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SOFTWARE • 1
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Editor M O O N STRIKE MIRRORSOFT 19
David Kelly DEATH WISH III GREMLIN 20
Deputy editor BOULDERDASH II PRISM 25
G r a h a m Taylor TIME FLIGHT POWER HOUSE 25
Staff writer ORIENTAL HERO FIREBIRD 25
Jim Douglas GAME OVER IMAGINE 36
Staff writer MOUNT1E MICK'S DEATH RIDE REAKTQR 3
Tamara Howard SUPER ROBIN HOOD CODE MASTERS 36
Art editor HOCUS POKUS BUG BYTE 22
CORE BUG-BYTE -37
Gareth J o n e s
SIDEWIZE FIREBIRD 44
Adventure help THETMBE QUICKSILVA 48
Gordo Greatbelly LEVIATHAN ENGLISH 52
Zapchat KILLER RING REAKTOR 52
J o n Riglar VOID RUNNER MASTERTRONIC 53
Helpline REBEL VIRGIN 56
Andrew Hewson CHALLENGE OF THE GOBOTS REAKTOR 63
Contributors PNEUMATIC H A M M E R S FIREBIRD 64
Richard Price CAPTAIN KELLY BUG BYTE 64
FLASH G O R D O N MASTERTRONIC 64
Andy M o s s
SUPER G - M A N CODEMASTERS 64
Gary R o o k ULTIMA RATIO FIREBIRD 64
Hardware correspondent TRANSATLANTIC B A L L O O N CHALLENGE VIRGIN 64
Rupert G o o d w i n s MOTOS MASTERTRONIC 66
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REGULARS 3
Whodunwot
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ZapChat 6
MapChat 8
Compo Winners 18
Smash C o u p o n s 23
Code Talk 26
WORKOUT Charts 38
LEARN CHESS COXSOFT 25 Letters 42
CRICKET AVERAGES SOUtH CGAST 36 B a c k g r o u n d Noise 47
CHESS NutS SIMAtfl 64 Poster No 7 50
Outlands 54
STRATEGY Hewson 60
Surgery 69
ZENJI FIREBIRD 37
Gordo 75
SPACED OUT FIREBIRD 37
ARMAGEDDON M A N MARTECH 73 Write Stuff 88
CONVOY RAIDER GREMLIN 74 Next M o n t h 90
Classic Moves 95
Gremlin 98
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 UNDER I
RAPS! |
In-house programmers at
 G r e m l i n have gone completely
potty and is putting together C o m -
p e n d i u m , featuring the Wink fami-
ly, father Tiddly, his wife Mavis not
to mention the Wink children and
the dog.
Lots and lots of games liko the
pub game, w h e n father flips his
beer glasses for his long suffering
family to catch.
All donations to 8ave G r e m l i n ' s
Sanity Fund will be gratefully re-
ceived.
The ma n behind F a i r l i g h t s I
 hear the phrase, " N o brakes, I
and I I , Bo Jangeborg, has de-
fected from S o f t e k T h e E d g e . He's
now in the clutches of N e x u s , w h o
will be publishing his next game.
As far as we know, the n e w game
will be out sometime around Christ-
mas, and could be called D a r k
E a r t h , but the chances of that are
really quite slight in fact.
A team w e haven't heard of
 before - Creative Reality - is
working on a n e w licence for Mar-
tech It's based on the cartoon char-
acter S l a l n e and It might be an
adventurey sort of game. Or it might
not
And it won't be out for simply
ages. So don't hold your breath.
Mixe Male — he of Hewson's
 steam loco sim S o u t h e r n B e l l e
has done it again. He and Bob Hlll-
yer are working on E v e n i n g S t a r ,
a second railway simulation based
on the train of the same name,
which w as actually pretty famous
as trains go. Lots more tricky situa-
tions, problems and puzzles, and a
big locomotive to boot. 80 if you'ro a
railway enthusiast, chuff out and
buy it, sometime around September,
w e think
C h r i s K e r r y and F u n g u s t h e
 B o g e y m a n are currently prog-
ramming M a s k I I for G r e m l i n ,
deep in the bowels of Sheffield. A
game much like M a s k we're told,
with a multiple load and four mis-
sions to play with. M a s k I I will bo
out in the very near future, possibly
even before M a s k But I didn't quote
them on t h a t . ..
I
Newsdate
YUPPIE ATTACK!
T
hose of y o u w i t h weak: sto-
ma c h s a n d tidy m i n d s will
not be i n the slightest bit
interested i n Virgin's n e w release.
But if you're someone who
mourned the death of Rile and the
rest in the double-decker bus, you
pine for a third series of The
Young Ones, if you're a fan of the The ga me, w e ' r e told by
Dangerous Brothers and ache to ( w h o is spending a great deal of its
time these days giggling and being
have no b r a k e s , " t h e n you are the
silly) is based very closely on the
sort of person w h o will be i n rap- book, a n d centres a r oun d a party
tures over How t o be a Complete in a smart area of L o n d o n . A Yup-
Bastard, the Video Game. pie party, w h i c h A d e gate-crashes
Yes, in a m a d fit of depravity, in order to ruin everyone's fun.
Virgin has t a k e n A d e E d m o n d s o n ' s The idea is to clear all the Yup-
book and turned it into w h a t will pies out of the place b y doing
undoubtedly be the most disgust- things w h i c h are completely Bas-
ing, repulsive, foul, utterly addic- tardish. Mostly this involves a
tive game this side of Watford. huge a m o u n t of alcohol, me a s u r e d
The n e w disc-based Spectrum - Spectrums are No 1! • Natural
• the 128K + 3 is n o w officially • ly) N e w research, conducted by
launched by Amstrad and already AOBrLek Trak. of home computer
available in some scores Volume sales in the major high street stores
production has begun and by the for the first six months of this year
end of August the machine should show th-3 Spectrum 1 2 8 K » 2 out-
be easily available. T h e Plus 3 - still sell ing the Commodore 6 4 by four to
overpriced, sad to say costs & 2 4 9 , one! In fact the nearest rival in
although an Amstrad spokesperson Gales terms to the 1 2 8 K - 2 is the
suggested that, the price w a s likely old Sinclair 128 n o w being heavi
to be discounted in some stores. ly discounted in some stores
Dixons. for example, already dis-
counts the 1 2 8 K > 3 from its price of W h e n your weekly allowance
& 1 3 9 , d o w n to nearer £ 1 3 0 Similar • just won't stretch to the cost of
that pink Giorgi A r m a n i suit with
discounting is certainly a possibil-
ity for the Plus 3. For your- money the chequered lining that you've
the 1 2 8 K - 3 package Includes the had your eyo on for simply ages,
micro itself, an Ocean game com- then perhaps you m a y like to try
pilation disc - including C o s m i c what nine wholesome American
W a r t o a d , M a i l s t r o m , Gift o f t h e kids did By tapping away onto their
Gods, NOMAD and D a l e y T h o m p - trusty 'putors in N e w York. Los
s o n ' s S u p e r t e a t , and the SJ1 joy- Angeles and Texas - the Y a n k s
stiok ... yes we know ... it's t h e managed, via various bulletin
same wonderful stick A m o t r a d h a s boards, to break into bank charge- A Predator
been trying to get people to buy for card accounts and order themselves
M u m shopped him to the oops and
the Plus 2 all sorts of little bits and pieces It
n o w they're all facing massive poli-
w a s only w h e n one member of the
ce oharges. The nine indlviduala
gang ordered and received an extre-
Yet again w e are to be given the arrested are all aged between 14
mely expensive skateboard that his
• opportunity to race around a
track at very high speeds in a
Formula One car. But this time it's
different Because N i g e l M a n s e l l .
he of the moustache and the very
quick accelerator pedal. 16 the main
man in M a r t e c h ' s game called, u n
surprisingly w e feel, N i g e l M a n -
sell's Grand P r i x It's due for re
lease on November 19. four day.*
after the final Grand Prix in Aussie
land. Everyone expects Nigel's gon-
na win the Championships, so M a r
tech could well have a cult game o n
its hands. The game will feature
things like a computer link to the
pits, enabltng you, as driver, to give
detailed instructions to your orew
about w h e n you want your tyres
changed and so on. Your controls
inside the car s h ow speed of the car,
the overall condition of it. and his
position in the race. For those of
you w h o feel euch technological
wizadry is far too hard to cope with,
there's an alternative game which
simply allows you to go around the
race track like a bat out of hell and
not worry about, anything else at
all<
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U L X X W O t
according to y o u r ' d r u n k o m e t e r ' .
Tills i n t u r n leads to t he swelling
of y o u r ' w e e o m e t e r ' wlilcli results
in a lot of v e r y d a m p Y u p p i e s . B y
s we a r i ng a lot a n d general ly b e i n g
thoroughly disgusting, y o u score
Bastard points, a n d eventually get
to light u p t he w o r d s
'Complete
i v l s i o n is proving to be
'rather o n the bail these d a y s
It's sneaking about a n d getting
some fbal hot lioenoes Last m o n t h
we tcM you oil about N i g h t m a r e ,
and this month, we're talking P r e -
d a t o r Arnold S c h w a r z e n e g g e r is
famous for having big muscles, a n d
making cracking good - not to men-
tion violent - lllms. A n d cracking
good movies m a k e cracking good
gamoa w h e n licensed out to s m a r t
c-C'flware houses So w h e n Predator.
Arnie's latest movie, w a s s u c h a
Huge s m a s h in the States that it
took $ 3 m at the box office in its first
week. Activision nabbed it
I n c e n t i v e is thoroughly ex-
• cited about, a brand n e w con-
cept that it's thought up.
Come the P C W S h o w well be tre-
ated to the sight of a g a m e called
D r i l l e r , w h i c h will feature ^ T r e e s -
c a p e . A n e w development in solid
3 D graphics, F r e e s c a p e allows the
player to m o v e to a n y point in the
landscape, a n d Chen to view that
landscape from every conceivable
angle T h e graphics are solid a n d
convincing and really m a k e y o u feel
as if you're there. I n c e n t i v e prom-
ise us trillions a n d billions of
screens for every area of 3 D space.
Completely over the top1
SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987
TWTMTW
Newsdate:
THAT WAS THE
Bastard'. T h e w h o l e t h i n g is b e i n g
MONTH THAT WAS
S
brought to y o u r s c r e e n s u s i n g a
n e w t e c h n i q u e k n o w n as, surpris- o Amstrad expects the
ingly e n o u g h , Bastard-vision. £249 price of the expen-
W e k n o w full well that this is sive new 128K 3 to be
going to be t he m o s t disgusting discounted by stores. Surprise,
g a m e ever s e e n a n y w h e r e at all, surprise!
a n d I c a n t w a i t to get h o l d of a And although Amstrad fierce-
copy. A n y t h i n g this horrible is ly denies it, it is now widely
b o u n d to sell millions. thought, too, that the price will
H o w to b e a C o m p l e t e B a s t a r d will have to drop again in Septem-
feature a split s c r e e n a n d four- ber, when the price difference
angle, full v i s i o n of t h e r o o m so between the Plus 3 and the Atari
that n o B a s t a r d i s h feat will b e ST will be narrowed by Atari to
missed. just £50.
A n y h o w , t he w h o l e t h i n g is Where the Sinclair machines
being p r o g r a m m e d b y Sentient have no rivals whatsoever is in
Software — t h e people w h o d i d T a i - the field of software. No other
P a n for O c e a n — a n d w e c a n expect machines can boast so much
an outbreak of Bastardishness software, or software so cheap.
sometime towards Christmas. This is undoubtedly the lead
A n d let's h o p e it's better t h a n t he that has made the Plus 2 now by
awful Y o u n g O n e s g a m e , r e l e a s e d far the most popular micro in
last y e a r B the UK today - selling over three
times as many machines as its
If How to be a Complete Bae But of course y o u do still get to nearest rival, the Commodore
• tard is not disgusting e n o u g h choose between the Plus 2 a n d Plus 64.
for your particular personal taste, 3. A s an Amstra d s p o k e s m a n put it
then maybe thi3 will bo. P o w e r "It's not like Russia w h e r e y o u go But what use is all this cas-
H o u s e is preparing to unleash a into a s h o p a n d there's n o choice."
sette software to the Plus 3? It
game entitled S o f t a n d C u d d l y at Tea. well That's all very fine. But
the beginning of September. A n d it's what about people w h o w a n t a disc can run it, by connecting up a
important to note at. this stage, that drive a n d bought a Plus 2 before the cassette player to the machine.
there is nothing whatsoever, abso-
lutely, at all. at all, cross m y heart
Plus 3 w a s a n n o u n c e d ? I guess they
might as well go to Russia . .
But what's the advantage in
and hope to be s p a n k e d until m y having a disc drive if there's no
bottom goes purplo < n o m o r e Black Last issue w e told you about a
software on disc? Well, there is
Adder Jokes, please FA). Soft, or • film, with the improbably
Cuddly About this game. Your n a m e d Dolpli L u n g r e n as the star an answer!
father's trapped in a refrigerator feature. A n d . w e said, wouldn't it bo
a nice idea if s o m e o n e turned H e
Romantic Robot is working on
and y o u r mother's gone quite lite-
rally to pieces after a nasty acci- Man and t h e M a s t e r s of t h e Uni- what will unquestionably be the
dent Release y o u r father from the v e r s e - T h e F e a t u r e M o v i e into a new machine's most significant
game A n d , lo a n d behold, G r e m l i n
fridge, collect all the bits of y add-on - the Multiface III.
mother, then s e w her back togeth
again A n d if it's anything like near This device - quite pricey at
ly all of P o w e r H o u s e ' s recent re- over £40 - allows any cassette
leases. it'll probably be useless
based software written for the
More 1 2 8 K + 3 news! Anyone Plus 2 to be loaded into the Plus
• buying a PI u s 3 will pretty soon
3 - using any ordinary cassette
run u p against a B I G problem: n o
software! Ixjts of software on cas- player - and then dumped out to
sette n o software o n disc. Roman- disc.
tic Robot is w o r k i n g o n the answer*
- a device to d u m p out software The development won't
from tape to disc Its n e w Multiface please the software houses
III, latest in a line of such devices,
will d u m p out either screens or
much, though. The device
software to disc at the touch of a breaks the copyright protection
button Multlface III will cost on the cassette software in
9 8 . available e n d of this m o n t h
order to transfer it to disc.
All those sick a n d tired of low
• quality budget products will be
Amstrad on the other hand
delighted at the latest m o v e from seems quite keen on the device
H e w s o n Following the success of - after all it's going to help sell
Z y n a p s and E x o l o n , H e w s o n is
Joining forces with M a a t e r t r o n l c .
the Plus 3.
a n d putting out a whole stack of
Without it disc software for
brand n e w g a m e s o n a budgot label.
H e w a o n will be writing all the the machine can be counted on
software, and M a s t e r t r o n l c will be licence G r e m l i n promises that it'll one finger of one hand - and the
in oharge of distribution. T h e n e w really go to town o n this one. A Plus 3 becomes little more than
label, called H a c k - I t will be re rollicking arcade adventure. M a s -
leased on the 17th September A n d ters of the U n i v e r s e — T h e F e a - an expensive way of buying a
the best n e w s is that although t u r e M o v i e will feature thrills a n d Plus 2 - without the cassette
they'll only cost £ 2 . 9 9 all the g a m e s
will be brand n e w stuff.
spills as y o u take y o u r c h a n c es
player!H
Against Beast M a n , the savage
Bad n e w s for a n y Spectrum lieutenant of Skeletor a n d the Sor-
C R E D I T P A I f B L T h a a k a go to David
ceress Evil l y n n e M a s t e r s o f t h e
• o w n e r wanting to add a disc DelVegrl. I a n O r l m e a , Steven P e e k ,
A n d r e w Front, I a n Bennett, S i m o n
drive Amstrad h a s n o w officially U n i v e r s e will be available from
Kelly. O e n l a A h m e t a n d M i n e alt Mak-
December we're told, a n d is going to
confirmed that it will not produce er a n a for
for ihn
their help in potting thia
an add-on disc unit for the Plus 2 . be absolutely a m a z i n g . of m together
t
JON MOLAR'S
All the best things come in
groups of three you know.
Pumps. Trios. One and a half
duos. Monty games. Talking
of Monty games there's a
new one out. Well it was
new when I w r o t e this. N o w
it's probably nearly new.
Auf Wiedersehen
Monty
^ has the mole running
around all over the w o r l d
^ doing ridiculous things and
drinking lots of beer. A n d
getting a sun tan. On his
I feet. Just like me really. A n d
no - I can't get m y shoes on.
_ It's not funny! The pain, the
™ pain . . . Here're some hints:
• The football must go to
| Jeventus
• The tools repair the Au-
strian Ski Lift in Austria
M • Chateau Blanc must go to
Dortmund. (Wherever that
h is)
̶ • The bacon must be sent to
Czechoslovakia
H • The car wheel should be
taken to Monaco
• Give the cork to the boy in
I Amsterdam w h o is obvious-
ly going to stick it right
_ where he should stick it. In a
dam. He will then hand over
some tulips
• Take the tulips to Juliet in
Pizza
• The Mona Lisa should g o
to the Mafia
• Cherries, rabbits and ice
cream all give extra lives
All these tips were sent via
first class ferret f r o m Richard
Payne of Warley, and no, I
don't know where Warley is
either! Staying w i t h the sub-
ject of small furry creatures
that dig holes in your back
garden just to annoy y o u
when you're on holiday and
give you a fit w h e n you
arrive back f r o m Ibiza or
wherever, Richard Payne
has also supplied the ulti-
mate cheat. I mean the de-
finitive cheat:
'AUF WIEDERSEHEN
TUB- MAP
5
mm
I
D
o I really have to do this now? Me wanna go
beach! Show off my new Georgio Armarni shorts.
I And the Porsche sunglasses. In fact, the beaches
don't know what's hit them once old Riglar arrives with
his surfboard. But. instead, I'm stuck here, behind my
typewriter, banned from using the word 'ooer' in any
context, with all the windows wide open to cool off. And
to make my hayfever worse.
second line and the g a m e
CLEAR 32767:LOAD " ' CODE will start. Piff-poff-puff.
RANDOMIZE USR 32799 A n d because everybody
here at l - H I loves the little
Type in the first line of the
creatures, we've rounded up
above and Run it. There w i l l
now be funny flashing bor- the map as well 11 Oh yes w e
ders and a game w i l l load. have! I It's f r o m Richard 'I'm
Then it will stop. Rather still in' Payne and it's got a
abruptly. The game has n o w humungous key w h i c h I've
loaded. Then type in the got to type out. Sulk.
MONTY
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Amazing. Brilliant. Fantastic,
Triff. I liked it quite a bit
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any game, being a miserable
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m o r e than a bit like the near-
ly out Game Over f r o m Dina-
mic w i t h graphics that look a
bit like those in Equinox
from Mikro-Gen.
Here's a g u i d e to the first
twenty-five screens of the
game together w i t h a m a p
picking up f r o m screen 25,
where things get really
tricky. The final 25 screens
will be revealed next m o n t h .
SCREENS 1 & 2 Easy-peasy
stuff. You m a y get c a u g h t
out in y o u r first c o u p l e of
g a m e s by the h u m u n g o u s
g u n in Screen 1, but after
p l a y i n g the g a m e for the
hundredth time, you should
be able t o blast it right a w a y .
Don't w o r r y at all about run-
n i n g out of a m m o or mis-
siles because y o u can repla-
ce t h e m in Screen 2
SCREEN 3 Quite a s i m p l e
screen. D o n ' t bother a b o u t
the g u n of the f u n n y t h i n g
that p o p s u p out of the
g r o u n d - just get i n t o the
transporter and z o o m to the
level above. R e m e m b e r to
g r a b the replacement can
SCREEN 4. 5 and 6 "These
are p r o b a b l y the hardest
screens y o u are g o i n g to
meet in the first section. Lot-
sa b o u n c y t h i n g s appear and
they w o b b l e all over the
screen and lot of the t i m e
i n t o you. Y o u can j u m p up
and blast, duck a n d panic.
Try to recognise t h e patter n
of the balls. S o m e w i l l miss
y o u c o m p l e t e l y d u e to their
height and others have to be
blasted or it's Victor' s last
stand. A n d o l d Vic is a bit of
a dork o n c e he's hit - fling-
ing his a r m s into the air like
a d e m e n t e d gerbil. There's a
p o d alien in Screen 6 and it's
pretty nasty. Make sure y o u
stay w e l l back o n c e y o u ' v e
had a g o at it. A n d keep
firing!
_SCREEN
_ _ _ _ _7 Stay w e l l back.
Watch the missile carrier
carefully and y o u ' l l notice a
fuse b e h i n d it. W h e n it starts
to crackle, start f i r i n g ! ! Make
sure y o u duck and fire as
well. Once the fuse stops
b u r n i n g m o v e a f e w steps
f o r w a r d and t h e n check the
fuse once again. If y o u ' r e
w i t h i n a c o u p l e of steps of
the missile carrier, keep
walking w h e t h e r the fuse is
b l o w i n g or not. T h e n all y o u
need do is j u m p in the trans-
porter and replenish y o u r
a m m o reserves
Quite easy. B l o w
the g u n up as quickly as
SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987
possible a n d r e m e m b e r t o
duck if it fires back. Then
j u m p t o the m i d d l e p l a t f o r m
a n d o v e r to t h e o t h e r side
p r a p l d d f l R l T f f E E j In Screen
^ y o u l l i m m e d i a t e l y notice a
missile c o m i n g in y o u r direc-
t i o n . It's no g o o d t r y i n g to
fire at it. The o n l y w a y y o u
can destro y these missiles is
by l o b b i n g a g r e n a d e at the
missile c o n t r o l . This looks a
bit like a planet stuck o n a
pole if y o u f o l l o w m y drift.
The trick here is t o t i m e w h a t
y o u d o - w i a t inside the t o p
transporter u n t i l the missile
starts to look t h r e a t e n i n g
( w h e n it's right up y o u r
nose) t h e n p u s h y o u r joys-
tick u p and t r a n s p o r t to the
lower level. Get out of the
transporter quickly and l o b a
grenade at t h e c o n t r o l centre
before another missile
appears. Simple really.
Screen 10 is easy if y o u
r e m e m b e r not t o charg e into
the f u n n y t h i n g s that p o p up.
D o n ' t f o r g e t t o replenish
y o u r stocks a n d t o change in
the G e o r g i o A r m a r n i capsu-
le. Victor w i l l t h e n be an
e v e n harder l o o k i n g g u y
char7E
Tim B r a t t o n f r o m
column (sounds a b i t " u d e I Z
1 Arkanoid
I Spy Hunter
3 Snduro Racor
i Barbarian
* Krackout
He says Arkanoid is so add,,,
<h ' „ ,c , T,m 'o imply
w i t h his d o u b l e m a c h i n e -
g u n . Screen 11. D o n ' t bother
g o i n g u p to t h e level a b o v e -
just charge at the missile
carrier f i r i n g all the t i m e.
Y o u w o n ' t need to duck un-
less a w a y w a r d missile c o m -
es y o u r w a y. Once y o u arrive
in Screen 12, fire a g r e n a d e
at the missile c o n t r o l . If y o u
w e r e o n the upper level
t h i n g s w o u l d have got w o r -
rying. Screen 13 is a doddle.
Just run i n t o the transporter
All fairly
easy g o i n g . In Screen 14
y o u ' l l c o m e across another
p o d alien and s o m e w a y -
w a r d missiles. Stay station-
ary a n d b l o w t h e m away.
Screen 15 and y o u ' l l f i n d o n e
d r e a d e d missile carrier. T w o
o p t i o n s here - y o u c o u l d run
straight at it or g o t h r o u g h
the transporter. If y o u take
the s e c o n d o p t i o n , r e m e m -
ber to run back i n t o the
missile carrier to collect y o u r
extra points. Screen 16 and
another missile c o n t r o l t h i n g
to b l o w apart. Once in
Screen 17 y o u f i n d a g u n , the
o d d m i n e here and there,
and a change in level. The
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FANZINE CITY
Fanzines, fanzines, fanzi-
nes!!! There are quite a
few about. And I want
them all!! Anybody who
edits, compiles, or
throws out a fanzine on a
regular basis should pay
attention. What I want to
do is this - you all send
your latest is to me at the
usual address and the
best one out each month
will get a mention
c h a n g e in level is most diffi-
cult part. If y o u just j u m p
without thinking, odds on
that y o u ' l l land straight o n
top of the first mine. Instead,
b l o w the g u n u p w i t h a gre-
nade a n d t h e n walk back a
f e w paces. T u r n a r o u n d and
t h e n make a r u n n i n g j u m p to
miss the m i n e . Fire another
g r e n a d e to clear the rock
f o r m a t i o n and t h e n j u m p
over the final mine. Screens
17 and 18 aren't too difficult.
In Screen 18 y o u can replen-
ish y o u r a m m o and d o n ' t
w o r r y a b o u t the t h i n g that
p o p s u p - y o u can w a l k right
t h r o u g h it! In Screen 19, all
y o u need d o is j u m p in the
t r a n s p o r t e r a n d o n t o the
upper level. Through
Screens 20 a n d 21 run a l o n g
the t o p levels and blast. You
m a y f i n d an occassional mis-
sile f l y i n g a l o ng the top and
y o u m a y need to duck to
avoid them
SCREEN 22 This screen is a
real pain. You'll c o m e across
lotsa p o d s flying a l o n g right
at the edge of the level. The
o n l y t h i n g y o u can d o here is
to blast and j u m p . W h e n y o u
see a g a p in the p o d s run like
billyo (or a n y b o d y else y o u
can think of) and j u m p off
the ledge. N o w forget all
about the p o d s and concen-
trate o n c o l l e c t i ng the stocks
and g r e n a d i n g the t w o rock-
ets. You'll also have to look
out for the occassional
b o u n c i n g ball. At this point
y o u s h o u l d be pretty grateful
er level
SCREEN _ 23 _ Only one
screen left to g o ! Don't w o r -
ry about the p o p p i n g - u p
t h i n g because, yet again,
y o u can w a l k t h r o u g h it.
Y o u ' l l n o w be u p against a
IJON RICLAR'5
\ZAP
ICHAT
tank, and it's pretty nasty.
It's no g o o d t r y i n g t o shoot
the bullets that are fired
f r o m the t o p part because it
w o n ' t work. H o w e v e r , y o u
can keep y o u r head d o w n
and wait. You can also shoot
any lower bullets that c o m e
your w a y . S l o w l y move
forard until y o u are w i t h i n
range of the tank and f l i n g a
grenade at it. Y o u ' l l only
b l o w u p the t o p half. N o w
run past the last half and o n
to the next screen
E S i I I i 2 E 3 l T h e ,ast screen-
A I T y o u h a v e t o d o is to j u m p
o n to the pedastoo l and
y o u ' l l the n be o n to the
bonus screen. Keep y o u r
Fire key d o w n w h e n the
screen clears and this w i l l
automatically select the
a m o u n t of b o n u s .
Then y o u ' r e o n to the next
section, and it's a q o o d ' u n .
More o n that next I k i U
Storm Bringer
^ I liked ol' W h i t e Knight. He
was - w e l l - sort of c h u m m y .
•
A very b o u n c y f i g u r e in Mas-
tertronics' c a s e b o o j ^ n m y
very first c o l u m n Q Q 53) I
_ gave y o u the c o m p l e t e solu-
™ tion to Knight T y m e and
very g o o d it was t o o. N o w
g we've got S t o r m b r i n g e r in
which the g o o d g u y d o e s a
bit m o r e b o u n c i n g .
• Al and Ric (they are g o i n g
to learn h o w to spell their
_ surnames next week) have
® sent in 'a dead g o o d prog-
ram' w h i c h a l l o w s y o u to d o
g things w i t h o u t the objects
you need! A n d w h y not?
1 REM I've g o n e t o P e r u if i t
• doesn't w o r k
10 CLEAR 25170
20 BORDER 0
• 30 LOAD " " S C R E E N S : L O A D " "
CODE
40 POKE 46183, 99
• 50 POKE 46301, 99
60 R A N D O M I Z E USR 3 7 6 3 2
You'll find y o u can d o all
sorts of things. Tickle the
odd passer by (The M a d Celt
has been k n o w n to d o that
o n odd occasions but that's
another story), pull levers
and even make w i s h e s ! Y o u
also get infinite s t r e n g t h ! ! I
don't k n o w , these y o u n g s -
ters have it easy n o w a d a y s .
When I w a s in p r i m a r y
school I'd have to w a l k ten
miles to school and back and
work every day and . . .
N o w a bit of J o n a t h a n
Woss for y o u :
Into the Eagles
Nest
J ^ is weally w a t h e r wacky. A n d
n o w y o u can cheat. W h e n
you achieve a h i g h score
B i enter one of the f o l l o w i n g :
DAS MAP - y o u enter a m a p
h mode
DAS CHT - gives y o u i n f i n i t e
lives as such
• MAP OFF - gets rid of the
map m o d e
DAS NME - w i p e s o u t t h e
B enemy
A n d n o w here's s o m e in-
teresting facts a b o u t
Micronaut One
a There I was zooming d o w n
5th a v e n u e in m y Escort
w h e n a l o n g c a m e this Capri.
• It w a s Kev. I said, " H i , K e v "
b u t he w a s m o r e interested
_ in t h e f u r r y dice he had
™ h a n g i n g f r o m his m i r r o r . It
w a s hot and he had the
H window down. The in-
Micronaut entertainment
w a s p l a y i n g Wham\
" S e e n Sha?" I said.
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1 Mark Rodgers
Geoff East
David Frayton
Paul Danby
Paul Rundle
Mark Veal
7 S i m o n Dunn
8 AndV Dean
It-:-
POKUS CORNERUS
After last m o n t h ' s incredibl y h u g e p o k e corner I g o t q u i t e a f e w
letters asking w h e r e p e o p l e s h o u l d place t h e i r pokes. Well.
Dearie m e I t r i e d G a w d k n o w s I've tried. Every m o n t h I say
'these pokes are for M u l t i f a c e One o w n e r s or people w h o have
equivalent interfaces'. Every m o n t h w i t h o u t fail. But STILL
there are some people! A a a r r a r a h r a r a r r a j d a ! ! ! !
MARIO BROS Poke 44079,0: Lives
ARMY MOVES Poke 53324,255: Lives
MAG MAX Poke 58472,12: Lives
ENDURO RACER Poke 43542,0 and 43643,0: Infi-
nite time
INTO THE EAGLE'S NEST Poke 36640,0: Infinite
bullets Poke 40512,0: Pick up keys Poke 41136,0:
Infinite lives
I have been t o l d t o say t h a t a f u n n y s q u i b b l e w i l l appear w h e n
you start t o play E n d u r o Racer. This is OK. Your Time should
actually count u p i n s t e a d of d o w n and the squibble w i l l
occassionally s q u i b b l e o u t t h e n u m b e r s .
People w h o s q u i b b l e d t h i s m o n t h include Stephen Carr, Adrian
Davis and Geoff M a k i n M o r e s q u i b b l i n g next t i m e .
" N o p e , " he said r e m o v i n g
his M a r k s a n d Spencer's
sunglasses. "But I've seen a
lot of S c r i m . On 7th a v e . " He
h a n d e d o v e r a piece of pap-
er. A n d w i t h t h a t , he revve d
u p a n d w a s g o n e . This is
w h a t it said:
KEV AND SHA'S
GUIDE TO SCRIM
HUNTING
• The m o s t i m p o r t a n t t h i n g
in the w h o l e g a m e is really
to k n o w w h e r e the s c r i m are
at any t i m e . If y o u d o this
and keep all t h e t u n n e l s
o p e n for n a v i g a t i o n , y o u
s h o u l d have no p r o b l e m get-
t i n g a r o u n d each ETU.
• A f t e r a c o u p l e of goes, y o u
should gradually become
a w a r e of the layout of the
tunnel complex and should
be able to whizz a r o u n d to
each ETU q u i t e easily -
jelly fly y o u c a n either run
h o w e v e r if y o u have real
a w a y or try t o destroy t h e m .
p r o b l e m s , make f u l l use of
N o w , the jelly fly are pretty
the n a v i g a t i o n s y s t e m o n
t u f f a n d y o u w i l l need lotsa
board.
energy. Here y o u c a n cheat a
• The s c r i m e g g s are i m p o s - w e e bit. Run to the nearest
sible to destroy . So d o n ' t ETU a n d g r a b its e n e r g y .
bother. T h e n r u n back to the fly a n d
blast it. It s h o u l d n ' t w o r r y
• If y o u c o m e across any
the ETU m u c h - it w i l l issue
a w a r n i n g to y o u but w i l l
give y o u e n o u g h t i m e to kill
the fly a n d r u n back to it.
P u m p all y o u r r e m a i n i n g
e n e r g y back i n t o the ETU.
• K i l l i n g t h i n g s isn't that
easy. The trick is not to get
t o o close - if y o u do, y o u w i l l
f ^ j t Z
a l m o s t certainl y hit it an
l o o s e a lot of energy. Try to
j u d g e it so that the s c r i m is
istraa — just in f r o n t of the M i c r o n a u t
There will be a n d t h e n blast u n t i l y o u des-
here's t r o y it.
^ ^ # W e b s are a real pain.
86,765 W h e n y o u a p p r o a c h one.
79,560 have a quick look a r o u n d to
76,870 see if t h e r e are any flies
67.340
f l o a t i n g about. If there aren't
55,405
t h e n retreat to a safe distan-
ce, t u r n a r o u n d a n d charge
at full speed i n t o the w e b . It
54,420 it's a s m a l l o n e the n y o u
49.895 may just bash straight
36,21* t h r o u g h it.
M So . ge . t h o s e scores
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As a follow-up to last M o r e help w i t h
month's

Sentinel Nemesis
• codes I printed ^ Mark Baker has sent in some

MONEY!!
I've had a diagrams to help people
letter from Mike Colclough w h o are in trouble o n Levels
and Jason Ankers in Matlock • 5 to 9.
who reckon they're the first
s r ^ l
people to finish the Spec-
trum version of the game. I'd
say they were certainly in
with a chance.
They've also sent in over
300 landscape access codes
and - although we d o n ' t
have room to print t h e m all -
below you'll f i n d a pretty
juicy selection. Mike and
Jason were well dis- 0194 78417482
appointed w h e n they finally 0197 69426589
0210 78847741
got past the final landscape
0221 15846269
though - 9999. Instead of a 0303 93217473
really mega finale the g a m e 0328 89428752
simply clocked back to the 0363 54995188
first landscape - 0000 - and 0378 61579772
gave the access code for the 0400 83754805 Send Coupon to:Convoy Raider
landscape relevant to the 0502 79386674 Smash Offer, G r e m l i n Graphics
0624 91590924 M a i l Order Dept, A l p h a House,
0641 97193428 Carver Street, Sheffield, along
0647 96598150 w i t h a cheque/postal order for
0673
0687
0706
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 1 REM L I V I N G DAYLIGHTS poke

2 REM b y A.SINGH1987

3 REM

4 BORDER 0s PAPER 0s INK 7

5 CLEAR 65533

6 LET t=0j LET w-0

10 FOR • " 6 3 9 7 3 TO 64020

I S READ a t POKE 4,«

20 LET « LET WM+1

2 5 NEXT «

30 IF t O I 19339 THEN PRINT "ERROR IN DATA"t STOP

• 3 3 PRINT AT 10,1;"START LIVING DAYLIGHTS' TAPE"

