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From: pdenize@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: DesktopC: Menu problems
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:39:46 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand


I have had the same problem pop up twice now.

MENUMAKER
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It occurs when I write a menumaker in Desktop C and install it.
First of all it works just fine -- BUT when the user of the application
adjust-clicks on the menu it leaps right about 4 to 5 mm.  Now this is the
second time this has happened and last time I just stopped using a menumaker
this time I have little choice.

QUESTION
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Can a menu change state while the user is viewing it?

My menu has RUN and STOP.  When running RUN is greyed and STOP is selectable
however if the program completes the task while the user is viewing the menu
then they should swap around.  You may RUN it again but since it IS stopped you
cant stop it.  Do I have to leave all items selectable due to an inadequacy in
the interface manager. 


Paul Denize

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From: awenn@matilda.vut.edu.au (Andrew Wenn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Acorn + modula3
Summary: Modula3 port to RISC OS or RISCiX
Keywords: Modula3, ACORN
Date: 11 Jan 93 04:18:14 GMT
Organization: Victoria University of Technology

Hello,

Has anyone out there tried to port Modula3 to either RISC OS or RISC iX (more
likely). If so could you please contact me on the address below.

Thanking you

Andrew Wenn.

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From: li93002@black.ox.ac.uk (Matthew D Segall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: British inventors set sights on Nitendo
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:24:34 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, U
Originator: li93002@black

In article <6430@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) writes:
>
>There was a short article about this in the current PCW (spit, spit).
>
>If the reports are not all hype then it looks like an interesting product
>with some significant people backing it.

There is also an article in this week's Time Magazine in the Technology 
section. Given that Time are very careful about researching their articles I
doubt that this is all hype.

Matt

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From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: 3DO system
Date: 12 Jan 93 08:37:18 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.

In article <ssurawls.726775019@reading> ssurawls@susssys1.reading.ac.uk (Ian Rawlings) writes:
>Sounds good! But does anyone know anything about this "Clarinet" system?
>Yet another BB to read....
>Ian


Clarinet is implemented as a set of netnews groups (clari.*) which contain
real news agency items.  There are some examples of the contents of the
groups posted in the group "biz.clarinet.sample" if you get the biz groups. 
You normally have to pay to get these groups and arrange a special feed, but
sometimes they leak out.


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UTS Sys Admin,  Manchester Computing Centre,  Oxford Rd,  Manchester, M13 9PL
I have made a truly wonderful discovery -- after two bottles of good, cheap
Bulgarian wine ANY television comedy program will seem funny (except shows
with Mr. Beadle which require a 6-pack of Newcastle Brown in addition!)
From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: British inventors set sights on Ni(n)tendo
Date: 12 Jan 93 08:31:34 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.

In article <C0p1q1.Dzz@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Rob Vickery writes:
>Geoff Lane Writes:
>>There was a short article about this in the current PCW (spit, spit).
>
>What's this spitting about? PCW's the only decent general computing magazine that
>there is (probably), it's certainly one of the few who can be bothered to report on
>Acorn and ARM products.
>	-rob


They have improved recently but last year the editor made some really pig
headed remarks about Acorn and its products.  Strangely, as soon as Apple
announced that it was using the ARM610 in its PDA the attitude changed and
something about the ARM or an ARM based product has appeared almost every
issue since.  

It's still not a patch on the old days when Guy Kewney was arround.





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UTS Sys Admin,  Manchester Computing Centre,  Oxford Rd,  Manchester, M13 9PL
I have made a truly wonderful discovery -- after two bottles of good, cheap
Bulgarian wine ANY television comedy program will seem funny (except shows
with Mr. Beadle which require a 6-pack of Newcastle Brown in addition!)
From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Archimedes and Assembler for sale
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:34:43 GMT
Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK


	I have the following for sale:

	A310 with 40MB hard disk, 2MB RAM, MEMC1a + bits of software etc
	for 350 pounds.

	Desktop Assembler (v2) with DDE for 50 pounds

	RISC OS 2 Programmers Reference Manuals (4 volumes) for 20 pounds.

