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Email: jymbob@ntlworld.com ICQ: AOL: Yahoo:	Username: jymbob Realname: James Scholes About me: Maintainer of Cretin (an IRC client for all RISC OS machines), available from his site. Contributor to riscos.info Found on IRC on #playpen on IRCnet. Married in June 2007 Homepage: http://jymbob.drobe.co.uk Face/Logo: Comments posted: 82 (show all)

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On Prototype Acorn Unix-powered A680 lands on eBay:

Ended with no bids. Quelle surprise. jymbob on 25/8/09 12:07AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On New London RISC OS show to be held in October:

Ways to determine the start and end of North and South in England: 1. Ask a Northerner where the South starts, and a Southerner where the North starts. The overlap is the Midlands 2. Ask a Midlander (o: (born in Nottingham, lived in Manchester, now in Oxfordshire, trying to convince people they're in the South) jymbob on 3/6/09 1:31PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On RISC OS Open 5.14 now available for free download:

Hurrah. What a lovely birthday present! Thanks ROOL. Along with the other news regarding RPCEmu this is a good day for RISC OS. jymbob on 28/4/09 10:52PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On Using ROL's 4.02 ROM image in Linux RPCEmu:

Thanks for this. Very straightforward. The riscos.info page referred to in the article now contains setup instructions for the ROL ROM image. jymbob on 15/12/08 8:49AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On RISC OS 6.10 available to Select subscribers:

Spritey: I see what you did there... For the curious, the only mac in my house runs linux. It's also ancient. jymbob on 29/4/08 9:52PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

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