Issue 178 of Acorn User

Features

• Chatter box - Introducing Internet Relay Chat
• Top of the form - A look at HTML forms
• I wrote that... - Acorn User talks to Simon Glass ... and Rob Davison
• 10 out of 10 offer - Send for a free copy of Essential IT

Reviews

• Portable prototypes - A look at the Stork and the NewsPAD
• Spreadsheets shootout - Comparing three Acorn spreadsheet packages
• ProSound - The new sound system for hi-fi output

Cover disc

• Voyager - free trial internet access with Argonet
• BootPlus - simpler editing of the Acorn boot sequence

Regular columns

• News - More news of Windows for the ARM, Welsh RiscOS arrives
• Comms - Travelling with an Acorn A4
• Graphics - The latest Artworks plugins
• PD Pages - Coder's Revenge, InterGif
• PC Page - ESP MIDI synthesiser and WinRisc
• Game Show - The latest games releases : Tanks
• The Regan Files - interviewing Neil Critchley and Mark Watson from Eesox
• Education - the latest from the education world, Fun Learning with elves and aliens, the latest from iSV and how to produce a history production presentation.

Hands on

Our regular technical columns:

• Rambles Through Acorn Wood - Mike Cook answers your queries.
• Run the RISC - Serial I/O Board
• *INFO - the first of the Circle challenge and much more
• Wimp C - More sorting techniques described