The BBC and Master Computer Public Domain Library
Acorn User Cover Disc Catalogue
The Acorn User Magazine Cover Discs
This is the Acorn User section of the library. It starts with ADFS versions which are supplied 6 months to each disc with two discs in each download. See the DFS version descriptions for full info.
Acorn User ADFS Versions
ADFS versions of The Acorn User hold one year as 2 images within one zip. 1982, 1983 and 1984 are not yet available in ADFS format
TAU-1985 Acorn User 1985 ADFS 3A -- --
See the DFS versions for full info. This disc includes December 1984 and the 25/1/2026 addition of Jan 85
TAU-1986 Acorn User 1986 ADFS 2A -- --
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TAU-1987 Acorn User 1987 ADFS 2A -- --
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TAU-1988 Acorn User 1988 ADFS 2A -- --
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TAU-1989 Acorn User 1989 ADFS 2A -- --
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TAU-1990 Acorn User 1990 ADFS 2A -- --
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TAU-1991 Acorn User 1991 ADFS 2A -- --
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TAU-1992 Acorn User 1992 ADFS 2A -- --
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TAU-1993 Acorn User 1993 ADFS 2A -- --
See the DFS versions for full info
TAU-1994 Acorn User 1994 ADFS 1A -- --
See the DFS versions for full info
TAU-87-93 Acorn User 87-93 ADFS 1A -- --
ADFS Acorn User Compilation 87-93
Acorn User DFS and Tape Versions
Acorn User DFS versions are as supplied with the magazine
TAU-82-08 Acorn User Aug 82 1D 17 17
Acorn User #001 (08.1982) (1982) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the August 1982 issue of Acorn User.
Alien Screenful (Acorn User)
A BASIC programming example which fills a Mode 5 screen with 8 x 8 'alien' characters.
Get Into Graphics (Acorn User)
A number of simple graphics and chart programs to be integrated into your own programs.
Increasing Circle (Acorn User)
A graphical demonstration which shows a number of circles spreading out from a central point.
M/C Graphics (Acorn User)
A library of machine code graphics routines.
Seeing Stars Demo (Acorn User)
A simple graphical demo which overlays a number of multicoloured triangles around a central point, creating a star shape.
Sound Demos (Acorn User)
A Star Trek alert, a siren and the sound of a train in motion brought to life on your BBC Micro.
TAU-82-09 Acorn User Sep 82 1D 15 49
Acorn User #002 (09.1982) (1982) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the September 1982 issue of Acorn User.
Business: Sticky Labels (Acorn User)
Print a mailing list to sticky labels. Requires a dot-matrix printer.
Business: Stock Control (Acorn User)
A series of modules that describes stock keeping units and numbers.
Business: Stock Update (Acorn User)
A template utility for a very simple stock-keeping system.
Machine Code Graphics (Acorn User)
Another two programs demonstrating a VDU command sequence can be fired by machine code instead.
Sound Cacophanies (Acorn User)
A collection of sound-producing programs.
TAU-82-10 Acorn User Oct 82 1D 10 31
Acorn User #003 (10.1982) (1982) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the October 1982 issue of Acorn User.
PrinPic (Acorn User)
A utility to output BBC Micro screens to an Epson MX80 printer.
Space-Bug (Acorn User)
A simple user-defined 8x8 CHR$ animation example.
Ufo Animations (Acorn User)
A user-defined 8x8 UFO character takes off, moves from left to right and up and down in these demonstration programs for beginners.
TAU-82-11 Acorn User Nov 82 1D 17 78
Acorn User #004 (11.1982) (1982) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the November 1982 issue of Acorn User.
Advertising Board (Acorn User)
A simple slideshow of text in Mode 7, intended as a rudimentary advertising board in Ceefax style.
Bomber (Acorn User)
A variant on the descending plane game. In this version there is only one building to hit, and it changes every screen.
Dumb Terminal (Acorn User)
Turn your BBC Micro into a dumb terminal to communicate with a mainframe with this machine code program.
Fireworks Demo (Acorn User)
A colour-switching kaleidoscope-style screen display.
Graphical Letters (Acorn User)
A utility to control text size, orientation and colour.
Multiple Modes (Acorn User)
Not a mode demo so much as a Basic programming tutorial on the use of procedures within longer programs.
Scampering Character (Acorn User)
A graphical demo showing a simple character that responds to keypresses by moving left and right.
Simple Shapes In Maths (Acorn User)
Originally a parents' evening program, this demo shows a number of simple shapes built up from triangles and rectangles.
Throbbing Circles (Acorn User)
A colour switching demo which shows three concentric circles which flash, creating a 'throbbing' effect.
Trek III (Acorn User)
A Star Trek-style game in which you move through galaxies encountering Klingon attacks. Do you have the cunning to survive, or try to?
TAU-82-12 Acorn User Dec 82 1D 21 23
Acorn User #005 (12.1982) (1982) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the December 1982 issue of Acorn User.
Alarm Procedure (Acorn User)
A utility demonstrating how the computer can be used as an alarm clock.
Hanoi Demo (Acorn User)
A text only computational solving of the Towers Of Hanoi problem.
Hints And Tips (Acorn User)
A selection of programs to accompany the Hints & Tips article in Acorn User #026 magazine.
MaxValue (Acorn User)
A function for finding the maximum value from three integers.
Model A Colours (Acorn User)
Using the BBC's teletext mode to give sixteen colours on the Model A.
Shellsort Demo (Acorn User)
A generic sorting utility for the BBC Micro.
Sound And Envelopes (Acorn User)
A utility to display ENVELOPEs defined on the BBC Micro graphically.
Windowed Graphics (Acorn User)
A demo illustrating how graphics windows can be defined on the BBC screen, and filled in with different illustrations.
TAU-83-01 Acorn User Jan 83 1D 6 10
Acorn User #006 (01.1983) (1983) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the January 1983 issue of Acorn User.
Assembler Delay Example (Acorn User)
A two pass assembler program to demonstrate why two passes are needed.
Assembler Typewriter (Acorn User)
Using the OSASCI vector to print out letters similar to a typewriter.
Pet Printer Handler (Acorn User)
A utility to allow printing from the BBC Micro to a Commodore Pet printer.
TAU-83-02 Acorn User Feb 83 1D 13 14
Acorn User #007 (02.1983) (1983) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the February 1983 issue of Acorn User.
Assembler Programs (Acorn User)
A collection of assembly programs to illustrate the article on juggling memory locations in machine code.
Disc Filing System Recover (Acorn User)
A machine code utility which frees up the memory used by the Disc Filing System on the BBC Model B.
Procedure Examples (Acorn User)
A selection of Basic programs concerned with drawing rudimentary shapes.
TAU-83-03 Acorn User Mar 83 1D 14 20
Acorn User #008 (03.1983) (1983) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the March 1983 issue of Acorn User.
Assembler Programs (Acorn User)
A collection of assembly programs to illustrate the article on juggling memory locations in machine code.
Lightpen Oxo (Acorn User)
Play the game of Oxo by pointing a lightpen at the grid.
Lightpen Programs (Acorn User)
The initialisation programs for the hardware project lightpen featured in Acorn User #008.
Lightpen Quiz (Acorn User)
Choose from the multiple-choice answers in this lightpen only quiz.
TAU-83-04 Acorn User Apr 83 1D 21 41
Acorn User #009 (04.1983) (1983) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the April 1983 issue of Acorn User.
Assembler Programs (Acorn User)
Acorn Computers Ltd provide some sample routines for using legal locations for your machine code.
CALL Binary Values (Acorn User)
A utility to output the binary value of an integer variable.
Call Square Demo (Acorn User)
A demo which will plot a square quickly in machine code.
CFS Patch (Acorn User)
The cassette filing bug patch for the 0.1 Operating System.
Hexangle (Acorn User)
A game against the computer in which you must not be the first to successfully fill in a triangle on the screen.
Music Demos: Bach (Acorn User)
A collection of five musical demos, which build upon each other to progress to a fully-featured Bach symphony.
Rose Bouquet (Acorn User)
A display of a bouquet of roses created with MOVE and PLOT commands in Basic.
Russian Hello (Acorn User)
A utility to redefine the BBC Micro's character set and print the word "Hello" in Russian.
School Programs (Acorn User)
Times Tables, a dog sketch and a ET Phone Home demonstration.
