£5 lory in Vegas by Andrew Kermath in Las Vegas. Comdex Fall, as it is more looking for first shipments towards network, genlock for the ST and its strictly known, is to microcomput the close of 1988, laser printer. н A's have it - but it was Atari, ers what Winter CES is to the The basic Авад comes with four The new PCs, the РС? and РСА, not Amstrad and its new portable, consumer electronics industry. It's megabytes of Ram plus another should be shipping in the UK any that stole most of the glory at last the biggest US show of the year, megabyte for the display, and time now, with the PC2 being a w в Comdex show to the press. and although suits are more com: allows up to four T800 transputers 5499 8088-based machine with mon there than at CES, practically running at 10-12 mips (million built-in EGA (Enhanced Graphics гуопе who's anyone is there, instructions per second) to be con Adaptor). The РСА uses an 80286, and in that sense Atari has аг. nected together for parallel pro again has EGA, and has а VGA rived, complete with Saville Row sing purposes. Its own operating (Video Graphics Adaptor, IBM's tailoring system will be Helios, currently mew graphics standard) option The loring comes courtesy of being developed by Perihelion, but Barring the launch of another British chip manufacturer Inmos Atari has also announced support dozen STs at CES the next major and development house Perihelion, for Idris, a version of the Unix move from Atari should be the who have provided At i with the rating system, 80386 machine, wherewithal to launch th Pricing of the machine is likely The first publie showing of this supermiero based on Inmos' to be on the end of the $3-5,000 is scheduled for Hanover, with superchip, on the world. The scale, Inevitably a PC emulator for machines starting to ship next type Atari whieh was show. the machine is under development, July. The spec of the machine is. ing at Las Vegas was by no means but the transputer is so powerful now starting to firm up, with Atari finished, but Atari expects to have this should actually be faster than talking about optional 16MHz ог it singing and dancing some more the PC AT. Alongside the Арад 20MHz speed processors (this will by its first European showing, Atari beefed up its PC range, first probably firm up to 20MHz as the currently scheduled for Hanover shown last winter at CES, and was supply position on these chips next spring, and we should be showing a PC/ST/ Apple local area eases), LQ ball in Epson’ s court AMSTRAD has made a detailed Epson public relations manager "They responded to each of the response to the legal action initiat Tony Westray last week confirmed points that we raised,” he said ed last month by Epson over the that Amstrad has responded point "Хоу we have to respond to each use of the LQ designation on Из by point to each of the allegations of the points that they've made, new range of printers. levelled at the company over the A further announcement is ex- ‘The affair has placed the Brent. matter. pected later this week wood-based company on the ге ceiving end of legal action itself - a strange state of affairs for a com- pany which has embroiled itself in litigation against others several times in the past year. Epson has produced its range of LQ printers for four years, and considers the letters are connected with Epson as PC has come to C] CPC6128 Databases mean IBM-compatible. C] Soundcheck.. An Amstrad spokesperson Kenn Garroch vowed that the company would О Interfacing... continue to market the LQ3500 and would “strenuously defend” any action taken by Epson. 10 3500 Printer

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13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY/3 NEWS DESK Music Machine goes multi-track

By Tony Sachs lar, its use of MIDI was extremely not have a Music Machine, DHCP package, rudimentary will supply a more comprehensive For the PCW series, DHCP has GOOD news for owners of the Ram has now teamed up with MIDI interface costing $60, produced а $79.95 MIDI interface Amstrad CPC version of RAM's DHOP Electronies, a specialist in ‘There are no immediate plans to and a matching 12-track sequencer Music Machine package: you will MIDI software for Amstrad ma- produce a sequencer for the Spec- program costing $60 (for $45 if you soon be able to buy a Software chines, to produce an eight-track trum version of Music Machine. hurry) A range of editors and package that turns the CPC into a MIDI sequencer program based on DHCP is also developing MIDI toolkits for synthesizers including multi-track MIDU recorder using the Musie Machine hardware. The products for the Amstrad PC and Casio's С2101 and С2280, Yama- the Music Machine hardware as a 33495 package will act like a PCW machines. ha’s FBOL and Korg’s DW6000 is MIDI interface, multi-track tape recorder, storing Items for the PC (and similar planned. When the $49.95 Music Machine MIDI data from synthesizers, drum IBM compatibles). include а made its debut last year it was machines and other MIDI- $134.95 MIDI interface with two Addresses widely praised for offering ex- equipped electronic instruments independent MIDI Out ports, allow- Ram Electronics, Unit 16, Red- tremely good value for money. It This data can later be played back ing up to 32 different groups of fields Industrial Park, Redfield includes a sound sampler, drum by up to eight instruments or instruments to be controlled simul- Lane, Church Crookham, Hants machine, effects box and MIDI groups of instruments, taneously, and a 899 Music Compo- GUIS ORE. (0252) 850085, interface in a single package. In addition, DHCP has produced sition Language package which But the software originally sup- editing packages for the Casio will drive the interface. Also in the DHCP Electronics, 32 Boyton plied with the package demon: CZI00 and CZ230 synthesizers PC pipeline are a $70 editor for Close, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 strated only a fraction of the which will also run on the Music Yamaha's ЕВО! synthesizer mod. 002. (0440) 61207. hardware potential. In particu- Machine. For CPC owners who do ule, and a rhythm programmer useful rule based systems at a low cost The Expert System Shell has a Professional release Quantum wide range of features, including tokenised rules to save memory, THE Mini Office Professional is amd the system assists the user intelligent scanning and pre- the latest product to be released by with built-in messages and con scanning of rule base and on-line Database Software. tent keystroke commands. Since Leap sensitive help. It comes complete Costing just $20.95, the pro the modules are interconnected with a comprehensive manual gramme goes further than its pre- you cam use them together, for SINCLAIR QL users can now ех which provides examples and a decessors, Mini Office and Mini stance, to create graphs from periment with Artificial Intelli- tutorial section. Office II. The five integrated то: spreadsheet figures fence аз Compware has just The Expert System Shell cost dules ~ word processor, Database, The word processor has been launched its Expert System Shell. 349,95, including postage and VAT, graphics, spreadsheet and commu: improved upon so that you can now Designed for both the experi and is available from Compwat nications have now been enhanced scroll from top to bottom of your enced and the amateur user, the 57 Repton Drive, Haslington, by a host of new features, text in less than a second. You will produét enables you to produce Crewe CW! ISA. The modules are easily accessed also find a word count permanent- ly displayed on screen. The new graphics module is a feature that will enable you to display three bar charts or overlay D up to three line graphs, and hold а) Stalking the mazes many as ten sets of data in memory DEMON Stalker is a new one or Tn addition, the free-format da- two-player arcade game being re- ase will give you 256 fields with leased this month by Electronic characters per field, search Arts. Produced for the Commodore facilities, and various type styles 64, the game offers 99 levels of Similarly, the spreadsheet has up mazes on which you will encounter to 255 rows or columns with 12,000 various things from keys to mon: cell available, sters to magic ‘The communications feature, on Whilst some of the items will be the other hand, embodies full ter- good, many such as Calurak the minal emulation with a viewdata Demon, will be evil and you must option for accessing Prestel destroy their sources if you are to graphics increase your health and strength Mini Office Professional comes points and win the game. оп two discs containing machine Since Demon Stalker contains a code programs and example files complete menu-driven construc It is accompanied by a 70-page text tion set which enables you to and graphics manual, complete practise play any level, m with tutorials. existing levels or even create your own game from scratch. For further information contact The Commodore cassette costs Database Software, Europa House, 30.95 and the disc, released next 68 Chester Road, Hazel Grove, month, is $14. Stockport 8КТ БМУ.

