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| Clive
Sinclair - exclusive interview,
page 2; Price war - latest
report from the front, page
3; Japanese prices come
tumbling down, page 4; Dragon
disks and memory upgrades,
page 5; plus lots, lots
more |
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| Your
chance to sound off, and
to earn £10 |
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| Max
Phillips can ease your frustration
with the answers to your
questions |
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| More
of your hints for the Atom,
Tandy, Apple, Oric and Spectrum
machines - and £5
for every one printed |
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| High
praise for Motor Mania |
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| Spread
your wings with Oric Flight |
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| Tune
up your Spectrum and BBC
with two new packages |
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| Into
the maze with Tobor and
Embassy Assault |
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| The
latest releases for Atari,
BBC, and Dragon users |
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| Putting
it all together - our ET-type
game |
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| A two-player
computer version of a favourite
game, Connect Four |
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| The
concluding cards for the
CBM Database |
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| User
groups this week, and Sandra
Grandison visits the Croydon
Apple User Group |
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| PCN
SPECIALS |
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| More
program modules to build
into a complete ET-type
game on your micro. This
week, we put the movement
into your routines. |
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| Geoffrey
Childs gets back to Basic
on his MZ80, delving into
obscure corners and revealing
a few bits of trickery. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: SOFTWARE |
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| Vufile
is a best-selling filing
system for the Spectrum.
Now it has been released
for the BBC, Max Phillips
makes some comparisons. |
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| Pete
Galliard samples a simple
database package for the
IBM and finds it could be
just the job for beginners. |
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| If
you find Basic too basic,
or just want to break the
language barrier, Ted Ball
reports on a teach-yourself
Pascal package. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: PERIPHERALS |
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| Ian
Scales gives you the low-down
on buying printers, and
following full reviews in
recent PCNs, we present
a side-by-side comparison
of six medium-priced contenders. |
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| Free
your fingers - Trevor Jones
tests a joystick controller
for the Spectrum or ZX81. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: HARDWARE |
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| With
the introduction of cheap
systems from Sinclair, Commodore
and others, single board
computers have become something
of a rarity. Francis Monkman
gets his hands on a new
specimen - the C9E from
Adaptors Engineering. |
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