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ho...,the MTX
micr
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a
po
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for the
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the
po....
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of
the
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c
20
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and
rcla1ed matter
.
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place to
buy and sell
micros
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PRO-TEST
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PROGRAMS
Fun
and
frus1ratio n
with Chinese
Ju
ggler and
Pub
Ques
t.
BBCgraphics
Tim Bri
ghtwell shows
how
to
put
co
lour
and
mo\'cmcnt m
)·our
Mod
el
B
screen
disp
lays,
Spectrom
48
C
heck
out your
number
skill s
and
1
ry
your
hand
as
a
lank
commander.
l'CN
JUl'IE91984
Lynx
futureisbleak
ByRMphS..ru:rolt
Camputcrs
Ltd. manufacturel'll
of
si:11cmcnt10crcd11or-
Talls
arc s1ill ron11numg
v.,1h
a
po1cn11ath1dckrforthccompanic,
bu1,sunhkcly1ha1an)thmg,,.,,llbc
finahscd
OCforc
Fnday
Th1'>isonl)
thclatc~t m a~ncsof
auempts
10
re.finance
Campu1cr,
~lrcichmg
bad:.
o,cr the J,1'>1
eight
months In the won.ls
of Srnnley
Charle'>,
Camputcr<, chairman. all
ofthem'fellatthetasthurdlc'
Mr Charles v.a,
001 prep.ired to
oon1n1cnt on the nten
1
of 1hc
comp3mc,·
financial
difficuluo
m
ad,an«' of the creditor.'
mceung
tic
did coofirm that 24 member,;;
of staff
had
b«n
made rcdundanl
and1hatfcv.crthanlcns1affrcm,un
on
the
payroll.
'\\c
ma) ha,e
10
reduce the
numbcT'I further.·
he
T?le compan)
,s
ronunu1ng to
trade
on a ·10"'' care and m:untc-
nancc
ba,,s· ·we
hope
10
,hip
ordc
r~m1hencarfuture1fthelcgal
thc:L)·11:.:rangeofmicr~.hasfinally
had1oadm1tdefcatm11s0011lcfor
suro1val.
'The
future
1ndoub1
of the
L)nlfnov.
look,;;
11,ecompan)'
and
11s
s1~tcr
corn·
pan)'
GW
Dc)1gn~n·ice~
Ltd
h:nc
called a crcd11ors·
meeting
for
th1~
Fnda)
made
""hen
a
statement
v.ill
hc:
It
1s
upccicd
1ha1 the
\IJlcment
will n;:,·cal
that the comb1ncddeb1s
of
lxNh
compan1c) arc
O\cr
£100.(NX)
and possibly as
much
as
£1.000.000
Both
oon1panies arc ov,ncd b)
Camputcf) {Iloldmgs)
PLC.
a
pub·
licoomp;myw1th)harcstha1ha,c
been
tndcd
'O\'Cr the counter·
al1hough
1101
on 1he
Stoel
Ex·
change
n~lf
Camputcf'> (llold·
'""''
mgs)
PLC
is
oot
thought
to be
m
debt and.,.111
be
mcluded
m
1hc
not
diHicult1e, can be <,01tcd
out:
he
said
l..ci;all).
a company cannot con·
t1nuctotradc1f111,1nS(ll\cntelccpt
1nc1rcum,1ancn11,hcrcitr)mthc
hc1,t1ntercstsofallpJrtu.:\mcludmg
thccrcd11ors
The onl) cou~ of ae11on that
1)
nov,•
open 10 Campu1crs ,, to
recommend
1ocreduors that rccc
1
-
,
crs or
hquid.ators
be
appomtcd
The cred1tor<i·meeting
prom1<i,C,
tohca\torm)
affair.,.·i1hquc)t1on~
about
1hc
fa1lurc) of the rc-fiMOC·
mg
auempl'> and 1hc role of 1he
hold mg
compan)·
One crucial qucsuon 1,
v,,ho
actuallyov.ns1hcnameandrighl'>IO
the L)n,
compuichand <;0ftv.arc
If
("amputcrs
Ltd
ov.ns
thcm 11
... 111
ha,e
an a~t that could
be
-.old
off
to
partially rcpay the cred110N
If
the) are ov,ned h) Camputns
(
ll
oldmgs)
PLC
-
the parent
compan)· - the creditor)
ma~
find
1ha1
Camputcr,;; I.Id
has,·c
ryfcv.
assets.
