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53 Simple music

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72 Goin' Loco

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How to save the professors

Hackers Haunt

Elite pulled to pieces

Adventure column

Bill Brock explains what a Grue is

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Your guide to Oceans Batcave

Biggles

Jeremy Spencer

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air your views,

Mallard Basic

How to harness the power of Jetsam

when creating your own database.

Plannercalc

An in depth evaluation of a famous

spreadsheet which has some novel

features.

Punch drunk

with GSX

Ken Clark continues his exploits

with CP/M's graphics system.

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glasses and assesses a couple of

new books.

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79 Games

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EVERY WILD IMAGINATION NEEDS

A LITTLE SELF CONTROL.

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Isn't it about time you trapped an AMX Mouse?

The AMX Mouse package costs only E69.95 and includes AMX

Art and AMX Control which allows you to create a Mouse Environment

in your own programs. Software is supplied on cassette and 3" disc

and a fully illustrated operating manual is olso included.

This superb package is availabletrom all good computer dealers

or direct, using the FREEPOST order form below.

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As an Amstrad CPC user, you enjoy some pretty sophisticated

equipment

So its a pity if you are still missing that sophisticated, positive

control your equipment deserves.

There's not much joy in a joystick, and keyboards can be all

ﬁngers and thumbs. Frustrating, especially when your imagination is

much faster than your ﬁngers!

What you need is an AMX Mouse.

Already thousands of Amstrad users have adopted an AMX

Mouse and wouldn't be without it.

We didn't claim it was the

best input device'. The press

said it for us.

In fact it has received

outstanding critical acclaim,

and no wonder!

The AMX Mouse brings to

Amstrad users, the same freedom

and versatility which has, up to now, been

the exclusive province of much more

expensive computers.

In fact, it's no surprise that nearty all the new

16 bit 'State of the Art' computers now come with a

Mouse as standard. Proof, if proof were needed, that

the Mouse is here to stay.

The AMS range of Mouse software includes, AMX Art, AMX

Utilities E19 95 (Disc), AMX Pagemaker £49.95 (Disc), AMX 3D

Zicon E.24.95 (Disc).

There is also a growing list of programs available from other

leading software houses, which utilize the Mouse, including, Art

Studio from British Telecom's Rainbird software collection, Mini Ofﬁce

II from Database and Electric Studio, many more titles will be

available soon.

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Amstrad

buy -bye

Sinclair

Sinclair products. It can also buy the current stock and

machines now being manufactured in Britain.

Amstrad is working on a number of changes for the

128k Spectrum aimed at improving its quality and

reliability. One of these improvements may be a built-in

cassette recorder, although a system bundled with a

monitor would be unlikely since this would compete too

closely with the CPC464. Perhaps the advent of the

Amstrad-produced Spectrum will lead Amstrad to sell

monitors on their own.

Spectrums are currently made in the UK and

Amstrad says it will continue to use the same

manufacturers if the computers can be produced to meet

certain demands on price and quality. The experts from

MEJ electronics will probably look at ways in which this

can be done. Given the work they have done on the CPC

and PCW machines we can expect a Spectrum with

fewer and bigger chips.

The Sinclair QL is likely to be dropped. Amstrad may

experiment with a version using 3in discs but since this

machine was part of the reason Sinclair failed it would

seem destined for the great computer room in the sky.

Future games machines from Amstrad will carry the

Sinclair badge although there is probably nothing under

development at the moment This will allow Amstrad to

move upmarket leading to more speculation that the

next machine will be a 16 bit one.

Just two years after the launch of the CPC464 Amstrad

has bought the rights to manufacture and sell all

Sinclair computers and related products for E5m. This

earth-shattering news was announced at a press

conference in London at the beginning of April.

Sinclair Research Ltd (SRL to its friends), still exists

and will continue to develop high technology products.

If these include new computers Amstrad can market

them under the Sinclair name but SRL would have to

use a new name.

There is a lot of research going on at the Metalab,

based at Milton Hall in Cambridge. The main computer

project is a portable computer code-named Pandora,

which was supposed to be both Spectrum-compatible

and a CPAI machine. It is quite ironic that SRL was

using CPC6128s to develop CP/M software. Unfor-

tunately it looks as though the Pandora will never see

the light of day. The ﬂat screen display is rumoured to be

difﬁcult to read in 64 and 80 column modes, ruling out

true CP/M compatibility.

But SRL does have some very exciting high-tech

projects. It is working on a system for wafer scale

integration, which works on the premise that making

lots of little chips, cutting them up, putting each chip in

a little box and then wiring all the boxes together is more

difﬁcult and expensive than making the whole computer

as one big chip. The drawback with big chips is that they

are unreliable - the bigger the chip the more likely it is to

be faulty or get damaged in manufacture. Wafer scale

integration allows for this by building smart chips, ones

which can decide which bits of themselves are faulty and

not to be used.

The other major ﬁeld SRL is working in is that of

telecommunications, but it is playing these cards close

to its chest. One area could be cellular telephones,

although a satellite television project seems more likely.

The deal went through remarkably quickly. Alan

Sugar was ﬁrst approached by Michael Langdon from

Sinclair's accountants who really orchestrated the deal

and then lost out on the glory by going on holiday. For

the people involved in the paperwork there were many

late nights spent dotting i's and crossing t's in the

contract which was ﬁnally signed in the early hours of

Wednesday April 2.

For its .E5m Amstrad gets the rights to all existing

Amstrad User June SG

Right: The ﬁrst

real Sinclair

Below: The last

real Sinclair

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