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1 1 [GET BETTER THAN SU I L I F E J SINCLAIR UbErt U S T ON TAPE D FOUR FULL GAMES O + Business Software: E WI), Cashbook,_ _ _ S o N - - p ' r T , „ D a t a b a • s ZEPPELINS e ETMO CAN'T JUMP! E IDEALE S ESENT? SEE INSIDE R 12 I LYN- A Pub HUGHES Quiz for all ARCADE the FamiNIO QUIZ PIECES 111' PAGE SYSYTEM OF EIGHT - Word- Funky Processor Full Game RANTULA Full Fab Game STANTA RECALL - Database REET CRED Full Fun Oa H BOOK & POKEMANIA!! 9 770 5045 R AMIGA • ATARI ST • COMMODORE 64 .SPECTRUM • AMSTRAD CPC Includes Codernasters Latique GAME GENI E enhancer codes re e for great entertairanentl Poster Join superstar Dizzy In his Ilie mystical crystal treasures most exciting adventure yet oi the 'stolVt Folic have been created! 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"ICO DEM ASTE RS REVIEWS SUPER STAR SEYMOUR Compilation of doom!!! 10 DJ PUFF The dragon drags on. 20 SWORD OF THE SAMURAI Ninja madness. 21 NEIGHBOURS Back on budget and brill. 37 FUNSCHOOL. 2 Educational fun and frolics. 37 PREVIEWS STREETFIGHTER 2 Here at last and totally exclusive. 12 ALL AMERICAN BASKETBALL Zeppelins can't jump! 36 SLICKS More compilation japery from Codies• 36 GREAT 8 4 REGULARS The Great 8 isn't just noted for its superb games, it's also noted for its amazing versatility, bringing you utilities, hints TELL IT TO AL/SUCK UP 24 and POKEs too. Well now its just become even more ver- SORCERESS 30 satile with its very own business software collection. There's a word processor, Page System for all those difficult docu- CHECKOUT 38 ments you have to write, a Database, instant Recall for all those records you have to keep and a Cash Book for all SPECMAN 17 those home accounts. Unbeatable Well nearly. There's also CARTOON 23 FOUR free games - Emlyn Hughes Arcade Quiz, Pieces Of Eight, Tarantula and Street Cred What a selection! Fi- UP FRONT 7 nally to round things off on a good note there's POKEMA- NIA !!! CHARTS 22 HACKING SQUAD 14 Captain Sumpter goes over trie top (as usual) bringing you a Hacklest to remember. He's got some type in cheats for BACK ISSUES Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Hero Quest and Pang, a solu- IF YOU'VE MISSED OUT ON ICON GRAPHICS OR tion for the all new Wild West Semour, some help with ANY OTHER MEGA GREAT BPROGRAMS, OR YOUR Emlyn Hughes footie and more, much more. COLLECTION IS MISSING ONE OR TWO SUS DON'T WORRY, YOU CAN GET BACK ISSUES BY PHONING THE FOLLOWING NUMBER! (0858) 410 510 AND SOFTWARE HOUSE FEATURE 28 ASKING FOR SINCLAIR USER BACK ISSUES. FOR This month Codemasters feature in our 'Who's supporting SUBSCRIPTIONS CALL (0733) 898 100, the Speccy' column. Inventors of many fave game charac- ters we profile the people and the sprites that are 'CODES'. ADVENTURE WRITING 35 TAPE RETURN ADDRESS If you have a faulty tape DO NOT return it Larry is up to his PAW related antics again this month. direct to SU Towers 'cos we CAN'T do any Catch UQ on the latest instalment, and get that patrol going. thing with it. Return your tape to COIN OPS 32 Spool Duplication, Unit 30, 1st Avenue, Deeside Industrial Estate, Clywd, CH5 2NV A coin ops special this month featuring STAR WARS, DR. Uncle Harold's our man there and he'll deal WHO and VIRTUA RACING. with it. doing well he's grinning away like a Buddha EMLYN HUGHES ARCADE QUIZ watching a Marx Brothers movie but if you're about to lose he'll gel all upset and Load In 411K/128K Mode Iowa cover his face in shame. The topics covered in this quiz are Pop & Crikey, Emlyn Hughes is a bit of a lad isn't - Rock, Sport, Entertainment, Arts & Lit- he, not only did he manage Liverpool and erature, People & Places and Trivia. There become a television celebrity but he's had are ten levels ol excitement in Emlyn a ton of games out on the Speccy too. This Hughes Arcade Quiz and to reach the next Is one of them, and a rather odd one at thati f (and get to the bonus levels) you must work It's based on a pub quiz machine and in- your way through to the WIN bar at the volves answering questions for monetary extreme right hand side of the screen. reward. Good luck - You'll need it. Questions, money and fruit are all tracked l Out like