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Slimy slithers onto the Spe< Yee- Jj M ha! Seymour the lovable lardball heads for the hills in Wild West Seymour I The ones that got away! Atom Ant and Boulder Dash reviewed inside • Street- fighter 2 previewed! i Find out how to write a SAM game in SAM Centre Dizzy tips a-plenty in this month's Tip-
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Editor Linda Barker» Art Editor Andy I113. Ounsted * Staff Writer Jon Pillar V Editorial Contributors Craig Broadbent, Dave Gofder. Tim Kemp. Simon Cooke * ah-hey, Spec-chums! Greetings and Aft Contributor Nick Dawes V Cover welcome to another issue of the artwork Paul Kidby » Senior Sales Executive Jackie Garford » Sates fabbiest, funniest and most fruity V O l_J Ft Executive Audrey Smith* Production SpeWc mag in the universe. Co-ordinator Lisa Read * Production Yet again there are changes afoot in the Technicians Chris Stocker » Scanning SI Shed. We've been steaming and plotting and Simon Windsor, Jon Moore. Simon Chittenden » Publisher Colin Campbell * trying to come up with a few things that we Promotions Manager Michelle Hams * think make the mag look even better. In doing Promotions Assistant Tamara Ward V this, we've also taken into account a lot of Group Publisher Greg tngham » your comments. Circulation Director Sue Hartley » Your In order to give us more editorial space Sinclair. Future Publishing. 30 Monmouth Street. Bath. BAl 2BW. Tel we've chucked out the House Ads for Mega (0225) 442244. Fax (0225) 446019 * and Super Play. Both mags are now in the Managing Director Chris Anderson » shops and are well worth checking out if Printers Riverside Press. Gillingham. LIGHT CORRIDOR: COMPLETE GAME! you've got a Nintendo or a Megadrive. We've Kent v Subscriptions Future Publishing LW. Somerton Somerset. TA11 6TB, Tel used the extra space for our new programming (0458) 74011 V Future Publishing 1992 column. Month by month, Steve Anderson will No part of this magazine may be tell you how to write a game. reproduced without the Signed permission We've also got rid of Flip! I know some of of Richard and David Daring V ISSN you loved it but, on the whole, most of you BORED OF THE RINGS PART 0269 6983 V Your Sinclair wobbles but it ONE: COMPLETE GAME! doesn't tall down with Commodore didn't. We've kept the Killer Kolumn, you'll find Format, Amstrad Action. Amiga Format. it right at the back of the mag. Oh, and from SOUNDTRACKER PCW Plus. PC Answers. Mega. Super next month, Haylp! will be a section within the COMPILER, A THOROUGHLY Play. PC Plus. Sega Power. Amiga letters' pages. It's a fun page but we seem to > SQUIZZY PD DEMO AND A Power. Amiga Shopper, Classic CD. PD SAM GAME. C EST UN Needlecraft. Cycling Plus, Photo Plus. get the same letter over and over again. PLUS! COMPLETE SPANKER! Mountain Biking UK. PC Format. ST Hope you enjoy this issue, and we'll see you Format. Total' and Today s Vegetarian next month. Happy bonfire night! v Today's decoration - paper Goodbye SLAM THAT BALL carnations Fold some pmk toilet paper m half and cut along the folded edge Fold Lots of love, OVER TO PAGE the tissue backwards and forwards like a Linda 6 concertina. SWe a hairgrip into the middle ol the concertina. Fluff out the tissue above the hairgnp This is the carnation Honest » CRYSTAL KINGDOM *' 'Your guarantee of value' DIZZY REVIEW This magazne comes from Future Pubkshmg. a company founded just sw Catch up with the ovoid one's years ago. but which now seSs more computer magazines than any other latest adventure inside. All our publisher in Brttan. Me offer: old friends are there including Setter advice, (Xr titles are packed with tips, suggestions and explanatory features, the evil wizard Zaks and that big, witten by the best m the business. warty troll. Check out this month Stronger reviews, We have a cast»on car review for the lowdown. (ahem!) pokey of editorial independence. So don t try txtwig us!
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REVIEWS •A 11 Atom Ant / 11 Boulder Dash 12 Crystal Kingdom Dizzy 14 Count Duckula 2 IT iliiU 14 War Machine PREVIEWS | I ff Ml 15 Steg Lm4> Brim- CAfor • Uuy ham DiecHwrt • 38 Streetfighter 2 V/bf> Ht-.-bm onfy chonxfr wlf/l try rati iTyt* 16 Superstar Seymour 41 World Rugby ft* oJw&y% W*n wy partial to hocp Mrriftjj. fcurtimut and a bif afyo hoM 41 International Basketball 41 Pipework
43 REPLAY FEATURING Super All Stars. Pictionary, Funschool 2 a A: ^ m w THE REGULARS M r 1 Dizzyriffic cover 4J 4 The Magnificent Seven Wf 8 Pssst Zdi •9 8 Charts r ^ ft. 9 Meet the Shed Crew 19 Letters 22 Input Output 23 Tipshop CodeMasters/YS Dizzy finty Ouvtaf Art md»or • Duty Wo T>yhn • 28 Adventures Why? It »wn» frvt at ftma i/«»«tf»r» an 30 Pitstop Compo dwap natvnq onxrd Pyfcmi tht arty cm Jh'i What with this being our Dizzy issue, - J bocA ^ty ma we had to give you the chance to win loads of Dizzy goodies. We've got a ghetto blaster, Dizzy clocks, Dizzy mugs and, erm pickled eggs.
32 Spec Tec Jr 34 Steve's Programming Launderette 36 Public House 37 Haylp! 42 YS/CodeMasters Compo Steve's Programming 46 SAM Centre Launderette 50 Crossword clues/Back Issues Month by month, Steve Anderson 51 The Killer Kolumn from Outer will tell you how to write a game in Space BASIC. We start with the character 51 Next Month sprite. Hurrah! 729 The Final Crystal
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ow long is it since we had an extremely strange French game, nnuu < rQn^n UU1 ( ( ULUJ I Heh? Far too long. I'll be bound. So here's a np snortingly good one to sort ot Boris •fwngad painfully on in* •»' redress the balance. According to the tape showing through the camouflage f inlay. The Light Corridor is a journey through |u*t loo far ahesdi Mow Mamfca't < JHE UGHT lite, the universe and chromatic harmony in corridor. order to bnng light perception to the sensitivsnsitive simplest they're just whacking " » an ever So universe. According to Leonard Sasquatchlatch,. great slabs of cement tying French full Linda's milkman, it s 3D ping pong with loadloads inconveniently across ^ft 9ame, and it s of weird obstacles. We're inclined to believelieve parts of the corridor, but at Just over Lenny, mainly because he'll cancel LindTda s the most horribly complex there.' they're moving 1 arrangements of dastardly j blocks that leave you about six inches of space to squeeze through. The ball can't actually be harmed by thrumming into these obstacles (come to that, neither can you} but it the ball rebounds from one and paot'o"6 reaches the back of the screen, you II lose a is over on ' \ life Caramba. eh? page livel To help you. there are bonus icons dotted nncn'("inn around the place. The pattern on the icon O iC UUJUif U LUi givas you a good idea of what that particular Or collar ___J power pill does - for example, the one with villains with la mat bsU comlno or going? •oehars havv*s argue arguadd two lines on gives you another bat 10 control; And yaars and yaars SGT SEYMOUR Ma quMltofitor yaws . And i «nd v—n the one shaped like an L gives you an extra on page five. and v»«. m b* bound life, and so on. (In other words, the BBKI 1 strawberry yoghurt il we instructions didn't list them so we don't annoy him. m Irwf Dash over to page *5x In The Light Corridor, you J^P mai. * five and relax Mah t* j play the pari ot a transparent P/A know either). But that s not the best of it! Jongg-style with bat. The idea is to thwack a I . v-.'.'v/: tf you find yourself criticising the your Coup6 and .3AE ball into a scrolling corridor, corridors as you blurt down them, SAM SHANGHAI. "00 knocking it over all the barners \ sneenng at the pitifully easy traps and Oo and nodding it into the goal at the end. These looking down your nose at the dicor. you Turn to page barriers take a variety of torms - at the can create your own level Simply use the so- for ST COMPILER 3. These easy-to-foltow-we're-not-even-going-to- and play those ie bother-mentioning-them icons to build up a funky songs in light corndor of throbbing toughness, invite your own progs! your friends round and pretend it's Level One. Ha ha! Before long, you, erm, won! have any friends left. So perhaps it's not such a good idea after all then. We leave the matter entirely to your discretion. mm city on page *** ^llSlNTEBLACE. n n mc i n (Q <3 U (UU ( U (U U Joystick or definable keys, lots of patience and an apple pie to reward Finish things off irttti 30 gamas so hard to yourself with alter negotiating a with a total ty with a sialic «aansho« Lal'a t<7 * particularly crafty corridor HACK ATTACK id Pttbt Hah doasn'l h«K> althaf. on page six.
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Delta 4/Zenobi Software from the far rtaches of the west, to the Jwartish cava game's not terribly difficult (though a knowledge of the east, the awesomt power of the Qrrat 'Xing ti vs of Tolkien's books might come in handy) and all Known. 'Lvtn tn the Shtrr. home oj the furryfooted 6oggits, in all it's a lovely taster for the considerably COMPLETE iIts evil was ftared. All knew of it. oil except 'fordo faggins. tougher (and even funnier) Part Two. •Jtfz/i hi* fat, boggtt chums, he mad* merry, undisturbed by which will be on the tape next month. the circle of gold his uncle ®imiv claimed hi d found lying Beware of the trees! O in the road. ow this, this is what t call an 'Ihtn, one day, the familiar grey figure of Qrandalf, the adventure. Actually, it's what most old conjuror. came staggering into town. Shortly, a party for people would call an adventure. all the obese inhabitants of'Boggiton was announced. Your fingers, that handy keyboard and a Except mad people ol course. They would fordo, contemplating these things and their relevance to brown paper bag to laugh In probably call it a teapot, or splunge. or Robert the ment appearance of tall, hooded nders uiih flaming red DEAD IMPORTANT! Vaughn or something. But anyway: it's an eyes, found nothing unusual in it, such was his stupidity. Due to circumstances beyond the control adventure and tor my money (this thrupenny bit Allht knew was that there unit going to be a party. And of Sexton Blake, famous Holmesian I was given by a mysterious old woman in return partus meant food. detective of the 1930s, Bored Ol The for a packet of oatmeal) the funniest parody of Good, eh? Basically, you're Fordo, and Rings won't run directly from tape. all (as demonstrated by this bit of blurb taken you've been given the task of destroying the Instead of typing In LOAD *"*, you should straight from the inlay). (Cough, twiddle tie. Great Ring. In Part One you have to get as far enter CLEAR 24999: POKE 23606,139: adopt pnnt equivalent of a hammy radio actor in as the Gate of Dormor in one piece, collecting a POKE 23607,189: LOAD Sorry! that adaptation of The Hobbrt.) party of fellow adventurers on the way. The
icons. or whatever. Easy peasy, eh? I'll even lend you my truncheon to wallop the villains with. Wallop SERGEANT SEYMOURW 1 wallop wallop it goes. Then I have CodeMasters a bit of a rest. Then it's wallop wallop wallop' again. (Don't ever let thts woman near my magazine again. Ed) ••
vening all. Constable Joanna Basenji • Joystick or definable keys and a souvenir 'Basenji' rubber truncheon here (Oh no'Ed) to tell you a little (••I Eabout this four level demo of the available from the YS Warehouse for brand-new Seymour game. You read all about only £9.99 ( It's the best truncheon I've it last month, but basically you run Seymour ever needlessly thumped a suspect with' - Constable Rasputin Wheelybin. round the maze, grabbing baddies with The Penguin Quartet of Death held no le«i« tot brave fXi your extendable arm and flinging Sergeant Seymour. He merely adjusted his tie, pulled at 'I laughed until my head fell off' - Tim j. HIM • them against the walls to reveal the bottom ol his jacket and grinned cheekily. Loony, Evening Chronicle) •*• "/ lovely bonus icons. Or horrid bonus SOUNDTRACKER mQMPILER
BZYK of Pentagram tape When the song has loaded, choose the using machine code, every vertical blank. So. 128K only Delay Rate (ie, the speed of the song - usually the simplest BASIC program you can use to six) and Compile it to the memory address that play the music is: most appeals to you. (Try 32768 if you can't 10 CLEAR (compiled address)-1 think of anything else.) If you're doing something 20 LOAD "songname" CODE extremely clever with machine code, you can 30 RANDOMIZE USR (init song) now save the music file to tape (or +0 disk) and 40 LET a$=INKEY$: IF a$="' THEN LV\ ltddle with it to your heart's content. Otherwise, RANDOMIZE USR (inil song): STOP select the Merge Play Rouline option. This adds 50 PAUSE 1: RANDOMIZE USR (play, song): ie Soundlracker Compiler is a prog for the bit ol code that plays ihe music (The reason GOTO 40 I crunching your Soundtracker songs lor being able to save a compiled song without Incredibly simple, eh? Just press SPACE to stop Tdown into independent machine-code the play routine is that you can play loads of the music (as they say). And that's that routines. After the mmdboggling complexities of songs using just the one chunk of execution (as they say). ST itself, you'll be pleased to hear the compiler code, thus saving memory.) You'll now get a lot c has only one menu with eight options on iL The of numbery information on the screen. Grab a important ones are the first four - Load Song. piece of paper and write it all down, then Save Compile Song, Merge Play Routine and Save the complete file. the Data Rte. Right again. You're now ready to play that O - up, CAPS SHIFT - down, O - left, P - The easiest way to show you how they work funky song. Quit from ST Compiler, CLEAR the- right, SPACE-select is to take you through the compiling process- address-you-compiled-lo-minus-one and LOAD Don't forget to change the Device to tape First ol all, load Soundtracker itself and save the your compiled song. Glance back at that bit of before you start. And, while you're song you get with it using the Save Song option paper. The lnit_Song address is the routine you allowed to use Soundtracker songs in (pretty obvious really). Then load ST Compiler. have to call in order to set up the sound your own programs, please credit BZYK select the Device option and change it to tape channels. (If you call it a second time, it turns and his utterly amazing creation. It's not (exactly as you did with Soundtracker) the music off.) The Play Song number is the a lot to ask. Is it? Right. Now select Load Song and start the address you call every TV frame, or. if you're
1O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 them out though). When you load the saying Waiting for me.' Now demo, you'll get an intro screen with a this means that Interlace is circuit diagram, a burst ot 128K music, doing something a Utile clock and a scrolly message devastatingly witty, like Busysoft decompressing a load of bytes, or constructing plans for an electric car, or having a bit ot a rest or something. So just wait a bit until the message changes to Waiting tor you,' ^^ and away you go. Hurrah I I J kay, so Hypersonic 2 went missing in action, but here's a stonking Odemo that more than makes up tor the loss. Interlace aims to bring a ENTER to move through demo, A to Z new graphics mode to the to make fractal effects, good eyesight Speccy - one where every pixel Spook colour effect! Though not in this ecreenahot, to spot all those colours and a large in a pattern is a different colour! obviously. I s'pove you could reproduce the effect with box of Anadin (You have to squint a bit to make tome coloured pen* or aomethlng, but Is It worth It?
time limit so you can take your time ranging from headscraichingly hard plotting your tactics (it's sort of like a to bite-the-Speccy impossible. Oh, SE SHANGHAI laid-back Triltex in fact). and one more thing - it you fancy ass There are tour tile layouts on otter, having a screen revealed as you 22 Franxoft dispose ot the tiles, just load your favourite MODE 4 piccy to address 49152 belore the final CALL (Line 30 in ihe program listing tells you what to do). • i — Happy tiling! c LLZ
emember Peking? Well, here's a SAM version of that ever so Rfamous game. You have Cursor keys and SPACE to select a tile. 10 match tiles together in order to Just select the same one twice if you make both disappear trom the make a mistake. ESC for options menu playing board and reveal the blocks Think thia one's bed? You should see the Four Heaps and a really good pair of binoculars for underneath. Fortunately there's no layout. It make* your brain hurt, II surely does. Pootl those extra-tricky moments
in the USA, Seymour Goes to Hollywood, UACIL /ilt/iCK Super Seymour. Slightly Magic. Spike in Hackers Anonymous Transilvania, Blinky 's Scary School. Fruit TRUBBS Machine Sim. Fruit Machine Sim 2, Wacky on's been working tar too hard Darts, Monte Carlo Casino, Pro Boxing Sim. Your YS covertape has been put into recently, so we've told him to take a Rock Star Ate My Hamster, Moto-X Sim. its fashionably attired box by the month off and answer the piles of fan Mountain Bike 500, Pro Skateboard Sim, J Plastic Stork, a legendary beastie that mail he's received since his picture was Operation Gunship. KGB Super Spy. Super causes all good tapes to be born. published. In his place, may we present the Hero, Italian Super Car, Sidewinder 2 and slightly famous Hackers Anonymous. Xybots (phew!) We haven't got time to detail Tragically, the Stork has a history ot They've come up with a bumper sixty-hack what each POKE does, but they're mostly alcohol abuse, and will regularly stop progiet that includes tried and tested cheats infy lives hacks, except the Lemmings one - to insult any bottles of drink he can for every single Dizzy game ever. that's a complete hack-apart of the game. find, habitually corrupting any tapes Just use the keys Q, A and M to move ihe Have fun. you shameless, lowdown, he's carrying at that moment. II your pointer and select a cheat (or a cheat sub- underhanded, sneaky cheats. tape seems to have been the victim ot menu) then run your game tape from the such wayward behaviour, don't worry start. Rather like Pokerama, in fact. After all, unduly. Simply sit down and have a remember that old adage - if it works, don't nice cup of lemon tea, then wrap up change it. Or was it. too many hackers spoil ILL OF THESE "HHCKS" HAVE Bfcl your tape in a sae and pop the whole the nice glazed effect you were trying to get lot into a lovely padded envelope with that pastry? But I digress. If you'd now ITS A HACK ATTACK FROM MM care to breathe in rather deeply we'll rush addressed to YS Mag 7 No 19, through the entire list of games Hack Attack DIZZS DEMI December Issue, Ablex Audio Video D IZZY POKEs to death. T . ISI NNO OIZZV Ltd. Harcourt. Halesford 14. Telford. n«o?c !. nno * of (Huuuuuuuhh.) Lemmings, Dizzy, SPFLUFLOUIIO DIS2!* Shropshire TF7 4QD. -» 1QLK FOI.K Treasure Island Dizzy. Fantasy World Dizzy. II I OOUN HHP IDS KUIK snA» Now scan the skies with a pair of Magicland Dizzy, Prince of the Yolkfolk, oS»F °rtn t c lllKLt D1S2S binoculars and. while identifying Dizzy Down the Rapids, Kwik Snax, Fast eHIT TO POKE nenu strange and exciting new Food. Dizzy Panic. Bubble Dizzy, Operation constellations, you should see the Hanoi. Hawk Storm, Moving Target. Steel Thai's level] Kjki jlist take a Iww < to the right.. (Not SWster twdTdka ttMl Dizzy tin Stork returning with a brand-new tape Eagle, Prohibition. Miami Cobra GT. Deadly Yaroooahl (Curws Evil, Elven Warrior. CJ's Elephant Antics, CJ within 28 days.
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2. Juggle with at least two. This takes loads of skill and quite a bit of panache.
