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• Analogue simulation package − Mijas Software have produced a general
purpose ‘analogue’ simulation package called ArcSimp. It provides
integrators, summers, function generators, trig functions, etc and will
allow you to model all sorts of different systems. ArcSimp costs £50
including VAT and p&p from Mijas and they also sell a demonstration
version for £5 refundable against a purchase of the full system.
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• Archimedes Basic Compiler (ABC) − Oak Solutions, who now distribute
the ABC compiler, have produced a version 3. This is a re-presented
version with extra facilities and sells at £99.95 +VAT or £105 through
Archive. We hope to have a review of it in due course.
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• Castle Life − Oak Solutions have produced a package to allow children
to explore a mediæval castle, using plans and views to plan and execute
their own “visit”. The material relates to History Key Stage 3 and
Technology Attainment Target 5. Two discs, one manual and twelve
worksheets cost £50 +VAT from Oak Solutions.
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• Clipart by the volume − 23 volumes of clip art from Image Club
Graphics of Canada which were originally only available on Macs and PCs
are now available in Archimedes Draw format. Matt Black (that’s the name
of the company) sells the 23 volumes for £29.95 each. A full catalogue
is available from Matt Black for £7.95 inc p&p.
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• Clipart on CD-ROM − APA Multimedia have produced “The Really Useful
CD-ROM Vol. 1” at £49 +VAT which contains “megabytes of clipart in Draw
and sprite format” plus some sound samples.
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• DrawBook − A great help for those doing budget DTP is Emerald
Publishing’s DrawBook. It allows you to combine drawfiles, one for each
page, to create a book. The order and contents of the book can be edited
and it also enables headers and footers to be printed on each page. The
cost is £15 +VAT or £16 through Archive.
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Landmarks − Longman Logotron have just released another two in their
Landmarks series of educational information packages. They are “Aztecs”
and “Columbus” and each costs £24 +VAT or £26 through Archive.
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• My Town/Village is a resources pack (£7.50 +VAT) for use with the My
World Package (£15 +VAT) from NW SEMERC. It includes a range of
pictorial scenes depicting towns and villages through the centuries.
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• Multiple CD-ROMs − Cumana have reduced the price of their “6-pack” CD-
ROM drives to £1499 +VAT. These provide six drives that can be used on a
network, all 6 drives being accessible simultaneously.
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• PenDown Plus − A new version of PenDown has been released (£79 +VAT or
£85 through Archive). Extra features include a new 65,000 word diction
ary with check-as-you-type, font find-and-replace, table editing,
mailmerge and address database.
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• Portable trackerball − (Ed’s wish in last month’s “A4” article has
come true!) PEP Associates have converted the Logitech Trackman Portable
− a serial trackerball − to work on the serial port of the new A4 (and
presumably also the A5000, though that is less relevant). You can buy
the full package including carrying case, various cables and adaptors
and the A4 software for £95 inclusive or for £45 you can get just the
software and the trackerball (with, presumably, a cable to connect to
the A4). If you already have a Trackman Portable, you can buy the
software on its own from PEP for £19.
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• Professional Tools Pack 1 − Electronic Solutions have produced a set
of RISC-OS utilities for £14.95 +VAT. These include monitor protector
and data security program, colour enhancement software, animated generic
ARM3 control software, module protector utilities, key-activated
utilities and utility manager, multisync monitor emulator, system speed
controller and a fix for RISC-OS 2’s “FileCore in use” bug.
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• Prolog is back! − Keylink Computers Ltd have produced a version of
Prolog for the Archimedes (2M or more). It costs £69.95 +VAT and uses
the standard Edinburgh text. It comes with a 120+ page manual with a
large amount of background information.
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• Risc Basic Compiler − Silicon Vision have produced a version 3 of
their Risc Basic Compiler which also links in with Acorn’s DDE. It sells
at £149.95 inc VAT or £135 through Archive. We hope to have a review of
it in due course.
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• Saloon Cars De-Luxe − Fourth Dimension have now produced a de-luxe
version of Saloon Cars. For £34.95 (£33 through Archive) you get a range
of new and improved features. They have taken into account the fact that
some people have hard discs (onto which it can be installed), more than
1M and ARM3. In other words, on more powerful machines you will be able
to get more detail and/or speed.
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• SolidCAD release 5 is now available from Silicon Vision. It has a
bigger manual, a module for high speed animation, SuperPlot driver,
SuperDump driver, 24bit RGB output, high speed rendering (claiming to be
“the fastest rendering package”), drawfile output, etc. £149.95 inc VAT
from Silicon Vision.
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• The Last Ninja − In another series of battles against evil, you have
to use swords, nunchakus and shiraken stars to rescue the stolen scrolls
of Ninja. You also have to solve some devious puzzles in over 140
“action-packed screens”. The Last Ninja costs £24.95 from Superior or
£23 through Archive.
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• ThinkSheet − In the very early days of Archive, I asked for an ideas
processor for the Archimedes. Having got used to using one on the Mac, I
felt I was missing out. At last there is one available. Fisher Marriott
Software have had a Nimbus and PC version available for a while but have
now released a fully RISC-OS compatible version for the Archimedes.
ThinkSheet allows you to enter text, organise it, search through it and
reorganise it to your heart’s content − all in the RISC-OS environment.
Then you can export your text to a WP or DTP package. Facilities are
also provided for transferring information to and from ThinkSheets on
Nimbus and PC. The price is £39 +VAT from Fisher-Marriott and £89 +VAT
for a school site licence.
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• Training galore! − Several companies are now offering training courses
for end-users. Broad Oak Computers in Bishops Stortford (0279− 718767)
do courses on Impression, Squirrel, Schema, FWPlus, Artisan, Pendown and
the PC Emulator. They charge £50 +VAT per day. They also do a correspon
dence course on BBC Basic V. Acorn Computers in Cambridge (0223−214411)
do courses on Impression, Squirrel, Schema, PC Emulator, PinPoint,
Vector, PipeDream, Revelation and Magpie, plus more general ones on the
Learning Curve software and one on Graphics, Animation and Video. They
charge £49 +VAT per day. Minerva software in Exeter (0392− 426160) do
courses on Archimedes Awareness, Draw/Edit, Atelier, MultiStore/
Flexifile, Desktop Office, Impression and TimeTabler. They charge £60
+VAT per ½ day, £110 per full day or £150 per full day depending on the
course.
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Interestingly, they all say that the most popular courses are the
general introductory ones and the ones on Impression. Does anyone know
of other companies doing such courses? Do any of them cover other
applications such as Ovation?
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