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From: rocky@nnsgs50.lon40.nt.com (Dave Kennard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Computer Concepts
Date: 17 Nov 1992 14:17:52 GMT
Organization: Northern Telecom Europe
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In article <1earl6INN7fb@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> rap@nnsgs50.lon40.nt.com (Richard Porter) writes:
>Returning to Wordwise, there's one question I'd like to ask the net.
>With WW on the Beeb I could send any sequence of bytes to the printer
>and control it in any way I wanted. I haven't come across any WP or
>DTP program for the Arc which will let me do this (short of writing
>my own). Any suggestions?

Yes Richard!  Pipedream (any version).  If you use the Pipedream printer
drivers rather than the Risc Os drivers, you can set them up to do pretty
well anything you like, when you like.  In order to help with embedding
codes in your text, Ian Copestake's Pipedrivers are a big help.  I used to
make a KX1124 beg for its dinner using them!  But now I've moved on to an
HP DJ500 with Acorn fonts and Risc Os printer drivers ... makes me (almost)
pine for the bad old days.. :-)

>Richard

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From: jabell@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Bell)
Subject: New machines
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 13:09:27 GMT



Hello again everyone!

Sorry to have caused so much confusion by my last posting.
I didn't mean to say i486 - I should have said i860.
Thanks to everyone who pointed out my mistake.
Sincerely,
James.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
Subject: The new Acorn Machine 
Distribution: world
Organization: BT
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 14:27:49 +0000


In article <gilbertd.722075728@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk writes:

>X is apparently available for Linux.  If SCO is #500 without compilers,
>thats fine - just go and get the GNU compilers.

You still need to buy the SCO compilers to get the system dependent headers.

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Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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Organisation: European Space Technology Centre (E.S.T.E.C)
Date: Sunday, 15 Nov 1992 15:34:54 CET
From: C R Francis <RFRANCIS@ESTEC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Moving files between Arc's and Mac's

I adopt a similar techinque (ie via MS-DOS formatted disks) moving between
my Arc A440 (very old) and a PowerBook 170.  A useful extension to the idea
is to use DOSMounter on the Mac, so that MS-DOS disks look like regular Mac
disks.

However where I get problems is with files over 800k (remember I have a
A440).  Here I use comms s/w and a handy home-made connection lead.  I use
Zterm on the Mac, Hearsay II on the Arc, use the ZMODEM protocol (about the
fastest), and run at the maximum baud.  This latter is the limiting factor,
and I'm sorry to say the limit is on the Arc side.

What I'm really waiting for is an AppleTalk card for the Arc.  This would open
the door to so many useful things that I can't understand why they're not
available already.

-------------------------------------        Richard Francis
Internet: rfrancis@estec.estec.esa.nl        European Space Research and
Bitnet  : rfrancis@estec.bitnet                Technology Centre (ESTEC)
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smail   : C R Francis, OEE/OWP, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2200AG NOORDWIJK NL
From: tim@parcplace.com (Tim Rowledge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: 3D !SetIcons & replay_harrier
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:23:57 GMT

My thanks to those kind folks who offered help on the !SetIcons problem.
I've got it sorted out now- it turned out to be some of the icons
being too small. I imagine that the code was changed at some time to 
want bigger chunks of sprite and nooe remembered to update them...
As to the replay_harrier: well what did I do wrong?!  I downloaded it
(at the impressive rate of 2.9kb/sec!- I used toget 2/300kb/sec) and
it looks *awful*. Muddy colours, heavily jaggy, yuck. This is on an A540
8Mb, Taxan 795, Riscos 3.07.  Any advice?
	Ta, tim
Tim Rowledge->tim@parcplace.com
From: fj_maddi@csd.uwe.ac.uk (FJ Maddix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: An idea...?
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:55:37 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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Well, actually it's been done by Acorn. It's called a Springboard, and
had good reviews by Dick Pountain in about 1988/9.

