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All problems reported here have now been fixed in the latest v7.2.1 release of Astrobe.

See the v7.2.1 release announcement above for more details.

Minor maintenance upgrades v7.2.1 Astrobe for Cortex-M3, M4 and M7 have now been released. See What's New in Astrobe for Cortex-M3, M4 and M7 for a summary of the new features and bug-fixes since v7.0. If you are a registered user of the Professional or Personal Editions and your support period has ...

To help new users get started we have now made available, free of charge, a disk image and Verilog bitstream files specifically to run the Project Oberon Workstation on the Digilent Nexys A7-100 FPGA trainer board 'out-of-the-box'. This release is based on the Oberon sources (as at March 2020) and V...

We have successfully implemented Astrobe Embedded Project Oberon on the XC7A100T FPGA device of the Xilinx Artix 7 family. This means that Astrobe can have 480 KBytes of RAM available to it. This is 2-3 times more than our other supported implementations, allowing for more / larger applications to b...

There's also some useful information in Chapter 14 Building and maintenance tools of the Project Oberon book which is accessible from Astrobe for RISC5 > Help > Project Oberon. Note that you only need to rebuild the disk image if you modify and relink the inner core of the Project Oberon OS, which c...

Thank you for your positive feedback. It is very much appreciated.

We haven't released the tools that we use to create the disk image but Andreas Pirklbauer, one of the other guys who has modified the OS has. You can find them at:

https://github.com/andreaspirklbauer/Ob ... ding-tools

v7.2 introduced a new Configuration Option: Line Numbers (not to be confused with the Tools > Preferences > Editor option with the same name). When a runtime error occurs a callback trace of the sequence of procedure calls that led to the error is reported by the library module Traps . Each line of ...

An interesting question about the type compatibility rules was recently posted here but was deleted by the user before I had a chance to reply. As it happened it actually highlighted a problem which has since been fixed in v7.2 of Astrobe . A good summary of Oberon's type compatibility rules which h...

We've just released v7.2.0 of Astrobe for Cortex M3 . Following your suggestion we have introduced a compiler option 'Extension levels' on a new Tools > Preference > Compiler tab page. This allows you to change the limit of the number of record extension levels from as little as zero to as many as 8...

v7.2 Astrobe for RISC5 has now been released. This latest version has been ported to an additional two boards. A total of six Artix-7 and Spartan-7 development boards from Digilent are now supported. A summary of the new features included in this release are in What's New in Astrobe for RISC5 . Astr...