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How many replies didyou get then?Not very good really...Well, how many?NoneOh.That puts an end tothe rest then_ Unless01 course some kindsoul who wants areally fun pimps'drops David a line.

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get the magazine I 'veoften looked at penpalads wistfully sodecided to put one inmyself.Why do you want afemale w e a l ?Well! Thought it'd be achange. Most of myfriends are blokes so Ithought it'd be good tomeet a girlHow many replies doyou think you'll get?Three or four.What qualities do youwant in your penpel?Interest in computersand similar interests tome reallyWhet sort of people doyou think will reply toyour ad?Girls!!!! And maybeeven boys!Are you aTrainspotter?No!

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Why did you place anad in YS?Just did!Why do you want malepenpais?So I can write to them.Don't mind what sex.How many replies doyou think you'll get?No idea. I hope it'sfour. (?????1!)What qualities do youwant in your p e n * ?Good personalityabove all. Alsointerested incomputersWhat sort of people doyou think will reply toyour ad?People who likecomputers.Are you aTrainspotter?Yes! (No kicklingl)

W H A T T H E Y G O THow many replies didyou get?One. (Nor iooking toogood here either.)Who replied?A girl called Rachaelwho's 15 and fromMargateWhat's she like?She's alright. Got agood sense of humourand loads of interestslike snooker, tennis andplaying instrumentsAre you going to meether?Yeah._ maybe I willlater.

How many replieshave you had?SevenWere they male orfemale?All maleWho's written back toyou so far?A guy called Chriswho's 12 and fromEssex.What's he like?He's got a goodpersonality and he'sinterested in computersand football.Do you reckon you'llMOM him?Dunno really

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Why did you place anad in YS?My brother bougnt themag and I thought it'dbe a laff to put one in,Why do you went amale peripal?Much more interestingthen writing to thesame sex!!!! (Wahay!)How many replies doyou think you'll get?Not many. 'Bout 'WashWhat qualities do youwant in your penpal?Let me see_ yeah, tall,dark and handsomewith lots of money.That's my ideal man(Muffled noises inbackground.) Sorry...team., that's only mymumWhat sort of people doyou think will reply toyour ad?I can't see them beingtell, dark or handsomeAnd as for pots ofmoney.Are you aTrainspotter?Sorry? Ummm I don'tknow.

Old you get anyw i l es?You could say that.(Bodes bad...) About25 actually (Wow!)Who replied?Clinton who's 17 andfrom Notbngham andPaul who's also 17 andfrom the same area,They're the two I've/leo two letters fromalready. One evenphones me up!What are they like?Limmm.. Clinton's tall,not exactlyhandsome or . . .well.., he's nice. Andhe's blond Ha sinterested in collectingthings. Any oldrubbish... like mereally. Joke! And...Paul. w e l l he took mybreath away... solospeak. Well his letterdid. He's very full ofhimself.., apparentlytall, blond andhandsome though hehasn't sent a photo yet.Ho c v q ho'A tAtir-m

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The Spectrum TASCOPY is for use with the R5232output on ZX Interfacel It produces bothmonochrome (in a choice of two sizes) and largecopies in which the different screen colours arepnnted as different shades. With TASCOPY you carpkeep a permanent and impressive record of yourscreen pictures and diagrams. A list of printerssupported by TASCOPY is given to the left.

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HAMPTON WITSHove you seen Sam Fox's StripPoker yet?

You haven't Well.., bee, bee.We have and boy, what acracker.

One day, my fellow Sam fanand I sat innocently (I bet! Ed)in front of our Speccy with acopy of said game and this iswhat happened:1 When Sam's cash dropped toabout £800 she began to takeoff her gloves.2 At £600 she was picturedwearing whot looked like ashirt. (Keep cool Ed).3 At around the £400 markshe sheds her shirt revealingher frillies. (How's your bloodpressure Ed?).4 Now if you're lucky and youreduce her score to £200you'll be confronted by apicture of Sam with one strapof her brassiere hanging offher left shoulder. Get thestraight jacket!!5 If you get Sarn's score downto below E30... (The rest ofthis letter hos been censoredfor a couple of very goodreasons. Ed).

Do we get a prize forcompleting it? If so could it bea night out with Samantha?Neil Sieeman and JohnStoneHampton, NliddxPS Well bring the cords!I'm not having suchlicentiousness in the Letterspage. There'll be no prize foryou. I reckon you ought to takea cold shower each and notcome out until your fingershove gone all wrinkly. Anddon't forget to dry betweenyour toes. Ed

COMMIE PLOTI've just read Mark Devlin'sletter (Y55) in which he singsthe praises of a certain wellknown Commie machine.BleeeeuuurghlAndrew TooneNuneaton, WorksOh no, I should've guessed thatletter would've startedsomething. 'Mr ' Devlin shouldthink himself very lucky that hedidn't have to plough throughall his 'fan•

I think Mark Devlin is pathetic.How can he say that the

Spectrum only boasts gameslike Horace Goes Ski-ing andChequered Hag. Heconveniently seems to overlookMovie, Nightshade, Alien 8,Sweevo's World, (Streuth there'stons of this stuff — snip. Ed)Rambo. Sai Combat, SkoolDaze, Batmon, Way Of The(Okay, okay, I think we get theidea. Ed) Frank Bruno's Boxing,know what I mean, 'Arry BarryMcGuigan's (Are you still herecloth ears? Ed), Superbowl,Turb(Go away! Ed) a Esprit,Lord Of The Rings, DunDarach, Tomahawk (ShadduplEd)...Peter CashmoreWolverhampton, StaffsYou wait tillS get my hands onyou, Mark Devlin. Oh no, herecomes the Hell's Angels...

Who was the 131"•dy idiot thatlet that poor deranged C64 owner loose in the letterssection? Whoever it wasdeserves to be shot. (I verynearly was too — see thismonths subscriptions ad, Ed)

So what about superiorgraphics, games etc? If itwasn't for the Spectrum and itspredecessors like the ZX81these C o w n e r s would stillbe swinging from the trees, letalone owning a personalcomputer. As for loading times,I can remember waiting half onhour for a C 6 4 game toload. Admittedly this was a fewyears back (God, I'll berevealing my age next). As forthe games he cared to name,the majority of them wereconverted from the original

Spectrum format to that of the64. And for my final twist ofthe dagger, at least if I wish toprogram in Basic, I can, withoutPEEKing and POKEing toobtain the function I require,and without forking outanother £36 (I think) for theSimon's Basic cartridge.

So beware, my friend, oflarge bearded people onBritish motorcycles — it may beme!

To end on a cheerful note —nice mag YSIThe long-haired beardedperson on the BSA A651.Ashford, KentSo, let this be a warning toanyone else who thinks he cancreep up and take advantageof the good nature, friendlydemeanour and generalbonhomie of your averageSpeccy owner You'll have yourhead bitten off? Any Amstradowners want to give it a go?Ed But I thought we were allAmstrads under the blackplastic casing nowt T.P. Don'tstart them off again. Ed.

BLANC LOOKSMy husband challenged my sonto a game of Transformers byOcean. My husband scored20,965 and my son, Liam,815,060. Nothing unusual youmight soy, but my son is onlyfive yeors old. Is this a record?Bettine BlancBasingstoke, HantsIf it's black, flat and circularwith a hole in the middle, thenthe answer's probably yes.Boom boom. Ed

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Amstrad has bought Sinclair "inventory Of stock_ This haswiped out Sinclair's ET debt,

Alan ' " A rWhy didn't Sir Clive let on? Itwasn't till I read this in PopularComputing Weekly that I knewthe full extent of Sir's debt.Phil LongKilburn, LondonIf only he'd told us earlier, we'dhave had a whip-round atCastle Rathbone. Ed

DOODLEBUGS Keep on doodling — it's a doddlel Send your cartoonsto Doodlebugs, YS, 14 Rathbone Place, London W1P10E there's a prize ol a now game for each cartoonprinted.

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FUNKY GIBBONSI am writing to you about themost boring subject that can bewritten about. No, not C5's, nonot even pocket TV's. I amputting forward three theoriesand three contro-theories onsoftware piracy...Dezzy GibbonsCo Meath, Irelandlzizzazzzzizzizzzsomeone speak? EdTORN 017 A STRIPI've been reading your mogsince the days when the coverpicture actually gave some hintthat it was a computerpublication and I've even hadthe odd contribution of my ownprinted on occasion. But I'mafraid that issue 5 prompts meto write to you with a genuinecomplaint.

The problem is your TimeTravel comic strip (fortunatelynow concluded). Things startedto look a bit dubious when thefemale character starteddiscarding her clothing for noapporent reason — silly, buttolerable. But then we are'treated' to the sadistic trash in,issue 5 which is quiteunjustifiable. No doubt theperpetrators obtain someobscure satisfaction from theconcept of 'Woman in Perilsaved by Wimp turned Super-hero', and there is undoubtedlyadequate precedeni for it inthe comic-book genre.

But there are many ways ofdepicting this type of scenarioin a tolerably acceptablefashion without detracting fromthe excitement or entertainmentvalue of the story.

Certain of the pictures onpage 85 were offensive andtasteless in the extreme — andplease don't give me the'people con tell the differencebetween fantasy and reality'garbage — there ore somewho can't.

Besides which it's theinsidious inculcation of theconcept that abuse of womenin such a way is occeptoble incertain situations, if they aresufficiently divorced from'reality' which is considerablymore dangerous than thetransient nastiness of thepictures themselves.

I'm only pleased to see thatthis particular piece of sexistdrivel is no longer pollutingyour pages and I hope that youwill not be ill-advised enoughto include any more such, inwhat is otherwise a prettygood magazine.Jim GrimwoodLondonStrong words — as well as afew long ones! But youraccusations an important oneand deserves a serious answer.Firstly, it wasn't our intention to

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I claim the troinspotter awardfor VS issue 5. Conceded inthe answers to the Fly MeCompo, there it was, glaringfor all to see.

The speed of sound 331.46metres/second? Sure, at O'C.But where are you going tofind OT over the Boy ofBiscay? The mean annual

be sexist but I know there'ssometimes a big differencebetween intent and result. And

b e.fib bi rr if I said that I

wasn't a bit jittery about somebits of the strip — there's acertain amount of truth in thecartoon below. Nevertheless, Istill don't reckon it's as terribleas you make out. For a start, Ibelieve you'd be hard pushedto find someone who couldn'ttell the difference betweenfantasy and reality Theargument's not very strongwhen used about televisionprogrammes but it falls over ifyou apply it to a comic stripinvolving time travel, robots,and the loopy idea thatCommodore computers couldpossibly survive into the nextcentury. Crmon. Agreed, someof the scenes in the cartoonmay hove been a bit shockingbut no more than a lot of earlyevening telly programmes (orother cartoon strips for thatmatter) and what violencethere was, was certainly notdirected specifically againstwomen.

And now that the cartoon'sFinished, I'd like to hear whatthe rest of you thought of it —do you prefer the style of ournew strip or can you see Roganmaking a return from thedead? But before we drop thesubject, here's a slightly morelight-hearted view of thesubject. Ed.

I freely admit that I'm not agreat one for spatting errors inhex-code, As for train-spotting,you could park a Bayer-Garraftin the middle of a list ofAssembler and I wouldn't

temperature of the air at sealevel in that area is 15*C.Assuming a lapse rote of1,98°C per 1000 feet as in theInternational StandardAtmosphere, the level of the0•C isotherm will be

approximately 7576 feet.Even allowing for seasonal

variations over land at, say,Bordeaux, the mean monthlytemperotures range from +5°Cto 4-22"C (this variotion will beless over the Boy), putting the0°C isotherm at approximately

2525 feet and 11,111 feetrespectively. Come on, whoseleg are you trying to pull?Does Concorde really fly thatlow during these runs?

Surely the altitude is morelikely to be above 36090 feet,where in an InternationalStondord Atmosphere onisothermal layer is assumed tostart, its temperature being- 56.5°C. ( E r, yes — or rather

no. Ed). At this temperature thespeed of sound is approximately295 metres/second, giving on

notice. But I did spot theglorious bloop in Program:Time Travel in which theheroine gained a pair ofleather tights in a marvellouscontinuity errorl Now I canonly assume that either the arteditor was overcome by thethought of an underdressedheroine or a page was

error of over 10% in youranswer!

The correct answer to allowfor any deviations in temp-erature, the only factor toaffect the speed of sound inair, must be Mach 1, bydefinition. Ask any supersonicpilot!John D Taylor (Captain)Chelmsford, EssexPS The Captain may notalways be right, but he isolways the CoptoiniAhal Fortunately, the Ed maynot always be right, but he isalways the Ed! And I'm the onewho judges the compos. Butassuming a lopse rate of onemistake per 1000 (or so) pagesand a mean (Very mean TY.)monthly rate of one trains potteraward per issue, taking intoaccount the InternationalStandard increments on theleg-pulling isotherm, thenprovided my coffee attains atemperature of 87°C, theanswer's yes. You can have otrainspotter award! Ed

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inadvertently missed out.Charitably assuming the latter, Iduly searched carefully andcame up with the missing sheet.

Now with continuity restoredand legs decently covered, Itrust that blushes will bespared all round.Philip C WebbSt Albans

Travell ing Gear — Time Slipl Philip Webb of St Albans

LETTERSLANCASHIRE MOT SHOTIt happened one night in thebedroom (no, not that!) I washalf-way through playingAlien; it had hatched fromDallas (not the BBC version),Brett had ducked out in theduct, Kane had been killed inthe shuttle-boy, Ash hadsmouldered in corridor 6,Lombert was a broken woman,Parker was wounded but okay,Ripley was fine but Jones thecat was uneasy. (I don't blamehim! Ed) The Trocker wasworking — bleep, bleep,bleep. The Alien was near, andas I gripped my Spectrum+with fear, sweat rolling downmy brow, it happened — ZAP!!I was greeted with theSpectrum logo. At first Ithought this was an underhandtrick played by the Alien,because I had the winning postin sight. But no, on closerinspection I discovered a small,slim button on the left handside, lust under the edge. NowI would like to know if this is oreset button? I have tried itwith other games and it clearswithout any problems, but if itisn't will I be causing anydamage to the Speccy? I'msure the experts at YS can putme right.R BracklebankSkeimersdale, LamsWell, I've put it to the team andconcensus of opinion is thatanyone unaware that there's areset button on the Spectrum+and who still insists on playingAlien as if it's the mostgruesome game to came out ofArgus, (I mean, have you seensome of the offerings on 30Games?) cannot be put right.The screws not just loose — thethread's gone/ Ed

DANGEROUS FRUITCAKEFirst of all I would like to give ahint to all the Elitists out there.Last month someone wrote inwith the bug that allows you tojump from one space station toanother. If you follow the sameprocedure but use GalacticHyperspoce instead ofHyperspace then you can jumpto space stations anywhere inyour galaxy. You do not moveto the next galaxy and youretain your GalacticHyperspace.

Another thing that mightinterest Elitists is the existenceof a 'Cloaking Device rightout of Star Trek. This isacquired by picking it up withyour fuel scoops and isactivated by the Y key. It makesyour ship invisible and makesthe screen a nice shade of greybut it also drains your energy

cells rather drastically.If you follow the method

given in VS 5 for going intowitch space and at the sametime enter the space stotionyou will find yourself dockednowhere and unable to launch.Steven 'Dangerous'DochertyGovan, GlasgowPS A message for some of myfriends to prove this letter isfrom me.

'Von Sorley's Panzers aremoving south. It is not trueabout Schitzo and Pinn. DroidMission will be a success.Lemon tips are cool. Helen is ateddy bear. What about Johnand Suz? And why is Suzcalled Tina? I want to know!!Does the other Steven (John'sbrother) really like cormelseYou mean you've got friends?At the, um, 'home' is this? Andthey call you *Dangerous, dothey? A nice jacket is it? Ha ha,good boy. here's a -c a r m e r . E dTASMANIAI've been known to read theodd copy of Your Sinclair... let'sface it, every copy is a bit odd!I was even a reader when thepredecessor was on thebookshelves. Well, among allthe superb articles and ravereviews (creep, creep) I havenoticed that people oreamazingly free with theircomplaints but not quite soeager to praise. (Us? Complain.When have you ever heard uscomplain? if it weren't for theconditions we have to workunder and the meagre pittancecoiled a salary and... T.P.)

It may not have escapedyour eagle eye lit will nowwe've printed it. Ed) but I amthe proud possessor of a wordprocessor package. In fact, themuch heralded Tosword a n dit deserves praise.

SMALL PRINTHaving jest bought a Sinclair Qt.and immediately becoming amember of the Defunct BusinessMachines club, I was wonderingwhat to do with this amazing pieceof machinery,R J PardeeLuton, BedsOkay, the first Spectrum owner toanswer that gets a clip round theear. Ed

VS5's got the lot — a decentadventure bit. DIY turbo loader,lots of QL stuff (not that I've got aQL — I'm just interested), Micron&(not that I've got a modem),Wafadrive offer (not that I've gat50Tim GoodwinBedford...and lots of other brainy stuff (notthat I've got a...). O o-er, w h a t a m

saying? T.P.

It's not surprising with such acomplex piece of software thata byte or two neededadjustment. I wrote to theTosmon mega-brain with twosmall problems and withinseven days received areplacement copy of theprogram suitably sorted.Mega-service indeed!

I use the packagecommercially using ZXSpectrum+ and Epson 1..X80hardware and cannot praise ithighly enough. ExcellentPeter GleedPlymouth, DevonPS The mag is quite good tool!Now who's overdoing it withthe praise? Still, I think you'llfind we said much the samethings about the product lostissue. Ed

PSYCHO PATHI am writing to you, cat,because I believe you are theonly intelligent being at VS.

I've always had my fearsabout the Ed, he seemedstrange and kept making wisecomments about Bumpries, butthe other day, in issue 5, Iheard him comment onAlexander Liddell's letter,saying his computer designshould be called a Specstrod.Then what happens? All of asudden Amstrad takes overSinclair! 'Cor- I t h o u gh t , ' E d' s

a psycho. How else could heforetell Amstrad's takeover'.

So now we know. The truthis out. Ed, when will I win thePools?

As for T.P. — Yeurggh,where's the shotgun?Kevin McCarneyIlkley, W YorksMil0000w you dont hove to tellme dearie i hove to live erethere are no mice plenty of ratsbut no mice the milks always

If my letter gets published, insteadof a YS badge could I please hovea full-size piccy of good old T'zer?Jon RoseBognor Regis, SussexAre you sure you mean full-size?What's the postman ever done toyou? Ed

Come on Ed, we all know you'rereally in love with TeresaMaughan, so odmit it and make itlegal.Jason WallaceBromley, KentIfs not illegal lust criminally insane!Ed He says the nicest things.Thwack! rzier

am never going to touch yourmag agoin because of the AprilFoals joke thot you played in theApril issue.Thomas JagoShrewton, WiltsHave you tried using rubbergloves? Ed

sour dirty devils never washanything up and talk aboutlumpy oh you wouldnt believewhat i have to put up withdearie and to cap it all theresthis lunatic coiled ed psychopathyou say you wouldnt believethe alf of what goes on andlook now lies got that shotgunyou were talking about and hesBANGIII

Nyabohahaha... Ed

SUCKERYou may think this is very sillyand it probably is. (Believe me,it is. Ed). You see, when I triedto clear my Spectrum+keyboard of dust, I washedevery keytop in luke-warmwater, then rinsed them (thatwasn't the silly port) (That'swhat you think! T.P.) and thenreplaced the keytops.

This was fine for five weeksand then they were evendustier than before. I got outmy mother's vacuum cleaner,plugged it in and started tovacuum the keyboard. YourSinclair was open and I storiedto read the 128 review whilst Iwas using the vacuum cleaner. Iheard this clinking sound,looked at my Speccy and got aterrible shock. Seven of thekeytops hod vanished! In shockI began to empty the dust bagto find the keytops smotheredin dust. I replaced them, neverto use a vacuum cleaner again,not even five foot away fromit.Neil ChristieFroserburgh,AberdeenshireAnd the moral of this story is(as we all learnt in Physics) thatnature abhors a vacuum.Especially if it's a Hoover. Ed

PYRADIUDDLEYou wouldn't guess whatTroubleshootin' Pete has doneto my life by giving away afree, cut out, fold up, easy-poesy DIY potent microdrivekill Not only did it cure mycartridges, but it also fixed myInterface 1, my Speccy and itcured my cold! Amazing!! But,best of all, I put it on mysister's (spit) head and nextmorning she'd vanished, neverto be seen again!! (Hooray!)

Thanks T.P.Justin AdamsRingwood, HantsWe wondered who the niceyoung lady who turned upunannounced at the office lostweek was. I thought theremight be a few side effectswith our VS patent pyramid.Let's see if it works for me.First, the 'r' key on thetypewite. It woks/ Now fowhole wods. Yee, theegoes _Let's have a go atwhat's left of the Lette

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your day. It's offering the lucky winner an all-expenses paid trip to London to collect abrand spanking, black boxed Spectrum 128.Plus you'll be given all of Ouicksilva's currentSinclair titles to take away — and thatincludes VS Hot Shot Max Headroom, YabbaDabba Doo and many many more.

And just so this is not a win-or-bust compothe ten runners-up will each receive a copyof QuicksilvaS new arcade adventureTantalus 1 — The Enemy Within.

With its stunning graphics and a staggering1,024 rooms to explore, Tantalus 1 is sure tobe a winner. And Sid Vicious fans willespecially love it 'cos it features Spike — apunk haircut on legs. Actually, Spike's aPunkoid (a genetic mutant fighting machine)who's been sent to the planet Tantalus toassassinate the last human deviant in theuniverse. Tantalus isn't what you'd calltantalising though — it's riddled with cavernsand hidden passages and worse still 32 fataldoors. Spike has to find a way of unlockingthese doors whilst trying to avoid, or destroy,the assorted aliens.

