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From: archie@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Mr D Charalambakis)
Subject: HELP, virus
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Distribution: europe
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 09:47:42 GMT



                HELP, HELP, HELP,

        I have a problem with a virus in my arc. I was away for my summer
holidays and when I came back I received a disk from a friend with some
programs on it. When I tried to use a program it gave me a window saying:

        Your disc has benn virus infected. This virus is not harmful for
        now, since it has been immaculated. Be careful in the future when
        copying software.
        Generation : 33
        Press any key to continue

        I can then proceed with my programs but it has spread in my hard
disc and it is quite annoying to have to press space every time I execute
something.

        Since I have been away for that long can anybody tell me how can I
kill this virus? I need an answer urgently because I 'm using my computer
for work.

        I think it resides on disc space since I could not locate it on
files.

        Can somebody send me or write to me where I can find a virus killer,
please?

        I know nearly nothing about viruses since I had never had such
problems.



                        Thanx, Jim
From: slovesey@acorn.co.uk (Simon Lovesey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: The New Acorn Range In Southampton
Date: 15 Sep 92 12:12:27 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

THE NEW ACORN RANGE ON DISPLAY IN SOUTHAMPTON

On Sunday 20 September "The World Of Acorn" will be visiting 
The Novotel, West Quay Rd, Southanpton.  On display will be 
the recently launched Acorn 32 bit computer range, 
from the superb value for money A3010, starting from under M-#500 
to the highly powerful and popular A5000.

The Acorn Team will be on hand demonstrating the new products
and showing how they can fulfil a variety of computing requirements 
including education, business, word processing, desktop publishing, 
art, music and leisure activities.

Also exhibiting at the event will be dealers from the Southmpton 
area and several leading software houses.  Entrance is free and
everyone is welcome.

"The World Of Acorn" will open at 10.00 am and finish at 4.00 pm.  
Look out for a special show offer.     

In addition to the Southampton event "The World Of Acorn" 
will be held in 23 towns around the country, for a full 
schedule please contact :

Jean Hines
Acorn Computers
Cambridge  CB1 4JN
Tel. (0223) 245200
Organisation: European Space Technology Centre (E.S.T.E.C)
Date: Monday, 14 Sep 1992 22:34:21 CET
From: C R Francis <RFRANCIS@ESTEC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Virus's (again...)

OK, I admit it, I didn't read any of the recent postings about viruses,
as I haven't got any (or so I thought...).

So, this evening I switch on the old Arc (for the first time in weeks)
(after all, it _is_ supposed to be warm weather still) and it's like
a different machine.  My VIDC modes are changed (from the ModeEd
modified ones), and there's this anoying message whenever a !boot or
!run file is activated.  Something about being 'a friendly virus'
(whatever that is), to be careful using illeagal software, and a
generation number of 17 or 18.

Oh yes, and now some applications freeze up, even _ones I've written
myself_.  That really annoys me -- how can I develop applications
when the thing freezes up?

And I haven't even got any illegal software.

So, what can I do about it?


-------------------------------------        Richard Francis
Internet: rfrancis@estec.estec.esa.nl        European Space Research and
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 11:36:42 +0100
From: gunnar@fasel.hotb.sub.org (Gunnar Zoetl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Internationalisation
Organization: El Gunthor Pasa

mcg@waikato.ac.nz writes:

> In article <1992Sep1.034413.19776@maths.tcd.ie>, merlin@maths.tcd.ie (Merlin Hughes) writes:
> > If we are to have support for multiple languages in a certain
> > forthcoming product, what should we use to determine the country?
>
> O.k., here's the clincher:-
> 
>   Write it all in English!
> [...]

That was supposed to be a joke, right?

Gunnar
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: bhotvedt@gollum.uio.no (Tor Houghton)
Subject: Re: StrongED II version 1.10
Followup-To: comp.sys.acorn
Organization: ArcEmpire
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 15:19:10 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.152209.18447@alf.uib.no>, guttorm@hp825.bih.no
(Guttorm Vik) wrote:
> 
> I see that some people (violently) dislikes my error-boxes. These people might
> want to stick to !Edit, 'cause the boxes haven't changed. There are some 
> improvements though: ESC removes them, but if there is a menu open, this is
> closed (That's the WIMPs doing). Also: The drag-a-box => boom error is fixed.

