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in.gfor
you,
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were
hinta
of
Atari
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plan.1
at th
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Vegu CES
extravaganxalutmo11th
(iaaue
95),
when
Atari
found time
amidtheSI'andXElaunc.he.to
8howotTthreevery cheap prin·
ters.
Thffe
unite.
it
said, would
be
compati
ble
with
App le and
lBM
eysteml-
but
Atari
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drawing
th
e
lin
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at
printers..
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SI OO500K
dilk
drive
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Poeition
on
the
QL or the
Mac.intoeh?
New
product.I
will
get
the
aame
treatm
enL
'It
will
have
t.o
be
good
,tuff,
the
cream,'
said
Atari
UK'
a
Rob
Harding laat
week
.
ln
the
cue
of
new product.I
Atari
bopea
to
veraio111 for
other
machin
e&eimu
ltaneoualy
with
Much
of the
impetus
behind
the1e
plaM
hu corne
from
the
company',
new
European
re-
aourcM
group,
acting
in
a:mc:ert
with
Atari11c>ft..
th
is
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l,
including
the
prin
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t.era
and
ditk unit from
Lu
due
in
the~
in
June
.
.
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bulk or
thi•
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more
from
Sinclair hedges
on
QL
ROM
upgrade
your
machine.
to
be
vertion 1.10
of
the
QD0S
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you thought it
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to
co111i
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the
QL
as
line.
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say
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venture into the completeco
maawhi
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that.JSinc
ludeat.he
proc:ed
uree
deptht:
of
the
c:e
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at
PCN
veraion
of
the ROM.
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and
TRA,
and 23
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func:tiona
appare
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dedicated
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battle
continues -
where
Soft.ware,,.....
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ofveraionJS
.
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bleto
to
error-tra
ppina
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The
con·
doeayour favourite
atand?
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la
tat
releUM.
commen
t
on the
pouibili
ty
that
t
tru
ct
WHE
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plemented
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venion
to
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keyword
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and
the
new
fun
ction,
.
More
mutinge
from
our
erudite
Gamet
reviewt for
the
connoia-
aa.id.
Sinclair
could offer
no
lndica.
r..vioul
QL
ROM>
readers
hip.
appeared
fitfu
lly
under
auch
tion
of
when
a
reviNd u.er
40
guide
m
ight. be
available. But
then
,
it
wu
denying
the
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for
th
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week
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of
the
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Plua
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hail of
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from
our
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have to
be
patient
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befon,:
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wait till next
Wednesday.
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of
twoaue
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PCN FE8RUARY231986
ment.g
in
the
Stalls ,
a
nd
per-
deeidedto1pringonlythe
128K
model
on
the
1uapecting
UK
0
markeL The
48K
and
oo·K
AKtiN,_
can
look
forwa rd
to
a
If
silence
ia
golden, Acom thething,allha1been1ilence-
machines
are
t
he
eubject.
of
new
aeason of
oomputer
sales should make record
profit.I
thi1
until
now.
TimeX"
Portugal,
ta
lks
between Anston
and
from
Crocker Computer
Auc-
year
.
The
atriclten
BBC
Micro which
brought you-th e
Tim
e1:
potentia
l
agents
in fo~ign
tion,
(0
1-387
5838
)
beginni
n1
maker ia doing
a
very pusable
disk
syste
m
for the
Spectrum,
counlri ea:
'l
can't enlarge
on
onFebruary21 at
th
e
Bonning·
impreMiono
fa
aubma
rine
with
now
inten
d.a
to
re.launch the
that
al
the
moment
,'
said a
ton
Hotel.
Southam
pton Row,
all
1yatenu
abut down,
so
that
machine,
with aome
a
mend·
spoke&man.
Product.ion
level,
for
the
4)ndon
WCl,
from 6.00pm.
th
e
people with the depth ment.l.
During
the day
you11be able to chargeswon
'tpickitupontheir
The
new
variant will
be
128K Lynx.
known
as
the
viewmac:hineryrangingfroma
headse
t.I.
Europeaniaed,
that
it
will
Burrough
s
mainf
rame
t.o
a
Vic
But
City
ana
lysts
predict
run
standard
Spectrum
to
f\,.
20.
