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•  10 out of 10 again − Two more 10 out of 10 educational packages from
4th Dimension are 10 out of 10 Spelling, aimed at all ages of children,
and 10 out of 10 Dinosaurs. Each costs £25.95 inclusive from 4th
Dimension or £24 through Archive.
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•  105/44/88Mb removable drives price drop − Once again, the SyQuest
removable prices are dropping. The new inc VAT prices are as follows:
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105Mb 3½“ External (SCSI) − £450
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105Mb 3½“ Internal (SCSI) − £370
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105Mb 3½“ Internal (IDE) − £340
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88Mb 5¼“ External − £500
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44Mb 5¼“ External − £360
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If you want to fit a 3½“ removable into a Risc PC, it will go straight
into the spare 3½” bay on the ACB45 but on ACB15 and 25, it will have to
go in the spare 5¼“ bay. (We can supply a fitting kit, costing £30.)
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The buying price of 105Mb cartridges are fairly constant the 44Mb and
88Mb cartridge prices have risen. However, we have, so far, managed to
maintain the same Archive prices of £70 a disc for 105/44Mb and £100 a
disc for 88Mb.
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•  270Mb removable drives are here at last! Well, at least the SCSI
version is. The prices are very good compared with the 105Mb version:
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270Mb 3½“ External (SCSI) − £570
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270Mb 3½“ Internal (SCSI) − £490
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Extra 270Mb 3½“ cartridges − £90
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With every SyQuest drive that has ever been launched, the prices has
initially been high and has, by stages, dropped to their current, very
reasonable, prices. I have therefore is to set the Archive prices of the
270Mb drives, initially, with an extremely low profit margin. If, as I
suspect, the buying prices drops over the next two or three months, I
will be able to maintain the price setting. If, however, the buying
price does not drop, I will have to put the Archive price back up rather
than down. The aim is to encourage people to buy now rather than waiting
for the price to drop before buying.
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The new high capacity drives are, as expected, even faster than 105Mb
drives although we have only done qualitative tests so far. More
importantly, the 270Mb drives will read and write the 105Mb cartridges.
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We haven’t been able to get the IDE versions yet, but, with the extra
speed of the 270Mb drives, it is probably well worth going for the SCSI
version.
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•  Acorn Assist − There are new conditions for Acorn’s scheme for
teachers/students/anybody-with-any-connection-with-education to buy a
computer. There is a points scheme, depending on what you buy, that
allows you ‘free’ software, there is a referral scheme for when you
persuade a friend to buy an Acorn computer and there are various ways of
paying, as follows:
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1.  Cash/cheque
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2. Credit card (including 3% surcharge as per normal NCS terms)
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3.  0% finance spread over six months, with a 10% deposit
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4.  £50 a month on any computer system, spread over the appropriate
payment period. Minimum deposit £50. Repayment period varies, e.g. on 16
months the loan advanced would be £731.12, 25 months £1,090.49 loan
advanced, and 36 months £1,484.95. (£1,485 is the maximum loan available
by this method.)
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5.  Low cost finance spread over 24 months, with a 10% deposit. 13.75%
APR (1.08% per month), minimum loan £700. To calculate the monthly
payment you can expect to pay:
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  a) loan advanced = purchase price less deposit      (minimum 10%
deposit)
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  b) loan advanced multiplied by 0.051441 gives      your monthly
repayment rate with PPP      (Payment Protection Plan).
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  c) loan advanced multiplied by 0.047520 gives      your monthly
repayment rate without PPP.
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If you have any queries, or need further information, please call us on
0603-766592 and we will be pleased to help.
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•  Aleph One PC Cards − If you already have an Aleph One PC card, you
can still take advantage of the faster clock-doubled 486 processors.
Upgrades are available from First SMT Ltd, priced as follows. From 386
to 486 is £107, from a 386 or 486 to the clock-doubled 486 is £166. If
you have not taken advantage of the Fast PAL announced last year, that
can also be fitted for £19.50, which includes an upgrade to the Windows
drivers software if you already have it. If you do not have the software
but wish to purchase the latest version, the price is £29.38. All prices
include VAT and return carriage to a UK mainland address. First SMT can
be contacted on 0462−483360.
