The writing is on the wall for the Atari 600XL, which is selling for less than £100 barely a year after its UK launch.

Greens at Debenhams in London has hacked £50 off the 600XL's price, adding to Atari's woes as the company adjusts to life under Jack Tramiel (issue 71). But the silver lining for bargain hunters lies in the chance of picking up the 16K colour machine for £99.99.

The spec of the 600XL, launched last year to replace the aging 400 and 800 micros, includes Atari Basic, four sound voices and no fewer than 11 graphics modes.

Also listed in Green's bargain basement is the CGL M5, built by Sord and handled by it and CGL in the UK.

This system is on offer for £49.95, a price that puts it into the same bracket as the Aquarius 1 and that pushes the ZX81 and the Jupiter Ace (issue 73).

The machine comes with 20K of RAM, sophisticated sprite graphics, six octave sound, and four programmable sound channels.

A spokesman from Greens said: "We're selling off these machines because we're discontinuing them. Other changes are also going to take place since Queensway has taken over - mainly the introduction of Prism and other modles. And Prism will no longer be supplying us with software."