Dear Foundation member, News from RISCOS Ltd No. 13 January 4th 2001 ================ Foundation Risc User CD 4 ------------------------- Due to the weather and postal problems in South Wales before Christmas Issue 4 of the CD has only just reached us. They will be sent out as fast as possible, but please don't phone or email to say you haven't received CD 4 for at least a week. Membership renewals ------------------- We have had many requests to be able to make payment of the Foundation membership fee by Direct Debit or Standing Order. Unfortunatley we are unable to offer Direct Debit payments, but a Standing Order request is being included with renewal forms being sent for January. If your renewal is not yet due, but you would like to pay by Standing Order in the future then the renewal form can be downloaded from the Foundation Web Site. http://foundation.riscos.com/ PS To encourage people to renew we have until now been sending these emails to both past and present member of the Foundation. However with effect from this Newsletter we will only be sending the emails to paid up Foundation members. RISC OS 32-bit software forward compatibility release ----------------------------------------------------- The number of people downloading the beta version of the components required for users of the Acorn C/C++ development environment to produce RISC OS programs that will be compatible with future 32-bit only versions of RISC OS has been outstanding, with over 350 downloads by New Years Eve 2000. The beta software is freely available from the RISCOS Ltd Website at http://www.riscos.com/download/ A reporting scheme will be put in place shortly in order to improve the handling of bug reports relating to this and other RISC OS applications. In the meantime if you have any comments on the beta software release then please send them to mailto:support@riscos.com RISC OS 4.5 Beta testing ------------------------ We will be offering certain components of forthcoming RISC OS releases for beta testing over the forthcoming months. If you have experience of software testing and would like to take part in the test programme for RISC OS 4.5, and beyond, then please send details of your machine configuration and testing experience to mailto:admin@riscos.com RISC OS Magazines ----------------- As well as the commercial magazines mentioned in the last newsletter there are other magazines relating to RISC OS that are published. GAG News -------- German RISC OS magazine, published bi-monthly since April 1992. NB It is in German. Homepage http://www.gag.de Editor & Publisher Herbert zur Nedden Alte Landstrae 21 22962 Siek Germany mailto:HzN@HQ.gag.de If you have news of other magazines or CD's then please let us know. Forthcoming events ------------------ RISCOS 2001 Southwest Show -------------------------- Saturday 10th February 2001 from 10.00 - 4.30. Bring your machines to show off! or sell your unwanted items. ------------------------------------------------------------- As we mentioned in the last Newsletter as well as the usual dealers area, there is going to be a special enthusiasts area, where members of the Foundation, and anyone else can bring along their own machines to show off their skills and what equipment they have. If you are thinking of taking part in the coding competition which will be judged at the Wakefield Show in May then this could be a good opportunity for you to meet up with other possible collaborators. There will also be an indoor "Car Boot Sale" area, where for an initial £5 donation to the Charity Sale you will be able to have access to a 6 foot table to sell off any unwanted Acorn kit you have. If you would like to sell off your unwanted items, or bring your machine into this area please send an email to mailto:foundation@riscos.com so that we ensure that we have enough tables. Replying to queries from this Newsletter ---------------------------------------- If you are responding to a specific query in this newsletter please use the appropriate mailto: address to reply rather than replying to the sender of this email. Also don't reply to the general foundation or admin email addresses as your enquiry may not get dealt with promptly. We try to reply to all enquiries within 5 days. But at peak times it may take longer to reply. If you have received this email in error, or wish to be removed from this list then please send an email to mailto:foundation@riscos.com with the subject REMOVE regards -- Paul Middleton RISCOS Ltd ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright ©2001 RISCOS Ltd. RISC OS is a trademark of Pace Micro Technology plc. Certain other product names, brand names, and company names may be trademarks or designations of their respective owners.