R-Comp has made available a new version of Messenger Pro, a ‘point release’ that brings it up to version 8.01, and which is free to download from !Store for existing customers using version 8. Continue reading »
Oct 182018
Oct 132018
The monitor driver software available from R-Comp for users of its Titanium-based TiMachine computers, or members of its Titanium Support Scheme1, has been updated.
Oct 092018
And unlike the post on 1st April, this one is NOT a joke!
It has just been announced that RISC OS Developments Ltd, the company formed last year by Andrew Rawnsley and Richard Brown, has acquired Castle Technology Ltd, and with it RISC OS itself.
Continue reading »Oct 062018
The Southampton RISC OS User Group (SROUG) will next meet up on Tuesday, 9th October. Running from 7:00pm until 9:00pm, the meeting will take place at:
Continue reading »Oct 062018
That’s the aerospace industry, not the space above a Nestlé facility1.
If you want to find out all about the use of Acorn computers in the aerospace industry then you need to head for the nation’s capital city on the evening of Monday, 15th October. That’s when Keith Emerton – a retired Senior Specialist Test Equipment Engineer – will be talking to the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) on that very subject. Continue reading »
Sep 302018
Also: Wakefield 2019 date now confirmed!
The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will be holding their next meeting on Wednesday, 3rd October, and the theme for the evening is Micro Miscellany. Rather than a set speaker, the idea is that members and visitors can bring along any of their own projects, anything else that others may find interesting, or anything they need help with.
Continue reading »Sep 302018
This year’s London Show, which marks the end of the Long Gap in the main shows in the RISC OS calendar, takes place on Saturday, 27th October. So with today being the last day of September, it is now just 27 days away.
Continue reading »Sep 152018
Available in any colour you like, as long as you like bright green!
The pi-top is a Raspberry Pi-based laptop that began its commercial life as a crowd-funded project in 2015, and CJE Micro’s released a RISC OS flavoured version in 2016 called the RapidO Top pi-topRO.
Sep 152018
Blessed be thy VAT return.
Elesar Ltd‘s Rob Sprowson will be visiting the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) on Monday, 17th September, when he will be giving a presentation entitled “Prophet and more.”
Continue reading »Sep 112018
Now that’s a solid state offer, if ever I saw one!
From now until 8th October, 2018, Elesar Ltd‘s Titanium motherboard is available to buy with a jolly useful optional extra – a SanDisk 128GB solid state drive (SSD), pre-loaded with a standard RISC OS 5 disc image.
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