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Btm I l ion San(Applause) 'Yes indeed, ladies andgentlemen, and many many manythanks to FEW, that lovely group ofFeminist egg whistlers fromFinchleyyyy, let's give 'em a bighand( WHACKK!) GoodBrilliant. Yes indeed. Alright. (haha) it's about lime! told a joke. lesalso about time I said a slightlynaughty, w o rd — BUM! There you

go, that's alright. It's late at night,who's gonna know? RIGHT OWThe joke. There *as two geezersstanding in a dole queue..W000rl Eh?!? Politics. eh?Nothing like mentioning politics for making you seem more intelligent than _youare, eh? That's nice. That's alright. Hang on! Something's wmng wiv mystaunchly working class pose _ win is it? Is it my glittery post punk cabaretsuit? Nape. it's scruffy enough, can be that I s it my outrageously codcockney accent? Nope, it's still as grating and phoney as ever, and shouting at thisvolume and at this speed, who the flip's gonna notice, eh? That alright! Eh?Cor blimey! No, there's something else wrong. • OH NO! It's my yuppie-writersilly plastic I've got a bow tie at home' glasses! Oh no! Oh No? Oh no! Myworking class hero pose, shot to ribbons by one stupid mistake! Fancy forgettingto take them off before! walked on stage! I'm ruined! Me street cred's in tatters.Never mind I never had any anyway, did!? That's alright. know wot I mean?THATCHER! Hah. see? Politics again. Never fails. Yes indeed, ladies and'enriemen, mv name's Ben Elton... GOODNIGHT!" (Applause)

11111ose Darling Girls(Darling Warling II)It seems that all the little Darlings aregetting in on the Code Masters act. NowLizzie Darling, aged Just 17, is drawingcovers for Code Masters games. Lizzie hasjust completed art school training, and hfirst cover is for the new Code Masterscheaple, Super Hero. The benefits of haa pair of brothers who are companydirectors. eti? According to the Darting -supremos 'Super Hero has the cover itdeserves: And who are we to disagree? TheVS verdict Lizzie? Don't give up your day lob!

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semiclad nymphets EVERY month!(Ahem! Ed)

EA GOES FOR INTERPLAYWhat's this? Have Haircut 100 reformed? No, this is he happy bunchfrom Interplay Productions, Electronk Arts latest signing from theYoo-ess-av-oy. After five yeors as on independent publisher, thecompany has signed on exclusive agreement with EA to publish Ifsproducts in Europe.

Interplay's previous productions include The fiords Tale whilegames to look forward to include Dottie Chess. which is said tocombine the strategy of chess with bottle action. and Neurornoncer.which was developed in conjunction with that famous hippy relicTimothy Leary (ash your folks).

IT'S A MISTAKE!• Snouty's in for it this time Abig muck-up with the Rage Hardreview of the Star IC-10 printer inthe August issue. It seems thathe said that Miles GordonTechnology didn't sell themachine. Naughty naughtySnout MGT wants it known thatnot only does it sett the LC-but at a winning price of E2419 95(Mc VAT) for the colour model,and E199.95 for the monoversion. Snouty says he's verysorry for the damage and he'llmake extra double sure of hisfacts next time. (Mk! it's so hardto get good help these days. Ed)Oh yes, by the way watch out forthe review of the MGT TwoFace, abull switchable expansion portgizmo with a kempston port, andalso the ultimate snapshot/toolkit for the -0 - D . t h ePick-pOKE-it Mere about thisnext time.

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MOVE OVER ESSOEver been lealous of your father when hegoes into the service station and collectsall of those lovely tokens? Have youstayed up long nights look ing at the giftcatalogues, longing for the day whenyou too will be able to afford a motor?Well now you don't have to wait anymoreas Mic rodealer has int roduced TheGreat Mic rodealer Cover Up, a schemewhich offers software buyers the sameperks that petrol guzzlers hove had foryeors

The scheme works like this: one token isawarded for every five pounds spent onsoftware in part ic ipat ing dealers ' shops.These stickers ore collec ted on a spec ialcard which, when full, is swopped for agift horn the Mic rodealer catalogue —couldn' t be simpler, Details of thecatalogues contents have yet to befinalised, but it is believed that it willinc lude peripherals and software as wellas other non computer-related items. Justin case that's not enough of an incentive.all c omplet ed cards will be entered in aprize draw for a 16-bit computer, so getcollec t ing'

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WI-100PS!Angry phone caller number23,456. what's your beet? What'sthat? We put the wrong label onSoldier Of Light? It said it was bythe Edge, but it was actually byACE? Cioopst We wouidn' t likeanyone to think The Edge hadwrit ten lt, would we? They did?Oh, but the label is different?Right. No, we're not confused,that makes perfect sense (Itdoes? Ed).

THE FUTURE OFROCK N' ROLL?okay pop-pickers zooming right in atnumber 2.036 we have What A Girt Wantsf rom the allegedly 'new emerging group'Coo-er) The Company She Keeps. Andwhere can all you groovers get your handson this irresistible cassette single? Easy.lust buy a copy of Destiny Sottware's nextrelease, Diamond, and you'll receive yourvery Own slice at musical happiness —absolutely heel That's right, not a singlepenny to pay — can you believe it? What'smore, Destiny assures us that the group hasrecently enjoyed 'success in the UK popcharts', and although none of us hasactually heard of them — well, what do weknow?

Destiny's managing director Francis Leesees a healthy future In pushing music andsoftware together. and to this end hasrecently launched Destiny Records.'Promot ing music through software seemsan ideal way of lett ing people access musicthey perhaps otherwise would never hear:comments Lee. And we thought that's whatice-cream vans were fort Bet you're glad youbought those turntables.

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• it's almost certein that Amstrad will launcha 16-bit machine with a Spectrum bodge.although it is unlikely that this new machinewill be called a 1-4 (something to do withcontusion over golfer's rouserst ). Althoughnot yet confinned, the story was run in arecent issue of CIW a computer tradenewspaper which claims a 100 per centaccuracy record on previous Amstradstories. The new Speccy is likely to be astripped down version of Amstrad's PC1512and will run MSDOS software rather thanSpectrum games. As with previousSpectrum's, the machine will probably besold without a monitor and is expected tocost just stvart of E400.

• More rumours from the Amstrad/ Speccypeople. this time concerning the -2 a n d -4- 3

It has been reported that Mr Sugar plans topush these two machines by anemic themcomplete with 100 games each (that s nght -one short of 101). This can't be confirmed atthe time of going to press. but once againwell let you know as soon as anythinghappens.

• Mammon is set to change its previouslylow-key public image with the launch of abrand new label. Image Works. The firstproducts set for release on the new labelinclude: Foxy Fights Back (an ideologicallysound shoot 'em up where the humble foxfinds a machine gun and gets his revenge);Ferriatwiez Must Om (an action game in thetradition of Oran Warriors). flomboozal:Main frame; Speedeall and all the obligatoryarcade licence. littaSten:eds. Although all ofthese are still unfinished on the Spectrum.they look quite impressive on other formatsand there's no reason why they shouldn'ttransfer well ordo everyone's favouritecomputer. The company boasts animpressive range of programming talentincluding Tony Crowther and The NMI .Brothers, and great things are expected overthe next few months Image Works.. andyou'd better believe in

• Thalamus software. the label which wasresponsible for such C64 classics as Sanyronand Due Dey. is set to enter the Spectrummarket tor the first time with the release 01 itsoriginal tour products over the next fewmonths, The four games. Sermon, Dana, QuaDex and Jun ter Moon will be released inthe same order in which they appeared onthe Commie and will be followed by furtherSpeccy products in 1989 The company isalso launching a new sales promotion, T h eThatarriuS Gold Rush. which well begin withits next Commodore release. Hawkeye, andcontinue with future products Thepromotion works like this: a number ofspecial cassettes will be randomlydistribtded among Thalamus normal product(in Hawke/es case this will consist of threegold and six yellow cassettes but thenumbers and colours may change in futurepromotions), When one of these cassettes ispurchased. the lucky individual phones theGold Rush hotline and claims his or hiar prize

la Charlie And The Chocolate Factory). Thefirst Gold Rush offers prizes of Amstradhome studios and Ghettoblasters - we'llkeep you posted.

• More good mws has iust winged its wayInto Castle Rathbone. this time than Hewsonand Telecom WI who have recently resolthe legal wrangles which have tied them upfor almost a year. For those of you withmemories, the two software houses fell outlast year when Grallgold moved fromKerviSOn and decided to publish Morpheusand Magnetron through Rainbird Neitherparty was willing to comment on thesituation, but both are said to be nappy witthe settlement

HOBBIES OF THE IDLE RICHNo 9: The Domark Twins — re-enacting scenes Irom classic moviesOne question we know you're always asking Yourself is: 'What dothose lovable Domark twins get up to when they're not publishingspilling games for us unworthy Speccy owners?' Well the answer isthat they meet up with their distant cousin (a certain Mr Vader) and actout some of their favourite moments from the silver screen.

When our intrepid photographer eventually caught up with themsomewhere on Wimbledon Common, Mark and Mr Vader were deepinto the final scene of Return Of The Jedi. while Dominic wasfollowing closely behind with his unbeatable rendition of Sin girl' In

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Who can tell what tomorrow may bring? D r e a d f u l omens from the Gods?(Perhaps). Leeds United back in the first division? (Well, maybe not). Phil South on a

diet? (Most unlikely). Masses and masses of triff, brill, fabbo Speccy games?YOU BETCHA!!!!! 11111F- Z r . " 1 1 . g h o do eventwonts to be out? Okay, so you hove to checkpocked properly and that thetch too f w h a t ' s

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can find a new deputy editor. v i r us wnd of Phil taking over) Right, r n a i n f r are were we? Rainbird's Carrier e ne m y ' sThe folks ot

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morel puts you at the helm on .ristic aircraft carrier — complete Carr ier Commandfighter planes and amphibious 3 D graphics games ever.Lilt tanks. The abject of the P r o g r o m m e d by Realtime

rcise is to take control of 32 t h e finished version will be

site silos behind you k e y b o a r d and joystick control T h e l astest 30 gr aphics over seen on the Spectr um ? Just took atnds, leaving bases, airstrips and dr i v e n and will include m

's always e drawback, and opt i ons and a Save Game focally for se i - i n go!

I e: r d e st i a he m sc e n e. The wind h Is

ss a sun-baked landscape,bed by years of arid oversure. You roll over a dune and, poised like a sandy boil on the

of the desert, sometheitg bears. ma gn ific en tl y into the sky,

pointing to heaven like a gesture aldefiance. 'Ocioolllth,' you gasp, 'Ithink I'd better go and explore themysterious und extremely dangerousinterioi blissfully ignoring the factthat I might end up trapped in therefor on aeon.' And why ore you sosturtid os to do all this? Because

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To make a long story even longer,you're trapped in the maze-likeinterior of a pyramid with the onlyexit being right at the top Using onlytwo keys, you must direct your bollthrough the rooms, fighting with.

utoped enemy are attempting to d e l v e deep into the garneplay

do exactly the same thing as you ore Fi nal l y, for those of you with largerOnce within 0,3 enemy's range, m e m o r i e s than the rest of us, the

your carrier is protected by PassiveDefence Drones which attract hostilehoming missiles. If however, somedamage is sustained, this must be

before the mission can. Damaged planes and tanks

con r epai r ed on boord. orreplocc i if you ore carrying the

necessor y riillitrtes_Enemy islon a r e protected by. surface to surfockpissiles, surfoce

to air missiles, tanks oion a n d,,Asers. Also, each enem

trolled by a commandIt...con either be destroyeOv,r by dropping a compel

re-programs the centresshuts dawn the

inertia and all sorts of spiky ob l e c i l lwhich are out to puncture you..Dffcultf Understatement

Luckily your boll has powers to•nonipulote the screens, make thatbridge come down when you need it,operate that door , . OM approoch it— like 'a soph e f f e c t '

of r s i o n contain-171=3 hostanal features includingenhanced sound effects. It'll be outsoon. Watch out for di

r too 14 ,,t h , t h e m o 1 e e j ec t or s , •

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Power Pyroneds is expected tence into your high street some

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Melbourne HouseBeware) Stand byt Getime logo in single-bar r aridbeat up the entire criminalpopulation of a city that hovekidnapped your ge l-f r i e nd . Y e s , a t

lost, Totes Double Dragon is on theSpeccy, you've perspired withRenegade, swore over TargetRenegade, now experience t h ethrills and spills of this coin-opconversion.

As per normal, the story is a littleone-dirriertsionat Girlfriendkidoopped. go in arid rescue her,get becten up B u t will theSpeccy be able to recreate the loudcolours. realistic sound effects. andfast 'n• sweaty action? Look outsoon for your answer, and makesure you have £ 9 9 with you.

FirebirdNow there's a name thot's easy toremember b u t don't botherbecause it's only a provisional titleond the game will probably be calledsomething Fatally different when it'sfinished.

Anyway w h at e ve r i t' s c al le d, the

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FUTURE SHOCKSHewsonHow's this for on original scenario? Ianother time and place and the For.•of good and evil ore locked tridespercee battle a n d you'retrapped with little or no means ofescape..

But wain There is a chance toescape from all this_ Yes, for one weekonly the powers that be will let you go.And whot do they want in return?They won't charge you five pounds,even four pounds, ladies andgentlemen. they're not even goi. --fscesse you 0 quid, Nol All they

$ diamonds—oodles and °oat,rnonds, This should be a piece

'cos the Netherworld istiiii of the little sparklers,

But now for he drawbackyour hands on the gems ykill millions upon millions ofand deadly bubbles (ittliandmore mines thon there ore in thewhale of %ales (wrong krnd of int • -stupid —Ed).

Nether world was designed byHewscink own flying Finn, Jukkalaponimaki, and was converted to trSOeccy by John Wildsmith and Dow,Rogers. The game should b• in yourshamus you rood Itus and wil/setbock °penny short of eight quid forthe cassette and fifteen quid for thedisk.

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Trantor — and features three levelsof fast, furious and colourful actionloccorcling to Firebird's Cohn Euige,the graphics contain 'more coloursthan there really are', but we•cfcm'tbebeve him).

The first level is a vertical scrollerwith a number of sub-levels andplenty of weapons to fling about. Thesecond level is like playing SauceHornet on Easter island, while the

third involves flyrng a huge eagleabove a multi-directional scrollinglandscape.

Because of the amount of actioninvolved, Project 5 will more thanlikely be a multr-loou So, if Firebirdcan think of a name :n time, this one -should be in the shops before Christ-mas and will probably cost a coupleof hundred bob (that's 10 pounds incase you're too lazy to work it out foryourself!).

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H EGAMESfi t* , / rE D I T I O NEpp.Yes, Ws summer That time of yearwhen the sky is blue, ço i s w a r mand the sun shine's*%–nqs;ssly-!'Bronzed boolietbake on the booch.s,the parks are furl of aspiring BaasBeckers, and here in the office wepar take in the o d d F e a st o r t h re e and

swelter in the summer heat Phewwhat a scorcher'But what's this

new game frperhaps? Bete

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Games • WSports sir,, frwinter sportsof gold medskote at the

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now at a cost of £899 for the cossetteand C12_99 for disk. Me_ Pm off to theshop for another Feast!

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Electronk ArtsWhen is a train simulator not a trainsimulator? When ifs set in wartimeFrance and the train is pocked full ofgoodies that the Nazi horde5 are iustdying to get their hands on that 'swhen! Also the driver of youraverage train simulator doesn't getfront and rear machine guns and a50mm cannon to ploy with

Taking the port of Pierre le Feu, asort of French Resistancetroinspotter, the player seizes anenemy train arid attempts to guide it

ti occupied France to RMere inmondy. This daring freedomter finds himself stoking (oo-erft

'fling switches ond watching thatthe boilers are kept to the correct

ssure — surely this is more thar

any man con take?As if our hero didn't already hove

enough to do, he olso has to fend offambushes, gunboats, artillery andsoboteurs. This is obviously too muchfor one person, so Monsieur Le Feuis ossisted by an injured resistancefighter, Le DLK , who gives advice,direction, inside information, enemyalerts, decodes whistles and bellsand relays messages from ther es is tance Fie also plays the

harpsichord, mokes oil his owndresses and enjoys working withchildren Ifh?

The Train: Escape To Normandyshould be in the shops as you readthis, priced at £8.95 for the cassetteversion and £1495 for the +3 disk

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Master IronicMotorbike Madness n o w there's atilled Its sort of like saying &codaSanity I mean it's obvious isn't it.Motorbikes and madness go hand inhand. After oil, what sane personwould dress from head to toe inblock leather ond then subjectthemselves to the British weatherAND motorists? The thing is somepeople obviously enjoy that sort ofthing, so for them Mastertronic hosput together this fast action trialsbike simulator.

The player con either practice hisskills or take port in a race againstcomputerised opponents. Once into

race, the course hozords must be

foiling off the bike results in delaysand costly repairs between races.Motorbike Madness will be in theshops ot the end of September andwill set you bock just one penny

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remiinehind every good footy player is aucket of second-hond sweat.laying football isn't just a case ofconing the strip, getting out therend scoring a couple of goals and

hen getting inebriated in theommunol a p e . Dedication is

what you need lthank you kuyCastle) to maintain your position as astriker for the national team. Ofcourse, Gozzer iineker does all thisand more, which means Gremlin justhas to produce a game that followshis training correctly, right up to theglucose tablets.

So off you go to the gym,,icozode and all, for a bout of good

ol callisthenics to improve thatmuscle tone and stoke that stamina.Torture includes push ups. squatthrusts, weight lifting and monkeybars. Then once you've endured thatthere's ball juggling, dribbling,chipping o t i n g to proctice.And e v e r y dayl

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r i ' l l o t Shot has exceeded all expectations. nut of hund o f n e sonly two have quali014 for A d e s Gold a be l award.These are Football Manager2 an k i o t Shot.Hot Shot is so action-packed. before you buy, read the back of t

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There is so mudi inot Shot y o u needH - t o be

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SOOTHSAYER?I am very ongry about thecovers of your magazine. Theyhave become more and morelurid every month. My son is 11and I am going to stop himgetting YS on subscription Osthere is too much emphasis onviolence (page 18, June issue)ond a blatantly sexy picture onpage four. What ore you goingto do about this as a responsibleeditor? Do you want our children

fed on a diet of sex andviolence? Your ortist is gettingcarried away and the June coverof Psycho Pig is utterly revolting

shall also be complaining to theadvertising standards authority.Mrs R. Sayer

Blatantly sexy picture on pagefour??? Surely you can't meanthat adorable little rodent,Mickey Mouse? Perhaps youmean page six, and if you do we

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certainly owe you an apologyThat piccie of Bob Hotness was abit extreme — even for us! Ed

EWE WHAT?I would like to put the recordstraight about the RAM in the48K Spectrum.

The maximum amount of RAMin the 48K is 49152 bytes, Thisdoes not equal 48000 I hearyou say I f you divide 49152

DOODLEBUGSGot doodl ing, it's a deddiel And send your doodles to Doodl ebug. , Your Sinclair, 14Ratisbone Place, London Vi l P I DS. everyone pr inted wins a tabby VS badge!

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No apologies for this rnonth's first doodle which has wi nged Its way from Truro. Cornwal lcourtesy of Li . Simpson. Koorpow. Nice ono, DM

'Can you find room for this?' wr i tes Paul Cardin of Merseyside. Hoaram, we might lust beable to wedge Ii In here (grunt).

by 1024 (which is exactly 1K),bey presto, you get the answer48111So now you know whyClive Sinclair called the 48KSpectrum a 48K Spectrum.Andrew WestNewton Abbot

Okay clever clogs. Why did hecall the C5 the C5? Ed

WORRA TAMEToday I bought Target Renegade,loaded it up and started to play.

managed to reach the secondlevel and then I died. I was thatmad that I smashed my hands onthe right hand side of my +3.Suddenly I had all my lives bock,and was bock on level two.Eventually I reoched the lastlevel where I was shaken todeath by a large man, but I wasawarded more lives.

Well i s this a poke?Darren GodfreyRugby, Works

No, but it's quite funny though!Its the way I tell 'eml Ed

THE ST YLISTIOLSI like your style. Who makes upthe titles for the competitions?Do you just cut up a lot ofmagazines and throw the piecesat a wet desk and print whatsticks?Kathleen McHaleNormanton, WestYorkshire

Those heads take hours to comeup with, I can tell you. We spendages cutting up the mogs anduse gallons of water And youshould see the size of the deskllEd

PRICELESS1 iust wrote to point out that thehods at Gremlin obviouslyoverlooked the fact thatNorthstar is actually on industrialestate in Swindon, and not anabandoned orbiting spacestation as they would hove usbelieve.Thomas PriceExmouth, Devon

You'll be telling us next that theMagic Knight isn't a hero withspecial powers born of a land offantasy, but a British Rail ticketcollector at Swansea! Ed

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IT'S A MYSTERYSo who thought a Speccy wasperfect in every way? Type thisin first.10 PRINT 'Any old trash'20 GOTO 10Now type in RUN and when itgets to the point of sayingSCROLL? press Cops-Lock andpow! I t prints the last thingyou typed! But still there is noend; type in anything else (tryEnter — weird) and you hove ascreen full of trash.

Explain that then! What theheck is it?L. GearyWalsall, W. Midlands

Well I'm jiggered if I knowl Doesanybody Out there know what'sgoing on? Sounds like a load ofold garbage to me! Ed

MAD DOGS ANDENGLISHMENThe sun rises as the cumbersomecraft streaks across the sky. Theoccupant — Colonel SledgerMcCoy of the E.D.F.Martin 'Mad-Dog' LawlessE.D.F. Information Inc.Bury, Lancs

Are you the real McCoy? Youknow, the one who travelled onthe very famous spaceship, TheStarship Enterprise? If so, that'shighly illogical, 'cos he dead,Jim! Ed

THREE OF A IUNDget your mag every month from

the shop (and will be subscribingsoon), and I enjoy it greatly, but Ido hove a criticism which led meto write this letter.

I own a totally wazzy +3 andprefer to buy games on disk asso many things go wrong withtapes, but your may does notcater for us +3 users. When Iwont to buy a game I refer backto VS to help me choose, but Idon't know from your reviewswhether the game is on disk andif so how much it costs. SoPLEASE could you list the diskprice along with the tape price atthe top of your reviews, and ifthere isn't a disk version then saysol

Apart from that, keep up thegood work and I will remain aregular purchaser of your brillmay,Neil KinghamSouth Woodford

Usually we do mention if thegamek on disk and how much itcosts. Sometimes though thecompanies producing the gameshaven't yet decided whether aparticular title will be on disk or

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MO(JSETAKEN IDENTITYI hereby claim a TrainspotterAward for spotting no fewerthan four mistakes in the June1988 issue of Your Sinclair,which are:1) p.88 Pete Shaw's PrizeKwizword T h e r e are two un-numbered words in the grid thathave no clues to them! If PeteShaw improves on this in the Julyissue, somebody should give himthe prize_2) p.47 & p.63 The screenshotsfrom Sophistry and Roston havebeen printed on the wrongpage!3) p.106 gackstabbin' — Theheader contains the name ZazaGabor Surely you mean Zsa ZsaGabor? Zaza was a characterfrom the BBC-TV series HectoriHouse!4) p.58 Mickey Review — Thefirst cartoon that Mickey Mouse

appeared in was called PlaneCrazy (1928 silent), and notSteamboat Willie (1928 sound)as suggested. This only goes toprove what I've said all along —Marcus Berkmonn is Goofy!There! I don't think anyone elsecan qualify more for aTminspotter's Award!Kevin McCarthyCroydon, Surrey

Oh, what a silly old HectorMarcus is — it was all his fault.

Kiki him up and down theoffice for that — or maybelust kick him out Ed

0000000H, MISTAKEI'm writing to you about yourguff up. It's not that often thatthis brill may makes a mistake,but in your review of Sophistryand Roston you got the picciesthe wrong way round, Pleasegive me a Train spotter Award. Ihave enclosed loadsa money.Darren PowellFolkestone, Kent

Who says money can't buy youeverything? Even though about1,000,000 billion people hove

already written in and saidexactly the some thing. Yourtrains patter award has beendelayed due to points failure atClapham Junction Ed

how much it will cost. But restassured that from now on we willendeavour to put oil +3 detailsin the review, Happy now? Ed

THE GBOOD, THE BGADAND THE UGLYI have noticed a strange wordwhich appears on your letterspage often. The word is Ifnarr.What does this mean?, Ipuzzled. After some time I cometo the conclusion thot (a) I am old

and out of touch, and (b) that itmeans niKepripprispr far, i.e.'It is fnarla the shop' wouldmean 'It ti not for to the shop,nor is the silo

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rather a bgad (ge e r bad norgood) idea,deredeid be a gbood(neither gt4d nor badj, idea ifyour mayazrne set aside a pagedevotedta your oyki tea 'her oldnor young), readers.

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DARLING, DARLING . . .I love you. I have fallen so much in love with you that I take myVS to bed with me. Anyway, back to the point: I have compiled ochart of your cover-mounted games.GAMERoad RacerBattyPloy For Your LifeMoley ChristmasBlind PanicPeople From Sirius

COMMENTNot badBrill°. Superb. Worro gameWorro naffo gameBrill! Roll on the next Mole gameSuperb value for 50pSuperb grab and blast

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10Keep up the good work at the YS offices.John LomaxDarlington, Co. Durham

Thanks for the chart, though I think you've been a bit harsh onPlay For Your Life. Anyway, I'll forgive you — I can forgiveanybody who says they love me. Ed

contain reminiscences of daysgone by — old Bisto adverts,thrupenny bits, ten-bob notesand Jock Wild.

I would be willing to beappointed Ed of the Oyld Pageand my credentials are asfollows. bogs under eyes, theodd grey strand of hair and thisletter (a token of my journalistictalents). I have numerous ideasfor the Oylci Page and awaityour cheque before sending youmy first articleMrs. M. InmanLuton, Beds

A page for senior citizens? Nothanks. You lot can just stick toblocking the aisles of buses withyour corner bags andcomplaining about the price ofstamps. Besides if we do need anoldie on the staff then the newdep Ed is more thon qualified.Ed

STREETS AHEADI'm writing to point out but threethings:1. When I bought last month'smay I WO s so upset that youdidn't print my letter thankingyou for sending me those brillbadges, so I hope you'll print thisone.2. In lost month's mag (again), Iwas doing the prize crosswordon page 88 (Pete 's Puzzlers )when I noticed something wrong.Next to 20 across should beanother word down, but there'sno number on3. Looking at your picture at thetop of the letters page I gaspedin amazement at theresemblance between you andJanet Street-Porterl

Just take a butchers at the twopiccies!Rosario Di NobleLondon, 5W4

PS I love that cartoon strip calledMonty & Chums about thepotatoes.

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TAKE MY BREATH AWAY!Strewth! Who's the gorgeous galsittin' beside the pissed elf inMay's Megaeompo? Tell her I'lltake her for a spin in my F14any day!Fermi: some FomusTom CruisePS If you print this, donate mybadge or the 4•5p moneyequivalent), to the USAF Fighterschool, %rimer, California. TelPPS Did you know that ants havediscos?!

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ME WONDERFUL WORLDor THE SPECCYEvery month we Invitereaders of aninternational flavour towrite in and have themick token out of them!I was reading the June issue ofVS and I come up to the page13 letters page. Aaoh, TheWonderful World Of Speccy'Wossis? Oh myl An insultto the overseas readers! Didyou know that quite fewpeople in Poland can English?Even their alphabets aredifferent, like this; %,C),",r),+,and so on. Don't be cruel,please.Sarni VuokilaTornio, FinlandPS The Wonderful World OfSpeccy sure gave rise somegiigle/

ft wasn't meant to be cruel atoft — merely as you sae 'agiigle Personally I admireeverybody who attempts tolearn English, 'cos it's morethan most of us do/ Ed

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SMALL PRINTCould we have a picture ofSchworzenegger in his underwearnext time?Susan Von Der Hyders(feminist)Amsterdam, Hol l and

We mrght have a picture of him onsomeone elsek underwear Ed

Does Marcus really feature in theDaily Moil on odd occasions, or is itanother Berk with the same name.?James

Hercule Poirot eat your heart out Ed

I always wanted to have my nameprinted in a major newspaper. Anyidea where I can find one?Totem Ben-Ami ,Madr id, Spain

Not in Spain, than for sure (liar hodEd

I would like Action Force 2, Gothikand Komov if you print my letter. Ifnot you will be made to ployLawnmower Simulator whilestonding in a bucket of shark infestedcustard for three weeksR. SorfleetBarnsley, S. Yorkshire

But that how / always play 1-0 Ed

ADAM'S APPLEPlease con I have a copy of OnThe Warpath. I think that war isnot necessary in real life, but Ilike playing war with pretendguns.Adam Peck (age 8)Leeds

don't quite know what youmean. Of course you con hoveOn The Warpath, as long as it'sin the issue. Look out for the newlook On The Warpath in the nextfew months too! Ed

WHOOPSY DAISY10 PRINT 'Crash! Bang!'20 PRINT "What's wrong dear?'30 PRINT 'Nothing mum I'm lustbeating up my new +3 afterElite, Starglider, Sidewize, BubbleBobble, and Platoon 128K havefailed to loqd on tape again(although all my other gameswork)."40 PRINT 'Well write to thosenice people at VS then. I'm surethey con help.'50 PRINT 'Good idea mum!"60 LET VS help me: STOP70 GOT° 10David VesteyYatton, Avon

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IT'S A STICK UP!I would like to congratulate youon making covers and tapestickers that don't rip whileremoving the sellotope.Chris PieriSteppey, KentPS We all luv yet

The only thing we hope you'reglued to is VS! Ed

HATSTANDS UNITEI'm writing to complain about thebad press us hatstands aregetting. If it wasn't bad enoughhaving cloakrooms replacing us,you hove to start using ournames as insults. Personally if Idon't like someone, I call them abook-end, and that really yibblesthem, I can tell you.

A couple more points: Howcome Commodore produce theAmiga and Sinclair produce the2X-81? And how come everytime I see the Letters pageT'zer's got a great big zit on herface? And why are the pagenumbers never right in thecontents? And why is Small Printcalled Small Print when it's thesame print size as the letters?On that mind-boggling questionI'll leave you with a threat: Printthis or I'll send you my ZX-81.Neil 'Hatstand• StewartGlasgowPS Give the games to my friend,'cos I own a Commodore.PPS How can a hatstand write?

Too many questions! Why aremarshmallows fluffy? Why don'tcrocodiles cry? Why arehatstands the book-end ofeverybody's jokes? Why is VS?EdPS What are you doing writing tous then?PPS With a pen!

YS HORRORSCOPESBy Madam e PicoARIES(MAI. 21-Apr 20) Mercury has justmoved into your 'grt which meansthere's an int. K r amount otromance on' C a n i s . Trouble is thatbeing such a m ov i ng planet,lust moved out t 'O ur sign again.Seems votive 'missed the boat' asthey say Had luck.TAURUS(Apr 21-May 21) sieftury's bombingthrough your sign Go and asksomeone out Quick,.quick, quitaaaaalthhh• t o o l a t eGEMINI(May 22ilun 21).4041 d e a r , M e r c u ry

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CANER(Jim 22-3u122) The sign ti the crabIncrediN%- apt this month acttudly Siyou will bc shuffling aroundsideway% on a beach Kim-where.Watch out for predartcors wearinggreen.LEO(Jul 23-Aug 23) The King of theZodiac - aren't you the lucky onea survey eight out of 10 doctoredbirth certificates liad been altered toplace their owners under this signThe frauds!V I R G OAug 24-Sep 23) Allthe planets havelust moved inter Veto, As a

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the y've got a martial arts gamethem. But when somebody says Ai j tunder development starring arabbit, my immediatereaction is to book a holiday!Funny rabbits pretending to besamurais has got to be worthavoiding, right? WRONG!Samurai Warrior is the Firebirdcomputer game version of thebrilliant new Fantagraphics/StanSakai comicbook series, biagtkimbo. Although all thecharacters are cartoon animals,the action is gutsy, and any fansof comics or martial arts storiesshould love it to bits.

The Furbird computer gameis no different. As well as beingstunningly faithful to the graphicfeel of the comic books, SamuraiWarrior has a well hard storylinctoo! It's the seventeenth centuryin Japan, and ronin• rabbitMyamoto Usagi. known by all asUsagi Yojimbo, is marning the

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issues old, has already sliced a place foritself in 4 omic fandom. The stories killow theadveniurrs of 1.1sath and his friends in I l thCentury Japan. The comics are actually quiteadult in their scripting and plotlines, with lots ofdangerous swordplay, usually with some rabbitor other funny animal ending up as tomorrow'sstew, 'I le blood flows like water, and so does thesense o f-h o n o ur , a nd a ls o the sense of humour.

