^A
Editorial: A Serious Matter
Apology from Archimedes World
Program copyright
\4 3
^D
News: PC Card from Aleph One
Aleph One releases 20MHz 386SX expansion
card with 4MB or 1MB of RAM
\4 4
^D
News: Fonts Fantasia
Electronic Font Factory adds a host of
fonts to its catalogue/Outline Fonts/EFF
\4 4
^D
News: Acorns Guide to Good English
Acorn Technical Publications Style Guide
Helps writers of technical manuals
\4 4
^D
News: Econet Bulletin Board Software
XOB releases Bulletin for use with
Bulletin Boards/Comms
\4 4
^D
News: Freddy Teddy Visits the Playground
Topologika releases new educational
program
\4 4
^D
News: Longman Logotron 1992 Plans
Insight/Analogue/Digital/Eureka
Junior Pinpoint/PenDown Plus
\4 5
^D
News: All Format Fairs
This months fair dates and venues
\4 5
^D
News: Worth a Detour
Electronic Solutions release Detour for
manipulating files
\4 5
^D
News: Ethernet Connectivity
Atomwide release low cost Ethernet card
for the Archimedes/Networks/LAN
\4 5
^D
News: Mega Leisure
Flight Simulator Toolkit released by
Simis/Game/Simulation
\4 7
^D
News: ESM Expands on Desktop Folio
Editors Pack and Maths Pack released for
Desktop Folio/World Map Study/Geography
\4 7
^D
News: First and Second Impressions
First Impression and Good Impression
released by Word Processing/DTP/Book
\4 7
^A
Armed and Ready for Battle
Details on new Acorn ARM processors
ARM6/ARM60/ARM61/ARM600/CPU/RISC/Chips
\4 8
^C
Review: Illusionist
The 3D scene creation package from
Clares/Ray Tracing/Graphics
\4 12
^A
Scrap Value
A look at the new method of arranging
system resources and scrap files/!Scrap
\4 15
^C
Review: Vidi-Archimedes
A low cost digitiser from Rombo
Graphics/Video/Sprites/DTP/Clip Art
\4 17
^G
Font Name Conflicts
An application to change the name of a
font to avoid conflicts/Outline fonts
\4 20
^C
Review: Graphbox Professional
A look at the sophisticated graph and
chart package from Minerva
\4 23
^H
File Compare Utility
An assembler routine to compare two
files for differences
\4 26
^A
Desktop Animator (Part 2)
Improved techniques to produce
animations in a Desktop window/Graphics
\4 19
^A
Into the Arc: Using Shared Resources
A look at system resources (shared
modules) and the use of scrap files
\4 31
^C
Review: Karma - The Flight Trainer
The virtual reality space game from
Periscope Software
\4 34
^M
Disc: Multi-tasking Maestro File Player
Enhanced version of magazine listing
with multiple file juke box facility
\4 36
^M
Disc: Module Information Application
Displays information about modules
without having to load them/RMA
\4 36
^M
Disc: The Game of Spinel
A smoothly animated game along the
lines of Asteroids
\4 36
^M
Disc: Example Vidi-Archimedes Pictures
Samples from the digitiser reviewed in
this issue
\4 36
^M
Disc: Speed Test Programs
Programs in Basic, C and Pascal to test
language speeds (see C Notebook)
\4 36
^M
Disc: Acorn Scrap Application
The new !Scrap application for storing
scrap files
\4 36
^A
Pictographs in Ovation and Impression
How to create pictographs in DTP as in
PipeDream 4/Graphics/Graphs
\4 38
^A
Exploring Unix Part 2: Using XWindows
A look at XWindows on the Archimedes
under RISC iX/GUI
\4 41
^M
Disc: Security
Computer anti-theft protection for
machines with fixed hard discs
\4 45
^M
Disc: Informer Database
Very sophisticated card based database
with example file
\4 45
^A
WP/DTP: Exploring Impression II
A look at the features of Impression 2
that make it worth using
\4 46
^C
Review: Quick on the Draw
A look at Tracer, Trace, Image Outliner
Sprite to Draw file conversion/Graphics
\4 49
^B
Using ANSI C (Part 8)
Implementing RAM transfer
Release 4 enhancements
\4 53
^E
C Hint: Beware of resspr_init()
Using a Sprites file in applications
\4 55
^E
C Hint: Wimp Version
Using wimpt_init() to discover the
version number of the Wimp
\4 55
^E
C Hint: Is C Faster then Basic
Benchmark timings of programs on this
months magazine disc
\4 55
^E
C Hint: Hex in Strings
Using embedded hex characters with
printf() and sprintf()
\4 55
^B
Exploiting the Wimp (Part 4)
Saving data by RAM transfer
Saving data to another application
\4 57
^E
Hint: File Dragging
Dragging a selection of files into an
editor loads each file individually
\4 62
^E
Hint: File Closing
Closing files from within multi-tasking
applications
\4 62
^E
Hint: ADRL Directive
A macro to implement the ADRL directive
from Acorn Assembler
\4 62
^E
Hint: File and Directory Access Quirk
Strange behaviour when selection of
files and directories has access changed
\4 62
^E
Hint: DR DOS Cures MS-DOS
Using DR DOS editors in MS-DOS
\4 62
^E
Hint: Promoting Impression Junior
Using some Impression II features in
Impression Junior
\4 62
^E
Hint: Adjust Scrolling
Reversing the direction of scrolling
by using Adjust instead of Select
\4 62
^E
Hint: Command Abbreviations
Take care when using abbreviated
commands on new operating systems
\4 62
^A
Technical Queries
Allocating memory for document files
\4 65
^A
Postbag:
Programming with a Sense of Humour
OSCLI in Basic
\4 68
^A
Postbag: Upgrading to an A5000
5.25" floppy disc interface/Backwardly
compatible
\4 68
^A
Postbag: A Cautionary Tale
Clearing your hard disc before resale
\4 68
^A
Postbag: Beware the Overloaded Arc
Using system calls to speed up chip
access is not always a good idea
\4 68
^A
Postbag: Fortran Friends
Details of a Fortran User Group
\4 68
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