Snippets – 13th March, 2015

Time for a good dollop of ketchup… erm, I mean, time to catch up! As ever, the result of devoting time to getting ready for a RISC OS show means putting other work to one side to deal with after – which therefore means I tend to be busy after the show, leading to a lack of updates to RISCOSitory (an effect worsened when the show happens to fall at the start of what is going to be a busy period anyway, as some do). So the best way to…

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Special promotion – tablet deal

Announcement from R-Comp, 16th August, 2014. We are pleased to be able to offer a special deal on tablet computers, for the next few days (it is a short-term offer). As many know, we’ve offered tablet computers alongside our RISCube/ARMini ranges for the last couple of years. Our supplier has made available a small number of “premium brand” (hint, begins with an “S”) tablets at a heavily reduced price.

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New 2014 R-Comp Tablets at the South West Show

Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley, 26th February, 2014 R-Comp Interactive is pleased to announce that we will have a new range of tablet computers available at the SW Show this weekend. As with previous models, the tablets are compatible with RISC OS computers such as ARMini, ARMiniX, RISCube, RISCBook, Pi, Iyonix and so on, so you can easily transfer files too and fro.

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Welcome to the R-Comp Apothecary…

…where your prescription is one tablet per… well, just one, and that’s all you’ll need, actually. It’s unlikely that anybody in RISC OS land has failed to notice the rise in popularity of tablet computing. Tablet and touchscreen devices have been around for a while, but (mobile phones aside) had failed to impact on the computing world in any noticeable way until Apple launched their iPad, and other devices started appearing based on Google’s Android operating system. In most cases, these tablet computers run on one of a number of…

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