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Products Available
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Archive CD Ö Jumping unashamedly on the bandwagon, NCS has now released
an Archive CD¡ROM! The contents are as follows...
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ÖáArchive Impression Files Ö all of the Archive magazines from 4.5 (the
first one to be done on Acorn machines rather than Macs) up to and
including this one (8.12).
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ÖáArchive Words discs, again from 4.5 to 8.12 Ö these are text files of
all the articles in those magazines so you can search through for that
elusive article (or was it just a hint?) that you remember reading in
Archive... somewhere!
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ÖáArchive Products Available file Ö the text of all the Products
Available columns in all the Archive magazines right back to Volume 1,
Issue 1! (öDid anyone ever produce a program for Acorn machines to count
henæs teeth?ò)
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ÖáArchive Monthly Program Discs right from Volume 1 to the present
issue. Itæs quite fun looking back at some of the Éamazing programsæ we
published nearly eight years ago!
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ÖáArchive Utility Discs all eight discs as detailed in section 28 of the
Price List.
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ÖáArchive Hints & Tips Discs Ö the text of all the hints and tips ever
published in Archive, right back to the days of good old Arthur (the OS
before RISCáOS).
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ÖáArchive Glossary Ö a glossary of almost 300 technical Acorn-related
words, with over 9,000 words of explanation as to what they all mean.
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ÖáArchive PD Discs Ö Lots of the old ÉCarewareæ and ÉSharewareæ discs
that we used to distribute.
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ÖáArchive Multimedia Swap Shop Ö Paul Hooper has sent us all the best
multimedia applications/binders that he has collected.
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ÖáPLUS a special guest appearance of the oldest-established Archive
author, who has written articles in every single Archive magazine
(barring about two in the first volume) for eight solid years.
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Our very own Gerald Fitton has sent us sample discs for his three disc
subscriptions: Z-Line for users of Fireworkz, PipeLine for users of
PipeDream and I¡Line for users of Style, Publisher and P-Plus.
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The Archive CD-ROM costs ú15 inc VAT to non-subscribers or ú12 to
subscribers.
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As a special launch offer, we will make it available for ú8 if purchased
at the same time as renewing your subscription. This is a special offer
strictly until Friday 15th September only. (You may take advantage of
this offer by renewing your subscription now, even if it is not due
until later in the year. You may even avoid an increase in the
subscription rate by doing so!)
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AudioManager Ö CD Circle have produced an 8-bit mono sound card which
plugs into the parallel port of the Risc PC to offer sound facilities to
the PC card. The kit includes the dongle with through-printer facilities
(which supports all known dongles), combined speaker and microphone with
battery holder input/output/9v power socket and touch button high/low
volume control. Also included is a Windows Voice and Icon enhancement
feature and the Microsoft Home CD Sampler, with previews of over 55
programs and 8 Windows games. Windows and 8Mb of memory allocated to the
PC card, are required to use the package. The price is ú85 inclusive, or
ú70 to CD Circle members.
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Big Ben Club Open Day Ö The Dutch Acorn Computer User Society, the Big
Ben Club, will be holding their 13th annual open day on Saturday
September 23rd. The event will be held at the Community Centre, öDe
Kiekmureò, Tesselschadelaan 1, at Harderwijk between 10 and 4. Admission
is free to club members, Hfl. 7,50 to non-members. More information can
be obtained by contacting Big Ben Club, P.O.Box 1189, 6801 BD Arnhem,
The Netherlands. Aábulletin board is also available on (31) (0)20-
6631849, and a fax machine on (31) (0)70-3663194.
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Canon printers Ö Canon have changed their range of bubblejet printers by
revising earlier printers and adding of some entirely new products.
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BJC70 Ö Portable colour and mono printer, 360 dpi in colour, 720 dpi
with smoothing in mono Ö ú310.
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BJ-200ex Ö Mono, 360 dpi (720 dpi with smoothing) Ö ú260.
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BJC-4000 Ö Colour and mono, 360 dpi colour, 720 dpi mono with smoothing
Ö ú320.
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BJ-600e Ö Colour and mono, four separate colour ink wells, 360 dpi in
colour, 720 dpi in mono, with smoothing Ö ú445.
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These printers will work with Acorn !Printers 1.28c, although some
resolutions may not be available (the BJC600 driver does not support the
720╫360 dpi mode, for example). For additional speed, the Canon
Turbodriver also supports all the above printers, although again some
resolutions may not be available. Add ú45 to the above prices if you
would like a Turbo Driver as well as the printer, which includes a
special printer cable. If you plan to use the Acorn drivers, and do not
have a printer cable, we can supply a standard cable for ú10.
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Cross Stitch Ö iSV Productsæ cross-stitch design package allows sprites
to be used as input, to produce a full cross-stitch pattern, using up to
64 colours from 512 named industry-standard thread colours. The design
can be saved as a drawfile for importing into DTP packages, as a colour
or black and white design. It gives support for a wide variety of
materials, and provides automatic conversion of sprite colours to named
colours, automatic calculation of finished design size, definable
background colour and over 10,000 stitches per pattern. The price is
ú21.50 including p&p from iSV or ú20 through Archive.
