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Sinclair Programs Is Publi Shed Monthly B)' ECC Publicac Ions Ltd PLUS:LATEST PROGRAM REVIEWS andmuch more Writtenby: Martin Buller From thecreotorsof 'Holts of the Things; 'lnvosion of the body snatchos: and many other software classics come these exciting new games. Gomes to tox your judgement ond puzzle and frustrate you for months on end. Don't forget our other titles, which hove attracted enthusiostic reviews like ''Excelle~·,~ro~~~~~~1;"odtc!~e~:~~?d;~~:e,h:S~~~ir~~~~~;~:po~!~~i;h1:~.~~~C~1RUSER . ZEUS 64 ASSEMBLER HALLS FTHE INVASIONOF THE THINGS BODY SNATCHAS Writtenby: Neil Moitersheod, Writtenby : Simon Brottet SimaoBrotte l and and Neil MoNeuhead Mortin Horsley PROGRAMMERS! WRIITEN ANY SOFTWARETHAT COMES UP • TO OUR STANDARDS! IF SO SEND ITTO US FOREVALUATION . Se lected titles ovoilo ble from:- ~4'f.iffli&fo:Oi¥J. WE OFFERGENEROUS ROYALTIES . 8 @H®W ~v_. w,;• .,by Pfeosesupp ly: INVASIONOF THEBODY SN ATCHAS O £6 .SO ...-~•n GrohomStofford 9 1 ~!;~~;~rn:•NGSB:!~ THE:~=:~ s'"r..'":.~:8:r~ ~~t~~; r~~rre~t~tt~r:~:~~~~e~~~;:;~ to:- I ~f!.'1,AJ,:.~i1Am8 <i~ARED ZEUS640 £9.9s I NAME~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- 1 V Csffi)J@Lf~ I ADDRESS---- -- -- --- --- CRYSTALCO MPUTING, 2 ASHTON WAY, EAST HERRINGTON, SUNDERLANDSR 3 3RX. 1 -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TRADE ENQUIRIES WELCOME,- Tel: 061-205 6603, Cli!YSTALCOMPUTING ts THETRAOING N/Wli. OF C~OREX LTD. I ~e&~r:~ ,~=~~c{~e~~~;~~d~·,~:;;i~~~~·~dd.£1.'50 ~r·i;;;.;_ flero"le(f'l",IQI ...Wld~k- ... 18 AZTE C TOMB 24 PERIODIC TABLE Editor 25 Rebecca Ferguson 9 SOFT FOCUS PIRAN HA Managing production editor 39 FEED T HE FISH H:irold .Mayes MBE 16 PROGRAM TUTOR 46 MATCHES Staff writer June M.onimer 47 SWAG 55 COURS E GU IDE Design 48 JUNGLE OF DEATH Elaine Sishop Advcrtisemcnc manager ERRORS AND 49 DEPTH CHARGE Gary Pri,;c MISHAPS 50 APPLE JACK Advertisement executive Frank Humphrey-Gaskin 51 CALENDAR Production assistant VALLEY OF DEATH De~i Epaminon dou BEGINNERS' 54 OBSTACLE COURSE Editorial assi stant Colene :,...1cocrmon SECTION Managing editor SPECTRUM Nigel Clark SPECTRUM 22 MYSTERY MAZE Managing director 27 DIFFERENTIATION Terry Canwrigh1 11 ADDRESSER Assistant managing director REVOLVING Barry Hazel TETRAHEDRON p PROGRAM OF p Chairman THE MONTH: RichJ rd Hease 12 MULTI-CO LOURED * i.>;t 30 ANT RAID '$-.i;t6* U.S. Press rcpresem2tive Mr J. Eisenberg, PYRAMID O 0 JE Publisher$' reprcscnt :lli\·e, iS855Sama FOOL YOUR Moni ca Bh·d., Sune 202, Los Angeles, CA 33 CENT IPEDE RUN 90018 . TEACHER 34 RESCUE Sinclair Programs is publi shed monthly b)' ECC Publicac ions Ltd . ZX-81 36 RACE TRACK Telephone 01-359 3525 13 RECKLESS RUSSIAN 37 YES AND NO If you would like your origmal programs 10 be published in Sinclair Programs, please ROULETTE 40 MORSE CODE u nd rour contributions, which must not ALPHABET GAME have ap~ared clsewhe~, to: 41 SQUARE GAME Sinclair Programs, 15 SUPA SNAIL ECC Publica tions. 43 SPID ER 196-200 Balls Pond Road, Beginner Tuwr London NI 4AQ 52 AIR DROP Programs shou ld be on casseue. We canno1 Instructions for graphics char acters are princed in lowt r<ase lette rs in our listings. The y arc enclosed by undert ake to return them unless a stamped · bracke ts and separated by colons to dis1inguish them and the brackets and colons should not be entered . acklrmcd cn\·tlopc 1~ included. We pay Inverse character1 arc represented by rhe lcuer "i" and graph ics characters by "g". Thus an inverse £)0 for the copyr ight of each program W would be represe nted by "iw", a graphics W by "gw", and an inverse graphics W by " igw' ' . published SpaCC$are represented by "sp" and inverse space;sb)· "isp". Whenever any character is to be used more than once, the number of limes it is to be u§N is shown before i1, together with a multiplic2tion Copy righ1 1984 Sincla ir Program s s.ign. Thus 0 '6•isp " means six inverse spaces and ''(g4:4 •i4:g3}" would be entered as a graphic four, ISSN No 0263-0265 followed by an inverse four repeated four times, followed by a grap hics three. Printed and t}'f)t.'"Setby: Cradle}· Pun1 Where whole words are 10 be wrincn in inverse lencrs they appear in the listings as lower-case len ers. PLC, Warley, \X'cst 1\1idlands Lct1en 10 be entered in graphics mode on the Spcc1rum are underlined. Oi!>tribu1cd by Spodight Magazine Inverse characters may be enrered on the ZX-81 by changing to graphics mode and then typing 1he Di.mibution Lid . I Benwell Rood, appropriate characters and on Lhe Spectrum by changing to invetM: video and typing the appropriate Hollowa1·, London N7. 