Network Sigma 7

THE ALL NEW NETWORK SIGMA! It has only taken a few months to do, but now we have 100% of the bugs out of the menu system! The controls are very simple: Mouse: Move the mouse, click on the icon with the LEFT BUTTON to either advance 1 page, decrease 1 page, print or quit back to the main Network Sigma Menu. Keyboard: Use cursor Keys and comma key to do exactly the same as the mouse, but much slower. Buy a mouse! Buy a mouse! TEXT READER (C)1996 SATURN SOFTWARE

NETWORK SIGMA EDITORIAL APRIL / MAY 1996 It has been frenetic here over the last couple of weeks, we have now installed a new Modem on the PC, so we can now send and receive faxes from all of you, so there is no excuse now not to send us any letters or anything Sigma related!! (Hint Hint!) How do we do the Editorial? Well, I am sitting at my PC (Boo Hiss!!!) listening to The Rembrandts excellent CD entitled L.P. It is very advisable that you get this one, especially for track 5, Drowning In Your Tears, track 11, Call Me, track 13, What Will It Take, and track 15, I'll Be There For You (Theme from the brilliant "Friends" Tv show on C4, Wednesdays,11.00pm). Also one CD to get is Mark Knopfler's first solo exploit outside of Dire Straits, Golden Heart. A truly excellent album with something for everyone.

I love every track on this one, but then again, I would, wouldn't I? Sorry about that, it has started getting into a Jukebox Jury sort of vain. Full reviews of the CD's mentioned above, later on in this very edition. We have taken out the Guitar Section indefinitely, because of the minimum interest it had. We only received a few letters on the subject, which were subsequently published. If you want to continue learning the guitar, wait until the end of the year, when we will be publishing a Guitar Tutor disc. Plans are going well for it already. It will have digitised screens of finger positions, techniques, and Quazar samples, so you can tell what it supposed to sound like!

This month, of course is the time of the Gloucester show, and this may be the first look you have had at a copy of Network Sigma. You may not even have heard of Network Sigma, or indeed Saturn Software! Hopefully, if you bought the last edition at Gloucester, you will be taking out a sub with us, unless you have already done so. I would just like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who replied to our last mailout. If you are already a subscriber, then you wouldn't have had the mailshot. We would also like to welcome all of our new subscribers to the coming year on the NSSAM scene. What do we have in store for you this month?

Well, we are pushing the boat out this month, even further than we have ever done before, and the good news is that we are going to keep it that way, and have at least 15 pages in each section of the magazine. More work for me? Yes, but if that is what the readers want, then that is what the readers get! That basically means that there will be an average of over 120 pages of text on EVERY issue of Network Sigma from this issue onwards, compared to the equivalent of 52 pages of FORMAT!!! EDITORIAL Seven Issues on and you don't know this already? OK, one more time, just for all the new subscribers.

The Editorial is the only place in the magazine where I get to vent my spleen at anything and anyone, depending in the mood I'm in at the time. This time, I'm fine and dandy, so think yourselves lucky, Mr. West Coast! NEWS This issue is a BUMPER news section. You thought that the last one was big with 50 pages? You wait until you have seen this one, my friends! This one is at least 51! <G!> We have all the latest news, including the SAM BBS, Saturn's On Line Connection other SAM news, and lots of general computer news!

REVIEWS We review the Gloucester Show. Was it worth it? The Rembrandts "L.P" Mark Knopfler's Golden Heart, and the games are MDL's new shoot em up, X-sights 1. The classic Spectrum review is yet to be finalised, but is possibly Marble Madness. Remember that one? CHOICE CUTS We have a couple of shots of Gloucester, (including one of me! CRINGE!) and some top-class screens from the mouse of Douglas Young of MDL Software, and may be a utility, and a couple of other bits!

COMPETITION NEWS We have had no Competition entries this time, so we will reset the question, and have a new prize. PROGRAM IT! We look at SAM's sound in this section, to be split over the next three issues. THE NEXT GENERATION This is just a new name for the Next Issue section. More hellos, thanx, addresses, and waffle from the NS crew.

GLOUCESTER SPECIAL Couldn't get down to Gloucester on the 20th? Read all about it, from our point of view. If you did go, compare it to your day, and let us know about what you thought. Once again, the editorial comes to an end. These seem to be coming thick and fast at the moment (end of editorials, I mean!) I turn around, and it's time to do it all over again! Oh well, if that's what becomes of doing a magazine, I LIKE IT! – Makes it closer to Christmas, and holidays from work! Finally, sorry it's so late, we have been put behind with the show, and orders after the show have been good, but time consuming!

CREDITS! THE CREDITS GO OUT TO THE FOLLOWING SAM PEOPLE

CRAIG PROUDMAN - FEATURES / REVIEWS

MARC CASHMORE - HAIRY BEAST SCREEN INTRODUCTION

DEREK MORGAN - BEING A TOP GUY / PD UPDATE

DOUGLAS YOUNG – SCREENS

D.G BARRACLOUGH - E-TUNES

MODS AND OTHER BITS CONTRIBUTED BY ME, MYSELF, AND I GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND HAVE A SAFE JOURNEY HOME! (KEEP TAKING THE TABLETS!)