TOP 30
The race to get to number one

SPECTRUM SOFTWARE
Beat off The Rats, take a glimpse at Shadow of the Unicorn, draw with the exclusive Art Studio and fight with the classic Exploding Fist [two parts]

The Rats are emerging	Spectrum goes plumb crazy

BLAST COMPILER
Marcus Jeffery reviews a powerful utility to convert your Basic programs into machine code

QL SOFTWARE
A relic of Wimbledon, Match Point is declared but it's still Touch 'n' Go

BUSINESS SOFTWARE
Down the drain with Plumbers' Price, the modern way to calculate the cost of a pipe run

ADVENTURE
Sorderon's Shadow - another classic adventure from Beyond. Solve the mystery in The Secret of St Bride's

HIT SQUAD
Five years hard labour with Hewson Consultants on their fifth birthday

PIRACY
Wendie Pearson meets some pirates - the software kind - and looks at abortive attempts employed by the industry to halt this spreading disease

THE RISK BUSINESS
Planning to start your own software company? Clare Edgeley looks at the pitfalls suffered by those brave enough to go it alone

HARDWARE WORLD
Try out Saga's classic Spectrum keyboard and the Beta disc interface from Technology Research. The Bright Star, a QL modem, has arisen and John Lambert takes a close look

MACHINE CODE
Marcus Jeffery performs some magic and shows how to obtain a screen magnification and reduction utility. A little arithmetic is all it takes

HELPLINE
Learning code? Andrew Hewson delves deep into the Spectrum and surfaces with a handful of Z80 registers

PROGRAM PRINTOUT
Collect flowers and avoid spiders in Flower Power, create your own Light Show and enter a fishing contest in The Golden Maggot. Rocks is a machine code arcade game

NEWS
Maxwell pulls out, but Dixons is in
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Price of the QL is slashed by half
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