
                          Aliquid Novi
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  Aliquid Novi is a disc-based magazine. In that sense, it is no different
from the dozen or so others which seem to periodically appear (then, just as
suddenly, disappear) on the Acorn platform.

  That is, I hope (having seen some of the competition), where the similarity
ends. Aliquid Novi contains, among other things:

 More than 1.5Mb of material compressed onto an 800Kb disc.
 Over 100 articles, totalling over 400Kb.
 Over half a megabyte (more than 80,000 words) of Star Trek novels.
 A desktop interface, based on DoggySoft's !Webite HTML browser (Aliquid
Novi is written in HTML, and so makes full use of images, backdrops,
inter-magazine links etc).
 It is llustrated by over 30 images, totalling over 450Kb uncompressed.
 More than a dozen editorials, examining the history and future of language,
and analysing some of the faults of PCs and Microsoft (and suggesting why
people continue to use the things).
 Large numbers of reviews (more than 30) of the best PD software and demos
around, as well as a few commercial offerings (I have also included comments
on the main Acorn software houses and paper-based magazines).
 Fact sheets, from NASA, giving detailed information about the planets,
moons, asteroids, comets etc. of the Solar System, illustrated with
'thumbnail' images of the planets.
 A programing section, with articles on ARM code, the GNU C compiler, and an
introduction to the concept of compilers.
 An Internet section, with a very comprehensive HTML tutorial, an
introduction to, and explanation of, the Internet and a glossary of
Internet-related terminology.

  Although Aliquid Novi will run from its archive, article loading etc. will
be much faster if it is de-archived to a hard disc, high-density floppy or a
RAM disc.

 Edmund Richardson, 1998

Edmund Richardson
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