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Volume 2

Number 2

April 1984

Managing Editor
Derek Meakin

Features Editor
Mike Bibby

Technical Editor
Mike Cook

Art Editor
Peter Glover

Layout Design
Heather Sheldrick

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 in touch with the latest happenings in the eventful world of the BBC Micro.

  • BEGINNERS We show how using RND, MOD and DIV can bring new dimensions to your programs.

  • SEAWALL Only your skill at sums can save you from the awful octopus. Number fun for infants.

  • ONLY HUMAN The final part of our series on user-friendly programs, with the emphasis on education.

  • MAGIC SQUARES An entertaining educational program from Ian Murray. Does he practice what he preaches?

  • SOUND LIBRARY Create a reference library of your favourite sounds. We give you 26 to get you started.

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

  • BBC II MICRO An in-depth description of the BBC II Micro - technology taken to its limit.

  • HABLO ESPANOL Acornsoft's Linkwood appraised. Do these language lessons live up to their claims?

  • OWL Computer art or science? A stunning display of the BBC Micro's graphic abilities.

  • EASTERMAZE Eggs-asperating family fun in a chick-chasing maze game especially for Easter.

  • NORWAY CALLING Two utilities from Norway that allow you to transmit files via the RS423 port.

  • MICROGOLF All the fun of the fairway in the life-like simulation of a day on the links.

  • ADVENTURES Our forthright columnist takes her usual critical look at the world of adventures.

  • PROBLEM PAGE Mike Cook tells you the things you've always wanted to know but been afraid to ask.

  • SOUND ADVICE Baffled by the ENVELOPE command? Here's how simple it really is.

  • BODY BUILDING How fit are you? Find out exactly with our latest project - a heart rate monitor.

  • HARDWARE REVIEW A thorough examination of the latest ROM for machine code addicts. Our verdict.

  • WORKSHOP Dim about DIM? Make the most of every byte with these memory saving techniques.

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

  • CLASS ROOM Micros in education: A typical day in the life of a busy school computer lab.

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

  • MICROMAIL The page you write yourself. Just a small selection from the flood of letters pouring in.

  • SUBSCRIBE NOW A year's subscription to the Micro User will bring you a FREE Micro User cassette.

(c) 1984 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.