_{Cover of the April 1986 issue of Amstrad User}

The Amstrad CPC line of computers were not ones I had ever even heard of back when they were current in the mid 1980s to early 1990s. They were popular in the U.K. but virtually unknown in the U.S. and never commercially available here as far as I know. Amstrad Computer User was one of the magazines that covered these machines in the U.K. The April 1986 issue includes:

Regulars

News - Profits up for Amstrad; new game, Meltdown, for the CPC 6128; a new port of Empire from Firebird for the CPC; rumors of a PCW 8512 model of the CPC; new ports of Activision games Rescue on Fractalus and Eidolon for the CPC; and more.

Letters - Letters from readers about the availability of the magazine in Australia, DR Draw on the PCW 8256, the music in The Neverending Story, and more.

Gallup Chart - A list of the top 20 games on the CPS. At the top of the list is They Sold a Million. Coming in second is Yie Ar Kung Fu (one of my favorites on the Commodore 64).

Features

Animator - A type-in program for creating animation.

Goin' Loco - A guide to using string variables in BASIC.

Adventure Column - A look at Lord of the Rings on the Amstrad CPC.

Windows - The last article in a series on creating pull-down menus on the Amstrad.

_{Table of Contents from the April 1986 issue of Amstrad User}

Reviews

Epson FX85 - A review of the latest dot matrix printer from Epson.

In the Pictures - An overview of the latest drawing programs available on the Amstrad including Rembrandt, Grafpad 2 Art, and AMX Art.

Romboard Rivals - Reviews of the Honeysoft Rom Board and the Britannia ROM Board. These were devices in which you could plug ROM chips into with programs. This was sort of an alternate approach to cartridges except that ROMs would generally be left in and the programs on them could be selected any time.