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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: How to convert Amiga mods to Arch?
Organization: Lotus Development Ireland
	<1992Dec14.113511.3676@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:56:49 GMT

	It could be that you have taken (OCTA)MED files.  As far as we know, no
	Archimedes soundtracker program can take these as input yet. We hope to

No, I don't use MED.  These were straight protracker files, transfered
in binary mode (and working fine on the Amiga in any case, so that
couldn't be it).  For the record, it appears that Protracker does
indeed have trouble with certain mods.  I've mailed some of the worst
offenders to John..

	I do not know what you mean by 'Arch format'. Is it in 'Tracker' format
	(program by Serial Port/Vertiacl Twist) ? In case it is, you have to

Sorry, my ignorance talking there..  By 'Arch format' I did indeed
mean 'Tracker' format.  I'm still trying to get around the various
bits of terminology in this new world..  I've only found on converter
so far, !GetSTmod (comes with !Stracker), and it takes an exception
under 3.1.  Still looking..

	Another solution could be 'Digital Symphony' :-) : there you can
	straightaway save your files in Symphony, Tracker or ProTracker
	format.  There is no

I knew you'd say that. :-)  Where is it for sale?

					Jordan
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From: arcturus@spuddy.uucp (Geoff Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: POPULOUS ON THE ARCHIMEDES
Date: 13 Dec 92 13:24:48 GMT
Organization: Spuddy's Public Usenet Domain

In article <2b2794eb.8ce84a.0@BEIZ.mediatex.ch> Ikki@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (064230062: Fernmeldedirektion Olten) writes:
>I played several times with Populous on
>the Archie, (I played Populous already
>on the Amiga until I had more than more
>enough...) but I didn't check one thing
>until now: Is it possible to play Populo
>us against a friend via a serial cable?
>(Null-modem cable)?
>If yes: Is it then possible to play agai
>nst a friend who has an Amiga?

I've seen it played on a PC v an Atari; so the likelyhood is quite high I
should think:  however, I wouldn't gaurentee it [grin]

(I've played it PC v PC on a network - but that's not much help either!)
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From: ssurawls@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Ian Rawlings)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: MPEG viewer
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:31:17 GMT
Organization: University of Reading

I want one! Has anyone out there tried to port an MPEG viewer yet, preferrably
level 3 (allows rewind by making every 50th scene or so a full JPEG scene)?

If a PC can do it, so can an arc!! I don't have the knowhow or the compiler
to do it myself, so is anyone else out there willing to have a go?

Ian

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From: cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Aeon Flux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: ClipArt required
Date: 14 Dec 92 12:07:34 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Hiya,

A friend of mine pounced on me yesterday and wanted some clipart,
unfortunately I couldn't oblige him.

So, I thought perhaps one of you *lovely* people out there might be able to
help me/him out.  He requires:

A picture of a policeman (to be used ala 'Penguin Graphics' in PipeDream4)
and a 3D picture of a house.

I don't think he wants them to be too detailed, and preferably draw files if
at all possible.


Many thanks

Jayce.
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From: smp@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Samuel Penn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Clip art
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:45:41 GMT
Reply-To: smp@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Samuel Penn)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U

I am on the lookout for some good quality clip art - PD would be nice but I'm
willing to pay for it so if someone could point me in the direction of a
suitable clip-art producing company then that would be fine (as long as costs
aren't too high). The type of clip art I need are good pictures of dinosaurs
and fantasy creatures. Sprite files ae no good - I need draw format files
(I do have a scanner, so getting sprites are no problem, I just browse
through my various RPG source books and take want I want).

By good pictures I mean decent quality 'serious' artwork - I've seen some
cartoon style pictures of goblins etc and this isn't what I want.

Thanks in advance.

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From: pdenize@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Acorn Sales in NZ
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:38:09 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

I overheard a phone call "to Acorn NZ" this morning as I was only listening to
one side of the conversation the reply may not be absolutely exact, it went like
this. 

ACORN NZ  : Hello Acorn

ANONYMOUS : I would like to know the price of an A4000 please

ACORN NZ  : I'm sorry he's out to lunch right now ...


The net result of the call after talking to three of the Acorn NZ head office
staff was that the caller could not even have an approximate price for the
order form.

