^
News: Drobe Despatches
New Organizer developer, RISC OS on
Pandora, Drobe's Best of 2008,
stiltwalking adverts.
Chris Williams
\1 3
^
News: Drobe Despatches
Netsurf form an organisation, notes on
overclocking StrongARMs, using Firefox
with online banking.
Chris Williams
\1 5
^
News: Drobe Despatches
Firefox with Natwest, RISC OS Ltd/E14
licence leaked, user poll for the new
year.
Chris Williams
\1 6
^
Archive-online offline
Network printing, logging errors in
Hermes, Windows email files, using
Uniprint to send and receive faxes.
Bernard Boase
\1 7
^
Archive-online offline
Printing from Netsurf, embedding fonts
in PDF files, displaying PDFs, Riscript
problems, Artworks.
Bernard Boase
\1 8
^
Archive-online offline
Zap and HTML mode, sharing files by FTP,
file-transfer integrity.
Bernard Boase
\1 10
^
Free to share: PD column
A special report from Steve on the
current status of the work done by ROOL;
including bundled applications.
Steve Fryatt
\1 12
^
Free to share: PD column
Searchy, Sitematch, Sitemap, Erase,
Stealth, Q-lock, Spook.
Steve Fryatt
\1 17
^
Hint&tip
Searching Wikipedia with Searchy
Paul Beverley
\1 17
^
Photographing Wildflowers
Choice of digital camera, positioning,
focusing, motion blur, depth of field,
macro setting, flash, and
post-processing.
Roger Darlington
\1 18
^
One and one makes two - part 2
I honestly don't know what this one is
about! Sounds impressive, though.
Gerald Fitton
\1 24
^
Hint&tip
Testing RiscPC VRAM at boot.
Jim Nagel & Steve Fryatt
\1 26
^
Holism - where does beauty lie?
Gerald Fitton
\1 31
^
Archive CD21: What's new?
New editor, URL changes, images, covers,
CSS, indexes, browser compatibility.
Chris Johnson
\1 33
^
Radar and RISC OS
Writeup of presentation by Denbridge
Marine to the RISC OS user group of
London.
Bernard Boase, Dan (dgs) and Colin
Wright
\1 36
^
Datapower: search keywords
Image display problem, searching, new
search method, the query, the function,
notes on searching.
Julian Fry
\1 44
^
Sound 22: testing, testing
Notes on testing audio equipment, and
examining the results.
Jim Lesurf
\1 48
^
Compiling with GCC 4.1.1 - part 7
Notes on GCC and modules.
Rob Johnson
\1 52
^
Puzzle Corner
Man in a boat with a box of old mags.
Gavin Wraith
\1 57
^
PC Bits
Zoom H4 portable digital recorder,
building a Linux box with openSuse.
Bimal Jangra
\1 58
^
Eureka! Crocodiles!
A Eureka article published in Archive.
Plus, photographic evidence of a
crocodile at the Southwest-Show.
Ron Briscoe
\1 62
^
Feedback: happy new volume!
Ernie Rutter, Chris Bell, Barry Jerome,
Gavin Smith
\1 63
^
Ednotes
On making room for the Vigay tribute,
and possibly enlisting a trainee for
editorial duty.
Jim Nagel
\2 2
^
Paul Vigay
Write-up of Paul's burial, and
celebration of his life.
Jim Nagel
\2 3
^
News: Drobe Despatches
Paul's tragic death, RISC OS on Arm
Cortex, Southwest reflections, RPCemu on
PuppyLinux, Acorns spotted on TV.
Chris Williams
\2 10
^
News: In a nutshell
Picsel sues Apple, Quantumsoft now all
in public domain, RISC OS-using maths
teacher wanted, Impact DB survey.
Chris Williams
\2 13
^
The Southwest Show 2009
Luafox, Artgraph and Flicker, Safestore,
Web Wonder and Gedcom, RISC OS Ltd,
Qercus, Puppy Linux, Artworks,
Techwriter.
John Peachey
\2 14
^
The Southwest Show 2009
Gutenprint, Postscript3 project, RISC OS
Ltd. Coming up next: Wakefield, and Big
Ben Club.
John Peachey.
\2 17
^
Club news
London: Netsurf 2 progress. Northeast:
networking. Derbyshire: AGM; and new
"remote member" category for
subscriptions.
\2 18
^
Free to share: PD column
Q-Lock, Mail-Lock, Stealth, Stego,
Erase, Spook, Sitematch, Graphtask,
Magic Mushrooms, Superdoku, Rename.
