GEM XAKMswitches programs under DOS and DOS PlusTM

orporate end-users are the prime target for GEM XM, version 3.0 of the evolving GEMTMuser interface standard from . Compatible with written to earlier versions of the GEM system software, GEM XM supports instant task switching between GEM-based and/or standard DOS applications, and retains GEM'S full multitasking capability for desk accessories. This means that major DOS applications such as Lotus 1-2-3 and dBase I11 can be run alongside GEM WriteIM, GEM GraphT"or other GEM applications. Said Frank Iveson, Digital Research's GEM Desktop".' showing GEM Desktop, GEM Graph'"' and Lotus 1-2-3asswitchable tasks A 'hot-key'brings up the GEMXM'h'applications/accessorymenu in Lotu; 1-2-3. UK director: "GEM XM provides . . - - under GEM XM a timely. upgrade-- path for I manufacturers of 8086 and memory to load or run an running a DOS application under combined EMS and EGA boards 80286-based hardware. GEM XM additional program, GEM XM DOS or DOS Plus, a 'hot key' is Hardware will provide the leading edge task switching works equally spools a resident inactive pressed to make the GEM manufacturers technology in icon-based user well on IBM DOS, MS-DOS and program or programs to the 'Application' menu pop-up in a environments. DOS Plus systems. It provides a system's hard disk or RAM disk. text-only form. The mouse is GEM XM is available for DOS and . ZZCT? ?Xt'':.?.! ~~';Lpz~rt:~tiV"-- _ . -- - I - . -T:IL iiew app.&slciorristkerr-----n tkeFtttseC-ta-w:ec~qpl- __D_OS_P_~LI.S~macbi,r, h~c.d------_-- -- _ working environment allowing loaded.. or GEM accessory. If a GEM around 8086 and 80286 (real Programmers and the user to from one task to accessory or GEM-based address mode) CPUs. The another and back again at the Any number of GEM or DOS application is selected, the GEM minimum recommended system builders of a button." applications may be loaded by environment is reinstated. configuration is 5 12 Kbytes of There are no changes to the GEM GEM XM will be produced the user at the new GEM Desktop Existing GEM accessories are all RAM with a RAM disk and/or a Programmers ToolkitTMto cope in English, German and French (version 3.0).The end-user can compatible with GEM XM. hard disk. GEM XM also supports with GEM XM, and programming versions. Other national run any GEM or DOS application expanded memory boards techniques need not be altered in languages will be made available by selection with the mouse from GEM XM's power over the including 's Above Board, the writing of GEM XM-based through approved distributors. the 'Application' menu at the top DOS environment also shows in AST's Rampage! and applications. right of the screen - in both the advanced /paste Interquadram's QuadEMS + . GEM and DOS environments. function which can be used to GEM XM uses expanded memory A Task switching pass data between any installed as a RAM disk. high productivity When a DOS-based program applications via the GEM environment GEM XM supports background is activated, GEM steps aside and clipboard. Such data can be in any I Combined EMS and EGA operation of desk accessories and the DOS-based program takes recognised by both board manufacturers may exploit For hard-disk systems ranging context switching between any over the whole screen. programs concerned. A filter GEM XM directly. GEM XM from low cost PCs to number of applications. When function is available to convert already supports the IBM EGA IBM PC ATs and compatibles, the system has insufficient free When the GEM XM user is data formats. modes. Systems containing GEM XM offers a significant I productivity bonus compared with earlier versions. GEM XM is also the perfect GEM system impressive range of low-cost corporations, including Shell, ICI upgrade, because it maintains the Amstrad surges ahead retail GEM-based business and the National Westminster same high performance user presentation graphics software Bank, have plans to assess the environment provided by GEM from Digital Research (seepage Amstrad PC for use stand-alone for smaller systems. 