• Show Trial
• Marconi Makes Tracks
• Approval Holds Up Modems
• Beautiful Movers
• In Brief
• Dragon Boost
• Cheetah Plugs In The RAT

• Over The Top
• Atari Prices Tumble Down
• No Surrender, Says Oric
• Innovation Doesn't Come Second Hand - View from Japan
• ASA Tackles Watford
• Mac On The Draw
• Epson Loses Favour With DRG
• Microdrive Input
• Prism Scrap Software
• ZX81 Takes a Memo-Tech
• Twin Cubs
• Software

• Cupid Bounces Back
  A lovable game listing for the Oric 1 - it's all in machine code so the action comes fast.
   
• Memotech Toolkit
  Three useful routines from Keith Hook will get more from your graphics output.
   
• Spectrum Graphics
  Screen displays can make or break a program. We peruse four of the best graphics utility packages available for the Spectrum.
   
• The Definitive QL Review
  At last undongled, 'finished version' QLs are making their way to patient customers. So...
   
  Has the wait been worth it? Should you now join the queue? Is it a quantum leap or just a stumble forward? See our review on The QL - The Hard Facts.
   
  The Superbasic has also arrived. But how super is it?
   
  And finally, do we have a soft spot for the Applications software?
   
  In our definitive feature, we answer all these questions and more.
   

• Portable Power
  Tandy's Model 100 gives you portable computing - now a new plug-in box adds disk storage and interfacing for a desktop monitor. The best of both worlds?
   

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

• Amstrad Falls Down on Documentation,
• Are Home Micros A Passing Phase?,
• GOTO Gets A Boost From A Fan,
• Sad Lack of Support for Sord M5 Users, and
• Schools Don't Teach BBC Basic on BBCs.

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

• Graphic Adventures for the Spectrum 48K (Micro Press),
• The Complete Guide to Microsystem Management (Prentice Hall),
• Introducing the Apple IIC (Friedman Wagner-Dobler),
• Games Commodore 64 Computers Play (Addison-Wesley),
• The Sinclair User Book of Games & Programs for the Spectrum (Penguin), and
• Commodore 64 Disk Systems and Printers (Granada).

• Bright Ideas for Oric Keyboards,
• Guidance for Spectravideo Owners,
• Intelligent Programming Queries,
• Interface Brother's EP22 to Spectrum, and
• Send Assembler About Its Business, and
• Upgrade Ideas for the Amstrad.

• A Character Sketch for the Amstrad,
• Action Replay for Atmos Games,
• Atmos Character Definitions in ROM,
• Copy Whole Spectrum Screen to a ZX Printer, and
• Turn a Laser Beam On your Spectrum.

• Dragon Pascal
  The language of the computing intelligentsia on the humble Dragon? Yes, it's true, but has it lost anything in the translation?
   
• IBM In Oz
  Not just another spreadsheet but a 'financial monitoring package'. Could make all the difference in the world to a small business...
   
• Software Pre-View
  PCN's software editor burrows out from the cassette and disk mountain to report on this week's arrivals.
   
• Vizastar 64 Stardom on the Commodore 64
  It's not just the multi-thousand pound business systems that can enjoy the power of integrated software. Check out Vizastar - business integration for the Commodore 64.
   

• Automania (Spectrum 48K),
• Rapscallion (Spectrum 48K),
• Cylon Attack (Acorn Electron),
• Fruit Machine (Acorn Electron),
• Ghouls (Acorn Electron), and
• World Geography (Acorn Electron).

Keep track of your favourites in Britain's only weekly computer games charts during the week up to August 24 1984.

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

Where PCN is dragged away for another week, yelling idiocies, confessing errors, hurling insults. And our regular Datelines.