| The News |
 | Electron ROMs, Healthnet for doctors, Micronet shake-up, IBM compatibility for BBC. |
| Top 20 Software |
| Serious games ahead! Plus- whats new for the ELK? |
| Acorn Abuser's Diary |
| Tig the pig, Yossa and skeletons in this month's scurrilous micro cupboard. |
| News feature |
| Simon ELsom on what copyright means for micros. |
| Hints and Tips - Martin Phillips |
| Roll up your sleeves for projects to build your own computer tidy and carrycase. |
| Techniques - Stan Froco |
| Useful structures for disc-stored databases are balanced binary trees. |
| Beeb Forum - George Hill |
| A tape-to-disc transfer for all types of prgrams. |
| Software offers |
| Two good-value Acorn User games- Plus all the listings in this issue on cassette! |
| Competition - Simon Dally |
| Win a Sidewise ROM board and four ROMs (or other prizes) in SD's Riddle of the Ritz. |
| Letters |
| Service from software houses, 'sideways' copying, programs for the aged, testing monitors, and disc standards. |
| Readers' free ads |
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| Small ads |
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| Z80 Second Processor More... |
| We report on the Z80 business bundle. |
| Forth - Paul Garfield |
| Why this language could make a useful extension to your programmin repertoire. |
| On the Cards - Alan Samuels |
| AS picks a card game to demonstrate how grpahics can brighton up the play. |
| Soft Pottery - Malcolm Banthorpe |
| MB conducts a pottery lesson. |
| Speed and Space - Gary Smallridge |
| How to quicken your pace and save memory space in Basic programming. |
| Tape Loader - John Bexon |
| An accurate and rapid search and load routine for Electron and Beeb. |
| How it works - Paul Beverley |
| In a new series PB takes the lid off the Beeb and Electron to investigate their inner workings. In part 1 he monitors a program as it runs. |
| Train Game - Martin Philips |
| MP puts you on the right track. |
| Business - Barry Pickles |
| BP eases the forward thinking businessman gently into office computerisation - Plus reviews of business packages from Acornsoft and Gemini. |
| Education - Jonathan Read |
| JR airs his views on how the micro should be used in adult literacy classes and Martin Wallis testa mixed suite of mathematics programs. |
| Atom Lister - Vincent Fojut |
| Manipulating and dumping Atom programs on the BBC micro has many advantages. |
| Atom Forum - Barry Pickles |
| Looks at the new 6502 instruction set - Plus AtomBasic bugs, random numbers, sideways scrolling. |
| Reviews - Chris Drage |
| Four monitors are given close scrutiny using a test program. |
| Games |
| Under review this month: Lunar Rescue, JCB Digger, Ghouls and Dodg'em. |
| Printers - George Hill |
| Cannon PW1080A NLQ and the Sanple Daisy Step 2000 economy daisywheel. |
| New books |
| Our verdict on three puzzle compendiums, David Leby's Computer Gamesmanship and BBC Basic for Beginners. |
| Adventures |
| How does Stuart Menges make out in Lost City and Colditz Adventure. |
| EPROM programmer - Bruce Smith |
| BS blows his own on Softlifes EPROM programmer. |
| Yellow Pages Extra |
| Hints and Tips, Beeb Forum, Card Graphics, 3d Graphics, Tape loader, Hardware, Screen test. |
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