A/POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY 13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 SOFTWARE PC help for HOTLINES People said they could not do it, they said it was impossible, Büt, take one look at the picture and prepare to be astonished. Yes, it's dyslexics Outrun on the Commodore 64. Judging by the preprodu. version, as far as one can judge in ACCORDING to a report in the paper properly." With a word pro- these circumstances, it's going to Sunday Times, computers may be cessor, however, Richard makes be pretty fabby. Outrun is very the solution to the exam failures of fewer spelling errors and can write fast, and the way the ground such a complicated package it dyslexic children, faster. undulates, just like in Enduro looks remarkably simple to use, Richard Challi year-old From this, one would assume Racer, is very well done. and the results, if you use some public schoolboy from Wiltshire, is that the authorities couldn't poss Release date is provisionally imagination, are well up to budget currently appealing to his exam bly refuse Richard. But they will scheduled for mid-November, but software standard. Price is $14.95 authorities to let him use his be contemplating the matter for even if there are delays US Gold оп tape and $19.95 on disc. It hits Amstrad PC 1512 when he takes some time, saying that they have should have it out for Christmas, the streets next week, and me his GCSE exams next year. to study the effect of a computer The ST version is also under devel thinks they are going to sell quite а Having dystexia means that Ri- оп other children taking exams, opment, but is пос due until the few Rhard has great reading and spell- whether a technician has to be turn of the year. US Gold is, as always, planning ing difficulties and is therefore at present and whether the print-out ‘The Microdeal machine motors а bumper crop of games for your a disadvantage to his class-mates. time is incorporated into the exam oh. Tanglewood on the ST is delectation this Xmas, and of According to Sandra Maloney, PR time. nearing completion, mid-November these, Captain America is a fav- person for the Dyslexia Associa If Richard does win his ease, he again. It features 3000 locations, ourite to storm his way into unsus: tion, "Exams are the worst time will set a precedent for 320,000 which you can visit, out of a total pecting stockings as few will be for dyslexic children because of other school children who suffer of 12000, 1 wonder what the other able to resist a game that takes the pressure and the need to write from severe dyslexia. Рог them the 9000 are for? place in ‘the doom tube of Dr quickly. Often they know all the fear of exams is well and truly The press release for the game Meglomann answers but just. can’t put it on Justified. claims that “You've never played All the games for US Gold and an adventure like Tanglewood." GO! will be similarly priced. $8.09. Since there is no text input and it's on cassette for Commodore and all graphics I imagine not. Amstrad, S898 for Spectrum, Also from Microdeal, but this 31199 on disc for Amstrad and Elite legal row time for the Amiga, /nsanily $11.99 or $14.99 on Commodore Fight, programmed by a Swiss dise. team would you believe, is another. Well, last week was Guy Fawkes vertically scrolling shoot ‘em up. Night, and 1 have heard that a This one looks quite good, and you game to commemorate the event is over Star Clash cannot say that about many games planned for next year. However, ELITE publisher Superior Soft- of this type on the ‘ultimate’ home you cannot get by without having a ware was taking legal advice last computer. Price will be $24.95 and big licence or name involved, so I (Greek over the appearance of a ВВС release is... Guess? сап see it now = David Owen's game Star Clash, published by Those nice lads from Outlaw Gunpowder Plot. Gremlin. Productions, the Palace Software Pirate Software is putting Superior Software claims that offshoot, showed us something three of its most tasteful games on the game is a clone of its best very interesting on the Commodore 3” dise for all those Spectrum +3 selling game, and as a gesture 64 last week. The Shoot 'Em-Up owners out there with nothing to Gremlin boss lan Stewart has Construction Kit allows you to run on their machines. The titles agreed to withdraw Star Clash design professional looking hori- are Call Me Psycho, Holiday in from sale while both companies zontal scrollers, single screeners, Sumaría and Smash 0ш. continue their investigations. or Commando-style games. For Dunean Evans Several of the original features Elite = the original first used in Elite also occur in was so similar to Elite," said Gremlin Graphics’ game," said Su- Hanson. " must say that my anger perior managing director Richard is mainly directed towards the Hanson last week programmer, because I have con- “There is even a slight bug in tacted Gremlin Graphics and 1 the Star Clash program which is firmly believe they have been identical to a bug that is evident in duped by Julian Bushell.” Flite, Indeed many of the machine an Stewart confirmed that the code routines appear to have been company has written to Bushell copied verbatim from Elie." about the affair, but was unwilling Star Clash programmer Julian to comment further pending his Bushell offered an early version of reply. the game to Superior some months “it’s no great hassle as far as ‘ago, but it was refused. I'm concerned - but 1 don't con- “We took one look at the game done programmers re-using other and refused to publish it because it people's code." 13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY/5 “NEWS DESK

