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ArkanoidOceanH ow Arkatund managed tobecome a CialSiC bafflesme. After the screen shots, Ithought thi s has cobwebsOn it'. However, trying veryhard not to judge book bycover I played a fr iend'scopy. I still remained un-

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Little ComputerPeople 128ActivisionT thi nk Gr aham Ta y l or

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bish! I find Listening toBarry M a n i ! * * m or e i n -teresting. And isn't i t a bi tsilly using hal f the screenfor a name and life's 'mace?How can anyone ki l l thoseidiots prancing about w i thguns? I couldn't hi t themfrom I CM away. The scroll-ling is terrible and the musicIs too horrible to think ob.out. Whe n I set the pr is-oner free with my knife hescarpered a nd l eft m e t o

FeudMastertronic

thought your review ofFued was total trollop.

'Highly entertaining', AndyMoss said. 'Highly boring' ismore l i k e i t , haw i ng t otramp backwards and for -wards t r y i ng t o col l ec tspells. I t gels worse whenyou try to escape from theother w i z ar d. Col l ec ti ngspells can be a pain as wellbecause you can get totallylost in the maze, There isn'tmuch colour mixing, b u twhen y ou do ge t i t , i t 'shorrific! I have got to admitthe graphics are very goodand the movement is fair lygood but that's about it. It'sthe kind of game I playedonce or twice and then le-ave on a shel f to col lectdustODarren RouthSouth HumbersideGame Choice:Shadow Skimmer

face the music,. N o w I e n j oy

killing him w i th whateverweapon I have. And onceI'm in the camp I can't findthe hel i copter anywher e.Everyone who wines in ab-out Rambo says It's great. Ilust don't under stand i tRambo; star rating OnMart in CulpeckSuffolkGame Choice:Judge Dredd

Fist I IMelbourneHouseI r a t e revtew said Fist

was an improvement onII the fi nd game. How wrongcould you be? Those w hoenjoyed the original will beseverely disappointed. Thegraphics for your bloke areall right but the back dropsare nai l . Whoever saw asquare tree! Ther e i s nosound except when you gointo combat, and that rarelyhappens. Y o u a l s o s a i dthere was a lot of runningaround. That's all you seemto do in this game. I n theongtnal Ft-1 at least some-thing was happening all thetime. Altogether it's all fair-ly bo nrigeDavid BroadbentHerne Bay, KentGame Choice:Nemesis1M I E MO I n mi

Every so often — well very often actually — you write to

tell us that we know nothing about anything and insistthat some program we trashed is actually the best gameever. Conversely you blast us for saying something is greatthat you absolutely loath and detest

Enough is enough. We can't take any more, if you Hunkyou're so clever you write the damn magazine. We mean it!

Every month we'll devote a page to a selection of youropinions on the latest software. Don't get mad - write thereview you think the game should have received and we(subject only to space) will print

Now, aside Irons seeing your work in print we will sendyou a crisp El (l—er, cheque w i t h which to buy thesoftware title of your choice — tell us what you plan tospend the money on if year review is printed.

One request, we want to know what you look like so sendus a picture. Any old picture will do — you at home, in Ibiza,in the garden, even making silly faces in photobootius wedon't care.

So get cracking — write your reviews and send themtogether with the completed coupon below.YOUR REVIEWSMaximum ISO words. No swearing, libel or illegibility andcome out of the corner fighting. Don't beat around the bush -tell us straight what you think. Send your review I of anyrecent game) plus your picture and fill in the coupon. "sendthe lot to The Write Stuff, Sinclair User, 30-32 FarringdonLane, London EC IR 3All.

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and general wonderfulness all round. So, what is it all about eh? Doyou raid a bank and splash out on all the games or do you decide,being a miserable old cynic, to wait unti l the games have beenreviewed and reviewed and then not buy them anyway?

Here's the ideal answer - say to yourself ''My. I 'd really like to geta decent Gauntlet clone" and then trot a l to buy Into the EaglesNest Next time around say to yourself "I 'd like a fast gung-ho gamewith smart graphics and challenging gameplay which Is set to jointhe rest of the company's classics" and order Gunrunner Immedi-ately. Finally, you've managed to find another tenner and say "My.I'd love a bat •ri• ball type game that is slightly better than anothergame which looks just the same although is diffierent" and rush offto gel you grubby hands around Krakout

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e a special agent, codename FALCON, and your mission is to halt theof a renegade Time Lord who is threatening to disrupt future history by his

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are some general lips. Watch111 out for the goods next time.

a) Keep running! I usually to-tally forget about collecting for

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thing wh a t s o e v e r . w h i c hmeans that i t ' s a dodge and

• blast game. The fi rst level is'eally easy. The lest object youzollect s nould b e t h e mul t i

• tningy which allows your shotsto multiply. This is probably themost useful. Next oIf, grab the

' poison and then forget aboutfiring at the aliens. Keep run-

• fl ing and use the poison whenany m a r a u d i n g a l i e n sapproach - r e m e m b e r .

• though, some of the aliens flyalong t he t o p a n d c a n b eavoided easily . So . y ou wi l lhave t o paus e f o r a f e wseconds to suss out the alien

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Usually there are some sortol baddie o n y our t ale a n dwhen you come to try to turnaround, t hey t end t o collideinto y ou - a bad thing. I t isoften be t t e r t o fl y a roundavoiding every thing totally t oget t he survival bonus Th e nyou're onto the next levelWaffle, w a f fl e , r a t a t a t a t .'Arrrgh! waffl e. waffle, ratatat.crunch, waffl e, ' A l las t , t heexit!'. W e l l d o n e s on, y o uhave blown t he cast le apartand all you need do now is torescue another twelve prison-ers before lunch. In the mean-time, have a medal.

Into the Eagle'sNestA , 5 possibly the most fabulousGauntlet c lone that has ever

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IZAPICHyour lit t le man wi l l suddenlycroak. It is impossible to headupwards t hrough t he cast le,letting off the dynamite as yougo because on your way backdown t h e who le cas t le wi l lblow up with Henry or Vera orwhatever y ou choose t o callhim lor her) still in aMission Two.Okay, s o y ou think y ou a repretty smart hay ing blown thecastle apar t wit hout get t ingsinged. a n d s o y o u r a r efoolhardy enough t o re-enterthe cas t le (whic h has beenrebuilt in ten seconds) and tryto rescue a prisoner Now, thisis actually quite easy as Her-bert (t he prisoner) is alwayshidden away on the sixth floor.So. mak e y our way througheach success ive fl oor grab-bing the ammo and keys butremembering t o l e a v e t h emace kits unless really neces-sary. Once y ou reac h t he s ix thfloor, it is t ime to go Herbertspotting. On this mission he isgenerally always in the samehole watching Surprese Surpri-se on the telly. Make your way

to h i m and run int o h i m t ocatch his attention. Now, pro-vided y ou don' t rush of t t oefast, Herbert wi l l f ollow y ouallowing you to guide him backto the ground fl oor Y o u maythink t hat t he hardes t bi t i sover, but beware! Herbert hasthe tendency to stand right thyour wa y whic h i s ev er s oslightly annoy ing T h e b e s 'way to dispose of Herbert for awhile to allow you to polish offa few Nazis, is to shoot him'Once he gets the message. hedisappears for a sulk and youcan catch u p wit h h im lateronce t he panic s tat ions a reover.

You c an als o mak e gooduse of ote• Herbie I f a group ofsoldiers are hot on your tail,why not gel Herbert to stand inthee way and thus shield youRather nifty!Missions Three and Four.So. you've panned the Naz ison the previous two missionsand want things to heat up abit Miss ion three instructs youto res c ue anot her He r b e tHowever. o l d Herbiebaby

not on the sixth fl oor - on facthe could be lus t about any -where and this is generally aharder task to complete Mis -sion four has you detonat ingthe castle again although thereare less medical kits and am-mo around. Why no more tips?I can't get any further'General Hints. (who is he?)On the prev ious page are afew diagrams which try to tellyou where about s t he ex it sand entrances detanators, andother goodies a r e o n eac hfloor I t would take ages andages to plot out the whole thingand unless I get given a BMWor something. I 'm not going tobe the mug and do it. No fear'But' Wait ' Hang loose' Thereare a f ew helpful ' h inges t oreduce t h e amoun t o f h a sadding up and they are:a) When approaching a lock-ed door. you usually need torun into it arid then run back -Res almost certainly causes afew hits. The easiest way toopen the doors if they are rightup front, Is to nudge up to thewall and then tap the joystickdown once to open the door.(See diagram A)bi Another goodie is how t o

It was t here last month butit s here this month and prob-ably will be here next monthunlike las t mon t h wh e n i twasn t e r e at ail unlike thismonth when i t ' s here. Th eexchange seems to be gettinga bit popular which was actual-ly quit e a surprise a n d s o.without turther ado, here wego•al wntten

quoted were comprent' What s a l l about eh?Anyhow, s h a l l quote s omeand the names of people whosent the goods in. What youneed to do is to press the CapsLock. A.Z.Vil and Edit keys onthe Plus O n the Pius 2 and128, press 0 and Delete ter,being c omplet et y def erent -press O. W. A arid Z Peopleweo scribbled a note include:-Gerald Geddes Cr is pin Vet -ender J o n Cn p o s . D a v i dLewis, A lan Edwards M a r kStanley, James Watson. GarryDara, Pau l Wright a n d Th eJellybean IMark Fisher).hI M•Miaely from Cartord wro-te in t o comptain about t heIdiot s Gulde t o PpkIng t hatappeared in t he me g a f ewmonths back H e rabbits o nand on not fully realising that Idid not in fact have anythingwhatsoever to do with the arti-cle in question' it wasn't me! Iam innoc ent ' I n t a c t . Iapproached the esteemed Edi-tor (may h is name only b ementioned i n bus hed tortes

Oii Wotcha 'Chelle (Lof ty mode.) Did ya hear what Den •s been upto? Well es splashed out an' bought loads of Nemes is tape thinglesYeah Well I don't know what they are either but e says they're thein thing. Yeah. No. I don' t think it 's a method of birth control N aYeah. wolcha Dot 'Av e a look at this chart thing for Nemes is . It sortof tells ya your height and the corresponding weight you should be.yeah I think that's it and the bloke at the top is the fittest or somethinglike that. Yeah

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Roll up! Roll up' The ever elusive are: tl , a n a l eaaeShirt is winging it 's way v ia first c lass pidgeon to Dave of theCrawford. Some people always seem to get pitiful scores such asMark Taylor who blames everything on the keyboard Nex month,the totally great i t a not c rap) Gunrunner wi l l be under t hemicroscope. get the scores in soon

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etc) wi t h t he idea o r d u n e t a n k c l o s e t o t h o s e o i leornething like that yona,s ago A m a u r o t e which, only c os t sSend y ou complaints t o t he E 2 99, The gameplay is mono-Hardware page! t O r i o u s and would probably putc) Good gnat! This next one is p e o p l e o i l t h e g a me a l t o -total tossbianKetry. bu t here g e t h e r I t h i nk i t s rea l l ygoes. Ry a n Mc in t ry e f r o m g o o d s a i d Da v i d V e s t 'Yorkshire wrote in to tell me a h a i l e d the rest ol the stall •B u tsecret c onc erning Z u b . 11 y o u really need two people toseems you can press 2, 4, 6 c o n e d the thing properly I r n -and 8 and a little word cheat a q u a e s answer to mult i-player

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in concerning Endurothat s not all, oh no' If you have d e a r .

Racer !torn Activision Now. it a plus two. presS 3 5 7 when O n t o more cheerful telegeseems there is a cheat that y o u are in the cheat mode and a n d t h e X e n o c ompet it ionallows you to press a law Keys a completely dif terent game W h i C h IS still open for anybodyand zoom oft to stage lour in a a p p e a r s and i t s called Light - t o enter. If you tancy a day tripmatter of seconds Th e p a - t o r c e , Art art! You don't expect t o London to challenge your-sPing thing was that all cheats m e to believe that one' Pull the t r u l y at a f ew rounds of t heteIv chile- o t h e r pioneer' g a m e p l a y , then hurry up and

F nail a few pleas for bps w r i t e in Th e day will probablybe s omet ime i n J uly s o 0lit be

on rea l ly o l d g a me s I aappeared yonks ago. N. Dale y o u ' r e s t ill a t s e •would l i k e s o m e u p s o n d u n n g the hot s Y o u II be fedchuck le E g g a n d Chuc k le a n d watered and t he winnerEgg 2, Malcolm Young would m i g h t lust get a prize at teougelike bele wi t h (deep breath) w e haven I thought of what yetThe Boggit . Koby as hi Ne u , N e v e r mind, it s bound to beKent illam S e a b a s e De l t a . t o t a l l y wonderful and uniqueQuest f or the Holy Grail and S o . get those entnes in soon'Robin ot Sherlock. Have you T o finisn oil this monthsnoticed anything in part icular? ( i n s e r t your own adiective) col-Yes! They ' re a l l adv ent ure u m n • let s take a quick look atgamest Any how. I I any body H e w s M swants to help and Sends in the N e x t month I it try 10 get yagoods, I shall pass them on t h e maps of all ten levels whichmere I was. innocently a t s h o u l d be a bit of tun I n thePaving a bas h a t t he tOtally me a n t i me , ge t c rank ing t h atwondertul t ie riot c rap) Head l o y s t i c k on the game and thenover Heats from Ocean, when s e n d your Pep scores in torthis Editor thtngy springs f rom t h e Zapchat ChatOertge D M Ipis desk to load in I magines l o g e * t e e t ot ally wonderf ulOcean Dinamic's Any o n es X t r i O c o m p o N o w , u n t il n e xt

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IS TH E WARLOCK T A P E "5 0 RANDO MI ZE U S R 3 2 0 0 0

100 DATA 2 2 1 , 3 3 . 7 0 7 , 9 2 , 1 7 , 2 3 4110 D A TA 6 , 6 2 . 2 5 5 , 5 5 , 2 0 5 , 8 6 , 5120 DATA 4 8 . 2 4 1 , 2 4 3 , 2 3 7 , 9 4 , 3 3130 DATA 44,1 2 5 . 2 29 , 3 3 , 1 87 , 9 8

140 DATA 2 2 9 , 5 1 , 5 1 , 1 7 . 2 4 3 , 1 8 7150 DATA 1 . 3 6 , 3 , 3 3 , 2 5 3 , 9 4 . 6 2160 D A TA 2 0 2 , 2 3 7 , 7 9 , 1 9 5 , 1 8 7 , 9 R170 DATA 3 3 , 7 0 , 1 2 5 . 2 2 9 , 3 3 , 2 3180 DATA 1 8 8 , 2 2 9 , 5 1 , 5 1 , 1 7 , 3 3: 9 0 DATA 1 8 8 , 1 , 2 4 6 , 2 , 3 1 , 3 3 . 1 8 8200 DATA 6 2 , 2 0 8 , 2 3 7 , 7 9 , 1 9 5 , 2 32 1 0 D A TA 1 8 8 , 3 3 . 3 3 , 1 8 8 . 1 7 , 2 0 92 2 0 DATA 1 3 8 , 1 , 9 2 , 0 , 2 3 7 , 1 7 6 , 7 72 7 0 D A TA 2 2 8 , 1 3 8 , 3 4 . 2 3 3 , 1 1 8 , 3 42 4 0 DATA 2 3 7 , 1 1 8 , 1 1 , 2 1 8 , 1 3 8 , 3 42 5 0 n A T A 2 4 5 . 1 7 8 , 3 3 , 2 5 5 . 1 3 8 , 7 42 6 0 DATA 9 , 1 1 9 . 6 2 , 1 9 5 , 5 0 , 2 9 , 1 3 92 7 0 DATA 3 3 , 1 1 6 , 1 2 5 , 3 4 , 3 0 . 1 3 92 8 0 DATA 1 9 5 , 2 0 9 , 1 7 8 , 7 1 , 1 1 4 , 1 2 52 9 0 DATA 1 7 , 1 7 9 , 1 9 0 , 1 , 7 . 0 , 2 3 77011 DATA 1 7 6 , 1 7 5 , 5 0 , 1 9 5 , 1 9 0

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STAR RAIDERS IIType in the listing a n d RUN i tbefore playing in the g a me tapefrom the beginning, Your ship isnow undestructible.

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THRUST IIType in the listing a n d RUN itbefore playing in the g a me tapefrom the beginning. You'll nowhave infinite lives.

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100 D A TA 7 1 . 2 3 7 , 8 6 , 2 4 3 , 2 4 1110 D A TA 1 9 3 , 2 0 9 , 2 2 5 , 2 5 5 , 2 0 12 0 0 P R I N T " P R E S S ANY KE Y T O NEWCOMPUTER"2 1 0 P R I N T " T H E N TY P E LO AD

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HYDROFOOLType in the listing and RUN i tbefore playing in the g a me tapefrom the beginning. You will nowbe invincible!

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Americans invented StrategicDefence Innuit iv e. or Star Wars , toprevent it. And the boys atACtriOSIOn are t u rn ing I t into agame called H ig h F r o n t i e r

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publis her. P a u l Hibba rd , mays t h egame was designed wit h the conver-s ion i n m in d " I t ' s on ly t he begin.rang. " h e says_ N o h u m F o r t h eprogrammer, Jaz San, We a dreamcoins t r u e apparent ly . A s a t o t a larcade n u t case, h e says t h a t it 'salways been h is dream to have oneof his Own a m e s in the arcades

0 I f Ric ha rd B ra n n o n wa s n ' treal, s omeone would 'v e h a dto i n v e n t h i m W i t h o u t R ic h a rdBranson there would be no modern-day super heroes. No one to look upto A n d V irg in wou ld probably no thave thought up a game based on aballoon t ra p Domes t h e A t lan t ic .Those of you who are keen Branson-watchers w i l l doubtless rec all t ha tDickle's o f f ac ros s t h e aea i n abasket attached to s omething full ofhot a ir . A n d t h e n e w game f r o mVirgin, due for release in mid-J une,Is bawd on a bloke who goes acrossthe SSA i n s basket attached t osomething fi l l e d w i t h h o t a i rSounds a bit lik e a r iv a l Spec t rum

magazine t o m e ) V i r g i n ' s boas ,Nick A lex ander, den ies t h a t t h egame is o n ly c oming o u t becauseBranson i s t h e o v e ra l l bos s . H edescribes the game as hav ing, 'con-s iderable c ommerc ia l potent ial. ' Sothere you have i t

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405CAI L d f2010 i -% .

I t 's a b r i l l i a n t s k a t e b o a r d i n g s i m u l a -t i on ga m e w h i c h t a k e s i t s n a m e f r o mw h a t i s a p p a r e n t l y o n e o f t h e m o s tdi f fi c ul t s k a t e b o a r d i n g m a n e o u v r e s —

You may remember t hat notso l o n g ago A c t iv is ion ac -

quired t h e r i g h t s t o I n fooc un'sgoodies over here 11110e0M IS t hetop US adv ent ure hous e - m o r e

famous even than Le ie i 9 ,Which led us a t t o wo n d e rwhether o r not, perchance, Ant iv i-Mon m i g h t see i t s w a y c le a r t oconvert ing Infoc om goodies t o t heold twell, quite new rea lly ) 128K +3

Inside sourcee tell us that conver-sions to the Plus 3 have been discus-sed a t Ac t iv is ion To we rs S o I t spossible t h a t i n t h e n e a r f u t u re .snme of L c-A c o r n ' s b r i l li a n t g oo d ie s

wil l be scoeseible to Speocy ownersWe wa i t eagerly t o see i f gems

such as The Bi tc h Bi k e r s ' Outdoto the Galax y and Douglas Adams 'IsteSt linf000m adventure Bureauc -rac y wil l t u rn up

0 Th e re is s t i l l s ome h a l f wa yserious s t u f f about f o r t h eSpec trum b u t I t cornea f r o m Ger-many . Wouldn ' t you k n o w i t I n d i -v idual s o f t wa re h a s dev eloped aquas i-Gem s ty le f ro n t end f o r usewit h t he Beta disc drive. Called theV i s i o n Doak Top it eits in Rom in abit of nif ty hardware celled the Setac ont ro ller w h i c h wo rk s w i t h t h eBeta disc drive. The same companyis a l so pr oducing the Ba t a P a c kwhic h is a bunch of five 4.1503. w o r t hOf u t il it y programs for use wit h thedriv e Las t ly there is the Beta Bootprogram whic h lets you do all k indsof nif ty s tuf f wit h Beta driv e &les -lik e one-t ouc h loading_ Other s tuf fis o n t h e w a y a n d f o r t hos e m -wres ted m o r e de t a ils c a n b e g o tf rom Re inha rd Kowals k i, 2 I A Te lfersoott Road, London SW IR OHW

SINClaiR USER JULY 1987

a doubl e l oop i n m i d- a i r .T h e b e t t e r y o u d o a t t h e g a m e t h e

m or e po i n t s y ou ge t to buy e x t r a e qui p-m e n t — h e l m e t s , b e t t e r b o a r d s , p a d sa n d shoes . A n d w i t h a l l t h a t l ot y ou c a nj u m p h i ghe r , s k a t e f a s t e r a n d ge ne r a l -l y be e f up y o u r b o n u s po i n t s .

So f a r t h e r e ' s n o de t a i l s o f p r i c e o ra v a i l a b i l i t y f o r t h e t w o t i t l e s b u t i t i sl i k e l y U S G ol d p l a n s a l a u n c h i n t i m ef or Chr i s t m a s .

