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: This is a jolly nice cover, Isn't it Spec-chums? Mind you, it'd look lot nicer if you couldn't see all this wibble. I tell you what - why don't you ask the newsagent where your Beaut Box has disappeared to? Its got Turbulence, Bored Of The

?Pon\ 0, • It. Beaut, eh? (That's why it's • Ringcalled a Besot Box, y'see.) s Pai Pull up your shorts and hop onto court 1. l for Zeppelin's international Basketball 3 • Dash across to the ring for the Codies' a n Wrestling Superstars 5 d ,Fighter Ocean's and Dream Team - it's a spot of oo Supercompilation mania • The Bulgulators pay dlHI LLYABB a call on SAM The action doesn't let up es for a minute! We look back at 1992 and m 0 o PONENURL take a jolly peek at '93 • Our regulars r fill their allotted slots with such ease and J LAUNDRY PUBLISHING e genius Heck, it's a good issue. Hurrah! o 'flour Rumania* of Van n Ride on to page 50, brother AA".1 I IPI I 41, D• ildriN 11 LAIR IL 40,648 fM fir Art Editor Andy t ditorial Contributorse Steve erson. Craig Broadbent,r Dave Golder. Tim Kemp,J Simon Cooke r another edition of... Oh, hello! I Art Contributor oPhil McCardle G Cover Artwork Cohn JonesV Lemon was just practising my audition n speecho for Blue Peter. I've heard that Blue Arthur Lemon V aSenior Sales Petero presenters get a discount at Pets R Executive Jackiet Gartard d Production Co-ordinatorh Lisa Read kUs and I'd love a new carpet for my Production Technicians Chris e a penthouse deluxe suite— (Sorry readers, Stocker V Scanningn Simon Windsor, Linda'sv still feeling a bit dizzy after the Jon Moore, Simon Chittenden N festivee period and she needs a good biff Publisher Cohn Campbell fr 0 a onn the head now and then to bring her Promotions Manager Tamara Ward V "L s i Group Publisher Greg Ingham ft back down to earth. Thwack! Jonathan) h n Circulation Director Sue Hadley fif ...What am I doing here? Ah, it's you lot g Your Sinclair, Future Publishing. 30 Good! Well, Christmas. eh? What can I a Monmouth Street. Bath, BM 2BW, Tel say except, I hope it was as good for you -n 10225j 442244. Fax (0225) 445019 V as It was for me. The only thing wrong Managing Director Chris Anderson d with the whole period was that it went far Printers Riverside Press, GlIhngham. w too quickly. I didn't have the time, or the Kent If Back Issues Future Publishing e stomach capacity, to eat a quarter of the Ltd, Somenon. Somerset TM I 615 Ll 1 Tel 104581 74011 lif Future things my mum put in front of me! This c Publishing 1992. No part of this meant that I wasn't quite as dozy as other o magazine may be reproduced without members of my family, so I wiped the NEED or THEMIMS PART TIME REACELLENT the permission ol Alan Rickman It you m COMPLETE GAME! READER GAME! floor with the lot of them when we played ME_ manage to find him, send him along td,.. Ee the traditional Boxing Day round of Game A DEEPLY PHILOSOPHICAL 1the Shed!) V ISSN 0269 6983 fir YoLe= t Of Life. I had a spouse and two kids long 1 nciair exchanges arrows and twangs o PR_LIP N E lute strings with the forest folk of before the rest of them had got their first 0 Commodore Format, Amstrad Actio job! Yes, 1992 was good but 1993's going SAME GAME. SMART,Y X E Amiga Format, PCW Plus, PC L7 I t C to be tab - so sit back and enjoy the ishl M swers, Mega, Super Play, PC Plu TURN UP YOUR TREWSd L Lots of love, N Sega Power, Amiga Power. Amiga O C U Shopper, Classic CD, Needlecraft Linda? AND GO PA T S Cycling Plus. Photo Plus, Mountain L A I Biking UK Games Master, PC Format, U V ST Formal. Total' and Today I N E -Vegetanan. Hey nanny no T A S O COPS AND ROBBERS!D F I E 'Your guarantee of value' W T P 1 He's lean, he's mean, his tights are green and he's , D This magazne comes from Future riding through our glen! In CodeMasters• brand-new Publishing, a company founded tust six years ago, but which now seas more platformer, the most famously warmhearted thief in the world computer magazmes than any other 11has to rescue his gal from the depths of a heavily-guarded publisher m Bann. We offer. castle - with the YS team tottering behind every step of the Better advice. Our titles are packed with . way. Join Linda of Nottingham and her band of reasonably written- by the best in the business. merry men as they cross swords and swash buckles with . .7 Stronger reviews. We have a cast Robin Hood - Legend Quest. Yoicks and away! . editonal independence. - rnitt ••—womaanow% woni 1 Clearerg denim Ow designers highlight key eiernents by using charts. diagrams, ru summaryg boxes. annotated photos. etc e - - • Greaters relevance. At Future, editors • r operatet under three golden rules: • • Understand your readers reeds. o • Satisfy them. — •••• o• Never wear brown yet blue. , MM.,og n r o, More reader interaction. We draw strong.s - a — ) el the livelsest letters pages and the best r llto uge• readern bps. Buying one of our magazines is •••••,,_ 2—. . r wed Joining a nattoneicle user group. — 'eae elo pumpkins. Purriptuns are right out. — dex r r;Batter p vague for money. More pages, r :- better cluakty magazines you can trust. E r l r Z OFF e a r i g s n Z u a u ure — E rWI t PrilL141 : l , r - t o r m EW nit YOURy SINCLAIR Feb 1993 — g f e r . a t u r e s . t MEI* REVIEWS

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1 Big, bold 'n brave cover 4 The VS Beaut Box gos, 9 Pssst 10 Charts 9 Meet the Shed Crew 12 That Was The Year That Was 19 Letters IN 22 Input Output 23 Tipshop Steve's Progra • Mg Vino ,Hocer• Whe Wait ha woes • be of • mon', 28 Adventures Launderette (with extra haA Hems you aver hoord any of Acme ottrias about spin cycle) himn and Dow) Nhvo7 Who opunr4 Special techy guest this month is d y Simon N Goodwin, a man with a big ° bag of washing and a game listing! u n 30 Program Pitstop s h 32 Steve's Programming o Launderette with Extra Spin Cycle d • 35 Ernie 0 36 Spec Tec Jr 4 4 38 Public House 1 40 SAM Centre e t Was The Year n 47 Beyond Belief Coupon Corner o t Was f 50 Crossword Clues/Back Issues The YS team glance over their F shoulders at 1992. They pick out 51 Killer Kolumn from Outer Space i the fantastic bits, the crap bits and 51 Next Month l y Ignore all the in-betweeny bits. 812 Lee Haziewood Poster r i n Who7O Jenattal Nish I AO Nod Pdtkitone ci Si Ow,S of Otsba lw • Wky7 ' SOCI AJWS hi rooVy know E IFEBRUP A Rif 2ND howR to horde o 'wont Ha won o monsignori twangs/rumO O YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 MI M , , 40111 , , BULENCE

can think of? Most probably last O month's Guardian 2 - all that pixel- perfectk movement, advanced strategy and a hugea number of keys to boot, If you've been Hoist I woaMst If you amid hello me? I was lust shoeing this sMit man wearing a black imam when all of withy the Speccy a while longer you might sudden I Mold mymd Marc Pretty strange, all? Oh well. .even vote for games like Lunar Jetman, Lode s WRunner or TLL (after Level Two), The pressing (and holding) fire you cause t M privilegedh few who've actually seen the Astroball to jump higher with each successive blessed thing would undoubtedly make a rI UR a a bounce. Tragically. to reverse the effect you JustBUL Ove case for Astroball, and in doing so they'd ENc n t have to let go of the fire button and let her ra earn themselves a pat on the back for the,E c ' naturally settle, which takes a mite longer o feeding us a neat link line into Turbulence. u s . But that's not alit Drum this vital fact into Turn to Page l Turbulence. y'sett is extremely difficult, It's n t your nervous system - to make the planet five to hear e also the sequel to Astrobalt Sort of. Actually, i h rotate you have to move the joystick in the the jolIV t to make things easier, let's say it is, opposite direction (Physics, eh?) Plus' The a e wise word s direction the planet's going on when Astroball n 23314 s of the g h hits it will influence the direction of rebound AUTOMATI h , a (II you imagine a game of Breakout, with the C MUSE! e r planet as the bat, that should help.) Phew r d . And so to the object of the game. t e Scattered around each of the twenty(ish) h s levels (we think - nobody's got past number a t six yet) are a number of glittery diamonds. n g You'll need 'em all to finish the screen. The a a first level is merely unfeasibly difficult - take m the first couple of games to acquaint yourself e • with the control method, Then, when you turbulence sutlers ham an Identity When It asks y start playing in earnest, watch out for two you for the level code, type In 'WHO AM r. You'll now things. One - those huge spike walls aren't gpMo a Inge game Of Oreekorm impassable (big hint), and two - every little u thing on the level, apart from the diamonds It's quite a while since we had a completely and the planet, will kill you on impact. Pretty original game to describe, so listen up. The harsh odds by anyone's standards, but there screen shows two balls - the small, polished you are. form of Astroball herself and part of an Now it's quite probable most of you will enormous chequered planet Astroball can have one go of Turbulence, get nowhere and bounce freely about the place, but the planet give up. That's line. But folks who like their can only be spun left or right. You don't games in a slightly tougher flavour should control Astroball. That would be far too easy. persevere - like the fine games of yore, In fact, you control the planet By rotating it conquering the controls is half the tun. And left or right, or decreasing the gravity by for the whingers - count yourself lucky you've holding down the fire key, you can make got nine lives, matey. Before we tickled the Astroball leap around. (The idea of the game code, you were expected to complete the is to collect all the diamonds on each level, entire game with a bitchily mere three. but let's get the jumping about bit straight So there. Nyah. and soon.KI.3V first.) Now, the gravitational field of the planet extends to the top of the game screen, as these things lend to do, so by spinning the CiDN'TifrOLCS planet while Astroball is in mid-air. you can still control her flight. The only thing you can't Z 'X - rtght, K - fire do easily is decrease her height. You see, by Al or keyboard

YOUR SMOLA Feb 1993 AU OMATIC op Garry PFN Itself To use the dy y- PFN works fine in 48K mode, but I acronymed pro nal printing If you want to use it on a +3 to take routine Itself, you il first need to advantage of the drive, you'll have to be a erase the demo. So BREAK into bit clever. Press ENTER on the loading the program and delete lines 1 menu. When its finished loading. PFN will MUSEr 9869. Speccy tonts are not stop with an OK message. Press a key to compatible with PFN fonts so get back to the loading menu, go Into 128K he Automatic Muse is an E trio poet eight fonts are provideo tree with BASIC, delete line one - type 1 (ENTER) - program that includes a fabulous the program, but no doubt many then type SAVE "MUSE" LINE 10 to bash T proportional printing routine. users will want to design their own. It onto disk. Now type RUN, s To meet this need the author has Sorry! No, really. TProportional printing, for the less desktop publish-yI inclined among you, is a way of desied an editor. This is a WI printing1 where each letter takes up a space commeretal program proportional1 to its width (unlike the Soeccy, whereF: all the characters are the same size). an. •i• takes up less room than a 'm and so o Cunning. eh? Garry's routines gives you proportional printing without the hassle (bell I see bright weariness each a great beast you me. writing a full-blown prorkonional printing routine is a big hassle. I spent a ye where traced the mysterious barbarism writing one that turned out to be coinciderua similar to Design Design's you know. That's: from a criticism by delicacy with not all - I also wrote Virgin's backwards toe three years after they first used it, had a curious periphery each promotes teletext loader that used more memory than. the program it was loading {as well as looking opportune sonority fades relatively exactly like one written three years previously) and dashed together a fancy loader that looked stagnates. suspiciously like Alkatraz I just have this knack of thinking up and programming snappy routines that happen to have been inverded three years ago.) (Click... Helio! This is the n about the PFN EdJtor take a glance -W Editor. I'm not in right now. but if you'd like to boxirt down system there to channel has been opened arid wait until the tone my automatic sarcastic The machinerem code routines and font data subsequent use of GOSUB 99 110 effect unless the new channel h answerng machine will supply an appropriate are hidden in the REM statements. Lines closed. Note that the new channel cannot be bracket Have a nice day' Ed. ‹Beep! What a holding these statements (9881-9888. 9890 terribly interesting story. You must tell if to and 9900) should not be edited as this will closed from BASIC unless Interlace I is us again sometime. I'll tell you what - it you erase the code or data. But then, who'd be that present. If you are a rnicrodrive user or have go oh now and write your letter of silly, eh/ All the code and data Is relocatable software that opens and closes channels, you resignation, you could include it as a Alter you've stripped away the demo lines. must close all other channels likely to be used comical PS! Wouldn't that be grand? save the core code with SAVE "PFNREN1 by your program before using GOSUB 9900 Automatic Ed> Erm, on with the show then. Simply- merge this program with your own - but This is becauSe the PFN routines are stored as The demo bit ot the utility is a deeply don I forget to ensure your prog doesn't have part of the channel information of the channel pnilosophical poetry•writing program that line numbers above 9869. Each font uses opened. If the this area is moved, as would up with all sorts of meaningful nuggets. around I-2K RAM so delete the lines you don't nappen if a channel was closed, the new PFN tab hold of a dose Mend, settle down require by typing the number of the line and channel would hold an invalid ItO address and la. dim the lights and bask in the pressing ENTER. And now over to PFN most likely cause the program to crash. Mind at your Speccy. For the full Muse programmer and trumpet supremo Garry you. any non-techy people would have to try ce buy a lava lamp, put on an album Rowland for some instructions on using the hard to achieve this. so you needn't worry it that last bit made no sense whatsoever a similar '70s band) and try blessed thing_ . ng the Speccy's versos for the PFN is Initialised with GOSUB 9900, which Before you can print anything, PFN needs to know where the font is. The BASIC variable F Should have called it Automatic opens a new print channel (channel 't ) to stream tour. This allows the standard Speccy is reserved tor the font address. If F hasn t been declared in a BASIC statement, PFN will return a - variablevariab F does exist but doesn't hold a font for PFN. you need the PFN Editor. le II This runs on 48K and 128K Swedes, address when PRINT tr4 is used. the program mayno crash The eight fonts included all have andf is adaptable to any drive system. it t costsy £4, and is available from G their own REM and can be selected using line 9880fou of the PFNREM protram_ Simply enter Rowland,o PO Box 49. Dagenham nd'LET FONT=a number between one and RM9u 5NX. Make out eightme and then use GOSUB 9880 to get the chequesiPOsf to the mighty ssfont address in F. Garrya himself. Alternatively, ag sendn a sae to this PFN recognises the ASCII characters e 1 c '‹space,' to f and the following control codes. I 1 y CHM 6 (direct tab, or a comma). CHM 13 f ' andd PD software, (carriage return, or ENTER), INK, PAPER, FLASH, BRIGHT, OVER. AT and TAB. PM 1a Garry'sWhatevere commercial paints uses the Spectrums graphics coordinates for led yours maypole. printing, so AT and TAB take graphics d really.i r g coordinates when prInt e n , s i ng to YOUR, SINCLAIR Feb 1993 s n 41ronrn f g tour o y r o a u l r i o s w t n o t f a n t s to the beginning of the next line. The depth of line of text in pixels. The string must be in f$ To get PFN up and running in one line_ the line depends on the setting given by the and the address of the font in F. and returns 10 GOSUB 9900: LET FONTanumber of font data. AT and TAB arguments take the length, in pixels, in BASIC variable P If the font] GOSUB 9880: PRINT #4; AT 175. 0: different values when pnnting to stream four. length of the string is greater than 255. divide Your highly meaningful message" AT y.x takes y in the range of 0-175 and x 0- P by 256 to find the number of letters that 255 (le, you're printing at a pixel position, not Mulct be left attar tinting One Wo a character position). CLS sets the graphic Characters are not so much print coordinates to 0.0 so AT must always be used 'plotted after CLS. TAB x sets the x coordinate to any at- the current graphics coordinate. The value in the range 0-255. Note that PFNs TAB Type in this bijou routine to extract PFN coordinate. may be set by PFN or directly by doesn't print spaces or affect the y coordinate from the Automatic Muse listing... usingThe PLOT. PFN leaves the graphics evertt! x is less than the current print position 9869 RESTORE 9869: FOR F=16384 coordinateto pointing to the top right hand corner Some experimentation may be needed TO 16400: READ Ar POKE RA: NEXT ofp the character after printing. An attempt to 1 when using INK. PAPER. BRIGHT and F: RANDOMIZE USR 16384: CLS: printle any part of a character below graphics FLASH Character code 124 (EXTEND STOP: DATA 33, O. O. 205, 110, 25. coordft 0,0 will give a - MODE, then SYMB SHIFTS) toggles double 229, 42. 66, 92, 205, 110, 25, 209. 195. outCHRSo 6.at CHR$ 13 and PRINT statements not height on'oft 229, 25 screen"endingf in a semicolon (3 set the print position GOSUB 9890 is used to get the length of reporta dite .c h arBORED OF THE*RINGS PT 3 a ct Delta 4/Zenobi Software get the gun from the locked room.) It's the . glare - you can do it' Probably As er ..Lalast leg of the quest to destroy the Great before, we've taken Out the passwords i Load in 48K mode iRing - most of your party has tootled off so you can get stuck right in, A handy s c)to take care of the relatively evil hint: SAY HOG will help you a lot in p Saruperson, leaving just you (Fordo) the mountains, and ii all else r coMPLETt and Spam (Spam) to fails, cheat! i dispose of the tricky n ADVENTURF trinket. Part Three is t fraught with danger - e almost everyone you CONTROLS"' d Seventeen, or went east from the meet is Intent on Lots of fingers and a party squeaker W maze exit to get the poster, you knocking you on the to celebrate when you finally beat the h should have escaped the fiendish musicians head. But set your jaw and blessed thing ofe Morona by now. (Hope you remembered to fix them all with a steely t h The playing area is made, and the scores are totted fiddled e divided into seven with to reveal the winner r hexagons. each When the game starts, each player takes it y represented by a hole at in turn to position their counters. With two o each of this six points on players, each has five counters; with three, u Nigel Grange perimeter. The holes can only be occupied four counters, and with tour players each has c by one counter at a time. If two adjacent hales three counters. Move the cursor square h FRIENDSHIP WRECKING on the same hexagon contain the same clockwise the right key) or anti-clockwise (the e player's counters, a line wilt be made joining left keyl and press select to place your a LE LI LE 1the two points, giving the layer a bonus of counter When all counters have been t one hundred points. T will remain even positioned, any possible captures or lines are e t_ if the counters are mo id can only be made. Each player must then move one d PLRR 1 PLAHCR 2 counter at a time, one space around the i 100 100 board. You can only move counters around n programmer of those intar puzzle the edge of hexagons - you cannot cut across L o \ D games. Hexcellent isn't another Non the middle. In addition to the lett and right o Composa Mentis, (That s still being worked on, • o o 0 keys. you can now use up and down to move c O apparently.)n lt is instead a two-, three- or I een the hexagons. (Beware of what Nigel a O 0 0 • playert strategy game with elements of the waiting room.) t Nine'w Men s•Morris and which features toe • 0 O 0 o ho hip! Sounds snazzy eh? The best i hexagonso It's just the thing to settle down thing to do is have a quick fiddle with the o oa oa afterr a heavy lunch. because it involves y game. playing all the players yourself, and n andr your close friends or family doing your PLS:CR t1. O a LINES u eeing exactly what happens when you make damndesty to kill off each other's counters S •captures or form lines. Then, having Houpla,! eh? Well, here we go with the familiarised yourself with the controls (Sounds instructionsA (cleverly cobbled together from a bit Mission Impossible-15h. doesn't it? 'You thel massive in-game scrolly we had to chuck have twenty seconds to familiarise yourself outt because of space). destroyed if it is remade by another player - with the controls.' Well well well.) you can h The aim of the game is to defeat your the line will then change to the new player's challenge your family to a game and before opponents.o either by making it impossible for colour It an entire hexagon is completed, you know it. the whole clan will themu to move, by taking all but one of their you'll get a bonus of five hundred points. It's collapse in tears. Just good clean fun. counters.g or by having the greatest score possible for a line to be broken, remade by that's Hexcellent. Hurrah! whenh the game ends. To take an opponent's another player, then re-remade by the original counter,i you simply surround it with two of player (phew!) - but this won't count as a new yourt own counters. You can then use it as one hexagon. You only get another five hundred ' of your counters, as well as receiving a bonus points if you completely remake the hexagon. Joystick or defin s IP of fifty points. The game ends after twenty lines have be a Eble • deo YOUR SONCLAIR Feb 1993 O T T M Il la AV" 'tf14.0 t:•:: fi nitfi llkID e Mad Guys 1ad in 48K mode

