Roll up, roll up, EUG #59 is in town and this issue is more varied than most thanks to quite a number of textual contributions (Oh, thank you!). Keep 'em up! User Groups are the place for articles, reviews and musings on 8bit and while this feedback is forthcoming, there will be somewhere it can be seen...
EBAY AND THE IDIOTS
Dave E recalls the testing times from a hundred eBay deals across the internet, deplores non-paying bidders (like himself!(?)) and explains buying and selling to the uninitiated.
ELK ENTERTAINMENT
Christian Weber laments the lack of big-screen arcade conversions for the Electron and presents pokes and solutions to some all-time favourites.
PERCEPTION OF VALUE
Alan Richardson theoretically discusses whether there remains a place for User Groups in the hearts of 8bit owners.
SPACE BLASTER (All series)
Fight your way through deep space and shoot anything that moves before it gets close
enough to shoot back. That's the aim of this cockpit-view game which includes joystick and keyboard option.
BAYLEY SLIDESHOW (All series)
ELECTRON USER MENU SYSTEM (All series)
Got old Electron User tapes lying around which you would rather have on disc? Well, transfer them then. Problem? The menu won't work from disc? Then you'd better stick the names of the files into this alternative one and *COPY it across, hadn't you? Includes full documentation.
FILLDEMO (All series)
An intriguing picture is built up from complex filled-in images; the idea being that the Fill routine can be extracted and used in your own programs. Just one of the many utilities from the new ELECTRON PROGRAMS disc, reviewed this very issue. Full documentation.
LEGEND OF SILVER MOUNTAIN Adventure
HAUNTED HOUSE Adventure
Time to enter another House of Horror in a Usborne text adventure aimed at the younger warrior.