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Volume 3

Number 11

January 1986

Managing Editor
Derek Meakin

Features Editor
Mike Bibby

Production Editor
Peter Glover

Art Editor
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 64,956
January-June 1985

  • NEWS Read all about it! All the latest events in the ever changing world of your BBC Micro.

  • MAKING MUSIC Making micro-music appeals to you? Creating spectacular sound on the BBC Micro is simple.

  • MUSIC EDITOR Translate musical notation or write your own composition with this superb music editor.

  • HARDWARE SCENE Need a silicon disc, memory cache or printer buffer? The PMS RAM module does the lot with style.

  • MICROLINK A monthly update on the ever increasing potential of our on-line database for micros.

  • MEGAROIDS Dodge the space debris and escape the Cylons in this super fast action arcade spectacular.

  • BEGIN HERE The start of a new series for the first time programmer - PRINT and punctuation explained.

  • SOFTWARE SCENE Our fearless reviewers present their detailed evaluation of some of the recent releases.

  • FIND AND REPLACE Make programming easier with this utility to find and replace any text in a Basic listing.

  • DISCOPY Tired of copying disc files individually? This utility reads and transfers them all in one go.

  • ELITE GUIDE Among the many still struggling with Elite? This guide will help you make the grade.

  • WORDSQUARE You've had a utility to create puzzles. Now you can use this program while you're solving them.

  • CLAUSTROPHOBIA Trapped in a seemingly endless maze, can you recover your possessions and escape alive?

  • READERS SURVEY Here's your chance to tell us about yourself and win the latest ROM/RAM card from Watford.

  • FIVES Test your skill at noughts and crosses in a 'five in a row' version of the old favourite.

  • OSWORD 8271 The first of three articles on the 8271 floppy disc controller: we show how your DFS works.

  • TELETEXT IN THEORY We investigate the development of Teletext, one of micro-computing's major growth areas.

  • ...AND IN PRACTICE Want to access teletext data? This adapter from Volex might be what you're looking for.

  • ROM ROUNDUP Computer Concepts' Accelerator and Beebman from Slogger are put through their paces.

  • MACHINE CODE Don't tell the experts - but machine code's quite simple when it's explained as clearly as this.

  • ADVENTURES Our frank columnist looks at Achetron and Red Moon and comes up with yet another puzzle.

  • BODY BUILDING Into m-m-music on your computer? With this utility your micro will utter more than stutters!

  • MICROMAIL The part of the magazine you write yourself - your news, views, brain waves and moans.

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

  • PROBLEMS SOLVED This month one of the longest-running features of The Micro User, Mike Cook's Problem Page, takes on a new look. Our technical editor is receiving so many problems in search of solutions that we're giving him much more space to answer readers' queries. You'll find his words of wisdom throughout this issue.

(c) 1986 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.

News trade distribution:
Europress Sales and Distribution Limited.