Quick response codes are the ‘square’ – or two dimensional – bar codes you sometimes see on leaflets and posters, which hold useful information that can be scanned in on a phone, to save you manually typing it in. In those situations they might hold a URL, making it easier to visit the relevant site in your phone’s browser, or a phone number, making it easier to key in and phone it.
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A week later than the customary first Wednesday of the month (members need time to recover from the New Year celebrations, obviously), the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting is set for Wednesday, 11th January, 2023, and Andrew Rawnsley of R-Comp will be the guest speaker.
Read MoreRISCOSitory is sad to report that Steve Drain has died. Martin Avison broke the news on the RISC OS Open forum on Monday, explaining that Steve’s death occurred on the last day of 2022. Check out the subsequent thread for other people’s memories of and tributes to him.
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A collection of news for 2022 not already covered on RISCOSitory 2022 is about to draw to a close, so it’s time to cast one last eye over the various forums etc., to look for things that haven’t found their way onto these pages already.
Read MoreOpening up Manga and its sources, Rick Murray has released the application for fetching and reading Japanese comics under the Common Development and Distribution Licence (CDDL). Anyone interested in working on the software is now able to do so, with the source code not just to Manga itself available, but also the version of DeskLib Rick used to write it. The motivating factor in this decision is that the website used by the application as a source for the Manga has made changes that prevent the software working. Therefore, if…
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Hot on the heels of a new version of Iris, the latest release of the new TCP/IP stack from RISC OS Developments (ROD) has been announced. Version 7.03 of the stack, which is based on the OpenBSD network stack, gains various improvements and fixes over the previous releases, including a compatibility layer so that it can be used with RiscPC, RPCEmu, Iyonix, and the Elesar Wi-Fi HAT, better support for IP addresses supplied via a Hosts file, an updated DHCP module that correctly reports the DHCP state, allowing user applications…
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Iris, the web browser in development at RISC OS Developments (ROD), has continued apace and the company has just announced an update, available to anyone who has previously supported the project through purchasing OBrowser, whether at shows or via !Store.
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If you’re in the market for some new RISC OS computing goodness, the little shop with a lot of stock, CJE Micro’s (who are now a slightly bigger shop – or rather industrial unit) with a lot of stock) may be able to help. Chris Evans has announced a couple of price reductions on their RapidO Ti and RaspberryRO computers that will run from now until the end of January.
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Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games has outlined some of the things he is working on, and some of the things he has planned for next year. These include video tutorials, a video blog, exhibitions, and new games.
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Kevin Wells has released an update to his program for generating QR Codes. Version 2.03 of QrCode deals with a couple of potential issues the application previously had.
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