• Camputers Lynx Starts On The Comeback Trail
• Help On The Way
• Commodore Lines Up IBM Broadside
• Open Season Again As Camputers Lynx Hits Fairway - Homefront
• The Beast Bites Back

• Hewlett-Packard Pinches Unix Lead
• Plus Fours
• Toshiba Drops Price Of MSX Package
• Why MegaWars Has Santa All Wrapped Up
• In Brief
• A Not So Merry Micro Christmas For Shops

Hot views from our readers.

• QL Prints Out - No Problem, and
• Undulations' Smoothed Over.

Solve your programming problems by consulting our experts.

• A Good Book About C64 Control Interfacing,
• Software Search For Commodore 16,
• The French Connection,
• No Easy Way To Cut Out A Currah and
• Making A Home Into A Software House.

PCN's readers make friends and influence people when they send in their hints and tips. The £10 reward can't come amiss either.

• C64 Screen Dump Not So Squashed,
• Feeling Free To Interrupt,
• Access Open To BBC Disk Sectors and
• Error-spotting BBC Routine.

• 3D Graphics
  Add 3D line drawings to your repertoire of Beeb graphics programs with these annotated routines.
   
• QL Headers
  More kudos to your QDOS with some hints on making better use of headers on the QL.
   
• Solo Poker
  Take on your C64 at cards with this version of Poker Solitaire.
   
• Animation Routines
  You can store enough frames to produce some spectacular animated sequences with machine code and Basic routines.
   
• Double Height Characters
  Print double height characters on the screen in your games or in more serious applications.
   
• Vertical Takeoff Part 1
  Tap in this game and learn a bit more about some aspects of two programming features.
   
• Golden Turkey Awards
  It's Christmas Night. The log of the Conqueror crackles in the grate. Old Uncle Clive has crashed after one sherry too many, and cousin Jack from America is flicking acorns at his nose. A new star rises in the east... what can it be? Yes, the winners of the PCN Golden Turkey Awards of 1984!
   

• Cortex 2
  Whether you buy the kit or the ready-built version, the Cortex 2 out-benchmarks the competition. However, the machine is still something of a challenge to take on, says Brendin Lewis.
   

• Shinwa CPA-80
  The CPA-80 printer has a range of features that would grace a more expensive machine.
   

• Music Master
  Music Master turns your computer into an electronic music synthesiser and teaches you about music into the bargain.
   

Smash-hit game follows smash-hit film Ghostbusters in our regular selection of reviews.

• Ghostbusters (Commodore 64),
• Konami Cartridges (MSX),
• Guzzler (Commodore 64),
• Curse Of The Flying Pygmies (Spectrum 48K),
• Er*Bert (Amstrad CPC464) and
• Frenzy (Commodore 64).

On the eighth day of Christmas, why not get stuck into an adventure?

Compiled from both independent and multiple sources across the nation, the Charts reflect what's happening in high streets during the week up to December 12 1984.

Pre-Christmas bargains.

PCN signs off for this year, and looks forward to the next. Plus syntax errors and a few dates for your diary.