Announcement from Fred Graute, 1st September, 2013 Hi, I’m pleased to announce that StrongED 4.69 is now available. Please note that this is a minimal release that contains only BaseMode. Other modes that you may wish to use have to be downloaded separately from the website (Download page -> Modes database).
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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.
SystemDisc 1.01 now available
Announcement from Ben Avison of Piccolo Systems, 18th November, 2013 Piccolo Systems is pleased to announce the immediate release of SystemDisc 1.01. SystemDisc is a general-purpose tool for managing the system software on modern RISC OS systems. The benefits of using SystemDisc over the pre-existing solutions include:
Read MoreDrawPrint 1.43 released
Announcement from Hilary Phillips of Sine Nomine Software, 2nd December, 2013 Version 1.43 of DrawPrint can be downloaded the Sine Nomine website. The new version fixes bugs with JPEG objects, in particular printing them in landscape mode, and saving scaled draw files containing them.
Read MoreDiscKnight 1.51 released
Announcement from ARM Club’s Dave Ruck, 24th December, 2013 Version 1.51 of DiscKnight is now available, to request a copy go to the DiscKnight update page on the ARM Club website.
Read MoreThe Wakefield Back Catalogue CD
Announcement from WROCC’s Chris Hughes, 25th August, 2013 To celebrate 30 years of the club, Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club released the Third Edition of the Wakefield Back Catalogue CD at this year’s Wakefield Show. It now contains around 360 back issues of the newsletter, including more than 100 from the 1980s and 1990s which had once been considered lost. Indeed, we believe that there are now just three issues left unaccounted for from the Club’s 30 year history.
Read MoreCat, Countdown, SignalBox and Sudotutor releases
A selection of announcements from Chris Hall during 2013 Cat version 0.18, announced 4th July, 2013 A disc cataloguing utility, Cat version 0.18, is now available from !Store and via PackMan. This presents a disc catalogue in a window, showing a tree structure of files and directories. The contents can be saved in several forms and the graphical layout can be adjusted to suit. Disc contents can be compared and changed files (by datestamp and/or CRC) identified.
Read More!Store Christmas sale now on – Datapower family 50% off
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley of R-Comp, 21st December, 2013 Each day, or few days, over Christmas, different products will be on sale for significantly reduced prices. To begin with, the DataPower family of RISC OS database – generally considered to be some of RISC OS finest software – is on offer for 50% off. That means you can dip your toes in the water with the flexible, visual “DTP-style” DataPower Home for just 19.99ukp, or grab the extensive DataPower 3 relational database system for 49.99ukp, complete with SQL and scripting…
Read More!Store software registration and Christmas sales
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley of R-Comp, 18th December, 2013 We are pleased to announce the availability of a new service for users of our !Store1 download service. If you’re not a user yet, download it free at www.plingstore.org.uk The R-Comp Software Registration Service allows you to register your existing R-Comp/RCI purchases on !Store, so that you can access latest versions from any of your RISC OS machines with an internet connection.
Read MoreNew year (sort of) changes at RISCOSitory
Change your mind site; nothing ever stays the same. It’s once again time to make some changes here at RISCOSitory. The keen-eyed readers will already have noticed the first change – which is that, following a change to the site’s appearance earlier this year, it has now reverted to something similar to how it was before that change.
Read MoreThe RISC OS Awards 2012/13 – open for votes!
The polling booths are now open! The RISC OS Awards website, through which RISCOSitory is conducting a combined awards poll for the two years 2012 and 2013, is now able to accept your votes. Between now and mid-January you will be able to vote for your favourite piece of software, the show you enjoyed the most, the project you find most interesting, and more besides. However, if you feel you are unable to form an opinion in any given category – perhaps you weren’t able to attend any shows, for…
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