• Sinclair On Cue
• Amstrad Sets Sights On Enterprise
• Silver Reed Pushes Down The Daisies
• Wild West Shootout Winners
• Portico Seeks Miracle
• Prism Lets Mole Out Of The Bag
• Motorola Pushes Out Unix Boat
• Soft Sectored
• NEC Portable In Shops Soon
• ZX Spectrum Interfaces On-Stream
• Telephones Groan Under The Weight - View From America
• Apple Turnover
• BBC Control
• Trio On Four
• Atari Treads Carefully
• Peripherals Roundup
• Plug-in CP/M Coming
• That's Life
• Junior's Key To Success?

Your comments... and a £10 prize for a star letter.

• A Helpful Hint For Matrix Players,
• Venturing An Opinion About Gameplay,
• Are Reviews Just A Matter Of Taste,
• Another School Of Thought,
• Should Manufacturers Vet Micro Sellers? and
• A Somewhat Shakey Idea...

More queries solved by our panel of experts.

• ZX81 Expansion Buffer,
• Spectrum Interface For Typewriter,
• Getting BBC Screens Taped,
• How Compatible Is Acorn With Watford?,
• Colourful Adventure Writing On The Oric and
• ZX Language Difficulty

Readers pass on a few nuggets of micro wisdow to help micro users.

• Commodore 64 PRINT AT Simulation,
• Eye-saving Remedy For Basic Bodges,
• Second Byte At Camputers Lynx Numeric Variables,
• Commodore 64 Restoration,
• Convert Spectrum Decimals To Binary and
• Camputers Lynx POKE To Invert Output To The Screen

• The Art of Adventure
  Will the text-only adventure game survive the advent of graphic/text adventures. John Lettice decides whether the rumours of its death are indeed premature.
   
• Genie Characters
  Keith Hook shows you how to move the unspriteful Colour Genie's characters around the screen with his machine code program.
   
• Minefield
  XXX
   

• Hitachi MBE-16002
  Hitachi's IBM-compatible has finally hit these shores and Igor Thomas finds out just how well the machine has survived the trip.
   

• Acorn Teletext Adaptor
  Acorn is finally on the air, and Piers Letcher tunes into its new Teletext adaptor to determine whether it's safe to let your BBC watch TV.
   
• Integrex Colourjet
  Piers Letcher continues his look at new colour printers with a review of this ink-jet model from Integrex.
   

• Software Preview
  XXX
   
• DTL-Basic 64
  David Janda lets the DTL Basic compiler speed up his Commodore 64 and discoveres how it clocks up.
   
• Spectrum In Print
  Three new packages for the Spectrum are sprucing up printing. Ted Ball tests Microprint 42/51, Multifont and Dlan.
   

If you can't try before you buy, take the next best thing - our regular software reviews.

• Devil Assault (Dragon 32),
• Dragon Racer & Wasp Invasion (Dragon 32),
• Siren City (Commodore 64),
• Forbidden Forest (Commodore 64),
• Survival (Vic 20) and
• Countdown (Vic 20).

Book your seat for a quiet read.

• Getting The Most From Your Sinclair Spectrum (Penguin),
• I Wish I Knew About The Spectrum And ZX81 (Beer-Davies),
• Advanced Graphics With The BBC Model B Microcomputer (Macmillian) and
• The Friendly Computer Book (BBC Publications)

Follow the progress of your favourite micro and software packages.

• Acorn Electron: An Electron Compendium
• Acorn Electron: Get Down To Business
• Acorn Electron: BBC Basic Dictionary (D-E)

Two pages of classified ads in our bargain basement.

Coming events likely to be of interest plus some past ones to raise a snigger. Plus Syntax Errors.