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Surge Suppression for computers and networks:
ExpLAN has for many years installed computer networks incorporating anti-surge devices to protect against spikes on the mains. These prevent voltage swings being applied across the inter-connected computer equipment with the resultant damage of line-drivers and circuitry communicating with external equipmemt.
It is much cheaper and more effective to install a single protection system onto the mains power distribution board of your premises than it is to use lower-level filtering adjacent to the computer equipment itself.
For further info on the devices we use, visit our website page
www.explan.co.uk/antisurge/
This page will soon be expanded to include installation notes, theoretical background info and FAQs. Bookmark it and look again soon.
Paul Richardson
Director
An updated version (now 2.57) of GraphDraw is now available from
http://www1.che.hw.ac.uk/~soft/
The changes are primarily minor bug fixes. GraphDraw allows the entry and editing of x,y data values, which may then be fit to best straight line, best parabola, polynomial (order up to six), cubic spline, or simply plotted as points or joined lines. The resulting graph may be printed, or exported as a draw file for inclusion in documents, or as a multiplot file to allow several graphs to be combined. GraphDraw runs on RISC OS versions 3.1 upwards.
Manuals in Ovation Pro or Impression format may also be downloaded.
After about a month of trying I have now finished and uploaded my new web site. This contains information about and pictures of Phoebe, and it also has my full tutorial on how to take a Risc PC and transfer it to a Phoebe case.
If you do intend to follow the tutorial please read the warnings on the site and also feel free to contact me with any problems or questions you may have.
The URL is:
http://www.btinternet.com/~woodside21/nick/
Have fun.
!Jcut version 3.00 is now on my Free Stuff web page,
http://www.dacha.freeuk.com/free/
Version 3.00 has a completely revamped interface for easier JPEG cut & paste, cropping, rotating, flipping, and now contrast & colour adjustment - all without the image degradation that would result from decoding the JPEG to process it and then re-JPEGing it.
Would you be interested in the formation of an Acorn User Group in your area? If so, please send me an e-mail and if there is sufficient support I will contact you.
Partis Computing is offering an upgrade service to users of 3rd party Zip software for parallel port Zip drives.
Simply send your orginal Zip installation floppy and a cheque for 15UK (made payable to 'Louise Partis') to:
Partis Computing
61 Moor Park Court
North Shields
Tyne & Wear
NE29 8AH
United Kingdom
Please state your email address when ordering. There is no VAT or P&P.
Partis Computing PowerZip has many advantages over other the competition, including:
Your order will be dispatched via email, along with information on how to get free upgrades in the future.
V1.23 of the stock portfolio program !Stocks is now available for download from http://www.magrathea.freeuk.com/softwr.html
This is a bug fix and cosmetic feature change update, no important new features have been added, just ease of use improvments and such.
For those of you who don't know, !Stocks allows you to keep an eye on your shares through a simple user interface.
Freeware Features
Shareware
There is also a shareware version which should now be able to register through http://www.uksharereg.com/stocks.html for a one off registration fee of 15ukp which currently gives you the following extra features:
Currently there is no support for historical or graphing features, but that may change in the future.
Surftec Ltd, Thursday 5th October 2000 is pleased to announce the launch of DigiFlash.
This opens up a new and exciting way of allowing RISC OS users to read data from CompactFlash and SmartMedia cards from devices such as Digital Camers, PDAs etc.
There are two versions of DigiFlash, one for CompactFlash and the other for SmartMedia.
Once the adapter has been plugged into the parallel port and the software has been loaded, DigiFlash adds an extra disc icon to the left side of the iconbar allowing files to be copied from the media just like a floppy disc! The media can even be shared across an Acorn Access network, ideal for use in a classroom environment.
The reader allows other devices to be plugged into it, such as printers, meaning no swapping of cables required!
DigiFlash requires a RISC OS machine with a bi-directional parallel (printer) port; this allows almost all Acorn machines (including Acorn Network Computers) except Archimedes range and the A3000.
The reader software has been put through extensive testing, compatibility lists are being built up.
