RISC OS news & info with an irreverent style
There’s another new test release of StrongED available – version 4.70a21 [zip file] – with an upgrade [zip file] available to use by anyone who already has version 4.70a20 (noting that it is unsuitable for use with any other versions). And if you want to look at it, the source code [zip file] is also available. The main change in this version is to search and replace – quoting developer Fred…
A week later than originally scheduled, as previously noted, Martin Eastwood will be talking to the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) on Wednesday, 12th August, 2026, covering a few different pieces of software: An A15 emulator, which “is aimed at running RISC OS on (or emulating) systems based around the Cortex-A15 processor.” The Titanium board from Elesar is based around such a core, but…
As mentioned in the recently posted roundup of August meetings, the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) normally holds their meetings on the first Wednesday of each month, making the normal scheduled date this coming Wednesday. However, the meeting has unfortunately had to be delayed by a week, and will now take place on Wednesday, 12th August. That meeting will see Martin Eastwood talking…
This is a new trial feature for the website – a list of all upcoming meetings (and other events) I can see for the coming month, possibly with notable mentions for any further ahead. I’ll aim to post this either at the end of one month, or the begininng of the next. Things are currently very busy here in the RISCOSitory bunker – busier these days than it’s ever been – so it might not necessarily…
Users of the powerful text editor StrongED who like to keep up to date with test versions – and therefore try out features before they become part of the main ‘stable’ release cycle – can now download test version 4.70a20s [zip file]. And for those interested, with this release Fred Graute, who maintains StrongED, has decided to release the sources [zip file] According to Fred the search and…
Graeme Shrimpton has released a new module, MyChoices, mentioned on the June fireside chat for developers, with the goal of making it much easier for them to load and save their application’s choices (or settings). It deals with the two problems a developer faces – correctly handling where those choices are stored on user machines, and parsing the file that contains them. The first problem is the…
The time has come once again for anyone interested in software development and RISC OS to gather around the fire fan and discuss anything relevant to the topic. Saturday, 25th July is the date of the next scheduled ‘friendly firefanside chat’ for RISC OS developers. If you develop software on or for RISC OS, or you’re working on the operating system itself, or you’re wondering how to get a start…
The next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting will take place on 20th July – tonight – and rather than a guest speaker, the meeting will instead be an open one for general discussion of all things RISC OS. Bryan Hogan, who organises the meetings, and hosts their online element, notes that they have had a run of eighteen meetings featuring someone delivering a presentation, and talking…
The first issue of a new French-language digital (PDF) magazine is available to buy for enthusiasts of platforms sitting a little (or even some way) outside of the mainstream – which includes RISC OS. The first issue of Mag42 covers a whopping eighteen platforms, serving as a buyers’ guide with details of their specifications, potential uses, and prices – and one of those eighteen is the Titanium,…
If you want to find information about a file or directory from within RISC OS, the obvious thing to do in the desktop environment is to click the ‘Menu’ mouse button with the pointer over the object in a filer window, go to the submenu for it and choose ‘Info’. However, the information you get from doing that is quite limited – the ‘About this object’ window will tell you its name, its type, its…