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Editor Dennis Nash V Art Editor Dennis Ounsted V Contributors Dennis Broadbent, Dennis Campbell, Dennis Cooke, Dennis Forrester, Dennis Golder, alutations, Spec-chums, and welcome to Dennis Hindle, Dennis McCardle V S ISSUE 91 / July 93 another friendly issue of YS. Sharp-eyed Deputy Ad Manager Dennis Garford V readers will already have noticed the Production Co-ordinator Dennis Brock y Ad Design Dennis Cockroft y Lino absence of Tipshop. This is because Linda was Bods Dennis Gover, Dennis Parsons y taken seriously ill this month. It was a bit hairy Production Technician Dennis Stocker at one point, but everything seems to be okay y Scanning Dennis Windsor, Jon Moore, now, and it’s just a case of waiting for our Dennis Chittenden y Publisher Dennis A beloved ex-Ed to recover. Apparently she’s Campbell y Promotions Manager already getting through about half a box of Dennis Ward y Group Publisher Dennis porridge per day, so things must be looking up. Ingham y Circulation Director Dennis I’m sure you’ll all join us in a hearty Hartley y Group Production Manager Dennis Middleton y Production Controller Dennis Thomas y Production Get well soon, sausage! Control Assistant Dennis McKeown y Paper Controller Dennis Deane y If you read the newsflash below, you’ll see the Administration Assistant Dennis rise and fall of what I have little doubt would Angelo-Sparling y Your Dennis, Future have been a dandy Speccy game. The decision Publishing, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath to drop it is excrementally bad fortune, as BA1 2BW. Tel (0225) 442244, fax (0225) we’ve seen a demo and it looks and plays 446019 y Managing Director Dennis Anderson y Printers Riverside Dennis, rather damn well. Tragically it looks as if you’ll Gillingham, Kent y Back Issues Future not get the chance to actually buy the game - Publishing Ltd, Somerton, Somerset TA11 particularly ironic when two of our reviews this PIPEWORK MIKROPOL SCREEN COMPRESSOR 7BR. Tel (0458) 74011 V © Future month are of SAM programs. I’d welcome your COMPLETE GAME! PD UTILITY! Publishing 1993. No part of this magazine letters on the subject. may be reproduced by Kid Silly (and his This month sees Input Output clearing its THE BOGGIT PART TWO, sidekick Man With A Pole Man) y ISSN monstrously large backlog of reader ads in one ISSUE TWO OF YS2, THE 0269 6983 V Dennis Format, Dennis three-page spectacular. Guess who had to type Action, Dennis A Format, Dennis Plus, BOGGIT PART THREE AND out the whole thing? Yup. Anyway, enough Dennis Answers, Dennis, Dennis Play, DEAR OLD POKERAMA.JbU! Dennis A Plus, Dennis Power, Dennis A wibble. As Screaming Jay explodes into the Power, Dennis Shopper, Classic Dennis, Shed, it’s time to head for the rest of the mag. SCUTTLE CRABUKE Denniscraft, Cycling Dennis, Dennis UK, Happy trails, Gamesdennis, Dennis B Format, Dennis Jonathan OVER TO PAGE C Format, Dennis!, Caravan Dennis, Dennis Woodworking, Dennis Music, Dennis D Format and Cross Dennis are all slightly embarrassed to associate with YS.
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1993 3 Simon Forrester is a real fan of Captain Blood, and has actually completed it. He’s magnanimously agreed to reveal a few starter hints, seeing as how it’s all so incredibly complex, and nobody’s as good at it as him (he says). The real skill behind Blood is your interviewing technique. Whenever you There’s only one way to follow last speak to somebody, always ask about month’s Number One Game of All the Numbers, Teleport (if they agree, Time, and that’s with a spook French they’re undoubtedly friendly), Co¬ game. YS and la belle France have enjoyed a ordinates (if you’re lucky, they’ll reel off long and fruitful friendship, with French a nice list of other inhabited plants), and M CAPTAIN LE programmers writing games that YS, er, finds Ondoyante (everybody fancies her). SANG (or extremely strange. Captain Blood is no ’Certain characters are a bit tricky to get whatever) is just exception. A recent study has shown it to be along with. Giving everything away would be to the right a bit. visibly stranger than Vacuum and Willlllllllliam, a bit pointless, but here’s something to go on the Odd brothers of Ilfracombe, who were with. Yoko, the unspeakably nice Izwal, has bright blue and spent their time building had his pater kidnapped, but blubs so much Water, water icosohedral towers out of pineapple chunks. you have trouble getting a word in everywhere. The Cap of the title started life as a edgeways. So as a fine, upstanding, sneaky PIPEWORK is ' programmer named Bob Morlok. Seized one Captain Blood player, you should lure him on day with the desire to write a top-selling game, your ship with promises of help, take him to he found himself transported to an alternate an uninhabited planet, and drop him off. He dimension bearing not a small resemblance to scares easily, y’see, and lets fly with all sorts that very game. Fleeing an attack by enemy of useful info. Then you can nuke him, or THE BOGGIT. fighters, his ship tore into hyperspace at whatever.’ (Boo! Hiss! Thousands of soft¬ RART 2 is sitting entirely the wrong angle, with the result that hearted readers) quietly on page Blood was cloned. To cut a long (but *Er, sorry, starters. six as well. massively entertaining, must get this in print somehow, YS2 anyone?) story short, Blood a bit of mass destruction throw in. You have to has to find the remaining five clones zap around the galaxy of Hydra on the trail of (called Numbers) and re-absorb them jfejh.jL the Numbers, stopping off at planets to replenish and stabilise his slowly JK’Sj pHR and questioning the inhabitants who, I W"®rePART3 taping it thinning vital fluids. ;; 1 • jjlill being generally self-serving sorts of Jv'-wf characters, will probably send you off »raC,Sryi"a The even more ‘French’ game Hit on a mini-quest before they let you in banner. Captain Blood is a game of on what they know. Tch. Blood’s ship, interstellar travel and small talk, with iBVfe the Ark, is controlled by a bio- MIKROPOL 1. X-Y co-ords of 8. Hyperspace Blood s Ark. warp to planet.
2. Fridgitorium. 9. Oorxx contact mission.
3. Disintegrate 10. Oorxx teleported being. destroy mission. Page six for YS2, 4, Teleport (only 11. Oorxx issue 2. if being agrees). Whatevei geophoto mission. r springs your lock. 5. Before 5 mins: 12. Upcom. load. Else save.
6. Exterior vision. 13. Birth ramp. The wild sod woolly POKERAMA is < 7. Galaxy map. naqe seven.
YOUR SINCLAIR July 1993 Antenna Simple creatures, the Antenna are Three, Number Four and that (Whoops! Ed) really very friendly. Maybe too friendly. Number Five. Buggol Beings with a particular social Ondoyantes Originally from the planet behaviour, being obsessively democratic. All Ondoya, these are dream creatures. They belong to Yatanga, which is the only political appear beautiful to those whom they like, and party, whose aim is to defend democracy as ghastly to those they detest. This way, obsessively as possible. The President’s everyone knows where they stand. term of office is not fixed. As soon as a Robheads Long ago, Hydra was invaded by Buggol attains a majority, he is elected. Since bionic armies of android combat-robots with all are eligible for high office, Presidents tend orders to take charge for a few thousand to change very frequently, sometimes every years. When the Hydrans got fed up with them, things went hideously sour for the Flying through the fractal scenery of that emotively- five minutes. At the time Captain Blood takes named planet, er, 132-002. Yoko the Izwal is at the end of place, a Buggol remains on Rosko. He can’t robots. A few decapitated units managed to this canyon, but don’t bother writing that down because be elected, due to the shortage of electors. keep some systems functioning. They are the the co-ordinates change with every new game. Ha! He would need two more votes to become Robheads. They’re just robot heads with a consciousness called Honk. Honk, in an effort President of Rosko. An impostor, Yukas, who few memory zones still working. Completely to keep the ailing Blood alive, has been doesn’t even live on the planet has fixed the harmless, they just lie there. They can’t even replacing his organs with bio-mech supports, election and become President, with the reproduce, unless some passing geneticist but things are reaching a critical stage. Blood result that Rosko is in political upheaval. takes a hand. cannot become a robot, and needs to re¬ Croolis Separated into two distinct Sinox Hardworking and intelligent, the Sinox absorb the Numbers to survive. evolutionary branches - Vareux and Ulves. are the technology whizzkids of the galaxy. As the game progresses, Blood’s Each has always hated the other. Tricephals Very interesting genetically. hand will get shakier as his fluids Izwal Peaceful and generous beings. Look These being have three android heads, each thin away. This is quite normal. Do almost human. Very cultured, but humble. of which is equipped with an amazing tongue not panic. Then again, it is a visual Masters of Science. (it says here). reminder that Blood is dying, so Kingpaks Ridiculous creatures who smoke Tromps Inoffensive creatures, if somewhat perhaps panicking might be a good tromp tails (supposedly aphrodisiac) and eat stubborn. Their hair is highly prized by the idea. (Yikes.) pills. Not very smart. Rumour has it they Sinox as snuff. inspired the early Pacman games. Tubular Brainers The only race so far Migrax As their name suggests, they are known to have tubular brains. Their great travellers. Highly intelligent, they carry intelligence is quite particular and difficult to the news around the galaxy. Excellent grasp. Inscrutable, that’s the word. negotiators. Their slyness is legendary. Yukas Belligerent and underhand characters. Numbers Blood’s clones. There are five of No class at all. Little is - them: Number One, Number Two, Number known of their customs. >
The Ark is incapable of a planetary landing. creeping towards Instead, Honk gives birth to (don’t ask) and each other across the sends down Oorxx, a sort of space fish fitted screen. To avoid with biomissiles and sub-radio links. You have them meeting and to control the Oorxx as it zips across the blowing the Oorxx up, planet surface. An arrowed blip shows which fly as low as possible. It’s a right old game, this conversation lark. Sort of like way you should steer, and when the blip When you reach the end Tarzan In Space, really. You know, lots of ‘Me Blood great flashes, you’re directly on course. If there are of the canyon, you’ll find warrior brave ship kill you want information co-ordinates Number.’ Oh, and ‘You Jane’, of course. (Not really.) planetary defences, two arrows will start either a being or, er, nothing at all. The Oorxx stays on the planet, so if you return there, you WHAT’S WHAT ON THE ARK can bypass all that flying around. Phew. Captain Blood is, er, a captainy big game. Exterior vision/control panel mode Click on mouth icon is still moving, it has more to say. There’s a time limit of 45 hours, a galaxy of the exterior vision icon to enter that mode, or Click on the mouth to reveal the next 32,768 planets and a cast of about 50. Good any inactive icon (ie, the eye is closed) to sentence. When the mouth has stopped, click old save option, eh? (Actually, this in itself is return to the control panel. on your icons to make a sentence, then click worthy of a mention - you can only load a UPCOM module Once contact has been on the mouth again to send the message. The saved game before the clock reaches five established with a sentient lifeform in a being can choose to break off the minutes, otherwise you can only save. ‘Only canyon, or when a being has been teleported conversation at any time. (A quick ‘HOWDY sneaky types and defective clones save the from the Ark’s fridgitorium, the UPCOM ME BLOOD’ usually gets things going.) game after every action! You’re neither of (Universal Protocol of Communication) comes Teleport When you transport beings aboard those, are you?’ grins the manual. Well, we on automatically. It is a system of the Ark, they are put in suspended animation liked it.) Oh, and before you start sending in communication using icons. The icon in the fridgitorium. The icon will not be active tips about who’s to be found where, the game dictionary uses two sideways-scrolling unless they have agreed to be teleported. generates all the planet co-ordinates randomly buttons, one rapid (click on the bar just below Cremate being Once in the fridgitorium, at the beginning of every game. the icons) and one slow (place Blood’s finger beings can be disintegrated. If the being is a Have fun, and don’t let the to the bottom left or right of the screen). Honk Number, Blood will recover some vital fluid. Migrax grind you down. The fate will translate an icon as you move Blood’s Other beings’ fluids are incompatible with of one ethically unsound finger over it, though with practice you’ll be Blood’s biochemistry. computer programmer able to do it yourself. If words or ideas are not Oorxx destroy mission A crack nuclear is in your hands. in the being’s vocabulary, that icon will be suicide Oorxx zaps the planet irretrievably. blanked out. (This gives you a good idea of Oorxx geophoto mission In order to the being’s intellectual level - determine whether a planet has defences, W watch out for people with no you can teleport an Oorxx into low orbit to ‘Howdy’ icon!) collect aerial pictures. Click on the icon once Kempston, Sinclair or Cursor The being always opens the for a medium altitude scan and twice for a low joystick or keys. Q - up, A - down, IS conversation, and as long as the altitude scan. 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■Ml Y-Not Software/Delta 4 Okay, time to come clean. YS2 is, in fact, a teletext prog. In the fine tradition of The band, Elwood - the band!’ Little did John Belushi know what horror Spectacle and Sceptical (the driver of these words would cause. After a screening of The Blues Brothers at the which it uses in an entirely naughty manner), YS2 local cinema, the Shed Crew have decided to form a band. (Oh no.) features pages and pages (and, er, pages) of inconsequential textual wibble to pore over and Jonathan Nash Craig Broadbent ignore. Hey, it’s something to read, Jonathan rubbed his chin. ‘As Craig had planned to regale the anyway. Er, after you’ve finished with the you know, I have a deep and others with a BEEP version of upliftingly well-crafted mag, of course. genuine admiration for Rolf ‘Axel F’ composed on his Harris. I’d like now to entertain Speccy, but fortunately the you with a medley of Rolf’s greatest hits as power lead wouldn’t reach from the Shed. performed on my Stylophone. Er, hello?’ Dial in three digits corresponding to the Simon Forrester page you want to peruse. Andy Ounsted Simon tuned up his electric Opening a well-used case to guitar and shook his head about reveal his electric guitar, Andy a bit. ‘And now, the thrash blasted out ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ by metal version of the theme to The Ramones, kicked over a The Flumps,’ he announced, played an L-cLULildiLL couple of boxes, pushed Dave out of the amazingly loud and unrecognisable solo Jon North's been coming in for a bit of flak way in a reasonably rough fashion then took then sat down and looked pleased with recently, most notably when flying over The a run-up and slid across the floor on his himself. The others decided to make him Hooded Tigers secret hideout but we’re not knees. Unfortunately, as the floor was support rhythm guitarist as long as he allowed to mention that. A few people have pointed covered with a nylon carpet, his trousers promised not to do anything. out that Pokerama seems to have been getting a bit caught fire halfway and he finished the stale as of late, what with several repeated POKEs manoeuvre running around in his Simon Hindie and a deplorable lack of free.money., or something. underpants, beating out his trousers with the Simon’s tape recorder produced /Readers, eh?) guitar. The others decided to make him lead a fast-paced succession of Jon. m response to these allegations, broke the guitarist as long as he promised to repeat clicks and tinny bleeps. ‘It’s a interviewer's arm. then put on a balaclava and set the performance as a finale to the gig. little composition of mine called out to run 50 miles in order to throw the Tiger’s Rerouting The Fractional Results Of A henchmen off the trail Honestly, you just can’t keep Stuart Campbell Financial Computation To My Account,’ he him down. Stuart unslung his famous bass grinned and headed for the nearest phone guitar, ‘Little Nell’, and plugged box, but, due to a mix-up, accidentally called ‘James' Northy's secretly-assigned POKEs this it into an incredibly large a record producer and found himself at the month are... amplifier. Raising the pitch of top of the techno charts. The others agreed Heartland- infy energy, inly time his voice to counteract the achingly low to deny everything if the police came round. Top Gun - infy fives power hum that was gradually vibrating the Crosswize - immortality crew across the room, he launched into the Phil McCardle Brainstorm - always qualify opening of the BMX Bandits’ hit, Top Shop Phil unpacked some explosives Tantalus - infy energy Girl’. Every fuse in the Shed exploded. and announced that he would be playing Tchaikovsky’s ‘1812 Dave Golder Overture’. The crew ran away. ‘Don’t panic!’ called Dave as people panicked. Calling on his Simon Cooke scouting powers, Dave rubbed Pushing his hat to the back of his drumsticks together and his head, Simon attempted to produced a reassuring flame, revealing a blow a mournful sax while Stuart-shaped hole in the ceiling. After husking a tough voiceover. The agreeing to make Stuart the rhythm guitarist doctor said there’d be no lasting damage as long as he repeated the performance as and put him on non-solids for a month. a topper to Andy’s finale at the gig, the crew decided to move into the garden. Dave set Leigh Loveday up his drum kit and announced he’d be ’I’ll be the manager,’ said Leigh How about jumping for joy? Er, er, er, jumping to it? Performing playing along to William Shatner’s cover of as he put on a dreadful suit, a leap of faith? Bouncing back from the brink? Springing into action? Oh, I can't stand it! (And it s all his vault. Andy) ‘Hey, Mr Tambourine Man’. He twirled the and instantly broke up the band crispy ’sticks in the air, shattered them in order to reform in 10 years1 against the snare drum and ran off in tears. time and cash in on the nostalgia market. TAPE WON'T LOi For flip s sake don’t send it to us. We’ll it Something good about a game? Then you'll find it next to this attractively-designed symbol shake our heads sadly, make mildly disb< (even though the teeth are a bit odd). (Oil Andy) Yes. if a game has points of merit, this is c uckmg noises and then throw the tape I where well summarise 'em. bm (after extracting the inlay for the recyc box, of course). No, send your tape alone Conversely, this is where you'll find the detrimental portions of a game. Crisp, scathing sae, to Ablexl Yes. Ablex, duplicators toft comment or minor whingeing. this is the box for all things bad. And. as a bonus, there are s ars, will be able to supply a newly-minte no oddly-drawn teeth in this illustration. (Co away. Andy) replacement that’s practically almost virtu guaranteed to work! Address your tapes t( And the final score goes here. 50% is taken as a strict average, and anything above 90% ex, Harcourt, Halesford 14, Telford TF7 earns the fantastically revered title of Y5 /Yegagame and guaranteed success as (Yarvin Spudley. stoat Juggler to the crowned heads of Europe, or something.
