• Creditors Rally To Oric
• Tandy Makes First Cut To Cost Of Book-Size Portable
• Camputers Deal Closer
• BBC Business Prices On Roller Coaster Ride
• Acorn Muscles In On Torch
• QDOS Under Fire

• Autumn Fall
• Dawn Chorus For Radio 1 Chip Shop
• Axe Hits Atari 600XL
• In Brief
• Portables And Problems That Don't Go Away - View From Japan
• Protek Makes Modem Pitch
• Grunt And Groan
• Second-Hand's Hour Nears
• Acorn Row Looms
• Software Projects Adapts Ace US Games
• Reed Warbler
• Software

• Amstrad Scrollwork (Amstrad CPC464)
  A set of simple machine code routines will have your Amstrad screen scrolling merrily up and down.
   
• Arrayed For Action (Spectrum)
  Arrays are easy to adapt to your needs when writing an adventure program - Kenn Garroch shows how it's done.
   
• Snake (Atari 800)
  Another implementation of a famous arcade game, but an exceptionally good one and particularly good value for money.
   

Where else could you win a tenner for speaking your mind?

• Innovation Info Is Patently Obvious,
• Imagine This As A Top-Selling Game,
• Three Cheers For A Caring Supplier,
• QL Review Rap: Sack So-Called Experts, and
• QL Review Rap: Your View Is Flawed.

• Sweet Sixteen
  Commodore has decided to try and follow up the enormous success of the Vic 20 by producing a successor. With 16K RAM and general improvements on the Vic - in some ways even on the 64 - the C16 is a winner, says Barry Miles.
   

• Parfitt DP 025 Plotter
  The Parfitt plotter is much more than just a handy tool for drawing graphs and pictures, as Kenn Garroch discovers.
   

Got a problem you just can't figure out? Cop some advice from PCN's team of experts.

• Spectrum Printer Posers,
• Amstrad Protection Short-Cuts,
• Padlocks Beat The C64 Programming Kind, and
• No Such Thing As A Mag For Beginners.

• Two Amstrad Basic Peculiarities,
• Electron/BBC Errors Listed Here,
• No More "No Room" Messages On The BBC, and
• Spectrum Debugging With Variable Results.

Which books are worth paying good money for? Our reviewers pick four off the shelves.

• The Adventurer's Notebook (Duckworth),
• The Personal Computer Handbook (Virgin),
• Getting The Most From Your Lynx (Penguin), and
• Training Your Dragon (Prentice Hall).

• McVid (BBC/Electron)
  Playing around with sprites and graphics on the BBC is easier with the McVid package from Pica Software.
   
• Comal (Commodore 64)
  If you've ever wondered how to teach a novice structured programming, here is the answer. Just give them Comal and a Commodore 64.
   
• Software Preview
  Rounding up the latest crop of software packages to arrive at PCN.
   

• Stellar 7 (Apple IIc),
• The Dallas Quest (Atari 400),
• Harrier Attack (Amstrad CPC464),
• Master Chess (Amstrad CPC464),
• Electro Freddy (Amstrad CPC464),
• Codename Mat (Amstrad CPC464), and
• Hunter Killer (Amstrad CPC464).

Charting the fortunes of your favourite game or micro made easy with our weekly update.

Carrying on the tradition of the bargain basement, pick up a good buy on our second-hand equipment page.

Concluding on a lighthearted note, we laugh at our own and other people's foibles and let you know what's on and where. Plus Syntax Errors.

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