Welcome to AMPLINEX 006

As you will have noticed, there is an extra disc accompanying this issue of AMPLINEX. As we complete our first year of publication we decided to celebrate with a 'bonus' music disc. This enables us to publish some of the excellent music contributions we have received but have not had space to include in past issues. There are eighteen pieces on the music disc as well as the six in the normal music section of this disc. We hope you enjoy them all.

This issue is also packed with utilities, two of which continue features in AMPLINEX 005: we have a utility for using a joystick with the Music 2000 MIDI interface (reviewed in AMPLINEX 005) and a machine-code utility which provides a 'window' into the BBC computer's memory as AMPLE is working (following the feature on the inner workings of AMPLE in AMPLINEX 005).

We had a good response to the larger-than-usual Questions and Answers section in AMPLINEX 005 and have a special feature on the Opus Challenger disc system which was one of the problems raised.

As we mark the end of the first year of AMPLINEX we would like to thank all those members who have made contributions over the past twelve months - the size and the quality of the response is better than we ever hoped when we launched AMPLINEX this time last year.

We hope that you will maintain this excellent record and contribute to the success of AMPLINEX during its second year.

Kevin Doyle, Roy Follett and Jackie Follett