EDITORIAL

As I expect you will know by now, we have moved offices within St Albans. The new premises are much larger, giving us more showroom area, and a larger custom-built area for mail order, and there is easier parking for customers. The move will allow us to carry greater quantities of stock items, and to process orders just that little bit quicker. Of course, some of you may have already come to see us on our open day by the time that you read this.

This issue is the last of volume 2 of RISC User, and we will as usual be including with next month's magazine an index to volume 2. We are taking a careful look at the responses to our questionnaire, and hope to reflect these during the course of volume 3.

To coincide with the new volume we are launching ArcScan II, an upgraded version of our indexing software. This allows keyword searching on RISC User and BEEBUG magazine items, but now includes the indexes to Acorn's Archimedes manuals - including the new Programmer's Reference Manual. Additionally ArcScan II is now user-customisable, so that it is an easy matter to include your own data files for other magazines, or for almost any other purpose.

As of next month, David Spencer, our Technical Editor, is vacating his seat in the office to concentrate more fully on hardware projects within the company, though he will still be contributing to the magazine on a part-time basis. The post of Technical Editor thus falls vacant, and is advertised elsewhere in this issue.

Finally, Acorn have asked us to appeal for notification of any errors which you spot in their new manuals (this includes the RISC OS User Guide, Basic Guide and Programmer's Reference Manual). Please send them to our editorial address, marking the envelope "Acorn Manual Errors", and we will pass them on.

Readers may wish to know that we have cancelled Mach Technology's advertising for this issue, as they have been unable to meet their commitments to us in this respect.