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land in searth of his old FriendLord Noriyuki. His friend hasbeen captured by the evil LordHildji, and the hare-splittingUsagi is his only hope.

There are many different pathsalong the way, and following anyone of them takes our hero pastinns, where he can renew hisenergy, or past disguisedtravellers who can supply him

'th information about his quest,for the appropriate courtesy. Andas the world of a samurai is tiedup with obeying the dictates ofhonour, at all times Nlyamotomust do what is honourable. Infact, dishonour is liable to makehim commit hara-kiri, and orrabbit ninja will automaticallykill himselt if you make him doanything dishonourable. Sobowing in respect to people whoare his equals is necessary.

pecially if you want them toreturn the compliment and giveyou some information.

The less respectful passers by,or lurkers by in some cases, areninjas, bounty hunters andvarious magical animals. They

• are the prime foes and destroying4 • them is necessary, but

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it's graphically superb, with allthe fun and action of the comicstrips intact. But more than that,it's a game with a character all itsiwn, and I don't just mean oldCsagi. It has a sense of place andtime, and a nice fluid feel to theaction. The control of thecharacter hasn't just been dashedin. The moves are carefullyorchestrated to enhance yourenjoyment of the moving,fighting and exploring parts ofthe game, and not a pixel hasbeen wasted. It's a well-madeand well thought-out piece olgame, and not just a cheapexploitation of a licence, as itcould so easily have been.Samurai Warrior is going to be aclassic beat 'em up, you cancount on it

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In just four short yearshome computer entertain-ment has grown into afurious an d excit in gindustry not only bringingmuch p l e a s u r e a n den jo ym en t t o m an yyoungsters throughoutGreat Britain and Europe,but creat ing a wholeindustry that has madeenormous strides forwardin technology and thestandards o f entertain-ment.

No company has donemore to advance the causethan US Gold. Deriving itsname f ro m t h e ear lyactivities o f importingsoftware from Americaand adapting it for thehome market, US Gold has

constantly led from thefront, outstripping compet-itors in satisfying thedemands of an increasinglydiscerning public. US Goldnow stands firmly at thehead of a very stable andvital industry leavingbehind it many memorableand outstanding achieve-ments.

Now the company hasannounced plans to createanother shockwave - it'st ak in g t h o s e e a r l ymasterpieces from its ownoutstanding success andbringing them together inone collection - 15 trueclassics in all. A spokesmanfor U S G o l d i s n o tsurprised at the market'sr e a c t i o n w h e n h e

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Computer Industry sources spoke of alarm and disquiet today as US Gold - Europe's 4forerunners in home entertainment software - announced plans for a September releasethat marks a milestone in the development of the home computer industry. Titled "HISTORYIN THE MAKING", it chronicles the early giant successes of this exciting industry and isregarded by many experts to be the finest single collection of computer games ever pro-duced a real must for computer enthusiasts and a true collector's item to be treasured it 1for years to come.

commented t o ourreponers: "US Gold is theentertainment softwareindustry in the UK and nowEurope.

tji 1"In short, the collectionwill appeal to everyoneit's not just a compilationof games b u t a t ru echronicle of the develop.,1ment o f this fantasticindustry of ours."

Its hardly surprising ourcompetitors are unhappy.From the very early dayswe were the innovators andwe therefore developedsome rea l innovativegames - games that can becalled classics of their time.

MONDAY, I9TH SEPTEMBER, 1988it the MakiNo one has achieved so S P Y H U N T E R . . . Bal lymuch and no one is able to Midw ay's armoured carcommand such outstanding classic became a homesoftware. Now a mature computer cult. RAID. . .market is in residence, we I m p r e s s i v e y e t

DPe's decided that the time was controversial, Raid hit the.lease r i g h t t o make a bold headlines in the nationalOM' s t a t e m e n t about how p r e s s . G O O N I ES . . .S ielberg film translated

into the first simultaneoustwo player interactivea r c a d e g a m e .SU PER C YC L E. . . t h eEpyx spectactular on twowheels. Fast and furious -an all-time racing classic.

D G A M E S . . .

knd is significant and impressivepro- computer software is, we

sured therefore collected

together these classics -collected from only our

o u r fi r s t three years - and areI is the t o publish them in onehistoric pack. Many oftware today's enthusiasts mayi have been too young to

have played the originals -it's obviously a real treat

lection f o r them and many of the"ne - older players will treasure

',nation t h e value that such a1 t r u e collection offers. In short,rvelq"- the collection will appeal to

' U n ti e e ve ry on e - it's not just a

compilation of games but atrue chronicle o f the

sing our d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h isihappy. fantastic industry of Ours."

days BEACH H E A D . - t h etors and l e a d e r of the pack, US,eloped G o l d ' s 1st quarter of aIvative m i l l i o n seller. BRUCE

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around the world with 8incredible, and unusualevents by Epyx. EXPRESSR A ID ER . . . a root in ' ,tootin', arcade action - theEaster hit o f that year.INFILTRATOR... arcade,strategy simulation - alli n g r e d i e n t s t h a tc u l m i n a t e d i nt oEuropean No. 1. BEACHHEAD I I . . tough actionsequel, another monsterchartbuster by Access.GAUNTLET... the biggestselling computer game1986/87, over 100 000 sold

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AAAriCt in GAMES ROAD RUNIWit. BEACHHEAD,The games selected to honour this special collection

eir time. f a c e to join U S Gold. a r e each of outstanding merit in their own right

NEWS- the 1st great arcadec o n v e rs i o n . R O A DRUNNER... the summerNo. I o f t h at year -cartoon, coin-op capersf rom A t a r i G a m e s .I M P O S S I B L EM I S S I O N . . . t h ebenchmark test for allsubsequent p lat f o rmgames, still regarded bymany as one of the greatestcomputer games o f allt i m e . R U N G F UMASTER.- a Gallup No.I - Dat a East - oftenimitated, never emulated.LEADERBOARD... "Thisis the sports suradation ofthe year - if not the decade",Zzap M.

Besides its possession asa collection piece thepackage is considered bymany to offer unheard ofvalue for money and anopportunity not t o bemissed. Many computerenthusiasts await eagerlythe mid-September releaseand comments such as" I ' ve st art ed savin gnow...", " I wasn't intocomputers when the earlyreleases ca me o u t , I ' mlooking forward to playing

them now...", "I've onlyheard of such games asBeach Head, now's mychance to see what I'vemissed..." are commonamongst the players thatwe've talked to.

"But the real whiners arethe buying public - it'sfantastic value."

Perhaps one of the mosiinformative comments watmade b y an indust r!insider: "US Gold seem tchave done it again. Whilsw e ' r e a l l h a p p l i :constructing compilationfrom any product we ca:find and offering them tthe public as value-folmoney packs, US Galhave put together the fine:collection of classic gam(ever assembled and t tsupport material and giv•aways w i l l b e j u s tgood and up to their usuamazing standard. Ouisimply, I think we'restunned once again, but Creal winners arc the buyipublic - it ' s fantasivalue."

Where will US Goldfrom here - well no aknows, all we can really ,tis that if they keep go-on making history like tthen they can only icegoing on from successsuccess and all compuowners will be pleasedthat to continue,

(111 P h i ! w r e yew York, 1988. In theshadows, without asound, someone iswalking through thestreets un- noticed •

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power, the only way to destroy Mean w h i le , inhim. And he must destroy him for Kunitoki's in his element. He has

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Screenshots are finishedproducts.

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on with reviewingsome of this month'sreleases without fearof being chopped intolittle pieces — butwhat's that coming

from behind thatbookcase O h No!It's a Ninja Hatstand

— Aaaaaaarrgh!!!

DomaddE9_95 cassit14.95 diskCie n to The Empire StrikesBack was by tar my favouritethe three Star Wars films It hadeverything h e r o i s m in thesnow romance mutilations,cyrogenics — and even a Jmaster who sounded exact!Fozzie Bear' Atari's subseqcoin-op obviously couldn'tinclude all of this, but it didmanage to incorporate plenty oblasting and flying action acrossfour action-packed levels.

But could all of this be fittedinto the Spectrums relativelysmall memory? Dornarkobviously thought so, andbrought in the aptly-namedVektor Graf ix programming teamto wove them right — and quite alob they've done tool Thefinished article is fast andcompulsive and looks andsounds quite good too

In Level One the player takesoff In Luke Skywalker's

der. blasting throughpire'S lines and destroying

ts before they canit information about the

rebels' whereabouts back toDarth Vader. Points are awardedfor destroying the Probots, theirtransmissions and the fireballswhich they shoot in your generaldirection A doddle

The destruction continuesalong the same lines in LevelTwo, except this time the enemyis a little tougher consisting oftwo different types of Walker, theAT-AT and the AT-ST The AT-STis small and fast and destroyedby the snowspeeder's usualmissiles The AT-AT is biggerand slower, but it's also moreheavily protected. Only twothings will destroy one of thesemammoths the first is a directshot to the head, while thesecond is wrapping a tow cablearound its legs — and just trydoing that when the going getstough? Tow cables are fired bypressing T. and although theInstructions say that there's Onlya limited amount available. Inever seemed to run Out nomatter how many times I triedthis tactic.

tween Levels Two a •Three you undergo a dramChange. and all of a suddenyou're Han Solo at the helm ofthe liatlienium Falcon This timethe enemy comes at you in TieFighters and once again theobject is to destroy all in yourpath while avoiding the missiles

Level Four is easily thehardest (can I say that?).Remember the scene in themovie where Han takes theFalcon into an asteroid bell to tryto shake off the pursuing TieFighters? Well guess who's turnit is now There are so manyrocks flying around that it'salmost impossible to get throughthis stage intact Its also at thispoint that the slightly odd joystickaction starts to cause problemsthe on-screen cursor moves

upwards when the joystick ispushed down and vice versa).

When starting off, the player isprotected by five shields. One ofthese is lost each time a missileor asteroid gets through andunfortunately they'reirreplaceable. Targets are set atthe beginning of each level a r d la h kmeeting these wins a lettered 111.1icon When these icons arecollected in order to spellJ-E-D-I the player becomestemporanly

The front end is plain butfunctional. There's a choicebetween three levels of diffic

(ea a n d — believe o rnot — a n optionaltraining w h i c h gives aquick ru o n the empire'shardwa p r e - g a m e blurbalso co s c e n a r i o , hintsand lips f u l l list of pointsscored for each loll.

In the words of the immortalYoda: Adventure, excitement — aJedi craves not these things* buthe or she is certainly going to getthem from this blaster. However,if I have one reservation aboutThe Empire Strikes Back !VSabout the game's testability Theproblem is that the gameplaylust a touch too easy andtherefore most experiencedgamesplayers will lose interestrelatively quickly (or maybe I'velust learned to use the force —but I doubt it). RS good, but alittle more work and it may havebeen a classic.

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merely to ape that splendid too something a bit different. It

certainly succeeds in that, but

s a game (Or rather series ofernes) I'm not so sure, The)o much here that's been done

better elsewhere.

Stage One is the AssaultCourse, a far more complexand challenging test than inCombat School (one notablecldference between the two isthat you don't have to qualify assuch for the next round — youget to try out all four rounds butyour achievements arid pointsin each are added up to makeup your final score and rating).Running is straightforwardenough y o u just pressright — but jumping isincredibly difficult To getenough power you have tokeep fire pressed down for halfa second or so, and let go justas you reach the correct spot infront of the obstacle. Fine intheory but in practice, verytricky indeed.

Stage Two is tar more user-friendly. Here you have ashooting range set in a forest.the lighting low, with targetspopping up before you whichyou have to pop off. Or at leastsome of them you do, becausemixed in with the genuinetargets (soldiers) you'll also seewomen and children. Hit asoldier and you'll get up to 50points, hit a woman and you'lllose 1000. It all makes for astem and very addictive little

Cascade19.99Ma rc us N-n-n-n a n d soon. Actually it's quite hard to getout of the habit of n-n-ing allover the place when talkingabout this game. and it'll geteven worse when part twopops up later in the year,

Eh? I hear you cry. Part two?Yes, Cascade knows where itsbread is buttered, and I'd sayit's on the side that's not stuckto the carpet. Why write justone game from an expensiveand potentially lucrativelicence, when you can do two

, three t o u r o r even19?

andCascadesperfectly playable, but justlacking that killer touch to mait as ub ti t le d Boot Campit's a

tc ou rs e in basic training, the

Lresults of which you can takethrough to the next game toheslithery Viet Cong. Which

separate. but all of which 'takeyou through a series ofexercises each assessingdifferent characteristics:co-ordination, stamina and

Sound like Combat School t Yes, it does to me too.c

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test, with eight such ranges toget through,

Stage Three, Jeep Training,isn't bad either, although it's alla wee bit familiar. There can'tbe many other gamescompanies who would darebring out a car racing game on

the Speccy, but this one'sperfectly respectable as far asit goes. Here you worry moreabout missing obstacles left inthe road, as well as picking upuseful things like ammo boxes,jerry cans and, for somereason, boots.

Stage Four UnarmedCombat, is a return to Dullsville.It's Fist time again, except thatit's rather shoddily programmedand incredibly boring to play.

So, a mixed bag. Of the tourbits, two are all but redundant,one's okay, and it's only theShooting Range that's reallyspecial. For a termer, you doexpect more than a 25 per centsuccess rate. Which is, ofcourse, better than a mere n-n-n-n-n-( Oh shut up. Ed).

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ASSAULT COURSEJump over loads of obstacles, if you don't throw the computerout of the window first.

SHOOTING RANGEPick out the soldiers and pick 'em of f. But shoot the women and

.••%el vau can forget about Purple Hearts.

They're back! The wildest.,vacklest weirdest,wobbliest widest, windiesthunch of wagglers there is

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Faster than a speedingbullet, happier than aShoda owner and stir,raving about has not-so-new-anymore ST.

Jonny-boy once more does the docentthing and helps out the YS team in theirhour of need

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David •Macca'McCandless —Programmed to pleaseMecca retains his gnpon the YS editorial Isthere no end to this

Mika Garrard — Theadventurous one lumpsinto Screensbols tocheck Out somethingthat s right up his streetland two streets along

and around the comet from ours)

VS SCORES10 — Better than 99 — Twice 4 plus 1

8 — Not as good as 91— Claran's lucky number

6 — Almost half way5 — Hall as good as 10

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The semi-literate waffle thatpasses for a plot talks about fiveprison ships which areapproaching your home planet,ready to disgorge their captives,who have mutated into monstersover the years due to somethingcalled 'Advanced StrogenicRegeneration*. As planetaryhead honcho you are incommand of the five SupertronicSpace Craft sent to intercept theprison ships.

So far so good. Afterstruggling with the fiddly controlmenu I was all ready for a bit ofmindless mayhem — at whichpoint the game developed aconscience and decided to takepity on the poor monsters, Soinstead of merrily blasting theprison ships. y • . • o a l becomessimpiy that of I. • • , t h eouter bull of each • ,attempting to preventpnsoners from

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The game is marginally lessboring than the two songs thatcome on the second cassette inthe box, but if you don't buy thegame then you won't have tolisten to those either.

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The game starts in theAdventurers Guild in a countrytown called Skara Brae. Thisused to be a peaceful town, 'tillevil creatures infiltrated theplace and the odious Mangerfroze the surrounding landswith a spell of Eternal Winter.Cut off from the outside world,with the local policedisappeared, naturally it falls toa group of ragged but intrepidadventurers to save SkaraBrae and defeat Manger

The Bard's Tale fills bothsides of two cassettes, and soit should with 16 levels ofdungeon maze to explore. Youload the core program first.

followed by whichever levelyou've reached, and then loadin your saved band ofadventurers to take up thefight. There's a bit of fiddlingaround, and jotting downnumbers from the tapecounter, but it's well worth itThere's also an Editor programthat allows you to swopcharacters around from onegroup to another l i k e deadones for live ones! To get youstarted there's a default groupof characters known as the ATeam, so if you're impatientyou can be straight out of theAdventurers' Guild and ontothe streets of Skara Brae withthese.

Top-left of the screen is agraphic of your location, or oneof the characters, or one of themany monsters lurking around.Top-right tells you where youare, or gives you information,or tells you what's happening,or allows you to tradeweapons, spells and so on.And across the bottom you getthe details of your party, givingeach character's name,Armour Class (level ofprotection), Hit Points (In total),Condition (Hit Pointsremaining), Spell Points and

Class. There are 10 differentcharacter classes, but the lasttwo (Sorcerer and Wizard) canonly be gained by working youway up through the ranks.Otherwise you must try tochoose a well-balanced partyof six from the warriors,rogues, hunters, bards,magicians and so on at yourdisposal.

So far it sounds very like anyother ordinary RPG of the typeI've never liked, so why is thisone special? I think the designof the game is the answer.Although there is a 24-pagemanual in the package youdon't have to wade through itall before you can put yourfingers near the keyboard. Youcan grasp the basics veryquickly and be playing (andprobably getting killed off) inno time at all. The more youplay the more you learn, and afair chunk of the game ismenu-driven, though not somuch that it takes all the funout of playing.

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r problem! I soon saw them off,but then I couldn't read whatmy reward was as themessage went off the screentoo quickly. I'd earned 80experience points and... hangon, how many pieces of goldwas that? Too late, t'messagehad gone.

With my gold I went into YeOlde Equipment Shoppe andsaw that they sold everythingfrom a torch for five goldpieces to plate armour at 700My bank balance didn't quiterun to that, and they didn't takeplastic, so I bought the best Icould and it was out Onto thestreets again, kicking in thedoors of buildings andwatching Out for maraudingmonsters.

Suddenly I was faced withsix Kobolds w h o lookedremarkably like Gnomes to meOh well, that's one way toconvert a 16-bit game to 8-bit.Whatever they were, they fell tothe might of my merry band. Iwas just getting cocky whenout of the shadows cameseven Barbarians. Gulp! Theylooked mean and nasty. Fightor run? Ahem.. run for it, lads!Oh dear, sometimes you can'trun even if you want to. Spiel!End of party. Back to the Guildand start again.

A few hours later, I was stillwandering the streets of SkaraBrae, looking in on the inn, thetemples and the ReviewBoard, and slowly building upthe strength of my party,discovering which creaturesyou can beat (like spiders) andwhich are best avoided (likeskeletons). Somewhere in thecity are the entrances to thedungeons, which take a lot offinding, but (in the immortalwords of David Frost) the cluesare there.

Can you find Harkyn's Castleor the Mad God's Catacombs?And if you can, will you wishyou hadn't? Don't ask me, I'mstuck half-way down a sewerat the moment, though if youbung a fiver to Electronic Artsyou can have a copy of TheBard's Tale Cluebook. And Iwarn you that more volumes ofThe Bard's Tale are on the wayGordon Bennett, this could bea lifetime's occupation!

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As before, that 'entendre-stimulating evil, nasty, baddy,

insane scientist with a largeforehead' type person. ElvinAtombender. is up to his oldtricks again. He's out to destroythe world for the umpteenth time.And since you were sosuccessful in thwarting hisdemonic plans last lime. you aredeployed to infiltrate Elvin'ssecret tower complex andgenerally stop the world from notbeing the world.

So oft you go as Agent 4125 toduck and dive around the robots,leap over the bottomless pitsand jump from platform toplatform — all with the aim ofputting an end to Elvin's nefanty.

Old agent 4125 hasn'tchanged much since his lastImpocsible Mission. except nowhe's gained some eyes and hishair's grown a pixel or two.Shame? Rip oft? No-way! Youmight be complaining loudly, butwait. 4125"s animation is top-notch and absolutely brilliant. Helopes along, taking wide smoothstrides and will perform exquisitesomersaults when commanded.The robots he has to avoid are abit of a let down though: bulky,stark vacuum cleaners is theclosest description I can think of.But luckily their appearancedoesn't detract from theirposition in the game. Thosenasties get progressively variedas you attain different levels,including droids that lay mines,move lilts, shove you offplatforms and, of course, yournonnal, everyday killermachines.

Screens (of which there aremany) are accessed by anetwork of inter-connecting liltsand corridors_ And it's thesescreens which provide the high-point of the game. It's time for theold Manic Miner reference againI'm afraid_ 'Cos, each screen hasa specific puzzle and routewhich you must discover andmaster before you can proceedto the next. Although mostscreens have iust one exit, theidea is not always to pass

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The screens themselves are atasteful combination of pink andblue platforms, joined by liftsand gaps. Puzzles come in theway you manipulate the lifts andcomputer options in order to getto that elusive last object. Laterscreens also contain bombs.

light bulbs and mines. Somescreens are real brain-blenders— more difficult than in theoriginal — but it all adds to theaddictiveness.

More brain-blending comes incollecting the three accesscodes from each tower. usingthem to open the safe. and thengetting the music sequence datawhich you must string togetherto open the door to the nextlevel. For this you use your *hi-tec, stuff your Rolex down theloo' wrist watch. With thisweighty timepiece you can scar'other areas of the complex.prime bombs, have a crack atthe code — and even tell the time.

All in all, the attraction comesin trying to reach other screensand solve the individual puzzles.The random screen effect addsa tang of mystery to a game thatwould otherwise be repetitive. Ifyou haven't played the originalthen buy it and if you haveplayed the original then still buyit, but don't expect quite so muchfrom it

Addictive/9.95 cassit1415 diskMa rc u s And over to BarryDavies in the commentarybox... 'There's nothing onhere... oh, it's one-nil!'

Yes, it's footie time again,and as regular readers willknow, there's nothing that getsthe old Berkmann pulse racinglike a footle sem on theSpectrum. Football Director?Love it to pieces. The Double?Right result on the day Jimmy.Match Day 2? Work of fleppin•genius Pedro.

The meter and pater of all,though, is Football Manager,the game that absolutelyeverybody must have boughtat some point or other. Well,erther that or some clots got aquarter of a million of 'em —which, come to think of it, is adistinct possibility knowing theway footle sim fans think.

Originally released by KevinToms on his own Addictivelabel (since swallowed up bythe mighty Prism corporation),way back in 1982, FM hassold consistently ever since —a unique achievement in thebrief history of everybody'sfave computerised tablemat,

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Now six years later, thingshave moved on just a wee bit(machine code hassuperceded Basic, for onething), and Mr Toms' newbosses clearly decided it wastime for a sequel. The gamewas in fact announced at lastyear's PCW Show,accompanied by cries of 'Andthe three bears" from myselfand Phil. But a mere ninemonths later here it is on mydesk — and it's a hpsnorter

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Mr Toms clearly took notice ofthe new breed of footlemanagement sems — theFootball Directors and Doublesof this world. Both of these

games radically overhauledthe original blueprint of FM 1,though each chose a quitedifferent approach. FootleDileCOT, to the horror ofprogramming snobs, did awaywith graphics completely, andinstead supplied hugeamounts of information (withina very tricky gameplaystructure), which data junkieslike me lapped up. The Doubletried for more accuraterepresentation of a footleseason (and a manager'scareer) than FD: instead ofpresenting you with numericalinfo, it made you establishthrough observation, whichplayers were any good and inwhich positions — meaningyou worked by trial and erroras well as by logic. FM 2. likethe mass-market product it is,tries in part to combine bothapproaches, while stayingessentially true to the basic (IInot Basic) structure of FM tIts a fair old balancing act, butI think it works.

The graphics, as you'dimagine, are much improved_The pitch is split into threescreens — broadly defined byAttack, Midfield and Defence— and as the ball is puntedabout the field, so the gamefollows it about from screen toscreen. You're given a squadof (on level one), fairly niftyplayers — Peter Beardsley andClive Allen aren't bad forDivision 4 — and you have toplace them in the rightpositions on the field. Thepositions as you choose themrepresent the part of the fieldthat player will attempt todominate. Each player, on bothteams, has a skill rating ofbetween three and nine, andgenerally the more skilledplayer will win more balls.

The other factor is fitness,

measured between zero and100. Players drop a little infitness every time they play; ifthey drop below 50 they areconsidered "unfit" and aresidelined. Players who don'ttake part, though, increase infitness, so you have to spend alot of time juggling your playersaround and keeping abalanced squad, just in case areal nasty happens andsomeone snaps a pin. Youcht

As with FM1 there is theoption, only at the start, tochoose a skill level from one(easy) to nine (very TOS'eli'Shard). Level one really is deadeasy, but you'll only discoverthis when you've been playingfor 40 minutes and won everygame 5-0_ 1 think I would havepreferred the same system asin Football Director, which putsyour Skill revel up automaticallyif you do too well. But socceror later you do find yournatural skill level, whereuponthings get really interesting.

Half time now becomes aparticular boon. Here you canswop around your team, orbring on a substitute, if you feethat your tactics aren't working_If there's a weakness in yourmidfield, for instance, you canput a better player in thevulnerable position, or evenbring in an extra player anddrop, say, a striker. This meansthat watching the match is notthe chore it always was, butboth fascinating and absolutelynecessary if you're going tolearn from your mistakes.

There are loads of other newfeatures — a full transfermarket, success points,sponsorship and the LeagueCup to name but lour — butwhat makes Football Manager2 work is that its structure isbasically sound. Internal logicis the be all and end all of thissort of game — lose it and youlose all attempt at credibilityFor connoisseurs, Id say this isprobably nearer The Double infeel, but with that game'smassively complex structuremuch simplified I t also has theruthless logic that FootballDirector imposes (if not itsloving detail), which'll make it avital purchase for anyonehooked on that game. I'mdelighted with it, as I imagineKevin Toms is. As John Matsonwould say, 'You have to shay.Jimmy, he wash absholutelynowhere.' Eh ? Ed)

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through since reading my last 0 1school report! Still, here goes..An evil organisation called

Focus is sending DreamDemons to attack people in theirsleep. Four astral scientistscalled Asmen (with just the oneS'') find Out how to combat them

with pulsar neutrons, but beforethey can do so, three of them arecaptured by Ocular, the greatestdream demon of them all. Youare the one who isn't of course,and now you've got to reclaimthe other three.

But let's play along: to rescueyour chums you'll have to getinto their dreams using thedream hopper, which is chargedup with hopper energy. This iscollected by shooting demi-demons, which flit around theplace, obviously trying to hitch a

lift back to Manic MireOther demons give you bits ofthe scientists' Psychic Images,which need to be collected tocoraptete the game. Theremaining ones give you creditcards which can be swopped forincreased Sleep Depth (oh yeah,run Out of this and the gamesover) or lift-passes to move

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shots', the near misses, all thethrills and spills w h a t ? Youdon't think watching a footballmatch in text only is going to bemuch fun? Well okay, neither didI, but for some reason I can't putmy linger on. this is one of themost addictive parts of thewhole shooting match. WatchingIhe game unfold in front of youlike a text adventure. It's a weirdw.ay to enioy yourself, but I love it

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soon be Christmas. eh? What'sgoing to be the big game thistime around? Who can say. WhatI can say though is that this isgoing to be a really brill edition ofthe Shop. No really, I'm not justsaying that, it's going to be lab,and I should know 'cos I diddit!We've got loadsa stuff to showyou, and due to the fact that themega-amazing Smash Tipsdirectory is finally with us, we'vehad to inject the Shop with a fewvalue added features. Whatwe've come up with is theamazing MegaTips, larger thanlife complete solutions andtipping maps which can shineyour shoes, put a smile on yourlace, money in your pocket, andknock the spots off your boxershorts at 20 paces. One suchtritrnbrillo item is by David'Mecca' McCandless. It'severything you ever wanted toknow about Desolator but didn'tdare to ask, all in one easy toswallow capsule that doesn'tupset your stomach. Good oldMecca, he's always good for atitter, innee? Cif course, besidesall this mularky, we've got the'.rest of you in the Shop, allsqueezing in and pressing yourlittle noses against the windows.Isk! I wish you'd tissue the messoff before you go... urgh. Passthe Windolene, Jackie.

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Code Masters), l a r g e stab o uisn't used for anything at all. It's a fi e l d in Trachtte.magnetic RED HERRING! D r i l l i n g co-ords: X-5952,Anyway, to cheer you up, I've Y - 5 0 2 6 , tacing north.given your address to Sally Annand she's going to send you a R u b y : Set angle to 90- a n d b ecomplete guide to Dizzy, e x a c t l y in line when you turn.including maps and hints, but S h o o t the satellite and it willunfortunately not the fruity pic of re ta l ia te and start shootingAbigail Darling in a towel. (Fwarl b a c k . Shoot it again to stop it.See FrOntlineS for further fnar D r i l l i n g co-ords: X-3746,details, kwar!) Good luck. Y - 2 5 5 0 , facing east.

• Cor! It's here. In honour of therelease of Dark Side, we havehere the very final solution toIncentive's Driller, a corky gameand no mistake, what with all that3D biz and the fact that you'vegot to be a mixture of Uri Geller.Ian Botham and Rolf Harris tofigure out the puzzles with anydegree of accuracy. But workthem out you did, my littlefruitbuns, which is more than Idid, snouty as I am. So, manyfanx to James Leeds, JohnParker and John PaulMargerison for their stridentwads of tips about this 3Dadventurama, and here's the firstpart of their megasolution.glorious cinemascopic black andwhite.Ame thy s t Shoot the wall forextra points (worth up to 750 ifshot in the right order). Insidethe hut, it you shoot the shieldcrystals on the floor first, thenthe shield crystals in the air,you have maximum shield and

more points. (ie. the crystals onthe floor will re-appear). Landon the slab in the jet for fullreplenishment.Drilling co-ords: X-6400, Y-6050, facing north.Lapis Lazuli: Shoot pyramidsfor extra points and to create apath through the sector. Rise tomaximum extent and locateand destroy small cube(switch) and the wall willdisappear. Shoot cube again tomake door visible.Drilling co-ords: X-4096. Y-3746, facing north.Emerald: To escape thenotice of the laser beacons ateach door, you can movearound the the perimeter veryclose to the outside walls.Alternatively, you can keep outof range by moving diagonallyacross the sector. The southfacing laser has a block near it.It is impossible to get round Itwithout being seen, so becareful.Drilling co-ords: X-3746,Y-4096, facing east.

Aquamarine: Shoot the lefthanger to get to thereconnaissance jet. In the jetfly to Amethyst and land on theslab situated at the top of thepole. Fly back to Aquamarineand go into the hanger and riseup under the excavation probeto transfer again. (Note: to getinto the jet, go into the hanger,go under the jet and rise. You'llknow when you're in it.)Drilling co-ords: X-5102,Y-21396, facing south.Beryl: Shoot all the wires onthe pylon to disable the viciousdownward pointing laserbeacon. Inside the room, onthe north wall, there are threesymbols. Shoot one and itchanges shape. To open thenorth door set all the symbolsto triangles. To open the westdoor set all the symbols tohexagons. If you find the doorhas disappeared. shoot thewall.DrIUing co-ords: X-7104,Y-3512, facing north.Topaz: Stand on the smallplatform on the east side of thewall, and shoot one of theswitches to make the lift rise.Once the lift has risen, do notmove forward. Turn until youfind the door and move into the

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Any ideas? Well, I happen to n o s e . Inside there are four c o m p l e x . Shoot the east blockknow (on account of just being l a s e r beacons which fire pretty fi v e times to make any energyon the blower to Sally Ann at f a s t . Shoot them. Shoot the c r y s t a l appear. Behind this

that the magnet b t turn ort the force b l o c k is a hidden tunnel. whichyou go down to find a door.Inside the tunnel go forward togain access to the complex inAmethyst. Shoot the blocks inorder from right to left tomaterialise the teleporters.Drilling co-ords: X-3077,Y-1310, facing south.Niccolite: Shoot the switchon the wall (in conjunction withthe ones in Alabaster, Quartzand Opal), to gain access to theLight Side. To get through themine field with minimumdamage move fast, close toone of the large blocks.Drilling co-ords: see manualpage 25 for co-ords anddirection.

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One, two... two!? Two pages of hacksPOKEs and... David McCandless

Aaargghhh! I can't take it!

At last! My rampant

megalomania hasbeen sated. No! I hearyou cry! Yes! I hearmyself answer.

Practical Pokes has now beenelongated to two pages.Yeeaaahhhh! Two pagesmeans more space, and morespace means more hacks,cracks and POKEs, and moreof them means more joyous,ecstatic readers — well slightlymore jubilant than normalreaders at least.

But enough of this cheerybanter and on with the Show...FIREBIRDSYes, again, I am proud topresent yet another Fimbirdmulti-hack system.Hurrraahhh! This time itssolely Jon North's brainchild,with a few additions fromGraham Mason. But at leasthe asked if he could use them,not like another magazineshacker I could mention, hey Mr.Singh? To use it simply add theappropriate data-line for thegame you want to play.

