Opening up Manga and its sources, Rick Murray has released the application for fetching and reading Japanese comics under the Common Development and Distribution Licence (CDDL). Anyone interested in working on the software is now able to do so, with the source code not just to Manga itself available, but also the version of DeskLib Rick used to write it. The motivating factor in this decision is that the website used by the application as a source for the Manga has made changes that prevent the software working. Therefore, if…
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LanMan98 2.08 released under open source licence
Developed by Paul Gardiner and released as a Warm Silence Software (WSS) product, LanMan98 provided a means to access other devices on a network using the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol. In its original form LanMan98 worked alongside LanManFS and Omniclient, and offered support for long filenames on remote filing systems, but the software grew from those origins and became something that could work independently of Omniclient.
Read Moree-book reader open sourced
Something I managed to miss on RISCOSitory is that back in September, Rick Murray engaged in a little experimentation with e-books (books supplied in digital form for use on e-readers – which can be dedicated devices, or software running on phones, tablets, or normal computers). The result of his efforts, written up on his blog at the time, was an e-book reader application for RISC OS which he made available via !Store.
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Courtesy of Leo White, the five talks from the RISC OS London Show 2018 are now available to watch on YouTube. So, in the order they were listed on the show programme, here they are:
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