FAST – a backronym for ‘Fast Access to Storage Technology’ – is the name given by Andy Marks of RISCOSbits to a new range of machines launched at the 2023 Southwest Show – machines that do exactly as the acronym suggests, by accessing the PCIe port on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module to provide up to four full-speed SATA ports.
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Kevin Wells has released an update to one of his various applications that allow remote sites to be interrogated for information from the RISC OS desktop – this time MACadd, a program used for getting information about MAC (Media Access Control) addresses.
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There will be an out of schedule meeting held by the Midlands User Group (MUG), at which the group’s own John Rickman will discuss the use of StrongED as a scripting tool when programming in Python.
Read MoreWimpInfo is a small application that was previously supplied by Quantum Software, and is now hosted here on RISCOSitory after Stuart Halliday announced he was shutting down the software house.
Read MoreA new version of Pinboard 2 has been released by RISC OS Developments. The software is a replacement for the standard ‘Pinboard’ supplied with the operating system – the component that looks after the desktop background, allowing backdrops to be displayed, icons to be pinned to it to save navigating to the relevant files or applications using the filer, and so on – and provides quite a number of new features that make it a worthy replacement.
Read MoreKPDFUtil is an application from Kevin Wells that provides a front-end to the facilities found in PDFUtils, itself a set of command line utilities for getting information about PDF documents, and performing actions on them such as extracting individual pages, converting them to HTML, and so on.
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They’ll see things you people wouldn’t believe. The RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) next meets up on Monday, 15th July, and this month they’ll be hallucinating. No, wait, I meant they’ll have Nathan Atkinson from Visions of the Impossible as their guest speaker.
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The next meeting of Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) will take place on Thursday, 11th September.
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A new version of StreetFix has been released by Kevin Wells. The software provides a means for RISC OS users to report and check upon local issues, such as damaged street furniture, potholes in the road, and so on – all from within an application on the RISC OS desktop, rather than via a web browser.
Read MoreThe Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will be holding their next meeting on Wednesday, 3rd July, at 7:45pm, with a ‘Potpourri’ topic – i.e. a mix of various short talks, rather than one to cover the whole meeting.
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