Software – Page 2

RISC OS Developments London Show news – including a public Iris release

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 VinceH

With this year’s London Show drawing ever nearer – the doors will be open to the public in just two days on 25th October, at the Harrow District Masonic Centre – another announcement has landed in the RISCOSitory bunker, and, amongst other interesting news, this one includes something we’ve all been eagerly awaiting for a very long time: a public release of web browser Iris from RISC OS Developments. Over to Andrew Rawnsley for all the gory details:

PhotoDesk 3.25 now available

October 22, 2025October 22, 2025 VinceH

With the London Show now so close you can almost taste it – okay, I might be confusing the show with my snack – another software update has been announced by R-Comp, with immediate availability via !Store, and the option to buy at the show. This time the update is to PhotoDesk:

Fireworkz Pro 2 reaches version 2.33.00

October 20, 2025 VinceH

A new version of Fireworkz Pro 2 has been released by R-Comp (with availability via !Store and on CD at the RISC OS London Show on Saturday, 25th October). Over to Andrew Rawnsley for more details:

TrainTimes 2.08 arriving now

October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 VinceH

Having recently updated TrainTimes to version 2.07, Kevin Wells has already brought out another new version of his application for checking up on railway timetables and other related information.

Stations more accessible in TrainTimes 2.07

September 17, 2025September 17, 2025 VinceH

A new version of TrainTimes has been released. The program is one from the Kevin Wells family of applications that use Wget to request data from a remote application programmer interface (API).

Web2PDF adds interactive help in version 1.01

September 7, 2025September 7, 2025 VinceH

An update has been released by Kevin Wells to one of his newest applications, Web2PDF.

Cherry Bomb revisited in BBC BASIC

August 24, 2025August 24, 2025 VinceH

A couple of years ago, Jeroen Vermeulen ported Cherry Bomb to RISC OS, a shoot ’em up – aka a ‘shmup’ according to its original developer, Krystian Majewski – in which you control a ship at the bottom of the screen, and shoot down the incoming waves of alien attackers.

Screen grab websites with Webshot from Kevin Wells

August 16, 2025 VinceH

Kevin Wells has released a new application, called Webshot, which aims to take screen grabs of web pages. However, what it doesn’t do is simply save the screen (or browser window), which you could achieve anyway using Paint’s snapshot facility, or a third party application such as Snapper.

Web2PDF – a new application from Kevin Wells

July 16, 2025 VinceH

Kevin Wells has found another remote application programmer interface (API) to make use of for the benefit of RISC OS users, and as a result has released a new application: Web2PDF.

CardInfo 1.03 released

June 14, 2025June 14, 2025 VinceH

Kevin Wells has released an update to his CardInfo application that uses Wget to look up information online about our flexible friends, using a remote Application Programmer Interface (API).