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Acorn Arcade forums: News and features: Referential
 

Referential

Posted by Richard Goodwin on 11:36, 27/2/2003 | , , , , , ,
 
Drobe have published a news item about us changing our poll. Slow news day? Well, I'm posting a news item about them posting a news item, so infer from that what you will. How about a news article about us posting a news article about you posting a news article, Chris? We could play keepy-uppy to pass the time.

If you were looking for actual content in this item you might want to check out Phil Driscoll's entry into The Register's recent article on existential error messages. Following the link to the Web TV error page might provide a few chuckles too. As for the capitalisation of RISC OS in El Reg's article... well, potential future poll fodder?

At least someone's got their Omega. And were so excited that they took photos! That link lifted from the Acorn Cybervillage. [Doh, spent long writing this that someone updated the story underneath with the same link]

And TIBSpy pointed out a rather interesting item on the Philips site that proves that Simtec did their own USB drivers instead of porting someone else's (as alleged on some newsgroup - allegedly). Cybervillage also links to the site, to keep the referential theme going. I'd have posted this on its own, but it might have looked like a dig at Castle and we wouldn't want to cause them any more heartburn would we?
 

  Referential
  andrew (14:55 27/2/2003)
  Phlamethrower (14:59 27/2/2003)
    SparkY (15:21 27/2/2003)
      Phlamethrower (16:54 27/2/2003)
        jmb (16:57 27/2/2003)
          mavhc (17:34 27/2/2003)
            Phlamethrower (17:50 27/2/2003)
              nunfetishist (17:52 27/2/2003)
                mavhc (19:16 27/2/2003)
                  Drobe Scum (23:15 27/2/2003)
                    tribbles (10:23 28/2/2003)
                      monkeyson2 (10:27 28/2/2003)
                        Drobe Scum (10:29 28/2/2003)
                          tribbles (11:09 28/2/2003)
                            [mentat] (18:22 28/2/2003)
                              epistaxsis (22:44 28/2/2003)
                                tribbles (15:05 3/3/2003)
                                  rich (16:38 3/3/2003)
                                    mavhc (19:24 3/3/2003)
                                      ToiletDuck (19:47 3/3/2003)
 
Andrew Message #91876, posted by andrew at 14:55, 27/2/2003
HandbagHandbag Boi
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And I thought Rich was cynical!
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Jeffrey Lee Message #91877, posted by Phlamethrower at 14:59, 27/2/2003, in reply to message #91876
PhlamethrowerHot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff

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Woo! StrongEd is climbing back up again!
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Gavin Smith Message #91878, posted by SparkY at 15:21, 27/2/2003, in reply to message #91877
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
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Real men actually use Edit :P
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Jeffrey Lee Message #91879, posted by Phlamethrower at 16:54, 27/2/2003, in reply to message #91878
PhlamethrowerHot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff

Posts: 15100
48%?!?! I'm sure those Zap people are cheating... ;)
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JMB Message #91880, posted by jmb at 16:57, 27/2/2003, in reply to message #91879
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http://url.eh.org/bob

:O

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Mark Scholes Message #91881, posted by mavhc at 17:34, 27/2/2003, in reply to message #91880
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Aww, poor Zap users can't win without cheating?
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Jeffrey Lee Message #91882, posted by Phlamethrower at 17:50, 27/2/2003, in reply to message #91881
PhlamethrowerHot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff

Posts: 15100
Looks like it. I say they get docked 5000 votes :p
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nunfetishist Message #91883, posted at 17:52, 27/2/2003, in reply to message #91882
Unregistered user Are you people taking a web vote seriously? You all need help. :)
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Mark Scholes Message #91884, posted by mavhc at 19:16, 27/2/2003, in reply to message #91883
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Will the ones from rjek's url have known referers? If so should be easy to fix. Or just disqualify Zap :-)
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Drobe Scum Message #91885, posted at 23:15, 27/2/2003, in reply to message #91884
Unregistered user Drobe like StrongEd. I agree.
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Jason Tribbeck Message #91886, posted by tribbles at 10:23, 28/2/2003, in reply to message #91885
tribbles
Captain Helix

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Zap's for me too (although I prefer XEmacs [as I've mentioned a smidge on Drobe]).

Oh, and Simtec did write their own drivers.

And one of my projects is listed on the Philips site (which is quite cool)...

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Phil Mellor Message #91887, posted by monkeyson2 at 10:27, 28/2/2003, in reply to message #91886
monkeyson2Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler

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Philips are selling Steel Cobras??? :P
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Drobe Scum Message #91888, posted at 10:29, 28/2/2003, in reply to message #91887
Unregistered user If was able to write Dune II and an entire Internet suite, not to mention a tracker music editor and entire sound sampling package with editing facilities I would probably use zap as well ;)
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Jason Tribbeck Message #91889, posted by tribbles at 11:09, 28/2/2003, in reply to message #91888
tribbles
Captain Helix

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Actually, the Philips stuff isn't quite mine yet...
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I don't have tourettes you're just a cun Message #91890, posted by [mentat] at 18:22, 28/2/2003, in reply to message #91889
[mentat]Fear is the mind-killer
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I would vote for StrongED cos zap irritates me, but I'm afraid it's got to be !Edit (as SpankY says...)
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keith dunlop Message #91891, posted by epistaxsis at 22:44, 28/2/2003, in reply to message #91890
epistaxsis

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ahhh ^cough^ StrongED the way of the text_editor it is^cough^
feel the text_editor it is your destiny.....

*natch*!!!!

epistaxsis votes for !StrongED btw... ;-)

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Jason Tribbeck Message #91892, posted by tribbles at 15:05, 3/3/2003, in reply to message #91891
tribbles
Captain Helix

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A poll as to the capitalisation of RISC OS? There is only one way...
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Richard Goodwin Message #91893, posted by rich at 16:38, 3/3/2003, in reply to message #91892
Rich
Dictator for life
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No, there's more than one way. There may be only one "correct" (i.e. officially approved) way, but seeing as RISCOS Ltd. can't even keep to that in their name we could poll on favourite derivations ;)
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Mark Scholes Message #91894, posted by mavhc at 19:24, 3/3/2003, in reply to message #91893
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It appears that RISC OS has 2 great text editors, which is 2 more than almost every other OS.

Draw vs MSDraw, Paint vs MSPaint, Edit vs Notepad, Writer vs WordPad, anyone see a pattern?

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Mark Quint Message #91895, posted by ToiletDuck at 19:47, 3/3/2003, in reply to message #91894
Ooh ducky!Quack Quack
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RISC OS app, Windoze app, RISC OS app, Windoze app.....

;)

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