Gain no pain! A new version of Common Internet File System (CIFS) client LanMan98 has been announced by CJE Micro’s. The software was originally developed and sold by Warm Silence Software as an extension for Acorn/ANT’s Omniclient, and worked alongside LanManFS to provide long filename support – much as another Warm Silence product, Win95FS, did for DOSFS and floppy discs.
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Southampton user group meeting – January 12th
Announcement from Dave Higton, 9th January, 2015. The next meeting of the Southampton RISC OS Users Group will take place on Tuesday, January 12th, in the Sports Centre of Itchen College, Deacon Road, Southampton, from 19:00 until 21:00.
Read MoreBristol RISC OS Users meeting – 13th January
A chance to see the @Raspberry_Pi Zero running RISC OS! The next meeting of Bristol RISC OS Users is due to take place next Wednesday – the 13th – and attendees will have the chance to see a Raspberry Pi in action, thanks to regular Chris Hall, who plans to bring his along.
Read MoreTitanium comes to London user group meeting
Group’s first meeting of 2016 sets a high bar for the rest of the year! Unless you’ve been asleep since just before the recent London Show, you will be aware of Titanium – the subject of a surprise announcement the night before the show. Developed by Rob Sprowson of Elesar Ltd, Titanium is a new motherboard designed from the outset with RISC OS in mind.
Read MoreNew Year sales hit !Store
With no need to leave your desk and form an orderly queue! R-Comp‘s Andrew Rawnsley has just announced that there will be a !Store New Year sale, with a variety of items offered at a discounted price via the software shopping application – a selection that will change as the sale progresses, so it’s important to keep checking if the software you want isn’t yet discounted.
Read MoreRISC OS Awards 2015: Alternative options
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…
Read MoreStrongED 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.
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