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- * The Master 128 has View (Word processor) and ViewSheet (Spreadsheet)
- built into the operating system . Although the Welcome guide covers these
- two areas briefly separate manuals for both products are available from
- Acorn which describe how to use both the packages in depth. The manuals cost
- £10.00 each and can be obtained from any Acorn Dealer.
-
- * We still receive a lot of enquires from people who suddenly find their
- Master 128 or Archimedes is behaving in a strange way. We find that in the
- majority of these cases the batteries which keep the CMOS powered while the
- computer is off are completely flat. Please remember that the batteries
- should be changed every 12 months to be totally safe. The cost of the
- replacement battery unit for the Master 128 is £4.60 from any Acorn dealer.
- The fitting of the replacement battery unit is extremely easy and can be
- performed by experienced users. The Acorn product code for this item is
- ADT16,Acorn do not recommend the use of any other replacement battery unit.
- The Archimedes range of machines requires two, leak proof, size AA
- replacement batteries. The A3000 is fitted with a rechargable battery and
- therefore does not need replacing.
-
- * A number of people have asked how they can view all the sprites that are
- stored in the RISC OS ROMS. The following small BASIC program will save the
- sprites onto disc in the $ directory as the filename 'WSprites', they can
- then be loaded into !Paint under the Desktop.
-
- 10 SYS "Wimp_BaseOfSprites" TO a%
- 20 SYS "OS_SpriteOp", &10C, a%, "$.WSprites"
-
- * It has been brought to our attention that the Notify facilities provided
- by the Network filing system under RISC OS can cause headaches for teachers.
- The ability to send messages from one machine to another is a useful
- facility for a Network Manager, but when this is extended to Network Users
- it soon becomes apparent that this can be abused. It is possible to protect
- the machines against receiving the notify messages. To turn the protection
- on use the following call:
-
- SYS &4000E, &10, %100011111
-
- To turn the protection off use:
-
- SYS &4000E, 0, %100001111
-
- Attempting to send a message to a protected station will now produce the
- error message 'Station ### not listening".
-
- * When using the Desktop environment you are quite often deleting strings of
- text in writable menus eg. when renaming a file. A quick way to remove the
- string that already exists is to use CTRL U, which will delete the whole
- string in one action.
-
- * Please remember that Acorn's Customer Services department are unable to
- deal with technical enquiries via the telephone. If you need to make a
- technical enquiry regarding one of Acorns products and your local dealer is
- unable to help, please write giving full details of your system and and the
- problem you have experienced. This will enable us to deal with the enquiries
- effectively.
-
- * A number of people have experienced problems when fitting the Acorn 1772
- disc upgrade to BBC Model B's. The problems are caused by the step times of
- the 1772 chip, which are faster than the 1770 chip. There are links on the
- keyboard of the BBC to allow to you change the step time. The link settings
- are as follows:
-
- Link 3 Link 4 Step time Step time
- 1772 1770
-
- 0 0 6ms 6ms
- 1 0 12ms 12ms
- 0 1 2ms 20ms
- 1 1 3ms 30ms
-
- Setting link 3 and not link 4 will give you the slowest step time possible
- with the 1772. You should avoid setting the step time of a standard 5.25
- inch disc drive to 2 or 3ms with the 1772 chip, as most drives will not work
- at these speeds.
-