The next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting is almost upon us – it takes place on Wednesday, 7th August – and the guest speaker this month will be Paul Reuvers from X-Ample Technology (XAT).
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Developers’ fireside chat – 3rd August
The time has come once again for RISC OS developers, and anyone with an interest in the subject – perhaps as a beginner, or someone thinking of dipping their toes in – to gather around the virtual fire for a friendly chat. The next such meeting will take place on Saturday, 3rd August, kicking off at around 7:30pm.
Read MoreNew features for FAST machines in latest update
FAST – a backronym for ‘Fast Access to Storage Technology’ – is the name given by Andy Marks of RISCOSbits to a new range of machines launched at the 2023 Southwest Show – machines that do exactly as the acronym suggests, by accessing the PCIe port on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module to provide up to four full-speed SATA ports.
Read MoreMACadd version 2.01 released
Kevin Wells has released an update to one of his various applications that allow remote sites to be interrogated for information from the RISC OS desktop – this time MACadd, a program used for getting information about MAC (Media Access Control) addresses.
Read MoreUsing StrongED as a scripting aid for Python programming – MUG meeting, 24th July
There will be an out of schedule meeting held by the Midlands User Group (MUG), at which the group’s own John Rickman will discuss the use of StrongED as a scripting tool when programming in Python.
Read MoreWimpInfo 1.24 released
WimpInfo is a small application that was previously supplied by Quantum Software, and is now hosted here on RISCOSitory after Stuart Halliday announced he was shutting down the software house.
Read MoreIcon bar’s cloak of invisibility improved in Pinboard 2.05
A new version of Pinboard 2 has been released by RISC OS Developments. The software is a replacement for the standard ‘Pinboard’ supplied with the operating system – the component that looks after the desktop background, allowing backdrops to be displayed, icons to be pinned to it to save navigating to the relevant files or applications using the filer, and so on – and provides quite a number of new features that make it a worthy replacement.
Read MoreKPDFUtil 1.06 released
KPDFUtil is an application from Kevin Wells that provides a front-end to the facilities found in PDFUtils, itself a set of command line utilities for getting information about PDF documents, and performing actions on them such as extracting individual pages, converting them to HTML, and so on.
Read MoreROUGOL to see Visions of the Impossible – 15th July
They’ll see things you people wouldn’t believe. The RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) next meets up on Monday, 15th July, and this month they’ll be hallucinating. No, wait, I meant they’ll have Nathan Atkinson from Visions of the Impossible as their guest speaker.
Read MoreBristol RISC OS Users meeting – 11th July
The next meeting of Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) will take place on Thursday, 11th September.
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