One consolation is that a local Appliance store "Noel Lemmings" is now stocking
A3010 and A4000 ranges. The local dealer must be really &%$$ed off. I think if
he put every advert he has ever made (and you could possibly add all Acorn NZs
ads to the list as well) you might nearly have covered the Advertising space
Noel Lemmings used in a flyer last weekend Advertising the two Acorn machines.

The local dealer seems to be playing on the fact that its Computer and Manual
and nothing else.  But Noel Leemings beat him in advertising a help desk.


Paul Denize


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From: ijohnson@acorn.co.uk (Ian Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Russian programmers writes...
Date: 18 Dec 92 11:33:52 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <1992Dec17.092026.1022@unix.brighton.ac.uk> rjb12@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Titch) writes:

>I'm sure that if you posted your (snail) mail address, then plenty of
>people would send you any information/magazines you needed. I certainly would.
>



To avoid many people sending the same magazines, I thought I would post here
to say that I will be sending out copies of Acorn User from the whole
of '92 (except April which I can't find in the office at the moment).
I'll do this today if I can check if there are any restrictions on sending
printed matter to the ex-USSR.


-- Ian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: vulch@kernow.demon.co.uk (Anthony Frost)
Reply-To: vulch@kernow.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Big mouse pointer for A4
Organization: VCS Kernow
X-Mailer: ReaderS for the Acorn Archimedes
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:24:11 +0000

 
  > : Thanks to all who replied to Joris' message. Special
  > thanks to Anthony Frost : who actually included the !Pointer
  > application in his reply. Joris has 
 
  > Any chance of it being available somewhere public?
  > (Newcastle, cba) 
 
Just sent it of to Albert (I hope!)
 
           Anthony

Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
Subject: Ok, so where do I get a MOD player that doesn't play 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Serial Port
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:22:44 +0000


In article <DBH.92Dec10185156@wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk> dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk writes:

>Is Digital Symphony is the promised commercial version of !ProTracker?

Yes. And very nice it seems to from the time-limited demo version I have
here. The concept of patterns in 'normal' trackers has been changed to
a 'pattern' per track, so the tedious copying of the percussion track
from pattern to pattern is no more - you just setup the track to repeat
on the percussion voice and get on with the tune on the other x channels.
Neat. At the AU show the people selling it said they'd also done a Maestro
file converter for it.

Hugo

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From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Big mouse pointer for A4
Date: 15 Dec 92 13:18:14 GMT
Organization: Nottingham University

In article <9qDHVB1w165w@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl> ferdinan@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl (ferdinand oeinck) writes:
>This message is posted on behalf of Joris Roling
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Recently I purchased a Acorn-A4. Somewhere I've read that there exists a
>module (written by Acorn ?) that enlarges the mouse pointer on screen so it
>is easily trackable, as the LCD screen is rather slow compared to the rest
>of this wonderful machine.
>
>Does someone know of such a module, and its availabilty?


Acorn has written an application called !Pointer(?) which allows the
mouse pointer to be enlarged. It also allows the pointer to alternate
between a number of psychadelic colours, and also be dynamically
resized according to how fast the pointer is moving.

It was included on the latest RISC User magazine disc as "Public Domain".

Simon

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From: rjb12@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Titch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Russian programmers writes...
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:35:06 GMT
Organization: University of Brighton, UK

You seem to have had problems getting software onto c.b.a. and no wonder!
The moderator/s of that newsgroup are students who apparently have not had
time enough to get down to moderating.

Maybe you would be better off sending your software to the Newcastle
server (uk.ac.newcastle).
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower)
Subject: Re: FOR SALE A3000 UK
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:40:14 GMT

In article <BzCzBM.561@bailgate.gpsemi.com> dcoyle@holly.gpsemi.com (Diarmuid Coyle LDC X2414 AKA "The Terminator") writes:
>
>	FOR SALE - FOR SALE - FOR SALE - FOR SALE
>       ----------------------------------------------

I somehow don't think you'll get many takers out here - why didn't you
restrict the distribution to the UK?


Gavin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: tytgat@rilke.esat.kuleuven.ac.be (John Tytgat)
Subject: Re: Ok, so where do I get a MOD player that doesn't play at w
Organization: K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:07:10 GMT

In article <DBH.92Dec10185156@wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk> dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe) writes:
>In article <723916754snx@cryton.demon.co.uk> altman@cryton.demon.co.uk
>(Hugo Fiennes) wrote:
>
>>!ProTracker isn't a module unfortunately (although I think one comes
>>with the editor package, Digital Symphony) which handles all modes,
>>VIDC clocks, etc.
>
>There _is_ a module inside !ProTracker which you can drive with SWIs.

