HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ainsjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Steffan Corley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
Date: 26 Jan 93 12:48:07 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1k0f8lINNe5f@oak45.doc.ic.ac.uk> ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.124224.12738@cs.nott.ac.uk> smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:
>>What I think they mean is that they do not know if Acorn will produce any
>>more RISC OS 3.10 packs. Be patient and you could be pleased.
>>
>
>Be patient. We were promised this over a year ago. Wow what a service.
>
>And if Acorn arn't going to produce any more packs for the A5000 this
>STINKS.

From reading Simon's article, I get the impression that you've
misunderstood the emphasis:

Try: "they do not know if Acorn will produce any more RISC OS **3.10**
packs".

Steffan.

(Who is completely uninformed, speaks for noone, etc...).
From: rcpieter@wsinfo11.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Wanted: BBC winchester
Keywords: wanted winnie bbc
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:49:11 GMT
Reply-To: rcpieter@info.win.tue.nl

A friend of mine is desperately looking for a winnie for his good ol'
BBC micro model B, preferably something in the 20--30Mb range,
including the box and cables.  If you happen to have one lying around
which you are willing to sell for a reasonable price, please drop me a
note.  Thanks.  --Tiggr
From: dhmyrdal@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Dag H}kon Myrdal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
Date: 23 Jan 1993 14:14:44 GMT
Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet - UNIT
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In article <1993Jan22.151636.24153@cs.nott.ac.uk> rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (D.Pead) writes:
[...]
>I think the best form of protection is to have a serial number encoded
>in each piece of software so that it can be traced, and to offer an
>incentive for purchasers to send in a registration form (an extra
>manual, free upgrades, a cashback offer).  A real possibility of
>pirate software being traced back to the original offender is a
>pretty good deterrent.
>

The *best* form of protection is:
1) Produce good manuals
2) Give excellent after-sales service, with free upgrades

I should know. This is why I bought Impression :-)


--Dag
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From: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Dongles affecting Printing
Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:53:48 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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In article <ssudavss.727956414@reading> ssudavss@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Captain_Kwok) writes:
>
>Sometimes when I try to print something to the printer it won't print anything.
>When I look at the printer queue it says that it has done about 4% ( I assume
>this has been downloaded to the printer).
>
.
.
.
>Note. I don't have to have Artworks loaded all of the time, I just have to
>have run it and quit.
>
>Any Ideas?
>

There's probably some module you need to have loaded (from inside
Artworks) which needs to be loaded before the Artworks dongle allows
you access to your nice parallel port. This is similar to that which
is needed for CC's fast printer drivers - only in that case it's so
you don't get garbage due to the knackered cabel you need to use.

Seems like the Artworks dongle does a bit more than get in the way and
reduce the signal at the printer.... Dongles - Don't you just luv 'em.!

Note: I don't have Artworks, so don't know this is the case for sure,
but it wouldn't supprise me in the slightest, CC seem to have addopted
as many ways of stopping you printing from anyting other than their
products as they can (or at least making life difficult for you).

Ian

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From: u2prh@ohm.york.ac.uk (Paul R Hedderly - H601/92)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Special Offer on A3010
Date: 21 Jan 93 10:49:21 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK

From article <930020140016@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk>, by N.M.Queen@UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM (Queen):
> ==============================================================================
> I owe special thanks (#50 worth) to Simon Burrows, who mentioned a few
> weeks ago that Dixons had a special offer for the Acorn A3010 - I was
> lucky to see his posting just before buying one for my children.
> 

Taking of Dixons - the situation at the York branch has changed since early
December. The A3010 now has a tv - the is tuned (yes) - the demo is
running (go and look for yourself if you dont believe me) and its in a
prominent possition!

I don't know if I just went in on an `off' day, or whether someone there
has bothered to use the thing - but it was good to see.

