Issue 40 - Gremlin Main Contents News

SU 41 Cover

Issue 41
August 1985

EDITORIAL
Editor
Bill Scolding
Deputy editor
John Gilbert
Staff writers
Chris Bourne
Clare Edgeley
Designer
Craig Kennedy
Editorial secretary
Norisah Fenn
Publisher
Neil Wood

ADVERTISING
Advertising manager
Rob Cameron
Deputy advertisement manager
Louise Fanthorpe
Advertisement sales executive
Kathy McLennan
Production assistant
Jim McClure
Advertisement secretary
Linda Everest

MAGAZINE SERVICES
Subscriptions Manager
Carl Dunne

Sinclair User is published monthly by EMAP Business and Computer Publications

Cover photograph Sheila Rock for Roland Rat Enterprises Ltd.

SOFTWARE

TOP 30
Latest software chart toppers

SPECTRUM SOFTWARE
Exclusive previews of Juggernaut and Southern Belle. Find the murderer in Cluedo, run with Roland Rat and fight the Bulge. Jet Set Willy II gets the thumbs down, and Tapper gets a classic [two parts]

Spectrum SoftwareHit Squad
Roland's Rat Race to fameWhat have these people got to laugh about?

QL SOFTWARE
An exclusive dig at QL Gardener, a flash through MicroAPL and a look at the QC Compiler

BUSINESS SOFTWARE
Stock Manager from OCP for the KDOS disc system, Decision Maker from Brainpower, and Classic Bookkeeping

ADVENTURE
Richard Price takes The Helm, plays Dead at the Controls and undertakes a classic quest in Dun Darach

HIT SQUAD
Bill Scolding defies warnings from the exorcist and drops in on Legend's Komplex hideout

FEATURES

PROGRAMS FOR PROFIT
Written any good games recently? Clare Edgeley shows how to get them published

MAINTENANCE
Wendie Pearson inspects the Mr Fixits of the repair racket. If you have a blown Spectrum read on

HARDWARE

QL HARDWARE
John Lambert looks at extra memory from PCML, and tests the Delta disc interface

SPECTRUM HARDWARE
A keyboard upgrade from Transform, a Microframe disc interface and a load of Interface III

PROGRAMMING

MACHINE CODE
Marcus Jeffery pops into the Spectrum stack and finds a home for assembled programs

ENTRY POINT
John Gilbert continues his series for Spectrum beginners with a keypad joystick arcade game

HELPLINE
Andrew Hewson struggles with his flickering attributes

LISTINGS

PROGRAM PRINTOUT
Spectrum turns Shopkeeper and rotates its characters while the QL slips some discs in a novel version of Towers of Hanoi. Try your hand at educational strategy in Target, and search for nuclear waste on the sea-bed in isotopes.

REGULARS

NEWS
Maxwell takes over from Sir Clive
MAXWELL SIMON
Our hero falls on bad times
ZX WORD
QL NEWS

Metacomco gets its just reward
LETTERS
ZAP CHAT
SINCLAIR SURGERY
BOOKS

A really Capital beginners book
ADVENTURE HELPLINE
COMPETITION

Win a Saga graphics system
SOFTWARE DIRECTORY
Return of the popular index
SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS
Round up of program producers
NEXT MONTH
GREMLIN

Latest too-hot-to-handle gossip

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© Copyright 1985
Sinclair User
ISSN No. 0262-5458


Issue 40 - Gremlin Main Contents News