RISC User Magazine Disc

Volume 2 Issue 4

March 1989

IMAGE WRAP AND SPIN

A utility to 'wrap' a flat image around the surface of a sphere. The demonstration program uses this to produce images from different angles, giving the effect of a spinning ball.

RISC USER TOOLBOX

The complete Toolbox inc. from this issue a set of disc searching commands and a useful help feature.

MAKING USE OF FILE TYPES

A short program to demonstrate how file types can be read from within your own programs.

SIMPLE SPRITE MANAGER

A useful module that allows sprite definitions to be displayed before deletion.

NEW FONT STYLES

A module that provides 72 different styles of the standard screen font.

ARCHIMEDES VISUALS

A sixteen colour fader, and a spirograph which produces an infinite variety of patterns.

* BONUS ITEMS *

ARC UTILITY

A new version of BEEBUG's public domain file archiver and de-archiver which is fully RISC OS compatible. Documentation is included on the disc.

RAY CHAMBER

A demonstration of the ray tracing capabilities of the Archimedes.

A RISC OS APPLICATION

A sample application, designed to multi-task under RISC OS, which illustrates the use of application directories and the multi-tasking WIMP calls.

BALLONVANG

An easy-to-play game that is ideal for children.

ARCSCAN DATA

Index entries for this issue of RISC User and the latest BEEBUG (Vol.7 No.8) to be used with Arcscan.