The News |
 | Queen gives BBC micros to India, Liberals set up computer groups, 52k Beeb, £20 caption competition, Winchester network. |
Software top 20 |
 | A New feature where we try to put the market into perspective. |
Win a BBC micro |
 | ..or an ink-jet printer in our three section competition. |
Techniques - Stan Froco |
 | Looks at graphs and how they can be used in computing. |
Joe's jottings - Joe Telford |
 | Stacks and queues in real life, Basic and lanaguages. |
Hints and Tips - Martin Phillips |
 | Teletext is the flavour of the month here, as we look at mode 7. |
Processing speech |
 | There's a lot more to Acorns Voice chip than meets the ear. Ian Rowlings plumbs its hidden depths. |
Games writing |
 | Snapper author Jonathan Griffiths sets down his ideas on structure, and gives away some Acornsoft secrets. |
Electron Interfacing - Paul Beverley |
 | Downloading data at high speed. |
Beeb Forum - Ian Birnbaum |
 | Operating system commands are a bone of contention this month. |
Life - Malcolm Banthorpe |
 | Some graphics routines. |
Defencecom listing - Simon Williams |
 | How he wrote a BBC version of Missile Command in Basic. |
The Train Game |
 | If you're fed up with invaders, Peter Balch's game is a refreshing change. |
Machine code graphics - Nick Wilkinson |
 | Speeding up screen manipulation is the aim. |
Forum Extra - Ian Birnbaum |
 | Where to put machine code. |
Schools |
 | Caeser's assassination was the inspiration for a project by Charles Bake's pupils on handling data. |
OU micro pack - Robin Ward |
 | RW casts her critical eye over this course for teachers. |
Daisywheel printer - George Hill |
 | Juki gives small businesses and home users the chance to produce quality letters. |
Atom Forum - Barry Pickles |
 | Questions and answers and provides a signle key input routine. |
Atom Adventure |
 | It;s christmas but all is not well with Santa in this amusing, and crafty, diversion. |
Reviews |
 | Three Atom products, Salamander utilities, Escape from Orion, BBCSoft Toolbox Transistor's revenge, Mr T's Money Box. |
Word processor |
 | Beeline is a cassette-based program which gives a good introduction to the subject. |
School programs |
 | Five Ways and Bourne Packages are looked at. |
Reviews |
 | Gemini's Caterpillar, Owzat? from Virgin, Missile Control, Chemical Analysis, BBC/NEC Beyond Basic Firehawks by Poster, Electronic Monoply. |
Chess trial |
 | BBCSoft and Acornsoft programs are put through their paces by John Vaux. |
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Readers' letters |
 | Six pages of comment, opinion, facts and advice on everything from XREF to impossible problems. |
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