• Privacy Probe Looms
• Synapse Makes Connection
• Killjoy Rat
• Fuller Figures in Sorry Saga
• Atari On Air
• Cricket Season Opens on Apple IIc
• Poundstretcher

• Micro Professor Dons the Mortarboard Again...
• ...and Almarc Spirit Comes Back in Uniqix Guise
• Dallas Sets Scene for Next Chapter - View from America
• Five-Year Plan
• Small Phry
• Statacom Fits Hitachi Drives to 48K Spectrum Chassis
• Rade Takes Bus Home
• Pod Homily
• Peripherals
• Three to Put Your Shirt On

• ACT Spreads Its Branches
  ACT has extended its Apricot family with three new brand new machines:
   -   the Apricot F1/F1e
   -   the Apricot Portable, and
   -   the Apricot XI.
   
  All machines are intercompatible, but ACT has resisted the lure of IBM compatibility. Ian Scales Pre-Tests the micros that could soon dominate the European business market and comes up with some interesting conclusions.
   

• Spectrum Graphics
  Make maximum use of the Spectrum's screen with this program that prints on the bottom two lines.
   
• The Treasure Of Middle Earth
  Discover the treasures of Middle Earth in this complex adventure by Steve Lucas.
   
• Valuable Variables (BBC BASIC)
  Has your BBC lost your variables? Well, don't lose your head because Ian Copestake has a routine to help out.
   

Readers' letters - and we pay £10 for the best.

• Ataris Are Very Attractive To Some,
• Computer Books - So Much Junk,
• Computer Games Are A Waste Of Time,
• Little Addition to London Program,
• Pocket Money Doesn't Stretch,
• Sanyo's Offer Is Universal,
• Thank You for the Genie Plug, and
• This Is How They Save The Screens.

Give your trigger finger a rest and take a look at the new computer books. We pick the best of the bunch.

• Assembly Language Programming for the Acorn Electron (Macmillan),
• Basic Keywords - A User's Reference (Wiley Press),
• Computer Wimp (Hutchinson), and
• Hello Computer: An Introduction to Basic (Prentice Hall).

Problems solved here. This week:

• Amstrad Printer Problem Solved Here,
• Convert Beeb's 16-Bit Binary Code To Hex,
• Filling In The Oric's Circles, and
• Flattening the Oric's Circles for Ellipses.

Hints and tips from our readers for the BBC, Amstrad, Memotech, QL and Spectrum machine code.

• Amstrad Snippets - Hints and Niggles,
• Array Amendments on the Memotech,
• Displaying the QL's Colour Palette,
• Lost Z80 Machine Code Found Again, and
• There is Hope Yet for BBC Bad Programs.

• Commodore Connection - The Commodore Intelligent Parallel Interface
  The Connection Intelligent Parallel Interface does away with the compatibility problems that sour the lives of 64 and Vic 20 owners.
   
• EPROM Programmer (Dragon 32)
  Blow your own EPROMs with this versatile programmer from Steve's Electronics.

• Adventures Capital
  Bob Chappell surveys seven new adventures that show how quickly this genre is coming of age.
   
• Panorama(H)
  The ever increasing range of graphics packages gains another member with Panorama(H). H as in high-resolution.
   
• Software Pre-View
  A taste of things to come where we look at the packages that arrived in PCN's office this week.
   
• People's Processor
  Volkswriter promises to provide a simple but powerful word processor for the IBM PC, but does it deliver?
   

• BC Bill (BBC Model B),
• Crusoe (Spectrum 48K),
• Factory Breakout (Spectrum 48K), and
• Swords & Sorcery (BBC Model B).

Latest movers in the games arena, plus the best-selling machines.

Pick up a bargain, or find a buyer for your unwanted equipment. This week we've harvested a bumper crop.

The bit at the back - essential reading for idiot-watchers. Plus forthcoming computer events in Britain and around the world. And don't forget to check the syntax Errors.