REM 1,1 8 50 1 05 by Jon North

18 L E T t r 828 M I A 4 . 3 2 7 6 0 TO 3 2 8 7 63 • W A D e t P OKE f . e44 L E T t r t41 4 - 3 2 7 58 1 . 4 1 N EX T !

IF t - 6 7 9 4 6 8 THE N S T O PFOR 0 • 3 2 8 • 7 TO 1 1 0 ; RE AD a/ f e i 2 5 6 THE N 0 0 T O I I IPOKE 1 . 4LET t r t41 1-1 7 8 67 / e a l NEXT

IF tr im THE N 5 1 OP1.080 —C I T E I R uN OUR 5283

DATA 5 8 . 2 1 . 2 3 5 . 1 2 2 . 2 5 4DATA 4 4 . 1 9 2 , 0 2 . 5 8 . 5 8DATA 8 4 . 2 8 5 . 1 3 . 2 1 . 2 5 5DATA T . . 8 5 . 2 8 5 . 6 2 . 1 9 5DATA 5 8 , 5 8 . e . 3 3 , 3 2DATA 1 2 8 . 3 4 , 5 9 , 8 . 1 9 5DATA 8 .8 .5 8 .1 1 1 7 .9 2DATA 1 3 . 1 1 4 . 1 2 8 0 7 . 8DATA 6 . 1 , • . 8 . 2 3 7DATA 1 7 6 . 1 4 5 . 6 1 . 8 . 1 2 6DATA 2 2 3 . 1 6 1 . 2 8 9 , 1 7 7 . 1 4 4DATA 1 4 1 0 3 9 . 1 5 1 .2 6 0 . 191DATA 1 9 9 , 2 8 8 , 2 3 7 . 1 2 3 . 1 1 2DATA 1 2 8 .6 2 .2 8 5 .5 4 1 ,8 4DATA 2 8 5 . 3 3 . 8 . 1 2 8 . 3 4041144 8 5 . 2 8 5 . 3 3 . 1 4 1 . 1 2 8DATA 1 2 6 , 5 8 . 2 2 . 1 2 8 , 5 8DATA 2 8 . 1 2 8 , 5 8 . 5 1•1 7 8DATA 5 8 . 4 8 . 1 2 0 . 5 8 , 4 001114 1 2 8 , 3 5 . 1 2 6 , 5 8 . 4 2DA/A 1 2 8.15 . 1 2 6 . 58 . 3 9

DATA 1 2 8 . 1 9 5 , 8 . 2 8 5

:4 4 R E M I n fi n i t e L i v e s b y ORANAN mASON

734 DATA 9 6 . 7 . 2 8 7 . 5 7 . 1 7 5 . 5 8 . 1 8 4.1 2 8 .1 9 5 .1 8 8 .1 2 8

BRAINSTORM348 R e m A l l c o m p l e te s tr e w n b yJon N o r th

S58 D A 1 A 9 1 . 8 . 1 6 9 , 1 . 1 2 1 . 1 7 5 . 5 8.776144.195,8,124.697912

CROSS WIZE348 R E M l o m o r l o l o t y b y 3 8 n N Or

t h o n d OM350 DATA 252.9.175.57095,62.1

7 5. 58.5 6,1 32 .1 95 .8 .9 1•7 61 64 8

EARTHLIGifT102 P OK E 5 2 8 8 5 .1 9 5 1 RE M inf$4111L . L i v e s184 P OK E 3 2 8 8 8 . 2 8 8 r RE M ' M i n i

to F o o l186 P O K E 1 2 8 9 1 .2 8 1 0 RE M I n fl n i

te Ammo348 R E M HACK b y J o n N o r th330 D A T A 4 3 . 1 5 , 1 7 2 , 1 5 7 , 9 5 . 1 7 5 .

5 4 1.1 8 6.8,5 8.8 4.8 . 58 . 16 2 .8 . 19 5 .6 .

9 6 .7 8 6 1 4 8

GOTHIK- ,48 REM Infinite Ifreerborlue r

eMpone b y E ir a ha o M ason3 6 8 DATA 9 1 , 1 3 . 1 7 2 . 2 5 . 1 1 7 , 6 . 1 7 5

1133.97.141,119,35.119.191.11.144

MAGNETRON7.44 R i n R e i n te o n a te L o b e E ne r gybut K e e p bietomons E tc b y GRAHAM1448011

1 1 1 1 1

2511 DATA 91 . 1 6 . 1 72 , 1 4 5 . 97 . 6 2 . -

5.58.175.140.42.160.5111.176.1 .

95 .11 .168

?JINJA SCOOTER74e R E M I n f o r o t e l i m e b y J o n NOc In358 D A 1 A 9 1 , 1 3 , 1 7 4 . 4 1 , 1 5 6 , 1 7 5 ,

3 8.22 .1 76 ,6 2.7 81 ,5 0.4 8.1 19 ,1 95 .8

.1 6 0 .7 1 3 4 2 8

THE PLOT185 P OR E 3 2 0 8 5 . 1 7 5 t RE M I n f t n i

tor e n e r g y' 106 pave 22n44.ia2, nen tn4int

t e i t y e e3411 R E M B y J o n N o r t h

. 3 5 1 4 D A T A 9 1 . 1 1 . 2 2 7 . 5 7 ' 1 9 5 . 1 7 3 .

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.1 14.8,1 6 .2 52 . 3.1 95 . 11 , 25 5 .7 88 13 .

TIME FLIESA A R E M l o m o r l a / l t y b y J . . N . ,th

T 3 5 8 D A T A 91 . 8 . 1 6 3 , 57 , 1 9 5 . 1 7 5. 5

4 .41 ,137 .195 .91 .156 .7111274

ZOLYX185 P E R E 1 2 8 8 8 . 1 9 7 e MEM tr i fi R 1

t r t t m e! 3 8 6 P OK E 3 7 . 8 4 . 1 9 4 . RE M i n fi n i

IA* hives

308 R E M i n 1 i n i t e t i e e s l i v s e b y

1 J o n N o r th358 D A T A 9 1.11 . 1 8 1 . 2 3 3. 1 2 4 . 1 7 5

.58.44.8,58.112.8.195.8.176.7833

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MASK 3That devilishly devious dudeGraham Mason - this time onhis own — has hacked thisGremlin goodie, and as normalI have jammed my oar in andadded a few POKEs of myown. Simply follow the CrashPreventor to get it to work, and

MULT1FACE CORNERNo longer just a corner, more aMuttiface chunk, or a Multifacelump. Anyway, before Ibecome more graphic, let meintroduce you to this month's

GameARKANOID

ARKANOID II 128KBRAVESTARRCRAZY CARSDEMON'S REVENGEDENIZEN

ORUIIDIIEARTNLIGHT

FIREFLY

SABOTAGESAAf FOX STRIP POKERSIDEARMSTARGET RENEGADE

THING BOUNCES BACK

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Multrfacers — Mr D McKie,Eric Cedergren, A. Browne.Dean Ashton. Laurent FroggyBoy, Jon "Zapper" Rose,Manuel Rodgrigez, RichardCorbett, Graham Mason, andJon North.

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I n fi n i t e E ne r gy2 p a v e 2 3 6 9 3 .1 1 t PEWS 7 1 6 2 4 . 8 g

.CLEA8 245781 LOAD -"CODE : POKE.

1 45413.67o P OKE 6 5 4 1 4 .2 4 1 P OKE 6

15.501 P OKE 0 5 4 1 6 . 3 4 t poK E7 .2 8 4 t F I R E 6 5 4 1 0 . 1 9 5 : P OKE

. 9 .111 P OKE 6 5 4 2 8 . 1 4 5,

GEE-BEE AIR RALLYGraham Mason once more,making a bid to over-take JonNorth in the prolific stakes,with his hack for this Activisionsim. I think well be seeing quitea lot of both of them in the nextfew months. Watch thisspace...

I RE M I n fi n i t e T i m e F o r G e o 0fie A i r R a l l y B y 8 .146 lion ( T u r b o l

2 REM A l m a y o D u a l i t y

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I LOR D "' TOOL • P OKE 6 2 4 9 2 .9 1 0 I . . '

58 POKE . . . E l NE X T e68 DATA 1 7 5 . 3 3 , 1 8 6 . 1 6 1 , 1 1 9 , 3 5 .

38 I F o r 9 9 9 THE N 8 0 T O U 8 8 6 2

28 FOR 4 - 2 1 2 . 6 T O 6 5 5 3 5 c RE AD : .

18 1 1 4 7 ; P AP E R Te CLE AR 6 5 3 3 5 11 1 9.3 5. 1 19,1 9 5.8 . 12 0 ,9 9 9

SOFTLOCKRemember that old loadingsystem Firebird used to use?Yep? Nope? Don't care? WellJon North seems to have it infor every Firebird loader thatexists. No exception for thisone either — he's reduced it tonumerical rubble. So go anddig out your oldies. Andremember to bolt on therelevant data for the game

18 R E M S o ftl o c l o HACK b y J .N k rU .22 C LE A R 2 4 9 9 9 1 L E T tr i l l38 F O R 4 - 1 e 4 T O 3 8 1 5 148 R E A D oo P OKE • . •58 L E T t r t Y 1 f-2 9 9 9 8 P f o t N E X T

640788898

188

1 IN12813814•138168178108198288

IF tr o 1 3 9 2 2 9 9 THE N S T O P108 f r f T O l e 9 1 RE AD •IF •.' 2 56 THEN 80 TO 118

PUKE f , aLET t6t . .4 0 -3 6 14 6 14 6 . NEKT

IF t c,4 1 THEN STOP

RANDOMIZE OMR 1 • 4DATA 5 8 . 2 8 6 . 1 1 7 . 1 8 . 1 7 9DATA 1 1 7 ,5 1 1 .1 9 1 0 1 7 .7 2 1DATA 1 3 , 2 8 1 . 9 2 , 2 3 7 , 9 1DATA 2 8 4 . 1 1 7 . 2 2 . 1 . 4 2DATA 2 5 5 . 5 5 . 2 8 5 , 8 0 , 5DATA 40 . 2 38 . 4 2.2 4 5 .1 1 7

DATA V 1 . 9 3 . 1 4 . 7 5 . / 2DATA 1 . 1 3 . 1 1 . 9 . 1 7

11

211122823824825826827e20119eNeeI l e326M181401511140318SO8390ASOA le428418

DATA O . 7 0 . 1 . 26.8

DATA 7 3 7 . 1 7 4 . 2 1 5 . 54,3 2

DATA 3 5 . 5 4 , 2 1 7 . 3 5 .5 4DATA 2 1 8 1 . 3 3 . 7 8 ' 2 8 2 ,2 3 7DATA 7 5 , 7 5 , 9 7 . 2 8 5 . 8DATA 1 0 , 4 2 . 7 5 .92 ,1

DATA 1 7 5 0 1 . 9 . 5 4 . 78 1DATA 1 4 , 5 5 , 2 3 7 . 66.1 7

DATA 1 3 2 0 1 / . 2 1 3 , 21 3.3 3

DATA 1 7 1 . 1 1 7 . 2 1 3 07.1 7 5

DATA 7 5 5 . 1 0 1 0 . 8 .2 1 3DATA 2 3 7 , 1 7 4 . 2 09.3 3 , 1 0

DATA 2 5 1 , 5 4 . 2 8 5 ,3 501 5

DATA 3 5 0 1 4 . 2 8 9 . 4 9 . 8DATA 8 . 1 9 5 . 0 . 2 51 50DATA 4 4 . 5 4 . 8 2 , 5 6 . 1 7DATA 1 4 , 1 2 . 2 4 , 2 4 5 . 2 2 1DATA 1 2 4 , 2 5 4 . 7 5 5 . 4 8 .1eDATA 5 6 4 1 . 9 1 . 2 5 4 . 3 1DATA 4 8 , 1 , 2 2 1 , 1 1 7 . 0DATA 2 4 1 . 2 8 1 . 17, 8 .9 1

DATA 3 3 4 3 1 , 2 5 5 ,1,3 8

DATA 8 . 8 3 7 . 1 1 6 . 1 9 5 . 8 . 9 1

THUNDERBIRDS

IVO21821872e750240258266270288291388

t ; = P CICE 3 8 1 6 2 ,2 1 0 a h i m N o ...e toht 1 . 4 1 t

114 P E A S 311165 .23e . R E s I n l I n .to L tv o s

116 P O K E 3 8 1 4 0 .2 3 8 1 RE M 11.4.4.1t o f o o l

448 R E M THLITAIL611R05 ha c h b y Jon N o r th

450 D A T A 9 0 . 1 1 4 , 6 5 . 1 7 5 . 5 8 , 10 . 5 8 .41 . 1 1 .5 11.2 1 5.8 , 2 01 0 4 1

SPEEDLOCK 4They say that you can't tie agood hacker down, and I havea feeling that even if youmanacled Jon North andGraham Mason to the floor.blindfolded and gagged them,theyd still find a way to crackthe latest Speedlock system.And seventy nine decrypterslater. they've done it! Bolt onthe appropriate data as line520 of the master program.

5 R E M S poodlok 6 4 b y J . .th A nd Or sham 144e0n

10 C LE A R t L E T t • O=SI F D A 1 . 2 3 2 9 6 TO 2 3 4 S Tl e R E A D • 1 P I K E 1 , 448 L E T t 4 t • 4T - 23200) • A;

58616711BO90

110 I F t< > 4 . THE N S T O PI l e P R T N / - T y p o CONTINUE.'1714 S T O P A L / 0 USA 2 5 244 4I l e D A T A 7 7 1 . 4 2 0 9 2 .91 ,2 3 7

140 D A T A 9 1 , 1 9 4 . 9 1 , 6 2 . 21 5158 D A T A .5 5 , 0 0 , 86 . 5 ,4 8

168 D A T A 2 4 4 1 ,2 4 1 ,3 3 ,2 01 . 9 1I l e D A T A i T. 1114,09. . 3180 D A T A 8 , 2 3 7 . 1 7 6 . 2 37.1 5

DATA 1 9 7 , 4 1 . 1 4 . 0 , 2 37DATA 4 7 . 1 0 9 . 7 6 . 2 37.7 5

DATA 1 9 8 . 9 1 . 7 5 3 , 4 2 . 196DATA 9 1 , 1 4 . 1 . 2 3 7 . 67DATA 1 1 1 , 7 6 . 7 5 3 .7 8.0

DATA 6 . 8 , 4 2 . 1 0 6 0 3 9DATA 3 4 . 1 1 3 . 89.9.9 4

DATA 5 4 . 0 4 . 1 5 , 8 6 , 14DATA 9 1 . 2 3 7 . 0 3 . 1 0 6 .0 9DATA 4 2 ,1 1 1 0 4 4 ,5 1 1 0 8 0DATA 149,757 P 9 . 2 3 3 , 2 57MIER 9 5 , 2 1 4 , 3 . 2 5 4 . 7 5 e

IF 1 1, - ,2 2 68 5 40 THEN STOP

FOR 1 4 4 T O 1 e 9 1 RE AD •IF 4 , 2 5 5 THE N U S T O IOWPOKE 4 . 4LET t• to s 4 - 2 3 4 7 8 s 4 6 . NE111

40

CHIMERA11= P OY E 3 0 1 6 5 .7 1 e s R E S t n f t n a

t o to444114 P 0 . 1 1 8 1 6 8 .2 3 8.s R E M I n f I n t

t o f o o d116 P I K E 1 8 1 7 1 . 2 3 7, P U K E 1 8 1 7 5

.239s R LM I A 4 , fl , t l 4 4 t o r448 R E M CHIMERA hoc & b y

v t h450 D A T A 9 9 . 1 1 5 . 6 1 . 1 7 5 , 5 3 . 0 .1 1.

5 8 , 2 3 8 . 1 . 1 4 0 2 . 0 . 5 8 , 24 1.0.3 4.1 5 6

.8 ,7 0 1 .1 4 2 2 3 0 8,

YETIRight I'll give you threeguesses as to who's hackedthis game. Jon North, JonNorth, or Jon North? Correct.John North! How did youguess? Twas a stab in the darkI suppose.

REM Y r i t t M O O, 4 1, J o nCLEAA 2 4 5 7 5 s DORDLA•LET t4 e o LOA D ' C O D E AFOR 4 . 6 5 1 1 7 T O 6 5484

WA D a . P OCE • .4 1LE I t • t • TT - 65377 /001_

l l e D A T A 5 6 . 2 . 2 1 4 . 1 2 8 . 5 e170 D A T A 1 0 0 , 8 9 . 2 5 3 . 3 5 , 23 1338 D A T A T 5 , . 7 4 , 1 9 A348 D A T A 2 3 7 , 7 5 0 09.7 6,1 6

350 D A T A 1 7 9 . 5 0 . 2 9 0 ,0 1.7 1

360 D A T A 3 1 , 2 4 0 6 . 3401 5

370 D A T A 9 1 . 2 4 0 7 5 0 3 . 1 4 53811 D A T A 9 1 . 3 4.. 2 3 8 . 2 5 4 . 175

390 D A T A 5 1 1 .1 8 3 .2 5 1 .1 9 5 .1 26448 D A T A 2 5 1 . 1 . 9 6 . 54.6 2

ATO D A T A 5 4 1 , 1 7 . 1 4 . 1 . 24428 D A T A 2 0 5 . 6 4 , 2 5 4 . 3 3 . 1 8 1A le D A T A 9 1 . 3 4 . 6 5 . 7 5 4 . 17U r D A T A 1 7 0 , 9 1 4 3-3 4 1 6 , 2 54

458 D A T A 1 , 1 1 . 8 . 3 4 . 2 3 2480 D A T A 2 5 5 a 1 5 , 7 3 7 076 , 21 1 1

478 D A T A 7 7 9 . 3 3 . 0 . 7 2 . 3 4408 D A T A 1 0 8 . 2 5 5 , 7 2 5 . 19 5.4 2

49e D A T A 2 5 4 , 4 2 . 2 0 4 . 4 1 , 14500 D A T A 2 2 6 , 5 5 • 5 4 . 9 1 .1 9 1510 D A T A 0 . 7 2

ARKANOID II528 R E M I n fi n s t o e a t , b y J on A

o r th• 5 3 8 D A T A 1 0 1 , 7 4 1 . 1 2 4 . 1 3 . 71 1.9 1

d i r t l1 1 T9 . .1 .4 2.2 8.9 1.1 75

D A M 7 0 4 6 0 9 5 . 1 . 1 29.

I I IS 1 ,7 5 .2 6 1 5 . 4 3 , 4 3 , 3 1 . 4 3 0 1,23.1

FIREFLY

Jo•, No

REM i n fl n i t o L i v o s b y J o nth

DATA 2 6 1 . 2 4 4 1 , 2 4 9 0 3 . 2 1 3 .91

. 2 0 1 0 . 2 4 1 . 2 6 0 8 . 9 1 . 1 7 5DATA 5 8 0 4 4 , 1 7 1 . 1 9 5 . 8 . 2 1 5 .

•4714.43, 31 0 4 47 9 4 4 E 4 $ 5 • 3 1 443 4 29

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TARGET RENEGADE571 R E M i n i t R i t e l i v o s b y J o n

IN•mrtnt5 3 8 D A T A 2 3 3 , 2 4 8 . 8 0 4 . 2 2 1 .9 1.6

. 1 1 0 . 1 3 . 2 4 1 , 1 1 , 1 8 8 .9 7,3 3,3 5

).5441 DATA 34.34,157.246.33.53.2

4 9 .1 4 .1 5 4 , 2 4 6 .1 9 5 .1 2 0 .1 5 8 .3 1sna D A T A 1 5 . 4 3 . 5 1 . 3 1 , 2 9 . 4 3 , 1 5 ,

t,2 9 .4 3 .2 1 1 .7 9 .7 1 5 9 8 3 6

69 11 t- - .3 21 15 THEN s/sp

TO P U C E 6 5 5 9 8 .1 0 7 1 R E S gMEIREL a L i w o .

Oe P U C E 4 5 3 9 3 ,2 1 9 1 RE M I n fi n .to to m p o r a tu r •

98 P U K E 6 5 1 9 8 .1 0 0 c RE M I n t i n toronArlos

108 P O L L 6 5 4 1 1 0 9 1 1 A E R .n414.11t o O W .

118 P U C E 4 5 0 9 2 . 2 4RANDOMIZE US R 6 5 e 8 6

3e D A T A 1 7 5 .5 5 .2 2 ,1 1 .5 048 D A T A 9 6 . 8 . 4 2 . 24.5 0

1511 D A T A 1 8 1 . O . 5 0 0 6 4 , 0168 D A T A 1 9 5 . 2 5 2 0 0 3

SPEEDLOCK THESEQUELWos dis? Am I seeing double?Haven't I just done this one?Nope, the program — again bythe omnipresent Jon North —is for the even juicerSpeedlock 3 system. Use it inthe same way as the otherone.

5 RE M 91PDL.1, 3 b y J O N N O RT H1 1 8 CLE AR 4 5 8 3 . L E T 0 . 8

7 0 FOP 4 . 3 4 4 T O 3 0 1 3 93e RE AD 4 1 P OK E 4 . 440 L E T t 4 t 4 1 4 - 2 9 9 9 8 ) 4 6 . N E A T 458 I F t< 7 1 1 7 7 5 4 0 TH E N P R IN T .Em o n I N 8 1 0 • I T ' t S TOPbe FOR 4 . . 4 1 0 1 0 9 . R E A D •78 I F 4 0 2 5 5 TH E N 6 0 T O 1 0 008 POKE 4 098 LET t - t .( 4 - 3 8 1 3 1 n .a . NEAT 4

IWO I F t < 1 4 THE N P H TNT "E ) IA SMALL B I T ' . S TOP

I l e LOAD " C O D E • R U N US A 3 0 4128 DATA 4 2 . 1 0 8 . 1 1 7 . 2 21.3 3

136 DATA 1 6 2 . 1 1 1 , 6 . 6 . 19 7148 DATA 2 2 1 , 7 6 . 1 1 , 2 21.3 5

150 DATA 6 , 8 . 1 9 7 . 2 29, 17

166 DATA 2 8 , 1 1 6 , 2 37. 17 4.3 3

l i e DATA 4 9 . 1 1 6 . 1 2 6 , 2 54. 24 9

IS O DATA 3 2 . 2 . 5 4 . 8 . 3 3190 DATA 3 6 . 1 1 6 . 1 2 6 ' 2 54, 24 9

28M DATA 3 2 . 2 , 5 4 , 0 , 2 3 5218 DATA 5 4 , 2 0 1 , 2 0 5 . 2 8 . 1 1622e DATA 2 2 5 . 1 9 3 . 9 . 1 9 3 ,1 62 3 8 DATA 2 0 9 . 4 2 . 1 88.1 1 7.1

2 4 8 DATA 1 1 2 . 1 1 • 9 . 1 0,00

258 DATA 0 , 4 2 . 2 4 3 . 2 37, 17 7

268 DATA 4 3 . 1 , 8 . 4 . 2 372 7 8 DATA 6 6 , 1 7 , 1 6 9 , 2 5 6 .12 0 6 DATA • . 6 . 2 3 7 . 1 7 6 . 3 3208 DATA 1 5 8 . 1 1 7 . 3 4 , 1 9 5 . 2 54188 D A TA . 1 9 5 . 1 6 9 . 2 5 4 , 1 . 9 6

GRYZOR

PSYCHO SOLDIER

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SOW REM Gr y z o0 H A M4 1 8 DATA 6 0 , 2 2 2 . 6 2 . 6 4 . 5 0 04.9 1

420 DATA 3 3 . 2 3 6 , 2 5 4 0 7 . 8 .6 4.1

438 DATA 2 0 0 1 . 2 3 7 , 1 1 6 , 1 9 5 ,0,7 2

4 4 0 DATA 1 1 , 9 . 6 4 , 3 4 . 2 4 . 2 54. 19 5

456 DATA 0 . 2 5 4 . 1 7 5 , 5 0 . 1 8 3 .1 1 64 6 8 DATA 1 9 5 , 4 8 . 1 2 B . 1 1 80 1 5 4 8

4 8 8 RE M PSYCHO S OLD IE R h a c bi t e DATA 2 4 1 , 2 2 3 . 1 7 5 .5 8.1 8 3.1 5 9 ,

5 0 , 1 9 7 . 1 5 6 . 1 9 5 , 8 1 . 7 2 . 1 8 9 0 0 8 2

Dyturmom MISSIONYep, another budgie bites thedust. This month itMastertronic's DynatronMission that falls under mymighty hand (puff. puff, swell,swell!) Just MERGE the loaderand POKE 41462,0 before theRANDOMIZE USA statementand you'll have int), lives.

THINGIIKARI WARRIORSAnthony Johnson is up 'n'coming in the race forabundancy in this column. Hisletter contained no less thanfive routines! Unfortunately I'veonly managed to squeeze intwo of his fruitcakes this month— not that you're complaining.

10 R A M TH IN O 1.4c6 b y A nthonyJohnson

20 C LE A N 1 2 7 4 5 1 LOAD —C D T % A5600VS P OS E 4 1 1 8 0 . 1 4 4 , PUKE 451892

,2148 RA NDOS S Z( UNA & WOO. P Ow l

4531a • l e e58 I C A 4 . 6 5 1 8 4 i n 4 5 3 9 3 . RE AD

b. P OKE 4 . 0 . NE AT 4se D A T A 1 7 5 . 5 0 . 7 1 1 , 1 17.1 0.8 5.

1 5 4 0 9 5 4 . 1 5 080 RANDOM IZE US A 6 5 5 2 4_

18 R E M I 1 4 0 1 O R S 7 ,4 . 4 b yA ntony J ohns on28 M E A f t 6 3 9 7 7 . LOAD -c o o t38 P U C E 6 5 2 2 6 . 2 5 848 F O P 4 0 4 4 4 0 8 TO 6 4 8 1 5 . RE AD

br POKE, • .1 1 . NE AT 458 R A N OC A IZE US A 6 4 1 7 168 D A T A 6 2 . 5 8 . 5 0 . 1 2 7 . 1 4 4 . 5 8 0

6 5 . 1 4 7 , 4 4 7 , 5 1 1 • 5 4 1 , 6 , 14 7.1 9 5.1.4 1

CRASH PREVENTORRoll up! Roll up! Come an' getyer 'ack workin 'ere! Justfollow these simple stepsIf the pole is a basic listing1) Type in the hack programand double check that data;2) Save it onto tape for lateruse;3) Rewind your game tape tothe start:4) Run the hack program:5) Play the rewound gametape;6) Give those aliens one fromme. okay?It the poke is a MuItilace job:1) Load the game — veryimportant;2) Press the red button;3) Press T then SPACE;4) Enter the address;5) Enter the value for thataddress:6) Press ENTER;7) Press Cl then R.

SCROLLINGCREDITSOh you poor things! Sent inyour hacks too late?Aaahhhhhh_ Well at least yougot your names in the magJohn Weldon (no, mediumrare please), Tom Ireland, TheTeam, K. Wenn (now' now!), P.Cadman, Rutger Geeling,Anthony Wright, Lee Goble,S. Toop (to an all time low),Mark Kitson, Robert Morris.Jonathan Dobson, RichardKaIton, C. Shepard, S.Rennett, and Neil Hopkinson.And I didn't make a single oneof them up!

That's it my freunds (andfreudins), until next month.Keep sending those hacks andMu!Mace POKEs in, All thoseprinted will receive a badgeand Hacker Of The Monthreceives a new game! Also, ifyou've any ideas for thecolumn then let me know bywriting to, David McCandless,Practical POKEs, VS. 14Rathbone Place, London, W1PIDE. See you all at the PCW!Byeeeeeee!

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• To go with the tips for eachlevel we got last month, here's asuper map of the fire-breathingRussian classic, Kamov drawnby wacky Paul Wilde He says'Some of these maps display

the whole levet, and somedescribe the best route.' Fanx.Paul, and even you shouldwatch Out for the super dupercheat for Kamov next month It'samaz-a-vitchl

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• So that's it. Parting is suchSweet sorrow, so just bog ottand let's have no snivelling backthere, Snf snf!Send your tips to Snouty.VS Tipshop, 14 Rathbone Place.London W1P 1 DE. And don't

forget every oneprinted getsa speciallyminted

'I've Got BigTips' badge,

Alas, poorSnooty. Bye y'all_

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VIDEO VAULTirst of this months tips is

I FCIC 's North Shore (PG

awash with blond boys —which makes it a natch formel Seriously, surf gear

is in this summer even though theonly way to get a wave on theThames is it everyone in Londonflushes their toiletssimultaneously! So here's a chanceto see what the sport is reallyabout.

Set on the Oahu north shore ofHawaii, where you find the biggestswells it features some of theworld's top sutlers, which meansthat the performances aren'talways Olivier but the action isenough to have you hanging ten onthe edge ot the sola — and (hatswhat really counts. Surf down toyour local video store and hire thisone BanZel!

It you prefer to purchase thenseek out the latest Andersonreleases from FAR Channel 5 TheMineral series has now reachedvolume eight, which contains onehundred minutes of aquaticadventures (no sinters though), asTroy and the crew go into actionMy fave is Pink ice, in which theworld's oceans are covered in therose tinted shivery stuff. SoundsIdeal for pink oin drinkers to me!

The Thunderbirds tape featurestwo adventures. totalling 96minutes of clitt-edge suspense asthe wooden heads of InternationalRescue score a hit at the Edge 01Impact and make a note in theirdiaries of the Day Of Disaster Eachtape costs less than a crisp tenner,which can't be bad value

Puppets are one thing, but it youreally want to see stilt acting, hireWarner's Toogit Sop Doll Doom(18) It's not often you canrecommend a truly awful movie butthis one falls over its teet tosucceed The Script makes Dynastylook subtle and is full of classiclines like (after a tight). *Yourknife's in my dog' 'Yeah man, butit's nothing personal.'

I'd love to tell you the plot butI've watched this turkey twice and Istill can't make sense of it Sufficeto say it concerns a crazed VietnamVet who's a chief of polim anamnesiac with a headless corpse inthe cellar: and a rich boy who'sslumming it with drug dealersGenuinely the most hystericallyfunny vid of the moment!

o you like stories of thesupernatural?

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• a n d things that go BUMP(bet that scared you) ina. the night! Or do you find them all a

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• o f view!Nice young couple Adam and

1.1 Barbara have a problem They're

dead! Actually they have a whole• host of problems in the shape of a

• crowd at foul New Yorkers who buylog u p their beautiful country houseand turn it into a trendies' retreat

• But worst of all for our noviceghosts is that they're notexperienced enough to put on agood scary show

Which is why they call onBetelgeuse. a freelance bio-

• exorcist who guarantees to scare_ them out of the house! ButSO Betelgeuse is really Bad! He makes

Wacko Jacko look mildly naughty.111 Who else could watch The Exorcist

and think it was a comedy? All of• which leave Adam and Bans

wondering if the cure isn't worse• than the curse

But Betelgeuse isn't that easy todispose of and he wreaks havocwith hilarious — and tasteless —results You've seen possessionbefore — but have you ever seen itsvictims forced to sing cruddy fiftieshits at the dinner table while beinggrabbed by their king prawncocktails?

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1. V For Vendetta (DC) Alan Moore, Devi2. Marvel Comics Presents (Marvel)3. Excalibur (Marvel) Chris Claremont Alan Davis4. Marshal Law (Epic) Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill5. Nick Fury: Agent Of SHIELD (Marvel)6. Aliens (Dark Horse) Mark Verheiden, Mark A Nelson7. Black Kiss Vortex) Howard Chavkin8. Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel) Todd McFarlane9. X-Men (Marvel)10. Hulk (Marve() Peter David, Jett PurvesChart compiled es Chris Compior al Virgin Corti=based in the London of the near

future- It's a weird place, a bit like awartime Germany, with macabre'Resettlement Camps' and fascistsecret police. V is a strange ioker-mashed vigilante figure. who is goingaround London kiiling oltwrongdoers He's a sort ot GuyFawkes clone, and his tirst act is tofescue an amateur hooker, and blowup the Houses of Parliament! Thepolice are close behind him but he'sclever and always manages toescape. V For Vendetta is bentliant,and you'd better get hold of it, 'cosit's only running tor 10 episodesDon't worry too much it you miss it

-3-- all though. 'cos any bets they'll bring

t•Z; o u t a trade paperback of all of them• Gel it or regret it, suckers.

