Alternative EtherUSB module offers more versatility

Thomas Milius has produced an updated version of the EtherUSB module, which is used to drive ethernet devices that are connected via USB. The original version of the module was written by James Peacock, and since version 0.14 has been included as part of the normal RISC OS 5 distribution, with the sources maintained by RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL).

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TrainTimes 2.01 released

An update has been released by Kevin Wells for his application that helps RISC OS users look-up railway timetables and other related information. Called TrainTimes, the software acts as a go-between by using Wget to relay the users’ selections to a remote provider, Real Time Trains and National Rail depending on what is being looked up, and to receive the results of that. Those results are then processed and displayed by the application itself.

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RISC OS games featured in Fusion magazine

Last October, RISC OS users were introduced to Andrew Oyston by way of that month’s Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting. Andrew is a retro hardware and games enthusiast who has covered RISC OS (and other topics) in Pixel Addict magazine1 – and he has been in touch to highlight another article he has written in another publication.

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