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with thi.1
guide to one
of
the
moet
pov.
erful
feature, in
Locomotive
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A
new meaning to
'backgro
und
music
'
.. we
tak
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you
mlO
the
powerful
10und
ab1l1tte1
of
your
BBC
Micro
or
The tint
ahotl
in
the
battle for
the heart,
a
nd minds
or
th
e
world'•
micro
uaer11
were
fired
at the
Hanover
Fa,r lut
week
-
but'° rar it doe1n't Jook like
much
or a
battle
.
TheAtariST1
were there,
u
were
th
e
Com-
modore
1288.
but
Atari
trumped
th11
by announcing
I.h
e
that
1ta
128K
version
400.'800 aerie1, the 130XE.
wouldbeinthe1hoptbeforet.he
end
of
th
e
1how.
There wu
no
aign
of the UK
or
11
Another delve
into
th
e
world ofmach.Jne
gamesman&hip
in the
company
Brita in
's
top playe r John Nunn
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or
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othe
r
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than
on
lap-he
ld
100
reatunng
a
bigger d1aplay
and
other desirable
features
MSX iteelr,
leavine
Atari
and
Commodore
toahoot
it
out
with
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CC Alari
gettine
very
much the
21
Disk
sy1tem1
fort
he
QLare proliferating butrewoffer
u
much
u
bett.er
ofit
i.~eo'i:::!~ng
(~·~
~~~ckag
e
rrom
Quest. We
take
a
look
at
the
hoet orreat
ures
on
CUI-Nt,-ti.tt.e
....
This
could
conceivably
put
Atari in the
..
me poaition
but
Sinclai
r
wu
in over
the
QL.,
the
company
i•
b,.nking on
gettinc th
e
problems 110lved
fut, before 1t
I08Ni
cw,tome
r
goodwill,
and getting the tint
machinea out earlier than if.I
September deadline.
It
wu
qu1teclea
r
that there were
a
rew
tmall niggling
problemt
with
the machinee on the
atand.
Trying
lO
aoceaa a
di1k drive
that wun't
connected
,
for ex·
ample,
produced
no
error
mN-
uge
,
and
a
'friendly'
opera
t
ing
environment
ahould
make
allowance• for people trying to
do
daf\
thi
np.
Other
goof•
produced
erron of
the
orde
r
,
u:aoa
008
u..a.
OS A
which
aga
in
isn't particu
larly
rnend·
ly,
and one
or
the
mach1nea
crashed
for
unspecified
tt•
rtUORI.
SORWARE
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AdatabaAeiaadatabaseisadatebaaebutatf
worth a
look
That
u,d,
the
ST
M.ries
looks
GEM/l'OS
1y1tem
worlu well,
and if
the rough
edgH
a
re
aorted
out
th
e
new
Aterul will conquer the world
,imp
ly
on
the
ba..i•
of
va lue
for
money
.
One or the machi
nea,
for
examp
le,
wu aet up to wor k
with one of
th
e
new ultra-chea
p
Atari
hard
disk
•
and wu
flip-
compared to th
e
IBM foo~II
pmgthrough
ue
r
iesorpictures
pit.eh lookalike, that
is)
with
at
n...
h-ca.rd
speed.
Jack and
Sam
Ttamiel in
Commodore'• 1tand
,
on
th
e
attendance.
The whole range of other hand, wuove
r
amon&the
JOOO
.
The
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arKIincluding a
(ewodd
little numben that Ata
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i
1taff
hadn'theard
offuntil
got
to the thow.
All
promiaed,
Digital
eearch'• GEM
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wu
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cuatomen
are
to receive
UK'1
they
REGULARS
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run·
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More
of
the
lat.eatadventurn
busil\81
rruinufact urers
,
re-
now
claiming
they will be necting
the
company'•
current
deaire
to be aeen
u
a
bu
aineu
releaaed
ea
r
lier
th
an
thi
a.
J>ro..
A
look ahead
to
the pachges
ducti
on
ii
&tarting
thi
•
week, machine rru,nufact.urer
.
The
128K venion of the
64
,
which
th
at
will
be appea
nng
in
.,
n,.
:
~::i~~ri:~"!f!~
.
