• Acorn Wins Its Laurels
• Hedron
• Eyes Down, Look In To The Show
• Acornsoft In Orbit With Elite

• Lightning Forks
• High Roller
• MSX Software Battle Lines Drawn
• QL Add-ons Star At ZX Microfair
• Looking On The Bright Side
• Modems In A Land Of The Ancients - View From Japan
• Micros Go Cheep In Sale
• Here Is A Pre-Announcement - And What You Can Do With It - Homefront

• The High Mountains (Spectrum 48K)
  A true epic for you to type in and play - The High Mountains. Danger, intrigue and heroism all play a part..
   
• Drive Doktor (BBC Micro)
  Take control of your disk drives with this feature-packed utility for the Model B Micro.
   
• Screen Dump (Commdore 64)
  Here's the answer to getting hard copies of your carefully designed high-resolution graphics.
   

Your letters - moans, groans, complaints or praise.

• The Sinister Secret Of The Bionic Brain,
• Bugged By Basic, That Isn't Debugged,
• The Gathering Of Dragon Users,
• Sinclair Caters To The Common Man...,
• ...So Why Are We Still Waiting?

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

• WP Faults On Display? Not With The 600XL,
• The C64 - A Logical Machine Code Route,
• Printers - Oric Options,
• Ups And Downs Of Machine Code, and
• Vic 20 Upgrade - Talking Business.

• Oric Sound Gets Fifth Dimension,
• Stringing Along With A Spectrum Screen,
• Save Your QL Variables, and
• Amstrad Characters Walk Tall In Any Mode.

• Back To The Greek
  PCN's new weekly column for adventurers.
   

• Commodore 64 Inside Out
  With lots of new machines getting all the press we thought it was time to look back at some old favourites. First under the spotlight is the Commodore 64.
   

• Commodore MCS801 Printer
  The new Commodore MCS801 full-colour printer under review.
   
• Spectrum Joysticks
  We these three programmable joystick interfaces for the Spectrumand pick the best.
   

• Pilot-Plus/64 (Commodore 64)
  Stuck in a rut with Basic on your Commodore 64? Try Pilot for a new direction and fresh approaches in C64 programming.
   
• Xchange (IBM PC)
  Psion's integrated software suite for the IBM PC comes under Geof Wheelwright's scrutinising gaze.
   
• Software Preview
  All the software releases to drop through PCN's letterbox this week.
   

• Custard Pie Fight (BBC/Electron),
• Daley Thompson's Decathlon (Commodore 64),
• Decathlon (Commodore 64),
• Mad Monty (Dragon 32).
• Operation Safras (Dragon 32).
• Quo Vadis (Commodore 64).
• Red Meanies (Dragon 32).
• Storm Warrior (Commodore 64).
• Toppler (Dragon 32).
• Xanadu Cottage/Ebony Tower (BBC Micro).
• Wanted: Monty Mole (Spectrum 48K).

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

• The Micro Enquirer (Century),
• Getting Started With Basic (Phoenix),
• Interfacing The BBC Micro (McGraw Hill),
• Machine Code Games Routines For The Commodore 64 (Sunshine), and
• Graphics For The Commodore 64 Computer (Melbourne House).

The latest best-sellers in games and hardware with a new feature this week - the weekly top ten games for the Spectrum and the Commodore 64.

Pick up a bargain on our page of second hand hardware and software.

Industry idiocies, the great PCN Misprints and downright malicious gossip. Plus few dates for the diary and Syntax Errors.

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