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PERIPHERALS
Dragon contact
Putting the Dragon in
touch
with the
outside world is the purpose
of
the
versatileRS2321/0interface.We
test
onetha!'soutoftheordinary
,.
Surveyslams micro use
,.,_,...._
A large question mark has been
placedagainsttheuserulnesoof
micros by a
survey
or parents.
teachers and teenagers.
All arc frustrated wi1h their
micros,andasarcsultparentsare
beginning1oquestionmored0Kly
theirpun:hasesfortheirvaluein
1enn>0fcarcerprospc<:11ianduscful
skills
Gowling Marke1ing Services,
bascdinLiverpool.carriedou1
intervic""5 in London, Durhom,
Lancashire.Cumbria.
Merseyside
and Binningham. Sessions were
spli1intogroupsofeightto1cn
people.Therewcrefourscssions
with
parents and 12to17-ynr..old
boys,oncsc:ssionwithteachcrsand
thel21ol7-year-oldsandfive
scssio11Swithjus1thctcenagers
Thcgcncral[celingofthcgroups
wastha1theywantedtodosome·
thingmorcaelivewiththciroompu·
ten.PaulStoddanofGowlingsaid
"Software houses just haven"tgot
therigh1pcopletoprodua:<0me-
1hing
1
ogiveuscrsmorevariab]es
Asaresult1heyareverylimitcdby
whattheycando
.'
Chris Curry or
Acom
(~;,en)
and Gary Kildall or Digital
Re-
sc:archechosimilarreelingsabout
thedirectionsmicro:sshouldtakc
ChrisCurrysaid:"
lt
istimenow
tostartshowingwheremicro:sca
n
perform 1asks
...
they
will only
become an c.ss,:mial pan of the
home
ff
they do practical things.'
On the same note Gary
Kildall
though!"
...
thewaytomovc:ahcad
istohaveacomputersJ15temwhich
controlsfune1ion,inthchomc.'
lnthcschools1eachcrslookon
microsasjusthands-onexperienc:c
andarclookingfordirCClionsrrom
their pupils and <Oftwore
housc:s
Parcnt<Sttmtothink
that educa-
tional
software
isn"t teaching
children anything-all
that
n
needed
are yes/no
responses
.
'Oiildrenarcn·11camingor<0lv-
ing any problems.'said
Mr
S1od-
dan. "Packages on the whole arc
bad value
for
money.'
Thi,obvious!ydcfcatsthcobjeel
andwithabitofthough!andtime
so
rtwarchouscscouldcomeupwith
the
goods.
Bu11imeismoncyand
spendingn:ionthsorperhapsyears
ondevclopingeducational<aftware
maybesccnasawastefulcxercisc.
Mr Stoddan commented:
·u
sor1warchoUSC5gO! together with
schools,theycouldscetheirneeds
andlearningcouldbeextendcd,o
thehome
.Atthcmomentteachcrs
arelefttotheirowndeviccsandthe
resultisof1envcrypoor
'
•
wh~,
do you think?
Are
microsgoing1obea1>"&Singfad?Do
youfcelletdownby1hcstandardof
software?WritetousatPCNand
lc1usknowhowi1looksfromyour
poin1ofview.
Beau Jolly rebottles games
Beau
Jolly is to
launch
game·
~"i!:h~f Imagine
software
later this
Thesi>t·packswillbe£l9
.99and
therangecoverstheSpectrum48K,
Commodore 64 and Vic 20. There
willalsobcafour
-ga
mcpackforthc
16K Spectrum at £14.99 and a
"valucpack· for the
BBC
nearer
Christmas
The company bough!
Jmagine's
stockandtherighutomarkc11hc
gamesjustbcforclmagine"schro-
nicdifficultiescamctothesurfaa:
But
Beau Jolly isn't simply off.
loadingitss1ocksofagcinggames
-
all the titles arc
hot
from the
duplicating studi0>. Most or 1hc
8
riu~~ ,8;h r=i;agim~1e
,:il ;:;
Wacky
Waiters. Bcwi1ched and a
new
Imagine
game.
BC
Bill.
Bcuu
Jolly
hasn't
taken uplm
~t~=~~a::'ets' .Pl"l;~,cs~:n
thcsc:"Thcrc',nothing1osce,it"s
allbascdonsay,soandspeculation
-t
hcgamc
sareina.ery,
very basic
staic'.ButhcaddedthatBeauJolly
hopes lo purchase the lmagiM
namcrromlmagine',liquidator
The company is working on a
number of new projeets, including
convcnionsoftheclassicAhOid·
dums for1hc 64, Arcadia for the
OragonandMcgavauhforthcVic
20.
