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Volume 2

Number 11

January 1985

Managing Editor
Derek Meakin

Features Editor
Mike Bibby

Production Editor
Peter Glover

Layout Design
Heather Sheldrick

Associate Editor
Alan McLachlan

News Editor
Mike Cowley

Technical Editor
Mike Cook

Advertisement Manager
John Riding

Advertising Sales
Mike Hayes
Margaret Clarke

Editor in Chief,
Database Publications
Peter Brameld

Published by:
Database Publications Ltd.

ABC 68,328
January-June 1984

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

  • SHORT STORY Fact or fiction? Read this and you'll never see your Micro in the same light again.

  • SOFTWARE SCENE The latest software releases assessed by our team of frank and thorough reviewers.

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

  • BEGINNERS Enter the second dimension with our easy, easier, easiest intro to elementary arrays.

  • CLASSROOM CORNER Hours of fun for the whole family with this infants' game based on shape recognition.

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

  • BASIC I/II The final part of our in depth exploration of the BBC Micro's two rival Basics.

  • M/CODE MESSAGES Printed text in machine code? We show you how easy it is with Basic II's EQUS.

  • WORKSHOP A utility to display text at any speed you choose, and another to search for strings.

  • HARDWARE SCENE A ROM cartridge system, a graphics tablet, Phloopy, the DE Talker, and an &E00 DFS.

  • ROVER Guide Rover to his food before it's eaten by flies - avoiding the hostile cats en route!

  • GRAPHICS We continue our in depth look at GCOL3 and 4 by exploring rubber banding techniques.

  • MOUSE REVIEW Exploit the graphics potential of your micro to the full with the phenomenal AMX mouse.

  • BACKGAMMON Upgrade our first version into a two player game and learn the noble art of SPOOLing.

  • BODYBUILD Interface the Atari Trak-ball to your BBC Micro and bring an extra dimension to your games.

  • FREEBIE Become a Galactic Tycoon with this superb free extra to our cassette/disc offer.

  • SECOND PROCESSOR Passing data from parasite to host or vice versa? We show you the vital routines.

  • MICROMAIL A selection from the hundreds of lively letters you send in to us - keep them coming!

  • ORDER FORM Back issues to binders, cassettes to cases, discs to dust covers - they're all here!

(c) 1985 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.

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