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• Ace Printer Drivers − To clarify the situation about the different
drivers available, here is a list of the two types, Standard and
ProDriver, with notes on which work on RISC-OS 2 and 3. The Pro-Drivers
work on RISC-OS 3 only.
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Ace RISC-OS Standard Printer Drivers
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(Archive price £17 each)
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Canon PJ1080A (RISC-OS 2 only)
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Canon LBP4/8 (RISC-OS 3 only)
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ColourCel (RISC-OS 2 only)
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Epson JX compatible (RISC-OS 2 only)
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Epson ESC-P2 (RISC-OS 3 only)
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HP DJ500C/550C/PaintJet (RISC-OS 2 & 3)
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Ace RISC-OS 3 ProDrivers (RISC-OS 2 only)
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(Archive price £44 each)
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Canon LBP4/8
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Epson ESC-P2
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HP DJ500C/550C/PaintJet
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Shell for Acorn printer drivers (ProDriver A1 upgrade) (Archive price
£27)
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(Epson ESC-P2 refers to Epson’s newest printer code standard so it
applies to Epson’s latest printers such as the Stylus 800. It is
downwards compatible so it can be used with all Epson compatible
printers within the limitations of the facilities of each given
printer.)
6.7
• Advance is Acorn’s new integrated software suite. It runs on RISC-OS
3.1 machines (1Mb or more) and provides word-processor, spreadsheet,
database and graphs package. The WP has some DTP-like facilities as well
as the usual WP facilities, including a 60,000 word spell-checker, and
can, of course, take output from the other programs in the suite.
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Advance is aimed particularly at education and Acorn have involved some
educationalists in the development of the suite. (You may see a certain
similarity between these programs and existing applications because
Advance was a joint effort between CC, Clares, CRM, Iota and Acorn.)
6.7
The pricing is fairly complex. The single user version is £99 +VAT (£105
through Archive), the site licence for primary schools is £199 +VAT
(£215 through Archive) and the secondary school site licence is £499
+VAT (£520 through Archive). By Acorn’s definition, primary includes
special needs schools but all other schools, including middle schools,
will have to pay the secondary school price.
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Acorn also do an Off-site Disc Pack for £99 +VAT (£105 through Archive).
This is a set of ten key discs, allowing pupils and staff to use
Advance on their computers at home. However, it may only be purchased by
schools with a licence.
6.7
• Badger Trails price increase − Sherston Software have increased the
price of Badger Trails from £35 to £39.95 +VAT. The Archive price is now
£44.
6.7
• Budget games − David Ramsden’s Arcade, which is a set of four RISC-OS
arcade games costing £5.95 (no VAT), is now also available as four
separate games at £1.99 each from David Ramsden, 7 Chevet Lane,
Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 6HN. The games are Chomper, Intruders,
RockSmash and Armageddon.
6.7
• Bulletin is a bulletin board system from XOB for use over Econet. It
provides the usual bulletin board services including electronic mail,
special interest groups and closed user groups. This fully RISC-OS
compliant software runs on any Archimedes, supports up to 1,500 users
and comes with a site/network licence for £69 +VAT from XOB or £75
through Archive.
6.7
• Dabhand Guide to Impression − Anne Rooney has written a 400+ page
guide to Impression with 23 chapters attempting to cover all aspects of
using Impression from getting Impression installed on your computer to
the finer points of using the Impression Business Supplement. It costs
£14.95 through Dabs Press or £15 (including postage) through Archive.
6.7
• DrawHelp − This isn’t a new product but it is a helpful introduction
to Draw, produced by Sherston Software. As we are now stocking their
products, it is available through Archive for £15. (£15.95 through
Sherston.) It was written for the RISC-OS 2 version of Draw but serves
as an introduction to the RISC-OS 3 version as well, even though it
doesn’t cover the newer features.
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• Epson Stylus 800 − A new inkjet printer has been released by Epson. It
seems comparable with the Canon BJ200 but the ink doesn’t seem to run as
much on cheap paper so it gives a crisper printout. It can be driven
from standard RISC-OS drivers but, for best effect, use the Ace Pro-
Driver. The Archive price is £330 or £370 if bought with the Pro-Driver.
This compares with the Canon BJ200 at £355 on its own or £393 with the
CC Turbo-Driver.