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Top designers astounded the rich famous with their latest collections. The theme was neither the Renaissance nor You wouldn't think there was much mileage in the mohair - it was the humble egg. Models subject of eggs, but everybody seems to have their paraded down the catwalk swathed in own egg related story. Well, nearly everybody. eggshell dresses, painted egg hats and eggs on leads. One of the first bright •PPTH Linda Barker Tim Kemp I used foung things to be seen sporting this 10 keep chi I accessory was fashion icon tor a new • /ilia "Eggs are just • • ckens, generation Barbie. YS caught up with her B weird. Don't get me I I A friend ot mine Vj^ul wrong, I like eggs I I told me that you whilst waiting tor a 253 to Camden. 1 YS: Hey. doll! You're looking great, and so's It's just the thought r- —• -J.-1 ha(j to have your pet What's he called? of what they actually are. I planning permission from the Barbie: I call him Dozy, isn't he cute? mean, an egg is a hen's egg council, so I trundled up lo City Hall and went to the Planning YS: How much did you pay for him? and when it's lertilised you get Barbie: Well, he was very expensive. Bui a baby chick and, when it's not, Department. They thought I that's because there are so few around. you get omelettes. Ugh! And was talking about lodgers and YS: Is it an eggciting pet? what's really horrible is when sent me downstairs to the Barbie: You s a diddums, isn7 you my little { you crack open an egg and it's Housing Benefit Office. I was in bubba egg7 Yes. Who's a lubbly egg? got a bit of blood in it. Ugh!" there for hours. I gave up in the You can got your own egg at end and just built a kind of YS: Ugh' Here's our bus. thank goodness. selected department stores. hutch for them." V Jon Pillar GOOD EVENING RUSSIA! v —Simon Cooke Our pr^fTi man in the mac Russians, eh? They're a fun bunch and no k^jjfJsj 'oveseggs mistake We've just been sent the first official H"Bleugh! That's so BSrSrfl "They're just so Russian Speccy book by one ol the authors and horrible. I'm never darn versatile. For it's completely beaut. It's incredibly techy, and the going to be able to example, the other day I was Cyrillic alphabet makes it a bit trtcky to follow. . look an egg building a Z8000 16-bit Speccy (Ahem!) Linda's the language bod in the Shed, so mayonnaise sandwich in the expansion chip wrth true-colour she's been poring over it. and Jon's been laughing face again. The strange thing and limited radar capabilities, at all the English words dotted around the place about eggs is that they're a and my Fezron 620 striped (there's no Russian equivalent of 'Speccy' y'see). symbol of life - that's why we I veeblefetzer blew up. So I The best bit is, YS gets mentioned twice in the get them at Easter. But how made the connection with an introduction Spookerific! Well worth a look if can a chocolate shell possibly Rich Petley Not if egg instead." Brilliant' Did the you're learning machine code (and you can read represent life? They melt, for f you eat them whilst chip work? "No So I went Russian). Nice to see they still take their Speccies goodness sake." sitting in a freezer. home and had the egg lor tea. seriously abroad, eh? I No. the strange See what I mean about thing about eggs versatile?" and life is that all the eggs we eat are dead. I always used to >1 Steve Anderson wonder what would happen if fflH^V "Eggs are the you ate a tertilisedrtive egg I ' £*U | same the world The next issue of YS is going to be so downright ace that you used to think that you'd grow a over. They're really don't want to miss out. There's nothing worse than dashed chicken inside you." Vc'^J' international. I like hopes! The next issue will be in the shops by the 3rd of December. And eggs, as a concept." Is that it? lust why is it so darn special? Cos it's the Christmas ish of course, Craig Broadbent "Yes. Well, no actually. I've also • and you know what Christmas means. Yep, pressies! Sellotaped to been told that sitting naked on nexl month's cover you II find a tape head cleaner. Blimey, eh? a shelled, hard-boiled egg is a To make sure you don't miss out simply fill in the coupon below with great cure for stress, Erm. so your details and which cover month you'd like to reserve a copy from, they say." H "I used to be really hand it over to your newsagent and sit back and wait. If you have A scared ot any problems getting hold of YS. call Kate Elston on 0225 442244 ^ Dave Gotder swallowing and she'll help you out. watermelon pips in "Eggs? You want me to say Dear Mr Newsagent, case leaves and buds started growing out of my ears, I've something about Please reserve deliver' Your Sinclair each month beginning with the eggs? I'd rather issue. never really thought about H eggs. Chicken's nicer. But what not, thank you. Sorry, My name is, came first, eh - the chicken tikka masala or the eggy I live at bread0" Wow* Th«** are the fclfs that really podi a punch If a game is really special, we'll rave about It here And if we rave oboist It. it'll realty knock you for sit) Tel no • Agh> All the really horrible bits of a game are to be fount in * Delete where appropriate this box. If a game's not up to scratch we'll zap it up (Note to newsagent - Your Sinclair is published by Future Publishing (0225 442244) and is available from your local wholesaler, YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 2 THE WEIRDEST TOP EGGY THING EVER TUNES Preserved egg cake Dizzy This is a Chinese biscuit and nobody's sure Vic Reeves O As we await the results of that oh-so-tricky whether they're realty made from eggs or nol The A party time ode to the great Beyond Belief compo Irom a month or two yolk is black and very rubbery, the white is a gritty, ovoid one ago, here's some more Tzing about sugary glutinous mass and the whole thing is She's got eggs (and she knows Norihants' favourite software house. Did you encased tn pastry. They only cost about 40 pence how to use them) know that the YS covergame Haunted House each and they're an experience. ZZ Top was onginally going to be released as The Stomper dedicated to those babes Adventures Of W Scribo'* Sadly, due to YS with Dizzys on a string being a little too swift with the old chequebook. Mr Scribo is still looking for a game to star in. Eggeneezer Good Shame. Anyone for Advanced Lawnmover The Shsmen Simulator 2 Featuring W Scribo? Perhaps not. The rave generation's tribute In that case, wallow in these t'zers for BB's up to I he serene qualities and-coming games: Hands of Stone. Kung Fu of albumen Warriors. Soldier One. Megablast. Shove Off. An artist's impression of a preserved egg cake. They are In fact Jimmy's Grand Prix. Jimmy's Soccer Manager very i»sly. They Jusl happen to make some people throw up. {at last). Snare (those distributors don't know what they're missing), Turbulence (the unofficial Astroball 2) and - by all accounts the biggy - Super Wonder Dog. "It's amazing!" THE YS GR00VE-0H-METER burbled BB supremo Jim Scott when your i i i i i i i i i i t t i i i t i i i i i « i i i i Tzing pal gave him a call. "Simply amazing!" o O^i Dear old Jim. Completely unbiased as usual. O Gone, but not forgotten... at the end. IN LIKE FLYNN FAR GONE AND OUT SAMCo were looking for original Speccy software. Would-be fat pension robber Colin Bogart Boon Macdonald obviously thinks this ts a tremendously good idea and is embarking Cacti Hedges along the same trail. So if you've got an unreleased Speccy masterpiece under your bed. write to FRED Publishing. 40 Roundyhill, + D + 3 Monifieth, Dundee DD5 4RZ and tell em W Scribo sent you, just for a witty litter. T'zers Marshmallow Fluff Marmalade over and out.
Qs DEC 1987 This was a very important issue for one little chap Yep, it was Dizzy's The eccentnc Crikey Bike of Farnborough has debut. On page 46 Dizzy scored a nice scribbled down his top ten excuses tor being plump 7 on the YS Clapometer. For just late for school... E1.99 you too could own. and I quole, "A 1. Kidnapped by aliens 0 traditional arcade adventure with a bias to the action side and enough nice touches 2. Fell into a tlmewarp to make it a good budget buy." Hurrah! 3. Doing extra Elsewhere in the issue you could find homework Out the number one in boxer shorts (fat 5. Alarm didn't go off pink hippos Irom the Sock Shop), check 3 oyt the ad lor the new +3 and meet the 6. Body structure disintegrated fanzine winners of the year. This really (j^ a collector's item, one of the 7. Dog's got dysentry fanzine peeps was none other than 8. Performed life-saving >^ Jonathan Davies and (and' And!) he actually smiled for r operation one of the (11) photos. On the games front. 9. Averted hostage crisis n Hysteria. The Fast and The Furious. Yes Prime 10. Prevented vampire Minister. Jack the Nipper and Trantor were K all Megagamed. Quintuple invasion hurrah! If you try these excuses out. lei me know if any of them are successful. But don't come crying to me if it all goes horribly wrong! Send your Top Tens to Pssst, Your Sinclair, 30 O Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2BW to
1 O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 Hi-Tec £3.99 cassette Dynamo (and Atom Ant « 0742 587 555 came out first, fact fans). Hurrah! It's Hanna-Barbera Atom's got interiia as well, so chucking him licence time again, arid another around the place at top speed doesn't really opportunity to display my work. You have to hop from ledge to ledge, encyclopaedic Knowledge ol their waiting for the baddies to pass, then zoom up JL cartoons. (Hurrah. Ed) One ot to the next section. (Actually, it is possible to the lesser H-B characters, AA was an. erm, crash about at high speed successfully, but ant who had super powers and fought baddies you need the reflexes of a nervous gazelle on itke larcenous robots and incredibly happy sweets.) Glitch-free and smartly strong fleas. He was a bit of a detailed graphics can t really disguise the non-starter really - the joke of essential sameness of the gameplay the tough insect ran thin terribly but for a while at least, it's extremely good fun
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quickly, and with his atomic muscles Atom usually finished off a toe without any hassle, limiting the cartoons somewhat. And the gags were rather bad as well. So much for Atom's credentials then. Onto the game. By golly, it's quite an original thang too. The plot's not much cop (mad bomber terrorises city, only Atom can save the day) and the game's basically a collect-'em-up (you take the bombs to the top of a building to be defused) but the vertical scrolling turns the whole . Horn Ant' la, m lad. the worn H»™» , |« the dwllhfl Ot the uipe'-modei set Atom > thing on its head & la Captain
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JON A classic in every sense of the Ed) and packed with incident. (Wheee' Ed) word except large grazing Excuse me a moment. (Help! I've been • j Y mammal ot the lower Azures imprisoned m some curly brackets Ed) because that s wrong. Boulder That's better Anyway, it's a very mentally peSJffiS^-SSI g&j&m n i Dash is one of the very few " taxing game, requmng a fine grasp of physics home puter games to make it into the to determine exactly whether you'll be able to arcades. First Star, the American company * mp into this area, set off a controlled rockfall behind the game, released at least three and expose those diamonds without getting sequels, but t do believe I'm right
Some games are terrible, and the software come across games in the shops that haven't houses know it (which is why we were never been reviewed in YS. So. in an attempt to sent review copies). Some (like footy redress the balance, we've been hunting management games) are guaranteed best- around Bath for the best (and worst) ot the sellers anyway, and some are just so ones we missed. Better late than never, eh? obscure they've passed us by completely. The point packed outcome o. a »«v . On this page are two of the better games, I^S™. Those LreM.es never Vnew what hit That, basically, is why you'll occasionally turn to page 14 lor a couple ot the worst*
1O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 CodeMasters/£9.99 popular Each Dizzy tr 0926 814132 game sells more than the last one and the UNO* For the past month, the earlier games are still Shed has been the scene selling by the cartload. of many arguments People like formulae, concerning little Dizzy. they know exactly MJon's against him, I'm what they want from slightly for him, Andy couldn't care Dizzy and they less and various other Future people always get it. The keep popping in and offering us their Codies have got the right idea - rf it am t views. It seems that broke, don't fix it ~ everybody has their Every Dizzy f /fTS \ Dizzy opinion game is exactly the exce ,or f * C9 * 1 ( P* Andy) LHUy Actually picks up « wftip trom 0 etwir F))|h| same in the way that something like I ** / and I'll be glad Just William books or any school stories are X J when this latest the same. You always get the same XjHry release is on the elastic band light. This soon escalated into a characters, although ocassionally a newcomer shelves and no longer the full-scale Dizzy war with other people coming might appear for a while. The plot is Shed's main topic of conversation. along and taking sides. It was awful, Andy and I had 1o hide underneath our desks 'til they ran Honestly, tempers really are getting out of 'laccy bands. I'm sorry, but I rather frayed at the edges. II like a quiet Shed! Only the other day Jon The cause of all this excitement is and Adam (from Amstrad 1 1 now safely snuggled up in the Shed Action) got into a tizzy with Ir I +3. the programmer travelled 90 one another and started an I WL»« 1 miles just to bring it to us! Yep. & 1 Crystal Kingdom Dizzy has arrived. ® and I bet you're just dying to know I what it's like. Welt, in away, it's not 1 realty worth me telling you is it? If I 1 you hate Dizzy then you're not 1 going to believe me if I were to I !.•» nun » QOt 10 Puf"P up ft tell you how excellent this game «'• odious that ^ .1 N. newer and then Dof» "<" lu 1 I is. On the other hand, if you're a Moaoum^comemuaatu. die-hard Dizzy fan you ve probably already put tn an order always broadly the same, it's the old good fotor thituts one aan d there's no way you're going to triumphs over evil story over and over again v I y take any nnotici e if I should start ranting on But so what? Dizzy is a strong character who ^^ about hhoow awful the whole Dizzy thing is. acts in a certain way. he wouldn't really be at home in any other kind of game. Dizzy in a /TV If I..t ain'. t broke— Street Fighter 2 scenario would be as But don't worry, I'm not going to enthuse and ridiculous as Bob Monkhouse as the new Dr I'm not going to rant. What I am going to try Who. Dizzy games are all written along the and do is work out why this Dizzy game is same lines lor a reason, not out of laziness. t1\ Wi/mi l £9.99 whereas all the others were £3.99 and whether or not §!§ -if it's worth it. The lirst point to get out ol the way is that old moan that the anti-Dizzy .."p'. t! ...H » i - / ^1 coriimgent always put -~ftSp<.'V5«' forward - the lad that all Iho^^^KtSRSi arcade adventure type Dizzy V: * games are exactly the "SBajT""f same. Well, of course H ' - they are! That's what makes them so dam
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Taking part are Adam Peters, staff writer JP I can t believe you on Amstrad Action, and our very own Jon said that. Anyway, that's Pillar. why he's an egg is it? JP Why is Dizzy an egg? AP Yep, and I don't think AP But I know why he's an egg. there anything wrong with JP Why? having an heroic egg. AP I'm not telling you. I know the answer so JP So why are the games crap then? I'm going to win the argument, AP They're not, the kids like em and buy JP Tell me! 'em, so they can't be. AP Not til we start the argument. JP They like em cos they fluffy and (You already have' Ed) innocuous, like some pop songs. The lact The same old story JP Why is Dizzy an egg? Ot all the things in that they 're best-sellers doesn't mean they're Like all Dizzy games, this one's got a nice little the world why did they go tor an egg? Why any good at all storyline. Everybody in Dizzyland is happily not a courgette, or a stick of celery, or a fluffy AP But people aren t going to buy games enjoying a nice sunny day. Everybody that is animal? which they think are crap You might think apart Irom Grand Dizzy, he knows that the AP But they don't do somersaults, that's why they're crap but the people who are buying treasures of the Prophet Zetfar have been Dizzy's so appealing. According to David them obviously don't. You're just taking the stolen trom the Ice Palace and that soon, Darling, one of the main reasons for Dizzy's high intellectual ground, Dizzy games are according to some ancient scrolls, a curse will success is the fact that he can turn among the best games coming out at the fall upon the land. It's obviously up to Dizzy to somersaults. minute. And they make money We are living wander across the (and solving JP Monty Mole somersaulted in a material world. puzzles, somersaulting over AP Ah, but that was a mole. There hadn't JP But when the Codies put some thought ^BPv^vSW nasties, using objects. ever been a somersaulting egg. The Codies into things, they can come up with something picking up points and wanted a character so Philip Oliver drew a like Steg. Dizzy is jusl an nice big face, then the tace easy way out. V / important treasures, needed to move so they gave it AP Did you know thai Andy xfc J Dizzy's main objective arms and legs. Philip Oliver can knock cups off people is to return old Zeffar's admitted that he's not a very heads with elastic bands? sacred objects to their shone good graphic designer, so all he JP Can he? If we put Ihts could come up with was a big plastic cup on Linda's tace that mutated into an egg. head, will he be able to hit And what's wrong with eggs? it from over there? They don't hurt anyone. But I'm AP Well yeah, but not sure whether or not he's shouldn't you finish officially an egg. drinking the tea first? JP The Codies call him an egg. JP No of course not. and certain sad people keep that'd take half the fun making crap egg jokes. out of it. AP Eggsactlyl (Ot' Ed)
never solve the puzzles - it's a solid and dependable part v'r^WPWP tb« •fTUtinfl som^Miumng „-, ^ . ot my life! But most of all I / Hi' ^SZETJ ££* love the way thai Dizzy /i — \ lans so obviously enjoy these games. I love the J VtW Ice Palace. It's maps they draw and the X^J^ttj^jJv Dizzy's somersaults are as true. Crystal tips they send in. In fact, I good as ever, the puzzles Kingdom Dizzy think that I could have easily been are just as tricky and the does look and a Dizzy fan myself. whole game trundles along play exactly like merrily. every other But! The price tag! What Dizzy game, What I don't like is the price lag. This game happened to CodeMasters - but I don't mind isn't radically, or even slightly, different to any the budget house? that. I like the of the previous Dizzy games. Dizzy tans are way Dizzy going to buy this one, but it's going to cost A moves and them six quid more than usual and boost Fans will enjoy this caper, somersaults CodeMaslers' profits. Crystal Kingdom Dizzy but wilt they be willing to and t like the would have been a mid-eighties score, but that pay more?Probablyt way I can price tag really does knock the score down. O
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Alternative £3.99 cassette game with an extremely silly cheat mode tr 0977 797777 {the Count turned into a bottle of banana Okay.cards milk, or something), and this sequel lifts on the table. its snappy plot straight from one of the I'm a big tan of shows {Duckula gets marooned on the Cosgrove Hall Planet Cute and has to avoid the teddies animation and of and fluffy bunnies and escape back to dear Count Duckula in particular. old dreary Transylvania) so il comes as a (Somehow I knew you were going to say that. hope-dashing disappointment that Duckula 2 is Ed) On the whole the crazy scripts are very such a dreadful game. Once again, platforms funny indeed, and although the animation is are the order of the day, with the Count horribly limited, Duckula's to-camera looks are advancing through single-screen levels, his i * * -i gffr-'T i great. task simply to get from the left of the screen to The first Duckula outing. No Sax Please the right. To make life as tricky as possible, tn«y are botti very, y^y ^ We're Egyptian, was a respectable platform cute baddies (or goodies, or whatever) patrol the platforms, which themselves fatally to the ground (Whereupon have a witty habit of disappearing As you have to leave the room and Duckula is armed with a ketchup gun, come back in. because the game gameplay consists of avoiding or doesn't reset the platforms.) shooting the cuties and waiting for a Dodging cuties is no better - you platform to appear in front of you so you can either squirt them (until your ammo runs get that bit nearer to the exit. This game has out) or. erm, get killed by them The whole no redeeming qualities whatsoever. As only thing seems to play quite happily by itself, with one platform is within reach at the player being a son pf novelty bonus. The a time, you simply stand Count is doing himself no favours at all by there and wart for either endorsing this very sad. can't-believe-it-wasn't- (a) another one to written-in-1982 game. Saying this is aimeaiuicndj ati appear so you can jump younger players is no excuse. What tmakes Alternative think they can it beats evan FritfW the OOt onto it. or (b) the one ™ rj SSSSJiSSl All Time, and O no, you're standing on to get away with giving younger disappear, dropping you players such a rubbish game? O o IA /ill MAC-WKif E9m HlM^ I „ Players Premier £3.99 on the old Speccy. We wondered why YS
