26/11/91
Acorn are announcing a new PC Emulator upgrade available from the 1st of
January 1992. The upgrade applies in one way or another to nearly all
current owners of a PC Emulator package.

Acorn has just finished the PC Emulator 1.60 upgrade which was offered to all
PC Emulator / MS DOS owners. Acorn have now finished version 1.70 of the
PC Emulator which differs from 1.60 in that it will work on the Acorn
A5000 and has some minor enhancements which will improve how a few DOS
applications run. 

It is now possible for people who purchased Learning Curve Packages (ie. use
DR DOS with the PC Emulator) to upgrade to the new emulator.

For PC Emulator / DR DOS owners.
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To qualify for this upgrade you must send your original PC Emulator disc
along with the DR DOS Disc Registration Number (the registration number can
be found on the original DR DOS Disc), a cheque/postal order to the
value of £45.82 inc. VAT & P+P (£39.00 ex VAT) made payable to 'Acorn
Direct' and send this with your name and address to 

PC Emulator 1.70
'Acorn Direct'
13 Dennington Road
Wellingborough
Northants
NN8 2RL
         
The price for this upgrade is higher than the previous upgrade to 1.60. The
increase in cost is caused by the additional licence fee for DR DOS 5 which
comes as part of the PC Emulator 1.70 upgrade. DR DOS 5 offers many
advantages over 3.41 and shows Acorns commitment to keeping you up to date
with new products.

For PC Emulator / MS DOS owners.
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If you did not upgrade your PC Emulator to version 1.60 and now wish to do
so then you may send your original PC Emulator disc (keep your original MS
DOS Disc). Send the PC Emulator disc along with a cheque / postal order to
the value of £34.07 inc. VAT & P+P (£29.00 ex VAT) made payable to 'Acorn
Direct' to the Acorn Direct address above with details of your name and
address.

For PC Emulator 1.60 owners.
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Owners may wish to keep up with new versions of the emulator and therefore
Acorn are offering an upgrade to PC Emulator 1.60 owners.

As the differences between 1.60 and 1.70 are minor it is unlikely you will
benefit from the upgrade. The price of the upgrade between 1.60 and 1.70 is
to cover costs only.

To obtain the upgrade send the small PC Emulator disc (called CGA single
tasking) along with a cheque / postal order to the value of £17.62 inc.
VAT & P+P (£15.00 ex VAT) made payable to 'Acorn Direct' to the Acorn Direct
address above with details of your name and address.

General Information on the emulator and upgrades.
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The upgrade offers detailed above start on the 1st January 1992 and expire
on the 27th March 1992.

Educational establishments can submit official order forms.

The PC Emulator is supplied with two versions of the PC Emulator. The fist
is the standard PC Emulator which requires a machine with greater than
1MByte of memory.

The second is a smaller version for 1MByte machines.

Features in both versions include:

* Hardware emulation of an 8088 PC/XT with Intel 8087 maths coprocessor.

* Co-existence with the RISC OS desktop.

* Support for IBM 3.5 inch 720K floppy disc format.

* Mouse driver

* Serial and parallel interfaces. 

Features available only in the standard version include:

* up to 640K of PC memory.

* RISC OS multi-tasking with the PC screen displayed in a window.

* Optional single-tasking, full screen display mode for greater speed. You
can return to the RISC OS desktop with a single mouse click.

* Installable display adapters for MDA, CGA, EGA and partial VGA emulation.

Features available in the smaller version include:

* Up to 576K of PC memory.

* single-tasking, full screen display. You can switch between the PC screen
display and the RISC OS desktop with a simple mouse click.

* CGA display.