Ab ID Captain We bb clutche d his he a d a s the da sta rdly &M ons Flow this is te mbly odd Da sh off a nd find a PC owne r, a rid i 1:131; borrow own copy ot PC Forma t Find a pc ol Pilcha rd bombarded him with Et-ra ys His only Sa iV3 i1 0 1 1 la y in the pot oo. that Shock demoL was a bit smart, of blue cre a m a wa rde d turn by the myste rious ba dge r ma n Longhand Now • it to Ta tismon's. Spooky or wha t' wasn't it? Eight chunkyt and Speccy- exploding pieceso of code with a high plenty of music to listen to as well. Spook 411 l' factor. Phew. So,) to help you (and demo fact this ain was written in twenty-six peony) relax. here's a three-part, hours over a weekend at a secret location in SPACE tO leap from ta Part cally sound-but•not-outstanding demo Germany. Demo writers, eh? What a basically. That's It • bunch of silly people. We love 'ern_ I (and lots) of text to read. Oh, and CONTROL target: colour. The one on the middle will - ta a SIAN _dir030230 daal - now turn into the right colour Don't aseIII_ 111111,_, Alill forget - you can only transform one square at •, Ildildhildididi_11 a tome, so it's best to set up a four-square _ AM" 111111111_1111 cross and rotate cubes into as centre. lad • Aar r II (Kreuzen Is German for crosses. y'see.) Once - __ Magiddididirr r di you've got a few squares transformed the task , id11111111didill_ di becomes easier, but its still possible to get MA iddl.N11_11111 horribly contused and completely lose your Or--1— t- ..... idillidill illtd way_ (Sneakily. if you somehow manage to Iva ts) 1 •IdLIE11111111 aill surround a square with the wrong colour, it will - transform into the incorrect 'kin Yokes') You've y it's a c M only got a short lime to transform the whole el (NB: Folks, this meansr that it i3etore Ce cil screen, and later levels chop this down not load on a Speccy. II you Ake a cross alarmingly. So there's no time to hang about! nay 'a SAM Coupe - that's a computer 1111 I 'nothing like a Speccy but can run diish) Speccy game. so if , y programs with the aid of an emulator - far but haven't got a SAM. you 1 II not work So don't send your tapes back Can s - copy of Kemshu and play that 0 Ablex asking tor a replacemenil Remember instead. Phew, eh? ItI The object of the game is to turn all the A Fno Coupe. no Kreuzehl) (I think we get the Keyboard or joystick pointilo Ed) Anyway, if you've got the right squares on screen into one particular colout C (Luckily, you're told which one.) To Is y 0 - up, A - down, 0 - left. P right, mmac you'll find Kreazen to be a super little M - tire. Firefdlrection to move line much in the line of Kemshu. Now have to surround a square with four pl C et el 7 y e N x c T l preventing the abduction of any u from hacking his way through another fat major world leaders by attacking the I kidnappers with a rubber cabbage. RTIE s package of games, he refrained from I In fact, he spent most of the month ttaking part in any exciting or strenuous wactivity. So. no commando raids, no stopping relaxing in a wickerwork chair, O v .LJ aany runaway trains, and certainly no reading and musing on what to write e The YS Beaut Box comes to s in his six Pokerama scrollies. L S -indeed. SAM) courtesy of a secret workshop . a (Normal mayhem will be resumed A next month.) yOursomewhere Speccy in The5B Village. That Number Two' q S M -bit sharp though. and now and again he u 'Languid' Northy's infuriatingly (or, i unhurried POKEs this month are_ I Until they conformS with the rest of SOCIety. So if e Blazing Thunder- inly lives, infy i your tape refuses to load, and there's a blimmin' t energy, inly smart bombs i great Rover hanging around outside your front m Neighbours inty energy i door, parcel up both yourself and your tape o Seymour Goes To Hollywood n in a sae and post the whole lot to VS Beaut B n infy lives t Coverlape, February Issue. Ablex Audio Video, t Ghostbusters - handy cheat e Ltd. Harcourt. Halesford 14. Telford, Shropshir h Santa's Xmas Capers - immortality r TF7 40D. Now hunker down in the envelope. RTB - inty time f c unwrap your sandwiches and wait about tom And a s a toke n ca our a ppre cia tion. we 'd klus to pme nt you Sidewinder 2 -infy lives owith this tine pa ir ot ha nd-cra tte d ce ra mic tube & suita bfe for eight days for freedom. 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Linda Barker "I'm up version of the seminal 0/*!\,ARGOSTICK • going to go abroad. classic, What Time Is Love And Apart from a week I'm going to get a pig. Y'see. I in Paris last month, live in this old barn, and we've 'W CALLING EARTH! the last time I went got a spare manger or Iwo. It away was five years ago. Parts seems silly not to use them." triggered this little thing in my brain and now I want to go a- Rich Polley "I'm at According to le ge nd, the Aroostra ir wanderin'. Please," 'tree to te nd or, our pla ne t in 1 5 1 2 I I an college now, was turne d ba ck by HI A Customs ep y'know due to a n e xce ss ot ba gga ge , Jonathan Nash 9year I'm going to -11 going to make paintAna reallysmall the follow-up to picture I m notd quite sure what Deadeye - the the subject'sne going to be yet, but everydaystoryofa it's going to bext a blimmin' dead detective and his mad masterpiece " crippled Nazi transvestite twin brother Alan or Marione. the Ms Conn Campbell Big of the underworld who's in "Goals? Well, league with the devil and has Archie Gemmill been accidentally reincarnated scored a really as a guinea pig. It was popular good one for in Bradford. you know. Oh, and Scotland against Holland in the I've changed my name. 1978 World Cup." - DaveGolder"I Tim Kemp - lulfilled all my goals I'dto see the colour last year - I learned likemauve come back how to play the LI4 Into vogue. I've drumsandI joined already started a band. This year I'm designing my own range of determined to be the proud accessories, They'll only be owner of a VW Beetle by available in one colour - September. I really miss my mauve: little black mini and a drumkit just doesn't fill the gap." Craig Broadbent "I'm going to do a StuartCampbell ten page, Pitstop "Last year I bought supplement." (Nov if Those Cheetah chaps and chappesses. eh? What a jolly nice bunch jI every single I'vegotanythingto they are! Not only have they just come up with one of the strangest- Wedding Present do with it you're not Ed) it'll be looking joysticks we've seen in ages, but they've given us five of the single - that's one lull colour, with a big photo of beauties to give away COT blimey missus, and no mistake, a month. This year I'm going to me on the first page and a You're probably wondering why the Argostick (that's pronounced go to every single BMX Bandits smaller one on each of the Argo-stick, not Argos-tick) looks like a prop for Alien 3. Well, wonder gig in England. Scotland and following pages. It'll have two no more my little chickadees, the answer is at hand. Cheetah Wales. Luckily they tend to play pages of fractal programs, (/ wanted to get into films. they'd watched The Terminator and thought in London and Edinburgh more hate to stop you in mid-ttow, but that Amie's fleshless arm looked a bit like one of their joysticks. On than anywhere else, so it should will you go away now? Ed) hearing that Alien 3 was in production, the Cheetah design team got be quite easy." together and came up with an idea for a real nasty little alien that Simon Cooke I scurried across any flat surface. Unfortunately, 20th Century Fox Steve Anderson think I'll buy a didn't think that the great film-going public were quite ready for such "My rather exciting mauve trilby from innovative design and turned them down, But hey! At least we got a ambition is to get Tim It'd set off my new joystick out of it. the band I roadie deep-sea blue eyes The Algostick has got all the usual features Including automatic for to do a tunked beautifully. Ahem.- fire, eight-directional control, microswitches, high tactile fire buttons and a one year guarantee. The high tactile version costs £1299 and 1 the microswitched stick can be yours for £14.99. But you can have 1 You know what this Mani • ifs the gorxd grew and harlot one absolutely gratis If you can answer the following question.. , ASILlitx Like stealing front the rich end glinm3 to the poor. cr 4. Who is the female star of all three Alien films? - • 1'ILIIr Easy, huh? Write the answer down on the back of a postcard or 7 envelope along with your name and address and send the whole ..r-'r •• • • • don't WWI about a game Hiss/ We weigh op the good against the caboodle oft to "Coiling Joystick Control - This is Earth 1i 111' -Combos, Compo, Your Sinclair, 30VS Monmouth Street. Bath, Avon BA1 28W. •. ! ma. $ YOUR IUNCLAIR Feb 1993 CP sst ' iv. ...s e1 . bR b ao a nm d qm a ui r etl i s/ d af c ni o dn m fd e oa u ol p dl w ft i ih t ge h hr a t & sc t Hr r us a rt t r' e ac a hv n !i l d l f a a i i n r o f u i s n . a h l o ~ r e r l i l b e l e t h o n g , t h a t w e 10 66 The Usborne Young he Usborne Young Scientist Commercial GamesAsaVCSi THE 11S5ORNE;DUNG SOENTISTI Scientist - Computers - Television Programmer's Guide Lisborne•E3.95 COMPUTERS sborno.'t3.95 , Software d Edited by Lynn Inglis y Lynn Inglis Developments Any book that includes n follows the same by David Gibbon limerick writing prograrri format as the Computers book. 021 706 2000 wins our smiley vote every though sadly misses out on the 1 he Commercial Games time This silly, fun to practical side Instead the level Programmer's Guide states that programming make but craftily of detail is cranked up as the is hard. Very hard in tact You may think that educational device is 41 greems, book takes you through the sitting a Pure Maths degree was hard, but this typical of the book s r1 making of a television is peanuts compared to programming. Well approach. Other highlights programme before finishing up actually. it doesn't state anything of the kind include an adventure game -• with a quick look at film and We just slipped that bit in to make the book where you pick words at world of home video As appear interesting: a quality that you've random to Complete 1 al, concise explanations doubtless realised it sadly lacks. The problem questions, and a really uncluttered diagrams gel is that programmers are, by nature, explanation of the binary 2*ett? Can't live with 'um, ash •em• (Er, I think you've the point across counting system complete admirably. r - human--- brain is incapable of Mims_ Ed) Oh• d with examples to do on Can't thre without 'et& although sorntl retainingTHE USBORNE YouNG SCIENTt both detailed .- — your fingers of the hardwat coding knowledge and a _____... TELEVISIO Obviously with the number of topics strations make the latest, i basic grasp of English with ...aptie covered (there's everything from the history of super up-to-date recording the result that programm computers to a discussion of logic) the book ndinght • bad r are positively the worst doesn't go into any depth, but its appetite. stumbled in o people to use when it co wri whetting stuff presented in a jolly but f rThe main problem with • to writing manuals Thus, ter1 unpatronisleg manner. In fact. the only thing booko is that unlike computers, a markedly circuitous route. s. we didn't like about it was the usual whicho seem to be constantly we come to the Guide. I 'hacker criminal association evolving,k advances in TV t Harkening back to the days during a section on computer technologym come in burs crime. (Big trouble for Jon North liked it looksl96 as ifs Televisi e of l'booTl if it were true.) Wentth to print at exactly t i ' explains nothing. For 3 e wrong lime. Things like example, the author goes on e m t HDTV, digital sets and giant al length about the importanc y s t concert television banks of, thinking of a good idea, then • t o7era are squished in at the back, and uses - wow' - a shoot-'em-up v h :-:ol widescreena TVs (the Next Big ample game. There's a stern e Thing) aren't mentioned t that graphicsall- can make or break a at all. Still, what's there t g accompaniedform by some ugly sketche And so on. h is good. and the book s- ats Contains a splendid e We can't recommend this book. 41k / piece on the buttony It reads like a firstform holiday - mysteries of vision and essay and spreads itself so thin sound mixing. as transparent Ugh Rainbow Islands Hit Squad 2. Spellbound Divy CodeMasters 3. Dizzy Down the Rapids CodeMasters I. Bubble Bobble Hit Squad 5. Bubble Dizzy CodeMasters 6 First Division Manager CodeMasters 411=1110 11111=m . 7. Dizzy Prince of the Yolk folk CodeMasters It. Crystal Kingdom Dizzy CodeMasters - Fun School 2, 6-8 Hit Squad M 'Funky • Towers has got a guinea pig called Marvin. M ID. Dizzy's Excellent Adventures CodeMasters recently1 asked Marvin what his favourite loodstufts were. II. Dragon Mnia Hit Squad this is Marvin*s top ten... ii=s 12. Graerne Souness Soccer M'ger Zeppelin 13. New Zealand Story Hit Squad 1 t It a_a, it fi 1 Chase HO Hit Squad n -a 4• nal 4eo /-1 I. Ouattro Megastars Codellasters 1 I sal isgp 16. Robocop Hit Squad 4231 4c=1 icb 41 Fun School 2 over 8 Hit Squad 1=1 N". Lao ZEtit IS. F16 Combat Pilot Action 16 - Ark EZIP trzz. 4• elaa r Magicland Dizzy CodeMasters -1= 20. Golden Axe Tronix E 0 a- BZ:101 COMPILED BY GAMUT • I - Ii MN Towers, what a chap eh? He talks to guinea pigs and ••••••••• ti 0914.0 .01mitt L M concocts deeply delicious delights. i E b U E e O 6 - % C - H i A R r T S i < e Blimeyl That ZIP BASIC Compiler from last Wondering what to do with all that Christmas dosh, eh? month is a bit tabby. ten Well. if there's one thing we in the Shed know about .programs faster than a speeding lemon eh? Bull Those trickier features still remain rt's spending money_ Especially other people's money. , it it? tantalisingly out of reach. Fear not! If you dash 4 1110 Soups down your name and address, dash out a 4 Well pass by Speccy games. cos you probably got a to- up cheque for £4 and dash both off to the stockingful of them for Chrimble anyway, and go your 4 address mentioned below, you'll receive the W straight to the board variety. official and highly papery ZIP 2.6 Users e 0 Europoly is the latest version of Monopoy to hit the streets. The difference has in Guide, a sixteen-page manual chock full of ' the fact that it's exciting secret tips. Mix BASIC and compiled v about fifteen TOP TEN codel Use a mouse! Exploit your printer' Find e quid more out exactly what all those error messages b expensive than TOPICS FOR A mean' Do lots of other tremendous things! e normal And so on. Wow, eh? It's just too lovely for e words So, arm, bye then. A Monopoly. But n hey! You do fS WIBBLE BOX s get to travel Send your name and address and a cheque/ 1. Top tens. PO for E4 made out to CGH Services to: c around 12 EEC o countries. 2. Top fives. CGH Services (ZIP manual offer), Cwm Gwyn Hail, Pencaedr, Dyfed SA39 9HA u spending ECUs and 3. Top sevens. r ing your little European landmark around 4. Things that would i board, It's pretty darn smart and comes undoubtedly have made it into n highly recommended by the YS team. What's a list of appropriate length had g more, up to 12 players can act like real Gekkos at any one time! it not been for that marginally DON'T' t air Recommended: Ker-plunk, more exciting bit about h wister, Operation! and pantaloons. e rabble 5. Xylophones. t Avoid Mall 6. Obscure 1970s Swedish MISS o Madness (the y electronic talking rock bands. s shopping game), 7. Salad dressing. t Pretty Princess, o Mid-Life Crisis 24. Norman Lamont. OUT! r and Dingbats. 9. The psychological impact of e creosote abuse. To ensure that you receive a pristine s copy of the world's wazziest Spec mag 10. Pointless things. f every month, simply fill in the coupon below and hand it to your beloved o -ewsagent Don't worry, yoy dont have r to desecrate this rather wonderful issue b by cutting it up. Oh no my little fruitcups, r using the latest developments in modern i technology you can simply photocopy g this coupon. Hurrah and hip teW h Your Spectrum No 16 t We chose this 'tin cos it • i contains a review of the Sheds d favourite game Chaos. Dear Sirltiladam sack in 1984, the Joystick Jury e I will be eternally grateful if you would awarded it two hits and a miss, as it a save me a copy of Your Sinclair every offered "enough magical month. s unpleasantness to keep swords and I would like it delivered . sorcery tans in a teeth gnashing I will pick it up every month 1 frenzy - lust what the dentist (Please tick appropriate box.) . ordered," Hmmrn• On the other 1 non-gamey) pages were anthill My name is 1 about mini disk drives and 1 Speccy animation and, er. I 1 Qls of black, and white A , photos. (Tune in n . next month to see the d entire Shed crew . m trying to kill one y • another off whilst pretending a to play Chaos.) d Postcode ..• ...... d r Cheers m'dears' e s s I YOUR SINCLAIR Feb1993 •• S r

February 29th, eh? What a day to be the most popular feature tor yonks Hero el the May, issue 77 that was. We won't see its month had to be James. His captions tor Replay Cover by Budgetary pioneered a new and extremely silly literary form, Restrictions. A photo like again in a hurry. And Sanity just didn't have a chance of Christopher Lloyd remember folks, February Linda: I bought a Mills arid Boon book without any hal in 29th was brought to you Andy: Nobody recognised my marbles in Dave's The Addams Family educational software roundup. (Blubber ) A bit blurred around courtesy of the year 1992, Jon: First mention of Hanna-Barbera in this mill the edges, but there which wasn't bad in itself. you are Lots of thrillingly meaningful March, Issue 75 There was a Cover by Paul Kidby Streighttonteard man-blasting- badly-printed Indy world events happened during alien pic this month. Spook fact: every picture Paul doorhanger on the 1992, but who cares about cover and The them, eh? You're all sitting KidbyJames does left has Jon lots join M 'Jonathan Davies bowed out World featured a efrom Program Pitstop arid Marcus Berkmann left the gude to love that there thinking,'Naaah, tell us tClinic pie to write infor the Daily Mail The Save Our proved quite popular wim software houses about Your Sinclair's 1992 it.Specc (honestl). Linda displayed her ignorance ol instead, and include your -appeared. Stuart returned Superheroes end a screenshot vanished Spec Tec memories of each issue.' So ywith an article on stitAnim turned up in glorious, erm, blue and got his facts caSequels. and about the Spraccy's character set utterly wrong Shop we will. Well, all the bits we mplechyness poked as assistants everywhere wept over the joke back cover can print, anyway. (Damn aighead out cautiously in featuring Leslie Nielsen and a funny barcode. Ernie nthe shape of an •at up his Speccy. . these silly ethics.) stexcitingly tricky Linda: The 'loam's. Ugh I was tar too lenient giving armachine code toolke it 50. 30 would be nearer the mark January. Issue 73 teon the tape. 1 Andy: Those Addams pics worked really well as a Cover by Cohn Jones dLinda: I loved the 'poster. Pity about the cover though Loads ot game photosH of us starring in Jon; I wasbit churlish giving Zeppelin's American characters leaping oura lave record covers. about on a tree, arm Andy:y Erm, I'm not quite 30 Pool i f,. ft's s000 playable Kylie Minogue with surel what happened to June. !slue 78 witchy hands Spooi pagep nineteen. 'Cover by Colin Jones A dynamic Indy pic wilt leads , The VS line-up at Jon:! flaylpt was the of smart details, like the difierent expressions of all the start of the year: worsta thing ever in VS. the Nazis. and Sophia beating up the bad guy':. and Hutch. Linda. n Indy's right eye being slightly strange James, Andy 0 and April,d Issue 76 The issue price went up to E.2.50. Slog matte it to Maryanne in the CoverT by Nick Davies. The VS peeps pursue the VS in Vi€. torm of a high-score pad, and The Addams Shed, with Rich, villainoush Bonanza Bros in a comicky composrtion. -11 the two Jons, 1 Family fell foul ot Blimey.e Self -indulgent or what? There was also a ,, wreraino,- awkward controis The Adam, Stuart. Rebecca Norley and Jane the badgeW on the cover, but that didn't feature the VS long-awaited hairy 4 publisher in support VS was sixty-eight pages long -peepso so we'll gloss over it proved to be yet and cost £2.20 Strange be-in of the month • a r It was the event of the year! Phil McCardle's Ernie another isomeiric aD Lemmings compo to win a karaoke machine. But thel Psychotic Madman crashed on to the pages of stomparound ,ind Ian forget Rodiand or Lemmings itself - this was the d rnet a 16-bit owner and beat him up. SAM Centre month of Santa's Xmas Caper. There were photos of made its first appearance, and Tim Kemp named his H s the Shed peeps wearing construction hard hats and lave fifteen adventures. Blirr iCrusader deodiebug. nobody understood the Graphic Adventure Creator -make the obviously ridiculous sound plausible zLinda stayed up late either The SAM bounced back into YS with a three- !- World exploded into a five eto do a sixteen-page page adverty round-up. - ineoevefteesi page feature. e Tipshop special and Linda: That photo-shoot at Hamley's was ace. . were Craig w there Waa a recipe Andy: The whole osh was done with one-and-a-hall now Broadbent. Soya il on the poster Game art people you know trying Pico and Or e of the tri:)niti was Jon: They missed my name oll the SAM thing. I was to Hugo Z undoubtedly Myth,o with the ever so devastated. (Blubber.) Hackenbush polished Shoe People trotting inu second The World joined the mag was rertarned Flipi for some reasont or a February, Issue 74 Robocop 3 and beat. other up some bankErnie robbers. t Cover by Max Ellis, Space Gun lured Linda: That Tome Travelier holographic.i arcade game, Dramatic high-altitude up from Ocean eh? I couldn't slop laughing. p nonsense with an irate and Where Are Andy: Eighty-lour blimmin' pages!t (Swoons)) man in a plane zooming They Now? filled Jon: I Was dead jealous of Stuart's, Top 100 so I away born an explosion. up a page quer loved doing Me What a Barg! rounch.p.t What does it all mean? i nicely. , Those true but Linda: The July. Issue 79 : Immensely trivial Blimls Wedding Present announced they would release d Cover by Mike Roberts. A lab sPeofi of cliched arrived There was a single every month for the next year. superhero-with-chngy-temale nonsenseg featuring the brand-new Andy: Aarghhl The Worldi Shriek? (He lost all the powerful pensioner Captain Dyearno.h The Only bodge questionnaire with a photos that month and Mad to pay a whopping line, was having to type •Codies' On :lieh spaceship. (We suspiciously lifestyle y'see. Ed) completely forgot to mention v.-,i on the cover theme, and bnda's Jon; Aarghtil Inly ! Shriek! (The instrucftons were proper y'see.) s Double Dragon 3 incredibly crap. and battled readers ringing horn Jon briefly came back from thet ZX92 tenth birthday Megapreview proved up to complain, lisea Ed) party and Linda demonstrated what to do with the i V Mt YOUR SINCLAIR Feb1993 S Soundtrackei or Stag card while Jugglers Linda drew Bert the Saca Insect then went you warted for the to vise the programmers of Popeye 3 who were so the tape Vet game to turn up pleased they gave her a demo tape of their new another colour page (The programmer band Back In the Shed, the new Ed had to lend off went wrong, and had done a runner.) complaints about the price of the meg and Andy drew Pooeye 3 turned CLIt Bert the Stick Insect some dubious Chinese pictographs. Jon finally got to be a great got several SAM Centre on the corner flash SAMCo went bust. disappointment. mentions. Everyone Ernie blew up a Computer lair. Where Are They hated the adverts tot Linda: The Famous Five Now? ran out of steam arid SA the Amiga 600, Jon on the tape - hurrah! had a look at some The Hideous review was Centre actually a few screen Speccy hardware and really smart. Hmmm A Andy voted Diana lair ish, but to be honest to break up the text. Simon Cooke took on Rigg the sexiest not one of the best woman in the world. Flip' showed you h: throw a Andy; Top-notch the mantle of Spec Tec Junior and Linda typed in trisbee. Ernie beat up some aliens contents photos. The : two hundred Input Output coupons Ernie smashed a console to bits. Linda: I hated that Word Up' dictionary i•g And the first issue I did on my poster recipe. Those books I reviewed for Flip! were own. Linda: Totally excellent - my favourite of the rec excellent though. Jon; Well, it crop rat issues Andy: See that plc in the Summer Survival Special? happened again Andy: I had hours of fun drawing Dateks and TARDISes. Hurrah' • That's from my immense collection of National (Blubber ) But we Geographic magazines_ SAM owners are Jon: I was really pleased with the turny pagey etc etc Jon: That hardware Mang was a mess Hatt the stun nothing if not game. Soundtracker - hurrohl What a lab issue. didn't turn up and I had to ase other people what they patient _ December, issue M lit thought of it And that photo, y yea October, Issue 82 Cover by Paul kiaby A top-notch purpley iN. August. Issue 80 Cover by Nick Davies. It was only after the cover was (natch) and - spook' - a lave with both Dizzyilovies Cover by Budgetary Restrictions. The Batman done we found that Jimmy Hill was detested by and Dizzy4taters the tormer because it leatunta their Returns pc was prompted by a complete lack of anyone (a) Scottish or (b) interested in football. Yeti hero and the latter as a dilly great troll is aboutto rush up and brain him). games (apart from Bonanza Bros, which we'd already The issue completely sold out. Odd! done). Jane didn't realise this until we had the film The new circulation figures were in: from selling Issue size dropped to fitty-two pages - the back from the onnters. Fortunately. we got away with 59,059 copies per smallest map in all of Future (But we dropped all the hottSe ads, and someone worked Out we had a it. (Phew.) month we dropped to a Hutch left halfway through and Linda moved up to still-market-leading proportionally high number of editorial priges or lake over the mag Now, at last she could write the 40.648. Adam Waring something.) Things got very heated rib the arrival of letters pages' lErm, actually she'd been doing it ever Put aside his Spec Tec Crystal Kingdom Dizzy and there was a huge since she started Look at all those answers Mei hat and look off to argument about the state of the games industry Stec contain the word 'beau!'. It's a dead giveaway.) circumnavigate the !Math/ arnved and was stare -aa Ole globe. Jane left, and -Duckula 2 got the lowest mark ever, Linda cleaned Cohn arrived to wear C luding us) by turning up on the tape in a 128K itout the Teashon files with a Dizzy special and Steve's -Programming Launderette started to leach you Oilyi guise, and a couple at mad Germans sent us a the spangly tload of PO demos VS went to Aeon Towers, Dave keeaaa „„., are publishing trousers 101yBASIC igood. sort oft Hayti) a-nved with the Killer Kolumn, there was a load of Reckless Rufus Count,moved left to thethe back page and Street Fighter 2 was e .-:•••••••-•••••••••• :w:oble about Batman and Linda let slip a nuclear arnved on deadline scene,announced. Sadly. after the issue went to press Jon . was killed in a car crash Rather than hire a new staff r secret Ernie blew up a park. F • aka day and proved to Killer i , Linda: Beaut cover, 4 be an Mabee hit. Koluwriter, Colin grew a clone and named him Jonathan • We tried spacing out the mnNash for tax purposes. Ernie took a break while Phil d beaut Bat-spread, • took a course of therapy. e generally beautt Pitstop lists and there• was a Ihree!page ad tor the Linde: Be thin isn't it That short r E Future Entertainment• Show. Flip 1 s Sleepwaikerx page. spread., dropped The previews togot extremely silly and Brendan story's good 7 pity it was hidden at o Andy:c What a stonkerl Thompsona asked for more sex and violence. Ernia the back of 1 ag f te he Bat comic book .Acaused a massive tight in a warehouse Andy: Well I iris t spreadp and the Alton Linde: I went to Norwich this month and Pssse got pleased - I managed h Towerst trip were the laid out in entirely the wrong way. That was the last io use up tha hied egg highlightsf for me. poster, too e I drew for Nast! Jon:o I loathed the Andy: Lovely cover Hmmm Pitstop didn't work at E which didn't tit Batman lumy-pagey- all Easy to read but rather Milts the programs.. a r Jon: Two laves this ish adventurey-son-ot-thing.t Jon: Ta to SAM peeps tor keeping the faith - it saved r - the voice from the Andh I wrote it, folks') SAM Centre. Oh. andRufus was a nice surprise. t washing machine and Otherivise.e (Thank heaven.) h the Silence of the s it was splendid November, Issue 83 Mk. Lambs Seymour Ha ha! u Oh don't fuss - ot course rSeptember, issue al CONK by Cohn Jones. Erne fra a bit brown don't you I can type while I 'awe pCover by Nick Davies. Popeye boxing with a robot in. think? But it does achieve the near-impossible task of rwan, a wrestling game (Oh well.) The prob with this Malting Daleks look exceing.The original idea was tor II.eet Nr ter en e- Aek 1 i 'un was the sea of pink faces. And Mel Gibson was Davros's T-shirt to say. 'Your Sinclair - its crap in a People- with consoles will suddenly realise that ssmoking! Disaster. funky shill° soil of way' but WH Smith obeacted, the they• late can only atiordral one game a year and will bests. e More changes: Maryanre left and the issue size retrieve Speccies from attics. The Speccy ddropped to sixty pages The Hideous review was Yoe. a Doctor Who special Dave wrote tonnes ot market will pick up and Your Sinclair will go Who wibble for the love of it. Alter months 01 chasing eflipped 180 and Sleepwalker featured the adventures from strength to strength, Hurrah! vof the Fumous Five Leigh Loveday joined the it around the world, we put the PD music e r YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 1 y b o d y CodeMasters/C3.99 cass Tr 0926 814132 Robin Hood is a complete -r-rrrr-rrrrrrr• rr rrr rrr • -rrrn-rrrrrri r wee and utter hero, his good , - -rnrr deeds have gone down in Trrr-rr-rr- --rrrrrr-rr folklore and have been 4rri passed on to each r -rr - generation. On film and television - R r rrrrr:-rr-rr 490000 we've had Errol Flynn, Richard r O --rr-rr-rr-rr-;- rr measu Greene. a red fox. Michael Praed, Q Jason Connery and Kevin Costner. B! r - r , 11 And on the Speccy there was Super p r jirr ,0e Robin Hood, But now there's a new Mira' ,•• - Ft FT r 11-11 CPI hood in town, he's lean, green and w p; • Nee— he's got one hell of a cute smile. - tp i ir Welcome to the Codies' latest hit — - ' 2 *AI a g 4r 1 1 1 1 1 1 C Robin Hood: Legend Quest. C r t o “T w f o r, " hOomod a4 doe; ', voice from oome wha ro Legend Quest is a cutie horizontally- leorttNnm a re hidino lb. boorola chopk a of nd rho no c., dklit • I wa , nt a ny trouble , , scrolling collect-'n'-beat-'em-up with plenty of -c)o Robin did , ate/Myi m platforms (moving and stationary) for you to thatmore energy and keys that open up partsr of jump around on. The main idea is to collect n he• the castle thatL were previously inaccessible. the treasures which, I think, belong to twaa, As you run through the castle, you'll often good King Richard, The action is set s T cacome to l a platform which goes in a castle which is home to m nowhereE But, pick up a key and a hundreds of fast-shooting an d movingr platform will miraculously , appear so you can jump on and travel to the rnext bit of the castle. rr-rrrr-rr-rrr • r rrrrrrr rr And heE still found -. - li I — plenty of time to rr1NI it - r rrnrrrt11 / o — sing (oil) rrrrrrr...... r Legend Questr looks —rrrli't — ii-11- lovely, evenr Andy 0 r-rvi r1 was smitten by the —11rr ar aim . 0 la mt 1: l -Nivrr r ..,.....1 screenshots we -rit-r. ...1 • gave him.- Err-;.. (They're lovelyr r ... ij grabs to work 1 t .f. with. They'rer ... a - so colourful! rI'm r n -i particularly . d c archersr who are Out to get the feather in your fond of the title cap; They're blimmin' good shots as well, so screen, is that, you'rer going to have to do a fair old amount what it's 7 of duckin' and divin'. Various dark bits of the castleri also hide absolutely massive monsters 1 whosef white eyes shine Out of the darkness, 1 warningt you to steer clear of those scary L 1(obin Hoot — iii he t? spacesr under tile stairs. Wm they're the background graphics, Linda. Jonathan) - According to some legends, Robin Hood is_ There'sl- also the most ridiculous little guard i t 0 Jesus Christ who stalks up and down relentlessly, like a wind-uprt Christmas pudding fitted with i 0 King Arthur everlasting batteries. Let this little blighter f A thief and murderer bump; into you and Wham! That's a life F i A magician - gone. There are also various flying things, and A great and good man fighting r*, maces on chains that go Ve nasty Normans (Lamont, up arid down. Stormin• and Bates) . To aid you in your -- quest for treasure there A are hearts to give you - r e YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 v o lt i n g p e a s a n t called? I'm going to traps for the incorporate that In the tax collector. page design. Andy 0) He's There isn't a right, you know! The lot of this kind graphics are some of the of thing in nicest we've seen in a while. Legend Robins all green and the Quest, the backgrounds are loads of other action seems colours, yet there's virtually no colour to consist mainly of clash to write of lho hol. The castle avoiding the nestles' looks suitably medizeval and the arrows and shooting your dank, dark bits look jolly spooky. own in the desperate rf-r rrrrrIT-1.9,44 Lit,FT When Robin (a very cheery hope that they'll hit the 4 sort of chap who turns and grins enemy archer before his at you now and then) dies, all one hits you. Fortunately, these incredibly cute hearts the enemy archers do • burst out of his body in a shoot off their arrows in terribly sweet circle. Then some kind of pattern_ so + he flashes and disappears you can suss out Just when back to a previous point in a pointed piece of metal is Robin's rscAming nighima rs wa s de e d spooky. Ke ys, I ris', Loe rothe ill Robin the game- This is so much going to come skimming looked them were golden Vora And *wands gargoyles noolad on ovary mentlethece scowling a nd holding out strings of a ima a a ga a . I t wa s ge tting s hit better than being put back to past your ear and clamber too much, Robin ha d a lre a dy dookkod to go e nd se e the mpist• the beginning of a level — it's far up, or down, a ladder whilst less frustrating, more user•friendly. • scheme of things. if you This explosion of hearts also takes effect r make a basic distinction when Robin picks up a heart, or a piece of between easy and the treasure. It's such a nice little touch, and quAll for the difficult, this is a bit on sometimes it's the little things in games that - the difficult side, isn't it?" sneak into your heart. (I think she's got a bit great end Hmmm. He's right. too much goodwill left over from Christmas. 0 The leg end can be found in one of Doubtless, some of you lot Spec-chums. Jonathan) two places, usually. Take a look at will float through this game and send detailed your leg._ done that? Good. You'll maps into Tipshop• making Jonathan and I You could have probably have noticed that your leg is look a bit ridiculous in the process. But hey' joined to your body somewhere near Maybe you won't_ Robin Hood: Legend someone's eye out! the bottom area At the other leg end Quest is a lovely-looking game and there's Robin Hood is famous Is a mass of bone, flesh and sinews really nothing wrong with the gameplay apart for his courage and called a foot. So the bottom and the from the fact that it's a bit hard. But valour, with nary a foot are the leg ends — your quest is at perseverance isn't difficult as it's got that thought for his own an end. (Groan. Jonathan) addictive factor that makes playing the same safety he swings 0 Despite what you may think. this bit of the game over and over again quite through the trees quest plays absolutely no pan in the enjoyable. I really found myself looking kicking Nottingham's Codies' version of Robin Hood. forward to the next bit of the game and, when guards and laying • we've finished this issue. I'm going to have another go. Smart! 0 the archer's busy rt 1....,, rt placing the next arrow _ ir in his bow. As it were. . rt. E It - Er--- irrr 11 All this dodging and Trrt t II il It r jumping of arrows r_rnrrrrrr takes time to perfect. - . At first Robin Hood: _ Smart graphics and nice rrEllrr. Legend Quest seems touches that are tunny and r quite easy and then (ho 1 . pretty. There's nowt wrong Ii ho ho) you skim past with the controls at all. r1 I - . the easy bit and r suddenly you lose two rrrrt- The only thing I can rrrr1-- . lives in a row and you - IP possibly pick holes in Is the rrrrrt. think, "Hang on, this is a -rf-r L T difficulty level. - h bit of a toughie." Jon... k • • rr,r- . P i 2rr sorry, Jonathan (I'll '141 nrr sellotape it to your 0 r * Super!N Pick up a copy and 1 forehead if you want. r rrnr become a Merry Person l Jonathan) actually got to , [ ,V.,MCCICY 4 wkitch,rog you. Godfrey hot iik• riding through the glen. i.r two time , a nd d'you know why? We il. it * e s cos some thing Wad the next level before ,- ham Ali the Mm, 1 , Aghi saying. in the big f t- 7 i - YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 1M r , r r r r r r r a. --assina•

