News - New BBC micro |
| The latest on the new A3000 and the first add-ons for the new machine. Beeb to Mac transfer. |
Customer Hotline |
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Comms Column |
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Preview |
| The ArcComm Archimedes comms package from BBC Soft comes under scrutiny, as does a play-along Beeb music package to get your accompaniments right, from Chester Music and the Emacs Arc public domain text editor. |
New Chapter - Graham Bell |
| Graham reveals all on the latest micro from Acorn. |
Coping with Chaos - Joe Telford |
| Joe jots down some ideas and a program for coping with day-to-day office administration. |
Postscript - David Atherton |
| David introduces this much misunderstood language for printers. |
Standing Variables - John Stanley |
| John shows how BBC Basic stores and keeps track of variables and produces a program to fool your micro into using the same variables in different programs. |
Swap! - Chris Drage and Nick Evans |
| Chris and Nick show how to swap data between many of the Beeb and Arc database packages in use in educational circles to get the most from your software. |
Games Page - Sam Greenhill |
| Sam presents the high scores from nimble fingered BBC Acorn User readers. |
Games Reviews |
| Fumble those furious fingers around this month's offerings. 3D Pool from Firebird, Holed Out! from Fourth Dimension, Barbarian 2 from Superior Software, Thundermonk from Minerva and Overload from Clares. |
Book Reviews |
| Two books come under the reviewers' hammer this month: Archimedes Operating System - A User's Guide by Alex and Nick van Someren and Computer Translation of Natural Language by W Goshawk, I.D Kelly and J.D Wigg. |
Whales of Protest - Dave Futcher |
| Dave weighs up the chances of everyone's favourite endangered species with the help of the Save The Whale pack from Topologica. |
Hints and Tips - David Atherton |
| David with snippets for the Beeb. Justified text from a 9 pin printer, View/Wordwise transfer, InterWord overtype and hints for Master 512 users. |
Arc Agora - Dave Acton |
| Dave whips off some more gems for Arc owners - a joystick emulator for those Beeb conversions, short cuts into your directories and paper saving multi-column listings. |
Competition |
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Yellow Pages |
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Interlude |
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Letters |
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Free Ads |
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Acorn Abuser's Diary |
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Offers |
| Designer Castles, Arcomm. |
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