Join in from your own home for free – sign in, sit back, enjoy… It is now just one week to the day until the Midlands User Group (MUG) holds their inaugural virtual show – a resurrection of sorts of their old physical shows, but held online. This means that the most obvious barrier to getting there – transportation – is eliminated, and you can enjoy the company of RISC OS developers and enthusiasts from wherever it is convenient for you to do so.
Read MoreKevNav gains seat belt option in version 1.03
Released earlier this year, KevNav is a fairly new application from Kevin Wells, designed to provide route planning assistance. It does this by submitting the users’ request, using Wget, to the Transport API website. The results are then displayed, and they can be exported in a number of formats.
Read MoreWish RISC OS a happy 35th with ROUGOL
The Acorn Archimedes range was launched in June, 1987, which means RISC OS – with its original name of Arthur – also saw its first release, making it thirty five years old this month. With that in mind, this month’s RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting will be a celebration of the operating system’s new legal status as old enough to realise it’s closing in on 40, and therefore officially very old.
Read MoreGet in a flap, but don’t pipe down (updated 23rd June)
I mean, don’t HIT a pipe, or you’ll GO down! Almost a decade ago, a very simple game was hatched from the mind of Vietnamese programmer Dong Nguyen. The game, Flappy Bird, was a very simple sideways scrolling game with only one control requirement – to tap the screen. This caused Faby, the flappy bird in question, to flap its wings and gain some height, otherwise it’d descend – all the while flying to the right. Update, 23rd June, 2022: The RISC OS version of this game has now been…
Read MoreMidlands User Group meeting – 11th June
A week later than ordinarily scheduled to avoid a clash with the Jubilee weekend and other plans people may have had, the next meeting of the Midlands User Group (MUG) will take place on Saturday, 11th June, starting at the usual time of 2:00pm.
Read MoreFour into three does go, thanks to RISCOSbits
If you’ve been looking to buy some new RISC OS kit, but the rising cost of living and the need to watch your pennies has put you off splashing out, RISCOSbits may have the answer.
Read MoreKevNav benefits from investment in public transport
Kevin Wells has spent a little time working on his route finding application KevNav, the result of which is the release of version 1.02. This update adds support for public transport when it comes to finding out how to get to your chosen destination.
Read More3D Pingo released into the wild
Launched at the recent Wakefield in Bradford Show, 3D Pingo is a new title from AMCOG Games, and it is now available to buy from !Store.
Read MoreStefan Fröhling talks to WROCC about CLFiler
Stefan Fröhling will be the guest speaker at the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting, at which he will be talking about the new CLFiler application, developed for the Cloverleaf Project, as well as other news.
Read MoreMessenger Pro becomes 9 for Wakefield in Bradford
Just in time for this year’s Wakefield Show, this year taking place a little way along the road(s) in Bradford, a new version of Messenger Pro has been released by R-Comp.
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