| First Byte - Tessie Revivis |
 | Techniques for drawing shapes on the screen and assembling them into your own designs. |
| Hints and Tips - Martin Phillips |
| Four pages bursting with good advice on converting Tvs, polishing your programs, testing joysticks, sound proofing acoustic couplers and achieving 3D-effect printing. |
| Letters |
| Hints on RTTY; why do peripherals cost so much?; the search for schools software; Wordwise in Spanish; and a suicide theory... Readers speak their minds. |
| Dear Kitty |
| Mystery of the 'Bad Mode' message; history of the Beeb. Kitty answers the questions that confuse the inexperienced micro-user. |
| Sprites cloned - Harry Sinclair |
| You've drawn your sprite and learnt how to move it around the screen. Now in part 3 of his sprite generator series he shows how to produce clone and mirror images. |
| Floating point - Bruce Smith |
| A new series which aims to take the aggro out of assembler. he tackles the subject of floating point variables. |
| ROM juggler - David Blakey |
| With Beeb and board full of ROMS how can you be sure of calling up the one you want? |
| Beeb in the glasshouse - Danny Green |
| Second in our Trailblazer series is a report on how Reading researchers are using the BBC micro to monitor plant life. |
| Tele tales |
| Micro Live producer David Allen recalls the traumas of putting live messages on the air. |
| News round up - Nick Evans |
| A new feature covering current education issues, with news, opinion and feedback from teachers, pupils and other involved parties. |
| Edword at work - Ron Gandolfo |
| A classroom project presented with the ideal opportunity to introduce wordprocessing to his pupils. How did Edword work out for them? |
| Atom Forum - Barry Pickles |
| The emphasis this month is on hardware modifications, so warm up your soldering iron while BP introduces readers wheezes. |
| AUTO Atom - Bruce Smith |
| BS puts a finishing touch to the recent series of converting Beeb programs to AtomBasic with the AUTO command. |
| Joe's Jottings - Joe Telford |
| Our man Telford tests a mixed batch: Toads extension socket and Watford's Speech Synthesiser and Beebfont ROM. |
| Games |
| Eagle's Wing and Spooks and Spiders by Software Invasion; Vision's Digger. |
| Accent on WP - Chris Drage |
| CD assesses BBtype a multi character-set wordprocessor offering foreign accents and technical/mathematical symbols. |
| Hardware |
| Ian Rowlings on the Romex 13 ROM board, and Barry Pickles on Phillips TP200 monitor. |
| Language learners - Simon Dally |
| Language coaching packages from Beebugsoft, Salamander and Kosmos. |
| New books |
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| Buggies and turtles - Geoff Nairn |
| With various full versions of the graphics-based Logo language set to appear, GN takes to the floor with six sample robots to explain what they can and cannot do. |
| ABC marvel - Tony Quinn and Alex van Someren More... |
| Acorn's new 310 boasts the latest hardware and software the computer industry can offer. Turn to page 30 for a closer look and screen shots of the mouse-controlled icons. |
| School quiz |
| The chance to win one of 10 BBC Radio software packs kicks off a new education news section that gives your school a hearing. |
| Digitising duo |
| Two graphics tablets are taken to task and both come out well. |
| The News |
| Acorn results, Torch develops Unix, Beebs in India, South America and China, and Beeb could be prescribed for doctors. |
| Noticeboard |
| A new page to keep you primed about events you won't want to miss! |
| Competition - Simon Dally |
| Another puzzle from his compendium - what do all the add ons add up to. Plus and the June winners. |
| Beeb Forum - Bruce Smith |
| A useful bundle of tips. |
| Top 20 Software |
| Frak! still f-f-first. |
| Acorn Abuser's Diary |
| Not the Radio Times... |
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