-q 40 DATA 221,33,213,233,17,124

® 43 DATA 1,62,233,35,205,86,3

50 DATA 48.241,49,0,0,33,0

^D 35 DATA 250,34,112,254,195

O 60 DATA 0,254,33,252,151,34

65 DATA 37,150,33,205,197

70 DATA 34,1,152,33,158,201

® 75 DATA 34,3,152,195,0,145

POKES
•M
.2. 1 0 0 R A N D O M I Z E USR 63973

EXOLON
A very very special Poke this ̶ one of the most
sophisticated B J J s ever produced. N o t just infinite lives
but a whole Cheat M o d e a d d e d to the game! Load the
Poke in the usual way, ie Type in listing, Run it a n d then MUTANTS 1
3
NEM MUTANTS POKE
RE? A-S»NGH 1987
load Exolon game tape. O n c e it's l o a d ed press C to Enter a n d Run the Poke.
4 CLEAR 4500O
activate cheat mode then: Start the M u t a n t s tape 5 LET t - 0 , L E T
when instructed. W h e n it ' 2 * ' m 4 7 * ™ TO 4797,
1 REM EXOLON c h e a t made pake Loads you'll have infinite 15 READ a j POKE * , a
KEY ACTION
2 REM A . S . n g h 87
'V Infinite a m m o lives. 30 S E T T - - let ̶ 1
3 REM '2' Infinite grenades -R 5 ^
5 BORDER 0 : PAPER 0s INK 7 '3' Infinite lives TS T^4 0 "START -MUTAN
T AT

6 CLEAR 23999 '4' Incincibility 45 LOAD ""CODE

3m
'5' Do nothing 50 RANDOMIZE USR- 47R79
CHALLENGE
10 LET w « 0 I LET t=0

15 FOR i = 2 3 3 1 1 TO 23417 You can choose any

20 READ as POKE * , a combination of the above
cheat options at the same OF THE 130
140
DATA
DATA
2'7 17,0,123

GOBOTS
2 5 LET t =t-*w»a: LET w=w-»l
i50 data rc^??;;:128'221'33
3 0 NEXT i time. The instructions w o r k !60 DATA S ' S ' S ' S i 1 * 3 - ! *
170 BAIA 1B;'? i i V o 3 8 ' 1 7 ' 0
35 IF T<>604704 THEN PRINT "ERROR I N DATA"T STOP 1 REM GOBOTS poke 1B0 DATA S V U U h S ^ i l 6 ' ^
40 PRINT AT 1 0 , 6 1 "START 'EXOLON' TAPE" 2 REM A . S I N G H 87
4 5 LOAD CODE jn Qtoggle fashion ie If 3 REM
3 0 POKE 6 4 5 3 1 , 1 2 5 infinite lives is currently set 4 FOR 4 - 4 0 1 9 2 TO 40448
240 DATA 7^ -j^o i -i ' ""29, 24
35 RANDOMIZE USR 6 4 3 1 2 to On and then you press 3 3 POKE i ,158: NEXT f
60 FOKE 6 3 1 1 2 , 1 3 again in cheat mode it will 11
10 LET w=0: LET t=0
6 3 RANDOMIZE USR 6 5 0 8 2 be switched off. 1 5 FOR # - 4 0 5 9 9 TO 40653
100 DATA 3 3 , 1 6 3 , 1 2 3 , 3 4 , 1 2 2 , 1 2 3 Important note: Cheat 20 READ a : POKE *,a
103 DATA 6 2 , 2 0 1 , 5 0 . 3 4 , 1 2 5 , 2 3 5 mode will only w o r k if you 25 LET t-t+w«a: LET w=w>1
110 DATA 33,38,91,1,90,0,237 choose keyboard control 3 0 NEXT f
115 DATA 176,195,96,109,229,245
mode ie not joystick. This is
35 IF t<>205256 THEN PRINT "ERROR IN DATA": STOP
120 DATA 62,254,219,254,203,95
because of the fantastically
36 PRINT AT 10,7;"START " G O B O T S" TAPE"
complicated w a y in which
125 DATA 40,2,24,67,62,247,219
the game is w r i t t e n . . . 4 0 DATA 62,157,237,71,237,94
1 3 0 DATA 254,230,31,254,31,40 50 DATA 201,229,213,197,245
135 DATA 246,203,71,40,14.203 60 DATA 175,50,18,91,58,171
1 4 0 DATA 79,40,15,203,87,40,16 70 DATA 91,254,195,32,18,33
1 4 5 DATA 203,95,40,17,24,39,33 80 DATA 197,158,17,171,91,1
1 5 0 DATA 110,131,24,26,33,80 90 DATA 10,0,237,176,62,63
1 5 5 DATA 146,24,21,33,29,157,24 100 DATA 237,71,237,86,243,241
1 6 0 DATA 16,58,179,136,254,201 110 DATA 193,209,225,255,201 Enter and Run and Poke.
1 6 5 DATA 62,192,40,2,62,201,50 120 DATA 33,0,50,34,129,200
Start the G o b o t s tape
1/0 DATA 179,156,24,B,126,167 130 DATA 195,209,182
when instructed. W h e n it
1 7 5 DATA 6 2 , 6 1 , 4 ( 8 , 1 , 1 7 5 , 1 1 9 , 2 4 1
Loads you'll have
200 RANDOMIZE USR 40599
IE0 DATA 225,193,233,122
unlimited lives
210 LOAD ""

ALL POKES BY ADRIAN SINGH

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TASWORD128
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A must for dot matrix pnnter owners' Print your
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The TASPRINT fonts are shown to the right togethe
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THE TASWORD WORD PROCESSORS

TAS WORD THREE - for the ZX 48 K Spectrum - Microdrive £16.50
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With this machine code utility you can write your TASWORD 128 for the ZX Spectrum 128 THE SCREEN COPIER
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lettenng used by TASWORD TWO With TASWIDE use the additional memory of the 128 K Spectrum
you can double the information shown on the screen > TASCOPY OL adds new commands toOL
This gives text files that are over 60K long - this is Superbasic Execute these commands to print a
about ten thousand words' TASWORD 128has all shaded copy of the screen Print the entire screen or
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 COMPETITION

WINNERS
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ley, Leeds. A . H u l m e s , T l m p e r l e y .
A copy of Star Raiders II B l a k e , R a y l e i g h . Essex, Paul Ful-
f o r d . W o o d l e y . Reading, Berks. Cheshire. J o n a t h a n R i d e n a l g h ,
h a m , Chris B e b b i n g t o n , H e l s b y .
W a r r i n g t o n . Cheshire. R.J. M e r
Stephen Tomllnson. Fleetwood, M a r k f l e l d . Lelcs, A n t h o n y J o h n - ricks. W e s t H y t h e . H y t h e . K e n t ,
t o the first prize w i n n e r . Lanes, Brian Brooks. St son, W l l l e s d e n G r e e n , L o n d o n M a r i a W a r d . Stone. Nr D a rtfo rd .
Marychurch, Torquay. Devon. N W 2 , R o b i n Slvyer, East G r i n - M a r k M c G o v e n . B a r r h e a d . Glas-
Chrlj Beckett. Maidstone, Ke n t. James Finch, S a w b r l d g e w o r t h . s t e a d . W e s t Sussex. A l a n D e x t e r . g o w . Brett Hurman. Dronfleld,
oz ME 15 6TR.

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H e r t s , M i c h a e l O Shea, T u r n S o u t h A n s t o n , N r S h e f f i e l d , S. London S I 8. Christopher
"And beam h i m d o w n P i k e . P o n t y p o o l . G w e n t . J.K. Yorks. R i c h a r d K a l t o n . H a z e l g r o - Hawks. Langstone. Havant.
Moser. Edgware, Mlddx, Vin- ve, Cheshire, T o m m y H y d e , Fln- H a n t s , Fe rg u s C u r r l e , Pensax, N r
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cent Baxter. O b a n , Argyll, D a v i d c h l e y . L o n d o n N 3 . K. D h a l l w a l , Abberley, worcs. Benjamin
next o p p o r t u n i t y . I also Wells. E x h a l l . C o v e n t r y . W e s t Hayes. Middlesex. A n i l Nayar. W e l l s , e n d e r b y . Lelcs. Paul W e i r ,
suggest t h a t w e tele- Midlands, Gorden Davidson. G l a s g o w G I 3 , C. R i d g e . D a v y - Child Wall. Liverpool. Roger

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Lenzle, Glasgow. Brett H u r m a n . hulme. Lanes, Elna r SJurso. W h i t e . B r i x t o n , L o n d o n SW9.
port a copy of Star Dronfleld, John O'Regan. S o f l e m y r , N o r w a y . James Saun- A l a n Cope. Kldsgrove, Stoke-on-
Raiders II t o each of t h e Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland, ders, Burgess Hill, Sussex. Trent. Jason roberts. Hailsham. T
following. . . Alaster Cushion. Bo d mi n , Corn- A n d r e w Biswell, Chesslngton. Crampln. Sedbergh, Cumbria.
w a l l , Paul T o o m e y , H e r n c h u r c h , Surrey, Scott H a r d e n , S o u t h w a y . D e n z l l F e r n a d e s . G a l n s b o r o , Lin-
20 Runners u p e a c h r e c e i v e a
Essex, Suzl Y a n n , D u d l e y , W e s t P l y m o u t h . D e v o n . D. C o c k a y n e . c o l n s h i r e . C a t h e r i n e W e l s h , Glas-
copy of t h e g a m e . . .
Midlands. James Blackwell. Brownhllls, Walsall. West Mid- g o w , G1 4 , M a r k G r a h a m . H e x -
Stephen Oulnn, Sutton In
Bath, A v o n , M a t t h e w Smith, lands. A.R. C a m p b e l l , A y l e s b u r y , ham. N o r t h u m b e r l a n d . A n d r e w
A s h f i e l d . N o t t s , G a r y B o n d , Car-
Kings Lynn. N o r f o l k . Jamie Wal- Bucks. P. L o w e . H l n d l e y W l g a n . V a n De Burgt. Stoke G i f f o r d .
r k k f e r g u s . Co A n t r i m . F. D r i v e r .
lace, T u n b r l d g e W e l l s . K e n t , D a r - Lanes, D a m o n F i e l d i n g , M a i d e n - B r i s t o l . J. L a t c h F o r d . O l d Col-
Hull, Paul R u d m a n , N e t t l e h a m ,
r e n Sturgess. B u r p h a m , G u i l d - head, D w e n Henry, Dunstable. ywyn. Clywd. D Lawrence.
Lincoln, T. M c H a r g . E a r l s d o n .
ford. Surrey, Robert Mass. Beds. M i c h a e l C r l t c h l o w . N o r t h - O r r e l l , N r W l g a n . Lanes. M a r k
Coventry, Stuart Smith, M a c h e n .
C l r e n c e n s t e r , Glos. R. B u l l l v a n t . a m p t o n . R o b e r t S t r a w , Castell . Stocksley, Gentby. N Yorks.
G w e n t . Chris H e r a y . E r d l n g t o n ,
B F P O 22, Isacc P a i n e , B o r d e a u x G u e r n s e y , CI, R o b e r t M u n n e r l e y , Pryzygock. Allrslry Dark. Coven-
B i r m i n g h a m , C. C e v d e t . I f f o r d .
V a l e , G u e r n s e y , C.I. Andrew H a l e w o o d . L i v e r p o o l , R.G. A m - t r y . M l d d l a n d s . Nicholas Slator.
Essex. P. W y n n , C l o p h l l l , Beds.
stronge, Stuarbridge. West Ml-
un Andrew Males. Stevenage. B o n d . Bui w e l l . N o t t s . Paul J e n k N e w c a s t l e . Staffs. K l e r o n Butch-
Ins. H e a t h . C a r d i f f . Wa l e s . S t u a r t lands. M a r k H o l t . T r o w b r i d g e , er, W e l l i n g b o r o u g h . N o r t h a n t s .
Herts. M a r c Jacobs, Bethune
Arcaer, Avlemore, Inverness, W i l t s . A n d r e w Slater. M i l l H i l l , G r e g o r y O u l n n . P o r t a d o w n . Co
Road. L o n d o n N 1 6 , T i m o t h y W i l -

* * Scotland. Chay Lawrence, Hol- B l a c k b u r n , Lanes, M a r k Fossey, A r m a g h . N Ireland. C Macmas

son. M i r f i e l d , W e s t Y o r k s h i r e .
beach, Spalding, Lines, T.E. Palmers G r e e n . L o n d o n , P.J. t e r , O a d b y . Lelcs. D a v i d C o v e r -
T.F. Witt, Galhampton, Nr

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Cheese. Loardshill, South- F r a d l e y , Y e o v i l , S o m e r s e t. G. ley. M a r s k - b y - S e a . Redcar. Cle-
Yeovlll. Somerset. A l a n W i l l s .
a m p t o n , G a r e t h Davies. Llan- McDougall, Hall Green. Birming- v e l a n d . G Filurceli. W i n c h e s t e r .
Helensburgh. L Smith. Hull,

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dello. D y f e d . Craig Jones. Kid- ham. A n d r e w Dungey. Penryn, H a n t s , J. Shields. S u n d e r l a n d .
G e r a r d W . B u r t o n , Gl o sso p , D e r -
derminster. Trevor McCullogh. C o r n w a l l . R i c h a r d W o o d . Ennls- Tyne-and Wear. Jarld Kavln.
byshire. L E . Y o u n g . R a l n h a m ,

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N e w t o w n a r d s . C o D o w n . N Ire- t y m o n , C o C l a n e . I r e l a n d . R.M. Royston, H e r t s B
Essex. Chris Thomas. C a n n i n g
l a n d . R. W h i t e . Edenthorpe. F r l g n d , N e w h a v e n , Sussex, C a r l
t o n , Somerset. M a r k W e s t . Can -

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Doncaster. S. Y o r k s . Steven Smith. Klngsnorton. Birming-
terbury, Kent. Brian D a w b e r .
Skegness, Lines. Wells, Kettering, Northants,

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J o h n Fernley. Potterne, Wilt-
" A n d a Star Raiders II shire. Derek McDonald. out their pent-up
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Mayfleld. Cork. Ireland. Colin
poster to each of Blakeley. Bolton. Lancashire.
[eI1 nifl t a o i « « « aggression on a copy
these... J M n y old things
* *
Steve Mitchell. N e t t l e h a m Park. of the wonderful
James M e r r i f l e l d . D e v i z e s, W i l t - L i n c o l n , J u s t i n H a y w a r d , Stug- A d v a n c e title Indoor

* *
shire, P l e t e r K u y p e r s , H e t e r e n , g i n g t o n , H a n t s , Lasse E l d a u p ,
The N e t h e r l a n d s , P e t e r Chess- 2 6 5 0 H u i d o v e r . D e n m a r k , D.R. Sports. Well done
s s s s s - k
* * S S S S i .
man. South W o n s t o n . Winches- Overy, Winchester. Hants, Mark
ter, Matthew Garrahan, W a r n e r , H e n g r o v e , Bristol. R y a n
Lnnis o n t h e m , b u t
* *
W a s h i n g t o n . Tyne a n d Wear. M. Lavelle, E d l n g t o n . B r i d g e w a t e r .
Scott, P r e s t o n . Lanes. Ross M a l t i - Somerset, B J . Carter. B e t h n a l w h e n they tahe u p DonBUW®. Be«is. u h

* *
day. Stotsdold, Herts. M. Usher. G r e e n . L o n d o n E2, S h a u n H i l l , DerVan, w a d i n g . J o n c n
just about all t h e
Woodland Drive, Offerton, F a v e r s h a m , K e n t , R. S t e a d , W a l -

* *
S t o c k p o r t . S.S. Evans, Selly O a k , t o n , W a k e f i e l d , West Yorks, N e l l available space i n
B i r m i n g h a m . J o n a t h a n Phillips, Ashmore, Furness Vale. Nr
o m c . they c a n

* H a m e b e l y Mill. Tyne a n d Wear. S t o c k p o r t , Cheshire, Simon Lew- be a right WYate Edentnorpe.

* Adrian Cavendish. Groby, n o x , Castedawson, Co L o n d o n -

W h i c h i s w h y we've
* Leicester. Anthony Woode. d e r r y , N I r e l a n d . P R. Clocas,

* *
B r i g h t o n . E. Sussex. B a r r y C l a r k . Formby. Merseyslde. J o h n Wil- h a d to p o a t p o n ^ t h ®
Potters Bar. H e r t s , Nicholas liams. M i d d l e w l c h . C h e s h i r e , CC forthcoming L 1 J

* *
Henstock. Thorpe Hesley, S t o n e , M a l v e r n W o r k s . T. W o r - Wmctiaster.Ba^ ^
R o t h e r h a m . S. Y o r k s , M i c h a e l r a i l , P r e s t o n . Lanes, M a r k L a i n , Allcomers Ping-
Pong T o u r n a m e n t
* *
S m i t h . W a l e y , N r S h e f f i e l d , J.J. Glastonbury. Somerset. Paul
Marston, Ferndown. Wimborne. B i r t h w i s t l e . N o n t o n . Manches- and give a w a y the
* *
Dorset. Vail Harriston. ter. Simon Toung. Darlington,
Heywood. Lanes, J o n Rose, Co Durham, N e i l G u n n , Edin-
s p l e n d i d table
N e t l m b e r . B o g n o r Regis. W e s t b u r g h . R o b e r t Scott, E x e t e r , De- tennis
* * Sussex. M a r c e l l o B o r t d i n o . S t o k e
N e w i n g to n , London. Stephen
von, Gauln Hill, Flnnlngly. Don-
caster. M a r k J o h n s o n . I r c h e s t e r ,
A d v a n c e so kindly

* * D y e r . M a t c h b r o u g h W e s t . Red-
d l t c h , Wo rcs. G e r a l d Francis.
Northamptonshire. Colm put our w a y to:
Kuldip Samara, of ssw-srasr
* * Ashton-u-Lyne, Manchester,
M i c h a e l D i a p e r . Salisbury. W i l t s . Andrew. Broadbottom. Nr
Greenwich. London
* * Paul Tracy. H l g h b r l d g e . Some-
S t r e s s e d
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H y d e . Cheshire, L l o y d W o o d .
rset. D e a n F a r l e y . B e x l e y . K e n t , P e t e r b r o o u g h , Cambs, J.D. D o g - S E
£ x a t about the
* * B. Ellas, L l a n l s h e n , C a r d i f f . Sean
M e l l o r . W o o d h o u s e . S h e f f i e l d . R.
g e t t . P o t t e r s Bar, H e r t s , F. Steel.
E l m P a r k , Essex, James H a s t l e .
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* * D u n d e e . M a r t i n Clayton, Bram- the rest of these get

sporty types can zt i n ess . z s s g s r
* * Pinner. M>ddlesex»

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 AlUADi;

• The round bullets t h a t hurtle
a r o u n d t h e screen are not
necessarily fatal - t h e
e xtre mi ti e s of your ship (that's
w i n g tips t o you) m a y safely
pass over t h e m
• tt is possible - vital actually -
t o blast t h e large g r o u n d based
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p o d t h a t spills o u t b o m b s but it
needs careful t i m i n g -
• Wait for it t o explode and the
second you r gunsight is over
t h e m i d d l e release a b o m b and
hurtle off t o t h e right
• The Mon a Lisa - b l o w up her
nose to take her head off.

m mq^mi

F
f o r g e t Slap Fight, forget
i T e r r a Cresta, forget every
^ ^ • t o p to bottom screen
scrolling blast 'em u p you ever
saw.
Moon Strike - despite its
unspeakably boring name - is
the best. Not only is it
smoother, more challenging,
more highly detailed and
generally slicker, it's funnier.
The game w o u l d be dull were
it not for the excellence of the
J T S B OX
\1oon Strike is very un-
original - that's a minus.
But in every other way
it's great. Looks fantastic
plays as good as it looks
M O O SI M I K E
fca&l: M i r r o r s o f t
|A)$iQr: Binary
Innovations
Prtce: £7.99
pernor) 48KH28K
various
1891
• O
• O
programming and the wryness
of some of the h u m o u r . Things
begin well w i t h the loading
screen, more of a movie
actually. Some sort of a w e s o m e
programming technique has
been used to enable the g a m e
to be loaded whilst the screen
tells you - w i t h w o r d s and
moving pictures - the plot of
the game. The effect is not
unlike the graphic bits in
Hitchhikers Guide t o th e Galaxy
and it's jolly g o o d fun.
The plot? Forget it - just
assume mad professors and
saving the w o r l d an' stuff and
that you have carte blanche to
total everything. That's all that
matters.
Unlike Slap Fight, M o o n
Strike isn't too serious about
itself. Some of the shapes y o u
need to destroy are of the
conventional alien sort,
bubbles, saucers and the rest.
On the other hand there are
some decidedly bizarre
obstacles in your path, the
product of an imagination
possibly even more deranged
that Matthew Smith's. Watch
out for the dentures, note also
the light bulbs w h i c h float
down-screen at you (the w a y
the underlying landscape is
distorted t h r o u g h the glass is €22.
amazing), and finally y o u see
the Mona Lisa. Yep old M o n a
herself can be b o m b e d into
oblivion.
N o w all this wacky stuff could
backfire were it not for the fact
that the graphics are superb,
not only is the m o v e m e n t
s m o o t h but the objects are
large and detailed. M o r e even
than that, s o m e b o d y in the PROGRAMMERS
development t e a m can d r a w D A N N Y NEVILLE and J O N O T H A N
and d r a w well. It makes all the
difference.
NEVILLE m a k e u p a n e w p r o g r a m -
m i n g team called Bianry I n n o v a -
There are other g o o d things tions. B o t h arc b a s e d i n N e w
Zealand a n d neither h a s ever h a d
about M o o n Strike. I f o u n d it i a p r o g r a m released c o m m e r c i a l l y
before. M o o n Strike is their first
effort!
great relief to have a game
w h i c h , a l t h o u g h being
fiendishly difficult doesn't
shove y o u back to the
beginning again if you fail.
M o o n Strike has only one
failing - it isn't an original
overall concept. Actually it's a
stunningly unoriginal one.
In every other respect,
t h o u g h , it's a winner - brilliant
graphics, s m o o t h scrolling
animation and challenging
gameplayB

Avoid this game under all circumstances

SOFTWARE

STAR
R l l has always r a t e d s o f t w a r e o u t
Poor and/or massively overpriced
ot rive. Five was great a n d O n e w a s
* *
awful. It served us w e l l e n o u g h but * Dull and uninteresting. If not actually a w f u l

just recently w e ' v e b e e n g e t t i n g T T

** Fairly average. Nothing to get excited about
games t h a t fall b e t w e e n t h e cracks
In our star r a t i n g . W e f i g u r e d t h e r e
RATINGS * * *
* * OK but nothing special

1
• * * Not bad, some good points. See before y o u
ought t o be a b i t m o r e f l e x i b i l i t y so wuiiM-orr * * *

IIii1
guess w h a t ? * * * *
* * * Pretty good. We w e r e quite impressed.
Worth a look
From n o w o n our star r a t i n g s w i l l 7* ** 7* 7* "
Good stuff. Well w o r t h the money
be out of ten. This means t h a t a
* * * * *
classic n o w a u t o m a t i c a l l y gets t e n Very good Indeed. A must buy
* * * *
stars and one star is Just as much of a * * * * *
* * * * * Brilliant. Must buy at all costs
dodo as before if n o t m o r e so. The best program of its type w e ' v e seen to
KKVIKW KKVIKW Classic
date
 C
harles Bronson ̶
moustachioed m a n,
advanced tactical street-
cleaner, and man w i t h the
largest bazooka in the Western
hemisphere - has finally been
given his very o w n game.
Death Wish III, based o n the
film (or excused o n the basis
that there is a f i l m called Death
Wish III and w h y not make a
game out of it), it involves the
man, the bazooka and five
down-town riots to be quelled.
And the way to quell those
riots is to get in there and pulp
those bad guys. Because Death
Wish III is. well, it's rather
violent really.
eteeceeeeeew
What we have here,
essentially, is a left-right
horizontal flip-screen affair We
begin with Charlie, the
moustache, and a bullet proof
vest, armed to the teeth - w i t h a
pump-action shotgun, or some
other such frippery -
surrounded by villains of a very
ugly nature. A n d all Charlie has
to d o is take out the villains.
To do this, Charlie has a
choice of four weapons, each
ammunition, but all w i t h the
capability of reducing your
average punk, passer-by or
pedestrian to dead meat. All
weapons have limited
ammunition, so it's handy
indeed that there are the o d d
rifle, bazooka and shot-gun
lying around the deserted
buildings for Charlie to go and
pick up. ̶
PROGRAMMERS
SEAN HOI IINGWQRTH and
PCTCR HARRAP have w o r k e d ex
clusively l o r Gremli n Graphic*
over a n u m b r r of years. T o w t h t f
Ihpy have written Avenger, Bound-
er, f u t u r e Knight, lack tne Nipper.
Monty o n the Run, I r a i l b l a / e r ,
Way o f the Tiger, Krackout, Auf
W i e d r n r h r n Monty and Thing
Bounces Back. Separately, Sean
wrote Percy Ihe Potty Pigeon and
Grumpy Gumphrey - Super Sleuth
Peter has p r o d u i e d Wanted -
Monty Mole and Sam Sloal - Safe
Breaker
 First of all though, he has to
locate that weapon. Thankfully,
that's not too hard a task, since
the bottom half of the screen is
taken up with a compass, a
map, and a panel indicating the
type of weapon you are
currently holding and h o w
many shots you have left. The
compass shows the four
cardinal points - North, South,
East and West - and the
appropriate point w i l l flash
according to w h i c h w a y y o u are
facing. The map shows y o u r
position in the area in general
by a small floating blob and
extra weapons are indicated by
pulling back, or pushing up the
Iin A T II W I S H
HINTS A N D TIPS
facts^ # Kill anyone w i t h a club,
anyone w i t h a DA, anyone w h o
Outrageously looks mean, nasty, hairy or just
, with occasiona plain anti-social
\of humour. No • Don't kill anyone w i t h a
gameplay variet handbag, anyone w h o stops
\mterest, Jhouz! and waves their skirt in your
direction (is this sexist, or
DEATH W I S H II what?), anyone w h o looks
label: Gremlin remotely like a policeman,
Author: in-house
Price: £ 7 . 9 5
anyone w h o is a policeman, or
anyone w h o drags dead bodies
joystick: various off the screen
Memory: 4 8 K / 1 2 8 I # Fire through w i n d o w s
enhance whenever you can. you get
more points and you get a nifty
ftttt
Reviewer gun sight to play w i t h for a bit
• Shoot tables, television sets
and w o o d e n chairs: doesn't
score you any points, but it's fun
• K e e p your eyes on t h e map
for new weapons. If you always
joystick to change his direction, Enter it by pressing Return.
and carrying o n around the Once inside you can search
block (as our American cousins around until you reach your
would no doubt put it). new g u n and then carry on w i t h
Eventually y o u ' ll find a door the important business of
to the building you're passing. knocking off the thugs.
Incidentally for extra points
thugs can be knocked off f r o m
inside the buildings by firing
t h r o u g h the w i n d o w s . Also to
be knocked off, or just b l o w n
up, are tables, chairs and the
o d d TV set. none of w h i c h give
you any sort of points score
whatsoever, but provide a few
seconds of light entertainment.
Not that Death Wish III needs
m o m e n t s of light
entertainment. It has plenty of
excitement in its o w n right. The
baddies come along thick and
fast, and the multipl e weapons
each produce differing effects.
A n ordinary pistol just knocks
the guys over and leaves t h e m
in a heap o n the floor. Your
actual bazooka reduces them to
s o m e t h i n g unrecognisable.
Very gratifying.
There are also diversions:
hookers, w h o try to t e m p t
Charlie into things Jeffrey
Archer never did, old grannies
w h o get m u g g e d and then fight
back viciously using handbags
and feet in a shocking display of
violence against the younger
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head in the direction of t h e next
gun. you can take out the
rioters on the w a y
• Find those gang leaders
Once you've b u m p e d off the
gang leaders, the riot w i l l stop
# Watch the computer print-
out on the left-hand side of the
screen It'll tell you w h e r e t h e
riots are breaking out
a
m e m b e r s of the c o m m u n i t y
Medics run across the screen,
defying bullets to drag the
wounded off to recover in
hospital.
Then there are policemen
The cops are there to help, but
the o d d one tends to get into
the line of fire, and w h e n such a
t h i n g happens, and a cop gets
wasted, then you're in trouble
Police being the vengeful
creatures that they are. you may
well f i n d that there's an extra
gang chasing you. and this
time, they're in uniform.
There's no denying that
Death Wish III is a nicely put
together game, it looks good,
and the 128 version features
some really Death Wish music
(courtesy of Ben Daigleish) but
the gameplay is actually rather
standard stuff.
And it is mind-boggiingly
violent - and you maybe think
that's a p r o b l e m Or not. Whilst
reducing people to lumps of
meat seems great fun to begin
w i t h but after a while, it's just
m o r e of the same. Which
psychologists will no doubt
reckon is a bad thinq.
Whilst the map was an
impressive idea, I f o u n d it hard
to work out w h i c h w a y to turn,
and lingering over a decision of
that kind tended to leave me
badly battered, since the thugs
don't wait for y o u to m o v e
before they get in there and kick
the hell out of you. It's also
difficult at times to tell your
character f r o m the m o b that
surrounds you, so escape is
quite difficult.
I've no doubts that Death
Wish III w i l l sell like the
proverbial hot cakes because it
promises lots of violence, but
I'm not sure that that is going to
prove as absorbing as Gremlin
seem to think. And the game,
ultimately, is neither state-of-
the-art nor hugely o r i g i n a l !
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 ADVENTURE
lUWIlW
S
ttfflip & Co f r o m Palace is
set just after the First
World War, at a time
when the Empire was still
strong, when men were m e n
and sheep were frightened,
when cricket was the only sport
worth mentioning, and Nanny's
word was law.
All should be peace and
harmony, but there are those
who wish to change the order of
things, even to the point of
altering the balance of a cricket
ball. Yes, Count Cameleon,
Master of Disguise, has
perfected his Rubbertronic Ray,
and is out to destroy the natural
order of things and u n d e r m i n e
the establishment. A n d it's up
to you to stop h i m .
The game features four
characters, anyone of w h o m
may be played by y o u at any
point. Viscount Sebastian
Stiffiip is the hero, surrounded
by his trusty companions.
Palmyra Primbottom, Professor
SATCOM
S
atcom is a really rather
neat adventure
simulating hacking into
various government and
defence establishment
computer systems.
Someone has taken control of
a laser-armed satellite and is
using it to wipe out other
satellites and to stop t h e m
you've got to 'hack' into the
computer controlling the
satellite and start its self-
destruct mechanism.
All you are armed w i t h in the
beginning is a computerised
communications set-up and a
single phone number of Global
Atmospherics UK, a c o m p a n y
74
Braindeath and Colonel R G
Bargie . . . Each character is
equipped w i t h different objects
and has different abilities.
Palmyra's not too hot w h e n it
comes to fighting, so if she gets
involved in a bit of a tussle, the
best thing to d o is s w o p over
and let Stifflip take over.
Stifflip, the game, is a multi-
load affair, but you only get o n
to the second load if y o u
succeed in getting all four
involved in weather satellites.
The FBI has been continueally
drawing a blank in their
investigations of the c o m p a n y
and now it's up to you.
The process of cracking the
codes is very interesting.
Having connected w i t h your
target computer, y o u can hang
up the phone and stick the
squeeks and whistles t h r o u g h
your analyser which, for
reasons that are not exactly
crystal clear, is then able to hint
at the computer's access codes.
These hints take the f o r m of the
first three digits of the code
followed by some considerably
more vague information about
characters to the end of t h e first. pictures, one s h o w i n g where
The 48K version has no sound, you are, one s h o w i n g w h e r e
but the 128K has some you've just been. As y o u move,
wonderfully bizarre effects like the pictures peel off, like pages
monkeys chattering in the
background.
It's more of an adventure than PACTSBOX
anything else, and is played
using the icons to represent the
usual adventure g a m e
commands. The screen is
divided roughly into thirds. In
I'Set_ab,t ted,ous though
the middle are t w o small
J STIFFLIP & CO
the final three digits.
Label: Palace
The screen layout is very, urn,
orderly, bearing very few frills. Author Binary Vision
You flick through the icons Price. £ 9 . 9 9
using the space-bar and select , Joystickvarious
them w i t h the Enter key Some
Memory: 48K/128K
of the frills w h i c h have been
included tend to become a little
irritating after the first f e w
games. The way in w h i c h the
screen draws itself up, for
example, is fairly interesting the
first time you see it, t h o u g h if
you have returned to the m e n u
as a result of a silly mis-dial, it's
a trifle annoying.
Nevertheless it's an excellent
budget game w i t h surprising
depth It should keep even the
most competent hacker amuse d
for a day or t h r e e B
FACTS BOX
Budget attempt at myste-
rious complexity. Fairly
difficult, and involving a
bit of thinking here and
there. Worth two quid
SATCOM
Label: Atlantis
Author: in-house
Price: £ 1 . 9 9
Memory: 48K/128K
Joystick: various
R«vi«wer:
7
SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987
 of a book turning over, the top
picture disappears, the b o t t o m
picture moves into the top slot
and a new picture appears at
the bottom. The right hand side
of the screen shows the
command icons, using daft
terms eg Chinwag means talk to
or trade with. Fisticuffs means
fight, Beetle off means move
somewhere else. On the left
side are three characters not
currently playing.
This is no ordinary adventure.
It's an extremely clever,
t h o r o u g h l y outrageous and
very sophisticated mickey take
of the terribly-British way of life
at the beginning of the century.
A n d that could well be where
it w i l l fall apart. If you've seen
old films f r o m that era, and
know the banter you're going to
find Stifflip very funny. If, on the
other hand, y o u aren't in the
slightest bit interested in that
sort of 'jolly jape' satire then
y o u might be
IJ
impressed by the
Igraphics (which are marvellous)
and puzzled by the problems
themselves. A n d you'll soon
probably get tired w i t h the
rather childish in-jokes w h i c h
cZand Z«,h Th<>'° run t h r o u g h the game.
[ r ^ P t n y before leJLV I can see h o w the game could
1 f»»ry Vision w.Th D ,n
« fo
form get you like that. However. I
59^00raphT R ^'rt
^ 'Ce Palace found it all great entertainment.
< I<Century, 2 5 ' Pro- It's terrific visually, the puzzles
were hard, but not so hard that
""PERT 80Wlrrn it's impossible to get anywhere,
^n i i b l e , Mghv, re . and Fisticuffs mode proved to
fi*p the sptar deS'« n and be a real laugh. It works like
r »•« f'-i h P tru,r
> VITU this. Every t i m e one of Count
FPr h 7 e * * * * * for TK Chameleon's henchmen
appears on screen, they w i l l
pick a fight. Enter Fisticuffs
mode. You then have a choice
of left or right punches, whit e
feather (running away) or
hitting below the belt (which is
very effective) if unsporting.
You select the punch y o u want,
w i n d up the rotating arm in the
middle of the screen to build up
strength, and a i m your punch
by positioning a crosshair in the
centre of the m o v i n g target at
the b o t t o m left-hand side of the
screen. Press Fire and your
punch w i l l be t h r o w n .
Stifflip has got to be w o r t h a
look, even if you're not
normally a fan of adventures.
It's beautifully d r a w n and great
fun to play, but watch out for
appalling jokesB
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ORIENTAL HERO
ARCADC Label: Firebird A u t h o r : Tron Price: £1.99 M e m o r y : 48K 123K
Joystick: various Reviewer: Tony D i l l o n
Follow-up to the very appalling Ninja Master. This
one's so fast there's more tuck than skill involved
A
h t o o l Ret us r e t u r n t o ancient t i m e s , glasshopper, t o a far off
legion i n Outer M o n g o l i a w h e r e a stlanger has appeared and Is
after the t i t l e of S u p l e m e Oliental C o m b a t Master. Tly saying t h a t
w i t h a m o u t h full of N o 47 soy sauce. Y o u are t h a t m a s k e d stranger, and
you m u s t f i g h t y o u r w a y t h r o u g h f o u r r o u n d s of intense c o m b a t training .
A t the end of each r o u n d y o u ' l l f i g h t o n e of t h e m a s t e r s b u t u n f o r t u n a t e -
ly you only have an a r m o u r y of t h r e e kicks t o h e l p y o u w i n t h r o u g h a n d
basically y o u ' v e g o t no chance.
This f o l l o w up t o Ninja Master - p r o b a b l y t h e m o s t successful t r a sh
title of all t i m e - is all so fast, t h o u g h , t h a t w i n n i n g sta rt s b e i n g a matter
of luckH
• A A
LEARN CHESS
WORKOUT l a b e l : Coxsoft, 31 Fullwell Avenue, Barkingside, W o r d , Essex
Price: £6.95 M e m o r y : 48K.128K Reviewer: Gary Rook
Very worthy; but dull. Could help a supervised novice
but of questionable value on its own
L
earn Chess is a d i f f i c u l t p r o g r a m t o r e v i e w , because i f s a c o m p u t e r -
basing t r e i n i n g course a i m e d at t e e c h i n g t h e r u d i m e n t s of chess t o
novices. Oh. b o o r i n n g g g Neil, I can hear y o u c h o r u s - and yes, t o an
extent you're right. Learn Chess is a bit b o r i n g. But i f y o u d o n ' t k n o w
h o w t o play chess and y o u w a n t t o learn, t h e n t h i s c o u l d be useful
On t h e besics of chess, i t ' s ve r y c o m p r e h e n s i v e , a n d gives • v e ry g o o d
run-through of b o a r d n o t a t i o n , t h e m o v e s t h e variou s pieces are a l l o w e d
t o meke, and p e ri p h e ral t h i n g s like t h e use o f chess clocks e n d chess
etiquette. The w h o l e p u r p o s e of t h e p r o g r a m is t o teach a novice e n o u g h
t o be eble t o u n d e r s t a n d w h a t is g o i n g o n w h e n he o r she join s a chess
club - and here i s t h e p r o g r a m ' s b a s k f l a w . It assumes t h a t t h e
purchaser is a novice w i t h t h e t single a m b i t i o n
It seems t o m e a decent basic chess b o o k c o u l d be b e t t e r !
• A
TIME FLIGHT
ARCADE Label: Power House A u t h o r : Stephen | Tatlock Price: £1.99
Memory: 48K/128K Joystick: various Reviewer: Tony D i l l o n
Quite a step down from the illustrious Stephen Tat-
lock's earlier Agent X. Avoid this one
W
elcome t o m y t i m e machine. In It I w i l l t r a n s p o r t y o u back t o t h e
days w h e n t h e BBC m a c h i n e w a s i n i t s heyday a n d w h e n
p r o g r a m s w e r e n ' t very g o o d .
N o w after m a n y years a n d f o r reasons w h i c h e n t i r e l y escape me . o n e
such game has been c o n v e r t e d t o t h e S q u i s h b o a r d i n the guise o f
Timeflight. W r i t t e n b y S t e p h e n Tatlock (he of A g e n t X fame). It places
you in the p o s i t i o n of a p i l o t l o s t i n t i m e w h o . b y a series of t i m e w a r p s
has t o get back t o his (or her) o w n t i m e . T h e p l a ne is s h o w n b y an
overhead v i e w and y o u have t o collect l e tte r s t o spell o u t the w o r d
WARP t o get o n t o each n e x t sheet.
Right, t h a t ' s it. I c a n ' t w r i t e a n y m o r e . I really c a n ' t l T o w r i t e m o r e I'd
have to play i t again and if I pla y i t a g a i n I'll g o m a d . . . m a a a a d l l l B
• -tr & & & O
• •fr-fr-a-a- Z
BOULDERDASH II
ARCADE Label: Prism Leisure A u t h o r : Peter Liepa Price: £2.99 M e m o r y :
48K/125K Joystick: various Reviewer Tony D i l l o n
An excellent reproduction of a berrilliant game. Buy
this on pain of missing owe of the decade's best
B
oulderdash w a s a l w a y s o n e of m y all-time f a v o u r i t e g a m e s -
purely for it's playability. s o I w a s w o r r i e d t h a t w i t h t o d a y ' s
m o d e r n p r o g r a m m i n g standards, it c o u l d Jiave lost s o m e appeal.
Well, let m e say t h a t p r o g r a m m e r Peter Liepa has d o n e an excellent jo b
at recreating prehistoric p r o g r a m m i n g t e c h n i q u e s .
For those of y o u w h o have (a) just b e e n b o r n , (b) live i n S o m e r s e t or (c)
have had their head d o w n an A m s t r a d for t h e last f i v e years, here is a
r u n - d o w n o f t h e basics o f t h e g a m e . R o ckfo rd . t h e hero, m u s t rush
around t w e n t y consecutive screens c o l l e c t i n g g e m s . W h e n he's col-
lected the required a m o u n t t h e exit t o t h e n e x t ca ve rn w i l l be opened.
Sounds easy e n o u g h d o e s n ' t ft? H a i n ' t - it's f i e n d i s h B
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29
C.O.D.E.
In the beginning sort of stuff, how
did you first start programming?
I did a d e g r e e in C o m p u t e r
Studies. It w o u l d
b e e n a bit d a f t to g o a n d
w o r k in S a i n b u r y ' s a f t e r
that.
Quite so. Is there anyone around
at the moment that you particularly
admire, anyone who inspires you?
No o n e p e r s o n in p a r t i c u -
lar, but I'm a g r e a t f a n of
anything t h a f s by Level 9
or Ultimate.
I see. On with the serious stuff.
Food.
T.A.L.K.
I actually w o n a competi-
t i o n o n t h e b a c k of a P i n k
Panther chocolate bar
once, a n d the prize w a s a
c h o i c e of f o u r r e c o r d s . T h e y
w e r e all pretty dire really,
but I eventually discounted
Kratwerk, Mudd and
Wizard in f a v o u r of Block-
buster b y Sweet. I a l w a y s
w o n d e r e d w h e t h e r o r not I
m a d e the right choice.
/ reckon you probably did. Talking
of sweets, what's your favourite
toothpaste?
Mentadent P, anything
w i t h h e a p s of f l u o r i d e . I'm
worried about my gums
have y o u s e e . If y o u r t e e t h g o
y o u c a n g e t a n e w set, but if
y o u r gums go, well there's
n o c h a n c e of a n e w lot out
of t h e N H S .
Thoughts on Oliver North?
G u i l t y a s hell, but g o o d e n -
tertainment.
Any other forms of entertainment
you enjoy? Any games you still
play?
Y e s , I l o v e Elite, a l t h o u g h I
only ever play the BBC ver-