Frank.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: nas20@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
Subject: Re: 36Mhz ARM 3
Reply-To: nas20@phx.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:11:15 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.164714.10202@vax.oxford.ac.uk> bain1@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>In article <1992Nov16.190243.6048@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, nas20@phx.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith) writes:
>> 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;f11
>
>With reference to the following (from Nick Smith):
>
>> 
>> Incidently, I have had very impressive speed increases with clocking my
>> ARM3 higher (16MHz RAM).
>
>I keep hearing people talking about this, but no-one ever says how they do it.
>Go on someone, make a young man happy and tell me how to make my toy run
>faster. (I have an A5000/RISCOS3.00)
>
>Mark Greenwood  (bain1@uk.ac.ox.vax)

Patience Mark! I have promised (and I will !) to post a detailed article 
about how I have souped up my A5000 (so far) - with suppliers, pinouts,
prices, speeds, etc, etc. but I am still waiting for SimpTec to get me my
fast RAM card ... next week maybe?

Incidentally, the new version of !ArmSI should me out from me real soon now,
just fixing a few more bugs. This program is real useful if you are playing
with speeding up a machine, and like to know speed breakdowns (or at least
show off to your friends !)


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From: dm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Derek McAuley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: RISC iX origins (was Re: The new Acorn Machine)
Date: 18 Nov 92 07:03:30 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK


In article <vskq9x@SantaFe.edu>, andy@laguna.santafe.edu (Andy Mell) writes:
|> 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.
|> 

There are two releases; one encumbered with AT&T source code, one (claimed to
be) without.  You pay different amounts for the two (as noted above one includes
an AT&T license cut); but you pay. At least they've got to cover distribution
costs.

Further details are probably found in some bsd newsgroup.

Mac.
From: dcw-a@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Computer Concepts
Date: 20 Nov 92 12:23:47 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

In article <1992Nov18.170543.17072@aston.ac.uk> davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis) writes:
>RE: Dongles
>
>  Would it be easier if all future machines came with a "dongle port"
>
	Not such a silly idea (well still pretty silly), how about an expansion card [podule to those
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 in a seperate box and be
plugged into the econet socket. Hmm not so good for those with joysticks or econet, well you could
plug it into the printer port. Probably the best idea really, ho hum.
>
>:-)
>
>
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	Doug.
From: torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: NEW MACHINES
Date: 18 Nov 92 10:09:27 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

Ikki@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (064230062: Fernmeldedirektion Olten) writes:

>Talking about chips: Is the ARM 600 comparable with the ARM 250?

No. ARM250 is an ARM2, a VIDC, an IOC and a MEMC1a on one chip. In the
new A30x0 and A40x0 machines the ARM250 and memory is clocked at 12
MHz, where earlier ARM2 based machines used 8MHz. This makes the new
A30x0 about 1.5-2 times faster than an old A3000, depending on screen
mode. The ARM600 is best comparable with an ARM3, but has an on-chip
MEMC, which is much more powerful than MEMC1a. It allows smaller pages
and more memory and a very advanced protection/tagging schema. ARM600
also has a write buffer, which allows it to continue without waiting
for stores to memory to finish.

>Will there be a successor of the ARM 250? (For example ARM 350).

The only ones who know this are not telling. I don't expect anything
in the near future.

	Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: jna10@cl.cam.ac.uk (J.N. Abley)
Subject: Acorn Pocketbook
Reply-To: jna10@phx.cam.ac.uk (J.N. Abley)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:44:38 GMT

Has anybody actually seen an Acorn Pocketbook? What are the differences
between it and the Psion series 3?

And can you buy a link which will work nicely between a Psion 3 and
an Archimedes?

Joe
From: r_voisey@beans.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: 36Mhz ARM 3
Date: 16 Nov 92 09:58:18 GMT
Reply-To: r_voisey@csd.bristol-poly.ac.uk
Organization: The University of the West of England (The Magic Roundabout)

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
|> made. Ground Control have got their hands on about 200 of them and are
|> running them at 36Mhz.

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?

