These are the voyages issues of the Starship Enterprise magazine Drag ‘n Drop…1 The latest issue of on-off-on-off-under-new-management PDF magazine Drag ‘n Drop hit the virtual shelves a couple of weeks ago, in the form of volume five, issue four – aka issue 5i4 – marking the completion of its fifth volume.
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Sine Nomine Software at the Wakefield Show
Announcement from Matthew Phillips, 10th April, 2014. The Wakefield Show is not very far off now: just over two weeks away. Sine Nomine Software will be attending and we will have some upgrades and hopefully some brand new software available on the day.
StrongED 4.69 released
Announcement from Fred Graute, 1st September, 2013 Hi, I’m pleased to announce that StrongED 4.69 is now available. Please note that this is a minimal release that contains only BaseMode. Other modes that you may wish to use have to be downloaded separately from the website (Download page -> Modes database).
The Wakefield Back Catalogue CD
Announcement from WROCC’s Chris Hughes, 25th August, 2013 To celebrate 30 years of the club, Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club released the Third Edition of the Wakefield Back Catalogue CD at this year’s Wakefield Show. It now contains around 360 back issues of the newsletter, including more than 100 from the 1980s and 1990s which had once been considered lost. Indeed, we believe that there are now just three issues left unaccounted for from the Club’s 30 year history.
Portsmouth’s first RISC OS show
Putting Portsmouth on the RISC OS map. The first ever RISC OS show in Portsmouth took place on 28th September, 2013- and it seems to have been a successful one, with both exhibitors and visitors reflecting positively about the event. The venue itself, the second floor of Innovation Warehouse Portsmouth, was comparatively small, offering a much more limited amount of space than other RISC OS shows, but the number of exhibitors filled the space very neatly, giving a good balance of things to see and people to talk to versus…
RISC OS Open’s Portsmouth show almost upon us
In three… two… one… well, okay, a few days time. This coming Saturday, 28th September, marks the ribbon being cut on the RISC OS community’s newest show, which takes place at Innovation Warehouse, Portsmouth, 2nd Floor, Innovation Space building, 1 Hampshire Terrace, Portsmouth, PO1 2QF.
Portsmouth show date confirmed
Set a new date for your diaries: 28th September, 2013 Following RISC OS Open Limited‘s announcement of a proposed new show to be held in Portsmouth, originally slated for 20th July, which would have put it a mere week after the Midlands Show and may have proven difficult for exhibitors, the idea was taken back to the drawing board and some possible new dates considered, with 21st and 28th September being offered up as possibilities.
Can you help with a new RISC OS Welcome Guide? (Updated)
Uncle Sam Chris needs you! Something missing for users of new RISC OS computer systems is an up to date welcome guide – and CJE Micro’s have stepped in to try and address the issue. With the agreement of Castle and RISC OS Open, CJE Micro’s aim to coordinate bringing the Iyonix Welcome Guide up to date
Proposed free RISC OS show in Portsmouth
Is this the furthest South mainland UK show yet? How about Lizard Point next, please? With the growing number of low-cost Raspberry Pi systems now in the hands of end users, or even slightly more expensive options such as the BeagleBoard and PandaBoard – which are still relatively cheap compared with RISC OS computers of old – there are more and more people out there who could potentially start using RISC OS on those systems.
Genealogy app GedText v1.14 released
GedText gets text from GEDCOM. Geddit? In early December, Rob Hemmings announced a new version of GedText, his application that extracts information from GEDCOM files, and presents it as text in a more human-friendly format, or as a DDF file for use with EasiWriter and Techwriter, Impression or Ovation Pro. GEDCOM, which is short for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a file format for exchanging data between different genealogical software packages. Genealogy, of course, is the popular pastime of tracing ancestry and family trees and histories.