If
Campu
tcrs
Lid 1s .,.ound up
andahu)·crcannotbefoundfor1hc
Lynx
u
v.·ould
lea,e
L)O
.'(
users
un~uppoucd
0
ta:~
O\~c~
1~s~
/~n~n;~~
User Group.
\\as not
surpri'-Cd to
hear of
the
compan)'°s
d1fficuh1cs
'1'llc)'
had a
damn
good
computer
and 001
thc
fogg1c~1idea or
how
to
51:lJit:hcsaid
Camputershasbcen)lruggllng10
r:11sc:addmoMI
money
since
last
Oc-tober
In MarchthiS)C.lr,
MrCharlcs
1old
PCN
(hsuc 53)
1hat
agrccmcnt
hadbeenrcachcd.,.11hafinanc1al
conwrhum and 1ha1 the company
...,as ·iust wa11mg for the
Slock
Exehangcpapcrworl
·
Mr
Ch31lei
.,.ould not commcnt
1h1\v.cc:konv.h)·tha1dcalfa
ilcdto
matcr
iah!lt
t~~;~!
Acornaddsto Electron
1s
II
new
depar
tu re
for
Acorn
(though a, one
11me
11
.,.as mooted
asa ponibil,t} forthc
BHC).
Cartndgcs allow f;ht error-free
loadmg. For
Arornsoft. they
pro-
,1dc
a secure mcthod
of
..of1v.arc
pr01«11on 11tccatchisthc-rost
The
first
MX
RO\!
car1r1dgc1.10
bc:iva1labtearefou1 gao1e5, Soap-
pe
r
, S1ar;h1p Command,
ll
oppcr
and CountOO.,.n
10 Doom:
Tree of
Knov.ledgc (an
cdueaoona1
prog·
ram.
and
the
amficiat mtcll
1
gencc
programmmg
langu,1gc
Li)p
The
game) and
Tree
or
Knov.lcdge .,.ill
cos1£1495and L1sp0<1.95
Acom. oot
rcoo.,.ned
for speed)
prOductlC>n periphe
rals.
has pro-
of
•
Acorn halalJ.Orclea..cda
mOd-
emforthclJ
IJCm1cro
duced
an add-on
for
the
Ekc:uon
Pres1clAdaptor11,·,llbe11,allable
w11hn
a reasonable ~pace or
un1c
1
n.c
Plus·
I ,,
an Cl(l)an\ton umt b)
ma,lo
rdcronly.
at
£113
85
A).,.1t
h
o1hcrDBC'penphcrals11
1hat pro,·tdcs
a Ccntron1cs parallel
comes
10
a cream rolourcd c.1"'
prmter
porl. an anak>gJO)"Slld
pon
and
,.,..o
slots for
Acor
nsofi'~
DC.,.
matchmg
the
BBC
micro and v,,1th
ROMcartndgcsof1.,.are
softv.-:irconRO\I
Compared
10
01her
modem-soft·
It
costs
£59.90
and
....
11
be
a,•ailabk from
Elcc1ron
'>t()(l.1,t~
...
arc
packages now
a,·ailablc
it
looks undcrpov.cred
and OHr-
and
on
mail
o
rder
from Vector
Markcung.
priccd
Acorn says the unit can be
It
onl} operate at 1200?5
baudso1ha11tcannot
be
US,Cdv.·nh
's«urclyfi;11cd' toanE
lce1ronand
hullc1m
bo.ifd) and other
J(N)i.J(NI
thecar1ndgcOOtsv.·1II
be
used
for
baud scr,·i~s. and since
there is no
futurchard.,.arcopansionsinclud·
1200;1200halfduplcl modc11
,snot
mganRS-123scna11ntcrface.
