On Thursday, Michael Grunditz started a new thread on the RISC OS Open forums, titled “First post from Tinker Board (RK3288)” and a very simple opening post: “Worth a separate post! Posting with NetSurf from my new port! 🙂 http://www.update.uu.se/~micken/rkhellow.jpg“
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News nybble: MPdata+ brings local elections to the RISC OS desktop
Kevin Wells’ application for displaying information about your local representitive, MPdata+, has gained another new feature – it can now tell you when there are upcoming elections in your local area. The program uses wget to fetch data from remote sites, parse it, and then present it in a RISC OS window, and for the new feature the data is found on the Who Can I Vote For website.
Read MoreNews nybble: Southampton meeting – 10th April
The next meeting for RISC OS users in and around Southampton will take place on Tuesday, 10th April. As ever, admission is free and anyone is welcome to come along – and there will be at least one small network of RISC OS computers, hopefully with a connection to the internet. The venue, as usual, is the Sports Centre of Itchen College – look out for the College Centre, an open area with tables and chairs next to the Sports Centre Reception desk. The College car park is accessed from…
Read MoreNews nybble: WeatherUK updated
Stopped working due to the wrong kind of snow on the PCB tracks. Or something. A new version of R-Comp‘s WeatherUK, written by Malcolm Hussain-Gambles, is available to download from !Store. The application connects to a server to download current and forecast weather, displaying that information in a window on the RISC OS desktop – but a change at the server end meant the program had stopped working correctly. The new version addresses the changes, and as an added bonus increases the list of built-in, known locations – and the…
Read MoreTalks to look forward to in London
Publicising things well in advance? This is so not RISC OS! The RISC OS User Group of London has already made plans for guest speakers for a few meetings in the coming months, and has put that information “out there” so that anyone interested – and who is able to venture into the nation’s Capital – can plan ahead.
Read MoreRISC OS Awards: What about those alternative nominations, then?
The RISC OS Awards poll for 2017 has been open now for about a week and a half, and there have been 60 votes cast – so now is probably a good time as any to take a look at some of the alternative nominations people have made if they felt something other than the options on offer deserve to win in any given category.
Read MoreNews bit: Patrick M’s games now all webbed up
Patrick M, who has written a variety of simple but fun games for RISC OS, has now put together a web page to host all the games in one place, hosted on his personal server. The games are also now available from !Store
Read MoreAMCOG Flash Collection now available from Elesar
Flash! Aah-aah… I’ve played every one of them! At the recent Southwest Show, there was a new product available from AMCOG Games – a USB Flash drive containing the complete set of the company’s RISC OS games and related titles to date. For those people unable to get to the show, it is now possible to obtain the AMCOG 2018 Flash Collection online.
Read MoreBreaking: RISC OS unforked thanks to lottery win
In an astounding start to April, some frankly brilliant news has landed on the RISCOSitory desk: the long running issue of two separate parties laying claim to ownership of RISC OS has finally been put to bed thanks to the proceeds of a large win on the Euro Lottery.
Read MoreNews bit: Lcheck receives some bug fixes
Kevin Wells’ multi-lottery result checking application, Lcheck – which uses Wget to fetch the results and then parses and displays them in a user friendly format – has been updated to squash a couple of bugs.
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