As you will have noticed, these days you don't have to wait for a number of months (or should that be years) for EUG to update you on the latest programs and happenings in the world of the Acorn Electron. Like all web-sites, a 'What's New?' section keeps regular visitors fully updated with new articles, reviews and other additions to the web site. So, in fact many of you may have already followed the links scattered throughout the site to some of this issue's contents... But, if you have not, good evening and welcome to the biggest issue of EUG - ever!

The disc however, as usual, is 100% new. With the massive amount of archiving, converting and dabbling that we do, it is now becoming increasingly difficult to find swathes of "new stuff" to put on a disc. So when we say '100% new' we cannot really claim you will not have seen at least some of it, somewhere else, before. However, the disc will showcase a selection of contents relevant to the magazine, as well as rounding up those little programs we occasionally find that haven't been archived anywhere else!

This issue sess the welcome return of the News column, as well as a retrospective on 2006. We're not too sure of a retrospective and a news update for future issues though, and may therefore try and schedule EUG #68 for a Christmas release.

Scouring around the Internet, as we tend to do when the boss's not looking, we happened upon the very first article that was ever written about EUG in a commerical magazine, so we've preserved this for historical purposes. It certainly does make interesting reading. In addition, more of those lovely Edge Making Of articles have been converted to web pages so you can read all about Elite and Way Of The Exploding Fist. For you programmers who have ever wondered how to pack screen memory with useful code, Chris Dewhurst introduces DIY SCREENS, and Dave E rounds it all off with a lusciously illustrated guide to the menu systems used throughout the archives.

Games Just one game this issue, that of the classic Battleships. Yes, we all know that this has been done 1,000 times before. This version is snappier than most however, with good opening graphics, and a good choice of colour palette. Written by Bobrowski PD, from the first Polish Demos disc.

Dave E