0 I t was decided, many moonsago, i n t h e dep t hs o f a norganis at ion k n o w n a s t h e s o f t,ware i n d u s t r y , t h a t s o m e t h i n gs hould be done t o h e lp imp o v e reshed s of t ware buy ers A n d w h a tbet ter than by giv ing them ten greatgames f o r t h e p r ic e o f one g re a tgame? You don't believe it? Well AStrue. I t s c alled la c k p a c k . and it 'sbeing co-ordinated by Ian Stewart ofG remlin and Rod Cousens of Ac t ivnglom The t it les mc it ide auc h gemsas M o n t y on this l o w and S ta rS tr i ke a nd I l ta t i t G unna r E v e nbetter, t he who le t h ing 's i n a id o fthe NSPCC, s o y o u c an hav e t h esat is fac t ion of gett ing a lot of gamesat a k noc k -down pric e, arid g iv ingmoney to c harit y

0, It is our sad duty to inform

you o f t h e demis e o f SagaSystems Saga e lled a need f o r decent keyboards to beef up the rubberkeys of the Spec trum Now, perhapswit h the 128K -,- X keyboard prov ingsuch a success, Saga h a s fi n a l lybeen forced to close down Saga bossDavid White had a meet ing of Sagasc reditors on J une fi th Saga wi l l besorely mimed

0 I nc ent iv e h a s la u n c h e d anew adv enture label t o corn-pine' ent t h e G o ld Meda l l ion t ab leIt 's g o in g t o be t e r r ib ly ex c it ing,because i t 's goi ng t o feature t w oGold medallion games for the priceof one. £ 7 9 5 J u s t before y ou a l lrus h o u t a n d lo o k i n y o u r loc a ls of tware shop for this fantas t ic newdeal, let me tell you that t he label iscalled Double Gold, and that s houldno surpritte to anyone

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THAT WAS THEMONTH THAT WAS

By pricing the 128K -- 3 at

E249 Amstrad may havemade i ts fi rs t mistake sincetaking on the Spectrum fourteenmonths ago.

In fact Amstrad is in danger ofmaking with the Plus 3 all thesame errors i t made with i tsCPC6128 a year earlier.

Amstrad's boss is quite openabout his primary objective - tomake lotsa cash. a l ot betterthan the Sinclair alternative, tolose lotsa cash.

But by trying t o maximiseshort term profit and run boththe Plus 2 and Plus 3 machinesin parallel - like he tried to runthe CPC4 4 and 6128 - justwon't work.

As with the CPC series theprice of the disc machine isbeing kept artificially high tomake room for the cassettebased machine underneath.

What happened with the discCPC machine was that peoplecontinued to buy the cassettemachine, sales of the 6128 re-mained disappointing and, as adirect result, software housesnever really got behind i t andsupported it with enhanced discsoftware.

So the disc machine becamea kind of go-faster stripes ver-sion of the cassette based sys-tem only running software de-signed for the cassette machinethat happened to be on disc.

Now the same late is likely tobefall the Plus 3. It will becomea machine t o us e cassettesoftware-only loaded from disc.

Until a user-base of around100.000 machines ha s beenestablished software houseswon't consider supporting i twith special disc-only games.

Amstrad shouldn't l e t tha thappen to the Plus 3. It's a greatmachine capable o f runninggames of considerably greatersize a nd graphic complexitythan the Plus 2.

Now is the right time for areally well supported disc ver-sion of the Spectrum. And forthat the price must come down.So come on Amstrad give us thePlus 3 a t E175 by Christmas.You know it makes sense!

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and must not be revealed tounauthorised sources. Thi sreview will self destruct in fiveminutes. And counting...

(This review is to be read in apseudo-American accentl. Hiy'aill How's about a little bit ofcombat fighter pilot practise?How d'you feel about a little'spin in the Iiir or F-15 StrikeEagle, the noo sooper flightsimulator game, featuring thehigh-tech, all-weather, airsuperiorty and ground attackfighter, the good or Strike Eagleitself? And while we're up an'away in the jet fighter, how's •about a k i r or raid on Libya. orTripoli or even the mean orPersian Gulf?

Simulation games are hotstuff in the Slates. and Wild Bill(Microprose head honcho)specialises in sooperior games.These are not games for boys,these are games for MEN an' nomessing. So watch out Limey's,Wild Bill an hi s jet plane ontheir way!

(This review has beeninterrupted for reasons ofsecurity. The remainder will beread in a BBC announcer tone ofvoice)

There is truly nobody tomatch Mircopose when itcomes to committment tosimulation games. The manwho brought the AmericansConflict of Vietnam and F-15Strikes again

Fl5Str ike Eagle is certainlyone of the most complexaround. The detail is precise,even down to processing ofeach fighter pi lots specialpasscode at the beginning.Without the correct code it isimpossible to gain access to allthe weapons aboard theaircraft. And what a lot ofweapons there are! Shells forthe destruction of heat-seekingmissiles from enemy bases.Bombs to destroy theaforementioned enemies.Medium, long-range, heatseeking missiles. Radar blocksfor all sorts of nasty bits.

And those are just the

E l l has always rated software outof five. Five was great and One wasawful. It served us well enough butjust recently we've been gett inggames that fall between the cracksin our star rating. We figured there

weapol l i rThere are extras.Before you get to bombanything, you've got to learn tofly the wretched thing.

And that's not an easy task.There's cl imbing and diving,banking and turning,windspeed, alti tude andacceleration to be considered.Just to keep you going in astraight line.

So it's very sophsticated, verycomplex. Ther e are variousattack missions you can go on

and different problems in each.Each is based on the real

thing e.g. bombi ng lybia (gulp).There's no doubt that F-15

Strike Eagle is an intricate,highly detai led and verysuperior simulator. But anygame that comes with a 40-page instruction manual is notgoing to be easy to get into.Al though I wil l ingly give fullmarks to Microprose for asupreme attempt at producingthe defini tive simulation, I feel

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* * * * *Very good Indeed. A must buy* * * *

* * * * * Brilliant. Must buy at all costs* * * * *

that in the case of F-15Str ikeEagle, some gameplay has lostout to technical detail.Simulation or shoot em•up, thepoint behind computer gamesis ultimately entenai nmentMicroprose places a lot ofemphasis on as games teachingthe player something. Wi th F-15, it's taken that principle a bi ttoo far... Added to the difficultyof controll ing the darned thing.there's the problem of thegraphics. Having been bl indedby science, Microprose seemsto have skimped on thegraphics, they're really not sohot.

It's a shame that suchprogramming detail game is letdown by such simple graphics•

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Avoid this game under all circumstances

Poor andor massively overpriced

Dull and uninteresting, If nor actually awful

Fairly average. Nothi ng to get excited about

OK but nothing special

* * * N o t bad, some good points. See before you* * * b u y

Pretty good, We were qui te ImpressedWorth a look

Good stuff, Well wor th the money

The best program of Its type we ve seen todate

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with the exception of

the odd decentsoundtrack or two,

there has been no reason, so faras commercially available soft-ware i s concerned, t o buy a128K Spectrum.

Despite reasonably positivenoises when the 128K machinescame out, mostly the softwarehouse have done nothing to puttheir words into practice.

Yet now we have Taipei%supposedly a real 128K game -developed and conceived as128K to make use of all thememory and extra sound. Theidea is the process worksexactly backwards - the 48Kversion is a stripped downversion of the original insteadof the 128K edition being amarginally souped up 48K. So,is Taipan anything special?

Taipan is big, that's one signof the its 128K-ness - and it hasa continuous orientalsoundtrack. I t isn't easy todescribe - that's another. Call itan arcade, strategy, buying andselling game and you'rehalfway there. Playingtechniques veer sharplybetween carefully consideredwheeler-dealer financialplanning as you allot money todifferent bits of equipment andthe fast-reaction combat part ofthe game that can only bedescribed as Gauntlet on thehigh seas.

The object is become theTaipan - head honchomerchant prince of the highChina seas-that means makinga lot of money. And that meanstrading - buying goods cheap inone port and selling themexpensive in another. This ispartly a matter of soundcapitalist judgement - one

In sharp contrast to Teipen, it

is pretty easy to summariseRoadrunner. You control

Roadrunner and as you'dexpect you run away as muchas possible. Over a variety ofscrolling desert landscapes youcontinue the age-old battlebetween an obscure desert birdand its arch adversary theCoyote

The spirit of the cartoon andindeed the coin-op of which thisis a conversion, has beenfaithfully captured. The desertlandscape has been drawn insurprisingly impressive detail.The scrolling is even hal f-waysmooth. More disappointing isthe size of the two protagonists- tiny little sprites_ You get usedto it, but surely they could bebigger. Maybe part of thereason is speed.

aspect of the game - but alsodepends of all kinds of acradeskills as you forcibly recruitsailors (by press-ganging them,le, hi tting them over the head)or even offering them money towork for you (wimp) and thentry to sail the China seas toanother port. The sailing bit iswhere things really get rough -you are likely to be blown in thewrong direction, or you have tochoose your route carefullydepending on the time of year,or be attacked by pirates - someinland routes are safer (butslower) than others. On theother hand you may even wantto do a little boarding andpillaging of your own.

Actually stealing otherpeople's ships is the best way ofmaking money in Talpan (this isThatcher 's Britain after all). I fyou capture a ship (by killingthe captain) and leave enoughmembers of its crew alive youcan control it as your own,thereby adding to your fleet anddramatically increasing theamount of freight you can carry.

On arrival at a port you mustfind a warehouse, sell off theship's cargo, reload all yourships with new cargo and sendthem off again (an idle ship justdrains cash in the form of crewswages and food).

There are other features to

The success of the game (andthe cartoon) is the sense ofcrazed pace at which chasesoccur. You run around thedesert paths with the coyoteAlways only steps behind,losing t i me w he n Roadr unnerhas to stop and peck up seed.

As the level increases thedesert paths get more and moretwisty - any time lost bybumping into passing rocks orworse still, runing up bl indpaths, brings the Coyote thatlittle bit nearer. You can'tafford to make manymistakes

the game as well - in the firstinstance your adventur ing isfinanced by a loan - a loan fromthe kind of people who chopyour head off if you don't makethe repayments

You can also earn extramoney (in the 128K version) bydoing a spot of gambl ing on aseries of rotating tilesrepresenting mythical Chineseanimals: Deer. Horse, Fish.Cow, Sheep and Dragon. Itworks like a cross between

Quite apar t from the Coyote -who pursues you relentlessly -there is every chance thatRoadrunner will be run down byone of the countless Acmetrucks that zoom down thedesert highway_ TheAcme Co are ontheir way todeliver

I tt i

horse racing and a fruitmachine and you bet cash onthe likelyhood of one or anothertile turning up. It is possible tomake or lose absolute fortunesat this game and if therefore notto be recommeneded except tothose who live dangerously.

So there is a lot to Taipan, buthow does it actually play andwhat does it look like? Theopening section is in port, andyou get to run around and, inthe first instance, look for the

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money to buy a ship and then aship to buy. Apart from the odd fact that Iwas offered a ship by the bankand money in the back of a

FACTS BOXStraightforward c h a s egame - which capturesthe or ig ina / 'car toonquite well - let down bysmall graphicsR OA DR UN NE R

Label: LIS Co l dAuthor: in-housePrice: £8.99Memory: 48K/128Kjoystick: various

the other feature of the game!Which is a wide array of whacky

objects that the Coyote usesto get ahead of you.

These include suchauthentic

Roadrunner

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cartoon gems as jet-poweredskateboards and pogo sticks.

That's about it really. Thegame has qui te a lot going for itin the thrills-and-spills dept -it's certainly fast anyway, andthe backgrounds are fairlygood.

On the minus side are theminescule central graphics.

One surprising additionalplus is the cleverness of

the music at thebeginning of the

game whichplays the

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restaurant I guess you could saythis bit worked well. My biggestdisappointment was in press•ganging - al though Isuccessfully thumped hundredsof drunks over the head I stillcouldn't knock them out -eventually I decided I needed aship first.

Until you manage to get aship, one of the other placesyou visit will let you buyanything - armoury, suppliesetc - on the grounds, I suppose,that you've got nowhere to putwhat you buy.

When you do finally get aship, supplies, arms and a crewIt's time to quit the port.

Next up is to choose yourroute - choices are niftilypresented on an area map. Thechoice you make is matter ofsafe but tong routes vs short butvery dodgy routes.

At some point in the game, onpurpose or by accident you will

Dance (I think) most effectively- can this be a Spectrum? Butthen during the game you getalmost no sound whatsoever -rather disappointing in fact.

How entertaining you find thegame will almost totally dependon your sense of humour (doyou like seeing things go splat?)and how much you like beingchased. (A sizable proportion ofyou would. I suspect, rather dothe chasing - and, of course,there's no blasting.)

If both of these things scorehighly you'll like Roadrunnerbut if big graphics are moreyour bag - well I can see allthose Write Stuff letters saying

we gave this far too manystars al ready. . . . •

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be involved in a shipboardattack, or as it's usually known,Gauntlet. In this sequence thegood guys and bad guys racearound the ship deck (whichlooks astonishingly like aGaunlett maze) buffing eachother over the head. Yourobjective is to get to the captainand win the ship before you endup killing too many sailors, (youneed them to man the ship). Itdoesn't look qui te as good asGauntl et- for one thing thesailors all seem to have eitherafro haircuts or fisbowls ontheir heads but it's fast andfurious and a nice change fromthe rather sedate pace of theother parts of the game.

That's about it really.I think it adds up to a game

which is greater than the sum ofits parts. '

Despite being divided intovery distinct playing sectionsthe whole thing hangs togetheras well as (though in acompletely different way from)Elite in its mixture of tradingand arcade_

No individual e l ement , mindblowing - mostly each bi t ispretty good.

Talpan is very entertainingand moderately original. At lasta 128K game to be proud offe

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D E A T H S C A P EWouldn't it be nice if you

could t rust people? Ifyou could rely on

people not to go back on theirword? Well, you can't ,especially if those peoplehappen to be members of theVarg Empire.

For the past t wo hundredyears or so, shunning debatesand elections, the SolFederation and the Varg Empirehave been sett ling polit icaldisputes by each sending astarfighter into the DeathscapeThe one that comes out notdead is deemed to be thewinner of the argument .

However, the Varg Empire isdetermined to win the latestargument by cheat ing, and hassent in the Mothership toproduce alien craft nineteen tothe dozen. Being honourablepeople though, the SolFederation are still only sendingin one representat ive. Andthat's where you c ome in.

Yup — this is a 3D vectorgraphics into-the-screen blast.Fairly convent ional stuff, butquite nicely done. It 's also thesecond tit le lafter (3reyfell) to bereleased f rom the new Starlightlabel.

Destroying on-c oming shipsisn't as hard as it sounds. YourZarquon C.A.M. III Mult i-rolefighter has all the latestequipment : plasma cannons,target seeking missiles,quadrophonic stereo sound and

Fast and furious fl yingmission with good cleargraphics. Worth taking aTook at i f you're a shoot-em-ups person.

DEATHSCAPELabel: Starlightmemory: 4810128Ktoystick: various

R e v i e w e r .

cigarette lighter.Blowing up the Mothership is

different. I t 's not quite as easypeasy as it sounds. It 's onlypossible to get on board andblast away if you've cracked theVarg code, and that 's onlypossible if you've managed todestroy several Vargsettlements. You can tell ifyou've cracked the code,because a series of blue lightswill flash on a code board ins idethe space consul.

The fl ight consul itself isfascinat ing. As well as the usualspacey t ype things, fuelindicators, shield indicators andso on, there's also a neat lit t legraphic of the pilot's hands. Asthe speed increases, the handsmove further and further up theconsul, as you press Fire, so dothey. There's also the score gridand a map of the Deathscapeitself, s hould you wis h to call itup. Wit h all this going on, it 'ssomet imes more interest ing towatch the consul than play thegame.

Playing the game. The allimport ant thing. Well it 's fast,there's no deny ing that. It 'sessential that you keep onblast ing away, because thereare several dif ferent craft, andsome of t hem need to be hitmore than once to destroythem. Some are suic ide teamswhic h think nothing of rammingyou and mak ing you go wobbly .Some people just don' t fi ghtfair.

The best thing about themeanies is that they fly in fairlyconsistent patterns, so they 'reusualy quit e easy to hit.

Perhaps the mos t worry ingaspect of Deathscape is thegameplay . I t 's quite poss ible toget a really respectable score onDeathscape wi thout reallyk nowing what 's going on. Justfl y along and fire at random. Buteventually you' ll run out of fueland that 's your miss ion.

Deathscape is a good 3Daction shoot em-up. If you'rekeen on shoot ing, wit h a lit t lebit of strategy t hrown in forgood measure, then it 's wort h alook. But be pat ient , it takessome t ime to fi gure out what 'sgoing o n •

L IV INGSTONEI P R E S U M E !june 12th, sometime in the

Nineteenth Century. Thesearch f or Dr Liv ings tone

has gone on for many monthsnow, and I 'm beginning to feelthe effects somewhat . I becarreseparated f rom the rest of myparty, and am suf fering as aconsequence. Believe I amexperiencing halluc inat ions ofsome sort.

I am feeling rather s t range atthe moment . I appear to haveturned completely blue. Allaround me are st range animalsand vic ious natives. I amconstantly bombarded wit hcoconuts and other missiles.Am forced to shoot at any thingin sight to stay alive. Every nowand then I fi nd myself s toppingand going back to the beginningof my adventures. St rangeforces are ev ident ly at workhere. . .

Thing has lost none of its

bounce in this sequel theC64 hit, Thing On a

Spring. He's the same oldZebedee, wit h big eyes ratherthan a f unny moustache, andwith more musc le in his springthan a kangaroo on a pogostick.

And he's still a hi-energyplat forms ult ra-long distancespringy jump effort.

It's almost t wo years sinceThing defeated the evil ToyGoblin, and he's probablyalmost forgot ten the bat t le bynow. But he's got to get back inthere and shut down thecomputer, which has run amok,and is produc ing ghast ly toys ata rate of knots. Which results ina speedy, f rant ic chase aroundthe computer's circuits,t ravelling round pipes,bouncing on plat forms anddodging the evil toys out toavenge their Goblin Master.

To shut down the computer,Thing has to pick up four piecesof a computer program — a disc,a tape, a lis t ing paper and Rom.These are scattered arounddifferent parts of thecomputer's circuit, and can onlybe collected if you've got a

Alligata has bought thelicence to SupongoLiv ingstone! f rom the Spanish

sharp eye and quick reflexes.Because Thing is FAST!

Sliding down chutes, fl y ing upin air-s t reams get t ing caughtbehind t rap doors, these are allpart and parcel of play ing thegame. The trick is to k nowwhich chutes to slide down, andwhen to take a fl y ing leap of fthe plat forms. And don' t forgetthat Thing loses energy whenhe bumps his head or if hebounces too hard. Ult imatelyhe'll end up los ing a life, whic his mirrored by a broken-hearticon appearing on the screen.

First, though, you have to getin there! And that means rollingThing around the pipes of amult i-screen plan of thecomputer complex. He movesin one direct ion, s omet imestaking other randomly chosenroute at a cross-sectionbetween pipes. Your object is tosteer Thing towards one of the

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and given us Liv ingstone, IPresume!

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THING BOUNCES BACKLa be l G r e M l i n

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green airducts - into a room -and away f rom the Goblin'sguards which roll around thepipes in an effort to bounce youaway f rom your dest inat ion.

There is a way to dodge theguards, but it costs you. Youhave 10 'panics'. Each t ime youhit the panic but ton you canchoose to change direct ion. Butif you use up your panics forone life, you're in big t rouble.You either have to rely on luck,and reach an air-duct, or youcan hit the good old 0 keyagain, and lose another life.Defeating the master computerisn't easy.

When you hit an air-duc t it ' llsuck you int o one of theGoblin's machine rooms whereThing can shoot down chutes,rise to levels on bubble ladders,or t ravel up and down pipes insearch of program parts.

Once I 'd been t hrough a f ewof the rooms I felt a lit t ledisappointed because the traps,

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Uhat's pithl, back packed, be-shorted Stanley, and it 's up toyou to wander around theisland, avoiding the psychot icanimals and nat ives who areout to kill you, collect the jewelsand brave the undergroundcaverns to fi nd the good Doctor.

To make life a lit t le easier,you are equipped with explorer-

security devices and alien toysare always the same, alt houghthe construct ion of each room isdif ferent and usually well-des igned , That 's not so bad,though, because the authorshave come up wit h dozens ofdif ferent deadly combinat ions .For instance, you may fi nd t woledges, one on t op of another.You jump to the left and on topof a bubble ladder only to fi ndthat you're blocked to the left bya wall and a hidden door isc los ing down on y our right .You' re t rapped and there's noway out except to press Q andlose a life, which will take you tothe pipes. It 's irritat ing but inthis game it 's a fact of life, so becareful where you bounce.

I've got no reservat ions aboutthe monsters , though, and thereare plenty of them. There areblue meanies whic h look like

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type things. A boomerang, aknife, a grenade (ratherrevolut ionary for this period intime, but there you are and,most useful of all, a pole-vault ing pole. So you can walk ,jump, pole-vault and k ill andmaim things a bit .

One might think, might n' tone, t hat t urning the epicadventure of Stanley 's searchfor Liv ingstone into a 'outergame would be a dead loss.Well, it 's not.

Supongo Liv ings tone! didgreat business over in its nat iveSpain, where it was describedas, Tantas t ico. sensat ionalerAnd there's no arguing wit hthat.

Because actually it is a nicegame. It's not terribly fast, therearen't an awf ul lot of things tokill on the way, but there's a lotof t ricky think ing to be done.

In fact, Alligata thinks thatyou'll find Livingston., Ipresume! so diffi cult that it 'sinc luded a Poke in theinstruct ions. So if you want topractise a bit , or if you're just abit of a cheat on the quiet , youcan just tap in that Poke, and get

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away wit h infi nite lives.Apart f rom the odd at t ribute

problem, the s lightunpleasantness involved inyour feet turning green as youwalk halfway into a bush, thegraphics are nice, large andcartoony. My part icularfavourite is the man-eat ingplant, and it 's probably wort hwas t ing the odd life just towatch yourself beings wallowed by the crit ter.

Livingstone, I Presumel couldprove very popular. An originaltwist to the seek and fi nd game,it's been put together with a lotof thought , and it 's going totake you some t ime to completeall seven lev e ls •

bassett hounds in Miami Viceshades, toads who wear crashhelmets and go by the name ofriv lets and, of course there'sGerald the Gremlin. All of t hemsuck out your energy bybounc ing up against you - allyou can do is spring to avoidthem.