So, what d'you have to do to get your mittson one of these fabulous prizes? Colour yourhair green? Nape. Pogo without a stick?Nape. Listen to Sigue Sigue Sputnik? Doublenope. We want you to design a punk, that'swhat.

Spike was drawn on a 16 by 16 pixel grid(2 x 2 character squares). Now we want youto design a punkoid to be used in the game'ssequel — Tantalus 2, Your character can beeither a walking, bouncing or flying punkoldjust so long as he looks pretty punky. To giveyou a hand we've included the design forSpike — cute ain't he? Easy so far. And tofinish off all you have to do is christen yourpunk creation — after ail, even punks havenames.

To enter simply draw your design in thegrid provided and fill in your character'sname. Send the whole caboodle, or aphotocopy, to Design A Punk Comp°, VS, 14Rathbone Place, London W1P 1DE, Soc'mon punks, make your day.

RULESPunks from Sportscone Specialist Press andOuicksliva will be stripped of their rnohicans ifthey try and enter.All entries must reach us by July 31st 1986 — orelse!Don't get into fights with Johnny "the Ed" Rottenunless you want a safety pin through your nose,

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Here's a nif ty program f romChris Wood (funny, I 'm sureI've heard that namesomewhere before) forMartech's Zolds. Type it in. runit, and if you don't get a'Checksum Error' message playyour Zoids tape f rom thebeginning. Lines 150-180 arefor each of the dif ferent POKEs— you can delete the linescontaining POKEs you don' twant.

HACK OF THEMONTHWAY OF THE TIGERTalking about familiar names,here are a couple of hacksfrom A n d r e w B r o wn a n d hisprinter packing partner, Ch r i sBoland. The first for Way OfThe Tiger wi l l give you infi niteendurance in any of thescenarios. Trouble is, itcorrupts the bot tom of thescreen as this is where therout ine lives — st ill you can'thave everything. This isunavoidable because the gameuses up all the memory at onetime or another. Simply type itin and run IL i f you don't get'Chocksum Error' play thegame f rom the start — it ' ll nowload and work as normal butyou'll be a lot more resilient!

10 R EM WAY O F T H E T I O E P H ACK :C > ABR . 1 9 8 620 C L EAR 3 9 9 9 9 s L E T t . . 0 s FOR n =6 4 .0 0 0 T O 6 0 0 8 6 sR EAD a30 PO KE n o 8 t L E T t . t . a s N EXT n40 I F t < > 9 2 I 1 T H EN PR I N TC14ECKS1.41 ER R OR ": S T O P50 L OAD ""C O D E . P O KE 5 7 4 13 .2 0 1 : RANDOM I ZE U SR 6 0 0 0 060 D AT A 2 4 3 , 4 9 .4 8 .1 1 7 .2 0 5 ,4 , 2 2 4 .3 3 .1 2 2 , 1 8 7 .6 2 .1 9 5 .1 19 3 5 6 2 , 5 7 .1 1 9 .3 5 , 6 2 .1 8 8 , 1

70 D AT A 1 4 9 .2 3 4 .1 7 .5 7 .1 8 8 ,1 , 7 .4 , 2 3 7 , 1 7 6 , 3 3 .1 5 6 .2 3 4 .17 . 2 2 4A8 7 0 . 27 . 0 . 23 7 . 1 76 . 3 3

8 0 D AT A 2 2 4 , 8 7 .3 4 , 1 8 1 .9 5 , 1.7 5 .1 9 5 .7 4 , 2 2 4 6 2 .2 0 1 5 0 0 ,

4 1 , 2 2 5 , 2 0 1 .2 5 4 :1 , 3 2 .5 :3 3 :2 290 D AT A 1 7 7 . 2 4 , 1 2 . 2 5 4 , 2 . 3 2, 5 , 1 3 , 1 1 9 , 1 7 6 , 2 4 .3 .3 3 .2 3 5 ,1 78.3 4. 60.1 88 .1 95 ,6 2.1 87

ZOIDS 10 R EM Z O I D S H AC KI N G P R O MAM ( C / C H R I S WOOD 1 9 8 62 0 C L EAR 6 5 5 3 5 8 L E T t . . . 03 0 F OR 1 1 2 3 3 0 7 T O 2 3 4 3 0 8 RFAD 4 8 L E T t t . a : P O KE n o l l1 N E X T n4 0 I F t < > 1 4 2 0 8 T H EN PR I N T"CHECKSUM ER R OR ": S T O P5 0 F OR n . n T O 1 , 9 1 R EAD • s

I F a < 2 5 6 T H EN POKE n . a s NEXT n6 0 BORDER 0 : I N k 0 : P AP E Res C L S s R AN D OM I ZE 1 2 6 7 + 1 )5R 2 3 2 9 679 D AT A 1 1 6 .2 0 5 , 1 6 2 .4 5 .1 2 7

9 0 9 0 7 5 .7 4 , 7 2 , 5 9 .5 9 , 2 2 5 ,1 7 / 7 . . 4 1 ,800 DATA6 . 8 8 . 2 6 . 2 0 3 . 6 5 , 4 0 ,3 . 1 3 4 , 2 4 . 1 0 7 4 . 1 8 , 1 9 . 1 6 , 2 43 , 3 590 D AT A 1 3 , 2 4 2 .2 4 , 9 1 .1 2 4 , 15 2 ,95 , 11 1 ,1 78 . 12 7 .2 48 . 52 , 1

4 3 , 1 1 1 , 2 4 4 , 2 6100 D AT A 2 1 1 , 2 2 8 .9 8 .2 3 4 .2 44 .9 8 , 2 4 6 .2 4 4 , 9 8 , 7 8 , 2 4 4 , 9 8 ,7 4 , 2 4 4 , 1 0 2 .1 1 9II@ DATA 134,14)207e.9e,s40 7 8 . 1 1 5 0 1 1 . 2 4 4 , 9 5 , 1 . 6 1 , 14 6 , 6 8 .0 .1 1 7120 D AT A 1 2 3 . 0 0 9 5 . 9 5 . 1 0 9 .7 2 , 1 4 3 , 1 2 2 .1 2 6 .1 0 2 , 1 6 9 , 1 1 30 1 5 . 7 8 . 1 2 3 , 1 0 0130 D AT A 1 7 5 , 1 0 2 , 2 1 0 .1 8 .4 4, 7 3 , 1 1 1 .1 6 6 , 1 6 9 , 5 4 .3 6 .9 5 , 70 , 3 1 , 1 5 5 .9 5140 D AT A 1 6 8 , 7 0 , 1 4 3 , 1 6 4 , 8 29.1 9 9 , 1 2 7 .2 1 2 , 2 2 0 , 1 9 9 .4 6 .1 1

15e D AT A 1 7 5 , 5 0 .1 0 9 .2 0 9 8REM N O Z OI D AR POWEP L O SS164 D AT A 6 2 1 9 1 . 5 4 , 2 2 9 , 2 1 78 R EM I N F I N I T E M I S S I L E S170 D AT A 1 7 5 , 5 0 .1 2 5 .2 1 3 1REM I N F I N I T E BU L L ET SI SO D AT A 6 2 , 2 4 .5 0 , 2 2 9 , 2 1 4 :

REM T AKE I N F I N I T E DAM AGE190 D AT A 1 9 5 , 1 .1 3 7 , 9 9 9 : R EM DEND M AR KER . O N ' T D EL ET E

DALEYTHOMPSON'SSUPERTEST

128AY-3-8912.'Ay?' I hear you cry.If you're a Spect rum 128Kowner you'll no doubt guessthat this one's for you. It 's forSupertest 128 and it comesfrom Chris Wild. (Cansomeone please tell me whythe vast proport ion of hackersare called Chris? Answers onthe back of a £5 note — thebest will get a YS badge! )

If you're about to rip yourheatsink in sheer frustrat ion atthe diffi culty of some of theevents then put away yourhacksaw and start typing! First,type in MERGE" ", press Enterand play the fully rewoundgame tape. When the 'OK'message appears stop the tapeand type in the following lines:

I I PO KE 2 7 0 6 1 , 4 012 F OR I N 2 7 0 9 8 T O 2 7 1 0 5 : PCAD a l P O KE n , e 8 N E X T n13 D AT A 6 2 , 5 8 , 5 0 , 1 7 9 , 1 4 9 , 19 5 , 1 6 , 1 4 2

Done that? Now type in RUN,press Enter and start the tape.The program should then loadnormally... Five hours laterwhen it 's finished, you' ll haveinfi nite lives and no morefrustration. What about somePOKEs for Sweevo's Whirledand Fairlight II on the 128?

RASPUTINLady Penelope's back (VS issue3) — or rather PenelopeD'gaulle Bennet — with someinfo for those going mad withthe Russian monk Rasput in.Follow the four s imple stepsbelow and all your problemsshould be solved — over to youPenelope:1 . F irst fre e ze the ga me .2 . Pre ss C APS a nd 'SU — the be e pe rwill the n be e p.3. C a re fu lly type in 'STAL I N ' — th ebeeper w ill be e p withke ypre ss. I f you h it the wrong ke ythe ga me will un-fre e ze a ndcontinue so you 'll ha ve to go ba ckto ste p 1 .4 . Af te r the che a t code l'ST AL I N Iha s be e n e nte re d type in a t wo d ig itroom numbe r. The t wo d ig it roomcode s ra nge f rom 0 0 to 2 4 a nd 3 3 to40 . Ente r the rooms from 0 to 9 a s00, 01 , 0 2 and so on. H e y pre sto!I mme dia te a cce ss to a room of yourchoice .Thanks for that one Penelope— it 's FAB!

YABBA DABBADOO

There's nothing prehistoricabout this infi nite lives programfrom David Brankin andJonathan Evens for YabbaDabba Doo.

10 R EM YABBA D ABBA D OO M ACK ( C > D AV I D J . D R AM I N20 F OR n =6 5 0 0 0 T O 6 5 0 0 7 8 PFAD a : PO KE n , a ; N E X T n34 D AT A 1 7 5 , 5 0 , 9 2 .1 7 0 .1 2 4 .2 4 6 .1 , 2 0 134 L OAD 'C O D E4 0 POKE 6 4 9 0 9 .1 9 5 8 P O KE 6 49 1 0 .2 3 2 5 PO KE 6 4 9 1 1 .2 5 35e RANDOM IZE U SR 6 4 7 6 7

To use it, type it in, run it andplay the game tape f rom thestart. The game will now loadnormally and lucky or you wil lhave infi nite lives.

" I l l f c - 1 t r . , • . W i l t . 8 N e !

TAU CETIAndy Brown and ChrisB o l a n d have sent in a crackhack f or the brilliant Tau Ceti —with this program you getinfi nite flares, infi nite missilesand infi nite anti-missiles. Allyou have to do is type it in andrun it. As before, if you don' tget the 'Checksum Error'message play the game tapef rom the beginning. The flaresand missiles wrap around to255 alter reaching 0 but themissiles stay at 8.

-Pm10 R EM T AU C E T I H AC KI N G P ROGRAM ( C ) ABR 1 9 8 620 C I S 1 L E T t . 4 4 : F O R n=6 4 10 0 0 T O 6 0 0 6 1 : R EAD30 L E T t = t + a s P O KE n . a : N EXT n40 I F t < > 6 2 4 5 T H EN PR I N T "CHECKSUM ER R O R "' S T O P5 0 RANDOM IZE U SR b e e e e64 D AT A 2 2 1 . 3 3 . 0 . 2 3 6 . 1 7 . 2 00 , 1 1 1 , 6 2 , 3 5 , 5 5 .2 0 5 .8 6 , 5 .4 8 .24 1 , 6 2 , 2 0 1 .5 4 , 1 3 , 2 3 6 , 3 3 .1 3 6.2 3 470 D AT A 1 7 , 4 . 6 4 , 1 . 2 2 , 0 . 2 3 T0 7 6 .2 4 0 5 , 3 , 2 3 6 .4 9 .3 1 .6 4 0 9

5 0 6 4 , 2 0 5 , 1 9 , 2 3 6 , 1 7 5 , 5 0 , 28 0 D AT A 5 0 , 5 3 .1 9 2 , 5 0 .5 4 , 1 921 S e , T .1 .1 2 , 5 0 .8 .1 9 2 , 1 9 5 , 0 ,9

BOMBJACKRight, now it's my turn. Here'sa short infi nite lives programfor the excellent Bombjack.And even bet ter is the piece oftext in the game's BasicLoader. You don' t need to be aSherlock Holmes to deducefour things about theprogrammer. One, he can'tspell very well, t wo he can'tpunctuate, three he's quitepolite (some of the BasicLoader's I've seen are anythingbut polite — Speedlock forone). Finally he likes Prince —no. not Charlie, the purple one.But enough of this, back to thehack in hand. To use theprogram, type it in, run it andplay the game.

10 R EM BOM B J A M I N F I N I T EL I VES V C / M O2 0 C LEAR 2 9 8 7 7 s F O R n a 2 3 3 71 T O 2 1 3 7 7 8 R EAD a : P O KE n, a : N E X T n3e L OAD ""C O D E : PO KE 6 5 5 34 , 9 1 : R AN D OM I ZE U SR 6 5 4 6 540 D AT A 1 7 5 , 5 0 , 6 4 , 1 9 5 , 1 9 5 ;7 5 .1 9 3

I 'm just about ready for a napnow unt il the next HackingAway comes round. Before I gothough look out for the hack ofthe amazing Starstrike II nextmonth.

WRITE TOMU, HACKING AWAY14 RATHBONE PLACE

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F A C T SS P E C I A L

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et•The video chip ormodulator needspecialist repair.'

A Model 3 Spectrumhoe to be repairedprofessionally.'

Have you got a Model3 Spacblim? To findout, follow theinstructions below.

Blown a fuse 'cosyour Spectrum's

gone on the blink?Relax as Steve

Adams comes tothe rescue with his

Spectrum FaultFinding Chart.

If your Speccy's just packed up and youhaven't the foggiest what's gone wrong.let alone how to lix it, you need thisamazing fault finding chart. It may not beable to fix the fault for you but at least it'llhelp you find it. And If your Speccy turnsout to be a jiffy bag job It shouldcertainly speed up Its return If you canpinpoint the problem for the repairer.But If you rate yourself as a bit of anelectronics whirt-kid you may well beable to carry Out some of the repairsyourself but do note the warning

Take the offendingadd-on back to themanufacturer forrepair/replacement.

Does the aerial leadwork?'

lames, i n si d e. 7

is 2 Speccy. You'llYou've got a Model

have to adjust thewhite capacitors

It's a Job for theSpectrum repairman.'

Your Cut-Out And KeepSpectrum Fault Finderbelow.

The Fault Finder Is a piece of cake touse. Simply start at box and keepanswering the questions with yes or nountil you come to the end of the line.There you should find out just what thefault is and whether it can be repairedeasily. And if you're not happy openingup your machine and tinkering with theInner workings (or non-workings in thiscase!) — DON'T. Take a look at the list ofrepairers at the back of the mag andsend it off to be fixed.

The upper 32K RAMchips have failed.(Type' THS4232 orO n) "

Is the picture at poorquality?'

Does it go out of tunawhen It becomeshot?

AVADisconnect allperipherals. Any oneof thorn may cause aprobiem. Does thiscure the limit?

[Does your machine

crash regularly afterwarming up?

a• WWi am l e l m i e Wi t l e m e i l m We l i a

Does it claw to below32767 when itcrashes? Check it outby following theinstructions below.'

De you get thecopyright message?

[What's the problem/

Your Spectnim'salright! Check thatyou've disconnectedail add-ons, and gothrough from thebeginning again.

The lower ISA chipshave f ( T y p e4111111)."

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picture on power up?

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Change the TMIZTX650)

A n s w e r e a c h o f t h e q u e s t i o n s u n t i l y o u ' v ei d e n t i fi e d w h e r e t h e f a u l t in y o u r S p e c t r u ml i e s . I f t h e r e a r e m o r e d e t a i l e d i n s t r u c t i o n sa b o u t a p a r t i c u l a r p r o c e d u r e , y o u ' l l fi n d t h e ma g a i n s t t h e r e l e v a n t n u m b e r a t t h e f o o t oft h e p a g e .

DANGER: Repairsmarked with theskull andcrossbones willinvalidate yourguarantee if youattempt to do themyourself.

Art tw o big blocksClUatts on thescreen?

The upper 32k RAMchlps have tailed,'

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Do you get a prettydisplay of colouredsquares on thescreen r

Cheek TV load. DoesIt work now?

The SV regulator orCPU is lasAty andrequires spticiati it musk.'

Aits a lob for theSpectrum repairman.'

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1Is there &buzzingsound?"

Check that the madosfuse is working andreplace It with a newone We not" Doesthis solve theproblem?

is Da broken Mtlead?"

Change the 9 voltpower pack:' Doesthis solve theproblem?

It's a tob ler theSpectrum repairman.'

" T H E K I T T Y G R I T T Y 1 1If you want to have a go atcarrying out your ownrepairs, here are the moredetailed instructions you'llneed. But if you're not surewhat you're doing — desist!You could well do even moredamage than you started outwith.

ki l l e video pictureshouldn't roil and youshould be able to tune in theTV. Your first fob tato checkthat the tuning's okay and ifyou can lay your hands on

one, try out a different telly.2. You can obtain a newaerial lead from mostelectrical shops — you'llneed a Phorio to Coaxialmale pitog.

3 Read through the list ofrepairers at the bock of themagazine and ask them toquote a maximum repairtime. Oh, and make sure youpack the machine carefullyand include the postage.4. You must have the poweroff before attempting this.

a simple repair but you'llneed to open up theSpectrum and solder in aBC337 or ZTX650 transistor.Note: the two transistorsaren't the same and the BCones fitted In reverse to thewhite diagram on the board.The transistor is locatednear the wire wound cod —use a solder sucker ifpossiblelf you think thissounds a bit too technical foryou take It to any TV repair

shop as they should be ableto cha nge IL5. This could indicate a RAMfailure but you can't rule outa faulty ROM. Change theRAM chips as they're cheapand easy to get hold of.6. Look in the back of yourSpectrum through the edgeconnector — If there's ametal strip running acrossthe top, you've got a Model 3.

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7, Adjust these whitecapacitors with ascrewdriver until you get adocent picture.

9. Change the RAM chips.Unless they're socketedthis' require somesoldering. Replace them oneat a time until you find thefaulty one. But make surethe power Is off when you dothis.9. You can check out if this isthe case by doing PRINTPEEK (23733)n o t e :•2 5 6 4-P E EK a ft er the

crash.

tO. Change the RAM chips totype 4164 — some may besocketed which'il makethings easier. Replace themone by one until youdiscover the faulty one. Asusual make sure the power'soff when you do this.11. Check the negative 5 voltsupply as it can cause failure

of the RAM chips. You'll findthe supply at the transformercircuit near the power plug.12. All ZX Spectrum internaltransformers bur/ whenworking correctly,13. It's a good idea to checkthat the plug terminationsare making good contactwith the wire.

14 You can buy 2.2Mmbarrel plugs as tape recorderspares. The 9V lead usuallybreaks near the plug owingto over-use. You'll be able totell lust by looking at It15. You can also checkwhether an internal fuse hasblown in your Spectrum byusing a meter or by shortingIt out. DO NOT 00 THIS WITHPOWER ON.

• While we've made every effort to ertsute accuracy in the advice given YS cannot guarantee that it 'll indicate or cure every fault, ix . don't call us if yourmake a complete pig s car of pulling it n

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• RATE OF REPAIRSTo give you an idea howmuch you should expect topay for your repairs checkOut the chart below. It shouldstop you from beingcompletely ripped-ad butremember it is only a guide

Inflation and availability ofparts could make a heftydifference.ROM — E9ULA —RAM chips — El -E2 EACH,Power pack — E5-E9.TR4 transistor ZTX659 75pand up.ZX printer — EllInterface 1 — E18.Flat rate repairs — from El 6to E20.For spares contact CPC.194-200 North Road,Preston, Lancs. PR11Y/2„

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Live and directfrom the El Joey'sGreasy Spoon Tex-

Mex Diner in Dal-las, Texas, another

tube of hextrastrong after dinner

hints from HexLoader's Bad Food

Guide.

click Bzzzzt! Yeeeh0001

(Background noise ofSpanish guitars and clink-ing glasses.) 'Elio. Cuepas& me amigos? Si, it'sHex Tex-Mex Loader, 'ere.

North of the Border, up Texaco Way(snigger).

Hey you, Waiter! Yeah, you with thebad moustache! Stop eating il and cometake my order. (Dam waiters!) I'll take aCowl of your best chilli with a mound oftortilla chips Yee, hot as you like. Par-don? And what does the reader want?"Look chummy, I'm not having peoplechewing my column, and that's final.

While we're waiting for the food, let metell you about the mail I've been getting.

Nir now, we have Ten Tips on the

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terrifying chopper challenge, Tomahawk,from juicy James Spencer of cloudyCoventry. (Alliteration is lust one of mymany talents. I can tie my own tie, too!)He says "For a Hash takeoff in combatmode you want to get up speed fast.Take the controls up to 100°.zo torqueand push the nose down to 30 degrees- you'll go from 0-100 in less than sixseconds. Not bad, eh? Don't worry toomuch about landing. You can landanywhere, and then taxi up to the padusing the rudder to steer.

it 's a good Idea not to be too high ortoo low when attacking. You alwayshave to point the nose down, and ifyou're too high you'll find yourselfdiving too fast. You can't shoot tankswith guns. only rockets and missiles.The conventional way of slowing downis to roll left and right which generatesmore drag. To make a tight turn, pull thenose up as you roll. It's easier to hit theenemy helictopter when it's on the turn.It can't fly through the mountains, so ifyou sit behind them, it'll have to comeover the top and dive. Beware though,on mode 1, the helicopters will trykamikaze as they can't shoot you down.In the strategy game (option 4) thedivision of territory is always differentII you want an easier game. keep clobreaking out until you get one you like.Also in the full strategy game. take outa whole row of the enemy positions ifyou can, as they won't be able torecapture any once that row'scomplete. But be careful — they can dothe same to your Whoosh. Eeeccoow.Pow. Crash. Da da dada A h e m , Yesindeed)).Commander Robert "Herble" Hancock(tee hee) recornmends a choice ot wea-pons for Eire. "Don't buy a military laserfor 6000cr, when the mining laser Istwice as powerful and only costs 800cr.

