http://www.iconbar.com/ Technology news and views en-gb Copyright 2009 onepointnought Media richard@nospam.iconbar.com richard@nospam.iconbar.com http://iconbar.com/images/logos/rss-TIB.gif http://www.iconbar.com/ 150 45 Technology news and views http://iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1218.html Once again the time has come to wish you all a Merry Christmas. By the time you read this, chances are that Christmas has already been and gone, although I'm sure some of you will have a peek at the site today whilst chomping on your mince pies :) http://iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1217.html A while ago you may remember that I wrote an article about video conversion for RISC OS, and near the end raised the topic of video conversion on RISC OS using a port of ffmpeg. http://iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1216.html Saturday 6 December saw the Midlands User Group's RISC OS Christmas Show in Birmingham. The show was held at Birmingham University's Guild of Students, and was attended by a steady stream of people throughout the day. http://iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1215.html The Midlands Christmas Show kicks off tomorrow. During the day, The Icon Bar will (mobile phone signal permitting) have a live update feed from the show for those of you who can't make it to the show, which you can see at the following URL... http://iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1214.html As stated in the last article, this time I'll be looking at what went into the MK I map generator for my eternally work-in-progress game, DeathDawn. http://iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1213.html Anyone reading this will have seen it by now, but just in case you gave up hope (but, erm, kept coming back to us for updates), Drobe has - after a few sparks of life recently - now relaunched. http://iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1212.html You may have spotted in the forums that Dan Wilson has released the soundtrack from hit game Phaethon in MP3 format. Well, we now have the whole lot archived in downloads section! http://iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1211.html After writing my first article about random map generators, I said I was going to write a city generator. Well now I have, and I'm here to tell you about it over the course of the next few Building the Dream articles.Blow your own trumpet much? http://iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1210.html Gareth Moore wrote in to let us know that, as foretold in the forums, the "Brits Who Made the Modern World" series is a big rip-off of the book "The Backroom Boys". No, wait, that wasn't it. http://iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1209.html A bit later than I was hoping, but nevertheless it's now time for Building the Dream 2.