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| It's Christmas
Night. The log of the Conqueror
crackles in the grate. Old Uncle
Clive has crashed after one sherry
too many, and cousin Jack from
America is flicking acorns at
his nose. A new star rises in
the east . . . what can it be?
Yes, the winners of the PCN Golden
Turkey Awards of 1984! |
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| Add 3D line
drawings to your reprtoire of
Beeb graphics programs with these
annotated routines. |
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| More kudos
to your QDOS with some hints on
making better use of headers on
the QL. |
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| Take on your
64 at cards with this version
of Poker Solitaire. |
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| You can store
enough frames to produce some
spectacular animated sequences
with machine code and Basic routines. |
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| Print double
height characters on the screen
in your games or in more serious
applications. |
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| Tap in this
game and learn a bit more about
some aspects of two programming
features. |
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| Whether you
buy the kit or the ready-built
version, the Cortex 2 out-benchmarks
the competition. However, the
machine is still something of
a challenge to take on, says Brendin
Lewis. |
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| The CPA-80
printer has a range of features
that would grace a more expensive
machine. |
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| Music Master
turns your computer into an electronic
music synthesiser and teaches
you about music into the bargain. |
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| Lynx
- fresh tracks discovered,
this page; Commodore
treads the IBM path,
page 2; Toshiba price
cuts set cat among
pigeons, page 3; Christmas
1984 - the last micro
boom? page 4. |
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| Which
games will be spilling
out of the nation's
Christmas stockings?
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| Hot
views from our readers. |
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| Solve
your programming problems
by consulting our
experts. |
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| PCN's
readers make friends
and influence people
when they send in
their hints and tips.
The £10 reward
can't come amiss either. |
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| On
the eigth day of Christmas
why not get stuck
into an adventure? |
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| Pre-Christmas
bargains. |
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| PCN
signs off for this
year, and looks forward
to the next. |
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