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• A iively chart this month. with AlanMoore's V For Vendetta smashingeverything else to tiny shreds, andquite right too Alan Moore has reallycarved a place for himself in cormhistory, hasn't he? Lardy. I recallwhen he was but a 2000A0 scribblerchurning out the pulpy pages. Still,not to knock the guy he's done aHELL of a lot for the promotion ofcomix as art, and that can only beapplauded. I really don't mind thetact that he's got a stack of luncheonvouchers THIS HIGH' Snitt_ V ForVendetta is another scary story

and as lorWhat is he ON? These stories aboutcrazed super-heroes ripping thegiblets out of each other really makeme laugh, but then I'm that kind ofguy (Hey. dude!) Another chattynotable. X-Men. is perking up a bitnose. having gotten over a veryrubbishy patch when they were'dead'. Chris Claremont must havegone on holiday and come backrefreshed, 'cos this is like a breath oftrash mutant air. Check 'em out, thrillseekersPtd South. Comix Ed

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Video Recorder. Plus there're 25 copies of Barbarianup for grabs for the runners up!

Whew! It's hot work being a

barbarian y'know. Runningaround, axe in hand, slashingand hacking at everymonstrous creature in sight.

(Even if i ll s o n l y P h il ! E d) And i t's not

much easier playing Palace Software'snew hack 'n' slash game, Barbarian 11either. Chasing around four levels insearch of the evil Drax and his guardianmonster, and fighting off every foulmonster you meet on the way, is just atrifle tiring. (But have a look at thelast ish to find out more).

What better way to unwind after ahard days barbary then, than to sitdown and watch your favourite videoon your own personal video player.What, you haven't got a video? Wellwe've got a mean looking, frontloading, button pushing, remote

How To WinAll you've got to do is design the meanest, ugliest, most gruesome. ghastlylooking monster you can imagine. (Monsters looking even vaguely like ouresteemed editoress will not be eligible!) It can be as evil looking as you like. Justmake sure it fits onto a plain A4 sheet of paper and has your name, age andaddress written clearly on the back. Oh and your pic can be full colour or blackand white just as long as it's clear. All your gruesome graphics will then bejudged by Palace's own graphics guy, Steve Brown, who'll be looking fororiginality and creativity. What's more the winner won't only get a fabulous videorecorder but his/her hideous creature will star in Barbarian ill. Blimey! So whatare you waiting for? Get drawing blood!

So get scribbling monster makers, and when you've finished, fill in the couponwith your name and address and send your entries to the I Know I Look Like AHorrifyingly Hideous Barbaric Monster But Inside I'm Just A Cutie Really Compo,Your Sinclair, 14 Rathbone Place, London, W1 P IDE.

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controlled Tashiko video player andrecorder to be won in this monstrouscompo of ours. As well as 25gruesome copies of Barbarian ii for therunners up. Wanna know how to win?Read on then, monster mush.

Rules• Ogres 'n barbarians employed byDennis Publishing and PalaceSoftware may not enter this compounless they want their heads hackedoft• Make sure you get your entries inby September 30th as all late entrieswill be monster mashed.• There'll be no arguing with thegreat She Devil herself. cos herdecision is final, no messing!

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Come on down!The Pryce is right!

(Groan — Ed)Once again Nat Pryce

singlehandedlyguides us through

the treacherous worldof the budget

game.

actually was.Battleships is a computerised version of

that old pencil and paper grfne with addedfeatures animated battle ()times. sound Desalvo fire, (where you can fire four shots perremaining ship). and different ship shapes(but similar Bristol fashions). Sounds okay?Well, it certainly would be, me hearties, butfor the rather gormless computer player. Itsstrategies are dim-wined and it missesobvious targets all the time. The game isbetter with two players (isn't everything?) butaren't pencils and paper a lot cheaper?

TANIUMPla y e rs i t 1.99The enemy (aliens as usual. I s'pose) havecaptured Tanium, the second moststrategically important planet this side of the'Sanvolgrani Rift' You must fly your 'Queried'class stealth lighter over the planetdestroying as many enemy ships aspossible. Now that's what I cati a goodmission — nice and Simple.

As sideways 9 u-r o l l e r s g o , T a n i um i s r a th e r

bland. 'Sticky- c o n t r ol s a nd s lo w m ov em en t

Spoil the flow of what should b oa f a s t a n dfrantic blaster and the add-on weaponsseem to have no effect and aren't explainedanywhere in the instructions. My verdict?Not very playable or addictive and notparticularly good value, even at this lowprice.

BATTLESHIPSEncore/C1.99A game with a strange history this. It wasalmost released some time ago and a lot ofpeople thought it was extremely good, buteventually it was given the big E 'cos onemag thought it wasn't up to scratch, So I wasquite intrigued to find out how good it

METAL ARMYPlayers/e1-99Yet another gang of inter-galactic mastercriminals has planted a bomb in a nuclearpower station: this time the criminals areGeneral Ironside and his Metal Army and thepower station is in Slough, An attempt atbeing witty there. I think, I suppose they'rehalt-way there!

Anyway, what it all boils down to is a pretty• big (from what I've been able to explore),very hard platform/maze/shoot 'em up in thebest budget tradition. Though there arescores of games like this around, very few doit better than Metal Army (Koo-erl eh?). This

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will keep you occupied tor quite some time,so you won't have to resort to looking forsmutty double entendres in YS reviews for awhile.

OCTANThe last demon of Octan, an brrible placethat's even grottier than Bristol ParkwayStation, is giving you a lot of trouble, soyou've decided to teach him a lesson hewon't forget in a hurry using, as usual(yawn), a huge ship armed to the teeth, orjet intakes rather, with lasers, missiles,shields, mike tualbi grid shock waves_

You've probably guessed by now thatOctan is yet another vertically scrollingmonochrome blaster, of the build-up-your-weaponry sort. Surprisingly enough (itsurprised me anyway) Octan is great fun.The scrolling, graphics, sound, kiddy FX(very important, those) playabllity andaddictiveness are all top notch and thegame is very difficult, and tantalisinglyfrustrating at the same time. It's great fun,and if it was just a teensy bit (a lot actually)more original it would certainly get aneight. As it is, I think it deserves a large,spiky seven.

OVERKILLAtlantis/IC*199Two days ago the Treaty of Ouanton wassigned (not really, this is the plot, numbskull)and all land based nukes were dismantledNow the dreaded moon citadels are beingshut down: but, and there's always a but inthese games, the most powerful citadel.Galileo, decided that it didn't want to be shutdown. Instead it activated its auto-defencesystem. Only you can shut clown Galileo andsave the galaxy intelligent life, civilisation aswe know it and Wimpy restaurants, It's all inyour hands_

As usual the game is as nal/ as the plot:you control a little seawalls:with a bighelmet and must bounce him around fiveflick-screen levels, bumping into teleportbubbles (!) and destroying Nuclear Towers,while avoiding the deadly UDG aliens andcollecting the flashing-square-thingiesThere just isn't enough action to make thegame in any way gripping, and interestwanes after about five minutes play,

SWORD SLAYERPlayers/E1.99You play Spar tacus The Sword Stayer in thisepic tale of death and honour. (whichactually looks like a cut pnce Barbarian) andthus find yourself rampaging through thestreets killing anyone ehe stands in yourway (very honourable, I'm sure), As usual inthis kind of game, you start on one side ofthe screen, waddle forward to meet youropponent who starts on the other side of thescreen, and hack him to death, without dyingyourself, of course.

If games of this kind are well done, theycan be very addictive (look at Barbarian forinstance) but unfortunately games of that

calibre are rare (even though they're welldone, if you get my meaning). Sword Slayerisn't one of them games 'cos it's simply notvery good. It's presented very nicely. but thedifficulty is virtually non-existent for a goodpart of the game until suddenly you keepdying, and must work your way through thefirst five or so opponents until you can tryagain — most annoying.

I can't think of many games of this typewhich are actually better than Sword Slayerbut then that's hardly saying much is it?

ON THE BENCHCu11/C1.99There have been soccer managementgames around ever since the Speccy wasjust a flicker in Uncle Clive's feveredimagination, and they've all sold squillions ofcopies ever since. Now Cult has brought outOn The Bench in the hope that people willnot be put off by the dire title and actuallybuy the game.

On The Bench is absolutely packed withfeatures — crowd violence, peke bills, teaprofit, weeks out — the list takes up almostthe whole cassette inlay, to the detriment ofany useful instruetions unfortunately. In factthe list is so long it's almost impossible todecipher the vast quantities of numbers andstatistics which flood out all over the screen.

I must admit that I'm not a great expert onfootle management games th i s is the firstI've ever played seriously — so I can'tcompare On The Bench with any others onthe market, but I can say that I enjoyedplaying it quite a lot. If you've already got asimilar game then try before you buy (yuk,wot a cliché) otherwise OTB is a good gameof this type at budget price so why not give ita go?

AIR WOLFEncoreiti.99Lordy be! I remember when this first cameout. At the time there was a bit of a fuss 'cosone magazine gave it a smashing reviewwhile virtually everyone else thought it waspretty nett Air wolf isn't actually all that badthough.

You must pilot the famous billion-dollarhelicopter into the cavernous base of someterrorist organisati011 NW airlift kidnappedscientists to safety avoiding seif buildingwalls, death rays. cannons and otherassorted hazards, without crashing into thewalls or smashing your rotor blades topieces on the root

The whole game isn't particularly largebut, boy, is it tough. At budget price thiscertainly isn't a bad purchase, but there arebetter games around

EUROPEAN FIVE-A-SIDE FOOTBALLS i l v e r b i r d / C1.9 9

Twenty-one nil! Now that's what I call a goodresult; a score even Stefan Edberg would beproud of, if, of course. he didn't play tennis.And purely by coincidence, twenty-one nil isone of my best scores in F i v e-A-S i d e F o o t y

Not bad, eh?To get back from all that self indulgent

boasting and into the review FASF(as I'll callit from now on), is the latest game-et* fromthe frantic fingers of Timothy Gloss, author ofthose slices 01 software succulence, I Balland I Ball IL It is a vertically scrolling,monochrome k i c k-a r o u n d , v i e w e d f r o m

above and packed with Class usual niftygraphics, blumy tunes and, of course,speech — voices rasp out 'Goal G000al' and'Go For It' during both the title tune and thegame.

KEMSHUCult/ C1.99Kemshu gave me a few problems at first:how could I start the review when there wasno plot or even decent instructions to quote!make fun of!? Well. I've decided not to doany quoting but just to.., explain the game!(Cripes. I sound like an early-evening game-show host).

You start off with a screen full of differentlycoloured tiles which you must surround withsquares of a target colour. This is achievedby 'sliding' the columns and rows of tiles untilan incorrectly coloured square is surroundedby squares of the target colour. This thenturns into a correctly coloured square with asort of 'crunch' noise. Turn the whole screeninto the target colour within a time limit andyou win: run out of time and you lose. Asimple idea, but then simple ideas areusually the most successful: look at SplitPersonalities and Think.

Kemshu would be a very addictive gamebut unfortunately it's too easy: I managed toboat it (yes. again!) on about my tenth gameand on a black and white TV too!

If you have a very small numbei of braincells this could be the game for you butpeople with as many as me (four) may find ita bit of a walkover.

STUNT BIKESIMULATORSilverbirdit 1.99You are Chad Adams, ace stuntman. But toprove your excellence you must undertakefive gruelling tPsts of skill and courage firstleap onto your bike frlm a swooping hang-glider, then bunny- h c p o v e r o b l I k ni g l o gs , l ea p

through blazing hoops of fire, dive up onto amoving truck and finally iump fror your bikeonto a low flying chopper (oo-e r ) . C o l tSeevers eat your heart outl

If only the game was as stirring as themacho plot, but unfortunately it's a bit limp

All this would be hunky dory if it wasn't forthe difficulty factor, or rather lack of one (touse an ancient reviewer's cliche). I'm sureyou thought my phenomenal score wassimply due to my natural talent and highgames playing skill: but it isn't! No, in factFASF is ludicrously easy. So easy that. afterabout three goes, you'll become completelybored with the game and may have to resortto Neighbours instead. You have beenwarned....

on the playability and addictiveness stakes.It isn't helped by incorrect instructions anddodgy collision detection either. Now. sorry,I can't recommend this.

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NinjaA * •(MastertroniclOctober 1987) Classic beat 'em-up budget game.

To kick off with, here's some hints to getyou through the game...

1It's always best to walk right, as thekeyboard controls are easier to use and theshurikens are easier to throw when walkingthis way.

2Try to hit the Thugs with body punches, asthis is the only punch the Thug will useagainst you.

3Ninja are best confused by taking a flyingkick, so they don't know which ones to useagainst you. Watch out for the sword,though! Never throw things at them - theythrow them back!

4Karetekas are near enough impoSsible tobeat on later levels, but try flying kicks andon the earlier screens use a body kick.

Ninja Hamster

(CRLIfamiary 1987) Ribble little beat 'em upwhich introduced humour to the over-serioussubfect of Nina.

Sinister RatIf you can't beat this guy, then you'reobviously a cretin and you may as well giveup! Just use him as a warm-up for all yourmoves.

Lizard of DeathStill fairly easy. Use a mixture of flyingkicks and mid kicks.

Mean MonkeyTo kill this baddy, use flying kicks to softenhim up, then close in and use mid kicks.

Barmy BeeThis guy is tough! Avoid his flying kicks orcounter with your own. Use foot sweeps atmedium range, or use high kicks when inreally close.

Crazy CatUse lots of mid kicks and a few flying kicks.He'll drain lots of your energy if his clawstouch you!

Peribus ParrotDon't just use foot sweeps, 'cos he'll just liedown and peck you to death. Use midkicks and flying kicks.

Mad DogThis football player is easier to beat thanmost. Just keep using foot sweeps.

Loony LobsterThe ultimate baddyl Use foot sweeps only

but praying might help. I guess!

Ninja Scooter

(FirebirdlApril 1988) Below average game inthe Motocross mould,

Take some infinite time here, care of theBeepload Multipoke (see part 6).

10 LET T=020 FOR F=32768 TO 3287630 READ A: POKE EA40 LET T=T+(F-32758)*A: NEXT F50 IF T-679460 THEN STOP60 FOR F=32877 To 1E9; READ A70 IF A>256 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE EA90 LET T=T-i-IF-32867rA: NEXT F100 IF T-A THEN STOP110 LOAD — CODE: RUN USR 32830120 DATA 50,21,255,122,254130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50140 DATA 84,205,33,21,255150 DATA 34,85,205,62,195160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32170 DATA 128,34,59,0,195180 DATA 0,0,50,107,92190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0200 DATA 0,1,0,0,237210 DATA 176,195,61,0,128220 DATA 223,181,209,177,144230 DATA 141,139,151,206,198240 DATA 199,200,237,123,112250 DATA 128,62,205,50,84260 DATA 205,33,0,128,34270 DATA 85205,33,109,1281280 DATA 126-50,22,128,50290 DATA 28,128,50,31,128300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48310 DATA 128,15,126,50,42320 DATA 128,35,126„10,39330 DATA 128,195,0,205340 DATA91,13,174,41,156,175,50,72,176,62,201,50,40,179,195,0,168,713428

Nodes Of YesodE(Odin/September 1984) Arcade adventure withvery cute graphics - 1 simply lurve the Moon-mole!

"I'S keep out!" was the message in the basic-so how could we resist it! Here's a hack forinfinite lives...

10 LET 5=30000: LET N=21: GO SUB 20RANDOMIZE USR 3000015 LET S63218: LET N=7: GO SUB 20:RANDOMIZE USR 6320120 FOR X=S TO R E A D V; POKE X,Y;NEXT X: RETURN30 DATA17,17,0,175,205,60,117,17,250,2,62,255,221,3340 DATA188,244,55205,86,5,201,175,50,149,127,195,0,226

NosferattaE h. ih i t(Design Design/November 1986)3 Dwalkabout game where you have to kill thefamous vampire.

Line 150 gives infinite time, line 160 givesno sprites or objects and line 170 stops thenasties moving. You can delete the datalines 150-170 if you don't want the option.

lo LET t-0 : F OR 1 - .3 e4 TO 30016

20 READ a: POKE 1,a30 LET t=t4-0-29990)'•a: NEXT40 READ a: IF t<>a THEN STOP50 DATA 205,86,5,221,3360 DATA 215,253,17,189,070 DATA 62,255,55,205,8680 DATA 5,201,3729090 RANDOMIZE USR 3e4100 POKE 65137,255: LET t=0110 FOR 1=65280 TO 1e9: READ a120 IF a=999 THEN RANDOMIZE USR65024130 POKE 1,a: NEXT140 DATA 175150 DATA 50,243,126160 DATA 50,196,132170 DATA 62,201,50,111,155180 DATA 195,0,118,999

Multiface Pokes32499,039791201

TimeNo nasties

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OblivionAE1 It i(Alpha Omega/June 1985) Below averageshoot-em-up with very silly graphics.

When playing press 1 2 ZX CVsimultaneously to go to the next level

On The RunA, e i

(Design Design/August 1985) Massive arcade-adventure with fantastic graphics but notmuch in the limy of game-play. A bit of ashanw, really.

Play the tape from the start. Line 150 givesinfinite energy, line 160 gives infinite timeand line 170 gets rid of enemy sprites. Theycan be deleted, but the rest of the programmust stay intact.

10 LET t=0: FOR l=3e4 TO 3001620 READ a: POKE La30 LET t=t+If-29990ra: NEXT f40 READ a: IF t<>a THEN STOP50 RANDOMIZE USR 3e460 DATA 205,865,221,3370 DATA 216,231,17,0,180 DATA 62,255,55,205,8690 DATA 5,201,33570100 POKE 59504,230: POKE 59505,255120 FOR 1=65510 TO 1e9: READ a130 IF a:=999 THEN RANDOMIZE USR59392140 POKE la: NEXT150 DATA 62,201,50,114,152160 DATA 62,182,50,149,170170 DATA 62 , 2 0 1 ,5 0 , 1 1 6, 1 4 1

180 DATA 195,0,126,999

Orb ix The TerrorballI l i P

(StreeturizelSeptember 1986) 3D bounce-on-upbut no-one could work out how to play it!

Don't re-number this program because it isgoing to be MERGEd, When the game has

loaded, press any key, then type POKE32188,0 for infinite lives, thenRANDOMIZE USR 36560 to start the game.

2 CLEAR 65520: MERGE4 FOR 1=65523 TO 655356 POKE 1, PEEK I1-41760/8 NEXT f: POKE 65529,19110 RANDOMIZE USR 65523

Multiface Pokes

32127,032188,0

10 CLEAR 65535: LET t.ls20 FOR 1=65410 TO 6543630 READ a; POKE f,a40 LET tt-i-II-65400•a: NEXT50 IF t<>72159 THEN STOP60 MERGE ''": RUN USR 645I070 DATA 205)36,5,221,3380 DATA 0,64,17,120,19190 DATA 62,255,55,33,150100 DATA 255,229,195,86,5110 DATA 175,50,70,113,195120 DATA 64,131

1Infinite lives

Oriental HeroA * am(Firebirdlluly 1987) Amazingly fast beat-em-up which was too fast for just about everyone.Totally unplayable.

Infinite fives, play tape from the start

Out Run• A a l •(US Gold/September 1987)Coin-op conversionof the cult racing game. Unfortunately not apatch on the original (but hardly surprising,really)

Use the gears to slow you down as thespeed drops down from 280km/h to189km/h straight away. This is useful oncorners and when approaching other

vehicles, As you pass other cars, change upagain and acclerate away, From the start,head for the lefthand checkpoints, as theseseem to be the easiest tracks.

The Speedlock III hacker comes into playwith this handy Poke for infinite time.

10 CLEAR 45e3: LET 1.=020 FOR I=3e4 TO 3013930 READ a: POKE La40 LET t=t+If-29990ra: NEXT50 IF t<>1077568 THEN STOP60 FOR f=f TO le9: READ a70 IF J>255 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE La90 LET t=t+If-301301*-a• N E X T100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 LOAD ""CODE: RUN USR 3e4120 DATA 42,188,117,221,33130 DATA 182,117,6,6,197140 DATA 221,78,0,221,35150 DATA 6,0,197,229,17160 DATA 2 0,1 1 6 , 2 3 7 ,1 7 6 , 3 3

170 DATA 49,116,126,254,249180 DATA 32,2,54,0,33190 DATA 36,116,126,254,249200 DATA 32,2,54,0,235210 DATA 54,201,205,20,116220 DATA 225,193,9,193,16230 DATA 209,42,188,117,1240 DATA 112,11,9,1,100250 DATA 0,62,243,237,177260 DATA 43,1,0,4,237270 DATA 66,17,169250,1280 DATA 0,6,237,176,33290 DATA 15 0 , 1 1 7,3 4 , 1 9 5, 2 5 4

300 DATA 195,169,254,1,96310 DATA 54,82,50,17,14320 DATA 12,24,205,28,254330 DATA 33,38,255,1,100340 DATA 0,62,217,237,177350 DATA 54,72,54,72,43360 DATA 54,0,33,190,177370 DATA 17,217,254,1,40380 DATA 0,237,176,201,17390 DATA 3 6,5 7 , 1 4 , 2 5, 2 3

400 DATA 19,223,33,175,158,53,195,0,72,1090305

Panzadrome• ia m(Ariolasoft/lanuary 1986) View-from-the-toptank maze game.

Fill up your tank with this hackingprogram. Type it in and run it, if all goeswell you should get the 'Start tape andpress any key' message. At this point, put ablank cassette in the tape recorder and Saveoff the code. Reset your Speccy and type in:CLEAR 24599: LOAD "PANZ-C" CODE24000: RANDOMIZE USR 24000. Nowplay the piece of code that you've justSaved, and when that's loaded, put thegame in the recorder and fast forNard itpast the Basic loader. Then you simplyneed to load the game — your tank shouldhave all the accessories fitted. Prepare to goa-Romelling.

10 LET T=0: FOR N=40000 TO 1E920 READ A: POKE NA: LET T....T.4-A: IFA< >,2 7 THEN NEXT N

30 DATA 221,33,64,156,17,0,28,55,62255,20586,5,33,64,156,17,0,64,1,99,2740 IF T<>1648 THEN PRINT "DATAERROR": STOP50 LET F O R N=N4-1 TO 1E3: READ A:LET T=T+A: POKE NA: IF A<>19 THENNEXT N60 DATA 237,176,221,33,24,96,17,232,159,62,255,5570 DATA 205,86,5,62,1,50,57,100,205,24,96,195,3,1980 IF T<>2675 THEN PRINT "DATAERROR": STOP90 SAVE "PANZ-C" CODE 40000,102

Paperboy• Sill r(Elite/October 1986) Monochrome conversionof the famous chuck-em-thwugh-windowsgame.

Play the tape from the start. Line 50 givesinfinite lives and line 60 gives infinitepapers, either can be deleted if not wanted.Note that the top of the screen is corruptedwhen using this program, don't worryabout that.

10 LOAD ""CODE20 FOR f=65046 TO 1e9: READ a30 IF a =999 THEN RANDOMIZE USR 65e340 POKE ta: NEXT50 DATA 62,183,50,145,19760 DATA 62,45,50,111,19270 DATA 999

Multiface Pokes49263,050577,19050495,201

PapersInfinite livesImmunity

ParabolaA(Firebirdfluly1987)Clever 3D puzzle game inShe same mould as Kirel. Great value for twoquid.

It's infinite lives time again, this time careof the Firebird Bleepload hacker..

10 LET20 FOR F=32768 TO 3287630 READ A: POKE F,A40 LET T=T+IF-32758rA: NEXT F50 IF 1-679460 THEN STOP60 FOR F=32877 TO 1E9: READ A70 IF A›256 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE EA90 LET T=T+(F-32867)*k NEXT F100 IF T-A THEN STOP110 LOAD CO DE : RUN USR 32830120 DATA 50,21,255,122,254130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50140 DATA 84,205,33,21,255150 DATA 34,85,205,62,195160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32170 DATA 128,3459,0,195180 DATA 0,0,50,107,92190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0200 DATA 0,1,0,0,237210 DATA 176,195,61,0,128220 DATA 223,181,209,177,144230 DATA 141,139,151,206,198240 DATA 199,200,237,123,112250 DATA 128,62,205,50,84260 DATA 205,33,0,128,34270 DATA 85,205,33,109,1281280 DATA 126,50,22,128,50290 DATA 28,128,50,31,128300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48310 DATA 128,35,126,50,42320 DATA 128,35,126,50,39330 DATA I28,195,0205340 DATA 189,8,171)30,195,175,50,159,149,195,248,132,707507

Park PatrolA a i t "(FIrebirdlleburary 1988) Instantly forgettablegame with graphics that look like they've comeout of the Stone Age.

What's this? The Bleepload Multipoke getsan airing for a second time? Infinite lives,here we come._

10 LET T=020 FOR F=32768 TO 3287630 READ A: POKE F,A40 LET T=T+(F-32758)*A: NEXT F50 IF T-679460 THEN STOP60 FOR F=32877 TO 1E9: READ A70 IF AD•256 THEN GO TO 10080 l'OKE F,A90 LET T.T+IF-32867rA: NEXT100 IF I A THEN STOP110 LOAD —C O D E : R U N U SR 3 28 30

120 DATA 50,21255,122,254130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50140 DATA 84,205,33,21,255150 DATA 34,8.5,205,62,195160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32170 DATA 128,34,59,0,195180 DATA 0,0,50,107,92190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0200 DATA 0,1,0,0237210 DATA 176,195,61,0,128220 DATA 223,181,209,177,144230 DATA 141,139,151,206,198240 DATA 199,200,237,123,112250 DATA 128,62,205,50,84260 DATA 205,33,0,128-34270 DATA 85,205,33,109,1281280 DATA 126,5022,128,50290 DATA 28,128,50,31,128300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48310 DATA 128,35,126,50,42320 DATA 128,35,126,50,39330 DATA 128,195,0,205340 DATA91,8,207,57,195,175,50,189,210,195,32,203,705439

Pentagramimi

(Ultimate/September 1986) What Sabre-mandid after Knight Lore. A grave disappointmentaccording to some people.

10 CLEAR 2406420 PRINT "PLAY TAPE FROM START"30 LOAD —S C R E EN S : L O AD • ' CO DE

2406440 POKE 49917,0: REM LIVES50 POKE 50751,0: REM JUMP70 PRINT USR 2406480 DATA 50,234,249,62,201,50,235,249,205,177,249,33,91,91,17,160,252,1,7,0,237,17690 DATA 195,127,252,175,50,190,143,0,0,0,62,231,50,133,91,33,177,250229,209,1,6100 DATA 2,58,133,91,206,10,56,11,50,133,91,174,119237,160,234,111,91,201,196,128,24,241,193

Mulfiface Poke49977,182 Infinite lives

11112 PSYCO SOLDIER

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fl It 2A *(QuicksilvalAugust 1986) A tremendouslyplayable punk game where you go round andround trying to collect little blobs with Mathssigns written on them.

MERGE one of these pokes into your loaderthen RUN and restart the tape:

POKE 38752,0POKE 38481,0

Infinite livesInfinite energy

Play For Your LifeA •(Ocean/December 1987) Strange tennis typearcade game which was free with YS.

Here's the gen on how to play for your life'

Hit the robot Opponent with your bat, it'smuch faster and gives him a hell of aheadache, whilst running his energy down.

2

The net which changes shapes on its sides isdeadly. Jump up against it, but not Onto itto hit the robot or you'll lose energy.3Don't bother with the random screenoption, 'cos this will start you on a harderset of screens with a rating of -A-.

4On the screen which has the two balls(friar), jump between the balls and then bythem to get the robot

5

If you have a small thingy trundling aroundtrying to kill you, then jump against the netto get through to the other side and therobot.

6

It's easier to judge where a ball is bywatching its shadow.

7

When trying to hit balls, stay in the centreof the playing area

8

Dodge other objects like big balls, the gianteggcup and the big coin.

9

When confronted with all four balls startingat the same time, jump forward twice andthen press fire_ Three of the four ballsshould land in the goal.

PlowA 4'(Mastertronic/fune 1987) A bouncy-bail gamein a similar mould to Gremlin's Thailbhizer.Great graphics but not a lot of game toga withthem.

Infinite lives, play tape from the start

10 LOAD —C O D E : P O KE 3 7 33 1 ,9 1

20 FOR 1=23432 TO 2343810 READ a: POKE f,a: NEXT f40 RANDOM1ZI USR 3726350 DATA 17 5 , 5 0 ,1 3 8 , 1 86 , 1 9 5

60 DATA 136,144

The Plot1111ii

(Firebird/April 1988) A case of nice graphics,shame about the game. You have to blow up theHouses of Parliament (well, it's different!)

Infinite lives or energy with the BleeploadMultiPoke (see part 6).

10 LET T=020 FOR F=32768 TO 3287630 READ A: POKE F,A40 LET T=T+(F-32758)*A: NEXT F50 IF T-679460 THEN STOP60 FOR F=32877 TO 1E9: READ A70 IF A >,2 5 6 T HE N GO TO 100

80 POKE F,A90 LET T=T4F-32867)*A: NEXT F100 IF T-A THEN STOP105 POKE 32885,174 : REM for infiniteenergy or105 POKE 32888,183 : REM for infinite lives110 LOAD CO DE : RUN USR 32830120 DATA 50,21,255,122;254130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50140 DATA 8 4,2 0 5 , 3 3 , 21 , 2 5 5

150 DATA 34,85,205,62,195160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32170 DATA 128,34,59,0,195180 DATA 0,0„50,107,92190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0200 DATA 0,1,0,0,237210 DATA 1 76 , 1 9 5 , 6 1, 0 , 1 2 8220 DATA 22 3 , 1 8 1,2 0 9 , 1 77 , 1 4 4

230 DATA 1 4 1,139,1 5 1 , 2 0 6 , 19 8

240 DATA 1 9 9,2 0 0 , 2 3 7 , 12 3 , 1 1 2

250 DATA 128,62,205,5084260 DATA 20 5 , 3 3 , 0, 1 2 8 , 3 4270 DATA 8 52 0 5 , 3 3 ,1 0 9 , 1 2 81

280 DATA 126,50,22,128,50290 DATA 28,128,50,31,128300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48310 DATA 128,35,126,50,42320 DATA 128,35,126,50,39330 DATA 128,195,0,205340 DATA9 1 , 1 1 , 2 2 2 , 5 7 , 1 9 5,1 75 ,50 , 1 1 4 , 0 , 5 0 , 2 5 2 , 0, 1 9 5 , 0 , 2

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Potty Pigeonh.(Gremlin/April 1985) A highly boring arcade-adventure with nothing to do but collectworms.

Here's a quick hack that'll give you 256lives (if you can stand it!). Out with theumbrellas lads (and lasses).

10 CLS: LET TO20 FOR N=23296 TO 2314630 READ A: POKE N,A: LET T=T+A: NEXT

50 IF T<>4732 THE PRINT "ERROR.PLEASE RECHECK'; STOP60 PRINT TAB 3; PLAY P O T ' PIGEONTAPE"70 RANDOMIZE USR 23296100 DATA

6 2 , 2 5 5 , 5 5 , 2 2 1 , 3 3 , 2 0 3,92 , 1 7 , 1 5 2 , 3 , 2 0 5 , 8 6 , 5 ,4 8 , 2

41110 DATA

6 2 , 9 7 , 1 7 , 1 , 1 9 2 , 3 3,4 0 , 9 4 , 1 , 7 , 2 , 2 0 5 „ 80 , %

120 DATA3 3 , 4 3 , 9 1 , 1 , 8 , 0 , 1 7 , 5,1 94 , 2 3 7 , 1 7 6 , 1 9 5 , 1 1 9 ,1 9 3

130 DATA 62,47,50,75,101,195,192,93

Project FutureU I M(Micromaniatfune 85) Well acclaimed arcadegame of its time.

Here's a Poke that'll give you 255 lives.Merge in the Basic loader, edit line 1 andinsert POKE 10147,255: before the PRINTUSR 31000. Then just Run the program andrestart the tape.

Psi Chess

(The Edge/June 1986)3 D chess game (surprisesurprise) with nice graphics

Try a white move first (you are white), thenpress T to save. Then press break for 5seconds until you get Basic_ Now you cantype RANDOMIZE USR 34900 and a clockstarts ticking in the corner of the listing.Macintosh, eat yer heart out!

Psycho Soldier• A no(Ocean/August 1987) What Athena did next.Very boring game with nothing to do.