lines of dominoes, You move a Controls: marker along these tracks selecting ques- Cursor Buttons: tions to answer and coins and fruit to pick o Up up. However you won't be allowed to move scrolling to the right every few seconds, Down on to the next question until the current one threatening to engulf your marker before Litt is answered correctly. you can reach new objects or questions. This sounds easy enough except for the Bestw of all there's a picture of good old Right fact that you'll Quickly notice the screen Emlyn to encourage you. While you're Select - Space Bar. ir - • 11ISTAN1 RECALL To set up a database select option B from the main menu, then follow through the r steps of entering the number of 'FIELDS' in Load In 48K Mode Address, Telephone Number etc.) (B) your record, then entering the FIELDS' What you are going to name them and (C) names (max, eight characters) and then Databases allow you to store and cate- the number of CHARACTERS in each field. gorise information then recall them at the the maximum length of each field (in single - If you don't need 20 characters in a field press of a button (well. a few buttons ac- characters. le. individual letters and spaces tually). The idea is similar to that of a con- count as one character each). then don't make provision for them, it'll leave more space in your machine's mem- ventional tiling system, where you have Instant Recall allows up to 14 'FIELDS' per ory for full records. cards with information on them, stored in recorda and each one can be up to twenty files, in drawers, in a filing cabinet. This is characters long. FIELD names can be up ENTERING AND EDITING RECORDS a very time consuming way of handling to eight characters long. Once you have set up your database, the records, (It's also cumbersome, heavy and It is important to realise what this means next step is to actually enter some informa- takes up more space than the average Fori instance it you chose as one of your tion into it. This is done by selecting option hobby room has to spare!) fields the title 'NAME', intending to combine C in the main menu. Use the options here It's much simpler to whack it all onto your first name and Surname you may end up in to fill out your brand new database (see Speccy and then reference and cross ref- trouble. Remember, you can only enter a screenshots). erence to your heart's content, while saving maximumm of 20 characters (including You can save, then re-load at your leisure. files on tape or disk, Instant Recall is a spaces), so if you had a long name like all databases on cassette or tape using the Database for your Speccy that allows you ARNOLD SCHWARTZENEGGER, there Save/Load option on the main menu. to do all this. would only be enough space for ARNOLD We'll take you through the advantages. SETTING UP THE DATABASE SCHWARTZENEGG. To make sure you quirks and foibles of Instant Recall, along If you are using this program for the first have enough room for all eventualities you with Page System WP and Cash Book, time you cannot proceed very far without would need to set up the database with next month after you've had a good look at knowing how to set a database 'template'. seperate FIELDS for 'FIRST NAME' and them. They ARE easy to operate but, just 'SURNAME'. It's easy enough but you do need to think to make sure you know exactly what the a few things through before you start. The golden rule here is to take into account potential is, Philip (Our brand new guinea (A) How many "FIELDS' do you need (fields all possibilities, then you won't find your pig) is going to manage his life using them are the titles you want to record. Eg. Name. database limited later on. and tell you all about it. (What a man!) SIAMIQ-11.11111 4inla • •wagi .-normaysearn L•r••, ormsEllenowitirmsti -ruirmencriaugamunt r4re 4 antorsionnxemorro 4rurtm triolliessmill Harygain- • 14Plimilnierrn3 wwzra r - Anominowallacrt X ovirtminlirrniri marmingolown raMILEIWZVAIMILEusnam mi-1-47 111111.116111111 re 16110.1611. 11 A 1iMe Instant Recall main menu. A All the editing options are in A Naming fields. choose as A Now you get to put the KIGet to know It. this menu, many as are neccessery fifilialgaillinformation in.