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Editorial: Acorn World '93
Developments in the Acorn market
Guidelines for Contributors
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News: NewLook for RISC OS 3 
Attractive new Desktop display for RISC
OS 3 free from Acorn and TDK
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News: The Names Pond, James Pond
Latest conversion from GamesWare/Eclipse
stable - James Pond 2 - Robocod
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News: Fireworkz on the Archimedes
Colton Software launch Fireworkz at
Acorn Show - Spreadsheet/Word processor
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News: Changing the Weather
Spacetech launch new version of Weather
Satellite stations and Software/PDSview
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News: To C or not to C
New C development system from RISC
Developments/Language/Programming
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News: Almanac Organiser enhanced
Stallion Software enhances Almanac to
manage Home Accounts/Business
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News: Major upgrade to Squirrel
Digital Services launch Squirrel 2 at
Acorn Show - 38 enhancements - Database
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News: Destination Germany 
German language versions of software
from Stallion/4Mation/Icon Technology
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News: Explore with Flossy the Frog
Fun educational program from 4Mation
Interactive Adventure for Children
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News: Its Revolutionary
CD-ROM system from Morley Electronics
Low-cost/supports Replay and PhotoCD
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News: Can Pigs Talk?
Educational software from Wyddfa
Software/Talking Stories/Education 
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News: Sprite Animation
Minerva launch PrimeMover at Show
Real-time system for Animation control
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News: Learn to play the Keyboard
Minerva launch Keyboard Trainer at Show
Education/Music/Entertainment
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News: Creative Adventures - Creator II
Alpine Software releases Creator II
New version of arcade game designer
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News: Creative Adventures - Explorer
Alpine Adventure Collection and
Explorer from Alpine Software/Education
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News: Play it Again? Replay Plus
Upgrade to Acorn Replay DIY kit from
Irlam Instruments/Video/Digitising
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News: Play it Again Replay Plus
Professional sound sampling card from
Irlam Instruments/CD/DAT/Music
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News: Point-and-click with S-Base
S-Base 2 launched at Acorn World '93
Database/Multimedia/Squirrel/dBase
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News: Life on a CD-ROM
The Artificial Intelligence CD-ROM
from Network Cybernetics Corporation
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News: Acorn Down Under
Acorn Computers Australia announce big
price reductions/Education
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News: Armed for Education
The ARM Club forms education group
Education/National Curriculum/PD
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News: More Pennies in your Pocket
Acorn Computers extend special
promotions on Pocket Book and Schedule
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News: High Flyers - Eagle and Lark
Wild Vision/Computer Concepts launch
Eagle multimedia system/Digitiser/Sound
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News: High Flyers - Eagle and Lark
Wild Vision/Computer Concepts launch
Lark Sound Sampler/Stereo/AudioWorks
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News: High Flyers - Eagle and Lark
Wild Vision/Computer Concepts launch
Chroma 500 Genlocking Card/Video
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News: Join the Nursery
Holdfast develop JoyPad for younger
children/Keyboard/Mouse/Joystick
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News: EMR turns up the volume
New products from EMR - MicroStudio 2
Music Player 3/Studio 24 v.3/MIDI/SMPTE
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Review: ProArtisan 2 by Clares
Successor to popular graphics package
Computer Art/Image processing/Paint
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Video Nouveau
Whats in store video-wise for the next
generation of Acorn computers/VIDC 20
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Mapping the World
Producing statistical maps on the Arc
Education/DTP/Draw/Mapmaker
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Review: Gothic Graphics
Medieval images on the Arc/The Medieval
and Gothic Fonts Pack from The Datafile
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C NoteBook: Handling Errors
When to use wimpt_complain(),
wimpt_noerr() and werr()
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C NoteBook: Preprocessor quote handling
Handling the insertion of quoted
strings when they fall next to quotes
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C NoteBook: Macros and shorter code
Defining sets of macros to reduce
typing and make C code more readable
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C NoteBook: Directories and fopen()
Value returned by fopen() in ANSI C not
entirely reliable
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Review: Getting the best Resultz
The new spreadsheet from Colton Software
Wordz/Fireworkz/Pipedream/Office
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Frontiers of Multimedia
Report from Interactive Learning '93
Fractal Compression/Interactive books
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Wimp Topics: Displaying Text in Windows
Matching text to co-ordinates/Writing
text to the window/Scrolling/Programming
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Exploring Hyperspace
Archimedes in the fourth dimension
Hypercube/Flatland/3D image
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Review: The Star SJ-144 Colour Printer
A significant advance in colour printing
for the Arc? Thermal Transfer Printing 
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Preview: It's a Kind of Magic
Simon the Sorcerer from AdventureSoft
Stunning game/conversion by GamesWare
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Review: Stunt Racer 2000
Slip and slide round the courses of The
Fourth Dimensions latest driving game
