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| Spectrum:
Part 1 |
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| In
the first of this three-part
series: how it works, an
annotated anatomy; Spctrum's
Basic; and the men behind
the machine. |
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| REGULARS |
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| Acorn
plans BBC extras - others
come up with them, page
2; all change at Tandy,
page 3; Atari feels the
pinch, page 4; all's Fair
in Slough and London - reports
from the Apple and ZX Shows,
page 5. |
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| Max
Phillips answers your hard
and soft questions |
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| Inspirations
on the Oric, Tandy, ZX81,
Lynx and Dragon |
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| Mayhem
in the nursery with Ah Diddums |
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| A run
for your money in a pair
of Monopoly-type games |
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| Breathe
life into your machine with
this bundle |
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| Spectrum
programs, Sinclair Basic,
computer maths and interfacing
projects - all under review |
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| Time
Bomb ticks on . . . |
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| Round
'em up in Sheep Drive |
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| PCN
meets the Chiltern club |
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| Your
eight-page guide to buying
software |
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| PCN
SPECIALS |
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| NewBrain
Basic: Part 1 |
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| David
Janda remedies the undeserved
neglect of this machine
with a two-part series. |
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| From
John Dee, a graphics editor
program called Grafic, to
be used on the Sirius 1
in conjunction with the
Graphics Tool Kit and Grafix
kernal. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: SOFTWARE |
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| Niklaus
Wirth has combined his two
languages Pascal and Modula
into a new one called Modula-2.
Ted Ball is impressed with
the first micro implementation. |
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| A package
that makes a filing clerk
of your Oric for less than
£13 is interviwed
by David Janda. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: PERIPHERALS |
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| Spectrum
Printing / Joystick
Control |
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| A Centronics
parallel interface that
allows a printer link-up
for the Spectrum; and a
true two-dimensional movement
with Flight Link's joystick
J6. |
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| BBC
Speech Synthesiser |
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| The
Beeb strikes a blow for
the Queen's English with
a chip that encodes the
silken tones of Kenneth
Kendall. Trevor Jones reports. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: HARDWARE |
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| The
plug-in Accelerator II board
from Saturn Systems puts
a turbo-charge into Apple
processing. Richard King
powers up . . . |
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