TOP 30
Melbourne's Fist explodes at the top

SPECTRUM SOFTWARE
Elite finally arrives, with classic impact, while the Seiddabs return in Hewson Consultant's Astroclone. [two parts]

Man of Steel	Hewson pulls his digit out

QL SOFTWARE
Sinclair blows the cobwebs off the ZX-81 favourites Reversi and Meteor Storm

BUSINESS SOFTWARE
Word processing made easy with OCP's impressive Word Manager

ADVENTURE
Richard Price on ice previews The Snow Queen. Gilsoft patches The Quill with The Illustrator

HIT SQUAD
Chris Bourne beards the Gargoyle in its lair, and follows the walking man into the realms of space

MUD
John Gilbert reports on the Spectrum MUD launch, and Duncan Howard explores the world of Multi-User Dungeons

Bought in the USA

AMERICAN SELLOUT
British software houses are fighting for a slice of the American pie, but what if it's junk food? Chris Bourne crosses the herring pond

HARDWARE WORLD
Kempston revamps the SPDOS interface, Star launches a budget printer range

QL HARDWARE WORLD
Ill-fated Medic at last releases the Expansion system. John Lambert puts it through its paces

MACHINE CODE
Marcus Jeffery shifts large screen areas for a Scramble display

HELPLINE
Changing binary to decimal and back can lead to rounding errors. Andrew Hewson gets converted in the process

SUPERMAN COMPETITION
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it the best game to be released this year? 100 copies to be won for comic aficionados

MAGIC COMPETITION
Your chance to become the Paul Daniels of the Spectrum

PROGRAM PRINTOUT
Hunt the Hurkel, find Jennifer's Dolly, put a spanner in the works of Manic Mechanic, Connect 4 on the QL

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