Editorial

Late again, but I suppose that you’re probably used to that by now. Sadly, though, this will be the last issue of the Newsletter. Due to a number of reasons including the dying Nascom and the diminishing number of advertisers, I have been forced to combine Volume 3, Nos 5 and 6 into one (thus the almost twice as thick as usual edition).

This combined issue has a number of very interesting articles (as have all the other issues of the magazine come to that). The final part of Sysex is included, there is a very good article on using the AVC memory for program and data storage and then a couple of hardware projects for an EPROM programmer and an emulator.

I haven’t got very much news myself. I have been using Nassembler extensively over the last few months and can highly recommend it. If any one has seen or knows where I can buy the 6502 and 68000 packages I would be most grateful if you could let me know. Every where that I have contacted so far has either denied all knowledge of them or said that they were having supply problems.

After a discussion with Microcode, it has been decided that the competition that we jointly sponsored last year will be declared abandonned due to a lack of entries. My apologies to the people that did send in their designs.

Due to demand, we can now offer our back issues at even lower prices (25p each for issues in Volume 1 & 2, or 5 for £1.00) and we still have copies of all Volume 3 (still at £1.25 each I am afraid). See the back issues advert elsewhere in the magazine. For any of you that don’t have a full set of the Micropower/​Nascom Newsletter, this is probably your last chance (and certainly your cheapest). Order now, while stocks last (or whatever that advertising cliche is).

From the correspondence that I’m currently getting, it seems that the Nascom is being used for control and experimental applications more and more but the number of hobbyist users is dropping off rapidly. The natural life-cycle of a microcomputer I suppose.

Well, I think that just about wraps it up for this, the final editorial of the Micropower/​Nascom Newsletter. My thanks go to every one who has contributed in the past and to all the Nascom-associated companies that have supported us with advertising and product reviews. Best wishes to all the people who still know that the Nascom is the best and goodbye.

IJC