User guide

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Acorn Risc PC Release note
!Paint — Sprite files
If you create a sprite file (by using !Paint) on your Acorn Risc PC
which has a sprite in it which doesn't have a mode number, then be
careful if you use it with an earlier Acorn computer that uses
RISC OS 3.1 or earlier.
Switching to the brush tool in !Paint on RISC OS 3.1 or earlier whilst
editing the sprite file causes !Paint to crash. This sort of file is easy
to identify as at least one of the sprites will fail to show in the sprite
file window on those versions of !Paint.
You can find out if your sprite file has a such a sprite by displaying
the Sprite file window using the Full info menu option.
1st Word Plus
If the application 1st Word Plus is loaded or has been 'seen' by your
Acorn Risc PC, 1st Word Plus files (ie those of type 1WPDoc) will be
printed for you by 1st Word Plus. When printing using 1st Word
Plus, note that the printer must be correctly configured in 1st Word
Plus itself as well as in !Printers. If 1st Word Plus attempts to print
to a non-existent printer, your computer may hang.
In the absence of 1st Word Plus, !Printers as supplied with your Acorn
Risc PC can print most 1st Word Plus files. 1WPDoc files containing
footnotes or diagrams will not print correctly in this way, however. For
more details see the appendix The fancy text file format in the RISC OS 3
User Guide.
1st Word Plus will not display any sprite in 32 thousand or 16
million colour screen modes. To use 1st Word Plus properly, change
into a screen mode with fewer colours.
Full hard disc prevents the computer starting correctly
If the hard disc is completely full, the computer will halt at the
command line during start-up. Type *Desktop to display the desktop
and delete some files to make more space. Now reboot the computer
again.