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Contents
- General News
- Commercial News
- PD/Shareware News
- Club News
- ANS Information
riscos.org t-shirt and mousemat design competition
riscos.org is running a competition to design a t-shirt or mousemat to
publicise the platform. Winners will receive the finished product plus any
other prizes donated by companies. The competition closes on 1st August
and then the winners will be decided by a vote on the RISCOS.org website.
See http://www.riscos.org/cgi-bin/artcl?a=tshirt for further details.
MailScout - Antispam and on-line email interrogation
Image Software is proud to announce the release of MailScout - antispam
and on-line mail interrogation software for RISC OS.
Junk email is becoming more and more of a problem. Internet users waste
huge amounts of time and money downloading this unsolicited and unwanted
e-mail. Anyone whose e-mail address is on a web page or newsgroup posting
will be able to sympathise with this ever growing problem.
MailScout provides RISC OS users with the ability to scan their e-mail
boxes and remove UNWANTED mail before downloading WANTED email. User
defined filters allow you to automatically flag 'suspect' emails for
deletion based on values in the mail's "FROM", "TO" and "SUBJECT" headers.
MailScout costs GBP25 (fully inclusive of VAT and UK P&P). To place an
order, or for more information, phone 01202 269720 or e-mail
mailto:sales@imagesoft.co.uk.
http://www.imagesoft.co.uk/mailscout/
http://www.cauce.org/about/problem.shtml
Image Software has also announced the next version of Money Manager 2001
(Personal Edition) is now available, in the form of Money Manager 2002.
This version includes QIF import capabilities, providing quick and easy
account setup and reconciliation of account transactions downloaded from
your banks website.
Money Manager 2002 costs GBP29.99 (including VAT and UK P&P). Existing
users will receive free updates.
http://www.imagesoft.co.uk/moneymanagerpersonal/
TEK 1608 released
After more than four years of development, Artex Software are proud to
present the realtime strategy game TEK 1608! Features include:
- High resolution rendered graphics
- State-of-the-art design
- Stunning gameplay, easy to understand but challenging
- Screen resolutions from 640x480 up to 1024x768
- Additional smaller windows can be opened for guarding or tracking
your battle units or buildings
- A small map of the whole area is displayed on the status bar, showing
all your units/buildings, and everything you know about the enemy
TEK package includes the Artex best-sellers "Exodus - The Colonisation of
Space" and "Ankh - The Tales of Mystery" as well as "BotKiller 1" and
"BotKiller 2". The game is available for GBP30 (including VAT and UK
delivery) from R-Comp Interactive, phone +44 (0)1925 755043, e-mail
mailto:rci@rcomp.co.uk.
Minimum system requirements are: RiscStation R7500 or similar, 16MB RAM,
60MB harddisc space, CD drive. Recommended system is: StrongARM Risc PC,
16MB RAM, 2MB VRAM, 60MB harddisc space, CD drive.
For more information please visit http://www.artexsoft.com/tek/.
Cerilica RiScript updated, Vantage on Omega
- Release of RiScript v4.15
This version brings even more powerful PDF reading capabilities such as
handling of CIE colour models and Euro symbol support. RiScript now also
automatically embeds any Type1 font data that may already be present for
more accurate document text. RiScript customers may download the upgrade
from http://www.cerilica.com/upgrade/. RiScript (GBP59) is a PDF,
PostScript and EPS interpreter, as well as a PDF generator.
http://www.cerilica.com/riscript/
- Cerilica Vantage runs on Omega
Cerilica was pleased to learn that its premier package, and one of
RISC OS' most advanced and modern packages, has been confirmed to run on
a Microdigital Omega system.
Zenta Multimedia show offer
Zenta Multimedia were unable to attend this year's Wakefield show, but
instead have updated their web site and added a special offer.
Buy a BIG CD (either Big Fonts or Big Clipart for GBP20) and get all
Zenta's other CDs together for just GBP1 total. So you will get: Mega
Applications, Mega Fun & Games, Symphony Masterpieces, The Photo Album,
Super Graphix CD, Super Audio CD, Super Demos CD, Super Movies CD, and
the other Big CD.
See http://zenta.com/acorn/ for details, this offer will end very soon.
