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Volume 1

Number 07

September 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.

  • ELECTRON Our technical editor looks inside the BBC Micro's baby brother and finds some surprises.

  • DISC SYSTEMS Acorn's DFS is joined by two newcomers from Pace and Watford. We report the differences.

  • ANIMATION Second part of our series teaching you how to put more colourful action into your programs.

  • EDITING We show how use of the TAB ( ) statement can produce clear screen displays with ease.

  • LINK-UP Turn your BBC Micro into a colour graphics terminal to link into a mainframe computer.

  • COMPETITION Step back in time, write a review of Space Invaders - and win yourself a Hobbit.

  • BOOKSHELF Our team of critics review four books that will help teach you more about the BBC Micro.

  • DIRECTORY More additions to our pull-out guide to many hundreds of BBC Micro software programs.

  • GALACTIC INVADERS A game to get your nerves a-tingle ... a clever cross between two top arcade games.

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

  • EPROM BLOWER We dissect the new ATPL eprom programmer and ask: "is it realy worth the money?"

  • SHOWTIME Your invitation to the BBC Micro User Show in Nottingham - plus a £1 voucher.

  • ROBIN AND MARIAN Put on your suit of Lincoln green and take a trip to Nottingham to rescue Maid Marian from the villanous Sheriff.

  • SPREADSHEET Beebcalc, the spreadsheet program that turns the BBC Micro into a business computer.

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

  • SOFTWARE Our reviewers give frank appraisals of the latest games and educational programs.

  • STRUCTURE Our series on structured programming deals with the value and importance of flowcharts.

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

  • WORKSHOP If you've ever wondered how your BBC Micro stores its variables this article tells all.

  • UPGRADE Our popular Beeb Body-building Course on how to control devices with your micro.

  • BOOKSHOP We've chosen 10 of the best books for the BBC Micro for this month's offer to readers.

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

(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.