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Volume 1

Number 10

December 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
Sue Casewell

Editor-in-Chief of
Database Publications:
Peter F. Brameld

Published by:
Database Publications Ltd.

 

  • NEWS Keep your finger on the pulse of the BBC Micro happenings with our latest news bulletin.

  • SLOW DOWN How to slow your programs. An invaluable utility for the disabled, children - or cheats!

  • BEGINNERS Cursor codes, loops and triangles of asterisks in our series to help new users.

  • CHESS A leading chess expert shows you how to test and evaluate three competing programs.

  • GRAPHICS We treat user defined characters in a colourful and seasonal way in the latest of our series.

  • SOFTWARE SCENE Our team of frank and thorough reviewers assess some of the latest software releases.

  • TOWER BRIDGE Evade ghosts and collect treasures from Tower Bridge with our latest all-action game.

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

  • PAGED GRAPHICS How to create fast action graphics using the registers of your BBC Micro's video chip.

  • COMPETITION A chance for three lucky readers to win themselves a year's access to Micronet.

  • CHARACTER CODER An invaluable utility that enables you to design and manipulate user defined characters.

  • SANTA'S SAUCER Industrial action has hit the North Pole. Can you help Santa deliver his presents?

  • CHRISTMAS CARD We use the BBC Micro to send appropriate Season's Greetings to all our readers.

  • SOUND ADVICE How to turn the noises your Micro makes into something approaching the sound of music.

  • HARDWARE REVIEW Our impractical experts give their assessment of new pieces of hardware for the BBC Micro.

  • BODY BUILDING Make your micro the star of your Christmas party with the latest in our upgrade series.

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

  • COMPUTERSPEAK Our jargon decoder gives the real meaning of the buzz-words you thought you understood.

  • MICROMAIL The section that you write yourself - just a few of the letters that pour in every month.

  • BACK ISSUES Make sure your Micro User collection is complete. All you've missed and how to get it.

    FREE! Inside this issue:

  • Electron User - the third, program-packed edition of the new magazine that's essential reading for all Electron users.

(c) 1983 Database Publications Ltd.

The 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.