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Author: VinceH

VinceH, aka Vince M Hudd, owns and operates Soft Rock Software, providing services and software to not only the RISC OS market, but also to the wider world. RISCOSitory and its associated sites and services are provided for free as a result of that - so buying his stuff is probably quite helpful.

MACadd adds French, German

September 29, 2024September 29, 2024 VinceH

With apologies to Kevin Wells for a bit of a delay mentioning the first of these updates (the bunker has been unattended for a couple of weeks), there are two updates to report on MACadd, his application that can be used to look up information about MAC (Media Access Control) addresses.

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SoftwareKevsoft, MAC address, MACadd

Bristol RISC OS Users meeting – 12th September

September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 VinceH

The next meeting of Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) will take place on Thursday, 12th September.

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User groupsBristol, BRU, Meeting, Underground, UndgnD, User Group

VATGST pops up to version 1.03

September 9, 2024 VinceH

If you use VATGST from Kevin Wells, there is a new version for you to download.

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SoftwareGST, Kevsoft, VAT, VATGST

Developers’ fireside chat – 7th September

September 5, 2024September 5, 2024 VinceH

People interested in developing on or for RISC OS will have their next opportunity for a friendly, informal (virtual) get together on Saturday, 7th September, at the next friendly fireside chat.

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ProgrammingAdvice, Coding, Community, Developers, Guidance, Help, Meeting, Programming

AMCOG’s Tony Bartram talks to WROCC – 4th September

August 31, 2024August 31, 2024 VinceH
Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club logo

Tony Bartram has around twenty titles in his AMCOG Games back catalogue, and is currently working on two more titles, both of which feature something new or novel for our platform, and he will be talking at the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting, this coming Wednesday.

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User groups3D, AMCOG, games, Meeting, Tony Bartram, User Group, Wakefield, WROCC

Let’s talk 64-bit with Gerph – ROUGOL, 19th August

August 15, 2024 VinceH

In the RISC OS world, we (should) all know that RISC OS runs on ARM processors in either 26 or 32-bit mode, depending what hardware (or emulator) you are running it on – and that we are now at the stage where 64-bit only ARM processors are becoming the norm, and RISC OS is unable to run on them.

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User groups26-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, Aarch32, Aarch64, ARM, gerph, Meeting, ROUGOL, User Group

StreetFix Help goes multi-lingual

August 13, 2024August 13, 2024 VinceH

And a language poll for MACadd There are two bits of news from Kevin Wells for some of his applications: There’s a new StreetFix release, which now stands at version 1.09, and he’s running a poll in relation to adding new language support to MACadd.

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SoftwareHelp, Kevsoft, Language, MACadd, Poll

X-Ample Technology comes to WROCC

August 5, 2024August 6, 2024 VinceH
Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club logo

The next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting is almost upon us – it takes place on Wednesday, 7th August – and the guest speaker this month will be Paul Reuvers from X-Ample Technology (XAT).

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User groupsMeeting, Paul Reuvers, User Group, Wakefield, WROCC, X-Ample Technology, XAT

Developers’ fireside chat – 3rd August

August 1, 2024August 1, 2024 VinceH

The time has come once again for RISC OS developers, and anyone with an interest in the subject – perhaps as a beginner, or someone thinking of dipping their toes in – to gather around the virtual fire for a friendly chat. The next such meeting will take place on Saturday, 3rd August, kicking off at around 7:30pm.

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ProgrammingAdvice, Coding, Community, Developers, Guidance, Help, Meeting, Programming

New features for FAST machines in latest update

August 1, 2024 VinceH

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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AnnouncementsCompute Module, eMMC, FAST, Raspberry Pi, RISCOSbits, SATA

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