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date: 2024-08-16, from: Richard Murray’s blog
Doubletake, The drainage pipe, The Larder system is now properly functional (I hope!).
https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20240816
date: 2024-08-16, from: Digital Antiquarian
Hi, folks… As I’ve already warned my patrons, I don’t have an article for you this week. I do, however, finally have the 1997 ebook for you, with all of my coverage for that year. I hope it will help to soften the blow. You can download it, along with all of the earlier volumes, […]
https://www.filfre.net/2024/08/1997-ebooks/
date: 2024-08-16, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News
The August 2024 Rougol meeting is on Monday 19th August with Gerph talking 64 bits.
http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2095.html
date: 2024-08-15, from: Richard Murray’s blog
The Larder system is now functional, What’s inside an XBOX?
https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20240815
date: 2024-08-15, from: RiscOS Story
In the RISC OS world, we (should) all know that RISC OS runs on ARM processors in either 26 or 32-bit mode, depending what hardware (or emulator) you are running it on – and that we are now at the stage where 64-bit only ARM processors are becoming the norm, and RISC OS is unable to run on them. Right from its outset, the ARM was a 32-bit processor with 32-bit registers, one of which was the ‘program counter’, a special register used to determine the address in memory from…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/lets-talk-64-bit-rougol-19th-august/
date: 2024-08-14, from: Linux Magazine
The Open Model Initiative hopes to create community LLMs that rival proprietary models but avoid restrictive licensing that limits usage.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Foundation-Adopts-OMI-to-Foster-Ethical-LLMs
date: 2024-08-14, from: Richard Murray’s blog
The Larder system progresses, Outdoorsy stuff.
https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20240814
date: 2024-08-13, from: RiscOS Story
And a language poll for MACadd There are two bits of news from Kevin Wells for some of his applications: There’s a new StreetFix release, which now stands at version 1.09, and he’s running a poll in relation to adding new language support to MACadd. Looking at StreetFix first, Kevin upgraded it recently to version 1.08, adding support for multiple languages, and he has now released version 1.09, in which that support extends to the application’s interactive help (the facility through which RISC OS applications can provide small snippets of…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/streetfix-help-goes-multi-lingual/
date: 2024-08-13, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News
The Summer edition of Drag’n’Drop magazine has now been sent out to subscribers. This edition is 47 pages of news, reviews, tools and lots of code! As a PDF you can read it on just about any system.
http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2093.html
date: 2024-08-12, from: Richard Murray’s blog
Larder code, Other stuff and spuds, Pre-bed checklist, Last night’s conundrum.
https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20240812
date: 2024-08-12, from: Computer ads from the Past
If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week for this month’s topic
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/vote-for-the-august-2004-plus-post
date: 2024-08-12, from: FreeDOS News
Xcopy is an essential DOS command that copies files and directories. Jeremy has released a new version of Xcopy that fixes several bugs: “fix bug causing timestamps to not always be set correctly - fix bug causing stack corruption on Open Watcom builds - improve free disk space calculation.” You can find the new version 1.6 from Jeremy’s Xcopy on GitHub. Thanks Jeremy!
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2024/08/freedos-xcopy-16/
date: 2024-08-12, from: Linux Magazine
Ubuntu users have grown accustomed to their favorite distribution shipping with a kernel that’s not quite as up-to-date as other distros but that changes with 24.10.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-24.10-will-Include-the-Latest-Linux-Kernel
date: 2024-08-12, from: Linux Magazine
Ubuntu users have grown accustomed to their favorite distribution shipping with a kernel that’s not quite as up-to-date as other distros but that changes with 24.10.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-24.10-Will-Include-the-Latest-Linux-Kernel
date: 2024-08-12, from: Linux Magazine
Ubuntu users have grown accustomed to their favorite distribution shipping with a kernel that’s not quite as up-to-date as other distros but that changes with 24.10.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-24.10-to-Include-the-Latest-Linux-Kernel
date: 2024-08-11, from: Richard Murray’s blog
Shattered, Resurrecting that old Pi 1, The Value of shopping, Olympics 2024, And for dinner?
https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20240811
@Hans Otten’s Pascal for small machines (date: 2024-08-11, from: Hans Otten’s Pascal for small machines)
Additions to the Jim Welsh pages, Queen’s University Belfast and Emerate Professor at The University of Queensland Brisbane, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering – 1900 Pascal User’s Guide,- Sources of 1900 Pascal Compiler MK 2. As explained in the next Summary, the CDC compiler was ported in a number of steps to the […]