Vol 9, Issue 6 The CD-ROM magazine for RISC OS users. Foundation RISCWorld issue picker Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8 Volume 9   1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6   Search Foundation RISC World Search   Obituary Paul Vigay The popular RISC OS developer and face of Orpheus Internet... News and Comment News The latest news to land on the RISCWorld editorial desk... Editorials Editors Corner The Editor's own safe haven. From the Cutting Edge The latest from RISCOS Ltd... Regulars Disc World Find out what software's on this issues CD-ROM. Letters Page All the words that matter from our readers. VirtualAcorn TechSupport The latest from Aaron's tech support notebook... Features Using VirtualRPC on a NetBook Robin Barnard recounts his story of getting RISC OS running on an Asus Eee 701... Creating a 3D Effect with a Neon Star Richard Ashbery returns with more great Artworks tutorials... Acorn DFS disc reader Dave Holden with another exclusive application... Converting BBC BASIC to C Martin Carrudus with the latest version of his automatic BASIC to C converter... Mathematics Fermat's last Thoerem A puzzle that's hundreds of years old... The RISC OS Time Machine Acorn's new line up for '92 The biggest ever range was announced... The Next Technology CD ROM Drive In 1990 Acorn machines joined the CD ROM revolution... Beginners guide to WIMP Programming Beginners guide to WIMP Programming The index for our latest serialisation. Of Mice and Menus Opening menus and detecting menu clicks... More on Menus Menus in greater depth... A Simple Wimp Shell Program Putting what's been learnt so far together... Windows Redrawn How to redraw your applications windows... Dialogue Boxes Displaying information... Drawing Shapes Rendering your own graphics in a window... Saving, Loading and Error Boxes File handling for multi-tasking applications Loading the RISC OS Way How to receive a file and load it into memory... Saving – It's a Drag Handling files that are being dropped into your application... Saving the RISC OS Way Implementing a RISC OS save dialogue box... Outlining Fonts Using Outline Fonts in desktop applications... Getting Into Print Printing from your application... Further Refinements Some clever techniques to improve your code... A Wimp Shell Program A fully customisable shell for your own projects... Appendix: Listing of the Final Version of the Shapes !RunImage File Hardware Iyonix Issues Matt Thompson with the latest Iyonix news... Solid State Drives Dave Holden fits the latest technology into a RiscPC... Software - FontFiend fontfiend the fiendish font editor, free for our subscribers... what is a font? the basics explained... getting started loading files into fontfiend... fontfiend tutorial an example project... fontfiend main table using the main font table... fontfiend main menu the options provided.... fontfiend outline character windows what's displayed and what it means... fontfiend character menus altering individual characters... the preferences window changing and saving your settings... appendix 1 glossary of terms appendix 2 font problem solving appendix 3 encoding tables appendix 4 loading base0 fonts shows Wakefield 2009 The latest news from the biggest RISC OS Show... Wakefield 2008 Exclusive show photos for Foundation RISCWorld readers... The Endpieces The Hugh Jampton Experience At last, it's competition free! The End That's all folks... Copyright © 3QD Developments Ltd & Aaron Timbrell 2026. RISCWorld was published by APDL between 2000 and 2009. RISCWorld issues are exclusively available from www.riscos.com 'Unofficial Mirrors' are out of date and include pirated content. Last Updated 07/04/2026