The Micro User (titled BBC Micro User in the first three issues) was a British specialist magazine catering to users of the BBC Microcomputer series,...
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The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers designed and built by Acorn Computers Limited in the 1980s for the Computer Literacy...
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website. The code for the first ever Mornington Crescent computer game, on a BBC Micro, was presented on p154 of the April 1985 edition of The Micro User, an...
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Muse Software (redirect from Micro Users Software Exchange, Inc.)
Micro Users Software Exchange, Inc., doing business as Muse Software, was an American video game developer based in Baltimore, Maryland, focusing on the...
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List of computer magazines (section Novice users)
Acorn User (United Kingdom) (discontinued) Archive (United Kingdom) The Micro User (United Kingdom) (discontinued) Qercus (United Kingdom) .net (United...
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Acorn Computers (category Defunct computer companies of the United Kingdom)
publications, including: Acorn User (named BBC Acorn User while its publisher was owned by the BBC) The Micro User (initially BBC Micro User, renamed due to a trade...
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Logo (programming language) (redirect from List of MicroWorlds Logo commands)
LOGO on the BBC computer and Acorn Electron. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-39566-2. Radburn, Derek. "Four Logos for the BBC Micro". The Micro User Education...
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system, MICRO is powerful in terms of the complexity of requests which can be made by users without prior programming language experience. MICRO includes...
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BEEBUG (category 1982 establishments in the United Kingdom)
published for users of the BBC Micro between 1982 and 1994. It was the first subscription magazine for computers made by Acorn Computers. The group was formed...
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Microblogging (redirect from Micro blogging)
Away messages, which are displayed when the user is away, form a kind of micro-blogging. In the Finger protocol, the .project and .plan files are sometimes...
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Micro.blog is a microblogging and social networking service created by Manton Reece. It is the first large multi-user social media service to support...
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QR code (redirect from Micro QR code)
techniques – Rectangular Micro QR Code (rMQR) bar code symbology specification Defines the requirements for Micro QR Code. At the application layer, there...
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2016-03-28. Jackson, Jane (December 1983). "The Micro User Games Software Review: Snapper Acornsoft". The Micro User (Issue 1-10). Retrieved 2010-10-03. SNAPPER...
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and an 80-track drive to the BBC Micro, although this was costly for the home user; some disc drive resellers, notably UFD (User Friendly Devices) and Akhter...
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Acorn User magazine was founded by Acorn Computers in 1982, contract-published by Addison-Wesley, to coincide with the launch of the BBC Micro. It covered...
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ViewSheet (category BBC Micro and Acorn Electron software)
in 1989. David Brown, in his review for The Micro User states that ViewSheet "succeeds in providing all the basic spreadsheet functions in a well presented...
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game and user to user but is generally 30-60 frame/second and higher Raffael Vötter (2008-02-08). "Video proof: Micro stuttering may destroy the performance...
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Horsington, Gordon (May 1987). "Free BBC Micro software on Ceefax: What can you receive - and how". The Micro User. Vol. 5, no. 3. "BBC Announces Closure...
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Microcomputer (redirect from Micro-computer)
compatible machine. The abbreviation "micro" was common during the 1970s and 1980s, but has since fallen out of common usage. The term microcomputer came...
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The Micro Bit (also referred to as BBC Micro Bit or stylized as micro:bit) is an open source hardware ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for...
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Trend Micro Inc. (トレンドマイクロ株式会社, Torendo Maikuro Kabushiki-Gaisha) is an American-Japanese cyber security software company. The company has globally dispersed...
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USB hardware (redirect from Micro-USB)
characteristics of Micro-A plugs, Micro-AB receptacles (which accept both Micro-A and Micro-B plugs), Double-Sided Micro USB, and Micro-B plugs and receptacles...
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Micro Focus International plc was a British multinational software and information technology business based in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The firm provided...
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Elite (video game) (redirect from The Dark Wheel (novella))
David Braben and Ian Bell and was originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in September 1984. Elite's open-ended game...
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on a microcontroller. MicroPython consists of a Python compiler to bytecode and a runtime interpreter of that bytecode. The user is presented with an interactive...
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High School, the same school as computer music composer Martin Galway. As a teenager, he created several video games for the BBC Micro, including Stryker's...
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Key as being "one of the most brilliant programmers" he had ever met. In an interview in the November 1988 issue of The Micro User, Key explained that...
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Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. (commonly known as MSI; Chinese: 微星科技股份有限公司) is a Taiwanese multinational information technology corporation headquartered...
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Apocalypse (1990 video game) (category The Fourth Dimension (company) games)
Apocalypse is notable for the extremely high review scores awarded by The Micro User, and was only the second game on the Archimedes to feature fast...
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