Elesar Ltd has released a new version of its Linux micro SD card for the Titanium motherboard. The original Titanium build featured version 8.1 of Debian (Jessie), and the new release features version 8.7. The company says there have been lots of technical changes since the previous release, but the two most obvious ones for customers will be that DHCP is enabled by default, and that there are now CD/DVD-ROM drivers built in by default – so there is no need to resort to arcane command lines to install them.…
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RISC OS Awards 2016 results
The RISC OS Awards poll for 2016 was brought to a close on 29th February. As before, the results were processed and counted on a RISC OS computer (using a home-brewed program to turn the votes into a file for each category, ready to be loaded into Fireworkz), and initially announced on the @RISCOSitory Twitter feed. Those results are now online on the RISC OS Awards website and the various winners have been notified – where possible – by email.
Read MoreGet a wisp of a new product from RISCOSbits at ROUGOL – 20th March
At the recent Southwest Show, RISCOSbits‘ Andy Marks was showing off an early version of an in-development product, called Wispy – and Bryan Hogan has managed to get his hands on a pre-release sample, which he will be presenting to the RISC OS User Group of London on the evening of Monday, 20th March, 2017, when the group next meets.
Read MoreNews nybble: GAG-News reaches the ripe old age of 150
Er… 150 issues, that is – it’s 25 years! GAG News, the magazine published by Herbert zur Nedden for the German Archimedes Group, has reached something of a milestone. Herbert has been in touch to let me know that he has just published issue 150. The magazine is published in printed form every two months, and it doesn’t take a maths genius (luckily for me) to work out that 150 issues is 300 months – which is twenty five years. Congratulations to Herbert and everyone else involved for that achievement,…
Read MoreNews nybble: Compiling RISC OS in the Midlands – 18th March
Note: Being in the Midlands is not a compilation prerequisite! The Midlands User Group‘s next meeting takes place from 2:00pm on Saturday, 18th March, and the guest speaker this month will be Chris Hall, who will be showing MUG members how to use RISC OS Open‘s Desktop Development Environment to build their own RISC OS ROM image – as well as touching on other uses for the software suite. The place to be is: The Methodist Church Hall, Greenhill, Blackwell, Bromsgrove, B60 1BL. There is a small entrance fee to…
Read MoreNews nybble: RONWUG meeting – 15th March
The next monthly meeting of Cheshire-based RONWUG takes place tomorrow evening – Wednesday 15th March. Organised by Steve Potts, the meeting kicks off at around 7:30pm, and is open to anyone with an interest in RISC OS – and there are no membership or entrance fees. So, if you’re in the area tomorrow evening, the place to be is: Trafford Metrovick Rugby and Cricket Club, Finnybank Road, Sale, Cheshire, M33 6LR.
Read MoreNews nybble: Southampton meeting – March 14th
The Southampton RISC OS User Group will be holding their next meeting on the evening of Tuesday 14th March, from 7:00pm until 9:00pm at the usual location: Itchen College Sports Centre, Deacon Road, Southampton. The car park entrance is accessed from Deacon Road opposite Whites Road, and the meeting itself will be in the College Centre, the open area with tables and chairs, next to the Sports Centre Reception. There is no charge to attend the meeting, and visitors are welcome to bring along any hardware and/or software for the…
Read MoreNews nybble: Elesar releases Font Directory Pro
In January, Elesar‘s Rob Sprowson paid a visit to the RISC OS User Group of London to talk about CloudFS, and another ‘mystery’ product, later revealed to be font management system Font Directory Pro, originally from LOOKsystems. At that point, a new version of the software was ready, and the only remaining task before it could be released was converting the large user manual. The last release from LOOKsystems was all the way back in 2003, and the new version (3.20) sees the software updated to work on newer ARM…
Read MoreNews nybble: RDSP beta receives a tune up
AMCOG Games’ Tony Bartram has released an updated beta [zip] version of his Wavebox-inspired synthesiser module, RDSP. The module provides modern RISC OS computer systems with the means to both synthesise sounds, and play back sound samples with various effects applied to them. The latest version – the second beta release – adds support for modulating samples via BASIC’s ENVELOPE command, support for sample looping (which means a simple drum loop, for example, can be made to play indefinitely), increases the number of channels to sixteen, and much more. For…
Read MoreNew ‘Shows’ discussion list now open for business
With yet another successful Southwest Show disappearing in the rear view mirror (report coming soon…ish), and the Wakefield Show now looming on the horizon, there has been a small amount of behind the scenes discussion about issues surrounding the RISC OS shows in general. An idea put forward in one of those discussions was for a general mailing list for people to discuss recent and upcoming events – and that idea has now been turned into reality with the RISC OS shows and events discussion list.
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