Minor niggle knocked back. R-Comp have sent out a new version of their news and email client, Messenger Pro, to users. The new version makes it easier to use the software’s facilities to save one or more messages to an external location on your hard drive – or to another location on your network, or an external storage medium. Until now, in order to access these files, Messenger Pro needed to be already running, but the update to 6.06 enables these messages to be opened even if the application hasn’t…
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Wrangler 1.07 released
Bug me no more, bug! Sine Nomine Software have released a new version, 1.07, of Wrangler, their popular general mathematical puzzle application. The previous release of the software, version 1.06, was to remove two puzzles that were subject to a complaint of trademark infringement, and to add a new one in the form of TetraCross, in which the player is presented with four interlocking crosses of four cells each, with nine cells in total, into which the digits from 1 to 9 need to be placed, with the sum of…
Read MoreSiteMatch 2.40f, 2.42a released
Both beta, but one beta a bit better than the other beta. SiteMatch is a website management tool that helps to automate the process of uploading new and changed files in a website, by analysing the local copy and comparing information about the files therein to the information stored the last time it carried out this process. Those files that it doesn’t recognise, or whose attributes have changed, can then be uploaded (using FTPc v1.29 or higher) to the remote server, with the new information about what’s what then stored…
Read MoreHeXen II port released
First Heretic, then HeXen… now HeXen II, too. Ooh! With the release of the Hheretic and Hhexen ports, RISC OS users had the first two games in the Heretic/HeXen series, originally developed by Raven Software and published by id Software. Now, a little under six weeks later, Chris Gransden has completed the original trilogy, releasing a port of uHexen2 (aka Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion). To play the game, the original HeXen II data files are required – and unfortunately, these aren’t available as a free download; this time the…
Read MoreWrangler 1.06 released
One game forward, two games back. A new version, 1.06, of the general mathematical puzzle application, Wrangler, is now available from Sine Nomine Software. The new version sees the removal of two of the puzzle games that were previously included in the application, Suko and Sujiko, and the addition of a new one, TetraCross. The removal of the Suko and Sujiko puzzles has come about as a result of a complaint to Sine Nomine Software of trademark infringement – the two puzzles, both invented by Jai Gomer of Kobayaashi Studios,…
Read MoreImpact, ImpEmail and Impulse updated
The ‘orror of HTML email arrives – but with good reason. Matthew Phillips of Sine Nomine Software has announced the release of version 3.43 of relational database package Impact, bringing with it a new version – 1.03 – of ImpEmail, the email mail-merge software. The update to Impact brings various bug fixes and minor enhancements to the software, and includes version 0.22 of the Impulse module. Impulse, originally developed by Computer Concepts (now Xara), provides a mechanism for inter-application communications, command execution and data transfer, and it recently emerged that…
Read MoreDrawPrint version 1.40 released
Model T Ford option now working. Version 1.40 of Sine Nomine’s DrawPrint is now available to download. DrawPrint is an application that provides more control when printing Drawfiles, sprites or JPEGs, allowing them to be printed over multiple pages, allowing the user to select a scale, margins, overlaps, and so on. It also allows individual pages to be exported as Drawfiles for use in other applications. The update to version 1.40 deals with problems identified with the options to print “All text in black” and at the “Original size &…
Read MorePlayIt 1.73 release 2
There’s no sound like a SharedSound. PlayIt is a tool for playing sound samples, which is used by a number of RISC OS applications, including DigitalCD. Originally written by Rick Hudson, recent updates have been made available by Christopher Martin, who has just released version 1.73 release 2. This release incorporates Jeffrey Lee’s latest PlayItSSnd, an output driver for PlayIt to allow the module to use the SharedSound system, which allows CD tracks to be played in the background on systems lacking analogue audio. Version 1.11 of the driver was…
Read MoreSD card support comes to RISC OS
Arrives in a flash. Something missing from RISC OS, which is increasingly apparent with support for them on modern devices on which the operating system can be run (or could be theoretically run if it was ported), is a filing system and driver for MMC/SD cards, allowing them to be accessed and used when inserted in the MicroSD card on hardware such as the BeagleBoard, in much the same way as any other storage media are accessed, like a hard or floppy disk or a CD or DVD ROM. MMC/SD…
Read MoreRTMPDump comes to RISC OS
Got the hump that streaming gives RISC OS the bump? Get RTMPDump! RTMPDump is a command line tool for fetching RTMP streams and saving them to a local drive, which nicely complements FFmpeg and FFplay – so it is perhaps no surprise that version 2.3 of the software has been ported to RISC OS (as release 1.00) by none other than Christopher Martin, who has been responsible for bringing us new versions of those two applications. RTMP stands for Real Time Messaging Protocol, and was originally developed by Macromedia (now…
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