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|-------------------------- Acorn News Service --------------------------|
| http://www.acornusers.org/ans/ |
| ISSUE 56 1 May 2000 |
| |
| An independent fortnightly newsletter for the Acorn world. |
| Send your news items or comments to ans@acornusers.org. |
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| Featured site this issue: http://acorn.cybervillage.co.uk/wakefield/ |
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Contents
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1) General News
2) Commercial News
3) PD/Shareware News
4) ANS information
General News
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1) Wakefield 2000 - The Acorn RISC OS Show
Wakefield 2000 opens at 09:45 on Saturday 20th May, at Thornes Park
Athletics Stadium, Wakefield. 55 stands will be displaying the latest
developments for Acorn users, exhibitors include:
* RISCOS Ltd., with RISC OS 4, PRM and manuals CD, community wall chart,
Foundation Risc User, Printers, RISC OS on Psion netBook.
* RiscStation Ltd., with R7500 range, CD authoring solutions,
RiscStation point of sale system.
* Millipede Electronic Graphics, with Imago and the technology behind
Who wants to be a millionaire?
Also Castle Technology, MicroDigital, Cerilica, R-Comp, Softease,
Si-Plan, Spacetech, iSV Products, APDL, CJE Micro's, Acorn User,
and more. Read the full announcement at
<http://acorn.cybervillage.co.uk/hotnet/riscos/riscos_10.stm>
and visit the show web site at
<http://acorn.cybervillage.co.uk/wakefield/>.
Commercial News
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1) R-Comp, WebsterXL, SSL, Risc User
R-Comp are continuing development and testing of the new TLS/SSL module,
improving WebsterXL especially JavaScript, and intend to show a new
version of the browser at Wakefield.
R-Comp also have a limited number of nearly complete back issue sets of
Risc User magazine. Original printed issues dating right the way back,
over 100 magazines.
R-Comp expect the price to be about GBP40 (carriage may be extra)
depending upon how many requests are received.
<http://www.rcomp.co.uk/>
PD/Shareware News
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1) BeebIt, BBC emulator, updated
Version 0.15 (30 Apr 2000) of BeebIt has now been released. BeebIt is a
freeware BBC Micro computer emulator for RISC OS versions 3.0 and above.
It emulates an Acorn BBC Model B computer with 32K RAM.
The following improvements have been done since 0.12:
* Fixed problem the disc writable option and the save as window.
* Rewrote 6845CRTC and video emulation to better reflect how the real
hardware works. This now allows the screen to be vertically centered
correctly. Uridium now works correctly.
* Moved the re-mapping of the palette on a mode change. The colours in
Uridium are now correct.
* Added emulation of the Analogue to Digital converter.
* Added Joystick emulation, use the mouse to simulate the Joystick.
* Rewrote branch opcodes, JSR, ROL, ROR, RTI & RTS opcodes in assembler.
* Increase in speed is quite noticeable.
* Added filetype &B22 as DFSImage. Double clicking or dragging a file to
the iconbar icon will automatically load the image as drive 0 and
enter the BBC emulation.
* Added a few SKB opcodes. Videos Revenge now works.
As always, you can get the latest version from
<http://www.voyager.co.nz/~mikef/>.
2) Updated software summary
* AcornICQ v0.21.1
ICQ instant messaging for RISC OS. New version fixes bugs, works with
Freenet, can search on e-mail and name, edit away messages.
<http://www.vigay.com/riscos/icq/>
* ASM v4.09
A freeware ARM assembler. This version supports the LFM/SFM instructions
(FP co-pro multiple register Load/Store) and fixes a bug that had caused
bad opcodes to be generated for LDF and STF instructions with
post-indexed addressing.
<http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/tigger/programs/misc.html>
* FullNames v1.10
A patch for RISC OS 4, keep the mouse pointer over a filer icon to show
the full name. Now works with the pinboard and iconised windows.
<http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ajb121/fnames.htm>
* HardBack
Backup system which was formerly shareware has now been released under
open source licensing terms.
<http://www-stu.cai.cam.ac.uk/~atm26/hardback/>
* Jcut v2.00
Jcut provides cut & paste for JPEGs without the image degradation that
results if you decompress the original and then re-compress the
processed bit-image file. Various improvements.
<http://www.dacha.freeuk.com/free/>
* MagPi-Mo' v1.11
Magnifier, pointer info, mouse setter. Can now invert the image so you
can view negatives quite easily.
<http://www.dacha.freeuk.com/free/>
* smbserver v0.07
A port of Samba which allows Microsoft Windows and Unix machines to
share RISC OS discs using the Microsoft File Sharing Protocol. New
version includes a Netbios Nameserver so RISC OS machines now appear
in Network, internal improvements and bug fixes.
<http://www.merddin.demon.co.uk/riscos.html>
Club News
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1) Upcoming meetings
* Iceni (SARC), 3rd May - Andrew Rawnsley, RComp
<http://www.archipel.demon.co.uk/ICENI/>
* German Archimedes Group, 6th & 7th May
<http://www.gag.de/>
* Derbyshire Area Risc Club, 8th May - REFLEX
<http://homepages.enterprise.net/julianp/darc/>
* Essex Acorn User Group, 9th May - Creating HTML
<http://www.wattys.fsnet.co.uk/eaug.html>
* RISCOS.be, 12th May
<http://gallery.uunet.be/John.Tytgat/riscosbe/>
ANS Information
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ADL Moderator - Paul Johnson - paul@ans.acornusers.org
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