Thomas Milius has released a new image filing system called HistoryFS that implements a simple document management system. At its most basic level what Thomas’ software does is retain previous copies of a file whenever a new version is saved (or the file is deleted).
Read MoreROUGOL talks optical disc burning with Steffen Huber
If you’re out and about in or near London on Monday, 15th February… ask yourself what you’re doing, then get yourself home. Once there, consider setting up a suitable computer to join the meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) which takes place that evening. The guest speaker will be Steffen Huber, covering the subject of putting data on optical discs – CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays – using his CDVDBurn 3 software.
Read MoreEarly Day Motions feature returns to MPData+
Having released a largely rewritten version of MPData+ during January, Kevin Wells has now put out an update, bringing it up to version 2.01.
Read MoreGAG-News DVD collection to commemorate it reaching 175
That’s 175 issues, not 175 years, obviously! In May of this year, the German Archimedes Group magazine GAG-News will have reached its 175th issue, having been published consistently every two months since April 1992. The magazine’s publisher, Herbert zur Nedden, notes that this probably makes it the only printed1 Acorn/RISC OS magazine to have managed such a long run with no breaks in its schedule.
Read MoreMore graphics ditties running on a Pi find their way onto YouTube
Richard Ashbery has put together another video demonstrating a selection of graphics programs written in BBC BASIC and running on RISC OS on a Raspberry Pi.
Read MoreRIP Dave Clare
With great regret, I have to report the sad news that another well known name from the Acorn and RISC OS community has passed away. This time Dave Clare, of Clares Micro Supplies.
Read MoreZoom through the AMCOG development process
The first meeting of 2021 for the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will take place on Monday, and the guest speaker will be Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games, talking on the subject of: The AMCOG Development Process
Read MoreCloverleaf falls short of crowdfunding target
The Kickstarter fundraising page set up by RISC OS Cloverleaf came to a close today, with the funds falling short of their target – the goal was to raise €50,000 (£44,447 at time of writing), but the amount pledged was just €26,870 (£23,886), which is €23,130 (£20,561) short.
Read MoreMPData+ gets a reshuffle
Kevin Wells has spent some time looking at MPData+ and, because the code was becoming hard to maintain, the result is a more or less complete rewrite, which has now been released as version 2.00.
Read MoreSnippets – 1st January, 2021
A final round up of 2020 news that hasn’t found its way to RISCOSitory before I was aiming to get this final round up of news posted on the last day of 2020, but as ever other things got in the way, so what was intended as the last post of 2020 has become the first post of 2021. Still, never mind, better late than never – which should probably be the official motto here in the RISCOSitory bunker!
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