I like them! :-)

> There is a reason for not using Wimp_ReportError : Try to drag 20 or more
> files to !Edit when there's no free memory. After I'd done this a few times,
> I started to think there had to be a better way..

Right!!

Cheers,

Tor Houghton.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: pete@eo11.eoc.com (Peter Cockerell)
Subject: Re: Authorship (Was: Disasters?)
Organization: EO, Inc.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:52:03 GMT

In article <9208210142.AA26159@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> lithgow@upjomon.usl.com (Malcolm Lithgow) writes:
>[Stephen Burke says:]
>>Going off on a tangent, why don't Acorn manuals have authors? I'm sure
>>*someone* must write them; have Acorn marketing decided that we should see them
>>as a faceless single entity, or are the authors just too ashamed to admit
>>it? :-)
>
>It's probably just tradition.
>

It was at Acorn. When I worked at Acornsoft (RIP), the publications
department always put manuals' authors' names in them. When I moved
over to Acorn proper, this wasn't the case, so I never again saw my
name in print on an Acorn manual. (I won't say which ones they were; it
was all a long time ago, and I was only young.) I think it's a shame,
especially as they used to put other people's names in ROM (do they
still do that?)

Pete

Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: m_sattle@tangram.informatik.uni-kl.de (Matthias Sattler)
Subject: Re: ARM3 speeds on a 12MHz memory system
Reply-To: m_sattle@tangram.informatik.uni-kl.de (Matthias Sattler)
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:40:11 GMT

In article <10446@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> sproven@cs.strath.ac.uk (Simon
B Proven IE91) writes:

>In article <1992Sep12.111343.10187@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
nas20@phx.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith) writes:
>>I am interested in running the ARM3 in my A5000 at some slightly higher clock
>>speed (we are not talking cooling units here!) I expect that someone
out there
>>has done some clock speed/performance experiments. eg, Acorn/ARM
Ltd/Aleph One.
>>and it would be interesting if these could be posted to the net.
>
>I've heard that someone at Acorn has a 48MHz ARM3 in an A540.... :))
>
>mad@bike


As far as I know the ARM3 in the A540 are selected good ones. The ARM3
in the A5000 are these
which are not good enough for the A540. (They have different packages as well).

Matthias Sattler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: A5000 NS
From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:47:54 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

ojg@crosfield.co.uk (oliver gunasekara) writes:

>One annoning feature of the A3010 is that the PSU seemes to buzz. Is
>this ment to happen? If I tap the computers case it stops!

Things that make buzzing sounds are usually speakers or bad connections.
speakers don't usually stop buzzing when you tap them, so I'd suspect
a bad connection somewhere - it might pay to have someone check it out.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: chughes@maths.tcd.ie (Conrad Hughes)
Subject: Re: Archimedes Demo *Competition* [Any one interested?]
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:36:36 GMT

u894776@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (James McCoull) writes:

>Anyone want a 256 colour - shadow of the beast
>style game but with proper gameplay?  I've found a great graphics artist...
Whatever you do, do use 256 colours; too many people have done 16
colour things for the machine..

>Lets see a bit of life and action from all you folks!
Well since you mention it I'll post my 2-year-old implementation of
Conway's standard rules Life to c-sources-a.  I guess I'll have to
do something with it sometime anyway.

Conrad
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From: sproven@cs.strath.ac.uk (Simon B Proven IE91)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Of RISCOS 3 and ARM 2s
Date: 9 Sep 92 11:51:55 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.

In article <1992Sep8.085822.164466@dstos3.dsto.gov.au> rws@dstos3.dsto.gov.au writes:
>Is anyone running RISCOS 3.1 on an ARM 2 based machine?  Would you care to
>comment on the speed issue that some have mentioned already?  How does it
>compare with RISCOS 2 for speed?  Is it useable on a 1 Meg machine?
>Many have said that you really need an ARM 3 but I get the impression that this
>is coming mostly from people who already have ARM 3, they might find the speed
>of RISCOS 2 without an ARM3 deplorable.

