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YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993 the room, something new has been ac fun. Aimed at pre-school children (and you must have some lying around the house, go on, have a look) the demo features five games encompassing such character-building activities as counting, finding treasure and joining the dots. Full instructions are included in the prog, so get to it, And even if you aren'i under eight, you can amuse yourself by typing in rude words when the Why Bird asks you your name, and then spend the rest of e're in a sedate, thoughtful mood the game laughing crudely whenever it thts month in the Shed. Not for us congratulates you. (Oh dear. Andy) the mindless violence of shoot-'em- The Gemldo Brothers quintal *«( successful for a groat o W many number of years, touring the country with their ups (er, except for Megablast). We're spuming musical act and novelty reptile outfit*. The bird ta a ruse. the calculated nonsense of silly adventures 53TA m (apart from Bugsy. Part One) and nary a trace Russian novels, intriguing philosophical Sinclair joystick or keyboard. Q - up, A of YS2 or Pokerama remains, except for YS2 questions, all these have been ignored - down, O - left, P - right. Press H at and Pokerama. No, this month we're bettenng because of the Playdays demo. It's an any time for instructions. ourselves. Strict exercise schedules, punishing educational game, y'see. and before you leave
• There's a plot of sorts to V fhfc • Megablast. but as it's 'of sorts' in MEGABLAST® •• the 'entirety crap' sense, we'll dispense with it. There are 16 nuUinnpci JnriL—-—J Jonathan Cauldwell levels, and on each you have to rescue a number of hostages. This is achieved by I shooting the earner ships then catching the -1 hapless blokeys before they get sucked off iv^nnMsrarv-g 1 the screen and, er, Into a sprite buffer, or 1 something. Other ships, if similarly blasted nnnnnnnn-p'M fBYMB' amidships, will reveal extra smart bombs, - tacu. he man is back, with another and there's a plethora of antagonistic nnnnnn^nr^ Jil;* J | smart game. Basically. After enemy space galleons to deal with, last month's puzzler Pipework, flitting back and forth across the screen Dodging the alien death (hips of Zib Vernon tore for the T checkout. Hi* state-of-the-art head-up display Hashed the like confused moths in an effort to drive Jonathan C put his mind to writing a message he had so long been waiting for. Finally, he'd super!ast shoot-'em-up. And you know, you against the projections studding the located a bag to put his cornflakes In. they always used to have that wide-smile ships. It's a sort of vertical Uridium. y'see. moral Vou Can Do Anything YoDUu where you fling yourself up and down aircraft Put Your Mind To at the( carrier-types, swerving to avoid tall things. end of imported family And the speed's a bit on the high side, to say A very strong joystick or definable sitcoms, so that's what the least, so watch out for that law of keys. M - smart bomb. Probably. he's a-come up with. the conservation of momentum.
helicopter to explain work out that D and E are mines, as the things. Okay, lower square marked 3 has only two other adjacent him down, but do at unswept tiles. least try to keep out of Square C is perfectly safe, because we've the heavy traffic. already worked out that the 1 to its east refers Hello. Load up the game and read the to square A. Simple, huh7 In the same way. B instructions (and the registration details). is also sate. Rather than repeat those, I'm going to give you That, basically, is the way you work out the a bit of help with basic minesweeping. Firstly, whole level. If you want to mark a mine so you try the four comer tiles. If you are even slightly don't accidentally sweep it, you can place a lucky, this will reveal a large amount of safe handy flag to remind you. And! Kaboom! saves squares. As each numbered tile reveals the its high score table when you complete a level, ell, the bad news is, it's a puzzle number of adjacent mines, the rest is a so keep a write-enabled disk in the game. No. wait, come back. Damn. process of elimination. drive. Right-ho, winch me up. B-bye. WTaxi! Follow that !leeing crowd of Coup6 owners. Here's a diagram of a Now come on, be sensible, you can't typical section. Tile A is possibly keep up this pace forever. Okay, took, a mine as it's the only b we'll just drive alongside for a bit and tell you unswept tile adjacent to about the game. Simon Forrester's a dab hand the 1 in the comer. c at this particular number, we've flown him In by However, we can also
YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993*• 1 cam an' live in plush hotels. I wanna be Public Enemy Number One in place of dat fat wimp Capone. It ain't much to ask. Not if ya wanna keep dat computer healthy. St Bride s Okay, Chuckles, you're back on. And keep ofT da wisecracks or m mess ya up. Oh blimey. Er, er, er, yes! Indeedy! In the first part of this silly adventure featuring a really great rabbit, you have to round up a gang and raise a little starting capital.' There's a smart speech menu sort of thing •is is a real rough part of resh from their triumphant tour of The town. The kids here are so tough whenever you talk to someone, and plenty of that when they can't find wood Very Big Caves, the gels at St Bride's they whittle their fingers. bad. er, great jokes and violence and Fhave come up with another hit things. Can I go now? featuring (chuckle) a cute little pale blue rabbit with a machine gun. (Announcer is bundled Ya dumb bunny. What did yn \vnnt to comr down aside by a cute little pale blue rabbit with a here for? It's all over now. Next lime, bring Home U^mTtRCTL^ machine gun.) muscle. Ixnk, cbrck dn duo box. Er, sorry. fh(«m. The usual adventurey things, plus Okay pal. take five. Hi kid. I hear ya got already done, or else you must be some kind TALK TO character to enter speech a computer at home. Real nice computer. of low crook. Den I wantcha ta load dis mode. CASH. TIME, TEXT/GRAPHICS to Shame if anything should happen to it. Stop game. Den I wantcha ta help me ta take switch the pictures on and off. It's a bit staring, kid. I don't like bein' stared at. over all da mobs in Chicago. Don't worry. It tough to start with, so shift all the Aintcha never talked to a three foot high don't involve nuthin' illegal. Not unless ya letters in the next couple o' sentences blue rabbit before? Anyway, like I wuz count the odd bit of theft, extortion, murder, one character to the left for a handy savin* - ain't nuthin' gonna happen ta dat robbery, bribery an' corruption an* that clue. FOUFS CBS. BUUBDL IPPET. nice computer of yours. Not if ya take sorta thing. Right now I got nuthin'. No UBML UP MPVFZ. CVZ NBTL. advantage of my ofTer. First of all I wantcha cash. Not even a gun. I wanna run da QMYEFDH KXTTFB. POM2 KPUOH. ta buy dis mag. Which I hopes you haz biggest gang in town. I wanna drive fancy
the world today. All you have to do somebody else. (Sorry.) It you've been is to type in the name of the tinkering around with thd Speccy. and we know | country you want to investigate, a lot of you have, send a sample prog and your and ping! most of the facts and all name to Muad'Dib (address in the demo) and Muad'Dib and Drozol the goss will unfold on screen. There are three let's see if we can't fatten up that biurb for bonus parts concerning the three hottest Geography 2, eh? (Though in slightly more ••••Mil j ' hotbeds of Speccy activity, and - bit of a than a Harmless-Mostly Harmless warning, this - there's even some searing sense, we trust.) social comment concerning both religion and a c frightening far-right religious group that is sadly 3 All' gaining popularity in Poland even as you read ]this . YS - all the news, tirst(ish). Wait for the intro to unfold (press n keeping with our newly-instigated self- As a postscript, or. more correctly, a second SPACE as soon as two logos appear on improvement policy, this sunny demo paragraph, the entry for Britain (annoyingly you screen simultaneously) then press hailing from educational Poland contains have to type England) boasts just two groups - I SPACE and type In the country ol your 15K or so of vitally trivial tacts about the our very own Steve Mention washing and I'll choice. If you get stuck, type HELP. Speccy demo scene in deck you' Anderson's Total Eclipse, and. er.
way clear for me to rule. This I pledge on the sacred Mask of POKERAMA Zemnon. Hahaha hahaha.' (Burst of Y-Not ™ . static.) Blimey. Dramatic, eh. readers? he Hooded Tiger has redoubled his (If not entirely convincing.) Software/Delta 4 efforts to dispose of Jon North, but our e tried, we really dtd. But the new Twily hacker has eluded the arch- Target' Jon's marked POKEs this month are... text reader thang so proudly villain's agents at every turn, including that Chain Reaction - infy jets, radiation and time WI mentioned by the mlay failed to rather sharp one you have to do to avoid the The Flintstones - infy time appear tn time, so it was back to pilfenng coffee machine at the bottom of the stairs. Ghost Hunters - mfy macho energy the Sceptical program Aarghh Er, anyway, There was a sticky moment when Jon was Plexar - infy lives the Y-Nots laboured to bring you thought- actually captured by Happiest Days Of Your Ufe - inly lives provoking pages of insight and wit. but have Colonel Kernel, the Hades Nebula - infy lives failed yet again, so here are some more Tiger's computer Star Runner - infy time s*tty things. You can follow two utterly expert, but he only E conflicting new theories on the secrets of wanted an infy lives ^^ TARE The Prisoner, read the bestish bits of The hack for Count WON'T LOAD? Thing Monthly and discover the 20 Duckula 2, so that Then wrap it up with a sae and send It best ways of killing yourseH with a was all right. post-haste through the post to YS Covertape parsnip. (Oh. please, no Andy) " (Burst of static) Returns, Ablex, Harcourt, Halestord 14. Tellord TF7 This is The 4QD. An oven-ready replacement will crash thiough Hooded Tiger. your door in 28 days Provided you send your tape to My agents will Ablex, of course, and not to use Because we'll jusl put Dial In three digits corresponding to eliminate the inlays in our big recycling box and chuck the the page you want to peruse. North, tapes m the bin. (He'll do it! He's a desperate character! I've seen him throw away leaving the foolishly misaddressed tapes before! Andy)
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This month, the Shed Crew have decided to form an independent Hello all. Before we start, some very good company and make a film, having been inspired by Jonathan's endless news: Linda has been discharged from tales about Sam Raimi, and only slightly bullied. hospital. Yes, YS's beloved ex-Ed and all- round (lower child has shucked off the Jonathan Nash Philip Kiernan restraints of illness and tripped out mernly into 'I'll be the director, of course,' Philip listened to Dave with the world once more, or something. Hurrah! said Jonathan. He produced interest. Mmmm.' he said. Right, down to business. Magazines are a sheets of paper covered in 'Mmmm. I take your point. But bit like films, you know. There's a lot of diagrams explaining how it was you're wrong. This scnpt needs planning beforehand, everything's done in the entirely possible to film a point-of-view shot pirates.' He began writing furiously. wrong order, the contents are changed as you of someone falling off a building, a point-of- go, and then it's all put together at the end. view shot of someone being sprung from a Simon Cooke So. although this is one of the first pages of bendy tree and colliding with a low-flying 'No it doesn't.' said Simon. 'This the mag from your point of view, it's one of the aircraft and a point-of-view shot of someone script requires a private last from ours. And as we've just heard being propelled into the Earth's core by a detective,' he added predictably, something of YS-shattenng importance, it's gigantic air-ram, using only six lengths of and began writing furiously. one of the tew pages left to pass that news on wood, a handful of nails and some good, to you. And it's dead important news, make no strong rope. He then disappeared into the Simon Hindle mistake. In (act, It's so important. I can't quite Shed to build the camera rigs with 'I've designed a revolutionary decide how to break it. Oh, look, I'm just going instructions that someone should write a new system that will allow us to to tell you straight. (Deep breath.) script that would encompass all his brilliant play the sound directly to a I YS is closing down. Yes. after a decade as camera angles. recording studio via the phone, the world's most crap Spec mag (in a funky so we can work entirely on location,' skillo sort of way), Your Sinclair is turning the Andy Ounsted announced Simon. The only slight sign on the door and putting the chairs on the 'I'll compose the soundtrack, of drawback is that everybody will have to table, or a similar metaphor of your choice. No course,' said Andy. 'I envisage speak in incredibly high-pitched voices so doubt there will be many people saying, 'Ha! a kind of Ramones-The Sweet - the modem picks them up.' Told you so.' but remember! The Speccy was DOA-Die Toten Hosen-Nancy pronounced dead by those 'in the know' back Sinatra atmosphere to the film.' He then Simon N Goodwin in 1987, and every year after that, regular as disappeared into the Shed to edit together 'I'll supply Speccy-generated clockwork. Even now, there are still millions his vast collection of records with effects,' said Simon. "Rich will upon millions of Speccies in the world, and instructions that someone should write a have to be made up to look more than enough Spec-chums to keep on script encompassing all these moods. square, to avoid attribute clash.