IAN*McCARDLE
Like it. It's g o o d stuff. E s p e - s i o n . A n d I r a t h e r l i k e Thrust.
cially k e b a b s f o l l o w e d b y I ' d r a t h e r w a t c h t h e telly
m o u s s a k a . O r a n y t h i n g co- t h o u g h . Black Adder, or a

v e r e d in H P S a u c e . T h e r e ' s
nothing to b e a t t h e t a s t e of
HP. All w a s h e d d o w n w i t h
cider, p r e f e r a b l y s c r u m p y .
Oh. Leading on from that (No ifs
not, that's a complete He ̶ Ed),
where do you buy your under-
pants?
I don't.
What, you mean you don't wear
... ever ...?
No, I m e a n t h e y ' r e b o u g h t
for me. T h e y just t u r n u p in
the d r a w e r a n d I p u t t h e m
on. I a l w a y s t h i n k i f s b e s t
not to get too i n v o l v e d w i t h
that sort of t h i n g .
Any other sort of clothes info?
Sports s o x . I l i k e c o m f o r t -
a b l e s o c k s but I f i n d it diffi-
cult to get h o l d of t h e m . S o
when I get a g o o d pai r I
tend to w e a r t h e m to d e a t h .
(Gulp). Anything you don't like?
Hats. A n d J o h n W i l s o n .
M
artech's blue-eyed programmer at
the moment is Ian McCardle, au-
thor of the extremely 3-dimensional
Catch 2 3 . We ran the programmer in
question to ground in a safe-house on
the south coast. We talked about such
diverse topics as sports sox, fluoride
toothpaste and HP sauce • . .
John Wilson?
G u y I work with. A r e y o u
listening to m e W i l s o n ? Y o u
really get o n m y n e r v e s .
Finished? Feel better? Tell me ab-
out music, what sort of music are
you into?
B e l i e v e it o r not I u s e d to b e
a p u n k . O n e of the r e a l
chains a n d safety-pin mob.
I h a d black and
streaked hair. G o d , I must
good soap opera like
Neighbours or Coronation
Street. A n d I can't stand
Benny Hill.
I knew you had taste. And finally,
just to prove that we have no taste
whatsoever, how would you most
like to die?
C a n ' t s a y a s I'd t h o u g h t
a b o u t it r e a l l y . B ut q u i c k l y
I s u p p o s e , in the pub.
Y e a h , I'd r e a l l y p r e f e r to
d i e in t h e p u b . . .
A n d s o w e left I a n M c C a r -
d l e , q u i e t l y d r e a m i n g of
scrumpy, fluoride tooth-
paste a n d Pink Panther
chocolate b a r s (remember
gold t h e m ? N o — neither do we),
and we wondered, why are
all computer p r o g r a m m e r s
s o s t r a n g e , w h y d o t h e y all
wear jeans and sneakers,
a n d w h y do they never buy
their o w n u n d e r p a n t s ?

SOFTOGRAPHY: Eddie
Kldd's Stunt Challenge
(Martech, 1984), Brian
Jacks' Superstars (Mar-
tech, 1 9 8 4 ) , G e o f f C a p e s -
Strong Man (Martech,
1984), Planets {Martech,
1986), Catch 23 ( M a r t e c h ,
h a v e l o o k e d a sight. N o - 1987).
body believes me w h e n I
tell t h e m n o w .
I'm not sure that I'm convinced
either, but there you go. Are you
still a die-hard punk today?
N o I'm not. I ' v e m e l l o w e d
into a s o r t of Eurythmics-
t y p e p e r s o n . I'm a l s o q u i t e
into Dire Straits, 'Money
For Nothing' is o n e of m y
favourite videos.
Talking of records, what record are
you most embarrassed to own?

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he Book of t h e Dead is a face you in this adventure; fail,
and tough luck, you're
condemned to being a mortal
fascinating little p r o g r a m for the rest of your life. A n d
with a lot to offer any mortals don't have very long
adventure lover, and CRL is lives.
doing the problem solver a The g a m e is a text and
great service by bringing it to a graphic adventure. The text is
wider audience. I say bringin g it well designed, w i t h some nice
to a wider audience because touches, like the key-shaped
this is not the first time I've seen cursor. The graphics are fairly
this program. It first landed on standard, although some
my desk a few months ago. w i t h locations, like the temple, are
a hand-drawn cassette insert. better than averagely depicted.
Ho hum, I thought, just another As y o u journey about, y o u are
Quilled adventure. Not so, I trying to score points and
quickly discovered! Essential achieve Ma'at. Quite what Ma'at
Myth, the original crew that is, I haven't been able to w o r k
perpetrated this title, has out, but I think it's like mana -
managed to produce a magical/mystical strength. Get Y < j a r « <?t\ t h e < 1
challenging adventure w i t h a enough of it, and you'll be able < h a r \ r \ « l r j r . s w t s *
much more interesting plot to re-enter paradise, or the 1 a k c a r . do v e r tt.c
than most. Ancient Egyptian equivalent. E x i t s ; r \ o r t l \ , s o j t ^ ,
If it's so ruddy good, w h y Some of the things y o u have to a h « a v j t ^ j l d c r .
didn't you review it last time do to get Ma'at are pretty
around instead of making us
wait for CRL to snap it up, I hear
the assembled multitude cry?
Simple - it had some rather o d d
little bugs in it - in a certain
location, if you did somethin g
that you weren't meant to do,
the characters were replaced by
black squares. Not too playable.
However, you can bet your
watusi that was one of the first
things I tried, and, lo and
behold . . . Now all is cured, and
I finally found out what God
really had to say . . .
Anyway, enough wittering.
You (yes you, pay attention) are
Kteth, a minor Egyptian deity
with the head of a falcon, which,
in Ancient Egypt, was a g o o d
PROGRAMMERS sign. Your daddy. Set, has ht r of a r a t ht r
LEI H O D G S O N , M A R K DAVIES murdered Osiris, head honcho t a ; ^ s t i < t«rhp T h « w a l l s a r e
and ANDREW DEAN - o t h e r w i s e in God-land, in the hopes of
k n o w n as Essential M y t h - w r o t e
taking over the place; such is
ir\ « r \ 9 r a v i r \ 9 S d e p i < t ir<
Book o l t h e D e a d as a t e a m
not to be, though, and the sins i P c j r \ d « r t h e r a d i a n t
e f f o r t . w i t h all t h r e e m u c k i n g i n
o n design , c o d i n g a n d g r a p h i c s . of the father have been visited r e $ t p o r t a l s l e a d s o j t h
The p r o g r a m is t h e first tney h a v e upon the child - you've been r\d e a s t .
w r i t t e n that has b e e n p u b l i s h e d
commercially
kicked out of heaven. Your only
chance to regain your G o d h o o d
is to solve the problems that

L
ong ago, w h e n the w o r l d
FACTS BOX of adventure games w as
young, there was a trilogy
[ f ^ e r y ^ ^ S of adventures called the Ket Castle Eerie and Shipwreck - causing strange lights and
Trilogy. both on one tape - have been noises, escape w i t h whatever
i lures af ajarg* '6udget And lo. Incentive Software written by that same T o m Frost
r e n ' J at their b e s t - did promise great rewards to and. judging f r o m what I've
the first being to solve all three: been able to see of t h e m so far
CGefon/y- W many tried, but none didst that wily Scot hasn't lost the
succeed, and there was a touch that made h i m arguably
1s H I P V V R E C K f t wailing and a gnashing of teeth. one of the country's greatest
Until, f r o m the frozen lands to adventurers.
1 Nome W e * the north there came a hero. Both programs were w r i t t e n
Tom Frost by name, w h o didst with the Quill. Patch and
°° 10 J 1 Tom ^ o S t vanquish the trials of Ket: and Illustrator, which T o m
he didst bear away the sacred acknowledges, and the package
video recorder unto his is priced accordingly.
homeland . . . Castle Eerie casts y o u as a
R«vl«w«r
And if you think that little sort of James Bond. Your task:
excursion into the mists of to penetrate the defences of the Y o u a r e i n a v e ~
history isn't relevant, yah boo aptly named Castle Eerie, r o o m . P e e l i n g P »
sucks to you because it is. The somewhere in the w i l d s of
t h e u a I I s , g i v i L
two adventures reviewed here - Scotland, find out w h o is
o r d e c a y .
Castle Eerie • E x i t s a r e N O R T H
Y o u c a n a l s o s
a n i r o n B A R
 v m i M i m

Ancient Eqyptian - just think in refreshing absence of any need

terms of primitive farmers and
y o u ' l l know what to do w i t h the
sheep, for a start. Other
problems, though, have less
relevance to Egypt. There is
what looks suspiciously like a
TV in one of the screen shots o n
the packaging, and another
shows a very m o d e r n looking
street. I haven't been able to
visit these locations myself yet
- 1 suspect they're in part t w o of
the adventure, and, as usual
with two-part adventures, y o u
can't get into the second part
without the code w o r d w h i c h
y o u get f r o m solving the first
part and I'm too d i m to solve
the first part and I'll never make
t o p . fit
it as a godling, even a minor
t p r o rh t
one...
to kill things, w h i ch you find so
often in adventure games,
especially one's w h i c h arm you UIVIIM
w i t h a knife in the first location.
Actually, the knife is for a very
logical task early on in the
FACTS BOX game. Admittedly, there are the
by n o w fairly standard touches
Text and g " P h i c which you tend to find in too
lure with zip and ongi- many programs; the cliff, the
n a , i < y . A n y J T e y e r e rope, the hermit etc. But in the
a e
y o u start o f f in an main the game has an
originality that makes it a cut
h a s j o b e g o o d i _ _ _ _ _ above the usual fodder y o u get.
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In Shipwreck, y o u have a
rather different plot. You've
saved all your m o n e y and sent
yourself for a nice long restful
either. And for some reason, the
steward refuses to let y o u into
the lounge or the d i n i ng room.
Perhaps you'r e not a first class
back to civilisation and call in You begin outside the castle South Pacific cruise. It's a passenger? Or - horrors -
door. It's locked, so you have to beautiful sunny day and the maybe y o u need a tie. Watch
find an alternative w a y in. small fire in the engine r o o m is out for the s w i m m i n g p o o l -
Once inside, be careful. There absolutely nothing to w o r r y otherwise y o u hit y o u r head
are various nasty little traps a b o u t . . . or is it? and end up in the sick bay; not
w h i c h w i l l bring armed guards Well, yes, it is actually. A n d if the right place to be if the ship is
d o w n upon y o u like the y o u don't work out what to do about to go d o w n . Then again,
proverbial Assyrians, and that pretty soon, you're going to find perhaps it is - what could that
w i l l be the end of your yourself doing the d o g paddle nurse d o for you?
investigative career. Don't open in a shark infested ocean. Both p r o g r a m s are excellent
the door unless you'v e done You can't get into the life examples of g o o d old fashioned
s o m e t h i n g about the alarm; boat. You can't get hold of a life adventure writing. No frills, just
and don't fiddle around w i t h the belt. You can't go o n to the solid p r o b l e m s tied together
grandfather clock. bridge w i t h o u t a signed permit, w i t h a decent plot. The graphics
Apart f r o m that, y o u have and w h e r e can y o u get one of are m o r e than adequate,
other problems facing y o u, those? The ship's shop sells although I got a bit tired of the
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some m o r e difficult than others, maps, but you don't have any deck scenes in Shipwreck - one
p i i n t h a n g s f r o m money, w h i c h means that you
but all challenging and promenade deck looks very
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n the annals of E g history poutoly the
i most successful c o m p e t i t i o n
w e ever
thought of was t h e W i l d W i l l y w i n a radio-
controlled jeep extravaganza.
Not content w i t h d o i n g somethin g r i g h t
once w e decided w e ' d d o It again but
Bigger. Better I More ta nk orientated I
Harderl
In celebration of V i r g in s Jolly o r i g i n a l
Rebel game w e have for y o u th e W i l d King
Tiger Tank Compol
The Radio Controlled King Tiger Tank w i l l
hurled around y o u r l i v i n g r o o m or g a r d e n
destroying e v e r y t h i n g in Its p a t h a n d d o i n g
serious damage as y o u command.
The w i n n e r gets th e tan k a n d the radio
control a n d b a t t e r y charger - all y o u need
t o get tru n d l i ng - plus a copy of Rebel.
Twenty-five runners up also get copies of
the excellent Rebel game a n d f i f t y more
runners up after that get Rebel posters - so
direction b y 90 every time It hits a mirror.
O n the main map b e l o w there Is o n l y one
THE PUZZLE route w h i c h w i l l enable y o u t o get the
beam from laser t o Exit and. guess w h a t ,
N o w w e t o l d y o u In W i l d W i l l y t h a t w e mirrors are missing at A, B. C a n d D. You
didn't w a n t t o give the Jeep a w a y a n d have t o figure out w h a t the b e a m route
quite f r a n k l y w e w e r e p r e t t y d i s a p p o i n t e d must be a n d put In correctly o r i e n t a t e d
w h e n thousands of p e o p l e came up w i t h mirrors at the four locations.
the right answer. Obviously things w e r e n ' t Sounds difficult? Yep, but w e d o n ' t care.
tough enough. This Is hundreds of pounds w o r t h of gear
Check this o u t: w e re g i v i n g away. The test diagram shows
Below y o u see a map based o n th e k i n d the alternatives for the mirror operations
and the the w a y t h e y w i l l effect the beam.
of problems y o u f i n d in Rebel. The Idea Is t o
find a route from the laser beam t o t h e exit Does that help? H o p e not.
by bouncing the beam o n mirrors w h i c h are EXAJAFUE - SH0WNJ6- MtKRP*.
strategically located. The mirror system (PfVEk/TAnOUS toJV HOW 10 DRAM IU
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did so want to like Game
Over from Imagine. I hated
the packaging so much that
I really wanted to enthuse
CRICKET AVERAGES rapturously over the game. But I
W O R K O U T Label: S o u t h Coast ( t H i g h W a l k . Fareham, H a n t s P 0 1 5 6BS)
couldn't. I even found it hard to
Price £4.95 (cassette), £7.95 ( O p u s disc) M e m o r y : 48K/128K Joystick: n o t laugh at Game Over, and boy, is
applicable Reviewer: M i k e W r i g h t that serious.
Workmanlike cricket stats program. Recommended We begin with a left-to-right
for cricket pundits everywhere flipping affair, a space-age

T
o me. S u m m e r i s t h e s o u n d o f w i l l o w u p o n leather, t h e voice of
prison chock-a-block w i t h
Brian J o h n s o n a n d t h e d r u m m i n g o f t h e r a i n . robotic guards, apparently
flying on legs of lamb. Or
It's also t h e c l i c k i n g o f p e n s a n d c a l c u l a t o r s as c r i c k e t d e v o t e e s perhaps they're cylindrical
calculate t h e a v e r a g e s f o r t h e i r f a v o u r i t e p l a y e r s . Cricket A v e r a g e s f r o m vacuum cleaners. Anyway, the
S o u t h C o a s t S o f t w a r e , t h o u g h , n o w d o e s all t h a t f o r y o u . graphics being somewhat on
Averages c a n be g e n e r a t e d f o r t h e t e a m , t h e i n d i v i d u a l o r a s u m m a r y
the small side, it's not at all easy
for all t e a m m e m b e r s . T h e t e a m a v e r a g e s s h o w t h e n u m b e r o f r u n s
scored a n d t h e a v e r a g e r u n s per w i c k e t f o r t h e t e a m a n d a n a g g r e g a t e
to tell, but they're v. peculiar all
for t h e o p p o n e n t s . A n i n d i v i d u a l ' s a v e r a g e s s h o w t h e n a m e a n d b a t t i n g the same.
b o w l i n g a n d f i e l d i n g a v e r a g e s . T h a t ' s j u s t t h e b a s i c s - t h e r e a re a h o s t o
more complex options.
Off you go, the hardy, fully
A l t h o u g h t h e d a t a i n p u t m e n u e e a re a b i t c o n f u s i n g t h e p r o g r a m d o e : equipped, but not overly bright
w h a t is i n t e n d e d q u i t e w e l l Arkos, across twenty screens of
Indeed, i t ' s a p p a r e n t l y b e i n g u s e d b y t h e o f f i c i a l H a m p s h i r e C o u n t y CC flippin' good fun (eh, eh) across
scorer f o r t h e i r f i r s t t e a m s t a t i s t i c s I B the hostile planet Hypsis, in
order to gain the access code to
the even more unpleasant

MOUNTIE MICK'S DEATH RIDE

ARCADE l a b e l : Reacktor Price: £S.99 M e m o r y 48K. 128K Joysticks: va ri o u s
An Express Raider look-sound-and-play-alike. Not

g a m e
worth the money

W
o w ! This is w h a t I've a l w a y s d r e a m e d o f d o i n g . Racing a l o n g
the t o p of t h e train, f i r i n g s m a l l b l o b s at large b o u n c i n g b l o b s
Yeah! W o a h ' H o l d yer h o r s e s . T h i s i s a n I r o n H o r s e , t r a i l i n g
across t h e C a n a d i a n R o c k i e s , a n ' g u e s s w h a t . I t ' s b e i n g r o b b e d b y n o n e
other than the McCluskey g a n g and y o u have t o g o after t h e m It w o n ' t
be easy. A l l k i n d s of t h i n g s m a y h a p p e n . Y o u ' l l g o t h r o u g h t u n n e l s . Y o u ' l l
travel b e t w e e n the trains o n a pushcart. Y o u r legs w i l l c o n t i n u a l l y
change c o l o u r . Y o u w i l l p r o b a b l y d i e . if n o t f r o m t h e b u l l e t s t h e n f r o m
the boredom. The third screen is far more
Well, w e ' v e h a d t h e N e m e s i s c o n v e r s i o n a n d t h e N e m e s i s c l o n e s . FACTS B O X _ difficult. A case of leaping
We've had the Gauntlet conversion and the Gauntlet clones. N o w c o m e s across a void on to t w o
t h e t u r n of E x p r e s s Raider . N o t g o o d B
platforms, which bob up and
• •a-a-a- A d o w n , whilst being attacked by
• •A-A--SV a t h r o n g of robots. It's even
trickier than it sounds, and
SUPER ROBIN HOOD unbearingly frustrating because
ARCADE l a b e l . C o d e m a s t e r s A u t h o r : M a r k Baldock Price: £1.99 M e m o r y : you keep falling off and
48K.12SK Joystick: v a r i o u s R e v i e w e r : T o n y D i l l o n tasteless packaging). d r o p p i n g dead. Then it's Game
It's so boorrring! / had to strap myself to my rubber Over for you sonny.
g a m e OVER
keyboard just to keep playing If you do manage to leap

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Label: Imagine
aahhggl It's g a m e s like t h i s t h a t r e m i n d m e o f w h a t m y o l d across the void and take out a
g r a n n y u s e d t o say. " F r e d . " s h e ' d s a y ( s h e c o u l d n e v e r r e m e m b e r few more aliens, you come to a
m y name). "Fred, there's n o t h i n g like a g o o d arcade g a m e . " charming woodland scene. In
She w a s right. S u p e r R o b i n H o o d is n o t h i n g l i k e a g o o d a r c a d e g a m e . screen shots these look pretty
It has all t h e e l e m e n t s b u t d o e s n ' t q u i t e s e e m t o f i t t o g e t h e r .
good. Nice mountains
Y o u are cast as R o b i n H o o d , r e s c u i n g M a r i o n . N o s u r p r i s e s t h e r e . A n d -tftbt^
l combined tastefully w i t h big

iittt.
for s o m e s t r a n g e , p o s s i b l y w a r p e d , r e a s o n h e h a s t o c o l l e c t s q u i s h y b i t s Reviewer: a O * ^ ^ ^ ^
of h u m a n i n n a r d s .
slob monsters. (You'll see what
T e c h n i c a l l y i t ' s all w e l l u p t o C o d e m a s t e r s s t a n d a r d ( w h a t e v e r t h a t
means). Terrifi c g r a p h i c s , g o o d s o u n d FX. s m o o t h a n i m a t i o n a n d w e l l -
p l a n n e d screen l a y o u t . W h a t a s h a m e t h e g a m e ' s s o u s e l e s s H
• •A-A-A- A
• •A-A-A- 4 planet of Sckunn in order to
fight the evil queen. She of the
STAR WRECK infamous advert.
ADVENTURE Label: A l t e r n a t i v e S o f t w a r e Price: £1.99 M e m o r y 48K128K The first two screens are dead
Joystick: n o l a p p l i c a b l e R e v i e w e r : D e n i / A h m e t easy. Just run along and shoot
Reasonable adventure, let down by one-gag humour at the meaty guards. Should
you see a barrel, shoot it. It
and poor graphics. Some tricky problems though

H
could contain something nice,
aving p r o d u c e d s o m e d e ce n t cheapo a d v e n t u r e s in t h e past I w a s
like extra weaponry, a new
e x p e c t i n g s o m e t h i n g g o o d f r o m A l t e r n a t i v e S o f t w a r e ' s Star
Wre ck. W h a t a m i s t a k e !
lease of life in the shape of a
For a s t a r t i t ' s a b o u t as f u n n y as a m o t o r w a y p i l e - u p . Y o u p l a y c a p t a i n heart, or it could be a b o m b , i n
J a m e s T Cake, of t h e s t a r s h i p P a r a l y s e d , y o u r m i s s i o n t o t a k e a c a r g o o f which case, jump like crazy,
one TreM a n d a rigeMien S l i m e Beee t t o t h e p l a n e t D a n d r o x . \ you're going to die. It should be
The g e m a itself i s l e t d o w n m e i n l y b y i t s g r a p h i c s , w h i c h are v e r y said now that you can't die
s i m p l e . P i c t u r e s m a d e u p f r o m l i n e s w h i c h d o n ' t l o o k Hke a n y t h i n g i n merely through being shot. This
perticuler can hardly be called state-of-the-art. is one of those games w h i c h
Also Alternative S o f t w a r e d o e s n ' t eeem t o k n o w t h a t the S p e c t r u m provides you w i t h an energy
can p r o d u c e s o u n d es t h e r e is n o n e , a p a r t f r o m t h e click o f t h e k a y s f l
allowance at the beginning of
• •A-A-A- Q the game, which is drained
•A-A-A-A- O whenever you're shot, and
which goes away completely if
you touch a b o m b or fall off the
edge of a cliff.

