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adults it combines the tension of
Strip Poker and the fun of
Postman's Knock. The mind
boggles 'cos there's no sound and
no piccys — not even dirty ones
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w hy w e Jum ped a t the i de a w h e n Al pha ba t i m c a m e up
w i th a n e x c l us i v e offe r to VS r e a de r s of £ 3 off i ts ga m e
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human controlled. You've
got to grab hold of a steel US Gold in its new Ultimate style
ball and ram it through a clothes is bringing out two new
goal slot in the ceiling. And titles for the Spectrum — and
if you're really bad and soon!
suffering from a bout of Cyberun is set in the darkest
reaches of Amoebus Nebula —
depression 'cos of your
appalling score you can and boy is that dark. its an
isolated series of stars and
alw ays go and beat the
planets in the Beta system. And
hell Out of your opponent as they say on Amoebus: Setter
with a special device anywhere than Beta!' These stars
called a ball smasher. are bound together with a lattice
That'll send the ball boys of plasmic energy and the planets
scuttling! Even if it doesn't are composed of anti-element
gain you any more points Cybetron.
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Bounces is due out in just about everybody in the
cosmos wants to get their mitts
March and it'll set you on some. You've got to control an
b ack a sporting £9.95. enormous carrier spaceship
called the Crystal Ship and
Yabbadabbadoo! Meet the Hintstones. And, stone me, it attempt to fight off all the enemy
your favourite cartoon cavemen aren't to appear in a game ships and secure a cargo of
called Yeb... well you know the rest, from Argus Press Cybetron. Sounds out of this
Software, world!
The fun starts in Bedrock — it's such a nice place that all Pentagram's also on its way but
the Eintstones want to live there. Fred in particular 'cos as yet US Gold has no details,
Wilma won't marry him unless he can keep her in the style Maybe that's because the silent
software house Ultimate is
to which she is accustomed. So the battle is on. Fred must
get to Bedrock and build a house before everyone else. developing the program — mum's
the world.
£7.95 secures you a mortgage on the property.
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want to miss out on all the
software gossip for the new year
Word's
. Out that CRL's bringing
Are you kind, sensitive and home out a game based on a new film
ioving or vibrant, headstrong and But... CRL is taking a leaf out of
selfish? Well, if you don't know your Ultimate's book and keeping its
lunny little ways maybe Hisott's new lips sealed All 11 would say is it's
program, Your Horoscope, will shed an arcade game (no, you don't
alittle light. say?) and "definitely different"
Your Horoscope has been Can't wait!
designed for people who take I've also heard it on the
horoscopes seriously, like Russell grapevine that good ol Maxwells
Grant (Nobody takes Russell Grant Knowing you like we do, te puh-retty well, we thought you'd like the idea of
Mirrorsoft is to publish all
seriously') If you read them for a something for nothing. So. we rang up US Gold to find if it had any freebies just Alphababm's products, the first
good laugh this one ain't for you. The waiting to be snapped up by YS readers. "How about some Goonies maps? The of whichli be a new extended
program is in two sections, the first game 's just about ready and it's gonna be big. Ger-real, we said. - version of Robot Messiah for the
part a birth chart. Here you have to well
R i gput
h t'em
, in the post," they said And did. Brill compo, we thought — ten Spectrum 128K — when it
enter your vital statistics such as, Goonies maps to give away. Maybe even a hundred but we didn't want to get our
actually arrives.
birthday, time of birth and year and it hopes up. Then they arrived — two huge boxes of them. One. two, three, four Mirrorsoft is so wet it's decided
calculates your planetary chart and thousand six hundred and fifty-two. And that's just how far we got before some
smart alec pointed out the number 10.000 on one of the boxes_ to bring out Knightlore under the
the effects each planetl have on
The idea of a compo 'S gone down the dumper 'cos no one wants to judge sea. All I know is that if you
your life, piddle about under the water for
The second section is a newspaper ten thOUSand entries, Just send us in a stamped addressed envelope and we'll

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too long you get the bends. I lust
style horoscope that you can try Out send you a Goonies map or two... Pleeeeasel
hope he's got his frog suit on!
on your friends. They'll learn that
S abr em an's team ed up with Talking of the case of the
they're going to fall madly in love missing Spectrum 128, news is
Uncl e Sam. Com puter
with tall, dark handsome strangers softw ar e gi ant US Gold has that Sinclair has plans to bring
(Woo me? Ed) and then get run over taken contr ol of the out three new machines this
bya bus Your Horoscope should be m anufactur i ng, pr om oti on,
m ar keti ng and sales of all year. And no, they're not C10,
out by the time you read this and will C15 and C20's. It looks like the
cost £8.95. Ul ti m ate Play The G am e
pr oducts. Accor di ng to US Spectrum 12811be available very
Gold I ts the 'ul ti m ate new soon. and the CIL Plus looks set
year r esol uti on'.
to be out by the time you read
this. This machine is likely to be
CP/M compatible and sport built-
in disk drives_
The Sinclair portable was
scheduled for the end of April but
alas it's been a be shy and
probably won't appear till we're
singing Auld Lang Syne next
New Year. Rumours are that
Sinclair is having problems with
the flat screen display but it's
pretty likely the machine'll have a
37,
Spectrum
- compatible.
d Absolutely everybody's got
their finger in the 128 pie. Mikro-
iGen is currently converting
Talking of planets, which
we we re n't, Ma rte c h is off s
Three Weeks inP1111111110 for the
into space with its new k128, Audiogenic isproducing an
package called The extended version of its icon
d
Planets. And by Jupiter, Graphix program and Hewson
rConsultants nearly has its
the progra m's designed to
i
hundred screen version of Ted II
give you a 'unique insight'
Into the Solar System. Technic°
v ready — well, the
S'a ma zing! The re 's a machine's
e still in Spanish
ma p to s how your craft's remember.
, Wow! New Concepts had so
position, a c ompute r to
land a nd a uto-pilot the u
much success with Soil Champ
craft, a data system tha t s it's following it up with Ski
that
provides informa tion on Champ
e — the first fruit yoghurt
each planet, a sampler simulation game. Could be the
C
flavour of the month!
that displays details of the
a tmos phe re and surface P Hello, hello, hello! What 'ave
and a general informa tion / 'ere then? The new game
we
O m.
option. from
M Mind Games called The
One o clock. two o'clock. three o'clock rock I s this really 1986 The Planets costs £14.95 Force — it doesn't even feature
a
which is an awful lot of luscious Luke Skywalker either.
9No. its 1955 and we're going Back To The Future with Electric n
Dreams new game based on the Steven Spielburg blockbuster. Mars Bars (Mars ge ddlt?) It's all about those delightful boys
So. what's new? but for tha t you ge t two d blue. the Old Mill You play the
in
The game's closely based on the film — you play Marty who's cassettes a nd an part
b of a Chief Constable who's
been time-shifted to 1955. But if you think that s a blow wait till you instruction booklet. gotta deploy his PCs to keep the
e
hear the bad news. Your mum, who's only 15, fancies you like mad crime rate down. But it's stressed
(wahay that you mustn't use too much
in. force — keep ycur truncheon
1 If you don't get your mother to marry your dad you don't exist.
Now get out of that one' where it belongs, The Met's even
) been involved in the
b u t development of the program —
g ra _t h ' maybe it'll improve their image.
Perhaps they should rename it
I t s a t
a s m 7 Brute Force! Mind how you go
now!
s o e a
 Fire! Fire! Somebody quick ring 999 and
ask for the Fore Brigade.. Thank goodness
they've arrived Oh no Its like Mrs
Pepoerpot all over again Could this be the
case of The incredible Shrinking Fireman?
No its a case of Mastertrortic's new
arcade adventure game in which you play
the part of the unfortunate fireman who's
shrunk rather suddenly. They left him in
the water too long! Is your lob to try and
A -onea, A-twoa, A-threea get back to a more normal see again. And
Gorgeous Greg lakes it all by the games gonna be real torture too 'cos
one fall, two submissions and you've got to find arack to then stretch
a bang on his funny bone. So
you fancy your chances as yourseff.
Gorgeous Greg? Weil, Mastertronic is also converting the 64
Melbourne House has the (spit, spill version of Specehunter for the
game for you — Spectrum that should be ready in March.
Rock'n Wrestle. Produced by Both games cost E1.99.
the Fist team it's a wrestling
game that promises to pack a
punch 'Seen one of them before! Yes, for all those of you paying
Gorgeous Greg must battle attention bac k in issue 1, this is indeed another Mccy of a
his way through nine Sound Boost from Saga Systems that diverts your Speccy's
opposing musclemen and, sound output to the telly. Plus it has a Save/Load switch
boy c o they sound strange! and cassette connectors. And all for C9.95 Well, that's what
There's Lord Toff, Bad it cost then Now, in an exclusive offer to VS readers, Saga
Barney Trouble. Fly ing Eagle, is offering the Sound Boost (or just E6.95. All you have to do
Vicious Vivien, Mission to save the three sovs is clip out this piece of prose (or use
Breaker, LA Bruce, Angry a photocopy) and send it with your cheque or Postal Order
Abdul, Molotov Nick and to Saga Systems, 2 Eve Road, Woking, Surrey GLJ21 AJT
Redneck McCoy. But as well as saving you £3, Saga is also sending a
RockhWrestle's one of the further E3,04 for every Sound Boost sold. to the Off The
first 3D sports simulations Hook appeal. This new appeal, launched just before
that allows you to make 25 Christmas by Rod Cousens, the man behind the Sofraid
different moves. Eat your tape, is being set up to help young drug addicts A nd very
heart out Giant Haystacks. soon you can expect to see another compilation tape along
R&W costs E8.95 and will be the Sottaid lines on behalf of the new appeal Let's hope it's
available later this month as successful as Softaid

FROMTSARHIP And while we're on the subject of hex loaders,

what the hell do you do with them? That's the
question many of our new readers are asking.
David Ainsworth from Atherton, frinstance,
cant understand how to enter hex code. Well
David, that's why we print (or. as in this case,
forget to print) a hex loader. These loaders are
only tools to be used to gel the code in — after
that they have no further use. Type in the hex Here's something to get your teeth
loader, run it and then you can type in code. When into! Gremlin Graphics is releasing a
text and graphics adventure called The
you're asked for 'Address?' type in the number in Way Of The Tiger, based on the
the first column. When asked for the 'Hex 8 fi ghting fantasy books called, you
bytes?' type in the alphanumerical characters in guessed it, The Way Of The Tiger.
the middle 8 columns. But leave out the spaces. game's set in the mystical world
of Orb where you play an orphan with
Finally, type in the checksum— that's the number a strange crown shaped birthmark on
after the equals sign at the end of each line_ his thigh. Apparently this is all pretty
What's up with this Chopper Mission prog significant according to the various
monks scattered about the land that we
in issue 1? Well, the problem's caused in code line asked!
33268. It looks like the line reads OF 07 5A 48 01
So. you're trained to be a master of
01OC 07 •• 207. Close but not close enough, I'm thc martial arts by the all ancient and
afraid. You forgot the blotch on the film—OC isn't powerful — or is that ancient and all
DCat all, it's OE! OK' powerful? Naipshi, Grandmaster of the
Dawn. Your warm-up consists of three
Now if you've been reading VS as man and boy sections: unarmed combat: pole
(or woman and girl) then you can skip the next bit fi ghting and samurai sword fi ghting.
'cos you've probably already heard it before_ In Everybody go kung fu fighting!
the early days, we used to have a capitalist printer
that insisted on printing pound signs (C) instead of Ocean is certainly keeping busy
hashsymbols (#). Now the printer's got stroppy this month. Apart from the
Ah, come ze day of ze glorious revolution all ze
again and has proceeded to print a sort of curly release of Superbowl, there's V
bugs vill be lined up against the wall. . . zen zey'll (see the preview this issue),
get it right between ze bolsheviks! closed bracket that isn't, if you see what I mean. Hunchback The Adventure and
Besides it's easier to deal with the bugs than So, to get the better of the cursed printer once
Knight Rider_
uncover the real culprits behind the cock-ups. You more here's what you do. Whenever you see a Knight Rider's based on the
never know, one day il may be me. The main character you can't tell from Adam. replace it with popular TV series about super
disaster area from VS2 was in Program Power. ahash sign (0). sleuth and macho man Michael
Both programs were s'posed to include a hex It was easy enough to type in Tony 'Slim' Knight and his Computerised car.
loader. Both looked as though they included hex Samuel's brilliant Maclone program from issue 2 Kitt. Ifs the same old story —
—using :t was a teensy weensy bit more tricky. somebody's out to start World
loaders. Neither did! How it happened I dare not
Okay, we gave you the RANDUSR call address War III and poor DI Mike's gotta
hazard, but my )oily reader, art persons being an stop 'em.
persons, I reckon they thought the hex loader that implements the code but what we didn't let on
There are three sections — the
wasn't pretty enough for them, so they decided to was that you have to press Symbol Shift/Space to first is a map of the terrorist
use part of the end of the Basic loader instead— get it going. When you hear the whining sound centres in the USA, the second a
on both listings! Panic not though— the solution press either 1,2 or 3 depending on which Macione Simulated dhve in your Kin car
to this problem is easy. Just tack what is labelled feature you want. To get back to Basic just press 4. and the third another map that
as the hex loader onto the end of the Basic loader Dasvidanya. comrades! shows the terrorist hiding places.
and then use the hex loader from issue 1. Troubleshoodn' Petrovitch For a cool £7.95 you too can get
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Star Comp°
Congrats to our top ten stargazers who've spotted (as near as
dammit) all the stare In that compo in that star of yore, Your
Spectrum 20. Star STX-80 printers worth E159 are on their way
Assemble it, edit it, WD Software has just to:
paint it, copy it, released JOSS, 'the human John Boer° of Utrecht. The Netherlands: Graham F. Dunn of Dorchester,
interface for the Sinclair QL.•
debug it. Whatever And you thought you were
Dorset; Gary Lemon of Aldershot. Hants: P.J. Cowe of Arbroath. Scotland:
Nigel Mortimer of Ilkley, West Yorkshire; Mathew Sleightholme of Pontefract,
you want to do with the only human to interlace Yorkshire; B.J. Carter of Bethnal Green, London; Ian M Hillery of Durham;
Er M B loofi eld of Norwich, Norfolk: Jonathan Walters of Bangor, County
your CIL, you'll find with your QL! JOSS is an Down, Northern Ireland.
news of the latest acronym for Joystick
Operated Software System
products here. but you don't need a joystick Capital Book Compo
to operate it — the keyboard What a bunch of capital answers you gave to issue 20's Capital
Hisoft has just launched or a mouse will do. JOSS is Radio comp°. The first 25 to tune to success with the winning
Devpac QL written by our designed to make file- answers a, b, c and win a copy of Interface Publications' Capital
own Andy Pennell. The handling commands less Radio Book of Computers and Simple Programming were:
package is an editor, tedious to use and to Sonia Griffi ths-Glover of Willerby, E York s . Richard @tom of Stockton
assembler and debugger. eradicate the human error Brook. Stoke-on•Trent, Staffs; C. Sumner of Wellingborough, Northam%
Peter Holloway of Carshalton. Surrey; Adrian Ferro of Havant, Hants, Brian
And as the assembler is part that can creep in when you're R. Gordon of Mauchlint. Ayrshire, Scotland. W Arms trong of Aberdeen,
of the editor you don't need copying files. All you have to Scotland; NUM) Paulo Santos of Lisboa, Portugal, C.J A llen of Dartford,
to keep switching between do is move the cursor over Kent; A. Weston of Pontefract, W. Yorks; Richard Hodgson of Orton
Malbome. Peterborough; Evan Mason of Harare, Zimbabwe; Dav id Kerr of
them — just press a key. The your chosen file with the Stewarlon, Ayrshire, Scotland; J. Macnally of HMS Manchester; H.R.J.
debugger is based on the joystick and fire. It's designed Henley of Norwich, Norfolk, Jim Brown of Dreghorn, Ayrshire, Scotland: Liz
standard MonQL. not only to save time but also Baker of Eccieston, St. Helens; Ian Slowey of Mill Hill, London: Steven
The package also to avoid mistakes if you're not Rundle of Myatt.; Field South, London; Martin Wickes of Victoria Farm,
multitasks so even while Coventry: Caroline Giles of West Motesey, Surrey: Darren Blanchard of West
too hot at typing. But if you're Molesey, Surrey: Owen Dunn of Wellingborough. Northants, Lee Fish of
you've got something expecting a screen full of Crarnlingion, Northumberland; Riccardo Tamisan of Aberdeen, Scotland.
assembling you can still edit trendy icons, forget it. A
In another window at the spokesman for WD Software
same time. The editor was said, "There are no funny London Game Compo
designed so that you can use icons to learn with JOSS — Friday Soft's issue 20 London Game comp° was obviously not
it in the same way as it's all done with simple a soft option for these top twenty winners with the answers c, b,
Metacomco's but Hisoft names. After all, words are a. Copies of The London Game are on their way to:
claims it's a whole lot faster the tools of adult thought, Simon Minter of Telford, Shropshire; M. Drummond of Appleby in
and icons belong in the Westmorland, Cumbria; Lennart Jecleblad of Goteborg, Sweden: Nikolel S.
at assembling and editing, In Christenson of Silkeborg, Denmark: A. Dyke of South Woodford, London;
fact, Hisoft claims that it's the nursery." Perhaps someone David Storey of Huron. Merseyside; S. Rowe of Worthing. West Sussex;
fastest available on the should've told the people who Robin H. Powne of Blairgowrie, Perthshire; Brian Wayne Barker of Kings
market and it can make use produced Q L Norton, Birmingham; Liz Coleman of Hatlesion. Norfolk: J. Roberts of
of disk drives and extra RAM - Your own human interface Wootton, Liverpool; J. Champion of Clapham, London: Danie. OMahony ol
Fordingbridge, Hants: Jr Lister of Velges Farm, Exmouth; Sean Meads of
if you have them. Devpac QL will
P a cost
i n t ! you £15 on Oakley, Nr Basingstoke. Hants; Neil Parker of Skelmersdale. Lancs. G.
costs E39.95. microdrive or 57; floppies or Bums of Armadale, W. Lothian; Karen West of Andover. Hants; Ian Mc Vicar
£17 on a't; disks. of Dalmuir, Clydebank. Jan Wikstrom of Mats, Sweden.

QL
released by Sinclair though it Sinclair Research has sent
- us a list of amendments and Fairlight Comp°
was
Pa originally written and All's fair in the compo war, or at least it Is for the ten winners of
released as G r aphia by the updates to the QL Software
int our Fairlight comp°, who are:
Scottish software house, Guide that we published in
Graham Raistrick of Sprotborough. Doncaster. Matthew Worsdell of
h
Talent. The new improved issue 1. But first it would like Swindon, Wilts; K. Bradley of Blyth, Northumberland: A. Herron of Blythr
package
a includes icons and us to point out that the QL Northumberland; Jason Newman of Whittlesford, Cambridge; Mark Duncan
drop-down menus that otter prefix is a Sinclair trade mark of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland; Callum Yorke of Dunoon. Argyllshire,
s Scotland: Antonis Tsounnakis of Piraeus, Greece; A. Hall of Hill Top,
you control over fifty and can Only be used on Nuneaton, Mr Andrew Harvey of Carnforth, Lancashire
j products that are published
commands. To create your
u
pictures you can use brushes by Sinclair or endorsed by
sor pen strokes, colour or the company. So, Q . Home Thunderbirds Campo
t
texture fills and you also have Finance by Buzzz, QL Cash Thunderbirds are GO! — going the way of the following 30
commands for rubber Trader by Quest, QL winners:
b
banding and mirroring. And Integrated Accounts by Sage Mr L.P. Powell of Leominster, Herefordshire, Mr A. Wheatley of Telford,
e Soft, QL Decision Maker, QL
remember, on the CIL you Shropshire; P. Marshall of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire; Mr lan Jackfin of
e
don't have those awful Entrepreneur and QL Project Bosley, Nr Macclesfi eld, Cheshire; Nick Lee of Sittingboume. Kent; Jon
Rose of Bognor Regis, West Sussex; K. Woodhouse of Warley. West
n
problems with attributes like Planner all by Triptych and Midlands; Gareth Barber of Rochdale, Lancs. Paul Serbert of Harrogate, N.
QL Gardener by Gordian Yorkshire; Christopher Thomas of Cannington, Nr Bridgewater, Somerset;
Computing Services are all ME. Homer of Watford, Hens; Christian Lull of Lancing, West Sussex: Neil
published by Sinclair Ogilvie of Watford. Herts. I. Brough of Markel Drayton, Shropshire; Alan Bell
Research. of Basingstoke, Hampshire; Paul Wadsworth of Northfl eet, Kent; Mrs Anita
Howick of Andover Estate, London; Lee Pearson of Bolton-on-Deame,
It also seems that the Rotherham, S. Yorks: Steve Jones of Sutton Coldfi eld. West Midlands: Mr C.
package listed as Small Huckstep of Rochester. Kent: Glen Kerr of Walsall, West Midlands; M.J Ha ll
Business by Sage Soft is of Newcastle, Staffs; Graham Holliday of Chatham, Kent; M.P. Hyne of
Stableford, Harts, Spike Williams of Northwich, Cheshire; Marc Gouda of
really QL Integrated Duston, Northampton: Niall Simpson of Crumlon, Co. Antrim, N Ireland;
Accounts. We'll bring you any Alistair May of Elgin, Moray, Scot/and. Gareth David Roberts of Ballast, N.
other news and amendments Ireland: lain Sinclair of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. Scotland.
as they come in.
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LETTERS
YOUR SINCLAIR, 14, RATHBONE PLACE LONDON W1P 1DE
The writer of the Star Letter will receive a fabulous bundle of software.
of continuous ploy and a
countless number of ruthless
killings on Elite's Commando.
If anyone's beaten my score,
rush it to Your Sinclair but be
quick as I've just reached area
12 with 9 lives left....
Robe rt Dunni ng
Mi ddl e s brough,
Cleveland
Even more impressive is the
way you can calmly kill with
your right hand while running
YSEXPOSED! BBCKGB13.9876CIAMI6 chip send it. In the event you've off this letter with your left. The
Dear whoever gets to read this to the RAM pock feels shaky sent an abusive letter make
when I've used 47K of pen is indeed as mighty as the
little winner, sure that your name is an
memory, while writing a anagram of Frank Bruno or sword — and the machine gun
Having seriously and and half a dozen grenades! But
scientifically studied the letters program for my little sister's someone equally fearsome,
Barbi-Doll accessories' is a C Stephanou I don't know what you're telling
that get published in your me all this for — fefl that
monthly organ I'm now in a legitimate question to which Colchester
there must be an answer. Be horrible heap Hex Loader, send
position to announce the PS I must emphasise that your him a piccy and you could be
completion of a - warned, questions such as: letter must have one or two chosen as one of his heroes,
Letter
G e t Published In VS" 'What exactly is a ROM? may post-scripts (they don't
not receive proper attention. Now get back to your gunnin'•
blueprint. necessarily have to be Ed.
Y o u r Like any decent YS reader relevant).
The first essential ingredient
of a letter is a catchy first line. you must, of course, claim a PPS More than two post-scripts ARISE-
Boring or polite instructions Trainspotter Award. When may jeopardise your chances. Sir Editor,
such as "Dear YS" or "Dear doing so make absolutely sure I'm sending you this little letter
Ho, you don't stand a chance
Ed" or 'Dear know everything that what you've spotted is of getting this letter published. just to soy that after an
and make everyone else look a original. Here I would like to Ed. evening — and part of the
right twit Pete' ore out of the let you into a little secret that I morning — of solid addictive
question. Boner try the good discovered a couple of days AARDLUCK and challenging playing on my
old trusty originals such as ago. While drinking coffee I Alright you lot, Don't think you faithful Speccy, I finally
"OK!" or 'What's all this accidentally spilled it all over con fool an adult aardvark and completed that superb
about..." or better still 'While my copy of YS and to my his trainer with a boob like the megagame, Rasputin.
I..." (this last one is highly amazement the pages got wet! one in your Rasputin review. "I don't believe your I hear
recommended). Abusive Yes, you've guessed it. The Since when wos 'C' the third you cry. But wait, before you
remarks about the Ed or Pete paper used by VS is not water reach for the shotgun, I'm not
letter of Rasputin?
are of paramount importance. resistant. As I'll not be claiming It is (as the aardvark tells talking about the £7.95
Although rudeness is not an oword for this shocking me) the third letter of Rachael original but the demo version
tolerated, phrases such revelation it's up to you to that starred on the first issue of
expose this inexcusable fact to (who? Well, she's the reviewer) Your Sinclair.
"Dirty Rats" are quite Smith's name. Great new meg
welcomed and may Indeed the wider public. Needless to but don't think the aardvark Rasputin is a first-class
assist your chances. say, if you've spotted 128 computer game and it took rne
won't be round if I don't get on
Problem identification, or in spelling errors in one page award pronto. well into the early hours of the
other wards the reason why you'll not only not get your morning to complete. When
Andy 'hi guy s tol d y ou
you've actually gone to the letter published but it'll I'd fi nd one ' O rc ha rd you jump onto the letter N, the
trouble of writing, is a very probably bring an angry Ed screen lets off a few high
around to your house (and I Kings Lynn
delicate point. First of all you PS Gollum was a JSW fanatic beeps and flashes a few times.
understand that Ed isn't a You're then left to wonder bock
doily wont people.-to realise and deserves whatever he gets!
that the only reason you've pretty sight even when he's ond forth through the four
written is to actually see you, r sober!) (He's not a pretty sight An anteater replies: this is what previous screens until you pull
letter in print, So, Ocium u s j at the best of times! TY.) Note: comes from mixing too closely the plug.
think up a problem that's 4 t h tearing pages from the mag with aardvarks — they're real Now concerning your mark
interesting and unusual. Do not and then claiming an award boneheads. A moment's two VS. I never thought I'd soy
under any circumstances let for missing pages normally thought and ten year's learning this but here goes. What an
yourself indulge in problems does not work. If in absolute Russian would've told you that improvement! (Phew, I didn't
such as " My joystick is simply despair do, by oil means, try it. C is indeed the third letter of know what you were going to
not working' or 'It's been Finally, make sure thot your Rasputin in the silly, sorry say! Ed). When I picked up the
twelve months to the day since name and address ore very Cyrillic, alphabet. mag in my local newsagent and
sent a cheque to a mail order clearly stated in your letter; in flicked through the jam-pocked
software company and I'm still the event you do win the DUMDUM' and colourful pages, I thought
waiting for the game.' These Award it'd be a wise decision I've reached area 13 and to myself, "Robert, 'cos that's
problems are real and o let them know where to scored 303300 after 3 hours my name, you'd be a mug not

