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APDL - ProAction Software

The APDL - ProAction range comprises a catalogue of programs many of which are market leaders in the RISC OS field. Most of these will be familiar, and we are continually adding new titles.

Topographer 2D and 3D mapping £19 New
Schema 2 Powerful spreadsheet £59 New
Rhapsody 4 Music notation package £29 New
ProArtisan 24 24 bit colour Art Package £29 New
Composition Image manipulation £59 New
Easy C++ C and C++ compiler £19.90 New version
Vigil Interactive debugger £12.50 New
Desktop Repton The new Repton Collection £19.90
Celebration Create cards, banners, etc. £19.90
Music Maestro MIDI and music programs £19.90
Fun Learning Four educational programs £14.90
Clock Kit Design your own clock £14.90
Studio24 Pro Painting and photo retouching £49
The GEK collection Nine games from GEK £9.90 (+ £1 UK post)
Ovation Low cost DTP program £11.90
Sleuth 3 Superb OCR software £49
Sleuth 2 Budget OCR software £29
Hard Disc Companion Hard disc backup £14.90
Personal Accounts Personal finance management £29
Masterfile< /a> Easy to use database £14.90
RiscCAD Professional RISC OS destop CAD package £69
Phantasm ArtWorks colour management £9.90
Type Studio Text effects program £9.90 (+ £1 UK post)




Topographer

Topographer allows you to draw maps with all the usual symbols, buildings, roads, contour lines etc. and then display them as 3D images from any angle. Apart from all its other uses this is a very valuable learning tool and great fun to use. Tell me more
Once again a low APDLprice of just £19.
Please add £1 airmail outside UK.




Schema 2

Probably the best spreadsheet available for RISC OS
Schema 2 is one of the major applications available for RISC OS. Not only is is extremely powerful, it's also much easier to use than many others. Take a look here for more information, and for details of upgrades and the SchemEx Converter for Excel.
...and at a new low price of just £59.
Please add £2 airmail outside UK.




Rhapsody 4

A sohpisticated music notation package
Previously sold at £99, this is the RISC OS market leader. All the features. you'd expect, and at a new low price of just £29.
Please add £1.50 airmail outside UK.




ProArtisan 24

Terrific 24 bit colour art program for just £29
Really intuitive to use, and lots of features. A really great program at a really low APDL ProAction price. Supplied on CD. Price includes printed and HTML manuals, VAT and UK carriage. Please add £1.50 airmail outside UK.




ProArtisan 24

Compo is a program for combining and manipulating bit image and vector files to produce high quality graphical page layouts. As well as the standard files you can also import Kodak PhotoCD images, Draw, ArtWorks, JPEG TIFF, Photoshop,PNG etc. It is not a painting package although you can do many of the tasks normally performed by painting packages, its main purpose is for combining images to produce a final image. Tell me more
Supplied on CD. The price of just £59 includes printed manuals, VAT and UK carriage. Please add £2 airmail outside UK.


Desktop Repton
New version

An updated version of the APDL / ProAction CD of this popular game with even more games to make it the most comprehensive Repton collection ever. Includes the original Repton, Repton 2 and Repton 3, plus Around the World in 40 Screens, Life of Repton, and Repton Thru Time plus screen designer. Runs either in a desktop window or single tasking, and now on RISC OS 4. Still challenging and great fun to play. Nostalgia Rules!

Only £19.90 including UK post.

If you have purchased the Earlier Repton CD you can upgrade for just £10 including UK post (you must return your original CD).





Celebration

A new compilation CD from APDL/ProAction with a collection of programs for producing greeting cards, banners, wrapping paper, etc. Most of these were previously supplied by Clares. Includes Gift Wrap, Card Shop, Banner, Calendar, DrawWorks SE, plus a selection of fonts and clip art.

Many of these programs were originally aimed at the education market so they're very easy to use. Not only does this mean they're ideal for kids (give yourself a bit of peace and save some money before Christmas/birthdays while they make their own cards and banners) but it also means you won't find them difficult to learn.

Only £19.90 including UK post.





