PersonalComputerNews077-8Sep1984.pdf

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REGULARS
Monitor
2
page
3;
Protek acou
st1ccouplcrbrcaks
price barrier.
page 4;
Acorn
and
Fut ure lake 1he
gloves off.
page
5.
Suppliers rally
rou
nd
Orie. page
2:
OL
users
gel alternative
operat
ing
system.
September
MENU
8 1984
No77
Amstrad scrollwork 22
A
set or simple
machine
code rout
ines
will have
your
Arnst rad
screen scro
ll-
ing
merril
y
up and down.
PERIPHERALS
Pen-pal
PCNCharts
Charting
1
he
fortunes
of
wi1h
our weekly
update
.
28
6
your
The
Par
fitt
plotter is
much
more than
j
us1
a
handy 1001for
drawin
g grap
hs
favou
rite
game or
micro made
easy
and pictu res. as
Kcnn
Garroch
dis-
covers.
RandomAccess
Readers· letters: an amused
\'icw
reviewe rs
arc
hauled
over the
coals.
9
or
SOFTWARE
lh
e
I
magine
fiasco. and
PCN'
s
QL
VersatileMcVid
32
Playing
around ,, ith
sp
rites
and
graphi N on
the
BBC
is
eas
ier
with
th
e
Routine Inquiries
ore 64 and Spectrum
primers.
10
COVER
STORY
M
cVid package
from
Pica
Sofl\\are.
at
your
disposal.
This
week
,,c answer
questions on
1
Ams1rad.
Commod-
hc
All 1he
1echnical know-
how
of
l'CN
is
Sweetsixteen
24
Comprehensible
Coma/
and
a
Commdore 64.
35
Microwaves
and
Spec
tru
m
owners.
14
Co
mmod
ore
has decided
1 1ry
and
0
fo
ll
ow
up
the
enor
mo us
success or
th
e
1ryou've
eve
r
wondered
how to
tc:,ch
a
novice
stru cture
d
programming.
here
is
the answer.
Just
give
them
Comal
Vic
20
by prod
ucing
a
successor.
With
16K RAM and
general
improvements
Thi
s
week's
bundle of
rnicrocomput-
ing
lip
s
help
Ams1rad.
BB
C.
E
lcclron
o
n the
Vic-i
n
so
mcwayseve n
onth c
64
=-
che
Cl6
is a winner
. says
Barry
M
iles.
GAMEPLAY
Readout
help
you
make
a choice.
16
SPECIALS
Commodore64/
18 Atari
36
So
me
fine con1ribut
ions
for
their
1,,0
mac
hines:
a
fascinat
ing
3-D space
arcade
game
and a grapfiic adventure
based
on
the
TV
se
ries
Dallas.
Another
small sa
mple
of
the
vast
numbers
of
micro
books
av~ilab
lc.
to
Arrayedforaction
Software Pre-View 30
Rounding
up lhe Ja
es1 crop of soft -
1
Arrays
arc easy
to
adapc
to
yo
ur
needs
whe
n
writing an adve
n
tu
reerogra
m
-
Ken
Garroch
shows
how
its done.
ware package
s
to
a
rrive
a
l
PCN.
Amstrad
co
nvert
ed
for
l
he
31
ere
464.
Billboard
Carrying
on
the
1radition of
the
bargain base
men
t
,
pick up
a good
buy
on ou
r
second-hand equ
ipm
ent
page
.
\Ve've
rounded
up
another
collection
of
well-known
games
tha
t
have
bee
n
PROGRAMS
Quit/ Datelines
48
Atari BOO
for
money.
38
I
Conclud
ing
on
a ligh1hear1e
no1
we
d
e.
laugh
al
our
own
and
01her peop
les
foib
les
and lei
yo
u kn
owwhal so
n
and
A
noth
er
implementa
tion
of
a famou s
arcad
e
game.
but
an
exceptionally
good one and particula
rl
y good valu e
where.
PCN
SEPT'EMBER 819&t
l
h-starved
Major
crcdimrs of cas
0
Orie
ProdUC"ts"ere
due
1
act
of seeing the compan)
through
its
75)
probkm.$
(as.saH:
CWTt"nl
The
current
cash probknu 'Acre
made
\lrl"Ol'K
last 1,1,cck*hen One
went to
court
to
answer a
writ
fr
om
Creditorsrallyto Orie
.,.~-
toge
ther
thas
"cclr.
lO•'O rl
ou
t
•l)
"S
tsad\'Cr
tmngagcncy.claim-
KMP
,
1
1ng
£200.000
1n
unpaid bills
This
IS OM
of
the:
ac1IOl1S
thal
released the uJco(
\p«Ul:uaonO\cr
One.
