http://www.iconbar.com/ Technology news and views http://www.iconbar.com/images/logos/rss-TIB.gif http://www.iconbar.com/ http://www.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://www.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://www.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 http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1171.html 2008-01-29T00:00:00Z http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1166.html Well it's that time of year again. It hardly seems like a full year since we last wished all our readers a very Merry Christmas. Yet again, most of you are probably too busy downing the bottle of whatever-it-is that you found in the back of the cupboard, and stuffing yourself with mince pies to notice this post, but I'm still going to say it anyway. 2007-12-25T00:00:00Z Andrew C. Poole http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1165.html A guilty secret: limited though they were, I used to love working with early Palm and Psion PDAs. Neal Stephonson wrote in his novel Cryptonomicon... 2007-10-16T17:00:00Z Richard Goodwin http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1164.html Parmesan is a new client for the popular MSN Messenger network, developed by Christian Ludlam. Released as freeware, the software brings new features to instant messaging on RISC OS. Chief among these are display pictures and nudges. The software also doubles as a versatile viewer for arbitrary XML files. 2007-09-14T21:30:00Z Michael Drake http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1162.html Hello and welcome to the Building the Dream, a new series of (regular!) articles at The Icon Bar in which I will be educating you in how to turn your programming dreams into reality. First off, let's get one thing clear - this isn't a beginner's course to programming, or a tutorial in a specific language. 2007-07-15T11:00:00Z Jeffrey Lee http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1163.html Hugh Robinson has contacted us to let us know that he's converted classic Acorn platformer Asylum to C, using the SDL library. With full support of original author Andy Southgate, Hugh's source code has now been released under the GPL, and is available to download from the SVN repository on the SourceForge project page. 2007-07-09T20:30:00Z Jeffrey Lee http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1161.html What a day - the Wakefield RISC OS show AND Doctor Who. It doesn't get more exciting than that. Here's my report. 2007-05-19T20:00:00Z Phil Mellor