RISC User Series

Articles by Richard Hallas

Devoting an entire index to one's own work is likely to seem terribly egocentric, but there's a very good reason for this index being here! It is that these articles represent a significant number of RISC OS-format backups which would not otherwise be available in a useful form. Most of the earlier articles (those in issues prior to 8:2) are available in the QuarkXPress file archives, but the articles published in issues 7:2 to 7:6 do not exist elsewhere (as all the backups for those issues have been lost), and none of the articles from issues before 8:2 can be accessed on RISC OS systems.

This section, therefore, is in addition to the main magazine archive, and its contents are not duplicated elsewhere on the CD. Even for the 'overlap' issues (8:2 to 8:10), the versions of the articles presented here are the pre-edited ones; the versions in the main archive are as printed. Indeed, several of the articles listed here are slightly longer than the versions that were published. These archives also contain a number of unused screenshots and other items.

Articles written by Richard Hallas from issue 9:1 onwards are available in their final, edited form in the main magazine archives.

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RISC User issues 5:1 to 8:10

N/A Arc Review: PMS (unpublished)
This review, written in April 1991, was submitted as a writing sample as a result of Mike Williams' editorial in RISC User 4:5, which invited submissions from new writers
5:1 Arc Review: Render Bender II
5:4 Arc Review: Illusionist
5:6 Arc Review: Notate
The archive also contains a Maestro music file that was created in Notate; this was included on the RISC User disc for this issue		 Mus
5:7 Arc Feature: Penguin Graphics in Ovation and Impression
An unpublished earlier version of the article is also included in the archive
5:9 Arc Review: Vector
6:3 Arc Review: Imagery
6:4 Arc Review: Revelation imagePro
6:5 Arc Review: Digital Symphony
The archive also contains a sample piece of music in the form of a relocatable module which can be played on any RISC OS machine; it was intended for the RISC User Disc, but was not used		 RM
6:6 Arc Review: PMS (Professional Music Scribe) version 2
Arc Customising the RISC OS 3 desktop, part 1: Giving RISC OS 3 the (multiple) boot
6:7 Arc Customising the RISC OS 3 desktop, part 2: New-look windows and icons
Arc Book review: Graphics on the ARM Machines
N/A Arc Review: ART20 (unpublished)
7:1 Arc Review: ProArtisan 2
7:2 Arc Review: Rhapsody 3
The archive contains a couple of musical example files		 Res
Arc Group Survey: Image Processors
This version is significantly longer than the one that was published
7:3 Arc Review: Font Directory
Arc Review: Image Bank
Arc Book reviews: ArtWorks Made Easy, RISC OS 3 First Steps and First Steps in Programming Acorn RISC OS Computers
7:4 Arc Review: The Tekkie Disc
Arc Feature: Dots Before Your Eyes
Using ProArtisan 2 to create 3D stereograms
7:6 Arc Review: PhotoBase: Landscapes
A hint that was published in RISC User 7:7 is also included in the archive
7:7 Arc Review: CDFast
7:8 Arc Group Survey: Compression Systems
Arc Review: Pioneer DRM-604X CD-ROM Changer
Arc Review: ImageFS
Arc Review: ArtWorks 1.5 (CD version) and ArtWorks ClipArt CD
7:10 Arc Review: The Scrabble Player
8:1 Arc Review: Tabby
8:2 Arc In Business with Acorn: KeyNote Music Typesetting
The archive also includes a letter that was published in Write-Back in issue 8:2
Arc Review: Formulix
8:3 Arc DTP Workshop: Font Facts
8:4 Arc Review: EasyFont 3
Arc Review: ArtWorks Arranger
The archive also contains a simple clip-art image of a bicycle		 AW
8:5 Arc Review: ArtWorks ClipArt CD 2
Arc Review: Font Designers Toolkit
8:6 Arc DTP Workshop: Speaking in Tongues: Inter-platform file transfer and conversion
8:7 Arc Review: TechWriter Professional
8:8 Arc Review: DRAW_Changer
8:10 Arc Review: FontTrix Pro
Arc Review: VersaTile