Having recently updated his BusTimes application to allow forward planning for trips on the bus, Kevin Wells has now given the same treatment to TrainTimes. The application, which allows you to look at what trains are due at a specified station, can now do so at a date and time of your choosing. He has also uploaded a short video demonstrating the application and this new feature. The program draws its data from the Transport API website, so requires a working internet connection and a copy of Wget.
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Tony Bartram talks 3D graphics and sound in London – 21st January
The RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will hold its next meeting on Monday, 21st January, with Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games as the guest speaker, with 3D graphics and sound being the subject matter.
Read MoreNews bit: London Show date revealed
The date for the next London Show has now been revealed as 26th October, 2019. The venue will once again be the St Giles Hotel, Feltham.
Read MoreNews bit: Zimbabwe map now available to use with RiscOSM
Bernard Veasey has made available another vector map, complete with contour data, for use with RiscOSM, this time of Zimbabwe.
Read MoreNews nybble: BusTimes gains look-ahead feature
Kevin Wells has released another new version of his BusTimes application, bringing it up to version 1.03, with a new feature that allows you to specify a date and time for your chosen stop, allowing you to better plan ahead for your trip. Kevin has uploaded a short video to YouTube demonstrating the feature. The program draws its data from the Transport API website, so requires a working internet connection and a copy of Wget.
Read MoreNews nybble: January meeting in Southampton
RISC OS Users in the Southampton area have their next opportunity to meet on Tuesday, 15th January – with the meeting running from 7:00pm until 9:00pm in the Sports Centre of Itchen College, Deacon Road, Southampton – head for the College Centre, the open area with tables and chairs adjacent to the Sports Centre Reception desk. Anyone attending the meeting is welcome to bring along any hardware or software you want to show off to the others there, or to seek help with, and so on. There is usually at…
Read MoreTalk RISC OS in Bristol – 9th January
The next meeting of Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) takes place on Wednesday 9th January, starting at around 7:00-7:30pm (though some of us may arrive earlier) and continuing until closing time. The meeting will once again take place at:
Read MoreIt’s AGM time in Wakefield
If you’re a member, and if you can find them, maybe you can visit… the AGM! It’s the time of year when the most formally (read: properly) run user group in the world of RISC OS holds a meeting it labels as members only: It’s time for the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club‘s Annual General Meeting. This is the opportunity for members to review the Club’s activities, and so on, for the year that has just passed, and to have a say on the Club’s future, by electing the committee…
Read MoreNews bit: Find your way with some free maps
Unknown to RISCOSitory before now, it appears Bernard Boase Veasey has some vector maps (with contour data) available to download for use in RiscOSM. The maps cover Ecuador, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Kenya, Zambia, and Israel, and have just been updated with optimisations for use with the style sheet features in the latest versions of the mapping application from Sine Nomine
Read MoreDadJokes becomes multilingual
Now you can tell corny jokes in other languages. Kevin Wells has released an updated version of his cheesy joke application, DadJokes. Bringing it up to version 1.01, the new version of the application introduces a new feature, although that feature also brings a new (known) bug with it – but to balance that out slightly, Kevin has also squashed another small bug. The software’s purpose is quite simple: It presents a random joke to the user. While chuckle-inducing, these jokes are usually very cheesy, and if not they’re very…
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