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Well strike us down with apenny-black, Postman Pat'sgone and got himself a job onthe side — Alternative hassigned him up to appear in acomputer game which is dueout about Christmas. • E rm,

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LOOKALIKESL Robert Redford (flattery eh??)2. Professor Alec Jeffries (pioneer of'genetic fingerprinting')3. The dad out of Family Ties4. Stephen King5. Richard Stilgoe6. My dentist7. Bill Oddie8. Dan (out of Return To Eden)9. Scott Adams (minus the perm)10. Santa (well, he's got a beard)Would you believe it took TWO people tocompile that chart?! The guilty fellowsare Andy Cowe and Dave Dutton ofStoke-on-Trent.

hang on a mo: if Postman Patis swanning it up on computermonitors over the festiveseason, how is he going todeal with the ToytownChristmas postal rush??

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No sooner has the film The RunningMan cleaned up at the box officethan Granoslam announce it'ssecured the rights to produce thegame.

In the film Shwarzenegger playsBen Richards, the Running Man, astate policeman with teeth so badthat the entire dentist populationof his home city are pursuing himwith fillings in mind. Around everycomer a slavering orthodontist.around every other comer a gangof dentists armed with the verylatest in oral weaponry., and aroundany comers that are left, ( You'verun out of corners. and stop tellinglies. Ed).

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GET YOURTEETHINTO THESRATIOS!The bods at Nintendo have beenwith their calculators. They've beenworking out how many people will seethe forthcoming TV adverts of theirgames console throughout December.This is what they reckon:

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see the ad at least once and of these 7boys 4 of them are likely to see the adanother 3 times as well. The same ratioscan be applied to the parents of theseboys!

Gordon blimey 'o Bennett. That's a bitcomplicated in nit? Just to y o u ,we've produced a VS ra t h e abofigures, w e

• The Race Against Time hascome to something of a bitterend. with Code Masters now saidto be regretting its associationwith the charity event Thisfollows the news that Sport AidLimited. the company behindSeptember's sponsored race, isnow a massive E2 million in debt.Code Masters could not giveexact sales figures for the title.but it is now almost certain that itwill not even come close to thecompany's original claim that thegame would be the first millionseller.

• Spanish software giantDinamic has taken its first steptowards domination of the Britishsoftware market by signing aaffiliated label deal withElectronic Arts. The firm. whoseprevious hits include Game Overand Army Moves, will begin itsassociation with the Americanoperation with the release ofGame Over II. Other firms who areaffiliated to Electronic Artsinclude Martech and Accolade

• Christmas is normally a time forgiving, but for once Oceanappears to have got things a littlemixed up. This year's 'season ofgoodwill' will see a El rise in thecompany's prices, taking inOperation Wolf, RoboCop, Wec LeMans, Dragon Noma and GuerstiaWar This hike is however onlytemporary — normal services willbe resumed in the New Year.

• Gargoyle classics Lightforce.Shockway Roder and Hydra foolare the latest re-release gamesset to appear on the budgetmarket following Hewson'sacquisition of the three titles. Thegames will cost E2.99 each andwill appear on the Oxford-basedfirm's Rack-It label

• The Atari Corporation hasgranted Domark exclusive rightsfor the European developmentand publishing of all games on itsTengen label. The deal followsDomark's success in convertingthe Star Wars trilogy to the homemicros, and is said to be a majorcoup for the British firm.

• Sot tek has picked up thePeanuts licence as you probablyalready know — but what youdon't know is that the first Snoopygame should be out next year.Also watch out for Artist II on the+3 and a special game on TheEdge label at Christmas calledThe Garfield Surprise.

• We'll be bringing you lots morehot gossip next month so untilthen start your own A,rumours!

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And the reason we're offering you all this lovely toothdecay is to celebrate Gremlin's new game called TheMuncher which is licensed from those awfully nice peoplewho make Chown s. Apart from the 3,650 packets ofsweets, (Chomp, chomp' Make that 3,549! Ed) Gremlin isalso giving away ten four foot high cardboard cut outs of

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Pictured here you'll see Shane McGowan, vocalist fromThe Pogues Shane's on his way to the dentist (en long last.the chump), and is about to enter the surgery You play thepart of the dentist, and all you've got to do is imaginewhat, in your horror, your first words would be on seeingthe state of his touche• Be as clever and/or witty as youwant and then write it down in an empty word balloonDone that? Good, now cut out the coupon, stick it on amolar and send it to Give Us A Kiss — YS Compos. POBox 320, London N21 2N8 Entries received after 31st ofDecember 1988 will get the slow drill treatment.

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lello. My name's J aorta Shtteet Pawta, an I've gotto more teat than the cog-shptockets on a 25 yearountain bike I'm not sure exactly how many therere, even my team ot five crack SAS dentists has lostaunt but you can be sure of one tiny — when I openle motif I tind it pretty hard to shut it again.noworrimeau?

Ave yer ever done a tooth count on that James;Awn geezer') l i e m a y h a ve a g r ea t d ea l mo re

international tame than what I've got. but let's lace It.I've got mote square metres of enamel — and that'swhat counts when yet out there on the platform withyer parker, BOAC bag. note-book and pencil I mean tet say — I've got sixteenincisors, an' that's lust the shtart of it.

No one in the wotld can match me, chomper tot chompet Some people citeEsther Rantlen as competition, but in my opinion land that's the one whatcounts) she doesn't even get oft the starting line,

Cor, I don't halt get through the toothpaste, though. You tend to when youhave to apply it with an industrial Boor cleaner It costs me tousands of poundsevery week, but it's worth it, innit? You can't afford to have unhealthy tee!

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mm Lo t s of good mags this We, so1 the chit-chat and get on with the

X-Men is top of the form again. andI've been saying for months whatg it is, and I'm glad that somethere are starting to agree with

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of big green robot fighting with a 'whip-toting bondage clothed woman_ Perw totsure, but oddly readable and fun I'm goingto try irt a few times before I give my finalverdict.

Frnall Grandel is still turning up in thechart, but this is understandable as ii reallyis a first class cull comic -A m e a n , m o o d ycomic,* as Dave at Virgin put rt. and who anIto disagree? What I can say is that my own

personal choice this month is a mixture ofthe AARGH conc. DC's graphic novelBatman — Son Of The Demon, and a newrelease from DC based on the cult TV show,The Prisoner This is a lust class 'nne, andhas all the makings of a hit. Let's see how itdoes in the chart next month! Okay that's it.corm)! fans Be Seeing You'Phil South, Comic Ed. • • • •*tt

FI STI CUFFS AT THE PCSHOWThe 1988 PC Show maybe long gone, but a lot ofthe visitors are stillnursing bruises, fleshwounds and shatteredlimbs if the reportsfiltering in fromintensive-care unitsaround the capital are tobe believed,

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achines on thestand, due toer lad 'hogging' the

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arropions). TM gams takes en above track'hiertinez (one of the

view, and can allow a number cil players to batde' It out on at of the world's meta bike circuits. Anyou bitte Ma i o out there have plenty of time tovendee, as thit gone Isn't retessed bs BOOMuntil Apr% of May of 1969, but ibrid then hoes st&meal of the geese's tatwortt to whet yokeappetites,

the little blighter in thechops, inducing a ratherbloodied nose. Beforeshe could finish the joboff, Atari sales managerPaul Welch had steamedinto the foray andsecured the woman in aBurmese neck-lock,hauling her Onto the flooryelling "You're firedDick!" in her shell-like.

Luckily for everybodythough, T'zer andRoboCop (Cagney andLacey were on holiday)were on hand to save theday. T'zers on the left!

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YOU may think your schooi rstough but rn Garfield High theleachers wear full metal rackets tomorning assembly In tact the place13 so run down the inspectors wantto ctose rt down for good! Not the

a ideal place tor J. E 0 to start hismathematical crusade

But did you ever have one ofthose teachers who could reallycommunicate even the mostdifficult facts, who could make the

him about maths But THE SEVENTH' III SIGN (15) I I I I• D e m i Moore, MichaelBiehn a l•

If he first sign is an

outbreak of special a oeffects, such as a frozencity found in the middle a lof the desert The

second sign is weird thingshappening to perfectly ordinary m e

• fol ks like Demi Moore and Michaeli Biehn. And so on to sign number 1111

•1 seven, which is nothing less than

I I I I t h e Second Coming i o s• W h a t do all these indicators

mean? Ask soothsayer Smith anda I ' II tell you the trooth Hollywood a l- has remembered The Omen and

mixed in a little tundamentahst i nhellfire and damnation to come up —with a full scale apocalypsetomorrow. Seems that heaven has •run out of new souls and as our

. world is so wicked nobody can be 111

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ig members in higher maths.?takes Them through an exam i s' most

kids Coot even attempt1, when they succeed thexit mspectors accuse them of •a nt so they have to do it all

,ha makes Stand And Delivere"ore amazing is that it'slona true story. Even thougharena car chases this is realIhe seat stuff as Olmos and

Lss battle the system Now,er ,t he r - nme trmes six is al

ere did I put that calculator?

bothered to refill the warehouse, so i n• there's nothing tell to do but sit

around and wait for the end of the111 worldBut who is the stranger who

takes the spare room over the nice 111young couples garage? Does hereally have the mysterious scrolls -

• or does he always walk that way?Could he really be a divine midwife,sent to make sure that Ms Moore's 1 . 1baby's birth - the last before thebig bang - goes according to plan? ma

111 Lot s a questions. right, and I'mnot answering any of them. so

a n you'll have to read the signsyourself. Let me warn you that gorefans will be disappointed - see that 111fifteen certificate lurking up there?But II you prefer a more subtle sliceof Hollywood hokum or expect theend of the world any day now

t h e n sign up for this revelatory 5 moo voyage into the Book of Revelation!

Well well. well. Just loolry here — its SuFootball, from Tomy. Not only can you nowthe ball before shooting, but you can put thefootle pitch in your pocket after playing a ga i iges t r4happen to have pockets the sue ol a copy of I'Staped onto a 4,s l i c e t o a s te r , t h at E st

yes it is. with you and a chum taking control atthe ten players and two goalies 0211111e knobs (0o-

(where you e n at tither end ol the field. The whole thing is drivens lock the twill? by two small baltenes, and pushing a knob forward

Spooky Dental 'Facts No 1 The earliest false teethever discovered have been carbon-dated and arereckoned to be nearly 2700 years old. They werefound in the skulls of remains dug up from theEtruscan Tombs. Brrrrrrrrrr!

Spooky Dental 'Facts' No. 2: In 1816 a tooth belongingto Sir Isaac Newton was sold to a nobleman for £730.Guess what the nobleman did with it though? Heonly went and had it set into a ring, which he woreconstantly. Lucky for Isaac Newton then that (a) hehad already 'cashed in his chips' and moreimportantly (b) was not still attached to the pearly.What a clot he would have looked.

Spooky Dental 'Facts' No. 3:I n 1986 a rather sillyAmerican person called Rick Hofmann decided toprove he had the strongest bite in the world. Luckilyfor him another silly American had already invented adevice to measure this on — the 'gnathodymometer'.Rick's score? 975 lbs. Cripes„

Spooky Dental 'Facts' No 4.. The most prolific tooth-puller of all time was Brother Giovanni Orsenigo — a'religious' dentist from Rome. Between 1868 and 1904he yanked out 2,000,744 chompers. Guess what he didwith them though? He only kept them in his bloomin'bedroom — double spook!!!

Spooky Dental 'Facts' No. 5: Lost a tooth? Nevermind, another one will grow, as you know. Oh dear.Had it knocked out in a 'tiff'? Well — that's your lotthen, isn't it. Take heart though, cos the growth of athird set of teeth has been recorded several times,and one French geezer went on to score four (or as atoff-dentist would say, 'he achieved a fourthdentition').

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With the pitch, you gel two kitied teams — one red(come on you re-eds) and one blue, and twounpainted pink teams for naked soccer romps for you

ave you everspin the bars to makeDidn't you nisi wish t m members w i l l move the player II controls up the pitch, whilecould travel back and n the pitch, p u l l i n g it back will bring him back down again. If you c a n paint them with your own learns colours it you , Ai,instead of just performing demented somer- w a n t to 'lock' the ball, it's a simple matter of twisting want ) . You also get five balls, so you can get away 0,/

soils? - - - - - --a l l e k n o b i t h e p l a y er w i ll d o a p i r o ue t t e , a nd t he b ai l w it h l os in g tour b ef or e you have to start t hi nk in g of .

re . w r i l t go flying oil the little bar sticking out of his left r o l l i n g up small pieces of paper and reminiscing • . . .1 I ireally have to have fast reactions if you a b o u t how good the original balls were.your pat setting up the old *one two'. cos U n k k e the Table Football Games, Tomy Super

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Well strike us on the knee with a wibble-stick, we've done it again. We'vesurpassed ourselves. We're giving away somuch stuff this month that we need twopages to tell you about it It's just soabsolutely brilliant, words almost foil us —but it'd be a bit tricky trying to tell youabout the treat you have in store usingsanskrit, so we're going to hove topersevere.

Righto, lined up for you spec-chums thismonth we hove TWO (yes that's right, two)totally complete (and totally brilliant)games: Star Raiders H from ElectricDreams, and a brillo shoot'ens-up calledCoorx, which has been written especiallyFor VS by Greg Jackson. Good stuff,eh?... But that's not all. Oh no. There'salso a very playable demo of ElectricDreams' forthcoming release Skate Or Dieand as an audio 'treat', we've got thesoundtrack from the arcade blast 'ens outof the sky classic, Afterburner!! Still,enough enthusing, you probably wont toknow all about the bumper software inmore detail. And who can blame you?

STAR RAIDERSDelos IV, that peaceful star-system with itsparadise planet of Tens is being invaded —by the dreaded Zylons, under orders fromtheir sagacious leader, Chut.

Star Raider Commanders are in shortsupply — most of them have scattered

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throughout the galaxy — but now one isneeded again, and guess who it is? Yup,you!

You've been given a souped-up megafighter called the Liberty Star with which tostop the invasion. So off you go!!

You start the game in orbit over Tens andfind yourself immediately under attack fromJohnny Zylon. You're locked in a one planeorbit, so can only move to the left and right,although you can speed up/slow down. Getthat trigger finger pumping and bum thealiens with your lasers, Done that Right, thisis where things start to get trickier — and acertain strategy element comes in, Pressingthe space bar brings up a map of the starsystem.

There are several planets and moons tobe visited and cleared of Zylons (presumingthey've already arrived, that is), and alsoflashing sectors of cold space. Theseflashing sectors are the Zylon craft entrypoints into the Delos IV system, where theenemy can be intercepted and destroyedbefore they reach the planets. Hoppingaround between the entry points, planetsand moons, cleaning up the enemy beforethey totally infect the whole system is thename of the game (No it isnt it's StarRaiders II. Ed), but you can sustain a lot ofdamage in the process, so it's just as wellthat you have Space Stations to visit. Hereautomatic repairs, refuelling and re-armingwill be implemented — mind you, this takes

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up a bit of time, allowing the Zylon fleet tostart to take hold again. There's only one wayto deal with them permanently, and that's tohyperspace to their home system (theProcyon Star System — top left on thespace-map screen) and engage in bombingraids over their three planets, taking out theattack bases where their fighter-craft areproduced. Only in this manner will you beable to rid the universe of the heinousmenace of the Zylons for all eternity,Star Raiders It was a full price release lastyear, and we thought it was so bloomin corkywe gave it an 8. You can imagine the score itwould have got if it was being sold at theprice we're offering it to you (that's a measly25p matey). Megagame? You bet!!!

THE AFTERBURNERSOUNDTRACK

Check out the Afterburner mega-preview inthis ish and you'll see instructions on how Scobuild your own pneumatic arcade cabinet.However, for TOTAL realism, you'll need this:the anginal arcade soundtrack. Whack thecassette in your hi•li, turn the volume up toeleven (or as near to that as you can tot it),jump in your personal cabinet, suck on the'heantube' and wa-hay (yeah' away). Zoomcity! Oh, and don't try loading this into yourSpeccy 'cos its audio only — you ckitt

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The evil Zykm forces are intent oninfiltrating your home Star Systerri.and it's up to you to stop them.Defend your planets against therelentless onslaught. while at thesame time ensuring the Zylons entryinto your System is regulated. Usingthe System Chart, warp from planetto planet and keep the Zylorts at bay,while watching out for darnagereports from your ships' onboard

computer. If the damage gets toobad, it might be a good idea to visityour space station, for emergencyrepairs rearming and refuelling (mindyou. you might find that the alienshave destroyed your space-station, inwhich case you could try refuellingover the star Celos IV itself — a trickybusiness).

If you manage to find yourself withany spare time (quite unlikely), youought to go on a bombing sortie tothe PrOCyOrt Star System whereyou'll find the three Zylon pianets,pressing key 'W. switches from laserfire to ground fire, which is needed

to destroy their land based factorC Your Sinclair/Electric Dreams

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Mr elyte, the mild-manneredchemistry teacher turned modscientist, has planted nuclearbombs through various times iEartht history with the aid ofhis time machine. It4s u p t o y o u

to destroy them'

Conheist All sticks catered for.keys ono redefinable.

SKATE OR DIE PLAVAIIIS DEMOGet from the top of the bill to thebottom of the hill in the shortestpossible time, while performingthe sroddest s tunts you conthink of.

Menu — Cursor keys andENTERKeyboard contreis:

— Up i t — Down0 — Left P — RightspAcE — Fire

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SKATE OR DIE DEMOSkate or dist, churn? rEeettr, I'd rather skatepkase.• A VS reader). Sensible decision - andwe're going to give you o chance to do just that,in this playable demo of Electronic APIs' newskateboard bosh, It's, Me first level of the game,and it's calked the Downhill Race.

What you've got to do is to get from (A) thelop of the hill, to (B) the bottom of the hilldownhill, you see).

On your way down the idea is to perform'rod' stunts to gain a high score. If you wantyou can just saunter down Ole easy route atthree feet on hour but as you might haveguessed, this kind of behaviour is particularly.4111-rod and won't earn you a sausage, points-

wise. At the beginning of the game you will beasked whether you want to play 'Cooly' or'Regukre? This simply means whether you wontthe joystick to respond from your own point ofview or the on-screen skater's (so, everything'sreversed)?

Pressing lire and forward is a jump, fire andbock is a duck while Fee and left or right givesyou a slide turn la lost way to cut corners),Oh a n d don't take longer than one and ahalf nenutes to finish the course, or you won'tgeS any bonus pointst

CIARXReckon you're a bit of a dab hand at shoot'em ups? Well, we can assure you that you're

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going to find them full (your hands you clot)with this baby. This game is an absoluteexclusive for Your Sinclair — its beenespecially written for us by fabboprogrammer Greg Jackson, who's currentlywriting for Source (producers of SamuraiWarrior for Firebird amongst other things).Greg is ever so slightly bonkers, as you canprobably tell from his storyline:

"Mr Blyte was a fairly ordinary chemistryteacher: very strict and with extremely goodpass rates — for many years he had beenrespected, indeed revered by his pupils andfellow teachers. But then came the class of'88 — a pack of rebellious lazy kids whoignored everything Mr Blyte ever said andpromptly all failed their chemistry GCSE's.Mr Blyte cracked under the taunts of hiscolleagues. He turned his lab into a sect ,research station and slipped into the role ofmad scientist, intent on the destruction of amocking world. To further his aim, heinvented a time machine which he used todeposit nuclear bombs over the Earth andMoon at different stages through time. Hepromptly publicised the news that the worldwas about to be destroyed simultaneously atlots of different times: (Eh? Ed.)

It's your job to do something about it.You're in control of a time machine called

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Oar x (hence the name of the game) andyou've got to jaunt around the multiverse(leaving your footprints in the sands of time)and destroy all the bombs. In fact you've gotto destroy everything — it's 'shoot anythingthat moves (and if it doesn't move shoot itanyway)' time. There are five levels to gelthrough, but we reckon you're not going tobe able to get much further than the third —unless you're the skillest person in the world.that isll

TAPE TROUBLESour copies of Star Raiders

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WITH A SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM YOU CAN AFFORDTO LET YOUR IMAGINATION RUN WILD.

While y ou ' r e a dar ing motor b ik e r ider o r t h e all-conquer ing intergalac tic warrior, you're gaining pr ice-less exper ience in handling computers.

ZX SPECTRUM+3. E199Loading g a me s is qu ic k and eas y w ith t he built- indisk-drive. You' ll b e i n t h e t h ic k o f t h e ac t ion i nseconds. And the fantas tic 128K memor y gives y outhe power to outsmart the mos t sophis ticated enemy.

Get to gr ips with the lates t high- tech graphicson t h e mult itude o f g a me s available (s ix o f whic hc ome free). There's also a fr ee Joystick to giv e y ouultimate control. And a t on ly £199, you're bound t osave the earth.

ZX SPECTRUM+2. £139The amaz ing ZX Spec trum +2 has a built-in datacorder- to save you the bother of tape recorders and leads.The adv anc ed 128K memor y helps you get the mos tfrom the hundreds of games available.

Every m o d e l c o m e s c omp le te w i t h s ix f r eegames to s tar t y ou off, and a fr ee joys tick to reallyget you into the action.

With the advanced Sinc lair technology you canafford t o le t y our imaginat ion g o wild. Bec aus e a tE139, only your enemies pay heavily.

Available a t participating branches of: Aliders, Clydesdale.Comet, CO-OPtCRS, Currys, Dixon% Gateway Superstores,Hughes TV & Video. ,ILP. Laskys. Pe te r B Ledbury. JohnMenzies, IR,V.S_ Ltd, Tandy, and all good stockists.

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WRITE TO THE ED, YS, 14 RATHBONE PLACE, LONDON W1P 1DEStar letter winners tether three games! All letters win a VS badge.

MCKIM PROSEI've written a poem about youlot at YS:

There is a mog called YourSinclair,That makes the old go evenwrinklier.The reviews are so hip andcool.And the covers always makeme drool.And now it's a grand farewell Ibid,To buy another YS cos it's onlya quid.

Peter McCallumCraloshIll, ScotlandPS Please don't print this lettercos it's crap!

'Sinclair' rhymed with 'wrinklier?'Are you quite sure about that?Anyway now for a limerick.

There was a young man calledMcCallum,Who hod an affair with asalmon.Until one day it died,So he had it deep fried,And sold it with chips out inBatham. Ed

PS Yes, it is a bit, isn't.

SCREW YOU!I've read something in VS aboutcorrecting my cassette deck withan azimuth alignment programand a screwdriver. However, Idon't know what the program isso I would be very grateful if youtold me,Andrew LathburyTotton, Southampton

It's an azimuth alignmentprogram that you use with ascrewdriver for correcting yourtape deck I Ed

WAKEY WAKEY!First of oil Ed (you gorgeoushunkette), what the ,&.* V / 0 ) i s o

NEANDERTHAL (see megapreview of Barbarian II). Andanother thing, when on earthwill Boots and Smiths startstocking Psycho Pig UXB? Thisgame looks cool, and I wouldgladly part with my hard earneddosh.

Oh, and another thing — Ipredict you will snuff it soon ifyou don't stop sucking thatbleedin' pen you always hove in

your gob in the picture on theLetters page. In fact, if you don'tchange the picture I may even beforced to start buying othermagazines. Now you wouldn'twont that, would you?Carl WakeDewsbury Moor,Deswbury.

A neanderthal describes youtYou're right — Psycho Pig 11X13 isreally sousogey but Boots andSmiths squealed at the thoughtof selling it as they reckon Aoffensive. And in answer to yourfinal question — what would youprefer me to suck? On secondthoughts don't answer that! Ed

SHOCK, HORROR PROBEAgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhillIll

WhylIll?????You've gone and done it again!In the second letter about myprivate life (soon available onCD) you went and invited someof my 'friends' to write in obouttheir interpretation of my 'goingson' (O000-erIII). Well, in true

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should get artytshould be me u don'tthe meaning d ep rethe whole of y2drlaughing cat yakiRob Moorman, 11Plymouth, Devon

Well, why not? It's so much fun.And I'm sure all our readerswant to hear the dirt beingdished on your private goingson, but I promise I won't evermention hedgehogs, Lisa orSiabhan again, well probablynot. I am sorry to hear you'redepressed though (I hope it's notbecause of Siobhon) so to cheeryou up I'm sending you threenew games for being the StarLetter winner. I knew you'd sellyour life-story in the end, Ed

DOODLIEBUHave you got on itchy pencil finger? Well, what are you waiting for —scratch itthis instant. Alternatively, you could use it to produce a wee doodle or cartoon(in block ink please) which you con send to us at Doodlebugs, YS, 14 RathbonePlace, London W1P 1 DE. You could win yourself a steaming hot new game if itgets printed.

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The story so far_The Ed has discovered that she

is being made redundant andthat Pete Show is going to be thenew editor. Drastically shesummons up all her old croniesto assist her (Dame Edna toname but a few).

'First thing to be done is to doPete in.' Says Ed, Arsenic will donicely'

(Cronies all exit).Enter David McCandless_'Oh, I see, you're back to

gloat are you?' screams Ed.'NO,' replies David, 'I've come

to help you. What you need, is abit of advice. You've got to bumpPete Show off.'

'I've already seen to that' saysEd_

(Cronies return with bottleand captured teas-made).

'You'll never get away withthis.' wails the teos-mode.

'Course I will. Pete Show willnever suspect anything. The teawill be laced with a deadlypoison! Cronies — fill her up'.

(Too late — teas-modeescapes).

Oh dear Has Ed beenrumbled? Will Pete snuff it? willthe price of tea go up after this?

The answer to all this will berevealed (and more!.The Phantom Pen Writer

Peter will turn into a teapot TheEd will get loads° money We'llall start doing the jiggle, dip,dunk and you'll start receivingmuch acclaim for being the bestinternational playright sincesliced ! a n Bennett. Ed

HARD EDAMWhen I was reading Your Sinclair(Dec 87), I sow Star Tip number7 I thought 'Ha, now I can usemy own sprites and let themjump up and down on myscreen'.

I started typing, but when Igot to line 65368, the programcrashed.

I was very angry and hit mycomputer hard. Now my fist isbroken and so is my computer

Why did the program crashwhile I was typing it in?? Pleaseexplain.Martyn de JongeHillegom, HollandPS You owe me a new Speccy, I'dprefer a +3.

The first casualty of hittingcomputers is the fist The secondis the computer it one of thoseunwritten i0sY3 that everybodyknows about — (Or discovers forthemselves like you did). I don'tknow what mode the computer

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THE WONDERFUL WORLDOF THE SPECCYEvery month we invite readersfrom other parts of the planet towrite in and have the wee-weetaken.

MISTAKEN IDENTITYGood morning. Please send mefree brochure. Goodbye. Thankyou.J Culling

Et.' sice, Poland

beg your pardon! VS — achurel I think you should'veten to another magazine withword Sinclair in the title! Ed'

INGSRothingslMy VS Rathings:Doodlebugs — 9, Letters — 8,

inspotter — Z Small Print —, Leave The Stage — 10,views — 9, Posters — 10,

• vertapes — 8, Tipshop — 9,Berkrnonn — 9, Pitstop — Zrtip — 8, Input/Output — 9,Mog — 10.rail — 99999. (So Your

clair is the greatest).Ademaarlem, Hollandii, thanks very much old bean.

gh I do think you were alittle stingy with the marks. Ed

KUALAR LUMPURJust thought I'd drop you a lineand inform you that yourmagazine has got fans on theother side of the planet too. I've

heard that VS is even h a i l s " .Greenland and all the way southto the Antarctic. Scorey isn't it, tothink that people buy VS eventhough they don't have aSpectrum. What's the worldturning into?