I had a go on a A3010 in a dealer...  the machine was surprisingly fast, even
in Mode 27.  Given that most 1Mb owners will be using mode 12 or 66 etc then
speed will not be too bad IMHO.  I found !draw rotated fonts much faster
than normal RISC OS 2 fonts.  I think actually much of RISC OS 3.1 is a lot
faster than 2.0 - for instance the font manager, so there's not so much of
a problem as one might think.  If u use a VGA mode then it will be slow,
but so is RISC OS 2.0

>Russell.

mad@bike
From: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: StrongED II version 1.10
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:03:46 GMT
	<1992Sep3.152209.18447@alf.uib.no>
Organization: Computing Department, Imperial College, London, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk
In-reply-to: guttorm@hp825.bih.no's message of 3 Sep 92 15:22:09 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.152209.18447@alf.uib.no> guttorm@hp825.bih.no
(Guttorm Vik) writes:

>I see that some people (violently) dislike my error-boxes.

Yes.

>These people might want to stick to !Edit

Never again!

>'cause the boxes haven't changed.  There are some improvements
>though: ESC removes them

That's good, but why not just click in them to remove them?  Why make
them draggable?

Apart from the erroroneous boxes, it's a vast improvement.  Keep up
the good work.
--
Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>
So Biggs, you're the idiot who bought all these IBM PCs.  You're fired!
From: J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: RISC OS 3.10
Date: 11 Sep 92 10:37:48 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

mkline@cix.compulink.co.uk (Merlyn Kline) writes:
>...
>The truth is that in about six months or so, RISC OS 2.00 will be about as
>common as Arthur 1.2 and about as well supported by software houses.
>Therefore the decision is not 'shall I upgrade my ARM 2 based machine?' but
>'when shall I upgrade my ARM 2 machine?' The best answer is 'ASAP.'

That may be the best answer, but the *realistic* answer is `When I have
50 quid to spare,' which could be a long time for all us student Arc owners.
It's not a trivial amount of money, in fact it's probably about a week's
income for an undergrad.

Besides, I've only ever heard the new RISC OS 3.10 features described as
"useful" or "handy" or "nice". RISC OS 2.00 (known at the time as "RISC OS")
was packed with things that the rather primitive-feeling Arthur simply
couldn't do. That was why everyone was forced to abandon Arthur and buy it.
The step from Arthur to RISC OS 2.00 was huge, the step from RISC OS 2.00
to 3.00 sounds rather superficial to me. I really can't see it replacing
2.00 in the way 2.00 did Arthur, it's just too hard for most home and school
users to justify the cost.

>By the way, something about the new machines (A3010/A3020) I haven't seen
>mentioned here: If you get the chance, pick one up. Its heavy! It could
>easily be used to smash an Amiga into tiny little pieces and probably
>sustain very little damage in the process. That'll show those fools, if
>nothing else will :-) (This is actually because it is pretty much the only
>small machine on the market which ahs a hope of satisfying forthcoming
>electromagnetic emission regulations).

What a good idea, I'll try this at the Acorn User show, I'm sure Acorn won't
mind me doing this to their machines will they?

>Cheers all (and enjoy your RO3.10/ARM2 machines).

I'd certainly enjoy being able to afford it, especially if I could afford
the PRMs too.


/jon
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From: rogersh%p4@uk.ac.man.cs (Huw Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: From inside the cathouse...
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:31:39 GMT
Organization: Murder Inc.

