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Impact 3.34 released

2009-07-02T20:59:45Z

A free upgrade from versions 3.32 and 3.33 to version 3.34 of Impact is now
available to download from the Impact web site:
[link]
Impact is an easy-to-use relational database system for RISC OS. A
demonstration version is available for download from the web-site, together

CJE announce the vPod - ViewFinder part exchange scheme

2009-06-30T15:45:51Z

CJE Micro's are pleased to announce a vPod -ViewFinder part exchange scheme.
The vPod offers greater integration into the OS, which enables even faster
graphics rendering than on a ViewFinder. The vPod is also fully RISC OS 6
compatible, whereas some ViewFinder and graphics card combinations are not

Richard Brown Joins Orpheus Internet

2009-06-30T10:41:37Z

We are delighted to announce that Richard Brown, also of GeneSys
Developments Limited, will be joining the Board of Orpheus Internet and
taking over the day to day running of the business. Richard brings a wealth
of experience in RISCOS and the Acorn market as well as extensive
management skills in business operations.

Snapper - new release

2009-06-29T12:21:29Z

I am pleased to announce that version 1.10 of Snapper is now
available.
Snapper is a versatile screen capture program. It allows you to save a
specified area of the screen as a sprite. The modes of operation of
Snapper are
1. Save the entire screen area
2. Save the complete window under the mouse pointer

Transient 2.03 released

2009-06-24T14:01:49Z

I'm pleased to announce that version 2.03 of Transient is available for
download [link]
The following changes have been made in this release :
* If running at midnight, when a new Today directory had to be created,
Transient would instead rename the previous Today directory.

Raffle2 Released

2009-06-23T08:21:19Z

Hi
I am please to announce the release of version 1 of Raffle2.
Raffle2 is the desktop version of Raffle, which is a raffle ticket
picking application.
You can have up to 9 different books and ticket numbers between 1 and
1,000.
What you do is enter the number of books sold, the colour of each book
sold the first and last ticket number of each book sold and the computer

Transient 2.02 released

2009-06-14T22:24:25Z

I'm pleased to announce that version 2.02 of Transient is available for
download [link]
The following changes have been made in this release :
* Shift-Drag now moves objects to the current user's Today directory.
* Variable Transient$TodayDir points to Today dir of current user.

Organizer 2 at London RISC OS user group, Monday 15th June 2009

2009-06-13T09:13:28Z

The next meeting of the RISC OS user group of London will be:
Organizer 2
presented by Nigel Willmott
Monday 15th June, 7:45pm
The Blue-Eyed Maid (upstairs)
173 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1HR
Organizer is a hugely popular RISC OS personal information program,
including sophisticated facilities for managing a calendar, anniversaries,

RONWUG Reminder 17th June 2009

2009-06-12T18:20:49Z

RONWUG - RISC OS North West User Group - 17th June 2009
At June's meeting RONWUG Welcomes Andrew Rawnsley from R-Comp. Andrew will
be discussing recent product releases, including the family history software
which uses R-Comp's Datapower database. R-Comp sell both hardware and
software solutions to many problems, so come along and see what they have to

Transient 2.01 released

2009-06-07T21:55:46Z

I'm pleased to announce that a new release of Transient is available for
download [link]
The following changes have been made in this release :
* Tabs module wasn't included.
* Saving choices produced a fatal error.
* Saving from an application to Transient didn't work.

Southampton Acorn Users Group - June meeting

2009-06-07T21:22:41Z

The next meeting of the Southampton Acorn Users Group will take place
on Tuesday June 9th, at Itchen College, Middle Road, Bitterne,
Southampton, from 19:00 until 21:00. Admission is 50p and all are
welcome. We will be in room S1.
The July meeting will be on Tuesday 14th. There will be no August
meeting because the college will be closed.

Various RISC OS game music rippers released

2009-06-07T21:21:04Z

I, and I alone, am pleased to announce the immediate availability of a
neat little package I like to call the Music Ripper's Toolkit, which can
be snagged from:
[link]
What is it? Well, I'm sorry, it's not a free application to pirate CDs
(go and buy CDBurn, why don't you). The raison d'etre of this

NetSurf 2.1 released

2009-05-23T14:21:11Z

The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the immediate availability
of NetSurf 2.1. This release contains many bug fixes and improvements.
It is available for download from [link]
Here is a change log detailing the important changes in this release:
Core / All
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Luafox: Beta testers wanted

2009-05-20T14:22:10Z

Hi all,
as you may know already from one of the recent shows I am developing a new
commercial application for scientific data analysis and presentation.
You can load the data as CSV file and manipulate the data in many ways or
apply a function to it. Results can be plotted and exported as draw files.

RONWUG Reminder 20th May 2009

2009-05-19T08:06:11Z

RONWUG - RISC OS North West User Group - 20th May 2009
The subject for this month's RONWUG meeting is RISC OS presentation software,
or software that can be used for simple presentations. The meeting will have
a particular focus on the OHP2 application.
As always, visiting RONWUG is completely free and anyone is welcome.