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Å Acorn Portable Ö The new Acorn portable computer is here! Turn to page
5 for full details.
5.10
Å Animals Ö The latest offering in 4Mationæs set of SmArt files is
Animals which provides nine animals with various backdrops to put them
on and a set of ideas for their use. The price is ú16 +VAT from 4Mation
or ú18 through Archive.
5.10
Å ARM3 prices down Ö CJE Micros have again dropped the price of their
ARM3 upgrade Ö this time to ú169 +VAT or ú195 through Archive. Aleph One
are maintaining their price of ú199 +VAT on the basis of their belief
that it is a technically superior product. We are making a slight
concession to CJEæs price drop and reducing the Archive price of the
Aleph One ARM3 to ú215. (The A3000 version remains at an Archive price
of ú285 including 2-way carriage.)
5.10
Å Banner Ö Kudlian Soft have produced a RISC-OS compliant banner-maker
which uses outline fonts and RISC-OS printer drivers to create banners.
You can either print them on fanfold paper along the length of the
paper, or on page-based printers such as Deskjets or Laser Directs,
ready to fix together to make up a composite banner. The price is ú15
+VAT or ú17 through Archive.
5.10
Å BasShrink Ö After the review in Archive 5.8, Architype have modified,
improved and enhanced their Basic program compressor and produced
BasShrink 2.14.
5.10
Å Calligraph 600 d.p.i. laser Ö Calligraph are now selling a (true) 600
d.p.i. A3 size, 8 p.p.m. direct drive laser printer, the TQ-1200. This
is true 600 d.p.i. and, with image enhancement, can give a simulated
1200 d.p.i. (In the same way, the CC Laser Directs are really 300 d.p.i.
but with image enhancement give a simulated 600 d.p.i.) The TQ-1200 has
a 250 sheet paper cassette, can handle paper sizes from A6 to A3 and has
a 150 sheet multi-purpose feeder option which enables it to take
envelopes, transparencies, labels and also paper plates and Plazer
plates. You can also add an extra 250 sheet paper cassette for dual bin
use or for heavy network use. The output is VERY impressive. I am hoping
to do some blow-ups next month to show the difference between 300/600
d.p.i. printing and 600/1200. The price is ú4995 +VAT from Calligraph or
ú5650 through Archive. If you want to use it at full resolution, I guess
you will need a machine with at least 8M of RAM.
5.10
(Å Carewares 17 & 18 Ö There has been a delay in the production of
the two Careware discs we mentioned last month, so this is to say that
Carewares 17 and 18 are NOT available yet.)
5.10
Å CSVtoText Ö This application was written, initially, to solve the
problem of getting PinPoint output in CSV format and converting it into
a sensible format for putting into Impression. However, it can be used
for any such conversion from CSV to text. The price from Architype
Software is ú9 for business, secondary or tertiary education and ú5 for
home, primary, infant or junior schools. (A PD version of CSVtoText is
included on this monthæs program disc.)
5.10
Å Eizo 9070æs Ö Yes, that does say ö9070ò. Eizo have found a number of
the very popular 16ö monitors that they discontinued in favour of the
new F550i. The rrp was ú899 +VAT (ú1056). We sold them at an Archive
discount price of ú790 inc VAT (rrpæs on monitors are never very
realistic!) and can offer these monitors at ú690. However, if you want
one, you will have to move fast Ö indeed they may all be gone by the
time this gets into print.
5.10
Å ExcellonDrill Ö Anyone using ArcPCB and having access to an Excellon
automatic drilling machine will be pleased to hear that Silicon Vision
have produced a driver to enable you to create drill files. The price is
ú75 +VAT from Silicon Vision.
5.10
Å Floating point co-processor Ö If you want a 387SX floating point co-
processor for the Aleph One 386 card, they are available for ú108
through Archive.
5.10
Å Gods Ö This is an arcade game converted from the Atari by Krisalis. As
Hercules, you have to search the depths of an ancient city in search of
immortality. The game boasts 15 different weapons systems plus 20
potions and power-ups plus a host of intelligent monsters. The price is
ú25.99 from Krisalis or ú24 through Archive.
5.10
Å Interface podules for A3000 Ö Commotion now sell two interface podules
for the A3000. The original user/analogue port podule at ú49.95 +VAT is
now joined by a user/analogue/midi port podule at ú79.95 +VAT.
5.10
Å Nebulus Ö Another arcade game from Krisalis. This one involves
destroying giant towers that someone has built in the sea. You start off
in your mini-sub and try to demolish the towers without getting wiped
out yourself. The price is ú25.99 from Krisalis or ú24 through Archive.
5.10
Å Ovation 1.3 Ö By the time you read this, Risc Developments should have
released an update to Ovation. This will now include mail-merge,
pamphlet printing, rotating pictures, First Word Plus importing and a
Thesaurus hotlink. The price is still ú99 +VAT or ú110 through Archive.
5.10
Å Removable hard drives Ö There has been another drop in the price of
the removable hard drives. The 42M drives are now down to ú455 inc VAT
(cf Morleyæs 42M at ú499 +VAT) and the 84M down to ú670 inc VAT (cf
Morleyæs 84M @ ú699 +VAT). The cheapest we could find elsewhere for the
42M drives was ú449 +VAT = ú527, so we are still keeping Archiveæs
prices well below the competition.
5.10
Å RISC-OS Turbo Driver for BJ10ex Ö This is the first in a series of new
printer drivers produced by Computer Concepts. The idea is that they use
CCæs FastText rendering technique developed for the Laser Directs and
now benefiting users of other printers. They print up to three times as
fast as the standard Acorn printer drivers. The driver for the BJ10ex is
the first of a series and provides half tone printing in up to 128 grey
levels as well as plain text printing in any font style, portrait or
landscape. The drivers come bundled with twelve Acorn outline fonts plus
the Acorn outline font manager. The software plus lead costs ú49 +VAT
(ú53 through Archive) or you can buy it with the printer for just ú249
+VAT (or ú275 through Archive).
5.10
Å ScanLight Junior 256 Ö After a long delay due to difficulty of supply,
the ScanLight Junior 256 scanners are available again. Supplies are a
little bit limited because the demand is so high but, as of today, I can
say that they are actually öin stockò. There is also a price drop.
ScanLight 256 is now ú199 +VAT or ú225 through Archive.
5.10
Å Toner cartridges for Telethon Ö Are you wondering what to do with
those used toner cartridges? Surely, they should be able to be re-
cycled? Well, they can and you can make some money for the ITV Telethon
fund-raising marathon. The EcoCare Group will give about ú3 to ú4 per
cartridge to charity. If you live in East Anglia, they will collect the
cartridges from you Ö just ring 0263Ö513553 to arrange collection.
Otherwise, you can send your old cartridges to us and they will collect
them from here.
5.10
Å SPECIAL DEALS Ö One of the three Acorn distributors is closing down
and is selling off Archimedes hardware and software. For example,
Prolog-X, which sold at ú179, is available for ú25. Marconi Trackerballs
(normally ú56) are ú35. PrimeArt (was ú87) is ú25 and Numerator (was
ú80) is ú25. For a full list, see the extra sheet in the Price List.
5.10