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From: r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Computer Concepts
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:21:51 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol

In article <722262226.8911@minster.york.ac.uk> dcw-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:


>of us old enough to remember] that has slots for roms or even just a PLA
>or PAL that has the unique
>encodings??? Of course not so great for those with a3000's so it could come

That would be pretty ineffective, really.  A lot of people  have  access to
PAL duplication hardware  (and software to derive the equations DESPITE
the security bit).  At least with the current method you  have to go to
the hassle of breaking open someone's dongle (and thus invalidating their
warrenty and upgrade facility) and work out what has to be connected to
what.

Bob

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From: andyf@uk.sun.com (Andrew Fox - Sun UK - Answer centre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Replay Harrier @ Newcastle
Date: 20 Nov 92 02:42:58 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Ltd.
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Reply-To: andyf@uk.sun.com
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In article 11973 gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert) writes:

>How do you cope with filetypes over NFS off a SCSI CD ROM - we have the Replay CDROM,
>and we found that the CD ROM drive on our Sun wouldn't work on our Acorn SCSI card,

I suspect that CDFS gives an error message 'Cannot play audio disks', when
you try and mount the replay CD using the Sun CD-ROM.

The problem with the Sun CD-ROM is the rev. of firmware fitted in it. This
problem manifests itself not only with the Acorn card, but with the Morley
and Oak cards as well.

Sun use Sony CDU-8012 drives, but they are fitted with two versions of the
firmware depending on the age. If you do a *devices, you will see that the
software revision on board the CD-ROM is displayed, along with a host of
other info.

If you have a CD-ROM with rev. 3.1e, then I'm afraid that it just won't work.
You need to find a drive that has rev. 3.1a in it, this will work in the 
Acorn world quite happily.

You may also have a problem if the CDFS is loaded into ram, and not rom.
I haven't been able to verify when this causes problems, as I have CDFS
in rom on my Morley card, but others have reported difficulties.

Hope this helps,

Andy.

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From: Robert.Turner@brunel.ac.uk (Robert Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: PC Emulator & EGA
Date: 20 Nov 92 08:46:38 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

Hi

Using the PC Emulator, is it possible to get EGA style graphics? I am
getting hooked on Civilisation on the PC and it would be nice to get it
running at home.

Anyone know if anyone is working on getting this game released for the
Arc?

Rob

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: tytgat@rilke.esat.kuleuven.ac.be (John Tytgat)
Subject: Re: Computer Concepts
Organization: K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:27:04 GMT

In article <28130@castle.ed.ac.uk> eopa21@festival.ed.ac.uk (R Spooner) writes:
>All this talk about Computer Concepts' new upgrade policy on Impression
>is surely only one aspect of the problem. The FaxPack was late, bad, wrong,

Why should a non-ArtWorks owner need Impression v2.18 if this version does
not provide any extras for him ? Why should CC pay the post&package costs
(together with the man-hour cost) for a non-ArtWorks owner who doesn't need
v2.18 if he already has v2.17 ?

Could you be more precise what's so bad and wrong with CC' FaxPack ?

>not as advertised, late, and so on. The Scanlight Professional was OK
>but there is no after sales support. the support staff are
>always unhelpful (well, one of them is good), ArtWorks is late and
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Euh ? Up to now, my contacts with CC' support staff were very satisfying.
As far as I know, they do really a good job.  Maybe it's just you...

>full of bugs, LaserDirect does not work on RO3.1, and so on.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Really ?

>I think the common factor here is that CC has gone way down hill
>recently. They used to be really really good, but I have not
>been impressed with anything since Impression.

Sorry, I can't share your opinion.

John.
tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (don't thrust my e-mail address in the header)
BASS
From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Replay Harrier @ Newcastle
Date: 17 Nov 92 11:59:28 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.

In article <BxtM3D.F0s@cen.ex.ac.uk> CDLatham@cen.ex.ac.uk (C.D.Latham) writes:
>
>Any chance you can find the space to put on a couple of full-length
>Replay films?  Icedance is probably the prettiest and Shuttle the most
>spectacular.  It doesn't worry me, but I find that the Harrier film
>offends some sensitive people due to its military nature.
>Christopher.


