23/02/95
A new version of the PC Emulator is available. This new vesion (1.33) will
be of particular interest to 400/1 series user and A3000 users, who may have
noticed that when using the emulator the disc drives are more noisy then usual.
The new version changes the step rate of the heads to make it quieter. Also
with the new version is a SCSI hard disc installation program(see next
paragraph). The new version can be obtained directly from SID if you are a
registered user (ie if you have logged on before via Prestel of have
registered directly with Acorn for use via Fastrak) or from your local SID
registered Acorn dealer.

The latest version of the PC Emulator (v 1.33) has new installation routines
for both ADFS harddiscs and SCSI harddiscs. The !Readme file inside the
installation application draws attention to the need to correctly set up your
partition. The hard disk partition appears to MSDOS to be a drive with 4
heads and 17 sectors of 512 bytes per track, irrespective of the physical
harddisc's characteristics. The default 10 Mbyte hard disk size has 300
logical cylinders, giving a total partition size of 300*4*17*512=&9F6000. If
you wish to create a different partition size please keep it to a multiple
of the logical cylinder size (&8800, 4*17*512). Earlier versions of the PC
emulator created their partition file in the directory $.PC. Under the new
emulator you are free to place this anywhere on the harddisc.

We are still compiling a list of PC software that runs under the PC
Emulator, so if you know of any packages that run under the emulator please
write and let me know. Many thanks to the people who have already responded.

After a number of requests we have produced an application note for users of
Acorn Desktop Publisher on 1Mbyte systems. The note is a step by step guide
on how to get the DTP application up and running on a 1Mbyte system. The
application note can be obtained by sending an A4 SAE to our Customer
Services Department. If you wish to make a technical enquiry at the same
time as requesting any application note, please use a separate letter.

We are aware that a number of people have experienced problems using the
LQ850 and the Acorn Desktop Publisher package. It would appear that early
versions of the LQ850 software do not support the [ESC]+ sequence required
for printing at 360*360 DPI. The version of the ROMs which we are aware work
correctly are as follows: N91785 and N92687. To find out which ROM you have,
switch the printer on while holding down the Form Feed button (i.e. a power
up self test), the first thing printed is the version number of the ROM.
If you find you have a version which is not one of the two listed a new ROM
can be obtained from:

Apropriate Technology Ltd
Aptec House
South Bank Business Centre
Ponteon Road
London
SW8 5AT