Topic: Announcements

Emergency announcement




We regret to announce that David Atkins of MicroDigital has, due to a personal crisis, had to cancel his visit to Wakefield today.




David was looking forward to showing us the final working prototype and taking questions from visitors. Due to short notice, nobody else from MicroDigital was available to step in. David sends his apologies.




The Wakefield Acorn Computer Group meeting will still be taking place, but with an alternative event. This is likely to be a PD night, showing various bits of software on RISC OS.




We apologise for the short notice.

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.

Acorn User today announced that John Cartmell has joined the team as editor of the best-selling magazine for RISC OS users. He is at present assisting in the production of the
Christmas Issue of the magazine and will take over editorial control of Acorn User in time for the first issue of 2002. John has contributed to the News and Graphics columns of the magazine for over 12 months and has also written the RISC OS 4+ previews for the My RISC OS web portal.




Readers of the Acorn newsgroups may have noticed that John has already asked there for ideas that could be used to improve Acorn User and we would
like to take this opportunity to thank those of you who took the trouble to respond to that request. Some of those ideas will find their way into the magazine from January onwards.

I am setting up a RISC OS banner network, basiclly you put a banner on your RISC OS related website and your site will be advertised on other RISC OS related websites.
This is a free service, the only cost is putting a banner on your website.
To join click here

I've just uploaded some photos from RISC OS 2001. If you are interested, go to:


www.blastzone.demon.co.uk/news.html

Cerilica will naturally be attending the largest RISC OS Show to be held in the South of England on the 20/21st October. Being the first show that Cerilica Vantage (RISC OS' latest 'killer app') will be available over the counter, we are ensuring all visitors will have a great chance to see the package perform before their eyes. For this show, TRUISM 2.5 will presented for the first time illustrating exactly why Vantage will bring RISC OS into new professional publishing arenas. Optimisation has also taken place for users of the ViewFinder video graphics upgrade to provide enhanced redraw speeds.

The AAUG stand at the RISC OS 2001 show will feature the first ever public appearance of the infamous Phoebe - RiscPC2

Many rumours have existed about whether such a machine exists - and we can now silence all those sceptics who claimed that Phoebe never actually worked.

Complete with RevT StrongARM, IOMD2, VIDC20, PCI Slots and SDRAM (although lacking a CDROM and floppy!) Phoebe will be powered up and running so you can see how fast she actually would have been!!

For more information on the RISC OS 2001 show, and to purchase tickets, visit the show website at riscos2001.com

For more information on the AAUG, visit AAUG.net

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.
  

Here are the results of my little "What is your screen resolution and bitdepth whilst browsing" poll. This poll was specifically targeted at people using/interested in RISC OS, although they would not necessarily have to be using a RISC OS machine to do their browsing with. In short, the results should somewhat reflect the screen settings of people who are the target audience of RISC OS related websites.

The results of this little poll have helped me in making some decisions about the new design for our website and I post these results here in the hope that they may be useful to others as well.

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.