This is correct but unfortunately the ProTracker SWIs are not so easy to
use.  This is because the ProTracker play module was designed to serve
!ProTrack only.

>Gil Damoiseaux <gda@info.fundp.ac.be> who wrote it might give you the
>numbers if you ask nicely.

Gil just returned from his four month stage in Canada.  However it could
take a few days (weeks ?) before he can reply because he is now taking his
vacation (read : 15 hour/day Archimedes programming :-)).

There is another solution for the MOD player problem : in the 'Digital
Symphony' package there is a FreeWare Symphony player (as a little module)
which can be used by other programs.  All the SWIs of DSymphonyPlayer (that's
the name of the module) are documented.  It is especially designed to be used
in demo's and games.

It has several features like :

  (*) No need to load the MOD in RMA (although if you want, it is possible)
  (*) Complete control on the MOD : you can read/write the current position,
      sequence, effect, etc.
  (*) You can issue your own sound commands on a particular channel with a
      particular effect.
  (*) You can register your own routines which will be called when the
      'UpCall' effect has been 'played'.  So ex. animations can be
      synchronised with the music.

  (*) And lots of other Useful Things(tm)...

A few days ago I finished a desktop front-end (called 'ProTracker Junior')
for the DSymphonyPlayer module.  If there is interest, I will send a copy
to Newcastle.  It is an economical version of 'ProTracker'.  We're
*thinking* to make a 'ProTracker Senior' version which would have the
same or even more facilities as 'ProTracker' has.

>Is Digital Symphony is the promised commercial version of !ProTracker?

Yes, it is.  Feel free to e-mail me for more info (before I'm getting
flamed for plugging our software...)

John.
tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
BASS
From: ferdinan@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl (ferdinand oeinck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Ideas for a new filer
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 19:57:19 CET
Organization: My own node in Groningen, NL.

microsoc@black.ox.ac.uk (Paul Gilkerson) writes:

> 
> Actually, you can change what the filer displays in `full info` mode
> (to a certain extent anyway) by altering it's template file. The
> filer window contains an icon containing a date format, and possibly
> other things too (I can't remeber off-hand). I changed the date format
> (it's something like %d %m3 %ce%yr (?)) to include the day, and exclude
> the century. I had to change the length of the icon, but it all works
> perfectly. I doubt if you could change the size of the icon though.

Displaying filenames in the filerwindow with a length greater than 10 is
possible too. Change in the template file the size of the indirected text
buffer of the file-icon's (number 3 or 4) to the required size plus one.
Get a copy of the filer-module from ROM and change the instruction at
offset 0x19a0 to CMP R2,#<size>. Before starting the desktop, set the
filer$path variable to point to the directory where the template and message
files are and rmload the new filer-module.

So now I can see full MSDOS names in my PClinkfs filer window. 
> 
> Paul.
Ferdinand.
From: 8910782@sunvax.sun.ac.za (Roger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Hang after ten disks seen
Date: 14 Dec 92 00:39:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: sunvax.8910782.74
Organization: University of Cape Town

Hi

I would like to know if there is any solution for the error I experience 
each time my A3000 has seen more or less 10 different stiffy disks. It says 
Abort on data transfer, Filecore in use or something like that. I have RISC 
OS2. I heard that the bug was fixed for RISC OS 3. Also is there anything I 
could do about the flickering screen while accessing the disk in MODE 21.

Roger
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Indirected template icons and resspr lib.
From: mckay_g@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:31:23 NZST
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

In article <1992Dec10.125255.21563@rdg.dec.com>, goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin) writes:

> When you create a window, you must put the address of the sprite area into the
> wimp_wind definition. This normally defaults to the resspr area (I think).

It only defaults to resspr if you have called resspr_init(). Otherwise it is
the Wimp pool.

> You should also realise that doing this means any sprites already in the other
> area won't appear unless you copy them!

Or you modify the template to explicitly point to another sprite pool (use the
value of 1 for the wimp pool and 0 for the system pool).

