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ENU
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STORY
24
lt'
1
been
a
long time
coming
but
the Ent.erpriae
is
now
in the
1hop,1.
When
it
was
ann ounced
in the
dista
nt
past,
1t
sounded
lik
e
the ultimate
machine
-
how
does
it
stand up
lo
the
0
Frenchlaunch
hitch for Stratos
Oric'11
n
to
tak
e
the French
pla
mark
et
by
storm
with
it.a
Stra-
toe
computer haa
suffered
a
major
setback
as
Orie
moves
to
foreign manufacturing.
The 64K machine
with
6502
proce880r,
two
ROM
alote
and
two joystick
port.I
wu
ache-
duled
to
make
it.a
d~but this
month, ButOrich
at
announc::ed
gy
more than the
government
:~ru1~i~~i
e
or:
:
n~i:~;eu~:
production model
s.
a
change
of tacti
cs
and
th
e
OUTPUT
S
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12
Everybody's favourite
,
ugly hero
ii
back in
thi1 version
of
Hun
chback
for the
Spectrum. Could
be
a
real
bell-ringer
.
compu ter
will now
be
availa
bl
e
in March
.
Bru
ce
E
veriu,
managing
.director
of
TaMOft,
aaid:
'It
not
the
~!:.~~~~~~~==!~
UK
as originally
planned
.
QI.Coltctioft
15
Th.ii
batch
ofrou
tin
el
and
utilitie1could make
life euie
r
for the
QL
Ba.sic
program
mer.
22
Donyour
jetpack
a
nd do
battle
with
a numberof alien
miecreant.s
in
thia
animated game
.
te~eto n~v::;_={::.
!'u~~
over
here
.
We've
designed
the
Stratos around French require·
menta because that
will
be
its
init
ia
l
market
-.'
But with
only
two montha
to
get
it.s
act
together,
Orie
11
till
hui
to
pack.age the machine
a
nd
produce
a
manual
before
it
can
go
into
full
production. A•
for
th
e
UK ,
it's
still
unclear
whethe
r
the
Stratoe
will be
avai
lable
under another name.
Everiu &aid The fira:t
six
:
months
of
this
year
ar
e
going
to
bet.ough.
"There's going
to
be
a compu·
terprice
war-and
we're
going
t.o
eee what happens before we
make
any
commitments
in
the
UK
.'
--
-
30
--
-
mQ
Machinecoderoul
ineat.o1pruceup
yourgraphia-andyoudon't
need
a
paint brush
to
get you going.
PERIPHERALS
33
The
Comprint interface
links
your Commodore
64
Lo
a
n
Ep&0n
raa
printer
.Th e
1lot-in
device
ofTe
l
I
the
gi:r.zmoa
gadget.ayou'd
and
expect-for
1e88cash.
With
this
add-on
from
M
IS,
the BBC
becomes
the first
home
computer
to
boast
a
mouse.
But
get.a
load oft.he
aoftware
...
QEDchecked
out-will
.........
sonwARE
42
~
it
put.your life in
order?
Simpler USnetwolil on the horizon
A
system
called
the
American
The
equipment
you11
need
is
People/Link
(APL)
network to
a
BABT-a pproved modem
be
launched
on April
1
could
be
which will
coet
about
£70.
Jn
worth investigating
if you've
additionyoumuactpayaone.ofT
ever
looked
enviou.sly
at US fee
of
£26
to
use
PSS
and
information
.ervicea.
off-peak
diallingchargea
t.othe
Thi
s
new
communications
US
will
cost
m
the
region of
REGULARS
Short.cut.I t1nd
sanity
aavers
from the moet intellige
nt read-
era:
in
the
buaineu.
(That
means
you.}
DNpan
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--
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Orie
distances
itaelf
from
UK,
page
I;
Hot gouip
on Acom,
tians
,
page
3;
ACT
spreads
ita
wings
,
page
4
;
a
nd Home Front
,
page
5.
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--
COnt.e8t
.
