Computing with the Amstrad Issue 2

Issue dated February 1985 and priced at £1

Regulars
Contents - 2 pages (4-5)

Ready Reference: Graphics - 1 page (20)

Amstrad Analysis: Trevor Roberts - 1 page (54)

Postbag - 2 pages (63-64)

News
Page 7 Page 8 Page 9
 * Amstrad gets top game: Elite being converted to Amstrad
 * Two disc drive systems on way: Amstrad (3") and Timatic Systems (5¼")
 * Policy pays off
 * Sorcerers: Swords & Sorcery from PSS
 * and Dragons: The Saga of Erik the Viking from Mosaic.
 * Snooker: Steve Davis Snooker and Castle BlackStar from CDS
 * Your CPC can answer back: Speech synthesiser from DK'Tronics
 * Towering success...
 * Now CPC464 gets Forth: Ams-Forth 1.11 from Skywave Software
 * Help the birds: Osprey from Bourne Educational Software
 * Amstrad tots up the TV Top Ten: Amstrad used on CBTV
 * Kim goes on: Return to Eden from Level 9

Features
First Steps: Write your own programs - Mike Bibby - 4 pages (10-13)
 * Second in Mike Bibby's helpful series for beginners.

Graphics: Ink, ink everywhere nor any drop to spill - Michael Noels - 3½ pages (15-18)
 * Michael Noels shows how easy - and how useful - it is to change the ink in your Amstrad's pen

Simon: WEND your way along the path to programming - Peter Bibby - 4 pages (22-25)
 * Pete Bibby shares his first experiences in writing games for the Amstrad computer - and invites you to play with the result.

Machine Code: Once you get the knack binary numbers are easy to handle - Mike Bibby - 4 pages (30-33)
 * Part II of Mike Bibby's guide to machine code

Sound: It's amazing what you find in an envelope - Nigel Peters - 4½ pages (37-41)
 * Part II of our series on putting sound on the Amstrad by Nigel Peters

Bits & Bytes: There are two schools of thought on subtraction - do you borrow or just decompose? - Mike Bibby - 2 pages (48-49)
 * Mike Bibby continues his series of articles aimed at lifting the veil of mystery cloaking the fundamentals of the Amstrad CPC464's workings.

REMarks: Al's Beat - Alan McLachlan - 2 pages (50-51)
 * Alan McLachlan continues to prowl the whacky, whimsical world of Amstrad CPC464

Type-Ins
The Kingdom of Craal - Mike Bibby - 4 pages (26-29)

Digger! - Paul Benedict - 3 pages (34-36)

Text Editor - Roland Waddilove - 5 pages (56-60)

Reaction Timer - Alan McLachlan - 1 page (62)

Other Credits
Features Editor
 * Peter Bibby

The A Team
 * Mike Bibby, Alan McLachlan, Kevin Edwards

Production Editor
 * Peter Glover

Layout Design
 * Heather Sheldrick

News Editor
 * Mike Cowley