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date: 2024-06-07, from: Digital Antiquarian
If you follow the latest developments in modern gaming even casually, as I do, you know that Microsoft and Activision Blizzard recently concluded the most eye-watering transaction ever to take place in the industry: the former acquired the latter for a price higher than the gross national product of more than half of the world’s […]
https://www.filfre.net/2024/06/the-last-days-of-zork/
date: 2024-06-06, from: Richard Murray’s blog
A big arse pull, Speaking of trust, Speaking of arse pulls, What did the Tories ever do for us?
https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20240606
date: 2024-06-06, from: Linux Magazine
The latest release of NixOS (Uakari) has arrived and offers its usual reproducible, declarative, and reliable goodness.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/NixOS-24.05-is-Ready-for-Prime-Time
date: 2024-06-06, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News
Wakefield’s June speaker was Mark Moxon looking at Lander. Previously he has documented other games such as Elite.
http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2074.html
date: 2024-06-05, from: Richard Murray’s blog
AI is the wrong hammer to crack a nut with, Apophenia.
https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20240605
date: 2024-06-03, from: RiscOS Story
If you have any interest in software development on RISC OS, then you’ll be pleased to read that the next occasional ‘friendly fireside chat’ for programmers, and anyone with a related interest or who is thinking about trying their hand at coding, is set to take place on Saturday, 8th June. These meetings take place on a semi-regular basis, online via the Zoom video conferencing system, and provide a means for people to get together and discuss programming issues that matter to them. For some they are an opportunity to…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/developers-fireside-chat-8th-june/
date: 2024-06-03, from: RiscOS Story
If your use of RISC OS goes back to the early days of the operating system, there’s a very good chance you’ll have either have played Lander or, at the very least, will have found it lurking on one of the discs that came with your computer. It was supplied on the ‘Applications Discs’ that came with early Archimedes and A3000 computers. The game was based around a very simple concept: You control a craft called a Lander, and you fly around the protecting your world by eliminating enemy ships…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/wrocc-meeting-mark-moxon-lander-5th-june/
date: 2024-06-03, from: RiscOS Story
The next meeting of the Midlands User Group (MUG) will be an in-person event, and will be held from 2:00pm on Saturday, 8th June, at: Dodderhill Parish Community Hall,School Road,Wychbold,WR9 7PU. Attendees will see a demonstration of how to update a system based around the ‘ROOL distribution’ of RISC OS – that’s one where the operating system and disc image comes from the RISC OS Open Limited website – so that it’s running version 5.30 of the OS. This will cover not just updating the ROM image itself, but also…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/mug-meeting-updating-risc-os-to-5-30/
date: 2024-06-03, from: RiscOS Story
Kevin Wells has released a new version of his application for looking up information about MAC addresses from the RISC OS desktop. Version 2.00 of MACadd brings with it a number of changes over the last release. The chief driver of the update is that the provider of the remote application programmer interface (API) that was being used is no longer working with the software, so Kevin has changed the code to support a new one, called MACLookup. Other changes include preventing multiple copies of the software running at once,…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/macadd-becomes-2-00/
date: 2024-06-03, from: FreeDOS News
Debug/X is a package of debuggers, including Debug (a workalike for DOS DEBUG), DebugX (an extended version) and other variants like like DebugXv, DebugXg, DebugB or DebugR that are useful for special cases. Japheth just released Debug/X v2.50 with lots of bug fixes. You can read the details on the Debug/X 2.50 release page on GitHub.
Related to that, JDeb386 is a PL0 debugger for Jemm that makes use of the new Debug/X variant DebugRV, a full v86-monitor context debugger like 386SWAT. You can find more details at the JDeb386 1.2 release page, also on GitHub.
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2024/06/debugx-v250-and-jdeb386-released/
date: 2024-06-03, from: Richard Murray’s blog
The tree man, Idiotic interview tricks.
https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20240603
date: 2024-06-03, from: Linux Magazine
Based on Ubuntu 24.04 and kernel 6.8, Linux Lite version 7 now offers more options than ever.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Lite-7.0-Officially-Released
date: 2024-06-03, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News
The next ‘fireside’ chat is on saturday night 8th June. Starting time is 7:30pm UK time (which is hopefully fairly doable for most time zones and we do get some international attendees) and the event is on Zoom. Stay as long or as short a time as you like.
http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2048.html
date: 2024-06-02, from: Richard Murray’s blog
Obvious scam site is obvious, Watching the tree cutting, Bribery, Doctor Who - Life in Finetime.