Music Maestro

"The ultimate collection of musical utililities for RISC OS."
Another great APDL / ProAction compilation CD. Contains Serenade (16 track MIDI sequencer), Vox Box (includes Perform, VoxBeat, VoxSaple and VoxSynth), Rythm Bed (MIDI utilities), and ReMidi.

Only £19.90 including UK post.





Fun Learning

A compilation on CD of four specially written educational collections. These were previously sold at over £25 each! Comprises -

  • Money Matters - (2-11 yrs.) Cozmo's Coins, Boingy, Fizzy Pop, Piggy Bank
  • Target Maths - (6-13 yrs.) Eliminator, Number Facts, Scale Factor, Slider
  • Picture Book - (2-5 yrs.) Alphabet Book, Snap, Count 'Em, Spell It
  • DataWord - (6+ yrs.) Unique flexible database. An ideal introduction.

An excellent collection of programs for either home or school use. Low cost site licences available. Only £14.90 including UK post.





Clock Kit

Design and build your own clock from this kit from eKits. The pack includes a clock mechanism and a CD with full instructions and over 140 dial images, more than 200 clock templates and 1900 clock images, plus lots of other material. Additional clock mechanisms are available from eKits online. Suitable for Acorn or PC

Only £14.90 including UK post.





The GEK collection

A CD containing most of the games released by GEK.

  • Baloon Invaders
  • No Windows
  • Astro Smash
  • Flying High
  • Emotions
  • EuroBlaster
  • FRAK
  • Joust
  • Joop
This complete collection costs less than the previous price of any one of the commercial games, just £9.90 plus £1 UK carriage. Another great APDL/ProAction bargain.



Ovation

The original Ovation DTP program. Not in the same class as its big brother Ovation Pro but still extremely capable and works on any machine with RO 3.1 or better and at least 2Mb RAM. No problems on S/ARM RiscPC's or RO 4.

Don't be put off by the outrageously low price. This is a very capable (and easy to use) program. If you can't afford (or don't need) the best then you don't have to struggle and try to make do any more.

Supplied on CD with printed manual (while stocks last). A bargain at five times the price, only £11.90 including VAT and UK carriage.


  Ovation fix    The first version released on CD had been optimised for later machines and this can cause a problem with some older models which were trying to use old 2D style templates. This archive contains a modified !Run file to fix this.



EasyC++
New version

Low cost desktop C++ compiler. This new version has new libraries and also includes the Vigil interactive desktop debugger.

Previously published by Beebug the APDL-ProAction version of EasyC has been updated to work with RISC OS 4 and is supplied on CD with !EasyDebug and Manual and Tutorial on the CD in Ovation Pro and HTML format.

Although this a powerful package it's also ideal for the beginner as it's very easy to use and the Tutorial will soon have even a novice producing working programs.

Printed Manuals and Tutorial are available. We supply this separately as it is an expensive item to produce and post and this keeps the cost of the main program down for people who do not require it.


Prices are -
  • Easy C++ (Including Vigil) £19.90
  • Printed Manuals £10 when ordered with EasyC, £12 otherwise.

Prices include VAT for CD (not Manual) and UK carriage. Please add £1 overseas for airmail for CD and £2 for Manual.

If you have an earlier APDL-ProAction version of EasyC++ you can obtain the latest version for just £10, but please add £1 for overseas carriage. You must return your original CD with your order.

Upgrades from the BEEBUG (floppy disc) version are no longer available.





Vigil

Vigil is a multi-tasking monitor and debugger for use with any program written in any language (C, assembler, Basic, etc). It lets you view and alter a program's workspace and variables while it is actually running on the desktop.

Naturally it's very easy to use and has lots of powerful features and we could fill pages listing them all. However, we're not going to waste the space because at the incredible APDL-ProAction price it's such a bargain that, whether you're an experienced programmer or just a 'dabbler', you just can't afford to be without it.

Stop wasting hours looking at your source code trying to find out what's going on - now you can actually see what's happening.

The price for Vigil, including printed manual, is just £12.50 inclusive. (Please add £1 carriage outside UK)

If you want more information about Vigil we have made the HTML version of the Vigil Manual available for download in an ArcFS archive.