* going until we finally reach the future. It's just that YS won't be there with you. Rich Pelley Craig Broadbent Now come on, stop blubbering and dry 'I'll be the star, ol course.' said 'I starred in a production of those eyes. You subscribers - wipe those heart-throb Rich. 'We'll have an Romeo And Juliet.' offered noses. You'll be refunded in full on your extensive advertising campaign Craig. Dave agreed to write a remaining issues when the time comes. And consisting of posters of me to scene where Rich avoids the the rest of you, chin up. because as a valiant woo the female audience. And my character Daleks by climbing a balcony, using Craig and unnecessarily loud goodbye sort of should be someone tough but human, and as a stunt double. Philip added that a pirate gesture, the very last YS - next month's - will perhaps brood a bit,' He disappeared into could then knock Craig off the balcony, be a 68-page bumper spesh, stuffed to the the Shed to practise his emoting with leading into Jonathan's plummetting shot. bnm with features and surprise guests and instructions that someone should write a other things (he says in an attempt to distance script including an affecting, cathartic scene Phil McCardle himself from the alarmingly BBC chat show- involving a pair of flared trousers. Phil magnanimously acquiesed speak into which the sentence seems have to the other's request that he deteriorated). Since YS is just about the ^^ Dave Golder handle the pyrotechnics with longest-running computer mag of all time hardly any violence at all. f^^ 'I think I can make this work,' (apart from probably quite a few others), loads I* «~T mused Dave as he jotted down of famous journalist types have been involved Simon Forrester the others' script demands on a with it, so there are plenty of people ready to 'I'll be the studio representative,' notepad. 'It's possible to contribute to the farewell ish. integrate Andy's music with Jonathan's said Simon, put on a suit, fired (In fact, if you've got a warm memory of YS, camerawork, and have Rich as a hero with everybody, rewrote the script, or a funny story that may possibly involve YS flares, bul we'll need lots of Daleks.' He changed the ending and at some point, I'd like to hear from you. Send began wnting furiously. remade the film with an American cast. your blubby reminiscences to 'Bye. YS, 30 Monmouth Street. Bath BA1 2BW.) But let's not get ail depressed and rnopey Something good about a gamut Then youII find It nert to this attroctlvelydesigned symbol There's still this penultimate ish to get through, (even though the taeth or* a tut odd). <0i1 Andy) Ymy if a gome has points of merit, this Is and what a fine and only slightly crap mag it Mmil summarise «m is! Turn the page, pilgrim, and together we'll Conversely, this Is where youII find the detrimental portions of a game Crisp, scathing see what unfolds! Well, actually, we already comment or minor whlngeing this is the bo* for all things bad. And as a bonus, there are know, having completed three-quarters of the no oddlydrawn teeth In this illustration (Go away Andy) ish, which brings me back to my original point in a rather neat and cleverly circular manner. 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•There is a connection, honestly YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993 7 Hit Squad/t3.99 (128K only) 1 times in a row and chuck you off a jl « 061 832 6633 I platform without you getting a blow in JONATHAN Time traps. They're a bit I and dangerous machines which ling funny, aren't they, exploding things at you. Oh, ard the readers? If Johnny Alpha, first sight of any energy-replenishing of 2000 AD's famous I hearts. Damn, I forgot to merlon you only get one life in the entire Strontium Dog, found 1 game. M 1 didn't I? L; himself in a particularly tricky Level Three: The rooti jps. Run situation, he'd whip out a time trap 1 along and jump to avoid the and hurl it at the villain, dooming them grenades being fired by a helicopter to play out the last two seconds of • | baddy. The grenades are random their life forever. And, in an incident •j | and the explosions massive, and relatively unknown to the general &00032700I l there's a time limit, a d if you miss public, Johnny visited Ocean HQ just loot. Ron a rooftop you plummet to the * to» me pavement, so tediou >iy hard is the after the original Robocop had been A * ol a change ^ ^ W written, and detonated the biggest hm,MNow order of Ihe day. damn time trap you ever saw. This Leva Four: The warehouse lab RBuil..d a bombh , ruryeround, jump. ; explains why every single film licence mriyounef -TT Build a b Level Five: Swing from Levf i Three's since has involved the picture's hero twice (if you punch people, they take three Level helicopter as it dips into traffic. Overhead view, running around some platforms and hits). Then walk across the screen, ducking the helicopte o ve r-1 h e - shou Ider-gia nces - a t anything-else • st- fighting people, with a couple of sub- bullets, and do the same to the other man. over-the- all gameplaygameplay.^. f^MV Then walk off lo the right, as some deadly all game games chucked in to break up the Level Six: jumpJump., jump, jumpjump., push blobs will immediately appear on the left of the Level pattern. And the 2000 AD final-frame- somebody off ^skyscraper. M screen and start chasing you. After a couple of someboc style twist is that every follow-up to Level Se/ont Drive at htglispeed. avoid the screens, an invincible dog appears, running Level Robocop has been complete tosh. trees, shoot the fleeing bikers Oh sorry I from right to left, and a few screens after that, trees, sh Darkman is complete tosh. In an seem to have 7———I another visibly half-hearted villain joins seem to attempt to promote some sort of switched off \ ' * the man on the right. A little while switched reviewer-reader media interactive D.irkmjn and li " '^^"A^MI ";
M a mask lo fool the bad guys on the next level, so they'll iJ^KjSS : leave you alone. Great M SttuS idea,and a funky sub-game as well. Not only do you I*-'!1 'I' have to snap the right man. but you have to get a dean shot - loo much wall or window and the computer rejects the picture. Pity you can just leave the camera f„ ... (l1 over one window and wait for ^^^ the villain to pop up there, but ^iO: still, eh?/ J300J i» Level Two: The factory. mt^zJ 1 Eight-way scrolling, lots of Get Robocop instead and I2S2521 "av^r^EESEHE^Rainw n«^« jumping, villains who are only pretend about the graphics Evil o*ad stunned a crap routine which ..d Evil D^g^^^l » you* old (and the guns). » M «n acknowledged m»stert>l«0 of comiU.'JtlZ'*c hom»r 5 lets ,ham 6631 UP five
YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993 'Condensed from six pages of material and photographs by Andy. (Damn these silly rules Ed) Hit Squad/£3.99 ask yourself if it's in any way worth it tr 061 832 6633 all, and you can't Ar-harr! (Start again. Ed) help but answer 'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, what's yourself, no. it's not all this then? Why, it's a There are lots ol skull and two beautifully impressive graphical bits later shaped bones! (Knew I on. like the animated distressed damsel and should have cleaned up my the spinning ninjas (Wbatwnatwtwi? Edj but bedroom before now.) But think of these are ha/dly enticement enough for you to all the fun we could have with three bear with it. As it is, Skull And Crossbones wi" such simple objects, eh, readers? appear on St Peter's books as 'Oh. it was a For starters, here's a trick anyone nice idea, but. tiey. they dkfn't quite tjet It right." No raoommendations unless you've got barrels could master with the minimum of of patience. Which is an awful pity, roniiy. The effort. Watching? Place the skull pirate theme has so much potential, but to date face up on a flat surface like so. dared to be different, and. say, been hard of has bean badly serve<£;SMf And Crossbones Arrange the bones into a cross I hearing in one ear. Mind you, this would does nothing lo luuress the balanc$4n fact, I formation like this and then pull the probably have been a handicap in fights, viz: think fff take a cutlass tft it right now Ar«harr, two structures together. There you Draw your sword, you scurvy dog!' 'Sorry? take that, you sw^bl Arrrt (Clash of rtftass on have it - a skull and crossbones! Aaarghh." All that one-leggedness would have cassette. Cutlass rebounds and impales Another tweak - and it's become a caused difficulties as well. Maybe it was all an reviewer.) Shiver mo timbers, it got me. Arr, literary device known as a link! initiation test, or something. It made quick keep the map sale, Jirn ^d loo^lter mej parrot. (Dies.) Yes, Skull And Crossbones. the game, getaways a bit out of the question, whichever (drum roll) is back. I won't say by popular way you look at it.) demand because, well, more about that later. But. yes. the little blighter is upon us again so let's take a gander, shall we? Well, the most Tales from the striking thing about Skull And Crossbones is poopdeck that it's a pirate game (me hearties). And in the Skull And Crossbones is similarly undying tradition of pirate yames. you get to unadventurous in dealing out play the ^art of, and HI just articulate this part deformities. Your freebooter is merely carefully, a pi-rate. He goes by the name oi one-eyed, and has no sense of fear. One Eye^and he's a wizard with a cutlass. Mot Armed with naught but a sharp cutlass too much of a w^ard. obviously, because and bundles of attitude, he has to plod managed to stick himself in the eye along the L through eight landscapes, attack way. A smidg •(W^jirelessJ'd say pr was rhenchmen, nobble treasure and kill the Knowing pirate WMwell, not personaBy) I fcvil Sorceror. Yawn Sorry, but the plot's wouldn't put it past the scoundrel to ha\tt donr all so tediously predictable. Actually, in its it deliberately,jtLprder tolook 'atd inthe a defence,.ttnt.fflore treasure you collect, company oi his pirate In ends. (Actually, I V the tougher you become, which is a FominatOlY.Tom wa* ———-rSEXX" wonder why pirates are obsestta with wearing^ welcome twKt sort of thing. sprtw tutdly eye-patches? It seems e&WjHUjft frton^^ plummeting to a Uh oh. I've just noticed the gameplay. swashbuckling sea farer is Long^Rfflnning Desp.lv. having a wide range of interesting around with one. Ware's the variety? You'd opponents to overcome there's really little have thought that at least one wdSnliave challenges ploughing through them. Once you've got to grips with the fighting moves, the whole thing is dribblingly easy, especially as the villains arrive in single file. And the actual Pirates! I love em. Nice levels, though nicely laid out and brimming with graphics, lots ot variety, colour, leave no opportunities for exploring - a couple of smart it's linear, guiding-rein progress all the way. Oh touches hither and yon. aye. then there's the two-player mode. Would . a simultaneous two-player mod® have been Opponents with no too much to ask, hmm? Apparently, because backbone, a prehistoric what we're given instead is the ancient two-player mode, second; layer takes over when the first repetitive hack 'n' slash player i^cksthe'fiurVet lark: $&lfe'me. gameplay. Ilia biggest drawback of the lot isjBi dratvad kxadingjogtfM. V)/hen you mov Average, very average, Mr frorrflSvel to levdfTfou have to go IhrBugh Bond. Or something. the ngrnarole Kl feeding Jn the whole of side two over ind Over YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993*• 1 f /ViMvcU Blue Alpha Electronics/£34.99 you see. The c (plus £2 p&p) For future presentation Remote works with Just At the moment, you can only use one Remote » 0269 826260 about everything Well, just about per machine - you can't just plug another one everything that has a joystick port, anyway. So you've got a joystick, into port two. But! As you read this, Blue You just specify which computer you own right, and you're in Alpha are working away feverishly on The when you order the device, and Blue Alpha Norway. But your Speccy, Remote Joystick Two. which will be available slightly fiddle about with the insides of the box. due to the fact it's got for the same price as the first one. Basically, and everything's jake. Here. I'm sure I didn't British power regulations it's exactly the same thing, but broadcasting use that archaic phrase. (Ah. the power, the and the like, is stuck in Britain. Fear on a different ultrasonic frequency. They're power. Ed) not, brave Spec-chum, for you can still also beavering away on a console-specific play your fave games - it's Blue Alpha version, so expect lots more off-white boxes to appear before ever so long. As usual, a Sound ideas (sorry) to the rescuel Now all you really need swift phone call to Bluey will elicit info as to IPs time to get techy, so pull on your thinking is your Blue Alpha remote joystick, the likely arrival date of said boxes. (If you trousers and adopt the position of that famous and an incredibly strong telescope. listen carefully dunng the conversation, you statue, because I'm about to reveal how The Okay. I exaggerate, but if you scale down can probably hear the alpha-test models Remote works. The signals thai are sent and the distances, they'll stili be proportionally blowing up noisily in the background.) received are actually of the ultrasound variety, wrong. Damn. Well, reduce them both a lot rather than the usual infra-red. This means you then, and juggle the figures a bit. or periphery of your vision. So why not sit way won't be accidentally starting your video when something. Anyway down to basics. The Blue back in your comfy chair? Of course, for playing a game, but. on the downside, your Alpha Remote Joystick One doohickey comes programming, you'll need to be a tad closer, dog will probably explode as you're as two boxes. The first one plugs into your but then for programming, you won't be using approaching a high score. (Not really Ed) Speccy, and has a strange and technical the remote control joystick anyway, so that's all Ultrasound signals are Simply notes that are looking little grilled circle on the front The right then. (Get on with itf The entire too highly pitched for any ear to hear. (Sorry, second box looks pretty much the same, population of the world) but I had to put in that bracket. Believe it or except it doesn'l have a Speccy on the end. So what about the boxes? Well, when not. there are people who'd read that bit and Instead, it's got a joystick. You provide the Jonathan and I carried out various highly think. 