Richard Brown takes over day-to-day running of ISP Orpheus
Richard Brown - IT consultant, friend of Castle and best-known for overseeing sales and support of RISC OS browser Oregano 2 and the demise of Oregano 3 - will take over the day-to-day running of the late Paul Vigay's ISP, Orpheus Internet. Richard has also joined the company's board of directors. (2009-06-29 23:05 GMT)

BBC to record film on Acorn versus Sinclair in the 1980s
A film to be called Syntax Era, that will document the rivalry between Clive Sinclair and Acorn co-founder Chris Curry, will be screened by the BBC with the help of The Centre of Computing History. The programme will star Martin Freeman, from The Office, alongside Alexander Armstrong, of Armstrong and Miller sketch show fame, who will play Sinclair. It is likely to be aired in the autumn on BBC4, we're told. Filming starts on Monday, June 22 in London. It was written by Tony Saint. More to follow later. (2009-06-20 23:35 GMT)

New London RISC OS show to be held in October
More details to follow. It is understood this is to replace the annual South East RISC OS show, which is usually held in Guildford but will not take place this year as the venue that hosts the event is unavailable. Freeware developers are invited to exhibit their work for free at the London show. To book a space or for more information, email the organisers. (2009-05-31 18:57 GMT)

Bug-fixed NetSurf 2.1 released
A bug-fix release of the NetSurf web browser has been released. Version 2.1 improves on page layout, mouse click handling, and for RISC OS users, improves drawfile export. (2009-05-23 17:13 GMT)

First screenshot: Beagleboard runs RISC OS 5 desktop
Picture exclusive - This is the first screenshot of Jeffrey Lee's port of RISC OS 5 for the ARM Cortex-A8-powered Beagleboard reaching the familiar ROS desktop and running several built-in applications. The port was produced using source code made available by the RISC OS Open initiative. (2009-05-10 19:01 GMT)

Five tips for ROL over the next five years
Opinion - Drobe man Paul Stewart offers a few suggestions to RISCOS Ltd to ensure the company and its platform survives over the coming years. (2009-05-10 18:58 GMT)

Entry-level animation app Flicker goes on sale
Flicker is a new application that can playback animations made from standard RISC OS sprites and can combine these simple films and music from tracker modules to produce complete packages. It comes on a CD-ROM with seven sample movies to show off its capabilities and was developed by Drobe man Martin Hansen. Animations produced by Flicker can also be created from sprites generated by Complete Animator and Martin's ArtGraph Film Studio. (2009-05-05 21:46 GMT)

New version of database package Impact available
Sine Nomine Software has announced that Impact version 3.33, launched recently at the Wakefield 2009 show, is now available on general release. Users can now edit data for almost all field types direct from the enhanced table view of the database, among other updates. (2009-05-05 21:40 GMT)