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• DPatch/DongleKey – This program was on the Archive 7.9 Program Disc
to unlock Impression/Artworks dongles which otherwise can prevent
printing taking place.
8.5
If all CC dongles are removed from a machine, DPatch must be deleted
from the !Boot file. Without a dongle fitted, DPatch will cause all
printer output to be corrupted. I discovered this when transferring
Publisher and Artworks from A5000 to Risc PC and attempting to set up
the A5000 with a Star XB24-10. The Risc PC does not need the patch to
allow printing to go ahead in the absence of Publisher or Artworks. S
Goddard, Bury St Edmunds.
8.5
• Garbled *Screensave: This is a cross between a bug-report and a note
saying, “If this happens to you, you’re not going mad”. I’ve just
started using !Quickshow, a neat little slide-show utility from DeskTop
Projects. When it saved a completed screen to disc, it seemed to write a
garbled sprite, with blocks of the sprite moved around internally.
Examining the code showed that the program simply displays the sprite on
screen and then does a *Screensave to write the sprite to disc.
Furthermore, the corrupting of the sprite didn’t occur when I wrote to
floppy rather than to my hard disc. Writing a one-line Basic program to
perform a screen dump replicated the bug absolutely consistently, and
only in mode 15. I conclude that, on my A310, RISC OS 3.10, with version
1.16 of the Oak SCSI software, with a 270Mb Quantum drive, in mode 15,
*SCREENSAVE to the hard disc has a bug – somewhere! I don’t know what to
suspect, but if you ever encounter garbled sprites, don’t blame the
application – or tear your hair out! Stuart Bell, Horsham.
8.5
• Tablemate warning − Unless your table is small, DO NOT type your data
directly into Tablemate. Instead, type it into a CSV file using Edit and
import that. I have two tables several pages long and did not import the
text. As a result the only way I can now edit them is by exporting
drawfiles and patching them back together. Peter Bond, Carnforth. A
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