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xjig

baz...@feathermail.co.uk (Harriet Bazley) — Thu, 12 Dec 2009 19:43:05 UT

The 'jigsaw' game xjig (port from
[link] ) states in its
help file that 'Any image-file in GIF, JPEG, or PPM format can be used
as the source for the puzzle' - however in practice it only seems to
accept GIF files. Every JPEG I've tried produces the error "not a GIF,

RISC OS Christmas Games Proposal

pe...@chocky.org (Peter Naulls) — Sat, 11 Nov 2009 19:45:53 UT

In case you haven't seen it yet, riscos.info is again offering to port
games to RISC OS in time for Christmas. More details here:
[link]

ScummVM updated

pe...@chocky.org (Peter Naulls) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:14:02 UT

I've updated my port of ScummVM to the latest 1.0.0-rc1 version:
[link]

Star Fighter 3000 on BeagleBoard

chrisbaz...@bigfoot.com — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 00:13:30 UT

Thanks to the assistance and encouragement of Jeffrey Lee, the latest
release of venerable RISC OS flight action shooter 'Star Fighter 3000'
is believed to be compatible with RISC OS on BeagleBoard. As with
other software, this meant tracking down and eliminating unaligned
memory accesses.
You can download a patch to upgrade your copy of the game to version

Port of Freeciv released

pe...@chocky.org (Peter Naulls) — Sat, 11 Nov 2009 04:04:02 UT

I've updated the original very old port of Freeciv. More here:
[link]

Spheres of Chaos for A-Models?

amin....@kharchi.eu (Amin Kharchi) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 21:30:04 UT

Hello!
I have found the free download of Spheres of Chaos:
[link]
But it works only on RiscPCs. I have a A3010 computer with 2 MB RAM and
I'm sure there was at that time a version for A-models like my A3010.
Is there a free version as download?
Best regards
Amin

Re: BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

n...@email.invalid (Andrew) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 21:25:26 UT

In message <slrnhf3r7n.jn9....@compsoc.du r.ac.uk>
How much work do you have to do to create an adventure? Do you for
example get bogged down with flags, variables, indexes?
Andrew

Updated Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe Released

pe...@chocky.org (Peter Naulls) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:04:15 UT

Enjoy:
[link]

Recent developments at starfighter.acornarcade.com

christopher.baz...@blueyonder.co.uk (Christopher Bazley) — Fri, 10 Oct 2009 19:20:20 UT

There have been two software releases on my Star Fighter 3000 web site
during the last fortnight. I sometimes make changes which are not
visible to end users because I am as much interested in the practice
of programming as the product. However, this time there are a few new
headline features:
SFSkyEdit version 1.53

32bit version of Freecell - is there one

paulstew...@phawfaux.co.uk (Paul Stewart) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:03:57 UT

Anyone know of a 32bit compatible version of a Freecell game?

Kevmon with Danish help

kevinwe...@talktalk.net (Kevin Wells) — Mon, 09 Sep 2009 16:09:30 UT

Hi
Thanks to Helge Hammer me Simon clone Kevmon now has a Danish help and
it can be found at
[link]
News about Kevmon an be found here
[link]

New BBC game from Retrosoft

m...@removethisred-squirrel.com (Matthew Thompson) — Thu, 09 Sep 2009 16:12:02 UT

For those of you who like to play games on the BBC Micro or via BBC
emulation there is another brand new game to play.
The Krystal Connection has recently been released and is a platform
game which was originally due to be released by Melbourne House back
in about 1986 but it never happened until now.

Elite is 25 - BBC News article and video

stevieboy.sc...@googlemail.com (Stephen Scott) — Mon, 09 Sep 2009 11:38:22 UT

Hi everyone,
Just found this - Elite's 25th birthday. BBC news article and video:
[link]
Enjoy!
Steve

MineSweeper Game With Sound

r...@robheaton.co.uk (robheaton) — Sun, 09 Sep 2009 09:32:44 UT

Hi,
Can anyone recommend a MineSweeper game for RISC OS that has sound?
I've tried these;
Automine (By Musus Umbra)
Minesweep (By Michael Borcherds)
Minen (By Weiss Nuklaus)
None of these have sound, it's just my 3 year old son loves playing
MineSweep on Windows, and complains that the versions on my RPC don't

Lemmings on A7000 need help please

heathha...@gmail.com (David Heath) — Fri, 08 Aug 2009 14:49:41 UT

Hi My name is David Heath I have got !Stronggard with !gameon and I am
tring to run lemmings on a A7000 with Riscos 3.6 but it displays the
black screen with the white writing about the company and the 1991
copywrite but does go any futher any help would be great