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WELCOME Telephone: 051-548 7111 (20 lines) CONTENTS 4 ..................................................................READERS LETTERS — Collection of readers news & views 8 ..................................................................COMMODORE HOTLINE - What's new on the Commodore scene 1 4 ............................................................... EDUCATIONAL PAGE — A look at how Commodore are helping educa tional users 1 7 ............................................................... READERS SURVEYS — A survey on the quality of service from dealers 1 9 ............................................................... MICROCOMPUTERS IN BUSINESS — Talking about Micronet, the infor mation network system. 2 2 ............................................................... SOFTWARE REVIEW — Comparison review of three word processors — Word form, Microscript and Superscript 2 6 ...............................................................HARDWARE REVIEW - Prestel on Your Pet 2 2 ...............................................................BOOK REVIEW — Innovative Vies and Business Pets 2 4 ...............................................................APPLICATIONS STORY — A Dictionary of Basic, Making a Success of your Business, plus a round-up 3 0 ...............................................................APPLICATIONS STORY — Computers in the Optical Industry 3 4 ...............................................................BEGINNERS GUIDE — A first look at machine code, from Peter Gabor 3 6 ...............................................................SOUND & VISION — More graphics and plotting routines for Pet and Vic 3 8 ........................................................... INTERFACING — How to convert a 12-inch 40 column Pet into an 80 column one 3 9 ........................................................... COMMODORE 64 — Full memory maps for Commodore's new machine 4 2 ............................................................... PROGRAMMING TIPS — Two articles on machine code programming 4 8 ............................................................... BASIC PROGRAMMING — More programs than ever before in a bumper Christmas special 6 4 ............................................................... MACHINE CODE PROGRAMMING — More programs and utilities, plus an article on auto-loading of programs EDITORIAL Editor Christmas 1 982 will probably see the biggest ever sales of per Pete Gerrard sonal computers, both in the UK and USA. Machines purchased will Advertising Manager Peter Chandler: tel 01-439 353 7 come from many different manufacturers. Commodore in the UK are Production expecting to sell over 30,000 VIC 20 machines. Lithotype Design What will these machines be used for? London EC1. Will their owners simply play games, or will they learn to use the Managing Editor machine and write their own programmes? On the answer to this Nick Hampshire question depends the future of the personal computer industry. If Commodore Computing is the machines are used only to play games then the future must be published 10 times per year by rather bleak, people will in general tire of these games and the Nick Hampshire Publications. It is not in any way connected with machines will end up in cupboards forgotten like so many other Commodore Business Machines novelties. On the other hand if the owner becomes interested in the U.K. Ltd. machine as a computer, rather than a toy, then the industry can look Typesetting by forward to a long and interesting future. A future where a large Centrepoint Typesetters Ltd, London percentage of the population will acquire a degree of computer Printed by Spottiswoode Ballantyne Ltd, literacy. To acquire this literacy owners will need a lot of help, Com Colchester and London. modore Computing International aims to supply that help by giving If you would like to contribute to its readers as much in depth information, at all levels of expertise, as Commodore Computing, please possible, with particular emphasis on program listings. Examining send articles or programs to:— how others have written a particular program is one of the best Commodore Computing International ways of learning. 193 Wardour Street, We wish all our readers in over 46 countries a Happy Christmas London W1 and good programming in the New Year. We w ill pay 10 pounds for each program printed, and 20 pounds for each article published, which should be approximately 1,000 words long. Commodore Computing Yriftets— We wrote and asked a number comparison failed to reveal members. If so, is this still run Snowden. You will not regret of colleges known to have where the error lay. by Commodore or has it been the cost o f a stamp. Commodore equipment just However, life is too short to transferred to your company And speaking of ICPUG, we what they were doing with the worry any further now I have a (Nick Hampshire Publications)? have now the editor of their kit. Here's a fairly typical reply, working and very useful My letter from Commodore was newsletter, Ron Geere! from Middlesex Polytechnic. Tinymon program. Many thinks not very explicit on whether or for your assistance. not there exists an OFFICIAL Dear Pete (ed. note: an old Dear Sirs, Yours sincerely club/society for users of their drinking companion!) computers. Perhaps you could The Polytechnic indeed have R. W. Moore The item in the July issue Bits enlighten me? many Commodore machines Sutton Coldfield and Pieces (page 36) describing (amongst others!), spread over Dear Mr. Moore, Yours faithfully how to suppress the Input several sites in North London. I Your kind words are M. L. Snowden prompt is machine dependent. am co-ordinator of the Enfield appreciated! A number of you Beeston The zero-page location in site users group. Our have had troubles with question is one of the few microcomputer classroom Tinymon, whilst others appear Dear Mr. Snowden which differs between Basic houses eight 8032 micros, two to have entered it without any Thanks for your subscription 2.0 & 4.0. For Vic 20 users it 8 0 5 0 disk units and tw o problems whatsoever! Who cheque: we hope you enjoy the would be location 1 9. printers, a 4 0 2 2 and an 80 2 6 , knows what the problem is? magazine. This problem may be linked together by the MUPET Hopefully you'll have had no I've had to answer this eliminated by replacing the line system. such difficulties with Supermon question often enough for it to POKEing the off-normal flag to The micros are used for a for the Vic from our October deserve mention here. 1 by OPEN 1,0,0 and the POKE variety of educational and issue. Incidentally, / agree with you on to zero by CLOSE1. This research purposes, ranging the subject of the letter from method treats the keyboard as across civil engineering, Dear Sirs, Commodore: we produce the a peripheral device (0). mathematics, statistics, I read with interest the letter in magazine, and it left me Yours sincerely business studies and social a recent issue of Commodore confused! Ron Geere science (as well as computing!). Computing regarding Vic The magazine was produced Farnborough My own interest is in programs and loading into the by what was then known as Dear Ron, developing software for Pet for listing to a printer. The the Commodore Pet Users Club Thanks for the tip: as ever, teaching economics and simplest way to load the (hence one of its early names: statistics, and at present program is by using 'Toolkit'. CPUCN, the N being for we're grateful to any readers organising elementary courses First, load a dummy program Newsletter), and continued to who follow up an original article for potential staff users at this into the Pet. For example — : be so until January of this year, and then take it several steps further. A good example of this site of the Polytechnic. 1 REM. when the last issue came out. would be the Weeny Word I hope this brief outline meets Then APPEND the Vic A t Nick Hampshire