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Acorn User Jul Y 1984 the One and Only Bbc, Electron and Atom Magazine ommunications £1000 IN PRIZES-2ND BIRTHDAY COMPETITION £1000 IN PRIZES -2ND BIRTHDAY COMPETITION £1000 IN PR COMPLETE CONTROL AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.... ritish made and fully guaranteed, the LVL twin joysticks are professional units with which your aim should be nothing less than total control. They will operate any programmes that have a joystick option and are written in a way that is compatible with ACORNSOFT. • Nylon encased - Steel 1 2 months guarantee shafted joysticks with ball Fully compatible with the and socket joint BBC model 'B' or 'A' fitted • Fast spring return to centre with an A/D interface and • Graphite wiper linear an analogue part. potentiometers Scientific House. Bridge Street, Sandiacre Nottingham NG10 5BA Telephone (0602) 394000 ' THREE NEW PROGRAMS FROM MICROTEST SATAN'S CHALLENGE DAIRYFILE FOR or (Nevil Rides Out) DAIRY FARMERS MICROTEST FONT ROM. This exciting new ROM from Microtest will enable you to get all sorts of new characters Keep on that economic line between over and and fonts from your BBC Computer. Once you underfeeding! have produced your masterpiece on the screen, all you have to do is use the inbuilt screen- dump utility to produce a hard copy on to Save time recording milk yield and calculating paper. feed amounts! Typing '*HELP FONTS' gives a list of available Quickly decide feeding policy with the fonts and the blocks of characters which they 'Monthly Calving Group' Performance Graph! replace. Available fonts arc Print out a recording sheet with cows in *Accents Accents and miscellaneous. numerical order. Print out graphs or tables of *Block Small capitals. individual cows or Monthly Groups showing *Data Like the bottoms of serving and pregnancy details, illness record, cheques. Index, running total Calving weekly and * Greek It's all Greek to me too! Margin over Concentrate. See at a glance cows *Joined Standard capitals with Adventure due for serving, pregnancy diagnosis and A Black Magic |oined up lower case total Dare take the challenge laid most drying off Keep track of weekly feed cost you up down by the *Maths A mix of until now unob- sinister devil evil and ol all beings , the himself and milk sale price. tainable Mathematical sym- II you do you will find yourself alone and at the mercy ol ihe (wisted fancies and whims ol a cold and calcu bols All this and more with DAIRYDLE. lating mind. 'Miscellaneous A few oddities which often Occult forces are threatening the lives ot those near are very necessary. and dear lo you Their only salvation rests in your total lactation *Thick Thick text (for MODEs Predict cow or Monthly Group hands but in accepting the challenge your own exist yield. Compare with Standard Lactation ence is put in severe peril, 0&3) to enhance 80 In taking Curves. All old data pieserved - compare up the challenge you have lo find The column mode. TALISMAN and locate a pentagram which then has to f Monthly Groups over the years. Which is the Thin Thin text (for MODEs 2&5) be prepared for Ihe final rile In the meantime dark which makes modes 2 & 5 most profitable month? will be opposing you making a difficult task almost impossible. much more readable or per Do not allow yourself lo be lulled into a sense of Find out with DAIRYFILE for up to 200 lac- haps "READABLE". t\ lor it will be short lived "Vertical Forlabelling graphs. tating cows Mai iv have gone before only to swell Ihe ranks ol the damned The ROM has a dump facility which will pro- This is the latest adventure from the stables of Micro duce a screen dump of any MODE for to 6 lest and has been written with the acclaimed features on an Epson. Star printer. CTI CP80or MT80. £69.00 inc. VAT (disc only). of other adventures ill mind eg save facility, quick re sponse, simple but extensive commands, a mixture of The ROM uses absolutely NO user memory logical and friendish oroblems to solve. be used with word processors etc, as Be warned this is an easy adventure to get into and can 2 x 40 Track Drives Required or 1 or more 80 but devilishly difficult to end. well as normal BASIC programs. "Destined classic its right.'' Track Drives. Please state which when ordering to become a in own CN Cassette £7.95 inc. VAT Disc 9.45 inc. VAT £17.50 inc. VAT Disc 40 or 80 Track Microtest Starstick ROM & Joystick Package Now available the Starstick ROM and Joystick. This comes in three forms: (A) The Starstick ROM and Quickshot I Joystick Price 17.95 + VAT = 19.84 (B) The Starstick ROM and Quickshot II Joystick Price 19.25 + VAT = 22.14 (C) The Starstick ROM and patch lead, choose your own Spectrum/Atari style joystick Price 15.25 + VAT = 77.54 Post and Packing £1 .00 inc. VAT per item This enables you to plug the Rapid action self