Keep up the good work, andyou'll be doing the world a gservice if you post me a badge;Amran HassanKuala Lumpur, Malaysia -PS What's the baud rote of aBrother M-1009 printer?

Fans in Greenland eh? I knewwe had some on Uranus but nin the arctic circle. We'll alwaysdo our bit for the world (eat yoiheart out Superman) so herecomes your badge, EdPS t've absolutely no idea. •

OSCAR'S WILDHello Teresa, My name is OscaI'm a 19 year old student andSpeccy owner Also I've a T im eSinclair 2068 (the AmericanSpeccy), Congratulations foryour fantastic magazine (thebest for Speccy).Oscar Eugenio MaciaCapital, Argentina

PD I'm sorry if you don'tunderstand, my English isn't vewell because I iust study it since1three months ago in I.C.A.N.A.(Instituto Cultural Argentin°Norte Americano)

Hello Oscar! Sorry to hear yourEnglish is a little unwell Butnot hall as ill as my Portuguese!Ed A M

crash (although it was probablya typing-input error), and no, youcan't have a +3, but I will sendyou a shiny YS bodge for you topin on your bandage. Ed

SWAIM' DREDDFULIt's me! Robot Dreddl The 5099million year old Class SDXIIBattledroid. You might hove metmy cousin R2-Detour I have afew comments about yourreviews and reviewers_ Print thisor I'll send my IntergalacticHotstand Yibble-YibbleParatroopers to anode, toanniliat, er, to destroy CastleRathbonel1) Your review of Swordslayerwas unfair. It deserved at leasteight. (The game, not the review,you gormless dorksl)2) Only trust Macca's (soundslike a game of football crossedwith a raincoat, dunnit? — Mac,soccer — oh forget it (We have.Ed)) reviews.3) Oh, trust Duncan's as well.4) Put colour into the budgetsection.T.T.T.F.N. (To ta then for now)Robot Dredd XXIXMaidstone, Kent

PS Can I say hello to... (Not Ed)PPS Mike Gerrard, to for thetape,PPPS Ye haven't heard the lost ofme! Slundig Vur Thriggl

1) You can't please all of thepeople all the time/2) Keep dirty raincoats out ofthis.3)1 wouldn't trust Duncan as foras I could throw him!4) Certainly not!And that's all I'm at liberty to sayEd

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WHY OH WHY?Many a day has passed when Ihave wondered why I actuallypurchased my Spectrum +3,Was it because I wonted to playgames and word-process or wasit because I wanted to messaround with silly retailers sayingthat the thing just doesn't work(which has been the case)? Ithought hard and came up withthe idea that you helpful lot overat YS might help.

So (I am now going to plead).Please please please would youprint a few lines on the goodpoints and the bad points of the+3?Oliver WedgewoodChertsey, Surrey

Good Points: You can loadgames quicklyBod Points: We haven't gotenough room here. Ed

CHILBLAINSA number of points have cometo my attention over the postfew months.1) In the September ish youasked why Clive Sinclair coiledthe C5 the CS. It is in fact acompetition. If you see five ofthem you win a brand new one.Not many people haveOCC0411 pi i shed this and evenfewer have claimed their prize.I'm still after my first sighting.2) How come I never hove anyof the games that have POKEsprinted for them?3) YS bodges are very similar tobuses in two different ways: (a)they are red, and (b) I waitedabout four months for one,about three months for anotherand then they both arrived at thesame time.4) If you hod big ears (asillustrated) you would look likeBugs Bunny.5) Your competitions ore tooeasy.6) When (eventually) you go upin price, will you put 'not a

pound anymore' on the cover?That should keep you thinkingfor a few years.Karl BunyanLangworth, LincolnPS Isn't my handwriting scruffy!

1) Look in your mum's sewing-box.2) Seeing as we've just run themost comprehensive list ofPOKEs for every single gamethat's ever been released, I canonly assume that you haven'tactually got any games.3) They're also a bit likehelicopters. (Work that out if youcan).4) So would you.5) And you're complaining?Maybe one day we'll run onethan just s000000 hard...6) By the time VS goes up inprice, all the other mugs willread 'still under a termer: Ed

OY YOU JIMMYJust a small note to ask whyeveryone who writes to the mogis so rude and discourteous indeclaring the games they wantyou to send them. Most peoplewrite a list and demand they getit. I would never give anything tcsomeone who didn't ask nicely.James EgertonStockton, ClevelandPS Mine's any decent RPG forthe +3.

KINDLY LEAVETHE STAGEEvery month we ask you tosend in your crappy jokes.Every month we regret it, butprint them anyway. Thismonths dire duo come from(respectively) Peter Bishopof Ely, Combs and ScottSutherland of Castlemilk,GlasgowCI: What do you call a blinddeer?A: No idea.

0: What do you call a blinddeer with no legs?A: Still no idea.

(and as if they weren't badenough ...)

0: What game do vegetablesplay at parties?A: Pass the Parsley.

Groan. Hardly deserving ofbadges, but that's what theywin. And so could you. Justsend in your truly awful gag toKindly Leave The Stage,YS, 14 Rathbone Place,London W1P I DE. Oh, andhere's a crap joke courtesy of

0: What's green and hangsaround in hospital corridors?A: Mucus Whelby M.D.

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agree with you — not enoughpeople these days know whatgood manners are Still, havingsaid that we only give games tothe Star Letter winner and to winthat you've got to be witty cleverand informative. Sorry but you'renot! Try again,' Ed

BEAR-LY CREDIBLEIt has recently been brought tomy tenshun that YS is the bestmag in the world and that all theothers ore totally rubbish (nah't Imean), especially, arm, that onewith the teddy bear. I think it'seven coined one of your'phrases' — you know the one —No. 1 for Spectrum gamesir

I mean, they could havechanged it a bit to perhaps 'thebest for Spectrum games', butfancy using the exact somewords, just fancy',

Now, about L. Geary's point —the one about the screen full oftrash. I don't know why, but thetrash is different according towhat the computer is told toprint. Try replacing line 10 with:10 PRINT

While fiddling with my +3one day I also noticed a ratherinteresting thingy: when you seethe SCROLL! message at anytime, try pressing TRUE VIDEOor INV VIDEO and you will seethat the screen scrolls twice andthe scroll message appears in thewrong place!! Cor, mega wow

Anyway, make sure you keepon putting those jolly spiffing50p games on the cover and themog will remain just as wickedos it is now!Neil KinghamSouth Woodford, London

Well, they do say that imitation isthe sincerest form of flattery andwe can't all hove original flashesof inspiration all the time. As toyour other points — what a loadof garbage! Ed

TPLER TEASERHa, I've finally worked out whatT'zer means — it means 'it's her'Here's how I worked it out...

IT'S HERIQ HERTIZ'ER

For being skillo, please sendme a 128K +2 because myrubbery buddies keep failing.Adrian HileySheffield, Yorks

Okay clever-clogs, try changingbanana into skewer in four goes.Oh, and the reason your keysare a bit scruffy is because of afaulty 'mat' under the keyboard(the transparent one with wiresin it). It simply needs replacing,and is very cheap to buy Thatmeans you don't need a +2 atall, so we won't send you one.Aren't you lucky? Ed

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COFFIN NUSTAKEI feel you have made a groveerror on your port and so I dulyclaim my award as aIrainspotter. On page 106 of theSeptember ish of your mug thestatement was issued that 'We'llbe bock to normal next month.' Iwould like to point out that onecannot return to normal if onehas never been normal in thefirst instance.

Still, how can one be normaland still produce such a top 'olemagazine?Jo LeaderRoyal Tunbridge Wells,Kent

Don't ask me? Would you mindremoving my strait iacket nowNurse Snout because I'm aboutto turn into on antelope? Youraward will be arriving disguisedas a postman (worra loft)! Ed

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You realise you've blown rf, don't you— this months ear prize was a onercy ticket to Bolivia. Ed

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%/room! Hiya, Peter Francis, betyou never thought I'd whip yourletter out of the sack, didja?Gotcha by surprise, methinks. Asa punishment for not payingattention, I'm sending you to theback of the class with a pointedhat on.. yes, I'm giving you myplace. Alright, so maybe it was ateeny jestoid, a small prank, atiny weeny joke.. _ in fact maybeI'm just going to print your letterabout Road Blasters ROADHAZARDS instead."• Stringers - line yourself upbehind them and blow themaway or if there are severalspray the whole road.• Command Cars - don'tbother to shoot them just zoompast.• Rat Jeeps - see STRINGERS• Cycle - spray the lane its inor line up carefully behind it.• Mines - just watch thatwarning light and keep youreyes open in the middle lane(unlike the arcade on the firstlevels).

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BleurghI I'm really glad you didn't do a more t a l i A l z t Agraphic map of Gu w h a t ? Well you a n d squirmy. Oh dear, excuse me I'm feelingknow what it is don't you, JP Dunham? It's a bit • WAARARRGGHHHHH! Oh that'sall the squishy Gutz of a big monster, all red b e t t e r .

• Spikers -- avoid them.• Toxic Spill --- just drivearound it.• Turrets - blast with the Ozcannon or try with normallaser.

WEAPONS• Cruise Missiles - line upbehind a lot of cars and pressthe fire button.• Nitro Injectors - use themjust before you're about to gointo the reserve tank so thatyou get to some more fuel.hopefully before the main tankruns Out.• U.Z. Cannon - use to blastturrets and cars on corners.• Electro Shields - only usewhen you're about to bemutilated or blasted."

That's real nice, matey Andnow a brief word in a similar veinfrom our Hurdle Hocorrespondent, Ola Andersson.

"I've got some megabrill tipsfor the megabrill game RoadBlasters. Ready? Okay, here wego. Take every fuel globe youfind, you'll need them (ratherobvious, innit?) If you havetrouble starting your car afteryou've crashed, just hold thefire button down and pushforward. Grab every extraweapon you see.• UZ C a n n o n -r a p i d t i r eDon't use it, it's worthless• Cruise Missile - you'll onlyget three missiles so usewisely. When you use iteverything on the screen willdisappear and you can driveover the mines.• Electro Shield y o u ' l l justget three shields so again usewisely. When you activate it,you are protected fromeverything for a short while.• Nitro Injector - same thingas the two above. It'll boostyour speed to 298 mph and youdon't have to worry about themines but watch Out for othervehicles. Now over to thevehicles:• Stringer - they're low andrather fast. Easy to kill and theydrop bonus fuel globes.They're worth 50 points.• Motorcycles ra t h e r easy tokill. Worth 100 points.• Rat Jeeps - also easy to kill.You'll get 50 points for these.• Command Cars - very, verynasty You can't kill 'em byshooting at them. The only wayto get the 100 points they'reworth is to crash into them, usecruise missile or drive overthem when you've got a shield.Avoid 'em.• Mines - It you don't have anyextra weapons, just slow downa bit to avoid 'em.• Gun Turrets - always standin pairs. Don't try and shootthem. Just drive in the middleof the road and they shouldmiss you. If you crash justbefore them and can't get tofull speed, blast them into littletiny pieces.

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• Spikers — are thrown ontothe road by Stingers_ They'realways dropped in the middleof the road so when you seeone head left or right.• Toxic Spill — it's a circle in themiddle of the road which willmake your car go 'swish,swish, swish'. You might smashinto some mines and other

vehicles and before you evenget time to say "AARGH" it'sKERSPLATTI• How much reserve fuel you'llget after each stage dependson how many points you have,the more points you have, themore reserve fuel, so keep onblasting!• You can't crash into the trees

on the side of the road, butwatch out for the rocks.• If you've got the CruiseMissile and you get to thecheckpoint, use it just whenthe speed starts going downand see what happens on thenext level B u t you gotta useIt very precisely. Too early ortoo late then nothing will

happen so you have to try acouple of times.• If you've got a 128K Spectrumchoose EXPERT. It's the easiest.Okay, just keep on blasting andif you don't have the game, buyMU!"

I most certainly will notBesides, I've already got oneand it's very nice.

I've had wads of mail that wouldgive a bison a very sore throat,asking me to print the finalsolutions to ATMS. And now it'sthe WISSCSI Yes, it's thecomplete solution from a goodlyselection of regular tipsters. likeRob and Rik Keay EvanDarroch. and finally DavidPunch with the biggest one ofthe lot Okay, firstly it's Rob andRik Keay. Get weaving,chocettes.

'Make sure you have thewater bottle, bag, food andrope from the beginning. Whenyou are crossing the bridgeand Clive falls through, use therope to save him. To get to themarsh is easy — just follow theleft edge of the cliff and you'llmake it. The correct path isnear the middle.

Once through the marsh goleft to the other planewreckage. keeping a watchfuleye out for Tyrannosaurus Rexwho has a tendency to gobbleyou up. By the wreckage you'llfind a torch, dynamite and abox. Go to the pigmy village,and go to the centre where,you'll see a stationary man (apigmy), He will welcome youand give you food, It you dropthe pouch (jewellery) thatGloria is carrying you'll get apiece of meat. Now go North.You will see a ramp going up(obvious eh!). Go up thiswatching out for the hand thatcomes out from the wall, Stopnear it — not too close — anddrop the piece of meat and heypresto! the hand is kept to itself

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Hmm! That seems to be theanswer, and other variations?How about you, Evan Darroch.4, Don't try to shoot down the

pterodactyl 'cos if you doyou're a brainless wally whowastes ammo,• Don't attack the pygmies inthe first village. If you treatthem right they can help you alot.• Use the river as a form oftransport but don't get carriedaway (groan!)• When you cross the swamp,keep moving and don't let theother characters crowd aroundyou or you'll be in deeptrouble."

Short and sweet, Evan, shortand sweet. Just like my mum,but let's not get carried awayhere. Let's not get all mushy andsquishy. Well, not about ourmums, anyway. Anythingsquishy, David Punch? Well aMEGA tip about WISS, anyway.Which come to think about it,amounts to the same thing,dunnit Dave?"I dunno about that, Phil. Butanyway, shutchaw mewl andhere's my wad.• When the game starts get thebag, the water canteen and therope, give yourself the rope asif you give it to Clive you won'tbe able to rescue him when hefalls through the rope bridge.Also don't give it to Gloria orDirk as if Clive crosses aheadof them they won't be able torescue him.• When you get off the bridgecarry straight on and you'llcome to a slope going upwards

like a huge slide. Go up it andfollow the path, you shouldsoon see a knife pick it up andgo back to the rope bridge.• Follow the edge of the cliffsto the left from the bridge,always keeping the edge inview and instead of cliffs youwill come to open space.• You are now by the swamp.Use the diagram given to getacross. But here are a few tipsfor crossing anyway:— don't stop or you will sink.— don't let the others crowd

you or you will all sink— have the sound effect

option on if the swampmonster is coming — it'llmake a sound like theJaws music.

• • Always take it in turns eatingand drinking as if you just eatand eat, your hunger/thirst barwon't get any bigger and you'lljust be wasting rations.• When across the other sidefill your water bottle up andmove on to the village.• It's a help if you have Dirkwith you for this as he tells youwhat the natives are saying.Whatever you do don't attackthem as they can be helpful.When the natives drop the foodthey want something in return,give them the gold cup Gloria iscarrying and they'll give yousome more food. Make sureyou give them something orthey will attack you.• Now go down to the otherplane (as seen in Your Sinclairtmap). You should find somedynamite, a spanner and a box.Take these as they may come inuseful. But watch out — thetyranosaurus patrols this area.• If you get across the otherside of the river you'll find theinhabitants are not friendly. infact they want you for dinner.Avoid them as there are many.Also watch out for wild boarand other dinosaurs that lurkaround these parts.• When you reach the swampfollow it from left to right till youcome to a set of paths likethose indicated by the arrowthen follow the blue line andyou're across."

Dave, Dave, Dave. Dave,Dave, Dave w h a t can I say?Well. I could say, 'Pardon me. myear is full of milk' but I won't. I'mnot the painted wooden halstandyou take me for. But what I willsay is thanx very much for theseamayzing hints, and I hope everytime you polish your 'I've Got BigTips' badge, you'll think of me.(sob)

To open doors, shoot thesquares with the arrows on. Toget past the crushing arm.extend your arm to its shoulderand you can cross. Tocomp4ete level, shoot the menat the end by crouching andshooting.

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rods onto you. Won fir the rock to phimma and hourice up, then make your move.

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with the moon highand pale in the sky, acool breeze fondlingour foreheads, a waft

of romantic music in the air andwhat better to accent theatmosphere than a super,spilling multilace POKEspecial! I can see you aredumbstruck and I can't say Iblame you. Over three-hundred and eight POKEs forone hundred and twenty sixgames both new, old andancient. Incidentally, trivia fansthat makes an average of3.031746032 POKEs pergame. Wow! Looking down thelist I can see that Cyberrsold, IBall II, Mickey Mouse and Eliteall take a thorough bashingfrom the hackers of thiscountry.

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SCROLLING CREDITSThese, I'm afraid to say, eithersent their POKEs in too late orsent in ones already published:S. Byrne , The Mi l tonHacker, Thomas Varner,R. P. Swann, and Mart inFa rre l l . Better luck next timeeh lads?Next month we should be bul-ging to the seams again. Whoknows what will be here? Idon't, But in the meantime,should you find you've dis-covered how to hack, thensend your offerings in to DavidMcCandless, Practical Pokes,VS. 14 Rathbone Place, Lon-don, W1P ME . And write andtell me if you'd like to see alearn-to-hack section includedin these pages too. Byeeeeeel

Benjamin and Jung Brownhave a few things to say Butnever mind that, boys, what areyour tips? Ah, here they areWhat? What a rude beginning toyour letter. You should go homeright away and wash your mouthout with Anne Diamond d e a rme.

"Here Is a cheat mode for therather unoriginal Combaf Zone.When the game starts pressthe keys 90 BREAK, ENTERand P simultaneously and youshould get the message:PAUSEDCHEAT MODE READYCHEAT MODE INSTALLED

To get it off of this and backinto the game press 8. Thenwhen you start you'll have onemain ship with infinitehyperbombs, 5753 digits offuel and 273 lives. PS. Alsonote the way when youcomplete it, it says 'that waseasy wasn't It pity youcheated: That's It!"

Well cheeeeeeerrs bug ears,and I hope that teaches you notto shave while you're in theshower. Funny things happen ingravity. y'know? Not a lot ofcheat modes have turned up inthe post lately. Okay, I know thepostmen were on strike a whileback. but that's no excuse.Where's the cheat modes?There used to be loads of them,and now only a squillionth of thehints I get are cheat modes.Don't programmers put them inanymore?

About time we had a tip for this,and wouldn't it just be ChrisDelahunty who does it? Okay,Captain, take her up . .Thwoppa thwoppa thwoppa.

GENERAL"Rockets are a waste of space.Carry Heilfires Instead. Whenyou fire, the recoil makes yournose tip up, keep it straight. Onactual missions, keep low toavoid the enemyAsia And Central America• Quite easy. The missilelaunchers and Infantry areeasily destroyed with chaingun. The main thing is to watchOut for hills and missiles. Don'tattack all the enemies, they'llswarm around.

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• • Go for a quick, clean strike.lads! As long as you stay lowand don't panic, you shouldcrush them like an ant

Take Hellfires. you'll need them

L J S vT h em• This is a boggie (00-er11).you go looking for the steam-roller, you'll get squidged, so,logically you should surprisethem by jumping in, handingover a few shots of ammothen waving goodbye. In otherwords, blow the Commies thenrun.This may be a tip also. if whenyou are on the medal screenand it comes up PRESS PLAY,press BREAK and you getsome more points, I think."You THINK? Shirley you know fora fact! Shirley you are fully awareof all the facts? Shirley not!Shirley shome mishtake! ShirleyTemple'

• I can't even spell this game'stitle, let alonafinish the blimmingame. How about you. NicholasWright? 'I can spellNonterraqueous, and I can playit too, ever since I teamedabout this amazing cheat forno Photon Thrusters, my littlehoney roast ham. All you do istype:INK 0: BORDER 0: PAPER 7:INVERSE 1: BRIGHT 1press ENTER twice, and thentype LOAD"" And there youhave IV 'No, there YOU have it.A f3ig Tips badge. that is. Andmany, many fanx to you for thetip. Let that be the lastNonterraqueous one for a while,'cos typing the name makes mehand hurl And besides, anymore mentions of the game andLawrence Sheedman will popback in the office to give mesome more tips! Oh no! (Onlykidding, Lawrence!)POssrlAt,

/So that's it. Send all your hints,tips, maps, POKEs, HobNobs,Jaffa Cakes, White ChocolateMousse, Salmon Spread...Oops! I mean, send all your stuffto, Phil Snout, VS Tipshop, YourSinclatr, 14 Rathbone Place,London W1P 'IDE. And don'tforget, all those printed get an'I've Got Big Tips' badge. There'sno more tips left. But I've gotsome nice ones lined up for thenext issue, I bet you can't wait?Well you're going to have to,unless you've got atranstemporal travel device, thatis. You have'? Oh well, I'll see youin a minute then.

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You take the controls of an F-14 fighteraircraft in this largely monochrome bash.The plane is viewed from behind, and thesky and ground scroll towards you in arealistic 3D fashion from the horizon.Unfortunately (or fortunately depending onyour point of view) this scenery isn't the onlything to scroll towards you_ No, by cracky —almost before you can say 'Ray — a drop of

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AFTERSURNER CABINET!EQUIPMENT:a pair at scissors (found-ended), a car seat, 12 heavy-dutysprings (you can rip these Out of yourbed or three-piece suite), two large'fridge-freezer sized* empty cardboardboxes, ten large cans of Heinz curried-beans, a large industrial plastic tunnel,a length of tubing (the garden hose willdo) and a crash helmet.

METHOD: weld the car seat to thesprings and then bolt the springs to thefloor-boards of your favourite room.Take the cardboard boxes, sellotapethem together to make one big box,place it carefully over the 'seat-unit'.Then staple it to the floor-boards, takeyour round-ended scissors and snipOut a 4 by 3 loot hole in one of thesides. This is the 'entrance', and isquite important — there's nothingmore annoying than having a cabinetwhich can't be got into. Attach thefunnel to the garden hose, and thensellotape or staple the whole lot insidethe box (or 'cabinet', as it has nowbecome), Try and make sure the end ofthe hose is roughly in the position of aseated person's mouth, because this iswhere the curried beans come in. Openthe cans (or get a grown-up to helpyou) and pour the beans into thefunnel. Set up your Speccy inside the

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r and Demons beyond thedimensions of our minds (verypoetic. I'm sure). Not bad for 0small slimy newt-like creature, isIt?

Anyway, the powers thathave decided that theSalamander must die. Noreasons given of course: ours isnot to reason why, ours but to doand die (and many times too, Ican tell you). To help turn themonsters. into radioactive goo.the aforementioned powershave doled out weedy ships,armed with one-shot-at--a-timecannons and given you the job offlying them though why they lustcouldn't use a couple of H-bombs is beyond me What allthis 'atmospheric pilot' stuffcomes down to is a straight-forward (by today's standardsany rate) horizontally scrollingshoot em up and a pretty damngood one at that.

The game is split into severalhmievels separatedjabiallnega-

nasties, which probably needseveral hits to eradicate (I don'tactually know: I've never metone yet). These levels are furtherseparated onto differentlandscapes, which, we're told inthe instructions, require differenttactics to negotiate. This doesn'tseem to be strictly true: justdodge and blast and you can getpast anything near enough.

The first level starts off WO afew formations of cannon-fodderbut soon progresses to a darktunnel full of growing arms. thencaverns full of wobbly thingswhich spit white blobs at you,and then a cavern full of hugegnashing teeth, and thenwell, I've never got past thoseteeth. I'm afraid: I keep gettingchomped. (Ouch!)

As usual these days, the alienvermin don't have it all their ownway. You can collect all sorts ofextra goodies. Wap 'ern on to yership with a bit of double-sidedsticky tape and you can kill thescum with missiles, lazer beams.speed-up thrusters, a couple ofdrone weapon pods and sometechno-gadget called an ExtraPretty good, eh? Well not quite:you see as you grab extraweapons, the aliens chuck morestuff at you! There's a realsadistic designer behind thisgame, I can tell you.

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amaze-ing how they'llmake the peace for a fewpounds.

Raohael: History timel Firstthere was Pong, then cameSpace Invaders and Defender.Gwyn : A n d then camePacmanRachae l: But games grewmore elaborate. There was Eliteand Lords Of Midnight andDroller and thenGwyn : A n d then camePacman again PRSCh11011: Yes. even thoughprogramming has reached thepinnacle of sophistication, thereare still thrills to be found in theold faves. Witness the greatBmakotit revival which hasarcaders busting their blocks in azillion different ways (RememberYS's very own Batty?) Paomanwas first of the maze gamescomplete with all the collectingand dodging you could hope forand not an alien in sight.Pacman was differentGwyn:Yes Pacman was boringI can remember typing in aversion of the game on my ZX81and regretting the time I'dwasted'Rachae l: Whal You don't likelittle round hereoslGwyn : No. I think they're a loadof bailsRechae l: And what aboutmazes You must like HamptonCourt',Gwyn : I don't know — I've nevergot my hampton caught'Rachied: Gakl I can see this isgoing to be a bundle of fun. Loadthe first game, Maestro, andaway we go

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PSYCHOPACMANRachael: Yes. Pac-Maniataking the country by storm asthe big P goes crazy.Grancislam's official licence ofthe arcade machine is a classtconversion, cornitete with bowpills which let youThunch onghosts, fruits to collq0lanti w.rA2aro w h p ' M - roa

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In Sandbox Land the & p r o b l e m . Ther e are thr eeO f t stuck up a dead end which is very nasty if a ghost shouldsuddenly appear . It may be w or th leaving the t i l l last, so you'l ltelieport to the nest level once you eat them, if you're tr apped.Folkiwers of fashion will notice that Pac looks an awful lot likeSmiley. Coul dn't be he's into Acid House too, could It?

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mp across the blocks to cut• I f , and the tunnel is a dual

geway affair. But thenly steps is the most

lar landscape, a steeplots of angry ghosts

will catch you unless you'revery lucky and reach a powerpill

Though the game runs on 48Kthere's a bonus for 128K owners —the tape automatically discovershow much memory you've gotand crams in a musicalsoundtrack if there's roomGwyn : It doesn't take machinecode to tap my memory. I canremember a million games moreInteresting than this one. Whatthe gormless tottie has failed totell you is none of the levels isawesomely large In fact they'repretty puny. Even theprogrammers seemed aware ofthis so once you've completedPac Park for the first time, youhave to do it all again before youmove on The same withsuccessive levels The wholething IS too easy and desperatelydullMich a le k Not fair You can goto any of the first three levelsautomatically, so you don't haveto play the less challengingones, and there's a nice 'credit'feature which sometimes givesyou 10 seconds to return to thelevel you just lost. If you want,Gwyn : Big deal — a freechance to prolong the tediumNW can send this onepackaging. as far as I'mconcerned'

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Pepsiland's landscapes aremuch more varied thanPacland's There are one waysystems which, when you gelinto them, drag you round untilyou've destroyed all their tiles,and trap doors to block offpassageways And somebodymust have spiked Pepsi's softdrink %Ith somethingpsychedelic because Pepsimankeeps changing into other forms.Cos as well as the ghost-eatingAngry Pepsiman there's thePepsipolomus, a Pepsidiggerand even a Pepsispaceship andPepsitank which add a shoot 'emup element when you tread onthe right squares

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• siman has lust popped thr oug ablocks tip Over if you appr oach

w hi ch can be useful if you've abecause if he's too close on

w i th you. The whi te dots show wher eLadybother passes over them, wher e

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would rot your teeth,TO P ORNOT TO P?Gwyn: What can I say? Neitherof these games is exactly amalor contribution to computerscience In fact they're such astep back I'd like to lose both ofthem in a maze Dull andrepetitive, but ill had to choose.I'd say Pac-Manie has it on

playability even 'though it maybore you to death with dela vuRachaeh Now that old miseryguts has gone I can honestly saythat ifs good to see Pac backOkay, so there are better games.but this is lust the sort of simpleentertainment that appeals to ussimple souls Hardened garnersprobably will work their waythrough Pac-Mania more quicklyso Mad Mix is probably theirmega mix However ii you're aPac purist you'd do well to go forthe Grancislam game.