In article <2Hacd3j020n@khantazi.welly.gen.nz> banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
:postmaster@acorn.co.uk (postmaster) writes:
:
:> Think about a 12MHz ARM2as + VIDC + MEMC all macrocelled and packaged within
:> the same ASIC... The word is Acorn have got one in the lab codenamed "Louie";
:> and it's currently being bugfixed prior to use in forthcoming machines. As to
:> whether this is MEMC1a/2 and VIDC2/20, anyone care to leak some more?
:
:Path: tornado!sideways!newshost.wcc.govt.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!acorn.co.uk!postmaster
:Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
:
:   It is interesting to note that all of Acorn's news postings seem to have
:a path of !mcsun!acorn!<user> rather than this ones !acorn.co.uk!<user>.
:Given that and the sender line and I wonder who the smart alec is at
:Berkeley...

It's even more interesting to note this control message originating from
Acorn as a consequence of the original Berkeley article:

:Path: mucs!uknet!acorn!postmaster
:From: postmaster@acorn.co.uk
:Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
:Subject: cancel <Arthur_The_Cat@acorn.co.uk>
:Message-ID: <18365@acorn.co.uk>
:Date: 8 Sep 92 09:58:41 GMT
:Control: cancel <Arthur_The_Cat@acorn.co.uk>
:Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
:Lines: 1
:
:The original message is a fake.

Lending credence where none is supposedly due...

	-Huw

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Archimedes Demo *Competition* [Any one interested?]
From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:08:48 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
Keywords: euro,demo,acorn,archimedes,arm2,memc1a,memc1,vidc2,cheese,beer,women

u894776@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (James McCoull) writes:

>Phillip Banks, TMOTA, et al... show'em how us upside down folks do it!

We don't. We're all too busy writing 'pointfull' programs!
...I don't suppose a demo version of DSEdit II would keep you quiet? ;-)
		     ^^^^
>[Sincere apologies to anyone who is offended]
What about apologies to people who aren't offended? I demand an apology!
;-)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Limit on files per directory
From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:30:25 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland


[Stuff about 77files/directory limit being imposed by FileCore...]

I'm pretty sure that the 77 file/dir limit is imposed by ADFS, NOT filecore.
This is because FS's like ArcFS, SparkFS, NetFS aren't (to my knowledge)
affected by this limit.
I think SCSI FS's are limited to 77 because they are modeled on ADFS, but I
could be completely wrong...

>It depends if it was a real filer window that had the 102 files in it. If it was
>a "filer" window put on screen by a utility, then it is quite feasible to
>exceed your 77 file limit. Someone even suggested using Arcfs in it's "Simply
>store the files, don't zap em" mode to get round the limit in RO2 for a large
>font directory. This sounds like a good way to compile some of the GNU stuff,
>'cos they just love having 200 files in a directory :-)

Using ArcFS on your font directory will allow you
to transcend the 77 file limit, though the font manager uses a path anyway,
so I just have 2 directories containing my fonts, which works fine...

Also, note that about 33% of the space taken up on large hard drives by fonts
is actually taken up by the directories themselves, so ArcFS'ing the fonts
will actually reduce the amount of disc space taken (ArcFS uses less than 14kB
to store each directory...)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: u894776@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (James McCoull)
Subject: Re: Archimedes Demo *Competition* [Any one interested?]
Keywords: euro,demo,acorn,archimedes,arm2,memc1a,memc1,vidc2,cheese,beer,women
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 05:49:22 GMT

gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:

>In article <u894776.715909357@bruny> u894776@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (James McCoull) writes:
>>So if you have any questions [such as what is a demo?], or suggestions
>>mail me *now*.  Ideally we want a best demo of '92 sort of competition.

>Say, you wouldn't prefer putting those talents to good use would you,
>like producing an ultra-fast arm backprop neural net system? 
	No point.  Or to be precise no floating point :-).

	Anyway the idea of demos are to get away from the boredom of doing
something pointfull.  Hmm I was thinking of doing something a little more
useful - but I will wait and see how the new A3010's sell - to see if it
is worth my while [ :-) Anyone want a 256 colour - shadow of the beast
style game but with proper gameplay?  I've found a great graphics artist...
now all I need to do is improve my coding skills :-) ].

