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News: Basic Compilers
From Silicon Vision and Dabs Press
(version 2) |
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News: CLabel Package
From Z&Z Software |
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News: Film Maker Package
From Silicon Vision |
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News: GeoScan Package
From Passey Marketing. Text/Tables/
Graphs/Maps/Diagrams about 100 countries
for Geography/Economics studies |
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News: Holed Out! Golf Game
From 4Mation |
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News: Hard Disks
From Computerware. Hard drives/20Meg/
40Meg |
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News: Ibix The Viking Game
From Minerva Systems |
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News: Integrex Screen Dump
From Musbury Consultants. Upgraded
version with a quarter size dump now
available |
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News: NewsMaster 2
From LTS. DTP Package |
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News: PrintMaster
From LTS. Package for designing posters,
banners, headed stationary, calenders,
cards etc |
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News: Numerator
From Logotron. Maths learning package
which runs under RISC-OS |
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News: PAL Programmer
From AtomWide. A single width podule to
program 20 and 24 pin PAL devices |
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News: RAM Upgrade for A410/A420
From Technomatic. Plug in more RAM in
multiples of 1Meg |
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News: CCD Software
RISC-OS versions of Fortran libraries/
XED text editor/Printer Buffer Module.
New product-C To Fortran Interface Tools |
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News: ScanLight
200 dpi A4 width hand held scanner |
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News: Hard Disks
From Science Frontiers. 40M hard drives
for A310/A410 |
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News: Sound Samplers
From Armadillo |
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News: Voice Generator
From MJD Software. WIMP based waveform
editor |
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News: WingPass Assembler
Version 2.06 available which cures
floating point bugs. Linker output file
now Acorn compatible |
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News: A3000 BBC MicroComputer |
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News: Atelier 256 Colour Art Package
From Minerva Systems. Includes animation |
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News: Mach Technology Update
More on hard disks, database, Modula-
2 and BASIC compiler. Also MS-DOS
podule and A300 series memory upgrades |
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News: Structural Analysis Program
From Neal Smith |
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News: Studio24 Plus Version 2
From EMR. Also VuMusic midi pattern
generator/Sampler 8 podule/Rhythm Box |
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Comment: Bulletin Board Systems
A reader's ideal bulletin board
and terminal software |
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Comment: Archive Contents
and other criticisms |
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Comment: Educational Shareware Disks
Software required |
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Comment: RISC-OS and ShareWare Disks
Programs failing to work under RISC-OS |
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Comment: Spare Money
Charity software/careware |
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Contact: Packet Radio
Tim Saxton |
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Contact: Greek Reader
Poly Traka |
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Hint: External Drive Hangups
Problems using an external 5.25" drive |
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Hint: GWBASIC To BBC Basic
Converting a GWBASIC program: *SPOOL
it to disk and then load it into BBC
Basic |
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Hint: Mouse problems
Moving the mouse down moves the pointer
up! Broken wires |
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Hint: NEC MultiSync II Monitors
Adjusting the horizontal width of the
picture |
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Hint: Using OS_PrettyPrint
to avoid word wraparound in blocks of
instructions etc. |
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Hint: PipeDream And The LC10 Printer
Colour output from Colton Software's
integrated package and the Star LC10 |
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Hint: PipeDream Line Spacing
Getting 1.5 line spacing |
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Hint: MultiSync Monitors
in New Zealand |
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Hint: Converting Render Bender
to use modes 15 and 21 (multisync
monitor required) |
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Program: Eigenvalues Of A Matrix |
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Help: Cobol
Is one available? |
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Help: Dual Columns In FirstMail
Anybody got it to work? |
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Help: Mandelbrot Program (Archive 1.7)
Anyone got a routine to convert the
program to use mode 15 or 21? |
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Help: Noisy RISC-OS
buzz problems |
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Help: Printer Driver For Star LC10
required for FWP |
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Help: RISC-OS Mode 20 Problems
System fonts not centred vertically in
icons |
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Help: Sinclair QL Link
Can files be transferred to the
Archimedes? |
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Credit: ACE Computing
Euclid package |
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Credit: LMR
Computer consultancy/repair service for
installation of backplanes, hard disks,
RISC-OS etc |
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Credit: Colton Software
Pipedream and making labels |
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Info: Mouse Connectors
from Mac User Group for use with
trackerballs |
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Info: R140 Prices
Correction to previous info |
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Info: Shareware Mandelbrots
Ammendments to program from ShareWare
4 (doesn't say what it does though!) |
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Info: Render Blender Competition
plus how to fit animations created on a
A440 into a A310 |
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Info: Armadeus
Sound sampling and manipulation program |
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Hint: RISC-OS Backup/Reformatting
problems backing up between different
disk formats E-Format/D-Format |
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Hint: BBC-Arc File Transfer Program
From Beebug. Running under RISC-OS |
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Hint: Boot Files Under RISC-OS
Modifying !boot files from supervisor
and desktop |
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Hint: Cheat It Again Archie
getting it going under RISC-OS |
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Hint: Clares Software
Running Artisan/AlphaBase under RISC-OS |
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Hint: Reformatting Disks To E-Format
Problems with disk error 08/10 under
RISC-OS |
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Hint: !Draw
Problems with the group facility |
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Hint: Faster Than RMFaster?
'Module not in ROM' error |
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Hint: File Type Sprites
Defining a sprite to representa
particular file type. !Sprites/
Application directories/file_XXX |
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Hint: Printer Hang-Ups
What happens when a printer is not on
line under RISC-OS |
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Hint: ROM/RAM Podule
How to install !Alarm on the icon bar
at switch on. RFS/!Boot |
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Hint: ShareWare Disks
Using old style Maestro files with
!Maestro under RISC-OS. Music/*SETTYPE/
&AF1/ShareWare 5/ShareWare 11 |
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Hint: Tasks Under RISC-OS
Starting a new task from an already
running application. Wimp_StartTask/
*WimpTask/*RUN |
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Hint: FWP In Mode 20 Under RISC-OS
how to do it |
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Hint: FWP And RISC-OS
Problems with FWP finding its resource
files (assumes it is running from the
current drive) |
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Hint: FWP And RISC-OS
Palette files |
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Hint: FWP And RISC-OS
Problems with pressing to
cancel menu trees |
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Review: Render Blender
From Clares. Ray tracing/animation
package |
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Info: Hardware Column
Tracker balls/MEMC/MEMC1a/ARM3
processor from Aleph One |
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Info: Eureka Bulletin Boards
Updates on Eureka! and EurekaII
BBS |
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Review: RiscBASIC Compiler
From Silicon Visions. Comparsion with
Dabs Press ABC version 2 |
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Info: Random Numbers And Sorting
comments on random number and sorting
routines. Pigeon sort/Quicksort/
Insertion sort comparisions |
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Info: Language Forum
LISP, Pascal, 'C' news/Language coverage
BASIC compilers |
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Review: Holed Out Game
3D golf game |
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Review: A3000 The New BBC Micro
Also comparision with A300 series |
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Info: Hard Disk Upgrade For A410/1
and A420/1. DIY instructions |
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Info: BBC Compatibility Column
DFS reader/ShareMaster modifications/
Master compatibility/*Alphabet Master/
*Keyboard Master/Enhancing BBC programs |
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Info: SYS And Other Special FX
Tutorial on SYS calls. Sprites/
OS_SpriteOp/VDU output to sprites |
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Info: BASIC V Forum
Changes from V1.02 to V.04 (RISC-OS)
Timings for structures |
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Review: ShareWare Disk 10
From Norwich Computer Services/Archive |
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Review: ComputerWare Hard Disks
Two readers comment |
