Archive Magazine 1995/ARCHIVE95.iso/text/products/volume_05/issue_03

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Å   4th Dimension game fix Ö If you are having problems running any of the
Fourth Dimension games, it is probably because they are trying to get a
quart into a (1M) pint pot. To make things easier, Fourth Dimension have
produced a configuration saver program which is available FREE from them
(not from N.C.S.!).
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Å   A5000 memory upgrades Ö Atomwide now have memory upgrades available
for the A5000. The 2 to 4M upgrade is ú130 through Archive and the 4 to
8M is ú470. This latter upgrade requires the MEMC to be taken out and a
socket put in its place Ö definitely not a DIY job, unlike the 2 to 4M
which can be undertaken by any sensible, technically minded person. The
price of the 4 to 8M upgrade includes two-way carriage.
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Å   A5000 1FD Ö the 1M floppy disc version of the A5000 (a öProduct not-
Availableò!) We said (quoting Acorn, by the way!) that the version of
the A5000 with 1M RAM, no hard drive and no monitor version would be
available in January. They are now saying that they will be available
öin small quantities only during the first quarter of 1992ò. Rumour has
it that they will only be selling them to VARs (Value Added Resellers Ö
companies who sell complete systems with an Archimedes at the centre)
and not releasing them to the general public. So those of us who want to
supply a real öqualityò system with an Eizo monitor and a SCSI drive
will have to wait for several months to come. Well, not quite....
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Å   A5000 monitor upgrade Ö A growing number of people are feeling that
the Acorn multisync monitor does not do justice to the quality of the
computer, so we are now offering the Eizo 9060SZ as our recommended
alternative. It provides a dot pitch of 0.28mm instead of 0.38mm and
better linearity. If you want an Eizo 9060, just add ú200 to the price
as quoted with the Acorn monitor. So that means we have some spare
multisyncs....
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Å   A3000 monitor upgrade Ö As a spin off from the offer above, we have
some Acorn multisync monitors for sale that would be ideal for use with
the A3000. At ú310 inc VAT, they are only ú60 more than the Acorn
standard resolution monitor but allow you to go into the higher
resolution modes unavailable to users of standard resolution monitors.
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Å   A5000 IDE hard disc upgrades Ö We can now supply a 100M second
internal IDE drive for the A5000 for ú380. This is a fast drive (as
IDEæs go!) and fits under the floppy drive.
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Å   Acorn printer sheet-feeder Ö Acorn are hoping to have, öfairly soonò,
a sheet-feeder unit for their inkjet printer. It should be available by
the time you read this Ö but ring before ordering, just to check! The
price is ú69 +VAT or ú77 through Archive.
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Å   Archivist is an öeasy-to-useò database from Oregan Developments.
Designed in accordance with LEA guidelines, it is öideal for educationò.
The price ú24.95 inclusive or ú50 for an additional site licence from
Oregan Developments.
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Å   ARM3 prices down (and up!) Ö After dropping the price of their ARM3
upgrades to ú199, Watford Electronics have put the price back up to ú249
saying that it was only an öAcorn User Show Special Offer Priceò. Aleph
One have just brought their price down to ú249 +VAT. (ú280 through
Archive) The A3000 ARM3 upgrades are now ú249 + ú35 fitting charge or
ú340 through Archive. As I write, the CJE ARM3 is still available at
ú199 +VAT or ú225 through Archive.
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Å   Bonjour de France is a series of four Genesis applications on 9 floppy
discs for use in teaching French at Key Stages 3 and 4. The cost
including a teacheræs guide and over 100 worksheets is ú95 +VAT from Oak
Solutions or ú103 through Archive.
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Å   CalcSheet Ö Trail Software have produced a RISC-OS compatible
spreadsheet called CalcSheet which is aimed particularly at users with
1M computers and floppy drives. Features include keyboard short-cuts,
1000 columns by 9999 rows, 80 built-in functions, graphing facilities,
timed auto-save and macro facilities including a learn option. The price
is ú99 +VAT or ú520 +VAT for a site licence. A demo disc is available
from Trail Software for ú5, deductible from the purchase cost of the
software itself.
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Å   Cataclysm (not ÉCatalysmæ as in all the big glossy adverts) is a new
arcade game from 4th Dimension. You have to avoid the inundation of your
spaceship by adjusting valves, pumps etc within a given time limit.
Watch out for the pressure valves, dissolving blocks and filters. ú24.95
from 4th Dimension or ú23 through Archive.
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Å   Chameleon is a utility for doing quick and easy colour changes to Draw
files. It provides a range of 16 and 256-colour palettes, including a
256 level grey scale, and allows selection and changing of colours from
each palette. It also has an HSV (hue, saturation, value) palette.
Chameleon is ú25 +VAT from 4mation or ú27 through Archive.
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Å   Colour printer drivers Ö Ace Computing have added to their wide range
of RISC-OS printer drivers one for the new Deskjet 500C sheet-fed colour
inkjet printer. The price from Ace is ú15 inc VAT and p&p.