Sleuth

Highly acclaimed Optical Character Recognition software for RISC OS. Previously published by BEEBUG but now by APDL - ProAction and distributed on CD (floppy disc versions available to order). Sleuth 2 uses a less sophisticated system than Sleuth 3, but although this makes Sleuth 3 more accurate, especially with some typefaces, it's also slightly slower, so the Sleuth 3 CD contains both Sleuth 3 and Sleuth 2. Sleuth 3 can work via TWAIN drivers direct from your scanner.


Prices are -
  • Sleuth 3 (includes Sleuth 2) - £49
  • Sleuth 2 - £29
  • Sleuth 2 to Sleuth 3 upgrade (you must return your old discs) - £25
  • Sleuth 3 upgrade from BEEBUG version (return your old discs) - £25
All prices include VAT and UK carriage. Overseas customers please add £1 to cover airmail.



Hard Disc Companion

Another market leader. Simply the best hard disc backup utility available for RISC OS. Does full, incremental and differential backups to any meia, eg. floppy disc, Zip, another hard drive, DataSafe, etc.

There are some very good Freeware programs and one of these could be adequate, but if you want the fastest and best there's only one option, and this is it, especially as APDL and ProAction have taken it over and nearly halved the price to only £14.90 including VAT and UK carriage.

Upgrades from the older Beebug version are available for just £7 inclusive. You must return your original disc.





  Personal Accounts

Keep track of your money. Reconcile your bank and credit card accounts and analyse expenditure. Personal Accounts won't solve your financial problems but it will let you take control of your money and see where it's going! Supplied on CD with printed Manual and Tutorial for just £29.

Personal Accounts was previously sold by Apricote Studios but is now produced by APDL and ProAction.





MasterFile

Probably the best known RISC OS database system with a pedigree going right back to the BBC 'B'. All the features you'd expect but without lots of highly complex 'bells and whistles' you don't really need and which would make it difficult to use. MasterFile is probably powerful enough to fill all your straightforward database requirements and it's so easy to use it won't take you days of study to get started.

Supplied on CD with example databases and printed Manual for just £14.90 including VAT and UK carriage.






RiscCAD Professional is a fully featured Computer Aided Drafting program. It does just about everything you would expect from a top class CAD program but at a price so low it's worth buying just to redesign your kitchen. Comes with Libraries for engineering, architectural and circuit drawing, plus example files.

Supplied on CD with Manual and Tutorial in HTML for only £59. The printed Manual and Reference Guide cost just £10 extra when purchased with RiscCAD and are recommended. Prices include VAT and UK carriage.


  RiscDXF fix   There was a small error in !RiscDXF which caused it to quit with an error saying it couldn't find a file. This has now been fixed and you can download a patch.




Phabulous Phantasm. Lets you manipulate ArtWorks colour tables. That doesn't sound too exciting, but using Phantasm you can (amongst lots of other things) create opaque and metalic efects that would be extremely difficult or nearly impossible by other means. Price is only £9.90 plus £1 UK carriage.






TypeStudio is a complete text manipulation package which can convert outline fonts to draw files, flow text along paths, mould text to shapes and apply special effects. Use it to produce professional quality adverts, posters, banners, logos, letterheads etc.

Built-in tools allow lines and curves to be drawn along which text can be flowed to follow any shape. Pairs of lines may be linked to create shapes into which text (and Draw files!) may be moulded. The resulting object can then be scaled, rotated etc. or have a special effect applied to it.

A wide range of effects can be applied to text. Three types of shadow, slanted or mirrored in any direction, 3D, plinth and column. Effects may be combined giving endless possibilities. TypeStudio is intuitive to use, especially to users familiar with Draw. TypeStudio provides line/curve drawing tools, and options to group/ungroup, scale, rotate, and copy objects.

Designs produced on TypeStudio may be exported as Draw files, or they may be saved in TypeStudio format so that paths, moulds and style attributes are maintained for future editing.

TypeStudio is supplied on CD with a 64-page user guide with and worked examples with step-by-step instructions plus 7 outline fonts. Floppy disc version available.

Price is just £9.90 plus £1 UK carriage.





Studio24 pro
Painting and Photo Retouching software for just £49
You won't believe all the features you get for this price!
Supplied on CD. Price includes printed and HTML manuals, VAT and UK carriage. Please add £1.50 airmail outside UK.