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…
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News 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.
Read MoreNews bit: Batch convert video files
In order to solve the problem of converting multiple video files to a RISC OS friendly format, Raik Fischer has written a front-end for FFmpeg that makes it possible to process a whole series of files in one go, rather than run the process for each individual file.
Read MoreNews nybble: Imagery given kiss of life
Rick Murray has dug out an old graphics application, Imagery, that was originally a commercial package and subsequently released on an Acorn World cover disc in 1993. With some basic – or in this case BASIC – hacking, the application now works again on modern systems. For more details – and a link to download – have a read of this thread on the RISC OS Open forum.
Read MoreMop Tops top speed topped up
And some other game updates from AMCOG, too. A number of titles from AMCOG Games – specifically, those that run in 16 million colour screen modes – have been updated with improved compatibility with the latest ROM updates for ARMSX ARMX6 and Titanium machines. At the same time, the company has seen fit to add some new features to the products, as follows:
Read MoreArriving on the platform now: Train times
TrainTimes is a new application from Kevin Wells. Less astute readers might assume that’s some kind of newspaper for train spotters, but everyone else will surely realise it’s actually for viewing the times that trains are due. The application can display the times for up to the next eight trains that are due at any given UK railway station, with a button for each of those trains that will show you the stations and times for that individual train.
Read MoreNews nybble: Rick Murray releases KanaTutor
Learning Japanese, I think I’m learning Japanese, I really think so! For a number of years now, Rick Murray has been trying to learn the hiragana and katakana Japanese syllabaries, which are components of the written language. To assist with the process, he has developed an application called KanaTutor, which is now available free of charge from !Store. Rick explains that the program is not a one-stop tool for learning Japanese, the written form of which is very complicated – it’s merely a self-help learning/testing tool. You really need to…
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