For
~I
dinOM.urs
you
that
Acom
will
record
a
lou
,
ware
(Ti.mes.,
for re:asona
beat
etoc.k
to
&ell
and aome
diilk
e
should
go
to
the
Nat ura
l
Hi.a-
and
it.a
continued
silence
only
knowntoi
taelf,origina
llymade
unit.I
on
the
1helve1.
The
company ia
currentl
y
toey
M~
um.
createe
a vacuum
for
ru
moun
the 2068
incompatible
with
the
speculatio
n
to
fil
l.
The
•:;,d
~~~~•l:
auembling a
catalogue for
the
128K
machine.
lta first
st.ephu
SllMJJ
Ml700
...,..
DOW
have
allow it
to
run Interlace
2
ROM
been
to c:ut the
price
- the
the
chance
to
joi
n
a
users
club
:ri~:~d:~!~t~~i~:i:re
Laureate
is
down
to
.£299from
organised
in
the
UK
by
Solo normally
on a
day·t.o-day
basis, cartridg
es.
butthcrehubeen
no
h
inluto
The
2068, ortheSilve
r
Aven-
£399
.
But
the
moat
interesting
SoRware
(0905-68351).
Mem-
of
the
financial
ger as
it
should
now
be
called
.
item
on the
way
is
a
l
Mb disk
bership
coat.I
£18
a
year,
but it
th
e
p~
willqualify
you
fordi8COuntao reorgamaa
t
ion
it
spoke
of
two
was
sleek
looking
bcaet
, a
bout
drive which,
with
a
controller,
n
weeka
ago (issue
99
).
th
e
dimensi
ons or a
QL,
incor- is due to cost
£269.
80f\ware
and peripherala,
a
nd
'We're
optimietic but
cau-
At
ita
curre
nt
&ha.re
price
it
porating
cartri
dge
alot and
Solo
ia:giving
away
the
caaeette
,'
video
output.
AA
a
machine
it Uou1 said
the
apokeaman.
The
game
Fortune Teller to new wouldt.a keabout.t32millionto
memben
.
There
ia
a
lao
a bi-
buy
al
l
outata
nd
ing "Acom
wa.srnile.
bette
r
tha
nthe$pec
·
grounds for
optimiam,
he
said,
1he.rea.
Ther
e
e.recompanieein
trum, and it
atill a
rguably
were that
'We
feel
there
i.s
a
monthly
mq
az.ine.
th
e
UK
with
that
kind of
outcll\ll8etlthe
$peclnun
Plus.
niche
in
the
market
for
a
ecrious
AdMliN
too
isartiveont hew,er money,
but
City sources
sug·
Thi1
ahould
give
it
a
certain machineofthi
a
type
.'
grou
p
front
.
1be
first
edition
of
ge, t
that,
on
one
hand
,
Acom
hold on
the
market
aa
a
kind
of
1985
of
it.I
Soft.ware Club
News
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IBMbucksprice
has
just
come out
,
free
to
~~n
anybody who
writ.ea
or
phones wir~~ri:fs~;w~~~kthreeor
withTimu
,
whichi
s
apparent.-
trendon big models
.
t
he
company on
0
1·486 7688.
four
parta
an
auct
ion
might
ly
1tillinfo
roe, gave Time
xth
e
IBM
ha.a
bucked
the
price-
ii
U..
Want
1upplier
of
~~h~~~~:i!~!::~~~
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~~
microeto
achoolaand
collegeain
the
US,
a
nd
ita
UK
chief
David
:i:e,o:;~nti~cittti;:~~e
~n: ~~~~:r::r:e1-J;eSobe~"1~
ayi:s~rig
ina
l
PC
is
un
·
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d
theUS
,butnotin
touched, but
the
htt.rd
disk
:!:~~th
~•it"
ij/;°lhre8:~~:~
ahotfor usenia:li
ke
ly tobethat
the
BBC Micro
will
continu e to
E
urope
.
Expect
to
aee
them
veraion
(XT)
and
th
e
80286
ment
aid
to
achoola
dwindling
,
the
he's
announced
t
hat Apple mic· be
supported
,
but that
futu
re
pouring
acl'OIUI border to souped-up
AT
go
up
by
six
and
roe
will
be ava
ilable
to
UK
:~io
~
ofi~ ~;!":~e~t~:~
Spain real aoon now.
ni~~~=ni~":,'=~'i8!~
AT
achoola at
half
the
usua
l price.
Sot\wa.re
i,
included
in the
pi~
Electron
ia: on
much
Laureate
rises
.