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c,7 • r irs AtatiffitatititattitatattiatitatititS CodeMasters/C3.99 cass 16 lb.-0 I - l : 4 0926 814132 43 An ex i ›; Est 4 I watched the Chart Show 1 4 pertStuart Campbell on the joys of wrestling 4 Ail. I remember it well - the smell of old this morning and it was sp ealadies' blue rinses, whole families in pretty crap. but the adverts matching knitwear The first wrestling 4 ks in between were quite match F ever saw was at the Floral Hall in good. There was one for an Southport I must have been about tillt. 4 and it was Big Daddy vs Mark Rollatod early '80s dancelsoul compilation that 4 Rocco, A whole bunch ot us were sitting 4 looked really smart. Then there was an right at the front throwing Fruit Pastilles at • ' • 4 aa tor a ulaoiators aioum wnicn was Mask Rollerball Rocco I haven't looked and my career has bloomed full of the kind of rockin' stuff that Al"' accompanies a wrestler into the ring. Totoulollf-C14.-CharnP45nOn Wee Otte Poor M onsie ur Pha psa ute a s ma put through This, in a somewhat roundabout his wa s ova ry da y. manner. brings me to my point which is that wrestling and spin-offs. like the Wrestling, Popeye 3 and . .. Gladiators, are big busineess at the now the Coolies have thrown in their •4111 •• ege a a s a ll a s elorme lt OP a ill VI M illy raw aillo moment. There was even a big hairy twopenny's worth with Wrestling Superstars 1 Owe amp son was tree es szt chap on Good Morning With Anne and The Codies are a bit of a disadvantage here in P ito op se Nick. Makes you think. that their game is the most recent -please and tweeemus ooloidooionoso om OR ow enslatanielom ,111rweelwillitaillaillerPswelIPPorseilpip sa -werlararall411.1111 losfio tho, c.fsettao,nr% • a go go .• • lo •• go • Tr At% •I" NoOW so it's obviously going to be tudged with thn Walso , KJ previous releases in mind. houses,un as soon as any characternrend M no W becomest worthy of the kids' notice the i i software houses are in there ce t d A bit of slap and a b like a shot, hence the recent Why,P Da rling! 1 y tickle L spate of wrestling games. your-M da hlia s?" Bob. long ta n* no 'imita tor Wha t? , Dahlias.low, oh? Htrimm. ivondmiul. Simply lop hose. whorr • We've had WWF Wrestling Superstars is a straightforward V inv•lyM l Wrestlemania. Tag Team wrestling game. no two-player option, no ioI i P • se a a V yo C l u I , P ag. ai. n. A. np do ni p o m n E1110A1p ae rp Squeaked.oe 'All-Amencan Basketball is Zeppelin/E3.99 cassette m .12 091 385 7755 obviouslys a shallow re-write of the soccer (lame, The graoNcs are exac•li VIP same the Oh no! How am I possibly JONATHAill • king method identica phe merilly clashes going to make a review of to the player . this appalling game everywith time thr- and the playing method interesting? (Sorry to give remarkably, similar. They they've even kept away the surprise ending the Deliflashing man to identify which p there folks.) Erm... umm... I know! I'll ayercontrolling,lnd you're and the way you can press fire to do it in the style of Frank Richards. switchska contiol to the player nearest the ball_ I (Obvious really.) shallls take this disk, add my name to Wharton's 'He, he. her cackled the Owl of the Remove review,i march up to Ouelch and say - ow! as he rolled up to Harry Wharton's 8MB Leggo,aw you beast! Yar000h" Macintosh Hsi. 'Old Quelchy's given me this nta Owl a t the Ra movo ma de qult, a da ppor figure on the ay noun. 'rho 1 4 a a d We t a ske d him to giorrta ntio the moda l - a game to review and it's almost exactly the Bunter gets it! Mato le a pocke t book. same as International Five-a-Side Football!' Bob had seized Bunter's ear and was pulling it Quickly, the disreputable schoolboy silted with gusto. 'You silly chump, Ouelch will give through the captain of the Remove's hard dnve 'I hope you're not insinuating I'd cheat on this you six if you try that. Why don't you write and transferred the appropriate archive file to a review" he said with dignity- 'I didn't pass something original?' Bunter squirmed in his 1.44MB floppy disk. Wharton's study and I didn't see he was out grasp, 'I - I - I don't think there's anything to 'Hallo hallo hallo! The voice ol Bob Cherry and I didn't take an old review add, old chap! If you play against the boomed from the doorway. Bunter trembled. If from his hard drive: 'Oh, my computer. it merely rushes across the pitch in he was caught reusing old material, he'd hat" gasped Bob. 'Ha, ha, predictable mg-zags so you can intercept it surely be reported to his form-master! Quickly ha!' he shrieked. 'You'll easily, and there's never enough room to try he slipped the disk into his pocket as Bob never get that past Quetch's anything fancy. I rather think all the clapped him on the shoulder, 'What are you up gimlet eye" he roared, programmers have done is shrunk the goal to with Whanon's Mac, old scout?' Bunter Bunter quivered with and put it on the wall.' glared at him from behind his large spectacles, indignation. 'And why not?' he Bob had fished in Bunter's pocket and was

4eo YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 your Speccy, you can always use the keys. On the plus side (it's always nice to end op, Unless you're a fan of waggling, and 1 for one cheery note') the game plays well The am not, then taking on the computer controls are easy to use, the wrestlers are opponents isn't much fun. What this game clear enough to see at all times and they're as really needs is a two-player option, without it well drawn as any others we've seen lately. the game degenerates into a lonely I suppose you can't really complain for four waggletest. squids (But you already have Jonathan) There's nothing wrong with Wrestling but I already have. (Ahem.) In summation, Superstars. it's just that it gets a bit dull after a Wrestling Superstars is steering well clear while. My only other reservation is the fact that of brilliance, but It's all right. 0 it looks a bit cheap. There isn't a menu to follow, just a horizontally scrolling line which tells you to press fire. There's no high score did yok ”rlirloncrP" "No. Did you look et my pint? "No. , o you wont to come out tot • pint table either, instead the scroller displays the •oromime7" 'Okay." 'You could being your otrifriend, single highest score. Cheapskates! - Nice sprites and tag teams, lust straightforward jumping. manageable controls_ An expert speaks (part two) punching and kicking. Oh and lots and lots of Pete 'Stinky' Skiggins on the smell of the waggling. Hang on a bit, make that lots and washing ring lots and lots of waggling. You play the Darling Stinky. as tiers known to his fans and friends, P. •r- and ,,-, four opponents are true used to be a professional wrestler. He was Lacks variety and a two- once knocked out by The British •iyie villains. You go out into the player option ring and duff them up, Bushwhacker. Stinky retired some years ago sometimes they duff you up, but he still has his finger on the pulse - he s a cleaner at The Pavilion, Bath When asked and that's it. why he still frequented the nng after all these Wrestling Superstars is a years, Stinky said, 'Eee. it's the smell my 'S all right, innit? waggier, a tact guaranteed lovely. Pulls you it do, like a bull. Ah. Oi love to put off some people. If ma' smell" 1311SI:ETBILLLyou don't like waggling, or

looking at the cassette inlay. of authentic American teams. but they all man - I'm just going to have to upend you and 'But what about these Seem to play in exactly the same zig-zag Sit on your head until you come to your • I-to mrlo. Ii inrlo ihr tho Mar hi it features - the full t)riu basketball rules, the Bob released the Owl of the Remove Bunter's Suspicious mind had put two and two accurate ball dynamics. and stood deep in thought. 'Odd! In which together, and for better or worse. the Owl of case, why would they put it in?' He the Remove was gone! 0 the tournament option?' • . , 'Ail - all bumph, old paused, we tirutus 01 ota. tor a reply. LiKe fellow! I grant you the Brutus, he waited in vain. Bunter just rubbed tournament option produces his ear and glared. Bob kicked him into his a long list own study and loaded the game on the •-•aectrum Colonel Wharton had included in Harry's Christmas hamper. 'Hmmm! I see what you mean. It's not exactly wonderful, is it? The same jerky scrolling, the same Well, that was quite a fun way the computer opponents mob you to review to write. stop any clever passing. the same repetitive and boring gameplay. All the same Bunter, you'd better write it up in your own words. Remember what Everything about the game .iappened when you tried to crib Toddy's maths exercise.' is crap. basically. 'Yahl' replied Bunter. 'It Zeppelin can get away with releasing just about the same game twice, I don't see how I can go wrong with repeating the old review.' Slight differences do not a new game make. Somoddoci von 'I can see reason isn't working,' smiled ,to beodd otayinit wtdl thetr beck Bob grimly, looking around for his fives was, to on smother. bat. 'There's only one thing for it old On o YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 11 '7. on - Al l th e ot he r pl ay er , o w n e d 091 385 7 Scam JONATHAN- Rugby! Now there's a Right, so now to put logether a 7 subject close to my winning team. Ooo. that's marl - a Many's the games little pointer pops up on a picture of remember being s the learn to tell you exactly where hard muddy field, to each player goes. And the players around in freezing conditions and have dinky pie-charts to show their ing urged to throw my Inadequately- strengths and weaknesses' How ad form at an obvious thug by a sweet. Alas, you really need a good grasp of rugby to know exactly where ster wearing a coat, three jerseys each player will do the most good. thick gloves. (For example, should a full-back when Linda whisked her monogrammed have great tackling skills or be last iris& away to reveal this kg's number I on his feet?) The other prob - Black.' ignialb.." - Into a comer and screamed for a bit, surfaces when you want to compare Young."Strartgety cold, e s re ma rke d lo my gfra fk, . Pudding we t up On ise of a hideous flashback. But after a nice the player currently in a position "Old.recall." 'Tha nk you M r Brooke , your, ma d." - Damn tea and a useful lecture about with the others on the team. You click - - rk naked terror by confronting on the position - up comes the name ofUp. the have you staggering around with game . er it's a ayer. Annoyingly, you now have- to excitement, erm, doesn't. Sitting quietly in your im. iug 'Junseat with your hands creeping towards that s details. Why couldn't this e.have rather interesting book you started reading last h tot n done automatically? Tch. night is more the order of the day, which is a t ). real shame. Ifs still possible to alloy the h Okay. After quite of1 bit of e clicking and scrolling,9 I've got game, and the fact it's rugby rather than what I reckon Is a pretty (yawn) football lends an edge to the action lit l 7 strong bunch. A quickw look that's the right wo be honest, d's a bit i a of a struggle. 'L. orid Rugby cries s shows I'm s innoce match t P atnot toothe farmain team statistics lights are crap? t off the mark - got lots of other oanother of those ;es to offer is and all pie charts displaysf the is so.' you smile, catise some problems. (See strengths ofi your forwards mg down , as usual, is to. erm, win as and backs.n (Oops, 'forwards' benevolently to ruffle possible ( Well never Ed) and 'backs'd are the sort of its hair and give it a ales (cheers cheers) I attacking andh defensive parts Christmas sixpence. the mighty. erm. i 'It's lust that in the cut- of your rugger team.) (Oops, throat work' of sports ly. you can check up on 'rugger' is them colloquial ter management fiddle around with your team for rugby.) aPops. 'colloquial" highlights everyone else Is doing. and all means speakingn on familiar terms. Ed) Right' On with alp a lot. Yours are ns look nice. (Very nice, in fact.) d the show, (Click dick click.) Blimey, you can icons all over the you select an option, the picture flips b like the page of a book (Unfortunately, 'Play match, Could It possibly mean you get to , young r Slowly, which after selecting about three (gasp) play the match the players as well? away from s starts to drive you up the wall.) Ern.i It's lust a rather badly-phrased term for showingn animated highlights from the whole ing. 0 g match rather than lust the P05 NAME 7 u - p A JONES i' graphics are as dreadful as DAVIES SKILL - v k LEVIS those in Match of the Day - E AILL/ANS s5 E AARON SPEED c birds eye view of a truly V BARRY s EVANS o .pitch with ugly figures divfpo h out the place in an almost Rather original, what? r (More original than soccer o entirely unconvincing manner, e. sims anyway.) And that w Ugh. Tragically, the most TACKLE presentation! Scrummy. s1t important and exciting part of the . h game is reduced to a fair-to- Te 17 I h ILLS middling graphic of a newsreader 3 aw with etouple of numbers kh whizzing around behind his head. eo Whoops. eh? 4 mrl Easily accessible manager mye lot of splendid graphics elsewhere that's disappointing where (the result table backdrop Is s.am It should be exciting. Wd especially groovy) but the very acentre of the game. which should hvt 1 la YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1992 oi c och pe. s- T i dh noe dn eI e d . T h e m a r e a WRITE TO THE ED, YS, 30 MONMOUTH STREET, BATH BA! 2BW Star Letter winners receive three free games! All letters win a YS badge!

Christmas I bought a 4-2 with lots of What, back again already? It seems like only yesterday I was talking GOOD CITIZENS AHOY! games. It was second-hand and to you lot. The Christmas hols went horribly quickly, there wasn't I thought you might like a tale with a cheap from the local paper. nearly enough time to eat, drink and be merry. And now It's time to happy ending for a change! A year There was only one snag - my settle down to a new year. a year in which you promise to keep all and a half ago I was dragged kicking the same resolutions that you break year after year. rrn useless at and screaming into the 20th century little boy couldn't get on with the when I was given a 481K Speccy for loading and waiting times. and I keeping resolutions, I always write them down and set myself whole wasn't always able to run back and new lifestyle regimes. I think I should go for something simple this my seven year old special needs child. I was impressed by this little forth from the steamy kitchen to year. like not growing any taller. But not everything has to change supervise. Maybe this wasn't such a with the new year - I still get to answer your letters. black box of technology - so last good idea after all. We spotted another advert in the This month's doodle clearly shows how unfair the world can be. it's by Dan paper and my other son traipsed Gavrovski of Milton Keynes who is usually to be found propping up the Small around and home with a pristine +3! Print column. I thought my problems were solved. I assumed I could lust pop down the shops and get some disks. Well, I went to our local large town and the tm phrase We can send away for • C011.a., PAAA, . AttUS A,▪ WILA,A eI c/oIAAI A•fr them. Madam became nauseabngly Frr0 ).1,6 , familiar over the next few days! 7 .WA'!I 1•111.-10. LILT r grrE Out of the depths of my befuddled 0 lit vVPAR Oki brain I recalled an article I'd read in A, ,A YS back in February. The +0! It said IP you could convert from tape to disk ,• • 1 - what could be simpler? • . After frantic hunt for Feb's VS 4 1 (hidden alongside all the dust , • gathering hardware) I found the advert for the +0, took a deep breath and phoned Datel Electronics. This is where the happy ending comes in! A very charming and efficient gentleman (it's nice to ,4(IAA AA4 1frrw know there are still some out there!) -.coN,A• I Oat CAvallaCbOk listened to rtly tale of woe and told EAI me that the -44) was not for me but if TMANVEVVVIE ! mAte OM ep/6•71 7' r I looked in YS I would find a s,, a company called Romantic Robot who would supply me with a Mulhface 3 (a what?) that would • REAL_ 11.0 MAN • r (AWOL. solve all my problems. I called COICKFOMT: Yr RIP • Isar cmtow, Romantic Robot and another equally NAVE AI 110 ICA IOU'S Aq•cwr -rol•.1.1 charming and very efficient t FROM NOW WAY rworr PIIAAA COIAD AtArr- -rot WARR KA gentleman (two in one day!) EMI LT0(i• •.ONE •E•Ar Hi14. 30 'Va.) CPW confirmed that this magic box would m 0490 fwar CA1 solve all my problems - I can now w 0. transfer Dizzy (all we've got) on to 1FIONT3 BACK! / 0 disk. Results: one ecstatic Mum, 0P0 ' and, as soon as it arrives, one very ,115w 1 ...AL U.* ! happy little boy. That blimmin' egg AVIAAIAR WtAb IN ' , A has got a lot to answer for! ,iTE•WI CIAft..1A. 1 LAY PENNI HiWAIP! Jo Palmer ANVM1•5 tICA•"3 fftfein.Awl• A7.tApry pumzil lbm St Dominick, Cornwall fUert CA A• - .riO•vst. N' You're right - it is nice to hear a 5It 0) happy ending from time to time. E3 Romantic Robot and Date, can be 1A• A v! this month's good citizens! Ed • YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 111 VIP exi 41S-77N- -- '&11

I guess it was one of those time anticipating those hot and lazy travel' around. Then I start having months, you know - you're in the summer mores. doubts.1 I couldn't bear to sell my middle of exams, you're growing Erm, so the moral of the story books and records, I'd have to give out of your shoes, the sun blazes is... If you're feeling a bit down. pick them1 to friends. Nobody would buy down all day 'hi you've five minutes up YS and have a good lane. my clothes or my plastic fruit and to spare and then it turns into a Just a last point - isn't Jon great? flowers.1 The telly's second-hand blizzard, you haven't been out with Does he have a fan club? and I haven't finished paying off the ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE your mates for so long that you've Peter Mulholiand video1 yet. I have to face the fact Have you ever wanted to sell forgotten their names, your Lisburn, County Antrim that1 my flats full of junk that I'm too everything you own, quit your lob, bedroom's a mess and... Well, you sentimental to get nd of. (And that buy a one-way ticket to the get the idea! know exactly What you mean, nobody1 in their right mind would Bahamas. buy a (Sir) Jimmy Savile- I was all ready to pack my bags Peter. Sometimes I sit in the Shed pay good money for.) esque chair/sun lounger, carry it to when my eyes strayed to a pile of and I think of all the places I could 1To cheer myself up I read the the beach, lie back and wart for the VS mags, I spent an hour reading be. I could sell all my records and letters- that you lot send in and waves to start lapping around your them, slept peacefully, woke up books and household appliances, listen to a bit of Heavenly. It always bare ankles? feeling great and had a pleasant buy a van with the proceeds and works__1 lit the next time. Ed

OUT OF LUCK game by the way I describe it, MAGIC —in front of me, saying, "Bib-don-dot I I would like to know it there are any perhaps you could let me know if I am writing because at the moment 1like chicken crisps, and what are Spectrum Christmas annuals. anybody may stock it in my area. (9.37 pm) I think I'm being watched. you going to do about it?' Please William Rock You play the part of an astronaut In fact I know I'm being watched, 7explain this. Belfast, N Ireland on the moon and you must collect a because about a metre in front of 'Quickdraw' Sir Sigismund mole which pops in and out of the me is a round, hairy creature, three 1Arburthnot Ill, the New God of Erm, no, Basically. Ed craters. Then you enter the moon. inches high, and pointing a ray gun Peckham M Davids at me. After reading the Killer 1 NO PROBLEM North Waisham, Norfolk Kolumn, the bit about 'look before Oh, that was Dave Golder, He loves Please could you help me find the you leap', on Quantum Leap, I chicken flavour crisps. Or rt could title of a game I used to play in What you're after is Nodes of Yesod turned on the TV, and lo and behold, have been magic, Ed 1986 so I could buy it again to play but, unfortunately, its no longer it was (dom-dorn-dom), Quantum on my Spectrum. It was one of my available. Your best bet is to put an Leap! Any way, as I watched ANYTHING ELSE. 0 MASTER? favourites. If you can name the ad in Input Output. Ed Quantum Leap, a creature appeared Please send me a list of SAM software, and a list of compatible Dizzy games. quite so happy for me to. Unfortunately, Andrew, your brain Jamie Prince, It anyone has already sent off seems to have gone on vacation. Broadfields, West Sussex an order to one of the hundreds You forgot to put your full of other addresses then there's address on your letter! Ed Get yourself a decent emulator and no need to worry - we promise you can play whatever Speccy game it'll be dealt with. Dowr HASSLE JON you want, but you won't be able to I think that's about everything I want is a Trainspotter because hear the lovely 128K music. Richard knows my address so in issue 84 Jon says, " only haven't got a list of SAM games but I'm expecting a nice VS badge in Boulder Dash and Boulder Dash if you look through your back issues the post from him (unless this is 4 ever made it onto the Speccy " you should be able to compile your the star letter - three tree games I can throw this point out own. Ed will do in that case). because I possess a copy of Darnel Cannon Boulder Dash 2, So please, ANOTHER PLEA Middiesbrough,Cleveland please, please send me a Help! I am looking for an old A CASE OF COVETING Trainspotter. Mastertonic game called Journey's ANOTHER'S TRAINSPOTTER Thanks for clearing that up, James Woodier End. The copy I have is not loading I hereby claim Richard Swann's Daniel. That Richard Swann, eh? Aber gavenrty, Gwent anymore. Please try and find a copy Trainspotter award. The reason Tsk tsk. And he didn't enjoy the for me, I am willing to buy the game. is that in issue 84, he said that Future Entertainment Show, not Jon! Come over here and explain Thanks for such a super you had printed the wrong ZAT even the heifer skelters. (They yourself! Elm, it was an honest magazine and covertapes. I only address and gave you another were brill and lab! The rest of the mistake. rve never seen Boulder play games on a Spectrum and one instead This was also the world) Ed Dash 2 anywhere and I just nothing else! wrong address. assumed it didn't exist. It was John M Shields The proper ZAT address THE BIG IT lust a mistake, I didn't know - Hull, North Humberside (which is totally right in every No you're not getting away with why are you always getting at way) is 33 Dawley Bank, Dawley, this brilliant mistake I've spotted. me? Everything I do, you Try getting in touch with TelfordIF4 2LQ. Any cheques In issue 83, in Input Output, you criticise. I'm never right, and I try Mastertronic, now Tronix. on 071 should be made payable to ZAT. write, it you'd like to to be. I do my best and all you 727 8070. If they no longer market To buy any ZAT discs (eg SAM advertise..." But that's where the do is laugh at me and mock me. the game, and I strongly suspect Prime or SAM Quartet) the mistake comes in, it was I've had enough of it, I'm not they don't, try Input Output. Ed address is 5 Beacon Flats, Kings supposed to say, If you'd like... going to stand any more. I'm at Haye Road, Wellington, Telford and- it was the big mistake that the end of my tether. Sob... COME OFF IF! 1RG, Cheques should be turned into the big IT. So I think There! Are you satisfied now? I dislike intensely to grumble about paid to D Ledbuiy. not me. I'd be my brain deserves a Trainspotter Look what you've done! This any part of that wonderful very pleased to receive any award. quivering wreck was once a publication the world calls Your donations, but because David Andrew Reed perfectly respectable human Sinclair, so I won't. I wish to grumble puts together the discs, he isn't Ormesby, Middlesbrough being. Sort of. Ed about you, Editor. Intelligent, witty

