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- 23/02/95
- A new version of the PC Emulator is available. This new vesion (1.33) will
- be of particular interest to 400/1 series user and A3000 users, who may have
- noticed that when using the emulator the disc drives are more noisy then usual.
- The new version changes the step rate of the heads to make it quieter. Also
- with the new version is a SCSI hard disc installation program(see next
- paragraph). The new version can be obtained directly from SID if you are a
- registered user (ie if you have logged on before via Prestel of have
- registered directly with Acorn for use via Fastrak) or from your local SID
- registered Acorn dealer.
-
- The latest version of the PC Emulator (v 1.33) has new installation routines
- for both ADFS harddiscs and SCSI harddiscs. The !Readme file inside the
- installation application draws attention to the need to correctly set up your
- partition. The hard disk partition appears to MSDOS to be a drive with 4
- heads and 17 sectors of 512 bytes per track, irrespective of the physical
- harddisc's characteristics. The default 10 Mbyte hard disk size has 300
- logical cylinders, giving a total partition size of 300*4*17*512=&9F6000. If
- you wish to create a different partition size please keep it to a multiple
- of the logical cylinder size (&8800, 4*17*512). Earlier versions of the PC
- emulator created their partition file in the directory $.PC. Under the new
- emulator you are free to place this anywhere on the harddisc.
-
- We are still compiling a list of PC software that runs under the PC
- Emulator, so if you know of any packages that run under the emulator please
- write and let me know. Many thanks to the people who have already responded.
-
- After a number of requests we have produced an application note for users of
- Acorn Desktop Publisher on 1Mbyte systems. The note is a step by step guide
- on how to get the DTP application up and running on a 1Mbyte system. The
- application note can be obtained by sending an A4 SAE to our Customer
- Services Department. If you wish to make a technical enquiry at the same
- time as requesting any application note, please use a separate letter.
-
- We are aware that a number of people have experienced problems using the
- LQ850 and the Acorn Desktop Publisher package. It would appear that early
- versions of the LQ850 software do not support the [ESC]+ sequence required
- for printing at 360*360 DPI. The version of the ROMs which we are aware work
- correctly are as follows: N91785 and N92687. To find out which ROM you have,
- switch the printer on while holding down the Form Feed button (i.e. a power
- up self test), the first thing printed is the version number of the ROM.
- If you find you have a version which is not one of the two listed a new ROM
- can be obtained from:
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- Apropriate Technology Ltd
- Aptec House
- South Bank Business Centre
- Ponteon Road
- London
- SW8 5AT
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