annual RISC OS event held in the south west of the UK. While there were no major announcements ahead of the show, the otherwise friendly and mildly busy atmosphere was coloured by Friday's tragic loss of Paul Vigay.
   3 comments, latest by mosschoppers on 1/3/09 8:15PM. Published: 23 Feb 2009
  
  
• Wakefield 2009 wrap-up, photos and video
  The weekend's RISC OS event has been and gone and we've got the rest of our lives to look forward to. Here's a round-up of extra news and Drobe's show-related coverage and some photos taken from Wakefield 2009 - plus a video from the show floor.
   16 comments, latest by AW on 29/4/09 7:41PM. Published: 27 Apr 2009
  
  
• Future ARM based processors for RISC OS?
  From ARM7 to ARM11 and XScale, our stocking wishlist
   50 comments, latest by Jaco on 19/08/03 7:08PM. Published: 25 Jul 2003
  
  
• StrongARM card turns ten years old
  And a decade on, we're still using 'em [Updated]
   24 comments, latest by bucksboy on 30/3/06 8:56PM. Published: 27 Mar 2006
  
  
• Acorn grandee Steve Furber to visit usergroup
  Prof Steve Furber, who was one of the designers behind the BBC Microcomputer and the 32bit ARM processor, will give a talk about the history of Acorn and what he's up to these days to the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club next month.
   1 comment, latest by Wakeman on 3/2/09 6:49PM. Published: 20 Jan 2009
  
  
• Is a war brewing between Intel and ARM?
  Intel exec claims ARM chips can't handle modern consumer demands
   Discuss this. Published: 19 Sep 2007
  
  
• Sir Robin leaves ARM
  Meanwhile another ARM11 core licensed
   23 comments, latest by AMS on 1/6/06 8:10PM. Published: 27 May 2006
  
  
• Midland Christmas show this Saturday
  The Midland Christmas 2008 RISC OS show is fast approaching - pencil Saturday, December 6 in your diaries. For the organisers, the Midlands User Group, this is a big challenge. While they co-organised the last one with the ARM Club, the organisation for this year's event has been primarily a MUG affair.
   2 comments, latest by NickMason on 4/12/08 9:23PM. Published: 2 Dec 2008
  
  
• ARM 'security hole' is ofla cousin
  One man's exploit is another's .ofla.ofla.ofla
   9 comments, latest by bavison on 25/4/07 10:44PM. Published: 24 Apr 2007
  
  
• Get RISC OS running on Puppy Linux with RPCEmu
  As demonstrated at the South West 2009 show, Paul Stewart has managed to produce not only a guide to getting RPCEmu up and running on Puppy Linux - a light-weight and user-friendly flavour of Linux - he's also produced a live CD so anyone interested in trying out RISC OS can boot straight into Linux and test drive the OS.
   3 comments, latest by rjek on 26/2/09 5:38PM. Published: 23 Feb 2009
  
  
• Wakefield 2008 show photos
  Images taken from weekend's event
   58 comments, latest by Anon on 9/1/09 11:49AM. Published: 28 Apr 2008
  
  
• South East 2008 show photos
  If a picture tells a thousand words, here's a short story
   8 comments, latest by hzn on 22/10/08 10:03AM. Published: 20 Oct 2008
  
  
• South East 2008 show round up
  News from the event in the south of the UK
   42 comments, latest by diomus on 9/11/08 8:45PM. Published: 19 Oct 2008
  
  
• South West 2008 this weekend
  A little reminder for this Saturday
   10 comments, latest by druck on 28/2/08 8:44AM. Published: 22 Feb 2008
  
  
• Christmas 2007 show fully booked up
  Final exhibitor list published
   3 comments, latest by rjek on 30/11/07 5:04PM. Published: 10 Nov 2007
  
  
• Wakefield 2008 show preview
  ROL and ROOL prepare surprises for punters
   12 comments, latest by Stewy on 25/4/08 11:17AM. Published: 22 Apr 2008
  
  
• Science Museum hosts 'fathers of Beeb' reunion
  Record of Acorn history ceasing after 1986 non-shocker
   8 comments, latest by Loris on 28/3/08 2:53AM. Published: 20 Mar 2008
  
  
• Acorn celebs to mark 30th anniversary with reunion
  Big bash planned for former staff in Cambridge
   7 comments, latest by heds on 4/2/08 11:01PM. Published: 28 Jan 2008
  
  
• A9home DIY laptop: first pictures
  And other odds and sods from the Christmas 2007 show
   22 comments, latest by sa110 on 1/6/08 4:47PM. Published: 1 Dec 2007
  
  
• Ditching desktops for portables: The way forward?
  Donning a flame-proof suit, Garry Taylor suggests the RISC OS platform swaps desks for palms to secure its future
   48 comments, latest by druck on 18/02/08 8:24PM. Published: 4 Jan 2008
  
  
• Acorn Prof Furber made a CBE
  Didn't he do well?
   9 comments, latest by druck on 5/1/08 1:31PM. Published: 29 Dec 2007
  
  
• RISC OS-on-Linux project prepares live CD
  And one day using QEMU to run ARM apps on x86?
   28 comments, latest by Stoppers on 20/9/07 2:31PM. Published: 9 Sep 2007
  
  
• South West 2008 show next month
  ROL steps in to organise Westcountry event
   4 comments, latest by sa110 on 11/1/08 12:56PM. Published: 10 Jan 2008
  
  
• BBC Micro ARM7 co-processor available
  BBC Micro and Master users bowled over by speed boost
   11 comments, latest by egel on 10/3/06 4:52PM. Published: 8 Mar 2006
  
  
• Wakefield 2007 show report
  Didn't go to the show? Stay in the know.
   16 comments, latest by aschamberlain on 4/6/07 9:54PM. Published: 28 May 2007
  
  
• Christmas 2007 show this weekend
  A last minute reminder
   12 comments, latest by bluenose on 4/12/07 9:19PM. Published: 30 Nov 2007
  
  
• ARM absorbs graphics processor firm
  Mobile 3D acceleration plus Castle Nvidia news
   11 comments, latest by druck on 29/6/06 9:22AM. Published: 24 Jun 2006
  
  
• Software hosted by Drobe: Your guide
  A round-up of users' mini-websites on drobe.co.uk
   12 comments, latest by neilwhite on 17/11/07 9:57AM. Published: 5 Nov 2007
  
  
• South East 2007 show preview
  What to expect at this weekend's event
   30 comments, latest by jess on 24/10/07 12:12AM. Published: 18 Oct 2007
  
  

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