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Home Computing Weekly Magazine Issue siw A'L^JSfmoneP'°?!T' use SimP'e to GAMES Garner|M SoftwareOUIIWUIfctOIULJU-'OSRJDIOS Designer ^^J Bv John Ham Invaders format Asteroids format Defender format & Beserh format BGREATGAMES INCLUDED: TurboSp/aerTanks 3 lot-Halloween- .mil Attach ofthe MutantHamburgers] Cyborg-Reflectron- | SplotandQBix Marketed exclusively by Ouicksilva Name Games Designer £14.95 Address Time Gale (48K Spectrum) Aquaplane (4BK Sped rum) Meteor Storm (1 6K Spectrum} Cheques payable to Quicksil lenclosecrieaue'P.Ofor - . Send to Software Studio, S* Ouicksilva Mall Order, P.O. Box 6, X^$s» Wlmbome, Dorset BH21 71 Telephone: (0202) 85 \WM***** December 6-12, 1981 No. 40 24 PACES OF BUY THIS SPACK SPECTRUM BEST uratnairJ . 5,6.12 m Hews, One Man's view, U.S. Scene Three new games for the Colour Genie are out from ihc Ipswich VIC-20 program IS Software Factory. Costing £8 Don't look if you hate spiders . each, they are A-IO Bomber, Geniepede and Martian Rescue. Software reviews IT Arcade games for BBC, Dragon, Texas IPSY SO/IY, Three IK zxsi programs 18 Software reviews 21 Games for Commodore 64, Spectrum, Texas I . 22 around for quite a while. Lniiilci Metro Blii/, Cosmic Split. Mobi Dick. Krvstals of Zong ant Neoclvps, thev cost £7.95 each. Dragon software reviews 24 Letters 27 Software reviews 28 Games for BBC. Commodore 64, Spectrum, Texas Computer Buyers' Guide 29-60 All ilie tact, in a kaiuii pnli-orii upplemeni Spectr There's a vic-20 program Come to the cabaret . and gel in a spin v available for Ihc software reviews e: £6.50. Mindbenders for Spectrum. BBC. Texas Software charts Software reviews New from Micromega for the Maze games' for Ortc, Dragon, Spectrum, Texas Spectrum: Deathchase, a 3D Type in the two VIC-20 motorcycle chase, ami SiarclaJi. Orlc program programs (pates 13 and 611) or a multi-screen arcade same. I hc\ It's you v. 15 alien the three Ih 7.X81 pru rams cost £6.95 each. sf B (page 16) in (his bumper issue Profile: Mncrc of Home Compulimt VU'ckh £ 1,000 Phoenix Software competition TS Software reviews 76 for Indoor sports Dragon, BBC, Spectrum We've gol 40 prizes ol j-rejl l'hiieoi\ Software to give awa; your erilri today Hubble Bus is Widows Rev. — like their LMermiiuiuir, EARLY WARNING: We're this lime the spider- lite b: moving, we move into Both for the Commodore our new offices on Kith priced at £6.99. December 20. The ad- dress: no. 1 Golden" Bubble Bus. The Compt Square, London W1R3AB. Our phone number will then be: 01-437 0626. IIOMI-. roMPt.'TIM, WF.F.KI.Y6 ABF JOYSTICK COnneC tot you lo play a whole ew generation of two » "3^"»" "" " "^ Munntoi ^ eqU?rl 4SK Memory. PROM; MR/MRS/MISS ADDRESS ""»» SEND C.W.O. (NO STAMP NEEDED! TO' A.G.F. HARDWARE, DEPT. FREEPOST, BOGNOR REGIS. WEST SUSSEX, P022 9BR QTY ITEM ITEM PRICE TOTAL INTERFACE MODULE II 16.95 JOVSTICKIS) 7.54 SOFTWARE: SOFTWARE: ZXB1 ZX SPECTRUM Please tick FINAL TOTAL DEALER ENOUIRIE.S WEl.t 1>\U: I.M'OK ( I'KKES <>.\ APn.KAIio.X WHLRL TO BUY Ad PRODUCTS OVLK VI It CO UNTER Ashby torn pule Centre 4Mat Computing 1H(, A.lilii filpr Brainwave Mien romputers i-> CliHii^Mtr Koa.t. ilrqchtan BNI 4AQ Syntax Computers : [|..wi.li. Suffolk ll'i 31.1) GB Microlind -f. 0>rnv..il sir.-i-i t'MTiouThPLl INS Buffer Micro Lt -(Ju.-.-m l-.ii-.iJ.-. 1 ton Road, Teleco Video a s.> M.irli- k..;„l. IVi-, f,..!...nJoriSEJO Id' ° "" Melgriy tU-TMlt Ltd Telford Electronics & Computing Computcreo'fW gmore Street ^Fitm t-ire B7 IViemore Sir m9LA The Computer Shop Everybody* Hob ibx ™ Raven Video" Suffolk 1P4 2AA Screen Scene The Computer Centre Humberside) Ltd i HOMi' CtlMPUTlNC. WI-i;Kl.Vfi NEWS Barry's show Mr Taylor said: "Barry is an Pint-sized cvecllcni presenter and very inter- ested in technology. He would printer not pretend to bean expert. But if people who are normally not Christmas. The Your Computer ioing this." liheya Christmas Fair is ai Wembley Conference Centre MrTaylorciplaincdtha: !t;n r> on December hobbyist, my audience is also paper and will print lived hxhihiiitui*, Surrey House, going to be a number of people or do columns or dot who happen to switch on ihe graphic. Standard ASCII and I fhrt/H-lev H«i-, Siiik/ii. Sitrrev SMI 4QQ radio. I'm going to be trying to RS2.U interfaces mean that it will persuade them thai they should Forty stores in the Man- jht away ready for when the Co.mopiint will be available Co-op chester area are starting io stock office reopens. "We are approaching it in a from early lcssj. initially by post 220-350 The show will also prepare different