DigiFlash was launched at RISC OS 2000 Show in Epsom on the 21st and 22nd of October. The Compact Flash version is currently available with the Smart Media version expected to be ready within the next couple of weeks.
*** LATEST ***
DigiFlash is soon expected to work with the new IBM MicroDrive and our policy is to make all upgrades freely available via the Surftec web site to registered users.
Prices are as follows:
CompactFlash Reader and DigiFlash Drivers: 79ukp exc VAT
SmartMedia Reader and DigiFlash Drivers: 79ukp exc VAT
DigiFlash Drivers: 39ukp exc VAT
The above readers also come with their original Windows PC drivers.
Press Information:
Images, logos and additional text is available from http://press.surftec.net/ ideal for magazine print.
Please contact Neil Farnham-Smith of Surftec Ltd for further details at:
Surftec Ltd
Burma Cottage
Glen Road
Beacon Hill
Hindhead
Surrey
GU26 6QE
Tel: 01428 608121
Fax: 01428 608123
Mobile: 07940 799833
E-Mail: neil@surftec.net
WWW: http://www.surftec.net/
A printed manual is now available to users of my AntUtils application. Visitors to the recent RISC OS 2000 show at Epsom could purchase there, but for people who didn't attend, this is now available to purchase direct from me.
It consists of a plastic ring-bound 48 page manual describing AntUtils and all current plugins. Although AntUtils contains a comprehensive !Help file, due to popular demand I've produced a proper manual for those who prefer a hard-copy manual to read. It also provides more information plus diagrams where applicable.
It's available priced 10.00ukp including postage, direct from me (at the address in the AntUtils !Help file) or can be purchased via secure credit card form on my AntUtils web page at
http://www.vigay.com/riscos/apps/antutils.html
AntUtils adds a number of utilities to the Ant Internet suite, such as the adding the ability to Fresco of faking other browsers (such as MSIE and Netscape), performing timed fetches of mail and news, timed scripting commands plus much more. Full details are also available from the web site above.
I am pleased to announce that v1.1 of my implementation of Freecell is now available for download.
Whilst no new functionality has been delivered in this release, the game is now fully StrongARM and RISC OS 4 compatible, avoiding the need for the previous work arounds.
I have also delivered a new set of HTML based documentation with the game, based on what will shortly be appeared on my website. Please note that the pages have been coded for "version 4" browsers (ie those with support for redirection, tables, and cascading style sheets).
You can all thank Jean Aussems for doing the testing and persuading me to spend the time to make the necessary changes.
The ZIP file is available from http://www.paulirwin.co.uk/
I am pleased to announce that v1.1 of my implementation of Patience is now available for download.
Whilst no new functionality has been delivered in this release, the game is now fully StrongARM and RISC OS 4 compatible, avoiding the need for the previous work arounds.
I have also delivered a new set of HTML based documentation with the game, based on what will shortly be appeared on my website. Please note that the pages have been coded for "version 4" browsers (ie those with support for redirection, tables, and cascading style sheets).
You can all thank Jean Aussems for doing the testing and persuading me to spend the time to make the necessary changes.
The ZIP file is available from http://www.paulirwin.co.uk/
The ARM Club has announced that to celebrate 10 years since its formation in 1990, a special open day will be held on Saturday 18th November 2000.
The Open Day will feature a unique mixture of the past, present and future of Acorn computers, including the BBC Micro which was so successful during the 1980s, the Acorn Archimedes which many schoolchildren used during the 1990's, and the Risc PC which carried the Acorn name into the 21st century.
More recent developments, such as the Kinetic Risc PC, the ViewFinder video card for Risc PC, and the new ARM powered RISC OS computers from RiscStation and MicroDigital, should also be on display.
Visitors will be welcome to bring along their Acorn or ARM-powered computers, no matter how old, to show off the innovative and unusual ways in which they can be used. There will be special prizes for the oldest and rarest Acorn machines brought along.