"Here are some statistics for theamount of hits you must score on eachenemy to destroy it. Notice the mininglaser scores:

"Pretty neat eh?" Crude but effective,Commander.

Next on the menu... er.., is CliveBanks of Chessington, Surrey. He hasthis to squeak about that -P h o n e h o m e "look-alike Sweevo's Wort. "I've found away to get an hextremely large amountof hextra lives, without using POKEs,

-First choose Apple Pie on the start

menu..." That reminds me. where's thefood. Manua!, C h e e se s , a C o mp u te r

could starve to death in a place like this.Sorry Clive, do go on "when you land inthis room, go north to the room with thefour One Ton weights on poles arounda boot on a lift. Walk into one of thepoles and get flattened by the weight.Do this four times, till you're on yourlast life, Go to the west of this room, sothat you enter the room where the twofingers are going up and down. Nowwalk into a linger three times. You arenow on the last part of your last life. Goback to the east, to the room with fourpoles. Wait for the lilt to start risingthen walk forward through the pole intothe lift. You will lose the last part of

your life by bumping into the lift but,even though this is your last life, you'lllose another life by being crushed bythe weight! The lives indicator willregister??', and you now have a largenumber of lives." Well played, Clive, forfinding a loop hole in Sweevo's logic, Ohyes, this tip was also discovered by AlexPheby of Worcestercestershire.

Aril The food. What! No. you idiot, Iwanted chill, not a 7.- B o n e s t e a k . T a k e i t

back, you twerp. No, you eat it! Holymackerel, who is this guy? Chilli, I want

Slieesh.NEXT! Bon Hunt of Sheffield has, likemany of us, been playing Monty On TheRon. Here's his picture of how to score5300

-This is the freedom kit you need: 2-

Jetpack. 4-rope, 9-grenade. 13-gasmask, and 17-axe. Get all items apartfrom Teddy Bear. Dynamite. and thoselittle mine-like thingles. On the secondroom, once you've got the items fromthe room underneath, go to the top ofthe rope under the kettle. When a cloudwanders lonely across. jump left onto itand hold down the 'up' key. Al the loptake a few steps to the left so that youdon't fall down, and drop off. Go to theedge of the platform, and wait until theyellow bloke with the big nose getsunder Thomas The Tank Engine, thendrop off again. Very quickly you mustgo left, get the coin, and then jump leftinto the next room. Go halfway up therope and jump at the first-aid kit for anextra life. Then go back and jump onthe cloud.

-Go along the top ol the next two

rooms. When you get to the room withthe bubbles and the posts in the water.go through to the right into Pie AreSquare. Don't go into the teleport yet,but go underneath it and onto thepurple platform. When the blue puddingbowl has just gone past. jump two orthree times into the next room. Get allthe items except the Teddy, and goback to Pie Are Square and jump Intothe teleport.....- W h a t h a p pe n s n e xt , I

hear you ask. Well, heh heh, I'm afraidI'm doing it to you again. Next part, nextmonth. I don't get much pleasure out ofthis job, but what I do get is from doingthat...!

For those of you who find Panzadromea pain in the turret, here's a handy cheatmode, discovered by boln Andy 'Tharg-Duffield of Norfolk and Richard Curtisfrom Scunthorpe. Put the CAPS LOCK onand load the game as normal with LOAD

then on the title screen carefully typeTONE THE BONE. There will be a Beepafter (inn key. Then you'll begin thegame with a fully armed Hypermegatark

And finally %idler's Den, with asprinkle of labasco tram Wander Kolder-wyn of The Hague (don't be vague) inHolland_ So with a hearty tot seins, art wego. "First get the TCP and place IIabove the Gargoyle. Get the red statueand the pillow. Drop the red statue inthe red dragon room. Get coat-of-arms,honey and the duck. Drop honey andduck in Bank room. Put coat-of-armsacross from the spider. Get key andcoat ot silk. Drop silk coat in Bank roomand get honey. Go to river and use pil-low. Put key in pocket 4 and wait until15;30. Go In and out of the room andthe river will open. Drop the honeyacross from the bee and get the ropeand jar, Go to golden door and pressuse (remember the key is in 4), Dropkey out of the way and get tooth. Dropthe tooth, jar and rope In the Bankroom. Go back and get lighter, shieldand gem. Drop everything in the BankRoom. Then..." Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I'vegot you again. If I've got to wait for myfood, you've gal to wait for the solution.Next month.

And with that I'll say farewell, adiosmes amigos, eoba eeba. underlay under-lay. eeeeeeeeehaaaaa! Here comes thechilli. I don't believe in Look, I wanted achilli, you moustache on a stick! Take thistaco and slick it up your sombrero, Bringme my chef!, gordam'ill

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HEWS HEROESClick L o o k I m really fed up with this. No I didn't order encrikadas No, takeit back! I don't want it. And stop eating that moustache!

Pippin' wafter. No, I haven't forgonen my little tacos, the Hex-Mex's Heroes Sohere are those hi-eating... hi-scoring Heroes.

Ladies first, and this little tequila sunrise is Leanne Moore of Tipton, W. Mid-lands. She's a whole six years old (Ahh! Wait a minute. that's older than me?) butlust to prove there's more to her than a pretty face, she just racked up a stupifying260.500 on Buck Rogers And then stayed on Level 6 from there on. Wee done anda big kiss. Leanital (Slurp, smack! Hex, yer a big softy!)

Next up is the hi-scoring beer gut of David Johnson of Lipton in Devon, whowith the aid of nothing but his belly button, steered his way to a score of 66,500 onPole Positron. He says, "My technique is to win," Shuodup and eat yer sandwich,Dave.

And finally, just to spoil my fun is David Shewan from somewhere that doesn'trhyme with Lipton or Tipton. He comes from Aberdeen. Tsk! Some people reallyenjoy coming from Aberdeen, don't they? (Smack? Get on with it! — E rzer,) Hey,wow. and David has gal a hot chilli sauce of 172,910 on the brand new BornblackyWheeeh0000, muchachos'

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SPY HUNTERHunted out by James Slater from York and Stuart Walker of Kent.

At some point along the road a helicopterattack you. Slop the car and it'll drop

bombs at you. WM miss, but for every bombyou'll gel an extra 200 points.

Stay clear of the roadside. II you're toodose to it, enemy vehicles box you in end

ram you oll the road Oh yes. if you do endup on the roadside, get oft quickly, 'cos

you'll hit a rock.

Slay behind your drop-oll truck tor as longas possible. as it's presence will fend oft

any enemies in the area.

PING PONGPing Pong Ponginess by Scott Donaldson of Lanarkshire

The computer usually reacts to a fast,cross court shot with a floater. When itcomes towards you, let it bounce once,

then do a smash. the 'up* key.

As with real Ping Porn, the way to von it _keeping a rhythm going Ping. pong, ping.pong.., just like that. Then suddenly break

the rhythm with a fast shot right across thetable. Pow! The CPU won't be able to gel to

It tall enough.

SPELLBOUNDMagic tips by J. Moorcroft, Steven Aspinwall and Robin Brown.

Put the teleport riser Florin, and go to theroof. Get the Wand of Command arid the

bOttle 01 liquid. Teleport back to Florin.Give him the bottle. Take it back to restore

your strength

To get past the room containing the Deadly _Niglitshade gas you must cast the spell

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Different cars tire in different direOtions.Don't gel in front of these ones or they'll

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_ Okay, I know you'll want to bell along II topspeed. but don't' About half speed Is but,especially around the tricky bends.

_ Thanks to a bijou bug-ette in the program itIs possible to lump bridges and avoid thewater sections of the game Just before thebridge you pull onto the roadside (just thisoncei and go full speed along the righthand side Dukes of Hazard eat yourhearts Out!

The inetruction book doesn't make it veryclear how to move, so if you want a highslow shot, push 'right', or a low last shotpush 'left

_ H you want to chest and who doesn't, thenstart at level land get. lead of tan points.Frinatance 10-7. Then II you're serving,serve it at:relight into the net. keep this upend the computer will say "You have won"and award you squillions of bonus pointt

From level 3 upwards you can serve with asmash, If the computer does a smash,always return it with a low, last shot,

_ Take the &thorn from Samson and the mil-onk from Elrand Summon Thor by blowingthe elthom and command him to mend the

To gel past the room containing the DeadlyNightshade gas you must Cast the spellFumeticue Protectium. To do this you mutthave the Ned Herring and the Power-POngPlant, YOU'll now Immune!

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Ad1ictive/M.95G wyn Strange. Unexpected!An oddity, even!!! That's Kirel,ihe new offering from thatfootball crazy crowd atAddictive_

Strange because it's a millionmiles from its previous leaguetopper, Football Manager, thesimulation that's kept Addictiveover the moon and helped itsurvive several own goals •remember Software Star,

Unexpected because Its asmooth running arcade game.riot the long in the tooth Basicassociated with Addictive. Andan oddity because though itloins the Ultimate lookalikethrong, it doesn't play at all likeKnightforel

Kite! is more ol a blockshifting puzzle in 30; thechance to be the architect ofan alien landscape. Theeponymous hero is a cutecritter who lives on an eight byeight grid in a sugar cube city(nothing to do with Amstrad).Its the ideal environment foranybody who likes climbingstairs — o r would be if it wasn'tfor the monsters and bombs!

The bombs are really hismain concern because he hasto clear them in a constant raceagainst time, the Inexorablepassing of which is shown by aconstantly 1177ing fuse The

DORI Wide time though.The only way you'll get agood score up here isthrough speed I think thisIs the quickest route torscreen one.

Avoid these littie monstersthough They think they'retoupees and sit on hishead. sapping his strength.

It's a piece of gateau todeal with the noshes Whilethere's some cake left Kirelcan knish them providedhe attacks from a higherlevel

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Mind you the idea of levitation is somewhat of an after-thoughtto tie nine, otherwise totally unconnected programs together toproduce an entire game. To be fair, its best to think of the gameas a collection rather than an individual title.

All nine programs are linked together by a high score. Once youachieve a score of about 1000, Sidha, an Indian chappie in thelotus position, gets to rise high above the ground (without the aidof a curry), transform himself into an ethereal form and floathappily away through the top of the screen. Far out!

And increasing stamina islike taking candy from ababy. Here's a bag of bon-bons lust walling to beconsumed!

The big block means thatKuala not dropped a brick.That's because he needstwo to raise himself to theright height when hereaches that other bomb

kiret's in the same placebut I've revolved theScreen and he's lustpicked up a block, allowinghim to drop down onto thebomb

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be because this taperstays In sight whicheverway the base turns a n dIt only stops yarding whenyou find a sphere

aliens merely get in the wayand leap on Kirel to sap hisstrength — a relatively minorirritation when the world'sabout to vanish in a shower ofsparks!

Unluckily not all of the bombsare accessible at the startbecause Kirel can only climb aheight of one block at a time —after all, he hasn't got any legs(and that's quite different frombeing legless) But here'swhere his Wimpey skills comein! Kirel kan karry one block ata time, providing it's not fromthe base level So reaching thebombs is a question ofrearranging the landscape untilthere are neat stairs to thecorrect level. Another cleverability our hero has is to buildbridges in the direction he'sfacing, though these are inlimited supply,

With that sorted out he canconcentrate on the objects he'llfind on his travels, namelycake. arrows, sweets and balls.Cake kills monsters when heleaps on them, arrows earnextra bridges, sweets restomstamina (and rot your teeth):and balls — perhaps athrowback from FootballManager s l o w down thesparkling fuse'

Finally there's the exit, that'llonly appear once all the bombshave been defused, whichhappens when Kirel movesonto them. The screen isn'tcompleted — and the fusecontinues burning — until youleap onto this and transport tothe next level.

There's also a training mode,without the terrible deaths,that'll let you get acquaintedwith the screens I thought thismight make it all too easy buteven after a rehearsal I foundthe fuse was running outbefore I could reach the exit.

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You'll need either very fast and accurate reactions or a damngood memory to play most of the games. Try taking your finger offa key when one of four Sidhas disappears whilst pressing anotherone to indicate which Sidha vanished.

The memory tests are much more um.. er.. I've forgotten... yesinteresting even if they are a little reminiscent of an IQ test. Firstyou have to match up patterns, trace around a specific pattern ina jumbled mass of lines and then you have to remember whichpatterns — from a random selection — were displayed on-screenfor 30 seconds__ and all against the clock! Phew!

It may not sound very interesting but each game has a verycompetitive edge and they're all very addictive — to the point offrustration.

The Secret 01 Levitation has none of the inventiveness,originality and graphic flair of some of the moreupmarket games but it • • • • • • o p o odoes ilave something... and • e m o m e n o o dI'm not just talking about low v • k . o. Mon. • • • • • • • • oprice _ L a k i t e c t i v e n o s s • • • • • • • • • 0

BOUNDERGremlin Graphics/f7.95Te re sa There's been a stringof games recently featuring allmanner of balls, some good,some bad. All round. Let merephrase that. All round,Gremlin Graphics' new offeringis definitely one of the good'uns — and it's very different.

You've got to move Bounder,a tennis ball with more bouncethan Samantha Fox, around anobstacle course consisting ofcrazy paving. But if youmisjudge a bounce and strayfrom the slabs into the trees,water and quicksand your ballgets a puncture and explodes.And Bounder, unlike a cat, hasonly got seven lives.

And that's not the half ofyour problems! There's a wholemenagerie of meanies tocontend with — Binoculoids,Chomper Domes, MoskitaBirds and Pterries to reel off afew of the peculiar names inthe instructions. Avoiding themis a whole new ball game. Youcan try a few fancy aerobicsbut I always came a cropperthat way. The 'try-an-alternative-route tactic is muchthe best bet for theuncoordinated.

But every cloud has a silverlining! Many of the aliens youcome across will actually giveyou a bonus — but it's trial anderror sorting out the good fromthe bad and the just plain ugly!Copyright cans are very useful

but you won't get the u n t i lthe later levels,gain a mystebouncing oquestionhit 'n' misby losingas your malevel, two of thmarks will give you a bonus ofsix and two balls respectively.Another will kill you outright.

Once you've managed tokeep on the straight andnarrow and dodged all thenasties you'll still have tonegotiate some very longjumps. Slabs with arrows onwill give you a little lift but youmust make sure your timing'sright.

On completion of a levelyou're confronted with a Bonusscreen where you have tobounce up and down on asmany question marks aspossible. Than it's off again onthe next level.

The scrolling graphics areexcellent — I only wish my ballcontrol was as good. Control ofBounder is pretty realistic tooeven though it gets veryfrustrating when you keepbashing into mountains andhaving to go back to thebeginning again.

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xpanded Spectrum. Knight,Tyme Is the third part of the1Magic Knight series - and let's

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callsround the neighplanets, but before c a nthat Magic Knight has to stirthe crew into action andwithout proper authority thatisn't easy. In fact, apart fromthe automatons, everybodyignores him. A few clues togain friends and Influencepeople are contained in Icaptions, but even then you'llneed all your wits to use theobiects scattered around thePisces before you canpersuade its pilot to take of

Once in space those 128kilobytes come into their own

the only previousmanifestation of the newmachine has been the very,pleasant, though ultimaterepetitive tune (don't worry

switchable!)Choose your planet from

menu and choose your journSpeed. remembering thatthough it's a race against theTyme Guardians, speed eatsfuel, then watch from thebridge as space scrolls by.

When you reach yourdestination you cancommunicate with the landinparty They may want to talkabout trading matters andseem very friendly b u t becareful about accepting repafrom strangers. After all, youwouldn't take your car into anold garage, would you"

Knight Tyme is packed withclever puzzles, aeons of spto explore and, what's more,it's all finished with a doublecoat of wit I f it appears on th48K Speccy it's sure to losemuch of the detail and perhsome of the scale. So accept.nothing less than the full blversion It'll keep you playingall (klnight!

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1 — 4 • Green Beret/imagine2 — 4 • Bomblack/Elite3 1 • Heavy On The Magick/Gargoyle Games—4 5 • Way Of The Tiger/Gremlin Graphics—5 5 7 • Incredible Shrinking Fireman/

Mastertronic6 3 • V/Ocean7 — 1 • Cyberun/Ultimate8 — 6 • Turbo Esprit/Ourell9 — 6 • Devils Crown/Mastertronic10 3 • Starstrike II/Realtime Software—

Chart Chat 7There's a David Bowie song about this month's chart — Ch___ch_..changes_Yep, things have really hotted up since the last Hit List and only Mastertronic'sIncredible Shrinking Firemen hasn't burned Itself out. The other nine gamesare all Absolute Beginners, though in truth they've been on sale for a whilenow I t sometimes happens this way because of VS deadlines — games canbe in the shops for up to six weeks before they put in an appearance in thechart. Take Turbo Esprit — it came straight in to take the pole position sixweeks ago but it's now down to number eight with nothing to show that itsbeen higher. Green Beret on the other hand came in at number one fiveweeks ago and has stayed put ever since_ It just goes to show what a shortchart-life most games have nowadays — its getting more like the pop sceneall the time. Watch this Space for more Oddities next month._

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Firabirdit1.99Phil Don't you Just lovehedgehogs? Cute little snoutycreatures with spiky backs andbig dark eyes and likkle wetnoses... Well. if you like ourlittle fellows on the forest floor.you'll really burrow into SpikyHarold Goes Hibernating. (Nota ZTT band. atthough it easilycould be.) The winter is fastapproaching. and you must eatyour way through 57underground larders beforecrashing Out in your hedgehogpad in the home cavern_ You'veonly got 24 hours to do it, anda host of hazards in your way.

Like most platform gamesthis is really a game of skill,judging the liming of yourjumps and learning the bestroute through the caverns_Considering the price of thegame it's not bad, and I guess

you could say it narrows thegap between budget gamesand the full price stuff. But notthat much. The graphics arenice and big, and the soundeffects are funny. I like Harold,

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ic as your tin trucker riskse line fever in an attempt toe the earth from that awfuln aggressor.

long last here's a sequele smash hit Highwaypunter and it too looksred of a collision coursethe top of the charts

ode the fact that in manypects it's highly reminiscents predecessor.nhke last lime though, yourant Vorton, a sort ofcated Dalek, has no train ofa lives to guide through the

ails of the path. Insteades a single Terratron toh before you, negotiatingles and avoiding obstacles

they obstruct your progress.he eventual destination ofdaring mission is thenor of the Alien Industrialplex where — the blurbus — the TerraIron will

eat its awesome power'ch bodes well for the finalen But before the secretbe revealed you face a

down the highway toell, that's an industrial, isn't it?) so follow the

ow brick road.Actually I've not noticed anymrose In the path yet but thenochrome graphics, seenrn above. Ultimate style. areeffective as ever. You'll alsoel some old fiends, as youe along, in the shape of theible eyeball monsters.

something about the way theysneak and weave around,keeping out of your line of fire,makes them appear very muchalive. Unlike these creepy,cowardly optician's nightmares.

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It's behind you Yourtruncated Welt seems tobe loolung in the wrongdirection. Gel reedy tostand on the brakes than aquick swivel if you want toovoid the ineviteblecollision course.

Your journey isn"t a shortone but instead of finding EssoStations en route you'llencounter Terratronregeneration points. Drive thelittle doobrie through these —there are seven in all — tokeep it energized and winyourself a nice little powerbonus into the bargain.

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emicksahaitIL95Luke What do you get If you cross Ouicksilva's Games Designerwith the Beatles' cartoon film 'Yellow Submarine'? Something thatlooks very like its new release, Tantalus.

There's a long and complicated story involving all sorts of Sci-finonsense — how come all insert card writers want to be DouglasAdams'? But, basically, it's an old plot tailed up — you play thepart of a Spike Punkoid .„ a spikey-haired mutoid, would youbelieve w h o has to search around a 1000-odd screens toassassinate the last deviant human being in the universe. Ofcourse, it's not that easy — apart from anything else, the chapyou're after is holed up in the middle of the 16-by-16 maze, safebehind a series of 32 doors. Each of these doors has toopened with a well-aimed laser blast b u t first you'lldecide which of six different types of laser you're

You'll also have to deal with 48 different kindseach with 16 different flight patterns. They're allshapes, and they come at you from all directionshoot at you t h e y just get in your way.

Looking through the list of hassles the game thr— such as the materialising walls, the acid baths, theflashes and so on — none are really what you might call deadly.Yes, if you hang around in the path of a wall that suddenlydecides to materialise, you're in trouble. But if you're careful, it'sno real problem staying alive for a respectable time certa inlyenough to convince yourself that you actually have a chance ofbreaking down a few of the doors and having a go at theassassination attempt.

The screens do look very much alike — how else do you getover 1000 screens into 48K? — but they're all fun, and extremelycolourful,

After a few hours play, I didn't get anywhere near toassassinating the deviant. In fact. I spent most of the time floatingaround the tunnels trying to work out where I was. The movementof little Spike and his spaceship is nice and smooth, especially thelittle 'bounce' when he jumps from a height.

You'll probably get accused of being a hippy if you getcaught playing this game too Moues • • m m u • • omuch. B 'ut you re • i n • m i a m • • orecommended to check it out. S E I N I I I I M E E D Oma-a-a-an! It's freaky!! Lid d - b - • . • • • s a m s es s o o

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You get four lives in thegame Doesn't sound likemany but il you're carefuland don't lust blunderthrough each of the traps,you'll find you can stayalive long enough toexplore most everywhere.

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sparse planet with acheckerboard floor and manycontemporary sculpture-typefeatures on its tedious surface.There, they're protected by anadvanced race of humanoidswhose one role in life is tomake visiting bounty huntersvanish in a puff. How vile!

