• Flan Put On Ice
• Spirit Set To Steer Clear?
• New TUG Builds Up Steam
• Daisy Chains
• CBM Twins
• Imagine Clears Decks

• ACT Lifebelt for Sirius
• Mac Disk Looks Over-Friendly
• OFT Defends Price Cutting Dealers
• WHSmith Joins Software Team
• Maincomp In Donation Muddle
• All the President's Micros - View From America
• Phloopy Fills Tape/Disk Gap
• My Brilliant Korea
• IBM Gets Cobol
• Camputers Lynx Re-Launch
• First Byte at Electron
• Maintaining Micros

• Atari Graphics
  More info on getting the best graphics from your Atari.
   
• Battle Stations
  You've been reduced to the ranks for incompetence, and you only chance to claw your way back is to shoot down as many enemy planes as possible with your anti-aircraft guns. Reach for the skies with Battle Stations.
   
• Display for Today
  Geof Wheelwright looks at recent advances in screen technology that are putting bigger pictures on the smallest of computers.
   

Tense and nervous? A tenner could be yours for spitting it out.

• Bridging More Gaps In Bridge Player,
• How To Ruin Your Programs,
• Old Fashioned, But Popular, Cobol...,
• Old Fashioned Cobol Puts Reviewer In Bandages, and
• ZX81 Is Still Boxing Strong.

• Musical Micro
  Yamaha enters the micro field with its implementation of the true MSX standard. Igor Thomas is at the keyboard to conduct the proceedings.
   

• Inside the Atmos
  This week sees the start of a PCN special on the history of the Oric, the design of the latest Oric incarnation and the ins and outs of the Oric Atmos Basic.
   

• Modems for Micros
  Looking for a quality modem at a reasonable cost? Read our review of the Tandy/Sendata model.
   
• BBC Disk Decision
  Model B owners now have another choice in the DFS market, the MDDFS from Microware.
   

More reading matter to wile away those hours away from your beloved machine.

• Introducing Logo (Granada), and
• Language of the Dragon: 6809 Assembler (Sigma).

If you're in a fix with your micro we'll try to mend matters.

• 64 Load And Save Triple Decker,
• Alas, Poor Oric. To Be Or Not To Be?,
• Expand the Spectrum Character Display,
• Microdrive Software Modifications, and
• Oric Bug Or A Faulty Machine?.

• BBC Function Keys For Numeric Keyboard,
• Commodore 64 Text Reverse,
• Commodore Basic Which Runs And Runs,
• Experiment with Atari Colour,
• HX20 Random Number Seed, and
• Memotech Verify Routine Is No Bug.

• BBC Tool Chip
  Simon Williams looks at an Eprommed attack on the BBC B.
   
• Spectrum Creation
  Build your own adventure? Bob Chappell reports on the triumph of The Quill.
   
• Software Preview
  This week's arrivals - well, the ones we know about! - and where to obtain them.
   

• Castle of Doom (Dragon 32),
• Fishy Business (Dragon 32),
• Megahawk (Commodore 64), and
• Megawarz (Commodore 64).

PCN charts the ups and downs of Britains most popular games and hardware charts during the week up to March 8 1984.

Get a cheap micro from the bargain basement at the back.

The main events and the last word in computer publishing. Plus Syntax Errors.

Thanks to Hong Kun Chung, William Hill and Tim Rogers for sponsoring the creation of this issue