Archive Magazine 1995/ARCHIVE95.iso/text/products/volume_01/issue_12

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Å  Arc-PCB Ö A program for design and draughting of multi-layer printed
circuit boards with facilities such as auto-routing, zoom, pan etc.
Output either to a plotter or Epson compatible printer. Demo disc ú5
(refundable), full package ú195, both inclusive of VAT and p & p from
Silicon Vision Ltd.
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Å  Weather Satellite Decoding Podule ÖThis new podule from Spacetech
decodes and displays information from weather satellites giving 84 grey
scales and 256 colour palette. Software allows weather animation and
includes some digital signal processing and image processing. Full
package ú259.95 inclusive. Send for a demo disc for ú5 (refundable).
Also available soon is a utilities disc including more advanced image
processing (ú35). Spacetech also sell the receivers and antennae that
you will need to complete the system.
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Å  Image Processing on Public Domain. Delft University have produced an
image processing package and have made it available on public domain. It
was originally produced on the Atari but has now been ported across to
the SUN and the Archimedes. Facilities, amongst others, include contrast
and edge enhancement and all are available through the user-friendly
WIMP environment. The package has been developed in co-operation with
Eeckhorn Computers B.V. and the local dealer, E.C.D. in Delft. More
details from Eeckhorn on telephone [phone], or through ECD,
Voldersgracht 25-26, 2611 E V Delft, Holland. (We have a copy if you
want to send us a disc, but the documentation is too long to copy.)
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Å  More colours for Leonardo! Ö Beard Technologyæs Leonardo, the mode 12
art package has now been up-dated to a 256 colour version. For only ú2
more than the original version (ú19.50 instead of ú17.50) you also get a
font generator and a printer dump routine Ö in addition to the impres
sive array of facilities of the mode 12 version, e.g. full zoom
facilities, undo (and re-do!) option, compressed screen save format as
well as the usual line, circles, ellipses, rectangles, triangles, fill,
airbrush, etc. Ö See the review of Leonardo 12 on page 28. (We hope to
have a review of Leonardo Plus next month.)
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Å  Arctist Plus from Fairhurst Instruments (ú19.95 or ú5 as an up-grade)
available ömid-Septemberò. Extra features wil include: mouse snap to
grid, information bar, first colour to second colour, grab a frame (with
Watford Digitiser), true circle, shaded spheres and rectangles, magnify
area, reduce area, load new fonts, bold, underline and shadow.
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Å  Pax 256 Colour Art Package Ö Julian Rockey of Quazer fame has turned
his hand to artwork. All the usual art facilities including rubber-
banding, zoom, undo, anti-aliased fonts. ú15.95 inclusive.
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Å  Pipedream Demo Disc Ö ú4.95 inclusive from Colton Software Ö demo disc
so that will give you the flavour of Pipedream. The ú4.95 is recoverable
when you buy Pipedream itself. (ú5 including p & p through Archive,
Pipedream ú105)
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Å  Archimedes Utilities from P.R.E.S. Ö A low priced toolkit package with
facilities such as hard disc backup, memory allocation map, continuous
compacter, screen mode table generator, file-type lister and module
interrogator.
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Å  Another 4-slot backplane (two, in fact). Firstly there is one from
Atomwide at ú49.00 +VAT without a fan or ú59 +VAT with a fan (+ú5
carriage per order)  and secondly, IFEL Electronics are selling one with
a fan for ú58.95,  including VAT & UK postage. IFEL has an upgrade
scheme for those of you who already have a 2-way backplane and they also
offer a discount of 95p for Archive members quoting their membership
number. The 4-slot backplane mentioned briefly last month from Computer
ware is available at ú59.95 including the fan. This includes UK postage,
but they arenæt VAT registered, so there is no VAT to add. (Computer-
ware are also planning to release a 20 Mbyte hard disc podule for
ú399.95 in mid-October.)
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Å  Personal Accounts Package / Shares System. Ian Hamilton is selling a
pair of programs which can be used separately or together for single or
multiple users. They provide personal accounts and a shares system to
hold information about shares and unit trusts. The share system also has
the facility to record buy and sell transactions to build up a share
portfolio. (ú15 or ú12 if ordered before Christmas.)
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Å  Genlock Card. Atomwide, in addition to their 4-slot backplane and
prototyping expansion podule (ú15 for a bare p.c.b. and ú35 fully
constructed Ö see Archive 1.9, page 3) also produce a genlock card for
ú175 + VAT. Lock your Archimedes video onto any other (mono) video
source.
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Å  More games╔ Alerion Ö Arcade Action game Ö ú14.95 from Dabs Press,
bears certain similarities to Quazer, scrolling shoot-up-the-aliens type
game Ö a bit slower but more colourful than Quazer, my boys say Ö
noisier than Quazer, say I!. Orion from Minerva (ú14.95) air to air
combat interceptor Ö shoot up the aliens before itæs too late. Freddyæs
Folly from Minerva Ö ú14.95 Ö a battle between Sir Freddy and
yourselves. You are trying to defend your castle while he tries to bomb
you from his fleet of balloons. (Well, itæs a Édifferentæ scenario!)
öLots of fun for all the family.ò
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Å  Archimedes Librarian. Micro Librarian Professional is a library
management program from Micro Librarian Systems who have had a system
running on the Master 128 for some time now. This is an up-graded
program using the full Archimedes features, not just the same program
transferred onto a 3.5ö disc. The basic price is ú300, but for a further
ú200, the software can be customised to suit individual libraryæs needs.
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Å  DOC Professional (Database, Organisation, Charts) is a database
written by a German firm, BSG Ö Digitale Illustrationen, with alterna
tive text in English, German or French. The cost is ú31.60 including
postage and packing. (I think these facts are correctly interpreted from
their press release!)
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Å  Desktop Enhancer Ö an impressive array of extra facilities to bolt
onto the desktop Ö reviewed on page 40. Available from Mitre Software
for ú29.95 inc VAT.
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ÉWIMP Template Editoræ
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Write your own programs using the WIMP environment without having to
understand all those complicated SYS commands that Adrian Look has been
trying to explain to us for the last Énæ months. This is a program which
uses the WIMP environ-ment to allow you to design WIMP layouts. You then
just load them into your own programs. It includes windows, (pop-up)
menus, palette editor and sprite editor.
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Acorn have given us a Énearly workingæ version and we are in the process
of knocking it up into shape. The idea is to release it as public domain
software probably at the usual Archive disc price of ú3.
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