Infinite lives and bombs care of theSpeedlock III hacker

10 CLEAR 45e3: LET t=020 FOR f=-3e4 TO 3013930 READ a; POKE f,a40 LET t=t-i-(1-29990)•a: NEXT50 IF tc>1077568 THEN STOP60 FOR f=1 TO le9: READ a

PUD PUD

70 IF a>255 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE La90 LET t=t+0-301301•a: NEXT100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 LOAD •'°CODE: RUN LISR 3e4

70 LE a>255 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE La90 LET t=t+(f-23434)a: NEXT100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 RANDOMIZE USR 23296

120 DATA 42,188,117,221,33 120 DATA 221,33,203,92,17130 DATA 182,117,6,6,197 130 DATA 234,6,62,255,55140 DATA 221,78,0,221,35 140 DATA 205,86,5,48,241150 DATA 6,0,197,229,17 150 DATA 62,224,50,8,95160 DATA 20,116,237,176,33 160 DATA 62,235,50,11,95170 DATA 49,116,126,254,249 170 DATA 49,252,255,14,112180 DATA 322,54,0,33 180 DATA 58,148,91,111,38190 DATA 36,116,126,254249 190 DATA 98,229,13,252,94200 DATA 32,2,54,0,235 200 DATA 17,192,99,217,1210 DATA 54,201,205,20,116 210 DATA 224,184,217,118,201220 DATA 225,193,9,193,16 220 DATA 42,149,91,1,76230 DATA 209,42,188,117,1 230 DATA 0,22,64,93,122240 DATA 112,11,9,1,100 240 DATA 213,213,237,176,225250 DATA 0,62243,237,177 250 DATA 14,25,9,119,14260 DATA 43,1,0,4,237 260 DATA 4,9,119,14,8270 DATA 66,17,169,250,1 270 DATA 9,119,1420,9280 DATA 0,6,237,176,33 280 DATA 119,62,201,18,42290 DATA 150,117,34,195,254 290 DATA 149,91,14,35,237300 DATA 195,169,254,1,96 300 DATA 66,209,116,14,3310 DATA 54,82,50,17,14 310 DATA 9,115,14,32,9320 DATA 12,24,205,28,254 320 DATA 38,64,17,116,91330 DATA 33,38,255,1,100 330 DATA 213,233,83,178,136340 DATA 0,62,217,237,177 340 DATA I64,132,99,96,94350 DATA 54,72,54,72,43 350 DATA 106,33,159,91,78360 DATA 54,0,33,190,177 360 DATA 6,0,33,160,91370 DATA 17,217,254,1,40 370 DATA 237,91,155,91213380 DATA 0237,176,201,17 380 DATA 237,176,42,151,91390 DATA 36,57,14,25,23 390 DATA 54,0,42,153,91400 DATA 4(X) DATA 209,115,35,114,4220,223,175,50,103,159,50,187,156,195,0,72,109 410 DATA 157,91,2338802 420 DATA 18,209,252,165,255,120,255,160,

91,55,255,0,175,50,170,135,195,0,91,1287949

Pud Pud• -t-(Ocean/March 1985) A real weirdo arcadeadventure_ The first of Jonathan Smith's games(say no more).

Multiface Poke49287,0

10 CLEAR 65533: LET t=020 FOR f=23296 TO 2344330 READ a: POKE I,a40 LET t=t+(1-23286)x NEXT50 IF t<>1240275 THEN STOP60 FOR 1=1 TO 1e9: READ a

Infinite Pud-Puds

Pulsator• h(Mart ech/February 1987) This interestinglynamed maze game stimulated a crescendo ofoo-er's front the reviewer.

The original Speedlock MultiPoker gets anairing here to provide, of course, infinitelives.

Pyjamarama• El(Mikro Gen/January 1985) The second WallyWeek game, this time an arcade adventure,which many people found very difficult. Littledid they know that they were to get harder aridharder....

There are two versions of Pyjamarama, so ifyou've got the earlier one (without thedemo feature), use the following routine.Owners of the newer version skip to secondroutine.

The hyperload makes things a bit tricky, soa small program is required to get round it;

10 CLEAR 29999: RESTORE 7020 FOR N=1 TO 1430 READ A: POKE N+29999,A40 NEXT N50:PAUSE 060 RANDOMIZE USR 1000070 DATA221,33,39,127,17,216,1,62,255,55,205,86,5,201

PYRACURSE

Run this and then start playing the tapefrom the first data block (not the programheader) and press any key to load it. Stopthe tape as soon as it's in, then use thesePokes;

80 POKE 32844,207: POKE 32845,26: POKE32828,251: POKE 32829,201: POKE32789243: POKE 32921,0: POKE 33000,0

Next, to Hyperload it, enter RANDOMIZEUSR 32789 and restart the tape. I f a loadingerror occurs, rewind and try again. When itloads, it will not start, so for 'x' lives, enterPOKE 43883,x. Then POKE 48680,50 andRANDOMIZE USR 63524 and away you go.You're now ready to make a right Wally ofyourself.

If you've got the 'demo' version, use thislittle pmggypoo;

10 FOR 1=23297 TO 2337620 READ A: POKE LA: NEXT I40 PRINT 'PLAY TAPE'50 PRINT AT 10,10;;RANDOMIZE USR2329760 DATA175,55,221,33,96,234,17,17,0,205,86,5,48,242,17,97,234,1,10,0,205,60,32,62,255,55,221,33,203,92,17,216,1,205,86,5,48,241,243,49,0,0,33,166,93,17,22,128,1,231,0,237,176,33,63,91,34,61,128,195,22,128,33,72,91,34,229,190,195,36,248

170 DATA 62,X,50,97,171,195,0,130: REMRPLACE X WTTI-1 N U M B ER O F L I VE S

170 DATA 175,50,18,190,195,0,130,0: REMOR USE THIS FOR INFINITE LIVES

As you can see, there are two line 170's -one is for 'x' number of lives and the otheris plain or infinite lives. The programdoesn't have a checksum, so I suggest yousave it before you run it.

Pyracurse.iII

1(HewsonlOctober 1986) A fairly difficultarcade adventure with real sicko graphics (thatzombie with the stake through its heart -bleught)

This hack will give you infinite energy foryour currently selected character. Play thegame tape from the start after typing thisproggy in and running it;

10 CLEAR 24799: LOAD C O D E 2329620 POKE 23325,201: RANDOMIZE USR2329930 POKE 33450,201: RANDOMIZE USR29600

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Rambo• in LP:1(Ocean/December 19851 Game based on themacho-ing of Sly Stallone in the Commandomould.

Multiface Pokes27401,5230263,0 I Lives (durrl)

Rampage• •lActivisionillovember 19871 Attempt atrecreating an arcade game based on thedestructive antics of '8 Movie plasticenemonsters.

10 CLEAR 32767: LET T=0: LOAD ""CODE6508820 FOR N.23296 TO 23333: READ A: POKEN,A: LET T=T+A: NEXT N30 IF T - -,4 0 5 6 T HE N R AN DO MI ZE USR

2329640 DATA 33 , 6 4 , 25 4 , 1 7 ,0 , 1 2 8 ,1

50 DATA 20 , 0 , 2 37 , 1 7 6 ,3 3 , 1 9 ,1 2 8

60 DATA 54,246,35,54,201,20570 DATA 0,128,33,31,91,34,10580 DATA 255,195,44,255,17590 DATA 5 0,11 7 , 2 2 1 ,1 9 5 , 0 , 22 2

100 PRINT "ERROR IN DATA'': STOP

Rana RamaE

tHewsonlApril 19861 An arcade adventurewhere you go around casting spells. Well ittnakes a change from Advanced Lawn-mowerSimulator, doesn't it?

Multiface Pokes57463,20559836,20557572,20159821,057421,0

1First, freeze the game

1111 Lives

RasputinA 41 X I(Firebirdllanuary 1986) The first ever Y5freebie cover-games. A difficult 3D headachebased on an Insane Russian abbot.

Info for those going mad with the Russianmonk, Rasputin. Follow the four simplesteps below and all your problems shouldbe solved.

2

Press CAPS and 'R• - you'll hear a beep.3

Carefully, type in 'STALIN' - you'll hear abeep on every keypress. I f you hit thewrong key the game ,vill unfreeze andyou'll have to go back to step 1.

4After the cheat code (STALIN') has beenentered, type in a two-digit mom number.The two-digit codes range from 00 to 24and 33 to 40. (Remember to enter numbersfrom 0-9 as 00, 01, 02, and so on.) He ypresto, immediate access to the room ofyour choice.

Rasputin 128Krt 1

lFirebird/February 19861 Updated version ofthe suspended 31) platform game that was thefirst YS cover game.

Here's the version of the teleport for the128K version;

1Pause the game.

2Press caps-R.

3Type TEDD (no caps) for the teleport.4

As with the 48K version, press a 2-digitnumber (00-40) to teleport to that room.

But there's more for you 128Kers,

1Pause the game.

2Press caps-L.

3Type VODKA to give you maximum lifeforce (do this when you haven't got a lotleft).

Rastan

(ImaginetApril 1988) Magical arcadeadventure with all the legends and dragonslayer stuff.

Here's infinite lives and energy using thelatest Speedlock, numem 4.

10 CLEAR: LET t=020 FOR 1=23296 TO 2348730 READ a: POKE f,a40 LET C.-Ai-U-23286ra: NEXT50 IF t<>2260540 THEN STOP60 FOR 1=1 TO 1e9: READ a70 IF a>255 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE 1,a90 LET t.t4-((-23478)*a: NEXT f100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 PRINT "Type CONTINUE"115 RANDOMIZE USR 23522120 STOP: RUN USR 23296130 DATA 221,42,192,91,237140 DATA 91 , 1 9 4 ,9 1 , 6 2 ,2 5 5

150 DATA 55,205,86,5,48160 DATA 2 40 , 2 4 3 , 33 , 2 0 1 , 91

170 DATA 17,106,89,1,3180 DATA 0,237,176,237,75190 DATA 197,91,14,0,237200 DATA 67,109,76,237,75210 DATA 198,91,253,42,196220 DATA 91,14,0,237,67230 DATA 111,76,253,78,0240 DATA 6,0,42,106,89250 DATA 14,113,89,9,94260 DATA 54)34,35,86,54270 DATA 91 , 2 3 7 ,8 3 , 1 0 6, 8 9

280 DATA 42,113,89,58,108290 DATA 89,237,79,233,237300 DATA 9 5,2 1 4 , 3 , 2 54 , 2 5 0

310 DATA 56,2,214,128,50320 DATA 108,89,253,35,237330 DATA 75,111,76,16,199340 DATA 237,75,109,76,16350 DATA 179,58,200,91,71360 DATA 33,24,16,34,105370 DATA 91,24,175,33,145380 DATA 91 ,34 , 2 3 0 25 4 , 1 7 5

390 DATA 50,183,251,195,126400 DATA 251,1,96,54,82410 DATA 50,17,14,12,24420 DATA 20 5 , 6 4 25 4 , 3 3 ,1 8 1

430 DATA 91,34,65,254,17440 DATA 170,91,33,70,254450 DATA 1,11,0,34,232460 DATA 25 3 , 2 3 5,2 3 7 , 1 76 , 2 0 1

470 DATA 229,33,0,72,34480 DATA 108,255,225,195,42490 DATA 254,42,204,91,54500 DATA 206,35,54,91,195510 DATA 0,72520 DATA4 7 , 2 4 4 , 1 9 1 , 1 0,2 1 6,91 , 5 , 1 0 , 7 , 1 4 4 ,2 4 4 , 9 9 , 1 3 , 9 1 ,1

7 5 , 5 0 , 7 6 , 2 1 7 , 5 0 , 2 1 5,2 1 5,1 9 5 2 5 5 , 3 1 , 1 5 , 2 9 , 2 9 ,

1 5 , 2 0 , 3 1 , 4 3 , 3 1,43 , 3 8 , 9 1 , 1 7 , 2 4 4,9 1 . 6 , 8 , 2 6 , 1 1 1 ,5

2 , 5 2 , 5 2 , 5 2 , 5 2 , 1 9 , 1 6,24 6 , 2 0 1 , 1 2 7 , 1 3 1 , 1 3 4, 1 4 6 , 1

52,158,164,179,2487843

RastercanA 4: amlMastertronic/December 19871Extraordinary weird psychadelic explore and

REBEL

collect 'em up sci-fi game.

MERGE the loader, add this line and RUNfor infinite power

35 POKE 39237,0

For the more serious typist, here a hack thatsolve the door opening problem (No logic)and enable laziness mode (Infinite time).To use it, lust type it in, Save it off for futureuse, Run it and play the game tape from thestart.

10 INK 0: PAPER 0: POKE 23624,0: CLEAR3027120 LOAD —S C R E EN 1 L O AD —C OD E

3027230 POKE 40078,201: REM NO LOGIC40 POKE 39228,0: REM INF TIME50 POKE 39220,0: REM INF POWER60 RANDOMIZE USR 32768

Rebel•opArwlasoftlturre 1987) Colourful tank shoot

'em up

Multiface Pokes49958,0

51139,049239,0

49249,0

Immunity

1Energy

Time

Red LED .e l

(Starlight/August 1987)3 D rot/around in asimilar vein to Gyroscope.

Infinite energy on all droids, and infinitetime too, care of the Powerload MultiPoke.By the way, if you run out of time byconstantly falling off the edge of the playarea, the game will carry on anyway.

10 CLEAR 3e4: LET t-m020 FOR f.i23296 TO 2343830 READ a: POKE f,a40 LET t=t-441-232861•a: NEXT50 FOR f=f TO le9: READ a60 IF as256 THEN GO TO 9070 POKE f,a80 LET twt+(f-23429)'a NEXT f90 IF t<>a THEN STOP100 RANDOMIZE USR 23296110 DATA 237,123,143,91,221120 DATA 42,145,91,17,144130 DATA 1,62,7,55,205140 DATA 86,5,48,241,42150 DATA 145,91,1,0,2160 DATA 1 2 6,2 3 7,1 0 3 , 3 5 , 1 1

170 DATA 120,177,32,247,42180 DATA 145,91,58,145,91

190 DATA 14,18,129,35,119200 DATA 35,116,1,13,0210 DATA 9,54,32,35,54220 DATA 247,35,54,201,33230 DATA 67,91,229,42,145240 DATA 91,233,42,145,91250 DATA 1,35,0,9,17260 DATA 208,92,1,50,0270 DATA 237,176,33,105,91280 DATA 17,1,93,1,100290 DATA 0,237,176,195,208300 DATA 92,1,96,54,82310 DATA 50,17,14,12,24320 DATA 42,41,93,1,119330 DATA 1,9,54,195,33340 DATA 22,93,229,42,41350 DATA 93,1,78,1,9360 DATA 233,42,43,93,54370 DATA 201,33,45,93,229380 DATA 42,41,93,1,129390 DATA 1,9,233400 DATAI 9 0,9 3,4 7,2 54 , 22 8 ,Z 55 , 17 5 ,5 0 ,1 14 , 12 7 ,5 0 ,1 84 , 1

2 4,5 0,2 33 ,1 63 ,6 2,2 01 ,5 0,2 34 ,1 27 ,4 9,1 91 ,9 3,2 37

,86,233,991085

Renegade• A a l 1*(Ocean/March 1987) Fab megagame striaghtfrom the arcades.

10 CLEAR 49151: LET T..0: LET WO: FORF47872 TO 4801020 READ A: POKE EA30 LET T=T-i-A•W: LET W.W4-140 NEXT F50 IF T<>1115891 THEN PRINT"CHECKSUM ERROR, TRY AGAIN": STOP60 PRINT AT 10,1;"Play RENEGADE tapefrom start"70 LOAD —C O D E80 RANDOMIZE USR 4787290 :100 DATA 221,33,121,187,6,6110 DATA 197,221,110,0,221,102120 DATA 1,221,78,2,6,0130 DATA 17,0,125,237,176,235140 DATA 54,201,30,150,205,0150 DATA 125,221,35,221,35,221160 DATA 35,193,16,222,33,103170 DATA 238,17,0,252,1,0180 DATA 4,237,176,175,50,115190 DATA 255,62,205,50,23,255200 DATA 33,42,251,34,24,255210 DATA 33,80,187,17,42,251220 DATA 1,40,0,237,176,195230 DATA 244,254,50,255,130,62240 DATA 195205,51,251,201,50250 DATA 76,255,33,61,251,34260 DATA7 7,25 5,2 01 ,2 53 ,3 3,5 8,9 2,1 75 ,5 0,8 7,1 60

270 DATA62,195,50,86,160,49,79,93,195,203,92,0,0,0280 DATA1 9 7,2 28 , 16 , 21 3 ,2 2 8,2 4 ,1 9 ,2 2 9,1 2 ,3 1 ,2 2 9,1 4 ,4 5 ,

229290 DATA 25,81,229,11,0,0,0

REVOLUTION

In the first level you can walk up to a man,punch him three times and when he bendsover, walk into him and press fire. This willmake you grab him by the shoulders. Don'tknee him in the groin, but wait a fewseconds and then try to do a a back kickand the man will fly through the air andcrash into anyone who's in the way. Boss 1:Keep hitting him with high kicks, thenwhen his energy is right down, punch andkick him. Also, on level two, to kill peoplequickly you must first knock youropponent over with a flying kick, kneelover them and keep puching about threetimes. Your opponent will be dead beforelong. Boss 2: (Same as level 1 ). When youreach Big Bertha on level three, jump as ifyou're going to kick one of her girls, andwhen she rushes for you, waggle thejoystick to turn around in mid-air. You'llget her square in the face, Boss 3: Get as faraway as possible from her. On level 4 makespace for yourselve and don't let them gettoo close to you. Level 5: ditto! Boss 5: Goto the bottom of the screen, and when theboss fires his gun, kick the man closest toyou and sit on him! Punch him slowly untilthe bullet has gone over your head. Do thesame for the rest of the men. There is aneasier way, however., and that is to waituntil the boss fires, and pause the game.When you tin-pause the game, the bulletwill be stuck in mid air.

Rescueti

(Mastertronic/lartuary 1988) Multi-leveledcollect 'em up.

When you see a door on the screen windov,•,press fire and pick-up simultaneously.There will be a blast which destroys all thedoors on that screen.

Revolution

(Vortex/February 1987) Bouncy gall typearcade adventure.

This hack changes the game so that insteadof being impossible to complete - it's nowimpossible not to complete. Just type in theprogram and Save it off for future use. Tostart it, just Run it and play the tape fromthe start. Most of the features speak forthemselves, but to clarify - 'BLOCKS STAYON' means that once you've turned a blockwhite, it stays white, so that you cancomplete the screen at your leisure.However, once you've turned a block on,don't go and complete another room or thegame'll get all confused and leave the bockwhite, but think that it's oft 'INSTANTBOUNCE' alters the next bounce instead ofwaiting for a build-up when you change theamount of bounce you want, 'NO FLOORBOUNCE CHANGERS' deactivates the 39

40

RIPTOFT

floor sections that normally throw youaround or bring you to a halt.

10 CLEAR 6553320 LET T=030 FOR N=1 TO 133: READ A: POKE23295+N,A: LET T=T+Nlik: NEXT N40 IF T<>1083557 THEN PRINT DATAERROR': STOP50 FOR N=23429 TO le9: READ A: IFA<999 THEN POKE N,A: NEXT N60 POKE 23624,0: POKE 23693,0; CLS:RANDOMIZE 1267+USR 2329670 DATA 118,205,162,45,127,90,90,75,74,72,59,59,225,17,3680 DATA 91,6,167,26,203,65,40,3,134,24,1,174,18,19,1690 DATA 243,35,13,242,13,91,195,95,109,72,143,202,126,102,169100 DATA 113,115,78,123,100,175,102,212,98,44,73,102,170,98,45110 DATA 7 3,1 1 1,1 6 8 , 1 6 9,5 4 , 3 6 , 95 , 1 3 0 , 82 ,

155,95,168,70,143,116120 DATA 85,199,127,212220,199,46,119,95,99,154,127,248,52,143

130 DATA 99,244,26,211,228,98,82,244,98,78,244,98,58,244,98140 DATA 4 6,24 4 , 1 0 2 , 11 9 , 1 3 0 , 10 2 , 1 5 4 , 98 ,

1 22 ,1 54 ,1 02 ,9 9,9 8,1 31

150 DATA 154,115,99,244,95,0,61,146,214,168,117,9,168,25160 DATA 98,129,220: REM INFINITE TIME170 DATA 98,111,170: REM BLOCKS STAYON180 DATA 102,241,98,64,173: REMINFINITE LIVES190 DATA 95,52,220,146,1,17,102,104,98,179,17,94,98,146,182,17: REM INSTANTBOUNCE CHANGE200 DATA 95,124,45,146,166,9,102,159,98,106,9,94,143,146,109210 DATA 9,35,98,148,20: REM NO FLOORBOUNCE CHANGE (+200)220 DATA 102,119,98,247,11,102,15'9,98,12,9,95,124,45,146,23230 DATA 9,96,146,231,9: REMINVULNERABILITY (+220)240 DATA 117,250,1,999: REM DATA ENDMARKER

If the message 'Data Error' occurs,check the Data as you'll have made a typingerror somewhere. I f you don't want aparticular feature then just remove the Dataline/s referring to that feature. The lastcouple of features have data lines splitbetween two numbers, meaning you willhave to remove both the Data line thatcontains the REM and also the line before it(these are also remarked at the end of theRem lines).

Multiface Poke35652,182 Infinite lives

RiptoffE

(Your Sinclair DigiTapelSeptember 1986) A

rather clever Boulderdash clone with some verystrange level codes.

Play the tape from the start.

1000 MERGE CHRS2 2+CHR5 214-CHRS2 5+ "R IPTOF F

1010GO TO 60

Then type

5 POKE 35528,x: REM x=lives or...5 POKE 35427,0: REM for infinite lives.

Road Runner•A I 91

(US Gold/June 1987) Coin-op contPersion of theAtari original. Unfortunately it sufferedgreatly along the way.

Infinite lives couldn't be simpler holddown the keys R, T, H and B on the titlescreen.

On level 3 you may have found all thosedead ends, well here's a list of directions toavoid them; up; down; down; up; up; up;down; down; up; down; down: up; down;up; middle; down: up; down; up; up;middle; middle; down; down; down: up;down; and down, Okay?

Robin Of The Wood• E(OdintMarch 1985) Arcade adventure withnice graphics and clever (although very quiet)music.

All you've got to do to get infinite lives isrewind the tape, type in MERGE " andpress ENTER. Start the tape and when youget the OK message, type in 1035 POKE49111,0 and press ENTER. Then type GOTO 1000 and start the tape again. Easy, eh?

Rockman• ElAlligatallune 1986) Languid actioned aracdeadventure with digitized speech effects.

Infinite lives, play the tape from the start.

10 LET t=020 FOR 1=32768 TO 3282130 READ a: POKE La40 LET t=t+(I-32758)a: NEXT f50 IF t<>177518 THEN STOP60 RANDOMIZE USR 3276870 DATA 33,13,128,17,2280 DATA 94,1,50,0,23790 DATA 176,195,22,94,175100 DATA 55,221,33,104,94110 DATA 62,17,29,3,205

120 DATA 86,5,48,241,62130 DATA 95,50,62,95,50140 DATA 72,95,50,82,95150 DATA 61,50,85,95,195160 DATA 20,95,175,50,80170 DATA 145,195,56,99

Multilace Pokes

30942,0 1 L i v e s35091,0 I F i r e power

RUNESTONE

Rogue Trooper

(Design Design/May 1986)30 walkaboutwhich was very easy to complete, in a verysmall play area.

Play the tape from the start. Line 230 givesthe number of ammo, which you previouslyspecified in an INPUT, line 240 is thenumber of energy %, also specified in anINPUT, line 260 gives infinite kits, which isreally infinite energy, line 270 stops thebaddies moving when they hit something,line 280 makes the baddies fire lessfrequently and line 290 gives infinite ammo.Lines 260-290, and lines 230 and 240 may bedeleted if you don't want the option, butthe rest of the program must stay intact.Note that if 230 and/or 240 are deleted, youmay as well delete the correspondingINPUT line, as it is not used anyway.

10 CLEAR 65535: LET 1=020 INPUT "No, ammo (0-65535): "Am30 INPUT "No. energy (0-65535): ";nrg40 LET c=am-256 '1INT ( a m /2 5 6 )

50 LET d=INT (am/256)60 LEI' e=nrg-256•INT (nrg/256)70 LET g=INT (nrg/256)80 FOR 1=3e4 TO 3013390 READ a: POKE f,a100 LET t=t441-29990ra: NEXT110 READ a: IF t<>a THEN STOP120 RESTORE 230130 FOR 1=30034 TO 1e9: READ a140 IF a=999 THEN RANDOMIZE USR150 POKE 1,a: NEXT 1160 DATA 221,33,215,253,17170 DATA 125,1,62255,55180 DATA 205,86,5,48,241190 DATA 62,255,50,113,254200 DATA 33,10,129,17,0210 DATA 255,1,100,0,237220 DATA 17 6 , 1 9 5,0 , 2 5 4 ,1 0 4 0 7 4

230 DATA 33,c,d,34,79,I240 DATA 33,e,g,34,124,120250 DATA 175260 DATA 50,204,120270 DATA 50,61,132280 DATA 50,249,133290 DATA 50,19,137300 DATA 195,0,112,999

RUNIESTONE S A M FOX'S STRIP POKER

Runestone• E(Firebird/February 1986) Interactive graphicadventure in similar format to Lords's ofMidnight.

This Poke allows you unlimited access andthe freedom to leave the buildings even ifthe owners would far rather you stayed. I fyou want to use it, just type it in, Save it offto tape, Run it and play the game tape fromthe start. I f the message "DATA ERROR"occurs, then you'll have to check yourtyping, 'cos somewhere in there, there willbe a typing error. Don't worry if there areno stripy lines in the border while you are

7200

• A • P(US Gold/January 1988) Fast-moving arcadeconversion where you haw to contivi askateboard with grail dexterity to gain points.

If you earn enough money, buy skateboardsbecause this changes the score from 400 to700 when you jump. Don't hang about, andnever just skate in a straight line, do sometricks and earn as many points as possible.You do this by jumping, and turning fourtimes before landing. This isn't as hard as itsounds, but do it often enough and you canearn more tickets, which after you'vevisited all four parks is essential.

Multilace Pokes40774,040360,037357,0

livesmoneytickets

Saboteur• P(Duren/lune 1986) The arcade-adventure-cum-beat-em-up with big graphics but which gotmonotonous after only a fairly short time.

loading, it'll just stay blue — but the game isgoing in, honest!

10 CLEAR 65000: LET T=020 LET H=6533730 FOR F=I TO 15: READ AS: FOR G=1 TO840 LET A=-CODE AVG*2-1)-48: LET A=A-(7 AND A>S)50 LET B=CODE AS(G•2)-48: LET 13=13-(7AND B>9)60 LET A=A•16+B: POKE H,A: LET T=T+A:LET H=H+170 NEXT G: NEXT F80 IF T<>13676 THEN PRINT "DATAERROR": STOP90 BORDER 1: PAPER lz INK 7: CLS100 RANDOMIZE USR 1366+ USR 1366+

Multiface Pokes47'009,047010,047011,0

2 POKE 61382,0POKE 37130,0

Level codes;

L2 - IONINL3 - KIMEL4 - KUJI KIRIL5 - SAIMENIITSU

1

Everlasting clock

46558,0 I n fi n i t e energy46998,0 S t o p the clock

Saboteur II• , 1 P(Durell/Februaru 1987) What Saboteur's sisterdid when her brother got killed in Saboteur.More of the same, really.

MERGE loader and ignore the OUT OFMEMORY error, just add these lines andRUN. Line 2 gives infinite energy, line 3gives infinite time.

LbL7L8L9 -

- GENIN• MI LU KATA- DIM MAKSATORI

On any level of the game, go to the bottom

USR 65354110 DATA "3E0D3D2OFD790EFE"120 DATA "ED48A9E640C00420"130 DATA "F41-13E09D3FED021"140 DATA "F13E11021010000"150 DATA "21005BE506C8CO39"160 DATA "FF78FED530F6CD39"170 DATA "FFDD7500DD231B2E'180 DATA "80CD39FFCD39FF3E"190 DATA "E290C B1 DO6D030F1 "200 DATA "7AB320E53A005BFE"210 DATA '3BC83E21323A5BAF220 DATA "32415BCD005133E18"230 DATA "326A8532059F3E21"240 DATA "329E91332AE9BC3E8"250 DATA "FD48454C4C4F2100"

floor of the amour-v. k i l l t h e g u a r d w i th a

handy wrench, then go and stand by thenearest box. Press down and you'll godown a concealed ladder into a secretchamber Go to the chest you'll find thereand you'll be immune to injury.

Multiface Pokes37122,061340,201 I Infinite lives

Sarcren• E(US Gold/June 1986) Big maze adventure comecollect- ern-up that just didn't work.

Multiface Poke30066,0 Infinite lives

Sam Fox's Strip Poker•(Martechlfuly 1985) A fairly average pokergame with Sam Fox as an extra attraction (orrepellent, depending on your tastes).

Multiface PokesLoad in the game and start playing ILA

r f o r 'SATCOM

LAND CODE0005 439838650006 374188390008 469865650010 42,1465480011 367981410013 742746560018 068558730020 874576640023 955712960026 888792850030 697670340043 372345660046 797625350062 226984180074 459774550078 508795940084 650269990086 782690160091 988258940110 558775490126 652808970138 673416740157 941974260170 624300740186 879464840194 784174820197 694265890210 788477410221 158462690237 870364640252 400974670267 695192900286 9751 79580303 932174730328 894287520363 549951880378 615797720400 837548050409 575160760433 961988650422 673866730464 978398790484 252346560502 793866740515 173868980534 428318210552 439391790577 974816470598 626069680624 91590924

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normally. Then, when you are about to wina hand, activate the Multiface and enterPoke 26758,0, and then return to the game,When you win your score will start toincrease without stopping, so when youhave 5000 points (approx), press theMultiface button again and enter Poke26758,109 and go back to the game. Now,by pressing any key, you'll be able to see thewhole strip sequence (friar, friar!)

Satcom• Al •

(AllantislAugust 1987) A cheap°communications simulator for those who don'twant to start world war three.

Dial the number given in the inlay (515-626160 same each game), you will getthmugh to a company called GlobalAtmospherics UK, Press Space to return tocontrol, select Analysis - select Data, workout code,

Dial Global - enter code. Select number 2on menu - press Space, select number 1 onmenu - press Space, a third option appears,select number 3 on menu. Press Space toreturn to control, select Analysis - selectData, work out code.

Dial Global, work your way back to secondcode. A telephone list will be displayed,note down the numbers.

There is no point in phoning NASA yet asthe code cannot be worked out by SatcontIt is, however, located at CreativeElectronics Ltd. (CEL).

If you dial CON you will indeed beCONned as all you will get is a systemoverload.

Dial Tech Transmitters Ltd (TTL), pressSpace to return to control, select Analysis -select Data, work out code. Dia l TTL -enter code, note down which satellite hashad extra equipment fitted. Press Space toreturn to control.

Dial Lion, press Space to return to control,select Analysis - select Data, work out cod.

Dial Lion, enter code. Note down the loadcode number for the A.D.Count Downsoftware, press Space to return to control.

Dial Cameo Laser Refractors (CLR), Notedown the colour order of the top fourcolour bars, (le, red, purple, green, blue)press space to return to control.

Dial Creative Electronics Ltd (CEL). PressSpace to return to control, select Analysis -select Data, work out code. Dial CEL -enter code.

Answer (N) then (Y). Note down the

NASA ident code and reverse it, le 12345reads 54321, Press Space to return tocontrol.

Dial NASA (same each game). Enterreversed ident code, select correct satellite(you noted it down) enter A.D.Count DownCode (you noted it down), wait for eachnumber to be logged, press Space, pressSpace again to return to control. SelectAnalysis - select Data, work out code.

Dial NASA and repeat this process on theother two codes.

After you enter the third code (AutoDestruct) and provided you are trying todestroy the correct satellite and the correctsoftware is loaded (AD.Count Down) thenyou will arrive at the orbital VDU display.

You must now arrange the coloured boxesIn the order of the coloured bars in the CLRadvert (you noted it down). The way to dothis is to place the last colour first and thenthe second colour, etc.

And that's it, you've earned a medal.

Sceptre Of BagdadA tk 14(Players/August 1987) Colourful aracdeadventure with a dab of oriental spice.

Play the tape from the start for infinite lives.Oh, by the way, the POKE 23624,0 isimportant.

10 CLEAR 24063; POKE 23624,020 LOAD "SCREEN$30 LOAD "CODE; POKE 59858,040 RANDOMIZE USR 58002

If you have a 128 or Speccy +2, load thegame using tape loader and you shouldhave infinite lives!

Scooby Doo• • BO it(Elite/October 1986) This game was written,scrapped, rewritten, scrapped again, thenrewritten. Fortunately the final product wasworth the wait, even if it did get very difficulton later levels.

First of all, tap in this loader and play thetape from the start.