When you've found a piece ofprogram y ou go to the nearestexit and take your chance on theroller coaster pipeline again.Once you've got all four partsthe program wi l l start to runand, just like that Tron sof twarein the Walt Disney fi lm, it closesdown the works and you winthe game.

Alt hough there's a lot ofrepit it ion in this sequel, ThingBounces Back is a winningc ombinat ion of alien act ion ands t rategy-building construct ions.You don' t need to have playedthe original Thing game toenjoy it but B o u n c e s Hackhas double the diffi culty o f . ,On A Spring, so if you've onlyJust got your Thingies togetherwa r m up with the original fi rs t •

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T I all that Barbarian from Palace Software meant toIyou was a free poster and Maria Whittaker in abikini that had surely shrunk i n the wash, thenperhaps you will not want to read this feature.

if, on the other hand, Barbarian left you all sweaty /and excited. clutching the joystick and gnashing yourteeth in rage, bear with us. I f you liked the blood, theguts, the gore, if you have a soft spot for the hideousand deformed hunchback, if you never win at Barba-rian, read on.

We here at w a n t e d to know more. We needed toknow more. We were desperate to win, to knock theswordfighter's block off, So we went to the top. ToPalace themselves. And they said, "Verily, you need totalk to the programmer." So we did, and this is whathe said.GENERAL HINTS1. Remember, both y ouand your opponent cansurvive twelve blows. Thethirteenth o n e m e a nsdeath with a capital D .All blows a r e gradedaccording t o diffi culty,with decapitation scoringthe most points.

2. I f you find yourselfin a tight corner, go formoves like the kick andhead butt. If you're reallyup against the wall, try aforward roll, it gets youout of immediate dangerby knocking your oppo-nent off his feet. Followup with a quick web ofdeath. That usually does

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Fable 1. COUNTERING YOUR OPPO-NENTS MOVES AT SHORT RANGE

OPPONENT'SMOVE

Neck ChopHead ButtBoth ChopKickLeg ChopOverhead ChopFlying Neck ChopWeb of DeathRoll Forvr i

the required amount o fdamage.3. Use t he fl y ing neckchop only whe n y o u ropponent h a s s ta r te danother move. Otherwise

YOUR BESTMOVE

Leg ChopKickRoll ForwardRoll ForwardKickLeg ChopHead ButtRoll Backlump

YOUR SECONDBEST MOVERoll ForwardRoll ForivarProtect BodyRoll BackJumpProtect HeadKick

Roll Back

OPPONENT'SMOVE

Neck ChopHead ButtBody ChopKickLeg ChopOverhead ChopFlying Neck ChopWeb of DeathRoll Forward

YOUR BESTMOVE

Leg ChopLeg ChopRoll ForwardWeb of DeathJumpLeg ChopLeg ChopRoll BackJump

Its no fun getting stomped onIt s no fun getting wiped out bylaser fire I mean everbodyloves a challenge but nobodywants to lose I n order to

e s ireduce sir I i vets acrossthe country b r i n g s a ,brand new eature calledClassic Moves in which we tellyou how to luck that door,break that code. exterminatethoSe aliens

he's got the time to see itcoming, and can block it.4. Dodge the flying thun-derbolts! When ( if ) youreach the wizard, keepout o f the wa y o f themurderous bolts by jump-ing, ducking and rolling.

Those are the basics tolook out for. As well asthese important little tips,

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Table 2. COUNTERING YOUR OPPO-NENT'S MOVES AT MEDIUM RANGE

YOUR SECONDBEST MOVERoll ForwardBody ChopProtect BodyLeg ChopRoll ForwardProtect HeadWeb of DeathRoll BackRoll Forward

What can you do with a

Spectrum? Amstrad.who parted wi th some

ES million for the rights to thebeast. really had to come upwith a good answer.

The Spectrum Pius 2 was theirfirst attempt, and it hasrft beenwithout its problems. Still, it wasa rush job; only five monthselapsed between the Easterbuyout and the autumn launch._And Amstrad claim to have soldabout half a million.

Now Its been over a yearsince Amstrad got Its corporatemim on the machine, andEngland expects great thingsfrom Big Al.

The Plus 2 is down to EISOwith a free S.J51 joystick (forman orderly queue', and the Plus3 is nearly out. At £250, maybemore out than In. I ts got a diskdrive_ it s back in black, but hasIt got compatibility? Let's see...

First ImpressionsThe disk drive, sitting in

peacock livery on the right ofthe machine where that famousAmstrad cassette deck onceresided, just has to be the maintalking point. There's doublethe Rom space Inside themachine: 64K s wor th holds theDisk Operating System (Doss,extensions to Basic and variousother odds and ends as well asthe original 48K Spectrum Romand the 128K s editor andmenuing system_ Also added is aparellei printer port 18-bit.unlike older Amstrad designsl,and extra printer support In thesoftware.

Cassette software Is stillsupported buy you II need aWalkman or similar pluggedplayer. to plug Into whatremains of the old 128K - 2 ssound socket.

BE's spies have been let loose on anunsuspecting Amstrad and here it is:the first in-depth review of the new SpectrumI 2810-3.

The disk drive is (of course'Amstrads 3 for mat. I t claimscompatibility wi th Amstradsword processor. the PCW8256,holding some 450K of data ondouble-sided flip-over disks.That's about I 78K per side,which isn t as much as moderndrives and disks are capable of.Not by a long way. However ,the twin considerations of priceand compatibility make thechoice Of format seem quitesensible. Considering whatsoftware superheroes can craminto 48K of gamespace, 350Kshould keep them going forquite a while.

There's a connector for asecond disk drive at the back ofthe machine. As well asAmstrad's own, there is scopehere to hook up a I S" or 5.25"drive, so people wi th Discoveryor other Interfaces shouldn't

panic unduly. It'll still need theappropriate leads and someclever software, but it can't belong before the third-partyarmy rush in to fill the vacuum, ifyou II pardon a mixedmetaphor. But, and i ts a biggle.Plus 2 owners will not be able tobuy an up-grade- They might bea little annoyed at that.

The method chosen by theRom designers to interface thedisk drives to Basic isInteresting. All the tapecommands work wi thoutchange on the disk drives, sothat most Basic tape-basedprograms will run wi thout anymodification from disk. At firstglance, you might think that thismeans that there would be noway to use tape at all. If all thecommands are the same, howcan the computer knownwhether to use tape or disk

when you Load "FROGSTAR"?The answer lies wi th devicenames.

DevicesDevice names are an ancient

trick, dating back to thedinosaur days of CP/M (of whichmore later) and I 6K machines.The Spectrum Plus 2 knowsabout four devices: tape. disk(the one built-in). disk 2 t ha toptional extra', and theRamdisk. it calls them T:, A:, B:and M;, and to use oneparticular device you include thename of the beginning thename bit of a command. So toload a program ftom tape. you'ddo

Load ' 7 : 8 0 0 BAL0 0-Similarly, to save a program to

disk I (which is the one builtInto the Plus 31, you d type

Save -A : GO O DI E S

The Ram disk Is a way ofsoaking up the extra Ramprovided. Like the Spectrum 128and the Plus 2, the BASIC canonly deal wi th about 40Kdirectly i t it could managemore, compatibility wouldsuffer!. i f you want to writebigger programs, you need todivide them up into sections andMerge in the bit you want. ThisIs very quick i f you use the Ramdisk, which Is designed to usemost of the same commands asthe real disks. The Plus 2 had asilicon disk, which was the sameIdea but had its own set of funnycommands. The Plus 3 s Ram diskis much more standardised. and Iexpect to see some pretty cleverBasic programs about beforelong.DISC Commands

There are special forms ofLoad and Save to save time andmake program conversions niceand easy. Load 'A; • means-make all subsequent Load

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commands use disk S a v e 'T:"makes all the Save commandswhich fol low work on tape. Sothe one line Basic program

Load "T:FRED' ':Save"A:FREDcopies FRED from tape to disk.inter-disk copying is done byusing, well, Copy. Move alsogets a look, and acts as a renamecommand. There aren t anybrand new keywords - all of thenew functions are implemeutedby novel land sometimesbizarre( combinations of theexisting commands.

Format is used to set up a diskwhen it's used for the first time.These commands were usedwith the interface 1 but - shock

horror - the Plus 3 isn't Interface1 and Microdrive compatible.You can plug in interface I. but itwon't work. The reason liesburled deep in the Plus 3hardware, so It's not going to bepossible to produce a softwarefix.

Amstrad were over a barrelabout Microdrives. The rights tothe Microdrive technologystayed wi th Sinclair after thetakeover, and this included thecode which Is in the interface IRom. So even if Amstrad wantedto they couldn't haveguaranteed completecompatibility. And maybe theydidn't want to. In any case,

CP/MCP/M is a funny thing. The initials stand for Control Program

Monitor. and it s a standard operating system for computersbased around the Z80 microprocessor. which all Spectrums are.Until the IBM PC came about, most business programs ran onmachines wi th (P.M. Now not many people are going to worryabout running Wordstar or other professional programs on thepoor old Speccy, but there are a lot of sophisticated softwaredevelopment programs available for CP/M.

CPAI doesn't require much from a computer. But all Spectrumsto date have been no good. CP.,M w i s e . T h e m a i n p r o b l e m h a s

been that CP/M needs a computer that has Ram at the start ofmemory. Until now, all Spectrums had Rom at that point, but thePlus 3 has an optional all-Ram mode which Is Just perfect for(PM. The screen and keyboard aren't so wel l suited, but thoseare minor problems. Amstrad haven t as yet said that they willprovide a Plus 3CP/M (which would make the CPC 6128 a l ittlevulnerablei, but it comes as no surprise that Locomotive,Amstrad s tame firmware house is already working on a versionof CP,M f or the Plus 3. The temptation of all that cheap business

software is Just too great.

Microdrives are now off themenu.

Another ex-Microdrivecommand pressed into service IsCat. I ts most Ingenious use is tohelp out wi th transferring tapesoftware to disk. Spectrum tapeflies can be Basic programs,machine code or data, they canautomatically Run when they'reload, as they can have memoryaddresses associated wi th themto tell the computer where toload them. All this Information isheld on a 'header', which is theshort burst of data recorded Just

before the main file on tapeThere s also a Car Exp

command, which producesextended information about thestuff on disk. It also gives a vitalclue about the way the files arestored, because some of thatinformation is concerned wi thfile attributes. File attributescontain Information which thecomputer uses to determinewhat can be done wi th aparticular file. They concernthings like whether the file canbe deleted, whether thecomputer should display It whenthe user asks for a catalogue andwhether the file has every had acopy made of I t

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Bundled gamesThis is probably a good point to mention the six free games on

one disk that Amstrad are generously doll ing out wi th thecomputer. Some of Oceans finest (well, almost finest( are here:Cuff from the Gods, Malistrom. IV.O.M.A.D., Supertests I and 2and Cosmic Wartoad. The nicect thing about disks is that it onlytakes seconds to realise that the game you've loaded Is asInteresting as stewed spinach, rather than ten minutes

There is also the interesting possibility of games houses sellingboth Amstrad and Sinclair versions of their wares on the onedisk This should (but may not( make !t cheaper and moreeconomical to distribute stuff on disks. This is vital to the Plus 3'ssuccess - if the price of disks make it impossible for softwarehouses to produce programs for disk use only then It II have ahard time competing wi th the Pius 2. AIL

IISpeed

In use, the disks are a bitlacking in the speeddepar tment compared toexisting interfaces like theDisciple. Once a file has beenfound and loading started, it'sall as swift as you might hopefor, but it can take a fewseconds to get that far from mitLoad command. Still, thedifference between disk andtape is massive enough to soakup a couple of seconds here anthere. Once you've used the Pi3 wi th disks, goi ng back tocassette is almost Impossible.

Disc operatingsystem

The Disk Operating System (3DOSI was wr i tten byLocomotive Software, who havea long and mostly honourableassociation wi th Amstrad. I tcomes as no surprise that it bearsa distinct resemblance toAmsdos, the Dos for the CPC464and 6128 which Locomotive alsowrote. Plus 3 Dos has lots morefeatures available to machinecode than are hooked IntoBasic.

For example, there's acomplete set of file handl ingroutines hidden away. Basicusers can t Open a file to disk, orPrint stuff to a file. All the codeis there, but the Basic hasn'tbeen modified to use it.

The guide bookThe boys from Brentwood

redeem themselves somewhatwith the manual. This is a much-extended and megamodifiedversion of the Pius 2 book, and itcovers Just about every aspect ofthe machine that anyone couldwant to know about. Thebackbone of the book is still theoriginal Steve VickersIdiosyncratic learn-yerself Basiccourse, with all the old gems Ionstring-matching: 'Whi ch ofthese Is the lesser, "EVIL' or"evii"11.

There's a lot of extra stuffabout disks, the new memorymaps. the extra printer stuff and

a lot of very detai l edinformation on the Dos. Ther e'sa w hol e bunch of ne w de m oprograms. Including some w hi chare genuinely useful a nd somewhich are m i nd-num bi ngl y nai l .To be honest there's not a gr eatdeal of scope for a ny one w ho

wants to publ ish a book onwhat Amstrad left out; - ther esimply isn t much. How ever , thebook is pr etty badl y or ganisedand the l ayout Is unhelpful . 3 3 0pages is a lot of book , a nd i tpike the Plus 31 has obvi ousl ygr ow n in fits and starts from the

days of the D O I . Coher ent i tlsn•t.

Most questions tha t a ne wusers, or an existing Spectrumuser w anti ng to up-gr ade, m i ghtask are answer ed In the m anual- somewhere. The 'how do Icopy my softwar e t o disk?'

problem Is given specialconsideration. How e v e r , thesimple tape-to-disk tr ickspr ovided In the Plus 3 Rom onl yworks on or dinar y Basicprograms: games a nd othermachine code stuff wi l l ne e dtransfer programs

USE ONLY ONLY SINCLAIR SJSRANGE OF JOYSTICKS

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COMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER MICROSAn all important one this for

those wishing to upgrade. Thereare some serious problems.These relate less to software -games from the 128K 42 shouldrun without problems - whichshould be fairly but more to dowith hardware.

These are two big differenceswith the +3 compared to allprevious Spectrums. The first Isthe video output, this has beenaltered such that it will nolonger drive monocromemonitors - maybe important ifyour using a Spectrum forbusiness or educationalpurposes. The second problem ismore significant, the edgeconnector has been altered sothat the 9V line no longer exists.This has been used in the past todrive various peripherals likemodems. These will no longer

work wi th the + 3. So if you areup-grading check your add onsspecifications do they use the 9Vline? They won t work.

Interface I considerationsaside, the Plus 3 looks at firstsight to have a good chance ofrunning lots of old software.Like the Pius 2, it's got a 48KBasic mode, where it tries veryhard to look like an old-styleSpeccy. In this mode none of thenew hardware can be accessed.of count.. It's a pretty goodreplica of an old Spectrum. Therewere some Rain locations thatwere changed on the 128KSpectrum, and this results inincompatibilities wi th badly-designed Joystick adaptors.These locations have beenlargely replaced in the new Plus3, but there are still a few

differences which could knobbiea game Or two,

Game writers who useexisting Amstrad computers togenerate code on should bepleased to know that you cantake a machine code filegenerated on a PCW8256 andturn it into a proper Spectrumfile with the quaintly namedCopy "filename" To SpectrumFormat command.This takes astandard Amstrad file, and putsa Spectrum header on the frontof it. The Speccy can then load itin with Load "filename" Codecommand, and there is theprogram, transferred wi thoutrecourse to RS232 or specialpogroms.

The Spectrum can also load aprogram from disk

automatically. The idea is thatthe user unwraps the latestgames on disk, turns on hisSpectrum. shoves the disk in theslot and presses one button.From them on, everythingprogresses smoothly.

First of all, the Plus) looks fora special program on the diskcalled "*". This program can't beproduced by BASIC, so If thecomputer finds I t it knows thatIt was put there by a softwarehouse. If it finds "*", ft loads andrum. I f it can't, it trys to find,load and run a Basic programcalled DISK. if that falls, thecomputer gives up and goesback to the user. If the computercan't find a disk at all, I t goesinto a routine which loads anyprogram from tape. Just like thePlus.

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Continued from page 34

Printer supportThe ne w pr inter suppor t is

pretty comprehensive. As wel las the existing Plus 2 serialprinter por t, ther e is a paral lelInterface. O ne of the areas mostprone to problems w i thcomputers in gener al a nd theSpectrum in par ticular is theInterfacing a nd usage ofprinters. Wi th the Pius 2 theproblem was exacer bated by apeculiar inter face to Basic w hi chmade sending contr ol codes(special commands to swi tch i ndifferent styles of pr i nti ng( t oprinters vir tual ly Impossible.With the ne w Plus 3 Basic, a nycontrol code can be sent, or theold Plus 2 w a y of doi ng thi ngscan be selected for pr ogr amlistings. Pr inting can be ei therthe old serial por t or the ne wparallel one, w hi ch meansvirtually any pr inter wi l l pl ugInto the Plus 3. Any programs Inexistence which use ei ther theexisting Basic I pr i nt or Pr intcommands to dr ive pr intersshould run ur Khanged. The sameis true of any pr ogr am w hi chuses the 'offi cial m a c hi ne codeways to dr ive a pr inter . w hi c hshould cover most popul arbusiness programs. I n a ny case.

very l i ttle conversion w or kshould be needed. Sw i tchi ngbetw een the serial a nd paral lelinterfaces is m anaged by theFormat Lprint command; FormatLpr int • C' • diver ts output t o theparallel inter face, a nd "R"switches It to the serial port.

A useful com m and w hi ch hasbeen much Im pr oved is Copy. Byitself, this com m and pr ints asimple picture of the screen onany Epson-l ike pr inter . O n the128 and Plus 2. this was just adot-for -dot copy, w i th noattem pt to show colours. O n thePlus3, the com m and Copy Exp(for E xpanded) does a ful lgreystale dum p of the screen,wher e each colour isrepresented by a patter n of dotson the pr inter . The l i ghter thecolour on the screen, the few erdots on the paper .Ther e s also aCopy Exp Inverse whichproduces a negati ve im age;many screens l ook be tte r tha tway on paper, and It can saveon ribbon wear.

The l egendar y Spectrum 128Kkeypad. nom inal ly suppor ted onthe Plus 1. has been consi gnedto the same fate as the Inter face1. The socket i nto w hi ch i t onceplugged has been relabelledAux. and most of the supportingcode in the Rom r em oved. Theelectrical connections ar e stillthe same, so things l ike modemsw hi ch dr ove the ha r dw ar edirectly have a chance ofw or k i ng. The edi tor keypadscommands (thi ngs l ike de l e t eline a n d g o to top of pr ogr am ')are still active by pressing oddkeyboar d com binations, as the yw er e on the Plus 2.

BasicThe Plus 2's Basic edi tor

survives unchanged, bugs a ndall. To the untutored eye, 95% ofthe Basic has survivedunchanged from the 1281PlusDeeper in, t he or gani sati on ofthe Basic has m uta tedconsiderably. The original

Spectrum had 16K of Rom,which had all the Basic andediting code in i t The 128 andPlus 2 added an extra 16K Rom,which had the editor, newprinter support and other littleextras in it. The Plus 3 has twomore I 6K Bonn in i t which holdthe Disk O pe r a t i ng System, stillmore ne w pr i nter stuff, a ne x te nde d syntax analyser for allthe ne w var leities of com m and,and some m or e stuff w hi chAm str ad are k e e pi ng qui e tabout

InsideThe har dw ar e inside is huge l y

di ffer ent fr om a ny previousSpectrum. E ven including thedisk inter face, ther e ar e farfew er chips tha n the 128 or thePlus 2. I nstead of 16 chipspr ovi di ng the 1281< Ram. ther e

are just four . Ther e ar e t w o 32KRoms, hol di ng all thea for em enti oned softwar e, theR5232 driver chips, the soundchip, the TV picture chip and theTV sound chip. All the videocircuitry a nd g l ue ( t h e chipstha t stick ever y thi ng together .electroncial ly speaki ng) areconta i ned in one postage-stam psized ga te ar r ay chip.

This t i ny fleck of silicon a ndplastic has the honour to be thefirst chip to have been designedat Br e ntw ood, as opposed toone of Amstrad's m anysubcontractors. As w el l asactually producing the videosignal, it also manages the newmemory configurations, thejoystick por ts a nd the pr i nterpor t.

This chip Is a completely newdesign. i ts difficult to know atthis stage whether I tsintroduced someIncompatibilities wi th the oldhardware. but It seems to workwith all the games I tr ied thatalso w or k e d w i th the Plus 2 i tdoesn t have a ny ne w videomodes; you'r e still stuck w i th

the same screen for m at as theoriginal Spectrum. Colour clash,It seems, will be w i th us always. Itr ied a fe w bits of har dw ar e,Joystick por ts a nd the l ike, a ndit al l seemed to w or k. E ven ascomplex as animal as Ram sMusic Machine operatedw i thout a murmur (except w he nI sample a mumble).

VerdictAmstrad has be e n criticised

about m any aspects of the Plus2. a nd it took qui te a bi t of it toheart. The r edesigned TV circuitsgave a much better soundqual i ty a nd a gener al l y nicepicture all r ound. The socket a tthe back of the com puter tha tpr ovi ded sound on the Plus 2ne w doubles as a cassetteconnector . I ts a Walkm an-stylesocket, w i th one connecti on forloading a nd one for savingUsing a n exter nal cassetterecorder should m ake l oadi ng alittle easier for those poor soulswi th slightly shakyhyperloaders. The Plus 2 cassetterecorder saga suggest thatthere s a lot of that of thingabout.

The joystick connectors areonce again Amstrad s ownpeculiar standard (boo hiss).Still, a ny joystick inter face tha tw or k e d w i th the 1 2 8,P l u s 2should w or k d w i th the Plus 3.and all ne w stuff that's come outsince the Pius 2 hi t the streetsw i th a dul l thud copes w i thAmstrad s eccentr icities in anycase. G r ey or black.

