Archive Magazine 1995/ARCHIVE95.iso/text/products/volume_06/issue_03

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Å   A4 Notebooks Ö At last, we have cleared all the back orders of A4
Model IIæs and can now supply them direct from stock. However, the A4
Model Iæs, the hard drive-less version, are still on what we call the
RSN list Ö available Éreal soon nowæ!
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Å   Ace colour ProDriver Ö Ace have produced a version of their ProDriver
for the Hewlett Packard DJ550C colour printer. The price is ú47 inc VAT
from Ace or ú44 through Archive.
6.3
Å   Acorn AKF17 monitors Ö Acorn have some AKF17 standard resolution
monitors that they are trying to get rid of. They are brand new monitors
as supplied with the A3000æs. They donæt have a tilt-and-swivel stand
but otherwise they are functionally similar to the newer AKF30æs and
40æs. The price will be ú150 including VAT and carriage from Archive.
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Å   Acorn Pocket Books Ö Acorn have changed their policy about Pocket
Books. Non-educational dealers are now going to be allowed to sell them.
In fact, we have several Pocket Books in stock.
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Å   Acorn Pocket Book accessories Ö Acorn say that the Pocket Book
accessories will be available at the end of November, i.e. before this
magazine is published. However, I suggest you ring us to check avail
ability before sending orders. The items that we know about are: A-Link
at ú46, parallel printer link at ú28, 128Kb RAM disc at ú74, 256Kb flash
disc at ú65, 512Kb flash disc at ú111, OPL Editor at ú65 and the mains
adaptor at ú15. All these are VAT inclusive Archive prices.
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Å   Arcventure II Ö The Egyptians Ö Sherston Software have released their
educational package aimed at 2nd and 3rd year juniors who are studying
Egypt. The children join a simulated archaeological dig to see what they
can find buried beneath the sand. The price is ú29.95 +VAT from
Sherston.
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Å   Automatic embroidery Ö TechSoft UK Ltd have produced a system which
combines a Poem 500 computer controlled embroidery machine and Archi
medes software called, Arc Embroidery. The system allows images created
as Draw files to be embroidered directly onto a variety of materials
(cotton cloth, felt, denim, jersey, etc) in an area up to 90 ╫ 90mm and
with a variety of user-definable stitches such as satin, ribbed, zig-
zag, etc. The user can also control pattern size, stitch length, fill
density, fill direction, etc. The software even prompts the user for
thread changes as required. The price, including the software, is
ú749.95 + VAT.
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Å   Battery-Pack for BJ10ex Ö If you are using a BJ10ex with an A4, you
can make the printer portable too by buying a battery-pack costing ú46
through Archive. This is trickle-charged from the normal power supply
and allows the printer to be completely free-standing.
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Å   Budget games Ö Arcade is a set of four RISC-OS arcade games costing
ú5.95 (no VAT) from David Ramsden, 7 Chevet Lane, Wakefield, West
Yorkshire WF2 6HN. Drop Rock is a Repton-type game from Soft Rock
Software for ú3.49 (no VAT). Winds of Change is Éan Archimedes albumæ
for ú1.99 (no VAT) also from Soft Rock Software.
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Å   Canon BJ200 Ö Canon have now produced an updated version of their
BJ10ex Ö the BJ200. This is functionally similar to the BJ10ex but
faster Ö and it includes a cut sheet feeder as standard. Computer
Concepts are producing a version of their Turbo-Driver software for it.
The price of the software will be ú49 +VAT from CC or ú53 through
Archive. The printers themselves are available from Archive for ú340 inc
VAT.
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Å   CD-ROM mastering Ö EESOX offer a low-cost CD-ROM mastering service.
The cost can be as low as ú150 for the first master and ú50 for
successive copies. These masters can then be used for mass production
later, if required.
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Å   CD Simulator is a package to simulate the operation of a CD-ROM to
help you in creating and testing your own CD-ROMs. The software costs
ú129 +VAT also from EESOX.
6.3
Å   Colour cards Ö Two more colour cards are now available. SpeedGraph is
produced by Evolution Trading Ltd in Switzerland (available through MAPS
Ltd in the UK) and costs ú350 (DM 950, sFr 900) all inclusive. It
provides 1024 ╫ 768 in 16 colours (chosen from 4096) and up to 800 ╫ 600
in 256 colours (restrictively chosen from 4096) and up to 1024 ╫ 768 in
4096 colours for the display of static pictures. StateMachine G8 Plus is
ú249 +VAT (a recently reduced price) offers 1280 ╫ 1024 in 4 colours,
1152 ╫ 900 in 4 colours and 1152 ╫ 848 in 16 colours on monitors that
offer a 64 kHz or greater line rate. For professional work, StateMachine
also offer the G8 Professional which provides 768 ╫ 576 CCIR PAL. This
costs ú349 +VAT.
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(At the Computer Shopper Show, CC put one of their cards in my A540. It
gave me, amongst other modes, 1600 ╫ 600 in 16 colours on my Eizo T560iT
with the computer still going at full speed. That will make a huge
difference when it comes to laying out the magazine. I canæt wait to get
a production model. Ed.)
6.3
Å   Colour driver upgrade Ö Risc Developments have an upgrade to their
500C driver which will also now work with the DJ550C colour printer. The
price is ú15 + VAT + ú2 carriage from Risc Developments.
6.3
Å   Courses galore Ö Broad Oak Computers have extended their range of
computer courses. They now offer BBC Basic V Programming, C Programming,
Impression II, Pendown, Pipedream, Schema and WIMP Programming in BBC
Basic.
