• Chiller Turns On Heat
• Home Currys
• Currah Gives C64 A Voice
• Fuller Lives On
• At The Double
• Long Arm Of BT

• QL Software Explosion On The Way
• Hewson Heads For Avalon
• WHSmith Hits The Road With Advance
• Cortex II Boxes 16-Bit Brain
• Crisis Looms In Games Trade
• Screentest Ahead For US Micro Stars - View From America
• Triptych Taped
• Moving Pictures
• ACT Systems Run Country As Business Takes Back Seat
• PCN At The PCW Show
• Consult The Computerdoc
• Winning Ways
• Big Mac Is Big Softy
• Club Looks For Infomaniacs
• Film Explains Privacy Act
• Out And About

• Atari Tunes Up
  Extend the range of your Atari with some sound advice and routines.
   
• Bank Raid (Spectrum 48k)
  A hip-hop action game for you to type into your Spectrum.
   
• Dominoes (Spectrum 48k)
  Pit your wits against your Spectrum in a game of dominoes from Mike Rains.
   

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

• Printing Anywhere On The Spectrum Screen,
• A Blot On PCN's Atari Copybook,
• Charting The Ins And Outs Of Chartpak 64,
• An Outsider Steals The Limelight,
• Fly The Flag For Structured Programs,
• Magazine Listings Are An Asset, and
• Junking The Piracy Advocates.

• A Fistfull Of Handhelds
  The price and the size of portable computers are shrinking fast. You've got to hand it to Casio and Psion - they're both produced sub-£100 portable micros that fit in your fist.
   
• Whirling Daisywheel
  Smith Corona's new daisywheel printer matches its low price and letter quality with user friendliness.
   

• Super Sketch (Commodore 64)
  Colourful sketches on the Commodore 64 is the promise of Super Sketch.
   

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

• The Micronet Handbook (PCW/Century),
• The Personal Computer Handbook (Dorling-Kindersley),
• Commodore 64 Sound & Graphics (Melbourne House), and
• The Adventurer's Companion (Duckworth).

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

• Pixel Packing Amstrad,
• Simplifying The QL's Assembler,
• Spectrum Interrupts Pause For Thought,
• Glad Tidings For A New TRS-80 Owner, and
• Using The Memotech USR Command.

• Simple Amstrad Sound Effects,
• Machine Code Tip On The Spectrum,
• Charting A Course In Amstrad's Memory, and
• Keeping Tabs On Your Oric Variables.

• dBase III (IBM PC)
  dBase III is smarter, friendlier and more accomplished than its famous sibling.
   
• Software Preview
  The shape of things to come. We look at the new software before it arrives in the shops.
   

• Oh Mummy (Amstrad CPC464),
• Punchy (Amstrad CPC464),
• Potty Pigeon (Commodore 64), and
• Merlin (Commodore 64).

The ups and downs of the UK's favourite games and machines charted here.

And good buy to all that - microcomputing bargains on our secondhand page. Can you afford to miss it?

An hilarious exit from the good humour page and a few dates for the diary. Plus Syntax Errors.

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