This Saturday (25th November) will see the next developers’ ‘fireside chat’ take place – an online meeting for people interested in software development on or for the RISC OS platform that will take place via the Zoom video conferencing system. The meeting will begin at 7:30pm.
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The next friendly ‘fireside chat’ for people interested in software development for RISC OS will take place on Saturday, 30th September, with the official run time scheduled for 7:30pm.
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If you have any interest in software development on (or of) RISC OS, then you might want to join in the next ‘fireside chat’, which will take place on Saturday, 12th August.
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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.
Read MoreOpening 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…
Read MoreDeveloped 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 MoreSomething 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.
Read MoreCourtesy 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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