Exciting Times - Wakefield!!

Well, Supposed to be working on my main job but well… it’s Wakefield aka Bradford Time…..

So wow – how about current news…
Multiple new machines from ROBits and RComp !
RO 5.30 released at last incuding Wifi, OPro, etc
RO 5.31 progressing as the new Beta
Resurrected Compo
Updates to PhotoDesk, Netfetch, Uniprint, Genealogy, RISC OSM, Impact, Heretic, Hexen, Git Client, WinEd, Duke Nukem + more…
Recent Updates to EtherUSB, TCPIP (ROD), etc
Semi Recent updates to PinBoard and RO Desktop Modernisation Project
New issues of Drag & Drop and Archive magazines !

Sure I have missed some things… but as am downunder and can not attend the show in person just have to hang out in the Forums and watch multiple RO sites using the Sargasso RSS app I semi recently discovered…

Whomever is penning a show review please issue it as soon as you are able… those of us in the antipodes are keen for more…

Have spent the day building new RO5.31 based SD Card images and also a stand alone SSD image on my RPi4B.
Big thankyou to Jon Abbott for his excellent Partition Manager software which has made new machine setups so much better and easier (also thankyou for ADFFS which is excellent for supporting older games, not that I have much time for that).

Also noted that April 15 was the RISC PCs 30th Birhday…
Resurrecting an A7000+ (Arm7500FE) based rackmount system (OmniBus) at present with a couple of RPCs to re-animate too as part of celebrations (you may see the rackmount and a RPC for sale on an auction site sometime in the future)
Even fixing up a couple of Beebs at present….
I might have to consider an upgrade to the 2 custome RISC OS systems am currently selling too….

Think it is appropriate to give a massive shout out and thank you to all involved in the current developments on the hardware, software and OS fronts. Without the dedication of these people there would be no new exciting news and also no RISC OS scene. Yes it is a retro scene and platform but that’s why we like it. The funny thing is with recent developments it is actually getting more usable as a daily driver again (for certain tasks)….
And a special thanks to Andrew R for his generosity with regards to access to web software and wifi drivers. Please support Andrew and all the others who keep the RISC OS scene bouyant. Part proceeds of any of the RISC OS/ BBC related items I am currently selling will be heading the way of people who have already paid it forward.

Thank you and have fun.

mmm… might have to get back to my day job tomorrow…..

And thank you to the individual (was that you Sprow?) who got around the show and posted a heap of photos on the Iconbar site. Only improvement there would be a caption for each photo summarising what/who is in the photo but that is being a bit greedy.

And thank you to the individual (was that you Sprow?) who got around the show and posted a heap of photos on the Iconbar site.

Yup, that was me, if any shots are a bit blurred it was because I was running.

Only improvement there would be a caption for each photo summarising what/who is in the photo but that is being a bit greedy.

I’ll see if I can get those added to the Iconbar article.

I must apologise to Chris from the Drag N Drop stand who I think was on a bio break when I went round – it would have been a bit odd to take a photo of an empty chair. Close your eyes and imagine copies of the latest edition of the digital magazine and some very nifty graphics tablets on show.