- Aladdin's Activity Centre
- Arthur's Teacher Trouble (Living Books range) - sound works,
perfectly playable
- Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia
- Dangerous Creatures (Microsoft)
- Dinosaurs (Microsoft) - sounds works correctly with 16-bit sound
card and soundblaster emulation; sound appears to fail with Yellowstone
16-bit sound card, switch back to 8-bit; movies also work well with MovieFS;
RISC OS version also available
- Disasters (demo) (Windows) (MDI) - causes and effects of
man-made disasters
- Dr. Seuss' ABC
- Encarta (Microsoft) - requires !PCx86 v1.91 or later, select
"palette" option in !PCconfig
- Encarta 98 (Microsoft) - in order to run Setup you
will need to use ARMEdit to overcome
long filenames problems
- Encyclopedia Britannica - definitely works with PC Pro,
may also work with !PC
- Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Science (Dorling Kindersley)
- Forces & Effects (demo) (Windows) (BTL) - GCS physics
educational package
- Great Word Adventure and Great Math Adventure (7th Level, CD) - well-presented and fun educational games aimed at Key Stages 1 and 2 (originally American); fast PC card recommended
- Just Grandma and Me (Living Books
range) - sound works, perfectly playable
- Knowledge Adventure CD-ROM Mega Sampler (Windows)
- Little Monster Goes to School
- Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time (7th Level, demo, Windows)
- Musical Instruments (Microsoft) - sounds works correctly with
16-bit sound card and soundblaster emulation;
RISC OS version also available
- Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia (Win95) - installs correctly but
doesn't seem to run - only tested with PC Pro 2.07
- P.B. Bear (Dorling Kindersley) - colours very poor;
RISC OS version faster and better
- Photoworks (CD) - picture disk
- The Plant Finder (CD, v1.1) - music, video, etc. works fine, although a little jerky with dual speed CD-ROM drive
- Ruff's Bone (Living Books range?) - sound jumpy
- Star Trek Omnipedia (Windows, CD?) - works fine, with sound
and video
- Test your Child (10 out of 10) - performance logging against
National Curriculum standards, for Maths and English Key Stage 1; use with care
- The Way Things Work - requires 16-bit sound system; also try the
RISC OS version, which will work without a 16-bit sound card
- World Atlas
- cc:Mail 6.0 (Lotus) - extensively tested and completely reliable with PC Pro and Win95, somewhat slow across a modem link to a remote mail database even with StrongARM and 486DX4/100
- Compuserve Mosaic 1.00.c.6.07
- Demon Internet's software for Windows (although there have also
been reports of it not working)
- Eudora Pro - seems to actually have less problems than "real"
PC users encounter
- Free Agent
- FrontPage 97 (Microsoft) (under Windows 95)
- HoTMetaL 2.0 (SoftQuad, demo, Windows) - HTML editor
- Internet Explorer 3.01 (Microsoft) (under Windows 95) - Java applets seem to freeze it quite often, mainly in 32,000-colour modes
- Internet Explorer 3.02 (Microsoft) (Win95) - works very reliably,
seemingly including MS Mail, MS News, and Java (only tested under
PC Pro)
- Internet Mail and News for Windows 95 (Microsoft)
- Netscape Communicator 4.0beta5 - problems with Java support unless
you have hardware floating point and run it in an appropriate screen mode;
only tested under Windows 95 with PC Pro
- Netscape Navigator 1.22 (specify mode string with "P" on the end in PC
card setup to obtain programmable palette for proper colours)
- Netscape Navigator 2.0, 2.02 or 3
- Pegasus Mail
- ProComm 2
- Trumpet Winsocket (shareware TCP/IP stack)
- UK Online Internet Software (Windows 3.1) - some broken
connections but otherwise fine even at high modem speeds
- WinDis (Demon)
- WindFax
- PC-DOS, MS-DOS, DR-DOS
- Linux - partial support for old version (not publicly
available?), see
http://www.ph.kcl.ac.uk/~amb/linux.html, support for more recent
version under preparation
- OS/2 Warp - no support at present, volunteers needed to write
drivers
- Windows 3.1
- Windows 3.11
- Windows for Workgroups 3.11
- Windows 95 - requires at least !PCx86 v1.91 or later; newer
versions provide additional support, ARMDRV v.1.99 cures "stripey icons";
DirectX support (e.g. for games) under development
- Windows 98 beta 2 - video and sound seem to work fine, although
there is a problem with high-colour icons disappearing
- Windows NT - no support at present, volunteers needed to write
drivers
- Corel Ventura 4.2 (Once you delete most of the file conversion options...)
