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RISC OS 5.28 Posted on 25-Oct-2020 16:14:49
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Re: RISC OS 5.28 Posted on 25-Oct-2020 16:31:22
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Damn it we don't need this competition! Does their browser work normally? What's the killer app and reason to use RISC OS? *
* Common question asked by ex Amiga people about OS4.
I suppose they have some kind of slogan. The kind that bounces our boing ball away.
"Unless you are operating on the edge, you're not using RISC OS, and your safe OS takes up too much space."
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Re: RISC OS 5.28 Posted on 25-Oct-2020 18:25:22
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Does their browser work normally? |
They have NetSurf, if you call that normal.
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What's the killer app and reason to use RISC OS? |
I don't think they have a killer app. The reason to use it is the same as Amiga: hardly anyone one else uses it.
It has one significant advantage: it runs on RPi.
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That's where they went wrong! Nobody ever says, "Only RISC OS makes it possible." This is probably why they have a tiny user community.
It's fairly interesting, though. It has cooperative multitasking, and some primitive memory protection scheme. The UI is nice enough, but it has some right-click/left-click oddities. It's worth a spin if you have a spare Pi laying around._________________ "Unix is supposed to fix that." -- Jay Miner |
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Re: RISC OS 5.28 Posted on 25-Oct-2020 22:15:53
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The UI is nice enough, but it has some right-click/left-click oddities. |
I wouldn't call them "oddities" rather "consistent operation" that happens to work differently than you are used to.
Left click - select Right click - adjust (similar to holding ctrl and left-clicking on most other OS) Middle click - menu
This is because it is designed for a three-button mouse. AmigaOS (and Windows) is designed for two button mice - so select is on the left button and menu is on the right (well, on Windows only context menus are on the right but you get the idea), and adjust is hold a button and left click.
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Re: RISC OS 5.28 Posted on 26-Oct-2020 14:45:33
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Thanks for the explanation. At least we didn't get stuck with Apple's single-button mouse, so things worked out better than they could have.
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Re: RISC OS 5.28 Posted on 26-Oct-2020 15:40:56
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Re: RISC OS 5.28 Posted on 26-Oct-2020 17:50:02
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Very interesting! _________________ This is just like television, only you can see much further. |
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Re: RISC OS 5.28 Posted on 28-Oct-2020 15:49:29
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Re: RISC OS 5.28 Posted on 28-Oct-2020 15:54:06
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That Apple one button mouse is such fake news. It doesn't work at all like they advertise. You cannot have select and context menu using only one button. Most of the time I used a Mac with one button or a track pad I had to pres Ctrl to get a content menu. At least on OSX. Apple one button mouse fal! |
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Re: RISC OS 5.28 Posted on 28-Oct-2020 15:56:06
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No, they stuck all their forks in the Raspberry Pi! |
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Re: RISC OS 5.28 Posted on 28-Oct-2020 22:11:38
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kolla wrote: Where are all the RISCOS forks??! Framgmentation?? |
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After the break-up of Acorn in 1998, development of the OS was forked and continued separately by several companies, including RISCOS Ltd, Pace Micro Technology, and Castle Technology. Since then, it has been bundled with several ARM-based desktop computers such as the Iyonix PC[5] and A9home. As of March 2017, the OS remains forked and is independently developed by RISCOS Ltd and the RISC OS Open community.
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