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Volume 1

Number 06

August 1983

Managing Editor
Derek Meakin

Features Editor
Mike Bibby

Technical Editor
Mike Cook

Art Editor
Peter Glover

Advertisement Manager
John Riding

Advertising Sales
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 in touch with the latest happenings in the bustling world of the BBC Micro.

  • ANIMATION Put more action into your programs with the first part of our new series on animation.

  • SCHOOL The classroom where the children use a BBC Micro as naturally as they would a crayon.

  • TURTLES We review two of the new breed of robots that can be harnessed to the BBC Micro,

  • TAPE TO DISC Uploading your programs from tape to disc is simplicity itself with these techniques.

  • SOFTWARE Our reviewers give frank appraisals of the latest in both games and business software.

  • STRUCTURE Keep control of your programs by eradicating GOTOs. We show you how simple it can be.

  • COMPETITION Write a program to animate a high diver and you could win yourself a graphics digitiser.

  • INSIDE KING KONG We revisit one of our most popular games for a case study in structured programming.

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

  • FRUITIES How long can you survive the terrors that await you in the garden of unearthly frights?

  • DIRECTORY The third part of our pull-out guide to more than 400 BBC Micro software programs.

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

  • LOGICAL OPERATIONS A simple guide to the not as simple use of AND, OR and EOR in conditional statements.

  • MODE 7 COLOUR We present useful machine code routines to bring superb vivid colour to your screens.

  • SUBSCRIBE NOW A year's subscription to The Micro User will bring you a FREE copy-holder and crib sheet.

  • UPGRADE Control the world with your BBC Micro. This month we link up with a dual cassette system.

  • TUTORIAL We learn more about loops and the use of conditions in part six of our beginners' course.

  • MICROMAIL The pages you write yourself - just a small selection from the letters that are flooding in.

  • MISSIVE Our intrepid hero Bob is caught doing despicable things with his GOTO.

(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.