extASM 2.00 released

I'm delighted to announce the immediate availability of the latest version of the extASM ARM assembler. This is a major upgrade of the previous version, version 1.00, released in 1995. The previous version supported ARM2/3/6 (i.e. up to ARMv3). This version supports all the instructions of the last version of the ARM architecture, ARMv7, which is used by ARM Cortex A8 and A9 (as used by Beagleboard and Touch Book, among others), excluding the Thumb instructions. Major additions include the Advanced SIMD and VFP instructions. extASM is released as GPL, and includes full source

MPdata+ 1.04 release

Hi Kevsoft RISC OS Software is pleased to announce the release of version 1.04 of MPdata+ the application that lets you keep tabs on your Member of Parliament. New in this release is a few bug fixes, the addition of Constituency Info button and &amp; replaced by and in the Constituency of the MP. It can be downloaded from <http://riscos.kevsoft.co.uk/> <http://riscos.kevsoft.co.uk/news/?p=28> Please note you will not be able to contact your MP from this until after the General Election in a few weeks time. Happy St. George's Day on the 23rd. -- Kev Wells http://

WROCC - Release of Guide to Networking at Wakefield Show

WROCC - Guide to Networking Booklet at Show The Wakefield RISCOS Computer Club are please to be able to announce we are releasing our "Guide to Networking" at this weekend's Wakefield Show. Costing the pricely sum of 50p, this 20 page booklet in full colour is a consolidation of all the articles so far written about the various aspects of networking RISC OS to the outside world and internally. For those of you unable to attend the show it will be available after the show at a cost of 1 ukp via post. The guide covers things like setting up !Samba, using ShareFS, Accessing

RONWUG Reminder 21st April

RONWUG - RISC OS North West User Group - 21st April 2010 Apologies for the late announcement. At RONWUG this month, we're going to be working through a Photodesk tutorial as a group, looking at the tools and tricks used in photo editing. Don't forget - it's this Wednesday (tomorrow), see you there. If you have an idea for a topic at RONWUG - either one you'd like to do yourself, or maybe a request for someone else to do, please let us know. ------------------------------------------- Wakefield Show reminder: This month also sees the return of the Wakefield show this Saturd

Midlands Midsummer Mugshow - Saturday 10th July

MUG have sacked Santa and decided on a new warmer setting for the show. The show will now be on Saturday 10th July from 11am to 4:30pm at: St John's Church Hall, 205 Warwick Road, Kenilworth, CV8 1HY. All tickets will be priced at GBP1 with children free. More details to be announced soon so keep an eye on the show website. http://www.mug.riscos.org/show10/index.html For general show and exhibitor information contact John Rickman. http://www.mug.riscos.org/contacts/contact.htm Remember to put the date in your calendar for the show that will put the "MMM"" back in to s

Publication of Drag 'n Drop delayed due to volcanic cloud

It is with regret I have to announce that publication of Drag 'n Drop is delayed due to the Icelandic volcanic cloud currently menacing UK airspace. The delay is due to the fact that I am stuck in Lubeck, Germany. I am booked on Eurostar on Sunday. Therefore I hope to publish on Tuesday or Wednesday. Regards Paul Stewart Editor Drag 'n Drop _______________________________________________________________ a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk, Moderator of comp.sys.acorn.announce. Submissions to csaa@owlart.net Related mail to csaa-request@owlart.net

Sophie Wilson at London RISC OS user group, Monday 19th April 2010

The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be: ARM History and Future presented by Sophie Wilson Monday 19th April 2010, 7:45pm The Blue-Eyed Maid (upstairs in the Spice Lounge restaurant) 173 Borough High Street London SE1 1HR For ROUGOL's April meeting we are very excited to have Sophie Wilson as our guest speaker. Sophie was with Acorn throughout their history as chief technical designer. Just some of her many significant projects included: - Designer of the Acorn System 1 (PCB, software, manuals, and putting them in boxes!

