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2.1 October 1988
2.2 November 1988
2.3 December 1988
2.4 January 1989
2.5 February 1989
2.6 March 1989
2.7 April 1989
2.8 May 1989
2.9 June 1989
2.10 July 1989
2.11 August 1989
2.12 September 1989

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News: Hardware & Software Available
 
News: A305 Upgrade
Half Megabyte upgrade now available
 
News: Ancestry from Minerva Software
On screen display of family tree etc
Printouts available. Cost `70 via NCS
 
News: Archimedes O.S. User Guide
Book & Disc from Dabs Press
Covers both Arthur & RISC-OS
 
News: Arc-DFS Update
Richard Averill has updates available
of his program in Shareware 2
 
News: Art Nouveau
New Art package from CAL Ltd rivals
Pro-Artisan at quarter of cost.
 
News: Cheat it again, Archie
Cheat your way to success on "most"
Archimedes games. By Impact Software
 
News: Hard Drive & Podules
Computerware have range of Hard Drives
 
News: Public Domain Software
David Pilling adds 2 more discs
to his range. 11 Small Talk and
12 The World.
 
News: Graphics Tablet
Use of tablet instead of mouse
 
News: PC Shareware
Contex Computing have several PC
discs which run on emulator.
 
News: Problems with ANSI C ?
Bugs in library of release 2 iss.1
 
News: Shareware Disc 4
Available but content not known !
 
News: Sigma Sheet Upgrade
Free upgrade from Minerva to stop
lost characters between columns.
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News: New from Silicone Vision
RiscBASIC  - Basic Compiler
Film Maker - Animated 3D scenes
Gate Array Design Teaching System
 
News: Available soon from E.M.R.
Studio 24 Plus Version 2
HandiMusic - for handicapped to play
 
Comment: A410 Cancelled ?
Acorn say certainly not
 
Comment: A310 Memory Upgrades ???
Watford etc working on it but
NOT D.I.Y. !
 
Comment: Why Bother With RISC-OS ?
Although not TRUE multi-tasking
still makes Archie more powerful.
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Hints & Tips: Dacom Modem
Connection and link details given
 
Hints & Tips: Easy Copying / Deleting
Using Alias commands to give easy
method for Copying Delete etc
 
Hints & Tips: Masked Sprites
Getting Welcome Disc Sprite Editor
to work !
 
Hints & Tips: Hard Disk Backup Program
Improvement to Archive 2.5 program
by Paul Hobbs
 
Hints & Tips: Hard Disc Squeek
Possible cure using WD40 !
 
Hints & Tips: C routines
Use Dir &.Tmp for tmpnam() & tmpfile()
 
Hints & Tips: ANSI C
Command line parameters
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Hints & Tips: Various
BBC Master Edit / *COPY w/o Q
Orion tips / Zarch tips
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Hints & Tips: Various
Terramex / Quazer / OS_FSControl
Pipedream on RISC-OS / PC Emulator
 
Hints & Tips: Potential Electrocution
Safety  re Static and Monitors
 
Hints & Tips: Gammaplot bar charts
How to obtain stacked bars
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Matters Arising: Copy Protection
Minerva Software will not allow mod
offered last month. Sorry.
 
Matters Arising: Current Directory
Shorter program to give Current
Directory Variable on NCS Disc
 
Matters Arising: Eureka II
Priorities / password / etc.
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Matters Arising: Eureka II
Explanation of how to Log on
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Matters Arising: Paul Hobbs & PD
Regarding his PD program discs.
 
Matters Arising: Rom speedups
Overspeeding & possible damage
 
Matters Arising: WIMP Template Editor
C loader on this months disc and in
later versions of Template Editor
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Readers' Comments: Various
D.Pillings Discs/Wimp template Editor
Atomwide/Corruption/Shareware docn.
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Readers' Comments: Various
Watford hard disc & several comments
on RISC-OS
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Review: Art Nouveau
Professional art package by CAL
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Help!: Needed
Fast sort/Disc controller access/ADFS
Multi Sync monitor/Smooth scrolling
Scanners/Blind Watchmaker/Fireball
 
Help!: Needed
Machine code fade required of BASIC
Program supplied which is too slow
 
Help!: Offered
Typing Tutor. See Archive v2.i3.p10
for Contex Computing's Tutor review
 
Feature: Contact Box
Primary School Archimedes users
Oak PDT users / French users group
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Hardware Column: New machines
Compact ?/300 expansion/R140 Unix box
Floating Point Compressor/ARC PCB
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Review: Fireball
Game based on Breakout/Bat'n ball/
Arkanoid. View: expensive.
 
Readers' Comments: Rise in crime
Robico reply to criticism.
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Review: Reporter & Mailshot
Two support packages from Minerva
for use with System Delta Plus
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Small Ad's: Various
Second hand hard/software for sale
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Feature: BASIC V Forum
Error handling
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Feature: BBC Compatability Column
Fontaid module
BBC Text Adventures
 
Utility: Fontaid module
Program to Download fonts from FontAid
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Programming: BBC Text Adventures
Convert for Archimedes: Level 9 games/
Philosophers Quest/Bored of the Rings/
Countdown to Doom/Kingdom of Hamil/
Castle of Riddles/etc.
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Utility: An Archimidean Planimeter
Program to measure areas with mouse.
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Feature: Language Forum
Pascal / Forth / C / problems & tips
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Program: On monthly disc or SAE only
*Commands from any application
*Interrupt to freeze screen etc.
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Review: Archimedes Operating System
Book & Disc by Alex & Nic van Someren
Published by DABS press
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Review: 4096 Shades of Grey
Suite of programs by Musbury
50
Review: Shareware 3
Disc from Norwich Computer Systems
51
Review: Fish!
Magnetic Scrolls Adventure Game
52
Article: SYS and Other Special FX
Using the SYS command in BASIC
54
Review: Oak PDT
A User's View
55
Article: Speed of the ARM & the FPE
Also program to test time to multiply
2 integers
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Feature: Fact File
List of Suppliers etc.