Issue 173 (October) of Acorn User

Features

• Acorn Interviews - Peter Bondar and David Lowdell about ART, Taos, RISC OS, Risc PCs, the NetComputer and the Future, all is revealed
• NChannel - Interview with Jamie Minotto, NChannel's Sales & Marketing Director, about what NChannel/NetStation is all about
• New Acorn - Steve Turnbull pontificates about Acorn's future as influenced by the NetStation and other things
• Acorn History - Alex Singleton's short view of Acorn's long track
• Xemplar Education - Paul Heinrich examines this controversial part of Acorn's world
• Acorn's down under - Mark Moxon on Acorn machines in Ozzie schools
• Web Weaving - All the other (standard) HTML tags by David Matthewman
• Where are we - Geoff Preston finds out with Global Positioning and his pocketbook
• Acorn World Show - two page preview

Reviews

• Presentation software - compared and contrasted
• 'N'interface - better gameplay?

Two Cover Discs

• Hilighter - the FULL program and support files from Sherston Software
• Save the Gweeks - 40+ levels of high quality graphic arcade fun
• Example HTML pages from David Matthewman
• Mike Cook's Phantom User Port software plus Q&A software
• All the *INFO programs

Regular columns

• News - New Kodak picture format; Psion+StrongARM; Liverpool Enthusiasts Group; new Panasonic SIMMs; CD labels; StrongARM compatibility tests; Serial networking from iSV; IFEL hardware; ARM-powered modem; ANT Internet Suite II, Aleph 1's !PCPro, Network links; NT Server connections Eesox CD-Rom drives.
• Comms - Brainstorm BBS; !Digimail offline reader; Tornado URL; Pilling's pages; Ubik BBS.
• Portables - Learning languages; Yellow's Shareware CD; Psion web site; Reader's top ten Psion software; Psion->Ovation.
• Graphics - Sinchronia's 'Gemini' graphics engine; Epson Stylus printer help; 4Mb VRAM coming?
• Business - leasing machines; Relational databases; Sibelius; Pocketbooks vs laptops.
• PD Pages - New Tetris-ish game with a twist; new Battletank game with a different twist; new 6-player Bomberman clone; No-windows; Balloon Invaders; Lunchtime 6;
• Game Show - Bomberman; I.M.A.G.E.S. (Internet Multi Access General Engine System); Game Show web pages; Destiny; Tyridium; Nelson's column on the Interactive Fiction competition results.
• Education - IT worksheets; Xavier's CD Rom; Teacher's purchase deal; International connection; Pirates.
• The Regan Files - interviewing Herman Corijn and Willem van Duijn from the Big Ben Club

Hands on

Our regular technical columns:

• Hints and tips - Mike Cook answers your queries.
• Run the RISC - Two phantom user ports on your RISC OS machine
• *INFO - Keypress macros; Printing on low ram machines; more graphic marvels; an old but interesting game revisited; Risc PC revealed;
• C - More in building a simple database