By the eighth day machine just got upset. A show report had not been posted yet… Just over a week ago, on July 7th, the Midsummer Midlands Mugshow 2012 took place. This is the smallest UK show of the RISC OS year, attracting the fewest exhibitors and visitors alike, and most exhibitors tend to time their big news and releases for the bigger shows, such as Wakefield and London. As usual, I set off from the RISCOSitory/Soft Rock Software top secret underground bunker (the entrance cunningly disguised as a ramshackle…
Read MoreMidsummer Mug Show 2012
Come along and say hi. Notes from mummy not acceptable. It’s the afternoon of Friday the 6th July, 2012, and this will probably be the last thing I write on RISCOSitory.com for a few days. Why? Because tomorrow is the Midlands Midsummer Mugshow, 2012, which takes place at St John’s Church Hall, 205 Warwick Road, Kenilworth, CV8 1HY, with the doors open to the public from 11am until 4pm and an entrance fee of just £4 for adults, and nothing at all for children. This year’s exhibitors include RISC OS…
Read MoreURLtoIE 1.4 released
Cross platform tool doesn’t get cross if it can’t see the other platform. John Williams, of Pic_Index fame, has released version 1.4 of URLtoIE, his application designed to help with web pages that prove troublesome on RISC OS browsers, by passing them over the network to Internet Explorer on a PC. The application will take an address contained within an Acorn URI shortcut, an ANT URL shortcut or a plain text file – such as a URL dragged straight from NetSurf, though any text file can be used; it will…
Read MoreMessenger Pro 6.06 released
Minor niggle knocked back. R-Comp have sent out a new version of their news and email client, Messenger Pro, to users. The new version makes it easier to use the software’s facilities to save one or more messages to an external location on your hard drive – or to another location on your network, or an external storage medium. Until now, in order to access these files, Messenger Pro needed to be already running, but the update to 6.06 enables these messages to be opened even if the application hasn’t…
Read MoreWrangler 1.07 released
Bug me no more, bug! Sine Nomine Software have released a new version, 1.07, of Wrangler, their popular general mathematical puzzle application. The previous release of the software, version 1.06, was to remove two puzzles that were subject to a complaint of trademark infringement, and to add a new one in the form of TetraCross, in which the player is presented with four interlocking crosses of four cells each, with nine cells in total, into which the digits from 1 to 9 need to be placed, with the sum of…
Read MoreSolid-state drives from R-Comp
The Silence of the NAND. R-Comp Interactive have announced the availability of affordable, high quality SSDs for computers running RISC OS 5. SSDs, or solid-state drives are designed to be used as a storage medium instead of (or alongside, depending on your computer) the hard disk drives that most RISC OS users will probably be more familiar with, but instead of the key component in the drive being a magnetic disk, spun at high speed in order to enable fast access times to all parts, SSDs typically contain NAND flash…
Read MoreSiteMatch 2.40f, 2.42a released
Both beta, but one beta a bit better than the other beta. SiteMatch is a website management tool that helps to automate the process of uploading new and changed files in a website, by analysing the local copy and comparing information about the files therein to the information stored the last time it carried out this process. Those files that it doesn’t recognise, or whose attributes have changed, can then be uploaded (using FTPc v1.29 or higher) to the remote server, with the new information about what’s what then stored…
Read MoreHeXen II port released
First Heretic, then HeXen… now HeXen II, too. Ooh! With the release of the Hheretic and Hhexen ports, RISC OS users had the first two games in the Heretic/HeXen series, originally developed by Raven Software and published by id Software. Now, a little under six weeks later, Chris Gransden has completed the original trilogy, releasing a port of uHexen2 (aka Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion). To play the game, the original HeXen II data files are required – and unfortunately, these aren’t available as a free download; this time the…
Read MoreArmSort version 4.08 released
Module now ARMv7 compatible. Sorted! ArmSort is a relocatable module from Martin Avison of Avisoft, designed to provide programmers using BBC BASIC on RISC OS computers and emulators with a very easy and fast way to sort arrays. The module can handle any number of single or multi-dimension arrays, in any combination of variable type, and with any key sequence. It features flexible parameters and comprehensive error checking, and – important for BASIC programmers – it’s fast, using the Flash and Shell sorting algorithms. The update to version 4.08 is…
Read MoreWrangler 1.06 released
One game forward, two games back. A new version, 1.06, of the general mathematical puzzle application, Wrangler, is now available from Sine Nomine Software. The new version sees the removal of two of the puzzle games that were previously included in the application, Suko and Sujiko, and the addition of a new one, TetraCross. The removal of the Suko and Sujiko puzzles has come about as a result of a complaint to Sine Nomine Software of trademark infringement – the two puzzles, both invented by Jai Gomer of Kobayaashi Studios,…
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