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Southampton Acorn Users Group December meeting - Change of date!

2009-11-26T00:38:21Z

I'm going to change the date of the December meeting to Wednesday 9th. This
avoids a clash with a departmental dinner.
I haven't had confirmation of the room yet, so please keep an eye on your
e-mails (if you're on the SAUG mailing list) and/or comp.sys.acorn.announce
nearer the date. Favourite is still S1; first reserve is G1 in the sports

MUG RISC OS Show 09 - Saturday 5th Dec

2009-11-25T10:36:37Z

The RISC OS Midland User Group (MUG) 2009 show is taking place on Saturday
5th December and is again at Birmingham University, Guild of Students, B15
2TU.
The show will be a mixture of:
- the old with the Retro Software stand showcasing software and developments
for the 8bit range of Acorn machines

MBBack release 4

2009-11-24T21:29:03Z

MBBack, my backdrop randomizer with a now stupid number of bells and
whistles, has received a more-major-than-most update. Namely:
- Can fetch images from the Internet, as well as local files, by means
of Wget.
- Now comes with a separate front-end to automatically call MBBack
repeatedly after a set delay, should you get bored with backdrops

RISCubes and RISCBooks now available with Windows 7 as well as RISC OS

2009-11-24T18:54:54Z

Our range of RISCBook and RISCube computers are well known for
combining the elegance and convenience of RISC OS, with the "outside
world" compatibility of Windows. Until now, all our systems have
shipped with Windows XP as the "Windows Bit" rather than the generally
disdained Vista.
Last month, Microsoft released a replacement for Vista called Windows

Qercus 292

2009-11-24T09:33:20Z

Qercus 292 is very much a Christmas issue - but should be landing on your
doormats very soon.
Happy Christmas!
Acorn always wanted you to play games on games machines and keep your Acorns
for serious stuff, so:
1. We have a review of the games machine that is different - the Nintendo
Wii - and there is a review of one of the latest games for the machine from

32bit conversions

2009-11-23T23:12:46Z

An update to the 32 bit conversions page:-
Twirl 0.09 - Changes the Task Manager icon to an animated acorn,
original by David G Jones.
Apologies for yesterday's upload, it wasn't fully tested before being
posted up. Hopefully this version is fully working, and passes mouse
clicks on to the Task Manager.

32bit conversions

2009-11-22T18:46:34Z

A addition to the 32 bit conversions page:-
Twirl - Changes the Task Manager icon to an animated acorn,
original by David G Jones.
---druck

Murnong updated to reflect changes in YouTube's webpages

2009-11-21T23:27:14Z

Murnong, the application for fetching videos from YouTube, has been
updated to version 1.40. This update introduces code that will try to
use the DDEUtils module to allow much longer filepaths on RISC OS 4 or
later.
Unfortunately for RISC OS 3 users, loading DDEUtils will make little
difference. For any conversion operation, the sum of all filepath

Drag 'n Drop Editorial column open to all

2009-11-17T11:42:31Z

Do you have something RISC OS related that you want to get off your
chest? Perhaps you just want to add your thoughts on what is needed
for the platform to move forward. The Drag 'n Drop Editorial column
(January issue) is now open to all who have an interest in the RISC OS
platform. Perhaps the topic you want to discuss is controversial and

RISC OS Midland User Group (MUG) Nov09 meeting and Xmas Show 09 details

2009-11-17T11:35:34Z

The next meeting of the RISCOS Midland User Group (MUGwill take
place on Saturday, 21st November 2009 at 2pm.
At this meeting we will discussing and finalising the organisation of
the forthcoming MUG Christmas RISC OS show which takes place on
Saturday 5th December 2009 and will again be at Birmingham University,

RONWUG Reminder 18th November 2009

2009-11-15T22:40:09Z

RONWUG - RISC OS North West User Group - 18th November 2009
This month at RONWUG we're taking a look at the information and tools
available to developers in the RISC OS world.
We'll be having a look at some printed Acorn developer documentation as well
as the most up to date - Window Manager PRM from RISCOS Ltd. In addition to

New version of MBBack

2009-11-15T15:22:59Z

The new release of MBBack is now out!
[link]
It now has ChangeFSI support to give better rendering quality than that
supplied by ConvertJPEG, at a substantial speed cost. It can also
choose not to convert files at all, but just copy the original filetypes

