Popular Computing Weekly Vol 4 No 31 - 1-7 August 1985

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Publication Date : 1st August 1985

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1	Amstrad plans 16-bit portable based on Z800 chip and to be IBM compatible [News Item] Amstrad has rumoured to have begun preliminary work on a new 16-bit portable computer. Likely to be launched in the first months of next year, the rumours have been denied by Amstrad.
1	Acorn deal saves new BBC micros in second rescue package this year [News Item] Acorn has been saved from liquidation by a complex financial restructuring operation which increases Olivetti's stake in the troubled Cambridge micro manufacturer to 78.9%.
4	Commodore Amiga launched in America [News Item] Commodore's much feted Amiga machine was launched last week at the Lincoln Centre in New York.
4	Acorn previews 32016 processor and BBC B Plus at Barbican [News Item] The third official Acorn User Exhibition took place at the Barbican, London last week.
5	New chief executive for Sinclair Research [News Item] Sinclair Research's new chief executive will be Bill Jeffrey, 40, who was previously managing director for the company's TV and communications division.
6	Wordstar launched for Amstrads [Article] Micropro, the business software company, has announced that it is to launch its bestselling Wordstar word processor package on the Amstrad 464 and 664 machines.
10	Street Life - Featuring west country amigos, Metacomco, developers of AmigaDos [Article] Christina Erskine With Commodore's Amiga micro now launched, Metacomco - which wrote much of the operating system for the machine - is systems house of the moment.
12	Amiga Preview - Commodore's turbo Portia [Article] Andrew Pennell A look at Commodore's exciting Amiga micro - and how it compares with Atari's ST rival.
16	Star Game - Gridbase - a treat for Dragon 32 arcade addicts [Type-In Listing] Ashley Adamson and David Bush The game is set in space and is played on the high resolution screen with 3-D perspective and alien ships which grow as they close in to invade your Gridbase.
18	Super-duper Basic - part one of a powerful extension to Spectrum Basic [Type-In Listing] Stuart Nicholls ZX! Basic is an extension to Spectrum Basic that allows all existing commands to be used and provides 28 new or improved commands.
20	Book - "Beginning machine code on the Commodore 64" [Advert] Concentrating on simple concepts and explaining every step carefully, with plenty of examples, written by David Lawrence and Mark England.

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