http://www.iconbar.com/ Technology news and views http://iconbar.com/images/logos/rss-TIB.gif http://www.iconbar.com/ 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 :) 2008-12-25T00:00:00Z Andrew C. Poole 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. 2008-12-20T20:00:00Z Jeffrey Lee 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. What follows is a brief report and some photos from the event. 2008-12-06T20:43:00Z Andrew C. Poole 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... 2008-12-05T14:46:00Z Andrew C. Poole 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. 2008-11-28T12:00:00Z Jeffrey Lee 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. 2008-11-11T04:21:00Z John Hoare 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! 2008-09-28T07:35:00Z Richard Goodwin 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? 2008-08-23T11:00:00Z Jeffrey Lee 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. 2008-08-14T21:30:00Z Richard Goodwin 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. This time I'll be looking at the RISC OS sound system - everything from the terminology used, to what makes a sound, how the RISC OS sound system works, and how you can write your own sample player. 2008-03-17T12:00:00Z Jeffrey Lee