Steve Fryatt
\2 19
^
Free to share: PD column
MsgBoard, USB driver for Dream Cheeky
LED Message board. Kim, Searchy,
Fat32FS, Cashbook updates, Paul Vigay's
Texttidy.
Steve Fryatt
\2 22
^
Archive-online offline
A9home stable enough now? Lanman98 and
XP, FTP file transfer, ShareFS, ANT
Suite setup, private network addressing.
Bernard Boase
\2 24
^
Archive-online offline
Website link checking, PDFs on an
emulated RISC OS machine? Pipedream to
Windows, printers between OS versions.
Bernard Boase
\2 26
^
Archive-online offline
CDFS under ROS 6, SCSIspin, problems
after HD replacement, booting Iyonix
from different HD, nested window
manager.
Bernard Boase
\2 27
^
Archive-online offline
Terminate module, fonts appearing from
nowhere?, Texteffx. A wish that OHP
could export Powerpoint files.
Bernard Boase
\2 28
^
Puzzle corner
Big-dipper puzzle. Comments about last
month's "Magazines-in-the-lake"
puzzle.
\2 31
^
Still among my bookmarks
Web pages that suck, Good and bad,
unmaintainable code, what languages fix,
retrocomputing museum, Ivor Catt.
Gavin Wraith
\2 33
^
Still straggling: Rox
Notes on using Puppy Linux (and the Rox
filer) with an UMPC laptop.
Gavin Wraith
\2 34
^
That's a good question
On multiplication, multiple choice, good
and bad questions, graphing results,
analysis.
Gerald Fitton
\2 36
^
Sound 23 - Sound from vision
Extracting audio tracks from a DVD
(where the video is of no use). Plus an
aside on the performance of Fat32FS.
Jim Lesurf
\2 42
^
Hint&tip
Exporting a masked sprite from Netsurf.
Jim Nagel
\2 46
^
Datapower: indexes
Improving data retrieval performance in
Datapower databases with indexes.
Julian Fry
\2 47
^
Compiling with GCC 4.1.1 - part 8
Rob Johnson
\2 52
^
PC Bits
Identity theft (and people who deserve
it), and compatibility issues between
virus killers, firewalls, and Windows.
Bimal Jangra
\2 59
^
Feedback
Subscription gaffs and comments, using
Searchy with Wikipedia, lost Impression
cursor.
\2 63
^
ednotes
Busy busy, subscription prices, bank
details, "spring" cover by Chris
Jarman.
Jim Nagel
\3 2
^
News: Drobe Despatches
Netsurf 2 at Wakefield, mysterious VPod
announced by STD, end of Foundation Risc
World, what should ROL focus on now?
Chris Williams
\3 3
^
News: Drobe Despatches
Upcoming Amsterdam show, R-Comp
clearance, new ZFC (Zimmer Frame Club)
mailing list.
Chris Williams
\3 7
^
Free to share: PD column
Quantum Software's Blinds, Keystroke,
Tempdir, Impressive, Backit, Wimpinfo.
Steve Revill's Spr2BMP converter.
Steve Fryatt
\3 8
^
Free to share: PD column
Dave Coffin's DCRaw, Christopher Martin
updates his port of FFmpeg and MPGTX.
\3 12
^
hint&tip: Presentation software
Presentations with ArtWorks' multipage
feature, !OHP from CJE, !Fade.
\3 12
^
Backing up data
Notes on backing up data from your
Iyonix with an external USB harddrive
and Fat32FS.
Richard Ashbery
\3 13
^
Backing up with Safestore
Tutorial on using R-Comp's Safestore
application for backing up your
important files.
John Peachey
\3 15
^
Fun matching an old sign
A long, rambling story with hints and
tips, colours and fonts, various
software, and ending with a moral.
John Rickman
\3 18
^
That's a good question - part 2
The relevance of numbers and their
relationship to each other. John Donne,
arrays, matrices.
Gerald Fitton
\3 22
^
Mailing-label adventures
On maintaining and utilising automated
labelling systems, with Labella,
Organizer, CSVamp, Draw and Drawworks.
Chris Newman
\3 28
^
Sound 24 - Radiotimes is born
Using DigitalCD to stream Internet radio
and make data recordings.
Jim Lesurf
\3 32
^
Datapower: thumbnails
More on generating JPEG thumbnails and
using them in your database.
Julian Fry
\3 36
^
Compiling with GCC 4.1.1 - part 9
Multi-source compilations, duplicated
headers, multithreading, mangling.