To mark The ARM Club's tenth anniversary, there will be photographic displays of both the Club's and Acorn's past, as well as a chance to meet past and present Club members over a cup of coffee. For younger visitors, the latest computer games will be available to play, and there will be a bring and buy stand for previously used Acorn equipment.
Club founders Rene and Maria Barreto said, "When The ARM Club reached its fifth anniversary, we were delighted. Now that the tenth anniversary is approaching, we would like to share the event with all Acorn users, past and present."
ARM Club Chairman Toby Smith commented, "The ARM Club has seen a great many changes in the past decade, as we have developed our priorities to meet the changing interests and requirements of our members. The success of the RISC OS 2000 show demonstrated that the future of ARM and RISC OS systems is as promising as ever, so I am very pleased that this open day will give Acorn users a chance to look back at the past as well as looking forward to the future."
As with the recent RISC OS 2000 show, the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will also be assisting in organising this event, as well as displaying some interesting bits and pieces of ARM-powered hardware and software (as well as older Acorn systems).
The Open Day will be held on Saturday 18 November from 11am-3pm at Barnet Community Centre, Algernon Road, Hendon, London NW4 3TA.
British Rail - Hendon
Underground - Hendon Central.
Admission free.
Visitors are welcome to call
For further information, contact Rene Barreto
on 020 8922 1508
or e-mail rene@armclub.org.uk
Latest additions include:
NIH new release (v0.2):
NIH is a set of software pieces to make interactive help applications deal with two "token" sets in their internal dictionary instead of one. One set for English speaking tokens (eg TS:Click SELECT to ) and one separate set for local mother language tokens (eg US:Cliquez SELECT pour in French). The new release provides a tool to make application developer life cooler. Currently, a patch to Acorn !Help application (upto RO3.70) is provided. I hope to offer a patch to BubbleHlp (2.11 for which source is available for download) very soon.
CWDSupport:
CWDSupport is a small module providing private environment variables and file system setting (CSD, PSD, URD and Lib per file system) to each registered Wimp task (as described in a Archive magazine past issue article).
StrongED French resources (development in progress.. but workable anyway)
Message files are completed, StrongHlp manual is 90% complete (not considering technical material), and Template files should follow soon (now that I got the right Template editor). Modefile localization sould follow in a not so far future...
The URL to visit is: http://bgilon.free.fr/RISCOS/riscosE.htm and then follow the links.
I have just updated my homepage at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/4471/
The updates are:
For those who still don't know:
DigitalCD is a desktop music player compatible with RISC OS 3.1 or later (including StrongARM). It provides independent control panels for any connected CD drive and music files playlists. It's main features are:
Following the extremely successful launch of DiscKnight at the RISC OS 2000 show, the much friendlier desktop front end supplied on the full program, is now available on the free checking only version.
DiscKnight checks and repairs both old and and new RISC OS 4 format hard discs. Purchase details and the free download are available from the ARM Club's website http://www.armclub.org.uk/products/discknight/
Once or twice in the past I've been asked whether ArtToSpr could be made to generate masked sprites. Until now I considered it impractical, but I recently had a need for some masked bitmaps of Artworks originals, so I devised a way of generating masks. The fruits of this labour are available from <http://www.realh.co.uk/free.html#arttospr>.
Please note that it isn't immediately obvious how to enable masking, so please RTFM before contacting me about it.
A new version of BDRand (a backdrop randomiser) is now on my web site:
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/tigger/
This version allows BDRand to be run without an iconbar icon.
Hotkeys to used to replace essential functions, and the particular keys used to trigger these functions can be altered by the user.
Hi world.
A long time ago I wrote stuff for ECS. I don't now, it doesn't exist. But, the software is still improving and is still available. It is all almost totally re-written (save for some help files) and is now all mine to offer up as what I call Job-Shareware. ie, use it and give me a job - or money (better, both)
The apps are:
NewSaver Now called SaveIT - A file saver helper for home, school or office which makes it hard to lose files and easy to save them.
PuzzleIT - an app which makes rectangular piece puzzles from any image you have - at up to 100 pieces (from 4).