	Hanging onto an old thread....
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From: r_voisey@kiwi.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
Date: 27 Jan 93 11:05:02 GMT
Reply-To: r_voisey@csd.bristol-poly.ac.uk
Organization: The University of the West of England, Bristol (The Magic Roundabout)

In article <1jm1a7INNca@oak47.doc.ic.ac.uk>, ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:

|> >Acorn Advance uses the Acorn software protection scheme whereby a code in
|> >the operating system ROMs which is unique to each individual machine is
|> >checked by the software allowing it to be licensed for designated machines.
|> 
|> I thought someone stated recently that Acorn themselves states that
|> software manufacturers weren't to use the unique machine ID for
|> protection (or something like that, if memory serves). So is this a

You're quite right.  They said that developers couldn't use it, presumably
because they wanted it all to themselves.  Very sociable company is Acorn.

|> In another of these releases (the one about the PC card), what I
|> really don't understand is : what's new?

It's available on an A3000/30x0/4000 mini podule.  This is a NICE piece
of design - full marks to Aleph-1.  The thing the Acorn release managed
not to mention was that it's going to be bundled with A30x0s, thus
accomodating customers who can't make up their mind between a PC and
an Arch (ie customers who haven't actually used a PC).

Cheers

Bob

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
Subject: Re: In defence of RM Nimbus 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Serial Port
Reply-To: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:03:17 +0000

In article <1993Jan25.152332.506@cs.nott.ac.uk> rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk writes:

>Now come on, lets be fair to RM.  The Nimbus PC186 was launched yonks
>and yonks ago, before the IBM PC gained it's stranglehold.  It used DOS
>as it was originally intended - as a DISC operating system providing
>a standard interface for file and character I/O.  At the time, there were
>several other machines that ran MS-DOS but were not IBM compatible (e.g.
>the Sirius and Apricot). The Nimbus was FAR superior to the original IBM
>PC - it didn't have the silly 640K memory limit, it's XBIOS had proper,
>high-level graphics facilities, optimised for running WIMP operating
>systems (in those days MS Windows V1) and it's graphics made CGA look
Erm, are you saying that Windows v1 was launched while the Sirius was#
around?!!!! The Sirius and early Apricots were only really of note until
1983ish. I don't think the PC186 was launched *that* early on (I may be
wrong though...). Didn't it run GEM?

>pathetic (O.K - Big Deal). Remember - the so-called "PC Standard" is
>non-existent - the only parts of the PC that were designed as standards were
> the basic I/O capabilities of DOS (files and dumb TTY) and the
>format for expansion cards.  The BIOS/XBIOS code that made a PC a PC was
>proprietory to IBM (and they were having legal battles with cloners).
>
>Sadly the PC took off, and software houses started writing applications
>that accessed the IBM PC XBIOS and hardware directly, and the superior
>DOS machines like the Nimbus got marginalised.
>
>What *was* naughty was the way in which Nimbii were later promoted by
>RM enthusiasts (I don't know that it was RM themselves) because they
>"Ran Industry Standard MS-DOS" even when most PC software would only
>run on the Nimbus under the rather flakey PC emulator.  Mind you, at the
>same time, Acorn Evangelists were plugging Acorn's PC board, which never
>materialised...
>
(well, it has now, just a tad late, but I don't think Acorn ever expressed
more than an interest in the hardware PC board becuase 'the software one
works so well')

Hugo
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From: cabr07@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("G.N.Sinclair")
Subject: Re: Help!
Organization: Strathclyde University Physics
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:58:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.113557.8389@infodev.cam.ac.uk> MJW19@phx.cam.ac.uk writes:
>In article <93025.092128EY04@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> EY04@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
>>I have a BASIC program that I have written for the BBC. Apart from compiling
>>the source code is there any way to prevent the source code from being seen
>>when it is being run on the computer?
>
>I have a small piece of code that converts BASIC programs into executables in a
>rather obvious way. A drawback is that you cannot pass parameters to the BASIC
>program. Once an executable it can be squeeze-d, rendering it unreadable.