'Blimey. Better not buy that then, eh, joystick, and. as you don't have to worry about technical tests by walking round the Shed with Fido?' Ed) Think about it - there is a point the Amstrad-compatible grey lead thang, you a box each, we discovered various things. when a tone is too high for you to hear. There can fit just about any one your little heart • There's a fab little red LED that flashes are some tones that are so high, only some desires. Probably. whenever the receiver, er. receives your signal people can hear them. Dog whistles can be So. this done, what you've got In effect is a (most Important). heard by dogs but not humans. (Mind, if you remote-control joystick that you can sit at the • Both boxes have a 30J signal angle did think that, you'd just be expressing the other end of the room with, and use to play • The whole arrangement works at up to six to proper concern for your pets. Ed) Ultrasound games on your Speccy. This may seem just a eight metres. can be heard by bats, spiders, and remote little pointless really, but think about it - when • The boxes are both white (which has very joystick receivers, but is completely inaudible watching normal TV, the u3ual distance obvious advantages). to most other living creatures. Fascinating. between you and the goggle box is a good • Nobody asks you what you're doing, so What more can I say? It's a remote control couple of metres. Why, then, is it deemed completely wasting the opportunity for you to joystick, It works, and as the only real quite all right to s»t with your nose up against reply wittily. "We're boxing'. problems are that (a) it's rather tackily put the glass as soon as you turn on your Speccy? There is only one drawback really, and together (a definite case of rattling 'ch In a way. it'll do you even more harm to that's that the boxes need batteries at both components) and (b) you need to up dose when using your computer than ends That's if you're using a Speccy - if balance the sender on the arm of your average dose of crap TV. because with a you're connected to most other computers your chair, or your knees, I'm a- computer game you'll be watching one object (including the SAM) you won't need a battery recommending it (T®x) HI m the middle of the screen while lots of other at the computer end. Yes, stuff flickers around in the Step One Step Two Slep Three Grab your The boy if*Hs hts The boy has partner grab your •might to the left managed lo get Roffldw. and log and attempts tiokj ol the qtf s stand side-by lo lake away tho Remote, but she ade with your letl gtrTs Remote was onty playing k-. j bent at IN) Whae the boy a« along. Gaimg knee Swing the swings forwards Mo each other's Remotes m time Vie girl swings eyes, tagh-tack 10 music Bob backwards, and Vwee steps to tho your head on wcevorsa The Ml, ten three boy's left arm stepsto th e nght and pretend to should be bom al Congratulations' tub (he beck of the elbow and You're now doing your right leg The Remote' YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993*• 1 WRITE TO THE ED, YS, 30 MONMOUTH STREET, BATH BAI 2BW J Star Letter winners receive three free games! All letters win a YS badge! Fraud. It's a tricky subject, isn't it. readers? This month, for Ah. Oh no. Er, I've actually managed fun and, if you've received basic example. I posed fraudulently as someone from Gamesmaster to lose Anton's address. (I must training in psychology, an excellent magazine fn order to gain entry to the press screening of Army Of apologise for the incompetence of barometer by which to determine Darkness. This advance viewing of the pic. and its subsequent the Ed. He can't help it really, he's the attitude of the writer and the failure to open on time here in Bath, has meant I can walk around lust a bit crap. Andy) But I've circumstances of the caption's and smugly quote tines at other, envious, Sam Raimi fans. And all carefully made a note of Dave's, so writing, or something. thanks to the miracle of fraud. Ah well, perhaps a course of if Anton could write in again, 171 put Musically, we're a bit of a mixed answering letters will make me feel appropriately small and guilty. you m touch with each other. Look, bunch. I asked around, and these I'm really sorry, okay? Ed. (There were the answers. Q: How would YOUR ONLY COMPLAINT dusly crystal ball linked up to Andy's there. Andy) you describe your musical tastes? I was disappointed to hear about crap bike, we can take a look at Andy: All over the shop. Stuart Prince Of Persia not being released. what would have happened If we'd NOT A FLORISTS SHOP Immaculate. Simon Forrester: Maybe you could run another SOS not been a bit harsh'. PAW, the Professional Adventure Completely diverse. Dave: Anything campaign to make Domark come to (Sound ol Andy revving bike. Image Writer, is available from Gilsoft for of which yon cant hear the lyrics, (ft their senses. Talking of the SOS of Spec-chums appears fltckeringly £9.95 on tape or £20.95 on disk. must have lyrics in the first place, campaign, I thought your review of in crystal ball.) Gilsoft are not a Horisfs shop, and though.) Leigh: Erasure, Erasure, Doctor Who. Dalek Attack a bit 'Hey! Wow! Look! Dalek Attack has are still at 2 Park Crescent. Barry Erasure, Erasure, etc. etc, etc, etc. harsh. Your only complaint seemed received a YS Megagame! Lefs buy CF6 8HD. What kind of music do Philip: Tm sorry, he's not in at the to be it was frustrating and too it on their recommendation!' you and the rest of the Shed set moment, Can I take a message? difficult. Seeing as you (and we (Later.) like? Stop pretending to be called Simon Hindle: The bleep bleep of a readers) had to beg Alternative to 'Oh no. This game isn't worth 90% Jonathan Nash. It's not funny any busy telephone line is music to my release it. I thought the final verdict at all. It's more like a 56% Your wish is our command! For the fuB, bghtiyplotted and mega- budget story of The Mystery Of The Missing Mss, you should take a look at this month's Subs Club newsletter, but here's the T remix for non-subscribers. Ed. YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993 *• 1 i i Lewis Collins, John Altman (Nick What an amazing stroke of luck. these megastars' talent. Any fees Cotton from Eastenders), Michelle We've got an undeveloped script would have to be deferred until the Collins (Cindy from fcastenders), here (a remake of The Magnificent film went into profit (somewhere Debbie McGee, Doc Cox (from Seven) that would benefit from all around February 2016). Ed. That's Life), Derek Hatton, Michael Fish, David Vine, Martin Daniels, Lorraine Kell^ Lynda Baron, James Whale. Les McKeown (of the Bay City Rollers), Chris Mann and THE MAGNIFICENT 7 Stefame Calhster, Bryan Murray They were seven - who fought like seven hundred! ANY THOUGHTS (Brookside's Trevor Jordache), STARRING t wonder if you mtght be interested Chris Quentin (Coronation Street's Paul Daniels as Yul Brynnor in the thought of one or two of my Bnan Tilsley), Mark Eden Rodney Bewes as Steve McQueen celebrity clients being involved in (Coronation Street's Alan Bradley), Michael Fish as Charles Branson your magazine m some way. I see William Russell (Rita's dead Ted of Stuart Hall as Horst Buchholz that you have features, reviews, Coronation Street), Bill Pertwee (of Bill Pert wee as Brad Dexter scatty items and fun, so I look Dad's Army), Gordon Honeycombe. Derek Nimmo as James Coburn forward to a possible call, should Kenneth Wolstenholme, Pat Arthur Mullard as Robert Vauphn you have any thoughts. My clients Jennings. Isla St Clair,' Russ and lsla St Clair as Eli Wallach are: Carol Thatcher, Paul Daniels, Conway, Rodney Bewes, Viv Uri Geller, David Icke, Jack Nicholson, Stuart Hall, Mick With lots of other people as the poor but honest townsfolk, or McManus, Andy Stewart. Don the ruthless banditos. whichever costumes fit best, really. Chartton, Frank Bough, Jim Bowen, * Ken Morley (Coronation Street's Henderson and Arthur Mullard. Reg Holds worth), Nicholas Parsons, Paul Madeley DIRECTED BY LES McKEOWN Derek Nimmo, Simon Williams, Stockport, Cheshire J been a member of a ZX Spectrum big as he did. The photo in YS of be interested m purchasing another Alexander Young club for over eight years. Through Bert was taken six months before new or secondhand Sinclair Summerton, Oxford this magazine we would like his demise - we tried taking a new Enterprise Programmable Calculator someone to donate a 128K ZX set. but the flash wouldn't work. from you. I've already been ticked off for this Spectrum to our club as well as Suffice it to say the wags around Hugh A Davies one. Chris Buxton, Total! bod and several Vour Sinclair magazines, here were starting to refer to him as Cirencester, Gloucester old Speccy lag, came rushing into new or old. We would be very Bert the Twig Insect, or Bert the the Shed after reading ish 89 with grateful. We love the Spectrum. Branch. He really was alarmingly Hello? Sir Clive? Anybody? Ed. exactly the same bit of news, fri my Thank you.' So there you go. You'll large. Oh. and thanks for the defence. I have to say I've never have to excuse me now, I'm being translation. Just a pity I've sent off CONTROL A DRAGON played Thanatos, and anyway, it had attacked by a chip frier., the winner's badge and chucked The subject on which I am writing a decidedly dodgy plot where you Phillip Easton away the chap's address, really. perturbs me greatly. The Magican were supposed to be a good' Raglan. Gwent Hahaha. Ed. (Told you he was a bit demo as reviewed in Public House dragon but ate people and burned crap. Andy) not only features music stolen from down villages regardless, so there. We sort of guessed Bert was Auf Wiedersehn Monty, but the title Ed. unnaturally old by the way people ONLY IN CALCULATOR MODE screen has been nicked from the would flee shrieking when they saw It is with great sadness I advise that utterly brilliant Thanatos, one of the i READ ON him - someone who knows about my Sinclair Enterprise few games in which you actually When I saw the two reviews for stick insects Ithough not to the Programmable Calculator will no control a dragon. N/gef Mansell's World Championship extent of being able to tell us if he longer function in programmable I think it's disgraceful that people and Street Fighter 2,1 thought, was really old or not) reckoned he mode - only in calculator mode. 1 just hack into other people's brilliant! Can't wait to buy 'em. Then I was a mutant, because they urgently need lo find someone who programs for the sole purpose of read on and saw that both games shouldn't really be able to grow as could correct this fault. I should also stealing their ideas. were 128K only. I have only a 48K after reading their advertisement in disappointment as my son. Surely order in a fumbled state. the May issue of YS. He spent Datel must realise that disk drives 'I would like to assure Mrs Wilson £ DEAD SERIOUS quite a lot of his hard-earned are very delicate pieces of that we have an excellent Packing savings - £129.99 - on these equipment which need to be Department, who take great care items. The reason I am writing to carefully packed for safe transit? Or when packaging our goods for you is to let you know how appalled could it be that they just don't care, despatch to our valued customers. I was to find that the units had just having received the money? Makes Also, each item that we seB has been thrown into a box, and were you wonder. specially designed inner packaging rattling around! On contacting Datel Mrs E Wilson developed for maximum protection customer services, I was greeted Brighton, Sussex during despatch. with a snooty We've never had any We are very sorry that the complaints before.' Well, I got in touch with Lynn Colleypackage arrived in a fumbled state. I have written a letter of of Datel (right of reply and all that)' but we would like to stress that this complaint to Datel. and am at and her answer is printed here, in is an unheardof occurence from present awaiting their reply, but 1 rts entirety and without Eddish DateTs customers. I would also like CORNER thought I would inform you of what judgment. Mmmm. Ed. to further state that each customer RATTLING AROUND has happened, as it might save We were very shocked and of Datel Electronics Limited is My son ordered a +D interface and some other enthusiastic Speccy sorry to hear that Mrs Wilson was treated with the utmost respect disk drive from Datel Electronics youngster from suffering the same upset when her son received his and care at all times.' YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993*• 1 OH SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE pushed together different spheres, 'Forbidden Planet from the funky T (Part three of what looks they formed a third one. And I do bods at Design Design'. Stuart's i i W 1 suspiciously like becoming a know what I'm talking about,' he comment: Hardy har. regular corner in Letters.) adds in total confidence. Stuart's Justin Williamson from The saga continues as yet more comment: Naaah. Kirkintilloch in Glasgow ripostes readers write in with their guess at KRW of Penclawdd in Swansea with, 'It's Fat Worm Blows A Sparky. Mike McRoberts' unknown "30 Life' suggests the game is Bulldog's Thafs 3D, and you've got to go gone. (You remember - 'ft had Spore. 