23/02/95
Since the recent release of Acorn's new SCSI card (AKA31) we have received some very
positive feedback to its compatibility. 

The SCSI User Guide gives guidelines for selecting suitable Common Command
Set 4B (CCS4B) disc drives for use with the SCSI Expansion card. In
addition, the following drives have been found to work satisfactorily with
the SCSI Expansion card during normal use of SCSIFS :-

Disc Drives
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Conner CP3100 (100MB)
NEC DP3861 (109MB)
Acorn Stacking Filestore (E40S)
Acorn Stacking Filestore (E60S)
Fujitsu M22495A (333MB)
Rodime Ro3259T (250MB)
Micropolis 1578 (382MB)
Rodime Ro5180S (140MB)
Conner CP3200F-1 (200MB)
Rodime Ro3085S (60MB)
IBM WDS-3160 (160MB)
IBM WDS-380 (80MB)
CDC Wren IV

Magneto-optical drives
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Sony SMO-C501
Maxstore Tahiti

Acorn we be interested to know of any other drives customers are
successfully using or drives that they have had problems with. If you have
any details to send us on this please write to me at: Customer Services,
Acorn Computers Ltd, Fulbourn Road, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, CB1 4JN.

PC Emulator 1.60 Upgrade
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Acorn has released a new version of the PC Emulator, version 1.6, which is
easier to use and incorporates extra features.  

Easy entry and exit

The PC Emulator now runs from and returns to the RISC OS desktop, leaving
all your current applications and data intact.

Easy file exchange 

You can access DOS files directly from the RISC OS desktop, using the
!MultiFS application provided.   This allows you to copy, delete and drag
the DOS files as if they were RISC OS files.

CD ROM support

The CD ROM support provided gives you access to standard PC CD-ROMs, which
can be displayed in a window on the screen. 

Mouse driver

The mouse driver enables you to use the mouse supplied with your RISC OS
computer as if it were a Microsoft Bus mouse

Faster floating point operations

Emulation of the Intel 8087 maths co-processor increases the speed of
floating point operations by a factor of 14.

There are additional features for systems that have 2 MB of RAM or more:

Multi-tasking

If your system has 2 MB of memory or more, you can run the emulator in a
RISC OS desktop window.   This enables you to run a DOS application (such as
Lotus 1-2-3) in one window whilst running one or more RISC OS applications
(such as Acorn DTP) in other windows,  simultaneously.

Support for EGA graphics displays

If your system has 2 MB or more, you can make use use of the support for EGA
graphics displays. You can select CGA, EGA or MDA display.   Partial support
for VGA is provided, for software which accesses the video hardware directly
(Windows 3.0 can be run on an Archimedes 540).