The most
noiable om1ss10n from
,·iablc
for usc:r-to·u!ltrcommumca·
the Plus-I
IS
a
mode 7 CJJ).'bLhl) 10
oons
On 1he plus
side.
the m<>Qem
ha.s
alklwthc Electrontorun«oft.,.are
an
au1od1al
featurc.
Telephone
wnllcn
for
the
BUC
micro. Also
numbers
can
be
stored
on
disk or
m1ssingareadi~k1ntcrfa«and1he
tape
and called up tod,al a
number
Tube
for addmg a second proccs-
so
r
It
would
appear that none of
automat1cally
lncludcdm
the
RO~
Sof111,arc
is
these:
can be addcd 10 thc
Plus·!
al a
the
foc,ht) 10 downlo.ld sof,...,are
fu1urcda1c.
from Prc)1cl
and ~1m1lar,ic.,.·data
The
om,nions
arc
1.igmfieant
smcc
Acorn pronm,ed
at
the lime
of
!,CTV!CCS
thtlaunchthat1t.,.ouldc,·cn1ually
Mail
Order
mqumcs
should be
51:nt
to
Vector
Ma,kcting,
London
be
JlOMlhk lo buy add'(Jns
for the
Road. Demngton
F,tatc.
Welling-
Electron that .,.outd lurn
it
into
a
borough.
Nor
thamptonshire
NN8
BBC
micro
Thcrcleasc:ofcanridgesoftv.are
2RL
ITVonthe
microbeat
l"hc
mdcpendent
rv
network
1~
set
on g1,,ing )'Ou )()mtlhmg
to .,.:uch
on lhe tcle,·1s1on
11.hcn)Ou
arcn"t
u,
1
ng11a,a<;,i;reen
llns 11.cd,
{lllursdayJunc
7) a
new)Crtl's of Tham"
Tck,hion·s
Da1abasc:
begms.
On
Samrda).
G
rampian
opens up w11h a M:ric)
called
Bus
·n
Picces
.
And on
TucsdayJu
l)
17thecnhrenci ...orl
will
scrten a documcntat) called
The
Vidcogan1e Game
>---------------------<
rhc
ncw<;enc\ofDarnha,c
ha<;
broadcnrd
us
,;;cope
gcograph1eali)
and
m
the contcot of
11sshows
.
It
...111
gooul
nauon:111);md
"'Ill
abo
feature a
mailbo'(
\oO
that l'rc~•cl
U'>Cr5
will
be
able
to
communicate
11,1\h
1hc
productiOfl
office.
oo
n-
...
load-.of1.,.arc.andialca
Darnhal>t
The ~lailboi 1s
on
newsletter
Prcstcl
page n76
Gramp!,m·~
U11~
Pie«,
ticks-
'n
off at IOam on Sa1urday
11.11h
dcmO!I. cha1. a
problem pagc and
othcrrcjtularfcatures
Tiie
V1dcogamc
Game
I\
a one·
off due to be ,;crccncd at
.i
45pm
on
Jul)l7.
l
nhalfanhournw1llp.tCkm
mter.·
1
ew), comment and news.
.,.,II
umc
for
around
£700
for the
smgle
dm·c
\'CrstOfl
and
around
tll50
for
thct.,.mdm·c,ers,on
A1101hcrnc...
productv.asatouch
tablet
called the
Touchma'>ter.
It
w1ll
start
to
appear
m
1he
shopsm
September
pnccd
at £99v.uha frcc
graphics
program.
