Okay, here's a mid-February type grab bag of information, should any of you have sobered up enough after any Valentine's Day overindulgence to read the little squiggles.

First up, R-Comp have secured the rights to two Iota products, DataPower and Image Outliner. DataPower, a top notch database, is also available in Mac and PC versions; R-Comp won't be handling those, but will ensure that the RISC OS version will continue to be compatible with the other platforms, and make DP 32-bit compatible to boot. Image Outliner converts bitmap images to vector format, the sort of thing that has been of interest to some of our readers in the recent past. DP weighs in at £125 inc. VAT (down from 149 ex-VAT), and IO is £17.50, down from around fifty quid.

Secondly, here's advance warning of the South West show on Saturday 22nd February 2003 at The Webbington Hotel, Loxton, near Axbridge in North Somerset. This is being supported by both the Bristol and Wessex user groups, there's a free shuttle service from Weston-Super-Mare train station, and stack loads of exhibitors, so head over to the Acorn Show website for more info. I'm not sure about all this advertising shows in advance - I much prefer leaving it to the very last minute and watching everyone scurry about trying to organise train tickets etc. - but we've also had word from Steve Potts, Chairman of the Wakefield club, about "...a PDF Poster for the show and also an HTML code fragment for linking to the show website from your own". So if you want to promote the "primier" (sic) RISC OS Computer show head on over to The Wakefield Show website.

A suitably brief mention now of RISCOS Ltd.s new RSS feed, which all the cool kids seem to be doing these days. Pity that Gerph's RSS reader seems to be heading for a Select-only release...

And it wouldn't be a -style roundup without news on Martin Würthner's continued work on ArtWorks - this month sees the SVG export module in beta test, and the (multi-column etc.) text area module updated to support it. Go Martin!

Well, until that third slice of Castle news gets substantiated, and I finish up my "Slashdotting" report, that's all for now.

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