Thc
cour t thr
ew
out a counte
r
claim
fr
om
One
1ha1
KMP had
JUSt
prov,dcd
11
*llh ..,.,,ongfol
advice director
'
II
1<S-
go1n1
through
a
mcc11n1
that may
take
plact:."
he
problem
.
There
a
rc
a
lot
said.
and ordcr cd1hecompanytopay
th
c
cash
Oow
Industry
analysts
suucs
t
1ha1
money
it
owes along
wi1h
KMP
's of orders
in
hand.·
HcoonfirmcdthatiOmc
ofOnc "s
One
's
debts arc more than co\·crcd
lcgaJoosi.s
o,,.ncd
by
0
h
IS bclte\ed
that
One
o-AN its
creditors •trc
m«.hn&
1
d1JCUSS
by
value of the
pc--opc:rty
Edc:nspnnaln\utmcnts,Onc'spa-
crcd.11on a
tocal
of around
£4 "ays
of
hclpng One: out
"Most
ors
arc \Cry
support1\·e
of
ren1
company.
milhon
,
but not
all
of them arc
as
crcd11
Bui
sclhn g orf
property
ISSC:lS
is
1
amuous
IS
KMP
1osccure
1mmcdi· One
:
he
s.a d.
some1hmg of a
dr3.511cm
eas
ure
10
ol\edin1hed1scuss1onsis
Also 1nv
a
te
paymcn1.
I
,
Assembly
and
Au1omat1on
E
lec-
Hi1ach1
_.h.ch
supp
lies
di.sir.dm
cs
meet _.h,u may
JUS be sho
rt term
debts
and
other componen
ts
10
One
tron1CS
,
the
company
th
11
manufac-
tQOmCis
that
A
more bkcl)' OU
lbc:k,
H1tad11's
product
Andy
K.J.
1urcs
the
Atmos.
IS
talun&
a sym-
pa1hctteH
ewofOnc'sd
1fhcult1CS
manaser.
YMI
that
11
"'"'"&S
'onl)
a 0nc·scrcd11orsw,Haircc1o
r
cschc-
th
c
moncy•ill
not
hcdcbtsso
·w e arc
fa 1rlyconfidcn1
that One \'cry
small
creditor'
but
refused 10 dule
1
I
ha,'C tobc
paid
un11 prc-Ch nstm
aJ
0
will
be
able
to meet
its
debu.· said
go
1n1
a
ny further
detail.
to pr
ej
udice
a
ny
sales sta
rt
to
take
off.
not
'
I
•,••ould like
h
Kc11
Arnold, A&A
's
ma naging
~~~-
~~~~~~
Tandymakesfirst cut to
cost of book-sizeportable
Tandy has
C'UI
the
pr
ice of
IIS
A4·sizcd
Model
100.
the l,.s1SC"nes
of
Tandy
ruts
but possibly the
ope
ning
fflOl
1n
a
portaibk
pncc
war
.
Apart from
a
short
promouon
earl
icrth1S)CU, Tandy has
hdd
the
price
o(
the popular Model
100
sicady
since
its
launch
las1Jui
)
Out
from
Stp1embc
r
I
,
the
8
K
,crsaon
check.sin
at
£449.
00-
n
£50,and
the
24
K model
11
£.579,
a rcduc
uon
of
£70from 1hcpntt 1agof1he
IJ,t
12
months
csman.satd that
Modcl
100
A
spo._
had
been
'an
unquahf,cd success
from
Tandy's point of
\'IC.,.',
bu
t
he
added
om1nou~y that 1hc
price
cuts
had
been
prompt
ed by
·a
desire to
in
remain
rompc:1111\·c the
lap-held
market' land)'
'$
main
rompct1·
tors. the
NCC
8201A and 1he
'
011,Clh
M
IO. come
m
11£475
and
£499
rcspccta\.ely.
Camputers
deal closer
crs
It
kloks
as
t
hough Campu
1
may
ha,
·c
found
I
savio
ur
,n
pnnt1n
g and
stationery
mult1-na1k>nal
Sptttrs
International
A
spokesman ror Camputcrs'
hqutda1or
Hacker
Young
con·
firmed
that
talks w11h
Spictrs
'lllere
at an
adva nced
stage. al1hough
he
declined
1oc:ommcnt
on
\!,,hatshape
a pocen11aldcal "'OUld take
Spiocn
also
dcd
mcd
10
com-
ment
.
