Paint the whole RISC OS world with a rainbow!

There can’t be many RISC OS users who haven’t encountered a modern touchscreen device, such as a smartphone or a tablet computer – indeed, R-Comp have been selling a tablet now for a couple of years, and have made quite a big thing about it, so it’s difficult to imagine how any RISC OS user could have missed the technology.

Smartphones and tablets are often very powerful computers in their own right, but – surely everyone knows – they’re designed to be handheld devices, which are very mobile, easily carried and fit into pockets or small bags, and as such they are distinct from what most would think of as their “bigger brothers” – PCs, which in this case stands for “Proper Computers.”

Well, in this case, everyone who knows that would be wrong. Continue reading »