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___________________________ _____________ ________ / | \| \ | | / | | \| | / | |\ | | | / /| | |/ | |\ | | / /_| | | | > | | / | ______/| |/ | |_______ / | | | | | / /| | | | | | / / | | | | /| | /_________/ |________|_______| |_____________/ |________________| Archimedes Public Domain Library 39 Knighton Park Road, Sydenham, London SE26 5RN RO2 / RO3 / RPC compatibility ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RO2 means a machine fitted with RISC-OS 2, RO3 a machine fitted with RISC-OS 3.1, RPC means any RISC PC 600 or 700 or the A7000. Program names are followed by a symbol ( - = ^ ~ ) and a description. This symbol is used as a code to indicate compatibility. The equals sign ( = ) means it seems to be RO2/RO3 compatible, plus ( + ) means it's an old RO2 program which works on RO3 but there may be minor problems, an asterisk ( * ) means it doesn't work on RO3 or some important function doesn't. A colon ( : ) means RO3 only but is probably OK on the RPC Now RO2 has been declared officially dead I have stopped checking for RO2 compatibility. With the appearance of the RPC additional symbols were introduced. A ^ means it works on the RPC, so it's probably OK on RO3, ~ means it won't work on the RPC If there is just a single dash this means it hasn't been tested for compatibility. This is only a rough guide and not a guarantee of compatibility. It would take until RISC-OS 42.6 to try every function of every program. Some applications won't work properly from a Read Only media like a CD. This applies particularly to things like databases, and any program which saves a configuration file since they obviously can't save the file to a CD. If you get 'not open for update' or similar errors try copying the program to another drive like a hard or floppy disc. *********************************************************************** APDL offers no warranty or guarantee as to fitness for purpose with any PD or Shareware. Software is supplied without charge, the fee paid is for media, carriage, and general costs and overheads. Warranty is limited to media ONLY. Any faulty DISCS will be replaced. While we try to help with problems it may be best to contact the Author directly. Descriptions of programs are often taken from those supplied by the Author, and APDL cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies. *********************************************************************** Index and short description of the programs. Manuals ------- Desktop ^ Four Drawfiles. Three are 'maps' of the menu structures of !Draw, !Edit and !Paint, and the fourth is a general map of the filer, Task Manager and other main desktop menus. These are very useful to newcomers to the Acorn desktop as it enables them to have a compact printed chart showing the main menu structures and functions. Logo Manual - The Complete Guide to Logo by Dave Walsh. These are described as 'workcards' and make up 100 A5 cards, but in fact it's a huge Impression document in several files totalling over 1.8Mb, so I suspect that the adjective 'complete' is fairly accurate. Nicely illustrated and laid out, it's obviously intended as a complete manual and tutorial for use in schools. It was actually written for RM Logo, but it should apply to almost any 'brand', and Logo is a farily standard language. However, because it is not supplied as hard copy you can easily make any changes required for the version you are using. Start Write help cards - 108 Drawfiles by Alan Shelton designed to be printed and turned into Help Cards for the popular Start Write package. There are also three Index cards for the package. The advantage of this system over a conventional printed manual is that the cards can be used by several children at once. They have lots of screenshots and were written by a teacher using the program in a real classroom so are designed to be as helpful and useful as possible. Talk Write help cards - 123 Drawfiles similar to the above and anain by Alan Shelton but for Talk Write. Four 'classroom guides' by Robert Lytton. Each consistes of a series of booklets in Impression Publisher/Style format which can be printed out by busy teachers and will save them lots of time getting things 'up and running' with minimum fuss. They cover the computer itself and many popular applications used in education. Adventure Covers Arc Ventures, Badger Trails, Betsi, Crystal Rain Forest, Darryl the Dragon and Time Detectives ROMview 'A key to the Desktop'. An easy to read guide to the Acorn desktop. Will save hours of pouring over manuals for those poor unfortunate teachers who are not familiar with Acorn computers (or who have been used to Macs or PCs and don't realise how SIMPLE it all is with an Acorn) DTP Covers My World, PenDown and Splosh Data 2 Covers DataCard, DataFind and DataPick Multimedia ---------- AMedia1 ^ Arc Media 1. Hypermedia info (text and NASA images) on the Solar System. Move between 'pages' by clicking on coloured 'key' words. Extra feature allows you to backtrack last three 'pages' viewed Battle of hastings - Lots of material collected by Jim Fanning on the subject of the battle of Hastings. Includes scanned photos, including several of parts of the Bayeux tapestry, maps, a Genesis application and some textfiles of notes and information. aimed at national Curriculum Key Stage 2 or 3 Beginners ^ A comprehensive beginners guide to the Archimedes written by Dave Walsh. This uses the Hypertext system 'ClearView' so it's very easy to use and you don't need any great understanding of the Arc to use it (which would rather defeat the purpose of the whole thing). Ideal for schools where it can be used as a learning aid for beginners or a 'reminder' for the more experienced. Highly recommended for all new Archimedes owners. Bodiam - Another school visit from Jim Fanning. This time it's to Bodiam Castle in East Sussex. Contains Spritefiles of scanned photos plus a Genesis application. Castles - A series of pictures, including scanned photographs, notes, and two Genesis applications aimed at National Curriculum Key Stage 3 History. t deals with various aspects of castles, their construction, fighting, etc. plus a pictorial record of a visit to Lewes castle. This was all compiled by Jim Fanning of Tideway School, who hopes to add to it with visits to more castles Churches - A collection of Genesis applications, pictures and text files from Jim Fanning relating to History, Key Stage 3. Study Unit 1. It includes material about medieval churches and abbeys, a 'walk through' guide to Southease church in East Susses, and a guided tour of Battle Abbey !Customs ^ Superb Genesis application from Dave Walsh describing customs and traditions surrounding the festival of Christmas around the world. Lots of interesting facts and, as usual with material from Dave Walsh, it's easy to find your