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The following individuals, groups and companies have so far confirmed that they will be attending Wakefield ’08.
![[Floorplan]](images/plan.png)
The floorplan and stand numbers are provisional, and still subject to change.
Advantage Six Ltd
Stand 21
Advantage Six Ltd produce a range of RISC OS solutions for industrial, OEM and embedded use such as the A6, A75 and A9 machines, industrial interface controllers, monitoring equipment and data encoders. They work to bring consumer products to RISC OS users through their retail partners.
A.P.D.L.
Stand 11
APDL will have available our full range of software including titles from APDL, ProAction, iSV Products and 4th Dimension games, all at special show prices. Don’t forget to bring your old discs or CD if you want an upgrade. We will also have hard discs and interfaces, CD/DVD drives and mice. In addition we will have a very special offer on a backup solution for most models from an A3010 up to the RiscPC and Omega.
Archive Magazine
Stand 17
Archive’s old and new editors are both here at Wakefield to meet old and new readers. Paul Beverley produced the magazine every month for 20 years, and in September handed over to Jim Nagel, who for a long time wrote the popular Acorn column in Computer Shopper magazine.
Archive continues its high standard, ranging from the authoritatively technical to the friendly and personal, always with care for language and typography. If you have not tried the magazine for some time, you are welcome to take up the offer of two free issues.
The entire contents of the past 20 years is available on CD or DVD. See you on the stand!
The ARM Club
Stand 2
The ARM Club will be promoting for new members and selling the Eureka CD. The CD includes all software previously sold on floppy discs including DiscKnight and StrongGuard as well as PDFs of all the magazines up to issue 50.
CJE Micro’s
Stand 5
CJE are renowned for their very wide range of in-stock RISC OS products. They can’t bring all their stock, but see them try! Including software, podules, networking, USB, monitors, storage and other peripherals. We should also be able to squeeze in a few of our cute little A9homes?
Charity Stall
Stand 30
The stall is sponsored by the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club, with all proceeds going to charities in Yorkshire: primarily the Wakefield Hospice. Please do help us in this worthwhile cause.
Come and have a browse for a bargain, or donate your unwanted books and software on the day (we can only accept a limited range of hardware due to the WEEE regulations).
Crawfords the Printers
Stand 9
The leading RISC OS friendly printer. Offering a complete graphic design service and full colour printing. Established over 30 years.
Crawfords are printers of the Wakefield ’08 RISC OS Computer Show Guide and Tickets and are proud to be sponsor of the show for many years.
4th Dimension
Stand 6
Prices that have to be seen to be believed on high spec refurbished RiscPCs, Kinetic/StrongARM upgrades, laser printers, monitors etc. and Software.
Iyonix Ltd
Stand 1
IYONIX Ltd will be demonstrating their range of IYONIX pcs (Classic, X100, X300 and Aria Cube). These extremely fast RISC OS computers feature high resolution graphics of up to 2048 × 1536 pixels, 200MHz DDR RAM and UDMA hard drives. Together with PCI and USB2 expansion, these computers are a must for any serious RISC OS users.
JGH BBC Software
Stand 19
Software and hardware for 8-bit Acorn BBCs and Masters. BBC IDE cards that give 2G of hard drive storage on a BBC!
Joel Rowbottom – Domesday System
Stand 29
Come and see a BBC Domesday System in action!
MW Software
Stand 3
MW Software will demonstrate and (hopefully) sell ArtWorks 2.8, the latest release of the most popular advanced vector graphics illustration package for RISC OS and the EasiWriter/TechWriter family of word processors. In addition, MW Software offers the Gutenprint high-quality printer drivers.
NetSurf Developers
Stand 23
Come and see the latest version of NetSurf in action. Chat to the team about future plans and report on your experiences with the software. NetSurf novice or old hand, we’ll try to demonstrate the useful features you never knew NetSurf had.
Orpheus Internet Services
Stand 14
Orpheus Internet is the premier supplier of dialup and broadband services for the RISC OS market. Founded in 2005 by ex-Argonet technical manager Paul Vigay, they completed the take-over of Argonet in 2006 and now supply and advise on all aspects of internet services, from the initial getting online to web hosting and domain registration.
From free .co.uk domains to competitive broadband deals, be sure to pop by the stand to say hello and see what show offers we have available.
Orpheus – Internet for everyone. Talk to the experts.
