Games

Commodore, Spectrum
Kind to animals? Can't pass a dog without patting it on the head? A new game from Channel 8 (0772 53057) for the 64 and the Spectrum should test you to the limit - in Borzak the Bug-eyed Monster from Betelgeuse you have to help out the kind of character that is normally the baddie. It costs £6.95. For the same two machines Shards (01-591 7666) has released The Pettigrew Chronicles, a family adventure developed from forerunners on Dragon and Acorn systems. It promises £9.95 worth of good clean fun. Shards has also converted Empire for the 64, for £6.95, and has promised Galilee, a sequel to Jericho Road, for the Spectrum at £5.75.

Spectrum
Fans of the TV show Terrahawks will be able to load the program on to their Spectrums from the end of the month. CRL (01-533 2918) hopes to have it in the shops at £6.95.

Amstrad
Maverick Amstrad software supplier Kuma (07357-4335) has released Holdfast, a non-violent simulation game, and Gems of Stradus, a colour graphics adventure. These cost £5.95 and £7.95 respectively.

Macintosh
Less a game, more an entertainment from Pete and Pam (0706-217744) with Composer for the Apple Macintosh. P&P describes this as a music editing program and claims that it is as easy to use as a Macintosh. It costs £429.

Education

Oric
The Software Scheme inaugurated by Oric (0990-27641) now includes two items from the Kindersoft range, Four Games for Children and Three Games for Children. The fourpack, for five to 10-year-olds, covers addition, subtraction and spelling. The pack of three is designed to appeal to even younger users. Both cost £6.95.

Acorn
For both the BBC and the Electron, Acornsoft has released Podd, Squeeze and Juggle Puzzle. Podd concentrates on the alphabet, Squeeze on shapes, and Juggle Puzzle is a descendant of the dreaded puzzle cube. They cost £9.95 each, or £11.50 on disk.

Business

Hewlett-Packard
Claremont Controls (0669-21080) has adapted its Hornet Project Management System to run on the touch-screen H-P 150. Hornet can take data from other software, for example dBase II or Lotus 1-2-3, and can output it to other packages or use it in its own processing.

Apricot
Lotus Development's UK software team is implementing Lotus 1-2-3 on the ACT Apricot range, for release in October 1984. The package costs £375. ACT itself has added Prestel to the range of functions it can offer on the Apricot. The one-off price is £145 plus VAT.

Commodore
Bubble Bus (07320 355962) has taken over marketing the business software products of its offshoot, The Computer Room, and the first package to be transferred is Supernews, for newsagents with 64s. The program costs £499.

CP/M, MSDOS
Typefit is a product for publishing designers, giving a range of fonts and an accurate line-count so that text will fit the space on a page. From Anvil (0458-45359) it costs £300.

MSDOS
Microsoft has enhanced its range of programming languages with new versions of Fortran and Pascal able to support the 8087 maths co-processor and a version of muLisp that has been tailored to run on 8086/8088-based machines.

Apple/IBM
BFI Electronics (01-941 4066) is distributing a new product from Verbatim called Disk Drive Analyzer. It is designed to test and display a diagnostic report on your disk drives.