YOUR SINCLAIR July 1993 7 Admiral $oftware/£7.99 MANUAL LABOUR * 0977 797777 ■j- instructions. The booklet bangs on about The manual for Dalek Attack is __ ICTTTTTfffi The scene: Alternative the types of villain, the weapons offensively poor. From trainspottery I—*. HE available, the extra features, the Software. Enter an excited ■ factual errors (‘Davros glanced around (bil ‘hidden collectables’ and the shop minion. ‘Hey! I’ve just H the room menacingly’ - er, he’s blind, £j~] L,- sequences, then prints a little bought the licence to that guys) to a rejection of the JL ■=*■■ disclaimer saying ‘Certain features are top TV prog and-longest- programme’s whole ethical stance not available in the Commodore. F-programme-of-all-time (‘Quick thinking, agile reflexes and a nnr ■|r Spectrum and Amstrad versions due to io!’ ‘Wow! Great!’ (A pause.) tactical use of weapons are needed’ - "*.1 restrictions imposed by these ; it about, then?’ so what happened to outwitting the ' J computers’. Or, ‘We’re not telling ‘Erm...’ ‘Weren’t there Daleks in /t w villains?) it invites ridicule. The worst you what’s relevant to your it?’ ‘Oh yes. Daleks. And, er...’ / (y ft ♦ - and actually relevant in a non- machine, but it’s your fault for ‘Well, just get someone to write a V tediously-trainspottery-sort-of way - having a crap 8-bit anyway.' Of I V bit is the list of features and game where the Doctor runs course, you realise this means war. around a lot and shoots ™ m* m Hollywood action film aspects of the things. Oh, and put in lots "^1 TV programme. A spearhead U| i A Dalek invasion has taken over j|fw|g| four cities, London, Paris, Tokyo really. The one thing Dalek ^zzzDand New York, protecting Attack has is no relation at all to mm%them with force domes. Pods of the TV prog. The Doc tears JSKLl M devious design are dissipating around the place armed with a the ozone layer in preparation machine gun trying to pass for the main force to land, so itself off as the sonic (kM^) C" e\ the Doctor infiltrates the domes -:Vr T? screwdriver, chucking vH ITqMHI grenades and generally rfc going through sewers and 5 behaving like The Doctor 7 r v. JiJsiSf(? S] They Pushed Too Far. You QQj get the choice of playing • "v Ace (who’s well known for |||||||J||| shooting things and level guardian and it’s off blowing them up) so turning the Doctor into to the next bit. Ultimately you nip off to Rambo Who is a bit pointless. But, hey, Skaro to capture Davros, the Daleks’ programme along with enough tedious trainspotting. You’re probably creator, so there you go. -Jk them - Ogrons, Robomen; wondering how the game plays - except for Technically, Dalek Attack can’t er, roboty sphere- Fiona of Stratford, who’s trying to remember if be faulted. It plays at a cracking f 3f iil ish sort of her library books are overdue. Fiona, they pace, scrolling two-thirds of the \V%w.ffF things would have been, but I’ve renewed them over Speccy screen smoothly and at a [jLijjJy and mm the phone. And do stop bending down the knockout speed. Incredible. The (oh Jpf \ corners of the pages - use a bookmark. Doctor and Ace leap about like —blimey) fHp | The designers of the game have cleverly someone’s forgotten to switch on the gravity, some sort of big wm j played up the hitherto underdeveloped and there’s some lovely flappy-trousered ISBl M 3 interaction with the boss type. To . 4ffij £ backgrounds, with the Doc give the game a bit ; i hanging from ledges and signs of shape, they’ve 8 J and sort of moving along hand- kidnapped a couple of people, n— over-hand. Fab. There’s even a and you have to find a set 4_ jjj3 Whovian touch to remind you number each level before / pij you’re playing a game about heading for the exit and i 1: Doctor Who - the Doc holds confronting the guardian. ( f ; Jj onto his hat when he jumps. There’s the usual tricky >tEEi All in all, and ignoring the map layout, with a bit embarrassingly crap intro of running ‘in’ and \ / I sequence, a really impressive ‘out’ through various ( J| j f start. (Better play the game doorways. This is a bit y r of a bodge - to / enter a doorway / you have to stand ( /( J ( Seek, locate, centrally and hit j 1%| found fey going Mo on® erf spiflicate up, so it’s too / ;?es toto to ssenet ire* « The Daleks haven’t come to , Loudon ifeswe&and searching a fireplace. Blimey. easy to ft f ' % /r^ $fe® Cates* dad «tuck up her if but youdbn’i Tcto. Earth alone, oh no. They’ve inadvertently ( / f J | got a few minor baddies from jump into the / ^^■UMe-in-the-doorv^y bug, I give them the benefit of _Lt there, but as far as I (, the other two bits are
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But it’s not all news. The pace makes for ■V* ■•■•‘.v.v.v.v an exhilaratim I platform game, and there are enough hi ‘cn bits and power-ups to keep explor_r types happy. Even the multiload isn’t: that obstrusive. The doctor susmbhd * an,mals/Just Imagine game just seeijms haphazardly - and at nzea/Biah blah blah an! times,,_ily shabbil\ - put together. y the word oink In here Irstosfo© (Coventry went on tow ... jre’s no internal logic - as well as the Doctor shooting path of a i_monster’s fire. That’s ano : thing - people, you’ve got Daleks ’em). The two-player mode8 the bad guys fire1 constantly if they j you. spiriting hostages away to awful (you can flip between There’s no Ibreak in the pattern, giv j you no ledges and up chimneys, and bits Ace and the Doctor, but may as chance to c.avoid _ or jump past themi without of the scenery that may or may not well stick to one all the way losing energy,energy. You don’t even hav<.0 enough be climbable (they certainly look ) through as there’s no discernible time to shoot then1 dodge the retali,Jiatory blast, climbable, but you don’t know if L difference between their and I soon found myself runningj aiaround at top they’re just bits of the scenery JD abilities). Worst of all, those speed and damning the con: until you trying jumping for 8L design faults that load the MH Even if you do manage to zzap a 3l) game in favour of the villains monster, it regenerates_> afterafte a couple of BflL.rob it of a sense of \ / minutes, which to my/ mindm isi a pretty Ljy achievement (it’s more «i low way of makingj the gamec harder - as IHm'Blimey, lucky I managed to _l resetting their positions when you 8BMH get that monster who leave a room, so there’s a chance one popped out of nowhere before his continuous will get you as soon as you materialise laser stream finished me off’ than ‘Ha! in a doorway. And another thing again - Another skilful dispatch for Rambo Who. if you fall off a high ledge and die, you don’t reappear on the ledge, but lower Hurrah for the forces of good!’). I dunno. Doctor Who’s been knocking the down, in mid-air. If you can’t twist socks of every Speccy fan who’s seen it (‘How quickly enough to catch another did they get it moving so quickly?’ ‘Wow!’ etc) ledge, you lose all your lives in a fashion horribly reminiscent but then again, they’ve not been playing it. I have, and I’m disappointed. As a tie-in it falls of Jet Set Willy. *!*"9 the (Apparently Admiral are to bits (as most do) and as a game it irritates "*urn to find th* BT haas^S 2?*'?™'™*' the hell out of me. It’s above average, but then going to engage in a little programmish tweaking to fix only marginally. ©
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Revelation/£9.99 SAM disk ™ will quite happily plummet on your, er, sort of you’ve got 10 or 15 close friends at hand to PO Box 114, Exeter, Devon EX4 1YY shiny green dome thang as you chug around. offer corfflicting advice and boo you if their Oh, and there are the baddies, of course, but plans go wrong. If you want to know about they’re a bit lacking in the old brains, so you You’ll also findtl^ you don’t have to play Boulder Dash style games, can lead them a merry chase. the same levels over and over again - talk to me. If it’s diggable, Now I don’t know who knocked together the are 99 of the blessedIhings - thUH^D a nice I’ve tunnelled through it. If levels, but I wouldn’t like to play him at chess - little password ^stem that gives you instant this man can create problems with a few it falls, I’ve avoided it. If it’s access to every tenth level, without having to obstacles and a diamond that’ll have your trudge through the graveyards of the stupid, ft collectable, I’ve picked it up. In short, I head aching in under four seconds. But with a does take a few levels to really get going, know Boulder Dash. We’re like that. little trial and error, and a lot of patience, (and y’see, which is one of the very few faults. (Crosses fingers in complicated a few friends - Boulder Dash is the original There are a couple of others, but they’re more fashion#} So when Jonathan asked me socially interactive game, after all) you should sort of petty quibbles, like, shouldn’t there be to review Wop Gamma, I couldn’t turn pull through with your nervous system intact. some indication when you’ve got enough gems it dowiCl live for Boulder Dash. The graphics. Mmmm. Very nice. Awash to finish the level? As i say, quibbles really, so Another Boulder Dash game to me is with colour, stuffed with objects that have we’ll diskard them uterly. like, like, anotlpFr diamond to that 4 depth, shadows, and just a smattering of Wop Gamma is well worth buying. It’s fun bloke in Boulder Dash. cuteness for good measure. Movement is fluid, and addictive, which is about as good a with smooth scrolling and no eye-blasting recommendation as you can get. Yes indeedy, "So - the game. It’s a straightforward 2D flicker. Sonically, you can’t complain either. if I were to be reviewing this game, which I am, romp around underground caverns, where The one thing this game has got & music. And kl’d give it quite a good score, which I have.O everything is affected by grafc^ the idea being more music. A bit more music, and a few m to dig around the place, avoid falling things, little tunes just to make up thenumbers. and collect diamonds. It all sounds really Almost makes up for the lack of sound effects, simple and heartily reflex-y, until you add the really, does the music. puzzle element (waagh - another SAM puzzle But back to the gameplay. A couple of game!) with strategically placed obstacles that people have bemoaned the loss of the YS final verdict categories, so, er, I’ll make up a couple just to placate ’em. First, a gentle probing A real beaut game that Grab Factor area, not that it’s really gets in there fast and . The puzzles will intrigue you, so much low and keeps on you’ll definitely play again, and again, until jabbing with the left. manage to get that last diamond. But what er, Staying Power? Think of it like this - games, the solution to a It’s. A. Puzzle. Game. , and unfa ipletely stupid)
II be turned off. Not so with V You could boycott it to show we want more than puzzle Pou play, yoiTlHigi^^illoJ ‘Why is Martin sitting next to those mushrooms and games, but it’s just too good composing a verse embodying some moral sentiment or Wkch time you take a fresh I? to miss. (Sorry.) precept?’ ‘Oh, he’s just being gnomic as usual.’ problem. Of course, it helmi CALL YOURSELF A MUSIC PROGRAM? E-Tracker is pretty useless when it comes to some of the more practical elements of So, one equally bright, crisp, Polish day, Mat FRED Publishing/£29.99 music-making. It can’t: and Kaz of ESI took the production of the « 0382 53593 • Create that heavy, industrial sound made wonder program into their hands, and after Soundtrackers. Music famous by The KLF with ‘It’s Grim Up North’. numerous late nights, E-Tracker was born. (Lo! sequencer programs. Roll 9 Make acidic rasping sounds like the weird Yea! Etc.) those words around your Hoover noise The Prodigy use Perform live at The SAM has been crying out for a decent mouth. I’m sure you all Castle Donnington. _ music package for ages, as far as I recall. • Throw guitars at N. know the story behind Correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s only been amplifiers like Nirvana. / these darned ’trackers, but for those The Sound Machine and that made little more • Become an f of you who take five year long than a shallow dent in the huge lump of Silly international star like [ ^ holidays in Mozambique, here’s the Putty that forms the SAM user Rolf Harris. (Rolf! I l J % fflR* base. Let’s hope that this one story. (Steve sways from side to side think you ’re fab! Ed) \ll : is received a little better. in ultimately unsuccessful attempt to • Oh, and sound like \^a|||k li|y|WKY- Okay, so on first glance it reproduce cinematic flashback effect.) The Orb. Jp' looks more like a freaky In the beginning there was the Amiga, and monitor than a music program, with its six Of course, it would be pretty useless if you an all-round good egg called Karsten Obarski. windows displaying lots of pure hex. This is couldn’t use the tunes you slaved over outside Being such a nice fellow, Karsten came up what has made the ’tracker family popular, the program, so, just as with the Speccy with Soundtracker. It was popular, to say the believe it or not. Rather than traditional music Soundtracker, you get a compiler as well. Just least, and was ripped off quite a bit. (Yikes.) notation, the whole caboodle is organised as a write your song, squirt it through the compiler Then Mahoney and Kaktus did Noisetracker, rather funky sequencer, and the hex gives you and you’ve got a standalone routine to call Fairlight did Startrekker (ho ho) and various near total control over the entire soundchip. every frame. Hassle-free and fussless. other people did their little bits to help the What distinguishes E-Tracker from the Now, I know E-Tracker will be a success. It’s soundtracker concept evolve to its full Speccy’s dearly beloved Soundtracker is the just right for really lazy demo coders, and I’m potential, or something. fact that it’s a piece of commercial software. speaking from experience here. Six channels - One bright, crisp, Polish day, BZYK decided (The original was PD and - shriek! - free.) eee, luxury. Bundled with the prog are a few to copy it to the Speccy, because all other However, this isn’t as bad as it might sound to useful bits and bobs: a nice conversion of music creation programs, especially Wham! prospective owners, as you get the benefit of a Enola Gay by OMD and a token version of The Music Box were complete crap. (Yea well-written manual into the bargain. People Axel F (with the obligatory wrong bit in the verily.) And, to put it frankly, the world of who have used Speccy Soundtracker \n'\W be middle), several instruments and a warbling Spectrum demos was changed overnight. performing leaping handstands at this news, ornament. That little lot should set anybody off Well, obviously ‘overnight’ is a relative term. It because the original came with, er, nothing. quite nicely, and before you know it you’ll be probably was an overnight revelation if you You had to figure out this immensely tweaking the instruments and everything. happened to live within BZYK’s postal district, complicated program for yourself. Anyone who Faults? I’ve found a few. The prog as a thus ensuring your copy of the prog arrived could actually do it qualified for tea with the whole seems pretty well debugged (although within 24 hours. Programmers further afield Queen, or something, but now, thanks to the I’m sure someone will be smugly pointing out had to wait a little longer, so perhaps it would wonder of modern science and manuals and something or other before the ink’s dry on the be fairer to call it an ‘over a variable amount things, you can quite happily design issue) but the, er, classically-styled interface is of time’ revelation. Yes. Sorry, where was I? instruments and trigger ornaments with little a bit clunky. You have to scroll through all the Life went on, and the SAM was released. more than a GCSE in Maths. options on a menu rather than being able to But lo! There was no ’tracker on the Coupe! get to one straight away - glerp. Still, can’t quibble over the results - all you need is talent, as they say. And a bit of patience. And lots of time. Er, and a SAM might be handy. © \^mwm It’s unique, and you get some great results from it. Oh, and it’s got a manual.
It costs quite a bit. Oh, and it’s got a manual.
Powerful ’tracker which should go down a storm. A few awkward bits and that price mar it slightly.
