Electron User was a magazine targeted at owners of the Acorn Electron microcomputer. It was published by Database Publications of Stockport, starting in October 1983 and ending after 82 issues in July 1990. The Acorn Electron Acorn Electron BASIC - the first thing displayed when an unexpanded Electron is switched on The Acorn Electron was a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Initially it was included as a 16-page pullout supplement to The Micro User 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, type-in programs and software reviews. It also contained cheat codes and a long-running column on adventure games initially by "Merlin" in a column entitled "Merlin's Cave" and susequently by "Pendragon". A type-in program, or just type-in, is a computer program listing printed in a computer magazine or book, meant to be typed in by the reader in order to run the program on a computer. ... Cheat codes are codes that can be entered into a video game to change the games behavior. ... This is an article about the video game genre. ...

Its advertisers included the top BBC/Electron games distributors of the day, such as Acornsoft and Superior Software. Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and was a major publisher of games for the BBC Micro. ... Superior Software is a software publisher whose titles are mainly computer and video games. ...

Often the April-dated edition of the magazine included an April Fool joke, generally consisting of a short machine code 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: To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Machine code or machine language is a system of instructions and data directly understandable by a computers central processing unit. ...

• a program to predict what text the user would type next
• a program to compile BASIC programs directly into machine code leveraging the machine's BASIC interpreter
• a program to display colours on a monochrome screen by rapidly modulating the pixels (citing a recent Tomorrow's World)

Screenshot of Atari BASIC, an early BASIC language for small computers. ... Something which is monochromatic has a single color. ... Tomorrows World was a long-running BBC television series, showcasing new (and often wacky) developments in the world of science and technology. ...

External links

• Acorn Electron World website including complete archive of page-by-page scans of all issues of Electron User
• Acornmags Electron User section