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•  Angelsoft have released two applications, Tudor Monarchs and
Beethoven Egmont. Tudor Monarchs is a Magpie browser with information on
topics such as The War of the Roses, Elizabeth I, The Spanish Armada and
William Shakespeare. The package costs £20 +VAT and includes a site
licence. There is also a companion set of four discs containing 94
drawfiles designed to support a project on the Tudors. This costs £15
+VAT but if you purchase both the cost will be £30 +VAT. The second
application is a Genesis browser designed to be used as a resource for
pupils undertaking music at GCSE. The analysis section deals with the
Egmont overture in some detail and there is a large amount of background
information on Beethoven’s life and works. If you have the appropriate
CD and a CD-ROM drive, the musical examples can be played from the CD.
The price is £25 +VAT.
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•  AppFS Release 3 − The latest version of the network software AppFS is
now available. It is fully compliant with AUN 3 and will work alongside
the Level 4 Fileserver, even on the same machine, and with the Level 4
software in single-tasking mode. Upgrades are available − “If you
ordered AppFS after January 1st 1994, you should either contact
Angelsoft or your supplier for a free upgrade. If you ordered AppFS
before that date, there is a small charge of £10 to upgrade via
Angelsoft. This charge is purely administrative. We want everyone who
has purchased AppFS to benefit from the improvements. It is quite in
order, therefore, for sites to pass the upgrade on to other sites,
providing of course, they have all purchased a previous release. It is
worth contacting your dealer or local ‘Acorn in Education Centre’ to see
if they have a copy.”
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•  Calc − This well-established RISC OS compatible spreadsheet is on
special offer. The normal price is £25.95 but from 1st May to 1st
September, it is available from Circular Triangles for just £15. Site
licences are similarly reduced to £30 and £40 for educational and non-
educational establishments.
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•  CC’s CD-ROM − Computer Concepts have announced the launch of a baby
brother for their 604X CD-ROM drive − the Pioneer DRM 602X, a double
speed six-disc drive which will give a sustained 300 Kb/s. The other key
feature is the built-in six-disc magazine and autochanger − in other
words, this drive does the job of six separate CD-ROM drives. With the
number of CD-ROM titles rapidly increasing, the 602X is a simple and
cheap alternative to wasting time swapping discs or buying more drives.
It is ideal for networks, since it allows six discs to be available on
the network from just one drive unit. The DRM-602X is multi-session
PhotoCD compatible and can also play standard audio compact discs. For
added security, the magazine can be locked into the drive. The price
from Computer Concepts is £499 + carriage +VAT (£598.07). With single
drives costing £300 and more, the six-disc capability of the 602X makes
this good value for money.
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The DRM-602X is suitable for any model of Acorn RISC computer with an
Acorn compatible SCSI interface, running the new CDFS 2.2 (upgrades can
be obtained from SCSI board suppliers). The package includes the drive
and CC drivers, full user manual, audio and power cables, DOS/Windows
and Mac drivers and a free copy of Computer Concepts’ ArtWorks clipart
CD (containing over 700 examples of work created in ArtWorks, dozens of
24bpp photographs, a demo version of AudioWorks and some sample audio
files).
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•  CD Français − Oak Solutions have released a new CD-ROM based package
aimed at teaching French in schools. Developed jointly by Oak Solutions
and a team from the EdIT centre in Leeds, the applications includes over
fifty interactive French activities, including a scene at a ferry
terminal where pupils have to identify which vehicle is being requested
to board, and a café scene where pupils have to provide the correct food
items ordered by customers. It is based around the popular Tricolore
course but has been designed to be used with any course, and can be used
individually or in groups. Originally intended for Key Stages 3 and 4,
CD Français can be used successfully at a number of levels. The price is
£95 including teachers’ notes and site licence.
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•  Chemistry Set CD-ROM − This new CD from Cumana is a library of
chemical experiments and molecular structures. Designed for pupils aged
10+, the focus is on Key Stages 3 and 4, although it is also suitable
for use in higher education, including first year university. It
includes over 350 video clips of key chemical experiments and processes,
and covers periodicity and group properties, competition and replacement
reactions, gas preparations, and test and qualitative analysis. The
effects of heating, distillation, salt preparation, electrolysis and
chromatography are also examined, along with a demonstration of the
effects of radioactive emissions. The package also includes a 500
compound database, over 400 interactive 3D molecular structures, giant
molecules and giant ionic lattices and text covering each element’s
history, uses, hazards, manufacture and properties. The price is £99
+VAT
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•  Clares’ software price drop − Clares Micros have dropped the prices
of some of their software. The new (inc VAT) prices and Archive prices
are as follows:
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Serenade  £99.95  £93
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Render Bender II   £49.95  £47
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Illusionist  £49.95  £47
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Titler  £99.95  £93
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Knowledge Organiser II  £79.95  £74
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Vox Box  £49.95  £47
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Fervour  £19.95  £19
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•  Colourfun − Smart DTP has produced a collection of pictures for young
children, supplied in Draw format, so that they can be used in many
different ways. Two versions of each picture are supplied − an outline
and a coloured version. Colourfun is aimed at use within primary/nursery
schools and for home use. It is available now at £14.95 inclusive.