[THE FOLLOWING IS NOT MEANT TO BE OFFENSIVE - BUT MEANT TO WHIP SOME OF YOU
 CRUSTY OLD FOLKS INTO ACTION]

	Now as I have had no replies for this demo competition thing yet, I
may have to start firing off letters to the authors of all posts I see on
the acorn news groups. [Yes even you at Acorn!]

	Seeing as you Graham Toal, are the first to have replied in any form
to my request - I am taking it that you will be in the demo competition :).
Any language is legal - so don't shy away from the competition!

C'MON LADS & LADIES! where is the fighting spirit!
Lets see a bit of life and action from all you folks!
Even if you are only just learning to program in basic, whether your age
is a single digit or three - show some spirit!  You've gotta be in it to
win it! [the glory that is, I doubt if there will be a prize or anything].

I know the lads at acorn are busy!  But I will at least be expecting a
demo entry from Roger Wilson [Yes thats right YOU! - you gave us basic
and the assembler - now show us how to use 'em :-)].

John "Translator" Kortink! where is your submission - c'mon man show us
how good your assembler code can be!

Simon Burrows! stop collecting and start contributing man! ;-).

Phillip Banks, TMOTA, et al... show'em how us upside down folks do it!

CMON FOLKS - NO EXCUSES ACCEPTED! ANY LANGUAGE - ANY IDEAS - GET CRACKING!

[ WARNING: just 'cos I havent mentioned your name - doesnt mean I don't
  have my eyes on you! ]

Regards, James.

[Sincere apologies to anyone who is offended]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: The New Acorn Range In Portsmouth
From: Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:09:04 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.

In article <18631@acorn.co.uk> slovesey@acorn.co.uk (Simon Lovesey) writes:
>THE NEW ACORN RANGE ON DISPLAY IN PORTSMOUTH
>
>On Saturday 19 September "The World Of Acorn" will be visiting
>The Guildhall, Portsmouth. On display will be 
>the recently launched Acorn 32 bit computer range, 
[...]
>Jean Hines
>Acorn Computers
>Cambridge  CB1 4JN
>Tel. (0223) 245200


This is the third time I've "had" to read this!  I don't live in the
UK, let alone Portsmouth!

Once is acceptable, but *3* times - is a trifle excessive!


Gavin
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From: Oliver.Cornes@newcastle.ac.uk (Ollie W Cornes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Asynchronous ARM
Date: 12 Sep 92 12:29:01 GMT
Organization: University of Durham, Co. Durham, England.

There is an article in this months Personal Computer World describing
the work of one Steve Furber.
His work is related to the ARM to the point where his AMULET project
will produce an asynchronous processor completely code compatible
with the ARM6.
A specific defined aim of this project is to concentrate on low power
consumption.
Code compatible with the ARM6, now what portable do I know of which
uses an ARM6 and needs low power consumption. Hmmmm... 8)
I have also heard Furber's name mentioned in the context of ESPRIT.
Hopefully in the near future Acorn should be able to begin to utilise
technology as radicle as the ARM was in the 80's.

-- 
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Artworks is a Moulinex.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
Subject: Re: Of RISCOS 3 and ARM 2s
Organization: Nottingham University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 14:14:04 GMT

In article <10428@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> sproven@cs.strath.ac.uk (Simon B Proven IE91) writes:
>In article <1992Sep8.085822.164466@dstos3.dsto.gov.au> rws@dstos3.dsto.gov.au writes:
>>Is anyone running RISCOS 3.1 on an ARM 2 based machine?  

>I had a go on a A3010 in a dealer...  the machine was surprisingly fast, even
>in Mode 27.  Given that most 1Mb owners will be using mode 12 or 66 etc then
>speed will not be too bad IMHO.

This is not relevant to the question. The A3010 is fitted with the ARM250
running at 12MHz, and squeezes 6-7 MIPS out of the processor, rather than
the 4 MIPS of the 8MHz ARM2. Acorn couldn't have launched any RISC OS 3
based machine only using an 8Mhz ARM2. It would have been laughed out of
the marketplace. As it is, the ARM250 seems to be only just acceptable,
and there is currently no way that it can be speeded up by hardware.

SimonB.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn