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Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:07:30 +0000

Just in case you had not heard, the Starbucks at the hotel, will not be re-opening till Monday after the show! Just been informed by the hotel.

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:13:31 +0000

Hi Chris, yes it was fixed in 3.25.

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:03:35 +0000

No worries about car parking here as Sine Nomine Software will be arriving by train!

We have updates to RiscOSM, Impact, Nominatim, and also a brand new application: PlaneSpot. For folk who upgraded at or after the London Show, the upgrades are all free.

Come and see us on the stand and in the theatre talk at 14:45.

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:56:30 +0000

The February / March 2026 issue of Archive, the magazine for RISC OS users, is out now! The digital edition is being sent out in batches today, with the printed edition dropping through letterboxes in 18 countries around the world shortly.

Not a subscriber? It’s not too late to take out a print or digital subscription and still receive the latest issue! See below for details.

The original Archive editor, Paul Beverley, returns this issue… but only for an interview. Rob Sprowson begins a brand new three part series titled ‘Getting on the upgrade treadmill’. Andy Marks fell in love with a monitor, and you can read why. Forth continues its somewhat unexpected and niche revival on RISC OS, this time with an article from Robin Wilks. Chris Hall returns with more features of RiscOSM that you may not have realised exist. Two systems in one Mini-ITX case? Gaukur Gardarsson made it happen. Andrew Oyston covers the latest 8-bit Acorn news. And John McCartney brings Starting Basic, the Ray Favre classic, back to life.
We’ve also got our usual comprehensive roundup of the latest news and software updates. See the cover for full contents.

Viewing on RISC OS
For viewing on RISC OS, I highly recommend using the follow combination:
- !MuView 0.05 alpha or later, downloadable from !PackMan
- ButtonBar from The Flying Pig https://flypig.co.uk/riscos
- BarMuView from John Williams https://petitfour.space/BarMuView.zip
The second two items should be placed in Tasks.
Alternatively the !Iris browser also produces good results.

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6 issue digital subscriptions cost £35, print subscriptions cost £42 (UK) or £62 (rest of world). The print subscriptions include the digital edition free of charge. It’s quick and easy to subscribe – payment can be made by PayPal, bank transfer, and cheque. Full details at https://www.archivemag.co.uk/subscriptions.html or contact gavin@archivemag.co.uk for more information.

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:53:59 +0000

Thanks to the hard work of John McCartney, Starting Basic from Ray Favre has been “resurrected” and is available to download for free. This is an excellent book for BASIC beginners, even today.

Starting Basic is the second book that John has lovingly (and torturously) recreated, having already produced a third edition of Ray’s Dr Wimp’s Surgery.

You can download both of these books from https://drwimp.archivemag.co.uk, free of charge. John has also written an article about the process involved – see p.40 in the new issue of Archive Magazine (Volume 28 Issue 2).

Archive – the magazine for RISC OS users
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Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:21:55 +0000

Has Image/Rotate/Align to axis been fixed? It throws an error but continues OK if the error is accepted.

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:38:01 +0000

This Sunday – 22nd March, at 1pm UK time – I’ll be continuing the integration of the Wimp Templates into the WindowManager. Last week we managed to squash all the bugs, and I was happy that we were good… and then another one turned up. So we’ll be looking into that!

Come along if you like – https://youtube.com/live/Dx-GCkH5pM8?feature=share – or you can always watch the video afterwards at the same address.

For anyone who hasn’t seen these live coding sessions, this where I share my screen for about 3 hours and code some RISC OS component, whilst talking about what I’m doing, what I’m thinking, and answering questions on the chat.

The template loader pretty much works now. We’re really looking like the whole thing is working like the original. But, of course, it’s written in C.

If you want to watch the whole series, you can follow it through the playlist on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVVIu906Y7rEklq…

Alternatively, the series is also available from my Presentations website: https://presentation.riscos.online/live/wimptemplates.… (once it has been published).

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:45:23 +0000

Thanks Andrew for the clarification.

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:10:02 +0000

Perfect, i’d be lost without this wonderful app, i’ve updated! thanks andrew :), i sent an email regarding the netfetch testing.

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:36:56 +0000

NetFetch 6.01-beta available to test for those that have problems sending/receiving via gmail. There are a couple of rough edges as regards a more general release, but if anyone needs an interim copy, please ask.

