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Volume 4

Number 2

April 1986

Managing Editor
Derek Meakin

Features Editor
Mike Bibby

Production Editor
Peter Glover

Art Editor
Heather Sheldrick

Associate Editor
Alan McLachlan

Reviews Editor
Christopher Payne

News Editor
Mike Cowley

Technical Editor
Mike Cook

Advertisement Manager
John Riding

Advertising Sales
Mike Hayes
Peter Babbage

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.

  • BEGIN HERE Prompt action as our helpful beginners series starts to explore the ins and outs of INPUT.

  • ADVENTURES Our intrepid adventurer looks at Apparent Intelligence and sets another devious puzzle.

  • ROM ROUNDUP Multi-Basic from CMS will go a long way to achieving multi-tasking on your BBC Micro.

  • MOUSETRAP You'll need skill, strategy and a lot of luck in this simple but extremely infuriating chase game.

  • CHARACTER SETS Create your own characters, continuing with a close look at Epson compatible bit-imaging.

  • SPECIAL FONTS Create interesting displays with this utility to give your BBC Micro 192 alternative character fonts.

  • NOTEPAD Forget scraps of paper for jotting down those ideas. With this utility they're in your micro.

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

  • SHOWTIME All about our next great show at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, May 16-18.

  • THE MASTER Continuing our appraisal of Acorn's newest arrival we examine its improved language - Basic IV.

  • MACHINE CODE This month we feature a hexadecimal loader and use it to investigate uses of the accumulator.

  • BODY BUILDING The series moves on to a neglected area of interfacing - the ability to sense pressure.

  • GHOULS OF AZZOD Can you escape Azzod manor with its monsters, moving floorboards and venomous plantlife?

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

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

BUSINESS
Introducing...a new service for the businessman.

  • MICRO AT WORK A first-hand look at the BBC Micro down on the farm.

  • NEW IN VIEW We review two important additions to the View family.

  • PERSONAL OPINION Why cannot business software match the hardware?

  • THE CARE TRIO Three newcomers from Squirrelsoft: what we think.

  • MONEY MATTERS Need a new Bank Manager? This may fit the bill.

  • SPREADSHEET How well does the latest compare with the big boys?

  • BUSINESS DOS 256 files instead of Acorn's 31. So what's the snag?

  • PRETTY PLOTTER But is the new Plotmate Plotter all it claims to be?

(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:
Diamond Europress Sales and Distribution.