The last RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting before the next show – RISC OS North – will take place on Monday, 17th March, and that very show will be the topic of the evening; a pre-show fireside chat with Richard Brown of RISC OS Developments Ltd and Orpheus Internet taking the floor.
Read MoreA fairly new release from Kevin Wells, PhoneVal has now been updated to version 1.01
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The next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting will take place on Wednesday, 5th March, and the guest speaker will be Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games, with a talk that will cover a number of topics.
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Saturday, 1st March, is the next date to circle in your diaries if you have any interest in software development on or for the RISC OS platform – or even of RISC OS itself. That’s the date on which the next ‘friendly fireside chat’ is scheduled to take place.
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Barely giving himself time for a good fry up after releasing a RISC OS conversion of Beatstreets, Jeroen Vermeulen is back with another of the games in Code the Classics Volume II. This time, he’s released a RISC OS version of Eggzy.
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AKA The Duke of Sussex in London The guest speaker at the next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting will be Rob Sprowson, who may or may not have yellow feathers in his hair1.
Read MoreKevin Wells has released yet another application that makes use of Wget in order to relay information to and from the application programmer interface (API) of a website, giving the user easy access to the data it provides. This time the application is designed to look up information about a phone number, and is called PhoneVal.
Read MoreWith the release of a second edition of Code the Classics from the Raspberry Pi stable (Side note; there’s apparently now a Code the Classics Volume II from Raspberry Pi Press, with their interpretations of another five classic games!) Jeroen Vermeulen has set his sights once again on creating RISC OS versions of the games included within its covers – and the first of these is now available.
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Kevin Wells has updated two of his handy applications that use Wget to relay information back and forth to remote APIs (application programmer interfaces), allowing RISC OS users to access, lookup, and retrieve information from the desktop.
Read MoreFred Graute has released version 2.00 of his Pinboard support module, ToggleBD, which can be used to raise the background of your desktop to the top of the window stack – effectively bringing it to the front of the display, with any open windows behind it – so that you can access anything pinned to it, such as iconised windows, shortcuts to files, and so on. Once you’ve got at what you need, the backdrop can be lowered again so that all your open windows can be accessed as normal.
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