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So What's the A6 Computer from STD Really Like? Front cover and reprint by kind permission of Qercus magazine. So what's the A6 computer from STD really like? (A reprint from Qercus issue 268) The A6 What is the A6? The A6 is a new generation of RISC OS computer. It is based around a high-specification PC running Windows XP. An emulation environment called VirtualRPC enables this machine to appear to RISC OS as if it is a traditional RiscPC machine, and so normal RISC OS applications can be run. Can I run all RiscPC applications? Virtually all, yes. The exception are those which rely on direct access to the parallel or serial ports such as the dongled versions of Impression, although the non-dongled versions work fine, and some modem diallers - internet connections are provided by the emulation environment via the internal modem or network interface. How fast? The A6 will generally run user applications much more quickly than the fastest StrongARM RiscPC. Applications which rely on the transfer of large amounts of data, such as DTP or graphics manipulaton will perform faster still. Such applications also benefit from 8MB of "VVRAM", which means that large screenmodes in true colour are no problem. Our new A6+ offers further enhancements and even better performance - see the last page of this leaflet for details. You're biased! Yes, we are - we specified the A6 to offer an ideal RISC OS emulation environment and we're proud of our achievements. But don't take our word for it - enclosed is a copy of a review of the A6 computer which originally appeared in Qercus issue 268. The review is duplicated with the kind permission of Qercus and does not represent a direct endorsement of any product. You can read further reviews at: Drobe: http://www.drobe.co.uk/features/artifact939.html and http://www.drobe.co.uk/features/artifact957.html Risc World: http://www.riscworld.co.uk/ONLINE/A6/INDEX.HTM and in Acorn User Xmas 2003. About Qercus: Qercus is a fusion of Acorn User and Acorn Publisher Magazines. Subscriptions start from £17.95 for 4 issues, £49.95 for a full 13-issue year. For further information about Qercus, please see http://www.qercus.com, email [email protected] or telephone 0161-969-9820. Please do not direct A6 enquiries to Qercus - call Stuart Tyrrell Developments on 0845 458 8803 or see the www.thea6.info for further information on the A6 and A6+ black on black snazzy computer hybrid So what's the A6 computer from STD really like? For years we've been praying for a metal gloss and the front has a clear understand if we say that one test new RISC OS computer and within perspex fascia neatly framing the showed an Iyonix to be 14 times the space of the last twelve months controls, drives and ports. faster than a SA RiscPC; and the A6 someone turned on the tap. We have to be 14 times faster than the Iyonix. Iyonix and Omega and then came the Drives and covers neatly match; No it wasn't a valid test! chance to emulate RISC OS on they're black. And you really need to Windows. Now as anyone can install know — it isn't obvious — that the In the circumstances you will have to RISC OS on any Windows PC so you CD/DVD drive is there because it so rely on a subjective test from a group don't need a review for every neatly retreats into the background. of us working with the A6 over a machine. Do you? The main on/off controls are on a number of weeks and comparing its transparent black panel below the performance with A5000s, A7000s, a As it happens we certainly do not floppy drive with lights behind the SA RiscPC (200MHz), and an Iyonix. ¢¡¤£¦¥¨§¢© © ¡ intend to review every PC that dealers panel to indicate on and hard drive ¢£¤ Testing various pieces of software, choose to bundle with a copy of the action. At the bottom are headphone, ¡¤£¦¡ ¥¦ ¤§¦¡ and using the A6 to produce part of ¡ RiscPC-SE program. But Stuart microphone and USB sockets. Other !#"$¢% this issue of Qercus, makes it clear & &¡¤ '¡¤£( Tyrrell Developments aren't just ports are at the back. % that the A6 is distinctly faster with *+¥(¡¨ ', anyone and they've spent some time ) most everyday tasks than the RiscPC carefully choosing the components for Access to the box is simple — using that is our normal workhorse. In their PC and setting the Windows three thumb-nuts at the back — but particular large graphics — our front and RISC OS software to work well STD assure us they have secure cover and David Cowell's pages are together. They're even developing options available for A6s destined for examples — appear without delay and extras that are neither RISC OS nor schools. pages can be scrolled through without Windows but an amalgam that makes pause; with the RiscPC there are the best of the two systems. That's Switching on is simply a matter of times when thumbs are twiddled! why we're calling the A6 series of applying pressure to one end of the computers from STD, and the transparent black panel and waiting. We found no tasks for which the A6 RISCubes from RComp, hybrid The standard machine boots through was slower than the RiscPC. computers. They are different and to RISC OS but can be set to stop at their performance is high. the standard Windows XP screen Keeping to applications that run on with a one-click option to move on to -.¡/&*0$¢£+1£+ the Iyonix without using Aemulor, we ¥¨§ Stepping back a stage we'd better RISC OS. Once in RISC OS you * ¦(2&0 3§¢% found that the A6 compared well and explain what you get as an A6 don't notice the difference between 4§+¡65879# ¦ would be unwilling to argue that it's : ¦#¡ §¦ ¤£/4§+¡ computer. It's a box, keyboard, the A6 and RO4 on any RiscPC. either faster or slower overall. ;<% 2¥= >?, mouse, and monitor. They're black Apart from the speed. Certainly the two are closely and neatly coordinated and box and comparable. monitor support the A6 logo shown at We went through all the bench-tests the top of the page. Whilst the that we could find but we're not The A6 that I used was an early peripherals are standard — but good publishing them. This isn't to try to version that went through a range of — the box is special. Like the RiscPC keep you in the dark but to say that upgrades and I've no reason to when it first arrived it has a quality of they're not relevant; the differences suppose that development has ceased. its own. It's small. It's very slightly between the architecture of the One late addition was something larger than 2 or 3 reams of A4 paper. machines are too great for any bench- called VVRAM, or Virtual Video The top and sides of the box are black tests to make any real sense. You may RAM. 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