PresentIT rather Beta stage, presentation creation and display - Draw and Paint driven - rather good. Even does 24bit animations within slideshows.
LadyBay - an early learning tutor for reading and maths
Tortils - a desktop utility of massive power and splendidnes
oh, and other stuff too.
It is all on my site at http://www.torty.org.uk/sware.html There is a lot of other stuff on the site too so put asside a day or two and come and have a trawl.
ExpLAN Computers announces the release of HolyBible version 1.94
This major update of the renowned HolyBible software contains important new features to support access to/fro web-pages:
A free upgrade to v1.94 is available to existing users from our website at www.explan.co.uk/bible/HolyB.html where you will also find links to an online tutorial to illustrate the new HTML features, and an example on-line Bible-Study Resource.
Users who wish to obtain a printed Release-Note detailing all features added since the original printed manual may do so by purchasing an upgrade to v1.94 direct from ExpLAN for ukp10 +VAT.
ExpLAN Computers Ltd
PO Box 32
Tavistock
Devon PL19 8YU
I just want to let you know that !RiscSearch has its own mailinglist now. Its hostet by Smartgroups.com, and you can subscribe to it by sending a mail to 'riscsearch-subscribe@smartgroups.com'. The list is open for all kinds of discussions related to !RiscSearch.
There will be !RiscSearch v0.35 available soon, and I'm just searching for about 5 - 10 people who want to test this new version before it's released, anyone interested?
!RiscSearch is meant to be a meta-search engine, and AFAIK it is the only one available for RISC OS anywhere. It helps you finding web-pages about a certain topic by asking different search-engines about that topic. It collects results from (at the moment) 10 different engines, sorts out duplicate matches and then presents all matches in a window of your web-browser.
There has been some speculation on the newsgroups recently with regard to Imago and the new XScale processor. XScale is Intel's successor to the StrongARM processor. This is a very exciting development as it promises many times the processor power and memory bandwidth of the current StrongARM.
Imago was always designed to accept new processors and an XScale module is already being developed. It will shortly be put through its paces. This will enable us to ensure that when Imago is released it is compatible with the XScale processor.
Whilst XScale chips are now being sampled to a few key developers by Intel, it is likely to be some months before they are available in production quantities. Also note that the new processor does not support 26-bit processor mode, therefore it cannot be used to run the current version of RISC OS directly. Applications and modules may also need to be updated.
We will post more news on this development in due course.
Richard Jozefowski
Millipede Electronic Graphics
Acorn User Online has been redesigned and content brought up to date.
It can be found at http://www.acornuser.com/
You will need a frames capable browser and using a resolution of 800 × 600 minimum.
We will be tweaking the look of the site but the main thing is it's now up-to-date!
Any comments or reports of errors, please email me at
webmaster@acornuser.com
For those people fortunate enough to have the latest version of Compo, you can now find a draft version of the language reference manual at
http://www.claresmicro.com/support/cscriptref.html
Even if you haven't got Compo, why not have a look and see what you are missing?
Compo is an image composition package from Clares Micro Supplies Ltd, with a wide range of masking facilities, PCA applets and much more. See
http://www.claresmicro.com/graphic/Compo.html
Composcript is the scripting language added in the latest version.
David Jackson, Technical Support Manager
Clares Micro Supplies Ltd
Announcing even more psychadelic mayhem for RISC OS.....
I have arranged with R-Comp Interactive for the new new version of Spheres of Chaos (2) to be available (and on display) at the Epsom Show this weekend. You'll be able to purchase a "proper" copy of the game on disc etc.,incl a registered version, and a reg code for use with future versions, which there will probably be since I keep meddling with the game. It should be on display in the Arcade too, in which case, my highscore is around 9M.....
I should really be calling it SoC 2000. I did think of calling the windoze version 'Spheres of Chaos 1900'. (Hohoho :-)
The new version includes:
The show price will be 15 pounds including VAT.
