RISC User 9:2

December 1995/January 1996

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Contents

Features

Imp Arc What's Cooking at Innovative Media Solutions?
There's soon going to be an explosion of exciting new CD-ROMs appearing in the Acorn market. We talk to the company responsible
Imp Arc PC Matters
Transferring data between the RISC OS and Windows clipboards, and the latest information on PC sound support
Imp Arc Education
Computing for the very young, and the NEMA awards
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Imp Arc Working with Photodesk, part 2
The second instalment of our series focuses on textures
Imp Arc David Lee speaks
The future of Acorn, according to the man at the top
Imp Arc Just a Page
Just in case there wasn't enough snow for your liking over Christmas, here's a program to draw snowflakes
Bas
Imp Arc Netline
All about transferring files over the Internet
Imp Arc Compiler Corner
Our regular feature examines the various Wimp libraries available to C/C++ programmers

Reviews

Imp Arc Internet Software Showcase
The commercial Internet suites for Acorn machines have been a long time coming; we see how they shape up
Imp Arc Merlin
A powerful new ray tracer from Evolution Computer
Imp Arc Pineapple's Removable Hard Drive
A new approach to data security
Imp Arc ImageFS 2
A filing system for translating graphic images
Imp Arc The latest games for your Acorn
Rick Dangerous, Alone in the Dark and DarkWood
Imp Arc Virtualise
Virtual memory arrives for the Risc PC at last, courtesy of Clares
Imp Arc Composition upgrade
Clares' Compo adds support for Virtualise, along with a few other new goodies
Imp Arc The Big Picture
Longman's new budget contender in the bitmap painting stakes
Imp Arc Mini Reviews
The Risc Disc, volume 2, Font Emporium, Digital Symphony Masterpiece Collection, The ARM Club PD CD, TopicArt CD and the CineClips CD-ROM

Regulars

Imp Txt Editorial
  Txt Contents
Imp Arc News
Imp Arc Write-Back
Imp Arc Puzzle
Plus solution for puzzle 9:1
Imp Arc Hints & Tips
  Txt Magazine Disc Dsc

Additional files

Imp Flat Plan
Overall layout of pages for this issue of the magazine
Imp Progress sheet
A list of articles, their authors and the number of pages they occupy
Imp Production sheet
RISC User production sheet template for this issue
Arc Technical Queries
Unpublished Technical Queries page
Imp Iomega Zip Drive
Unpublished review of the removable storage drive
Imp Impression layout
A RISC User page framework in Impression format, used to lay out the games review pages in this issue (the final layouts were not preserved)