DIARY DATES Electric’ goodies FOLLOWING last week's review of Ocean's Christmas software, this week we look at Electronic Arts NOVEMBER and US Gold. Electronic Arts announced it would be releasing eight new 13-15 November games for Christmas - Skate or Electron and BBC Micro Die, Ferrari Formula One, Test User Show Drive, the fantasy Bard's Tale II, New Horticultural Hall, London Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight БИ Trainer, PHM Pegasus - a hydro- Details: Latest hardware and foil combat simulation, Apollo 18 software across the Acorn range and Mini Put. In addition its Organiser: Database Exhibitions, original Bard's Tale will be avail 001-456 8388 able for all popular home comput- ers and Marble Madness will be ош for the Atari ST and IBM РС. You will also be able to purchase 21 November Wiz Wars, a compilation of Archon Wales and West Computer and Archon П: Adept. Of these the Show skateboarding simulation, Skate or Central Hotel, Cardiff Die, is Electronic Arts’ pride and Details: Regional computer show. Joy. With professional contests, оГ particular interest to Dragon special events and computer oppo. Christmas treats from Electronic Arts users nents, the game offers a multitude Formula One and Test Drive. The Countach. ‘Tickets $1 adults, 50р children of moves and is graphically rich, first has you racing a Ferrari Both games are available on the Organiser: R & А J Preston, Available on the Commodore 64, it F1/36 on 16 top-class racetracks, Amiga, priced $24.95. Test Drive (0056) 880065 will cost $14.95 on disc and $9.95 whilst Test Drive enables you to will also be out on the ІВМ at on cassette, speed in several top sports cars $24.95 and the Commodore, $9.95 Also of interest are Ferrari including the Lamborghini оп cassette and $14.95 on disc, DECEMBER

5 December 6809 Colour Show Grand Hall, Connaught Rooms, Gt Going for gold Queen Street, London Details: Show for Dragon and ‘Tandy owners EXCITING things are also going on at US Gold for Christmas. THE PHENOMEN IN CONTINGES....: Tickets $2 adults, $1 children Five new games are scheduled Organiser: John Penn, (04203) for release, including a conversion 5970 of the coin-op hit Outrun. A chal- lenging motor sports simulation, Ошғип comes with the original soundtrack which you сал slot into 12 December your hi-fi. Christmas ZX Microfair The other games are Rygar, New Horticultural Hall, London. another coin-op conversion, set in SWI prehistoric times, the skateboard: Details: Latest innovations for ing simulation - 720 degrees, and Sinclair users Gauntlet П, The latest game is a Advanced tickets: $1.50 adults, $1 sequel to Gauntlet but also has children many new features such as the evil ‘Tickets on the door: 82 adults, Dragon and ‘IT’ creature, over 100 £1.50 children different levels and extra amulets Organiser: Mike Johnson, - Temporary Repulsiveness, Trans- 01-801 8172 portability and Supershots. Tn addition to these games there is also the Solid Gold compilation, consisting of five top games - Gauntlet, Ace of Aces, Leader- Gauntlet (Кот US Gold board, Winter Games and Infit- trator. Solid Gold is priced at Gold's new GO! label, which eval jaunt, Side Arms - Cameom’s 9.99 on cassette for C64, Spec- licences predominantly British shoot ‘em up, Wiz Warz - the alterations — to trum and Amstrad, $12.99 on disc. products, is also set to release five magical strategy/action game and for the Spectrum +3 and $14.99 for games - Bravestar - Mattel’s New Captain America. GO's first arrangements. the others. Texan hero, Ramparts ~ a medi- adventure,

6/POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY 13-19 NOVEMBER 1987.

NEW AN NOW OTHER HOME COW

Amiga 500 is here. With a mind-blowing array of features and capabilities, And a £499.99: price ticket (inc. VAT), hundreds of pounds less than anyone could have predicted. te ү on а miracle of compression. writes Popular Computing Week Len 4 itall adds up to a formidable stem which is clearly better than anything else at the price” This elegant little machine family computing into new dimensions of creativity, excitement and producti It outruns and outguns office а business multi-tasker, performing a deskful of different jobs simultaneously, at over 7 million Steps per second in realtime. So other home computers may not be the only machines it consigns to the toy cupboard. AMAZING SCIENCE FACT. Amiga is used by Disney, Universal and other Hollywood studios for its dazzling 3D graphics manipulation and animation powers. A sophisticated high-speed graphics processor called a blitter chip transforms images in realtime. You can paint the screen with more than 4,000 colours. Create and modify designs and effects as you them with graphics. Then re-transfer YOU AIN'T HEARD NOTHING YE? like, with pin-sharp resolution. them to videotape! Concealed within the sleek You command an almost ‘This means you can produce Amiga shape, there is also limitless workshopful of stunning spectacular special effects like those a pro-quality sound synthesiser ап professional graphics capabilities. created by Amiga computers for four-track stereo sound system. With an optional Genlock Channel 45 Chart Show and the Driven by another powerful interface, you can capture images American TV science fiction series and unique custom chip, it can off videotape. Manipulate and mix Amazing Stories, synthesise musical instruments an