Steve Furber at London RISC OS user group, Monday 16th November 2009

2009-11-12T10:33:24Z

The next meeting of the RISC OS user group of London will be:
Acorn and ARM
presented by
Professor Steve Furber
Monday 16th November, 7:45pm
The Blue-Eyed Maid (upstairs)
173 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1HR
Steve worked at Acorn between 1980 and 1990, and was a designer on early

RONWUG's recommended RISC OS web sites

2009-11-09T17:12:50Z

As announced previously, at the October meeting of RONWUG, we did something
a little different to the norm and asked members to recommend various
websites that might be worth a look by other members and the larger RISC OS
community.
The results are now on our web site as a consolidated list for all to have a

Southampton Acorn Users Group - November meeting

2009-11-07T23:15:40Z

The next meeting of the Southampton Acorn Users Group will take place
on Tuesday November 10th, at Itchen College, Middle Road, Bitterne,
Southampton, from 19:00 until 21:00. Admission is 50 pence and all
are welcome. We will be in room S1.
Dave

!Missile updated

2009-11-05T22:55:33Z

I am pleased to announce an update to my !Missile application,
which has been responsible for, ooh, minutes of fun.
The update was precipitated by the discovery of a new version of
the launcher, looking exactly the same as the old one, but with
an entirely different control protocol. Today's version of the

BAABE - new text adventure interpreter for RISC OS

2009-11-04T21:07:03Z

I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of the first release
of the core distribution of BAABE [1].
BAABE is a freeware interactive fiction interpreter and framework for
RISC OS. The script files are written in ordinary BASIC for ease of
adventure creation and maintenance, with several veneers and

Yet another random backdrop chooser released

2009-11-04T21:06:01Z

The first release of MBBack has now escaped from development hell, and
may be found at:
[link]
MBBack is yet another random backdrop chooser program to pick from the
myriad selection on the Internet. What makes this one unique? Well,
the headline features are:

BookMaker 2.13 releasedBookMaker 2.13 released

2009-11-02T08:32:58Z

A new version of BookMaker has been released, and can be downloaded
from:
[link]
This version includes a new preference, "Sort books to top" that
modifies the behaviour of the address sorting tool.
BookMaker is an address book manager for many RISCOS browsers,
and email, telnet and FTP clients (unfortunately not NetSurf).

!Calibre - Version 3.20

2009-11-02T08:31:15Z

I am happy to announce the release of !Calibre Version 3.20 (31st
October 2009) which is now on my website at
[link]
This version adds two new feature: namely, the ability to
have up to 9 names in the two 'family calendars'; and the ability to
define two sets of colours for Red Letter Days (RLD) and choose

RISC OS London Show videos

2009-11-02T08:30:19Z

Better late than never, videos of the theatre presentations from the
London show are now available as RiscPC friendly MPEG files.
The videos can be downloaded from here:
[link]
They can be played using KinoAMP, which can be found here:
[link]

Draft New Photodesk manual available

2009-10-29T23:39:31Z

Photodesk, the premier photo retouching package for RISC OS, has been in the
process of having a new written from scratch manual for some time now. This
work is continuing and is approximately 85% complete. To enable users to
benefit from the new manual now, we have made the draft version available to

Iconbar Articles

2009-10-28T19:46:42Z

Have you visited The Iconbar recently? If not, you'd have missed:
- An article on the new PostScript 3 Drivers;
- Short pieces on Luafox and Micro Men;
- An in-depth article on the ongoing attempts to port RISC OS to new
hardware.
There's more in the pipeline, including (of course) Ian Bell's Asian
Kittens. And of course there's still the forums, small ads, and

SuperDoku 1.20 released

2009-10-26T11:16:17Z

After a month's hard programming I am pleased to announce to all
Sudoku fans that SuperDoku 1.20 is now on the Sine Nomine Software
website at [link]
SuperDoku 1.20 introduces Hitoshii or KenKen puzzles, which feature
arithmetic in addition to standard Sudoku logic. The grid is divided

UnitConv version 2.23

2009-10-26T09:00:00Z

My application UnitConv has had some minor updates and is now at
version 2.23.
UnitConv is freely available from
[link]
[link]
[link]
UnitConv converts between various units, generally

Murnong updated to reflect changes in YouTube's webpages

2009-10-25T08:54:01Z

YouTube has once again made changes to its webpage constructions so
Murnong, the application for fetching videos from YouTube, has been
updated to version 1.32.
Download from <[link]>.
Note that if you have already installed Murnong, you only need to
download Part 1 and install its contents over the top of your existing

Postscript PDF for Brother duplex printers

2009-10-21T17:50:52Z

This is the second release of the postscript Printer Definition File and
feeds for the original PostScript 2 and the new PostScript 3 printer driver
by John Tytgat and Martin Wühner. It allows automatic double sided
printing flipping the paper on either the long or short sides, from both the
main paper tray and the multi-purpose tray.

