Issue 169 (June) of Acorn User

Features

• How the West was drawn - special new series of features by Walter Briggs describing the individual features of all the major art packages and how you can use them. Starting with Studio24 and producing the Geronimo picture.
• CHRP (PPCP) - everybody's talking about it but what is it? And what does it really mean to the Acorn market?
• Quasar - Laser-tag with Acorn computers? "Are you feeling lucky, punk?"

Reviews

• CD Art - Clip-art graphics available on CD
• Charm - Programming language reviewed
• DrawWorks - Suite of utilities for handling Draw files

Cover disc

• Baka Chal - Ancient Tibetan strategy game
• LazyPrint - Quick printing for HP Lasers
• Latest version of ClikBack2
• *INFO programs, all the regulars

Regular columns

• News - Simtec's Hydra launched; Online Media Award; STB Internet access; Acorn World Show update; New Canon printers
• Comms - Thunderbolt BBS; Digital Oasis; Which Internet provider?
• Business - Buying incentive? Acorn presentation software
• Graphics - Da Vinci 90 revealed; Epson Stylus II update;
• PD Pages - Coder's Revenge; RiscWorld PD; AfterDarc; Xylon II
• Portables - Dataview Pro; Storks and NewsPADs; Pocket Media
• Game Show - Destiny; Rock Hard Fluffy Things; Chess II review; Adventures
• Education - Global village; Table Aliens; More CDs
• The Regan Files - interviewing Nigel Ward of Yorkshire International Thompson Multimedia.

Hands on

Our regular technical columns:

• Hints and tips - Mike Cook answers your queries.
• Run the RISC - Mike Cook's analogue PC joystick interface
• *INFO - Mill (Nine Men's Morris); More graphics; Graphs; Music
• C - Building a Wimp library