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I dug out the last (or a power supply Trade stands, bring and buy stall, I know there aren't many Sinclair QL copy of Your Spectrum, and it picnic area, refreshments, car users reading YS, but couldn't you states that the mag's changing in Input Output (May wipe irretrievably on loading) parking, free shuttle to Brighton sea just start up a small column on the names so it can also cover the QL front. Details from 0273 501100.’ It subject? You seemed to abandon and the 128K Speccy. Never one to Sadly, that's all we've got room for is understood that this notice will be the QL scene like it was a renege on an agreement, YS is this month. Oh, and don't worry free of charge. decomposed haggis after the mag proud to present the return of the about the spelling - I've corrected RC Gornall changed names from Your (very small) QL column. it. Ed. Hollington, St Leonards-on-sea I would have given the potions Four!) times. bit crap, isn't he) North? Do you sort Yes, okay, I know it's a bit of a away as a prize, but I've been Has Jonty run out of games to of whip out the index during lulls in liberty, but I just couldn't resist advised that without first getting hack, or what? None of the seven conversation at dinner parties? We'd anyone who lives at a place called St them cleared by a qualified chemist, POKEs on issue 89 has been love to know. Well, actually, no we Leonards-on-sea. Ed. this would be illegal. 'Strue. Ed. recently featured in the mag, as was wouldn't, but it sounds nice. Very usually the case with older issues. carey-sharey-feelgood-'90s, or MARVIN THE GUINEA PIG APPARENTLY WRITTEN The most recent game on that something like that I am writing to claim my small and On your May covertape, there was a Pokerama was Viz, from issue 77. Er, I'll give Jonty a stiff talking-to, laughably inadequate prize for demo called Bicie, apparently written There are plenty of games around anyway. Ed. explaining what I was on about in my with a program called Soundtracker to be POKEd by his skilful hand. letter featured in issue 89.1 was 2. Have you any idea where I could According to my card index, of the ALL THAT RUBBISH talking about the potions I'd get hold of a copy of the fab- 1453 games mentioned in YS since Shame about SU, isn’t it? I know YS prepared for Linda. I thought I sounding Soundtracker 2? issue 50, the 213 games POKEd so and SU were supposed to be deadly couldn't send ’em through the post, Brian Robertson far represent only 14.7% of the enemies and all that rubbish, but it but I was wrong, so here they are. Westcliff on Sea, Essex grand total. On, and Marvin the guinea pig loved Paul Mayo his name in print - he chewed up the Skusoft's Soundtracker 2 (or Sample BFP0 8 HAIilH article in delight. Tracker as it will probably be known) Mat Towers isn't yet widely available. It's a PD Yes, he is a bit crap, isn't he? We've Birstall, Leicester prog though, so when it does turn actually got a very small box of up, it will be free. The real games here in the Shed - the rest Too late! The official winner of the Soundtracker 2 (ie, the follow-up to have been sent to Jonty for hacking. small and laughably inadequate prize the music prog we had on YS 83) The trouble is, he seems to suffer is, in fact, Linda herself. She may or may not emerge from the from a rare, specialised memory dropped in after reading the ish to coding rooms of Pentagram problem, and keeps forgetting about explain what was going on. But depending on whether BZYK ever them, then rings up a month later, thanks for the potions anyway. A received that letter I sent offering disclaims all knowledge of their couple of people have expressed him some cash for it, hem hem. Ed. existence and explains he had to interest in the black peppercorn hack some old games again. By my body scrub, along the lines of Wow! 14.7% reckoning, he's now got around What's that?', then smelling it, then I want to complain about the number 1000 to 1500 of our games. And leaving the room extremely quickly. of repeats in Pokerama. Since it we'd like them back, Jon, if you The grape hand cream has come a started on issue 63, a grand total of happen to be reading this. poor second in the talking-point 213 games have been POKEd by I'm very interested in this card stakes, but I think that's because it Jonty on the covertape. Of these, 31 index though. Of what possible use fails to be so spectacularly offensive have been POKEd twice, five three is it, apart from as reference for Justin Williamson to passers-by. times, and one a massive four (four! complaining about Jon (yes, he is a Kirkintilloch, Glasgow But'baffle' means *frustrate, pretending I’m 16.1 don't know what Keep up the good work, YS. Now confound or impede perplexingly'. a trainspotter is, so whether I need that Sinclair User has SUnk, you're It's an all-or-nothing sort of verb. one or not, only you will know. all we have left. You can't be slightly baffled. Ha! In the May issue, there is a John Bourne Captain Pedantry strikes again. mistake on page 29 under the Bexhill-on-sea, E Sussex (Quibbling is his raison d'etre.) Ed. heading Tunes 'n' Tests’. To use the RAM drive on the +2A, +3 and the A trainspotter is a fabled award Tortoise is another word for +2B, the ! command does not presented to someone who spots a houseplant in a very vague sense. operate. That’s for the other 128Ks. mistake in YS. And you're not going Dan (The Lingo) Gavrovski ONLY YOU WILL KNOW You need to type SAVE "M:filename" to get one because of the horrible Jupiter I'm 66, sometimes feel or LOAD "M:filename" to use the way you put the bit about YS being They haven't asked Julie Andrews like 96, and keep going by RAM drive on these machines. 'all we have left'. Nyaah. Ed. to be in Mary Poppins 2. Ed.
YOUR SINCLAIR July 1993 1 myself included, want the It's a toughie, this subscriptions mag, but your support for the SAM magazine. Since I’m no longer to business. In the fine tradition of has been great up until now, so be allowed to subscribe the only passing the buck, I showed your why stop? way I can get YS is through Back letter to YS publisher Colin Christopher ‘Casper’ Bailey Issues, as Linda has so kindly Campbell, who had this to say. ‘It’s Wisbech, Cambs informed us. a toughie. (Great minds think alike, In practice, what does this eh? Andy) The plain fact of the As you probably noticed, the last mean? It looks to me as though I matter is, subscriptions is few SAM Centres were really have to send you a letter and a unprofitable for us, which in struggling to fill two pages. There's cheque every month, asking for the business terms is a definite no-go just not enough happening in the previous month's issue. Sorry, but I area. But YS does send over 2,000 SAM world to justify that amount of don’t think I'm going to bother. copies per month abroad - all with space in what is now an even A small aside - if you look at covertapes, I might add - so it smaller mag. Most of the upcoming your own Back Issues section, should be possible for you - or games 'n' things that I know about, you’ll find that no price is quoted anyone - to place an order via an I'm not allowed to reveal because for overseas delivery. Does this international magazine distribution they're ‘still in negotiation'. In other mean this in the midst of this company called MMC. Find the words, the licence-holders don't terrible recession you’re generous biggest news vendor in your town, even know the conversion is being enough to supply me with back and order YS via them. If they have done until it’s finished, so there's issues at the UK price? Or does it any trouble, give them MMC’s something concrete to bargain mean that you - or rather your address, which is MMC, Octagon with. (It's called the Chris White YOUR FINANCIAL MASTERS financial masters - just couldn't House, Whitehart Meadows, Ripley, Method after the programmer of As another overseas subscriber give a damn? Woking, Surrey GU23 6HR. They’ll Prince Of Persia, apparently.) soon to be cut off from YS, I'd like I’ve been a subscriber for many be able to help out the newsagent. SAM Centre will most probably to take up the issues raised by years now. So have others. We’ve Sorted! Anyone for a game of be an intermittent feature, popping Vision of The Mad Guys, his letter supported you - now, suddenly, football?' At this point, Colin began up whenever enough news, progs and Linda’s reply in YS 87. we’re an uneconomic proposition dribbling a paper cup around the or fanzines turn up to justify the (‘Shock!’, Norman Tebbit’s Dead and you don’t want to support us. Shed before making a magnificent space. It's either that or large Serious Corner.) What would it cost you to keep diving header and stunning himself amounts of nothing being printed Let’s make the position clear. long-standing overseas subscribers on Andy's desk, but I think you get each month, which isn't really the There are places in the world supplied? There can’t be that many the idea. Ed. idea. And, as you say, YS is a outside the UK where YS remains of us. And I’m sure that many of Speccy mag, and in these lean on sale. This isn’t one of them. those would be prepared to pay a SPECCY MAG days, Speccy stuff takes absolute Even if it was, the covertape higher price for the service. What has happened to SAM Centre? priority. Well, Speccy stuff and wouldn't be with it, and that’s the Keith N Dearn Just one page would do each jokes, anyway. Okay, Speccy stuff main reason why many people, Antalya, Turkey month. I realise you are a Speccy and crap jokes then. Ed. all gets a bit depressing when only letter in issue 89, OCP Art Studio letters saying how crap YS was. one of the original three Speccy can be obtained - with mouse - (Erk.) Thanks for the vote of support mags is left. from Datel Electronics on ® 0782 for the techy bits, but I can't quite WONDERFUL WORLD Well done for putting more techy 744707, and TLL was on the SU see how SU's Specman was a stuff in the mag. Personally, I think covertape from issue 111 (May ‘blatant rip-off of Spec Tec. (No OF SPECCY both CRASH and SU went down 1991). crap detective jokes for a start.) because of their lack of technical By the way, what's happened to Spook fact though - both CRASH stuff. CRASH were on the right lines Pssst? And one more thing - as and SU's techy columns were with Techni-Tak but it was a bit late you’re a +D chap, could you tell me written by the same chap, which just coming, and all SU had was whether INDUG, the +D user group, goes to prove something although Specman which was obviously just a are still around, and if so where I I'm sure I don't know what. blatant rip-off of Spec Tec. These can find them? Pssst! will pop up from time to days, people who want their Thomas Adams time whenever there's enough news computer just to play games will Erith, Kent for a page. And INDUG do indeed have bought a console, so techy still exist. Give them a call via stuff is definitely the way forwards YS and SU deadly enemies? Noooo, FORMAT (the mag of the group of for the 8-bit computers. not really. We sent them Christmas the film or something) on ® 0452 In reference to Mike McRoberts’ cards and they, er, kept printing 412572. Ed.
LIFE? DON’T TALK TO ME Sussex thinks it's actually Life stuff (he hasn't actually played the BIG +3 ABOUT LIFE itself, and has sent in a 6502 game readers, but, and we quote, If you could tell the readers that Picture the scene. Mike McRoberts machine code listing prog from the ‘just remembers the ad and I'm a big +3 hacker and that I innocently asks what game he's 1976 Tangerine manual to prove it. reviews'. Dear oh dear). Stuart's have a huge +3 user club with thinking of. ‘It had small cell-like Stuart's comment: Nice try, but comment: Hey, I've played 3D more than 100 friend of +3. So spores floating around and mating hopelessly wrong. Spawn of Evil, and it's not that. +3 owners, write to me! with each other and some other bad Jeff Braine of the +3 Lee Puggy Copey thinks the Eurico Oscar Covas spores ate the good spores and Musketeers has a mind that the mystery game is Survivor from Almeirim, Portugal you had to help kill the baddies. I game is Ultimate’s Nightshade, Toposoft/US Gold - a sort of Alien suppose it was a bit like Life in 3D.’ which is indeed 3D, but bears no in reverse, where you had to crawl Hey everybody! Eurico Oscar Floodgates open. People write in, resemblance at all to Life (but around a spaceship and eat people Covas is a big +3 hacker! He runs freelancers call up, all with rather a large one to Knight Lore, to perpetuate your race, or a +3 club with over 100 suggestions as to what the mystery Alien 8, Gunfright and Pentagram, something. Stuart's comment: Ho members! So why not write to game could be. We called in Stuart hem hem). Stuart's comment: 3D ho ho. No. him, eh? ‘By the way, did I tell you I'm still angle - yes! Everything else - no! Have you got any idea what this Anything to oblige. officially Britain's Number One Jonathan thought it was 3D Spawn ‘Life in 3D' could be? If so, drop us Oh, all right, I know. Eurico's Gamester?' Campbell to comment of Evil, an ancient dk’Tronics game a line at Oh Sweet Mystery of Life, address is Rua das Milheiras, on the suggestions. which sort of had giant nasties Letters, YS, 30 Monmouth St, Bath Lote 1, R/c Dto, 2080 Almeirim, David Quantrill of Storrington in flying at you and mutating and, er, BA1 2BW. If not, er, don’t. Portugal. Ed.
1 YOUR SINCLAIR July 1993 Mvltifaf f\ §IIY IT'S BYE NOW When we announced earlier that we were to When the MULTIFACE was launched in 1984, So, in case you just came from Mars, what pull out of the 8-bit market, the surge of inte¬ it was an outright winner. No one has ever does a Multiface do? First, it sits at the back of rest in the MULTIFACE was such, that we had come up with such a powerful, useful add-on. your Speccy, its magic button always READY. Labeled the ESSENTIAL SPECTRUM COMPANION, to make many more. And not just the Multiface It has its own Rom/Ram, so it doesn't take up - we also have the best ever printer interface - this MULTIpurpose interFACE proved to be an any Speccy Ram and needs no extra software. absolute Godsend for the Spectrum users. the MULTIPRINT (not for Speccy+3 or +2A/B) It comes with a full manual, but you will not Our software includes a unique semi-automatic HISTORY? need it, as the Multiface is fully menu-driven. unlimited life finder LIFEGUARD, the GENIE It all started with the MULTIFACE ONE for the ACTION! disassembler, and the MUSIC TYPEWRITER. original 48K Spectrum, quickly followed by the Please send a SAE for full information. Once in action, it freezes everything and it MULTIFACE 128 for Spectrum 48,128 and +2. displays its own menu. You can, say, SAVE LAST CHANCE! Remember the microdrives, wafadrives and the program, return to it and continue, if you add-on disk drives? Suddenly the loading from As this goes to press, we no longer have all loose your game, just re-load from where you these took seconds rather than minutes. items available. We have completely SOLD saved last and play from there again! No need Except that there was not much to load - OUT of MULTIFACE 1 and VIDEOFACFS, to go back to start all the time. Even better, practically nothing had ever been released on and we only have a few MULTIPRINTS left. with the MULTIFACE you can POKE all those cartridges or disks and there was no facility to Our products offer a terrific value, but more infinite lives, ammo, etc., that you read in the transfer tapes onto those great new devices. for the customer than for the manufacturer... magazines, and you will never loose. Each This is where the MULTIFACE saved everything, As for the MULTIFACE 3 & 128, we still have Multiface also comes with a built-in TOOLKIT literally. The black magic box could stop anything them in stock, but clearly not for long. With that lets you inspect/alter/dump Speccy RAM.. any time and SAVE it to disk/cartridge/waferAape. only one Spectrum magazine left, this might be Many top programs were written with the aid of When the Speccy+3 came with a built-in drive, it our very last advert you read. So HURRY - the was left to the MULTIFACE 3 to transfer all to the TOOLKIT and the extra 8K RAM. And do orders will be accepted only when we have the disks - and to perform other miracles (Multiface 3 you like the screen shots in this magazine? goods and strictly on a first come first serve They are all produced using the MULTIFACE! is also needed for the black Spectrum +2A/+2B). basis - still with up to £15 OFF! mail orders!
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Come to think answer some letters. of it, Cap’n Spencer has been hanging around there recently as well, so I’d better watch my step. Please? (Lap dissolve to detective talking his way past AM Palley.) Of course I'm the magician you booked, AM! Let me show you a card trick. (Detective adroitly shuffles cards.) Pick one, go on. It's the knave of hearts, right? There you go then.
