The latest version of Fireworkz Pro has just been released by R-Comp. The software is an integrated word processor, spreadsheet, and database package that began life at Colton Software, and is now maintained and developed by ex-Colton (and Acorn) programmer Stuart Swales and sold by R-Comp.
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Anyone with an interest in coding on RISC OS – at any level – is invited to join an initial fireside chat, starting at 7:30pm on Saturday, 26th November. Organised by Andrew McCarthy in cooperation with Paolo Zaino and the RISC OS Community project, the idea dates back to last year when Andrew had the initial idea. The aim is to hold a series of meetings on the subject of Coding on RISC OS, and this one is intended to be the first.
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If you have an Archimedes computer that sports the mini 9-pin round socket for connecting the mouse to the computer, thanks to Karl Clark you now have a wider choice of mouse to use. Karl is selling a new interface called ArcMouse, a compact adapter that allows a standard USB mouse to be connected.
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A new, small application is now available from RISC OS Developments (ROD) that sets up the system so that the Iris web browser can be run from your RAM disc.
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If you’ve ever played Elite – which is probably almost everyone in the Acorn and RISC OS spheres1 – you’ll probably find the next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting an interesting one, with Mark Moxon visiting the group as the guest speaker.
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An updated version of Currency, the exchange rate application from Kevin Wells, has been released. Version 1.14 doesn’t contain any updates to the program itself or its functionality, but is instead a small update to ensure it continues to work with the remote site from which it gets its data and sends user requests.
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Switching slightly from the group’s normal schedule, the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting will take place a week and a day later than you might otherwise expect, on Thursday, 10th November.
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Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) meet regularly, on the second Wednesday of every second month, and this month’s meeting therefore falls on the 9th. The group’s meetings tend to be fairly informal – a handful of like-minded people getting together for a pint and a bite to eat and a general chinwag, with one or other of them sometimes bringing along something interesting and relevant to RISC OS to focus that chat.
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If you like adventures of the ‘point and click’ variety, you’ll no doubt be aware – and hopefully using – ScummVM to play the wealth of old games it brings to the platform, most of which never touched RISC OS when they were first released for other computers and operating systems.
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