Amstrad's other maineccentricity, that of pricing thePlus 3 a t E250 quid. is a l i ttlemore diffi cult t o explain. I t scom peti ng pr etty much head-onw i th the existing disk-basedgames micro tha t Am str adpr oduce t h e CPC 61281, w hi chyou can ge t for a bout the sameprice w i th a m oni tor . Perhapsi ts all an a ttem pt t o m ake thePlus 2 l ook m or e attr activebefore the Christmas wars set in,but s difficult to escape theconclusion that Amstrad havegone a little bit gaa-gaa overthe pricing.

At ENO. it would be anexciting product. At E 175 or ESO,it would be an Amstradbestseller. At E250 i tsoverpr iced, a nd Am str ad mustsurely k now i t Thei r otheractions, dr oppi ng the pr ice ofblank disks, a nd giving softwarehouses machines t o w or k w i th,are a t odds w i th the price. I tcan t cost much to produce, Let'sface it. I t s a Spectrum w i th diskon the side, and in these days ofS ts and SOO Amigas It just m ightnot m ake It. Am str ad - I ts tooexpensive-1BI

RodWhitcomb

SiNcLAIR USER JuLY 1987

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I I 2428020 in Activisioe'sR% i s the top score? I scored dele theday after buying the game (which waswell worth (9.99 in Beets).

Also I have found a cheat mode. Whenthe countdown from '3' begins, press the"Graphics" key and hold it down. Youcan then start moving the bike before"go" appears

It you then keep the "graphics" keyheld down throughout the game, most ofthe stages are shortened, thereforegiving yeti merit tints to complete eachstags-Chris HabberleyPortricayo"

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perfection" in the May issue of 0 .I rushed out to buy a copy of"Auteoeoersersen Mani , " keeping inwind the fen of being able to "'create myown layout". I rushed back borne andloaded it.

I was amazed. It was tab but after aPew goes I crashed it. and then tried tohad the game designer. I searched theI I M M 41-111-10 * * * ** * * * ** * *

The Phis Two stinks! The 3 is

probably worse. OK. the 128K-2 isvery nice, a computer with a built-in taperecorder but the lack of a counter showshow badly thought Out it was.

Of course I would prefer a 2 or 3 tomy rubber 48K, but that's not the point.

If Sir Clive is producing the discspectrum it surely would be far morebetter than that silly plus three!

And you know why? Because Sir Clive'se ta l l i e s e s e i t i r e r r i a l e r s o. .14 4141.11 4

just thought that I would give a little

praise where it is due. Bearing in mindthe pressures of producing a quality mayamidst such tough competition as Crassor Your Sin Clair, I leel I have been a littleharsh in piling heaps of personal abuseupon you in recent years, andunreservedly apologise. I especiallyapologise to Jon Molar, who is a realshining wit.

The listings are absolutely andcompletely tree of all typing errors,mistakes, bugs. duplicated lines, etc.etc. The staff writers produce workcompletely free of any political bias andthe other contributors bring us such well-iniumied information as -D u n g e a n s a n dDragons- b y f a t t he mas t f amous role-

playing board game.The covers are the best. I mean how

many other computer mags produce

whole tape with no success, except someextra parts after the game had loaded.

Behold theI l l i l a t tor m game familytree, a largely e a t i n g guide toAutssiecterserie'

Shame on yoLRobert Geraghts.EtdinglOn.Birmingham• What can we say? We ate duly-.namedInotr or ishxam ar nr nr vior i l ai r Or ismajor interest is satisfaction for the userbut Alan Sugar, the boss of ASSS (AlanSugars Secret Service, known asAmstrad), is lust interested in the CASH!

L isbonPS This ain't the first lime to write you.

But my other letter wasn't printedbecause I didn't mention no politics. Ididn't call a div.• Thane you unintelligible ot* 3 1 1 1 1 •10 * * * *20 -l e t o l L AP L I E *111 10

stunning pictures based upon the latestsoftware releases? The new articles onthings which have nothing whatsoever todo with Sinclair, Amstrad or computersare very relevant and make excellentreading. The fantastic Smash Offersmean that we, the humble reader, cansave. say, E3 on a copy ol BattlefieldGermany by sending the coupon togetherwith a cheque for £9.95, which comparedto the price quoted on page 97 at issuenumber 51 is a fantastic saving. Oneslight quibble about the posters though.They all seem lo have little holes in themiddle and yet the free advertisingsupplement provided in issue number 52did not. May I suggest that you nail theads to the centre of the may and have theposter in loose in Mere?

Now what? Oh yes, more praise hopeyou appreciate this). Code Talk andBackground Noise, I am sorry. lust Code

Talk is are excellent_ The competitions inSinclair User are excellent, and thatcompetition where everyone who enteredwon at least some sticky labels wasgreat I wonder who got the 128K • rAnother competition which was well donewas by the magnificent Gremlin: youknew, the Caption Competition? I am notpraising it, or indeed anything elsementioned in this letter, merely because Iwon it several months ago and I have notseen the £20 yet. because I am sure thatit will arrive in due course within the nestday or so.R MilesBroadsionPDorset

PS I bet you thought I was lust writingto give some more abuse. You all do amarvellous job. Great. Fantastic.Wonderful. Excellent. Brilliant.

Having acquired May's edition of El I

decided, belore reading it from coverto cover, to enter all three of thecomp's_ I looked in the contents, andanswered the questions for Star Raiders IIon page 51 and win a bike on page 73.But, to my horror, the compo for Indoorgoods la game I'd like to have) was noton page 92 as stated!

So, after searching through themagazine from beginning to end andgetter rather angry, I found the 'Indoor

Sports' compo on page 99,Please Ed could you learn to count. or

i t least get yourself a calculator?G E Joner,H e n g o e l

PS On page 106 in the )(rack Outpreview you say Ocean's Acker-told, r i l lsure you meant "Imagine's Ark•Ir.- i " .PPS Through 90 degrees, I think not.Try OS degrees next time you describe'1<rack Out' from 'i•••kanoici%

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hilst browsing through my

friend's copies at Crash andSinclair User. I found that there were tonsof letters complainiag about OnionsBoo). I have had problems with the DumbD's, so I have made a DIY Guide ToDittoes_ Oise to get a refund or to get adirt product changed),

1, Be nice and ask politely. 'TIP. makesure you know about the product so theycan't do you out of a lead or operatingSOftware e t c..) .

2. Start raising your voice to the Mattand telling people that are about to spenda bomb on the latest thing. i t dieselwork they won't refund or change it," orsomething like that. /TIP, as soon as youstart disrupting their business enots0they should help).

3. Come back the nest day with ashriving beg Bed flask, repeal he LHyan WheelerDoncasterS Yorks

PS The manager at Doncaster's Oboestried to tell me that a 8056 Serial PrinterKemal) took a ribbon cable!!! Na Ka HaHe He He Ha Ho Ho!

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I M k writing to tom lain about yourMarch issue of . I I you cast VIIIIeyes to UM chart bre down, you will seethe Itertamrs Coin-00 Hits and ComputerKit Ten are in the budget chart.

Could you please tell me what E9.95games are doles In your budget chartchmt?James NewmatArnersharri

Ihave recently purchased

Masteronic's excellent AMAUROTE. Iloaded the game on my 128K 2 using thetape loader option as the instructionsindicated. The introductory titles at thebeginning stated that the music was byDavid Whittaker °Ike 7 a n d G11,1, ,

but to my great surprise anddikuppointment there was no Funkysoundtrack, just the normal 48K bleeps.

I exchanged my copy tor another, butthis was the same. It possible, pleasecould you ask Maslertronic what is goingon? Is there a copy with music? Wherecan I get me?A t i,s to t Bumble

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Ihad a dilemma when I purchased the

Spectrum Plus 2 computer. I had beenused to my Saga 3 Elite keyboard with myold Spectrum, and despite the bitter keyson the Plus 2, it does not compare withthe 'feel' and additional keys of the Sagakeyboard. The answer was simple -connect the Saga keyboard to the Plus 2!After many enquiries I was unable to findN W ' who could assist, therefore fe e td e l l the task myself,

The reset is better than I hoped the.My compstsi sits at the back of my leekwith disc and printer Interface attached,and a single cable comma' it to my l a pkeyboard I sew included two leads In ascable which allow me to reset thecomputer hem the Sala keyboard.

fitting the cable simply involvesopening up the computer and keyboard,temoving the two keyboard ribbons Medreplacing them with the new cable. Tilereset leads are soldered on to theexisting reset switch. te holes atedrilled. nor is any other work rewired.

I am certain that some of your readerswill be in a similar dilemma, so I amoffering to make a lead to any specifiedlength that Ids all the Saga keyboardswith all at the Spectrum computers. Thecost, inclusive of all components andpelage, will he Ell).Mr & Mrs M J Mile-ISO Ashcroft RoadIpswichIPI CAE

LETTERSIfeel that your recent article in the last

issue of Sinclair (her concerning'fanzines' was cynical rubbish. youbiatently slated off all the independentmagazines you looked at and had theaudacity to say that they were the worstpublications ever to roll off aphotocopier I find it ironic that SinclairUser slagged oft magazines for beingbadly produced and written, when to findprobably the worst written and producedcomputer magazine in the world, youneed to look no further than yourse lve s.

I run a small independent Spectrummagazine called Journal, (which I feel.along with many others, is much, much,better than Sinclair User) and we are nowen Issue 2. We were going to send you acopy of our magazine. I'm glad we didn't.If you had written about us as you wroteabout the other magazines. I 'd have gotour solicitors to examine it for possiblelibel. ell be very surprised if themagazines involved don't write to you Inthe same manner. I have also persuadedmy sister company. Spotlight Games, to

the company that owns us. T h 9 patlightwithdraw from advertising in . and

Group. has also withdrawn tram anypossible advertising in Sinclair User. Weshall take our business elsewhere. Ichallenge you to write back and defendUN article in question.- 'etry S lepr,..-!

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Ithink mast of your magazine is great.

except the reviews.What is written is very good, you tell usall about the game and the plot, but youdon't tell us about the controls etc.People may see a game which they likeand go out and get it. But once they get ithem they may find that the joystickwhich they own is not compatiblewith it. or the keyboard e i tcontrols do not suit them. I Ithink you should tell usabout these things.

As this is my firstletter I don't expect it togel printed (please do).

Lancaster

Anumber at changes were made to

the Spectrum version of Nemesis toensure a better game-play.

1. The second sidewinder that shows• in your picture was taken out becausethe game speeded up considerably if thatwas done. The decision was taken ventlate prior to release, on purely editorialgrounds.

2. The mother ship, as far as I am*ware, is still in the game - indeedgraphically It is one of the high spots.

These are the only changes that Ibelieve were made to the game betweenyour seeing il and the final releaseversion, aside from internal technicalthanes*, to ensure that the game roe

with sound elects and without jerkiness,but this would not have elected anygraphics. Untortunately I have not beenable to confirm this directly with theprogrammers, having failed in myinnumerable attempts to contact them; Iassume that they, at least, are able totake advantage of this weather!

It there were any further changesmade, then I will call you first thing in themorning, but I don't think that therewere.

If you need any further Into pleasedon't hesitate to call.

Mike DanieisNemesis Management Co Ltd

like the keys on Gauntlet whenIwould lust like to mention that keys look

reviewed a gam in your May e a , V i e die.called Tn.@ Scepture of Bagda,:. On the Chr i s t e n Andrescreen you showed there was a palm tree S a l t bur nnear the left, and underneath it what • Well you learn eomethtno every daylooked like a bunch at 4 keys, and the d o n ' t y0e.(7* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Iknow it sounds strange to speak up in

defence al Dimes stores but I teal Imust.

I purchased a 12811 • 2 m October 1386.I've red numerous letters inYour Sinclair and othercomputer mates, slatingDixons service, Anyway,

we inherited the dreaded &1St joysticksand they seemed to work when the moodtook them. We were not happy with them.But they were not faulty. just cheap. Ilater found out that new sets came withCheetah 125 slicks.

I wrote to Dixons, who promptly wroteback offering to exchange them. Laterthat week I walked out of Divans with not

, I25 • joysticks. but Cheetah mach I •l'worth £15' I only hope Dixon stores have

er iouarneloy s to ck if you print this letter.

cWest Yorke

Atter reading your article on the

proposed Spectrum • 3 with built in3 disk dove. I thought It was a good buy.I, however, own a d i s k with aformatted storage at 72011. Is it possibleto connect it to the 3 and use it as drive2 without interfaces?

If it is, do you consider it to be a goodupgrade from the original Spectrum. asmine is due tor retirement soon?5 Da v sWit shire

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Iam fed up with reading letters from

people who think • ! i s a 'thrilling'game I 've never read so much Bull_ liesin all my life. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?The game is repetitive, bounty and veryfrustrating. How people can enjoy playingthis drab I don't know. I would muchrather play something like 'Maroe Miner'which clearly shows how I hel lM DunhamSohamCambe

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Iwonder if you would be able to help

me. My father owns a BBC model Bcomputer with 5 and quarter inch diskdrive. Printer (centronics) and a KGBmonitor. I myself have a SinclairSpectrum it811 (rubber key style). I wouldlike information on where I could obtaininterfaces to all or some of theaforementioned pieces of equipmentPete, c •Welch •

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out in •Sinclair User"Keep up the good work

Mr A Ma r s ha,vealthain Abbey

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Sinclair User again, can't r_31Lleavethings alone? Whilst looking at L I in WH Smiths iChecking to see if it was worthbuying! Ha. Ha! only joking), scream,confusion! You'd changed the ContentsPage!

At lest I bade I a clue what was where.After eventually finding my way around, Ifound that you had changed the"Classic" logo as well. But why?

Please, please tell me why you havedone this, the other Contents page wasbetel by faSteven Triornas

Llannipoi

Riglar is tab. So leave him aloneyou1That guy who went to Dixon's was

lucky. He might have gone to CurreyThey have got bouncers there.

My Mother once bought a vacuumcleaner there.

May I take this opportunity to say hawupset I am that Sinclair User has sunk toits present level Whatever happened tothe magazine you could walk into a shopand buy without any embarrassment?Whatever happened to those parts Ilooked forward to. like Hit Squad 'whichhas now been replaced by a little columnconsisting of ei page asking peoplequestions like what's your colour kipper,and hew illiterate are you?!)Fergus J PagPiErdington.Birmingham

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B&ore you buy Zynaps

you'd bet ter invest in thetoughest most

responsive joystick you canfind. 'Cause Zynaps is the bestall-guns-blazing lef t -right -scrolling arcade game I've seenin ages

Graphically you' ll believe aSpectrum totally lacks at t ribute

-.problems, you' ll believe aSpectrum can shunt s ixteensprites and background aroundat 25 frames per second- Andyou'll believe a game can havesixteen varied and detailedlevels %Nob St%ll'e of the largest

sprites leaping around thescreen

Zynaps i s by DominicRobinson whose prev ious c laimto fame is as converter oflt r idium to the Spect rum, thegame they said could not beconverted,

Pretty good credent ials. I teven manages to incorporate afew original look ing aliens.

Let's not spend too muc ht ime on the plot . For s omereason, your bat t leship has avery good reason to zoomthrough assorted backgroundsf rom high-tech space cityinteriors through asteroid beltspast craggy alien landscapes topeculiar fl oat ing bubbles andbeyond.

r- - • e a s p r y o u rtet:td

he blub to Wizs itsound like a re t oRebel Without A Cause.

You are a lowely 1st Levelwizard a mere not hingcompared to the Council ofWizards. Yet alt hough there isEvil leaking t hrough the abbys

Dark Side, g rowing in,

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HINTS AND TIPS• I t's vital to continuouslychange your lateral position onthe screen - sometimes youneed to be far left to wipe outas alien at tack wave,s omet imes you need t o be farright to try and zoom past agun emplacement before it getsa chance to shoot

• Al iens have distinctmovement patterns. Inparticular some are 'gone' onceyou've flown past them otherswill fly backwards to come andget you

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Adestroy any thing that mov esand a f ew things that don' t andeverybody is fi ring at you. Forsome reason when you destorva wave of aliens or obliterate apart icular alien gun t ower youget to pick up an energydiamond. And for some reasonthe more energy diamonds youhave the more fi re power youbuild f rom useless s ingle-shotlaser to mult i-puls ing phot onblasts plus bounc ing bombsand guided missiles.

Having failed to do any thingpart icularly spectacular wi t hGunrunner, Hews on seems tohave spent s ome cons iderablet ime on the gameplaV ofZynaps

Ththe game is diffi cult .

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strength all the t ime, ! R e y doanything. Hal No! Because theyget half their power f rom theDark Side, and if our wor ld wascut of f f rom it, t hey 'd have tosend their c ompany cars andremote cont rolled v ideos back.So it 's all up to you kid. Slickback that quif f and away you

• Don ' t pass up any chance toget an energy orb unlessabsolutely vital - sometimesthe screen gets so full of aliensyou'll need to have acquired alot of firepower• Some aliens attack instraight lines - get in posi tionfast enough and you may beable to wipe the lot out beforethey get airbourne• Come up low over gunemplacements - they areusually in 'dips' in the first leveland to stand any chance oftaking them out you'l l need tobe able t o dip down qu ic k ly •

goes before I even managed toescape f rom the fi rst level. Thiswas mainly because of the veryunpleasant gun emplac ement swhic h lob blob bombs at you.So unpleasant are they that thelit t le bombs even get lobbed atyour f rom behind (blighters). Ifyou do manage to take out agun emplac ement however youare guaranteed of an energydiamond Get on t o thosehigher levels of fi repower asquick ly as poss ible. .

There are sixteen levels but inany one play you only get apart ly random l ie start levelsare the s amel select ion oftwelve. The graphics really ares tunning, the k ind ofbackgrounds you s omet imessee in lesser a s static

go.This makes Wiz a game with a

silly plot, whic h the c ompanyamateur psychologis ts hopedwould appeal to "t he k ids". Butluckily, there is enough decentgame design to make it wor thbuying anyway.

It might remind you a bit ofFeud though.

You go through the five levelsof the thing wit h the aim ofcutt ing of f the t wo Light andDark worlds - the key to all thisstuff is learning and us ingspells. Starling of f wit h thethree basic spells - Zap, Lightand Force - as you go on, youmeet Wizards who wi l l beprepared to teach you othersthat wi l l c ome in very usefulalong the way. These spells wi l l

backte.....nds but sc rolling vet-,smoothly . Colour have beenarranged so that there is almostno ev idence of colour clash

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learn, however.As well as that, cast ing a t *

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stomach c hurning 'neeeeeekk;when you bite the dust. Again

The weapons system gets

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in a bit of a hurry .First, i f you don' t k now the

way the spell is cast, y ou mus tlook it up in y our spell book .(Enter Spell Book mode, andmemoris e the squence ofrunes). No w enter spell cast ingmode, and enter the correctrunes in the correct sequence. Ifyou got it r ight — you now havethe appropriat e power, i f not...

pretty nif ty. al t hough the startlaser is pathet ic and your ship iss low accumulat ion of energylets you hurt le across the screenand loose guided miss iles

you lose the runes, and it 's startall over again.

Extra t rouble starts if you runout of one part icular t ype ofrune. To solve that part icularproblem, you have t o searcharound f or more runes andstuff,

And so on unt i l you save theworld. . .

Fair enough, it doesn' t s oundthe mos t or iginal of plots, butthe implement at ion and des ignare excellent . Wri t t en by theprogramming duo of MikeLewis and S imon Price whobrought y ou t he c reditableRedhawk and Kwahl (also f romMelbourne House) landgraphics are wel l des igned andthe games play is a nov elc ombinat ion of brain s t rain andreact ions.

There are problems to solve,spells to learn, runes to get,levels to advance and more.Wiz is a challenge that ' ll takeyou more than half an hour tocrack.

For instance, s ome spellscannot be brought s t raight of ff rom the appropriate image.You fi nd that you have tocomplete a quest— yuk. This

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Price: £7 . 75Memory: 481(/128KJoysticks: Various

which' bounce around thescreen under your cont roltaking Out dozens of aliens at at ime. It 's a bit like a roundboomerang. When you get tothe serious ly large alienmot hers hip you' l l need it. I t is,by the way , spectacularlywonderf ul and even animat ed

That 's about it really. This isthe game your loyst ick wasdes igned f o ra

makes things difficult.., becausesome quests mean you have tohave already got the right spellsto complete it, etc, etc.

The actual spell cast ingsequence awards experienceand l a I f you have memoris edthe sequence for inv is ibility , forexample, whenev er you are inthe mire up to the kneecaps,there's no mess ing around wit hthe Spell Book, it 's s t raight inthere wit h the incantat ion.Good stuff. So, you can beassured that Wiz is bot hchallenging and !astable. In fact.all in all, Wiz (despite theabsence of Michael Jacksonand Donna Summer) is the bestMelbourne House release forquite a bit . Ma g i d '

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If you look at this game in a

highly crit ical mariner andtake it at fi rst glance you

could almost be forgiven forthinking that it is a completeand utter load of rubbish.

Mad Nurse however, is, avery whacky and entertaininglittle game.

It reminds me s omewhat of ahospitalised Skool Daze in itslayout - with three levels,connected by lifts, of nurserywards, each wit h various cots,medicines, and electricalsockets.

The scenario has you as at rainee nurse in the baby wards,and d's you job to scour thewards for naughty babies whohave c l imbed out of their cotsand caus ing havoc wherev erthat go. A s you mo v eyour nurse around (they

The cosmic energy grid is a

mean place. I f s sort ofsquare shaped, wi t h lots

of linle squares inside, andgetting across it is a difficultbusiness, especially if you're aservice droid with a defectivebounce

Parabola is a game wit h a lotof square things, s ome round

PA R A B O L Athongs. and a thing that bouncesup and down a lot. I t 's a reallyexciting game, as you canimagine- The act ion takes placeon indiv idual squares of theenergy grid. Whic h are sub•div ided into squares. Old Bruc iehas to bounce across thissquare, pick ing up s ome thingsand avoiding other things. thusreaching the exit and, you'veguessed it the next square.

