The topic for the meeting? The London Show – and how to squeeze everyone in! The RISC OS User Group of London – ROUGOL – have their next scheduled meeting on Monday, 19th October – tomorrow evening. The group usually has a guest speaker, but for this meeting there isn’t to be one. Instead, they will be discussing the London Show, which takes place five days later; see below for a little more news on that.
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Date announced for RISC OS Southwest 2016
Mark the last Saturday in February in your diaries for #rosw2016, folks! For the last few years, the RISC OS Southwest Show has been organised by Orpheus Internet and R-Comp Interactive, who stepped in at the last minute to organise the 2012 event after it became clear that its previous organiser, RISCOS Ltd, had decided not to proceed.
Read MoreRISC OS GCC 4.7.4 release 2 now available
Announcement from Theo Markettos, on behalf of the GCCSDK developers, 26th September, 2015. The RISC OS GCCSDK developers are pleased to announce the GNU Compiler Collection version 4.7.4 RISC OS release 2, which is now available for download.
Read MoreAMPlayer updated for ARMv7 processors
Announcement from Rob Sprowson, 27th September, 2015. After a prolonged 4660 day period of perpetual beta status, an updated version of the AMPlayer modules is now available from riscos.info at: www.riscos.info/index.php/AMPlayer
Read MoreGraphDraw 3.00 released
When it comes to maths, graphing is where I draw the line1! GraphDraw is a graph plotting application from Chris Johnson, which allows x and y values to be input and subsequently edited, and from the resulting data the software can calculate and plot:
Read MoreWorkspace now works with ZeroPain
Because having six real screens is just showing off. Dave Ruck has released an updated version of Workspace – a utility that helps users avoid cluttered desktops by separating different types of work (or play) onto six different desktop workspaces.
Read MoreMouse driven keyboard gains multiple keyboard support
Kevin Wells has updated his virtual keyboard application VKeyboard to accept multiple keyboards. The application presents a keyboard display on screen, and the action of clicking on any of the displayed keys will either result in the represented character being inserted wherever the cursor is or, for special keys – such as page up/down, tab, etc – the relevant action is carried out. With v1.02, users can now add additional keyboards. Creating and editing the keyboards is currently a manual process, involving editing files in the application’s innards, though a…
Read MoreRiscPCB now Pi-compatible
Terry Swanborough has updated RiscPCB – his application for designing printed circuit boards, which can be saved out as Draw files or industry standard Gerber files – to make it compatible with the Raspberry Pi, and at the same time added a few other features:
Read MoreRISC OS FR: hosting service and second programming contest
Earlier this year, the French RISC OS resource RISC OS FR run by David Feugey moved to a new server. Previously, the site was being served from a Raspberry Pi running RISC OS – something that, while clearly possible, is probably not an ideal solution.
Read MoreLondon show set to be the biggest yet
Breathe in – likely to be standing room only! This year’s London Show – which takes place in five weeks time, on 24th October, 2015 – is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with an impressive 27 exhibitors currently listed on the show website. Those exhibitors include plenty of familiar faces at RISC OS shows, and quite a number who are new – be that to shows in general, or just this one. And to cap all that, it seems that some of the regular attendees have asked for…
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