Pan/Personal Computer News
Computer Library

Sixty Programs for the

BBC Micro


Robert Erskine, Humphrey Walwyn
with Paul Stanley, Michael Bews

Pan Books London and Sydney


First published 1983 by Pan Books Ltd,
Cavaye Place, London SW10 9PG
in association with Personal Computer News
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©Robert Erskine, Humphrey Welwyn, Paul Stanley, Michael Bews

ISBN 0 330 28258 1

Printed in Great Britain by
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd,
Bungay, Suffolk

This book is sold subject that it shall not,
by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold,
hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than in which it is published and without a similar condition including
this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchase.


Contents

Motocross 7
Hangman 11
Championship Boxing 16
Galaxian 22
Newmarket 27
Ambush 32
Fall Guy 37
Exocet 41
Wordgram 45
Tug of War 55
Sheepdog Trials 59
Duel 63
Pay Packets 66
Dam Busters 69
Holiday Expenses 73
Buzzy Bee 79
Snap 83
Russian Roulette 86
Energy Field 89
Picture Pairs 95
Space Traffic 98
Flying Geese 102
Division One 105
Morse Tutor 114
Roots 120
Grand Prix 123
Bricklayer 128
Fives 131
Critical Path Analysis 136
Numbers 143
Minelay 149
Horse Race 153
Drag Racer 158
Moonlander 162
Flying Bomb 165
Bulls and Cows 168
Chomper 1 and 2 171
Asset Stripper 178
Wordsum 186
Xmas Eve 189
Anagrammatic 193
Top Trainer 195
Postman 204
Invaders 208
Tanx 212
Giant Rats 216
Dog Fight 220
Cheshire Cat 224
Mushroom Invasion 224
Heli-Bomber 234
OXO 237
Countabout 240
Evolution 1 245
Evolution 2 251
Evolution 3 257
Swordsman 262
Omnicalendar 267
Biorhythms 269
Dam Eaters 272
Radiopower 275

Introduction

This book was born of the conviction that it was high time a listings collection offered real value for money. You have in your hands as complete a software library as can be crammed into close on three hundred pages. We have pulled out all the stops to offer you as varied, innovative and exciting selection of programs as possible. There are arcade action games for those of you whose fingers naturally twitch around the cursor control keys, tactical games for the more cerebrally inclined, genuinely novel games as well as classics of the genre, quizzes, tests of your mental agility, party games and a leavening of utility and educational programs. In short, for the price of a single cassette we've put together a collection of sixty fully-developed programs which have been exhaustively tested before being dumped straight to the printer. This ensures the accuracy of listings, so all you have to do is to get your eager fingers flashing across the keyboard and faithfully reproduce the programs on your screen.

A few words about the listings themselves. We should like to point out that in order to get as many programs as possible into the book we have extended the line length of the listings to forty-five characters, as opposed to the forty or eighty charaters of the BBC screen. This simply means that you should take extra care over the spaces to ensure that you get the displays right.

Finally, we would like to extend our thanks to the team of converters and checkers without whom this project would not have been possible. Their selfless devotion to accuracy inspired us to slave over hot keyboards into the midnight hour.

So now it's up to you. A quick glance through the contents pages reveals that the Earth is being threatened by anything from an alien invasion fleet to a vampire cat! As usual, you are our only hope, so get to the keyboard and go get 'em!