RISC User 11:8
September/October 1998
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Interesting Times Richard Hallas summarises the events which followed Acorn's closure of its Workstations division, and presents a personal view of the current situation |
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Acorn: The Future Acorn's CEO, Stan Boland, explains his decision to close Workstations, and presents Acorn's future directions |
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The Big Rescue Plan We talk to Peter Bondar about his plan to restart Applied Risc Technologies and rescue the Workstations division |
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Future Ideas Various possible ways of moving the RISC OS platform forward exist. We take a look at some of the ones that are already in development |
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Education: Pocket Book III Chris Drage takes a look at Xemplar's new Pocket Book III, based on Psion's Series 3c |
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What's Cooking with Project Avante? Nick van der Walle reveals Vantage, the vector graphics package intended to take over where ArtWorks left off |
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Brew Your Own Java Peter Naulls adds a menu structure to JavaDraw, the vector drawing application |
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Pocket Book Hints & Tips Ideas for getting more out of your Pocket Book |
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Netline Carol Carpenter explains all about mailing lists |
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2½-Pass Assembly Martyn Fox suggests a way of handling large assembly language programs written with the inbuilt Basic assembler |
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Passing the Port The second part of the series finishes outlining the basic steps involved in converting a Unix program to the RISC OS platform |
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The Play's the Thing Our games feature examines the latest releases, both conversions from the PC and new home-grown Acorn games |
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EasiWriter version 4 Mark Moxon takes a look at the latest version of Icon Technology's top-class word processor, which can now handle HTML and Word files |
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Caller ID release 2 Alan Wrigley reviews Octopus Systems' phone utility which can tell you who's calling before you even pick up the receiver |
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Cover Concept & design: Richard Hallas |
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Contents & Editorial | |
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News | |
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Puzzle | |
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Personal ads | |
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Solution to Puzzle 11:6 | |
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Reader offer Argo Interactive Ltd |
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RISC User subscriptions, back issues and products | |
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APDL |
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Stuart Tyrrell Developments (STD) |
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The Really Good Software Company |
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Intelligent Interfaces Ltd |
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Akalat Publishing Acorn Publisher magazine |
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Nexus Archimedes World magazine |
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Acorn Midlands Show |
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Xavier Educational Software |
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Serious Statistical Software 1st |
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Printmaker |
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Bajorasoft |
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Spacetech Ltd |
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CJE Micros |
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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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Old News pages A version of the News pages containing a variety of stories on page 6 that were superseded at the last minute by more important reports |
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Old Cover An early version of the front cover with a smaller RISC User logo than the version that was printed |
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Monopoly board (top-down view) The Monopoly board graphic, drawn in ArtWorks, that was used as the basis for the front cover design |
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Monopoly board (top-down view, converted) The same top-down Monopoly board graphic, with all text elements turned into shapes |
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Monopoly board (perspective view) The 3D Monopoly board graphic, as used on the front cover |
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Acorn logo The Acorn nut logo as an ArtWorks file, as used on the front cover |
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Apple logo The Apple logo as an ArtWorks file, as used on the front cover |
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Windows logo The Windows logo as an ArtWorks file, as used on the front cover |