If someone can upload them into pub/incoming/riscos on uts.mcc.ac.uk then
I'll make them available. 


(Sorry to everyone who couldn't get at the ftp directories over the past
24hrs - bit rot attacked the access permission bits.)



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During a week's TV I want to be entertained, bored, delighted, disgusted, made
happy, saddened, enlightened, mystified, else they aren't doing the job right.
From: r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: MIDI card
Date: 17 Nov 92 11:59:27 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol

In article <lge5n9INN4aa@cronkite> andyf@uk.sun.com writes:

>Having said that, all of the software that I tried worked okay.

Did you try the EMR software?  It doesn't work with this product because
it uses illegal techniques for ascertaining the presence of a MIDI device.
(It looks at podules instead of checking SWIs - so it completely misses the
econet based MIDI board).

When I last spoke to them, EMR had no intention of fixing this (well, they
wouldn't..)

Bob
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: lezz@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Lezz Giles)
Subject: Re: The new Acorn Machine
Reply-To: lezz@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Lezz Giles)
Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, MA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:00:24 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.104924.16886@csd.uwe.ac.uk>, r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey) writes:
|>In article <1992Nov18.113400.22875@opal.comlab.ox.ac.uk> as@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens) writes:
|>
|>>I'd say Acorn would be better off sticking with their strengths
|>>and developing the RISC OS line to really compete with Commodore
|>>and the PC's in the home edu market.  Who'd even *notice* a
|>>me-too UNIX machine from Acorn?
|>
|>You could be right.  However, one field they appear to  be having some
|>success in is the X market, with A5000s running X connected either to
|>a mainframe or an R260 subnet.  In education you quite often don't
|>need the power of a workstation if you have lots of mainframe resources
|>to hand in any case.  I understand that Acorns package (A5000, TCPIP, X)
|>can work out cheaper than many dumb X terminals, and give you a RISCOS
|>machine as a bonus.

This sounds interesting - can somebody send me details (costs, etc) of
this kind of setup?  I'm in the USA, so I also need to know about support.
If this gets me a dirt-cheap colour X-terminal then I'm very interested
in it.

Lezz Giles
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: wilesaj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (AJ WILES)
Subject: Re: MultiFs & Apple Macs
Organization: Aston University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL241235]
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:45:40 GMT

manar hussain (mhussain@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: Jayce was correct regarding low density Mac discs - the only way to read
: these on an Arc would be to have a Mac disk drive. However the high density
: Mac format does not have this problem - indeed all ' superdrives' as they
: are called come with AFX allowing the Mac to read PC disks.

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.

Adrian

Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones)
Subject: Re: Replay Harrier @ Newcastle
Telephone-Messages: +44 223 33 4900
Address: Christ's College, Cambridge CB2 3BU, ENGLAND.
Organization: 6am Digital Playground
X-Furry-Character: Gerald_Duck
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:04:21 GMT

In article <BxtM3D.F0s@cen.ex.ac.uk>, CDLatham@cen.ex.ac.uk (C.D.Latham) writes:
> Any chance you can find the space to put on a couple of full-length
> Replay films?  Icedance is probably the prettiest and Shuttle the most
> spectacular.  It doesn't worry me, but I find that the Harrier film
> offends some sensitive people due to its military nature.

While we're at it, couldn't someone (e.g. Acorn?) put some Replay films on both
ftp AND nfs! If people could mount an nfs partition over JIPS/whatever to view
some Replay films, this would certainly be a good publicity stunt if word got
around...

--Clive.
From: J.Herbert1@lut.ac.uk (John O'Malley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: FPA's announced
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:02:58 GMT
Reply-To: J.Herbert1@lut.ac.uk (John O'Malley)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.



I've just read in the Electronic times that ARM Ltd has just annouced it's FPA.
Sorry, but I can't quite remember if it was just a design or actual silicon
but, they said they should start shipping early next year at about $30-$50.
The article alsp mentioned that they have actually designed the ARM 7 and, it
is just being debugged (if that's what you call it).

		Jim.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: cgarnett@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Chris. Garnett)
Subject: high density disks on A3000
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:55:32 GMT


I'm wondering whether it's possible to just plug in a high density
3.5" disk drive in place of my existing drive. The drives seem plug
compatible, and RISC OS 3.1 supports these drives I believe.



