Never read the magazine (it was virtually impossible to get in my part of the UK) but the books were available,and I remember spending hours and hours putting the games from "Basic Computer Games" and "More Basic Computer Games" into the old Microtan 65 I had back in the early 80s.
Come to think of it, I still have those books. They're in a cupboard in my old room in my Dad's house.

Art: RYCT Stefan - I remember a BASIC program I wrote in about '81 - '82 where I had to remove all my REM statements and renumber the program in increments of one (removing a zero from each number) to free up enough memory for the program to run. Worked too. Memory was always a tight squeeze! Kids today, don't know they're born.