ARMini OS update 3 released, and CMOS RAM widgets available

[A Rawnsley]

R-Comp Interactive is pleased to announce that OS Update 3 has now
been rolled out to all ARMini users. The upgrade has been made
available to users via the private Users' area of the website.

OS Update 3 has been developed in close collaboration with RISC OS
Open Ltd, and stems from the new "long term stable" 5.18 release of
RISC OS 5.

Highlights include support for a wide range of USB CD and DVD drives,
as well as internal CD drives which can be mounted in the ARMini. The
ARMini sound system has improved, yielding better quality. That's not
to mention a number of fixes and improvements right across the OS, as
well as various performance improvements.

However, the big new feature is improved CMOS RAM handling, including
support for Sprow's new CMOS RAM widget which is the first hardware
upgrade specifically for RISC OS since the Vpod some years ago (as far
as we know). This adds "real" CMOS ram to ARMinis, for a totally
transparent experience (like a RiscPC/Iyonix). CMOS ram is used to
store many OS settings between sessions, and ensure that the RISC OS
ROM card in the ARMini is kept read-only. We will have these
available for existing users at the show, and they will be built-in to
all ARMinis from now on.

Members of our Beagleboard Support Scheme will also benefit from all
these enhancements.

We will be contacting users with further information after the show.

Best wishes,

Andrew

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R-Comp Interactive
22 Robert Moffat, High Legh, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 6PS
Tel: 01925 755043 Fax: 01925 757377 http://www.rcomp.co.uk


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