Paul Vigay Appreciation Society (Atom 0.3 feed)

UK Film Council abolished

The film industry is more important than probably most people know and the agency set up to promote it is to be aboslihed.

http://sy10.ukfilmcouncil.ry.com/6.0.asp

* Worldwide, the gross box office for films of all countries of origin increased by 8% on 2008 to billion.
* The UK share of the global theatrical market was 7% ( billion).
* The top 10 performing UK films worldwide grossed .8 billion in 2009.
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the best performing UK-qualifying film at the worldwide box office, earning over 0 million in 2009.
* UK films represented 7% of releases at the North American box office (9% in 2008), and 7% of the market (16% in 2008), at a value of 5 million.
* In Europe, the top British film was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with 26 million admissions, followed by Slumdog Millionaire with 11 million.

# In 2008, the UK film industry had a total turnover of £6.8 billion.
# Its direct contribution to UK GDP was £3.1 billion, 0.2% of the total.
# The core UK film industry (film production plus distribution and exhibition of UK films) contributed £1.6 billion directly to GDP and £4.6 billion including all indirect effects.
# The UK facilities sector had a turnover of £403 million derived from film in 2008.
# The industry exported £1,341 million worth of services in 2008, made up of £792 million in royalties and £549 million in film production services.
# Exports in 2008 were 92% higher than in 2001.
# The UK film trade surplus in 2008 was £494 million

[Edited by andrew at 14:59, 31/7/2010]

Posted by Andrew (andrew)
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StudioSound

Paul
You need to be a bit less cryptic about what the !+ is replaced by.

By !+ he means -

Posted by VinceH (VincceH)
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StudioSound

Dear Paul

Can you put your email address on here in a disguised form - I can't find it on your website.

I've just received a scan of the manual in JPEG format from Henrik, and I'll send it to you and Terje, if I can have your email address.

Best wishes

Jon Robinson (Leeds)

paul
at
all
!+
the
!+
johnsons
dot
co
dot
uk

replace the dot with what you think and also !+ with whatever (logically) !+ is

Paul

P.S. Emailed terje yesterday, no reply as yet.

Paul
You need to be a bit less cryptic about what the !+ is replaced by.

The manaul is waiting for you, but with ! in front of the and in front of johnsons, it just gets bounced back to me.
Best wishes Jon

Posted by Jon Robinson (castlevarich)
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Monitors... again (CRT this time !)

Hi Andrew,
Glad to hear your A5000's working...
...much the same procedure for the A3000 - with a couple of wrinkles.
It will just about output VGA modes as long as your monitor is forgiving. Then keep fingers thoroughly crossed for modes 12, 13, 15...
...VIDC-Enhancer?

I wouldn't worry about jumpers just yet (I can dig out the details if you do need).
Try conf.sync 0 or 1 from the command-line if you can't get any output.

Posted by Charlie (Charlie)
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Monitors... again (CRT this time !)

Got the A5000 running.

Had to set monitor type 2 by holding down at boot (Hi res mono) and then *configure for VGA.

Works great.

Trying with the A3000 now not sure how this will go as I have a 9-15 pin adapter. Did somebody say something about jumpers being set ? which ones? (I see a few on the board.)

Posted by Andrew (asm1)
9 comments in forum

StudioSound

Dear Paul

Can you put your email address on here in a disguised form - I can't find it on your website.

I've just received a scan of the manual in JPEG format from Henrik, and I'll send it to you and Terje, if I can have your email address.

Best wishes

Jon Robinson (Leeds)

paul
at
all
!+
the
!+
johnsons
dot
co
dot
uk

replace the dot with what you think and also !+ with whatever (logically) !+ is

Paul

P.S. Emailed terje yesterday, no reply as yet.

Posted by Paul Johnson (nodoid)
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Monitors... again (CRT this time !)

You can also wait until it boots, then press F12, and at the command prompt set *monitortype to whatever is appropriate for your type of monitor. Or just manually cycle through them until you get an image displaying.

Posted by Jason Togneri (filecore)
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Monitors... again (CRT this time !)

I would suggest the following:

- switch on with keypad 4 pressed (switches to monitortype 4 (SVGA)
- switch on with T pressed (configures seperate sync which is needed by most monitors)

On my trusty old A3000, I also needed to change two jumpers, but I think the A5000 does not need this.

Posted by Steffen Huber (hubersn)
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Monitors... again (CRT this time !)

Yes, there is

In exceptional circumstances !Boot will not be able to turn off the configured monitor setting. In this case, with the computer switched off, press and hold down the Delete and Shift keys, then switch the computer on. You can release these keys once the RISC OS 3 initialising message appears on the screen.

Posted by Blind Moose (Acornut)
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StudioSound

Dunno if this is the right one on facewotsit !

Does anybody have a copy of the manual in PDF or JPEG format ???

Dear Paul

Can you put your email address on here in a disguised form - I can't find it on your website.

I've just received a scan of the manual in JPEG format from Henrik, and I'll send it to you and Terje, if I can have your email address.

Best wishes

Jon Robinson (Leeds)

Posted by Jon Robinson (castlevarich)
41 comments in forum