An announcement from R-Comp’s Andrew Rawnsley, 4th January, 2014 This weekend brings the two-week-long !Store Christmas sales to a close. The feature items this weekend are Fireworkz Pro and HTMLEdit Studio, both on offer for half price. However, dig more deeply, and you’ll see that many other offers from the sales are still in effect, so you can still grab many programs for discounted prices. It’s not too late to grab a bargain.
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Three UK Show dates for your 2014 diaries
Don’t say you haven’t been given plenty of advance notice! RISC OS South West Show The date for the South West Show, usually the first show of the year, was initially published on this site in the 2013 Portsmouth Show report – but, in case you missed it (along with the fairly large advert1 for the show which, at the time of writing, is staring at you from the left hand side of this page), it’s set for Saturday, 1st March, 2014.
Read MorePiPlus Super Pack 2 released for members
Announcement from R-Comp’s Andrew Rawnsley, 26th September, 2013 We are pleased to announce that “Super Pack 2” (aka SP2) has been released to members of our PiPlus support scheme. It is now available for download from our private PiPlus members’ area1. SP2 provides a “drop on” upgrade to bring PiPlus members up to date with the latest PiPlus disc image.
Read More!Store Christmas sale now on – Datapower family 50% off
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley of R-Comp, 21st December, 2013 Each day, or few days, over Christmas, different products will be on sale for significantly reduced prices. To begin with, the DataPower family of RISC OS database – generally considered to be some of RISC OS finest software – is on offer for 50% off. That means you can dip your toes in the water with the flexible, visual “DTP-style” DataPower Home for just 19.99ukp, or grab the extensive DataPower 3 relational database system for 49.99ukp, complete with SQL and scripting…
Read More!Store software registration and Christmas sales
Announcement from Andrew Rawnsley of R-Comp, 18th December, 2013 We are pleased to announce the availability of a new service for users of our !Store1 download service. If you’re not a user yet, download it free at www.plingstore.org.uk The R-Comp Software Registration Service allows you to register your existing R-Comp/RCI purchases on !Store, so that you can access latest versions from any of your RISC OS machines with an internet connection.
Read MoreFireworkz and Fireworkz Pro updates
Dynamite! Back in late 2011, RISC OS users saw the welcome return of Fireworkz and Fireworkz Pro, an integrated word processor, spreadsheet and – in the case of the Pro version – database package. The software, originally from Colton Software, had been resurrected by Stuart Swales, and has seen a number of releases since. Fireworkz (and the file compatible Fireworkz for Windows) are now free to download from Gerald Fitton’s Abacus Training website, and are both now up to version 1.34/10. Updates to Fireworkz Pro, which remains commercial and is…
Read MoreRISC OS South West to go ahead again in 2013
Da-na na-na na-na na-na na – Showtime! After last year’s ‘near miss’ in the South West, when it began to look as though the usual RISC OS Show for the area wasn’t going to go ahead until new organisers stepped up at the last minute to save the day, it’s good to have a date announced in plenty of time for the 2013 show. The 2012 show’s last minute saviours were Andrew Rawnsley of R-Comp and Richard Brown of Orpheus Internet, and the dynamic duo* have once again teamed up…
Read MoreMessenger Pro 6.06 released
Minor niggle knocked back. R-Comp have sent out a new version of their news and email client, Messenger Pro, to users. The new version makes it easier to use the software’s facilities to save one or more messages to an external location on your hard drive – or to another location on your network, or an external storage medium. Until now, in order to access these files, Messenger Pro needed to be already running, but the update to 6.06 enables these messages to be opened even if the application hasn’t…
Read MoreSolid-state drives from R-Comp
The Silence of the NAND. R-Comp Interactive have announced the availability of affordable, high quality SSDs for computers running RISC OS 5. SSDs, or solid-state drives are designed to be used as a storage medium instead of (or alongside, depending on your computer) the hard disk drives that most RISC OS users will probably be more familiar with, but instead of the key component in the drive being a magnetic disk, spun at high speed in order to enable fast access times to all parts, SSDs typically contain NAND flash…
Read MoreWelcome to PandaLand!
Everything for one panda! R-Comp, who last year brought out the ARMini computer, based around a BeagleBoard-xM and subsequently launched a software support scheme for BeagleBoard owners wishing to run RISC OS on their devices, have now produced a similar scheme for PandaBoard owners – with the potentially puntastic name of PandaLand! The new scheme is intended to provide PandaBoard owners with software and operating system components with a degree of support – something that isn’t really there if you opt for the DIY approach of performing a self-install of…
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