Here's one last blast of Christmas spirit before you take the decorations down and sweep up the pine needles. Just before we put up the shutters for the festive season there was a late entry in the Christmas carols free-for-all from John Brown of Cirencester. Look to your laurels, Anon!

The first one is to the tune of 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman.'

Oh come ye high street traders spare a thought for Santa's elves,
As each and every MSX comes gladly from your shelves.
If we were only Japanese we'd make a few ourselves!
Crying "Vital for every girl and boy, a source of joy,
Massive savings on the latest micro-toy!"

Now you may rub your hands with gree and grin without restraint,
As fathers hand out Access cards while mothers nearly faint;
But won't you hate the next six weeks of customer complaint!
Crying "Vital for every girl and boy, a source of joy,
Massive savings on the latest micro-toy!"

And pity that poor software pirate shivering in the cold,
He can't afford a Porsche yet his Ferrari's growing old -
But you can bet he'll buy just one of each new title sold!
Crying "Vital for every girl and boy, a source of joy,
Massive savings on the latest micro-toy!"

To the tune of 'Good King Wenceslas'

Captain Commodore looked out on Christmas prospects bleakening
Spectrum Pluses sold so well
His market share was weakening
Spied a lowly graduate
Clutching bold designs who
tramped the cold streets of the town
fingers turning blue-oo-oo

"Hither, henchman, stand by me
Notice yon man, thither -
Tell me if you can descry
what he carries, whither?"

"Sir, he lives in Ruislip, where
light bulbs of low wattage
illuminate th' interior of
his electronic co-ottage."

"Bring me chips and soldering iron,
data buses various,
lest this young man should expire.
In business so preca-arious
we must rescue talent rate
of such far-sighted men -
or we shall find Sir Clive Sinclair
has beaten us aga- ain!"

If Commodore's elephantine advertising campaign gave you the feeling that you'd seen it before somewhere, here's the answer. "How to increase the size of you memory," the brochure trumpeted, and over the page was a herd of happy elephants picked out in front of none other than the 48K Lynx. "Expandable, not expendable" was its slogan in those days. Which days? Goodness knows... they're lost in the mists of time.

Enterprise appraised
Here at least, the Enterprise 64 gets the once over in a full Pro-Test of a production model. Was it worth the wait? Is it worth the price?

BBC Sines On
Brush up your BBC's trigonometry with this program to add to your wavy line store.

Spectrum Castled
Not just another Hunchy, this Spectrum game will have you rolling out the barrel all over again.

Mousey
Can AMS's mouse and software turn your BBC into a Macintosh lookalike? Find out in our Pro-Test.

Teletextual
Now Spectrum users can tune into Teletext with the TTX from OEL.

Musical Dreams On The Beeb
A music generator for the BBC that beats the competition hands down.

IBM QED
Yet another desktop package for the IBM - but how does it measure up?