=CO YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 Turbo the Tortoise released by found out the size of each issue them and not Hi-Tec as reviewed by and how many pages of ads, Then I SOYA PICO your good selves? thought I could find out how many Laurie Jackson pages there were in the mag for Johnstone. Rentrewshire each ad page. Us Spec-chums are getting more i'm not sure if you're representative pages per ad out of VS than ever of all Dizzy fans, Laurie. I've had a before! For instance, in issue 64 couple of phone calls complaining (April '91) there were 91 pages but that I took the price into account 24 of these were ads, this means when reviewing the game. those that it only had 3.8 pages per ad callers said that it didn't matter how page. In issue 83 (November '92) much it was as long as it was still a there were only 51 pages, but only good Dizzy game. I guess the only nine of these were ads which way to find out who's right is to see means that there were 5.7 pages how well it does in the shops, and per ad page. Since you've been Ed In which Soya makes in the charts. Turbo the Tortoise there's been an average of 6,5 an admission was due to be released on Hi-Tec. pages per ad page. OFF THEIR COLLECTIVE Wien that company ran into So listen to me, you doubters! Feeling full we you. Spec-chunts? enough to bunt? Well wrces you right. ROCKER? difficulties, CodeMasters bought Don't be nasty to Linda. shout a loud 'Hurrah!' and then have a go at I'm feeling decidedly slinthne this Have the Codies gone stark raving the game and released it all the ex-advertisers. Christmas, not that you am tell from mad? Are they feeling the themselves. Ed Thomas Adams my picture up there. / don't know if recession? Or is it lust plain greed? I've ever told you this, but that picture A tenner for a Dizzy game? Come HYPER VALUE! Erith, Kent was drawn from a photo taken qr off it Codes, you're not really For ages now people have been writing in and complaining about ft' nwten yV17111 ago. I was fifteen and tery expecting me to pay E9.99 for careless of my appearance, I tried eery Crystal Kingdom Dizzy which is the number of pages in VS. All the smore bargainous than VS is Hyper different editors have put the blame tValue in Gioucester. They sell hard to look like &into whilst in my really just another £3.99 game? No Liens, I thought Feint() was really Linda, I have to disagree - Dizzy on the diminshing number of ads reverything you could possibly small and I hated being a girl. It fans will not be willing to pay an being put in the mag, Well, I udesire including mops, yellow wasn't WI / was eighteen that extra E6 for this one. On the decided to put this theory to the ekitchen utensils, alien money boxes test and got a load of my old YSs, and Speccies! Ed sudden!, decided that Pavan was a bit subject of the Codies, why was , of a unhip kinda dude / WON getting was there! I went for about an hour iacrylic paint water, coriander. ready to go to this real hip party. this and gorgeously dishy though you t on Saturday but couldn't deal with organic black peppercorns, tartaric righteous dude called Bean w are, your failure to turn up at the s Future Entertainment Show on the crowds, so I went to see my acid, Nutradol, Spellbound, yeast aspicking me up and! wanted to look t Saturday 7th November deprived mum. I would've been better oft at nutrient, citric acid, Wyoming good, man. Feint* locked me in my rBentonite, Pectoltte enzyme, soap, myself, and doubtless many other the show - she made me cook the mom, dressed up in one of my beet unfortunates, a meeting. dinner, defrost the dessert, make ularge poppy seeds, sodium velvet kaftans and climbed into ikan's To be fair, I did notice Hutch and the coffee and do the washing up. emetabisulphate, Camden tablets, VW eon. Then he started going an Jonathan Davies (but neither work was knackered! I went on Sunday for !Borax, glycerine, white about molecular dichotomies in the for Your Sinclair anymore, and Andy about three hours too. I didn't hang Tpeppercorns, pine bath crystals, pm of Borneo Bean asked him to normal/greasy hair shampoo, slime mellow out a bit and then chucked kept being mistaken for a wrestler!) around the Future Publishing stand h but neither you nor Jon were there. for long though, there was far too ebubble bath, wax granules, lemon him out of the caw l never had a bath salts, small poppy seeds, Where was the last bastion of much to see and do! Better kick o chance to explain col Bean took off for Darjeeling tea. pickling spices, dried Guatemala soon after that. Speccydom in a world gone mad? I next time, eh? Ed n mint, HOT curry powder, ash, curry I changed after that. Anyway, man. bought my YS that day and l BACK AGAIN spices, rubber shavings, pencil I'm nothing like my picture and if wondered what Farty the Warthog y would have made of it all. I reaksed I couldn't get the rose petals or the shavings, wet paper mush, soil, Bean 's Mildtng this /V just like to say t I still think he's some cool dude. Like... then that our days as a nationwide cuckoo spit - wrong season - but I M 'Still Very Funky' Towers hBirstall, Leicester user group were over. Sob! May our got loads more stuff instead. Here's wow! i Hey lentil-mush! You never i way of life die with dignity! my list Spaghetti straws, CWE 67 told me you don't look like your photo! Robin Lewis yeast compound, paprika, chilli, diet n think go for the slime bubble Ed Well, babe, I thought you only bath and black peppercorns - they'll Long Marston. Near York tonic water, marbles, grape tannin. g employed me co s I had a mug like make an invigorating bodyscrub. Femto's. I didn't want to, Idle. leave You mean I'm not a billiard ball? The glycerine and grape tannin will you disappointed. Hey.! like this Joh. SMALL Dan Gavrovski, Milton Keynes make a very interesting-smelling tWell, I did sort of guess. I didn't see I felt the same way when my mum hand cream. Oh. and you might as how you could be eo big yet eat so told me I wasn't Wilma Fhntstone well send the Spellbound as it is! Ed healthily. Don't watTy. the yrib's still think she was rather harsh yours. Ed: Hey, man, gee that so about it. Ed A VIVID READER WRITES karmic. Wow! Now I feel really As a vivid reader of YS magazine, I glowing, here's a ktier. must write to tell you of our score Dear Soya This joke is funnier if you pretend to be a cheese toaste. on Operation Wolf. I achieved a Did you tell that dipstick with the hat total score of 606418 through all and macintosh the coordinates of my Shane Speck, !Wham, North Humberside levels of the game, and finished the humble abode? He made me use up Cheese toashes aren't tunny. Ed complete game, Is this worth a the last duly special viral buster mention in the next issue of YS7 mixture when all he really needed Matthew Bishop was a packet of paracetamol. The next Spectrums are good because I've Wootton, Bedford time you tell anyone where I live, I'm got a PC and a BBC but I still play going to send you something decidedly my Spectrum. Not realty, seeing as you've just nasty in the post. Su stop it. Jennifer Dunn, Girvan Scotland rnanageO to get it mentioned in this Fend° still regularly play all my Rolf ssue. (I'm sure that should say an Mr Bad Karma strikes again. Go PRINT Harris records. Ed avid reader scratch your big toe, Fenstol - .) Ed YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 Multitace 3 . Cru ise r p o yst ick, lig h t g u n . g a m e s On d isk a n d t a p e , a ll in g o o d co n d it io n L e a d s included El 3 5 in clu d in g p &p Rin g To n y o n a w (0383) 731718. i • Sp e ct ru m .2 A wit h lig h t g u n , m a n u a l e t c f anginal b o x. 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FAMOUS FIVE 26 & 27 CHERRIES Points

GUARDIAN 2 24 POLICE HAT HAT Can kill one baddie with it by walking into RODLAND ..s. 24 the baddle

SERGEANT SEYMOUR 23 FIREBOLT Lasts for seven seconds STEG 23 WILD WEST SEYMOUR.. 25 BLUE DIAMOND Freezes daddies

RED DIAMOND Kills you - avoid PRACTICAL POKES 27 featuring Abu Simbel, Mental Block, APPLE Points Rainbow islands, Tetrold & Steg MELON Points THE YS CLINIC WITH DR HUGO Z ;To) HANDCUFFS Everlasting bullets - 'til you get killed! HACKENBUSH 26 HAMBURGER Points

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Thomas Adams knows this cutesey beat-'em-up inside out and he's decided to impart some of his specialist knowledge to you. What a little peanut! The naughty nasties explained Crocs First Boss Goat Demon Final Boss When shooting the big Stand to the extreme left Bushies Quite slow and easy to kill. crocs never stand of the screen and only - closer than three floor shoot Mr D Mon igeddi01 Polymorphs Avoid being in front of these ugly segments away. This when he's right next to creatures, because if they poke their tounges gives you enough time you. Shoot all the things out at you you're as good as dead. and space to shoot the he chucks at you and little crocs. When you don't bother using the Nessies It you are on the same level as these shoot the weird blobby things they give you missiles that the blobby Scottish myths they'll run at you. It's best to the bouncy bombs. With two players it's best if things produce. It takes a kill them quickly. Player One does all the crocs on the left and long time to kill old goat Dr_i_Player Two all the crocs on the right, features, but stick at it cos Tam and Rit's mum Wasps Quick and bang 'aid. Kill them as is just around the corner! Again, in Iwo-player soon as you get the chance. Whales Second Boss mode have one player at each end. Build a ladder about Sharks Don't stand underneath them cos they one eye width from the might cry! You've heard of acid rain - these right of the whale's eye All these weapons appear are acid teardrops. (see diagram) and Weapons when you kill nasties. (Unless stand on top of it_ Now you're in the E-X-T-R-A game Spuds The easiest of the lot. Don't bother keep firing towards the but you know that anyway.,1 killing 'em 'til you'veN1) got all the flowers so you whale's eye. When he can get the extra letters. turns to lace you, keep firing the same way. Bouncing Bomb Bounces The baby whales can't get you at all so don't around the screen '111 it hits a) a Starfish You don't want a boomerang up your move. The blobby things give four-way flying wall. b) the ceiling. or c) a botty, so kill 'em quickly. bombs, but don't bother using them. In two- naughty nasty, player mode, Player One do as above and Lobsters Don't get too close unless you want Player Two stay at the right of the screen Four-way Bomb Four bombs a shelly claw to grab you. shooting the baby whales and blobby things. Ely around the screen killing any nasties they touch, Rabbits Pretty harmless really. Elephant Third Boss Stay under the platform at the left of the Bomb Explodes and kills any Blue Meanies Due to the rather monochrome screen shooting the baby elephants and nasties that are near quality of this game the blue meanies are blobs When the elephant falls to the floor, run actually white, but never mind, Still, they're out, shoot him a couple of times and then run Missile Shoots off to either side incredibly mean but, luckily. only appear when back again. Keep killing the first nasty it touches. you take too long to clear a level, doing this 'til he dies. In a two-player game Blades Fly off on both sides Strange paper bag type things It you stand have one player at killing any nestles they touch, above one of these, watch out for the each end of the dangerous flying spearheads screen. The blobby It always seems such a things give you upward shame to deal death blows to cuties, but flying missiles hey! somebody's got to do it. GU

John Drake has figured out how to slay alive for longer than five seconds in this amazing and amazingly difficult arcade game. Hurrah! 0 The first thing you need to do is learn how to 0 As soon as you start a level, go left and 0 It's possible to steal a human control your ship Throw away your joystick shoot the two dynamos. This will make things a away from a larKier, but you must andA hunker down to the keyboard - it's the only whole lot easier later on' shoot the 'ander afterwards, way to play. But! To make things a bit easier otherwise when it reaches the top you can forget about the Hyperspace key 0 Don't chase the Landers. Stay just below the of the screen, your poor little blokey altogether. (It's a bit useless.) stargate and watch the scanner. When you see will get killed. a !ander making off with one of your blokeys, 0 The easiest way to avoid enemy bullets press up and you'll go straight to the scene of 0 For practice, shoot all the humans, and youll whenRD you're zooming along is to reverse twice the kidnapping. Zoom in at top speed, go past be thrown into space. Strangely enough, it's As you turn around, the screen scrolls a bit, so the !ander then suddenly reverse. The lenders easier to survive here (cos everything comes the bullets will be pushed off the edge bullets will shoot off in entirely the wrong straight at you). Hone those dodging skillS1 of the screen and disappear into the 1 direction, and you can zap it and catch the -tar-offIA ether. human. Hurrah! 0 Inty lives take all the fun out of the game! M di. YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 N db 2 WILD WEST SEYMOUR

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THE LIGHT CORRIDOR They're getting rather rowdy out FARO FIVE' there. Can't hear myself think, Nurse' Did you bdiv the gas James Eagle SAY ANNE W, WAIT 'tit Uncle bottles? Good Just spray a bit of and Robert Quentin starts to snore. OPEN anaesthetic around. There better Collins have sent in the WINDOWS, QUIETLY E, OPEN .Now on to Marc, Roaster Empire complete solution to our DRAWER, GET BOX. OPEN veteran and, judging by the MOW stunning covertape adventure BOX, GET MAP. READ MAP. of bulletin boards quoted on his - The Famous Five. DROP MAP, DROP BOX, letters, the Mr AO keeps lain BECOME GEORGE. S. SW. QUIETLY W, W. E, SE, NE. E. Valiance In striped suits lids E. BECOME JULIAN, WAIT Ill NE, E, BECOME GEORGE, IN First of all just what was the answer the train arrives. LEAVE TRAIN, BOAT, GET OARS. ROW BOAT to Secret Word Coimbelition • Ex3, BUY ICES, GIVE ICES TO six times, DROP OARS, LEAVE Number 2 — the fish known as GEORGE. BUY GINGER BOAT, SE, NE, GET ROPE, brosmius brosmer Ah. I can't -, BEER. W. NE, N. W, OPEN UNTIE ROPE. SW. N, SAY remember, to be honest. But caey DOOR. W. SAY GEORGE N. S. JULIAN GIVE ME GLOVES, on, "Why do all these adventure bits • ' TURN ON WIRELESS, WEAR GLOVES. TIE ROPE T(' keep appearing in the Clinic?' A fine BECOME GEORGE. W, OPEN BUSH, PULL ROPE, DROP question. Nurse! Remind me to call DOOR, W. GET ALL. E, WAIT ROPE. D. U. DROP GLOVES, that Kemp fellow and find out the 'DI you're thrown out, S. SAY DICK GET ROPE, SAY Got a gatmesnag? answer_ 'Anyway. I'm really writing BECOME JULIAN, N, S. GET DICK UNTIE ROPE. E, SAY See a specialist! with a tip for The Light Corridor. BATTERIES FROM CLOCK, JULIAN DIG, SAY TIMMY DIG Don't pick up the extra bat which GIVE BATTERIES TO DICK, N. SAY DICK TIE ROPE TO RING Yes, fine, sifts, a football No automatically tracks the ball (the SAY DICK GIVE ME ROPE, W. S. X BED, GET MATCHES. problem. Nurse Brillenhouse the elf symbol that looks like two PULL ROPE, UNTIE ROPE, GIVE MATCHES TO DICK, N, off give you a special gift from her rectangles joined at the comer) - GIVE ROPE TO DICK, E, D. W, N, GET TORCH. S. magic sack. Now getout. repulsive it goes behind a wall, you can't coax BECOME JULIAN, SAY DICK GIVE TORCH TO DICK, S, child Oh, hello I've been driven to it out, and the only solution is to turn OPEN WINDOWS, W. N, GET TURN ON TORCH. D. D. W, takingja part-time lob by off and start again." Thank you ROPE. SAY DICK PUT NW, NW, S, X COLUMN. PUSH circumstances and my landlord. Forrester, Have a plastic snowman BATTERIES IN TORCH. SAY GRILLE. N. SW. SW, BREAK with my compliments DOOR, N. GET LANTERN. Anyway, comp itio the Magic Grotto GEORGE GIVE ME SPADE, S. and keep mini the way. I'll deal BECOME DICK. S. SE, N, D. D E. N, E, S. TURN ON with your problems momentarily. AU SECOURS WIRELESS, SAY JOANNA TIE ROPE TO LADDER, DROP Nurse! Send in the next horrid Kevin Dunsmuir 'I'm stuck in that GIVE GLOVES TO DICK, N, ROPE, D. W, N, SW, SW, X juvenile while I adjust my whiskers old Bulldog game Streaker. I've only OPEN DOOR E, E, NE, E. MATTING. GET KEY, UNLOCK and cheerful grin managed to find the the BECOME GEORGE, TALK TO DOOR, OPEN DOOR. N. SAY vest. What now?" r ALF (he will give you Timmy). IN GEORGE EAT SCONES, SAY BACK TO SKOOL A Broadhead: 'I the BOAT. GET OARS, ROW BOAT GEORGE GET GOLD, S. Hello little boy. Oh, you've wnnen forcelield doors (or doors tor six times. DROP OARS, LEAVE At this point you need to me a poem on lavender paper. How that matter) in V. It's rely seeseIN BOAT. SE. NE. BECOME WAIT 'tit Julian tells you his nice. Now shut up for a moment, me up You should see a doctor; JULIAN, X HEATHER, TIE idea. When Timmy growls. see Right. Back in Issue 73, Daniel my rates are reasonaeie. ROPE TO STUMP, DROP where he's pointing at. then go Ramsey got completely stuck in. DarreNtit 'Alter using the around the corner, so if he ROPE, D, BREAK CRATE. GET yes, Sack to Skoot My eminent Pokerama POKE for Cfs dephant AXE, U, SW, NW, PULL BOAT, points SE then hide at the predecessor, that wastrel Antics, I can't get past the two SE, N, NE, DRINK GINGER location which is NE of the dank Berkmann, failed to solve his volcanoes that suddenly appear at chamber, and vice versa. BEER. BECOME GEORGE. problem. But see how crafty the top of the Africa level. They just EAT CAKE, BECOME DICK, WAIT three times, go to the Hackenbush comes up with the lead to a wall - dank chamber. CLOSE DOOR. UNWRAP SANDWICHES, EAT goods a mere year late. Lee KJ Glove: - SANDWICHES. GET PAPER, LOCK DOOR. NE. NE, SE, SE. Rawling has sent in a solution, but rmbeginning of The Hunt For Red GIVE GLOVES TO JULIAN, E, U, U, W. SW. BECOME he's probably dead by now so stucOctober (the Grandslam version)." GET STICKS. SW, E, E. DROP GEORGE. IN BOAT, GET David Antcliffe• On Level Two of paraphrase his kstielacattil you k STICKS, W, W, S. NW. WAIT 'til OARS, ROW BOAT six times. myself. First of an, Search d the Tusker, I can find the oft) and get DROP OARS, LEAVE BOAT, rig you see a storm brewing, SE, N, desks in both the boys' and girls' the key from the chieftain, but I can't W. SW, W. BECOME JULIAN E. WAIT you start to sneeze. schools until you find the water gelht any further than that. Also. SAY GEORGE GIVE ME E, STRIKE MATCH, LIGHT pistol and the stink bomb. Now fill up where'sat the slingshot?' PAPER WITH MATCH. LIGHT GOLD. the trophies on the wails and fire the th STICKS WITH PAPER, DROP Now wander around '111 you catapult to knock the water over the Another day. another dollar. Nurse! PAPER. e meet Uncle Quentin. When you teachers When you've got all the What's the manager of this store W, W, S. NW. N. NE. IN meet him, George should tell code numbers, write them on a paying me again? Oh. I was nght. SHIP. D, W. BECOME JULIAN, him about the gold and the two clean blackboard in this order: Close the doors to the Magic Grotto X SEAWEED, BREAK men. Alter he has said that this Wacker's, Creak's, Rockett's and and man the gas bottles. Santa CUPBOARD WITH AXE. OPEN is rubbish. GIVE GOLD TO Withirs. If it doesn't work try another Hackenbush is going on strike for CUPBOARD. SAY DICK GET UNCLE. WAIT 'DI the policeman order, but Rawlings reckons this one better wages In the meantime folks, arrives. BECOME GEORGE. BOX. E. U. LEAVE SHIP. SW, will work most of the time. Anyway, here's Secret Word Number Four. S. PUSH BOAT, BECOME GO TO BEACH. IN BOAT. GET once you've done that play by the It's a nirtkitter word beginning OARS. ROW BOAT six times. GEORGE. IN BOAT, GET rules until you've got Library. Now with D that means a Ceetral Asian OARS. ROW BOAT six times, DROP OARS, LEAVE BOAT. go to Wacker's room, wait until he's wild ass, rather Ike a mule Enclose DROP OARS. LEAVE BOAT. BECOME JULIAN. SE, N, E. D coming up the stairs and drop the your answer akmg with a ttp at a D, W. NW. NW, SW, SW. W, SW, W. OPEN DOOR, W. U. stinkbomb. More next month. I'll just snag and send It to me. Dr U. BECOME DICK, OPEN BECOME DICK. UNLOCK get my marker pen and note down Hackenbush. at the VS Clinic. 30 WINDOW. THROW BOX DOOR. where we left off on this piece of Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 28W THROUGH WINDOW. D. D, W, And there's more where scrap paper. Nurse' This rotten boy You could well win, well, something. that came from on the S. OPEN WINDOWS, W. SAY appears to be biting me in the leg. Ho ho and ho again and goodbye JULIAN W, SAY GEORGE W. opposite page. Hurrah!

2t ree YOUR C LSIUI Feb 1993 PRACTICAL POKES

The trouble with pokers is that they're useless without an open fire. Except Jon North of course!

It seems like everyone's been ',robs from R-reg decrypters (I 10 REM MENTAL BLOCK BY HA TO COMPLETE really busy this month I ve coded think he's probably using DevPaci 20 CLEAR 34927: LOAD — 60 RANDOMIZE USR 39928 two new scrollies in Pokerama, and was desperate for the CODE30 POKE 65153,0: LET A=34816 Hackers Notveryanonymous have Rainbow Islands routine I coded 40 READ 13: IF B=999 THEN 10 REM BIGNOSE BY HA had about two hours sleep in the yonks ago — so here it is. It not RANDOMIZE USR 65136 20 CLEAR 24499_ LOAD * last four weeks to get their stuff only gives you et, lives, but slops 50 POKE A,B: LET A=A+1: GOTO -30 RANDOMIZE USA 24500 done, and a few new faces have you losing your extra rainbows 40 CODE40 POKE 42822.0. REM 'WY been hacking games for the first when you lose a life. 60 DATA 175,50,57,142: REM LIVES time — all of which leaves me very !WY TIME 50 RANDOMIZE USA 36744 little time to wattle, so I won't. 10 REM R.I. by Jon North 70 DATA 175,5039,145 REM 20 FOR F=16384 TO 16453 INFY LIVES BIG SHOUTS STEG 30 READ A 80 DATA 175.50,5,140: REM 1 This month's Ng shouts go to a A new lace to the column. but one .40 RANDOMIZE USR 16384 TILE TO COMPLETE duo called the Funky which has promised rather POK50 DATA 221,33,203,92,17 90 DATA Marshmallows in Northants for ominously to return, is Jell Brains E60 DATA 30,15,62,255,55 195,223.136.127,72.65,57,50,999: their three routines, someone who of Melksham in Wiltshire. Not only F,A70 DATA 205,86,5,48,241 REM END MARKER shall remain nameless (because has he hacked Stag tor you all :80 DATA 33,149,98,54,195 there was no identity on their 10 REM ABU SIMBEL BY HA letter) for all the old Ultimate stuff. (delete the line that isn't for your NE90 DATA 35,54,30,35,54 100 DATA 64,49,224,92,201 20 CLEAR 24500 and Dan Someoneorother for his machine or it'll crash), he's also XT 110 DATA 33,138,11,34,145 .30 LOADPOKE 65292,201: Hard Davin' bits. I'm sure they'll quite fond of Wendy James A F man of taste' Cheers, Jett, me old 120 DATA 130.62,201,50,187 "••CORANDOMIZE USA 65280 come in handy someday. mucker 130 DATA 128,201,33,229.130 DE40 POKE 65334,98: LET A=25104 . 140 DATA 22,100,1,0,1 50 READ B: IF 13=999 THEN TAM BYES 5 REM STEG BY JEFF BRAINE 150 DATA 89,115,35,114,33 RANDOMIZE USA 65293 And with all that out of the way, it's 10 CLEAR 24319: LOAD — 160 DATA 62,64,237,176,195 60 POKE A,B: LET A=A4-1: GOTO time for me to hot-loot it off this 20CODE POKE 24375,251: POKE 170 DATA 161.130.62,217.50 50 page and onto your telly. Routines 24376,201 180 DATA 59254.195,122.163 70 DATA 175.50.68.1136: REM for the column should be sent to 30 POKE 24377243: !WY LIVES me. Jolly Jon Jonty Sandy Atari. RANDOMIZE USA 24320 THE OBLIGATORY 80 DATA 175.50234,176: REM PP. VS. 30 Monmouth Street, 40 POKE 31985,0: POKE 33234,0 ONSLAUGHT IMMORTAL Bath. Avon BA1 2BYV, that's the 50 POKE 33255,0: POKE 37437.0 Not a month goes by without 90 DATA very same place you should send 60 RANDOMIZE USR424377: Soollands Notveryanonymous 24,3,127,72.65,195,16.164.999: your 48K tapes if you want them REM 128K hackers getting in on things in a REM END MARKER hacked on next month's 70 RANDOMIZE USR 32768: big big way (unless they're Pokerama (with a suitable SAE If REM 48K elsewhere coding a POKEs tape 10 REM TETROID BY HA you want them back). 80 REM DELETE EITHER 60 OR for the cover!), so off we go. All 20 CLEAR 39927: LOAD — Please don't send 128K tapes these routines are almost CODE30 POKE 65150.251: POKE or disks. because I can't do intolerably short, so I've got room 65151.201 anything with them. Sorry' See A FAVOUR FOR A FAVOUR to print loads of them. Resounding 40 RANDOMIZE USA 65136 you in the rather spiffy scrollies (all Jeff seems to be getting major cheers lads' 50 POKE 44947,98, REM 1 LINE seven of 'ern!)