Postscript PDF for Brother duplex printers

2009-10-20T08:20:04Z

This is the second release of the postscript PDF and feeds for the
original PostScript 2 and the new PostScript 3 printer driver by John
Tytgat and Martin Würthner. It allows automatic double sided printing
flipping the paper on either the long or short sides, from both the main
paper tray and the multi-purpose tray.

RONWUG Reminder 21st October 2009

2009-10-20T08:18:57Z

RONWUG - RISC OS North West User Group - 21st October 2009
This month's at RONWUG we're going to do something a little different... A
colaborative effort which feeds back into the RISC OS community...
With help from those attending on the night, we're going to compile a list
of
RISC OS related resources on the net that people find interesting or useful

Impact 3 at London RISC OS user group, Monday 19th October 2009

2009-10-19T09:20:38Z

The next meeting of the RISC OS user group of London will be:
Impact 3 Database
and other software
presented by
Matthew Phillips, Sine Nomine Software
Monday 19th October, 7:45pm
The Blue-Eyed Maid (upstairs)
173 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1HR
Impact 3 is an easy to use relational database program for RISC OS, with a

JDServer released

2009-10-18T10:27:48Z

I am pleased to announce the release of JDServer, a JetDirect (Raw)
print server application for a RISC OS computer.
JDServer makes a printer, connected to a RISC OS computer that is
also on a network, available to client computers also on the
network, via the JetDirect (Raw) protocol.
Note that only the printer is shared out; the printer driver is

Sine Nomine Software at London user group meeting

2009-10-16T22:36:43Z

I will be demonstrating various Sine Nomine Software products at the ROUGOL
meeting on Monday evening. Please see
[link] for further details of the
meeting and the venue.
Those attending will get a preview of Impact version 3.35, which is shortly
to be released as a free upgrade for users of 3.32 onwards. You'll also see

USB missile launchers not working?

2009-10-14T21:15:06Z

Has anyone bought a USB missile launcher and found that my programme
doesn't control it?
If you did, and you didn't contact me: why not? (although my anti-
spam measures might have prevented some messages from reaching me...)
Please contact me now. I've been made aware of another one that
looks identical to the original, but has entirely different vendor

Southampton Acorn Users Group - October meeting

2009-10-12T10:58:02Z

The next meeting of the Southampton Acorn Users Group will take
place at Itchen College, Middle Road, Bitterne, Southampton, on
Tuesday October 13th, from 19:00 until 21:00.
We should be back in room S1.
Admission is 50 pence and all are welcome.
Dave

luafox available now

2009-10-07T14:58:19Z

luafox is a new program for RISC OS offering many functions that make it
easy to handle and analyse data in a quick and easy way. Results can be
presented in publication ready graphs. The most important features are:
Data handling
* Import and export CSV and ODS files
(open document format as used in OpenOffice)

!Rename 3.22

2009-10-07T10:11:54Z

A new version of !Rename is now available for download from
[link]
!Rename is a smart file bulk file renamer using !Edit-like wildcard
features to control file renaming.
!Rename includes the new filename to include an incrementing file index
as part of the new filename.

Avalanche 0.20 available

2009-10-06T10:38:34Z

A new version of the RISC OS Avalanche VNC client is now available for
download. Changes in version 0.20 include:
* Fixes to full screen mode. It now interacts in a better way with
applications such as MoreDesk which manipulate the desktop
window stack.
* A new option as been added to pass Alt-Arrow key presses through

WROCC Meeting 7th Oct

2009-10-06T10:37:11Z

Sorry correct date is 7th not 5th.
WAKEFIELD RISCOS COMPUTER CLUB
MEETING on Wednesday 7th October 2009
Teaching Old Micros New Tricks
------------------------------
This month we are Joel Rowbottom is giving a talk and demo'ing new

EtherUSB 0.06 available

2009-10-06T10:35:02Z

A new version of EtherUSB is now available for download. Changes in
version 0.06 include:
* Basic Asix AX88772 support added.
* Basic MosChip MCS7830 support added.
* ADMtek Pegasus support.
* Fix to serious bug causing aborts when RMKilling module.
Thanks go to Jeffrey Lee for adding support for Pegasus based devices.

