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- What's Up With Oric Upgrade?
- Rescued
- Timex Quits US Home Market
- Translation Challenge
- SV-818 Yet To Reach UK
- JLC Dodges MoD Ban
- Silver Reed's System Entry
- Anco's Answer
- IBM Portable Is Taking Off
- Line Management
- Atari Pins Survival Hope On 800XL - View From America
- H-P Gets The Soft Touch
- Logo Logs On
- Lotus Adds Lost Chord
- Score Draw
- Big Country Promises Big Storage
- Card Trick
- Chain Mailing
- Communication Situation...
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Millipede (BBC/Electron)
A frantic game involving a high-speed insect growing by the second.
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Microdrive Magic
Put your Microdrives to good use with Gavin Monk's indexing and database programs that will allow you to auto-run program files and other good things.
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Where else could you win a tenner for speaking your mind?
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Sharp's High-Power Portable
The lap-held portable competition is hotting up and this new contender, says Dominic Powlesland, could send Sharp to the front of the field.
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Colourful Print
Why waste your colourful screen displays when you dump them to a black and white printer when the cost of colour hard copy is falling? Piers Letcher rounds up three of the latest quality, low cost, colour printers.
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Acorn Interfacing
What would IEEE interfacing mean to your BBC Micro and how do you get it anyway? Victor O' Neill looks at two new solutions from Acorn and CST.
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Our regular look at the new books.
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Whatever your program ask our panel of experts. This week we have advice for owners of Spectrums, Orics and Commodore 64s.
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Artistic Oric
Despite the potential of the Oric's graphics, getting the most from the system can be difficult. A new package from Dream Software aims to make life easier. Ron Street reports.
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Spruce Up CP/M
Can a piece of software and an Epson printer give you the power of a dedicated typesetting machine? Ralph Bancroft gives Fancy Font a spin.
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Super C64
Barry Miles looks at Superbase, a powerful database package for the popular Commodore 64.
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Software Preview
What's new on the software scene from the usual suspects.
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Bob Chappell selects a range of Spectrum games to prove that the launch of the Currah Speech Box has returned the art of conversation from the dreaded micro games. Plus:
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Following the fortunes of your favourite games in Britain's best microcomputing bestsellers' list.
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Pick up a bargain or find a buyer for your unwanted equipment in our weekly micro marketplace.
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Make a date with all the leading micro events at home and abroad. Plus laughs and Syntax Errors.
Thanks to Mike Scott, Chetan Desai and William Loguidice for sponsoring the creation of this issue