Author Archives: VinceH

About 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.

News nybble: QrCode version 2.01

Kevin Wells has released a point update to his application for generating QR Codes. New in this version is the ability to create a QR Code for geo-location purposes, containing… Read more »

ROUGOL to go all hybrid on Monday, 19th July

But it’s not a meeting about greener forms of transport – it’s both online and in-person For over a year because of the pandemic, the RISC OS User Group of… Read more »

Remote calendar and address synchronisation

A new commercial offering from Thomas Milius is CaxDAV, which can be used to synchronise calendars and addresses between local clients and servers that support the CalDAV/CardDAV protocols.

VATGST has had to be increased

Well, its version number has, anyway. Kevin Wells has released an update to his application for validating VAT and GST registration numbers, VATGST.

File access control module released

Combating what Germans apparently call ‘Sommerloch’ and he believes translates as ‘Silly Season’, Thomas Milius has been browsing an archive of old software he’d written, and an interesting find has… Read more »

Terry Swanborough talks RiscPCB to MUG – 3rd July

RISC OS users with an interest in designing printed circuit boards (PCBs) may wish to attend the next Midlands User Group (MUG) meeting, when Terry Swanborough will be the guest… Read more »

Mike Stephens talks to ROUGOL – 21st June

The guest speaker at the next RISC OS User Group of London the World (ROUGOL) meeting will be ex-Acorn and Pace programmer Mike Stephens, who will be talking to the… Read more »

A final call for votes in this year’s awards poll

Along with an updated look at the alternative votes The 2020 RISC OS Awards poll has now underway for more than a couple of months, which means it’s about time… Read more »

Two more Code the Classics games bounce their way onto RISC OS

Jeroen Vermeulen, who has already ported two games to RISC OS from the Raspberry Pi Code the Classics book – Infinite Bunner and Cavern – has now given the same… Read more »

AMCOG Development Kit updated to version 1.09.1

And a new ‘case study’ game thrown into the mix BASIC games programmers who use the AMCOG Development Kit to make the process easier can now fetch a new version… Read more »