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Alternative Micro News Vol. 1 No. 4 (About December 1990)

Alternative Micro News No. 4, Christmas 1990: Dave Arts on the Tatung Pipe, Colin Mills on the keyboard matrix, Spectrum emulation on SAM and the MT81 printer.
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1990
5.7 MB
Last Updated
November 8, 2026
The first page of Alternative Micro News Vol. 1 No. 4 (About December 1990)

About

The Christmas 1990 issue of Alternative Micro News from the UK Einstein User Group, with season's greetings on the cover. The editorial looks back on the AMS4 show at Stafford, with around 2,000 visitors and over 200 stands, and introduces the new games SASA and RAIDER. Inside, Dave Arts begins a series on the Tatung Pipe, the Einstein's expansion port, covering wiring, power supplies, the control bus and simple, partial and full address decoding with hand drawn diagrams. Colin Mills writes on security and the keyboard matrix with BASIC and machine code examples. There are adverts for Mike Pugh's Disktools and for Hollywood Business Supplies, the competition page and a challenge to improve Bell Superdraw, the Postbag, Trog's Sing Along With SAM on Spectrum emulation with Kobrahsoft's CD2, a review of the Mannesmann Tally MT81 printer, Bell Software's range for the Einstein and Sharward Services' price list.

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The programs printed in this issue are typed in, tested and ready to run on the Alternative Micro News Vol 1 No 4 Listings Disc.

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From Mike's Archive, with thanks, with a searchable text layer.

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Copyright (C) 1990 UK Einstein User Group and the original authors. Hosted for preservation; the file will be taken down on request from any rights holder.

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