The MyRISC OS Forum is once again working so users can chat about all things RISC OS! Simply click on 'Forum' on the sidebar to enter!

Go on, you know you want to!

Ray Favre has updated !LaBella with some features and bug fixes that were recommended to him by various show attenders, you can download it for free from Ray's website: www.rayfavre.me.uk/dwapps.html

John Cartmell has announced that Issue 278 of Qercus will be with readers soon.

"Again we have crammed tons of good RISC OS stuff into another extended issue." John says.

RISC OS Limited have announced RISC OS 6, it will soon be available to Select scheme subscibers.

RISC OS Six is built from a completely 26 bit / 32 bit neutral source, and the move away from the RISC OS 4 brand is because "RISC OS 4 has always been linked with 26 bit computers". The name RISC OS Six is also rumoured to have been chosen due to links with Advantage Six (This has not been confirmed - Ed.). ROL "hope that everyone will soon see the advantages of RISC OS 6."

A preview version will soon be available for as a softload for existing Select subscribers, and also for those who last subscribed to the Select scheme after May 31st 2004.

You can view the RISC OS 6 website at: select.riscos.com/RISCOS6

Following the opening of Zure Open ( http://www.zurenet.co.uk ) I felt the next best thing to do to tie in with the site is to create a news site reporting on the latest developments of open source projects in the RISC OS community.

This may or may not be moved to Zure Net to tie in with the site that is currently in development.

If you would like to contribute to RISC OS Open Source News (ROOSN) please contact at the following address: zure [at] carter dot mihopa dot net.

Best Regards
Michael Carter, Zure Open

I am pleased to announced the launch of a new web portal to support and enhance the RISC OS community.

The portal is named RONews and is aimed at keeping RISC OS users up to date with the goings on in the RISC OS world.

We also do recommend you check other portals such as Drobe, MyRISCOS, PlanetRISCOS and a whole host of others as we might have missed a bit of news or don't have time to write about it.

The site will soon have a downloads section with all of the latest free software available from here.

Old site - http://www.ronews.co.nr

http://www.ronews.2itb.com/

Now that Qercus is back up and posting out issues to readers, they have offered to also provide a service to any user groups who want it, to deliver notices "free of charge" to their readers whom are local to a given user group.

Message from Sion Cleaver of Blasts of the Xtreme:

'We here at Blasts of the Xtreme are searching for the best logo for our new product 'UnrealChampionship', the best logo that is sent in to us will win a free copy of Unreal Championship worth £10!

7th Software have released version 1.11 of MoreDesk, the program that allows you to you to organise your windows on over a space which is larger than the normal desktop. It does this by creating a grid of desktop space and by allowing you to select which of these is the one you are currently looking at.

The much anticipated 277 Issue of Qercus Magazine has been released and is now being sent out to subscribers.

We at myriscos have received the following details from John Cartmell:

Issue 277 of Qercus has been much delayed and we apologise for the long gap in production of the magazine. Reasons for the break in publication have been production and personal problems (illness). We will be making use of our experience of the former in future articles about publishing from RISC OS. A new organisation here will ensure that future personal problems won't leave readers waiting for their copies of Qercus.

ZureNet is a new website and forum for Open RISC OS discussion, you can join in with the discussions here: http://www.zurenet.co.uk/

A new version of GCCSDK is now ready for download from: http://www.riscos.info/index.php/GCCSDK_Releases#GCCSDK_GCC_3.4.6_Release_2

In this new version:
* Correction of Release 1 filename handling regression with GCC.
* Enabling of throwback for C preprocessor.
* Pass gcc include paths through to 'as' assembler. There are known limitations on the current assembler include path support concerning Unix and RISC OS style pathname syntax so we recommend using path variables when you want to specify assembler include directories.
* Allow suffix swapping in its include filenames and adding hdr/Hdr suffixes to its default suffix swap list. This allows RISC OS and cross compilation of same assembler sources which include OSLib headers.
* No longer supporting GCC @ comments. This is no longer needed for the GCCSDK build procedure and allows the @ as built-in variable by default i.e. without having to resort to the -objasm option.
* Assembler now supports all ARMv5E (XScale) instructions (i.e. not including the Thumb instructions).
* Fixed several miss-assemblings or unsupported corner cases: LFMFD, LDC/STC, PLD, LDR/STR(H,SH,SB), etc.
* Added testcases for future regression tests.
* Replacing AOF object in ALF file didn't work.
* Several code fixes improving its stability.
* Fix for C++ using SharedCLibrary. Examples Makefile updated to build hello world examples in different ways.
* Various documentation updates.
And lots more!

Steve of 7Th Software has now updated MoreDesk to version 1.10, this new version contains many bug fixes and tweaks so it's more usable.

Taken from CSA Announce post "MoreDesk allows you to organise your windows on over a space which is larger than the normal desktop. It does this by creating a grid of desktop spaces and by allowing you to select which of these is the one you are currently looking at.

Marc Zinnschlag has released V0.20 of DScript, a new data compiler from the author of Graphite.

DScript is handy for writing map or level editors and has lots of other uses too.

Steven Simpson has once again updated his back end for his Draw-to-SVG Converter.

They can both be downloaded from his site: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/ss/software/draw2svg/ and are quite small in size.

Gavin Wraith has updated his great application, Weave.

What is weave?
Taken from Gavin's homepage "Weave is a language for describing tagged text and, in particular, webpages. Why not use HTML? Because it has no provision for variables or functions. It has no abstraction facilities. By contrast Weave can be used as simply as HTML, but gives you a lot more descriptive power. You can create a whole website with a single Weave script. Alternatively you can split a website description up among various Weave scripts, each specialised for different aspects, e.g. content versus page furniture, site structure from the visual aspects of the navigation furniture, and so on. Objects common to more than one page need never be duplicated. In a word, Weave is a lot more powerful and abstract than HTML."

R-Comp have released a new Virtual RiscPC computer called the RisCube MINI.

If you like an occasional game of ELITE or your name is Simon Challands then you might be interested in a new game from Jason Tribbeck.

ACED has been tested on a RiscPC 710 with RISC OS 3.71 and should run on earlier machines.