| Pull-Out |
| Micropaedia |
| Sound:
Part 5 |
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| Concluding
our opus on sound, speech
and music with more for
the popular micros. |
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| REGULARS |
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| Problems
preced launch of Sinclair's
Microdrive, page 2; CTA
suggests mail-order bonding
scheme, page 3; Electronic
mail arrives for the Sirius,
page 4; Intel chips in with
Xenix, page 5; CAD design
from Hewlett-Packard, page
6; Epsom HX20 disk drives
in, page 7; and lots more
news, reports and pictures. |
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| Follow
your favourite game and
micro. |
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| Tell
the world what you think. |
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| With
PCN's perambulating helpline,
Max Phillips. |
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| Got
a useful tip? Spread it
around a bit. |
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| Dungeon
adventures - Franklin's
Tomb for the Dragon and
Hummer House of Horror for
the Spectrum, page 51. Leaps
and Bounds - Jumpman for
the Commodore 64 and Jumping
Jack for the Spectrum, page
52. Space operas - alien
invasions with Fourth Encounter
for the Vic and Cyclons
for the Commodore 64, page
54. |
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| Games
and utilities for the Spectrum,
Vic 20, Commodore 64 and
BBC micros. |
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| The
new micro books. |
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| Buyers'
guide to hardware. |
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| Contact
points in the nation's user
groups. |
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| Four
pages of computing bargains. |
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| PCN
SPECIALS |
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| To
get the maximum use from
your Atari you need a disk
drive. Richard Hawes reveals
how to get the best from
the system. |
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| Geof
Wheelwright explains the
techniques required for
storing your screen displays
on video tape. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: SOFTWARE |
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| From
computer art to computer
aided design, Nigel Cross
tests packages to make the
most of the Beeb's graphics
capabilities. |
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| Walter
Knight continues his look
at machine code on the Newbrain
with a package to take the
tedium out of low-level
coding. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: PERIPHERALS |
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| Real
turtles mean more than graphics
- they open up the field
of robotics too. Ian Scales
tests a new beast that hooks
up to the Sinclair machines
and the BBC. |
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| Explore
the possibilites of print
with the new printer/plotter
for the Oric. David Janda
puts pen to paper. |
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| Barry
Miles looks at yet another
contender in the high quality
/ medium price print stakes. |
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| PCN
PRO-TEST: HARDWARE |
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| Everyone,
at some time, has wished
for an improvement to some
aspect of their micro. Richard
King goes a step further
and argues for a complete
rethink about the way micros
are designed and built. |
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