StrongED 4.69f14 now available
ROD announces public beta of the Wifi and Network Manager components for its TCP/IP stack has now live
Amcog have released Wizard Lore on PlingStore and will have a new RPG game called Light Gate to release at Wakefield Show.
Free Toolbar app is updated to 1.22 (first update for a decade).
Impact 3.69 released
TimPlayer module 1.29 available to fix some issues.
]]>This edition is a 12 page edition with lots of news, opinion, reviews and all the club contacts and upcoming dates. In this edition, Chris Hall has a comparison of bundled software provided by different vendors, a mini review of Mark (version 2.01 was released in January), Chris Hughes charts his 'battle' to get full fibre installed, and Peter Richmond looks back at progaming the Electron.
The Wakefield Show is now fast approaching, so there are some announcements and news in the magazine. There is also a plea for help (it relies on volunteers) and a form to fill in.
As always, you can find out more about WROCC here.
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Obviously, given the extreme youth of most active RISC OS users, this is probably not something you have ever considered. But you should make sure others know your wishes and we have an increasing amount of digital data and assets in our lives generally.
Bernard will be leading an open discussion on 'passing on' inspired by the recent thread on Stardot "What happens to your collection when you pass?".
The action which kicks off at 6.30pm in the Duke of Sussex and online at 7.30pm on Zoom (usual link or contact Rougol for one).
As always meeting full details are on the site.
]]>As usual, the first section is all the latest news and the editors thoughts. As always the news section includes links to downloads and websites which it makes it very easy to visit any items of interest.
There is a bit of a !Draw sub-theme with a long article showing how to create all the text effects seen on the front page.
Programming is always an important part of the magazine, and there is an article on creating menus in the Wimp. There is also a nice SamPlay application which provides a front end to play samples and a tutorial on WaveSynth. Noahs ark also revisits a March 1988 article from Acorn user and makes some updates.
For hardware geeks, the RockPro64 is reviewed.
There is the regulate RiscOz column on programming and a new RISCoffee section looks at changing your 16 bit palette.
Finally there is a nice 'spoiler' for the next edition...
So the TL;DR is probably lots of coding, drawing and programming articles to read!
As always you can buy the magazine with copies of all the programs, although the annotated listings are still very useful for understanding the code.
]]>It will feature Chris Hughes and Peter Richmond providing updates on their previous talks. Chris will looking in more detail into the Impact database while Peter covers the use of older computers with newer monitors and TVs.
If you cannot make the talk live on Zoom (sadly includes me this month as I will be working in San Francisco) there is usually a youtube video posted soon after to watch.
As usual details on the club website.
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R-Comp announces RISC OS Project N.Ex.T - NVMe Extreme Technology
BeebIt 0.76 released
VATGST upgraded to 1.02
DDE31d released (free updates for recent purchases).
Lots of exciting releases at the South-West show including 2 games releases (Hexen and WizardLore) and 2 NVMe drivers from R-Comp and RISCOSbits.
New edition of Drag'n'Drop
]]>This is an informal and friendly forum for anyone with an interest in RISC OS coding. After the recent South-Wrest probably lots of news things to discuss as well!
If you want to get some tips or advice on coding RISC OS, this is great place to be. Maybe even bring some questions or code along to ask about or share....
As usual, DM Andrew if you need a link.
]]>The latest version lists the following changes (and is a free update if you purchased the DDE in the last 12 months).
You can see all the versions of the DDE and changes listed here.
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There was the regular selection of club/community stands with MUG, ROUGOL and SROUG. They had a nice selection of hardware projects and were promoting their club meetings. ROUGOL also has its London Show back for October. Steve Fryatt had updates on his software and some new puzzles ported onto RISC OS.
Drag'n'drop had the latest edition of the magazine available along with their tablet and range of books.
RISCOSbits had their FAST SATA-based machines and a selection of new machines with NVMe running their new Open Source NVMe driver. Their range includes a nice selection of very compact machines right you to a dual-boot RISC OS/Linux powerhouse.
R-Comp also had a selection of nice NVMe based machines (they have their own driver) and the PineBook Pro (now with wifi). There is also a new version of PhotoDesk which adds WebP support.
Amcog games had their new Wizard Lore game on show and you could also pickup their back catalogue. There was also a limited edition of posters based on their games.
If you are interested in games, Rock Soft had some new and improved games for you to see and buy.
Organizer were demoing the latest version of their software (events is a really nice feature).
Chris Hall had his selection of manuals for Impression RISC OS and his hardware projects, including his latest work with the WaveShare board.
ROOL had their usual collection of merchandise to help raise funds. There was an update to DDE, GIT client is now available on the site and they showed wifi support running on a Pi.
ACMS were making some noise with their sound system.
Paolo had a dark theme for his Desktop modernisation project, a VM to run RISC OS software on Linux and Windows and a very impressive Pi Cluster showing a Quantum simulation.
Rob Coleman had brought some of his rarer systems along to demo and had a Communicator and some Torch hardware.
Dynabyte had created some paddles and writing a module to access from RISC OS.
Michael Grunditz had RISC OS running on Genode and his latest OWB browser port.
As usual there was a charity stand with piles of stuff to hunt through for a bargain.
My impressions of the show was that it was busy, lots of exciting hardware and software to see and lots of interesting people to talk to...
Show website
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Chris had an updated version of his Rougol talk, explaining the benefits of NVMe drives, how to set them up on RISC OS. He had some nice detailed printed notes if you wanted to try for yourself. He has been testing both NVMe drivers which are still evolving.
R-Comp/RISC OS Developments
Andrew had his hat so we could tell when he was ROD (hat on). First up fromROD was an update on the Network manager which was allowing dynamic wifi connections. They are adding other features including a firewall.
No big news on Iris (work ongoing). CacheFS is in public beta (contact Andrew if you would like a copy).
As R-Comp, there is an updated version of the Hexen game, wi-fi for PineBook Pro, new version of PhotoDesk with webP support and a selection of new NVMe hardware. The NVMe driver is block based. It is also open source, written in C and 64bit aware.
ROOL
Steve was updating us. The ROOL website has been refreshed and updated. Seven bounties are currently underway. GIT client is now 55% complete and fully functional for basic functionality. Mentioned NVMe support (10x faster than SD cards). Pi now has wi-fi support. DDE31d released (minor update). Ideas for DDE to add support for C24, make more use of VFP, drop cfront for C++ and AArch64 support.
RISC OS 5.30 still has some platform specific issues to fix before release. RC4 now available on Downloads section.
Drag'n'drop
This was an 'inpromptu' talk on the latest version of the magazine. There is lots of stuff on using Draw. The front page shows some text effects and there is a tutorial inside showing how it was done. If you have not looked at the magazine recently this was also a good opportunity to see it (spoiler - lots of news, reviews, hints and articles on coding and programming).
Next edition will be out at Wakefield Show.
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