Stars And Stripes Demo (Acorn User)
A picture of the American flag.
TAU-83-05 Acorn User May 83 1D 19 27
Acorn User #010 (05.1983) (1983) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the May 1983 issue of Acorn User.
Colourful Shades Demo (Acorn User)
A selection of demos which use 'dithering' to show additional colours in four colour modes.
Lissajou (Acorn User)
A demo which produces the well-known Lissajou figures in Mode 2.
Music Composition (Acorn User)
A selection of music demos which accompany the article of the same name. Features a blues piece.
Relocate (Acorn User)
The first published 'download code' which ended up being prefixed to thousands of BBC Basic programs loaded from disc!
TAU-83-06 Acorn User Jun 83 1D 15 17
Acorn User #011 (06.1983) (1983) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the June 1983 issue of Acorn User.
Rubber-Banding (Acorn User)
A selection of demonstrations of the GCOL command, showing line-drawing, picking and dragging, menu selection and rotation.
Shape Drawing (Acorn User)
Drawing rectangles, triangles and circles/ellipses.
Sorting Demos (Acorn User)
A colourful demonstration of how to order data.
TAU-83-07 Acorn User Jul 83 1D 18 16
Acorn User #012 (07.1983) (1983) (BBC B/B+/Master 128, 5.25" Disc)
A selection of programs to complement the July 1983 issue of Acorn User.
Array Variable Passing (Acorn User)
Demonstrating simple passing of array variables in BBC Basic.
EOR (Acorn User)
A demonstration of the EOR logical operator.
Correct Date (Acorn User)
An input routine which will only accept correctly formatted dates.
Hash Table (Acorn User)
A program demonstrating how hash tables can be used to store and retrieve data.
OR (Acorn User)
A demonstration of the OR logical operator.
NOT (Acorn User)
A demonstration of the NOT logical operator.
Range Check (Acorn User)
An input routine which will only accept a value within a given range.
Recursion Examples (Acorn User)
Seven programs demonstrating recursion, from the simple to the moderately complex.
TAU-83-08 Acorn User Aug 83 1D 16 30
Acorn User #012 83-08
Colour-Fill Paint (Acorn User)
Four demonstration programs detailing recursive fill, colour fill, pixel configuration and procedure activation tree.
Fete Admissions (Acorn User)
A simple accounts package designed to track how many admissions there were to a village fete.
Random Rectangles (Acorn User)
A never-ending program which draws more and more filled rectangles on screen.
Random Triangles (Acorn User)
A never-ending program which draws more and more filled triangles on screen.
Kiss-O-Meter (Acorn User)
Designed to gauge your skills at passionate snogging when used with the hardware project detailed in Acorn User #013 magazine.
Linked Lists (Acorn User)
Two example programs, each demonstrating linked data structures.
Raffles Program (Acorn User)
Picks the winning number from those that have been sold. Part of the village fete suite.
Strength Meter (Acorn User)
Designed to gauge your strength when used with the hardware project detailed in Acorn User #013 magazine.
TAU-83-09 Acorn User Sep 83 1D 8 24
Acorn User #013 83-09
Ink-blot Maze Solver (Acorn User)
A program to demonstrate how you can solve a maze using the 'ink-blot' technique.
Mega Monsters (Acorn User)
A vertically scrolling Basic game in which you must dodge left and right through the obstacles. Four stages.
Rubber Band/Colour Mix (Acorn User)
A fill which dithers colours in a variety of styles of weave.
Rubber Banding (Acorn User)
Graphical plotting routines to demonstrate colour mixing and painting.
TAU-83-10 Acorn User Oct 83 1D 9 18
Acorn User #014 83-10
Epson Printer Ellipse (Acorn User)
A utility to print out graphics on the Epson FX80 dot matrix printer.
Fractal Demos (Acorn User)
Three demonstrations of intriguing shapes produced by fractals.
Monte Carlo and Pi (Acorn User)
A program which demonstrates how random numbers curiously carry out some of the highest precision tasks in computing.
Vampire (Acorn User)
A two-player competitive play game in which you must turn all of the gravestones in the churchyard to your respective character's colour.
TAU-83-11 Acorn User Nov 83 1D 18 31
Acorn User #015 83-11
Battleships (Acorn User)
A RTX version of Battleships, only playable by hooking two BBC Micros together via their RS423 ports.
Contour 1 (Acorn User)
A graphics demonstration that shows how contours can be created, similarly to on Ordnance Survey maps.
Contour 2 (Acorn User)
A Mode 2 graphical demonstration of contours, similar to Ordnance Survey map mountains viewed from above.
Forum: Envelope Examiner (Acorn User)
A utility to print out the currently defined ENVELOPEs in BBC Basic.
Forum: GRAPH, GRID & STAR (Acorn User)
Three machine code programs to demonstrate the assembler *CODE and *LINE commands in the MOS 1.0 for the BBC/Electron.
Hints & Tips: Key Buffer Analysis (Acorn User)
A program to analyse how much of the key buffer has been used, to avoid the dreaded "Bad Key" error.
Hints & Tips: Array Families (Acorn User)
A simple program to demonstrate how arrays can hold the scores of school tests.
Hints & Tips: Passing Arrays (Acorn User)
An assembly language program which allows for arrays to be passed as parameters to Basic functions.
Forum: Multiple Fn Keys (Acorn User)
A utility that allows you to define up to 40 function keys (instead of the usual ten).
Spanish Eyes (Acorn User)
A utility adding the Spanish characters to the BBC's character set.
Stock Cutting 1 (Acorn User)
A program technique that needs to be deployed in conjunction with the article in Acorn User #016.
Stock Cutting 2 (Acorn User)
A program technique that needs to be deployed in conjunction with the article in Acorn User #016.
XRef (Acorn User)
A utility which sorts and lists Basic variables, function and procedure names.
TAU-83-12 Acorn User Dec 83 1D 15 25
Acorn User #016 83-12
4 Colour UFO (Acorn User)
A demo showing a graphic of a UFO in four colours.
Drips (Acorn User)
Some further uses for the EQUS instruction, to be loaded in conjunction with the article in Acorn User #017.
Generate M/Code (Acorn User)
A procedure to automatically *SAVE assembled machine code.
Graphs Demo (Acorn User)
A utility demonstrating Dijkstra's algorithm.
Landscape Generator (Acorn User)
A pseudo-random image generator which plots sky, sea, hills, grass, a path and some trees in multiple colours.
Large Cherries (Acorn User)
A demo showing a graphic of some cherries.
Simple UFO (Acorn User)
A demo showing a graphic of a UFO in two colours.
Sound Filter Programs (Acorn User)
A procedure that will disable the sounds made by games written in machine code which do not have a Quiet option.
SuperFruit Machine (Acorn User)
A game simulating a fruit machine, complete with cherries, grapes and tomatoes on the reels!
TAU-84-01 Acorn User Jan 84 1D 28 49
Acorn User #017 84-01
DefenceCom (Acorn User)
A clone of Missile Command, you must try to defend your bases from the relentless onslaught of enemy missiles.
Stack Demo (Acorn User)
A demonstration of the Basic Stack, how to place things on it and how to remove them.
FileAdr (Acorn User)
A utility to read the load, finish and execution addresses of any file.
Queue Demo (Acorn User)
A program demonstrating how a queue works.
Life Programs (Acorn User)
Some eye-catching programs based on J. H. Conway's Life simulation.
M/C Graphics Examples (Acorn User)
A selection of machine code programs that will help you move around colourful graphics at high speed.
Simple Mode 7 Titles (Acorn User)
Programs demonstrating the use of CHR$141 on a Mode 7 screen to give double-height characters.
The Train Game (Acorn User)
A highly-regarded Basic game in which you must run a train between stations plotted at random by changing the points on the track.
TAU-84-02 Acorn User Feb 84 1D 20 23
Acorn User #018 84-02
40/80 Track Disc Maker (Acorn User)
A utility that will make a disc readable on both a 40- and 80- track disc drive.
Bubble Sort (Acorn User)
A demonstration of how to sort an array of values using the bubble sort.
Circular Arguments (Acorn User)
Two programs which draw very fast circles in less than half a second.
Elk Parallel Printer (Acorn User)
A program which allows an Electron to print to a Centronics printer using the VIA chip.