'Ifs about a little spore,' he around the place munching little small celHike spores floating around argues convincingly, 'who runs spore-type thingies.' Stuart's and mating with each other and about a maze, shooting lots of little comment: No you havent some bad spores ate the good spores. You gave it 3 out of 10, and spores and you had to help kill the it should have got 8.' Stuart's So, another low-scoring round. If baddies.') So without further ado, comment: Accurate on the spore you've got any idea as to what ifs over to Stuart Campbell with this front but in no way at all 3D Mike's game could be, write in to month's contestants. whatsoever m any form. Oh, Sweet Mystery Of Life, Letters, Lewis Johnson of Durham City Peter Hurst of Newark in YS, 30 Monmouth Street. Bath BA1 reckons the game in question is US Nottingham is a little less sure. Td 2BW and we'll let Stuart ridicule you Gold's E-Mofjon. 1 can say this in say the game is Deus Ex Machina, in front of thousands. Or possibly total confidence.' states the totally which I saw a review of ages ago. congratulate you profusely in front confident Lewis. "You had to whizz Have I cracked it? Stuart's of thousands if you're actually right. Hello? Helio? Click. around in a small craft and shove comment: Eeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnr, But such a circumstance is looking BrrrrrrrrrrnTrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr identical spheres into one another no, you're wrong. pretty unlikely at the moment, so be Stephen Pert to make them disappear. If you Andrew McCarthy plumps for prepared for the ridicule. Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk Speccy. Could you give me some over in Ireland I'm having to dosh out among the major software houses. But a far more satisfying one is advice on what to do now? £3.21 per ish. Thafs 71p more After all, how much would it cost to sending back freepost junk mail Rufus Matthews expensive than normal. upgrade a Speccy game and put a envelopes with bricks inside them. Spiluby. Lines Robert Kirwan Coupe version on the B-side of the Or. if you've got a redirect facility Wexford, Ireland tape? All it would require is a on your phone, asking the douWe- Er, upgrade Ed. replacement for the routine that glazmg company representative to What I've never understood is why prints the 8x8 UDGs used in most hold on while you put your mum on SAID FAULTY MERCHANDISE stuff from HMV costs somethmg-and-games. Just page in another block the line, and sending them to Tel I am wnting to compiam about the one p more than in other shops. Ed. of memory with the new routines Am airport on 010 9723 971 quality of your tapes. Only a mild and display the 8x8 graphics using a 2484. (Send only £9.99 for the YS complaint, considering the fact that HANDY APPLICATIONS new colour character set that would Complete Guide To Revenging Yourself On Amazingly Irritating most of your merchandise is very Please find enclosed a high-density take 32 bytes per character and a Corporations.) Ed. good, but, as a regular customer. I disk. if your Apple Mac is a LC or sprite routine doing something find that about a third of my games LC2, and if you have any version of similar before continuing with the won't load, or refuse to work the BASIC or any other handy Speccy code. You may knock it, but short crust way they are supposed to be. applications, please could you send Paul Crompton is one hell of a pastry. Anyway, rather than risk bankrupting a copy back in the envelope Newtown, Wigan Dan (Gourmet) Gavrovski myself by returning said faulty provided. I think YS is cool. Thanks. Deanshanger, Milton Keynes merchandise. I thought I'd write and Ashley Atkins Brilliant1 There are only two things I / knocked if, and it went 'squoosh'. see what could be done. Oswaldtwistie, Lanes can find fault with. One - it's not Am I doing something wrong? Ed. Martin Horgan quite possible to follow what you're Dunmanway, Co Cork Hey! This sounds like an excuse for talking about. Two - the last game Way-hey! Little Ern? a wacky, zany, YS phone call! to use an '8x8 UDG' was written m David Chipley 'Customer'? Merchandise'? How IRing ring.) 1984. (Give me strength.) Ed. Huddersfield horribly businessy can you get? Hello, is that FAST? What do you think of it so far? Ed. (Apart from using the word 'producf, Ves mdeedly doody. LOADS OF GAMES (Ruggish! Andy) which is a capital offence in most Here's the address of Ashley Atkins If someone swapped my Speccy for countries. Well, ft should be.) - he's a software pirate! an Amiga, I would sell it and buy a Due to a computer fowkip there Anyway, my advice is, er, to send Wow! Thanks! new Speccy with loads of games have been a number of letters sent the tapes back to Ablex. Basically. Ho ho ho! We're just a crazy bunch and accessories. out with the wrong information. (This advice business is a lark.) Ed. of funsters. Ed. Greg Unwin RC Gornall Amersham, Bucks St Leonards on-sea, E Sussex MORE EXPENSIVE BLOCK OF MEMORY Oh no. ifs the Sussex Amateur I am. if I do say so myself, a loyal YS I'd like to give some comment on But you'd just be back where you Radio Fair again. Well, our letter fan and I'd like to inform you that the lack of support for the SAM started. Hurrah, though Ed. was right (I've checked), so there. And how come your spelling's deteriorated smce last month,7 As number should be 061 707 7080, Space Nine box. The identifying well as the above gaffes, this 'un John Turner numbers have been mixed up quite a contained Whats on cofum', Parbold, Lanes tut - Number 5 should be Number 7 "strength to srtength', satahte and Number 6 is really Number 8. communications', 'suported this He's right1 But I'm still not going to Number 7 should be Number 6, and rally', 'concidei it worth while' and give you a Tramspotter, because ITVyou r Number 8 is really Number 5. tots of missing apostrophes. Radio have stopped showing Rolfs So now you know! hams? Radio peoplewhocan't- Cartoon Club. Ed. Edward Sykes and Dave Martin spell, more like. Ed. Lancaster Uni, Lancaster THIS IS A MISTAKE NUMBER 8, NUMBER 7 I've just read your June issue I In issue 90, Spec Tec Jr We're taking time out from revising Yup. YS stands guilty as charged. had a spare 10 minutes. gave the phone number to claim a Trainspotter. The Except? Dave didn't make the Robert Brand for Cheetah as 0222 mistakes occur in July's Killer mistakes at all -1 did, when typing it Newcastle-upon-Tyne 867777. This is a mistake Kolumn. Dave Golder made a bit of in. So, no Trainspotter! (Hey, we can Ah! Ah! Ah! Ed, - it has changed. The a hash of the Who's Who In Deep be just as picky as you.) Ed. YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993 *• 1 This month, as Connection, except it isn't French and Gene promised, Simon Hackman has nothing to do with it. Er, pertiaps The not-silly bit gets to grips a better analogy would be of a central train Exnet - a rather funky bunch of guys that with Internet. At station - the railway lines branching off are the are my close personal friends* - own a least, he'd better various networks around the world (like the few supercomputers and an Internet do if he ever university network JANET or the BBS network feed. This means they're not permanently wants to work Fidonet), so all you have to do is ask Internet connected to Internet, but know a man here again. to put you on the right line. Er, maybe the who is, so periodically call him up and gel French Connection one was better, actually. him to pipe across all the latest Internet Hello again. Let's start in the traditional (No. Ed) contents. Dashed cunning. What's even manner and talk about the Men In White better is thai Exnet is a spanky BBS in its Coats. You remember them - they came up Usenet own right, so you get the best of both with all the comms protocols and clever blippy Another feature of the Internet is Usenet. This worlds. Hurrah! Or. more correctly, rats. things that go down the phone line and stuff. is a mindbogglingly huge library of information, You see. I don't think it's possible to Well, they also invented networking, which is a covenng just about any subject you could connect to Exnet with a VTX5000.1 was very exciting thing indeed. They invented name. If someone's interested in it, there will trying and failing all last month {which is networking accidentally, while coming up with be a spot for it on Usenet. And the great thing why the Internet article didn't appear), the idea of nuclear war. No. really. Y'see, they about Usenet is that it's designed to share and only once managed to conned got fed up with their wonderful new bomb information. Every network connected to before getting kicked off. Now calm down ideas getting lost in the post, so clubbed Internet becomes a Usenet site, and hence a moment. It could be that the phone line together and set up the Defence Advanced has access to all the information held on all the I'm using is just loo poor (I've had this Research Projects Agency network, or other Usenet sites. A true global library. And! trouble before), and there's a very easy Darpanet. so they could post' their ideas via As Internet is also just like a normal telephone way to find out for yourself. Exnet offers a computer and modems. It worked network (I told you it was rather clever) you free trial month sort of thing with no marvellously, and their ideas were never again can access normal telephone network son of obligation to buy and all that sort of lost, and they could happily get on with the job things such as BBSs. jargon. Basically, if you give them a call of making the world a far more frightening on the number printed just over there, tell place. (Right, kids? Ed) But, of course, this all costs money them Simon from YS sent you, and they'll One day. in between designing yet more All this power isn't free. Apart from the cost of set you up with a trial account. If you and far bigger bombs, one of the Men found it the phone call (and remember folks, watch the really can't connect, all you've lost is the would be quite a wheeze to send the recipe for length of those phone calls) you pay a monthly price of the original phone call. Blimey. a really nice cake or something to one of his fee for connecting to the Internet. The amount I'm starting to sound like an ad. aren't I, Men pals. And lo, the idea of networking varies depending which Internet computer readers? Well, while I'm at it. I may as proper was born (ie. a way of communicating you're calling - for example, there's a service well mention Exnet's pretty reasonable with loads of other people via modem without called CIX which offers such thnlling busmessy rates - for the basic service, it's C5 per any obligation to talk about bombs). Darpanet features as online conferencing, but is very month plus VAT, or £1.25 per week, or dropped the D and became more fnendly, and expensive. The only surefire way of having a not very much at all per day. Well worth laid the foundation lor all the other networks good old play around with Internet at minimal it. if you can indeed connect in the first operating today. cost is to go to university, but if you're not place. Yikes. Which is where the Internet comes in. prepared to invest three years just to mess with computers, you could try Exnet. The possibly quite good news actually Internet - the non-nuclear facts It's a bit of a blow, I know, but bear with There's been a bit of confusion about Internet The hard sell me. I'm still compiling that huge list of over the years. For a start, it's not a network Exnet! Washes whiter than white! Kills all places that are VTXSOOO-friendly, but in proper. It's just the data lines that connect the known germs with extreme prejudice! Builds the meantime I've managed to discover vanous networks - a sort of French healthy bones and healthy minds! Fits another modem for the Speccy. Yes. it conveniently into any kitchen cupboard and turns out that you can indeed connect comes complete with rechargable batteries. something other than the VTX to your Does not involve rewiring the house or Speccy - provided it's a +2. +2A or +3. mortgaging elderly relatives, and is completely The important bit to look for is a serial safe to give to children, although they'll port, which the Amstrad Speccies came probably smash it to bits, being the lovable with (as did the Sinclair 128, but it's an little tinkers they are. entirely different one and will need a bit of screwdriverish tweakery). Using this, you can connect something called a Hayes Compatible Modem. I'm not 100% of the details (as I write this, I'm still poking around inside my Speccy to make sure everything's okay) but by next month I should have all the info at my fingertips (and hopefully will have managed to stay on Exnet for more than a second). Ta-ra. YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993 'An obvious lie. 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I've just bought the new OMD single, and while the Transcendental Constant Viper Trip BRO/ mix (I kid you not) bears a striking resemblance to the remix of Erasure's Take A Chance On Me (it's put together by the same personage), what it doesn't meet s Doctor bear any resemblance to at all is the actual OMD song itself. Strangely enough, WHo! Sort of. the Erasure remix sounded nothing like Take A Chance On Me either. So, Mr Philip Kelsey of DMC (UK) Productions, if you're reading this - I not really- Well, am not impressed. Some people buy remixes to listen to, you know! There, that told him. (Smug grin.) (Er, Program Pitstop, anyone? Ed) y2, x3. y3 where the x's and y's 180 END PROC are the co-ordinates of each of 190 REM "* the three triangle points. 200 DEF PROC triangle xa, y*. xb, yto, Simplicity itself, n'est-ce pas? Finally, Ben xc, yc asks me to plug his new game called Pacberi, 210 POKE 20224, MEWS (RAKTOP TO SAM RAHTDP.130) release imminent (consider it done), and asks if we want to see his other SAM 220 CALL clr 230 POKE buffer, xa, ya, xb, yb, XC, yc routines - Yes! (A very resounding 240 CALL aortbuffer Yes! at that.) 250 LET xaiPEEK (buffer). ya=PEEK TRIANGLES YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993*• 1 9030 DATA 40, 192, 58. 