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•  Ethernet interfaces − Digital Services have released a new set of
Ethernet interfaces which are available as AUN cards or Access cards,
costing £139 +VAT or £149 +VAT respectively, and a bridge card which
will filter traffic and prevent unnecessary data passing between
networks. Since the computer need not be dedicated, it costs
considerably less than specialist hardware. The 10Base2 version is
available, and a 10baseT version is planned. Interfaces are available in
standard 16-bit and 8-bit mini expansion card version, although the
bridge is only available as a standard card. The NetGain client software
is in EPROM on the card, which increases the speed of the network and
places a smaller load on the fileserver. The cards have been tested with
networks which integrate Acorn Level 4, SCO UNIX and Novell 3.11. Using
NFS, Acorn files may be stored on UNIX or Novell servers.
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•  Easy C − Risc Developments’ C programming system has been upgraded to
include a source level debugger. It supports source and object level
debugging, stack trace, breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, single-
stepping, variable monitoring, memory editing and profiling amongst
other features. The compiler is driven from a WIMP front end, and
includes a Make facility, throwback support, and integrated assembler.
The cost is now £59 +£2.70 carriage +VAT. Existing users can upgrade for
£10 +£1.70 carriage +VAT, or users of the C Development System can
upgrade for £15 +£2.70 +VAT. To qualify for an upgrade you need to
return your original program disc to Risc Developments with your order.
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•  Eizo 21“ monitors − There are some changes taking place in the Eizo
21” monitor range. The F760-iW (£1990) with a 0.31mm dot pitch is going
to be replaced by a 0.28mm dot pitch version at £2150. So if you want
one of the cheaper ones, ring us to see if we still have any available.
Personally, I think the higher resolution is worth the extra £160.
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Also, the extra high resolution 21“ (F780iW) with a 0.26mm dot pitch is
coming down in price to £3000 through Archive.
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•  Electronic Circuit Development contains over 200 pieces of clipart
for producing schematic diagrams of electronic circuits and PCB layouts.
Smart Graphics 1 costs £14.95 inclusive from Smart DTP.
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•  Equate from PTW Software has been designed for use by teachers and
pupils up to GCSE and A-Level. Multiple graph drawing is supported for
comparisons, export facilities (Draw and Paint) and full control over
graph style allow Equate to be used as a teaching aid, or for individual
project work. The price is £17.95, which includes postage, VAT,
unlimited site licence, upgrade path and technical support.
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•  Free TV − Now here’s an offer! If you buy an A3010 computer from
Norwich Computer Services (well, from any Acorn dealer actually, but I
hope you’ll buy from us!) you can have a ‘free’ colour TV to go with it.
“There must be a catch!” Well, yes, there is, sort of. Having bought the
computer, you get the ‘free’ TV by taking out a CoverPlus three-year
extended warranty on the TV and paying for delivery by Group4 Security.
So, a ‘free’ 14“ Sharp Colour TV (rrp £189.99) with remote control,
Scart socket and cable plus the 3-year warranty will cost you £89.50 +
£9.50 +VAT = £116.33 and a ‘free’ 20” Bush Colour TV (rrp £299.99) with
remote control, Teletext, Nicam stereo, sleep timer, on-screen info,
Scart socket and cable plus the 3-year warranty will cost you £149.50 +
£9.50 +VAT = £186.83. Mind you, if you want a TV and a computer, you
could do worse.
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•  Genesis Professional − The latest update to the Genesis package from
Oak Solutions replaces earlier versions and has many new features. The
menu structure has been simplified. For example, the style of a frame is
now controlled by a dialogue box, enabling all the style settings to
altered at once. Master pages can be set up and stored in a library so
that you can use them later without needing to start from scratch, and
Object Linking and Embedding is supported. More data types are
supported, including ArtWorks, Replay, and Windows .BMP and .WAV files.
There is support for 24-bit colour and for the new deep-colour sprites.
