RISC User 12:6

August/September 1999

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Features

OP The Mighty Mico
Alasdair Bailey pays a visit to MicroDigital and finds out exactly what it is that makes the company's new micro, the Mico, tick, and how it fares alongside the other new RISC OS machines
OP Ovation Pro: The Future
David Pilling, the author of Ovation Pro, has taken over the sales and development of the premier RISC OS DTP package, and here he talks exclusively about the future for Ovation Pro, his many other products, and the RISC OS market in general
OP An Open Letter to The Powers That Be
Richard Camp, an ordinary RISC OS user, takes a personal look at Acorn's demise, and writes an open letter to The Powers That Be
OP Netline
FTP is a very useful protocol for transferring files over the Internet; here David Matthewman takes a look at a Freeware FTP client
OP Juggling JavaScript
Mark Moxon starts to explore the JavaScript document object model with an example script that tells your fortune
OP RISC OS Outside
David Matthewman explores one of the more unique aspects of ARM Linux, the ability to recompile the system's kernel
OP Essential Selection
Chris Drage picks out a few pieces of software that he finds invaluable in his classroom
OP DTP Workshop
Richard Hallas finishes off his in-depth examination of the anatomy of fonts
OP The Great Free-for-all
David Holden looks at the ups and downs of the RISC OS Shareware market
OP Brew Your Own Java
Peter Naulls continues his exploration of the world of POP by adding an applet interface to his POP mail program
OP Working on the Image
Nobilangelo Ceramalus looks at the best way of binding large amounts of paper together, and creates a shadowed numeral using ArtWorks and Photodesk

Reviews

OP Big Clip-art CD
Peter Jennings takes his pick from more than 21,000 pictures on a new clip-art CD-ROM from Zenta Multimedia
OP RiscCAD vs ProCAD+
Alan Highet takes a look at the two most powerful RISC OS CAD packages, RiscCAD and ProCAD+ (both recently updated), and compares them feature by feature to see which one is the best overall

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OP Cover
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OP Contents & Editorial
OP News
OP Solution to Puzzle 12:4
OP Puzzle
OP Personal ads
OP Binder offer
OP RISC User subscriptions, back issues and products
OP Magazine Disc Dsc

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