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Contents
- General News
- Commercial News
- PD/Shareware News
- Club News
- ANS Information
Archiology updated
New disc images have been added to the Archiology site, a collection of
old software and information from Acorn's past.
http://www.eclipse.co.uk/gilberts/archiology/
WimpBasic programs
Wimpbasic.org All of the programs held on the Wimpbasic.org site have been
tested on Aemulor on the Iyonix. 80% of the programs work without any
problem, with just over 5% failing to work at all.
For hints and tips, and to find out which programs work on Iyonix, visit:
http://www.wimpbasic.org/
Wimpbasic.org has been developed to be a central support site for users
of the Wimpbasic programming tool and those who use the programs
developed. It holds many of the programs that have been written along with
other generally useful information.
Pluto v3 Manual
The Pluto manual is an attempt to collect all the documentation for this
popular mail reader. Originally based on the Docs and History files
supplied with Pluto, the manual also contains information added by
experienced users over the years.
This has been produced as a StrongHelp manual for Pluto, and it has now
been updated to include the additional facilities of Pluto v3. The manual
has a total of over 210 StrongHelp pages, or over 120 A4 text pages.
The StrongHelp manual and a plain text version are now available for
download from http://www.avisoft.force9.co.uk/Pluto.htm, along with
alternative Templates and Sprite files for Pluto.
CJE/NCS on-line price list
The CJE/NCS price list http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/prices/ now comprises
2400+ RISC OS related products, including over 670 individual product
pages with descriptions and specifications, over 100 of which have product
images. Most items listed are available from stock.
Products are organised in 12 groups and 102 categories, and a search
facility http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/search.shtml is also
available.
Castle launch Oregano 2 web browser
Castle Technology's new web browser, Oregano 2, is now on sale, priced at
GBP99 including VAT.
http://www.castle.org.uk/castle/software.htm
http://www.castle.org.uk/oregano/o2demtc.htm
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact586.html
New software summary
Updated software summary
DDF2Html v1.00
Convert Impression DDF to HTML. Improved memory management, multitasks,
many improvements to HTML output, supports special styles for adding
HTML comments and links.
http://www.bigfoot.com/~chrisbazley/utilities.htm#ddf2html
EXIFinfo v0.59
Generates files containing the information hidden inside the EXIF files
(JPEGs) produced by digital cameras. 32bit compatible and can now also
be from the command line by external programs.
http://photodesk.iconbar.com/
NetWatch v1.64
Notifies you when specified web pages change. 32bit compatible, new
'Open main' button which reports that a filebase item is changed,
faster downloading, bug fixes.
http://home.student.utwente.nl/m.m.bezemer/netwatchuk.html
Organizer v1.57
Desktop personal organiser, featuring a calendar, diary, journal, alarm
system, anniversary reminders, address book and notes sections. This
version is 32bit compatible, has user-definable address book views,
allowed a variable number of addresses per page, and has a message
protocol so that other applications can read and modify Organizer's
address-book database. Shareware.
http://www.organizer.morison.net/
OSLib v6.50
A set of functions and C headers to provide complete coverage of the
RISC OS application programmer's interface in C. OSLib 6.50 contains all
the latest RO5 API calls, plus a few minor bug-fixes.
http://ro-oslib.sourceforge.net/
PDF v2.01.1.11
PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file viewer for RISC OS. Upgraded to xpdf2.01.
http://pdf.iconbar.com/
POPstar v2.05
POP e-mail client. Now 32 bit compatible and has SMTP AUTH support.
http://www.heenan.me.uk/acorn/download.html
Verma v0.20
Displays detailed information about Modules that are located in memory
or on disc. 32bit compatible, new display modes, interactive help.
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/lenny/riscos/soft/
Z80Tube v1.10
Emulates a Z80 coprocessor attached to an Acorn RISC OS computer.
32bit compatible.
http://www.mdfs.net/Apps/Emulators/
Upcoming meetings
DARC (Derbyshire), 10th March
Matthew Cook, Virtual Acorn
http://www.darc-comp.org.uk/
SAUG (Southampton), 10th March
mailto:davehigton@dsl.pipex.com
LAUG (Liverpool), 11th March
http://www.italia.co.uk/laug/
NKACC (Kent), 13th March
Open / mobile computing
http://nkacc.roundel.net/
HHRUG (Hemel Hempstead), 19th March
Jack Lillingston, Iyonix
http://www.hhrug.org.uk/
BARUG (Bristol), 26th March
Jack Lillingston, Iyonix
http://www.barug.co.uk/
ICENI (Suffolk), 2nd April
AGM
http://www.archipel.demon.co.uk/ICENI/
WROCC (Wakefield), 2nd April
Anniversary meeting
http://www.wrocc.org.uk/
Wakefield 2003, 10th May
http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/
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