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Games/books/etc for sale

Email received; I'll get back to you soon.

In other news: more stuff for sale!

Archive Magazine, issues from Dec '96 - Jan '99,may be a couple missing in between somewhere, I will check and specify in detail if anyone's interested. Cost of postage only.

Two dongles (!): Impression, Artworks. Cost of postage.

EasiWriter boxed with manuals. Fiver plus postage.

Acorn PocketBook II, 512k, boxed with manual. It's basically an Acorn-branded Psion Series 3A, but with 2MB ROM instead of the Psion's 1MB. Can be yours for a fiver plus postage.

VGA signal splitter. Requires 9V power source. Two quid plus postage.

Mechanical VGA switch (like a KVM switch but with VGA only). Two quid plus postage. Not sure about cables; I'll check that in the morning.

Almost every single Acorn User cover floppy. Cost of postage, but be warned there are a lot of them, so it could be expensive. If anyone's interested, I'll haul them down and weigh the bunch. Collection is a possibility, we're in southwest Scotland, on the M74 about 25 miles straight up from Carlisle.

Also, all the manuals and other unsold items above are still available. Photos available on demand if necessary.

[Edited by filecore at 23:12, 15/5/2008]

Posted by Jason Togneri (filecore) in General
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Things you still find your Iyonix useful for

I keep asking Windows users to do stuff that I take for granted on RISC OS

What, like selecting more than one menu item at a time after navigating through a million submenus to reach the place you wanted, because in Windows, to select three menu items, you have to go through the entire menu tree three times. Grrr.

Posted by Jason Togneri (filecore) in The Playpen
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Corruption

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wFC5kYortnE

thats the video there

Posted by P Scott (vanpeebles) in Games
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Things you still find your Iyonix useful for

I still genuinely fail to see how ex-RISC OS users can feel productive using Windows-based WP tools. I certainly couldn't envisage running my business on Windows apps. I guess it would be different if I was doing more on the pre-press side of things with CMYK and colour seps, but for everything else, RISC OS is infinately more productive. I keep asking Windows users to do stuff that I take for granted on RISC OS, and whilst it can be done, it is often laborious.

Now, I do agree with peter on 1, 2, 4 and 6. Gaming and media is still the domain of Windows, but for the rest of the time, RISC OS is still best for me.

Of course, I think it should be horses for courses. Use RISC OS for things that RISC OS is good at, and use Windows for things it is good at. Then everything's peachy....

Posted by Andrew Rawnsley (arawnsley) in The Playpen
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Things you still find your Iyonix useful for

Computing, when the apps are good the OS really doesn't matter very much.

I half agree with you.

But for Web Development I refuse to downgrade to an OS thats had 23 years to implement/steal some form of a decent drag and drop system and hasn't yet managed to do so.

OK, I half retract what I said above as I do agree with you. There are things that bug the hell out of me in Windows and OS X that would make RISC OS the ideal computing environment if only it could do <insert favourite image or video processing task here>.

Posted by Simon Wilson (ksattic) in The Playpen
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Things you still find your Iyonix useful for

Computing, when the apps are good the OS really doesn't matter very much.

It's amazing how people do a 180 when they find another platform they like. I used to hate Macs, and now I love them.

You are right, it doesn't matter what platform you use as long as the apps are good.

RISC OS hardware hasn't been updated since 2002 and software development has stagnated. However, I *still* can't find a better text editor than Zap, nor can I get on with any vector drawing package other than Draw.

Posted by Simon Wilson (ksattic) in The Playpen
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Feeling Proud

Curses. If I'd managed to find that it's all have been a lot easier.

As for a method, it was incredibly straightforward. !SaveCMOS is in the utilities directory in VirtualRPC. Simply run and choose save, which will end up with a copy of the cmos inside the application. Copy the program to a floppy via whichever method you use, again this was a little trickier for me as my PC doesn't have an internal floppy.

Stick the floppy in your bare looking RiscPC and run !SaveCMOS again, this time using the cunningly labelled Load button.

It's a bit brute force as you'll fid when you reboot as it'll also set the monitor, various font options and so on. But at least once you've got the cddrive working you can install !Configure et al and make things exactly as you want

Posted by John Lindley (mookie) in General
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Things you still find your Iyonix useful for

Computing, when the apps are good the OS really doesn't matter very much.

I half agree with you.

But for Web Development I refuse to downgrade to an OS thats had 23 years to implement/steal some form of a decent drag and drop system and hasn't yet managed to do so.

[Edited by MikeCarter at 17:22, 15/5/2008]

Posted by Mike (MikeCarter) in The Playpen
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Things you still find your Iyonix useful for

It actually works as a contraceptive device in much the same was as a comic book collection

Papier mache?

Nah, more geek-alert kind of thing. That's why I stopped buying comics all those years ago. And TV/movie collectables. (Mostly, anyway).

Now my contraceptive is just the fact that I'm an ugly old git.

Posted by VinceH (VincceH) in The Playpen
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Games/books/etc for sale

email sent

Posted by P Scott (vanpeebles) in General
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