Thcd1rce1orincharccofthe
s
ncgotLlllOns
1
curre
ntly
a"
.31)
on
his
honeymoon
BBCbusinessprices on roller coaster ride
The
Acom
Z80
second procn\Or
hasJumpc-d£100in
price
10099-
but"hat
)OU
lose
on
the
sw1ns,
,·ou
may
gam
on 1hc round:1bout
,
be
·
cause the pncc o
f
the
BBC
tingle
10£199
disk hucomc down
b)
£.SO
at the 1ame 11mc
The
Z80
board.
launched ,n
May
(Muc:61).comcswnh\'IOOUSIICms
of bu
ndled
sof1ware
beside
s
CP
M
2.2 and GSX.
Is
is the
cos1 o
r
suppor
tin
g 1h1ssor1-
·arc
1ha1 has
been 1he ma,n
cause
of
the
poce:
mcreasc
-
ror dealers to offer a
reasonable
1trv.ce
Acom has had
to
p\
·e
them
larcc
r
margins
.,.
Acorn musclesin on Torch
Acom
1smak.mg
itself
felt
at Torch
s
Computers
even
bcrorc
11
ai
rced
takco,·cr
is
finahscd.
It
has
replaced Torch
s
ch11rman
and
manaa,ing
director
Bob
Gil
kes
Wlth
Pe
ter
O'Kttfc. Acorn
's
11lcs
du
ttto
r
.
Mr
O'Kecfc..,.,llcombine
the
job of ch
ief
cxccut1,·e
at Torc
h
with
his
CJ:is1ingposition
at
Acorn
.
In
a stateme
nt from A
corn
Mr
"111
O'Kccfc 1aKIthat
hlS
first
tas._
be
·10
give
a
strong 1alcs--lcd
dir«clOG to Torch
's
manaccmcnt'
and
•c1evdop
Torch's cred1bthty
10
enabl
e
the firm to
capture
large
market
shares.'
0
__
disk
The
reduction
in
the
IOOK
dnvc
comes.
Acom
ll)S.
from
morccffl(1entsourccsofsup
pl
)
a
nd
tl\'c
It
the need 10 remain
compc11
foUows
a
barely
publicised
rcduc·
K
tionof£10Sto 1he
pncc:or1hc SOO
dual
d1Y: dm
·c.
"'"hteh
llQY.
costs
Uf19
Acorn
's
zso.,11
h t"
'Odi.sk
dm·cs
s11llstru glcs
tobccompc111
1,e"'11h
the
Torch
Z80
Disk
Pack
for pnc:c
K.
- T
orch's ZDP240 a.ives SOO
a
Z80.andbundkdbusincu10f1.,·arc
fo,£.80:S.And fo,uscnasscmbhnaa
business S)'1tcm around
a
BBC
m
lCfO
there is the rur1hcr
ahcr
na·
tne
of
the Rade
RSO
board
(wuc
76),
.,,hteh
lcts)'OU
ptek
1hcsof19,-a.re
you9,an1 Acomhasnoplansatthc
moment
1oorrcr
a
Z80
unit
\l,ailhout
panying
50(t
"warc.
the
act<>m
Tbc
Acorn ZSO'i«Ond p«,ccsM>r
has
been sc:lhng
"b)
the
thou5and
'
C\CI)
mon1h. a
rom~
n)
'P()lCS·
1
m1n
~td
Where
the
BBC
is
bc
1n
used
a\
the
hub
of
a
hu,incstS)'5tc
m
ca
A
corna1m)to gc1a,
cl())C1s
11 nt
o
c
the
mainframe
m1n1
o
mputcr idea
rnlr.
of
a
t1,1 e) S)')lcm.
~here
)OU
SIMpl)
'tCI
II
up. plug
1n
Ind
JO·
0
Out
CP
M
is
popular enough
1
ts09,n altcrnatl\(')
offe
r 1
llu
s
1mphcd
muasm ofTon:-h"s
existing
managemenl
may
go some
waytou pla1ning MrGilk
cs'dcpa
r·
lure. In the
usual
cup
hem,sllC'
langua,e
thal
these kind
Of
$late·
mcnt
s
arc
couched
1n. A
com
SA)"S
th
at
~trG,I ..
~
'has
resigned lotalr.c
s
up
0
1hcr 1n1ercst 1n
1hc
rompu1cr
indu
stry.'