All of these criminals have aprice on their head (well, ithelps to keep the rain off) andso you are going to go outthere and reap the rewards ofplanetary law enforcementaren't you? Well, if you want tobe a dead hero — yes. But ifyou're like me, you're going touse your Mantronix, a recentlypurchased droid that comescomplete with a laser.

Mantronix beams down intothis strange world with its evenstranger inhabitants and almostimmediately the battle is on.They'll come at you thick andfast. For every one you mowdown another appears to takeits place.

Thal is the or etoriboted- points are gained lotShooting the alien hordesand opening doors withinthe mut.1

This heres a measure ofyour energy. Keep it out ofthe red area and you'll beokay. There a no way to upyour energy. so it's downto you taking some carenegotiating all the biddies

You have a choice ol sixlaws - STDM a 'bouncing C ont r o l l i ng the Punkolddfootball Nast to one with s p a c e s h i p Is real easy -random firepower. There's l u s t a matter of left nghtalso the opbon to a n d lump. Choosing whichdisappear trom your l a s e r to use Is the mostenemies tori find d i f fi c u l t decision?seconds.

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different attack pattern, fromthe floating eggs with eyes (atleast that's what these hardboiled criminals look like) wholike to drop on top of you, tothe spikey mines who you'drather were anybody elsesbecause they're fast andaccurate.

The last game I saw fromProbe was Devil's Crown whichhad a short independent lifebefore resurfacing as aMastertronic title and at that •price it was a good buy. If thisone is to fare well it too wouldbudge better at a budget pricerather than in the middle range.There's so little variation in thegame that it really looks likenothing more than a C1.99offering — unless it's a recentUltimate release!

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cassette recorders and the new MIDIsynthesisers you can achieve

spectacular results previouslyunavailable to anyone outside a 24-trackstudio. Paul Hardcastle, Depeche Mode,Howard Jones and, yes, even Sigue

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cheap music boom isMIDI, the MusicalInstrument DigitalInterlace, a true standardin instrument/computercommunication. Nowthey can talk to eachother. Your Spectrum,with the aid of a MIDI

interface, can now talk to and controlliterally any MIDI instrument, allowingyou to store sequences of notes in yourcomputer, and play them back on theinstruments of your choice in perfectsynchronisation.

Plus your computer can now play themusic itself, through the use of a newtechnique called sampling_ Soundsampling is a means of digitallyrecording a sound and storing it in yourcomputer. Once you have your sound inthe computer, you can then play it backat different pitches, building tunes with,say, a piano note, a guitar string beingplucked, or even at an idiot extreme, aduck quacking. A good example ofcreative sound sampling is of course thestuttering of M-M-M-Max Headroom.

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available only to those godlike mortalswho had thousands to spend on theirmusic. You and I can now g-g-get downand get with it for tens. Good news, eh?Now, as never before, the only limit towhat you can create on your Speccy isyour imagination.

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is a communications standard. likeRS-232. In the bad old days, rivalmanufacturers of electronic musical

instruments all had different ideas on howsynthesisers should be designed. So if youwanted to link two synthesisers together likeas not you'd find them unwilling to talk toeach other. The demand for some kind ofstandard led a firm called Sequential Circuitsto create MIDI in 1982

Now virtually all new electronicinstruments, drum boxes and reverb unitsfeature MIDI as standard, and even guitarsare appearing with the MIDI protocols lurkingwithin their sunburst finish.

Using a MIDI interface, like the onesmentioned here, you can program yourSpeccy with all the accompaniment parts ofdrum, bass and synth, and concentrate onthe vocals or guitaring, or whatever takesyour fancy. (What about my washboard? Ed).Beware the lure of MIDI, though, for whilecompatible instruments start off cheap,something like the Fairlight Series III Samplerwill set you back a cool £30000. (Eek, Thud!)• SEII.LimS INTERFACE Th is is a g o o d one

to go for pr ov i de d you can fi nd one.They used to im por t these fromGermany, but for som e r eason be s tknow n to them sel ves no l onger doso. For this r eason i t'l l pr obabl yappear in the shops w i th som ew hatmore m a na ge a bl e pr ice l ag tha nm any other s of its class. I t has onei nput por t a nd thr ee outputs a ndplugs i nto your pr ide a nd joy via a44-w ay connec tor i nto the back . TheLive S equencer softw ar e lets youwrite your sequences i nto i t in 'r e a ltime". Sim ply pl ay your tune on aMI DI keyboar d a nd i t'l l wr i te str a i ghtInto the sequencer .

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of tur bo Escor t, but in fac t a 9 9 qui dinter face a nd a ver y businessl ikepiece of kit. I t has one i nput, tw ooutputs a nd a dr um boxsynchr onisation socket. And thesoftwar e suppl i ed w i th the box al lowsyou to r ecor d up to e i ghtsynchr onised sequences a nd 2 6 . 2 0 0actual notes! Y ou can assi gn them toany of the e i ght channel s, edi t them ,or display them on a m usical stave.In fact, i t 's got al l the bel ls a ndwhistles. Anothe r na tty featur e al lowsyou to i nput notes fr om a MI DIkeyboar d, but this tim e e i ther in r eal

time or in s tep time. I nci dental l y . XRIplan a l ot of other MI DI s tuff for yourSpectr um i ncl udi ng a 0 X 7 synth voiceedi tor and l ibrary, J uno 1 0 6par am eter display.

• CHEETAH MIDI INTERFACE The n e w boyIn the I nter face s takes but cer tainlythe c he a pe s t a t £49 . 95 . Due forIm m inent r elease, i t pr om ises a ver ycom pr ehensi ve softw ar e packagewi th i t i ncl udi ng s tep a nd r eal timeinput, for w ar d a nd reverse pl aybackof sequences, a nd a MI DI del ay/reverb faci l i ty. Thi s is in case any ofyou br i ght spar ks have j ust spr ungfor a M I DI reverb, a nd w ant to tr iggerI ts e ffec ts fr om your Speccy.

• ELECTRO-MUSIC RESEARCH The E MRcom es w i th up to fi ve softw ar epackages. The Per for m er r ecor dsei ght pol yphoni c par ts in r eal time.The Com pos e r is a s tep tim esequencer . The Nota tor pr ints outmusical nota t i on fr om the Com poserprogram. The Musi c Edi tor l ets youedi t fi les fr om the Per for m er a ndCom poser . The V oi ce Edi tor al lowsyou to pr ogr am sounds on a r ange ofsynthesisers.

T H E K E Y

0 h. to t ick le the o ld iv ories again. Okay ,

so they 're not ivory any more, jus tplastic, but they'll always be tuskersto me. MIDI based keyboards are

getting cheaper every day, with marketleaders Casio and Yamaha (au so) currentlyproducing the cheapest and best.

• YAMAHA The Yam aha DX ser ies, DX-100, DX -21 , DX-7 , ar e Fr equencyModul a te d synthesiser s or FM forshor t. FM is a total l y ne w k i nd ofsynthesis us i ng sine w aves com bi nedto give you a ny wavefor m . Us i ng FMyou can im i tate the s ound of anyi nstr um ent In a ny sur r oundings,m eani ng you can dupl i cate the s oundof a pi ano in a gr eenhouse or aheavi ly cur ta i ned room. The overal lsound is har d a nd br ight, m aki ng i tper fect for pi ano a nd per cussi onsounds. O n the dow nsi de though, theFM pr ocess does, thr ough i t'sincredible fl exibi l i ty, gi ve you thefr eedom to cr eate com plex,impossible a nd unusabl e sounds.That a nd the fac t tha t they 'r ecom pl i cated to pr ogr am m akes themthe pr ofessionals choice. Pr ices star tfrom under £300 .

• CASIO The Casi o CZ ser ies, CZ-1 0 1 ,CZ-1 0 0 0 a nd CZ-5000 , al l use adigi tal sound gener a ti on techni quecal led P hase Di stor ti on Modul ati on,or P DM for shor t. The technol ogyCasio uses to pr oduce the sounds isa sor t of hybr id of digi tal a nd anal ogcircuits. They use digi tal technol ogyto tr ea t a nd m odi fy a sour ce soundwave i n m uch the sam e w ay as

• Sara, T'zer and Caroline the 'VS ' band suet

synthesisers always have. Thesounds you ge t w i th a Casi o arewarm ar id frui ty, but they can also beshrill a nd scr eechy l ike a gui tardistor ting. They 'r e small , por tabl e andvery easy to pr ogr am , a nd MI DIcom pati bl e w i th ever ything. Al thoughin theor y MI DI is supposed to be astandar d, you do fi nd occasional lythat som e i nstr um ents per sist in nottalking to e a c h other . Y am aha gear issuspect in this r espect, but I 'venever hear d of i t happeni ng w i th aCZ! Pr ices star t from a r ound £ 3 0 0 forthe 101 a nd E 400 for the 1000 .

S O F T O P T I O N S

As well as the various MIDI packages

mentioned elsewhere on these pages,here are a couple of other pieces ofsoftware that deserve a mention.

Wham? The Music Box by Melbourne House(there's a lull review in YS 3) lets youcompose two note polyphonic tunes withextra percussion effects, which you can editto your taste using an envelope and pitchediting section. Tunes can be compiled intomachine code for your own programs.MIDIsoft's RAP package enables owners ofMIDI drum machines and synths to compose16 rhythm tracks of up to 1000 steps, whichyou can choose from 200 built-in patterns.One of the first bits of MIDI compatiblesoftware was the Music Typewriter fromRomantic Robot. This is a composerprogram in which you enter the notes inmus ic al notat ion on a s tave (all the sticks

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and blobs) and it then provides you with ahigh quality printout. You can then play thetune you've created through an interface to aMIDI keyboard. Music students will love thisone

N-H-H A R D W A RE

Of course, there's plenty of hardware to

choose from apart from MIDIinterfaces. One firm is really pushingitself forward in the Spectrum music

hardware scene, and that's CheetahMarketing. It produces the amazingSpecDrum digital drum box, the CheetahSound Sampler and a whole lot of digitallysampled sounds for both. The SpecDrum is abox that can store the digitally recordedsounds of nine different percussion soundsand through software can sequence theminto foot-tapping little rhythms. Compared todigital drum machines costing C1000s thequality of its sounds is surprisingly high, andas such it's the most amazing cheapdrumbox you can buy, and great value too atjust under 30 quid.

• Date / Electr onics w as fi rst to pr oducea s ound sam pl ing system for theSpectrum, a nd a l though i t was agreat dea l of fun, i t w a s n't al l tha thot in the qual i ty s takes — a nd notall tha t usabl e as a pi ece of musicalequipm ent. G ood conver sati on pi ecethough, a nd handy i f you ha d thenerve to wr i te your ow n softwar e.

• Ca s k has real ly done the busi ness i naffordable equi pm ent. i ts R Z- I dr um

m achine has the best sounds in the£ 3 5 0 ar ea a nd is MI Di abl e too. I t candr ive other MI DI instr um ents via yourSpectr um a nd r equisi te i nter face/softwar e.

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• Not c onte nt w i th m aki ng the w or l d'sfavour i te Spectr um dr um m achine,Che e ta h is now goi ng for the thr oa tin the s ound sam pl ing ar ena. Thene w Che e ta h S ound Sam pler suppl iesyou w i th the technol ogy to do yourow n sam pl ing a nd sequenc i ng as wel las echo, r ever b and har m onisingeffects. Teeter i ng on the top of al lthese phisses is the fac t tha t i t'salso microdr ive com patible. TheSound Sam pler shoul d be avai lableshor tly — ther e 'l l be a ful l r eview in afutur e YS — a nd a t £ 4 4 . 9 5 i t's abargain, no less!

• Up unti l now i f you w a nte d tha tTrevor Hor n sound, you ha d to buy a

AFair l ight, yes, but m or e im por tantl y adigi tal r ever b uni t costi ng a fe wthousand qui d (I 'l l take tw o!) to givethose lush spaci ous mixes. Well ,digi tal r everbs ar e now wel l cheap,a nd MI DI contr ol l abl e too. By far thebest of the cur r ent cr op is the AlesisMI DI ver b for a l i ttle under £400 . J us tchoose the e f fe c t you w a nt a nd stor eft as par t of your MI DI s e que nc e a ndIt'l l select i tsel f, r i ght on cue.

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The 128K version of the Spectrum has,

as you may know, an extended soundsystem of its own, It boasts not only athree voice sound chip, but also a

built-in MIDI capability! So, you don't need aninterlace, but you do need a cable with the128's Telecom-style plug on one end and theMIDI standard DIN plug on the other. Untilrecently you had to buy one from Sinclair atgreat expense, but now, those Cheetahchaps have come up with a cheap solution ata measly E9.75

• ECH0-1 F o r t he 128 user, HCCS is to

m ar ket a ful l siz e m echani calkeyboar d, the E c ho- I , for about £ 5 0 .In conj uncti on w i th I ts O r ganm astersoftwar e i t'l l enabl e you to pl aypr eset sounds polyphonical l y (thr eenote chor ds) or synthesise your ow nsounds fr om the 1 2 8 's s ound chip. I fall this w a s n't enough. HCCS alsom anufactur es the E c hos ound musicamplifi er , a 5 w a t t speaker to boos tthe output fr om your 128. a l as t thewax fr om your ear dr um s for a r ound£39 . 99 .

BLUFFER'S G U I D E

W he n you finally have the dOShIO

swan into a music shop and buythe gizmos you need, just soyou don't appear a complete

banana through lack of jargon. here's aquick reference guide to make you blendwith the crowd.MIDI The Musical Instrument Digital Interface, Astandard in compulerfinstrurnentcommunications that allows electronicinstruments and computers to get to know eachother.STEP TI ME This means you don't have to beable to play the notes quickly, as you put them inone at a time, using the space bar of theSpectrum to indicate the rests Of pauses within apiece of music.REAL TI ME For this you do have to be able toplay a little. You play the keyboard and all thenotes and rests (spaces between notes) are fedInto the sequencer. Then 1,vhen you play it beck,the computer makes all the same mistakes youdid.PULSE SYNCHRONISATION An oldfashioned kind of synchronisabon: a (pre MIDI)method of synchronising the sluff you have inyour sequencer with stuff that's already on tape.MO NO P HO NI C Playing notes on a keyboardor synth One at a time. The opposite ofPolyphonic.P O LY P HO NI C Playing notes on a keyboard orsynth more than one at a time. Chords to you!

R I N G I N G T O N E S

• Marry thanks to Nick Thoruds and Mote aoktord or SohoSoundhouse rot the loan of the music shop, and also toFlichard Young at Casio toe technical info Cheers' •

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by Stewart GreenOh goodness gracious, this takes ya back! Bet you never thoughtyou'd play Invaders again! But every once in a while a programcomes along that completely changes your mind. All the fun of yourmls-spent youth comes flooding back with this superb machinecode implementation. The invaders have returned. It 's up to you tosend them back where they belong.To play the game you'll peed the following keys:1 = LEFT, 2 = RIGHT, 0 = FIRE!, and S = START.The Basic LoaderThis is the Basic program tha toperates the machine code. Typethis in and save it first on your tapewith the command SAVE "INVADAS"LINE 9000.

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The Hex LoaderA general hex loader for you to saveon a different tape and keep forfuture listings. Type it in, save It,then run it to input the hex listinginto memory. And remember, skipthe gaps between the individualbytes.

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The Hex ListingAnd here's your hex dump,containing all your invaders, zappysounds and colour. Input this intothe hex loader and when finished,save it with the command SAVE"INVADAS.CD" CODE 32100,3165.Then you're all ready to go!

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3 2 4 2 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 D 0 0 9 5 1 1 0 0 5 . 6 5 93 2 4 2 5 1 E 0 1 3 2 5 5 5 5 3 2 5 7 0 6 = 8 0 43 2 4 3 8 32555611cr5eeo53 • 5 0 63 2 4 4 4 7 2 6 1 6 E 0 5 3 7 4 8 8 5 0 5 E • 1 2 5 13 2 4 5 2 7 S C D 4 5 5 5 5 0 5 5 7 2 5 5 . 1 1 1 63 2 4 5 0 2 1 5 5 8 6 C D F 9 5 4 5 5 5 1 = 1 2 3 63 2 4 6 8 8 4 C D F 9 5 4 0 6 1 0 ( 3 1 3 2 1 • 9 9 43 2 4 7 5 0 5 7 S i :5 0 0 E 5 5 0 5 E 0 0 . 1 1 1 03 2 4 5 4 D 1 3 6 6 0 1 6 0 5 E 0 2 0 5 5 6 . 9 4 53 2 4 9 2 0 3 5 5 5 5 0 3 0 1 3 E 1 0 1 0 4 • 8 4 33 2 5 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 0 9 C 1 ASD 8 F EE5 • 1 3 0 13 2 5 0 5 1 F F E I F 2 0 4 4 1 0 1 3 8 1 5 . 6 7 53 2 5 1 6 0 3 6 R 0 8 5 2 0 0 3 5 0 4 C 3 = 7 1 43 2 5 2 4 oe6e9446005691353E • 4 0 53 2 5 3 2 oo•ro539oo8703ER . 65732545 eoc6046895e80446 = 5 5 43 2 5 4 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 3 5 0 0 6 S 0 5 3 9 . 4 3 23 2 5 5 6 0 0 5 7 0 3 E R 0 0 0 6 0 4 5 1 • 7 0 33 2 5 6 4 0 0 0 8 0 4 4 5 0 0 1 1 0 5 4 1 = 3 5 83 2 5 7 2 0 0 0 6 0 4 4 .3 0 0 5 F 0 5 C 7 • 7 0 53 2 5 7 2 0 0 0 6 0 4 4 C 0 0 0 S 0 5 5 7 = 7 0 53 2 5 8 0 0 0 A F O 5 F E E 5 1 F F E I F = 1 1 2 43 2 5 8 6 2 8 1 .7 C D E 5 7 F 5 3 4 0 6 0 = 1 2 3 53 2 5 0 8 1 5 0 8 0 D 1 0 0 9 4 9 4 5 5 6 = 3 0 83 2 5 0 4 4 1 4 4 4 1 5 3 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 . 3 2 73 2 5 1 2 1 1 5 4 7 F C 5 3 5 2 0 2 1 4 c = 5 3 43 2 6 2 0 5 9 0 5 0 2 0 5 0 5 C 5 E 5 F 5 = 7 9 032626 E5 0 7 1 3 1 5 1 7 5 5 1 7 C 5 1 7 • 2 1 83 2 6 3 6 C D I S 5 7 F 0 1 5 4 0 0 0 5 5 5 = 5 1 23 2 5 4 4 C 5 5 1 2 9 2 1 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 5 = 8 6 93 2 6 5 2 0 3 C 1 7 5 1 0 1 2 0 F 0 1

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PENTAGRAM and CYBERUN areavailable for the Spectrum 48k andAmstrad from selected branchesof W H. Smith, Boots, John Menzies.Woolworths and all good softwarestores They are also available fromUltimate Play the Game.The Green.Ashby- de.ia Zouch• LeicestershireLE6 SJU. (Postage and packingincluded.)

WHAT THEPAPERS SAY...

-Once you start playing the game It

becomes increasingly clear that Ultimatehave produced yet another excellentgame. The playing area is huge and thereare some excellent graphical effects likethe stars which are beautifully parallaxed'"Playability wise Cyberun is an excellentg ameThe inlay card doesn't give much away

so it is a challenge just to find out what allthe various goodies are for!'"This is a classic shoot -e m u p w h i c h I ' m

sure all fans of Lunar Jetman will enjoy'CRASH May 1986

There has to besomething devilishabout the men who

could come up with agame as fiendish as

Heavy On TheMagick. Devilishly

clever at any rate. Tofind out we told YS'sroving reporter, PhilSouth, to go to hell.Fortunately, he just

took the train toDudley where he m e tthe men to whom hex

means rather morethan just code —Gargoyle's Greg

Folks and RoystonCarter.

