Australian Personal Computer vol.7-3 (March 1986)

REGULARS
PROGRAMMING
5 NEWSPRINT
Guy Kewney looks at Sony PCs and the rest of the micro world.
30 SUBSCRIPTIONS
Details of how to have APC home delivered.
32 YANKEE DOODLES
Our US correspondent reports on AT&T’s IBM PC-compatible lap-held in his monthly round-up of US news.
105 LETTERS
Correspondence on everything under the sun.
110 BLUDNERS
Red faces time: we correct our errors.
124 SCREENPLAY
The top games, including Lucasfilms’ fractal follow-up.
175 COMMUNICATIONS
Steve Withers and company report on a man who’s travelled round the US with the help of a bicycle and an online network system.
178 END ZONE
Our vital and insightful information service includes User Groups Update, Diary Data, Benchmarks, Numbers Count and Microchess.
217 CHIPCHAT
How to revive micro sales, in our monthly marketing memo.
223 ADVERTISERS’ INDEX
APC’s encompassing list of Australian micro companies.
127 MATRIX MULTIPLIER
Manipulating matrices mathematically can be the key to 3-D graphics.
167 SUBSET
Machine code wrinkles, compiled by David Barrow.
186 PROGRAM FILE
An expert system in Microsoft Basic, a control program for the Currah speech synthesiser, Amstrad tips and a speed sort listing from Kevin Riordan all feature among programs in this month’s collection of readers’ offerings.
BENCHTESTS & REVIEWS
52 BBC MASTER 128
The long awaited follow-up tothe BBC Micro makes its debut at PC86. Read about it first in Nick Walker’s benchtest.
89 THE FINAL CARTRIDGE
Steve Withers assesses the worth of this call-in-one expansion cartridge for the Commodore 64.
103 THE WORD MACHINE
An ‘ideas’ processor for the Apple II: Phil Cohen finds out how useful it is.
159 REFLEX
Analytical highly-rated database is now available from cut-price specialist Borland. Kathy Lang investigates.