Home Computing Weekly Issue 2

This magazine was released in March 1983 and priced at 35p.

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News
Health risk of micro space games - (1,3)
 * Space invader games put as much stress on the heart as driving through heavy traffic. And some players could be risking long-term heart trouble.

Radio software gets go-ahead - (1,5)
 * Programs are going out by radio, now the Home Office has granted permission.

Big response to call-back - (5)
 * Sinclair's appeal for faulty Spectrum power supplies to be returned has brought a massive response.

Software by post - (5)
 * London software stockists The Video Palace has started a mail order operation with the first of its quarterly catalogues.

Magazines up and down - (5)
 * Latest official sales figures for monthly computer magazines show that two have lost readers and two have chalked up gains.

Atari chief to go it alone - (6)
 * In a surprise move, Atari chief Graham Daubney has quit the company to go into software sales.

Dads fuel micro boom - (6)
 * One home in every 20 has a microcomputer - and a quarter of them were sold in December, says a new survey

U.S. Scene: Commodore attacks on the home front - (6)

Bug-Byte stops mail-order sales - (8)
 * Liverpool-based Bug-Byte, with claimed sales of 30,000 software cassettes a month, has halted its mail order operation.

Smiths open micro stores - (8)
 * Computer shops-within stores are being opened by W.H. Smith.

Firefly cycles to success - (10)
 * Three sixth-formers wrote Spectrum programs in their bedrooms - and ended up with £170 profit.

Youngsters' programs - (10)
 * A new company, Schoolsoft, has been formed with the aim of producing software for infant and junior schoolchildren to run on the BBC Model B Micro.

Words for the Epson - (10)
 * Kuma Computers has brought out a word processor designed for the tiny printer built into Epson's HX-20 small computer.

Shelve your micro - (10)
 * Keep your micro tidy, say the people at Zygon Products who produced this specially designed stand for home use.

Features
Get out of the cupboard, micro snobs - Roger Munford - (8)

Letters - 1 page (33)

Programming:

Reviews
Reviews score out of 5.

Type-Ins
Fruit machine (Spectrum) - 1 page (7)

Other Credits
News Editor
 * Paul Liptrot

Contributors
 * Ray Elder, Allen Webb, Marc Freebury