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.
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News 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…
Read MoreNews nybble: R-Comp releases NetFetch 5.03
Existing users of R-Comp‘s NetFetch 5 package can now update their software to version 5.03, by downloading the new version from !Store – it should be in the “My Software” section. The main improvement in version 5.03 is to do with how the software deals with multiple SMTP servers. Support for this is relatively new, necessitated by the increasing use of Sender Policy Framework (SPF) as an anti-spam measure, and the new version sees some user interface improvements as a result of user feedback. For new users, NetFetch 5.03 can…
Read MoreNews nybble: OS and software updates from R-Comp
R-Comp Interactive will have a selection of OS and software updates for ARMSX ARMX6 and TiMachine computers, which they’ll be demonstrating at this weekend’s Southwest Show. OS update 11 for the ARMX6 brings with it a number of new features and improvements, in areas such as 16, 4K, and 64K colour modes, MODE 7, support for a 3840×1600 screen resolution, a new version of BASIC optimised for hardware-floating point, improved memory performance, and more. For the TiMachine, there is v4 of the high resolution graphics/multi-head driver, adding support for 256…
Read MoreNews nybble: Extra pre-show Bristol meeting – 22nd February
There will be an extra meeting on Thursday, 22nd February for RISC OS users in the Bristol area. With the Southwest Show taking place on Saturday, 24th, ROUGOL‘s Bryan Hogan is staying in Bristol before heading down to the Webbington Hotel on Friday. This makes the evening before an ideal opportunity for a friendly chat over a drink and a meal about all things RISC OS, Acorn, and computing – as well as anything else that may come up in conversation. The meeting will take place in a different venue…
Read MoreNews nybble: ROUGOL meeting – Monday 19th February
The next meeting for RISC OS users in and around London will take place tomorrow evening, kicking off at 7:45pm. ROUGOL’s Bryan Hogan will be speaking, with a topic entitled ARMs, ARMs, everywhere, apologetically referencing Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The talk will cover the phenomenal growth of ARM processors, which now outnumber humans on this planet by a huge factor, and look at the future – in particular, the problems RISC OS could face with the possibility of the ARM CPUs eventually losing their 32-bit…
Read MoreNews bit: Updated AMCS now available
A new version of AMCS, the MIDI/audio sequencer that replaces RISC OS with its own operating system, is available to download from the 3rd Event website. The new version features multiple USB-MIDI interface routing and various other tweaks and fixes.
Read MoreNews bit: Chris Hall’s FamTree now available from !Store
Timing it perfectly for the middle of the holiday part of the RISCOSitory bunker’s temporary shut down, Chris Hall has made his genealogy application, FamTree, available from !Store, priced at £15.00.
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