LINDA We found this had never reviewed it before, but we didn't _ one^lurking dwell on tyhe fact, we put it down to fate and postmen. After two seconds playing time it was all loo too dear why we'd never been sent Menzies. As we d never War Machine to review - it's a lod of old seen it before, we thought we'd twaddle. Okay, so it was originally released in take it back to the Shed and give it a 1989 but that's no excuse. War Machine is the good blast everyday tale ot a spaceman on a mission to destroy an alien queen, the alien breeders 1and the alien equipment. While he's at it. Mr Spaceman must also gather up the parts of « *« M< like a wonderlul YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 2 CodeMasters/£3.99 extreme lengths or fly! The jet packs let you cassette only move up the level so you can see just how | those T yungunz are getting on rt of the Super 55' Not only is Steg an original game, it's also a pilation. See m blimmin' addictive one. It really is too much page 43 seeing all those baby Tyungunz die. You just vI* m V 0926 814132 have to have another go at rescuing them The graphics are line, you can see exactly what UHOA At last! Steg has arrived. you're doing and there are no problems at alt We first previewed this with the controls. Steg is a spanky little slimey M liijJM slimy caper ages ago, we bubble of a game and I want to take tt home! O ft • even saw a demo 't in SU. So there we were, sitting back in our chintzy chairs •MHaiij wondering when the full game would make sure that you keep a certain number pop through the letterbox. ol Tyungunz in worms cos if they're not led It didn't come, and then we read a review of then they'll shuffle off ihis mortal coil and Steg in SU. Hurrah! Any day now. it would be appear on screen as little tombstones This with us. So we waited, and waited. It didn't sentimental ploy is probably meant to make come so we called CodeMasters and asked you feel incredibly guilty and it works. You them where our copy of Steg was Had they have, in effect, just killed your children. m o® » eo « forgotten us? They were a tad bewildered "ft isn't ready yet. We've only got a demo version of it. It's not going to be finished for ages cos Bubble business m^ss^ the programmer's gone away for a while." But tn its most basic form, Steg is a platform game. are fin* now the programmer has returned to his office But as Steg is a slug he can't actually jump 04 and Sleg has arrived Is it worth the wait? from platform to platform. Instead, he slimes healthy They've «*n • «"• Steg is a slug with loads of children to feed around the walls, slowly moving upwards and He's got to capture little worms in bubbles, blowing sticky bubbles. It might sound like a bit which can then float upwards to the Tyungunz of fun to us humans, but blowing bubbles is and get eaten. On each level you've got to serious business if you're a slug. In fact, it could kitl you il you're not careful Y'see Steg's bubble-blowing capabilities are directly linked WW to his energy bar. He has to take a very deep Steg's got bucketloads of breath, hold it 'til the worm wriggles into the the most Important gaming capture area and then blow - too much holding ingredients - payability and his breath and he'll suffocate. addictiveness. A lot of the worm-filled bubbles don't ftoal ~ / J ; n in upwards to the Tyungunz. they get stuck Steg has obviously been under platforms and you have to crawl up and honed to perfection by the m ms nudge them down and then try and send them programmer. There really is upwards again. Then some of them are burst nothing to complain about. • by spikes or blown apart by terrible wind machines. Steg is a very tricky game indeed A mm* Steg is a fine game, in fact You do get some help, by sliming over the it's a right little charmer! power-ups you can increase your blowing power, speed up. make your legs expand to Exciting news and reviews from around the world in this month's WIN A CANNONDALE WORTH £925 O The World Championships O Double trouble or double fun - defying gravity on duelling tandems O Take our advice on warm winter gear - so you Biking u. don't end up looking like a walrus O Metrotrekking in Newcastle - why-aye pet! Britain's 0 PLUS Isle of Skye - the most rugged landscape best-selling - < in Britain bike magazine Each of the four levels is pretty darn big, and your task is to find Ihe (reasonably) safe route through so you can battle the end-of- level baddy. To be honest, these aren't much CodeMasters/£12.99 cop - there's always a sate area on the screen cassette only where you can stand and pummel the boss with alacrity and large bombs. The fun comes W 0926 814132 from wandering all over the place and figunng Another bright and breezy JO** out just exactly where you shouldn't go. usually day in the YS Shed. I f} by going there and getting killed. (This Wr wonder what Linda's got sentence actually makes sense if you drink a for me to review today? warm glass of milk and have a quiet lie-down Apparently it's a wonderful for a bit before, trust me on this. Ed) surprise and something that should It's always nice when a game turns out to be really stretch my reviewing abilities. far better than you at first thought, and after Super. (Sounds of someone opening a finding my feet in Stuntman Seymour I had a brown paper parcel.) Oh. how spiffy time. There's not much long-term appeal Dizzy Panic (or Columns). Dizzy Down the amusing. That title character looks (once you've twigged how to get Rapids (or Toobin). Kwix Snax (or Pengo) and Fast Food (or Ms Pacman), we ve got SS (or exactly like... (Very long pause through a level that's it, and I'm on Level Three already) but while it Bomb Jack). Yes, Bomb Jack - the game with indeed.) So we meet at last, Seymour. lasts, it's a blast. loads of platforms, even more nasties, glowing (Isn't this fun readers? Ed) bombs that yield fat bonuses if you colled them in a certain order and three crispy Stuntman Seymour munches ol addiction with every bite JD's Say what you like. Seymour's a tough old bird already cast his famously critical eye over SS really. In his latest escapade he's been hired back in issue 75, and voted it pretty, addictive by a film studio to do the stunts tor Dizzy's new and ever so playable - exactly like the adventure, a space-western-gangster original in fact. I have to say Jonathan wasn't spectacular on ice (or something). In order to far out - there's only one problem with the make Diz look good, poor old Seymour has to game, and that's that the graphics are too do all the dangerous stuff, such as taking on large. Bomb Jack requires accurate:e,. slinkslinkvy the baddies (with real bullets) and jumping movement, y'see, and the big huge gaps (without safety nets). Could this be sprites of SS give it a clumsy fee: an effort by Diz to get rid of his rival once and Excellent fun all the same though for all? Of course not. Don't be silly. What Q kind of an egg do you think he is? Sergeant Seymour - Stuntman Seymour uses the eight-way oolna to JH? **I ws. Robot Cop scrolling colour effect last seen in Turrican 2 D«ng to writ* out ttw fyrlca hi 'iw «-.. ' _ '' Hello! Constable Joanna Basenji here - (Eat ~ to avoid attnbute clash, everything scrolls svsn h^rt know* m*ov (Unas'* trombone. Constable! Ed) (Sounds ot m blocks, but because the background someone doing something ghastly to a graphics are really big, you don't really member of the police force with a brass notice the jerks. It works well and makes the instrument then stuffing them into a sack and whole thing took most un-Spectrummy, locking them in the cellar.) (Sound of reviewer although (a) when you ride the moving Seymour Goes to Hollywood edging cautiously into room fErm. hello? platforms the scrolling falls to bits and (b) after We've already reviewed Seymour's debut Phew, that's that over with then. (Cough.) You an hour or so you feel rather like Robocop. game twice before in YS so t'll keep this brief must have played the cover demo by now, so The game itself is a tricky platlorm affair with a On the plus side, the game's set in the real you'll have a pretty good idea of what this fair old amount of payability once you get over world and has logical and satisfying puzzles. game's all about - Seymour belts around an the frustration barrier. On the minus side, the map's far too big (you overhead-view maze, grabbing villains with his spend loads ol time just wandering around), you can get killed very easily by stumbling into the wrong part of the scenery, the jokes are horribly unfunny and the whole thing is exactly like a Dizzy game with different graphics. Lots of speech bubbles give the thing a novelty value, but you'll soon tmd yourself cursing the clunky control system and Seymour's screamingly twee habit of saymg Gosh!" every time he picks something up- Super Seymour «avmour looks Uks Otn*- Hs'S Super Seymour belongs firmly in the bunging- a-character-onto-a-very-old-arcade-game camp. After Bubble Dizzy (or Underwurlde), m or* to hslp th» •"•P*™"— had Wwxty net ^ TtttT. ths offleW 1 O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 extendable arm and slamming them against the walls like Arnold Rimmer's lemming to reveal thrilling bonus icons. EVOLUTION OF A LARDBALL Contrary to popular belief, you don t have to From his conception as Dizzy with sillier Sergeant Seymour He's at last stand still in order to be sure of a kill, but you gloves. Seymour has evolved along a far lost those eggy tines, and that do have to be a bit nifty with the the old fire r different path. Come with us now as we trip overbite has been perfected button - release it too soon and the nasty will disarmingly through the changing laces of a perhaps to a disquieting degree tumble from your palm and more than likely squelchy hero. into your podgy littte face. Vou can also Wild West Seymour Thai's it' jjT - perform some tricksy manoeuvres such as Seymour Goes to iiU&'UliM All traces of chubby egginess — ^ ^ whirling one villain into another, or using your Hollywood Here we see have been banished, and that robot arm to pick up the bonus icons without Seymour Mark One. The Seymour feeling is shining Jtiy exposing yourself to danger. Dizzy-ish lines of his bod through. He scares the bejasus Who needs the enormous graphics of Wild are instantly recognisable out of the Shed crew, to be perfectly honest West Seymour, eh? Sergeant Seymour's may be tiny but they re stuffed full of character. Super Seymour Developing Silence Of the Lambs That cheeky grin has never been so chummy. that cheeky character, and Seymour Ready at last The (128K) sound is rather fine as well - lots he's also sprouted those for the Codies' top secret of arcadey bleeps and bloops add to the. erm, world-famous teeth. project, the lardy one arcadey atmosphere. As each level is just a stnkes terror into the single maze with different baddies, there are Stuntman Seymour A bit hearts of mortals tonnes of screens, with the promise of bonus of a step backwards. The everywhere and leasts on interludes it you get lar enough. (You can teeth are spot-on, but he's the flesh of unkind probably guess (didn t get far enough.) It's an looking like Dizzy again reviewers. Oh-oh. exceptionally playable game, really capturing the simple addictiveness of the games of yore, no doubt give the scurrilous knave a damn the fad Level Two dispenses with puzzles and and one to seek out with gusto (if you can good trouncing to boot. consists almost entirely of jogging between two cope with the very small number of Before we start on the gamepfay, it's worth characters and talking to them in order to lives you're given and the hideous mentioning the control method. It's the same make objects magically appear will cause you ease with which they can all one as Seymour Goes to Hollywood, and to pause for more than a moment And I can t vanish down the plughole). V makes Dizzy's look the height ol possibly fool myself by thinking you d accept sophistication. The fire button serves a my criticism that Dizzy and Seymour are dual purpose - not only does it allow becoming like Ultimate's Sabreman and you to pick up or drop objects, but it milking one game style ad nauseam Finally, I also activates bits of the background, can't imagine that my saying Wild West such as switches or doors. The Seymouns a slick, technically accomplished problem is (he said with a world-weary program but a soulless and irritatingly sigh) is that it's not at all obvious which repetitive game whose linear simplicity will parts of the background you can disappoint even die-hard Dizzy fans Would interact with. So more often than not influence your buying decision in any way. So you end up standing by a likely- I'll save my breath, and instead mention the looking bit o* scenery, pressing fire crisp graphics and rinky-tink 1?8K and dropping an object Then you music Mmm, lovely. O have to press fire another three or four times to pick the damn thing (J) back up without dropping the other items in your inventory. It's thunderingly irritating, let me tell you The game itself is the usual mix of . PCW 82» u-ng """ZZOL puzzles and aimless wandering. em Tiytof. Comwt program , Maw m • t»un. Thankfully, the programmers have dispensed wilh the pointlessly Polished, sparkly progs with dangerous bits, so you can toddle around to a variety of game styles. Wild West Seymour your heart's conient. And splitting the The arcadey ones are good Well, there's no putting it oft any longer. (Deep adventure up into four sections means that fun, and Sgfs a gem. breath.) Wild West Seymour is lardy s second each is manageably small, and having adventure game, this time starring him in a passwords so you can jump straight to each The adventures are awkward western picture. The game's split into four section is a great idea. Great idea! Wow. what and unfunny, and Wild West, parts - in the first he has to collect the film an idea. (Stop stalling Ed) Oh. look, it doesn't though technically smart. Is crew and equipment, in the second he has to matter what I say. It will not sway you one little hopelessly easy. caich a train to the location shoot, m the third bit if I mention the puzzles are less logical and A more blindmgiy obvious. It will make not one our hero has to restart the engine after the CI3 is a lot to pay for such jot of difference if I say I played right through villainous El Bandeeto has marooned him in short-term payability. Get to Level Four in about an hour. Nor do I the middle of a desert, and in the final section Sgf on budget instead. Seymour has to pass a destroyed bridge and imagine for one momen! that commenting on 1O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 OFTWARE CITY Unit 4, B.D.C, 21 Temple Street, Wolverhampton WV2 4AN Tel: 0902 25304 Call us on: 24 Hour Credit Card Hotline 0902 25304 VISA SPECTRUM SELLERS COMPILATIONS 1 it Dr*sion Manager ... J« Mm Office 899 >b»Xid The Greed Monster 999 u 9 Player Soccer S<»jad(E>iH; 399 Monty On TV km, Met Wpoer 9 & Grett Escaoe 999 THE DREAM TEAM niF- BIZ 1 3DPool 199 AulW*der*hen Monty (MMS) 4 99 The Simpsons, WWF Wrest«^nU 4 Temnratc* S "Type, Operation Wolf, Doubte Dragon COM 110.99 Batman Cafxd Ovsader JDSsoctCariS 399 MonryPyWi 399 sofTWA« ciTy snciAts Special Offer t3 99 4 Most Sak Boob and barn 399 Moorvmiier 199 Adktas Champtorahip Football 399 ..... 1.99 Mt> flayer SOCCO Manager 3 99 AlcnS New 9 99 SI I'l RI K.HTI R Mifray Mouse Stew Coo 399 rem fi^K. WWF Tfteitlemams & Pi fighter SI PER 111 HOI S Aftertxme .3,99 «ura 199 CaMtl0.49 Aittxroe (anger .399 M»th 3.99 BakToSoot A99 l«t Nmja S, Strider S. Spy wtw tovea Me & Indiana Jona Last Crusacte (juwiVfo Aitewd Beast 399 narco Pofcce „ . 199 Cup Manager 0 99 ] American 30 tod _._.3.99 TheNationa J.99 Cyberworld 1 99 SUPER ALLSTARS American lag team WeBng New399 DatklMen t'99 Steg CJ m the U S A, Capta/i Dynamo 4 SPECIAL ACTION Marad 1 Or 9 19? Neghtxxn .. — New 3 99 De*a(SP6 Sum Couce Tubo Tortose 1 >u u m Captam Blood WOcato, S DI & Daley Thompson! OtyrnDtr.c Can U.99 Itttevn Mew399 New Zeaond Stray 399 cornpaUble) 399 MEGA SPORTS hnJD tore 399 Nigel Mamen Grand Piw 999 &vx>9 This month in Letters we've got a mad Brigadier, a potion-maker STIRRER ingredient, however I will oiler you a and a very sad taie indeed. We also get a good ticking off from one As you are such a funky mag, I free trial. Select any number of the Richard Swann (ha ha), but I'm sure we'll rise above it. And! Soya's decided to write and offer you my following ingredients, print this letter back from her late holiday. She went to India and spent loads of services. I am a qualified potion and I will pass on the potion to you. time on trains. She tried some authentic Indian lentil mush and fell maker who works by mail order. Here are the ingredients available: into a sewer. Only Soya could possible enjoy such a holiday! Normally I charge ten pence per diet tonic water, lemon bath salts, poppy seeds, ash, white peppercorns, pine bath crystals, This month's doodlebug is a witty and precise rendition of life in the Shed by normal/greasy hair shampoo, Hayden Scott-Baron. If you'd like to win yourself a game or two, send your Borax, darjeeling tea, Nutradol diddles and doddles to Doodlebugs, Your Sinclair, 30 Monmouth Street, Power powder, Spellbound perfume. Bath, Avon BA1 2BW. I will also throw m some surprise items with your orders and you will It Mat an ever^oy »?t«atIoii(i< the SheJ) also receive some Slimy Yucky [rr.5 T£f_J^^D Stuff.'" I bet Amiga mags don't get this kind of service. M Funky Towers Birstall. Leicester No, I bet they don't. And I bet they're not too upset about it either. I, however, am very pleased to have the opportunity to use this kind of service. Unfortunately, the ingredients available don't really excite me. Although the combination of white peppercorns and poppyseeds would make be a tasty addition to any savoury dish Especially cheese on toast. The problem with all the other ingredients is that most of them are fine on their own. I think you need to add a few inanimate objects to that froifV SPfttWl list too. Diet tome water, rose petals and Spellbound would be interesting. And how about bath crystals, marbles and cuckoo spit? Yep, you definitely need fo expand your list. Ed. BIBBLE MEISTER I have lived in this fine and hygienic country all my life and have always felt proud to call myself British. But now I feel moved to complain about the recent influx of foreigners into the country eating my buttered toast and filling my bath full of cherries. (Bibble bibble.) Now my underpants are full of redcurrant jelly and there is a leopard in my wardrobe and I wish to know what you and those THf fiWOt Germans are going to do about it? |0*v£>£* i-B mi Brigadier Cheese-Warrior- Coffee-Percolator-Smythe Ealing. London YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 1 9 \ L / i V you'll know the idea. An old man course.) I looked down at their Your tetter caused many a guffaw who walks with the aid of a piece of footwear: everyone had blue jeans to echo round the Shed. We all. at wood has to get ten sheep into a tucked into a pair of green wellies some time or other, have had to go rectangular pen using a dog and which were covered in manure. through with this kind of thing. And various whistles. But Gus changed Other star attractions, beside the we've all wondered what on earth things slightly. He used six dogs to beer tent, were the judged events. we were doing standing m the I went on a daytrip not that long get five sheep into a pen the size of Things like who's got (he weirdest middle of a field, watching the ago. and l thought I would write and East Anglia. He took 15 minutes. vegetable, who's got the best ground squelch and the tell you about it. I was dragged out I felt completely left out, like a walking stick and which sheep is hamburgers droop at a bhmmm' of bed by my parents and driven to Pavarotti fan at a Guns 'n' Roses the best? What I couldn't county/agricultural/chee se/sheep the 153rd Allendale Agricultural concert. Everyone else loved it - understand was - how do you judge fair. Why? Show. You'd think that after 152 had I missed something? a sheep? Is it the fluffiest wool, Its true, all the other people at tries they'd do something It was then that! noticed longest horns, best smell or maybe these things look exactly the same interesting, right? Wrong. The maior something about the crowd - they ifs which one leaves the most and, what's more, they all look as if attractions were as follows: a man were all total sad gets. Everyone droppings behind. the/re enjoying themselves. How selling some stolen towels, some looked exactly the same. They all Here's one piece of advice - can they be? What kind of sick mind sheep, some horses and two or had L-shaped, Elvis style sideburns never ever go to the Allendale have they got, that they can three cows. (even the women), they all wore Agricultural Show. Unless you're a actually get a kick out of watching a The highlight of the day was Barbour jackets and blue jeans. In sheep, of course. Oh, and hi to sheep shearing contest. Please supposedly Gus Dermody and his one hand they held a rug, and in the Steven and Annand. have the Star Letter and some sheepdog handling demonstration. other hand they had a flask of Simon Johnson games - you've had a terrible If you've seen One Man and His Dog lukewarm tea. (A tartan flask, of Wallsend, Tyne and Wear experience. Ed. Oh my golly? Ifs one of them anti- A WARNING I was cleaning out my bedroom If I were you, Paul. I'd try some of Europeans. I bet you phone up At this moment in time, I am a very when I discovered a box full of old the places in the classified section Chancellor Kohl regularly to remind sad person and I write to warn your Spectrum games. Now I longed for of YS. The other option is to buy a turn that the Germans lost the war. readers from making a deadly the days when it took five minutes to new Speccy from Input Output. See And now the darn Johnnies have mistake. My story starts in 1984 load a game. last month's special, there are filled up your bath with cherries. when I had a Spectrum for The point of my letter is this, by tonnes in there and very nicely What swine! Never mind, Brigadier, Christmas. I was over the moon, it all means buy a Mega Drive as the priced they are too. you just keep on waxing your was the best thing since sliced games are bigger, more colourful As for the rest of you, heed Paul's moustache and slapping your /owls. bread. I bought over 100 games but and better than games on the old words and don't forget them. Put your feet up. have a glass of the life of my Speccy was Speccy. But don't sell your Speccy, Remember, a Specc/s for life - not port and read some Dickens. Think shortlived. I let a friend of mine use cos one day you'll wake up and say, /ust for Christmas. Ed. back to when Victoria ruled the it and it came back broken. But I 1 want to buy a new game for waves, a pound note was as big as didnt fix it as I had a Sega Master £3.99." And you won't be able to your handkerchief and the map was System and I was quite happy with