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obviously no one knows how
to deal with them. It's best if Keep on doodling — it's a doddiel Send your cartoons
you try some unreal ones to to Doodlebugs, YS, 14 Rothbone Noce, London W I P
which you're bound to get one IDE. There's a prize of a new game for each cartoon
printed.
or more answers. For example,
try "My disk drive started to
sing The Sound Of Music..." or
"My Speccy doesn't like bacon
for breakfast any more", If you
like to appear technically-
minded you must, and I stress
this point, find a chip with an
unpronouncoble name or long
code number (e.g.
BBCKGB13.9876CIAMI6) and
attach to it a problem with
which the YS staff are only too
familiar. So, 'The inside lining Her e's a strip from Ian Butter fiel d all about Si'n'Clair.
of the cable that connects the
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LETTERS TRAINSPOMR was wrongl Realising I could

get a Trainspotter Award out
'programmed' my Spectrum
with:
AWARD
to buy this!' So, I did, ond my
of this I picked up a pen and
started to write.
10LET PRIZEMONEY 2 5 0
20 LET BANK 5 0
money was certainly not Anyhow, great mag and 30 LET CHANGE —
wasted. Keep up the good how about a review of Back PRIZEMONEY — BANK
work all you busy-bodies at To Skool? (Done master! T.P.) 40 PRINT CHANGE
VS. Adam Featherston and it kept coming up with 200.
Robert Galbraith Swinton, Manchester .1even put a For/Next loop
Hastings, East Sussex PS Why is the picture of Your around it but still 200.
President of the 'I'm o crawler' Sinclair (in the ad in Your Now, either send me:
club, Spectrum 21) different to the 1) The name of Ian's bank, or
PS Notice the 'Sir' at the issue I bought. 2) A free subscription to YS
beginning. I shall put in a good PPS I don't suppose that for 35 years or
word for you(?) entitles me to another 3) A coveted Trainspotter
Troinspotter Award, does it? Award.
Well, I just wish you'd put in a
good word for me with the next No it ruddy well does not. But Otherwise I shall keep posting
(ex) reader. Ed. you will get one and just 'cos you Des O'Connor LPs.
Bob Show
I'm feeling jolly generous so
What a tragedy, what a waste. will our next spotter Ed. Jarrow, Tyne and Wear
MI those extra pages and you I hereby claim a Trainspofter
waste them on trash (sorry, you Award. I was reading through Right, so that's one Trainspott
call them games). Frontlines when I came across First off, I think Your Spectrum Award for Adam and one for
However, I do recognise art article about someone was good but Your Sinclair is Bob which makes, er.,.
your grand strategy. Within the who had won E250 in one of superb value for money 10LET ADAM'S AWARD =1
year you plan to poach oil the the VS competitions. I read on (crawl). 20 LET BOB'S AWARD — I
readers from the Beano and and discovered that 150 went However, (brawl) after 30 LET TOTAL NO. O F
the Dandy. Rest assured, you into his bank account and he reading through for the AWARDS — ADAM'S AWARD
will succeed. spent the other E250 on a umpth' time. (Coo, you give me —BOB'S AWARD
But as for me, I'm going ,Commie 64. The other the umpth'I Ed) I noticed 40 PRINT TOTAL
bock to the Beano and Dandy E250? I thought. So, I went something wrong in That'll be the last time anyone
(as soon as my subscription to and plugged my broin in and Frontlines. I refer to the questions my maths or they'll
Your Don Dare, sorry again, !offer a few calculations I article on Ian Flory collecting get what's coming to 'em — or
Your Sinclair runs out). I find discovered that something his prize money. I immediately rather they won't! Ed.
the content of those comics
more intellectually stimulating
than the juvenile hysterics of iump-and-collect like say within six months there'll be one_However, this brave move
your reviewers. Knightbore. (Hong on, has Fairlight clones and Elite clones does present a couple of
Why not be honest and someone slipped an ad into this all at under three quid. But problems_
disassociate yourselves from letter? Oh, there's more of would Fairlight or Elite have 1) What do we call it? It was
computers. Trust me, you would IL Ed) ever seen the light if all YourSpeccy, now,.. Your Sincy?
retain the some clientele. All of this for a mere E2.99 software was priced at that Yukl
Writing computer games which represents terrific value level? I don't know the answer 2) Don't give up on your
programs is obviously clever, for money when compared so j u s t hove to wait for the brilliant machine code and
playing them and writing about with, for instance, letters from those of you who utilities features — things like
them is moronic. Underwuricie. Pocket money do. Oh, and just one thing, if Samsynthl
So, as I bid you farewell, software has finally become you do send any poison pen Otherwise, it's all great stuff
some advice. Change your better than full price games. letters can you address 'em to —well done (no, that's not a
ways or most certainly go the Let me just point Out before Pete — we've been slipping creep in disguise.)
way of other magazines — the poison pen letters arrive strychnine into his coffee for Oh well, byeeee.
under. from the Ultimate fans that I the last couple of months but it Thomas lEraugs' Smith
Oh, by the way, thanks for have great respect for all doesn't seem to hove any Lewisham
the free cassette. I've used it to software houses, but I think effect_ Ed. Mmmm, I thought it PS I couldn't give a
save a dozen or so useful more highly of firms that con tasted rather better recently. Castlemaine XXXX who Gollum
machine code routines. There produce quality programs for a T.P. is.
wasnothing of importance on low price. Plus, not all budget 1) Call the mog anything as
it was there? software is great. I con name long as it's not Your Stinky.
Les Panselle several games that aren't worth EL M S BACK! 2) Just take a look at Max's
Cardigan, Dyfed 10p let alone E1.99. It's just General congratulations on the Switcha in this issue.
that for every trashy cheap transition from one YS to the new Byeeeeeeeeeee. Ed.
Did I say something wrong? game I con find two good
Still, there's something I'm not ones. After all, a pathetic
quite sure about. If writing
games is such a jolly wheeze
whyis playing them so
game like Great Space Race
can cost the earth but I prefer
to risk under E3 than over Cidi
SMALLPRINT using the ROM routine at address
0, try instead RAND USR 9880.
Now isn't that a lot prettier?
moronic? Does this mean that and I reckon most other people I've been flying about in Elite for Malcolm Atkinson
writing books is clever but would too. a week now and haven't spotted Rochdale, Lams
reading them stupid, o r P Bocil Fialley's Comet yeti
( No comettEd Iclaim this week's Trainspotter
building cars is bright but Normanton, Derby Scott Hill Award because Vyvyan in ish 2
driving 'em a bit dim. I only Cardiff has four stars instead of three on
ask! Ed. Right, no cheap crocks at the his forehead. Make another
end of this letter — well, except PS love and kisses to Teresa
Moughon and good luck for the mistake like that and I'll bash you
for that one1 I agree with you scumbags over the head wiv
CHEAPSKATE about Spellbound — it's a
ne w
Speccy.
Anthony
- Empson
Let me tell you about great game for the money. My Michael Sellar
Plymouth
Spellbound from Mastertronic. only reservation is this — would l(Mmmmmm,
oo Edinburgh, Scotland
and a big wet
It's a fantastic arcade a budget game like Cylu for k
sloppy one to you too, rzer xxxx) (Troinspotter? Huh! Not only has
adventure that's menu driven. instance, hove ever been (Touch!
m Ed and T.P. ) Vyvyan got four stars on his head
but since when has VS been
Thegraphics are big, clear and produced if it hadn't been fo r a
PPPPS (As you can see this letter weekly? British Roil might be
well drawn and it's truly an that full price pacemaker, had
g . a nasty attack of the getting there but you certainty
adventure not just a Knightlore? You can b e that editorial red pent Ed) When ain't! Ed)
13
 Commander', or 3. 'Exit' pops up. them then dropping them near a Fife were just two of the people that
select '2'. enter your name and the whirlwind until it takes them away. wrote in. Well, for those of you who
'press play on tape' prompt should The trolls are best covered by a haven't finished the game but would
flash up. Don't press play on tape. barrel after killing them by placing like to, here is part one of the
instead press the space bar, and a barrel over the spot you killed solution by my mate Paul Harkin of
the security code for Elite rating them. This prevents them from Manchester'
will be shown. then all that remains reappearing. "The first thing to do is get a
is to press '3' and start playing at "After collecting the hourglass weapon. Go in the down tube on

HACK
Elite standard." Simple really. I cross the drawbridge. using the Coma D2 to the Ells level. Then go
should've known it was too ealy in hourglass, and pass the troll. to G2 on this level and get a gun
the life of the Speccy version of ate Follow the walls, and you will find a permit from the supply unit. Take
for someone to blast their way into door hidden in one of the walls. Put the adjacent tube to the Daly level.
'Elite' rating. Well spotted, clever the crown on view, and you'll be Now go to 02 on this level and put

FREE
Trevor, but what earthly (ix even able to open the door. Inside the the gun permit in the key unit. You
spacely) use is it? tomb, push the body to one side can now take the power gun from
I'd still like to see some more hints and push one of the slabs oft the locker. If you go to the infomat
for arcade games rather than arcade Dropping down into the next tomb, on F3. you will get a clue as to what
adventures. Okay. so I know there collect the book, go through the makes the cake. The actual items
are a lot of arcade adventures about, door to appear beside the cliff edge are: water (D1), baking tin (A3), and
at the moment°, but really. that's no outside. Use the scroll to get back flour (C2)." Pretty duff cake! Cops.
excuse to play them all the time. A to the courtyard, and head for the "These can be joined by putting
balanced diet is everything, you room with the cross. Collect the them in the factor unit on F3. The
know, and troughing your way cross and potion, and lull the guard cake you receive gives you access
through just one type of game is in the room of the deadly flowers. to the bakery. The dough in the
puh-retty bad for you. You could end The key you will find is the key to bakery can be used later. Now take
up with scirrosis of the joystick, or the Keep, You can Jump past the the charcoal from G1 and then get
summink! first monk, but you'll need to throw down to Elis from G2. Go to C3 and
Ahhhhhhh! Here's one. A good old potion at the next one and the enter the danger room. Take the
shoot 'em up. Jon Langton of cross at the last one. Kill one guard bomb from the supply unit and
Pickering in North Yorkshire writes to and climb the final stairs. Use the shove it down the refuse shute to
say how much he enjoys Starquake barrel from the ground floor. disarm it. You're now in sector H.
and, although he doesn't go into Jumping on it to get you up into the Go to H3, NOT H4, and take the
details about why (although I last room. Give the Book to the down tube to the Joly level. Get the
specifically asked you to do that! wizard, making sure you collect the gauze from the supply unit and
Waaaaah!), he does say that he key first, and he'll change into a take the up tube to laxa level. Go to
knows all 15 teleport codes. Over to monk. When the monk pushes you C4 where the vidtex says 'Danger!
you, Jon "The codes are: VORA, out, you may now leave the castle, Use filter to breathe'. Put the gauze
RAMIX, ULTRA, SONIO. AMAHA, provided you've the crown, and the and charcoal in the factor unit to
AMIGA, QUAKE (near the planet's key for the courtyard gate. That's it! make a gas mask. Enter the danger
core!), ASOIC, ALGOL, EXIAL, Finished! Oh, except can I say room, and the mask will protect
IRAGE, TULSA, DELTA, KYZIA, and thanks to my son Steven Bradley you. Leave it in the locker for
OKTUP." Great Jon that's... "I have for his help?" No you can't. I've further use." He he ne he he he.
mapped all 512 screens, and found been in a bad mood since you That's all your getting for now, my
them to be in a 16 x 32 grid. The mentioned P•K•s... Humph. little hot dog sauces. You'll have to
top 16 show the stars." Okay great Well, it seems that everyone who wait on the back burner until next
Are you a thanks. Jon " T h e screen with the bought a copy of this mag a couple time to hear the rest! Quick! No time
RAMO( teleport in it is the second of months ago has bought and
hexophiliac? You line down from the top, at the tar finishedMarsport. because I got a
left! Er.. my fave games...
Gyroscope, I of the Mask, and Glass
are? Well, now's the right." Shuddup! Thank you Jon, pile of letters, that would choke a Send me letters... or my opticals will
ti m e to join that that was great. (Phew!) I know this is blue whale, telling me how to finish get all cobwebby! You know the
your column as well as mine, but I the game. Paul McLean ot South address... Oh no, the end...! (Click
com puter- like to slide a word in edgeways lust Shields and Stephen Roberts from bzuzzzuzz)
generated, whizzo once in a while
gam es player, Hex
Loader, for som e
hex loaded action.
Keith Bradley and Aynsley Herron
(names to conjure with there) of
Eilyth in Northumberland sent me a
thick wodge of paper about the
amaaazing Fairlight, Look, I know
I've Covered this before, but this is
HEWSHEROES
Wheeeee.., Phut, Phut. Phut, Ahemm. That's better. Ifs great to get those
Such a well documented solution I circuits buzzing again. And without further ado, let me introduce this
had to print it, didn't we printer? months fearsome threesome, starting off with our regular wacky photo —
(Bzzzll Prrrp-p-pp! Roger-dodger, )"know, Mr Lovely Legs, Jonathan Miller in ish 1, Snowy White the
Hex! — Peter the Printer) 'Just snowmanfromrsh2 andnowweve gel Nick Srepastianos ofGreece
writing to inform you that we have pulling off a very convincing Clark Kent look-a-like. Haw Haw! Hang on,
the name, and games is completed Fairtight without the use what d'ya mean that's what he usuatiy looks like? Ooops! Anyway, Clark,
my game. 'Ow you damn'? of any of the POKES in the last er,.. sorry, Nick here has flown in with a rather impressive score of
Blasting away I hope. I'm WHAAT 2,000,000 on Spy Hunter. No problem for a super-man, eh Nick?
Z in a really good mood Phzzzt AAGH!
) How dare you Next in the hexophiliac line up comes weirdo Noel Wallace, yea, the one
t today, so I promise I won't have a go mention that word in my column, who braved the problems of the joysensor in the joystick review last ish.
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zmaybe just the one, to keep my .off— Ed.) "We completed the game Janet! Brad! Janet! Dr Scow Rocky! Uughh!
hand... er, tentacle in. on 14th November
T i and were And last, and probably by all means least, comes little Brett Collier,
z rk now I really wish I hadn't greeted by the message, 'You have
n g Straining a smile after scoring a bounty of $999900 in Ghostbusters. All
t mentioned Marsport in this column succeeded in your quest. The too much for you. eh Brett?
! I'm up to my buss in mail about it at wizard is! free. The Quest continues Well. I can't stay 'cos Pete s alter me power point for his scalectrix set.
Hthe moment. Puh-lease, no more! I in A Trail Of Darkness." Any hints at But do remember to send me your photos and high scores — the wackier
ehave all the solutions I really need all? "Oh yeah, plenty IL" Just a the better! Ta ta„. Phizz... Burp...
l and probably enough to give away few, there's not a lot of room left,
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Prince, in the Rygellian
Here's Willy, your cosmic
cursor, all ready al the
have, nerves of steel: accurate of time Meier lake a Time Void. Nodes like this give start to move you one
Tunnel. An unlocked link you a chance to recharge square al a lime towards
marksmanship; goggle eyes, turns white end slays that the batteries of your Con- your goal, the bottom left
green, slimy skin and webbed way, but first youHneed a stant Recoil Alpha-Pellet hand comet_
feet! Yea — who wants to look key -- see! Gun a n d evenRambo
like Harrison Ford when you ain't got one Of those!
can be a Cosmic Wartoad?
And with your Queen trans-
formed into a (Yukl) human
female by the 'orrible Rygellian
Slime Beasts (Boo!), and
chained beneath a descending
buzz saw (Gasp!) then you
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Ninety, real-time minutes is
the limit as you cross the void
of Rygellian Time Nodes via
your Cosmic Willy. Cosmic
Willy? Who but Denton Designs
could provide not a cursor but
a tadpole? The Slime Beasts
ain't glad to see you though
when you arrive at a node
you'll find a welcoming commit-
tee. Defeat this and you can
occupy the node. but blow it
and you lose a life and return
to the previous node. Lose And here are the bits and Here are the keys to taking
three lives (Oh no!) and you're bobs that nO self respect- the Tunnels, and luckily
returned to the start, but the ing Warload could be with- the Slime Beasts have lett
out on a rescue mission. them lying around the
chainsaw is ever nearer your nodes Locale them and
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prone Princess, Whisk and a Chronosyn- you too Can start the
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are littering the void, your passage
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The arcade action element as
you travel between nodes
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graded difficulty. You'll have to
clear the screen before your It your shooting's up to Handsome beast. aren't One typeof opponent. the
scratch you'll see the bar you Oats an amphibious Slime Master and accom-
arrival is established, though chart indicate a reduction Andrevo Ridgely Gun panying Pawns They're
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you its no picnic (Aww, and I real nestles rate red status nary, cyan node. protect their Master and
bought the ants!). though attack you!
Raving reviewers Between bouts of frantic 1
Luke C, Alison blasting comes the strategy
element that sorts out the
Mut, Gwyn Hughes, toads from the tadpoles, Your
Steve Malone, Max path across the eight by eight
Time Grid allows for different
Phillips, Rick courses, and some nodes are
Robson and more useful than others as
Rachaei Smith, are they provide Time Tunnels,
back with this you can find the keys. You'll
need others to recharge your
month's great gun. And all the while you'll be te
games. Even seeking to avoid the worst foes
Troubleshootin' and collect the objects that you
need to free the Queen.
Pete's got in on the With its iris-ing windows and
act! great graphics the game is as Ni4Vrawis, N s S L I M E
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home in two separate bags! before she croaks can get a good enough dif-
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7 o n the cricket field, and I'm wicket keeper. The computer not length or speed when bowl- provide
t not just the technique
rejects too low an average but ing. When batting you have but also the means to make
afraid the same goes for the 1
minimal control over whether your own films. Of course, to
simulation that bears his name. not very high ones, regardless 2
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his colleagues 'cos of his habit ber 11 can average 100 with only have two shots within that you, need access to a video
the bat. The computer seems mode Technically, you have that'll
2 automatically record the
of taking siestas during a game
—and I think the programmers to completely disregard this more control in the two innings program
1 you've compiled. But
must've dozed off half way anyhow during gameplay — so game — but it still rattles along even without it you can still
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though this one is it all just padding anyway? at the one day rate, and very
The gameplay's really pecu- low scores regularly ensue. you've scripted, plotted, pro-
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late 40, 55, 60 overs and 2 liar. We all know one day So, if you're a real fan of
games and Gooch in particular, leather on willow this one's for and finally shot and edited.
innings games. You also have
a two player facility as well as zap along, but at 12-15 runs an worth a very cautious look. As in other Macmillan pack-
the trad computer opposition. over? The graphics give you a ages the accompanying book-
You can punch in your own behind the bowler's arm close- let is crucial. It gives a brief
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S t e ve Indiana Jones has you simple animation. Screen-
been a gift for programmers WH I C H A R T I S T WO U L D Y O U L I K E ? shot l e t s you design the
ever since he burst onto the fixed backdrop and scenery. It
) uses the same grid as Word-
cinema screens so the basic ? ) M A D M A M IA R T WO R K
plot is familiar — visit the shot. It's a simple art package
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screens and collect the keys. 3) CO ST L Y C H R I D E 7 5 0 with several facilities, including
Each of the screens (or the free hand drawing plus various
ones I managed to get to paint/pencil/colour/shape
anyway) is set in the jungle and options. Finally Take 1 lets you
you have to swing through the Central Solutionsit199 edit your final production,
trees to get your paws on those S t e ve A strategy game based on the software industry can only getting six frames to a shoot
elusive keys mean one thing — someone in the biz has succumbed to the including up to 12 sprites_
overwhelming desire to stare lovingly at his own navel! Your productions with
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like a spot of Kung Fu 1
clobberin' to unclog the tonsils.
Yes, we're back on those well- E
trodden ways of the exploding -
fists with this conversion from
the arcades. 1
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skips and punches his way to a 1
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different in style and approach
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paunch will lay his flabbiness
flat out. Similarly, the rest of s Ultimate/E9.95
'em come tumbling down as G w y n Howdy, pardner, and
soon as you've mastered the look what jest rode into town.
sixteen different possible There wuz a time when the
moves, each of which scores newie from Ultimate meant
you a variety of points, makin' for the saloon but
Vie Ar has the edge over its
nowadays,... well, we's none of
opponents if you're looking for
us too sure if they're goodies or
variety but still want a fairly baddies.
faithful martial arts simulation.
Hey, I think I recognise this
Like Kung Fu, it junks realism particlar varmint. It's that fellah
for spectacular effects but it
still captures the spirit of the Nightshade with a cowboy hat.
Sure is the same technique
sport that lies somewhere
between circus acrobatics and used to draw the western town,
the same animation of the
a Glasgow brawl. By
comparison, Fist looks about central fi g u re _ and durn me, if
the plot ain't mighty similar too.
as dangerous as a Japanese
This time you take the
tea ceremony but it's still the sherriff round the town,
one for the karate purists.
shooting bandits and avoiding
The only problem I found the populace which consists
with Vie Ar is that it's just too mostly of sassy women who
easy. It only took half an hour
scuttle into you and kill you. I'd
to reach the final opponent, the
rather face up to the James
Kung Fu master himself, and I
gang, though don't get gun
was within one blow of toppling
happy with a local lovely or
him Unless you're into
you'll pay fur it out of your
notching up the points you may bounty. That leaves less
lust find that your interest
money to buy bullets, the pace
Starts to wane once you've Nevertheless, a good of which rockets faster than a
faced all the foes, Or perhaps introduction to painless r

