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Popular Computing Weekly (1985-02-28) . POPU LAR O 0nly40p. 28 Feb -6 March 1985 Vol 4 No 9 Electron in doubt after Acorn rescue ACORN'S financial rescue, marketed under the Acorn mounted las! weak by Italian Acorn's restructuring, fol- name. The first such licenced office computer giant Olivetti wing the Olivetti deal, also product is likely to be The 'e the company from a the company w Communicator. Acorn's mi- £ 10.9ra loss for the six-month with plan cro- pius-telephone period ending December 31 : ABC r Under the rescue plan Business computers. Instead. Olivetti will pay £10, 39m lor a it by Acorn in the the technology will be sold, 49.3 per cent stake in Acorn home computer perhaps to Olivetti, but not continued unpaged British Telecom opts for play-by-modem games MUD. the multi-user play-by- modem adventure game, cur- rently running on the Compunet network for Com- the 240 or so •^ from Level m«IbS 9's new ad- 6 S The "pro- gram is avail- rsir H able Tor CG.95 brum, Com- nt Simon Dally (left)(It and tUcftd modore 64, Amstrad, BBC, MSX, set up by Simon Dally of Cen- 'V Atari. Enter- tury Communications and Richard Bartle and Roy 'i,\M Memotech; Trubshaw who wrote MUD - ¥ ~ rently involved in negotia- ) MICBONET MODEMS WORTH £600 TO WIN MDDN ESTA ^ *# W* TRIPTDTHE SPACE WAR! View POPU L A R Vol 4 No 9 sitter blow foi the British lome computer industry. Early indications are that the 'new' Acorn will back off Erom much further involve- ment in the low-cost consum- er market and a reduced lev- el of support for the Electron ma, unfortunately, now Presents... likely. In the beginning there was > Firebird Ultimate Sinclair with its ZX80 and the News goes fatality rale among would-be ll'i competitors has been high - Tramiel Special > David Kelly talks to thi LiR ;-'t; s33 Dragon, Oric. Jupiter. man of the moment. Atari's Jack Tramiel Computers. Buying a micro haa always LET Show Report > Some of the new software on display at been a risky business. Will Olympia last week perused by John Cook 5 le micro you buy succeed Will get software r fail? it Icons Just pretty pictures? With Atari's ST almost upon us Boris support? It would be going Allen looks at the origins of mouse-based systems 11 >o far, maybe to say that that gamble is part of the thrill of Software Spy vs Spy from Beyond for the 64 > QL ling a micro, bul it is cer- Reviews tainly true that it's the excite - utility from Hi-soft 12 nt of state-of-the-art high technology that attracts and Hardware Review > Opus' Disc Drives with that comes all the prob- for the Spectrum taken for a spin by John 1 C lems involved with buying in Lambert X sJ r rapidly advancing area. Win! Win! Win! > Modems and Micronet memberships up for grabs this week 17 !t isn't surprising. Ihere- fore, thai quite a high pro- > against the Amstrad portion of micro enthusiasts - StarGame Try your luck playing Poker CPC464 written by Terry O'Neil &20 than one micro, and quite a Commodore 64 • Part Two of Adrian Warman's machine-code if Acorn does reduce its program PBank 24 support for the Electron, owners who decide those BBC and Electron > Design your own sounds easily using the they like computing\q will.. in all Envelope command with (he help of Sunil Parekh 27 probability go on to Best of the Rest > Spectrum 23 > The QL Page 30 > Open Forum 33 > Music Unfortunately fo: Box 33 > Arcade Avenue 34 > Book Ends 35 > Adventure Corner 37 > Peek manufactu i would & Poke 39 > Top 10, Diary, 46 > Readers Chart 46 > New Releases 47 > This Week 47 > Puzzle. Ziggurat, Hackers 50 > still high-tech e they are still getting Futures... takes a look at Digital Research's GEM operating system used erful, and Andy Pennell exciting. by the Atari ST . Poker, part 2, on the Amstrad , . 01-437 4343 mud spreads Sinclair moves to * continued from page 1 .wm™." encourage OL mouse BT has had a aroim work- ** SINCLAIR is apparently in exhibiting include Meiacomco. Psion, Scicon, game, but they now appear to Triptych. CST, have been transferred to the Microperipherals. Quest, MUD project. PSML, TD1, Eidersoft, Jump, According to (he BT for i(s 01, machine. Talent, Sagesoft and Buzzz. spokesman, "We are very in- The reason for the decision Other products for the QL terested in the idea of multi- stems from the fact that many either available or on the way user games, but we have to of the software titles Sinclair include a 256K memory add- find out if it is technically pos- is hoping to release for the QL on at £196 from Simplex Data. sible to port the MUD system are program conversions of 432 Greenford Road, Middx. from