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From: thughes@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Tom Hughes)
Subject: Re: Iconising applications and !sprites
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:06:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.151625.349@logica.co.uk> buxtond@logica.co.uk (David Buxton) writes:
>When iconising applications on the pinboard in RISC OS3.1
>is there any special sprite name you can put in !sprites
>which will be used as the icon instead of the naff ones
>it uses at the mo. ?

There is indeed. I think you'll find a sprite called ic_<taskname>
will do the trick, unless the task is RiscOS 3 aware and deliberatley
chooses a different sprite.

Tom.

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From: alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu (Graham Allan)
Subject: Re: Up-ing the Speed of My A310.
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:57:45 GMT

In article <smiths.722004482@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> smiths@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Little SteeeveS) writes:
>A few months ago there was a lot of talk in this group of increasing
> the speed of A310's by replacing the RAM and using a faster crystal
> to clock the machine.
>
>Last Christmas I upgraded my machine to 4Megs (by Craddock Ltd ) and so
> I find myself thinking on these lines...
>In a 4 meg upgrade I believe the old RAM is discarded and completely replaced. Therefore this 4meg is quite modern RAM. Is it therfore capable of going faster?
>i.e. can I whip out my 8MHz crystal and replace it with a 12Mhz one? ( I assume the new Riscos 3 ROMS will survive this but will the new RAM).

I think you can't do this, because the I/O in the machine still has to run
at 8MHz. The newer machines (A5000, A540) have extra circuitry to
synchronise the 12MHz memory with 8MHz I/O. (Or something along those
lines...)

Graham						allan@mnhep8.hep.umn.edu
From: r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: Re: 310 or 3020 help?
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:07:36 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol

In article <1992Nov19.150322.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> sdaveyj@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>    Can you fit IDE or SCSI harddiscs in a 310 without a backplane?

You can fit SCSI harddisks using an EcoSCSI board (plugs  into the
econet socket) BUT it has drawbacks:

     1.  It's 8 bit and NOT fast
     2.  You have to boot the filing system etc from a floppy
     3.  It ties up your  econet port

>Total cost no more than about $2500 or 1000 pounds.

You should be able to get something MUCH better than a 310 for
a grand (I only got 1300 for my A5000).  Settle for nothing less
than a 400/1 with 2-4Megs of RAM, 50-120Mb hard disk, ARM-3 and
colour  monitor (possibly cheap multisync).  Second  hand Archs
are NOT worth  much these days.

Having said that, you might have a problem finding  a system
like that because it's not  worth selling them for that price.
Peeps seem to start out  asking ridiculous money in the BAU
classifieds,  get no response  after a few months, then just
hang onto them.

Bob

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: tcl for Arc.
Organization: Lotus Development Ireland
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:43:02 GMT

The subject just about says it all - has anyone ported it?

				Jordan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
From: zrg40370@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (T. Hennerich)
Subject: Re: INFO:Step by step disassembler.
Organization: User Help Desk, Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:41:21 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.162248.28902@news2.cis.umn.edu> alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu (Graham Allan) writes:
>In article <Bxwrup.KIs@dei.unipd.it> valerio@sabrina.dei.unipd.it ( Valerio Pulese ) writes:
>>
>>I have downloaded sarah but it isn't what I need .
>>(good piece of software however)
>>Is there something that could do a step by step run-mode.
>
>Grasping at straws here, but wasn't there a debugger in the old
>Programmers Toolkit thing. Let's see, there was asd and something called
>either dbg or debug. One was the symbolic debugger; the other was a
>machine-code debugger which could, I think, single step through code. It
>could work through the serial port if you wanted to use an external terminal.
>

The only debugger I know which can step trough assembler code is

SSTEP 

It is shareware/Freeware/pd and available in some libraries.
The problem is: it comes nearly without documentation ....

I think (but do not know) the source-code-debugger of DDE-assembler
can also step through a program.

so long
MUFTI


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From: gaspar@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: Re: MFM Harddisc size
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:05:24 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland

In article <1992Nov17.105656.22343@csd.uwe.ac.uk>, r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey) writes:
> In article <1992Nov16.103443.42555@urz.unibas.ch> gaspar@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>>As far as I can remember, the biggest harddisc size you could use with a
>>Archimedes 410/1 was around 50 Meg. under RISC OS 2.
> 
> You can use most drives up to around 80Megs quite easily, though for drives
> bigger than 50Megs you have to swap a link (to change sector size I think).
                               / ^^^^^^^^^^^
Could someone tell me what this means? 
I bought a second hand 80Meg Harddisk quite cheap. The problem is that it has
9 heads and when I enter that parameter I get a message that I might! 
swap link 3 or something like that.
I'd be very happy if someone could enlighten me on that subject.