See
who
900red
in
the
Christ-
Oncemorewefreethefflli
dent
troll
to
brine
you the
late.et
adventure
newa.
Read
it
by
lamplight.
"="'=
.
kill aomethi ng.
3
cc
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-
Go
ahead ..
lllactaN
::;o~~~:e:'
~~~:3°a1:t!:~
;
tael"II
.
A
1pokeaman
from
the
company
aaid:
'Our
aystem
ia
easytousecomparedtoothers
.
"The commanda are
simple
and
all
you
have to
do
is
to
be
abi~:!ttt~:li;~eto Jel~et~S
communicatio
n•
11erviceathat
£6T~,~~~~
to APL
will
COit
$14
.95
(refundable on
a
trial
be.ais up~Aprili(youdo
n't
hke.
the
eerv1ce) and
$2.95
to
con·
nect
t.oTe
lenet.
BesideucceMtoinformation
~~Jl!t:.i:~~;~n:~f:
i:
other people,
a wier
directory
Your opinion11and
a
chance
to
earn£16.
40
an:o~=~~{:!o~ation
con-
So
Sa
nta
didn't
bring you that a data t.ranamiu ion network
.
tact
Ju
le,
H
illman, American
computer?
Buy
it
here.
The
coet.
of
u.aing
the
APL
People
Link,
American
Home
Qlllt
','
-,--"'--~-----=
..
We
k:now
the jokes
are blid,
The Source
we're resigned
to
it(gedd
it
???). cheap.
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k
~~t~
il'11
relative
ly
Whatever your problem, we
can
help.J ust
ask.
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US.
ONITOR
INBRIEF
n.u,11..,N..,.,
rorB BCusen
wa
nting
to
buy
the
IBM
com·
pat.tble
Graduate add.on
from
Torch.Thecompany&ayathat
it
wtll
be
ahippmg
the
Graduate
don
't
thi nk
they'll
find
it
a
major
problem
to
obta
in
logia·
tical
eupport
from
other aup-
pl
ie.ra,'
he
a.a
id.
There
is no
ehortage
of
'We
neve
r
put any muse.le
rum
oun, goaaip
and
wish
ful
be.hind
it,'
the
epokeaman
a
dmitted
.
'
It
was very low
profil
e
88
far
88
we
were
con
·
and Sinclai
r
areall
18id
to have
upgraded
old
favouritea ready
on
th
e
launch
of an
IBM·
cem
ed
because the company
compatib
le
in
the
spring.
fol-
felt
that
it
shoul
d
watch the
for
immine
nt
launch.
Front runner in the
hot.
lowed
by
the
U000
Unix market before it made
any
rumour depart.ment is the
BBC
machi
ne
in the
eummer; it
is
commitmenL
'
Th
ercuonfo
ritscautionwu
B Plua
,
otherwieek
nown
as
the
therefore improbable
that
the
BBC C. Acorn natly deniea
that
Amiga
willamvein
time
to
fill
that the
Adam
was virt
ua
lly
Chr ietmaa
at.oe
kinp
.
out
on its
feet
by
the
tiqie it
tbereiaanytplan
foraBBCC
-
The
same is
th
e cue
with
the
came
to
thi
acountsy.
An.er the
which
,
of couree, only
help1
to
firs
t
Ou.sh
of
enthusiasm
baaed
fan the names.
1
!~h!~?~
~
on
it.I
spec
and
Coleco'e
produc·
In reality
,
there will
be
not iai~J:!,:~g
one
new
machine
but
two. h
inted
to
anyone who
carte
to
ti
on
promiAM,
th
e
project
ran
list.en that
he
thinks
it
would
be
in
to
map.
Apart
from.
the
Communicator
Perha
p,11an
80K
machine
(iaaue
93)
the
second
machi ne,
&good
idea
.
It
iuuggest.ed
that
due out this month
,
is the it would
incorpor
ate a Sinclair
r!~1 ~p~f!:
nat.-acreen
monitor,
Micro--
:~d~~~e:!:.
drive(
•)
and
integral
modem,
aional
'
eoft ware for
$600
wu
r:~~:1a:hr::!i!~~
for
around
£250
.
too
good
to
be
true
.