2). Furthermore, Digital Research and networked, or as intelligent with GEMTM and third party developers have terminals. GEM-based business announced new GEM-based retail applications will add further he low-cost, IBM- packages covering other major value to these highly economic compatible Amstrad PC areas of business computing. corporate Amstrad PC T was launched in the UK, These include GEM CommTM,a installations by supporting West Germany, France and communications package by professionals' growing Digital Research" retail Spain last autumn. With UK Digital Research and AM requirements for easy to use GEM-"products for the prices ranging from as low as Technology; G-Base, a database graphics, databases, Amstrad PC. E 449 for a single by SPI; and PC Word, a communications, GEM CommTM: drive model to under f 1100 for a secretarial wordprocessing wordprocessing and desk-top communications for the 20 Mbyte hard disk model with package by Haba Systems. In publishing. Amstrad PC. colour monitor, Amstrad will France, French language GEM- PC Word: Habawriter moves dominate of AmstrudrsAlan Sugar:breaking the based packages for the Amstrad from ST to PC. throughout Europe. Amstrad is mould with the help of CEMT~~ PC by third parties include the 2 million GEM users New GEMTM-basedBASICS are forecastinn shi~mentsof database JT Base (JTDiffusion); fast! 300,000 uhits Gy the end of paintTM,and a powerful GEM- and the wordprocessing package by end '87 1986. based BASIC by Locomotive Multi-user applications under Evolution Sunset (Priam With Amstrad and Atari both Concurrent '' DOS Software (seeinsidel. These Loriciel). bundling GEM, the success of the packages,.and the ~i~ital retail GEM programme for the Complete solutions Research retail range described Planned for launch in the UK new GEMTMapplications in spring 1987, Mirrorsoft's Fleet IBM PC, and the highly creative for business and industry. for national markets below are available in English, third party GEM applications for German, French and Spanish for Street Publisher is a professional For the large numbers of new desktop publishing package IBM compatibles and the Atari ST GEM TM for new educational Amstrad users the Digital the corresponding national range, Digital Research is machines. markets. designed by phototypesetting Research products, DOS PlusTM experts. predicting well over 500,000 Atari ST sparks off GEMT" and GEM, will be an integral part GEM users by the end of 1986, creativity. of computer use. The bundled GEM-based retail rising to nearly 2,000,000 by the software supporting the Amstrad Corporate end-users end of 1987. This progress makes Product quality assured at and Schneider PCs includes the products The Amstrad PC will also its GEM the most influential Digital Research. multitasking DOS Plus operating The new GEM-oriented Amstrad way into the hands of corporate system-independent user Digital Research" approved system, GEM DesktopTM,GEM users are also supported by an end-users. Major British interface throughout the world. training. -1 .-C - -1 GEM CommTM:communications

C. - I for the rile :I:: 3~wnds ;tllr\qs Stvie !i~rsion CW PhoneBook AmstradPC - Of( EM Comm, the latest of - Digital Research's retail G applications dedicated to the Amstrad PC, provides smooth access to viewdata, electronic mail services and m.= Bavd(in1 (out) Data Par I remote databases and computers. Developed jointly 388 3@ 8 idof with AM Technology, GEM

Comm offers new users a rapid &- 2 q& 7 * blc' and effective education in - terminal use, while experienced TEL-CQLD ~acm &lb users enjoy shorter connect rb times and lower cost of ? ; %Ct#t 33-3m communication. Ffi : \ GEM Comm supports I - standard and intelligent modems from Dacom, Dowty, Hayes, GEM CommTM'sPhoneBook offers 'click-on'autodial and modem configuration, and Miracle and Tandata, plus identifies the appropriate logon macro manual dial modems and direct * GEM Comm is identical in user IBM PC and compatibles) and PC to computer connections. interface and functionality to AM FaSTcom for the Atari ST range, igital Research offers a addition to the range is GEM Data rates of 300/300,75/ 1200, Technology's VICOM (for the supplied by Atari. range of 10 GEM-based Comm ' M, a communications 1200/1200and9600/9600 retail products for the package reviewed on this page. bits/second are supported. I Amstrad PC. New Amstrad All