How long's Gargoyle beengoing — and why Gargoyle?Greg: We've been in existence forabout two and a half years. Royand I have been computing now forabout 17 years... We were in aresearch installation doingcommerical software production.Which was fine, but we were nevergoing to be rich. We thought we'dtry something else. So tar thishasn't worked bec aus e we're stillnot rich. But I could say we'rehappier...Roy: It'd be a lie_Greg: ..,but I could say it. Thereason were called Gargoyle isbecause, believe it or not, we weregoing to write for the Dragon. Andthere's a French version of theDragon called La Gargoyle_ Thenwe decided not to write for theDragon. but we were stuck with thename by then.It's always been our intention towrite business... And then it's all ottto Rio and damn the computerbusiness, I think! You, me, andRonnie Biggs.So whi ch of you is intoAleister Crowley?G re g : I've been known to be.That's me, from a long while backWhen I was eighteen or nineteen...about three years ago... (cough)...sort-ree_,. About nineteen yearsago. in fact, and on and off sincethen. I was a member of somethingcalled the Birmingham OccultSociety, can you believe that'? Allthese people dressed like Benny inCrossroads doing invocations..."ot)o. Astarottr (chortle).Roy: It was twenty-one years agoyou were eighteen.A Greg: Look, it doesn't matter!1.Atiem) Slop splitting hairs... notthat you can. (Indicates Roy'sexpanding forehead area.) Hmm,yes, the occult and all thingsassociated with that, Cabalah.Tarot... I always wanted to be reallyevil, but I haven't graduated as yet.I'm lust a little bit evil.So how do you go aboutsqueez ing 255 r ooms into aSpectrum?Greg: What we actually do is welie. There are only 48 rooms withlocked doors at the end that youcan't get past. No, seriously...actually, that's not a bad thought.We always compress everything asmuch as we can.Ther e's a strong sans . ofindividual style running

S S P E A K E A SYthr ough your games; an

Identi ty. How did it evolve?Greg: There will be a certainamount at similarity because I's usdoing it. It's like if Mark Knopflerwrites three albums you're going toknow they're all by Dire Straits, As itis. all our games look like DireStraits.., that's not right is it? Sorry,lost me thread there.So who dr aws the picturesthen?Roy : I program. and he does thepictures. Having seen me draw thepictures we decided that Greg hadbetter do them.Greg: He thought ducks had bigears.Roy : Only pictures of ducks, Iknew real ducks hadn't. It's calledartistic expression.Greg: Well, that's fair enough_With our big figures we can actuallydo quite a lot. now. So we'll use thatapproach in some other arcadetype games. An arcade gamecontrolling a figure of that sizeshould be quite something.You'r e goi ng into arcadegames?Greg: Yes, we're going to produce

new label devoted to arcadegames. And they'll be somewherearound the £1.95 mark. Whichobviously won't work 'cos all thebudget games will be out then,selling for around 22p a copy..Roy: ...with money back on thecassette.So you've got some reallybri l l iant ideas?Greg: We've got some ideas whichwe don't think have ever been donein arcade games...Roy : ...which we won't talk about...Grog: ...which we won't talkabout... 'cos we don't want to bring

this out till September andsomebody might nick'em.Roy: We'd certainly nick anybodyelse's idea.Greg: The name of the newlabel...Roy: ...once again...Greg: .,,we won't tell you thateither. But it'll be something reallyflash like -G o o d S o f tw a r e" , or -F ab

Software".Roy : We wanted to call it Imagine,but somebody said that it'd alreadybeen done.Greg: Yeah, John Lennon did it.Who did the music in HeavyOn The Magick?Greg: It was actually done bypeople called Mark Time, who didthe music for Fairtight. We had achat with them, described what thegame was about, then they wentaway and wrote a piece of music —they now do it on a 128! One of theLads we've just hired, incidentally,has a grade eight in music, which isquite good, apparently. He's alsogot a certificate for dog handling...Roy : Can't think of any way we canapply that.Greg: No... or. BarbaraWoodhouse's Dogs game?Roy: One Man And His Dog — TheGame?Greg: One Man And His Dog! Witha foreword by Phil Drabble. Hey.now we're talking aren't we? TheArchers, Jack Chariton's Fishingand One Man And His Dog. GreatRoy: Actually, half the problemwith the industry at the moment, isthe people who're out for a quickbuck rather than trying to...Greg: What? A quick...?Roy: A quick buck.Greg: Ah!Roy: Hmmm, Rather than trying to

write stuff that's good. They see anidea and think they'll have a quickgo at it, and discard il if it failsSo, how do you picture youraver age Gargoyle Gamesplayer?Greg: He probably thinks BenElton's really great. Favouriteprogram's gotta be Saturday Live.Probably kids himself he can reallyhear the Snap, Crackle. Pop in RiceKrispies.Roy : You can, can't you?Greg: Wears striped shirts, thatkind of thing. Definitely aimed atthe YDM. the Young DownwardlyMobile population About 14 andover.Roy : We get calls from sort of 60years of age downwards...Greg: Yeah, I wish they'd stopringing us up, those 60 year oldsclogging the line up... "Elio dear.'ow d-y a t ur n it on?

So, you get people whoal ways buy your games, sortof Gargoyle fans?Greg: That's definitely the case,yes. We get thous... hundr... er...WO got four letters. All from mymum. I think. No, we do get peopleon the phone who are Gargoylefans, and who'll buy any Gargoylegame that comes out. And I don'tblame them! Good games!What do you think Gargoylemeans to peopl e?Greg: Gargoyle? Er, I think itmeans... Greg And Roys GamesOffer You Limitless Enjoyment.Roy : Hey, that's not bad, on thespur of the moment.Greg: No, it wasn't was it? It'swacky, isn't d?Roy: What do you think Gargoylemeans?Just a minute, I 'mInterviewing you!! think it'sthe fact that all your gameshave a sense of humour .Greg: Tsk! I dunno, you try andmake a serious statement aboutlife! Yes! I would say there's anelement of humour in there thatsneaks through. That's why wefailed as monks. 'cos we couldn'ttake it seriously. Although Roystondid get further than I did becausehe's already got the hairstyle.Roy : The undertaking businesswas a bit of a failure as well.Greg: I actually had a hearse!Terrific thing, it was, did all of abouteight miles an hour. I'd get peoplewalking past me as I was driving.'Course he never told me that, theguy who sold it me. II still had therails in it, and some flower petals.Roy: And a corpse.Greg: Yeah, we ditched him at aservice station. We put him in oneof the Forte restaurants, andnobody noticed. All the rest of thepeople looked like that! Smut wasthe other thing we wanted to put inour games. But we didn't think it'dgo down too well. P'raps we shoulddo it Depends on Smiths really.No. only kidding.Have any of you ever beentr ai nspotter s?Greg: That's one of thosequestions you're not prepared for.My leg was a trainspotter once.Roy I think I may have been atrainspotter once, but I never couldfigure out why. I had an anorakonce!Greg: Yeah, but he couldn't get itoff. He's claustrophobic_ If ever Iwant a good left I walk roundbehind him and put me hands overhis eyes... (sounds of chuckling oftinto the distance)

Footnote Fo r those ot you who ere wondenng who Wleester Crowroy Wes, le t me efrpern An a , * Mr Crowley was a noted occult expert, writer, part-tune devil worsh.oper and morallydubious wejrtio or the /930's t ie 4 singular amongst other such weirdos in that he holds a cu lt status amongst many p e w * based on hos writings on the OCault and related matters (Manythanks so Horace Popettender of the CAM* Rathborte institute GI OcCuit Studies

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of the early days, dunnit? Youremember, the thrill of loadingup a new game, the wonder ofa new world to explore, ofmaidens rescued and hi-scores attained... snortl UhlWurr.,. sorry. I wasdaydreaming there. What am Iso fired up about? Why,Spindtzzy, naturellement Thisis the closest thing yet toMarble Madness (that old slot-op lave rave) on the small yet

humble Speccy. You are aReconnaissance Land-Mapping Device called Gerald,and you have been sent by theCorporation (grrr) to map anew dimension. Time ismoney, and you must whizzaround the narrow platforms insearch of power crystals toprolong your life so you canfinish the mission.

This may sound like asupercharged pac-thing to youbut once you see this game inaction you'll change your mindso fast your eyebrows will

Thi s is a tr icky bit! The techni que her e is to use a com bi nati onof the boost key, Fire, and your br ake, Freez e. Boos t yoursel fup the r am p on one side of the w ater , over the gap and dow nthe r am p on the other side. When you r each level gr ound pressthe Fr eez e key, so that you stop dead i nstead of car eeni ng oi lthe end at full gal lop. Use the br ake a lot on this scr een andm ai ntai n contr ol . ItE

To get the gem at the top of the pil lar in the for egr ound, youhave to bui ld a br idge acr oss from the pil lar next to the crosss ha pe d lift. First roll over the swi tch be tw e e n the pillar andthe door w ay. This will inser t the fi rst section of platfor m . Nex ttoggl e the sw i tch be tw e e n the lift pil lar and the near side wal l .This will add the fi nal section. Then roil to the square under thelift and apply the br akes. Fr om then on i t's all downhi l l .(A h ! Splati l

At 1 .9 9 a flight I'd be chary to criticise this game as featherbrained. Indeed it's all hot-blooded action in true Lawrentian styleand after all at that price you'd normally be content for the thing toload.

The Phoenix concept goes back to the original Space Invaders— though the emphasis isn't so much astral aviation as aviaries.You're in control of a space ship that's beseiged by squadrons offeathered aliens, nay, positive gaggles of the things. Your aim isin true Space Invader's style — blast as many as possible fromthe firmament.

The first screen is fairly simple — you can usually avoid theenemy as long as you don't get stuck in a corner. Get stuck andyour five lives will start ticking off, no matter how famed thePhoenix may be at coming back from the dead. Things starthotting up on screen two 'cos you've got to zap the eggs beforethey hatch Out into beastly birds that take great pleasure indropping things on you from a great height. I'll be generous andassume that they're actually more eggs but it did inspire a senseof relief at the thought that cows can't fly. Screen three is blab themothership time though it certainly ain't easy.

The live skill levels are based entirely on speed, and oh boy, Ican assure you that level five really does motor. As punk is toBryan Ferry, this is to all those nice laid back shoot 'em upsyou've seen before_ What you lose in namby pamby graphs,loony toons and pseudo Star Wars posing you make up for with100 percent playability and a i m m e e ncompletely orgiastic surfeit of lir m o i c . , e l l 0 1 : 1 0 00 0

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s andard in such games asFairlight and the Ultimate typegames, is the way you view theSpindizzy world. Not only that,but you can change theviewpoint any time you like withthe touch of a key. Useful if youwant to look around any bits ofscenery that may be blockingyour view. You can alsochange the form of Gerald fromtop, to gyroscope, and yes, tomarble at the touch of anotherrubber keypad. (Mmm!) Thespeed and quality of thegraphics are truly incredible, asis the realism of movement.Your Gerald has inertia, sowhen he starts moving it takesequal pressure in the oppositedirection to stabilise him (I'msure you've heard of Newton!)There's a sort of brake pedaltoo which stops you dead onany surface except ice or water

handy on those tight curves.There are interesting puzzlestoo. in the form of floorswitches you must activate tostart the lifts going betweenlevels.

The biggest reason I canthink of to recommend thisgame is the fact that it isaddichve! I could barely dragmyself away from it to write thisreview._ in fact_ yes, I can seethe start screen from here.perhaps just one more go

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Likewise, take anyunshaven, baggy-eyed VSreader with worn fingers anddo the same thing (preferablyafter they're dead) and you'llfind the words 'Stewart Green,Alien, Issue 2 written inBRIGHT 1: FLASH 1 on theirdelicate parts.

Not that Stewart's game wasat all bad; it's just that it wasonly after you'd typed it all inthat you noticed that VS hadsurgically removed some of themore useful bits. Enough tocause an instant autopsy onthe spot

Having justly becomeFamous, Stewart is now backwith his own 75p-a-game tape,including the complete,

Macsenit9.95Rick Credit where it's due,Macsen certainly have a go. Itsadaptation of Countdownproves it can produce a greatgame from a TV showprovided, of course, theoriginal lends itself toconversion. But whathappened to the gloriousfootage of Britain's heritage orAnneka Rice's 'Rear of theYear in the conversion ofChannel 4's Treasure Hunt?

In truth Treasure Hunt isnearer to The Round BritainQuiz in its form as a textcentred graphic adventure asort of Hampstead without thejokes. There are two versionsof the game L o n d o n and itsenvirons and British wide. TheLondon game is the easiesthaving two layers of riddledifficulty. the other has three.It's also based on generalknowledge whereas the Britishwide game requires theaccompanying, severelyedited. Blue Guide forgameplay.

The main screen informs youof where you've been (in caseyou didn't already know), whatyour next destination is andhow much time you have left,Riddles as to the location ofyour next clue take up a largechunk of the screen. You haveto type in the general area youthink you should be in and if it'scorrect the computer'll give youa pat on the back and zoomyou off to a more specific place

if you're correct you'll begiven a new clue to solve.When you get stuck for an[answer fly your helicopter in'various directions and seekmore clues

The second screen shows asimple map of the area you'rein, your chopper and itsbearing. In the TV Game it's allnail-biting tension but in thegame it's boring. Equally

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Macsen has avoided thegame's built-in obsolescence(what do you do when you'vesolved the hunt?) by includingmore than one game per tapeThere's also three other gametapes that feature differentareas of the Sceptred Isles

demented version of ZombieIsland and a weird D&D-ishadventure called Caverns D'Or(don't they drink that in Calais'?I knew this joke was goingplaces ,...)

these can be ordered with theBlue Guide, which normallycosts E8.95, so for £9.95they're a snip. Provided, ofcourse you're sold on the gameoriginally. As it's worthy ratherthan wonderful, this may not bethe case for the casual gamerwith or without the Rice puds.

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There's enough in Astrocadeto make it better than manycheapies but not enough tocome close to the best ones. Ifyou fancy a notalgic bash (it'sabsolutely aaages since I'vepotted a good Zombie!) thenrush E4,50 to DDS at 49Beaumont Road, Halesowen,West Midlands. In themeantime, we'll strap this guyto the operating table and write'New Ideas' all over hisHammond organ...

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PLANETSMa rteclott9•95Te re sa Remember thosereally boring Physics lessonswhere you sneakily read aScience Fiction book under thedesk instead of listening to Sirrant on about the SolarSystem? Well now you cancatch up on all that lostknowledge and have a bit offun into the bargain.

I previewed this game in YSand I reckon I know even lessabout it now than I did then.That's not to say it's not good— it's excellent. But it is verycomplicated and it'll take yousome time just to figure Outwhat you're supposed to do, letalone actually do it!

The Planets is a two tapeprogram — there's over 125K inthat there game! On the firsttape there's the main gameitself and Weird, a very peculiararcade game that's designedto be as mind boggling aspossible. On the second tapeyou'll find the data for each ofthe planets in the Solar Systemincluding information abouteach planet's physicalproperties, orbiting moons andso on.

You start off in search ofeight capsules that provideclues to help you save theEarth from destruction. But inorder to find them you mustvisit each planet in turn, searchfor the capsules, land and thenwork out how to open them bydecoding their inscriptions.

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And by Jupiter it ain't easy!Landing poses a bit of aproblem 'cos you have to takeinto account each planet'sphysical properties, such asgravity and atmosphericconditions and adjust thespeed of your craft accordingly.If you touch down faster than20m/s you're a gonner and youhave to go through the wholeprocess again.

Once you've discovered thesecrets of one black metal boxit's off into space to findanother — that's if you'veremembered to leave yourselfenough fuel. Select the longrange navigational chart andmove the cursor to the planetof your choice and away yougo. Now all you've got tocontend with is the barrage ofasteroids and meteor storms.All, I say!

If this wasn't enough you'vealso got to play the alien game.Weird, as solving it will provideyou with clues to help you inthe main game. It took menearly an hour to work out Iwasn't actually playing thegame but changing the joystickcontrol option!

It's a dead cinch to operateeven on the keyboard aseverything is icon driven, das for the graphiamazing. Youeye's view ofeach planettechnicolour.

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Quicksarsit8.95G wy n Here's a snappy little game on the popular photographytheme - and what an oddity! At heart it's a platform game but thepresentation cleverly disguises the fact — something in its favour'cos if I see another Jet Set Willy clone somebody will be takingphotos of me as they cart me off to the funny farm.

The plot concerns Jeremy, the YOP's punk trainee, who's withDoris from accounts in the darkroom (perhaps it's as well thatwe're never allowed into the lab to see the exposures involved!)when the Editor shouts 'Hold the Front Pagel' Jeremyimmediately drops Doris and grabs his Box Brownie to lake on theassignment.

His task consists of investigating the subterranean chambers ofthe Potty Professor (chambers — potty? Suit yourself). There hehas to photograph the Mad Doc's inventions that're hidden belowHyde Park (Hyde Park — hidden? Well, if you don't appreciatewit, I won't waste my time), in jars, chests and what look like1950s TV sets!

Camera ready, Jeremy wanders off only to find the vaults are ashocking place (vaults — shocking! Surely you got that one!),Once he locates a hiding place you move to icon control andselect Look. You'll then see if there's some hot photo in the pot. Ifso, you can go to the camera option and it's over in a flask

The caverns are carefully guarded though. The hidey hole maycontain a mutant kleptomaniac that'll steal Jem's film or, If he'snot careful, he may bang into a detector device to unleashanother vicious freak. This may be fought off with a sword but ifhe fails in this task, which is highly likely because he first has toselect the correct icon, then it's goodbye to the camera again.

One advantage of working in Fleet Street is the endless supplyof equipment but to replace his nicked Nikon Jeremy has to returnto terra firma, as he does when it's M e to develop a film.

Once a film has been processed, and there's no need to finish itbefore returning, the separate frames must be accurately placed

on a plain grid. There's no real test to this though as you getunlimited goes at guessing the positions.

The game's graphic presentation is novel though A t the top is ascrolling speckly landscape and Jeremy's solid figure. Its a rathersmall window on his world though, dwarfed by the photo screenwhich you gradually fill, a la Rocky Horror, below it. Either side areframes for individual parts of the picture and icons, It's a novelapproach but doesn't have enough content behind it— unless you're intogames where the mainchallenge is beating themonotony.

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So, where does RichardWhiteley stand amongst theelite of Aspel. Andrews andBowen" Who? I hear you ask.Good or Dickie — the first faceon Channel 4 and thepresenter of the firstprogramme on Channel 4 —Countdown.

Countdown — theprogramme pulls massiveaudiences considering it's onat 4.30pm. Countdown — thegame is sure to do the same'cos its a lot of fun and a verygood adaptation too. If you'realready a Countdown groupie,all I can say is go out arid buy itnowt Its an exact repro that'll

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You can either play solo oragainst a single opponent andthere's plenty of built-in tensionas you've only got 30 secondsto complete a round. Theponderous clever-dickness ofScrabble squashed.

All credit to Macsen. Not onlyhas it accurately reproducedthe original but it hasn't felt theneed to glam it up. The onlychange it's made is animprovement — the computerworks out the longest possibleword from its dictionarymemory bank thus disposing ofGyles Badbreath's lousyguesses and lousier jumpers.

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The aim of the game is to make your way to the outpost'sdocking bay with 2048 credits, a ticket for the ship, a permit andpassport. If you don't make it in time, tough titanium, 'cos thoseFederation meanies are about to close the whole planet down. Soas well as moving with speed, be prepared to wheel and deal —there are a few intergalactic sharks out there ready to make a

Selexia Central (much like Finchley Central) is a maze ofwalkways linked with lifts. Most have a specific purpose, withsomething to explore — supplies, security, equipment. But do youhave the time (or the credits?) to bother? The 16 icons variouslyallow you to enter doors, negotiate the lifts, sell, inspect, blow upor buy objects — even get character references on the shopowners.

Elsewhere on screen is a clock telling you how much game timehas elapsed, your vigour quotient (pepped up by eating which Ialways forget to do), your score and how much nosh you haveleft. There's also an inventory of your objects. It's good to see thewhole screen involved in game info. Perhaps I'm being mean to acheap° but more effort seems to have been put into making thething look good rather than in the nuts and bolts of a good mazeor rattling pace. As my old mate Milligan says, A bird in the Strandis worth two in Shepherd sBush, so if you really want a . . . . . . . 0 0 0mommincim000good graphic adventure its got . . „ , , s o n 0 0 0 0 0 0 5to be worth paying the extra for. E m 0 0 0 0 0 0

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that trans orms hapless,incompetent and plain-lookingKevin (the crime-photographernot the famous magazineeditor) into the deep-voiced.hunky and obviously talentedRed Hawk.

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in true comic style. Thegraphics ain't stunning andthey do tend to get a bitrepetitive but at least you reallyfeel like the hero in a real-livecomic strip.

What's more, with interactivecharacters flitting about theplace and the ability to acceptsome very complicatedcommands, it's not the usualadventuring slog at all. You canwander about quite freelywithout fear of instant death.

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You get the picture_And that's the rub — the

game is almost so realistic thatyou can get bored looking forthe next piece of action. Incomics, it's all go, go go! Whenwas the last time Judge Dreddspent an eight-parter having abath? But, as they say, whenthe going gets going i tdoesn't half get going. You'llbelieve an adventure canfly

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Fear not. For the first time inhistory the pixel outperformsthe pencil. In fact your heroine,Lady Wilde and the inimicalAmazons are well animated(animazonated?) in the style ofDun Detach. The only possiblecomplaint is that, even withsuch a determined tread, thebits you'd expect to bob up anddown don't — hair, silly!

Which is just as well as thereisn't too much of a gamebehind the creepers andcarved stones of the jungle.Here Lady W. finds herselfstranded (plane crash.don'tcha know?) in search of alost carrycot — which I admitdoesn't sound so hot as an ark,though it does contain herdaughter.

Luckily her path lies left toright as that's the only directionin which she can steadfastlystride. Unluckily she's goingdown a one way street of(gasp!) Amazon Women whorecognise this representative ofthe ruling classes as an enemyof women's solidarity, trappedby the role model of mother....(Fire extinguisher! Rachael'sgoing to burn her bra again —Ed), So they try to clobber her!

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The other main jungletrouble comes from dragonswho've dug in for the durationbut emerge every so often tomake life a misery for visitingBritish peers, Attacking them istricky and you can't just walkon by — with only tour minutesto complete each sectionyou've got to be aggressive.Dragons don't appear on yourradar either.

Radar?! This being a hi-techtropic there's a scanner aboveyou, to warn of approachingAmazons, Spikers w h i c h aredeadly flying conkers — andstray arrows from the localdarts team's practice session!Assorted airborne menacescan be jumped or ducked,depending on their height butbe warned that they're ratheradvanced too.

All of which is slightly lesscredible than Tarzan andslightly more exciting thanwatching paint dry. Apart fromthe smooth scrolling and neatanimation the game lacksvariety. The blow to the midriffevery time your opponentadvances is slow but effectiveand though you can enliven thecaffight by shouting insults('Fat bitch, your mother wearsarmy boots!' being a favourite)the fun soon passes. I think I'drather leave the sprog to adecent Amazonian upbringing.

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Al least I think he's a knight.He's not been dubbed (thoughhe's frequently scratched andmy feelings are mixed) and thetacky graphics don't lead toeasy identification. Either wayhe still has to search theimaginatively named MagicCastle in search of the GoldenHoard. Our 'Enery has to faceelves and dwarves and curiouspower points that seem to havebeen time warped in fromSe!Wield. All zap you intoCourtly Oblivion. But as in allmagical dwellings, certainrooms have recuperativepowers that'll return any of thesix lives you might've lost.

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Fortunately, the finishedgame isn't all bad. While it's afar cry from the speed andexcitement of most sportssims, Superbowl does actuallyfeel a bit like the real thing. Likea rain-soaked game on aBrighton weekend, there's a lotof hanging around, a lot ofamateur fumbling and briefmoments of the intense thrillsthat only American Footballdelivers.

It's a two-player only game— well, you can go for 'singleplayer strategy mode' which iswhen your mates clear off andyou have to play both sides onyour tod — but that's the kindof thing that stunts your growth.