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I mean.) But wait unitil they
move. U g h ! Because alas Game
Over is truly the h o m e of Mr
Attribute Clash. Monsters
merge w i t h Arkos, w h o , in an
extremely slovenly w a y merges
into anything that c o m e s w i t h i n
his flight path. Not a pretty
sight. So this is perhaps the
only t i m e that w e can be
grateful for the fact that the
figures are so small.
Game play is a redeeming
O V E l l
feature, it's fast and frantic,
m u l t i p l e monsters s w o o p f r o m
all over the place firing w i l d l y
and zinging into Arkos, draining
his energy, and sending h i m
back to the beginning.
However, death is a rather
attractive event. Arkos
disintegrates into little itsy-bitsy
t w i n k l i n g stars w h i c h waft away
off the t o p of the screen. A n
appallingly w h i m s i c a l display
totally out of place w i t h i n the
context of the game.
The nicest thing that can be
said about Game Over is that
it's a run-of-the-mill screen
f l i p p i n g sort of game that gives
y o u a lot to shoot at and not a
great deal else. It's simple to
play - usual joystick or
keyboard controls, but it's not
overly enthralling, and the
attribute p r o b l e m is awful.
Mostly a d i s a p p o i n t m e n t *
SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987 41
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ARCADE Label: B u g Byte M e m o r y : 48K 128K Price: £1.99 l o y s t i c k : various
Reviewer: A n d y M o s t
Snap the professor's inventions in the underground
cave system. Dull
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ot m u c h f u n b e i n g a YOP t r a i n e e these days. Al l y o u get is a
p o s t i n g t o a n e w s p a p e r as a n o v i c e p h o t o g r a p h e r a n d g i v e n a n
a s s i g n m e n t t o film e v e r y o n e o f t h e m a d p r o f e s s o r ' s i n v e n t i o n s
hidden in various objects a r o u n d his u n d e r g r o u n d cave s y s t e m
This is y o u r t y p i c a l a r c a d e m u l t i - l e v e l a d v e n t u r e t h a t h a s s o m e n o v e l
differences, w h i c h I s u p p o s e b r i n g s i t a f e w pegs higher o n t h e
e n t e r t a i n m e n t scale. N o t o n l y d o y o u n e e d t o find t h e i n v e n t i o n s a n d
s n a p t h e m w i t h t h e c a m e r a , b u t y o u o n l y h a v e 16 p i c t u r e s o n t h e r e e l
and touching the m a n y m u t a n t s loses f i l m , so y o u need t o get back t o
t h e s t a r t a n d g e t a n o t h e r - b u t h o w ? G o i n g d o w n is e a s y , b u t g o i n g up?
O n e o t h e r t h i n g , t h e c a v e s a re r e a d i o a c t i v e a n d g u e s s w h a t , o n l y a
l i m i t e d a m o u n t o f t i m e f o l k s ! T h e i c o n c o n t r o l is f u n . a n d t h e l a y o u t i s
p r e t t y b u t t h e g a m e p l a y is n o w a y s t a r t l i n g B
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it's a m a z e g a m e w i t h a d i f f e r e n c e : y o u m a k e i t u p as y o u g o .
Y o u r p l a y i n g p i e ce is a r e v o l v i n g f a c e w h i c h s m o o t h l y g l i d e s a l o n g t h e
v a r i o u s p a t h w a y s a n d y o u r o b j e c t i v e is t o d i r e c t Z e n j i t h r o u g h t h e
circuits o f D e l t a - B a n d c o n n e c t u p t h e d i f f e r e n t p a t h w a y s t o t h e c e n t r a l
p o w e r s o u r c e . N o t s i m p l e For a s t a r t a c l o c k s l o w l y t i c k s a w a y t h e t i m e
remaining before th e reactor b l o w s. Small flames rush a r o u n d the
p a t h w a y s in an a t t e m p t t o f r y y o u t o ashes. A n d o n later levels these
nasty little t h i n g s t r y t o v a p o r i s e y o u w i t h missiles.
T h e g r a p h i c s s r e n ' t r e a l l y t h a t h o t . b u t d o n ' t l e t t h i s p u t y o u off T h e
a n i m a t i o n is a c t u a l l y v e r y w e l l d o n e , c o l o u r is u s e d n i c e l y , a n d t h e r e i s
even a s t r a n g e t w i n k l y k i n d o f t u n e w h i c h p l a y s t h r o u g h o u t w h i c h a d d s
to the atmosphere considerably^
• Q
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CORE
ADVENTURE Label: B u g Byte Price: £1.99 M e m o r y : 48K 128K J o y s t i c k :
various Reviewer A n d y M o s s
Superior budget adventure with excellent graphics
C
o r e is a p r o b l e m - s o l v i n g g a m e , w i t h all t h e h a l l m a r k s of a classic
text adventure, bu t w i t h m o v i n g graphics. You start w i t h nothing
b u t a b a t t e r y - o p e r a t e d l i f e s u p p o r t s y s t e m , a n d h a v e t o find a
v a r i e t y of o b j e c t s t o e n a b l e y o u t o d e l v e f u r t h e r i n t o t h e g a m e O b v i o u s
essential i t e m s t o find i n c l u d e a laser g u n . a r m o u r e d r e f l e c t o r s a n d . t h e
reason f o r y o u r d o i n g all t h i s , b i t s o f b r o k e n c o m p u t e r t o b e r e a s s e m
bled
The g a m e is i c o n - d r i v e n , s a v e a b l e ( t h a n k f u l l y ) , a n d g r a p h i c a l l y e x c e l
lent. A m u s t if y o u l i k e a d v e n t u r e s s
• • • • - A -
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STRATEGY l a b e l : F i r e b i r d Price. £1.99 l o y s t i r k s : v a r i o u s M e m o r y : 4SK
128K Reviewer: Tamara H o w a r d
Deceptively difficult thought and strategy game, with
some neat graphics
D
espite the fact t h a t this g a m e has absolutely t h e m o s t c o m p l e t e ly
n a ff t i t l e t h a t y o u c o u l d e v e r h o p e t o h e a r . S p a c e d O u t I s q u i t e
nifty
It's m o r e o f a s t r a t e g y g a m e t h a n a n y t h i n g else. Y o u h a v e t o m o v e
your little green m a n across t h e 'holographic' board, f r o m the b o t t o m
left-hand corner to t h e t o p r i g h t - h a n d corner w h i l s t a v o i d i n g the nastys
All y o u d o is r o l l t h e d i c e , a n d m a k i n g t h e a p p r o p r i a t e n u m b e r of m o v e s
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An absolute Gem?
I
f s not every d a y that a Spectrum a d d - o n turns up unfinished,
undocumented, a n d in G e r m a n but still gets written about. But this is
just o n e of those days . . .
So this isn't a review, but m o r e a p r e v i e w of w h a t promises to be at
least a useful bit o f Spectrum w h i z z e r y . A n d has the possibility of turning
into a w h o l e lot m o r e t h an that ̶ m a y b e something pretty interesting f o r
the new 1 2 8 K + 3 .
The p r o d u c t is V i s i o n , f r o m
I n d i v i d u a l S o f t w a r e . I n d i v i d u a l is a
German software house, a n d Vision
is a d e s k t o p . T h i s p a r t i c u l a r d e s k t o p
t a k e s the f o r m of a R O M c h i p t h a t
plugs into a B e t a disc i n t e r f a c e . A t
the m o m e n t it o n l y w o r k s w i t h t h e
Beta i n t e r f a c e , b u t c o u l d f a i r l y
simply b e c h a n g e d b y I n d i v i d u a l to
be a b l e to w o r k w i t h t h e 1 2 8 K + 3 .
O n c e i f s fitted - o n t h e B e t a -
i n s t e a d of t y p i n g in c o m m a n d s to u s e
the disc d r i v e , y o u m o v e a n a r r o w
a r o u n d t h e s c r e e n a n d o n to t h e
thing y o u w a n t to d o o r u s e .
L i k e most t h i n g s c o m p u t e r , t h e
w o r l d of d e s k t o p s h a s a l a n g u a g e a l l
its o w n . P i c t u r e s a r e n ' t p i c t u r e s ,
t h e y ' r e icons. A r r o w s a r e l i k e w i s e
p o i n t e r s , a r e a s of s c r e e n b e c o m e
windows a n d choosing becomes
selecting. S e l e c t i o n h a p p e n s w h e n
y o u click o n s o m e t h i n g - c l i c k i n g
b e i n g t h e p r o c e s s of p r e s s i n g t h e
button a p p o i n t e d f o r t h e p u r p o s e .
V i s i o n h a s i c o n s of f o u r d i s c d r i v e s
(labelled A to D), a d u s t b i n , a n d
information logo a n d a printer.
A l o n g the t o p of t h e s c r e e n a r e a s e t
of m e n u titles.
The first is c a l l e d Vision, a n d t h i s just
g i v e s the v e r s i o n n u m b e r a n d a
c o p y r i g h t notice. T h e n t h e r e ' s Drive,
w h i c h selects 4 0 o r 8 0 t r a c k d r i v e s ,
a n d a l s o h a s a Test o p t i o n f o r d a y s
w h e n n o t h i n g s e e m s to b e g o i n g
right. T h e Disc m e n u h a s o p t i o n s to
Move, Format a n d Rename a disc.
F i n a l l y , t h e Output m e n u s e t s t h e w a y
bits of i n f o r m a t i o n a p p e a r . P r o g r a m
size c a n b e s h o w n in d e c i m a l o r h e x ,
for e x a m p l e .
mm
V e r y p r e t t y . B u t is it a n y g o o d ?
S a y y o u w a n t to l o a d a p r o g r a m , b u t
y o u can't r e m e m b e r w h e t h e r is w a s
c a l l e d BLUES 13 o r BLOOS13. On a
s t a n d a r d disc interface, the u s u a l
s e q u e n c e of e v e n t s is t o t y p e CAT to
find t h e file n a m e , a n d t h e n LOAD
"BLOOS13"1o g e t t h e t h i n g . With a
desktop like Vision, y o u m o v e the
p o i n t e r o n to t h e p i c t u r e of t h e d i s c
d r i v e y o u w a n t , a n d p r e s s SPACE
twice. A w i n d o w o p e n s u p , a n d a list
of the p r o g r a m s , d a t a a n d j u n k o n
the disc a p p e a r s . M o v e t h e p o i n t e r
o v e r t h e p r o g r a m y o u w a n t to l o a d ,
a n d p r e s s SPACE a g a i n .
Y o u h a v e to click t w i c e to l o a d a
program because there's a chance
t h a t y o u just w a n t to r e n a m e it o r
Copy it s o m e w h e r e r a t h e r t h a n Run
it i m m e d i a t e l y . This s o r t of t h i n g is
c o v e r e d b y clicking once on the
p r o g r a m n a m e , w h e r e u p o n the
n a m e r e v e r s e s into w h i t e - o n - b l a c k ,
a n d t h e n m o v i n g t h e p o i n t e r to a
m e n u t o s e l e ct t h e a c t i o n y o u w a n t .
I f s a l s o p o s s i b l e l i k e this to c h o o s e
m o r e t h a n o n e p r o g r a m at once. This
is a l s o w h e r e t h e d u s t b i n c o m e s in —
s e l e c t a f e w o b s o l e t e files a n d t h e n
click o n t h e b i n . . . v a b o o m . T h e y ' v e
gone.
Lots of g a m e s h a v e u s e d this sort
of t e c h n i q u e for c o n t r o l l i n g a c t i o n ,
m o r e often a s a gimmick t h a n
b e c a u s e i f s g e n u i n e l y e a s i e r . With
V i s i o n , it r e a l l y is e a s i e r t h a n
r e m e m b e r i n g a n d t y p i n g a g a g g l e of
c o m m a n d s a n d p r o g r a m n a m e s in
Basic.
It might b e e a s i e r — b u t i f s
certainly m o r e fun. The w h o l e
p r o c e s s is a i d e d i m m e a s u r a b l y b y
the h i g h q u a l i t y of t h e g r a p h i c s ,
w h i c h (on m y c r e a k i n g o l d p o r t a b l e
TV) l o o k a s n i c e a s a n A t a r i ST in l o w -
r e s o l u t i o n m o d e . T h e r e ' s b e e n a lot
of effort e x p e n d e d in t h e d e s i g n of
the s m a l l c h a r a c t e r s e t , a n d
r e s t r a i n e d u s e of Colour a n d Bright
m a k e for a v e r y p r o f e s s i o n a l
appearance.
I c a n f o r e s e e problems with the
R O M a s it is. L e a v i n g a s i d e t h e fact
t h a t it s e e m e d u n f i n i s h e d (I n e v e r d i d
f i n d o u t w h a t Move d i d f r o m t h e Disc
m e n u , a n d t h e Information l o g o just
f l a s h e d a t m e ) , t h e D e s k t o p c o d e is
d e s i g n e d to u s e t h e s p a r e s p a c e in
t h e e x i s t i n g B e t a R O M . S o if
I n d i v i d u a l w a n t to s e l l a R O M , i f s got
to h a v e a l l t h e B e t a c o d e in, w h i c h
raises interesting copyright
p r o b l e m s . At l e a s t in this c o u n t r y .
T h e n t h e r e ' s t h e fact t h a t t h e B e t a
i n t e r f a c e , w h i l e not u n c o m m o n isn't
t h e w o r l d ' s f a v o u r i t e S p e c t r u m disc
s y s t e m . A n d t h e r e a r e lots of
v e r s i o n s of t h e s o f t w a r e , m o s t of
w h i c h u s e h a r d w a r e w h i c h is s u b t l y
different from other r e l e a s e s. This
r a i s e s t h e p r o b l e m of c o m p a t i b i l i t y —
d o e s o n e R O M suit a l l B e t a
interfaces?
N o w t h e g o o d n e w s — t h e 1 2 8 K f 3.
With a l l t h a t m e m o r y , a n d w i t h
d e t a i l s of t h e d i s c o p e r a t i n g s y s t e m
w i d e l y a v a i l a b l e , it s h o u l d b e
e n t i r e l y p o s s i b l e f o r a l l t h e g o o d bits
( g r a p h i c s , m e n u i n g , c o m m a n d s ) to
be t r a n s f e r r e d from the Beta s y s t e m
at speed.
The 1 2 8 K + 3 n e e d s just s u c h a
s y s t e m to b r i n g it into t h e l a t e 8 C s ,
a n d Individual could p r o d u c e a disc
fast e n o u g h f o r t h e i r d e s k t o p to
become the s t a n d a r d . A n d h a v i n g a
s t a n d a r d for a s y s t e m b r i n g s g o o d
things for e v e r y o n e . T h e y ' v e d o n e
most of t h e w o r k — I h o p e t h e y f i n i s h
the j o b !
Details H a r t m u t S c h w i n t y , c / o 2 1 A
Telferscott R o a d , L o n d o n S W T 2 OHW.
SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987 44
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A WELL-KNOWN + 3
Y
ou plonkers! You prats! You
idiots! You wimps! You. you. . .
well, that's enough of that thank you.
On page 46 of your mega mag. July
issue, you gave the Firebird game
Mad Nurse 8 stars, but next to the
star rating there's a big number 7.
You can't count. Personally I think
the game is trash and only deserves
about 2 stars.
By the way. i do like the new star
rating system.
Charlie Ivens
Buckland
Surrey
# We bke it too in tact. we tike it
so much that we completely forgot
how to use it. Sorry'
I am ANGRY!!! OK You change the P I
logo. Oo I complain. . . Mo. You
change the Classic symbol and the
Contents page. Did I complain. . . Not
much. But you've gone too far this
time. Bring back the 5-star rating.
PLEEASE!! Pretty please? This is a
petition, with one signature.
Matthew Rawlmson
Setsey
Sussex
PS Jon Rigtar rules OK.
# Come on! What's the matter, /usl
try and imagine the new rating
system as being twice as accurate as
the old one Besides, you get more
stars for your money each issue now
Incidentally, I think you'll find most
pennons usually have more than one
signature
J u s t to clarify a few points:
• The 128K • 3 is great! It's a bit
expensive, but that doesn't mean
that Anon of Lisbon' has the right to
criticise. So leave off Amstrad, Anon!
• Jon Riglar is a bit of a div. but he's
good at doing ZapChat. so leave him
alone, he's all right.
• Your mag is the best in the world.
It beats the competition by a long
way. The extra features just keep
rolling in. and I love the Write Stuff
and CodeTalk and stuff. Love the new
rating system and the new designs.
• But I don't like some people.
Graham Taylor does crap reviews and
Jim Oouglas and all his reviews are
pretty crap too.
Benjamin Wells
Enderby
PS 100-1 you don't print this
• We d have to disagree with your
final observation - but then we
would wouldn't we? Jim replies
Uh-hah l guess it 's too late to
place a bet for a couple of
hundred?
I am writing as a very disenchanted
Spectrum 128 owner in the
knowledge that we have the 128K 3
due to appear shortly.
Great, or so I thought, I'll have
access to disc-based software when
they release the stand-alone disc drive.
However, having read test reports, it
seems unlikely in the extreme that I
can ever hope to run a disc drive with
my now obsolete computer. The only
answer is to go out and buy the 4 3.
An added bombshell is that even
128K • 2 owners are not going to be
able to up-grade. Amstrad seems to
be oblivious to the fact that there are
thousands of people already using
128's and 128K 2 s who will
begrudge being asked to fork out
another £250 for the convenience of
a disc drive which, at time of writing,
non-existent.
I was originally excited at the
of the 128K * J , but I now
that Amstrad and its Plus 3
massive vote of thumbs down
Spectrum users, and other
potential buyers. Maybe then
Amstrad will consider the users,
of their bank balance.
M Kerr
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
C oncerning the "£50 more than the
computing press predicted" price
tag on the 128K - 3.
My theory is that Sugar is trying to
wean Spectrum devotees over to
Amstrad. The 128K-3 is effectively
the same price as the Amstrad 6128,
but the latter has the advantages of
CPM, plus existing software and
hardware support. Should cream off a
few of the floating buyers without
antagonising the loyalists too much.
Anti-Spectrumist behaviour I call
it, and in protest, I'm going to stick
to my battered old 48K!
Michael R Hughes
Swansea
• Obviously people who suggest
that the Spectrum +3 's price would
drop dramatically shortly after
Christmas are completely wrong
and should be ignored
HOW NOT TO GET STEREO
W
e are just writing to let you know
we have at last achieved stereo
sound on our Specky 48. "How?",
you ask. Well, after loading your
game, remove the ear plug from the
back of your computer and insert the
headphones. Great when you're
playing a good shoot-em-up.
Paul and Glenn Gibney
i am trying to start up a new software
library offering public domain in
software.
Software is required, but the writer
must be prepared to give up
copyright, in return, they may
receive payment for each copy sent
to another member, and further
payment if that member finds the
software useful. Any sort of software
will be accepted for evaluation, so
long as it serves some useful
purpose.
Anyone giving software will
receive free membership, otherwise
membership will be priced at £2.50.
Each piece of software will cost
£1.00 (£2.00 on Microdrive).
Please contact: The One and Only,
42 Hayes Road. Bromley. Kent. BR2
9AA.
Neil Smith
Bromley
Kent
I
am very contused! How much K'
has a Spectrum » got? Will 128K
games work oh a Spectrum?
Matthew Smith
Kings Lynn
Norfolk
# It s got a whopping great 48K
Ram and 32K Rom 1P8K games -
if they use the 128 s facilities won t
*o*k on the 48K machines sorryf
Carncklergus
C o Antrim
0 Oooowah! No. no no It s not
stereo sound at all you /ust get the
same noise playing in both ears at
the same time For it to be stereo, it
would have to have at least two
channels
Hello my n a m e a K i d Jen-
Mn and aurprialngly
enough I ' m not g e t t i n g
stereo s o u n d f r o m theme
Spectrum®
IT'S GREAT BUT
I think the magazine is great, but
I'd like to suggest a few changes.
How about giving a second opinion on
games reviews? This would give a
more balanced view and help people
decide whether or not to buy the
game, which is the reason for the
review in the first place. There
seems to be a bias in friiftl reviews
against strategy games. Coniact
Sam Cruise ("not a case for
arcaders") and Nosferatu ("lacks
Q: WHY DOES
LETTERS.
RUN SUCH
EASY COMPETITIONS?
W hat in the world is the point ot
having competitions where to
win all you have to do is answer a
question like, "Which season comes
before summer?"
Competitions such as the recent
Shadow Skimmer one are much
better, because you have to do
Somebody else w h o is something in order to win a prize.
f r o m Dorset. Oh and by the way, my minions
have told me that 14 Holkham Road.
And the article about Oinamic was
dead good.
Jeff Fuge
St George
Bristol
'Not strictly true, as Gremlin would
say.
• Well I think that that question
about the seasons was rather
tricky, in fact Especially as this
issue (September) is actually being

, were marked down for lack
of damage to joysticks. If a game
T hankee very much fur yur very gud Orton, Peterborough where you're written in July for publication in
mag, it's very, very gud in fact supposed to send your entries is August. Think how we must feel at
(don't let yer heads grow too big). occupied by squatters* Christmas'
The pokee cards - nice idea, grayt
reviews, Inter-est-in artycles, evin
Gurdo Graytbelly - all in one gurt
humingis glossy magy.
I remain, yer biggist cuntry bunkin
fan in deepest Dorset
Mike Tre
Sherbourne
Dorset
• Wew - Cheers an all rat. Micket
m boy. We always try an seeya
wright.

sets out to be a strategy game it
shouldn't be criticised for that.
Meanwhile, Lightforce, Uridium.
Shadow Skimmer and Nemesis all
get Classics. Originality nil, thought
nil. Maybe there is a logical
explanation.
Despite these criticisms. I'm fully
convinced of i-i'JCl superiority, and
despite the astronomic price for
overseas subscriptions. I have now
subscribed direct.
Stephen O'Neill
Nelson
New Zealand
0 Coo' Genuine constructive
Criticism 1 Everything you say is
pretty valid. Stephen, and has
been taken on board We already
now do g'Wj^* variety ol different
views on f-~ffj Classics The
danger with multiple opinion
reviews is it 's repetitive with
people simply echoing each
other
I
buy many of the sports
simulations which you review.
There is one game, however, in
which I am interested but so tar have
been unable to locate. The gams was
reviewed in March 1987 and is called
Howzat, published by Alternative
Software for £1.99. Could you tell me
how I can get in touch with this Actually I'm n o t a H i p p y actually a n d what's w r o n g w i t h Pink F l o y d ?
company?
Aiastair Lawson C a n I use the coupons in the mail order.
Sudbury magazine for purchasing Keep up the good work, Happy five
Suffolk progr?ms from English software years!
houses? Or are they intended for use isidro Zoroza
# Alternative can be found on 0977 only inside the UK? If the answer to Beunos Aires
79777 the first question is "yes" then how PS I d like to tell you thai Evita is
much would I have to add for postage actually not a national hero as you
and packing? Unfortunately, the said last month
Argentine software market is quite • Yes you can. but you should add
limited, and you can only get pirate 0.75p to the cheque value printed in
copies of new games. As I'm against the coupon As for Evita. Elaine Page
piracy, I always buy my games by will be quite upset
A poet . . .
W h a t ' s this I hear? The 128K • 3 is
near? Great great, by Clive, It's
got a disc drive! Oh heck, dearie me.
Its inches are only three! "More
memory" I pray. Still 128K? A
monitor maybe? Still a colour TV I
have a plus two, What am I to do? I
can't get an up-grade Disc drive, I'm
afraid! What's more, Al's gone back
to To the old colour, black. But
what's in the future? Not another
Sinclair computer It's called the +3
Not good you agree. With a fairly high
price, That's not very nice.
Andrew Good
Co Clare
Ireland
0 Jim (aged 7 :*i) replies: What a
lyricist! Oh my' We nearly had to

J
cry On hearing your plight (You
probably thought we might) We re
all a bit peeved too About Al's
Spectrum new And his haircut isn t
much cop either

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 t's a popular t h e m e ̶ a lone
. m a n facing incredible d a n g e r ,
battling against i n s u r m o u n t a b l e
odds in situations that w o u l d
have most n o r m a l m o r t a l s
fleeing for the lavatory.
Recently it's been taken t o a
kind of logical conclusion. W i t h
a spate of g a m e s like
Gunrunner. Exolon and n o w
Sidewize. o u r hero has n o
space-ship or m o o n b u g g y to
protect h i m . It's just the g u y a n d
his trusty laser, and m a y b e a
backpack s o m e w h e r e a l o n g the
line.
In Sidewize at least, this
return to g o o d o l d - f a s h i o n e d
play values pays d i v i d e n d s , a n d
the feeling of g e n u i n e
vulnerability injects a degree of
panic that's been s o m e w h a t
lacking in the current c r o p of
single-seater-space-ship
games.
Sidewize comes Dusting out
f r o m the highly talented m i n d s
of Steve Wetherill and Colin
Crunes, the g u y s w h o w o r k e d
on Heartland (Classic Q ^ 3 ) .
and w h i l e the
graphics
occasionally s h o w
similarities
SNAP VIEWS
Graham: OK so It's a sim-
ple idea but It's fiendishly
difficult
Tamara: Continuous
trigger-work. Really
keeps y o u o n y o u r toes
David: It's those flamin'
walls that always get me
Gareth (Mad celt): M a ke
that p r a w n a v l n d a l o o •
it 's hot 11
to the Odin g a m e of last
s u m m e r the play is w i l d l y
different. W h e r e H e a r t l a n d w a s
a graphic a d v e n t u r e w i t h cute
elements and puzzles (of sorts),
Sidewize is a d o w n - t o - e a r t h
space blast w i t h n o t h i n g to
think about except d o d g i n g
the aliens or b l o w i n g t h e m
away.
The g a m e is set o n f o u r
worlds, each w i t h d i f f e r i n g
attributes and characteristics.
Your m i s s i o n is to s i m p l y w i p e
out e v e r y t h i ng that gets in y o u r
way.
In between each w o r l d y o u
get to travel t h r o u g h a stretch of
space and at the end of each
level y o u meet a serious l o o k i n g
monster w h i c h takes a heck of a
lot of blasting a w a y .
O m n i c r o n (the forest w o r l d )
starts off fairly easily w i t h y o u r
little guy in his spacesuit
drifting over a b a c k g r o u n d of
stars w h i c h are happily f r o m right to left, o n separate
scrolling f r o m right to left. levels, g i v i n g an i m p r e s s i o n of
There's no sign of t h e g r o u n d at d e p t h i n t o the screen - rocks in
this point - y o u ' v e got battle the f o r e g r o u n d m o v e faster
through lots of levels of nasties t h a n trees so it looks like the
before y o u get d o w n o n to the trees are f u r t h e r a w a y etc.
surface. The actual g a m e p l a y draws,
Shortly a r o w of remarkabl y very neatly, o n e l e m e n t s f r o m a
u n - m e n a c i n g circular t h i n g s host of c o i n - o p
flies o n to the screen f r o m the classics. There's ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
r i g h t - h a n d side a n d sits in the a little jetpac, a
m i d d l e of the screen. s m a t t e r i n g of
Employing your standard S c r a m b l e (in the
m a c h i n e pistol affair, y o u later levels in
destroy the entire line.
The s o u n d effects are
w o n d e r f u l - y o u can a l m o s t
hear the little suckers burst
w h e n y o u hit t h e m - it's a bit
t o u g h over the roar of y o u r g u n .
The bad g u y s are upset n o w .
rThe pace blasts
(he
and the y send o n a d i a g o n a l l y -
w
f l y i n g r o w of serpent's heads.
T h e y look w o r s e the n t h ey are,
and y o u can clear the screen in
a c o u p l e of short bursts.
Take o u t the r e m a i n i n g of
attack w a v e s - easy ( h o - h u m ) ,
\tabe»- V L QC
and y o u ' l l f i n d yourself d o w n
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o n the planet's surface.
WemorV; fioUS
At this p o i n t , it's p r o b a b l y
MOV 4 *
sensible to talk a little about t h e
graphics. They'r e all single-
c o l o u r (green o n the Forest Review* r
W o r l d for e x a m p l e ) o n a black
b a c k g r o u n d . E v e r y t h i n g scrolls
 HINTS AND TIPS:
• Usually it's best to hang back
on the left of the screen so you
ARCADE
can see w h a t ' s coming.
• Choose your w e a p o n s care-
fully! Lasers are fairly accurate,
but need more t h a n one hit t o
destroy m o s t things. The tri-
directional fire is best w h e n the
screen gets cluttered.
• Pick up any bonus objects

lilIZE
you see. The ball-shield is vital,
as is the + w h i c h gives additio-
nal firepower and t h e a r r o w s
which give you faster move-
ment around t h e screen
(almost essential for t h e wall-
doding section).
• Each big monster needs to be
killed in a different w a y . Try
shooting in t h e tail or the head

Phoenix (the twirly-swirlyness
the caverns), a bit of Centipede
of the aliens). There are also
(the m o v e m e n t patterns of
walls w h i c h crop up very fast
some of the aliens are very
and unexpectedly here and
m u c h like the big bug) and
there w h i c h w i l l kill y o u quite
more than a couple of tads of
happily s h o u l d y o u collide w i t h
there's extra lives you can pick
up, and an extra fast speed
option.
After workin g t h r o u g h the
g r o u n d part, y o u come to the
inevitable climax, w h i c h
involves being attacked by a
monster of some sort that is at
least three times bigger than
you. Depending o n w h i c h level
you're on the most w i l l look
vaguely appropriate.
On the first level, your foe is
an extremely tall version of
yourself, and he fires extremely
madly. On later levels you
encounter a w i n d g o d and
finally, for s o m e reason that is
too hard to f a t h o m - a giant
p r a w n l Each opponent has to
aliens look essentially the same
f r o m planet to planet, their
flight paths alter quite
considerably, and a type of
rather Ultimate-esque alien,
that y o u m i g h t expect to act in a
particular manner may catch
you uncomfortabl y by surprise.
Sidewize is the slickest no-
messing shoot-out in a long,
long time w i t h a strong coin-op
style feel. The graphics and
movement are extremely
polished and what
it lacks in
complexity it more
than makes
up for in
speed!

5
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tho.r oarlv . '"'"<
"v! '"I
them.
Sidewize is certainly
be defeated in a different
manner, w h i c h means either
remarkably difficult, and y o u ' l l shooting it in the head or the
need a g o o d deal more than just b u m or the middle.

feaST'"
a h a n d g u n if you're going to After the forest w o r l d , you
reach the head-honcho bad guy m o v e to the desert, then the ice
at the end of a planet level. w o r l d , and so on. While the
Just as well, then, that there
is a w h i l e host of other
accessories that you can pick up
w h i c h w i l l make life a little m o r e
tolerable if not exactly easy.
First off there's the laser,
w h i c h is completely great and
lets you cut t h r o u g h almost
anything like a razor t h r o u gh
butter. There is als a tri-
directional fire affair w h i c h
causes y o u to fire at 45 degree
angles, as well as directly
across the screen - very handy
for taking out those double-line
flight formations.
On the defence side, you can
collect a very strange sort of
shield w h i c h is constructed
f r o m t w o spheroid things. They
cycle round your body and will
take out most things that
attempt to get at you. Then

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T
he Mystery of Arkham Manor grew
out of my interest in the fiction of
HP Lovecraft and the role playing
Call of Cttwthu. I'd long thought a
capturing the atmosphere of a
Lovecraft novel would be interesting and
I also wanted to create a different form of
adventure game. I didn't see any reason
why adventure games should be either
tert with a few static illustrations, or
simple arcade adventures. I wanted to
experiment with sprites, something I had
never used before, and create a hybrid
form of game which offered the player a
wide choice of additional features apart
from the essential main idea of solving
pastes.
My initial specification was to include
text input, some text output and ani-
mated graphics showing the characters
present, actions performed, and so on.
After a rethink. I realised that the voca-
bulary of the game was going to be
miniscule if I was going to fit all those
graphics in! The input system would have
to be simplified, so the player had a
limited number of choices on display. I
considered icons briefly, before settling
on the idea of pull-down menus as being
more convenient.
The plot of the adventure was to follow
traditional Lovecraft lines, with an inves-
tigator arriving on the scene of strange
and mysterious events ̶ then being
drawn deeper and deeper into the plot
ending in a terrifying climax. One of the
most important elements was to be the
information which the player could accu-
mulate to solve the mystery - 1 thought of
different ways this might be achieved. I
soon hit upon the idea of making the
character a journalist, enabling him to
draw on sources at his newspaper and
giving him a reason for prying around in
the first place!
Once the initial idea of the plot and
game structure was fixed, the rest of the
game began to fall into place. If the main
character was a journalist, he could have
r
SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987
BACKGROUND NOiSt
B
a c k g r o u n d Noise looks b e h i n d t h e t o p games of the
m o m e n t a n d speaks t o t h e p r o g r a m m e r s w h o s w e a t e d
b l o o d t o p r o d u c e t h e m . B a c k g r o u n d Noise looks f r o m
the author s p o i n t of v i e w ̶ at the particular p r o g r a m m i n g
problems and the w a y th e y w e r e solved
MYSTERY OF
ARKHAM MANOR
by Mike Lewis
was going to take the time to prepare a
complete page, they wouldn't want to
just forget it afterwards!)
With the plot and most of the features
decided, I started programming, trying to
split the game into distinct areas I could
develop separately. This had the advan-
tage of enabling me to build up a
"skeleton" demo of the game, showing
the features without the plot; and stop-
ped me getting too bored or bogged down
in one section!
I started with the graphics, as this was
the area I had least experience with. The
plot called for a lot of locations - nearly
100 in all, and I soon realised I could not
fit in all the graphics in one Load.
Fortunately, the plot resolved itself neat-
ly into two halves, and I was able to split
the game into two Loads.
The background graphics were con-
structed with my own blocks editor,
which "snatches" a sample screen, cuts
it up into blocks, and then compresses it.
The editor then allows you to build up
further screens using these blocks. Carl
a notebook for notes, and he must be
able to exchange telegrams with his
paper to get Information. The photo-
graphs' the player can take were initially
just to be used for clues - they could be » r^J-^
examined for extra information. However,
if the player was a journalist It seemed
logical he had to report back to his |0 Lew<i
newspaper, so why not also let him write
stories? The photographs can then be
added to these stories to make up actual
newspaper pages.
Out of this idea came the whole
newspaper layout screen, which enables
you to write and lay out pages of the
London Chronicle complete with headli-
nes and photographs. These can then be
printed out or Savod, (well, H someone
̶1
I o-v̶^l J
Croply, who had done some of the
graphics for my previous games created
the graphics for Arkham; and he used the
editor to produce some stunning graphics
in very little space.
The central part of the Arkham code is
the system which interprets the player's
commands and causes things to happen
in response to them. This Is a develop-
ment of the Adventure Kernel System
(AKS) - something Simon Price and I
developed while at college, and used in
Redhawk and Kwah. Arkham contains
an improved version, but I am still
tinkering with it for future games! AKS is
simply a command interpreter which sits
between the input system - in this case
menu input; and the output system - text
and sprites. The AKS code interprets a
database of simple commands, making
editing the adventure simple (and sequels
very easy!).
When I put the AKS system running an
initial version of the database together
with the graphics routines I realised that
there simply was not enough space to fit
in everything I wanted! I had to start
trimming, the notebook fell from four to
three pages; I had to abandon the idea of
letting you view the newspaper pages you
had written on the main screen (they
were to have reduced down in size and
displayed in the notebook window) and
the text messages in the database had to
be cut, as did a couple of the puzzles.
Arkham Manor went through a lot of
changes over the months I wrote it. but I
think it has come out a far better game
than the original (rather loose) specifica-
tion. Sadly, not all the ideas and features
I wanted to include would fit. But that is
the problem with all games - no matter
what the machine, your code expands to
fill it!
Mike Lewis
A
rgus is not taking any it. Scramble works like this: scrolling you see constantly o n
chances w i t h The Tube. your spaceship m o v e s left to the C64 but here it's OK but
right t h r o u gh a system of nothing too special.
In the various sections caverns, whilst simultaneously What happens in the third
of the game you get to play just guiding your ship up and d o w n section depends o n your
about every arcade g a m e genre to steer your way t h r o u g h performance in the first two.
you can name. between the twisting walls of The third section is the
It begins w i t h a section that the cavern whilst d o d g i n g catchment area and it is y o u r
looks suspiciously like T w i s t e r assorted missiles w h i c h float u p chance to boost the energy
Mother of Charlotte (remember and/or d o w n f r o m the cavern level of your ship by looting
that'll). stage t w o looks like walls. other ships for energy
Scramble and the final m a i n In The Tube's o w n particular
section is like. well, like games Scramble variant your w a y is
where you view a spaceship s o m e t i m e s blocked by a vertical
from above and guide it over a laser that must be blasted away
planet surface. Each section is before y o u can travel on further.
played under a time limit and It isn't astoundingly difficult and
you have to play t h r o u g h each w o u l d be easy if you weren't
section each time. There is even still o n a t i m e limit. The
an sort of bonus screen w h i ch is graphics are nothing special,
quite amazingly like the sort of though good enough. There is j
quick-thinking logic games an attempt at the kind of relative
Hewson likes to incorporate in
its products. Is all this bad?
Probably not.
The first section is probably
the least interesting and as such
is badly placed f r o m a 'first
impressions' point of view. You
seem to be travelling into the
screen through a grid-like
structure towards the tube at
the centre of the screen.
Towards you rush assorted
aliens and fireballs wizzing f r o m
one corner of the screen to the
other and generally threatening
to smack straight into y o u r
cockpit window.
The problems w i t h this
section are. first, it is impossible
to die - only your energy and
score levels are affected and,
second, graphically it is none diamonds. How many ships you
too hot find in the cdtchment area is a
Section t w o is better. It's like function of y o u r joystick
that age old coin-op Scramble (keyboard) control, your score
For those w h o don't r e m e m b er level and your energy level

48 SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987 48

 FACTS BOX
Something for f j n V
every kind of shoot-em-
the sum of its parts - the way
the performance in one level
relates directly to what happens
ARCADE
UP- Ho section is o n other levels links the g a m e
together nicely and I f o u n d
astounding but the myself playing it m o r e than the
whole is greater than the individual averageness of the
sum of its parts particular sections m i g h t
suggest.
THE T U B E Take note t h o u g h, I f o u n d it
Label: A r ^ u s fairly easy to get t h r o u g h all the
Auihor: M a r t i n G a n n o n sections once so if you're a
Price: £ 8 . 9 5
Memory: 4 8 K / 1 2 8 K
joystick wizz kid you may not
f i n d it enoug h of a c h a l l e n g e ! REVIEW
joysticks: various
Rcvl e w e r :

steering aspect is not too

f r o m parts one and t w o .
It w o r k s like this: you view
your spaceship f r o m above
steering it over a planet surface
looking for g r o u n d e d ships. The
difficult but, as ever, you can't
afford to waste time. On finding
a ship y o u line up w i t h it
exactly, nose to nose. Then a
docking rod extends f r o m the
front of your ship to the other.
This leads you to what I will
refer to (with no suggestion of
rip-offness intended) as 'the
Hewson bit'. In order to get the B I S T
crystals (if there are any - some
ships are barren) you need -
w i t h i n yet another time limit -
Tiin je
to trace t w o circuit lines f r o m
their point of origin to the ' w i n ' THE TUBE 128K
gate. Only one difference w i t h t h e 128K version of The Tube ̶but it's an
To actually w i n the game you important one - music. The soundtrack t o The Tube by Dave
need to amass an energy level Whittaker is simply astounding. Check out last m o n t h ' s music
w h i c h w i l l require the feature for a m o r e detailed description of i t . It adds a t r e m e n d o us
successful looting of at least
amount to the game but. sadly, the best bits d o n ' t play w h e n the
four energy crystals.
game does - the t e m p t a t i o n t o sit at t h e c o n t r o l select screen and
Curiously for such a bitty
g a m e the w h o l e is greater than just listen to it is almos t t o o much. M o r e of this kind of stuff please.

ftos n e t f r o o o ^ -
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T M & c 1987 Atari Games Corporation. All rights reserved.
Electric Dreams Sottwaro. A u t h o r i s e d User
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uite w h a t the c o n n e c t i o n get t o c h o o se w h a t kills you. By

between the bearded u s i n g t h e m u l t i - l o a d landscape
boys of ZZ Top a n d the facility, y o u are able to produce
new game f r o m E n g l i sh t w o f u r t h e r areas in w h i c h to
Software is, I d o n ' t k n o w . die. These consist o f a
But a c o n n e c t i o n t h e r e landscape, and a Greekscape
obviously is because the b l u r b (lots of aliens in skirts drinking
says that Leviathan is based o n retsina?) It's particularly bizarre,
the video for Rough Boy. W h y ? featuring large statues w i t h
SCO RE:: d d d d d d d e a a L E M l L : A t The other t h i n g that c o n f u s e s spaceships whizzing in a n d out.
me is the title. W h e r e ' s this b i g As w e l l as a variety of
ship that's referred to in E n g l i sh inanimate objects to avoid,
Software's ad for the g a m e . I there's the o d d spaceship to
couldn't find i t Literally. Q u i t e
frankly, y o u r craft is so s m a l l ,
it's in danger of d i s a p p e a r i n g
up its o w n existence.
About the o n l y t h i n g
Leviathan-like a b o u t t h e g a m e
is its overall size - it c o m e s in
three Loads. The m a i n g a m e
and t w o alternative landscapes.
Still, no matter. There are
some other big t h i n g s in this
game. One o f t h e m is the

