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Contents
- General News
- Commercial News
- PD/Shareware News
- Club News
- ANS Information
BBC micro compatible computer
MiniB is a new floppy disc sized BBC micro compatible 6502 home brew
computer. It is equipped with:
- 128k flash for OS and applications software and 32k SRAM
- PS/2 keyboard port
- 20x4 LCD display
- IIC bus with Y2K compatible real time clock
- BBC micro compatible 1MHz bus
There is also a BBC MOS "like" operating system to drive it, which
presents all the usual OSByte etc. interfaces - BBC BASIC runs without
modification.
The only minor drawback is that you have to build it yourself. For details
see http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/minib.htm.
RISC OS Filetypes database information
As part of the RISC OS Select Scheme, RISCOS Ltd. intend to introduce a
method whereby a RISC OS Filetypes database can be interrogated to provide
information about the features and availability of programs to handle
specific RISC OS filetypes.
Developers who have registered filetypes in the past, and are happy for
details to be published, should e-mail mailto:developer@riscos.com.
If you do not want any details of a Registered Filetype to be made public,
you should also contact RISCOS Ltd. Otherwise it will be listed as
allocated to a company, without giving a Filetype name or further details.
http://www.riscos.com/
BBC Domesday - Emulation and Preservation publicity event
On the 2nd of December the CAMiLEON project is holding an event at the
University of Leeds to demonstrate and publicize its digital preservation
work with BBC Domesday. The audience will include original members of the
Domesday Project, as well as a good showing from the digital preservation
and BBC/Acorn/RISC OS communities. There will be four speakers including
Peter Armstrong, the then Chairman of the Domesday Project, and some
special guests. A full demonstration of the BBC Domesday emulation will be
running alongside the original BBC kit.
This will be an opportunity to chat with designers of Domesday and see it
in action in its original and emulated forms. There is already a great
deal of press interest and the event is expected to feature heavily in the
national news. The event will take place at 4pm on the 2nd December at the
University of Leeds.
A number of places are available for this invitation only event. Priority
will be given to those with a real Domesday link and to current RISC OS
press. Further information on the project can be found at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/camileon/
RISC OS Software site
A new list of RISC OS software, currently focused on games:
http://www.thedeathzone.free-online.co.uk/software/
Iyonix - new ARM XScale computer
Castle Technology has revealed a new RISC OS 5 computer, based on the
fully 32bit XScale processor from Intel, the successor to the StrongARM.
The Iyonix computer was demonstrated at the RISC OS South East show.
For more information see:
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact472.html
http://acorn.cybervillage.co.uk/iyonixPC.txt
http://www.iyonix.com/
Aemulor - 26-bit emulator for Iyonix
Spellings Computer Services Ltd is developing a 26-bit emulator for the
recently announced Iyonix PC.
More details on "Aemulor" (pronounced aim-you-lore) will be announced
during November. A newsletter and discussion forum is available on the
web site.
http://www.aemulor.com/
http://support.aemulor.com/
New Archive Double CD
Thanks to Chris Johnson's sterling work in converting all this year's
Archive magazines into HTML format, and David Holden's setting up and CD
copying skills, you can now buy...
Fifteen years' worth of information about things Acorn/RISC OS for GBP19.
That's 7.5+ million words, all electronically searchable and all popping
up in HTML format. Phone 01603 722544 to order a copy.
http://www.archivemag.co.uk/
R-Comp announce UniPrint and DialUp 2
UniPrint is a universal network printer driver, which allows you to print
to any kind of printer via a Microsoft Windows PC on your network (Win 95
- XP supported).
GBP35 for the software - this includes both the RISC OS and MS Windows
software, and VAT and UK delivery.
Also version 2 DialUp is now available. The largest new feature is the
ability to map different Internet accounts/providers/phone numbers to
different times of the day. Mail and news handling has also been improved.
DialUp 2 also allows neat transition between dialup and network Internet
access.
