Issue 164 (January) of Acorn User

Regular columns

• News - incuding some snippets of Acorn news, details of the new range of PC co-processors and a very silly picture of the Princess of Wales..
• Graphics - the fractal painting program Montage is here.
• Comms - Arcade BBS joins the Internet with a WWW and ftp server.
• PD - now two pages per month, and packed with classic and new PD.
• Education - speaking software and other topics..
• Networkss - Stopping !Scrap bloat.
• Letters - can babymilk marketing teach Acorn a lesson or two?
• The new-name, same-format Regan Files take over the interview slot, starting with Jim Daniels from Pineapple Software.

Cover disc

• Top Model demo, so that you can see just how fast Sincronia Soluzioni Multimediali's 3D modelling package actually is.
• All the regular items.

Cover CD-ROM

• Acorn Education Products and Services catalogue, in hypertext format.
• Demos of over sixty programs in the catalogue.
• The Acorn ftp site.

Hands on

Our regular technical columns:

• Questions and answers - hints and tips.
• C tutorial - more about the WIMP.
• Run the RISC - the curious wiring and data transfer in a joypad.
• Acorn Customer Hotline - SysMerge, DCI4 and CDFS SWIs.
• *INFO - A smartquotes module, and the usual fast and furious graphics routines.

The Education section

• Three-page CD-ROM round-up..
• Smudge the Spaniel reviewed.

Reviews

We review:

• Aleph One's DX2/80 card.
• The Microsoft and Dorling Kindersley CD-ROM readers from IMS.
• ImageFS2 from Alternative Publishing.
• The PC Survival Guide from BEEBUG.
• Sound mixer boards for the Risc PC.
• The Cobalt Seed, Command Ship, FistLore, Land, Sea and Air and Rick Dangerous.

Features

• Hybrid machines - mixing Acorns and PCs in the same box.
• Online Media - current and future uses for the technology.
• Planes, trains and Pocket Books - Mark Moxon reports from Australia about using a Pocket Book and 3Fax to stay in touch.
• Virtual design - the last of Pete Worrall's series goes futuristic.
• CD-ROM deal - a cheap, portable CD-ROM drive from Eesox.
• Get Zynetted - an Internet deal aimed at schools and teachers.
• IDG Books offer - no RISC OS for Dummies, sadly, but plenty of other reading matter here.