> Cheers
> 
> Bob
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> 162 Staplehill Rd, Fishponds, Bristol, Avon, England
-- 

THanks
          laci
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From: crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones)
Subject: Re: Getting 3rd Party Filing Systems To Use Showfree
Telephone-Messages: +44 223 33 4900
Address: Christ's College, Cambridge CB2 3BU, ENGLAND.
Organization: 6am Digital Playground
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:05:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.212802.8912@black.ox.ac.uk>, u91pag@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Paul Gilkerson) writes:
[ Tried hacking the FreeSpace module to handle his IDEFS ]

> What I want to know is if there is anyone out there who knows anything
> about showfree and how it works, or if anyone has solved the same
> problem before.

The FreeSpace module knows, initially, how to deal with ADFS, RAMFS, NETFS,
NFS and SCSIFS. Other filing systems have to register by calling:

SWI Free_Register
  r0 = Filing system number
  r1 = Address of handler routine
  r2 = r12 on entry to handler routine

...and deregister by calling:

SWI Free_DeRegister
  r0 = Filing system number

The handler routine is called with:
  r0 = 0      - No-op (just return)
       1      - Get device name
                r0 <- 1
                r1 <- FS number
                r2 <- Buffer for result
                r3 <- Device name / id
                r0 -> length of name
                r1 preserved
                r2 preserved
                r3 preserved
       2      - Get free space for device
                r0 <- 2
                r1 <- FS number
                r2 <- Buffer
                r3 <- Device name / id
                r0-r3 preserved, or r2=0 for free space not changed
                [r2] should be set to total device size
                [r2,4]  "  "  free space
                [r2,8]  "  "  used space
       3      - Compare device
                r0 <- 3
                r1 <- FS number
                r2 <- filename
                r3 <- Device id
                r6 <- Special field
                r0-3,r6 preserved
                Z is set on exit if r2,r6 indicate a file on device r3, clear
                otherwise.

Now - whether or not you can use that to build a free-space monitor for your
IDEFS is a different matter, of course. (-8

--Clive.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
From: rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (D.Pead)
Subject: Re: Windows and Pains :-) OK, Panes ...
Organization: Shell Centre for Maths Education, University of Nottingham
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:35:03 GMT

My technique for opening panes is, on getting the redraw request:

1. <behind>= "handle of window to open behind" field from open request

2. Calculate position of Pane 1 (don't corrupt data for main window)
3. Open Pane 1 behind <behind>
4. <behind> = Pane 1 handle

5. Repeat steps 2-4 for subsequent panes

6. Open main window behind <behind>

Oh yes - ignore "Open Window Requests" for panes.
This seems to work without any flickering, although "solid drags"
of a window+pane combination are never quite as smooth as a single
window.
From: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: Basic Crashing
Date: 20 Nov 1992 10:19:55 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak8.doc.ic.ac.uk

I have an odd problem with a number of programs I have written in
Basic. These programs, which are all based on the same WIMP
interfaceing routines (so probably herein lies the problem)
occasionally, and rather randomly bottom out - or rather Basic bottoms
out for them (how helpful).

It always seems to happen when loading another application (ie. it
only happens when loading an application, but not every time you load
an application, if you see what I mean).

What happens is that I get a rather useful error message along the
iconbar stating :

Attempt to use badly nested error handlers (or R13 corrupt)

and I also get an error box from my program stating an address
exception type thing (probably abort on data transfer).

This happens under both RO3.00 and RO3.1 (don't know about RO2), and
it seems to happen at the line in the program that calls Wimp_Poll, ie
it must crash when returning to Basic from a wimp_poll.

So what can be going wrong. I'm using a buffer of 512 bytes for
passing to the wimp_poll, so it can't be large wimp messages causing
the problem. But it's the complete randomness of it that gets me, all
will be fine, but occasionally (about once a day) the program will
bottom out on me for not good reason.

Any handle hints/pointers gratefully received...

Ian

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From: buxtond@logica.co.uk (David Buxton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: Iconising applications and !sprites
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:16:25 GMT
Organization: Logica Space and Communications Ltd.

