Announcement from Nick Roberts, 1st October, 2013 Version 2.16 of BookMaker is available for download.The integration of BookMaker with certain browsers is not perfect, and under certain conditions the browser can overwrite any changes to the saved hotlist made by BookMaker. This version of BookMaker detects the conditions under which saves can go wrong, and warns the user of the possibility. BookMaker is an address book manager for most major RISCOS browsers, and several email, telnet and FTP clients. It is fully 26/32-bit neutral (i.e. will run on all versions…
Read MoreMBBack version 2.11 released
Announcement from Martin Bazley, 26th September, 2013 After an uncharacteristically long gap, a new version of the world’s most puffed-up and overcompensatory random backdrop chooser has finally made its way out into the wild, and is available to download.
Read MoreNew version of Star Fighter 3000
Announcement from Christopher Bazley, 15th September, 2013 I have released a new patch for Star Fighter 30001, a 1994 game where you fly a one-person fighter spacecraft around a mainly flat-shaded polygonal world shooting things, blowing them up, and collecting floating bonus coins.
Read MoreMTP updated
Announcement from Dave Higton, 14th September, 2013 I’ve updated MTP on my web site to version 0.21. This adds the ability to drag items directly from MTP’s viewer window to a RISC OS directory. MTP is a Media Transfer Protocol and Picture Transfer Protocol host application for RISC OS, allowing you to explore all the directories and files on an MTP or PTP device, and transfer files both from and to the device. MTP and PTP devices typically are mobile phones, cameras and media players.
Read MoreStrongED 4.69 released
Announcement from Fred Graute, 1st September, 2013 Hi, I’m pleased to announce that StrongED 4.69 is now available. Please note that this is a minimal release that contains only BaseMode. Other modes that you may wish to use have to be downloaded separately from the website (Download page -> Modes database).
Read MoreSystemDisc 1.01 now available
Announcement from Ben Avison of Piccolo Systems, 18th November, 2013 Piccolo Systems is pleased to announce the immediate release of SystemDisc 1.01. SystemDisc is a general-purpose tool for managing the system software on modern RISC OS systems. The benefits of using SystemDisc over the pre-existing solutions include:
Read MoreDrawPrint 1.43 released
Announcement from Hilary Phillips of Sine Nomine Software, 2nd December, 2013 Version 1.43 of DrawPrint can be downloaded the Sine Nomine website. The new version fixes bugs with JPEG objects, in particular printing them in landscape mode, and saving scaled draw files containing them.
Read MoreDiscKnight 1.51 released
Announcement from ARM Club’s Dave Ruck, 24th December, 2013 Version 1.51 of DiscKnight is now available, to request a copy go to the DiscKnight update page on the ARM Club website.
Read MoreThe Wakefield Back Catalogue CD
Announcement from WROCC’s Chris Hughes, 25th August, 2013 To celebrate 30 years of the club, Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club released the Third Edition of the Wakefield Back Catalogue CD at this year’s Wakefield Show. It now contains around 360 back issues of the newsletter, including more than 100 from the 1980s and 1990s which had once been considered lost. Indeed, we believe that there are now just three issues left unaccounted for from the Club’s 30 year history.
Read MoreCat, Countdown, SignalBox and Sudotutor releases
A selection of announcements from Chris Hall during 2013 Cat version 0.18, announced 4th July, 2013 A disc cataloguing utility, Cat version 0.18, is now available from !Store and via PackMan. This presents a disc catalogue in a window, showing a tree structure of files and directories. The contents can be saved in several forms and the graphical layout can be adjusted to suit. Disc contents can be compared and changed files (by datestamp and/or CRC) identified.
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