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OCTOBER 1992 No. 128 I 4110110 THE BEST ALL SPECTRUM MAGAZINE IN THE UNIVERSE !!! I I I 1 r vot rNq t WV i N r a 00 IE ARC "LITE An Educational You rnewsap i41.) 1HAVE AN ADVENTURE! What are Adventures?+How to Write Them! t13RMRE 107 Man NextZEL Two Seymour Games Previewed AV - F O Henrietta's Book of Spellsr EP 1 0 Icon Grath( Fonts Popeye Wrestle DemoSo EL Blava Demo Blok Load - Utility rLUI Starship Quest Pad3 0 Pokemania Hacksft Amazing 9 7 7026 4503 wa ire R o ru n id - U ep l r A 1 WAS WONDERFUL, 2 WAS TERRIFIC, 3IS THE TWAT 1 L_ L. I. ..1 syt ,- Strategy:Gomes J111 reachesFootball new Managerrient heights as 1 ' control all aspects of 0 , o your team's fortunes, ThySuccess or failure depends e ! on your skill, judgem,ent i,' oand managerial ah;ilities g u - in the transfer market, r on the training ground. g in the office and e e l the pitch. Mits. a t ;bn est t, Many great new h se Nonage each ployer's features including... e personalised housing • Contract ri schedule to improve hints' c end performonce. negotiations • Career histories e,h • Training schedules s,a • Club finances ofn Use the computerised come together to history of ail this season I make FOOTBALL c league features to analyse MANAGER 3, and mono*, opponents THE FINAL word in e performances Soccer Management t Simulations. o Use the tesephone to wheel and Access lull personnel records on all your players • length of contract nock record deal in the multi million pound special talents - to make the best deons an team selection, transfer deals elc, THE FOOTBALL MANAGER European transfer market. SERIES - OVER 1,000,000 SOLD WORLDWIDE. Spectrum, CBM 64, Amstrad Disk £15.99 iticlicthos 1 Spectrum,Amiga £25.99 CBM Atari64, Amstrad ST £25.99 Cass ISM £10.99 PC £2999 Prism Leisure Corporation plc, Unit 1, , 1992 Prism Leisure Corporation plc. Baird Road, Enfield, Middlesex EN1 15.1 riLIVE0THAT0DREAM All rights reserved. Great 8 too ding Problems etum faulty tapes to: Uncle Harold's Poody Tape 4 eeside, Thdustrtal Park, Iwycl, 0CH5 21'JU. 0 4 4 re, elir 1 2 U 1 n • - "NW 'ME V •••10 • 2 , . 2 i SOFTWARE , . U m t k HIDEOUS . Addictive• tank game a 12 • 3 GRAHAM SOUNESS SOCCER MANAGER N - NotI Match of the day but good on budget 0 13 N C 0 BANGERS AND MASH O l Super' jungle capers , 35 i Black and white vampire nightmare l 39 e WILD WEST SEYMOUR 10 I Whoopin' and hollerin' with the little guy SUPER MONACO OP 44 C0 Formula 1 racing action STUN RUNNER 1 O Futuristic racing highjinks 45 U Not quite Mad Max 45 1 geh AI L •••••• _N 1T 2DGREAT 8 4 REGULARS 4UThis months Great 8 follows the back to school trail with a Up Front 8 kCSuper educational game for all the family, Henrietta's Book OKOf Spells It has five fun tests and multiple difficulty levels Sorceress 30 LU SO that kids of all ages can learn from it arid have a good !; Coln-ops 42 ALtime while doing so. You've all discovered by now how good NAIcon Graph ix is and to make it even better we've included Check Out 48 D2Ten Fonts to use with the program. They're quite wacky and Sinclude an Egyptian Hieroglyphics font. The third part of Sta ship Quest is ready for lift off, provided you have completed HOORAH!!! There's no difficult Pz 1 2. Fear not though well have hints next month. Blok Load is a program backing up package while Maya Demo Passwordthis month!!!on the Great 8 1 is a music and graphics demo from Bratislava in Slovakia. F nally there's a Popeye 3 screenshot demo and a fully load- P Last Month's Password Was: able, exclusive. SU level for the game. and of course Poke DECODE. mania and the new kid on the block Hacks Amazing. Hacking Squad 1 There's been a change on the Hacking Squad this month. gorgeous Hannah has gone away and ugly Garth is back on the mag doing what he does best: Cracking excellent games, bad jokes and wandering hackers heads_ Now you know where to find the best Tips. Cheats, POKEs and Solu- • SCVMOUR_, I RLMOS I tions. FORGOT, I FOUND THIS , NOTE, IS IT R CLUE? Icon Graphics Tutorial 35 You've got it now use it - properly. Previews 40 The next batch of Seymour games previewed along with Codes' latest pool simulation. Educational Feature 20 A round up of some of the best educational packages curren- tly available on the Spectrum to put some fun back into those back to school bluesdays. OTHER MEGA GR PROGRAMS, OR YOU How To Write An Adventure 32 COLLECTION IS MISSING ONE OR TWO SUS DON 4 WORRY, YOU CAN GET BACK ISSUES BY PHONI The author of Starshtp Quest and Magnetic moons tells all THE FOLLOWING NUMBER. (0858) 410 510 A about Adventure games and starts showing you how to write Alk ASKING FOR SINCLAIR USER BACK ISSUES. F your own - and market it. (Continues next month.) SUBSCRIPTIONS CALL (0733) 898 100. 44. -4. 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Press SPACE to select a new BELOW) will take an average of 2 sec- address. onds to decompress, and a final 2. Use the left/right arrows to FOR USE WITH MULTIFACES block of code (1280 bytes) will follow. move back/forth one memory 48 & 128. NOT MULTIFACE 3 location or the up/down arrows 4500 baud lie. from 1.2 to 3 Blok Load is a Mu[Mace resi- These two blocks of code are to move back/forth eight mem- times the normal speed) in dent program. It will work with always saved at normal speed, ory locations. steps of 300 baud. To calculate and thus a checking for error is any model that meets these re- 3. Press the 101 key to return to' the speed, use this formula: quirements. neither necessary, nor per- the main menu. SPEED 1500 + (key • 300). formed. Blok Load provides the where the variable "key* is the 1) It has a *Programmable user with a reliably-loading tape 4. Press any other key first, then number you press Key (0) has Jump* facility. back-up, that leaves a very enter a new value for the se- a value of 10 2) It uses ports 159 and 31 to small part of the screen cor- lected address. If you enter an invalid address (ie number At the press of the button the page the Muttiface ROM in and rupted. program will be compressed. In out respectively, HOW TO USE BLOK LOAD 255) it will not be accepted. In- stead. the current value will be very rare cases, if the selected 3) It is not a Multiface 3! speed was turbo and the pro- A) INSTALLING BLOK LOAD_ displayed again. At this point gram was compressed to 40 In addition M48 users might find Follow these steps_ (ie. after a valid or invalid entry) it useful to have an ON/OFF blocks, a message will be dis- 1. You must have a Multiface you can use the ACE, cursors played that informs the user of switch installed, f their Multi- fitted. Blok Load cannot work on or IQ] keys.