Also, if this is possible, does anybody know how I could use my old
(lower density) drive as a second drive?


Chris. Garnett


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From: r_voisey@beans.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: 36Mhz ARM 3
Date: 16 Nov 92 10:14:04 GMT
Reply-To: r_voisey@csd.bristol-poly.ac.uk
Organization: The University of the West of England (The Magic Roundabout)

In article <1992Nov14.224813.17259@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mhussain@nyx.cs.du.edu (manar hussain) writes:

|> Apparently the choice of around about 24 Mhz for the clock speed of the
|> ARM 3 is surprisingly enough more than just a mere coincidence.
|> Essentially what is really important is how quickly in practice any
|> application a user wishes to use actually runs. In fact beyond a certain
|> level - about 25Mhz when considering what is in an A5000 apart from an AR
|> 3 !! - any increase in clock speed will have a minimal effect on apparent
|> speed. Obvious exceptions would be particularly processor intensive apps.

Of course, it had nothing to do with VLSI swapping the ARM onto a less
advanced (ie thicker silicon) production rig to free up their good stuff
for military applications..

Of course, you are correct when you say that the performance increase over
clock speed is not linear (due, largely, to bus limitations).  However, I
seem to recall Aleph One claiming that the optimum price/performance for an
ARM-3 on an 8Mhz bus (this was a while ago) was around 36Mhz.

Bob

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From: r_voisey@beans.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: An idea...?
Date: 16 Nov 92 09:49:49 GMT
Reply-To: r_voisey@csd.bristol-poly.ac.uk
Organization: The University of the West of England (The Magic Roundabout)

In article <1992Nov13.103414.29205@aston.ac.uk>, braindl@uhura.aston.ac.uk (DL BRAIN) writes:

|> You can fit a PC on a card inside your arc so how possible would an ARC card be
|> Ie giving you two processors, two main memories etc. This would have to work a
|> How possible is it..it might be quite handy, double the memory, and the ability
|> to farm out stuff that might hang the machine up for a bit (printing/archiving)
|> to a second processor.

It's easy to do, and has been done by Patrick Arnold.  He may or may not be
releasing it as a product in the future.  He'll certainly be using it as an
accelerator option on his new ---*Chromaburst video frame stores.

If anyone's interested, there's also a DSP processor board available, which
includes a native DDE based assembler.  It was developed for and is being
marketted by Burden Neuroscience.

Cheers

Bob

NB  I don't work for PCATS or the BNI.

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From: rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (D.Pead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Computer Concepts
Date: 19 Nov 92 10:18:10 GMT
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham

In article <1edf33INN9qj@oak48.doc.ic.ac.uk> ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
>
>And CC are really going to tell all-and-sundry the internals of their
>dongles to anyone who wished to produce a dongle for their product
>arn't they? Oh Yes of course they will, and what's that pig doing over
>there?
>

Your probably right, but maybe you should find out for sure before you
flame them?  In any case, any firm capable of making a dongle ought to be
able to reverse-engineer CCs dongles.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Replay Harrier @ Newcastle
From: graeme@geog.canterbury.ac.nz (Graeme Glen)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:16:31 GMT
Organization: Geography Dept, Canterbury University, New Zealand
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Andrew Fox - Sun UK - Answer centre (andyf@uk.sun.com) wrote:
: In article 11973 gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert) writes:
: 
: >How do you cope with filetypes over NFS off a SCSI CD ROM - we have the Replay CDROM,
: >and we found that the CD ROM drive on our Sun wouldn't work on our Acorn SCSI card,
: 
: I suspect that CDFS gives an error message 'Cannot play audio disks', when
: you try and mount the replay CD using the Sun CD-ROM.
: 
: The problem with the Sun CD-ROM is the rev. of firmware fitted in it. This
: problem manifests itself not only with the Acorn card, but with the Morley
: and Oak cards as well.
: 
: Sun use Sony CDU-8012 drives, but they are fitted with two versions of the
: firmware depending on the age. If you do a *devices, you will see that the
: software revision on board the CD-ROM is displayed, along with a host of
: other info.
: 
: If you have a CD-ROM with rev. 3.1e, then I'm afraid that it just won't work.
: You need to find a drive that has rev. 3.1a in it, this will work in the 
: Acorn world quite happily.

