Acorn News Service Newsletter

Issue: 152 (22 February 2004)

Featured site this issue: http://users.argonet.co.uk/acornshow/

General News

Last reminder about RISCOS SOUTHWEST

The RISCOS SOUTHWEST show will be taking place on Saturday 28th February 2004. The event will once again be taking place at the Webbington Hotel, North Somerset, starting at 10am and finishing 4.30pm.

Exhibitors taking part include: APDL, Archive, AAUG, Castle, CJE Micros, David Snell, EFF, Finnybank, Fortran Friends, Peter Naulls, Photodesk, R-Comp, Ray Favre, RISCOS Ltd, SSS, StrongARM Systems, ARM Club, IC Software, ITC, Oregano and Virtual A5000.

The theatre will take place once again, with talks from Castle, RISCOS Ltd and Finnybank. If you have any second hand Acorn equipment you want to get rid of, please bring it along to the show.

Entrance is GBP3 adults, GBP2 Foundation/ARM Club members, and under 16s free. There will be a free minibus shuttle service from Weston-super-Mare train station. Please come and support the only RISC OS show in South West England.

More information is available at <http://www.argonet.co.uk/acornshow/>.

Commercial News

Zip drives for the STD/Simtec USB card

Stuart Tyrrell Developments are pleased to announce the immediate availability of a range of Zip drives for use with the STD/Simtec USB card.

Zip250 drives are capable of reading and writing 100MB or 250MB Zip media in DOS format, and are available at GBP89 inc VAT and carriage. Full drivers are supplied.

Zip750 drives are capable of reading and writing 250MB and 750MB Zip media in DOS format, and reading 100MB DOS Zip media. The Zip750 drives are available at GBP119 inc VAT and carriage.

Drivers are supplied for the STD/Simtec USB card. Both drives are also compatible with the A6.

<http://www.stdevel.com/riscos.html>

Omega deliveries from Liquid Silicon

Liquid Silicon are pleased to announce that they are now shipping the final few back orders for Omega systems. They also have a few spare orders placed with MicroDigital early in the order queue, so anyone interesting in purchasing an Omega can expect delivery with in a few weeks from ordering.

Please enquire about exact availability details before ordering. Pricing and specifications are available from <http://www.liquid-silicon.com/> or <http://www.microdigital.co.uk/>

Windfall Engineering closing down sale

Windfall Engineering is closing down. To give potential customers a last chance to purchase ViewFinder, Windfall Engineering is having a final 'ViewFinder sale': EUR50 inc. VAT off the normal prices. After Windfall has closed down the ViewFinder will no longer be manufactured, if you want one then, you will have to get it second hand.

Sale prices are: EUR250 inc. VAT and delivery for 128MB Radeon 9200 ViewFinders
EUR200 inc. VAT and delivery for 64MB Radeon 7000 ViewFinders

Orders will be taken until the 15th of March 2004 and have to be fully paid for before the 22nd of March 2004. So get your ViewFinder now or forever do without. This offer is not available to dealers.

<http://www.windfall.nl/>

Iyonix Linux at the South West show

Iyonix Linux will be demonstrating at the forthcoming South West RISC OS show. Come along and see a full Linux desktop running on an Iyonix.

Iyonix Linux is available to purchase on CD including one month's support from GBP28, or preinstalled on a hard drive ready to plug into your Iyonix from GBP105. See <http://www.chocky.org/linux/> for more details.

If you bring your machine along to the show, and purchase a preinstalled drive, Peter Naulls will fit and test the drive in your machine free of charge. You are encouraged to book this in advance, as there will be a limited number of drives at the show.

PD/Shareware News

Updated software summary

Director v0.37 stable
Latest version of Director, a general purpose desktop tool. It allows you to customise your desktop by creating menus of useful commands and icons to attach the menus to.
<http://director.sourceforge.net/>
Reporter v2.54
Enables the easy display of text and variable values in a debugging window from WIMP programs (especially BASIC), Obey files and more. A new application, ReportTA, is a major addition included in this version. ReportTA analyses Trace data from BASIC programs collected by the Reporter command ReportTrace, counting the number of times Procedures, Functions, or even Lines are used. This enables the easy identification of program code that is very heavily used or never used.
<http://www.avisoft.force9.co.uk/Reporter.htm>
TapirMail v0.99
A shareware POP3 email client designed to complement the existing e-mail clients available for RISC OS. Its main difference is that it works entirely in memory and does not permanently download e-mails. New in this version: MIME attachment decoding, simple address book facility, SMTP authentication added (PLAIN, LOGIN and CRAM-MD5), "BCC to self", "mailto:" WIMP messages now acted on, and invert inbox selection button. Also the maximum number of accounts has been increased to 20, and a font bug and several minor bugs fixed. Registration costs just GBP5.
<http://www.flypig.co.uk/tapirmail/>

Club News

Upcoming meetings

RISC OS South West Show, 28th February
<http://www.argonet.co.uk/acornshow/>
ICENI (Suffolk), 3rd March - Linux
<http://www.btinternet.com/~icenicomputerclub/>
WROCC (Wakefield), 3rd March
<http://www.wrocc.org.uk/>
DARC (Derbyshire), 8th March
<http://www.darc-comp.org.uk/>
EAUG (Essex), 9th March
<http://www.wattys.fsnet.co.uk/eaug/>
LAUG (Liverpool), 9th March
<http://www.italia.co.uk/laug/>
NKACC (Kent), 11th March - Practical domestic photo-correction
<http://nkacc.roundel.net/>
WAUG (Wessex), 13th March
<http://www.mfraz.freeserve.co.uk/waug/>
ROUGOL (London), 15th March - Neil Spellings, Aemulor Pro and/or CinoDVD
<http://rougol.jellybaby.net/>
RONWUG (North West), 17th March
<http://www.ronwug.org/>
Wakefield 2004, 15th & 16th May
<http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/>
RISC OS Expo 2004 (Netherlands), 19th June
<http://www.bigbenclub.nl/>

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