way about the various 'pages' and a delight to use. Younger children will love this, especially the illustrations, but there's enough information to engage the older ones (and adults!) Romans - A 'Genesis' project from Dave Walsh describing the Romans in Britain. Complete with lots of illustrations and aimed at Key Stage 2, although there is a lot of text which might make it difficult for children who are 'developing' readers. Scouts - Two genesis spplications, lots of pictures, and some scout-related stories. This disc also includes the compilation 'Joining the Cubs'. All put together by Jim Fanning of the 1st Peachaven & Telscombe Cliff Group. Southease - A three disc set from Jim Fanning of Tideway School. Mainly compiled by the pupils of the school, it relates to NC History, Key Stage 3, Medieval Realms. It concerns vists to Southease and contains material relating this to a study of a Doomsday village. There are scanned photos, plus several Genesis applications !Stuarts - A rather nice 'Magpie' application by A.Shelton. Covers the Monarchs and various events (Petition of Right, Civil War, Plague, Great Fire) and famous people. Obviously this is not done in great depth, but what is covered is done well. Normally I don't like Magpie and Genesis very much because they are so slow and clumsy, but this really is a very usefil teaching aid. !Tesco ^ This is a Genesis application put together by Dave Walsh. It describes a visit to a Tesco store by several young people done as part of the Acorn School Mulimedia competition. This is a very good application, and contains lots of info about the various products and their origins, what happens at the store, etc. !Tudors - Similar to the above but covering the life and times of the Tudor monarchs. TideMills - Another project from Jim Fanning of Tideway School. As usual this comprises some text files, scanned photos and two Genesis applications. The project is all about the local area, and includes some historical notes and maps. Although this may not be of direct interest to people outside the area it does act as a very good example of how students can use the computer to collate the results of field trips and other studies to produce a computer project Waterloo ^ A series of plans, eye witness accounts and other descriptions, documents and illustrations about the Battle of Waterloo, collected by D.Morfitt Astronomy --------- !Coprnicus ^ Lets you identify objects in the night sky. Star maps can be printed or saved as Sprite or Draw files. This is a slightly cut-down version of a commercial program but the main functions are operative !MoonTool : Gives info about the moon. Phase, age, distance, angle, dates of last/next new moon etc. plus various other items !SkyGuide ^ 0.16 Very complrehensive celestial viewing program from Alan Senior. Will work on an ARM2 but it's rather slow so it really needs at least an ARM3 !SkyView ^ 1.02 Superb program which shows a simulation of the sky showing all the major astronomical bodies at any time and date from any location on the Earths surface. The result is displayed in scrollable windows. Can also print the output via RiscOS printer drivers. !Planets = gravity simulation, operates in a desktop window !SolarSys ^ By David Pratt, desktop program which gives quite extensive info about the planets !Spotter = 1.10 Gives a variety of information on satellites. It uses the NORAD SGP4 and SDP4 models to give visibility predictions It can display the information relative to any point on the Earth's surface, perform real time analysis, and print out the results !SSystem = 1.10 Animated view of the Solar System. !Stargazer ^ 7.0 By Steve Ellwood, very good star plotter with real time update of the viewing window. Lots of features and the data is in the form of a textfile so more expert users can edit it to add data for additional objects !Sun = Lets you plot the position of the sun at any tile of day !Telescope ^ By Martin Dale, gives info about the objects in the solar system and general astronomical data. The observer's position and date can be varied Database -------- !EasiBase = 1.01 Straightforward desktop database with a few nice features. All the usual database functions. Fields can be text, integer, FP or date. Cards are designed using a 'FormED' type editor so you can make them just the way you want them. Has simple graph plotting feature. !Finder = 1.10 Program to 'find' things in data files. In practice it's a sort of 'shell' database that can work with text- based files. Several example files are provided including national vehicle number plates, international dialling codes, post codes etc. Since the files are text based you can make your own, which is the main idea !QicAddres ^ 1.01 Useful utility by R.Lytton to search a database for an address and 'type' it at the cursor !Vicinity ^ 1.22 Fairly uninspiring desktop name and address database by John Wright, but it's easy to use and would probably serve most people's needs. A nice feature is that it can 'type' data into other apps. Powerbase = 6.99 The most comprehensive and powerful Shareware database for the Archimedes. Has just about every feature you could need. Report generation, mail merge with Impression via Impulse, import/export CSV and can even incorporate sprites into databases. Latest version can keep a 'log' of changes made plus other improvements and bug fixes. Comes with several example databases. Latest version has a 'quick tutorial' based on a simple name/address database to help new users. Can handle mail-merge with Ovation or Impression Publisher/Style Diary_Note ---------- !Agenda ^ 4.2 Nice desktop diary from Raffaele Ferrigno. !Cal ^ Very good desktop diary and calender from Ian Palmer !Calenary ^ Extremely good desktop diary and Calendar from Ian Palmer !Calendar_1 - 1.00 Suprisingly it's a calendar. You can view it in a desktop window or print it !Calendar_2 = 1.03I Application for creating calendars via CC's Impression using their ImpulseII protocol. Comes with five sample calendars. !Diary ^ 1.00 Quite nice desktop diary from Nic Regan !Event ^ Nice desktop calendar/diary by Marc Leary !Filo ^ 2.83 Billed as 'a desktop FiloFax' by Keith Theobald, and that's exactly what it is. Latest version has lots of extra features to make it into a very useful program !Journal ^ Desktop diary from Robert Seago !Journo ^ Diary program. NOT for recording dates, appointments, etc, but DIARY in the original meaning, for keeping a record of what happened during the day. !NoteBook = A very simple desktop notepad !NoteBook = A useful desktop notepad from R.Peach !NotePad = 1.30 The first desktop notepad I've seen that's actually worth using. By Steve Tudway and Andy Piper !Notepad ^ 2.10 Yes, it's another one of those desktop notepads, this time by Stuart marshall !Organiser ^ Complete personal orgainser by Chris Morison !Planner ^ Creates an A4 