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Cover Discs & Tapes Volume 1 |
March 1983 V01 I01 |
DEATHWATCH, a superb arcade game that challenges you to use your skill to fight off enemy battleships, tanks and helicopters; BINGO, illustrating clever uses of the randomise function; BUBBLESORT routines; TESTS for function keys in machine code routines; a useful CASSETTE BUGS FIX for users with OS 0.1 . . and many COLOUR and GRAPHICS ROUTINES to help you create a kaleidoscope of screen designs which you can incorporate into your own programs. |
April 1983 V01 I02
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KING KONG, a fast moving game in which you pilot a helicopter to rescue girls perched on the Empire State Building before killing Kong; GRAPHICS, a suite of colourful demonstration programs; NIM, a structural game of strategy; TOKENS, first steps in unravelling the Basic ROM; HOROSCOPES, a fun program with useful error-trapping routines; FORMATTER, an essential disc utility; DISASSEM, a full machine code disassembler; HEAT & LIGHT, two measuring and plotting programs. |
May 1983 V01 I03
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AIR STRIKE, a fast and furious arcade game; Test your mental powers with PELMANISM; 25 ANAGRAMS, an entertaining word game for you to play; CHARACTER, to generate vertical and inverted text; TELETEXT, animation in Mode 7, really brings the screen to life;LAB, a trio of programs to interface laboratory equipment; 10 programs to investigate the OSBYTE routine; BEEB, two joystick exercises; plus more COLOUR and GRAPHICS routines. |
June 1983 V01 I04
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SPACE PILOT, lost in space with dwindling fuel supplies, you must fight off repeated attacks from alien life forms. To replenish fuel, you have to perform a tricky docking manoeuvre, while to repair the inevitable damage you must land on a mountainous planet. NOMISM, you are a nomadic herdsman desperately trying to eke out a living on the plains of Africa. Can you survive drought, tsetse fly and other hazards? COLOURFUL CHARACTERS PLUS other listings from the June issue. |
July 1983 V01 I05
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TENPIN, a highly entertaining simulation of Tenpin Bowling; SPACEPODS. Try to beat alien hordes; CUP, Exciting techniques to bring 3D graphics to the BBC Micro; SCRSAVE and CSRLOAD, Two programs to allow you to save and load screens to tape or disc; TEST and STEADY, A pair of programs to accompany the Beeb Body Building Course; BREAKFIX, Don't let the Break key destroy all your precious variables! FORMAT, Create neater listings with this invaluable utility. |
August 1983 V01 I06
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FRUITIES, driven by strange urges you climb the ladders of adventure to risk all in the gardens of unearthly frights. Can you survive all the terrors that await you. or will you, too, fall victim to the evil Fruities? A really superb game ANIMATION, a suite of programs that show you how to really bring your screen alive; CASDISC, The essential machine code downloader for your disc system; MODE 7 colour routines to bring yor screen to life. PLUS other listings from the August issue. |
September 1983 V01 I07
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ROBIN & MARIAN, a highly-challenging game in which you play the part of Robin Hood rescuing Maid Marian from the clutches of the Sheriff of Nottingham. GALACTIC INVADERS, an extremely well-written cross between two well-known arcade games. DFS BENCHMARKS, 14 programs to test out disc filing systems. ANIMATION, four programs to teach new techniques. Terminal, three programs to connect a BBC Micro to a mainframe. PLUS other listings from the September issue. |
October 1983 V01 I08
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FISHING, a compulsive simulation of a day's angling. JOYKEY, to convert your programs to joystick control. PENTEST, tests the Micro User light pen, and BELLRINGER, an amusing and musical way to use it. CONTOURS, an educational program with many uses. LINKs, two superb pieces of software to let BBC Micros talk to each other. CHESS, the winning entry in our June contest. PLUS six other programs from the pages of The Micro User, and all the listings from the first issue of Electron User. |
November 1983 V01 I09
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GOBLINS, a journey through an enchanted forest. BLACKJACK, a recreation of the casino favourite. CHARGE and PENDULUM, two ingenious programs from Body Building Course part 9. SIDEWAYS: to store programs in sideways ROMs. PENDRAW, a light pen sketching program. SOUNDs, seven programs illustrating the excellent sound of the BBC Micro. TUTORIAL, listings from part 7 of our beginners' series PLUS all the programs from the second issue of Electron User. |
December 1983 V01 I10
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January 1984 V01 I11
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BARRELS, an all-action arcade game. |
February 1984 V01 I12
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INVASION, the classic arcade game. |
