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date: 2024-05-17, from: Digital Antiquarian
Sometimes success smacks you right in the face. More often, it sneaks up on you from behind. In September of 1993, the brothers Rand and Robyn Miller and the few other employees of Cyan, Inc., were prototypical starving artists, living on “rice and beans and government cheese.” That month they saw Brøderbund publish their esoteric […]
https://www.filfre.net/2024/05/riven/
date: 2024-05-17, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News
The May 2024 Rougol meeting on Monday 15th January sees Andy Vawer (RISCOS Developments coder) talking about the different projects he has been working on (Iris, PinBoard, etc).
http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2057.html
date: 2024-05-16, from: FreeDOS News
Edlin is an awesome line-oriented editor. That means you edit one line at a time, not full-screen. Gregory Pietsch has released Edlin version 2.24 that moves the copyright and program info to the ‘?’ help screen. It also changes the “Abort edit?” prompt when you exit to “Really quit?” I love these changes; I use Edlin to write quick batch files, like to capture some commands I just ran as a BAT file, and moving the copyright info to the ‘?’ page means the commands don’t scroll off the screen. Thanks Gregory! You can find the new version at FreeDOS Edlin at SF or mirrored at the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio under /files/dos/edlin. We’ve also mirrored an EXE you can run.
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2024/05/freedos-edlin-224/
date: 2024-05-16, from: RiscOS Story
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. Some of that other software – such as Pinboard2, a…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/rougol-20th-may-andy-vawer/
date: 2024-05-16, from: RiscOS Story
If you’re a fan of video games in general, and first person shooters in particular, another title in that genre has been given a little attention by R-Comp – this time it’s Quake. The update builds on the 2018 release of the game, which brought boosted performance to the game when run on more modern CPUs, adding support for floating point abilities of the processors, and profiles to take advantage of the higher resolution screens, and so on. The new version builds on that, with updated profiles for higher resolutions…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/quake-update-pi4-pinebook-pro/
date: 2024-05-16, from: RiscOS Story
Kevin Wells is adding multi-language support to his StreetFix application, which can be used to report and check up on local issues, such as potholes, broken bollards, street lights not working, and so on. To that end, he’s running a poll on whether the choice for the language name should be in English, or specified in the language in question – for example, should Swedish be identified as that, making it obvious for English speakers, or should it be Svenska, to make it clearer to Swedish speakers? The poll was…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/streetfix-poll-language-names/
date: 2024-05-16, from: Linux Magazine
After more than a year since the last update, the latest release of Endless OS is now available for general usage.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Endless-OS-6-has-Arrived
date: 2024-05-15, from: RiscOS Open
Now that the Eurovision contest is over for this year, the next big euro vision to eXperience is the one organised by the Big Ben Club at their annual day.
http://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2024/05/15/euro-vision-of-risc-os-welcomes-all
date: 2024-05-13, from: Linux Magazine
If you’ve been anticipating KDE’s Plasma 6 for your Apple Silicon-powered Mac, then you’re in luck.