Bob

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From: marlow@sys.uea.ac.uk (Keith Marlow PG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Computer Concepts
Date: 20 Nov 92 11:13:58 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:

>In article <marlow.722167900@radon.sys.uea.ac.uk> marlow@sys.uea.ac.uk (Keith Marlow PG) writes:
>>
>>	I know this doesn't stop two copies of the same program being used at
>>once, but it does make it possible for the person with the copy and the person
>>whose s/w was copied to be both done for illegal copying.

>I agree with you in principle, but many people must surely agree that it is
>*extremely* difficult to be 100% certain that nobody can ever rip-off copies
>of software which is registered to you. It is so easy for somebody to insert
>a floppy disc in your drive & sneak a quick copy.

	Hmmm,  its a shame that it would be darn difficult to 'patch' the OS
to stop a copy to floppy for certain types of dir or filetype.

>You might not believe how blatant some people are - for example a certain
>games company at the BBC Acorn User Show caught no end of people inserting
>their own floppies to steal copies of games off the hard discs at the show.

  Hmmm, they should have locked up the floppy drive :-)  Seriously though, you
can get a little device which sits in a drive and locks, stopping people using
that drive.

>Archimedes programs are sufficiently portable for the integrity of a person's
>system to be almost impossible to maintain unless NOBODY is allowed near that
>machine (and that includes Acorn exhibition machines, which contain much
>software licensed to Acorn Computers Ltd).

	One way you could stop them is when the s/w is installed the runpath
to the s/w is noted down in a system file and encoded.  Then when the s/w
is started up it checks to see if the runpath is the same, if it isn't it
won't start up.  That would be quite a good way of stopping the kids nicking
games off the hard disc, you would just need to name the harddisc something
other than the default.  Or alternatively on installation have it put a special
data file in the % directory, most kids would just copy the app & not look any
where else for files it would need.


   Keith

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: ArtWorks' GDraw module
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:25:04 GMT
Organization: Aston University
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Andrew Fox - Sun UK - Answer centre (andyf@uk.sun.com) wrote:
: 
: The best way to use the new module, is to incorporate it in your
: boot sequence. I have put QDraw and DitherExt in my 'Library'
: directory and I do the following on bootup.
: 
: RmKill Draw
: RmLoad %.DitherExt
: RmLoad %.QDraw

OR:
  RMKill Draw
  Run DitherExt
  Run QDraw

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (D.Pead)
Subject: Re: Computer Concepts
Organization: Shell Centre for Maths Education, University of Nottingham
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 11:10:52 GMT

In article <1eag79INNp27@oak49.doc.ic.ac.uk> ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
>
>Yes but dongles are a very short sighted method of protection. Imagine
>if every company started using them, how usable would your desktop be
>then? Suppose you were producing a book (or similar) using Impression
>(say) and Artworks (say) and importing data from a database (let's say
>this uses a dongle too) and a spredsheet (yet another dongle) and
>perhapse a graph drawing package.
>
>If all these required their own incompatable dongles you'd be stuffed.
>The short answer is you can only really have one dongle at a time, and

Sorry, but BULL****!!! My machine has both Artworks and Impression
dongles on the back and works fine (although strange things happen if you
get them in the wrong order).  There is no reason why dongles could
not be daisy chained.  Since Impression is a well-established product,
any firm producing a program with a non-compatible dongle only has itself
to blame.

>CCs dongle is badly made and doesn't have correct fittings on it, the
>consequence of which is that the one on the back of my computer
>doesn't hold my printer cable fully. Plus it adds extra strain on the
>connections, and makes the back of my computer need twice the
>clearence it would otherwise need (about half a foot !).
>
Ever considered blaming your printer cable?  I've not had this problem.
A bit of ribbon cable with two D-connectors (available from CC and most
suppliers as a "dongle dangle" ) solves the strain problem.
>
>What would be more useful would be if a large number of software
>manufacturers (and Acorn) got together and produced a univerasal, non
>retsrictive but yet usable method of protection (and yes it can be
>done, it's just nobody want's to put the effort in).
>
I suggest that you do it yourself and license it out - you could make a
killing if you can find something that's "non-restrictive" but
actually prevents people from copying the program ( a contradiction,
surely?)