GREAT SCOTT! Well, M, this is your lucky day! I’ve written a '340 DATA Could you tell me what kind of little program that will do the job for you -. 241,230,127,24,234,215,62,20,1153 computer I have? The casing \ here goes. 350 DATA says +2 and the handbook flraS* 215,62,0,215,225,193,35,11,956 also says +2 on the cover but, \iBSiSre y 10 REM' Quill Viewer (c) Cookie '93 360 DATA inside, every reference is to 20 INPUT "Code address:";a 120,177,32,215,201,0,0,0,745 the +2A. I’m asking because I’d 30 INPUT "Text start address:";a3 like a Multiface for the computer, but 34.0 INPUT "Text length: " ;b The code address is the Multiface 128 I ordered from 350 INPUT "Output to
rinter or where you want the Romantic Robot doesn’t work despite their creen? ";a$ viewer code to sit in SiPi assurances that it tested out fine. Help! 70 GOSUB 200 memory (try 23296, but Ken Scott 80 POKE a+1,2: IF a$="P" or a$="p" make sure you’re in 48K RRR rb V Edinburgh .THEN POKE a+1,3 ; mode!) - this is what you \J ' 70 LET a2-INT (a3/256) LET al=a3- call with RANDOMIZE USR. The Oh deary me! Now the thing is, the Multiface (256*a2) ' Text Start address is where your Quill text is 128 doesn’t work on a black-cased +2 - also 90 LET b2--INT . (b3/256) : LET bl=b3- expected to start - try 24663 if you’re not sure. known as the +2A, +2B or even as the +3- ' (2 5 6 *b2) The Text Length is how long you expect the without-a-disc-drive in some circles. The 100 POKE a+6,al; POKE a+7,a2: POKE Quill text to be - enter 65536-a3 if you’re not reason is that when Amstrad redesigned the a+9,bl: POKE a+10,b2 sure of this. Run the code (with Speccy circuit boards for the +3, they removed 200 RESTORE 300 RANDOMIZE USR a), and the some signals from the expansion socket. 210 FOR 1=0 TO le9: LET x=0: FOR text will be revealed. Any These signals were needed for the Multiface z=0 to 7: READ y / M characters picked up that (as well as countless other devices). Ho hum. 220 LET x=x+y: POKE a+z+ (L*8) ,y: fi *\ have a code 128 or over So what you need for your machine if you NEXT z: READ z 11 WIH be shown inverted, and have a +2A, +2B or +3 is the Multi face 3. 230 IF z=x THEN NEXT L: RETURN \ any below 32 will be shown Problem solved! Si. 240 PRINT "Checksum, error in line: mm/ as a full stop. Actually, you ";300+1*10 could use the same prog to FEATHERS 25.0 STOP _ ‘ * ,_ ' , 1 examine other text files - just Can you help me in obtaining the vocabulary 300 DATA '62,2,205,1,22,’33,0,128,453' PROKE a+14, 0 to remove the Quill from Qu/V/ed games? I own the Quill tape, but I 310 DATA . decryption and give it a try! S i. can’t get it to work. I load the code section, but 1,0,128,197,229,126,47,-254,982 I can’t get back to the main menu. I’ve also 320 DATA +3 OR NOT +3 tried various programs printed in YS over the 32,56,2,62,46,254,128,56', 636 I’ve just bought a +2A and although I find it years, but none of them work. I don’t see why 330 DATA easy to use, there are a couple of things I when you buy the adventures you 12,245,62,20,215,62,1,215,832 don’t understand. On page 23 of the manual aren’t given a list of the more Jfc* unusual words used. PBll M L Brewster ALL POINTS BULLETIN • As you’ve probably read above, a certain some enterprising reader out there can find a Mr Bourne needs a +2A manual. His address better price! The place? is 44 Haslam Crescent, Bexhill on Sea, East Maplin! So grab hold of a /X Sussex TN40 2QH. Maplin catalogue from / / \\ your local WH Smith, / / • If anyone out there needs 3" discs for their and look on page 182, / / Qv \ good old +3, I know a place to get them for under Maxell discs - £2.20. Now, admittedly, this is a bit steep, but CF2 3.0 are the ones it’s the best I can do for the moment unless you want. / iPsO'Cv
LAIR July 1993 MON DIEU! letter keyto load the program you 9000 SAVE "A:DISK" LINE 10 Just thought I’d drop you a line and share a require.": REM This dandy stream The above lines also set up the program so couple of Microdrive progs with you. (#0) prints to the bottom two lines that if you insert the disk and select the The first is a short CATalogue of the screen Loader option, this is the program that will loader, and the second is a 90 LET a$=INKEY$: IF a$="" THEN load. In line 500, put the title of the disk (or full screen CAT loader GO TO 90 Microdrive cartridge) that this program will sit that you can use for your j 100 LET a=CODE a$: LET a=a-64: on. This can be up to 32 characters long. In most frequently used IF a>0 AND a
(Chapter 6) it says that to use 128 BASIC RAM drive. It’s all explained in select the relevant option on the startup the +2A manual - so I’ve put screen, but the option on the screen reads +3 your address in the APB box so BASIC. Is this an update, and how does it that some enterprising kind differ from 128 BASIC? reader can send you theirs. Si. A" ri9ht-" mUSt be ,he clubs The manual also refers to a silicon disc which can be accessed by placing an I DIDN’T EXPECT exclamation mark before the _ _ Is there a way of reading the levStS9 V0U 96t f°r P'ayinS Brid9e? Tch' filename for LOAD and SAVE info held in the header on a instructions. This doesn’t taped program? I want to faJourTYi8^96 C3rd in,° Pi960n and asks detective a work on my machine. I )find the start address and half trickuS cute S " |he'P y°U in 3 sawinS-the-woman-in- John Bourne length of machine code Ho f (V P , h,S love,y ass,stant Debbie in the box as . .. ve stru99les into flamboyant magical robes.) Now Bexhill On Sea, E Sussex \ progs so I can save them adies and gentlemen, before your very eves I will qaw on to disk. Aaghh! The dreaded +2A Michael McRoberts incompatibility problem strikes Seacombe, Wirrall again! The problem is, it seems, that s you’ve got a +2 manual instead of a +2A \ Easier done than said! (On one. The difference may seem like a mere \ the +4 suite, that is.) If you SJST **> Ms arms.) Listen*! can letter to the uneducated, but it’s a biggie! have one of these black- The problem is that when Amstrad upgraded cased machines, all you the +2 (bless ’em) they decided to bung in the | have to do is type in the smells ^ t 1 Ve been char9ed wlth attempted murder! This +3 BASIC ROMs - the original idea being that petite command CA T "t:" ET,T,? ™:' tn“««c>p»" sJSKT: C.U appie. hr, as I try to escape from these handcuffs thi
YOUR SINCLAIR July 1993 1 ut those away! You know how Matron the +3 Musketeers. Diabolical liberty, if you that, er, small bit more about machine feels about ’em. Oh, hello. Well, Ooh, ask me. Anyway, we’re back again for the code. Or something. Over to Jonathan for Sourcey! wasn’t here last month, as final part of the screen compressor - the the rest of the page, starting with a you probably realised, due to count routine - which should teach you complete reprint of the whole listing. Tch.
jfSj \ Decisions, decisions Mr 1 To recap: the first two parts "comp.c" CODE start, 200 DATA 243, 33, 0, 64, 17, 99, i iBt / °fthe Ooh, Sourcey! Screen STOP 128, 229, 813 V ISP V Compressor gave you 50 POKE f, b: LET t=t+b: NEXT f: 210 DATA'221, 225, 221, 126, 0, routines to pack and unpack READ s': IF sot THEN PRINT • 254, 47, 40, 1134 screen pictures. The algorithm "Checksum error at line ";L: BEEP 220 DATA 22, 221, 190, 1, 32, 5, 221, 882 behind it all depends on a control byte to tell 1, 0: STOP 190, 60 LET L=L+10: NEXT c 230 DATA 2, 40, 12, 35, 18, 19, the routine when some packed data is coming 90 REM Ooh, Sourcey! Part Three - 124, 254, 504 up, and the problem we left you with last time the whole lot (again) 240 DATA 91, 32, 228, 213 , 193, was, what if your screen has a lot of naturally 100 DATA 243, 205, 182, 127, 251, 251, 201, 35 , 1244 occuring control bytes in it? The compressor 201, 6, 255, 1470 250 DATA 79, 62, 47, 18, 19, 121 stores each single occurence as three bytes, 110 DATA 33, 0, 0, 34, 254, 255, 18, 6, 370 so your packed picture could, theoretically, 205, 223, 1004 260 DATA 1, 126, 185, 32, 4, 35, end up three times the size of the original. 120 DATA 127, 42, 254, 255, 124, 4, 32, 419 Tch. This month’s third and final part of the 181, 40, 15, 1038 270 DATA 248 , 19, 120, 24 , 223, program aims to put that right with a routine to 130 DATA 237, 91, 252, 127, 175, 68, 82, 74, 858 step through your screen and sift out the 229, 237, 82, 1430 280 DATA 243 , 197 , 225, 1 , 35, 0 least-used byte, then use this as the control 140 DATA 225, 220, 215, 127, 16, 9, 17, 727 byte. First of all, the code. RUN 9998 to save. 226, 201, 34, 1264 290 DATA 0, 64, 126, 254, 47, 40 150 DATA 252, 127, 120, 50, 254, 9, 237, 777 1 REM Ooh, Sourcey! code loader 127, 201, 33, 1164 300 DATA 160 , 122 , 254, 91, 32, 10 CLEAR 31999 160 DATA 0, 64, 126, 184, 40, 11, 244, 251, 201, 1355 20 LET start=32688 35, 230, 690. 310 DATA 35, 126, 35, 70, 35, 18 30 LET L=100 170 DATA 7, 211, 254, 124, 254, 19, 16, 354 40 FOR c=start TO 9e9 STEP 8: 91, 32, 242, 1215 320 DATA 252 , 24, 238, 999 RESTORE L: LET t =*0: PRINT AT 0, 180 DATA 201, 229, 42, 254, 255, 9998 SAVE "Sourceload" LINE 9999: 0; "Reading from line ";L: FOR 35, 34, 254, 1304 STOP f=c TO c+7: READ b: IF b=999 190 DATA 255, 225, 24, 234, 255, 9999 POKE 23693, 7: BORDER 0: RUN: THEN PRINT "All data OK": SAVE 255, 255, 0, 1503 REM The end. Really.
The theory After totting them up, it checks the result causes the routine to exit, since it would be Starting at 255 and counting back to zero, the against the stored best_so_far, and if the new pointless to continue checking as a frequency count routine checks through the screen area byte appears less times, that becomes the new of zero means you’ll have no inconvenient for the number of times each byte appears. best_so_far. If a byte appears no times, it extra bytes at all.
The assembly listing the command itself takes three bytes) and Flags of all notions Previously we’ve been using the JR leaps to address 32768, carrying on fl command to call subroutines. With the count program execution from there until it hits a f count LD B, 255 routines, we use, er, CALL. Now you have to RET, whereupon control returns to address count_loop LD HL,0 use your imagination a bit here. The Speccy 49155. This is an insultingly simplified view, LD (frequency), HL keeps a section of memory aside as a kind but machine code books usually take two or CALL check_num of workspace, telling it where it is, where it’s three chapters to explain everything so we LD HL, (frequency) going and where it’s coming from. This is won’t feel too embarrassed. LD A, H called the stack. Whenever you CALL a The other thing you can do with the stack OR L subroutine, as opposed to jumping to it, the is use it to store numbers. If you PUSH a JR Z, store _ Speccy logs where you’re register pair on to the stack, you’ve calling from and returns to the effectively saved the status of that register LD DE, (best_so_far) next address when pair, and can regain it by POPping the value XOR A p ^.ifirr ly.r ^ the subroutine is back again. A rule to remember is that PUSH HL finished. Say PUSHes and POPs must balance, otherwise SBC HL, DE your code at the Speccy will get all confused and think POP HL 49152 is the your register pairs are actually program CALL C, store command addresses. Erk. DJNZ count_loop CALL 32768. RET The Speccy r ; assemble .to address 3268 store LD (best_so_far),HL logs the address find_control DI LD A, B 49155 (since CALL count El LD (best_num), A ^ RET RET
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Flags of all notions - the explanation! has a diversity of exciting uses. The way the carry flag - quite important as the You should be able to follow things right up to we’re using it here is to check if one number instruction SBC HL, DE takes the original the SBC HL, DE thang. (For confused peeps, is larger than another. HL=the frequency of status of the carry flag into account. LD A, H / OR L is the standard way of the byte being checked, and DE=the best PUSHing HL before the subtraction and checking if HL=0.) Now then. Maths in result so far. Now if HL is larger then the POPping it after ensures we don’t lose the machine code is a nasty affair, often involving result will be positive, and the carry flag will frequency of the current byte, and as you’d shifts and rotates and bits and things. be set; if DE is larger then the result will be (better) remember from last time, DJNZ Fortunately, the count routine relies only on negative, and the carry flag will be reset. If decreases B and loops back if B is not zero. subtraction, which is a mite easier. both are the same then nothing happens, and If the result of that subtraction is negative You’ve come across the Z flag before - it’s we keep the previous result. XOR A, as well (ie, carry is set) then we store the frequency set (ie, is made equal to one) if the result of a as being a shorthand way of as the new best_so_far and log the current calculation is zero. C is the carry flag, and writing LD A, 0 also resets byte as the best_num. Phew.
Check that funky number groove thang The actual checking the screen and, er, AND it with seven, check_num LD HL, 16384 routine, which you outputting this value to port 254, which controls compare_loop LD A, (HL) should be able to follow the border. AND is a logical function, and, in CP B standing on your head techy terms, strips off the top four bits. In JR Z, inc_frequency (not literally, unless you sensible language, it uses a Very Clever blizz_border INC HL want to impress your friends). Mathematical Sort Of Thing to limit the number AND 7 As the entire count routine may take a while to to between zero and seven. (Erk.) The reason i OUT' (254), A run (it’s doing a lot of work, after all), the it’s used is to make sure only colours get LD A, H blizz_border bit just makes funny patterns in output. Try removing the AND 7 (non¬ CP screen_end_high the border so you don’t think the prog has assembler peeps should POKE 32743,0: JR NZ, compare_loop locked up. POKE 32744,0) to see why. (Big hint: port 254 m I RET What it actually does is to take the byte from also controls the beeper.)
The end! Changes before the compressed data so the whole lot Oh deary me. Due to a bit of making it up as I can be saved out at once. Spotted the prob went along, there’s a jolly big change to the yet? Yup, there’s no room for the count finished program. Everything has to be re¬ routine. So! It’s going to have to go before the assembled to a different address. The compressor, which is why the data is problem is, the decompressor has to fit just repeated at the beginning of the first page.
The BASIC driver W 70 INPUT "Filename ";a$: SAVE a$l There’s only a bit to add to last month’s prog, CODE 32832, newlen+35 but seeing as how you’ll have to retype all the 80 STOP data, here’s the whole shell program. Erk. inc_frequency, eh? What a nice, 100 POKE 32764, 255: POKE 32765, 1’REM Ooh, Sourcey! screen straightforward subroutine. DEFW and 255: POKE 32766, 255: REM set compressor DEFB are two more of those assembler initial values of best_so_far and 10 REM directive thangs. They stand for Define Word best_num 20 REM and Define Byte, and plonk a word (16-bit 110 RANDOMIZE USR 32688: BORDER 0: 30 PRINT "Load screen to be number) or a byte in the assembled code at LET control^PEEK 32766 compressed": LOAD "" SCREEN$ that point. Plainishly, they reserve space for 120 POKE 32782, control: POKE 40 GOSUB 100: LET oldlen=6912: REM | (in our case) two variables. Er, the reason 32810, control: POKE 32844, length of screen frequency is bunged at the top of memory control: REM insert control_byte 50 LET endaddr=USR 32768: LET rather than having a DEFW of its own is that in compressor and decompressor newlen=endaddr-3 2 8 3 2 I forgot when the compressor 130 RETURN 60 CLS: PRINT "OK.Crunched started and didn’t fancy 9998 SAVE "Compressor" LINE 9999: ";6912-newlen;" bytes" '' "Length: rewriting everything SAVE "comp.c" CODE 32688,179: STOP ";newlen;" bytes" 11 "Efficiency: 9999 POKE 23693,7: BORDER 0: CLEAR .k t JLTt0 9ain an extra «i. > byte. (Cough.) ";100-(INT (100*(newlen/ 31999: LOAD "comp.c" CODE: RUN: oldlen)));"%" REM Frying tonight!
Well, there you have it. One reasonably efficient screen compressor with added boomph and zing. Next month we’ll be taking a break while the +3 Musketeers get down to solving your +3 probs, but in two issues’ time Ooh, Sourcey! will return with another instructive prog. Probably. Be here or be pursing your lips at Sid James laughing meaningfully over a sentence you yourself thought quite innocent. (You can be as wude as you like with me.)
YOUR SINCLAIR July 1993 1 Back (back! or those amongst you suffering from Pitstop withdrawal Back!) after a symptoms, fear not, for I have returned! For the less astute, it month of, er, not F seems that Pitstop didn’t appear in YS last month due to a problem at my end which I have failed completely to identify. So commiserations being here, it’s to Paul Seamark, whose luvverly SAM menu system would otherwise have been CRAIG ‘Not here’ gracing the Pitstop pages, but, as they say, c’est la vie. More to the point, it means BROADBENT! that I won’t get paid for all my hard work last month, so I’ll try to slip some of it in here cunningly, thus reducing my gargantuan workload (some of us have got exams to revise for as well, you know).