Simple Graphics Programs (Acorn User)
A collection of 'mysterious' short programs which create interesting graphical displays.
Text Compress (Acorn User)
A utility to compress strings of ASCII characters by a factor of 4:3.
Text Decompress (Acorn User)
A utility to decompress strings compressed using Acorn User #019's Text Compress utility.
TAU-84-03 Acorn User Mar 84 1D 15 27
Acorn User #019 84-03 84-03
Critical Timer (Acorn User)
A utility which will find the number of cycles in a given piece of machine code.
Cube-Based Life (Acorn User)
A 3D variant of Life, showing generations in three-dimensions, flick-screen format.
Monstrous Curves (Acorn User)
A demo of 'monstrous curves', better known as snowflake patterns.
Pleased To Meet You (Acorn User)
A primary school program to help juniors find their way around a computer keyboard.
Sound In M/C (Acorn User)
A number of machine code routines designed to be used in a space-themed program.
TAU-84-04 Acorn User Apr 84 1D 10 26
Acorn User #020 84-04
Auto-Run Add-On (Acorn User)
A function to make a BASIC program respond to the *RUN command, rather than LOAD or CHAIN.
Called By Reference (Acorn User)
A routine to pass variables by reference into procedures, including arrays.
Routine Rescue (Acorn User)
A routine to help a programmer recover from when memory is corrupted and a Bad Program error is generated.
Saving Text For VIEW (Acorn User)
A simple Basic program that will allow a text file to be created (for subsequent editing in View).
Selective Copy (Acorn User)
A multiple file copier which will speed up copying operations between discs.
TAU-84-05 Acorn User May 84 1D 29 39
Acorn User #021 84-05
Disc Copier (Acorn User)
A utility to copy an entire disc, either from one drive to another or using a single disc drive by swapping discs.
Disc Editor (Acorn User)
A utility to edit the individual bytes of a disc. Useful in case of corruption.
Disc Examiner (Acorn User)
A utility for the Acorn DFS which will calculate the available storage and disc sectors available.
Doodlebug (Acorn User)
A demo which creates kaleidoscope-style patterns.
Easter Sunday (Acorn User)
A routine to predict what date Easter Sunday will fall on in any given year.
Graphic Patterns (Acorn User)
A collection of impressive graphic routines for your BBC/Electron.
Helicopter Demo (Acorn User)
A simple Basic program which shows a hovering helicopter composed of VDU characters.
Name-file Entry (Acorn User)
A utility to generate a file containing the names of people or items.
Number Entry (Acorn User)
A utility to generate a file containing numbers relating to the names in Name-file Entry.
Correlation (Acorn User)
A utility to work out the correlation between two sets of number files.
Line of Best Fit (Acorn User)
A utility that calculates the 'line of best fit' using the 'least squares' method from two sets of number files.
OS Calls (Acorn User)
A selection of demos of the Operating System commands in machine code.
Simple Disc Menu (Acorn User)
A very simple Basic disc menu which you can copy to your own discs.
Trimphone Demos (Acorn User)
A selection of demos illustrating the Trimphone.
TAU-84-06 Acorn User Jun 84 1D 30 48
Acorn User #022 84-06
Adult Literacy (Acorn User)
A simple 'flash the word' educational tool, designed to help improve adult literacy.
Atom Program Lister (Acorn User)
A program which will convert the a tokenised Atom program to a BBC one, allowing it then to be LISTed.
B-Tree (Acorn User)
A demonstration of B-Trees, using a B-Tree of order 7.
Bones Demo (Database)
The famous BBC Micro dancing skeletons animation, showing a bunch of bony magicians performing tricks and jumping up and down.
Easter Sunday Alternative (Acorn User)
A utility that uses an algorithm to accurately predict the date on which Easter Sunday will fall each year.
Hardware Demos (Acorn User)
A selection of utilities that will allow you to peek inside what actually happens inside memory when certain events occur.
Leader Of The Pack (Acorn User)
A program for drawing playing cards (such as the Ace of Spades) on the screen using Basic commands.
Rapid Tape Retrieval (Acorn User)
A program that accompanies an article that suggests a somewhat bizarre suggestion for dealing with tape-based loading more effectively.
Screen Test (Acorn User)
A selection of routines to put a monitor through its paces.
Soft Pottery (Acorn User)
A selection of 3D graphics made to spin impressively on their axis.
Tape To Disc (Acorn User)
A utility to move tape programs to disc.
Yossa Demo (MRM)
TAU-84-07 Acorn User Jul 84 1D 28 27
Acorn User #023 84-07
Forum Programs (Acorn User)
A selection of programs to accompany for Forum article in Acorn User #024.
FN Key strip (Acorn User)
A Basic program to print out a nicely formatted function key strip on the Epson FX80, MX80, RX80 and Star DP510 printers.
Inspect BASIC (Acorn User)
A machine code utility that allows you to inspect a Basic program saved on disc, without affecting the one held in current memory.
Joe's Jottings 1: RS423 Simulation (Acorn User)
A utility to demonstrate serial transmission.
Joe's Jottings 2: Direct BBC 2 BBC (Acorn User)
A utility to help 'ping' a connected BBC via the RS423 port.
Joe's Jottings 3: Pocket Terminal (Acorn User)
A utility to turn a RS423-wired BBC into a dumb terminal.
Slow Time Beeb (Acorn User)
A program to accompany the hardware project which will allow the BBC's operation to be slowed down.
Sound Programs (Acorn User)
A wolf whistle, two motorbike effects, some piano and organ music and the sounds of the seaside.
Space Bar Testing (Acorn User)
No less than seven different ways of testing for a press of the space bar. Accompanies Hints & Tips in Acorn User #024.
TAU-84-08 Acorn User Aug 84 1D 12 25
Acorn User #024 84-08
How To Correct Listings (Acorn User)
This is a program which was provided in type-in format and, deliberately, will not run. The idea is to get used to obvious mistakes by correcting it.
Micro Activity Pack (Acorn User)
A suite of programs for toddlers which can be played by cutting out the overlays included within the magazine Acorn User #025.
RND No. Gen (Acorn User)
A program demonstrating how the in-built BBC random number generator works.
RND Program Gen (Acorn User)
A program which uses an alternative algorithm to the BBC's in-built one, promising greater randomness and speed.
On The Lake (Acorn User)
A music demo.
Riding Tune (Acorn User)
A music demo.
The Brook (Acorn User)
A music demo.
Zoo Time (Acorn User)
A program to accompany a simple hardware project for younger children.
TAU-84-09 Acorn User Sep 84 1D 20 46
Acorn User #025 84-09
Double Disc Format (Acorn User)
A more powerful disc formatter than the in-built FORMAT command, allowing both sides of a disc to be formatted.
Edu1: Bureau de Change (Acorn User)
An educational programming challenge which should help you answer how many French Francs do I get for my English Pound.
Edu2: Point of Sale (Acorn User)
An educational programming challenge which aims to encourage what should happen at an automatic cash register.
Edu3: Clock Arithmetic (Acorn User)
An educational programming challenge aimed at getting the programmer to consider how to accurately store hours and minutes.
Edu4: Clocking On (Acorn User)
An educational programming challenge which aims to encourage exploration of logging time spent at work.
Edu5: Candle Clock (Acorn User)
An educational programming challenge aimed at predicting how long it will take for a candle to burn itself out.
Edu6: Generation Game (Acorn User)
An educational programming challenge based, loosely, on the Life algorithm.
Fly In The Sky (Acorn User)
A short animated demo (with sound) demonstrating elementary animation.
Format And Copy (Acorn User)
A program designed to be merged with the Copydsk program to allow formatting and copying in a single operation.
Hardware RNG Control (Acorn User)
A circuit diagram for a hardware project in the form of a digital random number generator.
Hi-Speed RND Numbers (Acorn User)
A faster, and more random, random number generator than the in-built Basic command RND.
Hints And Tips (Acorn User)
A selection of programs to accompany the Hints & Tips article in Acorn User #026 magazine.
Kaleidoscope (Acorn User)
An animated kaleidoscope which will generate patterns that can be manipulating by rotating them 'left' and 'right'.
Paradroids (Acorn User)
A space invaders style game.
Sprite Design (BBC) (Acorn User)
A professional Mode 2 sprite designer which will allow you to generate sprites for use in your own programs.