Anyway. all these squares

F ACT S B O XBoring bouncy thing andlots o f squares. N o tworth springing, o u t o fbed to g o a n d b u y i t.(Joke, get it?)

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have delight ful names likeBrenda Bumwas her and TraceyToet ick lerl you fi nd babiesabout to put their fi ngers in t oplug sockets or openingmedic ine bot t les, or intent onchucking themselves down thelift shaft .

aside, there are, as I said, s omeround buts as well, s ome ofwhich are good, and s ome ofwhich are bad. The good onesare the whiny things, whic h areenergy discs, and Bruce has tocollect all the discs on a squarebefore he can leave. But watchout for the non-whirly ejectorpads.

I'm terribly impressed byParabola. Spr ingy androids areall very well, and this is aspringy android wit h at leastsome meas ure of cutenessabout him. He bounces up anddown nicely, his spring appearsto bend in an authent ic sort ofway. He even makes t wangswhen he hits the ground.

Unless my copy of Parabola isst range and I 'm totallymis judging it, Parabola is notreally up to scratch. It's too hardto move about the grid, and therewards are not wor th the

; effor t. OK. so the screen flasheslots of pretty colours at youwhen you get through a square,and you get some bonus pointsand there's lots of twangysounds like lots of little Bruce'sall jumping up and down inglee, but so what? SorryFirebird, but this one's a dodo.

You've got to overcome anypowerful urge to lust let themgo ahead and write themselvesoff and bui ld up y our score bysav ing the tots, and ret urningt hem to t heir cots.

GRt too many babies in one

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mining law a n d orderin a babies bosomsward Apart I ro n, d u n -bute clash i ts an enter-taining l i t t l e to d d l e rMAD NURSELabel: FirebirdPri(e: 0 . 9 9Memory: 48K/ I28Kknotick; variousReviewer :

R eviineeior* * * * ** * * * *c ut and they all hop out agalitwice as fast! Collec t ing thebottles also gives you a bonusscore, but you don't get mucht ime for that.

It's all in ex t remely bad tastewhic h is to say it 's defi nitely agame to look out f o ra

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poor old Dr. Jackle. He's

spent years researchingthe formula for the

transforming potion, and nowhe ends up as a blob on abicycle. Bad news Uh?

Jackie and Wide is a budgetrelease from Bulldog, and that'sabout the best description I cangive you. Sad to say, Jackie andWide ain't much cop.

Part one of the game takesplace in Hyde Park, which youcycle round on the trendy oldPenny Farthing. (Hence the blobon the bicycle comment). Whilstcycling around, admiring theway your tyres go blue, green.yellow, blue, green, yellow asyou ride over the flower beds,you can pick up some things.Like a two-headed axe, asparkling gem and a sea-sickness tablet (By this time Iwas feeling pretty nauseous, soI was glad of the last item). Thenyou can solve some problems.What problems, I hear you cry!Well, little things like being toldto cut a path through the hedgeand then finding that it'simpossible to get yourotherwise very useful two-headed axe to chop through.

Once you've picked up somethings, but not the only reallyuseful looking thing, a key,which was stuck behind theinvincible hedge, you can go tothe Underground and pokearound down there.

Well, down the sewers you'llfind a number of nestles, allbusy zapping your energy andtrying to drown you in the ever-rising flood waters. You can runabout in a few rooms, have yourenergy zapped a lot, and dropdead. Thrilling.

There's obviously a goodgame lurking in the Jekyll andHyde story, but this one isn't i tJackie and Wide is not a winner.

SINIA AM USER JUL ,

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RUNNERate hero.

your blood racingd save the planet

which only you/A have the key?'Along the way.

u will need nerves• of steel playing againsta fast scrolling landscape.

This is one of Hewson'smost technically

emanding games, n;ectin940a cool head and listtningreactions.

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Trying desperately hard to

look like Lewis Collins inWho Dares Wins, and

failing for obv ious reasons, Iloaded SAS strike force into theor Speccy. And the loading

screen was red.Which seemed to me to

indicate ext reme v iolence andbloodshed. Which meant , Iassumed, that this was a typicalsort of game.

The scenario goes somethinglike this. There are theseterrorists who are threateningto change life as we k now it, t odestroy every thing that we inthis country hold dear,

So get in there and waste theafro hair-doed terrorists. All byyourself. Yes. The Strike Forcebeing somewhat depleted,perhaps they're work ing to rule

th.-11. it 's up to

poor old Howard. He's a

duck t h a t v e r y n e a r l yturned into a dodo.

As a big budget mov ie — 30million do l lars o r s o — p l u sbeing based o n a pret t y zanycartoon charac ter h e mu s t o fseemed perfect mat erial t o besnapped up and t urned in t o acomputer game. S o mu c h s othat Ac t iv is ion d i d . Ma y b e i tthought i t wo u l d b e t he nex tGhostbusters.

And how wrong it t urned outto be.

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you to do the job all by yourself .There are mines all over theplace, and there are lots ofterrorists and there are s omeMidland Bank griffi ns. No, no,sorry, they 're the hostages, soI'm told. (But they look likeMidland Bank Griffins. Honest ).

Perhaps you' l l have realisedthat the graphics are notbrilliant . And because thescreens fl ip rather than scroll,you never k now what 's aroundthe corner, and it 's all t oo easyto t read on a mine and getb lown to Kingdom c omebecause you jus t didn' t see it,

Of course, this being y ouraverage. Mik ro-Gen sort of

First t here was t he fac t I I-l e t t

the fi l m fl o p p e d i n t h e US .Then, just as Act iv is ion as aboutto launch the game last year thefi lm c o mp a n y c h a n g e d t h ename of the mov ie. But the fi lmstill went on and fl opped ov erhere.

Then t here were al l t he pro-duct ion delays and the C84 ver-sion of the game prev iewed inSeptember wr i t t en b y Ac t iv i -sion i n t he U S look ed pre t t yrough ( a n d t ha t ' s p u t t i n g i tmildly).

Now, s ix mon t hs a n d muc hbaited breat h lat er, here ' s t heSpectrum version. Look ing sus-piciously like the C64 game.

The plot : s omeone ' s go t t orescue Beverley and Phil ( whothey a re is unc lear), a n d t ha tperson is your duck.

To do so Howard has to fi ghthis way across Volc ano I s landthrough mut ant s l ime and fi ghtoff s ome pret t y me a n look ingmutants.

Howard h a s a je t -pac k t oal low h i m t o wa lk o n wat er (It hought ducks could s wim, am Iright o r what ?) and a mic rol i t eaircraf t to fl y up int o t he volca-no (ducks c an fl y c an' t they ,mean it 's not jus t my imagina-t ion o r any t hing l ik e that l. Oh,

game, you' ll k now instant ly thatthis is a game whic h alsosuffers f rom that horribledisease, the at t ribute problem.Af ter a while, the s ight of y ourhair t urning f rom orange tomagenta to s omet hingcompletely dif ferent gets ratherdepressing, and the temptat ion

to shut your eyes and fi re getsrather great (You can actuallykill a lot of things like that, butmost of t hem tend to behostages and t rees andsuchlike).

It's import ant to keep an eyeon your ammuni t ion as it tendsto run Out at the mos tinopport une moment s

and a n e u R) n - d i s i n t e g r a t o r(that one ' s fi ne b y me) . Th u sequipped, t he adventure starts.

Now Howard the Duck wouldmake me very happy were it a.budget game. But since it 's not .,.

,rm not.

The graphics are merely aver-age, and Howard hims elf is theweirdes t duck this s ide of Pek-ing.

The gamep lay is inc l ined t obe a bit t ricky unt il you've mas-tered t he bas ics — like h o w t otake a running jump and the artof Quac k R I - af t er wh i c h i t

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However, if you run over certainobjects, you' re ammunit ion wi l lincrease. You get ex t ra pointsfor keeping wi t h in the t imelimit , not us ing ammunit ion andwas t ing the terros.

Although SAS Strike Forcecould have been a very nicegame, it doesn' t quite make it.To take a f airly c ommonplac eidea and turn it into a game thatwil l enthrall players requiresexcellent graphics, soundtrackand the like. To marry anordinary idea wit h ordinaryprogramming is to produce agame that takes its placeamongs t the medi,• • •

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becomes ridiculous ly easy.I f o u n d k i l l ing mut ant s was

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Apart f rom t he fact it 's not avery g o o d g a me — whic h i s Isuppose a serious drawback — Irather liked Howard the Duck.

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Take another ride, the waterroods. although this has beenongenjousty des igned to allow

Lastly, Buddy l.'s PHASORFORCE outfit, at E39.99,inc u es a rather naffly-designed gun. sensorheadband, bodybett ond IDcard, The bodybelt has sensorsat the rear as well as the front,so you con gun down theboddies (or goodies) frombehind too, Also available is aphosor rifle and body sensor atE29_99.

All three systems claim towork at a range of up to 50feet indoors, 25 feet outdoors.A lot depends on lightconditions, but at least all threesystems will make plenty offlashing and bleeping.

All three are being stockedby Beanies and other large toystores Cheaper Hong Kongcopies ore rumoured to be onthe way, so this Summer thestreets will probably be fi lledwith the sounds of electronicgunfire and the howls of kidsbeing exterminated.

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Can you guess what It is liketo drop like a stone from 60ft inbitch black darkness? Wellsample the Black Hole andfflars what you gel, it is in facta roller coaster that is housedinsioe a budding with no lightwhcOpever Notrec ammenoed on a fullstomach, but highlyrec ommended it you like thewhrte knuckle stuff. And, youguessed it. completelyComputer controlled

There is one ode that hasnothing to do with computers.just centrifugol force. Thecorkscrew. an upside downroller coaster that turns youinside out at the speed ofroiref . No latest technologyhere Nst good old fashionedscience

Alton Towers is the new laceof theme pork entertainment,combining oll the thrills of thefun fair WI spotless surroundingsAnd with the news that theyare about to build a similar siteat Elaffersea Power station.comes a feeling that that oldtravelling fair Just won't seemquite the some again

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featuring as main talking point abionic arm which can beextended like a rope to get youout of the tightest spots.

The plot Is fairly simple - allyou do is penetrate the enemy'sHO and run off with the secretplans of their next attack on yourarmy. The only problem is thatthe enemy HO can only bereached by climbing trees,scaling cliffs and then venturingInto a fortress riddles with traps.This Is where the old bionic limbcomes in

Bionic Commandos Is aplatform game of sorts, and yourlob Is to climb steadily upwardsusing the extendable arm toclimb onto higher levels so thatyou can then climb up it. It's alsovery useful for grabbing extraammo when it floats down onparachute, but out of a real ar msreach' And then if you comeacross any enemy soldiers youcan aPways extend your arm togive them a long range punch.Very satisfactory, especiallywhen they fall off a platform cl-out of a tree and crash to theirdeaths far below.

Once you ye managed to graba laser cannon from out of thesky your Job becomes eveneasier. However, life is still full ofhazards, and these mainly come

from the dozens of hornet s nestsIn early levels and hornedorchids growing from thebranches of the trees. Land onthe horns and you're dead, getstung and you're dead. Try toknock out the hornet s nestsbefore these Irate buzzing Insectsappear. On later levels. you'llhave to cope with flying hazards.enemy firepower, and platformswhich aren't as stable as theyseem. Crawl out on one of theseand you're likely to plunge toyour death, unless that is. you reparticularty quick and can shootOut your arm and grab onto someledge or branch above you

Lots of action and a veryentertaining scenario makesBionic Commandos a winner.Instant decisions will be neededin this very addictive and wellplanned out game.

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METROCROSSItried very hard indeed to like

Metrocross, In t heory itsounds like a crack ing ef fort

and the shots (of the arcadeversion) on the back of the boxpromise all manner ofwonderful exc itement - don' tthey always?

Licenced f rom the Namc oarcade game of the same name,Metrocross involves rac ingalong f rom the lef t -hand part ofthe play area to the r ight in astyle not ent irely a mi l l ion milesaway f rom the ill-fatedInspector Gadget (see last ish)while avoiding assortedobstacles such as potholes andpressure pads.

Everything (apart f rom theback wall, whic h doesn' t countanyway, as it has no purpose) isblack and white, whic h makesreading the ins t ruc t ions a lit t leconfusing eg: Blue cans - kickthem and you score points /Green Cans - Speed cans whichdouble your speed.

Each of the twenty -four levelshas a t ime l imit which, whenexceeded, wi l l cause y our fairlypoorly defi ned character to beelec t rocuted on the spot. Eachlevel also of fers a dif f erentarrangement of obstacles,alt hough there are relat ivelyf ew types of obstacle. There'sthe "green t i le" (whic h is in factblack) whic h wi l l s low youdown by 75% and the hurdlewhic h you mus t leap. There arealso numerous rats whic hscurry about and wi l l gnawaway at your ankles if you don' tkick t hem away . At sporadicintervals along the course you' llencounter "b lue cans " (whit e)whic h can be kicked of f thescreen for bonus points.

There's a skateboard, too,whic h whi le of f ering moderat enovelty interes t as you gl ide

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The main prob lem wit hMet roc ross is that it jus t isn'tpart icularly exc it ing. I t 's far t ooeasy in the early stages (no-oneshould be able to scoreupwards of 50,000 in their fi rstgame on any thing) and by thet ime it ac tually gets diffi cult toc omplet e a level, y ou' l l havebeen play ing it for so long that itwi l l be quite a relief to be able tostop for a wh i le 111

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Good guys to thenews. Johnrescue.

Actually, what is happening isthat this impish Time Lord istaking artefacts from one TimeZone and putting themelsewhere, which notch, couldcause big problems. I mean.imagine King Harold andWilliam the Conquerer havingtelephones. They could havecalled the whole thing off at halftime, and then where would webe. David Steele as PrimeMinister I expect.

Anyway, back at Falcon, it isyour sworn duty to seek outthese anomilies and set historyto rights by returning them totheir correct Time Zones. Luckyyou have a rapid response lasergun to blow away any natives

FA L C O Nwith and a Jet Pack to make thecarnage just that little bit moreunfair, together with a trustyTime Machine to take youround the eight Time Zones thatexist.

You start off in a room in thel i me Lord HO, the Eigeryaultyour time machinedematerialises before your veryeyes, and you must run aroundthis particular level, zappingand rampaging robot. to find itagain. No need to worry,actually. It's only five flip screenrooms away.

The single complication is thetime limit you are up against.During the play testing. Virginobviously found it was too easy,

and the only thing they could doat that late stage was to alter thetime.

Playing real-time, you haveonly four minutes. Sure, you getsome extra time when youcomplete a mission, but it stillmakes it a push. Some mightthink this challenging. I suspectthe more discerning readerwould simply find it annoying.

Falcon isn't complicatedenough to make it as an arcadeadventure. The zapping isn'tcompulsive enough to make it adecent zapper. The design isn'tpretty enough to make it worthjust looking at on the telly. Infact Falcon falls bewteen almostevery stool imaginable.

Being not-completely-awkil ,it's possible that a much smallrelative might find Falcon ofinterest. I t's certainly easyenough. But for the hardenedgamer, there is nothing herewhatsoever1111

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Sound sampling, the latest buzzword, letsyou record natural suunds with the microphonesupplied, then edit them and play them back atdifferent pitches.

Or you can choose from eight internal'voices' including drums and synthesiser; editthem, create new ones and play them from theSpectrum or a MIDI keyboard.

The amazingly realistic drum sounds

The Spectrumlike you've neverheard it before.

literally have to be heard to be believed, andcome with a Rhythm Editor.

For budding composers there's note, bar andtune editing. And for enthusiasts, a full MIDIspecification that includes In/Out/Thru portsto connect with MIDI instruments.

Yet despite its power, the menu drivengraphics and excellent manual allow sounds tobe created and songs composed in minutes.

Sinclair User awarded it the highest fun-per-pfennig rating of any Spectrum peripheral

The price of all this magic? Just £49.95complete with manual, microphone and demon-stration recording.

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FURTHER DESIGNS ONGAME PROGRAMS...(GETTING TO GRIPS WITH THE ELEMENTS)p e t e r Johnson of Fife wants toI b e able to writ e gamesprofessionally but he doesn' tknow any machine code. Hewrites.

I 'm think ing of get t ing agame designer like Ocean'sLaser Basic. What are theseprograms like? Do anyprofessional programmers usethem? Could the fi nal game bemarketed wi t hout anyproblems wit h copyright? Arethese designers really capableof doing a game of the StevenTurner standard? If I can't makeIt as a programmer I want to bea games designer. Is there ademand and how do I become adesigner?

What a lot of quest ions Peter,let me try and sort these out.Oceans Laser Basic is not agame des igner program at all,It's a rather bet ter vers ion ofBasic a bit like the Basicsupplied wit h the Spec t rum aspart of the ROM. In other wordsit has c ommands like

LET I - 14LET B 1 * - 1You wi l l fi nd it very hard to

write a game wit h this k ind ofprogram. It's muc h more suitedto doing programs whic h keeptrack of how much you spend ofyour pocket money or aprogram to keep all thetelephone numers of yourfriends.

There are some gamesdesigners on the market like theGraphic Adventure Creator andthe Quill. These can be great fun

to use but of course they t urnout games of a part icular typeto: adventures. That is theproblem of us ing s omebodyelse's program to create agame. You are basically l imit edto what the other person'sprogram can do.

It's a bit like the dif ferencebetween a bicycle and asupermarket t rolley. If you wantto get yourself f rom your houseto your friend's house two milesdown the road and the sun isshining then a bicyc le is a veryquick and efficient way of doingIt. You can jump on y our bikeand be there in about 10minutes. If however you want tocollect up lots of food f romsupermarket shelves thentaking a bicycle in and t ry ing topile the food on t op of thebicycle would be a was te of

time. You'd be muc h bet ter of fwith a supermarket t rolley,because a supermarket t rolleyis designed to hold the food andbits and pieces. Of course thesupermarket t rolley would beno good for get t ing you f romyour house to your f riend'shouse two miles down the roadwhether the sun was shining ornot l

Bicycles and supermarkett rolleys are just t wo ways ofget t ing yourself and your bitsand pieces around the place.There are other ways like cars,buses, t rains , aeroplanes,prams, rollerskates, taxis, hitch-hik ing, walk ing, running orc rawling on y our hands andknees. Each of thesemec hanis ms is appropriate incertain c ircumstances.

In muc h the same way ,

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Gauntletmusicmystery‘ A i h o ' s a thicky then? Av V couple of mont hs a go Irepeated Patrick Downes 'sproblem concerning the mus icin the arcade game Gaunt let Hewrote to tell me that af ter acouple of months of play ing thegame the mus ic suddenlychanged Th is sounded sounlikely that I wrot e a lit t le noteabout it in this c olumn asking ifanyone could t hrow light onthe subjec t Wel l I 'm pleased tosay, that approx imately9,322,547 readers have writ t ento me to point out what is going

dif ferent programs areappropriate for dif ferents ituat ions. Unfortunately , whenit comes to wri t ing games thereare so many dif ferent types thatit is poss ible to produce aprogram whic h wi l l enable youto wr i t e any sort of game. TheQuill and the GraphicsAdventure Creator work for apart icular type of game, butthey wou ld be no good forbox ing games or sc rollingshoot -em-ups or plat f ormgames or arcade adventures orrac ing games or arcadeadventures or . . . o r . . . o r .

The profess ionals all use anassembler to wri t e theirunderly ing code. Depending onthe s ituat ion s ome now haveso-called Link Editors whic hal low dif ferent chunks of codeto be linked together f rom manydif ferent sources to go into themain game. They also use toolsto create the graphics asindiv idual units , or other toolslo animat e the graphics andother tools to create the rightsound effects and the rightmus ic effects. So if you want tobec ome a games programmeryou wil l have to master all thesedif ferent types of programs

As to bec oming a gamesdes igner then I 'm af raid thebest games des igners all havean apprec iat ion of the variousdif ferent k inds of sof tware toolsthat are available becausethey 've used half a dozen or adozen of t hem themselves.

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HEWSON HELPL1NEon The very first letter receivedon the subject was f romGraham Roberts of SouthWirral who writes_

Throw away the optrex, leaveyour hair alone and stopworrying about the Gauntletsound problem printed in May'sSinclair User. There are bot h48K and 128K versions ofGauntlet and the programdetects which is whichdepending on which loadroutine you use from a 128KSpectrum he writes I f you usethe "tape loader" then i t loadsthe 128K program and you getthe nice music. 111, however, youmove the arrow pointer on theinitial screen down to 48K Basicand use the Load " commandit will Load and Run as a 48Kprogramme and you get theordinary beep type music.

Thank you Graham and thankyou to everybody elseCompletely obv ious and asplain as the nose on my facenow you've explained it. I think Ishall award myself the Thicky ofThe Year prize and c rawl awayunder a stone and hide. Firs t ofcourse, I shall send a copy ofRana Rama to Graham Robertsfor beat ing everyone else to thepostbox.

Therefore Peter, I 'm af raid it 's avery lond hard road you have totread. But never mind; it 's goodfun us ing all these dif ferentkinds of programs and don' tworry because everybody startsoff t he same way. I f you thinkabout it even the very bestprogrammer in the wor ldstarted of f k nowing absolutelynothingl

UDG's uponreflection

T h e next ques t ion comes f rom A n d r e w Bizwell ofChessongton He asks

Can you outl ine a method forachieving the fol lowinghideously complex result,namely the mirroring of agraphic such as UDG.

Ho' Ho! Ho ' Andrew, this isone of those problems whic hlooks absolutely impos s ibleunt il you see how it 's done andthen i t s obv ious. Let me fi rstprepare the ground by rev is inga lit t le of what we k now aboutUDG's or User Defi nedGraphics.

