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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

SuperDoku 1.20 released

mn...@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk (Hilary Phillips) — Mon, 10 Oct 2009 11:16:17 UT

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

chrisjohnson+n...@spamcop.net (Chris Johnson) — Mon, 10 Oct 2009 09:00:00 UT

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

bel...@internode.on.net (Christopher Martin) — Sun, 10 Oct 2009 08:54:01 UT

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

n...@rjdarby.co.uk (Richard Darby) — Wed, 10 Oct 2009 17:50:52 UT

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

n...@rjdarby.co.uk (Richard Darby) — Tue, 10 Oct 2009 08:20:04 UT

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

spo...@btconnect.com (Steve Potts) — Tue, 10 Oct 2009 08:18:57 UT

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