Acorn User Issue 4

This issue was dated November 1982 and cost £1.

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Acorn News
News Headlines - 4 pages (3-4,6,8)
 * Acorn-Disney link up - 1 page (3)
 * Electron launch delayed (4)
 * Australian inroads (4)
 * Beeb teletext expansion (4)
 * Beware of adverts (4)
 * Shrinking micros (6)
 * Black box hooks up to robots (6)
 * Network brains ring the changes (6)
 * Micro knick-knacks (6)
 * Modelling aids for education (8)
 * Time for the Atom (8)

Features
Contents - 1 page (1)

Editorial: Constructive approach to the problems of computing - 1 page (2)

BBC News: Robots go shopping - 2 pages (10-11)
 * David Allen has stepped in to Paul Kriwaczech's shoes to produce the second BBC computer series. Here he details the programme's progress, and some of the strange things that go on.

BBC Assembler: Machine talk - 3 pages (12-14)
 * Assembly language, machine code, operating system - what do these pieces of jargon mean? Here, John Ferguson and Tony Shaw set you on the road to under standing what happens inside the BBC micro

Programmer's Forum - 2 pages (16-17)
 * This is the start of a new column in Acorn User. In the next three issues, Ian Birnbaum will be providing ideas on increasing the programmer's control and understanding of the BBC micro.

Adverts
Games
 * Software For All - BBC Micro: Zombie Island, Row of 4, Galactic Intruder, Time Traveller, Beebtrek, J.R., Polar Bear, Car Wars - Alien Planet, Space Kingdom - page 5
 * Futura Software - BBC Micro: Space Games Pack One, Space Games Pack Two - page 40
 * Computer Concepts - BBC Micro: Asteroid Belt, Chess, Hitch-Hiker's Guide, Snake, Reversi - page 43
 * IJK Software - BBC Micro: Star Trek - Candy Floss, Cassette Two, Mutant Invaders, Breakout, Beebmunch, Super Hangman, 3D Maze, Model A Invaders, Model B Invaders - page 48
 * Level 9 Computing - BBC Micro: Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest - page 55
 * C.J.E. Microcomputers - BBC Micro: Missile Control, Maze Man, Balloons - page 56
 * Beebug - Games 1, Games 2, Games 3, Games 4 - page 63
 * Micro Power - BBC Micro: Alien Destroyers, Chess, Adventure, Asteroid Belt, Seek, Galactic Commander, Footer, Meteor Battle, Laser Command, Martians, Reversi II, Maze Invaders, Roulette, Timetrek, Eldorado Gold - page 66

Other Credits
Sub-editor
 * Ann Nimmo

Production
 * Susie Home

Editorial Secretary
 * Jane Lake

Publisher
 * Stanley Malcolm