Vantage - The Book; in German
The Vantage manual is now available in a German revised version directly
from a4 - computer. It is priced at EUR10 as an 'addon' to the software
but also available separately at EUR35. Please add EUR2 for delivery in
Germany, otherwise at cost.
http://www.a4com.de/
100Mbit network cards
NET100 is a 10/100BaseT full/half duplex network card available for
Risc PC and A7000 series machines, commissioned by a partnership of
Stuart Tyrrell Developments, RComp and CTA/RiscStation.
NET100 is available now for GBP89 inc VAT from:
The interface is fully FLASH upgradeable and allows users to add almost
500KBytes of their own modules to the FLASH memory if they wish. An
asymmetrical 16K packet buffer reduces receive overruns and can cut
interrupt overheads by a factor of 3 times when compared to cards with
smaller buffers, leading to favourable results in independent speed tests.
APDL / ProActon software
- The Fun Learning Collection
At this year's Wakefield Show 'The Fun Learning Collection' was released
on CD-ROM comprising DataWord, Picture Book, Money Matters and Target
Maths, all previously published by The Really Good Software Company.
GBP14.90.
- New acquisitions
APDL/ProAction Software have acquired the following titles from Clares
Micro Supplies: Celebration; Card Shop; Render Bender II; Illusionist;
Vox Box; Serenade; Rhythm Box.
- Celebration 2
An updated version of Clares Micro Supplies 'Celebration' suite is now
available on CD-ROM. Celebration 2 contains everything you need to
produce bits and pieces for that special event, from calendars to
certificates, gift wrap to greetings cards and more. GBP19.90.
Contact APDL on 020 8778 2659, e-mail mailto:info@apdl.co.uk or write
to APDL, 39 Knighton Park Road, Sydenham, London SE26 5RN.
http://www.apdl.co.uk/
Grapevine instant Internet communication
R-Comp are pleased to announce Grapevine, an Instant Messaging application
for RISC OS users which has been under development for some time.
Instant messaging allows you to communicate in real-time with friends,
family and colleagues directly from your computer. You go online to check
e-mail, or browse the web, and can see which of your friends or contacts
are also online.
Grapevine initially supports Microsoft's "MSN" service and the more
chat-room orientated IRC. Grapevine is designed to allow you to have a
single program for all your instant communication, and has been designed
to be expandable for more protocols and additional functionality.
Grapevine costs GBP25 including VAT and UK delivery.
http://www.rcomp.co.uk/
VirtualAcorn emulator updated
VirtualAcorn were at the Wakefield Show with version 1.20 of VirtualA5000,
which is faster than previous versions and includes a number of other
improvements, including better keyboard handling, a new version of HostFS,
improved disc build, higher screen resolutions, extended manuals and third
party plug in support.
The VirtualAcorn Universal Printer Driver allows the emulated RISC OS to
print to any Microsoft printer on any interface.
http://www.virtualacorn.co.uk/
Extension ROM for RiscStation R7500
Simtec would like to announce the availability of re-programmable
extension ROMs for the RiscStation R7500 computer.
These Flash ROMs fit into the empty third column ROM socket on the
motherboard and are pre-programmed with Simtec's new Snafu flash
programming utility. This utility allows the user to programme the 2Mbyte
ROM with any of their own modules using a simple drag and drop interface.
Using this extra chip, frequently used, new, or replacement modules can
be placed into ROM. Alternatively, using a utility such as Resources, a
complete boot sequence can be inserted into resourceFS which can be run at
power on - ideal for a discless network system.
The upgrade costs GBP20 (including VAT and postage).
http://www.simtec.co.uk/
New software summary
ArcEm, Archimedes Emulator
ArcEm is an Archimedes emulator (Acorn A400 series machines). It works
on RISC OS, Unix (including Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD) and Microsoft
Windows. ArcEm is available in binary versions for RISC OS, Win32 and
x86 Linux. Source is available for porting to other platforms and
improvement. ArcEm is released under the GPL.
http://arcem.sourceforge.net/
Gems, a new pd game
Gems involves the gathering of groups of gems from the play area. This
is done by clicking on adjacent gems so that they swap positions to
create a group of 3 or more gems, which disappear, give you points, and
are replaced by more gems falling from above.
