Issue 39 - Books Main Contents News

SU 40 Cover

Issue 40
July 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

SOFTWARE

TOP 30
Sinclair User Classics enter charts

SPECTRUM SOFTWARE
Exclusive previews of The Fourth Protocol, Quicksilva's Glass, Imagine's Hypersports, Palace's Cauldron. Plus Frankie, 007 and Paul McCartney game reviews [two parts]

Spectrum SoftwareHit Squad
On Her Majesty's Secret SoftwareFrankie goes to Liverpool

QL SOFTWARE
Jet Set Willy and Jet Pac lookalikes make the Quantum leap. Pascal from Metacomco gets a Classic rating

HIT SQUAD
Imagine is dead, long live Imagine. Shadowfire and Frankie programmers Denton Designs exorcise some Merseyside ghosts

BUSINESS SOFTWARE
Questionnaires analysed with Survey II, data analysed with Statistics I, transactions analysed with Bizzicom

ADVENTURE
Richard Price gets bored with the Hobbits and searches for the Golden Joystick and the Key of Hope

FEATURES

PROBLEM SOLVING
Brain-teasers and how to solve them. Marcus Jeffery has the answers

SPECTRUMS ABROAD
A trip to some corner of a foreign field that is forever Sinclair

HARDWARE

QL HARDWARE
John Lambert gets his hands on the ill-fated QCOM package at last, and assesses the discs from Quest

SPECTRUM HARDWARE
Exclusive preview of Saga's graphics tablet, plus an essential add-on for all microdrive owners

PROGRAMMING

ENTRY POINT
The art of motion pictures. John Gilbert continues his course for Spectrum beginners

MACHINE CODE
Marcus Jeffery jumps about while demonstrating a scrolling digital counter - all in glorious Z80 code

ADVENTURE PROGRAMMING
The complete AI adventure listing

HELPLINE
Andrew Hewson has a peek at the Basic Spectrum memory map

LISTINGS

PROGRAM PRINTOUT
Explore the Tombs of Q'rrtal, try your luck at the Rifle Range, dice with death on the streets of Manhattan and back-up QL software

REGULARS

NEWS
Sir Clive in trouble, C5 dropped

SINCLAIR SIMON
Our hero gets a touch of the gremlins

ZX WORD
Test your knowledge of computerese

QL NEWS
Supply of the QL outstrips demand

LETTERS
Star ratings come in for some stick

ZAP CHAT
Peeks and pokes for arcade action

SINCLAIR SURGERY
Spectrums cured of terminal illness

ADVENTURE HELPLINE
The gospel according to Greatbelly

COMPETITION
Crack the Fourth Protocol code

SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS
Our directory of software suppliers

NEXT MONTH
A tantalising glimpse of the future

GREMLIN
The hottest gossip in town!

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Sinclair User
ISSN No. 0262-5458


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