year planner as a Draw file ready for printing Electronics ----------- !555 ^ Calculates R/C values for monostable and bistable timers using the popular 555 ic. !ACL - Linear circuit filter analyser !AnyRC ^ Very useful program from P.E.Marshall. It calculates two resistors (E12 or E24) required to make an intermediate resistance. Parallel and serial options are given. !Circuit ^ Rather good desktop program by J.Robbins for drawing circuit diagrams. Can save the circuit as a Drawfile for printing. Large library of components. Very easy to use. !Layout ^ 1.10 Very professional looking desktop PCB design package by Bernhard Walter. As well as its own format designs can be saved as Drawfiles for printing etc. !RasMol ^ 1.20 A full multi-tasking port of the popular molecular graphics program by Roger Sayle. The Acorn version is by Martun Wurther. Includes various examples and scripts. !Resistor = Draws a picture of a resistor with the appropriate colour codes from your specified resistance/tolerance !RiscPCB ^ Another very good PCB designing package from T.Swanborough RLaB ^ Our Lab. A *VERY* powerful package released under the Free Software Foundation licence. To quote, it 'brings the power of stable matrix maths tools plus a stable data plotting facility together' It's CLI driven (normally run in a Taskwindow) that uses a structured language for input. This can be either typed in directly or as a file. There are built in functions and these can also be user defined. Output can be either to the terminal (ie. the Taskwindow) or can be sent directly to GNUplot, which will give a graphical display. Documentation is provided as lots of text files, many of which relate to other versions, and a 50 page short manual supplied as DrawFiles. !BSpice = Berkeley Spice 3A6, Arc port by FKW and ETJ van de Pol as BSpice v1.24. The famous ciruit simulator from the Electrical Engineering dept of the University of California. !Nutmeg = 1.00 A program to take the output from Spice and create diagrams using the data. Games ----- !Gravity ^ By David Horman. You've probably seen this before. You fire missiles at your opponent but they are thrown off course by the gravity fields of the planets. However, this is the best version I've seen with much nicer graphics than most. !Hangman ^ Best version I have seen. A bulldozer pushes the letters into place. Keeps the player in suspense until the end. !IconMatch = Good 'pairs' game using the sprite icons !Ludo = Faithful representation of the board game. All players can be either human or computer !MagicWords = Another 'guess the words' type game. !Mahjongg ^ Nice (though non-desktop) version from Tim Browse. Plays very well !Monopoly = Looks like a BBC port but plays OK with all the features of the real game !Pink Mog ^ An educational adventure game. Lots of questions that you have to answer on a variety of subjects. !Soysta ^ Rather good tool for teaching keyboard skills. You shoot down the bombs by hitting the correct key to fire at them, but the keys keep changing, and there's not enough time to look at the keyboard! !StarMath ^ Very good game which teaches maths. Enough excitement to keep children interested. !Starters ^ 'Consequences' style game !Taipei = Superb desktop version of this ancient Chinese game by Alex Hopkins. Very addictive. Games.Puzzle ------------ !Beakers ^ Non desktop game where you shuffle water between two beakers to isolate the required quantity in one beaker. Sounds simple but actually quite difficult !Bottle ^ Hangman style word game by Mike Smith !Wordiz ^ 1.1 Two player word guessing game Quizland = An educational quiz game with questions on English language, history, geography, maths and natural science. !CrossAid ^ 2.00 helps you find a word when only some of the letters are known, hence very useful for solvong crosswords !FindWords ^ Non-desktop word square puzzle. As well as a the sample puzzles you can also make your own. !Guess ^ Word guessing game - guess the word the computer has selected. As you keep guessing help is given as to which letters are/not in word and their postions MagicWords = Another 'guess the words' type game. !Reveal = 1.20 A simple desktop puzzle designed for use in schools (it was actually written for a school in Dumfries). !Word_S ^ A desktop word search program by Mike Smith. As with his previous programs it's Shareware, but there are no proper instructions, so although it looks like a very good program you are going to have to work out how to use it without any help from the Author. !XWords ^ From Geraint Williams, takes a list of words and generates a crossword in the form of a Drawfile. The Drawfile can also incorporate the clues so you can have a nice, neat, completed crossword. !X-Word ^ A crossword compiler from Mike Smith. Same comments apply as !Word_S. Games.Quiz ---------- !Grid_Eur ^ Shows a map of Europe and asks questions about the positions and relationships between places. The idea is to teach grid references and compass directions !Grid_Afr ^ Ditto Africa !Grid_UK ^ Ditto U.K. !Highway ^ Nice program to test knowledge of the Highway Code and help you learn about it. All multiple choice questions with illustrations and mouse operated so it's suitable for 'younger persons' and ideal for schools !Link ^ Quiz game for two or three players based on the 'block buster' game. Database can be customised so you too can ask for a 'P' please! MC_Chem ^ Desktop multiple choice quiz. The subject is chemistry, but the questions are all simple textfiles so you can alter or add to them or write complete new ones MC_Phys ^ Ditto physics. Topics include acceleration, circuits, EM waves, energy, colour, heat, forces, magnetism, work, vectors, pressure, radioactivity and refraction MC_Maths ^ Multiple choice maths quiz including: formulae, geometry, percentages, measurement, standard form & simplification !OS_Symbol ^ Asks various questions about the symbols used on maps !Quiz ^ 1.11 Non desktop trivia quiz game by Martin Rose. At present the questions are DATA statements in the program but if this was changed it would probably have some educational use. Quizland = An educational quiz game with questions on English language, history, geography, maths and natural science. !Where_Eur ^ A similar program to the above but asks about the positions of geographical features, cities, etc. !Where_Afr ^ Ditto Africa !Where_UK ^ Ditto U.K. !Wordiz ^ 1.1 Two player word guessing game !WordTest ^ Tests knowledge of numbers between 1 and 100 in a variety of languages !XReferenc ^ Addictive game where you have to guess all the letters in a grid at the bottom of the screen Graphics -------- !AWViewer ^ A viewer for Artworks files. Allows people who don't have it to look at pictures created with CC's Artworks package !Draw2Spr ^ App by Ian McLaren to convert a Drawfile to a Sprite !DrawPersp ^ 1.3 A much improved version of Robert