ENTER for right), and places in A the ATTR value for the intended 190 DATA position of your blob. The second function, called by LET A=USR 33,155,250,62,251,219,254,254,191,4 THE 64248, places in A the ATTR value 0,10 for the actual position of your blob. With 200 REM up 64200 reference to the demo, the first function is used to determine whether your blob is about to run 210 DATA into a * or a $ sign, and the second is used to 53,62,255,190,32,20,54,0,24,16 BEAST tell you when you’ve been ‘got’ by the rabid copyright symbol. 220 REM down 64210 by M P Carter To round off, just a few little bits of info for 230 DATA those to whom the word ‘generic’ means ‘not 62,253,219,254,254,191,40,8,52,62,2 for long’. The values for x and y are stored at After thirteen issues’ absence, MP (who 64154 and 64155 respectively, and you can 0,190,32,2,54,19 still offers no elaboration on those adjust the screen area used by POKEing 240 REM setvars 64226 elusive initials) finds himself back in 64173, (left edge-1), 64183, (right edge+1), 250 DATA the focus of the Spectrum programming world, 64202, (top-1) and 64220, (bottom+1). The with a routine which he himself described as la maximum value for the bottom is 22, and you 42,75,92,35,35,35,58,154,250,119,17 complicated beast’. (Hence the name, you see. -—i can wrap the values round, so that ,6,0,25,58,155,250,119,201 It would probably be more apt to describe it as /TS7* -e POKE 64173,255 gives a left edge ‘a routine offering two collision detection i ofO. 251 REM attributes functions which are much faster than the 255 DATA 205,156,250 BASIC alternatives, along with a demo program to show the routines in action’, but we 256 DATA might have had a spot of trouble fitting that in 10 REM player control routine 58,155,250,71,17,32,0,33,224,87,4,2 as the title.) 120 REM 1/r 64154 5,16,253,58,154,250 Anyway, fine routine that it is, let’s have a look at how to use it. To get it up and running, 130 DATA 257 DATA 95,22,0,25,78,6,0,201 just type in the BASIC, which will not only enter 10,10,33,154,250,62-, 159,219,254,254 270 CLEAR 64099 the code for you, but will also provide you with ,191,40,22,254,190,40,10 a demo (as mentioned) in which you have to 280 LET x=10: LET y=x: REM define move a blob around while avoiding being 140 REM left 64171 first! eaten by the terrifying copyright symbol. The 150 DATA 290 REM TO get it to workrUSR 64245 routine acts on variables x and y (the screen co-ords of your blob), so these must be 53,62,255,190,32,12,54,0,24,8 (or 64248 for attr only) defined before you start.The first function is at 160 REM right 64181 490 PAPER 7: PEN 0: BRIGHT 0: FLASH 64245, and LET A=USR 64245 will read the 170 DATA 52,62,32,190,32,2,54,31 keyboard for any one of eight directions (using 0: OVER 0: BORDER 7: CLS the keys Q to T for up, A to G for 180 REM U/D 64189 500 FOR n=64154 TO 64272: READ a: lieci] down, O or L for left and P or
YOUR SINCLAIR July 1993 POKE n,a: NEXT n
505 FOR z=0 TO 19: PRINT AT PITFALLS AND ROPELADDERS First in the metaphorical manure is Franz Robert Challis has written to tell me that the RND*20/RND*30; PEN 2 AT Large from Germany, who’s stuck with issue listing for the Graphics Editor in issue 76 is RND*20,RND*30; PEN 5;"$": NEXT z 80’s screen compressor. Here to help, on cue, wrong, and a brief perusal of said utility is Cathy Allen, who I think scoops the prize for confirms this. Line 150 should of course read 510 LET x=10: LET y=x: LET c=0: LET the first ever female type to appear in Pitstop. xx=0: LET yy=xx Take it away, Cath. There is a bug in the 150 PRINT ’"Looking for ";n$:LOAD program - just retype line 110 as follows - ""CODE 25600/2048: GO TO 45 520 LET a=x: LET b=y 110 IF LEN F$<1 OR LEN F$>10 THEN 525 LET n=USR 64245: REM Main GOTO 100 - also, the variable ‘len’ in lines 70 And similarly line 250 should read player control returns with attr and 80 should be changed to ‘L’ for the program to work on a 128K’. Ta very. 250 SAVE "Graph.Ed" LINE 500: SAVE . value at y,x ‘Hmm, what happened there then?’ time. "GraphCode"CODE 50000,704: STOP 530 PRINT AT b,a;" AT y,x;"+"
535 IF n>56 THEN GO SUB 600 50 PLOT 60,27: DRAW a,a,b*PI: CLS 110 DATA
536 REM move a nasty now! 60 IF b=999 THEN GO TO 20 133,413,385,105,189,381,387,119,351
540 LET c=c+l: IF c=2 THEN PRINT AT 70 GO TO 30 ,147,171,135,287,237,999
yy, xx; " " : GO TO 545 100 DATA
541 GO TO 550 291,91,243,423,249,309,161,165,99,1 OWEN’S BIT 545 LET xx=xx-SGN (xx-x): LET 29,81,375,285,399,303 You’ll remember that last time I asked you for yy=yy-SGN (yy-y): PRINT AT yy,xx; 110 DATA program suggestions - what you wanted to PEN 3;" ": LET c=0 133,413,385,105,189,381,387,119,351 see in Pitstop and all that sort of thing. Well, Owen Southwood of Woodbridge in Suffolk 550 IF USR 64248=59 THEN GO TO 650: ,147,171,135,287,237,999 (blimey, I sound like a crap radio presenter, REM 2nd collision detector:checks don’t I readers?) has given his opinion on all for changes at y,x things Pitstoppy... The inital spark which fires the imagination 560 GO TO 520 of a games-programmer-to-be is the typing in 599 REM ***COLLIDE of their first BASIC game. Okay, so it might be BORDER crap. Okay, so it’s written in BASIC and 600 IF n=58 THEN BEEP .05,0: BEEP commercially unusable. But it works! From .05,10: BEEP .05,20: RETURN there it’s a short step to writing bigger, better 610 IF n=61 THEN BEEP .008,26: and faster games, and from there to (gasp!) machine code. I believe that if we were given RETURN PRINT the opportunity to show others what we have done - a reason to write games in BASIC, by Andrew Burfield machine code or a mixture of both - then a whole new generation of games programmers Cheap visual effects will develop. This is how it all started for the time, and thanks go out Speccy, with the mags printing readers’ SPIRO to Owen Stott, who games. There was a great enthusiasm to push sent in something similar. the Speccy further and further. Completely dependant on the ‘My suggestion is to print readers’ games in speed at which the program is Pitstop - like the Program Power pull-out executed, try replacing FOR f=1 TO 5, also section of old. Why not promise a place on the GRAPH coverztape for any that are good enough?’ leaving out the FOR...NEXT loop altogether, and also leaving out both the FOR..NEXT and by Stephen Pert the IF..THEN, replacing them with PAUSE 1. Some interesting points there, Owen. What This last option is a bit useless application- do you other folks think? Write on in! t’s been said that people in glass houses I wise, but it does give a static effect. Be Maybe Jonathan will give me 10 extra shouldn’t throw stones, so I’ll refrain from warned, 128K users will get different results to pages to fill with all the material you peeps commenting on Stephen’s surname, those here, so experiment until you have been coming up with! Or something. concentrating rather on this little program he’s listing*, get something nice. sent in which, er, makes pretty patterns. It’s all done in one swift burst by using a triple- ■ jm J p parametered DRAW command, and you can Hark, the kitchen calleth. Must dasheroonie, change the values in lines 100 and 110 to BASIC can’t keep my stomach waiting, can I? A make new shapes (keep the values odd, 10 PAPER 7: PEN 0: BORDER 7 brief word before I disappear though - though). When you see one you like, hold remember, if you’ve got a program that down BREAK and the program will eventually 20 CLS : RESTORE deserves airing, send it to me, and fame stop, allowing you to save it off as a 30 LET a=120 and, er, more fame could be yours. Also SCREENS, or whatever it is you wanted are suggestions for Pitstop progs. Is 40 READ b want to do with it. there something you’ve always wanted to 50 PLOT 60,27: DRAW a,a,b*PI: CLS appear in Pitstop? Then drop me a line and BASIC 60 IF b=999 THEN GO TO 20 we’ll see if some clever Spec-chum can’t come up with the goods. 10 PAPER 7: PEN 0: BORDER 7 70 GO TO 30 The address to write to is Program 20 CLS : RESTORE 100 BORDER 3: BORDER 2: BORDER 0: Pitstop, YS, 30 Monmouth St, Bath BA1 2BW. I’m Craig B and this is my lunch. 30 LET a=120 FOR f-1 TO 1: NEXT f: IF INKEY$="" Good, as they say, bye. Oh, and no sae, no 40 READ b THEN GO TO 100 reply, no exceptions.
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ITAtli IB013T VUft Quickshot joystick, lightgun and all necessary 2, Batman and WEC Le Mans. Fully working 625426 right this very minute! leads for tapes etc. Games include Dizzy, with original power supply and manual ■ +2, mouse and Art Studio, lightgun and £30 Turrican, WWF, Final Fight, Xenon, UN included. Excellent value at only £110 ono. worth of games for lightgun. £578 worth of Squadron, Man Utd and Match Day. Demos Call Daniel on 0604 718736. games, disk and tape, including Robocop 1 include Lemmings, Titanic Blinky, Turrican 2 M For sale! +2A, joystick, PSU and £700+ and 2, Ghosts ’n’ Goblins, all the Dizzys, Out and SWIV. All this for £85 ono. What are you worth of software including Robocop, Run, Op Thunderbolt and LED Storm. Call waiting for? Call Dan now on 0275 462492. Rainbow Islands and the Dizzy Collection. Dafydd on Merthyr 5816. ■ Speccy 48K with tape deck and lots of Manuaf, all boxed as new. £200 ono. Call Lee ■ +2 plus 28 games, lightgun. Will swap for excellent games and loads of mags. Barg at on 0942 842445. C64 1541 disk drive. Call Paul on 0704 £55. I’ll throw in a joystick and interface. Will ■ +2 with joystick and several games, £60 68957. separate. Call Michael on 0293 883872. and £6 postage. Call A Kennelly on 0482 ■ For sale! Boxed +3, manual, connection ■ For sale! Alphacom 32 line printer, leads, 562137. leads, mags and approx 100 games on tape ■ For sale! Speccy +3 with 92 games and one roll of paper. £20 ono. Call Ruairi on ■ +2A James Bond pack, still boxed, plus 65 and disk including Turtles, Chase HQ 2, interface, Multiface with three joysticks with a 0762 344954. games, joystick and manual. All for £120 ono. Renegade and six Dizzy games. Call James desk value around £600. Will accept £300 ■ For sale! +2 with 30 games including Call Adam on 0736 755030. on Bathgate 52512. ono. Phone Tracy on 0483 573088. Lemmings, Steg and Chase HQ. Also two ■ Genius mouse with mat and holder, hardly ■ One slick, sexy +2A for sale, comes ■ Speccy +2 with Kempston interface, joysticks, lightgun with games, light pen and used, cost £50, will sell for £30. Call James complete with lightgun, manual and 10 game. joystick, over 150 games including Rick tape, and manual! All for £110 ono. Call Peter on 051 625 2118. Mint condition, boxed, as new. £95 ono. Must Dangerous 2, Dizzy 5 and Lemmings. £120 on 0255 831510 after 6pm. ■ +3 with two joysticks, £300+ worth of sell! Call Richard on 010 353 46 54269 ono. Call Greg on 0253 713409. ■ +2A for sale, includes lots of games like software, TV and tape leads, manual, (Eire, y’see). ■ For sale! Box of 10 Microdrive cartridges - NARC and Midnight Resistance etc, plus! programming books and mags plus PSU. All ■ For sale! +3, Muitiface 3, The Artist 2, £11. AMX mouse and mat for +2 - £27. lightgun and joystick. Nearest offer to £120 for £160. Call Richard on 0929 462813. mouse, tape recorder, 3DCK, word processor, Programmable joystick interface - offers. gets it all. Call R Coutts on Ballater, ■ +2, two joysticks, Kempston interface, loads of games and mags, in fact everything Games player joystick interace - offers. Aberdeenshire 42240. lightgun, 60+ games, £350 new, yours for you need. £125 ono. Call Les on 0686 Currah Microspeech - offers. The Complete ■ For sale! Speccy 48K with cassette £90. What a barg! Call Bryan on 0732 630393. Spectrum ROM Disassembly book - offers. recorder and lods of games including Dizzy 350004 between 5pm and 7pm weekdays ■ Barg! +2A, two joysticks, 50+ games, all in Call Michael on 0779 79699 Collection, Dizzy’s Excellent Adventures, only. excellent condition, full working order, all for ■ Speccy 128K, +D, 3.5” disk drive, Muitiface, Cartoon Collection and Out Run Europa. £80 ■ For sale! IBM PC 640K, two 5.25” disk £115 ono! Call Lee on 0204 887626. RAM Turbo interface and joysticks. Software ono for everything. Cal! Dave on Pensby, drives, serial and parallel ports, CGA graphics ■ +2A with joystick, lightgun and over 100 - hundreds of originals. £100 the lot. Call Wirral 342 5438 after 4pm weekdays on card complete with mono monitor, power games, manual and eight mags. Call Fasial Andrew on 0634 250195. any time on the weekends. supply and leads and! 102 key keyboard. on 0282 57695 after 4pm with offers. ■ +2A James Bond pack with lightgun, as ■ For sale! +3 with Multiface 3, Videoface Good working order. It’s yours for £250. Call ■ Speccy 48K and 48K+ for sale. Neither new, £80. Call Andy on 0726 832760. digitiser, Genius mouse and software, Broomfield on 0377 70556. work. £35 the pair. Call Jonathan on 0869 ■ Speccy+, datacorder, leads and power including PCG DTP complete with extra fonts, ■ +2A Action Pack in original box, includes 47223. supply £40 ono. Also many games and MasterfHe+3, The Artist 2 and OCP Advanced lightgun and joystick plus 35 games. Yours for ■ +2A for spares or repairs - £15. +D drive utilities for sale from under 50p each. Call Art Studio. Call DA Durrel on 0306 882657. £80. Call Daniel on 0722 322882, not Tues, and interface - £55. Genius mouse - £15, Alan on 0482 210819 after 5pm weekdays. Ill sell for £175 cash. Wed or Sat nights. (Why not, eh? Ed) DTP package - £10. Music Writer - £10. ■ Nearly new +2 in ace condition, with ■ +2A for sale with joysticks, mags, cheats ■ +3 with new mouse and joystick, The Artist Phone John on 0942 713745. Multiface 128, joystick, £1000+ worth of and over £300 worth of games. All for £195. 2 and 17 games on disk plus seven tape ■ 128K with datarecorder, joystick, interface software and games. Manuals, Tiptionary and Call Richard on 0268 682560. games including Dan Dare 3, Rolling Thunder and all leads and manuals, plus £265 worth of many, many accessories. Barg at £150, ■ +2A in great condition with all leads and and Hard Drivin’. All in good condition. £130 fab top title games and mags. All for £80 ono! 1 delivery considered. Call Gary on 0474 hundreds of games including Robocop, ono. Call Ben on 062 72342 eves or Call Ashley on 0734 832080 after 6pm. 334845. Darkman, The Untouchables, Italy 1990, weekends. ■ +3 for sale, with loadsagames, including ■ +D interface and 50 disks and games. Cost Turrican and loads more. Mag and covertapes ■ +3 with games, £80. Also +2 with 160+ Robocop 2, FI 6 Combat Pilot, Batman The £170, will sell for £90. Call Wayne on 061 included. Worth around £1000, it’s all yours games like Kick Off 2, Lotus Turbo Challenge, Movie. And! a Multiface 3, datacorder, leads, 442 4760. for £220. Call Peter on 0236 434275. Emlyn Hughes International Soccer, etc etc. hundreds of YS back issues, blank disks, I For sale! Speccy +3 with 150+ games, ■ +2 with over 150 progs including Robocop £85 or both for £155. Call Phillip on 0532 manual, tape storage box, all boxed and in good condition. Worth £520, will sell for £199. Call Ben on 0274 491177. ■ For sale! +2A with lightgun, Cheetah 125+ joystick, hundreds of games worth £200+, plus lots of mags. Will sell for £100 ono. Call It you’d like to advertise in Input Output, please write for you, and don’t forget to add your phone number. S Alikhan on 0773 602137. in BLOCK CAPITALS below and send the coupon on This service is only available to private advertisers. ■ +3 for sale, with 100+ games including the BACK OF A POSTCARD to Input Output, YS, 30 And for the benefit of several persons, you only need Smash TV, Myth, Rainbow Islands, Turbo Out Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2BW. If you are under 18 put an ad in ‘Software’ if you're selling games. Save Run, Turrican, R-Type and many more. please ask your parent or guardian to sign the coupon your wants and swaps for ‘Wanted’! Dear oh dear. Includes two joysticks, tape deck, all leads and some mags. Worth over £420, will sell for £160. Call Duncan on 0527 60852. Please enter my advert under the following classification: ■ For sale! 128K Bond pack including lightgun Hardware □ Software □ Wanted □ Messages & Events □ Fanzines □ and games plus light pen and Kempston joystick and interface. £95. Call Ian on 0454 Name.Address. 