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Most readers will of courseknow this already, as they'llhave bought the October ish,read the preview and playedthe playable demo thatappeared on the front cover.(So what are you doing readingthi review then? Go on, clearo B u t for the few who have

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But Someone has to stop him, and thelocal neighbourhood watch scheme havenominated you HAHAIHAI So off you trot tocollect seven special items, in a certainspecial order so you can complete thespecial magic spell which will get rid of theevil squire once and for all.

Thrilling stuff. yeah? Well, no. Tediously,terribly, totally, tackily boring. Give it a miss.

CAULDRONSilverbird/C1•99But soft, what jiffy-bag thorough yonderpostbox breaks? Why, 'us one that holdsCauldron, a game the like of which hasn'tbeen seen since the last time it was releasedand blimey, hasn't it aged?

Somehow, being a witch flying (or shouldthat be flickering?)•alOund, locking for theingredients of a spell whichil giVie you aturbo-charged Golden Bronmstick, just ain'tthe same kind of fun it was four years ago.And you don't even get a set ofcomplimentary furry dice in the deal — bah

Despite being a bit wrinkly however,Cauldron still doesn't play too badly andthere are far, far worse games to be seenwalking to the cash register with. If you

ARCADE CLASSICSHe a l l you crumbly Spectrum users!Forgotten what the first Speccy gamesplayed like? Then get a hold of thistabby package. 'Cos here's four goldenoldies for you to view.

Remember Space invaders, TheGalaxians, Combat Zone and EarthDetence?Well they're all here nostalgiafreaks.

haven't got a copy yet, Cauldron is wellworth looking into. Just watch out for the eyeof newt.

LIGHTNINGSIMULATORSilverbirdte1.99In this little number, you take control of theElectric Lightning aircraft and fly it through anumber of varying missions. And if that's not

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COITipared to games like Empire StrikesBack and Star glider the graphics in this justdon't stand up — even if it is a budget title.Technically it could be excellent (we've neverflown art Electric Lightning so we can't say).but as a game it's terribly boring. Fly over thisone.

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DRAGONUSZeppeliniC2-99This is the first Zeppelin game we've everseen and at first giance its pretty good! It'sgot loads of w e l l-a n i m a t e d g r a p h ic s

whizzing glitchlessly about on interestingbackgrounds and theri are even a fewsound FX to help the action along,

The gameplay is on a par with thepresentation too. Each new screen is a littlemore challenging than the toot which makesit real compulsive playing.

Dragonus would have been great exceptfor one hiccup in the gameplay'simplementation — there are two characters,

one of which can only be brought into playonce you've a particular object in yourpocket and the main character is standingon a special slab_ It doesn't work! Shamereally as it could have been quite good if youcould complete it!

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At the start of the game you're run over bya speeding C5 driven by an insane lookingPink Panther. You float up to meet God whoasks you to get his Golden Eggcup if youwant to be re-incarnated. And so you beginyour quest.

Text input is simple enough and the gameitself is quite humourously written. If you likeadventures we think it's probably areasonably good buy!

SKATEBOARDCONSTRUCTIONSYSTEMPlayersiC1.99Phew! After an hour of messing abouttwiddling knobs we finally managed to getthis one up and running on our trusty oldSpeccy! And unfortunately it wasn't worth RISCS's lousy gameolay has been heavilydisguised by pretty grhphics and a beefy

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effective. Unfortunately, since any gamesyou construct use the main game to run on.even your own designs will be just asunresponsive. Norralorrafun'

PULSE WARRIORMastertronic /C1 .99Graphics wise this game is pretty good buton the playabioity stakes its adog! It took usages to work out exactly whtli we had to do— the instructions are a little unclear to saythe least But we did finally manage todiscover that the idea was to pick up pulsesof energy in order to destroy all aliens in thespace station. Control is a bit haphazard andit's a real pain to re-define tho keys aftereach game. As far as strategic shoot 'em upsgo this is certainly not one of Mastertronic'sbest — you'd be better off buying Thrust!

HOPPER COPPERSilverbirdie1.99'Ello, w o t ' s goin on 'ere then? Nota very good name game I'm afraid_ 'ThoughHopper Copper should've been fun.

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If you want to be the owner of five new pieces of software then putyour answers down on the back of a playing card and send them off toThe Queen Of Hearts Has Baked Some Tarts And Is Tossing ThemOut Of The Tower To The Jack' Como° Your Sinciag PO Box 320,London. N21 2NB. All entries received after the last day in Decemberwill be made to play croquet with d o l l , flamingo.I'm no jam doughnut, here is how the Jack got to theQueen uninjured

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OFFICE BOYS IM1111111111111bMike, Pete and the Ed work in three adjacent offices. The Ed works inthe middle one. The only three TV programmes that they can intellec-tually identify with are Rainbow, Postman Pat and Play School. notnecessarily in that order A few facts are already known,.

1The Postman Pat addict, whose middle name is not Thucydides norBoudicca, and who once ate ten Mars bars in five minutes, runs, atleast twice a day into Pete's office and pinches his (Oo-er) sweeties.

2The Playschool buff, who has just come back from a weekend'ssightseeing in Dzhibkhalantu. via the South Polar Ice Cap, lucks andbeats frustrated fists on Mike's wall whenever a wild guess at the cor-rect time on the Playschool clock turns out to be wrong.

The sixty-four pence question is, which programme does Mike findstretches his intellectual capacity to the limits?

Tie breaking question: What do the Greek historian Thucyididesand the revolting Boudicca have in common') Thanks to the extremely witty arid bright Susan A lco ck of SkettyPark in Swansea for that excellently written puzzle'

HELLO, SWEETIE 11111111111•11LadillMike Ch rist ie of Cionakilty in Co_ Cork definitely put his thinkingcap on for this trickster _

There are 14 lumps of sugar and three cups of coffee. Sweeten allthree cups using all the lumps of sugar. while putt ing an odd numberof lumps into each cup.

A FAMILY PROBLEM M E IWe're off to Aberdeen next 10 find Out what little teaser G e o r g ePa te rso n has dreamed up C h e e r s Georgie!

A boy has as many sisters as he has brothers, but each of his sis-ters has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many boysand girls in the whole family?I

MULTI PUZZLERHere's a huge mult i-puzzler for all you bears of very big brains topuzzle over. It comes from T h o m a s %fanner in County Antrim. TaThomas!Question 1: Which circle is the biggest?Question 2: Which cross is the biggest?Question 3: Which is the Peacock's egg?Question 4: This is a green bungalow (honest!) Everything is green.The carpets, the cooker, the TV. the computer In fact the owners aremembers of the Green Party. So what colour are the stairs?

STUCK?When you've had enough mental gymnastics. turn to page 124and you'll find the answers. Then send in your own puzzles_ toPete's Puzzles, VS, 14 Rathbone Place. London W1P 1 DE. There'sfive games up for grabs if yours is the prize puzzle, and a gleamingnew game for any others. See you next month puzzlers.

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90 LET T=T+IF-32867rA: NEXT F 170 DATA 49,252255,14,112100 IF TA THEN STOP 180 DATA 58.148,91,111,38110 LOAD CO DE : RUN USR 32830 190 DATA 98229,33,252,94120 DATA 50,21,255,122,254 200 DATA 17,192,99,217,1130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50 210 DATA 224384217,118,201140 DATA 84.205,33,21,255 220 DATA 42,149,91,1,76150 DATA 34,85205,62,195 230 DATA 0,22,64,93,122160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32 240 DATA 213,213,237,176,225170 DATA 128,34,59,0,195 250 DATA 14,25,9,119,14180 DATA 0,0,50,107,92 260 DATA 4,9,119,14,8190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0 270 DATA 9,119,14,20,9200 DATA 0,1,0,0237 280 DATA 119,62,201,18,42210 DATA 176,195,61,0,128 290 DATA 149,91,14,35237220 DATA 223,181,209,177,144 300 DATA 66209,116,14,3230 DATA 141,139,151,206,198 310 DATA 9,115,14,32,9240 DATA 199.200,237,123,112 320 DATA 38,64,17,116,91250 DATA 12842,205,50,84 330 DATA 213.233,83,178,136260 DATA 205,33,0,128,34 340 DATA 164,132,99,96,94270 DATA 85,205,33,109,1281 350 DATA 106,33,159,91,78280 DATA 126,50,22,128,50 360 DATA 6,0,33,160,91290 DATA 28,128,5031328 370 DATA 237,91,155,91,213300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48 380 DATA 237,176,42,151,91310 DATA 128,35,126,50,42 390 DATA 54,0,42,153,91320 DATA 128,35,126,50,19 400 DATA 209,115,35,114,42330 DATA 128,195,0,205 410 DATA 157,912330

10 CLEAR 6500020 LET T=030 FOR N=64223 TO 64316: READ A40 POKE NA: LET T=T+A: NEXT N50 IF T<>12120 THEN PRINT "DATAERROR IN MAIN BLOCK"60 FOR N=N TO 1E9: READ A: IF A<256THEN POKE N,A: LET T=T+A: NEXT N70 IF T<,,,A T H EN P RI NT DATA ERROR

IN GAME BLOCK": S FOPSO RANDOMIZE USR 6422590 DATA 24,46,33,89,5,93,22,250,1,134,0,213100 DATA 237,176235,35,35,34,95,250,46,122110 DATA 112,46,215,116,46207,94,188,33,38120 DATA 210,14,126,250,225,49,61,251,221,225130 DATA 209,191,55,8,249233,49,65,251,221140 DATA 225209,59,225,193,205,29251,24,43150 DATA 221,110,0,124,170,171,221,172,221160 DATA 173,173,221,119,0,124,203,99,40,3170 DATA 129,131,146,128,103,221,35,27,122180 DATA 179,32,225,201190 REM GAME DATA FOLLOWS

Firebird HackerA handy general purpose Firebird hacker,called the Bleepload, for you to bolt onwhatever you like. Type it in now and saveit for later use in this directory.

10 LET T=020 FOR F=32768 TO 3287630 READ A: POKE F,A40 LET T=T+(F-32758)*A: NEXT F50 IF T-679460 THEN STOP60 FOR F=32877 TO 1E9: READ A70 IF A>256 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE F,A

APPENDICES

APPENDIX IMULTIPOKE HACKERS

Original Speedlock HackerAnother Multipoke, this time for theoriginal Speedlock. Play whatever tapefrom the start.

10 CLEAR 65533: LET t=020 FOR f=23296 TO 2344330 READ a: POKE 1,a40 LET t=t+(I-23286)*a: NEXT50 IF t<>1240275 THEN STOP60 FOR f=1 TO le9: READ a70 IF a›255 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE f,a90 LET t=t+tf-23434ra: NEXT100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 RANDOMIZE USR 23296120 DATA 221,33,203,92,17130 DATA 234,6,62,255,55140 DATA 205,86,5,48,241150 DATA 62,224,50,8,95160 DATA 62235,50,11,95

Speedlock H HackerThis is a general purpose hacker for all thenew versions of Speedlock. We've used it acouple of times in some of the hacks in thisdirectory, so why not type it in now to savetime later!

10 CLEAR 3e4: LET t=020 FOR 1=232% TO 2340330 READ a: POKE lA40 LET t=t+If-23286ra: NEXT50 IF t<>572714 THEN STOP60 LET t=0: FOR f=f TO le970 READ a80 IF a›255 THEN GO T011090 POKE f,a100 LET t=t+If-23394ra: NEXT110 IF t<>a THEN STOP120 LOAD '-C O D E : R UN U SR 2 32 96

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APPENDIX I M U L T I P O K E HACKERS

150 DATA 91,6,6,197,6160 DATA 0,221,78,0,221170 DATA 35,17,72,88,229180 DATA 197,237,176,33,75190 DATA 88,126,254,54,12200 DATA 2,54,0,235,54210 DATA 201,30,150,205,72220 DATA 88,193,225,9,193230 DATA 16,217,42,112,91240 DATA 237,91,114,91,1250 DATA 0,4,237,176,42260 DATA 116,91,237,91,118280 DATA 91,1,0,4,237290 DATA 176,42,120,91,54300 DATA 0,4,122,91,54310 DATA 126,15,54,91,42-320 DATA 124,91,233,1,96330 DATA 54,82,50,17,14340 DATA 12,24,16,24,50350 DATA 14,25,22

Speedlock III HackerAnother routine for lots of games with lotsof data lines. This is for the Speedlock withmulticoloured borders when it beeps. Playthe tape from the start.

10 CLEAR 45e3: LET t=4320 FOR f=3e4 TO 3013930 READ a: POKE f,a40 LET t=t+ (I-29990)'a: NEXT50 IF t<>1077568 THEN STOP60 FOR 14 TO 1e9: READ a701F a›255 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE f,a90 LET t=t+II-30130ra: NEXT100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 WA D ""CODE: RUN USR 3e4120 DATA 42,188,117,221,33130 DATA 182,117,6,6,197140 DATA 221,78,0,221,35150 DATA 6,0,197,229,17160 a .TA 20,116,237,176,33170 DATA 49,116,126,254,249180 DATA 32,2,54,0,33190 DATA 36,116,126,254,249200 DATA 32,2,54,0,235210 DATA 54,201,205,20,116220 DATA 225,193,9,193,16230 DATA 209,42,188,117,1240 DATA 112,11,9,1,100250 DATA 0,62,243,237,177260 DATA 43,1,0,4,237270 DATA 66,17,169,250,1280 DATA 0,6,237,176,33290 DATA 150,117,34,195254300 DATA 195,169254,1,96310 DATA 54,82,50,17,14320 DATA 12,24,205,28,254330 DATA 33,38,255,1,100340 DATA 0,62,217,237,177350 DATA 54,72,54,72,43360 DATA 54,0,33,190,117370 DATA 17,217,254,1,40380 DATA 0,237,176,201,17390 DATA 36,57,14,25,23

Speedlock 4

p mT he l at es t ve rs ion of the Speedlock group,

again hacked to help you get on with the

Pokes.

10 CLEAR: LET t=020 FOR f=23296 TO 2348730 READ a: POKE 1,a40 LET t=t+(f-23286)"a: NEXT50 IF t<>2260540 THEN STOP60 FOR 1=1TO 1e9: READ a70 IF a›255 THEN GO TO 10080 POKEI,a90 LET t=t+(f-23478ra; NEXT100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 PRINT 'Type CONTINUE"120 STOP: RUN USR 23296130 DATA 221,42,192,91237140 DATA 91,194,91,62,255150 DATA 55,205,86,5,48160 DATA 240,243,33,201,91170 DATA 17,106)39,1,3180 DATA 0,237,176,237,75190 DATA 197,91,14,0,237200 DATA 67,109,76,237,75210 DATA 198,91,253,42,196220 DATA 91,14,0,237,67230 DATA 111,76253,78,0240 DATA 6,0,42,106,89250 DATA 34,113,89,9,94260 DATA 54,84,35,86,54270 DATA 91,237,83,106,89280 DATA 42,113,89,58,108290 DATA 89,237,79,233,237300 DATA 95214,3,254,250310 DATA 56,2,214,128,50320 DATA 108,89,253,35,237330 DATA 75,111,76,16,199340 DATA 237,75,109,76,16350 DATA 179,58,200,91,71360 DATA 33,24,16,34,105370 DATA 91,24,175,33,145380 DATA 91,34,230,254,175390 DATA 50,183,251,195,126400 DATA 251,1,96,54,82410 DATA 50,17,14,12,24420 DATA 205,64,254,33,181430 DATA 91,34,65,234,17440 DATA 170,91,33,70,254450 DATA 1,11,0,34,232460 DATA 253235,237,176,201470 DATA 229,33,0,72,34480 DATA 108,255,225,195,42490 DATA 254,42,204,91,54500 DATA 206,35,54,91,195510 DATA 0,72

PowerLoad HackerAnother routine with lots of data lines forlots of games. Whatever game you play,play the tape from the start.

10 CLEAR 3e4: LET 1=020 FOR f=23296 TO 2343830 READ a: POKE f,a40 LET t=t+(I-23286)4a: N E X T50 FOR f=f 10 le9: READ a60 IF a>25e THEN GO TO 9070 POKE f,a80 LET t=t441-23429ra NEXT90 IF t<>a THEN STOP100 RANDOMIZE USR 23296110 DATA 237,123,143,91221120 DATA 42,145,91,17,144130 DATA 1,62,7,55,205

140 DATA 86,5,48,241,42150 DATA 145,91,1,0,2160 DATA 126,237,103,35,11170 DATA 120,177,32,247,42180 DATA 145,91,58,145,91190 DATA 14,18,129,35,119200 DATA 35,116,1,13,0210 DATA 9,54,32,35,54220 DATA 247,35,54,201,33230 DATA 67,91,229,42,145240 DATA 91233,42,145,91250 DATA 1,35,0,9,17260 DATA 208,92,1,50,0270 DATA 237,17633,105,91280 DATA 17,1,93,1,100290 DATA 0,237,176,195,208300 DATA 92,1,96,54,82310 DATA 50,17,14,12.24320 DATA 42,41,93,1,119330 DATA 1,9,54,195,33340 DATA 22,93,229,42,41350 DATA 93,1,78,1,9360 DATA 233,42,43,93;54370 DATA 201,33,45,93,229380 DATA 42,41,93,1,129390 DATA 1,9,233

SoftLock MultipokeA Multipoke for the Rrebird turboload (theone they used before Bleepload). Play thetape from the start.

10 CLEAR 29999: LET t=020 FOR 1=3e4 TO 3015530 READ a: POKE 1,a40 LET t=t+(f-29990)*a: NEXT50 IF t<>1392299 THEN STOP60 FOR f=f l e 9 : READ a70 IF a>255 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE I,a90 LET t=t4-(I-30146)a: NEXT100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 RANDOMIZE USR 3e4120 DATA 58,206,117,50,179130 DATA 117,50,191,117,221140 DATA 33203,92,237,91150 DATA 204,117,22,1,62160 DATA 255,55,205,86,5170 DATA 48,238,42,205,117ISO DATA 38,93,34,75,92190 DATA 1,33,0,9,17200 DATA 0,70,1,28,0210 DATA 237,176,235,54,32220 DATA 35,54,237,35,54230 DATA 201,33,78,202,237240 DATA 75,75,92,205,0250 DATA 70,42,75,92,1260 DATA 125,0,9,54,201270 DATA 14,55,237,66,17280 DATA 132,117,213,233,33290 DATA 171,117,213,17,175300 DATA 255,1,100,0,213310 DATA 237,176,209,33,320 DATA 255,54,205,35,115330 DATA 35,114,209,49,0340 DATA 0,195,0,255,1350 DATA 96,54,82,50,17360 DATA 14,12,24,245,221370 DATA 124,254,255,40,10380 DATA 58,0,91,254,33390 DATA 40,5,221,117,0

APPENDIX I

400 DATA 241,201,17,0,91410 DATA 33,211,255,1,30420 DATA 0,237,176,195,0,91

MULTILOADOn Multiload, add these pokes to location64652 when using the GREEN/BLACKoption:

0 = All masked black1 = All black/blue

Andy Capp• h_i i

Infinite Alcometer and kisses, play the tapefrom the start

10 CLEAR 3276720 LOAD —C O D E 6 5 0 88

30 FOR 1=65414 TO 6542540 READ a; POKE f,a: NEXT f50 POKE 650925160 RANDOMIZE USR 6508870 DATA 175,50,92,248,6280 DATA 201,50,2,254,19590 DATA 70,100

Arkanoid 2• A

For Infinite Bats on Arkanoid 2, care of theSpeedlock 4 loader, type this program in_

10 CLEAR: LET t=020 FOR 1=23296 TO 2348730 READ a: POKE La40 LET t=t+(f-23286)a: NEXT f50 IF t<>2260540 THEN STOP60 FOR f=f TO 1e9: READ a70 IF al>255 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE La90 LET t=t-i-(1-23478)'a; NEXT f100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 PRINT 'Type CONTINUE'120 STOP: RUN USR 23296130 DATA 221,42,192,91,237140 DATA 91,194,91,62,255150 DATA 55,205,86,5,48160 DATA 240,243,33,201,91170 DATA 17,106,89,1,3180 DATA 0,237,176,237,75190 DATA 197,91,14,0,217200 DATA 67,109,76,237,75210 DATA 198,91,253,42,196

2 = All black/red3 = All blue/red4 = All black/green5 = Black/cyan then blue/green6 = Green/red then yellow/black7 = Red /cyan then blue/yellow

Other numbers give the same results, or donot allow loading at all, so it is best to juststick with these.

APPENDIX IISTOP PRESS GAMES

220 DATA 91,14,0,237,67230 DATA 111,76,253,78,0240 DATA 6,0,42,106,89250 DATA 34,113,89,9,94260 DATA 54,84,35,8654270 DATA 91237,83,106,89280 DATA 42,113,89,58,108290 DATA 89,237,79233,237100 DATA 95,214,3254250310 DATA 56,2,214,128,50320 DATA 108,89,253,35,237330 DATA 75,111,76,16,199MO DATA 237,75,109,76,16350 DATA 179,58,200,91,71360 DATA 33,24,16,34,105370 DATA 91,24,175,33,145380 DATA 91,34,230,254,175390 DATA 50,183,251,195,126400 DATA 251,1,96,54,82410 DATA 50,17,14,12,24420 DATA 205,64,254,33,181430 DATA 91,34,65,254,17440 DATA 170,91,33,70,254450 DATA 1,11,0,34,232460 DATA 253,235,237,176,201470 DATA 229,33,0,72,34480 DATA 108,255,225,195,42490 DATA 254,42,204,91,54500 DATA 206,35,54,91,195510 DATA 0,72520 DATA 109,241,124,13,213,91,6,11,9205,241,42,20,91,175,50,107,146,195,1,129,31,15,20,29,29,15,43,43,31,43,31,2316460

Blow Out• a

A re-release of the awesomely fast DesignDesign classic Invasion Of The BodySnatchas, but under a different name. Line60 gives infinite lives and line 70 givesinfinite smart bombs (but that makes thegame pretty pointless). Play the tape fromthe start.

MULTIPOKE HACKERS

SPECMATE (TAPEHYPERLOADS)You can poke these numbers into 23844(tone stripes) and/or 23901 (code stripes)for different colours. Other numbers givethe same results, so it is best to just stickwith these;

0 = Black/red1 = Blue/purple3 Yellow/green5 = White/cyan

10 LET T=020 FOR F=5E4 TO 5003330 READ A: POKE F,A40 LET T=T+(F-49990)•A: NEXT F50 IF T<>93076 THEN STOP60 POKE 50027,15270 POKE 50030,15780 RANDOMIZE USR 5E490 DATA 221,33,203,92,17100 DATA 128,1,62,255,55110 DATA 205,86,5,48,241120 DATA 33,104,195,34,100130 DATA 93,195216,92,175140 DATA 50,21,0,50,211150 DATA 0,195,0,165

BrainstormAfi l a

You always complete a screen regardless ofyour score using this Bleeploading hack.

10 LET T=020 FOR F=32768 TO 3287630 READ A: POKE F,A40 LET T=T-4-(F-32758)•A: NEXT F50 IF T-679460 ME N STOP60 FOR F=32877 TO 1E9: READ A70 IF As256 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE F,A90 LET T=T+(F-32867)*A: NEXT F100 IF T-A THEN STOP110 LOAD '"' CODE: RUN USR 32830120 DATA 50,21,255,122,254130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50140 DATA 84,205,33,21,255150 DATA 34,85,205,62,195160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32170 DATA 128,34,59,0,195180 DATA 0,050,107,92190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0200 DATA 0,1,0,0,237210 DATA 176,195,61,0,128 6

APPENDIX II

220 DATA 223,181,209,177,144230 DATA 141,139,151,206,198240 DATA 199200,237,123,112250 DATA 128,62,205,50,84260 DATA 205,33,0,128,34270 DATA 85,205,33,109,1281280 DATA 126,50,22,12850290 DATA 28,128,50,31,128300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48310 DATA 128,35,126,50,42320 DATA 128,35,126,50,39330 DATA 128,195,0,205340 DATA 91,8,169,1,121,175,0,77,144,195,0,128,697912

Chain ReactionA El I d

Delete lines 40-60 if you don't want theoption. Each gives an infinite amount ofwhatever is in the REM statement.

10 CLEAR 2499920 LOAD —S C R E EN S30 LOAD ""CODE: LOAD —C O D E40 POKE 42117,0: REM jet50 POKE 43646,0; REM rad60 POKE 43339,0: REM time70 RANDOMIZE USR 32768

Cmsswize• M

Immortality with the Bleepload again!When will it ever end?

10 LET T=020 FOR F=32768 TO 3287630 READ A: POKE EA40 LET T=T-1-(F-32758)•A: NEXT F50 IF T-679460 THEN STOP60 FOR F=32877 TO 1E9: READ A70 IF A>156 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE EA90 LET T=T-1-(F-32867)*A: NEXT F100 IF T-A THEN STOP110 LOAD "" CODE: RUN USR 32830120 DATA 50,21,255,122,254130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50140 DATA 84,205,33,21,255150 DATA 34,85,205,62,195160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32170 DATA 128,34,59,0,195180 DATA 0,0,50,107,92190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0200 DATA 0,1,0,0,237210 DATA 176,195,61,0,128220 DATA 20,181,209,177,144230 DATA 141,139,151,206,198240 DATA 199,200,237,123,112250 DATA 128,62,205,50)34260 DATA 205,33,0,128,34270 DATA 85,205,33,109,1281280 DATA 126,50,22,128,50290 DATA 28,128,50,31,128300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48310 DATA 128,35,126,50,42

0 13 20 DATA 128 ,35 ,12650 ,39

330 DATA 128,195,0,205

MO DATA 252,9,175,57,195,62,175,50,56,132,195,0,91,701648

Cybemoid• A m

In this routine, line 90 gives infinite bombs,shields, mines, bounce and seekers, line 100gives infinite lives and line 110gives immortality, Play the tape from thestart.

10 CLEAR 25999: LOAD —C O D E20 FOR 1=23392 TO 1e9: READ a30 IF a›255 THEN GO TO 5040 POKE fA: NEXT50 POKE 64531,24960 RANDOMIZE USR 6451270 POKE 65149,9180 RANDOMIZE USR 6508290 DATA 175,50,72,134100 DATA 175,50„235,153110 DATA 62,195,50,165,153120 DATA 195,96,109,999

Dan Dare• a a l

This routine is for the Mastertronic re-release, not the Virgin original (which had aturboloader) so don't try to use it on that.Again, you can delete certain lines if youdon't want that particular feature. Line 40gives infinite energy, line 50 gives infiniteammo, line 60 gives infinite time, line 70lets you fall any height without dying andline 80 stops you being put in prison whena Treen in Sector 3 gets you. Play the tapefrom the start.

