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.

Wakefield Zoom meeting – 5th August – open to all

With a trio of talks to tempt you in The next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) is coming up and, in keeping with the current restrictions… Read more »

News nybble: Some ‘housekeeping’ updates from Steve Fryatt

In order to facilitate the recent update to Launcher, Steve Fryatt made some changes to his Wimp library – and because of that changing, he has recompiled his C-based applications…. Read more »

WinEd gets its first significant update in a decade

News that will be of particular interest to developers, popular template editor WinEd has been receiving some attention. The application was originally developed by Tony Houghton as a better solution… Read more »

Launcher goes up – to 1.10

Steve Fryatt has released an update to Launcher, an application that provides a neat shortcut solution to running applications and other files. The program places panels at the side of… Read more »

News nybble: Form filler 1.18 released

Another update to Form Filler has been released by Kevin Wells, bringing it up to version 1.18. The program allows you to store a number of text strings, which can… Read more »

Archive 25:1 and beyond – plans and prices announced

Gavin Smith, the new editor of Archive, has announced his plans for the magazine, including an expected date for the first issue to be published with him at the helm,… Read more »

Tom Williamson talks Direct to ROUGOL – 20th July

Tom Williamson of Wi-Fi Sheep will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London – which will once again be taking place… Read more »

Snippets – 10th July, 2020

While RISC OS may now be regarded as a small, niche operating system, with only a tiny fraction of the number of users that more mainstream platforms attract, it does… Read more »

MusicMan and MusicCD updated

Updates for MusicMan and MusicCD are available from R-Comp. Both applications, now at version 2.22, have been updated to remain compatible with the latest versions of RISC OS, and have… Read more »

Archive 24:6 on doormats and online, and introducing the new editor

A new issue of Archive magazine – volume 24 issue 6 – has been produced by Bart Nagel, and if you are a subscriber it should by now have landed… Read more »