With the release of a second edition of Code the Classics from the Raspberry Pi stable (Side note; there’s apparently now a Code the Classics Volume II from Raspberry Pi Press, with their interpretations of another five classic games!) Jeroen Vermeulen has set his sights once again on creating RISC OS versions of the games included within its covers – and the first of these is now available.
Read MoreCardInfo 1.01 and Currency 2.06 from KevSoft
Kevin Wells has updated two of his handy applications that use Wget to relay information back and forth to remote APIs (application programmer interfaces), allowing RISC OS users to access, lookup, and retrieve information from the desktop.
Read MoreToggleBD 2.00 now available
Fred Graute has released version 2.00 of his Pinboard support module, ToggleBD, which can be used to raise the background of your desktop to the top of the window stack – effectively bringing it to the front of the display, with any open windows behind it – so that you can access anything pinned to it, such as iconised windows, shortcuts to files, and so on. Once you’ve got at what you need, the backdrop can be lowered again so that all your open windows can be accessed as normal.
Read MoreROUGOL meeting – 20th January – T-Wimp
Following the developers’ fireside chat on Saturday evening, the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting just two days later will also be of interest to people interested in software development.
Read MoreDevelopers’ fireside chat – 18th January
As it’s January 2025 – the first month of the new year – you may have recently made some new year resolutions. Was one of them to start developing software on (or for) RISC OS? If so, why not gather around the virtual fireplace for a chat on the subject?
Read MoreWROCC to perform some NICanatomy – 8th January
The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) usually meets on the first Wednesday of each month, with the occasional exception. One such change often happens in January, when the regular day is often very close to New Year’s Day – and it doesn’t get much closer than it did this year.
Read MoreLook up bank information
A new piece of software – BankInfo – has been released by Kevin Wells, following his tried and trusted approach of using Wget as an interface between the RISC OS desktop and a web-based application programmer interface (API).
Read MorePromotional video released for RISC OS North
You might have noticed that the recently announced new show, RISC OS North, has adopted a more modern style of website than traditional RISC OS shows, which still hold a more static, traditional design.
Read MoreScummVM 2.9.0 released
Supporting some fifteen additional games, a new version of ScummVM has arrived. The software is maintained by a team of programmers across a number of platforms, with Cameron Cawley to be thanked for his work bringing each release to RISC OS.
Read MoreTrainTimes 2.05 released
Another small update has been made to TrainTimes by its developer, Kevin Wells.
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