Dragon
daun~
that
II
u!>C, m-
Dragon Data rc,calcd
dcta11,or 11s
no,·atl\'C technology 1og1,c
a
256h)
product
stratcg) :it
1he
Consumer
256
resolution
and
a
fast
~amphng
Elcc1romcs
Show at
Earl~
Court
last
rateofco-ordmatcchangcs
.,.cck
lt
w1llbea,;11tablcm,crs1on,for
OntheGECstand
ii .,.a,dcmon-
the l)
ragon.
Commodore 64,
IJUC
stratmg :i
nc11,mxhmecallcdthc
micro
and lhc Spectrum
usmg
Proftss,onal
a,med at bu,mc.'M
lntcrfaccl
users.
lt
v.1llbea",11lablem•er\1onsfor
It
oons1s1sor a
Dragon
64
...nh
the
l)ragon.
Commodore
6-1.
BBC
integral 3.5m
noppy
d1sl
dmcs.
micro and 1hc Spcctrum
u,mg
each
wuh
a 320K capaClt). and
Interface I
bu1lt-1nmodem
l)r:
,gonalsoannounccddcta1lsof
Thc m:ich1nc
run~ the
OS9
mulu- twostartcrpack) for
the Dragon
32
taking opcratmg S)-Stcmand comes One
packages
a
Dragon
32.
data
con1plctc .,.1th
RGB.
compo,11e
rccordcrandlos.ic31Jas1c1u1or
ial
,1dco.
C'cn1rome!I parallel and
The
other tlundle, a
Dragon
32.
RS2J2serialoutput,
da1a
recorder
...-uh
four games
It
"''111 on '>lille
two
months casscncs and a gamc)canndgc
go
m
PCN
JUNE919f!.l
Second
coming
m·<'
w11h
the
Comp;iq
(something
Osbornc!iecms1osetgrca1s1o
rcby)
bu111wouldrnkeas1r:uegyttthmk
10
bnng
u mto hnc
1u1hthe
Epson
PCusers
get
first
sight of
'friendlier'
dBaseIll
Osborne
1s
back
from the dead.
mmus Adam Osborne
and
plus
a
fully por1ablc
IBM
rompahble
The
Osborne
Encore sports
I
2RK
RAM.
&lC86
(CMOS
8086)
cpu.
16x80
LCD
display and
single
360K
5.2Sin
f\opp)
as
standard.and
at n
ine
pounds is
emmen1
ly
pon·
able.
Thebasicumt1saroundhalfthe
size
of
a
bncfcasc.
and
the keyboard
folds down from the mam unu
so
1hat
o·s
vaguely L·shapcd muse
There's
space
for
a second d15k
dm·e ,.·ithin the main umt.
and
Cennon1c-s.
RS232
and
JOO
baud
modcmarea
lsos tandard
Osborne
1src11ccn1onpncmgatthcmoment.
but
it's hkcly
10
sell
m this
counuy
for somc,.hcre bet,.·cen
£1.SOOand
£2.<XKI
The
U
K
launch
of the
machmc
..as
grattd
by
a
hand,asscmbled
beast
th
at
"'as mmus
modem
and
OOtterypackbu1.dcpend1ngon1he
amount the disks
are
accessed. us
enduraocc will
be around fi,·c
hours. It's
scheduled 10
h11 the
slo
res 1nAugu
st
The
Encore
is
intended 10 put
Osborne back at
1he
forefront
fothe
portable
markel,
but
lhe
company
seems to
be
aiming
more
at
the
PC-oompa11blema1kctra1herthan
at
the Illes
of
Apple
and
Epson
Ccnaml)
the
price ..
111
compcll-
be
ColecoAdamreachesshops
should start appcarmg
on the
shcl\·esofSpectrumdcalers,.·1thm
1hcncxt"'
·eck
Ph
ilip
Gibbs. marketing direc1o
r
of
CBS ElcctrontcS told
PCN
las1
week that ,.,.o
consignments of
Adamsv,'t're'onthewatcr'fromlhc
US v,hcre lhc
S)'Sltm
is manufac·
tured(
lssue37).
