Mike Williams, former head honcho of Acorn Publisher, has emailed in to us with the full drop on the new baby from Castle. Hang onto your knees folks - this stuff is HOT!
Iyonix Motherboard
- All new design
- ARM XScale processor (80321)
- GeForce2 MX400 PCI video card
- Up to 1GB DDR (Double Data Rate) memory (200MHz)
- UDMA 100 Hard Drive
- PCI expansion (32-bit & 64-bit)
- Hi-speed podule bus
- Gigabit networking (10/100/1000 base T)
- Technical Reference Manual (to be published)
Tasty or what! - Now read on....
Case (front)
- MicroATX mid tower design
- 2 x 5.25" drive bays
- 3 x 3.5" drive bays (2 external)
- Soft-on (computer controlled off)
- 2 x USB [4] ports
- Recessed reset button
- HD and Power LED on front
Case (rear)
- 250 watt PSU with two-speed fan
- Power on/off (hard)
- 4 x PCI Slots (2 x 32-bit, 2 x 64-bit)
- 2 x Hi-speed podule slots
- Networking
- 2 x USB ports
- 2 x serial ports
- Mains in
RISC OS 5
- 32-bit with video extraction (video now from PCI graphics card)
- Feature set based on RISC OS [5] 4.02
- PACE derived and copyright
- Dedicated Iyonix version
- Long filenames
- 128MB wimpslot - application space
- ICA client
- 16bit Font manager with Unicode support
- USB printing
- OS in Flash ROM, copied into RAM
32-bit software development
- BASIC programs will work without any work needed
- C/C++ programs work after recompiling
- Assembler programs need simple re-engineering
- 32-bit software will run on RISC OS 3, 4 & 5
- Wide range of software already 32-bit : Techwriter (Easiwriter), Fireworkz, Ovation Pro, Vantage, OHP, Oregano 2, Draw, Paint, Edit, PDF, AMPlayer, InterGIF, KINO, SparkFS etc. Aemulator 26-bit emulator available from Spellings
Register at the
iyonix web site [6] for a chance to win a brand new Iyonix PC.
Development suite
- Updated C compiler (now many C99 features)
- Licence to use tools and libraries for commercial products
- Suitable for RISC OS 3, 4 & 5
- Suitable for 26-bit and 32-bit versions of RISC OS
- Major bug fixes
- Extended compiler features
- Produces faster run-time code
Development suite (software)
- C/C++
- Desktop tools
- Assembler
- User interface toolbox
- !System
- Licence to use and distribute 32-bit !System
- ABC compiler (formerly from Pineapple)
- SID and Armalyser dissasemblers
Development suite (other useful material)
- Zap development environment
- StrongEd development environment
- !PDF pdf document reader
- Useful links page
- Bug report form
Development suite (manuals)
- PRM manuals 1-4 & 5a
- C/C++ manual (updated)
- Desktop tools manual
- Assembler manual
- User interface manual
- RISC OS style guide
- ABC compiler release notes (manual later)
32-bit Development Suite available now at the special price of £99 (if ordered before 31st December 2002).
