{"id":25700,"date":"2020-10-22T15:07:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=25700"},"modified":"2020-11-02T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T16:28:14","slug":"computing-today-march-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/10\/22\/computing-today-march-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing Today (March 1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FComputing_Today%2FIssue8403&amp;twg_show=ComputingToday840300001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25701\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ComputingToday840300001-723x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FComputing_Today%2FIssue8403&amp;twg_show=ComputingToday840300001.jpg\">Computing Today &#8211; March 1984<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Computing today was one of a multitude of computer magazines published in the U.K. in the 1980s. The March 1984 issue includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Consumer News<\/b> &#8211; A bumper bundle of items about the latest products for the consumer.<\/li>\n<li><b>Soft Wares<\/b> &#8211; A round-up of commercial software packages for home and business.<\/li>\n<li><b>Easycode Part 1<\/b> &#8211; By stimulating the action of a microprocessor using a BASIC program, this series hopes to teach the machine code novice what it&#8217;s all about.<\/li>\n<li><b>Book Page<\/b> &#8211; Our usual in-depth comparative book review, plus a number of quickies to clear the backlog on our bookshelves.<\/li>\n<li><b>BBC Poker<\/b> &#8211; You won&#8217;t lose your shirt playing Poker against this simulation &#8211; all the money is stored in variables. But just try to read your opponent&#8217;s expression!<\/li>\n<li><b>SCOPE Review<\/b> &#8211; Several languages other than BASIC have been released for the ZX Spectrum, but this one is a bit different. Simple Compilation of Plain English is designed to allow machine code speed in graphics routines, for programmers who want to write their own arcade games.<\/li>\n<li><b>Genie Utilities<\/b> &#8211; Here are some useful machine code routines (only 334 bytes in total) that provide USR calls from BASIC with some enhancements such as multiple parameters. There&#8217;s also a number base converter and a VDU statement.<\/li>\n<li><b>Learning Forth part 5<\/b> &#8211; This month we turn our attention to the I\/O possibilites in Abersoft FORTH on the Spectrum. The memory map of the language is discussed, together with some versatile use of the RAM disc.<\/li>\n<li><b>PROCopinion<\/b> &#8211; More ravings from the editor, who&#8217;s seen the competition at the low end of the computer marketplace hotting up again. Sinclair, Oric, Memotech, Acorn, Elan &#8211; which of them is likely to come out on top?<\/li>\n<li><b>Spectrum Centronics Interface<\/b> &#8211; With no RS-232 Centronics port on the Spectrum, you&#8217;re very much at teh mercy of Sir Uncle&#8217;s ZX Printer. Here&#8217;s the hardware and software details necessary to use any parallel printer and improve the quality of your printouts.<\/li>\n<li><b>Club Call<\/b> &#8211; Another round-up of User Groups around the world, for a veritable plethora of machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Computing Today &#8211; March 1984 Computing today was one of a multitude of computer magazines published in the U.K. in the 1980s. The March 1984 issue includes: Consumer News &#8211; A bumper bundle of items about the latest products for the consumer. Soft Wares &#8211; A round-up of commercial software packages for home and business. Easycode Part 1 &#8211; By stimulating the action of a microprocessor using a BASIC program, this series hopes to teach the machine code novice what it&#8217;s all about. Book Page &#8211; Our usual in-depth comparative book review, plus a number of quickies to clear the backlog on our bookshelves. BBC Poker &#8211; You won&#8217;t lose your shirt playing Poker against this simulation &#8211; all the money is stored in variables. But just try to read your opponent&#8217;s expression! SCOPE Review &#8211; Several languages other than BASIC have been released for the ZX Spectrum, but this one is a bit different. Simple Compilation of Plain English is designed to allow machine code speed in graphics routines, for programmers who want to write their own arcade games. Genie Utilities &#8211; Here are some useful machine code routines (only 334 bytes in total) that provide USR calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2362],"class_list":["post-25700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}