packages are available now GEM Comm's viewdata and owners may order them directly in English, German and French ASCII terminals are controlled by from Digital Research on an except the GEM Programmers GEM-based features available on order form enclosed with the Toolkit (English only).GEM screen or from drop-down menus, New GEMTM-based Amstrad package. To help new system software, GEM including: an auto-logon users get started, such orders are DesktopT"andGEM PaintTMare function, viewdata keypad and subject to once-only discounts bundled with each Amstrad PC. function buttons, a viewdata page of up to 30%. The newest directory, a service telephone are fast! number/ terminal status directory, a conr,ect time window, a call log, and a text editor for preparing messages off- line. A copy/ paste clipboard GEM Diar~'~:desk accessory GEM Draw Business function allows text and data to with calendar, clock, diary, ~ibrar~'":a library of predrawn be moved between documents alarms, notepad and card business art for use with GEM and files. The Amstrad colour index Draw monitor is supported, while GEM Comm'"? a termins GEM GraphT":prepares graphs users may substitute 6 emulator for all types of and charts from a variety of typefaces for the 6 colours used in remote computer numerical data viewdata text. rnmrnrinit-?tinnc inC'!Udiq CEM Fo;its and Dri~crs For commercial purposes viewdata and electronic mail Packi": additional fonts and and for the transmission and services. peripheral drivers for most receipt of software, GEM Comm GEM Write'"': full-function popular printers and plotters. supports the X-modem error- WYSIWYG (whatyou see is GEM Font EditorT"',font checking protocol. what you get)wordprocessing editor/designer and two new These and many other package text fonts for use with GEM features make GEM Comm and GEM WordChartT":creat presentation graphics equivalent packages * the very stylised single or multi- programs. best value for money in terms of column text charts GEM Programmers ToolkitTM: capability and enjoyment for GEM DrawT":highly an essential tool for the personal computers. GEM Comm functional, structured drawing creation of GEM-based is currently available in English. GEM-" routines make a filled square simple package applications to draw with Locomotive BASIC 2 Two new GEM-integrated BASICs are faster than standard * This is an Example Of FAST BASIC, BASICs on comparable machines, , according to recent tests. 's Locomotive BASIC 2 for IR hl compatibles (and bundled with aha Systems has (what you see is what you get) itself be viewed and edited in a the Amstrad PC),and Computer transfered its low-cost product. Format, editing and special window. Copy, cut and Concepts' FaST BASIC, a H GEM"'"-based secretarial other system commands are paste and other block operations package for the .'itari ST range box with FaST BASIC word processing package selected by mouse from drop- are controlled by mouse. retailing at f 89.95 (UK)as a 128 Habawriter 2 from the Atari ST down menus or by pressing a Background printing is Kbyte ROM cartridge, were put The comparisions of range to the IBM compatible . supported, and may be used in through the old-style Personal BASIC versus Locomotive world. Costing only f 69.95, PC Up to six open documents printing whole documents, Computer World benchmark BASIC 2 on the Amstrad shows Word is a robust, well tried may be displayed on screen in specified pages or blocks of text, tests, together with other major an overall performance advantage package suited to the heavy individual GEM windows, in single or multiple copies. BASIC implementations: for the GEM-based language. As a kordprocessing demands of an between which blocks of text whole, the comparisons indicate PC Word has a hyphenation that the GEM-integrated BASICs office but also easy enough for may be "pied Or cut and pasted function which prompts the user PCW are amongst the fastest BASICs the business professional to use. via PC Word's clipboard. The during text input for decisions on Benchmarks available today. PC Word is a WYSIWYG contents of the clipboard can the position of word-breaks Average of 8 tests proposed by the package. Headers Acknowledgements: Timings t , 1.. ::t.

