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News: CareWare Disks 2 & 3
From Norwich Computer Services/Archive
magazine |
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News: ShareWare Disks 12 & 13
From Norwich Computer Services/Archive
magazine. Contents list |
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News: Colour Dump For Star LC10
From Musbury Consultants. Screendump/
Printers |
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News: Graphics Library
From Micro Studio. FWP and DTP formats.
Colour Graphics Library. Clip Art |
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News: SCSI Hard Disks
SCSI hard drives and interface cards
from Oak Computers and Lingenuity
(Lindis International) |
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News: Termulator
From Itelligent Interfaces. Terminal
Emulator providing VT52,VT102,VT202 and
Tektronics Graphics |
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News: ARM Assembly Language Programming
book by Peter Cockerell from Bookmark
Publishing |
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Hint: Limited ADFS Memory
*MOUNTing multiple disks/*CONFIGURE
ADFSDirCache/*DISMOUNT |
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Hint: Three Floppies For Arthur 1.2
Running the *DESKTOP program from disk
instead of ROM/*SET Alias |
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Hint: FWP
Printing after opening more than one
file |
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Hint: Configuring Printers
Under the PC Emulator. AUX/COM1/COM2/
COM3/PRN/LPT1/LPT2 |
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Hint: Sprite Plot Commands
Speeding up the fast plotting routines
in Archive 2.10 |
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Hint: DIY Serial Interface For A3000
More info on the chip required (see
Archive 2.10) |
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Hint: Evaluation Of Algebraic
Expressions |
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Hint: FWP And The Interrupt Module
Use of the module for *EXECing text
files into the word processor. Allows
reformatting of text afterwards |
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Hint: PipeDream And Greek Characters
Running a BASIC program from within an
Obey file to set up a printer to use a
foreign character set |
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Hint: FWP Margins
Changing the default margins within FWP
permanently |
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Hint: Taxan MultiSync Juddering
Fixes for the monitor when used with a
A3000 or A400/1 |
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Hint: Using The Yes/No Mouse Pointer
Using OS_Confirm to get a yes/no
answer from the user |
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Hint: Saving ROM Sprites
Extracting the ROM sprites and saving
them as a standard file.
Wimp_BaseOfSprites |
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Hint: Memory Reallocation
Using the MemAlloc module from the
!Lander directory on the application
disks |
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Hint: Hourglass Calls Explained
Hourglass_On/Hourglass_Off/
Hourglass_Percentage/Hourglass_Smash/
Hourglass_LEDs/Hourglass_Start |
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Hint: !TinyDirs
Using the adjust button to run the
application and remove the tinydir |
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Hint: RISC-OS Speedup
Using OS_UpdateMEMC to increase the
speed |
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Hint: Terramex Cheat
Infinite lives |
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Info: RISC-OS Bugs
Module files which *CAT correctly do not
always get a module icon from the Filer |
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Info: RISC-OS Bugs
!Edit does not work properly in modes 2
4 or 5 |
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Info: RISC-OS Bugs
Dragging directories into themselves
causes a recursive copy which fills the
disk up |
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Info: RISC-OS Bugs
Problems with resizing the interactive
help window. !Help application |
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Hint: MaxGammon Under RISC-OS
Upgrade available |
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Hint: Last Line In Program
Finding the last line in a BASIC program
which is in memory |
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Hint: Hearsay Problems
Selecting a route from the screen while
in a scrolling terminal. Xmodem problems |
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Hint: Filer_OpenDir
Why you should use the full pathname
with this call |
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Hint: Legal Text Scaling For MultiSyncs
Update to previous hint in 2.10
VDU23,17 |
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Hint: ARM Assembler T Option
Update to previous hint in 2.10.
Differences between T option and !
option |
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Hint: ALTernative Keys
International Keyboard Module. Symbols
produced when is held down |
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Hint: Colour Cursor For BasicEdit
A short program to modify the module.
Background and foreground colours can
also be altered |
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Hint: Wild Card Copy For RISC-OS
Changes to *COPY to allow wild cards in
the destination |
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Hint: RISC-OS Disk Names
Using a system variable which behaves
like a disk name. *SET/multiple paths |
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Hint: Memory Usage
Avoiding the loading of application
sprites by placing applications in a non
! directory to maximise memory space |
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Hint: 1stMail Solution
Altering 1stMail to ensure the printer
options are not hidden under another
window |
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Hint: !PrinterDM And Ignore
Editing the PrData file to avoid
overprinting when ignore is *CONFIGUREd
to "No Ignore" |
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Hint: PipeDream And E Format Disks
How to move PipeDream onto an E format
floopy |
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Hint: Updates For Artisan And ProArtisaFrom Clares. Allows running these
packages under RISC-OS |
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Hint: Not Enough Screen Memory?
'Bad Mode' error when running programs
from the desktop. How to allocate more
memory |
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Hint: Uncluttered Cataloguing
Using the adjust button to automatically
close directory viewers after use |
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Hint: Bye Bye Hard Disk!
Warning! *BYE when in RAMFS does not
park the hard disk heads |
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Help: 5.25" Disk Problems
Beebug interface not working under
RISC-OS |
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Help: DataChat Modem
Pin connections required |
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Help: Digivision Monitor
Input connections needed for model
MC20-RGB/8-013 |
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Help: Library Virus?
Library directory duplicated inside
itself 31 times |
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Help: Hard Disk Test Programs
Required for comparisons between
diffrent drives |
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Help: FWP Problems
Page eject after printing and saving a
file before printing. Any solutions? |
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Comment: CareWare Disks
From Archive. Second hand software for
charity |
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Info: BBC Acorn User Show 1989
Impressions of the show and the
exhibitors |
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Info: BASIC Compliers
More observations on ABC version 2 and
RiscBASIC compilers |
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Info: FWP Column
Problems with FWP and comments from the
authors |
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Info: Archive Bulletin Board Service
Archive BBS changes. User List/ARCed
messaging facilities/Reducing the time
spent online |
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Info: Hardware Column
The new A410/1 reviewed/RAM and hard
disk upgrades/ARM3 processor/PC podule
add on from Mach Technology |
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Contact: Bristol Area User Group |
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Contact: Euclid User Group |
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Info: MS-DOS Column
RISC-OS and the PC Emulator. !PC/
maximising memory space/*CONFIGURE/
connecting a serial printer |
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Review: GraphBox
Graphing plotting package from Minerva
Systems |
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Review: ShareWare Disk 9
From Archive/Norwich Computer Service |
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Info: BBC Compatibility Column
DFS file reader/Converting 'Account
Book' from Apricote Studios |
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Review: RISC-OS 6502 Emulators
!65Host/ARFS/!65Tube |
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Review: Techsoft Designer Intro
2D drafting package/CAD |
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Info: BASIC Forum
Problems caused by unmatched structures
IF/THEN/ELSE/LIST IF. Base conversion
procedures |
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Review: Arcendium Board Games
From Alien Images. Quadline/Reversi/
Draughts/Backgammon |
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Info: RISC-OS MultiSync Graphics
New graphics modes/compatibility/Render
Blender/speed benchmarks in different
graphics modes/Interlaced screen display |
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Review: Jet Fighter Game
From Minerva Systems |
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Review: Dabs PC ShareWare Collection
Contents lists and brief summaries |
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Review: ANSI 'C' Release 2
Updated 'C' Compiler from Acorn |
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Review: Noah Paint Professional
16 and 256 colour art package |
