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News: A420/1 And A440/1 Down In Price
For purchases from Norwich Computer
Services |
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News: Acorn DTP User Guide
Book from Emerald Publishing |
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News: Animations Disks
From Clares. Render Blender demos |
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News: C Front End
C-Front from Mitre Software. C compiler
from the desktop |
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News: Econet Applications
From Software Solutions and XOB. Disk
Sharer/Printer Spooler/Remote Logon |
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News: First Word Plus Book
From Norfolk TVEI Unit. FWP self study
guide |
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News: Keyword
From Swift Software. Dynamic word
finder/synonyms/antonyms/RISC-OS |
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News: Prototyping Cards
From Atomwide. Fully buffered interface
board. APEC/EPROMs/ROMs/RAMs |
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News: Shareware 14 Disk
From Norwich Computer Services |
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News: Low Price RISC-OS
Still in stock |
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News: Clares' DTP Package
Tempest |
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News: Clares' Primary WP Package
Word processer for Primary schools |
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News: External Disk Drives For A3000
From Akhter Computers. Hard/floppy/
monitor stand |
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News: Interdictor Flight Simulator
From Clares |
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News: Knowledge Organiser
From Clares. Free form text database
(enhanced version of ArcTFS) |
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News: Mach Technology |
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News: Memory Upgrades For A310
Availability problems |
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News: RISC-OS PRMs
Programmers Reference Manual |
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Hint: Archive BBS
New password |
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Hint: Arthur 1.2 DeskTop
Converted to run under RISC-OS |
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Hint: DataChat Modem Connections
Cable details |
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Hint: FWP
Answer to page eject after printing
problem. Word count problems |
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Hint: Graphic Writer Bug
Scrolling past the end of the document
with a block marker set |
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Hint: Home Accounts
From Minerva. Corrections to review |
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Hint: Prolog X
Retaining facts, rules and list
produced in Prolog X |
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Hint: QL Reader
From ShareWare 12. Problems fixed |
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Hint: RS432 Arc To BBC
Problems with the serial port overcome
with *CONFIGURE DATA 5 |
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Hint: SystemDevs
Sending characters to the printer
ignoring the 'printer ignore' character
Alternative character sets |
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Hint: Teletext Adaptors
Using the Acorn adaptor with the Arc |
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Hint: Morley Teletext Adaptor
How to use it under RISC-OS |
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Hint: Taxan MultiSync Wobbles
A less technical version of how to cure
it |
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Hint: Compressing Text (OS_PrettyPrint)
Using the dictionary facility to
compress text |
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Hint: Copy Options Under RISC-OS
5 new options. A/S/T/L/N/*COPY |
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Hint: Filer_OpenDir And Filer_CloseDir
Do not use system variables. Function
to read the value of a system variable.
OS_ReadVarVal/OS_CLI |
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Hint: Mode 16,17 and 24 Coordinates
Size of screen in OS coordinates.
