x86 Card, Acorn, and Other Links

x86 Card Related

• Aleph One's home page, the particularly interesting bits that aren't already linked from here being:
  • Aleph One Mailing Lists
  • PC Cards manual on-line
  • Network Links manual on-line
  • The original 486SX PC card announcement, together with images and technical specification
• R-Comp Interactive, makers of PC Sound Professional
• ARMEdit web pages
• Mike Enderby's PC Card Pages, including the other games compatibility list by Max Palmer (rather out of date)

Acorn Related

General

• RISC OS Ltd.
• Acorn's web site; one place a lot of people will be interested in will be the StrongARM support resources, including installation, compatibility, etc.
• Also check out Martin Friar's StrongARM compatibility list
• Xemplar Education, which supplies Acorn, Apple and PC hardware to educational institutions
• ARM Ltd., Acorn's processor design offshoot; the best place to start is What's New at ARM; there's also some interesting technical info about StrongARM from Digital's web site
• The Acorn Cybervillage has lots of links and other information, the best bit being Heard on the Net; if you don't want to take it seriously, try the Acorn Cidervillage instead
• Acorn Computer Users' WWW Server - all sorts of Acorn stuff
• port-arm32 searchable archive - answers to nearly all your RiscBSD queries can be found here

Talkers

• The Oaktree House talker
• The Juice Talker

Newsgroups

• Welcome to the Comp.Sys.Acorn Newsgroups - charters for the newsgroups (i.e. what is permitted in each), and some basic standards to follow when posting - read this first
• The comp.sys.acorn FAQ - read this before asking questions!
• comp.sys.acorn.advocacy
• comp.sys.acorn.announce (moderated announcements group)
• comp.sys.acorn.apps
• comp.sys.acorn.extra-cpu (x86 card and other similar add-ons)
• comp.sys.acorn.hardware
• comp.sys.acorn.misc (if it won't fit anywhere else - not somewhere to cross-post to!)
• comp.sys.acorn.networking
• comp.sys.acorn.programmer
• comp.sys.arm (for ARM discussions only, not for Acorn-specific stuff)
• alt.fan.riscos (only carried by a few servers)
• alt.archimedes.bugs (only carried by a few servers)

Magazines and Webzines

• Acorn User magazine
• Archive magazine
• Frobnicate

Games and Demos

• Acorn Demos Server - based in France, this has some really good stuff, but best of all is the (unofficial) Iron Dignity demo (jared.zip)
• 32-bit Acorn Gaming - Gareth Moore's venerable Acorn games pages with a wide range of information
• Werewolf Software - producers of various Acorn games, plus there is free software to download fom their site
• TBA Software - more high quality games for RISC OS, plus the TAG 3D engine; demos downloadable from their web site
• ARM'd and Dangerous - producers of Werewolf's "Shuggy" game, plus various free games available from their own website

Acorn User Groups (General)

• The ARM Club
• The C Acorn User Group (CAUG)

Acorn User Groups (Area-specific)

• Derbyshire Acorn Risc Club (DARC)
• Surrey and Sussex Acorn User Group (SASAUG)
• Arche ACORN User Club, Germany
• Bristol Acorn Risc User Group (BARUG)
• The Dutch Acorn Computer Group (Big Ben Club)
• German Archimedes Group (GAG)
• Liverpool Enthusiasts Group (LEG)
• Manchester Acorn User Group (being set up)
• Russian ARM Support Group (temporarily unavailable)
• Suffolk Acorn Risc Club (SARC)
• Victorian BBC Users' Group (VicBUG)
• Wakefield Acorn Computer Group (WACG)

Interesting or amusing pages

• Acorn Cidervillage - ridiculous!
• Acorn Beep Page
• Arthur Lives - excellent!
• Carly the Digital Dog
• PC Depreciation Society (warning: graphics-heavy)
• Robin Abecasis's Home Page including a vast picture of a four-slice Risc PC and other bits and pieces

Dealers and Developers

• ACE - German Acorn dealer, producers of ARM Switcher card and Connect-32 SCSI interface
• Acorn Computers New Zealand - includes Acorn software updates similar to those on ftp.acorn.co.uk, dealer lists, prices etc.
• Ant Ltd. - RISC OS internet software (ANT Internet Suite)
• Atomwide - RISC OS networking specialists
• Carlton Software -educational products, and more
• CJE Micros - PC card innovators and Acorn Centre of Technology
• Clares - a whole variety of interesting hardware and software, including Composition and other graphics packages
• Computer Concepts - lots of useful products but future development is uncertain
• Cumana - Proteus, SCSI-2, Syquests, other storage products
• Desktop Projects Ltd - Acorn Centre of Technology
• DoggySoft - RISC OS internet access software (Termite), plus more
• Icon Multimedia - Spanish "Acorn dealer"
• Interconnex UK, vendors of the Peanut RISC OS portable
• Longman Logotron - mainly educational software
• Norwich Computer Services - Acorn Centre of Technology, producers of Archive magazine
• Octopus Systems - Ipswich Acorn dealer, Teletext hardware & software, RISC OS caller ID software
• Oregan Developments - wide range of interesting software
• David Pilling Software - TWAIN drivers and much much more
• Pineapple Software - Acorn Centre of Technology, virus-killer suppliers
• Sibelius Software - the best music software in the world, bar none
• Simtec Electronics - memory upgrades, ARM3 upgrades (still!), Hydra multi-processor board, low-cost IDE interface
• Spacetech Imaging Technology - producers of Photodesk
• Tower Electronics Ltd - enthusiastic Acorn dealer in Scotland
• Yellowstone - RapIDE interface, sound card and mixer board, DeskTV, etc.

Links Pages

• Acorn Links - comprehensive, searchable, detailed, and lives on the same Linux boxes in Oxford that these pages used to sit on

Internet, WWW, Convergence, et cetera

HTML

• The Web Design Group - lots of sensible advice on quality web page design

Internet Providers

• Argonet - "internet access for the masses", and dubbed "Agronet" due to the behaviour of some of their subscribers, but they do have their own RISC OS software (Voyager), access (via Pipex), support and newsgroups; 10MB web space
• Demon Internet - low prices, nice domain names, 10MB web space, multiple e-mail addresses for free
• Enterprise - cheaper than Demon, maybe not as fast or reliable; 5MB web space
• Oaktree Internet Solutions - wide range of more sophisticated services available, especially for hosting web sites etc.
• Active High Internet - similar services to Oaktree, but cheaper
• Zynet Ltd. - RISC OS access software seemingly in preparation

Innovators

• Apple Computer, new owners of NeXT
• Be, Inc - producers of the PowerPC-based BeOS
• Causality Ltd. - developers of a BSD-based unix variant for the Risc PC, now also used by Digital in their NC reference design
• Digital, producers of StrongARM, Alpha, an NC reference design, a lawsuit against Intel, and more
• Sun Microsystems, responsible for Java, and SPARC RISC computers from JavaStation NCs right up to Enterprise 10000s

Humour

• News of the Weird (warning: some content may be considered offensive)

The intention is to keep these links as up-to-date as possible; if you find a link that is broken, or want to suggest an additional link worth listing, please e-mail dgs@argonet.co.uk.