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Popular Computing Weekly (1984-05-10) BRITAIN'S BEST-SELLING MICRO WEEKLY News Desk The end Advance arrives of the at WH Smith ZX Printer ADVANCE Technoioay low-cosi IBM-compatible con puier will be available i selecLedWIl Smith stores fioi Wednesday ll — hai alieady been halt ^%^SlUG The TT pim jciysitik light ptn mil irmile SilBO'llillJK anlromti pnnli.t piirl Thi MivTOiOfi GW Bfl'.ie used bj only hiniu.d ilncks a uvailable OMiinienUng on the c -Nob that thi. Interface I dnd Ri2W Kid-, irt freely jvailjbL tur Thi Spi.t.&um mo^l pi-oik wini m u>-. a L[iL.jquilil> piinli.1 h difficull lur new ZXBl owii- m^iLhinv'., Interface 1 is m.t 000000000 b^nfavaajiQQQQQQQaQQ ^STAR- • Slreel Life ChrLMina Enkim mecu Kn'r. >e ^ • BBC & Electron Othello on Spectmr ''. ^' See page 10 9 Cnmmodorc 64 LGAME* Demulalor /mm VUim News 5 Evangelists tend lo divide people into Edltof Brendon Gore Iwo camps — you love them or you Kews Editor Star Game 10 iiaie them. Fans of Billy Graham will defend iasl iDoih the style Dai^d Kelly Oinello on Speclrum by Paul RsynolDs to the and Raportei content of his preaching, vfhile oppo- Street LI le 13 Christ] n a Erskine nents will decry his methods as being Software Editor CHrrsline Erskme Ifllks to Kevin Toms more appropriate to 'shov^ business'. Graham Taylor Education Special 15 The BBC tv micro programme had a Production Editor BBC strong evangelical side to it. The Lynne Constable producers and directors saw them- 20 Editorial Secretary selves as having a mission to explain' harry Cleo C Ofic disc drive Dit>s50flware — they wanled to bring an awareness Advertisement Manager Dragon 23 of micros to the masses. The series was designed to show what micros AstlstanI Advertisement Uansser Jason Orbaum and GeoHrey Campba con. oludelhBirAsssmbiylanguegsserles could do and how they could affect our Alasiair MacimosSi lives in the future. Advertisement BBC & Electron 24 Despite attracting an avid audience, EOucauonal Physics by Neil Barnes the BBC series met with a decidediy Classllled Executive mixed reception. Many people thought Diane Davis Spectrum 28 the series would teach them how to Advertising Production E'tenoed Basic Oy Alan Tiirnbull program and were disappointed to 30 Administration discover that this was not the case. TheresB Lacy Machine code utility t)y Adrian Warnia Yorkshire Television's Me & My Managing Editor Open Forum 37 Micro series, due to begin on Sunday, 10, takes the opposite approach. Duncan Scol Fourpagesolyourprograms June Publishing Director II is designed to teach people the Jenny Ireland MIcroradIo 39 basics of programming, nothing mote. Popular Computing Weekly. RayBBrrySmlumn The Yorkshire series is still being completed, 12-13 Utile Newport Street. Arcade Avenue 40 but the rough version that I London WC2R 3LD saw looked simple and easy to under- Telephone: 01-437 4343 TonyKenflle'sarcaflecheok-oul stand, though it will hold little for Telex. 2B627S Adventure 43 advanced programmers. Published by Sunshma Pubihcaftons I TonyBndge'scorner Both approaches have their merits, Reglstemt ai , but Sl Micro has the Peek and Poke 47 Me My advantage -'-"" of knowing exactly who it is targeted for ABC Votiro^eslions answered and what it should contain. 56 UlesisoMware programs ISSN 0265-0509 ISUIBS This Typeset by The Arwoik Group, week 58 Vic is next star 55-63 Goswsli Road, London eC1, Topiopiusaiahrsweekssoliware Connection week's game lor the unexpended Vic 20 by Ian in association milti ink on Paper Ur). Competitions 59 Craighiii — it Is a version of Conned Prir^ted by East Midland Lilho Printers Lid, Oundle Road. Woodslon, Pererborough PE2 90H, OlBtiibuted by S M Oislribullon Subscribe to London SW9. 01 -27') 861 1 , Te\ex: 261643 ^' Sunshine Publicalions Lid 1984 Popular Computing Weekly How I uibmlt a>tio)ee Accurwy inol aceepl ary publish, we will alwa erryourbBBlto aMhouflh i y, Subscnpi>an bepi . From CDS. COLOSSUS CHESS 20' the ultimate challenge by Martin Bryant for both the chess player and the chess master the finest chess program ever written. I Available for the Commodore 64 £995 CDS Micro Systems Also disc version £12.95 . Acorn Z80 provides the speed ACORN'S long awaited ZHO The unit makes S5K of mem- CPC464 and the Tatung Eb- second processor fur the BBC ory available for software and stein {PCW. April 26), micro is now available enables task handling lo be Price for the processor b Aside from providing a stgni- split, with the Z80 runninj; the £299. but Oiis figure includes ficanl increaM in speed of software and the BBC's 6502 three business software pack- domestic reorder. By the ly program eMcution, the system