The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will be holding their next meeting on Wednesday, 3rd September, with a two-part talk from Chis Johns on the subject of RISC OS file storage.
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Cherry Bomb revisited in BBC BASIC
A couple of years ago, Jeroen Vermeulen ported Cherry Bomb to RISC OS, a shoot ’em up – aka a ‘shmup’ according to its original developer, Krystian Majewski – in which you control a ship at the bottom of the screen, and shoot down the incoming waves of alien attackers.
Read MoreMark Moxon to talk to ROUGOL about networking Elite – 18th August
Note, that’s ‘networking Elite’ and not ‘THE networking elite’ At the next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL), on Monday, 18th August, Mark Moxon will be joining everyone in the pub to talk about the things he’s done since the last time he visited, almost two years ago.
Read MoreScreen grab websites with Webshot from Kevin Wells
Kevin Wells has released a new application, called Webshot, which aims to take screen grabs of web pages. However, what it doesn’t do is simply save the screen (or browser window), which you could achieve anyway using Paint’s snapshot facility, or a third party application such as Snapper.
Read MoreThe rest of the year mapped out by ROUGOL
Well, in the context of ROUGOL, anyway. If you regularly attend the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meetings – whether in person or online – you’ll know when the meetings will take place each month; it’s easy enough to remember, being – unless circumstances force a change – the third Monday of each month, with December often being an exception because of the proximity to Christmas. What you usually won’t know until much closer to each meeting day, though, it’s what the meeting subject will be.
Read MoreDevelopers’ fireside chat – 9th August
The next friendly fireside chat for people interested in RISC OS software development will take place at 7:30pm on Saturday, 9th August. Taking place online via the Zoom video conferencing service, these meetings are intended as an informal way of allowing RISC OS programmers, and anyone interested in the subject, to get together online to discuss relevant matters.
Read MoreA software variety at WROCC – 6th August
The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will be holding their next meeting on Wednesday, 6th August, at which the club’s own Chris Hughes will deliver “an off-the-cuff talk exploring various software topics”.
Read MoreTwo new ‘companion’ computers from RISCOSbits
If you’re on certain social media websites, you may have noticed a couple of polls run by RISCOSbits recently. These formed a part of the company’s research and development, as they decided exactly which direction to take for some new kit that was in the works – and that new hardware can now be revealed:
Read MoreR-Comp 5erving up info about new kit to ROUGOL – 21st July
R-Comp recently announced two new systems, both based around the Raspberry Pi 5 compute module – the 5idekick, and the Pi5erve – and on Monday, 21st July Andrew Rawnsley will be talking to the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) about these machines and other recent developments and updates.
Read MoreWeb2PDF – a new application from Kevin Wells
Kevin Wells has found another remote application programmer interface (API) to make use of for the benefit of RISC OS users, and as a result has released a new application: Web2PDF.
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