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- Acorn have ensured a high degree of upgrade compatibility between
- the Arthur operating system and the new RISC OS. Our products were
- designed initially as single tasks to be run under Arthur. After
- extensive testing we have found that all of them can still be run as
- single tasks from within the BASIC environment but not necessarily from
- within the Desktop environment. (See the note at the end of this file
- for instructions for entering BASIC from the Desktop).
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- Our Products:
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- EpBas consists of routines in BASIC and machine code that enable you to
- use Acorn's Floating Point Emulator or Coprocessor from within BASIC
- giving you extended precision (19 digits) and a greater range of values
- (to 10^4031) than BASIC normally provides.
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- FpAss consists of routines in BASIC that enable you to generate object
- code which use floating point operations. Again, the object code
- requires either Acorn's Floating Point Emulator or Coprocessor.
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- DumpLQ is the source and object code for a relocatable module which
- produces a bit-mapped screen dump on Epson LQ compatible 24 pin
- printers that support Epsons' printer mode 39.
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- MiniDumpFX is the source and object code for a relocatable module
- intended to compliment Acorn's HardCopyFX by producing a bit-mapped
- dump to an Epson FX. The dump size is only 4.5" by 3.5".
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- Election87 contains all the results of the 1987 General Election. An
- upgraded version which makes use of the multi-tasking of RISC OS will
- be made available to registered users.
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- RSComms simplifies the transfer of all types of files from earlier
- Acorn machines and any machine running BBC BASIC II or later. The
- transfer is made through the Archimedes RS423 port. An upgrade will
- make full use of the multi-tasking environment of RISC OS. This will
- be a substantial upgrade and may be called by a new name. It will
- enable you to use other Acorn machines such as BBC model B or Master as
- coprocessors through their RS423 ports.
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- Note:
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- To enter BASIC from Desktop, click the middle mouse button on the Task
- Manager icon which will be found at the bottom right of the icon bar.
- Click the right-hand mouse button on Exit and you will find yourself in
- the System environment with a * as your prompt. Type in BASIC and you
- will enter the BASIC environment. All our products, as supplied for
- Arthur, can then be run.