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|-------------------------- Acorn News Service --------------------------|
| http://www.acornusers.org/ANS/ |
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| The Acorn News Service is an independent service. |
| It is in no way connected with, or supported by the Acorn Group PLC. |
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| ISSUE 20 15 November 1998 |
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| Editor: E.Abrahams ------ eytan@acornusers.org |
| Sub-Editor: J.Sears ------ james@acornusers.org |
| Webmaster: S.Courtney ------ stephen@acornusers.org |
| Life-Webmaster: R.Hesketh ------ richard@acornusers.org |
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| To send in your news items or comments, use the ANS website, |
| or e-mail them to ans@acornusers.org. |
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| Random site pick this issue: http://www.acornusers.org/comicrelief/ |
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| Nearing the 500 subscribers mark! |
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Contents
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1) Editorial
2) General News
3) Commercial News
4) PD/Shareware News
5) Club News
6) ANS information
Editorial
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I missed writing the last editorial, due to technical difficulties, but
I'm back like never before! There's so much to write in this issues
editorial. It's all VERY important, and you are advised to read it!
First of all, you may or may not know that the ANS website has finally
been receiving long needed updates, under the careful guidance of our new
webmaster, Stephen Courtney. Stephen has taken over the job from Richard,
as Richard had too many commitments to keep the site up to date. We are
very grateful for all that Richard did for ANS, and he has therefore been
left on the ANS board as "Life-Webmaster". As many of you know, he did
much more than just webmastering, and undertook many other ANS jobs.
This brings me to my next point, which is that any titles given to the ANS
team really mean nothing! For example, James really does much of the
editing of some issues, for various reasons, and is therefore much more
than a "sub" editor. All the ANS team take part in discussions about ANS,
and are all actively involved in all ANS matters. From a one man team to
four, it's really going great. Thanks!
The site has changed a great deal, and is well worth a visit. Tell your
friends about it - in just two clicks, they can now subscribe to ANS
online at <http://www.acornusers.org/ans/>!
We have also acquired a "sub-webmaster", who is going to be working on two
special projects we are planning for the site, which we hope will prove
useful for all Acorn users. Comments about the site are welcome and we
really appreciate them. Please send all comments to <ans@acornusers.org>.
We are pleased to announce that we are actively supporting the Acorn Comic
Relief project. It's the first of its kind in the Acorn world. Visit
http://www.acornusers.org/comicrelief/ and support Comic Relief NOW!
Don't forget that the Phoenix site <http://www.acornusers.org/phoenix/>
is being updated as soon as news comes in.
ANS is getting better each day, but only with our members help! Remember
to send in those news items and comments.
Enjoy!
Eytan
Editor, ANS.
General News
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1) ANS competition results
The ANS competition prizes have now all been handed out. The competition
winners are now being sent their prizes by the companies involved.
Below is a list of the Winners, the prizes they received, and the
companies involved.
Winner Prize Company
================================================
P.Price WimpWorks Jaffa Software
J.Brady GBP45 Gift Voucher Topologika Software
E.Theisen TT Font Translator EFF
D.Marston GBP35 Gift Voucher David Pilling
A.Bailey Report Writing s/w H S Software
G.Borrett Secondary Clip Art Sherston Software
J.Ottens Studio 24 Pro Pineapple Software
S.Parkin Sub. to RISC USER Beebug
P.Thomas Exodus Artex Software
D.Bone Ankh Artex Software
B.Jesson EasiWriterPro 4.10 Icon Technology
A.Lowry Orrery Spacetech
Thank you very much to all those companies and individuals who
participated and helped make this a highly successful competition.
2) Acorn Comic Relief auction
The Great Acorn Comic Relief Auction is now underway. At the web site
<http://www.acornusers.org/comicrelief/> you can bid for a pile of the
best Acorn software from now until 10th March 1999.
Items available include: Impression Publisher+, ArtWorks, WimpBasic 2,
Rhapsody 4, WimpWorks 2, Studio24Pro, and Personal Accounts 4. See
http://www.acornusers.org/comicrelief/Software.html for a full list.
3) PCPro: illegal copies warning
Aleph One Ltd is receiving a number of discs for upgrading which are
illegal copies of its software.
These discs bear the words Aleph One Ltd, !PCPro v2.13, and a Serial
Number usually beginning 2. They do not bear the Aleph One logo, and are
dot-matrix-printed on a blank label.
The owners of such discs are VICTIMS of software theft; Aleph One wishes
to make clear that it has never issued such discs; all its published
software bears labels with the Aleph One logo printed on the label by
offset printing, not dot-matrix printing. Illegal discs are not valid to
obtain the Upgrade price of GBP40 for PCPro 3, and Aleph One charge GBP70
to those who present them.