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:35:23 +0000

Our new MailPrint software was announced earlier in a separate post.

PhotoDesk 3.26 has been released via !Store as an update. It is another major update solving lots of reported bugs, and also including various enhancements too.

Changes in 3.26 XAT
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Bug fixes:
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• Three of the Magnifier icons used top bit characters for 1/4, 1/2, and 1/3 which are not displayed correctly if using an encoding other than Latin1, eg Latin9. Templates changed.

• Using a drawing tool as a Stamp (eg a Circle) it was being sized to fit to canvas (change introduced in 3.24), same as Stamps. Have changed it to scale to 100% instead. (FV bugs #1 and #11)

• Change introduced in 3.24 for Drawing tools window to remember Stamp and Font values instead of resetting them each time the Stamp/Font icon is selected, has been reverted as it was not working for the other drawing tools (ie Circle, Rectangle, etc). So Circle, Rectangle, etc now revert to 100% scaling and Stamps to scale to fit. The Font values, however, continue to be remembered. (FV bug #10)

• Values in Stamp and Font dialogues now update correctly when using keyboard to navigate between icons. Minimum Scale is now 1 instead of 0 to match Import dialogue.

• In Drawing tools window, if Stamp or Font tool values are too large then an error message will be reported to let user know to reduce the settings and try again, instead of reporting that PhotoDesk has gone wrong. Stamp will default to fit to canvas to prevent further error messages.

• Values in the Import dialogue now update correctly when using keyboard to navigate between icons.

• Number of Alphas in Create new image window was not being updated if the icon was empty when using Cursor Up/Down keys.

• When PhotoDesk reports it has gone wrong and Cancel is selected to quit the program, it does now actually quit.

• Clicking on Create new layer for the first image caused an unexpected error; bug introduced in 3.24. (FV bug #2)

• Opacity values in Alpha and Layer dialogues now update correctly when using keyboard to navigate between icons.

• Opacity value in Create new layer dialogue is now correctly applied to the layer. (FV bugs #4 and #6)

• Opacity values are now restricted to whole numbers. (FV bugs #7 and #8)

• The Create new image dialogue has been revamped so that the width and height icons now hopefully operate in a more user friendly manner. Previously, when entering, say 12cm, it would change to 11.99cm when moving to another field or changing the DPI. Now, it will remain as 12 with just the underlying number of pixels changing. When switching between units the values may still change due to rounding errors. The number entered may also still change in order to keep width and height within the maximum pixel size of 8191 pixels. (FV bug #5)

• Copying a layered image no longer aborts but now merges the visible layers correctly into a new image. This also fixes an abort when printing a layered image. This also fixes CT bug #17 as the abort meant the image thought it was still layered.

• When copying a layered image the DPI was not copied from the original image.

Enhancements:
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• Improved handling of URL broadcast when Website button clicked in Info window.

• Logo window will close if the Iconbar icon is clicked instead of waiting for timeout to complete.

• Clicking Adjust on Create button in the Create new image dialogue will open the window at 1:1 magnification instead of keeping the Create new image dialogue on screen. This matches behaviour specified in the manual.

• In the Crop/Extend dialogue clicking on Allow Extend will move the caret if icons are disabled. Clicking on All from will, if enabled, disable the Left, Right and Bottom icons as they will take their values from Top.

• The Crop/Extend dialogue now uses the same new routines as Create new image to display values in units other than pixels. As the crop/extend values are stored as pixels, when displayed in non-pixel units, rounding errors converting to and from pixels will occur.

• The Resize dialogue now uses the same new routines as Create new image to display values in units other than pixels. As the resize values are stored as pixels, when displayed in non-pixel units, rounding errors converting to and from pixels will occur. Now when changing the DPI for a non-pixel unit (ie inches, centimetres or points) the width/height values wont change, but the number of pixels will.

• When trying to resize a layered image, will alert user instead of showing resize dialogue and waiting for user to resize the image.

• If the Scale by value would create a too large an image then will let user know before attempting resize.

• The default filename for saving the Clipbaord is now “PDClipboard” rather than “Untitled”. Previously would increment each time the submenu was opened.

• When saving the clipboard and a file or directory exists of the same name, you are no longer asked twice if you want to overwrite or rename.

• Removed code in !RunImage associated with PhotoDesk Light which is no longer available.