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On Tuesday 26th March, BAUG (prn. "borg") - the Bottisham Acorn User Group, near Cambridge - will be playing host to a VERY special presentation, by an un-named company...

Note: Unfortunately, this event was postponed at the very last minute. On usenet, it was noted that this was a provisional arrangement.

Please can those submitting ensure that if there is a change, we are told so we can update the announcement previously made?

Thanks

Not really RISC OS, but...

On ZDnet there's a bit of Info about this at LinuxWorld.

A colour screen, a 206MHz Intel StrongARM processor, a tiny pull-out keyboard, rechargeable batteries, CompactFlash and Secure Digital expansion slots, and 64MB of memory

I wonder if it would run RISC OS? Oh! Wait! That's RON isn't it!

For all those people eagerly awaiting the new Riscstation portable, it appears that there is not long to wait now. February is believed to be the time of release for a limited number of machines initially.

Riscstation have recently updated their website (after a very long period of inactivity).

Let's hope that this announcement is echoed at BETT this week and the the education market is given a chance to run RISC OS, out and about once more.

CJE Micros have managed to find a small number of PRM 5 manuals, so if you want one, you'll need to be quick

These are NOT the PRM 5a manuals (the major difference being 5a had the internet stuff in it), but it is none-the-less a good investment.

Price : 20UKP (+5UKP P&P)

Simtec Electronics have a September Clearance Sale with lots of products for the older RISC OS machines.



Items include processor and memory upgrades, hard drives and interfaces, floppies and RISC OS 3. Everything on offer in the sale is under £100!

RISCOS Ltd have released more information on Select, a newer version of !Printers (1.64a - with a cryptic message saying the fully featured version is on Select - does this mean those who don't want Select have to put up with a crippled version?)and more info for programmers about Select.

With more and more info being released on Select, the list is now looking good, except for a few points - it's still a large number of bug fixes and doesn't provide any sign of where it is leading to! Without the knowledge of where we will get with Select, combined with the current feeling of developers towards ROS Ltd, it will remain to be seen if it will do much to stimulate large scale developments.

Brilliant - except for one thing, the website is hideously broken (the front page links lead to nowhere!) so it may take a while to find what you're looking for.

(This was written at 17:20 [27/8/01] - it may have changed)

In related noises, support for 3.7 is no more. No real suprise there as ROS Ltd don't have access to the sources for 3.7!

While this is good in two ways (forcing people to get up to date OS and machines, removal of legacy) it is also bad (people don't want to upgrade or rely on legacy). With companies long since left the platform for updating the legacy code, this seems self defeating....

The press release is now out and you can get advanced tickets, info on how to get to the show and all other fun things from the website www.riscos2001.com.

There is plently of public transport and the venue is a lot easier to get to that previous years (it's now at the Blue Mountain Golf and Conference centre, Binfield, Berks instead of being squished as it was for the last two shows!)

• Advanced prices : £4
  
  
• On the door : £5
  
  
• Kids under 12 free with adult.
  

If you don't fancy buying over the net, you can buy by post.

Send a cheque (payable to The ARM Club) to

RISC OS 2001 Advanced Sales

45 Hillview Close

Purley

Surrey

CR8 1AU

A full list of exhibitors can be found here and it does look impressive!

News Flash!

Tickets are now available to be bought online. Get 'em while their fresh!

Well, RComp have done it again.

Not content with producing the most frequently updated web browser around for 30 quid (as well as their other internet solutions software), they're now making WXL even better value for money by bundling with it plug ins for PDF, Flash and a few others - for the same price!

What makes this even better value is the fact that RComp also send out the software updates pretty frequently and for free.

Though WXL does have it's detractors, it is certainly one of the most up to date and powerful RISC OS browsers around.

For more information, contact RComp.

The Register Reports : Intel eases XScale into Symbian phones.




"Intel is to provide hardware kits to help Symbian licencees produce 2.5G and 3G phones using the former's XScale processor. "



The XScale ships in September according to the article

ZDNet reports: Advanced RISC Machines(ARM) yesterday unveiled more details of its ARM 10 architecture, at the Hot Chips Conference at Stanford University.

Due to popular request Quantum Software have created a Mailing list for their ever popular RISC OS Keystroke program.

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  http://www.quantumsoft.co.uk/keystroke/
  

If you own (or are thinking of owning) a copy of !Keystroke then subscribe to the list by sending a blank email to:

• keystrokelist-subscribe@quantumsoft.co.uk
  

Keystroke is a sophisticated macro-making program that allows the user to control their Desktop environment in a automated way.

Already, within 2 days of the launch, My RISC OS has moved on to its own server (I got bored hacking about!) ;-)




Some people may have to wait a little while for their ISPs DNS servers to start pointing to the new place. However if you are reading this, then you are in the new place already!