<fx cash till going Ching! /fx>
And (serious mode for a moment) if you want new games for your RISC OS machines, support their creation by buying them (!!). An entire several people bought the version of SoC I published recently (and cheers to you who did :-). But I think there are more than 6 people playing it out there... I have an original idea (original on any platform) for a new game. It would be nice to have a viable RISC OS market for it. You could persuade me there is by buying Soc II.
A demo (and registrations for) this new version will be on my web site:
http://www.chaotica.u-net.com/ after the show.
And finally...
That teacup self-play thing (which also works with a stapler, I am told), is true (except I can't make it happen anymore!). What happens is shots create collectables, and can also collect them. If you get a lot of shots about, they create and collect more collectables, which leads to even more shots about. The game can 'go critical', rather like a nuclear reaction, and play itself as long as you keep firing. This tended to happen very easily if the 'collectable chance%' was even slightly above normal, and even happened at normal levels, which spoils the game. I couldn't really reduce the collectable % much more because they would be very sparse in normal play, so instead I cludged it. If you have a shot-generating power-up, the game temporarily reduces the collectable %., and reduces it even more for several power up's. You can still temporarily make it 'go critical', but you have to use some skill now. If you wind the collectable % up to 19.9%, it should still go silly, which is why I let the value go up to 19.9%. Except I couldn't get it to self-play last time I tried...
We are pleased to announce that we now have a new batch of the highly praised RISC User in a Nutshell CD. The new CDs come in a slightly revised form, with some extra unpublished photos and resources, one or two minor content updates, a new version of the viewer software and some changes to the software content, including a RISC OS 4 compatible version of Desktop Hacker.
The Second Edition CDs are a limited edition run with a new "picture disc" CD design.
All the original Nutshell CD content is present including several volumes of the magazine in RISC OS format, Mac versions of early issues, all the software discs, RISC OS versions of most of the RISC User books, unpublished support materials for a number of articles, "uncut" articles, and a whole heap of bonus items.
The CD contains over 600Mb of data, and since much information is in HTML format, the CD can be viewed on RISC OS, Windows and Mac, although the extensive software library is only relevant for RISC OS users. :->
The RISC User in a Nutshell CD Second Edition costs 32ukp inc VAT and UK delivery from R-Comp Interactive (the 2ukp being P&P).
If anyone would like to upgrade to the new version please get in touch direct.
We are pleased to announce that the R-Comp Internet Suite is now available. This is a single pack containing the following programs:
The DialUp program includes FTP etc. as well as other internet utils to give you a complete internet suite.
The Suite comes in a special pack, with full installation instructions, as well as the latest releases of the software products.
The RRP for the pack will be just 60ukp, and it will be available at Epsom this weekend.
If you aren't already connected to the internet, we can even include an internet account for you as well.
Finally, if you don't already own a modern modem, then our "Get Connected" pack costs just 115ukp (inclusive of VAT & carriage) and includes a 56k modem too.
We are pleased to announce that Network Printer Drivers for RISC OS machines are now available. The purpose of these drivers is to allow computers running RISC OS to print using network-enabled printers, and also network printer server boxes (or computers).
The software includes drivers for the two most common network print protocols for such devices:
As well as including driver software for these protocols, the software from RCI includes special easy-to-use setup software, and a manual explaining how to set things up from your RISC OS desktop.
The drivers work transparently alongside !Printers, and allow you to mix and match traditional parallel etc. printers with lpr and JetDirect printers.
The beauty of this network printing is that it is fast and platform independent. Any type of computer on the network should be able to print to a network printer, without requiring other machines to be turned on or dedicated to printer serving. Oh, and it alleviates most of the "printer-port-related" problems people have with printing too.
We anticipate most interest from small business owners, printers, and schools, although anyone looking for a flexible "growth-capable" solution to networking printers should find this to their liking.
If you don't own a printer with a network connection, then you can purchase network print server boxes. We expect to offer bundles of these with the drivers in due course. A box like that costs around 100+VAT, and is basically an "external" network card for your printer. One end of the box has a network socket, the other a standard printer port. Such devices can have up to 3 printer ports, and can be re-used, so it is a one-off expenditure.