898411. ■ For sale! Speccy 48K+ with all leads, .....Postcode.. joysticks, manual and 30 games including Double Dragon, Edd The Duck and a Sega Tel No.Signature of parent/guardian if under 18. game pack. Worth around £200, will sell for £65 ono. Call Beccy on 0302 883656 now. ■ 48K+, tape deck, Quickshot 2 joystick, twin interface, Multiface One with Lifeguard and over 250 games plus! leads, manual and lists of POKES (hundreds of ’em!). All for £160. Call Pete on 021 551 3023. ■ For sale! +2A with lightgun, 300 games, 70 demos, 23 utlities, 10 albums, 20 cassette singles, 40 records, pocket computer, radio- MAGAZINE HEALTH WARNING Think before you snip - most controlled car and mags. £270 or will swap for people use a photocopy instead Y5_9lJ Sorry, but YS can accept no responsibility for the ads placed in Input/Output Atari 1040ST. Phone Greg on 0872 553354. Super condition. Worth over £800, will sell for ■ For sale! 48K Specccy complete with all that, any program that will give me a screen ■ +2A for sale with over 200 games, joystick, £450 ono. Call Paul on 0254 51875. Buyer leads and PSU - £35. +2 - £55. +3 - £65. dump through the RS232 port on my Interface lightgun, interface and mags. All for £130! collects! Lots of other items - over 60, so phone for a 1? Call Trevor on 0304 208107. Call Lee on 0827 54920 now. ■ For sale! +2, three joysticks, leads etc, over list. Call WA Yates on 02572 78464. ■ Wanted! All Your Sinclairs, with tapes, up to ■ For sale! American landmarks including the £400 worth of games. All for £200. Call ■ For sale! +2A Bond pack, one year old, two issue 59. Also! Issues 60, 61,62 and 84. Will Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn bridge. Buy Stephen on 0843 593616 after 6pm. further years full repair insurance including pay up to £20 for the whole lot. Also wanted: two and get a British cathedral free! Call the ■ Rubber-keyed 48K Speccy for sale, accidental damage. With joystick, lightgun, decent TV aerial wire as mine is done in. Call Society for Gullible People on 8081. hundreds of games including Infiltrator, 150 games and 12 mags. £150 ono. Call OW Stephen on 0325 464729. (‘Done in’? Ed) ■ For sale! SAM Coupb 256K with disk drive, Sidewize, Northstar and loads more wicked Fovargue on 0263 860815. ■ Wanted! Sceptre Of Baghdad from SCADS, Tasword 2, SAMtape 4, Prince Of shoot-’em-ups. Plus! ZX printer and spare ■ +3 for sale. Boxed, loads of disk games, Atlantis/Players, Witch’s Cauldron from Mikro- Persia, Pipemania, assorted PD software, paper, two joysticks and interface plus loads Multiface 3, three joysticks, all worth £500+, Gen, Terrormolinos from Melbourne House, dust cover, manual and all leads. Worth over of mags. Only £120 ono. Cheap at half the will sell for £135 ono. Call Simon on 0372 Sim City from Infogrames and Mega BASIC £300 new, will sell for £150. Phone Chris on price! Call Jason on 081 646 6584. 842526 after 5pm. from, er, YS. Call Carl on 0925 444522. 0753 888977. ■ For sale! +3 in excellent condition wi(h ■ For sale! +2 with £400+ worth of software.' Cheers! ■ SAM Coupe for sale. 256K, one drive plus around 90 games, PSU, manual, tape leads, Excellent condition, boxed. Only £100. Urgent ■ Wanted! Tape or listing for the game Bingo Defenders Of The Earth and Mind Games 1, tapes and disk and a joystick. £200. Call sale required. (This was sent on a form from (for the 48K Speccy). Call H Darlington on plus loads of compatible Speccy software. Ashwin on 051 733 4810 between 5pm and YS38 - erk. Ed) Call Tom on 0786 832983 0924 822251 Includes manuals, leads, joystick, etc. £150 7.30pm weekdays, 6pm to 8pm weekends. after 6pm. * If anybody out there has Spellbound and ono. Call Adam on Southampton 846379. ■ For sale! C64 (old version, colour defect ■ For sale! 48K Speccy with 123 full games, Finders Keepers. Please call Sharon on ■ +2, all leads, disk drive and disks, mouse, and no tape drive) plus VIC 20 and C64 (old all essential leads, tape deck, Kempston 0743 77320 and we’ll discuss business. over 80 mags, six books and £1000+ worth of version) parts - cheapl Call Michael on 0279 interface, joystick and seven YS mags with ■ I want 30CK from Incentive, will swap for games. All for £400. Call Daniel on 0460 757957 after 5pm. covertapes. I’ll throw in a tape storage box. 48K and 128K games. Phone Gary on 0592 73270. ■ +2A for sale, with lightgun, interface and Call James on 08907 50162. 751405 after 6pm. ■ For sale! Multiface 3 and Lifeguard. Barg at two joysticks plus 200+ games including Ml Wanted! Hyper Sports, KIckstart 2 and Hero £20. Call Graeme on 0343 830 348. Terminator 2, Dizzy compilation, Rick Quest Plus! info or offers on the Prism ■ 128K, datarecorder, joystick and interface. Dangerous 1 and 2 and many more. Excellent VTX5000 modem. Good prices paid. Call Many games including over 15 wargames and condition. All for £180, offers accepted. Call Chris on 0244 812514. boxed classics. Offers near £160. Call Kent Mathew on 0703 663320. ■ Emergency! I desperately need an Interface on 0935 851302 after 6pm. ■ +2A for sale with £200 woth of software 1. Can pay up to £15 plus p&p or will swap for ■ +3 with tape recorder, joystick and about 7Qj plus about 10 YS and SU demos. And! Multiface 1 or digital personal radio cassette. games including Turrican, Chase HQ, lightgun worth £50 with! TV leads. £150 the Please help! Phone Roy on 051 922 8167. Rainbow Islands. Will sell for £140 ono. Call lot. Call Alan on 0253 790375 eves and ■ Wanted! Issue 66 with covertape. Will pay Ben on 081 31 j 2616. weekends. £2.20.1 also have a machine code kit, will ■ For sale! +2A, joystick, lightgun and 35 ■ +2, dual Kempston interface, joystick, over swap it for a Sinclair joystick and Super Hang games including Ant Attack and the Dizzys. £400 worth of games and educational ■ I want a working +3 and will pay up to £25. On. Phone Ray on Wallington 647 0722 now. All for £100. Also ICL printer to suit above, software plus Speccy mags and software. All Call James on 0256 880557. ■ Wanted! Printer for Speccy +3 - not ZX or £70. Ring Jamie on 0703 60159. for £150. Call Geoff on 0289 302007. ■ Wanted! +D interface and drive for my +2. Alphacom. Will swap for 17 games including ■ Multiface 128 for sale. Excellent condition, ■ +2A for sale with joysticks, mags and tip Must be cheapish as I’m a student on a grant. Turtles 2 and NARC. Will swap nine games still boxed. Genie, Lifeguard'and full booklets. Plus! £50 of programming books, Cash waiting however! Call PR Cook on for OCP Art Studio plus mouse for the +3. instructions included. All for £30 ono, all offers around £225 of games. £100 ono the lot! 0704 548260 eves and weekends. Phone Hayden on 0925 755717. considered. Call Stephen on 041 774 5405. Phone Daniel on 0689 876378. ■ I want a printer and joystick, either in VGC ■ Wanted! Lightpen and software. Must be in ■ For sale! Speccy 48K with hundreds of ■ 48K Speccy, two joysticks, interface, tape or new, for my Speccy 48K. Also looking good condition. Will pay about £10. Phone games including Cartoon Collection, Turrican, recorder, ail leads, lots of game, loads of YS urgently for Lemmings. Can anyone help? James on 0752 813038. Nightbreed, The Untouchables and Dizzy back issues, all for £50. Call Toby on 0535 Call Fiona on 0530 560713. ■ 1 want a NES with Mario 3, Rescue Rangers Panic. Complete with leads, dual interface, 606725 eves only please ■ Wanted, cheap SAM Coupe printer/disk and a few other games. Will swap for a +2 Zipstick and new PSU. Will sell for £60 or £65 ■ 48K Speccy. DISCiPLE interface, 3.5" interface. Will pay £10. Call Martin on 0935 with 500 games, 100 books, all leads and with tape recorder. Call Richard on 0227 drive, datarecorder, joystick, programming 25974. joysticks. Call Steven on Staffordshire 720249. books, disk and tape progs, all for £140 ono. ■ Has anyone got ANY games for the 534232. All in top condition. ■ For sale! 48K rubber-keyed Speccy (Blub! Call DV Potter on 0376 328547 Defender lightgun except Bronx Street Cop? ■ f want a cheap, working printer for my +3. Ed), all leads, hundreds of games (1982-93) ■ For sale! 128K with 300 games including Games for the Magnum lightphaser also Also disk software - but not games. Call worth over £700, light pen, speech synth, Viz, Turtles, The Simpsons, Rainbow Islands. accepted. Call Michael on 0272 677814 after Grandad on 0962 855149 in the evenings. Multiface 1 with Lifeguard, joystick interface, Plus! loads of mags including CRASH, SU 4pm or any time on Sat and Sun. Cash paid ■ Wanted! The book ‘Maths Tutor For The heaps of Cl 5 blank tapes. All for £200, may and YS. (Hurrah! Ed) Lightgun included. All for your games! Spectrum’ by Robert Carter, published by split. Phone Adie on 0479 810210 after 4pm for £200. Call Luke on Worthing 206226. ■ Wanted - tapes and Microdrive cartridges. Century Communications. Will pay £10. Call ■ For sale! Speccy 128K plus tape recorder, ■ For sale! +2 and £105+ worth of games I’ll swap Robocop, Barbarian 1 and 2, Harry on 0527 66283 printer and leads and over 380 games including Rainbow Islands, Off Road Racer, Tasword 2, Edition One (four games), Karate ■ I want maps for Lords Of Midnight and including most recent titles, and joystick Chase HQ, Emlyn Hughes, Arcadia and the Ace (seven games) and a switchabie joystick Doomdark’s Revenge. I also want any graphic interface. Worth over £2000, will sell for £350. Cartoon Collection. Plus! joystick, monitor and interface, or swap the lot for a Multiface 128. adventure games, i’ll buy ’em or swap arcade A definite barg for a Speccy enthusiast. Call PAW. All for £100 ono. Call Pat on 0580 Call Roy on 051 922 8167. games for ’em. Call Ashley on 0600 772795. David on 0383 823619. 826251. ■ I want a Ceefax/ITV Teletext downloader for ■ Wanted! Lord Lucan. Just kidding! I really ■ VTX5000 modem with Micronet book and ■ +2A mint condition, lightgun, light pen, a 48K Speccy. Call Andrew on 0793 610070. want Pang, North And South and the Chart PD software. £50 including p&p. Call J joysticks, many games, books and mags! All ■ The huge sum of £10 will be paid to you if Attack compilation, all on +3 disk. I’ll pay cash Blizard on 0449 675193. for £20, buyer collects or pays postage. Call you can send me original titles of Manic Miner or swap from over 300 games, some on disk ■ +2 for sale. Includes Genius mouse, OCP Joe on 0275 858859 6pm-8pm. and/or Ultimate’s Jetpac. Also, I might (for example FI6 Combat Pilot or Lords Of Advanced Art Studio, lightgun with six games, ■ +2 for sale with about 30 games plus purchase any of your prehistoric Speccy Chaos). Call me, Richard, on 091 268 2448, and 70 games. £100 ono. Call Cyril on 0803 manual and joystick - £50. Call Steven on games - Pssst!, JSWetc. Ring Mark on 0752 even if you’re Lord Lucan. 851865. 0249 445593. 848498. ■ Has anyone got a Multiface with instructions ■ +2A with joystick, TV lead, manual, £135 ■ For sale! +2A, lightgun, joystick, mouse and ■ Desperately wanted - Your Spectrum ish for my Speccy +2A? I’ll pay £10. Phone Joe worth of games including Licence To Kill and art package and 500+ games. Lots of top 18, Sept 1985, or JSW2 Editor tape. Also on 0506 633185. Gunship. Four years old, good condition (fire titles. Will sell all for £225. Call Neil on 0788 wanted - ZX81 with all the leads. Call Julia ■ Wanted! Complete instructions, controls etc button doesn’t work on ’stick, though). Worth 560678. on 0772 725157 after 5pm. for AticAtac. Call Mark on 0356 670301. £260, will sell for £100 ono. Call Chris on ■ For sale! Speccy+ in original box with ■ I want an Interface 1. I’ll swap for a Hurry! (Well, we’ll give him the benefit of the 0749 673001. manuals and cables. Plus! joystick interface, Multiface 1 or lightgun plus switchabie joystick doubt. Ed) ■ +2 with joystick and about 200 games and software, mags and tape deck. £50 or will interface (Kempston-cursor-Protek-Sinclair), ■ I want a Multiface 3. Basically. Call Mr manual. £120 ovno. Call Ian on 0634 243625. swap for 9-pin printer. Call Martin on 0935 maybe all three if Interface 1 is in good Lively on 0706 813056. ■ For sale! SAM 512K with one drive, parallel 25974. condition. Call Roy on 051 922 8167. ■ I want Turbo Esprit for the 48K Specccy, printer interface and cable, Messenger, ■ +2A with 100+ games, lightgun, five books ■ If anyone out there has YS issues 1 to 49, and an interface for my Kempston joystick. I’ll MasterDOS, MasterBASIC, Gamesmaster, and a pile of mags, all for £150. Call Richard I’ll gladly pay 50p each plus p&p. Write to swap games or pay. Call Kevin on 0484 The Secretary and various other bits of on 04022 26194. Paul Mayo, UKNSU, HQAFSE, BFPO 8. 643570. software (games, utilties, PD). All for £250. ■ For sale! SAM Coupe 256K with one drive, ■ Myth and Technician Ted for 48K/ 128K ■ I require a bridge game for the +2. Call NF Call I Chapman on 0271 76928. disks and technical manual. Boxed, perfect Speccy. Will swap for Quattro Cartoon, Barnes on 0323 723852. ■ Speccy +3 for sale with over 350 games, condition. £150 ono. Call Neil on 0284 Quattro Megastars, Impossamole and New ■ Wanted! Elite (the 3D space combat game) joystick, datarecorder, all leads and five 755740. Zealand Story. I also want a pen pal with an in original +3 disk form. Will pay £10 or swap programming books. £350 ono. Call Stuart ■ +2 for sale, with dual Kempston interface, interest in computers. Phone Andrew on for other +3 commercial software. I also want on 0463 870866. two joysticks, over £350 worth of games, sims 0493 667469, Mop$r|1after 4pm. old computer cables. Send them in simple ■ Alphacom 32 thermal printer including PSU and educational progs. Plus! 40 YS mags and ■ Top priority! Original games from Ultimate, envelope and I’ll return your postage and drop and paper, for Speccy or ZX81 - £30. tapes. All for £160. Call Geoff on 0289 Jetpac;and Unaerwurlde - will pavjfel 5 each. in something else to boot (probably software, Rotronics datarecorder - £15. DK’tronics 302007. Also Jet Set Willy-t will pay £10. Phone John so state which Speccy you’ve got). Call lightpen and software - £10. Kempston ■ +2A for sale, with mouse, Art Studio, on 0333 428647 before 9am or after 5pm. Martin on 0935 25974. joystick interface - £5. Call Mark on 0525 lightgun, mags and covertapes, books, M Wanted! +3 contacts especially if your +3 ■ Has anyone got a copy of Gremlin’s 373979. joystick, £330 worth of games, all leads. VGC, has got a 3.5" external drive. Call Martin on Technocop? I’ll give AticAtac, Orbiterand ■ For sale! Amstrad 6128 with colour monitor, games include 3DCK, FI 6 Combat Pilot, 0935 25974. The Hobbit for it. Call Sam on York 622748. Multiface 2, tape recorder, built-in 3" disk Robocop 1 and 2 and many more. £200 ono. ■ Urgently required! MF-Printby Campbell ■ Wanted! 3DCKfrom Incentive. Will swap for drive, over £200 worth of games and joystick. Call Kerin on 0203 443639. Systems, on cassette or Microdrive. Failing %0yper Sports, The Games - Winter Edition,
YOUR SINCLAIR July 1993 BMX Ninja, Spec Chess 2, Millimon, Cyberun, ■ Wanted! Chase HQ, Scrabble Deluxe, Mini This word-packed, three page spesk was scene. We have crew members on Amiga, ST Strip Poker 2, Frog Hopper, Super Gran, Office, Tipshop Tiptionary, Campbell’s brought to you by Jonathan, Simon and Speccy. Join the crew or just swap Wally Kong and a CRASH power tape. Must Masterfile (expansion pack), FI5, FI6, Forrester and Charlotte Brock. There’s- demos or listings. Phone Wil bn 0473 have instructions. Call Ray on Wallington Double Dragon 2 and 3, Swap two for one: actually enough left over for another three 717900 5pm«6pm or weekends 6470722 after 4.30pm weekdays and any Lotus Turbo, Robocop, STUN Runner, Target; pages, you know. With even more Martin ■ Stephen Pert says, fame and fortune time on weekends. Renegade, The Hobbit, WEC Le Mans, Trivial On 0953 25974. Hahahahaha. (Slap.1 O beckons. Excellent programmer stardom! ■ 1 want Man Utd, Microprose Soccer and Pursuit, Best of PCW. Phone 051 922 8167. Thhnks, I needed that. Er, zucchini? Beat that John! Splert. Devastating Blow, mb 1*11 swap last year’s ■ I want Street Fighter and Street Fighter 2. ■ Help! Please, does anyone know how to supply of C&VG for ’em pius! loads of back Will swap Forgotten Worlds, Pro Ski Sim, complete Gifsoft’s adventure, Madcap Manoid issues of Match. You can also buy the C&VGs Buggy Boy, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Assault Course, Mature Sinclair user going insane! Call C for £15 (they’re worth £23 easy). Call Chris Dizzy, Grid Iron 2, 1943, Guardian Angel, Roscoe on 0752 773889. on 0473 713086. Everything in A1 condition. Super Cycle, Rastan, Boxing Sim, Cauldron ■ Talisman of TMG greets Kronus, Vision, X- ■ Wanted! Grand Prix, Nigel Mansell’s Grand 1&2, Flash Gordon and The Hit Squad. 