because the cheapest Mega Drive ALL mostfy pink. Ah. Victoria - she knew that at the time. game you can get these days costs how to keep those Johnny Since then I've bought a Sega a whole 20 quid. Foreigners in order. A bit of a Mega Drive and a Sega Game Gear Can you recommend anywhere 1 shame she married one, eh? And and I have over 20 games for these. can send my Speccy for repairs. one who was named after a cake. But I soon got bored of these Paul Webb How bibblesome. Ed. games and longed for more. Penarth, S Glamorgan It is a pleasure to write you this Our letter went something a bit WONDERFUL WORLD letter, Ed. how are you and your like this... friends? I hope they are all fine, Dear George OF SPECCY including you Ed, I am sorry I have It gives us much pleasure to not being writing you for weeks write to you. We hope that you and and I know you will forgive me. your brothers are, by His grace, in Thank you. good health. We're sorry we Please send me a Gameboy to haven't written for so long and we PRINT show that you have forgiven me. do truly beg your forgiveness. George Ogoe If you do not forgive us, we will Oh well, back to the old wireless Lagos, Ghana surely be unhappy. To show that methinks. we are indeed forgiven please Dan 'State of the Arf These two letters were written in send us the following as a token of Gavrovski. Milton Keynes the same week.' ft seems that your esteem... Has your remote control blown up George and his friends have given A Kalashmkov rifle too? Ed. up asking for those Game and Five cases of lemon tea I WANT, I WANT, I WANT Watch things. Now they want Two Panzer tanks Woe hoc ha mad Ed dude. Hello It is a pleasure to write you this Gameboys and C64s. is there no A few crates of cheap Russian and look at that fluffley frig letter. How are you? Hope by His stopping this greed? In an attempt potato wine outside the Shed! grace you are fine. I want you to to do iust that, we in the Shed took A magazine monthly The Mad Hatter of Sunderland send me a Commodore 64 and a Adam Peters' advice. Adam works Free. Thanks. I am a lineman for the county, magazine monthly. Thanks. Free. for Amstrad Action and he thought Yours, in God, searching the highway for another George Ogoe we should send George a letter The YS Team overload. The Wichrtaw Lagos. Ghana that was twice as greedy. That should do the trick. Ed. Lineman of Bath. 1 O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 SAM too. The covertape gets full CHEESY marks for giving us all something I'm getting rather cheesed off with SOYA PICO DEAD SERIOUS we can play every month. some games companies that Also, I am having trouble getting should know better. More than once games. I've been looking for Turbo I have bought a game with a really the Tortoise. Captain Dynamo. exciting and groovy screenshot with Nightbreed and Road Runner and a little box saying Spectrum Wile E Coyote. I've looked in all the plonked underneath it. shops and in all the ads. but t can't When I load it up, the game is seem to get hold of them. completely monochrome with no Can you also tell all +2A owners dazzling mountains or trees and the that you can't put a tape lead in the action-packed excitment of a sound/tape socket as Amstrad legless millipede. Naturally, this is modified it. getting on my nerves, ts there K Morton anything I can do about it? Wellingborough Chrii Taylor Back from a month Ulverston, Cumbria in the Himalayas, Thank you for your support. Mr BALANCING ACT Morton. It is indeed very difficult Its a common problem, this one. here's Soya. I am writing to you about Tracy getting programs that all Spectrum, Its been going on for years, so I Hello all you lovely people, it's Arnold's letter in issue 82 that was and SAM. owners can use. We try don't know if there's anything you me - Soya. I'm back. Oh, I had about 128K games. I can to please most of you most of the can do about it. In the strictest a wonderful holiday. Ever)- now understand 48K owners' frustration, time, but obviously its quite a feat. sense, this practise must be wrong. and then I have to get out of especially when games like I'm very surprised that you Unless, of course, it states on the this mess that we call Robocop 2 and Total Recall could haven't been able to find any of the packaging something like civilisation and go and have been made in 48K. But they games you mention. I know for a 'screenshots may vary' or commune with nature and talk too must try to understand the fact that they are all in the shops. 'screenshots taken from different to Home real people. You can't frustration that +2A, +3 and +3A Nightbreed was already on the formats.' fm sure any legal action really do this in suburbia, all owners go through when we load in shelves when we reviewed it in bringing in the Trade Descnptions people want to talk about round a 48K game and end up with a Replay, Jon saw Road Runner (he Act must have been tried before. I here in their washing powder. blank screen, other week and Turbo the Tortoise also suspect that it failed so, Nobody looks for any deeper I think that the covertape is well has been out a while now. The latter basically, I dont think there's meaning to life, not tike they do balanced if you take into is also m the Super All Stars anything you can do about it. in the Himalayas. consideration the fact that we have compilation along with Captain Except write a nasty letter to fhe Wow! It was really something the 48K, 48K+, 128K, 128K+2, Dynamo and should be m the shops company. I can tel! you. The sunsets, the 128K+3,128K+2A and now the now. Its reviewed in this issue. Ed. Good luck! Ed. dawns, the good honest earthly smells. I landed in Delhi at midday and went straight to my Add to all this the fact that the giving a rough guide as to when favourite food stall. The Sag Russian Spectrum clone The Spectrums stopped being Dam Lentils there are the best Hobbit is now being produced. So, you did not make in the world, no if you're ever in manufactured and distributed in a point. However, you did make a Delhi look out for the Jan Pan the UK means that people are mistake. The SAM Coupe and the foodstall. While walking to the not going to stop making Hobbit are not Spectrums. Okay, train station 1 had a bit of an Sim Spectrums now, let alone two so the SAM's an 8-bit computer accident with the open sewers. I years ago. but so are the NES and the Sega fell in. I was covered in muck u And if that wasn't enough to Master System. from my ankles to my elbows, pI merit a Trainspotter award and a What on earth is your but hey, at least it was decent full apology, you also got ZAT's justification for calling a SAM a muck. 1 thought, wow man, this address wrong in the same Spectrum, apart from the fact is the universal sum of being of issue. The real address is 103 that its an &bit. you can all the people in this city. What m Chiltern Gardens, Dawtey, program it and you can load a truly amazing way to start a HOW DARE YOYOUI ! Telford, Shropshire TF4 2QJ. If Speccy games on it? holiday - fully embedded in the How dare you suggest even for a you send a sub to the address You can have a Trainspotter culture and being of a great 0second that Spectrums stopped printed in YS it will result in an for being picky, but I don't think city. People kept trying to pull beinHowg dar made yoe twu sou year s ago. unnecessary delay while your you deserve an apology. I wasn't me out. but I just wanted to (Issusecone d82. tha) tLook Spe, as I write, two order gets forwarded to the right being nasty to you when I said wallow. Then this long-haired A yearbeings madago ewa tws oSeptembe r 1990. place. Speaking of ZAT, my that Speccies hadn't been llama dude caught my eye and Atissut thies 82.tim)e Look the Spectru, m +2A, interview with you should be in produced for two years. pulled me out, using just the | thyeare Spectrus ago wam s+ S3 and the SAM issue seventeen. Come to the As to the ZAT address, if the power of his eyes. I was CoupAt thigs timweree thalel bein5 g Future Entertainment Show in chap in charge insists on giving transfixed, man. He just looked Mmanufacturethe Spectrumd +an2 d distributed to November and I'll give you a us three different addresses. at me and I was floating up shopsCoupe. werAmstrae alld b cease d sample copy. Right, I think I've then we're obviously going to get from the sewer towards the productiomanufacturen odf thane Spectrum -(-3 proved my point. a bit confused. We were told the path. It was as if my feet had mshops Novembe. Amstrar 1990d , but Richard Swann absolutely definite new address grown wings. I stood on terra Z productiocontinuedn productio of the n and Camberley, Surrey after we'd gone to press. firma once more and looked advertising of the +2A continued Nothing much we could do about around for my new spiritual that Christmas. (Eh? I think he ' I don't think you've made your that I'm afraid. friend and guide. He had, like, means 'til Christmas. Ed) The point at alt. The basic gist of your Oh, and thanks for inviting me disappeared, but he'd left me +2A stopped being produced in letter is how dare I approximate along to the Future Entertainment feeling refreshed and beautiful. Britain in April 1992, but is still two years and one month into Show. There I was under the So it was hack onto the train for being manufactured and fwo years as regards the +3? impression that I was the next stop - Bombay! distributed tn the Far East. (Issue 82 had a coverdate of automatically going, seeing as I Catch up with Soya's Additionally, there's stilt a stock October.) How dare /.not be work for Future. See you there, holiday snap* next month! of SAM Coupes. exact.' Well, I dare because I was Richard! Ed. 1O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 • i desperately want Professional Soccer by CRL Will pay a fiver or swap Striker, County Cricket. Rugby Boss. Headcoach and First Past the Post I must be mental' Phone Frank on 0332 4705 and mention Professional Soccer. • Can anyone please help'' I wish to purchase a Fixer for use on a *3. new or secondhand and in working order Telephone Roy (In Spain) on 010 34 68 152215. • Spectrum +3 with built In Ask drive. « Wanted1 The 128K versions ol Sinclair joystck, Ch«er joystick, lightgun, Stormbringer and Knight Tyme. Will pay £4 MglMace 3 - all with full instructions and in for each or £8 lor both or I'll swap them original bones. Hardly used, so everything In Phone Edward on 061 766 8167. immaculate condition Also games on disk • Wanted! Carrier Command. European and tape. All this lor £195 and I will pay Ihe Super League and Robin Smith's Int Cricket, postage Contact Mr Hardaker at 8 Dixon wm swap lor WWF. Sim City. Lords ot Chaos Street. Sutton-in-Craven. Nr Keighley, W and Formula Grand Prix (budget). Phone Yorkshire. Ross on 0428 654625 alter 4pm. It's the longest list of reader ads in the whole • SAM Coupd 512K tor sale Otsk drive. V2.0 • Urgently warned1 Garfield He/lor Skelter Speccyverse. Now you can get your mitts on that ROM. over £150 worth of SAM software and and TNT 2 Will swap lor Hollywood over 100 Spectrum titles Vefy good Collection. Shadow of the Beast Ghouls n' game or piece of hardware that you've always wanted. condition. £220 ono Tel Chris on 0642 Ghosts or Tumcan 2. Any other otters 673623. appreciated Boxed originals only Phone • t will swap my Shade* Warriors and swtv • Spectrum .?A lor sale Over £400 worth ol David on 0562 755686. tor your Fighter Bomber and Smash TV One games Multiface 3. two joysticks. Kempston • Wanted1 American football game End Zone tor one, boxed cassette originate only. Also Interlace 42 mags and covertapes and by Sport Sim (not the naff budget game by any three budgets lor your Lone Won Phone kghigun Wonh over £500, will sell for £270 Alternative Software) of Colchester Need a Owen (In Ireland) on 0103 53 6529419 atter ono Call 081 884 3972 and ask tor David. 128K+3 copy ot this game based on actual 5pm. • For sale' Spectrum +3. joystick, bghtgun NFL statistics Ring 0572 813284. S Loads of games to swap, including top and appro* 1000 games, some on disk Tel • Wanted1 Final Fight. Lotus Turbo games such as Golden Axe, Toobm and 0291 626056 and ask for Paul. Challenge Kick off 2. MARC and Pang Win Dommator All originals Also New Zealand swap tor Navy SEALS. Robocop 2. Total Story. Bubble Bobble. Dragon Nirya. Ouattro Recall. Toyota Celica G T Rally BTTF 2, Power, 4 Soccer Suns, Arcade Flight Sum and Shadow of the Beasi. Super Wonderboy. MrG29 Soviet Jet Fighter Phone Darren Double Dragon 2, Moonwalker. Stridor and • For sale! SO as new 128K Spectrum games after 5pm on 0247 473203. more!1 Phone Arfan on 0282 831428. 6pm- including Myth, Batman the Movie. The • I want WWF. Final Fight and Terminator 2 8pm. Untouchables. Turtles and Pipemama all tor Will swap Robocop 2. Golden Ate Back to • Wanted1 Their Fnest Hour, icon-driven £35 Phone Christian on 0483 275088. the Future 2. Hacker. Kw*. Sna* and stralegy game Will pay cash Ring Rlchsrd • I will swap Platoon. Operation Won and Vindicator Any two of mine for one ol yours on 0779 79699. Yogi Bear lor Dizzy Down The Rapids or Phone Scott on 0933 679101. • Wanted' Expansion lead tor ZX Spectrum Treasure Island Dizzy Phone Scott on 0377 • Swap! Your HeXer Skelter and Nightsh-n with al least two male outputs Phone 0579 87255. lor my Final Fight art) Tumcan 2. Boxed 345277 anytime. • I will swap Head Over Heels. Renegade. originals only Also Sac* to Skoot solution • Wanted1 Rebeistar I & 2. Chaos. Shoot • Wanied! CyberbaH. Hem Quest. 3D Race and Kick Boring lor 3D warned Will pay Phone David on 0562 Daze. Back to Skool. Glider Rider, Robin O' Construction Kit and Simpsons. I will swap Construction M Phone Andrew on 0705 755888 atter 4pm weekdays the Wood. Agent X IS 2. TTflacerand Oof Final Fight. E Motion, Stride/ Turrican, 100% 510762. N i will swap my OvertonJ and Protect Steath ol the Shadows Originals in excellent Dynamite. Oriental Games and Hudson • I will swap lantasy World Dizzy. Inca Curse Fighter, both <3 disks, lor MutMace 3 or any condition tor good poces Ring Martin on Hawk Phone Kenan on 0327 310049. and 4D Arcade Adventure for any games good *3 disk games Phone Sieve on 0533 0532 691042 anytime. • Urgently required1 McGraw Hill 46K Will also swap the Turtles video tor games 695972. • Wanted I Microdrive cartridges lor assembler by ACS Software. Leeds Call Call Tim on 0243 378716. • i will swap my Italy 1990. Stnder. Spectrum QL and anything lor QC Ring 0709 878914. • Got any Spectrum games lo swap? Caivers Crackdown and Gazza s Super Soccer tor 0522 536294. • Wanted! An original copy ot The Bard's from the Lowestoft area would be best your Pit Fighter ami North & South Four tor • Wanted8 Spectrum Logo I would also be Tale Must have lull Instructions and load on Phone 0502 587896 and ask lor Darren. two or two for one Phone 0742 393474. interested m LISP Call Matthew on 0332 a +2 Phone Barry on 0708 376805 alter • I will swap Dragon Spirit, Run the Gauntlet, • i wiH swap my Snkwofm Double Dragon 31014. 6pm. Roadblasters and Konami s Arcade Dragon Nnya, 1st Division Manager and • Wanted' Turbo the Tortoise I wi* swap • Wanted! Robtn ot Sherwood • The Collection tor WWF Wrestling lor Spectrum Grand Prix Sim for your Man Utdot Emtyn Skghtty Magic and The Great Escape Wilt Touchstones ot Rhiarmon Adventure on (disk onfy). Phone 0275 870287 and ask for Hughes Phone Hugh (In H. Ireland) on also swap Moontorc and Space Rider tor Spectrum cassette. WiB pay £10 if in good Luke. 02665 71396, evenings only. Seymour Goes to Hollywood Call 0323 condition Must deliver1 Contact Mark on • I will swap my Simpsons. Golden Are and N Spectrum *2. Language (Spanish. Italian) 645640. 0942 811530. SWIV lor your Robocop 3. Rodtand and and office or business software wanted • Wanted' Any pre-August 1988 copxrs ol • Wanted! A copy of the Hexloader IH Smash TV Also my Shadow Warriors lor Ring 0274 757521. YS with or wuhout smash tapes Will swap supply a blank tape it necessary Also your Fighter Bomber and my Wonderboy and • l will swap Turtles • The Com Op tor tor games Loads to choose from, many full wanted' Any books or otherwise on machine Popeye 2 lor your Stun! Car Racer Boied Hudson Hawk or Navy SEALx AH lor price lit>es Phone Mark on 0976 820165. code Phone 0484 666462 after 6pm on cassette originals only Phone Owen {In Spectrum *2 Phone Gary on Sunderland • Wanted' Bard's Taleon+ 3 disk Will pay weekdays or anytime on weekends and Ireland) on 0103 53 652 9419 after 6pm. 5220663. cas"< Phone 0223 66447. ask for David. • I have Turrican 2. Final Fight, Hollywood • Swap my Shinobt, Cybernotd Advanced • Wanted11 will swap 70 good games lor any • l will buy any WWF games except Collection. Shadow Warriors. Xenophobe. Dungeons and Dragons Red Heat ot printer which wlH work on a +2A Also Wrestlemania Phone and arrange a price TMHT, Mickey Mouse. SUghtly Magic. Xybots Superman or Armageddon Man or Licence to wanted books on Speocy ROM routines. Tel 0272 677814 and ask for Mike and Gryzor all lo swap Any otters KiHtor you r Hero Quest. New Zealand Story, Phone Jonathan on 0226 767991. • Wanted desperately! 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Hollywood Collection. Kick Off 2, Xenophobe and others First swapping caller gets free LCO game All Postcode. offers conside>ed Phone David on 0502 Tel No Signature of parent guardian if under 18 •755888 What. a swap1 SAS Combat. MIG 29 Kamikaze and Guardian Angel lor WWF Wrestlemania or Hard Onvin If you can give me both. Ill throw in WECLe Mans and Vectron Tet Robbie on (Fenwlck) 05606 416. • Swap1 Gauntlet. Batman the Movie, New Zealand Story or Rainbow Islands tor any Garfield v Pet People games or Outrun Phone Edd on 0904 627829 MAGAZINE HEALTH WARNINC^ ^^Sv^ YS 84j Sorry, but YS can accept no responsibility for the ads placed in Input/Output DIZZY PRINCE OF This month's Tipshop is a Dizzy THE yOLKFQLK special. To fit in some of the maps I've had to dispense with Dr To help you get through this right royal scramble, here's what all Hackenbush. He didn't seem to mind, the objects do... Jug of water Put fire out and his nurse seemed positively Leaves Put in front of door relieved. The good doctor will be back Matches Set fire to leaves next month, so 'til then just revel in Outboard motor Give to ferryman Pickaxe Break rocks on hillside all this Dizzyness. Cage Catch Pogie Before you run off and look for the Gold nugget Give to ferryman final diamond, or whatever, I've got a DIY bridge Put across gap Harp Give to St Peier message for you lot from Art Ed Andy Chesse Get Pogie in cage Ounsted. From now on Tipshop is Rusty Key Open door to Daisy going to be in black and white, so Scythe Chop through bushes please don't send any coloured maps Bugle Give to bugler Tweezers Get thorn from lion's paw in. All maps and diagrams should be Spanner Loosen mechanism drawn in black ink. If you have to . A Thom Kill evil Dizzy write on maps, use black block Joke book Cheer Princess up Flag Brings King home capitals. Oh, and don't forget to write Caged Fluffle Scare troll away your name and address on the back. And from A Godber. here's a list of where all the cherries are... Cheers! • A few trees • Trapped • Top of hill (cage) • Top of hill, near nugget • Hillside • Enchanted forest, behind Pogie# Enchanted forest, behind The address, as usual, is Linda B, railing • Enchanted treetops • Fluffy cloud • Castle ramparts • Castle YS Tipshop, 30 Monmouth Street, ramparts • Edge of the tower • Inner sanctum • The deserted tower • Bath, Avon BA1 2BW. First landing • Double trouble (behind spanner) • Castle drawbridge • Tower drawbridge • Castle gardens, clump of grass • Castle gardens 1 behind block. DIZZY .. Another good eggy mixture well whisked! DIZZY PRINCE OF THE YOLKFOLK.... 23 FANTASY WORLD DIZZY MAGICLAND DIZZY.. SPELLBOUND DIZZY.... TREASURE ISLAND DIZZY.... 23 ISLAND DIZZY PRACTICAL POKES.... David Archibald has a featuring Gilbert, Murray Mouse, Prince tiny tippette for Dizzy's island jaunt... Clumsy & Seymour Goes to Hollywood Press ENTER to begin the game, then hold down 0 A. P and C until the music stops and Dizzy disappears. You can then use the left and right keys to to move through the screens. Pressing your button will start you in that room. Pressing C afterwards will start the procedure again. I Sea, sand and a good egg - what more is •©•Iriik [ \ there? aa -ii 1O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 HAGICLAND DIZZY Find your way through Magicland with Genie Comes from lamp. On Zaks Found at the top of Michael Robinson's ace map. the second calling he fires bolts Zaks' tower Fires lightning of lightning at you. You need the bolts that take away lots of Abracadabra! If those baddies are still lightning rod to protect yourself energy. bothering you, get rid of them the easy otherwise you're dead. way - with Stu Hogger's easy to follow guide.... Bats Fly about and take a little t Troll On the bridge, get the goat energy. Avoid. lo butt him. Takes away a bit of energy. And alt you need to know now Is where Ghosts Only lound at swamp. those glittering diamond are. Timothy Take away lots of energy. Kill and Joanna Parris know... with power pill. • Next to the haunted swamp • Next to the mysterious monolith • On the castle back Water Kills you - avoid it. Vampira In the Ice Palace Kills door screen - climb up the steps inside the you unless you have the gold castle • In the lower with a view • In the Lava Same as water. cross. watchtower • Next to the monkey in up a tree • Behind the railing above Dylan • Fire Takes away energy - avoid Above Weirdhenge • In Glenda's unlit fire • Spikes Kill you if you stand on In the throne room • In the screen called them - avoid. clouds • On the troll bridge • By the hot water geyser • Behind the railing above the Rat Takes away lots of energy, sword in the stone • In the Bard's treehouse only found down well. Play the Queen of Hearts Kills you • In the Ice Palace entrance hall • In the pipes to get rid of it. unless you have Excalibur. crypt • In Daisy's oubliette • Down the well Found in the magic mirror. • In the secret passage • In the main halt • In the west tower • By the chessboard • On the curiouser and curiouser screen • In the Drips Only found in forgotten tallest tower • At the hellgate • Behind the dungeon, takes away energy third railing from the right at the cracks of avoid. Chess pieces Take away gehenna • At the cracks of Gehenna • By tonnes of energy. Found in the Hades • By Zaks Coconut Takes away energy - magic mirror - avoid like the And now no more tears need be shed avoid plague. over that last diamond. Good, eh? tv* 6'it &OOD yirtM tUNMS tavR T* ffAnP t»u»l TO l*U. T UfEY nf BCOuSmR - I-VMCSO, tclMGc SO ItMCAN TAKE TMK GtJCC.fi >*. ttyiL. UUU« OP O OlArtOND - 30 TO COLLECT- 19 UCWLDSlA^ltS TOJOKMT - tdOA iAKS BACK OOOtt. 