Rob Johnson
\3 41
^
Feedback
Hills are alive, valleys too; Paper to
ashes, data to disc
Kay Williams and Gordon Lindsay Jones
\3 47
^
ednotes
Postscript 3 premiere, Archive hiatus.
Jim Nagel
\4 2
^
News updates
ARM-powered 'smarttop' launched by
Texas outfit, Viewfinder is back!,
London show at Heathrow, Andrew Rawnsley
gets married.
Jim Nagel
\4 3
^
News updates
Acorn users in RSA cracking competition,
Netsurf team needs a RISC OS coder,
Firefox update.
Jim Nagel
\4 5
^
News updates
Richard Brown takes over Orpheus, Louie
Smith moves back to Cambridge, new
online RISC OS magazine
"drag'n'drop".
Jim Nagel
\4 6
^
News updates
Paul Beverley now awarded qualification
in Editorial Skills, cautionary tale of
a Skype account hijacking.
Jim Nagel
\4 7
^
Acorn World in retro-land
Preview of the Retro Reunited / Acorn
World show, in Huddersfield - including
Steve Furber talk!
Jim Nagel
\4 7
^
Postscript 3 on October 3
Postscript 3 driver for RISC OS to be
released at the London Show.
Jim Nagel
\4 10
^
Drobe Despatches
RISC OS running on Beagle Board, "Micro
Men" TV show, Netsurf, Organizer, RISC
OS upgrade, online file conversion.
Chris Williams
\4 14
^
Wakefield Show 2009 Report
Stuart Tyrell's Vpod, RISC OS upgrades,
Sine Nomine's Impact database, Patience
card games, Superdoku and Drawprint.
John Peachey
\4 18
^
Wakefield Show 2009 Report
Centre for Computing History, Joel
Rowbottom's Domesday System, Photodesk
and Tablemate from CJE.
John Peachey
\4 21
^
Wakefield Show 2009 Report
Mathmagical Software's Flicker and Abut
applications, Netsurf 2, Artworks,
Archive, Steve Fryatt's Cashbook.
John Peachey
\4 21
^
Wakefield Show 2009 Report
Datapower and Genealogy software from
R-Comp, theatre talks from 7th Software,
ROL, Mathmagical, Artworks, ROOL.
John Peachey
\4 22
^
Products Available
Organizer 2 from North One
Communications, Safestore from R-Comp.
Hutch Curry
\4 26
^
Archive-online offline
Connecting to a Mac, ShareFS trouble,
forwarding e-mails, Organizer backup,
"smudged" PDF files.
Bernard Boase
\4 27
^
Archive-online offline
Setting mimemap to recognise Gedcom
files, Doubletake module, unplugging
modules, fan on RPC power supply.
Bernard Boase
\4 28
^
Free to share: PD column
StrongED update, latest version of
Netsurf, new Patience games, Superdoku,
Drawprint, VNC server, Cashbook.
Steve Fryatt
\4 30
^
Free to share: PD column
Groupcheck utility for Messenger Pro,
Quickfiler.
Steve Fryatt
\4 34
^
Radio! Radio!
Recording radio programmes to USB
sticks, decoding AAC, plus a list of
useful abbreviations.
Jim Lesurf
\4 34
^
Sound update from Down Under
Tips on making MP3s and using FFmpeg
with RISC OS machines.
Christopher Martin
\4 37
^
Furore over Phorm
What is Phorm?, how does Webwise work?,
why all the fuss?, objections, legal
issues, what can you do about it?
Nat Queen
\4 40
^
Pennies from heaven
Probability matrices, decision making,
the maximum expectation.
Gerald Fitton
\4 44
^
Datapower: delving into JPEGs
New Datapower release, EXIF information,
the JPEG file format.
Julian Fry
\4 49
^
Compiling with GCC 4.1.1
C++ with libscl, C++ with C I/O,
multithreading again, weak references
again, wide characters, modules.
Rob Johnson
\4 53
^
PC Bits
Photos on holiday, mobile phones,
Windows 7.
Bimal Jangra
\4 59
^
Samba adventures
Problems moving files between Iyonix and
PC.
Jacques Haubrich
\4 62
^
ednotes
Catching up, end of Drobe Despatches,
cover by Christopher Jarman.
Jim Nagel
\5 2
^
Newsbriefs
See you at the London Show, Micro Men,
Midlands Christmas Show, Calenders with
Calibre, Drobe in Archive mode,
multi-client print server.