Sprite Design (Elk) (Acorn User)
A professional Mode 2 sprite designer which will allow you to generate sprites for use in your own programs.
TAU-84-10 Acorn User Oct 94 1D 18 44
Acorn User #026 84-10
8271 Disc Copier (Acorn User)
A utility for the BBC Model B which directly programs the 8271 chip, allowing for disc copying to occur at warp speed.
Flies 2 (Acorn User)
An extension of the Acorn User #026 program, improving the resolution of the characters and the animation.
Mode 7 Window (Acorn User)
Text scrolling in a Mode 7 window.
Mode 4 Window (Acorn User)
Text scrolling in a Mode 4 window.
Double Height Text (Acorn User)
A utility that will produce double-height text. Designed to be used in your own programs.
Envelope Generator (Acorn User)
An ENVELOPE definer for the BBC and Electron.
Read Disc Catalogue (Acorn User)
A utility which reads the disc catalogue.
Signature Analysis Unit (Acorn User)
A hardware project that can be used to conduct a healthcheck on your BBC Model B, to see if any of its circuits are about to fail.
Sorting Demos (Acorn User)
A colourful demonstration of how to order data.
Sorting Procedures (Acorn User)
Procedures to sort data, extracted from the sort demo in Acorn User #027.
Sprite Mover (Acorn User)
A utility designed to animate the sprites designed with the Acorn User Sprite Designer by Harry Sinclair.
Toolkits On Trial (Acorn User)
Example programs to benchtest the toolkit ROMs Addcomm, Caretaker, Toolkit, Toolstar and U-Tools.
TAU-84-11 Acorn User Nov 84 1D 25 37
Acorn User #027 84-11
3D Titles (Acorn User)
A demo which shows simple text strings as 3D.
ADVAL Joystick (Acorn User)
A utility to be dropped into any Basic game which will read the joystick using Acorn's approved routines.
Auto Printer Dump 1 (Acorn User)
Auto Printer Dump 2 (Acorn User)
Dual Cat Routine (Acorn User)
An extended disc dual catalogue routine which also allows you to specify whih drive you want the *ALT command to affect.
FB:Co-ordinated Moves (Acorn User)
Demonstrating how to use MOVE, PLOT and DRAW commands in BBC Basic by drawing a rudimentary car.
Floating Point Sums (Acorn User)
A selection of routines to be read in conjunction with the Follow The Floating Point article in Acorn User #028.
Mirror And Clone (Acorn User)
An extension to Harry Sinclair's Sprite Designer, allowing sprites to be mirrored and cloned.
Multiplication Tables (Acorn User)
A selection of quizzes that will see how well you can recite your multiplication tables.
PLOT Command House (Acorn User)
A selection of routines to draw a house in simple shapes.
Set BREAK As Fkey (Acorn User)
A machine code routine which will allow the BREAK key to be permanently (until reset) programmed as function key.
Set STAR Margin (Acorn User)
A Epson/Star printer utility allowing you to set the left margin.
Sideways ROM Select (Acorn User)
A utility which allows you to select and access any ROM.
Timing Test Program (Acorn User)
TAU-84-12 Acorn User Dec 84 1D 25 52
ERROR corrected 25/01/2026. This disc image was in the 8BS library as TAU-85-1 until this date. Dave Edwards pointed out the error. Thanks Dave.
Picture Designer plus screen file. Auto printer dump. Data Base. Slow Scroller. *COM. from Basic. Defining function keys in Basic 1 & 2. Defining text window. Joe's Jottings...5 music progs. Timing test prog.
TAU-85-1 Acorn User Jan 85 1D 31 68
Black Shape (Acorn User)
A demo which draws a black shape which cannot be penetrated.
Card Shuffle (Acorn User)
A card-shuffling routine.
ColFill (Acorn User)
A sophisticated colour-fill routine, presented as part of a demo.
Collision Detection (Acorn User)
A demo showing how a rectangle can be confined to a certain area of the screen.
DotFill (Acorn User)
A sophisticated dot pattern routine, presented as part of a demo.
Double Text 1 (Acorn User)
A demonstration of how double height text can be generated.
Double Text 2 (Acorn User)
A demonstration of how double width text can be generated.
Graphics Compiler (Acorn User)
A utility to convert graphics from Basic to use in assembler programs.
Interrupt Driven Tune (Acorn User)
A demo which will play an event-driven music piece whilst your micro is left free for other things!
Menu-Fax (Acorn User)
A teletext emulator for the BBC Model B.
Picture Slide (Acorn User)
An impressive sliding blocks puzzle game in machine code. Runs in the highest colour mode giving very colourful pictures!
Quadline (Acorn User)
It's Connect 4, played against the computer. Get four counters of the same colour in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line to win.
Rectangle Move (Acorn User)
A demo showing how the cursor keys can move a rectangle around the screen.
Storyboard (Acorn User)
An adaptation of Susan Kingsbury's activity board.
*TYPE Filename (Acorn User)
A utility showing how a filename can be entered and called up for use with the *TYPE command.
*TYPE OSCLI (Acorn User)
A demo of the OSCLI statement.
Yes/No Answer (Acorn User)
A simple procedure to generate a Yes/No response.
TAU-85-2 Acorn User Feb 85 1D 28 60
Drawing. Colour screen dump for Seikosha printer plus test print. Hints & Tips...Simple Data-Bases(5 versions). Joe's Jottings...Data-base Header for Random Access Filing. NET *Build command utility. Draw and Fill utility.
TAU-85-3 Acorn User Mar 85 1D 19 41
Mode 7 graphics. Keyboard on ADC input for BBC and Electron. Selectable character set version. I's and O's for BBC and Elk. Eventful colours. Fast dump modes 1/4/5. Fastext 80 test. Two more versions of the Simple databases. Circle Algorithms. Machine code circles. Fast circles.
TAU-85-4 Acorn User Apr 85 1D 12 26
Auto resistance measurement. Trap break/reset with on error. Proc_search. Colours by interrupt. Graphs. Budge. Slim characters in mode 2. Slim Characters test. Touch screen using MOS.
TAU-85-5 Acorn User May 85 1D 18 50
Voltmeter settings. Filing system. View driver. Animator. Demo for WW file. Animated files. Capital letters on/off. Lower to upper case converter. No modes on screen. 256 colours. M/code timer. Cursor proc demo. Split WW files. Sound compiler.
TAU-85-6 Acorn User Jun 85 1D 15 38
Drawing. Dynamic F/key strips. CHR$ doctor. 3D printing. Disc and ROM utils. PDG for View. Double height routines. Bulletin board. Colouring WW+ files.
TAU-85-7 Acorn User Jul 85 1D 28 61
Sample data file creation. File read/write. Close files on break. Double width demo. Extend - Basic compiler. ASCII codes to a parallel printer. Number input routine V.1 & V.2. Code creator. SWR Pts 1 & 2. PROCerror - the facts. List all variables names. Clear/set/print resident variables. Auto menu & status progs. Acorn User Adventure with instructions. View 2.1 patch for BBC+.
TAU-85-8 Acorn User Aug 85 1D 22 45
Checking data statements with the Speech system. Bleep prog. Change text colours. Sound with assembly language. Speak with speech synthesiser. Talking typewriter. Interupt driven sound. EasyPlot. Light Grapher. Torch transmitter and reciever using computers relay switches.
TAU-85-9 Acorn User Sep 85 1D 18 49
View suite. Auto menu. Clone. Floating point. Epson descenders. Wordwise edit. ROM disassembler/relocator. Printer benchmark. PDG for View. Simulating on GOSUB. Run Silent Run Deep...game. Simulating Basic II from I.
TAU-85-10 Acorn User Oct 85 1D 31 84
Easy Vufoil display. Dynamic K/strip display. Fractals. Epson JX80 screen dump. Epson JX80 test. Pussy cat pic. Compilation of Network pattern progs. EasyPlot notice board. Paint plus three screens.
TAU-85-11 Acorn User Nov 85 1D 31 99
Benchmarks. Music compiler V.1 & V.2. Hints and Tips. Lineout. Tesselator. Graphic Bonus...Digitised Cat. FreeHand...Paint utilities.
TAU-85-12 Acorn User Dec 85 1D 31 64
Guess the letter. Epson Dual-density bit image. Shuggy's Garden. Fractals and recurrsion. Data Compressor. Fonts.
