07/08/94
* The Master 128 has View (Word processor) and ViewSheet (Spreadsheet) 
built into the operating system . Although the Welcome guide covers these
two areas briefly separate manuals for both products are available from
Acorn which describe how to use both the packages in depth. The manuals cost
£10.00 each and can be obtained from any Acorn Dealer.

* We still receive a lot of enquires from people who suddenly find their
Master 128 or Archimedes is behaving in a strange way. We find that in the
majority of these cases the batteries which keep the CMOS powered while the
computer is off are completely flat. Please remember that the batteries
should be changed every 12 months to be totally safe. The cost of the
replacement battery unit for the Master 128 is £4.60 from any Acorn dealer.
The fitting of the replacement battery unit is extremely easy and can be
performed by experienced users. The Acorn product code for this item is
ADT16,Acorn do not recommend the use of any other replacement battery unit.
The Archimedes range of machines requires two, leak proof, size AA
replacement batteries. The A3000 is fitted with a rechargable battery and
therefore does not need replacing.

* A number of people  have asked how they can view all the sprites that are
stored in the RISC OS ROMS. The following small BASIC program will save the
sprites onto disc in the $ directory as the filename 'WSprites', they can
then be loaded into !Paint under the Desktop.

10 SYS "Wimp_BaseOfSprites" TO a%  
20 SYS "OS_SpriteOp", &10C, a%, "$.WSprites"

* It has been brought to our attention that the Notify facilities provided
by the Network filing system under RISC OS can cause headaches for teachers.
The ability to send messages from one machine to another is a useful
facility for a Network Manager, but when this is extended to Network Users
it soon becomes apparent that this can be abused. It is possible to protect
the machines against receiving the notify messages. To turn the protection
on use the following call:

SYS &4000E, &10, %100011111

To turn the protection off use:

SYS &4000E, 0, %100001111

Attempting to send a message to a protected station will now produce the
error message 'Station ### not listening".

* When using the Desktop environment you are quite often deleting strings of
text in writable menus eg. when renaming a file. A quick way to remove the
string that already exists is to use CTRL U, which will delete the whole
string in one action.

* Please remember that Acorn's Customer Services department are unable to
deal with technical enquiries via the telephone. If you need to make a
technical enquiry regarding one of Acorns products and your local dealer is
unable to help, please write giving full details of your system and and the
problem you have experienced. This will enable us to deal with the enquiries
effectively.

* A number of people have experienced problems when fitting the Acorn 1772
disc upgrade to BBC Model B's. The problems are caused by the step times of
the 1772 chip, which are faster than the 1770 chip. There are links on the
keyboard of the BBC to allow to you change the step time. The link settings
are as follows:

Link 3    Link 4    Step time     Step time
                     1772          1770

  0          0         6ms           6ms
  1          0        12ms          12ms   
  0          1         2ms          20ms
  1          1         3ms          30ms

Setting link 3 and not link 4 will give you the slowest step time possible
with the 1772. You should avoid setting the step time of a standard 5.25
inch disc drive to 2 or 3ms with the 1772 chip, as most drives will not work
at these speeds.