^A
Editorial: Acorns A4 Notebook Computer
Public Domain Software
ArcScan indexes updated
\9 3
^D
News: Groovy Arachnids on Optech CD-ROMs
Creepy Crawlies and Grooves CD-ROMs
announced/Multimedia/Education/CD-ROM
\9 4
^D
News: Calligraphs 1200dpi Printer
Direct drive 600dpi printer with pseudo
1200dpi from Calligraph/Printing/DTP
\9 4
^D
News: Acorn Joins Hugh Symons in Quest
Hugh Symons becomes Acorn distributor
Release of Quest for Gold game
\9 4
^D
News: Acorn Joins Hugh Symons in Quest
Hugh Symons buys Concept Keyboard
Company/Education
\9 4
^D
News: Colour Wars in a Bit of a State
State Machine announces graphics
enhancement cards
\9 4
^D
News: Krisalis Ex Machina
Krisalis releases two new arcade games
Gods and Nebulus
\9 4
^D
News: I Heard it through the Grapevine
Gossip about possible new Acorn machines
RISC OS 3 and new ARM chips from ARM Ltd
\9 4
^D
News: Computer Concepts
Releases New Version of Scanlight 256
Scanner/Graphics/DTP
\9 4
^D
News: Portable PC?
Acorns A4 portable now comes with free
PC Emulator/MS-DOS
\9 4
^D
News:
RISC Developments has a Way with Words
New versions of Ovation and Thesaurus
\9 4
^D
News: Sherston in the Sky with Crystals
Sherston Software releases The Crystal
Rain Forest and Graph_IT/Education
\9 4
^D
News: Squirrel Improvements
Update to database from Digital Services
\9 4
^D
News: Braille Conversion
Dorton IT Support Centre releases text
to Braille converter
\9 4
^D
News: Courses at Broad Oak
Broad Oak Computers run training courses
on all aspects of the Archimedes
\9 4
^D
News: Acorn User Show Dates
BBC Acorn User Show at Wembley in
October
\9 4
^D
News: Big Ben Chimes Again
Big Ben Club from the Netherlands has
annual open day in September
\9 4
^D
News: The Silicon Vision Slot
Excellon drill driver and Gerber plotter
drivers available for ARC-PCB
\9 4
^D
News: Plotter Czechs Out UK
Czechoslovakian plotter with driver
available/Printing/Graphics
\9 4
^A
Neural Computing on the Arc
An introduction to neural networks with
example program/Artificial Intelligence
\9 8
^C
Review: Vector
Object-orientated drawing package from
4Mation/Graphics/Draw/DrawPlus/DTP
\9 13
^A
Into the Arc:
Creating ECF patterns in Paint
Graphics/Sprites
\9 19
^C
Review: TechWriter
Scientific word processor from
Icon Technology/DTP/Education
\9 23
^A
Telephone Call Coster
Application to enable you to estimate
the cost of inland telephone calls
\9 27
^M
Disc: Mortgage/Loan Calculators
Application to calculate endowment and
repayment mortgages and loan costs
\9 33
^M
Disc: Outline Font Displayer
Application to display and print fonts
in different sizes
\9 33
^C
Review: Dictionary of the Living World
Multimedia CD-ROM from Optech
Education
\9 34
^M
Disc: Precision Rectangles for Draw
Application to make accurate rectangle
generation in Draw easy
\9 36
^M
Disc: Ovation Cassette Inlay Template
Ovation document containing templates
for audio cassette inlay cards
\9 36
^M
Disc: MessageTrans Tester Application
Example of the use of MessageTrans
Example messages in English
\9 36
^M
Disc: Revue and FritzQuadr Fonts
Public domain fonts for use with
Ovation cassette inlay template
\9 36
^M
Disc: Enhanced Telephone Call Coster
Both international and inland calls can
be costed with this version
\9 36
^M
Disc: RunBasic - Run Basic Text Files
Application to enable text files
containing Basic programs to be run
\9 36
^M
Disc: Text File Reader
Application to display a text file
formatted and in a resizable window
\9 36
^M
Disc: Tiger 2
Detailed catalogue application with
example data for msgazine disc contents