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Disc: Rotating HyperCubes
Attempts to give you an impression of
the fourth dimension/3D image
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Disc: Text Kerner
Useful utility to kern text in Draw
files/DTP/Kerning/Outline Fonts
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Disc: Window Writer
Demonstrates routines used for
displaying text in windows/Programming
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Disc: Aces Patience
Addictive version of Patience that runs
on the Desktop/cards/games/fun
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Disc: Astronomical Information
Provides extensive astronomical details
on the Sun, Moon and planets
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Disc: Draw File Merger
A simple application to merge two Draw
files into a single file/CAD/DTP
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Disc: Missing Caret Locator
Finds the missing caret in a screenful
of text/CAD/DTP/Utilities/A4
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Disc: Desktop Calendar and Diary
Update to Diary application originally
published in 2:9 and 2:10/Utility
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Disc: Gobble - The Word Game
Challenging word game to tax your brain
Education/Fun/Dictionary/Game/Hybrid
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Disc: TableDraw - Table Generator
Utility for creating tables/CSV/Draw 
Spreadsheets/Databases/Hybrid
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Review: Schedule and Event
Acorn Schedule and Event from ExPlan
Organise your life/Pocket Book/Agenda 
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Review: Adventuring in Education
Daryl the Dragon from 4Mation/ArcVenture
III - The Vikings from Sherston
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All About Outline Fonts Part 3
Font design and the use of outline fonts
in publishing/DTP/kerning/italic/oblique
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PC Survival Guide Part 8
File security on the PC - DOS commands
to protect data and files
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Hints: Obey File Errors
Tracing errors in Obey files using the
ERROR command
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Hints: Lost Application Sprites 
Application icons failing to appear on
the icon bar - a solution
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Hints: Work Area in Edit and DeskEdit
Setting the width of the work area in
Edit and DeskEdit windows
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Hints: Automatic high-res resource icons
Forcing the Wimp to display the correct
icons on a mode change
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Hints: RISC User Desktop Diary Update
Fixing a bug in the original Diary
application/Disc
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Hints: Replacement for VDU 2
Three useful procedures for sending
characters to the printer stream
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Hints: Halting a sound sample
Stopping a sound sample that has been
installed as a module voice
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Hints: AIM images and ChangeFSI
A step-by-step guide to creating AIM
images with ChangeFSI
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Hints: Task Window problems
A fix for programs that do not display
carriage returns in the Task Window
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Hints: Quicker Printer Setups
Various short-cuts for setting up
printer configurations
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Hints: File output using OS_GBPG
A simple procedure demonstrating the
OS_GBPB SWI for writing bytes to a file 
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Hints: Faster Font Cataloguing
Speeding up font cataloguing by changing
the Resources message file/Fonts
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Hints: FaxPack Status Display
Using FormEd to modify the FaxPack 
Status window size
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Hints: RISC OS 3 Automatic Menus
Opening a deep menu structure without
covering the width of the screen
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Review: Hatching a Plot
HatchBack from 4Mation - provides range
of cross-hatch patterns for Draw files
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Getting the Best from Ovation
Hints and tips on book production
Pamphlet mode printing/DTP/Style sheets
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Into the Arc: Musings with Paint/Draw
More fancy effects with Paint and Draw
Stencils/Masks/Transparent Panels/DTP
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The 80 Column
Problems with RISC OS 3 printer drivers
NEC/Epson/PostScript/DTP/Queue/SmartSave
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Write-Back: A4 to the fore
Turning an A4 into an A5000 with PC
keyboard and monitor/fan noise
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Write-Back: A4 chicken and egg situation
Lack of peripherals from third parties/
lack of demand for the A4
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Write-Back: A Progress Report
PC Emulation on the Archimedes
Reading high density discs/1.44Mb
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Write-Back: The Pocket Book
Abacus on the Psion Series 3/changing
window size/Fax and Modem/Communications
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Write-Back: Education and Training
Comment on RISC User 6:9 editorial
LEA policy on computers/Education/DTP
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Write-Back: The Canon BJ200
Clarifying situation on letter in 6:9
about BJ200/Page Length/ink-jet printers
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Points Arising
Just A Page 6:9 Page 33 - simplifying
PROCdl to avoid occasional errors
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Technical Queries: Computer Jargon
The Wimp Slot explained/How it is
allocated/Wimpslot/Task Manager/Memory
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Technical Queries: Claiming Memory
Obtaining extra memory for processing
documents/DIM/RMA/Wimp_SlotSize
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Technical Queries: Pointer Information
Using Wimp_GetPointerInfo to obtain
details on pointer position
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Technical Queries: Running Text files
Using the Filer_Run command to load a
Text file into Edit/Wimp_ProcessKey
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