L
ook into m y eyes. Y o u are
getting sleepy, ever so
sleepy. You are g o i n g
baaack . . . baacckk . . . back to
the time of m u t a n t camels and
strange colours. W h e n I count
three, you wil l awake and J e f f
Minter will arise to rehaunt y o u
d o w n to y o u r local s o f t w a r e
dealer. One, t w o , three.
It's true! Jeff's back w i t h a
vengeance. Icon d e s i g n has
lovingly converted his o l d C64
hit Voidrunner to S p e c t r u m ,
and I think its got a hit o n its
hands.
So w h a t kind of g a m e is it?
After w a d i n g t h r o u g h all the
blurb, y o u eventually realise it's
a basic shoot-em-up. Pure a n d
simple. Just w e a v i n g a r o u n d
the screen m a k i n g " n e e o w doo-
• surely merely t o be f l o w n into.
doo b o o m " noises, d e s t r o y i n g
droids and camels alike a n d
saving the Earth. N o big deal f o r
hardened t o u g h g u y s (or t o u g h
FACTS
Minter madness comes to
town - Hamas, goats,
sheep. What else do you
want? Great fun at a great
price
VOIDRUNNER
Label: Mastertronic
Author: Icon
Price: £2.99
Joystick: various
M e m o r y : 48K/128K
Reviewer:
• • • • i J r
ships change f o r m a t i o n as y o u
z o o m f r o m level to level, each
w i t h an a n i m a l l y sort of n a m e
such as Llama, Goat, or Sheep.
This insures that the a m a z i n g l y
cool tactics that y o u used t o get
off the last level are not
necessarily g o i n g to get y o u
t h r o u g h the next.
V o i d r u n n e r is fast, c o l o u r f u l ,
h i g h l y playable, e x t r e m e l y
addictive and a sni p at the price.
In the i m m o r t a l w o r d s of
Douglas A d a m s : " B o f f o . A
good one'
i i
b o o m i n g 128K soundtrack,
w h i c h is quite definitely n o t ZZ
BOX Top, for w h i c h , I s u p p o s e, w e
can all be p r o f o u n d l y g r a t e f u l.
There is also a b i g , O h - M y - G o d -
W h a t ' s - G o i n g - o n - n o w factor.
Leviathan is a Z a x x o n - s t y l e
diagonal scrolling g a m e . N o w .
they're not m y c u p of tea, I m u s t
admit, but I can live w i t h it.
What I find a little m o r e d i f f i c u l t contend w i t h t o o. Alerted b y
to live w i t h is the p u n i n e s s o f w a r n i n g radar-like beeps, y o u
m y spacecraft, and t h e find yourself s u d d e n l y in the
enormity of e v e r y t h i n g else. midst of a s w i r l i n g m a s s of
e n e m y craft. There are ten
As the screen scrolls h u g e
assorted aliens to c h o o se f r o m ,
chunks of w h a t appear to be a
not that y o u get m u c h choice, it
wrecked planet c o m e h u r t l i n g
has t o be said. S o m e are o n t h e
t o w a r d s you. They can't be that
r o u n d side, a n d s o m e c o m e in a
wrecked t h o u g h , because m o s t
f e t c h i n g p y r a m i d shape. All of
of t h e m appear t o have s o m e
t h e m are, like y o u o w n ship,
sort of installation o n t h e
h a r d to s p o t , a n d again, it's all
surface, radars, rocket
t o o easy t o e n d u p f l y i n g
launchers, and large glass
domes, the p u r p o s e of w h i c h is
Pretty soon I discovere d it's
simple to avoid these features.
Simply use the joystick of y o u r
choice t o raise y o u r ship above
the height o f the highest t o w e r ,
and fly right over t h e m . S i m p l e ,
safe and boring. Y o u can't hit
anything, but t h e n again, the y
can't hit you. So w h e r e ' s the
game?
It's just a case of f l y i n g about
and d o d g i n g a r o u n d t h e m .
W h i c h s h o u l d be easy,
p r o v i d i n g y o u have g o o d
reflexes.
A p a r t f r o m the p r o b l e m , that

mm
persons, if y o u w a n t to be V 'Cr
technical). is, that because y o u r shi p is so
The game hdS y o u f l y i n g small, and in the same c o l o u r as
vertically, blasting away at all the background, y o u just can't
#
sorts of 'orrible meanies w h i c h see it.
react in different w a y s - s o m e • ; , Flying b l i n d t h r o u g h a missil e
explode w h i l e s o m e leave pods . ' aa . base is not easy. Y o u ' r e m o r e
behind w h i c h have to be shot t h a n likely to fly straight u p a
again. glass d o m e . Or a piece o f falling
Your ship, or rather, g r o u p of wiwaaaa ... IA.U * m a s o n r y . Yes, y o u can actually

SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987 56

straight into s o m e o n e else.
I ' m not quite sure w h a t to
make of Leviathan. W h y d o
people s p e n d a lot of t i m e
concocting a brilliant
soundtrack, c o m p l e t e w i t h
w a r n i n g bleeps, e c h o i n g bullets
and sinister, t h u m p e t y - t h u m p
music, a n d leave all aspects of
g a m e p l a y to a " c l o s e y o u eyes
and pray y o u ' r e l u c k y " sort of
situation? W h y can't I f i n d it in
m y heart to like Leviathan?
It's not an easy g a m e to get
w o r k e d u p a b o u t . There's very
little sense of challenge and
g a m e s w h i c h appear to rely o n
luck rather than skill to w i n
through don't give me much
entertainment.
I ' m sadly d i s a p p o i n t e d that
Leviathan has little m o r e t o
offer t h a n prettily decorated
ch u n ks of rock. A n d as a
Z a x x o n - c l o n e it's a pretty p o o r
showB
FACTS BOX
Zaxxon like, with a great
soundtrack, but not a lot
else. Any game inspired
by ZZ Top has to be a bit
suspicious
LEVIATHAN
Label: English Software
Price: £ 7 . 9 5
M e m o r y : 48K/128K
enhanced
Joystick: various
SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987 57
Killer Ring is the sort of g a m e
to bring a s p r i n g t o m y step and
joy to m y heart. R e m e m b e r
Space Invaders? Dull, p l o d d y ,
but jam-packed w i t h aliens to
kill and n o t h i n g else. No radars
to scan, n o fuel-gauge to check,
just simple blast, blast, blast.
Well, Killer Ring is remarkably
similar to that - or Phoeni x -
except w i t h bats. A lot of t h e m .
A n d it's very fast.
You begin to realise just h o w
simple the g a m e really is w h e n
you check out the i n s t r u c t i o ns
on the packaging. There aren't
any. What y o u d o get is a recipe
for K-Ring cup cakes, a n d very
tasty they are too.
The message is s i m p l y , a n d
happily: If it m o v e s , s h o o t it. If
doesn't shoot it a n y w a y .
So I j o y f u l ly pressed t h e Fire
button and got o n w i t h the
serious business of bat h u n t i n g .
A n d they w e r e n ' t a n y t h i n g like
your o r d i n a r y average v a m p i r e .
These bats fly in waves,
preceeded by an A n t i - M a t t e r
beam, w h i c h m u s t be shot
t h r o u g h in order to hit a n y t h i n g
at all.
As the g a m e c l a i m s t o get
harder each t i m e y o u play, even
w h e n y o u ' r e o n Idiot Level, if
you d o n ' t can't hack it first t i m e
around, y o u ' r e certainly not
going to get m u c h f u r t h er each
time y o u play. (Personally I
think this is just a ruse to m a k e
you think y o u ' re being really
clever w h e n y o u m a n a g e to get
past a wave.)
After m a n y , m a n y ,
increasingly hard waves, you'll
reach a spaceman, and the
s i m p l e r e q u i r e m e n t w h e r e he's
c o n c e r n e d is that if y o u b l o w his
heart out y o u ' l l get lots of
points a n d w i n the g a m e .
Killer Ring is beautifully
s i m p l e to play. Just stay put and
Fire at will. The o d d bullet, or
perhaps it's a bat d r o p p i n g , w i l l
c o m e y o u r w a y , but, o n the
earlier w a v e s at least, these are
q u i t e easy to d o d g e . W h a t y o u look a bit like frogs (but then I
m a y f i n d d i s c o n c e r t i n g at first is never w a s very g o o d at b i o l o g y)
the e n o r m o u s a m o u n t of bat - break away f r o m the rest of
debris that flies a b o u t the place, the b u n c h one by one a n d circle
but d o n ' t panic. Bat entrails r o u n d , in a f e t c h i n g m a n n e r ,
m a y be a bit o n the unpleasant w i n g s outstretched, evil grins
side, but they w o n ' t d a m a g e o n their little faces . . .
y o u in any w a y . But I digress. W h a t w e ' v e got
here is a nice s t r a i g h t f o r w a r d
Y o u ' l l f i n d yourself game with continuous shooting
represented by a gun-sight sort and s o m e g o o d m u s i c and
of object, w h i c h fires b e a m s s o u n d effects too. One happy
f r o m the t o p a n d b o t t o m . The reviewerB
o d d bat w i l l get past y o u and fly
d o w n b e h i n d y o u . Leave it until
it c o m e s up, r o u n d and above
y o u a n d then give h i m on e right
o n the nose. That'll take care of
h i m , and a l l o w s y o u to progress
t o the subtleties of the next set
of bats.
The g ra p h i c s are nice and
s i m p l e . A l l o n e - c o l o u r - again a
very simila r sort of effect to
Invaders The bats - w h i c h d o
 SQUIRT
SQUIRT
G one art the day* toy 9«"»
were made of tin and had 'Buck
aroo Jones" stamped on them. Miami
Vict type designer weaponry is all
the rage in the toyshops.
Entertech does a range of frighten
ingly realistic water-cannons. The
M16 Motorized Water Machinegun
wouldn't look out of place on the set
of Platoon. flashes, makes loud
noises, has a refillable water clip
and shoots a jet of water 30 feet.
£12.99 for this desirable weapon.
At C11.99 there's Crockett's
favourite, the Double-Clip Berefta.
complete with folding stock, strap
and two clips, while if you want to go
right over the top there's the
Afghan's delight, the RFC Rocket
Launcher with giant water canister at
£18.94. If you're a lousy shot, try the
Defender pump-action shotgun at
£7.47; this shoots a wide burst of
water so even you couldn't miss.
Larami's Z-Matic series includes
SUTL
some real convincing replica
weaponry, all firing very LOUD ammu-
nition. Dirty Harry fans can go for
the Colt Python handgun, while for
£9.97 the wicked-looking Uzi Rifle
can be yours.
Nichols' version of the Uzi is
S
COIN-OP OF
pin-offs of a successful game
are more o f t e n t h a n n o t
poor copies of the original,
w i t h arcade manufacturers
actually motorised, and fires 250
shots per minute of roll caps - not
hoping the product w i l l sell off
the back of the o r i g i n a t o r .
one to fire in the post office. £9.97 Defender seems t o be an
exception. A brilliant concept In
Finally, for £19.97, revolutionaries its o w n right. It has already
should try the Daisy AK-47 Assault spawned Nemesis a n d
Rifle. With single or rapid fire selec- Salamander - b o t h extremely
tor and electronic sampled sound playable games a n d n o w there's
effects, it's so convincing It makes a third. Maybe the best y e t .
you wonder whether the Russians R-Type from Irem C o rp o ra ti o n
aren't saving the odd rouble or two by Is yet another successful
issuing these instead of the real lookallke w i t h some of the most
thing. astounding graphics I've seen In
All products available from TOYS- a long w h i l e . Played In a similar
RUS and other large stores w a y. you've got t o fly your craft
CHRIS JENKINS from left t o right d o w n a l o n g
tunnel blasting a w a y at a
u>
fij multitude of highly coloured
> aliens and guardian monsters.
u It's the Incredible speed of the
ti]
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1 Who's That Girt Madonna*
2 Sixties Mix Various Oldsters 4
3 Return of Bruno Bruce Willis
4 The Joshua Tree U2i
5 KLM Mel + Kim
6 Keep Your Distance
Curiosity Killed the Cat \
7 Sam Fox Samantha Fox 1
8 Licensed to III Boastie Boys
9 Hit Revival
Various Even Oldersters 4
Terence Trent D ' A r t y
Terence Trent D'Arty
1 *- T yF*
2 Out Run
3 Double D r a g o n
4 Mi d n i g ht Landing
5 1943
6 W o r l d Wars
7 Flying Shark
8 Sauro h
9 Rolling Thunder
-
10 Combat School
Thb list b compiled f r o m o n e j r c a d e In L o n d o n * ,
 THE
program a n d the b r i l l i a n t l y
drawn graphics that m a ke R-
rype so special. You've g o t a real
brainteaser o n your hands as y o u
try t o w o r k out h o w t o get past
the massive guardians at the end
of each section. To destroy each
guardian you're g o i n g t o have t o
shoot It a great number of times,
and w o r k out a p a t t e r n of
movement t h a t ' l l get y o u past It
in one piece.
Extra fire p o w e r can be f o u n d
in metallic balls w h i c h fit o n t o
the nose of your craft. The more
you collect, the greater the
variety of bullets a n d lasers.
Finding them Is a cinch. Just
shoot a harmless species of alien
and pick up the Jewel it leaves
behind. Trouble is . . . y o u ' v e g o t
t o find out w h k h of the aliens
are the harmless ones . . .
CLAIRE EDGELEY

BOING, ZZZZ, WOOSH, KERRANG, WAH (MUSIC TECH)

E
lectronic musicians, sounds at once under computer response and modulation wheel
prepare to be stunned by control (that includes your at under £280, or even the
the launch of an incredibl y Spectrum!). It has t w o oscillators monster 7-octave touch and
cheap range of p o w e r f u l musical for each of the six voices, 64 velocity responsive M K 7 V A at
instruments from Cheetah program memories, f u l l M i d i , an under £400.
Marketing. arpeggiator * o r those impossible- • The M D 8 M i d i digital d r u m
Cheetah has now produced a to-play r i f f s , and sits i n a machine w i l l lay d o w n that heavy
series of affordable instruments standard 19" rack. To play it beat, w i t h eight d r u m voices,
which threaten even musical you'll want a M i d i k e y b o a r d: each of which can be changed by
giants like Casio. • The MK511 five-octave loading a new sample from
• The MS6 Polysynth M o d u l e , version at under £200. cassette. Cost _ an amazing £150.
at under £250, plays six differen t • The M K 5 V w i t h velocity • The Powerplay Electronic
Drum Kit has five f u l l size pads
and a steel frame, and a l l o w s you
to play the M D 8 d r u m machine
SCIENCE FACTS AND FICTION completely live, or w i t h
programmed accompaniment.
If you've rood Starsbip Troopers ot a dozen other Science Fiction novels. Cost is around £160.
I then y o u l b e fomiitor with m e c o n c e p t of p o w e r e d armour If you haven't. With a M i d i *equencing

WPS SEPTEMBER
Ifs like a medieval suit of armour, only full of electronics a n d motors a n d package at under £50 on the
weaponry, a n d it was supposed t o b e the sort of thing that the soldiers of way, you'll soon be able to outfit
the far future were going to b e wearing Into battle a whole band for the cost of one
1 Irem C o r p o r a t i o n But if research being c o n d u c t e d at the US Army's focMltles at Los Alamos Yamaha DX7. W e l l def!!!
is successful then w e m a y b e seeing p o w e r e d armour being used on the
Sega battlefield before the e n d of this century, m fact Col Oliver North is CHRIS JENKINS
Talto probably testing the stuff out right now . . .
Looking very m u c h like a space suit or diving suit, the p o w e r e d armour
wn have a helmet with h e a d - u p display relayed from a built n computer,
Capcom motors which amplify the wearer's o w n strength so he - or she - will b e
able to carry heavy weighty Getting hungry or thirsty no problem - check
SNK out the built in water, cat a n d f o o d supplies. It will b e immune to loser
Talto oeams. nuclear fallout, chemica l warfare a n d more m u n d a n e but equally
aeodly things like the o d d bullet
Konami Whether ITU have its o w n Jet-pack built In Isn't dear, but It will almost
Atari certainly have heavy duty weaponry built In a n d linked u p to the o n b o a r d
computer. All the trooper of the future will have to d o is look at something,
Konami blink a n d btammol Hmmm. wonder w h a m h a p p e n If he sneezes
whoops, there goes Basmgstoke!
d o n f l g f c i Thanks to John Stergkte* of Electrocoln
GARY ROOK
R
ebel manages to be a
strategy game disguised
so effectively as an
arcade game that it may
simultaneously appeal to both
strategy fans w h o like to think
about game moves and the
most brain-fraz2led joystick
junkie who gets bored if Ki •».

something doesn't happen

every .001 seconds.
All this and a highly original
game concept too!
Rebel is all done with mirrors,
the basic game plot being so
astoundingly simple that a
complete dunderhead (even
me) could grasp the game
mechanics in about thirty
seconds - getting it right
however is another matter
entirely.
Never mind all the details of
the plot the gist of it is this:
There are ten levels and on each
the idea is to escape. Now the
exit is pretty easy to find despite
the fact that each level is
patrolled by fiendish (but very
square) robots which zoom
back and forth along
predetermined lines. The robot
movement patterns are
predictable so it is possible to
learn their routes and avoid
them (in theory - actually you
crunch into a wandering
security robot surprisingly
often) but none of this is the
point of the game,
Getting out of the exit
involves persuading a laser
beam to hit it. The laser is in one
location and the exit in another,
and the laser is powered up by
standing on the exit. So far so
good - find the exit, stand on it
and . . . Zap. Well, no . . .
The only way to get the laser
beam to strike the exit is by
bouncing the beam around the
screen using a series of mirrors
Your droid (which looks
remarkably like a tank) can pick
up. put down or turn mirrors by
180".
The strategy therefore is to
work out where to place each
mirror and what direction it
should be facing so that the
laser beam bounces around
between the mirrors and ends
up at the exit. Mirrors can only
be placed in special squares
and only one combination of
mirror placements and
orientation will work.
It may sound awesomely
difficult - and it is - but you can
work out placement strategies

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The trouble with
subroutines
Parameter errors put right
N eville Young of Falkirk is
writing a Basic p r o g r a m
which uses a number of GOSUB
subroutines. He writes: I have a
routine w h i c h is called f r o m all
over the program and I pass th e
parameters for t h e routine in an
array that is set up before t h e
GOSUB call. This w o r k s fine,
but a problem arises if t h e
subroutine discovers an error in
one of the parameters because I
then stop the p r o g r a m w i t h th e
print-out telling m e t h a t one or
more of the parameters is
invalid. Can you tell me of any
way of finding the line and
statement number of th e
GOSUB that called this
subroutine, as it is here t h a t t h e
error has occurred, n o t w i t h i n
the subroutine itself. Neville
has put his finger on one of
several weak features in
Spectrum Basic, namely that it
is not possible to pass
parameters to a subroutine in
the subroutine call. The
standard call to a Spectrum
subroutine is
GOSUB x.
where x is the line n u m b e r of
the first line of the subroutine.
It would be much m o r e useful
if you were able to use
something like the f o l l o w i n g :
GOSUB Fred (a.b.c.XS.YS)
where Fred is the name of a
subroutine being called, the
letters a.b and c represent
numerical parameters being
passed to the subroutine and
X$ and Y$ are characters being
passed to the subroutine.
Obviously it w o u l d be useful to
be able to pass as many
parameters as y o u required to
the subroutine in question.
In order for this system to
work the subroutine w o u l d
have to be identified w i t h a
matching line such as 1000 SUB
Fred (p,q,r,A$,B$), where 1000
is the line number of the
subroutine and SUB identifies it
as a subroutine w i th the name
Fred and with the five
parameters. This is the sort of
facility which does exist in
some other versions of Basic
and other high-level
programming languages.
The Spectrum doesn't have
this kind of facility so Neville is
working around the proble m by
passing his parameters in an
array, the values of the array
Write now to:
being met immediately before
the subroutine call. Once the
subroutine has been called,
there w o u l d appear at first to be
no way of indentifying w h i c h
GOSUB in the p ro g ra m actually
called the subroutine.
I can, however, think of t w o
TABLE I. Program to demonstrate how to find the line and
statement number from which subroutine was called
100 GOSUB 1000 : GOSUB 1000
200 GOSUB 1000
300 GOSUB 1000
400 GOTO 100
Nl/
1000 LET SP = PEEK 23613 + 256*PEEK 23614 + 2
1010 PRINT "LINE NUMBER; PEEK SP +256* PEEK
(SP + 1); "STATEMEN T N U M B E R " ; PEEK (BP+2) - 1
1020 RETURN
ways of making such an
indentification possible. The
more transparent way, w h i c h is
therefore probably the better
one is to set a parameter in the
array which indicates w h i c h
GOSUB call is doing the calling.
For example, if the subroutin e is
called f r o m ten different
locations w i t h i n the p r o g r a m at
lines, say. 100, 500, 1200, 1900,
etc, then one of the parameters
passed in the array w o u l d be
the line number at w h i c h the
call is made ie: 100, 500, 1200
1900, etc. The subroutine could
then look at that particular
parameter to determine w h e r e
its call had come fro m.
The other way of doing the
job is to look up the value of the
line number f r o m which the
program has been called in the
GOSUB stack at the top of the
Spectrum memory. The
program in Table I
demonstrates how the GOSUB
line number is stored. If y o u
think about it, it's obvious that
the line number to which the
return is to be made must be
stored somewhere in m e m o r y
because otherwise the
computer w o u l d lose track of
where it was supposed to be in
the Basic program. What
happens is that w h e n the Basic
interpreter comes across a
GOSUB instruction, it stores the
line number of that GOSUB
instruction, right at the top of
memory. When it encounters a
return instruction subsequently,
it looks up the value of the line
Hewson, Graham Close, Blewbury, Oxfordshire
H elp! cries David T h o m s o n
of Dundee. Help! Helpl
Help! Please can you tell me
h o w t o save a headerless
program? Sure can. David. Look
at Table II where you'll find tw o
machinecode routines for
saving and loading headerless
files. Please note you need to
number stored previously, k n o w the start address and
deletes the stored i n f o r m a t i o n length of the program to be
from me mo ry and j u m p s back saved and loaded when using
to one beyond that line n u m b e r those routines.
and continues executing the
Basic program. PEEK instructions can be used
The program in Table I to look-up the line number. A
demonstrates how a couple of further complication, which is
not demonstrated in Table I, is
that if GOSUB"s are nested, ie.
subroutines are put one inside
another so that a subroutine
calls another subroutine then
your have to be careful to look
up the correct line n u m b e r
when determinin g the line
number of the GOSUB call.
Broadly speaking what happens
is that the area used for storing
the line numbers g r o w s
downwards in m e m o r y f r o m
the top.
TABLE II. Two routines to Save and Load MM bytes of data
starting at address NN on tape in a headerless file
DECIMAL ASSEMBLER COMMENT
167 AND A Clear carry flag
62 255 LD A, 255 Load A w i t h 255
221 33 ? ? LD IX, NN Save address N N
17 ? ? LD DE, M M Length to be saved is M M
205 194 4 CALL 1218 Call save routine in ROM
201 RET Return
55 SCF Set carry flag
62 255 LD A, 255 Load A w i t h 255
221 33 ?? LD IX, NN Load at address NN
17 ? ? LD DE, M M Length t o be loaded
205 86 5 CALL 1366 Call load routine in ROM
201 RET Return
Document -
successful microprocessor chip
and is n o w manufactured both
Or not?
by the original manufacturers
and by m a n y other companies
W
under licence throughou t the
hat are ' u n d o c u m e n t e d w o r l d . It has been developed
Z80 instructions? asks and i m p r o v e d over the years, in
Michael Timberlake of particular such that certain
Worksop, and w h y aren't they grades of chip w i l l run faster
documented? Good question, than other grades. The
Michael. Let me try and explain. S p e c t r u m uses the so-called
The Z80 microprocessor w h i c h Z80A version w h i c h w i l l run at
lies at the heart of the ZX 4MHz w h i c h means that it
Spectrum {and many other executes a part of an instruction
micros like the Amstra d CPC
range) was developed f r o m an
earlier microprocessor - the
8080 w h i c h in turn was
developed f r o m previous w o r k .
By m y calculations the Z80 has
about 600 different instructions
d o cu me n te d in its instruction
set. It's been a hugely
• r ; '. . K - " ' - y .
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 HEWSON HELPLINE A leading question
I o w n and A l p h a c o m 32
Printer, writes Darryl Sykes
of Huddersfield. I w o u l d like to
k n o w if there is a lead that can
be used t o attach it t o the
RS232 p o r t of m y 128K
Spectrum. Sorry Darryl, the
A l p h a c o m printer uses the
original ZX system and is
designed to couple to the
extension port o n the back of
the original ZX Spectrum. The
system used is completely non-
standard - unique ie peculiar to
alas no w a y of converting it to
the Spectrum alone and there is
run on an RS232 port.

How fast is 3 inches?

T here has been a lot of
publicity about the new
Spectrum 128K + 3 w i t h built-in
3 inch disc drive, writes Michael
Hayes of St Albans. Do you
k n o w h o w fast it w o r k s and
also are you able t o use such
techniques as you do w i t h tape
such as flashy hyperload
systems? The Spectrum 128K+
3 in my opinion is an excellent
development. I have felt for a
very long time that what the
huge user base of Spectrum
owners in the UK required was
good solid reliable hardware. A
year ago Amstrad gave us that
w i t h the 128K+2 w i t h its built-in
cassette interface. A l t h o u g h the
interface was felt to be
unreliable in some quarters, I
personally have never had any
problem w i t h it and I have
found very few people w h o
have encountered real
difficulties. The addition of a
built-in disc drive is a great
relief and opens up all kinds of
possibilities for the machine.
The drive is reasonably fast
and compares well w i t h other
machines on the market. It is
infinitely better than the disc
drive o n the C o m m o d o r e 64
and C o m m o d o r e 128 although
I'll probably be lynched for
saying so. I have always felt that
disc drives should mean you
only have to wait t w o or three
seconds for your software to
appear on the screen. The
Spectrum Plus 3 w i t h its 128K
m e m o r y more or less achieves
that. I therefore very much
doubt if w e w i l l see the kind of
hyperload systems that are
c o m m o n o n C64 discs because
they are, frankly, unnecessary.
By the way, I have been
keeping very quiet about the
Spectrum 128K+3 because
A m s t r a d told me about it very
early o n in its development on
the understanding that I w o u l d
not let the cat out of the bag.
Therefore I have not had the
opportunity to w r i t e about it in
the c o l u m n before. I have
decided that since Michael
Hayes raised the subject he
w i n s this month's pirate copy of
Zynaps to play o n his favourite
computer.

four million times per second.
Other versions of the Z80, such
as the Z80B run faster at 6 or
8MHz. The 600 or so
instructions w h i c h make up the
'documented' instructions set
are not all independent
nstructions. Very many of t h e m
are made up of bits and pieces
of other instructions. A simple
example of this is the
I D BC. N N
instruction, w h i c h tells the chip
to load the BC register pair w i t h
a numbe r NN This instruction
is clearly linked to instructions
like
LD B, C,
LD DE, N N
and
LD B, N
The internal structure of the Z80
w h i c h handles the similarities is
obviously very complicated.
You can think of it as an
i m m e n s e l y more complicated
version of the L o n d on
Underground system or any
other network w h e r e there is
m o r e than one w a y of getting
f r o m one place to another using
the system.
For example, imagine that
y o u want to travel f r o m Kings
Cross to Victoria. The obvious
w a y is to catch a Victoria line
tube train w h i c h links these t w o
stations directly and is fast and
direct. However, there is
another line w h i c h runs
between the t w o stations r o u n d
in a circle via Liverpool Street
and Tower Hill. You can travel
f r o m Kings Cross to Victoria
w i t h o u t changing o n the Circle
Line, but it will take y o u rather
longer than o n the Victoria Line.
If you asked an official f r o m the
London U n d e r g r o u n d for
advice, he w o u l d tell y o u
w i t h o u t hesitation, to catch the
Victoria Line and w o u l d not
even m e n t i o n that y o u could
travel o n the Circle Line if you
felt like it. However, if y o u knew
w h a t y o u were doing, and has
s o m e experience, you m i g h t
choose to travel o n the Circle
Line, perhaps because you
w a n t e d to collect something at
Liverpool Street o n the w a y
past. This is an example of the
sort of t h i n g that can g o on
inside the Z80. If you know what
you are doing, you can w o r k out
other ways of doing the same
j o b w h i c h are not 'official' or
'documented', but w h i c h may
have some advantage
particularly for w h a t y o u w a n t
to do.
There is a risk in using these
u n d o c u m e n t e d instructions,
because n o b o d y knows for
certain that all Z80 chips that
have ever been made w i l l
execute the same
u n d o c u m e n t e d instructions.
"Clearly, y o u s h o u l d only use the
d o c u m e n t e d instructions w h e n
w r i t i n g s o f t w a r e for use by
m o r e than one machine.
It is fairly easy, by f o l l o w i n g
the patterns in the Z80
instructions to locate the gaps
in the instruction set and guess
at instructions that might lie
w i t h i n these gaps.

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ell I d o n ' t k n o w a b o u t
y o u but I haven't got a
clue as to w h a t all
these G o b o t things are about.
After spending ages and ages
ploughing t h r o u g h the
apparently endless ' b o o k ' (you
load it into the S p e c t r u m a n d
flip f r o m page to page - m o r e
economical tha n a novella) a n d
considerably m o r e t i m e t h a n
was comfortable l i s t e n i n g t o t h e
audio tape Theme to the
Challenge. I was non e the wiser.
Apparently s o m e o f y o u r
mates have been c a p t u r e d by
an evil fiend by the n a m e of
Gog. To rescue t h e m y o u m u s t
destroy everythin g o n t h e
surface of the planet, or
something.
No matter, the g a m e itself is
rather good. It's all horizontally -
scrolly w i t h er, ' b o l d ' g r a p h i c s
(ie blocky), a fair bit of c o l o u r
and a lot of killing.
It's been w r i t t e n by T o n y
Crowther and Ross G o o d l e y
w h o ' v e o b v i o u s ly been heavily
influenced by Jeff Minter .
The screen is a bit difficult to
explain m o v e m e n t - w i s e . A s y o u
FACTS BOX
Worthwhile licence that
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High-energv blast meets
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CHALLENGE O F THE
GOBOTS
Label: A r i o l a s o f t
Price: £ 8 . 9 5
Author: T o n y Crowther
a n d Ross G o o d l e y
Joystick: v a r i o u s
R«vi«w*r:
result, m o s t of y o u r t i m e w i l l be
spent w a i t i n g for a n e w m a n to
can see, there's a ceiling and a a p p e a r after s m a s h i n g
look like a sort of dart, a n d
floor, w i t h a m o u n t a i n range or headlong into something
w h e n y o u land, y o u m u t a t e i n t o
something in b e t w e e n . W e l l , d a n g e r o u s . Either that or o n e of
a standing-up r o b o t - s t a n d i n g
the m o u n t a i n s j i g g l e u p a n d the man y enemy robots will
the right w a y u p o n the floor or
d o w n a bit and it's possible to k n o c k y o u out.
upside d o w n o n the ceiling.
fly in either d i r e c t i o n or - a n d G o o d n e w s t h e n that an
Flying a r o u n d is d e c i d e d l y
this is w h e r e the G o b o t t i a n e d i t i n g s e c t i o n has been a d d e d
hairy at first, a n d y o u go ver y
element c o m e s t o t h e f o r e - e n a b l i n g y o u t o tailor certain
fast i n d e e d . A s y o u fly g r a v i t y
land o n either the ceiling or the aspects of the g a m e (speed,
pulls y o u to the t o p or b o t t o m ,
floor and t r u n d l e along . g r a v i t y , etc) in o r d e r to make
t o w a r d w h i c h e v e r surface y o u
W h i l e y o u are in the air y o u t h i n g s a bit easier.
are nearer at t h e time. As a
After I'd t w e a k e d d o w n t h e
g r a v i t y a bit I started to do a
little better. A l o n g b o t h surfaces
are large w h i t e egg-like things
w h i c h are a p p a r e n t l y bases.
P r o v i d i n g y o u have picked u p a
c o u p l e of the little robots w h i c h
can be seen s c u r r y i n g a l o n g the
surface - Scooter s - y o u can
press the b o m b b u t t o n and
d r o p o n e of the little suckers o n
t o p of the installation, b l o w i n g
it t o bits in a m o s t g r a t i f y i n g
manner.
Destroy the correct n u m b e r of
bases, y o u ' l l m o v e o n to the
next level.
Yes I k n o w it's pretty
d i s a p p o i n t i n g t h e next level is
almost invariably virtually
i n d e n t i c a l t o t h e p r e v i o u s one
save the fact that there are a few
m o r e varieties of aliens. But it's
still g r e a t f u n .
G o b o t s is actually a very
playable arcade g a m e that is
a n y t h i n g but r u n - o f - t h e - m i l l B

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TONY CROWTHER: responsible

for the game design. Well known as
a C64 programmer of scrolling big-
sprite titles like Loco.
SOFTOGRAPHY: Loco (Alligata.
1985). Potty Pigeons (Gremlin, 1985)
Monty Mole (Gremlin, 1985), Killer
Watt (Alligata, 1986), KiUer Ring
(RcjcUor. 198~
ROSS design
game GOODLEY: responsible for