-- " shared by user consoles to save w@wbw kw *W w =w - -wv-- -VW W---FW - VVVW~ 9**.v~bww~-w~~.w-$ -.4 memory. Intelligent Micro m = Software, Wev House. 172A High identities and requests for a module on the first user request Road, fleet; Surrey ~~14~RG, service are examples of for it, and unloads the module UK. Tel: 09323 43319. information pas'ed by data when it finds no user logged-on to Recall is an information queues between concurrently it. This scheme economises on retrieval system aimed at executing tasks, or to a system amount of memory allocated per industries needing rapid access to monitor. The latter is usually user. Graffcom Systems Ltd , CP reference texts or archived an application-level task House, 97- 107 Uxbridge Road, documents. High retrieval speeds which runs in an independent Ealing, London W5 STL, UK. Tel: are achieved by automatically virtual console and 01-579 9407. indexing every non-trivial word dynamically allocates system Sensible Solution is Europe's in a library of documents. Recall resources without interfering leading fourth generation uses Concurrent DOS password with user interaction. Fully database management system protection to protect libraries transparent system and application generator. It uses from unauthorised inspection, management is difficult to Concurrent DOS password and its file locking function to implement in the absence of protection, record and file allow multiple users to operate multitasking. locking and interprocess safely on common archives. Multi-user applications which communication. Future Insoft Ltd, 35 King St, Bristol BS 1 exploit Concurrent DOS are to be development will add a 4DZ, UK. Tel: 0272-28893-6. found in all sectors of the 'relational word processor' to Uulntct screen .show~n~calendar, dlonl ontl calculator occessonr's afop th~~pr~ad~heef corporate market. For example: Sensible Solution to create a Axis is a fully integrated powerful text retrieval system. A feature of this new system will be orporate end-users are business accounting system, which supports up to 8 users on printing and indexing as increasingly adopting Ensures integrity of shared independent background tasks. C multi-user solutions data through locking of CP/MR 8086-based systems. A 16-user version is planned for Concurrent Da Conti Marketing Ltd, 61 Concurrent DOS XMTMallows based on Digital Research's files and records. The North St, Portslade, East Sussex Concurrent DOS, the standard DOS-based 80286 or 80386 8086 machines to address up application designer uses this BN14 lDH, UK. Tel: 0273- multitasking environment for - systems in the near future. The to 8 Mbytes of RAM held on capability to manage multi- 420053. multi-user small systems in user access to files and records. package's function expanded memory boards like Europe. In addition to its Read-only access is normally controls file access and record Commissionaire is an AST's Rampage! and leading market position, always allowed, while locking, maintains a recovery log extension to Concurrent DOS Interquadram's QuadEMS + . Concurrent DOS is favoured by read/write access is denied if and monitors user identity. The providing a battery of menu- Such expanded systems software developers because it another user is already file manager operates continually driven productivity and system support multitasking with provides highly flexible updating the file or record in as an independent background control functions, including: larger single-user applications task under Concurrent DOS, and allow software developers technical support for question. User-definable menus applications designed for using data queues to wide scope for sophistication Allows user consoles to monitor activity. Axis Password-protected access in multi-user applications. multiple use. New version 4.11 program code. Applications Electronic mail and statusline of Concurrent DOS also offers Business Software, 53/55 St However, expanded memory exploiting this facility are Mary St, Bridgwater, Somerset messaging between users on is effective only if DOS 2.1 compatibility, and often known as ' 'true multi- same or networked system Concurrent DOS XMIM[version TA6 3EQ, UK. Tel: 0278-421020. motherboard RAM can be user" packages to distinguish User identity enquiries partly or wholly disabled. 5.1)adds extended memory them from applications which Quintet is a modular OA On-line user diaries, scannable addressing. system comprising a work by a scheduler to set up In this context, Steve require copies of program code Tucker, director of Digital for-each user virtual console. organiser; Lotus-style meetings automatically Flexible support for spreadsheet; secretarial Optional activity logging ~esearch'sEuropean ' 'True multi-user" Development Centre, warns applications potentially wordprocessor; a relational multi-user database; graphics; and Commissionaire uses manufacturers against a trend support higher numbers of communications. A system Concurrent DOS data queues in to cut costs by omitting applications users than "shared data" I monitor running as an status line messaging and diary 'secondary' user options. Says Concurrent DOS supports multi- applications by allowing more scheduling. Messages are routed Tucker: "PC users want the memory for user consoles. independent background task user applications in four principal manages access to shared by an independent monitor option of upgrading with ways : I Allows programs executing in application code. User consoles running in the background. This expanded memory boards. sparste virtual c~nsoleste--- -p&xw&--t#-k- -Therefore, be ~ureto provide through a multilevel password communicate directly through monitor via Concurrent DOS switches and/or software to protection scheme for CP/M Unix-style 'pipes' or data data queues. The monitor also queues are used. In addition, let the user disable and enable files. queues. User or program acts as a loader/unloader. It loads motherboard RAM!!"

