RISC OS News

Home

RISCOS.org

• Latest Intel chips still can't match ARM for power saving - Intel issued a "correction" Thursday regarding comments one of its executives made earlier this week slamming the iPhone as incapable of working correctly with the internet.
  Among other things, the executives accused ARM chips of being unable to "handle the internet" and singled out the iPhone as an example of a smart phone that could be really great if it used one of Intel's low-power x86 architecture processors, known as Atom.
• Major new RISC OS application in development - Long-term RISC OS devotee Paul Vigay has recently announced a new application he's currently working on. With a development version to be demonstrated at the forthcoming RISC OS SE Show, WebAnim8r is a powerful and comprehensive application for creating animations and graphics suitable for including on websites and presentations.
  A flexible built-in scripting language allows the user to create complex designs with the aid of simple keywords, or fall back on the intuitive user interface.

csa.announce

Some news summaries maybe truncated. This is a limitation with GoogleGroups RSS feed and beyond our control unfortunately.

Drobe

• 404 Not Found

IconBar

• WROCC July Meeting - Chris Hughes looks at Impact database - In the WROCC July meeting tomorrow night, Chris Hughes will be looking at the Impact Database and its helper applications.
• Midlands Virtual Midsummer MUG Show 2022 Report - The first Midlands Virtual Midsummer MUG Show was on Saturday 2nd July from 11am to 4pm.
• Midlands Virtual Midsummer MUG Show 2022 Talks - Here are my note from the live talks I attended at Midlands Virtual Midsummer MUG Show. As usual all omissions, errors and mistakes are mine.
• June 2022 News Summary - Some things we noticed this month. What did you see?
• Updated RiscFF GUI front end for FFmpeg - If you have not come across RiscFF before it is a RISC OS GUI Front end for the RISC OS version of FFmpeg - a set of command line tools for handing video and audio files.

MyRISCOS

• 404 Not Found

RISC OS Open

• Virtually the MUG midsummer event - Get ready today, Saturday 2nd July 2022, for the Midland User Group (MUG) online show.
• I'm floatin' around in ABC - Find yourself writing programs in BBC BASIC? Do your programs ever involve floating point maths? Well we’ve got some good news for you!The Archimedes BASIC Compiler (ABC) 5.00 has been extended with a new option to directly output Vector Floating Point maths instructions which then run on the hardware floating point unit built into many recent Arm processors. This gives a considerable speed increase compared with its predecessor the Floating Point Accelerator which is often emulated now.
• Wakefield show ups sticks to Bradford - Celebrating its 25th anniversary outing this year is the popular WROCC show on the 21st of May.
• Big Ben eXperience rings again - RISC OS fans in mainland Europe will have been missing the regular chiming of the Big Ben Club’s annual gathering, having been cancelled twice due to Coronavirus restrictions. The good news is it’s confirmed as going ahead this time round – on 14th May 2022.
• A second great networking opportunity - Following the success of step 1 of the TCP/IP stack overhaul, we’ve been watching with interest as over one hundred community donations have filled our step 2 bounty pot almost to the brim. Today we’re able to announce that the bounty has been claimed and under way.