The upgrade price from DialUp to DialUp 2 is GBP12 inc VAT and UK
delivery (add GBP2 elsewhere), provided you return your original DialUp
disc. DialUp2/WXL priority support (for WXL users) GBP15, DialUp2 for
Messenger Pro 2 users GBP20, or DialUp2 for those without either of the
above GBP25. The R-Comp Internet Suite now costs GBP75 inc VAT.
http://www.rcomp.co.uk/
Viewfinder on sale
Viewfinder, the high performance graphics card for the Risc PC and A7000,
is on sale for EUR240 (instead of EUR360) until the end of November
http://www.windfall.nl/
Cerilica releases Insignia 1.50
Cerilica is proud to announce that Insignia version 1.50 is now available
to new customers as well as being a free upgrade to existing users.
Insignia was released at the beginning of 2002 and it is a unique graphics
package that is ideal for creating web, print and presentation graphics
without the need to have design experience. This major upgrade brings some
fantastic new features: use Drawfiles in addition to or instead of the
text line, 5 great new After Effects, direct GIF export (when InterGif is
installed), and German translation of the application text.
Cerilica has maintained the price at GBP39 (including VAT and P&P to the
UK). For full details, a demo copy, and example results, please visit
http://www.cerilica.com/insignia/.
Cerilica has also been working hard on a 32bit full upgrade version of its
leading design and publishing software - Cerilica Vantage. This will allow
Vantage to take advantage of the extra processing power offered by the
next-generation ARM-based 32 bit-only RISC processors.
C Learning
C Learning is a new service for C Programmers - for RISC OS and for other
platforms alike. It is aimed at novice C programmers, trying to learn the
language.
C Learning is based on a six month subscription, of which the cost is
currently at an introductory rate of GBP40 (normally GBP60) or USD65
(normally USD95). You can send your questions, code, problems, etc. and
have them answered in a timely manner.
http://www.c-learning.info/
Bar coding update
Liquid Silicon are pleased to announce a price reduction in their popular
bar coding products.
BarCoder now costs GBP49.95 and creates Draw files of the following code
formats: ISBN, ISSN, EAN8, EAN13 and UPC A with optional 2 and 5 bar
add-ons; Code 39 Normal and Full ASCII; Binary; Telepen ASCII and Numeric.
BarReader is a generic driver for controlling applications or entering bar
code information from bar code readers or similar devices. It costs
GBP29.95 or is supplied free with a reader.
http://www.liquid-silicon.com/
New software summary
Updated software summary
CryptRandom v0.09
A module for generating cryptographically useful random numbers.
Versions 0.05 to 0.08 inclusive could return less random data than
expected when more than 2 to 1200 bytes are requested. GnuPG, SSHProxy
and pscp use CryptRandom, but none of these are affected.
http://www.markettos.org.uk/riscos/crypto/
FSI_Batch v2.82
Convert any group of files that ChangeFSI understands. Fixes a bug that
stopped locked aspect conversion from working if one of the values is 0.
http://users.argonet.co.uk/users/tudor/english/sharewr.htm
GnuPG v1.2.1
A complete and free replacement for PGP encryption software. Bug fixes.
http://www.sbellon.de/gnupg.html
NetWatch v1.63
Notifies you when specified web pages change. Bug fixes, and now accepts
URL files dragged to it.
http://home.student.utwente.nl/m.m.bezemer/netwatchuk.html
SSHProxy v0.18
SSH proxy. Contains fixed CryptRandom module, fixes memory leaks and
sets the IP type of service flags for low delay transmission.
http://www.markettos.org.uk/riscos/crypto/
SwiftJPEG v1.01
JPEG viewer. Works correctly with the latest Select release.
http://nines.rowing.org.uk/folder/
Vingt et Un v1.50
A WIMP version of the well known card game (also known as Pontoon and
Twenty One), playable on RISC OS versions above 3.5. All the major
developments have now been completed and it has been reviewed favourably
by Archive magazine. The recent major amendment has added the ability to
output spoken game messages if Jonathan Duddington's Speak application
is available.
http://21.riscos.org.uk/
Upcoming meetings
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
Calendar creation with Barry Thompson
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/
ROUGOL (London), 18th November
http://rougol.jellybaby.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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