Topic: Announcements

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.

With the the Wakefield 2005 show now less than two weeks away (21st / 22nd May), Chris Hugues, Wakefield Show Organiser has sent us a news update.

Castle have announced a £350 CASHBACK offer on new Iyonix computers from now until the UK
General Election is over.

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...

Chris Hughes, show organiser has contacted us with more details about the forthcoming show.

Mike Glover of Icon Technology wrote to us a little while ago about the availability of Easiwriter and Techwriter 8.31, thanks to the efforts of Martin Wuerthner.

The new versions are fully 26/32 bit compatible meaning they will run on anything from RISC OS 3.5 to RISC OS 5.

BOGOFF in the January Sale

Stuart Tyrrell Developments have announced a special Unipod upgrade offer for the month of January - Buy One, Get One For Free.

STD are encouraging take up of Unipod by offering extra function enablement for free.

Almost as though it were a Happy New Year wish to the RISC OS community, the Wakefield RISCOS Computer Club have today announced their annual computer show is again set for May this year.

This is the 10th year of the show and will hopefully be just as good if not better than those of recent years. Again the show is to be a 2 day event over the weekend of the 21st / 22nd of May.

Chris Hughes, Show Organiser sent the press release below:

At last we can all breathe a sigh of relief, now that the reported dispute between RISCOS Ltd. and Castle Technology Ltd. is officially over. Many will agree that this has not come a moment too soon.



The agreement came from a meeting held yesterday, chaired by Icon Technology's Mike Glover (Thanks Mike, We're sure that we echo many people's appreciation of your time in helping to reach this agreement). Thanks also to all the parties involved for managing to work together for the common good.
Let's hope this marks the beginning of a new era of cooperation within the RISC OS market.



Today's joint press release has been included below:

Yesterday, MicroDigital put an updated item on their Newsdesk web page about a new updated FPGA Image (the chip that allows them to implement their "Soft - Hardware").

We've received a short press release from STD this afternoon stating that they are to close for seven days to allow them to minimise losses and review recent market changes.

Just to update on the current situation with regard to legal discussions over RISCOS Ltd's licence...

Paul Middleton was apparently travelling when news broke of the Castle Technology statement, but Drobe managed to get hold of a communication from Paul Middleton in which RISCOS Ltd totally refute all allegations. See Drobe's posting of the full statement.

Although this news was posted out by Castle before the statement about RISC OS legal issues, we've not had chance to post both until now, and thought that the legal one should be posted first.

Castle have announced the immediate availability of a new 1GB version of the Panther - The Panther TC.

Following reports here and elsewhere on the net, Castle Technology Ltd. have today issued a statement about the legal dispute between previously unnamed parties.

We have included the statement in full at the bottom of this item.

Stuart Tyrrell Developments have sent us a press release about their Generic MassFS product for the Simtec USB card. We've not included the entire release but the main highlights can be found below...

Stuart Tyrrell Developments are pleased to announce the immediate availability of an extension of their MassFS mass-storage drivers for the Simtec/STD USB card, MassFS V1.00