On December 1st, Castle Launched a new Iyonix special offer. Until 31st January 2006, you can get up to 50% off an LCD monitor when purchasing an Iyonix PC.

With December fast approaching, the RISC OS Ltd. RISC OS Roadshow becomes ever closer.

RISC OS Ltd. have gathered all the exibitor details and have been able to release the details who who's attending which venues. Although there is a slight regional variation, many exibitors are attending 2 or more of the venues.

The other day, RISCOS Ltd. announced that details of the RISC OS Christmas Roadshow have now been finalised. This is a chance for any last minute RISC OS bargains before Christmas, as well as being able to meet and talk in person with some of the various dealers, for those who've been unable to attend other shows throughout the year.

Of particular note, is that although two of the days are week days, they have been scheduled for late afternoon - early evening to allow those people who are busy during the working day to still attend in the evening.

In a surprise announcement this evening, the SIMON team, speaking through Matt Edgar of Advantage Six Ltd. have released a new product for the A9 Home Computer.

With the the Wakefield 2005 show now less than two weeks away (21st / 22nd May), Chris Hugues, Wakefield Show Organiser has sent us a news update.

Castle have announced a £350 CASHBACK offer on new Iyonix computers from now until the UK
General Election is over.

Stuart Tyrrell Developments Phone number changes...

Following a recruitment drive in December 2004, The Tematic division of Castle Technology Ltd has taken on several more full-time have now moved to larger premises.

Wakefield Show organiser, Chris Hughes has been in touch with an update on this year's Charity Stall...

Chris Hughes, show organiser has contacted us with more details about the forthcoming show.

Yesterday was the RISC OS South West Show at Loxton near Weston-Super-Mare.

Stuart Tyrrell Developments have once again brought us a seasonal special offer. Following on from their Advent Prize Draw and January Sale, we now are treated to a special offer for Valentine's Day.

This offer is brought to us in conjunction with RISC OS Ltd and gives a special price on a fully populated Unipod, with RISC OS Adjust, a preinstalled hard drive and a £50 voucher for subscrption to the Select Scheme.

All of the above for only £290.

Rather than try to reword the excellent press release from STD, we thought we'd quote it below for your amusement...

Mike Glover of Icon Technology wrote to us a little while ago about the availability of Easiwriter and Techwriter 8.31, thanks to the efforts of Martin Wuerthner.

The new versions are fully 26/32 bit compatible meaning they will run on anything from RISC OS 3.5 to RISC OS 5.

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Apologies for the lack of updates recently. Things have been pretty frantic over here at work and I've hardly had time to unpack before the next trip away :-(

BOGOFF in the January Sale

Stuart Tyrrell Developments have announced a special Unipod upgrade offer for the month of January - Buy One, Get One For Free.

STD are encouraging take up of Unipod by offering extra function enablement for free.

Almost as though it were a Happy New Year wish to the RISC OS community, the Wakefield RISCOS Computer Club have today announced their annual computer show is again set for May this year.

This is the 10th year of the show and will hopefully be just as good if not better than those of recent years. Again the show is to be a 2 day event over the weekend of the 21st / 22nd of May.

Chris Hughes, Show Organiser sent the press release below:

Castle Technology have today sent out a press release that confirms the future of our favourite Operating System. At the conclusion of talks last evening, a new licence has been agreed between Castle Technology Ltd. and RISCOS Ltd.

As reported on TheRegister, the first PocketPC virus has been found in the wild. Reportedly capable of also infecting ARM based mobile phones running PocketPC, this virus is more of a Proof of Concept, clearly announcing its presence to the user before infecting files.