Howc
..cr
,
so
urces
close
10
Torch
sugci11
ha1Mr
Gilkes
was
asked
to
leave
afte
r
Acom
complained
to
Cap1tal.
Nc-A'ffl.lrket Venture
Torc:h'srurrc.
nt
O'vi'ncrs
Acom
was
far
from
pleased
with
the
way
1ha1
Mr
Gilkes
si1ncd
an
cxclus.l\'c
licensing
•greemcnt with
Data Tedmol
ogtes
10 manufX1utt
and market the Graduate
IBM·
comp111blc add-on
for
the
BBC
mc
o.
Thi
s was
in
confllC't
with
Acorn
's
plans
in
the
11mc
d1r«cion.
In
fac1. the
Graduate
ts
sull
c.xpcncnang teething
probkms
and
the Wtcst
des.Ip chan1c 1sthe
add1tt0n of a fan to
cope
with
ng
o,·erhc111
problem
s.
Acom-
asalso
unh
appyw11h
the
•"'IY
that Torch
Jumped
1hc gun 1n
lbc
11
..
CO\cr plans
annouDOn&
before
they
•·ere
comple
te.
Offi.
cially:
'ncgo
uations
arc now
.,,ell
advanced ror the takeo\·cr to
be
compl
eted
.'
Mr
O'
Ked c's
1ppo.ntmc
n1
more
questions
tha
n
a
ns.,,·crs
ra.iscs
asto
whyA
c:omisbu yingT orc
h
and
what
it
proposes 10
do
w11hit.
d1nthe
statc
mcntthatit
A
oorn s.&J
cxpcas
To,ch to
pr
O\.lde 1
·r.nn
platform
'
fo,
its
thru
it into
the
business marlr:t:t. Yet
1n
an
uc:lu-
Sl\C an1crvtew•·ith
P
CN
last month
(issue 72) . Chris
Curry,
Acorn
's
td
chai
rman
.
sa
th
at
the company
"-as
going ahea
d
w11h
its
plans to
launch
a range
of
business
machiocs
of
its°"'"'"
thlS
Autumn
With
Torch
a.nd
Acorn
o
rrering
competing ranges
of
busmcs.s
mic
·
ros someth
ing will
ha,c
10g1\'C.
PCN SEPTE
MBER
8198t
QDOS
underfire
A change
of
heart from GST
Co
mpu1cr
S)"Slcms
has
g
i\'Cn
SulC·
la1rOLuscrs
ad
ircctahc rnam
cco
the
ODOS
opcra11ngsys1cm.
its
Ongmall
yGSTplanncd
iosc:11
68K/OS muh
i-iaslmg
operat
ing
!~~~
7s~r7::U~ ·i
:u:a6;)ra~~~r:
~;
rcaclio n to
1hc
68KJOS
has
been
so
good1ha111hHdcc1dcd1ooffcri1on
mail-order 1oend users.
·we
d
idn·1
._no"
v.hat 1hc
de·
expansion
port
or
1hc
QL.
The
boa
rd
includes 1v.o ,pare 16K
EPROM
sod
.eh
for
ROM-based
sort
....
arc
and a
s.,..1
10
allow the
tch
u~r 10
sclcc1 enh cr
0005
o
r
68Kt0
S
mull
i·
::
1ad,mg. mull
,ple
screen
"
1
ndowi.
and
de\'1cc.1ndcpcndent 1nput.'ou1·
put,
and it works
with
b11-mappcd
grap
h~
A pipe u1thl) allows
you
:~
;::~~rr
d:r:g~:~'
~n;n~;;s;;
currem
ly.
1
11
sq~:t
2
:~~nt~
3
~t~!~~
~
;()~~.still
GST
be 1nclud1ng
"11h
the
board
a
1apcronuun
1
nga 1c"<ted11or
ant~
l~:~sf:::,OUli~:iOCUS:ht
O
OUI
INBRIEF
End
an
era?
of
E\1dcncc
is
moun1ing that home
..-.~;}~I~~
foll
~~9~.
\Crsion of 11s
68(XX)
assembler
for
68K/OS. Called
68K/AS
M
11
sells
for
£39.95.
lmliall
y
sof
t....
are ror
68KIOS
is hlc
ly
10
be
m
short
supply.
GST
is
""orling
on
a
word
proccssor "'·h1ch
should
be
ready
::rt
~!~:~n~
follo"ed by
Pascal
One
produ
c1
1ha1-.on
'1
be
avail·
ab
le
isa
6RKIOS \e~ion
of
Ps,on's
1
n1egra1cd
sof1-.arc.