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Å   Glimpse is described by Sherston Software as the simple way to find a
clip art file. It allows you to view a miniature version of the file in
a filer window. Files can be loaded directly from a Glimpse window into
Draw, Paint or any RISC-OS application. The price is ú8.50 +VAT from
Sherston.
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Å   Grievous Bodily æARM is another game from the 4th Dimension stable. It
is an arcade style game involving beating up some drug-smuggling baddies
using your expertise in kicking and punching and using weapons picked up
along the way. ú24.95 from 4th Dimension or ú23 through Archive.
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Å   Hilighter is Sherston Softwareæs new text and graphics presentation
package. It allows you to display information in a RISC-OS window and
have it linked so that users can explore the information provided. The
price is ú45 +VAT from Sherston.
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Å   Holed Out Compendium Ö Fourth Dimension have released a version of
HoledOut that consists of HoledOut, Extra Courses 1, Extra Courses 2 and
HoledOut Designer Ö all in one pack for ú24.95 or ú23 through Archive.
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Å   J Ö The language J is now available for the Archimedes. Version 3.4 is
available from I-APL for ú17.00 + ú2 p&p. This includes A Dictionary of
J and Tangible Math rewritten in J.
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Å   Notate is a music composition program from Longman Logotron aimed, as
you might guess, at educational users. Its range of facilities includes
up to eight staves, synthesised and sampled sounds, accidentals and
repeats, auto-checking of note length relative to bar space remaining,
chord facility, configurability for different levels of user, auto
transposition, Midi file input and output and direct playing on Midi
instruments. The price is ú57 +VAT or ú64 through Archive.
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Å   Oak PCB for RISC-OS Ö Oak Solutions now have a PCB layout and
schematic design package available for just ú150 +VAT (ú160 through
Archive) or there is an educational price, including a site licence, for
ú120 +VAT. Facilities include four copper layers, automatic generation
of drilling and solder resist layers, automatic movement of tracks if
components are moved, hard copy via RISC-OS drivers or via a supplied
HPGL driver, comprehensive parts library for both PCB and schematics.
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Å   Polyglot is a foreign language character generator which provides fast
and easy access to foreign language character sets when using RISC-OS
applications. ú19.95 from Risc Developments. (Although it has the same
address as Beebug Ltd, they ask us to make clear that this is a separate
company.)
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Å   Recall is Sherston Softwareæs database designed with National
Curriculum in mind. The price is ú39.95 +VAT from Sherston.
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Å   Revelation 2 is the CD-ROM edition of Longman Logotronæs education-
based art package (ú119 +VAT or ú125 through Archive.). Revelation was
created with particular emphasis on facilities for taking images from
other sources such as digitisers, scanners or video frame-grabbers and
processing them to create totally new pictures. Revelation 2 adds
various extra features including extra colour mixing, colour processing,
image effects (sharpening and dithering) and extra fill options.
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It also comes in a CD-ROM version for ú139 +VAT or ú145 through Archive.
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Å   SmArt Suite is a linked graphics system from 4mation. When you load a
picture, different parts of it can be changed by selecting from a menu.
The package which is ú55 +VAT (or ú59 through Archive) comes with over
24 files on subjects including cars, shops, churches, maps of Britain.
Also available, as separate products, are discs on the subjects of
Leisure, Heraldry, Faces, Fashion, Homes, Trees and Gardens and
Dinosaurs. These discs are ú16 each +VAT or ú18 through Archive. SmArt
Filer is an application for those who wish to create their own sets of
SmArt files Ö ú35 +VAT or ú38 through Archive.
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Å   Teletext Adaptor Front End Ö The RISC-OS front end (written by Geoff
Titmuss) for the Morley Teletext Adaptor was mentioned 12 months ago in
Products Available but it is now available through The Really Good
Software Company at a price of ú29.95.
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I have had a play with it and would say that Geoffæs software brings a
new lease of life to the adaptor. It is a full multi-tasking RISC-OS
application and the Teletext screen appears in a RISC-OS window. Just
click on any of the numbers in the window and that Teletext page appears
in due course. Best of all, you can flick back to any of the previous
ten pages you have been looking at. This means that if you want, say,
the television programmes, you can select page 601 and get on with some
other work while the three screens making up that page are loaded, then
select 602, then 603 and finally 604. Then you can look at any of the TV
program pages at the click of a mouse button. One other extra feature is
that you can set your computeræs internal clock from the Teletext clock,
at the click of a mouse button. (See the review on page 27.)
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Å   Touchtech 3000 is an infra red touch screen for the Archimedes from
Microvitec which fits onto their Cub 3000 monitor. At ú300 +VAT, it
comes with a suite of nine programs to develop colour recognition,
finger painting, simple addition, shape recognition etc for the teaching
of very young or special needs children.
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Å   Yes Chancellor 2 Ö Chalksoft have now released an Archimedes version
of their economic simulation package, Yes Chancellor. You are in the hot
seat at N║ 11 Downing Street and have to keep the UK economy from
collapsing. You have, amongst other things, to set taxes, control
interest rates, do wage bargaining and deal with membership of the
European ERM. This simulation is aimed at adults and economics students
and includes an information booklet written by a former Senior Official
of the Inland Revenue. The price is ú23 +VAT or ú25 through Archive.
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