We are at the RISC OS London Show on 24 October
Posted by RISC OS One Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMT
RISC OS Technologies will be at the RISC OS London Show on Saturday 24 October 2026, 11am to 4pm, at the Harrow District Masonic Centre, Northwick Circle, Kenton, Harrow HA3 0EL. Details are on the show website.
Come and see Bluetooth running on the RISC OS desktop — and we have major RISC OS news to announce on the day.
Bluetooth, on the desktop
Bluetooth now has its own plug-in in Configuration, and a Devices window that scans for, pairs and connects devices: mice and speakers alike, with Low Energy devices found alongside the classic ones. Sound is carried by SoundDMA, so everything the machine plays comes out of the Bluetooth speaker or headset rather than one application at a time.
Bring a device along and pair it with RISC OS on the stand.
Major news at the show
The announcement itself is staying under wraps until the day. Some of what will be running on the stand, though:
- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, both working on the desktop.
- OpenGL, with the work heading towards OpenGL 4.1.
- A Window Manager, command line, Filer, Task Manager, Display Manager and Font Manager written in C, with assembler converted across.
- The software you already use carrying on working alongside all of it.
That is as much as we are saying before the 24th. Come and see the rest.
Where the projects stand
In testing, for release around the show. Pinboard 3 takes another big step. The unified Toolbox was finished along the way, and Toolbox-aware programmers are wanted to help test it. The Filer rewritten in C has FilerFind built into it, searching every filing system including the network, and the Font Manager in C is in testing too.
Being worked on now. Bluetooth, above, and OpenGL: VXMesa drawing into ordinary desktop windows, several at once, and WebGL in a browser rendered by the Raspberry Pi's VideoCore IV GPU.
Out now. The Frosted ROMs for the Raspberry Pi, Iyonix, i.MX6 and Titanium, with the theme, HardDisc4 image, browsers and Viewer, are all on the downloads page. LanMan98 v3 gives you SMB 2 and 3 file sharing with modern NAS drives and Windows, Linux and Mac shares.
New on the site. The Shield theme, a light counterpart to Frosted, with !ThmeSetup for changing theme without a reboot. !Connect, our VNC suite for RISC OS, Mac, Windows and Linux, is coming soon. And you can boot RISC OS 3.71 in your browser, right here on this site.
The full picture is on the status page. See you on the 24th.