The
!lucc:css of
the opcra1,ng
10 happen
=~
~t~:u~·~
·
o
h
micros
arc
coming 10 the end of
the
Gowling
repor t
(issue 73).
BIS·
Pcddcr's
198-1
census of compu1crs
dete
cts a ·mounting dissatisfaction
want 10
be
more
their
golde
n
age.
Following
~~:~.~~:,~~~
:~i~~a~~:
~~~i:
1
1--'-'
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·~------------!
,~~~n~:n~~:t~
8
:.:C-
group. "c decided
10
change
o
ur
mind.' he said
n;or
r:u;ngi.)~tem~mCSOn~
boa
~:.=~~~
1
0
68KJOS
prOJe<:1
al
GST
'After
1
~:
!1,~!~~rt~~~~~
1
~
:;r
1 ~il~h~!
ancrsgo
car
pctclc
1
is unlikely
on
any
(ig;
•~ca~~~~::~r~:! ~:::~~~!~;on
s
bctwcc
nGST
andhardwa
rema nu·
racturers :1bou1puttin
g
1hc
operat-
~~'SblCa~•dOnm!,OO<CrOSn
.10
be
launched
As
a
r
esult ,
lhe
co
mpan
y con-
elude$,
you'
re
likely
IO
forsa ke
ga
mesmic rosa ndnotrcplactthem.
It
describes
this
as
lhe home
;::~r~~~b~~~drs~:'·;~:~
1hrough
the
roof
.
Commodore
boom
's
Commodore
U
K
has
rounded off
thcyca
rinwhi
chitgaintdthe
Royal
:,~:.a~
~:~~
~~~"!.!:
,':'
Ore
IOOk$J.27 billion.
bUI
l985
is
"'II
c";;~i~~~
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or
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ad10
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.,p
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Early nscr
s
can
look
forward
to
a
new
series of
BBC Rad io's
Ch
ip
s
Shop.
which
from Sep1embcr
29
1
s
open
ing
for
business on
Radio
I
:1
well
as
returning on Radio
.i
.
Unh
ke
normal
chip :s
hops
1he
Radio
I
\ersion
is
on at 7
.33
am.
A
bonus
for the bleaf}-c)'ed
is
that
II
wdl be graced
by
PCN's popular
Games Charts
.
The program.
pre-
sented
by
D
avid
Free man,
"ill
run
until
about 7.45a
m
.
Radio
I
will
a
lso
be b
roadcast ing
software
in the Ba.sicodc
for
mat
ar
Sunday morn
ing.
Th
e
BBC
has
issued
a
n upgraded
\'ersion called
8asicodc2
+,
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snowsu
11ablc
for
the
Spectru
m
.
MSX
range
.
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lectron.
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o
n
and Orie
SYS·
1.S
terns
.
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Basicodc
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Broadcasting
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Services. 2 Cater
Road
.
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OSll
Radio
l
will
be
1nvi1ingyou
10 try
your
hand
a
t
sub
mitt
ing
Bas1codc
program
s
for tran
smiss
ion
-
bu1
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should
no1e that since the
Dutch
originators of
Basicodc in-
tended it
as a
non-profit-making
\'en1ure,
you're not
like ly
to
s«
muc h
inthcwayofrcwards.
The returning
Radio
4
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Shop
.
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Autumn
bona
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of
new
50f1warcisuponusagain
.
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rcleascsfromHewson.Micro-Gen.
andannounce
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fromSoftware
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s,
amongs
t
ot
hers,
Scpt em·
bcr
1984
looks
very promis
ing
indeed
on 1he softwa
r
e
front
.
Ouick.silva is
due
to
release
a
uthor
Sandy
White's follow,up
1
0
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ill
bcca
lled
ZombtCZombicw
ill
cost£6.9Sand
will
use
Wh11
special
program·
e's
mingt«hn
1
que1oc
r
ea1ean
illusion
of
thr
ee dime
nsio ns.
Aversionof'AntAuack
'fo
rthe
Commodore
64
has
been
pr
omised
for some
lime
and it
now looks
as
if
patient 64
owners
"
'On't
have
10
wait
m
uch
longer
.
Whit
e
Lightni ng.
featured
on
the
cover of PCNissue74.hasa11
rae1ed
eno
ughint
erestfo
r
twouscrg
roups
to
be
formed
.