TONY COOPER: responsible for ih<

coding SUPIRBOWL (Imagine. 1986)
ARKANOIO (Imagine. 1987)
 PNEUMATIC HAMMERS
ARCADE Label: Firebird Price: £1.99 M e m o r y : 48K128K loystick: none
Reviewer: Andy Moss
Sad little budget game. Not much cop
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ust because a g a m e ' s i n a b u d g e t range s h o u l d n ' t m e a n t h a t it's a
poor quality product. Pneumatic H a m m e r s w e l l a n d t r u l y squashes
that theory. First o f all t h e r e are spelling errors i n t h e o p e n i n g
screen, and then in the g a m e proper th e re ' s no j o ysti ck o p t i o n . I ask y o u ,
in this day and age. n o t even a K e m p s t o n look-a-like! The g a m e i s
littered w i t h a t t r i b u t e clash and t h e i n s t r u c t i o n s are w r o n g . A p a r t f r o m
that there's a semblance of a game in there s o m e w h e r e , i t just suffers
from plain bad p r o g r a m m i n g ^
1 Help!!!
CAPTAIN KELLY
ARCADE Label: Bug Byte Price: £1.99 M e m o r y : 48K 128K Joystick: various
Reviewer: Andy Moss
Re-released 'save the space station'game. Some tricky
problems to solve on the way
N
o. n o t our e s t e e m e d Editor b e c o m i n g a c o m p u t e r g a m e tie-in. b u t
a re-release of an o l d Quicksilva n u m b e r t h a t ' s actually still q u i t e
good. The a i m of t h e g a m e is t o t a k e over c o n t r o l of a space ship,
that's run by robots. A bit like an early v e r s i o n of Paradroid b u t w i t h o u t
the frills.
Captain Kelly i s n o t just a " d o it t o t h e m before t h e y do i t t o y o u , "
game, it does have s o m e complex scenarios t o w o r k o u t i n order t o
complete It. For example, g e t t i n g i n t o t h e radio r o o m and locking o n t o
orbiting satellites t o b e a m extra energy i n t o your p o w e r pack. It's
because of all these extra b i t s t h a t I really enjoyed t h e g a m e , and w i t h
seven levels t o w o r k t h r o u g h y o u ' r e g o i n g t o get y o u r £1.99's w o r t h ,
that's for sureB
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FLASH GORDON
ARCADE l a b e l : Maslertronic A u t h o r : Icon Design Price: £2.99 M e m o r y :
48K128K joystick: various Reviewer: Tony D i l l o n
After a boring start, this multi-load arcade-adventure
really gets going. Good budget release
A
decade ago. y o u c o u l d g o t o t h e flicks of a S a t u r d ay m o r n ' and
see part of a w e e k l y serial, p r o b a b l y t h e m o s t f a m o u s of these
being Flash Gordon. But. alas, i t had t o end. M a n y of t h e cinemas
either closed d o w n o r s i m p l y just s t o p p e d s h o w i n g serials. But Flash
Gordon w a s n ' t g o n n a s t o p there, no sirree. He w a s g o n n a fight for t r u t h ,
justice and a c o m p u t e r licence. Being t h e great A m e r i c a n hero t h a t he is,
he got i t o f course - f r o m M a s t e r t r o n i c : o n e o f the first h e a v y - d u t y
budget licences M a s t e r t r o n i c has left i t t o Icon Design t o c o m e u p w i t h
the goods and they have d o n e i t again!
Flash has t o save the w o r l d . Fine, t h a t ' s t h e easy part. He has t o do it i n
24 hours. Simplicity itself. First, t h o u g h , he has t o w o r k o u t t h e c o n t r o l s
and I f o u n d t h i s nearly impossible.
Part 1 is travelling t h r o u g h a j u n g l e , c o l l e c t i n g i t e m s , just like Tarzan.
Then, in Part 2. he has t o fight Prince Barin t o w i n his t r u s t . Finally, it's a
bike ride over a chequered landscape
Flash G o r d o n is an average g a m e idea, very w e l l carried o u t .
•
I quite enjoyed it, after t h e shaky start of course, and I w o u l d w e l l
recommend b u y i n g t h i s if y o u ' r e a b u d g e t f a n B
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CHESS NUTS
WORKOUT l a b e l : P T Cimatti, 7 Kings Road, Llandudno, G w y n e d d Price:
£3.00 Memory: 48K 128K Reviewer: Gary Rook
If you're both a chess and computer nut, fine.
Otherwise steer clean - strictly for the addicts!
C
hess Nuts is another e x a m p l e of t h a t strange breed, a c o m p u t e r
chess p r o g r a m w h i c h d o e s n ' t have a g a m e i n it.
First off. you get t h e 1986 m a t c h e s b e t w e e n Kasparov and
Karpov. You can either just sit t h e r e and w a t c h t h e games being played
or you can t r y and r e m e m b e r t h e moves. This i s great if y o u like
watching paint dry.
Then you've g o t Test Your Chess. Th e o p e n i n g m o v e s of a g a m e are
set o u t and then y o u have t o t a k e over and see h o w w e l l y o u do. But
whatever you t y p e in. the p r o g r a m w i l l play the m o v e s t h a t w e r e played
in a real life game b e t w e e n chess m a s t e r s : and w h e n y o u ' r e m o v e s
aren't right, you're never t o l d w h y . 50 Mates in Two is just t h a t - fifty
chess problems w h i c h w o u l d have b e e n far b e t t e r left o n t h e pages of
whatever chess book they c a m e f r o m , n o t because t h e y ' r e no g o o d , b u t
because they d o n ' t w o r k w e l l o n t h e c o m p u t e r s c r e e n B
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OLYMPIC SPECTACULAR
SIMULATION l a b e l : Alternative A u t h o r : Database Price: £1.99 Memory:
48K 128K loystick: keyboard only Reviewer: Tony D i l l o n
How on earth could anyone release such tosh. Aging
and tedious multi-event sports simulation
' m sorry. I can't keep It t o mysetf any longer. Brace yourself for a
shock. Are y o u ready? l i m a . . . BUDGET F A N I I I I LIKE b u d g e t games!
I put up a f i g h t w h e n e v e r any so-called f r i e n d s ' say a n y t h i n g against
m y treasured collection. It's a p r o b l e m indeed.
But I t h i n k I've f o u n d a cure for m y social b l i g h t. O l y m p i c Spectacular.
Quick, load It up. BEEEE-DtT-BEEE' ( f o l l o w e d b y strange b e e p i n g static
noises). Hang o n a m o . w h a t ' s t h i s o n t h e l o a d i n g screen? M i c r o
O l y m p i c s ? That can't be right. 1984.1? Well, it's loaded. Let's take a look
at it. Aaargh! It's t e r r i b l e ! ! ! Eleven events e n d all practically t h e same.
Five ru n n i n g events, t h r e e t h r o w i n g events a n d all practically t h e same.
A n d it Is t h e Database t i t l e , released years ago. a n d n o t m u c h cop t h e n
The label says A l t e r n a t i v e The g a m e says 'seen i t all before'. D o n ' t even
think about b u y i n g i t B
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SUPER G M A N
ARCADE Label: Codemasters Price: £1.99 M e m o r y : 48K 128K loystick:
various Reviewer: Andy Moss
Get back to your ship and watch out for those aliens!
Y
es folks. Codemasters has d o n e K again a n d devised a splendidly
entertaining cheapie. a cross b e t w e e n Jet Pak a n d Defender. Not
only do y o u have t o w o r r y a b o u t g r a v i t y and a sh o rt fuel supply,
but there are a n u m b e r of perfectly g r u e s o m e aliens after your b l o o d too.
The idea is t o f l y t h r o u g h t h e lunar landscape, picking u p fuel
cannisters as you go. a l o n g w i t h s o m e a m m o t o replenish your laser, i n
order t o meet up w i t h y o u r s h u t t l e t o t a k e y o u back h o m e . Contact w i t h
the rocky o u t c r o p s i s deadly a n d s h a k i n g h a n d s w i t h t h e aliens i s
definitely a no-go area. The a c t i o n is n o t as fast as it c o u l d have been, b u t
I suppose this w a y i t lends itself t o m o r e players. N o t very d i ffi cu lt after
you've played i t a bit, b u t great f u n B
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ULTIMA RATIO
ARCADE Label: Firebird Price: £1.99 M e m o r y : 48K 128K loystick: various
Reviewer: Andy Moss
Fast and furious, smooth scrolling shoot-em-up. Good
value
I
t's 33 years since galactic w a r b r o k e o u t , a n d y o u w e r e d o n g very
nicely t h a n k y o u u n t i l U l t i m a Ratio t u r n e d up. A nine-stage battle
cruiser t h a t carried m u l t i p l e pulse guns, defence f i g h t e r s and b a t t l e
shields t h a t had t o b e seen t o be believed. Each stage m u s t b e
completed and neutralise d before y o u can progress t o t h e next. The
s m o o t h graphics m a k e t h i s g a me , and l e t ' s face i t . if y o u enjoy a
s t r a i g h t f o r w a r d s h o o t - e m - u p , as l o n g as y o u ' v e g o t s m o o t h scrolling
w h a t m o r e can you w a n t ? U l t i m a Ratio is large and c o l o u r f u l , fast and
furious. Sit d o w n , get set and p u s h t h a t fire b u t t o n B
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TRANSATLANTIC BALLOON
GAME
ARCADE Label: Virgin A u t h o r : Maxwell Technology Price: £7.95 M e m o r y :
48K'128K loystick: various Reviewer: D e n i * A h m e t
Complete tosh. Possibly even worse than East Enders! A
definite no-buy
S
o Branson's d o w n . It's all over. A n d w h o cares? Well V i r g i n does
and it's p u t o u t a very bizarre g a m e - t h e Transatlantic Balloon
Challenge based o n t h e (non)event of t h e s a me name, it's like one
of those t w o - p l a y e r split-screen m o t o r racing g a m e s except t h a t it's w i t h
balloons - and about as speedy and e x c i t i n g as all t h a t c o u l d i m p l y .
As w e l l as the split-screen b a l l o o n s y o u g e t f o u r icons o n the right
w h i c h control height, steering etc a n d also an i n d i c a t or box w h i c h s h o w s
score, lives, fuel, energy a n d a l t i t u d e . A central block s h o w s your
balloon's position over the ocean, r e p r e s e n t e d by a t i n y w h i t e dot.
The key t o t h e w h o l e t h i n g is y o u are an eagle - w i t h a sonic b e a m!
You arell Fly around and d e f e n d y o u r b a l l o o n f r o m missiles and b o m b s .
A poorly executed g a m e w h i c h does no c r e d i t t o the crossing in any
way whatsoeverB
SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987
 DEATH WISH 3
The big screen classic, in
w h i c h modern day vigilante
Paul Kersey wreaks his o w n
form of revenge on the scum
and filth that terrorise the
streets of modern day N e w
York. For too long the gangs
have run w i l d , un-
challenged in their peverted
attacks and violations of
innocent c i t l z t n s .
Muggings and robberies
have become a daily
feature of c i t y life. So
w h e n the chief of police
turns a blind eye you
decide to take over
where the law left off.

Strap on your famous

475 WILDEY
M A G N U M , turn your-
self into a one man
fighting force armed
w i t h pump action
shotgun, machine gun
and rocket launcher.
N o w t u r n the tables on
the punks and creeps
w h o certainly know h o w
to dish out the violence
but may not be so good at
being on the receiving end

SPECTRUM 48/I28K
Cassette £7.99
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CBM 64/128 & AMSTRAD
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I
s M o t o s Mastertronic's first
coin-op licence? ( A n s w e r s o n
a postcard to s o m e o n e else
please)
The game w a s o r i g i n a l l y a n
arcade machine by N a m c o a n d
this looks to be a m o d e r a t e l y
faithful conversion.
Anyway, true c o n v e r s i o n or
not, the g a m e is f a b u l o u s .
What can be m o r e satisfyin g
than pushing nasty alien bees
off the safety of a psychedelic
platform {actually it also looks
like the disco floor f r o m
Saturday Night Fever) i n t o the
endless silent w o r l d of infinite
space? Not m u c h y o u ' l l agree.
M o t o s is kind of like ma rb l e s,
but don't let that put y o u off.
The idea is s i m p l e - y o u try t o
bump assorted alien shapes off
a sort of grid. This is. at its
simplest just a matte r of
bashing into t h e m f r o m b e h i n d .
Bash t h e m long e n o u g h in the
right direction and t h e y ' l l fall
off. But . . .
The first p r o b l e m is b o u n c i n g .
Everything has a mass and a
m o m e n t u m and o n c e y o u get
several aliens b o u n c i n g a r o u n d
it's very easy to f i n d y o u r s e l f
rather than the aliens falling
into interstellar space. The
second p r o b l e m is that w h i l s t
you have e n o u g h ' b a r g e p o w e r '
to push off the silly r o u n d aliens
once y o u get o n to later levels
your standard barge p o w e r is
not enough to deal w i t h such
exotic things as alien bees and
other insects. These latter
opponents have considerably
more barge p o w e r tha n y o u and
you need to accumulate b o n u s
power points to s t a nd a hope in
HI SCOW;
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the q u e s t i o n of holes - s o m e of
the levels are r i d d l e d w i t h holes
- y o u d i d pick up the ' j u m p ' pills
w h e n y o u had the chance d i d n ' t
you? O t h e r w i s e . . .
A s i d e f r o m the sheer f u n of
p l a y i n g cosmic d o d g e m s there
is a s t r o n g e l e m e n t o f strategy
in M o t o s . Y o u a c c u m u l a t e
hell of getting t h e m of f the
edge.
T h e n there's this other
p r o b l e m . If y o u take t o o l o n g t o
clear a level, alien b o l t s start
wizzing across t h e screen
d e s t r o y i n g not o n l y e v e r y t h i n g x\ r r n a^v S r S p j /JSnn I
in their p a th but also the v e ry
platform on which you're .1, , hHODF< I s m o o t h e n o u g h to c a p t u r e
standing. T n e n of course there's]
> m o m e n t u m and detail of
KRouS1" 7 You can opt for a c o l o u r or
On r " ' - ' ^ for f f i
power and j u m p pills but y o u
don't have to use t h e m . A n d if
you decide to use t h e m h o w
much w i l l y o u need? W i l l o n e
unit of bonu s p o w e r be
enough? Better not get it w r o n g
t h o u g h - if y o u u n d e r e s t i m a t e
and die y o u never get that
wasted energy back. Partly it's a
matter of k n o w i n g the levels -
are y o u likely to need j u m p s or
not? H o w m u c h p o w e r to get rid
of bees?
In t e r m s of p r o g r a m m i n g the
work f r o m Binary Design (Zub,
A m a u r o t e ) is easily as g o o d as
anything don e for say. Ocean or
US Gold at full price.
The graphics are s m o o t h -
beautifully the sense of
m o v e m e n t the g a m e requires.
m o n o c h r o m e display but I can't
believe anyone w i l l f i n d w h a t
slight attribute clash there is
unacceptable o n the c o l o u r
version.
O n 128K t h e s o u n d is
excellent, b o t h t h e Dambusters
m a r c h at the b e g i n n i n g and the
v a r i o u s w i b b l y s o u n d effects as
y o u p l u m m e t i n t o space.
I m a d e it t h r o u g h a r o u n d nine
levels b e f o r e the m a s s e d
e n e m y forces got t o o m u c h for
m e but t h e r e are over thirty to
get t h r o u g h .
I ' m g o i n g back for m o r e . This
g a m e is a s t o u n d i n g l y addictive
and. g o o d grief, it costs £2.99.
W h a t else can y o u possibl y
want?B
 NOWFOR
The Battle \ ^
Continues!!! ^ S ^
loin with the forces of ^ ^ ^ • AI
MASK, skilfully commanded
by the brilliant strategist Matt
Trakker and combat the evil of the
villainous VENOM In their quest for
domination of the world. No longer need
you stand by and passively observe the evil
deeds of Mayhem and his co-consplrators.
Here Is your chance to dig deep Into your a
and put your skllb to the test against posstt
MASK'" AND THE ASSOClATfD TRADE MARK ARE THE
PROPERTY Of KfNNER PARKER TOVS. INC (KPT) 198?
^ the greatest
master criminal
I the world has ever
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J ^ ^ r This classic coafVct of good
j^r versus evil IS portrayed wfth a
realism and excitement that can only
take Its lead from the world's most famous
collection of superheroes and supervlllalns.
There are creations of adventure, there are
sadons of combat but there b not a creation
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the Emperor should work with
the 128 as well as with the
Spectrum -f. It sounds to me
that either the 128 or the

Spectrum on the blink? Emperor

scanning
has got the
timings
keyboard
slightly

Rupert Goodwins has a cure wrong, something

by replacement.
best cured
If you really are
stuck, then you can use Caps
It m u s t b e t h e c o m p u t e r , a n d Spectrum is a beast which can't shift and 5,6,7 and 8 to produce
a n e x p e r t t o l d m e it w a s work with too many things left, down, up and right cursor
b e c a u s e at o n e p o i n t a j o y s t i c k plugged in at once. / suspect the movements respectively. This is
interface m u s t have shorted former, as the RGB interface also a useful trick for those (and

I w a s w o n d e r i n g if it w a s t w o pins on the edge connector. won't use any of the computer's there are lots, apparently) with
H e s a i d it w o u l d n e e d j u s t o n e digital signals which are prone slightly dodgy +2 keyboards.
possible to use the printer c o m p o n e n t t o be c h a n g e d , b u t to overloading.
from A m s t r a d PCW w i t h m y refuses to tell m e w h a t that
AY-3-8910
A simple cure would be to
Spectrum + c o m p o n e n t is a n d a s k s f o r 35 buy a higher amperage 9 volt

AY-3-8912?
John Pinkney p o u n d s to d o the repair, w h i c h power supply, and wire it up to
Gosforth is t o o m u c h f o r m e . the right sort of plug for your

I
Newcastle U p o n Tyne So. can y o u tell m e w h a t to Spectrum. 3 amps should be have a Micro Power sound
• Yes, but it is staggeringly r e p l a c e a n d w h e r e t o g e t it, a l s o enough, and unless you know
difficult. First: buy a serial h o w t o d o the repair? about polarities / suggest you board w h i c h uses the AY-3-
interface for the PCW. and Ole Blokhus get your local TV repair shop to 8910. W h a t are the differences
another for the Spectrum. Then Porsgrunn do the wiring. If the add-ons are b e t w e e n t h i s c h i p a n d the AY-3-
wire up a lead. Then write a Norway taking too much power from the 8 9 1 2 t h a t t h e S p e c t r u m 128 a n d
transfer program for the # A common problem, caused 5 volt supply which the + 2 uses?
Spectrum that sends the info by the -12 volts on the edge Spectrum produces, the whole If I o u t p u t t h e s a m e v a l u e s t o
you want printed to the connector being shorted to the system will shut down after t h e s a m e p o r t s o n t h e b o a r d as
Amstrad in CP/M format. Put M1 signal next door to it. This about ten minutes in a state of t h e S p e c t r u m 128 d o e s , w i l l I
you off yet? Truth to tell, the signal is used by the Interface extreme hotness. And there is get the same noises?
program and wiring shouldn't One to tell when the Spectrum precious little you can do about Does anyone produce
be too tricky to do, it's really a is looking for it. The short blows that. s o f t w a r e f o r it?
question of whether you want up an otherwise insignificant Fergus Paget
to shell out for two
interfaces. ..
RS232 part of the Z80 chip, which
be replaced.
must
What Synth Erdington
Brum

The Z80 is an extremely for a Spectrum? # The Ay-3-8910

brother
is a big
of the A Y-3-8912 (or the
common component, any local

I have bought a Music 8912 as we jocularly call it in the

spares shop should be able to
trade). All the sound producing
supply it for a couple of pounds.
Machine and I'm interested parts are exactly the same, so if
o w n a 48K S p e c t r u m a n d m y You have to be hot at soldering
in b u y i n g a n e l e c t r o n i c you do as you suggest you
r u b b e r k e y b o a r d is n o t to replace the errant chip, as the
k e y b o a r d to use via the MIDI might very well make the same
w o r k i n g v e r y well. Several of Spectrum circuit board is rather
interface. noises. But beware - the
the keys aren't w o r k i n g , a n d t h e delicate and the tracks are very
C a n I use t h e E c h o M u s i c sounds might be shifted in
r u b b e r is t o r n i n p l a c e s . densely packed together
S y n t h e s i e r ? I've o n l y g o t a 4 8 K pitch, because the Micro Power
I a m thinking of b u y i n g a around the area of the Z80. A
S p e c t r u m , but y o u d i d say that board could hav a different
typewriter style keyboard, a n d better way than unsoldering is
it c o u l d b e u s e d w i t h o u t t h e dock frequency to that used by
was wondering whether I will to cut the pins down both sides
software on this c o m p u t e r . the Spectrum (1.77 MHz).
need to have the o l d o n e of the chip, remove the black
Linz Nobody produces software for
repaired before fitting a n e w plastic body and solder the new
Bath it any more.
one. chip onto the disembodied pins
# You can't use the Echo
Or c a n I j u s t l e a v e t h e o l d o n e
in a n d p l u g i n t h e n e w o n e
of the old. Good luck!
keyboard
Machine.
with the
The cheapest
Music
Midi
Dumping with
alongside? Too much keyboard you can get is from density
Robin T e w Cheetah Marketing - (0222)
Galleywood too soon 777377 - which for under 100
I
w o u l d like t o d o c o p i e s o f
Chelmsford pounds is quite a bargain and

I can't get a Rotronics well worth having. For 250 quid, s c r e e n s o n m y S p e c t r u m * 2.

# As some Spectrums
there's the Casio CZ-101 digital In t h e h a n d b o o k , it s a y s t h a t t h e
(including mine) are going to be
Wafadrive, a Multiface 1 and Midi Synth, which as I've said printer to do this m u s t be Epson
five years old shortly, this is
an RGB interface to w o r k many times before is a mircale Q u a d D e n s i t y Bit M o d e
going to be a common problem.
t o g e t h e r . A n y t w o of t h e a b o v e of the modern age. Graphics Compatible. What
In short, all the current crop of
will quite happily coexist, but does this mean, and w h a t
add-on keyboards fit in place of
the old rubber mat and
w i t h all t h r e e t h e W a f a d r i v e c a n
never a c k n o w l e d g e that a Wafa
My Emperor printers have this feature?
John Macdonald
membrane, which you can
either discard it or pin to your
is p r e s e n t .
Is t h i s d u e t o a v o l t a g e d r o p
is wonky Embury
Lanes
bedroom wall according to

I
because of overloading, and b o u g h t a Saga E m p e r o r # Any printer which claims to
personal weirdness.
can I b u y an extra p o w e r supply have any sort of Epson
t o c o m p e n s a t e ? F a i l i n g t h a t , is k e y b o a r d f o r m y 128, compatability should have the
Shorting out there any recompense available
f r o m the shop w h o sold me the
because y o u said recently that
they w e r e electrically
mode. It just means that the
dots of a picture can be printed
12 volts M u l t i f a c e a n d W a f a d r i v e , as c o m p a t i b l e . But n o n of m y four times denser. The only
they assured m e they w o u l d cursor keys work, so I can't printer I know of which doesn't

A w h i l e a g o m y Interface 1
stopped working. All the
c o m m a n d s that used to run the
work together.
Malcolm Morris
p r o g r a m or go i n t o 48K m o d e .
Have I wasted 40 pounds
have this mode is the
8056, which a certain shop
Serial
sells
West Drayton because of y o u . y o u stinker, or with the Spectrum +2. The
M i c r o d r i v e a n d serial interface Middlesex printers I use. both of which
c a n y o u s o r t it o u t ?
are rejected by t h e c o m p u t e r , # It's either due to a voltage work with the +2, are the Taxan
Murray Brough
w h i c h p u t s a ? at the e n d of drop (due - is the TV picture Kaga PW 1080A (which is
Luton
them. M y interface w o r k s on a wavy at the edges, and does the expensive), and the Amstrad
Bedfordshire
friend's m a c h i n e ; his interface power supply get worryingly DMP 2000 (which isn't, but
# Insults yet. my goodness.
won't work on mine. hot?), or the simple fact that a needs an extra interface)M
According to my information,

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S
trategy is BACK! Don't
ask me w h y - but
J suddenly strategy games
are all in fashion.
One of the first releases of
what is promising to be a f l o o d
of Star Wars SDI influenced
games is Armageddon M a n
from Martech.
Imagine playing the parts of
Reagan, Thatcher, Gadhaffi,
Gorbachev. Gandhi and a cast
of thousands, all at the same
time.
Now imagine that y o u have to
act for each of those Heads of
State, with complete
impartiality, making decisions
for them, without being biased
towards one country. Providing
everyone w i t h enough food,
technology and armaments to
keep them feeling secure.
Prevent the stronger countries
from making too many
demands o n the weaker ones.
And prevent a full scale nuclear
war.
In a nutshell, A r m a g e d d o n
Man gives you your first (and
probably only) chance at
playing God.
You've been appointed
Supreme Commander of the
United Nuclear Nations, it's up
to you to maintain peace and
harmony between the sixteen
states, and stability w i t h i n g the
240 countries w h i c h make up
those states.
You must maintain a g o o d
working relationship w i t h each
state You must promote g o o d
relations between each of the
states themselves. You must
achieve economic stability and
maintain it.
Obviously no easy task. Your
appointment lasts for a year,
regular weekly progress reports
will be given throughout the
course of the game. You begin
with a smart map of the w o r l d , a
full complement of satellites
and spying equipment, and
what is commonly termed an
"on-going situation".
Armageddon M a n works
rather like an icon-driven
adventure. At the start it's up to
you to deploy your satellites in
sensible positions. You have
S T R A T E G Y IS
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three 'Big Bird' satellites and six
SDI satellites. Big Birds are used
to spy on the area directly
underneath t h e m and they relay
messages to you as to what the
country beneath t h e m is up to.
SDI satellites are used in the
event of a nuclear attack a n d are
capable of trapping some of the
missiles, and preventing t h e m
from reaching their targets.
It makes sense therefore, to
place the Big Birds in an area
that is likely to cause trouble
and needs careful watching,
and to place SDI satellites near
either k n o w n missiles bases or
near important targets.
SDI satellites are o n l y useful
in small-scale wars. If the Big FACTS
One does break out, there's i Absorbing strategy V
nothing you can d o to prevent I game. Choose whether I
world-wide destruction. 1 to save the earth or'
Once the satellites are in ] cause all out war just for 1
position, y o u ' r e in control.
Regular m e m o s flash o n to the \ the hell of it
screen i n f o r m i n g y o u of w o r l d
events. Some are a little dull - ARMAGEDDON M A N
China have a cultural exchange L a b e l : Martech
w i t h Libya. Others are pretty Author: )ohn Wilson
heavy - a full-scale war has
broken out between America Price: H2.95
and the USSR. loystick: various
Each time a m e m o flashes up.
Memory: 48K/U3K
L.
y o u ' l l have a choice of what to
do. You choose between
agreeing or disagreeing w i t h
the action, supporting it,
criticising it, or ignoring it.
However, if you choose to
ignore an event, make sure y o u
have a g o o d reason
for doing
Canada
V.0
a r e
ACK!!
so. Forget a b o u t w h a t seemed
to be a m i n o r event, and y o u
w o u l d w e l l f i n d yourself being
caught out later on.
You can also send letters out.
Should you decide to d o so,
move the cursor over the Out
tray, and press Fire. A standard
list of letters w i l l flash up. Insert
the country/countrie s n a m e ,
and a complete letter w i l l s h o w
on screen. You can then choose
whether to send the letter.
You'll have to think fast. It's
all real-time and w h i l e y o u ' r e
dithering about w o n d e r i n g
whether or not China's request
I
n contrast. C o n v o y Raider is
d o w n to earth w i t h a b u m p .
Despite the fact that y o u
don't k n o w Port f r o m
Starboard, or an Exocet f r o m a
Seawolf, y o u ' v e been g i v e n a
hulking great ship a n d t o l d to
get on w i t h it, scourin g t h e
coastline for e n e m y invaders.
From the m a p screen, y o u ' l l
see your ship ( w h i ch bears
more than a striking
resemblance to a pair of
handlebars o n a rubber ring) l l l W I l W
sailing across the ocean, bits of

CONVOY 7
that the A m e r i c a n s give t h e m
ten tonnes of f o o d is reasonable
or not, the Libyans c o u l d be
invading Algeria. (Unlikely, b u '
don't discount the possibility >)
Best t h i n g about the g a m e is
you get a free shiny p o s t e r - m a p
of the w o r l d , a n d a set of re-
usable flags for each of the
States. By using the stickers to
remind yourself w h o likes
w h o m and w h o hates w h o ' s
guts, you have a slightly better
chance of keeping up w i t h
current affairs.
Don't c o u n t o n it t h o u g h .
A r m a g e d d o n M a n is v tricky
and there's a lot of t i m e to get
t h r o u g h b e f o re y o u finish the
through before y o u finish.

PROGRAMMER ,
, I O H N WILSON began l i f e as a l\
Thorn f M I programmer. . m d then
iwitchcd to Martech
SOI KH.KAI'HN t o w e r <.i I v i l
Thorn 1983) t h e i r Finest H o u r
[Century-Hutthlnton.
nets M u i t ' t h . W W j L -
Hxfrum^
After o n ly four weeks as
Supreme Controller, despite
several letters fo c o n f i d e n c e
f r o m the European Unit6, m y
record was described as 'Very
Poor', and m a n y w e r e h o w l i n g
for m y resignation.
At times like these, it feels as
though a r m a g e d d o n is just
a r o u n d t h e co rn e r, and the
t e m p t a t i o n to deliberately b r i n g
it about gets t o o m u c h t o cope
w i t h , a n d naughtiness creeps
in. Missiles start to fly, and the
term Goodnight Saigon comes
in to play. I d e s t r o y e d Australia
at m y first attempt. N o m o r e
Fosters f o r us.
A r m a g e d d o n M a n is a l m o s t
frighteningly absorbing,
a l t h o u g h I ' m not sure that I
c o u l d make it t h r o u g h f i f t y - t w o
w e e k s w i t h o u t g e t t i ng a little
frustrated. M a d n e ss w o u l d
I u n d o u b t e d l y creep in. Keeping
t4B5) Pla- j the w o r l d ticking over has t o be
the ultimate in strategy p l a y B
RAIDER
land, and a s c a l e d - d o wn
version of the w h o l e area. Plot
your course according to the
little map, using the c o m p a s s at
the top of the screen, select a
suitable speed, and off yer go.
At this point y o u ' l l either r u n
straight into a land f o r m a t i o n as
the screen flips over to t h e next
sector, or be indecently
assaulted by a s u b m a r i n e .
The courses of action are as
follows One. If y o u run into a
land f o r m a t i o n y o u ' l l have
incurred a vast a m o u n t of
damage to your ship. Go to the
repair station, d e s i g n a t e d by a
chevroned flag a n d get fixed. If
you've bfeen sunk, start again
and try not to be such a w a l l y
next t i m e around.
Two. If it's indecent assault,
return to the m a i n m e n u and
launch a helicopter.
Yoh, ho, ho and a bottle of
rum. A helicopter. The best
thing to destroy a sub is a
chopper. (The best t h i n g to
damage a boat is an Exocet. and
the best thing in the case of
aircraft is the Seawolf, m o r e
later).
Enter helicopter mode. (Press
Fire). The screen changes to a
sort of transparent, 3D
s w i m m i n g pool. A b o v e the
surface hovers a little, innocent
helicopter. Be l o w the surface
' A sea warfare simulation
that's not full of instruc-
tion. Easy to get into and
loads to do once you're
1 there
1 C O N V O Y RAIDER
Label: G r e m l i n Graphics
Price: £ 7 . 9 5
joystick: various
Memory: 4 8 K / 1 2 8 K
R«vl»w«r: / f a j * ^ * / * . 'tTkfara
• T
lurks a mean, nasty s u b m a r i n e
G e t t i n g t h e s u b m a r i n e is a
matter of letting off a f e w choice
d e p t h charges a n d w a t c h i n g
bits of metal float a w a y . But it's
i m p o r t a n t t o let o f f the charge at
the right m o m e n t . Because the
section is in 3D y o u have to be
directly over the s u b m a r i n e , as
w e l l as in line w i t h it. There's a
d e p t h g a u g e r u n n i n g u p the
side of t h e sector, a n d you have
no control over it. It's vital that
y o u let off the charge w h e n the
g a u g e is at t h e s a m e height as
t h e sub, because that's w h e n it

l l l W I l W
will explode. An explosion w i l l
reward y o u w i t h a lot of pretty
flashing lights and the
73 disintegration of the enemy.
Taking out airplanes and
ships works o n the same
principle, picking the right
weapon and f o l l o w i n g the
detailed instructions. If you're
ISLAND
CONFLICT
N o w a chance t o r e - w r i t e h i s t o r y .
Ian Bird { w h o w a s t h e c o - a u t h o r
of PSS's Theatre Europe] has w r i t t e n
Guadal Canal f o r A c t i v i s i o n .
It b based o n t h e W o r l d W a r U
battle b e t w e e n t h e Americans a n d
t h e Japanese. A g a i n , a n I c o r v d r i v e n
strategy g a m e , Cuadal Canal comes
w i t h a booklet detailing the history
of t h e b a t t l e Itself, a n d f u l l
Instructions as t o h o w t o p l a y . By
e m p l o y i n g air, l a n d a n d sea forces,
you play to gain control of the
Island. You can choos e w h i c h side t o
play, A m e r i c a n or J a p a n e s e , a n d It's
up t o y o u w h e t h e r t h e course o f
history Is c h a n g e d o r n o t .
STAR WARS
FRONTIER
T he Strategic D e f e n c e I n i t i a t i v e Is
Regan's c o n t r o v e r s i a l A m e r i c a n
defence system, m o r e c o m m o n l y
k n o w n as Star Wars. High Frontier Is
the n e w strategy game f r o m
ActMrion, giving you the
o p p o r t u n i t y t o c o n t r o l Star W a r s f o r
yourself.
High Frontier, s h o u l d please b o t h
t h e t h i n k e r s a n d t h e blasters. It's a n
Icon-driven, j o y s t i c k - c o n t r o l l e d
game, m e r g i n g t r a d i t i o n a l s t r a t e g y
g a m e p i a y w i t h a n a r c a d e sequence
w h k h can b e used e i t h e r as p a r t o f
t h e g a m e o r s e p a r a t e l y as a s e c o n d
mini-game. The g a m e comes
complete w i t h a manual e x p l a i n i n g
h o w t h e real Star Wa rs SOI systems
74
S T R A T E G Y IS B A C K ! !
TTTfVMMffTTMMTJTy
lucky, y o u ' l l kill everything
immediately. If you're as
c o m p e t e n t at e m p l o y i n g
missiles as I am, then y o u ' l l
have to have a f e w goes before
y o u work out h o w to use the
d a m n thing.
Convoy Raider is all
controlled by a series of screens
selected f r o m a Main Menu. The
PROGRAMMER
I O H N JARVIS w r o t e C o n v o y Raid-
er as his first g a m e p r o g r a m t o b e
p u b l i s h e d c o m m e r c i a l l y . H e has
previously w o r k e d p r o d u c i n g a
n u m b e r of e d u c a t i o n a l s o f t w a r e
packages
PREVIEW
are I n t e n d e d t o o p e r a t e , t h e
principles I n v o l v e d , a n d t h e sort o f
a tta ck w h i c h t h e system c o u l d b e
expected t o defeat.
I n t h e g a m e y o u h a v e t o set u p a
c o m p r e h e n s i v e d e f e n c e system,
choose w h i c h p a r t i c u l a r w e a p o n s
,. .
c*«r*vvii**p*friir
A H i g h Frontier ( A / r o o a d screen |
m e n u shows three radars, one
each for aircraft, ship and
submarine groups. A n d w h e n
an e n e m y vessell comes w i t h i n
y o u w a n t , a n d t h e n choose w h e n t o
d e p l o y t h e m . It 's u p t o y o u t o p r o t e c t
the American mainland from a
possible Soviet a t t a c k .
So f a r A c t i v i s i o n has o n l y g o t t h e
graphics d o w n o n A m s t r a d , b u t w h a t
w e c a n see l o o k s a cut a b o v e t h e
... . A ; . - - ^ .
IVl .
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SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987
f i r i n g distance, a w a r n i n g
ALERT sign w i l l flash by the
appropriate radar to let y o u
know.
Aside f r o m the rather
questionable Sun 'Gotcha'
t h i n k i n g behind it Convoy
Raider is really quite impressive
game. A l t h o u g h the graphics of
the ship and your enemies are
small and totally
unrecognisable for what they
are (see above description of
ship) there's e n o u gh of t h e m to
make the g a m e attractive to
look at.
Unlike some simulations, it
doesn't c o m e chock-a-block
w i t h detailed instructions about
h o w to fasten y o u r seatbelt.
You can plug yourself in and get
straight o n w i t h the game. You
learn as y o u g o and you don't
need a degree in nuclear
physics to w o r k out what the
hell's g o i n g o n B
usual s t r a t e g y g a m e g ra p h i cs . N i c e
full-colour maps a n d d e t a i l e d g r i d s
showing Intelligence Information.
STRUGGLE!
W ell, w h e n y o u ' v e b a t t l e d y o u r
w a y past u n t o l d aliens a n d
w a n d e r e d o v e r countless b a r r e n
fields a n d s t o r m e d m o r e castles t h a n
y o u care t o r e m e m b e r , y o u ' r e b o u n d
t o begin l o o k i n g a r o u n d for a n e w
challenge.
A n d w h a t better challenge than
that of empire b u i l d i n g a n d t o t a l
world domination?
If y o u f a n c y t a k i n g o n a series o f
political p o w e r s a n d m i l i t a r y
dictatorships a n d t r y i n g t o t a k e over
e v e r y last o n e . Power Struggle from
PSS Is g o i n g t o a p p e a l .
PSS c e r t a i n l y k n o w s w h a t It's
doing on the wargame/strategy
f r o n t . It's b e e n t u r n i n g o u t some
g o o d s t r a t e g y t i t l e s l i k e Theatre
Europe f o r y e a r s a n d Power Struggle
promises a t least as much.
It plays I n e i t h e r o n e - or t w o -
player mo d e. In one-player y o u get
to building up your empire w h i l e
d e a l i n g w i t h obstacles t h e c o m p u t e r
t h r o w s at you . In T w o - p l a y e r m o d e ,
not only w i l l y o u have t o deal w i t h
computer-moderated problems, but
your o p p o n e n t w i l l be t r y i n g t o take
over t h e w o r l d t o o .
O p t i o n s a v a i l a b l e In cl u de p o l i t i c a l
negotiation, military invasion a n d
c o n s t r u c t i o n , a m o n g o t h e r s . There
w i l l also be a r a n d o m s t a r t - u p f a c i l i t y
w h e r e y o u have t o pick up t h e game
from a situation constructed by the
c o m p u t e r . It's l o o k i n g g o o d - a n d a t
|ust £4.95 It's ch e a p , t o o B

