| The News |
 | Electron peripherals riddle, the race to deliver second processors for the Beeb, Labour MPs' Acorn deal, chess checks in, Top 20 software. |
| Techniques - Stan Froco |
| Advice on the most effecient sorts for the task in hand. |
| Numbers Game - Simon Berry |
| A procedure which puts a numeric keypad into the Beeb keyboard. |
| Simple graphics - Simon Hancock |
| A dozen easy programs. |
| Joe's Jottings - Joe Telford |
| Practical help on random access filing on disc. |
| Protection - Mike Cooke |
| Techniques for locking and unlocking files are uncovered. |
| Colour plotter - George Hill |
| A guide to the idiosyncratic MCP40 printer/plotter. It's a fun machine, he says. |
| Hints and Tips - Martin Phillips |
| Strides boldly into the VDU chamber of horrors, and answers leading questions on cassette faults. |
| Beeb Forum - Ian Birnbaum |
| Loading with level 1 Econet, clearing variables, Technicolour listings, undocumented error messages and freeze frame. |
| Discs |
| Making discs readable on both 40 and 80 track drives, by David Barnett. |
| Screen memory - Michael Murray |
| Mode to mode tour of screen memory organisation. |
| Adventure Action 1 - Mike Austin |
| Hints on adventure design. |
| Adventure Action 2 - Peter Killworth |
| Climb the unclimable cliff. |
| Adventure Language - Jonthon Griffiths |
| Adventure ideas into computer language. |
| Text Compression 1 - Peter Voke |
| The tricks of cramming in all that adventure text. |
| Text Compression 2 - Vincent Fojut |
| Word crunching routines. |
| Atom Adventure - Barry Pickles |
| The Christmas adventure unravelled. |
| Electron link - Paul Beverley |
| How to prepare the VIA chip to drive a parallel printer. |
| Atom Forum |
| Slow scroller, keyboard sounder, high-speed cassette option, conducted by Barry Pickles. |
| Schools - Heather Govier |
| Working through threee simulation packages, HG discusses the impact of the micro on teaching techniques. |
| Sideways ram - Vincet Fojut |
| Exciting potential in Solidisk's sideways RAM expansion baoard. More... |
| Microdrive system - Bruce Smith |
| Hitachi's twin disc Microdrive system stands uo to rough treatment. |
| DFS upgrade - Chris Chan |
| Leaslink's double-density disc controller board. |
| Disc Doctor - Terry Holden |
| Review of Computer Concepts Disc Doctor EPROM. |
| Reviews |
| Philosopher's Quest, Castle of Riddles, Escape from Moonbase Alpha, Noc-a-bloc, Cruncher, Chemiplant, Colossal Adventure, 21 Games for the Electron, I Do, The Dating Game, Saloon Sally, Pentiles, Free Fall, AI in Education, Programs for the BBC, Atom screen ROm. |
| Competition - Simon Dally |
| Dabble in Sd's magic squares and win some software. |
| Readers' letters |
| Five pages of comment, criticism and advice. |
| Reader's free ads |
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