Acorn User Issue 8

This issue was dated March 1983 and cost £1.

Regulars
Contents - 1 page (1)

Beeb Forum - Ian Birnbaum - 2 pages (15-16)

User Groups - 1 page (63)

Your Letters - 2 pages (91-92)

Acorn News
News Headlines - 2½ pages (3-4,6)
 * Second processor timings - (3)
 * Micros in intensive care - (3)
 * Telesoftware launch due - (4)
 * Digit-a-pic: The Digitiser System - (4)
 * Memory back-up: from Greenwich Instruments - (4)
 * Beeb Forth toolkit: from Level 9 Computing - (4)
 * TV Robot link to micro: The Buggy from Economatics - (4)
 * Autoprommer: Eprom programmer with Auto-run - (6)
 * NEC to launch micro courses - (6)

Features
BBC Update: Spinning Off from the Micro - David Allen - 1½ pages (8-9)

Music on a Micro - 4 pages (19,22-24)
 * Jim McGregor and Alan Watt assess the values and limitations of the sound facilities on the BBC micro, and show how it can be used for serious instrumental synthesis

Hints and Tips: Shine the Light - 8 pages (27,29-31,33-34,39-40)
 * Joe Telford builds a lightpen for £17 and writes the software to run it on the BBC micro - with or without the Tube

BBC Assembler: Indirect Addressing - 3 pages (41-43)
 * Tony Shaw and John Ferguson show how to work with a variable or computed address in memory.

Micros in Schools - 8 pages (45-52)
 * Ruth Townsend and Paul McGee advise on the choice, and use of, software for teaching mathematics to primary pupils. Good programs are the only way to develop the potential of the micro - but some topics are best left to other tools, such as Bigtrack or Simon.

Atom: Excellent on Strings - 1 page (64)
 * Bruce Smith gives his verdict on the Ross utility EPROM as a toolkit

Atom: Analogue Converter - 2 pages (67,69)
 * Paul Beverley gives the circuitry for a high resolution digital to analogue converter using a single output from the Atom.

Atom: Hints on Using the BBC Board - 2 pages (71-72)
 * Last month Barry Pickles reviewed Acornsoft's BBC Basic Board for the Atom. Here, he gives some ideas on using it.

Printers for Beginners - 3½ pages (83-84,86-87)
 * George Hill introduces you to the ins and outs of 'hard' copy. He starts off with a description of the types available.

Reviews
Micro Takes on Chess Machine - 3 pages (11-13)
 * John Vaux set three programs for the Beeb against each other - and a dedicated chess machine. Featuring Chess from Program Power, Bug-Byte and Computer Concepts

Microprimer - neat package but short on software - Heather Govier - 2 pages (53,56)

Software Reviews - 2 pages (57-58) Book Reviews - 2 pages (79-80)
 * Billiards - H&H Software - Alan Pipes - (57)
 * Eldorado Gold - Program Power - Alan Pipes - (57)
 * Dissassembler - Program Power - Phil Garratt - (57)
 * Tess - H&H Software - Alan Pipes - (57)
 * Reversi - Program Power - Phil Garratt - (57)
 * Painting, Drawing - BBC Soft - Paul Beverley - (58)
 * Footer - Program Power - Phil Garratt - (58)
 * Programs 1, Programs 2 - BBC Publications - C.M. - (58)
 * Assembly Language Programming for the BBC Micro - Tony Shaw and John Ferguson - (79)
 * Pascal from Basic - Jeremy Bennett - (79-80)
 * Graphs and Charts on the BBC Microcomputer - Alan Watt - (80)

Other Credits
Editorial Assistant
 * Kitty Milne

Production
 * Peter Ansell, Tina Teare

Publisher
 * Stanley Malcolm