Acorn News Service Newsletter
Issue: 248 (1 March 2009)
Featured site this issue: http://www.paulvigay.org/
General News
RISC OS South West Show 2009 report
Paul Vigay book of condolence
Commercial News
600 new printers supported by Gutenprint
Gutenprint for RISC OS release 2.32, based on Gutenprint 5.2.3, the latest
version of the Linux Gutenprint drivers, is now available.
This new release supports 615 additional printer models, increasing the
total number of supported models to over 1400. Most notably, this new
release includes support for 127 new Epson printers and 26 new Canon
printers. In addition, it offers general quality improvements, improved
borderless printing on Epson printers, and finally direct CD printing
(with suitable Epson printers).
Gutenprint for RISC OS is a printing solution based on a port of the
Gutenprint library originally written for Linux. It integrates into
Printers and can be used like any other printer driver to print from
RISC OS applications.
Gutenprint supports high-resolution printing with photo-real print quality
and offers colour correction for different media types, as well as user
defined colour correction. You can find more details at:
<http://www.mw-software.com/software/gutenprint/gutenprint.html>
Currently, the Gutenprint software is only available to those who have
donated to support the project. Details about suggested donation amounts
and payment options can be found at:
<http://www.mw-software.com/software/gutenprint/donate.html>
A full list of supported printer models can be found at
<http://www.mw-software.com/software/gutenprint/supported.html>
R-Comp release SafeStore v1.10
R-Comp has released SafeStore v1.10, a significant upgrade in
functionality, which will be free of charge to existing customers.
SafeStore is a comprehensive, modern backup system for RISC OS machines.
Data can now be backed up in various compressed formats (Tar, Spark, or
Zip) each offering different combinations of performance vs compression.
This is ideal for backing up to systems which might otherwise lose
filetype or filename information, as well as compressing things if space
is at a premium.
The new version also includes improved error handling and adds the
ability to retry a backup at the click of a button.
<http://www.rcomp.co.uk/>
Impact 3.31 released
A free upgrade from version 3.30 to version 3.31 of Impact is now
available to download from the Impact web site:
<http://sinenomine.co.uk/software/impact/>
Impact is an easy-to-use relational database system for RISC OS. A
demonstration version is available for download from the web site,
together with full manuals and example databases to try out.
This release is mainly to fix a bug in v3.30. To see a full list of
changes, please visit the web site:
<http://sinenomine.co.uk/software/impact/release-notes.html>
Upgrades from versions 3.27, 3.28, or 3.29 cost GBP8 for a download-only
upgrade, or GBP10 for a CD including postage. Upgrades from older versions
are priced from GBP15 to GBP30. For ordering details see the main Impact
web page:
<http://sinenomine.co.uk/software/impact/>
ArtGraph Film Studio
The MathMagical Software Company is releasing a major update to its six
program software suite, which features the new ArtGraph Film Studio. The
six program software suite also features Mandelbrots, fractal trees,
turtle graphics, Sudoku, a graphplotter, and many mathematics resources.
The price of the suite is unchanged at GBP65. Users of older versions of
the suite can upgrade for GBP25.
<http://www.MathMagical.co.uk/>
A new web site for Organizer
Organizer, the RISC OS personal information manager, is now available from
a new web site. This marks another stage in the renewed development of the
programme originally created by Chris Morison. The move completes the
transfer of ownership to the new developer, North One Communications Ltd.
For the moment, the latest version available remains v1.57. The cost is
GBP10, but new users will be eligible for a discount on the upcoming
version, which is about to start beta testing.
<http://www.organizerPIM.co.uk/>
PD/Shareware News
New software summary
- Kim, memory game
A memory game, loosely inspired by Kim's game from Rudyard Kipling's
book Kim. The object of the game is to remember the location of 10 items
and when prompted click on the relevant icon.
<http://riscos.kevsoft.co.uk/>
- Magic Mushrooms, BBC game updated for RISC OS
A platform game for the BBC now updated to run on RISC OS.
<http://www.starfighter.acornarcade.com/mysite/games.htm#magicmush>
- MsgBoard, USB driver
A driver for the Dream Cheeky USB LED Message Board, sold by Maplin
under their stock number N88GA. It has USB Vendor ID 1D34 and Device ID
0013.
<http://www.apts04.dsl.pipex.com/>
- Renaming utilities
A suite of filetype-specific file renamers. There is one program to
perform the action on JPEG files, another for waveform (wav) files,
another for TIFF files, and a fourth for MPEG audio files.
<http://atomicsoftware.org.uk/DownL.htm>
Updated software summary
- dcraw v8.91
Port of a program which converts RAW files from a digital camera to
another image format which can be used under RISC OS.
<http://www.thomas-milius.privat.t-online.de/indexE.htm>
- Fat32Fs v1.06
A DOS/FAT filing system module for the Iyonix that allows reading and
writing FAT formatted media that is greater than 2GB in size. Bug fix.
<http://jeffd.drobe.co.uk/>
- GraphTask v4.03
GraphTask provides graphical taskwindows allowing many non desktop
programs to be run in a multitasking desktop window. The new version
provides a work around for a RISC OS 6.14 bug which creates a 256 true
colour paletted sprite, rather than the requested standard palette
variant in some situations.
<http://www.armclub.org.uk/free/>
- SiteMatch v2.37
SiteMatch is a freeware utility which compares local copies of your web
sites with the last saved state and lists any new, changed and deleted
objects. The main changes are interactive help and a new facility to
scan each site in turn until one is found with changes.
<http://www.richardporter.me.uk/riscos/sitematch/>
- TextTidy v1.03
A little utility for processing text files prior to importing into other
applications. It can automatically strip line feeds, carriage returns
and other control characters out of text files.
<http://www.vigay.com/software/texttidy.html>
- VNCSvr v1.05
A front end for the RISC OS VNC server. This version is able to
temporarily remove the RISC OS Pinboard's backdrop when it detects a
client connection, saving network bandwidth.
<http://www.blastzone.demon.co.uk/software.html#vnc>
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