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THE A3000/ARC 770263"745000" PUBLIC DOMAIN • CHORDS PROGRAM • LATEST GAMES 1 The Complete Upgrade Solution Qualified Dealer 8Mb Memory 410/1 Memory A3 10 Memory - Uses only eight RAM devices - 400 series RAM upgrade kits - Includes free MEMCla upgrade - Suitable for A440, A400/1 & R140 - Supplied witti full fitting Instructions - Four layer printed circuit boards - Fuiiy RISC OS compatible -410/1 to 420/1 requires 1Mb - Courier collection & fitting included - Four layer printed circuit boards -420/1 to 440/1 requires 2Mb - Free MEMCla wtille stocks lost - Courier collection fitting included & -410/1 to 440/1 requires 3Mb 2nd Mb - £99 4th Mb - £199 - - - 2nd to 4th - 8 Mb upgrade £499 1 Mb £35 2Mb £64 3Mb - £98 Mb upgrade £1 15 A3000 Memory A540 Memory cards ARM3 Upgrades - Uses only eight RAM devices - Uses only eight RAM devices - 3 to 4 times performance Increase - User upgradeable from 1 to 4 Mb - Four layer printed circuit board - Surface mount technology - Four layer printed circuit boord - Three cords may be fitted giving - Four layer printed circuit board - Low power consumption a total of 1 6Mb of memory Suitable for all ARM2 based machines - Available without RAM devices A540 4Mb upgrade - £275 25MHz ARM 3 upgrade - £199 Bare card - £35 Two memory cards - £520 Collection delivery and Installation on 2nd Mb Card - £56 4th Mb Card - £159 Three memory cards - £749 all machines - £35 A5000 Memory & Drives VIDC Enhar^cers - increases A5000 memory to 4Mb - Increases resolution with all Muitlscon monitors - Ugradeobie from 4 Mb to 8Mb - Doubles desktop work area - 4Mb to 8Mb price Includes installation - Custom modes for Taxon and EIzo monitors - High quality Four layer circuit board - Includes Mode designer software - No special tools required - Free with any multlscan monitor from Atomwide A5000 4Mb RAM - £110 4Mb to 8Mb RAM - £399 VIDC Enhancer - £25 A540 mode software £5 A5000 2nd 105Mb IDE drive - £299 Syquest removable disk systems Quantum SCSi iHard disc's - including One cartridge, drive unit and all cables - including drive, metalwork and all cables - - 42Mb removable cartridges Fast 1 6ms access 64K cache - High-flow fan fitted for improved cooling - slim line disc two drives may be fitted in one frame Atomwide Syquest drive unit - £425 - Available as Internal or externol units Drive - - unit with Oak SCSI card £599 52Mb internal £ 1 99 1 05Mb internal - £299 Spare 42Mb disks - £55 210Mb internal £599 425Mb internal - £949 Oak 1 6bit card - £1 75 External unit add - £75 DTP & Monitors Acorn Machines - impression II DTP package £130 - Impression junior DTP package £70 A5000 & A5000LC - Free 4Mb upgrade - LBP4 printer including sheet feeder £1045 A540 - Free 4Mb ram card giving 8Mb - EIzo 9060 £399 - EIzo 9070 £599 - EIzo T56Gi £1025 A3000 & A3000LC - Free 2nd Mb RAM - Taxan 795 £490 - - - Toxan 875 £775 A5000 £ 1 499 A5000LC £ 1 53 All monitors come with a Free VIDC enhancer With Eizo 9060 monitor ASOOO - £1699 A5000LC £1731 Carriage on oil monitors is £7 A3000 - £599 A3000LC - £642 A540 - £2495 - Ail products are cross-compatible - Combinotion deals available on all products - Dealer enquires welcome - Phone for full detdils on all products ATOMWIDEAll prices exclude VAT at 17.5% but include delivery with the exception of monitors 23 The Greenway Orpirigton Kent BR5 2AY Tel 0689 838852 Fax 0689 896088 Task list Fontasy Original * Text "Sinply fontastic!" SmpHj fmsi!m§(mr^ RuicKey Fontasy Font Trinity, Bold Placard Size quotes I JIHSHart Special Load Fonts Go to DTP TaskList Load Printer Driver Start Inpression HERE RT LAST! Open Letters Directory fl neu version of the Go back to nain TaskList Task and Nindou Organiser (TWO for short), Uersion 1,83 has Multiple task lists, which can be locked against unwanted -i^ e I a I » changes (e,g, by pupils) § t> 9 y234 j * WOH ^iT vr A w UUYPB "Exceptionally good sofi ware, Already I can't § A C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|H|H|0|PmR|S|T|U|U|W|}(|viz"|i: iHpression understand how I Managed F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 without TWO!" DocuMen Find and Rep New Style Edit Style Neu Chapter Dicti m 48^ 58^^ 68^ m Main Hpariina Siih-hpariina Ttalin iil Rnld left Align .. Xentrp I Riaht fllian iFiil hj firmtn^H iiCFS ifl HardDisc4 IDE 4 SCSI 4 Printer iK Special QaicKey The simple answer when you need those funny 'Just what you've always wanted ... so simple characters. Also useful for viewing new fonts. ... an essential utility." - Micro User • Only £10 (Site Licence £30) TWO "Worth the asl<ing price for the window tidying Fontasy options alone. Something to offer everyone." - Archimedes World "Brilliant" - Micro User "Really neat. Fontasy, QuicKey and TWO are "Very impressed with the ease of use and the so useful you wonder how you ever managed control available." - Archimedes World without them." - Micro User "Good value for money" - BBC Acorn User Existing users please send disc and 12 first Placard class stamps for update plus new manual. The intelligent way to print draw files across • Buy QuicKey + TWO for only £30 several sheets of paper. (Combined Site Licence £80) DrawBender The genuinely flexible draw file moulder. Please turn to our double-page price • Buy Fontasy, DrawBender and list for more infor- mation and ordering Placard for only £45 details. Or call our (Combined Site Licence £80) telephone number for friendly advice. UK customers please add VAT to prices shown S?ai Mi-. C.sM.t .in.i \.