The print server box method makes mixing inkjet and laser printers extremely easy.
If you have full TCP/IP network enabled, then things become slightly more flexible, but the software is designed to be as easy as possible, whilst retaining flexibility.
E&OE
RiscStation Oz will be showing the POSsum systems and EBMS software at the Alternative Computing Expo (ACE 2000) this coming weekend, 21st and 22nd of October.
ACE 2000 is the computer show for users of Acorn, Amiga, BSD Unix, Linux, Mac, OS/2, and RISC OS. If you aren't at RISC OS 2000 you should be at ACE!
Venue:
Melway map ref: 2k H11
Hours:
We look forward to seeing you there!
Mal McClenaghan, Reseller Liaison
RiscStation (Australasia) Pty Ltd
Just to say that HTMLhlpr version 1.04 has been released. HTMLhlpr gives you a helping hand in creating HTML documents. It helps by letting you specify each attribute for many tags. It can then print it into a blank text file or print it to the cursor.
The differences from previous versions:
HTMLhlpr is free, but if you do think it is worth some money send me an email and let me know why.
To recieve a copy send a blank email to: htmlhlpr104@tilehurstonline.co.uk
It might be available on my web site soon.. but I might not have the time.
Look up information in past issues of Archive in:
But a database of information is only as good as your ability to search it and find what you want so...
and most powerful of all...
Archive Double CD cost 19 pounds inclusive (to anywhere in the world) from:
Archive Publications
18 Mile End Road
Norwich
NR4 7QY
+44 (0)1603-441777 Fax +44 (0)1603-460736
Or pick up a copy of the Archive Double CD at RISC OS 2000 at Epsom on Sat/Sunday 21/22 October.
If you already own the Volume 12 Archive CD - that's the green one with HTML files on it - then you need only pay 12 pounds as an upgrade price for the new Double CD (all 900Mb of it).
For those who may want to buy a scanner at RISCOS 2000 you might like to know that there is a free OCR program called !STRing which can be downloaded at:
Since last year the program has been slightly improved and there are now two additional template files. One for Corpus font (fixed point typewriter font) and Trinity/Homerton with french characters.
I've just uploaded NewsHound 1.40 to my website:
<http://www.ping.demon.co.uk/acorn/download.html>
Its mainly a collection of bug fixes (in particular the new version of the transport works better with Messenger Pro), but this is also the first version that doesn't have its own DNS code built in, which makes it smaller and will hopefully cause less configuration problems.
As a side note, I've recently got my RISC PC back online after a while without it. I've now caught up with my emails again, so if you've sent me an email in the last month or two and not had a reply, its probably either because I thought I'd already replied to it, or my reply bounced because of an invalid email address... feel free to resend it.
[Also, the newshound/popstar/webget mailing lists are down at the moment due to a machine failure. Hopefully they'll be up again within a week or so.]
Just to clear up the issue of which disc formats DiscKnight works on, for all the people who have emailed me. DiscKinght checks and repairs the following FileCore formats on ADFS/SCSI/IDEFS filing systems:
E - RISC OS 3.1 to 4, 10 character filenames, 77 files/dir
E+ - RISC OS 4 only, long filenames large file, 80000+ files/dir
I think the confusion has arisen because people often refer to new format as F+ I can reassure E+ and F+ are one and the same.
R-Comp are pleased to announce that version 1.07 of our SiteSeer web site grabbing software is now available.
SiteSeer allows users to grab whole or partial web sites down onto their hard discs, for viewing offline. The software allows sites to be maintained automatically, and produces an HTML index of the sites available.
The latest version has a number of tweaks and enhancements, including several interface improvements for RISC OS 4 users, testing on the latest hardware, a new version of the page fetcher, and the ability to trigger connections via our DialUp connection program, if the user approves.
As usual, the upgrade has been sent out automatically to registered users. If you think you should have received a copy, but haven't, you should contact us in about 48 hours time, to give your ISP a chance to deliver.