:~!
will
run
64
IOl\ware
a
nd CP/M,
dard
mach
in
e
while con· waut lu
t
in
evide
nce but
won't
Another
batch of
problem.a ware,torea
nea r
you.
aolved on
behalf or
QL,
Sanyo,
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tinuoualy upgrading
the
oper
·
be
shipped until
May1June.
The
Amatrad and Commodore
64
The final
part
of our
~at
ating
,,--tern
.
All
far
u
I.he
UK
pri
ce in Germa
ny
will be 110m
e-
where
a
round
the
f300
rruirk.
:~~at
S
inclairSpectromcompetJtion
.
~·ro:~~
0
but
with
the
Atari
130XE
at
£170
40
elTect beta-tea:t
machinet to
go
in
the UK it'• inconceivable
Your hmta
and
t1pe with the
that
thi1could be
rruiintained
.
44
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cha
nce
to earn
a
tenner
a
time.
Qul
The
company wu
alao
show·
•
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--
--
APRILZ7198S
over Fair. Memotech
aee,
red;
Ep90n'1 desktop
1
yate m; and
more m1cro1aprout
window•.
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for
opinion,
moan,,
praiee
a
nd
gene
ral
pon.
t1ficat.inc.
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Part
2 or
our Commodore
64
printer interface
ofTera a
IOfl.
·eelr.'
ware driv
er
for last
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r
athe
r than th
e
built-
in
ROM
ven
ion.
The
reuoning behind thia
1a
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..._rd
e:~
PCN
ONITOR
ATARI'S
FIRST
SHOT
.,..
ingt.he
PCtO,
the PC20and
th
e
PC900.
Thefirattwoarefloppy
and
hard di1k
IBM
compat1blea
respectively,
and are to
be
priced
low.
But
the PC compati·
ble manufact.uren are CUJTent-
ly
much more
conce
rn
ed with
compat1ble-
i1h
mac.hanet
using
80186
or
80286
proceMOn.
No
matter how
cheap Commod-
ore'• 8088
machine. tum out
to
be
(£
1,500 has
been
floated)
lhey
are 1n 1evere
danger
or
ma.,or launch for
th
e
ahow.
lt'
a
t.hecoreofa multi-uaerayat.em
and is
Unix
$y1tem
V compali·
ble. Again
1t
will
be
cheap,
but
with
no
further
news on
the
INBRIEF
Communicating
on the cheap•••
BBC Macro
and Commodo
re
64
owneni
looki
n&for
a
cheap
way
into communications can look
forward
to
a
1ummer
bonu,
r
Tandata
(06845-68421
l
iaofTe -
ing
a
free quarterly
subecnp.
t1on
to
Prel!tel and
M1cronet
to
anyone
who buy•
one
of it.a
modems
and
mterf
acet
be·
tween
May
I
andJuly3
1
The TmllO with
aulO-ch al
and auto-reca
ll
coeta
about
£114 1nc VAT whi
le
the mult1-
rate
Tm200 will llet
you
back
around
£200
a
whole lot
of
machine for
PC incident.ally
,
fanciera.
ha
CPU
11
an 80286
and memory
is
expandab
le
to
6Mb with
a
m&lllmum
lMb
on
the
motherboard
(256K
RAM
ch1P9eee
m
t.obew
it
h
u.1).
It
alto
includes
a
30Mb hard du1k The
company alto offered
an LCD
ven1on or
the
baa1c machine.
This
wu pract.1cally de
ngeur
p
rOttMOr, but the PC-8
16F
ia
loo~:~~n~i.t!;~-=::.
~
for the
Japanese rompaniet at
the
lhow,
and
with Cuio1how·
ing
dece
nt
11z.ed
colour LCDa
1t '•
an
md1
1
that
th
e
day
•
cat on
or
th
e
cathode
ray
t
ube
are
n
umbered
Panuonic
~·ent one better
with the JB3300,
a
deakt.op
lu
ggab
le
1ncorporatmg
a
plu
-
pla
y
lap port.able.
The
St.arlet
•
i•
the machine
NEC
UK
hu been denying all
knowledge
or
for aome montha
now.
