'Lucky' user wins STD stuff, Iyonix

By Chris Williams. Published: 9th Dec 2004, 12:20:28 | Permalink | Printable

Not going to ebay it shock

Happy: James, from Wakefield 2003

We just might have found the luckiest RISC OS user of the year. Perhaps. Less than a week after winning free stuff from STD, James Scholes was stunned when he learned yesterday that he'd won a free Iyonix from Castle.

After bagging a DigiFlash interface in STD's Christmas raffle earlier this month, James, 21, was shocked to receive an email from Castle telling him he'd won the Iyonix, complete with 512M RAM and a 120G hard disc. James says he entered the free prize draw, hosted on the Iyonix website, at the end of October and reckons he was due some good news.

Although he says he won't be eBay'ing the new machine, he might sell off his RiscPC as he mostly uses RISC OS for music composition, email and chatting on IRC. Fingers crossed for that 32bit MIDI work, then.

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fylfot on 9/12/04 1:16PM
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He won my Iyonix.

Perhaps I will win it next year.

Revin Kevin on 9/12/04 1:41PM
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Congratulations!

govind on 9/12/04 1:44PM
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I hope he has made his "suggested charity donation" - in both cases!

harmsy on 9/12/04 1:57PM
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all bob

nex on 9/12/04 2:37PM
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IYONIX, suggested donation £600. Oh well... there's always next year. I'll stick with my Pocket ROS from STD.

AndrewDuffell on 9/12/04 3:07PM
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or maybe not next year. The "Win an IYONIX" page has gone.

Maybe they'll launch a new computer which we can win next year...?

AndrewDuffell on 9/12/04 3:13PM
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Great stuff - Congratulations :-)

leeshep on 9/12/04 3:31PM
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AndrewDuffell: I think I'll stick to pocket RISC OS too

andypoole on 9/12/04 3:38PM
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It's just about sunk in. Sum up how I feel in one word? WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (o:

jymbob on 9/12/04 4:59PM
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Hehe, well done jymbob

andypoole on 9/12/04 5:02PM
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lol. Can I have a go?

AndrewDuffell on 9/12/04 5:31PM
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Best of fun with your new toys James

Let's hope liquid gets the MIDI module porting ready soon and better still let's hope for a great new audio or music app taking advantage of IYX' specs somewhere in the near future. Maybe a job for RCI ?

hEgelia on 9/12/04 10:44PM
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hEgelia wrote:

"Let's hope liquid gets the MIDI module porting ready soon"

heehee... I spotted Alan at a musical theatre concert last Thurs ... taking an evening off from coding I see!! ;-)

govind on 9/12/04 11:00PM
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Well done James.

I don't personally know you, but knowing you as a RISC OS user / enthusiast makes me very pleased in a way much more than one of those big "Lotto" winners that you never hear about!!

Have heaps of fun for Christmas!

Sawadee on 10/12/04 6:24AM
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Sawadee: Thanks. I'm a fellow Sib7 user too!

Jymbob: Now typing on his Iyonix, which arrived 30 mins ago (o:

jymbob on 10/12/04 10:27AM
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govind: "I spotted Alan at a musical theatre concert last Thurs ..." Ah, I thought you were avoiding me! ;-)

It was a good show. But it was a night off from rehearsals, not coding, though :-)

liquid on 10/12/04 1:53PM
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Right, I tested if PlaySound worked, it did with 2 minor problems, needs a 32bit AMPlayer module copying into the !PlaySound dir and MP3s need to be type 1AD rather than BF8.

So now I need suggestions, what new things can I do on not-my new Iyonix?

mavhc on 11/12/04 12:18AM
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Anyhow, today, I won pocket RISC OS too! Haven't won anything non-RO related this season, so it must be a very specific run of fortune.

Mavhc: You could sit by your own computer and admire it from afar.

jymbob on 22/12/04 11:21AM
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