The speed with which pages are loaded has been increased significantly.
The script language has been extended with new keywords, global
variables can be accessed from any page in an application and script
editing can be done easily in Edit via OLE. Many of the features which
were only available in past versions from the script language can also
be accessed with the mouse from the new linking dialogue box.
Applications written on the Archimedes can also be used in Windows, or
on the Apple Macintosh versions, so anyone planning on using Genesis for
commercial purposes would be well-advised to purchase the Software
Developers’ Toolkit which includes Genesis Professional, Genesis for
Windows, Genesis for the Macintosh and the rights to distribute the
Genesis browser runtime system without paying royalties.
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Software Developers’ Toolkit costs £800 +VAT and Genesis Professional
costs £120 +VAT (£130 through Archive) but there are upgrades to
Professional from earlier versions − £60 +VAT from Genesis II and £90
+VAT from Genesis or Genesis Plus. Until the end of May (which doesn’t
give you long!) Oak are doing a special offer of “upgrade from any
Genesis for £40 +VAT” − Hurry, hurry!
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•  GridPro − This is 4Mation’s latest release and it enables you to
produce a variety of grids and patterns very easily. (See examples
overleaf. Why overleaf? If I put the picture on this page, this bit of
text all goes over onto the next page!!!) It could have a variety of
uses ranging from Maths investigations in Primary Schools to
professionals who need specialised grid formats. GridPro costs £37.50
+VAT (£41 through Archive) for a single user or £75 +VAT (£41 through
Archive) for a site licence.
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•  Hard Disc Companion − A new version of Risc Developments Hard Disc
Companion software has been released. It incorporates new restore
facility, which operates like a normal filer displays, allowing single
or multiple files to be retrieved simply by dragging to the required
destination. The software is faster, has support for removable hard
drives and has many other minor improvements. The cost is £45 +£2.70
carriage +VAT (or £52 through Archive). Existing users can upgrade for
£5 +£1.70 carriage +VAT, or £15 +£2.70 +VAT for owners of version 1. To
upgrade, you should return your original program disc to Risc
Developments.
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•  Hewlett Packard printers − The HP range of printers has changed
again, The Deskjet 520 gives 600 by 300 dpi with HP Resolution
Enhancement Technology, the Deskjet 560C gives the same resolution, in
colour, with both black and colour cartridges loaded at once to remove
the need to switch between them. Prices are £300 for the 520, and £560
for the 560C.
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•  IDE hard disc upgrades for A3010 − Castle Technology are now doing
hard drives for A3010 from 30Mb up to 240Mb at prices starting from £120
+VAT. They also have a 3-day fitting service available for £20 +VAT.
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•  Impression Borders Discs − Fabis Computing now have four sets of
borders for use with Impression. Impression Borders, Pack One and Pack
Two each contain 120 borders, aimed at more general use. The other two
sets contain 80 specialist borders each and are thematically related −
“Old English Tile Designs” and “Chinese Lattice Designs”. Each of the
packs costs £9.99 inc. VAT.
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•  LandBuild is a 3D fractal landscape program from Software42 now sold
by The ARM Club for £10 with no VAT because they are not VAT registered.
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•  Mathematical Adventures − Two new products from Sherston Software Ltd
are Space City and Sea Rescue. Space City involves getting a rescue
shuttle to the city but there are likely to be serious consequences.
While playing the game, they will also learn about angles. Sea Rescue
also involves a mission of mercy and aims to teach the players about
fractions. Space City and Sea Rescue cost £26.95 +VAT each from Sherston
or £29 through Archive.
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•  Maths Resources Discs − Smart DTP have produced three discs of
resources for educational users. These are images produced by practising
teachers aimed at GCSE, A-Level and Key Stage 1 for discs 1, 2 and 3
respectively. The Maths Resources Discs each cost £9.95 inclusive from
Smart DTP. This price includes a site licence.
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•  Number Tiles from Topologika helps implement mathematics across Key
Stages 1 and 2 by developing a combination of skills: visual
discrimination, understanding of number progression and basic
arithmetic, logical thinking and the ability to solve mathematical
problems. Number Tiles costs £30 +VAT for a single user licence (£33
through Archive) and there are site licences available from Topologika:
primary £55 +VAT, secondary £70 +VAT.
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•  Photodesk − Spacetech have produced a fully-featured art and photo-
retouching application to take advantage of the Risc PC’s capabilities.
