Coming soon to a hotel near you London! There is now just one week remaining until the final RISC OS Show of the year – the RISC OS London Show, which takes place next Saturday in Feltham. And, as ever, there is plenty of reason to come along and see what’s what in the RISC OS world, with lots to see, discuss and buy.
Read MoreRONWUG reminder – Wednesday, 15th October, 2014
Announcement from Steve Potts, 13th October, 2014. RONWUG – RISC OS North West User Group – 15th, October 2014. RONWUG’s next meeting is this Wednesday, usual time and place. As usual there will be time for discussion at the beginning and end of the meeting about all things RISC OS related. See you there!
Read MoreSnippets – 12th October, 2014
If news were a hot dog, this would be the ketchup. (Ketchup? Catch-up? Geddit? No? Ho hum – where’s my coat?) Here at the RISCOSitory/Soft Rock Software top secret underground bunker (whose entrance is cunningly disguised as a ramshackle shed) things have become somewhat busy positively hectic over the last couple of months, which has resulted in no news being posted to the site whatsoever for almost a month – not even in the ‘press release’ format whereby an announcement is simply quoted in full. So, in order to catch…
Read MoreRONWUG reminder – Wednesday, 17th September, 2014
Announcement from Steve Potts, 14th September, 2014. RONWUG – RISC OS North West User Group – 17th September 2014 RONWUG’s next meeting is this Wednesday, usual time and place. As usual there will be time for discussion at the beginning and end of the meeting about all things RISC OS related. See you there!
Read MoreVirtualRiscPC gets an overhaul
No longer throws toys out of pram if Windows’ User Account Control is enabled. New versions of VirtualAcorn‘s range of RiscPC emulators for are now available, which are “designed to better support Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Read MoreUpcoming meetings in Southampton, Bristol
The end is next meetings are nigh! The Southampton Acorn Users Group – SAUG – usually meets on the second Tuesday of each month and September’s meeting will therefore take place on Tuesday, 9th September, with the usual starting time of 7:00pm, running on until 9:00pm. The meeting takes place at:
Read MoreFrom RiscPC to Raspberry Pi at the September WROCC meeting
Yet more attention for the RiscPC, which really only wanted to celebrate quietly, with family and close friends. With the RiscPC having celebrated its 20th birthday earlier this year, the next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club will feature Peter Richmond taking a look back at some of the hardware expansion options that have been available in that time for Acorn’s iconic and most powerful computer.
Read MoreID3TagEd updated to version 0.50, 0.51
0.501 replaces 0.25 – that’s, like, twice more than twice as good, innit? Chris Johnson has announced the release of version 0.50 of ID3TagEd and, since that announcement, he has updated the software yet again to version 0.51.
Read MoreWakefield club offers meeting videos for remote members
You can virtually attend meetings – but with no interaction. Just like TV! The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club have come up with a new way to encourage membership from afar – by allowing members to virtually attend meetings, albeit after they’ve happened. In other words, they’re making videos of meetings available online for those people who are unable to attend in person.
Read MoreDavid Bradforth punts new ‘TechGuides’ magazine
LET TechGuides = (printed OR digital) magazine + (email OR (email + telephone + skype) OR on-site) support1 Following his recent campaign to raise funds to publish a book about the history of Acorn Computers, David Bradforth has again turned to crowd funding website Indiegogo to raise funds for another project. This time, the goal is to launch a new magazine and support scheme, called TechGuides.
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