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Drag 'n Drop Editorial column open to all

edi...@dragdrop.co.uk (Paul Stewart) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 11:42:31 UT

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

doug.j.w...@btinternet.com (Doug Webb) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 11:35:34 UT

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

spo...@btconnect.com (Steve Potts) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 22:40:09 UT

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

martin.baz...@blueyonder.co.uk (Martin Bazley) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 15:22:59 UT

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

dgs.rou...@googlemail.com (dgs rougol) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 10:33:24 UT

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

spo...@btconnect.com (Steve Potts) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 17:12:50 UT

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

davehig...@dsl.pipex.com (Dave Higton) — Sat, 11 Nov 2009 23:15:40 UT

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

davehig...@dsl.pipex.com (Dave Higton) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 22:55:33 UT

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

martin.baz...@blueyonder.co.uk (Martin Bazley) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:07:03 UT

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

martin.baz...@blueyonder.co.uk (Martin Bazley) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:06:01 UT

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

tig...@argonet.co.uk (Nick Roberts) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 08:32:58 UT

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

r...@rayfavre.me.uk (Ray Favre) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 08:31:15 UT

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

show2...@riscoslondonshow.co.uk (Bryan Hogan) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 08:30:19 UT

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

sa...@cjemicros.co.uk (Chris Evans) — Thu, 10 Oct 2009 23:39:31 UT

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

cdwrai...@yahoo.co.uk — Wed, 10 Oct 2009 19:46:42 UT

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