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Click this icon to open a directory display containing the Mac-format StuffIt 5.5 archives |
For most of its life, RISC User was laid out using QuarkXPress on the Macintosh platform, and RISC OS-format backups of the material in the first seven years of the magazine's life were not retained.
For completeness, the available Mac backup files for those years are provided on this CD. Note, though, that they are not accessible on RISC OS machines.
The backups here cover issues 1:1 to 7:1 and 7:7 to 8:1; RISC OS-format files are available for the remainder of volume 8. No backups of any kind exist for issues 7:2 to 7:6. In most cases, the QuarkXPress files contain the page layouts with all the text of the articles intact, but no pictures; up to issue 7:1, all magazines were backed up onto one or two 800K Mac-format floppy discs each, which meant that there was insufficient room for graphics to be retained. Some graphics are present in the 7:7 to 8:1 archives, as these were stored on CD.
The files provided on this Nutshell CD are StuffIt version 5.5 archives. In order to make use of them (and the files they contain), you will need a Macintosh computer, a copy of QuarkXPress and the appropriate fonts. It is probable that these files will also be accessible to PC users, but this has not been tested.
In order to decompress the archives, a copy of StuffIt Expander is required. This may be obtained (for both Mac and PC) from http://www.aladdinsys.com/.