[OS REQUEST] Risc OS Direct

It's basically RISC OS but with a lot more software included, better for beginners than the regular RISC OS.
https://riscosdev.com/direct/

[procount]

RISCOS has always been a bit awkward due to the file system it uses, therefore PINN (and NOOBS) have relied upon a binary blob that the maintainers produce in order to get it to work in a multiboot fashion.
I know that they were working on using a more common filesystem, but I don't know if it has been implemented yet, or if a binary blob to support the direct version is available.

RISCOS has always been a bit awkward due to the file system it uses, therefore PINN (and NOOBS) have relied upon a binary blob that the maintainers produce in order to get it to work in a multiboot fashion.
I know that they were working on using a more common filesystem, but I don't know if it has been implemented yet, or if a binary blob to support the direct version is available.

What is the filename of the binary blob? i might request it from the maintainers.

[procount]

riscos-boot.bin. Also needed is the riscos offset (it was 1760 before I think). It may require them to produce specific NOOBS output files too.

[lurch]

riscos-boot.bin.

https://github.com/procount/pinn/blob/master/recovery/config.h#L69

Also needed is the riscos offset (it was 1760 before I think).

Yep, http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/os_list_v3.json still says "riscos_offset": 1760,
Used here: https://github.com/procount/pinn/blob/master/recovery/mainwindow.cpp#L820

It may require them to produce specific NOOBS output files too.

Also true:

            "tarballs": [
                "http://packages.riscosopen.org/noobs/RISC_OS_Boot.tar.xz",
                "http://packages.riscosopen.org/noobs/RISC_OS.xz"
            ]

Fact-checking @lurch 😉