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Exclusive: A new interface for a new era – introducing RISC OS Rainbow

April 1, 2013April 1, 2013 Alf Poroli

Paint the whole RISC OS world with a rainbow! There can’t be many RISC OS users who haven’t encountered a modern touchscreen device, such as a smartphone or a tablet computer – indeed, R-Comp have been selling a tablet now for a couple of years, and have made quite a big thing about it, so it’s difficult to imagine how any RISC OS user could have missed the technology. Smartphones and tablets are often very powerful computers in their own right, but – surely everyone knows – they’re designed to…

London Show 2012 preview (updated)

October 24, 2012February 17, 2013 VinceH

It’s now less than 3.14159265359 days away. Shaping up to be something you really, really don’t want to miss, the RISC OS London Show takes place this Saturday – 27th October, 2012 – at the St Giles Hotel, Feltham. Why don’t you want to miss it? Well, make yourselves comfortable, and allow me to explain…

Magic Mushrooms 1.12,1.13 released

August 17, 2012 VinceH

A perfectly safe way to enjoy magic mushrooms, with no hallucinogenic side effects. During July, Martin Bazley issued a dire warning that version 1.12 of Magic Mushrooms had unexpectedly escaped into cyberspace! The game is a complete rewrite for RISC OS computers of a platform game originally written by Neil Raine for BBC computers, and is based around a concept that couldn’t be simpler: Move around the ten levels, collect all the mushrooms, and make your way to the goal, while at the same time steering clear of the exceptionally…

Midlands Show: report and photos

July 15, 2012September 8, 2012 VinceH

By the eighth day machine just got upset. A show report had not been posted yet… Just over a week ago, on July 7th, the Midsummer Midlands Mugshow 2012 took place. This is the smallest UK show of the RISC OS year, attracting the fewest exhibitors and visitors alike, and most exhibitors tend to time their big news and releases for the bigger shows, such as Wakefield and London. As usual, I set off from the RISCOSitory/Soft Rock Software top secret underground bunker (the entrance cunningly disguised as a ramshackle…

Welcome to the R-Comp Apothecary…

April 22, 2012September 8, 2012 VinceH

…where your prescription is one tablet per… well, just one, and that’s all you’ll need, actually. It’s unlikely that anybody in RISC OS land has failed to notice the rise in popularity of tablet computing. Tablet and touchscreen devices have been around for a while, but (mobile phones aside) had failed to impact on the computing world in any noticeable way until Apple launched their iPad, and other devices started appearing based on Google’s Android operating system. In most cases, these tablet computers run on one of a number of…

Free books and a magazine to download

April 3, 2012April 3, 2012 VinceH

David Bradforth of Alligata Media has made two books available as free downloads via his Alligata site on MagCloud. BASIC V for the Acorn Archimedes was written by Mike Williams and originally published by Dabs Press in 1989, and was acquired by Alligata Media in 2005. According to the blurb the “book provides a practical guide to programming in BASIC V on the Acorn Archimedes. Assuming a familiarity with the BBC BASIC language in general, it describes the many new commands offered by BASIC V.”

Snippets – 24th March 2012

March 24, 2012September 8, 2012 VinceH

It’s been a busy month again here, which means there have been no posts to RISCOSitory for a while – so here’s a quick round-up of recent goings on in the world of RISC OS. RISC OS 5.18 RISC OS 5 has seen its latest ‘stable’ release in the form of RISC OS 5.18, which features some 340 improvements since the last such release (version 5.16). The full list of improvements can be found on the RISC OS Open website, but this list isn’t written in ‘typical user-speak’. In response…

The better late than never London Show 2011 report

November 6, 2011September 8, 2012 VinceH

In the run up to the London Show on October 29th, and in the days since, things have been somewhat hectic for me, so I’ve only now had a chance to properly go through my pictures – which, as tradition now dictates, are not very good. I’ve selected a few and edited them into something usable, though, and present them below with my comments.

A slice of Raspberry Pi

July 24, 2011 VinceH

Back in May, on the RISC OS Open forum, Rik Griffin identified a possible new target for a RISC OS port, from The Raspberry Pi Foundation, “a UK registered charity (Registration Number 1129409) which exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing.” The foundation is developing a very small computer, about the size of a USB stick, with an intended price tag of £10 to £15. David Braben – a name anyone familiar with…

You’re once, twice, three times a shutdown

July 23, 2011July 23, 2011 VinceH

Kevin Wells has released a new application called Shutdown which, as its name suggests, is designed to do one simple thing: Shut the computer down. When launched, the application presents its icon – a red power button – on the left hand side of the icon bar, with the text “Turn me off” underneath it. A single click on that icon will invoke the standard RISC OS shutdown procedure, with the usual warnings; apps with unsaved data will prompt you to save (or cancel), and so on. As such, the…