RISC OS Developments are behind the next announcement in my queue, so over to Richard and Andrew for this joint announcement:
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New user or news seeker – come to RISC OS North
If you’re a seasoned RISC OS User, you’ll know all about the operating system’s history, and you’ll be familiar with the people that look after it today – but you’ll want to find out the latest news. If, however, you’re a new user, or if are thinking of trying it out, you’ll want to find out more about it.
Read MoreTalking RISC OS North in London – 17th March
The last RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting before the next show – RISC OS North – will take place on Monday, 17th March, and that very show will be the topic of the evening; a pre-show fireside chat with Richard Brown of RISC OS Developments Ltd and Orpheus Internet taking the floor.
Read MoreRISC OS Developments comes to WROCC – 6th November
In the run up to the recent London Show, RISC OS Developments released an updated version of RISC OS Direct, their customised and more user-enticing distribution of RISC OS – and it was a very important update, because it also marked the first public release of their web browser, Iris, which is now bundled in the distro.
Read MoreRISC OS Developments TCP/IP stack opens up portals!
Don’t worry – these are the good kind, not the dangerous ones depicted in some sci-fi movies! Another announcement has come out from the direction of RISC OS Developments, this time bringing news of an updated and enhanced version of their TCP/IP stack – which some people might find particularly useful this very weekend at the London Show if they still have time to install it this close to the event!
Read MoreRISC OS Direct 5.31 now available
With Wi-Fi and web browser! Some very welcome news from RISC OS Developments, just a couple of days before London 2024 is the release of RISC OS Direct 5.31 – which includes a new internet stack and Wi-Fi facilities, as well as Iris, the web browser the company has been developing for quite some time.
Read MoreIcon bar’s cloak of invisibility improved in Pinboard 2.05
A new version of Pinboard 2 has been released by RISC OS Developments. The software is a replacement for the standard ‘Pinboard’ supplied with the operating system – the component that looks after the desktop background, allowing backdrops to be displayed, icons to be pinned to it to save navigating to the relevant files or applications using the filer, and so on – and provides quite a number of new features that make it a worthy replacement.
Read MoreMeet Andy Vawer at ROUGOL – 20th May
The RISC OS Developments programmer behind Pinboard2, the Wi-Fi drivers, and more Since its inception, with the original aim of producing a web browser, there have been a lot of good news coming out of RISC OS Developments Ltd (ROD) – from the browser itself, Iris (albeit still in testing and not yet ready for public release), taking on ownership of the operating system and releasing it under a truly open licence, and much more, including development of additional software.
Read MoreJoin the public beta and let fly with Wi-Fi
Attendees of the recent Southwest Show in Bristol who sat in on one or two of the theatre presentations – or anyone who has subsequently watched the videos of those talks will be aware that Wi-Fi is now a thing for RISC OS – and not only that, but like buses two different versions have arrived; one from RISC OS Developments Ltd (ROD) and one from RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL).
Read MoreA few videos from MUG for your viewing pleasure
And one from Kevin Wells for budding programmers The Midlands User Group (MUG) held their re-branded summer event on 1st July. What used to be the Midlands Midsummer MUG Show eventually came to a close due to low attendance numbers, but in 2022 it was resurrected as an online event, and this year held again under its new ‘MUG Mega Meeting’ banner – billing it, in effect, as an extended MUG meeting, with a spread of five different speakers over its five hour running time.
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