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COMPUTIST Issue 51. January 1.988 USA $3.75 Canada & Mexico $7.00 All Ol:hers $8.75 F~= Kevin Lepard's oCryptarithmetic Helper Paul Joh.l'J.son's oA.P.T. for Bard's Tale. Dungeon Mapper Revisited Matt Ownby's oA.P.T. for Ultima IV Carole Fox's oA.P.T. for Might & Magic Ralph Augenfeld's oRAMfaetor mod for Laser 128 John Weigley's o Getting Better Sound by... Using the cassette jacks o Making AFast Boot Disk 2400 AD aAllens o Alphabet Zoo dAmnelia 08ag Of Tricks oBard's Tale I dBard's Tale JI dBattle Cruiser OBaach-head II a Below The Root 0 Black Magic dBody Awareness 0: Bridge 4.0 d Carriers At War d catalyst 3.(1) a Centipede d Championship Boxing 0 Championship Wrestling 0 Chessmaster 20(Dm a Combining The Elements d Commando d Creative Contraptions dEinstein Compiler d Fat City dFight Night OFlight Simulator v2.0 0 Fw1 with Direction. GBA 2-00-2 Championship Basketball • GraphicWriter v1.1RA CGrowing Up Small dHouse-on-a-disk QIntrigue oJet oJungle Hunt CKindercomp CKnowing Numbers d Kung-iu Master d Law Of The West d Learning Well seriell 0 Letters And Words 0 Little Computer People 0 Make Your Own Murder Party oManic Mansion 0 Master Diagnostics 0 Movie Maker OMusic Construction Set 0 Pinball Construction Set 0 Pitstop 0 Print Shop Graphics Library Holiday • Print Shop IIgs 0 Rendezvous 0 Shapes And Patterns 0 Silent Service o Sorcerer 0 Spy VB Spy I &: II 0 Stargate OStellar 7 OStickybear ABes 0 Stickybear Drawing 0 Stickybear NumbenI 0 Stickybear Printer 0 Stickybear Printer Library I &: II 0 Stickybear Townbuilder 0 Super Boulderdash 0 Temple Of Apshai Trilogy oTomahawk.Thexder 0 Walt Disney's Card And Party Shop 0 Walt Disney's Cartoon Maker 0 Wings Of Fury OWord Maze OWorld's Greatest Baseball Game OZork III OApple IIgs softkey. 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Dudley Brett............. IS Stt\'t Charles 31 Et Ch.rlo 13 New Year's Resolutions Bob Colbert...... .36 Christopher Dean 7. 36 o I won't send original or copies of original disks. Ride Fabbl't'............ I8 171e origilJals I118r be lost SIll! it's illegal lOT us to bave copies. Carolt Fox 18 Dennis Gaunt: ......•..... 37 o I will send an my letters to RDEX, on disk. Ray Grirrm 7 You'Dget/be diskbaeltalODg witJl BD advaDr:e coprolyowpiece 01tbe issue. A.l. Head............. 19 ADd it beJps speed up completioD 01tbe I118gaziDe. Sl~ Herrington 7 Jeff Hurlburt 11 o Iwill write my letters in the same format as the letters Iread in RDEX. Except Tony H. Ikeda ... ... 13 for drawing the bo.es or printing my name in inverse. The Island Boy, 19 Paul A. Johnson 14 o I will always identify the computer I am writing about (Dc, De, Dgs, ele.). Dick Lavallc 13 Kevin Lepard 8 Jack Moravetz I3 o I will always includa tha pubUsbar's name along with any program name I Jack R. NJs~I..... .... 33 mention. Mati Ownby. 11 FrallCo Paniuon.. .. I8 o I will always send BASIC programs and Super lOB conlroUers on disk. Slanl~ P1anlon 11 Please! Scuuy Port 7 Marie G. Prestero . .37 Nicholas Siamson 36 BUGS: Sron M. Simon............ 16 Edwaro Tcach 18 COMPUTlST 1H1, page 34. "Improring Lodsmith's Fast Baclcup". It should read S«tor edit track $09. sector $07. John Thomas 30 Jerome Thelia............ 10 COMPUTIST '36, page 11. John Wrigley 14 The hex dump for LC WADER is missing the last byte. The bottom line should read: llee: 1111 21 21 llF 9B F9 F3 I• COIIPUTIST 1St ' ...uuy I COMPUTIST Table Of Contents January 1988 Editorial 4 Bugs ••••••••••••••••••••••••4 ~ pogt .,_ 18 Most Wanted Softkeys 37 2400 AD 20 SJropts N:d P(J//tms 15 A/iellS .. .•.•.•......................•37 SiItIII Smic( t/9 .Feafwte3: A/pJulbt1 Zoo .........•••...... .......16 SOrcuu 35 Amnesia 26 Spy ~ Spy I & II 20, 35 The Cryplarithmetic Helper ..... Bag Of Tricks.... tJ7 Star8att . 34 8 Kevin Lepard's program will help you solve those Ba(d'J Talt I...... 16 Stellar 7 t36 encrypted arithmetic puzzles for your AI class. Bard's Tale II... .. 15 Slickybear ABCs , 17 Battlt Cruiser.