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Your Amiga can also environment, where everything synthesise the human voice. happens by windows, icons, mouse Itcan speak back anything and pulldown menus. you care to write on the keyboard. So this is one computer that can not only word process with faultless professionalism, and incorporate superlative graphicsinto the text, it can also read the text back to you aloud. GAMESMANSHIP AND WORKMANSHIP! The new Amiga 500, in fact, dumbfounds its competitors in every way. And the Amiga 500 simplifies Graphics, stereo sound, multi life in another way too. windowing, multi screens, 512K to ‘There is now no comparable 1Mb RAM (expandable by an home computer. At any price. incredible 8 further megabytes externally**), 3/2” internal disk drive with 880K of mass memory, INCREDIBLY 4 unique dedicated chips plus the ONLY 49 9. 99: 16/32-bit power and 714MHz speed —_ INCLUDING Va of its central processor, communica- tions and vast expansion potential Try the astonishing new | 3 all add up to a computer of Amiga 500 at your nearest immense professional capability. Commodore Amiga dealer. Yet the same technology And discover why Personal allows the Amiga 500 to play games Computer World’, having tested the so mind bending that only full- graphics performance of Amiga's scale arcade machines latest and most powerful rival, have been able to play concluded “..Amiga still reigns them until now. supreme. sound effects. | AND AMIGA MEANS T An optional digitiser allows ‘FRIEND’! you to take onboard real sounds. However many of the | Mix and modify the two. Translate Amiga's extraordinary talents you | your compositions from keyboard find yourself using, they will all be to sheet music. Play them back beautifully simple and natural. | through the monitor's speaker or You will be totally at home your hi-fi. in the friendly and effortless Amiga

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Amstrad Effect 2

Will the imminent launch of Amstrad's Portable PC be a re-run of the huge success of the PC1512? Nikki Carvey reports.

HE launch of the Amstrad to take off, portable two weeks ago was a So when the Amstrad PPC goes hard sell affair. on sale in January 1988, it will Chairman Alan Sugar laid spe- probably meet with mixed cial emphasis on the ‘Amstrad reaction Effet of the PCIBI2, whereby Some support Sugar's view that Amstrad produced the ‘right the portable market is a viable machine at the right price’ and so ‘one, whilst others believe that this. managed to succeed where others time Amstrad won't succeed where failed, others have failed. Sugar maintained that this would continue with the Amstrad portable. But since portables cur- Getting to grips rently occupy only 3 per cent of the What seems to be the biggest market and even IBM has declined problem in sight for Alan Sugar to produce one, a question. mark and the Portable Personal Comput- hangs over the success of this new er is the continuing difficulty Am- venture. strad is having getting to grips with the ‘corporate’ market, Whilst the PC1512 and PC1640 All times, all places have both been well received by gs But Sugar is adamant that there is the press and public, the large Da large market for the portable corporations are still backing PC since demands now extend beyond specialists such as Compaq and the home and office, with people Zenith, and IBM themselves. requlting access to computers at For the portable to succeed, it all times and all places. too will have to broach the corpo- He sees the target consumers as rate gap. “people who recognise where they The machine may, and T suspect. would could use it and who find will, sell well to computer users the portability an incentive.” who purchase their own machines He added that the PPC was “a (if only on its price to performance hive off between a Laptop and a basis) but will companies to whom luggable. price is not the biggest considera- ‘The crucial aspect is of course, Whilst Rymans will be stocking orders from any of the Rymans tion take the PPC seriously? price. With Toshiba and Compaq the product, it is more the result of shops. Ironic as it may seem, the gen- selling their portables from around а ‘give them a chance’ attitude The two other main retailers eral conclusion is that Amstrad is $1000 to 82000, Sugar believes that than a belief in the market. likely to stock the Amstrad port- under-pricing itself out of the customer is simply not pre- Machines buyer, Graham Green, able are W.H. Smiths and Dixons. contention. pared to buy such a large amount. was interested to hear of Boots’ Whereas Dixons has been un- When asked to comment on Despite Amstrad's faith in its decision since it confirmed his own available for comment, W.H. expected sales figures, Sugar him- product, however, the scepties re- doubts, Smiths was, although its computer self conceded that it was “dodgy main, A spokesperson for Boots He commented, “I'm not person- buyer, lan Laurie, was noncommi- territory" but said that Amstrad stated that it would not be stocking. ally convinced there is а huge tal. “We have not yet reached a was looking for figures in the the portable "purely for commer- market for them. People will be decision as we still have to evalu- hundreds of thousands. Will this cial reasons”. In other words they buying them as toys and not really ate the machine”. But he did say be achieved. Will the ‘Amstrad do not think there will be enough using them." He added that there that 1988 was the year for the Effect’ continue? Next year will demand for it. һай, as yet, been no advance portable to succeed if it was going reveal ай. ü