First of all squeeze is for RISC OS machines, not BBCs as the original
poster requested.   But even if it was squeezed, there is a module supplied
with RO3.1 (inside !Patch) called UnSqueeze which seems to work better than
any other unsqueeze programs I have come across previously.

Gordon.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn,comp.sys.acorn.tech
From: thughes@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Tom Hughes)
Subject: Re: Ethernet on the Archimedes
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:03:40 GMT

In article <1jlrkbINNm1n@poppy.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cudat@csv.warwick.ac.uk (J M Hicks) writes:
>My grumbles are that it doesn't seem possible to display eighty character
>lines across the screen when using the VT220 terminal emulator (there
>isn't enough room for eighty characters and the scroll bar), and that
>my copy of the Internet ftp client can't copy untyped files properly.

What mode are you using. I would be very surprised if you couldn't get
80 columns. Try using MODE 31 as this will give you more width, and
rumour has it that this mode is perfectly usable on an Acorn
Multisync.

Tom.

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From: cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Aeon Flux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: ACORN RESPONSE TO !3DICONS
Date: 26 Jan 93 12:54:45 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Titch (rjb12@unix.brighton.ac.uk) wrote:
: To all those who requested a copy of the !3DIcons toolsprites, I am sorry
: to tell you that because of the following email I received I am unable to
: distribute them.

: Please accept my apologies, but try and be consoled by the fact that at
: least we're not breaching any copyright agreements. I could say 'I don't
: give a stuff', but that really wouldn't be the sensible option, especially
: considering Acorn now have my id.

: With sadness and apologies,

: Rich.

Fair enough, how about this then:

1) Grab several screen shots from !Paint
2) UUEncode them
3) Mail them to CBA (or people who request them)

This way, you will not be distributing the program or the icons but you will
be allowing us poor people who could not get to the BETT show a chance to
see what's in store for us ?


;-)


How about it then?


Regards,

Jayce.

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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: 26 Jan 93 16:19:01 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.acorn
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

sml has been replaced by the latest version. This incorporates a desktop
front-end.

zap and templed(1.20) have been replaced by the latest versions.

New software:

mindimage - by Steven Jeffries. Description:
	I wrote the MindImage program as a frontend to the Mindimages module
it allows 3 dimensional random dot stereograms to be dragged to the icon
bar, where they can be viewed by anyone wearing 3D glasses.  The module is
included in the application and so are a few examples.

iconswitch - by Nick Smith. Descrition:
IconSwitch is a 350 byte module which switches between hires
and lores icons (eg, filetypes, apps) upon mode changes.
Just provide a couple of sprite files on disc and it does the
rest. Comes with source, Public Domain.

menuutils by Alex Petrov. Description:
  This module provides a collection of SWIs intended to simplify
  programming of standard RISC OS menus. Documentation and
  examples are included.

 
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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From: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Mini Hound
Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:35:06 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak2.doc.ic.ac.uk

I've just uploaded a new application to the Manchester ftp server
(uts.mcc.ac.uk) called Mini Hound. It's the baby brother application
of Word Hound which has been available from there (as well as Hensa)
for some time now.

Mini Hound is a very much cut down version which will fit onto, and
run from, a single 800k disc. It offers thesaurus data only (no
dictionary) and the thesaurus which comes with it is a cut down
version of that supplied with Word Hound. There are also some minor
changes between the the two application themselves (due to the lack of
dictionary, etc.). Unlike Word Hound, Mini Hound's data files can not
be altered by the user.

Dispite being a cut down thesaurus (it only offers alternative words,
no phrases or multi-word alternatives) it still offers over 30,000
keywords (almost as many as Word Hound) (compaired with about 18,000
for RD's Desktop Thesaurus).

Mini Hound is covered by the same user licence as Word Hound, thus
registered Word Hound users are automatically registered for Mini
Hound, and vice versa. (Not that there is any real use for having
both).

