A new, small application is now available from RISC OS Developments (ROD) that sets up the system so that the Iris web browser can be run from your RAM disc.
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Dock your Cobra Mark III in London – 21st November
If you’ve ever played Elite – which is probably almost everyone in the Acorn and RISC OS spheres1 – you’ll probably find the next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting an interesting one, with Mark Moxon visiting the group as the guest speaker.
Read MoreA new Currency to keep users API
An updated version of Currency, the exchange rate application from Kevin Wells, has been released. Version 1.14 doesn’t contain any updates to the program itself or its functionality, but is instead a small update to ensure it continues to work with the remote site from which it gets its data and sends user requests.
Read MoreStreetFix 1.05 released
StreetFix is one of Kevin Wells’ various applications that make use of Wget to talk to the application programmer interface (API) of a remote website and pass information back and forth. Doing so may in some cases be more practical and/or easier than attempting to use the site’s web interface.
Read MoreRISC OS Open talks to Wakefield – 10th November
Switching slightly from the group’s normal schedule, the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting will take place a week and a day later than you might otherwise expect, on Thursday, 10th November.
Read MorePinebook Pro lands in Bristol – 9th November
Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) meet regularly, on the second Wednesday of every second month, and this month’s meeting therefore falls on the 9th. The group’s meetings tend to be fairly informal – a handful of like-minded people getting together for a pint and a bite to eat and a general chinwag, with one or other of them sometimes bringing along something interesting and relevant to RISC OS to focus that chat.
Read MoreScummVM gets a maintenance release
If you like adventures of the ‘point and click’ variety, you’ll no doubt be aware – and hopefully using – ScummVM to play the wealth of old games it brings to the platform, most of which never touched RISC OS when they were first released for other computers and operating systems.
Read MoreBlood curdling offers from RISCOSbits
Well, okay, shockingly good ones, anyway! Following on from yesterday’s ‘Not the London Show’ offers, RISCOSbits’ stock of Raspberry Pi 4-based machines hasn’t quite been depleted, so the company has decided to extend the offers to cover the Halloween and Bonfire Night period – at least while stocks last.
Read MoreWakefield 2022 – show report
With no London Show today, it’s a perfect time to remember Wakefield! This year’s Wakefield show was a slightly unusual one for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the show was held around a month later than usual, on 21st May, rather than its traditional April slot – although you could also argue that it had returned to its original traditional month; the show started out in May back in 1996.
Read More‘Not the London Show’ news from RISCOSbits
A regular exhibitor at RISC OS shows, RISCOSbits would have been at the one originally planned for tomorrow. However, as we (hopefully) all know, the London Show isn’t going ahead – but over the Summer and early Autumn Andy Marks from RISCOSbits has been working on a few new bits and pieces; things that would have been launched, released, shouted about from the rooftops (or at least a set of tables) at the show. So let’s pretend we’re there, and look at what Andy would be telling us on the…
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