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Popular Computing Weekly Vol 2 No 40 - 6-12 October 1983 Vol 2 No 40

Publication Date : 6th October 1983 to 12th October 1983

Publication Contents :

Page Item
1 Melbourne House New Game [News Item]
It's Elementary, Dr Watson Melbourne house confirms its next game after the hobbit will be based on Sherlock Holmes.
1 ZX Interface 2 Available by Mail Order [News Item]
Announcement of ZX Interface 2 via mail order.
4 Fire Hawks [Advert]
Advert for Fire Hawks game from Postern Ltd
5 Dragon Data shows off 64k at PCW Show [News Item]
Dragon Data shows off its Dragon 64k for the first time in Public. It will go on sale in November for £225
5 Acorn shares on the market [News Item]
Acorn announces formally that it will join the Unlisted Securities Market
5 Oric is top seller for French [News Item]
Oric announces that over 70% of its machines are sold abroad , 35,000 of these went to France , making France the largest consumer of Oric Products.
5 Norse myth is revealed [News Item]
Valhalla an animated game for the Spectrum as announced from Legend software of Cambridge.
5 Mike Lunch leaves Mattel [News Item]
Mike Lunch leaves Mattel , the news comes on the back of big losses from the US parent company.
5 Second MTX before first [News Item]
Memotech announces a second machine prior to the launch of their first machine.
8 16/48 Cassette Magazine [Advert]
An advert for a cassette based magazine for 16k and 48k ZX Spectrums
10 Asteroid Dodge [Type-In Listing]
Philips Wells
Asteroid Dodge a game listing for the BBC B
12 A run for your money [Review]
Brian Cadge
Reviews of various Dragon 32 software titles
14 Valhalla [Advert]
Double page advert for Valhalla on the ZX Spectrum from Legend
18 Along the airwaves [Advert]
Ray Berry
Program listings for radio users on ZX Spectrum
20 In a word.. [Type-In Listing]
Peter Whittaker
A word processing program listing for the Dragon
24 Filing System [Type-In Listing]
Gary Foreman
A program listing for a filing system for the Commodore 64
25 MicroMega Advert [Advert]
Nice Colour advert for MicroMega games: Luna Crabs and Haunted Hedges
26 Transylvanian Tower [Advert]
A large full page colour advert for Transylvanian Tower, a 3D maze adventure for 48k ZX Spectrum.
29 Flowering art [Article]
Michael Batty
Introducing randomness into a program
33 Cosmic Cascade [Type-In Listing]
Mark Manus
A game listing for the commodore VIC 20
36 Maths [Type-In Listing]
Michael Kay
A program listing for a children's maths game on the ZX Spectrum


Creator : Sunshine Publications

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH35848. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History. 		 
Article: Popular Computing Weekly Vol 2 No 40 - 6-12 October 1983 Vol 2 No 40

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