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- Acorn have told developers that they no longer want them to support
- RISC-OS 2. Previously RO2 support was not required, but many did. In
- future they want developers not to support RO2 at all. Acorn have, in
- fact, declared RO2 officially 'dead'.
-
- The reason is that we now have two new operating systems RO3.5 (the
- 'old' RPC) and RO3.6 (the RPC 700 and 7000). These are more-or-less
- developments of RO3.1, and programs which don't take shortcuts should
- work on any of them (if they don't use any special features of the RPC).
- Trying to support RO2 as well would not only be difficult, it would
- severely limit what the program could do as many features of RO3+ are
- not easily duplicated on RO2.
-
- Most people realised this would happen eventually, but if you have just
- bought a secondhand A3000 you won't be too keen to spend about £90 on a
- full price RO3 upgrade. Developers like APDL have been nagging Acorn
- about this, and as a result we are now permitted us to buy the RO3.1
- ROMs and sell them.
-
- The price for a set of ROMs from APDL is £29 including postage. There is
- no extra carriage for this anywhere in the world, (but do not deduct VAT
- outside the EC as this covers the extra costs).
-
- The manuals (the User Guide and Apps Guide) are not included in this
- price, not surprising as the price of the these alone is £22. If you are
- prepared to manage without them your upgrade will cost you only £29, if
- you want the entire package it will cost £29 + £22 + £4 carriage (the
- Manual is heavy!), which totals £55 - still a bargain
-
- I will not normally supply the manual only without the ROMs
-
- IMPORTANT - Because of the weight of the manual I have to charge an
- extra £3 postage for Europe (total £58) and £8 elsewhere (total £63).
- This is quite a bit extra, but it only applies to the manual, NOT the
- ROMs. You should be able to get the manual through a local dealer, even
- if he can't get the ROMs. Unlike other heavy items, eg. hard discs, you
- can't deduct VAT outside the EC because there is no VAT on books.
-
- If you still have RO2 DON'T DELAY. I don't know how long this offer will
- continue, and if you miss this chance you could find that your old A3000
- is eventually worth next to nothing.
-
-
- A310/A440 adaptor board
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- The A305/310 and the early A440 machines cannot accept the RO3 ROMs
- directly but adaptor boards are available. So many people have asked
- that I have arranged to supply the IFEL board for only £22.50 (normal
- price £18 + carriage + VAT). This price applies ONLY if you buy the ROMs
- with the adaptor, which makes the total price (without Manuals) £51.50
-