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• Wrangler 1.03 released - Sine Nomine Software are pleased to announce Wrangler 1.03, which adds
  a fourth puzzle type to its range of mathematical puzzles.
  The new puzzle is "Binary", where you complete a grid with the numbers
  0 and 1 to satisfy simple rules:
  (a) each row or column must contain equal numbers of 0 & 1 (or one
• Drag 'n Drop Volume 3 Issue 02 Winter 2012 is now on-line - Volume 3 Issue 02 of Drag 'n Drop is now online and available to
  download from [link].
  Features in this edition include the continuation of the series of
  articles relating to different sorting techniques, designing parallel
  line patterns, rotating areas in Draw and a new series looking at
• Form Filler Updated To Version 1.14 - Hi,
  I've just uploaded a new version of Form Filler to version 1.14 which
  has been confirmed to work with the Armini.
  New in this version is bring iconbar to the front button which came in
  with version 1.13 which for some reason I never released.
  Two new iconbar menu items being Open Slim Window and Open Mini Window
• Wakefield Club meeting - 1st February - WAKEFIELD RISCOS COMPUTER CLUB
  MEETING on Wednesday 1st February 2012
  How to Find Software for RISC OS
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  Newly-elected committee member Steve Fryatt will be talking about the
  various ways that users can find new and updated software from the
• New Fireworkz Pro update available - R-Comp is pleased to announce a new release of Fireworkz Pro, the
  popular integrated Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Database system for
  RISC OS.
  The main improvements in this release have been to Excel import, with
  significant enhancements to the handling of later .xls format files
  (there are several versions of the .xls format). The release also

Drobe

• BBC4's Micro Men: an interview and review - Ahead of tonight's Micro Men programme, which charts the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair and Acorn Computers in the early 1980s, drobe.co.uk spoke to the film's producer, Andrea Cornwell, to find out more about the show - and now you can read our review of the film
• 'Threaded' Firefox for RISC OS build released to test - An experimental build of the RISC OS port of Firefox that promises a smoother experience has been released for people to test. You'll need the latest 2.0.0.20 version and then replace its executable with the one from here. The technical bit: developer Peter Naulls has moved the browser's polling for user interaction into a separate thread to aid multitasking with the rest of the RISC OS desktop.
• In brief: Acorn World show this weekend - Archive editor Jim Nagel summarises what to expect at the retro-themed show. Official website here [Update 2] A report by iconbar.com's Phil Mellor of the sell-out show is here - with pictures
• RISCOScode.com webzine publishes autumn issue - Drobe man Martin Hansen has updated his personal web publishing endeavour, RISCOScode.com, with a new issue for the autumn. It includes interviews with an organiser of the inaugural London RISC OS show, to be held in October 2009, and Richard Hallas, plus more bits and pieces. Go check it out. It's free.
• Tanks a lot! Double USB toy driver joy - RISC OS USB guru Dave Higton has released drivers for two remote-controlled gadgets: an 'executive mayhem' tank and a mini car. Get ready to order your armoured, missile-firing kit into position and destroy your office colleagues, or instead swap your computer's circuits for your own race track with a remote-controlled banger. The source code is available and the software should work on Simtec and Castle USB stacks.

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• Newsround - Here's a quick roundup of everything that's happened over the past few weeks.New software releases
• Oldschool Reviews - Burn 'Out - It's about time we had another one of these, isn't it? As you've probably guessed, this time I'm looking at Burn 'Out, an arcade-style racing game released by Oregan in 1995, and rather heavily influenced by the arcade classic Power Drift.
• Audio news quickie - Andre Timmermans, author of DigitalCD, has released an update to his tracker music playing module TimPlayer. The new version adds support for several new tracker file formats, as well as including many other changes and fixes.
• Have I Got Old News For You - Here's a quick round up of all the interesting things that have happened over the past few months that we didn't find the time to report on.ROOL bounty scheme
• Getting Unicode Working With RISC OS 4 (and 6?) - What is Unicode?

