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| Sound:
Part 1 |
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| In
the first of five parts
- Background and glossary,
Sounding out the Vic 20,
Unleashing the Dragon, Voices
of the Atari. |
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| REGULARS |
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| What
the US/Japanese standard
will mean, page 2; Acorn
up-staged at BBC Show, page
3; Compec North report,
and View from Japan, page
4; New-look Zita portable,
page 5; Digital Research
goes for IBM PC, page 7;
and what comes after VisiCalc,
page 8. |
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Phillips has the answers
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| Better
Basic programming and Graphics
techniques |
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| Check-out
on chess games |
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| Grab
the goods, dodge the aliens |
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| Mike
Gerrard's spectacular |
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| Closing
film credits |
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| Escape
from Pirate Island |
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| Amazing
value! WP for 70p |
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| Colchester's
machine coders |
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| PCN's
software selection |
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| PCN
SPECIALS |
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| John
King outlines other ways
(strictly legal, of course)
of acquiring goods, in the
first of a two-parter. |
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| More
on the GTIA wonder chip
from Les Howarth, who helps
you put a bit of class into
your gameplay. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: SOFTWARE |
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| A package
that makes CP/M more appetising
by putting a menu in your
hands - a boon for the busy
office, reviewed by David
Janda. |
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| A double-header
from Ted Ball: Trace to
help you dig out the bugs,
and ZXText to mimic teletext. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: PERIPHERALS |
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| A major
breakthrough at £399?
Barry Miles reads a promising
world debut int his test
of the Japanese Juki 6100. |
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| A peripheral
to make Applemaniacs just
stop and stare? Richard
King thinks so. UltraTerm
could set new standards
for video displays. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: HARDWARE |
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| The
8086-based Duet 16 (another
flank of the Japanese invasion)
is put in a time trial against
the IBM PC and Sirius. It
looks competitive, says
Mike Whitney. |
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