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.
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Rise 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…
Read MoreFirst release of theme creator Skinny
Make your RISC OS desktop look totally phat! Richard Windley of The Really Small Software Company has announced the first release of Skinny, a theme creation application that allows you to change the appearance of the RISC OS desktop.
Read MoreImpact 3.45 released
Sorted menu fields are the order of the day. Sine Nomine Software have released a new version of Impact, their relational database package. Originally developed by John Skingley of Circle Software, and taken over in 2003 by Matthew and Hilary Phillips of Sine Nomine, Impact is a relational database for RISC OS, which is easy to use and provides facilities to create, edit, import and edit information, and features the ability to merge data with Impression or Ovation Pro documents, for mail shots, reports, invoicing, and so on. The application…
Read MoreImpEmail becomes a separate product
Mail-merging email software spreads its wings. Back in April, at this years Wakefield Show, Sine Nomine Software introduced ImpEmail. a tool that worked alonside (and was therefore supplied with) their relational database, Impact, to create mail-merged emails. However, a new version of the module has just been announced, and this version marks the availability of ImpEmail as a separate product.
Read MorePic_Index 1.24c fixes bug
RISC OS 4 and 6 users can once again show the world their holiday snaps. Pic_Index is an application developed by John Williams to generate a thumbnail index for a set of JPEG files, in HTML format – ideal for use as gallery pages on websites, CD ROMs, or anywhere else the user might wish to store the images and resulting HTML.
Read MoreSiteMatch 2.44 Beta adds “FS” client
That’s FS, not FFS, FFS! SiteMatch is a website management tool for automating the process of uploading new and changed files in a website. It does this by analysing the local copy and comparing information about the files contained within to the information stored the last time it carried out this process. Files it doesn’t recognise, or whose attributes have changed, can be uploaded to the remote server and the relevant data stored for comparison the next time. The software was originally written by Dave Edwards, and is now maintained…
Read MoreConvText 3.00 released
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him it. We have the technology… A new version of ConvText – version 3.00 – is now available. The software, which was often praised by Paul Beverley in Archive Magazine, carries out a list of search and replace jobs in one go, and on any type of file. It does this by way of easily created scripts, which can of course be used again and again, if you so need.
Read MoreOpenVector suite 3.43 available
Two’s company, three’s a suite. A new version of the OpenVector suite is now available. The three applications that form the suite – OpenVector, OpenGridPro and DrawPlus – are open source enhancements to Draw. The first two of those were originally developed by Jonathan Marten from the third, DrawPlus, and released as commercial applications by 4Mation (as Vector, which featured layering and object library capabilities, and GridPro, which was customised for drawing grids and other regular layouts). They were subsequently made open source, and a 32-bit conversion was then produced…
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