Or whisper. It’s your choice, and under your control! Jon Abbott, taking a break from making old games work via ADFFS as part of the Archimedes Software Preservation Project, has released a new version of pi-topUtils. The software provides things like a battery level indicator, screen dimming (which helps preserve battery life), automatic shutdown, and so on. The new version – 1.04, which is for the original pi-top only, not the pi-top2 – adds support for (and control of) the speaker in the Raspberry Pi-based laptop, initialising them and allowing…
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News nybble: Wakefield to see the release of RISC OS 5.24 (Updated to clarify target platforms)
Also: No touching – ew! RISC OS Open Ltd will be bringing RISC OS 5.24 to Wakefield. This will be the first public outing of the new stable release of the operating system, which will cover all platforms except iMX6 and OMAP5 – and for Pi users, this will be the first chance for people to get their hands on a copy for themselves, with newly updated editions of the RISC OS Pi and ePic cards. The company will also have the latest edition of the Desktop Development Environment, and…
Read MoreNews nybble: qoppa loada this website generator
Gavin Wraith has released a new tool for generating websites and updating individual web pages. Called Qoppa, the application is – unsurprisingly – built on RiscLua, and it will parse the directory in which it is placed, generating web pages from those files. The files can contain HTML or some limited ‘markdown’, get a default but customisable header and footer added, and link to a simple – but again customisable – CSS file. The output location is specified in a system variable, and if any of the files are updated,…
Read MoreNews nybble: Wolf3D and Doom Trilogy updates
A new version of the Doom Trilogy is available from R-Comp through !Store – priced at £14.99, or available in ‘My Software’ as a free update if you have already purchased. If you have an aversion to purchasing through !Store, ‘over the counter’ at Wakefield is also an option. There have been some small improvements to Doom, the main game in the pack, but the headline feature is the inclusion of an updated and enhanced copy of Wolfenstein 3D, thanks to work done by Jon Abbott and internal RCI staff.…
Read MoreNews nybble: MPdata+ brings local elections to the RISC OS desktop
Kevin Wells’ application for displaying information about your local representitive, MPdata+, has gained another new feature – it can now tell you when there are upcoming elections in your local area. The program uses wget to fetch data from remote sites, parse it, and then present it in a RISC OS window, and for the new feature the data is found on the Who Can I Vote For website.
Read MoreNews nybble: WeatherUK updated
Stopped working due to the wrong kind of snow on the PCB tracks. Or something. A new version of R-Comp‘s WeatherUK, written by Malcolm Hussain-Gambles, is available to download from !Store. The application connects to a server to download current and forecast weather, displaying that information in a window on the RISC OS desktop – but a change at the server end meant the program had stopped working correctly. The new version addresses the changes, and as an added bonus increases the list of built-in, known locations – and the…
Read MoreNews bit: Patrick M’s games now all webbed up
Patrick M, who has written a variety of simple but fun games for RISC OS, has now put together a web page to host all the games in one place, hosted on his personal server. The games are also now available from !Store
Read MoreAMCOG Flash Collection now available from Elesar
Flash! Aah-aah… I’ve played every one of them! At the recent Southwest Show, there was a new product available from AMCOG Games – a USB Flash drive containing the complete set of the company’s RISC OS games and related titles to date. For those people unable to get to the show, it is now possible to obtain the AMCOG 2018 Flash Collection online.
Read MoreNews bit: Lcheck receives some bug fixes
Kevin Wells’ multi-lottery result checking application, Lcheck – which uses Wget to fetch the results and then parses and displays them in a user friendly format – has been updated to squash a couple of bugs.
Read MoreNews bit: USB joystick driver now available
Richard Walker has released an alpha version of a module to allow the use of USB joysticks on RISC OS. With the module running, any games that use the Acorn and Serial Port joystick SWIs should respond and work with a modern USB HID-compliant joystick.
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