But he
addtd
that 1t 1s unlikely
that
thcAd;im ...1llbca\'a1lablc1n
large
quan1111es unul later 1n 1he
month.
CBS
is current!) m\es11gatmg
othtroutlt
tsfo
rthcAdam
.
..
The:
long-awaited Colcro Adam
--
dBasc
Ill
1s(nca
rly)herc.
Ashlon
1hantheCompaq.butthesucccssor
Tate has
announced
an imprO\'Cd
1hcmachmcwilldependoncustom·
\'Crsk>n
or
1
suettssru
l
da
1
1S
ab.asc
crsthmlrangof1tasanaltcmat
ivc
languagedBasc
II
.
rather than
an adJuctto a dcsk·top
To
be released
simultaneously
in
mu:ro.
And.
as
far as nc:111bll11y
the US and Britain in ·mid-June'.
1s
ron«med,Osborne
hassull had10
dBasc
lll
willcoMS69S-a
On1ish
1udc
off
lap,portab1hty
against
pricchasn'1ye1bcenfixed.EJtis1ing
producmg
a
true
desk1op
cqu11·a-
dBasc
II
owners will be ab
le
10
upgrade for the price difference
kn1.
A~
far as
O!.bornc 1tsclr
is
belwccn the 1wo products.
d8asc
Ill
offers 'over
a
billion
conttrncd.
the
company
has
shm·
mcd
down drama1ically and
now
records'
compared
with
dBasc
ll
's
seems
to
be
almost out of 1hc
limu
ation of
65,000 or
so.
bu1
thi
s
phenomena
l
figure will be l1mned
""oods.
h'
snolongcrmthcbusmcss
of
manufaciuring.
but
hH rctamcd
by1hecons1ramtsofthchardware
the
structure
necessary to
sell
em·i
ronment.
dBasc
Ill
abo
ha
s
mach1nesmtcrnat10nally. The
en-
n1he
r
better
soni
ng
facilities
-
core
will M
sold
by
Osborne
b1narysearchandinduedscquen·
c1·cryv.hcrcbutinthcUS.111hcrc
1t
tial.as"'cllasenhanccd
reportin
g
"111
be
handled by Morro...,
De-
r:K1li11es.
a
new manual and re·
signs.
vamped
packaging. One
major
The
company
docsn'1 feel 1hc improvement is the command facil·
new
machmc
lll"ill
cut
the f«I from i1y-dcsigncd for
the
novice to help
under the Osborne
1
and
1hc thcmthroug
h
tllcshockofdBasc's
Exeeum·e, "'htch 1s curious. con· complcx11y. thiscan be b)1)3SSCd
by
s1dermg Osborne sees a
desl·lop
theexpenen«duscr.
uansportablc
as
11s mam
oompeti·
lniuall
yd
Basc
III
w
ill
be avail·
1or The
Osborne
I
111"111
ccrtamly
abk
for
the IBM
PC
and
IIS
rcmam much
cheaper.
but 1hc compaublcs
(provided
1hty
sport
Execu1"·c. ,. h1ch is currendy
2S6K
RAM), wuh 01her versions
£1.595
plus
VAT for
machine
'to
follow'
The
package ~uld
be
and
bundled software,
,s
currently
compatible
,.·11h Fumework.
pri«daroundthcintended
le\'Clfor
Ashton Tate's
rettn1ly
announctd
1he Enron:·.
mtegratedsoft1
1,
repackage.
a
PX-8orthc Apple lk.
11'
ccrtamly a
101more
portable
,
......
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trn:
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MrG1bbswasno1ablc1osay,.hat
thcfinalpn«orthesystem,..ll
l
be.
though
he
suggested
that
£525
m1gh1bccl~
The
Adam,
cons
1
stmg
of
lcyboard. twm
tape
dm·es. m1egral
wo
rd
proccMing
sor,
...