112, 234, 254, 2, BASIC 216, 58, 111, 234, 203, 87, 200, 221, 229, 229, 213, 197, 245. 221. 13, 117, 1 REM C-curve by John Ketcalf 234, 6, 3, 221, 126, 0, 254, 0, 40, 6, 2 FOR r=65461 TO 66535: READ b: POKE r, 61, 221, 119, 0, 24. 9, 62, 9, 5061 b: NEXT r 9035 DATA 40. 221, 119, 0, 221. 43, 16, 3 CATA 17, 127, 63, 1, 0, 15, 16, S4. FASTAPE 234, 6, 3, 42, 105. 234, 221. 33. US. 121, 230, 6, 40. 12, 214, 4. 56 by Tom Baker 234, 197, 221. 94. 0. 203. 35. 203, 35. 4 DATA «, 40, 4. 28, 28, 29, 20, 21, 21, 203, 35, 22, 0, 229. 229, 33, 128. 61. 20, 123, 230, 192. 15, 55, 31 it of a blast from the past, this one (YS 25, 235, 225, 6. 8, 26, 119, 4419 5 DATA 15. 171, 230, 24B, 171, 103, 122, 9040 DATA 40, 36, 19. 16, 250, 225, 193, 7, 7, 7, 171, 230, 199 October 1987 actually). It's a fast loader with some groovy features, such 35. 221, 35, 16, 221, 241. 193. 209, 226. 6 DATA 171, 7, 7, 111, 122, 230. 7, 71, 221. 225, 201, 58. 72. 92. 230, 56. 15. 4, 62. 1, 15, 16, 253, 174, 119 as security, flashy borders and a loading 15, 15. 50. 113, 234. 60. 254. 8, 32, 2, 7 DATA 201. 12. 205, 187, 255. 4, 13. 13 countdown. Basically, find the start address 62. 0, 50, 114, 234, 201, 4749 205, 187. 255, 4. 12, 201 and length of your code and POKE 60011, 9045 DATA 40, 33, 109, 234, 229, 35, 110, 8 RANDOMIZE USR 65461: PAUSE 0 address-256'INT (address/256): POKE 60012, 38, 0, 41. 235, 225. 126, 203. 7. 230, 1. 9 POKE 65520, 182: RANDOMIZE USR 65461: INT (address/ 256): POKE 60013, length- 179, 95. 235, 35, 221, 33, 115, 234, 1, PAUSE 0 256'INT (length/ 256): POKE 60014, INT 156, 255, 205. 248, 235, 14, 246, 205, 10 POKE 65520, 174: HANDOMIZP. USR 65461: 248, 235. 125, 205, 0, 236, 221, 5838 (length/256). POKE 60007, x-coordinate of PAUSE 0 9050 DATA 40, 229, 229, 213, 197, 245, countdown (0-29): POKE 60008, y coord (0- 195, 127, 235, 175, 9, 60, 56, 252, 237, 23): POKE 60015, f to set up the features and 66, 61, 221. 119, 0. 221. 35, 201, 62, 0, LET fast=USR 60003 to save. RAND USR 50, 112, 234, 205, 178, 235, 17, 7, 0, 60000 to reload. Oh, and if you POKE 60006. number, that number must be present for the 9055 DATA 40, 203, 191, 205. 50, 236, 205, 200, 235, 62, 2, 50, 112. 234, 42, prog to reload. Here's how to work out the 109. 234. 235, 221, 42, 107, 234, 58, CURTAINS value of f. 102, 234, 203, 255, 20, 8, 21, 243, 58, by John Metcalf F Error bomb Border Count 113, 234. 246, 8, 211, 254, 33, 195, 236, 0 No No No 5941 9060 DATA 40, 229, 219, 254, 31, 230, 32, awks a lordy, our John 1 Yes No No 79, 58, 113, 234, 177, 79, 191, 192. 205, certainty gets around. His m 2 No Yes No 225, 236, 48, 250, 33, 21, 4, 16, 254, Lsecond morsel this month is 3 Yes Yes No 43, 124, 181, 32, 249. 205, 221, 236, 48, of slightly more use than the C-curve, although 4 No No Yes 235, 6, 156, 205, 221, 236, 48, 5856 it doesn't look as nice. It's a screen clearing 5 Yes No Yes 906rj 1W.TA 40, 228. 6J. : YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993 *• 1 Got a problem? Get it solved! With SIMON COOKE Simon Cooke. What a sensible Roll it Private detection is a tough, cutthroat business. On the one hand you're dealing with the name. underbelly of society, and on the other you keep getting nasty tetters from the income tax people. around the mouth - Well, I do. anyway. Apparently they want to know why I haven't been declaring my PI earnings for the past tax year. The simple answer Is, I didn't make anything, but I don't think they're going to believe me. This calls for desperate measures. I'm going to have to break In - er, Investigate Simon... Cooke. their central office and remove all my records. X REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE printed as another pin 12. Do I get a Er. wet spotted on thfi Jj^MEs^ I've just got ish 90 Of YS and I'm able to offer Trainspotter. as my original diagram was printer port diagram. But ^JBB^j^^l 3 some advice to Edward Sykes vis-a-vis his +3 correct? Also, there isn't a +5V Jine on the you can't have a WHHM^^SS (the best of the Spectrums!) (Hmm. Si) The +3 socket - maybe you were getting mixed up Trainspotter, because this is TSfff^ does have some probs with LPRINT and with the expansion socket? And it's good Spec Tec Jr. Ha! The reason I ^^^T LLIST, although you should be able to get programming practice to start interrupt routines thought that the dtsc B socket some output. The usual problem is that the +3 with a Dl. No. just joking. Jonathan has tried to would have a +5V line is because, first of all, inserts spurious line feeds when using a lot of convert me to a SAM, but although I've now there are ground lines (OV). Secondly, a supply LPRINT commands, and also when using got one (512K with twin drives), I still use my voltage of some $ort usually appears on all LLIST. Additionally, it occasionally stops with +3 - partly due to the fact that I can only get a sockets - it's good electronics practice to 'End of file found' when using LLIST. I've been monochrome picture, and partly due to the fact provide some kind of support for dongles and told by two people that the cure for these that I don't have any software for the Coupd! peripherals which cant provide a power supply LPRINT/LUST problems is to Any advice? Thanks. Now for some questions. for themselves. swap the +3 ROM chips for 1) Isn't the Amstrad DMP2000 printer utterly A common problem (as is loss of sound). those inside a +2A (as the fm crap? It's slow, noisy and the quality of the Unless you've got a Hinari TV, your best bet is +2A doesn't suffer from this . ^J^s^Sf I print can be bettered using a potato and to get your power supply checked. It also problem). I haven't tried this, 1 ' poster paint. contains the TV modulator, and there are a so I don't know it it works. \flHfij 2) Why SAM Coup6? Why not Harold Estate, couple of tweaks that can be made to sort Incidentally, Amstrad flatly deny ^^JBS^^ or George Hatchback or Peter Saloon or David things out. * And now, some answersI that there is a problem with the GT? (This is a serious question) 1)1 ran a test, utilising a handy child (complete LLIST and LPRINT commands on the % 3) Why do people actually go out and spend with potato printing set) and an Amstrad +3. although I am aware of three \ money on consoles? DMP2000 printer, The result? The child was a machines other than my own Which have \ 4) Why does gravity make things fall down and lot quieter, but didn't stick to printing on the a problem with it. They also deny that the \ not fall up? paper. I spent the next few days scrubbing red sound on the +3 is worsi than that on the 5) Why have there been no re-reviews of paint from the walls and scouring out my +2/+2A. So, would readers with these two hardware such as the Multiface 3 so that those computer keyboard. problems (sound and printer) on the +3 please new to Spectrums can become familiar with 2) Believe it or not. and you'd do well to believe contact me with the serial numbers of their this wonderful piece of equipment that's pretty it because ifs true, this is the story behind the machines, as I am constructing a database so damn vital for +3 owners? naming of the SAM Coup6. Back in 1987, that I can write to Amstrad and try to get 6) Why does my computer always do whawhatt I teltelll when wowork on the machine was underway, something done about it. I need the data in it to do instead of what I want it to do? __. MCMGT didn't have a name for it. They order to prove that it's not just my machine Roland Richardson, went to see one of the major high- that's like this. Oh yes - you were talKing crap 74 Tennyson Rd, A^f street retailers in early 1988, and (Steady on' Si) when you suggested thnt Headless Cross, BX they suggested calling it SAM, Edward Sykes should use OPEN #4, "P": Redditch. f^^V ^^k because (a) it 's Some Amazing PRINT #4... What he should do'te: Worcs V^^P ^u Micro, and (b) the chap's son was 897 SBN called Sam. (Look, I'm not making 10 opqj #2,"P" this up.) A fterjhe cases had been Phew! A marathon letteri One that made up. someone pointed out they deserves, no less, a marathon answer. As ~ looked a bit hatchbacky, and while MGTs you can see, I've printed your address so directors were having lunch in a pizza palace, And another thing. My reply to that people can wang those serial numbers I they had an Ice Cream Coupti. Andto. the Mark Etejaney's plea for info on in your general direction. As for saying that connection was made, andto the SAM Coup4 the +3 disk B socket was my suggestion was crap, how about yours ? was named printed in the May I don't understand what you're 3) Because they're damn fine for playing tsh. Butl Pin 13 is supposed to be doing - you're opening V games! If soniedfie wants to buy a games the screen channel so it prints to the machine, they buy a console. If they printer, then printing via the usual print stream want something that can do more than anyway. And the advantage of my method is play games, they buy a computer. that it doesn't crash the Speccy if you forget 4) Oh, / don't believe it. Not that old the CLOSE #2. Dear oh dear. chestnut again. You should try NCLAIR August 1993 'It you've gol a Hinari. you'll have to wait for il to warm up No. realty. N THINGS YOUR MANUAL the information was. er, sketchy to say the RFtCA NEVER TOLD YOU least. But fear not! Hist, and I shall impart JR C, print •dat< People who've been playing the wisdom of the ancients. ;lf printer unready, loop back and check for the around with ESI's recent SAM Firstly, the parallel printer interface. You escape key being pressed. Coup6 programs may have only have two ports to worry about - the noticed that pressing a certain DATA port (232, or &E0) holds the data you GOT (C) , D combination of keys does a very peculiar^ want to send to the printer. You can only thing - namely it resets the machine. transmit data via the parallel port - you cannot OUT (C),B Believe it or not, I was about to propose receive it. The second port, the STROBE port DEC B exactly the same thing - until I found out (233, or &E9), holds the BUSY status of the OUT (C),B that they'd already done it. So. just for the printer, and controls the transmission of the AND A record, here it is: Pressing SYMBOL data in the DATA port. This is how you RET SHIFT+CNTRL+DELETE together will reset should go about using it: :Send data byte, then 1 to strobe, then 0 to the following: E-Tracker, Craft, Snake Mania, First of all, check for the printer being :strobe, then exit successfully. The Lyra 3 and The Bulgulators. I'm not sure if ONLINE. It is assumed that the printer will not escape SCF any of their earlier stuff will do this as well, but be busy if you are not sending anything to it, RET it's worth a go. Why am I telling you this? Well, so if you aren't in the middle of sending stuff ;Abort if escape pressed admittedly, this isn't a Thing Your Manual and the printer is busy, it's either not switched Never Told You. It's more of a Thing Your on, not connected, or it's offline. This routine checks lor the escape key while Computer Designer Should Have Included As To check for the busy status, just read the sending data to the printer (if it's ready). After A Guideline For Programmers. Basically, I'm strobe port, and check bit 0. If the printer is the printer's been checked for a state of proposing that from now on. programmers on busy, bit 0 will be set. If it's not busy, it will be readiness, the data held in the D register is the Coup6 should put in a facility to read the reset. Easy peasy. And now. here's a spot of put in the data register, then the strobe port is, SYM+CNTRL+DELETE combination, and assembly language. er, strobed. First it's set to 1, then reset lo 0. reset the machine accordingly. Why not just In the meantime, crafty hardware-oriented press reset? (Blimey, another leading check.online LD BC, &01E9 things happen. When {he strobe is set. the rhetorical question there.) The trouble with the IN A, (C) data in the DATA port is put on the eight data reset button is that it occasionally causes the RRCA lines going oul of the interface to the printer. disk drives to hang. Next month I hope to have JR NC, prnt.online When the strobe is reset, this tells the printer the routines to read the reset key offline report error that the data it's been getting on the eight data combinations and, er, reset, but next month is ;)f routine reaches here, pnnter is offline. lines is the final version of that data, to allow another ish, so back to this one. RET the signal time to settle. The pnnter, sensing :Else go to work: D register holds data. the strobe line going low (another term for THE SAM COMMUNICATIONS print.data LO A, 247 resetting, or becoming equal to 0) lakes the INTERFACE - EXPLAINED! IN A, (249) data from the lines and puts it in its buffer Hey The SAM Communications Interface BIT 5, A presto, you're printing! (incorporating a parallel pnnter port and a JR Z, escape serial port) should really have been built into LD BC, &01E9 Next month, join me for the other half of the the machine originally. And when it did arrive, IN A, working out what happens if you have a right- (sometimes I doubt it). Kobrasoft's MT1 is a Microdrives (or 43s. or whatever) unless you angled triangle where the adjacent and must. With it. you can FORMAT to 100K+, people send something in. It's a sort of fully- opposite are both of length one. Since RENAME files, repair carts and perform interactive multimedia experience, or Pythagoras' Theorem is a^+b^^c2, or complete cartridge backup copies. Lastly, I've something. I'm sure Jonathan didn't really i*=c?, then c?