13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY/11 "LETTERS

An open letter to Page 6, PO Box 54, Stafford ST16 orphan Orie via the French Midi IDR, has ST50 The Eamon Adven- with а comb and paper. As a Basic Micronet ture System, ported from the Apple Basher whose highest flight is a was interested to read your (it doesn't mention whether it's pert peek or a pragmatic poke, 1 reaction in Vol 6 No 41 of the Apple 1 or the Macintosh) and Popular Computing Weekly to my now fully implemented on the ST. am glance rebuked, at that cast tortured down. picture Then I article on the French Teletel sys- The disc contains several adven- tem. I don't blame you for plugging tures and full documentation. stitched the hunted, lips, staring the endless eyes, deformity the pai Micronet on the back of my article. There's also 5159 Adventure Writ- of that left shoulder thrice the size But honestly Mieronet and Minitel er, including a Gem.IMG graphics of ts other, the giant hand clawed are not really that comparable! screen. їп a timeless spasm - and I can say Minitel is à silicon substitute for Floppyshop ST, 50 Stewart Cres- “Genius maybe, but my God how the national telephone directory ~ cent, Northfield, Aberdeen АВ? he's paid for it!" Here is a terrible а free alternative for registered SSR has САМ.04 Adventure levelling, Reconciliation, word over telephone subscribers. So you in- Writer. all, beautiful as the sky, is spoken: clude a modem for the price of a STAR UK, Elmdale House, 8 Elm and | am free to return humbly to 306 subscription for access to a Place, Aberdeen AB2 3SU has 226 ту next loop for ay, och ay. Would system in which many services are Wow! This “Jack The Ripper” game Adventure Writer, you and Mrs Seager conspire to rob free (as with Minitel). Fine. But certainly is realistic! MCSOFT, 9 Abingdon Gardens, me of this? for many of us that means forking Bath, Avon BA2 2UY has GAM Lastly, а little knock to help ош more cash for an RS232 to join 05H - an adventure building sys- David Talbot (5 Oct) persuade the Modem and Micro, unless yours the cash outlay for equipment, tem complete with a sample adven- trade to turn on its hearing aid, I takes this into account. membership and call charges. ture, and GAM ОБН Eamon Ad- have just bought from the local Does Micronet include free on- My financial controller's ques- Dixons a Spectrum +8, 1 like line access to the Telecom national tion about the value of a service is: Obviously 1 can't say which printing from RS232 or Centronics phone directory? Or hardware on "What does it cost not to have discs apart from the Eamon Ad- parallel im full printer cont which games can ~ at a price - be what you feel is essential?" So I do venture System are duplicated on without having to buy a ransom 0 played? without, yet curiosity and intuition this list until I get an ST, but 1 hope interfaces to do it; a Copy com- Tmay not have to pay to access a tell me I should be exploring - not this has been of some help, As for mand for Ad-wide screen dumps; free service, but I'll have to pay to only to get quick access to travel using an ST with an Amstrad CTM an integral compact Spectrum sys- S тен — use telephone lines, This isn't so info, telephone numbers etc; but to monitor, as supplied with their tem. My heart sang a leaping song straightforward for someone living see if 105 possible to update my CPCs, I thought 1 should mention as the manual confirmed my brief- outside the urban areas, information on third world issues that a ready made lead for this ing that I could transfer my golden ‘The PSS network in France goes which matter to people I work purpose is available from Micro- heritage of home-grown programs someyhat further than the British with. snips, 37 Seaview Road, Wallasey, Via cassette and the special lead to system to equalise the costs of ЇЇ do you а deal. Lend me a Merseyside 145 49%, telephone the Sound/Tape sock access nationally. The cheaper you modem and RS232 for my CPC6128 (051) 830 3013, Credit card hotline “Be still, my heart" says quite make entry level, the easier it is for a year, and free access. ГЇ pay оп (051) 691 2008, for $9.95 plus $1 another song. So too say Dixon for more people to get into the the phone bills, and ГИ pay the p&p. "The special lead is specially un- habit of using the system. This year's subscription retrospectively Paul Brown reduces costs, and people become if Т get what | want out of the Sidcup, Kent did available. and any The other only would reason buy why a +3 I more willing to pay the extra for system. Moreover, I'll keep a diary rather than another similarly leisure and less essential online of my exploits which you'll be priced discequipped machine is services. welcome to publish in whatever 100 or so, plus the costs of local magazine you persuade to take it, Faith in a onward If Alan Sugar compatibility can't stick of softwar so essen- phone calls to start becoming fa- Who knows - perhaps Popular cruel world tial a lead in with the main pack, miliar with the whole concept of Computing Weekly might be irst, thanks and praise to your should not Dixons feel bound in online information, is to many interested? advertiser, Schoen Keyboards, 1 commercial honour to have th home computer users a luxury that. Keith Kimber bought а board for my QL but thing available at sale? Why do they cannot afford. H's yet another Chepstow, Gwent made a terminal cods of fitting the who want only to be a customer price threshold people are reluc- terminal tails, Chris Smith charita- find myself coursing around Croy- tant to cross unless the usefulness This is a genuine letter, honest - bly suggested a now-corrected de- Чоп like a demented Aneka Rice of doing so can be justified, Look at Ed. sign frailty as well as my banana without her helicopter looking for | | the way more people will fork out a fingers deserved blame, and fitted REN ы Ө couple of quid for a budget game ап immediate free replacement. 1 I have to order the special lead today, than pay a tenner for just have now a splendid keyboard and with a special order form specially | one - however good. ST adventures - the warmth of а good deed shining for те. It will take а week while In the end budget game prices results іп а naughty world. my genius lies fallow, How long | may lead people to spend more Second, 1 put your publication to then at Xmas time? And what is | | money on games, but they'll do so ark Sarul of Barwell, Leics, ordeal by dilemma. Mrs Seager (5 the sage of Och na Garr going todo | | convinced they're getting better asked on the October 30 let- Oct) will forsake you if you don't about it? value for money. ters page if there were any adven- refurbish the public face of Kenn George Watson. Т work from home for a third ture writing utilities available for Garroch. 1 will consign you to Croydon world church charity, which is cost. the Atari ST, The reply given was Robert Maxwell if you do, And conscious, So Гуе paid for the that there were only the GAC and what's my reason? Week on week computer tools most colleagues another by Gilsoft name unknown and month upon month through prefer to do without, It’s unlikely 1 (which is obviously the Quill), but your pages and over your columns could improve my business effi- neither is out for the ST. ‘strides the wild sage of Och na ciency dramatically with online You asked if anyone knows Garr calling Forth in the tongues services. 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псе upon a time there was a Amiga specialist called Simply game called Dandy. In most Megaware, They were not, how respects it was a pretty bor ever, responsible for the program- ing game, with one major attrac- ming of the game. The team behind tion; four people could pla the Garrison are collectively known game simultaneously. Although a as Digital Dreams, a German com- {#0 ordinary game, Dandy’s one pany of whom I for one have never claim to fame is that it was previously heard. responsible for a bod at Atari Perhaps the most immediately Games creating Gauntlet impressive thing about Garrison is Once upon another time, there the music. Strictly for head. was an arcade game called баин. bangers, it consists of a bastardisa- let. It was tremendously successful tion of Dire Straits Money For d, as tends to happen, lots of Nothing reproduced immaculately software houses wanted to release оп the Amiga. Although not the

