Having first demonstrated it at this year’s Southwest Show, R-Comp Interactive has now released an upgrade to allow computers based around the i.MX6 CPU/GPU to benefit from hardware graphics acceleration. With it running, scrolling through documents is much faster, redraw is greatly improved when moving windows around, and so on. Priced at £29.99, the upgrade is available via !Store (look for “ARMX6 Turbo Graphics”) or, if you’d prefer, get in touch with R-Comp on 01925 755 043 to purchase it over the phone, in which case the (quite small) module…
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BusTimes gains more stops
Kevin Wells has released version 1.02 of his bus timetable application, BusTimes. The software can show the user which buses arrive at a given stop and at what times, and clicking on a button for a particular bus will display its route and timetable.
Read MoreMessenger Pro goes “D’oh!” with new feature
R-Comp has made available a new version of Messenger Pro, a ‘point release’ that brings it up to version 8.01, and which is free to download from !Store for existing customers using version 8.
Read MoreStreetFix fixed
TrainTimes also fixed, but that ruins the play on words in the title! Kevin Wells has released small updates to two of his applications, StreetFix and TrainTimes. In both cases, the updates address bugs in the programs, with one of those bugs shared by both.
Read MoreNew from Kevsoft: StreetFix
Kevin Wells has released a brand new application, StreetFix – near the bottom of the Political and Civic Tools section – which makes viewing and reporting neighbourhood problems, such as broken lampposts, a doddle.
Read MoreToggleBD version 1.09 released
Fred Graute has released a new version of ToggleBD, a utility to raise the desktop backdrop to the front so that objects pinned to it are more easily accessible than by minimising windows and/or moving them around in order to find that pinned item. Using its iconbar icon, or a configurable hot-key combination, the backdrop can be both raised and lowered, so once you’ve found and used that pinned item, it’s quick and easy to return to your original task.
Read MoreNews nybble: Become a Kquiz Kquizmaster
Kevin Wells has released a new version of Kquiz. The application – which needs wget to operate, because it draws its data from the Open Trivia Database website – offers the sort of trivia questions you might encounter in quizzes. As such, it allows you to hone your knowledge in all sorts of areas of trivia and to get in some practice if you intend to enter any quizzes yourself. The new version adds a ‘quizmaster’ option, which offers ten questions on the various subjects selected by the user. Kevin…
Read MoreNews nybble: Manga now at version 0.30
Since its initial release last year, Rick Murray’s Manga application, which allows RISC OS users to access manga – a form of Japanese comics – found on mangareader.net. Rick has released a number of updates to the software since its initial release, and amongst other things the latest version gains support for Ctrl-Left and -Right keypresses to go backwards or skip forwards by ten pages, scroll wheel support in the What’s new, Suggestions, Search results and History editor windows. The software can be downloaded from Rick’s home server whenever that’s…
Read MoreNews nybble: DigitalCD and friends updated
André Timmermans has released new versions of DigitalCD (version 3.11), TimPlayer (1.26) and DiskSample (0.55). The changes to DigitalCD are mainly bug fixes, but the updates to both TimPlayer and DiskSample include additional changes, such as the ability to play RAW CD files in the latter, and improved and expanded loaders in the former. In addition, André has also released version 0.04 of EmulTim, a collection of sound modules that are “emulated through calls to the TimPlayer module” with the goal of allowing their use (with some limitations) on versions…
Read MoreNews nybble: AMCS MIDI/audio sequencer updated
A new version is now available of the Advanced Music Creation System from 3rd Event – a MIDI/audio sequencer that doesn’t just run on RISC OS, but replaces it to become the operating system on the computer. This latest version is to be used on 3rd Event’s Inverted Light Source radio show on fnoob techno on 29th August.
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