32-bit Acorn Gaming WWW Pages Introduction

Welcome to the 32-bit Acorn Gaming WWW Pages, a regularly updated magazine bringing you all the latest happenings in the Acorn Gaming arena. This is a completely independent publication, and has no connection with DoggySoft Limited other than the simple fact that they very kindly pay for these pages to be available on the internet. Without their sponsorship these pages would not exist.

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When you choose an option from the contents page - performed simply by clicking on one of the subject headings - a new page (often a subject-specific contents page) will appear, with a small '32-bit Acorn Gaming' logo at the top, like the one on this page. At any time you can click on this logo to return to the main contents page. Try it now if you like. Similarly, as you choose options from the subject-specific pages, these subjects will appear in a list at the top-right. Once again, at any time you can click on one of these subjects to go back to the appropriate page. For example, if you choose "News" and then "Stryker's Run III" from the contents page, you arrive at a page where clicking on the '32-bit Acorn Gaming' logo will take you back to the main contents page, and clicking on 'News' will return you to the main News page. (NB. The Database uses a different system).

The News pages contain details of all the latest happenings in the Acorn Games world, with many illustrated previews of forthcoming titles and a summary editorial. Articles are clearly dated for easy reference.

There are now a large number of other Acorn WWW sites, and the Links section features several comprehensive sorted lists of Acorn links, all carefully categorised by page type and regularly updated.

The Database gives full details about all commercially published games, including contact details and links to demos on the internet, whilst the Archive contains a collection of useful articles culled from the internet as well as older articles from these pages, and in addition has patches for games and other useful material.

The Free Games pages give details and reviews of some free games available, including internet links, whilst the Cheats link takes you straight to Cheats Prosper, DoggySoft's huge online collection of cheat modules, solutions and just about everything you could possibly want to help you play Acorn games.

There are several full-length reviews and previews on these pages too, and also some feature articles about such things as computer emulators. The PC card pages contain Max Palmer's list of games which work on the Risc PC PC cards, whilst the What's New section details changes to these pages by date.

Enjoy reading them, and please send me your comments on these pages! There is some background information about these pages available for those who are interested. Quality contributions are welcomed, and will be clearly credited to authors.

Browser Compatibility Information

If at the top of this page if you don't see the "32-bit Acorn Gaming" logo and "Welcome" banner written on the immediate right-hand side of "What means What?" then your browser doesn't support all the formatting codes used on these pages, but don't worry since this won't make anything unreadable - just some graphics placement might look a little odd, that's all.

Netscape

No problems

Microsoft Internet Explorer

No problems

Fresco

No problems

If you're using an Acorn computer then, in my opinion, you want to be using Fresco if you can afford it. It isn't perfect, however:

If you're running Fresco in anything less than a 32,000 colour mode then please ensure you don't have the 'Use more colours (32,000)' option selected (Icon bar menu, Choices..., Display options) or else the background texture will look truly awful!
Fresco has some formatting bugs which affect the appearance of these pages. It quite often formats its 'aligned' paragraphs incorrectly. At the bottom of this page, for example, it sometimes right aligns 'This web space provided by' and then left aligns 'DoggySoft Ltd.' and the logo, as opposed to right-aligning the entire sentence and image. It also messes up the heading at the top of this page, failing to properly right-align the two right-hand side images.

Webite

In-line image formatting does not allow text or other graphics to flow around them, so some articles (especially newer ones) will have 'strange' graphic placement

Voyager's Web browser

As for Webite, but considerably slower than Webite

ArcWeb

Comments about Voyager's web browser apply equally well to ArcWeb (since they are fundamentally the same program, although different version numbers usually)

Webster

These pages have not been tested on Webster (if you use this browser please let me know how the pages look - but does anyone actually use this browser?)

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Gareth Moore
Last updated 9/4/97