way. We are noi really from Lokata. home computers and [ware for broadca-ting after going lo be delving into the mils software titles each, depending Radio Four's official closedown. and bolts. We will he looking at Co-operative is This meihod has often been what computers can do and Ihe Pioneer Society used by olher radio stations. effect ilicv arc having." •loekinc the Spectrum, V1C-20. ' ' ners will be asked to record And Barry Norman said: Commodore M, Aiari fiOOXl. die data signals on cassette re- There is a need for a programme corders for loading into iheir which talks about the computer revolution in terms everyone can rhe programs will also be understand. My baptism has n a:l;mic on Ceefax. already taken place." January 25-27 at the Central Mr Taylor said the idea for the Hall. Westminster, and will be series — and regular software open to representatives of eduea- broadcasts — arose from To- morrow's World, on which he worked. He said: "'Alter the cvperimenl on Tomorrow's World people said: "Can we have some useful ciiormini- demand." It could even lead, he said, to livelier-! dialling up a micro at the BBC for interactive computing. you could be ic-. than (hcotiginal. -o Ian on our . pages can be included — the first repeal will cover the Which Com- r? Show in Birmingham. eoiiiptnci nan, run :i cvpcii. PROGRAMS should, if possible, be computer printed to a width or 48 characters (use a new ribbon) and/or sent on cassette. Check carefully that they are bug-free. Include Best sellers: details of what your program does, how it works, variables you have used and hints on software conversion. Barrj Norman — houses act articles on using home computers should be no longer than 2,000 words. Don't worry K are to be asked to help about your writing ability — just try to keep finance a Top 30 software chart magazines and retailer-, as well as to the style in HCW. Articles most likely to be software houses, would help pay published will help our readers make better .voiildco-l around l?tUK>oa for the chart. use of their micros by giving useful ideas, to collect the data from 250 Because any software chart possibly with programming examples, we retailer- throughout the UK. would be dominated In program- will convert any sketched illustrations into Ihc ligure was given by Gallup for the top-selling Spectrum, lie finished artwork. o Rod Cotiscns, managing thought that eventually chair- for iirector of Quicksilva and vice- indiv idtral computer makes eould tips are short articles, and brief :hatrman of the 15-membcr be produced. Guild of Software Houses. After talking to Olher market research • GOSH i companies, he is lo present the i of dealers and i< ration io the guild. a legal fund to fight Competitive rates are paid. -aid: "I believe the prc-crrr ifiware piracy. Mi m of chart- i- iimcali-licand a true reflection of the f you want them returned. Label marketplace. It would also help everything clearly and give a daytime and a- 1>\ giving information on sales home phone number if you can. rends in various pans of the iiOMfurviri ii\i, v. ONE MAM'S VIEW Micro thefts A touch From Jrampage easier to use Siai Micro terminals lias brought Can small out a special keyboard which vcred properly could be makes it easier for young or handicapped children to use shops fight This of the usual microcomputers. e security. The Concept is ti flat pressure- itoyai insurance lias a special sensitive keyboard wilh an eight the giants? Mini-Micro policy — al firs! by 16 main* of i ouch -sensitive designed lor businesses — bin soeral insurance companies said new computer owners should /(hi \fiii has U-™ treinemlnus shake ups i.>! the computer bus .... ilkkiiluiaul from miitmfaciurc ihroueh m retail. I wry stuie has seen a harsh summei buttle lo •in', in i om/ieiuton will; ihe ho.: no: hut there are so Ihe el" " '"" hallle for < 'hroimas sales draws ' irate on me keys thai are needed hinder lime; aheuti in ihe :, Britain hi ihe to operate a partienlai program. run out nl I'm: I eyas Instruments) .ml ol ih fins,,, more Lor example, there could he We have seen Dawn '»:.'' wrong mite wih ihe VV Jl. lirumlv die u death niter a New, n 1 ;i he Christina- jtisl two keys for yes and no, or iriinsplunt. mul Atlam Osborne take u bite I rum lite Apple — and four arrow keys, or lite kesboard aitisei/ucmtv banished I the emnpttler Eden. aboui £l40m in sak mm Many home con Even companies wimh tanked to Iv dolny. in welt, •nth , A lint iimil >r:e lost a iar'ie amounl ol mom-: III!' vein amil Iriecaii.
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