…in that, according to the developer, they now actually work! Paul Sprangers has recently announced a couple of updates to ConvText, his versatile search and replace application, bringing it first up to version 3.04, and then to version 3.10 – although it has actually reached version 3.12 when downloaded.
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JDServer reaches a new high
That means the app’s version number, not a barman getting more drunk than ever before! JDServer is an application from Dave Higton that enables the RISC OS computer on which it is run to act as a print server, running HP’s JetDirect protocol (which is sometimes known as ‘raw’), allowing a printer connected to that machine to be shared with other computers on the network, even if they are not running RISC OS themselves.
Read MoreSiteMatch 2.44 becomes 2.45, leaves beta
Bye bye, beta, bye bye. Website management tool SiteMatch, which automates the process of uploading new and changed files from the local copy of your site to the copy on a remote server, has been updated from the previous beta version, 2.44, to release version 2.45.
Read MorePluto and eSpeak updated for ARMv7 compatibility
Pluto still classified as an application, and not a dwarf application. Pluto, a popular news and email client, and speech synthesizer eSpeak, both originally developed by Jonathan Duddington, have been updated for ARMv7 compatibility – and can therefore now be used on modern RISC OS systems based around the BeagleBoard and PandaBoard, as well as the Raspberry Pi.
Read MoreInferno and Star Fighter 3000 patches
Today, the game is different. Well, it’s still the same, but patched. Christopher and Martin Bazley, two of a trio of siblings fairly well known in the RISC OS community, released patches for a couple of old games back in March.
Read MoreConvImgs – a new image transformation tool
Siiiiiiiize of an elephant JPEG! Well known developer Chris Johnson, who maintains a number of applications, some his own, some taken over from David Pilling, recently released a new application for the batch conversion of a variety of image types, with some transformations of those images being possible at the same time.
Read MoreMoreKeys does… more
Wait! What? Why did I put the pun in the title instead of here? D’oh! First released a little over a year ago, MoreKeys is an application designed to make it easier to enter ‘extended’ characters – those not normally found on a standard keyboard – in a way that was inspired by the on-screen keyboard on developer Rick Murray’s mobile phone.
Read More32-bit sound software
Wave, Gen, you’re on RISCOSitory! A couple of old applications for generating RISC OS sounds have been updated for 32-bit compatibility by Jon Scott. The first of these, announced by Jon on the RISC OS Open forums as a re-release of a very old voice module generator, is Wavegen, an application that can create perodic sounds based on mathematical formula such as a simple sine or complex harmonic wavforms.
Read MoreVarious items from Nemo20000
Not quite 20,000 of them. Simon Birtwistle, who is generally known online as Nemo20000 (or sometimes just Nemo), and who was the programmer behind the Cerilica Vantage graphics application, has started releasing the odd item via GoogleDrive. Recent uploads include:
Read MoreCat_Draw 32-bitted
No, just because it’s on the internet and it’s called Cat_Draw, that doesn’t mean there are cute pictures of cats. Long time RISC OS user Martin Carradus popped up on the RISC OS Open forums in February in response to a comment about his application, Cat_Draw, not being 32-bit compatible. Martin initially offered to supply his source code, presumably to allow someone else to make the application 32-bit compatible, but a couple of hours later posted again to say that he had now recompiled it himself.
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