Aleph One are eager to learn where these discs came from, and so the first
three people who send illegal discs with documentary evidence of their
origin will in fact be eligible for the Upgrade price of GBP40.
Telephone 01223 811679 ask for Mr Laurie van Someren or e-mail
laurie@aleph1.co.uk.
Commercial News
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1) Acorn Arcade Shop - now open!
In association with Liquid Silicon, the established Acorn dealership,
Acorn Arcade are now offering the ability to order games online, direct
from their website. Choose from a catalogue or order direct from reviews
and news items.
http://www.acornarcade.com/cgi-bin/go-aa?reviews/shop/cat.html
In addition to this, Acorn Arcade continues to have reviews of all the
latest releases, previews of forthcoming titles, in depth scene analysis
and feature articles, and games links and downloads sections. See
http://www.acornarcade.com/
2) Doom+ from R-Comp Interactive
Acorn Doom+ is now ready and is being dispatched to pre-order customers.
Key new features include true transparencies, object, weapon and explosion
translucencies, a full complement of serial, modem and network drivers,
reduced load times, an full featured in-vision map, and support for ARM3
machines with 4MB or more RAM and hard drive.
With Doom+ many more users will be able to experience Doom multiplayer.
With real network connections, R-Comp have had A5000s happily playing with
StrongArm RiscPCs, thanks to the ARM3 compatibility and enhanced
durability of the Doom+ networking code.
All in all, Doom+ represents one of the best Doom experiences around at
the moment on any platform, all on your favourite Acorn hardware! Full
details at http://www.rcomp.co.uk/leisure/doom/DoomPlus.html
Existing owners of Acorn Doom can update for GBP10. Non-UK carriage will
be added at cost. You can order online at http://www.rcomp.co.uk/ or by
phone, fax, post or email <rci@rcomp.co.uk>.
All new Doom orders now ship with Doom+ included. The price remains the
same at GBP32.50.
3) R-Comp announce SiteSeer
R-Comp are pleased to announce that "SiteSeer" is now available. It will
fetch, store, manage and display whole web sites, or partial selections.
SiteSeer supports periodic updates, missing file updates, and complete
re-fetches of sites.
SiteSeer works with all Acorn internet stacks, including Acorn, ANT, Argo,
Freenet, Acornet and Termite, and costs GBP25. You can order either by
phone, fax, email <rcomp@rcomp.co.uk> or via the R-Comp web site
<http://www.rcomp.co.uk/>.
4) eMate connectivity suite
The eMate Connectivity Suite software from Avie Electronics is now at
version 1.10. A free upgrade is available now for downloading at
http://www.avie.co.uk/connectivity/
The eMate Connectivity Suite allows you to transfer files from your eMate
(or other Newton computer) to your Acorn. Documents are automatically
converted so that you can use them in your favourite applications. The
Suite can also install eMate applications (packages).
5) Computer'98 in Cologne, German EasiWriter, LayerFS Pro
Computer'98
===========
Uffenkamp Computer Systeme and Feldner & Braun Software GdbR, with support
from Klein Computer and Orcom Systemhaus, present RISC OS related hard-
and software on the Computer'98 show in Cologne (hall 11.2/D49) from 13-15
Nov 1998. For more information, see http://www.computer98.de/
German Easi- and TechWriter
===========================
The all new manual for Easi- and TechWriter 4 is available, as well as the
Easi-/TechWriter CD. All further orders will be shipped complete with all
these items. Details: http://www.spektracom.de/flying-snail/tw_german/
LayerFS Pro
===========
LayerFS Pro will soon be finished. The support module is still being
tested, but is believed to be stable now (after a very bad known bug was
finally found). The only remaining work is to incorporate the new
functions into the manager application.
6) Acorn User Back Issues
Full details of how to order Acorn User Back Issues from the UK, Europe
and the rest of the world, and how much it will cost, are now available on
the Acorn User website: http://www.acornuser.com/back.html
PD/Shareware News
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1) CBSA website update
Added software
==============
Freeserve - ISP login scripts to Dixons ISP, for ANT, ArmTCP and AcorNet.
WimpClass - A set of wimp class source files (with builds) for GCC.
TypeFile - A GCC tutorial which will read a text file and output it to
the keyboard buffer.
IcoExt - Extracts PC icons from files.
Phoenix - An animated gif.
