RISC User 11:5
May/June 1998
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The Making of the NC Alexander Singleton explores the history of why and how Acorn gained the contract to produce NCs for Oracle, and what it all entailed |
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MATRIX Multiplication Marshal Anderson investigates Xemplar's new MATRIX NC system, the first complete NC solution for schools |
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Brew Your Own Java Peter Naulls uses the concepts he has explored so far to start writing an object-oriented vector drawing program in Java |
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Education Our experts evaluate a number of packages for exploring geometry and having mathematical adventures |
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Netline Carol Carpenter compares two newsreader packages: Pluto and Messenger |
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Working on the Image Nobilangelo Ceramalus manipulates Paint's colour palette, and creates rainbow edges around letters |
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Pocket Book Abacus Are you having trouble finding a use for your Pocket Book's spreadsheet? This article provides food for thought |
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Customising Ovation Pro Tony Howat probes further into the recesses of Beebug's DTP package |
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How To Make Light of HTML Lists, lists and yet more lists: find out how to present unordered, ordered and definition lists on your Web pages |
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Wimp Topics Alan Wrigley reveals the inner secrets of the new Nested Window Manager: child windows, furniture windows, 24-bit icons and more |
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Sleuth 3 Richard Lambley, an independent magazine editor, gives his first impressions of Beebug's new Optical Character Recognition package |
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RAMplify We review a utility which saves main RAM by storing running applications on your hard disc |
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Phantasm Transparency in ArtWorks? Yes! It's just one of the possibilities offered by this utility |
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TextEase HTML reader/writer 'Just add water': in one swift move, this new add-on will transform your TextEase document into a multi-page Web site |
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Cover Photography and design: Lee Calcraft |
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Write-Back | |
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Puzzle | |
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Solution to Puzzle 11:3 | |
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RISC User subscriptions, back issues and products | |
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Acorn Southeast Show & APDL |
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Flat Plan Overall layout of pages for this issue of the magazine |
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Progress sheet A list of articles, their authors and the number of pages they occupy |
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Cover captions Captions suggested for use on the front cover of this issue |
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Sleuth 3 stand-alone review A four-page offprint derived from Richard Lambley's review of Sleuth 3, which was used as advertising material by Beebug |
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Phantasm review The original version of the review, before it was revised to accommodate a STOP PRESS announcement |
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Great Icosohedron A cut-out net for making a complex geometric solid, produced using PolyDraw and PolyNet from Fortran Friends (reviewed in this issue's Education pages) |
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Transitional Impression files Work was started on this issue in Impression, before it became apparent that this would be the first magazine to be produced in Ovation Pro. These are therefore the last ever RISC User files to have been prepared using Impression. |