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arcade. But a dose of sound effects don't cover up the dearth of I• sit there waiting to be shot, but
imagination involved in the program. Basically you're an explorer •E every so often you'se gonna
trapped in a dungeon, except the graphics prefer to show you as M meet a gen-ew-ine grade A
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energy loss is a big enemy. The little buggies have a constant without meeting one
horizontal/vertical motion so it doesn't take long to learn how to i What ah'm tryin' to tell yet is
evade them. Not for the experienced gamer — though I must that despite the mildly
admit games like this can have a mesmeric hold.
And the taped be better without Classroom Chaos — a graphic
rl economic overlay of bullet an'
boss buyin' and bounty
adventure of such monumental boringdomness that any school collecting, this is another
lesson would seem thrilling in comparison. The school's Gold Ultimate repeat and if you
Cup has been stolen (the bell was the only thing that went at our didn't have Nightshade and
school) and the head thinks it was you. you're a fan of shoot 'em ups
The game bears no relationship to the crop of school goodies set among durn purdy pictures
like Skool Daze and Mikie out at the moment — but is designed MI make you whoop with joy.
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carrying things for you. block- planetary systems in your else that'll take time is landing
ing enemy robots — all the universe. No problem i f the Phoenix on a planet's
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with me at a door I wapted• to that'll tie your fingers in knots! spare couple of hours to
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wood's boot. West Bank has dancing girls, and finally to the
nothing io do with the middle schoolyard where Mikie's girl's
east and everything to do with waiting. In between there's the
short dash between rooms but
a hot-shot winner. It brings a
bar room brawl into your front fortunately, you won't need to
do any homework on that bit.
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on this seat and teacher but only otf their seats,
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A lis o n A word of warning — if you're a replidroid and your
company offers you early retirement, take care. It may not mean
a cottage in the country and cream teas with the Darby and
Joan. Nope, for replidrolds retirement is just another word for a
one way trip to the tip. One Ford (Harrison) will take you there
and you'll more than likely end up in another (Cortina).
In CRCs Bladerunner, you're the one doling out the pension
scheme to twenty-four renegade replidroids on the run on earth.
The first screen presents you with an aerial view of the city. You
must guide your skimmer car around the streets in pursuit of the
robotic runaways, then hover over the area before landing.
The screen now changes to a side on view of the city street
with a scanner along the bottom that indicates how far you are
from your quarry. As soon as your skimmer's come to rest, start
legging it after the replidroid so that you can explain the benefits
of retirement to him — you'll find your gun a convincing
persuader. But watch Out, the streets are mean and you must
take care not to blast away any passing pedestrians or get run
over by skimmers, The more replidroids you take out, the more 0
money you make for your own retirement.
Now I didn't expect the game to follow the film faithfully — it
says on the inlay that it's a 'video game interpretation of the film
score by Vangelis' — but a bit more variety in the gameplay
wouldn't have gone amiss. Overall the idea for the game's fine
but it feels unfinished. A touch o n
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Wobbler, Ed asked. Tell me, do may have been a rather nice

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movies — then no man, no law, banks of the river into the
I look that sort of a girl? Then landscape is less enticing than
no war would've stopped me! enemy's camp does the action he handed me the cassette Burnley on a wet Saturday. It's
As It is, I had a terrible time just start to hot up. There you have and all became obvious. Wil- also the very devil to pick
staying alive let alone securing to locate the hostage and liam Wobbler is the oversized
the release of every Yank north release him before heading things up. calling for ludicrously
sprite hero of an arcade accurate positioning consider-
of Saigon. north again to tree the rest of
adventure that bears Tony ing the size of your Willy. If you
The game begins just after his compatriots_ Crowther's monicker on the
Rambo is best described as miss you bounce around
our muscle-bound megastar cover, but cites two others because fire is also used for
has been dropped into the a thinking man's Commando.
inside — trying to escape the Jump. Reactions seemed slow.
jungle, at the start of his That game starts fast and gets
mission — reconnaissance blame somebody? especially when ducking to
faster until you end up like a
one-man whirlwind. Rambo Well no, to be fair, William avoid the low flying monkeys!
only, you understand, with
orders not to engage the Wobbler, a sort of scrotty In its favour though it does
develops into a solid shoorem looking ET. type with an irritat- look different to the average
enemy. You are armed with an up but it just doesn't seem to
ing habit of nodding his head arcade adventure. There are a
endless supply of grenades be such a drain on the old
up and down, ain't that bad. It's few nice touches, such as the

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and knives but if you do adrenalin• Somehow it lacks
the excitement of Elite's just that it looks like what it is necessity to find a disk and
encounter the enemy in the —a conversion that hasn't take it to a terminal before you
first section it's advisable to number one hit — perhaps it's translated too well. can Save the game. And if you
rely only on the,, lattev The the larger playing area, maybe
it's the slower start or could it get bored, pressing Break
noise of the grenades is sure to transports you to a minimal
bring the massed ranks of the just be the amount of strategy
involved? After all, who ever shoot 'em up diversion. But
Red Army into the battle.
You'll find all the weapons heard of Rambo having to while arc-ad addicts may
think? persist in the quest, I just got
you need randomly scattered
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The screens don't look that As wargames go, it's not the
spectacular at first sight — and best in the world.., but, on the
other hand, it does have
enough addictive qualities to
grow on you. And that's coming
from someone who rarely Ocean/0%95 knowing where the magnetic
recommends wargames. L u k e Buy a joystick before walls are, which rooms have
Check it out! attempting this game t h e zero inertia, and which
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S course, it's 'grievous bodily can pass a particular section of
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that far! various screens is that if you
N.O.M.A.D. can be spun lose a life you start from the
* around in either direction, and beginning again — only the
can be thrust forwards and next time through, there's less
backwards. The robot lurches to watch out for. Once you get
around the screen, but can be past a specific section of the
controlled carefully with game and lose a life, you start
experience. And, of course, from the beginning of that
there's the trusty laser gun — section — which is a darned
O PT IMUS P R I M E you never run out of good idea and saves a lot of
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ammunition so it's a good plan frustration.
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hardly Shadow fire' All the Decepticons are there, too, in minute l•
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platforms a bit redundant.
The game is slick but nothing new, the keyboard controls are
awful and the cassette inlay diabolical; not your usual dashing
Autobot prose at all. Strongly recommended for all remaining
Transformer freaks everywhere. r •
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R i c k 'Ere we go, 'ere we go,
'ere we go — get ready for
G w y n The most interesting Mexico '86 with Macmillan's
battle in the Winter Olympics World Cup Soccer, a multi-fea-
has been the race between ture package which should
Electric Dreams and US Gold satisfy, whether you're a
to win the Spectrum owners' Speccy or footy freak.
gold. Electric Dreams was first The tape is double sided (a
to the finish but this is not a game of two halves you might
mere race -- there's scoring say) with a fact file and a game
for style tool simulation — which should
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program second section is
silent — a pity because the
instructions refer to Free
choose to be England you'll be
given an all-time greats squad
of multi-nationals. If only Pele
really was English!

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options to practice and
compete in single events as
The computer will now pit
you against another nation in
your section. The first half is
well as all together and multi- unseen — but injuries and

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Fur ther down the slippery slope of sports simulation softwar e player options.
but make sure you jump at the right moment if you want to scores with times are flashed
each the second screen wher e aerial bal anci ng is all- Both programs compete in up. In the second half you can
i mpor tant. the Ski Jump and Biathlon compensate for any program
events. While Electric Dreams' failings by using the heading

, versions are more

sophisticated I preferred the
latest two screen jump. The
and penalty skills first seen al
warm up
But what's this? Kuwait and
Biathlon is rather simplistic but New Zealand seem to do
at least it doesn't take an age. uncommonly well for soccer
There's also the obligatory minnows and the Great Shilts
joystick-wrecking Speed has become goal scorer as
Skating about which what can I well as goal keeper. Still, this
say except 'Ouch, I've sprained ought to keep you happy until
my wrist!' Bobsled appears in the real thing in June.
both Games and Sports and
the American team provide
much less of a challenge than
the English, who make you
steer a proper course instead
of just compensating for
centrifugal force.
The other three events are
unique to Winter Games, Hot
Dog Aerials isn't flying
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So what's the scam? Simple. Just
write the answer to each compo on the
coupon against the appropriate

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number. You can enter as many or as
few of the compos as you please. And
even if you win one prize that's not the

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end of it. Back goes your entry ready
for another go. Now that's what I call
ge-ne-rous! Now cut Out the coupon
(Or use a photocopy). stick it to the Games, games, posters, T-shirts, games, Konix
back of a postcard or sealed envelope Liberators, games, South American nose flutes,
and send it to the Ocean/Martech/
games, Zoids, games, games and, er, games. And you

INC
CRL/Ouicksil e r , on second
thoughts, just send it to 'That can win them all. (Well, all except for the South
ginormously big compo in issue 3', American nose flutes 'cos that was a fib.)
Your Sinclair, 14 Rathbone Place,
London W*1 P

HowId you like to win a copy of

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2 1 I 2 AD or Forbidden Pla ne t? Well
read this way, m'boy (It you re a d
tha t way you'll go blind! Ed) 'cos
Design 'so good they named it twic e '
Design is offering a copy of each to
the first ten readers who come up
with the answer to the ultima te

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question. And no, 42 lust w on't do.
All we w a nt to know is the password
a t the end of Dark Star. Is it:
a) Everyone's a Wally?
b) Everyone's a nervous wreck?
c) Everley Brothers? (Who they? Ed)

Gargoyle Games great new game's gonna

have you going ga-ga. Sweevo's World is all
about a tin-pot robot who's more than a little
accident prone. Rather like the comedian
who was the inspiration for his antics. What
Gargoyle wants to know is who you reckon
LE, Zounds, itza Zoicil Yes, m
Martech's offering five amazi o l d
models to the five lucky winners of
this simple competition. All you've
gotta do to be the envy (and enemy)

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that funny man is, (If you need a clue, take E
look at the drawing in Gargoyle's ad for the of your friends is answer this simple
game.) So, is it: question. Redhorn The Terrible is
a) Oliver Hardy the evil baddy but who is his goodly
b) Stan Laurel counterpart? Is it:
c) Stan Andeliver
/ ) Troubleshootin' Pete?

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Oh, and the prize? Twenty copies of said 2) The Mighty Zoidzilia?
madcap mayhem — that's the game to you'
Sweeeeeeeevol 3) The Mighty Wurtitzer?

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you know, the one Bogey that doesn't

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F-low d'you like to adorn your manly, or get right up your nose. Oceans asked
womanly, torso with a stylish T-shirt to welcome me to give away twenty copies of No
new game Movie that's based on the
the spring months? You would? Lucky then thot exploits of a dick like me, Private dick.
we've got five Bubble Bus T-shirts up for grabs smarms!!! But It you wanna win one
and all you've got to do is onswer one measly you're gonna have to do a bit of
question, And even if you don't cart off the detective work yourself. Jusht tell me
which of these black and while
clothing, there are still ten copies of Storquake Saturday afternoon BBC2 films I

,
to be won. Just tell us which star is nearest to
appeared In and then jot It down next
the Earth? Is it: to the number 5 on the coupon.
Here's lo o kin g a t you kid i
I) Alpha Centauri?
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Vera and Uncle frank turning up to polish off the he br a ndy and natter on odds a full ten functions to your Speccy —
through the big film. O h no. Ocean was visited by aliens from the outer Centronics port, R5232 port, sound through the
cosmos, horrid slimy green things that ate Harry the Hamster for breakfast and
drank Domestos cocktails. I n fact, so entertaining was the company that telly, slow mode, video port, oil joystick
Ocean 's put the visitors trim its new game V based on she TV series of the same protocols, reset button, through port, Save/
name. To win one of the twenty copies of the game that Ocean's putting up for Load and a power indicator. Okay, now name
grabs lust sell us whether these aliens are really: the price? E150? M O ? Nope, to you John,
C34•95. Sounds incredible, doesn't it? (Souncis
1) Distant relations of the Ed?
like you took the info straight from the adl Ed).
2) Lizard type creatures?
3) Armadillos wearing rain hats? Might've done, might've done. But although we
hoven't seen Konix's miracle Liberator yet, we
still reckon it's worth answering the following
doddie of a question? Who's the leader of the
Liberal party? (Liberator/Liberal, geddit?i Is it?
I) Terry Wagon?
2) David Steel?
3) Stainless Steel?
Puff, puff, pant, pant. No, it's not a
1 1 1 1 4 dirty compo entry up to a spot of
heavy bre a thing but Silversoft
, 1 1 . arriving in the nick of time — mind
1 1 1 you, have you played its spoof
1 adventure, Robin O f Sherlock?
Hope, well it's giving away fi fte e n
copies plus twe nty -fi v e posters. All
you have to do w e l l y ou know
Well, it was along time coming but for Dungeons and w ha t you've got to do by now. Wha t
was the na me of the fa t guy in the
Dragons freaks it was worth the wait — PSS's Swords And cassock who knocked around with
Sorcery has arrived. And to prove that it's not so much a Robin Hood? Was it:
game. more a way of strife, PSS is offering ten S&S T-
shirts and twenty S&S posters to VS readers. So, now for it 1 ) Friar Tuck?

1
- .the question. A long time ago there was this geezer called 2) Cyril Smith?
3) Dolly Parton (again)?
Arthur who had a modest country dwelling called Camelot.
•And he had a magical sword called . . . well, what was it
'Called?
. I) Wilkinson?
2) Excalibur?
42) Damocles?

And finally, Fairlight. Imagine what the-inlay card

might look like to an ant. Now think how big a full-

1
size, lull colour poster of the same piccy would look.
Meg-aah! To win one of ten copies of such a poster,
tell us the name of the game's hero?
I) Istvan?
2) Igor?
3) Another name beginning with 1?
Hello sailors. Oh, a life on the ocean waves. r
Take an exotic cruise, travel to distant
shores and blow the hell out of other
o RULE UP, RULE UP!
n
battleships, Perhaps we forgot to mention O Usual set of boring old rules. The Ed won't talk to anyone about the compo
that were talking about Ouicksilva's new W though what's so bad about the Ed not talking to you is way beyond us. You
game Death Wake. It's a war game in which M
can't enter if you work for any of the participating companies or if you work herc
M
you play the commander of The Undaunted M and if you work here knock three times on the pipes and we can form an escape
in his mission to blow up lots of things, M committee. All entries must be in by March 31st — a day late and you'll feel a
preferably those belonging to the enemy M right fool.
unless you liberate them by answering this M
simple question. Sailors who pop their M
NOW THAT'S WHAT II CALL A MEGACOMPO!
socks at sea can't be said to push up the O
daisies, so where do they end up? is it in: m Here are my answers to your easy-peasy questions. Next time youW have to make
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shirts from CRL to keep me warm. Course the =
Ed wants me to giVe 'cm away to you lot but = Question 1 Question4 Question 7. Question 10
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what the heck, my need ts greater than yours. =
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No? Oh well answer this question instead. 1
Who was the star of the film Bladerunner? 1
Was it: 1 Now cut the coupon or use a photocopy and stick it to a postcard or the back of a
E sealed envelope. Send it to That ginormously big compo in issue 3, Your Sinclair.
I) Sting? n 14 Rathbone Place. London W1P IDE. Meg-aah!
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Use this Basic routine to get Manchester has the perfect and Nicholas White of
the double peek at address p way of confounding all those Newhaven both came up with
into the variable 's'. The types who like to break into ways to make your messages
machine code is relocatable your programs. Use this more interesting. John's
so I've called its address when you next save a routine will spit out your
'any'. Just load it in wherever program but do save an message one letter at a time
FORCE convenient — it's only 7 bytes
long.
10 RANDOMIZE p: LET s=
unprotected copy first.
POKE 23613,0: SAVE 'name
CODE 23613,PEEK 23627
with or without sound. You'll
need to decide what to put in
line 9020 or whether to leave
USR (any) +256 *PEEK 23628-23613: it out altogether if you don't
Come on, become GOTO 0 want sound.
one of the elite and Here's a brill way of creating The system variable EAR
join the false headers from Basic SP is at 23613/4 so altering it 1 0 L E T 8 . 9 0 0 0 8 L E T lin e - 0 2 0 L
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programmers Task from Malco lm Goodman
things happen if the program 30 REM r e s t o f pr ogr a m
Force with Ian of Leeds. I've altered it 8999 ST OP
hits an error. This routine by
slightly 'cos I like meddling in 9000 FOR x l T O L EN a . -
Hoare. You never other people's programs and Andrew Cope of Exeter 9 0 1 0 P R I N T A T lin e , 0 1 8 8 1 8 (
provides an ON ERROR GO TO x )
know — you might so it'll work with the Interface
TO function. This routine isn't 9020 BE E P 0 .0 5 .C O D E a l l ( x
1connected. I've also used 48 R E M V a r i a b l e s o u n d
learn something. relocatable but can be OR
the routine above to get the
start address of the Basic assembled to any convenient 1 0 2 0 B E E P 0 . 0 5 , 0 8 R E M fi e
•d so u n d .
First off is Paul R ober ts address. Andrew uses 64400
program. so don't forget to to allow room for some
1 0 3 0 I F x . L E N a t T H EN
from Yeovil who sent in a put the code in. Use the code redefined characters,
BEEP 0 . 1 , 3 0 1 B E E P 0 . 1 , 2 0
1 0 4 0 N EXT 8
piece of relocatable code in Your Spectrum 21 to split 1050 L ET l i n e 1 1 n e + 1
that'll do some amusing the number into high and low 0000 O R O 64400
9 0 6 0 R ET U R N

things on-screen. bytes. What you don't have 0010 I D DF, ERR_ M
it? Shame on you. Well, just 0020 I D HL, (2 3 6 1 3 ) Nicholas's routine is
0000 ORO A N Y this once then: 0030 L D ( KL ) , E designed to do a similar thing
0010 El 0040 I N C HI
0020 LD 8 , 1 0 0 0050 I D <HL), D
but the message must be 32
prr FN h(e )oI NT (8 / 2 5 6 )
0030 LOOP P U S H B C 0060 R E T characters long. Why not try
0040 1:
LD H L , 2 2 5 2 8
4 0 0 7 0 ER R _ M I D A, ( 2 3 6 1 0 ) them both?
0050 ID D E , 2 2 5 2 9 4 0080 I N C A.
0060 E 0 I N P U T "H o w m a n y b y t e e 7
ID BC, 7 6 7 0090 L D 8 C, (2 3 7 2 8 )
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20 L E T l i n e e 0 8 L E T n e 1 0 0 0
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0100 LDI R 1 0130 I D
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0130 AND 7 ) *
70 I N PU T ' S a v e n a m e ? 0160 L D H L, (2 3 6 4 1 )
0140 OUT ( 2 5 4 ) , A e
0170 L D D C , 2 1010 L ET be wbe + a e
0150 POP B C 4- 1 1 0180 C A L L 1652H 1020 FOR i c l T O L EN b e - 3 1
0160 DJNZ L O O P i2 0190 E X D E , H L
0170 RET The
85 A V program will ask you how 0200 L D
1030 PR I N T A T l i n e
TO .A3 1S ) O
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E6 bytes you want to 0
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A d • Sh a w from Plymouth And finally. T im D ouit on
soon
1 as the message 0260 E N D 1
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sent in several tips — try this (
appears and stop when
when your Speccy's feeling 8
you've saved the header. Et To use this you'll need to set saving protected versions of
bored: )
voila! up the line that you want the your programs. First do
10 FOR n- 1 TO 250: OUT ON ERROR routine to jump PEEK 23635 and make a
14,0: NEXT n to. This can be in a note of the result. lf you've
Ade also sent in an improved On the subject of headers, subroutine so you can alter it got Interface 1 variables
Gary Pr o c t o r from the Isle as required. To set up the present you'll get the answer
routine to toggle printing Of Man sent in a method of
between screen and printer. routine you'll only need to call five, if not you'll get 203. Don't
To turn on the printer: making program names more the code once. After that all attempt to save a protected
OPEN# 2,"p" interesting. Gary was curious errors will be trapped version if Interface
and to turn it off and return how the title 'FLASH LOAD' variables are present. Right.
automatically. Andrew
printing to the screen: could come up instead of the suggests the following: to save a protected version of
CLOSE# 2 boring message 'program: your program enter this as a
Cheers Mel By the way your rhubarb' or whatever. Try this: 10 RANDOMIZE USR 6 4 . 1 1 0 0 1 P direct command:
'better' input routine isn't! If
20 L ET e r l e l t n e n u m b e r t e POKE 23635,n: SAVE -
'10 LE T • S . " be j u m p e d t o g 0 0 S U B 9 0 0 0
you do a PAUSE 0 in a ,20 LE T 011•11111-1-CHRS 2 2 4 R o st o f p r o g r a m Where
namn e is
" any number below
subroutine and leave your , 1•CHRS 04CHRS 219+CHRS 2 3 8 0 0 0 R EM s u b r o u t i n e 203. To load the protected
finger on a key a fraction too CH. 0 program enter:
2 0 P O KE 2 3 7 2 9 F N h ( e r l >
long you'll find you've entered Mind you it could've been 3 0 R ET U R N POKE 23635.n:LOAD"•
the wrong thing. even better if he'd included a 1 Then all you've got to do is:
couple of extra CHR$s in the 1
Andrew also makes an POKE 23635,203
0
Clive Sead en from title — what about this then:
interesting
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2 0 L E T se o se + C H R e 1 8 + C H R $ time to READ all DATA into Send your programs to Ian
megashort piece of machine 1+CHRS 1 9 + C H R S 1 + C H R S 2 2 + E Hoare, Task Force, Your
code that'll do a double peek CHRS 1.-CHRS 0.0.CHRS 2 1 9 an
2 array before the program Sinclair, 14 Rathbone Place.
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 BATTLE FLEET
ORION
by II K McDonald
This one's really hot. It' s a forty screen shoot ' em up that's w rit t en
in Basic but it's as t ricky as any m ach in e code equivalent.
Your mission is to dest roy an en em y planet ' s life forms before
they reach Eart h and destroy you. To h ave a crack at it, you'll have
to t ravel b ackw ard s through t im e by disappearing up a b lack hole.
Naaaast y!
As soon as you've en t ered the g am e — and you can leave out the
intructions o n ce you've read t h em — save it with SAVE "Orion" LINE
7000 and then st art it with RUN 7000.
a• 1 DE F EN m $ ( 0 , x ) e ( " S pe c t r a l " 10=1
4 AND E N m ( s , m ) = 0 ) .
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130 I F R N D < . 0 5 AND NO T m f THE N 4 0 3 0 RE TURN
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0 TO 2 0 0 0 can s u r v i v e 3 h i t u b s f o r e y o u r s
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190 I F c l s = 1 O R c l u e - 2 THE N G O 7 0 0 5 PAPER Os BORDER 0 1 I N K 7 : C
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7007 DI M h $ ( 1 0 , 2 0 ) , D I M h( 1 0 ) pl a y e d o n - s c r e e n . "
•1005 P R I N T A T m , y m ; B R I G H T I I " 7010 P RI NT AT 0 , 5 ; BRI G HT 1 1 " B a t 7 0 6 5 P RI NT I N K 6 1 " T h e r a t i n g v
t l e fl e t e t O r i o n ; A T 0 , 5 s O V E R I ; al ums w i l l b e " , " d i s p l a y s d a t t h e
1010 LE T s s = y 0 - y + l e L E T a S ( s e s 2 ) I . K. Mc D
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c + s c a t BE E P . 0 1 , 1 v 1 7070 P RI NT I N K 4 1 " I n b l a c k h o l
1015 I F c r f T H E N G O TO 1 0 8 0 7020 P RI NT I N K 4 ; A T 3 , 0 ; " Y ou h • s , s h o o t dow n t h e m a t e r i a l t r a p
ave be e n c hos e n t o a t t e m p t * p e n i pe d i n t h e f o r c e w a l l , a n d i f t
1020 L E T s s = s s - l e I F s s = 0 THE N
30 T O 1 0 4 0 l o u s a t t a c k o n t h e e ne m y fl e e t he w a l l a p p r o a c h e s y o u , d o d g e t h e
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1030 I F a $ ( s e t s 2 ) = " " THE N G O T O
1040 r c e w a l l t o &t i t e r t h e b l a c k h o l
7 0 3 0 P RI NT I N K 6 1 " Y o u m us t p e n e. A v o i d a n y m a t t a r t h a t y o u o v e r
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1050 LE T s s = s s + l e I F s s > s THE N r t o de s t r oy t h e O r i o n s be f or e
GO T O 1 0 8 0 7 0 7 5 P R I N T I N K 4 1 " Whe n a t t a c k i
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s 2 ) = " " s L E I s c = s c + s c a s BE E P . u l ic c ha i n r e a c t i on. "
mar ked 5 , 8 a n d 0 t o s t e e r a n d fi r 7080 I NP UT " P r o s . " " E n t a r " " t o c
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1080 I F a $ ( 3 T O ) = d $ THE N L E T c o n t i n u e " ; L I N E afte C L S
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RI NT A T 0 , 2 9 ; B R I G H T 1 ; s h l BO RDE
R 0 2 RE TURN
9 0 0 3 L E T a * C H R S 1 6 +CHRS 2 + "
": L E T
s c a . q0 0 s L E T g* . . CHRS 1 6 +CHRS 5 + "