It
hu
a
buil
t-in
WordlJl.ar
compalible
word
prooeuor,
aprtads
h
eet, databaae and
Tel-
com program
The model
at the show had
a
bu1ll in
modem,
whi
ch ahould
probably put
the
mockenon
any
chancet or
it
appea
r
ing
m
the
UK
for aome coMide
rable
tame
NEC
wa,
alto
showing
disk
dnvu
for
this
m
achine and
the
earlier
8201A They
looked
a
reuon
able
am~.
and
had
a
re
uonable
Cllpac1ty, but
1t'•
unlik
ely
that many people wi
II
want
to
be
bothered carrying
the extra weight a.round
The Apple tta
n
d
wu
,
u
u.&ua
,
practi
cally
1mpc)88ibleto
l
get near, but
a
PCN
•natch
11qua
managedtoget
a1limpee
d
of
a
few
good1e•.
Eruiemble
,
from Hayden
Son.ware which
produce1Sarg
on
Ill
CheN,
it
an
integrated
package including
'database,
report,
form,
:::u~~~~;o~f~n~l~n1~
promiM!a
it'll
be
a
bit hkeJa.u.
an
Front De:&k,
add.on
dealt.top
i-ckage
from
Layered Soft-
ware,
wua!J10there,uwuthf
Macadvan
t.age
UCSD
Pucal
eystem
But GEM wu
also
malung
an
impreta
,on
on
the bu.ineu
=~~o~:~le~a117ahj1~
•
•.
add a bargain
printer or two
••
•
De.an Electronic,, which
hand
-
le:StheAlphacom
r
ange, h.ucut
the
price or t~·o model•
'for
a
limited
period
The Alph.llcom 42
gives
40
column print at the
n
ew
pri
ce
of
£49
95
while the bagger
81
model give,
80
columna
for
£74 95 Both can
be
wi,ed
with
Commodore
64
and
Vic 20,
At.an
and
Acom micro.. Dean
Electronic,
i,on
0344-885661
•••
and
you'll
have a
gem of a package
The PrftSofiware
Hand
book
is
an
introduction
to
public
do-
main
aon.ware and ofTen
70
program, complete with docu·
ment.ation for £27.95
The programs
includ
e
gamete,
file
h
andling
utihl1et
and
busi·
Dell
111pphcat
1
onaand
add up to
I200Kofcode Th
eyw1llrunon
moat
CP'M
ayst.ema including
BBC
with
Z80,
Apple, Osborne
an d
EfNl()nQXIOamona:otheni.
Detail
s
from
Davis
Rubin
ANociateton0386-841181.
Am1ga,
which
is
li
kely to
be
Commodore'•
ST
competitor,
the
US
oompany may
be
on the
point
ofloe
ing
the maw
market
b
yde
faulL
The
MSX
compa
met'
atan
da
uh1b1ted, if anything,
eome-
th1na:ofaloaorinterestinMSX
u
a
home
comput
in
g
stan
dard
.
Moetohhemanuracturenwere
displ
ay
in
g
monitor-.,
PC com-
pat1ble:S
and computerised
•u·
permarket
ch eckout.a.
There
were
MSX m
achin es on
di11
l
ay
p
mle.rfac:ed
to
lue.r d1Sk
,y ..
tem11,but1t
lookll lakethe.ewill
beuaed
ma
inly for m8.lltstorag
e
in
commercial enviro
nm
ent.a
became progra
mming int
erac,
t1ve v1deoe••Just
too
complex to
make
1t financially worthwhile
for
the
mue ma
rk
et.
JVC
had an
MSX
machme
hnked
lO
a
lase
r
disk and
touch-11ereen monitor,
and
had
a paaaable car
maintenance
package running
on
1t,
but
admitted
that
1tama1n appl1ca-
t1on
would
be
m
education
or
industry.
The Japanese were
much
more convincina on the
bu.,.
neu aide.
with MitaubtSlu
a
Cumanadrives at
smaller disks
Following the up-market
trend
toward,
,maile
r d111k
ayatema,
Cumana hu 11nnounttd a
range
of
3.51n
driv
es
" la
Macintosh
an
d
Apri
cot
The
model• range
from
a
128K
,yi;t.em
on •ingle-aided, 40track
driv
e11,up
to 2Mb of,torage on
twin SO.track double
dene1ty
un
it.I.
More detai
l,
from
0483-
503121
NCC
SC.W--,
1
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tor&a,,e,taW.,
INlt
IMr,y•
41skt.
ma
dis play
.
