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MalCheck - the malloc() block checker
A library with header file which enables the C programmer to track down problems involving blocks manipulated with malloc(), calloc() and realloc().
Calls to these routines are intercepted by defining appropriate macros. The allocated blocks are surrounded with guards and changes in their contents are detected. On every call, all known blocks are checked for illegal changes. Information on the blocks includes a backtrace.
It works both with Clib and UnixLib.
The package is FREEWARE. You can download it at
http://www.xs4all.nl/~erikgrnh/riscos/malcheck.html
Any and all comments are welcome at mailto:erik.goenhuis@xs4all.nl
I have ported the Subversion client to RISC OS, available from my website: http://www.alexwaugh.com/
"The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license." For more infomation about Subversion, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
Subversion is currently *Alpha*, so some features may not be fully implemented, or may contain bugs. This port can only access repositories via http, and not (currently) local repositories.
Please let me know if you find this useful, or if there are any problems with it.
A brand new RISC OS game has just been released:
Logonosis,
http://www.logosword.co.uk/logonosis.shtml
a Bible knowledge & Bible trivia quiz for RISC OS. It is available for FREE download.
Logonosis is a game for one to four players. The questions include the easy and the challenging. The aim of the game is for each player to attempt to reach the centre by climbing inwards from the outer squares to the inner squares. Once the last five squares have been taken by any player, this player has won.
Visit www.logosword.co.uk to download Logonosis, or any of the other programs available on the LogosWord website.
Check out LogosWord at www.logosword.co.uk
LogosWord has a large selection of Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries and other study resources.
Justice FM is a short term radio station run by young people for the local community in Acton and Ealing, London, UK
Back for its 5th year, the station is able to use RISC OS thanks to Castle Technology who have kindly provided Acorn RiscPCs for the broadcast period. The machines perform daily tasks for the station like Web Browsing, E-mail, DTP and Office Admin.
The station can be heard on 87.7FM in Acton, Ealing and West London area and on the Internet via MP3 Shoutcast stream between the 26th August to 1st Septmber 2002.
RISC OS users on the internet can listern via !MP3Radio from our web site at http://www.justicefm.co.uk/
Justice FM - 87.7FM - www.justicefm.co.uk
The mix that does justice!
Live 8th to 19th August
A venue in Livingston has now been booked for Microdigital to demonstrate their Omega computer and to answer our questions, on Saturday, 7th September 2002. The following place may unfortunately not be ideal for everyone but we were booking at short notice, so apologies all round if this is the case (but please see the end of the message).
The venue is:
Deans Community High SchoolTel: 01506 497090
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=eh548ps&Z=1
Livingston North Railway Station is close by and this can be reached from Edinburgh Waverley or Haymarket (about 10 mins walk?).
>From Glasgow:
Come off at Junction 3a of the M8
Turn right at the little roundabout at the end of this junction.
Travel along the road (you will see the NEC complex pass on your left). At the next roundabout (The Royston) turn right.
See ** below
>From Edinburgh:
Travel along the A89 road until you pass a SHELL petrol station on your right.
You will arrive at a small roundabout. Turn left.
You will approach 'Royston' roundabout, go straight over.
See ** below
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Travel downhill now until you come to another roundabout, turn left at this.
You will *very* shortly come to a T-junction (you will see a snooker center to your left across the road).
Take a left at this T-junction and travel along it.
Drive for about 1.5 miles you'll see a small roundabout with a raised centre.
Take a left and you will see to your left a white complex in grounds.
Take the first left and you will be shortly in its free car park.
At the car park, look for a door with a few steps leading up to it and you are in the Deans High School.
If you require any more info, please mailto:alan@liquid-silicon.com - if not. I'll see you there.
The Vermilion Sands Photodesk resource site has been updated again:
Visit the site at http://www.photodesk.iconbar.com/
As always, feedback is welcome: send your questions, suggestions, bouquets and brickbats to mailto:photodesk@iconbar.com
Please do write -- it's all that keeps us going!
A new version of PSC is now available.