- Lotus Ami Pro 3.0
- Publisher 97 - fails to install on some systems
- Quark Xpress
- Type Manager (Adobe)
- Word for Windows 2.0 and 6.0 (Microsoft)
- Word Perfect 5.1 (DOS)
- Word Perfect 6 (Windows)
- Foxpro (Borland)
- Microsoft Access (v2.0 for certain, and probably all the rest too, for all I know...)
- Paradox 4.0 & 8.0
- Quatro Pro v5 (Borland)
- Lotus Approach (text missing from startup screen if using
ARMDRV 1.72)
- Lotus 1-2-3 v4
- Lotus Notes 4.11a - extensively tested and completely reliable with PC Pro and Win95, replication to remote databases across modem link very fast with StrongARM and 486DX4/100
- Microsoft Office 4.3 (hence also PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Word 6)
- Microsoft Office 95 (hence also...)
- Microsoft Works (version 3 and others)
- Office '95 (Microsoft, Windows 95)
- SIMS (school administration software) ("it's rubbish... I
suppose it does its job" - Paul Vigay)
- Smartsuite 3.0
(Lotus)
- Tel Me Online Information Service (Phonelink plc) - e-mail
seems to function incorrectly
- Borland Turbo C v2 & v3
- Borland Turbo C++ (not with Windows for Workgroups 3.11?) (v4.5 and others known to work)
- Borland Turbo C++ Visual Edition (not Turbo Debugger)
- Borland C++ v4.5 - runs in Windows 95, except for the debug utilities which run in DOS windows (so you don't get any de-bugging facilities)
- Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0
- Java Development Kit 1.0.2 (Sun) - seems to work fine, but not in modes with more than 256 colours. Performance is acceptable, if not especially good
- Java Development Kit 1.1 (Sun) - Applet Viewer doesn't work, which makes doing anything useful difficult!
- JET Database Engine 2.0 (Microsoft)
- True Basic
- Visual Basic v4 (both 16-bit and 32-bit versions)
- Visual C++ v4.1 & v4.2 (not known if fully tested) - lots of disk space needed, and v4.2 even more without any real need for it
- Corel PhotoPaint/Trace/Show/Chart/Mosaic 4
- Corel Draw - versions 4, 5 and others
- Corel Photopaint 5 - works fine apart from Epson scanner driver
installation, which adds line
C:\WINDOWS\TWAIN\COREL\EPSON.SYS /L1 to CONFIG.SYS file;
change this to DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\TWAIN\COREL\EPSON.SYS /L1
to get it to work under PC-DOS
- Dream On 3D (Adept, demo, Windows) - 3D rendering package
- Fractint - good fractal (Mandelbrot?) generator; shareware (?)
