With the London Show now just a week away – technically less given that it’s now the evening of the 17th – the announcements have started to appear, and RISCOSitory has had to switch to ‘just quote ’em in full’ mode (with the occasional tweak to make them suit the medium, and stylistic changes here and there). Here’s a very interesting one from RISC OS Developments:
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Neatly following last month’s meeting, in which Mark Moxon showed off his two player, split screen version of Elite, this month the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will be treated to a RISC OS game under development by Nick Anderson – aka jankfactor – inspired by the flight and fight aspects of Elite but styled as an arcade action combat game.
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An new version of turn-based fantasy strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic II is available from R-Comp Interactive, and can be purchased for £18.99 from !Store, or by popping along to the R-Comp stand at next week’s London Show. Here is the press release sent out by Andrew Rawnsley announcing the release:
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If you’re attending the London Show on 24th October, you’ll no doubt want to pay a visit to the CJE Micro’s/4D stand to see what they have to offer.
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Missing the actual date by a couple of days – which is almost an off-by-one-or-two error, the bane of any programmer’s life – the developers of ScummVM have released another new version of the software to almost coincide with the 25th anniversary of its first public commit (putting the latest change(s) to the code – or in this case the first actual code, I imagine, without looking to check – into the repository).
Read MoreIn just three weeks time it will be my favourite day of the year – and exactly one week before that is a day that should be one of a small number of firm favourites amongst discerning RISC OS users.
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Mark Moxon will be joining the next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC), which will take place on Wednesday, 7th October, to take the group on a tour of the various Acornsoft games he has taken a detailed look at, and into which he has hacked new features.
Read MoreThe weekend starts here, and it’s the closest one to the start of October that I could fit this in – so with no further ado, here’s what meetings etc. are happening this month.
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If you’re a bleeding edge user of StrongED, Fred Graute has another updated test release for you to play with: Version 4.70a22 (zip). You can also grab the sources (zip) if you wish to look at them, and if you’re on version 4.70a19 or higher you can download a smaller update (zip).
Read MoreAnd a look at the use of AI in programming. About a week ago Martin Eastwood, who is using the name RISC OS Technologies for his efforts with the operating system, published a mission statement – and rather than just quote it and leave it at that, it’s worth looking a little deeper into what’s behind it – chiefly, his use of AI to develop software, and the reaction it has caused. First, however, it does need to be quoted in full:
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