PSC is a configuation utility for POPStar. It makes the management of the 'Users' and 'Choices' files in this excellent e-mail fetcher significantly easier to manage.
New in release 1.4 (amongst other smaller changes):
It can be downloaded from:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/david.thomson/riscos/software.html
Just to say that I have now put my Him & Her Planner up on site for 2003, It's in Draw format what will be handy for Desktop Publishers.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/mmartin/software/
File size 77KB
We are pleased to announce that version 1.26 of the Net100 ethernet card software has been released and sent out to our customers via email.
The new software may provide small performance benefits, but ultimately the Net100 is limited by the speed of the computer, and the OS. Benchmarks on various web reviews etc show that the Net100 is already the best performing 100Mbit network card, and the ongoing software development can only benefit this.
The main addition in version 1.26 is the inclusion of more comprehensive *configure commands. Whilst most users will not require this, it means that the card can be configured into different modes manually, as well as the standard auto-negotiation. Put simply, this makes the cards more flexible, although most users will leave the cards on the default settings.
The new software can also be downloaded from the RCI web site. Go to www.rcomp.co.uk and click on the RCI Networking link.
We are pleased to announce that another Grapevine release has been sent out to existing customers via email. This version is numbered 1.00, but is in fact the third upgrade we've sent out. If you think you should have received an upgrade, but haven't, please contact us via email.
This latest version of Grapevine has many new features including support for MSN file transfer, so you can send and receive files - ideal for sending photos or sound clips etc.
Additionally, it includes global clipboard support, the ability to drop bits of text into the program to send it, "joe is typing a message" and other status information, improved top-bit-set character handling, improvements to contacts system, notification windows when friends log on, support for systems running behind NAT firewalls and so on.
All in all, it's a major upgrade, and development continues...!
For more information on Grapevine, please go to www.rcomp.co.uk and click on the Grapevine link!
We are pleased to announce that the enhanced Messenger Pro 2.60a has been sent out to all Messenger Pro 2 (v2.50) customers via email. The upgrade was sent out last Friday. If you have not received your upgrade yet, please get in touch with us. We had a great many bounced upgrades this time. Please let us know when you change your email address.
Messenger Pro 2.60a is the result of many smaller updates that have taken place during the development of Messenger Pro Server Edition (released earlier this year). The changes made during this time have resulted in a number of improvements for existing users of the standard Messenger Pro 2 product.
Of particular note, is much enhanced PGP support, especially for the new Gnu PGP software, which will be of significant interest to those using PGP security on their emails.
There have also been improvements to facilities such as distribution lists, which will now automatically split lists to avoid problems with long lists with many ISPs.
The server version introduced a new database format, which has allowed a number of other facilities to be present. Many of these are fairly low level, and might appear a little complex! Chief among the new facilities are message locking, and the ability to share a folder's read/unread flags between different Messenger users, rather than each user seeing different unread/read. This is optional, of course, but can be very handy for a single person running several different user "identities".
Most of the changes are "under-the-hood", to make Messenger Pro 2 even better than it already was!
For more information on the Messenger Pro 2 family of products, please go to www.rcomp.co.uk and click on the Messenger Pro link.
Squirrel Solutions has released IRBlanker, a nifty little utility for users of the IRMan infra-red receiver.
As the name suggests, IRBlanker allows you to blank and unblank the screen with your TV or hi-fi remote control. It can use either two buttons (one for blank and one for unblank) or a single button to blank and unblank with a toggle action.
IRBlanker requires an IRMan or compatible device, and the Squirrel Solutions IRMan driver. IRBlanker and the IRMan driver are free software.
IRBlanker can be downloaded from the IRMan homepage, located at:
http://www.squirrel-net.co.uk/software/irman/
It has also been pointed out to us that the IRMan driver also works with HomeElectro's IRA (Infra-Red Adaptor), and should work with many of the new IRMan compatible devices currently available. Thanks to Justin Fletcher for this information.