SiteSeer costs just 25ukp, and can be ordered from the R-Comp web site, or over the phone, or via any other usual method.
The new version will also be available at the Epsom show next weekend, alongside all the other new R-Comp releases.
The most feared RISC OS error messages have to be:
They mean that some or all of your valuable data has been lost in the case of the first two, or might be about to in the case of the second. Currently there are programs that can repair hard discs in the old E format, but none for the new E+ (long filenames and large directory format) that comes with RISC OS 4. This has put many people off reformatting their discs to take advantage of one of the best features of RISC OS 4, and even going as far as not upgrading to the superb OS altogether.
The good news is that in less than a week's time a new disc checking and repair program called DiscKnight will be launched at the RISC OS 2000 show (Epsom Downs, October 21-22, see http://www.armclub.org.uk/riscos2000/). It handles both the old E and new E+ FileCore formats, checks and fixes 64 different faults, and has a full undo feature incase of difficulties. DiscKnight comes with a desktop front end, and comprehensive step by step instructions.
DiscKnight will be sold for the ridiculous price of only 10ukp (9ukp for ARM Club members), so that as many people as possible can have the reassurance that if the worst should happen, their valuable data is not lost forever. This price includes free email support, and telephone support for ARM Club members.
For a free checking only version of DiscKnight, and ordering details if you cant make it to the show, visit our website at:
http://www.armclub.org.uk/products/discknight/
1st Impressions are pleased to announce they have extended their software offerings to include the excellent Icon Technology range of document processors, namely EasiWriter Pro+ and TechWriter Pro+.
The continuous development of these two highly regarded products has been much appreciated, especially by those needing to import and export Word files.
Other save options include HTML, RTF, Text, Postscript and Draw. Other import facilities include Impression, HTML, and CSV. Image files in Sprite, Draw, GIF, JPEG and PNG can be used, including animated GIFs.
For further details and pricing information please contact:
dave@1st-impressions.uk.com
Contents:
1) An apology from the News Editors
2) Our First Anniversary Prize Draw
3) What is Drobe Launch Pad?
4) Press information
As an apology we are giving 2 lucky registered users a pair of tickets to the forthcoming RISC OS 2000 Show (http://www.riscos2000.com/) with our compliments. Congratulations to the winners who will be notified directly.
Prizes available in the draw are as follows:
Because of the problems experienced this weekend, the prize draw has been moved to Friday 20th October. Entries to the draw can now be submitted until Thursday 19th October. For more information visit http://www.drobe.co.uk/corporate/prizedraw/ or email mailto:competitionrules@drobe.co.uk
If you register, you can personalise the homepage so that you can access the latest RISC OS, Science, Entertainment and Technology news as quickly as possible. To register visit http://www.drobe.co.uk/user/register/
Peter Price, News Editor
You will be working on a variety of exciting technologies for Internet TV and Digital TV Set Top Boxes. Recent and current projects include:
Successful applicants will have at least the following credentials:
The following will be considered an advantage, but NOT essential:
Salary will be generously negotiable based on abilities and experience, with other benefits including subscription to company stock option scheme.
Send all applications to the Human Resources Department at the address below, or preferably via email to: jobs@oregan.net
I've been rummaging around some old floppy discs and discovered a game I wrote back in 1990 - which seems to work ok under StrongArm and RISC OS 4 (although it should still work on older machines), so I've decided to release it as freeware - as I still found myself addicted to it after a few games tonight.
Called Rune Seeker, it's basically a 2D adventure/maze game where you must explore various rooms and collect all the keys that have been scattered around. There are also various bonuses, treasure chests and puzzles to solve along the way. Although it's old and my artistic ability is none too hot, it's still quite a fun game containing colourful, cheery graphics. :-)
Later levels also have a rather unfriendly Yeti to contend with (you can hear him stomping around when he gets near you!).
There are 12 fiendishly difficult levels so I doubt anyone will complete all 12. By the time you do, I expect I'll have updated the level editor (the one part which didn't quite work on newer machines).
