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Contents
- General News
- Commercial News
- PD/Shareware News
- Club News
- ANS Information
ARM assembler programming web site
Richard Murray's Hey Rick ARM assembler programming resources site
http://www.heyrick.co.uk/assembler/ has been updated with:
- Webite Central, new home of the Termite web browser source
- More history of the development of the ARM processor, and an expanded
description of the processors.
- More details on co-processors, and on how the FPE works.
The RISC OS Academy
Paul Vigay has created a subscription service, the RISC OS Academy, to
enable people to learn programming skills on a variety of topics and at a
choice of different levels.
Running a bit like a correspondence course, people can learn at their own
speed and in their own time, with a complete set of Internet based
resources to help them - clearly written tutorial articles, program
examples, possible problems worked through, and even full applications.
Help is provided via e-mail, and each person can learn at their own rate.
Initially, 12 courses will be available (one fee gains entry to the entire
Academy web site, so people can learn whatever they choose, when they
choose). These include: introductions to RISC OS; beginners introductions
to BBC BASIC and Wimp Programming; introductions to HTML Web Design and
CGI programming using Perl.
The RISC OS Academy officially opens on 1st September 2002, and costs
GBP50 per year (runs from the day you subscribe) or GBP75 for a family
membership. Anyone subscribing before 1st July 2002 will gain an extra 2
months membership (ie subscription will run until 1st Sep 2003) and also
be able to provide input and feedback on the initial courses available.
For more information, please visit The RISC OS Academy web site at
http://www.vigay.com/academy/.
ProAction Desktop Repton and Easy C++
- Desktop Repton
The new Desktop Repton pack costs GBP19.90, in a DVD size package with
an extended manual to cater for the functions of both Repton 1 and 2.
Existing Desktop Repton owners can get a new pack for GBP10.
- Easy C++
Now supports more recent versions of the standard RISC OS libraries (for
both C and C++ compilation); a significant number of examples are
supplied on the disc; new step by step tutorials have been added; plus
Vigil (previously a product in its own right) is included as an aid to
all WIMP programmers. The upgraded pack, including HTML format manual on
CD, costs GBP19.90. Upgrades cost GBP10.
For further details please contact APDL, mailto:info@apdl.co.uk, phone
+44 (0)20 8778 2659, or write to APDL, 39 Knighton Park Road, Sydenham,
London, SE26 5RN.
R-Comp ADSL hardware
RCI have been supplying ADSL hardware for some time now, and it is now
available, complete with software, manuals and support, for GBP155
(including VAT and UK delivery). This includes:
- the ADSL router (includes ADSL modem)
- 4 network ports for hooking in your machine (high speed 10/100 ports)
- cable for hooking into your phone line
- step-by-step manuals describing how to set it up
- RISC OS software (netfetch)
- Comprehensive tech support
http://www.rcomp.co.uk/
R-Comp have also sent registered users an updated version of their instant
messaging software, Grapevine, which includes support for the WimpCTCP IRC
extensions and the latest version of the MSN protocol.
CJE Micro's summer offer on Nikon Slide scanner
Nikon Coolscan III (LS30) Slide scanner is now on a special Summer offer
at CJE Micro's.
The Nikon 35mm / IX240 Film Scanner COOLSCAN III, with David Pilling's
scanner software (previously called Imagemaster) and Twain driver now:
- GBP470 inc VAT & UK mainland Delivery
Suitable SCSI Interface podules start at GBP60. Scanner specifications at:
http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/news/1998/ls30_98.htm.
CJE Micro's also have three slice Risc PC case pins in stock, priced at
GBP35 including UK postage. http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/prices/
New software summary
Updated software summary
AMPlay v1.43
Freeware front-end for the AMPlayer (audio MPEG) module. Bug fixes and
new options: claim the input focus on loading; override what the
amplayer module is already playing; ensure that there are spaces before
capital letters; and checks of filetype and file extension when scanning
directories.
http://www.mikejs.com/riscos/amplay.html
ARMalyser v0.29
ARM code analyser that understands RISC OS executable, module, object,
and library formats. Display of additional entry points in C99 32bit
Shared C Library stubs jump table does fixed, so spurious names are not
displayed and the Linux version does not crash.
http://www.armclub.org.uk/free/
BookMaker v1.74
A hotlist and address book management tool that supports all major
RISC OS browsers, most e-mail clients and other Internet tools. This
version includes: a more forgiving hotlist loader for WebsterXL users;
a fix to a bug whereby the font size preference was not respected over
a screen mode change; and the line-spacing preference can now be set
below 100%.
http://www.bookmaker.riscos.org.uk/
DiscKnight v1.38
Checking and repair tool for standard and RISC OS 4 format hard discs.
All registered users of DiscKnight should have received a message
informing them that version 1.38 was available.
http://www.discknight.riscos.org.uk/
Jclean v4.00
Desktop front end for the Independent JPEG Group utility 'jpegtran'.
Version 4 is a complete rewrite incorporating more native code to
extract existing comments and save them to a single Comments file or to
individual files, and to insert up to 3 types of new comment in one
pass, including a fully configurable filedate string. Other features
include: support for filepaths up to 4K, leafnames up to 255 bytes;
optional background or singletask running of jpegtran; and user
configuration of startup behaviour.
http://www.dacha.freeuk.com/free/0-app-0.htm
lcc v4.1
Small, fast ANSI C compiler. Brought up to date with most recent LCC
developments. Bug fixes.
http://www.riscos.info/downloads/
OvalTime v1.24
Displays and decodes the time data transmitted by the Rugby MSF
transmitter. Recently there was a change in the DUT1 code transmitted
by the Rugby atomic clock (seconds 0 to 16) which lead to OvalTime
getting confused. This has now been fixed.
http://users.argonet.co.uk/users/tudor/english/share.htm
SPRtools block1f
Bitmap format conversion and image processing command line utilities,
designed to run on RISC OS, UNIX and Win32 platforms. Supplied with
RISC OS desktop front end scripts for use with ComndCTRL. A few minor
updates, including: fix to bmp2spr to handle 24bpp BMPs correctly;
spr_fsi modified so it outputs the entire image in one operation if an
output file is specified for better performance; ensure all files are
opened as binary for platforms where this matters.
http://www.armclub.org.uk/free/
TrackTime
Tells you how to fit CD tracks onto a cassette of specified length.
New version copes with more than one CD drive in your computer.
http://www.dracos.co.uk/riscos/programs/
ViNCe
Vincent Lefevre now maintains Henrik Bjerregaard Pedersen's port of the
AT&T VNC client, which has been renamed ViNCe. The main changes are:
a few bug fixes (in particular, some events were not always taken into
account); the config file may be put in Choices.ViNCe; back and toggle
icons added; upgrade to zlib 1.1.4 (a potential security problem has
been fixed in this version).
http://www.vinc17.org/acorn/riscpc_eng.html#vince
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