Do you see what I did there? 😉 It’s game time again, with another title from Code the Classics Volume II converted to run on RISC OS by Jeroen Vermeulen – this time a Breakout clone called Kinetix, which is now available to download from !Store.
Read MoreKevsoft adds another quiz to the list: SemaQuiz
Kev Wells has released another new quiz application based on his quiz engine, this time designed to test people’s knowledge of Semaphore flag signalling, a visual method of sending information using handheld flags.
Read MoreARX: The OS we never got – ROUGOL meeting, 18th May
Although we all know and love RISC OS and its consistent – if sometimes quirky, and sometimes lacking (if we’re being honest) – user interface, you may not realise that it wasn’t the operating system Acorn originally intended for the Archimedes range of computers it was developing back in the 1980s.
Read MoreThe King is in his counting house – in Silver River Kingdom
Initially released at the RISC OS North show last month, the latest title from AMCOG Games has now been made more widely available. Silver River Kingdom can now be purchased via !Store, priced at £14.99.
Read MoreDevelopers’ fireside chat – 25th April
The next online meeting for anyone who is interested in the topic of developing on or for RISC OS will take place online on Saturday, 25th April.
Read MoreRedecorating the desktop – ROUGOL meeting, 20th April
If you think your RISC OS desktop is looking a bit bland and in need of a lick of paint, Paolo Zaino has the tool to help with that task in the form of ExtTheme – and he’ll be presenting it to the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) at the group’s next meeting, on 20th April.
Read MoreKevSoft Quiz Engine updated with release 2 of the skeleton app
Kevin Wells has issued a second release of his Quiz Engine, an application for creating multiple choice quizzes on RISC OS – and which forms the basis of his own two quiz releases, FlagQuiz and MorseQuiz. The main Quiz Engine program remains at version 1.02, with the ‘misc’ file standing at 1.01, but the skeleton application is now at release 2.
Read MoreUsing RiscOSM to track railway history – WROCC meeting, 1st April
The next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will take place on Wednesday 1st, April, and the club will be playing virtual host to Chris Hall, who will be talking about RiscOSM in the context of documenting and illustrating railway history.
Read MoreScummVM 2026.2.0 released
Benefitting from a new, more frequent release cycle, another new version of ScummVM is available – version 2026.2.0!
Read MoreDevelopers’ fireside chat – 28th March
If you have any interest in programming on or for RISC OS, and would like to chat to other developers, then the next ‘friendly fireside chat’ – held online, with actual fires entirely optional – will take place on Saturday, 28th March.
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