Looking for something different, that stands out, old-school, quick, fun and free?
Have a look at:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQmJIcSgxD-NDpgp1wTpRT_PWVBFuFhTL&si=z_PailCgMNX1tBlL
https://www.wrocc.org.uk/risc-os
https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Quick%20Guide:%201.%20Apps%20Folder https://telcontar.net/Misc/GUI/RISCOS/
#OpenSource #RISCOS #Community #Code4Fun 🛸🚀🕹️

@trcwm Arc #Elite on #RISCOS as the most faithful implementation of the original idea.

Or the open source #Oolite for taking it into the 21st Century, with loads of mods.

Honourable mention to #EliteDangerous which feels so empty since they abandoned consoles and never implemented cross-play :-(

Downloaded a random svg icon from another "free icon" site.

Copied it to RISC OS and loaded it into netsurf and saved it as a draw file.

Dropped the draw file onto !draw2sprite, selected the color depth and size I wanted, and boom! Had a usable RISC OS sprite!

#Icon #RiscOS #SVG

(It's an air fryer) 😀

Very pleased with The Pi Hut - bought something from them and it dispatched same day (actually dispatched, not 'marked as to be sent at some point in the next week' like eBay sellers) and arrived next day. Highly recommended.

Now waiting for RISC OS Open to ship my SD card so I can give it a whirl (yes I could make my own card but I'm lazy and it means the project gets some money, although 2GB card feels like skimping).

#RaspberryPi #RISCOS

Hummm.
So I grabbed a semi-random #icon in .png from one of those "30,000 free icon" sites, copied it to #RiscOS and while !privateEye can display it properly, !changeFSI just displays a black window.

ChangeFSI displays other pngs so it's not that it doesn't know about png, so the original site must be doing something weird. One can do a lot of weird things in .png.

Don't make me use pbm tools.

(Actually I have an idea...)

Setting up a new #Macbook and redug out @mcwoods 's guide to setting the pointer colours to match #RISCOS: https://withbighair.com/retro/2023/02/19/Replicating-the-RISC-OS-mouse-pointer-on-Mac-OS-and-Windows.html

#RetroComputing

I recently hacked #Elite on the #Acorn #Archimedes to send scores to a live scoreboard across an #Econet network.

I've just published a short article that explains how I did this.

I hope you like it!

https://elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_over_econet_acorn_archimedes.html

#retrocompting #retrogaming #riscos

A huge shout-out to everyone who made it. The next meet-up is pencilled in for Saturday, 31st May. Come and join in, connect with others. #Code4Fun #OpenSource #RISCOS #Community #Meetup

I've just released !EliteNet, my first #RISCOS application in 30 years.

It allows #Archimedes #Elite to transmit to an #Econet multiplayer scoreboard (see Yoda’s score in the second screenshot, for example).

I’ve loved every minute of this little side project!

Here's the repo: https://github.com/markmoxon/elite-over-econet-acorn-archimedes

If you want to see this in action, we’ll be playing multiplayer Elite at the National Museum of Computing’s LAN Party on 7-8 June.

You can find more information about the party here, including ticket details: https://www.tnmoc.org/events/econet-lan-party-2025-1

See you there!

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #tnmoc

RISC OS (Reduced Instrcution Set Computer Operating System) – an OS for desktop computers running ARM processors. RISC OS was originally developed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England has been in continual development since 1989. https://archiveos.org/risc-os/ #operatingsystem #riscos

Does anyone have a friend who used to work for the #riscos Ethernet card company, i-Cubed Ltd.?

I'd like to hear the story behind this line in their code:

"Save the world! Eat more fish! Angstrom for Parliament!"

#retrocomputing

Iniciativa Moonshots chce přinést 64bitový RISC OS
#RISCOS #ARM
https://alt-f4.cz/iniciativa-moonshots-chce-prinest-64bitovy-risc-os

Are you interested in Coding on RISC OS? Want to learn more? Join our friendly fireside chat on Zoom—DM for credentials (unchanged). If you are a developer, come and connect. The event is this Saturday, 26th April, at 7:30 pm (UK). #OpenSource #RISCOS #Community #Code4Fun #Zoom

Sometimes it's the small projects that are the most enjoyable.

Case in point: this month I'm building !EliteNet, which connects the #Archimedes version of #Elite to the Econet multiplayer scoreboard, so ArcElite players can compete against #BBCMicro players.

I last wrote a RISC OS application in 1995. That's 30 years ago! Turns out that BBC BASIC V is still a great language to code in.

And I've never written a RISC OS relocatable module before, so even now, this old dog is learning new ARM-based tricks.

And… ArcElite! ❤️

I absolutely love this hobby.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #riscos

Last RISC OS icon I created (I think ..)

This is for ungzip, which does just that. Gavin Wraith's drag-and-drop WIMP wrapper (stick) that runs a trivial perl script that calls the gzip binary.

This lets me uncompress gzip files from the GUI.

Stick does the magic of making drag-and-drop happen. The perl script converts a RISC OS filename (foo.bar/gz) into a unix style path (foo/bar.gz) and feeds the path to gzip.

#RiscOS #Icons #GZip #Stick

I forgot I made an icon for !cawf !

A printer that is apparently badly in need of retrobrighting.

#RiscOS #icons

This is the first RISC OS icon I made.

I was working with the last MINIX source release for the NE editor, trying to compile it under RISC OS. I got it to compile but it didn't have the binary blobs needed for RISC OS, like the icon...

At this point I was still confused about where NE sits in the Cambridge / IBM E editor's family tree, so I created an icon that mimics IBM's look.

#RiscOS #Icons

RISC OS recreation of an icon I created and used under (Microware) OS-9 for the Tandy CoCo 3.

It's supposed to be a speaker, with a digital signal going in and sound waves coming out.

Sigh, I know, it looks like a flower.

But hey, I discovered how to set pixels to be transparent in !paint !

#RiscOS #Icons #Paint

As a fan of anything computing i rediscoverd this gem
https://www.riscosopen.org/content/

Remember trying it on my Raspberry 1

#riscos #arm #raspberrypi

The 32bit RISC OS needs to be ported to 64bit to survive, seeks help

RISC OS, the operating system from the United Kingdom originally designed to run on Acorn Computer's Archimedes computers - the first ARM computers - is still actively developed today. Especially since the introduction of the Raspberry Pi, new life was breathed into this ageing operating system, and it

https://www.osnews.com/story/142025/the-32bit-risc-os-needs-to-be-ported-to-64bit-to-survive-seeks-help/

#RISCOS