• Sir Clive & The QL Question
• IBM To Boost Slow-Moving Jr
• Atari Looks to Better Times
• Macintosh Gets a Hard Disk

• Language Link
• NCR Cuts Prices
• Dragon Fire Flickers
• Oric Blesses User Group
• Storm Breaks Over Camputers
• Mac Winners
• City Plugs Tycom Gap
• Duo Make UK Debut
• Commodore Drinks Some Haigspeak - View From America
• Ant Crawling into Catch-22
• His And Hero
• Microsoft in on Mac Trend

• BBC Micro Menu
  Menu for the BBC contains a number of useful utilities that can be extracted for use elsewhere.
   
• Oric for Hi-Res
  Bob Maunder puts some bottle into high-resolution graphics on the Oric micros.
   

Your letters wanted on any subject related to computing, with £10 to the best of the week.

• Don't Ignore My User Group,
• Commodore Upsets Scots,
• Different Kettles of Pascal,
• No Go On Atmos For Some Titles, and
• Sorry State of School Computing.

• Amstrad's Hi-Fi Micro
  Amstrad has wisely produced a sturdy, reliable sort of a micro, says Max Phillips. Dated possibly, but certainly not out of place in your home.
   
• Keeping Up With The Clones
  When is a PC-compatible really a compatible? David Guest solves the riddle.
   
• Screen Test
  A cheap colour monitor gets the beady eye from Kenn Garroch.
   

• Golden Opportunity
  The CP/M Gold Card makes the Apple II a decent business machine in one fell swoop, says Geof Wheelwright
   

More reading matter to wile away those hours away from your beloved machine.

• Hot Programs to Feed your Dragon & Tandy Color Computer (Sigma), and
• The Easy Way to Program your New Computer (Interface Publications).

• Dragon Claim Process Mistaken,
• Is My Spectrum A Bit Dim?,
• Stepping Up Into The Atmosphere, and
• Matching Up My Microvitec.

• No Envy on Oric Numerals,
• Truth Behind The Bubble Sort,
• Memory Move Routine Already There,
• Error-handling On The Beeb,
• 6845 Chip Shows Its Variety, and
• Keep Up With The Flashing.

• Dig Into Dragon Code
  A competitive Dragon toolkit took some of the hard work out of machine code programming for Brian Cadge.
   
• Let's Get Quizzical
  Two quiz packages get top marks from Bob Chappell.
   
• Software Pre-View
  PCN's software editor burrows out from the cassette and disk mountain to report on this week's arrivals.
   

• Bongo (Vic 20, 16K Expansion),
• Chariot Race (Vic 20, Unexpanded),
• The Snowman (Spectrum 48K),
• Fred (Spectrum 48K),
• Thrusta (Spectrum 16K),
• Bear Bovver (Spectrum 48K), and
• Skull (Spectrum 48K).

PCN charts the ups and downs of Britains most popular games and hardware charts during the week up to August 24 1984.

A newly-formed Oxfordshire TI group is keen to help blind and partially-sighted programmers.

Dozens of bargain buys - and you could sell your unwanted equipment.

Parting shots from the micro world plus dates for your diary and Syntax Errors.