Function to convert from usual
coordinates |
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Hint: Modifying !Calc For Keyboard Input
Altering the calculator application
from App disk 2 |
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Hint: New CMOS RAM Settings
for outline fonts. *CONFIGURE/FontSize/
FontMax/FontMax1/FontMax2/FontMax3/
FontMax4/FontMax5/*STATUS |
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Hint: New FPE
Floating Point Emulator on App disk 2 |
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Hint: New System Variable
Font$Path/*SET |
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Hint: OS_ChangedBox
New call to determine the area of the
screen changed by calls to the VDU
drivers. Example program |
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Hint: ProArtisan & Artisan Upgrades
From Clares for RISC-OS |
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Hint: RISC-OS Printer Drivers
and line feeds. How to alter them to
generate line feeds automatically |
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Hint: RISC-OS And Old WIMP Programs
Running Arthur 1.2 WIMP progs under
RISC-OS. Sprites |
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Hint: *CDIR Command
Under RISC-OS |
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Hint: The Window Manager
Memory useage/RMA/problems with Arthur
1.2 WIMP programs |
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Hint: Task Display In The DeskTop
How to cancel tasks. Wimp_Poll reason
code 18/quitting tasks |
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Hint: Command Files Within Obey Files
The difference between command and
obey files/How to start an application
with an initial set of input data |
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Hint: BasicEdit As An Application
How to start the editor with a file
loaded from the DeskTop |
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Hint: TWIN As An Application
How to start TWIN with a file loaded
from the DeskTop. Custom colours |
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Hint: Error Signalling From ARM Code
Trapping ARM code errors when control
is passed to BASIC. ON ERROR |
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Hint: New SWI Calls In RISC_OS
SWI list program. Calls new for RISC-OS
compared to Arthur 1.2 |
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News: New Column For FWP
Stuart Bell |
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News: New Column For PipeDream
Gerald Fitton |
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Help: !Maestro And Midi
Problems encountered |
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Help: A310 Hard Disk Upgrade
Anyone put a hard disk upgrade on the
A310 motherboard? |
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Help: BitStick |
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Help: Game Writer Wanted
Assistance required for large ARM code
adventure game |
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Help: Graphic Writer And LQ800 Printer
Problems outputting properly scaled
pictures |
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Help: Panasonic KX-P1124 Printer Driver
Required for FWP |
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Help: Packet Radio
Software required |
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Help: Sound Output
Reducing digital noise |
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Help: RISC-OS Sprites
Printing fancy fonts onto a sprite |
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Help: Acorn DTP
Blank lines after a /
Installation on a hard disk/Fonts/New
FontManager/!Fonts/SuperSampler module |
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Help: Screensize
Under RISC-OS |
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Help: Time Format
YYMMDDHHMMSS format using Sys$DateFormat |
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Help: PC Emulator/MS Windows 2.03 |
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Info: Hardware Column
MAC uses ARM/FPU & other speed
considerations/ARM3/The Art Of
Electronics 2nd edition |
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Credit: Acorn
Filetypes under RISC-OS |
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Credit: Dabs Press
Real time clock problems |
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Credit: Dabs Press
Alerion game |
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Credit: Wingpass Ltd
Assembler updated |
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Review: PipeDream 3
Word processor/Database/Spreadsheet/
Integrated package/WP/DTP/RISC-OS |
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Info: MS-DOS Column
Partitioning the hard disk/Installing
DOS/setting the prompt to the path
name/display attributes |
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Info: SID Rides Again!
Acorn Support Information Database BBS |
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Review: BrainSoft's Multi-I/O Podule
Stereo sound sampler/Serial port/ROM
sockets/Analogue to digital converter/
ADC |
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Info: Language Forum
Pascal memory mangement/Acorn LISP/'C'
operating system calls |
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Review: C To Fortran Interface Tools
From CCD Computer Services. Calling
Fortran routines from C and vice versa |
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Info: The WIMP Sprite Pool
Wimp_SpriteOp/Using WIMP sprites in your
own programs/accessing the system
sprites |
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Review: Acorn DTP
Desktop Publishing package |
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Comment: DOS_FS Module?
required to allow reading/writing DOS
disks |
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Comment: AlphaBase - RISC-OS Compatible?
problems! |
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Comment: BASIC Compilers
More views from Silicon Vision.... |
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Comment: Educational Software?
From HS Software |
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Comment: Bit Copier
From The Serial Port |
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Comment: PC Emulator Rules OK?
advantages of using the emulator rather
than a PC/foreign character sets |
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Comment: System Resources
New printer drivers/outline fonts
available soon |
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Comment: ANSI C Review |
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Info: Hard Disk Speed Tests
Benchmarks |
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Review: Atelier - CAD For RISC-OS
From Minerva. Art package |
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Review: Numator Educational Software
From Logotron. Matematical construction
kit |
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Review: ScanLight A4 Document Scanner
From Computer Concepts. DTP aid |
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Review: Eucorn - A Non Musical Review
Music package |
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Review: RISC-OS Companion Volume 1
RISC-OS utilities |
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Review: I-APL Language
From I-APL Ltd |
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Review: C-Label Labelling Program
From Z & Z Software |
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Review: DeskTop Stories
educational software from RESOURCE |
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Review: RiscChart
Instrumentation Package from Irlam
Instruments. I/O,IEEE488 |
