RISC OS 'Advent' Calendar 2025 - David Pitt's Festive RISC OS desktop www.iconbar.com/articles/RIS... Many thanks to David for a very seasonal and festive RISC OS desktop (It's not too late to send us yours).

Our festive offer will be a hot one! And such a sweet deal! #ChristmasCracker #RISC_OS #LimitedTimeOffer #WhileStocksLast

A gold standard festive offer coming soon! #risc_os #ChristmasCracker #LimitedEdition #BeQuick #GoldStandard

RISC OS 'Advent' Calendar 2025 - RISOSbits brings some sharing at Christmas www.iconbar.com/articles/RIS... Many thanks to Andy at RISCOSbits for showing us sharing is not just for Christmas for RISC OS users (It's not too late to send us yours).

RISC OS 'Advent' Calendar 2025 - Detlef Frohlich's D64Dir2Spr project www.iconbar.com/articles/RIS... Many thanks to Detlef for a second of his projects (It's not too late to send us yours).

A special festive treat coming soon! #risc_os #ChristmasCracker #LimitedEdition #BeQuick

RISC OS 'Advent' Calendar 2025 - Mark Stephens gets back to BBC BASIC www.iconbar.com/articles/RIS... Here's my computer corner and RISC OS project (It's not too late to send us yours).

Fire at CJE Micros www.iconbar.com/articles/Fir... According to reports in local media, the West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service were called to a fire in CJE Micros' building in Littlehampton shortly after 11pm Tuesday. The fire was extinguished and crews left shortly before 2am Wednesday.

RISC OS 'Advent' Calendar 2025 - RISOSbits brings some sharng at Christmas www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2278.html Many thanks to Andy at RISCOSbits for showing us sharing is not just for Christmas for RISC OS users (It's not too late to send us yours).

'Advent' Calendar 2025 - Chris Hall tackles the Hydra www.iconbar.com/articles/RIS... Many thanks to Chris Hall for bravely tackling this beast for the benefit of all RISC OS users.

RISC OS 'Advent' Calendar 2025 - Chris Wraight brings us Clarity www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2274.html Many thanks to Chris Wraight for his new theme for RISC OS users and experiment with funding new developments (It's not too late to send us yours).

Early notification that ROUGOL have a Christmas meeting this year, on Monday 15th December, but it is *online only*. Hear from Rob Napier who is writing the biography of Acorn rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/ind...

And on the subject of the RISC OS Filer, the fact that there is no standardised way to cause the LOADING of a file is utterly shameful, and purely a result of ideological not-invented-here silo-purity tribalism which everyone concerned should have grown out of in the school playground.

RISC OS 'Advent' Calendar 2025 - Detlef Frohlich's PicoPython project www.iconbar.com/articles/RIS... Many thanks to Detlef for showing us his PicoPython project (It's not too late to send us yours).

Windows 11 Companions for RISC OS youtu.be/MnC_zU7HpRk?si… See the basics of our Windows 11 Companions, and feel the potential!#RISC_OSOS#RISCOSCompanionsn#WindowsInWindowsInRISCOSOS

Finished to test the preliminary version of my new Desktop Theme Manager for #RISC_OS check out some screenshots here. I combines all old Theme managers into a single one fully rewritten in C: paolozaino.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/d...

Interesting watch for #RISC_OS users from @adriansdigitalbasement.com about a month ago, where he tries out an A420/1 that was sent to him & learns a fair bit about Acorn history along the way. There's a follow-up video, but I'll save that for another day. youtu.be/zvv06jKcMtE?...

November 2025 News Summary www.iconbar.com/articles/Nov... Some things we noticed this month. What did you see?

Drag'n'Drop 15i1 edition reviewed www.iconbar.com/articles/Dra... The latest edition of Drag'n'Drop magazine was released at the recent London Show and should be with subscribers now. Congratulations on reaching Volume 15!

Newsflash: Fortran mini-tutorial surfaces on TIB 🔥 #Code4Fun #RISCOS www.iconbar.com/articles/Cod...

A huge shout-out to everyone who made it. The next "Coding on RISC OS" fireside chat is pencilled in for 10th January 2026. 🚀🕹️🛸 #Code4fun #ARM #RaspberryPi #OpenSource #RISCOS #Zoom #Meetup

💻 Weekend project: I finally got time to update the #MerlinOS presentation with the newest features: paolozaino.wordpress.com/portfolio/me... #OperatingSystem #KernelDevelopment #SystemsProgramming #EmbeddedSystems #MemorySafety #FormalVerification #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #LowLevel

Excellent video from @bigcar2.bsky.social about the Atom youtu.be/UvNi0vkZQo0?...