Everyone wil l be f amiliar wit hthe characters whic h mak e upthe Spec t rum Charac ter Set.These consist of the let ters ofthe alphabet , the numbers 0 to 9and some punc tuat ion marks

Table 1 Th e fi rst s ixteen entriesin a " look -up" t able formirroring UDG's f rom lef t toright. The ent ries in the tableconsist of the numbers0,128,64,192 etc as s hown incolumn 4 above

and s ome odd bits and piecessuch as a lit t le c in a circle whichmakes up the copyright symbol.Each of these characters ismade up on a 8 by 8 grid of"pixels ". each pixel can appearin eit her the PAPER colour orthe INK colour. When theSpec t rum is fi rst t urned on thePAPER c olour is whi t e over thewhole of the screen and the INKcolour is black over the whole ofthe screen. Hence thecharacters appear as blackcharacters on a whi t ebackground.

The set t ing of each row ofeight pixels is cont rolled by thesett ing of one by te in memory .A byte consists of eight bits andeach bit cont rols the set t ing ofone pixel. A bit can either be setto 0 or to 1 and so thecorresponding pixel pos it ioneither takes the paper colour orthe ink colour. As a f ullcharacter consists of eight rowsof pixels so there are eightbytes of inf ormat ion to defi neeach character.

A User Defi ned Graphicoccupies the same 8 by 8 layoutas the ordinary character set.Thus the sett ing of each of eightbits in 8 bytes of memorydetermines the layout of eachUser Defi ned Graphic . The fi rstbyte of the eight determines thef orm of the top line in the UDG.the second by te cont rols thesecond line in the UDG etc,

So what do we need to do ifwe want to mi r ror a UDG? Wellif you think about it, if you wantto refl ect it f rom top to bot t omthen the thing you have to do isto t rans fer the inf ormat ion inbyte number I t o byte number 8and visa versa, t he inf ormat ion

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In by te number 2 to bytenumber 7 and visa versa, theinf ormat ion in byte number 3 tobyte number 6 and visa versaand the inf ormat ion in by tenumber 4 to byte number 5 andvisa versa. In this way the UDGwi l l get t urned ups ide down.For ex ample if the UDG wasoriginally an arrow point ingvert ically upwards then af terthe t ransfer process it would become an ar row point ingvert ically downwards ,

These sort of t ransfers are notpart icularly diffi cult to executeeither in Basic or in mac hinecode. Thus t urning UDG'sups ide down is fairlys t raight forward.

Now what happens if youwant to t urn a UDG around sothat it faces in the oppos it edirect ion? In other words whatdo y ou need to do to t urn aright ward fac ing ar row into alef tward fac ing arrow. This t imeit is not a ques t ion of shif t ingbytes around but a ques t ion ofmov ing bits around wit hin eachbyte. The lef t mos t bit (bitnumber 71 has to be mov ed tothe right mos t bit ibit number 0)and so forth. Unfortunately,there is no s imple c ommandeither in basic or mac hine codewhic h wi l l do this k ind oft ransfer for you. Unfortunately .it is usually this k ind ofmirror ing that you want to do ina program. For example if youhave a lit t le man walk ing to theright you may wis h to turn h imround and make him walk to theleft. I t is muc h less likely thatyou wi l l want to t urn h imups ide-down and mak e h imwalk on his head!

Both basic and mac hine codeinterpret the contents of a by teas a whole number ly ing in therange f rom 0 — 255. Thus anypart icular bit pat tern whic hleads to a c orres ponding pixelpattern on the screen has acorresponding dec imal numberassociated wit h it. The trick is to

use a look -up table to convertthe dec imal number into theequivalent dec imal numberwhen the pat tern is mirrored.For example, if the fi rst pixel ina row wa's set and theremaining 7 pixels were unsetso that a dot appeared on thescreen at the very left of the rowthe corresponding bit pat ternwou ld be

10000000This is interpreted as the

dec imal number 128_ When thepixel pat tern is refl ected f romleft t o right the correspondingbit pat tern is of course

00000001This is interpreted as the

dec imal 1.Similarly the bit pat tern

00010000 which corresponds tothe decimal number 32 whenreflected f rom lef t to rightbecomes the bit pat tern00001000 whic h corresponds tothe dec imal number 16. You canimagine a look -up tableconsist ing of 256 numberswhich s hows how you have tochange the dec imal numbers tocorrespond to mirror ing the bitpat tern f rom lef t to right .Obv ious ly the 32nd ent ry in thetable woul d hold number 16because mirror ing the bitpat tern f or 32 gives rise to thebit pat tern f or 16. Simi lar ly the128th ent ry in the table wouldbe the number 1 becausemirror ing the bit pat terncorresponding to the number128 give a bit pat terncorresponding to the number I .All this may sound rathercomplicated but if you look attable 1 y ou wi l l see the dec imalnumbers and bit pat terns forthe numbers 0 — 15. You shouldbe able to f o l low themechanism and ex tend theent ire table right up to 255.Clever eh?

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When it was first

released as a coin-op.Quartet was judged to

be pretty revolutionary. It was afour-player game for a kick-offand it was one of the first non-sexist, non-racist, non-everything that you couldpossibly think of, games tocome on to the market And thatmade it rather interesting, andthus rather a good licence forsome bright-eyed, bushy tailedsoftware house to snap up. Andthat software house wasActivision. iCue fanfare-)

On the Spectrum it's a one ortwo-player game, but each cancontrol two characters.

To set the scene. Owing to thegeneral inepti tude and lack of

• .•n power of those people-g on the space colony, it's

Peen over-run by alien pirateterrorists, - not the sort ofaliens that you'd take home tomeet your mother. So. it's up tothe Quartet to save the colonyfrom a lot of aggravation.

And this is where the 'non'bits come in. In the interests ofliberation and free thinking, onemember of the Quartet is awoman, and one of the men is

black (Not that you can actuallytell the difference betweenthem when they're up andrunning, one member of theQuartet in a spacesuit lookspretty much like another. Andall four are pretty trendy.

Each one of the heroes (andheroine, let's be precise aboutthis) had different skills, so it'sup to you to decide whether youwant to play the character whoruns, shoots or bounces well. Intwo-player mode each of youcan control one or twocharacters, so it's possible toplay all four at once. Al thoughthis increases the number ofpoints you can score, it alsoincreases the l ikelyhood you ofbumping into each other anddying.

Amassing points is reallywhat it's all about_ And notlosing them. One of the nicethings about Quartet is that youcan die lots of times wi thoutbeing eliminated. This is all dueto the wonder ful 9,000 pointswith which you start everygame. Yes, they give you pointsbefore you've even doneanything! But they take themaway from you every time you

die, and once you've lost the lot,it's Game Over for youchummy. You have acompletely different counter forpoints scored, and it's possibleto add more to your 9,000 bypicking up things along theway.

And what a lot of things thereare. Springs to make you j umphigher, jet-packs to make youfly and funny things which defydescription but which are prettynifty anyway_

There are 15 separate levels,which can be randomlyarranged to give a maxi mum of99 levels, So there's lots to do.Each of the levels are qui tedistinctive, but the idea is thesame, avoiding the aliens,scoring points and not dying tooften. (Well , don't go into acoma really, you can't die untilyou've lost those 9.000 points).Then there's this extra•largeand really mean alien terrorist.and if you don't kill any aliens atall on the level, you just have tokill him. Because he's got thekey, and wi thout the key youcan't open the door to the nextlevel. And he's a pretty toughcookie.

Quartet's graphics are a biton the flickerv side of things andthe soundtrack consists mainlyof blips and bings. But this, Ithink, considering the rest of thegame high points, is a relativelyminor flaw.

Quartet should do well_ It'seasy to play, but there areenough things happening all•tle time to keep the player on

is (or even her, seeing as thiss a non-sexist game) toes. It

also places quite a bigemphasis on team spirit, theidea being that the morecharacters you can coerce intohelping, the more points you'relikely to score. And that's anidea that is at least slightly.-iriginal, which in turn makes

Quartet slightly superior tomost of the other blasts aroundthese days.

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F ACT S B O Xream spirit and last ac-tion make Quartet a cutabove the usual alien.killer. A n i c e g a m ewhich should do well

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tor your average punter Th echain stores dent cater muchfor us intellectuals and, most ofthe t ime, we re lucky t o fi ndeven a charted game amongstthe poles of bomb, bas h andboot-'em-ups M e , 1 m luckyenough to be thrown the cast-offs that the reviewing magna-tes up at Chateau EMAP slingout along with t he empty gmbottles and c av iar t ins , b u tlesser mortals have to do a fairbit of scouting around to pickup an older game

All of which is a roundaboutway of answering D. Wright ofWolverhampton's p lea a s t owhere, a n d i l , a c opy o f

Bored o f t he Rings ' i s s t illavailable - perhaps f rom Sil-versoft-, N o , n ot them - I don't

even know if they exist any -more (Slight pause here whileI wait for the solicitor's letter toarrive telling me how wrong Iam and how sorry I ' ll be i f Imake t h e s a m e mi s t a k eagain) Bu t yes! You can get

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the ageing but engaging epicstill, direct f rom Delta 4 them-selves A t the derisory price ofEit 95. i t s a steal, ' puf fs mer-chant banker McNeil over theblower Wri t e to them at TheShieling, N e w Road, S wa n -more. Hants. S03 2PE

I've been able to answer thisWright bloke s query but , i ngeneral. t r y t h e produc t ioncompany first if you can't get apiece of software Af ter that tryOut t h e fanz ines . s o me o fwhich I listed test month, andin previous issues They oftencarry ads from mail order firmswho of f er a good range o fadventures, a n d s omet imesrun their own discountnd soft-ware clubs as well

Besides thinking u ldr I FI I i sthe greates t ma g o n a r t h(give that man an aniseed ballEd.). Simon Moore o f Aber-deen has other serious prob-lems in

KaylethThis isn't like me I can't gel

past the first screen. Please,and I 'm begging. how do youget off the conveyor bell? Give

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Kentillastarting with Neil Cooper who's• *managed t o en t e r Ty l o n scastel. turn the gold key f romthe bedpost into iron and havefound the talisman, but I canopen the chest or get throughthe steel door.- P r e t t y s i m i la r

requests come from A. Cart ofTunbridge We l l s w h o a l s o

A wa n t s to know what goes intot t h e tungsten crucible.

If you've read my earlier tipsA y o u II k now t hat t he golden9 bedpos t key can be turned into

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me the exact words if you canand any other hints to get a bitfurther on in the game. '

This is one of those gamesthat starts you of f in a Now-get-out-of-this s i t u a t i o n .spreadeagled on a conveyorbelt a n d heading f o r s o meuncomfortably electrified robotclaws. First you'll have to 8,13- the steel should bend andfree you. N o w 17, 1 t o fi ndyourself in the assembly linesof an android factory. Alarmsare wailing and a menac ingkiller guard android is cominglust for you. Don' t despair butgo straight up t o t he cont rolunit and 20,10 to silvence thesirens and get rid of the senti-nel.

You II now have space to goback d o wn t o t he conveyorand examine the machinery -some o d d t ape wi l l appear.Start exploring in earnest be-cause the tape, if used proper-ty and with protection for yourhands, can be used to open acanister which contains the setof operat ing p rograms t ha tprovide you with the powers tosurvive the game

A rag-tag bungle of ques -tions have surfaced on

irons by dipping it in the alche-mical solut ion in t he lab. Toactually o p e n t h e c hes t t ry4,11,1621,6 The steel door isvery smooth and there's no-thing to grip on - so treat it as asecret door and think of otherways G o back wes t and ex-amine t he s tatue there N o w19,3. When you return to thedoor you should find it 's beenopened.

The talisman is studded withdiamonds and it s these gemsthat go into the tungsten cruci-ble after they•ve been removedfrom the talisman, I f you putthe c ruc ible int o t he furnaceand operate it Correctly you' llend up with s ome graphite -needed for the fi re protect ionspell

Andy Humphrey i s hav ingrelationshop p r o b l e ms w i t hElva. the mystenous litt le hel-per in the garner • •How do I getthe longbow and arrows f romhim (or her, or it wit hout hav-ing to kill hirri?'•

ElvaS g e n d e r p rob lem Ican't res lolve for you. but onething's f o r s u re - i t hardlyseems fair t o s lay t he crit terwhen he, she or it spends thewhole g a me be ing ev e r s ouseful a n d nic e t o your Be -cause your own carrying abilityis limited, despite t he handysack. E lv a c an b e asked t ocarry things around and handthem ov e r wh e n y o u n e e dthem

The bow and arrows howev-er have a special purpose verylate on in the game O n yourinstruction Elva will shoot thedreaded Dargvool wi t h t hem(sounds like a ravaging Ger-man sheep to me) A s far as Iknow you. as main characteer,will never need the weapon so

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there s certainly n o point i nmurdering the poor mite

Andy goes on to ask H o wcan I he lp t h e pi lot o f t heaincraft

Spy TrekA t o s ee?-. w h i l st A n th o ny J on es

V of Dowlais moans, "I ' v e t riedto play the game about twenty

A l imes but all I can do is openV the coffi n l id - what s going

wrong. what must I do?'Let's start at the beginningA

then Af t er lif t ing the coffin lidit s a good idea to try to get out

A of your predicament Clos e thecurtains and then examine the

suit N o w t ry talk ing t o t hedriver o f t h e hears e y ou' retravelling in. The shocking re-sults will enable you to exami-ne everything thoroughly -you find a pill, swallow it. Thisshould b e e n o u g h t o g e lstarted and will take you to thenext section ol the game.

I confess to not being deadsure this pilot bus iness but Ithink that you've got to ensureyou get hold of a packet o fonion crips f rom the barman -the word Unyon may come inhandy here. I n the bag you' llfind the literal onion and, oncein t he place. look around t ofind a knife t o peel t he saidveg Pres umably the thing willhelp the pilot to see I haven'tplayed this game yet and amusing s ome part ial t ips - any-way. try it Out.

Now to business A lot of usare probably t oo relieved a teaching the end of a game toworry too much about whetherwe've got a full score. Not soCorporal 'El Konfused• Drew ofHarrogate who's quite particu-lar about t his s ort o f t hing.I ve completed Level 9's

Colossal AdventureA i n t he J D t i l o g y wi t h aV s c ore of 1095 out of a possible

1100 I d i d n ' t u s e S a v eRestore or die, freed three lotsof elves and fi nished i n t he

REBEL PLANETMichael Jackson of Southialle.Bristol (no relat ion) asks howto get past the Halmunan wolfin it s cave. Th e Hai-Wolf i sfound across the Tundra riverand_ l i k e mos t canines , r e -sponds well to cupboard loveGive a dog a bone, my son -you II fi nd something suitablein the mus eum display case7 2 16 15TWICE SHY:Rod Albright . Torquay c an Iget Sarah to answer the phone- it keeps ringing, n o mat terwhat_ S o me h o w o r o t h e ryou've got t o foul u p Brit ishTelecom I I t hought B T h a ddone this quite wel l alreadyG.G ) You could also try goingback home to watch TV - thusis apparently a useful thing todo when nothing else is hap-pening and may get resultsAny hints mes enfants/SORCERER OF CLAYMORGUECASTLEFiona Pay ne. Mo r p e l h h a sbeen stuck in the courtyard forIwo years - I presume late onin the game. she s not specificPast t he lava s t ream can befound a s t ar a n d t he dizzydean spell G e t them and re-

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And wit h good reason.Mic ronaut One defies any othersort of descript ion. Not onlythat but it contains s ome of themost brilliant 3D graphics everseen on the Spect rum. For t hefirst t ime ever, as tar as I 'maware, you've got solid 30 fastscrolling creat ing a bril l iantillusion of t ravelling alongtunnels.

One recent point of referencewould be Firebird's Hive.

Don't even think about it -there's no comparison.

Mic roneut is real and solid -you'll believe you were there! !And also. Pete Cooke k nows allabout gameplay .

It's the graphics andgameplay which mat ter here sothe story behind Mic ronaut issimple.

Civilisat ion has takensomething of a t urn for theworse. Mutat ions are rife,barbarism is the order of theday and society has built thiscomputer. But not jus t any oldcomputer. Due to the fact thatmetal is in such short supply ,computers have to be f orme-Iout of (gulp) liv ing biologic alorganis ms . 1-/-i r e s u l ti n g

b io c o mp u t e r is a b i t o n t h eunstable side, and needsconstant maintenance. Andthen, there's the Sc rim to thinkabout.

The Sc rim are the bad guys.Or, in this case, t he bad fl ies. Amutated descendent of thec ommon fruit fly, Sc rim feed of fthe energy generated by theblocomputers. Owing to the factthat they lay eggs left, r ight andcentre, and spin st icky webs allover the place, the scrim tend toblock of f access to the Energy'Transfer Units (ETUs) leading tolack of maintenance, ex t remeinstability, a short explos ionand a nasty case of death for allconcerned. Mass el iminat ion ofthe Sc rim is therefore the orderof the day, mak ing Mic roneutOne a sort of computerised,space-age vers ion of Rentok il.

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Scrim are huge. Great bigumbrella shaped things that flystraight into your ship andmake you go all wobbly. Hugewobbly larvae which head buttyou and push you backwardsfor several feet. Golf•ball sizedeggs which no amount of firingat, pushing about or swearingat will destroy. And thick, stickywebs which cling to the ship,and ripple gently as they pullaway from the window.

The graphics are astounding.The sensation is of flyingthrough tunnels, thingsappearing ar ound corners.Scrim flying out of nowhere,and larvae leaping out at you.The ETUs are huge, bl inkingeyes; solid graphics whichseem to fill up half the screen.Attribute problems are avoidedby the use of two colours.

It's a tr iumph ofprogramming, and a fiendishlydifficult game; There are severalwi ndows which you cansummon from the main menuto help you Maps, ETU energy

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displays, information about theScrim. The skill lies in knowingwhich wi ndow to summon upwhen you get a message or awarning. A monitor will tell youwhere the webs are, and whichof the ETUs is in danger. It's upto you to get there and sort it allout. And boy, is that hard.

There's also a race game inhere as well - if you really wantit - which is five laps of thetunnel as fast as you can go. Itdoesn't appear to be veryinteresting. there's nothing toshoot at, or obstacles in theway, but as an exercise inlearning the layout of thetunnels and learning to fly theship. It 's pret ty useful.

Micronaut One is prettyingenious. It requires thoughtand strategy to get through itbut instant obl ivion is alwaysaround the corner. It's a reallynice mix of blast and skill

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KILLED

I o n j o u r Mons ier Slam-B„flair, I 'ave to tell youzat I arm suspect ing you

of at tempt ing to murder ze t resbelle Mademois elle Claudia onze patio avec le bombe surprise.

Vous aves un alibi t res good?Sacre nom de Bert l i l lon! Mareputat ion as ze greatest half -French half -English detect ive

she is up ze spout !-Eau neau, a revolvair is

being pointed at moi t hrough lefenestrel I am being shert ! Mafoi, I am daidl I lay down! No wze murderair wi l l be able toperform ze fould deed wiz im-punity

Killed Unt i l Dead is a murdermystery game. Not so muc h an

adventure, as a business man-agement game for budding pri-vate detectives. A bit like TheFourth Protocol was a bus inessmanagement for spies.

Anyway, the basic plot is s im-ple- you are Hercule Holmesand you k now that a murder isgoing top be c ommit t edtonight Rri. 1 the v ic t im and the

murderer are members of aworld f amous c rime writ ersassociation, the Murder Club,you have to ident if y murderer,victim, locat ion and met hodand stop the dev ilish af fair be-fore it happens.

It's very reminiscent of thatold favourite. Cluedo, exceptthat instead of challengingother players to tell you if theyhave or haven't got a part icularcard, you t ry to weasel usefulinformat ion out of the fi ve sus-pects. They wi l l tell you thingslike; 'I f Claudia is the killer, thenit won' t be wit h the bomb' , or 'ifthe v ic t im is Sydney, themethod won' t be poison' . Af teryou've collected a whole s lewof these, you can start eliminat -ing certain combinat ions , unt ilyou've reached the point whereyou think you know the answer.

At that point you challengethe killer, reveal y our guess.and if you're right you win, ifyou're not you get shot by amysterious fi gure at the win-dow.

At the start of the game, youaccess your fi les and read theprofi les of the fi ve potent ialmurderers imurderesses. Allshould be familiar t o anyonewith even the s lightest ground-ing in detect ive fi ct ion (andyou'll need to k now s omet hingabout the genrel. There's theAgatha Chris t ie old womansleuth, the vamp irather daring-ly called Claudia v on Bulow -very s imilar to the name of acertain gent leman acquit ted ofat tempt ing to murder his wif enot so long ago), Lord PeterFlimsey, Mik e Slammer andSidney Meanst reet They allhave their own pic tures as well.

To help you in y our quest toget the necessary proof , youhave a number of useful

E A R T H S H O C KEighth Day Software is a

small house devoted topublishing high qualit y

but cheap Quilled adventures —and I 'm glad to say this is one ofits best, even if the tape I gotwould only load the text — only

version of this, t heir latestgame.

Even wit hout graphics .Eaithishock is unques t ionablyone of the best adventures Ihave seen this year. Thatsounds like a pret ty bald

g t a s s . T h e L e d g e r u n S t o t h es h a f t c o r n e r s t h r o u g h d a r k d u s tY O U U a t t e n t i o n i s a t s o c a u g h t bn b L e a c h e d s k e l e t o n p r o p p e d i nt h e c o r n e r , i t s a r m o u t s t r e t c h e d• t h i n p l a s t i c s t r i p .

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statement, but any game whic hmarries invent iveness of plotwith inc redibly rich andatmospheric locat iondescript ions just has to get myvote f or the tops.

I quote: 'Small c louds of darkdust fall f rom above and drif ts lowly through the air downinto the depths of the shaft.caught moment ari ly in the glareof your lamp, i l luminat ed by thelight as if alive, they disappearand are gone, spirall ing downinto the st ifl ing darkness. '

Now you and I both k now thatmost adventure houses wouldhave been content wit h: 'Yousee a shaft. It is deep. It is dark.It is st ifl ing'.

