Nominations open for the Drobe Awards 2008

Tell us who's made your year in the RISC OS world

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Drobe coming back Okay I'm a crawler. nijinsky on 17/12/08 10:17AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Best commercial software: Hmm. Not much going on here. I guess ArtWorks and EasiWriter are the only two contenders. Both are fantastic apps, though. Best non-commercial software: NetSurf's bound to get this, and a worthy winner it will be. But PrivateEye and Parmesan deserve an honourable mention too. Best innovative project: ROOL, surely. The GCC guys deserve credit too, as do the RPCEmu team. Best show: No idea, sadly. Top clanger: ROL's recent usenet diplomacy. Top RISC OS website: C'mon - have a category for this! Much as I like the Iconbar, RISC OS just isn't the same withour Drobe Gone Quiet award: Projects to update the PostScript drivers and CDFS seem to have gone a bit silent. Which is a shame, as they sounded fantastic and very useful. Hopefully they haven;t stalled, and a release is just around the corner... lym on 17/12/08 10:51AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Concerning the PostScript driver project, IMHO it is coming along very well and Martin and I have determined tentative announcement date which helps us keeping focused on the project as it is challenging for both of us to allocated sufficient developer time (personally I want to get gccsdk 4.1.1 Release 1 out of the door as well). joty on 17/12/08 8:30PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

That's good news. Thanks for the update! lym on 18/12/08 7:33AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

best commercial software: still ARTWORKS. I've also found OVATION PRO useful when producing postscript files (using a Windows driver) as it is cross-platform (but if/when the POSTSCRIPT DRIVER becomes available, that should not be necessary). GVIEW is the only RO Postscript/PDF file reader which gives an accurate result on virtually all files IME. best non-commercial software: NETSURF is way out in front. DRAWPRINT (H M Phillips) I use all the time to print out Netsurf pages and is hugely useful. best innovative project: that's got to be ROOL. A fast emulator for open-source RO on Linux would be a vote-winner too if it existed in finished form: here's hoping. best show: no nomination (I didn't go to any this year). top clanger of 2008: undoubtedly the recent licensing flare-up. I sincerely hope the parties involved will put this genie back in its box and nail the lid down. bucksboy on 18/12/08 12:56PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Best Commercial Software David Snell's WebWonder, Chris's Acorns wouldn't exist without it. Best non-commercial software Alex Waugh's Sunfish/Moonfish. I replaced Omniclient/LanmanFS/Lanman98 with NFS and it just keeps working on RISC OS, Windows and Linux. Best Show South Esat RISC OS Show 2008. Guildford. chriswhy on 18/12/08 6:28PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

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