9007 P RI NT ) 1 r T y p e 1 O r i o n V 1 pe
r s - 1 0 0 br pm 1 L E T x l e l t L E T y = 6 s R
ETURN
9 0 1 0 L E T a S =CHRS 1 6 +CHRS 6 + "
"s L
ET s e a . q 0 ' L E T ; ; S CHRI P 1 6 +CHRS 7
+"

9015 P RI NT ) 1 g " O r i o n S p a c e s t a t i o
n - 1 7 0 b r p " : L E T x = 1 1 L E T yw21 R E
TURN
9 0 2 0 LE T• a S • CHRS 1 6 +CHRS 6 + "

LET s c a l 0 1 1 L E T gS =CHRS 1 6 +CHR

I 6+"
9025 P RI NT ) 1 1 " A s t o r i o d s - 1 0 t o 3
0 6 r p " I L E T sca. . . 30: L E T x = 1 0 i L E
T y . . 3 1 RE TURN
9 0 3 0 L E T aSm.CHRS 1 7 +CHRS 1 + "

"I L E T gS =CHRS 1 6 + CH
RS 1 . "
id

9035 P RI NT ) 1 1 " 8 l a c k h o l e e v e n t
h o r i z o n " ' P AUS E 1 0 0 1 I N P U T " " s P
RI NT ) 1 1 " T r a p p e d m a t t e r - 5 t o 1 0
br p"t L E T s c a 5 s L E T x • 1 0 s L E T y
0: RE TURN
9040 LE T a l
on hom e p l a n e t i s r e a c h e d , t h e s 00
- ": L E T g $ *
hi p w i l l e j e c t c a n i s t e r s o f 7 6 2 0 FO R a m l T O 1 0 i I F • c > h ( a ) T CHRS
t ox i c c r y s t a l s i n t o t h e p l a n e t s a C U R 1S9 +CHRS I * "
HEN G O TO 7 6 4 0
t m os phe r e . A s t h e m e t h o d o f T i m 7 6 3 0 NE X T a 1 6 + C
9H0 4R 5 PSR I N T ) 1 ; " A s t e r o i d s - 1 0 t o 2
e t r a v e l u s e d I s v e r y a ppr ox i m 7 6 4 0 FO R a • 1 0 TO a + 1 S TE P - 1 0 br p"1 L E T s c i
a t e , ha z a r ds due t o s t m pl e O r i on 7650 LE T h ( a ) h ( a - 1 ) 1 L E T h * ( a ) = 1
y..08 RE+ TURN
s t a r fi g h t e r s o r t h e O r i o n e t a -
11S(a-1) "
950: 5 0 L P REI N TT ) 1 ; " D r a g o n s t a r fi g h t s !
r system s t i l l " , " f o r m i n g a r e pa s s 7 6 6 0 NE X T a rx s - 2 l0 0 bsr p " 1 L E T atP. CHRS 1 6 +CHRS
i bl e . " 7665 LE T h ( a ) - s c 4+"
7100 P R I N T I N K 5 1 " I f f o r w a r d T 7670 P RI NT I N K 2 1 AT 1 5 , 0 ; " Y o u h L E T
"t L E T g * C H R S 1 6 +CHRS 1 + "
ime T r a v e l b e c o m e s n e c c sssss y oi o a v e m a de i t i n t o t h e h i g h s c o r e
u w i l l b e pl a c e d i ns us pe nde d a ni t a b l e ! " i F O R b = 1 T O 3 2 S TE P 2 1 9055 LE T sca=200s L E T x l t L E T y
s t a t i on u n t i l t h e d e s i r e d t i m e BEEP . 0 5 , b s BE E P . 0 5 , b - 2 s N E X T =51 RE TURN
i s r e a c he d. "
9060 P RI NT ) 1 1 " Ba c k up O r i o n V i p e
7110 P R I N T I N K 4 ; B R I G H T l o " E V 7 6 8 0 I N P U T " Na m e 7 " ; L I N E a S t 1 r s - 1 0 0 b r p " s L E T a 4 P <HRS 1 6 * CHRS
EN NORMALLY P L A C I D OBJECTS C O U F L E N • S > 2 0 THE N P R I N T ) 1 ; " S o r r 2+"
LD E J E CT RADI ATI O N O R COSMI C P AR y-max l e n g t h 2 0 l e t t e r s " : BE E P 1 "I L E T g * C H R * 164. CHRS 54. "
TI CLES, OR BE CAMOFLAUSED O R ! 9 t•

ON FORCES. " 1 I N K 6 ' " E X T R E M E C 706 9 0 L E T 114)(a)wal t

AUTI ON ADV I S E D. " 9065 LE T s c a . . 1 0 0 : L E T x l e L E T y
717 0 5 PAPER i t BORDER l s C L S P R RETURN
7120 I N P U T " P r e s s E n t e r " " t o c IPNT T A B 1 0 0 H a l l o f F a m e " " 9070 P RI NT ) 1 1 " Cos m i c D u s t - 2 0 t o
ont i nue "; L I N E a s 7 7 1 0 FO R a l T O 1 0 e I N K 8 - a + ( a - 5 6 0 b r p " : L E T a S =CHRS 1 6 +CHRS 5 + "
A
7505 L E T x 4 = 0 a L E T c r 4 . . 0 1 L E T y f AND a > 5 ) m P R I N T W A S 2 0 ) ) * ( a ) ; "
(:)3 L E T b l O s L E T I v I l i L E T U" l h ( a ) o BE E P . 1 , 4
"e L E T gS - . CI RS 164-CHR* 54. "
31 L E T x m O t P AP E R Os I N K 7 : B O R 7S7 2 0 P R I N T " D e c o r a t i o n s " 1
DER Os I N P U T " " . C L S 7E7 3 0 I F h ( a ) < 3 0 0 0 THE N P R I N T " N
o0 n . " 9075 LE T s c a =2 0 s L E T x =1 1 L E T y. •
7510 LE T s c 0 1 P R I N T A T 0 , 0 ; B R ! 31 RE TURN
GMT I ; " B a t t l e R a t i n g 0 S h i e 7: 7 3 2 I F h ( a ) < 6 0 0 0 AND h ( a ) > * 3 0 0 0
I ds 3 9080 P RI NT ) 1 ; " O r i o n p r o b e s - 4 0 o
7520 0 0 TO 3 0 1 0 GTHEN P R I N T FM m $ ( 1 1 ( a ) . 3 0 0 0 ) 1 " r m o r e b r p " s L E T al o-CHRS 1 6 +CHRS
S pa r k " 4+" " I
76on PAPER 7 : I N K 9 : C L S B D R D F 7O7 3 4 I F h ( a ) < 9 0 0 0 AND h ( a ) > = 6 0 0 0 LET g S C H R S 1 6 +CHRS 5 + "
R 7m I NP U1 " " s C L 6 P R I N T A l L O TTHEN P R I N T F M m S ( h ( a ) , 3 0 0 0 ) ; "
1 HOe a r t "
TO 9 0 8 5 L E T s c a = 4 0 1 L E T x = 1 : L E T l on
1 5 0 S TE P S i BE E P . 0 1 , a 1 N E X T a 777 3 6 I F h ( a ) < 1 2 0 0 0 AND h ( a ) > 9 0 0 7t RE TURN
7610
0 I F s c < = 4 , ( 1 0 ) T H E N S O TO 7 7 06 THE N P R I N T FM m I l l ( h ( a ) , 3 0 0 0 ) ; " 9 0 9 0 P RI NT ) 1 ; " O r i o n s p a c e s t a t i o
; 8
I 0
N
 1
1

.11
n s - 4 5 0 p l u s b r p " 8 L E T me=CHR$ 1 6 = 1 0 1 RE TURN
-0-CHRS 5 + " 9 1 4 5 L E T bpr =1 0 0 m L E T x = 1 0 8 L E T
9 2 1 0 P RI NT ) 1 ; " W a r n i n g s n o c o r r a l
v =5 : RE TURN a t i o n b e t w e e n " : P AUS E Os I N P U T
"s L E T gS =CHR$ 1 5 +CHRS 7 + " 9150 P RI NT ) 1 1 " B l a c k h o l e - m a t t e r "e P R I N T ) 1 1 " r a d a r a n d v i s u a l i n
5 b r p " : L E T 80=CHRAP 1 7 + CHR$ p u t . " , P AUS E Os I N P U T
9 2 1 3 GO TO 9 2 9 0
9095 LE T s c a =5 0 8 L E T x=11 L E T y = "8 L E T ge = CHR$ 1 5 + C 9 2 2 3 P RI NT ) 1 ; " D r a g o n s t a r fi g h t e
Os RE TURN HRS 1 + "
r e - 2 0 0 b r p " s L E T a S =CHR$ 1 5 +CHRS
9 1 0 0 GO S UB 8 0 0 0 t P R I N T ) 1 ; " O r i o 4 +"
n p r o b e s - 4 0 b r p " . L E T as8=CHRS 1 6 9155 LE T s c a =5 : L E T x=108 L E T y = "s L E T gS =CHRS 1 5 + CHR$ 1 + "
+CHRS 4 + " Os RE TURN l•

"s L E T g 9160 P RI NT 1 1 ; " O r t o n d e t e c t o r p r 9225 LE T s c a =2 0 0 1 L E T x =1 0 8 L E T

$=CHRS 1 5 +CHRS 5 + " o b e - 2 0 0 b p r " 8 L E T a S =CHR$ 1 5 + CHR y=51 RE TURN
$ 2+" " 8 L E T gS = C 9230 P RI NT ) 1 ; " O r i o n p r o b e s - 1 0 b
SS HMS 1 5 +CHRS 5 + "
r p"s L E T a S =CHR$ 1 5 +CHRS 5 + "
9105 LE T s c a =4 0 8 L E T s t l s L E T y = 9165 LE T sca=251 L E T x=5s LE T y - "I L E T g$ =CHRS
Os RE TURN 10: R E TU R N 15+CHR$ 7 + "
9 1 1 0 P R I N T ) 1 1 " O r i o n " " B a t fi g h t e 9170 PRI NT ) I ; " M k 2 Orion Vipers 9235 LE T x =1 1 L E T y = 5 * L E T s c a = 2
r s " " - 6 0 0 b r p " s L E T a $ = CHR$ 1 5 + C - 2 0 0 b p r " s L E T a e = CHRS 1 5 +CHR$ 6 . 5 : RE TURN
HR$ 6 + " 9240 P RI NT ) 1 ; " O r i o n v i p e r s i n d
"s L E T g$ = CHRS 1 "s L E T gS =CHRS 1 5 + CHR$ 5 + . e f e n s i v e " s P AUS E Os I N P U T " " 8 P R
5+CHRS 5 + • I NT ) 1 ; " 4 o r m a t i o n - " 1 P AUS E Os I N
”
PUT " " : P R I N T ) 1 1 " M k 1 O r i o n V i p
9115 LE T • c a =2 0 0 1 L E T x = 1 . L E T y 9175 LE T s c a =2 0 0 8 L E T x =1 8 L E T y e r e - 1 0 0 b p r " 8 L E T c r fl t L E T x = 1
=51 RE TURN =7 I RE TURN
LET y . . 5
9120 P RI NT ) 1 1 " B 1 a c k h o l e - m a t t e r 9180 P RI NT ) 1 ; " F o r c e F i e l d - 1 0 0 b p 9 2 4 5 L E T s c a = 1 0 0 8 1 L E T ese=CHPS 1
5 b r p " i L E T a S =CHR$ 1 7 +CHRS 1 + " r per p a rt "' L E T a lP . CHRS 1 7 4 -CHRS 5+CHR$ 5 + "
34." "s L E T gS =CHRS 1 5 + CHR$ 5 + "
"I L E T gS=CHRI S "t L E T gS =CHRS 1 5 +CHRS 1 + " "s RE TURN
16+CHRS 9250 P RI NT ) 1 s " C r u i s e r s w i t h c l o
a k i n g d e v i c • s ! " t P AUS E 5 0 s I N P U T
9 1 2 5 L E T s c a = 5 s L E T m=108 L E T y • . 9185 LE T c r f = 1 8 L E T x =1 5 s L E T y = ""s P R I N T ) 1 ; " I n v i s i b l e c r u i s e r
Os RE TURN 0: L E T s c a = 1 0 0 : RE TURN s - v a r i a b l e b r p " : L E T a$=CHI RS 1 5 +
9 1 3 0 P R I N T ) 1 1 " U n i d e n t i fi e d S t a r 9190 P RI NT ) 1 ; " 0 r i o n p r o b e s - 2 0 0 b CURS 0 + " a a a a a a a a a a
c r e a t u r e " : P AUS E 2 0 0 8 I N P U T " " : pr "8 L E T a S =CHRS 1 5 +CHRS 6 + " a " ; L E T gS =CHRS 1 5 +CHRS 5 + "
PRI NT ) 1 1 " S t a r c r e a t u r e - 1 0 0 0 b r p "
8 L E T a S =CHR$ 1 6 +CHRS 4 + " LET gS =CHRS 1 6 +CHRS 9255 LE T s c a =4 0 0 1 L E T x =1 8 L E T y
11 . 5 +" - 3 1 RE TURN
LET g$ - . CHR$ 1 7 +CHRS 3 + " 9260 P RI NT ) 1 1 " B l a c k h o l e - m a t t e r
9195 L E T s c a . 2 0 0 : L E T x =13m L E T 5 b p r " 1 L E T asS-CURS 1 7 +CHR$ 1 + "
y =0 : RE J URN
9135 LE T s c a =5 0 0 8 L E T x =5 1 L E T y 9 2 0 0 (5 0 S U B B O (iO : P R I N T ) 1 : " O r i o ". L E T g$ =CHRS 1
=Os RE TURN n r e s e a r c h l a b - 5 0 0 b p r " : LE T aS=C 6+CHRS 1 + "
9140 P RI NT ) 1 ; " A s t e r o i d s - 1 0 0 b p r HR$ 1 6 +CHRS 6 + "
or m o r e " : L E T a s - C U R S 151-CHRS 6 LET gS =CHRS 1 5 +CHRS 5 + " 9 2 6 5 L E T l i c a • 5 1 L E T s1. 11 L E T y = 0
8 RE TURN
": L E T gI S=CHRS 2 1 + CHR$ 0 + " 9205 LE T sca=501 L E T x =1 0 8 L E T y 9270 P RI NT ) 1 1 " 8 1 a c k h o l e - m a t t e r
 5 bpr " s L E T aS * CHRS 17+CHRS 14. "

"1 L E
I gS * CHRS 1 6 + CHRS 1 + "

9275 LE T s c a * 5 1 L E T * * 1 1 L E T y * 0
I RE TURN
9280 I F R N D > . 7 THE N L E T l v 1 * 1 0 1
-11 G O T O 9 2 7 0
9 2 8 3 P R I N T fl p " O r i o n C r u i s e r s i n
Am bus h-8 0 0 P r o " : L E T a S * CHRS 1 6
+CHRS
"e L E
T gS * CHRS 1 6 +CHRS 2 + '

"I L E T o r f * 1
9285 LE T x * 1 7 1 L E T v ol m L E T s c a *
1001 R E T U R N
9290 P R I N T ) I ; " O r i o n C r u i s e r s - 6 0
0 b r p " : L E T a l s * CHRS 1 6 +CHRS 5 + "

m
1 6 +CHRS 2 +t "
0
L 1

I L E T c r i * 1E 1

9 2 9 5 L E T o cTl e L E T y * I s L E T s c a * 1
00; RE TURN g
9 3 0 0 I F I v I ** 3 1 T H E N G O S U B 8 0 0 0
9340 I F R N D > . 2 THE N G O TO 9 1 0 0 +
*
10* I NT ( R N D * 4 )
C
9 3 5 1 P R I N T H) 1 : " A s t e r o i d s - 2 0 b p r "
mL E T 1 0 * C HRR S 1 6 + C H R I S 6 + "
"i L E T N * 1
S
71 L E T y * I s L E T s c a * 2 0
9353 LE T aS * CHRS 16+CHRS 3 : FO R by Chris Gresty
a*1 T O 2 9 1 L E T a l * a $ + " " ( Chris G rest y' s Meg a- B ert l s a cunning conversion of the arcad e fa-
I NT ( R N D * 5 ) + 1 ) s N E X T a t R E T U R N Bert Into Basic — and It's Vasily equal to its mach in e code equiva-
9360 P RI NT ) 1 1 " O r i o n hom e S t a r s y lents. Yo u (or Bert!) can pirouet t e over the pyramids, slip-along-a-
stem e n t e r e d " t P A U S E O s I N P U T " "
Sly Simon or mix it with Mash er the Marb le — Mash er by name,
t PRINT ) I ; " O r i o n S a t t e 1 i t e s - 1 0 0
br p": L E T aS * CHRS 1 6 +CHRS 2 + "
Mash er by nature.
"i This w ell- st ru ct u red program has plenty of REM st at em en t s so it
LE T 9 S * C H R S 1 6 + C H R S 2 + " w on' t be hard to change things around to suit your own t ast es.
": L E T • l e FO R f . U S R " a " T O US R N V I F I V I V I V 1 r-
ca*100t L E T x * 1 0 8 L E T y * 5 1 RE TUR 2 0 P E RO a P O K E f . a N E X T f 2 6 0 R E S TO R E 9 5 0 0
25 GO 51/5 4 0 0 0 2 7 0 P AP E R 1 - F O R f . 1 T O 4 9 P E A
9370 P RI NT ) 1 C a n i s t e r s l a u n c h , 3 0 P AP E R 0 - e l oRoe R 0 : I N K 0 5 0 u , v . P RI NT AT Lf,
d"I L E T a S * CHRS 1 7 + CHRS 2 + " R I G, H T 1 C L 5 3 0 0 INK 7
"1 L E - f3 P,4 LG OO TTO 5 010 , 3 0 . 0 DRAW 1 , - 1 DRAW 0 , - 3 7 DRAW -
T gS * CHRS 1 6 +CHRS 2 + " D '0 - 5 RR-E M A N WE X T 2 5 f 3 1 , - 1 ., O R P W - 2 5 3 , 0 D R A W - 1 , 1 , D R
DRAu G AM E S C R E E N f f . ( AU 0 , 3 7
d•