Ce
rtainly
it
BBC
board.
Suggestions that
euch
a
didn't
take long for
the
price
to
1
go
up
-
to
$700
.
But
the
0
PCW
Show
baek
in September
r~u:~
r~a~~~
•.
were met
with
a
point.-blank
th
inking
.
quaJit
y
bolh hardware a
nd
refusal.
eoftware
wu
called
into
ques-
What
u
known i11
Lhat it will
tio
n
at ea
rly demon$t.ratio"-·
feature
the
ADFS
double densi-
Originalsins bring
Re_portafro
the US18id
tha
t
m
ty
diek
filing
ayetem
that haa
about Adam fall
's
hundreds
of early
prod
uction
appeared in
the Plu
s
3
add-on
One
of
the micro world'
s
most
models
were ret
urned
aa
faulty,
for
the
E
lectron.
And
if
Acorn felt it necessary
famous
shooting t
tars
has
but Coleco
itsel f
claimed
tha
t
to
tampe
r
with
part
of the
BBC burnt up.
Coleoo
has
aban
doned
th
e
rate of
complaintac
was leas
board
to make 1t
auitable
for
it.I
Adam, and
what
remains of
than
te.n per
cen
t. Early
in
1984
the
orphaned
machine
i.a
in
th
e
it
rece
ived
a
pair
of
much.
buaineu use, why notlherestof
hands
of
a
US
retail
ou
tlet
.
needed
boo8t.a
-
Honeywell
it?
Coleco
a
nnou
nced
la.at
week
took
over
responsibility
for
Informed
g0&&1p suggeste
8
thatAcornhaareconfiguttdtbe
=~pie'm
memory
arrangement
in
a :a~~a1:ds';~!-:,'!i;'~:tt;~
manner
sim
ilar
to
that done
on and
that it
intend&
to
return to CP/M on the
machine
.
But
at
full-time toymaking.
Its
UK
the
year
progrea&ed, the
the add-on memory boardafrom
Aries and
others.
Aa
a result,
it
distributor
ha,
followed suit, machine
wandered
lost
in
the
will
have64
K
ofusab
lemem
ory
and
the
machine
launc
hed
in a Commodore-Oomina
ted
home
blaze
of
publicity in 1983
ia
now micro market.
miserly 32K
eomething
of
an embarrase-
Coleco
I01t
$35
mill ion
in the
Other changes
are
rum
oured
r
official·
~o=-
?o~~
~v~9::i
to include
extra side
ways ROM
m;,;e~~~::::~~
socketa
a
nd a reduced chip ly launched
in
the
UK and been published
,
but a
IOM
for
accord
mg
lOa
apokesma
n
for its the year
isexpe,ct.ed,deapite
the
count
by
uae
of
custom made
ULA
chips
.
~p~~~
of
th
e Cat,.
A redeaigned
board
to
power
the ABC
range
is
one thing;
a
c.a.a
Mam:
1985'•
tint
cnully,
Nt
lik-,
W
._
the
LNt.
new Beeb is
something
elee
.
Acorn
ma
y
have no
plans
to
Big Three's plans
spark
launch fever
mint~
:n71c
~;::&:~,;,
af~ !'!=~~
~"!
1
~;i::::
rea
lly
waiting
for
is
theAmiga
16-bitter
with its
256
Apeel&CU·
lar
coloura ,
but,
thi
s
ia
unlikely
to
be
11e.en
thi•countrybefore
in
the end
of
the
yelir.
Developme
nt
work
is
etill
by
next week. Anadded
bonus is
that
itwillcomewilhadegreeof
IBM
approval
;
Torch
inv
ited
Big Blue
to
take a
look
at. the
ma
ch
ine
to
make
s
u.re that
1t
didn't infring
e
IBM'Hopyr
ight
on
the ROMcode.
llcffd'•
folow.tlp
to
Valhalla,
~T~Sl:i~
'f:!o'!re:i~~:,~
1
shops.