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DEC_dATA on WWW Ö DEC_dATA now have their brochure on the World Wide
Web, including product information and prices of Acorn Clipart and
multimedia products. The URL is Éhttp://www.zynet.co.uk/decdata/æ. The
DEC_dATA e-mail address is at [e-mail].
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Digital Darkroom 2 Ö This is a TransGraphic viewer from Desktop
Laminations, supplied with a version of TransPCD which will read Kodak
and all Corel Professional PhotoCD-ROMs. Facilities include variable
size thumbnails and slideshow. It will recognise other Transloaders,
such as TransTiff supplied with Impression. DL also produce a set of
loaders to use with this application Ö see below. The price is ú45
inclusive, or ú35 for members of the CD Circle.
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Fire & Ice is a game which has already received good reviews from other
platforms, notably Atari and Amiga. Now itæs been converted for the
Archimedes by Paul Chapman and is available from Renegade at ú25.99 (ú24
through Archive). For more details, see the review on page 40.
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Font Trix PRO Ö This package from iSV is an enhanced version of the Font
Trix application supplied with their Font Designeræs Toolkit. It will
load RISC OS 2, 3 and Base0 outline fonts, make real outline fonts
(rather than transformed versions), will auto-adjust kern-pairs, make
new styles, load and save transformations, has automatic shifting of
scaffold lines and can repair faulty scaffolding, and can adjust
skeletons and bounding boxes, etc. The price is ú25 (+ú1.50 p&p) from
iSV (or ú24 through Archive), or ú15 (+ú1.50 p&p) for owners of the Font
Designeræs Toolkit.
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Game On! Release 2 Ö The ARM Club have released a new version of their
Game On! software, which allows many non-Risc PC compatible programs,
particularly games, to work on the Risc PC. The new version has a
redesigned front end and database for improved speed and ease of use.
New features include support for both RISC OS 3 and 3.1 mode extension
modules, and a method for preventing games reducing the font cache to
zero. Support is included for more games than the earlier releases, as
well as other applications such as 65Host, Satcom, and some music module
players (such as trackers) are also supported. The database has been
updated, with all games tested for compatibility with and without Game
On installed. The price is ú15 inclusive from the ARM Club, or ú5 to
upgrade from the earlier release.
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Indigo CD-ROM drives Ö Cumana have dropped the prices on their Dual-
Speed Indigo CD-ROM drives for the Risc PC, the CAA300i is ú125 +VAT
+p&p or ú150 through Archive, the CAA300iA (with audio mixer) is ú175
+VAT +p&p or ú205 through Archive. The range has been extended with two
quad-speed variants, the CAA340i (ú199 +VAT +p&p Ö ú235 through Archive)
and the CAA340iA (ú249 +VAT +p&p Ö ú290 through Archive), which make use
of the IDE/ATAPI interface and do not need an additional controller
card. Alternatively, the CXX441(ú199 +VAT +p&p Ö ú235 through Archive)
is a quad-speed SCSI drive Ö if you do not already have one, you will
also need a SCSI card to use it.
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Loaders/Savers for Impression Ö This is a set of extensions to Style
(3.06 or later), Publisher (4.04 or later) and Publisher Plus (5.04 and
later). When installed, they give extended facilities for importing and
exporting Rich Text Format (RTF) files (as used by Microsoft Word and
the Acorn PocketBook) and WordPerfect 5.1 files, which will be of great
help to people who regularly need to exchange files with other
platforms. It is important to note that it will only transfer the text,
and most style/effect information, but not graphics or some text
formatting information (such as multiple columns and page size details,
which are handled differently on Impression). Two other utilities are
also included which set up translation tables for fonts and characters,
so you can configure the way in which transferred documents appear. The
RTF Loader/Savers cost ú29 +VAT +p&p from CC or ú34 through Archive.
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MacroLife Ö This is an excellent multitasking version of Conwayæs Game
of Life that allows for huge life planes which can be viewed at any
scale and scrolled around in a window while itæs running. MacroLife has
now reached version 1.8 and is now RISC OS 2 compatible, faster to load
and even uses a little less memory. The full program can be obtained by
sending a cheque for ú8 to Chris Taylor at his new address, 32 Burghley
Court, Great Holm, Milton Keynes, MK8 9EL (01908-569556). Four pounds of
that will be donated to the charity, Motivation. (See the review on page
35.)
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Magpie CD-ROM Ö Longman Logotron have released a new Évalue addedæ
version of Magpie, their multimedia application. It is supplied with
ready-to-run projects created by existing users, and a wide range of
samples, clipart, and sound samples. Magpie allows pupils to create
multimedia projects by combining a variety of resources, including
words, pictures, video and sound on the same Épageæ of an electronic
book, using simple drag and drop techniques. The single user version
costs ú59, a primary site licence ú190 and a secondary licence ú330.
