Acorn User Issue 5

This issue was dated December 1982 and cost £1.

Acorn News
News Headlines - 3 pages (4-5,7)
 * BBC and schools get together - (4)
 * Atom future assured - (4)
 * Free Econet for schools - (4)
 * Beeb sales top 50,000 - (4)
 * Toothless BBC watchdog - (4)
 * Acorn marketing Olivetti's printer - (5)
 * Acornsoft educational software - (5)
 * Interfaces for schools - (5)
 * Tidy up your computer room - (7)
 * Throwing light on the Beeb - (7)
 * Neen launch in U.S. - (7)
 * Machine Operating System on the Beeb - (7)
 * Acorn matches Sinclair's offer - (7)
 * Word processor in ROM - (7)

Features
Contents - 1 page (1)

Editorial: Help for primary schools is at hand - 1 page (2)

BBC News: BBC test out school software - 2 pages (8-9)


 * David Allen describes how teachers and pupils at Queen's School took to the Beeb

BBC Assembler: Registers Explained - 3 pages (11-12,14)


 * Busses, registers and addressing modes are all explained by John Ferguson and Tony Shaw in this article on assembly language programming on the Beeb

Beeb Forum: Packing the bytes to save on memory; The easy route to speedy procedures - Ian Birnbaum - 3 pages (16-17,19)

Hints & Tips: Programs Writing Programs - 5 pages (21-22,24-26)


 * Joe Telford injects some Christmas spirit into the BBC micro and helps your programs to write their own programs

Schools: Children Challenge the Turtle - 4 pages (27,29-31)


 * Heather Govier tells us how children in Croydon work with their turtle graphics and asks if teachers are ready to let their pupils meet the challenge of Logo.

Procedures: Probing procedures - 4 pages (32-33,35-36)


 * Paul Beverley explains why he'II never use a GOSUB again and describes the delights of procedures - how to use them, how fast they are and how they'll improve your programming

Books: Learning with the Beeb - ½ page (45)


 * Mike Sharp reviews a book for teachers

Atom: Toolbox Tests - 2 pages (50-51)


 * Barry Pickles reviews two toolboxes for the Atom

Graphics: Sixteen colours on a Model A - 3 pages (53-55)


 * Andrew Cryer shows you how

Tron Competition - 2 pages (67-68)

User Groups - 1 page (70)

Your Letters - 3 pages (72,74,76)

Competition - 2 pages (78-79)

Type-Ins
Atom: Word processing - 3 pages (46-48)

Sorting: Solve your sorting problems - 3 pages (56-57,59)

Sound: Seeing is understanding - 3 pages (61-62,64)

Other Credits
Sub-editor
 * Ann Nimmo

Production
 * Susie Home

Editorial Secretary
 * Jane Lake

Publisher
 * Stanley Malcolm