If you have Tuesday evening free and happen to be within shouting distance of Southampton, why not pop along to Itchen College and meet up with other RISC OS users in the area? That’s when the next meeting of the Southampton RISC OS User Group (SROUG) will be taking place.
Read MoreNews nybble: Wakefield meeting – 7th August
The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will be holding their next meeting on Wednesday, 7th August, at 7:45pm, and this month will see something of a mixed bag, with two people lined up to talk to the group. Ruth Gunstone will be talking audio/video capture, and about a nightmare hardware change to her Pi MediaVault server, and Malcolm Hussain-Gambles will be talking about Prosumer networks and Pine64’s Pinebook. The meetings are free for members, but attract an entry fee of £3.00 for non-members. If you want to attend, head…
Read MoreNews nybble: Minor BusTimes update
Small update to the program – not an update to do with small buses Kevin Wells has released another version of BusTimes, his application that uses Wget to interrogate the Transport API website and return information about bus (and bus stop) timetables. The new version fixes a problem whereby, depending on the data source used by the API provider for the specific request, that returned data could cause the program to crash.
Read MoreProphet 4.02 now available
Elesar Ltd has released an update for comprehensive accounts software Prophet, bringing it up to version 4.02.
Read MoreNews bit: Graphics programming website updated
Richard Ashbery’s Simple Gemoetric Programming in RISC OS BASIC website has been updated with more content – section 5, entitled “Other Graphic Designs” has been added.
Read MoreNews nybble: Kquiz has been updated – true or false?
If you said ‘true’ you’d be right! Kevin Wells has released a new version of his Kquiz application, which makes use of Wget to draw a series of quiz questions from the Open Trivia Database. Those questions are then presented to the user in a RISC OS window, with the application keeping a count of how many are answered correctly. The new version adds the option of true/false questions instead of the existing multiple choice ones, although Kevin notes that the true/false selection is currently limited. However, anyone who registers…
Read MoreNews nybble: NetSurf gains support for CSS Media Queries in version 3.9
A new version of NetSurf has been released into the wild, and as well as some general bug fixes and improvements, including to its JavaScript handling, this version also benefits from support for CSS Media Queries (level 4). The term “CSS Media Queries” might seem a little meaningless to anyone who simply uses the browser to look at websites, but for people who design and maintain websites CSS Media Queries are a very useful tool in their armoury. They allow the layout of a page to be changed according to…
Read MoreGeometric graphics BASIC programming website launched
Richard Ashbery, known for his ArtWorks, er, artworks1, has launched a new website dedicated to graphics programming in the version of BBC BASIC supplied on RISC OS Computers.
Read MoreSouthwest Show videos now online
The recordings of the four talks given at the 2019 RISC OS Southwest Show are now available to view on YouTube.
Read MoreMidlands User Group meeting – 20th July
The next meeting for RISC OS users in the Midlands area will take place on Saturday, 20th July at 2pm, and the main topic of the afternoon will be a discussion of using ADFFS to run old, legacy software on modern systems.
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