Registered Magpie users can upgrade to this latest version for half
price. All prices are exclusive of VAT and postage. (ú69, ú215 and ú370
respectively through Archive)
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Movie FS Ö Warm Silence Software have updated and renamed their
extensions to Replay, allowing it to playback films and samples not
normally supported. File formats include Video for Windows (.AVI),
QuickTime (.MOV), Animator Pro (.FLI), and WaveForms (.WAV). The price
is ú26.42 (no VAT, including p&p).
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Online Magazine Ö This is yet another Acorn magazine that is produced
öby enthusiasts for enthusiastsò to refute our claim in the advertising
blurb we have been sending out lately. Online Magazine has been going
for four years now as öaápublication for (hopefully) light, humorous and
basically easy reading about Acorn related products. It is a decidedly
Ésupplementalæ, non-technical publication (as much as is possible with
the subject matter) aimed at teachers and school technicians.ò says John
Hughes, Co-Editor. John is co-editing because John Hammell, the Founding
Editor is in and out of hospital for horrific-sounding operations to his
legs following a terrible road accident some years ago. Hope things are
soon improved, John!
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The issues of Online Magazine that John sent to me are all 50 Ö 60 pages
A5, mostly filled with articles although there are a few adverts. It
seems quite good value at ú17 for 12 issues. Send cheques, made out to
ÉOnline Magazineæ to John Hughes, 74 Kilbagie Street, Kincardine, Fife,
FK10 4QX.
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PickAPic Ö Hugh Eagle now has an updated version of his PickAPic clipart
viewer and organiser available. It should be available from PD
libraries, including APDL. Textual descriptions can now be included, and
pictures can be displayed much more quickly, by storing thumbnails of
the images in a special directory.
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Portfolio Ö A new presentation package from Warwickshire Educational
Computing Centre (WECC). The package will produce a slideshow from a
directory of images (including Sprite and Draw, in normal and Squashed
formats) and a number of foreign formats, including Windows BMP and
JPEG. Display is full screen, in whatever screen mode is selected at the
time, and control can be automatic, manual or by script file. To start a
display, simply drag a directory of images to the PortFolio icon on the
iconbar. Sounds can also be associated with screens. A companion
program, Gallery, allows multiple images to be printed eight to a page,
including the full filename if desired. The prices are ú25 (Single user
and primary Site Licence) and ú29 (secondary Site Licence) for
Portfolio, and ú15 (S/U and primary S/L) and ú25 (Secondary S/L) for
Gallery.
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Printers 1.28c Ö We are now able to supply the latest version of Acornæs
printer manager !Printers. It is supplied with two discs, and paper
documentation, so the price is ú5 to cover duplication and p&p.
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Proteus Ö Cumana have released a combination drive, which integrates a
quad speed CD-ROM drive, and a 650Mb rewritable disc, which can be
formatted and partitioned in the same way as any SCSI hard disc. The
removable discs are housed in a permanent plastic case, like a floppy
disc. The access time is 165ms, and the average transfer rates are
between 518 and 1141 Kb/s. The drive needs a SCSI interface to operate,
and is available in internal (ú549 +VAT +p&p, or ú635 through Archive)
and external (ú699 +VAT +p&p, or ú805 through Archive) versions.
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Risc PC 486 cards Ö At the time of writing, projected availability of
the PC cards for the Risc PC is still set at the end of August. The
special price of ú99+VAT will end after 31st August, unless the card is
purchased with a Risc PC. After that time, anybody who is not purchasing
a Risc PC will have to pay the full price of ú199+VAT. If you have been
holding off placing an order until the cards are more freely available,
then you need to order as soon as possible, and certainly before 31st
August. (We gather that the new batch of PC cards are the same as
existing cards, i.e. they do not yet have any enhanced capabilities.)
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Technology & Design (NWáSEMERC) Ö This package allows pupils to carry
out a design brief for something within a fictional town, covering the
community, the environment, at home, at play, at school and recreation,
using a large number of Acorn Replay and photographic images. The price
is ú59 +VAT +p&p, and the package requires My World 2.
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Three Little Pigs (Tempest Publishing) Ö For children just starting to
read, this package aims to develop numeracy skills, as well as literacy,
and an awareness of their environment. It comprises an interactive
talking story and the characters and themes appear in a set of related
activities. The price is ú25.49 +VAT +p&p, or ú31 through Archive.
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Trans-Graphic Loaders Ö A new set of graphics loaders for use with
Artworks, Style and Publisher, Ovation Pro and Digital Darkroom 2 (see
above). The Trans loaders are produced in conjunction with Computer
Concepts. The pack includes translators for BMP/DIB files, GIF
(including conversion of attached text), Windows ICO files, PCX and WPG
files. The price is ú45 inclusive from Desktop Laminations (ú35 to
members of the CD Circle).
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Review software received...
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We have received review copies of the following: ÅextASM assembler and
AOF utility (lu), ÅStrike (e), ÅPortfolio (e).
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