10 CLEAR 2559920 LOAD —S C R E EN S30 LOAD "CODE40 POKE 47732,20150 POKE 43544,060 POKE 46913,070 POKE 42870,2480 POKE 42111,090 RANDOMIZE USR 39E3

Denizen1141 m

Delete any lines from 60-90 if you don'twant an infinite amount of whatever is ineach REM statement. Play the tape from thestart.

10 CLEAR 24499: MERGE20 POKE 23854,20130 RANDOMIZE USR 2383140 POKE 46329,20150 RANDOMIZE USR 4609160 POKE 58269,0: REM energy.70 POKE 60822,0: POKE 60823,0: POKE60824,0: POKE 61107,0: POKE 61108,0:

EarthlightI I a d

STOP PRESS GAMES

POKE 61109,0: REM door passes80 POKE 58594,0: POKE 56506205: REMtorch90 POKE 61226,0: REM bullets100 RANDOMIZE USR 62600

For various options (as shown in the REMstatements), type in this Bleeploader basedroutine.

10 LET T=020 FOR F=32768 TO 3287630 READ A: POKE EA40 LET T=Ts(F-32758rA: NEXT F50 IF T-679460 THEN STOP60 FOR F=32877 TO 1E9: READ A70 IF A>256 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE EA90 LET T=T+(F-32867)A: NEXT F100 IF T-A THEN STOP102 POKE 32885,195 :REM for infinite lives104 POKE 32888,200 :REM for infinite fuel106 POKE 32891,201 :REM for infiniteammo110 LOAD '"' CODE: RUN USR 32830120 DATA 50,21,255,122,254130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50140 DATA 84,205,33,21,255150 DATA 34,85,205,62,195160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32170 DATA 128,34,59,0,195180 DATA 0,0,50,107,92190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0200 DATA 0,1,0,0,237210 DATA 176,195,61,0,128220 DATA 223,181,209,177,144230 DATA 141,139,151,206,198240 DATA 199,200,237,123,112250 DATA 128,62205,50,84260 DATA 205,33,0,128,34270 DATA 85,205,33,109,1281280 DATA 126,50,22,128,50290 DATA 28,128,50,31,128300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48310 DATA 128,35,126,50,42320 DATA 128,35,126,50,39330 DATA 128,195,0,205340 DATA 93,15,172,157,95,17550,106,0,50,84,0,50,162,0,195,0,96,706140

Falcon The Renegade Lordm

Dig out the Speedlock II hacker if you wantinfinite time, stamina, and power of will,in this game!

10 CLEAR 3e4: LET t=020 FOR 1=23296 TO 2340330 READ a: POKE f,a40 LET t=t4-(1-232.86)*a: NEXT50 IF t<>572714 THEN STOP60 LET t=0: FOR 1=1 TO 1e970 RE4D a80 IF a›255 THEN GO TO 11090 POKE Ca

APPENDIX II S T O P PRESS GAMES

100 LET t=t-i4I-233941*a: NEXT110 IF t<>a THEN STOP120 LOAD ''"CODE: RUN USR 23296130 DATA 42,110,91,237,123140 DATA 108,91,221,33,102150 DATA 91,6,6,197,6160 DATA 0221,78,0,221170 DATA 35,17,72,88,229180 DATA 197,237,176,33,75190 DATA 88,126,254,54,32200 DATA .2,54,0,235,54210 DATA 201,30,150,205,72220 DATA 88,193,225,9,193230 DATA 16,217,42,112,91240 DATA 237,91,114,91,1250 DATA 0,4,237,176,42260 DATA 116,91,237,91,118280 DATA 91.1,0,4,237290 DATA 176,42,120,91,54300 DATA 0,4,122,91,54310 DATA 126,35,54,91,42320 DATA 124,91,233,1,96330 DATA 54,82,50,17,14340 DATA 12,24,16,24,50350 DATA 14,25,22360 DATA 255,127,198,228,192,237,102,251,192241,102,255,109,255,60,255,138,91 ;175,50,197,176,103,111,34,13,176,195,0,91,175,50,254,254,195,245254,164297

FireflyMI6

This Speedlock 4 hack gives you infinitelives and stops the teleports going round(so you can't fail).

10 CLEAR: LET t=020 FOR I=23296 TO 2348730 READ a; POKE La40 LET t=t+(f-23286)a: NEXT50 IF t<>2260540 THEN STOP60 FOR f=f TO 1e9: READ a70 IF a›255 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE La90 LET t=t+(1-23478)•a: NEXT

100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 PRINT "Type CONTINUE"120 STOP: RUN USR 23296130 DATA 221,42,192,91,237140 DATA 91,194,91,62,255150 DATA 55205,86,5,48160 DATA 240,243,33,201,91170 DATA 17,106,89,1,3180 DATA 0,237,176,237,75190 DATA 197,91,14,0,237200 DATA 67,109,76237,75210 DATA 198,91253,42,196220 DATA 91,14,0,237,67230 DATA 111,76,253,78,0240 DATA 6,0,42,106,89250 DATA 34,113,89,9,94260 DATA 54,84,35„86,54270 DATA 91,237,83,106,89280 DATA 42,113,89,58,108290 DATA 89,237,79,233,237300 DATA 95,214,3,254,250310 DATA 56,2,214,128,50320 DATA 108,89,253,35,237330 DATA 75,111,76,16,199340 DATA 237,75,109,76,16

350 DATA 179,58,200,91,71360 DATA 33,24,16,34,105370 DATA 91,24,175,33,145380 DATA 91,34,230,254,175390 DATA 50,183,251,195,126400 DATA 251,I,96,54,82410 DATA 50,17,14,12,24420 DATA 205,64,254,33,181430 DATA 91,34,65,254,17440 DATA 170,91,33,70,254450 DATA 1,11,0,34232460 DATA 253,235,237,176,201470 DATA 229,33,0,72,54480 DATA 108,255,225,195,42490 DATA 254,42,204,91,54500 DATA 206,35,54,91,195510 DATA 0,72520 DATA 240,240,249,13,218,91,7,11,2,80,241,26,38,91,175,50,144,177,62,201,50,150,170,195,0,235,15,20,43,31,31,29,43,15,31,43,29,2344728

Gunrunner•

Infinite lives and/or choice of start level,play the tape from the start

10 BORDER 0: POKE 23693,020 CLEAR 25317: POKE 23658,830 INPUT 'INF LIVES YIN ";IS40 IF IS="Y" THEN LET I=050 IF IS="N" THEN LET 1=660 INPUT "LEVEL 1-10 '';1.70 IF L>10 THEN GO 106080 LET T=090 FOR F=51200 To 51252100 READ A: POKE FA110 LET T=T-1-(F-51190)0A: N E X T F

120 IF T<>240641 THEN STOP130 LOAD '''CODE140 RANDOMIZE USR 51228150 POKE 64530,201160 RANDOMIZE USR 64511170 POKE 65097,0: POKE 65141,64[80 POKE 65098,200190 POKE 51241,1: POKE 51246,1200 RANDOMIZE USR 65082210 DATA 205,118,254,33,40220 DATA 200,17,198,128,1230 DATA 13,0,237,176,201240 DATA 128,223,181,209,177250 DATA 144,141,139,151206260 DATA 198,199,200,33,0270 DATA 252,17,255,251,1280 DATA 19,0237,176201290 DATA 62,61,50,19,192300 DATA 62,1,50,28,188310 DATA 195,198,187

I, Ball I I• A e a

Here's a hack using the Bleeploati to giveyou the features listed,

10 LET T=020 FOR F=32768 TO 32876

30 READ A: POKE F,A40 LET T=T4-(F-32758)*A: NEXT F50 IF 1-679460 THEN STOP60 FOR F=32877 TO 1E9: READ A70 IF A>256 THEN GO R) 10080 POKE F,A90 LET T=T-4-(F-32867)*A: NEXT F100 IF T-A THEN STOP101 POKE 32885,177 for infinite lives102 POKE 32888,148 for infinite time103 POKE 32891,170: POKE 32894,170 forimmortality110 LOAD "" CODE: RUN USR 32830120 DATA 50,21,255,122,254130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50140 DATA 84,205,13,21,255150 DATA 34,85,205,62,195160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32170 DATA 128,34,59,0,195180 DATA 0,0,50,107,92190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0200 DATA 0,1,0,0237210 DATA 176,195,61,0,128220 DATA 223,181,209,177,144230 DATA 141,139,151206,198240 DATA 199,200237,123,112250 DATA 128,62,205,50,84260 DATA 205,33,0,128,34270 DATA 85,205,33,109,1281280 DATA 126,50,22,128,50290 DATA 28,128,50,31,128300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48310 DATA 128,35,126,50,42320 DATA 128,35,126,50,39330 DATA 128,195,0,205340 DATA 91,20,205,231,96,175,50,80,0,50,121,0,50,92,0,50,99,0,195,86,169,715616

Mag Max• gt ad

Dust off your copies of the Speedlock 11hacker and you can have infinite lives withthis routine.

10 CLEAR 3e4: LET t=020 FOR 1=23296 TO 2340330 READ a: POKE La40 LET t=t4-(1-23286)*a: NEXT50 IF t<>572714 THEN STOP60 LET t=0: FOR I=I TO le970 READ a80 IF a)•255 THEN GO TO 11090 POKE f,a100 LET t=t+11-23394ra: NEXT f110 IF t<>a THEN STOP120 LOAD —C O D E : R U N U SR 2 32 96

130 DATA 42,110,91,237,123140 DATA 108,91,221,33,102150 DATA 91,6,6,197,6160 DATA 0,221,78,0,221170 DATA 35,17,72,88,229180 DATA 197,237,176,33,75190 DATA 88,126254,54,32200 DATA 2,54,0,235,54210 DATA 201,30,150,205,72220 DATA 88,193,225,9,193230 DATA 16,217,42,112,91240 DATA 237,91,114,91,1250 DATA 0,4,237,176,42 El

APPENDIX II S T O P PRESS GAMES

260 DATA 116,91,237,91,118280 DATA 91,1,0,4,237290 DATA 176,42,120,91,54300 DATA 0,4,122,91,54310 DATA 126,35,54,91,42320 DATA 124,91,233,1,96330 DATA 54,82,50,17,14340 DATA 12,24,16,24,50350 DATA 14,25,12360 DATA 255,191,23229,192,237,76,132,192,241,76,136,73,136,34,136,233,135,175,50,103228,49,167,97,195,0,192,89485

Ninja Scooter

It's Bleepload time again, so drag it out forinfinite lives on yer Scooter.

10 LET T=020 FOR F=32768 TO 3287630 READ A: POKE F,A40 LET T = T -,-( F - 3 2 7 5 8) * A : N E XT

50 IF T-679460 THEN STOP60 FOR F=32877 TO 1E9: READ A70 IF A>256 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE F,A90 LET T=T-1-(F-32867)•A: NEXT F100 IF T-A THEN STOP110 LOAD "" CODE: RUN USR 32830120 DATA 50,21255,122,254130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50140 DATA 84,205,33,21255150 DATA 34,85,205,62,195160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32170 DATA 128,3459,0,195180 DATA 0,0,50,107,92190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0200 DATA 0,1,0,0,237210 DATA 176,195,61,0,128220 DATA 223,181,209,177.144230 DATA 141,139,151,206,198240 DATA 199,200,237,123,112250 DATA 128,62,205,50,84260 DATA 205,33,0,128,34270 DATA 85,205,33,109,1281280 DATA 126,50,22,128,50290 DATA 28,128,50,31,128300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48310 DATA 128,35,126,50,42320 DATA 128,35,126,50,39330 DATA 128,195,0,205340 DATA 91,13,174,41,156,175,50,72,176,62,201,50,40,179,195,0,168,713428

Plot, The• ital

Guess what? It's Bleepload time again.This hack provides infinite energy orinfinite lives. Change line 105 according towhat you prefer,

10 LET T=020 FOR F=32768 TO 3287630 READ A: POKE FA40 LET T=T+(F-32758)*A: NEXT F50 IF T-679460 THEN STOP60 FOR F=32877 TO 1E9: READ A

701F A>256 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE FA90 LET T=T+(F-32867)*A: NEXT F100 IF T-A THEN STOP105 POKE 32885,174 for infinite energy or105 POKE 32838,183 for infinite lives110 LOAD "" CODE: RUN USR 32830120 DATA 50,21,255,122,254130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50140 DATA 84,205,33,21,255150 DATA 34,85,205,62,195160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32170 DATA 128,34,59,0,195180 DATA 0,0,50,107,92190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0200 DATA 0,1,0,0,237210 DATA 176,195,61,0,128220 DATA 223,181,209,177,144230 DATA 141,139,151206,198240 DATA 199,200,237,123,112250 DATA 128,62,205,50,84260 DATA 205,33,0,128,34270 DATA 85,205,33,109,1281280 DATA 126,50,22,128,50290 DATA 28,128,50,31,128300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48310 DATA 128,35,126,50,42320 DATA 128,35,126,50,39330 DATA 118,195,0,205340 DATA 91,11,222,57,195,175,50,114,0,50,252,0.195,0,255

Stainless Steel

Another routine with lots of lines to delete.Line 30 gives infinite shields, line 40 givesinfinite lives and line 50 gives infinite fuelPlay the tape from the start.

10 CLEAR 24899: LOAD —C O D E20 LET S=0: LET L0; LET F130 LET S=18740 LET L=18350 LET F=19060 FOR N=64068 TO 6408370 READ A: POKE NA: NEXT N80 POKE 60664,25e RUN USR 6E490 DATA 175,50,100,5,50100 DATA 1343,50,17,F110 DATA 50,143,L,195,68,97

Target Renegadem

Up to the minute with Speedlock 4 forinfinite lives now. Go for it...

10 CLEAR: LET 1=020 FOR f=2.3296 TO 2348730 READ a; POKE La40 LET t=t+(1-23286)*a: NEXT50 IF t<>2260540 THEN STOP60 FOR 1=1 TO 1e9: READ a70 IF a>255 THEN a ) TO 10080 POKE La90 LET t=t+(f-23478)*a: NEXT100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 PRINT 'Type CONTINUE"120 STOP: RUN USR 23296130 DATA 221,42,192,91237

TeladonA& m

Delete lines 80-100 if you don't want theoption. Each gives an infinite amount ofwhatever is in the REM statement.

10 FOR 1=23394 TO 1e9: READ a20 IF a›255 THEN Go To 4030 POKE La: NEXT40 LOAD —C O D E 2 4 0 23 ; B O RD E R 0

50 CLEAR 37499: POKE 24097,9160 RANDOMIZE USR 2402370 DATA 205,98,5,245,17580 DATA 50,245,254: REM laser90 DATA 50,105,140: REM oxygen100 DATA 50,129,140: REM lives110 DATA 241,201,999

Terra mex• A m

For infinite lives, play the tape from thestart

10 FOR 1=23296 TO 2332920 READ a: POKE La: NEXT30 RANDOMIZE USR 23296

140 DATA 91,194,91,62,255150 DATA 55,205,86,5,48160 DATA 240,243,33201,91170 DATA 17,106)39,1,3180 DATA 0,737,176,237,75190 DATA 197,91,14,0237200 DATA 67,109,76,237,75210 DATA 198,91.253,42,196220 DATA 91,14,0.237,67230 DATA 111,76,253,78,0240 DATA 6,0,42,106,89250 DATA 34,113,89,9,94260 DATA 54,84,35,86,54270 DATA 91,237,83,106,89280 DATA 42,113,89,58,108290 DATA 89,237,79,233,237300 DATA 95,214,3,254,250310 DATA 56,2,214,128,50320 DATA 108,89253,35,237330 DATA 75,111,76,16,199340 DATA 237,75,109,76,16350 DATA 179,58200,91,71360 DATA 33,24,16,34,105370 DATA 91,24,175,33,145380 DATA 91,34,230254,175390 DATA 50,183,251,195,126400 DATA 251,1,96,54,82410 DATA 50,17,14,12,24420 DATA 205,6425433,181430 DATA 91,34,63,254,17440 DATA 170,91,33,70,254450 DATA 1,11,0,34,232460 DATA 253,235,237,176,201470 DATA 229,33,0,72,34480 DATA 108,255,225,195,42490 DATA 254,42,204,91,54500 DATA 206,35,54,91,195510 DATA 0,72520 DATA 233240,0,14,221,91,6,13,1,73,241,35,188,97,33,35,34,34,157,246,33,53,249,34,159,246,195,128,158,31,15,43,31,31,29,43,15,31,29,43,20,29,2359836

APPENDIX II

40 DATA 221,33203,91,1750 DATA 46,1,62,255,5560 DATA 205,86,5,48,24170 DATA 33,27,91,34,12980 DATA 93,1,8,93,19590 DATA 8,93,175,50,252100 DATA 169,195,0,143

Time Flies14 mBack to the Bleepload once more forimmortality in Time Flies.

10 LET TO20 FOR F=32768 TO 3287630 READ A: POKE EA40 LET TT+(F-32758)*A: NEXT F50 IF 1-679460 THEN STOP60 FOR F=32877 TO 1E9: READ A70 IF A>2.56 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE EA90 LET T=T+IF-37867rA: NEXT F100 IF T-A THEN STOP110 LOAD CODE : RUN USR 32830120 DATA 50,21255,122,254130 DATA 46,192,62,50,50140 DATA 84,205,33,21,255150 DATA 34,85,205,62,195160 DATA 50,58,0,33,32170 DATA 128,34,59,0,195180 DATA 0,0,50,107,92190 DATA 33,114,128,17,0200 DATA 0,1,0,0,237210 DATA 176,195,61,0,128220 DATA 223,181,209,177,144230 DATA 141,139,151,206,198240 DATA 199,200,237,123,112250 DATA 128,62,205,50,84260 DATA 205,33,0,128,34

Welcome to the 'everyone makes mistakes'section of Smash Tips. We've had a lot ofenquiries about this partwork ever sincethe first issue, but here's hoping that thissection will sort out the frustrated hackersamongst you.

ALL GAMES THAT USE THE ORIGINALSPEEDLOCK HACKER

Yup, the Speedlock Hacker was one of thefirst to be bitten by the bugs. So, the cure isto use this listing instead.

10 CLEAR 65533: LET20 FOR f=23296 TO 23443

270 DATA 85,205,33,109,1281280 DATA 126,50,22,128,50290 DATA 28,128,50,31,128300 DATA 50,40,128,50,48310 DATA 128,35,126,50,42320 DATA 128,35,126,50,39330 DATA 128,195,0,205340 DATA 91,8,16357,195,175,50,41,137,195,

91,156,701274

Tour de Forcem

For infinite heat and/or energy, play thetape from the start.

10 CLEAR: LET t=020 FOR 1=23296 TO 2334130 READ a: POKE f,a40 LET tt-i-(1-23286)*a: NEXT f50 IF t<>143986 THEN STOP60 POKE 23301,179: REM heat70 POKE 23310,164: REM lives80 RANDOMIZE USR 2331990 DATA 33,18,91,17,65100 DATA 0,1,5,0,237110 DATA 176,175,50,78,0120 DATA 195,0,125,175,50130 DATA 98,165,0,221,33140 DATA 61,92,17,160,0150 DATA 62,255,55.205,86160 DATA 5,48,241,62,91170 DATA 50,148,92,195,75,92

Trap Door• a n

This protection system was quite clever. Itused certain registers set by the commandsin the Basic program- quite a neat touch.

APPENDIX IIIERRATUM

30 READ a: POKE f,a40 LET tt--t+II-232136ra: NEXT50 IF t<>1240275 THEN STOP60 FOR f=f TO 1 e9: READ a70 IF a›255 THEN GO TO 10080 POKE f,a90 LET t=t+(f-23434)a: NEXT f100 IF t<>a THEN STOP110 RANDOMIZE USR 23296120 DATA 221,33,203,92,17130 DATA 234,6,62,255,55140 DATA 205,86,5,48,241150 DATA 62,224,50,8,95160 DATA 62,235,50,11,95170 DATA 49,252,255,14,112180 DATA 58,148,91,111,38190 DATA 98,229,33,252,94

STOP PRESS GAMES

Anyway, here's a routine for infinite time.Play the tape from the start.

10 LET T=020 FOR F=23296 TO 2345430 READ A: POKE EA40 LET T=T+IF-23286rA: NEXT F50 IF T<>1681107 THEN STOP60 RANDOMIZE USR 2329670 DATA 221,33,203,92,1780 DATA 1302,62,255,5590 DATA 205,86,5,48,241100 DATA 221,33,77,95,33110 DATA 171,93,17,0,80120 DATA 1,18,0,237,176130 DATA 235,54,16,35,54140 DATA 236,35,54,201,33150 DATA 189,93,17,118,200160 DATA 1,118,27,205,0170 DATA 80,49,151,99,229180 DATA 33,217,93,54,195190 DATA 35,54,70,35,54200 DATA 91,225,195,194,93210 DATA 17,0,75,229,197220 DATA 33,221,93,1,13230 DATA 0,237,176,235,54240 DATA 16,35,54,241,35250 DATA 54,201,193,225,17260 DATA 154,99,205,0,75270 DATA 175,50,242,93,205280 DATA 236,93,62,195,50290 DATA 157,254,33,128,91300 DATA 34,158,254,195232310 DATA 254,53,95,49,16320 DATA 13,11,23,62,195330 DATA 50,202,254,33,148340 DATA 91,34,203,254,33350 DATA 205,83,17,107,50360 DATA 195,164,254,49,151370 DATA 99,62,201,50,84380 DATA 172,195,205,254

200 DATA 17,192,99,217,1210 DATA 224,184,217,118,201220 DATA 42,149,91,1,76230 DATA 0,22,64,93,122240 DATA 213213,237,176,225250 DATA 14,25,9,119,14260 DATA 4,9,119,14,8270 DATA 9,119,14,20,9280 DATA 119,62,201,18,42290 DATA 149,91,14,35,237300 DATA 66,209,116,14,3310 DATA 9,115,14,32,9320 DATA 38,64,17,116,91330 DATA 213,233,83,178,136340 DATA 164,132,99,96,94350 DATA 106,33,159,91,78360 DATA 6,0,33,160,91

APPENDIX I I I

380 DATA 237176,42,151,91390 DATA 54,0,42,153,91400 DATA 209,115,35,114,42410 DATA 157,91,233

DeviantsOoops! Change line 50 to the following andyou II be fine!

50 POKE 39165,91: RUN USR 38e3

Down To EarthYou'll probably have already spotted this

square bracket (I) at the end of line 270

Dynamite Dan 11Change line 30 so that it reads;

30 READ A: IF it>255 THEN BORDER 0:RANDOMIZE 12674-USR 23400

Alright now, matey?

Elite 128KMany of you had problems getting this onein., So here's the simple soution•••

First delete lines 270 & 280, then,

2Load your game up in 48K mode

Simple as that!

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You don't need a +3 to play John Wil-son's games, just a sense of humour anda lot of determination, as Gavin Welchfrom London N19 is discovering. Inadd° and Slam, how do you cross theriver with the ladder? T'NOD OUY Howdo you get through the cobwebs? LEN-NUT OG YAS/M ALS OT KLAT What doyou do after turning the pages on thecalendar and finding the one of T'zerwearing nothing but a smile? What elsebut EGAP EVOMER_ What to do withthe elf in the Olde Shoppe? EXA NA YUBDNA MAT

Simon Bamfield writes from Stroudin beautiful Gloucestershire, but didn'tenclose an sae so he has had to wait till

now to know the answers tohis problem in Play II Again,Sam Simon says (so it mustbe true) that he's managed toget into Silvia's apartment andsafely out again, but can't getany further. Well in Silvia'sapartment you would havefound a bag, and if youexamine everything in thebag you'll find another addressto go to. Simon also has acomplete solution to R4gersRevenge if anyone requires acopy. Send your sae's to himat 4 Church View BreadStreet, Ruscombe, Stroud,Glos, G16 6JT.

Now for some help on TheBard's Tale, from PeterBartlett of Sutton Coldfield,who must know what he'stalking about as he's managedto get beyond Level 20.I'm not going to write all thisbackwards, so skip forwardsto the next paragraph if youdon't want to read it. Or justclose your eyes for the nextbit. Peter advises againstchanging any of your A teamtill you are at least at Level 5,then get rid of Rogue and Bard

to create a Magic User and either a War-rior or Paladin. Always have three MagicUsers, he says, as what is the use of aFighter who can do nothing else? Makethe new Magic User become an Arch-mage, and the most useful spells to haveare Mind Blade and Mysh Orymca, whichcan make the difference between life anddeath. Finally, when attacking Gollumsdon't bother having any illusions as theyalways see through them, and always killwizards! I'm sure Peter would like to hearfrom any fellow Barrfists out there, socontact him at 57 Hemlingford Road,Walmley, Sutton Coldfield. West Mid-lands B76 (.11).

Chun How Tang of Birmingham iscaught up in SMASHED. and offerssome tips. To get a key for the lockeddoor. REPPOHC NI TAC EKAT. I won't

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say what happens, but there's a key inthere somewhere! To find Clingon:SINIRPTOOF WOLLOF DNA HTRAEHCRAES. But then Chun How wants toknow how to get Clingon back to thecamp. CITEHTSEANA FO EGNIRYSHTIW BAl. How do you get the pearls?TUGTAC HTIW DAERHT DNA SLLIPEHT LLIRD. How do you get some oil forthe jeep? INOD

Dennis Francombe of Durmington iss tuck in that golden oldie. The Final

Mission fmm The Ket Tritoity No goodtrying to win the compo. Dennis. as TomFrost walked off with the video long ago!Never mind, there's still the challenge ofthe adventure and what Dennis needs toknow is what will get him past the Guard-ians of Gate One and Two, how to getpast the King of the Warts and what useis the handle? For Guardian One, 9-6-2-0YAS. Guardian Two: GNIRREH DER.King of Warts: GNIVRAC EHT MIHWOHS. The handle: ENORHT NITR ESNI.

Chris Pieri's back again, and stuckagain, this Lime in Gnome Ranger andaddo And Slam In the first, you can'tbreak down the witch's door, NROCINUEHT NOMMUS. To do that you SEEPPEHT YALE 'lb get out of the desert inadd° And Slam you need a compass ofsome kind. To get one Gmwrs DNAENOTSEDOL ESU. To deal with the dra-gon DROWS A TI EVIG. To make a torchSGIWT DNA GNIRTS ESU To light itNOGARD EHT KSA.

The Adventuring Major is back.He's having multifarious Multiface diffi-culties with some of the titles though,such as Minds hadow. Fairkght 11 and allthe Ultimate games. If anyone has hadthe same problems and discovered howto get round them and get those gamesonto disk to speed up the loading, writeto Major W. BeardweU Reed, 6 ManorPark, Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton TA26SG.

As you know, I do my best to helppeople out, and it's particularly pleasingto help out Geoff Wallis and his familyfrom Crouch End in north London as.according to Geoff's letter, 'Enclosed area whole batch of questions which havebeen puzzling us for several generationsnow' Several generations! I know theSpectrum's been around for a while, butthat long?? In Play It Again Sam in theCasablanca the right answer for Rudy isAIVLIS ROE GNIKOOL. In MindshadowDEMI LLIX OT KO S•TI. To shoot theroundhead in St Brides you needNUGTOHS A. And in Shrewsbury Key theadventure with the best parser in theknown universe, to board the bus you PUBMIILC. To make the raft you TAOBEKAM Isn't it obvious? I mean, if you hadto make a boat you'd type TEAR EKAM,wouldn't you? So I hope that keeps Geoffquiet for another few generations...

