Category: News

Message from Sion Cleaver of Blasts of the Xtreme:

"Version 1.01 of Era of the Phoenix is being sent out to users via e-mail or post. So, if you own a legal copy of Era of the Phoenix, check your inbox!"

Adrian Lees ceased development of Cino many months ago as the current hardware did not allow Cino to run at a good enough speed.

So, instead of letting Cino gather dust on his hard disc, he has freely released it on his website. It is far from ready but it's the closest we're going to get for a RISC OS DVD player for quite a while!

You can download it from: http://adrian.aemulor.com/

Message from Sion Cleaver of Blasts of the Xtreme:

"Just in time for Christmas ;) We are pleased to announce the availabilty of our first product, Era of the Phoenix.

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

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/

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.

Louie Smith recently announced that he is planning to launch a new bimonthly magazine for RISC OS users and programmers.

With the RISC OS Roadshow looming fast (It's this week!), now is the time to get all those last minute Christmas software or hardware updates for your favourite OS.

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.

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...

News Roundup

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 :-(

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.