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L. drop boulder. R, get other Here's David Brook to tell us... Behind some railings in Denzil's I discovered that if the hawk boulder, L past hawk, drop There are seven in the castle... pad Below the meeting hall comes down to kill you, press fire boulders in water, L, get key. get By the portcullis O Entrance Stay on the same platform as before it reaches you, press fire potion from Oozy. hall, top right, behind second above but go right to the end of it. again and the hawk will be back Back to Gator, smash potion by railing C East wing West wing Jump left onto the lazy left cloud high in the air and not trying to eat dragon, get key, R to volcano, get The mantelpiece above O In Iront of Daisy's parents' you for dinner. key, L to hut, unlock lifts, climb Denzil's head Castle staircase house Behind a piece of railing And a Jolly good thing that Is tree to Grand Dizzy. Get bar, L, C Starting place - only seen by the bottomless well. to discover too! And get pickaxe. R, get knocker. when troll has been seen in There are eight in the west Katharine Surnameless has Back to attic, open door with deserted mines. O On a cloud in the complex got the complete solution. L knocker, get bucket, back to There are four in the east... cloud route G On a cloud near the means left, R right and J jump. allotment, get cow, go to well, By Dizzy hawk - the guard volcano top On a cloud in more Okay? open with bar. D and R. get key. L house C Between two crates on horrible clouds On top of an L and get water and bread, L to to shopkeeper, give him the cow. the docks and pier O On the active volcano Behind some fire, throw water on it. U steps and Plant bean in allotment, fill bucket crafty cloud above the warehouse leaves in the large oak tree In D other side, get boulder. U steps, from volcano water. Water bean C Jump down between the green the deserted mine In the JR. give rat bread. JL, L. put U beanstalk, across clouds to and purple crate into the amazing dragon's lair Underneath the boulder by portcullis. castle. Get egg, go to lift hut, illusion screen. table in Daisy's prison. U steps. JL at top. hit switch, unlock lift, go through lloor, put There are nine in the tree There are two in the strange JR, J onto table, then on to ledge. egg in dragon s nest. Go past. house... world... JR, R, get key, L and get bone. D Break rocks with pickaxe, get To the right of the bottomless O In the church ^ In the market to Gator, across, get boulder and carpet. Back to castle. Put carpet well, behind the leaves } Next to square. drop key. on spears. Hit switch and rescue the railing, by lift control O Base And that, as they say In Back to portcullis, L. get Daisy. Give her 30 coins. of the tree house C The right certain circles, is that! ^ 'IMIull Charlotte Anthony mapped the * Umbrella Makes you fly into the sky al beasl eating you. Behind cham onfirst or e crusher * Left of entire game and found out exactly the windy shaft and win slop the smoking * Dy lan s vibes Rescue Dylan fnjrt on rickety bridge * Right of (rut on what you're meant to do with all those log from getling wet agam when walking * Derail s ZX81 Rescue DenziJ and plug rickety bridge * Three ol them are in the OIL pesky objects... through the ram it mto the controlroom t o make the pink damp M above above rickety bridge * In CBvSHER e Brakeshoe Attach it 10 the mmecart or e PUe of bones Drop them on top of the pipe suck you in. middle of spare ore crusher * Beast's lair youl get thrown from d plant and It wn* swallow you * Daisy s diamond ring Rescue Daisy e Right side ol reservoir * Entrance to * Glass jar F* * with honey for the bear * Pot of pepper Manes the whale * Dora s glass slipper Rescue Dora watery passage * Third water plant tight and cafch afirefly i n 4 so you can see >n sneeze and spout so you can reach * Dory s pillow Rescue Oozy. ot tood • Bear's place nght of table * the dart spooky cave h^her places e Pogie sfluff l a collar Rescue Pogte. Lakeside ckfllop • Behmd tuft of grass m e Iron hammer Fix the broken tad mi the * Flippers Swim up through water woody grove * Clouds above watery mme track and bash the plug in the * Tasty seaweed Drop rtfithe dark You might be able to make oui the grove * Cloud above Denzii e The pumpmg station spooky cave to repel the bats stars on the map but, just In case you substation, tar right * Floor of purnpng e Megaphone Use Richard Swanrt has just sent me 70 DATA 221.33.203.92.17,34,1 HACKERS ANON RANDOMIZE USR 26E3 | five reasons why Deep Purple ar 80 DATA 62,255,55,205,86,5 20 CLEAR 65535; LOAD "COOE 50 POKE A.B: LET A-A+1: U better than Transvision Vamp. 90 DATA 48,241.33.27.91.34 30 LET A-6E4 GOTO 40 I Number one - they've been in the 100 DATA 145.93,34,183,93 40 REAO B: IF B.999 THEN 60 DATA I NME Book of Rock Legends? 110 DATA 195.243.92,175.50 RANDOMIZE USR 6E4 62.182.50.246.111.50.20.112: I Well, whoopee doo. Here's some 120 DATA 183.171.195.159,169 50 POKE A.B: LET A=A+1: REM INFY TIME n code. GOTO 40 70 DATA 175.50.64.119: REM WHAT POKE TAPE? 60 DATA 33.92.214,17.20.255 INFY SNOT (BLEURGH!) || PRINCE CLUMSY After months of anticipation. 70 DATA 237.83.139.214,1.35,0 80 DATA 62.24.50.255.129: REM 10 REM PRINCE CLUMSY BY Hackers Anonymous Gerard 80 DATA 237.176.33,125.234,17 ALWAYS COMPLETE | RICH Sweeney, Raymond Russell and 90 DATA 53.255.1.10.0.237,176 SUBGAMES | 20 CLEAR 25340: LOAD ""CODE Jamie Murray from Lanarkshire in 100 DATA 195,138,214,175.50 90 DATA 195.185.108.999: REM 30 RANDOMIZE USR 55206 Scotland finally sent me a copy of 110 DATA 16.254,201,999 DONT DELETE THIS BIT '! 40 POKE 47063.58 their long-awaited POKEs tape. 50 RANDOMIZE USR 43918 Or at least, they sent.me a tape. GILBERT 128K I've just been sent a copy ol the All it contained was a BASIC file I was supposed to print this Shock1 megademo, so I'm SEYMOUR GOES TO called LC which did sod all. When months ago. but I never got round signing off now to grab a look at HOLLYWOOD (if?) I see this elusive lump of to it. Ah well, here it is in all its it. Usual stuff to me. Jolly Jon 10 REM SEYMOUR BY RICH code I'll undoubtedly plug it - in Z80 glory. North, at the YS address (only | 20 FOR F» 16384 TO 16430 the meantime you'll just have to 10 REM GILBERT 128 BY HA send 48 K tapes if you want stuff | 30 READ A: POKE F,A: NEXT F make do with these. 20 LOAD -CODE: POKE done for Pokerama. and a | 40 RANDOMIZE USR 16384 26084,106 suitable sae if you want them | 50 DATA 33.13,64.17,0.91.213 MURRAY MOUSE 30 LET A-27321 back). See you in the (highly- fl 60 DATA 1,36.0,237.176,201 10 REM MURRAY MOUSE BY 40 READ B: IF B=999 THEN compressed) scrofly. COCKS FAU- HERE DONA' T rp.YXb c*ET wnhet-ocos TO, AHO VOU'LL "TTiC lU-WSCH tti ru«srs wiWe.A H\«LCA5\T is 1-uV iMiH\tUe ivo* haiMivMsr H\£ cWxvMbtv-f loods. So clcwt' khrCjd" y^T atjUOkluivj/ YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 37 jflM _ I jB •J This month in Adventures, Tim Kemp looks at two new games and there's some ace special offers. AZTEC ASSAULT Itv: Zenuhi Software tis 1519 AD Aztecs in droves. As the Aztec and the forces culture leans heavily towards of evil have human sacrifice it is doubtful been running whether there will be enough riot in people left who can be sacrificed Tenochtitlnn, in order to prevent the dreaded a village at the 'fifth sun' from occurring. This is heart of the not good. Aztec empire. Your first task is to meet and You are greet a tired-looking priest. For 4s. Phoenix. The Traveller In much of the game you'll find Black and it's your job to yourself meeting people see those baddies off. and being given various These nasties take the tasks to perform. form of assorted demons, Sometimes you'll find that led by a character known after just a bit of casual only as "The Chameleon'. rooting around you'll be able These foul demons have to carry out your tasks, nicked the ashes of past though sometimes you'll have leaders, made off with all to travel far and wide to make manner of religious artefacts sure you really sec, get and do and are slaughtering the everything. At the heart of the city lies a gateway. It's here that the evil manifestations flow in. and presumably also where the good guys get kicked out. Every time you do something right you manage, with a little help from the remaining locals, to see off a few demons. The better you succeed in your various tasks the more demons get the chop. Absolutely everything you have to do in the game is based around the Aztccs and their Aztec Assault is a text only culture. This means that game, with nothing much in the you have to witness a way of special features, but it peculiar game of has a wealth of educational football, obey the detail. Aimed at beginners more V laws, be attired than anything, it should still \ correctly at certain prove of interest to more (Please make cheques and PO's times (to enter experienced adventurers too. payable to Zenobi Software certain places Very enjoyable! Outside UK please add f»Op safely I and at one surface mail or £1.00 for stage in the game Aztec Assault is available for airmail.) you even have to help a midwife £2.49 (tape) £3.49 1+3 disk) from deliver a baby. Even that Zenobi Software, entails finding the correct 26 Spot land TUT item to help bring on the Tops, Cutgate, VALUE contractions. Everything Rochdale, Lanes is absolutely KXKf accurate. 0L12 7 NX. Pf RSONU RATINGS 1O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 SHERIFF GWm COUPON CORNER COMPASS SOFTWARE OFFER Bv: Awciil Sof(warc Jon Lemmon of Compass insists I call these 'Compass Deadly Duos'. I'd rather not, but they are good offers. They arc called 'Deadly Duos' because a) there are two games on each tape, and b) most are originals coupled with follow-ups (or at least part one and part two of a saga of some description). The price? Just £1.49 ^itmJi per 'deadly duo*! Cheques and POs payable to Compass Software. TO: Compass Software, 111 Mill Road. Cobholm Island. Great 'TOP Yarmouth, Norfolk NR31 OBB lis® FROM: Name LVJK- .1 Address .,,„. mamIf® •J^Vif,.' - * Postcode Could you please send me the following smart game/s. I enclose a cheque/postal order for ] Project -X: The Micro man & The '()' Zotie • Demon from the Darkside & The Golden Musk Sheriff Gunn is just the your travels either help or thing you need to help ^tak hinder you. The graphics • The Devil's Hand & Shadows of the Past • chase away the post- 55» are pretty tiny, but still 1 The Hobble Hunter & The Micro Mutant crash SAM Coupe ^^^ manage to help add a blues. It features 16 colour ^^^^ bit of atmosphere to the i ] Intruder Alert & Invaders from Planet X graphics and 64 column text, so proceedings. The only big minus ] The Blood of Bogmole & The Anttilis Mission it looks pretty nice, and it's good point about the whole game is to see a SAM adventure, and not the price, £9.99 is a bit steep, 1 Zogan's Revenge & The Wizard's Skull i just an emulated Spectrum but that seems to be a typical game make an appearance! SAM price. DELBERT THE HAMSTER SOFTWARE The game comes in two parts Sheriff Gunn will win no Delbert Hamster's discount superstore is now open! Fill in the - you can play each part prizes for originality, but it's coupon, make your cheques and POs payable to Scott Denyer. independently of the other and good fun, and what's more is one of the only SAM specific there are, according to the blurb ""TO"DTHS~9 Orchard Way?FUtwick",lieds *MK4 5 7LK ~ on the inlay, over 80 locations. A adventures around, so do word about the packaging: it's yourself and your SAM a favour FROM: one of those large double size and buy a copy. If it sells well see-through cassette boxes then it will undoubtedly Name (containing one disk) and has encourage Axxent Software to Address full colour (gasp) artwork! release more SAM titles. They The game itself is also are already responsible for the pretty colourful, fun and ^fl excellent SAM Adventure fast paced. The main aim is WJ •gL System, so if you are to try to catch the notorious '^M ordering this game then outlaw. Poisonous Pete. |j ask for information on that. Postcode There are all manner of W You never know, the next obstacles in your path, and • [ great SAM adventure could be Could you please send me the following smart game/s. I enclose the characters you meet on U written by you! In the a cheque/postal order for meantime, whip out your six- shooter and go gunning for Poisonous Pete. Yeee-har! Delbert Hamster's Wheel of Fortune (a spiffy four game Sheriff Gunn (256/512k SAM compilation i normally £2.99 yours for £1.99 Coup6) is available for £9.99 The Life of a Lone Electron (two new games from the pen of from Axxent Software. 89 Gareth 'Microfair Madness' Pitchford a barg at just £1.99 Trewent Park, Freshwater East, Pembroke, Dyfed SA71 5LP. Doctor Goo And The Samorons (a five-part re-release lex- (Cheques and POs payable to C Global Games) yours for a measly £1.49 Jordan.) D A Fistful of Blood Capsules (another massive five-part game) incredibly priced at just £1.49 TEXT IIJJJJ IZ Fairly Difficult Mission (five parts again) a premium quality VALUE IJJJJJ spoof, genuinely funny and just £1.49 JJ PERSONAL RATINGS 1O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 If it's comfort you're ell, as the festive season approaches, the Prtstop is more full of life I after then you've come than ever before- I've got such a plethora of good stuff planned for I to the right place. w you! Quite apart from this month's ample offering, there's a SAM special in the pipeline, as well as another stunning piece of work from our old pal Richard Butter those crumpets Swann. plus possibly a Chaos and Fractals special, and hopefully the return of a popular feature I and curl up with Craig from the Pitstops of old, last seen in issue 33. (Can you giss what it is yit?) Complex negotiations are going on even as we speak- what excitement, eh9 To put a relatively small i Broadbent's numbers. dampener on things, I've been told I can't have an extended Xmas Pitstop special, bul never mind, I'm sure I'll fit it all in somehow. In the meantime, on with this month's packed show... 'n' running, you can overwrite the code up to address 64960 160 PRINT 'ARE YOU LOADING A without incurring damage. HEADERLESS*; TAB 13;"BLOCK?" 170 PRINT : PRINT TAB 8;*TYPE N IF A Note on Hex UNSURE" Yes, the machine code routine is shown in Hex 180 GO SUB 9000 SCROLL- form, and yes. that means you need to use the 190 IF ZS=*N" THEN LET ST=64768 GO notorious Hex Loader to enter it. So for those TO 400 who aren't regular readers, this is how you 200 LET ST=64793 work the accursed thing (deep breath): Type it 210 PRINT : PRINT "ENTER LOADING in, run it, enter the first 5-digit number as the A-LOAD start address, enter the 16-digit hexadecimal ADDRESS:' by Nigel Grange ^^ number, and then the decimal checksum on 220 INPUT G the right. Then, unless you've made a hash of 230 LET AD=65235: GO SUB 9300 ust when you thought it was safe to leap things - which is very likely when you're 240 PRINT : PRINT "ENTER CODE with joy, swing your pants and cry The working with - ugh - hex. you'll have to enter LENGTH:* Jscrollers are dead, long live the the next hex line and checksum, then the next, 250 INPUT G scrollers!" and other well-known phrases that and so on, until you enter STOP as a hex line 260 LET AD=65237: GO SUB 9300 don't actually make sense, along comes your to quit the program and save your code, which 400 CLS : PRINT "SELECT COLOUR OF friend and mine, Nigel Grange, with a unique the Hex Loader will quite kindly do BORDER:" incarnation of the genre, and absolutely the for you. last message scroller I will ever print ('til next 410 RESTORE 9100: FOR N=1 TO 5: month, anyway). This offering is unique READ CS(N): NEXT N because it actually scrolls a message across BASIC 420 RESTORE 9200: FOR N=1 TO 8 the screen while simultaneously loading a 10 REM SCROLL-A-LOAD config. 430 PRINT AT 2+(N'2),7;N-1 program! Amazing, eh? And if that's not 20 REM by Nigel Grange 440 READ X1.X2: PRINT CS(Xlfcr;C$(X2) enough, you can define the scroll line, change 100 BORDER 5: PAPER 5: PEN 0: CLEAR 450 NEXT N the loading stripe colours, load headerless 64000 460 INPUT C: IF C code and even use your own font. 110 POKE 23658,8 There's really no need for me to explain it all here (and take up valuable space) when the 115 DIM CS(5.6) HEX LOADER CONFIG program supplied does such a good 116 REM PUT YOUR MESSAGE HERE job all by ilself. Save the code first, then type in 117 LET AS=" SCROLL-A-LOAD! BY 10 POKE 23658, 8: INPUT "Start address the BASIC program. Stick your own message N.GRANGE - THE BEST SCROLL ":A: POKE USR "a". INT (A/256): POKE into line 117 and RUN it to select your choices. AROUND!' USR *a'+1, A-256'INT (A/256): CLEAR A- Once customised, you can save the code 120 PRINT " INSERT YOUR LOAD-A- 1: LET START=PEEK USR *a*+256*PEEK routine along with your preferences to tape by SCROLL TAPE" (USR *a*+1): INPUT "Filename '.LINE FS following the on-screen instructions. It'll even 130 PRINT TAB 9;"AND PRESS PLAY" LET Q=START show you how to start your 140 LOAD "'CODE 64768 r^P-jJ^n personalised copy of the 100 LET CS=0: PRINT AT 0,0; 'Address routine. Once the routine is up 150 CLS ";Q 1 O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 110 INPUT (Q); *:"; LINE AS: IF A$=CHR$ 65072 CB 16 2B CB 16 2B CB 16 = 761 23755: LET v=(PEEK 23641+256'PEEK 226 THEN GOTO 300 65080 2B CB 16 2BCB 16 2B CB = 782 23642)-(PEEK 23627+256'PEEK 23628)- 130 IF LEN AS<>16 THEN GOTO 340 65088 16 2BCB 16 2B 22 40 FF == 686 1: LET f=(PEEK 23730+256'PEEK 140 LET F=0: FOR J=1 TO 16; IF 65096 F5E1 22 44 FF C3 BD FE = 1465 23731MPEEK 23641 +256'PEEK 23642): (A$(J)<"0" OR AS(J)>"9") AND (AS(J)<"A* 65104 2A40 FF 11 20 00 19 24 = 471 INPUT 'REMLIST FROM LINE No? ';n: IF OR AS(J)>"F*) THEN LET F=1 65112 22 40 FF 21 00 00 22 44 = 488 n<0 OR n>9999 THEN GO TO 9991 150 NEXT J: IF F=1 THEN GOTO 340 65120 FF 06 09 C3 BB FE 3A DF = 1187 9992 IF (PEEK (a+1)+256'PEEK a) < n 180 FOR N=0 TO 7: LET Y=CODE AS(1)- 65128 FE 3D 32 DF FE CA 81 FE = 1427 THEN LET a=a+4+PEEK (a+2)+256'PEEK 48: IF Y>9 THEN LET Y=Y-7 65136 21 EA FE 22 E0 FE 2A DB = 1294 (a+3): GO TO 9992 190 LET Z=CODE A$(2)-48: IF Z>9 THEN 65144 FE 22 40 FF 06 07 C3 BB = 1002 9993 IF PEEK (a+4)=234 THEN GO SUB LET Z=Z-7 65152 FE 21 3C FF 22 E0 FE 06 = 1120 9997 200 LET VA=16*Y+Z: LET CS=CS+VA: 65160 08 C3 BB FE 21 E2 FE 22 = 1191 9994 LET a=a+4+PEEK (a+2)+256'PEEK POKE Q+N. VA: PRINT AT 2. N*3; A$(TO 65168 E0 FE 2A DB FE 22 3E FF = 1344 (a+3) 2): LET AS=AS(3 TO): NEXT N 65176 22 40 FF 3E 09 32 DF FE = 951 9995 IF a > 23755+I THEN PRINT FLASH 220 INPUT "Checksum? \LINE AS: PRINT 65184 2A D9 FE 23 7E FE FF CA = 1385 1" ALL REMS FOUND ": FLASH AT 2.25; AS:IF VAL AS<>CS THEN GOTO 65192 B0 FE 22 D9 FE C3 B6 FE = 1566 O 'PROGRAM x\|;« bytes"""VARIABLES 340 65200 2A D7 FE 22 D9 FE 06 09 = 1031 =\v;° bytes""FREE SPACE =\f;' bytes': 230 CLS: LET Q=Q+8: GOTO 100 65208 C3 BB FE 10 FE D9 C3 DA = 1536 PAUSE 0; STOP 300 CLS; PRINT 'Saving ";F$; AT 21,0; 65216 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 = 255 9996 GO TO 9993 •Remove EAR lead": POKE 23736, 181: 65224 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 = 0 9997 LET a$=*': LET a$(5-LEN (STRS SAVE FS CODE START. Q-START: 65232 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 = 0 (PEEK (a+1)+256*PEEK a)) TO )=STR$ INPUT "Verify? ";VS: IF VS="Y* THEN 65240 00 00 00 1F 50 00 3C 09 = 180 (PEEK (a+1)+256"PEEK a) VERIFY FS CODE 65248 E2 FE E0 FD 02 FE 02 FE = 1469 9998 LET s=PEEK (a+2)+256'PEEK (a+3): 330 PRINT 'OK!': STOP 65256 66 FE 25 FE 25 FE 25 FE = 1229 PRINT INVERSE 1;aS: INVERSE 0;' *;: 340 PRINT AT 15,0; * "ERROR" ": BEEP 65264 25 FE 50 FE 00 00 00 00 = 625 FOR b=a+5 TO a+2+s: PRINT CHRS 1,-20: GOTO 100 (PEEK b);: NEXT b: PRINT ": RETURN HEX ERRATA To wind up this month, it's the questions and 64768 DD 21 CI FE 11 11 00 3E = 797 answers desk. First a solution to Ben Jerrit's 64776 00 37 CD 56 05 2A CC FE = 851 REMLIST problem with Daniel Azzopardi's Sound Sampler in issue 71 - the answer, it seems, is 64784 22 D5 FE 2A CE FE 22 D3 = 1248 ^^ by John Mclntyre J" 64792 FE C3 74 FD 3E 05 32 EC = 1171 not in the typing in but in the saving. Gary Seviour from Midsomer Norton suggests that 64800 FF CD 5D FD CD 36 FD DD = 1539 SAVEing "sampler" LINE 720 could solve all 64808 2A D3 FE ED 5B D5 FE 3E = 1364 ext up this month is a utility for BASIC programmers, and. let's face it. if your problems. 64816 FF 37 CD 46 FF C9 06 07 = 1054 you're reading this column, you're Now yet more problems with Dicky's Manic 64824 11 F4 FE C5 CD 54 FD C1 * 1447 bound to be a BASIC programmer really. Miner Editor. Sorry Mr A R Cooper of 64832 10 F9 21 66 FE 7D 12 13 = 816 Picture the scene then - you type in your Newcastle-under-Lyme- line 2810 of Part One 64840 7C 12 13 21 8C FE 7D 12 = 731 program in chunks, and put a REM at the top should read COPY, not GOSUB (a small bug 64848 13 7C 12 C9 21 EA FE 01 = 884 of each chunk, as all good programmers do. in my BASIC to ASCII converter - you'll be 64856 OA 00 ED B0 C9 D9 ED 43 = 1145 Inevitably your program soon gets pleased to know that Jon's just acquired a new 64864 C1 FE ED 53 C3 FE 22 C5 = 1447 uncontrollably large, and the only way to one so that this sort of thing will never happen 64872 FE D9 C9 17 26 2D 3C 46 = 908 squeeze in all those much-needed extra lines again... possibly). 64880 75 80 8E FF 21 56 05 11 = 783 is to renumber the program. And then what? AAAAAAAARRGGHHI (to put il bluntly). 