criticism 1 would level at the game best arcade game yet to be re is that, unless you have a 1024K leased on the Amiga. It combines Amiga (and how many of those are excellent gameplay with graphics there?) your men ай look the and sound that matches the origi- same, thus making life somewhat nal arcade machine - what more confusing could you possibly want? Throughout the game, sound If you own an Amiga and you effects are used well, with some don't crack open the piggy bank for xeruciatimgly painful sounding Garrison then you're а fo noises as you despatch of various Daniel MeGrath baddies. People unused to the ins and outs of Gauntlet will find the game confusing at first, but after a Program Garrison Type Ar- few nights play, you will be cade Price 528 Supplier Simply hooked. Megaware, 49 Links Drive, Soli- Garrison is quite simply the hull, West Midlands,

it. Only US Gold, however, had the same atmospheric music as the rights to publish Gauntlet. original, this is a pretty good Once upon another time (last alternative. time, honest) Firebird released a In play the game allows two game called Druid, to be followed people to play simultaneously (this shortly afterwards by Dandy from is limited by the two joystick Electric Dreams, These games had ports), with each player choosing Warrior опе thing in common, they were any one of the five available Бер ра both closely modelled on Gauntiet characters (Dwarf, Valkyrie, Wiz- ‘The reason for this laborious ard, Warrior and Elf). Each of the Elf introduction is that yet another five characters has different d Gauntlet clone has been launched, strengths, which manifest them- only with two major differences. selves in good and bad points. Valkyrie Firstly it is for the Amiga, and Graphically, Garrison is a эзим позавро вее secondly it is as good, if not better, curate clone of Gauntlet, with a Dwarf than the arcade original, number of notable changes. All the Garrison is set to be released dungeon floors are complicatedly any day this week, priced at $23 designed, and the baddies (ghosts, пи: ча and sold, in the UK at least by an devils, ete) all well defined. One

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Да" or Tau Ceti 1, flops check out the mission briefing but I'm afraid that's not good onto the ST. One of the more before passing out into the bar- enough. eagerly awaited conversions of теп wastelands where the action The extra equipment that a Your complete the year for the average ST commences. I don't think barren standard skimmer can take on guide to all the owner has arrived, and if sighs of is quite the word though, feature- board is interesting as well as disappointment were heard less is more appropriate. software released around the office, it was only The front panel of your space- useful. A scanner gives you a 360 this week because so much was expected of ship is disappointingly plain. degree radar scan of the sur- the program, Rather than fancy instruments, rounding ly useful area, for locating which is extreme- the guy You play а cadet at the Gal monitors and dials, the display is that's blowing your tail to pieces. corp Academy, set up to train boringly similar to the Spectrum Оп worlds where the sun sets it skimmer pilots for colonisation version. The small viewport Amiga and reconnaissance work. To gets pretty dark out there on the through which the alien planet plain, so remember to pack a few Program Ninja Mission Type Ar- graduate from the Academy you Surface can be seen reveals stars, flares to illuminate the scene. cade Price 50.95 Supplier Master- must score 90% on 20 missions, the sun, and the oncoming enemy You could always use the infra- tronic, 8-10 Paul Street, London grouped in five levels of four. complete with laser fire. AL red viewer as well. You have a choice of three though you can speed up and It’s not all destruction though, ЕС? skimmers, or you design your slow down, there is no indication many of the larger buildings own with its own capabilities, of such action on the scenery, no have docking facilities, and jump Mastertronic moves into the Amiga weapons systems and power sensation of going anywhere. A pads to enable you to leap from market with this conversion plants, Once you've got your counter creeps up or down ac- location to location and so save Graphically it is very similar to the wheels the next thing to do is cordingly on the control panel time (and avoid danger). Talking ST version, something of a disap- to your computer while docked pointment when the Amiga is ca- allows а few useful functions to pable of better, but the sound is be carried out, including, ma- noticeably less tinny, The mi nipulating code pieces found quite good, in a Europop sort of while on the mission. жау, and accompanies the limited What was a cracking game on martial action proceedings. Good the Spectrum has turned into a enough for а wet afternoon, but mediocre one on the ST, complete worth a tenner? with fairly poor graphics and sound. Duncan Evans Program Acai Micro Atari ST Price $19.95 Supplier CRL, CRL House, 9 Kings Yard, Carpenters Road, London El 2HD.