01-607 6411 letters. Graphics characters may be emcrcd on 1hc ZX-81 by changing to graphics mode and then pressing symbol shift while the appropriate characttN arc emered . On the Spectrum graph ics characters Cover Design-Iv an H,sscy may be obtained by changing to graphics mode and then pressing 1he appropriate ch aracter . User· defined graphics will appear as normal lencr$ until the program has been RUN . SINCLAIR PROGRAM..S April 1984 TASWORD lWO THEWORDPROCESSOR 64 CHARACTERS PER LINE ON THE SCREEN AND TO PRINTERS! MICRODRIVE COMPATIBLE -i nstructions supplied "The number of on-screen prompts, together with the TASWIDE - 64 characters per lin e! e)(cellent manual, make ir idea( - even for an absolute A machine code uti lity program. TASW IOE doubles the beginner" in format io n that your own programs can display. Make a PERSONALCOMPI.JTER WORtO ~l1rmber 1983 simple change to your print statements and your output appears on the 5Creen at 64 char acters per line instead of th e " What makes a word processor more or fess versatile is its normal 32. Both print sizes can be mixed on the screen. 16K control features. Tasword Two offers an impressive selection and 48K versions suppl ied on the same cassette. and the tutor progrBm succeeds in demonstrating rhem admirably." £5·50 fully inclusive mail order price ELECTRONICSANO COMPUTING Novttm~r 1983 "Taswor d is showing a degree of sophistication that business TASMATH 1 computers rook many years to develop." Mathematics education. Three programs on one cassette: WHATMICR010crobtH 1981 TASIMEO - simultaneous equations TASOUAD- quad ratic equat ions TAS-TRIG - trigonometry of right angled triangles . Available for the 16K and 48K Spectrum and for the BBC TASWORD TWO The Word Processor * model e . Your Spectrum becom es a professional word processor £5.95 fully inclusive mail ord er price with TASWORO 1WO . TASWORO 'TWO gives you an amazing 64 characters per line on your sc~een. This is ideal for standard A4 paper and TASWORD TWO prints your text just as it TASPRINT appears on your screen . A must for dot matrix print er owners I Print your program Tasword Two drives the following inte rfaces : output and listings in a choice of five imp ressive print sty les. Cobra RS232 I O Port Kempston fnterlace Drives all the printer intertaces listed under Tasword Two and Euroelectronics lmerface Morex Interlace all dot matrix printers with bit image graphics capabil ities. Hilderbay Interlace Tasman Interlace You can also use TASPRINT 10 print Tasword Two text fi les. Sinclair ZX Interlace 1 ADS Interface TASPRINT gives your output orig inality and style• Send s.a.e. The same program drives these interlaces. A short easy to fol· for brochure which includes TASPRINT output. low set of instructions takes you through sening up your Tas· £9.90 fully inclusive mail order price word Two to dri ve the interface you have or choose to buy. Tasword Two also drives the ZX printer. TASMAN PARALLEL PRINTER INTERFACE Tasword Two is readily adapted for the m,crodrives to give Plug into your Spectrum and drive any printer fitted with the super -fast saving and loading of both program and text. The Centronics standard parallel interface. Supplied complete microdrive ins tru ctions are supplied wilh the Tasword Two with ribbon cab le and driving software. The cassette includes manual. LUST. LPRINT. and te xt screen copy software for all £13·90 fully inclusive mail order pric e. centronics printers . The user changeable interface softwa re makes it easy to send control codes to your printer using the method so successfully pioneered with Tasword Two. The cassette also contains fast mach ine code high reso lution TASWORD TWO TUTOR screen copy software for Epson, Star. Seikosha, Shinwa. and TASWORO TWO comes complete wi th a manua l and a Tandy Colour Graphic fin colour!) printers. Send s.a.e. for cassette. The cassett,3 contains your TASWORO lWO and brochure which includes sample print-outs and a full list of TASWOAD TWO TUTOR. This teaches you word processing printers supponed by screen software. Compatible with using T ASWORD TWO . Whether you have serious applications microdrives ZX Interface 1. or simp ly want to learn about word processing, TASWORD fully inclusive mail order price TWO and TA SWORD TWO TUTOR make it easy and enjoyable. £45 TASMAN RS232 PRINTER INTERFACE Specification and software as above but drives printers TASWORD TWO £2 Demonstration Cassette fitted w ith the RS232 standard interface. A low cost route to See for yourself the powerful features ofTASWOAD TWO. printing - especially suitab le for use with the Tandy Colour Send 1ust f.2 for the Tasword Two demonstration cassette. A Graphic pr inter and the Brother portable typewriter printers . voucher is inc luded which gives you f.1 off the price of Supp lied comp lete with cab le - please spec ify whether 4 pin TASWORDTWO DIN or 25 way D plug required . £38 fully inclu sive mail ord er price All prices include VAT and post and packaging • Avaulabte!tom larger br.anchesof Boo1s For further information on all these products send an s.a.e.
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