When iconising applications on the pinboard in RISC OS3.1
is there any special sprite name you can put in !sprites
which will be used as the icon instead of the naff ones
it uses at the mo. ?



-- David.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
From: jkreyka@cs.vu.nl (Kreijkamp J)
Subject: Controlling the 2? Mhz timer
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:08:28 GMT

Does anybody know how to use the (second) IOC-timer I have tried
several things without very much succes. There _must_ be somebody
who have used it before! Please help me!

Thanks in advance,
	Jaap (jkreyka@cs.vu.nl)
From: r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: MultiFs & Apple Macs
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:32:37 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol

In article <1992Nov20.134540.8332@aston.ac.uk> wilesaj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (AJ WILES) writes:

>It is possible to read low density Mac discs on a standard drive, there is
>a Mac emulator for the Atari ST which does it using the standard ST drive.
>Apparently its a bit fussy about the quality of your drives but it does work.

No way...  the Mac emulator does not read the constant linear velocity
format disks.  I believe somebody did an interface to  connect a Mac drive
to an ST,  though..

Bob
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From: mnw-a@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Acorn Computing Cover Disc Problem
Date: 23 Nov 92 19:58:52 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England


  What would you say, my lord, if I were to say...'I love you'?
  Umm...(strangled)..Well, it depends entirely on who you said it to.
    If you said it to a horse, I'd presume you were sick...if you said it
    to Baldrick, I'd presume you were blind...
       -- Kate and Edmund : Bells
From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: The new Acorn Machine
Date: 17 Nov 92 23:07:16 GMT
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.

In article <1992Nov16.085649.19124@rtf.bt.co.uk> duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain) writes:
>	What Net 3 tape ?  The previous release before 4.4BSD was "The
>	Berkeley Networking Release 2"... wasn't it ?

Slip of the tongue.  4.3/Net2.

>  However they don't have 4.4 - as far
>>as I know, I'm the only person in this country running 4.4 - and that's
>>only when I log into the berkeley development machine over the net :-)
>
>	How can you be running 4.4BSD in this country by logging into a
>	University in California ?

I meant I hadn't noticed anyone else from the uk on vangogh, and I don't know
of any other machines that (legitimately) announce 'Welcome to bsd4.4' when
you log in! :-)

G
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From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: The new Acorn Machine
Date: 16 Nov 92 08:56:49 GMT
Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK

In article <Bxq1nA.70s@ibmpcug.co.uk> gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>In article <10942@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> gpalmer@cs.strath.ac.uk (Gary J Palmer IE91) writes:
>>->That will most likely be the NFS code which was released by Sun. RiscIx
>>->is based on the Berekely 4.2 tape I'm almost 100% sure.
>>->
>>->G
>>
>>BSD 4.2??? Bleargh.... And with 4.4 nearly ready for release (I'm a bit out of
>>tuch so it may already be out..). 
>
>I should rephrase that before acorn jump on me.  What I meant was that the
>original RiscIx port started from the 4.2 tape.  I've no doubt they've
>kept it up to date with the Net3 tape.

	What Net 3 tape ?  The previous release before 4.4BSD was "The
	Berkeley Networking Release 2"... wasn't it ?

  However they don't have 4.4 - as far
>as I know, I'm the only person in this country running 4.4 - and that's
>only when I log into the berkeley development machine over the net :-)

	How can you be running 4.4BSD in this country by logging into a
	University in California ?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: andy@laguna.santafe.edu (Andy Mell)
Subject: Re: RISC iX origins (was Re: The new Acorn Machine)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 20:45:40 GMT
Organization: Santa Fe Institute

In article <1992Nov13.100412.19915@infodev.cam.ac.uk> dm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Derek McAuley) writes:

>CUCL is signed up for (and paid for!) a beta test release of 4.4 BSD.

Eh? 'Paid for' ?? - I thought BSD 4.4 was to be free as all AT&T code had been
removed. I also thought it was more or less the same as the 4.3 BSD NET/2
release too, which BSDI and 386 BSD are simply free ports of.

Andy


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From: baerloch@disun30.epfl.ch (Paolo Baerlocher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Aldebaran
Date: 18 Nov 92 12:10:27 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

If you have seen the Aldebaran advert in the Acorn User magazine last
month,and want more infos about the game,just ask by sending me a mail!
                                                        Paolo Baerlocher
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: 2105995@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
Subject: IDE Discs and A5000!!!!<--- READ Acorn please! 
Organization: Ban the Mac Society, Aust Ltd
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:27:25 GMT



Can we have an official word, for the last time, from Acorn for the
types of IDE Hard Disc Drives that they are aware, that co-operate
with the A5000? I am a little loathed to buy one from an Acorn dealer
in UK when I can get them a fair bit cheaper at uni here using my 
student status....
I *know* Conner ones work, but how about others?