\5 3
^
Newsbriefs
VRMLEyes update, Avalanche VNC client
moves to new site.
Jim Nagel
\5 5
^
Free to share: PD column
Snapper for taking screen grabs,
Netsurf's summer of code, SchemEd
circuit diagram editor, Zipper frontend.
Steve Fryatt
\5 6
^
Free to share: PD column
Taxcalc spreadsheet, IcnClipBrd.
Steve Fryatt
\5 10
^
Beagle and work at Rougol
Report on s recent Rougol meeting about
RISC OS development on the Beagle Board.
Bernard Boase
\5 10
^
Retro weekend in Huddersfield
Report of the September Retro Reunited /
Acorn World show in Huddersfield,
including talk by Steve Furber.
Steve Fryatt
\5 12
^
The Furber Report - Part 1 of 2
First half of a special report on Steve
Furber's presentation at the Wakefield
RISC OS Computer Club.
Ian Macfarlane
\5 16
^
Safestore dynasty
Notes on a grandfather-father-son backup
strategy with Safestore.
Richard Mellish
\5 24
^
Lateral thinking
The sticky sweet problem, simultaneous
equations, matrices, matrix division,
philosophical models of the universe.
Gerald Fitton
\5 25
^
Image-processing
Calibrating your monitor, cropping and
scaling images, historgrams, gamma
correction, colour saturation.
Roger Darlington
\5 31
^
Linux newbie and a curate's egg
Jim resorts to Linux to continue with
his experiments in Internet radio
recordings.
Jim Lesurf
\5 36
^
Crunched code and compilation
The differences between Lua and BASIC,
disassembling Lua files, crunching
BASIC.
Gavin Wraith
\5 39
^
Compiling with GCC 4.1.1 - part 11
Multithreading and timeslicing for RISC
OS.
Rob Johnson
\5 44
^
Gutenprint on VA for Mac
Notes on printing via Gutenprint on a
RISC OS installation hosted on a Mac.
Chris Bass
\5 49
^
Datapower: direct email
Being able to send automated e-mails
from your Datapower database.
Julian Fry
\5 52
^
PC Bits
Synthesizers at the DARC club, notes on
the impending Windows 7, first
impressions.
Bimal Jangra
\5 58
^
My first computer love
Robin's nostalgia on being introduced
to the BBC Micro in school.
Robin Barnard
\5 62
^
ednotes
New writer Nicholas Cutler, Christmas
card design with RISC OS, annual
computer maintenance.
Jim Nagel
\6 2
^
Newsbriefs
MUG RISC OS Show, Artworks on
Beagleboard, Wakefield show announced,
Andrew Rawnsley married.
Jim Nagel
\6 3
^
Newsbriefs
Vigay inquest adjourned, Domain
registration, custom pinboards, where is
John Williams?, Windows 7 on RiscCube.
Jim Nagel
\6 6
^
Newsbriefs
Sophie Wilson in Finland, Star Fighter
on Beagleboard.
Jim Nagel
\6 7
^
The London Show 2009
Paul Middleton on RISC OS 6, Bernard
Veasey on helpdesk, Steve Fryatt selling
CDs of his software for charity.
Christopher Dewhurst
\6 8
^
The London Show 2009
Retro Software, Retro Clinic, Martin
Wurthner's Postscript 3, Martin
Avison's Organizer 2, Mathmagical,
Riscoscode.
Christopher Dewhurst
\6 9
^
The London Show 2009
New online RISC OS magazine
Drag'n'drop.
Christopher Dewhurst
\6 12
^
Free to share: PD column
Prettier pinboards with Decor, Transient
temporary file storage, Ray Favre's
Calibre, David Thomas' Toolbar.
Steve Fryatt
\6 13
^
Free to share: PD column
Harriet Bazley's Textseek, Dave
Higton's print-server JDServer, USB
Novelty drivers, Kevin Wells'
Formfiller.
Steve Fryatt
\6 15
^
Free to share: PD column
Steve Revill's Basvars BASIC analysis
program.
Steve Fryatt
\6 17
^
Archive-online offline
Undated e-mails in Messenger Pro,
blocking accidental URL clicking,
alternatives to ChangeFSI.
Bernard Boase
\6 18
^
Archive-online offline
Editing and spellchecking HTML files,
colour models, mailmerging in Lua,
directory tree apps, deleting scrap.
Bernard Boase
\6 19
^
Archive-online offline
Tailored monitor modes with Makemodes,
using PCI network cards on the Iyonix
rather than the motherboard NIC.
Bernard Boase
\6 21
^
The Furber Report - Part 2
Asynchronous processing, parallel
processing, emulating the human brain,
questions from the audience.
Ian Macfarlane
\6 22
^
It's only natural
Natural numbers.
Gerald Fitton
\6 27
^
The secret life of algorithms - part 1
Introduction to a series on alorithms
and computation, starting with sorting
algorithms.
Nicholas Cutler
\6 35
^
The Mad Scientist Invents
... an HTML template generator.
Roger Darlington
\6 38
^
Infuse - for building a website
Gavin Wraith
\6 40
^
Sound stages
Notes on Linux digital-to-analogue
convertors, listing to iPlayer.
Jim Lesurf
\6 42
^
Datapower: direct email
Sending e-mail direct from Datapower.
Julian Fry
\6 46
^
Christmas-card teamwork
Notes on creating Christmas cards on the
Iyonix.
Barry Jerome
\6 51
^
Compiling with GCC 4.1.1 - part 12
Multithreading, mutex locking.
Rob Johnson
\6 52
^
PC Bits
Making things greener in PC land, notes
on Windows 7, notes on CPU widths and
RAM limitations.
Bimal Jangra
\6 58
^
Puzzle Corner
Gavin Wraith
\6 62
^
Ednotes
Archive is small ... but perfectly
formed!
Jim Nagel
\8 2
^
Newsbriefs
Sophie Wilson at ROUGOL, Wakefield
headlines, Big Ben Club in Amsterdam,
Midlands show, London show, retro show
in Blackpool.
\8 3
^
Virtual Acorn in Use - Update 1
Old hardware, more feedback = more
articles, Mac question, PC malware, Q&A,
backing up, maintaining your PC.
T.O.M.S.
\8 4
^
Free to share: PD column
Jigsaw puzzle generator, adventure games
with Baabe, backdrop changers,
bookmaker, slideshows, superdoku,
jdserver, missile.
Steve Fryatt
\8 9
^
Curves are better
Describing curves mathematically.
Points, quadratics, cubics, matrices,
Beziers, solving it all with Fireworkz.
Gerald Fitton
\8 13
^
Datapower: external scripts
A novel way of using Datapower script
files (from the DPGrecord application).
Julian Fry
\8 19
^
Sound 26 - Making Waves
All about things to do with WAV files
and their format.
Jim Lesurf
\8 24
^
Progress through applications
Linux and the Rox desktop, inside a Rox
app, terminal variety.
Jim Lesurf
\8 27
^
Mad Scientist invents ...
A Webpage cross-referencer.
Roger Darlington
\8 31
^
Archive-online offline
Newshound and Eternal September,
Resolver, URLs in emails, Linux on
Iyonix.
Bernard Boase
\8 34
^
Archive-online offline
Saving taskwindow contents, system
variable values into BASIC.
Bernard Boase
\8 36
^
Compiling with GCC 4.1.1 - Part 13
Levels of multithreading, preempt or
cooperate, problems on RISC OS,
timeslicing too.
Rob Johnson
\8 37
^
PC Bits
Windows 7, upgrade or not?, picking your
own e-mail client, bottom line.
Bimal Jangra
\8 43
^
Ednotes
New VirtualRPC booklet, cover is photo
of Mendip hills.
Jim Nagel
\7 2
^
Newsbriefs
Millennium+10 bug spurs Iyonix update,
Untardis app for fixing wrong dates,
Southwest show on Feb 20th, Netsurf 2.5
could be last one for RISC OS.
\7 3
^
Newsbriefs
ARM-powered Quadricopter, Vigay inquest
ends with open verdict, Webwonder on
show at Southwest, MUG show for December
2010, Big Ben club show in May 2010.
\7 5
^
Newsbriefs
Icon Bar awards, Gedcom conversion,
Avalanche moves home, earthquake
challenge, Sophie Wilson at Rougol.
\7 7
^
The Birmingham Show (Report)
Lua talk, Richard Windley demonstrates
his Fade application, new Riscube, but
where is everybody?
Richard Wheeler
\7 9
^
Webwonder - identity crisis
Using Webwonder to build your family
tree.
David Snell
\7 11
^
Whodo: a review
A review of Whodo, a HTML-based
Genealogy program. An offshoot of
Webwonder.
Gavin Wraith
\7 14
^
Luafox
How (and why) Michael developed Luafox
for RISC OS.
Michael Gerbracht
\7 18
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