All operations are carried out at ‘studio quality’ in 24-bit colour
using virtual memory techniques, so that you are not limited to the size
of the computer’s memory for handling very large colour images. Each
painting tool can be used to apply any of the effects so that there is a
huge range of operations that are possible. All the popular image
formats are accepted such as TIFF, clear, sprite, PhotoCD, as well as
drawfiles which can be used as ‘silk screens’ for stencilling and other
effects when loaded into the 256-level mask channel attached to each
photo. Photodesk can be used with ‘all current graphics extension
hardware’ and, of course, uses 24-bit colour if used on the Risc PC.
Photodesk from Spacetech costs £169.95 +VAT (£199.75) or £185 through
Archive.
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I saw Photodesk being demonstrated at the Harrogate show and it was
quite staggering to see what it could do. Admittedly, I have never seen
the Mac application, Photoshop, and I was told by an editor of one of
the other Acorn magazines that Photodesk ‘couldn’t compare with
Photoshop’. (Spacetech say that Photodesk does ‘80% of what Photoshop
does but is a lot faster and much more versatile’.) But you have to
remember that (a) the screen update on the Risc PC is an order of
magnitude faster than on the Mac version and (b) Photoshop has a list
price of £725 +VAT − although you can get a ‘free’ copy if you buy a
colour scanner for £1100 +VAT(!), and (c) according to our local Mac
Centre, the absolute minimum computer configuration that they would
recommend for using Photoshop is a Quadra 650 with 17“ monitor costing
over £2,200 +VAT − more than the top-end Risc PC with 17” monitor at
£2,100 +VAT.
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I do hope Acorn are telling the world about this sort of thing and doing
so quickly because this huge advantage will only last until native Power
Mac versions of this sort of software become available. Mind you, Adobe
are apparently starting again from scratch with the programming of
Photoshop rather than just trying to convert the code across piecemeal
to their RISC processors.
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•  Pressure sensitive graphics tablet − Two professional quality
graphics tablets have been launched for the Acorn Range by Eesox and
Vaughan Allanson, an A5 version and an A4+ (12“×12”). Both of these are
based on Wacom Tablets and use a cordless, batteryless, pressure-
sensitive stylus, and may also be used with a cordless four button
“puck”. They connect to the Archimedes via the serial port. Being
pressure sensitive adds a new dimension to graphics work. For example, a
spray-can could change density with pressure and a special tool for
ArtWorks is available to produce fluid lines of varying width. The
tablet can, of course, be used to emulate the functionality of the mouse
and so can be used to augment the mouse, or completely replace it. The
prices of currently available (excluding postage and VAT) are A5 tablet
and stylus £399, A4+ tablet, stylus and puck £549, ArtWorks pressure
tool £29. Larger sizes are available on request. For further details,
contact Vaughan Allanson on 0638−578597.
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•  Repro − Oak Solutions have produced a package which gives far more
control over colour printouts than previously available. It offers
control over screen size, and angles, gamma correction, grey balance and
black removal. It allows you to edit the palette used by the !Printers
application so that you can match the printout colours to those you get
on screen − correct matching for mode 15 (i.e. the default 256 colour
desktop palette) is included. The features can also be extended by
adding libraries of Basic functions to provide alternative routines for
defining dot patterns and colour calibration.
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• Sibelius 6 is an education version of the full professional music
notation program, Sibelius 7. It has a simplified user interface but it
can still handle complex orchestral scores, all traditional musical
notation and a wide range of contemporary notation, Midi input and
output, etc. It has been updated recently to provide ‘block text’ for
writing extra verses of lyrics, new instruments including brass band
instruments, reorganisation of ‘transfers’ with some new ones (e.g.
guitar chords), new options for transposing, alignment of objects into
rows/columns using the ctrl key, new improved version of OpusII music
fonts, faster overview window, improved positioning of slurs and
articulation marks, improved operation with CC TurboDrivers, improved
exporting to ArtWorks. Coming soon are a new, more friendly copy
protection system (without using a key disc) and edition 2 of the
manual. Sibelius 6 costs £160 +VAT from Sibelius Software and is now
available through Archive for £175.
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•  Sibelius 7 − the much-acclaimed “expert system for music engraving”
has been updated. It now has all the new features of Sibelius 6 plus new
instruments, over 180 new symbols, various new lines, enhanced text
styles, many new house-style options, new choice options, ‘eraser’
(white-out box) to assist notating incipits, ossias, presces and
responses and certain modern scores. Coming soon are a new, more
friendly copy protection system (without using a key disc) and edition 3
of the manual. The full package costs £795 +VAT but, for non-
professional users, there is a special offer price of £499 +VAT.