Announcing Oww 0.68.0
http://melhuish.info/simon/projects/oww/
[Oww is an application for RISC OS and Linux (and other Unix flavours) to control a Dallas Semiconductor / AAG 1-wire weather station, and associated weather instruments. See www.aag.com.mx for hardware. UK supplier: http://www.techsupplies.co.uk/]
Finally I got around to adding a window (the "Auxilliary Window") that shows all of Oww's readings. For example, you can see all temperatures, barometers and GPCs. All of these remain available to the output parser, so you can still send values off to logs and other programs, &c.
Please tell me about any problems.
LogosWord 4.4 has been released and is available for purchase and downloading at www.logosword.co.uk!
If you would like to try it out, you can download a 14 day trial version.
LogosWord 4.4, as well as providing additional applets, Bible browser functions and bug fixes, sets the stage for some new Bible resources which will shortly be made available from the LogosWord website.
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LogosWord is a Bible study software suite for RISC OS, facilitating users with the tools to study and compare numerous Bible texts, with the aid of commentaries dictionaries, lexicons and numerous study features
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Due to a number of requests I have decided to upload a demo copy of our popular personal accounts package, Money Manager 2002, to our website. For those interested goto http://www.imagesoft.co.uk/ and follow the links to the software product catalogue. From here you can take a (very brief!) tour of the application and download a demo copy (complete with PDF manual).
The archive size is just over 2MB (you will need to allow about 5 minutes to download with a dial-up connection).
To read the manual you will need either !RiScript from Cerilica (this is a commercial product) or the freely available !PDF, available from http://www.pdf.iconbar.com/
This version of the package is fully functional but limits the user to 10 transactions per account. The manual contains a tutorial taking you through all the facilities provided.
Money Manager 2002 recently received high praise in the RISC OS press. We're pleased to give people the opportunity to 'try before they buy' to see how the package compares with other offerings.
If you have any queries regarding the product, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our contact details can be found in the signature below.
Thank you for your time.
Image Software (UK) Software, EPOS & Mail order PCs.
48 Hinchliffe Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 4ED.
Tel. 01202 269720 Mob. 07740 622861
Fax. 01202 685072 Email sales@imagesoft.co.uk
Web www.imagesoft.co.uk
I've just uploaded NetWatch version 1.62.
The following changes are made:
FileBase may use the proxy settings also.
Aborting transfers is working better now.
Removed a bad bug in the FileBase code, which corrupted the menus and the locally stored file.
Added multilanguage support
Added Dutch resources
Removed some minor bugs/typos and changed the English resources a bit.
NetWatch is available at my website:
http://home.student.utwente.nl/m.m.bezemer/netwatchuk.html
For people who don't know what NetWatch is:
NetWatch is a program which keeps up with changes on the internet. The user has to mark the pages of his interest. NetWatch will fetch these pages at defined intervals and calculate a checksum (MD5). This checksum is compared with the store checksum of the page. When these checksum aren't the same the page has changed and NetWatch will warn the user.
It's also possible to download something with NetWatch and when the download gets aborted for some reason, NetWatch is able to resume the download! (At least when the server is able to do)
Announcing Oww 0.67.13 with Vane Dispersion Ring
http://melhuish.info/simon/projects/oww/
[Oww is an application for RISC OS and Linux (and other Unix flavours) to control a Dallas Semiconductor / AAG 1-wire weather station, and associated weather instruments. See www.aag.com.mx for hardware.]
For this version I have added a ring of 16 segments around the wind vane compass rose central boss. Each segment is coloured from white to black according to how many of the last 15 wind vane readings were in this direction. This gives a good visual representation of both the average wind direction and the degree of spread.
MiniDisc version 0.51 is now available for download from
MiniDisc is about as customisable as you'll ever want. Every feature can be enabled or disabled and changed to suit your personal requirements.
I can be contacted via email at:
APDL are pleased to announce that, in conjunction with MicroDigital and the various AAUG clubs in the London area, we have arranged a demonstration of the Omega computer by David Atkins of MicroDigital.
