Issue 5.9 (June 1987)

Issue scanned by Richard Goulstone
(Many thanks Richard!)

In Volume 5, Issue 9 along with letters, Q+As and classifieds you will find...

• News, gossip and snippets from the industry
• Hardware reviews of:
  • the NEC Multispeed laptop
  • the Access 386 : a 32-bit PC from Advanced Logic Research Inc.
• Software reviews of:
  • Xerox Ventura Publisher: An MS-DOS desktop publishing package
  • Seaside Software's askSAM database management system
  • Migent's Ability: an integrated office package for MS-DOS
  • Apple Accounting for the Macintosh
• The Computing 87 Exhibition Catalogue
• A profile of:
  • New Zealand software house Cowan Bowman Associates
  • Microprocessor Applications Pty Ltd.: a computer manufacturer, distributor and marketing organisation
  • New Zealand software house Remarkable Enterprises
  • Impact Technologies: A networking company
• A preview of the Third Software Awards dinner
• A look at what's available in data communications
• Computers in Education: Learning and the technical revolution
• Rural Computing: Financial control and computers reassessed
• Book Review: Laser Optical Disks: products and uses by D.C. Robertson
• Columns for
  • MS-DOS - Text file formats
  • Commodore
    • Notes on the Commodore Scene
    • Adventure game writing (pt 2)
  • Atari - Animation using machine code
  • Spectravideo - Full screen editing
  • Sanyo
    • ANSI escape sequences
    • Simple animation
  • 6502 Machine language
  • Apple - RAM disks and large data types
  • BBC - Constructing graphics and text screens with Screen Builder
  • Amstrad - RSX: Resident system extension for adding commands to BASIC
  • Games
    • Future Knight
    • Gunship

...and the usual collection of classic computer advertisements!

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