Qercus Magazine
Stand 18
At Qercus magazine we are celebrating 25 years of publications for the Acorn / RISC OS market throughout 2007/8 with the anniversaries of Acorn User, The Micro User and A&B Computing magazines in our heritage. The Assembly Line series from Acorn User has been rewritten and brought up to date and we are also running updates of articles that were originally produced for Archimedes World but never published following the unexpected demise of that magazine. In addition, each issue typically features up to a dozen brand new RISC OS articles and current series include “In the Style of ...”, and “ArtWorking” graphics tutorials, “Games Mathematical”, “Root & Branch” (genealogy), “DARC World” (games), reviews, “The Quill” (letters), “Assembly Line”, “Star Info”, “Take 6” (analysis of features and applications in RISC OS 4, 5, and 6), as well as reviews of RISC OS and peripheral products plus new series to be announced at Wakefield.
Finnybank will have the latest issue of Qercus and special deals and free offers on subscriptions taken out and renewed at the show with offers on back issues of Acorn Publisher and Qercus, binders for all magazines, and a range of board games from FD Games.
Annual UK subscription £44.55
R-Comp
Stand 7
R-Comp will have their latest range of software including popular internet, networking, web authoring and utility software. We are hoping to have two completely new applications launching at the show this year!
R-Comp Interactive
Stand 8
R-Comp Interactive will be showing the latest models of their RISCube and RISCBook computer systems, with systems for all budgets. Why not check out the RISCBook Mini, or some of our dual-core processor systems? RISCubes and RISCBooks are the only approved systems capable of running RISC OS and Windows on the same system, making them the ideal choice for expanding the scope of your computing.
Ray Favre
Stand 26
Ray Favre will be mainly demonstrating his popular Calibre and LaBella applications (and others) but, as usual, will have the Dr Wimp package available and there will be copies of his “Starting Basic” and “Dr Wimp’s Surgery” books on sale for charity.
RISC OS Connect
Stand 16
Who are RISC OS Connect?
You!
As in anyone from the RISC OS community who has skills and wishes to contribute to the future of the platform.
RISCOS Ltd
Stand 12
RISCOS Ltd will be showing their full range of products at the Wakefield Show 2008.
The latest addition is the RISC OS Programmer's Reference Guide – The Window Manager to go alongside the RISC OS 4.39 ROMs and the RISC OS Six softload versions available for one off purchases in single user versions and in yearly subscription for multiple user versions via the RISC OS Select scheme.
RISC OS Now
Stand 15
RISC OS Now is a full colour glossy magazine for users and programmers alike covering tutorials, programming and discussion of the RISC OS platform.
RISC OS Open Ltd
Stand 4
The RISC OS Open engineering team provides professional services support for commercial customers using RISC OS. We also manage the shared source RISC OS site and repository.
The RISC OS Packaging Project
Stand 24
Development of a software package collection for RISC OS and a package manager for installing them. Also at this stand the RISC OS Toolkit and a demonstration of Kerberos single sign-on for RISC OS.
Soft Rock Software
Stand 20
Soft Rock Software will be demonstrating the long awaited 32bit version of WebChange for RISC OS and giving away more free copies of the 26bit version (while stocks last).
Steve Fryatt
Stand 28
Steve will be demonstrating a new version of CashBook, the freeware home accounts package, and hopes to have printed manuals available. His other utilities, including PrintPDF, Locate and Float, will also be on display.
Stuart Tyrrell Developments
Stand 22
Stuart Tyrrell Developments are renowned for their novel hardware for RISC OS machines, such as their Unipod, PS2MouseMini, switch boxes and the A6 series of RISC OS computers.
Virtual Acorn / 3QD
Stand 10
VirtualAcorn will be demonstrating their range of software products designed to allow RISC OS and RISC OS applications to run on Windows PC and Apple Mac computers.
Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club
Stand 27
Formed as the Wakefield BBC Micro User Group in April 1983, the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary at the show.
The club is one of the longest running local RISC OS user groups in the UK, and over the years our members have enjoyed a wide variety of talks, demonstrations and training sessions which have included many well-known guests from the RISC OS arena. Many new hardware and software products have been seen in Wakefield prior to their official launch date.
Membership costs just £6 for the first year, with non-members paying a fee of £2 per meeting. Members have access to a monthly newsletter, email discussion forum and a members’ area of the website with additional meeting resources. Please visit our stand to see what WROCC can do for you!
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