And you won’t even need to go to the bar first! The Titanium motherboard from Elesar Ltd features a pair of DVI-I video connectors, each of which is capable of driving a 1920 x 1080 display, with full 24-bit colour – and visitors to the the Southwest Show on Saturday will be able to see it doing just that, with both video outputs being utilised to display a single desktop spanning two screens.
Read MoreARMX6 OS update six brings HDMI audio
About a week ago, R-Comp made OS Update 6 available to users of the ARMSX ARMX6 computer. The update brings with it a very welcome new feature for those using it via a HDMI connection to a monitor that has speakers – or those with other audio equipment that they’d like to use – because the headline feature is support for audio over HDMI.
Read MoreRapidO Ti to be launched at the Southwest Show (updated)
The first full computer to be based around the Titanium motherboard from Elesar Ltd will be launched at the Southwest Show on Saturday. The computer is to be called the RapidO Ti, as already revealed, and comes from the little shop with a lot of stock, CJE Micro’s – and Chris Evans says they’ll have some on the day that customers will be able to take away with them.
Read MoreClick and collect Elesar gear at the Southwest Show
…by way of ROOL – that’ll be RISC OS Open Logistics, then! If you’re in the market for some swanky new hardware from Elesar Ltd and want to shave off the price of shipping, you can purchase it online and arrange for collection at the Southwest Show, which takes place on Saturday, 27th February.
Read MoreLatest Drag ‘N Drop magazine is out
The latest issue of on-off-on-off-under-new-management PDF magazine Drag ‘N Drop is now available to buy. The quarterly-ish publication is mainly targeted at users of RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi, but editor Christopher Dewhurst says content will be of interest to all RISC OS 5 users.
Read MoreSouthwest Show 2016 – less than a week to go!
#ROSW2016 is where you want to be this Saturday! For anyone living at the event horizon of a black hole, and who is therefore less aware of the passage of time than most, the Southwest Show – the first show of 2016 – will be taking place in just a few days time, on Saturday, 27th February.
Read MoreRISC OS for Pi-nuts at ROUGOL, 15th February
AKA: RISC OS on the cheap. The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London will take place on Monday, 15th February, and the meeting’s presentation – with the multi-puntastic title “RISC OS for Pi-nuts” – will be presented by Peter Howkins and Bryan Hogan. The pair will be looking at ways to run RISC OS without having to run up a large bill to do so.
Read MoreRPCEmu 0.8.14 now available
Peter and Matthew Howkins have released a new version of their open source emulator, RPCEmu. The software provides an emulation of classic Acorn systems, such as the RiscPC (hence the name) and the A7000, and versions are available for a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Read MoreSouthampton RISC OS User Group meeting – February
It’s time for those Itchen for a meeting in Southampton to get together again… The second Tuesday of each month is the customary date for Southampton-based RISC OS users to get together for a meeting – so it’s no surprise to see an announcement from Dave Higton to say that the next meeting is to take place on 9th February.
Read MoreSnippets – 7th February, 2016
It’s catch-up time again after another busy period here at the RISCOSitory bunker, folks – so here’s another batch of news nuggets that have been waiting in the wings:
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