Hi folks...

Developer News 25/03/97

NetStation (yet again)
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Assorted hackery later, I now have my NetStation booting. Thanks to the work
of Paul Walker at Desktop Projects, I now also have a reliable method of
circumventing the Smartcard checks; this has been documented in a new
version of
http://www.art.acorn.co.uk/SALES/DEVELOPERS/resource/reference/nc/dwbootdoc.arc
(Spark-archived Impression Style doc) and
http://www.art.acorn.co.uk/SALES/DEVELOPERS/resource/reference/nc/dwbootdoc.ps
(EPS), which now doesn't need disclaiming quite so heavily! 

My next job is to persuade selected RISC OS applications to run on the
system; a new appnote detailing the hooks required in the server-side boot
sequence to do this and the places to put them will be written as and when I
figure it out.

New Products, New Prices
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A new Developer price list exists, detailing the prices of the new range of
StrongARM-equipped Risc PCs and the new AKF93 monitor. I intend to get this
extracted from the records system and into plaintext for upload tomorrow to
the usual place
(http://www.art.acorn.co.uk/SALES/DEVELOPERS/resource/docs/sales/prices.txt
) tomorrow. Information on the new hard disc image supplied with these
machines (and a copy of it, with a bit of luck) will follow shortly.

Cheers,

Dave