\9 36
^M
Disc: Desktop Yahtzee
Desktop version of the classic dice
game
\9 36
^A
Painless Printing for Part-time
Programmers
Screen dump for Epson compatibles
\9 38
^C
Review: JPEG
JPEG File Compression from DT Software
Image compression/Graphics
\9 41
^A
WP/DTP: Improving graphics in DTP
Tips on the handling of graphics in
Ovation and other packages
\9 42
^A
Managing Assembler
How to use Basic libraries to modularise
assembly language programming
\9 47
^B
Wimp Function/Procedure Library Part 4
This month adds various small routines
Multi-tasking/Application/Desktop/Basic
\9 49
^A
Using MessageTrans from Basic
Use of the MessageTrans module to make
applications international/Wimp
\9 50
^A
The PC Pages: Using MS-DOS 5
Upgrading MS-DOS under the emulator to
take advantage of new features of DOS 5
\9 52
^E
C Hint: Info Clicking
How to avoid displaying the Info box
when the Info menu entry is chosen
\9 55
^E
C Hint: Using Arrays of chars
How to use colours[] in the wimp_wind
structure
\9 55
^E
C Hint: Template Font Bind
Using template_use_fancyfonts() in ANSI
C Release 4 to cure font binding problem
\9 55
^A
Using ANSI C (Part 13)
How to display small amounts of text in
a dialogue box filled with text icons
\9 55
^E
Hint: Icon Bar Dropping in RISC OS 3
Dragging files to the empty icon bar
runs the files in RISC OS 3
\9 62
^E
Hint: Tiling Using Ovation
How to print A4 portrait pamphlets in
Ovation
\9 62
^E
Hint: Loading a File with OS_File
Clarification of PRM description of
OS_File load address parameter
\9 62
^E
Hint: Scatter Graphs in ChartWell
Plotting multiple scatter graphs on the
same set of axes in ChartWell
\9 62
^E
Hint: Maestro in RISC OS 3
Fixing the bug in Maestro which causes
notes to be displayed at the wrong size
\9 62
^E
Hint: Sideways RAM in the BBC Emulator
How to make sure the BBC Emulator
simulates four banks of sideways RAM
\9 62
^E
Hint: Right on DeskEdit
Changing the templates file to avoid
filename being hidden in title bar
\9 62
^E
Hint: Template Editing Can Be Bad For
Your Health/Danger when template files
contain a lot of templates
\9 62
^E
Hint: Which Version of RISC OS am
I Using?/MOS Utilities module has
RISC OS version number
\9 62
^E
Hint: PC Emulator and the Pound Key
How to enable the pound sign to be
entered via the keyboard in PC Emulator
\9 62
^A
Write-Back: Acorns Invisibility
More comments about Acorns image in the
marketplace/RISC
\9 65
^A
Write-Back: Intersheet Files on an Arc
Help on importing Intersheet files
into suitable Desktop applications
\9 65
^A
Write-Back: Reviewers and Reviewed
Comments on RISC User reviews and
graphical pattern fills
\9 65
^A
Write-Back: Improving the Quality of
Grey-Scale Images
Hints on image enhancement techniques
\9 65
^A
Write-Back: Newcomers Respond
Comments on the articles about upgrading
to an A5000 in Into the Arc
\9 65
^A
Write-Back:
Support for Frame-Grabbing Software
Help needed for 25-bit graphics project
\9 65
^A
Write-Back:
Fonts for Hewlett-Packard LaserJet
Downloadable fonts for the LaserJet IIIp
\9 65
^A
Technical Queries:
Making sure that not all radio icons in
a group are off at the same time
\9 68
^A
Technical Queries:
How to redfine the system font
using VDU commands and BBCFont files
\9 68
^A
Technical Queries:
The setting of the redraw bit in window
flags will require redraw code
\9 68
^A
Technical Queries:
A simple way to merge two sprites in
Paint
\9 68
^F
Points Arising: Disc version of
Wimp Function/Procedure Library 3
has a bug to do with icon creation
\9 69
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