| First Byte - Keyboard Capers - Jeremy Vine |
 | Start making music and other noises on your Electron under JVs baton. |
| First Byte - Fly Killer - Tessie Rivivis |
| Asterisk turns into a full-blown fly that runs the gauntlet of the spray can. Design and move your own screen characters with deadly accuracy. |
| Hints and Tips - Martin Phillips |
| Explains points that perplex readers: printing with daisywheel and dot matrix printers connected at the same time; outmoded operating systems; a scrolling text window; off the shelf procedures; and the ENVELOPE statement. |
| Letters |
| Whats on readers' minds? The 6502 second processor, professional typesetting from wordprocessors, high scoring hit men, comparative reviewing. |
| Dear Kitty |
| What's the difference between ROMs and EPROMs? How do I know which software to buy? |
| Trailblazers - Chandra Wickramassinghe |
| In the first of our new series focusing on the more exotic uses that the Beeb is being put to, CW explains how his micro helped him advance a startling theory of life in space. |
| Chipping in - Richard Harris |
| By programming the Beeb's 8271 floppy disc controller chip you can increase your data-handling power. |
| All sorts - George Hill |
| See how sorting techniques work and you'll soon be able to pick the right one for the job. |
| Self-diagnosis - Paul Beverley |
| In the interests of cost-cutting and keeping your micro on the road, PB helps you set up the tests on the Beeb to diagnose its own ailments. |
| Primary scream - Geoff Nairn |
| The government claims success for its 'micros in primary schools' scheme but is it of much help in practice. To GN the satisfied smiles look like smugness. |
| Modules by Microtext - Ian Birnbaum |
| Acornsofts Microtext authoring system, which allows even inexperienced programmers to set up instructional quizzes and test on the Beeb. |
| Wordprint - Alex Wilson |
| A worprocessor for Atom users that makes full use of all scripting facilities. |
| Bulletin boards - Jeff Ashurst |
| The social side of communicating by computer is represented by bulletin boards, or free public access systems. JA briefs you on how they operate, the equipment you'll need to become a registered user, and which BB to join. |
| Toolkit trials - Bruce Smith |
| Compares a fistful of Basic utility ROMs. |
| Elite squad - Tony Quinn |
| Elite is Acornsoft's secret new space game. |
| Games |
| Blagger and Bugblaster from Alligata; Horse Race, Pool, Corporate Climber and Lemming Syndrome from Dynabyte; Screenplay's Chickaroo; First Byte's Star Trader; DACC's Super 7 Compendium; trench by Virgin; One to Nine by Acornsoft; A Maze in Space by Opus. |
| Reviews - Hardware - Chris Drage |
| Sideways ROM sockets by Viglen and NMC give convenient and cheap expansion on the Beeb. |
| Reviews - utilities |
| Bearsoft's Editor ROM; Watford's Buffer and Backup ROM; and Ampersand's Colour module. |
| The News - Acorn's ABC - the specs |
| Acorn's ABC - the specs, the facts; the Electron Plus 3 with 3in disc drive; instant program-entry with the MEP's bar-code reader; software on cable TV. |
| Beeb Forum - Bruce Smith |
| NFS update; security for data files; testing the RS423; and finding the file-length. |
| Top 20 software |
| Curse you Caveman! |
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| Acorn Abuser's Diary |
| Curried eggs and cabbages. |
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