These are the voyages issues of the Starship Enterprise magazine Drag ‘n Drop…1 The latest issue of on-off-on-off-under-new-management PDF magazine Drag ‘n Drop hit the virtual shelves a couple of weeks ago, in the form of volume five, issue four – aka issue 5i4 – marking the completion of its fifth volume.
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Out now – Drag ‘n Drop 5i3
Announcement from Drag ‘n Drop, 17th April, 2014. Drag ‘n Drop is a quarterly magazine in PDF, mainly for users of RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi but content will be of interest to all RISC OS 5 users. Volume 5 issue 3 is jam packed as usual:
Read MoreOut now! Drag ‘N Drop volume 5 issue 2
Announcement from Christopher Dewhurst, 10th January, 2014 Drag ‘N Drop is a quarterly magazine in PDF, mainly for users of RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi but content will be of interest to all RISC OS 5 users. Volume 5 issue 2 is chock full of RISC OS stuff:
Read MoreDrag ‘n Drop rises from the ashes… again
Puts the legendary phoenix to shame Drag ‘n Drop , the PDF magazine for RISC OS Users, was originally brought out by long time RISC OS fan Paul Stewart in 2009, who went on to publish four issues of the magazine per year/volume at a price of £3.00 per issue, until September 2012, when he made the decision to cease publication – the second time he had made such a decision, having previously done so a year earlier, and was subsequently persuaded to continue.
Read MoreDrag ‘n Drop ceases publication
For real this time, apparently – no word of a lie. Long-time RISC OS fan and editor of Drag ‘n Drop magazine, Paul Stewart has announced the closure of the PDF-based magazine with immediate effect. Paul launched Drag ‘n Drop in 2009, and published four issues per year/volume, costing £3.00 each. In October 2011, shortly before the London Show, after two years and eight issues, he decided that it was time to cease publication. However, barely a week later, Paul turned up at the show with the first issue of…
Read MoreDrag ‘n Drop Volume 3 bargain bundle
Drag ‘n Drop, cheap as chips. Well, fish & chips twice at my local chip shop. The latest volume of Drag ‘n Drop magazine is now available as a bundle for the princely sum of £9.00, a saving of £3.00 over buying the four individual issues. Launched in 2009, the PDF based magazine nearly came to a close after only two volumes when its editor, Paul Stewart, decided to cease publication not long before the 2011 London Show. However, Paul soon changed his mind, apparently with some encouragement from R-Comp‘s…
Read MoreDrag ‘n Drop drops onto your doormats
Well, it does if the hard drive you download it onto is named ‘doormat’. Just ahead of the 2012 Wakefield Show, which takes place on Saturday, 28th April, Paul Stewart has published the latest issue of his PDF-based RISC OS magazine, Drag ‘n Drop. Features in this bumper 53 page issue include an in-depth, personal retrospective of the 8-bit games scene, along with reviews of two new games from Retro Software, the next parts in the two programming series “All Sorted” and “RISC OS Programming in BASIC”, along with the…
Read MoreFree books and a magazine to download
David Bradforth of Alligata Media has made two books available as free downloads via his Alligata site on MagCloud. BASIC V for the Acorn Archimedes was written by Mike Williams and originally published by Dabs Press in 1989, and was acquired by Alligata Media in 2005. According to the blurb the “book provides a practical guide to programming in BASIC V on the Acorn Archimedes. Assuming a familiarity with the BBC BASIC language in general, it describes the many new commands offered by BASIC V.”
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Basalt and the Toolbox Steve Drain, prompted by a discussion in the RISC OS Open Ltd forum about AppBasic, has written a document about the using the Toolbox with Basalt which, he explains, has never been very well described. Basalt (“BASic ALTernative keywords”) is a module that extends BASIC by providing “alternative keywords by extending the use of actual keywords and adding new keywords, both of which are used completely as native BASIC keywords.” The document is available online, at the link given above, and it is also included in…
Read MoreDrag ‘n Drop volume bundles
For those who have yet to try Drag ‘n Drop, Paul Stewart’s PDF based RISC OS magazine, back issues of the first two volumes are now available to buy in volume bundles, priced at £9 each for the first two, both consisting of four issues. Features include show reports and previews, an ongoing series about sorting algorithms, and much more. Volume 3 issue 1, the current issue, released to coincide with the 2011 London Show, is also still available from the Drag ‘n Drop website for the usual price of…
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