Support for the aging Acorn machines, the BBC B and Electron, is still thriving with a selection of new products from Slogger Software. ROM manager chips BeebMan and ElkMan provide facilities for examining, enabling, disabling, and generally fooling around inside the ROM system. The ROMs cost £17.50 each and include facilities for accessing Sideways RAM, if you have any.

Commands include OFFROM to turn off a ROM (useful for avoiding conflicts), KLIST which gives the status of all of the sixteen function keys, hex and mnemonic dumps of memory and facilties for moving ROM data from the filing system or memory, into and out of the ROMs themselves.

Slogger has also produced a ROM board for the Electron with space for eight ROMs of either 8K or 16K. The unit plugs into the back of the Electron and is fully compatible with the existing Acorn add-ons, the Plus 1 and Plus 3. It gives Electron users access to most of the ROM software for the BBC, including View, Multiforth-83 and Exmon. The Rombox costs £44.95 including postable and packing and is available directly from Slogger Software 0643-811634/41622.