You play on a birds-eye viewof the pitch — from an altitudethat makes it difficult to seewhat's going on. On the left ofthe screen is a scoreboard,some rather repetitive (andoccasionally misleading)family-size action replays anda series of menus for bothplayers to set their strategybefore each play.

In turn, the offensive picks a

play — long pass, short passand so on — including a smallselection of well-known moveslike Double-Wing, Shot-Gunand so on_ Next, the defensepicks a strategy and sets upwhich players mark who andwho is under the player'scontrol.

Straight after the snap, youfeel like cursing Ocean for itsbizarre choice of keys (onlyone joystick is supported in thistwo-player game) and yourapidly discover that most playsend in one of a limited numberof outcomes: usually a sacking,and if you're lucky. a fumble.

The game has the addedbonus of an audio tapeexplaining play for beginners —something the inlay card failsto do despite being five pagesof tripe long.

Superb ow! is essential forfanatical fans; if you know thegame and are prepared to workat Ocean's unique rendering ofit, then it's quite good fun. Butfor the rest of you, working outthe computer version is asimpossible as working out thereal thing on the telly. JustOooh and Arrr when everybodyelse does; and hope that BAFLand Budweiser license someother software house to have ago in time for Wembley.

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And for all the cornersAlternative Software has cut,it's maintained the essence ofa good game. Fred may nothave the benefit of inertia, hecan apparently defy gravityendlessly and his lumpingmovements suggest acongenital deficiencyHowever, the castle rooms arecunningly constructed so thatyou definitely have to lookbefore you leap. Gettingout of those rooms is worsethan getting off SpaghettiJunction. And it's no fun, I cantell you. Apparently Henry'sHoard it is on its way — andwho can blame 'ern.

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Some of you appear tobe having a bit of difficultygetting your assemblers toaccept labels. For theuninitiated, that's commandslike JR LOOP or LD A,(BURP). All you have to do iswork out the relative jumpsfor JR; DJNZ and similarrelative commands and theabsolute addresses for JP:LD nn,(??) and other similarabsolute commands andsubstitute the values for thelabels. (To give you a betteridea of what I'm getting at,the next program listing isgiven both ways.)

John Dowd is alsohaving problems withassembler listings. Hisassembler doesn'tunderstand commands suchas ADD A or ADD 3 or ADDH! As all 8 bit ADD, SUB,SBC, ABC and similar

commands always use theAccumulator (A register) toadd into, most assemblersdon't bother to use the fullZilog formal assemblermnemonic: it takes the formof ADD A,A or ADD A,3 andso on. If you've been gettingthe same trouble just altereach of these offendingcommands to the syntaxshown above and all shouldbe well.

And now for somethingcompletely different! A shortroutine from Patr ic kPilack inley of Shillingfordthat lets you return frommachine code to a desiredBasic position. To use it, firstload the HL register pair withthe line number and the Aregister with the appropriatestatement number. Now, sayyou wanted to return fromyour machine code to line9000. statement 2. you woulddo LB HL.9000 LB A,2 beforecalling the subroutine.

Bartjan van Huller'from Roermond in Hollandhas sent in a special screenclearing subroutine. You'llhave to try it out foryourselves 'cos I'm not goingto tell you exactly what itdoes. If you want to clear to adifferent paper colour,change the LD A statement inline 20. Bartjan stronglyrecommends you keep thepaper black, though. Butthen, what the heck. Livedangerously!

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Have any of youwondered how somecommercial Basicprogrammes are'unmergeable'? Well Barrydid and his second piece ofcode does the same for you!First, load it into a 'safe' areaas before. Then add a line tothe end of your Basicprogram that just containstwo REM statements — 9999(say) REM REM, Take carethough, it must be the lastline. Now do RAND USRaddress, as before. If you listyour program, you'll find thatthe two REMs havedisappeared! If you nowSAVE your program toautostart where you want itto, you'll find that the programis MERGE proof! Tee heel

Now get out of that!

Barry Stuart fromLiverpool, after beavenngaway with loading and savingto and from tape, has comeup with a couple of craftyprograms. The first piece ofcode allows you to recoverfrom a corrupted save, Haveyou ever got the dreaded 'ATape loading Error*message? Well, if thathappens, just reset thecomputer with RAND USA 0in the usual way, load in thiscode into a 'safe' area, (it'sfully relocatable) and reloadthe program. Now enterCLEAR and reset thevariables area and do RANDUSA address..which is whereyou loaded the code. So. forexample, if you loaded thecode to 23296, do RANDUSA 23296. You'll then beable to list and use theprogram up to the lastuncorrupted line.

Nice one. Barry!

Finally, Eddie Duncan-Dunlop from Bridgend, MidGlamorgan, sent in thisamusing program that'shoots' titles onto the screenwith a sort of Laser Effect. Itonly took me two minutes totype it in, so come on all youlazy fingered types, have abash!

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That's it for this month. Tillnext time. Just keep thoseprograms coming.

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Your Sinclair hasan a d v e n t u r ecolumn worthy ofthe rest of the mag-azine." T h a n kyou, Philip, youcan write again.Philip's putting ina claim to be first tofinish Seas O fBlood, at 4.30 p.m.on 20th February— any advance on

that? He's also offering help in exchange for theusual sae on The Hobbit, Ket Trilogy, Hulk, Spid-erman, Gremlins, Invincible Island, Inferno, UrbanUpstart, Bored Of The Rings, Perseu s And Androm-eda, Time Machine, Ten Little Indians, An-ow OfDeath Part land Circus. Not a bad little collectionof successes, In return, Philip needs help onGolden Appk (how to get past the cloud of poison-ous gas and how to get the sapphire), on Eye OfBain (where's the blade of the sword) and on Fea-sibility Experiment (how to light the lamp)."Help," says Philip, "I'm rapidly cracking up!"Send your solutions, or possibly some Polyfilla, toPhilip Hancock, 144 Charlemont Road, LondonE6 4HE.

More despair from J.P. Belden of Great Yar-

mouth, having trouble with Tower Of Despair."What am I meant to do at the temple?" NAMSI-LAT DNA GAB, . 1-S E I R P E N I M A XE . " W ha t

should I do in the cave behind the willow tree?"That's entirely your own business, though youcould try TSAE OG EPOR EIT EHCIN ENIM-AXE. "What use arc the small blue berries?'MSAHC GNIPM111 EROFEB TAE.

Elaine Deary writes from Hesketh Bank togood old Lancashire. "Please help me with Kerr.tints! I can't get past the glowing ward in the BlackTower, and haven't found the key to the largechest in Tylon's bedroom." What's a nice girl likeyou doing in Tylon's bedroom? Well, you can dealwith the ward by: FFATS HTIW DRAW GNIT-T IM The key you need is NEDLOG and is foundby TSOPDEB A GNINIMAXE.

Howard Price of 13 Kelbume Road, Cowley,Oxford is knee-deep in Lord Of The Rings, andapart from the inevitable Black Rider trouble alsoasks if the artifacts in the glass cases atMichelddv-ing are of any use, and if so, how can beget them?He says he's also heard that there's a gold medal-lion in the game somewhere. If this is true thenwhere is it and what use is it? Can anybody throwany light on that — anyone come across a medal-lion on one of the sub-quests somewhere?

For throwing light on things, you might svellwant to subscribe to a monthly adventure maga-zine called The Guiding Light, from the Adven-tureline Club run by Rob Garrett at 52 Micawbet

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Way, Newlands Spring, Chelmsford, Essex CM1411G. Subscription is a bit hefty at E12 perannum, but for that you get the magazine (latestissue 20 pages long) and access to a number ofhelplines, 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. The help-lines are manned, or womanned, by MasterAdventurers, each of whom has completed a mini-mum of 40 adventures- The Guiding Light ismainly filled with reviews of the latest games forall computers, and isn't as solid as the dossier fromthe Adventurers' Club Ltd, but you might betempted by those instant helplines. I'm sure if yousent Rob El he'd send you a back issue to help youweigh up whether to subscribe or not.

Another specialist adventurer's magazine isOrcsbone, which is very much an enthusiasts' fan-zine published by Nick Walkland at 84 KendalRoad, Sheffield S6 4(211. It appears roughly everyother month, costs 50p per issue, and the last was44 pages long. Pretty good value for money, andfor that you can forgive the poor production,though it's getting better. Nick does most of thework himself and therefore encourages readers tosend in their reviews of the latest adventures.Every reviewer gets a free copy, so if you fancyyour chances of getting your opinions into printthen Orcsbane could be for you.On the subject of reviews, lots of people write inoffering their services, and I'm grateful for thatbut I'd better explain that it just isn't possiblebecause of the way wc work. Reviews tend to bedone as closely as possible to deadline time, tomake sure the magazine's up-to-date, and I dis-cuss with the Ed which games are to be included,and how much space we give to them. There justwouldn't be time to then send tapes out to peopleand expect to get them back in time, to the rightlength, and good enough to use. Besides, I'm sel-fish and like to keep the adventures for myself

Readers also send in maps, and thanks thismonth to James Elliott for his Runestone map,but again there are production problems in repro-ducing these. Don't let it stop you sending them in,though, as good ones can be redone by an artist,and we're considering doing a bumper book ofmaps at some future date.

No Hobbit maps, please, as no game can havebeen mapped more than that one. You're still corn-ing up with ways of get ting more fun out of that oldwarhorse, and recently Robin Harris from Gran-tham decided to try to complete the game in dou-ble-quick time by entering multi-statement lines,the first of which should have taken him from thestart right through to the deep misty valley.Instead of that, the program crashed and dis-played a list of objects and characters: sword,sand, stone, wine etc, and dragon, Wood Elf,Hideous Goblin and so on. What Robin wants toknow, though, is where can he find the stone?

John Reuel of Liverpool has been POKEingaround in The Hobbit and has come up with lots ofinteresting hobbity snippets, such as POKE 52224,255 to turn the pictures off. He also says that if thegarne's driving you to drink then POKE 46848,1:POKE 27832,0 a n d P O K E 43787,201.Then t ry sittingdown. Finally Johnwon't say what thenext POKE does, sofind out for yourselfand P O K E16791,3John's alsosent in quite a longListing for fiddlingyour score to themagic 100%, and ifthere's room in afuture issue I mighttry to squeeze thatin. Till next month,happy POKEing!

Venture forth with Mike Gerrard

A slight apology to CentralSolutions (but only slight),whose Survival I reviewed acouple of months ago. Icomplained that the programdidn't recognise the LOADcommand once you'd used aSAVE. Apparently the commandto type is TAPE, which is givenIn the initial on-screeninstructions t h o u g h as LOADis the command you're told touse on the cassette inlay, which Ihad by me for reference, I thinkI can be forgiven for thatmistake. Anyway, I revise myassessment of the game from 1/10 to 2/10. Fortunately, not allCentral's games are as bad.

My in-tray's rairijam full of news ofthe Ramlam Corporation's variousadventurous endeavours, since itswork has started to be marketed byAriolasoft. In addition toils newie,Terrors Of Trantoss, which Ireviewed last month, there's also a re-release of its oldie, Valkyrie 17, It wasdue out in April at £7.95, for thosefew adventurers who don't alreadyhave a copy of this popular title.

More startling than that, though, isnews of an oldie but newie. It'sreliably claimed that June will see therelease at £8.95 of w a i t for it, pausefor fanfares._ 3 Days In Carpathia!That's right, the follow-up to N'alkyrie17 that made Street Hawk look asthough it was on schedule, is at last tosee the light of day. I'll believe it whenI see it!

The Adventurers' Club Ltdrecently announced its 1985 GoldenChalice Awards, its equivalent of anOscar for adventure games releasedin 1985. About 1000 of its membersvoted, and show remarkably goodtaste in my opinion. Putting on mybest Eric Morley voice, and suckingdown my hair with bacon fat, 1 shallannounce the results in reverseorder: "In third place, ladies andgentlemen, we have the Delta 4,CRL title, Bored Of The Rings.Runner-up, and winner of' the SilverChalice, is the ever-popular RedMoon from Level 9. But first place,and the coveted Golden Chaliceitself, goes quite rightly to the bestadventure release of 1985, Level 9'sThe Womi In Paradise." I was hopingto get a photograph of Pete Austinaccepting the award while wearing afur•trinuned swimsuit, but hewouldn't co-operate.

On the subject of Level 9, I washoping Red Moon's sequel, The PriceOf Magik, would be ready in timefor me to bring you an in-depth

CWSreview in this issue, but it didn'tquite make its promised launch-date. 1 do have the cassette insert,however, and an in-depth look atthat shows it to be well up to Level9's usual standard — a largevocabulary and plenty of graphics. Anew addition to the credits seems tobe two more Austins, John andCora, and we are also introduced tothe adventure's first main problem:loading it using the Lenslok system.

Next month I hope to review thegame itself, or failing that a detailedlook at the plastic box it comes in.

Next month should see areview of The Very Big CaveAdventure from St Bride's/CRL.More information is slowlycreeping out as to how this veryfirst computer adventure, pre-dating as it does the Crowther-Woods Colossal Cave Adventure,was unearthed by a St Bride'spupiL A spokesperson said: "Thegirl had been innocently hackinginto a computer system owned bya major American governmentagency with a view to divertingthe payment of the Britishnational debt into her personalaccount. She came to an areadeep within the system whichwas so rigorously protected bysecurity codes that she felt surethat this must be where they keptthe boodle." In fact what shedownloaded into her bankaccount was a copy of The VeryBig Cave Adventure, whichcould explain why you alwayshave to queue for hours everylime you go into a bank. Thecashiers are obviously locked inthe strong room logged on to thisadventure. We can share theirJim next month.

No copy yet of Incentive's S'pecmonGraphics Adventure Creator, orG ACto its friends. With the number ofadvennov writers using The Quillnow, such as St Bride's, FopsMcNell4 the Hampstead authors and°them I'm wilting to bet we'll see ahost of goodGAC adventures on themarket in the next twelve months or so.Save your pennies, as the price of theGAC has now been set at L22.95. Towhet the appetite. Incentive has sent mea tape of six sample graphics done onthe system, and excellent they are —mind you, sample graphics always lookstunning, don't they? These ones rangefrom a spacecraft to a Sphinx completewith flickenng torch to a pair of giantsmelly feet on the end of hairy legsblocking your exit route w freedmn froma cave. Nice one. Incentive!

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LOST SOULSLegion. of Lost Solids this month, so cast an eye downthe column and see if you can't come to an adventurer'said. I'll start with a damson in distress... sorry, a damsel indistress. who disappeared from my first Lost SoulsCOILIMn. Could it be because I made libellous remarksabout A View To A Kill being scarcely Jescribahle as agame, let alone an adventure? Despite that I'd still like toknow i f someone can help Debts Thompoon, 96Symonds Rond:OPeeston PR2 3DJ• Debra wants toknow how to get May Day in the first game.

You'll soon discover that DAD and SAS games are notmy cup of Horlicks. so outside help is definitely neededfor Eric Watidas, 16 St Leonards Road, Norwich,Norfolk NR14BL. Erie's having wall trouble. Firstly ingetting past a Bashing wall in Quadrant Three of PSS'sSwords ;Ind Sorters% then in getting past walls on LevelTwo and Level Four of Spabowid, Not to mention theNightshade Room — so I won't!

Greg Anderson, S7 Gaittide Dr ive, AberdeenAB1 7BI has spidery writing and Spidernum trouble;what are the words to defeat Eleetro? Greg also has vio-lent tendencies -- he needs to know how to blow up ahardware department in Gremlins, and finally how to getpast a sedan in Valkyne 17. Watch out for a sedan deathroutine there, Greg' t Groan!

Paul McCor tan, 96 Roaelawn, Tramore, C oWaterford, Ireland needs some help 1 ri getting the keyin Ship Of Doom from Artie. Can some artic-ulate or evenart ic-ulated reader help him?

Here comes that N'everEndingStoryagaim at least FartI seems never ending to Gary Br ighton, 111 Stud-lands Park, Newmarket, Suffolk CBS 7AE He's col-lected the aurvn, the horn, the crystal and the leather, butmust then utter the familiar cry what nom, I n t h e s a m egame. Mark Randle, 26 Alderson Drive, Smithies,Barnsley, South Yorks. is stuck in Spook City andwants out.

A general request for help from anyone playing themuch underrated Castle Illackstar conies from DaveEdwards. 17 Orange Croft, Tickhill , Doncaster,South Yorks DN119EW Date's also got key trouble inShip Of Doom. and wants to know if the frozen body is ofany use. Forty minutes ar Gas Mark 5 should do it. I/ave.

F.G. Tr otm an lives at 10 Somerset Gardens.Eloruchuech,Essez, and needs to know how to increasehis score of i n the first part of The tur d' Protocol. Hebelieves the traitor is Faulkner. using the named' Wilson,but how does he get a comparison of Wilson's finger-prints? What use is the camera. bug and receiver. Whydoes a telephone appear when he wants to buy a ticket atLiverpool Street station? Over to you espionage expertsout there.

Finally, Adam Bennett has turned into an ape, and!can say that without fear of prosecution as he told me sohimself. It's not from reading this column but from play-ing Witch 's Cauldron, and he urgently needs help on whatto do next. ( Hare a banana? Ed) Meanwhile he's standinground scratching himself at 11 The Sidings, StationRoad. Charfi eld, Nr Wotton-under-Edge, Glos.GL12 SUE

KIND SOULSA few people who've offered help through the KindSouls column have told me that some readers are writingto ask them for clues, but forgetting to enclose a stampedaddressed envelope. I f someone's good enough to °tierhelp on an adventure, please remember to include an sae,

Greg Anderson's in the Lois Souls section as well, solook up his address there i f you're seeking help on TheHobbit, Espionage Island, Ship Of Doom, Inca Curse orEnk The Viking.

Alan Pairclough has solved Lord Of The Rings, TheNeverEnding Story.11wHoblrit,IlamPrteocl System 15000,Greedy Gukh, Plianuth's limb and Magic Mountain, sohelp on those in exchange for an sae to 13 Meliden Gar-dena, Tranmere, Merseyside 142 SNO Alan alsoasked me, -C o u l d y o u p o ss i b ly s ug ge st a real pig of an

adventure." The ones that sprang to my mind were Level9's DringCOPI ,4dventare and Adventure Quests but it mademe wonder what you'd nominate as "a real pig of anadventure," Let me know the toughest one you've comeup against — either solved or unsolved.

Neil Marbey of 1 Car l ton Street. Hominglow,Burton-on-Trent, Staffs DE13 OTE wrote in withhis list of successes, including the recent Nu-Wave releaseID, which he says isnot really an adventure but might wellappeal to adventure farts. Neil has listed the riddles thatyou get asked at one point, along with their solutions,Rather than giving you the full list j u s t provide Ned'ssolutions: Piper, Hitler, Bullet, Civilisation, Jesus, God,Lisa, Apple, Arthur and Money_ Nar5offered help on TheHobbit, Bored Of The Rings, Pvantarwna,PlanetOf Deathand Ship Of Doom, and has almotst finished Sherlock andprd Of The Rings.Sandy Dunc an o f 46 Woodland Street , Ma n -

gavie, Glasgow 662 /INS isn't content with simply

solving games, he also draws lovingly detailed maps.Sandy's latest successes are Classic Adventure from Mel-bourne House and Richard Shepherd's ('than Upstart.

More Lost Souls than Kind Souls this month, socome on. don't be modest, let's hear about your adventur-ing successes, even dies only one or two titles. Complet-ing any adventure is an achievement. so why not boastabout it. But the ultimate Kind Soul has to be John Wil-son (you cart read my interview with him elsewhere in theadventure pages) who lives at 26 Spolland Ups, Cat-gate, Rochdale, Lancashire ° L I / 7NX. John's latestsuccesses are The Helmand rtme Machine, which he says,passed a couple of hours! He's also sent me a complete listof all the adventures he's solved — the tally stands at 66titles! Any advance on that?

ADVENTURERS INTER-NATIONAL

Only one internat ional adventurer this month, hut hecould hardly he further away. Brendan Roberta lives at82 Ottertail Road, Whangeral, New Zealand. andneeds help on Colditz. Where can he find the knife? Canhe open the drinks cabinet? What does he use the Germanmotley and diaries for? Are there any secret chambersapart front the tunnel?

Avert your eyes if you're still struggling with Colditz —go and reed another part of the page. Okay? Your first andlast questions are connected, Brendan, as there are sometwisty sewers that contain it dagger. Access to them is setasomething that normally goes sialeet underground. Asfar as I know, the other objects are just decoration, but ifthey have any use in the game I'm sure someone wiU writeand tel l m e — or write arid tel l Brendan direct.

meet the Rochdale Bairog, alias John

Wilson, the men known to VSadventurers as 'El Supremo'. Bow,

I wanted to know, can one man solve somany adventures? Let's give Rochdale.ring...Mike: So, what was the first adventure youtried?John I t was Hewson's The Quest, and I stillremember the buzz I got from finishing thegame, though I did need a little bit of help insolving it. Since then I've been hooked. ButI've also always believed that you can't doenough to help people who are struggling. Icontribute to a small fanzine called Insight.and also to the HA IA helpline, as well asanswenng any letters I get sent. In one week Iposted ofT 32 letters to people! I like to producestep-by-step guides to the adventures whichinvolves a lot of typing and saving to tape.MI MI Is there a great secret to your successfuladventuring?Johns Not really. I save games as often as Ican, as this allows you to leave your optionsopen for as long as possible. By the time I'dfinished Lord of The Ringsl had three CI5tapes full of saved positions. Other than thatit's just time and persistence.Mike: And what are your laves?John: Best of all it Bond Of The Rings,followed by Sarceror Of Claymorgise Castle andRobin Of Sherlock. That makes it sound likethe Fergus McNeill Appreciation Society —which it is. We all need our heroes, even at 391One of the things I'm most proud of is a hand-written note from Fergus saying that I waspossibly the first to complete Robin OfSherlock,Mike: The obvious question, do you prefer testor graphics adventures?John: I don't have strong views on that, exceptto say how much I like the artwork vr TerryGreer, from Interceptor. Graphics can be andare used to hide a multitude of sans, but not inhis case_ They really complement DaveBanner's adventures.Mike: As you're so good at solving otherpeople's adventures, have you tried writing anyyourself?John: I've done one using The Quill, calledThe Secret Of Little Ilodcorne. I tried one ortwo software houses but didn't get very far.Having put all that work into writing it, I'd justlike people to have a go at playing it...