Pl:uama
d1splaye
thesy11tem,
h
ad eomet.hinglike
=
1
•wit.cha
hie
apeed
8088-2
micro-
i~!:t~;!!t~~::~:u~
tively
a
variation
on
fiat
LCD
d111p
laya.
For
eome reuon
Panuonichuchoeentoau.ach
ittoafull-
s1zemachmethat 'su
ugly
u
111n
1t
looU
li
ke an
-
IBMPCw1th
ab1g
redbatonthe
top
The
Ja
pan
ese alto a~ared
in the form or the
Tandy
Model
200
and the
NEC
Sta
r
let, both
ofwh1charebuedona
Kyocer
a
detngn for
a
n
80)(
16
LCD
di..
~:1
.:~:i:.~~~~':rr:C~
n
touaeittotake
Spectrum owneni
look.ma:
for
il
:1!Z:
~
I>Rr~rr
=~
high.quality
display h111ve
a
werepromu1mg
over
the
wor ld
The
tint
third
·
party
app lication, GemWord
from L1fetree Son.ware,
waa
there
u
were promi1e1
o(
numerous othen. GemWord,
e
inc1dentally,
1,
baled
on
L1r
-
tree'• Vo!Uwnter
Delux
e.
All thi
,
"good
publicity for
the
Mac, but
DR
and
Atari
11re
bqinnmg to
look lik
e
a
plau.i-
hie ~·orld-dom1nat1on
duo.
new option
in
the
fonn
of
an
RGB mterface from
Lawt.ro-
n1 The unit can
be
supphed
ct.
with
the
co~
t
monitor lead,
and come. with
m,truct1oru
for
oonnect
,ng
colour 11
gnals to the
~ar connector on i•ue
1
an
d
tMJue
2 Spect.nuna. luue
3
model, require no
modtfica
lion.
Price 11
around
£45
;
further
det.ail• rrom
0732-865191.
Spectrum RGBlink
takes the
lead
PCN APRJL271965
ll!mam.
Thelin1
t
concem190ft.
ware
compat1
b1lit
y
with 464
program.11 Althoug
h
Amstrad
int11l1
that
the
machmt1
are
100
per
cent
upwards compatl·
ble
(meaning
you
can
run 464
:h~Cf!c;~ec:~:nl;~~~l~
program.a
on
the
664 but
n
ot
date
Amat.rad'• pc:Muhonin the vice
veru.J,
th
e company
market
admit.I t
h
at
aoftwa.re
corn·
Th
eJust11icat1on
for the new
panies
that
ha,·e
taken 1hort·
machine 11 at.a bu1lt.-1n d1.ak
cull
m
the op,enitmg system
d
ri"e -
t
he
31n
unit
Am.atrad might
expe
r
ie
nce
problefJlll
0
How
many
packages tha
t
wall
affect
rem•uu1
to
be
teen
ea.Mette
player Ot
her
mmor
The
seco
nd
doubt
is
the
choice
1
of 31n
diab Although
3.6
in
d11k1
are
now
w1de1
ll!ad
on
p
the removal o(the
rat
her
luri
d
blue,
green and
red key,. They
have been rep
laced
with
a
1tyliah
povoder
blue
tel
whi ch
gives
the
1y1tem a
rather more
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launched 1ta:
eecond computer, following ,t.a:
earlier product
policy
to
the
let te
r
-
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ng,
li
t-
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no m1staket
and
th
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Hewlett-Packard
machinea..
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to
be
experuuve
and
diffi
cu
lt
to
find
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3m
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r from
both
problems, too
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r
the464 who
might
wish to
upgrade will
be
pleued
to
know
that there
ll
a 8Ulndard
casaette
in
terface
at
the
back
or
the
machine.
and
Am1trad
will
replace your program
tape,
(or
th
i{~1ce
::~~~k
no
announcement concemmg
th
e
future of
the
464 except
to aay
that
there
would
be
no
change
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ing.
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w
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gra
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commands and •m·
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r
handling
to
cope
with th
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ons of the
disk dr1,.e
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1mpreu1ve aspect
ohhe
664
11pncing.
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version 1trepreaent.aexcepllo
n·
al
value
for money
especially
u
CP
M
and
the
excelle
n
t
DR
Logo
are
included free.
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a
couple
of doub t.a:
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