Kevin Wells has followed up his recent update to BusTimes with a similar one to TrainTimes, bringing it up to version 1.14. While the purpose of BusTimes is to provide RISC OS users with access to bus stop timetable and bus route information via the Transport API website using Wget, TrainTimes offers similar facilities for trains and stations, and the update to version 1.14 allows station timetables to be saved – either the current time, or one chosen by the user.
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October discounts from R-Comp
Three products from R-Comp are on special offer this month, as part of what they’re calling an ongoing ‘COVID year of horror’ sale. The three products are:
Read MoreScummVM 2.2.0 released with support for a colossal range of games
And support for a colossal game, too. Well, one with colossal in its name! With some superb work from its developers, and in particular Cameron Cawley for his work on the RISC OS port, a new version of ScummVM has been released, and it makes a huge number of old games playable on modern hardware.
Read MoreNews nybble: Fireworkz Pro price reduced until the end of September
It’s a show meeting discount! Stuart Swales will be the guest speaker for the RISC OS User Group of London’s next meeting, where he will be talking about his time at both Acorn and Colton Software. To coincide with the meeting, which takes place on Monday, 21st September via Zoom, the price of Fireworkz Pro has been reduced in price by roughly half until the end of this month. The application is an integrated office suite, consisting of word processor, spreadsheet, and database components. Originally developed and sold by Colton…
Read MoreIf you missed one update to BusTimes, there was another soon after
Kevin Wells has released two updates to his BusTimes application in fairly quick succession, with the latest version being 1.15.
Read MoreWinEd 3.26 released
After a decade of gathering dust that ended when Steve Fryatt took a look at the application, releasing a new version last month, WinEd has been updated again. This time, as well as looking at a few bugs, Steve has paid particular attention to the way it exports icon names, and re-implemented that feature completely.
Read MoreIcnClipBrd and Clipper updated
Following an update in June to Clipper, Steve Fryatt has done more work on the program, as well as related module IcnClipBrd, bringing them up to versions 0.30 and 0.20 respectively.
Read MoreProphet 4.06 now available
A minor update to accounts package Prophet is now available from Elesar Ltd. The software was originally developed by Apricote Studios (now known as Accountz), and hadn’t seen any further updates for many years until Elesar stepped in and took on sales and further development to the package. Initially ensuring it was fully 32-bit compatible, and therefore fully functional on modern RISC OS systems so that anyone still using it could be assured of still being able to do so, the company has also added an important (optional extra) feature…
Read MoreStreetFix coned off and updated
An application from Kevin Wells that uses Wget to provide easy access to online resources from the RISC OS desktop, the aim of StreetFix is designed to make it easy to report neighbourhood problems to the relevant local authority, such as potholes, damaged lampposts, and so on, via the FixMyStreet website.
Read MoreNews nybble: Some ‘housekeeping’ updates from Steve Fryatt
In order to facilitate the recent update to Launcher, Steve Fryatt made some changes to his Wimp library – and because of that changing, he has recompiled his C-based applications. This, he says, was mainly to ensure that the published source code will still build with the library, but does note that as a side benefit, they may benefit from other small improvements to the library – although in theory, mostly only in terms of stability. The updated applications, all of which can be found on Steve’s website or obtained…
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