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Å   Cyborg is an arcade-style, multi-location adventure game in which you
don your cybertronic exo-skeletal suit(!) and face the terrors of an
unknown planet. The price is ú25.95 + ú1 postage from Alpine Software.
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Å   Eureka NOT available Ö We said last month that Eureka was Édue to
emerge from its long gestation period at the end of Octoberæ. This was
based what Longman Logotronæs press and telephone advice. However, they
are now saying that they can Ésee no reason why you should not have it
before Christmasæ. We will NOT be mentioning Eureka again until it
really is a ÉProduct Availableæ!
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Å   Fervour is an action game from Clares. You roll a ball along intricate
pathways with holes to be avoided and bonuses to be picked up en route Ö
each level must be done within a set time limit. You can even create
your own levels. The price is ú24.95 from Clares or ú23 through Archive.
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Å   Guardian (version3) is a virus killer that is Écapable of killing all
known Archimedes virusesæ. This is available free of charge from Digital
Phenomena and is also on this monthæs program disc. A technical support
and advice service is also provided free of charge on a Viewdata system
(7E1) on 0705Ö871531.
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Å   HP Deskjet550C colour printer Ö Hewlett Packard have produced an
improved colour printer based on their popular DJ500C. The DJ500C has a
carriage that takes a single cartridge, either a black cartridge or a
colour one. The disadvantage of this is that if you are using the colour
cartridge, blacks come out a muddy colour. (It is possible to get round
this by using colour separation software but it means changing cartri
dges and passing the paper through the printer twice.)
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The new 550C, however, has both a black cartridge and a colour cartridge
on the carriage. With appropriate driver software (such as Aceæs
ProDriver mentioned above), the colour cartridge will automatically be
used for the coloured bits while the black cartridge is used for the
blacks Ö so the blacks really are black. The Archive price of the 550C
is ú590. (The Archive prices of the other HP Deskjet printers have been
reduced. The DJ500 mono is now ú380 and the DJ500C is ú480.)
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Å   Impact the Database is Circle Softwareæs new database which has
mailmerge links to Impression. It also provides direct data import and
export, simple data selection filters, multiple indexing and label
printing. The price is ú58.69 inc VAT from Circle Software.
6.3
Å   IronMask Ö Turing Tools have produced a password-controlled file
security system for RISC-OS machines. Files shielded by IronMask are
immune from RISC-OS filing operations Ö they cannot be opened, run,
copied, moved, deleted or renamed. The price is ú59 (no VAT) from Turing
Tools.
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Å   LinkWord is Éa new concept in language learningæ from Minerva. It is
based on (human) memory techniques to enable you to learn a new language
É2 to 3 times faster than conventional methodsæ. It is available in
three languages Ö French, German and Spanish and costs ú39.95 +VAT per
language from Minerva or ú44 through Archive.
6.3
Å   Masterfile 3 Ö Risc Developments have released a new version of their
Masterfile database so that it is now RISC-OS compliant. The price is
ú49 + VAT + ú2 carriage from Risc Developments.
6.3
Å   Monitor stands Ö We have found a source of monitor stands for A3010
and A3020 computers Ö in the appropriate colours. They include a slot at
the right for the floppy drive and on the left to enable you to get at
the reset button. They cost ú20 each through Archive.
6.3
Å   NetView is a network utility program that allows an Archimedes station
to view the screen of another BBC, Master or Archimedes on the network.
The price is ú34.99 (no VAT) from Sanjay Pattni, Flat 11, 86 Ifield
Road, London  SW10 9AD.
6.3
Å   New titles from G.A.Herdmann Educational are Chemical Spectra at
ú19.99 (no VAT) and DTP Images discs 12 and 13 at ú8.99 each (no VAT)
which consist of clipart for science teachers.
6.3
Å   Populous Ö Krisalisæ latest arcade adventure game for the Archimedes,
Populous, is now available. The price is ú29.99 from Krisalis or ú28
through Archive.
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Å   Rhythm-Bed is a full-blown drum sequencer from Clares costing ú49.95
or ú46 through Archive. Percussion tracks can be built up on screen,
played by the application through the Archimedesæ own sound output or on
a MIDI instrument. The percussion sequence can also be transferred into
other applications such as Rhapsody.
6.3
Å   RISC-OS 3.10 Ö If you remember, Acornæs Managing Director said (or
implied) on 26th October that Acorn would be fulfilling all our back
orders of RISC-OS 3.1 for RISC-OS 2 machines within three weeks. We are
happy to say that we have now had enough to fulfil all back orders.
(However, this does NOT apply to RISC-OS 3.1 for A5000 users Ö these are
still in short supply.) We have a few left as free stock but it might be
better to ring to enquire about availability before sending in an order
because demand continues to out-strip supply.
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Å   Sound Engineer is EMRæs application for handling sound samples. It
provides envelope shaping, full use via MIDI, re-pitching, etc. Sounds
can be played through its control panel, via a keyboard window or
through a MIDI instrument. Its features include threshold recording, cut
& paste, auto-looping, 3D FFT printout, direct disc playback, harmonic
wave generation plus spectrum analyser, oscilloscope and amplitude
displays. The cost is ú59 +VAT from EMR.
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Å   TextAid is a set of utilities for manipulating text. It can be used
alongside other RISC-OS packages and provides user-definable macros,
conversion between CSV, TSV and text. It also has the ability to insert
printer control-codes. It costs ú9.95 inclusive from Rheingold
Enterprises.
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