Frank and Tony will be showing how to use Uniprint to print from a laptop running Virtual Acorn to a printer using the Uniprint server and client to print via the Windows driver. Gareth will show GIMP print in action.
The following are not formal minutes of the AGM but the Editor's overview.
The AGM passed off very smoothly with all reports being accepted.
The main officers were re-elected save for the Secretary. We are in need of a person to fill the post of Secretary but unfortunately no one seems willing to undertake this at present. Peter has agreed to take on the role of acting Secretary in the meantime in addition to producing the Newsletter, and being webmaster and Vice-Chairman.
The Secretary's work involves writing up minutes of meetings (AGM and Committee) and corresponding with outside speakers etc. Dgs has agreed to remain on the Committee and continue with the latter task.
We also elected Michael to stand on the Committee. Paul Moore has decided to retire from the Committee after many years for personal reasons. I'm sure you would all like to join me in thanking Paul for all his enthusiasm, work and dedication to the club since it began.
The formal part of the evening was followed by a Games session with Michael showing Age of Empires III running on a PC. This adventure game involves building communities with resources and increasing population, keeping marauders at bay and attacking other civilizations. It had very good graphics and became quite complicated with trading posts being built etc. Obviously this game could go on for hours and would take quite a while to learn and perfect your skill.
The second game was an Xbox360 game called Project(?) involving racing cars around cities. The city being portrayed with accurate 3D graphic views of, in our case, central London. A particular type of car can be chosen and driven with accelerator brake and steering. The aim being to run the fastest race. Going through the Admiralty arch at 100mph proved something of a challenge to most of us!
Thanks to those who brought along all the equipment to add a bit of fun to the evening.
We were also pleased to welcome back John Bell, a returning member from a few years ago.
One of the other tasks of the Committee meeting was to determine which projector we will purchase; since Tony reported that we have now received sufficient funds from the renewed subscriptions to make a purchase. We have reviewed a short list on paper and are looking to check various suppliers. Since Tony and Gareth both intend visiting the Wakefield show this could prove a good opportunity to check out different models and suppliers.
The Committee have had their first meeting and dgs was able to confirm the dates for our outside speakers for this year. We also discussed other venues than the Crown for the social function in August but we decided we should like feedback from members on how much they would be prepared to pay if we were to choose a more expensive venue. Perhaps people would like to email me via iceni@woolridge.org.uk regarding their views on costs for the evening. If anyone knows of a good restaurant which we could visit in the North Essex/ South Suffolk including Ipswich area please let us know.
One of Paul Moore's roles was as PD software librarian. The library is stored on floppy discs but interest in this has not been a very active area for the club since floppy discs went out of fashion. I intend to publish the list of PD software titles which was solely RISCOS software. It would be quite feasible to put this on a CD if there is sufficient interest. Perhaps you would like to express your views on the subject.
There was also some discussion of the IRC sessions. It has been agreed that we will look at other servers than Wolfgar to see if we can restart the service and regenerate interest. It was a means by which we could maintain regular contact with friends and distant members. There is also a new version of Cretin available for RISCOS, the only native IRC Client. Let us know what you think about this too.
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
| May 3rd 2006 | Printing with Uniprint and VA &GIMP print | Tony & Frank et al |
| June 7th 2006 | The A9Home development | Stuart Tyrell of STD and Advantage 6 |
| July 5th 2006 | File transfers | Tony |
| August | Social meeting - venue to be arranged | All |
| September 2006 | Quercus magazine | John Cartmell |
| October 2006 | PDF creation using Ghostscript. | Frank |
| November 2006 | JPEG slide show | All |
| December 2006 | Gadgets evening and Party | All |
Talks with Visiting speakers are shown in Red. We will give more details as soon as they are confirmed.
Our meetings are held at the Bourne Vale Social Club, Halifax Road, Ipswich IP2 8NP , for a map and other details please see the website. http://icenicomputerclub.users.btopenworld.com
The first visit is free and subsequent visits for non - members is £2. The membership fee is £18 due from the AGM date in April, but may be reduced for those joining late in the year.
None this month.
Continuing our publicity for EAUG events - please see their Website for details of their next meeting.
9th May "AGM and ?"
13th May Wakefield Show at Wakefield!
13th June "Virtual Acorn and Uniprint"
Meetings are at the Great Baddow Village Hall, unless otherwise stated,
opening at 7:30 p.m. for a start at 7:45 - 8:00 p.m.
For directions see below (note the new web addresses)
http://www.watsnees.demon.co.uk/fw/eaug/ven.htm
or 'phone one of the contacts on http://www.watsnees.demon.co.uk/fw/eaug/ppl.htm
See you soon!
Frank.
"ICENI does not have any Insurance cover for computers or other equipment so please be advised that you bring machines to the club at your own risk."
P.S. My insurance company have added my computer cover away from home with no extra premium required, yours might do the same.(Ed.)
Following on from a brief discussion at the last club meeting it has been agreed that I should remove a lot of the old newsletters from the website and archive them to CD/DVD. I'll probably not do this before the end of February. If anyone would like a copy of the CD I'm sure this could be arranged.
I am open to suggestions on what people would like to have included in the new website. Our website URL is
http://icenicomputerclub.users.btopenworld.com as a virtual domain,
it can also be reached using http://www.btinternet.com/~icenicomputerclub
Email to: iceni@woolridge.org.uk