Archive Magazine 1995/ARCHIVE95.iso/text/products/volume_04/issue_09

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Å   3D Chess Ö MicroPower have now released their new chess program and
itæs in 3D. I donæt know how good a game it plays but the 3D display is
very impressive. ú19.95 from MicroPower or ú19 through Archive.
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Å   Animynd Life is a version of John Conwayæs Mathematical game, Life. It
has a wide range of features allowing you, for example, to load and save
patterns, randomize, single step, set up various parameters etc. It
comes with a library of around 70 shapes, some of which are quite
fascinating to watch, and costs ú20 from R.R. Thomas, 9 Oughtonhead Way,
Hitchin, Herts. SG5 2JZ.
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Å   Archimedes for the Anxious is a book by Alison Tyldesley published by
RESOURCE, price ú4.95. It is a övery-beginnersæ guideò to the Archimedes
öwritten in plain Englishò including explanations about using Draw and
PenDown.
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Å   Archive Mugs Ö We have just ordered some special pottery mugs for
Archive subscribers. They are from the same company that did the
promotional mugs for Acorn Computers and those who have seen the mugs
they produced for Acorn will know that they are good quality. The design
is basically the Archive logo from the front of the magazine in black
and reflex blue on a white mug. They cost ú3 each + ú1 p&p, or ú10 for
four + ú2 p&p.
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Å   ArcComm 2 is now available from Longman Logotron. This is a fully
RISC-OS compatible comms package costing ú54 +VAT or ú59 through
Archive. It supports a range of different modems, has many different
file transfer protocols and terminal types. It also has an extended
procedure language which makes it very easy to, say, automatically log
on to a bulletin board or to Telecom Gold and download mail and upload
messages or files. (I am using it myself and finding it very good. Peter
Gaunt, the author, is available on Arcade BBS, 081Ö654Ö2212, and was
very helpful in getting ArcComm 2 working with my slightly odd WS3000.
Ed)
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Å   Arcventure Ö is an archaeological expedition into Roman Times. It is a
simulation in which pupils take part in an archaeological dig with all
sorts of interesting Éfindsæ to be made. ú29.95 from Sherston Software.
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Å   Boogie Buggy Ö Looks like a fascinating new game from 4th Dimension.
You have to navigate a bug-like creature around the screen in an effort
to neutralise the power of an evil monster lord without, yourself, being
damaged beyond repair. From the advertising blurb, the graphics look
good and it claims to be öthe first quality game to use the entire
screenò. ú24.95 from 4th Dimension or ú23 through Archive.
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Å   Broadcast Loader Ö Educational Econet users will be pleased to hear
about Acornæs new ÉBroadcast Loaderæ which greatly reduces the time
taken for a class of pupils to receive the same file(s) which they
request from the fileserver. A site licence costs ú69 +VAT from Acorn or
ú75 through Archive. Acorn say it is öcomplementary to Acornæs Econet
and Level-4 File Serverò and that it is öindependent of the type of
fileserver in useò and also that it is öcompatible with Level-2, Level-3
and Nexusò.
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Å   Chocks Away ÉExtra Missionsæ from 4th Dimension is now available at
ú19.95 (or ú19 through Archive). It provides you with 26 additional
missions to fly, 6 of which are reconnaissance missions.
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Å   Clares Replacement Mouse Ö Has you mouse shuffled off the mortal coil?
You could buy an Acorn mouse (through Archive) for ú56, but Clares have
one for sale at ú32 inc VAT (ú29 through Archive).
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Å   Cross-32 Meta Assembler Ö Baildon Electronics have recently released,
under licence to Universal Cross Assemblers, Cross-32 which will allow
you to assemble programs from a wide range of microprocessors and micro-
controllers. It can be driven from RISC-OS or from the command line. The
rrp is ú175 +VAT and it is available through Farnell Electronic
Components.
