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| Available in | English |
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| Owner | Chris Williams |
| Created by | Peter Price |
| URL | drobe |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | October 1999; 26 years ago (1999-10)[1] |
| Current status | Offline |
Content license | CC BY-NC-SA |
Drobe (also referred to asDrobe Launchpad) was acomputing newsweb site with a focus on theRISC OSoperating system. Itsarchived material was retained online, curated by editor Chris Williams until late 2020.[2]
Drobe was founded in 1999 by Peter Price.[3] In 2001, Peter handed the site over to Chris Williams as editor.[2] After10 years, it closed as a news site in 2009. It was retained as an historical archive until 2020 when the site went offline.[1][4][5][6] A few weeks after the site's closure Williams posted articles onMicro Men, the television drama about the rivalry betweenAcorn andSinclair in the 1980s. He subsequently stated that such articles may continue to appear periodically.[7]
At launch, the site featured anews feed,POP email checker and a search facility "incorporating AcornSearch.com".[3] As of 2013[update], the site features archivedRISC OS articles, news and othermedia. It also hosts an onlineemulator for theBBC Micro, using theJava Runtime Environment.
Registered users were able to apply for user webspace in order to host their own projects. These subsites continue to be hosted byDrobe.
On Monday, September 21, drobe.co.uk will turn 10 years old, marking nearly a decade of online and freely available news publishing for the RISC OS and Acorn kit-using platform. And, for many reasons and after much deliberation, it's time to take a new direction. Drobe's RISC OS news service, which launched in October 1999, will sadly cease from Monday.
The site was founded in 1999 by Peter Price, who handed over the reins to Chris Williams in 2001. Hosting and webmaster work is taken care of by Ian Hawkins.
[...] longtime RISC OS news and articles website Drobe has closed... or, rather, entered "archive mode".
Drobe.co.uk, the premier RISC OS news website, today announced that it has entered archive mode and will no longer function as a news reporting source.
I don't mind doing the odd special feature from time to time, when the right opportunity arises, but I just can't find the time or energy to do day-today RISC OS news, sorry..