320 P RI NT A T 1 6 , 1 ,
9 3 7 5 P AUS E O t I N P U T " " t P R I N T 1 1 1 3 8 P AP E R p l I N K 0 - 0, 1LE V E L»)", AT 1 6 , 1 5 ,
2
1 "Atom i c M i s s i l e L a u n c h e r - 3 2 0 0 b 4 0 PRI NT AT 1 , 1 9 ; " r 1 " »-S) C . O R E )
pr "s L E T o r f * l t L E T x * I 1 L E T y * 0 i - 4
,
L 9i 0v R
e Es M
, 5 0 PRI NT AT 3 , 1 0 ; " F 1
I RE TURN G e PRI NT AT 5 , 5 , ; )A ))/ UARI ABLE S ff,
-
9- 3 8 0 P R I N T ) 1 1 " O r i o n M k 1 V i s m e r i l . 7 0 PRI NT AT 7 , 6 ; " , T-
2.4 A
-P1 0 0 b o r n s L E T a S * C H R S 1 6 + C H R S 2 l ' 9 9T R E T U R N
0 00 LE T p 1 . 5 L E T p 2 . 7 L E T p 3 .
r 1 ' , 6 0 P R I N T A T 9 , 4 ; " r 5
" I L E T g S * C H R S 1 6 + C H R S 5 5, L E T p4 . 0 . REM
- . P AP E R CO LO
90 P R I N T A T 1 1 , 2 ; " r UPS
1
"I L E T x * 1 0 t L E T y * 2 i L E 501 LE T x . 1 3 L E T y . 1 3 R E M
I s c a * 1 0 0 1 RE TURN 4
100 P RI NT ' l r , X +BE P T's c o
9390 P RI NT ) 1 1 " S u c c e s s ,
1 -502 LE T d . 1
1 TO 7 S TE P . 5 : B E E P . 1 , a t B E E P -
0 l l e I N K- 3 o5r1d0 sL E T s = 0 L E T s x . 1 L E T s y . 1
". ,1 , a F O R C
115 P R I N T , A T 1 , 1 3 ; " - 3 R E M , 5NRve t o
a- Os I N * P U T " " : G O S UB 8 0 0 0 ; L E T I H
120 P RI NT A T 2 , 1 2 ; " k 4 - - 520 LE T b . l . L E T b x . 1 3 L E T b y .
v
21 1 . 1 1 G O T O 9 0 0 0 A
130 P RI NT R T 1 , 1 1 , " 1 r " o rR dE eML . B A L L C o - o r d s
1
9
B 8 0 0 G O S U B 9 0 0 0 s R E T U R N 140 P R I N T A T 4 , 1 0 , k A L A " N5 4 0 L E T 3 -c m 0 R E M , 5 C 0 R E
9O9 0 3 D A T A 2 4 , 6 0 , 1 8 9 , 1 8 9 , 2 5 5 , 1 8 9 , 150 P R I N T A T 5 . 9 , . G5 5 0 L E T 1 . 3 R E M . L I V E S <
R126,126 160
1 P RINT AT 6 , 0 , E5 6 0 L E T 1 e v . 1 R E M ) L E V E L
9D9 0 5 D A T A 8 , 1 6 , 8 , 1 6 , 8 , 1 6 , 8 , 1 6 , 2 4 1 T5 7 0 L E T P . 1 R E M , F L Y I N G S AUCE
-1 7 r0 1P Rr I N T A T 7 , 7 ;
,E 0 , 0 , 2 4 , 0 , 2 4 , 2 4 , 0 , 3 6 , 6 0 , 6 0 , 2 4 , 2 4 -1
- 6 4 1 , 4 k O CO -O r d
R
,24,24,0 A
R 1 8 0fl P ROI N oT Ar Tl 6i , 6r , 1 1 / A 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 k 5) 9 9 R e m
9 - . ) , M A I N LO O P c c
a910 DATA 2 4 , 2 4 , 0 , 2 4 , 0 , 0 , 2 4 , 0 , 1 6 -
,s 2 , 6 4 , 1 6 , 1 3 6 , 0 , 1 7 , 6 4 190 P RI NT A T 9 , 5 , "
9
N9 2 0 D A T A 0 , 2 4 , 6 0 , 1 2 6 , 1 5 3 , 1 2 9 , 6 6 1 - SOD G O 5 U 5 3 5
126,66,195,66,195,66,126 501 P RI NT A T 2 0 . 2 5 . P AP E R p 2 . I
E 200 P RI NT AT 1 0 , 4 l l s s l i k A L A
9925 DATA 0 , 2 3 1 , 2 1 9 , 9 0 , 9 0 , 1 0 2 , 6 0 b, A" 0 Nh 3, 16 4
X
,24 210 P RI NT A T 1 1 , 3 , " 1 V 1 1 " 1 " - AT 2 1 , 2 5 , P A P E R 0 , I N K 3 ,
T
9930 DATA 0 , 2 8 , 3 4 , 2 0 , 3 4 , 7 3 , 1 5 4 , 1 . 1 r . A
AT - T2 1 . 2 6 P A P E R 1 . " 1
a0 0 , 0 , 1 1 2 , 1 3 8 , 1 5 1 , 1 0 1 , 7 , 9 6 , 8 , 6 0 , 6
220 P RI NT AT 1 2 , 2 ; 1 1 , 4 1 " 4 1 " 4 1 5
1 095 r.P R-2 I .U T A T 1 1 . 2 6 , I N K 4 , P A R E
l6 , 1 2 9 , 6 6 , 1 4 8 , 1 3 0 , 1 0 0 , 2 4
16.4kAL P 0. , " ,
5
B9940 DATA 0 , 2 , 1 , 1 , 1 5 , 1 , 1 , 2 230 P RI NT A T 1 3 , 1 i -I 5 1 0 NP R I N T A T y , . - 1 , P A P E R p 2 , I
O9950 DATA 0 , 1 2 6 , 3 6 , 1 8 9 , 2 5 5 , 2 5 5 , 1 1 r 1 r I r
- I fl i r l F UK. 8, -ror. AT
1
K1 1 ) "
R53,24,0,60,66,129,129,129,66,60 240 P RINT AT 1 4 , 0 ; 6 2T0 L
;A
0 , ET b. 1 G O 5o5 1000 RE M'
D0,21,21.191,254,250,72,64
1 1 -6 4 k A k A k BALL RouT/NE
"1 2 ,
E9955 DATA 0 , 1 6 8 , 1 6 8 , 2 5 3 , 1 2 7 , 9 5 , 2 250 P AP E R 0 ; P R I N T A T 1 5 , 0 , 853 0. G O S U E 1 5 0 0 R E M ) 5 N R K E R O U
& 4 1 L 4 L 4 2
V
R0,2 - "1 1 1
1 r
-: - .
1
"
 TI NE <

6 4 0 I F L e v ( 5 THE N FO R n z l TO 2 0
. NEXT n TO 2 0 : B E E P . 0 1 , 1 B E E P .01,-".
NEXT I
8 5 0 I F I N K E Y S ( ) " " T H E N L E T 4 1 1 (. 1 3030 LE T x z 1 3 . L E T y = 1 3
NKE Y . : P R I N T A T I N K a; PA 3040 LE T s x = 1 : L E T s y = 1 3
PER 6 1
31 0 5 0 L E T b . l . L E T b x . 1 3 . L E T b y =
;1F AND ( 8 1 1 =
-N( 2 RA N D ( a-s = " q 3050 LE T p = 1
-Ty =Oy 4 R ( 2 A NPD ( 4 e . . 3065 LE T d= 1
12
y - 1(A N
4 1 D1 (=a 4 -1 = O R 3066 LE T t t v z k e 1 + 1
-- 8L5 5 I F x . 42 7 $ A N =D y = 1 1 AND pz 1 TM 3067 I F k e v = 5 THE N LE T s c =s C+5 0 0
EN P
4
1 - "G
, )oxO) S URB "2 0 L0 0 ": R) E M ) » F L Y I N G 3070 GO TO 8 0 0
SAUCER ( t (
-:- • 1 6O. . R ) 3 5 0 0 RE M
4
"5- 5ka0 I=F
L E "x ) qy + 1 2 O R y . ( 1 4 - x O R y ) 1 3
"TTHE
4 4 ) "N) »F O-R ( = 0 0 T O 5 3 S T E P - . 2 ; l a
E•E p . 0 0 5 , 1 N E X T f : G O S U B 2 5 1 0 : ) ) ) FI NI S HE D ( 4 4
REM ) » D E A T H « (
:
6 8 0 I F x l i fi x A N D % l ogy A N D L e V ) 6 5 3510 I NK 2 : P A P E R 0
LTHE N 0 0 S UB 2 5 0 8 3511
E P R I•N T A T 5 , 4 ; - . . . .
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TRy ,( x ) . 3513 P RI NT AT 7 , 4
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TO 3 0 0 0
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4 3; 283 P R I m N T P eT 1 3 , 4 ; . . . M .
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2F5; 1- 0 I F ONR K f m l T O 1 0 , BO RDE R 2 3524 P RI NT AT 1 4 , 4 ;
1R0 2 5 P R I N T A T b y x • 0-
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1w0, 3-103 Ix F; 4 ( . 5 T H E N L E T b x . b x - 2
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2( 5 2F0 L E T t • t . - 1 : I F 1 = 0 T H E N G O T U •
;I, 0A4 0N
1 M I FK 4 ) . 5 T H E N _ LE T b x = b x 4 2
0 3O 500 3• 6 0 0 F O R 1 z 1 T O 1 0 0 B E E P . 0 1 , 6 9
1
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. 5 2R5 P R I N T A T y , x - 1 . I N K 8 ; RAPE
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1 = 1 3 : AL E T b . O . R E T U R N 1 3501 GO TO 2 5
R eE , - , 111-;AT A -
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0 8 T f 4 0 0 0 RE M
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2-/N 540 LE T s x z l - L E T 1 y z 1 3 4 0 0 5 F O R ( . 1 L TEO 1 0 0 •P A P E R 0 P L
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1, 5 0b1 I F L e v i s T H E N R E T U R N 21E 5 5 e0 L E T b m l ! L E T 6 z z l 3 LE T b y . CT I N K I N T ( R( N ( 0434. 5), RND4255, AND
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1520 P RI NT A T S y . S X . P AP E R 8 . I N ”;«f PREA P E R 0 ; - ( 1 1 h " . A T 1 2 , 2 6 ; " 1 1 L I
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0 TO 1 5 6 8 Rb p 2 ; " I F 1 f;
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), . 5 ) - ( 2 1 . 1 , x
304 2 0 FO R f . - 2 0 TO 2 0 : B E E P . 0 1 . , 4 0 E 1 I F I N K E Y O = !O H R 6 1 3 T H E N R E T U
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15 5 5 5 I F S y 4 ( . 1 3 A N D s y 4 ) . 1 A N D S ET n
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LE
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4560 P R I N T A T $Y AI X
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M 4090 PRI NT AT ( , 3 0 + n - ( ; - ,
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4 111 I F / NKE Y S =CHR$ 1 3 THE N RE TU
; aI N K 0 ; P A P E R 0 ; RN
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4120 P RI NT AT f
21-0 0 8 2 P ,R I N2T A6 T 1 ; 1 , 2 6 ; O V E R 1. -/ :718 1
" . AT 1 2 ; 2 6 ; " MI LV - , 3 0
4, 1 3 0 N E X T f : N E X T n
1 + n - f ; " 1 1
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T f , 1 6 . . f O V E R 1 , - . - ; A T 1, 4. 1, 15. te 44
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0 4f 1 5 1 N E X T f : N E X T n
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1 - 1 , " • % AT f . 1 , 1 8 4 . f "
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EP=, 5.
:4 f ;B E E P P4R I N T A T f , 3 1 4 n - f ; P A P E R 1 .
0 0162 0 L E T x = 1 3 : L E T y = 1
2
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1P R I N T A T 1 , 0 ; P A P E R 8 ; O V E R 1 ;
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4215 I F I NKE Y S =CHRS 1 3 THE N RE TU
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4220 NE X T ff N E X T n
4230 P RI NT AT 5 , 0 ; I N K 7 ; P AP E R
0 , "CO NTRO LS . . . "
4240 P RI NT I N K 5 ; P AP E R 0 , i -

4 3 0 0 R E S TO R E 9 8 0 0 ; F O R 1 ' 4 1 T O 1 3
. RE AD a , b : BE E P a / 4 , b 4 1 4 : I F I N
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4500 FO R 1 . 1 TO 1 0 0 I F I N K E Y S . 0
MR S 1 3 T H E N R E T U R N
4501 NE X T f
4510 FO P f . 7 TO 1 9 S TE P 2 P R I N T
AT f , 3 8 - f ; I N K 2 ; P A P E R 8 ;
T- f + 1 , 3 8 - f ;
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P 5 1 5 I .F f . 1 9 T H E N G O T O 4 5 2 1 D. TURNI NG L E F T A N D R I G H T . . . 9030 DATA 1 , 3 , 7 , 1 5 , 3 1 , 5 3 , 1 2 7 , 2 5 5
4
0 5 2 01 P R , I NT AT 1 , 3 8 - 1 ; I N K 3 , P AP THE 5 N A K E , 5 L Y 5 I M O N , M 0 9040 DATA 0 , 0 , 0 . 0 , 2 4 , 1 2 5 , 2 0 1 , 2 1 9
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E 5, 722 , 1 0 6
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9
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4
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30 , 7 , 2 4 , 3 2 , 5 4 , 5 4 . 1 2 8 , 1 3
f BO UNCI NG B A N A N A I D E A . . . C . G R E S T Y
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B (; + 1 , 3 5 - f ; " 0 4 D A0 T,A2 242 8 0 1 • 2 , 2 4 4 • 2 4 , 2 2 4 , 0
T P RO G RAM M E R. . . C. G RE S TY 0
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0200 DATA 2 0 0 5 0 , 1 3 9 ; 2 5 8 0 1 4 3 , 5 2 , 3
1 E RAP HI C5 . . . C. G RE S TY R E J E C T E D
,k n . 2 - T 1O 2 0 . I F I N K E Y S . C H A S 1 3 T M 5,108
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45 5E1 NEE X P 92 540 0 D A T A 3 0 1 3 0 4 0 1 3 0 5 0 1 1 0 8 0 1 5 0 0 0
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FE5 7 1 F O R f . 1 T O 1 0 . B O R D E R 2 : B E 97 5 3 0 D A T A 2
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readers were more screaming it would only mistakes.
Intelligent than other (Maybe you should be put take about two minutes to
beings. Why? 'Cos they read out to pasture! Ed) construct a false header BOOTY
YS, of course. And in and making the Basic
Apparently the Booty POKE
making that assumption i GHOSTBUSTERS merge proof is not really in issue 19 doesn't work
gave you rather short This isn't so much of a hack any protection. Chris's
instructions for the Fairlight properly — well, that's what
but more of an undis- program does at least make David Burns says anyway.
program. So for all those covered feature. When things easier. Help is here in the form of
who're still having problems you're asked which car you Chris Bell from Australia
here goes again. want select 0 and see what PYJAMARAMA
Type in and save the who sent in a working
happens. Philip Sym from Okay here they are at last, version:
appropriate program Scotland didn't actually let the correct POKES for
depending on whether 10 C L EAR 2 6 0 0 0 :L O AD
on what happens then or Pyjamaramal I knew I could CODE: L O AD " C O D E 2 6 8 8 0
you've got a Kempston RANDOM IZE U SR 2 6 0 8 0
which version of the game rely on you finding out what
joystick Option or not. Put he has but whatever it is, it
20 P O KE 5 8 2 7 4 , 0 :P AN D O M I
your fully rewound tape in was wrong. There are two -
has to be better than versions of this game — the USR 5 2 1 1 1 1 4 •
the cassette recorder, run .
playing the game. latter one has a demo •
the program and start the JASON'S GEM
tape. If you're using the mode, and plays a different
MANIC MINER tune so you need different I've never heard of this
second program (VS /) wind routines.
the tape past the piracy game before but I'm told it's
Here's a well-useful tip from
message. You won't get the Owen Dunn of Northants. For the first version you by Mastertronic. Ian
He's found a connection need to use the program Battock from Kent has
loading screen but never
fear Fairlight will eventually that was in issue 14. Yep, I sent in this little tip. Load
between POKES in the Bug know it crashes, but David
load with all the added Byte version of Manic Miner the game as normal and
features you left in the data Burns from Midlothian says then press the keys W. A
and Software Projects' that you'll also need to add and S a t the same time and
statements at the end of the version. Nearly all the
program. addresses for the POKEs POKE 48680,50 to the end you should hear a BEEP
of it. Then do RANDOMIZE and find you have infinite
Hope that helps M are six bytes higher in lives.
Weston from Devon, Chris Software P's version — it USR 63524. If you've got the
version with a demo T
Baker of Peterborough. therefore follows that if you
Majo r J Beard w ell from add or subtract six from the Saggo from Birmingham MONKEY BUSINESS
Somerset, M n i c k from POKEs for either version it has provided you with this
little proggypoo (Ugh! Ed): Now I've never heard of this
Nottingham (any relation to should work on the other either but Paul Whitby
F Tuck of Sherwood Forest?) one. Neat eh? Owen from Hull has, so i f you
10 F O R 1 =2 3 2 9 7 T O 2 3 3 7 6
and M Larkin from assures me that this works 20 READ A:poEE 10734mExr 1 have too here's a small
40 PR I N T ' P L A Y T A P E '
Canterbury who all had for nearly all the POKEs on 5 0 P R I N T A T 1 0 .1 0 1 :R AN D O M tip for infinite
problems. And while we're both versions. I'd like to 1 ZE L1SR 2 3 2
lives:
690 D AT A 1 7 5 . 5 5 , 2 2 1 0 3 , 9 6 ,
on the subject of Fairlight, if know just what 'nearly' 7' 3 4 . 1 7 . 1 7 , 0 . 2 0 5 . 0 6 . 5 . 4 8 . 2
4 2 Load the first part of the
you've got a Mirage means — maybe you'd 0 .
microdriver try this little bit better write and tell me.
.
'1 9T
program and when you get
of code: V4 .3 4721, 7. 22 4. 13 2. 48 9, 1. 0, 2, 03 ,13. 03 :21 36 76 ,, 19 73 6,
the message 'Program
9 .37 , 6 3 , 9 1 , 3 4 , 6 1 , 1 2 0 , 1 9 5 , 2
2
0 Loading' stop the tape and
POKE 65460, x (where x is GYROSCOPE 7
,, 1 .1 2 8 .3 3 , 7 2 , 9 1 .3 4 .2 2 9 .1 9 0 press Break. List line 2000
the room start you want.) . 129 5 . 3 6 , 2 4 0
Yup, as if last month's 3 74
6
and change 'LET G=0' to
You may have noticed, if .2 .
you had your trainspotter POKE's aren't enough, J 4,1 2 the number of lives you
Gavin from St Helens has 41IT4'I
1 92 .1701 DNUM AT A 6
BER O F L I V E S .
want then type 'GOTO 800'
glasses on, that last month provided: .1
715 5t X 6 5 0 . 1 7 5 , 5 0 , 1 8 . 1 9 8 . O
76 0 D AT A
the final POKE for 5 • 0 8 , 1 3 0 .0 :R EN O R U S E T H I S
,0
9 FOR 5 .1 I N F I N I T E L I V E S
and restart the tape.
POKE 59149,0
Nightshade didn't have a 7 0,0 1•
to jam a screwdriver in the 6 ,5 21. 07 1 o 1
number after it. Oops sorry! clock mechanism and stick BRUCE LEE
The complete POKE As155 you 2. can see there are
It at 59 seconds. two 3.6 0
line 170's — one is for x Here's a megahack for
should've read: 02 5
POKE 52900,0:POKE 8 Wynd wants to know number
:2 , of lives and the Bruce Lee sent in by Lady
52901,0: POKE 52902,0 how to get to look at the other
R 1 8 is for plain ol' infinite Penelope (no not of Thun-
code of certain protection E
lives. . 6
The program doesn't derbirds fame but Pene-
I'm gonna have to get haveM 3,
a chesksum so I
systems. Well obviously I lope D ' g a u l l e
used to all this grovelling. can't tell you exactly what
R 35
Haken Strom from suggest
E . . you save it before from
- Herne Bay, Kent actu-
to do. But you'll need to you 2 4 run it — you wouldn't ally)
B e n n e t give
that'll you infinite
P
Sweden says we messed up L0 0 t
use Chris Pile's program want to type it all in again lives. It operates in the
his Jumping Jack POKEs — from the last issue to A 3,
sorry Haken! The POKEs would
C you? And talking of same way as my Alien 8
should be: demerge the Basic so you checksums
E I'd like to make program — well, they do say
can at least look at the a little
X request (The Sound imitation is the sincerest
POKE 26034,0 code, though with most of Of Music? Ed). Please form of flattery.
54
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11! 5 REM B R A M HACK I

NFI NI TE LI V E S
10 LE T t e t • O s FO R r 1 5 0 0
00 TO 5 0 0 0 4 s RE AD a s L E T
t e t • t o t + a s POKE nos s NE X T

20 I F t o t < > 1 0 3 7 6 THE N

PRINT AT 10, 101"E RRO R I N
DATA". S TO P
30 P RI NT AT 1 0 , 1 0 s " I N 8 E
RT T A P E ' , S TO P s RANDO MI Z
IRODRIVINI
Moping over your microdrive? Cheer up! A l l your problems are
E UOR 5 0 0 0 0
100 DATA 6 2 , 2 5 5 , 5 5 , 1 7 , 1 4 solved with Andy PenneWs merry Microdrivin' column.
1,5.221,33
101 DATA 2 0 1 . 9 2 , 2 0 5 . 0 6 , 5 Hello you microdrivin' out there who uses one in
600,241,33 command.
102 DATA 8 6 , 1 7 6 , 3 4 , 2 3 3 , 9 maniacs, I'm back again. To conjunction with the
start with I'd like to thank all Interface 1. 10 REM A u t o LOAD •"110111
6,50,202,96 i na e r t b y D. A. H
103 DATA 2 3 0 , 1 9 4 , 5 0 , 2 0 2 , of you who are still writing in Tim Parsons, Harlington . 1 5 CLEAR 651991 L E T O l e
96,33,147,195
104 DATA 1 7 , 2 9 . 2 3 0 0 , 3 2 , claiming you have a new /ckaumw0
20 FOR a • 6 5 2 0 0 TO 6 5 3 1 7
0,237.176 Interface 1 ROM thanks to •••••• Ummm, errr, oops. Sorry,
30 READ b
105 DATA 2 4 3 , 2 3 7 , 9 4 , 3 3 , 4 my numerous cock-ups. But •••• t o be totally frank I don't 1 4 0 LE T checksum w chockau
1,236,229,235 know. Sinclair doesn't 1
106 DATA 3 3 , 1 3 7 . 9 7 , 2 2 9 please no more letters about 1
1 ', 5 1 , 1 , 2 4 2 the new ROMs. And now actually say you should 1
0 6 0 POKE a . b s NE X T a
107 DATA 1 . 3 3 , 2 5 3 , 9 4 , 6 2 , we've sorted that Out on with demagnetise and clean it but !4 7 0 I F c he c k s ue <>1 1 0 2 2 T
50 , 2 3 7 , 7 9 'HEN P R I N T F L A S H 11"ERRO
20
your microdrive moans. then that doesn't actually bOt•s STO P
LOB DATA 1 5 mean a lot. If you're having ' 0 0 POKE 2 3 7 3 5 , 1 7 6 s POKE
75 1, 5 0 , 0 0 , 2 0 2 23736,254
109 DATA 6 2 , 9 6 , 5 0 . 8 1 , 2 0 2 I would like to get a problems have a go at 90 P RI NT "Now t o t e s t e
. 652,. 2
1 0317, 5. 09 7 cleaning the heads but if
. 6 2DATA
110 , 1 200.21E1095,0,2 •••• w h o le catalogue of a , n t e r LE T command G A V E
26 microdrive cartridge in a everything is working leave v ""CO DE 6 5 2 0 0 , 2 0 0 '

string. I know there is a very well along! If anyone out 100 DATA 2 1 5 , 2 4 , 0 , 2 5 4 , 2 4
1,40,7,0,0,0,0095,240,1,
After you type it in RUN it, complicated method where there does have a Tandy four 215,32,0,205,101.5,215.20
and if you get an error mes you make a file, write it to colour printer and would like 0,254,201,1,102,92,62,0.2
sage check your data. I f you microdrive then read it to get in touch with Tim drop 00,17,10,0,33,200,7,50,
him a line cto VS. 11,92,111,205,101,3,42,17
get 'Insert tape a n d 'Stop', back. But is there an easier 0,92.54,62,43,24903,43,3
remove the Stop statement and faster way?
in line 30 and then Save the PWPA van Dyke, Holland I've got a cartridge with t .205.129,15,62,42,205,129
•••• a CAT of 114K, is this 05,62,34,205,129,15,62,1
program (you wouldn't wan 4
to type it in twice would As you point out, one normal? I'm afraid my ,2 9 . 1 5 , 6 2 , 5 9 , 2 0 5 , 1 2 9 , 1 5 , 6 2
you?) When you've done • • way of doing it is to open Speccy might be sick. 609.205,129.15.62.19,205,
a write file of some form such Dave Lamb, Warley 11A0299, 2, 10 5 , 61 2 ,91. 4
15, 2, 6
021 , 31 42 ,92, 01 15,, 16
that put your Bruce Lee j, 2 , 3 4 , 2 0 5 , 1 2 9 , 1 5 , 6 2 , 0 , 2 0 5 ,
tape in, play i t a nd enter as, OPEN #4; "M"; 1; 'dir", 414605.195.172.10
'GOTO 3 0 : Penelope warns then CAT #4,1: CLOSE #4, Well, cartridge capacity 9
that she thinks there are a then open it and read the . " depends on two things. 2 Before entering the
few different versions of the files. Although it works, it's First, the length of the tape program
. you must've paged
inside the case determines the2 Interface 1 at least once
game and so it may not very slow. An easier way is to
CAT directly into a string. the maximum number of to 0 create the system
work with all of them. Let variables: Once the code is
And it just so happens there's sectors. The software can 5
me know l i l t doesn't and saved on microdrive the
a routine to do this in a handle 256 sectors or 128K. ,
better still send in any paging will have already
alternative POKE& certain microdrive book, Secondly, the quality of the 1
tape is very important. The been
7 done.
Mastering Your ZX
more faulty sections of the 6 To modify these
THREE WEEKS IN Microdrive, by yours truly and
published by Sunshine tape that fail the Format test commands
, do the following:
PARADISE Books. the more the capacity is to 2 SAVE, POKE 65261,248,

