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• Artisan Support Disc. Clares’ have just released a support disc for
Artisan users. Amongst other things, it provides 6 extra fonts, extra
colour fill patterns, an editor for changing the colour patterns on the
monochrome printer dumps, printer dumps for Integrex 132 and Epson
EX800, JX80, Fujitsu DL3400 and Star LC10 colour printers and a module
which provides a way of merging pictures (including a fastload module) −
you can make up a very impressive Artisan “slide-show” − and you get
four new sample screens to impress your friends. (In stock and available
through Archive for £18) The Integrex screendumps are very impressive as
visitors to the Manchester M.U. Show will be able to testify, especially
when printed on the special paper which Clares Micros can supply for £5
per 25m roll.
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• New version (1.5a) of Arctist available − still at £19.95 (£18 through
Archive). Now has the following extra features: Select colour & tint
from palette or an area on-screen (i.e. re-select an existing colour),
finish a line or ray by pressing space then restart elsewhere without
re-selecting the function, select a new colour while still in a
function, fill a given colour area with a new tint level, block move
straight or EOR overlap, clear screen to a selected colour, delete text
from the keyboard, make use of twin drives, rotate through palettes,
select a new palette.
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This new version is available as a FREE UPGRADE to existing users
(Acorn, please note!). There are also Econet and hard-disc versions
available − telephone Fairhurst Instruments for details.
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• 5.25“ disc drive Interface. All you ever wanted to do with a 5.25”
disc drive on the Archimedes from CJE Micro’sÉ Firstly an interface
cable for £30. Then there is a link-swapping switch for £8 that will
allow the external drive to be :0 (or, more importantly, A: on MS.DOS).
Then there’s a Drive Select Translation Cable for an extra £9 which
allows you to leave the links on the external drive set to zero (so you
can swap the drive over with another computer, e.g. a BBC) and still
have it accessed from the Archimedes as if it were drives 1 and 2 (or
there is a version that makes it 2 and 3). If you can’t work out what
you need from that lot, give CJE a ring! Then there is some software for
£15 that allows you to read (but not write) DFS discs using the
Archimedes − much easier than trying to use the RS423 interface −
particularly useful for those who want to trade in their BBC’s for an
Archimedes! (All these prices are including VAT)
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• Art-Worker (£5) from MacSoft is a “creative art program” providing a
spray brush for creating mode 15 (256 colour) pictures.
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• Mode Converter + Serial Data Transfer System. (£13 + VAT) from M & M
Computers provides a way of getting all those favourite screen-shots (or
other files for that matter) across from the BBC to the Archimedes. Once
across, the mode converter will allow you to transfer screens from one
mode to another so that, for example, 16 colour BBC pictures can have a
bit more colour added. (M & M are moving into new offices, so for
information, please contact the author, Alan Barclay at 7 Porthill
Court, Aberdeen, AB1 1DU.)
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• Architext − a text editor from HopeSoft for use with C Pascal,
Fortran, assembler and BASIC programming − £19.90. We have a review copy
though it is “not the final version” but you can get a demo version
which allows you to do everything except save files for just £3.50
(refundable when you buy the full program). Architext uses the mouse but
not the WIMP environment to make it “fast and full of facilities, but
easy to use.”)
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• Backgammon on your desktop − Maximum have released a desk accessory
version of the popular board game, backgammon with save, load, wind and
re-wind facilities for just £9.50. You can play the computer or the
computer can plays itself!
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• AutoSketch (£79 + VAT) − a new precision drawing package for machines
with 1Mbyte upwards is object-oriented with lines, arcs, circles and
curves of different colours and line types which can be assigned to any
of ten drawing layers. Text of any size can be added and objects can be
measured and dimensioned automatically. It has full zoom facilities, is
mouse driven and works with a whole range of printers and pen-plotters.
You can add pictures to your own symbol library and then paste them into
other drawings. For more details, contact Michael Page at Acorn
(Fulbourn Road).
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• New Adventure Game − Bush Rescue £21 +VAT from 4Mation Educational
Resources. An educational adventure program set in Aust-ralia − very
appropriate in Bicentennial year!
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• What a bind! Archive PVC binders (£5.50 each) are now in stock. I’m
very pleased with them − they are strongly made and look very smart on
the bookshelf. The binding system is such that even with only six or
seven magazines they stay in place without any trouble.
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“If you order 500 binders at a time”, he said, “they work out a lot
cheaper.” IÊworked out the cash flow OK, but I didn’t think about the
storage! They arrived today in thirty huge boxes! So if you’re thinking
of buying one “sometime”, can I urge you to buy it now? Please!??
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