You receive 25 health! Following R-Comp‘s release of a new version of Quake just before this year’s Southwest Show, further work has been carried out on the source code, and there is now a new version available from !Store. The updated version benefits from hardware-accelerated floating point capabilities of modern CPUs, which provides a significant performance boost, with profiles included to offer either smooth 60 frames per second gameplay, or higher resolutions, or aspect-correct widescreen, and so on. The game can now be played on the Raspberry Pi 3, and…
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News nybble: 3D squash game released
And called TENiS. Obviously. Patrick M has released yet another simple game, which he says is “based on tennis but it’s a bit different, so I’ve spelled it TENiS” – well, quite. It’s actually a one player squash game. Squash is indeed a bit like tennis, but you hit the ball against the far wall – exactly like you do in Patrick’s TENiS game. Odd naming aside, the objective of this simple but fun game is to keep the ball in play, bouncing it against the far walls, as well…
Read MoreNews nybble: Midlands meeting, 17th March
The Midlands User Group will be holding their next meeting on Saturday, 17th March, 2018, at 2:00pm, with the subject being promotion of RISC OS – how to get bring the OS to the attention of potential new users. If you have any ideas, the place to be on Saturday afternoon is: The Methodist Church Hall, Greenhill, Blackwell, Bromsgrove, B60 1BL.
Read MoreNews nybble: Raspberry Pi 3B+ launched
Yesterday was Pi Day, a name reflecting that if you write your dates in either Overpuddlian form (mm-dd-yyyy) or as specified by ISO 8601 (yyyy-mm-dd) – in both cases ignoring the year – you get 3-14, which sort of looks like Pi to two decimal places if you squint a bit so that the dash looks like a decimal point. A fitting day, then, for the Raspberry Pi Foundation to release another version of its credit card-sized computer: A ‘+’ version of the Raspberry Pi 3 model B. The most…
Read MoreNews nybble: Bristol RISC OS Users meeting – 14th March
Wednesday, 14th March will see the next meeting of Bristol RISC OS Users. The meeting is slated to begin at around 7:30pm, though some members may arrive earlier, and will continue on until closing time. It will take place at: The Eldon House Pub, 6 Lower Clifton Hill, Bristol, BS8 1BT. Being informal in nature, there is no set topic or a speaker, but user Steven Green plans to bring along his HDMI Pi to show off – a Raspberry Pi set up in a tablet-esque form factor, using RISCOSbits‘…
Read MoreNews nybble: Southampton User Group meeting – 13th March
This coming Tuesday evening – 13th March – marks the date of the next Southampton RISC OS User Group meeting. Running from 7:00pm until 9:00pm, the meeting takes place at: The Sports Centre, Itchen College, Deacon Road, Southampton. Look out for an open area with tables and chairs by the Sports Centre Reception desk – and depending when you arrive, the network of RISC OS computers may also serve as a clue. The car park entrance is found on Deacon Road, opposite Whites Road.
Read MoreNews bit: HTML to RISC OS colour conversion tool
Tim Hill has added an online HTML to RISC OS colour conversion tool, Hex 2 Percent, to his website. The page accepts a six digit HTML hexadecimal colour value as input, and returns the red, green and blue percentage values used by RISC OS colour pickers.
Read MoreNews nybble: RISC OS eXperience, 2018 – 12th May
The Big Ben Club‘s annual gathering, the RISC OS eXperience (English translation) will be taking place this year on Saturday, 12th May, running from 10:00am until 4:00pm. Focusing on the support of Raspberry Pi and RISC OS amongst Dutch users, the event will take place at its usual venue, not far from Amsterdam: Wijkgebouw de Vuister, Molenwerf 44, 1541 WR Koog aan de Zaan, The Netherlands. Admission is free for both visitors and exhibitors, and the venue supplies refreshments for a reasonable price. There is a car park right outside…
Read MoreNews nybble: Quiz time at WROCC – 7th March
The next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club will take place at 7:45pm on Wednesday, 7th March, when attendees can enjoy an entertaining and educational computer-related quiz, devised by Peter Richmond. The remainder of the evening will then be given over to an informal discussion about the Club itself. The meeting takes place at the West Yorkshire Sports and Social Club, Sandal Hall Close (off Walton Lane), Wakefield, WF2 6ER. Members of the Club can get in for free, while there is a fee of £3.00 for non-members.…
Read MoreNews nybble: Quake Ressurection… erm… resurrected
Oh well – looks like I won’t be getting any real work done for a while! A new version of Quake Resurrection has been released by R-Comp Interactive. First launched by the company for the StrongARM RiscPC, the 2018 edition has been updated for modern hardware, such as the ARMX6 and Titanium, but it also supports both real and Virtual RiscPC systems, as well as the Iyonix, Pi, and so on. The game includes the original levels for the classic first person shooter, along with the Malice ‘total conversion’ (which…
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