Issue 175 (December) of Acorn User

Features

• Writing Arcade Games - New series by Matthew Bloch
• Web Weaving - Creating graphics for web pages
• PCA - The powerful inter-application communication protocol explained
• ActiveX - What this PC standard means to Acorn machines
• StrongARM - Fitting the StrongARM card
• Computer Control - Delivering the curriculum to Year 8 students

Reviews

• Top Model [Spacetech] - What it can do now
• ANT Internet Suite II - David Dade sees what the improvements are.
• BookMaker [Resource] - Colin Rouse explores the world of publishing with Bookmaker
• Simple Control [Camboard] - Geoff Preston looks at control simulation

Cover disc

• Shanghai and Shogi two great board games
• NewsFind search facility for Newsbase 0.56 [PD Scheme]
• Example HTML graphics from Stuart Halliday
• BSE winner of our Interactive Fiction competition
• Mike Cook's Sound Square software as featured at the Acorn World show
• Wimp C series software on dragging.
• Bucketloads of *INFO programs

Regular columns

• News - Eidos' Optima; Tesco's Computers for Schools; Clares' new Compo; Cumana's new Oscar; Eesox CD brick; Prophet 3 from Apricote Studios; iSV's DrawWorks, Report Generator and ClassDesks; Argo's Zip drives; Spacetech & StrongARM; Acorn's half-yearly results; Acorn + Bitstream Fonts; Circle Software's Impact database; ART's German OS; ALPS dry-colour printers; Fabis' EasyFont Pro; ARMed Forces' WinRisc; SASAUG (Surrey & Sussex) User group.
• Comms - Modems get faster; Cybervillage Shop; Digital Databurst (disc magazine);
• Business Page - Pipedream is back; Modern Sunclocks; Prophet 3;
• Graphics - Texture Garden; TJ Reprographics' big imagesetter; Aspex' VRMLEyes
• PD Pages - ATC (Air Traffic Control); ReMIDI; MultiChars; PDTracker; VideoBase & EventShell;
• Portables - Importing RTFs; Psion's 3c and Siena; Pocket NetStation; New Sparkplug
• Game Show - Marsquake; The Pharoah's Secret Tombs [Generation Design]; Save the Gweeks passwords.
• Nelson's column - More on old text adventure games
• Education - Resource's Supermarket; CTA assistance; New Wave Concepts' MicroTutor; Chalksoft's Helping Hand; CSH moves
• The Regan Files - interviewing Diane Freeman

Hands on

Our regular technical columns:

• Hints and tips - Mike Cook answers your queries.
• Run the RISC - The amazing sound square
• *INFO - Now at six pages!
• Wimp C - All about dragging in the Wimp