It will soon be time once again for RISC OS users in or around the Southampton area to get together to discuss the platform, and perhaps show off any new hardware or software they may have – whether bought or their own project.
That’s because the next meeting of the user group for the area will be taking place on Tuesday, 14th August. Running from 7:00pm until 9:00pm, the place to be if you are in the area is:
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At the start of last month, Orpheus Internet suffered an outage – on 1st July, the company’s servers became unreachable, apparently due to a network IP address issue.
That day was a Sunday, of course – and Richard Brown reported on the company’s news page that “It would be nice if this can be rectified on Sunday but I doubt it. I would expect services to gradually resume during Monday and reach 100% Tuesday-Wednesday.”
Better late than never, but not as late as last year – so that’s something, right?
This year’s Southwest Show took place on Saturday, 24th February, at the Webbington Hotel and Spa – the same venue at which it has been held every year since its inception. This year’s show was therefore the 21st, marking twenty years since the very first one, held in February 1998. There was therefore cake – which you missed out on if you didn’t come to the show, and which everyone who was present enjoyed. And so ends this show report: That’s all you need to know, really.
Oh, you want a little more detail? Oh well, if you insist… Continue reading »
Owners of R-Comp‘s TiMachine computers and subscribers to their Titanium Support Scheme can now benefit from two updates from the company. The first of these is an update to the Dual Monitor software, and the second is the release of the latest Super Pack – an update to the software provided with the computer or as part of the Support Scheme. Continue reading »
That’s apparently pronounced “minim” which means I can’t make any Mini Me references. Um… like that one.
Shortly before this year’s Wakefield Show, R-Comp teased us with the news that they had a small surprise in store for visitors to the show, which visitors soon discovered was a new, small computer – the mini.m. Based around the same processor as the ARMSX ARMX6, a quad-core Freescale i.MX6, the mini.m is for all intents and purposes a smaller version of the established machine – with some obvious differences due to its small size.
Just how small is it? The computer is housed in a cube-shaped case measuring just two inches in each dimension – a very small, incredibly convenient piece of kit that can be placed in a discreet location on your desk without taking up a lot of space. Continue reading »
Allows text to be pasted into the viewer application.
Elesar Ltd has just released an update to popular font management package Font Directory Pro. The package, which consists of a suite of applications to help manage large collections of fonts, was originally developed by LOOK Systems and is now being maintained by the same company that brought us the Titanium motherboard, amongst other things.
The update brings the version number up to 3.23, and is described by Elesar as a minor update over the previous version. However, it does add a very useful feature, as suggested by a user: Continue reading »
The next meeting for Bristol RISC OS Users will take place on Wednesday, 11th July. Taking place from 7:30pm until closing time, the meeting is an informal gathering where like-minded folk can have a chat over a meal and a pint. There is no set topic or speaker, although recent or upcoming events in the RISC OS world may get a mention, and individuals may bring along their current pet project.
So if you are in or around Bristol this Wednesday evening, the place to be is:
The next opportunity for RISC OS users in and around the Southampton area to meet up is Tuesday, 10th July. The meeting will run from 7:00pm until 9:00pm, at:
Taking place in the College Centre – an open area with tables and chairs, next to the Sports Centre Reception desk – there will be at least one small network of RISC OS computers and, hopefully, internet access.
The next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club, which takes place on Wednesday, 4th July, 2018 at 7:45pm, will be an informal one where people can simply chat amongst themselves, giving them the opportunity to catch up with other attendees, whether that’s RISC OS-related or not, and to discuss any ideas for the future of the Club. Continue reading »
David Lane will be taking the floor at the next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London to talk about DrawScript, a programming/script language developed by Joe Taylor that can be used to produce graphics in Draw format. Based on BASIC, but with extra graphics commands, DrawScript can be used to produce elaborate drawings with great precision – as demonstrated by the DrawScript gallery, linked from the software’s website. Continue reading »