RISC User 12:9

January 2000

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Contents

Features

OP Losing My Religion It's a simple fact of life that people change their computer platforms according to market pressures and functionality, and in a three-part section David Matthewman and Richard Hallas examine the relative merits and disadvantages of the three main alternatives to RISC OS (Windows, Mac OS and Linux) and how best to migrate between the four of them
OP Apple Talk
OP RISC OS Outside
OP A Day at the Races
David Matthewman popped along to the ARM Club's recent RISC OS '99 Show at Epsom Downs, and found the RISC OS market very much alive and well
OP Assembly Techniques
Martyn Fox concludes his three-part series on assembly Wimp programming by presenting a fully-featured calendar program
OP Netline
Searching on the Internet can be a difficult proposition at the best of times, but David Matthewman knows three web sites that make it much easier for RISC OS users
OP Juggling JavaScript
Mark Moxon looks at a way of using JavaScript to validate information typed into forms in web pages without having to use CGI scripts
OP DTP Workshop
Richard Hallas steps back from the design aspects of DTP, and considers the question of getting the finished job printed out
OP The Great Free-for-all
David Holden looks at the intricacies of Open Source software, with particular emphasis on the famous GNU Licence
OP Brew Your Own Java
Peter Naulls finishes off his short examination of Java bytecode with a look at some concrete examples of bytecode in action
OP Working on the Image
Nobilangelo Ceramalus looks at how to create vignettes (images that fade into the background in various different ways) and how to create images with irregular objects arranged around the outside of a circle

Reviews

OP Psion Series 7
Richard Hallas managed to get his hands on one of the very first models of the brand new ARM-powered machine from Psion, the Series 7, and was very impressed with what he saw
OP Two from Sherston
Chris Drage reports on Matti Mole's Summer Holiday and This Week in History

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OP Cover
Design: Wandering Jelly
OP Contents & Editorial
OP News
OP Solution to Puzzle 12:7
OP RISC User subscriptions, back issues and products
OP Magazine Disc Dsc

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Additional files

OP Flat Plan
Overall layout of pages for this issue of the magazine
Res Psion Series 7 screenshots
Screenshots from the Psion Series 7 which were taken to accompany the review but which could not be accommodated in the page layout due to lack of space