- YOU FA MOUS FIVE

James and Robert, not content with giving us the complete solution have also got these helpful tips...

0 At the start, George is not many times otherwise he'll put And that. I promise, is the always where she is expected to you on the next train home. lot. Thank you and goodnight! be for the first part of the solution 0 Turn on the wireless too many atjF to work_ Dont worry, just find your times (ditto). Irr way to the shop. 0 Mess around after you start to r 0 Don't worry when Timmy falls sneeze on the island. There's a 1 down the well — it's meant to limit to the amount of turns you dits / 4 happen. Honest. can have, if you reach this limit 0 Sometimes one of the Five will it'll be the dreaded Game Over_ 4 toA refuse to do what you say 0 Go into Uncle Quentin's study o , because they want something to when the stranger is in there, he'll eat. If this happens and you've have no qualms about putting got no food left just BECOME you on the next train home again. kMUSSELS that character and carry Out the 0 The game will recognise some t4 action. The become whoever you of the more well-known swear What a good Tipshop, even If I do say so were before_ words (ha ha). Of course, you myself! Keep on sending those maps. DO NOT... can always use the command hints,A crabsticks, tips and chests to me, SWEAR AT_ Linda B. at VS Tipshop, Your Sinclair, 30 0 Wake up Uncle Quentin too Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BA1 28W.

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• Z 2—.• I •mo- ••••• •• • • 1 tr 1 • 1 •C 1 II • 0 J 1 l 1 i:t 4 t D Or d 1 ' _dr 4 • , if 0 • 1 •. . • 4 : 1 • d • 1 1 1 Z 1 1 7 . 4 k - • . 4 6 1 ' " . 1 " 1 ; lo! Is it the Prince1 of Mauve that rides1 this way? Yep, it sure is! . 0 1 " . DRAGON SLAYER. . By: Dream World : - ragon Slayer is added the odd • ID) the first graphical special adventure by effect here and • Martin there and has come Freemantle. He's up with a pretty taken a traditional smart game for a first effort. • fantasy theme. So what's all this dragon slaying lark about? Well, the aim of the game is basically to kill the dreaded and much-feared Silver Dragon who has formed a A dangerous alliance with some nasty Red Goblins. There's also this warlock, Rexel, who has created a pendant from various elements which the humans who are battling the goblins) can use for protection against just about anything! Att Wouldn't it be just blummin• well typical (as we say here in Norfolk) if the • pendant was stolenl a Well, it does get r e stolen.., and so it's up to i 0 you, brave adventurer, to g 0 kill the dragon, defeat goblins and also the evil battle wolves and serpents along the way. Bet you you find and enter a cave, your are getting excited, eh? So you reward being a suitably should be as the game starts off atmospheric piccyl I very well with every item needed But it's not all nice surprises to make a good start being found and carefree wandering in the in the first ten or so locations. early part of the game. You'll The dusty road that you find need to have a hefty twain • yourself travelling along runs storming session when you come east, and there's a ledge above across some leaves. Remember you which is initially too high to that EXAMINE and SEARCH reach. Follow the track, explore are two words that in most the grassy outcrops that appear games perform two distinctly here and there and then type separate actions. Even so you'll START. Why? Well, that still have to think of a few other command brings up a map of the ways to manipulate the leaves first few locations so you know before you can move on, up and where you are It's a nice little out into other areas of the touch —just a shame :.ime world. Finally, it doesn't cover more i Ce touch number of the game area. three is in the form of Nice little touch .1 simple bit of number two comes when animation which takes 6

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1 No , M ft YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 . : 2 •••••• 2 - f , e I'd say the beginning was the place if you bridge. The objects you find or Title: Dragon Slayer manage to climb obtain are also traditional in best bit - with all the nice little From: Dream World up onto the shape, size and, more often than touches being found there, the Adventures, 10 Medhurst ledge. Phew! not, in their use. That doesn't middle segment doesn't really Crescent, Gravesend. Kent And all crammed mean you'll know what to do build from the beginning and the DAl2 4HL into the first ten with everything you find though. end comes on a bit too quickly Price: L1.99 48K tape I, and is a tad too hard. However, minutes. Only in the latter stages will £2.49 (128K tape), £1.99 (48K things get harder - the main having said that, there is still + D disk), L2.491128K + D through the game the challenge being that the enough in it to pose the average I disk), £3.49 (+3 diaki. Make fantasy atmosphere is vocabulary is a bit adventurer a few problems. cheques and POs payable to M Rkept up quite well, limited. Cue head At any rate it holds Freemantle. Overseas mainly becausei a lot of the scratching and one's interest from start customers add E1.00. problemsg are typically fantastic. flipping through to finish. Ill certainly dictionaries for keep an eye out for As you hprogress from the early TEXT •UU section tto the middle of the appropriate , future Dream World JJJJ Adventures! Mit MENEM EMBJ-1-1 game, you'llt even come across a synonyms! J greedy htroll guarding a ricketty In the final analysis PERSONAL RATINGS KM INGESEO-11..1.1 1 e w a THEy GERBIL RIOT OF '67 It” The Guild/Simon ter

Strange title eh? Strange game! and wacky, The first location of Zenobi Software have just re-released Clive Wihion's and Les Hogarth'S ex- Let me explain... You've been this text only' game is the Mastertronic icon accused of instigating the great Treatment Room. It's a place -Venom Shard Of mover and Kabyashi Nara. Being icon-controlled aU you Gerbil Riot of 1967, and have that the other inmates associatt• drivenhave to do to communicate with the games is highlight certain options. been sent to a 'home for the with pain and suffering. You graphicpress the odd key here and there and you'll be up and adventuring in no time at all. They are especially good for those of you who don't like the confused'. This home turns out won't have to look far before you - to be an asylum and you've got find a body slumped on the floor. keyboard/ mental skills that are required to play a standard game. Prices are:based E140 each (48k/128klor E3.49 eacht+3 disk and you can get them Examine it and you find a half- to escape from it! advenfrom: Zenobi Software. 26 Spotland Tops. Cutgate. Rochdide. Lancashire As befits a game of this empty hypodermic syringe in the tures01.12 7NX. Overseas customers add 50p surface mail or 1E00 for air mail. nature, you'll soon see that the arm of the 'sleeping' orderly. It ,All cheques etc payable to Zenobi Software. objects, inmates, surrounding seems that you were responsible locations and situations you find for putting him to sleep so it progress,T and soon the upper found. You'll meet a squirrel who yourself in are all suitably weird might be a good idea to make regionsh of the loony bin will be asks you to construct something your break for freedom right yourse to wander to your heart's for him. Now in most games you away as I'm sure the content.th The inmates, such as get to meet characters who ask Treatment Room Oswaldre the Ostrich i who thinks favours of you, but what's holds a nasty surprise he'se an ostrich would you different here is that the should the other believe'ti and Count Crackers squirrels request involves orderlies catch you. I who'stl a Dracula fan, are just finding several different objects. As escape is your twoes examples of the many combining them and making tilt- resulting object work. In return main aim, getting strangea people you'll meet on out of the first your travels. They all seem to the squirrel gives you something r location should be have objects or traits that will suitably strange which itself has e no problem with help you progress towards your a use that can only be guessed at : just a couple of ultimate goal. until the time to use it becomes nutty inmates to If you can stay 'sane' long glaringly obvious. block your enough while playing you get to All in all it's a great little solve a decent amount of crazy game that uses characters, problems and get to venture out setting, names and objects in a into the asylum grounds where novel combined way. It's a the best characters beginners' adventure more than and objects anything else, so if you are new L. can be to adventuring, and don't know where to staet,,Gerbil Riot of '67 is as good a place as any to begin. The fun starts here!

Title: The Gerbil Riot Of '67 From: The Guild, 760 Tyburn Road, ErclingtAm, Birmingham B24 9NX Price: £2.00 Itapel Make cheques and POs payable to G Collins. Overseas customers add E1.00.

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YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 M ICEP ,Z — N II I• •• •• • % N io s = 2- -- m u r , r , tap! Here's Craig sure you are, barely able to contain your excitement about the imminent A arrival of the second half of Richard Swann's Really Happening Jet Set Broadbent- Hurrah! hWilly Editor. Well, you're in luck, cos it's, erm, arrived. , t h e month'sr code on this month's tape e changes as shape as it moves is using (confused yet?) and hey presto - a several frames of animation and cycling y working copy of the Sprite Editor! through them. If c JET SE o say,, smile, then frown, then smile again. Oiu can't be workin' this wossnarnat andou so on,want it will need two frames of a In that case, my good man, simply refer to animation.your If you entered 100 as the initial theser instructions. Load in your newly-created sprite, nastthen 2 for the animation frames Spritee Editor, and when it asks for the j'swi file, WILLY required,y you'd then have to design your either. load in the original tape. OR your saved smiley tosprite in sprite 100, and your frowning levelsI from last month. Once done, you're back sprite in sprite 101 (there are 168 sprites that , onw familiar ground - enter the number of the you can use altogether). See? Anyway, the rooma you wish to edit, and you'll see a piccy of last thing is the colour of your sprite, and the EDIT sI with the baddies and their paths both shown. colour values correspond to those on the Then it's menu time - options three and tour w number keys of your keyboard. Incidentally, it's do the same as last month, so I won't go into a good idea to make the sprite a different - ionno o them, but one and two are radically different: colour from the background colour of the n 1) Nasties This lets you edit the moving screen so that you can see it. ! nestlesd in each room, The flashes are numberede 1-111, and you can use each nasty I oncer and once only in each room (except Second Lot of Code! 6 Future Publishing's marketing ploy. numberi 63, which is reserved for something O BASIC 1 but in order to type this program in, else).n The sub-options here are: you'rek going to have to own a copy of last g c Create (add) a nasty. Type the number of months VS. But, hey, that's not such a bad 90 REM Start' 31486 (use Decunal Lodef YS 85) ab thew nasty you want inserted and up he'll pop. 100 DATA 33. 0, 88. 17, 179, 92. 6. 8. 523 thing,yy as not only is VS the best read in the Noh more than seven nestles on one screen, 110 DATA 14. O. 126, 254. 56. 32, 2. 203 687 cosmos,, but with Part One as well, you'll be though,e please. 120 DATA 249, 35, 126, 254. 56, 32. 2, 203, 957 130 DATA 241, 35, 126. 254. 56, 32, 2, 203, 949 ablesR to turn this program into the most versatile n d Delete the last nasty you added, editor you've ever seen. You see. this bit, a Assign a different number to a nasty in the 140 DATA 233, 35. 126. 254. 56, 32. 2. 203,941 oi y 150 DATA 225, 35. 126, 254, 56. 32. 2. 203. 933 although a separate program, works in room. You'll be asked which nasty you want to r o 160 DATA 217, 35, 126. 254, 56. 32. 2. 203, 925 conjunctionc with last month's Block Editor to change (1 = first nasty created, 2 = second, r u 170 DATA 209, 35, 126, 254. 56. 32. 2. 203. 91 give you, the reader, a perfectly customised 180 DATA 201. 35, yh etc) and the new nasty number (1-62. 64-111). 126. 254. 56, 32, 2. 203. 909 version of the classic game of all time. And ' a Edit the nasties_ In JSW 1, nestles can't 190 DATA 193. 197, 1, 25. 0, 9. 193, 121, 739 isn'tta that what we all want from life? moved diagonally, so you'll be asked whether 200 DATA 18, 19, 16, 180. 201, 33. 0. 88, 555 o This is what you do. Type in the BASIC, yous want your nasty to move lekright (0) or 210 DATA 17, O. 171, 6. 16, 14, 0, 125,350 br h 220 DATA 254. 56, 32. 2, 203, 249, 35, 126. 957 then save it (SAVE "filename" LINE 1). Then. upldown (1). Then type in the initial and limit 230 DATA 254, 56. e 32. 2, 203. 241. 35, 126. 949 andd this is the tricky bit, load in the CODE you co-ordinates.o The initial co-ordinates are the x 240 DATA 254. 56. 32. 2, 203, 233, 35, 126, 941 enteredrS with that new-tangled Decimal Loader andw y values of where your nasty begins, and 250 DATA 254 56, 32, 2, 203. 225, 35. 126. 933 laste month with LOAD ""CODE, and then theu limit co-ordinates are the x OR y values 260 DATA 254. 56, 32, 2, 203, 217. 35 126, 925 270 DATA 254, 56.32 2. RESAVEdw it after this months BASIC, with (dependingp on whether your nasty is going 203, 209. 35. 126, 917 280 DATA 254, 56, 32. 2. 203, 201. 35, 909 SAVEu "filename"CODE 23296,256, Okay? left/right or up/down) that the nasty can move 126, a , 290 DATA 254. 56. 32, 2, 203, 193, 121, 18 879 Once you've done that, it's back to the Decimal c tob before turning round and going back. 300 DATA 14.0. 19, 35, 126, 254, 56. 32. 536 Loadern - drag Out last month's issue and use it e 2)e Defining the sprite(s) for that one nasty 310 DATA 2. 203, 249, 35, 126, 254, 56, 32, 957 to enter the second lot of code, 320 DATA 2. 203, 241, 35. 254. dn Firsti you have to enter the initial sprite used, 126. 56. 32, 949 (Handily marked, Second Lot and then the number of animation frames. This 330 DATA 2, 203, 233.35. 126, 254. 56, 32,941 t n 340 DATA 2, 203, [DE of Code.) Save it after last may need a little explanation - any nasty that 225. 35, 126, 254, 56, 32, 933 Do g a , MI a YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 p a a s r I t ' o m f 630 CLS GO SUB 230' PRINT AT 17•0; 350 DATA 2, 203, 217. 35, 126. 254, 56, 32, 925 34000 SUB 450 - 360 DATA 2, 203. 209, 35, 126. 254, 56, 32, 917 350 PRINT AT 21.0,'screen 'screen: RETURN Save 3)TesI4 1640 ) LET Load aS.INKEYS: 2) IF THEN GO TO 840 370 DATA 2. 203, 201. 35, 126, 254, 56, 32, 909 360 PRINT AT cy.cx. 850 IF aS- 380 DATA 2. 203, 193, 121. 18. 197, 1, 17, 752 370 FOR 0-1 TO cI7 PRINT ---;: NEXT n 860 IF 4-'2 190 DATA 0.9. 193, 19, 5. 120. 194, 93, 633 380 RETURN - -870 IF 4. 400 DATA 123. 201, 78, 69, 68. 32. 90, 69. 728 390 INPUT "Are you Sure?": LINE a$: IF aS<. 1 -880 IF a$- 410 DATA 80, 80 69. 76, 73, 78, 32. 32. 520 -AND aS<. -THEN 890 GO TO 840 420 DATA 33, 0. 88, 17, 179, 192. 6. 8. 523 Y"-400 FOR n.pointer+238+(rnm'21 TO pointer+15: THEGO3- 900 INPUT "Filename:":It IF LEN fti-0 OR LEN 430 DATA 26, 203, 127. 40. 2, 54, 56, 35, 543 yPOKE n,0: NEXT n, POKE pointer+238+(mm"2),255: NSU-4 13.10 THEN GO TO 900 440 DATA 203, 119, 40, 2, 54. 56, 35, 203, 712 -RETURN GBTHE- 910 LOAD fSCODE 32768.32768 RETURN 450 DATA 111.40. 2, 54, 56, 35, 203, 103, 6(14 410 LET tsx.sx: LET Isy-sy. FOR r1.1 TO sl O9NTHE THE 920 INPUT - 460 DATA 40. 2. 54, 56, 35, 203. 95, 40,525 420 IF sc1.0 THEN PRINT AT tsy.tsx; S2GN N Filenam16.10 THEN GO TO 920 470 DATA 2, 54, 56. 35. 203, 87, 40, 2,479 —1 : LET isx-tax-1 0ORE RE U930 SAVE ISCODE 32768.32768' RETURN 480 DATA 54, 56, 35, 203. 79, 40, 2, 54.523 :430 LET IF sd-1 THENtspi15y- PRINT AT tsy,tsx: STUe TU B940 INPUT - 490 DATA 56, 35, 203, 71, 40. 2, 54, 56, 517 —1 URN- RN 9Surer,aS(t k. 500 DATA 197, 1, 25, 0. 9, 193. 19, 16. 480 :440- LET NEXT n: tsy.tsy-RETURN 1S. 0S950 POKE 35899.0 POKE 36470.0. POKE 34275.10 510 DATA 191. am 33, 0,88, 17, 0, 171, 701 450L FOR n IFLINE- 09RANDOMIZE USA 33792 ,460E IF PEEK n-255 OR PEEK n-1 THEN LET LEaSY 520 DATA 6. 16. 26,203, 127. 40, 2, 54, 474 4960 POKE 23487,screen RANDOMIZE USA 23464 530 DATA 56, 35. 203, 119. 40, 2.5456. 56, 565 i(pointTmm-(n-(pointer+240))/21 RETURN N'- 0RETURN 540 DATA 35,203. 111. 40, 2, 54, 56, 35, 536 er470 LET mp-40960+((PEEK nr6) 15IFTH 1 970 INPUT - 550 DATA 203, 103, 40, 2. 54. 55, 35, 203. 696 +240)480 LET my-(PEEK (rnp+3)).0 6 -0aS(1)EN S 8x8AND n<>16 or THEN GO TO 970 560 DATA 95, 40, 2, 54. 56, 35, 203. 87, 572 490 IF (PEEK 0+1 ))<64 THEN LET mx-(PEEK (n+1)) <...R Ti O980 IF n-8 THEN GO SUB 1010 570 DATA 40. 2. 54. 56, 35, 203. 79, 40. 509 500 IF (PEEK (n+1))>=64 AND PEEK (n+-1)<128 ,-E1610 Ot R990 IF n-16 THEN GO SUB 1160 580 DATA 2. 54 56. 35, 203, 71. 40. 2, 463 THEN LET mi.-MEEK in+ 1TI-64 6 (poi- LyT1000 RETURN 590 DATA 54, 56, 35. 19, 26, 203, 127, 40. 56(1 510 IF (PEEK (n+1))..128 AND PEEK (n+1)<192 spn rrie1 E-U1010 INPUT - 600 DATA 2, 54, 56, 35. 203, 119. 40, 2, 511 THEN LET mx.(PEEK (n+1))-128 tes ri-2u NARsn.7 THEN GO TO 1010 610 DATA 54, 56, 35, 203. 111, 40. 2, 54, 555 520 IF (PEEK (n+1)1.-192 THEN LET mx-(PEEK (8-Which 55)4 N1020 IF sn<>7 THEN LET sa.powner+152+1sn 620 DATA 56. 35. 203. 103, 40. 2. 54. 56, 549 (n+1))-192 16sprite S D-1030 IF sn-7 THEN LET sa-poinier+225 530 DATA 35. 203, 95, 40, 2, 54, 56, 35, 520 I530 IF mx.32 THEN LET mx.mx-32 )(1-7 T 911040 CIS 'POKE 31749.INT (sa 640 DATA 203, 87. 40. 2. 54, 56, 35.203. 680 540 IF (PEEK mp)i2<>INT ((PEEK mp/2) THEN LET -) E 31748.sa•1(PEEK, 31749)2561 RANDOMIZE USA 650 DATA 79. 40, 2, 54, 56. 35, 20 ml-PEEK (mp+6): LET mr-PEEK (mp+7)7 FOR rn.m1 ;n"s 256).31744. PRINTPOKE AT 17.0;"See documentation to. ,660 DATA Ao. 2, 54, 56 PTO mr: PRINT AT my.m; n :keys 3,.670 137 71.DATA 9, 193,540 19, 16, 133, 201, 0, 0, 571 2-550 IF (PEEK rnp).2.1NT ((PEEK rnp);21 THEN LET I I—1050 LET xc--0! LET yc- •680 1 DATA 999 -ml-(PEEK (mp+6))/16 LET mr-(PEEK (mp+7)1/6 F FOR 'Twill TO rrw: PRINT AT m,mx;"- FSontLET, al-22528: LET oat-22528 . - ed -560 PRINT AT my,mx, ne0:1060 LET PRINT AT oyc,oxc, PAPER 1INT ((PEEK 17 : NEXT <1 :-imy+1),mx; NEXT m —LETl(PEEK at)18)); PEN 2: . R1070 LET aS-INKEYS. IF THEN GO TO 1070 JSW Sprite Editor -++580 INPUT - 8PRINToyc---- • 367 1080 IF 4-'5" AND xt7•0 THEN LET oxe-kc: LET BASIC :-WhatOR PRINTS11,111 OR 51 AT0 sprile-590 POKE poinfet+240+(mm ycdtoyc.yc: LET oat-at. LET icc.itc-1: LET at-at-1 AT: 1090 IF a$-"8" AND itc<7 THEN LET oxc.itc: LET num1-63pointew+241+Imm- c: NEX oyc-yc, LET oat-at: LET ircivitc+1: LET al-a1+1 10 LOAD -- berTHEN-2pointer t• +2424-(mm1: PA T 1100 IF 4-'7 PAPERCODE 0: PEN 7 (1-GO21,PEEKPOKE-600 INPUT 'Which monster (1-";(mm)n•sp, IF sp<1 PE n: oyc-m- AND LET oat<-at LET yciiyc-1: LET atiaal-32 .23390:: CLEAR POKE 23607,124 111TO(40962+2).255OR sp>mm THEN GO TO 600 R RE610 INPUT New spite number (I•111) -- yc>1110 IF 4-'6 314820LOA PRINT - )58(sn'8)):, (I TUsn:OR s,n.111 IF ORsn<0 sn-63 THEN GO TO 610 0-oyc-yc: AND LET oal-at LET yc-yc+1 LET el-411+32 7JETD -0POKRETURN NT RN520 POKE pointer+238+(sp THyc<1120 IF aS- RANSEToriginal"C tape 30 LOAD- snE -poonter+239+(sp*2),PEEK (40962+(sn*8)): RETURN EN7-1130 IF 4-'9' THEN POKE at,0 DOMWILIswlOD40 LET - o-0: CLS , 1140 IF a6- 50 INPUT - 2),sm630 INPUT POKE 'What sprite number (2-111) - LTH0 IZELYCODEE I -3 i 493.INT (sa1256) POKE 31492.sa-((PEEK Whichscreen<0 OR screen.60 THEN GO TO 50 :sn,OR sn> 111IF OR sn.63sa<2 THEN GO TO 630 EEN- UED:BO F640 INPUT 'Which direction (0-1)":way IF way<>c THEN31493) scre60 CLS GO SUE3 23() TLTHE SITPORD s PO-1150 GO TO 1060 en70 PRINT AT 17.0,1) Nestles 2) S4rites AND way< owEN AORKEER n-650 INPUT Initial x-co NA (0-31) - POKE256):1160 INPUT - 1-Screen 41 File" sn.160c-T THEN GO TO 1160 25990 <.1;licik.31 THENIF GOix<0 TO 650 KEat,RAWhich 03)so LETNew al-INKEYS xcox1170 LET sa-43744+(sn —00. 1THEOR660 INPUT initial y-co or (0-15) - 4(PENDspate t90 IF a$-- .c--tsa2561' POKE 311322,sa-1(PEEK 31823) Pl255100 IF at,"1 N:1y1y>15 THENIF GOiy<0 TO 65C 5EKOM11-1 o- Lixc32)-RANDOMIZE CLS USA 31818' PRINT AT 17,0, ay110 IF a.S. OR670 IF way-0 THEN INPUT 'Leftmost x-co ord (0-31) etIZE681 63- G E:6documentation- for keys y - )-U-POKE256). -THEN-120 IF 4-'2 THEN GO SUB 970: GO TO 60 O TLSee1180 LET xc-.4): LET yc.0: LET o4cii0: LET oyc-0 o0 ;680 IF way.0 THEN INPUT - sn:31823,I— THEGO4130 GO TO 80 T E2LETS at-22528 LET oat-22528 u)140 CLS -: GO SUB 230 IRightmost- y- INTSpnte sn NSU- O TPA1190 PRINT AT oyc.oxc: PAPER (INT ((PEEK :sc mco680 :ord F rGBTHE150 PRINT AT 18.0; 6 Ooal1••8));3 PEN O.' ": PRINT AT ic.xc; PAPER (INT ree-flashes in this room :690 IF way-1r THEN INPUT - s O14N 4".1m: IF Im<0 OR im.15 THEN GO TO 690 K1i(PEEK at)/8)); PEN 2; nSee-160 LET aS,•,INKEYS: IF a$- IUpmostm '-co n T0.G 0700 IF way-1 THEN INPUT 'Downrriost y•co ord E4---1200 LET aS-INKEYS IF 4i." THEN GO TO 1200 -documenta--170 THENIF a.S. Ford : < OG (";01111l'-15)•;rm: IF mulm OR mi.15 THEN GO TO 81210 IF at,-'5' AND itc.0 THEN LET olic.irc IGO-180 IF 4. l(0-151I 1 5OStion 700 8oyciiye:- LEI LET oat-at Fc-190 IF a.6- i F TUforTO RO-1220 LET IF 4. 0200a'- IF aS-• - THEN RETURN 710 IF way-1r THEN LET Im-Im Bkeys160- n ERxic.xc•ioycilc,- LET oat-at LET xc.xc+1, LET at-a1+1 210Oe" IF aU -720 INPUT r"Graphic number (1-168) - -ANDTHE , T81230 IF a$- -683220(30 TO 140 16:;gn.gn>168 LET IFTHEN GO godrm-rm TO 720 : rnmmmNTHE c n -oyc-yc:- LET oat-at: LET yc-yc-1 00:230 LET pointer..screen -1730 LET 9na-437444(gnOR ULET d<7GN 0 i -71240 LET IF 4.6 at.at.32 G20303,potnier1256: POKE 234134,p01n1er.156: 16-740 INPUT 'Animation frames (1-4) Rati-AND -THOG- O c oyc-yc:- AND LET oa1.111: LET yc-yc+1 LET aNiat+32 ORANDOMIZE USA 23402: RANDOMIZE USA 23296 32)-al--I THEN GO TO 740 NaI-1xc<- ANDENSO256+49152, R l yc<1250 IF a$-"0 T240 PRINT FOR n.pointer+128 TO pointer+159 ;a1,750 INPUT IF - at<1 15AND mmUSPOKE m -1260 IF 4.9' THEN POKE al.° OPRINTG CH% (PEEK n);: NEXT n lORGOInk TO 750 Tyc.15 A3BU O THEN1270 IF a6. 8250O LET cy.INT ((PEEK (pointer+215)) mcolour760 IF ((PEEK (40960+(sn H0TH T6B (40960+(snR POK31578.1NT- (sa/256) 0,260S LET cx.(PEEK (pointer+215))-(cy >"pc- ETHEN H06 -140960. (snr E.315781THE POKE 32)-1pointer+216)1-95U THEN LET cy-cy+8 3:8))112) NENL E3 770 IF ((PEEKm (409604-isn at.31577.s-N1280 GO TO 1190 32TB0270 LETIF cl-(PEEK (PEEK (pointer+217))' LET cd.(PEEK 1IF,8))112)- LLE N 140960+(sn a-1(PEE256)PO 50(pointer+214)) TpcINTAND131),- ((PEEK> ET56 G -(40960+1sn K-KE 7280 GO SUB 350 H<0way(PEEK61))/2)