Action, please Acorn


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee)
Subject: Fervour - Demo on Acorn Computing cover disc.
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:14:26 GMT

Hi,

Acorn Computing managed to mess up the demo of Fervour on their disc. I
wrote my own compression software etc so that the program would work
from a compressed state but NOT inside ArcFS. The reason being that it saves
the HiScores and level statistics when you quit the game. Unfortunately
the pd ArcFS is read only. So: Please copy the game out of the archive
BEFORE running it.

1Mb users will probably have found out that the demo 
simply does NOT work. This is a problem with the demo ONLY and not the
actual game. If you email me a copy of the !Run and !Boot files then I
shall check them (to check that you actually have the demo already) and
then send you the latest version of the demo which will actually work.

Andrew Hersee

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From: cabr07@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("G.N.Sinclair")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Replay Harrier @ Newcastle
Date: 19 Nov 92 09:23:39 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University Physics

In article <1992Nov18.140837.22824@spectrum.xerox.com> lagrue.wgc-e@rx.xerox.com writes:
>I've pulled replay Harrier over from uts.mcc, but though the speed is
>impressive, the picture quality is abysmal.

The demo films from Anglia (like Harrier) are pretty abysmal quality-wise
compared the the Dictionary of the Living World demo on the Acorn CD.

Take a look at them if you can.

Gordon.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: nas20@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: 36Mhz ARM 3
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:02:43 GMT
Reply-To: nas20@phx.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK

In article <1992Nov16.095818.1370@csd.uwe.ac.uk> r_voisey@csd.bristol-poly.ac.uk writes:
>In article <1992Nov14.134231.20310@unix.brighton.ac.uk>, pjd2@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Duggan;f110or89;[05306) writes:
>
>|> The 36Mhz ARM 3's are being produced by Ground Control Electronics.
>|> The story goes that Acorn once order a batch of 35Mhz ARM 3's from
>|> VLSI and then changed their mind. Hence roughly 400 35Mhz ARMs were
>
>Ground Control strongly implied that the chips would 'probably' run much
>faster than their rated 36Mhz.  Speeds of up to 40 or even 42Mhz were
>suggested...  this seems believable (my 25Mhz chip easily runs at 30+Mhz)
>but I'd like to find someone who's tried increasing the clock before
>purchasing.  Anyone?

Can anyone suggest how I could replace my A5000 ARM3 with one of these ? ;-)
I presume a company like Atomwide must have the technology to remove surface-
mount chips and socket them ...

Incidently, I have had very impressive speed increases with clocking my
ARM3 higher (16MHz RAM), and I currently have on order from SimpTec a
4MB RAM card for the A5000 which replaces the main RAM with higher speed
chips. Obviously if you have 8MHz RAM then you aren't going to see very 
impressive speed increases by clocking the ARM3 at 35 rather than 25MHz.
--
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From: crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: A5000 Monitor Problem
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:02:25 GMT
Organization: 6am Digital Playground
Telephone-Messages: +44 223 33 4900
Address: Christ's College, Cambridge CB2 3BU, ENGLAND.
X-Furry-Character: Gerald_Duck

In article <VAUGHANM.92Nov20163336@n3i.cs.man.ac.uk>, vaughanm@cs.man.ac.uk (Vaughan Marks) writes:
> 
> It seems to me that the monitor supplied with my A5000 is slightly 
> out of focus! I put up with ut for a while, thinking it was probably
> my eyesight but others agree that it is very fuzzy.

I think this varies between monitors - some are certainly slightly out of
focus. I think this is a convergence problem, which could be hard to fix.

On a related subject - I am not using the A5000 that I first started using, and
my big mode *just* fails to fit on the right with the horizontal adjust turned
fully leftwards. The old monitor allowed the horizontal adjust to nudge
ever-so-slightly further to the left!

Many monitors have secondary calibrating controls inside, that change the
ranges of the controls on the outside - does anyone know whether this is the
case for the A5000's one? If so - where?  (I could just open it up and look,
I suppose, but I could save myself some time if anyone's already tried this.)

--Clive.