TAU-86-1 Acorn User Jan 86 1D 31 78
Hints & Tips:Date Program.3-D Graphics 5 Programs. Super Painter. Spectramania :Snapper type game. Elite Commander Slogan. Using the B+. Colour Fill demo. Graphics Bonus: Christmas card
TAU-86-1 Acorn User Jan 86 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-86-2 Acorn User Feb 86 1D 31 52
Hints & Tips: Colour Contrast Tester. Joes Jottings:*SPACK, *PACK, *UNPACK, *SSAVE and *SLOAD commands, Shrink1 and Shrink2 screen size demos. Elite Editor .E-Index. Basic Language Extension.
TAU-86-3 Acorn User Mar 86 1D 31 99
Hints & Tips:Disc Sector Editor, Mode 7 Block moving demo. Tunemaker: Edit music and print it out. SWR Utilities. Acorn Forum. CP/M * commands. Master screen switching. Pixel Editor.
TAU-86-4 Acorn User Apr 86 1D 29 94
3-D Shades. Basic Extensions. Acorn Forum. Hints & Tips:Turtle Graphics, Printer Utility. Checksums. Graphics Bonus:KitPic.
TAU-86-5 Acorn User May 86 1D 31 76
Hints & Tips. Acorn Forum:Screen Dump for a daisy wheel printer. Electron Keys:BBC Compatability prog. Tape to Disc transfer. DIY Dumping. Tube Extensions. Mandlebrot graphics.
TAU-86-6 Acorn User Jun 86 1D 29 80
Graphic demos in modes 0-5, Wire frame drawings, Terminal software, Joe's Jottings..eight progs of disc utilities World Cup 86 database, Converting VDU characters into auto-data statements, Spiderman pictures.
TAU-86-7 Acorn User Jul 86 1D 31 101
Hints and tips, First Byte..combining and expanding files, 1770 DFS and ADFS and OSWORD calls, Ambiguous loader, Help files, Printer Commands, View spoolers, View Sheet and View Store utilities, 3 Graphics library pictures.
TAU-86-7 Acorn User Jul 86 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-86-8 Acorn User Aug 86 1D 31 92
Hints & Tips:2 Double height character progs, Cursor prog. Acorn Forum:Cursor bounce. Joes Jottings:Room designer and planner. Moving Pictures. Integrex colour-jet 132 printer test. Graphics Bonus:Thomas Tank and Bert.
TAU-86-9 Acorn User Sep 86 1D 27 102
First Byte:M/C alphabet, memory mover and Graphic demo. Hints & Tips:Graphics Demos. ROMFile:To put programs into SWR . Joes Jottings:9 programs for menu displays. Maze game.Calligraphy and Calligraphy+ and Filer. Graphics Bonus: Tutankamun and Elite.
TAU-86-9 Acorn User Sep 86 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-86-10 Acorn User Oct 86 1D 31 102
First Byte:M/C prog for Proportional spacing on the screen. Hints and Tips: Procedure for printing teletext graphics on your printer and screen mode converter. Joes Jottings: Logo listing. Acorn Forum:One line password protection. Rom Errors. Equation solver . Graph Drawing. Econet Utilities. Graphic compression.View printer driver generator. Graphics Bonus:Snip.
TAU-86-11 Acorn User Nov 86 1D 28 97
Hints & Tips:Scoreboards and Graphics. First Byte:M/Code demos. Joes Jottings: Calculator with Icons for the JoeTop. SuperPlot with two demo screens. Mode convertor to load SuperPlot pics into other graphics packages. Dual screen demo. Printer benchmark tests. Acorn Forum:Electron printer style selector. Graphics Bonus:Flag, Willow Pattern and Seascape.
TAU-86-11 Acorn User Nov 86 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-86-12 Acorn User Dec 86 1D 31 96
Hints & Tips:Format and justify text and Prime number generator. First Byte: M/Code mathmatical functions. Joes Jottings:More programs for your procedure library. Castle of Nightmares . Window demos using SWR. Red Box control progs. Test program for Network facilities. Demo of Network OSWORD call . Graphic Bonus:Witness and Garage.
TAU-86-12 Acorn User Dec 86 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-87-1 Acorn User Jan 87 1D 28 86
Hints & Tips:Graphs and Graphics. First Byte:JSR call demo and Stack demo. Acorn Forum:Function key utility, Master Rom credits and Which Micro?. Kiddy Art. Castle of Nightmares extra screens. Scorpion programs. Gull, a picture to load into SuperPlot. Disc indexer. RS232 File transfer between micros. Graphics Bonus:Micro & Monitor.
TAU-87-1 Acorn User Jan 87 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-87-2 Acorn User Feb 87 1D 27 100
First Byte:Assembler. Hints & Tips:More graph drawing routines. Cross Stitch: design and print out your own patterns or load in some pre-designed ones. Joy- stick ROM. Data Plot using data from View Store. Program Push:Econet Utility . Kiddy Art. Graphics Bonus:Bugs Bunny.
TAU-87-2 Acorn User Feb 87 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-87-3 Acorn User Mar 87 1D 22 92
First Byte:How to use flags. Hints & Tips:How to send characters directly to the printer. AQUONI:Trivial Pursuit type game. Compact series:Text editors. Artificial Intelligence:Make your Micro think??. Graphic Bonus:Earth from Space
TAU-87-3 Acorn User Mar 87 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-87-4 Acorn User Apr 87 1D 31 93
Hints & Tips and First Byte:Display contents of the first 256 bytes of memory, Strip control codes from WP files, Animal guesing game, Animal guessing game editor, Using SWR as a ROM image. Music Special:Ample music file, Music Editor(print out the finished result), Music with graphics demos. Sideways printing. Compact Listings:Choosing screen colours with a pointer, Pick items from a menu with a pointer, Moving sprites around. RAM test. Graphics Bonus:Monster and Lady.
TAU-87-4 Acorn User Apr 87 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-87-5 Acorn User May 87 1D 31 101
Acorn Forum:2 utilities for SuperArt and large digital clock display for the Master. First Byte:Assembler language programs. Hints & Tips:M/Code screen dumps. Calligraphy:Updated version. Joes Jottings:Musical Robots. Network Utilities:Control a remote station. Mandlebrots. Graphics Bonus:Japanese woman and child.
TAU-87-5 Acorn User May 87 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-87-6 Acorn User Jun 87 1D 31 67
Hints & Tips:Partial screen dump, Graphic Window coordinates, Colour Fill , True or false and *SPOOL tip. First Byte:Assembler version of PRINT CHR$65, Read in Assembler, Loop to print 10 stars and Assembler version of MODE2: COLOURS129:CLS. Acorn Forum:Local quirk , Giant teletext graphics, Converting SuperArt and PageMaker fonts, Recursive Tree of Pythagoras and Sideways screens . Joes Jottings:Joes Desktop programs plus associated listings. Drawing using AMX mouse. Printing characters. Lexxia. Graphics Bonus:King and Queen cards.
TAU-87-6 Acorn User Jun 87 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-87-7 Acorn User Jul 87 1D 31 60
Hints & Tips:Calculate day of the week and calculate a calendar for any month. First Byte:M/Code sound, Envelope in Basic demo and Envelope in M/Code demo. Acorn Forum:Angled text, Patch for Cumana QFS and Shadow memory switching on a B+ demo. Joes Jottings:Tracker ball and mouse demo, AIV demo, AIV library routines, AIV demo for LOGO and AIV library routines for LOGO. DFS to ADFS Transfer. Hieroglyphics:WW+ seg prog for new characters. View layout checker. Network page. Race to Varpon. Graphics Bonus:Lowry.
TAU-87-7 Acorn User Jul 87 T -- --
Tape version in uef format
TAU-87-8 Acorn User Aug 87 1D 31 89
M/Code Multiplication and Division, Acorn Forum..compression demo, Joe's Jottings..Dates and Calendars including Calendar for Joe's Front End, fourteen one line graphic demos, Multi-Tasking (error in source code so will not run!) Word-pro Utilities, 3 Graphic library pictures.
TAU-87-9 Acorn User Sep 87 1D 28 95
Hints and Tips..Numerical accuracy and transferring ROM images into SWR, First Byte..on screen fonts and file location on an ADFS, Joe's Jottings..redefining characters to Greek, simple version of City Bomber, Coke Can picture.
