Users of Sine Nomine‘s excellent mapping application RiscOSM, and its sibling application Recce, can now grab new versions of both pieces of software.
Read MoreRiscOSM 2.07 and Recce 1.06 both now on the map
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New route finder application KevNav
If you need to find your way from ‘a’ to ‘b’ you have a number of options available to you, with the most modern of these being to use a SatNav. However, some people (hello!) find their nagging insistence that you do what they tell you somewhat annoying, so very rarely bother to use them.
Read MoreQrCode 2.02 plays keepy uppy
Kevin Wells has released version 2.02 of his application for creating two dimensional bar codes, known as Quick Response (QR) codes. The application – QrCode – allows the user to key in certain information, and that information is then turned into one of the codes.
Read MoreNew year update for ScummVM
New year update for ScummVM The ScummVM team have released a small new year present for gaming fans, in the form of version 2.5.1 – a bugfix release, codenamed Californium because of the element’s average atomic mass – with, as ever, Cameron Cawley maintaining the RISC OS port of the system.
Read MoreTimeZones learns how to find out where you are in version 1.01
Kevin Wells recently released an application for looking up time zones from anywhere around the world, and he has now put out his first update for it. The release of version 1.01 of TimeZones brings two changes – one a new feature, and the other a presentation improvement.
Read MoreRetriever gets a better grip in version 0.03
A new version of Retriever has been made available by its developer, Thomas Milius, which benefits from a number of new features. The software offers a method of locating documents based on search terms or other criteria, but does so by building up an initial cache of data about your files, with the specific information varying based on their type.
Read MoreTimeZones application released
Find out if it’s too late/early to ring your Antipodean Auntie! Kevin Wells has released a new application that provides an easy way to look up information about different time zones around the world from the RISC OS desktop.
Read MoreSubstitute Soccer game released
Code the Classics 5 – Joroen Vermeulen… 5! Completing the set from the Code the Classic (Volume 1) book, Jeroen Vermeulen has now made available a RISC OS conversion of the fifth game from the book – Substitute Soccer.
Read MoreBusTimes 1.18 released
Not long after updating TrainTimes so that it could launch RiscOSM(or other suitable application) to display stations on a map, Kevin Wells has added a similar facility to BusTimes, an application that allows users of public transport to plan their bus journeys using the RISC OS desktop.
Read MoreEnter Mamie Fletcher’s House to prove ghosts aren’t rea… EEK!
The timing of this year’s London Show put it the day before Halloween, making it nice timing for the release of a couple of games with an appropriate theme – and one of those games was Mamie Fletcher’s House by Rick Murray, which is available to buy from !Store for £4.99.
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