Ian

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From: sdl@cs.bham.ac.uk (Simon D Levitt)
Subject: Re: Watford Electronics
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:56:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.142359.10103@cs.nott.ac.uk> rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (D.Pead) writes:
>Just out of interest - has anybody managed to get Watford Electronics
>to answer the 'phone in the last few days? I'm counting myself lucky that
>I haven't currently got anything on order from them...
>Maybe their switchboard has gone west or something.

I got them last week, but generally I have to wait 3-5 mins before
the bloody operators answer the phone.

I prefered their automatic system where you could dial the extension you
wanted if you had a tone dial phone!.... 

Incidentally I suppose I'd better try and phone them again, I still
haven't recieved my manuals and disks for my ARM3 and RISCOS3.1 upgrades,
Not bad for 4 months after I ordered them!

Simon.,

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From: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Customising RISC_OSLib, Impulse
Date: 22 Jan 1993 11:10:51 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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In article <C19445.6J0@cen.ex.ac.uk> py92djm@cen.ex.ac.uk writes:
>I want to use Computer Concept's Impulse system in a C program.  Unfortunately,
>it requires that you call an Impulse SWI after certain returns from Wimp_Poll.
>As Wimp_Poll is called from within the wimp library, this is proving difficult.
>
>Has anyone found a way of doing this?
>
>Thanks for any help in advance.

It can be done, but you need a window open (well that's how I got it
to work, there might be different ways). You need to set a window up
to receive all unknown events (if memory serves, it was last Summer
when I did this). If you wan't I can dig out the relevant code, or
take a look how I really did it.

Ian

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From: gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Customising RISC_OSLib, BETT 93
Date: 21 Jan 93 08:33:54 GMT

In <1993Jan20.171035.4653@westminster.ac.uk> gpcec@westminster.ac.uk (Tom Kirby-Green) writes:

>	wimpt_init("LegoCAD");

>	...with my own ( that lets me pass the messages I'm interested in ).
>What I really need to know is how much goes on behind the scenes with
>RISC_OSLib - to what degree can you use your own direct wimp SWI's fn.s?
>How much is RISC_OSLib a front-end to the wimp SWI's or a more tightly
>integrated package?

Just about everything starting with wimp_ is just a wimp SWI - wimpt
stuff is built on top of it I think - can anyone suggest how you can replace
the init? (Do you need to?) With C Release 3 there were parts of Risc_OSLib
included - that way you could tweak something if really needed (although only
2 or 3 bits were there).  It would be really nice if all RISC_OSLib source was
included with the C package.


>	If this is not really possible - or just dangerous - does Desktop
>C now ship with a RISC_OSLib that handles the 3.x swis? If such a upgrade
>exists can I get it?

There are one or two with Desktop C - look at the bottom of the fonts
header file , I seem to remember one or two others as well.

Dave
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From: maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: That 1000 pound sampling card
Date: 25 Jan 1993 00:18:25 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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Summary: Are we being ripped off? You decide!
Keywords: Rip off, 16 bit 44.1 kHz sampling, SCSI

I remember a while ago reading about a 16 bit sampling card for the Arc
costing about 1000 pounds. Does anyone have any idea how much one would cost
these days? I'm interested because in BYTE I've seen a news item about the BSR
MediaMaster 16 bit sound board that can sample and play back sound at 44.1
kHz. It also includes vector-based processing with 128 built-in digitized
instruments and sound effects. All this for 199 dollars!

Do you think that maybe makers of Arc peripherals are ripping us off? I know
for a fact that buying a SCSI disk drive from a supplier of Arc SCSI cards can
be several hundred pounds more expensive than buying from a normal computer
peripheral supplier.

Comments?

Jason

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From: burke@vxdesy.desy.de (Stephen Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn,comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: Re: Monty Pythons most used sentence
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:29:19 GMT
Organization: (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)

In article <1993Jan26.234004.20553@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>, jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
> If there are three things I can't stand, they are ...

People who post the same thing to more than one newsgroup? :-)

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