Occam and
Sanyo
MBCSSOgroupsha\·calsobcenscl
up
in
th
e
last
two
week
s.
The
White Lightning
groups arc
at
The
Mode l
Shop. 10-16
Queen
Belfast.
an
d
Mr
M
Richard
s.
8
VktoriaRd,
Roche.Cornwall.
The
Occam
User
Group's secretary ,s
Dr Michae
l
Poole,
lnmos Ltd.
Whit
cfriars.
Lcwins
Mead. Ons tol
BSI
2NP.
Sa
n)·o
users
should
co
ntact Tom D
ra
ke
.
143
Glc
bc
Avenue,
lckenham,
Middlesex
UBIO
SPF.
nw
.
s,.
AriesRampage
Memory
expansion
for 1he
BBC
comes
a
liulc cheaper
asa
result
of
Aries
Co
mput
ers'
(0233
862614)
decision
10
cu
t
the price or
its
8
20
Axehits Atari 600XL
Jack Tra miel's
axe
has fa
llen
on the
Atari
600X
L
.
H
eads have rolled
down
1he
corridors of
th
e executive
suite since
his
1 keo\'e
r
of
A1ari-
a
now
the
product
ra nge
is suffering
itsfirstcasuallie
s.
The
600XL
is
not yet
oHicia
lly
discontinued
in
1he U
K
but
a
spokesman
said
last week: 'The
main
em
phasis
now
is
on
the
£200
in this
cou
nt
ry.
20K
RAM
pack.
The
expansion
pack
comes down
by mo
re
than
JO
pe
r
cent
10£79
.95.
II
coincides
with
the launch
of
1he
B
12sideways
ROM
e
xpa nsio n
uni!
,
and also
with
an
uncompr
om
ising
denunciation by
Aries
or 'c
heap
imitations'
oft
he
8
20.
Thc
600XL's
number
came up
t.,.,'O
-.·eeks
ago.
when it
100
came
dov.·n in price to below
£100
.
Pr
ior
10
th
is (iuue 74),
a
London store
jumped
lhc gun
b
y
o
rrcring
it
at
£99.99.
Atari
will
con
tinue
to support 1he
61XtXL,and
the
co
m
pat
ibilhy
wilh·
in its range
will ensure
that
users
aren't
left
high
a
nd dry.
They
will
also
ha,
·e
the optio
n
of adding the
IIOOL."
X
Atari
's
market
r
esearc
h
,
he
said.
i
howed that
th
e
mar ke1
(i,:
peop
le
buying
mteros)
was
moving
towards
64Kmac
hincs.1"hc64K800XL"ill
naturally
take
precedence O\'er
the
600X
L,
which
will contin
ue 10
be
sold while
curre
nt
stocks
last.·
The
exp
ression
·cun
ent stocks'
is
the
dea
th knell
for
the
6CNlX
Mr
L.
Tr
amiel. founder of Commodore
and
now
apparen1ly
determined
10
grind
the
co
mp
any
he
founded into
the
dust. is repo
r
ted in
the
US
to
ha\·e discont
inued
all
Atari's ho
me
micros with the
excepti
o
n
of
1hc
800XL.
That machine
now costs
£90
memory module
that
effective-
ly
turns
it
into an
800X.L.
As
to
the
futur
e,
Atari
U
K
ha
s
cance
lled
a
pr
ess conference at
which
Jac k
Tramicl was
to
ha,·c
$J)Okenon
his
view
of
the
com
p
any's
development.
Th
e
reason
given
was
that
further
developme
nt
s
of new
produc
ts
demand his
auen1ion
in
these v.ill
be the 8-bit.
lhc
16-bit
and
32-bit
mach
ines
that
it
is
s.a
10 be
wo
rking
on
id
us
-
ACT IBM
to
swap
New
softwa
re from
Aps1o
r
(0273
422512)
will
let
users
of
IOM,
Sirius
and Apricot systems interchange
data
by means
or
removable
car-
1ridge
storage devices.
The
arrangement
appl ies
to Ap.
sto
r's Beta
5,
Alpha
10
a
nd Gamma
20un
its.
Centuoy.....-
Pocke
t-monc.y
software bega
n
as
a
breakthrough.
beca
me
a
trend, and
is
now
almost
slandard
with
1he
emergence of
anot
her
comp any
st
lling
ga
mcs
for £1.99
.
Century
City Software
(0384
57f/T1)
haJ
launchc
d
four Spcc1rum
games
at £
1.99.
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