Issue 171 (August) of Acorn User

Features

• Searching the Internet by Paul Skirrow
• All about Set-top Boxes by Ian Burley
• The Lindis School Bus by Karen Peach
• Web Weaving - second in the series on how to produce good Web pages by David Matthewman

Reviews

• Ancestry II - yes, finally, it made it
• VT100 Emulator - e-mail on your pocketbook
• PaperOut - reading electronic books
• QuickLynk - communicating between machines
• Paint and Composer for the PocketBook

Cover disc

• Sherston software's Ridiculous Rhymes demo
• Example HTML pages from David Matthewman
• Mike Cook's Transistor Tester software
• Some of the *INFO programs

Regular columns

• News - all the latest
• Comms - New ANT Internet Suite; Ubik BBS in France; cyber.cafe TV;
• Portables - AcoPass passwords; Net PocketBook
• Graphics - PhotoDesk competition results; RISC TV
• PD Pages - CyberWar; ReMIDI; BackIcon; Two from Ting; Pushy II;
• Game Show - Fantasia Software's Wizard Apprentice; Exile on the RPC; Interview with Robin Watts; Interview with Matthew Bloch (Swarm);
• Education - Book Project; Measurements; Epilepsy
• The Regan Files - interviewing John Crick

Hands on

Our regular technical columns:

• Hints and tips - Mike Cook answers your queries.
• Run the RISC - Mike Cook's finishes his intelligent transistor tester
• *INFO - Right hand-y drive (Director); Clump game; Biorhythms (!); Neon frogs; Even more Patience; Ellipsis; Mapping sprites; 3DBlobs; TaskEnsure;
• C - More on library routines, Menus