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In a surprise announcement, Stuart Tyrrell Developments have apparently produced some new hardware for the Risc PC.

In a recent announcement on the newsgroups, Partis Computing have said that they have taken over further development of Surftec's DigiFlash Products.

We've just put a new poll up for voting.

You'll need to login to vote and remember it's just for fun, but why not create an account if you don't already have one and vote...

Over the years of the RISC OS Ltd. Select scheme, I've generally been impressed by the various improvements and speedups along the way and although I don't use every single feature, long gone are the days when I could just sit down and use older versions of RISC OS.

Just released today, a new version of the VNC Server front end application, now supports new features within RISC OS 6.

The application has been updated to take advantage of RISC OS 6.14 and offers a couple of minor enhancements for users of that operating system.

We have just learnt that Paul Vigay, perhaps RISC OS's greatest supporter, has been found dead. Missing overnight (February 19th/20th), Paul's body was discovered in the early morning of Friday 20th February on the sea-front near his home.

Recent discussion on the Ovation Pro mailling list has led to the discovery and subsequent fixing of some minor bugs in the popular desktop publishing application.

RISCOS Ltd. have announced the release of the latest version of our favourite operating system, Select5 issue 1 aka. RISC OS 6.14.  RISCOS Ltd. have clearly been busy of late, with 2 press releases just prior to the recent Midlands Show and this latest release of the operating system.

Select5i1 was available at the Midlands show for subscribers to take away and the press release states that "Most subscribers should have received theirs by now."

Yesterday's Midlands RISC OS Show was a great day out. The major news from the show was from RISCOS Ltd. with no less than three releases!

In a recent email to registered users of Organizer, Nigel Willmott of N1 Communications Ltd. has advised that after a long break, Organizer development is continuing.

This is just a brief summary of the recent RISC OS show in Guildford for those who didn't make it in person but are thirsty for news.

We've heard that in a recent email, Jack Lillingston of Iyonix Ltd and Castle Technologies Ltd. has announced that the Iyonix PC is to be no longer available for ordering from 30th September 2008 (only a few days from time of writing).  Iyonix Ltd (formed as a separate division by Castle to sell the hardware) will cease trading once existing stocks of hardware and accessories are exhausted.  There are apparently very limited stocks available, that can be supplied on a first come, first served basis until the 30th.

It's been a while since we did a news roundup and life has been hectic in this part of the world, but here's a brief summary of what's been happening recently...

It has only recently come to our attention, that back in June, RISC OS dealer CTA Direct's (aka RiscStation) shop was destroyed by fire.

A few days ago, Virtual Acorn announced an update to their Virtual Risc PC for Macs. This update to the network plugin, resolves some reported issues with networking using Omniclient and LanMan98.

Apparently a new version of LanMan98 is currently under development, as noted recently by Chris Evans of CJE Micros in response to a discussion about NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices.

This week, APDL have announced that they now have the ability to offer online ordering for many of their products.

Since the last little news update, software authors have been busy at work and we've been treated to a few updates of various applications...