We have written a sentence calculation program on the Amiga for the Prison Service, this calculates prisoners sentences and release dates for either consecutive, concurrent or mixed consecutive and concurrent sentences. This takes in to account time spent in custody (police or otherwise), ADA's(additional days awarded) ADAp's and a host of other variables. The program also runs under Windows 3.1 or 95, data entry is simple and fast, the calculations are even faster taking no more than 10 seconds to calculate a complicated record. The program is currently being converted to run solely on IBM compatible machines, I am also waiting for the Prison Service to decide how to calculate concurrent sentences. You may remember the time when 500 prisoners were let out early when they found out that they had been calculating their release dates wrongly. This software knows all the rules and the amendments to the rules issued over the years. Output is to the standard sentence calculation white/pink/or blue forms complete with sentence chart. The Prison Service have not yet decided on the correct way of calculating remand time and therefore this project is currently on hold.
Sanyo and Fuji have loaned me digital cameras to enable me to write links to the Amiga, for transferring pictures in to your Amiga computer directly from the camers. The first link to become available will be for the Fuji DS7. Watch this site for details
Touch Typist is currently being written for the IBM compatible machines, this is being converted from the Amiga program by the same name. Touch Typist has sold over 15,000 copies on the Sinclair QL, Amiga, Atari and Archimedes. If any IBM owners want an idea of the type and quality of this program then you can have a look at the review of the Amiga version which can be seen in Amiga Format issue 101 page 62.