Your Spectrum Issue 1

This issue was cover-dated January 1984 and cost 95p.

Frontlines
Page 5 - ZX Tapeloader, Spectrum operating relay, Spectrum tidy unit, Forth

Page 6 - Interface 2 allows software to be supplied on cartridges

Page 7 - Microdrive feature, Sinclair flat screen miniature television, Sinclair ZX84?

Page 11 - Cattell IQ Test, Battle of the tapes: Spectrum Computing and 16/48 (Roger Munford)

Page 14 - Spectrum Micro Drive Book and Mastering Your ZX Microdrive reviewed (Roger Munford), Scope (Computer graphics language), Auto-Start cartridge

Page 15 - Petron Trichord, next issue

Features
Machine Code Breakout - Toni Baker - 1⅓ pages (17,19)
 * Learn the secrets of Spectrum RESET

Go-Faster: Flirting with Forth - Steve Mann- 3 pages (21-22,25)

Moving Graphics of the Horizontal Kind - Toni Baker- 2 pages (26,28)

"sp(ee)ki(ng) of spe(ck)t(rr)ums" - Mark Anson - 2 pages (30-31)
 * Introductory guide to speech analysis on home computers

Talk to me, oh MicroSpeech - Maggie Burton - 1½ pages (33,35)
 * Currah Computer Components's MicroSpeech

Cross Check - Jonathan How & John Nunn - 2½ pages (38-39,43)
 * Spectrum Chess II, Super Chess, Super Chess II, Master Chess & The Chess Player go head-to-head.

DIY Spectrum Keyboard Buffer - Stephen Adams - 3 pages (58,60,63)
 * Comprehensive instructions on linking the Spectrum to an alternate keyboard via its rear expansion port.

Sticking with Ajdustables - Andrew Pennell - pages (64,66
 * Programmable joysticks

Broadening your Communications Spectrum - John McNulty - 3 pages - (71-72,75)

Paperdata - Alan Jowett - 1½ pages (77-78)
 * What is a book?

Circe - Interview with Psion's David Potter - 1 page (96)

Spectrum Soft
Software Round-up - Ron Smith - 3½ pages (47-48,50,53)
 * They came from outer space - Galactic Abductor, Missile Defence, Wild West Hero
 * Graphic adventures - Xadom, Smuggler's Cove, Woods of Winter, Velnor's Lair
 * Fun & games - Bugaboo, Manic Miner
 * Life's little pleasures - Slap Dab, Traxx, Quackers
 * Other stuff - 3D Strategy, Escape MCP, Gridrunner
 * Stimmulating simulations - Chequered Flag, Race Fun, Airliner

Type-Ins
Sir Clive - (80,83)

Showdown - (85-86,91)

Gnashers - (91-92)

Other Credits
Contributing Editor
 * Roger Munford

Technical Editor
 * Ron Smith

Editorial Consultant
 * Andrew Pennell

Software Consultant
 * Gavin Monk

Production Editor
 * Derek Cohen

Contributors
 * Guy Kewney, Phil Manchester, Toni Baker, Steve Mann, Stephen Adams, John McNulty, Mark Anson, Maggie Burton, Alan Jowett, John Nunn, Jonathan How

Art Editor
 * Jimmy Egerton

Publisher
 * Stephen England