the DEC 10 to a new American packages already The artificial intelligence lan- computer." available for the Apple Mac- guage Prolog for the QL is Spectrum and MUD was originally written intosh which require such a being produced for Sinclair C64 packs on a DEC 10, the same com- 'mouse' device to operate. by Experts Systems and will BEAU-JOLLY has released puter as Comptmet The decision represents a " £100. Up-grad- two compilation packs for the turn-round for Sinclair. Earli- of ft QL's Spectrum and the Commo- built-in software packages dore 64, each priced at £19.95 up the compunet system. clair commented that mice which are being supplied Richard Bartle and Roy and icons were "a gimmick". free to QLUB members are The tapes are as follows. Trubshaw are however Mouse-based systems have now available to nort-QLUB Spectrum Megabits: 3D Star working on a new ' recently been given members from Camberley Strike (Realtime); Blue Thun- 1 by priced at £16 each or £50 for der and fail Guy (Elite); Son Atari of its ST r all four. of Blagger (Alligata); This Wednesday Sinclair Psion is to produce • Automania (Micro-Gen); presents a major exhibition to Flight Simulation - its top sell- Booga-Boo (Quicksilva); the British trade of forthcom- ing ZX81 and Spectrum title - Psytron (Beyond); Wheehe ing software and hardware for the QL, scheduled for re- (Microsphere): Blade Alley available for the QL. lease in late Spring. (PSS): and Penetiator (Mel- the interpreter for each new bourne House) machine - the database wili Commodore 64 Megabits: be completely machine Firebird gets Arabian Knights and Trollie independent." Ultimate WaUie (Interceptor); Poster MUD Two will also be con- C64 options Paster and Super Pipeline siderably larger than the ver- (Taskset); Psytron (Beyond); TWO Ultmate Play the Game Son of Blagger (Alligata); at Essex University. titles Sabre Wall and Aurcmarua (Mikro-Gen); It will have more than 900 Underwurlde are to be con- Ghouls (Micropower); and verted to the Commodore 64 Booga-Boo (0 uicksilva) as at present - and the seem by Firebird, the British i os will be up-daled reguli Telecom software house. ly. The existing MUD will A licensing deal has been and Firebird are kept, as a sub-sectit agreed The known to be considering a suprising given Ultimate 's en- software houses to Among the new programs number of viable in-house program- will the Sinclair do the conversion work - Mr on show be ming skills - was explained package, written Assembler by Ultimate director Tin Acorn rescue by GST. priced at £39.93 and possible candidate. Stamper, "Our expertise ii APL language package Firebird ~ ' the really directed towards the from MicroAPL. Companies development of original deal, will be producing "We projects." programs thai will have all Hause Acorn is also to be split into Release dale for the Corn- the quality of the Ultimate the company with their hold- four divisions dealing with Spectrum originals. We will ing reduced from 86.7 per education, science and Indus- - cent to 36.5 per cent (Curry try, business and consumer er" Kamarth Ulti- with around 16. 4 per cent; markets. These will be head- Commodore 64 3D Hauaer with around 20.1 per ed up, respectively, by Jim is the firs! of a se Merriman (former manufac- present acting chief execu- turing director), Jeffrey Entombed. Ultimate is tive, becomes Chairman and Tansley (former senior re- also considering making cen- a new group managing direc- search and development ex- tor will be recruited external- ecutive), John Horton (former trum titles for the Amslrad. ly. Chris Cuny and Hermann technical director), and Peter Said Tim Stamper, "We like Hauaer become deputy chair- O'Keeffe • (former sales the Amstrad and there's real- men and will concentrate on director). ly quite a lot we can do with it. new product development. A further SO redundancies the* Phillips and Drew have re- are also expected at Acorn n the Spectrum." placed Cazenove as brokers before the reorganisation is for Acorn. More News - P10 " " 1 Tramiel Interview bundling it with software either with a cassette recorder for £129.35 or a disc Travelling Tramiel drive at £249.95. The repackaged BOOH, - the new 65XE is expected to sell in the Jack Tramiel talks about his new Atari ST computer to David Kelly It is the ST, though, that is now taking most of Tramiel's attention. "Most peo- Tramiel, head of Alari 'world- Metaoomco for Digital (also available for ple currently doing Mac software are JackWide', Dew into the UK ten days ago the IBM compatible machines). The Logo now working for us.
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