Xara's Secret

[jens g.r. benthien]

Now it's revealed ;-} I clicked a very 'old' link and arrived at a very well know place:

Gaddesden Place

They offer a fantastic vector graphics package which needs only 2 MB - imagine this!

Details at:

Artworks

Keep the good times rollin !

[jens g.r. benthien]

Now it's revealed ;-} I clicked a very 'old' link and arrived at a very well know place:

Gaddesden Place

They offer a fantastic vector graphics package which needs only 2 MB - imagine this!

Details at:

Artworks

Keep the good times rollin !

[John Rayner]

Now that is cool... shows you how far one can go in a few short years... Thanks for finding that link/site. It was funny. I wonder if you could still order artworks?

[simsmj]

Jens,
wonderful software, and I still have my copy, running on a working Acorn RISC PC, though I never actually use it these days. In the good old days I could create high-quality graphics at a speed that would leave my PC colleagues behind, and all anti-aliased, too, which nothing else could do at the time.

Came on fifteen floppies, too, though only the 1st two were the program discs. The original version had a dongle, but that was dropped in later versions. Aaahh, memories....

Mike

[Egg Bramhill]

Mike
I'd forgotten about the dongle! I used to have Impression as well. Pedigree shows. Thanks for the link Jens.
Egg

P.S. Used to own a Scanlight 256 as well. A small hand scanner, crap by todays standards, but cutting edge then.

[jens g.r. benthien]

Friends of the RISC OS,

if you want to learn more about the current hardware, check this:

RISC Hardware

I mean it's still amazing that the complete OS is in a 5 MB ROM - no hassle with any installation! Compare this to any other OS installation size, except QNX Neutrino which is even smaller...

The Strong ARM is running at 1 GHz now - geez, will they still outperform the 'normal' Intel or AMD processors?

I remember the tiny ARM CPU which didn't need a cooler or fan at all, not even after torturing the machine for hours!

[Richie]

Hi,
I am an ex RISC OS user and defected when things looked very grim for RISC OS. I was in need of upgrading my computer and there was no prospect of anyone continuing to produce them. How wrong I was and very often regret having deserted the "sinking ship". It is a far superior OS than windows and had a strong foothold in schools and colleges in the UK, but it lacked new software. Authors were wary of writing for it as there was too small a market.

It's great pity but no-one could match the might of Microsoft

My old RISC OS designed website is stiil in place if you are interested although I don't have access to it any more. Its at Website

[jbenton]

Hi,

You can still buy Artworks for RISC OS.

It is now developed by MW Software.

The software recently won two awards through RISC OS news site Drobe: Best Commercial Software 2004 and its developer won Best General Contribution to the Platform.