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Published in EUG #17

EUG is home for Christmas 1994 with another bulging disk filled with new 8-bit magic. There are three games, nine utilities, a contacts', adverts and wanted section plus eight letters from the EUG mailbag. But don't waste any more time reading this. Dive in!

!First Stop!

How to operate the EUG disk, Gus' editorial, this contents page plus the contact details of some existing Electron suppliers.

Articles

ADDING A SHIFT-LOCK AND TAB KEY
Derek Walker is incensed by their omission on his Electron and here he invites you to remedy the matter.

EXILE SOLUTION - INSTALLMENT NO. 2
John McHugh continues to go where no Finn (as in Mike) has gone before. Dare you accompany him?

GAME SHOW OVERVIEW
Ross Little starts a new series of game-related articles with a guide to Santa's Slip-Up on the Games Menu.

Utilities

3D TEXT, CODER, SOUND DATABASE and View MENU
Paul Waterman presents a suite of four utilities both compilated from Electron User and cribbed from professional software. Documentation to all four can be found on the Utilities Menu A.

CRUNCHED XMAS SCREENS
The *LDPIC utility allowing compressed screens to be loaded to screen.

CUSTOM CALENDER
Richard Dimond presents a utility to generate a calendar for any year and dump it to screen or printer. Full documentation.

DWROMS
Derek Walker's handy little utility to check what's present in your machine. Full documentation.

SERVALAN PICTURE
One of the digitised pictures Simon Pilley has contributed.

WIN THE LOTTERY!
Two different utilities to help you generate the magic six!

Games

BELEAGURED CASTLE v1.00
Richard Dimond presents a new and simple patience game.

Boxspace
Puzzling little one-key game that isn't anywhere near as easy as it looks.

Santa's Slip-Up
Test your memory in this simple and intriguing puzzle game.

Mailbag

Alan Richardson is satisfied but having problems with his cassettes while John Crane reports good service from Electron suppliers. Gareth Babb also gives away the secrets of the View family in a massive pile of letters to the EUG office.

Gus Donnachaidh