Wow rm even getting hacks reduced, I must admit 114 is to 2 MERGE. POKE 65261,213

for brand new games. so rather a lot and it's possible and, to ERASE POKE
•.:.. I bought an interface 1
keep it up' This tip's from that the tape has stretched. If 65261,210.
6 For ERASE
•••• i n Scotland but a power POKE
2 65265 to 65269 with O.
P a ul Co a s t of London. surge caused it to crash. that's the case it won't be
Wait until Wally has been reliable once in regular use, Once
, the code has been
Can you tell me where I can 2
saved to microdrive CLEAR
killed for the first time and get it repaired? I live in 3
than press Symbol Shift, D Both my Interface 1 and 65199, LOAD •
Ireland by the way. 9
"name" CODE and POKE
and P simultaneously Kieran Bell, Dublin microdrive were faulty
while Wally Is sitting on the so I returned them to 23735,176: POKE 23736,254.
floor. You'll then get a Two companies that Sinclair. I received Now simply enter LET (K
fanfare and Infinite lives are •••• advertise Interlace 1 replacements within ten mode — L and ENTER) and
set up. repairs are TV Services of days and I'd just like to say the line appears ready for
Well, that's it for now, I Cambridge on (0223) 31171 how pleased I am with its the file name to be entered.
must say the POKEs have and PEAK Electronics on after sales service. David Hawkins, Plymouth
been a bit light on the (0429) 72739. I can't Malcolm Astie, Derby
personally recommend either ...., Thanks David. It's great
ground this month but %-- t o get a few tips from the
as I've never had anything I'm amazed. Well, I must
hope you're all gonna get readers. I mean I can't know
down to some concerted repaired, so I suggest you •
a▪ satisfied customer for a everything.
hacking from now on. give them a ring. There And finally I'm going to
shouldn't be a problem 'cos change.
• Sinclair's after sales make this column even more
Send your megahacks you live in Ireland. service has definitely
•
improved over the last couple appealing, I know it's nearly
to Chris Wood, Hacking impossible but I'm gonna try.
Away, Your Sinclair, 14 s years.
of
In a bit of a quandary. I shall be including
Rathbone Place, •••• A m I supposed to clean a
London W1P 1DE. information about the other
and demagnetise my •y H e r e ' s a program to mass-storage devices for the
Put pen to paper and microdrive heads in the ••••
i simplify the use of ZX Spectrum. I'll start off with the
write to Andrew same way as our now microdrive commands. The
t Wafadrive and Opus
Pennell, Microdrivin', redundant tape recorders? code'll produce a pre-
Your Sinclair, 14 ' Discovery disk drive but I'll
I've got a Tandy four colour formed line LOAD *"m";1;" need your help too, so keep
Rathbone Place, s
London W1P printer and would like to get (LCURSOR)" in the editing those letters coming. See you
in touch with anyone else n by entering the LET
area next month.
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 Never having to buy your
ove the classroom so he can fall into the reserved for someone special — oh,
own candlelit dinner for arms of his cheer-leading girlfriend who okay, you can take your Mum if you
waits by the school gates drooling at the must!
two 'cos you can win one thought of their ultimate sloppy wet kiss
with Your Sinclair. Stop throwing up into your frosties —
— Os that what they mean by breathless if you think that's slushy you haven't
prose? Ed) let's all say arrrrrrrr. heard what you've gotta do yet!_
Bit of a gooey subject this love thing, And that's no easy task — Mikie more The famous on-screen lovers below
ain't it? All those choccy boxes, often ends up in a ruck with the head are getting a bit bored with their usual
hearts'n'flowers, pet worms (Well, that's than in the arms of his beloved. But he partners and fancy a bit of
what gav e my first girlfriend. Ed). battles on, for true love runs deep wife-swapping. Who do you think would
Y'know the feeling — you can't get (Yeeerrracckkk!!!!) and 'cos his girlfriend have the most fun with who on a blind
your Readybrek down in the morning, can punch harder than he can. date. Just draw a love-line between the
your knees go weak at the mention of Imagine has come up with a few love- two love-sick characters and if your
your loved one's name and you go all ly prizes for all you love birds and all entry matches up with that of Imagine's
sloppy when your mum starts quizzing because Your Sinclair thought a own expert in love, programmer
you on your latest flame. Valentine's compo would be just up
This is exactly the problem that the Jonathan Smith you could be the lucky
your street. The lucky winner will winner.
star of Imagine's latest game, Mikie. has receive a slap up, romantic candlelit Imagine is so very caring that it's also
to go through. (Cue violins.) Schoolboy dinner for two at McDona..,er sorry... offering 30 copies of Mikie to the
hero, Mikie has fallen in love and he your nearest five star hotel (and if you runners-up. C000, we do like a good
now spends all his time avoiding his live in London that's the Ritz!). And the love story, especially if it's got a happy
irate teachers in his attempt to escape extra space at the table is obviously ending.
* * * *

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ol/()rolo-Name Address

P o s t c o d e
Ail entries must be on a perfumed cassette
and we can only return those with an sae.
Otherwi
Entriessemust
it's Love's
reach Labours
us b Lost!
Now cut Out the coupon — or a photocopy of it — and send it to m/kie compo, Your
YOUdidn't Mn. Only en y March 37st Sinclair, 14 Rathbone Place, London W1P ME. Sending Ed a valentine won't help you
1986 or you'll
may d up heartbroken 'cos win but it might improve your social life.

Employees of imagine and Sportscene * * * * * * 4

not enter this COMPetition. Sorry chaps! t
Nobody, but nobOdy argueS with the Ed. 57
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back to 10 for another input.
The C language SWITCH/
CASE command has an
action called 'Default' that it

HARTNELL processes on any input for

which it does not have a
specific reply. In SuperBasic
on the CIL 'Remainder' is the
equivalent of 'Default'. In our
second program, the +50 at
the end of the line acts as the
Tim Hartn eirs the Barbara Cartiand of computer books. He default/remainder, being the
must have written far more than anybody else! Now he's action the computer is told to
joined the YS t e a m to pass on some of his experience to you. undertake if the first two
conditions tested — (A-9)
He kicks off this month by playing Boole! and (A-6,5) — are false and
You don't have to just go for come across them. It's the therefore given a value of zero.
probe too deeply into how direct comparisons like the command that in the Now if you make any
turn of the century clergy- ones I've given above. Try language C is SWITCH/CASE startling discoveries while
men amused themselves things like PRINT (9-3-3) or and in OL SuperBasic is you're playing around with
I I late at night in the privacy PRINT ("a"—CHR$ 97) to see SELect ON. With these Boolean Variables, let me
tof their attics. But one such what happens. commands, you don't simply know. You can get in touch
Now, all that's fair enough. have to live with values 1. 2, 3 with me here at Your Sinclair,
sgentleman. working almost a 14 Rathbone Place, London
century before the first But how do we make practical and so on to trigger a GO TO
p use of it? In their infinite. or GO SUB. Instead, you can W1P 10E. Next month I'll be
computer worthy of the name
ewas built, single-handedly Metalabic wisdom, the lads choose any values you like, looking at random numbers in
rdevised the entire theory and who invented Spectrum Basic and they don't even have to depth but after that it's up to
hmethod that present-day decided that an ON G O be in order. You can see this you. If there's any subject you
TO or an ON . G O SUB in action with this brief haven't got the hang of yet, let
acomputers use to make statement was an me know and I'll do my best to
decisions. program:
p And this extraordinary unnecessary luxury. An ON throw light on the inner
IQ I N P U I A
sachievement isn't just of • G O TO line is of the type 2 0 GO TO 5 0 4 * I A 9 I 4 - 1 5 0 * ( workings — and chuck in a
uhistorical interest You can ON X GO TO 200.330, 490
which sends action to line 200
4.-6.5)+50
30 G I O P 4 few spanners as well!
nuse what our clergyman, the 50 P RI NT " I R V AO AI N's a
if X equals 1; to line 330 if X Tim Hartnell first discovered
wReverend George Boole, equals 2: and to 490 it X
0 TO 1 0
100 P RI NT ' 1 0 0 " o S TO P computers when he bought a
developed to compress parts
i of your Spectrum programs in equals 3. 200 P RI NT " 2 0 0 " t S TO P ZX80. He started the very first
ssome pretty flash ways. They With this program, the ZX Users' Club. and has
It's obvious you can get
round the lack of this written more books than he
ecan also make your programs computer goes to line 100 if cares to remember on the
t look nice and impenetrable so command on the Speccy with you enter 9 in line 10, and to Thlit. Spectrum and 01_
those who wouldn't know a a clumsy set of IF X-1 THEN line 200 if you enter —6.5_ Any He now spends part at each
oBoolean Variable if it kicked GO TO 200, IF X=2 THEN GO other value causes the year in his home country of
them in their booleans will TO 330 lines, but this won't Spectrum to go to line 50 Australia and the balance of
look at your complex wow anyone. Have a go at this where it prints out "TRY his time in the UK.
programs with open simple program:
admiration and mouths! 10 I NP UI A PLAYING BOOLE
Boolean Variables are 20 GO 1 0 9 9 0 ( 4 . 1 ) + 2 6 0 f t
Cw2/ Okay, so we can use Boolean Variables to clean up a whole mess
variables that can only hold a of IF/THEN/Go TO or IF/THEN GO SUB lines, But is that all'?
99 P RI NT " 9 9 " 1 S TO P
value of one or zero and that Course not. As you'll discover when you start experimenting with
260 P RI NT " 2 6 0 " ; S TO P
value tells you whether a the Spectrum's internal true/false Boolean Variables, many parts
statement is true or false. When you run this, enter of your program can be cleaned up. For example:
Sounds complex? Hang either 1 or 2. If you enter 1, the
10 I N P U T "DO Y O U W ANT I N S T R U C T I O N A S
around and all will become Spectrum will come to line 20,
clear. evaluate the (A-1) as 'true' 20 GO TO G 970* ((ASC1i .
and the (A-2) as 'false' and 3 0 . . . . r e0s t o f p r o g r a m . . .
TRUE OR FALSE? GO TO line 99. If you enter 2, "1" O R
Let's start by looking at how it'll do the opposite. But how 9 0 0 0 % t a r4 t $ o1f i1 n s/ t r" u c t i o n s . . . .
your Speccy knows whether does this 'true' or 'false' y " / /
Here, as with the+ above examples. you can cater for many more
something's true or false. decision send the computer to possible Inputs.
Believe it or not, it has its own the right line? It's simply
internal Boolean& Test it Out because, as I pointed out As well as GO TO and GO SUB you can use Boolean Variables to
by typing in a true statement. earlier, if you enter 1 when ensure, for example, that when one of your programs asks for the
Say you enter PRINT (8=8) you run the program. 'true' player's name, it can change your name into, say, 'Superstar' and
you'll see a 1 appear at the top equals 1 (so the first part of anybody else's name into something Insulting — I'm sure you
of the screen. PRINT line 20 becomes "GO TO can come up with something suitable!
To show you how flexible it can be, you could even use
("this"="this") will produce the 99.1") and 'false' equals 0 (so Boolean Variables to change the colours, and shapes, of playing
same result. the second part of the line pieces in a board game. And you can dolt with lust one line. as
This suggests that if a becomes "+ 2600") with the I
statement is true, the result that the Spectrum goes , 10 L E T a
Spectrum holds this to 99+260. The opposite
f ,
information as a "1". Try it with occurs, of course, if you enter 20 LE T . 1 . tCHR5 1 6 + CHRt a +
a few falsies such as, PRINT i -I NT
a 2 when you run the program.
(7-9) or PRINT n C( HRR * N( 7 9 * ( a w 1 / + E I G * ( a = 2 1 + 1 4 3 * ( a = 3 ) )
("this"="that"). This time MICRO MIMICRY e D * 3
you'll get a "0" printed on the You can even make use of the + 1 )
2 ZO P R I N T a i ;
screen. Now you can see that Boolean true/false condition 0 40 GO TO 1 0
the Spectrum holds the to imitate a command found
s1'When you run this, you'll see that the Spectrum's magic
condition "false" as a zero. on few Basic-using
hBooleans have produced a string of blue O's, red X's and
Try these true/false tests microcomputers — the OL
has it, and perhaps some omagenta solid blobs. How many lines would it have taken without
with various inputs, to see if it L
holds true in all conditions. others as well but I've not w111.
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 But the a lie n s aren't just going to sit
there and let you d e stro y th e m. Yo u 'll
need yo u r tru sty la se r and th a t's The Story So Far...
going to need re ch a rg in g e ve ry so
often fro m the p o we r points you'll find
scattered around. Fin e — yo u 're
happily blasting liza rd s and ma yb e
even taking p o t-sh o ts at robots,
(though they ma y be in vu ln e ra b le in
the fi n a l ve rsio n ,) a n d it's all getting
you a nice high sco re . Bu t u n le ss
yo u r lu ck's re a lly in it wo n 't find those
two cru cia l areas. An d th a t's wh e re a
bit o f stra te g y co me s in.
The fi rst thing that yo u 'll realise
about the liza rd s is that they don't They came from the skies and at First the Visitoto
talka da lingo. Th is me a n s that before seesied sociable enough. No-one minded having
you ca n use yo u r co mmu n ica t o r them as intergalactic neighbours. 'The Visitors
device, wh ich a p p e a rs at the b o tto m Are Our Friends was the motto as their huge
of the scre e n and is tapped d ire ctly ships docked in the shies above earth's major
into th e sh ip 's Co mmu n ip u t e r cities. They began to integrate with the humans,
working side by side on scientific projects.
(dontcha ju st lu rve that jargon?), Then came the revelation that beneath their
you'll need to use a bit of b ra in p o we r human appearance lay something much MOS
Once you g e t the hang of it though sinister. The Visitors had spoken with forked
you'll be able to use it for things like longues — they were lizards!
opening se cu rity d o o rs wh ich Than earth's population turned against them.
requires a bit of p a tte rn -ma tch in g And it wasn't just because a dinner appointment
meant eating live refs. The Visitors e w e cold-
brainteasing. blooded killers. Well, they would be — they were
Your tra ve ls will a lso bring yo u in t o reptiles. And when they said they wanted to
contact with se ve ra l la b o ra to rie s
siphon off ow water supply they weren't just
wh e re you ca n find p a rts of the taking the Foss!
fo rmu la for the d re a d e d Re d Dust. A s Using the superior science that all alien
well a s ma kin g a me ss of white enemies seem to possess, the scaly fiends
carpets, th is slo ws the a lie n s down — declared a state of martial law. But resistance
so me wh a t te rmin a lly! S o you ma y grew. Again and again the propaganda posters
were defaced with a chevron of red paint. V no
choose to co mp le te the fo rmu la and longer stood for Visitors — it meant Victory.
then fi n d the a ir purifi cation plant. The earth had many heroes, but none greater
V-Day will soon be here. Here you can tap into the sh ip 's U m Michael Donovan, who pitted himself
glorified ZX81 a n d get it to against the amphibian who'd boon the Visitors'
The day the reptiles arrive ma n u fa ctu re the d e a d ly p o wd e r and ambassador, Diane, Note was a man who would
— but only in Ocean's new put It into the a ir conditioning. P re tty dare enter the visitors' ships- And so earth
Moloch bask
d u mb of it, huh? We ll, ye s and no,
megagame. Rachael because as its fl e sh y ma ste rs die it
Smith risks life and limb to will step up robot activity. It all ready and wa itin g and all ashore
depends wh o you like blasting best. that's going a sh o re — though it's
pay the programmers a If you get tired of the endless hoped that the finale will hold a n a sty
visit... co rrid o rs, the o u te r le ve ls have su rp rise to wip e the grin off yo u r face!
a irlo cks into space. O u t there you This is just the b a re st outline of the
blast yourself a ro u n d with an o xyg e n gameplay. Wh e n I sa w the g a me it
wimp y sixtie s singer, b u t cylinder, re me mb e rin g that a push to wa s still fa r fro m finished. Oth e r
Mich a e l Donovan, th e only the left will send you right! Th e re are details ma y include the co mp u te r
person wh o can sa ve the two ma jo r h o u sin g s on the outside of switching off the lights in a ce rta in
y earth in th is fre e adaptation the ship, the wa te r inlet and section. Th e n you'll have to re ly on a
ofo the TV se rie s, V. Th e missio n is co mmu n ica tio n s centre, a n d wh ile torch that'll sh o w the wa y ahead but
simp
u le — locate a n d d e stro y the their destruction isn't cru cia l It'll Only just enough behind you to let you
e an e my ship by b lo win g u p its ce n tra l ce rta in ly ra ck up th e old score. see wh a t hits you! Do n o va n is
co mp u te r and re a cto r. Wh a t ma ke s it Right, yo u 've located yo u r targets e xtre me ly we ll animated and if his
r e a sy is the size of the ship. It's a and se t the b o mb s. Eve n that's no
less ju mp and roll and so me of the plot
mae ze of co rrid o rs and b lo cke d easy task b e ca u se it lo o ks like yo u 'll details re min d you of Imp o ssib le
passages,
D sixte e n scre e n s a cro ss, have t o syn ch ro n ise the two Mission, we ll the sa me people we re
eight
o scre e n s d o wn and fi ve la ye rs explosions exactly. Fa ilu re me a n s responsible for the S p e ctru m version.
deep — a grand total of 640 scre e n s that if the re a cto r goes fi rst the But V has a d d e d to that g a me 's
n wo u ld take yo u se ve ra l h o u rs to su cce ss with its co mb in a tio n of
that co mp u te r will still be able to defend
o
cross. An d th a t's with o u t the itself. And with o u t the co mp u te r the blasting fo r high sco re s and stra te g y
uvn we lco me attentions of the liza rd s re a cto r will ru n wild. Th e n it's b a ck to to co mp le te the task — a n d it's not
and
a th e ir robot guards. the d o ckin g b a y wh e re yo u r craft is only vast but different fo r e ve ry game!
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to the beginning and enter — he wants to use them in 20 READ B:POKE A,B
CLEAR 39999: LO AD" his own programs. For 30 NEXT A
CODE. Now start your tape starters, what I'd like to know 40 DATA 255, 129. 129, 129,
recorder and you'll load is why on earth you're writing 129, 129, 129, 255
MegaBasic into memory. programs that aren't in

BASIC
Now this sub-routine reads
Right, it's time for the measly MegaBasic?Herumph! Just
bit of hard work you've got to the data for the graphics and
this once though I'll tell you. POKEs it into the correct
do — type in the following The Amstrad type font starts
program. at 45000 and the BBC one area of memory. It also takes
four lines of Basic! With VS
starts at 48000. They're both
10 R E M WAFADRI V E CO NV MegaBasic you can do

HINTS
ERS ION 768 bytes long, so say you exactly the same in one line,
20 R E M PROGRAM 2 4 - 9 — wanted to save the BBC
85 so here goes:
character set to tape, you'd
00 RE M use SAVE "Beeb" CODE DEFG_"a", 255, 129, 129,
40 L E T c O s F O R z m 5 8 0 6
48000,768. Now d'you see 129, 129, 129, 129, 255

MPS
4 TO 58092
5 0 R E A D bo P O K E z , b s why they call me the font of The DEFG command takes
LE T c m c + b all knowledge! nine parameters. The first
60 N E X T z Now for the complaints parameter is a string and
70 I F v . 2 3 1 9 T H E N P R
I NT "BLO CK 1 I S O K ! " . G O
department. Lots of you have shows which graphic is to be
TO 9 0 been moaning about the fact defined and then this is
8 0 P R I N T "E RRO R I N L I N that every time you power up followed by the numeric data
E 9 0 0 0 OR 9 0 1 0 ". S T O P your MegaSpectrum, you for the graphic.
The Mike Leaman 9 0 L E T C. . 0 4 F O R 2 m 4 7 0 have to use the KEY
00 T O 4 7 0 6 1 command to define the user- Now for a moan. S G Wylie
Mega Basic mailbag 100 R E A D 131 P U K E z of Ramsgate doesn't like the
is almost as mighty LET
t c. . c. ft defined keys. So, is there a three overlapping windows.
110 N E X T z way of saving the key What you have to do is tell
as his program. So, ba
120 I F c . . 7 0 1 8 T H E N P R definitions so that they can
this month he's I NT "BLO CK 2 I S O K " . G O the system that you want to
TO 7 9 9 9 be loaded in. all in one go? use the same window for all
here to help with 100 P R I N T "E RRO R I N L I N E Ha, there is a way! The output. And to do this, you
definitions for the user
some o f your prob- 8 9 0 2 0 T O 9 0 4 0 " t S TO P have to use the FX command
9000 D A T A 5 8 , 0 , 0 . 2 5 4 , 2 4 3 defined keys are stored — the command used to
lems and perplexit- '40. 21. 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 starting at 59956 and there control the MegaBasic
ies, as well as 9010 D A T A 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 ,
221,225,241,42,76.203,251
are 256 bytes for each key. system. The command is
sharing some pro- ,2 0 1 , 2 1 3 That means that if you want followed by two parameters
gramming hints you 9020 D A T A 2 4 5 , 2 5 4 , 1 0 , 3 2 , to save all ten keys, you just — the first indicates the
10,58,207,92,254,79,32,3, have to use SAVE "KEYS"
may not have come 205,74 function you require and the
CODE 59956,2560,
9030 D A T A 2 0 , 3 3 , 0 , 0 , 2 5 3 , second is the data required
across — yet! 116,55,253,116,38,34,11,9 And now a hint for all you by that function. Have a look
2,215,176,22,193,4,33,205 who indulge in the strange at this:
•1 0
9040 D A T A 0 5 , 2 0 0 , 1 2 6 , 4 0 ,
habit of hacking — I mean, FX_O,n defi nes which
MegaBasic has been 251,16,249,126,205,104,12 why should Chris Wood have
window is used for input.
so huge that it's 05.203,126,40,247,237,12 a monopoly on the subject! FX_1,n defi nes which
about time I had a 3,61,92,51,51,33,248,209, Here's how you can window is used for automatic
229,199
T chance to answer 9999 P O K E 4 7 2 7 8 . 0 t P O K E
personalise your copy of VS listings.
many
h of your queries on the 4 7 2 7 9 , 0 . MegaBasic by redefining the FX_2,n defi nes which
inner workings of the error messages. They start at
e C'mon that didn't take too 52987 and finish at 53164 window is used for program
program.
r So, if you have any output.
problems or there's anything long, did it? Now RUN it and and the end of the message
e don't understand and save the new MegaBasic FX_3,n defi nes which
you is signaled by adding 128 to
code to Wafa by entering the ASCII code of the last window is used by the
s
you'd like me to clear it up for MONitor
you, SAVE# "MB", 45000. 20368. character. So, here's a little
p drop me a line here at All we need now is a new
VS program that'll print out each Say you wanted to use one
o and I'll do my best. But loader program for the error message and its window for all tour functions,
don't only see me as an
n Watadrive, so enter NEW starting address: then you'd use something
agony aunt (Could be
s and that'll clear out the along these lines:
difficult, Mike! Ed), but send 10 LET P-52987
e any of your own
in conversion program. Finally, 20 PRINT P FX_0.2:FX_1,2:FX_2,2
Megahints'n'tips so that we enter and save this loader
t 30 LET Z-PEEK P: LET P :FX_3,2
can all share them_ program:
o - IF Z.127 THE 1/011_(Z128):
40 Now only the output window
There's one problem that's 10POKE 23737,152 PRINT
V P fl (window two) is used and
cropped up over and over 20POKE 23738,183 'P:GO TO 30 bang goes the problem of
S
again in my postbag. I'll just 30CLEAR 44999 50 1/DU_Z:GO TO 30 overlapping windows.
mention the Computer 40 LOAD-"Pil8"
Now all you have to do is And if you want to set the
Department of Friends 50RUN USR 56100
School, Saffron Walden and POKE the ASCII values of the copy cursor to use yellow ink
A Rav en of Basildon who've message you want into the then try this:
So, if any of you have been correct locations. It's even
written to me, asking when putting off getting hold of a CURRENT_1:INK 6
I'm going to get around to copy of MegaBasic 'cos you more fun if you can get your
mitts on a friend's copy of When you've got version of
converting MegaBasic onto couldn't convert it to VS MegaBasic that you're
the Rotronic's Wafadrive. Wafadrive, well that excuse MegaBasic.
Now G Gapper of Glos isn't happy with, all you have to do
They've all had a go, but doesn't wash any longer. And is save it together with a
without much success. Well, too sure about the DEFG
I don't know why all you Opus command and would like me loader. Bingo, your own
the waiting is over — I've disk drive owners are looking customised MegaBasicl
come up with the code, so so smug — as soon as I can to do a quick run through on
you'll no longer have to wait it for him. Well, the DEFG
get my hands on one of those
an age for the tape to load. command is a quicker way of if you're having trouble with
natty devices, I'll be doing a
Here are the simple steps conversion routine for that defining user defined YS MegaBasic or if you
you should follow. Turn your too! graphics. In normal Sinclair reckon you've come up with
Speccy on with the Wafadrive Basic you'd define the UDG a hint that even Mike won't
St ev en Po r t has written
connected — pretty sensible in from Greenwhich to ask 'a' using the following lines: have sussed, write to
really! Enter NEW- and then me where he can find the 10 FOR A—USR "A" TO USA MegaMike, YS 14 Rathbone
rewind your MegaBasic tape Place, London W1P 1DE,
other two fonts in MegaBasic
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and Spectrum are I've got two problems. First, 'El codes that must be sent
having a slight personality is it possible to do screen before you can send control
clash. They just don't get dumps of the information to codes like ESC (CODE 27),
on, even though I've tried my Alphacom printer? And These can be entered into
changing the printer for secondly, I would like to Tasword, when changing the
another one. is it print outgoing messages graphics codes, by
compatible with the but I'm having problems answering 'yes' to the
Spectrum? sending them out with the question, 'Change interface
J Allen, Ne e dha m Ma rk e t 'T' function. codes?' Once you've done

