Popular Computing Weekly

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Popular Computing Weekly was a weekly UK magazine that covered the range of home microcomputers during the 80's. It Ran until the early 90's.

Amstrad content appeared in April of 1984 with the launch of the CPC 464. Other reviews, type-ins etc followed in an intermittent manner (starting fortnighly in September 1984 and eventually become weekly in 1985).

Below is just Amstrad CPC relevant content:

Download:Disk and Tape Image of Sound Experiment Program on CPC-Power.

Download:Disk Image of Animated Fans on CPC-Power

Please Note: Helicopter Fury will crash if AMSDOS is present. Program will work if OUT statements in 1120 are omitted or amended.

Download:Disk and Tape Image of Helicopter Fury on CPC-Power

Download: Disk Image of Nellie's Anagrams on CPC-Power

Download: Disk Image of Amstrad Scribble on CPC-Power

Please Note: Battleships Type-in has some printing issues, line 1540 is incomplete, this line appears to be the same as Line 1680. Line 1570 has a RETURN at the end of it. A number of lines have print statements with no closing quote, these lines have spaces in them with closing quote.

Download:Disk and Tape Image of Battleships on CPC-Power

Download:Disk Image of Microfile on CPC-Power

Download:Disk Image of Microfile on CPC-Power

Download: Disk and Tape Image of HiROMLoROMRAM on CPC-Power

Please Note: The BASIC Loader program for "A New Image" loads this early Sprite Driver where AMSDOS resides, however Assembly Source is available in this issue & Dec 20 Issue of PCW, this program will function on a 6128 while in Tape Mode.

Download: Tape Image of A New Image & Demonstration on CPC-Power

Download: Tape Image of A New Image & Demonstration on CPC-Power

Download: Disk Image of Shipwrecked on CPC-Power

Download: Disk Image of Solitaire on CPC-Power

Download:Disk Image of Fractals on CPC-Power.

Download:Disk Image of Road Toad on CPC-Power.

Download:Disk Image of Road Toad on CPC-Power.

Download:Disk Image of Road Toad on CPC-Power.

Download:Disk Image of Screen Collapse on CPC-Power