RISC User 12:1

February 1999

Click the cover picture to the right to view a larger version in a new browser window
Cover

Arc Click this icon to open a window showing the contents of the archive

Contents

Features

OP Floating Point Assembler
How to use the floating point processor instructions in ARM assembler from Basic
OP Juggling JavaScript
JavaScript has hit the Acorn market, so what better time to start to learn it? Mark Moxon kicks off a series looking at the language that puts the excitement in your web pages
OP How To Make Light of HTML
A further look at using tables to tart up your home page with mortised images and tool bars
OP RISC OS Outside
ARM Linux has caught the imagination of the Acorn community. David Matthewman explains why in the first part of our new series on the Linux OS
OP DTP Workshop
Richard Hallas returns to the basic principles of desktop publishing with a look at ways of laying out different kinds of pages
OP Education: The Best of 1998
Chris Drage takes a look at his favourite classroom products of 1998, from the data-logging of Ecolog to the Internet-based educational extravaganza that is Argonet's popular schools' site, ArgoSphere
OP The Great Free-for-all
David Holden, the proprietor of APDL, the Archimedes Public Domain Library, introduces a new series looking at Public Domain and Shareware software, and how traditional public domain libraries can survive in the modern world of the Internet
OP Brew Your Own Java
Peter Naulls continues his Java tutorial series by taking a look at applets: Java programs that are run from web pages. His example? A classic scrolling demo, of course
OP Netline
David Matthewman takes over the Netline mantle with a look at cookies, what they mean to Internet users and why they have such a bad image with users
OP Working on the Image
Nobilangelo Ceramalus continues his foray into the world of computer graphics with a summary of lots of methods for creating three-dimensional text effects in both ArtWorks and Photodesk

Reviews

OP Text for All Seasons
Richard Hallas takes the lid off the latest version of Softease's all-singing, all-dancing word processor, TextEase Multimedia 4, and is suitably impressed with its new web-site creation tools, repelling objects and speed
OP Cutting your Overheads
Alex Singleton sneaks a look at Spacetech's latest presentation package, OHP
OP Talking from the Inside
Clares has snapped up a bunch of internal modem cards, left over from the NC, and bundled them with a complete Freeserve-ready software package; Mark Moxon takes a look

Regulars

OP Cover
Photography and design: Wandering Jelly
OP Contents & Editorial
OP News
OP Puzzle
OP Reader offer
Smart DTP
OP Personal ads
OP Solution to Puzzle 11:9
OP RISC User subscriptions, back issues and products
OP Magazine Disc Dsc

Adverts

OP BEEBUG Ltd
RISC User Volume 11 Special Disc
Imp CTA Direct
OP Wakefield Show '99
Imp Pineapple Software
OP APDL
OP KeyNote
Charges
OP Stuart Tyrrell Developments (STD)
OP Acorn Southwest Show
OP Daco Systems
Imp Spacetech Ltd
N/A Castle Technology Ltd

Additional files

OP Flat Plan
Overall layout of pages for this issue of the magazine