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News nybble: Ovation at Wakefield meeting

Nov 022016
 

Nearly missed it – I really need a news address. Oh wait, I do have one!

The next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club takes place tonight – Wednesday, 2nd November – and this month Steve Fryatt will be talking about Ovation, the DTP package originally written by David Pilling. Not to be confused with its younger ‘Pro’ sibbling – which is used to create the club’s monthly newsletter – Ovation is now available for free, with the source code available, and further work has been done on it by Rick Murray.

The meeting starts at 7:45pm, and takes place at the West Yorkshire Sports and Social Club, Sandall Hall Close (off Walton Lane), (A61) Barnsley Road, Sandal, Wakefield, WF2 6ER. For non-members there is a £3.00 entry fee – but it’s worth investigating the benefits of membership.

 November 2, 2016  Posted by  User groups Tagged with: , , , ,

Ovation Pro lands on Titanium and IGEPv5

Jun 112016
 

Ovation Pro iconA new version of desktop publishing application Ovation Pro has been released by David Pilling. The update to version 2.77z enables the software to work on the Titanium and IGEPv5 platforms, on which screen memory has the red and blue bits swapped (compared with earlier RISC OS systems) in screen memory. Continue reading »

 June 11, 2016  Posted by  Software Tagged with: , , ,

Acorn World exhibition in Cambridge – 13th and 14th May

May 042017
 

A modern event with a retro bent!

IAcorn World 2017n just over a week’s time, the Centre for Computing History, based in Cambridge, will be hosting an event that should be of interest to anyone with fondness for computers that came from the Acorn stable – Acorn World 2017.

The event has been organised by the Acorn & BBC User Group in association with the museum, and will give visitors an insight into how Acorn started, some of their innovations, and the legacy they left behind – successes such as ARM and other technologies, RISC OS, and modern systems that use the processors and operating system. Continue reading »

 May 4, 2017  Posted by  Shows Tagged with: , , , ,

RISC OS Awards 2016 results

Mar 202017
 

The RISC OS Awards poll for 2016 was brought to a close on 29th February. As before, the results were processed and counted on a RISC OS computer (using a home-brewed program to turn the votes into a file for each category, ready to be loaded into Fireworkz), and initially announced on the @RISCOSitory Twitter feed. Those results are now online on the RISC OS Awards website and the various winners have been notified – where possible – by email. Continue reading »

 March 20, 2017  Posted by  Awards Tagged with: ,

Snippets – 26th August, 2016

Aug 262016
 

Round up, round up; news in a very late style. (That was what China Crisis sang, wasn’t it?)

The bunker has been engulfed in chaos for quite a while – with a heavy workload leading to a period of hectic and frantic headless chicken impersonations. On top of that, a partial change of platforms has been undertaken, with some work being migrated from Windows (grr, spit, hiss) to Linux – and being completely new to Linux, that has meant adding a bit of self-education into the mix, not to mention that the installation didn’t go entirely smoothly!

However, today there is a brief lapse in the chaos, so how about a round-up of some news over the several months that wasn’t dealt with as individual items? Continue reading »

 August 26, 2016  Posted by  Announcements Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

IGEPv5 and Titanium graphics compatibility for ConvImgs

Jun 122016
 

Now copes with setirps as well as sprites.

ConvImgs iconGiven that Chris Johnson has already added compatibility to Snapper for the new graphics format found on IGEPv5 and Titanium systems – not to mention the assistance he gave to David Pilling for Ovation Pro‘s support for the new formats – it’s probably not a huge surprise to hear that he has also updated ConvImgs (mirror), which is now at version 1.10. Continue reading »

 June 12, 2016  Posted by  Software Tagged with: , , ,

Snippets – 28th November, 2015

Nov 282015
 

With the end of November rapidly approaching, and with it the deadline for preparing the RISC OS Awards poll for 2015 (coming soon, folks), here are some news items that have previously either slipped under the RISCOSitory RADAR (it came with the bunker, doncherknow), or which were held back for a snippets post. Like this one! Continue reading »

 November 28, 2015  Posted by  Snippets (mixed news) Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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