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- Registration forms are supplied with all Acorn's computers, peripherals and
- the majority of Acorn's software packages for the Acorn Archimedes or BBC
- A3000 series computers are supplied with registration forms. Please remember
- to fill in and return the registration forms. Doing this, you register your
- computer for warranty purposes, so in the unlikely event that your computer
- fails a speedy repair can be undertaken. The registration forms supplied
- with software packages are used to inform our customers of any updates or
- new releases of that piece of software.
-
- 1st Word Plus Release 2 is supplied with a !Run file that will take whatever
- free memory is available in the Next slot of the Task Manager. When you
- switch your Acorn Archimedes or BBC A3000 on the Task Manager sets the Next
- slot to 640K which on a 1Mbyte system is almost all the available memory. It
- is however possible to change the !Run file of 1st Word Plus to take only a
- set maximum amount of memory. This can be achieved by first loading the !Run
- file in !Edit and then scrolling to the bottom of the file where you will
- find the command:
-
- WimpSlot -min 416k
-
- The command can be altered to read:
-
- WimpSlot -min 416k -max xxxk
-
- The parameter xxxk can be any value over the minimum requirement for 1st
- Word Plus to start ie. 416k, therefore the command could look as follows:
-
- WimpSlot -min 416k -max 564k
-
- The file can then be resaved back into the 1st Word Plus directory. Please
- ensure that you have made backup copies of the software before attempting
- this.
-
- A number of people have problems attempting to print the text they create in
- !Edit. To print text you must first ensure the correct printer driver is
- loaded. Then bring up the save text dialogue box within !Edit then, instead
- of dragging the file to a Filer window, drag the file over the Printer
- driver icon on the icon bar. The printer driver will understand that it is
- pure text and will print it as such. If you have a text file on disc which
- you wish to print, then simply drag it from the filer window over the
- printer driver icon.
-
- Archimedes and BBC A3000 software which works outside the desktop will quite
- often reconfigure the computer unplugging various modules and resetting
- various CMOS RAM settings. If it does not set the computer back to its
- original state then error messages such as 'SWI &xxxxxxx' not known will
- occur. The are two types of reset which will return the computer back to a
- state where it is usable. The first is an 'R' Power On, which simply
- involves holding down the R key while switching on the computer. This will
- reset the machine except for the number of floppy drives, the number of hard
- drives, the country setting, Econet station number and the bytes of CMOS
- relating to the expansion cards. The other reset is a 'Delete' power on.
- This resets the whole machine except for the Econet station number.
-