64888 46 FF 01 AF 00 ED BO 21 = 947 You don't know where all your subroutines Yes, it's TuneMaker time again. I wish I'd start, that's what. And that's annoying. Of never printed the darn thing now! This 64896 DC FF 11 DA FF 01 1B 00 = 993 course, that's where John's utility comes time it's lines 1530 and 1540 causing the 64904 ED BO 21 D7 FF 36 C3 21 = 1198 in - you just type it in and save it with problems- they ought to read: 64912 DO FD 22 D8 FF 21 CO FD = 1444 SAVE "Filename", and then MERGE it 1530 LET ES=BS+CS+AS PLAY ES 64920 22 4F FF 01 FO F9 11 6B = 982 into your large program, in which you have 1540 LET F5=F$+AS 64928 FD 21 46 FF 1A 13 FE FF = 1165 conveniently left lines 9990 to 9999 empty. Apologies to Wellingborough's own Keith 64936 CA 1CFD D5 E5 16 00 5F = 1042 Type GOTO 9990, and RemList asks you for a Morton for that. And finally, still on the 64944 19 5E 23 56 EB 09 EB 2B = 762 starting line. It then proceeds to search your TuneMaker \heme, another quick explanation 64952 73 23 72 E1 D1 C3 A4 FD = 1310 program for REM lines, and when il finds one it of those symbols that were supposed to help 64960 FB AF D9 ED 4B C1 FE ED = 1639 PRINTS it on the screen (change the PRlNTs you but obviously didn't. 64968 5B C3 FE 2A C5 FE D9 C9 = 1451 to LPRINTs to send the output to a printer), • 1O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 Dabbling in the lucrative (yet dodgy) area of down the phone to my Jr's been yoghurt speculation on the stock market, t seem stock broker, I found out that there was nothing I playing (he stock to have left myself in a bit of a pickle. I've spent all could do about the whole mess. of my hard earned dough on shares - a bit out of So now not only do I have to make this poor pile of markets this my detective league, many people might say. yoghurt a home, but I also have the quite large month. He's I was doing well - buy here, sell there. But problem of having no money to pay for somewhere unfortunately I got lumbered with twelve tons to store it all. In tact, I may have to use the Shed to Riming to become worth ot Crunch Corners, which I've now got to keep it in - although whether or not I can quite fit store somewhere. I took too long selling one batch twelve tons of dairy produce Into something that Kath's fop yoghurt of yoghurt shares, so all of a sudden a large truck small is another question entirely. Until then, I'll work bar°n. Oh dear... with "Yoghurt" painted on the side pulled up on my current files (munching on a couple of Mullar outside my lovely plush detective agency. yoghurts as I go) and try and help you out. By the After going purple, and shouting various words way, anybody fancy a yoghurt? PRINTER PROBS switches at the back with "ON 1-8. ON 1-10". LD HL,tune_address I have a ZX 48K with printer, but I do not know Please could you tell me which ones are LD (initialise+1).HL how to pnnt on it. Could you send me some supposed to be down, right now 3 + 4 are down CALL initialise information on how to work it? and 9+10. I'm at my wit's end - it you don't Where initialise is the 0 Abbot help me I'll have to eat my cat. address of the Preston, Lancsashire C Richardson Soundtracker player L^tc. Thornhi(J, Cwmbran routine, and On the Spectrum, there are tune_address is the three dedicated printer Hmmm. In the words ot a well-known address of the tune you commands that you can use - breakfast TV presenter, "It 's a bit want to play. As for sound FX. LPRtNT. LUST and COPY. trickyl~ Honestly, I don't know about sorry but I cant think ot a program LPRINT sends text to the this one - you've stumped me. So. which can handle them - you could try printer in exactly the same anyone out there willing to give Charles and write your own Bound FX player way that PRINT sends text to a hand? If you do, you'll be rewarded. routine using the info in the back ot the the screen. LUST prints out a Probably in yoghurt. Jr. manual. I suppose. Or if all else fails, you program listing in the same way as LIST, and can pass some of my Crunch Comers COPY will print out a screen shot. On the +2A THE SOUND OF SILENCE around with your program - the sounds of or the *3, COPY EXP wm print out a screen I own a 128k +2.1 have been using Spectrums munching and yoghurt slurping are sure to shot taking into account the screen colours and since 1984 and they are the best in the mask the lack of booms and bleeps. Jr. brightness - giving a shaded grey picture. universe. But the 128+2 has got me beat. This print out can also be inverted (black Amstrad have made the manual so impossible TAPE TO DISK printed as white, and vice versa) using COPY to understand that I am writing to you. Here's ) have recently purchased a Spectrum +3 and EXP INVERSE. Other than using the special my problem. I want to use sound FX in my have been transferring tapes to disk using the printer commands, you can use the normal M/Code programs but I want to use PLAY as Multiface 3. Having now put Tasword 2 on disk, PRINT command to send stuff to the printer by the quality is far superior to BEEP I wondered if there was any way I can alter the putting 03; after the PRINT statement, eg I have looked around for books on the program to save text files onto disk. PRINT 03;1 own too much yoghurt for my own subject, but alas there are none, so could you J Turner good" or LPRINT"and it's not in the fridge please give me some advice, help, or the name North Anston, Sheffield either..." will print the information in quotes to of a good psychiatrist. the printer. Jr. F Walker Two things spring to mind, John -you can Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire either buy the +3 specific version ot Tasword MORE PRINTER PROBS from Tasman (0532 438301), or you can try Hello Spec Tec. I have just purchased a Isn t it your lucky month ? As you 'II see on the and modify all of the LOAD and SAVE second hand Amstrad DMP 2000 which I am cover of this issue, you now have the commands m the Tasword 2 BASIC (my . using with a Date! RAMPrint, my prob compiler for Soundtracker. Hyou version has been converted for use by being that I cannot gel it to print out bought last month's issue (if not, the SAM disk drive, so I can 't help. I'm I anything I've written using try a back issue!) you will also afraid) Put 'A:' in front of all the RAMWrite So I called in a printer have the main Soundtracker SAVE. LOAD and VERIFY specialist and he toid me that it's program, which can satisfy all ot commands, and wherever a filename set up for a BBC. He your musical needs and lis asked for. put CLS:CAT 'A:' before showed me some |i cravings. All you need now is to it in the program - this will pretty safely be able to write music! convert the program for you. If you want more than one tune in tf the SAVE and LOAD commands memory with Soundtracker, but don't want to £ are of the form SA VE a$ CODE... Then you'll have to store the player routine with each have to replace them with SAVE "A:'+a$ tune, find out the start addresses ot all your • CODE... Alt should then be well. Of course. H tunes, and do this: any reader would like to write in with what has YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 2 OTIVfk CRACKED! W- ^ if CO JOYSTICK JAMBOREE In BASIC, this becomes: Even though I did not Cathy Allen has written in to solve 10 LET port=6l438: REM 61438 is keys 6-0, use her actual routine. Cathy a problem of joystick reading on 63486 is keys 1 -5 gets a goodie bag for trying Jr. the 128K machines - as the 48K 20 GOSUB 1000: REM call Sinclair routine would not work. She joystick read routine HIDDEN EXTRAS sent in a routine to do the biz 30 REM rest of proggy t just thought that I would send in these for the 128K machines, but I goes here "functions" for you and everyone else to have decided it would be 1000 LET k=IN port: fiddle around with. Owners of the old 128+2 best to print a universal REM read key port may not be aware of the extra key functions routine. I wrote this one, so 1010 LET k-255-k: REM that were built in when Sinclair was any blame will fall to me. The invert data developing a keypad as an add-on - which problem with compatibility 1020 LET k=k-(32*INT never actually materialised. To use ihese, go between the two machines is (k/32)): REM strip bits 5-7 into 128 BASIC. The useable keys are only that only bits 4-0 on the keyboard ports being 1030 LET fire=0:LET left=0:LET available when you're editing a BASIC line or read are actually of any significance - bits 7 right=0:LET up*0:LET down=0 lines of text. Here's a run down of what keys 5 do not hold any key information at all. 1040 IF k/2 <> INT (k/2) THEN LET fire=1: to press and what they do: Unfortunately, bits 7-5 return different values LET k=k-1 to be done to convert the program (printed or factory set by Amstrad. but sometimes screw very slowly left or written out. please), 111 be glad to include it in (especially after a long lifetime of playing many right until the sound ^ the column. Jr. a Speccy game) It can move out of line. The you hear sounds dear /^f proper angle for It to be is exactly parallel with and slightly tinny. /M LEVEL HEADED the cassette tape, but as this is hard to view, it Then, ft should be I recently bought a second hand Spectrum +2, has to be done by ear. roughly okay ^^H^H and I'm having problems loading some games. The Spectrum 128K (not the +2 or +3) had a loading in games. I d say about 50% of my 100 or so games don't built in tape alignment system (and the +3 and Cleaning the heads will ^B load. Sometimes if I dean the heads in the +2A have it hidden deep inside them - see the work as well, but it Is best ^ Datacorder, I can get some of them to load. Is Cracked! box). But the standard +2 doesn't fo use a commercial head my problem with the Datacorder or does tt just have it. Anyway, the +2's case obscures the cleaning tape than trying the old need a good clean out. If so, could you alignment screw (or at least it does on mine), emergency standby of alcohol recommend a good cleaner? so to adjust it, you'll need to drill a small hole and cotton buds 'Jr. Dave Martin — roughly 1cm below the cassette Birtley, County Durham i window of the casing - ONLY DO THIS IF Weft, Dave, it looks like your | YOUR+2 S tape heads are out of B^ll K GUARANTEE HAS CQfiUHMON THE CASt alignment. To rectify this (and I RUN OUT! This should this is a big problem on the *2), •mSS § give you access to the 3 you'll have to gain access to the alignment screw while 'rem the truck. , h^ toTatX Jav ou^f tS" . mess It took mo |p . / Wt'y ou ofthe 'ing azimuth adjustment screw (a ^A * the tape is playing. Using as h $ he small, cross-haired screw on the mtddie\J a tiny jeweller 's screwdriver (or of Bath is still covered in 11T ** ' 1 head of the cassette recorder). This is similar), play a tape and turn the 1 ve h8d 10 pay Captain Uononev |0,Z " ALL POINTS BULLETIN his Here's a new thing I'm going to phase in - if you have lost the mat sktddinq on Zl^" «*» manual for something, or if you never got one in the first place, let me know and I'll put out a general request in here - and hopefully some reader will be able to supply the goods. O Thomas Leigh needs the instructions for the Zeus Assembler from Crystal Computing His address is: 7 Hickling Walk. Peterborough, PE4 7DL. O Neil Coombes would like an instruction manual for the 128k +2. You can contact complaints orai YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 2 Yes, I'm back again in a sort of spooky way that may suggest that I am, in fact, totally new. However bizarre you may think I am, I've got a programming laundrette to run, and for the next few months there's a special offer on BASIC bedding for crap games with a tumble dry. Let's see if there are any tell-tale tide marks we can set Danny Baker on... Well, seeing as the launderette has just Nintendo beater. Pathetic Pablo Bros. Almost beginning it would run straight into my tea- opened. I've come up with a 'superb' BASIC sounds good, doesn't it? break1 Anyway, to keep your attention running, game to be dissected by myself so you can Wnting a game is a multi-cycle operation, so we'll start with the fun brts. By the way - donl pick up useful tittle techniques. Take them to for the purposes of monthly assistance I've change the line numbers or you'll get stuck heart (no. not Tony Hart?) and you might even decided to chop it up into the fun bits, the less next month. wnte the next Advanced Lawnmower Simulator fun bits and the really horrible bits. Of course, First of alt, the graphics Okay, the prog's a (except with a little gameplay on the side)! it will help a lot if you can already prod around bit dull, but the results are worth it! Type in and Yes. you are about to meet the Speccy's final in BASIC, because if I had to go from the run this... PABLO GRAPHICS This is a little programette to munch all those 1 REM Eleclro Kangaroo by the Phantom 100 DATA 64.64.64,96,176.8,8,248 lovely Pablo graphics into memory. The only REM Messenger 110 DATA 5.5.12.4.14,17.17.31 thing of note is that USR "a* instruction 2 REM Hello! Jon here. Sorry about that. 120 DATA 64,64,192.88,236.2,2.254 hidden away in the code. Dabblers in BASIC Steve has a habit ot doing extremely silly 130 DATA 7.1.10,21,125.134.128.128 will know that the USR command calls a REM messages. He's a student, you see. 140 DATA 240,12.194.33.89.126.103.91 machine-code routine and hence seems a bit out of place in a BASIC programming course. 10 FOR n=USR "a" TO USR "s"+7 150 DATA 128,128.68.58.42.16.12.3 But fear not! USR "a" is a special funclion 20 READ a:POKE n,a 160 DATA 5.21,5.27*2,4,24,224 that points the Speccy at the start of the UDG 30 NEXT n 170 DATA 2,2,2.6,13,16.16,31 (user-defined graphics) area in memory.You 40 SAVE "pablo.gfx" CODE USR 180 DATA 160 160.160.32,192.32.32.224 may be wondering why I don't use UDG T "a ",152: STOP 190 DATA 2.2.3.26,55,64,64.127 and "u" - that's because 128K Speccies don't have 'em. So now you know. By the way, if 50 DATA 15,48,67,132.154,126,230,218 200 DATA you want to see what the graphics look like 60 DATA 224.128,80.168,190.97.1.1 160.160,48.32,112.136,136.248 after running the proglette. go to graphics 70 DATA 162,168.160,216.64.32.24,7 210 DATA 128,128.128.255.8,8,8.255 mode (CAPS+9 on 48K Speccies) and mess 80 DATA 1,1,34.92.84.8,48,192 220 DATA 195.129,129.0.0.0,0,0 around with the keys A to S. Aren't they 90 DATA 5,5.5.4.3,4,4.7 simply wonderful? Please yourselves. 230 DATA 8,8,28.28.62.62.127,127 You should now have a headache and a overweighed by the fact that it looking room and your little Pablo acting packet of Pablo graphics saved to tape or disk. doesn't look like one of those catatonic in a comer. No matter how much you If you play around with them you will notice Game & Watch game! prod the keyboard, he won't move! We ll deal that Pablo is made up of six separate UDGs. Right then, before I run out of with that next month. If you look at the listing, and there is some slightly limited animation of suds I think 1 should give you you'll see it's split into loads of long boxes Join his little pins going 10 to the dozen. If I'm something real to took at. Type this me for some explanatory wibble in these lucky, there will be a teeny picture of him It's Pablo in and save it, as it will be useful as boxes if you get stuck. And then join me again somewhere. Anyway, with a big sprite like this Erm, hurrah! time goes on When you run it, you at the end for a quick explanation about the detection routines can be a bit hard, but this is will be faced with a pretty simple ever so clever way I've encoded the level data MAIN LOOP As Pablo is quite stunningly well-structured, the main loop is only a couple of lines long. These lines calls all the subroutine modules which display the screen, update the 250 INK 7 PAPER 2 RESTORE sprites, move the characters and so on, data for the cornje t leve I: th« dat 6990+level"10:READ aSPRINT then provided you haven't been kitted, loops line 7000 (becau se 699Ill+ t * 10= aS:REM Pnnt platforms around for ever. This month we're just the lines 260 INK 0:PAPER 6:READ aS PRINT displaying the screen, but I thought you'd like to know anyway. a$:REM Print coins 263 INK 1:PAPER 7 READ aS PRINT aS:REM Print spikes 267 READ aSPRINT aS REM Pnnt special things determines 270 RESTORE 6998+level* 10:READ where Pablo x.y.dir is going to 280 RETURN 1O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 STATS T ^ This module prints the border around the Graphic Shift 3s,Graphic Shift 2}*;TAB 12.31 '{Graphic R}';AT 13,31;' ":AT main game screen • you know, the one l7;"{Graphic Shift 7,12 Graphic Shift that's filled with all the boring stuff like how 14,31;" 3s.Graphic Shift 2}' many lives you've got. and what your pitifully 1060 INK 7:PRINT AT 16,0 :REM 1090 REM Display lives low score actually is. Stuff Itke that. Note the clears bottom ol screen (very sneaky') incredibly clever use of block graphics (cos I 1100 FOR n=19 TO 21 :PRINT AT 1070 REM Stats printing ran out of UDGs!). n,1/{Graphic Shift 5}';TAB 12/{Graphic 1080 PRINT AT 17,1;'{Graphic Shift 5}":NEXT n 4,10 Graphic 3s,Graphic 7}':TAB 1000 REM Border build up 1110 FOR n=2 TO hves'2 STEP 2 21 /{Graphic Shift 4,4 Graphic 1020 BORDER 0:PAPER 7:INK 0:CLS 1120 PRINT AT 20.n/{Graphtc 3s,Graphic 7}";AT 18,1;'{Graphic Shift 5} 1030 PAPER 2.INK 7:PRINT AT A,Graphic B}*;AT 21 ,n/{Graphic Pablos {Graphic 5}";TAB 21/{Graphic 0,0;'{32 Graphic Qs}";AT 15,0/{32 C.Graphic D) Shift 5}S {Graphic 5}';AT Graphic Qs}" 1130 NEXT n 19.21/{Graphic Shift 7.4 Graphic Shift 1040 FOR n=1 TO 14:PRINT AT 1140 REM Display others 3s.Graphic Shift 2}";AT 20,17;"{Graphic n,0;'{Graphtc Q}*;AT n,31 ;"{Graphic 1150 PRINT INK 7;PAPER 0:AT Shift 4.12 Graphic 3s.Graphic 7}';AT Q}":NEXT n 21,25:score:AT 18,23;coins 21,17/{Graphic Shift 5}Score: {Graphic 1050 INK 2:PAPER 0:PRINT AT 1160 RETURN 5}';#0;AT 0,1/{Graphic Shift 7,10 THE INITIAL. VARIABLESk A PRINT PABLO Here's where we define the variables and This is the most complicated bit ol this 3000 IF dir=-1 THEN GO TO 3100 start the ball rolling. Pablo begins on Level month's instalment. It prints Pablo on the 3010 PRINT INK 0;PAPER 7;AT One. with no score or coins, five lives and a screen, taking into account his x and y y,x/{Graphic A,Graphic B}";AT state of complete non-jumpiness. Later on position, and the direction in which he's y,x+1/{Graphic C.Graphic D}';AT we'H add a load more exciting variable facing. Note that the bit about IF x/2=INT names, but for the moment just be thankful (x/2) - this uses the Specc/s integer y+2.x;:IF x/2=INT (x/2) THEN PRINT INK for what you've got. function (which returns a whole number, 0;PAPER 7/{Graphic G.Graphic eg INT 4.5=4) to add a bit of animation to H}":RETURN our Pablo Brother. At every second 3020 PRINT INK 0:PAPER 7/{Graphic position, we'll print his legs open as E,Graphic F}":RETURN opposed lo closed. And bingo! He should appear to walk 3100 PRINT INK 0;PAPER 7;AT y.x/{Graphic I,Graphic J}';AT y+1 ,x/{Graphic K.Graphic L}';AT ERASE PABLO y+2.x;:IF x/2=INT (x/2) THEN PRINT INK This routine erases our friend Pablo from 0;PAPER 7/{Graphic O,Graphic the screen. Basically. P}":RETURN 3110 PRINT INK 0;PAPER 7/{Graphic M.Graphic N}":RETURN ^^^^ a n ywa y ' Shriek! We seem \ to have run out of stale \ LEVEL DATA odours to remove. Join me, Have a took in the back of your manual lor a 22+CHRS 12+CHRS 1+"{4 Graphic Mid Glamorgan's answer to full explanation about PRINT AT codes, but Qs}*+CHRS 22+CHRS 13+CHRS 5+"{4 Dot Cotton, next month when basically all those CHRS 22s and things tell Graphic Qs}"+CHRS 22+CHRS we'll explore controls and a the Speccy to print the succeeding characters 14+CHRS 9+*{4 Graphic Qs}' bit of detection, and you'll be at certain points on the screen. Another able to see Pablo wander labour-saving programming device there! 7002 DATA CHRS 22+CHRS 2+CHRS aimlessly around a screen Line 7006, the blank bit o' data is used as an 30+CHRS 127+CHRS 22+CHRS Sounds too A end-of-level marker, and the next line bungs 11+CHRS 1+CHRS 127:REM CHRS good to be true! / 7 Pablo at position 1,1 facing right. In the 127=copyright sign game, we just RESTORE to the right level. 