Should you ever get stuck in the unfortunate situation of being without an 8 bit BBC series computer (and having exhausted the local car boot sale), take a trip to http://www.ebay.co.uk/ which constantly auctions all manner of weird and wonderful equipment perphiperal to anything from computers to caravans! To bid, you need to register your email address and it's preferable to have a high credit limit with games (even popular titles such as Acornsoft's Elite!) fetching up to £10.00! This aside, an Acorn Electron with Plus 1 and Plus 3 recently went for just £40.00.

Jet Set Willy, the huge, and for its time record-breaking, Electron hunt around a mansion in a search for sleep, has its own unofficial web page at "http://members.xcom.com/jetsetwilly/". It's aimed most specifically at Spectrum (or Spectrum emulator) owners but all the versions are virtually identical. You can print out or view a full map of Willy's mansion, find out what happens when you do actually complete the game (It's a little surprising!) or just re-live the nostalgia and sign the guest book. It's just one of a huge number of web pages devoted to 8 bit games you might have long since forgotten, with Chuckie Egg and The Last Ninja also having their own "Appreciation Societies" out there in Cyberspace.

All those of you keeping tabs on Bryan McPhail's exciting Acorn Electron PC emulator may have been slightly miffed to find his home page vanish from the world wide web at the beginning of February. Not only that, but any emails forwarded to him were returned as if he'd never existed!

The good news though is that McPhail's page is still there and now contains many more screenshots of Acorn Electron software than ever before! More good news regards the new web- and email- addresses is that they are permanent! And even more good news is that his emulator, although still being developed, will be able to emulate everything...including those nasty Firebird and Tynesoft titles that twiddle and twist the tape loading system in an effort to prevent copying.

You can visit the web page again by pointing your browser at:
      http://www.lucretia.co.uk/electron

You can make email contact at:
      mish@mame.uk

Mr R. Snow sent in this solution to Easy Adventure by Steven Flintham. The adventure was published in EUG #48.

   EAST, EAST, GET POT, WEST, DROP POT, GET KEY, NORTH, GET BRUSH, 
   SOUTH, WEST, DOWN, BRUSH, UNLOCK TRAPDOOR, OPEN TRAPDOOR, EAST, GET
   TIMETABLE, WEST, UP, WEST, NORTH, GET MONEY, SOUTH, SOUTH, SOUTH,
   EXAMINE TIMETABLE (Make a note of this number!), WAIT, xx:xx (The 
   number from your note!)

So the objective of this adventure was to catch the bus. But needing to drop the pot on the brick fooled some of you! Not "easy" by a long shot.

Dave E