Keeping up with the Joneses YouTube. Christopher Martin has released two updates to Murnong, bringing the current version number up to 2.31 Murnong is an application designed to parse web pages passed to it that have been saved from YouTube, with the goal of working out the address of the embedded video. It then launches wget to download the file so that it can be played/converted with FFplay/FFmpeg (both ported to RISC OS by Christopher). The application therefore allows RISC OS users to enjoy the content of Google’s video sharing…
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SMB Server for BeagleBoard
And a potted history that wouldn’t be out of place on a TV soap, if only there was one about computer software. Thomas Milius has updated the RISC OS Samba server, smbserver version 0.08, to work on BeagleBoard-xM based systems. His previous update to version 0.08, back in 2009 according to the announcement from Herbert zur Nedden, was to make it run on the IYONIX pc, and that version remains available to download from the same location – the new version being incompatible with that machine – along with a…
Read MoreWebgen2 version 2.46
Gallery generation in a jiffy! Webgen2 is a piece of software written by Dave Stratford to generate a website or image gallery when fed a folder of images, such as JPEGs taken from a digital camera. Featuring a comprehensive set of options for the design of the pages it creates, the application can produce three basic types of site: A single index page containing only thumbnails of the images A single index page containing thumbnails, each linking to a separate page containing the larger version of the respective images. A…
Read MoreAemulor arrives on BeagleBoard and PandaBoard
Make your 32-bit computer do an Impression (ho-ho) of a 26-bit one! When Castle Technology Ltd launched the IYONIX pc, back in 2002, there was a significant question users needed an answer to before upgrading to the new computer: Would their old software run on the new hardware? The problem was that for all the previous RISC OS computers, the ARM CPUs worked in (or supported in the case of StrongARM) an addressing mode we refer to as ’26-bit’, in which the program counter and processor status flags are contained…
Read MoreUpdates to Fat32FS, Doom and Twinworld patch, new download page
It’s like a snippets post, but all for one developer! Fat32FS, a filing system for USB mass storage devices, has been updated to version 1.40. Announcing the update last week, developer Jeffrey Doggett explained that with this release the drive label can be changed from the menu, rather than having to use the command line, and that it also shows the partitions (if any) in use on the drive, and now partially supports extended partitions. At the same time, Jeffrey announced version 1.11 of Doom, his port to RISC OS…
Read MoreMurnong 2.20, 2.21 released
I love the smell of videos in the murnong! Christopher Martin recently updated Murnong first to version 2.20 and then, the following day, to version 2.21. Murnong is an application that, given a page that has been saved from YouTube, will process the page to work out the address of the embedded video, and launch wget to download it so that it can be played/converted with FFplay/FFmpeg (ported to RISC OS by Christopher) – thus allowing RISC OS users to enjoy the content of Google’s video sharing website, albeit in…
Read MoreSound comes to Kevmon
No, fool, that was “beep bleep beep bleep beep” not “beep bleep beep beep bleep” Kevin Wells has updated his Simon-like game, Kevmon, to version 1.02 – an update that adds sound to the game. Simon was a simple game designed to test its players’ memory, brought out the 1970s, and played on a small upturned flying saucer console with four flashing lights. The UFO Simon console would flash a sequence of colours, with a corresponding tone for each, in order to test the nearby humans for the players to…
Read MoreCPUClock 1.00 released
Monitor those megahertz! Chris Johnson has released version 1.00 of CPUClock (also available here), a small application for BeagleBoard-based systems running RISC OS, that presents the user with a small status window displaying the configured fast and slow speeds of the CPU, as well as the speed at which it is currently operating.
Read MoreSiteMatch 2.42c,d,e beta featuring forced uploads
Well, maybe a little gentle persuasion SiteMatch is a website management tool that designed to automate the process of uploading new and changed files in a website, by analysing the local copy and comparing information about the files within to the information stored the last time it carried out this process. Any files it doesn’t recognise, or whose attributes have changed, can be uploaded (using FTPc v1.29 or higher) to the remote server, with the new information about what’s what stored for comparison the next time. The software can also…
Read MoreInfozip now BeagleBoard compatible
Less forking, more working Harriet Bazley has released a new version of Infozip – version 3.07 – the desktop front-end application that provides a Filer-like front end to the free Info-ZIP command line programs, allowing part or all of a zip archive to be extracted or added using a desktop interface rather than the command-line. “Prompted by the need for a BeagleBoard-compatible version of Infozip,” Harriet explains, “I have finally combined the forked source code from Christopher’s versions 3.04 and 3.05 and some of the changes/bugfixes I made for an…
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