Category: Information

Although I had not known Mike as long as many others, I felt that we had become good friends over the last year or so. I often gave Mike a lift in the car to WACG meetings and will miss our little conversations on the journeys. Mike was very good at telling stories about his past and had some really interesting tales to tell.

Steve Potts - Wakefield Acorn Computer Group (Secretary)

On Wednesday 7th November 2001 David Atkins of MicroDigital will be talking at the Wakefield Acorn User Group's meeting.

Visitors are welcome (small fee for non-members).

David is coming to give the latest news on 'Omega' and we are hoping to see the final working prototype version....

The ANS Filebase (http://filebase.acornusers.org/), a directory of RISC OS software, has been significantly enhanced with the addition of a new interface and personalisation system.

The Wakefield Acorn Computer Group will be attending the North Wakefield Radio Rally this Sunday at:

Outwood Grange High School

Potovens Lane Outwood

Wakefield West Yorkshire WF1 2PF

Do come and visit the WACG stall at the rally, if you can make it.

Round #3 of the Codecraft Acorn Minimal Coding Competition is over. The results are available online at www.icebird.org. All entries can be downloaded from there as well.

Further to their newsgroup announcement a few days ago, Melotech has decided to reduce the price of the two second-user RiscPCs they are selling.



Get a StrongARM system for a mere £229.99 including delivery in the United Kingdom. No VAT to pay.



There are just two machines and this is a one-off offer. First come, first served.



Visit Melotech's special offer page.

Once again, I am apologising for the lack of response to email that may have been sent to mail@riscos.org.uk or info@riscos.org.uk. I don't know why, but the 'catch all' facility has just ceased to work. I was not aware of this - the problem I fixed was on my RiscPC.

Thanks to Ian Macfarlane, a riscos.org.uk user,I have been made aware of this and have fixed the problem.

All enquiries should now be emailed to domains@riscos.org.uk.

This has been tested and found to work.

Apologies for the problems. Please do resend any requests to the above address and I will be happy to action them.

6:30pm for 7:15pm Wednesday 19th September (Latest Update)

Included in this meeting will be

• An update on the My RISC OS portal (http://www.myriscos.co.uk/) by Jeremy Coates of Co-Comp Ltd.
  
• Paul Middleton (Managing Director, RISCOS Ltd) demonstrating, and answering questions on, RISC OS 4+ and the Select Scheme.
  

As webmaster of acornuser.com I would like to begin by apologising for the lack of a link from the web site to the location of the CDs which have been there since the beginning of the week. Unfortunately the upload of these CDs coincided with me having to wade through a lot of paperwork regarding personal matters and so links to the CDs were not made until last night. However, I accept no responsibility for the good or bad quality of the structure of what would have been on the CD. Any broken links within the contents of the would-be CD are dealt with by a third party. I was only asked to link to those CDs as soon as they were uploaded. Again, I'd like to apologise for any inconvenience caused by this and will endeavour to avoid this problem again.

[A link to The CD's]

The deadline for codecraft #3 has ended.




Now it is up to you to vote the best entries!




See www.icebird.org for details.




30th September 2001 is the closing date for voting!

Note: Codecraft #3 is a RISC OS minimal coding competition split into 3 categories: 1k Game & Demo, 2k Tool & 4k Game & Demo

This month at WACG it is the return of Mike Cook.





Mike is going to give us his views on how it all began, how Micro User
originally got off the ground, including the readers‘ letters, and how the
amateur micro computing movement grew, and then withered. Finally he will
give a look into the future — as he sees it.

Well My RISC OS is now just over a week old!

The stats are quite amazing and just a little more than was expected ;-)

Thanks to you all and I hope that things continue to be this encouraging.

Following feedback from users, the Avatar List now shows the graphic number/name, so no excuse for you having the default number 1 anymore!

RComp today have sent out a fix for all users of their Webster XL package for the !Webfetch application after finding a small problem when using MyRiscos.co.uk.

If you have not recieved this yet (or are not on the priority user list), please contact RComp for the upgrade.

email : rcomp@rcomp.co.uk

Note: The My RISCOS effect starts to be noticed! :-)

The idea behind #riscos is to provide an IRC channel where people can discuss RISC OS, without being drowned out by off-topic discussion, such as irrelevant arguments about Linux or Windows.




New users will be welcomed, as we all know what it's like to be new. You are encouraged to ask as many questions as you need, and you may join in with any discussion which is going on. Discussions can be about any aspect of RISC OS, or hardware which runs RISC OS.




We have a number of users who regularly join the channel, who have expertise in certain areas. A list is available on the website so you can check who best to address your questions to.




Check out the new redesigned #riscos website

See the Web Links area for the address for the Internet Chess Client for RiscOS - !NetChess.




It's written by the author of !FTPc, Colin Granville, so you know it has to be good.




I have it and want to be able to play more RISC OS users at one of the best games around.




Check it out now!! :-)