Tony Bartram has around twenty titles in his AMCOG Games back catalogue, and is currently working on two more titles, both of which feature something new or novel for our platform, and he will be talking at the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting, this coming Wednesday.
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In the RISC OS world, we (should) all know that RISC OS runs on ARM processors in either 26 or 32-bit mode, depending what hardware (or emulator) you are running it on – and that we are now at the stage where 64-bit only ARM processors are becoming the norm, and RISC OS is unable to run on them.
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And a language poll for MACadd There are two bits of news from Kevin Wells for some of his applications: There’s a new StreetFix release, which now stands at version 1.09, and he’s running a poll in relation to adding new language support to MACadd.
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The next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting is almost upon us – it takes place on Wednesday, 7th August – and the guest speaker this month will be Paul Reuvers from X-Ample Technology (XAT).
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The time has come once again for RISC OS developers, and anyone with an interest in the subject – perhaps as a beginner, or someone thinking of dipping their toes in – to gather around the virtual fire for a friendly chat. The next such meeting will take place on Saturday, 3rd August, kicking off at around 7:30pm.
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FAST – a backronym for ‘Fast Access to Storage Technology’ – is the name given by Andy Marks of RISCOSbits to a new range of machines launched at the 2023 Southwest Show – machines that do exactly as the acronym suggests, by accessing the PCIe port on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module to provide up to four full-speed SATA ports.
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Kevin Wells has released an update to one of his various applications that allow remote sites to be interrogated for information from the RISC OS desktop – this time MACadd, a program used for getting information about MAC (Media Access Control) addresses.
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There will be an out of schedule meeting held by the Midlands User Group (MUG), at which the group’s own John Rickman will discuss the use of StrongED as a scripting tool when programming in Python.
Read MoreWimpInfo is a small application that was previously supplied by Quantum Software, and is now hosted here on RISCOSitory after Stuart Halliday announced he was shutting down the software house.
Read MoreA new version of Pinboard 2 has been released by RISC OS Developments. The software is a replacement for the standard ‘Pinboard’ supplied with the operating system – the component that looks after the desktop background, allowing backdrops to be displayed, icons to be pinned to it to save navigating to the relevant files or applications using the filer, and so on – and provides quite a number of new features that make it a worthy replacement.
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