Out Now - Drag N Drop 13i3 Spring 2024
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STOP! Do you want your Drag 'N Drop up at a discount? If so, come to
tomorrow's RISC OS show. If you can't come, don't worry, you can buy it
now (at full price).
Drag 'N Drop is a quarterly magazine for RISC OS users, mainly the
Raspberry Pi series of machines but much will be relevant to all RISC OS
users and programmers.
It comes in PDF format (download) and costs £5.50 with an archive of
programs 'typed in' ready to run on your RISC OS machine, or £4.50 for the magazine only if you want to type in the programs yourself!
The focus of Drag 'N Drop is to be accessible to a wide range of users and programmers, having fun whilst learning how to code on your RISC OS
machine.
The Spring 2024 edition, Volume 13 Issue 3 (13i3), is out and is jam
packed with features.
* Beginner's Pages: New to RISC OS? Don't know your adjust from your
select? Wonder how to type in a BBC Basic program? Check out our newbie
pages.
* WIMP library: The essential BBC Basic routines for desktop software, all applications in Drag ‘N Drop use one or more of procedures.
* News and Apps: All the latest in the world of RISC OS with details of
where you can get new and updated free and commercial RISC OS software.
* What is NVMe? You‘ve heard people talk about a marvellous storage media called NVMe. So what is it and what relevance does it have to RISC OS?
* 8 Bits: Extra large BBC Micro and Electron clutch: make Golden Figurine playable with a get-out-of-trouble hotkey, follow our walk-through
solution and map, type in and play Egg Saviour, plot multi colour
user-defined characters FAST with our routines.
* Style2HTML: Convert your Impression documents to HTML with this amazing application, which also handles images plus a host of other useful
features. Full listing and program notes.
* RISCoffee: Take a break with our regular column giving hints and tips
for using RISC OS.
* Anatomy of a Game: Inside the games factory at AMCOG where we have the
honour of seeing how Timerun is programmed.
* Jpeg Reordering: Re-organise your pictures into sequential files with a
few clicks with our easy-to-use application. An ideal accompaniment to Style2HTML. Full listing and coding commentary.
* Timerun Review: Review of AMCOG‘s latest space-age shoot-em-up, TimeRun.
* RISC OZ: Bubble Chase arrives from the antipodes, a fun and instructive
game demon-strating aspects of icons in Wimp programming.
_Note to readers who took up the Volume 13 subscription offer_ A link to
your magazine will be emailed to you as usual but you are welcome to
collect it at the show. Just bring a USB memory stick!
To buy your copy go to www.dragdrop.co.uk
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