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Å RISC Forth Ö Blue-Grey Software seems to have disappeared, but RISC
Forth has been taken on by Silicon Vision Ltd who are now it sole
distributors. The price has unfortunately gone up to ú99.95.
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Å PCB layout software Ö Silicon Vision Ltd are doing a P.C.B. design
system for ú195 inc VAT with full auto-routing, rats nesting, surface
mount capability, 0.001 inch resolution, 32ö x 32ò max board size, on-
line help, fast zoom, pan and re-draw. Test and silkscreen are also
included with variable line, pad, text and grid sizes, parts libraries,
block move, copy, rotate, mirror and delete options. It supports
Plotmate, Graphtec and all HP-GL compatible plotters. It also includes a
hi-res hard copy for Epson compatible printers. It can be run from hard
disc and/or Econet.
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There is now also an Entry-level version of this software which has all
the features of the full version except the auto-routing. The price of
the entry-level version is ú99.95 inclusive.
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Å BASIC Compiler Ö Dabs Press are close to launching their ABC (Archi
medes BASIC Compiler) written by Paul Fellows Ö for ú99 inclusive, you
get the compiler, a 40 page user guide and a disc of sample programs. It
will compile BASIC programs either into absolute code or as a relocat
able module and it will allow you to implement star commands. The claims
for speed increase are that generally it is up to ten times faster than
interpreted BASIC but obviously this doesnæt apply where programs are
making heavy use of disc access or operating system commands since the
speed of such calls will remain unchanged.
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Å Spreadsheets Ö If you are trying to make up your mind which spread
sheet would best suit your needs, Gordon Taylor has written a very good
comparative review in Personal Computer World, October 1988, page 182.
He looks in detail at four spreadsheets; Logistix, Matrix-3, PipeDream
and SigmaSheet (all of which can be purchased through Archive.)
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Å A410æs Ö No, donæt get too excited, they are not actually öavailableò
as such yet, but I thought you would like to know the prognosis. Top
managers inside Acorn tell me that they are going to be ready önext
yearò and öhopefully as early as possible in the yearò, but they cannot
make any promises because of lead times on components and because
various elements of the development and testing are not finished yet.
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Å PC Emulator up-grades Ö Beebug are saying that if you send your 1.09
version, they will up-grade it to 1.20 for just ú3 compared with Acornæs
ú15, though this latter includes the up-dated manual. (Well, if Beebug
are doing it, why shouldnæt we? Feel free to send your PC disc to us for
up-grading at ú3 a go! Ed.)
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