http://www.denmarkwa.net.au/~kwright/softw.html
LaTeX diagram tools
Tools for portable LaTeX diagrams (plain TeX (PS), armTeX (DrawFiles/
Sprites) and pdfTeX (PDF/PNG/JPEG)).
http://www.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de/~dehmel/Software.html#diagrams
http://www.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de/~dehmel/Software.html#drawinfo
Natter, instant messaging client
Modular, multi-user instant messaging client, which supports MSN
Messenger and will support ICQ. Pre-release.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat1159/natter/
PSbrush, Photodesk tool
Converts Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro brush files into a form suitable
for use in Photodesk. There are thousands of Photoshop brushes freely
available on the net and this application gives Photodesk users easy
access to them.
http://www.photodesk.iconbar.com/
Vingt et Un, desktop card game
This is a WIMP version of the well known card game (also known as
Pontoon and Twenty One), and is playable on RISC OS versions above 3.5.
A sample version which was made available before Christmas is still
available from this site. The full version is available on CD.
http://21.riscos.org.uk/
Updated software summary
Account2 v1.19
Freeware Home Accounts application. This version includes password
protection for individual account files, an improved search and replace
facility and bug fixes.
http://www.ksedwards.ukgateway.net/account2/
BDRand v3.22
A highly configurable backdrop randomiser for RO3.1+. Fixes a long
standing bug with hot keys (under certain circumstances, unused keys
such as F12 would not be correctly passed on).
http://users.argonet.co.uk/users/tigger/programs/dtutils.html
Firebolt v1.01
A 1 to 4 player Bomberman clone.
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~iain/acorn.php
Jclean v3.10
Fix JPEG images. This version includes improved error management and a
slight rewrite to ensure it does not fail any more on long filepaths up
to 255 characters. There is also an important note included in the file
jclean310/zip about the problems of rotating very large JPEGs, and a
temporary solution.
http://www.dacha.freeuk.com/free/0-app-0.htm
Locate v0.65
File-find utility for RISC OS, based on the tools available on other
platforms. It can search for files based on any file attribute and file
contents. Locate can now act as a Find plugin for the Filer under
RISC OS Select, meaning that it can be started from a Filer menu and
search in the selected objects. Multiple paths can be searched in one
operation.
http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/software/locate/
Oww v0.67.4
Run a Dallas / AAG 1-wire weather station from RISC OS, Linux or
FreeBSD. This version has a user interface to the device calibration
settings, introduced in 0.67.3.
http://melhuish.info/simon/projects/oww/
Pic_Index 1.11k
Shareware. Makes HTML thumbnail indexes of collections of JPEG images.
This version fixes a bug which caused problems for a new installation by
an unregistered user.
http://www.picindex.ukgateway.net/
Pluto alternative Templates & Sprites
Early in 2001 Nik Gare created alternative Templates and Sprite files
for Pluto, these have been updated for Pluto v2.04b.
http://www.avisoft.force9.co.uk/Pluto.htm
Powerbase v8.29
Shareware database. This differs from v8.28b in a few minor details and
has several small bugs fixed.
http://www.pendle.ukgateway.net/
ShowNeT v1.01
Allows users of NetTime to view their time usage without actually being
online. This version fixes a bug in the first version where ShowNeT
remained as a task when the window was closed instead of quitting.
http://www.denmarkwa.net.au/~kwright/softw.html
Web_Gen v1.34
Take a directory of images and create a web site from them. Various
internal tidy ups and improved interactive help.
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/daves/software/
Upcoming meetings
M25EROUG (M25 East), 21st May
Digital cameras and photo editing
http://m25eroug.riscos.org.uk/
BAUG (Bottisham), 28th May
Jack Lillingston, Castle Technology
http://come.to/baug
20th A.U.T.O. (Germany), 1st June
http://www.a4com.de/
DARC (Derbyshire), 10th June
Paul Middleton, RISCOS Ltd.
http://www.darc-comp.org.uk/
EAUG (Essex), 11th June
http://www.wattys.fsnet.co.uk/eaug.html
NKACC (Kent), 13th June
Quicktime VR
http://nkacc.roundel.net/
HHRUG (Hemel Hempstead), 19th June
Networking, virtual A5000
http://www.hhrug.org.uk/
Dutch RISC OS Expo 2002, 22nd June
http://www.bigbenclub.nl/
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