No, not you, the person operating the computer – the companies operating the trains! Another update has been pushed out by Kevin Wells to his application for checking railway timetables, TrainTimes, with a behavioural improvement and a handy new feature.
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Show report: Wakefield 2023
No London Show again? Read about the last Wakefield one instead! Due to circumstances beyond the control of the organisers, last year’s Wakefield Show morphed into the Wradfold show – Wakefield, but in Bradford – and this year, the show carried on in the same location, for much the same reason. It took place on 22nd April at the Cedar Court Hotel in – well, yes – Bradford.
Read MoreNews nybble: A not-the-London-Show outing – 28th October
With the London Show not happening this year its organisers, the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL), are offering the opportunity to have a group day out instead. The plan is to spend some time from 3:00pm at the Delight Media Art Exhibition, and then head to The Real Greek for food at 5:00pm. If you want to participate, you’ll need to book your own ticket(s) for the exhibition at the link above, and let them know if you’ll be joining them for the meal – as soon as…
Read MoreConversation time again with ROUGOL – 16th October
Tonight at 7:45pm, the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will be holding their October meeting – and for the third month in a row it will be one for members and other attendees to have a general chat about all things RISC OS, anything related, and probably a lot that isn’t as well. This is because, like last month and the month before, it hasn’t been possible to arrange a formal speaker for the meeting.
Read MoreLinux gets a look-in with WROCC – 12th October
Back in June, Mark Stephens talked about using RISC OS in conjunction with MacOS at the Wakefield RISC OS User Group (WROCC) meeting, and July saw a similar overview by Andrew Rawnsley, but that time the subject was using RISC OS and Windows together. For the October meeting, a third notable operating system and how it can be used alongside ‘our’ system comes under the spotlight – Linux.
Read MoreTrainTimes goes choo choo
No, wait, that’s ‘two (point oh) two’. Kevin Wells has updated his railway timetable-checking application TrainTimes again, bringing it up to version 2.02. The changes in this version are a mix of cosmetic changes and bug fixes.
Read MorePartition manager discussion at MUG – 7th October
The next Midlands User Group (MUG) meeting will take place on Saturday, 7th October, at which the group will be looking at and discussing Jon Abbott’s Partition Manager software.
Read MoreWakefield 2024 announced
With the 2023 Wakefield Show now almost six months behind us (report coming soon, folks), the organisers (the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club) have now officially announced the next show for Saturday, 27th April, 2024.
Read MoreA new range of Mini machines joins the RISCube range
There are a number of variations of RISCube range of computers from R-Comp are Windows systems with a flavour of VirtualRiscPC preinstalled, and the company has now added yet another range in the form of RISCube Minis that make the previous RISCube Minis look a bit less mini.
Read MoreDevelopers’ fireside chat – 30th September
The next friendly ‘fireside chat’ for people interested in software development for RISC OS will take place on Saturday, 30th September, with the official run time scheduled for 7:30pm.
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