Acorn Programs is expanding. In this issue, we bring you news, more software reviews than ever before, a look at the fast-growing Electron software market, and the first of a regular advice series by our programming expert. We also meet the man behind Aviator, the leading game in the current Acornsoft range.

Listings still take pride of place and this month we publish the best 20 programs from the bumper crop you sent us. Keep sending your programs, on disc or cassette please, with your name and address and a brief description of what each one does and for which machine - BBC or Electron - it was written. Unfortunately, we cannot acknowledge every cassette we receive but we will return any program that we do not intend to publish provided that it is accompanied by a SAE.

The programs selected for this issue have been checked, listed from working copies and printed without amendments. All of them, including those written for the Electron, will also run on the BBC B. We hope you enjoy them.