Announcement from Dave Higton, 7th August, 2014. The next meeting of the Southampton Acorn Users Group will take place on Tuesday, August 12th, at Itchen College Sports Centre, Deacon Road, Southampton, from 19:00 until 21:00. Admission is free and all are welcome.
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Midlands Show 2014 – Report
Surprise! Just when you thought it wasn’t going to get written! The 2014 Midlands Midsummer MUG Show took place on 12th July, at the St John’s Church Hall in Kenilworth, just as it has for the last few years, and I was there, rapidly changing hats so fast no observer could even see me doing it (or even see the hats), between one for Soft Rock Software, and one for RISCOSitory – on the one hand, promoting my products (both old and new), and on the other promoting this site,…
Read MoreDeleGate software update now available on !Store
Announcement from R-Comp, 4th August, 2014. We are pleased to announce that a third update has been released for our DeleGate system deletion/protection software on !Store. First revealed at the Midlands show, DeleGate is a new, low-cost software product designed to fulfill a need for RISC OS 5 users, but also applicable to RISC OS 4.
Read MoreWROCC meeting – Multi-platform presentations – 6th August
Announcement from the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club, 3rd August, 2014. Multi-platform presentations Meeting on Wednesday, 6th August, 2014, at 7.45pm Peter Richmond will be talking about “Multi-platform presentations”, from photo carousels to advertising and lectures.
Read MoreFeature: Black PiCano case for the Raspberry Pi
Pi looks good in a little black number. Steve Royd-Marker, the designer of the PiCano case for the Raspberry Pi, first launched at the RISC OS eXperience, 2013, and sold in the UK by R-Comp, has been in touch with a couple of photographs of a black PiCano case, and some explanatory text to go with them. Here are those photographs and what he wrote:
Read MoreDistribution of Baildon Electronics’ products moves to CJE Micro’s
There was an ARCIn, but was there an ARCOut, or an ARCShake-it-all-about? Amongst the various things sold and distributed by the late David Holden through APDL were the Acorn-related products of Baildon Electronics – IDE interfaces, in the form of ARCIn. Following Dave’s unfortunate passing, Baildon’s Dave Hitchens has teamed up with CJE Micro’s/4D to ensure distribution of the range of the interfaces (including firmware updates) continues.
Read MoreRISCWorld and APDL’s PDL (!) back online
Family and friends of David Holden pay tribute with a new website. With the recent, unfortunate death of David Holden, as well as condolences for the family, some concern was expressed on usenet and other forums about what would happen to his business, APDL, including the hardware and software David sold, as well as the vast amounts of software that existed in the ‘public domain library’ that gave APDL its name, and other resources made available on the website.
Read MoreRiscOSM 1.07 now available
Bridge? What bridge? Sine Nomine Software’s Hilary Phillips has announced a new version of RiscOSM. Version 1.07 allows the user to save the location under the mouse pointer, whereas previously the saved position was the middle of the map, and also fixes a few issues that could previously cause RiscOSM to either crash, or omit features from the map.
Read MoreLatest Drag ‘n Drop out now, price increase from next issue
These are the voyages issues of the Starship Enterprise magazine Drag ‘n Drop…1 The latest issue of on-off-on-off-under-new-management PDF magazine Drag ‘n Drop hit the virtual shelves a couple of weeks ago, in the form of volume five, issue four – aka issue 5i4 – marking the completion of its fifth volume.
Read MoreBeginners guide to interfacing at London user group, 21st July, 2014
Announcement from ROUGOL, 15th July, 2014. The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be: Beginners Guide to Interfacing Presented by Neil Fazakerley Monday 21st July 2014, 7:45pm
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