It
is
also concluding ncgotia,
tionswithatopUS!Oftwarchousc
ThisconccmsimponingCommod·
ore 64 material which may
be
lfa~.di!s":i'/~/::.f=::'e";.r:~
rammcrs with whom Beau JoUy n
keeping
in r:ontae1
::r~
Cabel set to go off the air
tl)'lf.-s.m.ct
CabelElectronics,thcBritishcom,
puter
monitor manurae1urcr, has
been forced into
liquidation
.
It
ROLUNG$TACK-T1Ml.h-trp,Hlllan......,.111ml11,1toals,tllennt
..... lch
wentunderonJulyl9andahhough
ll«h!-rille,n.onllfac:turwrstackeon-
haN-comedowninprice-~
the"<areearlydays.therescemsto
ter 5emcff
(051-933 33551 ·-
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ut ...
1111N11tollask,
belinlechanccorarescuehid.
Ndetl•new.,.•ponlolb
•
,,,_.,
fnl
~
wnlta, .nd •
~
Owner1orCabelmoni1orurcin
wlth•<1...tt.-bnedcompllerforlhe•nembler
.
TIM,,.....,1nprice,_
the unfortunate
positionoflo,ing
5tadit00,.111:•
.
Thcampllercolb
t25_....Thmod
ui..
....
,11-
Cabel's service system
and 1hcir
tt4.95and
11ob
In
.ttMhMII
DI .W.dlr..:tframSb<:korthl"IIUP
guarantees
stack'• .._.
..
CommodoN
64 .........
Themonitor1. based ona
Mui-
lard design, were originally de·
signedforeducationalusc:andwerc
backed wjth a two.year parts and
labourguarantec
.Cabel
alsopro-
videdanaften11!e,service,promis-
ingtorepairanyfaul!swi,hinthree
days.
Cabel
had
1hc distinction of
purchnsingnllitsparisfromBritish
manufaemrers
while
keeping 1he
price down and
maintaining high
quality.
Acemaintainsitsstrongsuit
chcapestmicroyoucanbuy
Boldlield.thelinntha1bailcdou1
the
Ace, says 1he
fonh
machine a1
£29.90isscllingwelt1nditdoesn'1
up:ctstockuolastformuchlonger
thanlhrcemonths.
SincetheCambrid~·basedoom-
pany 1<,ok over Jupiter Can1ab's
opcratiom five months
age,
ii has
covered•
lot of ground and thc
latest promotion isnotn.c:cc5Sllrilya
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~~
t;-
c;:::~:~~~
fin:~~d:!i~"~'..':C
;:uced
new
11
sohwarepackagesandanumbcrof
add-Qns. Titles for
the
l6K
Ace
include A
tic
Raid,
Cygnus and
Cc,ntipcdcat£7.82each,
Frogger,
Alien DcfcndcrandAmuingMue
at Ci.7~ e""h and an
Assembler
/
Dl5asscmbler,
Chess
and Spread·
$hcctat£9.89cach.Fo
r
thc3KAa:
there'• Triple
Pack
and
Puzzle/
Bombsat£5.06each
PaulDownhamofBoldfieldsaid:
users
and "?"'>"e
wu
supporting
them.
We
g,ve full customer sup.
port
5ervicn and inlend 10
do
IO
evenwhcnthelastmachineissold
.'
Buyiogona
mail order
buill.you
can also get
'JI"•«.
boob and
components
for
the
machine
a?d
take
advantage of several speaal
offers
Boldficld
(0487 840740) has
puttoge1her
.
Forin5tance,for£138
you can buy an
Aa:,
a l6K RAM
:c:
•;h':!e
=:~
;;,~h~':ali;
\2~;.,~~~.~~nncctor
andSanyo
a
By September the company
hopes to have several new products
on sale which include: a disk drive
conuollcr for ~\loin disk drives, a
colour card forborhcolourTV sets
and RGB colour monitors,
and
inlcrfaccs
for
RS"..32
and Cemro-
nics-typcprin1crs
.A$fo
rsoftwarc
1hcre'II
be a high·raolution Tunic
Graphiapackage,adatabasc,and
a 65K all,text adventure.
I'
Amsofthi-price
Mi:l=hii!M
Dragon
dragson
.
••
Tnlkswcrccontinuinglas1wcck11S
::~l~~~c of Dragon Data is slowly
o,
Although Drag<>nll<JW
answer,;
1hctelcphoncasTouchmas1crno-
body•1thcschizophreniccompany
ils cmwhilc marketing arm al
GEC
is
willing 10 rommenl on the
slalcofncgo1ia1ions
.
Bullhcwai•
·
1
.,5;'~~a/';:nl';;;~a
i~~
tobedoncbcsidesdottinglhc
'
i',
andcrossing1he·rs .
[~~k:~~~d
. .
