R-Comp announce Grapevine 2 converation/communication software

We are pleased to announce that after around six months (maybe a little
more!) of full-time development, Grapevine 2 is finally ready, and 
available now.


What is Grapevine?
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Grapevine allows you to communicate online with friends, family members,
colleagues and so on.  Not only can you have conversations with them
online, but you can send/receive files, link out to websites/email etc.
Grapevine uses industry standard protocols, meaning that your friends
can be using other types of computer (eg. Windows or Mac).

These methods of communication tend to be fragmented, with some people
using one service, some people using another and so on.  Grapevine draws
several of these protocols into one application, making life for RISC OS
users easier.  Grapevine 2 supports IRC communication, MSN instant messaging
and ICQ.


Introducing Grapevine 2
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Grapevine 2 is a major new release, expanding and extending the software
in almost every area.  The single biggest new feature is support for
ICQ communication, in much the same way as the existing MSN mode.  This
means than GV2 can deal with IRC communication, MSN instant messaging and
ICQ all in one program.

However, there's a lot more to GV2 than just ICQ.  All the other functionality
has been expanded.  For example, file transfers in MSN and IRC have been
totally revamped, introducing drag'n'drop facilities, percentage completed
bars, and control over the file transmission.

The multi-user facilities (for different family members) have been extended,
allowing each user to have fine control over their IRC/MSN/ICQ facilities,
including advanced things such as macros, auto-joining channels etc.

IRC has seen a number of enhancements - as well as more flexibility.
There's support for auto-joining channels, a revamped, nickname side-bar
which works far more effectively. There's better handling of multiple
servers (for example, you can choose to join different channels on 
different servers).

The contact management windows have also been improved, allowing better
management of your friends' lists, and mail/web link handling has also
been enhanced.

GV2 also supports variable size emoticons, allowing much more flexibility
in terms of user-created emoticon sets, or using smaller emoticons with
smaller text sizes etc.

The whole application has developed onwards and upwards since Grapevine 1,
Of course, GV2 is subject to the same rolling development that allowed
us to add so many features to GV1 since its original release, which, for
example, ensured that GV1 coped with the huge changes to the MSN protocol
last autumn.

GV2 is now also 26/32bit compatible, meaning that you won't have to pay
extra for 32bit updates etc.  It has also been tweaked in a number
of ways to ensure compatibilty with Virtual RiscPC.  GV2 will work
on any RISC OS 3.5 and higher machine, including RISC OS Select,
Adjust and Iyonix RISC OS 5.



Pricing
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Grapevine 2 costs 29ukp inclusive of VAT and UK delivery.  Overseas
may have to cover a small amount of extra P&P.  Existing customers
have already been emailed details on upgrading from GV1.  If you
haven't received information, and believe you should have done,
then please contact us by replying to this email, or phoning us
on (+44) (0)1925 755043.



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