Acorn News Service

Contents

1. General News
2. Commercial News
3. PD/Shareware News
4. Club News
5. ANS Information

General News

1. Wakefield Show 2002, 18th & 19th May

   The Wakefield Show takes place on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May, from 10:30am. For more information visit the show web site at: http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/show/2002/

Commercial News

1. CJE Micro's 'ADSL in a box'

   CJE Micro's are now able to supply their 'ADSL in a box' solution for fast Internet connection from GBP22.50pm inc VAT, plus setup costs.

   CJE will supply everything you need to connect to the Internet by ADSL, with full instructions and up to an hour of technical support. The ADSL pack is compatible with either a stand alone RISC OS computer or a network. The network can consist of solely RISC OS computers or may include other PCs.

   ISP costs from:

   • GBP22.50 per month with initial ISP charge of GBP70.49
   • GBP23.44 per month with NO initial ISP charge

   CJE 'ADSL in box' Hardware/Software & Support Pack from GBP180 including VAT and postage. For more information: http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/adsl/.

2. RCI cheaper ADSL hardware prices

   R-Comp Interactive can now offer an ADSL kit suitable for most users at just GBP155 including VAT and UK delivery.

   This unit provides ADSL modem capability and also allows 4 computers to be hooked into it at 10 or 100Mbit speeds, allowing the box to form the centre of your home network.

   Please note that this ADSL product differs from many of RCI's other internet/networking devices in that it does NOT include printer sharing facilities. Phone RCI on 01925 755043 for advice.

   http://www.rcomp.co.uk/

PD/Shareware News

1. New software summary

   • LogosLite, bible study software

     A free Bible text viewer. LogosLite is a simple, straight-forward Bible viewer, and can easily be upgraded to LogosWord.

     http://www.logosword.co.uk/logoslite.shtml

   • NewsFix, trim ANT Suite news history file

     Remove old entries from the ANT Suite news message-id history file.

     http://www.chris-johnson.org.uk/software/util.html#newsfix

   • Twicers, search for duplicate MPEG audio files

     Finds and catalogues possible audio MPEG duplicates. Reads a CSV catalogue of MPEG audio files, finds possible duplicates, and lists them in another CSV file. CSV files can be created with ID3toCSV or ID32CSV.

     http://rogerdarlington.members.beeb.net/DownL.htm

2. Updated software summary

   • AutoFocus v1.21

     A system utility that automatically gives the focus to windows when the mouse pointer is moved over them. This version fixes a bug which could lead to data corruption at the low addresses of your machine, and the code to set/lose the caret has also been improved.

     http://www.vinc17.org/acorn/riscpc_eng.html

   • CamPins v1.13

     Allows you to choose from many hundreds of images on the Internet and place them on your Pinboard or save them to disc. This version includes new scripts for famous cartoon strips and a couple of webcams, and there has been a major updated of the 'List' file used by the PickFromList script which picks randomly from over 420 images on the Internet.

     http://www.quantumsoft.co.uk/files/internet/

   • EnBank v2.00

     Multi-currency accounts package for RISC OS. New features include: Budget Analysis; Budget Maintenance; Analysis View Maintenance; Data filters; and Queries can now be saved.

     http://riscos.envision-software.co.uk/

   • GnuPG v1.0.7

     GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP encryption software. Because it does not use the patented IDEA algorithm, it can be used without any restrictions. GnuPG is a RFC2440 (OpenPGP) compliant application. This version includes many new features.

     http://www.sbellon.de/gnupg.html

   • LibXML 2.4.21/LibXSLT 1.0.17 tools update

     Latest version of the XML library and tools.

     http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justin.fletcher/XML/

   • Oww v0.67.3

     Run a Dallas / AAG 1-wire weather station from RISC OS, Linux or FreeBSD. This version adds initial support for DS2438-based barometers.

     http://melhuish.info/simon/projects/oww/

   • Vice v1.9

     The Versatile Commodore Emulator. RISC OS specific news include stereo SID support and optional PAL emulation.

     http://www.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de/~dehmel/Software.html#vice

     http://viceteam.bei.t-online.de/

Club News

1. Upcoming meetings

   • German Archimedes Group, 4th & 5th May

     http://www.gag.de/

   • NKACC (Kent), 9th May

     Open evening

     http://nkacc.roundel.net/

   • DARC (Derbyshire), 13th May

     Q&A

     http://www.darc-comp.org.uk/

   • BAUG (Bottisham), 14th May

     Question and answer session

     http://come.to/baug

   • EAUG (Essex), 14th May

     Encryption, security and privacy

     http://www.wattys.fsnet.co.uk/eaug.html

   • HHRUG (Hemel Hempstead), 15th May

     http://www.hhrug.org.uk/

   • Wakefield 2002, 18th & 19th May

     http://wakefieldshow.org.uk/show/2002/

   • M25EROUG (M25 East), 21st May

     Digital cameras and photo editing

     http://m25eroug.riscos.org.uk/

   • Dutch RISC OS Expo 2002, 22nd June

     http://www.bigbenclub.nl/

ANS Information

1. Contact ANS

   Editor	James Sears	james@ans.acornusers.org
   Webmaster	Stephen Courtney	stephen@ans.acornusers.org
   Translator	Michael Gerbracht	michael@ans.acornusers.org
   Founder	Eytan Abrahams	eytan@ans.acornusers.org
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   ADL Moderator	Paul Johnson	paul@ans.acornusers.org

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