What does
the future hold for Acorn users
whose supplier is now in Italian
hands? The first casualties will
be the Electron which never took
off in its present form, and other
aspects of Acorn's activities
in the home computer market.
OUTPUT
QL
quick fix
8
A short patch
for the Quill will make word processing
faster and easier. See for yourself
. . .
Disassembled
SPECTRUM
11
Not a way to reduce your Spectrum
to a pile of bits but the painless
way of examining machine code.
This free utility will help
you get to grips with op-codes
and address modes.
64
swat squad
18
More destruction
of inferior life forms (flies,
in this case) in a neat games
listing for your 64.
SPECTRUM
expanded
21
Additional
memory is useful on your Spectrum,
but can cause problems with some
software. This utility lets you
run VU-CALC with the extra RAM.
HARDWARE
EPSON
in disguise
22
Lurking beneath
the exterior of the Dialtex 4
is an Epson CP/M portable. We
weigh it up.
PERIPHERALS
AMSTRAD
disk drives
27
They're here
at last and what can we say except:
'brilliant', 'buy one' (but read
the review first).
SOFTWARE
Gameplay
32
An Oric game
(gasp!) joins the ranks of Spectrum
and 64 offerings.
IBM
electrified
37
Electric
Desk offers integration at a budget
(!) price.
REGULARS
Monitor
1
Olivetti
takes Acorn back to
school, this page
and page 2; Sinclair
allays supply fears,
page 2 software blossoms
at LET show, page
3; BBC axes Chip Shop,
page 4.
PCN
Charts
5
Random
Access
6
Your
weekly letters page.
Routine
Enquiries
7
Your
problems solved by
our panel of experts.
Dungeon
24
Another
trip into the PCN
adventure vaults in
the company of Dungeonmaster
Bob Chappell.
Software
Pre-View
30
The
week's new releases.
Billboard
41
Bargains
galore on our weekly
marketplace.
Quit
44
Blunders,
buffoonery and a few
dates for your diary.