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Å   DrawAid is a utility costing just ú10 from Carvic Manufacturing which
allows you to create Draw files of complex shapes that have repeating
patterns. It provides you with an environment which will allow you to
use BASIC to generate your patterns.
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Å   Guardians of the Labyrinth is a new maze-based adventure game Ö ú3.49
from Soft Rock Software. It has ten user selectable mazes with the
ability to load and save your game position.
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Å   House of Numbers Ö an educational program with three levels of
difficulty aimed at children aged 6 to 13. It is centred around a maths
adventure/puzzle program. ú22 +VAT from Chalksoft Ltd or ú24 through
Archive.
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Å   I/O Box 3000 Ö Unilab have produced an interface box that plugs in the
back of the A3000 and provides three user ports, an analogue port and a
1 MHz bus. One of the user ports has been put on a connector with the
same number of pins as the printer port on the BBC Micro for backwards
compatibility with hardware designed to hang on a BBC. The cost is
ú77.58 +VAT.
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Å   !MapIT claims to be the first Genesis II application. !MapIT, costing
ú32 from HM Associates, analyses the IT requirements of the National
Curriculum. The National Curriculum identifies IT as a cross curricular
skill which must be delivered as an integral part of all ten statutory
subjects to all pupils aged from 5 to 16 and !MapIT enables you to
examine the contribution that IT can make to these ten subjects. !MapIT
uses, and is distributed with, the Genesis II browser so you do not need
to have Genesis II to use !MapIT.
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Å   PenDown Outline Fonts Disc Ö Longman Logotron have now released a disc
of outline fonts, ostensibly for use with PenDown but which can be used
with any application capable of dealing with outline fonts. There are 12
fonts Ö all what you might call fancy fonts Ö for ú18 +VAT or ú19
through Archive.
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Å   Pre-formatted Discs Ö We are now doing a service of selling pre-
formatted discs. These are basically the same bulk-pack disc that we use
for our Shareware and Careware discs, so you can see the quality. The
prices including VAT & p&p are 10 for ú10, 50 for ú45 and 100 for ú80.
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Å   Removable SCSI Drives Ö The prices of the MR45 removable SCSI drives
have dropped even further! Weæve been able to take a further ú40 off the
price bringing it down to ú755 with an Oak SCSI podule and ú555 without
(or ú735 with a Lingenuity podule) and the spare 42M cartridges are now
down to ú75 each. (We are now on top discount rate with the importers,
so apart from changes in the dollar exchange rate, the prices should now
be stable.)
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Å   Sellardore Tales Ö is an Éeasy readæ adventure game for slow learners,
priced ú24 +VAT from Sherston Software. It covers National Curriculum
English AT2.
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Å   Shareware N║40 Ö contains a simple card based database (ADFS only),
desktop ARM code disassembler, 256-level greyscale picture editor,
desktop optical character recognition, Blackjack for up to 4 players,
Connect4 (2 player or player vs computer), single player high/low card
game, horse racing game, sliding block puzzles, screen saver utility,
desktop Mandelbrot generator plus a number of utilities: set the access
status of files, file type guesser, simple calculator, various desktop
file utilities in one program, German key caps, desktop reset button,
extra desktop star commands, Fahrenheit <Ö> Celsius converter, desktop
volume control.
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Å   Training Courses Ö (I suppose you could say that these are öProducts
Availableò.) Acornæs Training Centre is offering a new series of
training courses for applications programmers. The titles are,
öProgrammersæ Introduction to Cò, öIntroduction to Application
Programmingò and öAdvanced RISC-OS Application Programmingò. More
details from the Acorn Training Centre.
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Å   !X Terminal Ö Gnome Computers have produced software that will turn
your Archimedes into a terminal to any type of remote workstation
working under X 11. It supports TCP/IP over both Econet and Ethernet,
can provide support for up to eight independent X screens and includes
network security through DES encryption. !X costs ú199 +VAT.
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