MyRISCOS

• Voting now open for the RISCOScode Awards 2011 - RISCOScode is running this year's RISC OS OscarsHere's how you can join in and vote...
• Charm version 2.4.9 released - Charm version 2.4.9 [32 bit] the set of high level language tools and demos for RISC-OS computers and emulators is now freely available under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 license.
• NetSurf 2.8 released - The NetSurf developers have made available the newest stable version of RISC OS' premier web browser, NetSurf. 2.8 sees a number of major improvements and fixes over previous versions, and as always, it's free to download - http://www.netsurf-browser.org. NetSurf is also available for other platforms, BeOS/Haiku, Linux, AmigaOS and Atari are amongst the supported systems. In order to run on a RISC OS system, RISC OS 4.02, 6 or 5.07 is required as a minimum, as well as a number of modules which can be downloaded freely online.
• Operating System update for ARMini owners - R-Comp Interactive have released an Operating System upgrade (to RISC OS 5) to ARMini users, this new update contains a bundle of new features and polishes up the overall ARMini experience.
• Messenger Pro 6.03 now available - R-Comp have released version 6.03 of Messenger Pro to registered users. This update provides better compatibility with all RISC OS machines, and makes it much simpler to switch users "on the fly", thanks to new toolbar buttons. The application's printing features have also been improved. Messenger Pro is RISC OS' most feature-rich email application, it is fully compatible with any modern RISC OS machine, 26-bit or 32-bit. Messenger Pro is now compatible with ARMini and BeagleBoard computers and is available to purchase directly from R-Comp.

RISC OS Open

• ROOL Christmas break - The RISC OS Open team will be taking a long-overdue break for the festive season from the 22nd December to the 2nd January (inclusive). During that period, we will not be responding to email enquiries or processing orders, but will catch up again when we’re back.Have a happy Christmas and here’s to a prosperous New Year!
• Bug tracker temporarily offline - A fault has developed in our bug tracker that causes it to consume all CPU on our web server when we attempt to start it. The problem seems related to the Subversion repository and causes sufficient load of the back-end database that the rest of the web site becomes unable to respond – this was the cause of our brief site down time earlier this week.I’m investigating the problem but other commitments mean it may be a while before it can be resolved. In the mean time, if you have bugs to report or discuss, please use the bugs forum.Thanks for your patience!
• USB sticks available from ROOL site - ROOL are very happy to announce the immediate availability of two different ROOL-branded USB sticks to buy from the ROOL store.These sticks represent a proud milestone for RISC OS Open; we’ve been working towards creating a stand-alone RISC OS solution for Windows and Mac users since we formed in 2006. Thanks to everyone who made this possible!
• Changes to the Bounty scheme - ROOL are pleased to announce that we are refreshing the list of bounties available on our bounties page. We’ve expired a couple of bounties which aren’t really attracting any interest and we will be rolling-out a couple of new bounties for things which we believe are very important items for the roadmap of RISC OS development. Keep watching this space… :)
• New offers and new prices for the latest Developer Tools - RISC OS Open is pleased to announce the formal release of version 22 of the ROOL Desktop Development Environment (DDE) tools. Building upon the interim version 21, which was released earlier this year, the main feature of these releases is a major upgrade to the assembler ObjAsm and its associated documentation. ROOL is also announcing new reduced prices and special offers.ObjAsm UpdatesObjAsm now fully supports the new UAL variant of the ARM instruction set, including over 400 new instructions. UAL syntax is supported up to ARMv7, VFPv4 and NEON™, for CPUs up to the Cortex™-A9. Pre-UAL syntax for ARM and Thumb is extended to its final version for ARMv6 and VFPv3. A significant number of extensions to the supporting assembly language have also been added, many of which have up to now only been available in ObjAsm’s counterpart in ARM’s RVDS™ toolchain, and the ObjAsm manual (supplied in PDF format) has been fully revised and updated so you can make best use of these.All the new instructions, and some related new relocation types, are fully supported by Link and the disassembly tool DecAOF. An extension to the AOF object file format, to support new types of floating point linkage (mainly related to the introduction of VFP support) is supported in ObjAsm, Link and DecAOF.Other UpdatesUpdated versions of SparkFS and !PDF are included. Squeeze has been adapted for compatibility with the A9Home. There have been a number of bugfixes to various components too. For full details, see here and here.