7004 DATA CHRS 22+CHRS 15+CHRS 7000 DATA CHRS 22+CHRS 4+CHRS 2l+"{Graphic S}" l+'{26 Graphic QsJ'+CHRS 22+CHRS 7006 DATA " 8+CHRS 4+"{27 Graphic QsJ'+CHRS 7008 DATA 1,1.1 1O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 After a break last month to make room ripped from a game, so we'll gloss over it. for the Soundtracker Instructions, (Hem hem.) All in all. a very Public House returns with a competent piece of coding, but a vengeance. And a couple of demos. rather boring demo. But no Brtt special. Hee hee heel Madneaa Remix Look, it's not my fault. Okay, a couple of Brit by X-Terminator of The Mad Guys PD libraries have sent in lists of programs, but Slightly naughty to date only one has actually sent a sample With nary a Nutty Boy in sight, this is a rather tape. Tsk. Erm... so I guess I'll have to dive sweet and unpretentious four-part demo. It's back to my pile of PD from across the waters. another celebration-of-the-scrolly demo. Part (Sounds of someone diving back into his pile One has a smooth bitty message sliding along of PD from across the waters.) A-hal A couple while a single line jumps up and down ol demos from The Mad Guys and Pentagram, enthusiastically in time to the music. Part Two plus a new group called SSC. They'll do nicely. is a neatly-presented greetings section, with ^ incf^W* bio yrfow' By the way. you'll notice I'm now giving lurching-out-of-the-ground text and a very nice demos a certificate rating as well as a score. If fill-in-the-logo-drawing effect. (Don't Eel the demo contains bad language or by BZYK of Pentagram objectionable sentiments, I'll give it a Naughty' Highly un-naughty rating. Better safe than sorry, eh? The original Soundtracker demo (apparently programmer BZYK released this demo at the The Bete Ha 128K same time as his music prog), this is a by SSC collection of songs with a surprisingly lively Rather naughty front end. There are five songs, each with a It's enough to make you seethe with jealousy. different(ish) graphic demo. Lots of pulsing About three-quarters of the way through the keyboards and sine-wave scrollies cleverly laid mindbogglingly long scrolly that features in this over music staves are the order of the day, demo, the author casually admits it's his first along with a nice soup and some crackers, all machine-code program. Talented swine. although these culinary items are not (Ahem.) Bateria (good name, eh? Is it some integrated with the demo (Oh dear. Ed) highly obscure foreign word? Did they mean to Mindlessly pleasant - following the wriie Bacteria? Hours of funl) is a three-part wibbly scrolly is a bit like watching demo, the first part of which is a tidy intro, and Or I, * Hnd<*crimi those strange goldfish videos. the last part of which is a load of programming credits. The interesting bit is Part Two - a large sine-wave scrolty wibbling above a graphic of a stereo tape deck. But this tape baffle us with all these technical terms. Ed) deck is more than just a pretty picture. Part Three has three single-height scrollies (a (Dramatic, eh?) By using a couple of control bit like Pokerama, actually) with some flashing keys you can last-forward and rewind through lights and whizzy colour bars, while Part Four the various music tracks available. Ha ha! has a pseudo-3D scrolling chessboard effect (Please yourselves.) that's pretty eye-wrecking. It also has a The songs are all a bit poor. Except for one completely horrible scrolly - the thing's been very near the end of the tape - but that's been written in pidgin English with phrases like put yer eyez on da rite-hand site of de zkreen.' Ugh. My third complaint is the loader - it even pulis the old 'R Tape loading error' gag. How Close MOUI quaint. But! I like it. A1 ** Enm. Th. m*** on. • eues anfc Qraflx Bank One predate to by Vision of The Mad Guys rWU Not at all naughty Eve ... Oh dear. Well, I guess it had to happen T sometime: a poor demo. Gratix Bank One is a collection of eight graphic screens, with a music track and a bouncy scroll. Erm, and yourty***™ prop*"1 Mooono, ** *> that's it. Oh! Actually, there are only seven good book pwtwp* • fctoHl****" graphic screens (the eighth wouldn't fit in btav.' Th*r» nw*1 memory). And the music is incredibly TOTAL PD GIVES IT UP SHOCK! repetitive, and the scrolly message really Yup, Steve Launderette' Anderson, the chap doesn't go anywhere. Overall, about as behind Total PD has passed the whole entertaining as tying a bit of string to a caboodle over to the well-established Brit stick, Ihen bouncing the stick up and library Prism PD. Send a sae to 13 Rodney down in an entirely unentertaining Close, Bllton, Rugby CV22 7HJ lor details. sort ol way. YOUR SINCLAIR It's a busy season for Hutch at the moment, so he's left Linda to deal with your probs all by herself. Let's see how she gets on... GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS! UNINTENTIONALLY my only chance Is a friend who obviously a good person with like 99.9% of the people who EMBARRASSING knows him well I was previously plenty ot friends You noticed write to this page, \ have o Last Easter I went on a school told by this same friend to wait that this bloke was problem with the female sex holiday and made lots of new a month or so tor him to cool embarrassed by your presence You see. I have recently met friends. When I saw them again down. I did this and he still and so you left him atone (for want of o better word) this at school they were all just as won't talk to me. showing unselfishness and a gtri (let's call her Tanya, os that is friendly os before. Although I I am very frustrated as I regard for his feelings. her name) whom I fancy didn't realise it at the time, one cannot even speak to him to You've shown quollties that Although l have tried to open of them started hating me apologise I have never fallen this other bloke doesn 't up a conversation with her by more and more I was naive at out with anybody this badly possess. You have done making funny comments. I get the time and unintentionally before - and I don't want to absolutely nothing wrong and I nothing in response. Women just embarrassing him In front of his slart now Haylp* know it 's horrible falling out don't seem to talk to me The classmates. As soon as I knew A YS fan with people but I think your most a got from Tanya was a how annoyed he was. I best bet is to forget about him smile, and that was when I stopped I think you re being tar too nice In time he might decide that made a serious statement! Now If I even walk past him about this very horrible it's okay to talk to you. That'll I have never hod many he will make offensive gestures business. Some people iust be his gain and, 'til that day. fnends of either sex, let alone a with his hands He is avoiding aren 't very nice, and this bloke you re not losing anything g :tfriend. The problem is that I me completely and I feel thai sounds like one ot them You 're Linda am not what you would call handsome; In fact. Quasimodo is better looking than I (and that the easter hols we agreed to 4 I don't know how many times I going out with my mate The is no joke) i am also shy, but Is write to one another, but she have to make the following other day, her best friend came this any excuse for having no only wrote two letters and I point, but here It is again. .. JUST up to me and told me that good friends of the female wrote ten. I really like her and I'd BE YOURSELF. Girts can see Diane really regrets chucking variety? How does somebody like to ask her out. but I think I through most fakes at 500 yards. me and thinks she would go out with my problems go about came on too strong in my letters Some of them get through, but with me again. But my friend chatting up a nubile young as I haven't heard from her In rest assured they don t last very realty cares obout her, and I wench Please, please, please months. What should I do? long after that. think she does about him, I don't can you help me? I see other AYS fan 5. Love yourself. If you don 7 know what to do because if I such sod specimens of the Belfast think you 're a fun kind of guy to asked her out now I've been human race as myself with be around then how can you told that she'll say yes. gorgeous girls all fhe time How There were about six letters Just expect anybody else to. If But I really don't want to lose do they do it? like these two this month, I've you're bored by your own or upset my friend. A Rolling Stones fan with bigger picked these two so we can company then do something Please print this because I Hps than Mick Jogger maybe get this subject over with about It cos other people are desperately need some advice. - at least for a whilel Here are a going to get twice as bored Andy Please help. When I left primary few points to bear in mind... twice as quickly. You re on Blackpool school I went on to an all boys' J. Girls are not monsters. In fact, Important person and oneddy one I am now in the fifth form like spiders, they are just as other people will realise It It Now either this Diane is very and I don't have a girlfriend - In scared of you as you are of takes time, but it'll happen. confused, or she's o bit of a fact. I've hardly spoken to a girl them. They're just better at Linda meame. Either way, what's to since I joined the school. I have hiding it. stop her saying yes if you ask her no self-confidence at all. I get 2 A girl In the street is not a COURAGE out again, only to drop you the ready embarrassed when nubile young wench, and if she About eight weeks ago. I asked next day? I think you should trust walking past a group of people, heard you call her that she d a girl out called Diane, it had your own Judgement on this especially girts. Girls never take probably give you a well- taken me about a month to one. You sound like you 're fully any notice of me, Maybe it's deserved slap. work out the courage to ask her aware of your responsiblitles If because I'm not very good 3. Most girts do not, despite the out so you can Imagine my relief you think that both your best looking Well maybe I look okay posters on their walls, fall for six when she said yes, I thought friend and Diane are happy, As you can probobly tell, I'm foot blonds with jaws of sfeel. everything was fine, but the next then leave very confused. Personality is important. What girt day she chucked me for them to it if ChilctLine J do know one girl. I've known in her right mind would want a apparently no reason I was not. well, just her since we were three vain, small-minded and boastful really upset. do what you because our parents go on kind of chap for a boyfriend - The problem is that I still fancy think s best holiday to the same place After even if he was an Adonis? her. even though she's now Unda oeoo tut Whatever the problem, it always helps to tell somebody about it. Write to the Ed, Your Sinclair, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2BW. 1O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 STREETUS Gold arcadFIGHTERe game in the country. An 2 « 021 625 3388 • amazingly violent beat-'em- up, it features twelve They say Street Fighter 2 is fighters, thirty-six fighting tough. Well, if you take a moves and more secret modes than you could piece of tough leather and shake a jolly mouse at. And soak it in vinegar for three - spook! - the world-famous weeks, then beat it vigorously especially-in-Birmingham US against an iron fence and lay it in Gold are grabbing it by the scruff of a busy street for a day and a night, the neck and bringing their not inconsiderable weight to bear attempting to you're probably JON PILLAR, cram it all into the 128K Speccy. (Sorry who's just gullible enough to do 48Kers - go and have a couple of games of this preview for us while we knock IK'+ to settle your nerves.) off for a bag of chips We've seen it - and it works! We've gol hold of a top-secret playable demo of the coin-op conversion they An Extremely Silly said (rather foolishly considering the Interview number of times they've said it before Hello, and welcome to the Mistaking Two and the number of times they've been Wandering Minstrels For The Programmers proven wrong, by Midnight Resistance Of Street Fighter 2 interview. So. are you two for example) couldn't be done,' which chaps the programmers of Street Fighter 2? allows you to play Honda (a very tough No. we're a pair of wandering minstrels. man) or Chun-Li (a very tough woman). B-bye. As you can see from the deliciously monochrome screenshots. we are talking including the bizarre ones big graphics. No, hang on. BIG (such as Honda's GRAPHICS. That's better. Not only are extending arm or Chun- they BIG, they're fast. No, hang on, Li's spinning horizontal ffffffffffffffffast. And (afler taking advice dive). So we could well from several coin-op fans) it seems all the be set lor the best ever fighting moves are there - beat-'em-up to appear on the Speccy - Hello nature lovers everywhere! I've been if the payability can match the given the job of previewing presentation. Gardensoft's new game. Obviously there s a long way to go Advanced before the game's finished (they've gol Lawnmower to put in the other fighters and loads ol Simulator background graphics tor a start), but a Featuring W quick whtzz around this demo version Scribo. and a provides a fair bit o' fun. The Speccy demo copy's just doesn't mess around and goes straight loading now. (Quite lor the throat (or the stomach, or a long pause.) Well. whatever other soft fleshy bits you've It seems today's my day not had the sense to guard). As usual, for surprises, doesn't it? the two-player mode looks the best of (Shuffles badly disguised Street Fighter 2 all, and if you've got a couple ot Street preview notes carefully prepared by Linda Fighter 2 experts, it gets very jolty before leaving lor a bag of chips.) O-kay. indeed. (Apparently most, it not all ol (Cough.) Here we go then. . InrtM1 l InUOduCtK* »« F,ns w* no * J^o^'""" ^ sm^M^ the secrety bits will appear in the Street Fighter 2, as those wastrels among Speccy version.) It shows promise, as you will know, is currently the number one an they say. We awail the finished game with Meet the man who because they 're really pushing the machine. Impatience, a small terner found wandering the streets Of Bath. Remember folks, a dog is not knows everything Oh dear. So the game's a bit duff then? Nononono. It's an incredibly playable game - just for Christmas. (Hello! Anyone fancy a Not being avid arcade players, we in the Shed what with all those moves, all those chip? Ed) had to enlist outside help with this preview opponents and everything. Enter The Man Who Knows Everything (And Phew, that's a relief. What you're saying, Plays A Mean Game Ol Cricket To Boot). then, is that it's a pretty good arcade game, Game Attack of the Inflatable Hello, The. but a massively impressive computer game? Spiders (Stop lying. 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(If possible, please • Competitive fixed prices. include a daytime telephone number and fault * Up to 20 qualified technician ensineers at description). your disposal. • Amstrad registered. * If you require 24 hour courier to your door, please • Spectrum 48k: C21.00 • Spectrum 128K: £24.00 add £5, else your computer will be sent back by * Spectrum +2: £29.00 contract parcel post. • Spectrum +3 £35.00 (excludlns disk drive replacement) (WTS reserve the right to refuse machines that in our opinion are beyond reasonable repair) * Sam Coupe £15.00 (diagnosis + quote) Chapter One then pulled off the marble disguise, U m true She tapped H with a fork to The knock on the door ot Tracy Emolument'ent's pulled on a pair ot Groucho HESsx- demonstrate, and sure enough it office woke the tamous private investigatotor glasses and pulled out a picture MfSSj^ warbled unpleasantly You see. they from her afternoon nap As she leapt intoD a a of an egg. His name's Dizzy, he pulled a broken egg out of thn n/er standing position, the door flew open and aa explained He's a repulsive oik '' fl •SB this morning. His head had been man disguised as a fly poster strode in. with no imagination who gets people W « y W smashed in and a damp piece of Taking the only available chair, he returneled a hooked on his games. Allegedly.' ^^ bread thrust inside You obviously few moments later and sat provocatively on Tracy took the picture and studied it - came here to put me off the scent but I'm the edge ot Tracy's desk. Ms Emolument?it?"' closely. He's Iried to change his image 6 & afraid the game s up Mr Pillarf Twitching he breathed huskily. Tracy nodded and recently.' continued Taploin, knitting a his disguise away. Tracy struck the errant handed him a lozenge which he swalloweed sweater But you can tell it's him staff writer with a postcard collection m one gulp and three peculiar digestive nonetheless.' Tracy's eyes narrowed. So depicting old musical films. Curses! Folhed noises 'My name.' he continued, ripping why do you want to lind him?" she asked again,' he groaned miserably, and slumped away the poster to reveal the handsomelyly- hitting herself on the side of the head until untidily to the floor , chiselled, statuesque features of Taploin swam back into focus. The shadowy Michelangelo's David, 'is J Harlan clieni had dispensed with the Groucho Chapter Two Taplom, and I've a missing person I'd T^fJmjl ^ glasses and was now squatting inside a Seymour was washing his hands when the like you to find.' large box labelled Cogmto.' call came through. Hello! CodeMasters here He spoke with an irritating Tve become known as Dizzy's How would you like calm, and although Tracy , tffes jB :hief opponent.' Taploin answered, to star in our tried brushing his hair the ^ rather muffled. Obviously, now remake of Dizzy wrong way the mysterious he s disappeared, Cm the S?' He put client remained unruffled V number one suspect But I'm aside his Who's the missing person?' nnocent! And I want you to clear my blunted axe and asked the detective, swinging her f§ sullied name.' smiled. (To be legs onto the desk and falling over. An interesting story.' murmured continued in the Taptoin regarded her with amusement». *W* Tracy. But I'm afraid it doesn t quite ring law courts) jUUUUKM MSKEIMU Zeppelin £3.99 crafty bit ot variety, there are also strategy w 0913 857755 lineups when the ball goes out of play. Phew. eh'7 We'll be putting on our immense floppy Speccy basketball games shorts and running around with All-Amencan have been a bit thin on the Basketball next month. (Well, I think that went ground. There was one from off rather well. Do you think they spotted I've Imagine [WorldSeries Basketball. never played basketball in my life?) (Oh, no. or something), one from Ariolasott (One-on- Hassled Ed) One) and. of course. Dinamic's spanky Basket Master. Now. chugging in to join the (very small) pack, is Zeppelin's Ail-American Basketball Hurrah! Or is it? (How do we know? We haven't seen the game yet. Stop asking such silly questions. Honestly.) stood beck In enllelpelton. Jerry *»« a rcB In the tradition of footy games everywhere, AAB (as we call it in a trendy acronym sort of way) features details of real teams, so you can emulate your hoop hero and do clever basketbally things. (Someone could do with brushing up on their sporting terms. Ed) Boasting play by American rules knocks ff^t, and a clamber-up-the-ladder-of-success tournament option, AAB also has a two-player mode and (and! And!) a dinky referee who toddles around the pitch (Court. Ed) I •— xv m=m. I dispensing swift sporting justice. Game All-American Basketball The game itself is (as far as we can tell) a Publisher Zeppelin run-along-a-bit-then-press-fire-to-lob-the-bail- Price £3.99 to-another-player affair with the Speccy taking Programmer Iexpecl so control of the rest of the team. (Your powers of Release Date November description are commendable. Ed) To add a Research No *«"nc^n*, by m. YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 YS/CODEMASTERS COMPETITION A JVC GHETTO BLASTER AND TEN GOODY BAGS It's true! The Codies are so chuffed you might like these goodies. It we with Dizzy's latest adventure that had them in the Shed they'd only they've gone completely distract people and we don't overboard and offered us oodles of want loads of people from other prizes. If you turn back a few pages mags coming Into our Shed and you'll find a review of Crystal ploying with our goodtesl Kingdom Dizzy. You'll find everything you need to know there Yes Pleasel Now as for these prizes, we've What we've got is a nice big tape already got a nice wireless In the recorder, a clothes horse and Shed, and we can get all the radio for the luckiest person out goodies we want. So. after a brief A DOTHM ITOTM there. (One of these objects of think over the coffee and desire is a red herring!) For the chocolate Hob Nobs, we thought runners-up. we've got ten bags full of Codies stuff, one for the big • We've got a couple of highly-trained sniffer eggs that con smell a Future Publishing or winner and one eoch for nine other lucky CodeMasters employee with their noses blocked. So keep away from our compo. you peeps. employees! These bags are really special! We re • The closing date is the 15th of December All entries received after that date will be going to absolutely pack them with ceremoniously soaked In pickled egg liquid, goodies - Mini Eggs, pickled eggs, • Anybody caught sending In multiple entries (ie - more than one) will never be allowed preserved eggs, curried eggs, poached. to enter a YS compo ever again. (No we re not Ed) Oh okay, no't curried • Linda can eat more curried eggs in one sitting than anybody else - so her word Is final eggs But you will get a weH smart Dizzy clock, mug and T-shirt, and some pickled eggs. (Maybe) To: 'If Dizzy's Head 1$ Spinning, What Are His Legs Doing." Compo, YS Compos. 29 Monmouth Street. Batti Avon BAl 2DL Let me est ttl Just look at all those Dizzy characters Do Number One is Number Two is . you recognise them? If you do. you could Number Three Is Number Four is be in with a chance. Simply write the correct name next to the corresponding From: number and post your entry. Make sure It 's here by the 5th of December 1992 and you've followed oil the rules, put a stamp on It and send it off to "if Dizzy 's Head is Spinning, What Are His Legs Doing?' Postcode Compo, YS Compos. 29 Monmouth Street. Bath. Avon BAl 2DL. Good luckl 1 O YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Not that pirates have anything to do with Replay this month of course. But we're like that. Captain Dynamo There's a lot more to playing Captain Dynamo than making your way upwards, collecting the SUPER ALL- diamonds and surviving long STARS enough to reach the end of the CodeMasters £12.99 cassette level (as Jon pointed out in his » 0926 814132 review). It's about skill, it's about The tunny thing with... no. In all timing, it's about having a good my years as a top journalist I have sense of balance It's about never... oh look, just how do you reaching an obstacle, say a introduce a compilation? You rotating blade, and due to a lack of know how much it costs and who skill, a bad sense of timing, and no publishes it (it says above), and sense of balance, dying. And then you know whats on it (see below). you know what to do next time or, And then I sum up whether it's more likely, what not to do. worth getting at the end. It's just The game is based entirely all so predictable... around this concept, with lots of obstacles (spikes, moving Turbo the Tortoise enemies, water) and lots of things Well, It's your baste elephant carrying an umbrella shot, tanl It? So ItTi have a abort With a "94% Your Sinclair" sticker to help (moving hooks, booster atory Instead. Eric was alone In the old dark house, watting lor the others lo come beck proudly glued on under its title, pads and apparently secret from the library. He sal in front of ihe roaring lire and read his book. mlndM ol every Utile you can probably guess that we levels). The graphics are a bit creak and squeak from the locked room upstairs. Suddenly he moved to Kent. Hie End. quite liked Turbo when it first gameplay. but also loves the little egg. in which case came out. Six time zones lie all the same let's just say that Dizzy 4 is ahead for our amphibious hero to problems. Number absolutely bnltiant as well. The battle through in a (kind of) Super one fault is the puzzles may be obvious, the Mario Land sort ol way. in other horrible jerky graphics basic and the sound words by jumping from platforms, scrolling which crap. But this is a Dizzy game, you squashing baddies and collecting tends to make your knew that, and you love them So collectables. The gameplay really eyes go a bit funny, here's another one. is that simple - simple, predictable and number two is 77% and probably programmed in ihe unconvincing about a week. And. judging by my inertia conveyed by I'll -def i nitely-get- past- level • three- your character, a next-time experiences, (which just problem common to goes to show that to review these many platform things I don't just look at the box games. I mean, just and read a previous review - er, Didn't Spangles have bio S s on them? I used to like look at what they Spangles. They were aver so firry In your mouth. Or were oops) it's also addictive as hell. those Refreshers? IThere there. Have aome cocoa Ed) were doing with the 85% Magic Knight series tiddly, and far and Rick Dangerous years ago. But luckily Dizzy had his water wings and too slow, but Besides this. CJ in the USA is a everything was okay (The original version otherwise Cap still a fun little outing, if rather ot this caption hat been censored Ed) D is a great little obvious budget material. Steg game. 74% Linda's reviewed this one over on 83% page 15. Y'see. it's being released Magicland Dizzy as a single game and as pan of a CJ in the USA It has to be said, they are really all compilation. She reckons it's a The main the same.