lorizontally serolling screen, On the Spectrum version, C64 versions are a good deal men running around firing at which as one might expect is not better. you, the action viewed from the best implementation, the Duncan Evans ebove, prisoners to rescue from scrolling is quite good, and the (Wine clutches of an evil enemy. use of colour is up to scratch, but Program Jackal Micro Spec- What could it possibly be? Cc the soldiers, tanks and jeep are trum Price $7.95 Supplier Kon mando? No, not quite. This not much better than black blobs. ami, Bank Building, Bank Konami's Jackal, a home сот. While running the opposition Street, Newton Abbot, Devon puter version of their popular over is fun, the general gameplay TQI2 2IL. arcade game. is below par. The Amstrad and The idea is a simple one. Drive through enemy territory in a Amstrad PCW Jeep, mowing down gooks with a machine gun, or simply running Program Countdown to Doom them over (hee hee). You must ‘Type Adventure Price £9.95 (disc) rescue the prisoners from their Supplier Topologika, PO Box 30, huts and deliver them to safety Stilton, Peterborough РЕТ SBR. at the helipads where a heli- away copter to will safety. arrive and whisk them Program Philosophers Quest Having done the decent thing Туре Adventure Price $9.95 ( you can then progress on Supplier Topologika, PO Box 39, Stilton, Peterborough РЕТ SBR, and towards try the to enemy finish the headquarters game by blowing it off the map. Program Kingdom of Hamil Type As well as the soldiers firing at Adventure Price $9.95 (disc) Sup- you, care must be taken when plier Topologika, PO Box 39, Stil- there are tanks around as these ton, Peterborough РЕТ SBR. аге very proficient at relieving you of the odd life. continued on page 18 D> 13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY/17 GAMES

cause everything moves во fast Software guide you don’t have time to look away continued from the out-of-the-cockpit view. Rushing towards you in wire Program Acheton Type Adven- frame 3D are tracks of panels ture Price $9.95 (disc) Supplier which mark the space lane, along Topologika, PO Box 38, Stilton, with coloured squares which can mean bad news, and large ob- Peterborough РЕТ 3BR. structions, which definitely mean bad news. To start with, the space lane is Amstrad CPC three blocks wide and wrapped into a canyon shape, it does level Program Peter Shiliow's Hand- ош into а plain later on though, ball Maradona Type Arcade Price and expand to six lanes. ‘The $2.95 Supplier Bug-Byte, Victory greatest problems arise when House, Leicester Place, London sections of the space lane are WO2H ТАВ, simply missing, and you must change lane in order to avoid Oh по, The naffest licence ever disappearing into a black hole (is reaches the Amstrad. Owners of this the A1 or what?). Given that said machine steer well clear. everything hurtles at great speed towards you, your reactions need Program Aliens Type Arcade to be quite quick initially, When Price $9.95 Supplier Electrie great chunks of the space a) Dreams, Terminus House, Termi: are missing, and you have й mus Terrace, Southampton 801 swap lane at every panel, IFE. thought goes out of the window and you simply have to react Some attractive graphics and at correctly and in time. It can be mospheric games make this US quite exhilarating when you version of Aliens a reasonable flash through a particularly hard alternative, sector, but equally annoying The first game though, dropping when you blow it, just short of into the asteroids atmosphere, is the production line over at You are the pilot of the the end of the level. still ridiculously hard, but at least. Infogrames HQ has recently Phoenix AY21, with orders to re- Very reminiscent of the Star you can skip that section. cranked into full gear, and open some disused space lanes by Wars game, Phoenix is one for Even less palatable is the fact Phoenix is one of the latest flying down them and shooting those with only the fastest of that this is a multi-load job on offerings. anything that gets in the way. reactions and sharpest of minds. cassette, Programmed by Ere Informati- The control panel is fairly Duncan Evans que, Phoenix resembles a cut pretty, but doesn't offer a great Program Phoenix Micro Atari Program Guild of Thieves Type down version of Stargliders; deal of information, Your energy ST Price £19.95 Supplier Info- Adventure Price £19.95 Supplier has wire frame graphics, ut level, level number and a short grames, Mitre House, Abbey Rainbird, Wellington House, Upper your movements are strictly range scanner are about it. That. Road, Enfield, Middlesex, St Martins Lane, London WC2H limited. §DL, latter item isn't much use, be ‘This 6128 only version features {г о cam be President Re а oneplayer game it is megalomania. INF treaties? Fahy: similar graphics to the ST version, gan in the latest release from interesting enough for a couple Duncan Evans but not quite as good obviously. PSS on their Classic Conflicts of plays, but the lack of sophisti- Still, excellent adventure in which label. No, I don’t mean it shrinks cation and strategy (this isn't an you undertake mass thievery your brain or gives you wrinkles, bit Balance of Power) results in Program Power Struggle Mi- AIL 6128 owners should rush out merely that you can control East it becoming stale before too long. сто Obi Price 54,99 (tape), and buy immediately or West in a game of ‘Super- As a two-player game, the thing 30.95 (disc) Supplier PSS, 452 power Politics’, has more longer lasting appeal. y Stanton Road, Coventry Program Super Sprint Type Ar Although the C64 doesn't have Quite а nice, easy game for DG cade Price $9.95 Supplier Electric the capability for displaying high indulging in the odd bout of Dreams, Terminus House, Termi- res, colour graphics with loads of nus Terrace, Southampton 801 detail, the actual world map in ІЕЕ, the central window of the display is still effective. A blow up of the The officially licensed version of area under the map cursor ap- the arcade classic. Oh, you've al- pears in the bottom left of the ready bought the Codemasters screen anyway budget version. Never mind. The Every turn, each player has a Official version still looks number of options points, doing antiquated. anything takes up a few points. Your options including attacking Program Jackal Type Arcade adjacent countries, building up Price $7.95 Supplier Konami, the industrial strength, enforc- Bank Building, Bank Street, New- ing countries with the forces ton Abbot, Devon 7912 2JL. from the one next door, exerting political influence and building continued on page 21 D> factori

