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.

A brief look at RISC OS Direct

At the 2019 London Show, news broke of something to be called RISC OS Direct – a new distribution (distro) of the operating system, and an accompanying video series. The… Read more »

Less flicker in NetFetch, more functions in Fireworkz Pro

A pair of applications from R-Comp have been updated – NetFetch moving up to version 5.52, and Fireworkz Pro to version 2.24.6.

News nybble: KPDFUtil 1.01 brings image extraction

Kevin Wells’ recently released KPDFUtil, which provides a front-end for some features offered by PDFutils, has already seen its first update. Version 1.01 now includes support for extracting images from… Read more »

A look at some of the alternative suggestions in the 2019 Awards poll

The Awards poll for 2019 has been under way for about a month, and has so far received ninety form submissions – although that does include a number of blank… Read more »

Fight off that virus on RISC OS!

Well, in a game, anyway. Rick Murray has found himself inspired by the pandemic that has had such a dramatic effect on all our lives, and written a game for… Read more »

KPDFUtil provides a front-end for PDFUtils

Kevin Wells has turned his hand from offering RISC OS front-ends to remote APIs, and put together a front-end for something the can be run locally.

News nybble: Find out how to create animated GIFs on thanks to Richard Ashbery

The Simple Graphics Programming in RISC OS BASIC website set up by Richard Ashbery now includes a useful tutorial for people who want to make animated graphics using RISC OS…. Read more »

Breaking: New date for the 25th Wakefield Show

25th Wakefield Show now to take place 25 years on from the first, but… on the 24th. Following the postponement of the next Wakefield Show due to the ongoing crisis… Read more »

ROUGOL meetings suspended…

…ALL user group meetings suspended With world in the grips of a pandemic and (like many countries) the UK in lockdown to some degree – just how much of a… Read more »

Introducing Scoggy – your new RISC OS friend

This year, RISC OS Direct made its first appearance at the Southwest Show. A distribution of the operating system with more in the disc image than the standard offering found… Read more »