Announcement from Christopher Bazley, 15th September, 2013 I have released a new patch for Star Fighter 30001, a 1994 game where you fly a one-person fighter spacecraft around a mainly flat-shaded polygonal world shooting things, blowing them up, and collecting floating bonus coins.
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This category of post is used simply for publishing announcements and press releases more or less as they are supplied.
MTP updated
Announcement from Dave Higton, 14th September, 2013 I’ve updated MTP on my web site to version 0.21. This adds the ability to drag items directly from MTP’s viewer window to a RISC OS directory. MTP is a Media Transfer Protocol and Picture Transfer Protocol host application for RISC OS, allowing you to explore all the directories and files on an MTP or PTP device, and transfer files both from and to the device. MTP and PTP devices typically are mobile phones, cameras and media players.
Read MoreStrongED 4.69 released
Announcement from Fred Graute, 1st September, 2013 Hi, I’m pleased to announce that StrongED 4.69 is now available. Please note that this is a minimal release that contains only BaseMode. Other modes that you may wish to use have to be downloaded separately from the website (Download page -> Modes database).
Read MoreSystemDisc 1.01 now available
Announcement from Ben Avison of Piccolo Systems, 18th November, 2013 Piccolo Systems is pleased to announce the immediate release of SystemDisc 1.01. SystemDisc is a general-purpose tool for managing the system software on modern RISC OS systems. The benefits of using SystemDisc over the pre-existing solutions include:
Read MoreDrawPrint 1.43 released
Announcement from Hilary Phillips of Sine Nomine Software, 2nd December, 2013 Version 1.43 of DrawPrint can be downloaded the Sine Nomine website. The new version fixes bugs with JPEG objects, in particular printing them in landscape mode, and saving scaled draw files containing them.
Read MoreDiscKnight 1.51 released
Announcement from ARM Club’s Dave Ruck, 24th December, 2013 Version 1.51 of DiscKnight is now available, to request a copy go to the DiscKnight update page on the ARM Club website.
Read MoreThe Wakefield Back Catalogue CD
Announcement from WROCC’s Chris Hughes, 25th August, 2013 To celebrate 30 years of the club, Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club released the Third Edition of the Wakefield Back Catalogue CD at this year’s Wakefield Show. It now contains around 360 back issues of the newsletter, including more than 100 from the 1980s and 1990s which had once been considered lost. Indeed, we believe that there are now just three issues left unaccounted for from the Club’s 30 year history.
Read MoreCat, Countdown, SignalBox and Sudotutor releases
A selection of announcements from Chris Hall during 2013 Cat version 0.18, announced 4th July, 2013 A disc cataloguing utility, Cat version 0.18, is now available from !Store and via PackMan. This presents a disc catalogue in a window, showing a tree structure of files and directories. The contents can be saved in several forms and the graphical layout can be adjusted to suit. Disc contents can be compared and changed files (by datestamp and/or CRC) identified.
Read More!Store Christmas sale now on – Datapower family 50% off
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley of R-Comp, 21st December, 2013 Each day, or few days, over Christmas, different products will be on sale for significantly reduced prices. To begin with, the DataPower family of RISC OS database – generally considered to be some of RISC OS finest software – is on offer for 50% off. That means you can dip your toes in the water with the flexible, visual “DTP-style” DataPower Home for just 19.99ukp, or grab the extensive DataPower 3 relational database system for 49.99ukp, complete with SQL and scripting…
Read More!Store software registration and Christmas sales
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley of R-Comp, 18th December, 2013 We are pleased to announce the availability of a new service for users of our !Store1 download service. If you’re not a user yet, download it free at www.plingstore.org.uk The R-Comp Software Registration Service allows you to register your existing R-Comp/RCI purchases on !Store, so that you can access latest versions from any of your RISC OS machines with an internet connection.
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