Announcement from Chris Evans, 5th May, 2015. Whatever your Acorn/RISC OS needs are, CJE Micro’s/4D should be able to help you at the Dutch eXperience this Saturday, 9th May.
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Impression-X on !Store and in Holland
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley, 5th May, 2015. We are pleased to announce that the long-awaited Impression-X is now available via !Store. Please look for !Store in your Apps folder on your icon bar, or go to www.plingstore.org.uk to download it for free1.
Read MoreWROCC Meeting – Comparison between Pi and Pi 2 – 6th May
Announcement from the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club, 4th May, 2015. Comparison between Pi and Pi 2 Meeting on Wednesday 6th May 2015 at 7.45pm Malcolm Hussain-Gambles, Terry Marsh and Ruth Gunstone will be comparing the original Raspberry Pi with the second version released earlier this year.
Read MoreOverlord now available from !Store
Fly me to the moon and let me play amongst the stars take the fight to them! Wakefield newby Anthony Vaughan Bartram, who developed a new game for RISC OS over the course of about nine months running up to the show, has now made that game available from !Store.
Read MoreSpellings.net online store security breach
Registered email addresses, password hashes leaked. On Friday, Neil Spellings sent out an urgent email to all Spellings.net customers warning that a list of registered email addresses and password hashes from their online store have appeared on the web – and, it turns out, those hashes weren’t salted.
Read MoreWishing the ARM processor a happy 30th birthday
Today, 26th April, 2015 isn’t just the morning after this year’s Wakefield Show; it is also 30 years to the day since the very first ARM1 processor was produced, powered up – and worked! The story of the new processor goes back a little further than 26th April, 1985, and started when Acorn were looking for a suitable replacement for the MOS 6502 CPU, which at that point they were using in the BBC Microcomputer range.
Read MoreThe RISCOSitory Bunker will be closed until 5th May, 2015
With the 2015 Wakefield Show now just about upon us, it is time to temporarily lock up the RISCOSitory top secret underground bunker (which is cunningly disguised as a run-down shack on the surface). The provisional date on which normal operations are set to resume is 5th May, 2015 – the first working day after the bank holiday weekend – though that date isn’t set in stone; it may be sooner, it may be later. Please continue to send any RISC OS-related announcements, press releases and interesting snippets – they…
Read MoreR-Comp !Store Collection CD available at Wakefield Show
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley, 23rd April, 2015. We are pleased to announce that the “R-Comp !Store Collection 2015″ CD will be released at the Wakefield Show. The Collection contains our download-only releases from 2014-2015 including the likes of DeleGate, DeskEdit Suite, PhotoFix, ChartWell/DPGraphs Suite, Wimp Programming Suite and more.
Read MoreRecycle Acorn/RISC OS hardware or software at Wakefield
Announcement from Chris Evans, 23rd April, 2015. We have now booked a van to take to the Wakefield Show on Saturday, so if you want to buy any larger items please let us know and we will bring them. We can also recycle most old Acorn/RISC OS hardware/software items in the best possible way, by finding someone who wants to use them for their original purpose 🙂
Read MoreWimp Programming Suite for RISC OS released
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley, 23rd April, 2015. We are pleased to announce another new !Store digital release – the Wimp Programming Suite, for just £9.99. Designed as a useful suite of software and documentation for desktop programmers of novice to fairly advanced level, the Suite is available now.
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