=2, and we drift into got a little grumble. Although t think YS is a mean the crack about Microdnves being crap - irrational numbers. groovy mag, you do not always encourage all he's just fiercely proud of his +D (which, I hear, 5) What a clever idea. No doubt the Ed will aspects of Speccy use, and while I'd love a full he picked up secondhand for £20, barg fans). blatantly steal it in time. PC system, or at the very least a + D disk If you feel we're not doing enough about 6) Never mind that. I'm still waiting for you to system, all I can afford is a Microdrive. Microdrives. why not send in some tips? You sort out irrahonal numbers. Si. jM Multiface, Timex 2040 (Alphacom) printer might just gain farm on these hallowed pages. Speccy system. But recently, in reply to a letter Like you've already done by having this letter ARROHH! I sent in. Jonathan said 'The whole Microdrive printed. Oh dear. Er, I think I'll sign off now. SI. I'm afraid you've got a bit confused over my concept was a bit crap, which is letter in the May ish (Micro Drivin'). The prog why nobody has one nowadays'. was for Multiface snapshots saved onto Bit strong, eh? While not perfect, COOL n-V\U)\THV.cxw Microdrive. If a prog called TEST was saved, it is most definitely not crap, so when you CAT your Microdrive, you should gel let's see a bit more support for us (crash tinkle.) Ah. that's teased open the window a list a bit like this: TEST. TEST 1. TEST 2. less than wealthy Spec-chums! (Detective slips into office.) Right, now to find my records TEST 3 and so on. So to erase them, you Roy Williamson A-hMDe ecnve bums forms.) Ha- As far as incomes could use a prog like this: Klrkdale, Liverpool concerned, I no longer exist. And so lo bed (Detective is awakened next morning by oeoote whm d° yp,j—• 10 FOR TO number of files: ESfvSE' Sorry about getting mixed up "Hi" } 1; *TEST"+STR$ f: NEXT 1* over your letter. Roy. But it's all sorted out now. so everything's theTam Del?" 7'! ^ »«*en -to me Bath Detective Licensing Bureau. Curse ™ There must be 10 characters between the hunky-dory. Now about your sense 0( diction! This is go.ng to take some quotes, so between the file name and the criticisms. Here at YS we explaining. In the meantime, send your character at the end. fill in the gap with depend on readers' problems to me Spec Honestly' Tec Jr, ^^ spaces. I'd also like to say that if contributions - to put it simply, YS. 30 Monmouth St. Bath BAt 2BW anyone else out there has a Microdrive we can 't print anything about r-y YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993 1 SPELLBOUND DI22Y This 'un seems to be the game of the month for tipsters. I've picked a badge winner out of the bag at random, so here's (rustle rustle) Atan Fulcher with a juicy cheat. When the game loads, press SPACE to start, then 0 lo quit. Now type IWANTANOMLETTE (sic) and the border should flash. Now start the game again, and press C for a cheat menu. This probably only works on 128K machines." But there's no harm In trying, eh? Thanks also % go out to Paul Midson and Andrew Weales (among others) who remained in the bag. RETARDED C&TURE 'Evening, all. As regular YS-ers will know, Linda is currently residing in hospital, having pind mms been a bit III (basically). And since not even He's not escaped The Very Big Cave Adventure YS is so slavedrivery as to empty a load off Part 2 yet, but Captain Kirk has completed this tips over Linda's bed when she's expecting extremely silly spelunking game. Being a gallant her revitalising morning cup off tea, Tipshop sort of chap, he's agreed to share his findings with this month is brought to you via the wonder the rest of us, to whit: a translation of the secret messages of portable gravity and the electric sock, and Ves indeedy. I've even arranged them into a neat little table me. Oh joy - wading through knee-deep piles of cheat modes for Spellbound Dizzy. Oh ITEM CLUE rapture - finding out every single map Door Wedge tail with stone received this month was for Seymour Goes Pouch Climb mto-it To Hollywood (I kid ye not). Handle Stand welt back String Unravel vest At least Practical POKEs was done by, er, Tunnel Feed dragon er, hang on, me. (Blimey.) Well, the Clinic is still the domain off Dr Hackenbush, so that's That's all for now. More tips next month! slightly less work, although knowing my luck, Mmm, can't wait. he's probably sold the practice and put the money on a horse. It's tough at the top, or so I hear. Hurdy ho. THE BOCCtT, THE BOGGIT PART ONE... 20 CAPTAIN BLOOD... 23 ONE Continuing in the adventurey mode, it seems quite a few of yoau ar e CHAOS... 22 CRAP TIP OF THE MONTH... 23 stuck in the very first location of this prequo-sequel to Bored Of The MERCENARY... 22 Rings. Thankfully, Simon Drew of Golders Green (Don't even think RETARDED CREATURES AND CAVERNS... 20 about it Oave) has conquered this particular knotty problem. All you have to do is retire to the bathroom until the chocolates explode, SAM STUFF... 22 then go back to the hall, OPEN CHEST, CLIMB INTO CHEST. GET SEYMOUR GOES TO HOLLYWOOD... 20 BOOK. EXAMINE BOOK and you'll find a list of birthdays. One of these SPELLBOUND DIZZY... 20 is the combination for the door. Actually, it you can't be bothered doing all that, just DIAL 29285. You'li hit another problem straight away, but THE YS CLINIC WITH DOCTOR HUGO Z just ask yourself what a group of uncoordinated dwarves would be HACKENBUSH... 22 offering Bimbo to take on this insanely dangerous quest and you'll be Featuring Fantasy World Drizzly, Seymour fine. That was meant to be cryptic, by the way. Sorry. ' Goes To Hollywood and Spellbound Drizzly We forgive you, Simon. PRACTICAL POKES... 21 Featuring Atom Ant, Op Wolf, Ricky Dicky, SEYMOUR Savage and Street Hassle QOES TO HOLLYWOOD Andrew Weales of Spellbound Dizzy cheat almost-fame, has also found a crafty cheat mode for - yes! - Seymour Goes To Hollywood. Before starting the game, type 9 KAZANDKAZAGAIN. A scrolly will appear, RPmegTA*! explaining the options you can now choose These cheats just get weirder and weirder PRACTICAL POKES Hello folks, hello folks. Neddie here, folks. 1 REM STREET HASSLE RE-RELEASE SAVAGE PART 2 Weft. so much for the impression of Neddie 2 REM (C) 1993 HACKERS ANONYMOUS 130 DATA 62, 183, 50, 152, Seagoon. Yes. readers, it's stilt me and not 10 CLEAR 24500 127: REM INFY LIVES Jon North at all. Y'see, the thing with 20 LOAD CODE 140 DATA 195, 188, 102, 999: REM Practical POKEs is that for the East couple of 30 POKE 62005, 78: POKE 62006, 242 END MARKER months, almost every POKE has been Jon's 40 LET A=62030 under an assumed name. This makes a bit of 50 READ B: IF B=999 THEN RANDOMIZE SAVAGE PART 3 a mockery of the whole thing, since it's USR 61952 130 DATA 50, 63, 226: REM INFY supposed to be the column for readers' 60 POKE A, B: LET A=A+1: GOTO 50 ENERGY POKEs - Jon's own delictously executed 70 DATA 62, N, 50, 219, 194: REM N 140 DATA 62. 183, 50, 248, 225: REM stuff goes on the gossip-column-with-some- LIVES (1-255) INFY LIVES cheats-tacked-on Pokerama 80 DATA 62, 182, 50, 253, 193: REM 150 DATA 195, 101, 999: REM E«D Anyway, this month, after rooting around INFY LIVES MARKER in the Prac POKEs cubbyhole. I've come up 90 DATA 195, 152, 184, 999: REM END with a couple of Hackers Anonymous cheats. MARKER ATOM ANT (Spook and incredibly annoying fact: every One of The Ones That Got Away, and a nifty time the HA write some new POKEs, they RICK DANGEROUS/SAVAGE vertically-scrolling piatformer. Atom Ant also send in a complete listing of their hack Oh good, a multi-POKE. You must know the serves as a neat link for some more witty directory. Ridiculous. The last one was a form by now - type in the main program, Hanna-Barbera anecdotes. (Snip! Andy) good 5mm thick!) then tack on the data lines for your particular Actually, that one reminds me of an amusing game. I wouldn't swear to the Savage Part 3 misunderstanding that occured between the OP WOLF - THE LIGHTGUN VERSION data being correct (that final jump to the animators of Hong Kong Phooey. It seems First up, an infy lives/ammo/grenades/energy game looks very suspicious) but that's (Hack! Chop! Andy) hack tor the plastic phaser version of Op exactly how it was printed in the tetter, so all Wolf. Don't try it on the original version, complaints to HA. Ha! 1 REM ATOM ANT because it won't work, and you'll look a bit 2 REM (c) 1993 HACKERS ANONYMOUS silly, and people will laught at you. 1 REM RICK D AND SAVAGE 10 LOAD *• CODE 2 REM (C) 1993 HACKERS ANONYMOUS 20 POKE 40702, 195: POKE 40703, 96: 1 REM OP WOLF HACK - LIGHTGUN ONLY! 10 LOAD *" CODE POKE 40704, 234 2 REM ••I avoid Ming, grab the detonator and -ID-HI D HSMLI THE YS CLINIC WITH teleport out again.' Now, Riccardo Margiotta 'The body parts are used t 11t-1P JERCEAW to build Frankenstein's Monster, the Atari Miller has got a couple of cheats for the only- mallet protects you from the rolling ga me-ever-to-recei ve-99%-and-they' I l-never-l et-me- barrels on the Kong set, the dagger forget-lt. is to free the maiden on the same When being attacked by an enemy plane, crash and leave the plane Vou will be shot (aaaw) but you will still have screen, the tolTipop gets you across your plane. (Hurrah!) the road and you give the ball to Hmmm. What about the other one? Towser the dog. This enthusiasm - If you find yourself without a plane, note your co- it's disheartening, it really Is. ordinates. drop your equipment and press SHIFT+O. Your equipment should now be at those co-ordinates, SPELLBOUND DRIZZLY and you'll have a brand-new plane into the bargain DR HUGO Z Peter Smith has been similarly And what a barg indeed! excited by the prospect of sharing HACKENBUSH his blobby tips with the populace, and has come to the rescue of CHAOS Richard Spandley. To make the Got a gamesnag? kite, you simply pick up the four And now for some tips and cheats courtesy of, er. Craig parts and drop one of them. Don't Broadbent from Pitstop. Blimey! See a specialist! ask me for specifics.' I'll make a JL Yes tans, it's me. I thought you might like some hints 'n' tips tor Chaos. First of all. to give your wizard an Oh, the ignominy, the ignominy. And note of that. Pert. unfair advantage, cast Raise Dead on a mountable that's the problem in a nutshell - creature, then ride it. Your wizard cunningly becomes there ignominy fn old Hackenbush's FANTASY WORLD DRIZZLY undead himself. Secondly - and this one's a blatant cheat - account. I don't understand it - only After months of nervous indecision, if you find yourself engaged in combat with something you'd last week F negotiated an overdraft Kevin Burt can at last sleep easy in really rather run a mile from, press I tor info. From this and made a point of spending it that his bed. for David Grainger and screen, hold down one of the direction keys which would day. Nurse! I notice that nothing KRW have the method for passing take you away from the monster. If you're lucky, you'll have resembling a fund has emerged the broken bridge. 'Get the boulders a quick punch-up with a patch of air, then move away from from Armorog's Den, the the nasty! from the emergency funds - fire our Smuggler's Hideout and the Snap Now a couple of tip lets. Cast Magic Wood from one signwriter immediately. Oh, hallo. space out diagonally from the top-left corner. This gives We'll have to have this month's Happy Gator screen Now throw three trees together, which form a powerful barrier. And session on the move - I'm expecting them in the water, et voilal" Ah. the always cast Giant Rats as illusory - they're 'arder than real a squad of suits with suits any pretensions of the modem society ones! Oh. and they may be astoundingly useless on the moment, and the Clinic cashbox is whole, but King Cobras seem to be unfeasibly good at as clean as a whistle, if we hadn't AU SECOURS killing dragons. Ha! pawned the whistle. Stephen Pert "How do you do level My third tip isn't a cheat, or unfair in any way. It's simply 7 29 of Reckless Rufus You know, good tactics, and all sporting, and everything. Because of SEYMOUR GOES TO HOLLYWOOD the uppy-downy one with the two the way the game unfolds in turns, if you're Player One, warp things." you can blast your opponents before they get a chance to I knew it. I attempt to woo a more attack you. Also, your creatures move first, and so can classy class of clientele by banning Dominic Rackstraw: "I'm sluck on eliminate the threat before any harm comes to you. This is Seymour and Drizzly, and you pass the Jumping 101 screen of Bounty the way I play (hem hem). Conversely, if you're Player by on the other side. But reinstitute Bob Strikes Back. Anybody know Eight (or whatever) then you can cast an imaginary the blobby ones, and the waiting what to do? And I don't want the dragon and demolish everything in the immediate vicinity room just crowds to bursting point. passcodes - just a solution to the before anyone gets a chance to disbelieve it. Market forces. I'll'never understand actual screen." I'd certainly recommend the latter them. The only market forces I've Philip Harris: "I've collected method - that's the way I play, and I'm m come across are the ones who everything in The Sacred Armour Of officially the world's best Chaos player! make shoplifting an inconvenient Antiriad- the anb-grav boots, the hobby at the best erf times. Do you pulsar beam, the mines and the know how batiy watermelons shields. Apparently the mines are crease these aprons? But I digress. supposed to blow up the radioactive SAW STUFF Several persons of last time's generators, but they don't, and I acquaintance were having trouble can't get the game to end." A couple of tips for SAM games now. courtesy of our own with Seymour's debut game. Enter a (our very own) Spec Tec Jr, Simon Cooke. (How come these people have time to play games? What are we crowd of other persons with the And now I'm afraid I'll have to leave paying them again?) relevant solutions. Firstly, Chris you, as I can see a few suits I thought you might be interested in the level codes for Moore. 