And now you can. John sent ins a copyof The Secret Of Lietk Hodcome and 1 fellit was far too good to gather dust, so I 'vepersuaded the Ed to tack It onto the end ofthis month's Digi•T'ape. You'll find fulldetails in the Di e T'a pe ad in this issue.Well worth a look!

Some people are bug-lovers, some are bug-haters, and others are justplain indifferent. But aswith bugs in real life, thosethat lurk in adventureprograms can beinoffensive, like the variouswell-known ones in TheHobbit, or they can bite, bycausing the program tocrash. I f you've foundeither kind then let meknow about it, to shareyour amusement or act as awarning to others. To kickoff this spot, over to JohnWilson:

"I really enjoyed TheNeverEnding Story, andwas very impressed withthe screen presentation, butthere's an appalling bug inPart I, I f you enter theswamp when you have yourtrusty steed Artaz withyou, the program crashesout in a blaze of colouredsquares and does a systemsreset. Naughty!"

FOR ALL...a ke n i t co n ie s to t r i fi a l.a a l l i P a , ,, t 1 3 4 o i l k n o w t h a t

the generositv oll'S knows no bounds — it's onlyspace thaes at a premium! So, as much as I'd liketo offer a complete solution to a game everymonth, it's just not going to be possible. But if_you're realty stuck and can't bear to wait/or theprinted solution to a particular game to appear,then help is only an sae away.

From time to time, b e offering you aselection of free solution sheets. If you want ant'on this month's list, fiat send a small sae to me at14 Rat/shone Place, London W IP IDE and

pop the theet(s) in the post to you. But pleaseallow me a week or two for your letters to reachme and be dealt sunk And while you're at it, whynot use the opportunity to tell me a little aboutyour adventuring— t h e p r o b l em s a n d t h e

successes.So, here goes with this morah's list of freebies.:Bored of The Rings, Message From

Andromeda, Hampstead, Secret Mission andSmderman,

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A Tangled Tale opens the proceedings — it's based on thecharacters of Lewis Carroll, and on a series of puzzles themathematician /author published in 1885 called A Tangle 'Mk.The limited locations introduce you to characters like HumptyDumpty and the White Knight, and you must solve problems soyou can untie the ten knots in a piece of string you're carrying.The graphics are pretty basic, except for a lovely animated titlescreen, but it's more a game for the puzzlers than theadventurers.Jason And The Fleece has no instructions, and sets you down ina fairly un-Greek main street with an inn, a hardware shop, avet's surgery and a closed shop with a sign saying 'Zeus andSon'. (I think we can safely assume historical accuracy has beendispensed with here.) If you knock, a man invites you insideZeus's shop and amazingly allows you to take away a selectionof goods without payment. These include a compass which,according to the program, is "brockee, so it seems spellingaccuracy has been dispensed with as well. A few easy problemsget you into the game — guess where you take the injured rat?And is it worth giving the gold coin you find to the beggar atthe end of the road? You bet it is. You then set sail across theseas, where too many annoying sudden deaths await you. Butdespite its faults I still liked the program. It's a fair size, and anideal opener for beginners.

I didn't take to Crystal Quest. It's a travel-the-galaxies-find-the-crystals game, where you're the Captain of the USSSpectrum, whose locations you begin by mapping out. A sillysudden death spoils one of the rooms. Here there's a lever — ifyou pull it (as you inevitably will) a message tells you that youforgot it's a self-destruct lever and your entire ship's been blownto smithereens. Now if you were a stowaway on the ship, fairenough, but a bit of an unlikely blunder for a Captain to make,surely?

More promising was Sea Of Zirun, which has you blunderinground beneath the Atlantic Ocean with only an oxygen tankand undcrwatcr torch for company — well, apart from dragonturtles, mullets, mermaids and others whose territory you'veinvaded. A bit amateurish, but comprehensive with lots ofdetail, some easy and some tough problems, and you'll need toplan carefully if you don't want to run out of air and gasp yourlast underwater.

Time Quest naturally transports you through time, but it alsotransports several program bugs with you. Lots of double-messages crop up, which can easily happen with The Quill&you don't set the conditions properly. EXAMINE GRASS inone place produces "What's this you see?" Okay, but no objectis produced, and THROW ROPE elsewhere produces a messageon-screen for a micro-second. In any case the story itself isn'texactly inspired — search the kingdom for treasures to help thekind but poor people who've befriended you. Yawn.

Dragon Slayer doesn't sound very inspired either, but it's an

enjoyable three-quest adventure, the first being 'Dragon's Lair'.I'd no trouble finding the lair, where I was promptly fried alive,so off I went up-dale and down-hill (and vice versa) collectinglanterns, matches, bronze keys and other adventurer'saccoutrements. Simple but well done.

Commando is a little tamer than Elite's game of the samename — it has you invading enemy territory searching for aof enemy agents, while Eve Of Varian has echoes of ColossalCave above it. The early location looked promising — apartfrom the slightly irritating fact that the location exits aren'tgiven to you. No instructions either, so who knows what it'sabout? Rifts Of Time is about an unknown world where thereare three relics of great power that you've got to find. You'vethen got to take them through a time portal to the god Odin.You can even use The Quill to have another character, thoughin a fairly limited way. Dave the Sprite accompanies you onyour travels, although I was soon ready to strangle him for hislimited pre-programmed range of responses. At least this oneattempted to be different, even if it does suffer from an amateuradventure writer's love of unpredictable and irrational deaths.Study the best adventures, would-be authors, and you'll see thatdeaths are usually preceded by a warning, allowing the player tosave the game. Try to keep some sense of reality, and don't hurlplayers over cliffs they would've spotted twenty yards away inreal life. Easy deaths are an easy option — put your brain-cellsto work on the problems instead.

The perfect example of this is the last and best adventure inthe collection, The Hexagonal Museum, which turns you into aPink Panthcr style thief who's attempting to steal the Star ofIndia diamond single-handedly (what you do with the otherhand is your own business). Outside the museum the boot ofyour car is well-equipped with ten items, like wire cutters,plastic explosives and a grappling iron. Unfortunately you'reonly supposed to carry six of them. You've already cased themuseum and hidden more equipment in a store-room cupboard,but to get in you've got to scale the wall and outwit the securitycameras as you jump down on the other side. Inside themuseum there are guards to watch out for and beware thetouch-sensitive floors. A varied selection of problems, thougheven this isn't fully de-bugged. Some responses are printedtwice on-screen, and several of' the exits in location descriptionsare wrong. Despite that, though, it's a good adventure to roundoff a collection that's definitely value-for-money if youradventure budget's limited........

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Thing is going to have cleaning problems too, as he beginsthe game knee-deep in a tarpit, and typing I for Inventoryshows that all he has is the tar that's covering him. Slowly,move by move he sinks, though you can prolong his survival alittle if you tell him to hold his breath once he goes completelyunder. So what can you do as Human Torch to get him out? Agood question, and II I had the answer I'd tell you. After a fewhours play I still haven't cracked this first problem, and I'veresisted the temptation to ring the software house and ask. Anearby shack provides Torch with a candle, but igniting the tarin the pit (which doesn't always burn) only produces a well-sizzled Thingburgen

Wandering off to a field reveals Dr Doom's castle, protectedby Blob, while the Circus of Crime is gathered together in atent in a fairground. There's a cannon you can climb inside, forwhat good that does you, and it's when you're battling againstRingmaster's constant attempts to throw you out of the tentthat you discover Thing has tarried too long in the tar and thegame's over.

Despite the frustration of this first problem, the game's stillsufficiently interesting to keep you trying, as you wonder if thesolution lies in battling with Blob, inside the circus tent. or inthe hot little hands of the Human Torch himself.

The graphics arc displayed on the top half of the screen, andvery nice they are too. The text scrolls beneath in Ars typicaljerky style and rather confused layout. My only quibble is withthe price — a little on the pricey side compared with otheradventures in the £6.95 7_95 range.

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It's done with a Saga 2001 'wireless'infra-red keyboard, the neatest and mostlaid-back way to feel at one with yourmagic machine. Yeah ... I'm six feet awayand I'm typing faster and moreaccurately than I've ever done on aSpectrum.

The 2001 is a positive monolith with101keys divided into a proper OWERTYsection. 20 Basic function keys and aseparate numeric pad with calculatorkeys. There's also a big box hanging offthe back of the Speccy to tune-in to thelate night finger broadcasts — that's whyyou have to turn your machine round!

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Fast as this is. you're going to slowdown when you try working out whichkeys you press to control any reasonablycomplicated program. What wasSymbol-Shift S for SAVE might now beanything from DEF FN to TRUE VIDEO.Brain ache!

And you're going to find games a bitweird as well — not only are you missingthe normal shift keys, but the 2001,unlike every other Spectrum keyboard,doesn't register several keypresses atonce. Neither does it help when youdiscover that with the 2001 attached, theSpeccy keyboard is as dead as aweekend in Tamworth. Wave goodbye tothe made-up key codes like Symbol-Shiftand Space while you're at it — you justcan't do them on the Saga.

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It's a fair attempt to be 'the last wool' inwordprocessing on the Spectrum. But thegeneral style has been to pack as muchpower in as possible at the expense ofsome of its rivals' friendliness. it'sperfectly usable on a simple level butsome of its more complex facilities requirea bit of effort from the user.

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• And If you can't welt, try one of the big new all-in-oneupgrades from MCS in Nottingham. Its new cartridge givesyou 256-512K Ram. Centronics port and disk interface inone go. A snip at E200for 256K version, C300 for the biggy...

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GOBBLE GOBBLEIs this a turkey of a game or what?Definitely no t h i s may be a spitting-image PacMan clone but It's a prettygood one. You start off pursued by theusual four ghosts as you gobble up theblobs and power pills.

Make it out of that screen and you'refacing the dreaded umbrellas. Followedby scissors, hammers, devils. dustbins,blobs, sticks, clams, droids o v e r 20levels in all! And no, those aren't theofficial names and no. I haven't played allthe way through — I got them fromwatching the demo mode. Well. I didn'tsay it was easy!

The graphics are great, the soundmaddening and even the keyboardcontrols work smoothly. A far cry fromEigen's superb Paragon but well up tothe same impressive standards. Get yourgob round this one!

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;TIP BITS - 11 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1Convert M Parkerof Chapel St. Leonardshas just bought a 01_ to keep hisSpectrum company. He's on the look-outfor useful POKEs and seems to think it'sa conspiracy that there's no systemvariables list in the manual. His POKEcollection consists solely of POKE163891, anything >0,..

Well, it's not that the systems variableswere away the morning they wrote themanual! The 01_ is a complex beast; stuffthat you can POKE on a Spectrum iseither buried inside hardware chips orwon't sit still long enough for you to find it.The good news is that there's aSuperBasic keyword for nearlyeverything you could usefully POKE —honest!

The most used POKE is Capslook:POKE 163976,255 (on) or .0 (off). Your163891 is the same as pressing Ctri-F5— hit Ctri-F5 to get out that one. Apersonal favourite (and one in my BOOTprograms) is an old trick that people playwith big IBMs. POKE_W 163982,0 setsthe keyboard auto-repeat rate from itsnormal 4 to 0; see that cursor mono!Finally, PRINT PEEK_IL (163856) —PEEK_I. (163852) is a rough guess atfree memory space.

There are other ones but they usuallyrequire a few lines of SuperBasic.Anyone who's got some goodies to spareshould drop them to the usual address —provided, of course, they don't mindbeing presented with a VS badge!

TCAD PAKDon't be fooled by the name; CAD PAKhasn't really got anything more to do withCAD (computer aided design) than anyof the vast army of rival art packages. Butwhat's in a name? CAD PAK is animpressive little mover, combining deadsimple pop-up menus, icons andpointers with a fair, if curious, selection offacilities.

The style is gen-u-wine, 100 percentApple Macintosh; working ifs as simpleas pointing to the icon or menu optionyou want (using the .cursor or joystick —no mouse) and hitting Fire. This makesCAD PAK a doddle to draw with althoughyou'll hunt in vain for many big essentials(like magnify and so on).

The other slight hiccup is that the workarea is smaller than the size of thescreen — okay if you just want to do yourdrawings and print them but a bit of anembarrassment when it comes tocreating loading screens.

All-in-all, CAD PAK's extremelypleasant to use but a bit limited in what itcan do. You could do CAD things likediagrams and flowcharts with a bit ofeffort but don't forget to check out some

TOUCH TYPIST 111111Okay, so the Qt. hasn't exactly got thebest keyboard in the world but it'samazing how fast you can go with a bit ofpractice. Sector Software is offering averitable assault course for you to getthat practice; the smartened-up versionthree of Touch Typist is out now.

It presents a series of 200 'sentences'which you have to retype at a specifiedaccuracy level and speed. You can setthese constraints yourself if you're betterthan the 90 per cent, 15wpm the programstarts off at.

The tests themselves start off quitenormally but become a bit disorganisedlater on; some of the more obscurewords I have trouble saying let alonetyping. There's also the odd bit ofhumour here and there. But the best bit isthat you can redefine all the tests — notonly correct some of the spellings but putin some stuff from a typing course orbook you're following

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CAD PAK worts in 4 colourmode although you've got alaw stipples on hand tobrighten things up...

CAD PAK's best at linedrawings (dragrams and soon) - just loot at the rangeot line styles available

of the more conventional programs aswell, particularly the infamous QL PaintAnd it's QL Paints creators, TalentComputer Systems, that'll probably grabthe CAD market with its new Technia.

THE WANDERERI wander about this too. French softwarehouse Pyramide seems to be a few stepsahead of its British counterparts and thisveritable megagame is its currentshowpiece.

The plot is a little bizarre. And I thoughtwe had the monopoly on strange sensesof humour! Try and get this all in one go— it'll hurt less. Earth is plagued bymysterious catnappings (not napattacks. Garfield, genuinedisappearances) and you take off in aconveniently acquired spaceship tolocate your landlady's beloved moggy.

Now you find yourself in a star systemruled by The Sphinx, where the planetsare so bored, they've taken to playing abizarre variation on Poker, The localcurrency is, of course, cats (that explainsone thing) and you end up trading cardsbetween planets, taking on unfriendlyspaceships, diving in and out of blackholes in an effort to amass enough catsto take on The Sphinx himself.

All this takes place in pseudo 3D Elite-style line-graphics, using red and bluelines and a pair of specs to get thatspaced-out feel. Pyramide explains thatyou won't see the 3D if you look for it andthat you really need a darkened roomand half an hour to adjust before theeffect begins to work. Added to that you'llneed a damn good screen; most of theknackered old tellies round CastleRathbone didn't give a sharp enough orbright enough picture.

That said, there were moments whenthe game (if not the plot) suddenly leaptinto perspective and the experience isquite something.

This game desperately needs ajoystick in CTL.2; the keyboard controlsturn out to be the function keys and are41igh-on impossible to use. And Imanaged to work out that it's a dead losson a black'n'white screen. How's about aversion in boring old 2D for those of usstill saving our cats for a Microvitec?

The help is a kftle brat -and written instructionsalmost nonesistant

The current operation isshown We. The X Iconalso let's you undo the lastoperation - great toracceding near•tataimistakes

Use the preset range of3etiOrni to shade and MIareas - shame you've got°dolt by hand though.

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The Wanderer combines just aboutevery game element you could wish for.Tactics are needed in your travelsaround the universe and in your methodsof combatting the feline felony. Strategyhelps in playing the red-hot Poker andarcade reflexes assist in getting throughunscathed_ There's also enough in it tokeep you at it long after every Speccyowner has achieved Lenslok status inElite: and that's despite a booklet full ofmaps and copious hints to help you.

So it's a good one to get yourspaceship stuck into, though quite howlong it'll grab you and how much isactually achievable, is hard to say. Thereare times when the game is a ratherrepetitive slog. And there are momentswhen... Well, there are moments when.

To see 3D effect, trace a l ter nate l ines wi thred and blue pen, tear out page (orphotocopy ) and place in front of torch indar kened room. Next, take wr apper s fromtoffee -nut and toothache-sur pr i se Quali tyS tr eet sweeties and sel lotape over eyesand.... Awash forget it!

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HARDWARE• Spectrume, Ouickshol II, Protelt joystickinterlace, £300 worth of software, two fullbinders of the Home Computing CourseWorth £800 want £185 ono. Tel I e442)215146 after 4prn and eels lot Paul• ZX Interlace II and five ROM games £15.DleIronies Kompston compatible slowmotion joystick interface. new, unused £5Tel 061-202 3909.• Alphecom 32 printer with paper £35 ono.Romantic Robot MuMace I as new £35 ono,or swop for photographic or computerhardware. Te l. (0408) 21870 evenings• For sale: ZX Spectrum, tape recorder.microdrive and interface. Be W tele-yawn,plenty of games, mags and programs Allworth £330. Se ll for C150, Tel, 01-318 3682slier 5pm and ask for Marc• Waladrive, eight cartridges, Inc. Transfer— E75 Tandy CGP115 4-oceour printer/plotter — £49. Mapen R5232, B beardsoftware on EPROM — E19. CurranMicroSpeech and Zile , 18K Rampack. AIboxed Te l. (024028) 2085.• Swop Sanyo MSX light pen unit andcarlridee plus Comic Bakery cartridge forMSX, for any Spectrum hardware or sea Icate e Tel Fleetwood 4045 and ask for Jim• Kampston joystick interface, brand newcondition, will sell for E6 50, won't fitSpectrum+ Te l. 01 -889 2709 and ask forSieve• Mirage microchriver, new, still in bow. neverused Push button to save to cartridge Orcassette Will sell for £19.95 Te l. 061 -202 3909• Kempelon Formula One joystick to sell,cosi E18.95 I 'm selling a for EIO ono. TelWisbech 060618 after 6pm and ask torMichael• For sae. Datel Digital Sound Sampler, asnew £35 D k 3 Channel Sound, as new E20.Currah MicroSpeech CIO. Lkahl pen C tOAlso Synsonics electronic drums, boxedC40. Tel. (0626) 67392 and ash for Mark• Comcon programmable joystick interfaceEll SpecDrum digital drum system E15 Te lWest Mailing 845305 and ask for Richard.• Spectrum+, Interface I, Interlace II,Interface RI. A l p ha c o m 3 2, m i cr o er me

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E275 ono. Tel. Wboldord 67936• 48K Spectrum, Kempsion Interface, Stickjoystick. dedicated tape recorder andCurrallSpeech. All boxed E100 worth ofgames Only £200 Te l. Brelgewaler 424279and ask for Ivor.• VTX 5000 with U211 software, book, etcwe swop tor AMX Mouse --- must be ingood condition. Tel. 106391 750952 and asktor Andrew.• A slow controller OleTronee interfaCe with

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others. Bargain lot 0100 0410 Te l 01-6893917 evenings only.• 48K Spectrum, Rem Turbo joystickinterlace, Timex printer and ten games. Wiltsell for E130 Write to K Tang, 194 CentralRoad. Coe-eine, Leics 1E6 2FG M ust eve*Catty• Cheetah Sweet Talker for sale EIS.Includes demo tapes and instructions Te l(02361 874997.• Swop Cheetah Speech unit and gamesplus C10 tor any sound sampler Te l. (0622)685234 and ask for Steve• 23(81 with 16K Ram Pack and games.E20. 1 e 7 2 9 4 ) 395 anytime• 48K Spectrum, Saga Emperor keyboard.leyelek and interfaeo, games. reliable datarecorder. Sea for £170 ono. Write to GeorgeBradley, 10 Lail Crescent, Newry, Co Down,N Ireland• Interlace I for the Specce new £30. willswop for either microdeve or Multi:laceWrite to OA, G r a n t, 4 1 R eg en t S tr ee t,

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SOFTWARE• l have over 20 recent blies lo swap. Wouldlike Faeriehr, Turbo Esprit. TerrormonnOS,Monty On The Run. Nodes Of Yesod. Tel.(0257) 793322 after 4pm and ask for David.• Wanted: Swards And Sorcery for Way OfThe Tiger. Tel. (0904) 768917 after 6jen• Swop FGTH, Formula One. Now Games:and Gerry The Germ for Patch and Lord OfThe Rings. S Flynn, 42 Short Street,Ludgarshall, Andover, Hants• Will WiCip Basketball, Kong and SpectrumSatan for any sport games eg Hypersports,Super Test and Brian Jacks SuperChallenge. Contact Andrew Stollory. 13leysale, leeMham, Bedford, BedlordshireMK43 ONE.

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The new version is being shipped now to our customers and to retailers. I t comprises a cassette marked v1.3, a manual version 1.1and a version 1.3 upgrade manual (version 1.2 was never released). IL still costs just £25. Existing owners of version L I canupgrade by returning their original tape together with a cheque or postal order for E5 (+ E2 p&p to Europe and 1...3 elsewhere). Weregret we cannot accept purchase orders or credit orders for upgrades. Recent purchasers o f the complie r have already beensupplied with VI.3 cassettes: they can obtain the upgrade manual free of charge. I f you bought the compiler direct from us thensend a note requesting the manual together with your invoice number and a self-adhesive label with your name and address. I f youbought it from a shop send the tape (which must be V1.3) to us with an address label, and we will return it with the upgrade manual.

