| 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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