TAU-87-10 Acorn User Oct 87 1D 29 81
Hints & Tips:View printer driver generator, Spool file drawer replayer, SWR bank tester and printer tester. Acorn Forum:ROM image initialiser, Fleet Street graphics converter, Code key emulator, Basic @
TAU-87-11 Acorn User Nov 87 1D 23 62
ints & Tips:WW+ configuration and printer code tester. First Byte:Demos of parameters, Arrays and variables. Acorn Forum:WW+ utility to strip out line numbers from Basic programs,SWR disc copier and hardware scroller demo for the Electron. WW+ entry made easy. Joes Jottings:Framework for producing your own Toolkit with example toolkit for photographers.Recursion examples. Graphics Bonus:BBC Micro.
TAU-87-12 Acorn User Dec 87 1D 24 77
Hints & Tips:BBC Music synthesiser, Electron version of the Synthesiser, High/Low guessing game, decimal to hex converter, Reaction timer and count occurences of letters prog. First Byte: *DUMP hex dump command. Acorn Forum: Utility to repair broken directories, Utility for preserving variables, ROM utility to slow down programs, NLQ and Italic printer driver for View and a *Find utility. Joes Jottings:Designing printed circuit boards and *PACK, *UNPACK commands. Plotter program to plot pointlist. Monitor testing.Graphic Bonus:Westminster Abbey.
TAU-88-1 Acorn User Jan 88 1D 24 81
Hints and Tips: Four segment programs for WW+ to print single and multiple labels, telephone numbers and mail merging. First Byte: Random access filing demos. Acorn Forum: Binary number handling and *CHEAT utility to give auto firing in games. Joes Jottings: Five programs for using IR remote controls with your computer. Flying Wizards game. Data transfer between a Beeb and a Z88. Graphics Bonus: Father Christmas.
TAU-88-2 Acorn User Feb 88 1D 17 47
Hints and Tips: View !BOOT files, Disc menu program and Recursive graphics demo. Acorn Forum: Colour selection for the Arc, Deleting the 'E' attribute on ADFS and software scrolling in mode 7. Joes Jottings: Television Timetable prog . BBC to ARC transfer. Repton converter for Around the World in Forty Screens and Life of Repton. Graphics Bonus: Pencil Sharpener.
TAU-88-3 Acorn User Mar 88 1D 23 45
Hints and Tips: Tower of Hanoi solver, String searching WW+ segment prog. First Byte: Auto-Save utility. Acorn Forum: Disassembler for the ARC, Check utility to avoid over-writing files, *DRIVE utility for ADFS and Digital joystick prog. Joes Jottings: Benchmarks for use with MCL Rom, Simple reaction timer, Advanced reaction timer, Ferris wheel simulation for use with MCL Rom. Auto Rom: utility to build your own toolkit Roms. Archimedes Windows. Mandlebrot generator for the ARC. Graphic Bonus: In the Car.
TAU-88-4 Acorn User Apr 88 1D 23 70
Hints and Tips:View label printing from macro files, Double 'e' with one key press and a Tune after 5 'e's. Acorn Forum: Copy key extension(Beeb with Basic2),Macro assembly utility and airbrush utility for Artisan. Joes Jottings:Mode2 drawing procedures. View document data table generator. 'UNDO' facility for SuperArt. 0, 1 and 4 screen dumps for the LQ 800 printer. Graphics Bonus: Max Headroom.
TAU-88-5 Acorn User May 88 1D 31 82
Hints and Tips: Banner printer, New mode 7 characters using different combinations of the top and bottom halves of double height characters, BasicText formatter, Utility to hide disc catalogues and Controlled on Error . ViewSheet files. ARC Agora: RGB demo, Tint demo, A different look at Life, Fractals and Artificial Intelligence. Joes Jottings: Temperature reading and plotting. Network Page: Using printer servers on an Econet network. Mode4 screen dump for an LQ800. Graphics Bonus: Henry VIII.
TAU-88-6 Acorn User Jun 88 1D 28 66
Hints and Tips:Lotus 123 menus demo, Music manuscript printer, Mode7 screen compressor and expander, Upper to lower case prog, Date Stamp utility for Basic progs and Utility to override printer control characters. ARC Agora: Inbetweening, Sprites for Animation, Print dump module. Step by Step:Link- File converter, Utility for displaying ViewSheet link-files and InterChart file creator. Joes Jottings: Percussion Machine, Drum machine and Master Drum Machine. Music 5000 file: Spanish Tummy by Ian Waugh. Maths in Motion. Graphics Bonus: DeskTop.
TAU-88-7 Acorn User Jul 88 1D 18 64
Hints and Tips: Turbo utility for fast tape save/load, Graphics block copy and Upside Down character invertor. ARC Agora: The ARC's system variables demo, Using system variables, Save/load CMos Ram module and *COMPACT utility. Joes Jottings: Simple spreadsheet. Music: convert TMS files to the 'Autumn' format, Playback 'Autumn' files in Basic and M/code. Utility to list labels in assembly source code. PCW benchmarks for Logo(BBC & ARC).Graphics Bonus: Picture gallery.
TAU-88-8 Acorn User Aug 88 1D 16 84
Hints and Tips: Utility to dump the screen as text, NEC Pinwriter 8-pin dump enhancer, Calculate the power of two and Calculate Scrabble scores. ARC Agora: Screen utilities, Compact text, Print directory tree & interrupts demo. Joes Jottings: Graph plotter to compliment last months spread sheet. Warlord Pt1. Network Page: Teletext file server programs.
TAU-88-9 Acorn User Sep 88 1D 24 101
Hints and Tips: Catalogue message(DFS), Directory wiper, Volume ROM and Sample piece of music for Volume ROM. ARC Agora: Mouse pointer editor, Example mouse definition...severed hand and Sprites for windows demo. Bezier curves. Flow charts ARC wimp demo. Proportional/ micro spacing View printer drivers. Graphics Bonus: TV station logos. Warlord Pt2.
TAU-88-10 Acorn User Oct 88 1D 23 88
Hints and Tips: Colour separator, Electron Basic keywords, STRING$ demo, StarBox, Cassette inlays and Barchart demo. ARC Agora: *FIND utility, Source code for podule RAM, Blow modules into podules, Spiral graph demo and Digital clock. 3-D Pentominoes game. Joes Jottings: Ideas processor (Beeb and Master versions). Imagen: interactive adventure generator plus demo game. 6502 code for double height characters. Graphics Bonus: Beeb advert.
TAU-88-11 Acorn User Nov 88 1D 16 58
Hints and Tips: Function/Procedure lister, Double width text, WW+ segment program to read time from Teletext adaptor and utility to display memory graphically. ARC Agora: PC & ST to ARC to read MS-DOS discs, TAK benchmarks for the ARC and Display 456 ARC colours . Joes Jottings: Crosswords. Life. Mode1 screen dumps for HP LaserJet. Graphics Bonus: Robot Marilyn.
TAU-88-12 Acorn User Dec 88 1D 20 94
Hints and Tips:8 colours in mode1, Utility for *WIPE in ADFS, Electron keypad utility, Lower case Basic commands (B/B+) and Print-screen prog. ARC Agora:*MEMORYI bug fix module, Podule ROM loader, ARMcode quick sort routine, ARC implementation of Graphical Kernel System. Plotter quality dump for dot matrix printers. Graphic demo to use with HRdump. Bad FS recovery utility. Ample and Music 500/ 5000 music files. Graphics Bonus: Moon Flight.
TAU-89-1 Acorn User Jan 89 1D 31 80
Random Maps/Landscapes.
TAU-89-2 Acorn User Feb 89 1D 20 137
Screen Disc Dump. Laserjet Dump.
TAU-89-3 Acorn User Mar 89 1D 14 62
Arc Agora. Sideways Ram. Rose. Hodgepodge. Graphics
TAU-89-4 Acorn User Apr 89 1D 24 101
SWR Routines. ARC Colour Display. View Multi-Column Previewer. Teleprompter. Druid Game. Automatic File Chainer.
