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ArchiveX 2 12 67 41000000 12 2 A420/1 and A440/1 down in price Due to cheaper RAM costs, Norwich Computer Services can offer an A420/1 and A440/1 at £1745 & £2330 40000000 12 2 Acorn DTP Advanced User Guide Emerald Publishing have released an advanced user guide with disc examples, providing useful formats 42000000 12 2 Render Bender Competition Clares Micros have released discs of the winning entries in Archive's Render Bender Competition 42140000 12 2 C Front End Mitre Software Ltd have produced "C-Front" which complies files dragged onto an application icon 41420000 12 2 Econet Appications Software Solutions and XOB have jointly produced 'Disc Sharer', 'Printer Spooler' and 'Remote Logon' 40000000 12 2 First Word Plus book Norfolk TVEI Unit have published a FWP study guide 42000000 12 2 Keyword A Dynamic Word Finder from Swift Software - 10000 synonyms and antonyms (works under RISC OS) 41000000 12 2 Prototyping Cards Atomwide now supply their APEX cards in three formats 42000000 12 2 Shareware 14 This contains a shareware version of Nigel Stuart's Arctist Plus (works under RISC OS anr Arthur 1.2) 42000000 12 3 Clares' DTP package "Tempest" Originally scheduled for September but now the release date has been postponed 42000000 12 3 Clares' Primary WP package This was due for release in September, but has now been postponed 42000000 12 3 Interdictor Clares Micro Supplies flight simulator should be available through Archive in a couple of weeks 42000000 12 3 Knowledge Organiser A free form database from Clares Micro Supplies should be available through Archive in 2 weeks 41000000 12 3 Memory Upgrades Not available yet but the proce will be about £385 for 2Mb and £650 for 4Mb (inc VAT) 70000000 12 4 Archive BBS The password this month (Sept) is "ARCAM" 70000000 12 4 Arthur 1.2 Desktop Nick Furniss has converted the Arthur 1.2 Desktop to work under RISC OS 71000000 12 4 Datachat Modem connections How to connect a Datachat modem to an Archimedes 72000000 12 4 First Word Plus word count FWP does not count apostrophe word correctly! 72000000 12 4 Graphic Writer bug Clares' word processor, Graphic Writer, has a bug which may crash the machine - so be careful! 72000000 12 4 Home Accounts You don't have to print out the whole year's transactions - you can use !Edit 72190000 12 4 Prolog X A hint on 'Retaining facts, rules and lists produced in Prolog X' 72000000 12 4 Sinclair QL Reader update An update for the Sinclair QL disc reader on our shareware 12 disc 71720000 12 5 RS423 Archimedes to BBC Check that you have the correct number of stop bits (i.e. on Archie you can *CON. DATA 5) 71720000 12 5 System Devices, printer: When using the file path printer: the ignore character is not 'used' 71000000 12 5 Teletext Adaptors Getting the Morley teletext adaptor working on the Archimedes 71000000 12 5 Taxan MultiSync wobbles A fix for Taxan monitors 72000000 12 5 Using OS_Pretty print to compress text RISC OS has a new 'dictionary' which is used by SWI OS_PrettyPrint 72000000 12 6 RISC OS *COPY options The *COPY command has 5 new options under RISC OS A, L, N, S and T 72000000 12 6 Filer_OpenDir and Filer_CloseDir These *commands do not use the system variables so here is a tip to help you 70000000 12 6 Modes 16, 17, and 24 co-ordinates These new RISC OS graphics modes do not have screen co-ordinates of 1280x1024 72000000 12 6 Modifying !Calc for text input A hint and tip to allow the !Calc application to accept text 72000000 12 7 RISC OS CMOS RAM settings for the Fonts The font manager that is supplied with the Acorn DTP package has several Font cache settings 72000000 12 7 The new FPE with RISC OS apps 2 On the applications disc two, there is a version 2.60 of the floating point emulator. Replace old v 70000000 12 7 System variables for fonts The fonts in RISC OS can now be accessed using a path variable i.e. Font$Path 70000000 12 7 RISC OS SWI OS_ChangedBox How to use the RISC OS call that keeps track of the updates on the vdu screen 72000000 12 8 ProArtisan and Artisan RISC OS updates Send a blank D formatted disc to Clares to avoid the 'Filecore in use' error 72000000 12 8 Old WIMP programs under RISC OS Problems with Arthur 1.2 Window Manager emulation by RISC OS 70000000 12 8 *CDIR command (RISC OS) This command now creates unlocked directories 70000000 12 10 RISC OS Window Manager memory The RISC OS window manager no longer reserves a permenant 32k block but claims RMA sapce when req 70000000 12 10 The RISC OS Task Manager You can use the RISC OS task manager to 'quit' applications 70000000 12 10 Command files and Obey files This hint explains the difference betweeen obey files and command files under RISC OS 70000000 12 11 Errors signalling from machine code How to cause an error in your ARM code programs 70000000 12 12 New SWI calls in RISC OS A little tip which shows you how to obtain the SWI's available under RISC OS 70000000 12 14 Starting up Tindy Dirs automatically This hint explains how you can start up the TinyDir application automatically 80000000 12 15 Two New Archive Columns In the next issue of Archive we hope to launch Pipe-Line (for Pipedream users) and the FWP column 80000000 12 19 Hardware Column What the ARM chip is being used for nowadays! 80000000 12 21 Credit where its due Here's where you get to say thank you to those who have helped you with your problems 80000000 12 21 Competition Time A little brain teaser 52000000 12 23 PipeDream 3 - a DPT? Gerald Fitton puts the RISC OS version of Pipedream through its paces 80000000 12 30 MS-DOS Column This PC column continues and turns its attention on to hard discs, cursors, and colours. 40518000 12 32 SID rides again Tim Saxon checks out the born-again Acorn BBS 51000000 12 33 The Brainsoft Multi I/O Podule Matthew Treagus puts the Brainsofts I/O podule through its paces 10000000 12 36 Language Forum David Wild continues this series and investigates Pascal, C, lisp, and fortran 80000000 12 38 Small Ads Your chance to get in contact with the other Archive members 80000000 12 39 The Sprite Wimp Pool Adrian Look uncovers the sprites hidden inside the RISC operating system 52000000 12 41 Acorn's Desktop Publisher Mark Sealey put Acorn's latest product through its paces 80000000 12 43 Readers Comments Your chance to talk back 51000000 12 45 Hard Disc Speed Test Paul Beverley compares the hard discs presently available on the market 52000000 12 46 Atelier - CAD for RISC OS Mark Sealey investigates this new art package from Minervas Systems 52000000 12 48 Numerator - real education software Doug Weller explores this mathematical package from Logotron 51000000 12 49 ScanLight - A4 Document Scanner Alex de Vries puts the Computer Concepts Scanner through its paces 52000000 12 50 Eucorn - A non-musical review Matthew Treagus takes a look at Eucorn from a "Musical Moron's" perspective 52000000 12 51 RISC OS companion Ray Loades-Bannon explores the desktop utilities for RISC OS 52100000 12 53 I-APL for the Archimedes Glyn Emery tells us about I-APL and explores I-APL limited non-profit implementation 52000000 12 54 C Label - A labelling Program Z & Z software's C labelling utilility 52000000 12 55 Desktop Stories Doug Weller takes a look at RESOURCE's latest educational package 'Desktop Stories' 80000000 12 56 Instrumentation for the Archimedes Brian Cowan investigated modern instrumentation for the Archimedes