ROOL Forum: Recent posts

Fri, 16 May 2025 13:41:12 +0000

Bill Gates is apparently giving away his entire fortune in small steps. I can imagine he would feel sympathy for the tiny world of RISC OS if someone told him about it, and $2.5 million is small beer to him (as we say in the Netherlands).

Fri, 16 May 2025 13:35:50 +0000

Please also watch Rob Sprowson’s excellent talk from the recent RISC OS eXperience event.

Fri, 16 May 2025 13:34:25 +0000

Please also watch Rob Sprowson’s excellent talk from the recent RISC OS eXperience event.

Fri, 16 May 2025 13:04:03 +0000

To help put a bit more meat onto the bones of what we’ve said publicly about the 64-bit Moonshot, we’ve updated the corresponding Moonshots page on our site and created an associated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.

Fri, 16 May 2025 13:03:58 +0000

Love it! Thanks Martin.

Fri, 16 May 2025 13:03:02 +0000

Just to follow-up on Charles’ post – it was really useful to have the call and we’re pleased to explore how Pyromaniac can play a role in moving RISC OS forwards. As with all things like this, it takes both sides coming together to get the ball rolling! We’re looking forward to continuing the conversation, along with all the other potential ideas and opportunities that are out there.

It’s great to see all of the ideas and initiatives people have mentioned in these forums, all in various ways helping to tackle the issue of Arm architecture moving away from supporting 32-bit. Some of these are stop-gap, some of them are important steps along the way, and ROOL’s door is always open to looking for ways to collaborate (we have very limited resources ourselves).

On the funding front, we’ve been busily working through a long-list of leads and we believe we’re homing-in on some where more in-depth discussions are required.

To help put a bit more meat onto the bones of what we’ve said publicly about the 64-bit Moonshot, we’ve updated the corresponding Moonshots page on our site and created an associated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.

Fri, 16 May 2025 11:28:28 +0000

My understanding is the user mode code runs naively, and the privileged code is emulated.

Assuming the obvious missing tea, I now understand. RISCOS apps run fast as long as they don’t use the operating system too much. So it would vary a great deal from app to app presumably.

Fri, 16 May 2025 11:06:30 +0000

Hiya,

ROOL and I finally met a couple of days ago to discuss the bounty claim.

There were several questions from ROOL about the basic functionality of RISC OS Pyromaniac, and how I saw it fitting into the work towards 64-bit. They stated that they were aware of RISC OS Pyromaniac but had not looked into its functionality. Steve Revill made it quite clear from the outset that they were not interested in paying for any historic work. They explained that they were looking at a number of different alternatives on how to approach the 64-bit work.

As has been the open offer in the past, they have been given the opportunity to investigate RISC OS Pyromaniac further if they contact me.

It was a very brief meeting, so no doubt we will talk further in the future.

Fri, 16 May 2025 10:26:28 +0000

So even the strongest advocates against HAL will end up re-inventing one…

The need for a layer to abstract the hardware is not in question, it’s the elevation of it to special status in the OS kernel that is. It unnecessarily bakes in implementation details.

Fri, 16 May 2025 08:54:20 +0000

Timo, There is a Funding tab on the menu on the ROD site

Fri, 16 May 2025 08:27:52 +0000

And….
Following this advice got the following programs from Tony Swetman working as well:
!MultiAudio (Group conversion of Audio files) v1.00 24 Oct 2016
!EditFlac (WAV to MP3 conversion) v1.00 24 Oct 2015
!EditMP# (MP3 to WAV conversion) v1.00 24 Oct 2013

So thank you very much !