• Snapish Snap Dragon
• Ataris To Clear
• High Jump Into Brave New Era Of 256K - View From America
• Gavilan Plugs Into UK
• Madhouse
• IBM Cooks Up PC Successor
• Thurnall Slips Sinclair A Disk
• Imagine's Games Snatched To Safety
• Competition Results
• Toshiba To Lead MSX Invasion
• U-Micro's Team Effort
• Low Marks On Schools Micros
• Sentinel Strikes Note Of Alarm
• Converging
• Dixons Goes Into Business
• Treble-Chance In Micros
• Peripherals Roundup

Whether it brings a smile to your face or makes your blood boil, share it with us.

• The QL Is Worth Waiting For,
• The Limitations Of A Listings Mag,
• Atari Attack - For Cheaper Software,
• Acorn's Second Processor Points,
• Oric - Trials And Tribulations, and
• Interfacing A LX180 Printer

Problems solved here. PCN's panel of experts sheds a little light on your darkest problems.

• Stop Your Amstrad From Spacing Out,
• Keeping Colouring Under Control,
• Guessing Games With The QL,
• Nice ZX81, Shame About The Tapedeck, and
• Hard To Get Help From An Oric Call.

Readers' hints and tips for the Spectrum, Oric and Beeb. (We pay 'em a fiver each too!)

• Quick-change Beeb Colours,
• Cleaning Up On BBC Windows,
• All The Text That's Fit To Output On A Spectrum,
• Define Those Oric Sound Commands, and
• Exclamation Mark Aid For An Atmos Reset.

• 64 Tall Stories
  Commodore 64 characters walk tall with this program.
   
• Genie Extra
  Add three new commands - MERGE, CLOSE and KEY BLEEP - with Keith Hook's easy-to-use program for the Colour Genie.
   
• London Crawling
  Take the shortest route across London, from Windsor to Whitechapel or laughing all the way to Bank, on the Epson HX20.
   
• Bullfight
  This program for the Commodore 64 from Diane Sketchly whisks you straight over to the Costa del Sol.
   

• Radionics CNS
  Your home or small business is safe in the hands of the Radionics CNS. It has the facility built-in to control a variety of devices. If the viability of micro-computing really does depend on its being practical, this computer could be a taste of the future.
   

• Spoken For
  This speech box gives the popular home compuetrs the power of speech.
   
• Express Points
  A significant increase in the 1541 Commodore disk drive's speed is the promise of the Express Cartridge.
   

• Software Preview
  What the future holds - a survey of the new packages that arrived at PCN this week.
   
• Practicalc 2
  Practicorp's low-cost integrated package for the Apple gets a comprehensive examination.
   
• White Lightning
  We examine the blinding speed and versatility of games development tool White Lightning on the Spectrum.
   

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

• Hi Bouncer (BBC Micro),
• Frak (BBC Micro), and
• Commodore Crackers (Commodore 64).

Give your fingers a rest and thumb some books instead.

Britain's only weekly chart shows the ups and downs of the popular games.

One club's interest in the nuts and bolts of computing put them on the right track.

Turn to this page for the equipment you can afford - this week you can put your ad in for free.

Last but not least, enjoy a glimpse of the lighter side of microcomputing. Plus Datelines and Syntax Errors.

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