riscos.info

riscos.info
Web address riscos.info
Commercial? No
Registration Optional
Available in English
Content license
 cc-by 2.5
Owner Peter Naulls
Launched January 28, 2006 (2006-01-28)
Current status Online

riscos.info is a web site for users of the RISC OS operating system, run by Peter Naulls and John Tytgat. It is a community web site, intended to encourage user involvement.[1] It hosts the RISC OS FAQ, which was formerly distributed via the comp.sys.acorn.* newsgroups. It has been selected for inclusion by editors in at least one web directory,[2][3] and is also cited as a useful resource for C programming under RISC OS,[4] for the Unix Porting Project[5] and for hosting the port of Firefox.

History

The riscos.info wiki was developed as an evolution to the former riscos.info static content, originally launched in March 2002.[6][7] The former site was launched as a guide to C programming under RISC OS.[7][8] The migration to a wiki was announced in 2006.[9]

The current site combines the former static content with articles from riscos.blog.com. It also includes the addition of the Unix Porting Project (presented at the RISC OS User Group of London in 2003)[10] and GCCSDK (the development environment for the RISC OS port of GCC).[1] The majority of the content of the original sites was written by Naulls. Other content was written or contributed to by other members of the RISC OS community, particularly the GCCSDK team.

Main features

The site features RISC OS articles, news and other media. Registered users are able to contribute to the wiki and add their own news items.

GCCSDK

GCCSDK comprises GCC for RISC OS and the GCC Software Development Kit itself. The 'GCC for RISC OS Initiative' was founded in 1999[11] and the combined GCCSDK was hosted via riscos.info (as version 3.4.5) in 2006.[12] Version 4.1.1 (Release 2) was released in 2009,[13] with bug reporting added in 2010.[14]

Hosted projects

The site has hosted the RISC OS port of Firefox since 2005,[15][16] with Thunderbird being added in 2007.[17][18] A recovered build of Linux for the PC card was published on the site in 2006.[19] Other hosted projects are 'ArcEm', 'dcraw', 'DOSBox', 'PDF', 'ScummVM', and 'whois'.[20]

Subsites

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Naulls, Peter. "RISC OS:About - RISC OS". riscos.info. Retrieved 2011-05-12. The riscos.info Wiki is a community and developer-driven RISC OS website, intended to encourage user involvement, as well provide a forum for RISC OS articles, news and other media.
  2. ↑ "What's New - All Sites Added 7/20/2009". Best of the Web. Best of the Web Directory. 2009-07-20. Retrieved 2011-06-04. Riscos.info - Repository of RISC OS information including projects, news, articles, and tutorials.
  3. ↑ "The world's top Programming websites". websbiggest.com. 2009. Retrieved 2011-06-04. C Programming Information Guide to C programming on RISC OS. Documentation and tutorials, compilers, libraries, and downloads. http://www.riscos.info/
  4. ↑ Round, Mark (2004-02-26). "Emulating RISC OS under Windows". OSnews. OSNews. Retrieved 2011-05-24. Some useful links that will provide you with information and software for RISC OS are : [...] RISC OS C Programming [http://www.riscos.info/] - A wealth of information on programming in C for RISC OS.
  5. ↑ polas (2008-10-01). "An alternative choice - Risc OS". TechnicalTalk. technicaltalk.net. Retrieved 2011-05-24. Some RISC OS related URLS: [...] http://www.riscos.info/ - RISC OS information site, hosting a free emulator and also the Unix porting project.
  6. ↑ Naulls, Peter (2002-07-19). "www.riscos.info - RISC OS C Programming Information". riscos.info. riscos.info. Archived from the original on 2002-08-02. Retrieved 2011-05-18. Changelog: 24-03-2002 - Site launched
  7. 1 2 Williams, Chris (2002-03-28). "riscos.info goes live". Drobe Launchpad. Drobe. Retrieved 2011-05-13. Describing itself as a resource for RISC OS C programmers, riscos.info has only this week opened its doors to the public.
  8. ↑ Goodwin, Richard (2002-03-28). "riscos.info - C for the masses". The Icon Bar. One Point Nought. Retrieved 2011-05-13. Peter Naulls [...] has launched his new riscos.info site. The aim is to provide a comprehensive guide to C programming under RISC OS, with copious personal experience and discussions thrown in.
  9. ↑ Naulls, Peter (6 April 2006). "riscos.info Wiki launched". riscos.blog.com. Archived from the original on 3 May 2006. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  10. ↑ ROUGOL (September 15, 2003). "RISC OS UNIX Porting Project at ROUGOL, Monday 15 September 2003". Newsgroup: comp.sys.acorn.announce. Usenet: ap.3e344c4c32.a701a0a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
  11. ↑ Shaw, Graham (Feb 2007). "History". Using UnixLib. Northampton, UK: The RISC OS Packaging Project. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-9547962-1-1. Retrieved 2011-05-25. [...] led to the GCC for RISC OS Initiative, which was founded on 27th July 1999.
  12. ↑ Tytgat, John (2006-02-15). "GCCSDK GCC 3.4.5 Release 1 for RISC OS now available". gcc Archives (mailing list). riscos.info. Retrieved 2011-05-24. This is first and probably only release of GCC 3.4.5 for RISC OS.
  13. ↑ Tytgat, John (2009-12-27). "GCCSDK GCC 4.1.1 Release 2". gcc Archives (mailing list). riscos.info. Retrieved 2011-05-24. I'm happy to announce GCCSDK GCC 4.1.1 Release 2 [...]
  14. ↑ Peter, Naulls (2010-01-07). "riscos.info bug reporting now open". gcc Archives (mailing list). riscos.info. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
  15. ↑ Williams, Chris (2005-06-20). "Firefox first beta published". Drobe. Drobe. Retrieved 2011-06-03. The first public beta version of the RISC OS Firefox port is now available for download. [...] According to developer Peter Naulls [...]
  16. ↑ Poole, Andrew (2005-06-20). "RISC OS Firefox beta surfaces". The Icon Bar. One Point Nought. Retrieved 2011-06-03. Peter Naulls today released his RISC OS port of the Firefox web browser [...]
  17. ↑ "Thunderbird 'demo' port released". Drobe. Drobe. 2007-01-31. Retrieved 2011-06-04. The open source client, which is a stablemate of the Firefox web browser, is now available as a free download from Peter's riscos.info website.
  18. ↑ Holwerda, Thom (2007-01-31). "Thunderbird Port for RISC OS Released". OSnews. OSNews. Retrieved 2011-06-04. [...] Thunderbird for RISC OS. You can get the build here [http://www.riscos.info/unix/firefox/].
  19. ↑ "Acorn PC card Linux files unearthed". NEWS3K.COM. 2009-12-28. Retrieved 2011-06-04. An ancient build of Linux for Acorn PC cards has been uploaded to riscos.info as part of a new drive to revive the PC Card Linux project.
  20. ↑ "Index of packages by categories". riscos.info. Retrieved 2011-06-03.

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