RiscDOCK – a new portability solution from RISCOSbits

An undeniable feature of modern Single Board Computers (SBCs) – quite a few of which can run RISC OS – is their small size, making them eminently portable if put in a suitable case. For example, I usually have a Raspberry Pi-based computer in my bag alongside my normal work laptop when out and about. There is a compromise with that portability, though, and that’s to do with connectivity – I can use the laptop as is, with nothing else attached. But that Pi? Not so much. I need a…

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RISC OS Developments comes to WROCC – 6th November

Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club logo

In the run up to the recent London Show, RISC OS Developments released an updated version of RISC OS Direct, their customised and more user-enticing distribution of RISC OS – and it was a very important update, because it also marked the first public release of their web browser, Iris, which is now bundled in the distro.

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RISC OS Developments TCP/IP stack opens up portals!

Don’t worry – these are the good kind, not the dangerous ones depicted in some sci-fi movies! Another announcement has come out from the direction of RISC OS Developments, this time bringing news of an updated and enhanced version of their TCP/IP stack – which some people might find particularly useful this very weekend at the London Show if they still have time to install it this close to the event!

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