128K Terminator, WOMO, ail of ESI, Agent-X, D Prix or Grand Prix Challenge. I’ll swap for It’s originals only. Phone 0903 29618 after 6pm Morris, Phillip Snell, MEZ, Linda B and TV Showtime, Rainbow Islands, The Jonathan Nash. (Gawsh! Ed) If you have Untouchables and Vigilante. TV Showtime tor good demos on +D (3.5”) or tape and want to Grand Prix only. Call James on 0889 26282. swap them, write to Talisman, PLK ■ I want The Quill. I’ll swap any two of these 094323E, W-7000 Stuttgart 1, Germany. games for it - Biff, Defenders Of The Earth, ■ Spec City - ish one out now! Reviews, tips, ■ QL magazines for sale. 80p each. IK+ or Sharkey’s Moil. Call Darron on 0376 compos etc. £1.10 or 50p if you send a blank (Definitely the last time we’re printing the 570534. tape. Please include sae. But first! Ring me following bit. Ed) Call Martin on 0935 25974 ■ Wanted! Iron Lord, Lone Wolf, Turtles 2 and for the address! I’m Gavin and you can ■ I would change games to games or to Out Run Europa. Will swap my E-Motion, reach me on 0828 27634 after 8pm. magazines. Any year YS, SU, CRASH, Batman The Movm Robocop 2, RBI2, Street ■ Free! Latest issue of Spectrum Format C&VG. Please send the package registered Fighter 2, Ghostbusters 2, Smash TV and tapezine. Just send a tape and a sae. SF because we can’t trust in the Hungarian post. Reckless Rufus. Two for one or I’ll pay a ■ For sale! 26 games for £60 including contains game reviews, compos, news, Write to George Lederer (George! Where’s reasonable price. Phone Matt on 0272 Robocop 2 and Terminator 2. I’ll throw in a contacts, letters and - yes! - much more. Call our AK47? Ed) at 3b Dunadulo St 1212, 621494 after 5pm. lightgun and Sinclair joystick. Call Mat on Gavin on 0232 779688 after 5pm for the Budapest, Hungary 1212. ■ I’ll swap Life Term, Wiz Biz, Invincible 0406 380022. address. ■ From Russia with love to Speccy! We seek Island, Trap Door, Adventures and two ■ £270 worth of games including Smash TV, ■ Mad contributors wanted for The Works, a ^enfriends from UK for change info, computer Olympics for your Thunderbirds and Postman R-Type, Turrican, Myth, Rainbow Islands, forthcoming magazine about everything! If magazines etc. PS Send me address and Pat 1. Yup, that’s six for two. Call Robert on Shadow Warriors and many more on disk and you are completely mental and can write birthdate of Sir Sinclair. My dream is send 0226 340370. tape. Will sell for £115 or swap for PAL SNES decent articles or reviews then phone Jon on congratulation man of genius of computer ■ Will swap Turtles - The Coin-op, New (no games required) or will split. Call Dunlan 0387 65972 between 4pm and 6.30pm on world. Excuse for poor English. Bye! Write to Zealand Story and Shadow Dancer for your on 0527 60852. weekdays only. Weeeee plonge! Alexander at UL B Academicheskaya dom Bart Vs The Space Mutants. Call Rob on ■ +3 disks for sale! Terminator 2, Return Of 14, KV 51, Moscow 125299, Russia 0705 380917. The Jedi- £4 each. Chart Attack (five games) ■ Pen pals wanted! Those who remember the ■ I’ll swap my THMT, Robocop, Missile - £7. European Super League - £3. Also the early days of the Speccy and home Defence, The Untouchables and Rebelstar 2 following tapes at £1.50 each: Golden Axe, computers in general wanted to swap k for your Smash TV, Sim City, Robocop 2 and Slightly Magic, Slaine, Kamov, Terramex and thoughts and games etc. Also, does anyone Double Dragon 1, 2or 3. One for one. Call Crazy Cars. Phone Jason on 0533 831612 have copies of Your Computer/SU of 1984- Simon on Rotherham 370166. after 6pm. 1988? Call Paul on 0992 652066 eves with ■ 128K games to swap or sell, for example, ■ Speccy software for sale. Hisoft Devpac, info or for my address. Spellbound Diz, Diz Prince Of The Yolkfolk, Driller, Castle Master and Captain Blood for ■ Obvious space-filling ad! Yes, these last Terminator 2, Dragon Spirit, Hydrofool, £6 each. (Or alternatively get Captain Blood four lines were too short for a proper ad, so Imagination, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, free with YS! YS, available now, costs only this obvious space-filler was inserted at the Hero Quest. Lots more. Phone Dylan on £2.50! A pleasant alternative to pestilence’ - I Contacts wanted for demo coder new to the last moment to avoid embarrassment. Phew. 0524 846627 after 2.30pm. TB Faisename. Ed) Op Wolf, Thunder Blade, ■ Has anybody out there got Space Crusade Hotshot, Forgotten World, Fairlight 2, or Sim City? I’ll swap Tunican 2, Silkworm, Robocop and Batman The Caped Crusader TMHTand Robocop 2, two for one. Call for £4 each. Highway Encounter and Spy David on 0224 869474 after 6.00pm. Hunter £3 each. Draconus, Zybex and 3D ■ I want North And South (disk or tape Starstrike, £1.50 each. Inca Curse and Ship version) and Monopoly (disk or - yes! - tape Of Doom (adventures) 75p each. Finders ^version) and will swap Technocop, Dizzy, Keepers and Action Biker (double pack) 75p BMX Sim, Phantomas, Renegade 3, F16 for both. Return Of The Jedi, Chequered Flag, Combat Pilot and Mutant Fortress for them - Timebomb, Chess, VU3D, Gobble-A-Ghost, two for one, your choice. Call WE Shaylor on Pool and Caterpillar 50p each. Call Martin on 0323 737016. 0342 323741 ■ Will swap The Hobbit, Tasword 2, Out Run, ■ For sale! Panic Dizzy, Spectral Invaders, STUN Runner, Green Beret, Lotus Challenge, Live And Let Die, SAS Combat, Battle Valley, Trivial Pursuit, Barbarian, Best of PCW (and California Games, Moonwalker, Golden Axe, The Independent Budget), VU3D, Barbarian 2 and Forth the Motorbike Madness and Paperboy all Spectrum & SAM Coupe User Group language - any two for one, anything ** between £2.50 and £3.00. Phone Daneil on considered, or will swap all for Interface 1. 0823 666649 after 4pm. Call Roy on 051 922 8167. ■ For sale! Ace Of Aces, Leaderboard, To celebrate the start of our 7th year ■ Crystal Kingdom Dizzy, Football Manager Airwolf, Short Circuit and BMX Sim for £10 or 3, Terminator 2, Bruce Lee, Daley £2.50 each. And! Will swap Italia ’90 for we are making YS readers Thompson’s Decathlon and +3 disks to swap. Golden Axe. Call Aaron on Tillicoultry Any offers? Call Matthew on 0772 727420. 52041. A VERY SPECIAL OFFER ■ Will swap my CJ In The USA, CJ’s ■ For sale! About 35 Speccy games, all Elephant Antics, Wild West Seymour, Slightly boxed, vgc. £20 the lot. Phone Brian on Associate Membership of INDUG Magic and Rick Dangerous for your Crystal 0705 613490 for details. Kingdom Dizzy. More games available. ■ Speccy games for sale! Many a barg to be Phone Ian on 0245 420921. had. All original. Prices range from 25p ■ Wanted - the original Dizzy. I will swap (budget) to £4 (compilations). Lots of games Green Beret or R-Type or Treasure Island for available. Phone Ben on 0602 702341 it. Call Ryan on Chelmsford 250859. ■ Midnight Resistance, Sim City, Hard Drivin’, For your first 12 months. ■ Wanted, wanted, wanted, wanted, Amiga, Stunt Car Racer, Chase HQ and hundreds of (Normally that would cost you £4 a year) Amiga, Amiga, Amiga, games, games, others. All originals. £2.00 each! For full list games, games. Call Jason on 021 742 0363 call Alex on 0594 833858. All you need to do is put your full name and ■ I want Moontorc, Ruff And Reddy and an ■ Games for sale! Loads of full-price and barg address on a postcard (please print clearly), editor for the YS covertape game games - Out Run Europa, FI 6 Combat Pilot, tell us which computer(s) you own, and then Earthshaker. Call John on 0257 463352 Ivan ‘Ironman' Stewart’s Super Off Road now! Racer, a|yWill swap for cash! or ATF, send it to:- ■ Urgently needed! Sim City LOC Extension, Comm^^m Stunt Car Racer or Star Control. INDUG Associate Membership (YS), Lone Wolf, Steg. Will swap Jet Set Willy, Phone Robin on 0904 83658. Format Publications, Hacker 2, Paperboy, Double Dragon, Indiana ■ For sale! 128K/+2 cassette version of Jones And The Temple of Doom, Afterburner^ Tascalc from Tasman. Bought in error for my 34, Bourton Road, Top Gun, Shadow Warriors, Dragons of 48K. Make me an offer for it. Call Trevor on Gloucester, GL4 OLE. Flame (AD+D), Graeme Souness Soccer 0304 208107 This offer places you under no obligation to purchase any goods Manager. One for one, two for two, etc. Will ■ Speccy +2 for sale, with new aerial, joystick or services. Full details of the benefits of Associate Membership pay or you can buy mine for £3 each. Phone and manual. Call John on 0602 732003 will be mailed to you within 28 days of receipt of your card. J Andrew on 0225 317786. between 6pm and 8pm.
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Well, enough data from a modem: Videotex (also known chat, there are jargony terms to use in as viewdata) and Not Videotex, (also order to baffle people, or something. known as Not Viewdata). (Are you sure you don’t mean ASCII? Ed) I hope you’re all still compos mentis after last You’ve all seen videotex terminals, month’s thrilling instalment. In true journalistic whether you know it or not - TV’s teletext style, I’m going to totally ignore what I said I’d conforms to the videotex standard. The do this month, and do something else instead. VTX5000 modem basically turns your (Look, I tried to log on to the Internet, I really Speccy into a videotex terminal. That’s why, did, but it didn’t work. Rest assured that top when you switch on with a VTX5000 level talks are going on at this very moment in attached, you get the Micronet 800 startup an attempt to fix things.) It’s more theory this screen (erk). Now this is all well and good for month; in particular, explaining file viewers, those of us who love paying a fortune for downloaders and terminal emulators (all vital playing with Prestel, but there is life beyond its comms-type things). I’ve dispensed with the portals. And that’s where these terminal services of Mr and Mrs Feedline, so instead emulators come in. Instead of using fancy here’s a nice sensible sub-heading. page numbers and silly methods of downloading, they just use nice, simple ASCII 64 and 80 columns of text. As far as I know, File viewers - the fact (sorry, fact) and better download methods. And terminal there is no 80 column emulator available for File viewers are self-explanatory programs. emulators let you turn your Videotex terminal the Speccy, and I reckon it’s technically They just arrange the ASCII files you get from into a Not Videotex terminal. (I’m still not impossible to do. Oh well. BBSs into a recognisable format on your convinced. Ed) Speccy screen. There are a number of terminal emulators BG Services - the obligatory mention available on the Speccy, and I have two These progs (and many others, etc etc) are Downloaders - the facts favourites. The first is Specterm, and although available from the entirely expected BG Downloaders are a little trickier. They organise small, it’s very powerful, because (confidential Services, who can be found at 64 Roebuck the exchange of modem data to minimise whisper) it’s completely user-configurable. This Road, Chessington, Surrey KT9 1JX. Drop BG mistakes caused by distortion on the line and strangling set of syllables means you can alter a line (include a sae) and they’ll let you know other such natural disasters. Essentially, it to do anything you damn well please. There what’s available, which model of Speccy you download protocols set up a series of checks are oodles of options - you can even program should be running it on, how much it costs, as the data is transmitted or received, so if your name and password into it, to save you what colour the cassette is, and by the way anything does go wrong, the data is just re¬ having to type it each time you call up a board. would you like to buy some double glazing? Or transmitted until it passes the test. There are Lovely, and definitely a Megagame, if we give something. And mention Dial Hard when quite a few such protocols, but the most such things to terminal emulators. (Er, no. Ed) writing, so BG know where to send the common one is the ageing but reliable The second is a very simple emulator (the cheque, hem hem. Xmodem, which works especially well on the name of which escapes me in an entirely Speccy. Y’see, the original way of downloading embarrassing sort of way) written in BASIC. WARNING! things from Prestel or Micronet (sniff) was that Now before you all start whingeing, remember So good, it’s worth printing twice. the Prestel computer would start outputting that a terminal emulator doesn’t really need the Modems can wreck your life. Really. data to the screen, and you recorded the data speed machine code offers, and as it’s in You’ve got to remember that although to tape ‘live’. Very silly indeed. Enter the BASIC, all those of you who know a little of the you’re having lots of fun on the downloader, which, er, downloads the data into language (insert plug for Steve’s Programming modem, it’s costing you (or your your Speccy’s RAM. (Obviously better if you Launderette here) can customise the prog as parents, or whoever) money. If you’re have a 128K machine with lots of lovely extra you feel fit. It even has a little bit that works out sensible about using the phone, you memory.) Only then do you save it to tape, how much each call costs! can make a nice little hobby out of saving time and, consequently, money. Very The other real benefit of these emulators is modeming. However, if you’re not, clever, Mr Bond. that they give your Speccy 64 columns of text you’ll pay for it, in every sense of the (like most word processors), as opposed to the word. Remember the phone bill! Terminal emulators 32 or 40 that Videotex offers. This is a real - well, you know benefit, as the majority of Not Videotex Tch. Finished already. the rest machines have Anyway, if you’ve any There are lots between of different questions of a modemy or computers. comms nature, write to me, And as far Simon Hindle, at Dial Hard, as things YS, 30 Monmouth St, Bath BA1 2BW. Next month! I really will be delving into the Internet! Cheerio. YOUR SINCLAIR July 1993 FROM THE FREE! SOFTWARE PACK-FROM SILICA SPECIALISTS ZOOL is the software pack of the year. 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Our new reviewing chap Philip Kiernan! (Come on don be shy.) Commando been left uncovered on the Elite/£3.99 road, and due to a stroke of bad luck, our Steve ® 0922 55852 went and stepped right into it. Down and Ever fantasised down and down he about being went, right to the dropped into some bottom at which point deadly jungle (hostile he hit his head on a territory and all that) rock. Next morning, he with nothing but a measly awoke to find himself machine gun to protect you? Well wandering in the middle of a look no further because here at battlefield. Being a devout pacifist, YS we have up for grabs a limited a dilemma arose - should he raise edition AK47 and a one-way ticket his hands and surrender or should to... hang on, my mistake. Look no he proceed to annihilate every last further, because here’s the long- one of the blighters closing in on awaited re-release of that famous him with this handy machine gun and very old shoot-’em-up he seemed to have picked up from Commando. Er, hurrah. somewhere? After a moment’s Damn it Brad, you told me these little boxes were made of Well, anyway, about the game. deliberation, he cast aside both ticky-facky. That’s the third man I’ve lost to them already. The plot is pretty simply and reads his ethics and his hopes of ever Oh no, Dozier’s just been eaten by the giant cotton wool something along the lines of... seeing a white sliced loaf again, ball as well. I’ll be making a full report about this, mister. (Sound of someone rustling and started shooting. their bullets! Blast these into the we’re papers on desk.) Blimey where Ow, my conscience! Well, the ground and it’s on to the next crawling has that inlay gone? Er, er, once plot definitely involves shooting, level. No problem (Sarge). under was upon a time there lived a mild- anyway. Lots of it. Armed with that The sheer addictiveness lies in erected in 1936 mannered social worker from machine gun and a handful of finding out what the next stage by a sheep farmer worried about down South by the name of Steve. grenades, you mission involves holds - how it’s laid out and what his critters. What’s that, sir? I don’t Minded his own business he did advancing as far up the vertically- hazards there will be to overcome. wish to know about your critters. and expected others to treat him scrolling landscape as is humanly These hazards get progressively Now, on either side of us are the likewise. One day, while walking possible. If you run low on more insanely dangerous, and the trenches. Note how the to the local shop grenades, you can steal the opposition grows less shy about inhabitants crouch down as we to fetch a white opposition’s, which is a bit useful whipping out their rocket approach. No cameras please, sliced loaf, to say the least. launchers (Oo-, as they say, -er. they don’t like it. And here we something Should you reach the end of a Ed) These one-man mission larks have the mad motorcyclist, an quite level, you come slap bang up appear impossible at times - unpredictable fellow. Yikes, dive extraordinary against a big gate, out of which makes you wish they’d included a for cover! (Party zigzags in happened.A pop zillions of newly-recruited two-player option. (They did, in the panicked fashion.) Missiles, eh? manhole had troops with (squint) your name on sort-of sequel, Duel, which was Yikes, heads down. crap, so there you are. Ed) Oh Flamethrowers, eh? Yikes, say well, ne’er mind. yikes a lot. Yikes. (Ragged party Where were we? Oh yeah, stumbles through gate and addictiveness. Yes, it is addictive. collapses on grass.) An enjoyable In fact I think I’ll just nip odd for romp if ever there was one. another try. And I think I’ll take So, all in all, I could sum up along a representative sample of Commando as being a bit of a the studio audience. (Small party classic really. It’s got everything runs through desert landscape.) fanatical shoot-’em-up folk could On our left we can see what’s ever want and a bit more to boot, known as an army tank - nasty whatever that means. If you little number indeed. Don’t get too missed it last time around, well, close. (Ratatatatat.) Oh, and best here’s your chance to join the war. be careful of those trucks cruising Happy shooting, merry mayhem, across our path. And what’s that and may the force be with you. jumping out of them? Why, it’s a Or