{"id":27461,"date":"2021-09-01T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=27461"},"modified":"2021-09-09T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:47:08","slug":"your-computer-september-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/09\/01\/your-computer-september-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Computer (September 1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FYour_Computer%2FIssue8409&amp;twg_show=YourComputer840900001.jpg\" class=\"keychainify-checked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/YourComputer840900001-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27464\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/YourComputer840900001-725x1024.jpg 725w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/YourComputer840900001-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/YourComputer840900001-768x1085.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/YourComputer840900001-85x120.jpg 85w, http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/YourComputer840900001.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FYour_Computer%2FIssue8409&amp;twg_show=YourComputer840900001.jpg\" class=\"keychainify-checked\">Your Computer &#8211; September 1984<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your Computer was the UK&#8217;s biggest selling computer magazine of the 1980s. It covered all of the popular (and some not so popular) computers of the time. The September 1984 issue includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Editorial and Your Letters<\/b> &#8211; The man who got his money back from Oric, the man who urges us to go easy on the QL and tips.<\/li>\n<li><b>News<\/b> &#8211; Stranglers&#8217; adventure game album, Sega SC3000 computer, the search for the Enterprise and cricket for Iceland.<\/li>\n<li><b>VIC-20 Bytes<\/b> &#8211; The art of structured programming: micro intelligence.<\/li>\n<li><b>Computer Club<\/b> &#8211; To be or not to be? Paul Bond in Stratford-on-Avon.<\/li>\n<li><b>Quest Corner<\/b> &#8211; Regular feature on adventure games.<\/li>\n<li><b>Toshiba HX-10 Review<\/b> &#8211; The tip of the MSX iceberg.<\/li>\n<li><b>Competition Corner<\/b> &#8211; Your chance to get organised. This month&#8217;s exciting conundrum could win you the new box of tricks from Psion.<\/li>\n<li><b>Tatung Einstein Review<\/b> &#8211; Built-in disc drive, alleged CP\/M compatibility, OK memory. Bill Bennet decides if this machine is relatively good.<\/li>\n<li><b>Psion Organizer<\/b> &#8211; Kathleen Peel tries Psion&#8217;s first hardware.<\/li>\n<li><b>BBC Software<\/b> &#8211; Jim Taylor turns on and tunes in.<\/li>\n<li><b>Electronic Music and Home Computers<\/b> &#8211; At last a concise explanation of the basics of music synthesis. Kendall Wrightson looks at musical hardware.<\/li>\n<li><b>BBC Keyboard<\/b> &#8211; You could construct your own keyboard, but you don&#8217;t have to in order to use this Richard Hines program.<\/li>\n<li><b>How Frankie Gets to Hollywood<\/b> &#8211; Tribes and chips.<\/li>\n<li><b>Music Software<\/b> &#8211; Stuart Kelling plays the field.<\/li>\n<li><b>Musik 64<\/b> &#8211; Aural sprites? Graham Barbour provides easy to use sound commands for your Commodore 64.<\/li>\n<li><b>Dragon Disco<\/b> &#8211; Synchronized strobe simulation with Ron Gardler.<\/li>\n<li><b>Manic Climber<\/b> &#8211; H.C. Derelli drives your Spectrum up the wall.<\/li>\n<li><b>Mad Jump<\/b> &#8211; Put some bounce back into your Oric or Atmos programming with Matthias Gyllerup&#8217;s hop-happy game of skill.<\/li>\n<li><b>ZX-81 Barrel Barrage<\/b> &#8211; Hard task to pass the casks.<\/li>\n<li><b>VIC-20 Robot Attack<\/b> &#8211; David Hodgetts shows you how to defend.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hells Bells<\/b> &#8211; If your Dragon&#8217;s got the hump this will soon put it right. Drew Marshall&#8217;s program about the dangers of campanology.<\/li>\n<li><b>Amstrad Skydrop<\/b> &#8211; Sandwiched between the acid clouds and the acid sea, drop bombs without being laser-sliced. And you thought acid rain was bad.<\/li>\n<li><b>CBM-64 Bullion<\/b> &#8211; Grab the gold, dodge the droids with R Dunk.<\/li>\n<li><b>BBC Backgammon<\/b> &#8211; Keith Miles makes the first move.<\/li>\n<li><b>ZX-81 Sprites<\/b> &#8211; 256 sprites! Make them bounce back or wrap around the screen! They appear above, below or at the same level as other characters.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hulk<\/b> &#8211; John Dawson looks at a quasi-expert system for the BBC.<\/li>\n<li><b>Text compression<\/b> &#8211; Alan Tobias squeezes more in.<\/li>\n<li><b>Microdrive File<\/b> &#8211; Kathleen Peel continues this series on applications for the revolutionary new Sinclair storage device.<\/li>\n<li><b>Dragon Files<\/b> &#8211; Bernard Hammel re-opens the case on Dragon 32 file storage capacity. Harness the speed of machine code, providing sophisticated databases.<\/li>\n<li><b>Extended BASIC for the ZX Spectrum<\/b> &#8211; Robert Newsman gives the Spectrum extra commands without recourse to Interface 1.<\/li>\n<li><b>Response Frame<\/b> &#8211; Tim Hartnell tries to help you.<\/li>\n<li><b>Software File<\/b> &#8211; Ten pages of software for most micros.<\/li>\n<li><b>Competition Results<\/b> &#8211; Who won the CPC-464?<\/li>\n<li><b>Database<\/b> &#8211; Paul Bonc lists computer events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Your Computer &#8211; September 1984 Your Computer was the UK&#8217;s biggest selling computer magazine of the 1980s. It covered all of the popular (and some not so popular) computers of the time. The September 1984 issue includes: Editorial and Your Letters &#8211; The man who got his money back from Oric, the man who urges us to go easy on the QL and tips. News &#8211; Stranglers&#8217; adventure game album, Sega SC3000 computer, the search for the Enterprise and cricket for Iceland. VIC-20 Bytes &#8211; The art of structured programming: micro intelligence. Computer Club &#8211; To be or not to be? Paul Bond in Stratford-on-Avon. Quest Corner &#8211; Regular feature on adventure games. Toshiba HX-10 Review &#8211; The tip of the MSX iceberg. Competition Corner &#8211; Your chance to get organised. This month&#8217;s exciting conundrum could win you the new box of tricks from Psion. Tatung Einstein Review &#8211; Built-in disc drive, alleged CP\/M compatibility, OK memory. Bill Bennet decides if this machine is relatively good. Psion Organizer &#8211; Kathleen Peel tries Psion&#8217;s first hardware. BBC Software &#8211; Jim Taylor turns on and tunes in. Electronic Music and Home Computers &#8211; At last a concise explanation of the basics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[471,473,2362,1885],"class_list":["post-27461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-64","tag-retrocomputing","tag-vic-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27461","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=27461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}