And how about ' the bloated,blood red sun taints the earth adeep red, as if an open festeringwound?' All t he locat iondescript ions are like that, I 'mnot saying they const itute

Booker prize winning material*but let's hear a round ofapplause for Eighth Day's braveattempts to reintroduce literacyand descriptive prose toadventuring.

Right, quieten down now andwe can get to the rest of thegame. I t is the far future. Theearth, poisoned wi thradioactivity, has beentransformed over much of itssurface into a seared,poisonous desert. Across thisdesert trek the remnants ofhumani ty — pitiful nomad tribes.struggling to regain thecivilisation their ancestors sosenselessly threw away. Dangerabounds — for one thing, bandsof mutants roam the land,hideous creatures who hatenormal people. But the realthreat lies below —the androids.

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gadgets on your desk top, andcan perform various actions.

Then you t ry to get furtherinformat ion by searching theirrooms To get into each room.you have to be able to answer amurder triv ia quest ion, like'Who was Mike Hammer ' s part -ner?'. It 's not as diffi cult as itsounds, as the ques t ions havemult iple-choice answers and ifyou don' t get it r ight this t ime,you can always come back laterand try again, although you loset ime (you have only 12 gamehours).

Once you' re in a suspect 'sroom, you fi nd various interest-ing things. whic h y ou mak enotes of, Later, you can r ing upthat part icular suspect and lets lip that you k now s omet hingabout him or her that youshouldn't . Get the right but ton,as it were, and they say 'haveyou been spying on me?', which..iows immens e perspicacity.

Good value. easy to picAup, chal lenging game-play w i th strategy/ ee-ment - indeed a Winnair,ma dear Watson

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back into the Stone Age, theandroids have decided to seekout a brave new world wherethey can start all over again_ Tothat end, they have created aSpace Ark, into which they areloading the Earth's remainingmineral wealth, Being ti dy-minded little metal monsters,they don't intend to leave anylitter behind. Once free of theplanet's gravity well, they planon exploding a doomsdaydevice which will destroy thewhole world.

Al though you don't realise itat the start of the game, it's yourjob to stop them - armed with abow and arrow, and a flinttipped spear. Boy, that flyingpig just missed me!

Not content with a great littleplot and magnificent prose, allat the measly price of 13-99,Eighth Day has very sneakilyslotted in alternative sub-plots.At some point in the game,you're going to meet a shaman:he'll give you three choices.Each one leads into a differentmini-adventure within the mainadventure - and each different

sub-plot will apparently br ing adifferent end-game into play, soyou will be able to play thegame three times!

Great stuff - worthy of anadventure selling at twice theprice. Why Eighth Day'scatalogue hasn't been snatchedup by one of the big publishers Istill don't know. Buy it - youwon't regret MR

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Their eyes get big, and theylook very nervous, and you canstart pump ing t hem about t hecase. You do this by a menu-driven system, so you can coverthe who le spec t rum of who,where, and wit h what , alt houghthey ' ll c lam up after a whi le andyou' ll have to t ry s omet hingelse.

The whole thing ac tuallyworks pret ty well, cons ideringthe l imit at ions that the gamestructure imposes . The win-dowing helps you s top you get-t ing to bored f rom s it t ing atyour desk all the t ime - you getto see the peple y ou' re talk ingto by phone. The great t hing iswhen y ou s how you k now allabout them - t he i r eyes pop andthey start wav ing their handsabout. Claudia even starts look-ing green, bef ore she dis-appears of t -screen to t h row up.Sidney 's c igar mov es aroundhis face, like s ome sort of s ig-nalling dev ice - all very amus -ing the fi rst f ew t imes at least.

There are f our diffi cultylevels, and seven dif ferent sce-narious to choose f rom, whic hmakes at least 28 dif ferent plotsto sort ou t Actually , it looks likethere are far more than that, ifwhat US Gold tells me is kosher- who, where and wit h what arechosen randomly each t ime, sothat means there should beseven factorial t imes fourfactorial take away the numbelyou first thought of and add theABC fi gure whic h means a lot,

A very big fi gure. And that 's aclose as I can get.

So at £8.99. wel l wor t h load-ing up - amus ing graphics sup-ported by s ome logic problemsthat s hould push y ou to thet ime l imit wi t h ease, plus ext ramystery t riv ia for the murderbuf f s •

S t ev e Jackson and IanLiv ingstone have beencleaning up for quit e a

number of years wit h t heirFight ing Fantasy booksregularly entering the bestseller charts, muc h to theannoyance of many 'proper'authors.

Basically, Fight ing Fantasybooks are solo dungeons (of thetype pioneered by the Tunnelsand Trolls system' in a paper-hack brink YOU are given the

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senano, then a number ofdecision choices. Pick one, andyou turn to page seven, pickanother and it 's page 31, and soon, A bit like an ex tended fl ow-diagram. Therefore a perfecttarget for put t ing onc omput er. . . and US Gold hasboth the money and sense to doit.

Temple of Terror, then, isbased on an old FF book of thesame name circa 1982, butmade into an adventure wit hsome graphics byAdventuresoft . And the resultisn't bad, if a little bland.

Chief baddie Malbordus hasbeen brought up by the Elves(not a pleasant experience atthe best of t imes), and has beenpicking up t ips on how to benaughty during his f ormat iveyears. Lack ing a caring socialworker, he's gone bad, and hasdecided to pay a visit to the cityof Valos, across the Desert of

1 Skulls isecond on the right pastthe newsagents). I f he fi nds theil five Dragon artifacts therein, the

i known wor ld is in big t rouble,right?

Luckily, the pet crow of thek indly Wizard Yar t romo (yes,people were paid money towri t e this plot ) ov erheard theseplans, and he hot -f oot ed it f romhis bac holer pad in theDark wood to get help_

You volunteered, and youstart of f at the l ip of a ropebridge, jus t about t o becaptured by pirates.

It's a 'solve this puzzle in f ourmoves or you' re dead'adventure beginning. Not that

it's d i " ,,t , b u t I p re fe r a i,r 11 -

more , • • duc t ion to myadventures

And so it goes on. Thepresentation is good (newcharacter set, nice graphics witheach locat ion) but it 's thecontent that bothers me. Theproblems are not going to keepyou held up forever if you arean experienced pix ie, t helocat ion descript ions are farf rom verbose and the parser,alt hough adequate, is nothingspecial O n e annoy ing thing,the Get All c ommand, alt houghdoc ument ed in the instruct ions,is not implement ed in the gameitself, Slapped wrists, The bookwas about a couple of quid, theprogram's over three timesthat. Thi nk before buyingEl

FACTS SO XPlot f r o m o l d i igh tingFantasy book, nicel) pre-sented but short on con-tent. Experienced play-ers is/7/ find it easy

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refreshing bike rideacross the count ry to

leave you feeling reallyknackered.

So Mastert ronic has gonecompletely over the t op andgiven you one that lasts for athousand miles and takes youto places of interest such asLincoln, Peterborough andLondon.

It's the Milk Race, thatinternat ionally f amous andexceedingly popular sport ingevent that takes place acrossEngland every May. And you' rein it, about halfway down thelist of 84 entrants

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II's not that I don't like kicking

people in py jama bot t oms todeath. I mean, don' t get me

wrong, I enjoy that just as muchas the next person. Only not likethis.

If you're going to kicksomeone in j im-jams to death.

It's a left to right scrolly af fairin thirteen stages, and you'vegot to win all of t hem to end upfirst at the finish and get to wearthe cute lit t le y el low vest.

For a budget game, this ispret ty hot stuff. There are lots oft widdly bits to be cons idered,like speed, energy, gear and thes lope of the road. It 's certainlynot just a ques t ion of r idingaround very fast and dodgingthe ot her riders.

One of the mos t import antthings to cons ider (as wel l aspedalling about like a bat out ofhell) is y our energy level. Thisbeing the Mi lk Race, y oursources of energy are the mi lk

KICK BOXING

you might as well k now exact lywhat it is that you're doing. Youought to have s ome sort ofcontrol over your bodilyfunctions (can I say that,without being miscons t rued)?You should at least be able totell whic h one on the screen is

churns ly ing by the roads ide,Once your energy level starts todrop, y ou' re in t rouble, so keepthose churns c oming, folks.Whils t pick ing up the churns it 'simport ant to wat c h the curvesin the road, s ince some of t hemc ome together, and if you catchy our wheel, you' re down and int rouble.

Arid a wo rd about c oming of fyer bike. I t 's necessary t o bepicked up by a f riendly personwho' l l giv e you a bit of a push.And that person is aschizophrenic in an EscortCabriolet ,

Why is he a schizo y ou ask.Well, it 's either that, or he's gotserious c lutch t rouble wit h theEscort. As wel l as pick ing y ouup. he also knocks you ov eragain, by bounc ing all over theroad in a f renz ied at t empt tomash y ou int o the ground. Butthen he always comes back tosend y ou on y our way again.

While the graphics aren' tbrilliant (what do you want for1-1.99 blood? And no, there isn't

any in this one), they are quitenice: pedall ing, coast ing alongand falling over are allrealis t ically handled.

My one big gripe is that all theriders are the same colour,whic h makes ident ifi calt iontricky. I t 's OK when you' replodding along in second at the

you.None of which you're actually

able to do wit h Firebird's k ickBoxing. Because it 's naff.

This is a game wit h no streetcred. And no py jama tops. Theidea is to kick might y Mick theMeat Kicker before he kicks youand thus win the compet it ion,the c rowd's adulat ion and aAol ly wood contract etc, etc.

All very well. You have lots ofrnoves, high kick, low kick,punches. arid, mos tImportant ly , back off, block andun away . But they all look the

same. And none of t hem seemto have any effect. I f ound thatthe best way to score pointswas just to waggle the joyst ickabout not very challengingreally. The point s mount upquite quickly, but y ourendurance level wi l l drop andthat ' ll be you out of the running.

I fi nd it hugely suspic ious thatwhen play ing k ick box ing it 'sposs ible to get on to the Roll ofHonour just for waggl ing y ourjoystick. I f ound it even moresuspic ious that I couldn' tident ify myself , s ince both ofthe fi ghters on the screen seem

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With spot t ime t rials to win,pot holes to dodge, gears tochange, milk to drink and manyEscort drivers to escape, Mi lkRace has an awf ul lot going forit. I t ' ll really shake you up.don' t k now any other milkjokes, you' l l be glad to k n o w) •

F ACT S B O XA nice spoof on the realrace. Entertaining with atouch of suspense,when's that next milkchurn coming along?MILK RACElabel: MastertronicAuthor: I c o nPrice: £ 1 . 9 9loystick: V a r i o u sMemory: 481(/128K

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to do the s ame mov es at t hesame lime.

And I f ound the way one ofthe men kept dropping hist rousers when he turned round,very dis t ressing. Good job thegraphics aren' t up to much.

I 'm not impressed. Andneither wi l l you be l l

F ACT S B O XIt's games like this thatgive the budget softwareindustry a bad name. Tru-ly dull, apart from t hepyjama bottoms

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'I f you have been looking bra word processor, thenlook no further C R A S H JUNE 1984With 64 characters per lone on the screen and a hostof useful features TASWORD TWO is the idea)cassette based word processing package for theSpectrum owner

TASPRINTTHE STYLE WRITER

TASPRINT for the ZX 48K Spectrumcassette 00..P0 microdrove cartridge a l 1.40

A must for dot matnk pnnter ownersoPnnt yourprogram output and listings in a choice of five,mpressive print styles TA SPRINT utilises thegraphics capabilities of dot matnx printers to form.with a double pass of the pan thead. output in a rangeof five fonts varying from the futuristic Data-Run tothe hand writing simulation of Palace Script. ATASPRINT gives your output onginality and styleThe TASPRINT fonts are shown to the right togetherwith a hit of cornpateble prentei3.

TASCOPYTHE SCREEN COPIER

TASCOPY for the ZX Spectrum with interfacelcassette 15.1110 microdrive cartridge 111. 46

The Spectrum TASCOPY is for use with the R5232output on ZX Interface 1 I t produces bothmonochrome (in a choice of two sires) and largecopies in which the different screen colours areprinted as different shades With TASCOPY you cankeep a permanent and impressive record of yourscreen pictures and diagrams. A list of printerssupported by TASCOPY is given to the left.

TA S-D IA R YTHE ELECTRONIC DIARY

TAS-DIARY for the ZX 48K Spectrum andmicrodrives_ Cassette &ASO

Keep an electronic day-to-day diary on mocrocinveTAS-DIARY includes a clock calendar, and a separatescreen display for every day of the year. invaluablefor reminders. appointments, and for keeping arecordof yourday The data for m o n t h ts storedas a separate microdnve file so that your data for ayear is only constrained by the mecrodrove capacityTAS-DIARY will work for this year. next year. andevery year up to 21001Supplied on cassette forautomatic transfer to microdrive

TASINAN PRINTERINTERFACE

TASPRiNT PRINTER INTERFACE for theZX Spectrum 1E29.10

RS232 Cable for ZX Interface 11 1 4 5 0Plug into your Spectrum and drive any printer fitted

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T 1hanks for the fault fi nder inissue 58! I managed to use itreplace a faulty ULA, and nowmy Spec t rum works againwithout hav ing seen the ins ideof a repair shop. However. I st illhave a problem in that when Itry arid use my Alphacom 32printer the computer usuallycrashes. What should I try now?P Ci m a t t iLlandudnoGwynedd• Quick! A satisfied customer 'Have him stuffed. . . But all isnot happiness. I t seems to methat it's probably the ZBOAthat's at fault, so try replacingthat next. Otherwise it could bean intermittent short circuit inthe printer cable. These arewhere the cable is soldered onto the edge connector is apopular place for suchmisdemeanours, so you mightlike to give that a gander

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PrintertaceDec en t l y I bought an secondhand Epson MP SOprinter. What sort of connect iondoes it have on the back, andwhat sort of interface do I needfor between it and my 48KSpectrum?Kahlin ShohailKhamis MushaytSaudi Arabia• Anot her quickie - it 's aCentronics or parallelconnection. I use a Ramprintinterface; see this magaz ine forRam Electronic 'sadvert isement, o r writ e to Unit16, Red fields Indust rial Park,Redfi eld Lane, Churc hCrookham, Aldershot , Hants UKGLI13 ORE

Hear that pin!I ' v e recent ly bought a 128K -

2, and I also own an oldTandy DMP105 dot -mat rixprinter whic h has bothCentronics and serial RS232Ccapability, I 'm current ly us ingt hem together wit h a Tas manCentronics interface, but I 'd liketo use the RS232.

I've got the lead and plugs,but the Tandy's signal namesare different from the Sinclair,so I don't know how to wiret hem together. Can you help?$ Dewhur stBoltonLanes• RS232 is a serial which willrun and run, R A Coll ins ofwonderf u l Plymouth also askedabout the DMP105, arid *cos I 'mfrom Tamer ton Foliot of thatcity I'll sort this out. Connect asfollows.. .

SINCLAIR USER JULY 1967

Sinclair SurgerySpectrum on the blink?

Rupert Goodwins has a cureCynics shot

I ' v e lust brought a new1 Spec t rum 128K 4 2, and I 'mhav ing s ome t rouble wi t h it.Nearly every t ime I load a gameand start play ing it thecomputer resets itself or thedisplay comes out in dif ferentcolour squares. I waswonder ing it this was normal,and if not what 's wrong wit h it.David GilmoreLutonBeds• Cynics wi l l say that this isperfect ly normal behav iour fora Spect rum. Whi le I arrange tohave t hem shot, let me assureyou that you have a very sickSpectrum indeed, and areplacement should beacquired f rom the place ofpurchase t oot sweet

Turbo probsI o w n a Spec t rum 128K - 2. I 'm

experienc ing loadingproblems wit h s ome of myprograms, espec ially the Turboor Fas t load variety. The onlyway I can see of solv ing thiswit hout invalidat ing mywarrant y is by connec t ing ins ome way a tape recorder to theback of the c omput er by theedge connector. Is this possible,if so how and if not could yougive me an alternat ive solut ion?Paul D Mi lneForfarScotland• Sc ot land isn't really nearPlymouth. but a n s w e r itanyway. Y o u c ould cook ups ome elect ronics whic h mimic sthe 1 2 8 K-,2 ' s i n t e rn a l t ap e

c ircuit ry and sits on the back ofthe expansion I /O connector,but it wouldn't work particularlywell, i f at all. The tape signalsthemselves aren't taken out tothis connector, so a plain taperecorder woul dn't help. So it'sthe standard answer, I 'm afraid:try cleaning the tapehead with acotton bud and white spirit, takethe computer back to the shopfor real ignment (it can help i fyou take along a problem rape),or get the tapes replaced withbet ter recordings A f t e r all, it 'st hem that are at f aul t,

Some Discovery]I ' y e recent ly replaced my1 Spec t rum Plus wi t h aSpect rum 128K. and would liketo upgrade my Discovery 1 t osuit Howev er , the reply to myenquiry from Opus states thatthey are 'discontinuing thisrange of models', and have nofurther advice on the upgrade.Do you know of any source ofsupply for the up-grade?N TimsonNorwichNorfolk

• Af t er the Discovery and theDisciple, now theDiscont inued. I ' v e beencarry ing out some furt iveenquiries about the DiscoveryRom (whic h is the onlyc omponent needed to carry outthe upgrade). I t t ranspires thatOpus don't own the copyrighton it, and there's a chance thatup-grades might becomeavailable from another sourceIf everyone who might beinterested writes to me c/ oE11

carry t h e r ,

More Midi

S inc e you guys run such aterrific mag, I have a fewgood questions for you:1. I am thinking of buying a Midifor my 48K Spectrum, and Idon't know what keyboard tobuy I 've currently got a CasioMTN), this doesn't have a Midiport but has an input for a barreader. Could it work with Midi?2 I also want to buy a Discipleinterface. Wil l it work withApple 5 i n c h drives and anApple DMA?Shafeeo HameedKhaldiyaKuwai t• Sinc e you wrot e such aterrifi c letter, I have a f ew goodanswers for you. Firstly, thebest budget keyboard for Midiis the peerless CZ-101. Thereare also a few goodsecondhand bargains aboutand the legendary Yamaha DX-7 is due for a price drop nowthat the DX-7 II is out The MT-70 can't work with Midi

Apple disc drives are astandard all their own. TheDisciple will only work withmore modern drives. Youshould have more luck with theApple printer Al though youdon't say which model it is, i twill probably have a standardinterface on i t

NEXTMONTH 1

' w h a t a big One' — t hat 'what MPs of all part ies wersay ing las t n i gh t as t heDemocrat ic c o l l ec t i v e w oevery s ingle p a r l i a m e n t a r yseat except Penge Wes t ( re -tained by a t i ny m a j o r i t y bythe Keep B r i t a i n T idy La t i nAmeric an Dance Team).

" I t 's the bigges t w i n we'veever seen" said ous ted oppo-s i t ion MPG"."They c er t a i n l y s t uf f ed us

an' no mis take" , said a hum-bled M a rg a re t That c her. ' ' Iwas w r o n a l l along. "

The o n i t sv ic tory as a di rec t res u l t o fits A u g u s t E d i t i o n a n d anumber o f spec ifi c e lec t i onpromises Out l ined las t n i gh tby key Cabinet spokesmen.

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Reg is ter y o u r V o t eJ u l y l a t h

s a l r e a d y t o o l a t e — g e t t h ee p i c t u r e . "

M in i s t er o f Trans port : D rGraham T a y l o r o u t l i n e dplans f o r h i s d e p a r t m e n t"Bas ically any body w i t h amoped t h a t l o o k s e v e ns l ight ly dodgy wi l l get t he i rlicence r e v o k e d a n d a n y -body w i t h s t i c k ers i n t h e i rcars say ing 'Tel and Gina' or

y other car's a Porsche' or'Capri Owners d o i t u n d e rthe bonnet at weekends ' wi l lbe sentenced t o s i x m on t hsi m pr i s onm ent o r e x i l e o nCanvey Is land. "

M in i s t er o f E nv i ronm ent :Gareth ' A x e m a n ' J o n e s"Trendy people, disco mus icand peopl e i n du f fl e c oat shad bet t er wa t c h o u t — m yteam of hel ic opter guns hipsis r e a d y t o d e a l w i t h a l lOffenders"

Law a n d O r d e r M i n i s t e rRt H o n T a m a r a H o w a r d :"Prev ious g o v e r n m e n t shave g i v e n w a y w a r d k i d ss hort s harp shocks — we 'regoing for pus hy old ladies inqueues."

M eanwhi l e t h e E S 1 A u -gust E d i t i o n p r o m i s e s t obreak t he m o u l d o f B r i t i s hc omput er m a g a z i n e p u b -l ishing:Our fi ve p o i n t m an i festo :

Tsch, T sch , b er b o m p ,chack we d er d er d er bompgive you dededede th e de-fi n i t i ve bebom p g u i d e toal l th e b e s t m u s i c a v a i l -able on th e S p ectru m cheth e che shuck. Bom p.2 ) A n u l tra-vi r i z z o f e a s tfo r G r a p h i c s A d v e n t u r eCreator an d P AW users —we g i v e y o u p o w e r f u ln ew ed i t i ng tools.3 ) M o r e P o kes , f u l l co l -our maps and P l ayi ng tipsfor nuklor games.4 ) Co m p e t i t i o n s w i t habsol utel y b r i l l i a n t p r i -zes ( w o r t h s e r i o u sam ounts o f m o n ey ) .5 ) L o ad sa r e v i e w s a n dprevi ews o f s o m e a b s o -l u te l y mega n e w products(o u r l ips a r e sea l ed ) .

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THE LAST MATRIX SEARCHGoing on holiday is a fraught

busies's. There's the milk andthe papers to cancel. A spar. key tiegive to the nevi door neighbowts.Semmes to come in and feed theCit. And (mit when you think you'veget it all under control, you go andgel hilacked by the Cretans!