- Freelance (Lotus) - thumbnails corrupted with ARMDRV 1.72
- GIF Animator for Windows 95 (Microsoft)
- Graphic Workshop for Windows 1.1 (shareware, Alchemy Mindworks) - nice graphics program with import/export of just about every graphics format plus some remastering etc. facilities
- Harvard Graphics 3 - speed and graphics fine on 486/100 with
12MB RAM allocated, tested successfully on !PC v1.91 and v1.995
- Illustrator (Adobe)
- Paintshop Pro (also works under Win95)
- Paintshop Pro 3 (demo)
- Paintshop Pro 4.1 (under Windows 95)
- Photoshop 4 (Adobe, Win95) - 24-bit RGB images are displayed
incorrectly in 256-colour screen modes (OK in 32K colours)
- Photovision Pro for Windows (Software Vision) - graphics
import and export package
- Powerpoint (Microsoft)
- Xara Studio / CorelXARA (Corel / Xara)
- Adobe Acrobat 3.0 (PDF reader) - extensively tested and completely reliable with PC Pro and Win95, but much slower with StrongARM and 486DX4/100 than Leo Smier's !PDF on the same system under RISC OS
- Anadisk (disk copier) - fails to work due to not recognising disk controller
- Checkit v2.0
- Checkit Pro v4.0
- Cleansweep Deluxe (Quarterdeck, Win95) - we have had strong
recommendations against using this software
- Direct Cable Connection (Windows 95)
- Laplink
- MCLINK (connects Psion 3 to PC) - works with !PCx86 1.92 but
not some later versions
- Norton Commander
- PCBench 8.0
- PKZIP v2.04g
- Quicktime for Windows
- RTFGen v2.03
- S3aEmul, S3emu and S3aemul (Psion 3 and 3a emulators);
the latter two can be found at http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/handhelds/psion/icdoc/development/index.html
- Scan
for Windows, Scan for DOS, ViruScan 95 (McAffee Associates)
- SmartPaper (Oakley Data Services) - backdrops for Windows
- UNZIP
- Winbench 4.0
- Windows User Benchmarks
- Windows 95 CD player
- Windows 95 Media Player CD Player
- WinLink (Psion 3 to PC connector for Windows) - can be made to
work with !PCx86 1.91, try setting COM1 to 57,600 baud
- Wintach
- Wintune 2.0
- Winzip 6.1a - extensively tested and completely reliable with PC Pro and Win95; good but not as easy to use as !SparkFS or !ArcFS under RISC OS
- Winzip 6.2
- Workman CD Player (Windows 3.1) - fails
- Xerox Document Management Suite, consisting of
Textbridge and Visual Recall - but we've been recommended that people use Sleuth2 from Beebug, as it's just as good, but easier to use
- Arcview 2.0c (GIS)
- Authorware (Macromedia) - works, but Macromedia Director is
apparently much cheaper and better
- Autoroute Express 3.0 for Windows (Nextbase, 1993)
- Autoroute Express 98
- Chessbase - excellent chess database giving access to grandmaster games etc.; seems to crash fairly frequently, possibly due to hardware dongle
- Compuserve CIM
- Director v5 (Macromedia) - de-install sound drivers in order to
get it to install
- EasyCAD 2
- Executor 2.0 - Apple Macintosh emulator. The Mac version of Lemmings is playable on it, as demonstrated by ART at the BETT '97 show!
- Family Search (Windows 95) - multi-CD package, but with
current CD drivers it freezes when trying to insert different CDs
- Freestyle (Windows, demo) - not yet tested, requires MIDI support
- GeoRef 1.2
- KGB/CIA world factbook
- Mathcad 4.0 (also works under Win95)
- Microsoft Power Toys for Windows 95
- News Express
- Notes (Monarch)
- Oberon System 3 V2.0 - fails due to reading time directly from
CMOS, and inability to write to files
- Organizer (Lotus)
- Oxford English Dictionary
- PowerPoint (Microsoft) - presentation package; RISC OS
alternatives include Cablenews II (much criticised by some) or, for
slide presentations, Iota's The Complete Animator
- Proteus (electronic simulator, schematic capture & PCB layout)
- Protel (Proteus for Windows)
- Pspice for Windows
- Reachout (Stac) (DOS and Windows)
- Real Audio 2 (works with both Netscape and Microsoft Internet
Explorer) (requires 486DX or 586)
- RS Components CD-ROM Catalogue
- Screencam (Lotus)
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator 'Z80' v3.02 (G.A. Lunter) - brilliant Spectrum emulator with support for just about everything, runs at "102.4%" of original 48K Speccy speed on original Acorn card plus ARM610
- Streamline (Adobe)
- Symphony for DOS v3 (Lotus)
- Video for Windows
- Video Launch 2.0
- Vista Pro 3 (DOS CD-ROM) - 3D environment view creation package
- Voodoo Lounge
- 'What Personal Computer' cover CD-ROMs - run in 32,000-colour modes but not 256
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