centring joysticks until now only available for the Spectrum/Atari/CBM machines into the user port of the BBC. Model A users please note NO ANALOGUE INTERFACE REQUIRED Disc Users Note - pressing BREAK, SHIFT-BREAK or CONTROL BREAK does not modify or destroy the STARSTICK software so Disc Users please feel free to Boot The software patch provided in the ROM is interrupt driven and adds the following commands to your computer. * STICK turn on the STARSTICK ROM * NSTICK turn off the STARSTICK ROM * SETSTICK set up joystick to users spec Enables you to use our * SAVE NAME 140 160 saves your user key protocols joysticks even on programs * ADVAL emulate standard analogue joysticks * PAUSE define key to Freeze game that do not offer joystick * NPAUSE turn off ability to freeze game capability. * "NAME' predefined key protocols set up tor software houses programs * HELP KEYS displays currently selected key protocols * REPEAT enables auto-repeat fire * NREPEAT disables auto-repeat fire DEALER ENQUIRIES available from and MICROTEST LTD EXPORT ORDERS WELCOME 18 Normandy Way, Bodmin, Cornwall PL31 1 EX Telephone: 0208 3812 ES OR ANY GOOD DEALER Large picture shows BBC Computer System and a Quickshot II Joystick. Small inset just a few of the joysticks that will work with the patch lead. Screenshot by kind permission of SUPERIOR SOFTWARE ACORN USER JUL Y 1984 THE ONE AND ONLY BBC, ELECTRON AND ATOM MAGAZINE Teaching facts Beginners Several software projects are on the way to help teach children about Hints & Tips frt information and how to use it. Jean Readers' enquiries answered in detail. Beck presents a round-up Martin Phillips gets to grips with tape loading, testing the keyboard, text windows and machine code problems Atom First Byte 60 Converting Basics 121 How to set about using your new Barry Pickles presents the concluding computer. Tessie Revivis goes beyond part of his explanation of BBC and the manual. Atom Basic and how to convert a PLUS: Converting listings. Tessie program from one to the other explains the differences between BBC July 1984 No 24 and Electron, and shows how to cope Cover photography by Monica Curlin, hat by Stephen Jones, Atom Forum 123 make-up by Jalle Bakke with them Barry Pickles presents a lively Atomic Letters 65 mix Editor Tony Quinn Your views, gripes and comments in Production editor Keith Parish print on statistics, error codes and the Technical editors Reviews Data Protection Bill Alex van Someren, Bruce Smith Editorial assistant Kitty Milne Dear Kitty ... 69 Electron Plus-1 18 Art editor Nigel Wingrove The computer world's first true Agony Acorn's add-on box means printers Art assistant Frances King Auntie answers the sort of questions and joysticks can be connected, and Publishing director Michael Potter which might seem simple to some, but ROM cartridges used. Bruce Smith Editorial director confuse many tries it out Christopher Ward Editorial Solidisk 128k RAM 153 Redwood Publishing, Business A memory board with the capabilities 68 Long Acre, London Z80 low-down 99 of a disc drive. Malcolm Banthorpe WC2E9JH. Tel: 01-836 2441 sets out its special capabilities The software bundle that comes with Advertising Acorn's second processor promises Computer Marketplace Ltd, 20 IEEE trio 155 much. John Vaux finds out whether it Orange St, London 7ED. WC2H lives up to the hype Paul Beverley compares three Tel: 01-930 1612 versions of the IEEE interface for the Database ROM 103 BBC micro from Aries, Acorn and Subscriptions StarBase from GCC controls searching CST-Procyon Jan Potter, Subscriptions manager. and sorting of information held on disc. Tel: Nuffield Ridge (073782) 2957. Printers 161 Correspondence: Redwood Pub- Ian Rowlings reports lishing, 68 Long Acre, London George Hill on Canon's colour ink-jet WC2E9JH. Education printer, plus Barry Pickles on the Brother EP44 Annual subscription rates: Viewdata in action 108 UK £15 colour Utilities 137 Europe £18 Tecmedia's Edfax sets up viewdata pages. Geoff Nairn reports The ADE ROM gets a thorough going- Middle East £20 its use over by Vincent Fojut The Americas and Africa £22 on Rest of the World £24 Prices include p&p for 12 issues Yellow listing pages Typeset and printed in Great Britain by Wat- An extra 16 page section devoted moughs Ltd, Bradford. Print production by T0P0F Aquarius Print and Design, London. Distri- solely to the major listings in this issue buted to the news trade by Comag, Tavistock ^£/sri Program of the month i Rd, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7QE, Tel: function strips (0895) 44405 Print your own key with Andrew Britton © Redwood Publishing 1984 Hints and Tips ii All rights reserved. No part of this publi- Joe's Jottings iii cation may be reproduced without prior Inspect utility vi written permission of the publisher.
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