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• Gutenprint: A collection of high-quality printer drivers ported by Martin Wuerthner. Formerly known as Gimp-Print, the software can handle over 750 devices and Epson inkjets in particular.
• ArtWorks 2.7: Top new features for this vector graphics package include support for documents with multiple pages and multi-page PDF export. The freely available ArtWorks-related utilities AWViewer and AWRender2 were also updated by Martin.
• Messenger Pro 5: As well as various tweaks and user interface updates, R-Comp's email and usenet client now prints emails in a more readable fashion and message searching and editing is faster.
• VirtualRiscPC: VirtualAcorn's RiscPC emulator is now available for Intel and PowerPC-powered Apple Mac computers and enjoyed some extra updates over the year including confirmed support for Windows Vista and RISC OS 6.
• TechWriter and EasiWriter: These word processing packages, now developed by Martin Wuerthner, gained a style editor and a style finder as well as a few other tweaks.
• DataPower 3: R-Comp took this database package under its wing and added a spell checker, threw in networking support as standard, improved the scripting engine and included other updates.
• Select 4 RISC OS 6: Following a preview release last year, 2007 saw the shipping of Select 4 release 2 by RISCOS Ltd. This version brought back printing support, included a new user manual, the enabling of Filer shortcuts, included a new Viewfinder hardware driver and added other features and improvements.
• Programmer's Reference Manual Volume 3 new edition: A 472-page reprint of the original Acorn PRM Vol 3 by RISCOS Ltd with new sections covering the technical details of features recently added to the RISC OS desktop.

• Ctorrent: Theo Markettos ported this file sharing BitTorrent client to RISC OS.
• TextEffX: Originally developed by John Whitington as Insignia, this bitmap graphics application was made 32bit compatible and then released for free via RISC OS dealer a4com.
• NetSurf: This year saw the release of version 1.0 and 1.1 of the open source web browser.
• Quicksand: Vince Hudd dashed around his local forest snapping photos to illustrate this new adventure game.
• PrivateEye: Dave Thomas's well-polished image viewer turned into an image editor this year.
• RPCEmu: Tom Walker's RiscPC emulator gained a huge speed boost from a new dynamic recompiler, as well as other improvements, and was ported to the Apple Mac platform by Jon Welch.
• Parmesan: Christian Ludlam surprised us all with the release of a brand new, freely available and stable MSN client for RISC OS.
• GCCSDK: The GCCSDK team turned out version 4.1.1 of the freely available C/C++ compiler, a new Autobuilder website, shared library support and more.
• CashBook: Steve Fryatt's feature-rich home accounting software was released this year.

• Castle shared source scheme: This year the RISC OS 5 shared source licence was unveiled, source code and binaries were released for download, and third-party developers fed much needed updates back into the operating system.
• Quake 2 port: Dave Brown produced a port of the 3D first-person shooter game using IyonixMesa to provide 3D accelerated graphics on Iyonix computers.
• Early Soundblaster driver: Simon Wilson ported a Linux driver to RISC OS to allow Iyonix computers to use Soundblaster Live audio PCI cards.
• Early VoIP client: Dave Higton made a start with a simple VoIP client to allow him to make phone calls over the Internet.
• Lego laptop: Peter Howkins built a semi-portable computer out of Lego, a 10-inch LCD screen and a butchered Acorn A7000.
• Flight-case laptop: Meanwhile, Paul Stewart crafted a more portable RISC OS computer out of an A9home in a metal flight-case.

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