Australian Personal Computer vol.7-12 (December 1986)

REGULARS
5 NEWSPRINT
APCs regular look at the real stories behind the news.
28 YANKEE DOODLES
David Ahl’s US report looks at why erasable optical disks are so slow in the coming.
37 WEST COAST USA
Our new west coast correspondent, Tim Bajarin, describes the new products from Ashton-Tate and reports on the ‘flea market’ computing trend.
55 BANKS’ STATEMENT
This Christmas could mark the beginning of a period of major shuffles in the computer industry. Martin Banks explains why.
90 COMMUNICATIONS
The latest word on bulletin boards, courtesy Stephen Withers.
132 LETTERS
Opinions of APCs readers.
163 SCREENPLAY 0
Australia has a world-class strategy game producer.
Kevin Bergin looks at what’s offering.
169 WHAT’S NEW
AT B T’s simulation of a tiny ‘brain’ features in a wrap-up of the latest innovations and products.
187 BIBLIOFILE
David Taylor looks at a Macintosh Logo primer before getting down to some expert systems work.
193 subset
David Barrow presents block move routines for the 8086 and the 6502.
198 END ZONE
Numbers theory. Lazing Around, events and computer chess.
209 PROGRAM FILE
A broad selection of type-in programs for machines including the IBM PC, Amstrad and Commodore 64.
240 ADVERTISERS INDEX
Anyone who’s anybody gets their name listed here.
Due to the late inclusion of the Microsoft Works screen test, the full user groups index has been postponed to next month’s issue.