10 LOAD —C O D E20 POKE 64027,8630 POKE 64028,540 RANDOMIZE USR 64e3

Once the game has loaded, the border willflash indicating that it is waiting forsomething more to load. Press the BREAK

key and you'll get an error, D Break, CONTrepeats. If you now type POKE 29614,0you'll have infinite lives, thenRANDOMIZE USR 25e3 to start the game,

Multiface Poke29614,0

Sentinel

(Firebird/May 1987) Brilliant arcadeadventure with more levels that the EmpireState Building.

Are you ready for this? The nigh-oncomplete list of access codes for the many-leveled Sentinel! Absolutely incredible!

SENTINEL

Infinite lives

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STAGE TWO:Kill the funny bloke with the bow in hishair at the start to stop other comingaround. Make sure you have a few outs leftbecause he need between two and eightblows to put him out of action. When youhave the star thing around you, you candrop on anyone, even the big bloke. Whenyou have flames and fire them, it clearseverything on your current platform.

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8 directional scrolling window shows detailed 3D maps (80 by 50 spaces)• One or two player options in each scenario with multiple difficulty levels forone player • Individual level combat with varied unit characteristics • Eightdirectional facing of units and hidden movement according to line of sight• Ranged combat includes aimed shots, snap shots, automatic fire, opportunityfire, grenades, thrown weapons and explosive ammunition • Strategic scannershows detailed plan of entire map area • User friendly joystick or keyboardcontrolled menu system • Units carry up to ten objects which can be dropped,picked up, thrown, used to open doors etc. • Weapons and equipment can bechosen from a wide variety before each game starts • Highly developedartificial intelligence for one player option • THREE scenarios provided withgame • Expansion kits to follow.

Target Games will ensure that Laser Squad is fully supported with newexpansion kits. Each expansion kit will contain two fully documented scenariosavailable by mail order for £3.95 (inc. p&p). The first expansion kit will beavailable in September 1988 for the Spectrum.

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ardnuts, that's what ninja's are.Stealthy, ruthless, deadlyhardnuts. One ninja warrior isroughly the equivalent of a 73mega-tonne nuclear warhead —

and that's with both arms and legs tiedbehind his back. With limbs unleashed, aninja becomes really tough.

Almost indestructihle, that's whatninjas are too. In a recent test. a ninjawas buried up to his eyebrows inquicklime whilst wired in to the nationalgrid. His condition after fifteen hours?Not a scratch!

As for loud, well they're actuallyundetectable by the human ear! A ninjacan lounge back in a Parker KnollRecline (leather chair with numerousspooky gadgets) without releasing anydecibels whatsoever.

Kellogs Comflake Puzzler-Cards' holdno fear for your average ninja warrioreither. A veritabk 'breakfast doddle asthey might say. A nirkla could breeze hisway to the fifth Blockbusters gold-run inthe shake of a leg, without once saying'please- t o B ob . ( *G iv e me IC, 'Give me

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And guess what? With a lot of helpfrom the chaps at System 3 we've creptup on a sleeping ninja warrior andswiped his brand new camera, worth0E200! Not only that — we're actuallygoing to give it away to one of you luckypeople. And even if you're not theoutright winner, you could still consoleyourself with one of the 50 super LastNinja II posters we're giving away too.

RULES• Warriors of the System 3 or DennisPublishing Dynasties will be expectedto commit seppuku if they evenconsider trying to enter this comp°.• The decision of the Grand Shog-etteTzer is final. At the first sign ofwhinging, heads will mil.• Entries received after 30thSeptember 1988 will be buried up totheir neck; in sand and left to festerfor eternity.

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games over the lastfew issues, I'vedecided its time tomove on. There are a

heck of a lot more games Outthere, but if I just carried ongiving you names andaddresses of companies, pluspotted round-ups of what thegames are about, you d getpretty sick of me No, what youreally want are some reallymeaty more in-depth reviews.right? Well, if that's not whatyou want, tough, 'cos that'swhat you're getting.

I've asked an old pal of mine,Mark Green, to share with ushis experiences of a couple ofthe games he's playing in at themoment. Mark is an old trouper,maybe that should be trooper,in the PBM field, and has agreat deal of experience inpostal gaming. His reviews,covering Global Supremacy awell established and verypopular game, and Speculate,a newly launched but verypromising postal simulation ofhigh finance, are printedalongside.

In future columns, we'll becarrying more of these longerreviews: I think they give you a

Game report 1 — Global Supremacy16. Global Supremacyis a

computer assisted Play ByMail game set some time in thefuture, after the Third WorldWar devastates the globe. Themap used in the game isidentical to the map of the realworld, so all you need tomaster the geography of thegame is a decent atlas.

The world is divided up into150 provinces, many of whichcorrespond to present daycountries. The 75 players whostart in each game are eachallocated a home provincewhile the remaining, non-playercontrolled provinces are weakneutrals. The aim of the gameis to achieve global supremacythrough the use of diplomacyeconomic expansion andmilitary imperialism.

Each province includes anumber of significant featuressuch as up to 10 cities, whichcontain economic productionunits and military forces. Alisting shows the maximumeconomic potential of theprovince, and details currenteconomic assets available forLse in constructing moremilitary hardware.

Essentially there are twomain aspects to the game, thefirst being economic. At thebeginning of each game montlthe computer runs theproduction program — during

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Richard Blaine takes a look at two PBMgames for all aspiring megalomaniacs and

money grabbers. LOADSAMONEY!

better idea of what a game is all tr ic k ling in! Come on you lot,about. At the same time, s u r e l y more of you can put penthough, we'll be continuing to t o paper?give you potted info on new A number of the letters I'vegames which come to our h a d are from readers who wantattention — we don't have the t o inform me of postal gamesspace to give everything a long w h i c h they're setting up, or arewrite-up! a l r e a d y running. Now, I have no

Also in future columns, we'll ob jec t ion whatsoever tobe looking at other aspects of p u b l i s h in g the names andthe PBM world. We'll be a d d r e s s e s of people runningcovering 'zines in greater detail b o n a fide games. But I'm not— remember, I mentioned Small go ing to print anything unless IFurry Creatures last time — h a v e something a bit moreplus we'll be taking a look at c o n c r e t e than just a letterwhat's happening with Play By g i v i n g the name of a game, howModem games, like Multi User m u c h it costs and an address toDungeon. A lot of popular s e n d money to. This mayboardgames — Diplomacy, for s o u n d a bit hard on people justexample — are being played on s tar t ing in the business, whocomputer bulletin boards, d o n ' t have a lot of money to

A column like this — p r o d u c e quality advertisingespecially one dedicated to h a n d - o u t s or flyers, but I'mplaying games by mail — g o i n g to wait until I seecannot survkie without some s o m e t h i n g printed, preferably asort of feedback. So it's r u l e book. So, everyone whoespecially gratifying to report h a s sent in details of the gamesthat the letters are positively t h e y plan on running, get a

this phase, each provincereceives taxation income(boo,) metal, energy, andresearch points and industrialmilitary units. These are usedto build more productioncentres or more military units.Research points can be usedto advance your technology. Allthe players start at the sametechnological level — roughlythe 1940's — and will producepiston engined aircraft,Sherman tanks and such. But.as time goes by. you canprogress, slowly working up to1990s technology with suchunits as Aegis cruisers, MBTs,Stealth bombers and SpaceShuttles.

The second aspect to thegame is the military one, andit's here that Global Supremacyreally scores, with a most

impressive wealth of detail. The d erule book lists several hundred p r o ddifferent military units, and thetechnology levels at which theycan be built. There areindividual naval vessel typesranging from corvettes toSSBNs; you can build landunits ranging from plain infantrythrough artillery to modem andfuturistic main battle tanks: andthere are individual aircraft,from Mustangs to Tomcats tobe acquired. There are alsomany types of missiles —ICBMs, SAMs, AAM, and finallythere are the more dubiousinstruments of massdestruction, includingchemical, biological andnuclear weapons.

To conquer another builtprovince, you have to occupy a n y wall the cities it contains, The c y c l e

• typewriter Out and make it lookOfficial! This is all to protect thepunters, by the way — I don'twant to go encouraging peopleto send off money for gameswhich never happen.

Someone who has done itthe right way is Rober tFor tune of Project Basilisk,who has sent me details of hiscompany's PBM game.Creepho use. Map, rule-book,neat letter explaining whoBasilisk is, what it has done andwhat it plans on doing.

Creephouse is set in ahaunted house: you play aslime, a creep or a wulf. Don'task me what they are, you'llhave to play the game to findout. Your objective is to be thefirst monster to escape from thehouse. As you wander aroundit. though, you'll have to dealwith monster eating plants,other slimes and various tricksand traps. A very weirdsounding little game, but itlooks like it could be fun, PlusBasilisk has a track record —the company created a gamecalled Troll's Bottom, which hasnow been licensed to KJCGames. If KUC's Kevin Cropperis prepared to out his moneybehind it, it must be doing

game master compares thestrength of your attackingforces with the strength of the

fending forces, anduces a battle report for

both sides. This report tells youwhat forces were involved andwhere, what the losses for eachside were, the result of theengagement, and includes afew lines of text commenting onthe battle. The rules placeheavy emphasis on a realisticcombined arms approach, sowoe betide anyone who doesn'tback up their ground forceswith artillery, air and armour

Global Supremacy is animpressive game, withdedicated players in several ofthe six games presently beingrun. This is something of asurprise, as it's definitely notcheap — not when you have

up a strong position,ay. The monthly economicand major battles each

Basilisk is also planningsomething called Battle Crab,in which players pilot futuristicfighting vehicles round an aliencityscape. As you gain credits(for what I don't know), you canbuy attachments for your crab,which make you tougher.Sounds a bit like Elite meetsMegaCity One.

Mother question I've beenasked quite a few times iswhether there is a magazine forPBM players? There is — it'scalled Flagship. Actually, I didmention it last time, but forthose of you who may havemissed it, here is the addressagain: Flagship, PO Box 12,Aldridge, Walsall, WestMidlands WS9 OTJ. A one yearsubscription is E7 for fourissues. A single copy, if youwant to have a butchers beforecommitting, is £2. Verydetailed, very good, all thenames and addresses you'llever need.

Right. that's it for this month.Keep your letters coming to me.Richard Blaine at Postman'sKnock, 14 Rathbone Place,London, W1P IDE. Let's getdown to some serious gaming!

cost E2 and every build, moveor special action is an extra50p. Major powers can easilyspend E15 or more a month!However, if you do manage tobecome that major, it's morethan likely that you'll havebecome hooked on the game. Ishould know — control 15provinces, 10 percent of theworld, in one of the games. andhave expended a lot of effortresearching improvements tomy forces and developing adiplomatic and economicstrategy to back up my militarystrength.

In some of the longerrunning games in America.where Global Supremacyoriginated, the large powerblocs have taken the war intospace. In one, or so I've heard,players have colonised themoon and are planningmanned expeditions to Mars.We haven't got quite that far inthe UK games — yet!

II you have an interest injuggling diplomacy, strategyand economics, plus afascination for the arms race,then you could find itworthwhile having a shot atGlobal Supremacy. But becareful — it can be addictive!Mark Green

CONTACT BOXGlobal Supremacy is run inthe UK by Mare Games, Unit6 ,9 Brghton Terrace. London

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bh,Speculate is a wholly

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game of share dealing,monopolies and corporategrowth. It gives you a chance totry all the things you've readabout in the business pages ofthe newspapers — insiderdealing, asset stnoping andeven making a million legally.

Each game contains 10players. and everyone startswith £12,000. The first player tobecome a millionaire wins thegame. Your wealth is calculatedaccording to the cash you havein hand, plus a percentagevalue of the companies inwhich you own shares.

There are 15 companies inthe game's Stock Market, andeach company has 200 shares.The price of the shares in acompany remains at its startinglevel of £100 until half or moreof the shares are bought, atwhich point it's 'floated' —which means it starts operatingas a real company. Once acompany has been floated, itsshares are decided by marketforces — if people want to buythem, they go up in value, andwhen people sell them, they godown. Players are allowed tobuy shares in any company(assuming there are shares forsale), but they may only sellshares they own it there is abuyer for them. Buying andselling shares may seem to bethe most obvious way to makemoney, but in Speculate it isactually less important thanrunning companies.

When a company is floated,the largest shareholderbecomes the managingdirector, and remains in officeuntil a majority of theshareholders vote for a change.The MD gets to run thecompany, and has control overall the share capital — themoney which people have paidinto the company's bankaccount to buy shares in it_ He'salso responsible for buying andselling equipment and rawmaterials, ordering theproduction of goods. andselling them to the market andto other companies. And hedecides how much of thecompany's bank balance willbe issued to shareholders asdividend payments (gimme.gimme, gimmel). A skillful MDwill run a profitable company,and issue regular andgenerous dividends to theshareholders. As MD's tend tobe major shareholders in thecompanies they run, this is themain way you can get moneyinto your personal account.

The inter-relationship

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between the 15 companies isthe most fascinating angle ofthe game. The key companies,especially in the early phases,are those which produce thebasic commodities — energy.raw materials, transport andplant. Other companies mightjust produce assortedconsumer goods, which arevery profitable. but for whichthere is very little demand inthe early stages of the game.The demand for goods from theoutside economy is very neatlykeyed in to the amount ofmoney the player runcompanies pay their workforce.

I've only just started playingSpeculate, but I've alreadyspotted one or two 'dirty tricks'that look like they might beworth trying. Ill mention someof the more obvious (the lessobvious I'm keeping as asurprise!). If a player is MD oftwo companies, then he (orshe), could asset strip onecompany by transferring all ofits assets to the secondcompany for a rather paltrypayment. This looksparticularly tempting insituations where the player isabout to lose control of a

company — leave someoneelse with a worthless shell! He,he, he! Another trick is to issueshareholders with a dividend of100 percent, effectivelyreturning all company moniesto the shareholders. Thisproduces a worthlesscompany, but gives the playerthe ability to buy into anothercompany. When shares in thedifferent companies are gettingscarce, and so more highlypriced, , this could be a smartmove.

Turns in Speculate areprocessed at a rate of three amonth, and cost £1.25 each.This is very reasonable forwhat looks to be a verychallenging game. and Icertainly intend to try my bestto wheel and deal my way to amillion before I'm much older.Mark Green

CONTACT BOXFree rules are available for a9"x6" sae from WaveneyGames. 28 Diprose Road.Corte Mullen. Wimbourne.Dorset, BH21 30Y. or fromJust Games, 71 BrewerStreet, London Wl.

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called Zarch. This convincing tourde force was mastermoncled bythe creator of Elite, a guy calledDavid Braben, and at that time noplans existed to port the gamedown to even the high end 16 bitmachines like the Atari ST andCommodore Amiga. But nowForebird has produced 8-bitversions. including one for the128-48K Spectrum!!!

Any attempt to bring such agame to the Spectrum could onlyresult in a desperatelyshoehorned, graphically-inferiorpile of old doo-clahs. couldn't it?Well, actually it's not a billionth asbad as anybody here anticipated.with all the original gameplaySurprisingly intact.

You are in control of a terrificlittle spaceship, a bit like the onein the old asteroids game onlythis time instead of being incheap black and white and 2121.this little devil is in wondrouscolouramic 3D. You are chargedwith a task of ridding the planetof the aliens which are sprayingthe planet with a deadly virusThere are many different types ofaliens, and you have to zap themall in order to clear a level. Yourscore is a percentage of howmuch of the planet is leftuninfected.

As you let away from yourstart-up position, you noticeimmediately that beneath you Is abrilliant 3D wire framerepresentation of the planet,scrolling neatly under you. As youmove the square scrolls,revealing hillier sections withtrees whopping by and yourscanner in the top left of thescreen shows that some aliensare pursuing you You've got to

blast the little beggars, you see.but that's only if you've gotenough fingers left aftercontrolling the ship to press thefire button on the keyboard Yes.the controls are a trifle tricky butif you've got a joystick interfacetall are supported) then it makesit a little easier Shooting with akeyboard button and flying theShip with the joystick can be alittle bit like rubbing your headand patting your bellysimultaneously though.

This is a very entertaininggame, and even if you can't reallyget into the gameplay of shootingdown the aliens, oust flying aroundthe landscape learning to fly yourhoverplane against the planet'sgravity is a fun game in itself. Andfinally an interesting fact. It'sbeen said by Teleoomsoft thatit never intended to programthe game on the Spectrum butthe programmer of the Spectrumversion. Steve Dunn, just sent itin Steve was so impressed by thedemos of Zarch on theArchimedes at PCW that he setto programming in machine code,Staley! Next Firebird'll say that itwas written in binary on the backof an airmail envelope with a stubof pencil and a slide rule! Hah!Only kidding: choplets And, ifthat's Steve's hist effort ofmachine coding on the Speccy, allI can say is his Basic programsmust have been brilliant! Take itfrom a dude who knows... Viruson the Spectrum IS the state ofthe art.

VS CLAPOM ETERA brilliantly programmedCOnVerSiOn of a 16 bit smashhit. A fast and fascinating 3Dblast a mundo. Buy it!

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Here's a listing from the Hoverplane's scanner, showing you what allthe nasty alien craft will look like on your radar screen, and givingyou essential tactical information on each one.

This flying saucer flies around and lands to spread the virus(on the ground)

Similar to the Hoverplane with less thrust. They'll buzz you andsmash into you rf they can catch you,

Pests are small, fast ships, whose sole mission is to smash intoyour ship and destroy it.

A chevron shaped ship which flies in a similar manner to theMutant and the Hoverplane Must be hit Noce to destroy it. evenif you use a smart bomb!

Flies straight and level and at high speed, spreading the virus at ahigher rate than even the evil Seeders.

You will only recognise the strange alien vehicle when it actuallyattacks you, as it vAll not fit any of the descriptions you have for Ithe other ships,

Test nig 11111112r I l l for a while that thetiles imi pet d e c o t a t i o n . No such luct!Just try 'Sniffling the terrain at a high speed. andyou'll soon clip one and sptay your ship all over thelandscape.

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Unlike almost any other game in the history of theworld, every bullet you wang off at the mibbileswhacks a point of t your score! Oh no! Sc you've gottachoose your targets quite wisely, and make sure youWI what yOu aim at.

Seeders elegies', spinning tops which spread thevirus whilst on the ground. and then fly up to a newlocation, where they spread the virus again. They canbe shot in the air, butt's tricky. Shooting them on theground is easier, but the score you get is much less.Try to get a pair al them close together and blastthem with a smart bomb.

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14404, Au Dav ies . HeyterrOd 1,2120; Skphen Henstead, Wigan, Lanes; I Chapman.

andgend, Mid Glamoryan: Nevin Gentry, Resicliffe on Sea; nona Higgins, &wpmPowys; Armes Glen, Waterloo, Liorrpool: Steve Matkil Baricing, Essex; Chris

McGowan. North East Sufton, Hull

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winner is gonna get it all? Yes, here's the winner of the lab andbrillski Karnov arcade machine, courtesy of the makers of the

conversion, Electric Dreams. (Yippee!) But don't bedownhear ted, 'cos if you're lucky you might have just got oneof 20 copies of the Lecky Dreams game, anywayl l think youknow what to do. Comrade.

1st Prize Winner; Kevin Murray, Workington. Cumbria.

20 Runners Up: Alan Livesey, Whaley Range, Manchester; Verity MelloRoyston, Harts; John Mans. Kenton. Middx; Owen Meadows, Rounds,Northants; Conny Ekedahl, Dalhern, Sweden; Terence Rowlands, Tarvin,

Chester: J Marston, Wimbourne, Dorset Richard Silk, Harbledown, Kent:Tony Jarvis, Wet Bromwich; P. Thorne, VI/afford, Harts; Jani Tuisku,

Kurikka. Finland: Kern Hamilton, North Shiaids, Tyne and Wear; GaryByronArnold, Chatham, Kent; Christopher Drommard, Micheldever,

Hants; Nathan Jones, Lilleshall. Nr Newport; Gordan Paramos, Tyne andWear; Daryl Baker, Minehead, Somerset; A Swankie, Motherwell,

Lanarkshire: Dafydd Jones, Whitchurch, Cardiff; Bryan Meakins. StAlbans, Herts,

Never Mind A Cup Of lea, I Could Do With A DtEDCompo

Have at ye, o foul stenching troll.., or better still cites* and see if yeah, one of Me proud owners of the Bask Dungeons And Dragons • Kit,which shoidd keep you dungeon stomping for a good many months tocome. Or perhaps you've won one of 10 copies of Electronic Arts "The

Bard 'a Thle? h e can say, orr features? Stop reading this intro and diginto the listing, stupid.

14 inne71. C Rechardson, Berleyheati, Kent,- l e v e r k r i s t e n -s e n t b d z b e v , D e n m a rk

Sandi P l u m p i o n Green; E Sussex- •S' Utley, Rusbden. Northants; Damian Lalte,Congletort, Cheshire; ,Hatthew Beer, Folkestone, tient; Colin Hilton, Doncaster, s

bricsAire, Owen Landon, Walsall, $44st Midlands,- l a P h i l l i p , L o n d o n ; M a t s d i a m d .

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What ho? Are you a Gnome Ranger? Okay yak Well, mater andpater Gnome have arranged for nine lucky winners of this Level

9 compo to get a copy of the a s-y e t-u n - j o l l y - w r i t t e n G n o m e

Ranger 11 when it comes out, yah? Pretty wail ing good, eh,chums? Haw hawWinners: David Morgan, East Kilbride, Glasgow, Peter Ties, Wykan

County, W Midlands; lain McNeil, Kirkcaldy File; Paul Stanway, Bristol,Avon; Matthew Ray, Clanfield, Hants; Matthew Haswell, Isle of Arran,

Scotland; M Sylvester, Sutton Coldfield; J Clark, Poplar London; R. Davies,Pembroke Dock, Dyttcl.

Pm As Sick As A Parrot, John, Al Least As A ParrotWho Had live Pints Of Pernod Last Night On An

Empty Stomach CompoI l /t al k you through this goal, shall I, Brian okay, well herr lam in

the bor. t u r n it round, do all the runnin; then Ins there and I donethe skill t h e n I usin Roe leather footballs, 30 copies of the Piranha RoyOf The Rovers game c r r e pt they don t have any on account of going

oulta biznis, so got another Piranha game instead. Now over to potatoface in the studio...bliv Winners,. Jody Tidball„Viddlezog Somerset; Robert Davies, Darlington, Co,Durham; Rkhard Catlin Rugby, Warwicks; Posit A s h u r s t , Hants, StevenShaw. Blackburn, Lancs.30 Runners tip: J ( l a n k P o p la r , L o nd o n; E dw ar d H os ki n, 7b,t C am br id ge; Man-

Runkee, K e v i n Angus, ftwe, Aberrken, Kevin Bates, Hist itrontrickMidlands; S u sa n B ro wn , F al ki rk S co tl an d; Callum Clifton', Chiltern Lancs; Andrew

Donyey, Penryn, C'ernalagAtier Afrififliam, !inky, Dundee; Darryl killing,Wisbeech, Combs; Gareth Riack Aberlow Banffshire; Cohn mrtfurnie, Dewsbury; J

Keenan. liorwkit. 'totem; R a t a n K h a k i a r I l a y l e iy , k E s s er : B r ia n C o r le t t , M a nc h es t e r

Paid Thurston Gosport. Hants,- Andre Knowles. York; Deelan Ilerriman, BelfastZishan lqbal, Harlow, Esser; C Down, Therven'on. Ereter, Ii,zul Terrier .11 a r t or s ,

Middlesborough; J K r i s t o f fe r s o n , A d de r ky G r ee r '. SA"; L Ir tl e K er ri ga n. S tr ab an e, Co

Tyrone; Eliot Higgins, Ifiklebnsige. Cornwall; Chunn, Ilford Essex; MahmoodHussain, sparithill, Birmingham; M a t t h e w D a v i e s . W e l l i n g b om u g h; L e e l k wi d

Fancett Boolk mersepitte; Ato Willey, Cbessingion, Surrey: John Horrors, Kilmahog.Per&

Who Dares IMns CompoAll of you who entered this compo were Virgin on the

ridiculous. But don't worry, 'cos we wouldn't Dare cause a fuss,'cos the winner will be walking away with one of five Dan DareMega Packs, with a pair of books, t•shirt, posters a l l kinds 01stuff. I mean, even the runners up get 25 copies of Virgin's DanDare / /game, so who are we to go Mekon a fuss? So here youare...

Five Winners of Dan Dare Packages: D Parker, Redhill. Surrey; Chris Giles,Almondbury, Huddersfield; Nicicy Tompkins. Mihon Keynes; Matthew

Barton, Litton, Devon; David Hall, Stretford, Manchester10 Runners up of Dan Dare T-Shirts and Posters: Steven Bailey, Newcastle

Under Lyme, Staffs: Jorge Naia, Feteira-Azores, Portugal. Mark Cottle,Willenhall, W Midlands; James West, Beecles, Suffolk; John Thomson,Morley, W Yorks; B Porger, Liverpool; Paul Morris, Bushey Heath, Herts;

Jeremy Glennon, Stockton On Tees, Cleveland; Stephan Peace, Tarriworth,Staffs; James Reader, Whimple, Devon.25 Runners up of copies of Dan Dare It Richard Siviter, St Arms, Bangor:

Andrew Dungey, Penryn, Cornwall: Andrew Forrest, Ardrossan, Ayrshire;Anthony Johnson, Willesden Green, London; Philip Yeates; Westeliffe.Dorset; Philip Merritt, Gravesend, Kent; Marc Durham, Lee On Solent,

Hants; David Jennings, Rugeley, Staffs: R. Debell, Chatham, Kent; GaryBoydell, Prescot, Merseyside; Lexie Kerrigan, Co Tyrone; Charles Waters,Ha ssocke, W Sussex; Grant Ogilvie, Newport, Fife; Marcus Whitehead,

Olney Bucks; Wasim Ctureshi, Didsbury, Manchester; Paul Howard, Enfield,Middx; James Clark, North Merton, N 'ibrks; C Eisby, Over Winsford,

Cheshire; George Kavalieros, Rhodes, Greece; Andrew Seagrave,Birmingham; Damian Peacock, Oswestry, Shrops; Philip House,

Breightmet, Bolton; Richard Marks, Helston, Cornwall; D Woodward. StokeOn trent; K Wilderspin, Great Paxton, Cambs.

Duba Dubba Dubba Ihtbba ContpoDubba dubba dubba, slap, dubba, leap, swish, r000ttaaarrel A brilliantbasket by the winner of this comp°. And as their prize well be sendingthem Ems's choice old complete pro basketball kit, with boots, shorts,shirt, ball and even the hoops and net? Okay, now the runners up.. .

rumble. nw 0 0 0 t Oh no, it's a stampede o r Ls it the LondonMarathon?... Quick, give them their .50 copies 0/Street Sports

Basketball before they trample us to giwearnale...Winner, David Alan letrod Felling, nine and Heat

SO Runners up- Jamie Wilson, Pill Bristol; I? Osage Stockport, Cheshire; C a r lIllookman, Grangetown, Cardiff; Skoen GosIsman, Skew, Aberdeen; Samh Peeress

Kingsfull Bucks; ,Stephen Rees, Dyfed, Hales; Neil Ogden, WinaL Brent DoyleBurnley, Lanes; P Pritchard, Penn, Wolverhampton: R Hew!!, COrritilalt AdrianIlivarley, Old Dwiront Manchester: Andrew Scoutfield, Barnstaple, N Heron.

Christopher Samley. West Readarh, I1Mrs; Ike Lumsden„Sedburyh, cumbria. KeithkIgnre, County Waterford; Matthew Temple, Auckland New Zealand; Jonathan KerrCo Antrim; Pau' Hewitt, Branshohne, Hull; Karl Bunyan, Languonk Lincoln, Ater

Dorton. Plymouth, Delon; Edward Anyatil Lyndon; .1 bowler, Harwell Len, ThomasKiraly, Budapest, Hungary, Roy Roberts, Old Min2n, Aran: Arlene 81105011, Castle

Doug, las. larkrudbrighishire; M Davies, Heywood Lana: Simon PeacockSunderland; ,Simon Greig, Lydney; P h i l i p ,k l e r r i t t , G n w e s e n d, K e n t . A S e a g ra m ,

Birmingham; R o y B o l as , H e l ip o r t G we nt ; M McGee . Dudley. Hest ,k li di an ds ;

Hewitt, ilemsby. Gt Yarmouth; Michael Lane, Scunthorpe, South ffiltriberSide. AVMSEalttS, Welshpool Pouys• Duncan Morrissey, Swinton, Manchester; Itiul Bristow,Greenock Scotland; Daniel Bees, Shrnmote, M i d ; Colin Bennett HafrhamwoHerts; Jason Smith, Buckingham, Bucks; Luther Joness Sutton In Ashliekl, Notts:Adam Cook, Hastings, E Sasser; Kevin 1 4 11 1 1 a nt s on , P e t e r b o r o u g h ; A d a m

Cirencester, Glows; Char Gray, Cambridge; Edward bleak Katton On Mare Essex;Chris Millar Lochoale, Dumfries; Mar* Davies, Landon SE9; HidMauql,,1, 7!ort10114Norfolk

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If A Picture launched A Thousand Ships PhilMust Be A Dinghy Compo

Stone me. it's David Bailey... no it's not, it's the winner of theVivitar PS35 Autofocus 35mm camera. And who's that smiling

and saying cheese? It looks like so people holding copies ofGrand Slams Terramex/Cor, and they all look like George Cole...

Winner: Fiona Robertson, Broughty Ferry, Dundee.50 runners up: Stephen May, Gerrards Cross, Bucks: Jenny Alclous,

Norwich, Norfolk; Simon Turner, Wakefield, W Yorks; James Barrowman,Denny, Stirlingshire; Lee Calladine, Alvaston, Derby; AT Green, Glenrothes,Fife; Christopher Pinheiro Santos. Setubal, Portugal: Martin Jones. Burton

on Trent, Staffs; A McClInrian, Southwick, Sunderland; A McWilliam,Muirton, Perth; John Pagan, Barrow in Furness, Cumbda; Gareth

Cridlarnd, Nasea, Bristol; Max James Rhodes, Weston Super Mare, Avon;Robert Hamblen. Toxteth. Liverpool; Adrian Reeve, Swansea, S Wales:

Nicholas Lowe. Blackley, Manchester; Lisa Hartley, Swinton. LAMS; ShaunFullard, Chorlton, Manchester; Guy Keogh, Blackburn, Lancs; Andy

MacLellan, Joc Maastricht. Holland; Joshua Lyon, Broadstone, Dorset;Thomas Porter, Huntingdon, Cambs: James Ness, Buckingham; GarethTeague, Nailsea, Bristol; Rhodri Bowen. Trebanos, Swansea; Stuart Low,

Angus. Scotland; Julies Nelberg, Winterslow, Nr Salisbury: Darren Tuffery,Berk Hamsted, Harts: A Merser, Thornaby, Cleveland; Chris Watson,Needham Market, Suffolk; AJ Sands, Bournemouth, Dorset; RobertHarries, Newport. Gwent; Rui Manuel Inacio, Almada, Portugal; Ben

Yeomans, Dursley, Glos; G EbbehArhite. Skelmersdate. Lams: MatthewHaswell, Isle of Aran. Scotland; Stephen Henstead, Wigan, Lams; AnthonyDavis, Upper Basildon, Barks: Andrew Thorpe, Whitwell Worksoo, Notts:

Philip Edwards, St Helens, Merseyside: Carl Morris. Rochdale; JohnBurgess, Taunton. Sam; Jonathon Lamb, Poynton, Cheshire; P Vince,London; Rhys Smithson, Sherrness, Kent; David Hall, Wakefield. WYorkshire; Alan Jones, Upper Benefield, Northamoton; Alex Bushell,Andover, Kent: Scott Wilson, Cambuslang, Glasgow: Simon Cooke,Cheadle, Cheshire.

She's Called Halo, But She Ain't No Angel CompoHalo. I love you, tionY you tell me your name... or better still, kt hear

It for the five people who've won the set of three Halo Jones graphicnovels. Ah, okay, so there is a problem with the non existence of the Halo

Jones game b a t once again. Piranha, or what's left of them, haspromised to give away some replacement Piranha games. Ahhh i nna lnice?