>ut 15 I u.nil.l Uk. u. ili.iiik V'U 16 . .,. ...v. ,.,.„„.,-•, A., ., 17 ,.h. ,,.! ..I ,ilie,liile .iiul ih, .l.-..M|.l. >KH lui p.inicul - PIPEDREAMS ^itH: Imagine a flexible word processor in Imagine a fast and compact database which you can use fonts and pictures to package with full sorting, searching and sive stimning presentation U) your selection criteria. With links straight to letters and reports. And a 93, ()()() word the word processor for prinring mail- spelling checker and user dictionaries shots and labels. for letter-perfect writing. Imagine user-friendly features such as Imagine the most powerful spread- configurable menus, template files to sheet package on the Archimedes. start new docimients from, and auto- Backgrovmd recalculation so you carr\" matic fitting of column widths to the on working while it computes. 160 data, built-in functions, plus a programmiii.g language for \oiu- own custom fiuic- PipeDream 4 tions. Arrays within slots for eas\' the works manipulation of structured data. Free your imaginadon. Imagine dynamic charts straight from your data. .Multiple scales to compare RRP S196+\'.Vr. Call for education prices and .sice licences. Pipel^ream 4 is ideal for any trends. Personalised Penguin Cjraphics .-\rchimedes, ,^,5000 or .\.S()()0 with 2MH with bars filled by your own draw files to R.\.\I or more. il Grid I Gndy M;nro jAiM dazzle your friends and colleagues, !7m 2265 7284 ,48 ; .2134 834$ ^] j J45 !9m 2970 7738 4« ; ; COLTON software fur a free 21 brochure, complcce and 22«6i «m 1 7263 44 -^ return this eotipon. 1m 2418 ; 7875 ,43 I .1 ' 351? 7S6;i 47 Name ?M4 8?Ki ij Coltonsoft Limited ?47Q 774fi 41 .\ddress Search »'• Tel: 10223) 311881 Fax: (0223) 312010 s ; CONTENTS APRIL 1992 NEWS 7 95 ISSUE 117 EDUCATION 13 ARTWORKS COMMS COLUMN 15 GRAPHICS COLUMN 16 NEXT MONTH 18 LEHERS 22 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 24 SUBSCRIPTIONS 29 SPECIAL NEEDS 50 We look at a selection of hardware that can help in the classroom ART WORKS FACE-BENDER 53 A BAU animation program to type in COVER ILLUSTRATION DANNY JENKINS TV PREVIEW 54 62 Editor Barry Monk Don't miss the special TV programme, to mark ten years of the BBC micro CHORDS Assistant Editor Karen Donaghay Technical Assistant Paul James ARC ASSEMBLY 57 mitil mmne: SESIiiiraliail.t.BniialsZ Art Editor Tony Judge Editorial Assistant Sarah Burns More help with your programming prowess Advertisement Manager Duncan Pringle CHORDS 62 Deputy Advertisement Manager Learn to make music with our special BAU program Richard Power Sales Executives Areef Vohra, •INFO 65 Jack Manzoor More advice and examples from our monthly selection Ad Production Fiona Andrews Production Manager Jennifer Jeffrey PUZZLE Publisher Seamus Geoghegan PAGE 84 Publishing Director Michael Potter SMALL ADS & ORDER FORM 85 Editorial Director Christopher Ward TRACE 89 Published by Redwood Publishing, 20-- a BBC Enterprises Company, A software package to convert from sprite to Draw file 120 26 Brunswick Place, London Ml 071-490 6DJ,TeL 1444. Telecom MEMORY UPGRADES 91 COMPETITION Gold 10081 REDOOlMicronet Bureau 919992492. setting and Think your A3 1 needs more Ram? We look at four leading upo ides ad typesetting by Bold Gray Design, 52 Rosebery Avenue, London, ECl R 4RP, 95 Colour by Trumps Studio, Ware, Herts. Printed by Riverside Press, St lues PLC, The exclusive review of an exciting new design program Gillingham. Distributed by BBC Frontline, Park House, 117 Park Road, Peter- HARD DISC COMPANION 101 borough, © Redwood Publishing 1 992. All rights reserved. Acorn is a registered Backups made easy? We test out the latest version of Hard Disc Companio trademark of Acorn ABC Computers Ltd. Redwood REPLAY ——- 103 Publishing is a registered , ^ ' " ciaiauser. ISSN 0263 7455. Moving video images on the Arc are finally a reality FAX PODULE PRODUCED ON 106 103 THE ARCHIMEDES Sending a fax can be as easy as pnnting a page. We examine the evidence REPLAY Aii the editorial pages in PUBLIC DOMAIN 109 BBC Acorn User are C heck out the diverse range of free software produced on a DTP system using Acorn GAMES 112 Archimedes 440/1 and The latest releases for all Acorn gamesters A540 computers, Com- HELIX BASIC 115 puter Concepts' Impres- A new approach to programming put though its paces sion 2 with Laser Direct pnntersandTaxan^ COMPETITION 120 Win monitors :^^^ a Roland music keyboard! BBC ACORN USER APRIL 1992 3 572 6 2 Image Outilnar Prehistoric Animals, sprites Micro Studio £16 J.