T need to play the game. Erm, except the levels. They'll be along next month, accompanied by h answers to all your Pablo problems! (Provided you lot send some in that is.) Thisi month was planned to be the really evil Delete has gone over the top. There's a created, and all you need is a UDG designer. part,s but it's become pretty un-evil. Maybe my special this month on designing UDGs even if There was one on the original Horizons sight's going from looking at too many 'whiter- your computer artistry is at an all-time low, as introductory cassette. Simple and effective, so tan-whites',m or maybe my mighty Block Line mine is. It's actually the way Pablo was you can't complain about that! o n Main Loop 3 — The Trequel screen) it executes four GOSUBs before Pablo at the new, erm, Pablo t Not so much 'Main Loop' as Main Loop looping back to Line 110 (which as you may (and Jump)', because that's what it is! Line position (as dictated by the level h remember checks for the player pressing a data... see Issue 84 if you don't 20 jumps straight off to the 'Front Page', the key). The GOSUBs clear the playing screen follow me), ssimple opening screen. Lines 5 and 10 are (rather than just CLS). print the score and the emuch more interesting, they set up and fill coins collected, bang the new platforms on ethe arrays for the Hi-Score routine (coming screen and print our heroically moustached 130 IF ATTR (y+3,x)=57 OR ATIR up later!). Line 130 provides for Pablo s (y+3,x+1)=57 THEN GO TO 2100 getting killed courtesy of the amazing ATTR 3 REM Add on to the last two, me old tcommand (see last month's Launderette) 150 IF x=30 AND pi12 THEN REM hLine 150 is a replacement for the false one mucker! (Authentic Cockney, that.) FOR ri.0 TO 24:BEEP .02,n:NEXT 5 DIM hS(10.20):DIM h(10) efrom last month. Yup, you can now move n:LET level=level+1 :LET from room to room. The line checks Pabk)'s 10 RESTORE 4120:FOR n=1 TO e score=score+25.G0 SUB 3500:00 position, and it it corresponds with that of 10:READ td(n),h(n).NEXT n SUB 1150:GO SUB 250:GO SUB nthe exit (le, the bottom right of the playing 20 GO TO 2600 d 3000G0 TO 110 o f 6111 Score Table T I'm proud of this! It's the first time I've ever h 4120 DATA 'Steve Anderson", 200, score<=(h(10)) THEN PRINT AT written one and it works perfectly. "Linda Barker", 190, "A Lemon", 180, e The default DATA is on line 4120. This is 17,0:"Your score was too low to gel 'Andy Ounsted", 170. "Simon Cooke". Pwhat appears at the start and what lines 5 onthe table (ha ha hel)":GO TO 160. "Everybody else at YS". 150. "The aand 10 READ from. Notice the Welsh 4140:REM "onthe" because the text Shedders score, this is because I live In a Welsh Sheddersr, 140, "The Gloucester spills onto the next line t shed with six others. In Wales. in fact. So Gang", 130. "Mr Dribbly", 120. "Token 4230 FOR r1=1 TO 10: IF score>(h(n)) hthere you go Crap Score', 1 THEN GO TO 4250 e The display loop is on lines 4150 to 4190 4130 BORDER 0:PAPER OINK 7:CLS 4240 NEXT n tI've put In the space at the end of 4150 and 4140 PRINT INVERSE 1:AT 0.1 1 :"Hi 4250 FOR m=10 TO n+1 STEP -I the score length checker on line 4180 to get Scores" i 4260 LET h6(m).hS(m-1):LET all the tens and units (etc) lined up_ It adds 4150 FOR n=1 TO 10:PRINT AT h(m)=h(m-1) cjust a hint of professionalism, I'm sure you'll n+2,0;:IF n<>10 THEN PRINT" ": 4270 NEXT m Pagree. (Oh, we agree. Ed) 4160 PRINT n;TAB 4;h6(n):TAB 26: a Lines 4220 to 4310 checks to see if you 4280 LET h(n)=score PRINT AT can go on the table. The root of this is in 4170 LET aS.STRS (h(n)):REM turns 17.0:"Well done! You made the hi b lines 4250 to 4270, these score into a string scoretable at position ";r1;" l lines pull the other 4180 IF LEN a$<5 THEN LET aW 42901 INPUT "Please enter your name oscores down to fit "+a$G0 TO 4180 (max" 20)-";LINE a$:1F a6="" THEN LET Bthe new one in. If 4190 PRINT 4:NEXT n a$-="A YS Reader" ryou just press Enter 4200 PRINT AT 21,2"Press any key to 4295 IF LEN a$>20 THEN LET instead of typing in continue! PAUSE 0 o aS=a6(TO 20): REM Some people your name, line 4210 RETURN s4290 will take a 4300 LET 1 4220 BORDER 0:PAPER &INK 7:CLS:IF 4310 GO TO 4140 .guess at who you are. - 4(n)a.S B y t Creating your CMGs by twenty-four altogether. Okay. you've picked up a lew ideas from the large as possible, but without any intricate h Grab some 5mm squared paper (the sort detail. Then shade in all the squares that Launderette. You think you're ready to try it that schools use). You can still use graph the lines go through. Your first design! fore yourself. But how do you make natural paper if you're careful. Rule off the size lookinge user-defined graphics? Well,„ Firstly You'll quickly be able to transfer your (16x24) and the separate characters (every sprite In individual UDGs, or if you really choosen the overall size of your sprites. Let's eight pixels) so you gel a grid to work in. use Pablo as an example: he's two chars hate yourself you can convert the bit image d Here comes the creative bit. Using (as we call it in the biz) into decimal and wide and three deep, so that's Sixteen pixels o freehand, draw your sprite into the grid as POKE it in (as in the first Launderette), f ZI tMt YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 h e p a g e y o u ' l l h a v e a l l y o u r...r AP" lompowomik

Lose a life REM Change the border and make a Oh no, call the Grim Reaper! Pablo has 2sj • :AT y4-1,x12 Graphic 2srAT been stupid enough to stand (or land) on a y-42.)(12 Graphic 2s) ghastly death noise killer spike! Woe is me! (Yeah, fight...) 2130 BEEP .01,r1•442 2230 LET livesi.lives-1 :IF lives•40 The actual life-loser is at line 2230, 2140 PRINT AT y,x12 Graphic 1 srAT THEN GO TO 2500 everything leading up to it is purely 2240 GO SUB 1100 cosmetic, and everything after it sets up the y+1 .x:"I2 Graphic lsrAT y4-2,x12 Graphic 'Is)" 2250 GO SUB 270 playing screen again. The actual 'dying' on 2260 GO SUB 3000 the screen is hardly an exploding lemming 2150 BEEP .01,r1•44-4 (lovely') but gets the message across, which 2160 PRINT AT y,x12 Graphic 4srAT 2270 GO TO 110 is the important bit! y+1.x;"(2 Graphic 4sr:AT y-1-2,x12 Note that on line 2100 the Ink and paper Graphic 4} are set to eight. 2170 BEEP .01 ,r1•4 When you use OVER Clear level 1 (as we are). setting 21E10 PRINT AT y,x12 Graphic Shift This clears the room. Basically. It's not them to eight means 7sr:AT y4-1 .x12 Graphic Shift 7srAT even half clever that none of the y+2,x12 Graphic Shift 7s)- . colours on the screen 2190 BEEP .01,r1•4-2: NEXT n 3500 PAPER 7:INK 0:GOSUB are affected by 2210 OVER 0:PRINT AT y,x1Graphic 2000:FOR n-1 TO 14:PRINT AT printing Smart. huh? Thought so Shift 2.Graphic Shift trAT n,1:TAB 31:NEXT mPRINT INK y+1,x1Graphic 7,Graphic Shill 4r,AT 2:PAPER 0;AT 12,31 . - 2100 OVER 1:PAPER 8:INK 8 yt-2,x1Graphic 5,Graphic Shift 5)" RI (Graphic 2110 FOR n=1 TO 10 2220 FOR n=1 TO 50:OUT 254,PEEK 3510- PRINT INK 7:PAPER 2,AT A - n:NEXT n•OUT 254.DG0 SUB 2000: 9,0;•{32 Graphic Osr:RETURN T 1 2 1 0 3 doriameP Over , A niceR short routine this. I've plummed for compatibility,3 Alex Hughes for putting me 2600 BORDER 5.PAPER 511NK 0:CLS the OceanI approach - a message that up1 last night. Rich Matthews for the N music and the inhabitants of the Welsh says Game Over and little else. There is 2610 PRINT AT 0,4,PAPER ZINK ; T 7:"Your Sinclair Presents" Shed" on general principle. any RETURNA or GO TO statement at the program just spills Into the intro 2620 PRINT AT 3.4:PAPER 7;BRIGHT " T e. Messy. but it works. Epilogue; 1;FLASH 1122 •sr:AT 4,4;"*":INVERSE So. what do we have now? Pablo can y A , 14• 1;"PATHETIC PABLO BROS.":INVERSE now wander around and die. Its not T 2500x PRINT AT 20,2;PAPER 0,INK much more than last time, is it? Well, 0; 1 7,FLASH1 1; — here's what we're going to do. My 2630 REM Credits (dead important) 4 1- AT2 21 .2: : version of The Patheho Pablo Bros will 2640 PRINT AT 8.2;"Produced by Steve , 2510-GAMEG FOR n=1 TO 200:NEXT n:REM A be on the Beau! Box next month, and GAMEOVERr TAnderson - you3 can play around with that property. In Little pause to allow the full enormity of OVE";INVa 5theWith special guests who designed the1 meantime, try designing your Own speci R"ERSEyourp mistake to sink in. (Hell heh,) them, levels. and slick them in - just take the al 2520h FOR n=0 TO 21 —4 REM" out of line 150. You will get an 'Out gue(01993 Your Sinclair Magazine" n,0:PAPER- i 0„:PAUSE 5:NEXT n GO BRI1 of Data' error sooner or later. but can PRINT AT st2650 PRINT #0:AT 1,0:PAPER INT SUBc 4220 GHT2 you get around that? I think you can (hint le 1:2(RND*8),INK 9:"Press S to staitH for hi - use a similar method 10 line 150 to end ve PA"scores" the game). so why not try ls Intro screenlette PEs2660 IF 1NKEY$-"h" THEN GO SUB it? And the best of b Rr British luck to you! Pablotaslic! Next "Why?" That question blew up the computer y4130:GO TO 2600 2 month: the Pablo Forum! in The Prisoner. but here its a tad simpler to 2670 IF INKEYS-"s" THEN GO TO 90 answer. It's not a proper Intro screen, it just , Send all your letters, tips, 2680 GO TO 2650 fills the space. You can come up with your I problems and lemons to own, it that tickles your fancy. N2690 REM And so to bed. P South) me, Steve 'Lemon In line 2650 I've set up the K Anderson, at the Ink as being 9. This is Thanks Launderette. care °I the usual VS address. another pseudo-colour, It There's more than one person to running a launderette, so I feel I must thank these Byeee! just sets the ink as 0 the paper is 4, 5, 6 or 7, people for holding boxes ot soap and or as 7 it the paper is 0, supplying me with laundry baskets. Thanks: 1,2 or 3. Ingenious! Dave Cogbill for helping me sort out 48/128

YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 Mt 31 chums! I'm Simon N Goodwin. and this is Starbase 6 - a lovely lithe W BASIC game that's ripe for converting into splendid machine code ewith last month's DP Compiler. (Rush over to page fifty to order a back issue r if you had the temerity to miss it!) Simply type in the following, well- e structured, nicely-divided-into-explanatory-REM-blocks program, SAVE it n with SAVE "STARBASE6" UNE 10. and RUN it. Type in a delay number - o the lower the number, the faster the game. For the fastest possible game, t enter the number zero. Erm. c'est un petit blimmin• sluggish, nest-ce-pas? q Well, that's no probleml Just load up ZIP, load up your saved copy of the u game and start that funky compiler a-running with RANDOMIZE USA i 33333 Lo and behold, a super-fast, super-smooth machine code game that tyou can fiddle with and soup up to your heart's content. (And it contains some prettye handy routines if you're thinking of ZiPping your own programs to boot) f 2010 LETi p=p-i-r-l: IF p>95 THEN LET INK 3: p=0 n FOR- c=200 TO 60 STEP -4: POKE 2015 IFi p4 THEN LET p=95 53413,c.0 RANDOMIZE USR 53409. - 10 REM STARBASE ZIP DEMO GAME 2020 LETs t=p-INT (p124)•24: IF p<24 NEXT c: POKE 53414,3: LET pli).-p(1): ;CHR 20 REM THEN LETh y=12: LET x=t•12: GO TO LET s=s+10"n: PRINT OVER 0;AT $ 30 REM (c)1984-92 Simon Goodwin 2040 e 21,27;s:: GO TO 3300 8: 40 REM All rights reserved 2025 IFd p-(48 THEN LET x=15: LET 3250— LET o(I)=p(i)41 50 REM w y.12-1: GO TO 2040 3260;: PRINT - i 60 REM Adapted March 1992 for 2030 IF p<72 THEN LET x=12-t: LET INK0"::P 6AT v,h: 70 REM 48K and 128K Spectrums y=-12: GOt TO 2040 3300-GOO RETURN 80 REM 2035 LETh x=-15: LET y=t-12 33800".SUBK REM 90 REM INITIALISATION 2040 PLOTt 127,88: DRAW x,y 3390340E REM •"*" CONVERT VECTOR 0: 100 DIM d(7): DIM p(7): LET p=1: LET q= 2070 GOh SUB 3200 34005 LET v=10; LEt h-16 PR (PEEK 23672/4)+1; LET j=1: LET a=300: 2080 IFe NOT t OR NOT a THEN GO TO 34103 IF c(i)=7 OR d(i)<2 THEN LET P IN4 LET s=0 2120 Y=P(i) r T1 110 OVER 0: PAPER 0: INK 5: FLASH 0: 2090 LET a.a 3420 IF d(i)>2 THEN IF d(i)6 THEN 4 BRIGHT 0; INVERSE 0: CLS -21.7;a::o IF a=9 OR a=99 THEN PRINT LET. v=21-p(i) 120 PRINT TAB 11: 1: g 34300 IF d(I)>4 THEN LET 11=5-i-p(i)3440 - PRINTr 7; 2100 POKE 53414,1: FOR t=2 TO 5: IF: d(i)<4 THEN IF d(I)-c-,0 THEN LET STAR OVEa BASIC- ZIP demo POKE 53413.r40: INK!. DRAW h=-26-p(i) 3450 RETURN BASEr"T R m --125B PRINT INK 6: x*540•5: INK d: GO SUB 3200: 3580 REM AB 0;m Fire-y Control RANDOMIZE USA 53409: INK t: DRAW 3590 REM ---• GAME OVER FX S ATi Enter—keys.. Delay factor (0=fastest)" x•-5,y•-5: NEXT t: INK 4: POKE 53414,3 3600 OVER 0: PRINT AT 2,11: i n 7130. INPUT d: IF d<0 THEN STOP 211000 TO 2000 OVERr:- Cl0m g 140 BORDER 0: CLS 2120 FOR 1=0 TO d; NEXT 3610GAME POKE 53414.0: POKE 53411,1: oco L 150 FOR i=16 TO 160: GO SUB 4530; 2130 GO TO 2000 FOR i=7 TO 48. OUT 254,I-1: POKE kn a INK 34-(i-INT (i.2) 2980 REM 53413,1•4. RANDOMIZE USR 53409 wiN u 160- LET x=1:1•2+28: PLOT xi: PLOT 256- 2990 REM •••• READ KEYBOARD seG n FOR 1=22528 TO 23295: POKE j,1: x,176-1,2)*3o NEXT i: INK 4 3000 LET k=IN 61438 6 d NEXT j: OUT 254,1: NEXT 3620 STOP 170o PAPER 1: PRINT AT 21,0; INK 7," 3780 REM A 3010 LETe k=k-INT (1032)32 AMMO=500nd SCORE=0 ",AT 0,0," STAR 3020 LET 1=k>=16: IF I THEN LET k=k- r 3790 REM MAKE AN ENEMY tiBASEw 6 HYPERSPACE SCANNER 16 e 3800 LET w=w+1: IF w<154-n THEN GO 180ci FLASH 1: INK 0: FOR y=1 TO 20: 3030 LET r=k>=8: IF r THEN LET k=k-8 TO 3830 n t PRINTl AT y,0:" 3040 LET 1=INT (102)"2=k; LET I=NOT I: 3810 LET w=0: IF n<7 THEN LET " t -4:o PAPER 0: FLASH 0 LET r=NOT r. RETURN — e n=n-i-1: LET p(n)=-1 AT190c POKEy. 53410.7: POKE 53411,0: 3180 REM A y 3820 IF d>0 THEN LET d=di2 30:%:k POKEs 53413.0: POKE 53414.0 3190 REM MOVE ENEMIES 3830 LET p(i)=1: GO SUB 4530: LET NEXw e 1000i PRINT AT 10,15 3200 LET j=j4-1: LET i=INT (1/7): IF i>n d(I)=INT (q/13): GO SUB 3400. PRINT Ti t 1010-m OVER 1 THEN LET j=0: POKE 53414,2: INK 6,AT y:s . 10,15:"@@-"ATp RANDOMIZE USR 53409_ POKE INe S 3840 RETURN -1100PRINTl PAUSE 0 K" 53414,5:p RETURN 4510 REM ,ATATe 1200' LET w=0: LET n=1: FOR-1 TO n: 3205 IF eI*7<1 THEN RETURN 4520 REM •••• RANDOMish NUMBER 11,15;Z GO' SUB 3800: NEXT i 3210 IF cp(I)=10 THEN GO TO 3600 4530 LET q=q "P@X 1210' GO SUB 3000: GO TO 2010 3220 IF p(I)<0 THEN LET p(i).-p(i): GO q=q-INT- (q.1 01)*1 r I RETURN - - 1980- REM SUB 3400: PRINT AT v•11: 15-4- ; 1990 REM ""MAIN LOOP 3800:--- GO TO 3300 PEEK Turn back 2000 GO SUB 3000 3230:: GO GO SUB SUB3400; PRINT AT v,h; 2367to Pesst! for more aboutthe 2005 PLOT 127.88: DRAW x,y 3240 IF ATTR (v,hk>6 THEN PRINT 8: LEZIP Compiler. T

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STRESS. I finally know what that word really Spec Tec Jr. and have means. Stress is relative, you know - as in it is decided to take a holiday. Packing my stuff Into a directly proportional to the number of relatives that suitcase, I decided to light one of Soya Pke's Joss- you entertain at Christmas. On top of that, I've had sticks to calm my shattered nerves. Sudalkartiy, the problem that good old Santa's teleport system instead of letting off the expected aromik It pulled was wrecked by a certain large and lolly old man out a cloud of gas. Curses! The old rigged loss- going BANG! So I had to walk all the way back from stick ploy... (Blackout as detective loses the North Pole. Blimmin• cold, I can tell you! So consciousness, and is carried out of the room by after all this stress, I've resigned from my post as two men in top-hats.)

FREE FOR ALL de II I'm writing a game which will hopefully )2) To access the sound chip from BASIC, you converters - very revolutionise the Spectrum games market. I Welluse OUT 65533, xx to set which data register probably. You'll 1 won't go into full details now, but I need a bit of youdata wish to access, and OUTtective... hemhem).Aran twe 49149 xx to set 11have to look in a 4 advice on the following: 1) Are there any kind?that register to a valueI Unfortunately. couple of PO BASIC compilers or BASIC routine compilers controlling the sound chip in BASIC is a lot libranes for them. I tor the 128k range of Spectrums - if so, could slower than PLAY - so you'll probably be better definitely do NOT think you please advise on the best one, price and off if you use Soundiracicer (osh 83) and the there will be any ST or where I can get it from? 2) Do you know how to Soundtracker Compiler (Ish 84) Amstrad emulators available POKE the 128's sound chip to make your tunes. - the Speccy doesn't have the from BASIC. II so, please 3) Hmmm. The best PD library memory. processor speed or graphics supply the POKEs - PLAY is eh? Over to our resident PO capabilities to do an emulator, you a bit slow! 3) What is the best see. (Sounds of programmers trampling Public Domain library for the JD expert(Hello! andPD libraries,muffin toaster... eh? Well, down an office door with latest emulator Spectrum? 4) Are there any erm, there's not really that in hand to prove me wrong). Anyway, books with the 128's memory • much choice_ The only two what do you need an dittlutator for? You've map or any books on 128 I've heard of are Prism PD already got one of the two best computers machine code? Not all 48k If and Rasputin PD. Both addresses in the world (What's the other one? The routines work, which is rather are in Public House. Resident PD SAM Coupe of course!). frustrating 5) Is it possible to use other expert and muffin toaster) 7) Again, check the PO scene' computers' music facilites through the 4) The 128k memory map is in the Spectrum 8) Wah000l Somehow I don't think so... Not Spectrum's MIDI port leg Atari ST or Amstrad)? manual (if you've got a 128, of course). yet, anyway. 6) Are there any Atari ST/Amstrad data Unfortunately. there aren't any 128k specific to you. Oa ber Six. converters or emulators for the Spectrum? 7) machine code manuals around - the only Any COBOL programs? 8) Any neural network different thing is the paging. So. next month THE GENERAL utilities yet? (space and Editors permitting). I'll be doing a Hi, my name is Micky, and what I know about Darren Fisher CRACKED! special on paging systems for the programming you could fit on a postage stamp. Wells, Somerset 128, +2, +2A, +3 and SAM Coupe Firstly, I currently own a SAGA Elite 3 and I can 5) I assume so, if you've got the correct only load 48k games. And SAM Coupe stufi Okey-dokey. This is gonna be a long one software On your ST Or Amstrad machine. won't load either. Bahl Secondly, what exactly (slight pause while detective ducks under the desk and takes a swig of bourbon while nobody's looking)... Phr000weeel That's better. Here we go... THE TALLY-HO it Amazingly enough, If you have issue 85 Of not, get a back issue!) then you'll already have ZIP 2_6 - probably the best integer Manuals - get 'em while they're 'ot! Okay - 0 Nigel Weir would like a +3 manual_ 1-11, BASIC compiler available here's another chance for you generous pad is at 62 Egremont Place, Hastings, East for the Speccy. (Also, readers to let some other people in on the Sussex, TN34 3NJ. there's a remarkably programming action... 0 Wahey! Another seeker of a +3 manual is good festive story by a 0 Micky D (as you saw above) needs a the utterly top-hole Robert Thwatte His certain brilliant Spectrum 48k manual. His address is 102 home is located at 1 Bankfield Gardens, Yardley Green Rd. Bordesley Halifax, HX3 9NT. • Green, Birmingham. B950B. 0 Melvin Sharpe would like to buy 0 Stephen Coles needs a someone's G+DOS startup software and manual for a +2. Contact him at: 36 manuals. He'll pay whatever it takes (now Littlebeck Rd. Bridlington, North now, readers - don't get too greedy), and Humberside, Y018 4AP. He'll be willing to you can reach him at 62 Severn Tower. pay any reasonable sum for it. Cromwell St. Nechells, Birmingham. B7 5BE.