'The key above the pond is a bearing down at nine o'clock. I knew Waterworks. In order, from Level Two to Level 23. they are red herring.' Next. Stephen Pert. To I shouldn't have pawned my watch. KANGAR, CLIMBA, OPENTH. STAYAL, STEALS, HEAVEN, pass the Flash Boredom set, get the No time for a Secret Word this GARDEN. REDWIN, PENCIL, HELLAN, DIVEAN, SHIRTC. towel from The Wizard Of Oz and month, but send all your snags and SEVXTO. TENNF1, FORFOR. SEVNTE, TONINE, TENNIN, the potion from the lift shaft. Drop solutions to met Or Hackenbush, at TWOTEN. PONTOO, DUBTWO. LOOKAN. Andl if that wasn't the towel in the teleport, flick the the YS Cftnic, YS. 30 Monmouth enough, here's an infy lives cheat tor Parallax. Hold down switch on the teleport terminal and Street, Bath BA1 2BW. Taxi! Two INVERSE+G+E+D on the title screen. Then, it you feel the follow the towel through. This will need, hold it down again tor another message. passengers and luggage. How save you from the spikes. As long Er. (looks at Linda's notes) thanky-danky! (I'm really much? Well, just the bags. Nurse! getting the hang of this Tipshop lark, aren't I, readers?) as you've got the potion, you can Take me in your arms and run for it. YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993*• 1 trait when it moves - there's a pic in last Oops. month's ish). After it's finished blabbering Since I'm the universe's CAPTMN on. ask it CODE INFORMATION HELP' greatest Captain Blood Wait for the question, then reply 'NUMBER' player, I thought I'd share ^ and you'll get a list of the Numbers' co- a few hints with you lucky bp ordinates. Now chuck these away. No, people. It's basically a really. Say 'TORKA' and write down the co- guide to the ins and outs of the ords, then go to this planet and talk to Ihe. characters. Eyes down for a full house. er, 'well-developed' pink woman. She'll lead • CROOLIS ULU - You can usually gel on you a merry dance around the galaxy, but his good side by working on his hatred of keep noting down the co-ords and following Croolis Var. He'll give you a list of people her until she falls madly In love with you and that you'll have to bump off if you want any asks you to teleport her aboard Ark to information, The easy way to cheat on this MAKE 100 LITTLE BLOOD'. Teleport her, Is to go through the people that should be and you'll get an end screen tor which the killed, teleport them to empty planets, and word saucy was invented nuke the planet they were on to start with. Blimey. These French programmers, • CROOLIS VAR - The rival of Croolis eh? A risque bunch and no mistake. Ulu. he behaves in pretty much the same abrasive manner. THE TIPS • MIGRAX - This somewhat uncouth and Okay, you honest people can open your violent character can be silenced by either eyes now as we impart some juicy but using the same trick as with Yoko. or by entirely fair tips, courtesy of Anthony repeatedly threatening to blow up his planet and (oh no) Simon Forrester. I dunno - If you tell him you've got a big missile too Despite featuring 32,768 planets, a chuck a brick at this month's Tlpshop (yikes) he should get the message and back playing time of 45 hours and a cast of 50 and you'lf hit a YS contributor. (Sound of off a bit. self-serving characters, I spend all my brick being thrown, followed by • ONDOYANTE - If you do come across time on this rather fab covergame Just anguished cry and thud of nerveless her, you'll have to get information from her chatting away to the first creature I meet. body.) See? Oh, somebody say quickly, as she dies after a very short time. It's so addictive, and you can get something sensible, please. She does have quite a lot of handy things to involved in some spooklly convincing Howdy. Anthony here again with a teensy say, though. conversations, albeit ones without any tip for the game. Actually, it's more of an • TUBULAR-BRAIN - Wholly useless, and definite articles. But if you're inclined to undocumented feature. hugely arrogant, ff you do get information, it play the game properly, there's a quick j*1*^—** Well, when I say won't be without lots and lots of grovelling. way to win. Yes, It's a cheat. For people JPS • undocumented, the original • YOKO - Did him last month, but here's a who'd prefer to play the game Jf i manual mentions it. but YS recap. Someone has kidnapped his dad. but through in the society-approved j didn't. When you're flying all he ever does is cry. So lure him on to manner, skip over this next bit ^^ Jfm over ,he surtac® a P'arat, your ship with offers of help, take him to an to the general tips. For the Jf"^® ,JLF • just press ENTER to go uninhabited planet, and watch him collapse rest of you underhand ji^' •TJP straight to the end canyon. in tears. You should get some pretty good scoundrels, here's j JBQ F » We deliberately left that out, information before abandoning him and Anthony Austin with |P since flying over the nuking the planet. Er, or picking him up and the info. I m planet is most of the genuinely helping him out, of course. action, actually. (Sulk.) That's all very well, but I think I'll stick to THE CHEAT riE^S 1 Hello. Simon Forrester here. matchmaking for Torka and Buggol. (Ah, Bonjour, mes petites. I I ^^JB •LIs this your brick? true iove.) Sorry, just trying to inject a III ^M^ bit of spook Frenchness U 11^B there. Ahem. Anyway, to Hll I beat Captain Blood in less than 45 hours (In about * I I wM five minutes, actually) just • LI J> keep loading the game • | until the first character you I ^PJ Jl meet is a Buggol (the purple thingy that leaves a CRf\P TIP Once more, Tripshop tips to a close. Well, that wasn't Of THE MONTH half as bad as I'd thought it would be, despite the Another magnificently useless tip courtesy of Deborah lldey of Plymouth. millions of Spellbound Dizzy cheats and the ludicrous My crap tip is for that well-known vertical scroller Moon Stnke. When you see the number of YS contributors. (Honestly you go for giant sentient pizzas, don't under any circumstances attempt to eat them . They months without seeing one and then four come along are only graphical representations of pizzas, and not pizzas themselves. If in at once.) Sadly that little selection has exhausted doubt, remember that real pizzas don't have eyes.1 Linda's remaining stack of tips, and we need more! Thanks, Deborah. There's a pizza in the post. Not really. Send all your tips, cheats, hints and (especially) maps to me, Captain Horatio Hornblower, at the YS Tipshop, Your Sinclair, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2BW. Goodbye. (Fading.) Goodbye. YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993*• 1 software includes PAW The Artist 2plus all manuals. Only £90 including postage Call Paul on 051 637 0679. • *2 with joystick, manuals, and over 1300 boxed games, two easy BASIC books wen looked after - £130 Call Tyler on 061 594 6117. • • 2A with all leads, datacorder. joystick PSU 6 games storage case, manual. YS back issues and covertapes and £110 worth of games Call Ankur on 081 575 0695 • Collectable ZX61 plus 16K RAM peck *i • For to)*' Broken Interlace 1 lor spares, two excellent working condition tor £40 including Mtcrodnves Mumtace 128 40 cartridges in postage, software, manual and accessories plastic storage bones ZX printer plus 10 ro*s Oead faulty Brother MRS primer lor spares oI paper and al relevant manuals. AH lor £75, £ T 3 including postage Also Amstrad 3000 will not spM Call Ja*on on 0602 704392. pnnter ribbons (new) two tor C5 Cables tor Everything must go! Yes, in an attempt to clear the • For MIA! Speccy +3. joystick. bghtgun. 50 connecting +3. +2, Coupe Amiga. ST, games on disk and 100 on cassette Only Archimedes BSC. Electron. One. QL, still vastly huge backlog of Inny Outy, no more are to £120 for hours of hml Call Simon Spectrum 128 to Amstrad CPC (CTM640/644) be sent in. No! We ve still got far too many! Aarghh! Crumbleholme I'IWMI a lovely, lovely name ROB OOTOUR monitors £7 each Speccy• as £<3, On 0204 886552 new in on^nai box (very collectable aady 48K • For sale! Speccy In good condition Boxed computer) £30 including postage MOT • 0 Paul Mayo. UKNSU. HOAFSE, BFPO 8. • Wanted' 30CK from Incentive Wi* swap tor with PSU, manuals and leads plus 25 games pnnter and disk drive interface with snapshot • Myth and Technician Ted for 4SK/128K Hyper Sports The Games Winter Edrtxm £40 one Call Tim on 091 276 0770. feature for screen dumps to printer and saving Speccy. Will swap tor Quattro Cartoon, BMX Ntn/a. Spec Chess 2. MMmon. Cyberun. • *3 for sale wrth tape deck, leads. £250 software to disk. 780K capacity oo*l £60. will Ouattro Megastdrs. Impossamoto and New Strip Poker 2, Frog Hopper, Super Gran worth of games. £100 worth of mags with sell lor £25 Bare 5 25" 80T DS dnve £ 18 Zealand Story, I also want a pen pat with an WaBy Kong and a CRASH power tape Musi cowertapes and as manuals Worth over £450, including postage. Epson 3.5* SOT OS dnve interest in computers Phone Andrew on have instruction* Call Ray on Wellington at* accept £190 one Phone O Klerman on £20 including postage Call (Oh no' Ed) 0493 667469. 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Supply of C4VG lot em plus' loads ol back • For sale' Sega Master System 2 with three • -2A tor sale, one year old. excellent • Wanted! <3 contacts especially If your +3 iMuesol Match You can also buy the C6VG* games - Hang On, Atex Kidd In Miracle World condition, boxed • manuals, many full price has got a 3 5" external drive Call Martin on tor £15 (they're worth £23 easy) Call Chris and Secret Command- all for £60 Phone games, magazines with tapes, will sell for 0935 25974. on 0473 713066 Everything m A1 condition Simon on 0409 21S29 after 4pm. £120 ono Also Cruiser Joystick £10 Call • MF-Print by Campbell Systems, on cassofle • Wanted' Grand Phw. Nigel Mansers Grand • Speccy +2A and 48K for sate, two foytoefcs. Matthew on 0522 750973 between 5 and or Mcrodhve Or any prog to give a screen Prix or Grand Pnx Challenge ri swap torITs loads of games, worth over £1000 wi* sell tor 9pm. dump via the RS232 port on my Interlace 1 TV Showtime. Rainbow Islands. The £200-£250 Phone Chris on 0706 370006 Call Trevor on 0304 200107. Untouchables and Vlpiante TV Showtime lot • For sal*1 *2 Bond pack with lighlgun also • Really mindbogglingly old Speccy games, Grand Pnx only Call James on 0669 26282 1000+ games, most up-to-date As new £200 including The Great Giana Sisters. Bobble • I want The GuHf I'll swap any two of the** one Phone Wayne on 0203 504601. Boiler. Jump from Unique and Andtcxds from games tor * - Biff. Defenders Ot The Earth. • For sale' -2A with around 250 games Sunshine Also any other realty oM and IK* Or Sharkey 's Mot Call Derron on 0376 rctxtng lop titles like Final Fight and pointtessly Obscure stuff - send me lists' Can 570534 Robocop AM boxed as new £110 ono Call Stuart on 0225 428167 after 6pm. • Wanted' Iron Lord. Lone Wolf, Turtles 2 and Alex on Botley 764595. • Wanted' Lightpen and software Must be In Out Run Europe Will swap my EMonon. • -2 with 112 games, joystick, leads, PSU good condition W» pay about £10 Phone Batman The Movie Robocop 2. RBt2. Street and manual, all tor £90 ono Call David on James on 0752 813038. Fighter 2. Ghoetbusters 2. Smash TV and 0742 459424. • I want a working +3 and will pay up to £25 • I want a NES with Mario 3. Rescue Rangers Reckless Rufu* Two tor one ot II pry a • -3 for sale with Multiface 3, Tasword and Call James on 0256 880557 and a tew other games Will swap tor a *2 reasonable pnee Phone Matt on 0272 printer leads, Iightgun, two joysticks • Wanted1 +0 interface and drive tor my *2 with 500 games, 100 books, all leads and 621494 alter 5pm (Competition Pro 500 and Cheetah t2S+) and Must be cheapish as I'm a student on a grant joysticks Call Steven on Staffordshire • I'll swap Life Term. Wit Bis Invtnc&e tape lead, software £200. Call Simon on Cash waiting however! Call PR Cook on 534232. Al m top condition Island. Trap Door. Adventures and two 0296 612144. 0704 546260 eves. • I want a cheap, working pnnter tor my +3. Olympics tor your Thunderbtrtt and Postman • For sale' SAM Coupe 2S6K. one dak drive • l want a pnnter and joystick, either m VGC Also disk software - but not games Call Pat I Yup. that's SM tor two Call Robert on joystick and games. Speccy emulator with or new. for my Speccy 48K Also looking Grandad on 0962 855149 In the evenings. 0226 340370. 90% compatibility, demo disks arid progs. 12 urgently tor Lemmings Can anyone help? • Wanted1 The book Maths Tutor For The • 'iVdl swap Turtles - The Comep, New Format maga. all tor £100 ono Call Anthony Call Fiona on 0530 560713. 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SPECTRUM PLUS AND PLUS 2 £9.99 (DS/HD with 2Mb) Price includes free lead BUCK PLUS 2 AND PLUS 3 £12.25 (Spectrum & QL need I/Face) - Disk Drive 1 Mb £69 2Mb £89 (QTY DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE) Additional Leads - for above £12 Uncased 3.5" Disk Drives low profile 1Mb £29 2Mb £36 Add postage £8. Disk Drives £9 Outside UK add £15. Other items £5. C.W.O. or 18-21 MISBOURNE HOUSE, CHILTERN HILL, CHALF0NT ST VISA/ACCESS Spectrums mav be reconditioned PETER, BUCKS SL9 9UE E F3 E ALL OFFERS SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY • ORDERS TO: FAX: 0753 887149 TEL: 0753 888866 j mmi 'IN THE RING' msmm il rui J"T X. kr y i Jt'w n) , UfcHlu A £ WW( (fJ 1 YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993 *• 1 Statistics. They'rPEOPLe wonderful, aren't they, readers? ThrougEh DECIDEAnd here's our Top 10O (not that ! the fab medium of statistics, we can tell exactly how many influencing you, or anything) people in the world are called Brian, or what proportion of Todmorton 1 30 Deathchsse 52 Jumping Jack grazed its left knee this morning when springing cheerfully from bed.* 2 Rebelstar 53 Ping Pong Statistics are equally important for the Speccy as well. When two or 3 All Or Nothing j 54 Rastan more Speccy owners are gathered, where would early evening conversation be without the YS Top 100 Games Of All Time? 4 Stop The Express 55 Saboteur Nowhere, that's where. The cut and thrust of eloquent debate, the jab 5 Head Over Heels 56 Bounty Bob Strikes Back and parry of fencing with broken chair legs, it's a hot topic and no 6 R-Type 57 Dun Dsrach mistake, Jake. After the discussion and violence has died down, the 7 The Sentinel 58 Operation Wolf conclusion usually reached is that we, YS, don't know what we're on 8 Rainbow Islands 59 Hypersports a bout and you, the readers, could certainly do better. 