Seago's 'ThreeDee' program for drawing in perspective. With examples. Draw+ ^ 2.37 Jonathan Martens superb PD drawing package now has all the features of RiscOS 3 Draw and more. Transformed text and sprites, colour dithering and iconising supported (RO3 only), text objects, sprites, groups can be rotated, skewed and flipped. Transformed text objects can be edited. Some types of Vector objects can be used (not surprising as Vector was also written by Jonathan). Various bug fixes and improvements in font handling. Three example Libraries and some example Draw files are provided. !D_Turtle ^ A simple desktop Turtle Graphics program. Works on the RiscPC provided you use a numbered mode. Supports all major commands as well as procedures, sound effects and sprites. Background graphics can also be imported !EasyAnim ^ By Nicholas Marriot, very easy to use desktop animation package. Originally intended for primary school children, so it might even be possible for some adults to use it without problems. Has its own editor to create and alter the frames which can then be 'played'. With examples !EPSobject = Converts EPS format files as used by Corel Draw, Aldus Freehand, Adobe Illustrator etc. into vector objects suitable for use in !Draw !FreeHand ^ Simple drawing package for 'freehand' drawings which saves its output as a Drawfile. Makes drawing or certain shapes much easier than with !Draw itself !Graffiti ^ Nice desktop art package from Andrew Lindesay. All the usual tools and feature and very easy to use. Complete with good Manual in text and Impression Style format !Grid ^ temporarily draws a grid over the screen. Very useful for lining up objects in Draw, template editors, etc. !GreyEdit ^ 2.00 A utility to process 256-level greyscale images. !Mturtle ^ Straightforward turtle graphics program !PickAPic ^ 1.15 Program by Hugh Eagle to let you browse through a disc or discs of Draw, Sprite, or Poster files and pick out the one(s) you want to use. This new version has many new features. It can process Artworks files, archives in SparkFS, ArcFS, etc. format, 'new format' Drawfiles, and can handle rotated text and transformed sprites in Drawfiles. It will also now multitask during long operations, plus lots of other improvements. Various other enhancements are proposed but these depend upon feedback from users. Although PickAPic isn't Shareware, if you like it I strongly suggest you send a contribution to the Author as he suggests that this will encourage him to spend more time on it's development. !Thumbnail ^ 1.50 Superb program from Ian Palmer to display a series of miniature versions of pictures so you can find the one you want quickly in a similar manner to PickAPic. Support for Sprite, Draw and Artworks. new version is S/Arm compatible and includes a 'read only' version that you can put on distribution discs !Turtle = Very simple 'turtle graphics' program !Turtle = Turtle Graphics program from Mike Charlton. Keyboard -------- !AllChars ^ 0.20 Another 'Chars' style utility. Main advantage of this one is that it covers the entire character set including codes 0-31 so it's useful for inserting control codes into text as well as characters 128-255 !ALT-Keys ^ Re-installs the International Keyboard nodule if it has been unplugged. !ButtonBar ^ Places a window on the screen with 'buttons' which, when clicked on, simulate a keypress. You can define these buttons to suit any application. Samples are provided for Edit and Impression but you can easily make your own. !DesKeys ^ Just puts a large window on screen which represents the keyboard. Clicking on a 'key' in this has the same effect as pressing the key. Unfortunately it misses out the function keys and numeric keypad but it would probably be very useful for someone who was handicapped as it would enable them to 'type' using the mouse. Works on RiscPC but assumes a 'standard' Acorn keyboard layout !DrawStrip = Produces Draw files of keystrips. Comes with several keystrips but you can easily make your own. Some BBC ROM applications also come with keystrips produced with this. !FuncKeys ^ A rather nice function key strip from Simon Hatliff which installs itself just above the icon bar. Includes definitions for many popular apps (Artworks, Draw, Draw+, Edit, Impression, Poster, etc.) and you can easily write your own for others !German ^ Allows the German accented characters to be entered into the keyboard buffer by clicking on them in a small window. You could use !Chars but this is much neater !KeyFix ^ Lets you have the equivalent of a 'shift lock' key. This would be invaluable to disabled users. !Keys = 1.1 Lets the Fkeys issue commands to the OS while operating within RiscOS !KeySpeak = Each key 'speaks' its name when pressed !key_click ^ Makes a (horrible) noise when any key is pressed LimitF12 ^ Repeated on this disc, stops use of the F12 key so no-one can get access to the CLI or open a TaskWindow !Macros ^ Hotkey keyboard macro program from Paul Clifford. Up to 20 definable macros, each with up to 180 characters. !MathChars ^ Useful program by Hugo Mills which is similar to !Chars except that it only displays the 'maths' characters in a given font so you don't need to have a window big enough to display all the characters. !Mousky ^ Nice multi-font 'Chars' type app from Michiel van Schaik !Se_Macros = Program from Mike Barnes to insert often repeated phrases into the keyboard buffer with a mouse click !ShiftKeys ^ Lets you 'press' the Shift, Alt and Ctrl keys by clicking on buttons. Makes mouse operations which need simultaneous keypresses easier for disabled users. !WordEnter = 1.13 Lets you enter frequently used words or phrases into the keyboard buffer by clicking on a menu !XChars ^ By far the nicest !Chars substitue I've seen by Martin Wurthner. Language -------- !Dis-le = A French language tutor from the people who brought you !Sprich. It uses sound so it 'speaks' in French and a multiple choice quiz. Can also use earphones instead of the speaker for use in the classroom. !Dis-le version 3 This now has the full 2,200 GCSE word list and various other enhancements, training mode, multi-choice quiz, spelling tester, dictionary, word search, etc. All these enhancements, especially the large number of sound samples required for the huge word list, have made the complete package quite a bit larger, nearly 7Mb in fact !FrVb_Test = French Verb Test from Graham Campbell. A non desktop program that asks for French translations of English verbs. Not fancy but works well. There is not much data with the program but the questions are in the form of simple text files so you can easily make your own. !Heure - Tell the time in French LatinGram ^ This is actually a book, made up of textfiles, separated into 39 chapters, and is a comprehensive course on Latin grammar. It's very well written and easy to read, but I can't find an author's name