Feb 1993 Is a SAGA Elite 3? Thirdly, how does one program it, is there anyone out there with decent bps. etc. Fourthly and fifthly, what is hex, and how can I MERGE anything if I can't ORANGE ALERT! A BREAK into the program? Micky D, Errata time: Last month i said that it you used - Bordeskty Green, Birmingham SAVE CHR$ 23+CHR$ 0+ PTo load again, you must have this: -similar) it would eradicate the loading r10 OVER 1:FLASH 8:BRIGHT 84NK 8:PAPER 8 Well. well. well! The SAGA Elite 3 - that old Program:message. This little lapse was caused by me o chestnut, eh? Before you go and crawl into a 20 PRINT AT 0,0::LOAD - -using (or too many BBC Micros at college. The g comer blithering like someone who's read too actual thing you should do is: rCODE Line 20 must be repeated in a similar fashion many YS captions (dangerous things them a captions - I knew someone who read one and For a CODE file - SAVE CHR$ 22+CHR$ m ended up walking around saying I belonged to forfind whatever Mr ckey's you letter want (whichto load I in.said Also, I'd beI can't Fe 1+CHRS 0+"Bytes:" CODE address, iength : reality once..."). a SAGA Elite 3 is just a 48k continuong last month), so I won't be " Speccy with a nice keyboard bolted onto al So For a BASIC file - SAVE CHR$ continuing it. It's about ome I got a new it's not veto (secretary. methinks ,48k games really. u surpriYou can program it using BASIC or s program from the line after) of circuitry that really enjoy nothing better than singmachine code (if you want to use machine eto send out blasts of radio waves. 4121 just for safely's sake. thcode, there's a plethora of assemblers L Three other things to take into consideration available from PD tibrangs)- just like a 1" 3) On the +3, +2 or 128 you at don't need a printer interlace Iare that 1) the power pack likes to send out 22+4b ynormal Spiscey, in fedi I've put your full ( Nradio signals too, because it's really one address in The Tally-Ho because from the CH (but for the SAM Coupe or o Speccy 48k you DO) There's a EHUMUNGOUS colt 2) all that lovely wire sound of it, you haven't got a manual for your RS u serial AND a parallel printer port on i coming out of your Spey and its PSU acts as 1+ c the back of these meehlaes - all you f a really good aerial, and 3) the clock of your ..• CH yCPU sends out blasts of signal at its own a= need is the right conneeting lead. ry. and then convert the decimal into RS ofrequency, and at harmonics above and below nnhexadecimal (base 16), so it's nothing special 4) Hmm. Very, very tricky one Oh. when 0 was a lad we had proper custard - not this u(known on the trade as 'processor hum"- it's 0 o -ereallySpeccy. - exceptHex is thatwhat it's you tremendously get of you take useful a in + runny stuff we have nowadays (you could wwhat you hear if you turn up your TV really ncprogramming computers, because nearly loud, and run something which has no sound). bounce a brick oft our custard, you could...) a loeverything looks a hell of a lot nicer in base So, it's not surprising that it affects your Wow! Flashback city! Anyway, getting back to n yd16 Than in base 10. radio. (Spook fact: I can get Classic FM the point, when I was young and I started to t le Oh dearie me... you DON'T break into the perfectly, even with my Coupe running.) As I learn machine code, I taught myself from a ) opprogram THEN merge, you do it FIRST - just see it, you have two choices. Either: 1) Listen use MERGE - instead of LOAD - and variety of sources. My interest was sparked ar from an Osborne Computer series book on to Classic FM a lot. or 2) Get youreell Some everything will be okay unless the program is do How to Program on Machine Code (not too ferrite iron nngs, and push them one takes protected. Number Six. that come out 0/your Speccy and PSU (as g useful for the Speccy, but it tells you the near to where they come out of the boxes as r extreme basics). From there, I went on to THE CHIMES OF BIG BEN possible). This should block out most of the a Understanding Your Spectrum - BASIC And 1) Is it possible to connect a +3 to a video stray W mrecorder to record games? If so, could you tell Machine Cade Programming by Dr Ian Logan .reception. Just don't blame mail you get Radio .me which leads I need. 2) Is there a POKE to - an excellent (and probably now quite rare) book which takes you in slowly and tells you ,I playing out of your Speccy's speaker when Pprotect BASIC programs saved to +3 disk from anyou next load Jet Set Willy Number Six Ebeing merged? 3) I am thinking about getting a everything you need to know. Then, for reference purposes I used (and still need to d Eonnter. but before I can use one, Co I need an buy my own copy of) the ZI30 gi Kinterface? 4) What is the best ing Programmer's Reference Manual, also ve i machine code? 5) Why oh why d on known as The Programmer's Bible by a t my +3 so bad? COOL IT-IVON THE CASE Ian Robins, Bruce Gordon. Chris White and Colin g s Yeovil, Somerset Jordan. This is excellent for reference (Detectiveo awakes in a room identical to his own.) v purposes. as it tells you how opcodes O000www.o My head. Can't understand what happened a are built up. how they work. and all the In numerical order then... I AM NOT A there d- everything is so hazy... I'll go and open the l timings for them. (Well, you did ask. NUMBER - I AM A FREE MAN! Ahem. Don't window.q GADZOOKS! This isn't the normal view I get u didn't you!) know what came over me... from myu window' For one thing, its a lot nicer. What's e 5) Probably because you've got one of 1) Yep, sure! Just plug your Speccy TV lead going alon? (Phone rings.) "Ah. Hello Number Six. I hope s into the Aerial In socket of your odes), and then the early temperamental models that you'reit settling on. This is Number Two. Come up to f whose sound chip wasn't connected the Green Dome and see me," Hmmm. I don't like this tune your video to it (you may get some y r interference due to the Speccy and the video properly. Blame Amstrad. (I mean. number business, I suppose I'd better go and find out they don't even make it now!) r o recorder being on very sender TV signal Why rve been kidnapped. (Detective runs at breakneck Number Six. a mbands). Hey presto! No sooner than you can speed to the Green Dome.) "Where am IT "In the say - village.d FALL OUT I'mrecordings aplenty of your very favourite -"Whose - i side are you on?" "That would be telling. We I was wondering if there was any Speccy games wantWh youro article." "You won't get it," "By hook or by Je device which can stop my +2 from 2) The only one that I can think of is one that crook,at we will." "Who are you?" "The new Number re blocking the frequency to my radio. I mshould work on any SpeCcy - just POKE Two.'d - often like to listen to some music smart with me, Hurry up and finish the article - the y23755, 255 before you save, and save it as an Whoo auto-running program (if you don't know how when I'm loading a program. and it deadline's tomorrow and the printers are waiting." B isy to do this, use. SAVE "pfOgriaMe" LINE xx, gets very annoying when I can't. Ahem. Okay Spec-chums - I'm in a bit of a pickle, I'll e Paul Annett, Nuo where xx is the line you want it to start at). This seemb if I can escape from here by next month - but you a Waterlooville, Hants canu help me by sending your escape plans and will give the first line of your program a lone er dnumber which the Spectrum sees as technicalw problems to: Number Six, The Village. co O limpossibly high. Therefore, any merge A common problem. this one. It all Speca Tee Jr. Your Sinclair, 30 Monmouth St. Bath, boils down to the fact (and this is n eattempts will fall (although normal running is BA1n 28W. Be seeing you! "okay). It's best to make this first line a where it gets technical) that inside et • ycopyright message of some sort (and run your any computer there are lots of loops and ??coils "" o YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 'ffi r u L- ' iT l sh l ti h es a nm v mo e an v tt i eh d ys e ,a o dr ot ni 'c tl ge e. t- Well hold the phones and wake up the obvious although the use of the word 'amazing old man In the corner - we've received back there was nrnhRhiv a bit of a niveawavt some Brit PIM Granted, most of it was The graphics flicker alarmingly and the ttaigh) pretty poor, but as Jonathan will now saucers are disappointingly lax in their security reveal, at least one tremendous piece as they flit about the place, but Blaster! holds LLDM of free software was written here... buttercups under all thelig It chins with the bairt A tiT gameplay. It's incredibly playable. It's Gasp. quiver. tremble (etc). Brit outfit Rasputin < fantastically addictive. It's not quite as good as C PD have sent in a tape full Of their programs! Quickseva s Meteor Storm but, heck, you can't 511;4431)*11L Erm, to be brutally honest, most of them aren't get that any more. Wash ti is instant arcade 4 much cop - there's a lot of dodgy BASIC and ra;11-4; smartness in a bijou Speccy form and is worth i 364 nicely-drawn but rather pointless SCREEN$ a pound of anyone's mar ey, except it's . , - - I-- CFI ER' • here folks - but every now and then you can free, which just goes to r rove - turn up something splendid. This leads rather something although I'm ure I don't Now don't worry - we heveni censored 'this picture - Its smartly into a review of the amazing... know what. (Quite. Ed) moment to look Mu' trot Apparently the bonom ten of the women should show • badger. but we didn't4 like to esti. Blasted 1 • by The Mad Monk 1 First oft, this is not a demo - it's a fully-fledged 011A _ game A fully-fledged game of Asteroids to be I've had a letter from Talisman of The1 Mad exact. Now if last month's covergame Guys, concerning the PD demos we1 put on Guardian 2 rang no bells with you. you'll have the covertape. Why. asks the-man-who-look",; no chance at identifying Asteroids. Basically. ike 1 ifs a shoot-'em-up in space - you're this tinv hey- protected when thowhole idea1 of PD is to little ship in the middle of the screen, and copyRi a program and pass it on? Well,) sadly, before you can shout buttei, ono .pt.it-t..y wech simply haven't got the room to publish HIP loose a whole pack of horribly large asteroids. Jertiosar in meir normal torrn In order to These drift around the place, not really iqueezed- all our programs on a measly C15 meaning to hit you but nevertheless managing apeLo (remember, an average Speccy program to do so rather spectacularly - unless you sng about 25K) we have to compress them and shoot them first. Tragically, shooting a big rock tddhu a fast loader - or even, as in the case of doesn't destroy it. Rather, it creates two Yeah, ifs yuu Will lot s moment, bake start 1,rst smaller rocks. Shooting each of these coming out of his noes. This obviously points to something traumatic happening in hie ohlidhood, or ,It- originally had a massive sampled scream at two even smaller ones, and finally zapping possibly the bodeon wouldn't M. thetafro beginning.) The idea is that everybody gets these gets rid of the pesky things altogether. todm- see the VS version. and if their appetite is (You might get a Mlle light bulb coming on whettedhPC for the uncompressed (or complete) above your head if I mention Pang - a Hypersonic 2 128K demo,o- they can write to a PD library. somewhat newer game which, erm, ripped off by Agent-X of Pentagram uFoTalisman also raises a point about swearing Asteroids shamelessly). Anyway, the really Right, well, this is a demo, and rather a stonky ins rmdemos, citing the Naughtiness Rating here tncky thing about Asteroids was the controls - one at that. Agent-X. whose endearing and ine at,Public House and the censoring of Shock for it was the first 'rotate and move' game. The self-effacing comments like Trr, the wrwires theta covertape. He maintains demos should be other really tricky thing was that now and again worst coder' make ordinary programmers want presentedhr in their full, unexpurgated form. A you'd get attacked by flying saucers, who to attack him with cupboards, has produced fairie point (after all, censorship in any form is definitely did want to zap you and inevitably something awfully strange. It comes in two prettys horrible) but I think We were right to do it AMIE flavours. a drastically-cut 48K version and the Y'see.m VS is a family mag and we have a 128K demo currently sitting in my +D. o 0 responsibility to make sure people aren't The demo opens on an old man sitting in a attendedn by it (Mind you, sometimes things 0 decrepit shack. He's disturbed by a really aret taken to ridiculous lengths - see the bit in 0 creepy sound (some lovely samples here) and Thath Was The Year That Was.) Again, if you to the accompaniment of some dramatic music want- to see the full version and marvel at all (more samples) gets all warned (cue jolly thec hard. cool and clever swear words, you can atmospheric pic). There are some mysterious getu it from a PO library. coughing sounds, glass breaks, and then! t 0 0 The complaint about the Naughtiness Rating Agent-X delivers the worst penchline in the wasO spot on though - it is rather twee and 0 history of comedy. (I won't spoil it for you.) useless,u so I'm going to drop it and mention In eet31554i The intro is followed by a 'water scrolly' (ie thet main review if the scrollies get a bit dodgy. pi. one that wibbles as it scrolls), a pic of Agent Oh,b and Talisman also asks for more on public Chtzde end Swernitati were two of the Nippiest gnomes with balls coming out of his nose, a four-way domaini itself. Well, there's certainly enough of you could ever wish to meet. They lived In s mushroom scrolly in a cross and a really nice end bit t end ste badgers when no pecked lunches were meltable. It about (Vision recently sent me a list of two with a huge 'safari' silhouette bouncing around hundreds and seventy-eight demos), but what managed to do so. Pretty tough. eh? the place. Well worth getting. A pity doa you folks think? Put leaky pen to paper Well, enough of the potted history lesson. the 48K version has only the 'balls* today!l See you next time, with a guaranteed Blaster! is a PD version of Asteroids (obvious plc and that scrolly cross thing, but absencet of Naughtiness Ratings and, come to really) and it's extremely good (perhaps not so there you go. that,o of any less than wholesome bits at all. g Send a sae to Rasputin PD, 6 Teanhurst Close, Lower Teen, Stoke-on-Trent, Stallse ST10 4NN or Prism PD, 13 Rodney Close, Bilton, Rugby CV22 7HJ for details of what's available. Does anyone read thist bit anyway? No? Right. I'm oft then h YOUR SINCLAM Feb 1993 e r Price Fast 7 day READ THIS! delivery* " mega NOT • a title' ,LA 50 Streettlghte. 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IT'S BYE' WOW. 3 rAgoltifece. BUY NOW 9 9 When we announced earlier that we were to When the MULTIFACE was launched on 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 Muftilace 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. to make many more. And not just the Multiface Labeled the ESSENTIAL SPECTRUM COMPANON. It has its own ROM/RAM, so it doesn't take up - we also have the best ever printer interlace - this MULTIpurpose interFACE proved to be an any Specty RAM and needs no extra software the MULTIPRINT (not for Speccy+3 or +2A) absolute Godsend for the Spectrum users. It comes with a full manual, but you will not and the only digitizer - the viDEoFAce (for HISTORY? need it, as the Multif ace is fully menu-driven. any Spectrum). Our software includes the It all started with the MULTIFACE ONE for the ACTION! unlimited life finder LIFEGUARQ. the GENIE di onginal 48K Spectrum, quickly followed by the Once in action, it freezes everything andll sPlease send a SAE for full information. MULT1FACE 128 for the Spectrum 128 or +2.. displays its own menu. You can, say, SAVE Remember the rnicrodrives, watadrives and a the program, return to it and continue If you s HURRY! add-on disk drives? Suddenly the loading from loose your game, just re-load from where you s these took seconds rather than minutes. As this goes to press, we still carry all items, saved last and play from there again! No need ebut some in low quantities only. Once we sell Except that there was not much to load - to go back to start all the time. Even better. mthe stock of MULTIPRINTS. VIDEOFACES practically nothing had ever been released on with the MULTIFACE you can POKE all those bland MULTIFACE ONES, we have no plans to cartridges or disks and there was no facility to e infinite lives, ammo, etc that you read in the manufacture those again. They are a terrific transfer tapes onto those great new devices. r magazines, and you will never loose. Each value, in fact more for the customer than for This is one area where the MULTIFACE saved , Mulbface also comes with a built-on TOOLIOT the manufacturer... So quite simply, HURRY! everything - literally. The black magic box a that lets you inspect/alter/dump Speocy RAM. As for the MultHace 3 & 128, we plan to go on could stop anything any time and SAVE it to n Many top programs were written with the aid of dmaking them to meet the demand. In any case dsk, cartridge. wafer or tape. 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II oiew nii=.1.• • .• • • • • , .• -• • • NEWS - Ever1 since the Coupe was launched, there Its a good news-bad haveS been rumours of a 128K Speccy news month at SAM emulatorE Sceptics pointed to the different memory3 paging methods and the incompatible Centre. Blue Alpha sound chips. and confidently predicted we are back in business ; would1 never see 128K games on the Coupe. but Outlet magazine SAM1 Centre was inclined to agree, until a is in trouble. SUSAN month. ago when out of the blue somebody PECTORALMOP sent< in three disks full of 128K games that worked perfectly Did this mean the fabled checks just how 4 128K emulator really existed? We showed the closely people read 1 this board. disks to Entropy programmer and bio•haffed Specd Tec Simon Cooke, arid waitd inr him to bek all technically clever and knowledgeabie i . - 1 •-••- "Well,1 yes, it is possible to convert 128K SAM. but the ALL QUIET ON THE Speccy1 programs1 to run on the Coupe. (Bit you go. Jonathan): WESTERN FRONT tricky% to refute that1 with Cabal runntng on the Unfortunately, it I There have been no new developments on / - case of providing a the West Coast's bid to rescue the Coupe, 1 1 various 48K emulators do. As you ni out. which is a good excuse to use a great title. 1 1 SAM and the 128K Speccy page ry in a - different manner, so you'd have to the BLUE ALPHA RETURNS 2 1 actual game code. Blue Alpha Electronics, the hardware 1 -128K So, game. How would you go about design and repair company, has moved 4 sayconverting it? "Firstly, you need to be a good . into new offices. Initially concentrating on : youhacker. The vast majority of 128K games a repairs. the company has plans to produce had = il several new peripherals, Adrian Parker. justaextra multiload levels in 48Kmemory versions at once that storee easiest all the The ' . 1 head of Blue Alpha. revealed that among wayfavo to convert the memory-handling ory-handling routines is . the projects currently being considered are " uriteto ignore them - use the 48K multiload code a hard drive, an accelerator card, and a Rab0000 2 - its 1 2 8 K1 only a nd I t's on the Coupe l !He a le y and patch it so that it grabs not from tape but senal board with built-in modem. However, though And it s a n a bysma= l ga me But you ge l the ide a from SAM memory." Right. And the special as with the proposed video digitiser and t genlock units from the SAMCo days, it remains to be seen whether production A I :1 fl olT,1 WRITE models will actually appear. In the (AT LAST!) meantime, users with SAMs, Spectrums, I m writing a bout your AStC chip upgra de oile r'. needed one thousa nd pe ople to * hie in ple dging to buy the ir +Ds or DISCIPLEs that are in need of Hardware scrolling a nd spre e s sa mple d sound supe r chip in a dva nce le a cost of 1 5 0 . in orde r to ra se the and e xtra colours - it a ll sounds wonde rful, but it s repair should ring Blue Alpha direct. We've 150,000 ne e de d tOr de ve lopme nt a nd rna nula ctte w so unne ce ssa ry We ha ve a line ma chine a s it Comicatensay, we closed Me OfilleSte MOMO and Sal* the been asked to point out that any SAMCo sta nds i the Coupe ha s got 2 5 6 1 1 1 9 2 1 6 -colour re solution a nd total numbe r of coupons te a ra ttle She d The M a t fa tly wa s warranties are void with the new company. a e x-cha nne l SOI NKI Cha t) for he a ve n's sa fe st) - I t's lust too She)' lour. SO ne a r a nd ye s se e urce pt for the so ne a r be damned slow There we re Some e xa mple s a t amassing de dica tor, pe ople . OUTLET WAVERS altering to buy two thre e or e ve n hike of the trhelgs Ad, to gm Chezron Software fears it will soon have to the sche me of The ground a nd some ha rdwa re de Scne re As with the Spe ccy be ing a ble to 3 4 1 down. wrote an with mOdohCations of Meer own but Me getheraS close the SAM version of its Outlet disk A switch on a nd imme dia te ly e xpe nme nt with the conse nsus Se e ms to be M a l SAM owne rs na ve te e n magazine. Available on both the Coupe • machine via the supe rla tive BASI C is imme nse ly supporting the ma chine tor ye a rS se nse ), by ke e ping troe S of of arid a multitude of Spectrum formats, Tva kia ble fOr pe ople who wa nt to do more tha n Just pla y and buying wha t sa tia te thre e is a s it be come s e va da birt hgames. Sa lly, the ta ct of Me is tha t ga me s se ll ma chine s, a nd Speaking to Bruce, he didn't seem at all SurpnSed about the including +3 disk and Microdrive. Outlet Is ecompa re d to compute rs sub, a s the Amiga or ST, the Coupe result 'I 've be e n ge tting a Jot of support from pe ople a bout simply running out of SAM contributions. C115111- eks a nd the ge ne ra l fe e ling se e ms to be M a t if the chip we re Whereas the Spectrum versions attract maroequIPPe re a son is a s la ck ot spe e d I I ha s tour time s the scre e n actually a va e la ble the y d buy it t, I ntortuna te ly proe sa rrig uol to memory of the Spe ocy, ye t only twice the ploore se ng powe r development I nto the ha ute is a tricky thing 1 0 0 0 a nd puts a many programs and articles from readers. pma Simply. put, the ma chine is not la st e nough to ha ndle the lot of pe ople oft So the re you go But ba ck to M S Clifford eke the Coupe community submits hardly any. moving comple x gra phtcs - M a te why the va st ma ionty of ia There are already rumours of another games a re simple single -scre e n or UM -St:M e e guzzle s. And sn think M a t a rtnba ing SAI s la ck of ga me s b a s this a tra ge dy, company ready to pick up the title if it folds, aim la ck of spe e d is a ort wrse rstrc The ma rn probe 's. but as yet nothing has been made official. wpa Is ma r ptogva mme rs cost M one y, a nd mone y d oct scarce CorTimocery in Me Coupe veOrtd Rig-name ni Computers tor whe n the y fina lise the de a l to Sconces such a s M onke y I sla nd cost big figure a mounts But MODE 4 SCROLLING 41.dn I 'dproduce like to the sugge Coupe st some modify thing SAM to We a nd st Coaa dd sta n you've de finite ly touche d on some thing Ad rue progra mme rs The coding group Entropy claim to have et accelerator Without me a ning to be lie * the I've ta lke d to ha ve curse d the slowne ss ce SAM a cpa re ne y, cracked the problem of fast MODE 4 steelingdh e ffe cts of such compa nie s a s FRED a nd Supple me nt MODE 4 scrolling is ba sica lly impossible to a chie ve (rra t Software,ue the only wa y SAM is going to se e ccmme rcia lly Entropy me thod me ntione d in the Ne ws column is ust a e llimw scrolling using a software 'trick'. It remainS 1vialma ble te e s such a s working pla tform ga me a shool-tine ups or Mr:S. dia l Pws swom not to fove a ( SO he re 's a bla ta nt clue to be seen whether the technique will work immemrk nse a nd involve d a nima te d a dve nture s a long the line s ot Surprise We lt ba ng goe s my copy of Sta tue s of for commercial programs. Theaet Se cre t of M onke y isla nd os it it ha s the powe r to run the m cpl at a re a sona ble spe e d. The a lte rna tive is ye t more pu2 2 1 0 $ or Strangely e nough a s M rs issue 's oksa cie ne le a pi hac ve rSiOns a t a ncie nt a rca de ga me s - the y ma y be pla ya ble . but Up a nd * re se e d 1 1 5 virdOutity to the ground, we ie SAPATECH CLOSES they ha rdly re pre se nt the cutting e dge 0 1 ga me s te chnology. nT reamed ne ws tha t Blue Alpha wa s inde e d Please ple a se a dd a n a cce le ra tor. Tha l wa y. whe n We st Bruce Gordon's SAM Technology has eh workav on a SAM a cce le ra tor Apple * * a closed, apparently voluntarily. According to Coastte succe e d a nd the Coupe- is once more in the puiblic e ye . prototype r5 up and ronnonD on Ackran Parker's Men COO, Gordon the company was only a stopgap ProctammurSo a ttra cte d to the ma chine will ha ve the powe r to using a Z8 0 -fa mtly 0 0 0 0 0 SSOr 1 0 re fe rt compa tibility a nd producel the innova tive a nd comple x ga me s it de se tve s. MeleaSetry The ma chine 's spe e d fourfold I doubt ve ry much a 's until West Coast were able to supply and Marline Clifford (SAM supporte r), M a nche ste r going to find its wa y into a ny ne w mode l of Coupe la nd be tOte repair Coupes themselves. With the return a I te Ce ne hundre ds of cle ve r le tte rs no. I don't know of a ny of Blue Alpha SAMTech was deemed to be r Great ptp, a tether on SASS Ce ntra l But e nough of new SAM tie ing pia rme 0 but lit found its Wa y on to The de sks n unnecessary, although a source revealed The he a wty-le boure d sa rca sm For now Or of programmers everywhere land emi radtratty toad%'in w va gue ly se nile SAM Ce ntre re a de rs, The ASI C practical litShrOth retnember Me alternate Keleaktecopel) I there may also have been financial i offer wa s a sche me propose d by Entropy in • have a te sting We Word se e a tot of a borte d prowls springing t reasons behind the company's closure, aSsoolatton WO The ridictikkksty ta le nte d Bruce Ga rde n The y back to tele h 111 CO YOUR SINCLAIR. Feb 1993 11 128 features, like music? This is where the real problem lies. You need a special interpreter program to take the 1281< music data, convert it

tosound SAM chip. il every time the •128K plays a onote. you haVe to intercept the data. fiddle with it a arid write it to the SAM hardware - o entail r• loads of extra instructions to 0-- nd save the state or • in the squ meantime. Luckily. unles game is irt really pushing the Speccy, the itinterpreter won't make any visible FRED Publishing/ £9.99 It may only be a th difference to the physical speed w 0382 534201 weather balloon ro of the game. ug - There's quite a funny story associated with Colonel, but its a h The Bulgulators. (Smirk smirk.) I saw an damn scary one t early version of the game, back when it h was called Mr Pac, and it had rather a The Bulgulators hardly shows off the Coupe e Splendid set of tunes. They were the tunes to full effect, but there's great use of colour C from Pacmanta to be exact. It seems Cohn arid the sprites move very smoothly o Macdonald was unaware they were Actually,. on some levels the background u- copyright, and that Grandslam had lust colours are craftily chosen to make the dots pBefore1 yc bilimmin' invisible (or as near as dammit) e1,the all prog•ammer responsible for the conversions. which adds an extra dimension to the 1wriwe have to stress they were clone without the gameplay and wont win ES) any friends -knowte tedge or consent of the games' copyright The Bulgulators is a highly playable Iihollers and so are incredibly illegal. (And the game but one with a very irritating fault Ilerln cannily didn't sign his name to any of the ghosts move randomly. Now any Pacman fan will tell you the point of the -them.)de Of course, if companies like Ocean and ma game is less about clearing levels than I Apto_nd nvert 128K games for next to nothing (and that getting as many ghosts as possible with 1 Of course. the trouble with close-ups of mates is that . S inSAM owners wanted them), maybe we'd get to each power pill. (Erm, no Several Pacman = they•te basically white lines set at rigM angles. TOL fans) I suppose that with one hundred Gogsee them distributed properly. So tune in next 1 mazes it's impossible to have predictable ld tmonth to find out what they think of the idea_ 1 w h ripped the music oft from the arcade game ghosts (Indeed, some would argue that d e e themselves. What an' amusing would take away much of the thrill of the r in misunderstanding, eh readers? I must chase) but it's terribly annoying to get e na Emcosv submit it to the Radio Times and see if I caught between two of the blighters through m km can get on to the same thoroughly a .e ES entertaining letters pages which brought us d 'o Mrs Gillian Nuttall of Rawtenstall and her e 1f 4C hilarious childhood memories of 'The a 1 Borrowers'. Some sod of PS about David w % FORMAT Publications Jason will probably do the trick. O But in the meantime, a few words about a " 34 Bounon Rd, Gloucester (3IA The Bulgulators, It's the first commercial r . OLE ri 0452 412572 e game from erstwhile Speccy PC aces ESI, - ForJE the latest on West Coast.) t and it's a Ms Pacman game. There are one C h hundred levels and assuming there's a Of course, what this screenshot can't possibly tell = Blue Alpha Electronics, a Abemant Centre for Enterprise, different maze for each level, one hundred you is how tab the music is. But this screenshot t 1 mazes to navigate. (Bingo Ed) The idea is, caption can. - 1 Rhyd-y•Fro, Ponterdaws. The i Swansea SA8 4TY as ESI point out. as old as the hills' but for nomusic fault of your own and to have to ignore t 0 w 0269 826260 the benefit of Andy (who doesn't like to see the? ghost bonuses, instead using the power w huge blank spaces in his well-designed It's a columns). here's a quick resume of the pillslab to frighten them away so you can clear FRED Publishing more of the maze s game style, made slightly more interesting .' 40 Roundyhill, Monifieth, Dundef• Still, those fiends at ESI provide plenty of p 005 4AZ. rr 0382 534201 by the employment of Nordic vowels. o You have to eat all the dots in each merriment with mazes stacked with dead s maze, avoiding the ghosts. Eating one Of ends and horrible open spaces fruit that, s the four power pills, enables you to eat the erm. isn't (and kills you) and tunnels that i ghosts for a bonus. Fruit also pop up to don't come out on the opposite side of the b And finally (as they say). increase your score, and later levels screen. (Extremely nasty.) If I've a bone to l - David Ledbury of ZAT has got promise one-way passages and locked pick with the actual maze designs it's that e , Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. an doors. Hurrah, eh? you never start in the same place twice t ace adventure, running under the CP/M 1, 1 I EEO • ell i Fri 1 illiti Irll ripill rill 1 4. and a longer pause to find Out just where 1LIU ICU le the heck you are (trickier than it sounds o emulator ProDOS He needs to know ir- 1-7-11- with some of these backgrounds) would be exactly who owns the rights to the Amstrad rti -r-ir-irnr very helpful indeed_ PCW version of the Infocom games in order to iilUtil•IPIPOCIOCAll "I: -.1-111L-111L-11-111-11-.11.. ...1 I_ So then - a playable maze game but one negotiate a release on the Coupe. Anyone vW..- -1r-trnr-irirlr 11-7-1 that misses the point about the power pills. r113 with any info should write to SAM Centre, 1-grnr- -trnr is far too tough for the beginner and t11-' VS. 30 Monmouth St. Bath J ,,••••111-7.111-... 0-111.-JI—i 0 0' expects you to work miracles for -4- lr -1 BA1 2BW and we'll put them in tr-r.1 .. : -a r_n r- -1 mat r.t r oiromirlra-- touch with David. Sayonaral 11.Spangle- - city! Just one of the mazes that quite cirterty thosebut very blimmin' dated passwords.and frustrating Fun in 7001I ICL „.1hideI all the dots by making you go blind. a big way. rUIamarnr.: CI k1.G U- i: I YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 4 L o r1-anz 11 1 . NL b1 - i1I I r. L .L r. . P ir l - l 1 I - 1 c - o 1 r i 1 n / g r 1 e 1 p r . o . P J a l 1 : „ 1 . 1 t . t t wants_

