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Issue 52 : November 1986

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News
Hints and Tips - Martin Phillips
Martin has more advice for the inexperienced and devises a program to make keeping score at Scrabble easy.
First Byte - Tessie Revivis
Programming in assembler is explained for new users.
A Cool Calculator - Joe Telford
What are WIMPs? Joe jots down some answers and presents a listing to give an on-screen calculator to prove his point.
A Nice Line in Plotting
Draw wire-framed three dimensional shapes using a plotter with Jonathan Baldwin's Super-Plot graphics program.
A Day at the Flicks - Peter Voke
Peter shows how switching quickly between two screens in memory can give the effect of animation.
Master Compact: Great and Small - David Atherton
David takes an in-depth look at Acorn's new Compact micro and compares it to its big brother, the Master 128.
Fanfare for Interword - Bruce Smith and Tony Quinn
Computer Concepts' much heralded wordprocessor has now arrived. Bruce and Tony give it a comprehensive run-around.
Games Reviews
Raid Over Moscow by US Gold, Imagine's Mikie and a round-up of games released for the Compact.
Games Review
The Complete BBC compilation from Audiogenic.
ROMS Review - Mike Rawlings
Mike gets to grips with the Advanced Disc Toolkit from ACP.
Hardware Review - Chris Drage
Microvitec's Touchtec 501 screen goes to school.
Hardware Review - David Atherton
David connects up with SJ Research's fileserver for Econet.
Business News
All the latest information for users of Acorn computers in business.
Database Management - John King
System Delta's card index application is put through its paces.
Putting printers to the test - Martin Phillips
Martin kicks off a series of printer comparisons to help you make your choice.
MESU Answers Back
John Foster, Head of Microelectronics Support Unit, answers questions put by Nick Evans.
Education News - Nick Evans
What's new in th world of micros in the classroom.
Electrons in the Classroom - Chris Drage and Nick Evans
Chris and Nick put together an Electron system for schools.
Blunderbox
Letters
Barcode reader offer
Competition
ROM offer
Special discs offer
Special programs offer
Special software offer
Yellow Pages
Software charts
Acorn Forum
User groups
Free ads
Small ads
Acorn Abuser's Diary



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