Have you voted yet? If not, get voting – and here are some additional ideas! The voting form for the 2015 RISC OS Awards poll went live three weeks ago today, and there have so far been just over a hundred entries – which is still a long way short of the first poll run by RISCOSitory two years ago, in which there were around 150 votes, but already a match for last year’s poll (in fact, it’s a very small improvement), which received around a hundred entries after being…
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StrongED strengthened in latest release of 4.69
Popular text editor StrongED has just seen its ninth full release of version 4.69 – aka version 4.69f9 – a release that fixes a number of bugs found in the previous release. Full details of the fixes can be found in the ‘Changes’ file within the download zip.
Read More4D officially announces competition winner
Computer with no name christened RapidO Ig instead of the Eastwood1. Although result of the the Name that Tune Computer competition run by 4D (the younger sibling of CJE Micro’s) was revealed at the recent London Show, it hadn’t been officially announced.
Read MoreWakefield 2016 date announced
You read it here first, folks – unless you’re observant! The Wakefield Show – billed as the North’s Premier RISC OS Show – is set to go ahead again in 2016, with the date now confirmed for what will be the 21st show to be arranged by the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club.
Read MoreROUGOL goes informal for Christmas
Dinner jackets and ties not required. The RISC OS User Group of London usually meets on the third Monday of each month and, for December, that means the meeting date is 21st December – tomorrow. With a meeting date so close to Christmas, seasonal demand means the usual meeting place may be unavailable – so the group doesn’t arrange a formal meeting in December, and instead plans a more informal gathering.
Read MoreR-Comp Christmas holidays
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley. 2015 has been a very busy year for us here at R-Comp and RCI. With lengthy back-orders on ARMX6 all year, we’ve been rushing to complete machines and develop new products and improvements. As such, we’ve not had any holiday time this year, and so have decided to take some “family time” as the year draws to a close.
Read MoreSpeed away with a Cortex-A15 based Titanium computer
Curve ball thrown before London Show finally lands! First announced the night before this year’s London Show, at which it was being demonstrated on the RISC OS Open stand, Elesar Ltd‘s Titanium motherboard is now on sale and shipping.
Read MoreVoting is now open in the RISC OS Awards 2015!
The third annual RISC OS Awards poll undertaken by RISCOSitory on the RISC OS Awards website is now able to take your votes! Between now and the end of January, you have the opportunity to vote for your favourite piece of software, the show you enjoyed the most, the project you find most interesting, and more besides.
Read MoreSouthampton RISC OS User Group meeting – December
In Southampton? Itchen for a meeting? Look no further… RISC OS users living in an around Southampton get to meet up on the second Tuesday of each month in the Sports Centre of Itchen College – and this month is no different: Dave Higton, who usually organises the meetings, has announced that the next meeting will be at on 8th December at the usual time of 7:00pm, running on until around 9:00pm.
Read MoreReporter lets you read all about it…
…in SysLog! With the last major release being over three years ago, Martin Avison has announced a new version of his debugging/logging tool, Reporter, then quietly updated it again.
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