Archive Magazine 1995/ARCHIVE95.iso/text/products/volume_02/issue_12

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Å  A420/1 and A440/1 down in price Ö No, Acorn have not dropped their
prices, but because of the dramatic fall in prices of the ram for A400/1
series, we are able to buy 410/1æs and make up 420 and 440 equivalents.
So, if you buy an A410 from us at ú1380 (and get ú100 free software with
it!) you can have extra ram fitted in it at ú150 per Mbyte and a hard
disc for ú215, ú400 or ú500 for 20M, 40M or 47M respectively. (The 47M
is the same one that Acorn put in their A440/1 and call a 50M drive Ö it
actually formats at about 47.6 Mbyte.)/np212/n
So a 420/1 equivalent would cost you ú1745, and a 440/1 equivalent
ú2330, compared with Acornæs own prices of ú1954 and ú2874, and we can
make up any combination of drive and/or ram, remem-bering that RISC-OS
only recognises 1, 2 or 4 Mbytes of ram. Please ring to check the price
before ordering because the price of the ram will, I suspect, fall even
further.
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(If you want to buy a PC emulator at the same time as your up-graded
410, add ú60, if you want an Acorn monitor, add ú230 or if you want an
Eizo 9060S multi-sync monitor, add ú525.)
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Å  Acorn DTP Advanced User Guide Ö Emerald Publishing have released an
advanced user guide with a disc of examples providing useful formats you
can adapt for your own needs. Book on its own: ú14.95, with disc ú18.90.
(ú17 through Archive)
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Å  Animations discs Ö Clares Micros have released discs of the winning
entries in our Render Bender Competition! For ú10, they will supply you
with four discs, each containing one animation, three from Brian Trott
and one from A.Weir. Each disc also contains the RB script so that you
can see how the effects have been achieved. We have only seen one of
them: Brian Trottæs Soldiers and that is superb. Dave Clare could not
sort out between the two entries but awarded one Armadeus package to
each of them.
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Å  C Front End Ö Mitre Software Ltd have produced öC-Frontò, ú19.95 (or
ú18 through Archive) which allows the user to choose the options and
then to compile by simply dragging it to the application.
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Å  Econet applications produced jointly by Software Solutions and XOB Ö
Disc Sharer allows users of BBC Micros and Archimedes to access
transparently the hard disc of another Archimedes across Econet. Printer
Spooler accepts files from up to 24 stations and queues them to the
printer. Remote Logon allows users to access their Archimedes floppy or
hard drive from another machine on Econet whilst retaining full
ownership of all files and directories.
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Å  First Word Plus book Ö Norfolk TVEI Unit have published a First Word
Plus Study Guide with acc-ompanying disc. Packs of 10 guides: ú19.50,
top-up packs of 5 guides: ú9.25, Discs: ú10, Single copy with disc: ú10.
This is meant to be a self-study guide with examples available on disc
for you to work on. (ISBNÖ1Ö85526Ö005Ö0) (There is no dealer discount,
so Archive will not be stocking this book.)
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Å  Keyword Ö Dynamic Word Finder from Swift Software Ö 10,000 synonyms
and antonyms with nearly 1,000 main subject headings. Fully RISC-OS
multi-tasking software for finding that word you need but canæt quite
think of.
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Å  Prototyping Cards Ö Following the success of the articles by Alex van
Someren in the August and September issues of Acorn User (pages 88 and
61 respectively) we are now stocking Atomwideæs Archimedes Prototyping
Expansion Card (APEC). It includes a fully buffered expansion interface
with provision for a variety of sizes of EPROM or RAM devices for
support software and optional interrupt circuitry and over half the area
of the board is covered with plated through square pads for adding your
own circuitry. It comes in three forms╔ a bare card with a 2764 ROM for
ú27 (fully inclusive Archive price), a fully built and tested board with
a 2764 ROM (ú38) and a fully built and tested board with a 6264 RAM and
a disc of utility software (ú40) . Several demonstration circuits are
also provided with the board.
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Å  Shareware 14 contains Arctist Plus, a 256 colour art package which was
donated to the public dom-ain by Nigel Stuart. It works under RISC-OS
and Arthur 1.2.
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Check the price list for the latest additions to the Shareware range.
These will include some or all of the following: a fourier transforms
movie, fortune cookies, astronomy programs, a map of the world, more
maestro tunes, hypertext and several utilities & graphics demos.
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Å  Low Price RISC-OS in stock!! Ö At the time of writing, we still have a
few low price RISC-OSæs (ú36 in UK) but when they are gone, the price
will have to go up to ú70.
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Review Software Received...
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Apart from reviews already written, we have received review copies of
the following software: Acorn DTP Advanced Guide and Disc, First Word
Plus Study Guide and Disc.
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Å  Claresæ DTP package, öTempestò, was originally scheduled for Septem
ber, but Clares are now saying that the specification has been modified
and so they cannot give a date for availability.
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Å  Claresæ Primary WP package is a first word processor for primary
schools developed in con-junction with Derbyshire LEA. The cost is
ú39.95 inclusive and it was originally scheduled for release in
September, but Clares say that the specification has been modified and
so they cannot give a date for availability.
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Å  External Hard & Floppy Drives & Adaptors for A3000 Ö Akhter Computers
Ltd is offering a range of hard and floppy drives for attaching to your
A3000 Ö 20 or 50 Mbyte with optional 5.25ö floppy fitted into a metal
monitor stand. Also available are 5.25ò and 3.5ö external drives and a
5.25ò / 3.5ö adaptor. These will be available in a couple of weeks time.
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Å  Interdictor Ö flight simulator from Clares ú34.95 (ú30 through
Archive) should be available in a couple of weeks time.
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Å  Knowledge Organiser is a free-form text database from Clares ú59.95
(ú50 through Arch-ive) which is a ömuch enhancedò version of ArcTFS (see
Archive 1.12 p 48). It should be available in a couple of weeks time.
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Å  Mach Technology say that their 286 board is at least two weeks away,
the BASIC compiler (which now has a higher spec) is a few weeks away,
their hard discs are being shipped now (they are sending us one next
week Ö I will put details on the price list if it arrives in time) and
Hyperbase is about one week away from being ready to ship out. (This
information was obtained by a telephone call on 30th August 1989. It
required the use of a modem automatically re-dialling the number every
30 seconds for approximately 3 hours, so if you donæt get through first
time, donæt give up Ö you will get through in due course!)
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Å  Memory upgrades for A310? Ö No, sorry, none are actually available
yet. The companies we know of who are actively working on them are, in
alphabetic order, CJE Micros, Computerware, Mach Technology and Watford
Electronics. CJE are hoping to have theirs available by the end of
September. It will be a soldered-in job, fitted by CJE themselves,
prices being ú385 and ú650 for 2 and 4 Mbyte, inclusive of fitting and
return to the customer (inc VAT). Mach Technology say their ram boards
are going to be available next week some time, the prices being ú340 and
ú520 (+ VAT) though there is a plan to drop the prices to ú299 and ú399
to reflect the falling price of ram. Neither Computerware nor Watford
Electronics could give a definite availability, but both are working
hard to get them out as soon as possible.
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Å  RISC-OS Programmers Reference Manuals Ö The latest indication I can
get from Acorn is that it will be several volumes, available öin
Septemberò and will cost öú79 + VATò. (I thought there was no VAT on
books!)
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