.
but
OCS
sees
light
at
end
of
tunnel
Oxford Compu1cr
Sy<!Cm'l (OCS),
..-hkh cc,ased trading carLicr 1his
summer
(is,uc
68),
now
looks
hoJ><fulofgcuingbackonroursc
D,ve,;1edofthe[n1el])Odmodulc
tl>c 50f1warc company
SCCS
light
atthccndofthciunnel.Officially
there lsnocomment from OCS, bu1
guardcdoplimismha,rcturncdto
•hecompony
lfflltyNSl<Jtm«'
Soflworc for the new Ammnd
CPC464lookslikcbeingplcntiful
butc~pNi<ivc
Amooft. 1hcsoftwarcarmof1hc
oompan
y.ha.<sc1apriccof£8 .9Son
thcfirstbatchofgamcsrelcascd
.
Thi
s
is some O mo«: than the
Spcctrumcquivalencs-gam
.. likc
Codename
Mai and lhrricr
Auack,anddoserlothc
price of
8
house•
indudingMicrorncga.Durcll,Pro-
tck•ndllldcscomphavcdcal•with
Amsoft
;
some titles nrc 10
be
marketed cxch1,ivcly by Amwr,
.
relailcrsatI:l
.95.
Amsoflalsoha,
an arragcmcntwithComct which is
Educalionallillcoure,eady.bul
are not yet with rclailcrs DCCauscof
:r:~";,~_th• ofAmsoft
full
range
~;:~~~;::
~~~~cm:,;!:~g~~!.
mystery
Atari
1
A~~:t~~~~:,~;':!ri,
~
~ear.:~=:
n,i~:
~~d
youtoa\5J)<rttntdiscounlon
software, bringing 1hc price of
gamcsdownto£7
.60.
Thisdiscount
wil!onlybeapplicablclosollwarc
ordered direc1ly from A,nsoft
.
A
~~i:iw~~~~:t:19s
P'':t'~;,~[.'::~~
!17ware
Othcra1c1obedislributcdJoinlly
.
::m~~
c~h:;,,~ro:i'"so7t::
prices
.
Cenainly. the Art'l'lu·ad
won't
lack for ,;oftwarc. Hi,;of1'• re·
nowned Dcvpnc will cost £19.95
and
the
compllny's
Pascal
will ,ell
~/!~~b~curmf::~l
~·~;as::d it!
Rcpons 1ha1
ex-Commodore
UK
markcllng manager John Boler
wouldbc1ak,ngchargeatAuiriUK
in tl>c wake of Jack Tramicl',
~~
..r~v<:r have been scotched
b}'
.
Another ex-Commodore man.
David Harri•. is due lo become
mannginadirectorofthercnamcd
Atari Corporation in the UK
.
~r
Harriswa,asale,;and
marketing
uccuuvc with Commodore Inter·
national
.
Unlil hearrive,;thcUK
rompanyisbcingrunbyiufinancc
director Simon Westbrook
Thi
s
will put users in !he pc<uliar
si1uationofbeingablctobuygames
from Am.,,rc at £8.95, or from
~~:in;~~i::at:br;;,•:,~:=~
~:,'\'::.;
Art'l'l1rad,aswcllascarryingD<WS
andfea1ures.Tbcdisroun1wiU1lso
awly to hardware
such
as
lhc
Ccntronics printer cable
,
which
~~~~d
be available ibis week at
~i:t:I~;.:":r::;:~~~
<y«cm and
n!::
will be• word processing
p,><kagc and
I
Kt of Business
Tu1orial progr.oms. Amsoh will
produccafullguidc1ousingCP
IM
it;;~
A~:,d~!~~~blr~~k~~;
future
C«ona
fines
lfyou'reslloppingaroundfora
prinlerTandyplan<anothcrtwofor
"t<rang
.
For£229.95youcanpickupa
thermal ribbon machine which
handles almost •ny plaln quality
pape,. Running
M 50
cp,; the
IBM-compa1iblcprintcrhook,up
:::tc~!ccmicro with a Centronics
TbcDMPI0500.
-ma,rixprin1cr
cow;£169
.95.
Mov1n1a1110cp,i1
hasthcotand1rdfca1uresassocia1cd
wilh
a
printer of its kind
.
Both
will be available in
[k.
Midlcc1ron.UKdinributorof1hc
IBM-compatible Corona, has im·
provcd1hcspa;of1hcPC-221ndcu1
the pncc of the Corona PPCXT
ponable
.
The PC-22 desk-top system now
gives you 256K with it< twin
floppies, moni10r, keyt>oard and
bundlcd50f1warcforD,795
.
Allhc
same lime the hard disk portable
vc,.,ion, the PPC·XT, has
come
down in price from
£4,200
to
~
-
Midknronison0332
~;:;=.7
Tandyha,nl,;oslashcdthepricc
onsomcofi!Jrnngcofmicros.The
Model4withoncdiskdrivccosu
£976and with twodrivcsil,148
The \6K Colour Computer
is
now
£\l9
-95with1heextendcdver,;ion
at £\39
.95.
Tandycrttliis
<rono-
m;csohcalcw,1h1hcpricccu!S
.

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