Mastertronic, pioneer of £1.99 games, is now offering adventures at the knock-down price of £2.99. Master Adventurer (01-580 8418) is the name of the new games label that will produce the pocket money software packages - the first of which will be See-Kaa Of Assiah for the Spectrum and C64. Other adventures in the pipeline are Volcanic Dungeon and Black Crystal.

Donald Duck sounds from the Spectrum are on offer from the Digital Sound Sampler from Datel Electronics (0782-273815). For £49.95 the device plugs into the Spectrum's user port and records any sound digitally into the machine's memory. The captured sound can then be played back in limitless variations.

Let your Beeb take the strain with a weekend break to Cornwall. Arm in arm with your BBC you can stay at the Three Rooms Hotel for a couple of days and brush shoulders with other BBC users. The weekend trips have been organised by Micro-Aid (0209-831274) with dates in spring and autumn 1985.

The 4,000 year-old Chinese game called Go is now available for the BBC and Electron. It comes from Games Workshop (01-965 3713) which has Commodore 64 and Spectrum versions in the pipeline.

Fruity Frank is Kuma's latest arcade game for the Amstrad CPC464 at £6.95. Trying to pick his fruit crop, Frank has to avoid marauding monsters that get in his way.

A floppy disk drive for the Sharp PC5000 is up for grabs. Costing £516, the CE-513F unit is a double-sided, double-density device with 360K of storage. The drive uses 3.5" disks called CE-120Fs and is available at £69 for a pack of ten.

The Olivetti M24 computer is now available with integral 5.25" quad-density diskette drives - providing 720K formatted capacity per drive. There are three new models incorporating the new drives costing from £1,355 to £3,137.

Calpac is setting up a hotline to advise harrassed parents on what there is in the education line for Sinclair, Commodore and Acorn micros this Christmas. Although a supplier itself, it will aim to be impartial. The number to call is 04867-2584, between 9am and 9pm.