Although this is the first post for 2019, it’s also the last post of 2018! It’s once again time for a round up of new releases, updates, and so on, that have somehow not made it to these pages before, with a whole bunch of news snippets from 2018.
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Show report: Wakefield 2018
That’s last year’s record for a long-delayed show report broken! This year’s Wakefield Show took place on 21st April, at the Cedar Court Hotel, organised by the local user group – the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC). Like last year, I must apologise for another long-delayed RISCOSitory show report. As ever, this is mainly because of how busy I am outside the world of RISC OS, but also because I wanted to edit down my video recordings of the theatre talks to a more manageable length – and video…
Read MoreEnjoy some Christmas cheer with ROUGOL
The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London will take place on Monday, 17th December – but rather than a normal meeting, with a guest speaker, this last meeting before Christmas has instead been scheduled as the group’s informal Christmas Meal. This is because the normal venue for ROUGOL’s meetings, the upstairs restaurant in the Blue-Eyed Maid, tends to be in high demand at this time of year. Therefore, the group may have to meet downstairs, in the bar – making it an ideal opportunity for those…
Read MoreRun DadJokes to see bad jokes
Or at least very (a)corny ones. Kevin Wells has released another application that makes use of Wget to act as an interface between the RISC OS user and a remote website. Called DadJokes, the purpose of the software this time isn’t to perform a useful service, but instead to do something much better – display a random, and usually very corny joke.
Read MoreFestive fun in Wakefield – 5th December
What? Festivities already? But it’s still 55 weeks until Christmas! The next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) is to be held on Wednesday, 5th December, at: West Yorkshire Sports and Social Club,Sandal Hall Close (Off Walton Lane),Wakefield,WF2 6ER.
Read MoreProphet reveals its own future
A portent of coming… increased functionality! A new version of Prophet is now available. The software is a comprehensive business accounts package, with features that compare well to those found on much more expensive accounts packages on other platforms. It was originally written by Quentin Pain and sold through Apricote Studios (now Accountz), and as of earlier this year it is being looked after by Rob Sprowson and sold through Elesar Ltd.
Read MoreNews nybble: TrainTimes 1.06 now available
Kevin Wells has released another update to his TrainTimes application, which uses Wget to display information about trains due at any given UK railway station via the TransportAPI website, and thence about those trains themselves. The update to version 1.06 contains a few small fixes. Firstly, When the number of trains due is either ten or twenty, there is now no button for the next pageful after the last ten. Secondly, there is now an hourglass displayed when timetables are loaded. In addition there are a couple of spelling and…
Read MoreNews nybble: TrainTimes 1.05 arriving now
Kevin Wells has released another update to his TrainTimes application. The software, which uses Wget to interrogate the Transport API site, presents the user about trains due at a chosen station. Clicking on a button for any of those trains will reveal stations and times for that train’s route – and the new feature in version 1.05 is that it is now possible to click on any of those stations to view the times of trains due there.
Read MoreAMCOG Games to visit users in the Midlands this Saturday
The Midlands User Group (MUG) will next meet on Saturday, 17th November, and their guest speaker will be Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games. Tony only became a RISC OS user a few years ago, released his first game for the platform in 2015. Since then he has built up quite a catalogue of titles, covering several different genres, with the latest addition being a top-down racing game called Stunt Drivers.
Read MoreBristol meeting – 14th November
RISC OS users in and around the Bristol area have their next opportunity to meet up for a chat, a bite to eat, and a drink, on Wednesday, 14th November. The meeting will run from 7:00-7:30pm until closing time, at: The Eldon House,6 Lower Clifton Hill,Bristol,BS8 1BT.
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