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• FirstLogo − Longman Logotron have produced a version of Logo for use
with primary schools children. It aims to provide an environment where
children can experience computer-based problem-solving as required by
the National Curriculum. The price is £24 +VAT from Longman Logotron (or
£26 through Archive) for a single user or £72 +VAT (£78 through Archive)
for a primary site licence.
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• Graphics on the ARM − This is a new book by Roger Amos − a 400+ page
guide to various aspects of graphics on the Archimedes range of
computers. It covers such things as fonts, Draw, Vector, 3D graphics,
Paint, art packages, image processing, ray-tracing, animation and
mathematical and abstract graphics. It costs £14.95 through Dabs Press
or £15 (inc postage) through Archive.
6.7
• HCCS 16-bit SCSI cards − HCCS sell a 16-bit SCSI card which includes
full support for CD-ROM. These cost £99 +VAT or £110 inclusive through
Archive.
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• IronMask 2.0 Multi-User Edition − IronMask 2.00 is a major upgrade of
Turing Tools RISC-OS file security system, providing password-controlled
access to important files and directories. IronMask 2.0 supports up to
63 PIN identified users plus an administrative superuser. The superuser
is identified at installation and is responsible for adding and removing
subsequent users. Any signed-on user has the ability to “shield” or
“unshield” files by means of a private key. Shielded files are
completely inaccessible to file-handling operations until they are
unshielded using the original key. Automatic time-out guards an
unattended IronMask session from opportunist entry.
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IronMask 2.0 Multi-User Edition is available from Turing Tools for £65
(inclusive) for installation on one computer or £195 (inclusive) for
unlimited use on a single site. Educational site licences are available
at a discount, available by individual arrangement.
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IronMask 1.2 continues to be available as IronMask 1.2 Personal Edition,
at the reduced price of £49 inclusive. IronMask 1 customers can upgrade
to IronMask 2.0 for £10 on application to Turing Tools.
6.7
• Memory upgrades down − HCCS have reduced the prices of their memory
upgrades for the new A3000/4000 computers. A 1Mb upgrade for the A3010
is now just £35 inc VAT through Archive and the 2Mb upgrades for A3020/
4000 are £70 inc VAT through Archive.
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• MIDI files − A company called Words & Music has translated a large
number of MIDI files into Archimedes format. There are three volumes of
classical music, one of ragtime music and one of drum tracks. The discs
are £10.95 each (no VAT) or you can buy all five discs for £48.75.
6.7
• NetChat − NetChat is a network communication system providing machine
to machine interaction over Acorn networks. Amongst other things, it
allows users to communicate with each other by a conferencing system
which provides for simultaneous conversations between several users.
Messages may be typed directly into a ‘conversation window’ or pre-
prepared text files may be sent by simply dragging them onto the NetChat
icon. The core NetChat module also allows files, applications and
complete directories to be passed between machines even in the absence
of a fileserver.
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There are also facilities that allow the keyboard of one machine to
control directly a remote machine or to allow operating system commands
to be sent to a remote machine, permitting modules and programs to be
run on one machine from another machine. You can also get a snapshot
view of another computer’s screen. To show the realtime interaction,
there is an Othello game played by users on different machines.
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A site licence for NetChat costs £84 +VAT or £92 through Archive.
6.7
• NetManage − A new piece of software has appeared from Australia which
will be of great help to Network Managers. NetManage, from Suitable
Software, is a network management tool for use on AUN over Econet or
Ethernet. It allows you to create and maintain user password files on
Acorn’s Level 3, Filestore and Level 4 fileservers. The price is £50 (no
VAT) from Suitable Software in the U.K. or $125 in Australia.
6.7
• On-site warranty − Acorn offer on-site service and warranty on all
their new computers: A3010, A3020, A4000 and A5000. You can choose 1-
year or 3-year warranties and the cost depends on the type of computer
and whether or not it has a hard drive. The Acorn monitor you purchased
at the same time is included in the warranty. These warranties have to
be purchased at the time of purchase of the computer or within 30-days
thereafter. The prices are: 1-year A5000 − £39.95 (£37 through Archive),
1-year A3010/3020/4000 £29.95 (£28 through Archive), 3-year A5000 −
£79.95 (£74 through Archive), 3-year A3020HD and A4000 £59.95 (£60
through Archive) and 3-year A3010 and A3020FD £49.95 (£46 through
Archive).
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• Optima is NW SEMERC’s new hypermedia database. It allows users to link
words, pictures and sounds so that you can create talking books,
branching stories, adventures and viewdata systems. It costs £18 +VAT
from NW SEMERC.