	- or -

	Whole lot for 400 pounds.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: torh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Tor Houghton)
Subject: RISK
Organization: University of Sussex
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:58:31 GMT

Don't bother trying to play this if you've only got an A4 at hand.

It works, but one can't distinguish the colours.



Cheers,


Tor.

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From: mrp@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: versions of fortran for the arc
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:47:32 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

can someone at acorn tell me what the state of fortran is on the
archimedes?  is the version on sale now a risc-os product, is the old
arthur version the newest version.  if so can this be made to work
with risc-os with a bit of hacking (only simple file i/o is required).

thanks, martin.
From: colin@archie.integrity.nl (Colin Smale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: New version of WinLook
Date: 9 Jan 93 18:55:54 GMT
Reply-To: colin@archie.integrity.nl
Organization: Colin Smale's Archimedes Rucp installation

gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert) writes:

> I've just posted a new version of WinLook
> onto uts.mcc.ac.uk - it may not be available
> immediatly

Any chance of posting this interesting-sounding program to
CSA/CBA and/or Newcastle? I'd love to have something like this.

Colin Smale

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From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Additions and/or replacements on the Newcastle Info Server
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:36:03 GMT
Organization: Nottingham University

In article <20926@acorn.co.uk> Albert.Koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk writes:
>
>a4_pointer - by Anthony Frost. A utility to enlarge the mouse pointer
>             on the A4 machine.
>

I believe that Albert has made a mistake, and this software was only
supplied by Anthony Frost, not written by him.

In fact, it sounds like the !Pointer application, which is copyright
Acorn Computers Ltd. It was published as "Public Domain" on a recent
RISC User magazine disc. This is not the case, and it shouldn't be
distributed at the current time.

Simon
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From: torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: RISK
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:25:30 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

I tried this game, but I have a problem with resoring saved games.
When clicking on the saved game, it starts up fine and you can even
finish your turn O.K. (doing movement and viewing cards), but when the
next player (which is the computer) is in the process of placing his
new units the program displays a window with a text something like
"Unexpected internal error <some number>. Must I quit?" At this point
you can only click in the box, and the game quits. This makes the game
of little use, as it takes too long to play a full game in a single
session.

If neccessary I can write down the exact message and post it.

I have a few suggestions for improvements - nothing too dramatic.

1) Allow a way to view the borders of the "continents" during the
game, e.g. by showing the original colouring of the board. When
playing the U.S.A. map, I forgot the exact borders.

2) Allow an option for fast die-rolling. This would just show the
final results without animating the die-rolling.

3) If an attack is not conclusive (both attacker and defender have
units left), keep the two countries selected so a repeated attack is
faster to do. You might even make the attack force default to the same
as before (or rather, let the number of units that doesn't participate
remain constant).

4) Add an "attack with full force until country is conquered or
attacker has less than N units left" option for faster fights between
large forces.

On a more difficult level, I would like to see more intelligence in
the computer players. They are O.K. when they try to capture a
continent that they have a superior force in, and in protecting that.
But if they have no immediate chance of capturing a continent they
appear rather aimless. Some kind of long-term strategy would be
useful.

Otherwise, I think it is a good adaption of the game.

	Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: braindl@uhura.aston.ac.uk (David Brain)
Subject: Grab Keys
Organization: Aston University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL241235]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:32:49 GMT

I was messing around with the resources on an A5000, and I found in the
(I think) wimp directory a template for a window with a green border, and
yellow title (etc) called Grab Keys ...

..What's this for, when does it appear ? 


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============================Beyond the Pale====================================
From: phudv@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R B Birkby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: archimedes to mac, ibm, amiga
Date: 9 Jan 1993 21:15:46 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: thyme.csv.warwick.ac.uk


 mparlima@scott.skidmore.edu (mary parliman) writes:


>Can the archimedes do a mac emulation? I saw an a2 do a good
>impression of the PC, and I'd like to see one do mac or amiga. Also,
>is there a version of R/Os that has a 16.7mil color palette? is that
>the A3's system? And what is the best system for under 2500 #?
		John
>jduncan@scott.skidmore.edu

Someone who needs educating about the arc!

