If you want to find information about a file or directory from within RISC OS, the obvious thing to do in the desktop environment is to click the ‘Menu’ mouse button with the pointer over the object in a filer window, go to the submenu for it and choose ‘Info’.
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ScummVM 2026.3.0 released
Moving up a notch yet again thanks to its increased release cycle, ScummVM 2026.3.0 is now available to download, featuring a number of bug fixes and other improvements to some of the engines it supports, and bringing a host of newly supported games to be played.
Read MoreRCI rolling out RISC OS 5.31-based updates
Starting with the i.MX6-based systems, R-Comp’s sister company RCI – which handles the hardware side of things – is rolling out ‘OS Update 24’ for the various computers they sell.
Read MoreBreak out your contollers to play Kinetix
Do you see what I did there? 😉 It’s game time again, with another title from Code the Classics Volume II converted to run on RISC OS by Jeroen Vermeulen – this time a Breakout clone called Kinetix, which is now available to download from !Store.
Read MoreKevsoft adds another quiz to the list: SemaQuiz
Kev Wells has released another new quiz application based on his quiz engine, this time designed to test people’s knowledge of Semaphore flag signalling, a visual method of sending information using handheld flags.
Read MoreThe King is in his counting house – in Silver River Kingdom
Initially released at the RISC OS North show last month, the latest title from AMCOG Games has now been made more widely available. Silver River Kingdom can now be purchased via !Store, priced at £14.99.
Read MoreRedecorating the desktop – ROUGOL meeting, 20th April
If you think your RISC OS desktop is looking a bit bland and in need of a lick of paint, Paolo Zaino has the tool to help with that task in the form of ExtTheme – and he’ll be presenting it to the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) at the group’s next meeting, on 20th April.
Read MoreKevSoft Quiz Engine updated with release 2 of the skeleton app
Kevin Wells has issued a second release of his Quiz Engine, an application for creating multiple choice quizzes on RISC OS – and which forms the basis of his own two quiz releases, FlagQuiz and MorseQuiz. The main Quiz Engine program remains at version 1.02, with the ‘misc’ file standing at 1.01, but the skeleton application is now at release 2.
Read MoreScummVM 2026.2.0 released
Benefitting from a new, more frequent release cycle, another new version of ScummVM is available – version 2026.2.0!
Read MoreBrush up on your Morse code
Following his FlagQuiz and Quiz Engine releases, Kevin Wells has now made another quiz available, this time to allow people to test their knowledge of Morse code. The application, MorseQuiz presents the user with a series of ten multiple choice questions, each of which has four possible answers.
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