Live Coding with Gerph on Sunday www.iconbar.com/articles/Liv... If you were intrigued by Gerph's Monday ROUGOL presentation, or just want to improve your coding skills, then you are in luck!

Fireside developer chat on saturday night www.iconbar.com/articles/Fir... It definitely feels like the bleak mid-winter. So why not have a cosy Saturday night in? Throw another log on the fire and join some very informal and friendly chat with other RISC OS developers online.

Announcing the TIB 2025 Advent Calendar www.iconbar.com/articles/Ann... For the last two years, TIB has run an advent calendar over the festive season. And we are looking to our readers to contribute again to make it three in a row...

November 2025 Rougol report - Gerph is back www.iconbar.com/articles/Nov... It's been five years since Gerph last talked to ROUGOL so he was back with an update. And he's been busy - his presentation included 51 information-packed slides!

London Show 2025 talks are now online to watch www.iconbar.com/articles/Lon... The recordings of the talks at the recent London Show are now available on YouTube.

Interested in coding on RISC OS? Want to learn more or meet others? Join our friendly fireside chat on Zoom—DM for credentials (unchanged). If you are a developer, come and connect. The event is this Saturday, 22nd November, at 7:30 pm (GMT). #Zoom #Meetup #RaspberryPi #ARM #Retro #AcornComputers

The recordings of the RISC OS London Show theatre presentations are now available www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Rougol November 2025 meeting on monday - Pyromaniac update www.iconbar.com/articles/Rou... The November 2025 Rougol meeting is on Monday and features Gerph.

At this Monday's (17th) ROUGOL meeting we will be hearing all about the evolution of RISC OS Pyromaniac from Gerph. Last pub meet of the year! rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/ind...

Ready to röck your Chuckie Eggs at @computinghistory.org.uk this weekend. That poor little Spectrum being dwarfed by the bigger machines is my original machine so be nice to it 😄

It's starting to feel a lot like Christmas.

The 1987 Pre-Release 3D Lander Demo running on an Acorn Archimedes (Yes, 1987 ARM Power!)

Moving back to Linux RPCEmu on my Mac www.iconbar.com/articles/Mov... I'm a big fan of RPCEmu which provides an excellent RISC OS environment on my Mac when I'm travelling. In this post I'm going to explore why I have switched back to the Linux version and cover some of the issues I encountered.

Okudagrams are old-hat, so of course must be supported in RISC OS.

Here is an article with all the details about a new chunk of progresses on #UltimaVM and the new project's mascot Luma. Still lots of work to finish to get the first beta release out, but hey I am moving forward! paolozaino.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/u... #RISC_OS #riscos #Linux #Windows #macOS #BSD

I've just uploaded an update to my RISC OS !RMA utility, primarily to fix RO3 compatibility (thanks to Phil Pemberton for the report) but I noticed I hadn't released the previous version that featured an important upgrade - the ability to explore ANY Heaped Dynamic Area. So, a useful update:

New video uploaded: youtu.be/AuB1leFGihY Demonstrates how our RISC OS Companions integrate with the RISC OS desktop environment. #RISC_OS #RISCOSCompanion

Thanks to @markee174 and The Icon Bar for the review of the latest issue of Archive! #riscos #acorn #raspberrypi www.iconbar.com/articles/Arc...

I've finally finished pimping my David Braben-signed BBC Micro B+, and it can now run more variants of Bell & Braben Elite than any other contemporary machine ever. The #BBCMicro B+ is officially the Commander-in-Chief of #8bit #Elite. 🫡 See thread for details. (1/8) #retrogaming #retrocomputing

BBC Basic is not Perl, but nemoBasic’s long strings and DIV$ operator do make it good at consuming and parsing text files. I’ve just added a long-planned feature: “StrongTabs” seps mode – which isn’t limited to tab characters or one-character separators, but consumes multiple separators as one...

This weekend I finally found some time to add multi-sentence line support and finish the Transpiling Framework for my #UltimaVM, a fast and secure bytecode interpreter for #Linux, #Windows, #macOS, #BSD, and #RISC_OS.

What is Hearsay? www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/topics/20094 #riscos #acorn #raspberrypi #opensource

WROCC November 2025 talk on Wednesday - Martin Avison www.iconbar.com/articles/WRO... The November 2025 WROCC talk is on Wednesday 5th November and starts at at 7.45pm on Zoom.