F
James Dunbar, Inverness this you can set up the
: 0 is compatible 'cos I've graphics characters to print
: % You can do the screen
% got one, and it works with all the ESC sequence of codes
dumps, no trouble, by
W models. Maybe the edge exiting to Basic and using you want. Save a new copy
connector's
e dirty or its the COPY command. The 1' of Tasword to keep the
possible that the connector is function will only work if changes in_
l
loose. If cleaning it doesn't Easylink supports XMODEM
lsolve the problem I suggest i t 1 would like some
,you get your Spectrum protocol. If you want to send advice on what joystick
messages from a buffer you'll and joystick interface to
Irepaired. need Specnet Ill 'cos that'll buy. There isn't a great
c allow you to create text files selection over here in
aV D o you know of a using Tas word and send Australia and I'm not sure
circuit That allows you them as if they were typed
nto POKE the Spectrum of the best Can you help?
from the keyboard. There's Graham Ung, Australia
cROM? I know VS 2 featured even a version that'll do 64
oan article that told you how characters per line. Good eh? :
nto do this but unfortunately 61
I can't get hold of a copy as % .Your Sinclair (issue 2) you'll
fit's sold out. V O h, I've got a little bug, see
iBruce Phipps, Hatfield or rather my Spectrum W 6 a review of the top ten
version 2 has. First it started joysticks — that should give
r Have you got a e
you 1 some guidance. The
The SoftROM appears to to fail on the arrow keys
m and then the delete and hard luck story to c'
Quickshot is a pretty good
.11 b e the answer and, yes one with two buttons for a
tyou're right, it did appear in graphics keys. I soldered tell us? For hard e c
the 2K resistor in across headed hardware quick response. As for the

A
hVS 2. And, just for you Bruce. a
rinterface I reckon the
we'll
a send you a photocopy. R68, as suggested, but still advice Steve n
tKempston Compatible is
nothing. I finally solved the ag
t problem by tightening the Adam's your man. probably the best for the sort
iV I' ve got a trTX, wafa- of i e software you mention.
clamp inside the keyboard TV Services of Cambridge.
drive and Cambridge that joins all the bits There
nt are plenty about, just
tjoystick interface. Fine, you It's free but it would be a look for the cheapest and
may think. Well, that's just
together. Try it if you've good idea to include some lh
most rugged.
problems. postage for the tape. yo
it, it isn't! When I've got the Tora te n Dahlkvist, Sweden
1/1X and wale-drive clc? Help! My rubber
connected the picture rolls, Thanks Torsten. Its nice V I'm having trouble with ad keyboard is so rubbery I
though it's okay if only one to see readers providing my ZX printer. It runs
can't
no get all the keys to
is connected. Why? all the answers. At least it lets okay for about 100 lines and register. I've been driven to
John Thurborn, me put my feet up for a little then it gets slower and .f
Chleelhurst slower and makes terrible pressing
a them very hard
while. If more of you write in Iwith a pencil to get it to
maybe I can retire early. squeaking noises. I took my fc
It sounds like your power life in my hands and pulled work. Will a replacement
supply may be at fault it all to bits but I still yo
Speccy Plus keyboard fit,
'cos both peripherals use and if not can it be
V W e would like to add a couldn't find what was op
quite a bit of power. Try reset switch to the repaired?
wrong. Any ideas? uy
David Savage, Canterbury
swopping it with another Spectrum, not an on/off Phil Purle, Gloucester o
power supply to check if this switch, can you tell us what . . W e l l , it could be 'cos the
is the case. If not send it to a connections to make? rfiii.And now for the answer!
OS Phelan and Pe te balance of the weight in Get a new keyboard
repair shop to get it looked at. underlay (membrane) from a
Taylor, Cheshire the paper reel is wrong. It's
Sinclair repair centre. It'll cost

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possible that the paper is
V Hey Steve! I've gotta Easy! If you can solder. scraping one side of the you about C9.00.
new colour television. El t hat is. The big 40 pin IC printer as it turns, Try a bit of
But the colours are all near the edge connector is I'm writing to give a
wrong. Red gives green and Pin 26 of the CPU, This is the violence — bang the end of warning to all Speccy
the reel on a table top to get
green gives red. It's alright reset pin on the Z80A CPU. it back in line. owners as I've had to learn
on my friend's version 3 Connect a switch between the hard way. Don't pull the
Spectrum but not on my this and Pin 29 of the CPU, plug to reset your machine
press the switch and release —Tasword
I' ve got aII,Speccy
Epsonwith
0180
version 2. Why? 'cos, as I found to my cost,
Trevor Harris it. Hey presto! It resets. printer and LPR1NT111
Interlace. How do I send the it causes a voltage
Are you sure you're not discharge that can cause
ESC codes to operate the
colour blind? No, cl My Spectrum has the printer? expensive damage. Either
seriously there are two brown XK system fitted to it allow a lapse of several
Jack Colbourne, Cornwall
variable resistors inside the and I'm now having trouble seconds or, even better,

YOURSINCLAIR
Spectrum issue 2 that can be loading games like incorporate a switch
Knightiore and Atic Atac. between the transformer
adjusted to give the correct and set.
red/green balance. Try Where can I get a loading
device that'll solve this HP Macdonald, Devon

1,'A"
twiddling with the lower one
and that should sort you Out_ problem?
Reg Crawley, Hitchin : T h a n k s HP. It's always a
.

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l as it's a lot cheaper
from Modem House and
•Er than having your Speccy

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Easylink so I can send purchased your XK system — f
'cos of voltage discharge.
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all Mike Hammer, call
E Sam Spade.... but when
T you want the best you
E call me — Jake Monkey-
Wrench. I tool around
C
and get the job done.
T The voice on the
I phone said, ''Jake, rve
Vgot a problem. I'm the Ed." "That's
some problem." I agreed. Ignoring
Eme, he continued, "I want you to find
a cassette tape. It contains enough
evidence to send Mr Big down the
river for a very long time." Pausing
only to wonder why the Ed should
want to send a gangster on a boat
tour, I asked, "Tell me where I might
find it." "That's the problem," he told
me, It ' s hidden in a computer game!"
And so it was. I sat in my East Side
office, in front of a computer monitor,
the whole of New York to search and
I'd never have to leave the building.
Luckily the city was no stranger to me
— the same 3D view that seems to
turn up everywhere nowadays.
However, I was pleased to find that
could choose between upiclown,
right movement or rotation and
forward techniques. And what was
this — 10 On'? A neat touch means
that if I walk into an object the
computer can take control and guide
me past it.
10.32 pm: I'd found a gun andi was
going to need it. In the very next room
some hood began taking pot shots at
me but I was quick on the draw. I
transferred to the icon menu and
fired, filling him full of holes and he
faded away. No room to be trigger
happy though — the city may be a
jungle but not everyone's an animal.
Soon alter I'd plugged the punk
another slouched figure approached.
stopped but his speech bubble
appeared. But what did he mean by,
"I'll see you later"?
1.03 am: I'd lost count of how many
rooms and alleys my nicely animated
figure had trudged down, but there
were lots, filled with hazards of the
most unexpected types, like animated
suits of armour. Something strange
was afoot I'd had to use my wits to
push the furniture around and shift
Of all the objects and I wasn't sure I was getting
Spectrums in all anywhere. Then I met her t he dame.
the world, The Ed had warned me that there
Imagine's new were two sisters tied up in the case —
identical twins but while one was
game Movie had to
walk into ours. good, real good, the other was evil
incarnate! I hoped I'd made the right
Settle into your choice as I followed her. Perhaps she
back row seats, could lead me to the gang boss....
forget the Pearl 1.07 am: You win some, lose some.
and Deans and Like a kid, I'd followed her straight
read Gwyn
Hughes's review of
WAS into a trap. I'd dodged the bouncing
bombs, the suits of armour and the
dIFAIM11.1 low down rats who'd hoped to fill me
this gangsters and , full of lead. But I'd always been a
gumshoe mega- sucker for a frail and now I'd paid the
game. Play it, price. This game is as cool as a
Sam._ trench coat and as atmospheric as a
misty street. Here's looking at a VDU,
sweetheart!
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10.48 pm: And in the naked city I don't feel clothed without some sort Of
11.59 pm; Down these machine code streets a sprite must go. a sprite who is
equalizer. Luckily there's a gun to be found near the office, and a few others
nor himself mean. You can never be too careful in the Big Apple but if the
carelessly lying around for when I run out of slugs don't shoot first chances are they're friendly.

HI wasn't so busy mth the

case I might try to solve Just an innocent citizen
the puzzle of the date -
You•re the magnum I want Well, here lam, trench coat going about his business
television sets and wind up - i s he? Maybe he
Just need to line myself up and hat brim pulled down gramophones together?
and lei the icons do the No time to survey the knows something that may Type in your greetings or
The game still ha$ a
rest, then the rod will lump prove useful as he questions and they'll
scenery though - I've got fantastic atmosphere
into my hand. to get that gal. wanders along the main appear here. If you're lucky
though. alley. you'll even get an answer.

guess these trench coats Here's a handy symbol. With a city this size you'll Talking is done in the
come equipped with four Choosing this function If you need time to ponder
spend most of your time in finest comic book style. a cryptic answer consult
pockets because that's picks things up - and it this default movement speech bubbles, so
how many Hems the doesn't take Philip your map - Of Mtn pour
mode. Now you know why choose this option to make yourself a slug of bourbon
Inventory indicator allows Marlowe to guess that its they call us 'flai-foot. The polite conversation
you to hold - this is the icon for you.
neighbour means. drop. walking sound makes me . Hold the front page I ' m
suspect that the gumshoe taking time oft
wears gumboots.

00.043 am: I felt like I was getting nowhere fast and it was giving me the bird.
Then I stumbled on a room with a heavily guarded door and knew that I must 00.54 am: By f owl was in need of a stiff drink but this guy didn't want to sit
down and pour me one. It was easy enough to sidestep this line of fire as
be onto something. The question was, what? Perhaps if I'd got a map. Hey, any
cartographers out there like to help a private eye who can't afford an A to Z7 entered the room, but then I'd have to waste him before he targettet1 me.

Ae a hard drinking private Luckily most of the

Strange to find so many
dick there's always the Anybody who thinks a underworld lackeys aren't
suits of armour scattered No time to listen to the
danger youll walk into a parrot Is just a leathered around, but avoid them exactly hot shots. though
music Just yet f a c t , no there are occasions when
door frame but use the IC echo, think again. Nally because collisions we music, but at least the luke you walk through a door to
option and your auto-pilot here may well give you a deadly. This one's very box here iiggies around
will save you from be greeted by a truly warm
clue how to pass through nastily placed, making like it was playing a Bill
embarrassing black eyes the door. welcome of accurately
your passage impossible. Haley platter. aimed lead

Throwing things can Suddenly everything went

sometimes shift the All ready for business. Providing you've Oth of ammunition? You
red I t was the end Somewhere I'd picked up a selected the gun this is the must have a punch like a
armour, though not In this That's what happens when brief case. As somebody fire icon, but ammunition
case. Perhaps you'd feel you select the Abed mule because your right
had asked me for the which appears above is hook can knock an
better if you threw a option, which is protected money, I wondered if this limited. You need to be Opponent into another
tantrum or plugged the with a double check is shore it was stashed_
parrot! pretty nifty to change back dimension
to movement, at times.

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five of the faberoony Wham?
mega-smashes stored in the
Mu sk Box's tune memory.
Don't ask me what their
squillions of fans would make
of a Speccy cover version of
Young Guns, though!
If you ever tire of the
Dynamic Duo's ditties you can
erase them and compose your
own, or key in tunes from
sheet music. This is what the
program's really about so
serious musicians or
Duranees need not be put off
by the Wham! label.
Besides the music editor,
with its easy method of
on-screen composition, this
program gives your Spectrum
an extra sound channel. That
means you can play two
different notes simultaneously,
for two part harmony or
simple chords. You'll want
some method of amplification
to get the most from this
program, as no software can
cure the innately feeble
Speccy beeper.
Once you've composed your
hit (or pinched someone
else's), you can save it to tape
or microdrive, complete with
the machine code routine that
plays it, as a block of code for
inclusion in your own W h a m ! M a k e it M us ic a l! You'll find Boma
programs. No mention is
knowledge ot music
made of the copyright
it you want longer notes n o t a t i o n may be helpful
situation on the inlay, though, than a quaver then use w h e n keying in a tune on
so I've no idea what'd happen Rests are shown as an more quavers. Two t h e editor. I say 'may'
if you wanted to use this 'R'. However there's no quavers give you a b e c a u s e the MUSE BO) There are always aught
music in a program for crotchet, four makes a u s e s an abbreviated quavers to the bar. You can
indication of sound effects write in other time
commercial resale. or even that the tune has minim, and so on. Try to s y s t e m at notation that'll
ended signatures - but the bar
Terry Bulfib's had a quick forget about semi-quavers, a n n o y real composers.
lines will be in the wrong
hack and informs us that there place.
is 4K of Basic inside, and Sharps are indicated,
more importantly, that the but hats are notated as
loading and saving of tunes is sharps of the note below. During replay, the effect
done in Basic. This means Sharps or flats are played on the longer notes is a
soil of Little Richard
that the microdrive Save and on the second keyboard
row. You can Only write in keyboard hammering - or
Load options will also work on what we flautists call
C moor.
other drives that use vibrato!
microdrive syntax, like the
Opus disk or Wafadrives. Notes for the two
What makes it all a doddle channels are shown in
The music scrolls
to use, and cancels all my different colours. They're
reminiscent of the Mad smoothly to the left Curing
previous quibbles is the easy Piano in Manic Miner - but editing or play. Back
editing. You can play in notes at least this keyboard's spacing causes an empty
by ear, seeing each key tuned screen to scroll in from the
left.
you've pressed marked on
both the screen's piano To enter notes into the There ace tour Octaves, Youhave to key in the
keyboard and the stave, You'll score, you simply play ivhich is more than can be two channels separately,
hear it as well and by them in, using the bottom accommodated on the which means switching
backspacing you can remove rows of keys on the keyboard. so you have to between channels.
Spectrum as a piano switch tram one to
mistakes. You can go through another, losing your way
the score note by note, or fast on the keyboard in the
forward through it. Otherwise, process
lust play the tune, all the time
with a continual display on the
piano keyboard and staves.
Plus yo u can listen to the
sound of the notes. Wham! makes Waves!
Besides the organ like twin Everyone knows that the Spectrum has only a single. rather pathetic,
voices, you get a 'bass drum' sound channel, so how is it possible to play two channel music?
and three somewhat Consider, for comparison, a piano. Pressing two keys causes two
notes to sound, and unless you're tone deaf, you hear them as two
programmable sound effects separate notes.
based on white noise. You Your eardrum is vibrated by a waveform made up of a combination
can also alter the playing of the two original notes. The peaks and troughs of all three individual
speed. What you can't do is vibrations mix together in the air, cancelling Out or augmenting each
obtain a printout of the other, until a complex series of high and low pressure waves is
musical score — but since the formed. You only hear this waveform as two separate notes because
the human brain is equipped to unravel complex waveforms into their
notation is so weird, you won't component parts.
want to.
What the Music Box software does is to compare ti:s waveforms of
First they gave the two separate notes in software, before sending then, •hrough the
programmers the pop star single output channel. By vibrating the Beeper in a complex
treatment, now the customers waveform, the program imitates what would happen to separate itotes FAX BOX
get to be pop stars. I hope all mixing in the air. The effect upon the ear is similar to that of playing Title Wham! The Music Box
the two notes.
this music doesn't lead you to Pubasher Melbourne House
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I Door,22§5, 14 Zathbone Vine, lonbonW I P 1DC.
First through Death's Door this guisher, take this down the with Luxor, Morkin or Tarithel.
month is !Alan Green of Preston
gone and kissed the snake in
chimney and put the fire out. If Rothron can do it if he uses the Colossal Cave and I've got to
who's stuck fast in his Pyjama- you don't want to be flattened by Runes of Finorn. Thanks Cohn, snatch them away from the land
ramas. "Please help me!" he cries,
"How do)you get to climb the
a large ball take the square key I'm sure there's enough clues of the living. Oh goody!
that opens the billiard room. there to last a lifetime.
rope in the conveyor belt room?" 6. To stop the man-eating My heart bleeds for Mr .1 IONGSOFTHECASTLE.
help you?,Let me tell you that
And you really think I'm gonna plants, fill the bucket at the bath- Weston from Wiltshire who's hav- Pypimarama, Doomdark's Revenge.
room tap and place it near the BP ing loads of problems with Never- Lords of Midnight
many a proud adventurer has can. ending Story. "How do you get Cohn Read, 80 Beech Gardens. Rain.

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ended up facing the death 7. Once you've opened the box past Morro in the Swamps of Sad- ford, Si Helens, Merseyside WA I I
in trying to solve this 8DN
in the kitchen with the box key, ness?" he cries! I don't think you
game. Okay, I take pity on you — take the magnet and return to the should even bother to do so — the Forest on Worlds End, Red Moon,

, Colin Read.
just this once — and refer you to
Castle King,
moon where you left the raygun.
Go next door and jump at the
only thing Morla's good for, as far
as I can see, is giving advice. You
Emerald Isle, Twin Kingdom Valley,
The Hobbit, Pyjamarama, Sub-Sunk,
Urban Upstart
writing in blood!" says lock, swop the magnet for the certainly don't need to get past Kevin McIntosh, 419 Great Western
Cohn, t o offer help to your loyal clock key and return home to him to get into the second game. Road, Aberdeen AB1 6N.1
subjects. I've got heaps of clues Wally's bedroom where you'll find And make sure you don't go
for Pyjamarama. . the alarm clock. l'hen comes walking in the swamp with Artax, The Hobbit, l'elnors Lair, Sherlock.
I Playing through all the November 5 th ...." Gremlins
unless of course you want to pay Ian MacMillan. 276 Kiveton Lane.
screens in the video gamesroom Well, how's that for a list of me a visit!
Kiveton Park, Rotherham, S Yorks
will gain you an extra life. timely tips! If you want to escape Richard Weaver from Ply- 531 8NL.
2. When attempting to get the my evil clutches. Alan, write to mouth writes in with some tips for
box key make sure that 'Help' is
switched 'On' — then you'll be
Cohn at the address in the Kings The Hobbit — yes, people are still ONMEMDEATHBEDS.
Of The Castle. I'm sure he'll help having problems. 'To get out of Pylamarama — How do I climb the
able to get onto the tea box. you but do remember to enclose the dungeon try attacking Morin"
an sae. rope in the room where the conveyor
3. The raygun can only be That's a move that'll have you out belt is? How do you smash the glass in
loaded in the billiard room and Colin's got even more clues for of the dungeon, out of the game the room with lights and numbers
you'll need the power pack to do that brill game Doorndark's and into my deathly den before underneath? Help!!!
it. You must then leave it on the Revenge. Maybe he's after the title you can say 'meat cleaver'. Richard A D Green, 56 Thurnham Road,
moon. of 'El Supremo'! Larches, Preston, Lancashire
is also having a few problems with
4. To get the crash helmet, first 1. Remember if Morkin uses the bulbous eyes. The answer is to Neverending Story — Help!
use the driving licence to get the the Crown of Carudrium, Luxor 'Wait' twice before moving. J Weston, Westwinds, The Ley, Boa,
ignition keys. Once in the con- and all his armies are summoned Wiltshire
Well, that's it for this month.
veyor belt room, jump via the to Morkin's present spot. I've really enjoyed reading all Aural Quest — I'm stuck in Australial
rope Onto the bannister to collect 2. If Tarithel uses the spell of your letters, especially the pleas Stewart Kinnen, 34 Broadlie Drive,
your prize. Glasgow G I 3 3AP
Mangorn, she'll be taken to for help, I just can't get enough,
5. To gain access to the billiard Morkin too. though. Keep those hints'n'tips Gremlins — I've had quite a hit of
room, take the hammer out of the 3. If any other character uses its success, but how do you finish the
flowing in — after all somebody's game?
toilet — you'll need the penny to own weapon its energy and gotta help those poor lost souls
get in — and put it in the lift. despondency levels are fully res- and it sure as hell ain't gonna be Jason Morrison, 151 Princess Way,
You'll then get the fire extin- Portadown, Co Arrnagh, N Ireland
tored, though this doesn't work me. Oh, I must dash some idiot's BT63 5EL

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A top of the morning to yers Marilyn Monroe and a deep Hey man e r l i k e collect as many original
all. Well, I've been hearing the freeze. Gerda must sally forth, this is quite a groovy number, artefacts as possible and return
oddest things concerning those what ho! and find her beloved. dig? Like, er, if you fancy the them to the start location.
young ladies who attend that who seems to have forgotten lyrics of John Lennon, sucking
illu trious school, St Brides. she exists. Sounds pretty trendy eh? You
a sugar cube, and digging the might enjoy the graphics and
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text adventure, and now Death almost ended up in the
password to play the second From the far-off future grave with the terminal hippy
(Gasp Gasp) the girls have game on the reverse side of you've made your way, via a hippy shakes. Steer clear
come up with The Snow the cassette. St Brides has provoking Fantasy Dome, unless you've got Beatles
Queen, a quilled graphics thoughtfully included a back to the Swinging Sixties
version of the Hans Christian corning out of your ears.
'dummy password' that'll and into an amazing advnture
Anderson fairy tale. enable you to have a stab at based on the lyrics of the
What d'you mean you don't the second game even when Beatles.
like fairy tales? This one's a you haven't finished the first. I know The Grim Reaper's
traditional blend of witches Although The Snow Queen as old as the hills but I had
and innocent young ladies. suffers from slowish response difficulty remembering half
Just like the ladies in St and rather limited vocabulary
Brides. the lyrics of some of the songs.
it's nicely written with some Unless you're an ageing hippy
Young Gerda has lost her long location descriptions and you may well have difficulty
true love Kay, who is held enough atmosphere to send a getting into this game.
under evil enchantment by the chill up your spine. Beatle Quest was written by
Gary Marsh again using The
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 whatever. Switcha works while the program is

THREE INTO ONE

running — when you come back to it, it will
restart exactly where it left off. You can even
NEW the program in the current partition.
you do this, you'll have to re-connect Switcha

W I L L GO
by entering:
RANDOMIZE USR 64842
The other two programs you had loaded
will have survived the NEW and you can
switch back to them! If you happen to run any
other routine that disables interrupts, this
RANDOMIZE should always restore Switcha,
Probably the only way to gel rid of Switcha is
the trusty old RANDOMIZE USR 0 — but
remember to save everything (don't forget
your inactive programs) before you do it!
You can't switch during I/O operations
such as cassette loading or microdrive
access but Switcha will be back the moment
they've finished. Switcha works with all
known peripherals (including those damn
Kempstons) but it might not be a good idea
to switch when, for example, a program is
driving a music box. In any event, Switcha
won't let you switch if an add-on has got its
own ROM where the Speccy's should be —
you'll just have to wait a few microseconds
and try again...

