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COMMODORE BOARD while they're obviously IBM-oriented, call to the company revealed the sad there are many generally useful ones. news that the company had no current W e've been hearing about There's also a velcro-attachable refer plans to do a similar product for audio- Commodore's Lowell graphics board for ence card that can be used to record video systems, but would certainly con some time now, and now they've offi vital information about your system: sider it if there were enough requests. cially announced it. The A2410 is a high serial numbers, hard drive information, (HINT! HINT!) AMT can be contacted at resolution 1024 x 1024 pixel display network addresses, and the like. The 2741 Plaza Del Amo, Suite 201, Tor- card for the A3000UX Unix machine. It labels are sizedto fit the cable plugs. A rance, CA 90503. 213-320-7757. provides 8 bitplanes and can display 256 colors at once from a palette of over 16 million. The card was devel oped in cooperation with the University .infoMANIA GAME TIPS of Lowell and uses Texas Instruments' Here are some secret "side doors," "back doors," and strategies to your 34010 graphics coprocessor.It has one favorite Amiga games, for .info subscribers only! meg of video memory onboard and is specifically designed for use with X Awesome: Press your joystick fire- Stormlord: Cheat #1: Hold down Windows and Open Look Unix sys button and hold down the + key on the left mousebutton and the firebut tems. Price was unavailable at the keypad to enable a cheatmode. ton at the same time and keep hold presstime. 1200 Wilson Drive, West You can then disable enemies by ing them while the game loads. After Chester, PA 19380. 215-431 -9100. hitting F1. More energy can be the game starts, pause it and type obtained with F6, and you can MNBVC to get infinite time and WAVING A BANNER choose different weapons with the lives. Pause game and press L to number keys 1-10. skip to the next level. Cheat #2: X he press release from When the credits screen appears, Chaos Strikes Back: To make your Banner Band asks the question,"Why type DRAGONBRIDGE and a mes party invincible, first find a dragon didn't somebody think of this before?" sage indicating that the cheat mode and castspell the MON ZO GOR They're talking about a line of tractor- is active will appear. Start the game, SAR. Then hit ESC to pause the feed computer paper that is made then hit the spacebar, and then Lto game and while holding down the without horizontal perforations. How get to the next level. Cheat #3: ALT key, type LORD LIBRASULUS ever, we hadn't thought of anything to Enter 'JAMES CAMERON1 on the SMITHES THEE DOWN. Then un- use it for besides "Happy Birthday, high score screen. You can then get pause the game and kill the dragon. Dweebo" banners. Then the company additional lives by hitting F9. He will leave behind a firestaff and sent ussample a printout of a dog your party will be invincible. Turrican: Play long enough to get a pedigree and it opened up all sorts of score of at least 20,000 points and new possibilities. Geneologists will cer Killing Game Show: You can call quit game. Enter BLUESMOBIL on tainly want to get a supply for those up a map of each section of the the brag board, hit return, and you'll long, involved family trees. The rolls game by hitting the HELP key have 99 lives. come in standard and wide-carriage instead of the firebutton at the widths, in 45- and 150-foot lengths. beginning of the game. Unreal: On the animation screen Prices range fromto $19.95. $11.95 with the 3D balls, type "ORDILOGI- Lemmings: Type FQUIGGLY on the 535 N. Wolf Road, Wheeling, IL 60090. CUS" and hit return. The screen will title screen and the little critters 708-520-4699. flash and you'll have unlimited won't commit suicide. energy. You can also skip levels by LABEL SANITY Nitro: To get plenty of money and hitting Return. fuel, enter your name as MAJ when Untouchables: When the title D<'oes the back of your com you start the game. puter desk look like a big electronic screen appears during loading, type rodent's nest? (Come to think of it, is Spherical: Type BLADERUNNER SOUTHAMPTON GAZETTE. The this where computer mice rear their on the title screen and you can skip screen will flash and youhit canF10 young?) AMT Communications has put levels by using the cursor keys. to go to the next level. together Label Logic ($6.95), which is a collection of stick-on labels for the Share your "secret tricks" with .Info readers or write and let us know cables and components of your sys which games you'd like to see hints for! Send to: tem. The labels are made of vinyl and .Info Mania, 705 Highway 1 West, Iowa City, IA 52246

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ACTIVA SOURCE preters that currently run only on Mac , the company and IBM: the model 410 is $4995 and responsible for such entertainment e told you about Activa the 420 lists for $5995.) General titles as Test Drive I & II, Hardball I & Software's Real3D raytracing pack Parametrics has engineered their II, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, age a while back, but up to now it's entire line of printers to be among many others. DSI77 has only been available in Europe. We've upgradeable to the next higher model, employees and its offices will remain learned that Activa has named Pro so you could start with a less expen in Vancouver, BC. EA will be paying grams Plus & Video as their sole sive printer and add to it as you can nearly $800,000 for DSI's outstanding North American representative. Ver afford to. Later this year, the company stock and will be issuing 488,157 new sion 1.4 of ReaI3D should be will be releasing models 440, which shares. To give you some idea of how available by the time you read this. adds a 30MB hard drive, and 450, big an expansion this is for EA, DSI Contact Programs Plus at 544 Queen which has 35mm PostScript color currently has five producers, along Street, Chatham, ON Canada N7M slide capability. with 42 programmers, 15 artists and 2J6. 519-436-0988 voice, fax musicians, and three game designers 519-351-1334. EA ACQUISITION working onprojects. 22 has 45 people involved in about ten LOW COST COLOR Hi lectronic Arts has projects. In other words, EA is more announced an agreement to acquire than doubling in size. 1 he price for color PostScript printers is beginning to drop dramatically. General Paramet- SERVICE BUREAUS WANTED rics has a color thermal wax printer .info would like to keep you informed about what service that lists for $6995, making it the least what services they offer. If you have, or expensive one we've seen to date bureaus are around and that will work directly with Amiga out know of, a service bureau that uses to provide film, slide, put. The Spectra*Star 430 comes with print, or other output services, please let us know. Send the vita! six megs of RAM (There are even statistics to: .info Pubications, 705 Highway One West, Iowa City, less expensive models available, but IA 52246. Or you can faxinformation the to 319-338-0897. they use software PostScript inter

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