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Å 1 Gigabyte Tapestreamer! Ö Oak Computers are now selling a 1Gbyte
(1000 Mbyte) Tapestreamer for just ú3999 + VAT (ú4030 inclusive from
Archive). For more details, see the SCSI Column on page 20.
3.7
Å A480æs are here! Ö By the time you read this it should be possible to
buy from Atomwide (ú850 + VAT) or through Archive (approx ú890 inclu
sive) a 4 to 8 Mbyte upgrade for A440æs and A440/1 (or upgraded 410æs
and 420æs). The reason that 300 series computers are excluded is that it
uses the coprocessor slot on the backplane to get at all the necessary
address lines. One board therefore plugs into the backplane and the
other connects to the existing MEMC socket. The board should be low
consumption because it uses eight 4Mbit chips to provide the extra 4
Mbytes instead of the thirtytwo 1Mbit chips making up the existing 4
Mbytes. The boards are öright way upò, unlike some other memory
upgrades, as this aids air flow and reduces the likelihood of
overheating.
3.7
Å Better Multisync at lower price Ö Eizo used to supply a lowradiation,
low static multisync monitor (the 9060SZ) at about ú40 more than the
9060S. They have now discontinued the 9060S and brought the price of the
SZ down to the same price. Also, because of larger quantities that we
are now buying, we have been able to increase the discount. The 9060SZ
is now available at ú530 (or ú510 if you buy it at the same time as an
A410 or A3000).
3.7
Å Careware N╝6 contains Application maker, Scientific calculator,
StickyBD, Sparkplug, Desktop utilities, Wordpro <Ö> FWPlus converter,
RFSmod for CC ROM podule, 17 Maestro files (ancient & modern), Hangman
(very graphic!), Connect 5 (oneupmanship?) & Polymos (based on ancient
chinese game).
3.7
Å Shareware N╝7 updated Ö Thanks to Eric Ayers, Shareware 7 is now
updated to volume 3, issue 6. Also, the data is now compatible with
Arcscan II (ú17 through Archive). We will put the data on this monthæs
program disc and on the Archive bulletin board. We cannot update old
Shareware 7 discs free of charge because of the huge amount of admin
involved if several hundred readers sent their discs in for update.
Either send us a donation to charity when you send in your old S/W7 for
updating, or just order a new S/W7 at ú3 Ö hardly an excessive charge if
you add up the cost of the disc plus postage and packing plus an admin
charge!
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Å Shareware N╝18 Ö (which I forgot to mention last month) contains
various !Draw files containing 3 drawn fonts and a number of coloured
pictures, several demo programs, space battles, rocks (asteroids),
Maestro files (classical & modern) and Imperial Collegeæs HOPE language
interpreter.
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Å Shareware N╝23 Ö contains SoundTracker with tunes, Address book, File
loading utility, Text printer, SetType, Sparkplug, Using View on RISCOS,
Pelmanism, Connect 4, 3 demos: Baby blues, Scrolling text & Bouncing
Bars.
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Å Cheaper ST506 drives for A410 Ö We are now stocking Oak Computers
ST506 drives for 400/1 series computers. They are slightly slower access
speeds (28 ms) than the Computerware ones (22 or 24 ms) but also
slightly cheaper: ú210, ú330 and ú410 for 20M, 40M and 47M respectively
as compared to ú230, ú420 and ú510.
3.7
Å Colour Digitiser from Wild Vision Ö a new colour digitiser including
öFastGrabò software is now available from Wild Vision at an introductory
price of ú339 +VAT (or ú360 inclusive through Archive). We have had a
look at it and it seems very impressive especially at the introductory
price. This price is to be reviewed at the end of April. More details
are available in the comment column on page 13.
3.7
Å More DTP Images Ö G.A.Herdman Educational Software are increasing
their range of discs of images for use in DTP to five at ú8.99 each or
various discount prices for different numbers of discs.
3.7
Å GINO is here! Ö Fortran users will be pleased to hear that Intelligent
Interfaces have produced GINO (ú750 + VAT) in the form of three modules:
GINOÖF 3D which is a library of over 200 usercallable Fortran subrou
tines including basic line and arc drawing, characters and symbols,
colour, line styles, full 3D transformations, windowing, projections and
viewing; GINOGRAF which provides advanced facilities for producing
graphs, histograms and pie charts by simple automatic call instructions
or more complex and flexible routines; and GINOSURF which displays 3D
data as contour maps or surface views with hidden line removal.
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Å Impression with no dongle? Ö In response to popular demand, Computer
Concepts have decided that it will release an educational network
version of Impression that does not require a dongle. This version will
be licenced to the particular school and will only run on their
networked machines. (This is separate from, but complementary to, the
existing offer of conventional Édongledæ Impressions where schools
buying 10 or more copies pay only ú60 + VAT per copy.)
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Å Last days of Doom Ö ú19.95 (or ú19 through Archive) from Topologika Ö
over 150k of text and 218 Éroomsæ. This is the third part of Peter
Killworthæs Doom adventure trilogy.
3.7
Å Maps of the World Ö ú29.95 (inc VAT & carriage) (ú28 through Archive)
from Micro Studio is a graphics library pack for the Archimedes
featuring over 150 maps of various countries of the world.
3.7
Å Personal Accounts Ö a new program from Apricote Studios at just ú14.95
is aimed at individual or club accounts. It features multiple bank
accounts, direct debits and a range of editing and searching facilities.
The number of entries is limited only by memory capacity e.g. 1 Mbyte
A3000 would give you over 20,000 entries. (If it is as good as their
Account Book program or their Invoice Program then I suspect they have
underpriced it at ú14.95. I hope to have a review copy soon.)
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Å Prices down again! Ö In line with our general policy of keeping prices
down as much as possible, Norwich Computer Services have reduced the
prices of binders, for example, by a whole 50p!!! Seriously though, what
we have done is to try to make things simpler for ourselves (and for
you) by making all our prices multiples of ú1. This means that most of
the items on the price list that were ún.50 are now ún.
3.7
Å Rotor Ö Getting in a Spin Ö a new game from a new supplier, Active
Sales, is available for ú24.99 (or ú23 through Archive). Active are not
new to the games scene having started on Amiga and ST but are now to
moving into the Archimedes area. Their first offering is a very
intricate looking space maze game, a little like Caverns from Minerva
Software.
3.7
Å VIDC enhancer from Atomwide (ú30 +VAT or ú35 through Archive) is a
hardware modification which increases the speed of the clock on the VIDC
so that you can increase the amount of information displayed on the
screen. Basically it will give you a range of extra modes in 2, 4 or 8
colours, up to the same resolution as the high res mono output on the
A400 series machines.
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Å !Works #1 Ö Jim Markland has produced a prgrammersæs toolbox to enable
you to output DXF files compatible with !Draw. These files can be read
by humans(!), merged, editted etc and ported across to other computers.
ú10 from Jim Markland.
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