Graeme Shrimpton has released a new module, MyChoices, mentioned on the June fireside chat for developers, with the goal of making it much easier for them to load and save their application’s choices (or settings). It deals with the two problems a developer faces – correctly handling where those choices are stored on user machines, and parsing the file that contains them.
Read MoreDevelopers’ fireside chat – 25th July
The time has come once again for anyone interested in software development and RISC OS to gather around the fire fan and discuss anything relevant to the topic. Saturday, 25th July is the date of the next scheduled ‘friendly firefanside chat’ for RISC OS developers.
Read MoreGeneral RISC OS chat at ROUGOL – 20th July
The next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting will take place on 20th July – tonight – and rather than a guest speaker, the meeting will instead be an open one for general discussion of all things RISC OS.
Read MoreMag42 – a new French-language magazine for alternative platforms
The first issue of a new French-language digital (PDF) magazine is available to buy for enthusiasts of platforms sitting a little (or even some way) outside of the mainstream – which includes RISC OS.
Read MoreInfoFile – a new app from Kevin Wells
If you want to find information about a file or directory from within RISC OS, the obvious thing to do in the desktop environment is to click the ‘Menu’ mouse button with the pointer over the object in a filer window, go to the submenu for it and choose ‘Info’.
Read MoreWROCC meeting 1st July – ROOL’s Steve Revill talks BBC BASIC, Moonshot news, and more
The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will be holding their next online meeting on Wednesday, 1st July, and the guest speaker will be Steve Revill from RISC OS Open (ROOL).
Read MoreScummVM 2026.3.0 released
Moving up a notch yet again thanks to its increased release cycle, ScummVM 2026.3.0 is now available to download, featuring a number of bug fixes and other improvements to some of the engines it supports, and bringing a host of newly supported games to be played.
Read MorePhil Pemberton hits play on Replay at ROUGOL – 15th June
The RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will be meeting up again on Monday, 15th June, and the guest speaker will be Phil Pemberton, who will be talking about Replay.
Read MoreDevelopers’ fireside chat – 13th June
If you develop software on or for RISC OS, or you’re considering doing so – or you’re working on the operating system itself, there’s an online meeting on Saturday, 13th June, 2026, that might be right up your street. That’ll be the next ‘friendly fireside chat’ for developers of all persuasions and skill levels – the only crucial requirement is that it’s about RISC OS programming.
Read MoreRCI rolling out RISC OS 5.31-based updates
Starting with the i.MX6-based systems, R-Comp’s sister company RCI – which handles the hardware side of things – is rolling out ‘OS Update 24’ for the various computers they sell.
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