Hierarchical database Soft Image has set up a regionally More new GEMTMapplications containing files of graphics based Davrelle bureau service. screens. The database function Now available for the IBM PC allows update of complete range and compatibles with hard hierarchies of graphics with disk, a product for the Amstrad for business and industrv new data at the touch of a PC will be announced in early button. 1 1987. Contact Soft Image Carousel function driven by 36 WestcOtt the graphics database, Uxbridge UB8 2RF, UK. Tel: supporting segmented or 01-734 1592. arbitrary presentation I Skew Left In an unusual graphic design application, Robinson Associates, a UK engineering consultancy, has produced a low cost pattern design and separate programs to convert FrontEnd is a PC-based GEM user preparation system for circular GEM VDI metafile output for interface for electronics CAD industrial knitting machines. the 4000-line Matrix PCR (ECAD)packages, such as HILO camera (POA)and for the Designed to run on the IBM and SPICE, running remotely on a General Parametrics Video mini or mainframe. FrontEnd PC XT/AT and compatibles, and Show (E195). also on Atari's ST range, allows the designer to build Robinson's Pattern Design Davrelle'sgraphics are advanced. circuitry by picking and dragging System (PDS)is essentially a Chartsandgraphsmaybein2or icons which represent the design screen painting program whose 3-dimensions, with an unlimited primitives of the mother ECAD painting functions mimic number per screen. Bar charts package. FrontEnd also provides: knitting machine operations. may contain an unlimited Auto-routed or manual wiring. In PDS, the operator places number of bars. 3-D objects may be rotated and manipulated in 3 Copy/cut/paste and drag stitches by mouse in a pattern GEM'" knitsapattern in PDS editing, with connections area defined by a GEM window. A dimensions. Perspective may be wallpapers and wallcoverings. maintained when blocks or colour palette.allows precise cost but highly powerful tool for changed by dragging an icon to a For full colour hardcopy on paper graphics presentation in new viewing point. GEM Draw' wire segments are dragged. specification of shades for each of and projection foils, PDS drives three stitch feeds, equivalent to management reporting, drawings can be imported as Top-down or bottom-up the low cost Canon PJ lOCOA 80 the yarns used by the knitt'ing management information, sales background to Davrelle graphics. hierarchical design. column ink-jet printer. Robinson machine. Scrolling and scaling information and training. Associates, Red Lion House, St the pattern window allows access Davrelle costs E 495 and has these to all parts of the pattern. Block Mary's St, Painswick, Gloucs ' major functions: GL6 6QR, UK. Tel: 0452-813699. manipulation functions like Preparation of full colour Net lists, parts lists and output 'copy' and 'mirror' help to graphics from numeric data of hard copy schematics. generate whole patterns from entered at the keyboard, or manually-designed areas. PDS from data files prepared by FrontEnd will be modified to design files are used to drive a major spreadsheets and drive a range of ECAD packages circular knitting machine wordprocessors or originating under a consistent GEM user directly over a LAN, or via from remote corporate interface. FrontEnd, Howell . PDS may also computers. Building, Cleveland Road, produce patterns for other flat From GEM software house Soft Uxbridge, Greater London UB8 decorative materials such as Image Systems, Davrelle is a low- GEM ' ; fronts Davrelle 'sgraphics database 3PH, UK. Tel: 0895-58091. GEMTMfor educational machines esides Amstrad and ICL, the latest Further Information Bcomputer Use the reply card enclosed with this issue to get further manufacturers to have information on Digital Research products mentioned, or With 8088 and Z-80 processors to order additional copies of European Review implemented and bundled and a 20 Mbyte hard disk as GEM with new hardware standard, the TIKI 8/ 16 PC- products are the UK's System from Oslo-based TIKI- h Acorn and Norway's TIKI DATA is aimed at education and business in the Nordic European Review No. 20 January 1987 DATA. Both implement countries. The machine has 640 Managing Editor Paul Bailey GEM in 8/ 16-bit twin- Kbytes of RAM and is bundled Journalism & Production Digitext Ltd processor environments with GEM system