More CD-ROM problems along a similar vein.

We have a AppleCD SC which we can't get to go on our Acorn SCSI/CDFS card.
Plugging it in, inserting a disk and then typing devices identifys itself
as a Sony CDU-8001 rev 3.2i with the size of the disk inserted (about 535Mb
for the Acorn Replay disc?).

But when I click on CDFS from the desktop I get errors such as "Bad Drive",
"Target Error - Illegal Request".  Could this be the same problem as above?
Has anyone managed to get an Apple CD-ROM drive to work with Acorn equiment?
The model is quite old, a square box, but the newer Apple drives are long
and thin, anyone know if the newer drives will work?

Thanks,

Graeme.
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From: thurlbec@castle.ed.ac.uk (I Thurlbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: ARM3/MEMC prices
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:55:30 GMT
Distribution: eunet
Organization: Edinburgh University


Does anyone know the prices of any of the following:

ARM3 (VY86C020) (160pin version, I think)
MEMC1a (VY86C110) 

ie. the chips themselves, not someones boards.

If you put the MEMC1a into an A310, do you need a new 
PAL as well ?


Thanks very much,

Ian Thurlbeck
From: jtn@ukc.ac.uk (Jim Noble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Modem question
Summary: Are there any internal modems.
Date: 17 Nov 92 10:20:44 GMT
Distribution: eunet
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.


Is there such a thing as an internal modem for the Arc.? Failing that can
someone recommend a good modem, preferably a buget one (ie. < #100)? So 
long as it does > 1200/75.

Thanx,

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	Jim.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: SECOND HAND A540 AVAIABLE?                                                      
From: Ikki@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (064230062: Fernmeldedirektion Olten)
Date: 18 Nov 1992 17:08:35 CET
Organization: MEDIAtex AG, CH-8807 Freienbach/SZ

Are there already second hand Archimedes
 540 avaiable for about 1000 pounds?

Thanks for all advices in andvance.



Internet: Ikki(at)BEIZ.mediatex.ch





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From: Albert.Koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.announce
Subject: Additions and/or replacements on the Newcastle Info Server
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:18:45 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.acorn
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

New software:

bloxed - yet another tetris variant. Description:
         Bloxed is a Tetris game with a few unusual features. Most
         importantly a two player mode. File size: 600K.

thynx - a collection of utilities in a single program.

Three new programs from Dick Alstein:

abode. Description:

Here is the latest version of !Abode, my combination of desktop
utilities. Additions since the previous version:
* Caret blinker
* "Pull front" hotkey. Pulls the window that the pointer is over
to the front, so that you can make it fully visible even when its
title bar is covered by other windows. If the window is already
uncovered, it is moved to the back of the window stack.

snake - a game. Description:

The new version of the !Snake game. Minor modifications:
* Better handling of mode change when returning to the desktop
* Speed and sound can also be switched off the desktop.

templed - a template editor. File size 150K. Some features:
 
* Icons and Windows are edited from a dialogue window; flags, colours, button
  types etc. are set by clicking on buttons in the dialogue window, the
  update is made when you click on an "action" button.
* Moving, editing, copying and deleting of selections (multiple icons)
  is possible.
* Icon coordinates can be locked to a grid.
* Icons can be moved to other template windows.
* "Icon info" window shows number, position and size of the icon that
  the pointer is over.
* "Statistics" window shows the amount of memory that the templates would need
  when used in a program.
* Icons can be aligned and spaced out (as in DrawPlus).
* Window can be moved and resized directly, even if they don't have a title bar
  or scroll bars.
* Supports the use of outline fonts and the Interface module.
 



 
To retrieve a file from the archive, send a message to 
info-server@newcastle.ac.uk with the following content:

line-limit 1000
request: sources
topic: archimedes filename
request: end

where filename is replaced by the name of the file that you want.
A filename of 'index' will send you the latest index file.
A filename of 'tail_index' will send you the list of the last 50 files added
to the archive.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR SOFTWARE IS VIRUS FREE BEFORE SENDING IT TO ME


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