Wait! What? Why did I put the pun in the title instead of here? D’oh!
First released a little over a year ago, MoreKeys is an application designed to make it easier to enter ‘extended’ characters – those not normally found on a standard keyboard – in a way that was inspired by the on-screen keyboard on developer Rick Murray’s mobile phone. Continue reading »
Violent streak makes up for its small size.
Along with the usual comp.sys.acorn.* usenet groups read by many RISC OS users, another group that might be worth a look is a new group set up to focus on the credit card-sized Raspberry Pi.
comp.sys.raspberry-pi went live on 2nd April, and is likely to carry more posts from users of operating systems such as Raspbian rather than RISC OS, though our favourite system has cropped up a small number of times in the month or so since the group was created. Continue reading »
Wave, Gen, you’re on RISCOSitory!
A couple of old applications for generating RISC OS sounds have been updated for 32-bit compatibility by Jon Scott.
The first of these, announced by Jon on the RISC OS Open forums as a re-release of a very old voice module generator, is Wavegen, an application that can create perodic sounds based on mathematical formula such as a simple sine or complex harmonic wavforms. Continue reading »
Not quite 20,000 of them.
Simon Birtwistle, who is generally known online as Nemo20000 (or sometimes just Nemo), and who was the programmer behind the Cerilica Vantage graphics application, has started releasing the odd item via GoogleDrive. Recent uploads include: Continue reading »
No, just because it’s on the internet and it’s called Cat_Draw, that doesn’t mean there are cute pictures of cats.
Long time RISC OS user Martin Carradus popped up on the RISC OS Open forums in February in response to a comment about his application, Cat_Draw, not being 32-bit compatible. Martin initially offered to supply his source code, presumably to allow someone else to make the application 32-bit compatible, but a couple of hours later posted again to say that he had now recompiled it himself. Continue reading »
A day at the races RISC OS event.
It’s approaching the end of April 2013, and this year’s Wakefield Show has come and gone. This year’s show was the eighteenth, and was once again held at the Cedar Court Hotel, very close to junction 39 of the M1 – the same venue at which it has been held for the last few years, and where the show was originally held all those years ago.
As usual, I was there to demonstrate and discuss my products, and also – in theory – to get a gist of what was happening so that I could report about it on RISCOSitory. Things didn’t go quite as planned, however, and I barely left my stand throughout the entire show for a number of reasons, ranging from still being tired after an extra long drive the day before through to generally being that much busier than usual on the stand itself. Continue reading »
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to Workakefield we go!
We are once again rapidly approaching the time when the attention of the RISC OS community falls fairly and squarely upon Wakefield, with “the North’s premier RISC OS show” taking place this coming Saturday, April 20th.
The show is now in its 18th year, and once again takes place at The Cedar Court Hotel, Deby Dale Road, Calder Grove, Wakefield, WF4 3QZ – the show’s original venue, before it moved to locations such as Thornes Park Athletics Stadium. Continue reading »
A Charm a day month (and sometimes more) helps you code, rest and, er, code some more.
Peter Nowosad, of Qubit Consultancy Limited, has been steadily releasing new versions of his Charm programming language, which has now reached v2.6.4.
The last release of Charm noted on RISCOSitory was version 2.5.6, which appeared in June of last year, Continue reading »
It’serial-ly useful thing.
Dave Higton released LPC1114 at the beginning of February, with an update about a week and a half later, for use with a small piece of hardware with the same name – the LPC1114 being one of a family of devices [PDF] from NXP Semiconducters, all of which are ARM Cortex-M0 based and, due to their low cost and power requirements, are ideal for simple embedded applications.
An example application for the LPC1114 device is given by Dave, who explains: Continue reading »
Sound as a 32-bit compatible pound.
There are a number of ways to make RISC OS computer play sound samples – perhaps for sound effects in games – and one of these is to turn the sound sample into a voice module, an option often provided by software that works with audio samples. One such example was Armadeus, which came from Clares Micro Supplies – and is the software I used myself for the sound samples used in some of the budget games released by Soft Rock Software in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Continue reading »