• Computers For No-one
  
• Comx Confusion In Wake Of Collapse
  
• Lisa For Less As The Big Apple Moves Into Higher Gear
  
• School's Out
  
• Minor Mishaps
  
• Dragon 64 Compatibility - A Solution
  
• PCN Prompts BBC Maltron Conversion
  
• QL Prospects
  
• Offshore Pirate In Gulf Haven
  
• American Dream Gone Sour - View From America
  
• Unix Universal
  
• Sirius & IBM Boards Abound
  
• BBC Micro Through A Lens
  
• Acorn Locks Under Attack
  
• Printer Prices Plunge As Importers Crop The Daisies
  
• Flexus
  
• Prestel Charges In Time Warp
  
• Kaypro Cuts
  
• Software Preview
  
• Tape Copying Locked
  
• Headstart Trio
  
• System Builder Swings Pick
  
• Peripherals Roundup
  

Get out your pens or printers and unburden yourself on our letters page.

• Criticism Noted, But No Cure For Piracy,
• And The Other Side Gets A Few Words In,
• Calling All Micro Owners,
• Oric's Next Language and
• Computerese Not Spoken Here.

More problems solved by our panel of experts.

• Keeping Oric Adventure Secrets,
• Resolve This Spectrum Mystery,
• Elan Enterprise Crystal Ball,
• ZX81 Video Niceties,
• Interfacing Star's Dot Matrix Printer, and
• ZX81 Joysticks Need Interfaces.

How to win friends, influence people and earn money - share your hints and tips here.

• Oric Code Considered,
• Microsoft Basic Random Numbers,
• Oric HIRES Education,
• Spectrum Scroller-Coaster,
• Speed Up Your Atari's Basic,
• When Data Must Be Updated Constantly,
• Extra Space In Spectrum Memory,
• Commodore 64 Jiffies In The Bag,
• Beeb Speed and
• Spectrum Stopped.

• Second Memo
  Part 2 of Keith Hook's helpful introduction to the Memotech.
   
• Pot Hole (Dragon 32)
  No, it's not just another Lunar Lander. Give it a run; we think you'll be impressed.
   

• Sinclair's New Star
  With 1984 only a month old, the QL makes a strong claim to the title Micro of the Year. Ian Scales and Geof Wheelwright examine this latest addition to the Sinclair stable.
   

• Print On The Cheap
  John Lettice looks at recent developments in printers that have put better quality print at lower prices into the hands of more users.
   
• Touch Tablet
  Together with its new line of micros Atari launched a range of peripherals. We look at one, the new touch tablet.
   
• EXP 500 Printer
  Daisywheel quality at under £300? Silver Reed's new EXP500 offers exactly that.
   
• Alps Disk Drive
  Cheaper data storage is desired by the droves of Apple owners. What's Richard King driving at?
   

• Personal Cobol: IBM Takes Business
  David Guest runs a micro version of the business programming language, Cobol, on the IBM PC.
   
• BBC English Spell Check
  Keep a check on your spelling with Spell Check for the Model B. David Williams is the man at the keyboard.
   

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

• Mothership (Commodore 64),
• Quintic Warrior (Commodore 64),
• Two Gun Turtle (Oric 48K),
• Multigames 2 (Oric 48K),
• Apples In Distant Lands (Apple II), and
• Specifically Spectrum.

Book your seat for a quiet read.

• Usborne Books (Usborne),
• Dragon Machine Language For The Absolute Beginner (Melbourne House),
• Disc Drives For Microcomputers (Sinclair Browne), and
• Atari Pilot Activities And Games (Prentice-Hall).

Both hardware and software charts compiled for us by MRIB (Computers).

• Atari A To Z: Atari Family Tree
• Inside The Atari
• A-Z Of Atari Basic Part 1

Pick up a bargain or make cash from your unwanted bits and PCs

Create a caption for our laughline, plus more goofs in Syntax Errors and forthcoming events of a micro nature.