First neither the a2 or A3 exist.
An A4 exists so called because it is the size of an A4 sheet (a portable)

There are also A300, A400, A500, A3000, A4000, A5000 series computers which are
or have been availiable from acorn.

Yes the arc can do an excellent software emulation of a PC, but as yet no 68K
emulation with OS's.

Because Apple use the same architecture running in there Newton they reportedly
had an ARM (the CPU) computer running MAC OS.

The latest video controller chip was released a month ago which has a 24 bit
pallette but as yet acorn hasn't launched a computer with that in. The first
computer to incorporate that will probably be a new A540.

Two companies, State machine and Computer Concepts manufacture expansion cards
which contain an Inmos device to allow 24 bit colour on the GUI.

Richard.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Hearsay II and RISC OS 3
From: banksie@khantazi.welly.gen.nz (Philip R. Banks)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 11:12:55 +1300
Reply-To: banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: My Arc.

J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley) writes:

> There are differences in the way the serial port is handled under RO 3.1;
> I had some problems with ArcTerm7 after upgrading. However, I found that
> RMLoading the new module !System.Modules.SerialUtil at boot time cured the
> problems (it *must* be loaded before the serial port is ever used). Have
> you tried this?

   Interestingly enough the SerialUtils module appears to be needed only on
older hardware. Everytime we have tried serial programs out they have worked
fine without the module on A4000s, A30x0, A5000s and A4 machines. But A3000s
and older machines needed the module to work properly. I am curious to know
exactly what this module does, perhaps someone at Acorn can tell us? It is
either that or I'll have to disassemble it sometime... (curiosity kills the
cat... :) )

    Philip

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From: ferdinan@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl (Ferdinand Oeinck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: setting the 256 colour palette
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 21:41:46 CET
Organization: My own node in Groningen, NL.

Suppose you have one of the modern graphics cards (either from CC
or from State Machine) and you have tried to change the entries of the
256 colour palette.
 
You must have discovered that your card has surprisingly little
software support for that purpose. Don't be afraid the other card's
software isn't much better.
 
To change the 256 colour palette, I've written a small program that does
the job. It is not a 'Palette utility'-like program, with which one can
specify RGB, CMYK or whatever values for every palette entry.
 
The program works more like a 24-bit printerdriver. After one specifies
an area of interest on the screen (which of course contains a Draw-
or Artworks-document) the screen is redrawn three times, first with
a red palette, then a green one, and finally with a blue palette. Now
three sprites are available of the specified area, for every colour
component one sprite (in theory one can combine these three sprites into
a 24 bit image, wow!).
 
Finally a color quantization algorithm estimates the best 256 colours,
and changes the palette to these values.
 
If there is any interest in this program, please mail me.
 
Ferdinand.
From: ssudavss@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Stephen John Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: CGM -> DRAW
Summary: CGM -> DRAW, Anybody??
Keywords: cgm
Date: 7 Jan 93 10:47:32 GMT
Organization: University of Reading


Does anybody have a copy of CGM -> DRAW written by Keith Sloane I belive. It wasreviewed in the Dec issue of the Acorn User. The review said that it was
distributed by Norwich Computer Services. I phoned them up yesterday (Wed) and
they siad that I could get it on a careware disk for seven quid along with
translator (got it), creator (got it) and something else I've already got.

Seven quid for the one prog is a bit much so does anybody out there have a copy
that they are willing to let me/'the world' have a copy of.

Of course, as it is careware, any people who get a copy will send a donation
to the authors charity ;-)

Thanks for listening.

ssudavss@uk.ac.reading

PS. Anyone who read my request about the price of the 386/33SX card made by
    Watford may be interested to hear that it is still under development, but
    they reckon that it will sell for about $400.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: torh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Tor Houghton)
Subject: Re: Atomwide - RO3
Organization: University of Sussex
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 12:06:33 GMT

Speaking of which -- I have the same setup, but my drive didn't pulsate
(until I switched off and moved some jumpers), and never gave me any
red/green whatever screen.


