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.

Compare RISC OS distributions with ROUGOL – 20th September

Depending on which platform you use, there may be a number of different options available to you for RISC OS itself. As well as the standard distribution from RISC OS… Read more »

New PS/2 to Archimedes keyboard/mouse interface

A new design of interface for connecting a PS/2 keyboard and mouse to an older era Acorn ARM-based system is now available from CJE Micro’s.

London Show set to go ahead as an in-person event

With last year’s London Show becoming a virtual event because of the pandemic and associated restrictions, the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) has announced that this year’s event… Read more »

KPDFUtil updated to version 1.05

Kevin Wells’ KPDFUtil has seen another update, bringing it up to version 1.05. The application serves as a front-end for PDFUtils, allowing a number of its features to be accessed… Read more »

Alan Adams makes a splash at Wakefield

And the date for the 2022 show published. The guest speaker at the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting will be Alan Adams, with a project that has… Read more »

RISC OS Awards results 2020 now online

Open for approximately three months, the 2020 RISC OS Awards poll covering 2020 ran from April until June of this year, and received 141 valid votes. The results were calculated… Read more »

And the winner is…

…to be announced on Monday, 16th August! The annual RISC OS Awards poll was brought to a close recently a month and a half ago and it’s now time to… Read more »

Back to Python for Infinite Bunner and Cavern

Back in February, Jeroen Vermeulen released a version of Infinite Bunner for RISC OS, and soon followed that with a version of Cavern – both games published in the book… Read more »

TextEase updated to version 5.99

An updated version of TextEase is now available from Elesar Ltd, offering a double triplicate; one of minor bug fixes, and one of new features. Those three new features are:

Martin Avison talks to Wakefield… and beyond

Originally scheduled for their July meeting, which was cancelled due to circumstances outside of the group’s control1, Martin Avison will be the guest speaker for the Wakefield RISC OS Computer… Read more »