Daily directories for saving safely. Fred Graute, current maintainer of StrongED, released a new version of Transient towards the end of last year, a utility that provides a temporary directory on the hard drive, creating a new subdirectory each day in order to help organise files. The application puts an icon on the left side of the icon bar that can be used much like a RAM disk, to which you can drag and save files, such as downloads from a web browser. Unlike the RAM disk, however, the files…
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UnitConv 2.35 available
A conversion is as good as a rest. Late last year, Chris Johnson made available version 2.35 of UnitConv, his application for performing conversions between different units. Mainly offering SI and Imperial units, UnitConv also allows for some more specialised conversions, such as energy equivalents, along with a few other gems, such as binary, octal, hexadecimal and decimal conversions, a gas molecule speed calculator and an image size reckoner.
Read MoreMCPIO module released, Basalt updated
This is not the droid you’re looking for. Because it’s not a droid – it’s a module. Steve Drain has released version 0.20 of MCPIO, a small, specialised module to control the MCP23017 IIC expander ports on the Raspberry Pi, along with an updated version of Basalt with a new MCPIO keyword.
Read MoreHatari updated to run on Raspberry Pi
Hatari… Ho! Goody! NO RISC – NO FUN‘s Franck Martinaux has released a new version of Hatari, the Atari ST emulator. Previously only available for computers running RISC OS 5.18 on at least a Cortex-A8 (ARMv7) processor as used in the BeagleBoard and PandaBoard, this update of the RISC OS port allows it to be used on a Raspberry Pi, which uses an ARMv6 BroadCom BCM2835 SoC (System on a Chip).
Read MorePrintPDF, CashBook updated, build tools released
Now have their innards on display The day before the recent London Show, Steve Fryatt, who was unable to exhibit at the show, announced updates to two pieces of software – PrintPDF and CashBook – and a change to his choice of licence for the software.
Read MoreWebGen2 updated to version 2.48, 2.49
Web gallery app upped and upped again Back around the time of the 2012 London Show, Dave Stratford released an update to his website/gallery generator, WebGen2, bringing it up to version 2.48, and a couple of weeks later he released another update to bring the application up to version 2.49. When presented with a folder of images, the software can produce either a single index page containing thumbnails of all the images, an index page of the thumbnails with a link to pages containing the full size images, or a…
Read MoreFastDOSBox 1.00 now available
Faster than a speeding bullet… albeit an old, comparatively slow, speeding bullet, by today’s standards Franck Martinaux has made version 1.00 of FastDosBox available from the NO RISC – NO FUN website. Previously mentioned on the website, the application was described as being available exclusively from PlingStore, R-Comp’s initiative to make it easier for new users to discover software they might be interested in.
Read MoreRise of the Triad now working on the Raspberry Pi
And that’s not a reference to a typical Triad diet! Just in time for Halloween, Frank Martinaux of NO RISC – NO FUN, released an update to his port of Rise of the Triad. Version 1.5 of the port sees the game now fully working (and very fast) on the Raspberry Pi.
Read MoreRise of the Triad: The HUNT Begins… for RISC OS
Hang on a moment! We already know where RISC OS is – don’t we? The RISC OS game playing community has just gained another first person shooter, thanks to NO RISC – NO FUN‘s Franck Martinaux, who has just announced the release of a port of Rise of the Triad: The HUNT Begins.
Read MoreAtari ST emulator ported to RISC OS
Hats off to Hatari! Franck Martinaux of NO RISC – NO FUN – a new name in the RISC OS world – has released a port of version 1.62 of Hatari, an Atari ST emulator. Only available for computers running RISC OS 5.18 or later on at least a Cortex-A8 processor – which currently means systems based around the BeagleBoard and PandaBoard – Hatari has been compiled with an optimised version of SDL 1.2.15, and is able to emulate an 8Mhz Atari ST or STE at 100% of the original…
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