TrainTimes is a new application from Kevin Wells. Less astute readers might assume that’s some kind of newspaper for train spotters, but everyone else will surely realise it’s actually for viewing the times that trains are due. The application can display the times for up to the next eight trains that are due at any given UK railway station, with a button for each of those trains that will show you the stations and times for that individual train.
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Voting is now open in the RISC OS Awards for 2017
The annual RISC OS Awards poll undertaken by RISCOSitory on the RISC OS Awards website is now under way – so you can now cast your votes. The poll is running a little later than planned, but between now and late May you will be able to vote for your favourite piece of software, the show you enjoyed the most, the project you find most interesting, and so on. As usual, there are up to six initial suggestions in most categories, along with an option to make an alternative nomination,…
Read MoreNews nybble: Game development at ROUGOL – 19th March
The last few years have seen a notable upsurge in game development on RISC OS, and this month’s ROUGOL meeting reflects that. Kicking off at 7:45pm, the meeting takes place on Monday, 19th March, at it’s usual venue: The Blue-Eyed Maid (upstairs, in the restaurant), 173 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1HR. The subject matter is Game Development, with a presentation being given jointly by Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games and Tim H-Smith of Square Games. Tony is now a familiar name to RISC OS Users, but Tim is a…
Read MoreNews nybble: Rick Murray releases KanaTutor
Learning Japanese, I think I’m learning Japanese, I really think so! For a number of years now, Rick Murray has been trying to learn the hiragana and katakana Japanese syllabaries, which are components of the written language. To assist with the process, he has developed an application called KanaTutor, which is now available free of charge from !Store. Rick explains that the program is not a one-stop tool for learning Japanese, the written form of which is very complicated – it’s merely a self-help learning/testing tool. You really need to…
Read MoreNews nybble: Quake updated
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…
Read MoreNews 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.
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