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C U L L \Aemeb----mommon—cdo---NomeVenture forth with Mike Gerrard

• Destiny's the name of anew label from Mediagenic,

whose address is strangelyenough still Activision House,23 Pond Street, London NW32PN. On this new label is to bereleased a 'new' adventure,King programmed by StBrides and based on an epicpoem by Marc Pierson. Idescribe it as 'new' becausethe poem's been around for afew years now, and the releaseof an adventure based on itwas first announced byanother software company,now defunct, quite some timeago. It'll be interesting to seewhether St Brides have man-aged to make it a state-of-the-art adventure.

The story is set in a worldthat's ruled by the grotesquefigure of King, and this charac-ter's so grotesque that noteven his mother loves him. Infact when he was born themidwife slapped his face 'cosshe thought it was his bottom.He is gross, he is revolting, heis diabolical, and what's morehe's got absolute power overeveryone. I bet you can guessthe next bi t Right, only oneperson is brave enough to defyhim, and that is you, Dogs-breath — sorry, Dogboy. Yes,you alone must struggle tolead your people to freedom.Now there's a novelty!

410 I'm still eagerly awaiting thearrival of a review copy of /rig-

rid% Back!, the follow-up toGnome Ranger. copies of whichwill of course be whizzing theirway to the winners of the comp°we held when the first game cameout. Pete Austin says that the pro-gramming's finished and the prin-ters are busily printing, or will bewhen they come back from holi-day, so everything looks good.Well, except Ingrid, of course, shehasn't changed_ What haschanged, though, for Speccy Plus3 owners at least, is that there'llbe graphics on the disk version!Wha-hay and hoop-di-doo!! Onlyblack and white ones mind, butthen even owners of Big Macs onlyget black and white graphics. Thecost of the three-pa rter will beE19.95 on disk and E14.95 for thetext-only tape version for otherSpectrums.

• Most of the news thismonth concerns fanzines,

which has to be healthy as itshows people are getting upand doing things for them-selves. The best example I'veseen is Pandemonium, a fantasyand RPG fanzine that has beenvery professionally producedby editor Matthew Di-Monti,who can be proud of hisefforts. Matthew sent me acopy of issue 14, which showsthat it's been around quite awhile. At 60 pages it's goodvalue, and now he's hoping toIncrease the coverage of com-puter adventure games intro-ducing a regular adventure col-umn. Would-be c o l u mn i s t s c an

apply to Matthew at 42 KingsLane, Little Harrowden, Well-ingborough, Northants NN9SBL, and would-be readers cansend 70p for the latest issue.

The first issue of the ZATfanzine has also plonked on mydesk, and this one's a bit smal-ler at 24 pages but has a veryinteresting 3-page interviewwith Fergus McNeill in i t Lotsof the first issue is given overto adventure games, and whileit's no Adventure Probe yet, it'llbe interesting to see how itdevelops. Details available bysending sae to Dave Ledbury•PO Box 488, Tweedale, Tel-ford, Shropshire TF7 AMA

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but not gie full solutions) on Lord Of TheRigs, Shadows Of Mprolor, Gidm Bahm, liabbaand King Arthur's (1wst Send those saes to 5Manor twenue, Fulwood, Preston, Lams PR2

4DN. ,Also from the best county in the %Judd is JonathanBora 14 Rnicott% Asdey Village, Ovary; Larks PR71XE. Jonathan can help on Rigel, Stal Work, ,Vems Amw,Naomi* Slam Smashed, inspector Puha( Pia v i 1 Ack tl inSant and /imagination He also wants to know where he canget hold of a 128K wrsion of Storaibringer Any elks?

A budding millionant, that's obviously Alan Forsyth of18 Newmarket Road, Cringleford. Norwich. Norfolk NR4fiLtE. Alan's got solutions to several games, but asks for a,rill patment to CIII1T the cost of photocopying_ At 10p atime you Can have Football bray or laspertor Raked, while20p per part gets )oti 144.fmint kraimstria or 71v MgSeam I eat' in three separate parts) or the first part only ofJack Da ROA'',

Chris Delahunty won't be charging but will answerquestions on Rigel's Remo, Play IMAM, Sam tkinarS Laoand Shari Of Imam Chns's abode is 44 St John's WaltThetford, Norfolk IP24 3NW. Note that if a Kind Sould in to answer )tur questions, dowl write and ask for afull solution tu the ganr, it's a waste of your time and theirs— just tell them where you're stak, that's all

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THE BEASTatiin Games continues to ringthe changes with its releases,and this time it's a massive 128ktext-only tape-based game, givingyou a mystery to solve in a real-

time framework with lots of characterinteraction too. And it's every bit as goodas previous games from author LindaWright, like The jade Stone and Cloud 99.

The Beast is a fictionalised version ofthe story of The Beast Of Exmoor. thewild cat that is said to be loose onExmoor but which hasn't yet been caughtor identified for certain. At least I thinkthat's the case — local readers can cor-rect me if I'm wrong. In The Beast you'rea reporter on a local paper, and onemiming your mail's brightened up by aletter from a Miss Myrtle in Myrtle Cot-tage, Puddlecombe, which tells you aboutsightings of a large black animal on Tor-rack Moor outside the village, where asheep has been killed. The vet says it'snot the work of a fox or a dog..

Just the thing for a good front pagestorY, and your editor. C. D. Slime,thinks so too. Go about it the right wayand he may even dig deep into his poc-kets for some expenses. Well, deep for aneditor, as he hands you a fiver — justabout enough for the bus fare to Puddle-combe. Inspect your office thoroughlyfirst, though, and keep an eye on theclock at the top of the screen. The com-mand TAKE ALL FROM DRAWERworked, and provided me with atimetable which showed that the only busto Puddlecombe left at 9.48 — and it wasalready 9.33. Yikes!

Graphics in the game are limited tosome of the objects that you EXAMINE( X for short), such as the letter, the

timetable, a jumble sale notice and a fewother things. Reasonably done, but!think Linda Wright would admit that she'sno Picasso. She's a dab-hand with HAW.however, as you discover when you get tothe village. The time element is very wellhandled. The church hell rings on thehour and half-hour, which serves as auseful reminder to you because certainplaces are only open at certain times, Ifyou're outside the pub at II o'clock you'llhear the clock strike, see the landlordopen the doors and watch the first cus-tomer of the day walk in, but bear inmind that The Puddle Arms hasn't yettaken advantage of the new all-day open-ing hours!

Down the mad the mobile library hasarrived but only for a couple of hours, sohere's one problem you have to solvebefore it goes away again. Most otherplaces kindly display their opening hours,but even when the vet's open you can'tget past his receptionist unless you've gota sick animal — and can you find a sickanimal when you want one?!

There's plenty of chatting with othercharacters (and plenty of them to chatwith), and this works more effectively

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than in some adventures. At least youusually get some kind of response, andyou soon learn the subjects you can talkabout. This provides you with severalclues along the way, but I'd make veryfrequent use of the SAVE command (notjust RA MSAVE) as you'll often find thatthe place you want to visit has just shutfor the day!

The Beast is a very 'user-friendly'adventure too, which you can afford to beif you've got 128K to play with. If you findsomething useful you'll frequently pick itup automatically doors will open if you'vegot the right key, and there are handycontainers of various sizes: your wallet,your pocket and a rucksack. I'd advisefinding the rucksack ASAP, as one time Ibumped into the vicar who asked me todo him a favour and handed me a key, butmy hands were full, the vicar disap-peared, and so did the key! I did manageto track him down again later, though.

There's definitely a lot of pleasure to behad out of this game. Beginners shouldfind themselves slowly piecing togetherthe clues, and working out the rightorder for solving the problems, while oldhands will admire many of the features aswell as the depth of the game. In otherwords a thoroughly good adventure withsomething for everyone — that's thebeauty of The Beast!IrMphict . .= E 7m0 0 1 30

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john Alderman says he's caught the adwnturc

oug a bit Liter than most, and he blames it onhis son who's a computer buff. Very catching.that bug, especially within families! John's nowstuck at the i•try start of Knightman, and can't

get out of the first location. Send prim cures to 2 HofheimDr1W, Tiverton, Deton EX16 5C/11

'Dear backward-writing fools," begins the letter fromJames Metheson, who ends by saying "PS Why do youkeep writing backwards?" I only put the answers to prob.Ions backwards as not everyone wants to read them incase they're playing that adventure and trying hard tofigure out the answers for theinselves, It takes all the funaway if yce just read the answer, arid it's anntaing if it hap-pens accidentally Satisfied now, James? \Veil lets have lessof your cheek or well do the whole magazme backwardsone of these days Just to anncw you. Ooops. wady forgotwhyjames is a Lost Soul in the first place. 11ow de you getthe sword-sharpener to sharpen your sword in Philos•rittlier's Stone? Answers, written backwards of course, to 60Castle Rd. Newport, Isle Of Wight P030 10P,On Toot o t Chine ht. how do you get over the lara pit andwhat's the command for placing the board on the tables? Andany help at all on C nthel C ?az) part tun These requestsfrom Jonathan Borer 14 Fozcote, Astley Village, Cliedey,Lancs PR7 DI.

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from Ulf Borjesson up there In Scandinavia, soI Only hope it isn't rude. Ulf asks about Souls 01Dalton How to take the crystal from the mbotwithout self-destrudim (ANSWER), what to do

at the blacksmith's (ANSWER) and is there anything lodeat the altar except press the carving t ANSWER)?

Edwin Smit is otherwise brain as a Very Lost butSlightly Kind Adventurer International The address.before I forget, is Droenenpark 12, 2411 HC Hodegraven,Holland, and you'll need that if you're a kind-hearted soulyourself. Edwin says the only adventures he's got arerather old ones, as it's not easy to buy them in Holland —well we all know how difficult it is men in the UK. soimagine what it's like if you bw abroad! Anyone withadventures to sell, swop or give away should contactEdwin. who also asked me how to get the film into thecamera in Terronnoithos • which he thought he couldril dobecause of not knowing the right English worth. Could be.the answer is. ML1F TRESNI, In Kulik! . the lift that muget to go up but not go down: maybe a just won't go (kin!Thanks for the solution to Noel Minim, Edwin, and forsaying 1 an pass it on to anyone who wants a. If there wasmom I'd print some tips from it,

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HACK INTO GACStephen Gallagher of Solita,Hazelhatch, Celbridge, Cu Kildare, Eirewrites 'I've written a short Basic programto convert GAC adventures into datafiles, which is useful for inspectingcommercial adventures written usingGAG It certainly works on Matt Lucas.By the way, make sure you include the 18x's in the REM statement in line 1: "

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REM v000ccooccoccoccocFOR a-23760 TO le9: READ b: IFb< 256 THEN POKE a, b: NEXT aPRINT "REWIND TAPE TOSTART OF HEADERLESSBLOCK"RANDOMIZE USR 23760INPUT "NAME FOR DATAFILE..."; aSSAVE aSCODE 42271, 23194DATA 55, 62, 255, 221, 229, 221, 33.1 9.2 ,9 3,1 7, 79.159.205.86. 5, 221,

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The anonymous (and who can blamehim?) reader known as the AbertilleryAnagram is into utilities in a big way andwrites to share his discoveries with theworld at large.

'The temptation of fame in the mag isso great that I'm enclosing some bits ofadvice for you to print.

Random Messages (GAG)If you have your random messagesstarting at message N and there are Xmessages, then to print a randommessage use IF (condition) MESS(RAND (X)+N) END. This can be usedin any condition type.

Saving Penalties (GAG)A small extension to an adventure wouldbe to introduce a penalty each time yousave (as in the original mainframeversion of Colossal Cave Adventure, whichdidn't allow you to get to the end-game ifyou had used the SAVE command.Mike.1IF (VERB 141) SAVE DECR (0) OKAYEND

Character sets (GAC)The best method is to load in your owncharacter sets before the main adventure.First save your character set as code to aseparate tape. Save your data from GACas a rtinnable adventure to another tape,then create a loader for your program.

10 PR IN T "PLEASEWAIT.. .LOADING"

20 CLEAR 6459930 LOAD "" CODE 64600, 768 (your

character set)40 'RANDOMIZE 6460050 POKE 23606, 8860 POKE 23607, 25170 L OAD "Your adventure"Then SAVE loader" LINE 10.So on your final tape you would first savethe loadet followed by the character setand finally the main adventure. To inserta loading screen just add:35 LOAD "" SCREENSand save your screen after your characterset.

Money! (MW)If you want a currency in your game thenchoose a flag to hold the number of coinscarried and insert two messages, (I'm

carrying' and 'coins' so that if flag 100held the number of coins and themessages were 1 and 2 a contact couldread:MESSAGE 1 PRINT 100MESSAGE 2 DONE

Containers (TAW)First put your container's name in nounswith a value of 50 or more so that it willbe recognised as P u t in the objecttext the name of your container and notedown its number. Under Object Weightsremember to put it as a container. UnderWords put it's noun and adjective, if it hasone. Insert the location with the samenumber as the object and leave it blank.So forOBJECT 7 — LOCATION 7Put the following into response:1 PUT — 0PREP IN NOUN 2 (container)PRESENT (container number)AUTOP (location of inside container)DONE

Finally, if you do use the tips say Helloto Fricker and Gladis for me — please!Consider it done, Oh Anagram, and ifanyone has any queries on the routineswrite to 1 Morley Road, Abertillery,Gwent NP3 1TP.

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CONWAY'S CORNERAt last I've decided to give Conway TheBarbarian a chance to burst into print inYS, which he's been dying to do for ages,so as to prove that he's not dead yet.Here he explores what he calls 'TheSubtle Side of GAC. Here are a few notesas well as some very short routines whichmay come in useful when writing GACadventures. A couple are amendments tothose in The Ultimate GAC Guide fromThe Essential Myth. No apologies for thisas a couple do need some alteration tomake them work perfectly.Pre-Start Information

"Have you played Ransom but been unableto figure out how the programmer was

able to get information on the screenbefore your first command? Well, here'show Enter as the description of room9998 the information you want printed,change the 'Begin Where?' option to read'9998' and then change the line in HighPriority which checks to see if it is thefirst turn and hence sets markers to:IF (RES? 6)'SEr 6 LF MESS 238 HOLD65000 * 23 LFs * GOTO 1 ENDI am using marker 6 to check if it is thefirst turn and message 238 to say 'Pressany key'. Any further commands such asthe setting of markers should be placedafter the GOTO 1 statement. Basically, itworks like this. If it's the first turn (RES?6), stop the program carrying out thecommands on this line after that turn(SET 6), tell the player to press a key(MESS 238: remember that theinformation you want to print up — thedescription of room 9998 — has alreadybeen displayed and so the LF is needed tostart printing on a new line), wait until hedoes so (HOLD 65000), scroll everythingoff the screen (the 23 LEs) and then goto room one, the first proper location. Ifyou're using the routine above for addingthe full stop then you must put in MESS237 (assuming that this is the full stopmessage) after the GOTO 1 or you won'tget one for the initial description.

Saving And LoadingWhen a player saves a game position in aGAC adventure a few strange thingshappen. GAC reverts to graphics mode,even if you were in text beforehand, andclears the screen in white paper. Nothingto worry about if you are writing agraphic adventure because the roompicture is drawn immediately the save iscompleted. assuming you have put in aLOOK after the SAVE command. Butwhat if you are writing a text-onlyadventure? If so, use the following lineinstead of the one you originally used forsaving:IF (VERB 14) SAVE TEXT * 23 LFsLOOK WAIT END

This assumes that SAVE is verb 14. Withthis method the screen is cleared in thecurrent paper colour rather than in whiteand in text mode instead of graphicsmode. The same applies to loading,assuming LOAD to be verb 15:IF (VERB) LOAD TEXT * 23 LFsWOK WAIT ENDAgain, this is a far neater way of doingthings.

The Full Stop ProblemDo you ever get annoyed when you can'tget a full stop at the end of a roomdescription when it has a 'You can alsosee' message tacked on at the end? Andyou can't put MESS EN D at the top ofHigh Priority because you can't get themat the end of everything? Then use thisroutine at the top of High instead:IF (SET? 0) RESE 0 MESS 237 END.Message 237 (or whatever number youprefer) must be defined as just a full stopand message 253 must have a full stopadded to the front like so, '.You can alsosee*.

This line prints a full stop at the end ofevery room description including anyadditional messages printed with them,so long as you are careful about theplacing of full stops in these — one at thevery start but none at the end. You mustnot put a full stop at the end of the roomdescriptions, however, otherwise you willget a double full stop. Mind you, thisdoes give you one extra character for thedescription! Note also that adding MESS237 at the end of the Low Priority linedealing with the inventory commandmakes that output neater by printing afull stop at the end.

General NotesContrary to the manual, OKAY is notMESS 254 WAIT but rather MESS 254LF WAIT hence the blank line printedafterwards. lb get rid of this annoyingfeature simply replace all OKAYs withMESS 254 WAITs. To prevent otherannoying blank lines appearing you needto insert a line somewhere to do GAC'swork for it. For example, to stop theblank line after message 242 (Pardon?)appearing, insert,IF (NOT VINO) MESS 242 WAIT ENDat the top of Low Priority. Using IF (NOTVBNO) takes less memory than IFVERB 0 or IF VBNO O.Save memory by using token words inplace of numbers. Rather than,IF (VERB 51 AND NOUN 14) GOTO 14WAIT ENDuse, IF VERB 51 AND NOUN 14)GOTO NO1 WAIT ENDinstead. Each replacement of a number bya token word (such as VERB, NOUN,ADVE) saves one byte and can easilybuild up a sizeable saving.

Finally, because of the complexprocedures governing whether a player isin a light or dark room, and whetherthere is a light source available, Irecommend that a player not be allowedto drop a lantern once he has picked itup, otherwise such problems as roomdescriptions followed by 'It's dark — youcan't see' messages can crop up. Ifanyone has got round this, I'd love toknow how!"

So if anyone can shed some light onthis, and also recommend a goodsuperglue for making sure picked-uplanterns can't be dropped, contactMatthew Conway, 1 St George's Terrace,Station mad, Lambourn, Berkshire RG167PW

QUICK PLUGReader Stuart Lord of Edinburgh sentme in his adventure, Border Harrier. topreview, and although I wasn't able toreview it I did want to pass on his praisefor one particular company.

"I'd like to recommend the products ofKelsoft, a one-man firm specialising in'Fictioneering'. Gerald }cella has

produced at least three softwareprograms which complement The QuillQUA ID which is designed to help youde-bug a Quin adventure; The Fit,which he describes as a system extension

and effectively enhances The Quillparser; and The RePlicatan which h e l p syou to reproduce adventures 'en masse'.He has also worked in tandem withGilsoft to produce RN TEL, JAWPHOSIS and a Mega-overlay whichcombines two of M I overlays into one,these last three being offered as part ofthe upgrade pack for JAW If you haveGAC then he has also published TheReelaimen which will recover memorylost as a result of deleting an entry Yes.it's true! When you delete an entry usingGAC you don't recover the memory, so if Icreate a GAC adventure which takes upall 48K, then delete everything, I amleft with a blank file which takes upall of my computer's workspace! Iwould thoroughly recommendKelsoft to you and to anybodywho has Quill, BAWand GAC,and their address isKelsoft, 28 QueenStreet, Stamford,Lincs PE91QS."

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one letter this month. Sure, will a13 amp do you? Oh, the otherkind of plug. Right will do, as I'malways happy to give fanzines andclubs a mention. This one's run byR.J. Murphy. 19 Drumleyhill Drive,Kilmarnock, Ayrshire KA I SEJ.

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Haggisoft, publishers of the Mon-ster adventure, and as a result of 2plug from Haggisoft most of theclub members so far are adven-turers, and a healthy adventureinterest is promised in themonthly newsletter Subscriptionsare only E2 per annum, mainly tocover the cost of postage, andthe first newsletter includes anarticle on Understondong Your Spectrum from David Haggerty ofHaggisoft. Members can advertisefree in the newsletter, and air theirviews on Spectrum matters, so ifyou don't want to fork out E2 justyet, simply send sae for furtherdetails.

O Now, what's the mostpopular hobby in the UK?

No, it's not playing with yourSpectrum, its not even doingrudies, it's angling (as any foolknows). And now, at last (cuetrumpets), the first fishingadventure! This has been writ-ten by reader Paul Cardinusing GAC, GACPAC and ArtistIS for the very impressive load-ing screen. Its the kind ofgame that might have got areview if I'd a bit more space(DROP HI NT), being quitewell done but nothing out ofthe ordinary. Unless, that is,you're an angler and used toterms like 'cast In,' 'reel in' and'strike,' all of which aredescribed in the introductionfor you.

The game is called The InnerLakes and the aim, which is atleast different from leadingyour people to freedom, is tocatch the Irish Record Tench. Ifyou do have an angling bent,or even just a bent pin, youmight like to try this one, soget your skates on and sendE1.99 to Paul Cardin at hisplaice, which is 3 Lonsdale Vil-las, Wallasey, Merseyside 1454PG. You'll have a whale of atime. just don't play it if you'vegot a haddock, that's all. (Ohblimey! Ed)

ONE DARKNIGHT

T his adventure by Paul Brunyee

is more home-grown than mostas he's written it all himself inassembly language. That alonemakes it worth a look these days!

Paul's system allows for multiple inputs,recognition of ALL/IT/AND/THEN andcommands like RAMSAVE — thoughyou've only got four of these in any oneplaying session.

The title tells you what it's about —yes yet another dark and stormy nightand you and your companion are travel-ling across unfamiliar moorland lookingfor shelter for the evening when a flash oflightning topples a tree that falls and barsyour way The keys are stuck in the igni-tion, the car won't start, and there seemsnothing for it but to get out and explorethe dark driveway that you can just makeout in the gloom. . . there must be ahouse of some kind at the end of it, right?Right, and we all know what kind ofhouse it'll be when you get there! We'veseen all the Hammer Horror films, so nopoints for plot originality here.

The adventure's quite well done,though, with an interesting start as youchoose whether to be Jon Howes or AnnMiles, the two people in the car. Which-ever you choose, your partner tags alongwith you and will (surprise, surprise)occasionally be needed to help with someof the problems. Yes, there in the open-ing location, alongside the car jack, wasmy companion Ann. EXAMINE ANN.

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The text of this text-only game is bet-ter than average, and the author'sobviously studied at the Colossal CaveSchool for Adventure Writers. At the endof the drive is a porch lit by a flickeringand smoking oil lamp, and on the frontdoor is a heavy brass knocker in theshape of a coffin. Before grabbing theknocker, a search of the grounds is advis-able, and then, 'as you touch the brassknocker you realise you have activatedsome kind of mechanism. A tiny armemmerges [sic' from the coffin anddelivers three stout knocks upon thedoor. Presently the door is opened by atall sombre fellow sporting a dinnerjacket with a prominent forehead andreceding hairline." Funny looking dinnerjacket, and just when the prose was goingwell, too!

That sample of text sums up the game,for me. A lot of good things about it, butoften let down by slight errors. Maybe aspelling mistake, or a fault with the quitegood parser, for example READ BOOKproduces "You read the bookcase." Youcan't GET ARMOUR but you can WEARARMOUR. Trying to move a barrel istricky, too. PUSH BARREL. "You can'tpush that." PUSH BARREL WITH ANN."You can't push that." ANN PUSH BAR-REL. "Ann is not listening." ANN PUSHBARREL WITH ME. Success! And itwas only when I asked Ann to dropeverything (well, I was getting bored)that I discovered she had a metal combwith her. The commands ANN INVENTORY and INVENTORY ANN had noeffect.

For all its little faults, the game doeshave a lot going for it. It's sizeable, with awide range of problems, a fast responseand some good ideas too, like a sensibleHELP feature. There are better andcheaper home-grown games around, butif you've got three quid to spare thenthis'll pass several dark nights for youquite pleasantly, I'm sure. It made melook forward to Paul Brunyee's nexteffort, to which I'm sure he'll give a bet-ter final polish.M i l k s D O O O D O E 1 0 0 0

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Bratwurst if I'm wrong, I've found one! Oceanseems to have gone and done It with itsconversion of RobeCog But what's even morespooky is that Ocean secured the licence waybefore Me coin-op company did, so its beenbeavering away on the game for ages. Andeven weirder, the coin-op company actuallyhod to secure the licence from Ocean.

As far as I could see the arcade original onlyhas a streetfighting scenario, whereas Oceanhas managed to pack an amazing ninesections into the Speccy version which all gotogether to re-tell the film's storyline. If youhaven't seen the film (look out for the vid thisChristmas) here's a quick run down of the plot:

A young Detroit cop has just been blownaway by a gang of vicious drug dealers but theConcepts Security Department can rebuild himand has! Now the poor devil's trussed up like asardine, but boy does he pock a mean punch.RoboCop, as he's affectionately named, is thecity's new law enforcer and he's programmedto wipe out the city's crime Unfortunately acomputer malfunction means that he starts toremember his former life as a human cop andhe begins a vigilante mission to exterminate his

In RoboCop the game you play the tin manhimself arid your aim is the same as in themovie — kill the bastards who saw you into ametal coffin in the first place!

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AT Pk M U r 'you buy a used game Olt al this man? Well, I should hope

not since this is the man who nigh-on killed you. On the leftIs the 'geezer' himself, and on the right you flip through

the identikit parts to match up the right face.Not quite right yet huh?

Meet Ed 209, a lumbering metalmaniac whose sole aim in life is toturn you into tin toil. He'll need a lotof blasting for you to even dent hisarmour 'cos he's a robot too!But remember no brain — no pain!

O N T H ES T R E E T SMs the main event. While you'replaying the game you'll see this levelfalter a lot. Why? 'Cos it's the maindrag, where the backlies as you cansee, fire not only from ground level,but also from above in the windows.There are obiects en route, whichneed to be 'punched' to be gotat too

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Oft the moan street In a dark anddingy alley you'll find unpleasantcharacters like this who'll takeInnocent victims hostage to stopyou shooting at them. It's possibleto hit them, but you've got to bea sure fire shot!

Ntiu begin the game by roving the streetslooking for villains to put away, thisstreeffighting section is rather like Green Bertwith the baddies firing from both the windowsand ground level. Apart from blastingeverything that moves you must also pick upuseful bits and pieces like extra firepower aridnew weapons. Once you've done this youprogress to the other sections, though as yetthe programmers aren't sure which order they'llgo in. In the Warehouse section, which isbasically a platform type shoot 'em up, you'llfind the drug dealers amassing their wares.Here you must enter into yet another bloodyfray

The Identikit section is based on the part inthe film where RoboCop plugs into the Policecomputer and identifies his killer. This is exactlywhat you have to do by matching the ears,eyes, nose and mouth of various mugshatsuntil you come up with the right man. Onceyou've done that you must go out and get him!The graphics here are excellent and I found thispart an entertaining diversion from all thatblasting!

The other levels of RoboCop take place inConcept Security's offices, where you mustbattle it out with a tin mongrel called Ed 209,and in an alley off the main street where a girlhas been kidnapped

It all that sounds like fun remember it's onlya taste of what's to come. What I saw of thegame was extremely well programmed and areal blast to play It won't be out until the videorelease in December which means theprogrammers have plenty of time to odd Mefinishing touches. I for one can't wait to play ittUntil then why not try making your ownRoboCop suit out of tin foil, cardboard boxesanti a can opener?