concentrating on input/output ages — wordprocessor. data- nnUi. 20 Hires aUa makes ihe industry stan- screen graphics and syslcm base and spreadsheet. Nucleus should for the dard CP'M operating system applications generator and the . WH Smith is co- and sofluate available to Ihe business language CIS Cobol. ordinating development of ca.s> Two versions of Basic arc also lie Fur the machine The ZW) processor, in a included — a 'protessior n include Software separate unit, also houses the 1 Z80 V operatingsy.sicni!orCP'M2,2. BBC Basic. Softccll, The K6b is an aiiogL-ther Time diffcienl animal. For a stan ii You and CDSti £1.5(KI. A Kba machine stands still cHii be up^uded to an 86b for your micro TELLING Ihe lime is almosl £1.100. on tv not the main purpose of Seiko's The8(ib(iffei5.inaddiliont.i Data-20nO wrist watch. The the base tnodeL memoiy ei- systemconsistsofawatchanda MC A .Hv Micro is a new t\ pandabk lo 7&SK. an RSlil pockei-siie keyboard. seriei ihal is designed to leach Qweny interface, twin .V«Kducdrives you how 10 program. Produced Ihe Spectrum and It can be used to calculate, running (modiHed to MS'DOS by Yorfc^ite Television, the Electron micros, Listingsof the retain and display data. be similar ro PC DOS), an to 2,000 characters can series will be shown on all ITV programs used in Ihe scries will Up opimn flit two more drivei regions on Sunday mornings be available for these and other be displayed on the liquid/ Winchester hard ' meluding a popular micros by sending de- crystal display screen, whit' disc, four IBM-compatible tails of youi computer and a 22mm x 17mm, However, card slots and twD true 16- bit stamped addressed envelope to capable of showing memor slots. The machine also comes a full composed •Me A IHy Mkra'. Admail 1. data on malrlx with fout Perfect disc software Leeds LS.1 lYS jiackapes — PerfM Wriitr, ubjccls covered iniludt i Perfecl Filer. Fcrfecl Speller and Ferfea Cak, and is sup- ruciured programming a plied with 2>l-hour engineering Frozen support covet by NAS (pan of Niitianal Semiconductor). megabytes The Advance 8H> is claimed to he highl)' compatible with says pioiIuLer Adam KU86 proces.wr (instead of the Davis. -Yet it should st PC's BOSK) is claimed to run up someihiog lo offer for daily for m to 40 faster. per cent get hot un I the collar, TTie QL . at last! THE firsl QL machines havi were dispatched from Sinclaii Following deliver)- of Ihi Additions to the PC Jr warehouse in Camheriey la first batch of around SOI on Monday, April 30, by machines 10 SttUlh. pro WH pie s new Ik portable version of duclion will be increased an> — Its successful III machine However, not all cui launched alike end ofApril (see promised machines befoic Ihe PCW May 3) end of April have so fai ri The Apple lie cosis £1064 nacbini .There Hiih I28K Ram and a buill-in single 5''iinchfloppy disc drive. Oplions far Ihe machinr in- The first machines have been sent out without a Basic prog- ataes ramming manual. This is ex- pected to be ready within the device al £81. The lie will be available in • PCVTs QL order: Week 15, the VK from l/io' mon(/i. By Ifs here! Our QL arrived by Jidy Apple mil abo offer a SO X post on Tuesday, May 1. The similar lo Ihal pioneered 24 character Hijuid crystal dis- machine was in good working Apple for its Lisa machin. play as an option in place of ihe ZX Pr.nlcrs ThePCJrmachinenowfaces monuor. sine 19R:. strong comptiiiion from Ap- able for ABF- AGF Joystick Interface 11 for Spectrum or ZX81 9.95 QuickShotn Joysticks 393 QuickShot Fdiscount off our Progrommable Interfoce-volid 1 year on orders over £18 f free m/c orcode Qome-^jgnoogy. post free both ways Ml-)iM'M Adventure and at times total enasperaiion with Heroes. Anybody who Helpline does nol thoroughly enjoy this adventure should switch off [0 your readers, "D ccenlly. I called on (he their computet and take up I hope Oat this letter will bt JXsetviccs of Adventure ktuning- published as Ihe following Helpliaefar Ihe lirsl time. I whs R Parsons Pokes may be useful for many nmazed al ihe kind response. I Pallen Hill Estate of your Spectrum readers: Phone calls from Liverpool. Canenck Village Poke Btiilol and Oxford and a great Richmond 236I7.2S6 is useful for butch uf friendly lellcn. Nonh Yorks questioned inputs because ' Thanks lo one and all. will change the cursor lo Poke 23606.8 n BillHonna Our ^ster publicallon Micro I Shandon Crescent AdmOurer will provide you program h . by Edinburgh with plenly ofin-deplh idvcn- Howe e 23606.0 Instant s this. death Graphics Poke 23756.0 will make ih first line of a Basic program am writing in tefetence lo designer become line 0.
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