* Posts by The$4FFF

2 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Oct 2020

What will you do with your Raspberry Pi 4 this week? RISC it for a biscuit perhaps?

The$4FFF

Re: Dead end?

Much of what you say is correct, and the walls are closing in on RISC OS unless they find a way towards a 64-bit neutral codebase from their existing handcrafted, well-optimised ARM assembly code.

The people involved in open sourcing RISC OS know this, and I am sure are working out what needs to be done, and what can be done.

Assuming they manage to successfully transition to 64-bit, it will be the biggest change RISC OS will have ever seen. I really hope they manage it.

The$4FFF

Re: RISC OS 4 and RISC OS Six?

RISC OS 4 and RISC OS Six are still closed source and owned by a company called 3QD. Essentially dead. It's a real shame some of the code could not have been released as there was a huge amount of big fixes, improvements and rewrites in those releases.

Some of the code I believe is copyright, respective of the coders themselves, rather than 3QD, so perhaps some of it could be released, but if it's not happened yet, it's highly unlikely it ever will.