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type-in listing which claimed to do something extremely useful and of wide interest but which in fact printed April Fool on the screen. Examples included:
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but after four such editions it became a standalone title and within a year had grown to an average length of around 64 pages. The focus was news stories,
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initially by "Merlin" in a column entitled "Merlin's Cave" and subsequently by "Pendragon".
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Its advertisers included the top BBC/Electron games distributors of the day, such as
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programs directly into machine code leveraging the machine's BASIC interpreter
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Science and technology magazines published in the United Kingdom stubs
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This British science and technology magazine-related article is a
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Initially it was included as a 16-page pullout supplement to
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Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
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Often the April-dated edition of the magazine included an
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screen by rapidly modulating the pixels (citing a recent
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a program to predict what text the user would type next
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Computing
Stockport
English
ISSN
0952-3057
OCLC
499397017
Acorn Electron
Database Publications
Stockport
The Micro User
type-in programs
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Acornsoft
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April Fools' Day
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