#RISC_OS : Antoher tough piece of work for Merlin, an extended and fully multi-core VDU driver. It's working and cores can do VDU requests who are being rendered correctly on the screen.
And yes it's ugly ๐ I should find the time and make a video of the tests...
#RISC_OS : Simon's PR is always quite minimalistic, so let's make this to spread please. He is working on one of the few projects to reimplement RO in a more modern fashion and today he shared that his work has finally achieved WIMP running on multi-core!!! video:
https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/topics/20328
Worst day of the year to announce something, but I'd like to show people RISC OS Wimp running on all four cores of a RPi3.
Next job: work out why !Draw fails to run.
#RISC_OS
#RISC_OS Folks: New #ShareFSServer Alpha 0.2.0 available to all the testers to give it a go. Let me know how it goes.
Change logs here:
https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/11/topics/20267?limit=25&page=4#posts-162609
I'm going to RiscOS North tomorrow, looking to see what I can modify and upgrade on my Acorn Risc PC.
I thought about bringing a portable monitor with me, but couldn't find my VGA to HDMI adapter, so gave up on that idea, and just decided that I'd bring the carcass of the machine to do some troubleshooting with the RTC battery circuit, and at the show I could actually try fitting anything I buy.
I got into my hotel room and discovered that the TV had all the display inputs, so...
It's Alive! (Mostly)
@armbytes
I intend to be there, probably looking for someone who can suggest what I need to do to fix my Risc-PC.
Due to an undetected issue in the build pipeline last night this weekend #RISC_OS ShareFSServer alpha builds did not get on the distirbution server, my apologies to all the testers.
The issue is now resolved and build 0.1.3 is available for testing using the usual URL.
Thanks.
#RISC_OS ShareFSServer testers: changes for this weekend build here:
https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/11/topics/20267?limit=25&page=3#posts-162293
Build should be available tomorrow morning.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@armbytes/116144412601744915
In less than two weeks, the air will be filled with nostalgia and, no doubt, a few surprises at this year's premier computing exhibition, Warrington, UK. Check out the informative article, highlighting some of the exhibitors:
https://www.riscository.com/2026/preview-risc-os-north-21st-march/ #Retro #ARM #RaspberryPi #OpenSource #RISC_OS
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