Winners: Patti Reasant Co Antrim; Andrea, G o o d g a m e t i n h o r n . L o n d o n . E v a n

Alchensie. lochvale, Dumfries; Jason Grubb, Redditch. Worer; Asir MOM. Blackburn,

LanesRunners up: Laurence Sheedmart, London. Bragg, Ilford, &SW: Michael ThrnerPonktfract Yorks; Mark BUMIWS, Wallington, Surrey; Ron Gumming. Leeds, Italics,-Mikko Kropsu, Tbmio, Finland; John Warden, Kettering, NOrtkintS; Stephen Smith,

Sahsbury, Wills; Milo Steelier]. Anbridge, Kent; Alex De La Salle, Poole, Dorset

Gimme Gimme Gimme A Ha l o J o n e s G a m e

CompoIt seems to us that every creep in The Hoop entered for thisone, in the hope of getting their claws on one of 10 copies of

the Halo Jones game... at well, it seems that Piranha have goneout of business and so the Halo game wasn't finished. Never

fear, the winners will get a Piranha game as a prize. It iust won'tbe Halo Jones, that's All Sorry 'bout that.And the winners are: Richard Harland, S. Wirral, Cheshire; Niels Gudegast,

Marple. Cheshire; 'Rebel' Ash, Andover, Hampshire; Glenn Gibney,Woodburn, Co Antrim; A Hulmes, Timperly, Cheshire; Scott McGlashan,

Kings Park. Glasgow; Paul POUltOrl, Birmingham; Tony Giscombe,Droitwhich, Worc.; Richard Pearson. Chelmsford, Essex; Nicholas stbung,Saddleworth, Lancs.

Please Send Me The Brilliant Pocket Colour TV SetPretty Please I'll Be Your Best Mate Compo

This really was the best prize we've offered in a contpo for someconsiderable time, a one-off Casio TV400 pothet colour Iv, plus somerunners up prizes (puff. wheeze) of 50 copies of Ga5 Side Arms arcadeconversion. Rerilliant.

Winner: Paul Hunter, Morecambe, Lancashire.50 Runners up: Brian Sherry, Laindon, Esser; Philip Kelly, Wilmslow, Cheshire,' Lee

perkins„Noilsea. Bristol; Ben 14rright, Chelmsford, Esser; Daniel CartwrightKeyworth, Nottingham; Barry Gorman, Li.51n1M, Ca Antlint: Mrs T Warwick, Watford

Hers; David Gluier. Anfield lAverpooL Michael Greer, East Borkwith, Lincoln;Christos Roussou, New Malden, Surrey, G Catins. Hinckley, Leics; FarltadDeal/wry, Manchester: Mark Brent thwyhulme, Manchester: Paul Clark Herharn,

Northumberland; Douglas Williamson, Greenock Scotland; Leigh Corbishley,Unnston, Manchester; David Oungey, Brigstone, Isle of Wight; PS Thorne, Watford,Herb; S Bruddirk, Metborough, S. Yorks; Van Campbell, Cheltenham. Glos: Chris

Elliott Casdeford, W hula. Gilhian Wilimod, Poole. Dorset; E. Robinson. Hayward%Heath, -Sasser; Simon Barnett SolihulL W Midlands; Tbny FilThy. Newcasde; Andrew

Wallas, Northern MOM*, Manchester' Crispin Brooks, Thiiky, BasingstokeI l l Bailey.Palmerston North. „New Zealand: Ben 14filintetleing Bourne End. Bucks; A Bahl.liardepord, Cleveland; Nicholas Atkins. Loose, Maidstone; Paul Wester. Legion.London; Ronald Smith, Arbroath. Angus; Daniel tInney, Walthantslow. London;Simon Crabb, Bancroft Milton Keynes; Gavin Prior. Southshore, Blackpool; Jason

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That with the multitude of t o nip down to the shops andaly-identical racing games s p e n d it. A new car might be'enby available, wouldn't it n i c e , if you can't be bothered to-lice if someone took the g e t the old one fixed. Oh, andformal by the ear and gave s ome petrol (sorry — liquidgood tweaking? Wed, by n i t r o g e n ) to go in it. And whato, that's exactly what ti. a b o u t a m a c h in e g u n? O r an

rtech has done! In The Furs escape pod for the hairieronly do you have to beat m o m e n t s ? Needless to say,r opponents to the finish t h e more dash in ye r posh. the

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t for•n case you weren't aware,d I certainly wasn't until now,the year 2045 the hip thingdo at the weekends will bem Racing. What this involvesdriving your liquid-nitrogeniwered car around the Rim,nich is part of an artificialanet called Devs, which inm orbits Jupiter, (Cynical)ugh!) This form of sport is3ing to receive blanketDverage in the media,ossibly becoming even moreopular than Gardener'sWestion Time, mainly due to a,eird phenomenon called 'The'my', which pops up andthisks people awaynysteriousty in the middle ofhe race.

Of course, simply whizzingound a track could get a littleedious after a while, so driversre given the option of fitting

Neapcons to their vehicles. Byhis stage you'll probably havenoticed the slower cars thattrog wound the track. arepiloted by the learner-drivers,known as Noids (or Nerds ifyou live outside New York).Line up behind one, blip thefire-button to activate your

withYou probably won't know it,

though, as judging by theweedy little sprites everyone'sdriving round in a Skoda orsomething. I might even go sotar as to say that some of thembear a startling resemblance tothe Reliant Robin! (A joke:What do you call a ReliantRobin with twin exhausts? Awheelbarrow!)

Luckily, graphics are of littleimportance in this case. Whatmatters is how it plays. Andeeerrn, it's not too bad,actually. The opposing cars

move a bit randomly, and itbe frustratingly tricky to getthrough the first few levels,after getting over the hurdle ofthe first three races or so. thegame really opens out andbecomes quite enjoyable,

As in the best games.practice makes perfect andyou'll need more than just afast joystick-wibbling hand tomake progress. A good dollopof patience would also help, asmy Speccy came perilouslyclose to being hurled throughthe window on a number ofoccasions, 11 you think you'reup to it (mar), The Fury is wellworth the outlay.

Oh yeah. and if anybodyEVER calls me 'Jon-Boy'again...

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Ben 'n Bkippy The roar of thecrowd The taste of victorySpeed, sweat, steroids...sportssims. And here's another ofthem. Alternative World Gamesfrom Gremlin.

The inlay says that AlternativeWorld Games will 'recapture thevery essence of competitivesport', it also says that AWG willget you in the sack — but we

Iwouldn't put much hope on it

doing either.There are eight events

collected together in AlternativeWorld Games, each is loadedindividually and has its own labtune. The control technique is

, similar to that used in the later'Games' games (SummerGames, World Games, etc) asopposed to the Hypersportsd e s t r u c t o-k e y b o a r d/ j o y s t i c k

method. Believe me it ain't easy,responsiveness isn't one of thegame's better points.The events are as follows:The Sack Race: A straight-forward two-player obstaclerace against the clock. As theplayers hop along, the screenscrolls right revealing manholeswhich open up in a bid to trip youover

Grand Slam/U.95Ma ce s Traffic wardens are riotrenowned for their sympathetic,affectionate view of life, nor fortheir compassionate attitude

Pile of Plates: A single-playerrace against the clock. Moreplates mean more points but ahigher stack of crockery is a lotharder to handle.Boot Throwing: Time yourkeyboard jabs carefully tocorrespond with your character'sboot spinning, press fire whenyour power (shown underneaththe playing area) is as high as it'sgonna get and the boot'll gosailing off into the distance.River Jump: The basic idea is totake a running jump over a riverusing a long pole to give you a bitof lift. Speed and timing arecrucial if you're to qualifyPoke Climbing: The very strangecontrols and illiterate instructions(even by our standards) madethis event all but unplayable butmore about that later.Run up the Wall: Without doubtthe weirdest event in AWG. Youfirst have to retrieve your hatfrom a parrot who flaps aroundat the top of the screen just outof reach. The next step is tocatch the hat on your playershead and then pummel the hellOut of your keyboard to build upspeed. A couple of nifty keyboardjabs later and you've got your hatstuck halfway up a wall.

towards hairy lorry drivers withtatoos on their arms: so this isprobably why Grand Slamdecided to name the trafficwarden in it's latest releaseCHUBBY GRIM,

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Pillow Fight: No sports sim iscomplete without a bash 'em up.And even if you're a girly pacifistyou'll be happy with this one —what more could you ask forthan pillow fighting on a Gondalain Venice (what Venice has got todo with pillow fighting I'll leaveyou to decide).Pogo: The last on the tape, butby no means the least, ('costhey're all as bad as each other)is a race against the clock toburst all the balloons in theplaying area

The front end has been wellthought Out and is in itself quiteentertaining.

The event selector is also funto play around with. As per usualfor this sort of game you canchoose to play or practice any ofthe events in any order, Thescreen is split up into nine witheach section representing anevent, choose an event and ashort video sequence of itappears on its screen.

Getting into the game is madevery difficult by the abysmalinstructions, we were actuallyvery surprised that something sobadly written and tin-informativecould actually come from a

Chubby Gristle. (Obviously areference to the typecast view ofblubbery wardens with thepersonality of an onion andphysical attributes of acardboard box, B u t d e s p it e t he

inventiveness of the title, thegame falls short by several lightyears in originality, brilliance andgeneral appeal.

Skimming over the surface ofthis game, you'll discover thatwhat you have is nothing morethan another platform game. Awandehng succession ofgruesomely-coloured screenspopulated by such things asscissors and amorphous ant-eaters — the usual platformclichés. Of course, you also haveyour little flashing objects whichyou must collect bymanoeuvring your plump formbetween two collidingsaucepans. Hazards includewater, lava and something hotand aqueous, which drops ontoyellow concrete, as well as one-way moving ladders — all very

software house as big asGremlin, perhaps the inlay writerwas having a bad day.

In fact, all of AWG's eightgames have three basicproblems, graphicsimplementation and playability.The graphical style usedthroughout AWG is chunky andundetailed. The backgroundsare ugly and the scrolling, wherethere is any, is as jerky as ago-go dancer with hiccups. AWGotters nothing but heartache.hassles, a few neat tunes and achance to sully the sacnficalaltar.

VS CLAPOMETERA poorly-implemented sportssim that's about as alternativeas Ben Elton!

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rotund person who moves quitesmoothly and responsively Theaction is placid. Sounds arerestricted to beepy leaping trillsand doleful beepy death noises,all pretty antiquated and very.well. beepy.

The game is essentially Au!Wtedeisehen Monty with thesetting, purpose andattractiveness of the Gremlingame replaced by blunt screendesign, reiterated plot andlanguid garneplay.

I VS CLAPO METERAn arid game: dried-upgameplay desiccatedgraphics, not One to quenchyour addictive thirsts.SRAJNICI . 1 1 1 • 1 1 1 1 • 0 0 0 0 LPLAVAIIRM • l l i n • • 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0VALUE f011•00.11V 1 .1 1 1 1 1 1 .1 0 0AVOKITVENISS • • • M I D O D D

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And. lo and behold, the gawere good Very good in factAnd now they're all out again inone box Hoorahlu

If you've had your Specabsolutely yonks and yonthen the chances are thatown all these games already.what are you reading this for?Go away at once! This is for •people who havent seen thesegames before' Go on, scramPronto'

Have the scoundrels gone?'Good — then I'll begin.

Once upon a time there wassoftware company that madegames that everybody talkedabout The games were crisp,slick. simple and downrightaddictive Ouite a good formulareally, wouldn't you agree chumbos?

Anyway, one bright sunny ita— when everybody thought theSpeccy had been pushed, gra-phically, as far as it would go —this software company releaseda stunning new game_ The gamewas called Knight/ore, the com-pany was called Ultimate andthe game view was called'Isometric Protection Yaaah-h000000d!” 30 had happenedYbu could walk In front of things,behind thongs, in fact you couldeven move things around andstand on them it was the gamethat spawned a squillion copy-cats — a new genre had beencreated Well done Ultimate'

So from Ultimate's cheerful 20dawn to its climatic 30 sunset,there are 11 of its games bungedtogether in this one packageHave they stood the lest of ttLet's have a butchers_Cookie You control Cookie,little chef not a Happy Eater)Zoom around the screen shing the floating ingredients intothe bowl at screen bottom. Avoidthe nestles. Totally simple, niceto play and hair-raisingly addic-tivePasit ribu want your seed togrow into a nice big juicy sun-flower. Trouble is that worms,wasps and all manner of bug-things want to eat it Keep theheinous pests at bay with thesprays, poisons and swattersyou have at your disposalAgain, totally simple and addic-tiveT r a n z-A m A ' v ie w f rom above '

car game/collect ein up Whizzaround the USA collectinggoblets while avoiding theground features (cacti and soon) and the enemy MOtOCS Erm.not the best game on the compi-lation actually.J e t-P ao S ing le screen with

three platforms. Collect the fall-ing fuel cannisters and lake themto your space-rocket, Vape any-thing that moves, or it will vapeyou. Simple, tun and addictive

Lunar Jo !man J e t-Pa c wknobs on. Scrolling landscvehicles to enter and drive,things to collect and loads toavoid I found it incredibly difficuto play and preferred the sim-plicity of Jet -Pac. But that's lustme s i m p l eA t ic Atac Run funously througha giant maze-like complex ofrooms in your search for thethree parts of the golden key(which allows you to escapefrom the castle). A viewed fromabove zapping/avoiding/map-ping/collect 'em up. Fast andfurious and great fun, although abe datedSabre Wulf Anc-Atac in thejungleKn ig h t Lore One of the mostimportant (and best) games everwritten for the Speccy Movethrough the 30 castle collectingorbs, chalices arid such likeWhen Of more likely — hawhaw), you've got them all, bungthem in the wizard's cauldron

gameOver Heels. , yStill stands upAlien 8 Knigjapes. but this t

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Mergatron.Anyway. time passed, and to

cut a long story short, the priceof a pint went up, BoltonWanderers got relegated, andthe cruel and despotic

when blue beacons aredestroyed — the controls arereversed, meaning a forwardpush on the joystick sends youbackwards (confused? you will

Enough of the game, !hearyou cry. how does it play? Asgood as Wimbledon in a CupFinal, that's how. The graphicsare really good and varied on thethree levels which I managed tosee. Level one is on a sort ofplatform, two is the planetsurface, and three. looks like aroadway.

Colour is also used verycivilisation went the same way e ffec tive ly considering theas most others — to pot a n d S p e c tr u m s limitations. There is aleft the Jewels just waiting for a g r e a t amount of detail and thebrave but stupid hero to try and thoughtfully used animation allget them. Stupid? Well, you a d d to the atmosphere of thegotta be a spanner short of a lull game. Sound is the usualtool kit if you want to try to get sp l o d g y n o i s e s , b u t t h i s g o e s

past Mergatron's automatic l a r g e l y un-noticed as you getanisms p r o g r e s s i v e l y sweatier palms

there's the Atomic —be i ng a hero sure takes it out atnd Molotov y o u . The ship is very responsive

Coc e s e are fixed base a n d manoeuvrable. althoughgun turrets which start firing o n e tiny niggle is that thebullets with a deadly accuracy as missiles or bullets would destroysoon as you appear. Then there's the ship before contactthe missile turrets, which launch occasionally.deadly homirg missiles at you. A l t h o u g h what is here isas well as moving tanks, which excellently done there is nothing

Ilets Staying still for too n e w and it is this which stopsill advised Why" 'Cos an Marauder hitting the absoluteno will drop a bouncing t o p spot as far as Spectrum

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glowing defence beaconsencountered along thewhich, depending onaid or hinder your advashot Red beacons deliver anextra smart bomb while purpleloses a life and so on Aninteresting development occurs

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Now, CCS — known for theexcellence of its strategy games

gives you the chance tocommand the invasion forces asyou re-fight Operation Overlord.As you pit your wits againstRommel — soon to be forced totake poison by the Gestapo afterbeing implicated in the July 24thplot to assassinate Hitler — youhave a momentous choice.

Do you follow the plans madeby Eisenhower and the AlliedChiefs of Staff? Do you land onthe beaches the invasion forcesreally landed on — Sword. Juno.Gold, Omaha and Utah, stillmarked to this day by thewreckage of 44 years ago — ordo you think you can do better?Perhaps a landing in forcearound Cherbourg would meanthat you could get your troopsashore with ease, and it wouldgive you a major port but then,the German forces could easilyseal off the neck of thepen ninsula, denying you accessto the open land beyond, andforcing your armour to fight inunfavourable terrain. Or shouldyou land further to the east.much closer to Paris — but alsoin an area with much heavierdefences, and closer to Germanreinforcements? Do you useyour airborne units to protect theflanks of your invasion — whichwould be historically accurate —or should you reserve them, tobe used either as ordinaryground troops, Or dropped laterwhen they might tip the balanceat a vital moment? Life's not easycommanding the invasion ofEurope!

It's a lot easier howeverplaying CCS's version, than itwould be commanding the realthing. Overlord is a one playerwar game — which I personallyprefer, as I have neverunderstood the point of twoplayer computer war games. Youthe player control the dispositionand movement of the Alliedinvasion forces_ The computerplays the Germans.

The first choice you have tomake is to decide what difficultylevel you want to set the gameat. There are three, with one

4i1O•r;s• A t k TACTIPS• MVO's (Macro SpectoManiacs) go into battle with thesoftware houses this monthMiles Kinlock fromEdinburgh has this to say,"Having read Phil Chestermanand Tom Morgan's comments inthe April issue and being a 128KOwner myself. I felt I must writein. I entirely agree with themabout the lack of 128K softwareavailable. Whilst! dounderstand that from a softwarehouse's point of viewProgramming for the 48K puts alarger potential market at theirdisposal Since this is unlikely tochange, where does that leaveus poor 128K owners? Why

don't software housescomprOmise by putting a 48Kversion on one side of the tapeand an enhanced 1281< versionon the other thereby keepingeveryone happy I'm awaresome software like this isavailable but not nearly enough— and I don't mean just musicadded either' And finally as youPoint out, programmers tend topack as much as possible into48K with some surprisinglygood results — Driller for one!Just think what they could dowith 128K — I'll leave you todrool over a 128K Freescapegame' Well we quite agree — alot of people have bought

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We've had several lettersfrom readers wondering whereto get new strategy games. Don'tyou lot look at the adverts in YS7There are plenty of mall orderfirms who advertise regularly inVS-- a letter to any of themshould provide helpful advice

Well, that's it for this monthRemember don't be shy Send inyour piccy mention yourfavourite wargamong period andask for help. Send all your topsand queries to O&A. On TheWarpath 14 Rathbone Place.London W1 P 1 DE All lettersprinted get a VS badge

being the easiest and three thehardest. I chose level one for myfirst game, but still managed tocompletely mess things up.

Ntiu decide which of yourdivisions are landing on whichbeach. There are 12 beaches tochoose from the historical fiveplus another seven which theallies might have chosen. Youcan land on five of the 12beaches and as you do so.markers appear on the mapwindow, indicating where thelanding areas are. It's not a goodidea to spread your landingareas out too much, as yourforces won't be able to supporteach other efficiently

Once you've picked thebeaches, you have to decidewhich division will land on eachOne — although you could decideto land units from the samedivision on different beaches.But again, this is not really agood idea unless the beachesare very close to each other.because if you scatter the partsof your divisions too far apart.they will not be able to fight attheir best.

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can't parachute into gay Paris onthe first turn. You shouldprobably use them to attack theenemy forces closest to thelanding beaches. to stop themfrom counter-attacking your

particular beach at a time and,in the first turn, you may onlyland rifle units. The heaviertroops, artillery and armour,have to wait until later. Onceyou've picked who goes where,you then get a chance to landyour airborne forces. You haveto land them within threesquares of a landing beachwhich is being used by thedivision they are a part of, so you

troops on the sand.Once you've started landing

your units, it is important to getthem off the beaches as fast asyou can. You can only bring innew units if the beach-head isclear, so you must start off bycreating a protective perimeteraround your landing areas. Onceyou have the bulk of your forcesashore, you can then startexpanding the beach-head and

trying to break-through thedefending Germans. At first, itwill be a war of attrition: but onceyou have ground down theenemy, gaps should startappearing in his lines and youshould be able to punch through.

Ordering your units issimplicity itself. Simply give theman objective to make for, and tellthem where you want thedivision's left and right flanks tobe. I would have preferred anextra option. giving you theability to order individual units,but I accept that the way thegame works now is a very goodsimulation of real warfare, withinthe restrictions of the memory ofa 48K Spectrum. You also haveto tell your forces what to do ifthey run into the enemy. You caneither attack, defend, or useyour initiative. If you attack, thenyou will do more damage to theenemy, but also suffer morecasualties.

And that is basically it. Themechanics of the game aresufficiently simple for the playerto be able to devote his time tothe real challenge, the strategicdecision making. Andchallenging it is — working outthe right way to winkle theGermans out of their defensive

I only have two criticisms. Firstof all, nowhere in the rule bookdoes it tell you what the symbolson the unit counters actuallystand for. I can work it out, butthen have been a wargamerand military history buff for along time now. But it wouldprobably have been useful for abeginner if the unit symbols hadbeen identified.

Also. found it very difficult totell my left from my right — orrather, my units' lefts from theirrights. This is not because of anypersonal problem withorientation, but because it isnever made clear whether leftand right refer to the player's leftand right, or the units'. As theplayer is facing in the oppositedirection to the units he controls,it can be confusing.

Quibbles apart, Overlord is anexcellent game. It offers hours ofchallenging entertainment, andcould even teach some history atthe same time (though I wouldn'tbe too put off by that!). Anotherwinner from CCS,Richard Blaine

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The game takes place on aseries of static screens with playcontrolled by a joystick andthree bunon set up. The maincharacter packs a much greaterpunch than his cute little roundface would suggest however agood deal more than firepoweris necessary as, level by level,the game's puzzles becomemore difficult to solve and thegameplay speeds up to abreakneck pace.

Nasty httle gobblers followyou around with evil on theirminds, but these can be turned

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to your advantage as they turninto stepping stones when shot,and can be used to reach

othervvise inaccessible lollies.Far worse terror comes in theshape of the bomb heads whoroam around waiting to explode— watch out for these guyslosing their temper (this is easyto spot as their heads turn red).

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DRAGONNINJAThe streets are no longer safe. Even the local toughies don't like to walk about forfear of running into the gangs of deadly assassins and vicious vamps in highheels and fishnet stockings. Only one man can put things right (or two men ifyou're playing the two-player version) — and his name? Dragianninia!

Data East is responsible for this beat 'em up. The unusually large dragonninjasprite is controlled by a joystick and two button set-up, which allows almost 20separate fighting moves including double punches and flying kicks.

Play takes place along two vertically scrolling platforms, with an enormousamount of baddies to be bitted before the end of each level (honestly, there'salmost no end to these guyst). A huge fire-breathing muscle-brain or one of hisequally brawny mates) appears at the end of each level and has to be rubbed outbefore you can proceed.

Cans of 'Power Pop:Numchuckas, Sunken Starsand other martial aids appearen route, greatly adding toyour killing power whencollected.

For all the bells and whistlesThough, Dragonninja is one ofthe easiest beat 'em ups I'veever played. Great gangs ofPaddies can be slaughtered inseconds and you need onlyever use a couple of moves atthe most. It looks and soundsgood and rockets along at afurious pace — if you want toinflate your ego by kicking andpunching your way deep into afighting game then this is theone for you.Convertibility Factor. 6Sprites a little too large perhaps?

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people thinking that they'regetting a suntan when infact they're turning rusty.And what of the arcades?They're full of canoodlingcouples, kids dropping icecream on the floor .. . andsplendiferous amounts ofnew machines! That's rightfolks, if there's one thing that

summer's good for, it's theupsurge in production ofnew blasters for usarcadesters to get our teeth(and 10p pieces) into. Sostop playing volleyball withyour granny and buryingyour little brother up to hisneck in sand (upside downof course), and get into oneof those dark and dingypleasure palaces where youmay find some of thefollowing games — and awhole lot morel

KICK OFFRemember beck in June when Bobby Robson's boys managed tolose gracefully to every team that they met in the Europeanchampionships? Well now Jaleco gives you the chance to getyour revenge in Kick Oft a soccer s imulat ion which at tempts tobring you the sights, sounds and smells(??) of a majorinternational tournament.

As usual before a game of this type a couple of choices have tobe made — namely which team you wish to control and whetheryou want to play against the computer or a human opponent?

The rules are the same as in the real thing — except of coursethat the match only lasts for three minutes. Only one player oneach team is controlled at any one t ime, with the relevant spritehighlighted in yellow. The characters are animated quite cleverlyand are capable of a number of moves including sliding tacklesand overhead kicks (the goalie's dive is a little bit suspectthough).

The pitch scrolls nicely, across the field, as well as f rom end toend, and there are some nice touches inc luding theforeshortening that occurs when the ball is lofted high into the air.

So what's the verdict? A bit ma ) I'm afraid. This is anothergame that has great potential — but doesn't live up to it. Thecomputerised opposition is far too strong, and far too often Ifound myself pulling my hair out as the wrong player washighlighted and I found myself miles f rom the action. If you'redesperate for some football action and can't find SNK's Fight ingSoccer anywhere (see rev iew last ish), then give this a try — butonly if you've got a friend along to play against.

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N'S CORKY COIN-OPCYBER TANK

A long t ine ago, in one of my previous lives, I met a very strangeAmerican dropout called Walt, who lamented the fact that hisgovernment never let him play with any of the tanks they boughtwith the money he had contributed during his stint as a taxpayer.So Walt, if you're still out there, this one's for you as the guys andgals at Coreland have come up with a tank s imulator which isgood enough to make you forget your government 's heartlessbehaviour!

CyberTank is a one or two player tour de force which drives likeOut Run and causes more havoc than a whole gang of Englishfootball supporters. In single-player mode the player takes thewheel and full responsibility for the tank's main cannon. Should afriend join in (and this can happen at any point in the game), he orshe takes control of the turret machine gun.

The object is to take your heavily -armed tank through fourlevels of densely populated enemy territory in order to save yourstranded comrades. The mission takes place along a devastatedroadway which is depicted across two screens.

The enemy stops at nothing in their at tempt to finish you off,calling in paratroops, helicopters, motorcycle soldiers, armouredcars, tanks and all sorts of other nasty pieces of work.

In addit ion to these mobile hazards, the road is also guarded byitatic defences inc luding pill-boxes (which shoot off rockets likelhey're going out of fashion) and, later in the game, minefields.

The tank's ammunit ion supplies are depicted on screen (with adiminishing graph for each player), and should be watchedcarefully — although this isn't easy with all of the may hem thatgoing on around you.

Cyber Tank is one of the most excit ing coin-ops that I've playedin ages. At 50p a go it might seem a lit t le steep, but the action isindescribably furious and if you give it a try I guarantee that you'llbe back for more. Far and away the best game this month.

Convertibility Factor: 4Psst — keep it to yourselves, butActivision has the licence!

CHOPPER 1'Enemy forces sighted on theborder. . . .This is not a drillThis is note drill!' So beginsChopper 1, SNK's addition tothe ever-expanding stable ofhorizontal scrollers and one ofthe best games of this typereleased so far.

I know that one of my mostc ommon complaints is thatthere is no longer anyoriginality in arcade games,and that this one hardly offersanything new, but the speed ofaction and super-smoothgameolay make up for any

610 EAnd all of that brings usneatly along to news offorthcoming attractions.Fear not if your local arcadehas been a bit stale of late,as there's a huge range ofmachinery trundling downthe motorways at this verymoment.

Leading the field is TheMain Event from Konami, anall-action tag wrestlingfrenzy for up to four players— it's BIG, daddy (groan —Ed). Now that the real thinghas been axed from TV, yougrip and grapple fanaticscan get your weekly dosedown the arcade instead.

If four-player wrestlingseems a little hectic, maybeyou would prefer to take aspin on Taito's Rally Bike, aone or two player roadracing and death-dealinghorizontal scroller - ormaybe not!

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A single helicopter flys alonga jungle landscape destroyingother choppers, railway-mounted tanks, supergunships and massive guninstallations. In two-playermode the players take turns atthe controls rather thanfi ght ing together. Extra powerand weapons can be collectedalong the way, and an air-strikecan be called in to clear thescreen smart -bomb style if thegoing gets really tough.

At t imes during Chopper ?there are more enemies onv iew than lit t le girls at a Brosconcert. There's also greatsound (including speech) andsome hectic situations at theend of each level which areenough to make your hairstand on end. Even if you thinkthat you're fed up withhorizontal shoot 'em ups, givethis one a try — it may changeyour mind.

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PITSTOPWhat do you get if you cross David McCandless and best amateur

programming talent in the world? Program Pitstop of course!loader I've ever seen.

If you think that you canequal, surpass or eventranscend the programsprinted here, then don't just sitat home and let your headswell, send the routines intome and let me pump up yourego instead. Not only doesyour name appear in thesehallowed pages but you couldpossibly win £50' So send allyour programs to DavidMcCandless, Program Pitstop,YS, 14 Rathbone Place,London, W1P 1 DE

Right, I've got a bone

to pick with you lot!Yes, I know you canget them for 2p at theMicrofair, and I know

that some of you have +3's(cough! cough!). But please,please don't send me yourskillo programs on +3 disk! Ihave supreme hassle trying toprint out +3 programs. Socassettes only, please. Ta verymuch.

Anyway enough moaningand on with the show — andwhat a show! First is Ch ris

I Cl.the program!

To draw a circle use thefollowing variable:POKE 63002, x co ord of centrePOKE 63004, y co ord of centrePOKE 63006, radius

Then once you've done that,

P i le who's been delving intoancient, moth-eaten '0 levelmaths tomes to come up with anultra-fast machine code circleroutine. Then, there's Da nNie ls o n who's adapted themessage scroller routineprinted a century or two back,to do something else — readon to find out what. R.Mu l l ig a n is third with hissimple but useful passwordprogram. And lastly this monthis a Star Tip from protectionexpert Graham Mason,who's written us the fabblest

by Chris Pileits a case of typingRANDOMIZE USA 63000 to seeyour circle on screen. Theprogram is totally crash proof(cross my fingers), and will notexplode in a splurge of flashingsquares should your circle stray

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• 6 3 1 6 e& l i b &4 1 1 7 6631846319261A186128861216612246121263246

L 4 3 2 4 8r e 3 2 5 6

632646327263280612806529661164611126 1 1 2 6

Circle Demo

Hex Loader

off the edge of the screen.To see how really zippo, and

fast it is, type in the short demoprogram. Get circulating!

Circle CodeF3062111E1E1E1166 • 6 4 4715847115897715F • 9 7 2F9V9s66115F4FC095 • 1 • 1 6F627764669C041176 • 1 4 7 8097408041764626FF • 1 4 0 56 9 2 3 1 6 /8 1 1 5 4 1,9 8 1 • 9 • 6

C81760i74661282861 • 1 1 8 017371F11746606667 • 7 3 571087817117AAEaC1AA• 4 1 38707677609E 6076F - 0 1 1KED911677E3440609 - 1 3 7 621562786E 07115047 • 1 0 7 7F4C9212161E 548C8 • 1 0 2 09 5 4-6 1 .5 4 40 CC D9 5 1-6• 1110

C11191IE8423081i l l • 7 8 414119C31576868621 • 7 7 65 7 7-7 1 99 6 97 E2 1 66 6 1/ • 734

C909050401768016 - 1 3 6 18C777118i3887FE CO • 119266111237723789210 • 5 6 28C777.7.413687EVES • 9 8 83463237721789236 • 5 6 2 , 48C7776611867KE C8 • 0 9 2 -1883217723748030 • 5 4 68C77799338674E CO • 9 8 034832377737.ERIE • 5 4 7EcrroEm3887rEce - 8913 0 8 1 2 1 7 7 2 3 7 091 1 8 • N O

8C777 .9238877LCO • 9 8 71 8 6 3 2 3 1 7 2 3769 1 38 • 5 6 3

11E7774811867FE E 4 • 8 9 13803237123708000 • 7 0 77779921184X0001123 • 1 2 / 17723C911841FF214E • 7 1 94/016860E60811M110 • 6 6 306211K47861185461 • 7 9 6er57e.f2930111191111 • 1114F8007500081441100 • 1 1 4 '21UnIneCIIMCNC9110 • / M eA e O P O O M O O M O I O M b e eeMOOMmeommowsmed M

i s CLEAR 6 2 9 9 9 . o l e m — M e eD OR M * l e PAPER 0 1 RANDOM IZE 0 0 0

6326776 L E / I - 1 9 1 i2 .6 4 4 4 1 6 1 1 I N K i s

POVE 2 1 6 2 4 , 1 e C LE P C I K E 6 3 8 8 6 .eme.am. r e e ee-1 T O N e i P OKE O d e2,11048.755. P OKE 6 3 6 6 4 ,0 9 0 4 1 9 2 e LEl 1-11104 buse s, 9 E11 K t 6 0 1 0 2 8

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7 1141,IT " L e n g th " s l e n g t hi• 0 INPUT .0-sLe Name .104

f I I FOR T . - s ta r t T O s t a r t • l e n O t hSTEP a

. 2 LE T c o . 830 P R IN T A T • , 1 4.A d d r e s s48 IN P U T .1 0 m o . 6 b y t es " . L IN E a

460 I F LE N . 1 1,T ) . 1 . 6 T H E N 6 0 T O 1

p66600 LE T 0 . 8 1 FOR 1 . / T O 1 690 I F 4 4 4 r . 1 ).8. O R o f 1 1 . 1 ) ›.9.)