MBBack version 2.00 released

If you happen to have glanced at Kingfisher Corner within the last, at the time of writing, five minutes, you may have noticed something subtly different about the atmosphere. A slight pallor, the thin chill of resignation and endless repetition... Yes! MBBack, the premier script-based image-scaling ImageFileConvert-supporting never-repeating directory-scanning Style Guide-raping random backdrop solution package for the undiscerning RISC OS user, has received an update! This is version 2.00, so called because it is the program's most major update so far and because every other vers

New release of !RDPClient, a RISC OS client for Remote Desktop

I am pleased to announce the release of !RDPClient version 0.88, a RISC OS client for the Remote Desktop Protocol. Changes since the last release: * Based on 'rdesktop' version 1.6.0. * Compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. * Synchronisation of "lock" keys with remote computer. * Support for full colour mouse pointers. * Support for 15bit screen mode on Iyonix nVidia FX graphics cards. * Screen mode selection support for ViewFinder graphics cards. Background: Remote Desktop allows a client machine to log onto a server over a network and be p

Wakefield Club meeting on 7th April

WAKEFIELD RISCOS COMPUTER CLUB MEETING on Wednesday 7th April 2010 Simple introduction to WINP programming --------------------------------------- Wednesday night's talk at Wakefield brings a meeting with a bit of a difference. This month we're going to try out an interactive programming tutorial session, with Steve Potts walking us through creation of a very simple multi-tasking BASIC application with the help of Joe Taylor's excellent AppBasic environment. The audience will be split up into a few groups, eac

!GetFiler - new program from APDL

After seeing some recent comments about Obey files to open filer directories I have just released a new program, !GetFiler. This will let you easily create Obey files to open filer windows at any location on screen and with your chosen characteristics. It should work on any OS from 3.1 to 6.20 and on any hardware. It is based on routines I wrote for a new version of MenuBar that I've been working on for some time. !GetFiler is Freeware and can be downloaded from the APDL web site. David Holden -- _ _ /\ |_)| \| David Holden - dave@apdl.co.uk /--\

Wakefield Show - More Details Announced

Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club are pleased to announce that provisional details of our exhibitors' stands and the Show Theatre schedule for Wakefield 2010 have been released on the show website. Now in its 15th year, the North's premier RISC OS show will be taking place on Saturday 24th April at the Cedar Court Hotel, just off the M1 near Wakefield. The show will once again feature the Charity Stall, selling old RISC OS hardware and software in aid of the Wakefield Hospice. Sadly, increasing problems with the disposal of unsold items mean that restrictions on what can be donated a

DrawPrint 1.20 released

Sine Nomine Software are pleased to announce our new version 1.20 of DrawPrint, the freeware utility for printing large Draw files across several pages. It can be downloaded from http://sinenomine.co.uk/software/ So what's new since the last public release? * Page numbering * Command line operation, so DrawPrint can be used by other applications directly * Improved page breaking facility now allows you to break pages along vertical/horizontal lines, e.g. in tables * Intelligent page splitting options now extended to horizontal direction * Some page setup options (e.g. sc

Music Ripper's Toolkit release 3

After many months of programming and deciphering, I am proud to present to you a new version of the Music Ripper's Toolkit, nemesis of jealous programmers, kryptonite to mad musicians and on generally unfriendly terms with the inventors of esoteric tracker formats everywhere. Today is the day I fulfil a dream I have had since I first heard the Fire and Ice music at the age of seven or so - I have written a converter to Digital Symphony format, so now you too can groove to "a sub-Electron dirge" which "is an insult to music" (Acorn Gaming) from the comfort of your own desktop! Also n

Lua videos and ROUGOL meeting reminder

Back in January, Gavin Wraith gave an excellent presentation at ROUGOL about the programming language Lua and its use on RISC OS. See: http://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/2010/jan.html We received several requests, from inside and outside the RISC OS world, for it to be recorded. The videos are now available, in high quality mkv (Matroska) format and RISC OS friendly mpeg files. http://legless.jellybaby.net/rougol/LUAPresentation/ Enjoy! Early Meeting Reminder ====================== For ROUGOL's April meeting we are delighted to have Sophie Wilson as our gues

PrintPDF Version 0.70 Released

I'm pleased to announce the release of PrintPDF version 0.70. Although something of an "interim" version, it provides some useful new functionality and should give users the chance to test it prior to future updates. I would particularly welcome feedback and/or bug reports from anyone who uses it. New in version 0.70 is the ability to set PDF document information: document title, subject, author and search keywords. Readers of the finished document will find these in the Document Properties or Document Info sections of their PDF viewer, and the title is often shown in the document

Principles of Geotechnical Engineering 6th edition by Braja M. Das solutions manual

Here are instructor's solutions manuals to the scientific textbooks in PDF format. They cover solutions to all problems. If you need any, let me know its title, edition and author. If your title is not listed here don't worry because it is a list of some .. NOTE: This service is NOT free, and Don't reply here, instead send an email to: hanshalton[at]gmail[dot]com Instructor's solutions manual for Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics 5th Ed Munson Young Okiishi Instructor's solutions manual for Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, 4E (Bruce R. Munson, Donald F. Young, Theodore H.) Instructor's soluti

Iconizer : MathMagical new RISC OS software release.

