Out Now - Drag N Drop 13i1

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 users and programmers. It comes in PDF format (download).

Drag ’N Drop is an accessible publication focusing on having fun whilst learning how to program with your RISC OS machine.

It costs just GBP4.25, or GBP5.50 with a Zip file of programs typed-in and ready to run. You can try before you buy with free sample editions available for instant download.

Volume 13 Issue 1 is available with an exciting collection of articles:

• Beginner’s pages with hints and tips with Wimp library of procedures used by Drag ‘N Drop’s type-in applications.

• Latest news on what’s been going on in the RISC OS world with hardware and software developers.

• Come across the dreaded ‘file open’ error message but don’t know what’s causing it? Find out with this type-in app which displays all open files and giving you the choice of which ones to close. Full listing and program commentary.

• RISCoffee. New series of mini-articles with hints and tips on using RISC OS and RISC OS applications. In this instalment, how to create tables in Impression with different row heights.

• A bumper, nine page section for 8-bit BBC Micro programmers. How about a sideways, pixel-scrolling game in BBC Basic?! Full listing and documentation on this clever technique. Programs will also run on RISC OS.

• To complement the 8-bit feature, BBCFonCat is a type-in application which takes a BBC Font file and produces a Draw file of enlarged characters, complete with definitions.

• RISC OZ – looking at the RESTORE command from down-under.

To buy your copy go to www.dragdrop.co.uk.