Issue 160 (October) of Acorn User
Regular columns
- News: Sam Wauchope's resignation - Ian Burley interviews David Lee, the new Managing
Director, and profiles Sam Wauchope. We also have an obituary of Mark Colton.
- Graphics: news on version 2 of Studio 24.
- Comms: Saturn BBS in Manchester.
- DTP: a makeover performed on a school yearbook.
- Public domain: PickAPic and the new demo Blu reviewed.
- Business: how to print labels with LabelStar, and using macros in a spreadsheet.
- Education: the Education agents' scheme and pen freinds by e-mail.
- Networks: Front_End from SEMERC..
- Letters: The A7000 discussed, and are we paying too much for IDE hard drives?
- Game show: A two-page interview with Berty, of D***W*** fame.
- Free ads: Bargains Galore, with a possible appearence by Prices Slashed.
- The Moxon Interview: Walter Briggs, who also did the attractive cover pictured above.
Cover disc
- CHelp - a StrongHelp C programming manual.
- Director, Nick Craig-Wood's all-singing, all-dancing Desktop utility.
- An updated version of Lipsum, the Lorem Ipsum generator.
- All the regular features.
Hands on
Our regular technical columns:
- The right direction - Nick Craig-Wood tells all about Director.
- Run the RISC - Mike Cookës hardware series looks at joysticks.
- Questions and answers - the hints and tips column.
- Absolute beginners - The Filer explained.
- C for yourself - our C tutorial winds up with recursion.
- Acorn customer hotline - Dave Walker from Acorn gives exclusive advice to all.
- *INFO - the usual four pages of programming anarchy, as the Daves Acton and Lawrence present
offerings from our readers and themselves.
The Education section
- Versatile, Dial Solutions' tesssellation package is reviewed.
- Bill Lamin gives some network tips.
- We review Physics Tutor, a program to help with Science teaching.
- Map Importer from Minerva is reviewed.
- Designing your own stationery with Celebration.
Reviews (now in a new, improved burgundy colour :-)
We review:
- Composition, Clares' latest graphics winner.
- The Phaser 440 dye-sublimation printer.
- The A7000, viewed as a machine for schools.
- Fire and Ice, a new platform game (well, an old conversion from the
Amiga actually, but it's much better than nothing).
Features
- Caught in the net - details of the Acorn User WWW site (probably a bit superfluous
if you are reading this!).
- Internet bargain - Acorn User teams up with ArgoNet to offer a cheap, Acorn-friendly
Internet solution. Again, if you're already reading this...
- Agents of change - Ian Burley and Geoff Preston look at the implications of Acorn's
new arrangements for selling to education.
- Club Corner - the Suffolk Acorn RISC Club under the spotlight.
- Acorn's World of new technology - all the technology which will be on display at the show.