HELPLINE
C
oupla m o o n s a g o Rod
Albright asked h o w t o
get Sara t o a n s w e r t h e
phone in
Thanks to Jeff S a n s u m of
Rugby for tips. If Rod's stuck
at the beginnin g he needs to
answer the p h o n e h i m s e l f .
Sara - his w i f e - w i l l t h en
come and take it. W h i l e she's
talking, search the house
thoroughly and get every-
thing that looks r e m o t e l y
useful, especially the che-
que, the gun and bullets,
pills and keys.
Once y o u ' v e f o u n d out ab-
out the stolen child, get i n t o
the car and g o to the bank to
cash the cheque. Before y o u
go a n y w h e r e else make sure
you fill u p the car at the
petrol station. The only place
you can do this is near h o m e
so be extra careful not to run
out of petrol elsewhere. Ev-
ery time y o u get t o w e d back
you'll lose m o n e y - at least
£15. To get the tapes, b u y
Peter a few d r i n k s . "
Castle Blackstar
^ is another g a m e t h a t 's been
SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987 79
resurrected in v a r i o u s f o r m s
- meself I play it o n a PCW
these days (obese traito r -
Ed). A l m a Catton of Elles-
mere Port sends m e a plea
along these lines. " I ' m at the
castle. I just g o r o u n d and
round and can't get t h e
d r a w b r i d g e d o w n . A l s o can
you help w i t h the H o b b i t ?
I've been going round
second-hand s h o p s l o o k i n g
for old copies of Kill to f i n d
some advice." Never fear
Alma • I'll run s o m e of t h e
most useful tips for the Hob-
bit next m o n t h . Y o u ' r e not
the o n l y one w h o ' s just
bought it and can't get past
the trolls or out of that
d u n g e o n l Your p r o b l e m in
Blackstar is pretty w e l l the
first y o u ' l l encounter . The
solution lies in the b o w and
arrows w h i c h y o u ' l l f i n d if
you explore a r o u n d the
walls of the castle. Collect
t h e m and 5. 10 at the d r a w -
bridge location. T o enter the
castle f r o m this p o i n t y o u
must 9,4 - this gets y o u u p
o n to the w a l l w a l k and starts
the main game.
Marathon M a n G o u l d of
Crawley has f o u n d the Hydra
Pit but says " H o w in hell d o I
slay the thing? W e a p o n s
don't seem t o be m u c h u s e . "
Put s i m p l y y o u ' v e got t o get
the t w i n - h e a d e d h o r r o r to
kill one of its o w n heads. 6,
12 at it and the heads w i l l
start fighting. One w i l l die
and y o u can t h en lop the
other off w i t h a suitable
weapon as y o u g o i n t o the
pit. The 12 is f o u n d in the
witch's cottage in the forest.
Don't stay there t o o l o n g or
you'll be t u r n e d i n to a w o r m .
One last p o i n t - m a p this
game very carefully as it can
get ultra-complicated at
times. W i t h o u t a decent m a p
y o u w o n ' t s t a n d a cat's
chance.
a resurfaced o l d i e t h a t 's still
b u g g i n g J o h n Dochert y of
Greenock. Sickly g r o v e l l i n g ,
he w a n t s t o k n o w , a l o n g
w i t h a b o u t f o r t y o t h er ques-
t i o n s that I w o n ' t a n s w e r :
" H o w d o I kill the shark?
W h a t use are the rats? I
k n o w y o u can feed t h e m the
cheese a n d make t h e m fol-
l o w y o u w i t h the flute. What
is Guy Fawkes hiding? H o w
do y o u make h i m reveal it
and what use is it?"
J a w s IV can be f o u n d in
the Undersea W o r l d section
- I suppos e that's pretty ob-
v i o u s - and, like all Great
W h i t e s is an e v o l u t i o n a r y
perfect creature. So d o n ' t kill
it I There's no need to be-
cause. as far as I k n o w , y o u
o n l y have t o s w i m t h r o u g h
the tank to reach the airlock
o n the other side. If y o u dally
to a d m i r e its e v o l u t i o n a r y
perfect c h o p p e r s, that's y o u r
problem.
Over in the sewers are the
rats, p r o b a b l y also a perfect
e x a m p l e of M o t h e r Nature's
creation . T h e y ' r e also g o i n g
to be pretty useful later o n in
the g a m e w h e n y o u ' r e being
threatened with imminent
e x t i n c t i o n in the Pit a n d Pen-
d u l u m section. Yes, y o u use
the f l u t e to get t h e m to fol-
l o w y o u but don't feed t h e m
u n t i l y o u are about to be
s a w n asunder by the m a d
m o n k . Use the cheese b e f o r e
t h e n and it's s a l a m i t i m e for
u n w i s e adventurers.
Fawkes hides a barrel
w h i c h can be m a d e int o a
b o m b w h e n y o u need t o
shift a pile of m a s o n r y o u t of
y o u r way . T o f i n d the barrel
just say 2, 7. A fuse w i l l
c o m e in h a n d y too , so keep
y o u r eyes o p e n for s o m e
suitable r o p e .
Finally. Barry Currant of St
A l b a n s w o u l d like to k n o w
h o w t o light the dark t u n n e l
u p after he's e n t e r e d t h e g r i d
in the w a s h r o o m . In the lei-
sure area lurks a slot m a c h i -
ne. Inserting a c o i n i n t o it
s h o u l d deliver a f l a s h l i g h t as
prize.
On w i t h A n i t a S i n c l a i r ' s epic
effort.
The Pawn
A a n d a w e a l t h of i n f o r m a t i o n
f r o m D a r r e n M i l l e r of New-
t o w n a r d s . N Ireland, w h o
A has sent m e a full and enor-
* mously lengthy solution.
H o n o u r a b l e m e n t i o n , me-
dais etc, also g o to A n d r e w
 R o w a n of M a n s f i e l d w h o has
p r o d u c e d a partial answer.
Space a n d Kelly a l l o w i n g I'll
 serialise the s o l u t i o n . Here-
 Take the chest. E. E. E, unlock the
shed door with the key, open it
and drop the key, move the mat,
take the wooden key. SW, get
the hoe, rake and trowel, NE.
remove your shirt, tie the rake to
the hoe using the shirt, W. W, W. MAP 1 - KNOWLEDGE
W. W. W. S, E, U. then unlock the
door with the wooden key. Open
it and drop the key. D, N, N, N, E.
E, N, W. lever the boulder with isciirvx KKAKCO
the rake. S. W. W, N, untie the
shirt, cover the wristband with
the shirt, enter the hut (you'll be -{*£!> MIST)
given a bowl), leave and go S, E.
E. E. E. NW. NW, NW, remove 0 osrutx
the shirt from the wristband, Mtf^tV

GORDO'S
wear the shirt, climb the rocks,
U. U, put the snow into the bowl,
D. D, D. D. S. W. W. N. enter the
MAP 2 - WISDOM

HELPLINE
hut, give the bowl to the Guru,
leave. S. S, S, examine the
stump, take the pouch, open it D&mt'
and look into it, mix the colours
and drop the pouch. E, E. E, E. E.
OAS uw* y,/c tcOiD MO*t
w i t h the first section. U>*KA TWMUlZj
! U'cicac* UJD CAVCJtV
E, E, give the note to the guards, o.&U, CrAS tau.
Examine your pockets and take
the metal key. E. say 'hello' to W. W. W, W. E. E. E. E. give the
Kronos, accept the note he gives chest to the adventurers, W. W, A 'C4VMM
you. then ask him about the W. W. W, W. S, E. E. W. W. U. E. PtAXL
wristband - don't open the note. close the door, lift the planks, D.
swm
CLAH
• OMJtCt
THE QUICKIES
MCA&CP

mTHE ^ H
_ _EL
_M_ _: Keith Moseley
of Leicester must have mis-
sed the full solutio n recently.
" I ' v e been t o all locations
but can't f i n d a w a y off the
first level. In o n e place
there's a sign s a y i n g 'exca-
vate' but I've n o t h i n g to d i g
w i t h . " The shovel's in a hut
s o u t h o f the village but y o u ' l l
need a key to enter. Cut the
rope off the tree at the pla-
teau w i t h y o u r knife and g o
to the
to me w e l l at
wen m the oasis. 1, 8
sn l(
look.
and 1 1 . 8 . then
PaHiHimm Steve
Ceighley again
Keiqmey again. ' W h e n I re-
move the pile of rubble at
the filling station w i t h m y
pick I get killed Can I r e m o v e
the rubble or s h o u l d I t r y
s o m e t h i n g else? A l s o can I
m o v e the elephant off the
ramp - it w o n ' t b u d g e . " En-
ter the kiosk at the filling
station and get the screw
driver - essential later T h e n
9, 3 the r u b b l e a n d take the
beam, w h i c h y o u can use for
bracing a collapsing stair-
case. Elephant? Give h i m the
buns, look and 19,13. That's
mmmmmmmm
2 J E S S Z E B 1 Steve Dalton,
W o l v e r h a m p t o n , w a n t s to
know h o w to get out of the
locker. After e n t e r i n g y o u
should dissolve the pill in
the beaker and the n drink
y o u r medicine. N o w t w i d d l e
the hook - that's the right
w o r d and y o u ' l l be t o l d so if
y o u ' v e taken the pill in t h e
right way. Fire the g u n in the
locker r o o m - after l o a d i n g
it, o f course. The g u n ' s in t h e
east end of the captain's
r a b i n 18. 15 to find a bullet.
BORED OF THE RINGS:
Stuart Payton. Newdigate.
can't find any m o n e y to pay
for the pixie's map in the
M o r o n a Cave Complex. You
get y o u r coin by inserting
the battery into the vendin g
m a c h i n e in t h e m a i n hall - a
reversal of the o l d p r o b l e m
^ h e o n o i n a l Adventure.
E S S S H E S B "I've scared
t h e G r e m l i n s i n t o t h e air
vent w i t h the c a m e r a , " says
Justin Wilkins of Bellville
RSA " P r o b l e m is I can't f i n d
the plate to seal the vents
W h e r e are they?" After col
lecting the w e l d i n g gear
f r o m t h e service pit. head
up, t h en N. W, N M a k i n g
sure it's on, insert the flash-
light. N o w get the w e l d i n g
gear in action and 20, 17
This s h o u l d get y o u what
voi^ieec^^^
Q ^ Q Q i J j Q f l W i t h informa-
tion s u p p l i e d by Ryan Red-
m a n of G w e n t . w e can h e l p
S T a t u m of Cheshunt w h o
asks " W h a t d o y o u d o in t h e
Eiffel T o w e r ? " After taking
the t a x i a n d a r r i v i n g at the
T o w e r , first o p e n the gate.
Then 14 and 21. 16. These
t w o instructions need to be
repeated until y o u float
away - not d o w n . Keep your
eyes peeled, m y little fish-
cakes - I'll r u n the s o l u t i o n
or part of it next m o n t h .
hanks Red I
Q Q 2 2 2 3 B C h r i s Naish, Car-
d i r f ^ S K s T i n part one h o w
can I s t o p the Neanderthals
killing me? A n d h o w can I kill
the w o l f in the A r t h u r i a n
section - I've tried taking the
dagger f r o m under it but it
just attacks." The Neander-
thal's K o n g Ka, Bon g Ka'
means, s i m p l y , Friend or
Foe, in that order. S o a n s w e r
' K o n g Ka' and y o u ' l l be wel-
c o m e at the village b e y o n d.
In S m i g ' s hut offer y o u r
necklace to get a useful pot.
Chez Kogo, try s w a p p i n g the
ruby for a ladder As to the
w o l f , s o u t h of t h e d e n is a
stone, at the crossroads.
Take t h e stone, g o n o r t h a n d
d r o p it. One dead w o l f -
keep the carcass and give it
to s o m e o n e appreciative
MAP 3 " VNDEKSTAUDihiti
PASIAC* KOtwwm
(OA**)
iAlt.
WAITE
LMO
IMUtuurr
PATH fVUH
• ooesr
oonur
MArrtv rr mask MIAO
D. W. SW. open the door, W, take
the hat and wear it. Kobyashi. Congratulations
f r o m Clive, Les and all at
W i t h that c l i f f h a n g e r , w e
M a s t e r t r o n i c . ' Pretty r o m a n -
leave The P a w n for this
tiv e n d i n g , eh?
m o n t h . If y o u w a n t t h e rest,
A fair heap o f s o l u t i o n s for
keep b u y i n g the m a g ! ! !
various adventures a r r i v e d
Last m o n t h I gave y o u the
this m o n t h a n d w e ' l l start
solution to Part O n e o f
with
Kobyashi Naru Grange Hill
• N o w . f r o m Mark Stead of • sent in by Ian O'Connor - from
L e o m i n s t e r , c o m e s the m a p where, alas, I know not Here
of all three parts a l o n g w i t h goes: R, R, D, L, U. Take the
the w a y t h r o u g h the other book, D. L. use the book. Say
'stand on book' to get the plane.
• t w o p r o v i d e d b y S h a ne Grif-
R. R. R Say 'no' and take the
fi n of Co. Cork. Thanks both, chair leg Now L. U. L. L. climb
• here g o e s : the telephone box. R, R. D, L. Get
WISDOM: Activate the solance. the fishing rod R, U. L. L, D. R. R.
• pull it, N, analyse the tunnel,
ascend the cliff, dive into the
D, R, R, use the fishing rod. say
get bone', L. L. U. L, L, climb the
pool, swim to the centre, swim telephone box. R. R, D. give the
Klam and use the solance. Now
get the pearl, swim water and
ascend klam. Descend the cliff
and go S, E.
UNDERSTANDING: Analyse
mega-unit and activate it, get the
lasalite, S, E, jump pit. E, activate
the laslalite and then drop it, get
the wheel, pick up the lasalite
again, w, throw the wheel into
• the pit, jump on the hoverdroid,
analyse the perch, go W and
analyse the passage. Now acti-
• vate the lasalite and use it, E,
activate the computer. S, S, get
the wheel, W, W. jump the pit,
• W, N,N.
When you've completed
• the three tests the f o l l o w i n g
m e s s a g e is s h o w n : 'You
have overcome the

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UNDERSEA AREA (FROM
BEACH): N.N. N W , C l i m b i n t o
boat. D. Take aqualung . N. N, N.
SE. U. SE. D. N. E. Fill a q u a l u n g .
W. S. NW. Take pearl. N W . N. N.
N. Off lamp. N. N, L i g ht l a m p .
Take g l o w i n g m e t a l object.
Transport g l o w i n g m e t a l o b j e c t .
Transport pearl, E, Take dub -
loons, Transport d u b l o o n s , E, E,
U, Wait, Wait, E. N. N. (Give
newspaper (he gives y o u spray).
Take r e m o t e c o n t r o l , S, S, W , D.
W. W. Off lamp. S. S. Light lamp .
S, S, S, S. S, S. U, S. S. Drop
aqualung, S. (back t o time
machine w i t h r e m o t e c o n t r o l
and pyrites). Push b u t t o n . Give
pyrites. W. E. E. S. U. T r a n s p o r t
piece, (back in t i m e machine)..
FUTURIST AREA (FROM ANTI-
ROOM): E. take Geiger c o u n t e r .
bone t o Rolf, R, take the teeth. R, W. N. Push plate u n t i l y o u
take the glass eye. Use t h e pap- emerge in Roman arena (ie chalk
hollow), NE. E. M o v e churns.
er plane t o get t h e matches,
climb the fence. R. d r o p h i sto r y
book, drop the fishing rod. take
the dead cat. L. L. give it t o
GREATBELLY'S THINGY
Imelda. L. L. get the candle. R. R. 1: TIE 2: MOVE 3:
R. R. j u m p stone. R. c l i m b up t h e
pole, j u m p o n t o the w a l l , R, R.
OVER 4: PORTCULLIS
D. R. use the chairleg t o break 5: FIRE 6: THROW 7:
the padlock, d r o p the chair leg.
R, use matches t o ligh t the can-
GUY 8: ROPE 9: CLIMB
dle. R. D. R. R. U. R. U. U. U. L. 10: ARROW 11: USE
Say give me the key'. U. you
automatically take the w a l k -
12: GINGERBREAD 13:
man. D, R. U, R. R. D. D. D. L. D, L. RAMP 14: UP 15:
L. D. L. L. L. j u m p o n t o the w a l l -
but d o n ' t go L because G r i f f i t h s
HOLSTER 16: BALLOON
w i l l catch you. L. L. D. L. L. L. 17: BOX 18: EXAMINE
climb the fence, L. L. j u m p o n t o
19: TAKE 20: CUT 21:
the wall. L, L, D. L.
And t h a t ' s it y o u ' v e f i n i s h e d ENTER
Now, following on f r o m last ALSO: R= Right, L =
month's column, here's the Left, 0 = Down, U =
solution to Part 2 of
Up.
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INFORMATION EXCHANGE
• The Cassette Cretin (sic)
of 32 Swanston View, Edin-
burgh EH10 7DQ begs any-
one and everyone to tell h i m
h o w to find M o o n h e n g e in
Lords of M i d n i g h t or any tips
for ail of Eureka! or, breath-
lessly, for help w i t h The Pen
and the Dark. In return he's
got solutions for Seabase
Delta and Planet of Death.
• Anyone needing solu-
tions to Hulk, Sherlock, Col-
our of Magic, Tir na N o g or
Vera Cruz can send 30p plus
the usual sae to T i m Warren.
17 Bowyer Drive, Cip
penham. Slough, Berks. S l l
5EB
• If you fancy a Yugoslav
contact. Naris Nukic. Koste
Abrasevica 12.71000 Sara-
jevo needs help w i t h Mind-
stone and Sorcerer of
Take rings. Transport ring. W ,
W, Examine s t r a w . Take b a t t e r ,
E, S, S, (Back t o t i m e machine).
Press plate (from anti-room) , E.
Drop Geiger counter. E. SW, SE,
SE. Spray paint. 8875. S. Take
device. Transport device. N. N W ,
S, S, S, Take ingot. T r a n s p o rt
ingot. N. N. N. NW. W. W. N. E.
Insert battery. W . S. E, E. Touch
plate. S. Press 3. Press 1. Press 2.
Press 2, Press 4, Press 1, N. W .
Touch plate. S. S. S. Touch plate.
N. Take orb. Transport orb, N W .
NW, Take cigar, N W . N W ,
Perseverance. N. Take unit.
Transport u n i t . S. SE. SE. SE, S.
Touch plate. N. N. N. E. SE. NE,
NW, NE, N W , W. W. S. SE. SE.
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SUMY AH£A
Claymorgue. He's comple-
ted Mafia Contract II, Heroe«
of Karn and Vera Cruz plus
w i l l assist w i t h Robin of
Sherwood. H.O.T.M. and
Hunchback
• J o h n Docherty, previous-
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nor Road Greenock, Ren-
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total of 26 games, including
Hulk, Knight Tyme, Finders
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m o n e y grabbers there's no
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See you next m o o n . Thank
y o u and g o o d night
Take Roman. Take Cretan.
Transport Roman, Transport
Cretan. NW. N W . N. N, (back t o
t i m e machine)
ROMAN AREA (FROM CHALK
HOLLOW): N. N. N, N. N. N, N.
Take s w o r d . Take shield. S m o k e
cigar. Transport laurels, S. S. S,
W. W. N. NE. Kill m i n o t a u r . Skin
minotaur. Take piece of machi-
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how many times the free
peoples of the galactic
empire have to put all their trust
in me to save them.
It's pretty mistaken, too, I can
tell you. The invading evil
hoards had completely wiped
out my people half a dozen
times before I even figured out
what was going on in Last
Mission, let alone put up a
credible defence.
Last Mission is actually a
pretty good conversion of a
classic coin-op gory kill blast.
It's farily conventional but made
marginally novel by a wrap-
around screen and 360
movement. OK so this is about
as original as Asteroids but
anyway . . .
The aim is to conquer an
enemy starbase - which looks
curiously enough like many
other alien starbases, ie kind of
like Milton Keynes (industrial
and squarish with cycle paths).
Both must've had the same
architect.
The industrial complex is
defended by small aliens w h o
fire small, easy-to-miss bullets
at you and gigantic aliens which
fire awfully fast laser bolts at
you.
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control to die " P a t c h " p r o p e r .
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do whatever y o u w a n t ! ( I f y o u T h e player's c u r r e n t l o c a t i o n 26606 CALL 6 6 8 3 d - PRINT this n u m b e r
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with t h e o r d e r o f t h e addresses o f Patch r o u t i n e s is at 26610 INC BC;
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Quill m a n u a l ) . message, put d i e n u m b e r in t h e 26612 RSI 10H - P r i n t t h i s a s a c h a r a c t e r ( e . g . 3 2 Ls
On entry- t o y o u r r o u t i n e , t h e HL register pair a n d Call 2 6 8 4 7 . SPACE, e t c )
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How SU
e k n o w y o u ' r e w o n d e r i n g . H o w can a mere five
people put together such an awesome magazine
in a mere month?
Is it done w i t h some k i n d of t o p secret technolog y -
direct brain-to-computer copy input perhaps? Do w e

... A True St
all w o r k on batteries, perhaps, y o u may t h i n k , w e
don't actually exist a n d t h e entire magazine is put
together by YOP people?
A t last in response t o literally zillions of requests
| /% ^ H a v i n g t h r o w n
(well not literally zillions - If It really was zillions
I U « i J t h e post all o v e r
that'd be even more readers t h a n there are people o n the floor the team have at last
the planet), w e finally give y o u the answer t o t h e found t h e s o f t w a r e p a c k a g e
question: What o n earth is g o i n g on? they w e r e all l o o k i n g for. I n t o
the computer It gets loaded.

9 ^ Q T h e B « j offices are W o h l Check out those sprites,

a fc # e m p t y except for t h e look at t h a t scrolllngl Must be
nu*oe»f
hysterical b l e e p i ng of t h e coffee time
c o n t a i n hoUSes
computers (somebody f o r g o t t o
turn them off)

Jim Douglas arrives,

a 3 V / T a k e s of f m o o d y
sunglasses - puts umbrella a w a y .
hAmazing realistic
Moodily grabs p h o n e w h i c h Is
Graphics. Revoutlon-
ringing. It is a s o f t w a r e house
- j in every way and
explaining t h a t Its game Is n o t
never to be surpasst ~
ready y e t
(well, not until our
next game, anywayy\
i n n n E v e r y b o d y else
I \Jm\J\Jhas arrived
• Here we see the truly
4 f \ coffees d r u n k expert 02 Review Team
I U.UJCT IS r e a d y t o engrossed in a critical
rock 'n' roll. There Is a l o u d appraisal of the latest
w h o o p from t h e e n t i r e staff as bowls simulation from
David Kelly commands " O K guys Snoozesoft. Reviews are
it's s h o w t i m e l " Tamara H o w a r d the most Important part
kicks David under t h e tabl e - of the magazine, and If
she Is n o t a guy there weren 't any. we 'd
have to fill up the space
1 / \ ^ / V h e P o s t - Usually with adverts or some-
I \J a 3 V a mad rush t o t h e thing ...
dark and clammy EMAP
basement w h e r e t h e post -
bulky parcels c o n t a i n i n g
astonishingly e x c i t i n g n e w
A James the man' Douglas 1 1
I •
A C By this p o i n t t h e
J telephones are
humming w i t h s o f t w a r e houses
keeping British Telecom
games sent b y eager s o f t w a r e afloat. Jim tactfully suggests p u t t i n g back t h e release dates
houses - Is stored that now is not a good time of softwar e u n t i l t h e o n l y game
^ g / e ^ f e protect currently available t o put in t h e
for him to make the coffee
r una magazine Is a b u d g e t t i t l e called
Petulent Pedro. " C o u l d w e
Big package (probably for make It a double page colour
I B M S y s t e m User magazine spread?" w o n d e r s David. Jim
or something equally rings up five h u n d r e d p e o p l e
simultaneously. Four h u n d r e d
and n i n e t y seven of t h e m are In
e*c/t/ a meeting
nt g

H
I, my name's D e n l * A h m e t a n d for the past seven days I've been
w o r k i n g In t h e H ' l offices |Full t i m e I) as p a r t of my w o r k
experience.
So Mr Graham Iclqar I Taylor t h o u g h t It m i g h t be a g o o d Idea If I w r o t e
about a typical d a y at p H
"You ve got t o be J o k i n g ! was m y Instant reply.
Do I ever Joke?" said Graham.
U/ell. before I k n e w It the w h o l e P ) t e a m h a d surrounded me a n d
started cracking their silly Jokes I This was Just t o o much for a mere m o r t a l
like myself so up w e n t t h e w h i t e flag.
Work starts at 9.30 am. A f t e r everyone's come In a n d h a d their cups of
coffee It's g e t - o n - d o w n - t o - w o r k - t l m e l Most of t h e time Is spent o n the
phone t o so ftw a re houses l l i ' | must g e t some serious phone-bills). N o w
and again y o u hear t h e o d d y e l l of frustratio n f r o m Gareth as he discovers
he's expected t o m a k e a n o t h e r page look Interesting w i t h o u t any
pictures. Every other t i m e It's Tamara shouting a b o u t this a n d t h a t , a n d
driving everybody nuts In t h e process I A r o u n d 10.45 a m Mr Jim does a
record-breaking sprint downstairs t o g e t t h e m o r n i n g post.
More games. Ylpee. more reviews.
Here we see Tamara the A n y piece of w r i t t e n w o r k Is h a n d e d over the t h e Ed - o o e r l Mr Ed I
newest member of the team think gets great pleasure In crossing o u t people's w o r k I A n y page of w o r k
searching the postbag for can quickly be reduced t o half In his d e a d l y hands.
... um . . . well post really. Very l o ng discussions are h a d about t h e f r o n t cover a n d posters w i t h i n
the mag |l am t a l k l n mean dlscussionsl) It struck me t h a t w i t h e v e r y t h i n g
From this iegandary postbag else t o do n o t as much time was spent o n t h e computer as I'd expected.
come many of the legendary A n d I thought everyone w o u l d Just sit a r o u n d all day p l a y i n g games I (The
games that make the computers are original 128Ks. b y t h e w a y ) .
wonderful mag it is Instead It's a ve r y w h a c k y but frustratin g halr-pullin g t y p e of day In the
R H offices. Hectic, even I •

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SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 19:
'ut Together
Incredible
tration from
massed
team. Note
iuttlng-forward
heads and
haircut problems 1
caused
exposure to
thrilling
by
software.
G r a h a m Taylor w o r k i n g o n
the Petulant P e d r o review
version 57.1. AH
communications with
Graham at this time are
answered In the same way
eg White no sugar "
1"?
nfl D a v , d Ke,,y
c • W W decides that the
review of Petulent Pedro needs
to be ready to go by overland
pony to the typesetters by
12.10. Graham Taylor's
typewriter gets put Into
overdrive. Despite recent
overhauls Graham's typewriter
has suffered total system
collapse twelve times In the past
month. Graham wonders h o w
to spell manoeuvre' and looks
for an excuse t o make a Joke
about Mel and Kim In the
review. "No jokes about Mel
and Kim/' warns David sternly
:LAIR U S E R
} Madness
drink,
|Never r/n&
m asPeop/e
I too
concen- Three pens
the for correcting • V rl9htened
editorial copy talk
the
(the bigger
toDay/d.
severe the pen the less David
likes the copy!
over-
highly
1 / \ / \ L u n c h . A l l those
• w w people w h o are not
lunching w i t h roving PR people
go to the pub. N o w it is very
fashionable t o pretend that
journalists are all Jolly drunken
people w h o like n o t h i n g more
than a good llg. However the
Q Q team drink comparatively
little because they are far t o o
busy being Incredibly successful
w i t h the opposite sex. So put
that w i t h the bits in your real
ale, serious Journo types
C Py f"e (black hole)
2.00:( The g j offices are
empty except for the
hysterical bleeping of the
A DavidKeliycommanderof
the Starship fJJ] making fine
Couidn t spell adjustments to copy. Politely
computers (somebody forgot t o
turn them o f f j nanouevre . . . er
offering suggestions as to
nanoverer way the copy might be
Two coffee • • •
nanouver improved
CPS /rest Not that David doesn t
under enjoy a Joke with the rest of
debris) \ Mania
the boys - check out his
In eyes
brilliant Bob Dylan
impersonation
4 A A C o f f e e . Phones.
^ M m X J x I W r i t i n g . Subbing.
Strange cries. Hysterical
******
ro beeping. A Joke from Tamara
" H o w does an elephant ask for
"""night a sticky bun?" As the punch line
t o this Is visual I'm afraid w e
can't tell y o u w h a t it Is
6.0 or;,:
| j . 0 0 or sometime
2
/ % | Everybody arrives
[later . . . The end of
• \ / I back. Except for the the day and time for a review of
person having lunch w i t h the PR
The Mad Celt threatens a the day's events. The successes
person w h o w o n ' t be seen and failures of the day are
before Christmas. David Kelly page of ^JJ with extreme
violence If It doesn 't hand outlined and someone Is chosen
starts w o r k i n g o n subbing. as a scapegoat for everything
Subbing Is a mysterious process over some pictures right
that has gone w r o n g . Finally,
where David takes all the g o od now! The Mad Celt 's the H ' l team scatter t o the four
bits out of everybodys w o r k ambition in life is to become
corners of the earth via tube,
and replaces it w i t h red biro a Blue Peter presenter, "i d car, train and w o l f pack (the
marks. He Inserts a Joke. He show em some things they Mad Celt).
takes it out again. He looks
could do with a squeezy Later that evening the R H
pained
bottle and some sticky-back offices are empty except for the
plastic they've never seen hysterical bleeping of the
3.00!(massive page-layout
From behind his computers (somebody forgot t o
before," he says ominously
boards Gareth (Mad Celt) Jones
• turn them offJB
emits a curious cry. Strange and
unearthly. It has been k n o w n t o
t u r n the sensitive mad. The
hardened U J team are used t o
It however. It means Gareth is
w o n d e r i n g h o w he is supposed
t o lay out the page (this means
sticking d o w n the bits of
w r i t i n g once they have been set
b y the typesetters In an exciting
w a y ) w i t h o u t any pictures. "In
the post G a r e t h . . . be here soon
. . . not t o w o r r y " say the team
Imploringly
Three cups of coffee
necessary before the
Celt achieves design warp
speed
SEPTE
DESTRUCTO MJT. This is
ARCADE I abel Bulldog A u t h o r : Eugene Messina Price: £1.99 M e m o r y : 48K
128K Joystick various Reviewer: lorry M u i r I M I K A once-in-
Budget-buy blasting with novel loop-the-loop flying ^ ^ U m a-lifetime
which really throws the cat into the dogfight opportunity to dean up

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the streets. If there's
shoot ' e m up's a s h o o t ' e m u p . . . or is it? This has t h e t r a d i t i o n a l
kill-everything scenario, set over 21 screens b u t w i t h a really
any low-life scuzz
bizzare c o n t r o l system. Instead of f l i p p i n g left or right y o u r plane loitering in your area,
loops the l o o p i n either direction, g i v i n g it a feel unlike any blaster y o u ' v e H ' l ' s the mag that's
ever played going to help you dean
Once you've g o t used t o w e a v i n g a n d d i v i n g all over t h e c r o w d e d sky.
it up.
though, you'll be k n o c k i n g the e n e m y o u t t o w a r d s t h e g r o u n d . W h e n
enough have hit the battleship, s u b m a r i n e or island b e l o w i t ' l l s t a r t t o Because we're going
spout w a t e r and sink. But t o get past t h e first f e w screens y o u ' l l have t o to arm three of our
know w h i c h of the 15 nasties w i l l s u c c u m b t o y o u r bullets, and w h i c h are
better dodged.
readers with rocket
Ideal for the o d d half-hour w h e n y o u ' r e l o o k i n g for s o m e mindless launchers, and they'll
mass-destruction. A t t h i s price y o u c a n ' t g o w r o n g • be able to take a trip
• • • • - f r f~ down their local high
street and blow away
anyone who looks like
GEOFF CAPES' STRONGMAN they need sorting out.
SIMULATION Label: Ricochet A u t h o r : Martech/lan McCradle Price: £1.99 The good news? The
Memory: 48K/128K Joystick: various Reviewer: Jerry M u i r
lucky winners will be
Re-release of one of the best joystick-jiggler simula- brilliant things?
entirely free from
tions. You'll need brains as well as brawn Because Gremlin

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prosecution because
astertronic's n e w Ricochet label, w h i c h aims t o send oldies
b o u n c i n g back, gets off t h e g r o u n d w i t h Geoff Capes' Strong- these are no ordinary
man. a s p o r t s s i m u l a t i o n w h i c h w a s o ri g i n a l l y s w a m p e d in t h e rocket launchers.
marathon rush of Track 'n' Field va ri a ti o n s. There's t h e o b l i g a t o r y w r i s t They're Motorised
exercise at the start, b u t once y o u ' v e allocated t h i s b o d y b u i l d i n g t o
eight muscle areas y o u ' l l need rather m o r e t h a n a n indestructible
Electronic
joystick. Water
Take the Truck Pull, w h e r e y o u have t o chase t h e i l l u m i n a t e d muscle Firing
w i t h a cursor, like a manic S i m o n , t o heave t h e f l a t b e d across the line.
Timing is the secret of o t h e r t e s t s of s t r e n g t h , such as t h e Log C h o p - a
Rocket Launchers/
race against t i m e t o b r i n g d o w n t h e axe in the right place. A bit wet? Hardly.
Sport simulation s have a lasting appeal and at t h i s price no fan of the These things mean
game-type s h o u l d be w i t h o u t B i g G e o f f B business. The water
from one of these things
travels 30 feet. Thafs Graphics' new game is
some distance. And it Death Wish III, and we all

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ACTION PACK 3 can carry enough water fancied the idea of
COMPILATION Label: W H Smith Alligata A u t h o r : various Price: £4.99 to keep you going for
Memory: 4BIC/12BK Joystick: various Reviewer: Tony D i l l o n
playing at being
ages. Charles Bronson.
Easily one of the most boring compilations / have ever
played - but it's very, very cheap And what sort of The rocket launcher Is

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ippee, it's here I The n e w A c t i o n Pack f r o m W H S m i t h , and look at excuse do we have for Charlie's pet weapon in
the w o n d e r f u l l y exciting g a m e s i t contains. W h o Dares W i n s II. giving away these the film, and he brings it

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W o w . w h a t a terrible . . . sorry, I ' m s u p p o s e d t o say terrific g a m e -
it's C o m m a n d o goes flip screen. Trap, cor! This is nearly as e x c i t i n g as
championship m o u l d breeding. It's ruined, t h o u g h , b y t h e fact t h a t you
can't see the bullets, t h e aliens, t h e missiles a n d generally a n y t h i n g i n
the game Indoor Bowling. W e e e l a a g h l P r i m i t i v e , m a n l (Cue O r s o n

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Welles) Probably the w o r s t b o w l i n g g a m e ever. (You d o n ' t even g e t t h e
little man b o w l i n g the ball!) Finally, It's Octagon. N o w . I've g o t a terrible
m e m o r y but . . . w h a t w a s I saying? Oh, yes, m y m e m o r y , b u t I can
remember w h e n this g a m e w a s released and correct m e if I ' m w r o n g b u t
wasn't t h a t onl y a m o n t h o r t w o ago. B l i m y g u v . t h a t d i d n ' t take l o n g t o
hit the c o m p i l a t i o n t r a i n , lub-a-dub, sto ne t h e c r o w s .
It's not exactly an actio n packed A c t i o n Pack, b u t i t is very c h e a p B

RIVER RAID
ARCADE l a b e l : Firebird A u t h o r : Activision Price: £1.99 M e m o r y : 48K128K
Joystuk: various Reviewer: Tony D i l l o n
Puny graphics and unbelieveable, unforgivable unplay-
MEGP
ability. It was better off on the Atari

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scroller, flying your jet plane a l o n g a t r e a c h e r o u s m e a n d e r i n g river w i t h
high cliffs destroying bridges, ships, t h e planes t h a t c o m e t o w a r d s y o u

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and the tanks w h i c h fire at you. A n d be careful n o t t o h it the cliffs.
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awsomely
w o n ' t c o me off, hang on. t h a t d i r t is shaped r e m a r k a b l y like a plane It is
my plane! Cor. innit small. All t h e graphics are small, a b o u t o n e UDG
response to the y Q Mega-mix
square big in f a c t . B tape offer last month we thought
• Q we'd give all those people who
missed out last time a chance
once again to become the funk-
iest person on your street.