-aren'rthey? And, just Megagame. so that bumps up the problem with while we're on the subject, you score a bit. this game is have to admit that there were As to whether or not I reckon that it is almost better games than the Dizzy you should buy this identical to its series years ago on the Speccy. compilation, well predecessor, even on budget. And there hasn't why not?" Rich meaning that even been much of a notable not only has it improvement or hint of new Trwbor the Tortoise, ah? So he must be lesponalble tor all thosinheritee d exactly inspiration over the series. Yet, 0 lovely sweets I enjoyed as a youngster. Old people were respected the same well, who cares? Everybody (else) back then, you know. (There there. Have tome medication. Ed) YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 2 of the tram with the colour of the As well as matching up colours. child places them just right, if ihe A trio of tasty tapes for the station and press stop when the Ihe idea here is to work out how shapes are |ust a tittle off-centre youngster in your life! train passes the station of the many people are on the train by then the computer will insist same colour working out the additions and theyre wrong when they are m Fun School 2 Pick a Letter - This is a more subtractions that the computer fact right difficult version of Shape Snap 5hopping Food The Hit Squad/C3 99 each Using four keys. Ihe idea is to find cassette only the match for the letter at ihe v 061 832 6633 bottom of the screen from the There are eight programs on rows ot letters at Ihe lop of the each Fun School tape. They're all screen Using the keys, the little written in BASIC and are easy to teddy is moved onto the matching C »rr t follow Alt are specially designed letter and then carries it to the to help children understand y®. . colours, shapes, numbers and It s a strange shopping list. I Ms one. Well Ite not carry!, or carrel, or even letters What's more, all the Especially Ihe singular shoe laee. In tact. carrel. Maybe it's cerrat. No. no. no -1 It's misleading - you can only buy shoe knowl It's one ol them lonu orange thinq& programs have been playtested laces in pairs Actually. • a caroto! No. a carrot) Hurrah' by children both at school and at home You can be sure thai any displays on screen. Caterpillar - It's hangman1 If the child is not only having fun and Shopping - A shopping list word is guessed within the letter learning how to use a computer appears on screen, followed by a limit, the caterpillar gets a nibble. they are also developing, or row of shops The child has to go Number Jump - This program polishing, useful skills Good dd Teddy' Thanks to his valuable through the list, guiding the frog works as a multiplication aid The due end tha picture |u«l above, we'll have into the shop that sells the frog has to reach the other side ol this word spell In no time at all r* For the Under-6& obviously bop' (You r* In rirlfnhon Jon) necessary item. This is an the screen by jumping on certain Shape Snap - Simply press the exercise that can easily be lily pads. If, for example, the space bar if the shapes are bottom of the screen carried on outside with real lists multiple is two the frog cannot identical, or any other key if Spell a Word - The objects are and shops. lump on odd numbers. It's they're not. The shapes are bright simple enough for the age range Maths Maze - Here, the child challenging and. like all the and colourful making the whole and. as with all the other has to guide the frog through the programs, perfect for the target exercise more like a game than programs, success bnngs a maze until the robot guards are age group actually learning. sense of achievement. reached. The guards then set a Find the Mole - A lun nurWSei* For the Ovor-Sa game The sweet little mote is WWf T&WBuild a Bridge - A shape fitting hiding behind one of the five exercise which makes you think. motehills on screen. Any child will Passage of Guardians - This is have fun making him pop up. ft more my line - anagrams. I Teddy Count - Little I eddies understand words. Parents or nicely drawn, march around Ihe teachers can even add their own screen and then stand in tine. anagrams. Simply count them. As wilh all the Unicorn - A logical maze game games in the Fun School series, that will tax those brain cells if an answer is correct the reward Logic Doors - Oh dear, this is is a little fanfare. where it starts getting difficult Write a Letter - Using the teddy When it comes to maths and logic bear cursor, the child can tap in I am a complete dunce This Is a whatever they want Parents or complicated game and I hope the teachers can then check it. or over-8s are more logical than me even pnnt it out The child can do Souvenirs - Easier malhs here nothing wrong on this one as A good intro to foreign currencies there are no rules As it's up to Code Boxes - This one seems somebody else to check any N you go down to tr i wood* today, you're in tor a big surprise H you go down to the to have something to do with mistakes, this program offers the woods May. you'd I ffler go In disguise Why' Cos the teddy bears are having a picnic! binary number systems. Agh> chance tor some interaction Why wasn't I taught these things Colour Train - An exercise in Teddy Bears' Picnic - Using the maths problem which has to be Mystery Machine - This is like colour. The train changes colour keys, the child has to guide little answered in order to continue. one of those IO tests where you as it goes around the track and teddy through the trees and Treasure Hunt - As an have to work out sequences to the child has to match the colour bushes to his picnic rug at the introduction to co-ordinates, this get passwords. Erm, i think I'd bottom ot the is a very helpful program. The better go and enrol in some screen The keys Child has to guess in which evening classes Sob' used are Z, X. K square the treasure is hidden and M. but it might The computer helps with clues of The Fun School senes is well / fTTTT , ?, , be a good idea to the hot. cold, very hot vanety. worth looking into In fact, it's very trn* draw arrows on Bounce - Now t found this nearly a Megagame stickers and place exercise in angles quite difficult. Unfortunately, being BASIC, the them over the The idea is to shoot a ball so that programs are quite slow to keys. it bounces off at certain angles respond to key presses, and. tor and hits an apple. It's the same young children, this could be very For 6-8 pnnciple that guides a snooker frustrating Linda year olds ball off the cushions, and it's Number Train - A ternbly tricky! more difficult Packing - The frog has to be As Hie blue train made its torturous way u wards them, me vanatl0n ^ (he guided onto certain shapes, pick bhie people hoped and prayed thai they 'd all ft! on together They haled being spM up. them up and pack them into a train game central shape. Make sure that the mentioned above. YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 2 Pictionary another paragraph, let's have a wrappers. An look at this Pictionary thing. hour later, the The Hit Squad/E3.99 cassette Pictionary the board game was, party would Si tr 061 832 6633 I am reliably informed, all the rage have broken up, Oh dearie dearie me, what a a few years back. It was the son the Pictionary complete and utter waste of time. of game that misguided parents cards would be \ I'm sorry if I sound a bit negative, bought their children in a strewn all over \ Cit ban* I «v*l desperate bid to the floor and \ ^ get them to play none of the ¥7 something guests would be Cll ^ J«r l*i| mi tMf i educational. It on speaking i\ i Collect terms. That's was. in fact, a a em en drunk yuppie's what kind of ' t ? . . _ CTuR15T-Coapyt«r Tine © sg game. You can board game TO GUESS -BLflKE TYPE ObjlCl just imagine the Pictionary was. No matter how hard you try, you can never draw a picture as good box being Pictionary the as this. The computer has an unlair advantage. But than, so have bought to the computer game you - you can lie! dining table and is even worse. dropped At first it looks as if you're going to what's the point. I really cannot amongst the have a bit of fun as the initial see why anybody would buy this wine glasses screen is set out like a boardgame game. If you like the idea of and mint and there's a die and Ihen it gets drawing ihen you'd be a million H actually look* qulta good, doesn't It. Il's on to the picture- times better off with any art a theme that you're about to be massively disappointed drawing bit. package you can get hold of. Phooey! This is This really is the most banal but I've |ust spent part of my where it really thing I've played in ages If you're afternoon playing the computer starts falling apart. considering buying this game and version of Pictionary. it was a You have to guess playing on your own against the stupid thing to do, I could have what picture the compuier - don't It's a stupid been doodling away on the back computer's drawn, thing to do. Even drunken yuppies of an envelope and I would have you don't even won't enjoy this one - by the time contributed more to have to tap in an it's finished loading, they'll have the world's pot of answer. The fallen asleep. common computer prints A truly useless knowledge. the word and then game. Linda Harumph! asks whether you Anyway, that's This rather charming sketch actually started life as a bed it la got it right or enough moaning now a moon looking on a grand piano In a with slrlpey wrong. You could for at least wallpaper. be honest, but UH I'AltHAM M H I AY AM All M!T 512K SAM* DISK *SAMTAPE 4M - £200. PHONE FOK VISA OTHER PRICES 2NI> DRIVE, INTERFACES, MOUSE. I MB MEMORY. SAMBI S, ETC;. SAHIUf 4H MAKES SAM ACT AS SPECTRE.M FANTASTIC FILE COPYING, DISK -THE' SPECCY EMI IATOR £11.99 REPAIR, ETC. "ESSENTIAL" - A11.99 SAH TOMnr AM) HAH ASSEMBLER 3 1NCL DISASSEMBLER, MONITOR. <•* COLUMN SCREEN. 256*512K VERSIONS. ETC ETC £10.99. SAM TOOLKIT INCLUDES ASSEMBLER J * REVERSE . 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Skimmer Undium.FireJ A YOUR SINCLAIR Dec 1992 a ncr#m and venerable Ms Pacman. One magnificent eight pages.) Still, should be hundrag levels of twisting corridors and sneaky popular with all those disk mag peeps eager to dead eids, ghosts, power pills and bonus fruit cure those drifting apostrophes. will score*®! the nostalgia scale if nothing else. Potential: There are a couple of neat new ideas throwrflinto the pot - fater screens have E-Tracker loCSftecJ doors, and you have to £30 cc • ' Vsys to get Into that bit of ESI's answer to Speccy Soundtracker, E- "the maze, and TstlH love that Tracker is a six-channel music program that multiple exit tunnel feature *where promises 1o knock the friendly-but-limited Jyou don't know where the tunnel ^ Sound Machine into an unfashionably cocked [you're following will take you. It plays why • haUooptar? Thares soma deep psychological raaeon behind it, no doubt about it Or perhap* the hat. People familiar with Soundtracker (or any smoothly, but it's been done programmer |uatfffcee heMeoplar* . Or eomathlng. of the 16-bit equivalents) will feel right al home so many you'll need to let the water out in order to trip with the ugly front end and toe curlingly switches, close doors and drown nasties, and powerful features. you II even have to find a handy submarine to The program's a little ragged round the grab pipes Irom underwater Basically it's a edges at the moment, and software like this logic game, but one that tests your knowledge must be a monster to debug, but if the wrinkles ot physics as well, and the idea of having are ironed out this will be something every each level spread out over two or three musician has to have. screens is great It's a slick mover to boot. Polenlial times before and can we honestly say the Potential Coup6 real!/ needs a Pac game? Potential! I Spell Master £14.99 Water Works Not so much a word processor as a spell - £9.99 checker Spell Master's specification list is There are elements of the famous puzzler in impressive: 80.000 words, user dictionaries there, but don't dismiss this game as a and a routine lhat checks your spelling as you Pipemania clone. For a start the water plays a type. On the minus side the word processor much bigger part in the game - if you imagine part is another standard Tasword-ahke, and each level as taking place in a huge fish tank, the packaging is a joke. Why do publishers you'll see the importance of completing the insist on putting utilities in very big, very empty Aief (Several thousand SourKhroclcr users ) hs lhal boxes? (The Spell Master manual runs to a layout before the taps are turned on. Later on program again! Oh aye. Bui with three extra channels! LOPMENT SYSTEM (SCADS) commands thrown in. although admittedly the important section, a bit though - a few more new commands are extremely powerful and tutorials would have gone down a treat, there are plenty of them, but you do still have instead of having to depend solely upon the to know how to use BASIC, as you'll need a glossary at the end. lair sprinkling of DO...LOOPs and your IF...THENs to make the thing work. This is. Final Verdict Time FORMAT Publications unfortunately, where all the nice front end Having pointed out most of my personal 34 Bourton Rd. Gloucester GL4 WIMP business stops. Let's face it. if you quarrels with the program. I really ought to OLE w 0452 412572 were restricted to fixed menu options all the finish off by saying that SCADS is a very Revelation Software way through, you wouldn't get versatility, and powerful games designer. One which anyone PO Box 114. Exeter. Devon EX4 versatility really has to be SCADS middle with enough unquenchable enthusiasm could 1YY name if it's going to enjoy anything like the use to create their own games, with only a FRED Publishing success of AMOS. fraction of the hassle that the other, more 40 Roundyhill, Monifieth, Dundee There's no escaping the fact that you have conventional languages provide. DD54RZ to learn a language, however high-level, The fact that this is the first version, though, Integrated Logic before you can program games. On the other does show. Badly thought-out menus, lack of 41 Warrix Ave, Irvine. Ayrshire, hand. SCADS extended BASIC is very Supervisor documentation, and several Scotland KA12 0DW powerful, and provided you've got an unforgivable glitches in the manual (all you elementary grasp ot SAM BASIC, you need is a proof reader1) all go to show that it shouldn t have much trouble using it. I did feel needed a bit more polish. that the manual skipped over this, the most At present, there are no plans (as far as I Third time know) for a second version, although there is a SCADS Compiler in the ofling. This will lucky, eh? Join convert your games into machine code, me next month for allowing anyone to play them, because at present you have to own a copy of SCADS to the news everyone's play SCADS-created games, so that s good waiting for. In the news. My advice to you is. buy if you think you ve got a long enough concentration span meantime, I'm off to U (VERSION 1 ,OQ| to cope with the rough edges My advice to check the post for Glenco is get the compiler out ASAP, take a 1 TOTAL HEWPRV FHEE i 31 laSSl long hard look at SCADS and release an more SAM Upgrade improved version with a discount for coupons. Be existing users. Judgement has been js ITS the matn menu. Basically. 'Hie trouble with SCADS Is •J thai you use en extended BASIC, so actual programming passed. 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SAVE £2.00! 4 issues for only £8 roverfcvpe, jclosfage & paclrcf^fftg; 76 APRIL ONo YS76 77 MAY ONo YS77 PPPj 78 JUNE ONo YS78 m JULY ONo YS79 On the lop* - tomplele games ol B• HM On dope there's ful games of Mini WSol a lope! Full gomes of Dark Star L J Ful gomes of On Rw fun, 2112 AD 1 Sphinx Jim and Blood 01 Bogmok and demoMaiemomas of andflues/ Adventure and a demo ofan d Mission Omega. Plus The Addoms Familyand Hon and Compos Hem 2. Plus1 A playable demo SfiOceCmade and SAM Bati V Balk. InsideMl. hut! Free lody doorhonger. Inside! Ihe AshobaHdemos ond the GACPACutility oAndf Turbo' An The Tortoise on the tape Inside! Captain there's the bet) odventures ond loads of SAM Addoms family previewed, Pohwwlh ond Coextr a special 16 pages ol tips ond a fabby Sleg Dynamo, Grell and fata Snare ond Sfeg games. Plus! A fiee badge loo Hurrah! Megogomed and absolutely tonnes more the slug high score card! It's happening reviewed Plus! Speccy hardware rounded up HOW SMOKER V/f'i BATMAN 5 BtfllBUfj I W LU JM 4 h $ ' M BO AUG ONo TS80 jffl 81 SEPT ONo YS81 PPPj 82 OCT ONo YS82 83 NOV ONo YS83 Holy haddodtlYS goes Bal-bonkers •est™ Popeye 3 Megaprevwwed ond Iradl Malch of the Day and Ate SAM Full games of Hexot, fetmded with a rather super Batman special. Inside, SleepwoBtet reviewed inside. On the tape you'll Adventure System reviewed feckless fufusCreatures and Caverns, Haunted House and Batman and Robin round up the bat games. On find complete games of FJ» Famous Five, Anl Megogamed Full gomes af Wriggler, Anttiks Tetroid Inside there s tonnes and tonnes of Doctor the tape - tomplele gomes ol Defenders of the Attack, SAM Tetris and Blodt Dizzy Plus" Mission,Match of Menial Block and / Man on t'tape.Wh Pluso !stuf f including a Megapreview of ft Who - Earth, Forbidden Planet oni logo. Smoshmgthe! Day demo ond a PD demo. A PO utility and a SAM demo. Dolek Attack Exterminate! DOWN 3. A kind of upholsterer's silk. 5. Part of the machine. (3) Send your answers to: 1. One-tytd monster who ate tlteep (You'N never get ill) (7) 6. A real sad case. (4) YS December Crossword, YS, 30 whole. (7) 4. Fishermen's Friends. (8) 7. Not very exciting. In foct, not al Monmouth Street, Both, Avon, BAl 7. - And Friends In the Greed ACROSS all exciting. (6) 2BW. The winner gels some YS Monster - An Adventvre. (4, 4) 1. What Dizzy's after. (8) 8. Home to Gruesome Greenies. (8) goo GFI is Go! and this time we know what it stands for: G- Stingray just an underwater version of In the 60s Thunderbirds made FAB a national Force Intergalactic. Thunderbirds? UFO a live-action version of catchphrase (even though nobody knew what it GFI is a new animated senes which will Thunderbirds? Terrahawks a not very good meant - Funderbirds Are Bo never seemed too feature breathtaking' computer animation. The update of Thunderbirds?). G-Force is an convincing). Now Gerry Anderson is hoping premise sounds pretty much like a deep space independent force based in a solar system that GFI is going to be the acronym for the 90s. version of Thunderbirds (but then wasn't that's got a lot of crime, most of it caused by an j organisation known as Diados. But never fear Look Before You Leap 1 because G-Force has a load of hi-tech KILLER BYTES Quantum Leap is getting weird. While in the spacecraft prepared tor any problem. UK we're still getting the fairly sane The twist this time is that the Thunderbird 2- episodes. The latest senes in the US looks style craft, called Galaxy, doesn't carry any character Tank Girl, 'r^&yf&f'* set to be as loopy as very loopy thing back-up equipment, it actually creates ancillary the one with the * PxMf/ indeed. In fact, once it's been shown vehicles capable of dealing with the current people'll be saying that loopy things are as crisis. Must be pretty nifty with a spanner then. attitude. Is to make ^ loopy as the latest season of the No transmission details have been settled exceptionally loopy Quantum Leap. for G-Force, but the BBC have revealed lhat pages of Deadline to '"V i There is going to they will be screening Gerry's other new series, celluloid r * | jg^^Vp be an all-animated ^^ the thirteen-part live-action Spaco Police • RoboCop in blood ^Bmhffie episode in which Sam x, (Change that title!) next year. shortage shocker! flt'HRfiH leaps into the body{?) Time Warped Film number three in of a cartoon character. , £ , .. . Wipe thathaii smirsmirk ofofff youyour The planned season of Doctor Who repeals while in another he W * 1 Ihe series is said to be taclac#e „a l oncone*e ,yoonf younlg lady^ . this autumn has been postponed. It will now gets stranded on a aimed at a more start showing in January. Apparently, the BBC desert island with tamiiy-based audience I had put aside a series of half-hour slots for the Brooke Shields. *> v j • When asked whether he'd like to direct programme, then suddenly realised gust a There's also the ^ «. Batman 3 Tim Burton (who cracked the couple of weeks before transmission that possibility he may whip on the first two) replied. "I'd rather Doctor Who is actually 25 minutes long! become Magnum PI for Whal" Sam dnve an ice-ptck through my head." He lo leap Into the body ot didn't enjoy the experience, then? an episode. e^Tm.*** Live Long and Prosper i Dave Golder NEXTMoNT In next month's issue of the world's most supreme Spec mag, we bring you... > News - if it's vital, we'll tell you! ^ Reviews - find out which games to ask Santa for! Previews - 1993 starts here. Happy New Year! Programming - find out how to move your Pathetic Pablo Brother around the screen in the second instalment of Steve's Programming Launderette. All white? (Ahem.) Plus! A special Christmas Pitstop # Special with absolutely oodles of stuff. * And! A Pico special. Find out what the Speccy's first £ family are doing this Yuletide! And what exactly has Spec Tec got to do with all this? What's more - all the regulars line up for their annual Christmas shilling. Cheers! Plus - as a special Christmas treat there'll be a super free tape head cleaner stuck to the cover. The Christmas issue of Your Sinclair will be in the « shops from the 3rd ol December, ready to * spread a little seasonal cheer and promote goodwill 4 among Spec-chums everywhere! FREE! Staa M pleasedto otle - The Software Pick o( IN) Year FflEE «*i evwy AmqZOOt L PACK: purchased II KkOn tn sansatonal new Me 200L when has fanned rave Z00L • ptiSwrr title of tie jeer K5« Itiw as r* most Ongnal game evar Man on to Amiga STRIKER • nxxer utiU\ NO 20Mb J* HARD HARD ft DRIVE DRIVE AMIGA 600 COMPUTER OPTIONS ;pao a tie AMttA WO. MOUSE, W Dak Own. 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