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Å Armadeus sound sampling software from Clares Micros, as described in
Archive 2.9, page 17, is now available Ö ú79.95 or ú70 through Archive.
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Å Careware Discs N╝s 2 and 3 are now available at ú6 each Ö N╝2
includes: Asteroids, Maxgammon (a commercially available backgammon game
now donated to the public domain), Fractal curves, Desktop Calendar, ARM
disassembler, Disc editor (ADFS & MS-DOS), Icon for BASIC editor, BASIC
program compressor. N╝3 includes: Breakout, Fruit machine, 3D O&Xæs,
Forth language, Hard Disc backup, Graphical file dump, ÉExamine æ for
MS-DOS, and (another) Icon for BASIC editor.
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Å Shareware Discs N╝s 12 and 13 are also now available at the usual ú3
each. We abandoned the idea of doing a specific RISC-OS update disc and
decided instead to slot them in amongst the other excellent programs.
(N.B. These two discs are RISC-OS only.) Those programs with a (u) are
upgrades of previous programs. So N╝ 12 contains: Descent to Xeer,
Rubikæs cube, *settype and *stamp files from the desktop, BASIC
compressor (u), Sinclair QL disc reader, Calculating your central
heating requirements, Making cassette inlays (u), Test your floppy drive
speed, Address book (u). N╝s 13 contains: Utilities: (another) Hard disc
backup, Rubikæs clock, Interrupt module (u), Dustbin, Outline processor,
Mandelbrots (u), Video database (u), Calendar, Golf (u). (Other programs
for later Careware/Shareware discs include: Fourier transform movie,
Labyrinth, Fortune Cookies, Astronomy (u). Check the price list to see
if weæve got Shareware N╝14 done yet!)
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Å Colour Dump for LC10 Ö Musbury Consultants have added to their range
of colour dumps by providing one for the Star LC10. The cost is ú30 (or
ú25 through Archive) and it provides three sizes of dump: 7.6ö x 6ò,
9.45ö x 7.6ò and 19ö x 15.2ò.
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Å Graphics Library from Micro Studio comes in two formats, one for First
Word Plus and one for use with Acornæs new DTP package. Either set costs
ú17.25 inc VAT and p&p. Also available is a colour graphics library at
ú19.95 for use with any RISC-OS application.
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Å SCSI Hard discs Ö Two suppliers (at least) are providing SCSI
interface cards for the A310 and the A3000: Oak Computers and Lingenuity
(Lindis International). Prices of the Lingenuity drives are as follows
(all excluding VAT): A3000 card only: ú149; A310 card only: ú199;
A3000, 20 Mbyte (external) + card: ú475; A310, 45 Mbyte (internal) +
card: ú499. (They will quote for other sizes. Please ring them for
details.)
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Oak Computers quote a wider range: For the A310 you can buy a controller
card with an internal drive: 20Mb: ú375, 45Mb: ú495 or 70Mb: ú895. You
can also add one of their external drives: 20 Mb: ú435, 45 Mb: ú555, 70
Mb: ú955, 100 Mb: ú1350, 200 Mb: ú1750, 330 Mb: ú2300. For the A3000,
you can buy a card on its own for ú199 or alternatively, you can buy a
controller together with an external drive, the prices being ú100 more
than the straight external drives you would use with the A310, e.g. 20
Mb: ú535, 45 Mb: ú655, 70 Mb: ú1055 etc. If you would prefer to have a
controller card and an external drive for the A310, or for a 400 series
machine, for that matter, the prices are exactly as for the A3000: ú535,
ú655, ú1055 etc.
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If you want any of these drives, either from Oak or Lingenuity, we can
supply them to Archive members at a discount. If you are interested,
give us a ring and weæll work out some details.
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Any of the SCSI drives quoted for the 310 could be used in the 410,
though you would still need the SCSI podule since he existing disc
controller is for ST506 standard hard drives. Similarly, they can be
added to 420/440 machines but you must obviously use the external
drives. The advantage of using SCSI drives is that you can have up to
four different hard drives on the one system each up to 512 Mbyte
capacity! (öOh, I use an A410 with 2 Gigabytes of hard disc storage.ò
Howæs that for one-up-man-ship!) The other advantage of SCSI is that you
can daisy-chain other devices on it such as tape-streamers and video
discs (once the software is written to control them). Also, Oak
computers claim that SCSI drives are faster than ST506, but until we
have done our disc tests, we cannot substantiate that claim.
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Å Termulator from Intelligent Interfaces is a terminal emulator
providing VT52, VT102, VT202 and Tektronics Graphics terminals for ú59 +
VAT.
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Å öARM Assembly Language Programmingò by Pete Cockerell. Yes, I know
this was the very first ARM book available and that it was on the market
even before the Archimedes itself and, yes, I know it is now out of
print. However, Bookmark Publishing Ltd have taken it on from M.T.C.
(alias Computer Concepts) and are revising it and up-dating it by
putting in more details about ARM 3 and RISC-OS. Price ú13.95, due for
release in September. (Yes, I know that it should be in the Forthcoming
Products section, but this is the only entry this month, so I cheated.)
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