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things get a little bit
sticky.

What do you
win?
# Three first prize
winners will be able to # Twenty second prize THE
winners will also each
walk around with a
receive a copy of the QUESTIONS
rocket launcher under 1) Name the actor who
their arms and a copy of game.
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from Gremlin in the What do yoou Death Wish and went on
to co-star with lots of
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take-aways and
more! We're even Answer the questions Michelle Pfieffer in two

t
gonna throw in a false below and send them completely different
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ALL ABOUT THE
MEGA-MIX
T he TubeGhdei Rider mega-mix was created
with Music.
Banana many hours of toil in the studio of Fluffy
The original music was transferred directly
from the Spectrum 128K to one track of a Tascam
38 eight-track recorder, with a little digital
reverb and delay added for depth. Parts of the
computer music, including the end themes of
both games, were also sampled for later use.
The overdubs were then played by hand
(since it wasn't possible to synchronise a se-
quencer with the original music!) using a Yama-
ha DX100 FM synth, Korg DW 8000 analogue/
digital synth, Altai S900 sampler, Sequential
Circuits Drumtraks digital drum machine and
ART 1500 and Alesis Midi verb effects units.
The sampled sounds, manipulated with the
S 9 0 0 , include trumpets, h e a v y - m e t a l guitars and
snare drums from chart records, and Spitfires
from WW2 - the explosion at the end is a mixture
of a bomb, a clap of thunder and a crashing
aircraft!
The whole shebang was mixed down in
genuine stereo on an RAM 10-8-2 mixer, and is
presented for your delight by Fluffy Banana
Music - thegalaxy*
coolest and cuddliest music outfit in
the entire
brilliant Spectrum game sound-
e d - u p
tracks around.
We've added drum-machines,
samplers, synthesisers, digital re-
verbs, guitar solos and quite
probably the entire London
Philharmonic to produce a music
soundtrack so wonderful you may
want to hang up your joystick and
get on your dancing shoes.
It's supplied on a single CIS
tape, and since the second side is
blank you can also use it to store
your own programs. Not only that
but it is astoundingly cheap - a
mere 99p.
The featured music is written
by one of the top games track
talents around - Dave Whittaker -
mixed down by ace-muso Chris
Jenkins and includes the sound-
tracks to The Tube and Glider
Rider, both of which were fea-
tured in the last issue's [ J j J Spec-
trum Top Five soundtrack chart.
If you're even slightly into great
Spectrum music this is your
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•Note this is an audio tape -
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 IF you reckon we're talking rubbish
don't just stand there . . .
Tell us what you think
Stick your comments on paper, fill
in and cut out the coupon below and
send it in . . .
And if you don't send us your
picture - the sillier the better - we'll
have to print a picture of a slug
Silent Service
Microprose
Y
ou were dead right to
give this a classic . I
enjoy playing simulations,
and out of my whole
collection, this is my
favourite. It must b e one of
the best and most complex
simulations to be released.
The seven reality factors
make it very playable for
the beginner. A must for all
simulation freaks!!!
Microprose is a company to
look out f o r *
Vladimir
Ledachowski
Richmond
Game Choice:
Matianoids
Barbarian
Palace
I rushed to buy the game
as soon as it was
available. Was I
disappointed? Not on your
nelly! Apart from the, ahem,
packaging and free poster
(Maria Whittaker in a
bikini), the game is utterly
hyper.
Bat why, oh why, did you
only give it ten stars? It
definitely deserves a
Classic.
The slick graphics,
smooth animation and
atmospheric background
scenes are what make the
game so enjoyable to play.
It wouldn't be the same
without the f l y i n g neck-
chop' which very
realistically beheads your
opponent. B r i l l i a n t !
James Walker
Market Rasen
Lines
Game Choice:
Exolon
Super S o c c e r
Imagine
E ight stars!! Jerry Muir
ought to be in a mental
asylum! Imagine should
quit writing software! Super
Soccer is indescribably
terrible!
Th e colour clashes are
Amaurote
Mastertronic
D
espite your rave review
of Amaurote, I was still
a little wary before buying
it. I though that, like to
many other budget games,
it might not live up to my
early expectations.
However I went ahead
and bought the game, and
one look at the amazing
graphics soon dispelled any
of my apprehension.
The game's got a
wonderfully animated
central character, very
elusive enemy insects and,
of course, those wonderful
background graphics. Th e
idea of having a repair
facility, and being able to
purchase bombs (within a
certain price limit) is
excellent, so much better
than having a limited
amount of lives.
At £2.99 I think you
should have made it
Classic. Dont delay, buy
today!!!B
Matthew Lintern
Kinver
South Staffs
Game Choice:
Enduro Racer
awful, it's bug-ridden, and
it's extremely aggravating
when two men a r e at
roughly equal distances to
the ball and the halo plays
automatic pinball between
them!!!. It's almost
impossible to control the
ball properly, and the men
move a s though they're
skating on i c e . Changing
direction is no mean feat,
N e m e s i s the
Warlock
Martech
K
s b r i l l . I n fact,
v e r y t h i n g y o u want out
of a game.
As the bodies start to p i l e
up zombies appear and start
to cause more m a y h e m on
the screen. Th e w a y
Nemesis w i e l d s his s w o r d is
i t l i k e real life. The
g r a p h i c s are excellent, and
the q u a l i t y of a n i m a t i o n is
out of t h i s w o r l d .
A s a reader of 2000AD as
w e l l , 1 w e n t out and boaght
the game straight a w a y and
have no regrets. I f Td been
w r i t i n g your r e v i e w s I ' d
have given it t w o Classics,
not one!B
M Gray
Royston
Herts
Game Choice:
Ikari Warriors
Ton "re only a l l o w a d one Clawuc
at a ttmt, bet we lake your poini.
(Mod totally diareg-ard it).
SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987 92
especially if you're moving
at almost full speed. T he
only consolation is that it
tries to be original in some
respects. Even so, Super
Soccer only deserves four
stars, if that!B
Patrick Turnbull
Didcot
Oxon
Game Choice:
Enduro Racer
Nemesis the
Warlock
Martech
gghhhhhh!
Y o u gave Nemesis the
Warlock a Classic! SHOCK.'!
HORROR!!' HURT!!!! Why?
T h i s game is u t t e r l y useless
it deserves only five or four
stars. No w a y a Classic.
A l l it is is another boring
p l a t f o r m game like an up-
graded Manic Miner. The
sido-on (boring, boring,
boring) graphics are CRUD!
Yes, crud!!! The sound is
useless too, there are
hardly any effects and
when there are they're not
worth talking about. I read
the review, bought the
game, and almost died.
I read p - ^ f regularly and
t h i n k it's great but you've
gone w r o n g here!B
Timothy Reynolds
Hemel Hempstead
Herts
Game Choice:
Enduro Racer
Jim says. Well, i f you d o n t
get excited at the sight of
the umpteen-frame
animation and
e x t r a o r d i n a r y violence in
Nemesis the Warlock, I
doubt there's m u c h hope
left for you.
H ow could you give this
game a Classic?! I read
your review, bought the
game, and got bored after a
couple of shots.
Sure, it has smooth,
highly-coloured graphics,
but the game is very boring
to play and it's irritating
and disorientating to be
bounced about when you hit
something.
And you said this was
serious competition for
Undium?!!! No chance. I
wouldn't give this one starH
Duncan MacDonald
Dundee
Scotland
Game Choice:
Head Over Heels
Army Moves
Ocean
I have to warn people
about this game. As soon
as I saw the review you
printed for Army Moves I
rushed out and bought it. A
month's pocket money
wasted on that RUBBISH!!!
It's about as addictive as a
pile of dog dirt.
I must say the graphics
are good but on Level 3 the
subs look like deformed
baseball bats. How could
yon give such trash ten
stars and expect to get
away with it? Jim Douglas
Saboteur II
Durell
W
hy oh why did
only give Sab II a
rating of six stars? OK, the
gameplay is the same as
that of Sab I but that's no
excuse. The graphics a r e
superbly animated and well
drawn. The playability is
good and I ended up
playing it all through the
night.
Also the difficulty factor
is just right in the first level
and goes up at a good rate
on the other levels. So
anyone who wants a good
lack-'em-in game with a
good plot, buy Sab I I B
Robin Sparks
Midlothian
Came Choice:
Barbarian
open your eyes and see the
light!
And as for Ocean. It can
do a lot better than this load
of (beep)B
Tony Downey
Bangor
Co Down
Northern Ireland
Game Choice:
Auf Wiedersehen
Monty
Jim says (removing v.
horrible sunglasses): OK
eyes open, cold light of day
etc etc. I still reckon that
it's worth the acclaim.
So you want to know my
new rating? Four stars
maximum, and probably
three - especially if you
have already bought
Sweevo's World,
Classic indeed! Don't
waste your m o n e y ! •
Chris Jarrett
Wells
Somerset
Game Choice:
Barbarian
At least it w a s all good
clean fun!
Footballer of
the Year
Gremlin
Graphics
I think your review of
Footballer of tho Year
w a s one of the worst printed
in your magazine. This
game deserves more than
one star!
Footballer of the Year has
great graphics, especially
on the goal scoring screen,
and a nice little tune. The
gambling screen is good fun
too. Compared to Football
Manager. Footballer of the
Year wins easilyB
John Snedden
East Lothian
Game Choice:
Arkanoid
Arkanoid I've got to leave you now,
but my final message is . . .
Imagine Imagine really played a
trump card. Ta T a l
T hud!! Ah well, Level 5
down the drain.
Hi folks. Since I
Stephen Coates
Doncaster
reluctantly forked out three S Yorks
week's pocket money to
buy the super-mega Game Choice:
coverted Breakout I h a ve World Class
never been off my 128K+2. Leaderboard
Food is no matter, I just
drool over the addiction or f-'JEWamino: Too much
what? Sheer bliss for hours drool can damage your
on end! addiction.
E
very so often — well very often actually — you write to
tell us that we know nothing about anything and insist
that some program we trashed is actually the best game
ever. Conversely you blast us for saying something is great
that you absolutely loath and detest.
Enough is enough. We c a n t take any more, if you think
you're so clever you write the damn magazine. We mean it!
E v e r y month w e l l devote a page to a selection of your
opinions on the latest software. Don't get mad - write the
review you think the game should have received and we
(subject only to space) will print i t
Now, aside from seeing your work in ptint we will send
you a crisp £10—er, cheque — with which to buy the
software title of your choice — tell us what you plan to
spend the money on if your review is printed.
One request, we want to know what you look like so send
us a picture. Any old picture will do — you at home, in Ibiza,
in the garden, even making silly faces in photobooths we
d o n t care.
So get cracking — write your reviews and send them
together with the completed coupon below.
YOUR REVIEWS
Maximum ISO words. No swearing, libel or illegibility and
come out of the corner fighting. Don't beat around the bush -
tell us straight what you thin*. Send your review (of any
recent game) plus your picture and fill in the coupon, 'send
the lot to The Write Stuff, Sinclair User, 30-32 Farringdon
Lane, London EC1R 3AU.
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 NEXTM
It's no good asking
me love they've
all gone off on
their holidays

. • . But not before pointing out that the October s u

is absolutely stunningly wonderful a n d contains
more brilliance t h a n a truck-load of electric lightbulbs
Check out these features:
• Double the u s u a l number of p o k e s !
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What the stars s a y about their Spectrums!!!
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Back from Ibiza, September 1 8

USER SEPTEMBER 1987
/
 LPREVIEW
SO W H A T IS F O O T B A G G I N G ?
* W are totally and utterly over the Venice beach, and oven Hollywood *
• ail kaow that the Americans the West Coast. Saata Cnu.

tap. but I hardly think that that's a

legitimate eicuse for the appalling
itself.
As the blurb says, this ain't Cali
*
hype surrounding California Games, earn in' - it's for roal. (oh ^
oae of the f i a t of a new hatch of »). What rt really i t , i t aa ^
Ipyi titles through US Gold. eicuse for a lot of little garnet to >U
Without getting too eicitod about make it together and become a big ~
the whole thing, what happens is compilation, thereby pleasing the >U
this. California Games allows you to purchasing public no end. Actually. ^
take part in all the usual American the screoa shots look rather nice. >U
exhibitieaist sports, such as skate- especially the surfing, which has a
boarding. surf-hoarding, and foot- big blue wave. ^
osgqinf (whatever that may mean). In Well it would, wouldn't It? -T"
, order that you may he oven mora Streetdate: September ^
^ a n u z o d you'll be allowed to travol Price: to bo announced ^

I N E X T SIM F R O M D I G I T A L
S omeone developed a jet that was
sooooo secret that even they
woron't sure afterwards whether they
really had developed H. or whether
they |ust dreamed it all up. But they
did invent it, and the Lockheed YF
22A i t a pretty mean machine. So it's
to make a pretty mean game,
says Digital Integration.
Yus. The Advanced Tactical
Fighter has been given its very own
of the same name, and 01 i t
eicited about the whole
Intelligence reports say that
the Lockheed i t virtually undetect-
to its shape and special
>d doesn't eiist. Good
'thing that it's net totaly undetect-
•Unrwise the pilot would never
be abio to find It. and that would
make a pretty boring game all round
really wouldn't it?
Anyway, ATF is an attempt to
combine strategy with simulation
Although H takes quite a lot of
practise to learn bow to fly the jet.
once you've got going, 01 assures us
that there's going to bo a lot to
destroy. A combination of choosing a
target, collecting Intelligence info,
plotting a course and bombing the
hell out of it sounds pretty fine to
mel ATF features a smart. 30 gener-
ated relief background, and on M s
reputation alone it ought to be a
Stroetdato: September.
Price: £7.95

T h e s e days film licences are the

I things to go for. A big boi office
often makes a successful
(financially). On the other hand
film liceaces art very expensive. So
if you're a software house,
what do you do? Read on . . .
Jewel of the Hlle was an ultra
successful film starring Kathleen
Turner and son-of-dimple himself
T H I S ? A GEM?
Michael Beugias. Firebird on the
other hand is promising us Mystery
of the Nile chock full of "aew and
exciting" features. A hunt for the
Jewel of Luior. (That's new?) Fight-
ing in Luxor, in the desert, even on
the top of a train. (Don't think that's
terribly original actually). A gang of
three. (I've got this strange sense of
top re). A man. (Could it be Michael

Douglas?). A woman (Kathleen Tur-

ner?) And a short arab (The one from
TmjI that nobody knows the name
of?) There's actually nothing new
It. but. it might be a

Graphically it
what of Livingstone. I Presume?
sort ot pseudo-cartoony characters.
You can change the control of each
of the characters, so if you find you
have trouble being a woman, you can
a bespectacled arab la-
Each character has higher
own weapon, and you change charac-
ter in order to employ the right
weapon at the right time.
Mystery of the Nile doesn't even
try to disguise its origins, and for an
exercise in totally dreadful concept
cribbing, Firebird wins top marks.
Hero's hoping Mikey doesn't hear
about It. Or there could be trouble.
Streetdato:
Price: C7.95

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B: What's a matterbooboo?
fc nothing. What's the matter with
you. Vafff
Hahahe. You can't beat a bit ot
umour to start a preview
(We'd noticed - Ed). Anyway, it s a got some really nice screen
little men relevant than you may for you to see. So shut up. cartoony manner. Along the way Yogi
think in this case because this is a Sot la the rolling Mils and pictvr- will have to be careful not to gat
preview ot Piranahs new licence tie- sconory of Jellystono Park, YB caught by the rangers who patrol the
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ot figures, pnjb.ibly enraged hampering the rangers. . .
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It looks a bit like Paperboy but

J Mean Streak from Mirrorsoft Is J k

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more violent by far. Where Paperboy f " H

had a weedy pedal bike Mean Streak
Mean 2
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oil ~
slicks and other offensive weapons. 2
The idea, well never mind about <•
that, the and result is that you gat ta
barge, blast, trip-up or in some other J
way squeeze the devilish computer* ^
controlled cycles right off the road. ^
The angled side-on view is pretty
clever, the bits where you barge the w
other biko are really fun and the H i
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and assorted spikes.

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 PREVIEW.
NAUGHTYNESS
FROM NIPPER
i over a year since Jack the
pper first appeared on from
Gremlin Graphics. Mow. after his
considerable success in the first
episode he follows the example of
other Gremlin heroes Ting and
Bounder in a tropical comeback
Coconut Capers
Jack the Nipper involved Jack (a
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around trying to stir up as much bad

feeling and general trouble as possi-
ble by doing nasty things like blowing
up all the computers in an electrical
shop by shorting them out.
The sequel takes place deep in a
dense jungle somewhere between
here and Australia (Spain?). Jack's nappy as a parachute. Followed clo-
whole family was supposed to be sely by his father who is understand-
flown out there, in an attempt to ably livid. On landing, Jack immedi-
curtail his naughtiness, or at least ately sets about scoring those points
keep it as far from Britain as possi- on the Naughtyometer. Here, though,
ble. Jack «ets ep to things like dropping
Never being one to do as he's told. bananas on people and telling bad
Jack leaps from the plane using his jokes to Hyenas.
Coconut Capers looks slightly
different to Jack the Nipper as it's
lost the semi-30 element which allo-
wed you to walk into the screen. In
fact, this was probably the worst ,
aspect of the first game, as it was «
rather difficult to judge depth. Now •
the author of the game. Greg Holmes •
has ditfched this in favour of a®
straightforward side-on view. J
Streetdate: September •
Price: t7.99 •

HGRYZOR GETS GREEN BERET m

that nothing s going to stop them
from causing world-wide inertia due
to severe death.
A lolly good blast about is what it
like, we're toW that only
Judge Anderson s psychic powers
and blazing gun can save the inhabi-
tants of Megacity and the rest of the
world from having Judge Death's
deathly hands plunged into their
(Ugh). The Final Conflict
takes place on Judge death s very
own planet. (Oeathworld. quel surpri-
se) in another dimension from the
one we're in at the moment.
Streetdate: October
Price: tt.95
G reen Beret in space. That's a
pretty fair descnptioa of Gryzor.
Ocean's latest coin-op conversion.
Yes, I know the scroenshot looks
• o r e Nke a 30 style game, bat that's
one of the interior scenes, you see.
Most of the gameplay involves
travelling across mutated alien land-
scapes and blowing degrees of crap
out of anything that moves Instead
of being armed with a fairly puny rifle
•ail f l^mafhrriMiAr ,-k
ano nametnrower, tnougn, you get to
play around with an enormous laser
shotgun that wipes out anything in
It's way. You also pick up additional
firepower modules that let you fire in
three directions at once.
Using all Us athletic abilities, the
hero must leap over yawning
his way past untold
After working through ever larger
got to make your way into part of the
robotic nenre centre and destroy a
section. The further into the game
you get the deeper into the centre
you'll have to «o. (It s this section
you can see in the shot.)
M A M a M i
N the conversion comes anywhere
near the standard of the coin-op (and
judging by Ocean's current form,
there's no reason why it shouldn't)
Streetdato: September October
Price: E7.95

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PREVIEW*!
"G
S L O G .fed"

DROID O U T R E A L N I C E
O h God - you're a droid again. I n '
Players' Xanthius you're pack-
aged off to go and sort out a proces-
sing plant which is gradually crack-
ing up due to faulty parts.
Your droid has to zoom around
eight processing units topping up
their energy and generally keeping
things going. Needless to say this
involves much blasting of the native
alien wildlife.
From the demo version we've seen
it looks like it could be very nifty
indeed. The droid itself walks about
like a deranged ballet dancer and
generally the graphics are large,
colourful and smooth.
Sounds a bit strategic combined
with arcady bits and pieces really
doesn't it?
Streetdate: September.
Price: £1.99

FIFTH Q U A D R A N T
I t's been quite a while since any-
I fthing has appeared from Bubble
Bus. It's last offering, Ice Temple
was quite nice, and it's stuck with
» M •* * the space theme for Fifth Quadrant
which has been promised for ages
and now looks to be nearly here.
Apparently you are a crewmember
upon the good ship Orion. You and
your crew have been in suspended
animation - due to the length of the
flight - and, on waking, you're under-
standably miffed to discover that
•rwrw.rvrf your entire ship has been taken over
by Zimen, whoever they may be.
Having been given free reign of the
ship for ages, the Zimen have man-
COOKE-ING NOTA PENNY
aged to break practically everything
in sight or alter the computerised
UP E A R T H I ook, this is really true OK. I didn't
Lmake it up. Qomark is going to do
control mechanisims so they only
work in Zimeneeze.
BUBBLE
tain Slog, Plot Knut and Bodd) and
somehow regain control of the ship.
Not quite as easy as it sounds,
considering a few of your characters
are being guarded and confincd by
locked doors.
Each character has different capa-
bilities, and will be able to help out
with varying degrees of success In
each situation you put them in. Not
much use expecting the navigator to
be able to fix a broken coffee machi-
ne.
There are 230 rooms to get lost in,
and the graphics are very 30 and,
um, well, they're not very great in
fact, but the thinking element should
offer some consolation. This certain-
ly isn't a blasty thing so steer well
clear if the thought of a little mental
agility throws you into a coma.

LIGHT a game based on . . . I'm not sure I

kallMUB | k l . -" L,.k . Ltl
The aim of the game is to take
control of your four characters (Cap-
Streetdate: August.
Price: £8.95

N eius has been a might quiet oeneve tms mysen o u t . . . a oootc oy

lately. Its next releases on the
Spectrum won't be out 'til Xmas. but
we thought you'd be interested in a
Earth Light is the latest from the
topping pen of Pete Cooke who
brought you Academy. Tau Ceti and
Micronaut One. I f s a 30 shoot-out
in space, and you can bet that the
graphics are going to be pretty
damned special indeed.
Earth Light is a bit of a departure
for Pete as it doesn't involve the
first-person 30 that was used in Tau
Ceti and Micronaut One (ie you sit
in the cabin of your spaceship and
the world moves around the outside).
This time, things have a different
angle on them, as the screen scrolls
from left to right and your spaceship
can move in and out of the screen,
under or over (or in front and behind)
the obstacles in your path.
Jeffrey Archer. Gasp!
The book ia question is Mot a
Fmutf Mors Hot a Penny Less which
is considered by those who admit to
reading Jeffrey Archer novels to be
the least bad by far.
Domark is saying nothing about the
plot except that it will "be closely
based on the book". That reveals the
following: it's all about this man who
is ripped off by another man, who
finds lots ot people who were also
ripped off by the same man and who
then resolves to gat back 'Not a
Penny More Mot a Penny Lass' than
was stolen in the first place.
Sounds like an adventure game to
M , but l could be wrong though.
Price: unknown
SLED A S T R A Y uncle - it's gone ahead and is in the
process of bringing out a game by the
Select your team, choose the right
sort of sleigh, and get to compete on

S
Streetdate: Xmas. imulations needn't necessarily be
Price: unannounced about flying things. And to prove
it hare's one that isa't.
A lot of people are saying (well,
name of Bobsleigh, which features a some of the most famous internatio-
man, a Bob, and a lot of very slippery nal bobsleigh runs. All the while
ice stuff. keeping an eye on the championship
Together with the help of Nick fund so that you don't run out of

BATTLE PLAN one or two really) that the British

bobsleigh team have a dashed good
Phipps, British team leader, and
therefore pretty nifty with a Bob
dosh. The races themselves will be
offered to you in startling 30 driver's-

B ack in the days of Algy. Ginger
and Biggies (I always thought Algy
was more deserving of fame and
fortune) men could be found larking
about ia cigar shaped things painted
with green and brown blobs (he
means Spitfires - Ed).
chance of winning the Olympic
Games in Calgary next year. So bobs-
leighing is obviously a pretty topical
subject, and, you've guessed it, good
game material.
That's how Digitial Integration
sees it anyway and - Bob's your
himself. 01 is putting together a
game which will give the player the
chance to slide down an extremely
slippery ice slope very fast indeed,
and cause an immense amount of
damage to himself, his team, and
indeed, his Bob.
eye view graphics, and there will be
multiple skill level set to choose
frem. I always reckoned the real
thing on TV looked horrifyingly iaa-
gerous - so the game could be too.
Streetdate: Autumn
Price: to be announced

bar, or would like to re-enact the

rather topping conflict, PSS has re-
leased its rather wonderful Battle of
Britain at a flyaway budget price! I B ^ 1 ALUED'
Top. £4.99. Worrabargain.
Along with Battle for Midway and < > STEEL
Theatre Europe all appearing on the
new PSS label, Classic Conflicts,
we're sure that the programs are
going to go like a bomb. Hahaha.
Streetdate: August.
Price: £4.99

94 SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987 94

 MOVES
Master the tube If it moves, jump
linker on it

© Before he can d o any-

thing else. Thing has t o
get o n t o a part of the t o y
/ A Most nasties can be des
t r o y e d by just springing
up into the air a n d landing on
factory floor. He can o n l y d o this them. But beware a n y t h i n g
by escaping t h r o u g h one of t h e w i t h spikes o r a helmet. Your
air vents. Unfortunately, there average nasty w i l l disintegrate
are loads of the Goblin's guards Into a pleasing points score, but
charging around the place, a n d those w i t h p o i n t y heads w i l l Just
so Thing gets buffeted about, rebound y o u i n t o t h e w i d e blue
and can t fi nd his w a y out. The yonder. Spikes w i l l make Thing
only w a y t o get out is t o use the bounce over a n d over again,
10 panics that y o u have per and too much bounce drains
life, and change direction in the Thing's oil, not to m e n t i o n giv-
tubes. Keep pausing th e game, ing him a sore head w h e r e he
and make a rough map o f th e hits on w h a t e v e r * above him.
tube layout. That w a y y o u can Best choice It to leave t h e spiky
w o r k out w h e r e y o u w a n t t o g o ones alone
without wasting panics a n d
being buffeted by t h e guards
Collect those
hearts

©
Never re-enter a
Being a creature of t o t a l l y
screen
Things are harder t h e mythical origins. Thing

W
second time around. Try has three hearts. A n d he can get
, e here at H ' l have exhausted all t h e bouncy Jokes. more. N o t t h a t more hearts do
n o r to get trapped, because If There are n o more pura left In elasticity. So rather than him any g o o d at all. because he
you have to g o back, y o u can be bore y o u r i g i d w i t h any more quips about springiness, can't carry more than three at a
sure that that screen Is g o i n g t o we're going t o tell y o u something extraordinarily useful. In other time. So If y o u happen t o come
be more difficult words this month's Classic Moves w i l l put a spring Into yo ur step across a n e w heart, remember
and a zolng In you r heart because w e ' r e g o i n g t o tel y o u h o w t o that If y o u ' v e already got a full
w i n at Gremlin's Thing Bounces Back complement of lives, y o u can't
A l w a y s complete have another one. If y o u k n o w
a screen where y o u ' r e going t o die soon, and
y o u see a heart, get In there, die
possible quickly a n d the n pick up a n e w

®
heart. Then you'll be fully alive
lf y o u can. kill off all the
meanles In a screen for a
nice juicy bonues. Rather than Thing's rolling In the wrong
picking up the computer compo- direction and there 's no way
nents and g e t t i ng th e hell out of round
there, stick around a n d clean up The all Important air-vent
the whole floor

'Og/ff
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 GREMLIN'S MYSTERY
trademarks of Amstrad PLC.
Locoscript. Locomail and
Locospell are trademarks of
Locomotive Software Ltd
We offer our apologies to
Locomotive Software for this
STAR TREK CORNER
The following mystic symbols over the release date of Star Trek
inaccuracy."
were discovered by an the computer game on the
Here's a translation o f that Archeologist inscribed on a Spectrum.
fateful document: " G o r blimey pyramid in Egypt. Carbon dating techniques
we dun a w r o n g ' u n what stupid The symbols are believed to have enabled experts to set a
geezer botched u p that b l i m m i n ' be the comments of Pharoah date for the hieroglyphics of 233
press 'andout I'l l 'av 'is guts for Gremlin IV o n the problems BC. Nice one Firebird!
belt-driven turntables so I w i l l .
Anyway we d i d n 't have them
trademarks like what we said,
we just fought we did. A n y w a y
Locomotive has got the ' u m p

T
and threatens us w i v the guys i n
the wigs i f we don't straighten
the old fing art.
We wus rong. Them
trademarks wus Locomotive's
alright? Sorry g u v . "

GREMLIN'S AT-A-GLANCE ESSENTIAL

GUIDE TO THE TRULY NAFF (Part 1)
C
LESSON ONE: Some very dodgy A T T A C K OF T H E DEADLY
game ideas DOGS - young Scamp got

A FRANCIS WILSON'S kidnapped by aliens and just

E
WEATHER G A M E . Francis look what's happened to h i m
xcuse me a moment (hah hah
has got his weather all mixed up. now! He's 500 feet high w i t h
ha hee hee) Amstrad is a
Can you help h i m sort it out laser beam eyes and he's being
company that has made the odd
before it's time to go over to die very naughty! Can you. using
legal threat in its time (giggle,
regional news services? your team of Harrier j u m p jets,
giggle) and has forced the BBC
among others to issue various nuke the naughty dog before he
apologetic press releases on pain destroys the world?
of serious lawyer-power
(hahahahahahahahahah). What AITACK DF M
DEADIT
should arrive on Gremlin's desk
but the f o l l o w i ng press
announcement f r o m Amstrad
correcting a previous press DDES? T ?
B
release: W I L L I A M ' S TEDDY - poor
"The Amstrad press release old ted! He's had the stuffing
entitled "N.O.M.D.A. Chosen for knocked out of h i m by those t w o
Worldwide Launch of Amstrad young royal scalliwags! Can you
9512," dated 22 July mistakenly find all his missing limbs and
stated that Locoscript and ten bits of stuffing before
Locomail were registered William eats him?

B SINCLAIR USER SEPTEMBER 1987

LESSON T W O :
Now match a software h o u s e to
each of the products above. W h o
is most likely to put out w h a t ?
(we've d o n e one for you,
William s Tedd y - Royalsoft but
who is Rovalsoft a p s e u d o n y m
for?)
• Macsen
• Virgin
• Firebird
LESSON THREE .
Of the three bits o f software
above which of the following
review extracts best d e s c r i b e s
which one:
"Utterly utterly tedious - only
the BBC could possibly have
thought this would be a g o o d
idea for a g a m e "
"Even at a budget price this h a s
to have the most l u d i c r o u s plot
ever - and just look at those
attribute p r o b l e m s w h e n the big
sprite m o v e s "
"Oh Gawd. O h No. I don't
believe it. Look, please, n o . w h y
me?"
GREMLIN'S AT
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GUIDE TO
THE TRULY
NAFF (Part 2)
How to m a k e a n e w T V
p r o g r a m m e about c o m p u t e r s !
Here are s o m e i d e a s for t h i n gs
naff p r o g r a m m e s don't h a v e in
them:
# Computer g a m e s
# Cheap c o m p u t e r s m o s t p e o p l e
have
# Pokes a n d tips
Here a r e s o m e i d e a s f o r t h i n g s
naff p r o g r a m m e s do h a v e in
them (including s o m e u n l i k e ly
people w h o might b e t e n u o u s l y
Gremlin Caption
Compo No 10
Hahahaha. It c a n be quite a task
keeping a straight f a c e when
reading the Gremlin entries for
a month. T h a n k s to e v e r y o n e
who sent entries to the effect o f
"Isn't Ronald R e a g a n stupid.
then?' Very incisive.
Among the m o r e interesting
efforts this month w a s Led a
Scholev's " Q u i c k ! Ask him a
quesiton while I hold his brain
in."
Then there w a s Lee
Maddocks: "|ust like the 4 8 K -
# W o r d p r o c e s s i n g - the Provost
of Wakefield
# Databases - an a r c h a e o l o g i s t
# Accounting - a fruit f a n n e r
# C.A.D. e n g i n e e r i n g
companies
# Electronic Mail - c h e m i s t s
# S h o p p i n g by c o m p u t e r -
Prestel
Now! What might s u c h a n a f f
p r o g r a m m e be c a l l e d ?
S o We Bought a C o m p u t e r . . .
When might il be o n ?
M o n d a y s 6 . 3 0 pm. C h a n n e l 4
What does the press r e l e a s e for
SO WE BOUGHT
A COMPUTER...
press the little button in a n d h e " W h o said the Z X 8 1 had a small
forgets the last six m o n t h s . " memory . . . ? " Congratulations .
Nicholas Holand c a m e up Alasdair. A cheque m a y be
with " S o you see. Mr President, arriving soon.
if you blow up the world it will
make our latest g a m e very
topical i n d e e d ."
The winner, though is
Alasdair McCalium from
Glasgow who says, Inadingly,
the p r o g r a m m e s a y that h a s
been said b e f o r e o f e v e r y n e w
TV c o m p u t e r p r o g r a m m e s e v e r
made?
"Jargon such a s ' b a u d - r a t e ' .
CPUs', R . S 2 3 2 V (sic) a n d
interface' will bo b a n n e d ! '
What is the p r i m e m o t i v a t i o n
behind s u c h c r e a k y p r o g r a m m e And this month's piccie? Bit o f
ideas? a tricky one, in fact. All entries
" A m i s s i o n to e x p l a i n " making c o m m e n t s about the
Why do T V producers always size, sex, and amount o f h a i r o f
come u p w i t h the s a m e t e d i o u s those pictured will be
ideas o v e r a m i o v e r a g a i n ? completely and utterly ignored.
I don't k n o w p e r h a p s they all Send your entry to Gremlin
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