This will take place on September 11th at the venue normally used by the M25 East RISC OS User Group. This is Harold Court School, Church Road, Harold Wood, RM3 0SH. The time has not yet been finalised but it is expected to be about 7.30 in the evening.
The venue is very easy to get to. It's about 3 minutes from junction 28 (junction with the A12) on the M25 and very close to Harold Wood station. There is plenty of car parking space. For detailed instructions see the M25EROUG web site at <http://www.m25eroug.riscos.org.uk/>.
Everyone will be welcome, so please do tell your friends. Remember that this will almost certainly be your first and last chance to see an Omega in the South before production starts, and it could also be your only chance this year.
If you do intend to come it would be helpful if you could email me at omega@apdl.co.uk so that we can have some idea of the number of people to expect.
Further to previous news, Microdigital have agreed to come up to Scotland on September 7th, which would be a Saturday afternoon. They would do a demo of the Omega, followed by a Question & Answers session. I've suggested Livingston following previous suggestions that this is an easily accessible, central location.
What I'm needing to know is how many people would be interested in coming along. I don't need names, just amounts so that we can look at getting a venue the right size. There may be a small entrance fee to help cover the room booking but I'm hoping it will be free so people can bring along as many interested parties as possible.
Please let me know by email/phone any numbers by, say, the end of next week (17th) so that we can announce the venue publically.
Alan Gibson
Tel +44 1592 592265
I've just uploaded !RiscSearch V0.86aß to www.riscsearch.de> This was urgently necessary because nearly all decoders were not working correctly anymore. Now they're even better than they ever have been.
Changes in V0.086aß:
For all of you, who don't know about !RiscSearch:
!RiscSearch is meant to be a meta-search engine, and AFAIK it is the only one available for RISC OS anywhere. It helps you to find web-pages about a certain topic by asking different search engines about the keywords you supply. It collects results from (at the moment) 9 different engines, filters out duplicate matches and then presents all links in a window of your web-browser.
The Vermilion Sands Photodesk resource site has been updated:
Visit the site at http://www.photodesk.iconbar.com/
Both the tutorials use example pictures of the Moon taken with a digital camera, and show how to enhance them. The section on 'real' unsharp masking explains how to use Photodesk's basic image manipulation features to create this powerful technique, which can give much better results than the program's built-in unsharp mask facility.
As always, feedback is welcome: send your questions, suggestions, bouquets and brickbats to mailto:photodesk@iconbar.com
Announcing Oww 0.67.12
[Oww is an application for RISC OS and Linux (and other Unix flavours) to control a Dallas Semiconductor / AAG 1-wire weather station, and associated weather instruments. See www.aag.com.mx for hardware.]
http://melhuish.info/simon/projects/oww/
Version 0.67.12 - Bug fixes (mainly RISC OS)
Updated parser and setup documentation:
http://melhuish.info/simon/projects/oww/parser.html
http://melhuish.info/simon/projects/oww/oww_setup.html
Thanks to Colin for spotting the bug in the RISC OS version.
We are delighted to announce that the September 2002 issue of Acorn User -- the 250th issue -- is about to go to press and will be with you very soon.
This exciting new issue contains:
Landmark issues are usually a time for nostalgia -- but we don't bother with that when there is so much to look forward to.
Make sure you don't miss out on the great new content and monthly competitions; reserve your copy now with your newsagent or take advantage of this special offer and subscribe now, price information available on the Acorn User Website.
Therefore, I am proud to announce the release of the free AWSwitch utility that allows you to choose between 16, 64 and 128 levels of anti-aliasing in ArtWorks (and other applications that render ArtWorks files). AWSwitch sits on the icon bar and allows you to change the number of anti-aliasing levels with a single mouse click.
You can find further information and download AWSwitch from http://www.mw-software.com/software/awmodules/awswitch.html.
You may have heard rumour of a new multi-protocol instant messaging solution for RISC OS which boasts ICQ support and MSN support? Well, it is now, at last, available. Point your browsers to
for full details, and a downloadable (fully-featured) trial version.
I look forward to your feedback.
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