Do I need a carrier board? If I do, won't it cash with my 4 podule
backplane?



Cheers,


Tor.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu (Graham Allan)
Subject: Re: RISK
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:12:53 GMT


I haven't seen the game myself, but was told it asked to be put in a
256-colour mode on startup. It would be nice if it could use ColourTrans
and run in 16 colours (for those of us who like VIDC-enhancer large-screen
modes where you can't get 256 colours - dropping back to those tiny modes
21/28 is a real come-down!). 

Graham
From: jtn@ukc.ac.uk (Jim Noble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: A couple of questions.
Date: 8 Jan 93 10:18:42 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.


Can anyone comment on Eureka? How does it compare to using, say, Pipedream?
I know someone who is looking for a spreadsheet proggy and wanted to know if
Eureka is any good. Comments much appreciated.

Anyone out there got Pendown Plus? Do you think it could cope with small
reports/essays? Or do I need Impression (or Impress. Jnr)?

Also, could an A5000 owner tell me how the ARM3 is connected (Surface
mount/PGA/?). If it is Surface mount, does anyone know if you can get surface
mount PGA sockets? More importantly does anyone know a dealer willing to fit
such a socket to an A5000. Would it invalidate the warranty?

Thanks in advance.
--
Jim Noble
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
Subject: Re: Zmodem source/executables 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Serial Port
Reply-To: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:23:55 +0000

In article <102937.21056.23415@kcbbs.gen.nz> AJLHMCTM@kcbbs.gen.nz writes:

>[posted on behalf of Luke Hutchison]
>
>--
>
>I need some modem protocol executables or source for a program I am 
>writing.  Preferably C or assembler (?), or even basic (!)...  if the 
>code is too slow I can re-write it.
>
>I have the rzsz source but I am not very experienced with C and tring 
>to compile it as-is brings up about 3000 errors, I think mainly because 
>the library header files it needs are not RISCOS equivalent.
An easier source is the Opus Zmodem source, sort of rzsz with comments.
>
>Any ready-ported or not-too-difficult-to-port code, or even executables 
>(especially if they're relocatable modules) would be great, any protocol 
>but especially Zmodem.
I've got rzsz as a command line app (ie direct port of rzsz!) which seems
to work (on world of cryton) - I assume you have a modem if you're after
zmodem :-)
>
>Also, has anyone ported Zmax for the Arc?  I have the source minus one 
>header file.
Looked at it, but didn't do anything about it. Can't see how it would be
much faster than zmodem-mobeyturbo-thing (doesn't escape control chars).

Hugo
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From: jrp@netman.Widener.EDU (Joshua R. Poulson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Swap - how much is used at a given time ?
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:30:52 GMT
Reply-To: Joshua.R.Poulson@cyber.Widener.EDU
Organization: Widener University Dept. of Computing Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: netman.widener.edu

In article <1993Jan11.004206.25216@citec.oz.au>, sgccses@citec.oz.au (Stephen Spence) writes:
|> I need to know how much swap is being used at a given point in time.
|> 
|> sar does not seem to be a good utility.
|> Are there any others ?

My favorite is the "swap" command, specifically "swap -l".

|> PS - mail prefered

I sent a copy to the newsgroup in case others were interested.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: rex@cs.su.oz.au (Rex Monty di Bona)
Subject: RISCwindows 4.X is only X11R4 based, any time frame for X11R5?
Reply-To: rex@cluster.cs.su.oz (Rex Monty di Bona)
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:11:31 GMT

In article <memo.848176@cix.compulink.co.uk> trevc@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
> Although MIPS has not done an X11R5 release, they did attempt to fix
> the problemm by retrofitting the changes into X11R4 when they did the 
> RISCwindows 4.10/4.11 release.

Is there any time frame for an X11R5 version of RISCwindows? Has anybody
already done a build for RISC/OS 5.X and had any problems etc? We are about
to start building the X11R5 version.
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