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OinactUI.16 cass/r12.9:3Phil Ho ho ho. I rememberwhen Game Over I came out, itwas named Game O a-er , o naccount of it's nawty coverpicture and poster ad Hee hoehe. Well, Game Over it is its

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sple • shoot lam up in thegreat i c tradition,fealu 1 0 levels of sharpshooting action, with two

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many, deferent ways to spieland get splaited. You begin inPhase One by scrolling acrossa starlield. being pounced onby enemy ships and headingtowards the surface of theplanet When you get there it'sinto Phase Two, where youskim the surface of the planetand avoid the gobs of volcanicsplodge which belch out of theground and threaten to fry yourship to a bag of just-cookedcrisps.

Next it's underground for theScramble/R- T y p e s e c ti o n o f

the game. You whip through acavern inhabited by gribblyaliens and mechanicalmonsters, where you have theadded problem of a root whichdips down to scratch the painton the lop of your ship andruffle your haircut. There's a lotof big slimy caterpillars whichwind through the tunnels, andyou have to kill the head beforeyou can pick off the bits of it'sbody. Then it's on to PhaseFour, where you land on theplanet itself, lump onto one ofthings to pulp with yourphotonic blade.

Alter completing Phase Four.you're presented with a codenumber which takes you intoload number two, and a wholenew set of hazards. The sixlevels on the new load take youdown a level at a time into thebowels of the planet, first onthe surface, thanbase, the underg(huh?), the inner Imagma level in a littlehelicopter. and finally to theprison level where you mustsolve the final puzzle to finishthe game.

Sequels don't usually turnme on much, it has to be said,but this is a nice fast andfurious blasterama, extremelyslickly programmed. whichdeserves a look if you like yourgames on the violent side

This game is going to sell likehot cakes, for the free posterinside if nothing else, but I don'tthink it's quite as original as stcould have been. But hey,you want a bit of excercise Iyour tngger finger rather ththe thing that keeps your emit -apart and a rather newlyglossy free poster T H EGO FOR III

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Yes, in Rex you get to play amercenary dinosaur Right on' Agiant power station is belchingout all manner of nestles into theatmosphere like smoke. oil andpot noodle Yule Mpu've triedpetitioning your MP and writingto That's Life but to no avail, sonow you've decided to take theproblem into your own hands byworking your way through theunderground caverns, getting tothe tower and blowing it tosmithereens• Th e re 's only one problem —when you get to the caverns youfind they're full of baddies all

ling to pounce on you• Notare there the standard 'runt and shoot' baddies but

nestles who fly around in littlebubbles like the Mekon Thesewe really awkward to kill and will• e ve n the most dextrous of

ick jugglers. Then there'smissile launchers, whichch a constant streamIles which fall in a deAll this plus gun turrets.

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Reit • hard and very goodto • • a brilliant combinationof tried and tested shoot 'ern upingredients like increasinglypowerful weapons and the multi-hit recoil system which I'm surewill be copied elsewhere' •Vilhat'sthe multi recoil system? 'I hearyou ask. Well, if you shoot abaddie he recoils from theimpact until he crashes and dies.

you continue shooting whilsthe is recoiling the score will keepon going up Just like in thecowboy movies'

Another innovation for shoot'em ups is the use of Beam Padswhich, if you stand on them, willenable you to begin a new lifewhere the next inevitable buIllethits you. Groovy eh?

Rex is a brilliant combinationof strategy. dexterity andshooting and it has that vital 'justone more go quality which somany games lack nowadays. I

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Hellfire Attack puts the player firmly in the seabt. de a t w o - s eturbo-powered destroyer with its array of deadly weep

Your task is to fly through fields of combat all over the woand night. Flying low into battle, all manner of enemy aircraftattack you. You must get them before they get you. A breathtakingmulti-level arcade experience, with graphics, s o u n t i o nthe highest calibre.

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mysteriously disappeared ott theface of the planet. Where is henow? Someone must know'Anyroad, back to the game.

Savage is a game of threeseparately loaded parts linkedtogether by a main theme:playing Savage, you have toescape from a dungeon by killingeverything that moves, thenwhen you've escaped realisethat you've got to steam back inagain 'cos you've gom and leftyour 'chick' behind. Sillysausage.

Let's have a butchers at therespective loads, shall we?

Load one. Blurb. "Fired byrage, Savage plunges into anorgy of violence, dispatching allwho stand in his way. Ahead ofhim awaits a labyrinth of dankand gloomy dungeons

COM,Od,la 1g 11,y11,11,1and ghouls." The facts. ).control a large, brilliantly•nimated and brightly-colouredaxe-wielding warrior sprite in anicely detailed left/nght right/leftscrolling dungeon environment, -;oming at you thick and fast are

(Auntless varied nestles (alsobrightly coloured), some of whichare easy to kill and, and otherswhich aren't. Some of thesenasties, when killed, release asort of jewelled box onto theground. These can be picked upiy crouching on them, and either•Idd to your treasure-count of,estow you with extra killing

power. If you survive for anylength of time (and you've onlygot three lives) you'll reach themeganasty. Dispatch him and it'sdown the hole into another levelof the cavern, and so un t i l , if

you manage to escape, ygiven an access code fortwo.

Load two, Blurb. "Savage hasescaped from the castle and willhave to fight the defenders ofDeath Valley whose aim is tostop all who seek to escape fromthe area. The facts, The viewchanges from side-on to 3D

'viewed through your own oyesThousands of large greenmonoliths come flying towardsyou as you speed across theground, starting as specks onthe horizon and rapidly growinginto impassable blocks withscarey faces as you near. These.quite simply, have to be avoided,while appearaing from out ofnowhere arid keeping a setdistance from you are faces ofghosts and skulls These have tohr ' o r comparison

visualise the 'approaching tower Ipurposes here you should

sequence from either SpaceHarrier or Glass- i.e. it's all veryslick and fast, but in this onethere's loads of colour. Avoidingthe monoliths at the same timeas shooting the flashes is a trickybusiness indeed, but should youclear the round without losingyour (again) three lives. you'll getan access code for load three.

Load three Blurb. "Hallwaythrough the attacks, Savagediscovers his 'escape from thecastle was a trick to keep hismaiden love (i.e. his *chick')imprisoned foreover, so hereturns to the castle and callsupon his trusty eagle to fly intothe labyrinth to rescue her forhim!' The facts. Back to the sideon. leflfright, right/left, up/downscrolling format. This time,however, you're in control of theeagle as you negotiate thecrowded colourful caverns.killing (with laser bolts) theassorted enemy (bats, otherbirds, gargoyles. hopping mega-nasty), and avoiding theobstacles (falling weights. spikedplatforms and much more).Colour, again is used inabundance - to good affect -the spines are all chunky, andthe animation on the eagle isabsolutely splendid.

Savage, as a whole, is anabsolute corker of a romp. Eachof the three parts is equallyplayable and equally vaned. AsI've said about nine timesalready. colour is used to brillianteffect inducing the kind ofattribute-clash that doesn't reallymatter too much - i.e. there's abit of it. but the action is so fastyou never get to point at thescreen and say "Oh look, there'sa character square". In fact, I'd goas tar as to say that I'm surprisedthe Speccy can handle theamount of colour used sosuccessfully - especially on thefirst level. The sound's okay too,as is the control responsedifficulty. addictiveness and allthe other things that go to makea game perch that little buthigher than all the rest andachieve megagame status. Oh.and by the way, you can seelevels two and three without theaccess-codes from levels oneand two - but you only get onelife, so if you want to stand achance of completing Savage..get those codes.

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impressive tun u e n c e s(just wait for the light at the end)However these good points arecompletely outweighed by somepretty startling deficiencies suchas the remarkably iffy collisiondetection, the similarity betweenrocks and mines (this isimportant because mines can bedestroyed and rocks can't) andthe fact that it's impossible toend up on the bank - no matterhow bad your Steering is

One glaring fault that stoodabove all others is that whenusing the joystick I couldn't findany way of launching the 'Snuff'missiles (which are essential

Mc . ,,e 1 w it h hero in This done, he equipment in certain sections)

ould then be able to lake over t h i s meant that using keys wasorld (what he plans to do m o r e or less compulsory.he's in charge of a world I didn't get too much fun out of

• ju n kie s is anybody's L i v e And Let Die. The game isess) Obviously Bond has to t o o similar to most of the drivinga stop to this, but he's really g a m e s that are doing the rounds

against it this time as Dr a t the moment, and the flaws innage has the power of t h e programming destroy anyodoo to draw on and masses e n jo yme n t that may have been

of zombie slaves at his beck and i n there. This may have been acall_ v e r y noble co-ooperation

For some reason. ( B o n d ' s between two software producersboss) reckons that the best way (E l i t e did the programming.for this evil-doer to be brought to leaving the production andiustice is for 007 to take a m a r k e t i n g to Domark). but as aspeedboat and blast his way fi l m been it's a sad waste of aalong four different waterways: l i c e n c e .the Nile: an anonymous practicecanal: an Arctic river and theriver which flows through NewOrleans This may seem like apeculiar solution to you and I, butI suppose that's why M Is theleader of the British SecretService and we're sell at homeplaying computer games.

The first mission is a targetpractice section, where Bondtakes his motor boat along anundefended stretch of river andshoots at floating targets. This isa piece of cake for anyone with a

VS CLAPOMETERA run-of-the-mill racing gamewith a Bond licencetacked on.

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things which let it down. It isvery easy to play, and quiteoften a hole could becompleted by hitting the ball ashard as possible in thedirection of a hole, If the holewas surrounded by fairly closewalls, then more often than notbelting the ball with your club(that's the technical term for thebig stick) would result in aricochet ending up in the holeMost of the holes had a par oftwo, which also indicates theease with which they could becompleted.

I found the game a littletedious, firstly because of therepetitive nature of taking ashot, and also because moretime was spent watching theball belt around and slowlystopping than actually beinginvolved in the game.

In the end it reminded me ofa single event in something like'Decathlon: where althougheach event is fairly simple andeasy to control, playability isincreased by the range ofdifferent events. Unfortunately,in Mini-Putt, the only variety isfrom the number of holes, andthe game play remainedboringly simple throughout.

I expect that playing in two-player mode would increasethe fun for a while, but againthe novelty would wear offpretty fast. Not a game I feel Icould recommend to even themost hardened of crazy golffans. If there are any.

Sean Mini-Putt, is astraightforward simulation ofthe sport of Crazy Gott. Thereis one or two player mode, anda choice of four courses, eachmade up of nine holes. Two ofthose courses are loaded withthe main game, and the othertwo from the multi-load. Andmany well known (!) holes,such as the Windmill' — withrevolving windmill blades — the'castle' and the 'aeroplane' canbe found on the courses, ascan oodles of bouncy walls,obstacles, hills, hollows andponds, all determined to sendeven the most crazy of crazygolfers even crazier.

The playing screen is madeup of four units, the main onebeing the view of part of thehole you are playing.Underneath this are (fourminus one equals . ) threemore units. The left unit showsthe power needed toaccomplish a particular shot,the middle unit, a plan view ofthe complete hole, and the rightunit a list of hole, par, number ofputts taken, current value of BPshares

To play a hole, you first movethe 'X on the main screen tothe spot where you wish theball to end up. Next the powerof shot needed to get the ballthere is noted, and then bycunning use of the fire button, abit of dexterity and the twoscales, you set the speed andaccuracy of the shot. Howgood the shot is depends onwhether you get the rightspeed and accuracy. Onceyour whack is completed. you'llthen see the ball either slowlylolloping along, or thunderingaround bouncing off everythingin sight, depending on howhard you hit it. When it comesto rest, you start again. And...er t h a t ' s it.

This is one of those gameswhich could, with a little moreeffort, been quite a funny andaddictive game. As it stands,

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Although the actual ideabehind Dark Fusion isn't thatoriginal, the presentation of thething is brilliant. It has the mosteffective soundtrack I've everheard on a Spectrum, whichfairly slaps into your ears,ending with synthesised notesand beating drums. Fab! If itwas down to the musical score,it would have rated as amegagame, but unfortunatelythe rest of the game isn't quiteup to scratch.

'Cos the thing about DarkFusion is that each level is apastiche of another game.

The first level looks like&Dion with a little man runningalong in a spacesuit with a gunand a jet pack, the second levellooks like Scramble or R- Typeas you fly down through a caveinfested by gribbly monsters,and finale there's the monsterat the end of the level with hisblinking orifices and squirmingcaterpillars. Don't get mewrong, there's nothing at allwrong with the execution of thisprogram, as it's packaging andpresentation are first class, the

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And here's the last of those mega comp° winners. (Phew! we thought they'd never end!)20 Copies of GbostbustersAdam Thurtle, Norwich. Norfolk, Martin Learmart Redear, Clevelore!: ° C o t-n i c k ,Goddming. Surrey, S Gawthorpe Wilderness Rd, Hull; Keir Halewood,Southport, Merseyside, Andrew Price to Down, Nireland, Mark Johnson.Barnard Castle. CoDurham. Kyrie Davis, Willenhall, WMicliands; D Angers.Worsley Manchester; Aumar Ashlaq. Easton. Bristol; Marc Regan, Gravesend,Kent.Jamm Gilbert, Comic Bnimwich, Birmingham: S Robinson. Northwich,Cheshire. Roko Ferenc. Budapest, Hungary; Sztorinka lance. Budapest. 111111&111'.Duncan Bradshaw, Eddersion Rd. Peedles. Xeres Stallworths Wetmore,Gillingham, S Rawlinson, Camberley, Surrt-ts Philip Donoghue, Rockky Gardens.Safford, SJ Rossi, Harrow, Middx.

5 Copies of FireflyMars Walker, Ness Mill Trine Hearts, David Papwl elk Aspics', Nottingham; KeithMorgan. 4 hachurch, Cardiff. S Rice-Adams. tit Wyricy, MAN, Lee Poole,Wh•elock Sandhat Cheshire.

25 Copiee of DervishS Maughan. Gateshead. 1MIC & Wear. Paul Gentry, Dagenham, Essex, I French,Pudsey Leeds, Bryan Prakcl, Ni. f:oieford, Glue; Anthony Williams, WinchmoreHill. London; Rod Teeple, Thetford, Norfolk-. Steve Johnson. Sir. Rochester. Kern;W Livingstone, Norwich, Norfolk. S Buckoice, Hemel Hempstead, Hens. TimAbbott, Rushden, Northants:S Morris, Falkirk, Stirlingshire Melvyn English.Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside; James Hudson, Simon Coalfield, W Midlands;Simon ileac, Brighton, E. Sustiex, B Dickinson, File, Scotland; A TaylorCullumpion. Devon; Derek Milk. Clarkmon. Glasgow; ti De Srttla Rr i i w ni nR R d ,London; Shimmings, St LetinoribialimSea, E.Susseic, Sieve Smith, AldershotHampshire. Mr A Thomson. Ilford. Essex, Anders Sioholm, Oxelosurid Ol4110Sweden; Ian Taylor, Chingtord, London: G Lisle Barmouth, Gurvnedd'. MCranston. Angus, Scotland,

25 CeSples of Disposable HeroesMark Crowhurst, Northampton, S Symington. %Volton-On-Thomes, Surrey, JasonHorrox, Stowmarket, Suffolk, D Reynolds, Ashgrove Mace. lett-rhea& I Ridgeway.Swansea, S.Wales, Leah Reenolds, Ashgrovc Place. Peterhead: Mark Veantkl,fitshopston. Bristol: Paul Stevens, Northileet, Kent, Ian Burrell. Niewich Norfolk:S Carson. Liverpool Merseyside; Helen Williamson, Elgin. Moray, P %wrenTayside, Scotland. Vincent LataitOr, '41t!741-Orti. I r e l a n d ; K e v i n M i l f o r d , S h e i l l i m i t

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Edwards, Ni. Owestry, Salop; Miss M Guy, Hamsles. S Yorks. J Drthell Ely Combs;M Hassa.lI. Chester. Cheshire. David McGinn, Marton, Blackpool: Martin lacksionHull, N Humberside, Si Mackenzie. Alton. Hants, David Corns, Sr Caerphilly.Mid Glamorgan. Bryan Stetson, St Ives, Huntingdon, Camhs

20 Copies of PredatorRichard Johnson, iti testord. Scunthorpe; Gary Penfiild. lioverhill. Suffolk. LeighNicholls, Weymouth, Dorset, Ethelbert Penn, Fsucu. Malta. Mark N'ellowlees,Weybridge. Surrey; Steven Parichoin, Pintypool. Gwent, S i dne y Risca, Gwent.Sam Hurt, Cambridge (iarderm, London, M Lakin. Sr. Barnsley. S Yorks; KitPowell, Modhury S. Devon; I) Robertson. Northfield, Birmingham: 11Lowestoft, Suffolk; A Barnett, Sualtton4h1-'1C-es. (lit-w-land; Sean Batt litrisitint,

Ell%0MI 4 1 1 = W 111111=11tIt's Tough, It's Tricky, But MyIQ Makes Einstein Look LikeA Cashew Nut Compo.Did you dare to cross words with Pete and hisPuzzlers in June? Ten people who did and wonsome brand new software for their efforts were:Mrs D.H Edwards, Deeside, Clwyd, KeithHamilton, Gulberwick, Shetland; Daniel Smith,Oxford; T Thompson, St Edmunds; Neil Pollard,Peterborough, Cambs; Paul Lauff, Frankfurt 90. WGermany; Paul Swinglehurst, Barrow-In-Furness,Cumbria; MA. Smith, Pontefract, W Yorks;Andrew Jenkins, Colchester, Essex; KJ. Bryan.Deal. Kent.

If You Think That's HardYou Should See My AuntDoris Comp°.Still more words came flowng from Pete'sPuzzled Pen in July. This time there were 10words to find in a devious word square — butonly one winner. He was:Scott Kelly, Stanley, Co Durham,

For Your Eyes Only — AsLong As You Put In ThoseContact Lenses.Even Roger Moore raised an eyebrow when helooked at our 007 compo in July where we askedyou to fill in a suitably dangerous speechbubbia.The winner, who received a day's water-skiing at Prince's Watersports Club. was:Jacqui Reeves, Swindon, Wilts.

Five runners up had to console themselves withCOCtie$ o f the Ja m e s Pond M o vie Bo n k T h e yw e r e :B. Shimmings, St Leonard-On-Sea. E Sussex- P o o lLauff, Frankfurt 90. Wed Germany. N Arnold.Briscomhe Bournamooth, Alierair Stout, Wootton,Beds: Jonathan RI inker Clinton. Peterborni ioh

Over The Parrot, Sick AsThe Moon Brian CompoHahl We thought t he WP would fool you lot byhiding this competition to win a football Monadby the English soccer team on the previewpages, but you were all far ton clever I t was acompo of two halves and you all gave 110 percent, but after 90 minutes it turned not that only000 of you could be best on the day And whowas that?John Webb, Men slield Notts

Blood Blood Mother Oh MyGod Comp°.So how many pints of blood are there in thehuman body? To find out we turned good 'n1Snouty upside down and emptied him out —and the answer is T h e first 20 of you whotried that experiment on your friends each wona copy of Gremlin's stood Brothers, So withoutfurther ado, here's the list of prizewinners:Jon Leach, Sidmouth, Devon; Jim Docherty,Ayrshire, Scotland; Darren Finn, Harlow. Essex:Patrick llamas, Middlesborough, Cleveland. AlanWilson, Belfast 9, N. Ireland; J. Pope. Peckham,London: Tim Webster, Skettness. lines: LeeDavidson. Selsdon. Surrey; Simon BelcherMalmesbury, Wilts: Alan Oise Hobery,

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Manning Clapham s 1 orvilim. Ewan Mercer Eilinhurtec Scotland; Michael Price.Bromley Kent, town Hannah Dover St Norwich

,t0 Copies of Star PawsStephen Eason. Siockpi in. Cheshire Tanya Cranswick. astleford. W. Yorks, MBoisili ea Eoreham !Lints Richard 14, hre-1 Cattier, Mirseirv, Birmingham. Amhony%tells Bexley. Kent. E %alarm-- Halewood laverpool. Philip Wilson. Malvern,Wores, Piarren tircen March, am t. , Stuart Wharner romfi ngion.Ni irtherftherside• 11 Hellewell C:orliton. Nottingham. Richard Boynton, CliffordPark Estate ( r v ; Adrian larder f .i e r n t r t % s t r a r n C a r l t o n . G l a s g o w ,

Scotland; (Cain Young. Kirkintill, fi L e g o w . junathan Williams, West Itagley,Warcs, Darren Aldoos, Marion Blackpool. IF Whitehi oust., Harpenden, Herts.Stephen Morgan Sparethill Birmingham' Matthew Redford. EsTshain, Wires, BSharp. s r-a e r i e s- N o rt h am ' s ' C hr is ti Tiler Davison Grantham, Unica; David James.

Kings Lynn. No irfolk. Ian Collins•thint Wor k* West Midlands. Mr D G Pm,D .u ri vas te r %Mill Yorkshire- Keith Fell forres Moray, So gland; Richard Jennings,

Halfway. Sheffield' Mark Norris. Krochworth Hens. T Met athie, Edinburgh.•tit i anti, lames Rowell, Market Ileening P rr h a i r ou g l tAndy C:app Beer Glaser%

Nigel sockloll hvi thorpe, Sheffield Richard I larnwell. W'alsoken Wisbrch,Combs; P Howson Norwich Norfolk Ian iilshaw. Walton. live-rpm* JohnDi m-m e -1 1 y A yr sh ir e, '4401141041 Mt T Brennan I i.uth Lincolnshire

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Dean Rocks. Horsham se Sussex lonatitan Clay, Deocager, S )(mita, Robertstriven Cheat erfirld S MuIuunJ, Perthshire, S cot l a n d ; S i m o n W a n t ,Newhitry Berta; Philip Welhercil Wimiwirne t e s t i . Simon Woode ord.Newport Isle of e t.i ght , i o r y W a t t s I l l a r t in g t i l f t D u rh a m: B ar ry M a ct h in o ld ,

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25 Copies of Rollick ThunderStephen Taylor: Erskine. St111.1mi E r n s t Asicshury. Bucksjames Thomas,Caniberley, Surrey; I /avid Men hant. I aiirrrileki rii. Kincardineshire, StephenRussell Burford. Oxon; Muni skelion Nr Brigg, S Humheratic. John !keel.harnsles South Yorkshire; Gareth Grimly-, lieuon, Middlesex. Paul Jordan, Sr.Westhilry. Wiltshire' Keith I ticket* Stockpiirc Cheshire. 'ben Sheppard. SrPreston, lance hem Evans Inkersoll Chesterfield. heist I arpaY. I Credit. TheNetherlands• P e a c o c k Wigton Ctinthrta lan 1a•hraidon, Wirral.Merseyside. SittatIrt Day, Norwich Norfolk hotel Merisah Worthing, Smoot; Shade?I 'ildin s i l l-A m e r ( i n -T h a r ne s M e ti e r- s r % Nes E nt ri es : Ashur irel 1-Lynn. Tame-side,

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Jeepers Creepers CompoMillion% of trainsontiers turned into carspottersin an attempt to win a radio controlled jeep inthis 'soot the silhouette' compo. Unfortunatelythere could only be one winner, and that was!i ta top ta l P pine- hnii E n fi e l d M i d d l e s e x

The Elva newt beet, who will soon receive theirprizes of Tathirts, games and posters; were:Sir”nn rasney Arlon. London, Scott Mackay,Dumfries, Scotland. Andrew Canton, Braintree,FAAAX Paul Pieta, G r a n i t e J e s m on d , N e w ca s t le ;

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I'm A Right Charlie And I'mOn My Way To Hollywood.Hooray for Hollwriodl And hooray for this Crifficcomptitte which gave all you budding filmmakers a chance to win a fabulous VHSCamcorder to practice your art with. All weasked you to do to win this fantastic piece ofstate of the art technological wizardry was tomatch the famous laces with their respective'trade marks' for instance Grouch° Marxwouldn't be the same without a cigar, and howcould Charlie Chaplin raise any chuckles withouthis trusty old canon Pest entry out of Jackie'sbulging mailbag -- and the winner of this brillcamera — was:The Winnahl Richard Dunn, Horsham, West Sussex,

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RIDICULOUS!Phew Ain't The Weather Hot—Oh And By The Way, HereAre My Answers Comp°.Even a piccia of Alan Sugar couldn't stop you letfrom entering Pete's crafty little teaser inAugust The winner of 10 games from the VSlibrary was:Tim McArdie, Stockton, Cleveland

First Among HatstandsCompoVS readers are well known as literary eggheads,so it was no surprise that we got an incredibleflurry of entries in our 'win a hardback copy ofJeffrey Archer's latest' compo. The 10 luckybarristers who guessed correctly that Jeffreyhad been a Conservative MP and businessmanbefore he went on to write his amusing litt lepotboilers were:Chris McGowan; N o r t h E a s t S u t to n , H u ll : A nd y

Whitaker, Blackpool, Lancs, William Beaston,Bostwell, Glasgow; Paul James, Evesham, Worcs;Andrew Paterson, Chapelhall, Airdrie; Les Brown,Fallowlield, Manchester: 0 Major, Andover, Hants;Kate Sheppard, Ebbw Vale, Gwent; DamianCannon, Reading, Berkshire,

I Used To Have A WaterbedBut It Gave Me Wet DreamsComp°.Once again it was time to ring the changes, asVS caught the boys napping in the House ofLords. The winner - and recipient of an amazingHinad alarm TV - was:Lee Smith, HullTwenty-five almost as dilligent entrants woncopies of US Gold's Dream Warrior They were:Paul Mulholland, Warrington, Cheshire, Mr G PEdwards, Cleveland; D Hannah, Newton Estate,Lancaster: Simon Ramsay, Hoole, Chester:Kenneth Alexander, Glasgow, Scotland; DamianCorr Neton, Chester, Stewart Omand, Orkney,Scotland; Brian Kelly, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland; CraigBuckingham, Chelmsford, Essex; P Geekie, RAFLaarbruch; R Griffin, Romford, Essex; Hadley Cart;Chathill, Northumberland; Christopher Pearson,Meliden, Clwyd; Lexie Kerrigan. Strabane, Co.Tyrone; M. Lee, Redcar, Cleveland; R. Marshall,Luton, Beds: Norman Crooks, Bangor, N. Ireland;Chris Harford, Chippenham, Wiltshire; RobertCarlton, Chesterton. Cambridge; HeienZuchowska. Handsworth, Birmingham; JohnGavin _Inn St. Helens, Merseyside; Andrew BarlowGreatbarr, Birmingham, Jan de Witte, Belgium;John Norton, Kings Lynn, Norfolk: Torn Park,Wishaw, Lanarkshire.