NOW THE BAD NEWS...

Of course. you rarely get something for
nothing in this world even if the Ed seems to
think so. So, what happens when you divide
a 481< machine into three pieces? You get
three 16K machines. Take away the memory
for the display and system variables and a bit
for Switcha and you're left with just under 8K
for each Switcha program. So Switcha only
lets you run small programs. This will be a
shock to many but not so much a problem for
those of us who had 161< Spectrums or
ZX81s in the past.
You can't use Switcha with any program
that uses interrupts without modifying ii first
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programs — well, I can't think of any that
= would work. However, you can run a
o 1; o
4 machine code program in a partition
1 4,
A4 provided it loads below address 32053. Go
. V• on, reassemble that 4K Space Invaders you
;O wrote years ago! A Basic program that uses
le a machine code subroutine will work if it
2
. installs it by looking at the value of RAMTOP,
Ever felt you need 1 a spare Speccy to save you from
1 lowering it and loading its code at the new
d RAMTOR Those that waltz in and plonk their
all that SAVEing and LOADing? Save your money — Max
J
code at 65000 or thereabouts should be
.
Phillips lets you run three programs at once with
1 easily adapted.
Switcha... GET SWITCHED ON
Switcha has all sorts of possibilities. What
Roll up. roll up, see amazing feats never main program and so on. It's brilliant for Blue
Peter demonstrations — here's one I wrote about a program that looked at the saved
before attempted on a Spectrum. Yes, ladies
earlier and so on. Switcha isn't really multi- programs in either partition? You could stop
and gentleman, I'm not just going to saw your a program at any point and then get the next
Spectrum in half but into thirds and then load tasking — the three partitions don't actually program to look at its variables, alter their
and run a program in each of the pieces! Yes run at once (the Speccy ain't quick as it is). contents, change the display or whatever. To
sir, yes you, would you mind lending me your But what it does give you, if you want the do this, just calculate a couple of addresses:
machine a moment? Of course you'll get it technospeak, is interruptability or context-
back in one piece! switching. LET nextoff—PEEK 65014+PEEK
Well not quite. What I am going to do is So nip off for a moment and type in and 65015.256-16384
give you a machine code utility that divides save the Basic Loader. Next, get the Switcha LET lastoff.-49152-nextoff
your 481< memory into three 16K chunks and code into memory using either the hex loader
lets you switch at any time between them. or by assembling the source code with your POKE X-i-nextoff is equivalent to POKE X on
Each 'partition' is a fully working Spectrum so own assembler. This should be saved just a standard Soeccy but the POKE will affect
you can have three programs loaded at once after the Basic Loader on your tape or onto the partition that will be switched in next.
and can edit and run them as normal. At any the same microdrive cartridge. Similarly, POKE X-Hastoff is the same as
time, pressing Symbol-Shift and Space will To start. LO AD POKE X only it affects the partition just
put the current program away and switch to message
— with instructions while the code switched out_ So, for example, POKE
the next one. loads 23609-1-lastolf,100 would set the key beep on
Y o uthen
and ' l lSwitches flashy green or
. border
This trick is nicked from business blue while it installs itself. The the program just switched out to 100. By
machines where people might want to flit s e finishes
program e with 0 OK, 70:1 and returns using a lower Ramtop with Switcha, you
between a database, a word processor and. a
you to Basic as normal_ Just to convince could even create a data buffer where three
don't tell the boss, a Space Invaders. Of yourself
b r it'si working, enter CLS:PRINT different programs could exchange
"Partition information with each other. Suppose your
course, they do have a bit more memory to e f 1". Now press Symbol-Shift and
play with — half a megabyte or so — and Space -- the border flashes and you'll get database program could read the results just
they do have more formal operating systems another copy of the 'OK' message. Enter produced by your calculator program!
so that it's possible to switch between almost CLS:PRINTI-lere's number 2", press And if you're feeling ambitious, there's a
any group of programs. Symbol-Shift/Space and you'll get the third hundred different things you could do to
Switcha for the Spectrum is more limited partition. Enter CLS:PRINT"And here's the Switcha. The actual switching is a bit bonng
but it's not just a pretty lace. It's great for other one''. Now by repeatedly pressing —the nicest way to do it would be to scroll
messing about with — you can have several Symbol-Shift/Space, you'll flick through the the current screen off as the next one scrolls
versions of the program you're writing on partitions. Convinced? on o r you could clo a configurable Swifche
hand and you can doodle new routines and You can LOAD a program into the current that lets you have two or three partitions
make calculations without disturbing your partition as normal and edit it or RUN it or each with different sizes. Over to youl PP.
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Switcha divides memory into three Interrupt register holds FEh and there's a snapshots the current partition and
partitions — the current one is a standard table of vectors from FE0Oh to FF00h, exchanges It for one of the two saved
16K Spectrum from l o c a t i o n s each byte being set to RM. At FDFDh, ones. The border colour is reset from the
32767
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49151
1 6 3 8 4 49152
and t o to 65535. Each partition is This is horribly cumbersome but it ensures EXBASE (address 65014) is the address of
a 'snapshot of a running 16K machine and that the interrupt works correctly no matter the partition to switch to next — by alter-
contains everything needed to restore it to what's stuck on the back of the Spectrum! nating it between 32768 and 49152, the
working order. There's a copy of Switcha in Next, it checks to see if the Spectrum three partitions are exchanged In sequence.
each partition so that when the 49162 to ROM is present and exits if it isn't This Switcha exits by jumping to location 38H
65535 partition is exchanged. the Switcha might cause a slight pause before so that the Spectrums normal interrupt
at 64842 is overwritten with itself and there- switching if the Interface 1 is fitted but it processing, updating the clock and reading
fore remains intact! means that ROM-based add-ons will never the keyboard. happens as normal. You
Interrupt mode 2 is used so that the cause a crash. Next Switcha checks for the could alter the exit jump to tack on an
routine is called fifty times a second; the Symbol-Shift/Space combination; if so, it interrupt routine of your own.

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1 02 E7 F 0 8 2 F6 FD 21 00 40 31 01 0 3 66
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each line as s how n bel ow — each one has k FD7 2 E D 47 E D 5 E C 9 F 5 3 A F8 6F F D C 2 01 12 EB 13 23 3E 04 03 49
an addr ess a nd a c he c k s um so m essi ng it y FD7A 7 0 A l 2 8 O C 3 C 3 2 F 8 70 38 F D C A FE CB 7C 28 E8 7A E6 40 F5
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handler
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used at all £ 2 5 Te l Ste e p le Mordern
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285 after 4 and a sk for Simon.
Jacob Lomax. 10 Moss Deice Lane.
• Transform professional keyboard lo t sale Aughion, N r Ormsturk, Lance L39 5 0 1
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3273.
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or gul Contact Henrik Bromley, I Monroe
perfect condition Ha rd ly used. Will sell tor Drive, London s w i a 7AR.
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(0785) 43640,
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and leads £30 ono. Te l. 01-886 8036 after
6 30 and ask for Ronan Happorison, Ellondulakki it . 1019 Reylearik,
Iceland
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Battens g 42. 68100 Xestirehamn, Sweden
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microdrive, Kempsion Interlace and male pen pal to Swop tips and games Se n d
Quickshot 2 plus light pen £ 2 0 0 of games. a sae to Steven Mann, Church Farm, Little
50 computer magazines including Your Eversden C o m b s C113 7 H0
Spectrum end Crash. 12 microdrive
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cartridges plus reset button plus five books Swop games and tip s with. I have over 200
worth C500 -- se ll for £300. Te l. Flimwell games Ple a se write to Mikael Severn,
535 arid ask for M a ll after 8 Svangalan 8 0 , 5-803 59 Ga vle Sweden.
• L o n e ly male hacker needs Semite pen
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Abbot Croft, Westhoughton Bonon, Greater
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month to think about it and now we've come to collect our Flatting, Minber. Gla ss. Dambusters.
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protection money. Dat's right — the money you pay us to 81680 afier flpm and in k for Neil.
communicating.
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tapes.
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X On 10761) 52289 after 6 • Many lop originals to swag inc. Nodes Of books VGC bargain £130 T e l Ad ria n ,
Over Moscow, Matchpoint, and either • Wilt swop many programs for Spectrum, Yosod, Knoghtlore. Be a ch Head, Technician Bronent 294
Krirghtlore. Alie n 8. At ic M ac, Sabre M a le . OL. IBM -PC - I want Elite end Macadam Ted. Fu ll Throttle and more T e l C ra ig • ZX printer, three roes Paper, manual Cl I .
(Indervitorlde w i l l swop separately T e l Bumper for Spectrum. Have Pascal, C, L isp . between 6-9(055) 92371 Unused Spectrum keyboard £2.50 Unused
Gary on Northwich 47140. Devpac T e l Jo se ! on Pa ris 43322390 • Swop 16 games - JSW e t c . for Currah Widadrive plus two wafers, manuals £46.
• Swop Dun Derach for Erik The Viking. • Lots of games to swop Se n d your list AM Speech o r ZX printer of OK light pen plus 14 Z,X81 Memotech 64K RAM plus manual £8
Paul Rorarow. 11 Morkleben Brae. Milers answered L e o Gargan 1OF Belmar (Rocco. Sp y H. etc.) tor RD Digital Trace or Tel d ive , (0256)21822 alter 7.30
lennomown. Glasgow G65 7 6 V Court, Linwood. Rentrewshire, Scotland VTX 5000 Modem or micrectrive plus • Spectrum 48K, OK I ro n ie s sound synth,
• 1 e ll swop Cookie, Papedes, Wa rlo ck 01 PA3 381. Interface 1 . Everything complete M r L o p e s. Currah speech eynth t a p e recorder. over
Frelop Mountain. Wee tabix and the ra sh e s • Will swop Finders Keepers, Wizards Urban° de Mouta. 201-31, 4400 Gala 200 games worth E500. Se ll for E200 or
lot Monty Mote and Monty On The Run. Te l. Warriors, Vo lca n ic Dungeon Hu m p t y in M s Portugal swop for CBOA 64. Te l. Langhougleon 977
Robert on (0430213515. Garden f o r Drool Daze. Sp y v Sp y or • I have Bu g g y West, Go t h a and Aorwoll 644 and as* for Neit
• I'm a software swapper with over 300 Highway Encounter Writ e to Conan, M in iy• Will swop lo t Paws, Protect Future or • Expandable mother board plus OK
games to exchange. Wnte to Matthew Hook, don. Bu sh Drive. Liesingham. Norwich, Trashrnan. All three for the Je t Set Wray Tromes light pen interface, tape and manual.
5 Rocky Lane. Bournhealh, Bromsgrove, Norfolk Nelle12 03F editor T e l Ja m ie on 0 1 Will swop for good games progs. o r se ll for
Wogcs. B61 9 HP • Hello you folks down there in Britain Wa n t - E20. Write to M r K . Manna, 1 Sco tt Drive,
Ormsterk. Lance. 139 1PP
• Vell swop Space Shuttle, Flight
&mutation. Cooker. Pssst, for good condition
to swop games with me? rve lots of the very
latest software Se n d your list to Miettlei H A R D W A R E
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original Hobbot Writ e to Conn lattane. Heinen Aca cia 2 P. U631 OA, Hoogerheele. programmable poystick interface. Jo ysticks
Lissecreasig P O.. Macroorn, Co Cerk, Eee Holland • Trojan light pen worth t 19.95 - will sell and a game Of your choice Eg . Booty. M r
• I have over 500 progrems to swop Ple a se • Software to steep M a n y recent titles for £10. Ta t 302 0100 and a sk tot Paul alter Attack, etc. E45 ono. Tel, (0902) 892098.
write to Edmund Behrendorf. thielheimer including Maisporr Station. WOTEF. 4 We e kd a ys. • VTX Modem for sale Go o d condition, only
Wag 14, 5401 St Sebastian, West Germany Frankre, Hypersports. Sp y Hunter. C. • Will swag 100 tog games lot VTX 5000 or E35. Te l. (021) 449 0648 and ask for Josh
• Swop Marehrsay or Shadowfire for Bowler. 5 Beaumont Close, Barrow on Tre n t microdnve end Interface I 5 0 -7 0 games for Mier 4 pm please
Arnhem OTD, ADC M a c. Slonkers, Ora cle Derby D E7 1 H0 . Will answer a ll letters. printers. Many top games including all • 48K Spectrum a s hew Cassette recorder.
Cave Te l An t o n y on (0802) 384291 after 5. • Software to swop? I need Moon Croats Ultimate and US Gold plus Exploding Fist Kempslon Interface. Joystick speech
• Swop MCocter. Trib a l Trouble. Je lp a ce Write to D Wild , 22 Lenstery Road. end The Quilt I have most of Me current top synthesizer, books. mags, extra leads.
and C a m e (' far working DK Tronies light Edvonstowe, Notts N321 9 0 J. 30 and many pest no. I ' s. Write to Liam • ower p a ck. Ove r £300 software Ple a se
pen T e l Da rre n on (09931882439 • Will swop M r Wimpy, Chiller end Zip Zap Connelly. Cleghertown Clorialtry. Co make often Te l, Crayford 527849 abler 5
• I have Planetoid and Reversi, both brand Dublin. Eire .
for Match Day Writ e to T M at 20 • Spectrum. to profile keyboard, jo ystick.
new and unused, will swop tor Bo o t y Hyncieweed, Bernell:in Road, London • For sate Spectrum P r o l e k interlace, interface, light pen. Currah speech, cassette
Hungry Horace. Cyiu or Action Bike r Te l. SE23 2BH Alan p yst ick, maps, and top games like Wa y recorder re -se t button. software pH mags,
(03021 21504 - a s* for M arc • About 200 programs to swop Writ e to Luc Of The Exploding Fist, Decathlon and M a tch worth E500 Bargain at E2S0 Te l
• Many new titles to swop. We t s to E Bolikerink, Tenorstraat 7, 6524 KA, Day worth over El ID. All this for only E200 Northalleflon 7413308 and ask for Paul
Gerritsen Multres. Baankamp, 18, 7462 I D, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Simon Pa y. 86 New Street, Andover, • Broken doom 48K Spectrum lot la te
Reesen. Holland • Got Frienk Bruno's, Dynamite Dan. Hampshire, SPI O i OR Could b e repaired for E20. Offers welcome
• Swap Huh] and Runes Of Zendos and Tripods, Sir Lancelot. Ce ti, Archon, • For sale - Spectrum 48K. Atphacom 32 For details, write to Julian Acitard, 300
M e t Also Grew) for Ouicksilva Games Fairaght, Spectrum Sprees for Nodes Of printer and paper. Kempsion interlace and Mortimer Road, So u le Shields. Tyne and
Designer. Te l. M arlin 01-735 2043 Mon to Yesoct, Highway Encounter, OragonforC, joystick, over E275 of original software and Wear NNE34 OOL
Fri a lta r S. One On One w r i t e 10 Ivan 1 3 8 Sullivan over 50 magazines, worth over £350. • Spectrum to profile keyboard. cas, OK
• Swop Franke. Delay Thompson's Road, Coventry CU6 7 J5 at £225 T e l a l -4-64 6372 As k for Andy Trones dual port joystick interface t ID,
• C u rra h speech synth E20, Curran slot e l 0,
• • D e t a il Electronics joyseck interlace Eli) Al l

•• • B O O K YOLIFt F R E E AID H E R E • n e a rly new. Te l 701622

• • 48K and Interface II, jo yst ick and lots of
•• so f t w a re . Mac's. OK Tronics keyboard
• I f y ou'd l i ke to a dv e r ti s e in I nput / O ut put , pl e a s e w r i te in BLO CK CAP I TALS be l ow a nd s e nd • slig h t ly damaged N o tape recorder. E180
• t h e c oupon to I nput / O ut put Y our Si ncl ai r , 1 4 R a t hbone P l ace, London W1P I D E - oh, a nd • o n o Bu ye r collects Te l. M ark on (021) 440
•• d o n ' t for ge t your a ddr e s s a nd phone num be r . We c a n't a c c e pt a ny s oftw a r e sal es, a nd thi s • 1696
• s e r v i c e is onl y avai l abl e to pr i v a te a dv e r ti s e r s . •• VTX 5000 Modem for sale o r sweet On ly
• •• E 8 0 - perhaps swop lof Alphecom 32 o r
•• P l e a s e e nte r my advert under the following classification: • m icro d rive without interface T e l . (0502)
• L i H a r d w a r e E l S o f t w a r e E W a n t e d E Me s s a g e s & Events 0 P e n Pals • 6 0 9 6 4 and ask tor James
• •• • 48K Spectrum, Saga keyboard, Interface
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lobo Davidson on the new Spectrum — is its number up?

I do hope the prospect of a the numbers had become software for the new on form if that's your thing.
new and 'bigger Spectrum, inflated and confusing, but computer that won't run on You won't get the
on the lines of the Iberian because other buzzwords the several million 48K improvements without
variant, coming in the new had arisen, like FM, AFC, Spectrums that have already problems, either. The new
year did not put anyone off and IC. No ones impressed been sold. You might as well computer will suffer from
buying a proper British by transistors anymore. write programs for the hardware incompatibility with
Standard version at The Spectrum 128 (the Enterprise. some of the add-ons made
Christmas. Unfortunately, its Spanish one — I haven't seen Certainly Tasman will patch for the old machines. Is it
inevitable that some potential a British one yet) has a few their word-processor to be worth junking your Centronics
purchasers were mesmerised new features that are able to use the new built in interface or maybe even a
by the numbers 128 and genuinely useful, but the RS232 port, and someone disk set-up just to get some
became hysterically unable bigger memory is just a else will produce a program extra memory that you aren't
to get their hands into their marketing ploy. The idea is to using the Midi output. These going to use? How much will
wallet pockets. After all, kid new buyers who don't are specialist applications it cost you to replace your
everyone knows that a 125cc know any better, that the new that have a limited market VTX500 modem with
motorbike is much more Spectrum is comparable to anyway, so the software something that doesn't get
powerful than a 49cc moped, the Commodore 128, or the houses don't expect to sell to tangled up in the 128's
so obviously a 128K Beeb 128, or the Amstrad everyone. Besides, such paging hardware? The more I
computer is nearly three 128, and that it's not being programs are already think about it, the more I
times as good as a 48K one. left behind. They can, accustomed to providing a reckon that the best thing
Hee, heel therefore, make their variety of add-on interfaces. about the 128, when it
It's a long time now since I momentous decision on the However, I predict that both comes, is going to be the
saw a transistor radio that basis that "both computers RS232 and Midi will be consequent big drop in price
had the number of transistors on my shortlist are 128K, but frustratingly non-standard for the old models.
it used emblazoned across the Spectrum has more and tricky to use, a la Maybe it is impossible to
the front of its escutcheon, software' Interface 1. upgrade the Spectrum
but radio manufacturers used . It's only after they've got it Putting the sound through usefully and still have
to do that. It was a way of home that they'll find Out that the TV is a big improvement, Spectrum compatibility. Still,
impressing people who were most of that memory is and one that'll work with all there are improvements I'd
ignorant of any aspect of switched off whenever they're the old software. The three have rather had than extra
radio circuitry that one tranny actually running any of the channel sound chip is memory, like a built in disk, or
was better than another. This programs in the enormous something else. If it's really if you must, a microdrive. And
made a little bit of sense Spectrum software base. But only available in 128K mode, why still no joystick port?
because more sophisticated don't worry, the same thing is then no one will use it for Why, above all, treat us to a
receiver circuits generally true of the expanded games. If it can be accessed calculator keypad on the end
required more bits to make Commodore and bumped up in 48K mode then some of a bit of curly cable? No
them up, though no one ever Beeb. The extra memory is games may have two sets of one, even in Barcelona, could
advertised a radio as having not there to be used, it's just sound routines and test possibly believe that two
22 resistors and 9 electrolytic been chucked into the box so which computer is being used nasty, tacky keyboards is an
capacitors. that '128K' can be stamped before selecting the form of improvement on one nasty,
Part of the reason this on the front. It costs sound output. tacky keyboard. Surely the
emphasis on semi-conductor practically nothing to include We won't be able to tell if extra resources would have
content faded away was that it and it does allow the it's worth buying the 128K for been better spent on a real
the price of transistors anxious punter to buy the the improved sound, colour keyboard at long last?
dropped to the point where it computer he wants without monitor output (how many No doubt the 'new improved'
was cheaper to design a feeling that he has made can afford a monitor?) and an Spectrum will sell, but if
circuit to use lots of some kind of techoological RS232 that, I predict, won't you're serious about
transistors rather than lots of, faux pas. And thdse extra K work with a full duplex upgrading to an advanced
say, coils. Some radios were are even connected into the modern, until we know the computer, the time will
even produced that had extra circuit — no cheating here! price. It can't be worth much probably come when you just
transistors soldered into any Those of us with older extra, as you can already get have to abandon your
spare corner without even Spectrums needn't worry, these things in add-on form Speccy and its plentiful
being connected to the either. No sane software quite cheaply if you want software. Not yet awhile, but
circuit! But the real reason writer (yes, I know they're not them. In fact, you can have someday. Maybe when they
the practice died was not that all sane) is going to produce extra paging memory in add- get the 01_ sorted out.

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