> 
>>	What exactly DOES resspr do? Is this a user sprite area or
>>what? Sorry to be stupid about this - I've decided to use Acorn's
>>libraries for a job ( rather than my own - which do all this at _block
>>level - and so mirror what the PRMs say ).
> 
> Yes, it's a user sprite area with the contents of Sprites. It's used in dbox
> I believe.
> 
> The weakness I've found is that it doesn't seem to allow you to create new
> sprites and tack them on, or use the sprites in the wimp area. If you do use
> Sprites ALL the pool sprites you use MUST be in Sprites - include optoff,
> opton etc. I have written to Acorn about this but no reply.

If you want to use sprites out of the wimp pool all you need to do is to either
make the window's sprite pool point the correct sprite pool (1 for wimp), or
make the icon an indirected sprite and point it to the correct sprite pool.

Rob McKay.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: justin@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Justin Ridge)
Subject: BBC B: Music 5000 anyone?
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:41:46 GMT


Hi... a quick question.  Has anyone still got a Music 5000 system for an
ol' BBC B?  Or stretching a point even further, does anyone know of any
supplier which might have one lying around in the back of a storeroom?
I am looking to lay hands on one, so if you have any hints they'd be
appreciated (apart from the cynical like 'get an arc & use the internal
speaker' :)
Please reply via mail as I often don't get to read this group before it
scrolls.  Thankyou.

Justin Ridge
University of Tasmania
justin@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au

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From: ferdinan@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl (ferdinand oeinck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Big mouse pointer for A4
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 00:36:19 CET
Organization: My own node in Groningen, NL.

This message is posted on behalf of Joris Roling

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Recently I purchased a Acorn-A4. Somewhere I've read that there exists a
module (written by Acorn ?) that enlarges the mouse pointer on screen so it
is easily trackable, as the LCD screen is rather slow compared to the rest
of this wonderful machine.

Does someone know of such a module, and its availabilty?

Please send replies to the following address:
ferdinan@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl

                          Thanks in advance, Joris Roling
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Ferdinand.
From: dcoyle@holly.gpsemi.com (Diarmuid Coyle LDC X2414 AKA "The Terminator")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: FOR SALE A3000 UK
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:35:45 GMT
Organization: GEC Plessey Semiconductors


	FOR SALE - FOR SALE - FOR SALE - FOR SALE
       ----------------------------------------------


	A3000 Archimedes with RiscOs 2

	2MB internal memory
	
	2nd dd disk drive

	Colour monitor (14 inch)

	learning curve software

	other software




	ONLY 600 pounds sterling.
             ---



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From: erikp@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Erik van de Pol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.advocacy
Subject: Re: Extended BASIC
Date: 16 Dec 92 10:07:00 GMT
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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TMOTA (jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz) wrote:
: 
: (stuff ripped)
:
: ...and C is (IMHO) about as easy to program as BASIC, but goes a lot faster
: for no extra effort!
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Correction: C is _a_lot_easier_ to program than BAh!SIC. C has type checking
and stuff, which is vital if you want to build a serious program.
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From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:35:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Pascal (was Re: Extended BASIC)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.advocacy

In article .. erikp@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Erik van de Pol) writes:

   Correction: C is _a_lot_easier_ to program than BAh!SIC. C has type checking
   and stuff, which is vital if you want to build a serious program.

That depends what you mean by ``type checking''. If you mean compile-time
rejection of perfectly sensible programs that happen to fall outside the feeble
model of types offered by the language, no, it's not vital. If you mean the
use of crippled type models in pursuit of what some people, in an effort to win
converts, refer to as ``efficiency'' (for how would decry such a goal?), no,
it's not vital.

If you mean the rejection of attempts to actually *perform* illegal actions,
thus preventing your program from galloping off to never-never land, issuing
demons from your nose and flutterbying your computer to the Great Outdoors,
then you're half right: it *is* vital, and C hasn't got it.

Now what was the ``stuff''? I still haven't worked off my mood.
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From: r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.advocacy
Subject: Re: RO 3 PRM's
Date: 14 Dec 92 11:27:56 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol

In article <723742428.29579@minster.york.ac.uk> dcw-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>	Well, if Acorn don't do it why don't we? About 50 skilled Archimedes programmers should
>be able to come up with a Programmers FAQ, including loads of useful information. Then all it needs is someone to compile it. What do people think?

I think we'd end up with a FAQ for skilled programmers, who don't actually
need one.. ;-)

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