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• Parallel port SCSI adaptor − Atomwide have produced a SCSI adaptor
which plugs into the bidirectional printer port of the new machines. The
price is £49.95 +VAT (£55 through Archive). See Hardware Column on page
55 for details.
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• Phases 3 − NW SEMERC have released the latest version of their RISC-OS
word-processor for children aged 5 upwards. With its extra facilities,
Phases 3 still only costs £18 +VAT.
6.7
• Pocket Book / Psion 3 products − We have increased our range of
products for the Pocket Book and reduced the prices of some of the
memory products.
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Acorn Archive
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Parallel Link £29.95 £28
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RAM Disc 128Kb £79.95 £74
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RAM Disc 512Kb − £138
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RAM Disc 1Mb − £278
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Flash Disc 128Kb − £37
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Flash Disc 256Kb £69.95 £65
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Flash Disc 512Kb £119.95 £93
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Flash Disc 1Mb − £185
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Flash Disc 2Mb − £278
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OPL Editor £69.95 £65
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Mains Adaptor £14.95 £15
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• RiscCAD Junior is a 2D draughting system which provides a wide range
of draughting facilities, all working in the RISC-OS environment. The
Junior version of RiscCAD is available now for £80 +VAT from Davyn
Software. A Professional version should be available by the time you
read this and will cost £130 +VAT.
6.7
• S-Base is Longman Logotron’s exciting new database. It is not just a
straight database but has a database language called S (what else?)
which allows you to write your own procedures and mini-programs using an
Edit-like editor for program editing. S-Base comes with a template
editor, with Draw-like tools for creating the layout of your databases.
It can handle a range of data types including integer, FP, string, date,
time and you can even define your own data types. It can also handle
large objects like sprites or Replay files. The personal version costs
£99 +VAT (£105 through Archive) and the developer’s version costs £199
+VAT (£215 through Archive). With the developer’s version, you can
create databases which can be compiled and then, once compiled, can be
run independently of S-Base. The resultant databases cannot be edited
but they come with a royalty-free version of the S runtime system, so
you can give away or sell the database as you wish.
6.7
(We are hoping to use S-Base to create an all-singing, all-dancing
database for the Archive office and we hope to install it on the network
as soon as the S-Base network version becomes available! We are
certainly going to need an S-Base Column in Archive. Is anyone
interested in running it for us? Ed)
6.7
• Serenade is a desktop MIDI sequencer from Clares. It provides 16-track
record and playback, keyboard capture, transpose, quantise, full editing
facilities, guitar chord input, etc. Serenade costs £135 inc VAT or £125
through Archive.
6.7
• SideShow is a video-titling package from Computer Concepts distributed
with the Wild Vision Chroma-Genlocks. It functions around Draw and
thereby acts as a medium for overlaying drawn objects, sprites and/or
text onto video. It offers sequencing of screens with blanking, looping
and scrolling. It will not be sold as a stand-alone package but existing
owners of Chroma-Genlock boards can upgrade their ChromaText software
free of charge through Wild Vision if they do so before 30th June 1993.
The Chroma-Genlock package costs £259.68 including VAT and carriage or
£240 through Archive.
6.7
• SyQuest removable drives − There is now an alternative version of the
SyQuest 84Mb removable drive. The older versions would read 42Mb discs
but could not write them but the new drives can read and write both
sizes of discs. This is a great bonus to anyone who is likely to want to
exchange data between sites. The new drives will cost £670 instead of
£590 for the older version.
6.7
• Teletext on AUN networks − XOB’s Teletext serving software, mentioned
last month, is now available through Archive for £169.
6.7
• Ultimate Expansion expansion − The range of HCCS’s Ultimate Expansion
system is increasing − and dropping in price. There is now a User Port/
Analogue Port Starter Pack for £79 +VAT (£88 through Archive). The A3010
20M Ultimate 2-slot multipodule has dropped from £303 to £250 (Archive
price) and the 60M Ultimate 2-slot multipodule has dropped from £445 to
£335 (Archive price). The SCSI starter Pack has dropped from £133
(Archive) to £100 and the Archive price of the SCSI micropodule has
dropped from £110 to £77.
6.7
• WordSearch − If you want to make up a word-square (words hidden in
various directions within a matrix of letters) then Davyn Software can
make life easier for you. For £17 +VAT, they offer WordSearch which
takes an Edit file of words and creates a word-square for you.
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