Sinclair User Issue 9

This issue was dated December 1982 and cost 60p.

News
Contest craze rising - (1/6 page)
 * New craze for competition tapes - Pimania from Automata and Krackit from Artic.

Launch of Oric postponed - (¼ page)

Software Scene
Sinclair Research opens its Spectrum software library - John Gilbert - (2 pages)
 * Games 1, Games 3, Space Raiders, Planetoids, Hungry Horace

Tyrant of Athens, Peloponnesian War - MC Associates - ZX81, Spectrum - (½ page)

Lynchmob - Bridge Software - ZX81, Spectrum - (⅛ page)

Nightflite - Hewson - Spectrum - (¼ page)

Super Deflex - Llamasoft - Spectrum - (¼ page)

ZX Spectrum Games - JRS Software - Spectrum - (¼ page)

Game Tape One - Firefly - Spectrum - (¼ page)

Star Trek - The Computer Program - R&R Software - Spectrum - (½ page)

Features
Getting the better of the ZX printer - Ap Pandaal - (2 pages)

Carrying memory in your project - Nigel Searle - (1 page)

Code junkies hooked on micros - (2 pages)
 * Home computers are expected to help people. Chris Reynolds has reservations.

Education offer "not as it seems" - (1½ page)
 * Eric Deeson does his sums and finds Sinclair's £15 million unlikely to be spent

Regular Features
Hardware World - (2 pages)

Starting from scratch - (1 page)

Andrew Hewson's Helpline - (2 pages)

Mind Games by Philip Joy - (1 page)

Type-Ins
Hampson's Plane, Cricket, Note Tester, Standard Deviation, Tape Reader, London Bridge, Phasor

Other Credits
Consultant Editor
 * Mike Johnston

Production Editor
 * Harold Mayes

Staff Writer
 * John Gilbert

Design
 * Bill Scolding

Editorial Director
 * John Sterlicchi

Editorial/Production Assistant
 * Margaret Hawkins

Contributors
 * Andrew Hewson, Philip Joy, Ap Pandaal, Nigel Searle, Chris Reynolds, Eric Deeson