something. lot of soldiers! (Ratatatatatat.) Philip Pah, amateurs. Watch out for the bloke with the bazooka. (Whizz, kablamm.) Cripes, that was close. (Party Hello sir, (Warn Warn blam) I wonder if I could interest you (ratatatatatatat bang) in my dives into ditch.) And now, for company’s exceptionally fine (chug chug chug chug kabfang) double glazing? (Poot) anyone interested, the bridge Swords and Sorcery Summit £3.99 * 0977 797777 i j HOU MdAMW| 50p tip? Right, I'i! just have to deliver your soul beyond the great veil then. > ‘Death to the chopped- mind its age and treat it like the up slimy yellow zit’ or slightly senile, drivelling old goat it even ‘You slow sweet is. If you haven’t got the time or bottom-blast’ - eerghh). Utter filth, patience to plough down past the I think you’ll agree. surface, though, avoid it like a Well, that’s about all the thing Bobby Davro charity appearance. has to offer. If the other stuff in Leigh the genre like those mentioned above wibbled your particular t cerebrum to a pleasant degree, I you’ll probably get your four quids’ worth here, if you can keep in WWF Ultimate Warrior was a rubbish The Hit Squad/£3.99 film and I always hated British » 061 832 6633 Bulldog at school). The tape whirrs then you’re told to turn the tape Right, I’ll level with you. Stuart of over. The tape whirrs - oooh, the clan Campbell was supposed something exciting at last. to be reviewing this but he’s Er, maybe not. Mr Perfect vanished into the Twilight Zone. makes some cutting remarks So you’ve got me instead. You about our Hulky. Never fear, ’cos know, the one who does the Killer you can choose an insult to fling Kolumn. What do you mean, all he back - not that it’s in the Vogon knows about is SF? I know my poetry league of inflicting physical Speccy games, me. pain; more Pam Ayres. Then the Take WWF for example. It’s got tape’s off again. Yep, we had to the kind of multiload that makes endure a good few minutes’ 2001: A Space Odyssey seem loading for that nonsense. really fast-paced. The tape Finally, the game whirrs, the screen flashes proper. A US-style (exactly the way the Star wrestling sim that’s Gate in 2001 didn’t) and nothing like the sport Derek summoned his strength for a last-minute sprint. But it was too late! Even as he bent you get an option it’s based on - you to place the glass of water, Henry the Magnificent plummetted 150 feet to the sawdust. screen. Let’s choose don’t get to rehearse Hulk Hogan (well, your moves with your opponent to a pulp - and I don’t It’s all a bit humdrum and opponent before the mean ’50s SF comics. becomes very samey quicker than bout. Instead, you have to There’s a decent range of the Nightmare On Elm Street use combinations of joystick moves and the controls seem movies. The names of your movements or keyboard presses logical (Captain) though unless opponents and their insults might to make your wrestler perform you make sure you’re dead level change but the gameplay never kicks, hits and hugs, not to with your opponent you end up varies. Buy Deep Space Nine on mention flying and running flying straight past him when you video instead. versions of the same. perform a move. Strangely, the Dave There’s some frantic icon- Speccy-controlled wrestlers never prompted waggling and have this problem. Two-player ■Brawn button-pressing as well (surprise, mode is fairer, but finding Right, this has gone on long enough. Give surprise). Waggle or press fast someone daft enough to play me back my leg or I’ll tell my dad. enough and you can mangle your against could be difficult. YS/Blue Alpha Competition Oh, I know. It's so tediously obvious a since a water buffalo crushed the then we'll see add-ons for two-player pun, isn't it? Y'see, The Remote is a programmer of Count Duckula 2 back in games, as well as Remotes to work with new bit o' hardware that allows 1986.# And thanks to Blue Alpha's Mother console machines, which isn't really you to play games sitting miles away from Theresa-like generosity, YS readers have relevant, but what the hey. the Speccy (or something). the chance to win one of these add-ons. Okay. Enough exciting bumph-type stuff. There are two bits to The Remote - the (Hurrah! YS readers reacting on cue) You'll want to be a-knowing how to win transmitter and the receiver. The idea is We were going to review The Remote one of these white box thangs. Well, in an that you plug the receiver into your this month, but, as they say in quiz shows, entirely unsurprising move, you have to Speccy, then plug the joystick into the time, that old enemy, beat us once again. answer the following question then send transmitter and flop down in your fave Instead we're holding the review over until your answer to us. There are three prizes in chair without having to scrape it across the next month so our panel of experts** can the compo. carpet so you can reach the Speccy. The really take it apart (not literally) (well, • First prize is a Remote Joystick One with transmitter sends out a code of ultrasonic, maybe so). However, a quick play around £10 off a Remote Joystick Two (er, when er, noises corresponding to your joystick's has convinced us that it actually works they're released). movements and the transmitter picks 'em and, as you supply the joystick, it's far • Second prize is a Remote Joystick One. up and feeds 'em into the Speccy. Result - better than the only other remote • Third prize is the £10 voucher for either a remote control games! Well, sort of. controller we can think of. Cheetah's RAT, RJ1 or a RJ2. Phew, eh? The dashed clever bit is that since which was a ghastly plastic joypad sort of joysticks are (more or less) standardised. affair. According to Blue Alpha, you can The question is... The Remote can be used on any use any joystick with The Remote - you 'Joystick' was originally a colloquial term computer with a minor kludge here and don't have to stick with the ones that have for what? there. Blue Alpha, the bods behind the that dangly grey lead. Hurrah again! At a) The French bread produced by M'selle box (who SAM peeps may remember with the moment, you can only play with Joy Piccolojhe famous unicycling baker warm affection, or something) are joystick one on a two-port machine, but if of Ypres. confident that The Remote will be the itjrs original model takes off (which Blue b) The control lever of an aeroplane. biggest thing to hit the computer scene Alpha are completely convinced it will) c) The Chelsea Flower Show, my man, and don't try taking us the long way, we're not To: ‘It’s A Long Way To, Well, Everywhere Really’ compo,”! tourists. Oh no! We seem to have been YS, 29 Monmouth St, Bath BAT 2DL spookily transported inside a multiple choice competition question. The answer is. U ■_ E S • Employees of Future Publishing or Blue My name is. Alpha aren't eligible to enter, so there. • All entries must be received at the Shed My address is. by July 6th 1993. • People who send in multiple entries will be ignored with much curling of the lip. Tel No.Postcode .. • Andy's decision is final. (Right! I'm going home then. Andy) Erk. Exact model of Speccy or SAM (completely vital), *Yes, it didn't happen, but it should have. Shoe size (optional). **Hahahahahahahahaha. Sorry. YOUR SINCLAIR July 1993 pressure to finish it, since I do like doing things other NEWS than programming - like eating, sleeping, going out, etc.’ Well said. Programmers are human At last! Things too! (Or so I’ve been told.) happening in the SAM By the way - a quick word about Days of world that are not (in Sorcery, Nigel’s adventure. Tim Kemp reviewed it just before leaving for pastures negotiation’ or ‘under new, but the review itself hasn’t yet been discussion’ but just printed. (It may pop up on YS2 issue 3.) it, this is the only printable pic out of Essentially, Tim loved it to death, gave it 10 plain ‘released’ or the 18 in the last part of The Lyra 3. If you're easily offended out of 10 and wants people to buy it in large ‘definitely being by some anatomically remarkably unlikely women posing nude quantities to restore his faith in human nature, (basically), leave well alone. It’s a real pity, too, because worked on, honest, or something. The game costs £9.99 and is there’s no swearing in the demo. ESI, gun, foot, pointless. guv’. It’s a refreshing available from the author at 12 Limited Road, THE LYRA 3 change. Moordown, Bournemouth, Dorset BH9 1SS. ESI Cheques/POs should be payable to Nigel PD - available everywhere Kettlewell. ‘Provided my carp with adequate It’s arriving... it’s arriving... it’s arrived! ESI’s nourishment’ - TB Falsename. semi-legendary (everybody knew they were doing one, but nobody knew what it was THE PHEATON EFFECT MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! called) megademo finally makes it to the SAM. News reaches the ears of yours truly that Just squeezed out of this month’s SAM The Lyra 2 being a particular fave of mine on Nigel Kettlewell of Days of Sorcery fame is Centre was the Zine Scene, featuring Adie the Speccy, I couldn’t hit F9 fast enough, so working on a ‘sort of 3D Dungeon Master but Nunn’s soon-to-be-renamed Pump (issue failed to load the program and had to try set in the future-type game’. The working title one). A purely gamesy mag (well, with a again, but more rapidly this time. is The Pheaton Effect, and as you can see couple of music reviews, soon-to-be-dropped If disappointment was a big, blue, coldly- from the screenshots scattered about, it’s at a sound samples and some sophisticated film angled cube, I’d be sitting here with a big, very early stage of development. Nigel: ‘It’s reviews) that features at least two games per blue, coldly-angled cube. The Lyra 3 is a real perhaps a little more mainstream than Days of ish (all written by Adie using SCADS), it’s letdown. From the loading counter between Sorcery, though it still has adventuring entertainingly frank in its opinions and a good parts (which ever so slowly chugs through up elements, ie solving puzzles, but I’d really like read. A couple of pointless swearwords and to 600 cycles) to the to make it more than just an adventure with one playground joke spoil the effect a little, complete lack of 3D graphics. That’s going to be hard, of but the straightforward, almost improvised feel imagination in the course, but arcade sequences will probably to the mag and the mild hamster fixation won various parts, the prog not be in keeping with the rest of the game. me over. Very promising. Pump (soon to be roars half-heartedness. Basically, I’m not yet certain what direction etc etc) ish one costs £2.50 (£4.00 for The majority of the the game is going in yet - we’ll have to wait overseas orders) and is available from effects revolve around for the finished design (from Darren Adrienne Nunn at Craiglea, Aviemore, scrolly messages - Blackburn), when I can work out exactly what Inverness-shire PH22 1RH. scrollies bouncing round in a can be done.’ circle, scrollies in the border, 24 simultaneous The basic handler routines are more or less DYADIC DEMO scrollies, scrollies in a ring, vertical sine-wave done, so the game itself should be finished by Phoenix Software is offering a £1 sampler scrollies and the plain old scrolly in a bouncing September. This is a provisional date, though, disk (£1.50 if you live abroad) containing ‘big bar. Great. (An obvious lie.) so watch out. As Nigel says, ‘I don’t want any demos’ of the games in the Dyadic The Lyra 3 would be a fairly good Speccy compilation, demo - lots of fast movement, plenty of Snakemania and Craft, parallax starfields - but it doesn’t exploit the as well as a few other Coupe’s superior capabilities. In fact, it bits and pieces yet to reminds me irresistibly of a Speccy demo - a be finalised. The price lot of the effects here can be seen on the of the disk is Spec, and those that haven’t certainly could redeemable against be. The only new effect that caused my left Dyadic, which is on eyebrow to raise marginally was the ring offer to YS readers at scrolly, and the only SAM-y impressive part is £10.99 (or £9.99 with the finale, which features 18 digitised Boris the demo disk) instead ‘Cert 15 uninhibited fantasy artist alert and of £11.99. It rated 45% we’re not kidding about the uninhibited bit’ This MBixicu is reserve* for* 38 in ish 89, but - hey! - Vallejo pics ported from the Amiga. But I must you may like it, or mention the music - it’s excellent. Funky something. (You're too remixes of previous ESI pieces, a couple of nice to live. Andy) new ones - it’s the highlight of the megademo. □ □ Send your cash to D The Lyra 3 in a nutshell then: okay for a first Ledbury, 19 Lyme Ave, So early it could feed the chickens, this work-in-progress version of The Pheaton Effect is attempt, but a great disappointment and basically used to test the icon drivers. That yellow ioudspeakery thing is actually the Macclesfield, Cheshire (dare I say it) (Dare! Dare! Andy) programmer’s crap graphical representation of the walls of a maze. Lots to do, could be fab. SK11 7RJ. inferior to many Speccy demos. YOUR SINCLAIR July 1993 Mesdames et messieurs, a petite selection from our outrageously large collection of (Pricas fficlude coverfape, jvosfage & packaging) GIMME GIMME GIMME! MAG* Are you tired? Depressed? Having trouble getting hold of f , 85 Jan ONo YS85 , , 86 Feb ONo YS86 I , , 87 March ONo YS87 YS? Well, don’t worry cos the feskJ With Guardian 2, the ZIP BASIC *£2ad Fun-filled tape includes the incredibly What a tape! It's got Rebelstar, cure for all these ills is here. Compiler, Shock megademo and Bored of the Rings smart Turbulence, the final part of Bored of the Soldier One and The Pathetic Pablo Bros. Plus! A Yes! It’s the all-new panacea Part Two all on the tape. And! A free tape head Rings and a reader game called Hexcellent. Ace, demo and a couple of utilities. Inside you'll find for a lost generation! All you cleaner. Inside: the Beyond Belief story and eh? Inside there's a round-up of the year and Nigel Mansell's World Championship and Street have to do is fill in the coupon, Football Manager 3 reviewed. Robin Hood: Legend Quest gets the once-over. Fighter 2. A fruity pear of an issue! hand it over to your newsagent and your garden will bloom again, your CD player will work perfectly and, best of all, you’re guaranteed a copy of Your Sinclair every month! Dear Sir / Madam Please do me the great honour of saving me a copy of Your Sinclair every month. I am And I live at , . 88 April ONo YS88 I , , 89 May ONo YS89 . . 90 June ONo YS90 Kill your friends! (Not literally.) Two- .■' Get some education! Playdays Back (back! Back!) The YS Complete player Rebelstar is on the tape (along with a load reviewed inside, with the evergreen Chaos, Ano Guide To tackles 3D games and misses out quite of other stuff) while DJ Puff and new machine code Gaia and Music Synth 48K on the outside. (On the a few (probably). 3D Deathchase, the Best Game column Ooh, Sourcey! brighten up the mag. tape, clot.) Plus! Dial Hard, our new comms Of All Time, is on t'tape, and the +3 Musketeers There’s also a Sylvester McCoy interview. Bwah! column. And! No mention of Richard Stilgoe. ride up inside. Or in upside, whatever. Dash down your name, address and the order number of the issues you want and send along with a cheque/PO made payable to Future Publishing Ltd to: YS Back Issues, Future Publishing, FREEPOST, Somerton, Somerset TA11 7BR. n:|j Z k'MJ J.1 -J .TJ ■ 11 JL-LI ACROSS 9. Titus is his name, and, er, he's never actually 5. They escape from broken vases in Level 2 of 4. Right-hand man to The Sentinel. (8) appeared on the Speccy. (3) that rather fab Myth. (5) 5. The Captain, mortal enemy of Baron Von 7. Utterly cack 'pop' 'group' beloved of ex-Ed. Flyswatter. (6) DOWN (1,1,1) (One of their members is a first cousin of 6. The game that inspired the infamous Corinne 1. Rescue.. Fractalus. (Er, sorry.) (3) mine. It's completely true. Ed) Russell ad. (Fwor, eh?) (5) 2. Previously Mastertronic. (6) Leigh Loveday again, folks. (Surprise, eh?) Send Postcode. 8. Affectionate shorthand for the first really 3. 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JAKE SISKO - The Commander’s Bajorans rebuild their planet. But then a worm WHOS WHO IN teenage son. He’s not as irritating as hole (dead handy short cut in space-type thing) Wesley in Next Gen - who could be? - but appears nearby and the Cardassians decide DEEP SPACE NINE still expect loads of dull teenage angst sub¬ they want their space station back. (But where 1. ODO - A shape-shifter with mysterious plots (yawn). are the split infinitives?) origins. He’s the security officer and his 4. BENJAMIN SISKO - The space station’s Unfortunately it’s going to be years (literally) natural form is a blob of jelly and he doesn’t reluctant Commander. Picard killed his wife before the BBC gets to show Deep Space Nine have a sense of smell. when he was Locutus of Borg, and this man here, and even Sky has put back transmission 2. O’BRIEN - Who you might recognise as has a serious chip on his shoulder about until the end of the year. But you can get to see the Transporter Operator in Next Gen. 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