Sibelius 7 is now available through Archive for £545.
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•  Smart Borders 2 & Smart Borders+ are two packs of special borders for
use with the Impression range of products. Each costs £14.95 inclusive
from Smart DTP but Smart Borders+ comes either in ArtWorks format or in
drawfile format.
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•  Smart Graphics Pack 1 is a collection of over 200 drawfiles covering
animals, fun, music, maps & flags, nature, flowers, sport, people and
miscellaneous. Smart Graphics 1 costs £14.95 inclusive from Smart DTP.
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•  Smart Resources 2 is a collection of over 300 items of lineart
covering arrows, borders, corners, drop capitals, rules, symbols,
flashes, speech and think bubbles and miscellaneous. Smart Resources 2
costs £14.95 inclusive from Smart DTP and is available in either
ArtWorks or drawfile format.
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•  Smart Works is a two-disc set of materials for ArtWorks users. It
provides resources in the form of moulds and paths, a range of example
files, support for the ArtWorks User Manual and extras such as a
keystrip, fact card, font poster, printer test sheet and colour table.
Smart Works costs £9.95 inclusive from Smart DTP.
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•  Tele-Card from XOB is a standard Acorn format expansion card which
carries tuning and decoding circuitry to allow the reception of
television signals and display of Teletext pages. As well as delivering
decoded teletext pages directly into the computer, it can supply audio
and video signals suitable for feeding into domestic entertainment
systems, video recorders, video digitisers and many computer monitors.
With a suitable cable and switch, it may be possible to use your
computer monitor as a supplementary television when not being used as a
data display.
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Tele-Card comes with a multi-tasking desktop user interface for the
selection and display of Teletext pages directly off-air. The software
supports Level I Teletext services, the normal domestic standard but,
since some organisations are experimenting with Level II Teletext
services, the hardware is designed to allow for reception of these when
they become available.
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The documentation supplied details the low level calls which allow the
enthusiast or specialist to write their own software to directly talk to
the card.
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Teletext serving software can be purchased as an optional extra to allow
a single computer to serve Teletext to an entire Acorn AUN network. This
is based on our servers currently in use in many institutions with
Morley and Acorn adaptors, but is a modified version to take advantage
of the improved facilities offered by our purpose-designed card.
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Tele-Card with single-user software costs £144 +VAT, the Network Serving
software costs £154 +VAT and the Tele-Card with the Network software
purchased together costs £274 +VAT. (Prices through Archive are: £165,
£172 and £305 respectively.)
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•  User/Analogue interfaces − HCCS have introduced some new cards which
provide user and analogue ports for all Acorn machines. The A3000/4000
type is £39 +VAT (£45 through Archive) and the A5000/Risc PC type is the
same price.
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•  WimpGEN − This is a new application authoring package which allows an
application’s user interface to be built up, allowing you to concentrate
on the main application code rather than the interface. The whole
process of windows, dialogue boxes and menu structures can be done
interactively. The price is £99.95 inc VAT from Silicon Vision.
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•  Wing chairs − The special ‘kneeling’ type office chairs we advertised
in Archive 6.12 have been selling steadily ever since. The prices of
most of the Stokke chairs has just gone up but, thankfully, the Wings
have stayed the same price − £320. (Before you say how expensive that
is, please read my ‘testimony’ in 6.12 about how good they are and how
they have helped my bad back − which is why I am selling them.) The
colours of material and types of wood keep changing. Currently, we can
get natural beech, rosewood and black frames with material covers in
black, charcoal, grey (darkish), navy, wine (‘plummy’), red, beige and
brown.
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•  Worldport 14400 fax/modem − Since last month, US Robotics have
dropped the price of their Sportster Fax/modem. The new Archive price is
£230 including VAT and carriage. (Add £13 for a modem lead if using pre-
A5000 computers because the supplied lead only works with A5000 and
later computers.) Add £33 for ArcFax 1.10 and you have a fully working
fax system. (The portable version is still £270 through Archive.)
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•  Z88 Link Software − The Really Good Software Company have produced a
new piece of software to make the link between a Z88 and an Archimedes
computer much easier. Z-Link II works with RISC OS 3.1 or later and
costs £24.95 inclusive from RGSC. They also do a serial cable for a
further £9 inclusive.
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