WROCC Meeting 5th Oct

2009-10-04T23:44:26Z

WAKEFIELD RISCOS COMPUTER CLUB
MEETING on Wednesday 5th October 2009
Teaching Old Micros New Tricks
------------------------------
This month we are Joel Rowbottom is giving a talk and demo'ing new
tricks you can do with your old Beeb, etc..

Jet Direct server - and USB toys

2009-10-02T16:53:43Z

I am on my way to releasing a Jet Direct server for RISC OS. If anyone wants
to talk to me about it, I'll be at the show this weekend, as a helper (and
therefore with a name badge!) and sometimes on the RisControl/BeebControl
stand, playing with some of my USB toys (which you can also talk to me

Show 'Last Orders' & Wanted

2009-10-02T11:21:00Z

We will not be able to bring everything with us to the London RISC OS Show
this Saturday (3rd October) so if you are interested in purchasing any
particular item please contact us by mid day on Friday to avoid
disappointment.
Wanted at the show:
We are may be able to recycle your unused RISC OS items, some we even pay

New "custom build" RISCBooks allow much lower prices

2009-10-02T11:19:59Z

R-Comp Interactive is pleased to announce that come the London show
this weekend, we'll be launching a new range of lower priced laptops
starting at 399ukp and upwards. (That said, most RISC OS users will
want to spend a little more, we think).
This is achieved thanks to a new range of "build-it-ourselves" chassis

RISCubes/RISCBooks booting in 15 seconds or even less!

2009-10-02T11:18:53Z

RISC OS users have always appreciated the speed at which their
computers boot, and for a long time RCI have concentrated on
delivering speedy machines that launch quickly and smoothly. It has
been possible to deliver rapid startup through techniques such as
hibernation or standby, but a complete boot has always taken a while.

RCI debut UniPrint/UniServer 4 at the London Show (inc Mac!)

2009-10-02T11:18:03Z

R-Comp Interactive is pleased to announce that we'll have version 4 of
our popular UniPrint (aka UniServer) software at the London show this
weekend.
We have enhanced all areas of the software in version 4, as well as
introducing several new "uni-s", expanding the scope of the software.
UniPrint, the headline component, gains the ability to control and

Drag 'n Drop issue 1, October 2009, is now online and available for download

2009-10-02T11:16:38Z

Drag 'n Drop issue 1, October 2009, is now online and available for
download.
Issue 1 features: -
News
Reviews
Mini how-tos
8-bit articles - Robert Sprowson explains how to repair your BBC Micro
PSU
First of a 2 part article about Retro Software
Dave Stratford writes about different sorting techniques (2 articles

DP Genealogy Records version 1.02

2009-10-02T11:15:06Z

R-Comp is pleased to announce the release of version 1.02 of our
DataPower Genealogy Records software. DPGR, as it is known, provides
a comprehensive recording, indexing and analysis tool for everyone
interested in family history.
The software uses our well-respected DataPower engine (you DO NOT need

R-Comp release SafeStore 1.25 and MPro Win/Lin/Mac 2.60 at London Show

2009-10-01T15:47:00Z

R-Comp is pleased to announce two more software upgrades (free to
existing users) for the London show this weekend...
SafeStore, our popular and well-reviewed backup solution for RISC OS
machines, has reached version 1.25. The main new feature this time
around is a "Force full backup" feature. SafeStore's normal mode of

R-Comp release NetFetch 3.56 at London Show

2009-10-01T15:46:09Z

R-Comp is pleased to announce that a new version (3.56) of its popular
NetFetch software (including Hermes) will be available at the show
this weekend.
This is not a chargeable update - existing v3.5 customers will receive
the update free of charge via email (as usual) shortly after the show.
(It would be daft to send out the update before the show, then be

Qercus 291

2009-09-29T10:15:47Z

Qercus 291 is finally in the wild!
UK subscribers should find their copy dropping through their letter boxes
w/e 26 September or in the following days + a week for overseas subscribers.
If you don't receive your copy then see us at the London Show on 3 October
or contact the office in the week from Tuesday 6th October.