Dear All, The MathMagical Software Company is pleased to announce a new RISC OS software release : Iconizer. Launched at the recent SouthWest Show, Iconizer allows for the creation of the beautiful mathematical objects known as "strange attractors". These feature in the book "Symmetry In Chaos" by Michael Field and Martin Golubitsky, 2nd edition published in August 2009. Iconizer allows many of the images in the book to be recreated. More interestingly, it provides a powerful tool for further investigation. Some of my own discoveries are included in the software package. These cle

Drag 'n Drop at South West Show this coming Saturday

Drag 'n Drop will be exhibiting at the coming South West Show. Come along and browse the recently released issue 2. Issue 2 features: - News Mini how-tos 8-bit articles - Robert Sprowson explains how to make you BBC talk Samwise talks about the rise of Retro Software Dave Stratford continues his series about sorting techniques John Rickman talks about his desktop for Desktop Heroes Midlands Show in Pictures RComp's PDF Suite RISC OS Select 6i1 Visit http://www.dragdrop.co.uk to download your sample copy. On RISC OS, Firefox is required to complete your purchase (although so

ieba (Independent Eight Bit Association)

Some readers here may remember a Group I set up with others to provide and exchange information between users of 8-bit computers. Well, one of the founders has passed away (died, that is) and Gordon Woolliscroft and I thought that as the whole 8bit scene has dwindled we ought to wind the thing up and put the money to good use, so that's what we've just done. There was about 600 English pounds in the account (my, that interest did mount up) so we have decided to split it 50/50 between a kidney research charity and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. We hope that meets

RONWUG Reminder 17th February 2010

RONWUG - RISC OS North West User Group - 17th February 2010 If all goes to plan, at this month's meeting, we will have Derek Haslam talking about BBC BASIC and covering a little-used feature of the language. We're also likely to be doing a bit of work on a user's Risc PC. Don't forget - it's this Wednesday, see you there. If you have an idea for a topic at RONWUG - either one you'd like to do yourself, or maybe a request for someone else to do, please let us know. ------------------------------------------- Although most North West members are unlikely to travel that far, t

Boost your ADSL speed with an iPlate?

An iPlate may boost an ADSL's download and/or upload speed significantly, but not always, so we are offering an iPlate trial! On a statistically insignificant sample size of three locations we found between 0% & 71% speed increase in download speed and between 0% & 55% speed increase in upload speed, though we have also heard reports of speed reductions! Hire an iPlate for a month for 4GBP (plus 7GBP deposit) and see if it is worth it for you. If not, return it and we will refund your deposit, or keep it and have nothing further to pay! An iPlate can only be fitted to a NTE5 Mas

Next meeting of RONE Thursday 11 February "Web pages using StrongEd Infuse and lua"

10 Cambridge Avenue Forest Hall Newcastle -upon - Tyne NE12 8AR michael@beaverbell.co.uk 0191 266 6435 18 January 2010 At the next meeting on On Thursday 11 February of RONE (Risc Os North - East) the talk will be by:- Peter J Stoner "A workshop to set up some web pages using St

Bugfixed !RunImage for FFmpeg 1.04

FFmpeg is a versatile, open-source, multi-platform video and audio converter. A rather embarrassing bug has existed in !FFmpeg 1.04 since its release on 22 December 2009. This bug meant that the Quality settings in the Convert dialogue were mostly ignored. The full FFmpeg archive is a very large download (for a RISC OS application) so I have released a tiny 6KB patch that restores operation of the Quality settings. I recommend that all FFmpeg users download this patch via <http://www.users.on.net/~belles/software/ffmpeg/>. Note that if you have already downloaded FFmpeg 1.04, th

New mailing list for RISC OS users in the Bristol area

Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.announce Followup-To: comp.sys.acorn.misc From: "Trevor Johnson" Two RISC OS enthusiasts in Bristol are investigating scope for starting a new Bristol RISC OS user group. The previous group closed down in 2006 but the shared source initiative of RISC OS Open Ltd may be generating a need once more. Vince Hudd and Trevor Johnson have agreed to try to gauge interest, with a view to developing longer term plans to serve the wider Bristol area. The first stage is the setting up of a mailing list for RISC OS users in Bristol and the surrounding area. This