I'd Say Beam Me Up Scotty,But They Never Said That InThe Series Comp°.Correctly matching the quotes with the TVshows gave you the chance to win videos of allthe Star Treks ever made (except of course forthat one where Scotty ran off with the nurseand Mr Spock declared his undying love forBlockbusters)_ Unfortunately there could only beone winner, Fortunately for him it was;Raian Jeapure, Goiders Green, London.Although they didn't get those faberoonie yids.the 25 runners up did receive copies ofIncentive's Dark Side! Those lucky so and so'sw e r e :B Powell. Kettering, Northants; Mark Kerridge.Gillingham, Kent, Tim Mitchell, Blackburn, Lanes;D Taylor. Basildon, Essex, Peter Symons, Ruislip,Middx; John Davidson-Kelly. Liphook Hants:Sidney Man, Wimbledon, London: Nick Taylor,

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May The Force Be With YouAnd May The Fifth CompoBack in June, silly old Snouty tried to iron atransfer onto a T-shirt while he was still wearingIt - the clotl We asked all you dilligent safetyexperts out there to point out all of thehousehold hazards in Phil's kitchen. The 25 mosteagle-eyed among you lend therefore thewinners of T-shirts, games and transfers) were:Matthew Allen, Hull, Humberside, RichardGriffiths, Marnhull, Dorset; Jason Stewart,Newport, Gwent; C Carter, High Wycombe, Bucks;Mr A Vickers, Northoh, Middlesex; Justin Way,Camberley, Surrey; Andrew Smith, Worksop,Notts, J Grindrod, St Ives Ringwood, Hampshire;Keith Donnelly. Tarvin, Nr Chester, Richard Grant,Bones& West Lothian; Matthew Harper, Bracknell,Berks; Paul Garrish, Swindon. Wilts: GordonSutton, Kempshott, Basingstoke; Mr A Jacobs,Elbury Park, Worcester; Melanie Richardson.Vauxhall, London; Martin Walker, Burton-On-Trent.Staffordshire; David Stubley, Cottenham,Cambridge; David Taylor, Nr Bridgend, MidGlamorgan; Joe-Anne Purd, Co. Down, N. Ireland:Matthew Sleightholme, Pontefract, W Yorks; PaulFarrimond, Atherton, Nr Manchester; DaveDawson. Morley, Leeds; Aaran Butler,Humberston, Grimsby: A Giles, Stanley, CoDurham; Jason Arnold, Tamworth, Staffs:

Fifty more winners received transfers andgames. They were:Scott McGlashan, Kings Park, Glasgow; OliverJeffery, Herne Bay, Kent; M Willsher, Scunthorpe,South Humberside; James Crake, Kings Lynn,Norfolk; M Longhorn, Red land, Bristol; MarkGibbins, Hassle, N Humberside; George Bolton.Cramlington, Northumberland; Matthew Hayman,Sidmouth, Devon, Steven Downey, WestWorthing, Sussex, Martin Thorne. Solihull, WMidlands; Carol Suthers, Sheet, Petersfield, JulieHall, Workington, Cumbria, David Bullock,Upminster, Essex; Peter Grange. Bishop Auckland,Co Durham; Steven Thorne, Cardiff, S Wales;Andrew Lewis, Leyland, Lancs; Steven Drewe,Worm by, Hens; David Spencer, B.P.F.O. 40;Jonathan Martin, Chigwell, Essex; A Hulmes,Timperley, Cheshire: Mr J Sztucki, Merthyr Tydfil,Mid Glam; T P Howson, Norwich, Norfolk; KhalidThupsee, Ellacon, Chester; Robert White, Newport,Gwent; Graham Mace, Thornton, Liverpool; GaryPhillips, Wednesfield. Wolverhampton: ASinglehurst, °Lindley, Peterborough, SteveSearce, Upton, Poole; Simon Bacon, Hinckley,Leics; Mr J.K. Marston, Wimborne, Dorset; GraigComes, Staffs; Joanne Woods, Catford, London;Richard Fairweather. Cuffley, Herts; AndrewPownell. Ellesmere, Shropshire; David Hynd,Angus, Scotland; Alan Flay, Hatfield, Bristol; DavidBrierley, Tortglen, Glasgow, James Harris. Watton-At-Stone, Hens: Gavin Clarke, Stonesfield, Oxon;Patrick Bennett, Cromer, Norfolk; K Burman,Houghton Conquest, Bedford; Clinton Miles,Todrnorden, Lanes; Christopher Davies, Swansea,W. Glam; Gregory Reece, Port Talbot, West Glam;A J Walmsley, Chorley, Lanes; Kevin Squirrell,Sacrston, Durham; N A Smith, Pagnell, Bucks;Scott Forsyth, W Lothian, Scotland: MatthewSheldon, Dowys, Wales; Kevin Sheldrake,Peterborough, Cambs.

Goodness Gracious GreatBalls Of Fire Comp°Phew! Little did we know that our little compofor a pulsating plasma ball would generate sucha huge response - no wonder the posytmenwent on strike! Anyway, T'zer tunnelled throughthe mountains of entries arid emerged wit h awinner clamped between her teeth boo or!). Thelucky little choplet who stood out from thecrowd was:Neil Green, Downend, Bristol.The 30 runners up who emerged from the fracaswith a Gremlin game for their troubles were:G Allan, Stockwell, London, N Storey, Consett, CoDurham; Paul Morgan, Llandeilo, Dyfed; S Gray,Laorencekirk; H Brindakis, Crete, Greece; NHughes, Bangor, N Wales; A Povall, Ellesmere,Shropshire; A Refalo, Malta; D Philip, Edinburgh;Craig Reid, Andover, Hants; Philip Kapion,Bradford, W Yorks; D Webber, Leigh-On-Sea,Essex; C Murray, Clydebank, Scotland; SSutherland, Castleman, Glasgow; M Harris, NewEngland, Peterborough, Edwin vd Veldern. TheNetherlands, D Paul. Welwyn Garden City, Hefts:Mark Oxenham, Southend-On-Sea, Essex. SimonBeal, East Sussex, Brighton; Matthew Wallin,Pirton Lane, Churchdown, Debbie Dykes, Shipton-By-Ben, York; Stanlislaw Pazur, Warszawa, Poland;Siobhan Lyons, Ballinteer, Dublin; Steve Icke,Carlton, Nottingham; N Foulds. Todmorden,Lancs; R Robson, Netherthone; R Andrews,Corsham. Wilts; Nigel Reeves, BFPO 16, AllanUpton, Lyminton, Hampshire: Peter Irving,Norwich, Norfolk.

You Can Tell I'm One Of TheChaps As I Don't HaveBouncy Things In My FlyingJacket Comp°.Only an easy-peasy word square stood betweenyou flying cadets and a groovy radio-controlledfighter plane. The air ace who eventually ran upthe highest tally was:Gerard Postlethweite, Leicester.His 50 buddies who came a close second (andthird, and fourth etc) were;Mr A J Hewitt, St. Helens, Merseyside; TimCruickshank, Fenstanton. Hunts, Lee Howson.Newark, Notts: Nick Vining. Sevenoaks, Kent: NoelByrne, Coventry: Glen Wiliams, Sydenham.London; Richard Morrison, Edinburgh, Scotland;Poke Ferenc, Budapest Hungary; James Duncan.Teynham, Kent; Scott Middleton, Mansfield,Nottingham; Matthew Butt, Plaignton, Devon,Peter Witham, Sheffield, S. Yorkshire; Len Marten,Southall; A Welham, Ipswich, Suffolk; C Power,Nunts Park, Coventry: John Kain. Stratford,Manchester; G. Boylan. Co. Down, N. Ireland,Philip Rose, Ramsey, Cambs, Mark Connolly,Huntingdon, Combs; David Hurst, Selby, N.Yorkshire; David Bryan, St. Johns, Worcester;Matthew Hercog, Morley, Leeds, N Bushby,Congelton. Cheshire; K G Davies, Warrington,Cheshire; Paul Bowen, Kings Lynn; Robert O'Neill,Seascale, Cumbria; Warren Lee, Blackpool,Lancashire; James Michell, Angus Scotland; AlanJohnston, Redcar, Cleveland; Matthew Jones,Styning, West Sussex; Seamus Fitzsimons. Co.Down N. Ireland; M G Seeger. Wood Green,London; Chris Duffy, Erdington, Birmingham;David Piper, Newbury, Barks; Alan Nicholls.Yarcombe, Devon; K A Schimmel, Nottingham;Martin Walker, Burton-On-Trent, Staffs; PatrickLewis, Dyfed, Wales; Stuart Adams, Coleford,Glos; Jason Ward, Reading. Barks; Bhanesh Patel,Wembley. Middlesex; Michael Fry, Stockwood,Bristol; Graeme Craig Rolblecki. Barnsley, S. Yorks;Alun Denbich-White, Wakefield. W. Yorks; StuartReid, Leek, Staffs; Fraser Sinfield, Banister Park,Southampton; Steven Peacock, Warn.Manchester; Alex Holmes, Edinburgh, Scotland;Matthew Munday, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

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seems that tastes havechanged slightly fromscrolling shoot 'em ups toscrolling beat 'em ups. Thismeans that the air is nowfilled with the sounds ofscreaming Ninjas andclashing swords instead ofexploding spaceships. Iwonder what the next crazewill be?4.

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By the way, I think that theimpossible has happened —OutRun has been bettered.Check out the machine I'mtalking about and drop me aline to let me know if youagree. While you're at it Iwouldn't mind a few lettersletting me know what youthink of arcade games ingeneral, and a few morearcade tips would also godown well. Anyway that'senough begging , , I'mgetting back into the drivingseat.

FIGHTERSamurai swordplay games are two a penny these days, so newvariations on the theme have to be really good to stand out fromthe crowd. For this reason I can't really see why Jaleco everbothered to release this one. On the plus side there's a greatbonus screen between levels and the animation's pretty smooth,but the garneplay and the graphics are so tired that interest

The plot sets you against a series of evil overlords, eachwears out pretty quickly.

guarded by a horde of oriental heavies. Like most games of thistype it's better in two player mode, as the odds against a loneninja are pretty heavy. By the way, the odds aren't the only heavythings in this scenario — some of the opposition look as thoughthey were rejected from CA's Sumo wrestling for having weightproblems. This shouldn't worry a hardy ninja too much though,because picking up a few little icons that are carelessly scatteredaround the floor enables you to split even the most obese ofenemies in half with a single flick of the sword.

Speaking of icons, picking up the lettered icons to spell theword 'Samurai' gives the player an extra life — but finishing theword is a lot harder than itlooks.

The bonus level that I..„e mentioned earlier involves the

player homing on the back ofa horse and flashing through awood shooting arrows attargets. Icons are also availableon this level, but watch Out forthe sharpened bamboo shootsthat block the horses path.Unfortunately the bonus leveldoesn't work too well whentwo players are involvedbecause there aren't enoughtargets for two people to aimat.

Convertibility Factor: 8Easy as fatting off a Ninja.

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CIARAN'S CORKY COIN-0CHASE H.Q.

Wheeeeeeee! I've finally found a race game that's better thanOutRun. You don't believe me? Then check this out. Chase H.Q.runs more smoothly than the Sega classic, its graphics are moredetailed, the sound is more lifelike and it's even got a gameattached to all of that high speed driving!

The story goes something like this. Two undercover policemen,one black and one white, are driving a high performanceEuropean Sports car around a coastal US city when H.Q. calls toput them on a case. Lights flashing, they speed off in pursuit oftheir suspect to the sound of pulsating rock music. Soundsfamiliar? Well so it should, cos everything in this game seems tobe based on Miami Vice (except here the car's a Porsche — not aFerrari).

Nancy is the girl at H.Q. who calls to put you on the case, hervoice delivering a complex description of the suspect in some ofthe clearest and most polished digitised speech that I've everheard. Come to think of it, all of the speech and sounds areremarkable — especially when you take a corner at high speedand you can still hear your partner screaming, "Hey man whereare you going? He's gone the other way! o ve r the sound ofscreeching tyres.

If and when you do catch up with your suspect, the sirensprings into action as you attempt to run him off the road. Thisdone, it's back to base until Nancy crops up with yet anothermission — maybe Ralph the Idaho Slasher is at large in his whiteLotus, or Carlos the New York Bank Robber has just whizzed pastin his yellow Ferrari (unfortunately very few criminals appear todrive Skodas these days).

The scrolling road is super smooth and the car flashes aroundbend after bend displaying incredible road-holding. If a little extraspeed is needed at any stage, for making up the last few yards atthe climax of a pursuit for instance, the Turbo Boost button on theside of the throttle comes into its own. This makes your alreadythrobbing Porsche go like snow off a rope, but it only lasts forabout five seconds and can only be used three times in anyround.

I'd love to go on and on about his one but I haven't really gotthe space to do it justice. Do yourself a favour and get out andhave a go immediately. If your local arcade doesn't have this onethen write to your MP or move house or something — just makesure that you try it. Chase H.O. is an absolute must for anyonewho, like me, thought that OutRun was as far as the good oldracing car game could go. Oh by the way, it's by Taito and theversion I tried was a stand up model, but VII let you know if a sitdown version appears in the near ftittire.

K A B U K I 2Hello again all you Ninja and Samurai fans — you're certainlybeing well catered for this month. Well maybe not, because thequantity may be there but the quality certainly isn't. Taito's Kabuki215 yet another left to right scrolling hack 'n slash game whichlooks really impressive but co m p l e t e l y f a i l s t o d e l i v e r i n t h e

The reason that this looks so impressive is the size of theplayability stakes.

sprites — they must be all of two feet tall 'you're lying — Ed), wellmaybe six or seven inches. That's all very well, but none of thecharacters actually move very well, and their impressive sizesoon becomes a handicap as the animation starts to resemblesomething from the original King Kong movie.

Anyway, what good are huge graphics when the game is asboring as a wet Tuesday in Ludlow? Numerous ghoulishopponents are seen off without the player ever having to pickup any of the extra weaPons, and even the master Samurai or

onvertibility Factor: 8s.v action is simulated ,possibility's real

TOP LANDINGBeing an airline pilot is all about travelling around the world,seeing exotic sights and then relaxing around the pool of anexpensive hotel with a gaggle of air hostesses, right? Wronglactually about keeping a careful eye On millions of little flashinglights and dials and carrying the responsibility for the lives ofhundreds of people on your shoulders, So which of these do youthink Taito has decided to make a laugh a minute coin-op from?That's right, the second Option - so chocks away Algie, it'sserious simulation time again.

The garneptay is as simple as it possibly can be - just performOne simple take off and five landings using a standard aircraftsteering column (you know the one, it a bit like a steering wheelWith the top removed) and two-way throttle. The Only Otherthings to took out for are the flight gauges (Engine Power Gauge,course, the ground.Inclination Meter Altimeter, Course Indicator Graph) and, of

As I've already said, take off is really simple. Just line up theaircraft on the runway, build up speed, pull back on the wheel tolift the nose and hey presto! you're airborne. Landing, on theother hand, is a little more difficult. There's a choice of fiveairports to land in, including Washington, Paris and Rio (at last,those exotic locations we were hoping kw) and as you progressyour planes get bigger and heavier and the conditions getProgressively more treacherous. The light fades, the wind buildsup, it starts raining and by the end of the game you can be surethat one of the stewards will have left the McVities at the back.

Having spent a while trying to master the art of landing, I nowknow that I wouldn't be any use if I happened to be on a planeWhen the captain died! Cos though I was able to land a smalltrainer quite competently when the conditions were good, asworth of jet airliner - Gaps!soon as the wind picked up a little I smashed up E.20.000,000's

The sedate but engrossing gameplay and careful attention todetail make Top Landing a welcome change from the usuallooks.running and blasting coin-op, But he warned, it's not as easy as it

terrifying beastie at the end at each level is easily dealt with (evenif it does seem to take forever). I realised that Kabuki 2 wasdestined for the great coin-op graveyard when i found my mindwandering for minutes at a time - without my game suffering inthe least. It ever there was proof that fancy graphics have nobearing on a games quality then this is it. 1 1 1 . 6 ' : , . . -

Convertibility Factor: 4 11111115611611511V,iPint-sized sprites for a half-pint computer.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's abig n' bulging Superman spritebattling against a gang of evilreptilians in this left to rightscrolling beat 'em up from Tait°.But wait a minute. isn't Supermaninvincible? What good is a heat'em up where the main charactercan't be beaten? This mightappear to be a serious problem toyou and I, but the folks at Taito have come up with an ingenioussolution - they've simply ignored the fact that our hero is all-powerful and have given him a limit of three lives!!!??!

This cavalier attitude towards the daddy of the superheroesdoesn't end there. In two player mode Superman is joined by,believe it or not another Superman! The only difference beingthat this one is dmssed in red - worra cheek.

But enough of this purism, let's have a look at the game. Thestart is quite convincing, with Clark Kent running along andundressing at the same time Next thing you know he's dressed inred and blue and flying through the air with the greatest of ease.After this the game rapidly plummets into mediocrity. There areonly two buttons to play with: one allows Superman to punch,the other gives him kicking power 'Kicking? Whatever happenedto Superbreath and X-Ray Vision?)

Three power-up items give the man of steel extra power (sincewhen did Superman ever need extra ordwer?); red for rapidpunches, blue to increase kick power and yellow for additionalenergy. Holding the punch button for a few seconds causesSuperman's right fist to glow green and releasing it delivers thegame's only good point - the Blast Punch - a yellow bolt whichzooms from the great rrian's fist and knocks out anything in itspath.

As you've probably guessed I 'm not a great fan. Taito hasmanaged to waste a potentially brilliant licence by forgetting allof the things that made Superman great (Kryptonite, Lex Luthor,Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen) and has simply dumped a great comiccharacter into a below par fiahting game.

A real pity.

Convertibility Factor: 7Superchance for a close conversion.

SUPERMAN

CADE NEWSBub and Bob are backlThat's right, the stars ofTaito's Bubble Bobble areback for more adventures —this time in a psychedelicdream world called RainbowIslands. A few other thingshave changed as well. Forinstance, the twobrontasaurii have turnedback into humans, but theevil Baron Von Blubba haskidnapped their girlie again(how come the two of themhave only one girlie?) so it'sback on the adventure trail.

There are seven islands toexplore with four paths (orvery long screens) leading toeach. Scary monsterswaiting at the end of eachlevel — well, scary in a cutesort of way — include aSpider, Count Dracula, aHelicopter and a Ghost.Wings are available forcollection, as are ice creamsand lots of other cutesiestuff. All in all expect more ofwhat you got in the first.

War is hell! But one thingthat's even worse is being a

prisoner of war — ugh. Allthose Red Cross foodparcels and weepy lettersfrom home — anything hasto be better than that. Butthere is a way out — a left toright scrolling way in fact.SNK is set to launch a beefyaddition to the ever-growingrange of beat 'em ups in theform of PO. VV., a one or twoplayer game in the style ofDouble Dragon.

The object of the exerciseis to help a prisoner (or two)escape from a heavilydefended fortress prison.Machine guns, knives andgrenades can be picked upalong the way — and believeme you'll need thorn as theplace is bristling withguards. Having played apreview version of themachine, the VS team givesthis a first class thumbs up.But finally, just a quickquestion for the gamesdesigners at SNK i f theseguys are so tough, howcome they were evercaptured in the first place?

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P O S T M A N ' SIt's a good thing that the

postal strike is over, asit's been causing us all afew problems. Funnilyenough, one of the

companies which has done wellout of the strike is Interflora —lots of people have beensending flowers because theycan send a message as well.Don't know if any PBM garnershave resorted to that —somehow Agree to join in attackon Liverpool' attached to abunch of Chrysanthemumsdoesn't sound quite right.

Actually. for Play By Mailcompanies, the damage causedby a postal strike is no laughingmatter. While some of thesmaller games, run by peoplefrom their living rooms, could

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Richard Blaine digs into his postbox to bringyou the latest on Play By Mail and postal

strikes!

afford to go into hibernation for acouple of weeks, theprofessional companies haveoverheads to pay — staffsalaries, light, heat, electricityand rates. So a number of themhad to sweat it Out, cross theirfingers and hope that thingswouldn't be as bad as in 1972,when the postal strike lasted 17weeks!

The strike wasn't too good forme, either — not a lot of newsaround. I have, however, hadsome confirmation of somenews I gave you last time, Jade

Games has definitely taken overGlobal Supremacy, and will becontinuing existing games. Iunderstand Jade may also belooking at taking over Starmasteras well. Midgard has apparentlygone to a company in America —presumably back to the peoplewho wrote it_ No-one seems tobe interested in taking overTribes Of Crane, so it looks as if itwill be folding.

This month I've asked a friendof mine to do me some words onZines, and he's come up trumps.Just for some background, zines

are small magazines, of say 40pages, usually with a circulationof 50 to 150. in which you canplay various postal games —originally people used to playDiplomacy in a zine. Cheap toplay in. lots of fun, and you get tomeet lots of interesting people...Lake a look at the dope to theside.

Anyway, on to somecorrespondence. Ma t t h e wMa ca d o u writes from Buxtonin Derbyshire (a place I havereason to remember well — Ispent some time tramping aboutthe Peak District there when Iwas younger). He complains thatI have only barely covered hisfavourite game, Garneplan fromSloth Enterprises. 'It's a brilliantAmerican football coaching

' l ine It All Before)The postal workers

dispute hit oneminority group veryhard — the postalgarners who find that

face-to-face gaming, if they canget it doesn't satisfy theircraving to play games. They playgames by mail through theloosely-knit collection of gamesmagazines known as 'TheHobby'.

There are about 100magazines. or 'zines' currently inoperation. They are thedescendants of the zines thatstarted in the late 1960s offeringDiplomacy, a popular boardgame. by post.

Diplomacy is still the mostpopular game. but now playerscan have their pick of otherboard games, war games,fantasy campaigns and sportsgames all played by zines.

Some zines are built aroundone or two big games orcampaigns. others offer a widevariety of games and news. Athird category are principally'chat zines' which offer fewgames and consist chiefly ofarticles by the editor and lettersfrom readers which often havenothing to do with games.

A typical Diplomacy orientatedzine is NMR run by BrianCreese and Ken Bain whichis now heading for its 100thedition. It offers Diplomacy andits variants and any other boardgames the editors think aresuitable for postal play.

About half of NMR consists ofchat There is some news of thehobby but most of the chat is

Play By Mail? Nope. It's Play By ' l in es !

highly personalised. There is adiary column by each editor,book, film and record reviews byBrian, and, best of all, six orseven pages of readers letterson any subject under the sun.

Many line editors impose theircharacters heavily on theirpublication. Having to contendwith an Editor's ego (hem, hem)is the price subscribers pay forhaving their games run cheaplyOften the character of the editormakes the zine attractivethough. (Hem, hem. Ed)Greatest Hits is an extremeexample.

Pete Birks started GreatestHits in 1974, ifs now up to issue142. vying with Rich a rdWaikeedine's Mad Policy forthe honour of first zine to hit 150.Only one tenth of Greatest Hits isnow games. The rest is chat andBirks says that 90 percent ofsubscribers play no games and

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lends itself very badly to Play ByMail. But there is one long-running campaign based onTunnels And Trolls running in azine called Take That You Fiend,edited by John Harringtonand Kevin Warne

However, the best bet is EnGarde, the game inspired by theThree Musketeers, The largestpostal game is run in Small FurryCreatures Press by TheoClarke and Paul EvansSFCP owns the UK rights to thegame and their postal campaignis moderated on a computer.This allows them to adjudicatethe orders of 70 players in a dayand to print out order sheetswhich go out with the line andupdate the players positions. EnGarde is a campaign rather thana game. In theory it can go on forever as characters develop or

die and new ones enter.SFCP is principally a game

zine with games reviews andarticles as well as word gamesthe old favourites (RailwayRivals, Diplomacy and Sopwith— a World War I dogfight game),and a couple of oddities likeStartrader and Snowball Fight.

For those players interested infantasy games who don'tnecessarily want to play by postthere are amateur zines. One is/mazine, run by Paul Mason. Itprints articles, reviews olproducts and scenarios.

Jan Hiechwiadowics, theHobby historian, estimates thatthere may be as many postalsports games players asDiplomacy players. The bulk otthe sports games arecampaigns. Players own anAmerican football team or asoccer club. Not only do theypick the teams for games anddecide on match strategy, butthey also buy and sell playersand arrange training. Even if ateam does badly one seasonthere's always next year to lookforward to.

The most popular sportsgame is United, a football game.An d y Ba tes runs two leaguesin his zine Froggy One has 60teams and the other 30. Eachdivision contains just 10 teams.The reason, says Andy, is tokeep the seasons short so thatplayers whose teams arestruggling do not becomedisillusioned and drop out.

Andy also runs Diplomacy andits variants. He is also trying towork out the rules for an L.

simulation,' he says. The gameincludes pre-season matches,roster (player) selection, training,play formations, full leagueresults, playoffs to Superbowland the annual draft of newplayers. The game is so good. Ithought you may find it deservesa full review Well. Matthewlooks like you could be right. Asyou point out, American footballis increasing in popularity in thiscountry. and Gameplan could bea way for those of us who aremore the size of ice cubes thanfridges to play. I'll get one of myspies on to it at once.

S co t t StoCiaten, writingfrom Dundee, points out that theaddress for Mitre Games I gaveat the end of the GlobalSupremacy review is wrong

American football campaign.For players keen to start

playing Diplomacy by post.Donny Coteman runs a zinecalled Springboard which offersgames for first-time players andarticles about Diplomacystrategy, other zines andhobbymeets and conferences.George North, who editsSpanner. a zine dedicated toUnited, also runs the zine bank,For El and a large sae he willsend out a sample of currentzines. There is also a packagefor novice players which is,again, Dip/omacy oriented and isput together by John Doddsand costs E2.

Peter Berlin

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Thanks Scott, and you shouldfind that I have let everybodyknow in the last issue, plusmentioning the problem again inthis one. Unfortunately, themagazine goes to press sometime before you see it on thenewsstands, so when somethinglike Mitre's demise happens, wesometimes just miss being ableto cover 11.

Scott also wants me to informreaders that he is setting up aPBM company himself, AshmoreEnterprises. He will be running afootball management gamecalled Hat Trick, and a spaceconquest game called No Mercy,Both games will cost E3 for start-up, including two free turns. Afterthat, turns will be 50p each plusa stamped sett-addressedenvelope. tl you're interested,write to Scott at 16 LyndhurstTerrace, Lochee, Dundee D023HP and get him to send yousome more information (don'tforget the sae!).

We seem to be popular in theNorth and in Scotland, for somestrange reason: obviously theremust be a larger percentage ofpeople with the taste,intelligence and breedingnecessary to (a) buy YourSinclair and (b) play PBM gamesin these regions. Anyway, thelast letter this month is fromAda m Cochrane in Ross-shire.

Adam says we haven't saidanything about his lavountegame, It's A Crime well notenough for a real fan anywayHe's been playing for a while,although he says he's no expert,and he has a few tips for anyonewho might be starting out, sothey can avoid the mistakes hemade. Also, anyone in the gameand in desperate need of helpcan write to Adam at 1, Westford.Airless, Ross-shire IV17 ORY,Scotland, enclosing a stampedself-addressed envelope and hewill give them advice. Can't sayfairer than that guy.

Adam's tips: mug people togain experience; rob offices andwarehouses; rob buildings withlow defence levels — the higherthe defence level, the morechance of being caught.mugging is good for boostingmorale; firebomb schools, andchurches to gain notoriety;firebomb warehouses to get lotsof money; ambushing is good fordepleting an enemy's gang. plusit is good for notoriety andraising morale.

Hmmm. I think we're going tohave to get someone to reviewthis game as soon as possible —sounds like Mary Whitehousemight be the right person

To quote Po rky Pig, ''Th-Th-Th-That's All, Folks!", and mayyour games-master go with you.

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for my user port? Why wouldI want one ol those?" I saidMGT smiled at me and said,"Try it." Oh well, I'm game for

a laugh. so I tried it To my greatsurprise, I liked it, and found it moreuseful than many other things I'veshoved into my user port. Friar!

Expansion ports have been popularfor years, allowing the industriousSOeccy user to connect as manygadgets as he likes to his machine, allat once But such ports have alwaysbeen fraught with problems In mostcases they're just a piece of ribboncable which has been soldered with aspare male connector in the centre.I've used a lot of these jury riggedribbon style connectors in my time,and they've always been wobbly,unreliable, and had a nasty tendencytowards crashing And the mostperilous kinds of connection are thosewhich involve the dreaded PRINTERINTERFACES!!! How many times haveyou wanted to print something outfrom your Speccy and found that theport is gummed up with the very itemyou want to pnnt from?