At £14.95
Commodore
uaen
will
be
able
to
buy this
sta
r
o(
PCN'1
'Why
are
we
compu ter
movie
upect
animated character1.
with
~~tA"f[
~e:t:;~~rn
°!r
~l:
CrlNda
1Y
Retlbf
has
knocked
down
the
BBC micro'• £399
price-tag
and
is
offering
it
for
£378
.95(whilestock.slaat ).
You
alaogeta
free data
recorder
and
five
801\ware
packages worth
over
t:70
.
ina~d~
:tJ~ir~e:.:::
::;~!:~
:::~i\:
~=,
or
~~dn
ti!:
-.e.softnre
(Ol
-9000999)
has
become
the
lirst independent
1upplier ofPl 11&4
busineulOR.·
ware
to
wm
Commodore
approval.
lta
Compa
ny
Pac
t
•2•3
i11a
n
accounting suite
The patk8$e
comes
on
d
is k
wh
ereas
Commodore's
main
thrus
t.
with
t
he PIU&4seemt
to
be
ROM
applications.
e
~Jif~~
MK
,..,.
ca
n
hook
up
to
main
·
frames and minicomputers
if
they
have
a
ny
handy, now that
Apple
ha
s
launched
it.aM11cTer·
minal
data
commun icatiom
eon.ware,
IBM,
ICL
a
nd
DEC
cont.act.sare poesible, but 1fyour
need.Aare
more
modelJt you can
wie
it
to
get
into
BT
Gold,
e
led.ro
nic
mail
a
nd
telex ser·
vices.
It
costa
£99.
l.isttMn
in the
Chiltern
Radio
&rea are &bout
to
be
bombarded
with
clues in a
treasure
hunt
that will lead tot
hefirstprireo
f
a
BBC
B.
All
you
need
ia
a road
map
of
the area,
a
nd
'a
little
computer knowledge'
-
no
&pad~.
parrot.a
or wooden lep
requ
ired
.
~::~ i!~~
~!:
:t;i::,~~8!
1:1:;:iz~e;
d~f:'8
c:~~b!f
::t::~~~:t~:.;
all,
a
BBC
8
Ptu
a~l
fin
gatthe
current price
of
£399,
with th
e
exi
sting
BBC B
priced
some,.
where
neare
r
£200,
could only
be
good
newt
for everyone.
Don't expect
too
much
from
Acom in thi
,
area
,
h9wever.
The BBC B
is
at.ill
a
ni~
little
earner at ita
curren
t
price
,
and
Acom
doee
not
aee
itself under
any preuure
to
cut
pri
ces.
A more potJiti.verumour
i.
1
1
a
128K
ver1ion
of
the Commod·
ore
64.
Th
e
produetd
oee
exiet
the US,
and
it is highly
likel
y
that
it
will
make
it.I first
appea
rance
at
the
Consumer
Electronica
Show
in
La.a
Vegu
this week.
0(
COUrN,
the machine tha
t
Commodore
watchers
are
r::,:rr:::re~i~\~~.~n!~
J~~·=
et~i!~n~J.:
Japan
e.e-
built
1y1tem.
The
new model,
called the
Model
200, wu
announced
in
the US last week
The
micro featUttS
a
larger
16
a.A
~~7,~
1!~:
~~~od~
t
:~
atandard
100),
2"K
memory
and expanda
ble
up
to
72K.
ln
the US the 4.5lb machine
will
aell for $999
wh ich
includes
Multiplan
spreadsheet
90(\...
in
ONITOR
DumboA
ward
A clear winner -
Commodore
ror
the
most
photogenic
abw,e
or
an elephant.
l'CW
C.,.,...
INl:
__
_
The elephant
controversy
will
come u
no
aurpri9e
to
regular
readers.
Commodott1
won
the
coveted
Dumbo
Award
(i.seue
92
)
in
our Golden Turkey
epecia
l
1upplement.
lfth
eot
her
awarda are
u
prophetic, Erica-
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