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.

Serve up some SSI soup

Web pages can be very simple, containing a little mark-up that helps inform the software receiving and rendering the page a little bit about its content and how it should… Read more »

PiTools updated to version 1.13

Released barely a week ago as a general spin off the software supplied with the 4té computer, intended for use by other people running RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi,… Read more »

Spy Mission: The Ice Caves of Dr. Atom

Yet another new game from AMCOG! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take on the role of a secret agent operating on behalf of MI7 who… Read more »

Escape from Exeria – a new-old game

Back in the mists of time, the first game released by Soft Rock Software was Escape from Exeria, a game in which the player navigates mazes to collect things while… Read more »

PiTools released by R-Comp Interactive

With the launch of their 4té computer in the latter part of last year, R-Comp developed a set of tools to run on the system, neatly wrapped up in an… Read more »

A glimpse at the alternative votes in the 2020 Awards poll

With the 2020 RISC OS Awards poll now underway and huge numbers of some votes coming in, it’s about time the alternative options were given an initial airing.

Iris web browser available to OBrowser supporters

Without going into a fully detailed history,RISC OS Developments Ltd was formed only a few short years ago with the original (and initially hush-hush) aim of funding the development of… Read more »

News nybble: RISC OS eXperience cancelled

I have just been informed that, sadly, the annual RISC OS eXperience meeting – organised by the Big Ben Club – has been cancelled as a result of the ongoing… Read more »

RISC OS Awards poll open for votes

The annual RISC OS Awards poll, undertaken by RISCOSitory, is now open for votes.

Currency updated to version 1.11

Kevin Wells’ has released a new version of his Currency application, which uses Wget to pass currency conversion requests to the Free Currency Converter API and display the results on… Read more »