Author Archives: VinceH

About VinceH

VinceH, aka Vince M Hudd, owns and operates Soft Rock Software, providing services and software to not only the RISC OS market, but also to the wider world. RISCOSitory and its associated sites and services are provided for free as a result of that - so buying his stuff is probably quite helpful.

Midlands User Group discussing Pi cameras – 4th December

Pi… Camera… Action! (And erm… RISC OS?) Although most laptops these days include webcams, as do some normal monitors even, the Raspberry Pi has its own camera module and a… Read more »

TimeZones application released

Find out if it’s too late/early to ring your Antipodean Auntie! Kevin Wells has released a new application that provides an easy way to look up information about different time… Read more »

Substitute Soccer game released

Code the Classics 5 – Joroen Vermeulen… 5! Completing the set from the Code the Classic (Volume 1) book, Jeroen Vermeulen has now made available a RISC OS conversion of… Read more »

Wakefield show and tell with Ian Stanley and Peter Richmond – 1st December

The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will be holding their next meeting as an in-person event on Wednesday, 1st December, and there will be two people presenting to the… Read more »

Updated Impression manual now available to order

And bag a free copy of Impression Publisher if you get in early! The user manual for the Impression desktop publishing software has been receiving a lick of paint lately,… Read more »

BusTimes 1.18 released

Not long after updating TrainTimes so that it could launch RiscOSM(or other suitable application) to display stations on a map, Kevin Wells has added a similar facility to BusTimes, an… Read more »

ROUGOL meeting room – use it or lose it!

Back in January 2020, the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) moved from their previous home of some eighteen years to a new one, after the old pub had… Read more »

Gerph to fan the Pyromaniac flames at ROUGOL

Last November, Gerph gave a talk to the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) on the subject of Pyromaniac, which he initially launched earlier that year as the RISC… Read more »

Enter Mamie Fletcher’s House to prove ghosts aren’t rea… EEK!

The timing of this year’s London Show put it the day before Halloween, making it nice timing for the release of a couple of games with an appropriate theme –… Read more »

Come and stay at the Haunted Tower Hotel…

…FOREVER! If you visited the recent London Show, you would have had a chance to play a couple of new games – both with a theme corresponding with the event… Read more »