[Each issue of Foundation RISC User contains a large number of articles (usually twenty or more) covering a diverse range of topics. The following 'sample issue' includes a representative selection of articles from the first three volumes of the magazine.]
Special Features
(From the News section) The latest news from RISCOS Ltd
Richard Hallas reports back from seeing a first glimpse of the MicroDigital Omega at its press preview in Bradford
Richard Hallas reports on CAMiLEON's efforts to preserve the BBC's Domesday Project for posterity
Herbert zur Nedden, Editor and publisher of the German GAG-News, tells the story of the leading non-English RISC OS magazine as it reaches its tenth anniversary (this article is available in English and German)
If you've mastered Basic and want to get closer to the raw power of your computer, Martyn Fox's extensive introduction to assembly language programming will set you well on the way
Icon Technology's Mike Glover provides hints on using Writer, the word processor bundled with RISC OS 4
Nobilangelo Ceramalus tells a rueful story of how the modern Seven Labours of Hercules failed to clean an Augean Stables of bureaucratic inertia and stupidity
David Pilling presents an overview of how the RISC OS printing system works, and supplies his handy SPrinter sprite printer utility as an example
Richard Hallas discusses the merits of upgrading your computer to the latest version of the operating system
David Cowell recounts his experiences as a professional artist using the RISC OS platform as his creative medium
Richard Hallas introduces the new RISC OS logo, which is intended to take over from the Acorn Nut device as the representative symbol of the operating system, and explains the significance of the cogwheel design
David and Andrew Vawer, of the Downland Veterinary Group, describe their use of RISC OS machines in modern veterinary practice
Howard Laurence Ward tells the story of the adoption of RISC OS in the USSR
David Pilling explains what 'going native' in 32-bit mode will mean for RISC OS, and the implications it has for existing RISC OS software
Paul Middleton answers some of the questions that are likely to be uppermost in readers' minds about the new RISC OS Select scheme
Gavin Crawford tells us why his printing firm is devoted to using RISC OS
Castle IYONIX pc
Paul Skirrow, Software Support Manager for the IYONIX pc, charts the development history of Castle's new 32-bit RISC OS 5 system
Digital Photography
Richard Hallas considers some of the important fundamentals of digital photography and compares three Olympus digital cameras, which are reviewed separately:
Richard Hallas explains how to hook up a digital camera to a RISC OS system and examines some useful software to accompany a camera
Richard Hallas considers the use of SmartMedia and CompactFlash card readers with RISC OS
Getting Practical
Tom Beeley shows you how to go from bitmap to vector and turn a photograph into a Draw file
Tony Still, author of Photodesk Ltd's presentation software, OHP2, explains how to go about making an effective presentation
Jolly Good Show!
Richard Hallas looks back at what happened at the fifth Wakefield Show, Wakefield 2000
Richard Hallas reports back from the third annual RISC OS Show
Internet
Tim Fountain introduces a Web feature that's unfamiliar to users of most RISC OS browsers
Tim Fountain explains how to get your Web site indexed on the popular search engines
Programming
(From the Special Features section, above) If you've mastered Basic and want to get closer to the raw power of your computer, Martyn Fox's extensive introduction to assembly language programming will set you well on the way
Herbert zur Nedden explains a straightforward method of producing foreign-language versions of your applications (this article is available in English and German)
Games
Tim Fountain presents news of the latest developments in the field of entertainment software
Tim Fountain has lots of tips on how to rule with an iron fist over Enroth
Magazines Galore
Peter Jennings presents a brief history of forty Acorn-related magazines
Other magazine features
As a way of promoting the other RISC OS magazines, each issue of Foundation RISC User includes a new article from the latest issue of most of the mainstream publications. The magazines which participate in this scheme are Acorn Publisher, Archive, Eureka and (occasionally) RISC World. In many instances, Foundation RISC User adds value to the articles by providing the original resource files which were used to prepare the printed illustrations, plus any resource software mentioned in the articles.
Join the Club!
Colin Sutton reports on the recent visit of RISCOS Ltd to the Wakefield Acorn Computer Group, when Technical Director Andrew Rawnsley extolled the benefits of RISC OS 4