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Morpeth. Northumberland.• Software to swop. Many new titles Swopyour Pole Position for my Endurance, yourOne On One tor 4100e. Tel, Guildford 579003between 4 and 9pm and ask for Giles.• I want Saboteur, Frank etuno s Boxing orWorld Basketball. Swop for Franke,Decathlon, Rockrnan or BC's Ouest ForTWOS O n e for one swop.) Tel. 406231792076 and ask for Richard after 4pm• Software to swop. Send your est for mineWould like Oval and Illustraior but notessential Write to S Hudson, 8 teppletawPark, Maytteld Oalkelth, Lothian. Scotland.• Spectrum software to swop Eve ry t o o lnew, old game to swop Se nd your list formine to Cart Garsede, 41 L.018r120 Drive,Norris Green, Liverpool L it 1E1E.• Will swop Commando, Wheelie. BrianJack's Superstar Challenge, Vie Ar Kung Fufor Fe:right Gremlins, Fa ll Guy, Ping PonceMany more good tales to swop AaronSaunders. 6 The Loan, Mauchene. Ayrshire,Scotland.• I need Hyper Sports Will swop Monty OnThe Run, Beach Head 10 ot Fist Write to Al,

93 Lochabet Road, Fort William. Inverness-shire PH33 6TX.• Hunches of games including new onessuch as Pintail:Ines, BC's Quest andPanzadreme to swop. Send your list to ISocket', Nogavel 33. STV, OK-6210 M M usV. Denmark• Swop Iwo of Cycione. Full Throttle,Pytamaterna, Monty Mole, Match Point andDerry's or one of Match Day. Red Moon orKnightlote for one of the following. or LordOf The Rings for two. Sweevo's Woad, Alien8. Our; Detach, Three Weeks In Paradise.Worm In Paradise or / Or The Mask. Write toLuke Rene!. 3 Edenmouth Cottages, KelsoRoxburgershire, Scotland• Swop Hurg, Zadom. Maze, Death Race.The Pyramid, Fight Simulation, Se Kaa OfAssiah - three for one of either Commandoor Exploding Fist Te l (06877)255 after 6onend ask tor Paul.

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(Why, we ask ourselves? Ed.• Printer wanted. Will buy or swop forSpectrum games. Over 200 titles I finterested tel. 10268) 414840 after 5pmweekdays for more details.• Wanted: NeverEnding Story, Eureka orLords Of Midnight. I 'm offering Entlay The1301 for arty one 01 the above. Gary Turner. 5

Sinclair Drive (Appropnate, huh? Ed), Faille,Sliding, Scotland FK7 7EP.• Wanted: Sweevo's World and Mugsy Willswop Winter Games, Frank Bruno 'a Boxing,Finders eeeeets and Cosmic Cruiser. Writeto David Cape. 40 Needham Onve,Moorclose. Workington, Cumbria.• Wanted: Commando. Swop for ;nods ofGreen Beret Write lo Jeff Foster, 57 RipleyClose, Salford, Manchester MS 48Y.• Wanted - ZX Printer through poet edgeConnector (Spectrum type). Pricenegotiable Write to Steven Pritchard, 25Brett Road, Boothstown, Woraley. M28 &IN.• Wanted - AM X Mouse for CuretteMicroSpeech plus four games. Shadow OfThe Unicorn, Monty Mole Nightshade.Knightiore, rfanSkirrnetS. Underwurlde,Allen 8 T e l Guisborough 50657 alter 4pm• Wanted - While Lightning and manual.Will swop tor FGTH, Matchday, Monopoly.Tel. 021-472 4539 between 6.30 and8 30pm Asir for Ran.• Wanted - Centronics Inteaace. Swop forCheetah Sweet Talker and Me KorthTrology (3 books, 9 games). Tet. (0923)882200 and ask for Rex• l - W e-m e t ' A ny h i nt a it i ps /P OK Ea nn ap s

on Nightshade and Movie muchappreciated. Send to Andrew Croft, 17Kingsway. Eta lon. Near Chorley, Lancs.111 Wanted. A 48K Oric I computer with leadsarid manual Prepared to pay e40. Softwarenot necessary but would be appreciatedWrite to A Robson, 66 Leeds Road, Selby,Yoke All letters answered• Spectrum Machine Language ForBeginner and Advanced Spectrum M a meLanguage. Swop for Knightlore, Nodes 01* sod. Girt From The Gods, HighwayEncounter. Tel. 041-838 3130 end ask 104Alan after 4.15prri• Wanted - Chuck* Egg I lk Ferlight orStonkers or Cliknera. Swop any one forGrnegale or Kosrmc Kongo Te l (0438)62880 and ask for Philip between 4 and 7penweekdays.

MESSAGES,CLUBS &EVENTS• Attention a ll you Speccy owners out there'I arn in desperate need Of as many POKEsand hints as possible. Please tel. (0631)62635 and ask for John after 6prn• Would the person who wrote to me fromDidcot about software please write back as Ihave erst your address. Stephen Page, 70Tynemount Road, OrthiStOn„ East Lothian• 26-year old male seeks all Speccy usersto swop software hints and tips Mainlyinterested in arcade and football strategygames All loners answered Ove r 100gamete Alexander McWilliams. 19 CheviotCrescent. Fines', Dundee 0I34 90N.• Ricky, worried sophomore to Amadeu') ateeing oft Don't understand met Impactharder than you expect. Sam Hound of Wyehounding love (Wet? Ed).• NI Mane I love you Mane. Hope ca n seeyou soon in your new pink swimsuit. Bye kwnow Loverboyglean anyone possibly be as stupid asSteven Lee? Why is Sam Cruise? Cananyone lend me 25 Drogna? (Bluepentagon). PH of WH, Southampton• I wish to start en Out Of The Shadowsclub to swop hints and tips for the game. Ifyou have the game and With 1010n, pleasewrite to Russell Speight, 10 Ltheybank,Chapel Park. Newcastle NE5• Mid-Cornwall Co-op Computer Clubmeets at the Roche Co-op Roorna everyMonday 7.15 to e 30pm. Tel 10728) 890473.• Dan Green. it was Horace Goes Skiing.not Horace And The Spiders. AANYWNY •anyone knows that a CM1384 is worth lessthan a copy of Horace Goes Skiing Kevin• Anyone who wants hints, POKEs andmaps on arcade games or solubons toadventures send an sae to Mark Corder, 2Clerk Grove, Pecorthie, Dunterrnbne, FAD,Scotland• Hello Jasper Ohlin in the land of Lurpakand sliced bacon M e r e have you heardthis before?? Say hello to your family.Should have a new TV by now, Dave• Computer group being formed Would youI lk. to have the full benefits el a USW groupat home? Send sae (no tenewesters please)to 6 Springfield Street, Latterreed,Birmingham B18 7AU.• Wanted - working Alphacom printer torSpectrum+ Write with price and details to

Steve Johnson, 75 Hayctock Avenue, SaesCheshire M33 4 0 6 .• Ceiling Spelisingerl Please write backasap! You have my tape and i need it. Lostmy address - VS issue 18. From JamesBond 007• POKE list (250 included) and 6 pagegames. hims and ten sheet for only e4P'Write et G Edwards, 19 The Mathogs_ KingsLangley, Netts. Also Kempston CompetitionPro and inerfaCe for E8 Te l (09277) 86501.• Speceoll is the latest handboce forgames-ptaying Spectrum owners. It containsUps. POKES and eolutions to many populargames. Send SOp and sae to Specsbft, 7Clusion's Drive, Chester.• Do you want POKE% maps, tips andcomplete solutions at low prices? Then sendan sae to BDS, The Bungalow. StationRoad, Wath Upon Dearne, Nr. Rotherham,South Yorkshire 563 70G• Spectacular Magazine Reviews. news,POKE, . maps and programs for theSpectrum. For the Latest issue Just send 25pand Sea SO J Davies, 28 Claremont Road,Bishopsion, Bristol BS7 8011.• Help! I Nero Over 350 games for mySpectrum and I have only finished 48 ofthem Could anyone please send me artyplaying tips, POKEs or maps. Write for a fistM Fisher, 2 Portobello Street, Hull HU9 3JE• Full set i s s u e 1 to 21 o4 Your Spectrumand approx 150 other computer Magazines.Buyer collects ( 2 5 Te l (0532)822137• Come abroad the Jolly Roderick! The newtape mag for your Speccyl And ifs tree! Forinfo, send sae to Jolly Roderick, 18 SeaGrange Avenue. Balcloyte, Dublin 13,Ireland.• Danish SpeCcy users want members fromall over Europe Tape magazines. lips,POKEs, swopping and much more. Only £2for one year Think about el Write to 0Nielsen, Tonskarieveenget 4, Odense,Denmark, 5210 NV• Machine code programmer wishes tocorrespond with other programmers on allaspects at machine code Swop tents andbps. Write to Steven Heyward, 29 HenwoodRoad, Compton, Wolverhampton• New club started up. Send your name endaddress to me. We offer hints, lips, lettersand lots moire Send for your membershipform to Derek Cherntiera, 19 Paget Lane,Muswell Hill, London NIO 7PLI• I would like to Mart a Speccy club in thenorth-east of England. Write to Liam McKay14 Sycamore Avenue, Guide Post,Choppingren, Northumberland NE62 5PE 0you're interested• Keyboard for Speccy iSaga - Ok) Da taTurbo Ace interface Printer (not Timex).Joystick Light Pen Pa y cash or swop forstamp collection worth CSOO M r Wright, 13Egerton Street, Heywood. Manchester

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games. music arid tips I 'm 15 and verybored with my games Write to GordonMcIntosh, 603 Kilmarnock Road Newlands,Glasgow.• Needy 15•yeat old girl wants boys 14* towrite to, anywhere and everywhere. Writenow to Catherine, 93 Lochaber Road, FortWilliam. Inverness. Scotland• Penpal wanted to swop software Seedyour list for mine Will answer all questionsand letters. Brendan Roberts, 82 Onerah,Road. Whangarei. New Zealand• Come on you more mature femaleSpectrum lovers, etan writing! I am 37 yearsold - solid mate. Write to Cannel Berea%Notre Dame, MB COnsilli Street, Faure,Malta.• Penpal wanted to swop games etc I havehundreds of games, most of the latest titlesSend your list for mine. Write to T Christie22 Asian Avenue, Droyeiden, ManchesterM36 6JB.• Hi I 'm 16, mate Etna a basic computer nut.I like anything and everything. But I'mlooking for a female, i 4+, in or nearYorkshire, to share ideas and lips. MarkBalance. 91 M e e se Approach, Belie Isle,Leeds LSIO 30F.• Please write to me, L o n e l y S p e c t ru m

owner with 300* games and many POKE5Wrtie to Peter Machen, 23 Ridge Road,Hilicrest, 3610, Natal. South Africa.• Intelligent 14-year old male Spectrumowner seeks female penpal 01 suitable agepreferably local. Write to Joe Often, 17AClitheroe Road. longsight, Manchester MI3OGE.• 17-year old male would like to hear fromInteresting and unusual females 16+. Musthave good sense e l humour Weirder'welcome. Write lo Mark Walker, 33 WelchAvenue, Stapietord, Nottingham NG9 BEJ.• 16-year old mole would like 1S+ femalepenpal. Not too bed a l Basic. hopeless atmachine code. Write to Martin Weller, 5Elder! Close, Teehurst, Reading RG3 40A_

• Hello' I am 11 and looking for a malepenpal of same age to swop software etc.Write to Kotler, 76 Kreghlon Road. lichen,Southampton SO2 71FN I will answer anletters.• 17-year old Speccy owner wishes to find atamale Speccy owner who is 17* andinterested in sports, music and good times.lo swop games and hints, Write to PaulGoldsmith, eIo Mt Flight, RAF Collishall,Norwich, Norfolk NRIO 5,AJ• Penpal wanted, boy or girl 12+ to swopsoftware. lips and maps. Write to Jason, 9Flushleigh Court, 32 Thurlisioe Road. LondonSW12.la Lonely male wishes to write to fame*penpals age 20-1- Also wish to write toforeign females. Interested in computers andmusic. All letters will be answered. Write toMark Thomas. 2 Upper Alma Terrace, Gettig,Pontypridd. Mid Glamorgan, Wales CF37I NN• Wanted - peep* to swap games, POKEsetc Write to John Breton. 22 Exeter Road,Exton. Cleveland• Help. I'm e o n everyone who replied tomy last entry but I've lost all your repliesPlease write again and r e p ly immediatelyTa very much. Dean Paradice, 5 SouthRoad, Broken Hill. Australia• I need a penpal to help me with my newSinclair OL. as I don't know much aboutcomputers Preferably someone over 25 andliving outside England. but this is notessential M ies C Downie, 40 Elam Dose,Elern Street, Camberwell, London SE 5 98W• Penpal wanted, prelerably aged between11 and 15. I own a 481< Spectrum Ana I amvery iniersted in tips for playing games. i am12 years old and my address is 53-55Roeselare Avenue, Torpoint. Cornwall ta ll21..W.• I've just got a 128K Spectrum and wouldOka to hear from any Speccy owners whoenjoy playing games Write to Graham, 42Dawsor, C l os e . N ew po rt , Gwent NP9 9JH

• Female penpal wanted aged 16+. Willswop games. hints etc. Write to Tony Evans.30 Foxes Croft, Elamham, Yapion, SussexP022 OJT• I e ms IS-year old male who is pathetic atmachine code and would eke somebodygood at programming and hacking to writeto. Guy Hayion. 37 Bloom Street, Edgeley,Stockport, Cheshire.• Penpal wanted to swop computer posters.Must be willing to visit software houses inyour area. Would like a penpal inBirmingham or London I have Oceanposters to swop. Write to Christopher Heath,19 Anson Road, Swinton, Manchester M271GZ.• 14-year old male Speccy owner steers 13-15-year old female penpal interested incomputers and music. Write to DarrenGreening i Colston Close. Park South,Swindon, Wilts• I am 14 arid I want a penpal * no will swophints, lips and games. Write to CohnDeaslay. 83 Grangehill Drive, Moneieth,Dundee. S cotland• Period wanted I am 16 and would like tothrow games. I have over 250 games. Sendyour list lo Paul Wright, 6 Dokarog,Penderyn, Aberdare, Mid Glamorgan.• K I I'm a Brazilian boy and if you want toswop programs, Ups. PEEKs and POKESwrite to me I would like to swop music,magaz ines and everything else you want toknow about Brazil Send what you want andwart for an answer M a n ° FtaNci, Rua S anta

366.Ap63 Sao Paulo - Sp, BrazilCep 03084• Attractive females wanted, 18+. to cheerup Wullie Harbison. Likes all usual Speccystuff. This should really surprise him -thank you Send photo please to 42Barbieston Road, Auchinieck, Ayrshire KAI El2EW.• I ant 11 years old and seeking a penpalabout my age. boy of girl, to swop gerneeand computer knowledge Please write toSteven Julien, 95 Winyetes, Orton Goldhay,Peterborough• A 16+ penpal wanted. Swop POKE& lips,maps. Also Crackers advice wanted or S Wlists I 'm teaming machine code end needROM routines to understand nee. Everyletter answered. Frank Readers. P rinS aiMargnetstraat 9, 4797 NW Wtaemstad,Netherlands.• 144 male Of * ma le penpal required; intogames, programming and music I 'm 16 andnave all the latest games. Reply to all letters,and tapes will be returned. Paul Frainger, 14Waterloo Court. Queens Road. Skegneas.Lincs• Good looking femora peeper wanted.about 14, w ho l i ke s mus ic ipopt and

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• FIRST for SPEED 'One firm, at least, canusually effect any necessary repair 'over-the-counter* in 45 minutes. Based in Manchester,MANCOMP can offer what is arguably thefastest turnaround in the business, thepersonal callers.''CRASH' Magazine, June 1985

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computers, complete withdisks and DOS's. We'll seeno more of the wimpish,abbreviated, video-games-with-a-keyboard that firsttempted us all to play PacMan at two in the morningunder the excuse that wewere learning to program inBasic.

So, Sir Clive was the lastentrepreneur to supply themarket with home computers,as well as the first. If he'dhung on, we might well haveseen one more good Christ-mas for Spectrum sales, butnow I reckon the remainingmachines will all be dumpedbefore then. That's becauseAlan Sugar is too smart acookie to compete with him-self. The small change hespent on the Sinclair rightswill be amply compensatedby the disappearance of thelow priced competition thatthe Spectrum represents.Dropping the Spectrum willdo Alan's sales much moregood than continuing to sup-ply it as well as proving that aspoonful of Sugar makes theSpectrum go down! After all,one CPC-6128 sale brings infour or five times as muchmoney as a Spectrum.

Games software, on theother hand, continues tothrive. All that's changed isthe excuse. People will nolonger buy a computer topretend to learn programm-ing. Now they will pretendthey need it for word pro-cessing. Word processing isitself a very entertaininggame. I'm doing it now, andyes, ifs two o'clock in themorning. It's the only game Ispend much time on any-more, apart from a similar

BACKLASHThese are hard times for lobo Davidson.

game that you play with amodem. The entertainmentsoftware that's been releasedrecently is too much like hardwork.

In the good old days youjust loaded your tape.grabbed the joystick, andblasted anything that moved.Ever wondered why theycalled it a joystick? Thoseearly airplane pilots, fromwhom we've borrowed thatparticular piece of jargon,certainly had an unsubtle turnof vocabulary. Anyhow, thosesimple shoorem ups at thedawn of computer creationwere fun.

If you want to get into oneof the latest releases, how-ever. you first have to find anenormous piece of paper,sharpen half a dozen pencils,lay out a proper, usable rub-ber (not one of those toysshaped like an animal), andthen chase everyone else outof the TV room for a coupleof days while you make amap.

I wonder what happens tothe newcomers, faced with acomputer game for the firsttime. It's not TV ping-ponglike it was for me or PacManor JSW as it probably was foryou. Instead they're con-fronted with Heavy On TheMagick. I mean, it's morethan likely a great game, but Idon't think anyone should beturned loose on a thing likethat without a compulsorytraining course and a two parttest.

I confess that I haven'tloaded my copy yet. I wasdefeated, hands down, nocontest, by the instructionbooklet. Any fantasy worldwhich requires me to learn anew language is barking upthe wrong Maga I'm stillworking on English.

It's been a very long timesince I really enjoyed playing

a game the way it was meantto be played. You can have aswell time hacking away at it,of course, and enjoyment canalso be obtained by trying toget a game to do things itwasn't designed for; likeusing the edit mode inPenetrator to remove themissiles that shoot down theplane in the demo mode,then running the demo to seewhat happens. And I did oncespend a whole afternoonrebuilding the city in ZombieZombie to wall the zombiesoutside so that the little herofigure could wander around inpeace.

I think the most fun I everhad, with my clothes on, wasbreaking into Spier! andpatching it to play at aneighth of the normal speed.There was a big cash prizefor the top score, so I wantedto show off by demonstratingthat the break-proofing wasnot lolo-proof. In the process.I found Out that there wasanother security flaw.Because of the prize, a spe-cial score validating codewas generated at the end ofthe game. However, thegame's author had assumedthat no one would ever scoreover 50,000, and the valida-tion code generator crashedwhenever this figure wasexceeded. Incentive Softwaregot some frantic phone callsfrom players swearing thatthey'd racked up this terrificscore and then the screenhad gone black! What a hoot!Unfortunately, I felt I had tokeep quiet about this 'feature'when I reviewed the gamebecause Incentive wasaccepting everyone whocrashed as a finalist. Reveal-ing the bug would've broughtin a lot of false claims andbeen unfair to the genuinecontestants. The eventualwinner of the dosh scored

something like 120.000. But Idigress. The last game that Iliked enough to load over andover again just to play it wasJumping Jack. I've just dugout the tape, and it says'Copyright 1982 — ImagineSoftware'. This was theoriginal Imagine, before itwent bust and the name wasbought by Ocean. I don'tsuppose you can get it any-more. Even if you could asophisticate like yourselfwould probably find it toosimple, too old fashioned, twodimensional. I realise, yousee, that the problem is in meand not in the software. Iharbour a basic inner simplic-ity that responds to gamesthat anyone with a touch ofcouth would reject asmoronic. Read the reviewsand it's obvious that anyonewho's anyone is complainingthat today's software hasreached the limits of what'stechnically possible on theSpectrum. Further complexitywill not be forthcoming. Noone ever seems to complainthat they haven't a clue howto play the flaming things.Luckily the classics still exist,and given time they should alleventually turn up on one ofthe compilation tapes. Fewold hands boasting a thricerepaired rubber key speccywill bother with compilations,having bought most of theircontents years ago at fullprice. But these tapes mustbe just about perfect for any-one who's just got a newSpectrum and can't makehead or tail of the latest stateof the art, 3D animated,multiple role playingadventure. Also just right forthe wrinklies who want to findout just what the heck Jimmyis doing alone all night in theTV room, without actuallyhaving to learn Merphish andmake maps.

Editor Kevin Cox, Art Editor Martin Dixon, Deputy Editor Teresa Maughan, Production Editor Sara Boggs. Designer Caroline Clayton. Staff Writer Phil South,Technical Consultant Peter Shaw; Editorial Consultant Andrew Pennell Contributors Steve Adams, Luke C , Polo Davidson, Mike Gerrard, Ian Hoare, GwynHughes, Zareri Johannes, Max Phillips, Rick Robson, Rachael Smith, Advertisement Manager Mark Salmon: Senior Advertisement Manager Neil DysonProduction Manager Sonia Hunt; Group Advertisement Director Chris Talbot, Publishing Manager Roger Munford, Publishing Director Stephen England.Published by Sportscene Specialist Press Ltd, 14 Rathbone Place, London W1 P 1DE Telephone (all departments) 01-631 1433 Telex 8954139 EtunchGCompany registered in England; Typesetters Carlinpoint London; Reproduction Graphic ideas, London. Printed by Chase Web Offset. St Austell, Cornwall.Distribution Seymour Press, 334 Bnxion Road, London SW9. Telephone 01-733 4444 All material in Your SirpciairC 1986 Felden Productions, and may not bereproduced in whole or part without the written consent of the publishers. Your Sonc(eit is a monthly publication,

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get him next time round.I haven't got to the chopper yet-.iVe got to get my act together;if Thom eMI saw my lastattempt Oil only be good for' iamb° Games on La i n

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