software and Design Stafford & Stafford intended primarily for Acorn 's Master 512 coprocessor board brings GEM Desktop running on MS- educational markets. GEMTMto the BBC DOS 3.2. Says TIKI-DATA'S a 16-bit PC. The £ 199 board managing director Lars Monrad- 6 comes with Digital Research's Krohn: "We already have 80% DOS PlusTM,GEM system of the 6-16 year and 45% of the software, and GEM CollectionTM 16-19 year educational markets Digital Research Offices in Norway with our earlier 8-bit . (GEM DesktopTh",GEM WriteTM European Headquarters Pacific Office Launched last July, the BBC and GEM PaintTM).Acorn reports model, which may be upgraded to full 8/16 PC-System Digital Research (UK)Ltd Digital Research (Japan)Ltd Master 5 12 from Acorn is a strong sales into educational Oxford House The 14th floor 10MHz 80 186 coprocessor board establishments which are moving compatibility. We also expect Oxford Street NCR Shibuya Building with 5 12 Kbytes of RAM which up to 16-bit computing while the machine to do well amongst Newbury 16-16 Nanpeidia-cho converts Acorn's 8-bit retaining compatibility with the small businesses, since it is Berkshire RG13 1JB Shibuya-ku 65C12-based BBC Master 128 mass of traditional 8-bit BBC 100% PC compatible. " United Kingdom Tokyo 150 educational/home machine into educational software. Tel: + 44 635 35304 Japan I I Telex: 847891 DIGUKL G Tel: + 81 34 7638 68 Telex: 072 23 71 1 DRIJ Central Europe Office Corporate Office Digital Research GmbH Digital Research Inc notepad, printer control mode, Hansastrasse 15 60 Garden Court background printer, address 8000 Miinchen 21 Atari.a ST a. sparks off GEMTM book, mini digital clock and Box DRI West Germany Monterey RAM disk. Computer Concepts, Tel: + 49 89 574034/5/6 Gaddesden Place, Heme1 CA 93942 creativity Telex: 52358 1 DRG D USA Hempstad, Herts HP2 6EX, UK. Tel: + 1 408 649 3896 Tel: 0442-63933. Telex: 910 360 5001 FaST BASIC from DIGITAL MNTY Computer Concepts is supplied in a ROM cartridge. It is very fast (see page 2) and has strong affinities with the well-respected BBC BASIC. It offers procedures and functions, and a large number of options linked directly to GEM AES and VDI, enabling programmers with an understanding of object trees and the structure of GEM to write GEM user interfaces into Five organisations in the UK and GraphTM;they may also develop FaST BASIC Frograms. Another Europe have gained the Digital custornised shcrt c~l-?rsesen - useful feature is memory Research seal of approval for request. segmentation, which allows up their techical training courses on QA Training is a to ten FaST BASIC programs to GEMTMand other Digital partnership of ex-Intel engineers FaSTcom:Atari's own GEM '.'-basedSTcommunicat~onspackage reside in individual memory Research products. and currently offers 2-day partitions, from which they may nly 15 months after the charts in up to 4 GEM windows. ABC Software, a Dutch introductory courses and 3-day be called at the edit window, GEM software house with workshops on GEM application launch of the 1 £49.95. Contact: see K-Spread. or from any other memory 68000-based Atari 520 ST, accountancy expertise, offers programming for IBM - Fleet Street Publisher I segment. £89.95. Contact: see seminars of one-day or 2/3 days compatibles, especially the more than 300,000 Back-Pack. machines have been sold available in early January 1987 (at customer request) on using Amstrad PC. The company also worldwide and the ST software from Mirrorsoft, is a. £ 115,. high STAccounts from Silicon the GEM Programmers Toolkit. offers corporate OP-site catalogue contains over 250 value pagemaker, which Chip is a fast, fully integrated Other ABC seminars deal with Concurrent'" DOS technical GEM-based titles. provides total control-. over - page GEM-based business accounting professional Pascal programming courses. and language bindings. Here follow a few examples layout, text and graphics. It package with sales, purchase Software Experts specialises of low-cost, high function GEM- offers: multiple fonts and and nominal ledgers, plus stock CCP Software and EDTZ in GEM training, and its based business applications for weights; a range of leading and control and report generator, are both West German software teaching staff is led by Dylan point sizes; automatic and with batch invoicing and order the ST range. All prices quoted houses. They made major Harris, author of the