TAU-89-5 Acorn User May 89 1D 16 83
Electron Function Key Enhancer. JP101 Screen Dump. Mode 7 Plotting. UDC's in SWR. Line editor. Keystrip Generator and Editor. !Boot File Creator. Ray Tracing
TAU-89-6 Acorn User Jun 89 1D 22 54
Proportional Printing in View and WW+. Interword Overtype. Arc Joystick Emulation. Monthly Bill Handling. Postscript Program with 5 examples.
TAU-89-7 Acorn User Jul 89 1D 18 47
Fonts. *RUNnable Basic Programs. ARC Fast Lines and Seasonal Graphics Demo. Colliding Galaxies Simulation. Filofax Page Printer. WW+ Grammar Checker.
TAU-89-8 Acorn User Aug 89 1D 28 70
WW+ Menu. Druid Designer.
TAU-89-9 Acorn User Sep 89 1D 18 55
Landscape Generator.
TAU-89-10 Acorn User Oct 89 1D 19 69
Ample music files, Arc Agora(4 files), Mini menu, Picture shrink, String spooler, Scrolling message, ADFS file wipe, Satellite tracking, Random music improviser, ADFS Manager, Relaxing Ripples(Arc).
TAU-89-11 Acorn User Nov 89 1D 28 98
Prime numbers, Calendars, Text scrolling(Arc), LIST IF commands for Basic I & II, Timing long jobs, DFS file recovery, OS vector list, Firework graphics demo, View printer driver.
TAU-89-12 Acorn User Dec 89 1D 25 99
Knitting Pattern Designer.
TAU-90-1 Acorn User Jan 90 1D 22 89
Risc Revue...Solitaire. Perfect number generator 1 & 2. Total disc compactor. Eight Bits...Scrolling message generator. Display directory sizes. Universal menu system. Hemera diary. Word games...Spellmaster/RomSpell/ViewSpell check function. SpellMaster/RomSpell/ViewSpell pick function. Wordsquare generator. Trackword solver. ARC versions of the same progs. Repton Infinity screens.
TAU-90-2 Acorn User Feb 90 1D 26 57
Eight Bits...WW+ Canyon game. WW+ adventure game. New vector list utility. Text previewer for View. Passwords. Useful '*' command. Risc Revue...Cellula Automata. Square roots in ARM code. Grab system sprites. Roll 1992. ARC triangles. Photofiler. Which day?. Convert ASCII to EBCDIC.
TAU-90-3 Acorn User Mar 90 1D 19 98
Eight Bits...Sort address etc. in View. Standard input function. Enhance Stop Press images. Check ADFS programs for NET suitability. Risc Revue...Main compactor/de-compactor. Create 'Scrunge' files. Mode 13 screen rippler. Construct your own RISCOS applications. COBOL implementation. Turnip, whacky ARC graphics.
TAU-90-4 Acorn User Apr 90 1D 31 100
Eight Bits...Link ViewSheet files. *Spoolon command for the Beeb. Two modes on one screen. Back to front. Easter day calculator. Risc Revue...Monitor protection. Heap sort demos. Extension to demo prog. Cellular Automata. BAU tree game. COBOL. Disc servicer. Artificial Intelligence. Sentence interpretation.
TAU-90-5 Acorn User May 90 1D 20 81
Hybrid 5000 Music files. Eight Bits...Demon Graphics on the BBC. Draw graphics from ViewSheet. Partition hard discs for use on a Master 512. Recover data from a hard disc. Strum music sequencer. Life in the fast lane. Multiprecision arithmetic. Solids in rotation. ARC DFS reader.
TAU-90-6 Acorn User Jun 90 1D 23 86
Risc revue...Implosion. Create sprite implosion demo. Colliding Galaxies. Timezones throughout the world. Eight Bits...Inverted commas for InterSheet. Machine code square root. Last command repeater. Image analysis. ARC file finder. Roman utilities. Drop kick SWR utility.
TAU-90-7 Acorn User Jul 90 1D 33 101
Music for Ample owners. Risc Revue...Simulated wave interface. Confirm icon demo. Checksums. Genetic Algorithms. More Image analysis. Windows for the Beeb. Crazy characters. Classic Eight Bits...Disc sector editor. Polar graphics demos. Vertical print. Tree game. Modes 1,2,4 & 5 M/C screen dump. Mode 0 screen dump. Mode 0-6 screen dump.
TAU-90-8 Acorn User Aug 90 1D 23 95
Mandlebrots for the Beeb(suite of 5 programs). Risc Revue...Pairs Game. Square roots. New Newmodes prog. Eight Bits...Screen converter. Image processing. 3D Tank game for the ARC or A3000. Classic Hints and Tips... To seperate colours on screen. Tower of Hanoi. Print screen at the press of a key. Multi-column View. ROM cut and paste. Program date stamping.
TAU-90-9 Acorn User Sep 90 1D 24 94
Risc Revue...Powers(amazing numbers). Fastlife(ARC Life). Convert BBC screens to ARC format. Eight Bits...BBC Goblet(enhanced version). Master & ARC Goblet. Passwords. Ray tracing. ARM programming. Image processing. Ample music.
TAU-90-10 Acorn User Oct 90 1D 17 37
Risc Revue...Sprires. Huge numbers. Screen sort. 3D Dotty with equations. Faster sprite printing. Eight Bits...Newmodes. Pretty mazes. Cassette inlays. 136 columns for WW+. Character redefining with umlats and accents. Data encryption. Fractal triangles.
TAU-90-11 Acorn User Nov 90 1D 21 46
Eight Bits...Big mode 7 characters. A type identifier. Auto-save routine. HPGL plotter. Pic-Pac...Beginning of a series of programs for a working Graphics package. Ample Music files.
TAU-90-12 Acorn User Dec 90 1D 24 89
Risc revues...3D routines. Arithmetic. New version of Stretch. Eight Bits... Master Clock. Digital Clock(needs RTC). Wire World ARC animation. Ample music. ARC address book. More Pic-Pac routines. ARM programming. Graphics Bonus.
TAU-91-1 Acorn User Jan 91 1D 27 75
Guitar Chords. Eight Bits: Serpinski Gaskets, File altering utility, Basic move utility, Date stamping utility, File identification system. Hatrix game. Nine more files for Pic-Pac.
TAU-91-2 Acorn User Feb 91 1D 19 93
Photo Filer. Hatrix extra screens and screen designer. Eight Bits: File searching, Basic program protector, 3 screen blanking utilities.
TAU-91-3 Acorn User Mar 91 1D 17 78
Eight Bits: Variables in EXEC files, WW+ Calendar seg prog. Risc Revue. Psion transfer(ARC). Pieces of Eight: Three Dee, Maths in motion graphic display. Death before Dishonour(ARC).
TAU-91-4 Acorn User Apr 91 1D 27 60
Risc Revue. Hatrix for ARC users. Pieces of Eight: Maze game, Fractals, Sounds. Exile editor.
TAU-91-5 Acorn User May 91 1D 31 102
Ample Music files. Eight Bits: Fast circles, Squashed print, Batch processing. Core War. 24 pin font designer. Dot Matrix postscript utility to convert InterWord(or other) files so they can be printed on a PS printer. Pieces of Eight: View PDG, View spooler, View previewer. Softie: Function key save utility(Master only).
TAU-91-6 Acorn User Jun 91 1D 30 67
Risc Revue. 24 pin (Pt2) character designer. Prime numbers. GWamp(ARC). Gobble(ARC). Pieces of Eight: 3D Life, Dot-Fill, Col-fill. Games Listing(ARC).
TAU-91-7 Acorn User Jul 91 1D 21 87
*Info: 3 D Maths, Squiggle game. Gamecore(ARC). View previewer. Pieces of Eight: 3 D Landscapes, Polyominoes, 2 Scroll routines, Comms.
TAU-91-8 Acorn User Aug 91 1D 25 91
3 Graphic demos...Ferns, Trees and Coastline. Sequel: music sequencer. Pieces of Eight: Spectramania(Snapper type game), Solver, Spider, Quadline.
TAU-91-9 Acorn User Sep 91 1D 25 84
Atoms game. Coral, Jiggle, Eyestrain: graphic displays. File sizer. Juggling. Wide VDU(BBC B only). Shopping database. Pieces of Eight: Code to generate LDPIC and SVPIC and mode converter. Graphics Bonus: Tiger and Techno. ARC owners programs.