The Final Matrix from Gremlin is asimple stem about the poor old May-tag Pe, whilst on the intergalacticequivalent of a My trip to Margate,get ambushed and scattered aroundthe galaxy on the Craton prisonmatrices. I smell a rescue mission.And a rescue there undoubtedly is.

Nimrod, the Wooten equivalent ofThe Equahsee is sent in, all on hislonesome, to rescue the prisoners. Inorder to do so. be has to dodge theenemy draining squares, the nastycretins who we determined to dohim M, aid all the other little thingsthat tend to get in the way ofrescue minim. Coming to his aid areTV screens, energy squares, and athrust pack.

From the screen shots and thedemo t a p that we've seen, The

Hup, Hue, Strike Three. you're

out!!! lAnd whatever i l is thatbasketball players s hoot w hoa

they're piping basketballThent's nothing like a good sportssimulation we always say, so Activi-sip has given us three. And they'repetty escitine. S o w e kidnapped

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Matrix l ooks exceptionallygood. The graphics are clear andlarge, and controlling Nimrod i swhacky in the extreme. He carries anmoving when you've let go at thelays-tick! ( It 's all to do with momen-

tum. but we'll have a closer look atthat when the time comes.)

The Final Matrix looks as i f Wsgoiag to be a very, very nice game.So give us your best shot Gremlin,we're ready for it!

Streettlete: JunePrice: to be announced

NEW VIEWPOINT O N TEAM SPIRITsome of a g e n t s and in-terrogated them in a dark cellar.

We've seen sports simulationswe cried, evilly. What's so

different about par s, matey boy?Bet m e ' s . R eve l s e e n W a s M a n ta .tions like these chaps, they yelledback, Each game otters real learn

I REVIEW -PRE WE IN]‘\,A larils bora Ocean is a no- issugctivisseastowtstiostiesto, ilttoa- otilee';gatolvass top-bottom h a s quiteet po t slyt g u i l e how slily it ail is. ks a

tag. itISCIretttlitstrittu- tell . r e s u l t, G o o o t t t to m os t f e r oc i o us

sod costly wars ever seta has

to a scenario conceivablymore restistic than most oil t h e I s e t t u e n n o t r ee d g i a l : s o l o ! t t i v e p o p o il i t s i t e s t se a s

gutt around at the momen . r u e thitteitioi it'd be ail over insation' them. hem) has O f fibeen completety unabte to Veep toot v e mioute4

lou must pilot the 0 O -

ct with technotogy . *Mile s e a t e r F ' I m e Warrior oatrolshir, '1'scierdists toys been able , t o r i to destroy the

to

develop mote absurdly

spirit. (Se, we said, is that It)? No.they p p . You got a straps andunheard of viewpoint'. (Viewpointsweert are you biking about, boys)?Take the football, take the footballfor instance. You gel an in-helmetperspective, so you realty fel l thatyou're down on the field. (tine, wemormwed. Not bad, tell us somethingelm). We've got big league actionthey sobbed, we're balm( really big.(So. w e crooned, rather coiningargued to the idea of this one,anything else our readers ought toknow about this one before we windup thus little presiew-ettel? MOWSbasketball, it's peat. you'll love i tNue. hop? And with that, we turnedthem out of an aircraft over Geneva.Without parachutes.

Actually, after this M e , um, in-terview, we fell quite popped up, hillof er, pep, and really rather. um,peppy. All that remains to be said isthat it's possible to buy each of thegames separately. ot together as acombitiatien sports pack. Baseballand b a s k e tb a l l a r e d u e o u t a n ysecond BM, and the Sports PackMed Football wi l l fol low shortly.Team sprit bps. lots of team spirit.Well done Activisioe.Streetdate: now, and then.Price: £14.99 (Sports Pack), 17.99(Baseball. Basketball, Football)

Survivor lora to•totstkon, OleoW e bete responsMe tOt thedese‘opment and distribunco 0the most inoterit. *test-intehigent-robot monsters.fiainbow *airier'? 'les. NI ergappropriate 0 tact that youshould lobe the name ot theBreenpeace flagship tas vast, asyou're part el a testi, tight-onpeaca-through ection group.

1 ou atso get to choose yourweapons. too (Vieapotts? Oo the. . come Onl.

E tom the WiotttSh‘O, gOU ateet

presented with a meou. and tenslect either missiles, torpedoseof hookers which do differingthins and are most Oslo% In;Osl o sections ot the eoetnytel. "Ms," 1 heat youmumble. "but hovi do youcomp t r i l l e t

Whet bit yo g o i n g to you cu're t i n d

yourstat 01" B e c a u s a l lchoose, that's vrill The oestpert t n i e n u allows you to the o

cli ot the stair:tensete0 vitttortes to esprote l i nt

lbere's also a test facility AWhich attows you to get to grips1with the controls ot the ship 4'sante armed with a oestly Itoeshaustible supply ot 1

lorAs good. 1 1 Iweapons.

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DEATH ORGLORY

you're a space dozer. Cleaning up

the asteroids, and making spacea safe, clean, and generally niceplace to live. You're something of agood goy in fact.

Then, al l of a sudden. lust asyou're about to knock off your shift,you see this enemy fleet approachingat a rate of knots, and you realisethat Earth is about to be invaded. andyou're the only one who knows

C111. says you're going to stay andlight it out. But being a space dozer.you ain't got no weapons. So it's acase of ramming the critters t odeath. You've got the odd shield toprotect you, but not a lot else. I tsvery much a case of Death or Glory.

And the emphasis is pretty muchon the 'death part.

Streetstate: AllyPrice: TS 95

as a bit of an Indio. Clacking thebullwhip, driving the battered oldtrucks, wearing the fantastic outfitsand slugging it out with enormousand totally loopy German mechanicspitfall, alright. I could probably makedo with The clothes and thebullwhip).

And ii that sort of thing appeals toyou, then I'm sure the game will too.It's a coin-op conversion thatinvolves running around and swingingon ropes, riding in mining carts andsimilar things.

Not a great deal of information asyet, except that i fs going to beabsolutely wonderful, of course.

Streetdate: June JulyPrice: E7.95

F,ashpo,n, Is a board game that

m oot be played on a board,Rather defeats the purpose I wouldhave thought. but there's noaccounting for taste. It's a strategywar game and It looks really 'soiling.The first part of the game is oil to dowith deploying your weapons fromthe arnunition dump. (Apparently this

easier if you watch what thecomputer does and copy it, but thatsounds a bit like cheating to me).

Other than the cheating, there's alot of firing to do. sometimes Thisworks and you kill people, othertimes It doesn't and you don't. Youcan pick up parts of your forces andmove them about, and generally havea bit of a battle with the computer.

It's going to be possible to playwith a friend or against thecomputer. And, if you're feelingthoroughly lazy and good for nothing,you can make the computer playagainst itself and put your feel up tora little bit. We wait with baitedbreath 10 see the finished product.Streettlate: Not at all sure.Price: That's quite a tricky one.Ocean hasn't said yet

ARMAGEDDON

O U TA HERE!WOOD. Armagoddor..

Serious stuff. The end ofthe world brought about by man.That's what Martech*s new gameIs all about.

Set In the year 2032 on anEarth in many ways similar to theway it is now. Most of thecountries are the same and thereare some considerably unwhollyalliances in the process of beingmade. There are sixteen nuclearpowers. If any should form analliance that will make themmore powerful than anyone else,the diplomatic balance will be1.thrown out, and all hell willbreak lose.

• I n such an ambitiouslycompetitive society, i t became

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EXOLON GAMEIAHOWOOO Is batting quite a few

sixes these days. Right after theexcellent Zynaos we get Exoiogi one

— he l l of a '011l lone spaceman agaistst— t he odds' extravaganza.

One hundred a n d twenty-l ivescreens o f ultra-colourful. mega-detailed backgrounds with zillions ofaliens and lotsa features. The game

- - is even divided into live levels of 25— . -screens so it's going to keep you...•—.-pretty busy.

There are transporters. enemy cell— - pods, gigantic missile silos, laser

beams, land mines and a wide variety- o f wary ahem. You get to lump,- crouch, fire laser bolts and, best of= all take out entire installations with

pour-to-ground missiles which ex-- plode in a myriad particles in lust

about the best boom ever seen in anarcade game.

•••••••• l ook s great.Streetdate: End of JulyPrice: E7.95

•impossible for peace to bemaintained by any earthboundbody, as everyone had numerousvested interests. tt's necessary,therefore, to find a kind ofguardian - someone utterlybeyond reproach to look afterthe affairs of the world and keepa watchful eye over everything,ensuring that war doesn't breakout. (Sounds unlikely - Ed).

You must, as The ArmageddonMan, control the dealings of theUNN (United Nuclear Nations)and keep a general eye on thegoings on via a network of spysatellites which you can dotaround the sky. They'll let youmonitor any military movementson the ground.

All negotiations and requestsfor food, power. supplies etc aredirected through the A man andhe (you) has to decide whetheror not to agree to their requests.

ON, so Martech's Real soundspretty flaming desperate so far,doesn't It? Oh ye of little faith!With the package, you get anenormous map of the world, asMartech imagines it will be inthe year 2032, along with a set

FRANKIE!Ctn. has done it again Following

on from the notorious, hideous. o p p15•-rated Dracula, we now have theaearlyeeterisoc hideous. • 15'-ratedFrankensie,r,.

l a ud ea the Mary Shelley novel ofthe same name (you may rememberit, there wore ems at two taws basedOn in, Frankenstem promises to bepretty bloody and very unsound

As everybody knows, the dementedDoctor believes he can play God andcreate hie Unfortunately, the hie-term that slurps out of the laboratoryis nasty. ugly. pretty thick and molethan a littto haloteitial, -

FrankerNstein is played in threepads. F r years before the gamebegins. the dopey Doctor lost hismonster. following the murder of hissister. Part One deals with Franken-steins search tor the monster, i norder Is avenge tile brutal murder.Part Two invokes lisillimg the critter.Part Three is the touching and huma-nitarian bit, you play the monster.and, as you increase your 10 you canhod out exactly why you became ahomicidal maniac in the tint place.And once you've found all that out.presumably you can carry on and be acrated maniac a MI mole.

ll 1— irkenstc,rt r e a l l y d es

its 15 certificate, whichdidn't then i t should beindeed. And even it it doereturn to the spurt ot theMary Shelley story looks Igomg to be a great game.

Streeldale JunePrice: E9.99

of stick-on flags which you canuse to keep track of anyalliances that are formed. Itlooks like a great package, andby the time you've worked outhow to keep an eye on just abouteverything at once, sending andreceiving messages.negotiating, hying to preventthe outbreak of war any possibleideas that strategy games arecompletely useless and tediousshould be banished.

Obviously, the whole point ofthe game is to survive as long aspossible before serious nuclearwarfare breaks out. Minorconflicts are acceptable it theymaintain an overall status quo.It's almost impossible to reachan entirety peaceful situation.You'll just have to try and lastfor as long as possible.

Unrighteous or villainousplayers can, of course,endeavour to bring about totalobliteration of the planet in asshort a time as possible. Neh,heh. beh.

Streetdate: July.Price: 0 2 . 9 5

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DAYL IGHTDomark '$ James Bond epic

• • • • • I s eer ie,taking It's time, isn't UT Will, n

We've got some more information anda picture. Yes, a picture of Timothy'Oh why do you people ask so manyquestions, you'll ruin the magic ofihe film" Dalton and an obligatory bitell soviet fluff in a bumper cart Coo-er. Sounds pretty "magical" to me.

No sign of any screen shots as yet,though we do have some information°bout the gameplay etc. There areIan levels, beginning on a trainingsession where you've got to defendyourself from crack SAS people. Youcan also decide which weapon you

M I I M M O N I M E N T : (11r„nre, the isr„liemoendaryylvel;111h;sela,

want to lake into each section of the

Bond movie, t o the ridiculous: a

tier disguised as a port-

right-to-lett scrollingJoh you have to avoid,M leap out from behind

and holes i n the road.are a l so helicopters a ndthrowing bad guys to defeat.

promised tha t the Bondcharacter is one filth the height of-

the screen, and one fourth the width,which actually sounds totally absurd,meaning he Is fatter than he Is tall.

Shooting things involves directinga pinintint sight to the target on the'screen and pressing Fire. Doesn'tactually sound too bad, does i i7•Shots nest ish.

Streeldate: July Augutt.Price Eg.95 •

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CHICKENS ETCMatthew Smith is back!!! The

man who sent thousands ofgarners completely round the twistwith the Kong Strikes Rack Screen inManic Miner has returned fromwhemer be has been for the pastthree years to inflict horrible mentaltorture with his latest creation;Attack of the Mutant iambic FleshEating Chickens Item Mats.

Speedy scrolling roads with sometrucks and some birds and a dog (forthat's what the game entails) may notsound like the makings ot awonderful epic but, technically, it'spretty damned neat

The graphics are enormous andeverything rooms around atimpressive speed. It's looking veryfood. and, let's face it, it's beenthree years in the making. and so itreally ought to be.

Gameplay•wise it seems a littlebeaky. as it seems to involve not agreat deal other than running left andright on the screen and trying not togel either run down by a truck orbombed by a chicken.

Streetdate: July.Price: E5.95

It's compilation lime! Yee Rah!

Compilations don't thrill the cock•lee of journalists very much but theyare good lor the software houses whoget to off-load old(ish) products andgood for the public who get gamesthat are usually no worse than OK andsometimes superb and dead cheap.Anyway there are at least four hotlooking packs coming up.

Computer Hits 5 from Beau JollyIncludes the seriously OK Wizard'sLair the much under rated Starstrikeii a nd 2112AD Mantronix a ndAttack of the Killer Tomatoes. A llfor £5.95.

Mikro-Gen's Classic Collectionfeatures the fairly dul l StainlessSteel, the rattier good Battle of thePlanets, the lu lu warm Frost Byteand Pytarriarama which i s color%clash alelpe with big sprites. £ 9. 9 5 . Star - another tramBeau Jolly, brings you the excellent(though or at West some versionsbugged) Dandy, Cauldron II (greatstern, the mighty Ouazation, thesuperb Alien Highway (which Is not- as the high says - 'vastly superior*to Hiahway Encounter) bu t a t iltpod and the OK Stnke Force Cob-ra.

Best or 30 we told you about lastmouth contains some of Vortex's beststuff and Is out now,"

Streetdate: (for the lot) Now!!

Slag Fight is another Taito

coin-op conversion from theguys at Ocean and, if it's asgood as Arkanoid, it's got aowe-fire kit ea its hands.

Slap Floht comprises twoessentially simple elements ofgameplay. First, there's thestraightforward top-to-bottomscrolling shoot-out part, withwaves of swirly twidy aliensswooping around and bombingyou. which would be boring il itwasn't so damned addictive.Then there is a feature which is

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GO TO WAR WITH STAR FOX

you know how it is. You start off

with a minor disagreement alittle bit of bickering, a small amountof name calling, the odd thump hereand there, and before you knowyou've got a full scale war on yourhands.

Well, the Nyturiat System had justsuch a problem in Fr .a,, :. . • T h e nthey realised just how silly it all was,and after huenty-f our years. a peace-ful settlement was imposed, (So saysAriolasott). I n order t o preservepeace, the System sel up a barrier, abit like the Iron Curtain or NATO. andthey called it The Rubicon, and saidif anybody crossed it they would be inserious trouble.

But there was this other planet.inhabited by fierce and warlike folk.who rather liked getting into trouble.so they flew their whole planet intoThe Rubicon arid started another war.

What do you Ito? Well, you cue thelarge battles, and you enter theS i . . . . this absolutely among newM e e t You know the sort of thing,I t of canners, lasers, blood, death,gore. violence. Only hope too semi--val. that sort of thing, lots of luckchaps. you're going to need it.

Stafl,..i, s ee ms to be a good. solid.

reliable shoot-eel-up. And we all likethere don't we?

Streetdate: Jety.Price: tit 95

"LET'S KILL SOME ALIENS" NO 41: SLAP FIGHTlargely similar to the way thingsworked in Ar ti ano,i r . w h e n y o u

shoot certain aliens, theyexplode into tiny star-shapedthings. On picking up one ofthese. a message will flash atthe bottom of The screenindicating which of thenumerous bonus facilities canbe employed by hitting Fire.

For example, some stars willmultiply your speed by five.others offer temporaryinvincibility from attack.

Thankfully, as some of the

options are decidedly useless atcertain points in the game (goingfive times faster than usual in acomplex area. lot eiample) youcan decide to not opt for the bonus.

Slap Fight s success orotherwise will rest largely on itsspeed. If it's as slick asA',anoic, we'll have a seriouslyaddictive arcade game. On theother hand if it's at all sluggish,it will be exactly the same aslots of other stuff.

Streadate: June July.Price: E7.95

q . • What goes "Coo! Wow!• Great! Ob."?

• Lots of% r a t t e r s .Explanation?Remember Bouncier from

Gremlin - the zany tennis ballthat did all sorts of things andnever went anywhere near atennis court? Well he's back, inprobably one of the mostoriginally titled games of theyear - Re-Bounder.

BOUNDER ON THE REBOUND"Coo!" (See?)This time he's stuck in a world

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esPaohshed him as a motorprogramming talent, heilsoPPeared for nearly threeyears without trace, Among'wholly unqualified) accusationsof chemically induced '60spsychedella and general physicalcollapse, the notorious coderresponsible for the creation ofmoderately warped concept'such as Eugene's Lair in Man icMin o r vanished. Nothing washeard ot seen of Smith for yearsAttack of the Muta ntZombie Flesh EatingChickens from Mars hasbeen three years - on and off - ir,•he making and it's every bit asNerd as the other Smithcreations. Sitting in a Liverpooleaterte, he talked about his.decidedly shodeyencounters with computers, anahis unexpectedly refined enting

VITAL DETAILSWhat have you been doing sinceJSW in '842I've been work ing onChickens and also a me ga -project. I've got the plotworked out and so fa r I 'mup to Chapter 3 in thenovella that's going tocome with it. Ws set in the24th century and you'l l beable to play the pa rt ofanyone in the town wherethe action takes place.Basically the machines andbombs and things have

become intelligent, a nddon't want to be used forwar any more.Which other programmers do youodmire?Bill Hogue from California .He works for Big 5Software. He wrote Miner2049er which inspired ManicMiner to a certain extent,but he also did somefantastic things on the IRS80, proving tha t you canstill have great games on acomputer with lousygraphics. The Spectrumwas a dream comparedwith the IRS. Mik eSingleton and Jeff Minterhave to get a mention too.Favourite programs?An old favourite is Ultimo IIfrom Microprose. It's atraditional hack a nd slashrole-playing game. BuriedBucks is great too, it wasprinted in a magazine ages

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Matthew Smith was the person who, threeyears ago, created cult classics such as ManicMiner and Jet Set Willy. Now he's back, withAttack of the Mutant Zombie Flesh Eating Chickens FromMars. We tracked down the undergroundhero in a warren of industrial developmentunits in Liverpool

ago, and involves a littlehelicopter. It's a bit difficultto explain, but it was great.What arcade games do you scorehighest on?I don't really play them allthat often. I like to watchother people play, asthey're often better at themthan I am.Favounte food and drink?I like Ita lian food — allherbs a nd spices. Chinese

is good too. I can't standAmerican. I 'd like tobecome a vegetarian, buthaven't quite made it yet.What program would you most liketo have wrirten2Cyberrun I t's terribly dull, Iknow, but the graphics aregreat.Programming ambition?I rea lly wa nt to ge t thismegagame sorted out.After tha t I 'd like toprogram the orbit details

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into my spaceshipcomputer. I w a nt to be astarship captain.Favourite TV show/records/booksI l ike things withspaceships in them. Allromantic novels are justsoft-porn so I don't botherwith them. I like MoodyBlues a nd Pink Floyd'smusic, a ny thing that's a bitpsychedelic. I like Genesistoo.Hobbies?Reading, boogy ing a ndriding my bike.Worst sublect at school?English Lit. I t was the onlyexam tha t I turned up fora nd failed.

Labour (a lthough I 'm aLiberal) •Best thing about the Spectrum?It's cheap, a nd it's gotbetter graphics than theZX131.SOFTOLOGY: Styx (BugByte, 1983), Manic Miner(Bug Byte, 1983), Jet SetWilly (Software Projects,1984), Attack of the Muta ntZombie Flesh-eatingChickens From Mars(Software Projects, 1987)

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The hilarious names of thesecharacters from an Election gameare Party Leader Matcher, TheOuoon and Party LeaderNinnock.(fria, Ha. Ha) (*)

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bizarre Greml i n confi dent lyand cynically predic ted thatwhen all the details about the +3 emerged there wou ld be nochance of an Ams t rad s tandalone drive for the +2 to make itpossible to upgrade. But couldanyone have foreseen what hasactually happened, a poss ibilit yso mind boggl ingly indif ferentto all the ex is t ing Spec t rumowners it 's almos t s ubl imeThere is to be a stand alone discdrive but only as an addit ion tothe - 3 it won' t work wit h the +2I!. For once Gremlin isspeechless and wil l ret ire into aBuddhis t monas tery there tostudy the innermos t cosmicsecrets of Alan Sugar r ' l

GREMLIN TOP TEN INDUSTRYFAVOURITES(•)I, Alen Sugar2. Nick Kamen3, Norman Fowler4. Michelle from East Enders5, Norman Wisdom6 Quentin Crisp7 George from Rainbow8 Chris Quent in9. Elizabeth Archer10. Champrnan Pincher (brother ofDobermant

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Last mont h' s Capt ion c ompdrew a large number of not verygood entries and a s mal lnumber of not bad ones. Dearold Pete was staring gormless lyout of a pic ture of some footballgame. Many people made punson Sav ing (goals andprograms), and not a f ewmanaged to be dispargingabout Wor ld Cup Carnival -always welcome.

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This superb new interlaceallows you to use a joystickwith any game It is suppliedwith software to allow you tosimply program it or you canprogram it directly from yourkeyboard without using thesoftware

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A 17 way directional movementA fully functional keyboardA rear connector for °the( addons and is microdrivecompatible

£14.95

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