Computer Museum - Personal Computer News - 035   PCN Next Back Introduction and list           Issue 35 - November 3rd to 9th 1983 Pull-Out and keep Micropaedia Design, debugging and program structure in our teach yourself programming course REGULARS Monitor 2 Industry claims more casualties - page 2; PCN gets its hands on Coleco's Adam - page 3; Husky turns hunter - page 4; Casio blooms at Amsterdam show - page 5; UK leads in home computer use - page 6; Meet the new Newbrain masters - page 9. PCN Charts 10   Random Access 13 Readers' letters, with a crisp tenner for the best. Routine Inquiries 14 Whatever your machine, whatever your problem, we can probably help. Microwaves 16 Your tips cover Atari and Colour Genie displays, sound on Oric and Dragon, and a couple of Commodore utilities. Binders offer 44 Keep your collection in mint condition. Readout 57 New books for 64, Apple and BBC owners. ProgramCards 53 Two educational programs for the ZX81 and Oric. Back Issues 73 If you like the look of this issue just see what you missed. Databasics 74 Buyer's guide to peripherals. Quit/Dateline 88 Who won £20 for making us laugh? We name the name. PCN PRO-TEST: HARDWARE Carry out Kaypro 18 Portability and hard disk storage in an executive-style box. Kaypro makes its bid to mop up after the demise of Osborne . . . David Guest picks up the story. PCN SPECIALS Hot CoCo 25 Make more of graphics on the Tandy Color Computer, thanks to Harold Gibson's techniques with low resolution and the Print @ statement. BBC Special FX 30 Paul Giblett's guide to the BBC operating system via a complete dictionary of *FX commands. PCN PRO-TEST: SOFTWARE Spectrum edited 33 Not an abridged micro but a package called Mentor designed to ease Basic programming on Sinclair's best-seller. Ted Ball undertakes the course of study. Sinclair takes stock 37 Keep track of the comings and goings with this off-the-shelf program for the Spectrum. Bill Quentin reports. BBC schools programs 38 Colin Cohen checks out a range of educational entertainment. PCN PRO-TEST: PERIPHERALS A little brother 41 Take a portable typewriter, add a RAM store and give it the facility to hook up to a micro and what have you got? Ace in print 46 John Lettice, still in the printing department, investigates a Centronics interface for the Jupiter Ace and the Spectrum. GAMEPLAY Valhalla brings out the Viking in Spectrum owners. 48 PCN brings together a batch of the latest Commodore 64 games. 50 Cube roots on Atari and 64 with Slinky and Hexpert. 56   << Back Top of the Page Next >>     Home > Computer Museum > PCN