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Volume 1

Number 04

June 1983

Managing Editor
Derek Meakin

Features Editor
Mike Bibby

Art Editor
Peter Glover

Advertisement Manager
John Riding

Advertising Sales
John Snowden
Mike Hayes

Marketing Manager
Linda Dobson

Published by:
Database Publications Ltd

Thanks to Dave Moore from Stairway To Hell for supplying a copy of this issue.

  • NEWS Keep up to date with all the very latest happenings in the bustling BBC Micro world.

  • LISTINGS How to use the BBC Micro's list options to gain maximum insight into your programs.

  • SPEECH Acorn's new speech ROM. How good is it? How simple to use? Paul Leman reveals all.

  • STRUCTURE We show how structured programming can lead to elegant and effective repetition.

  • SHOWTIME Full details of the BBC Micro USer Show. We say why you can't afford to miss it!

  • TUTORIAL All about the INPUT statement, which can add new dimensions to your programs.

  • CASSETTE BUGS Mike Cook has answers to more reader's tape loading problems.

  • ANIMATION Bring your user defined characters to life with a cunning use of colour.

  • TAPE OFFER Save yourself the chore of keying in programs from this issue with our cassette.

  • WORKSHOP Hidden *FX calls, zero page locations and much more in Programmer's Workshop.

  • BEYOND Z Create your own alphabet with our easy introduction to user defined characters.

  • COMPETITION Design a chess board and win yourself a Hong Kong holiday worth £3,500!

  • SPACE PILOT Lost in space, with dwindling fuel supplies - can you survive hordes of alien nasties?

  • DIRECTORY The start of our pull-out guide to more than 400 software programs for the BBC Micro.

  • GRAPHICS This month we take a look into windows - the text and graphics kind of course.

  • SOFTWARE Programs galore - but are they all they claim to be? Our frank reviewers give you the facts.

  • SUBSCRIBE NOW! A year's subscription to BBC Micro User - plus a FREE copy-holder and crib sheet.

  • NOMISIM How would you fare as a nomadic cattle herder? Thsi simulation will test you out.

  • UPGRADE Part IV of our Beeb Bodybuilding Course features an easily built graphics digitiser.

  • BOOKSHOP We've chosen 15 of the best books for the BBC Micro for this month's offer to readers.

  • BACK ISSUES Find out about the features you missed in the last three issues of BBC Micro User.

  • MICROMAIL Letters keep flooding in by every post. Here's just a small selection of them.

(c) 1983 Database Publications Ltd.

BBC Micro User is an independent publication and neither the BBC nor Acorn Computers Ltd are responsible for any of the articles in this issue or for any of the opinions expressed.

Distribution to the news trade in the UK and Ireland is by Wells Gardner, Darton and Co Ltd.