anywhere. Much better than any of the standard textbooks I can remember. !LingoMast ^ 1.42 Another language tutor from Nigel Caplan. Not as comprehensive or sophisticated as Sprich but you can easily expand the vocabulary yourself !Palabras ^ Program for A level Spanish students which acts as a dictionary/phrase book by Tony Gibson !Sprich = Superb Shareware German language tutor which uses speech. Registration is only £5 and there are other versions for Chinese, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish etc available from the Authors. Highly recommended. !VerbMast : A comprehensive program from Nigel Caplan which displays verbs in a desktop window. This version has german and French but others will be available !Verbs - Translates verbs between French and English !Vokabel = I think this is a German language tutor but as all the instructions are in 'foreign' and it's thirty years since I last used German.... Maths ----- !AGP ^ 1.72 Archimedes Graph plotter by Ben Harris. A Wimp program to plot graphs of functions. Can plot two graphs on the same axis which is useful for comparison. Can save output as its own filetye for realoading or as a Drawfile. Fast and very easy to use !AngleConv = 1.04 Converts between deg, Rads and Grad. !ChartDraw = 3.00 Program from Chris Johnson to Produce charts in a variety of formats. Pie charts, graphs, etc. !Cubic = A program from Mike Williams to solve cubic equations. !Engine = An engine power calculator !Equator = 1.00 Solves quadratic equations. !ExprEdit = From G.Buxton, this is used to edit mathematical expressions which can then be exported as Draw or Sprite files so thet they can be either printed or incorporated into documents. Supports basic arithmetic functions plus square root, power, and brackets !Factors - Calculates the factors of a number !FigureIt = 1.00 Intended to give insight in different number series. Explores primes, Fibonacci series, squares, triangle numbers, etc. Aimed at Key Stages 2,3,4, Attmt Target 5 !Fit = Two programs from Mike Williams, FitLine and FitPower. they try to fit the best straight line through a number of points and the best power function to a number of points respectively !Fraction = Desktop program to convert decimal numbers to fractions. !Funcy2 = 2.02 Very comprehensive program from Richard Blythe to plot graphs of function. !Gauss ^ Simultaneous equation solver from Richard Sharpe !GraphPlot = 1.21 Desktop graph plotter. !Integrate = 1.01 evaluates definite integrals !Locus ^ 1.12 Formula based mathematical graph plotter by Richard Sharpe. Probably the best available at any price. Lots of features, can accept input in a variety of ways including direct formula (it also has a library of ready-to-use formulae) and CSV. Despite its complexity it's very easy to use and was written by a teacher for use in schools both as a teaching aid and a serious statistical and analytical tool. With good manual and a tutorial. Locus is Shareware and is available as a pre-registered package from APDL with a laser printed manual. See the Commercial catlogue for details. !MathGraph = Another program to draw scientific graphs !Maths = 1.00 Non desktop function graph plotter by R.H.Thornburrow When I first tried this program it wouldn't run at all but I've cleared some of the obvious bugs and most of the functions seem to work. In theory it should run on a BBC or Nimbus as well but I've only tried it on the Arc. !MulDiv ^ Simple non desktop multiplication and division tester !Numbers ^ A program from Rischard Sharpe for messing about with numbers !Numeric ^ 1.03 From Graham Hick. Calculates integrals of functions, bonded intervals and derivatives plus other features. !Quad ^ 2.20 Tries to solve quadratic equations !RPI ^ Calculates the infalation of a price based upon the Retail Price Index. Ths data included is from 1925 to 1990, but I have modified the program so it's now an external text file so you can easily extend it. !Solver ^ Quadratic equation solver from David Bradshaw !Statistix ^ 1.02 Program by Robert Seago to perform statistical analysis. Can take input data in the form of a CSV or Text file or it can be entered directly. Only a limited number of functions are supported !Tables ^ 1.20 From Richard Sharpe, a very good desktop Tables practice program. It draws a grid with numbers along each axis and you fill in the answers. Keeps a log of results. !Trig = A program to find any value in a triangle (length, angle) given the other required information. Enter all the known details and it will try to calculate the item you want. Worksheets - Several discs full of maths worksheets for KS 2 and 3. These are in the form of both Eureka and Drawfiles. In the words of Dave Walsh the sheets cover numbers and the Four Rules in a systematic way. Unlike other ways of making worksheets, these are task analysed to the skill you are teaching / practicing eg. carrying tens or decomposing; problems in written form; mathematics investigations; probability studies etc. Misc ---- !2DWaves = Simulation of 2 dimensional waves !Anagram - Simple Anagram generator !Angle ^ By Richard Sharpe, desktop program to help children learn about angles !Assist_1 ^ Prints a customised periodic table. Data can include atomic number, mass, boiling point, melting point, density, oxidation states, radioactive isotopes, atomic radius, covalent radius, ionic radius, atomic volume, electronegativity, first ionisation energy and electron structure. Graphs showing trends can also be printed !Assist_2 ^ Creates printed worksheets based on the chemistry topic of balancing equations. Numbers, reatants or products can be missed out depending on the preferences set. Select from six layout effects. !Assist_3 ^ Produces a printed worksheet for science AT4. Topics covered: Earth and Space, Electricity, Electronics, Energy, Forces & Motion, Light and Colour, Motors and Generators, Sound & Waves. Within each topic a variety of worksheets can be generated including, crosswords, anagrams, word searches, missing vowels and True or False questions. Choose from six layouts !Atmospher = 1.02 A diagram of the various parts of the Earths atmosphere in a scrolling desktop window !A>B>C ^ "The concentrations of the three components A,B, and C are calculated for the system consisting of two sequential non reversible first order reactions during the specified time period, and the resulting concentrations can be displayed graphically." !Birthday ^ Helps you prepare an A4 poster of the events connected with someones birth date, eg. famous people with the same birthday, historical events on that day, etc. !Branch = A 'branching' database. Items are classified and found by questions that can be answered by a simple 'Yes' or 'No'. Ideally suited for children because it's very easy to find the item(s) that fit the category you want without even realising you are searching a complicated 'tree'. !Brownian = 1.30 A simulation of Brownian motion Cambridge = A multi-tasking emulation of the imaginary "Cambridge Microcomputer' used for computer studies !ChiSquare ^ 1.02 By Robert Seago, does simple statistical Chi-Squared tests, which I gather has something to do with genetics !Cloze ^ A nice idea. Various words are 'removed' from a paragraph of text and you have to try to work out what they are from context CO2effect = A program by Bandy Ridgwell which is a global warming simulation. It can plot and display the likely effects of the various 'greenhouse' gases. Results are displayed graphically and can be saved. This is a 'cut down' demo version, but the only restrictions are that some parameters are fixed and cannot be varied. the full version is available from teh Author for the very modest price of £10. This seems like a comprehensive simulation and would be very useful as a teaching aid !Convert = 1.01 Program to convert various units. Fahrenheit/Celsius, kW/BTU, Ft-Ins/Metres, Miler per Hour/Metres per second. !Converter = Simple desktop units converter by Ewen Roberts. Metres/ft, cm/ins, km/miles, gals/ltr, gm/oz, kg/lb. !Converter ^ 1.01 By Ian Palmer, the best measurement converter I've seen. Can convert liear measure, area, volume, mass, time, force, pressure, energy, power, viscosity and temperature in many different units too numerous to mention. Can also convert combinations of units, eg. metres per second to miles per hour. !CV+ ^ Helps you create a CV, including a scanned photo. Control over layout and fonts is provided. !Cycles = Draws a graph showing the period doubling of the logistic map equation !Distil = This was the winning entry for the 1990 Institute of Chemical Engineers student computing competition and simulates distillation column operation !EarthData ^ A sort of geographical database which creates lots of menus containing info on most of the countries, eg. cities, population, area, government, etc. !Epochs - 1.31 Shows the geological epochs !Family_2 ^ 2.17 Nice geneology program from Denis Howe. Quite a comprehensive program. the whole 'tree' is shown on a desktop window and clicking on any name opens another window showing notes on that person. Various print and display options. Looks very easy to use. Can accept data in GEDCOM format. Comes with an example tree and some additional tools for handling GEDCOM files !Fourier = 1.20 Draws Fourier diagrams. !FourST = 1.50 Little animated display of Four Stroke cycle !Fuse = 1.00 Helps you decide what fuse a domestic appliance needs. You choose the appliance and power consumption and then the fuse you think it needs. The program then shows whether it's too small (the fuse blows) or too large (you have caused a fire). !Gravity = Uses Newton's law of gravity to display the interaction between a number of objects bouncing around the screen. !Hiper ^ A sort of hypertext compiler by Andrew Hunter. It can create hypertext documents with various features. Would be useful for program Help texts, education, and lots of other purposes !HowMany ^ 1.01 Again from Robert Seago, illustrates a technique used to estimate the number of animals in a population in a closed environment !Junior ^ Computer Concept's Impression Junior program. They have now permitted this to be distributed as 'Freeware'. This version is completely unbridged and includes a Manual and examples. It's the early equivalent of Impression Style, and although not as powerful as Impression Publisher it's still a fully featured wordprocessor with many features of a full DTP package. This version works on any machine with at least 2Mb RAM (inc S/Arm), although if you've got a RPC it needs an old-style numbered screen mode or strange things can happen. (For those who are interested in getting a copy of the current equivalent, !Style, you might note that CC's 'special offer' price is actually higher than APDL's 'normal' price!! !Kinetic = 1.30 A simulation of the Kinetic Theory !Lissajous = 1.00 A lissajous function plotter by Mike Curnow !Mole ^ 2.00 A molecular modeller from Simon Kilvington. Can save the models as Draw or Sprite files as well as its own file format. With lots of examples !MoleDraw ^ A molecular drawing package by Simon Kilvington. Works rather like !Draw but with special features to make it much easier to produce drawings of chemical structures. Output is in the form of standard Drawfiles so they can be used in other applications. !MolecDemo - Demo version of Molecule drawing program !Monarchs ^ Displays English monarchs !Moon = Similar program for the moon !Motor = Animation of a four cylinder engine showing the four cycles. It's non desktop and rather crude but the cycle is clearly demonstrated with valves opening etc. !NCradle = 1.10 Demonstration of Newtons Cradle !PCMdemo = A program to demonstrate Pulse Code Modulation Physics = A series of programs from the Dept of Physics and Astronomy at Glasgow uni. Ten programs in all on a variety of subjects. I won't describe them in detail because if you're involved in this field you will want to try them for yourself Phy_Sym ^ Tests knowledge of symbols used in physics PTable ^ Displays info about periodic table !PTable = 2.06 Displays the periodic table and gives information on all the main elements !RasMol ^ 1.20 A full multi-tasking port of the popular molecular graphics program by Roger Sayle. The Acorn version is by Martun Wurther. Includes various examples and scripts. !ReadEase ^ By Richard Wareham, calculates the 'reading ease quotient' of a textfile. Useful for finding out if text is suitable for use by younger children !Roman = 1.00 By Ian Knox, converts decimal numbers to Roman !SciGraph = Creates a Drawfile of a scientific graph !Seismic = Sampled microseismic sounds from naturally fractured granite from the Cambourne School of Mines Also some sprites of images derived from a Borehole Televiewer. !Shopper = 1.58 Teaches children to handle cash. The pupil is offered items to buy and selects the required coins to pay for them. Simple graphics based user interface which draws the actual coins. The pupil just enters the answers by clicking on a calculator type keyboard. !Spell = Gives practice in the 'look, cover, copy' method. !SS ^ Billed as a 'cell editor'. Briefly, it loads data in a variety of formats and displays it in cells rather like a spreadsheet. Obviously data must be 'viewable', but it's ideal for looking at CSV, Tab separated and various other formats without the need to load a major package !SSS ^ Simple desktop spreadsheet, complete with 'C' source !SWave = 1.52 Demonstration of standing waves !TempConv - Converts Fahrenheit to Celsius !Trent ^ 1.02 Another app by Robert Seago to find the index of quality of a freshwater lake or river. Based on a system developed by Severn Trent Water !Two ST ^ 1.50 Little animated display of Two Stroke cycle !Turtle = Very simple 'turtle graphics' program !Turtle = Turtle Graphics program from Mike Charlton. !Type = 1.4 Designed to give you typing practice though it isn't a typing tutor !TypeTute = Very simple typing 'practice' program. !TypeWrite = Simple non desktop typing tutor !Wave = 1.52 Draws sine waves WelshRsrc ^ A set of Welsh language resources so that all the main apps can have menus and messages in Welsh !Zoo = 1.20 Nice 'game' from Raffael Ferrigno. It's actually a simple 'expert system' demo but the idea is that the computer has to 'guess' the type of animal from the answers you give to a series of true or false questions. Could probably be improved into a useful teaching aid !Seek ^ A 'bible search' program by Mike Williams. Lets you search through the King James Bible for any words and then produces a list of all the verses that contain that word or words. This list can then be saved. Mouse ----- !AutoMouse - Mouse movements via the cursor keys !Coord ^ 1.00 Display mouse coordinates in a small window !Cursor = Move the mouse pointer with the keyboard and control the pointer shape. |CursCtrl = Another app to control the mouse via the cursor keys. Lefty ^ A Module that I wrote to reverse the action of the Left and Right mouse buttons (Select and Adjust). Intended for left-handed people who prefer to have a left-handed mouse !MAccurate ^ Very simple program by David Sharp to move the mouse using ALT + arrow key !MChange = 1.10 Another mouse speed utility from John Reed. Nice and easy to use and you can type any speed, so it's not just limited to 1-5 !Mickey ^ Another utility to display the mouse x/y co-ordinated, but the best feature is its ability to set the 'origin' so it can display the pointer position relative to any point you choose rather than the absolute position !Mileage = Shows the distance your mouse has travelled !Mouse = Sets mouse speed from a desktop window. Big advantage is that it can set the horizontal and vertical steps separately, very useful for sprite or template editing. !MouseCtrl = Mouse speed control from the desktop !MouseII : 2.00 Much improved version of Andrew Heckfords Mouse program. Lets you set mouse step, pointer wrap, cursor control, and can switch to a large brightly coloured pointer for the 'visually challenged' !Mousky ^ Nice multi-font 'Chars' type app from Michiel van Schaik !MouseOff = From Martyn Rose, lets you move the mouse off the screen. As with RO3 you can move windows off screen this lets you get to the scrollbars and buttons which might otherwise be just out of reach. !MouseStep = 2.00 Change mouse step from the desktop !Mousey = Displays X-Y co-ordinates of the mouse pointer !MouSpeed = 1.10 Controls of the speed of the mouse using hotkeys, very useful as it doesn't appear on the icon bar and you don't have to 'click' on anything to change speed. The only (minor) problem is that it uses ALT+(number) to switch speeds. With RO2 this was OK but RO3 assigns characters to these keys. However, using CTRL+ALT+(number) solves the problem! !PCMouse ^ By Michael Kircher, a Module that let's you use a PC style serial mouse !Rat = Invaluable utility from Michael Coe to toggle the mousestep between two user-configurable rates. As the rates aren't limited to the !Configure options of 1 to 5 this lets me switch between a slow rate for !Paint and !Templed and my usual 8, which I can't do with !Configure !SlowPtr = Another mousestep utility which slows down the mouse when you hold down SELECT and ADJUST. Useful for dragging objects in some applications but you'll have to edit the program to set the 'fast' speed to the one you prefer as there's no external configuration !Warfarin = 1.10 Emulates the mouse with the cursor keys or other keys defined by the user. Very useful. Network ------ !ArcCount = Shows users free space on SJ fileserver !awServer ^ 0.05 An 'experimental' fileserver !awSpooler ^ A spoolimg printer server !CV ^ Helps network managers view usage on their systems. Mimics SJ Research *CV !EcoTimeOut ^ Helps eliminate 'No Reply' errors caused by large files !Eyeball = Lets you 'grab' a screenshot from a machine that is connected to yours via Econet. If you're supervising pupils I'm sure you can think of 1001 uses for this !Free ^ Helps network managers view usage on their systems. Mimics SJ Research *FREE !FS ^ A fast (or so it says) fileserver !Lockout and !Unlock = Companion programs to stop/enable terminals on an Econet network from receiving 'notify' messages. !Machines ^ Lists machines on Econet !NetCtrl = 1.15 From James Aylett, a network manager to help you to control a network from a master computer !NetChat ^ Econet chat program !NetSim :~ Patches the Econet module to fool it into thinking the network hardware is there and installs netFiler !NetTime ^ Reads the Fileserver clock and sets local times to match !Network = 1.19 A network manager by Stewart Brodie with various features !Newusers ^ Displays all the users on a network and lets you do variuos things to them (the Authors words, not mine) !Notify ^ Allows immediate communication between Econet stations !SimNet = 1.02 Complete network manager from Chris Corbett. Looks like a very useful package, and the main feature seems to be extensive password management for groups of users. It's a Shareware program and contains good documentation Utilities --------- !Analysis ^ Program by Giovani Lo Conti to analyse text files. Can produce various outputs, concordances, KWIC, KWOC, readability, statistics, etc. !AppDock2 = 2.41 Neat utility from Martin Wuerthner similar to the one provided with NeXT systems. Puts a 'border' of buttons around two sides of the screen and these can have application icons on them. Clicking a button runs that app. Neater than the backdrop as the buttons are smaller and you can bring it to the front with a keypress. !Atlanta ^ 1.46 Shareware font manager by David McCormack. Looks like a very good package, very versatile with lots of features !BlakHole2 ^ 4.01 Superior desktop dustbin with an animation on the icon bar. Lots of other features including file find, RMA utilities, etc !Chords ^ Useful 'interactive chord dictionary' for guitarists by Andrew Bennet with over 180 chords !ClicBack = 2.99 Superb hard disc backup program from Steve Spry. Allows full, differential or incremental backups either to floppies or another hard disc (Syquest?). Lots of other features including data compression, partial restore, etc. It's Careware (£10 registration) and it is now unrestricted so you won't forget to register, will you? As all proceeds go to the Cancer and Leukemia In Childhood Trust (hence the name) it's even less forgiveable than usual. Latest version has several bug fixes (now handles Image files correctly so will back up your PC partition) plus many new features inlcuding a 'don't compress' list so it won't waste time trying to compress things like Archives. !CSVtoText - Converts CSV format files as used by many spreadsheets to text !DeskSpace ^ Another 'virtual desktop' app. It has one feature that you will either love or hate. When you move the mouse pointer to the edge of the screen the screen changes to the virtual desk on that side. Potentially very useful but it can be rather a pain if you want to get at a window that's just off screen !DFSreader ^ 0.01 A filing system for DFS discs. Won't double step so if you've got 40 track discs you'll need a 40/80 switched drive. I've used this extensively and it works very well. !Director ^ 0.11 Nice tool from Nick Craig-Wood which lets you create menus of commands and icons. Lots of features and worth trying, especially if you have a complex HD structure !DirMenu = 0.24 Useful app which, when you click MENU on the title bar of a filer window, displays a menu tree of the path of the window. This lets you 'move' back up the tree to any other directory without 'passing through' all the intermediate directories. Invaluable if you have a large hard disc with complex directory structures. !Figlet ^ 2.00 Handy program for producing large text. Ideal for headings, signatures, etc. It was used for most of the APDL catalogue file headings. !FileSafe ^ 1.70 Useful file encrypter by Glyn Snowden !FlashCar ^ Another one of those apps to flash the caret. !FontMgr2 ^ 0.15 Very good Font Manager from Andrew Lindesay. lets you put your fonts in groups and switch the groups in and out of use at will. Seems to work OK in Risc PC. Includes good documentation in text and Impression Style format and a utility to convert from previous FostMgr1 format. !Guest ^ I quite like this. It lets you have lots of applications apparently installed on the icon bar, but they aren't really there, they are just 'ghosts', under control of !Guest. When you click on one of them (or drag a suitable file to it) !Guest will 'run' it just as if the program was installed. The advantage is that all those icons aren't using any RAM, so you can appear to have many apps installed without gobbling up huge chunks of memory !HardBack ^ 1.11 Comprehensive Hard disc backup and restore from Theo Markettos !IconDir = 0.11 Opens directories, runs programs, etc rather like !Menon. If you have previously used !Menon try this, it's *much* better in almost every way. !LongRead ^ 0.44 Very useful program by Ben Harris which displays a textfile in a window. Main advantage is that it doesn't load the whole file but just caches a part of it, so you can read files which are far too big to fit into RAM !MacHFS ^ 1.04 Program to transfer files from Apple Mac discs. Only works Mac->Arc and only with 720K or 1.44Mb (if you have the hardware). Much improved from the earlier non- desktop version. It now uses a filer-like window although it doesn't work like a conventional filer, mainly because of the strange way that Mac discs are organised with 'forks'. However it's a LOT cheaper than the alternatives and it will let you get the data off a Mac disc. Hopefully the Author will continue to improve it so that we will no longer be forced to pay the outrageous prices asked for the commercial products. !MenuBar ^ By Graham Crow, an absolute essential for every hard disc user. Far superiour to Blinds, it was previously sold by BeeBug but now completely re-written with lots of new features. Briefly, it puts a bar acrross the top of the screen with lots of pull-down menus which can launch tasks, load files, open directories, etc. Each bar can have up to ten menus, and each menu up to 30 items. You can also have as many as 30 separate bars and switch between them, so you can set up different systems for different tasks and have the things you need for that task readily available without a complicated, cluttered, system. This program is highly recommended (it's the only one I've bothered to install myself), so much so that APDL will be selling it, fully registered complete with a printed manual (see the Commercial catalogue). !ReadEase ^ By Richard Wareham, calculates the 'reading ease quotient' of a textfile. Useful for finding out if text is suitable for use by younger children !Snglarity ^ What happens when a Black Hole gets smaller - a replacement for the popular Black Hole II for people who just want a small wastebin !StrongEd ^ 4.21, plus StrongHelp 2.10. I still don't think it's as good as Zap, but this version does seem stable on the RPC. Has now copied many of the more advanced features of Zap, and I admit it does look prettier. One thing it doesn't seem to have is Zap's huge number of bitmap fonts. I don't know if it's possible to change the font with StrongED, I don't like the one it uses and I can't find any references to fonts in the only documentation available (StrongHelp format only so you can't search it for keywords!!) so I assume it can't. !StrongHelp 2.10 with (large) help files on SWI's, C language, Shared C library, and the Toolbox. !TextFind ^ The basis for this has been lying about on my hard disc for ages, and then last year I tidied it up to use as a search engine for the Archive magazine CD. Now I've done a bit more work to make it 'presentable'. Basically, it searches textfiles for a string or keyword and produces a list of the places where found. !TreeMenu ^ This provides a full hierachical menu of a hard disc. It has lots of features and seems very good, although the instructions are a bit vague on some points !Yadfs ^ 2.5 Yet Another Disc Filing System to read DFS (BBC) discs by Chris Corbett. Can read/write Acorn or Watford (61 file catalogue) discs, 40 or 80m track, single or double density. Seems to be the best one yet. !Zap = 1.35 Superb text editor from Dominic Symes. In my opinion FAR superior to StrongEd. Supports Basic programs, good undo, 'learn' facility, handles 'tabs' sensibly, runs Basic programs, most features (including keys) user configurable, etc, etc. So many features I'm not even going to attempt to list them. Can even edit files in byte/word format or show them as disassembled code. Very fast. Can edit Basic programs as a text file, colour in Basic and 'C' modes, and each type of file can have its own, user defineable, 'mode'. Forget StrongEd, DeskEdit, etc. this is THE text editor for the Archimedes. v1.30 has lots of improvements, including a large choice of bitmap fonts for you to select from. These are especially useful in hi-res screen modes as they are much easier to construct (tools are included) and faster than 'painted' fonts. The most omportant changes are that it's now 'fully' RiscPC compatible and makes use of the additional features available on the new architecture machines. It can also load extension modules 'on the fly' so you don't have to load ones you don't normally use until you actually want them, There's even a special Zap mode for SAsm now (thanks to James Freeman) so you can edit assembler files in glorious colour.