Archive Magazine 1995/ARCHIVE95.iso/text/products/volume_02/issue_06

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Å  A305 owners! The half Mbyte up-grades are now available. They are in
stock at the distributors, so we should be able to get them at two days
notice. (ú159 through Archive)
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Å  Ancestry Ö ú79.95 inc VAT from Minerva Software. (ú70 through Archive)
On screen display of your family tree, Ézoom inæ to see more details
about a specific person, comprehensive reporting facilities including
sideways printout of the family tree. Includes a demo file with a 19
generation tree of English kings and queens.
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Å  ANSI C problems Ö There are 2 bugs in the library of release 2 ANSI C
from Acorn. This only applies to issue 1 and is corrected on issue 2.
Look at the release notes and check the second line of the title. If it
says öRelease 2: Issue 2ò youæve got no problems but if it just says
öRelease 2ò you need to send the disc back to Customer Services at
Fulbourn Road and they will replace it f.o.c.
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Å  öArchimedes Operating System Ö a User Guideò a book by Alex and Nic
van Someren covering both Arthur and RISC-OS. ú14.95 (ú13.50 through
Archive). There is also a disc containing all the programs listed in the
book plus various extra utilities. If you buy the book and the disc from
Dabs, it will cost ú21.95. (Archive sell the disc separately for ú8.50)
Review on page 45.
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Å  Arc-DFS Ö Users of Richard Averillæs Arc-DFS utilities (Shareware 2)
may like to know that they can get updated versions of the software
including an on-line manual by sending a blank formatted disc and ú3 öas
a handling and development chargeò to Richard at 28 Crichton Road,
Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 3LS. (Richard is just doing GCSEæs, so I suspect
he would appreciate your support!)
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Å  Art Nouveau Ö an impressive new art package at ú42.50 from CAL Ltd
(ú39 through Archive) with facilities rivalling Pro-Artisan but at about
one quarter the cost. (Review on page 17)
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Å  Cheat it Again, Archie Ö Cheat your way to success on some of those
frustrating Archimedes games that you canæt quite conquer. Allows you to
cheat ömost of the available Archimedes gamesò. ú11.95 from Impact
Software (ú11 from Archive)
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Å  Computerware Hard Drives and Podules Ö Computerware now do a range of
drives Ö 20 & 40 M internal and 20, 40 and 60M external. The podules
allow one internal and one external drive. (Access times, for the
technically minded are 40 ms on the 20M drives and 28 ms on the 40M
drives. The systems are fully Acorn compatible and come complete with
utility software. The drives are available through Archive at the
following prices (incl. VAT & carriage): podule only, ú240; 20M &
podule, ú390; 40M & podule, ú680; external drives w/o podule but with
p.s.u. 20M, ú335; 40M, ú485; 60M ú740.
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Å  DPæs PD software list grows Ö David Pilling has added two more to the
current list of 10 public domain program discs: Disc 11 Small Talk,
comes complete with C source code, Disc 12: The World, a digitised
outline of the worldæs continents and islands, complete with Pascal
source code and some suggested student assignments. Discs are ú5.99
each, buy four and get one free.
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Å  Graphics tablet Ö Mike Harrison writes╔ Iæve just written a module to
allow a graphics tablet to be used instead of a mouse, which is
wonderful for graphics applications like Artisan and Autosketch. The
module emulates all mouse calls, and so works with any mouse driven
software which doesnæt use the serial port.  The tablet used is the
Genius GT-1212 12x12 inch tablet with 4 button puck, which Watford are
selling for ú225 + VAT. The perform-ance and accuracy is as good as many
other tablets costing twice as much. This will shortly be available as a
package of Tablet, Software and special lead for ú249 + VAT.
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Å  PC shareware Ö Contex Computing have several discs of PC Shareware
which they are distributing at ú7.50 per disc. It has all been checked
and works OK on the Archimedes under the PC emulator.
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Å  Shareware Disc 4 is now available. (Well, it should be by the time you
read this!) I donæt know exactly what will be on it, but Iæll try to put
some info on the back of the order form.
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Å  Sigma Sheet Upgrade Ö If you are having problems trying to print text
across the screen where it loses characters between columns then Minerva
will give you a FREE upgrade if you send your disc back to them.
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Å  Silicon Visionæs BASIC compiler RiscBASIC  should be ready by the time
you read this. (ú99.95 or ú89 through Archive)
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Å  FilmMaker Ö ú79.95, also from Silicon Vision is available now.
Animated 3D scenes with real-time calculation. Supplied with a library
of scenes and a database of flightpaths. (ú69 through Archive)
2.6
Å  Gate Array Design Teaching System Ö ú89.95, also from Silicon Vision
for teaching silicon chip design. (ú79 through Archive)
2.6
Å  Studio 24 Plus Version 2 is being prepared and will be available
around Easter at ú149. Full technical details from E.M.R. Users of
version 1 will be able to up-date, through E.M.R., for the difference in
price between the two versions.
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(Note that you can use Studio24 Plus without a midi instrument,
inputting tunes from the keyboard and playing them with the Archimedesæ
own (limited) range of sounds or with the sounds available with
SoundSynth and/or Creations.  Ö We hope to review Studio 24 Plus next
month.)
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Å  HandiMusic Ö Music for handicapped folk to play Ö details from E.M.R.
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