Acorn News Service Newsletter

Issue: 166 (5 September 2004)

Featured site this issue: http://rougol.jellybaby.net/

Commercial News

CJE colour laser printer and LCD offers

CJE are pleased to announce a budget priced colour laser printer with RISC OS driver. The HP Color LaserJet 2550L printer delivers high quality, professional colour laser documents for GBP360 including VAT. A network version is also available.

For full details see: <http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/individual/prodpages/HP-Q3702A.shtml>

CJE are pleased to announce their lowest priced 1024x768 LCD ever, the VL1410. Manufactured by TECO, who have won an award for the CTS "Best Monitor Manufacturer" for the third year running. Unusually the stand not only tilts it also swivels. Price GBP200 including VAT. Supplied with a RISC OS MDF.

For full details see: <http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/individual/prodpages/MON-LCD14VAR.shtml>

VirtualAcorn taken over by 3QD Developments Ltd

From 1st September 2004 VirtualAcorn products are being handled exclusively by closely related company 3QD Developments Ltd.

3QD Developments Ltd will handle sales and all technical support for VirtualAcorn products as well as publish future upgrades. Customers will see no real immediate change as the address and phone numbers will remain the same for the time being, although customers should note that the ordering details on the VirtualAcorn web site have changed slightly.

New versions of VirtualRPC-SE and VirtualRPC-Adjust will shortly be available as free upgrades for existing customers, these upgrades will reflect the change in status of VirtualAcorn.

<http://www.virtualacorn.co.uk/>

Changes within APDL-ProAction Software, DrawWorks upgrade

David Bradforth will be reducing his involvement with the APDL-ProAction and The Fourth Dimension software ranges, which will be developed by APDL, but will continue with the Alligata Media books.

Also, APDL has announced that an upgrade for the DrawWorks Library Tool, supplied with DrawWorks XL, is now available. This permits you to add an entire directory of DrawFiles to the Library instead of just one file at a time. <http://www.apdl.co.uk/isv/ugrade.htm>

<http://www.apdl.co.uk/>

1GB Panther TC offer from Castle

The Panther TC features the following specification and normally retails for GBP1599:

However, for the month of September 2004 only, Castle are offering this brilliant computer system at GBP1399, a saving of GBP200.

Castle are also offering a high specification 19" Triple Input LCD for GBP420, when purchased with a Panther TC (normally GBP534).

<http://www.iyonix.com/iyonix/news/pan02off.shtml>

Available in the UK only. Delivery GBP20. All prices include VAT.

PD/Shareware News

New software summary

• Tock, desktop clock
  A desktop clock with selectable clock faces, chimes, and hour strikes. It is possible to make a photograph of any clock come to life on your desktop.
  <http://www.everett9981.freeserve.co.uk/pete.htm> <http://www.brayshaw.org.uk/riscos/TockFace.zip> alternative clock face

Updated software summary

• Bazound v0.08
  A small configuration and diagnostic utility for the RISC OS sound system. It may be useful to programmers writing sound software, and in situations where programs have left the sound system in an indeterminate state. This version can now tell you the name of the module code or workspace that a given address (eg the currently installed channel handler) lies within.
  <http://starfighter.acornarcade.com/mysite/utilities.htm#bazound>
• Bogofilter v0.92.6
  A Bayesian spam filter. It inspects e-mails and inserts headers that indicate whether or not the message is spam. The major changes in this version are: new option "-QQ" to display extended parameter list; removal of obsolete options; change of formatting characters; and code cleanups.
  <http://www.sbellon.de/sw-ports.html>
• GnuPG v1.2.6
  A complete and free replacement for PGP encryption software. Because it does not use the patented IDEA algorithm, it can be used without any restrictions. GnuPG is an OpenPGP (RFC2440) compliant application. This is mainly a bug fix release. There was one race condition that could lead to deleted public keys if multiple instances of GnuPG were run at once.
  <http://www.sbellon.de/gnupg.html>
• Graphite v0.30
  An application for creating and editing of graphs. The term graph means here a set of nodes and edges, whereby each edge is connected to two nodes. The most important improvements in this version are an enhanced text formatting and a tool bar.
  <http://www.zpages.de/>

Club News

Upcoming meetings

• NKACC (Kent), 9th September - Digital and Internet TV and radio
  <http://nkacc.roundel.net/>
• WAUG (Wessex), 11th September
  <http://www.mfraz.freeserve.co.uk/waug/>
• DARC (Derbyshire), 13th September - Paul Beverley
  <http://www.darc-comp.org.uk/>
• EAUG (Essex), 14th September - Richard Brown, Oregano UK
  <http://www.wattys.fsnet.co.uk/eaug/>
• LAUG (Liverpool), 14th September
  <http://www.italia.co.uk/laug/>
• RONWUG (North West), 15th September
  <http://www.ronwug.org/>
• ROUGOL (London), 20th September - Lifting the lid on mobile networks
  <http://rougol.jellybaby.net/>
• BARUG (Bristol), 29th September - Paul Middleton, RISCOS Ltd.
  <http://www.barug.co.uk/>
• ICENI (Ipswich), 6th October - The inclusive web
  <http://www.btinternet.com/~icenicomputerclub/>
• WROCC (Wakefield), 6th October - Oregano UK
  <http://www.wrocc.org.uk/>
• RISC OS South East Show 2004, 23rd October
  <http://www.fillin.co.uk/seshow/>

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