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When obtaining products, it's good to know that the company you're buying it from has a good reputation. When you think about Computer Concepts charging <i>25.00+</i> just to provide people with <i>upgrades</i> for software not StrongArm compatable, and Colton trying to charge me <b>45.00</b> for an upgrade for Pipedream 4 (S/Arm), when I'd only paid 10.00 for it in the first place, you realise that you can't pick up good accessories just anywhere.
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<h4>Beebug:</h4>
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 A company with a long Acorn connection (as far back as the earliest days of the BBC micro) and staffed by some of the most experianced hardware and software producers around, Beebug is one of the key registeres suppliers of Acorn equipment, with their own line of software and hardware systems for programming, networking, DTP, PC Second Pro.s and many, many other uses. Authors of the technical <a href="Paper">Risc User</a> and voted 1995 Best Dealer in <a href="Paper">Acorn User</a>, it certainally deserves its reputation.
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<h4>Doggysoft:</h4>
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 You must have heard of Desktop Hacker: everyone's heard of Desktop Hacker. This is one of Doggysoft's. They're a growing commercial company, who've also released several pieces of freeware, notably WimpExt from Jon Ribbens. Other names include the ubiquitous Andrew Clover (Doggysoft, some other PD, regular <a href="Paper">Risc User</a> contributions and so it goes on...) and Paul Clifford. I have the odd few bits of their software and I've seen quite a bit more and, on each occation, I've thought <i>Hmm, if only I had the time, I could really make use of that...</i>
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<h4>Irlam Instruments:</h4>
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 An advanced technologies company based at Brunel University, Middlesex, Irlam are leaders in analogue-digital processors. Their Colour Mobile scanner (which I have) leads the field, their 24i16 Multimedia card is one of the best around and the Risc TV (TV in a window, takes no processor time, displays 16.7 million colours in any mode, real-time scaling and image control, screen and film grab abilities, SVHS input option, 16 bit NICAM upgrade, window runs while obscured by other objects, drool) is the sort of thing to show your PC-using friends.
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<h4>Oregan Technology Group:</h4>
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 Starting out life as the Belgian Archimedes Software-writers Society (BASS) with such applications as !Dissi (an Arm dissassembler) and !ProTrack (the play-only precursor to the totally and utterly unbeatable Digital Symphony) and now a professional, commercial, partitioned digital audio experts organisation. Oregan started out with their new sequencer, Digital Symphony, which utilised revolutionary pattern handling, before releasing software such as MidiWorks and ProSound, a sample editor which never alters the original file, but keeps a list of the operations performed on it. For audio handling, Oregan Developments has the total software package.
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