RISCOS Ltd. have taken over allocation of resources from Pineapple. The resources in question are things like filetypes, application names, SWI numbers and so on to make sure there are no clashes; although some resources are left open for PD usage, this is an important service for serious programmers. Kudos to Pineapple for keeping the system going for so long after Acorn went under, but I guess it does make more sense for the people responsible for the OS to handle OS resource allocation.
Cybervillage are reporting that the first RISC OS Select scheme CDs will be posted on September 1st, with around a week to get all the discs out.
Martin Wuerthner, he of the awesome collection of ArtWorks extension modules, has managed to reverse engineer the GDraw module that handles ArtWorks rendering and fix a major bug. It appears that a limitation in the number of bytes per pixel row meant that you couldn't view ArtWorks files in large, colourful desktop modes, which caused problems for owners of Viewfinder graphics cards and also when saving large bitmaps (often necessary for sending to a printing bureau) using his own bitmap export module. Fixes available from http://www.mw-software.com/software/awmodules/awrender.html
Acorn User has a new online home and webmaster - take a bow Ben Brook. Unfortunately the move means the free ads section and news from the Icon Bar are down at the moment, but should be back up Real Soon Now.
And we don't usually post user group dates - although a section where groups can post their own events schedules has been talked about for some time - but Hemel Hempstead has their first meeting at the Boxmoor Lodge Hotel on London Road on Wednesday August 15th at 7pm (next to the traffic lights at Box Lane). The first meeting appears to be free, email paul@pstewart.freeserve.co.uk to confirm.
