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Contents
- General News
- Commercial News
- PD/Shareware News
- Club News
- ANS Information
Acorn Midlands Show
The ARM Club is please to announce that it will once again be running its
popular Acorn Midlands Show at The National Motorcycle Museum near
Birmingham. This year the show will take place on Saturday 30th November.
The venue is conveniently located just off junction 6 of the M42, at the
junction of the M42 and the A45. A free minibus service will run from
Birmingham International station for anybody coming by train.
Exhibitors who have already confirmed that will be attending include:
APDL, Archive Magazine, Castle Technology, R-Comp, RISCOS Ltd., Serious
Statistical Software, Soft Rock Software, Surftec, and Zenta Multimedia.
Anybody else wishing to exhibit at the show should contact the organiser,
Ralph Sillet mailto:ralph@armclub.org.uk, as soon as possible.
Further information: http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/midlands/.
Unix porting project at the RISC OS Southeast show
The Unix Porting Project will be exhibiting at the South East show on
2nd November in Guildford http://www.fillin.co.uk/seshow/, on stand A2,
to the left of the entrance. Come along and ask about the vast number of
software titles that could be converted to run on RISC OS, and how you can
help make that happen with your subscription.
The Unix Porting Project's website is at http://www.chocky.org/unix/.
Also find out about plans to convert a Unix Web Browser to RISC OS, as
part of the project, and how you can also help contribute to this. Also
present on the RISC OS Projects stand will be Paul Vigay, with his array
of products.
Free hub with Simtec USB card from Stuart Tyrrell Developments
Stuart Tyrrell Developments are pleased to announce the availability of
the Simtec USB card to retail customers.
The USB card implements two USB compliant ports, both capable of supplying
the full USB specified load of 500mA each, without exceeding the Acorn
Expansion Card specifications. It is supplied complete with HID drivers,
allowing the use of keyboards, mice and other HID devices - for details
see http://www.stdevel.com/USB.html and http://www.riscos-usb.org/.
Simtec USB cards ordered from Stuart Tyrrell Developments before the
31st of October will be shipped with, subject to availability, a free
4-port hub, giving a total of five full-power ports.
Price: USB card + Free Hub: GBP79+carriage+VAT = GBP99inc.
Order from: Stuart Tyrrell Developments, PO Box 183, Oldham, OL2 8FB,
phone: 0845 458 8803 or 01706 848 600, fax: 0870 164 1604.
http://www.stdevel.com/
RISC OS Select 2 Beta available for download
The first release of RISC OS Select 2 is now available for download by
subscribers, from the RISC OS Select Web Site.
Details of the new features of Select 2, including improved graphics,
networking, and wheel mouse support, are available at
http://select.riscos.com/select2whatsnew.htm.
This is a beta release, from which the components of the final Select 2 CD
will be produced next month. There are known issues with this release
which are detailed in the release notes, read carefully before installing.
Replacement A4 laptop LCD panels
Theo Markettos has located a source of replacement LCD panels for the A4
laptop. These are new, sealed in the manufacturer's boxes (of 15, which
will be split), and come with scratch-protection film to be removed after
installation. They are a drop-in replacement for the A4 screen panel, and
can be self-fitted.
Panels are GBP7 each, plus GBP1.50 for UK postage for one panel or GBP2.50
for two (ask for overseas/larger quantity postage).
The panels are passive matrix 9" mono LCDs, 640x480 pixels (VGA size) with
pixels individually addressable (data input is via a modified raster
scan), so can be used for other projects.
They come without backlight (electroluminescent sheet is available from
companies such as RS for this purpose, or other forms of backlighting such
as LEDs can be used). Similar panels are considerably more expensive in
quantity from other suppliers (such as earthlcd.com).
Further details, fitting instructions for the A4, and a datasheet for the
panel can be found at http://www.markettos.org.uk/riscos/a4/lcd.html.
To order, please email mailto:theo@markettos.org.uk.
Updated software summary
CVS v1.01
Version control system port. Changes include: extensions (,xyz) added to
filenames again; Absolute (&ff8) files are automatically ignored, image
files will be treated as files not directories; passwords are not shown
in TaskWindows; the newest version of UnixLib is used. There is also a
Select version of cvs available, which makes use of the ZLib module
instead of a linked ZLib library.
http://home.student.utwente.nl/m.m.bezemer/cvs.html
EXIFinfo v0.56
Generates files containing the information hidden inside the EXIF files
(JPEGs) produced by digital cameras. MakerNote information is now
available for the following makes of camera: Canon, Casio, Fuji, Nikon,
Olympus and Sanyo. Various updates and bug fixes.
http://www.photodesk.iconbar.com/
Powerbase v9.10
Shareware database, can be used to create databases of information of
almost any kind, and provides powerful facilities for maintaining such
databases and for selectively retrieving and printing information from
them. It is best described as a flat-file database with table
validation.
http://www.pendle.ukgateway.net/
RiscSearch v0.87
Meta search engine. Bug fixes and updated decoders.
http://www.riscsearch.de/
STem v2.02
Atari ST emulator for RISC OS. Changes in this release include:
optimised disk image access routines; memory viewer with integrated
disassembler; use of Choices for storing configuration data; tracing of
processor execution.
http://www.s-ellis.freeserve.co.uk/stem/
Textseek v1.31
Fast text search program, which will search for a given (wildcarded)
string through any type of file, and display its results in a throwback
window. Major changes are: true case-insensitive searching, handling
accented characters correctly; internationalisation is now possible;
search history menu is now preserved between sessions; options for a
given search are saved and restored along with the search history; other
major bug fixes.
http://www.bigfoot.com/~chrisbazley/utilities.htm#textseek
Upcoming meetings
ROUGOL (London), 21st October
Photodesk Tutorial
http://rougol.jellybaby.net/
The RISC OS South-East Show, 2nd November
http://www.fillin.co.uk/seshow/
ICENI (Suffolk), 6th November
Ovation Pro
http://www.archipel.demon.co.uk/ICENI/
WROCC (Wakefield), 6th November
http://www.wrocc.org.uk/
DARC (Derbyshire), 11th November
Barry Thompson: Making a calendar
http://www.darc-comp.org.uk/
BAUG (Bottisham), 12th November
Paul Beverley, Archive magazine
http://come.to/baug
EAUG (Essex), 12th November
Model railways and the computer
http://www.wattys.fsnet.co.uk/eaug.html
NKACC (Kent), 14th November
AGM & open evening
http://nkacc.roundel.net/
HHRUG (Hemel Hempstead), 20th November
http://www.hhrug.org.uk/
The ARM Club Midlands Show, 30th November
http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/midlands/
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