Wiley book were offered in the UK in ' discretionary hyphenation; auto- entry for the sales ledger. All contributions to the Programming for GEM and September 1986. computed gutters; column to accounts are accessed by name, development, respectively, of of the Programmers column text linking; and drivers avoiding the potentially GEM Font Editor \'and GEM 1st Word Plus by GST is a WorkBench productivity for dot matrix printers. Fleet confusing use of account and DiaryTM.Both companies offer extension to Digital Research's full function WYSIWYG Street Publisher 11, scheduled for stock item numbers. Silicon one-day seminars on the GEM wordprocessor. Though it costs GEM Programmers ToolkitT". launch in summer 1987, is a Chip, 82 London Road, Programmers Toolkit; one-day The company offers an only f 99, it has a hyphenation document-based professional Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, courses on GEM functionality, dictionary; a spelling checker; introductory 1-day course to desktop publishing package for UK. Tel: 01-549 6657. on GEM Draw' ' and GEM GEM graphics merge with text; GEM technology, which - -- hard disk ST systems, offering- programmers and system line, page, word and byte count both standard Hnd no*- per document; the ability to builders should follow with the sequential pagination. In 5-day, in-depth course maintain 4 documents in addition to the features of Fleet lpr.samming- - with - -or separate GEM windows, Street Publisher I, which may be Product aualitv assured at between which text may be 1 1 I with a modular series of 1-day upgraded, it has a font editor, courses on individual aspects'of copied, cut and pasted; flexible kerning, user-definable background printing; and also a GEM programming and system widows and orphans and is Digital Research" building. bundled mail merge program. intended for professionals in the Atari (UK) Ltd, Atari House, ABC Software, Dorpstraat pre-press, typographic and Steven Hook, quality assurance Railway Terrace, Slough, Berks 2, NL-5314 AE Bruchem, The graphic art environments. It will (QA)engineer, is the latest SL2 5RZ, UK. Tel: 0753-33344. also support laser printers and Netherlands. Tel: + 31 (0)4184 recruit to the Quality Assurance 811 Kuma's K-Spread is a Postscript-based Department at Digital f 49.95, 256 column, 8192-row phototypesetting equipment. Research's European CCP Software, Schwanallee spreadsheet and allows up to 5 Mirrorsoft, Maxwell House, 74 Development Centre (EDC), 14, 3550 Marburg, West display windows open at any Worship Street, London EC2A Hungerford, UK. Reporting to Germany. Tel: + 49 (0)6421 12 time. It is file compatible with 2EN, UK. Tel: 01-377 4645. Richard Deane, QA manager, 104 Kuma's K-Word wordprocessor EDTZ Hard- und Softbiiro FaSTcom, Atari's own Steven makes sure that EDC- and K-Graph graphing package, and US-engineered products Dotzauer, Haidgraben 18, 8012 and can also accept standard DIF communications package for the Ottobrun bei Miinchen, West ST range, is visually and fulfill their technical files from other sources. Kuma specifications and also behave Germany. Tel: + 49 (0)89 069 Computers Ltd, 12 Horseshoe functionally equivalent to 8095 Digital Research's GEM Comm well from the end-user Park, Pangbourne, Berks RG8 viewpoint. He likewise critically QA Training, Queen Anne 7JW, UK. Tel: 07357-4335. package for the Amstrad PC House, Cricklade St, Cirencester, (reviewon page 2). assesses documentation. Steven Hook, new QA specialist ot Digital K-Graph from Kuma His responsibilities include Research's European Development Centre Gloucs GL7 1JN, UK. Tel: + 44 accepts data from the keyboard Computer Concepts' Back- volume sales lines such as (0)285-69173. Telex: 437242 or frbm other K-Series packages, Pack is a £49 ROM ca;tridge Digital ResearchRGEMTM implementation forms. Before QAMAN. such as K-Spread and K-Data, to containing nine accessories: a products and the 8086 operating Digital Research, Steven worked Software Experts, Central produce: line and scatter graphs, scientific calculator, analogue systems Concurrent rM DOS, in software development as a House, Hampton Hill, pie charts, and stacked, clock with dual time zones and Concurrent DOS XMTMand DOS scientific officer for the UK Middlesex TW12 lNW, UK. horizontal, 3D and vertical bar 4 alarms, calendar/diary, PlusTM,in both retail and OEM Ministry of Defence. Tel: + 44 (0)1-943 3922. El