Updated pages
=============
Announcements, index (now has a link to the Great Acorn Comic Relief
Auction website) and an auto e-mailer for when the site is changed, Utils
and Education, have been updated.
The CBSA website pages are due to come down in the next week or so for
updating. The FTP site will not be affected until the website is up. After
that time, the FTP site will be down for half a day.
2) AcornICQ 0.12 uploaded
Development of AcornICQ, a RISC OS client for the Mirabilis Internet
messaging and chat system, is continuing. Version 0.12 of AcornICQ is now
available from http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/5544/
3) Robin Clive-Matthews information and software
The following files are available for download at
<http://www.arcstone.demon.co.uk/downloads/>:
* Quick guide to basic use of the unix computer system at UWE, Bristol.
* Cub Monitor TTL to Analogue input conversion details.
* RS232 Null Modem adaptor wiring diagram.
* SCART/Peritel connector info.
* Acorn computers' internal audio header pinout.
* Western Digital harddisc fix for Acorn computers.
* !UFPBoot (United Federation of Planets startup selector).
* Cartoon character drawfiles.
Please note that some of the information files can be found on the Acorn
User CD 4 in Utils.Misc.Info.
4) LineEditor 2.73 released
LineEditor 2.73, which adds Unix shell like features to the Acorn CLI and
task windows, is now available.
The major new feature in this release is completion of *-commands, so you
can type "*Hel", hit tab and LineEditor will complete it to "*Help". If
there are multiple completions, you can either list them or cycle through
them as with the other sorts of completion supported.
You can download it from http://www.muscat.com/~olly/software/
5) StrongED 4.60 beta released
StrongED 4.60 is now in beta. The main new feature in this version is that
it can do spell checking, using Computer Concepts' !SpellMod module, and
also fixes some bugs. Download: http://home.eunet.no/~guttorvi/strong.html
6) Q-Lock, IDEA file encryption
The first public release of Q-Lock is now available for download at
http://web.bham.ac.uk/N.M.Queen/pgp/acorn.html
Q-Lock supersedes an earlier program PGPlock. It does the same thing, but
is now a stand-alone program, no longer requiring PGP or other supporting
software. It also has some new features and some extra security.
Q-Lock enables you to encrypt all your sensitive data or to retrieve it,
with just a double click and pass phrase. You can encrypt and decrypt not
only single files, but a whole directory structure in one operation.
The encryption will completely hide not only the data, but also the nature
of the directory structure, the filenames, etc. The encryption system in
Q-Lock relies on the well established IDEA cipher, which is the same
cipher used for 'conventional encryption' in PGP.
Q-Lock also makes use of Sergio Monesi's powerful utility Nuke to erase
all traces of the original files from the disc after they are encrypted,
making it impossible to recover them. When a file is 'deleted' by RISC OS,
only its entry in the directory structure is removed, but all the data
remain on the disc surface and can easily be recovered by means of a disc
editor or an 'undelete' utility. Nuke prevents such data recovery.
Club News
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*Brought to you with The Association of Acorn User Groups*
The AAUG website provides details of all the user groups worldwide, and
how you can benefit from becoming a member. For more information, visit:
http://www.argonet.co.uk/scs/AAUG/
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1) Club news summary
The North London user group has been removed from the User Group directory
and a new User Group called Acorner has been formed. See the AAUG site at
http://www.argonet.co.uk/scs/AAUG/ for more details.
Below is a selection of forthcoming events in the User Group diary. Please
contact the relevant club to confirm date and other information. Contact
details can be found on the AAUG site.
November 1998
=============
16th - Nottingham Microcomputer Club meeting
20th - Welwyn / Hatfield meeting
23rd - Nottingham Microcomputer Club meeting
24th - Bottisham Acorn User Group meeting
24th - Blackpool Computer Club meeting
28th - Acorn Midlands Show
30th - Nottingham Microcomputer Club meeting
ANS Information
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1) How to send in news
To send in your news items simply include the information below and send
it to ans@acornusers.org. Alternatively use the form on the ANS website at
http://www.acornusers.org/ANS/
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copy of ANS and would like to subscribe to the mailing list, simply send
an e-mail to majordomo@lists.barnet.ac.uk with the text "subscribe ans"
(without quotes) in the body. Or use the website form.
3) Fetching web pages via e-mail
If you do not have web access you can fetch any URL referenced in ANS by
using the KFS web by e-mail service. To use this free service send an
e-mail to www@kfs.org with the subject header "send <URL>". For example to
fetch the web by e-mail service information page send an e-mail like this:
From: youraddress@example.com
To: www@kfs.org
Subject: send http://www.kfs.org/web-by-mail.html
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