Software protection of any form is a real pain, and most software houses
seem to be able to manage without it.  However, if firms insist on
putting protection on their products then a dongle is something
that I can live with. One of the craftiest bits of advertising that
I saw was a year or so ago when a certain competitor to Impression
advertised that their software was "Not hardware protected" without
also pointing out that it used software protection. Or another firm
who's database was "key-disc" protected, but who still insisted that
you returned the disc as proof of purchase when you wanted an upgrade!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: NEW MACHINES
From: Ikki@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (064230062: Fernmeldedirektion Olten)
Date: 17 Nov 1992 17:25:31 CET
Organization: MEDIAtex AG, CH-8807 Freienbach/SZ

Talking about chips: Is the ARM 600 comp
arable with the ARM 250?
Will there be a successor of the ARM 250
? (For example ARM 350).


Greetings.

Internet: Ikki(at)BEIZ.mediatex.ch





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From: crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: New machines
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:14:15 GMT
Organization: 6am Digital Playground
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In article <1992Nov14.222439.16632@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mhussain@nyx.cs.du.edu (manar hussain) writes:
> I believe that the 486SLC upgrade card comes with its own software
> which does not actually use the acorn emulator - but you do require a copy
> of the PC emulator for licensing requirements

Parts of the PC Emulator code ARE used. I'm not sure which bits, but I suspect
that the Graphics Adaptor emulation, and hard disc/floppy disc drivers at least
are used.

> In addtion to this there is a software upgrade - I believe
> existing users of their PC cards can get one free?? - which will allow the
> card to use a configurable amount of processor power from the ARM to
> provide WINDOWS acceleration.

Not a configurable amount of power, as far as I know, but, essentially, yes.

--Clive.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: 2105995@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
Subject: BBS Problems: Risc OS 3.1
Organization: Ban the Mac Society, Aust Ltd
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:25:40 GMT



help!

RiscBBS v1.01 DOES NOT WORK ON RISCOS 3.1 ON AN A5000!!!

does anyone know why? OR how to fix it?

Also, on a related topic, does ArcBBS support PC Offline mail readers?
Does anything do this?

Sorry about the cryptic message, but I am in the middle
of exams... :(




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From: maufr@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr N E Plum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: New machines
Date: 16 Nov 1992 15:19:02 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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In article <1992Nov16.122716.26205@cs.nott.ac.uk> smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:

 [ stuff about acorn using the i486 as a graphics accelerator ]
>Not sure about this. I think James may have got his numbers mixed up and could
>well be getting confused with more suitable Intel chips.

Like the i860 or i960? These are already used in some high-end
PostScript (tm) printers for image processing.

Nicolai

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Using custom screen modes with RO3.1
From: banksie@khantazi.welly.gen.nz (Philip R. Banks)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:09:33 +1300
Reply-To: banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: My Arc.

G.I.West@bradford.ac.uk (Graham West) writes:

> As a related topic, can anyone tell me the size of the 'wide' modes that
> RISCOS 3.1 offers? I have two modes (16 and 256 colours) that are 800x288
> which I use on my standard Acorn monitor. I know these don't work on RO3.0
> but I like having the extra pixels. I'm hoping the new modes will make up
> for this.

   Here is a list of all default modes supplied in RO3.1 up to Mode 31.

      Mode     X res     Y res   Colours
         0       640       256         2
         1       320       256         4
         2       160       256        16
         3       640       250         2
         4       320       256         2
         5       160       256         4
         6       320       250         2
         7       320       250        16
         8       640       256         4
         9       320       256        16
        10       160       256       256
        11       640       250         4
        12       640       256        16
        13       320       256       256
        14       640       250        16
        15       640       256       256
        16      1056       256        16
        17      1056       250        16
        18       640       512         2
        19       640       512         4
        20       640       512        16
        21       640       512       256
        22       768       288        16
        24      1056       256       256
        25       640       480         2
        26       640       480         4
        27       640       480        16
        28       640       480       256
        29       800       600         2
        30       800       600         4
        31       800       600        16

   Pick and choose the resolution you like. :-) Personally if your Vidc and
memory can hack it Mode 31 is very nice...

    Philip

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