RISC OS Open 5.30 arrives – with Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi support
The new version of RISC OS, the original native Arm OS, runs on eight or nine Arm-based platforms, including the Raspberry Pi Zero, 1, 2, 3 and 4 – and on that last two, this release supports wireless networking.is the latest release of Acorn's original native operating system for its Arm processors. Original, but not first: As Acornsoft project lead Paul Fellowsin 2022, what was then called"Arthur" supplanted a far more ambitious project called ARX, which never shipped. ROS 5.
This is a fairly modernized and refurbished late-1980s single-user GUI-based OS, and that implies some limitations. It was first released the same year as OS/2 1.0, long before Apple System 7 or Windows 3.0. In fact, it'll remind you of Windows 3 on MS-DOS: it's a single-tasking text-mode OS, with networking, on top of which is a graphical desktop that does cooperative multitasking.
This is, in a way, a mature OS with an ecosystem and an aftermarket. There are emulators that will let you run 20th century Acorn apps that you can find online, but this isn't anvintage environment like Amiga Forever. It's not meant for running games from thirty years ago. This is a native bare-metal OS, built on 1980s roots but updated for 21st century hardware. It's also not an experimental project with little practical use, likeThe menu is always where your mouse already is.
When you run a RISC OS application, all that happens is that it puts an icon in the icon bar. Middle-click that new icon for global options, or in most apps, just left-click it to open a new empty window. The right button doesn't go unused: it's calledand it modifies what a left-click would do. So, for example, left-click a scrollbar to move in that direction, but right-click it to move the other direction.
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