A very simple game that’s been around for about a decade is 2048, a sliding tile game in which the goal is to slide all of the numbered tiles in one of four directions, in order to cause collisions between two tiles bearing the same number, at which point they combine to become the total of the two.
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Or rather play a game called A-maze-ing! Theorising that one could hype up a game within its own name, Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games sat in front of his home computer – which wasn’t a Sinclair QL – and wrote a game titled A-maze-ing.
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Kevin Wells’ application that allows you to view and report local problems, such as pesky potholes, broken bollards, smashed streetlights, and so on, has seen an update.
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Okay, not really: ‘f13’ means thirteenth full release, and is not a reference to Friday the 13th! Fred Graute has released an update to StrongED. The application was originally developed by Guttorm Vik, who described it, modestly, as a general purpose text editor, allowing you to edit any type of file whose contents were textual in nature, or which could be easily converted to text, such as BASIC programs.
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Steve Fryatt has released a new version of PrintPDF, with a new facility that can be used by developers of other applications.
Read MoreCloudFS is a filing system from Elesar Ltd that provides RISC OS with access to cloud-based storage, currently via pCloud. An update to the software has been released, bringing it up to version 0.34. This now checks for, and selects, the closest and least loaded server when connecting, in order to bring a speed gain of up to 30% over using the default servers. It also now preserves load and execution addresses in a more suitable way for use with HostFS and RPCEMu, as well as newer versions of LanManFS…
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The application from Kevin Wells for looking up exchange rates and other related information, Currency, has been updated to version 2.01.
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If you use R-Comp‘s Network Printer Drivers, you may have encountered a problem if you’ve also been using recent beta versions of RISC OS 5.29, incorporating changes to FileSwitch. Those changes have brought about compatibility issues with support for HP JetDirect, a technology in use on many network capable printers – not just those from Hewlett-Packard. An update to the Network Printer Drivers software, released this week, addresses the issue – version 2.04 is now available from !Store.
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R-Comp‘s support packages for the 4té and Raspberry Pi 4 (on which it is based) have both been updated, with the latest versions – 1.21 – both available to download. In the case of PiTools, that’ll be via !Store, and in the case of 4téTools, from the users’ download site, detailed in the machine’s support documentation. The reason for the update is that an issue cropped up with some of the LockScreen options, which have now been resolved.
Read MoreKevin Wells has released an update to his political tool, MPdata+. The program allows you to access information found on the They Work For You website about your local MP. It does this by identifying your MP from your postcode – so you can use it to look up any MP if you know a postcode in their constituency.
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