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Trivial Pursuit landlord threw it away. I was ever so upset. Pursuit is tonnes more fun cos you can't cheat Hit SquactE3.99 and I haven't got round to buying a new one quite so easily. As a one-player game this is itir 061 832 6633 yet, so I was dead chuffed when this gamete worthless, as a mulit-player I love Trivial Pursuit, the boardgame, with a popped through the Shed letterbox. "I wanna game it's fun. passion that is hard to describe. Y'see, it's kind do that one!" I shouted as Jonathan stacked it But you can't of like the game that I grew up with. I neatly on his shelf. "You're welcome," he beat the remember having Thy parties in the sixth form grinned "Na, honest. I really want to play that. original which involved loads of Twiglets and Martini, It's good is it" - Linda 0 and then I played it at university and then my No,Cast it's your minds back a couple of months to crap."Pictionary. Done that? Right, you'll remeber

to ruse JoLeian. hethen that Pictionary was the computer version Ond oet it eittOit't $ $.4) replof the popular boardgame in which you had to Hudson Hawk Elmo • in= guessied. the phrase, or word, from a picture. The Hit SquadT3.99 1111 •— MOW computer told you the phrase or word and then IT 061 832 6633 r asked you if you'd got it right or not. So. of Apparently Hudson Hawk one of that rare - course, everybody said yes - even if they breed - a good game ?ram an appalling film. were way oft course. Trivial Pursuit is the The first thing that strikes you is the little same - you gel asked a question, given the Hudson Hawk character - he's beautl But I answer and then asked if you got it right, In a suppose you lot want to know about the plot way though, I still found it quite entertaining and stuff, don't you? Well, it's all very cos I like answering triv questions, but that's complicated and convoluted, so I'm not going Do I a dmit tha t I got it wrong, or not? I t I sa y ye s tha n just one of my own personal little foibles and I that I ntle cha ra cte r will sa y 'You're gue ssing, a re n't to tell you. Oh okay, here's a remarkably bnef Linda? Smug little bobble ha t, wouldn't dream at assuming that you lot feel summation... Hudson Hawk is an all-round the same. With more than one player. Trivial good cheese He's discovered that a bunch of crims have got this machine that will soon be anii - El El El El El able to make gold, all they need is a few of '0.99 Leonardo Da Vinci's personal belongings As El El 0 El El El 126. Hudson, you decide to foil them by stealing 0 El El El Leonardo's stuff yourself and then blackmailing P is an out and out rifl Niegagarne. For me at least. El El 0 El El El the crims. Oh, and they've kidnapped a mate few/ games come close to this one for of yours too. Phew, eh? G El Ii Well, as I was saying, the little Hudson sprite sheer playability. In my perfect games rot / CIAKIK3n stripped down to the bare El 0 0 El El Is so cute - especially when he gets chucked essentials, there's Columns, Wax. Pang. off the root by a St Bernard or jumps up and Jake had always Diana bit of a loner. Even when he Rainbow islands, Rodland and this one down on parasols Thegame itself is a was lust a ba by pipe he use d to ignore ihe othe r little straightforward honzontally-scrolling platform Plpemania is the everyday tale of a pipes a t the idnde rga rte n, plumber who has to slot pipes together game that'll take you quite a while to finish before the water comes rushing through single format cos it's so simple yet so The graphics are blocky, but they really work them and floods the entire basement_ Or wonderfully playable. In fact - it's a bit like and your Hudson sprite is nice and easy to whatever, It went down a storm when it Othello Well, it's not got any little round control. Dead good - a pleasant was first released and appeared on nearty pieces or a green baize board, but it does surprise. everybody's list of the year's best games. h take a minute to team and at least a few Linda r.) converted to the NES and to a lunch hours to master Ppomanta works on every . You might not know a yet, but what you really want is to sit in front of the Speccy agir_c_110El 0 for an evening forming long lines of pipes. blowing up parts of it and pulling your hair 0 0 El LI 1E1 out when the water floozes out. despite' 2 El your best efforts. It you don't already o DI El El El a copy of this cunning little puzzler El ,then I suggest you pull on 10 UrtaLLA your wellies and splash off El to the shops pronto. And I said pronto, Freddie ha te d hiding Tonto Hurraho mum, M rs Sylvia - him R Linda 0 People tound I t ha rd to be lie ve tha t Thumpe r ha d e nv he'd stalled eski •ktli had a sta rring role in a motion wit/ re He 'd grown Sc s bath. His mum much tha t re la tive s ofte n ta ile d to re cognise him give that a go right now (Sounds of someone pulling a duvet over their head.) Right, now I'll hold down fire and hit all the direction keys at Super Fighter random. Come back in a Jew Oceart114.99 cass 128K only minutes and see how I got on. (Intermission, T:r 061 832 6633 with light music.) Oh, hello again. Well, I By some quirk of fate. Ocean has given this ploughed through the first three levels compilation of fight games a sensible name. without doing anything remotely Tch. Somebody Owe° wa s so e xcite d the da y tha t he thought h&c' approaching playing a computer game. -doubt. I'll tell you what - you could ring up discovered 1 t9 Ca rrot. Hs thre w ca ution to the wind a nd ska te boa rde d to work Even the end-of-level baddies with their sOcean head and ask to speak to their Head of incredibly long energy bars proved no willCreative Titling, and I'll just bet they're problem. In fact, the only compliment I can roll'unavailable'. Ho ho, eh? Yes, quite. WWF pay Final Fight is that when the hero lumps • for Well. Steve rather neatly summed this one his leg grows quite a bit. Oh, and there's a thi up just over there, thus cheating me out of Pitfighter two-player mode, but to be frank I'd rather s,The point of this infamous coin-op conversion about E25. (But only freelancers gel paid by challenge a friend to a game ol Trivial nis dubious in the extreme. Pit the word, Ed) Rats, I forgot. Ah. how I Pursuit. No, that's a lie. remember those happy freelancing days. obasically- illegal boxing for money. and the 3 13 c gamelighting strives tois be realistic in its portrayal of Getting up at midday. writing a review in _ • , • the violence. (Hence the digitised graphics in about an hour then going back to bed. (So not much different from now then, Ed) Ha the arcade original.) Whenever you hlt someone there's a massive splash of blood. blimmin• ha. (What's this about Jonathan and at the end of a round you get 'brutality working only an hour a day? Cohn) (But bonuses' for being particularly violent. Even Cohn, that was only a - Ed) (Right. we'll arr ;1 the excited spectators get in on the act, replace him. Cohn) Help! bride - do elrAosill1 flading away at you if you get too close. In a something ;-' word. ugh. Yell I don't mind games like. say. ,replacing (So him with then? Ed) What" Oh no! 41. whWho can possibly save me now" (Fear not, Target: Renegade (where you do even more 41F otrembly mortal! I, Super Bracket Man, will - hornble things like bash people up with igat weprotect you. Be off, impertinent lawarrie Hyperion wee a very big lady. Luddiy. abed snooker cues) because of the obviously married very,Tie big man and avid happily ever abet. This canciony graphics and plot Psychologically republisher! Take that, uncouth editor! onepahoi was token at their teMb wedding ennivereery_ y --z- revealing, eh? Super Bracket Man) (Aarghh... uggghhh... 11 oetc. Colin and Linda) (Another job well e.it udone. No thanks necessary. little man - er Oh dear. oh dear, oh dear When Ocean thyour happy lace is enough reward. inFarewell! Super Bracket Man) (Long announced11 they were pulling out of the kipause.) Well. WWF. As I said. Steve's Speccy market, at least they went out on a ngsummed it up rather well. All I've got to add is high note with The Addams Family. Returning with this atrocious compilation o(a) I was even more irritated by the multiload fthan Mr Laundry. (b) it was written by Dave does nobody any favours. Super Fighter just Box of Pixy the Microdot fame and (c) for me. goes to show what's wrong with ficences - the names may be big, but by golly, the the game quickly got repetitive because of ALL THAT WAGGLING. Good fun to start games are preposterously bad. And why The Otd Dumb Inn In Croydon got through about ben 128K only? All three games are multiloads. tingly size bathes or tomato ketchup s week. They sold with, but no Slaying power at all, hundreds of portions al chip*, Yoes. 60c% Only WWF offers any kind of gameplay. and even that's not as good as the E4 Tag Team It doesn I help if you concentrate on the Wrestling. If you received a letter tomorrow, actual gameplay The graphics change size Final Fight Okay, Final Fights graphics are big. Very put together using words from old as you move in and Out of the screen area. newspapers and saying that if you didn't buy which looks clever but makes distinguishing Super Fighter your entire family, including the players ve-e-ery tricky. As with so many Jacob, your cousin from Compton Dando other games, you're reduced to hitting every whom you thought dead but who was in fact key at random because you can't quite see living under an assumed name to escape his what's going on, The dodgy response times debtors. would be killed, I'd recommend you don't help, and neither do the exceptionally buy the compilation. Otherwise, do anything aggressive opponents. Basically, you - even detour through the Country Music haven't got a chance. Two-player mode section - to avoid it. (Hello! I've just the improves things a little - you can double- strangest dream I was asking Coltn team the baddies - but not enough to make something and all of a sudden some loony in you want to clay the game more than twice. You know wha t 'hi lights started chucking us around Awful. don't, a you? boul No? We il tha t s a sha me cos 1 hsOught you Then he hit me with some sort 28c% drymight te tt ma a ll a bout it toas of memory-dissolving ray. and ted after that it's just a pea blank, Ed) No. nutsbig. in tact. But they move with all the grace , really" How odd and fluidity of Mr Bean, In a daring snap of Jonathan 0 the fingers at physics. characters leap across the screen at you without seeming to pass through the points in between. And TOP TEN WRESTLERS when two or more baddies attack at once, 1. Bert the Stick Insect. the mess of pixels on screen becomes 2. Super Bracket Man (Hello, my memory's completely impenetrable. You may as well The night the Duke ot Yerdley went to sea Sonir. Youth suddenly returned. Ed) Of' nol play hiding under the duvet. In fact. I think I'll N re ine d e nd ra ine d. But 111 wa s oka y I nside —

and a large food supply though. I watt almost 47 days for it to load. The Dream Team Now, I know Jonathan has reviewed this. 7 elsewhere in this issue, so I hope our 1 OceanlE14.99 cass 128K only Tr 061 832 6633 reviews don't clash too much, but I actually ! quite enjoyed playing this. The sprites are t Good grief. ticm't tell me that Ocean have really fast and well animated and the e had a change of heart and have released a characters respond well to your move l game based on the Michael Keaton film, The Bart had always wanted to be a canary. One day re Having said that, when the two wrestl a i-Dream Team? (Er, not that we know of, even tried to climb In Tweety Pie*, cage. Tweet y bit In a lock you have to waggle your joy w Steve. Ed) Oh.., Well, it must be an official him hard with a beak that was remarkable for both ns r USA Olympic basketball game, because colour and Its strength they were called The Dream Team. (Ye.., er, In all — dead funky, but not really nape. Sony. Ed) I guess that means it's a Megagame material. There's not enough compilation then. Bah, that's no tuft variation to satisfy my cravi as with almost any NES The Simpsons — Bart vs The Space game. Mind you, it's still g Mutants clean fun thoughl Hurrah! It's the return of the spikey-headed Et 3 'At. Jaundiced youth to the Speccy. It seems like only yesterday when everybody in Britain Terminator 2 The thing about Cecil was that he was always off. Even Margaret got ted up with it after a while,. .vent Simpsons crazy. whether they had a This is going to be hard, but I want Lucidly, John was impressed with Cecil's back ;atellite TV or not... get Through this review without feat bouncers and gave him a lob. the obvious Arnie phrases that woul until your forehead bursts (or somethi cflotherwise write half the review for me. It's and I hate waggling. Worse still, if the 71111.P11 going to be tricky! wrestler decks you, you have to keep hitilf James reviewed this as well, it my grey the fire button to get up! Ouch matter is in order, and gave it a good rating, Anyway, you've got a fair few moves at but I'm afraid it's time to question his sanity! your fingertips, from wimpy punches to Sure, the graphics are fabulous, the bouncing yourself oft the ropes at high speed t animation spot-on arid the sound satisfying. I into your opponent or standing on a comer did indeed proclaim to Jonathan. - post and launching yourself onto the other . Thismusic's quite a good rendition, isn't it'?" I guys head. Hours of family fun, eh? The •tooked ter and wide for a heir, Al last admit to enjoying the sound affects in the riJriColl, Derbyshire.. Prince Charles moves you can make depends on the • „ ry upset that he'd been passed over lighting parts, and laughing Out loud when wrestler who you choose to play at the start.7 s son with adenoids. Arnie died. But isn't it about time that Ocean There's Hulk Hogan"' , the Ultimate 2 did a film conversion In a different way? Warrior" Ill remember correctly, seeing as I haven't (Erm, but they've stopped making games for ,Lard, and they all wrestle in their own way got my back issues to hand. James reviewed the Speccy, Steve Ed) Captainthe. Lard deep fat fries a cooked thef game last year and thought it was pretty Yes, it's multiple sub•game time! And to be breakfastBri to try and block the opponent's dam good. But how does it shape up now? arteries, for example. 1Well, it's still good fun. It took a curious tis h Not a bad game at all, if route, as games go, because it's based on you can forgive the multiload Bu the1 NES game of the same name (funnily system. I haven't played any enough), and it plays just as well. As with otherll wrestling games. so I any1 NES game, there's a nice simple plot — can'tdo compare them, but This Space Mutants are planning to take over the wasg" funky enough for me! world1 by making lots of things purple, and 70cM,' you as Bart have to disguise the purpleness a and thus overpower the Mutants. Lovely. Asn compilations go. this is the second best Quite why purple was chosen is beyond me, Why do mothers always Insist that you wrap up outd at the moment (after the Codies' Super though! (I thought it was something to do worm. eh? And why are warm things so blimmin• All Stars), And in case you were unattractive. I think we should be told., C - the legerKlaty purple people eater. Ed) wondering.a don't. You might getp lost Steve 0 quite honest. I've had enough of them. t Oct me if I'm wrong. but ever since 1k a Robocop Ocean have made i their film licences in exactly - e same manner' Not only n at, but after the horridly it y first part you gel Five Great Mysteries for Dr Ziim ulted into the much ? Why this is called The Dream Team rder second part, and I'm not sure that's (see intro) ='I mkt up this - ? Why you Mid been at One adeF of this licence, I reckon it was wasted -short of something you really need liquorice allsorte With bobbly bilis:Pi it was 5S hate liquorice. l re? Why it rains heavily 'til you get home, M y alwaand then stops after you've been inside The graphics are nice, Bart looks dead WWFa Wrestlemania ysfor two minutes Echievous and it's all very colourful. There Steroid-enhancedg muscles ahoy! 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110W 1 111=111 0 E After= much umm-ing and or not, and Millennium themselves what type of aerofoil to bung on the a . seem not terribly bothered about car. depending on what sort of ahh-ing,1: Nigel Mansell's World the whole thing. Still, a fifty per Championship31 finally makes it weather you're having. Yup. Nige 0 cent success rate's not bad, is it? features lots of racing in dodgy on4 to the Speccy. Jonathan That's worth. 000h. a GCSE pass weather conditions as well. Bit 1 Nash1 (I'm never going to get of anyone's money. Probably. like ventunng outside at the used1 to that. Ed) looks at When I was at school we still had present time. I s'pose. I mean, you what1 Gremlin have got good old-fashioned 0 levels. Now never know what's going to happen 1 there were a bunch of real exams. You planned1 for the moustached when you step out of the Shed to grab 1 had to sit them in a bog draughty hall and if some lunch. Could be sunny. could rain, demi-god1 and his old banger. you tried to talk, or blink out of turn or anything lemons could tall from the skies, (Slap' 1 1 a master in a big floppy black gown and a silly Professor Jimmy von Flamslider) Yes,E all right. you can stop cheering now. hat beat you unconscious with the invigilator's Linda's% taken to using a royal wave, and clock) (No. he's lost it completely. I'm going to O Eee before. he left, Hutch looked in danger of have to bring in professional help. Ed) And now a word about playing styles. Firstly, suffering1 an exploding head. Yup, before ever (Jonathan, shut up and start talking about the youl can go straight to your lave track and so 1long you can at last get your game, please. Professor Jimmy whizz around until your head falls off. If this = it 1 von Flamsloder, psychologist and gets a mile boring (and who wouldn't find 1 freelance bracket analysis, call fielding's their head every couple of hours 0 our office for a free estimate W g somewhat repetitive?) you can take N on the full Grand Prix season (as W r mentioned exactly two hundred and . ninety-nine words ago) This entails - a i performing amazingly well at each m n circuit and, through some P M d complicated and semi-mystical A award system. gaining points. N At the end of the season I these are cleverly added together. so you can see if lapping Mansell is a strong possibility. (t) 1992 Ow 've rsion won't look e nything fits this Amiga plc-lure James Leach One-Liners of except I n spirit. Sorry. The re woo s huge mix-up, so we missed out On PrOpOr SOITy_ Afaain.) Dubious Taste Productions.) And! To add a final realistic touch, at

The Spe ocy VOI rSiOn will not look a nything like M ks flub, e ithe r. the very end of the season Nige mitts on Ntge Mansell, the game that's coming asks Gremlin for vast amounts of to your Speccy courtesy of YS's Save our money. doesn't get it and nips off Speccy campaign. (Tragically, the other game. to Beyond Belief instead. Ha hal Flobocod doesn't look like its going to make it. now) But you don't want to know about that, Only joshing. (Or was 1 According to US Gold it's really up to you want to know about the game. (Another fiction,7 Truth and nowt isis stranger than VS after all.) Millennium whether they write the conversion success for the von Flamslider method! No strangerAnyway, look out for Mc* Mansell, who will cheques or lines of credit accepted. Professor bethan hitting the screen around January. That's Jimmy von Flamslider) the TV screen, by the way, and not the Ntge Mansell (as he's known to us all) is a windscreen. After all. he's got those nice 30 racer with a smattering of strategy. On the strong sealbelt things to prevent such a racer side you've got a full season of Grand horrible accident. Hurrah. eh? Actually, I could Prix racing. with loads of circuits and plenty of do with one of those seatbelt things on my high-octane action. Graphics. eh? Smooth and chair Always falling off I am. fast. eh? We hope so. oh? (Only joshing, Tchl (A hopeless case. I'd readers. Apparently smoothness and speed recommend some soil of will indeed be the order of the day.) There's lemon therapy. Oh, what a even a guest appearance from Mr Moustache giveaway. Professor Jimmy himself, popping up in glorious head-and- von Flamslider) shoulders-o•vision to tell you exactly what you're doing hopelessly wrong as you coast 1••••411511b... 201E IMES 4111=1Iw around the tracks in a practisey sort of way. Blimey. Game Nigel Mansell's World On the strategy side, apart from the fairly Championship Publisher Gremlin standard automatic/manual gearbox and lyre 0742 753423 type selection, there's also a chance to Price E10.99 cass. 05.99 disk choose your aerofoil. For the non-racey folks. the aerofoil is the funny panel bit that sticks Release Date End of January Programmer Probably not Nige up from behind the driver's seat. Its supposed himself Alte r e xte nsive inve stiga tion, v .5 . ca n e xclusive ly re ve a l to regulate the air flow and so help the car Trapeze waxing Honest Bob and his tha true I de ntity ot the myste rious * ports pe roona M Y stay stable as it tears around the corners. Dartmoor Dollies known a s Nige l hia nse ll. As this oomputa r-e nha nce d Clever, eh? Anyway, in Nige you can choose photograph cle a rly shows, he is, in truth, M olly We ir. dga 415, YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 QUESTIONNAIRE BEYOND BELIEF Greetings. loyal Spec-chums! You're probably wondering what this rather impressive-looking piece of writing is doing stuck in between a preview of Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix and the COUPON CORNER Beyond Belief coupon corner. Well, it's something for you to fill in and cut out. A bit like one of those That Jim Scott, eh? He's a good old Spec- forms guaranteeing you a perfect bod within ten chum and no mistake! Jim receives this I'd lust adore a copy of Biff for the days of receipt of their wondrous potions. Um, month's award for services rendered in completely and splendidly amazing price except it's not quite like that. We can't guarantee Support of the Spectrum. And what has he of £2.99. you a lovely body. but we can make sure that Your done to deserve this truly remarkable Sinclair is the magazine you want to read. accolade? Well, just feast your iiitle Name We ask you a few easy questions, you answer peepers on the live cut-out coupons on them and then we look at the answers and go 'ooh' this page and take note of the way they've Address and 'ahh got the legend Ti' off plastered all over them. What this means is that you can cut 2;- Alter peering at the answers for a while we can Out the coupowcoupons ol your choice, usuallyand come to a few satisfactory conclusions send them off to Beyond Belief along with such'h as. people like the techy pages or, um. a cheque or postal order for E2.99 a game peoplea don't like the techy pages. and sit back looking pleased with haSo, y'see. we need you lot to tell us what you yourself. What a barg, eh? !care about. It's a bit like a multiple choice paper, Tall you have to do is tick the right box. Now silence hiplease. turn over your papers and begin. s o1. Are you male or female? n e2. How old are you/ l i3. Please tell us whether you'd like to see kmore, the same or less of the following I sectionse in VS... s more same less I'd be bowled Over if you sent me a copy CAdventures 0 0 I'd simply love a copy of Devastating o of Jimmy's Super League at the can't- Beaul Box 0 0 Blow for the completely knock-down price u of E2.99. say-no-to-that price of E2.99, Ernie n 0 tFeatures Name Name 0 DInput Output 0 uKiller Kolumn 0 Address Address cLetters 0 0 0 kPreviews o 0 0 uProgram Pitstop l Pssst! 0 0 0 a Public House 0 0 0 Postcode Postcode Reviews 0 0 SAM Centre 0 Spec Tec Jr 0 Tipshop

4. Did you find Steve's Programming Launderette... Easy to understand Difficult to understand Interesting Boring White with a bluey whiteness :] Grey and scummy I'd be simply thrilleu o receive a copy of Please send me a copy of Jimmy's (You can tick more than one box.) Snare for the splendiferously bargain Soccer Manager for the hard-to-believe- price of E2,99. it's-true price of £2.99. 5. Would you like to see more or less techy stuff in the mag? Name Name

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