TAU-91-10 Acorn User Oct 91 1D 28 98
Graphic displays: Frond, Gobble, Fragger. Font designer plus two font files. Pieces of Eight: Train game, Hexlife1 and Hexlife2. TAU-91-11 Acorn User Nov 91 1D 27 Files Wireworld: graphic display. SWAT: scrolling text. Surface, Henon, Tree2, JDup: graphic displays. Pieces of Eight: Pythagoras trees, 1 D Life, Crossword compiler. Menu editor(ARC).
TAU-91-11 Acorn User Nov 91 1D 27 99
Font designer. Train Game. Hexlife 1. Hexlife 2
TAU-91-12 Acorn User Dec 91 1D 31 87
Comb sort demo. Fast HexLife1. Fast HexLife2. Error trapping demo. Multi-tasking. Spoole8: graphic demo. One line recursion. Disc indexer(ARC). Pieces of Eight: KiddiArt, Theme Music Editor, Sideways printing, Bezier curve demo, Clangers sound demo.
TAU-92-1 Acorn User Jan 92 1D 27 87
*Info: Thin Text, Proportional characters, Mindmaster, Serpininski snowflake. Pieces of Eight: SuprePlot, SuperPlot converter, Super Paint, Sprite editor(ARC) Life.
TAU-92-2 Acorn User Feb 92 1D 23 80
Machine code Clouds. ADFS directory lister. Resistor colour coder. One line stars. One line waves. A-Z of programming(compacted files). Doodle(ARC). Lypunov Fractals(ARC).
TAU-92-3 Acorn User Mar 92 1D 23 82
Gridmaker. MicroArt. Fire generator. Shift/Control help. Pools predictor. Assembly for the ARC. 2 Epson printer utilities: Dump and variable size text. Liquid - ARC. Graphics bonus: Spark.
TAU-92-4 Acorn User Apr 92 1D 21 91
Bezier Curves. Psychedelic circles. Mortgage calculator. Intelligent Mind Master. Face Bender. Chords. Assembly for the ARC.
TAU-92-5 Acorn User May 92 1D 17 82
Megafont demo. Input demo. One line fractals. One line waves. Turtle. Turtle2 for the Master. Colliding Galaxies. Roman number calculations. ARM programming. Graphics bonus: Tiger.
TAU-92-6 Acorn User Jun 92 1D 20 52
Termite...Eight Bit Turing machine. Countdown solution maker. Planets. ARM programming. 'C' Pt1 (ARC). Sound (ARC).
TAU-92-7 Acorn User Jul 92 1D 19 37
Sound (ARC). Water World. BBC-DLI. 'C' Pt2 (ARC). ARM Programming.
TAU-92-8 Acorn User Aug 92 1D 16 102
Fractal Ferns. 3 D Stars screen saver. Sideways scroll. Crossed keys checker. Colour Wheel. Hemera Diary. ARM Programming. 'C' Pt3 (ARC).
TAU-92-9 Acorn User Sep 92 1D 21 68
City Bomber. Mindread ESP. Rippling routine. Collaborating colours. Maze Muddle. Wizalon game. Codename Druid. ARM Programming. Sound (ARC).
TAU-92-10 Acorn User Oct 92 1D 17 75
Rippler. Revised Water World. FX Demo 1. FX Demo 2. Chat (for Econet) Genetics.
TAU-92-11 Acorn User Nov 92 1D 12 30
Calligraphy. Fireworks. DeskLearn: Question and answers program.
TAU-92-12 Acorn User Dec 92 1D 18 77
5 Compression demos. Getting key presses. Keyreading. Fractals made easy. One line album covers.
TAU-93-1 Acorn User Jan 93 1D 22 29
Julia Sets, Mine maze game, and four keyboard demo programs.
TAU-93-2 Acorn User Feb 93 1D 18 38
Solids. Scroll. OSWRCH1.
TAU-93-3 Acorn User Mar 93 1D 21 64
Bell Ringing demos and Graphic displays of the stars.
TAU-93-4 Acorn User Apr 93 1D 31 87
Sorts. Hexlife. Error Trapping.
TAU-93-5 Acorn User May 93 1D 18 90
Warlord Adventure.
TAU-93-6 Acorn User Jun 93 1D 11 29
Three character animation demos. Life for two prog.
TAU-93-7 Acorn User Jul 93 1D 13 63
Text Adventure, Metric converter, Zarch graphics plus five games, Battle Ships, Star Commander, Parachute and 2 Wordsearch games.
TAU-93-8 Acorn User Aug 93 1D 11 57
Cycle Graphics. Grids.
TAU-93-9 Acorn User Sep 93 1D 14 99
Graphics Demo. TV Snow
TAU-93-10 Acorn User Oct 93 1D 28 71
Repeat of the Feb 87 cover disc
TAU-93-11 Acorn User Nov 93 1D 12 79
8BS supplied the content for this disc. Selection of programs from 8BS Issue 29
TAU-93-12 Acorn User Dec 93 1D 18 83
Selection of programs from 1987
TAU-94-1 Acorn User Jan 94 1D 31 78
Selection of programs from Jan 86
TAU-94-2 Acorn User Feb 94 1D 29 101
Selection of programs from 1987
TAU-94-3 Acorn User Mar 94 1D 12 47
8BS supplied the content for this disc. Selection of programs from 8BS Issue 32
TAU-94-4 Acorn User Apr 94 1D 24 101
April 89 cover disc
TAU-94-8 Acorn User Aug 94 1A -- --
August 1994 cover disc in ADFS 800k format. Unchecked by myself
TAU-94-9 Acorn User Sep 94 1A -- --
September 1994 cover disc in ADFS 800k format. Unchecked by myself
TAU-94-10 Acorn User Oct 94 1A -- --
October 1994 cover disc in ADFS 800k format. Unchecked by myself
TAU-87 1987 Compilation. 2D 62 276
Kiddie Art. Disk Indexer. Theme. Pythagoras. Side Print. Monitor Test. View PDG. Synthesiser.
TAU-88 1988 Compilation. 1D 30 134
Plotter Dump. AutoRom. Plotter Dump. Micro Sherlock. Imagen. View Drivers. 24 Pin Dumps.
TAU-89-93 Compilation A -- 611
Compilation. A 611K An ADFS ONLY disc taken from an ACORN CD ROM. Contains lots of hints and tips, also lots of software. NO MENU.
TAU-01 Portfolio 1D 25 190
Portfolio
TAU-02 Calligraphy 1D 17 102
Similar to Fontstyle, type in text and then choose which of the ready made fonts you would like to print in. Or design your own Fonts.
TAU-03 SWR Utilities 1D 31 90
SWR Utilities
TAU-04 Printer Help 2D 56 258
Printer Help
TAU-05 Graphics Utilities 1D 31 93
Graphics Utilities
TAU-06 Education Disc 1D 31 97
Education Disc
TAU-07 Games Disc 2D 40 122
Ten games on this disc that include: Warlords, space text adventure. Run Silent, submarine hunting. Quadline, connect four type game. Vapor. Mastermind. Castle. Polyominoes. Lurch. Maze. Wizalon
TAU-08 Gallery 1 1D 31 198
These two discs (TAU 8 and 9) feature nearly 50 pictures including every day objects such as Coke cans, TV Stra, cartoon characters etc. The discs also include Super Painter to create your own masterpieces and Pixel to edit your own blown up sections of the pictures. The pictures on Gallery can be dumped using, for example, Screen Thief, to be found on TBI-68
TAU-09 Gallery 2 1D 27 200
Gallery 2
TAU-10 Network Utility Disc 1D 12 147
Network Utility Disc
TAU-11 Gallery 3 1D 29 173
26 pictures
TAU-12 Finest Favourites 1D 24 51
[Non-official, No menu] A disc compiled from the tape of the same name, this features some of the best utilities from the early years of The Acorn User magazine. Works on BBC B, B+, Master and Electron. Thanks to Dave Edwards for this
TAU-13 Games Compendium 1D 18 62
[Non-official, No menu] A disc compiled from the tape of the same name, this features some of the best games from the early years of The Acorn User magazine. Works on BBC B, B+, Master and Electron. Thanks to Dave Edwards for this
TAU-14 Best of Acorn User 1D -- --
Transferred from the tape of the same name
TAU-14 Best of Acorn User T -- --
In tape - uef format