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Å ABC Extras Package Ö for use with version 2 of the ABC compiler,
provides a crossreferencer, a library maker and a profiler and trace
package. ú49.95 from Dabs Press or ú45 through Archive.
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Å Accounts & Invoices Ö Two programs that have been available for some
time, but only just come to light are Apricote Studiosæ two packages,
The Account Book ú27.95 and The Invoice Program ú27.95 (buy them
together for ú49.95). These programs offer purchase and sales, VAT and
trial balances etc and invoicing and statements for up to 700 customers
with 100 stock presets.
3.1
Å Archway up in price Ö Archway (RISCOS version) from Simtron has now
gone up in price to ú99.95 (Archive price ú85)
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Å Arcol Ö MultiUser 256 colour Art Package from TAP Consortium ú50 + VAT
for single user or ú250 + VAT for a site licence. Yes, another art
package, but from what I saw of it at the Econet Conference, it looks
impressive. It is configurable to whatever system you want to use
including being fully networkable and it has some interesting features
designed for people who are concerned with real applications of an art
package rather than just using it to draw pretty pictures. This is born
out by the inclusion of such features as the ability to produce colour
separations.
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Å ArcTrivia ú24.95 (ú23 through Archive) is now available in a new
version with 7,000 questions. Registered users may get an upgrade free
of charge by returning their old disc plus a blank disc to Moray Micro
Computing.
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Å Careware 4 (ú6 but remember that all the ú6 goes to charity now, not
half of it as before Ö see Comments on page 14) contains an excellent
animation produced on Euclid/Mogul by Malcolm Banthorpe, a serial link
to BBC micro, !BIN Ö an application to allow you to drag files onto the
icon bar for deletion, !PCdir Ö a desktop application which converts
files to and from MSDOS, 3D adventure game, screen blanking routine, WP
file conversion routines, function key strip printer and some more tunes
for use with Maestro.
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Å Shareware 15, available now, contains lots of bits and pieces: 16
graphics demos, two !Draw fonts, six !Maestro tunes, 17 sampled voices
and improvements for using View.
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Å Shareware 16, available now, contains (another) 256colour art package,
link to Psion organiser and the latest version of the YAIG game which
works in the overscan mode giving much greater screen area in which to
play.
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Å Central Heating Calculator Ö D.J.Holden has produced a commercial
version of his central heating calculator program that appears on the
Shareware 12 disc. It has several extra facilities and bug fixes. For
further details he can be contacted at 29 Knighton Park Road, Sydenham,
London, SE26 5RN. (01Ö778Ö2659)
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Å Genlock for the A3000 Ö Wild Vision now have a genlock card available
for the A3000 for just ú199 plus VAT. It is a mini podule that fits
inside the A3000.
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Å Caption Generator Ö Chromatext is a flexible caption generator from
Wild Vision allowing 35 screens of video titles in various colours,
fonts and sizes to be stored for overlaying on video as and when
required.
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Å LC10 Typefaces Ö Ian Copestake Software have created a brand new
collection of typefaces for the LC10 printer Ö 7 typefaces are avail
able, ú9.90 each (inc VAT etc) or ú24 for three (and introductory offer)
or all seven for ú44. Specify computer, wordprocessor and disc format
when ordering. (N.B. These are not the outline fonts for Acorn DTP that
Ian is planning to offer later in the year.)
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Å MicroTrader, the integrated accounts package for small businesses from
Meadow Computers is now RISCOS compatible and has a whole host of new
and improved features still at ú200 + VAT including telephone support
service.
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Å New Noah Paint Ö Noah Paint (as reviewed in Archive 2.11 p 56) from
GMA Hamburg, has been updated and has had a new manual written for it
and will now be known as Noah Professional Paint. The Noah Paint 16 has
been released at only ú10 + VAT.
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Å Noah Tools #1 for just ú10 + VAT from GMA Hamburg has !FastROM to
speed up the MEMC, !ReBoot to call a hard reset, !WatchDog to give BASIC
editor access from desktop, a trashcan (a bin in UK terminology), mouse
controls via the keyboard, accessing filetypes, !Shell is a brand new
CLI gives CLI history and editing etc, IFF Loader to load IFF pictures,
BigScreen to emulate a 20ö monitor on a multisync (= an overscan mode?),
and finally a VT100 emulation. (Look out for Noah Tools #2, also ú10,
which is on the way, said to have a öReassemblerò (disassembler?),
NoahTree = Disctree, Filefinder like grep in Unix, RISCOS changer which
changes normal BASIC programs into applications and possibly a multiple
copy program. Also in the pipeline are Noah Games# which will be ú15
each, the first of which will be a version of ötetrisò.)
3.1
Å Pipedream Extended Dictionary ú6.95 from HJH Software (Archive ú6.50)
provides 156k of user dictionary that includes most words that you will
require even in quite highbrow documents.
3.1
Å Programmersæ Reference Manuals Ö The new P.R.M.æs are here! Four
volumes plus a separate index for just ú79.95. There is a rumour of an
upgrade for owners of the old manuals Ö ú55 plus the two front covers of
the old PRM, but I canæt get anyone to confirm or deny the rumour. The
Archive price is ú75 Ö not as much discount as usual because this price
includes carriage and the manuals are extremely heavy.
3.1
Å RISCOS Mogul for RISCOS Euclid Ö ú20 inc VAT from Ace Computing (ú18
through Archive). See Malcolm Banthorpeæs review on page 50 for more
details.
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Å Transputer Addons for Archimedes Ö Gnome Computers Ltd have developed
a new programming environment for use on the Archimedes based on the
Inmos Transputer Development System (TDS). The hardware is based around
three plugin boards: a Link Adaptor (ú200) allowing communication with
an external transputer system at 10 or 20 MHz, a TRAM Motherboard (ú250)
which provides similar facilities but also houses up to 4 TRAMs which
allows Archimedes to act as a standalone TDS, and the Transputer
Baseboard which houses a T4 or T8 transputer and 1 to 8 Mbytes. (Boards
with 2 Mbytes of RAM and a 20 Mhz T425 or T800 are ú875 and ú995
respectively.) The software consists of a Server Program (ú200) which,
with the Archimedes high speed screen and disc handling, gives an
overall performance of 2 to 3 times that of a midrange PC. It can also
support versions of C, Fortran and Pascal compilers (ú750 each).
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Å WordPower now PD Ö Ian Copestake Software have now made WordPower, the
wellestablished wordprocessor that started life on the BBC Micro, a PD
program available for just ú5. It is a full working version that works
on the Archimedes and is complete with documentation.
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