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Something for the weekend

Just before I nip off home, here's a few bits and pieces to keep you amused...

The RISCOS Ltd. site has a news item entitled "Embedded RISC OS announced", which sounds very much like a rehash of the RON project. The words horse, dead and flogging came to mind, but reading further it's used in Castle's Neuron system. Which is nice.

Acorn User have updated their website to go with their new look magazine. The concensus on the forums seems to be that the new look mag is a hit, although I don't get the chance to find out at first hand :(

And interesting doo-dad of the week goes to !Chromax, which can take 256 colour sprites and swap tints for other tints. No doubt that'll come in handy now I've got off my backside and started looking at the desktop themes code again, pink Aqua-styled toolbars anybody...?

Hmm, bit of a slow news week, what else can I post? Have you seen these BBC Micro models? Yes? Oh well, I'm off home then. See you next week...

Something for the weekend

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march

Message #90066, posted at 21:16, 11/2/2002, in reply to message #90065

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26.09.01 newsletter #18
08.01.02 newsletter #19
08.02.02 newsletter #20

the whole text about embedded risc os in #20 is the same as on www.riscos.com.
don´t dare to ask why we are paying for foundation "news" :->>

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Michael Stubbs

Message #90067, posted at 21:39, 11/2/2002, in reply to message #90066

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Rich, how about adding a bit of code that blocks idiot comments wich contain the words "killing" and "market" in close proximity to each other? ;-)

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Message #90068, posted at 22:46, 11/2/2002, in reply to message #90067

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Doh! Can't remember my username from here - no doubt people will think this is spoofed! :-)
Anyway, I can't find the reference now. I think I was wrong to say it was in the Foundation newsletter as it's obviously not. I've definitely read it somewhere in the past few days though cos I was pretty miffed myself to read it (being a Netbook owner myself), and I re-read it a couple of times. Now I feel silly cos I can't find the reference. However, I'll endeavour to find it.

Paul (from home)

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Message #90069, posted at 00:06, 12/2/2002, in reply to message #90068

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Ah. I found it. It was Newsletter #23421. Apparently, they thought RON was a good idea back in 2001, but now it's out of date. Oh. Hmm. This newletter is actually dated 1/4/2317. :-(

Paul (from planet zog)

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Message #90070, posted at 16:56, 12/2/2002, in reply to message #90069

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David James: "This could be a real coup outside of our market. There are a lot of of unhappy netBook users atm. If ROL can add decent network drivers to RON then I think a lot of poeple may be interested."

It's hardly surprising that users of another proprietary operating system are having trouble getting support from their operating system vendor who, coincidentally, has changed focus and has little interest in supporting "old" devices that use it.

Compare and contrast:

Pace/Symbian
RISC OS Ltd. (and friends)/Psion

They would be far better off running something non-proprietary in order to avoid getting into the same situation again within about a year.

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David James

Message #90071, posted at 17:04, 12/2/2002, in reply to message #90070

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Hi guest who quotes me.

I do agree with you about proprietary systems, and I am not saying this would save our market, but I still think it may help to get RO seen by more people in other markets.

It may even help development, if people decide to write specific 'on-the'move' type software.

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Guy Inchbald

Message #90072, posted at 18:09, 12/2/2002, in reply to message #90071

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Non-proprietary? You're not seriously suggesting that ROL and Pace should wake up and smell the coffee are you? I know this thread is wandering off a bit, but really!

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Message #90073, posted at 21:40, 12/2/2002, in reply to message #90072

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The big problem with RISC OS is that under the bonet, it's extremely awful. The only things going for it are its GUI and applications. That's why I personally am very much behind projects such as ROX and riscose - they'll give current RISC OS applications a chance to run on a decent OS. The problem will be migrating current users. As from an Embedded RISC OS point of view, I can see no reason what so ever, apart from possible support of legacy code, to use such a thing. It's comparitivly slow, extremely limited hardware support, and utterly unrelible compaired to the competition.

The best thing RISCOS Ltd. could do is support the development of riscose and ROX, or produce their own commercial alternatives. That'll take a massive leap of faith for the later, and produces no income for the former. RISCOS Ltd. are in a doomed position it would seem - many are surprised they've lasted even this long.

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Message #90074, posted at 09:12, 13/2/2002, in reply to message #90073

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Hi all.
I cant remember my user ID etc. Anyway why is hter esuck a bruha about the netbook. there are other strongARM machines that have a bigger following like the jornada's.
Specifically the 820 etc etc

oh

cheers
bob hartley

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David James

Message #90075, posted at 10:07, 13/2/2002, in reply to message #90074

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The reason the netBook is being used (hopefully) by ROL, is the ease of getting the OS onto it.

The OS can be placed on a compact flash card and then loaded at boot up into main memory.

This allows the use of several OS and the chance to choose the most suitable for the application.

Also, the netBook is more of a sub-notebook than a PDA.

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