Dr Shouty's CasebookTake the VTX5000. A fine little modem,and very inexpensive to buy But whatdo you do it you want to pnnt out yourscreens of Prestel/Micronet? It seemslike a fairly simple process. You saveyour screens to tape online, and printthem out offlme when the modem'sdetatched from your user port. Or soyou'd have thought. But in order torecall the screens from tape, you haveto have the modem attached. Why?'Cos the screens are in a specialformat, peculiar to Prestel. and won'tload in a naked Spectrum.

Okay, so you wedge your printerinterlace into your user port, then thelead from the modem But the modemsits under the Spectrum, raising theinterface oft the ground and makes itwobble. The computer crashes- Soyou get smart and lay your modemupside down. BEHIND the Spectrum,so everything's in contact with thetable But it still doesn't work. Youunplug everything, plug it backtogether.., and so on

This all sounds pretty stupid, but itoften happens. A dodgy lead trashedmy Speccy, and it was all clown to thejolly old 56 way connectors which arethe only way the Speccy cancommunicate with outside peripherals.

That's where the TwoFace comesIn You can connect your peripherals.like the Plus 0 disk interface, printer,Vidi ZX, wthatever. to your ports, andeither switch them in one at a time, orall together. This is an excellent ideafrom my point of view, as not only will itallow me hours of trouble-freecomputing, itrIl stop me drop kickingthe little fiend through the window!Anyroad, before I get carried away, letme tell you all about the physicalconstruction of the device.

RAGEHARD!

Phil South looks at the ultimatedeterrent in the RAM pack wobble

stakes, as MGT launches theTwoFace, a switchable two-way

user port.

Now about this torself-contained. Nofloating circuitboards and notrailing wires tosnare your coffee cupand crash themachine.

So, What's In It?The construction of the device Is veryneat. No floating circuit boards, nomessy wires whizzing around all overthe shop. Just neat and tidy little ICsnestling on a few solidly fixed PrintedCircuit Boards (PCBs).

The chips are what you'd expectfrom a device of this type, especiallyone with a Kempston compatiblejoystick port wedged on the side. Onthe secondary PCB are the threechips, A 74I.S240 Octal Butler, a74LS32 Quad 2-Input OR Gate, and a74LS138 3-line to 8-Line Decoder.These chips do two sobs Firstly theywire in a joystick into the user port, and

secondly.they make surethat you can switchthe 101;10 and MREO pinswithout causing anyhardware headaches

The only other bits inside the boxare a 9-way right angle male DConnector (joystick port to you) a 4-pole 3-position slide switch, and thethree PCBs, including 2 x male and 1x female 54-way connectors and a

metal casing Four rubber feet on thebottom of the unit keep it at the samelevel as the user port on the SpectrumThe unit rests very comfortably behindthe Spectrum, and is as sturdy andwobble-tree a unit as I've ever lobbedonto my user port. It's stability comesfrom the metal casing. plus its gnppyrubber feet. which hold the surface ofthe table so well, that for a minute Ithought it was stuck to el

Yes, But What's It Like!The TwoFace works well The selectswitch on the top means you can haveeither both ports in use at once, justthe back one, or lust the front one. Andthe best thing about the TwoFace isthat because it's only switching the 10and Memory Request lines, you canusually fit incompatible interfaces to itwith absolutely no hassle — nocrashing and no chip rupture. Arideven if they are incompatible, you havethe choice to switch them in or out toyour own requirements.

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special I waffled on foraeons about howsound and musiccreate good

atmosphere and enjoyment ina game. Now, in this monthsspecial, I'm going to waffle onfor ages about how screeneffects create an element offinesse and a more refinedlook_

As you may know, a snazzyclear screen routine or a swiftscrolling effect certainlysharpens the overall impact ofa game. Not that I'm sayingthat everytime you clear thescreen you should use acomplex routine involvingalgorithms and thirty-two bitarithmetic, but rather that theoccasional screen effect at keypoints in the game (such as thebeginning or the hi-scorechart) often works really well.

So I thought I'd print you somesimple visual machine coderoutines, so you could see foryourself just how effective theyare.

The following routines areplain and straightforward Theydon't use any obscureinstructions or intensecalculations, and if you'vealready taken the first tentativestep on the machine codeladder (buying an assembler, agood book, and getting downto some serious trying) thenthese routines will help youtake the next few steps. Beforeyou know it you'll be at the topof the class and doing StarTips for me (I wish).

Anyway, here we have aselection of routines fromexcellent amateurprogrammers includingMichael Wilcox, TomBaker and Giles Cartmel

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Next month we'll be back tonormal with all the latest fromthe greatest. But I haveanother Pitstop specialplanned, this time concerningLoaders. And in this one, apartfrom a standard fast loaderwe'll have a routine thatmimicks the Alcatraz systemused on US Gold games andalso some strange and weirdloaders that surprised evenme.

In the meantime, if youbecome inspired and feel likehaving your name in print, andrunning the risk of earningyourself fifty smackeroonies,then send me your programs(Basic or machine code) to meDavid McCandless at ProgramPitstop, VS. 14 RathbonePlace, London VV1P 1DE,

PANITEver wanted to scroll windows oreven the whole screensmoothly? I bet you have. Wellnow you can do it (scroll win-dows that is) using this programby Michael Wilcox and notjust in a meagre single directioneither.

The way it works is fairlysimple. A window is specifiedand then the program eitherrotates the eight screen ele-ments (pixels) that make a byteleft or nght to produce a scrollingeffect.

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If you're one of those people whowrite a three line letter all theway from Australia just to tell methat I made a spelling mistake onpage 92 of the August issue,then you'll probably complainthat this routine isn't technically ascreen effect. Well it is, so shud-dup This program squelches ascreen, attributes and all, insuch a way that a cute cuddlyminiature of it appears. Greateh? And it's easy to use too!

MethodUse the Hex Loader to load thehex listing into 50000 and save itwith SAVE "squelch 1"CODE 50000,218. Then type inthe little Basic controller andsave it with SAVE "squelch2"LINE 90. Then RUN the pro-gram.

SQUELCHINGFirstly the program'll ask you fora Y co-ord (0-12) and then an Xco-ord (0-16), these are the co-

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repeated again and again simplyby pressing L until the screen isfull of squelched screens. Onceyou've a competent number ofcompressed graphics burstingout all over the TV, you can savethe whole lot by pressing E.Simple innit?

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UP rIDIOINThis up scroll routine (1988Michael Wilcox Creations) iscleverly designed so not onlycan you scroll the whole screenwith the ultimate in ease andsmoothness, but with windowsas well. Corl Unfortunately Ihaven't a down scroll routine tocouple it with. Anyone oblige?

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A great screen clearing effectcan be created if you repeatedlycall the squelch routine until thescreen disappears.

SQUASH!Well that just about wraps it upas they say. But Robin does saythat he doesn't mind peopleusing the routine in their ownprograms although he doesn'twant it copied out to jam into afanzine. Got that.

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ENLIGHTENMENTLook I know you're confused. Iknow you don't know your bitsfrom your bytes, your fingersfrom your toes, your hexes fromyour decimals. But these rou-tines are best suited for thosepeople hovering in the twilightzone between total incom-prehension and total under-standing. It's for those peoplewho have an assembler, a brain,and are interested in learning theold machine code, yet who alsounderstand a microbe of thelogic behind computers.

And in case you don't knowthe terminology here's a briefbreakdown (and we are talkingultra-brief):Byte - the basis of all compu-ters, 1024 bytes make a kilobyteor 'K'. The Spectrum has 49152bytes or 48K.Bits - each byte is made ofeight bits (well technically ninebut I won't go into that). Each onecan be set or reset. So youraverage byte looks like this:00000000. Each descending bithas the value 128,64,32,16,8,4,21 respectively.None of the above bits are set sothe value of the byte is zero.When, however you SET a bitlike, 10000000. The value of thebyte becomes 128 (as the bit onthe left has the value 128), And ifthe bytes looks like this:10000001 then the value is 129.Easy eh?

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Matthew Turrall (29) fromCoventry is another person whoalways makes it to the lay when hegoing to be sick. His favouritevegetable' The carrot - What'sthe scariest thing he can thinkof? 'Hav ing hundreds of spiderssellotaped to my neck ' Secondfive computer game? 'TargetRenegade - Five non-computergame? -G e t t in g t o ge t he r wi th a

few fnends and all pretending to belamp-posts for a couple of hoursevery week(!). His favouriteplanet in the Solar System(except for Mars) is Pluto. and,apart from VS, his favourite 'nag isSmash Hits.

Sick behind the fridge? Scared of "Tarby"? Never foundblue fluff in your belly-button? Listen to the Bay City

Rollers while wearing spook- trousers and platformboots? Are you like that? A t the1988 PC Show atEarls Court we met all sorts of crazy odd bodst

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Charmaine i s 91 years oldand a birrova 'Goth'. She had a tentand actually 'camped' in front of thers stand for five days. Favouritehobby? "Hanging around stands atthe PC Show' Does the ever findblue fluff in her belly-button?-No. but I'm constantly finding

'Goth' fluff.' What's 'Goth-fluff'?•It's the same as blue fluff, exceptit's black." Oh. What arta herparty-time thunder habits? 'I'mnot fussy. I tend to pop into thegarden. but of it's raining del ivermy load wherever there's a sparesquare metre' What's the scariestthing she can think of? -U u u u m ,'Bob' Hotness.' Charrnainels anAdventure freak

Dennis Coleman (126) iS aLondoner who's fi ve music paper isSound On Sound. His favouritevegetable? The tomato* Why?'Cos it's a taste-bomb Especiallythose small ones, you know, thesweetish ones they sort of explodein the mouth Sheer ecstasy' Hisfavourite planet in the SolarSystem (apart from Man)? "Ithas to be Pluto. W h a t ' s t h e

scariest thing he can think of?—Tarby' r jimmy 'Tarby' Tarbuck

'Nit. He's an incredibly horrendousperson." His favourite berf-zoneat parties? -E h ? _ W h er e I 'm

sick? , Oh, anywhere really Aslong as it's not on myself*

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Chris Merriman is 43. comes fromRugby and is totally hatstand. Here'sproof Fave planet? The MilkyWay" Does he ever find blue fluffin his belly-button? "I've neverlooked." Faye hobby? 'Looking forblue fluff in my belly-button." Seewhat we mean! Oh, he spends 500hours a week playing computergames. Favourite vegetable? Theparsnip

PC's PeterFord and DaveBehan (19 and 22)are from South London,and as you can see, eventhey knew which were themost 'happening' stickersat the show. Why werethey there? 'Welt we saw advertsfor the PC show and thought we'dcome along and see what it was allabout.' -T h a t 's r i gh t , bu t we

thought PC stood for PoliceConstable w e thought it was aPolice Constable show, but as itturns out it's all these bloomin'computers, an' there's no othercoppers about anroohere.- T h e r e ' slot's of security guards , 'Yeah,but that's hardly the same thing, isit?" "Thies right — they ain't propercoppers.' Oh. What's yourFavourite place for being sickwhen you're at a party? 'Youwhat?' -Y e a h. w a tc h i t, you can 't ask

us questions like that w e ' r e thelaw' But surely your helmetswould make ideal receptacles?"That's it You're nicked!"

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Justin Coll is 99 (telegram nextyear) and lives in Surrey. He saysthere's not enough room to say whyIS is so utterly urn-lam, so hewon't. The scariest thing he canthink of? 'T'zer," Does he everfind Mee fluff in his belly-button?'Quite often, but I've discoveredthat a little dab of petroleum leysoon deals with the problem.'Second favourite computergame of all time? "Head OverHeek." What's the 'raunchiest'thing you've ever done with apair of wellington boots? "Eml. Ionce accidentally put a pair on thewrong feet' That not very'raunchy'! 'Er. no S'pose not_Sorry"

Weng Ang (Si) comes fromLondon, and is a shoot'em-up fiend.He's another person who hasn'tsearched the inner recesses of histummy -hole for blue fluff What'sthe scariest thing he can thinkof? W h a a a t t t ! ? What'sthe second scariest thing? 'SusanTulley from EastEndere Has heever cooked an egg in amicrowave? 'Yes.' Whathappened? 'That's the third

Julian Hales (5) hails (bar bar) fromSheffield, and he's another SmashHits reader Does he find blue fluffIn his belly-button? 'To beabsolutely honest I've never actuallylooked, but there probably isn'troom for any because that's where Ikeep my pet bee. Arthur" Secondfave computer game? "Matchdoy"

scariest thing - I dont know ifshould tell you." Oh, go on"No" Okay then, tell us aboutyour •barfint habits at parties."Well I normally make It to the lavbut if I can't VII hold it in my mouthfor as long as possible and try tofind another suitable receptaclesomewhere in the house," a s ?'Erm, flowerpots are quite good.So's the vegetable draw in thefridge"

Why does he think YS is soabsolutely skill*? 'Cos the femalestaff are so absolutely gorgeous."like him! Ed) What are his 'beingsick at parties' habits? 'Isometimes make it as far as thebathroom floor but usually heaveup in the kitchen. Once I was sickbehind a fridge.' (Blereeeel)

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after 730pm• Nintendo Deluxe system in lop conditionwith Iwo cartndges, zapper gun and robot£5 one Phone Chns on (0990 23844 afterlerre• Sega Console now with tour games £100.accept £90 or woe for BBC Amstrad,Commodore 64. Elenon. * ca r, etc Huey!Alex leametice. 65 Mansfiekt Crescent,Beedield. Lanes• Spectrum -4- t o r s a l e w i th i n t er f a ce , j o ys t ic k .

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• Spectrum+2 still boxed, joystick Interlace+ over 130 games worth £400 Want elet).and many moos with POKEs for game*Phone (021)382 50613 Ask for ken altar Eorn• Spectrum 4-3 with mutt:face 3. tape recorder,Korn joystick. 12 blank disks, some software.gill under guarareee £200 Also mural/ice 3for Bala, £35 Phone (Oil 595 0041• For Sale, Spectrum sett interface 1,microdrwe. cartridges Snapshot 2 Interlacelighten. tape player plus books. magazinesand over 70 ewes al software Fling Nal 4061)427 6490• ZX Speetrum+ yogi leads, over £100 worth01 Softvame all I t good condition S e ll £70.Phone 109061E60688 and ask tor Simon• Vre 5000 modem lor sate ewe WOOCOndrikOn CIO for quick sale, will swop tca hardor software Phone Neal en (0302) 721693 atter4Prn

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guarantee Tel 40.4334 I 576134 after 5Pm ask forGary• 48K Speetturn+ loads Of games, Feefei OurRun. Orem. Crary C.411 and More megagames Bargain at £150 Contact Boyd,Eilkharn Farm, Sea Dyke Way, Marshchapel.Gnmstry• Spectrum-'-. waleiceive with carts. Alphacom32 Planter, paper, pyslick with interlace, tapeescort:ler. eghtpen, 50 games aN boxed withmanuals M ini condition, £150. Phone Paul on1028i 572 285• Speceurn+2 joystick, plus over £300 worthof games for sake Onty C150 ono Contact BenCook on (Basingstoke) 770154• 48 X SPec tr um, good condition, including

leads a Mulreennt interlace end over £300 ofamazing software Phone (09901 23220 ask forPhilip Low pnce £100 or separately• Spectrum+ Incr lead and manuals) In goodcondition with interlace (oystriL musicmacrons, 55 rrrags arid £106 worth of softwareWorth £250. I'm selling for £150. Phone SouthAuretip. 645 5092• AMX Mouse includes art package andinterlace compabble with Contronec and Zetprviter. £55 one Call Mark or Lee On 101) 6 4 04003.• Spectrum-4-2 plus over £1060 software.books, Curran Speech books and joystick.£450 ono All excellent condition. Contact. K.Arnold. Brelgend Cottage. Pugeston ByMentrose, Angus, Scotland• Spectrurn+2, excement condrbon. Cheetahjoystick plus loacisa games incl. Dark S .Action Force a Cyberrione Garfield, Air endmany more, plus 20 new mags with hints tipsand POKEs Phone Ben on (01 1 946 1511• Spectrum 46K, interfaces. joystick. cassettePelee/ Spectrum + tape. B&W portable CSOOgames, all worth £800 Sea tor (:220 Tel (051)526 2201. Ask for Andrew ring litkr ikrn• S P e C t rU M +7. 5 0 M w 5 te . R AM T u rb o

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• Swop Soletetze or Fireaght Of for 1942 Willalto swop computer classics Inc. E t a "Aft8176, Eagethest, Caukeron 2 and DynamiteDan for Siaplight Originate only' Phone 4e4381382888 Ask for Stephen after 5prn• 'dor Fnends or le e hoe. ye doing' Forraeopping at games or programs for 128K+2.Please write to Daniel Hynctrnan, Lime HouseSchool, Holm Ha. Deleon, Carlisle• Swop my 10 computer games ex Gryeorfor Gained. T Renegade and We Ma TheChampions. Phone Greg on Si Agnes 3354• I want Elattenan f o r my We Ate TheChampions Interested/ Send game to. PradTaylor, 345 Holyhead Fld, Weargion, Telford• Wanted lots of penpals kern anywhere 10swop games. POIKEs, hints Have over 500titles AN letter's answered, send your list lotmine Alexander von Bogaert. Flanweushol 9.Maastncie 0215 ER. Hollered

Hi-Soft Etesic (+3) disk, brand newConverts Speccy Basic to WC in seconds Alldocurrentaboin and Ow Phone Alex on 1021)4558 £ 2 0 Ore• 16 year old tamable has +2 and Aleut 1200games, wants to Worm games with everyonethat has new games Reply guaranteed. Tel• ean, Trumpsidor-30, Ramet-Hlasharon,47264 Israel.• Wanted Grand Pnx Manager CireCto.Megatrutt, Pinball and Jackpot. I have thesegames, Pro Ski Sarnuiator Super SfunenderVideo Olympics, leader:30nd, Snooker Piusutters Interested, phone Tony on (0963)616753 Nowt• Wanted for Spectrum 48K Ratan Of TheWood let 720' Pieloon, T Renegade or anyothers. Poe m send a games est with newgames C posebre Many thanks, lain Potter. 9Tort Rd. Harem Plymouth. Devon TeraphenePlymouth 793131

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• Wanted' Empire Smkes Back Will swop forPlatoon (complete pack) and atonicCommando i 48K ma rl TND tor one Swap.Please contact David Forttharn, 3 Sandy Lane.treestertiarn. Kant• Warted Football Manager w i l l swop forCosmic *armor and Or Reran/ Two tor oneoterested phone (091 2 3 7 2099 and ask torS tephen Originate only please• Star Printer LC-10 E110. plus D riterlace/3.5disk dove E65. 128 multrface plus ID veraiOn£15. m ute EIS. Anthony Weyer -Brown, TheBillows Vico Road, Da tes Co Dublin. Ireland• Wanted, 2 0 0 0A D a nd D re ad i tems ,

including bed( programs. figuresadvertisements. monthlies and anything elseSend lasts including items condition PaulScott. 13 Kilt Crescent, Bishop kaddleharn. NrFertyhie Co. Durham• Wanted. (MC or R V* with full instructionsWill mop tot &e l and either Diary Of AdrianMose ot Legoons Of DeaM or Catch 23 Allcremes Please write to Ben Townsend.Malaria-I-Coed, Ceuntint Lianrug Caernarfon.Gwynedd,• eteld Cans Leaderboard and OutRun On4-3 disk Swop to other disk sottware I have300+- disk gamest Write to KM Riley, 48Goodson Gardens, Ercangton. Birmingham,624 OAG• Wanted' Arbil or &hanged Ansa or similarprograrri, not Paintbox_ Tel (0932) 562309 andask for -P o n y b e tw ee n Spm and erpm to arrange

details• Waned! Copy or &Aloe s Mete. swopgames. L 0 Robinson, 3 Boylon Court.Liverpool L7 6PZ• Ure te r* 128 vall swot) fix Dnflet DreCula,The Armageddon Men and The Ybtirtg OnesPhone Russell on (3929) 424021• A uses/ 48K Spectrum computer and anyWeessones Per undo. E45 Send all into toRenato Zannese. 615 Roans? St, Crovearview.Ontano, Canada M3M-2A6• Wanted' Game Over seep Star Pews andScomball Jamie Richardson. 2 Krsgeil SeeWalk. Chaste Park, Newcastle NES 1TN,• Wanted' Very cheap hardware tor Spectrum128K+ such as Saga 3, Elea Or Sven-bum keypad and n u d e Also any utilities. From Botionarea only Tel Botion 50566.III We lle d lbur Stocker issues 10 & 11October & November '86) Will swop for

money or software weeding 72 (.. C a t c h 2 3 ,Papertoe Scooby-Doo. lords, Germs andSue r Hawk. Tel (04887)89394• Welted' 'Axe' Spectrum 2,3,4,5,16 andCrete 1-13. Also watery ZX with manual,Wads and software/hardware ContactStephen Long. Stanton Lodge HogwoodRoad, Iota West Sussex Phone Lonvood753078,• I have got Rampage, International karatePius and Nato Autort taant TargetRenegade and others. Write to DarrenHubbard. 43 Pancru Rd, Plains Farr*Sunderland, Tyne & Wear. 5R13 I RH• Wanted' GAC and OutRun. Swop for Datebripen interlace and software end Deuneef2, Call James on (0685)873133 abet 4prinWeesideys only please• Mimeo, A R S i n g oo d c on d it i on Must have

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• POKF si 17 pages packed with POKEsroutines and mulbteCe POKEs for latest gamesskis Outituri Ainsiod Li. Academy boron. Send£1.50 4- large sae to S Edwards, SiCumberland Avenue Intake. Doncaster. SAdis. DN2• Worms loin a soccer PBM? Look no turner'Send E2 cheque of PO (made payable to A SM e sh * for lull rules and start-up Write to 23Kenilworth Dove, Bletchley, Milton Keynes.Buck",• Anyone interested in a role playing R AP Ifso send an sae to Matthew Godbott."Touchwood" Forest Lane. East Homely,Surrey Please hurry only 12 people needed'• Looking tor a new member tor your club?so then rm the perlect member I own a l thePOKES for a t the new tees (also Spanish).Send list of games and your condblionsManuel Rodriguez. /kvda Bunasot 224-2,Valencia 46025, Spain• Home racing fans, Y o u r c o m p u te r c a n h e lp

you win' Send £2 for a computer methodwhich magnify gave winners at 33/1, 16/1, etcTony O'Reilly, "Alpine". Church RoadCarrigaline, Co. Cork. Eire,• P854 addresses and review. Send E 1 tormassive listing GM's send your PBM address& lull mstructronS & 50p Send to N. Kurz. 8Mayfield Close. Old Harlow Essex. re l (0279)27319• We a ve POKEs, 192 for 50p! Cheques/POs, payable to Paul Oungey. Please endosesae Ituittlece POKE* 48 Green Lane, PenrynCornwall Also C90 POKEs tape for £2.49)• Leal Of The Rings wanted, will swop SoPacX, A View To A Kik Codenamts Frocary The13tri etc Phone Dublin 732952 between I -

2pm, Mon• Fn Or ante to Gerard Hutchmson,47 Caledon Rd, Eastwall, Dublin 3. iretand• Do you want your M kt address included mour well established list? If so send 75p andrules of the game to Turtle Enteronses, 8Mayfield Crow Old Hatiovit Essex• Ilicelisk, essential Spec-4-3 Disk ManagerUser friendly & versatile insedes example endinstruction programs. Rename, Protector /ICopy ties etc, Cheques/Postal ()filers [610 SISOM* 129 Preston Rd, ithiehgow WestLothian• ',Men will I be famous? Never if you don'tsend your 48K1128K adventures to CreativeJuices. 28 Horseshoe Rd, Longford, Coventry(As long as you mote it yourself• sm a r tape mag. issue 1 out now CostElOpplus a tape. Contains 'wawa, tips, news,charts. M e ads find much more Write now foryour copy to, Graham Finney. 14 Greenhill Rd,Billings, Nr Wigan. Lams• HOrneryown Software advent/ is The 2XQuest Send E2 to cover cassette and p&p to• Smith 4 7 Banes Road, GolcasHuddersfield. West kbrkshire

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Vou can actuaity walk all the way around the pyramid, but the ortiyentrance is the one on the same side as the landing strip.

You can open deers, the lids of treasure chests, end sarcophi, , esto find treasure and new rooms to explore. Look out for thosesar'phags, though, Egyptology fans, 'cos there's a fair few mummysand dart shooting meanies behind those car red human shapeddoors.

OceanCorning to a Speccy near you soon,Wec te Mans, that dumpy little coin-op, is being written fast and furiousby the stars of Ocean. Judging bywhat we've seen so for, it looks likeit'll take Out Run for a ride. Ofcourse, printed paper being what itis, we can't show you thedemonstrations of the car spinninground - or even the graphics of theother cars as they disappear off intothe distance. What we can show youis o snapshot of the game as it standsso for — stunning grophocs, oh?

Anyway Wec Le Man should behitting your Speccy this Xmas for just£8.95 on cassette and £14.95 or,disk. Tie totally Terrific, oh Tommy

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OceanTake one Cruel oppressor odd aliberol sprinkling of troops plus adash of booby traps and mix the

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whole lot in a tropical island. Leavein your cassette player for about 3.5minutes, and voila (here's one wep r e p a r e d • !orfl obr I ,- , o n •4, - . •

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Nee, nOW nee, now, nee, °awl•Screech! eeeeeeeouul Being a copIs always exciting, but no more sothan when you're equipped with ahigh-tech sports car and enoughtechnical wizardry to put the spaceshuttle to shame Beats the pants offpedal power any day. And inTechnocop, a multi-level arcadeadventure/driving game which pitsyou los a rozze6 °Against 16 fiendishfuture criminals. you con cruise inyour panda Car to your heartscontent

The game is split into levels andeach level is split into two sections —one driving and one searching andshooting — with progress dependingon how many criminals you bog.

The technobods behind Technocopare Greg Pnest arid Tony Porter, whowere previously responsible forMrckey Mouse and Basil The GreatMouse Detective. So, this should begood. The automated lawman is setto begin his clean-up campaignsometime in December and will setyou bock a mere E799 for the (multi-.loodt cassette version and E12.99for +3 disk.

Guerrilla WarThe glocil cherry to go on the top

is, of course, yourself. Armed to thedentures you've got to get in thereand put paid to the evil tyrantsplans. This is performed by racingthrough rivers and swamps, battlingthrough the cities and towns whilebeing attacked on all sides by waveafter wave of bloodthirsty

mercenaries PhewwwwYou do have the advantage of a

partner and a tank to climb into atcertain stages in the game, but a stillain't gonna be easy.

Guerrilla WC( will be ready forconsumphon about Chrimble Timewith a price tog of E8.95 forcassette and E14,95 for the di;,Volunteers onlyG U E R I L L A

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Orandslom'Pssssi — the vicar will take tea at midnight by the drystone wall!'

Which is probably 'spyspeok for 'have you heard about Gmndslorn's'game of the boardgome', Espionage? We're not talking James Bond, fastcars and beautiful blondes here though — more strategy and cerebralexcitement, along the lines of chess and draughts.

One to four spymosters gather around an on-screen board arid enterinto the quest for four microfilms. If you can't find three friends, you conalways ploy against three computer-generated opponents (or two, or onehuman and one computer t h e possibilities are almost endless).

Would-be spying Spec-chums will be able to enter the world of coldwar intrigue as we speak, so sneak out and grab yourself a copy forE8.95 on cassette or 1,000 roubles on microfilm

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