9 Bouiderdash Well, now you can have a say in tho YS Readers' Top 100. Yes, 60 Knot in 30 thanks to a highly complex and entirely long selection process 10 TLL 61 Eric And The Floaters painstakingly created by Amiga Power and stolen by us, you can vote 11 Sim City ; 62 Thrust for your fave Speccy games of all time. We'll then count up the votes 12 Carrier Command 63 Scrabble ind print the results. Basically. 13 Chuckle Egg I 64 Buggy Boy 14 Ant Attack j 65 Batty 15 Lords Of Midnight j 66 Splat! Wowl Sounds good. 16 Elite 67 Way Ot The Exploding Fist Doesn't it just? It's dead simple as well. Afl you have to do is write down 17 Starquake 58 Tapper your 10 (that's ten, or if you're 18 Underwuride j 69 Match Point reading in English, ten) top Speccy 19 Back To Skool j 70 G-Force games of all time on a postcard or 20 Spy Vs Spy 71 Frankie Goes To Hollywood the back of a stuck-down envelope, and send it to the address lurking 21 Alien 72 Hijack somewhere around on this page. 22 Chase HQ 73 Pope ye We'll then award points in the time- 23 The Great Escape 74 Pang honoured 10 points for number one 24 Starstrike 2 75 Wriggler all the way down to one point for 26 Ughtforce 76 Three Weeks In Paradise number 10 fashion, and lo! we'll have arrived at your top 100. I lueertalniy voting, and 27 Super Hang-On i 77 Gyroscope ve go* a MP* hi rrjy Mr. 28 Deactivators 78 Flying Shark 29 Think! 79 Atlc Atac 30 Nebulus 80 Sir Lancelot 31 Lunar Jetman 81 Dark Star ^ T r> 5 Kp^jfg'! Hey! We'd like to talk to you 32 Jet Sel Willy 82 Hyperaction i&m* IE ' it t about intellectual copyright with this big stick. 33 Knight Lore 83 Football Manager ^BDCESUB Oh no, Amiga Power have spotted us. Quick, in here 34 Deus Ex Machina 84 Technician Ted • •• KSSpD (Trampling of boots.) Phew, gave them the slip. Now, 35 I, Ball 2 85 Guardian 2 • * ^ I where were we? Oh yes. If you've a mind to. after 38 Cybernold 86 Trash man writing down your top 10 games of all time, you can record your worst game ever as well. And! One stupendously lucky voter will be plucked from the 37 Lode Runner j 87 CodenameMat pile and forced to take away 10 pretty dam good games of our oh-so-lasteful choice 38 Gauntlet | 88 Wheetie So. to recap. Jot down your personal top 10 fave games of all time (and your personal 39 Mercenary j 89 Cobra worst game if you've a mind to) and send it to us at Readers' Top 100, YS, 30 Monmouth 40 Highway Encounter | 90 Bounder Street. Bath BA1 2BW. then sit back and wait for the results. That's all there is to it. No 41 Fantasy World Dizzy j 91 Avalon trial offers, no tree samples, and no smug billionaire type telling you how you could have been as rich as he had you too come up with a mechanical doohickey that cleaned the 42 The Hobbil 92 Green Beret nape of the neck discreetly yet efficiently, then selling you something. 43 Midnight Resistance | 93 Gyron 44 Rescue ; 94 Robocop 45 International Match Day j 95 The Train Gome 46 Bobby Bearing 96 Cruising On Broadway Where would we be without rules, eh? In o state of total anarchy, right, kids? But 47 Antics 97 Mined Out everybody 's got rules, so here ore ours. 48 Renegade 98 Pheenix 1 AJ entries must have 10 games on them, ordered from the number one best to, er. the 49 Tetrts 99 Maziacs number 10 best If you've got a personal worst game, pop tt at the end, clearly marked. 50 Enduro Racer 100 Zzoom 2 No multiple entrtes. You know what they say about people who submit multiple entries don't you? No? Wet. It's pretty shocking, fake il from us. 51 Robotron i 101 Count Duckula 2 3. No programmers, software publishers. Wends of programmers or software publishers, or other gamesy types may enter. *0r indeed, what proportion stayed in bod and Irritably threw the 4 All entries must be here at YS by Friday 9th July. alarm clock through the window knocking over nil elderly cyclist 5 Stand up, stand out, express yourself and enjoy it. and grating Ms left knee instead YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993*• 1 HOW A TOTAL MOUSE/ GRAPHICS PACKAGE FOR YOUR SPECTRUM AT A TRULY NBEATABLE PRICE!! genius/House COMPLETE WITH liPlEOAlL PjiCVK! • Qwilut UOUM la a high resolution two button mouu featuring optical counting, taflon guides, nikrciwllch«i, rubber twMtall and high quality inlartace. • When combined with OCR Advanced Art Studio this graphics package !• quit* almply the beat eymteni available. 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Offering moro than twice the storage capacity of a standard IBM Disk Drive and even more than an ATARI ST. the PLUS 'D' System takes you into the realms ot mass storage. Load programs at Superlast Speed!! - a whole 46K program in seconds. No more waiting for tapes to load. The PLUS 'D' actually gives your Spectrum an alternative operating system with dozens of advanced commands Extremely simple to use but very advanced in it's speed and operation. BUT THATS NOT ALL!! THE PLUS "D" HAS A UNIQUE "SNAPSHOT" FEATURE! • Yes, at the press ol the "Snapshot" button you can freeze the program in memory and save It lo disk. • Transferring tape programs to disk couldn't be simpler - up to 16 per disk! • Works with 48K and 128K programs. • Special 'Screen Dump' feature allows you to print out any screen to an Epson compatible printer. (Printer lead L COMPUTE PLUS D L available £9.99 If required) NVreRFACE AND tOOH AVAILABLE FOR 48K/128K/+2/+2A/*3 COMPUTERS (PLEASE STATE WHICH WHEN ORDERING) NOTE THAT THE -2A COMPUTER HAS A BLACK CASE UNLIKE THE .2 WHICH HAS A GREY CASE. IT IS IMPORTANT TO STATE EXACTLY WHICH MODEL OF SPECTRUM YOU HAVE WHEN ORDERING. It you hav* your own •wttabla Dlik Drive p WARNING 1988 COPYRIGHT ACT WARNING MM NMIIFL RMMIV M.ONTO—I I (Plus 0 will work with 40 or SO track I L tlw fclyilf inwfcii mr*r iil.t,. S.2S" or 1.1' drlvH) than wo can supply Z UM Plut D Intortaco Mpvaltly tor O 59.99] • has Mm twiy yw N h ttfQtf It c np 11 M, hr |w 4 n JOYS1 EALS JOYSTICK DEALS JOYSTICK DEALS JOYSTICK DEALS JOYSTi, < DEALS 9 *Quick Shot QUICKSHOT Probably the beat ZIPSTICK "Tripple action" Auto- selling joystick In the world. Fire makes this probably the u ! 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COMPLETE WITH JOYSTICK COMPLETE WITH JOYSTICK INTERFACE X INTERFACE FOR ONLY £ 1 3.99 FOR ONLY E 18 .99 HOW TO GET YOUR ORDER DATEL LONDON SHOP TELEPHONE [24Hrs] l>*lWLl*i Part One rlUTxl In which Simon N Goodwin asks the eternal programmers have question, 'When is a Speccy not a been persevering with Speccy?', answers with the eternal the ins and outs of punchline, 'When It's an emulation program emulation, and. thanks running under a different operating to the ever more »< WJ«> -TMITK K.U- O *> E, T> MM, MJ* system!' then adds, 'Sorry', In a rightly ^ powerful computers apologetic lone of voice. available, coupled with their own mad ffs summer it's 2am and my Inventory (where dedication, true, full- OWE H r Y u HO' « 3 0 YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993 i /I/^B hiiV ifI1iQ^iiT |irtlTiliiTTTtMirT MM nil' I. _ 3l1 I ll f i* IJ iTt'UI rTl'TTi ' Vij' Iff JfTi l:D11iri!iT:Ti ji" -i!nTii MliMiillllBm Lli^'MWWIill'Pl^j'till1)1! npwiip ^i^iiiifiiwijiiyjiii oBBSB fiffl BG Services (PC), 64 Roebuck Road. Chessington, Surrey KT9 1JX Daniel Thomas (JPP), 101 Gamer jjgggia Street. Cliffe Vale. Stoke-on-Trent. IIMISQIIOImmW Staffs ST4 7AX PD Soft (Amiga), 1 Bryant Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 2YD Qubbesoft PD (ODOS). 36 Brunwin Road, Braintree, Essex CM7 5BU Softvilie PO (ST/Amiga), Unit 5. Bifrfm^ Stratfield Park. Elettra Avenue. MiijrfiB Waterioovitle, Hants P07 7XN BBBSi Tele scan Computer Services 1 (Amiga), Handsworth Road, I5BP Blackpool TATORT Belgium (emulator Mm bulletin board), +31-50-264840 >m V22. V32, V42 (bis optional) mpari n tabl EMULATOR SN MDV ZXD ZXT MOD HR EK MT Type MA JPP Y N N N 48 640 N N PD PC KGB N N N Y 48 512 N N PD Am McGavin R N L Y 48 512 N Y PD Am Specci N Y N N 48 512 N N PD ST Speculator Y N Y Y 48 512 Y Y S Am i man - tho machine - ttw Z60 Y Y L R 48/128 512 N W S PC Key MT: Multitasking. • UK shareware registration for Gerton SN: MGT snaps. MA: Machine required. Lunter's Z80 costs £15 and is handled by BG MDV: Microdrive emulation. L: Load only, Services (of VTX fame, Dial Hard fans). The full ZXD. ZX disks. (Refers to BASIC, CODE and PD: Er. PD. package includes Intel and Zilog source code, DATA file handling - not snaps.) R: Registered users only. plus extra routines to conven snaps and ZXT: ZX tapes. S: Shareware. SCREENS, load tapes and slow down the MOD; Speccy model emulated. W: Window manager required. emulator. The documentation, which is supplied HR: Host machine RAM required (in K). on disk, runs to about 50 A4 pages, and from EK: Easy keys - that is, you can enter • Amt Guibrandsen's JPP costs £2 on disk version 2 onwards has been available in Dutch. keywords letter by letter. from UK distributor Daniel Thomas. English and German. • No jokes please. YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993*• 1 PREWEIV Hang on. this has to be a mistake. A SAM release which isn't a puzzle game? Can't be. Unthinkable. Well, actually, it isn't a mistake. Exodus is utterly devoid ot puzzles. Not a single sliding tile or matching pair is to be A,s - mSm found within. It is, in fact, a cute and fluffy version of Smash TV. OF THE DISGUSTINGLY CUTE LITTLE PUGS Hft'JE BEEN BLOWN Now Smash TV. as any Smash TV fan will ftUfc.... tell you, is packed with action. The operative Oh ft LIGHTER NOTE ZOOLOG word is 'lots'. Lots of enemies, lots of bullets, lots of power-ups and lots of violence. And - A bat from the inbo The reporter (caught in nudnwBeO sets ihe scene. Mbbtes on about mating pandas (7) and proves hurrah! - Exodus seems to have everything. the programmers cant spefl. hem hem for Smash TV) and although the enemies move randomly rather than homing in on you, there's still that frenetic and panicky feel to the gameplay. The control method (nicked Irom Jeff Minter's Llamatron) is clever - you fire continuously the way you're moving, but holding down fire 'locks' your gun in one direction. However, the really impressive bit is SAM TRADE-IN DEAL how much is actually going on. Glance at the Got a Speccy but fancy a SAM? Then West screenshots splashed around. Busy, eh? And Coast can do you a nice little deal on that. In a move vaguely reminiscent of something, West Coast are offering £50 off the price of a SAM if you hand over any model of Speccy as well It has to be a working model though, And here s the garnet IT* a lot looser" than Smash TVm tial complete with power supply and manuals. tw enemies move randomly, md you heve to coSect a (They're no fools, are they, readers?) Contact nurrtoer Ol awn* 10 leave 6te room, father than lul everything West Coast on » 0269 826260. The preview copy we were sent comes on two disks - the game, and the intro, The intro CHRIS WHITE RETURNS is pretty smart, aping that of the Smash TV The programmer of Prince Of Persia and. er. sequel Total Carnage, with reporters wittering something I can't tell you about yet (damn) on about the situation, generals running has been battering away at a keyboard for briefing films and a stunningly bad joke about the last month in order to finish Pit Lane. bottoms {this bit probably wasn't in Total Described as 'Super Sprint with guns via Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road Racer' Carnage). The best part is the briefing film - tt atso features a two-player mode, so you can imitate yow it's shown in flickery black and white, with IrmriiK by coltectinq thow power-ups Ha1 And leaving them by someone who can talk quickly, it's silent film intertitles. Fab! retasvety defenceless Ha hai supposed lo be really good. I say supposed to be - it was supposed to be (art) here this there's no slowdown, either - even with two month, but failed to turn up in a spectacular players. Hurrah! fashion. The only firm evidence of its alleged Gallantly playing through to the first big loveliness comes from Chris While himself, baddy revealed a giant mechanical bunny. who says, 'It's so good, even I've been Finng homing carrots. So we're looking at a playing it.' Ye-es. Anyway, decide for yourself very silly game here. (One of the levels is 1 when Pit Lane is reviewed next month. .a * called 'Oh Nol' and features you blasting • {Insert clever driving metaphor of your hundreds of Lemming lookalikes.) choice; I can't be bothered.) t. pSL The final version's being tweaked and tidied at this minute, and we'll have a full review next ish. Basically. WRONG AGAIN K" -* Contrary to the review. ESl's SAM megademo The Lyra 3 (62%. last ish) is g ^mm E. ••••^H actually a 512K-only program. (Rats.) The gtme's also harder than the ongintl-as the enemas Publisher I m about untossty, fs easier torthe m to overwhelm you C6 (yup, C6) Hi WHITHER CODIGO? Theie't no h«Sng in ihe comers *«h Eiodtjs. (Blast) Price Release Date Julyish On the off-chance that Codigo Software (or The game itself looks like it could be a total Contact Apex Developments. 6 anybody who knows em) is actually reading stormer. Ours was a playable, almost Hunter Rd. Arnold, this, where the hell are you? Codigo, for the complete but still slightly bugged version. And Notts NG5 602 bemused, wrote the funky SAM Juggler after an extended bout of playing, it seems to Bottom joke Somebody with a truly demo, then vanished. Could somebody be full of Eastern promise, or something. The appalling sense of please tell me where they are so I can start simultaneous two-player mode is 'there' (vita! so-called humour hassling them to write something else? YOUR SINCLAIR August 1993*• 1 Amstrad r= BUILT-IN § FREE! 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