What will Santa bring this year?

“aof/Resolver built with cc 5.90” – Mmmm.

5.90 has been available for approx 2.5 months now :)

Awww. Nobody told me :-( That fabled RISC OS communication again :-)

As far as I can tell there was no actual announcement on the ROOL site, which doesn’t help!

Is some kind soul going to tell me what the 5.89 to 5.90 updates are ;-)

I don’t have the full change log (in my opinion this should be public, rather than available only to people who have already purchased the upgrade). However, I believe that _swix is now intrinsic and compiles to a ‘direct’ SWI instruction where practical, rather than spending 20 minutes faffing around with registers.

That’d be nice (x2). Long overdue and most welcome! Take my money.

[Edit: Reader, they took my money. Happy bunny.]

;) Here are a few things I’d love to see Santa bring me.

• An open-source port of a code editor.
• A spreadsheet application capable of opening the “How to measure anything” spreadsheets located here
• A 32bit !Replay release.
• !Omni’s missing components added to the current release.
• A version of RISC OS that gets its IP address in the background.
• !Draw – to implement a fine-grained move an object action, using a shift cursor key combination.

;) I don’t want much, Santa. :)

An open-source port of a code editor.

May be rather un-RISC OS in behaviour, like insisting on having some sort of window open.

But, yeah, an editor written in something other than assembler would be good.

A spreadsheet application capable of opening the “How to measure anything” spreadsheets located here

No idea about spreadsheets. I use Google Sheets to track what’s in my larder. A database app would probably be better…?

A 32bit !Replay release.

GPU support so we can use MPlayer (etc) for video codecs that people actually use? ;)

!Omni’s missing components brought back.

What’s missing?

A version of RISC OS that gets its IP address in the background.

And can handle IP address changing. It’ll need to be sorted for WiFi.

!Draw – to implement a fine-grained move an object action, using a shift cursor key combination.

Just use DrawPlus. It’s everything Draw should have been.
Might be worth somebody reaching out to the author about this…?

What would I like from Santa?

The time to be able to play around with the OvationPro sources.

Otherwise, my concerns are more practical.
Please somebody stick a knife in the back of that annoying Russian twat, somebody muzzle that American twat, and give nurses a ****ing pay rise.

A database app would probably be better…?

Valid for managing data. I want to be able to open those spreadsheets on RISC OS, as I can with Windows and Linux.

GPU support so we can use MPlayer (etc) for video codecs that people actually use? ;)

That would be amazing. I’m thinking more about the demo I had on my RISC PC, which enables multiple Replay windows to be open simultaneously with audio synced to the window selected; it would be even more useful if SIP could be integrated. ;)

RE: Omni – What’s missing?

From memory, without switching on the RiscPC, I believe it was the NT protocols, but I could be wrong.

DrawPlus

Thank you for the tip; I’ll see if I can locate it. :)

Thanks, Rick; I wish I also could have more time for fun things.

GPU support so we can use MPlayer (etc) for video codecs that people actually use? ;)

For the same kind of reasons, 64-bit file support so that I can watch files of more than 4GB. Also, the extfat and ntfs fuse read/write drivers seem to work fine on the PI4 so a port on RISC OS would be nice.

DrawPlus – http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/acorn/oss/

There’s also Vector that’s more powerful, but might be a bit OTT if you’re just looking for “Draw with bells on”.

Of course, you can always install both. ;)

But, yeah, an editor written in something other than assembler would be good.

Well, Zap is assembler and the other …

and give nurses a ****ing pay rise.

???
Had you not noticed, Covid is just so last year and no one gives a f*** about NHS pay anymore,¹ especially the collection of self-serving venal bast**** currently squatting in the governing benches of the commons.
So, with that, and in the spirit of not needing to WFH or on-site until January^{2 3} so I can wander out and have a mid-day session in a pub, or restaurant, pig out on mince pies without competition from others in the office. Oh, probably play with one of the Pi’s, maybe even add a bit to that languishing Filer key shortcuts.

¹ Not that standing outside and clapping their hands and banging drums or pots/pans did much to fill a wallet anyway.

Might be worth somebody reaching out

“Reaching out” < blech > my Director would rip your arm off and beat you to death with the soggy remnant. I’d grab popcorn and watch & cheer.

Jonathan Pie Ridicules UK Government’s Woeful Response To Strikes

GPU support so we can use MPlayer (etc) for video codecs that people actually use? ;)

Yes please. I had a bit of a fiddle with my Pi4 to see if upping GPU_freq to 750 would make any discernible difference to the smoothness of YTPlay videos at 720p: it didn’t.

Jonathan Pie Ridicules UK Government’s Woeful Response To Strikes

First listed comment: “Pie used to be funny. Now he’s just accurate”

Jonathan Pie

There’s some pure anger in that one, this time.

Couple Pie’s well aimed rant with a song video by somebody called LadBaby and it’s like “WTF is going on in the UK?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIS3wNkQ_UE

“WTF is going on in the UK?”

What indeed. Time to rebuild Hadrian’s Wall. Back to front.

Time to rebuild Hadrian’s Wall. Back to front.

Can we build it somewhere near the M25 and chuck all the Tories inside?
No gates.

Can we build it somewhere near the M25 and chuck all the Tories inside? No gates.

Suits me! 8~)

…all the Tories…

including “Sir” Keir and the probably 50% of other “Labour” MPs who are tories in disguise…

The choice is a raise in taxes – like Scotland -or borrow more – some have the idea that they can milk the rich (what is rich) they have been trying that since 1066 without much success!

DrawPlus – http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/acorn/oss/ There’s also Vector that’s more powerful, but might be a bit OTT if you’re just looking for “Draw with bells on”.

Thanks, Rick, for the link. I’ll give it a whirl. I’ve tried Vector, but I prefer the simplicity of Draw for my needs; I wasn’t aware of Draw+.

Hopefully, Julie, considering Draw updates, may pick up on this, a minor tweak to Draw. :)