Developers’ fireside chat, 8th July

The next so-called ‘fireside chats’ will take place on Saturday, 8th July. These online meetings, aimed at people who are (or would like to be) involved in RISC OS development – either of the OS itself, or of programs to run on it, are intended to be friendly discussions, about any and all areas related to writing software.

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News nybble: Manga goes open source

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.

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e-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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