While RISC OS may now be regarded as a small, niche operating system, with only a tiny fraction of the number of users that more mainstream platforms attract, it does still have a surprisingly vibrant community – so with that in mind, every once in a while I look through a selection of news groups, mailing lists, and forums, looking for announcements that haven’t found their way to me via the RISCOSitory news inbox, and from those compile a ‘snippets’ post. Here, then, is the latest selection of news items…
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Snippets – 14th August, 2018
A round-up of news items found anywhere but the RISCOSitory news submission address! With time rarely being on my side, I’m always glad when people who release software or other resources for RISC OS, or who do anything else relevant to the platform let me know about it by sending their news to the email address made available for the purpose. However, there are still plenty who don’t send me their announcements, and that is the purpose of these ‘Snippets’ posts – so what follows is the result of me…
Read MoreDavid Ruck to visit ROUGOL on Monday, 16th October
To talk about his Knight of the Round Table Disc!1 David Ruck – aka Druck in online circles – will be the RISC OS User Group of London‘s next guest speaker. David is very well known in the Acorn and RISC OS worlds; he has been on the committee The ARM Club for many years (and Chairman for a good many of those), and is responsible for a number of RISC OS software titles.
Read MoreWorkspace now works with ZeroPain
Because having six real screens is just showing off. Dave Ruck has released an updated version of Workspace – a utility that helps users avoid cluttered desktops by separating different types of work (or play) onto six different desktop workspaces.
Read MoreGraphTask ARMv7 update
Announcement from Dave Ruck, 23rd February, 2014 The Teletext+ module in GraphTask, which provides MODE 7 emulation, has been updated to work correctly on ARMv7 machines such as the BeagleBoard. Please note there is no change to the GraphTask version number.
Read MoreDiscKnight 1.51 released
Announcement from ARM Club’s Dave Ruck, 24th December, 2013 Version 1.51 of DiscKnight is now available, to request a copy go to the DiscKnight update page on the ARM Club website.
Read MoreARM Club software updates: TimerMod, AppStat, CPUload and DiscKnight
The Dark Disc Knight rises Dave Ruck (aka Druck) announced towards the end of June* that new versions of TimerMod, AppStat and CPUload can be found on the ARM Club website. The updates correct for “code which could crash if used on the Raspberry Pi when the NetTime module had adjusted the system timer for the real time clock running too fast,” according to Druck’s announcement, who therefore recommended that the new versions are downloaded if they are to be run on the credit card sized computer.
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