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This supposed rejection is entirely made up. At no point has RISC OS Technologies actually submitted any patches to NetSurf, let alone had them rejected.
All of NetSurf's patch submission methods are publicly visible and there's no evidence of this supposed submission anywhere.
![A tweet from Risc OS[sic] Technologies reading "Netsurf i worked on renders CSS and has better JS Core works well, Shame Netsurf Rejected my commits. Never mind :( i shall make it available soon" [all sic]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HSqZ9geXUAEULf3.png?name=orig)
ALT A tweet from Risc OS[sic] Technologies reading "Netsurf i worked on renders CSS and has better JS Core works well, Shame Netsurf Rejected my commits. Never mind :( i shall make it available soon" [all sic]
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I don't know what it is about the RISC OS world and GPL violations, but it's weird it's happened so many times.
(Quote instead of reply since @riscostech blocked me and I can't reply in the thread any more!)
How interesting. Thanks! I will do some more reading on the context, but there might perhaps be an article for @TheRegister on GPL-violations in RISC OS land. :-)
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Today's fun fact: Browsing the web on an Archimedes (real hardware, not emulated) with ArcWeb is very much still possible!
(Bonus hat-tip to @ActionRetro1 for creating FrogFind to make pages usable on old systems!)
ALT A screenshot of RISC OS 3.1 running ArcWeb, a web browser from the mid-1990s showing the Wikipedia page for RISC OS displayed using FrogFind.
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New RPCEmu today, 0.9.5. marutan.net/rpcemu Scroll Wheel, quick blank floppy discs, LBA hard disc support @riscosity @riscosnews @riscos
Another excellent deep dive into how a classic Acorn game works.
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ALT Bart Simpson repeatedly writing "I do not need another Raspberry Pi" on a blackboard in a classroom.
London double-decker bus racing in 1982. Sponsored by Acorn Computers.
youtube.com/watch?v=8SlO5_ykโฆ
(Hat-tip to @tomscott's newsletter for the link)
ALT A screen capture of two London double-decker busses on a race circuit in 1982. One bus has an Acorn Computer advertising board on the side.
Trying to get away from the silliness of Twitter/X/whatever it's called this week? Good news: We're now available on Bluesky:
bsky.app/profile/riscos.bskyโฆ
And, of course, we're also on Mastodon:
mastodon.social/@riscos
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Today marks two years since the Cloverleaf Kickstarter ended with โฌ11,034 raised. ๐
Most of the rewards remain unfulfilled and there's been no updates in months. ๐ค
Seems a high price for a reskinned RO Direct and a filer app that's expensive and doesn't work very well. ๐ธ
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Occasionally, the ROOL forum users remind us why we don't bother with the forum.
One thread has a suggestion that because RISC OS is modular, the GPL is irrelevant. It then devolves into arguments about how the GPL is bad becuase they can't circumvent it to steal code they want.
ALT Double facepalm. For when one facepalm doesn't cut it.
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Some great Easter fun for the Beeb from @educraftuk! ๐
New Easter game for the Acorn BBC Master from @educraftuk
PIXEL DASH - Rabbit Rampage
bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=4โฆ
By Andrew Rowland with graphics by @colinhoad @femtosonic & @barbarossa69
For more info see: stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtoโฆ
For more levels bookmark play.educraft.uk
The makers of @AppleTVPlus' new Tetris film clearly have good taste in microcomputers.
Could have picked a slightly less yellowed one, though...
ALT A man playing Tetris on a BBC Microcomputer in AppleTV+' new film, Tetris.
Oddly, Cloverleaf tagged a post about their filer app with #Archimedes despite there being no chance of it running on one (last we checked, it uses obscene amounts of RAM and has a binary way bigger than RISC OS 5's ROM).
(Screenshot becuase Cloverleaf still block us on Twitter)
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It is, of course, absolutely possible to create new applications that will work on old and new versions of RISC OS alike. Take @PaoloFabioZaino's upcoming Launchpad application for example, seen here running on an Archimedes. That's some excellent work!
xitter.cf/PaoloFabioZaino/statusโฆ
#RISC_OS Here is a "quicky" picture of !Launchpad running on an Archie with 4MB RAM and RISC OS 3.11. It runs fine and smooth and is very responsive! ๐คฉ - Be aware, it requires Nested Window Manager Module loaded (the only requirement to use it on RO 3)
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The IconBar has posted a short roundup of some of the recently uploaded ABug talks in case you missed them:
iconbar.com/articles/ABug_prโฆ