-arc
and
a
d
imyv.hecl
pnnter.
created quite a
stir
...hen 11 ...as
announced
las1
rear
llo,.·cvcr,
dn1gn and
produc1i0fl
d1fficult1esdclaycd1t~laun<h1nthe
usg .. mgo1hcrcompan1es,suchas
Sinclair wuh
the
OL. ume
10 catch
up,.i1h
compe11me products
The
Adam ..
-as
re\·1ewcd
m
Issue
38.
Backto Basic
8)'S,,
M1Sldnn#
En1crpnsc
is
10
U1'C
1he new ANSI
standard
Basic
in
its
con
tro\-crsial
computer.
The
new
standa
rd
is
po\\ erful and
nex1ble: 1t'sbccnlikcncdt0Pascal
and
offers
features
such
as
local
variables
and
mult
iple
line
func,
lions. But lhe
choice
,s
curious,
as
most home micros have \'ananis
or
Microsoft Basic.
and
1hok.>
u$Cd
10
lhis may find the
con\·ersion
a.,.·k·
wa
rd
The EntcrpflSC "Ill come v,11ha
free
cassette of
programs to help
bu)-eD·convcrtBBCandSpcc1rum
powe
rful
command,
·,
11.
1NT
vs1NO'.
,..h1ch
comn
as a
ROM
command
on
machines such
as
the Dragoo.
The addition of tapc-basc<I ex-
ten
sions
has led 10 spttulation in
some quaners 1ha1cn1crprisc faces
a 'OL problem': 1he
Ba5ic
arnJ
opcratmgsystem
arc
100 big for the
ROM
space
onginaly alk>wed.
But
the
spokesman dcmcd
this.
cla
im·
1ng that the ovcrla)'S ga\·e
the
machme'spccialfca
1
ures',tha1thc
method was
'cheape
r
tha
n
using
ROMs
' and
was
the
'logical
way' to
approach
1hc
issue.
Entcrpnsc
hopes
to
ha\'C
the
machine
ready
for the PCWshowin
September,
a
rear
after
its
de
but
Chere.
Future plans include pe
ripherals
like
Sony J.Sin disk
drives
arnJ
RAM
packs m muluples of 6-IK 10
allo
w
users
to
accc-ss1hc
trn:orcuca
l
ma~imum or 3.9Mb.
The
company
also
hopes
10
ha\·e
alargcamoun1ofsoftware
for the
machmcat
1
1slaunch-mos1oft
his
1sstill
bei
n
g
written but
tbc
packag·
mg 1s shown 1n its
impressive
new
brochure
•
1ve
QL
-
S
1rCl" speaks o
ut
S1rCll\·eS1nc·
lair has re·
phcd to his
OL
cntlCS
m
an hour,long
cxctusi1·c in·
terv1ew with
PCN.
From
his
Knigh1sbndgc
omcc
he
hit
back
at
cnucism he
called
unfair
and
un·
warranted while
=ptmg
blame
fordcli\erydclays
PCN
has been
rloodcd
w11h
lcttcrsattad.1ngSirC.,i\'Cforfa1lurc
10 keep to his promises. Now he has
decided tospi:akout.
Ina
full report
next week he
•
hus out
at
his press
t
nti
cs for
dealing
him unfa1rtrcatment,
•
cxplains,.hat we
nt
wrong after
that mid-January launch,
•
speaks candidly
about
the
OL's
future
·eas1c
10
Basic' programs,..on·1
doa
full
1rans11ion. so
it'll
be
up
10
the
programmer 10 make ad1us1mcn1s
10 machinc-spceirtc inmuc1ions
and screen-handling.
A
spokesma
n
s:iid the
programs
,.-ere designed lo
'take some
or 1hc hard wo
rk
ou1 of
con\·ersion'
.
The
casscue
..-111
also
ha\·e
de·
monstrationprogramsarnJ01·erla)'S
1
0
extend the ANSI Basic
Although
their
de1aalsare
still
being
,.·orkedou1.oncofthem
,..illbc 1he
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