Acorn News Service

Contents

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

General News

1. Unix Porting Project

   The Unix porting project is a way for you to actively contribute to RISC OS by having a say in what programs you want to see, and getting support, development and automated upgrades of those programs.

   Subscription costs GBP25 per 6 months. For more information see http://www.chocky.org/unix/.

2. Future of .org

   ICANN has begun the process of transferring the ORG top level domain from Network Solutions / VeriSign to another group. One of the new proposals is from the Internet Software Consortium, please consider supporting their ".org TLD is a public trust" bid. For more information see: http://trusted.resource.org/

   The ISC is responsible for important software such as the BIND name server and INN news server, and currently runs one of the 13 root name servers. http://www.isc.org/

   Details of all the bids can be found at http://www.icann.org/tlds/org/. Other bidders range from SWITCH, the Swiss academic network, to The .Org Foundation, which appears to have ties to Microsoft.

Commercial News

1. Mico support now available for RISC OS Select

   RISCOS Ltd is pleased to announce that MicroDigital Mico computers are now supported under the RISC OS Select Scheme.

   A new version of the RISC OS Select Installer is available for download from the RISC OS Select web site at http://select.riscos.com/. A Mico version of the Select CDs is available on request for Mico users.

2. Used Acorn computers and ethernet cards

   Future Computer Services have a selection of ex demo / ex IT room Acorn A7000s, Risc PC, and Ethernet cards and new hubs. For prices and current availability see: http://www.futurecomputers.co.uk/acorn/.

3. Second hand Risc PCs from GBP80

   Various second hand Risc PCs are available from Liquid Silicon. Nearly all have combi ethernet cards and 486 cards, and are either 610 or 710 machines.

   For details see http://www.liquid-silicon.com/bargs.htm.

4. Kyocera laser printer price reductions

   ExpLAN Computers has announced reductions in the cost of the Kyocera laser printers, which are supplied complete with printer drivers and utilities. These printers have low running costs and long service intervals due to the use of a ceramic drum which does not require exchanging. The FS-3750 has been replaced by the newer FS-3800, and has resulted in the following special offers:

   FS-3750, 1200dpi, 18ppm, 16MB RAM, 0.3p /page, 250-sheet cassette A-grade unit RRP was GBP769, ExpLAN's price GBP549 B-grade unit was GBP569, now GBP499

   FS-3800, 1200dpi, 24ppm, 16MB RAM, 0.3p /page, 500-sheet cassette A-grade unit RRP GBP989 B-grade unit, ExpLAN's price GBP579

   For full range of prices and definition of B-grade, please see http://www.explan.co.uk/printers/kyocera.html. All prices exclude carriage (usually GBP15) and VAT.

PD/Shareware News

1. New software summary

   • Acorn System 1 Emulator

     Microsoft Windows software to emulate the Acorn System 1 hardware. The emulator runs the original Acorn monitor program, and so allows the development of programs exactly as on the original machine. The intent is to preserve the general look and feel (and sound) of the original.

     http://www.cary.demon.co.uk/acorn/

2. Updated software summary

   • CamPins v1.16

     Allows you to choose from many hundreds of images on the Internet and place them on your Pinboard or save them to disc.

     http://www.quantumsoft.co.uk/files/internet/campins116.zip

   • LibXML 2.4.23/LibXSLT 1.0.19

     Latest version of the XML library and tools.

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

   • SPRtools block 1g

     Bitmap format conversion and image processing command line utilities, designed to run on RISC OS, UNIX and Win32 platforms. Minor updates, including: a RISC OS gcc makefile; Visual C++ 6 project files; few minor source changes to remove warnings produced by various compilers.

     http://www.armclub.org.uk/free/

   • ViNCe v1.8

     Port of a VNC client, a remote desktop environment. Bug fixes and optimisation.

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

Club News

1. Upcoming meetings

   • ROUGOL (London), 15th July

     http://rougol.jellybaby.net/

   • M25EROUG (M25 East), 16th July

     Dave Holden, APDL

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

   • HHRUG (Hemel Hempstead), 17th July

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

   • ICENI (Suffolk), 7th August

     Barbecue/social evening

     http://www.archipel.demon.co.uk/ICENI/

   • WROCC (Wakefield), 7th August

     http://www.wrocc.org.uk/

   • NKACC (Kent), 8th August

     http://nkacc.roundel.net/

   • Unconventional 2k2 (Germany), 30th August to 1st September

     http://unconventional.atari.org/EvenPlaned/Unconventional2k2/

   • DARC (Derbyshire), 9th September

     Ovation Pro part 3

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

   • SAUG (Southampton), 9th September

     mailto:davehigton@freenet.co.uk

   • BAUG (Bottisham), 10th September

     http://come.to/baug

   • EAUG (Essex), 10th September

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

ANS Information

1. Contact ANS

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