It also features a savable high score table (and I've also added a high score table to the web page, if you get good enough).
Anyway, it's now available to download from
http://www.vigay.com/shareware.html and is just over 400K long as a ZIP archive (including quite a few 'atmospheric' sound effects etc.
Please enjoy..... ;-)
Just to let you know I now have a new e-mail and web-site address, organizer@morison.net and http://www.organizer.morison.net/
** Don't forget the single "R" and single "S" in "morison" **
At the moment these will just forward you to my old ukgateway address and web-site, but I will be able to take the morison.net addresses with me when I change ISP (which I'm considering).
Work is continuing on the Psion Synchronisation which should hopefully be finished by the Epsom show, and will be a free upgrade to registered users of Organizer version 1.50.
I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but to perform the psion sync I had to improve the number of fields in the address-book so I've actually made the fields user-definable. I also made it support separate home and work addresses, phone numbers, emails, etc while I was at it. Those features were going to be in the next non-free upgrade but now fully registered users will get them for free! Ah well ;-)
See you all at the RISC OS 2000 show in a few weeks:
http://www.riscos2000.com/
AAUG is pleased to do the same!
A 589×80 pixel (11.6K) banner, courtesy of Zenta's RISC OS.net is available for download at:
http://rougol.jellybaby.net/AAUG/2kshow.gif
Please feel free (as many of us did with the doomed AW'98) to place them on your websites, with a link to the forthcoming show:
http://www.riscos2000.com/
If you are a member of a club committee, and fancy taking along fliers about the show to meetings, a drawfile is at:
http://rougol.jellybaby.net/AAUG/ro2k.aff
A new version of !Rename is now available at
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/tigger/programs/progs.html
This version is primarily a bug-fix, correcting a problem that meant that recursion down the directory tree would usually fail.
!Rename uses !Edit-like wildcard patterns to apply sophisticated renaming rules to many files at the same time; for example, an entire directory of files can have DOS or unix filetype extensions to be added or removed.
Announcing the release of Roots
Roots is a program for graphically laying out a family tree. You move people around and link them using drag and drop. It can also store a small amount of information about each person, but that is not its main function. It can import GEDCOM, and export DrawFiles and GEDCOM. Trees can be printed, spanning several pages if necessary.
It has been designed to be flexible, so if the style of layout is not to your taste then you can alter it.
Roots is shareware, and can be registered online or by snail mail.
More information can be found at my website (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ajw498/), where Roots can be downloaded.
I've just uploaded !RiscSearch V0.3ß to my homepage (www.patrick-mortara.de)
Changes in V0.3: (the first 4 changes are based on help from Ed Van der Meulen, thanks!!)
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 finding web-pages about a certain topic by asking different search-engines about that topic. It collects results from (at the moment) 10 different engines, sorts out duplicate matches and then presents all matches in a window of your web-browser.
Easy C++: available once again
Easy C++ is a superb implementation of the C++ programming language. Originally published by Beebug in 1995, the only reason it became unavailable was due to that company running out of manuals. The main purpose of this announcement, though, is to state it's available again, and we have two separate prices for it:
Easy C++ CD-ROM with Documentation on Disc ukp27.50
Easy C++ CD-ROM with Printed Manual* ukp47.50
To obtain * you must be resident in the UK, or pay the additional postage costs to send the manual overseas. It's got a lot of pages, and weighs quite a bit!
To order, send a cheque/postal order for the amount specified [made payable to ProAction] to
Easy C++
40 Honiton Road
Romford
Essex, RM7 9AJ
Denbridge Digital is still looking for RISC OS programmers to work in their Bootle/Liverpool office. Anyone with a demonstrable ability in programming in BASIC, C, and/or ARM assembler on the RISC OS platform are invited to contact us. Salaries ranging anywhere from 17k to 30k are available according to background and the particular skill mix of the candidate.
I've just uploaded FindVirus 0.02 to my website. For the people who don't know....
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