A sad loss for the RISC OS community. It has recently emerged that David Holden, a long standing RISC OS advocate and owner of APDL, passed away on 15th May, 2014, after a short illness, having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer less than six weeks previously. The funeral is being handled by Francis Chappell and Sons, a funeral directors based not far from David’s home in Sydenham, from where he also ran the business, and is taking place tomorrow, Friday, 20th June, 2014 at 10:30 at Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery.
Read MoreUser group meetings in June
If you like a lot of chocolate RISC OS in your biscuit social life, join a club! With some announcements about upcoming meetings appearing around the same time, as well as news of possible changes to meeting dates, why not throw them all together with some bacon, lettuce and tomato in a sarnie. Except without the bacon, lettuce or tomato – since this isn’t a sarnie, it’s a RISCOSitory post. What? It’s been a long weekend! Umm… anyway…
Read MoreJim Lesurf’s USB audio apps updated
I bet you thought I hadn’t noticed? Well I hadn’t, until now. Jim Lesurf announced updates to some of his USB audio applications recently – which somehow slipped by RISCOSitory unnoticed until today. The first of these, announced on 29th May, was an update to USBPlayer, an application that allows suitable wave (.WAV, &FB1) files to be played via USB Audio devices that follow the USB Audio standards.
Read MoreWROCC meeting – interfacing with the Pi – 4th June
Announcement from the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club, 28th May, 2014. Interfacing with the Pi Meeting on Wednesday 4th June 2014 at 7.45pm
Read MorePOP3S – a free email transport supporting TLS
Shoobie, doobie do wop – DON’T infiltrate it. Alexander Ausserstorfer has released a free mail transport agent, POP3S, which performs email fetches using TLS on port 995. TLS, or Transport Layer Security, is a protocol first introduced at the very end of the 1990s and based on the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) specification originally developed by NetScape.
Read MoreUSBRecorder version 0.61
Announcement from Jim Lesurf, 21st May, 2014 USBRecorder is a program that can be used to make audio recordings via a suitable USB audio device. I have now released a new version (Version 0.61) which has some changes and improvements over earlier versions.
Read MoreTokenize – a cross platform BBC BASIC tokeniser
Announcement from Steve Fryatt, 21st May, 2014. After several months of development and discussions in comp.sys.acorn.programmer, I’m pleased to formally announce the existence of Tokenize: a cross-platform tokeniser for BBC1 BASIC V and VI.
Read MoreBASIC software archaeology
Announcement from Steve Fryatt, 21st May, 2014. In recent months I’ve been on something of a source code rescue mission, with the aim of getting all of the “non-ARMv7” software on my website into a state where it can be built and maintained again. Most of the “lost” titles were written in BASIC
Read MoreRONWUG Reminder – Wednesday, 21st May, 2014
Announcement from Steve Potts, 19th May, 2014. RONWUG – RISC OS North West User Group – 21st May, 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 MoreRISC OS eXperience 2014 offer by post
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley, 16th May, 2014. Each year, we at R-Comp look forward to being able to attend the RISC OS eXperience organised by the Big Ben Club in Holland. Indeed, we’ve always tried to support club members, who seem to be amongst the most passionate of RISC OS users.
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