AND 4 . 0 1 1 ( ) W A. O R a S I J I ).F . ) TH

A N L E T 0 • 1IOW NE AT s

Remember that old MessageScroiler thingy routine printedway, way, way, way back in issue30? Well, Dan Nie lson (as inBrigiette - wahay!Pnar!), fromthe tongue-twistingly namedTornskadavenget (excuse mewhile I unknot my tongue), hassent in an updated version of theprogram which allows you toscroll letters up to four timeswider than normal text. And whynot?

MethodThis is pretty simple to start upand get working. All you do istype in the 19 lines ofhexadecimal with the hex loader(see Circles), and then save thechunk of code with: SAVE"name" CODE 23296,160. Or,alternatively, you can type in thebasic controller program andutilise the save option on that.Nun said?

Smiler Code

Graham

0 E iTe a fe c OT2 5 6 3 t040670777318008E -17081FC08232229156214091.416366C5E 57E 6F2668292129E D58165C29119356WIROORED64186110C52A91581193566680C5E 51A17128682F5C5E51162006162616 =FOC IC IFILOFIE IC T7.41316E 476C11807CE OF02E IC176FE FF •CO238676912068C3

5 1 347116 6 5641.627:73,116 3 5

7 4 6 :7 4 0

6411344416

Graham has been. programmingsince the good old days, back in

• t h e ZX81 century. He's workedfor a majority of majorcompanies including Lothlorien,PSS. and CRL. He's also a pretty

• d e a d l y hacker so check outsome of his work in PracticalPOKEs. His all time lave ravegames are Ex:Von and G o t t *

• a n d music-wise he likes a good

105 I F 0 . 1 TH E N 0 0 V C IR M OI I I FOR A . 6 TO 7126 LE T y .C OD E a11111 - 46 . I F oTHEN L E T y - y - 7136 LE T v • C IID E 4 4 4 2 0 - 4 6 . I F 4THEN L E T s . 8 - 7140 LE T . 4 • 1 6 . v . 4156 ,TE T 4 4 • 4 4 4 v a

0,160 POPE ',snout

. 1 1 4 P R IN T A T 2 0 . 3 1 a N T T O 2 )• 1 7 8 LE T 0.4.01443 T O 1

la g N E TT n163 IN P U T ' C h e c k o u t. . 1 L I N E 4 4184 P R IN T A T 2 . 2 5 1 a $165 I F V A L a l P .,c o T H E N S O T O t

1110L I A 7 C L 51 "198 NEAT i

2 8 0 E LS P R I N T "S AV E CODE A FTEA B A S IC LOADE R. . . . . . REMOVE FA R L EAD.

218 SAVE 14170DE 4 4 A e tt1 e ngA tt 1226 C LS P R I N T * V E R IFY IN G.210 V E R IF,0 "-C O O L

7411 C LS • P R IN T * A L L cW S T O P1068 P R IN T A T 1 5 . 6 1.E R R O R.s G O

0 2 0

A lot (well three), people havewritten to me, complainingcolourfully about how they can'tget this hex loader to workproperly. The fault is all mine(hem. hem), and I apologiseprofusely me t h in ks it was a

MESSAGEROLLE

73411119 t 6656746F6F8F4FE 44 • 5 6 423416 • E AARAF79C683E E 56 . 1 1 6 323424 m 6 7 t9 7 9 8 FR E 0 FE 6 E 0 . 9 2 423432 .s 0 . 16 6 F7 9 E6 1 0t E 40 6 7 • 185/

23446 s c H 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 e 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 6 123440 s 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 8 0 2 0 8 - 823456 s 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 O6 0 6 - O

Basic ControllerThis smallish BASIC programhelps you estab4ish scrollingmessages. It contains thevariables all you programmingbods could ever need. To save ittype, SAVE "name" LINE 1 and rtwill auto-run when you load itnext,

by Dan NielsonLOAD -* C OD E 2 32 96

10 BORDER Os P AP E R S . I N K As C .LD

15 IN P U T "TE A T* " ; L I N E a l l26 P R IN T A T 6 . 6 1 1 N R 5 1.T E X I s

. I N N A s .a . 5 m

.L E 1 ' E T T H s -I I

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A,START56 FOR F.S TA R T T O S TARTnLE N- Is

PONE F.C OD E 4 4 1 F- S TA M T4 1 1 , NE AT

68 P R IN T PAPER 3 1 ".76 P R IN T " I N V 4 4 "

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STAR TIP= E Vbout of Genesis to un-curdle hismuscles.And as a grand finale this month.we have for you a grand, great,supa, smashing, ace Star Tip foryou to slaver over. This thrillingStar Top is from Gra h a mMason. His speciality is loading

by Graham Masonand protection systems, and hehas developed the indomitable- to all but him - Injectaloadsystem, used on recent CALgames. So this month I askedhim to write us a snazzy, glow-in-da-dark. hyper-fast, loadingsystem. Check it out.

slight aberration in myexplanation that caused it Touse the hex loader, type it in,SAVE it, then RUN it. Input thestart address after the promptand follow that with the line ofhex and the decimal checksum.If "INPUT ERROR" appears thenyou've typed in the hex wrongsomewhere, so go back and re-type the line. To finish type "S".Consult the method on how tosave the code you've lust spenthours typing in. Happy hexing.

°ORAN ONLY RETURNSI N A KEY I S P RE S - S E0 "

08 P R IN T ' m F L A W 14"M AKE YOURCHOISE C I - 3 0 1.0

914 LE T 411 .INKE T1188 I F 4 0, .3 . O R A P.T. THEN

O T O 9 8116 SEEP . 6 5 . 1 6 s P R IN T F L A S H I

3VAL A f g. 1211 I F A f t . " 1 " THE N P O N E 2 3 4 0 7 .281

138 I F A 4 . . 2 . THE N P O R E 2 3 4 6 0 ,8 : P ORE 234117 .701

146 I F A 6 .-3. T H EN P ON E 2 34 0* .

1921 P ORE 234E 17 .195141 OWE F N L I A 1 . 1 6 0 14 .02561147 D E ! F N N r A I . I N T 4 I ( 5 1 7 5 4 ) - F

N L t A l . . 2 5 6 1358 IN P U T " L I N E , . 8 - 2 3 ) m • m L I N I168 I T I I N E A T OR L I N E , 2 3 THE N

0 0 T O 1 5 8i 1 7 8 IN P U T "A TTR 1 4 8 - 2 5 5 ) . • m A T I. R

IRA I F A 1 1 1 4,6 O R A T T R2 5 5 T HE N

go t o t i o196 IN P U T .1 0 I D T H I 4 1 - 41 . .1 61 6 ,

H286 I F WID TH - I O R 14I0111.4 THE N

• a o r o 1 9 0' 2 8 1 I N P U T *ADDRE S S ON CHARSETT. 48.ROM 11 "s E IT

282 I F 1 N . 0 THE N L E T 0 0 . 1 5 6 1 6210 P OLE 216446 .FH .44CM ) . P ORE 2

T6 0 7 .FN 1 .4 C H I- 1230 P OLE 2 3 2 4 7 .L1 N E . 0 0 0 E 2 3 3 i 2

.L IN E , P O r E 2 3 3 0 4 .A TTR , 8 u 0 0 2 3 3, 4 4 , 0 1 0 T M,i 2 4 0 P UKE 2 3 1 2 2 . 0 0 *11011ART/m P E W,E 21323.5N LISTART)

- 2 5 1 POKE 2 3 .3 2 5 ,P N M ILE N tl P UKE' 2 3 3 2 4 , F N LTLE N t

255 E LS268 P R IN T A T 8 . 6 1 " 0 . R . "

• 2 7 8 P R IN T " T O RAV E , . •.S A V E . ..ROLITINE - -C O D E 2 1 2 9 6 .1 6 8.

2611 P R IN T " S A V E . .. S A M E.. . C O M •

I S T A R T ).. . t L E N

290 P R IN T - .S T A V E ) . S T EM ) . Er

1117); .566 LE T S O.IN INE Y 4

IL' 118 IF 54..6. OR 610..• • THEM 6

'AVE "ROUTINE.CODE 27.296,161h SAV

IE " N A M -C a m S T A RT . L EN

. 3 2 0 I F 6 0 . . 1 )- O R 5 4 . ' 8. T H EN t

'HES s RANDOM IZE V 5 R 2 1 2 9 6 1 G O T O2 9 0 .

3 3 6 I F S S .-4 " O R 5 6 4 "4 " I N 01 1 ,1 1

tiO T O 3541r 3 4 0 B o T i ] 3 0 0

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Loader SpecsThis is probably the mostcomprehensive, compact anddown-right crucial loadingroutine I've ever come across.Within its 400 byte size, there'sfacilities for loading and saving aprogram of any length, with anycolour in the border, at any baudrate. And what's more - andlisten now! - it's possible tohave the loader programscrunched down an amazing 52- yes, 52! - bytes!

MethodFirst of all, type in the main basicinitialiser program arid save itwith SAVE ''name" LINE 10.Then type in the 400 bytes codeblock using the hex loader (fromCircles), and save that withSAVE "name" CODE60000.400. After you'vemanaged that. RUN the BASICprogram and re-load the code.

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I+ + + F1 I I I : : :1 G Fl A BA INA 1 14 G -i- -I- -I- IP IF1

=of , • I.e l P R I N T A T • .7s P A P E R 6 1 I NS

01 B R IGH T 1 1 " BAUD R A M . " ' ge t P

I / R 1 N T S07 LE T . - u a w a ! L E I q . 6 8 2 5 7 1 0

O U B 9 0 883 CE T 6 . 9 9 0 0 0 : L E T 4 .6142988 0

O S UB 9 8 0G. L E T 6 .9 3 8 8 0 1 L E T 0 . 6 0 2 9 6 1 0

C) 1155U8tEC6916.7350118 L E T 0 , .6 8 3 1 7 1 0O S UD 9 0 8

Be t E l b-7 h 4 e 0. 3 L ET t h ,s 0 13 q 8.1 1 1

00 S UB 9 0 007 LE T 6.267158M s L E I o - 6 0 1 1 6 1 -

GO S US snag

4 / 0 0 S UP 9 0 8

BO L E I 6 . 3 0 4 5 0 0 s L E T q . 6 0 1 2 4 ;

Bq LE T 6 .26411888 L E T 9 . 6 0 1 2 9GO S UB 9 0 0

90 LE T B . 1301108 L E T q .6 1 I I I 4 9 * ;

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92 I F m e . " n " OP m 7" / " ) . "

. . 1 L I N E m e

'1UP93 RON 0 0

, 9 0 8 LE T p - F N r 8 . 09011 I F PI T H EN P RI NT AT 14

sek M s P AP E R e s FLA S H I I B R 1IS " B A U D RATE TOO H IGH . “ " 1

MUSE Os 8 0 T O 8 8905 I F F,7 5 5 T HE N P RI NT At 14,

5 ; I N K Os PAPER 6 1 FLA S H I I B R I GHT I s " B A U D RATE TOO LCM ' . ' " ;PRUDE 0 8 G O TO GM

WM PEPE 0 . 0998 P R IN T - " I n t " . " t

PEES u1008 RE IURN1018 DEE E N r 4 . 8 r I N T t b / s40 . 5 19990 SAVE "BAUDCHANGET L I N F 9 9 9 98 S AY E •11.8010E0DE "CODE 6 8 8 8 0 ; •IS999,1 111AD -COVE 8 RUN 8

• T O LOAD:

•

POKE 60003, length HI60004, length LO

POKE 60007, start HI60008, start LO

POKE 60015, n60027, n60085. n60177, n

Where n is the border colourPOKE 60090, x

60116, x60124, x60129, x60144, x

Where x is the baud rateRANDOMIZE USA 60000TO SAVE:

POKE 60208, length HI

5 6 0 2 0 9 . length LOPOKE 60205. start HI60206, start LO

POKE 60223, n

O 6 0 2 7 4 , n60302, nWhere n is the border colourPOKE 60257, x

60290. x• 60296, x60312. x

Where x is the baud rateRANDOMIZE USR 60201

O T h e format for typing in thevariable marked HI or LO (be it"length" or "start") is:

• P O K E address. va lu e -2 5 6•I NT

(value/256)POKE address+1, INT (value/256)

• t h e variable is marked with anor an "n" then iust POKE inthe value as per normal.

Using the initialise program is111 e a s i e r than typing in all these

lnitialisiflgThe program allows you to setup all the variables you need toget your loader working. Here's aquick resume of them:

variables, but do have a penciland pad handy to write downany values you might have toPOKE, such as the lengthnumber for example. Onceyou're satisfied with thevariables, the program will exit tobasic and expect you to POKEthe colour, length and startvariables into the addresspreviously given. You don't haveto bother with the baud ratevariables, they're POKEd foryou,The baud rate can be anyvalue between 1200 (snailspeed), and 60000 (BorisBecker serve). Then onceyou've POKRI them all, typeeither RANDOMIZE USR 60000to load or RANDOMIZE USA60201 to save (have your taperunning). Both routines are fullyerror-trapped, crash-less andfool-proof, so thank your luckyhypens.

Basic Initialiser101 PAPER e s BORDER i tT I N K Os E

LS s P OKE 2 3 6 1 7 , 2 5 715 P R IN T "P OKE t h e l e n g t h o f t

he p r ogr a m t o b e LOADEL) I n t oM IM S e n d 6 0 8 0 4-16 P R IN T • P A IN T "P OKE s h e k e n

g th 0 4 t h e pr ogr a m t o b e SAVEDI n t o 6 0 7 0 0 e n d 6 8709"

17 P R IN T s P R IN T "NOCE t h e a t ee t 834 t h e pr ogr a m t o b e LOADED

I n t o 6 0 8 0 7 a n d 6 80 8 8 "

10 P R IN T s P R IN T "P OK E t h e s t aP t o f t h e pr ogr a m t o b e SAVEDI n t o 6 0 2 0 8 a n d 6 02 8 9 "

19 P R IN 1 P A P E R 7 1 I N e I s I t R l eHT 1 ;A T z e , e t - W R I T E T H I SDOWN T h e n p r e s sENTER. •

20 IN P U T "S "1 L I N E a l ;21 E L S • P R I N T " T o c ha nge t h 8

LOIOWS o n 1 0 0 0 p o k e 608415 .11.

poke 61520 ,11 ,•poke 6411110501poke 60171811

72 M I N I • P R IN T " T o c h e e p ,• c o l o u r s o n SAVE D o k m

pokmpekekp •

71 p o l w a -" W h e r e ' n. I s •

bee b e tw e e n 8 a n d

79 P R IN T I N F 7 1 P AP E R 2 1 fi s t1 H T 1 0 1 7 1 .4 1 "P R E S 8 ENTER 1 0TIN U E ."s IN P U T " , " 1 L I N E a 4

FM E LB I IN P U T "W h e t BAUD k m

O Y o u can punch 'ern, beat 'em ortie 'em up but you can't keep

• t h e m from doing it. O0000-er!What am I talking about?

O B ro t h e rs and sisters of course.No matter where you hide it,

O t h e y ' l l always find your computerdiary and have a quick gawp

O a n d snigger. Well now's your1

chance to stop them, with this

• B A S I C password protectionsystem which you can bolt ontoyour programs. courtesy of R.

I • Mu llig a n from Northern p a s s w o r d , should you succumb

O I r e l a n d . t o the obsequious pleadings of asibling or simply mutter it in yourMethod s l e e p , then type, MERGE " :

• W h a t you do is type in the G O T ° 9000. Easy eh? Warning!• p a s s w o r d routine and then place W o e betide anyone who types inthe wrong password. The

(via MERGEing), your own c o m p u t e r will crash.

0 p r o g r a m from lines 100-8999.Once you've done that, then C h a l l e n g etype GOTO 9000. You will thenbe asked to type in your O k a y all you whizz-kids (andpersonal. private password, and wh izz-kidesses), o u t t h e r e . t l y o u

•

• • a f t e rwa rd s it will SAVE and RUN t h i n k you can write a similaryour files (or whatever), p r o g r a m to this in machine codecomplete with password t h e n send it to me. Now! Theprotection. Got that? Of course b e s t one printed will receive a

d my ot sa ng e your £50 reward. I'm waiting .. .

Main Code Chunk

S S Wby R. Mulligan

Password Program

G R AW IN G+ m-

60000 3 E FF1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 8 0 .:1 0 8 . 6 1 5 160800 4 8 3 7 1 4 8 8 1 5 F 3 3 E 0 4 • 4 7 768816 CE S E E 2117E 8E 506FE . 1 4 5 3600124 IFE 6 2 0 F6 4 1 8 1 4 FM E 0 . 1 0 8 5604137 C OF4 E 0 7 5 0 FA 2 1 1 5 8 4 . 1 0 3 968040 1 M E E 7 B 7 C 8 5 2 0 F9 C 0 . 1 1 8 460848 F I E P 3 1 4 9 8 6 9 C E D F 5 - 1 3 6 460856 E 11311E AS E E 60038E 0 . 1 2 7 660064 2 4 2 0 F 1 0 6 C 9 C D F 4 E A 1 1 9 9,2 8 7 7 3 1 1 0 5 ?OFE043411F410 • • 1 7 ,4 4haemto F l I f tw e r w E E tt4 4 F ;t4 . t 16,66a10e 8 0 8 6 M 1 0 1 8 6 1 1 8 2 9118 4 - 1 5 2

60896 0 0 7 5 0 0 1 9 8 A C 8 1 1 A D . 7 6 560184 E 1 1 7 9 1 1,4 P 1 3 1 0 1 1 20 D . 6 89

60117 ' 3 1 0 8 0 0 6 3 5 7 E 0 1 C D • 1811be12e rovotoo3E3oeocols 1 2 1 360128 0 6 3 5 0 2 0 7 E A 7 C A D 6 7 . 1 1 1 8,Aoso 704337e8i7E1'e0ocs, 1 1 2 260144 E D F 4 E 6 0 8 3 1 8 7 1 0 2 0 1 0 5 1 460152 FD A 7 0 4 E 8 3 E 7 P OP P E88164' 1 Foow n. w 2 oF17 9. 8 1 6 5 2 F 4 F L 6 8 5 F6 8 1 8 0 3F E6 0 1 /6 3 7 C v i r n a . 1 8 5 C E 6 3 860184 OF4'FS P ONFE 3E 7F011 . 9 1 860192 F E I F F 8 3 0 0 7 C F O C F 1 5 9 5 41,8280 E 93E FFDD2114114011 . 415160708 8 0 1 0 2 1 1 2 E 0 E 5 2 1 9 0 . 7 2 760216i 11C801301120F35E07 . 6 1 560274 • 47114E D3FE E E M 116 1 0 6 566217 • A 4 7 0 2 8 F5 8 5 2 5 F2 4 1 . 8 3 5 460240 E 8 0 ,6 2 E 1 OFE D 3 FE 3 E . 1 0 0 560790 0 0 8 6 3 7 1 8 F E D 3 F E D I . 014168756 S E 1 2 8 8 6 FE 3 7 0 E 1 0 7 A . 8 1 5

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10 B OR D E R Os P AP E R 8 1 l e e 0 ;LB t a o TO 3 0

78 C I S ; P R I N T I N V 7 1 A1 1 8 .8

s"PASOMORD NOT ACCE P TE D". P AUS E158

75 P R I N T I N K 7 1 A 1 1 1 . 0 0 P L E ABE TRY A G A I N ' . P ROS E 1 5 8

30 L E T p t . "-35 E L 8 • P R IN T I N C 7 3 8 1 1 0 , 0

CE NTE R PASSNORD.48 P A U S E 045 L E T o k . i N e fe e s I F e l l . " 114

'20,4 GO TO TO

58 t E l ps - p4 .8 1 4 1 I F LE N p g,/ n

THEN G O T O 4 055 I F p i l < T H E N 8 0 T O 2 860 P R I N T I N F 7 1 A 1 1 1 . 8 s P 8 8 5

WORD ACCE P TE D". PAUSE 2 8 065 R E M M a s t o f p r o g r a m f o i l °

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Software. There's still a surprisingamount of high-ouality utility softwarebeing made for the Spectrum, evennow when the machine is edging on forsix-seven years old! So let's cut thewattle and get into the reviews.

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ZIPZAPOmega Software/E 10.95As there has been no disk tradition onthe Spectrum, there's been no need fora disk toolet Until now that is. OmegaSoftware has been calling me up andtelling me how brilliant its program is, athing called ZI0Zap I asked for a copy,I got one and I thought, this is more like it

This is the program that every +3user needs in his disk box, at the front,for those tasks which otherwise wouldbe impossible except for the mostaccomplished programmers. Itfeatures the ability to recover lost fileslets you read protected and non-standard disks, display, modify, printand search any sector or group ofsectors on a dusk You can formatindividual tracks, and even lockdamaged and unreadable sectors out,se your programs won't access themby mistake It's the ideal hacker's tool,but any disk user should find a use forone or all of the features supported.One of the most interesting things youcan do with the search facility is toscan a program for a certainsequence, letting you seek anddestroy bits of code, either for insertingP0KEs in games, or de-bugging yourown programs.

The manual is an excellentdocument, covering many aspects ofSpectrum +3005, including anamazing bit on DFCBs (or DirectoryFile Control Blocks), disk headers,XDPEts and logical SBCIDFS_ All this iswicked technical stuff, and coveredmuch better in this manual than it is inthe +3 manual, which is not at all.

Using ZipZap is a treat, and I don'tmean one of those sweeties that don'tmelt in your pocket, enter. You'represented on loading with a displaydepicting a location on the disk bytrack and sector with a bank of ASCIIcharacters to the right, to let yousearch for strings in programs, and abank of hex showing the actual byteson the disk. Below the impressivenumerical barrage, is an area calledthe Status Field which tells you whichbyte, sector arid track you're looking atOn the Hex held, and the bufferstates, and also which drive you'readdressing

This is a rock solid utility, andinvaluable to any serious user It helpsinexperienced users perform like thepros, and helps pros get the job done,Recommended

* Contact, Omega Software, Dept,YSR, PO BOX 21, Shepperton.Middlesex TW17 8BY t +3 DiskE10_95 + El postage and Packing)Tel: 0932 228649

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An impressive array of new commandsthere, you must agree, Where possible.original Spectrum keywords havebeen used, and where this wasn'tpossible an asterisk (*) has beenplaced in front of the word to disablethe 'K' cursor keyword mode in thecomputer.

The new commands cover a widerange of powerful functions. Let's lookat a few of the more interestingexamples:?PROG Displays the length of a Basicrycgram in bytes to give someindication of memory being taken upby the program, A useful trick for Basic

programmers who want to keep an eyeon their use of the available RAM.UST Ex Displays a monitor listing ofmemory from the decimal number x,with a choice of hexadecimal or ASCNlo find text.RAMTOP Tells you where Ramtop is!PRINT 4 4 Pnnts text centred On thescreen. Saves all that counting up thecolumns and prinhng spaces or TABs.'MIRROR flips the screen!OUT * O A" Saves a file as aheaderieSS piece of code. reloadable withanother new command, INPUT •11,1;h.?SCROLL x does precisely that,scrolls x number of lines up the screen.And so on

Installing the new commands inyour Interface 1 is a piece of cake. Aspecial program is on the tape to allowyou to copy the imbos programs ontoa microdnve or disk, five programs inall, plus a demo program todemonstrate the power of the newcommands. Depending on the issueROM you have tone Of two) theprogram will load one of two mainprograms containing the newcommands. This is necessary to makethe new words work in either ROM, asI sue 1 and 2 ROMs are differentenough to cause problems

After you've installed Imbos theloading screen will pull down, and onthe press of a key, you'll be handedover to Imbos Basic. When NEW istyped and entered, you are returned tothe usual prompt, but with Imbos Basicintact in the Interlace 1 protected byRAMTOR To invoke the program youneed to type RANDOMISE USA57250, and the new operating systemIS switched in Then the imbos 'lestcard' pops up. The RAND USAaddress only has to be used to invokethe system, but if you're a programmerand want to get around this, you canfollow instructions in the manual to dothis. If you write a program usingimbos• y ou need to save the trabos

code to your program tape in order torun it on someone else's computer

This is an excellent package, and asyou can see it does have some veryinteresting possibilities tt even has itsown error codes to tell you if anythinggoes wrong with your Imbos programsIt's actually worth more than £8.65, butI reckon that Companion will sell manymore units that way Every Speocyowner should have one.

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y o u neverk nowqui te w ha tto expect as the bishop said tothe.. . but no, let's leave that kind of u' 'remark to the rest of the magazine I I Nand leave the adventure section aspure as the driven slush.

As I haven't done any colossal cluecollections for quite some time, andthey seem to be very popular when Ido them, what I've done this monthis go absolutely bonkers (good oldSid and Doris Bonkers), and compilethe biggest clue collection you'veever seen in your life.., so big it'staken over the entire adventure —section! Let me know what you think -••=1.-—of the experiment, and whetheryou'd maybe like some cut 'n' keepadventure club collections in the

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SHADOWS OF MORDORTo cross swampTFAR EKAM DNA SGOL GARDTo use raftHCNARB HTIVV TEAR ELOPIf a Black Rider enters your locationGNIHTON ODTo get fishing lineHTGNEL EKATTo make fireDROWS HTIW HCNARB TUC

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• Spectrum +3 for Silk. •reCOMON• £200 worth software and carincieeterve, any offerS? Ask for Nee, wheil phoningthis number, (04868) 27439• Spectrum 48K rubber keyboard with deeds.Interface 2. 200 games. and while computerdesk, all in good condition Please phoneLillian on (011889 7261 any time For sate at£300.I I Spectrum-I.. t w o d a t a C O rd e rs ZX Om te r

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Thanks to an anonymous reader for this teaser — he (Or she),forgot to include a name!

MY GRANDFATHER'S CLOCKOh dear, Grandad's clock is as old as the great man himself —and it shows! Cracks are already appearing in the clock face, andit won't be long before the whole thing falls apart. Can youcontinue to break the clockf ace (following the cracks alreadyshown), into five pieces? You've got to come up with the totals of12, 14. 16. 18 and 20 for each piece_ Tricky? Well blame the oneand only Mr D Griffin for this little teaser.

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good Norwegian restaurant to visit — andhe's been living in England since 1964! Sowhere else could we go. courtesy of the YSluncheon vouchers, to eat and talk abouthis work? We settled fo r a Chinese at MrSo's in Winchester.

It was a but of a disappointment for Stei-nar — he'd love a meal on a Russian space-station! Tongue in cheek, he tells me thathe's been campaigning to get a Norwegianin space (himself!), ever since he first sawthe space pictures from NASA. 'There aresome things I'd like to do in zero G.' heexplains. ' l ike b e th e fi rs t man t o g oswimming in zero gravity!' Apparently thecontents o f a swimming pool would forminto a huge sphere in an orbiting spacecraft.so it would be a case o f scuba diving inspace. No t a man with a mean, petty littleambition in life. this Steinar Lund fellow...

'I'd like to be the first man togo swimming in zero gravity!'

The f rie d seaweed a n d crispy wantunarrives; as we take up chopsticks Steinarexplains that he used t o be a great sci-fifan. He read avidly and still enjoys 'all thespacey things.' Clearly a ma jo r influencewhen you look at his artwork which hasadorned countless computer game inlays,As an artist, he also gets a buzz from car-tooning a n d photo-realism. (check h ispainting for Hunt For Red October).

Here's a lit t le b it o f history. His familymoved to Southampton in 1964 from Ber-gen in Norway. and the young Steinar wentthrough his 0 and A levels. taking art alongthe way. Working in a family business — achain of newsagents — he decided to studyinterior design, with a view t o applyingskills to the design o f shops. With this inmind he took a year's foundation course atSouthampton and completed h is studieswith three years at Kingston Art College.

Selling a few paintings while a t collegeprompted Steinar to consider a career asan illustrator rather than as an interior de-signer. and once h is studies finished h espent a year building up a portfo lio —against so me parental pressure. 'Th e ydidn't realise the potential fo r making a liv-ing as an artist,' he explains.

Crispy Duck Time: we coat lit t le pan-cakes with p lum sauce, add morsels o fduck, cucumber and shredded spring onionbefore rolling them up and munching. (Whycan't I do this column? Phil) Weird how somedishes are thought up... some time in the

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past. a Chinaman mu st haveacross a crispy, wind-dried duck and won-dered what to do with it. How did he comeup with the idea of combining it with pan-cakes, plum sauce and shredded veggies? Amasterpiece o f lateral thinking. (probablywould've been an adventure writer today!).But then fishballs count among the culinarymasterpieces o f Norway — Chinese noshwas definitely the best idea.

Anyway, back to Steinar Surrealists, andin particular Magritte and Dab, were Stei-nar's fi rst artistic influences. Taking up anairbrush in his final year at college ('theytold me it would take ten years to masterbut I didn't le t that deter me'), he soonfound o the r artists whose wo rk he ad-mired: Chris Foss. Chris Moore, Jim Burns,Tim White and then the photo realist Mi-chael English. 'My all-time favourite is Max-well Parrish — he uses glazes to acheivespectacular effects in his paintings,'

Once a respectable portfo lio o f wo rkhad been created, Steinar went on holidayabroad and landed his first major job as acommercial artist. Through the brother ofa friend, he was asked to provide cartoonillustrations fo r a light-hearted DIY book,Then returning f ro m holiday, he go t in -volved with Thor-sons, a publisher in Well-ingborough who specialises in 'Ne w Age'books. Steinar covers for books on the oc-

cult, healthy living and so on, soon fo l-lowed. Around that time, the home com-puter software boom started in earnest...

Steinar k n e w N i c k a n d John. t h efounders of Quicksilva. and they asked himto provide inlay illustrations fo r Defenderand Asteroids. 'The whole thing grew fromthere,' Steinar explains, reaching for an-

other sliver o f water-chestnut. ' I went alongto a f e w co mp u te rshows with my portfo-lio, ta lked t o peopleand started doing workfor in la ys a n d t h e nmagazine covers.'

Given the nature o fcomputer g a m e s .

much of Steinar's work for the software in-dustry is based on space fantasy themes.although a pig wielding a bloody chainsaw(YS, June ish) was a rather unusual com-mission. And thereby hangs a squiggly tale— when we lunched. Steinar was in themiddle of working on a Psycho Pig song withhis nephews Paul and Torn. 'We're doing itmainly f o r fun, playing around with syn-thesisers, laying down a bass line and build-ing up the effects and chords.' Music is Stei-nar's main relaxation at the moment — lis-tening to it mostly, but playing keyboardsfor fun. 'I suppose the next stage is to getan ST if finances stretch to it, and then per-haps a sampler But it's dangerous... beforeyou know it., you've spent hours and hoursmessing around and got no work done.'

'Toffee coated banana:Toffee coated banana fo r pud prompts ashort discussion about Norwegian des-serts. including a yummy sounding spongecake that is a speciality of the Lund house-hold. Apparently you soak the sponge infruit juice B u t back to computer games.What about designing a game, o r workingon the graphics? d e sig n e d a lo t o f thesprites fo r a game about the Olympics in1984. but the game didn't actually come out— the programmer never completed it, soI didn't actually get any money. People nowspecialise in designing games and I've gotmore than enough to learn in my own area— as an illustrator you never stop learningabout things like perspective, h o w sha-dows fall and so on.'

A concrete ambition is to get involved inmoving pictures, perhaps involving compu-ters ' a p p ly in g art to other areas, maybeusing computer graphics in a more artisticway, perhaps basing something on a staticpainting and then making i t move after-wards.' A bit like the TV show Knight:710re,which used paintings from fellow softwareillustrator David Rowe, O r possibly as anart director on film or video.

After the coffee, came the bill and it wastime for Steinar to stroll back to the studiohe shares in Winchester with a design andcopywnting fi rm, He's in the middle o f acommission, a n d wh a t w i t h Psycho Pigsongs and long Chinese lunches, he's got tobe careful to keep on schedule.

Life as a Norwegian illustrator in Englandseems good. Even if you do forget how toski: ' I wa s in No rwa y last Easter, so Irented some skis — I was quite pleasedwith myself, I went off the biggest hill thereand got to the bottom. Once I was off thelip, I had no time to think about anythingelse, but I made it. I nearly fell over right atthe bottom, in front o f hordes o f people.but I recovered. I couldn't have got awaywith it if I'd fallen over'

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