~i1m:'~;~
offer,
a
nd
Apple
will
alao
run
aummer
training
counea
for i~~e~.~oebe~':O~r:x::g!~
fromLynx's
ashes
bym:~::hl'~:~~1
:
in
th
e
teachen .
ated, but the vultures
are
The
new
ownen
of
th
e
phanla.8-
reuona
for
th
e
price riaea
already gathering
.
magorical
Lynx
micro
are
look- beyond
sayi
ng
that they were
ACT'
W.
to
compete
with lBM
1
The BBC it.self
it
apparently ing
to buaineu uaen for
ita
theresuJtofcost.conaiderationa
and
Apple
has
led
it
into
~!
1
btzyir_ig ~merica~ ~!~hl~n!>i:~tfi~hdea n:;:!r::~
d~re
~lit:
ir.~~a
r
alliances
with
eight
leadi
ng
aof't.ware
auppllen, among
oft~:!~
abroad
.
myatery
.
But the
exchange
the m
Digital
Reaearch,
Lot ua,
th
at
bean it.I
name .
'No corn·
>~nst.onTechno
ogypickedup rat.e,
withthepound
1truggling
l
and
Aahton-Tate. The main
ment.'
the
corporation
de- the right.a
to
the
whole
Lyn1:
aga i~t
the
dollar,
is
only
par
-
aim
ia
to make
aure
that
clared
.
range (iMue
92)
but it
has
lia
lly
responsible.
popula
r
80ftwa
re
is as
readil
y
ava ilable
on
the
Apricot range
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...................
.
a1
on
any other
ayate
m.
able,
no
1tate
ment wu
forth
·
comh\l,
and share
trading
was
S-
.W
...._
never
die;
they
1till
1uspended.
The
suapension
don't
even
fade
a
W
and
aome could
last
thr
ee or
four
years
in
ay,
of them
become
more attractive theory
-
don't hold
your
aa
ti
me
goea
on
.
The
Vic 20,
for brea
th.
example.
It
may
not
get much
new
sort. are
but the
pri
ce of
w
theu
iating
progra m•
comeaon
Silver Avengerin
down. The
word
proceuor from
wings
from
Timex
Atlanti
c Sot\ware
,
Toti. Text
.
2.0,
is now down to
t:7
from£14
More
news
of
the Timex
Sinc-
-
it
let.
you
wie
virtua
lly
la
ir 2068,
the
computer
they
any
prin
ter
with
an expanded
couldn't
k
ill. The
2068 waa
Timex'•
veraion
of
th
e Spee·
Vic.
trum
,
produced under
licence
by Timex
in
the US
from
a
utumn
1983 to
1pring
1984.
Timex waaon
eof
th
e
manufac·
turera driven
out of
th
e
US
micro market
by price
cutti
ng.
Goldensilence
SUffOUndS
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all
too
apt..
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1ight
of Aluandra
Pavilion, parked
a
lonpi de th
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bumt..-oul and boarded
-up
hulk
of Alexand ra Palace.
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wouldn't
be
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his product
rang
ei
nth
eforeiieea
blefu
t.ure
.
Of
the few
launchea
at
the
show,
th
e
MOS
disk
driv
ea
for
the QL were among the more
houn
,
but
there
didn't tee
m
to
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effort.a
to
keep
Tycom
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alive were
headed
by
AlanTimpany
.
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a
bit
hke thote quai
nt
weather lndicatol"8.
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the
aun
abinea.
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hubee.n
at
previoutahows.
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but
an
yone
with
an
eye
for
a bargain could
haYe
tak
en
&dvant.ag
fqu
it.ea
fe
w
eo
1pecial
offen.
Software
wa.a
heavily
discounted
and one
exceedi
ngly
disgru
ntled
dealer
N
l
6,p rice£5
.95.
Apartfromthat,thenumber
of exhibit.ees
toting
dk'Tronics
keyboardsh adgrown
ag
ai
n
-
we'dsayit'scurre
ntl
y
around5
percent
of
all
Lh
vis iting
the
oee
exhibition.
Try
for
10
per
cent
next time
round?
the
pavilion didn't
a
ltogether
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1
Oftrhead
camsand
eambs
O¥e11teac1,
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with
spectacular
ly
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point
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nome
non,
the
happy
story of
how
a
quiet mar
ket
town
ia
leading
Brita
in
out
of
the dol·
drum,
towards a bright new
tomorrow.
We shouldn°t
write the
su
n-
riae
industries off
yet,
but
they're going throug
h
a bad
patch at the mome
nt
.
If
the
nails'
.
An
overweight
Ewan
wont
comet
Lo
the worSt
Cam·
Duncan.
ofOundee ,ecored
with
bridge
can
probably tu
rn
Lo
'
My
dietitia
n
88id
I
hav
e
to
cut 88les of new
and
used
cars
Lo
out
1nac.U
bet
ween programs'.
keep the
local
economy
t
icking
Our
third
winner wa.a the over.
J>UN!I
merce
na.ry
Steve
Tup-
Y
For example:
u
the receiver
wifeaay llcan
haveon
e
iflwin
a
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asked you
to
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dito:i;:1~1ati
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dr
ive
becatae
.
.
.'
W
J
Griffiths , of
Poole
in
Dorset,
struck
a
Spooneriatic
note with
'
I'd
be
nailing
my
bytes
instead
of
biting my
ha~e~~t~!~~~~c;!'"~~~
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BarryMuncute
r,Oricboua nd
:g~e~~J~
on11
a
ll
three
;
:~:~n~i=~:~it.l
to
the
prizes
will
sent
out ment.a. We were
told
that
Mr
=mRu:;~~
are al&c>
their way.
on
be
[~~~
wreenough,i
t
will.
But
a
kind
of
natural &eec:
l
·
lion
operat.H.
l
t may
be
down to
t.alent,personality,O
rJUJJtuc.lr.,
l
but tome indiY1
duala
get
shaken
in
and
fa.IIon their fet-t.
ln
t.hi
game
auniYa
l
ian' t for
a
thefitleat.. it'e for the aleo.rans
.
The
fittest
thrive
.
More
easea: Bruce
Ever1ss,
once operatio
ns
director of
lm-
agine
,
is
now managing d1rec-
toro
ITan
tot\.80
farnotaffecled
by the
One.
debacle
.
Roy &ck-
bou&e,
whoee brai
nchild
was
1
!~ p~!,:!~1~::i~
Keyboard.a
when
Fuller went
:T
~
~
rtri:~~c~;.i·:c~:!
fame
hujumped
into the arm!
!~~
a
:!
:!
h~c!: ~~~:f~~ir:~
home
in
a
Me:rcedea
.
The
important
thing
to
note
he.re
is
that
Barry
Muncaste.r
st
ill
had
a
Men:edes
at
his
dl.epoga at thia crucial moment
l
in
Orie'•
history. No
need
for
him to c.ry: 'My ki
ngdom
for
a
hone
.'
Anothe
r
Cambri
dge
man
with
can,
on
his mind
i1
Chris
Curry
of
Acorn
.
He
may
wonder
ing
thia week
how
long
he will
be
ab
le
to
keep
the
Lolu.s
7, the Roll•Royce Pha
ntom,
and
the
clue
ic
Ford aedan t.hat
~
j't~~hc~::~~;;'
/'co:;:
nenu·
collapae,
but
it
is
dkTro-
nics
that
hat
bought
the
right.a
to
the
Cun-ah product.a.
And
different
cues
:
PCN
receiYed
a
stream of letlera
Crom people who had 11en
t
money
to
Fulle
r
and h.ad teen
noth
inginreturn
.Mo~reeen
t-
ly,
a
Consume
r
Protect.ion de·
partment.
in Ayrs
hire
haa
been
trying
to
he
lp
• young
Orie
owner with
a
long·8t.anding
grievance
9i81ntt
the compan y
that will
probably
never
be
aet
tJedno w. Youmaybecert.ai n
lf
,omeone ha, devised
arKf
produced
a
good
product.,
ha,
deliYered
it. on
t
ime, and
baa
paid
supp
lien, promptly
before
the
bac
k,
commiterate,
and
hope
to
tee
them bec.k
in
business quickly
.
(It.
ia
beside
thepo inttoex plore th
epoesi
bil-
be
belteoou
ld
be
included.
Si
r
Chve,
ofcourse,has mo~
cars
than
he
k.now1what
to
do
wit h.
Th
ey're
hurt
ling
off
a
0
~a[i;
~~i:i(~~~~
~!r
~~:
~ce~:
repreeent
the
to
get rid of
as
many u he
poaib
ly
can
.
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uldfi gure
to
prominent ly
when
what'
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