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The bits I particularly like are the edges, which consist of a thin. coloured strip and lots of black space - still, the space explodes too when you bomb it, so what the heck? Complete one mothership, and you're thrown into another wave of salt shakers and have to chase after another lego leviathan. Since 1 scored 290,000 on my first go with both hands shut and my eyes tied behind my back, BBC B EITHER I am the galaxy's great- est arcade game player OR Program Ransack Type Arcade “Death or Glory” is hideously Price 57.09 Supplier Audiogenic, uncomplicated and unsatisfying. Winchester House, Canning Road, Could I just say that the high- Harrow НАЗ 78), score table is pretty? Because 1 wouldn’t want to be accused of Program Ziggy Type Arcade Price eath or Glory was pretty fleet (after the souvenirs ignoring the good points. $7.95 Supplier Audiogenic, Win. dreary on the Commodore 64, should think). John Renwick chester House, Canning Road, Har- but on the Spectrum it takes on Harrassed by what look like том HAS 784, whole new levels of dreadfuülness. swarms of angry saltshakers, Lavishly illustrated with screen- you fly your spaceship across the Program Death or Glory Ar- Program Life of Repton Type shots (hah!) the packaging in- resolutely non-scrolling starfield, cade Price 3895 Machine cade Price $6.95 (tape), $7.95 forms you that your task is to avoiding missiles until you locate spectrum Supplier CRL, CRL Supi Superior Software, defend the colony of New Strat- the mothership on your scanner. House, 5 9 King's n Yard, Carpen- Е Regent E Hoi Skinner Lane, ЭА Leeds ford, presumably just off the Then Пу over it, bombing off | irs Ros Stratford, London | | 157 1AX Avon Nebula, from an invading great square chunks. continued on page 23 В». 13-19 MOVEMBER 1987 POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY/21 А MUCH BETTER DEAL - WEEK AFTER WEEK PRODUCTION HARDWARE & PERIPHERALS. RRP WAVE Amstrad CPCABA Computer + Colour Sereen + Recorder 38899 30957 (ANC) Amstrad POWE256 Computar Мо Proc. + Monitor & Primer 458.85 28505 (А) ENGINEER Amstrad PONSSTZ Computer/W.P + Mon + Daisy Wheel Printar57385 A1898 (А) Amstrad РСТВ4О double drive ECD colour 103385 80910 (ANC) Electronic Arts is looking for a quallitied SOFTOBO? i Amstrad/Pace RS232 nterface Inc: Comstar -CPC 5995 — 4809 (C) ‘SOFTOBOS4 Amstrad/Pace Nightingale Мойт Inc. RS232 Lead14000 7826 (0) Production Engineer. Candidates should have ‘itn, Printer - ПМР2000/3000 (Ри 5) 2915 ми 0 а working knowledge of 6502, 8086, 280 and AMS AMX Mouse - CPC вв so 0 Romanic Robot Muhiface Two - CPC (tape/dise backup) 4695 © 68000 Assembly language as well as a AMPL 1 lead, Printer Centronics Paralel - CPC 335 © foundation in “С”. This position will require РБОЗАС Pace 2nd 5257 Disc Drive ис. TOOS utility dse 19090 © ‘Assad ОМР2000 Printer Inc. FREE Cable fr CPC 1639 щ good communication skills and will act as Мао Риўйегиз NPT35 DM, В0си. 135cpe. FAT, NLO, Parallel194.35 а our interface with media duplicators, Duties Panasonic KXP1081 ОМ, Bücol T20cps, FAT, NLO, Paralel 281.75 А Epson LXB DM, 800, 120сре, Tractor, NLO, Paralal/IM 31625 (А will include but not be limited to protecting ‘Star МЛО OM, 60си, 120ра, FBT, NLO, Paral, Regs Cat /Р274 8S [^] program masters, qualifying potential 32 Amstrad Joystick - CPC 898 [4 Sinclair Spectrum PLUS 2 ис. recorder, joystick & games 20000 А duplication vendors and archiving Sinclair Expansion pack inc. interface Y, microdrive, lead, demo-cartidge production masters. + usor puide 3985 Commodore Ата A500 inc. fre deae paint 499.98 The qualified candidate will work closely ari 20 STEM 20898 ari 1040 STF 40999 with the Product Engineering Group in our Atari 1040 STF System inc. 1040 STF, + 12 Н. mono monitor599.99 San Mateo office and will report to the Atari SM 125 12” HR. mono monitor 14999 Commodore Amiga Systems 1 ис. Amiga А1000 512K + А1081 НЯ. Director of European Distribution. Electronic Colour monitor. This Amiga tomes with 12 months onsight waren Arts offers а comprehensive employment Y 1258.10 SOFTWARE package. Salary is £12,000-$14,000 р.а. CF2 3” Blank Dises 0$/Р all 3” Ores, cased Box 10 29.90 depending on experience. ВИК by Bast Хб, RPS etc. 55" 05/00 40T (РА 25) All curent chart games software retail less 30% + £1 PBP Qualified applicants should send a CV for WAVE PRICES EXCLUDE VAT. the attention of D. J. Dozier at Electronic Arts, ANC 3 day 900. Not day £12.00. Admin Offices. Callers by appointment ony, 11/49 Station Road, Langley, Berks, ‘UK Post 8 из. (А) £6.00 (8) £400 (C) £3.00 (0) 62.00 (E) £1.00 (F) 50. Despatched by etum ol post, Pre inthis advert ме valid for 14 days. England SL3 8YN. ММ. ДА. W.E. (Dept. POP 1311) Walney Audio Video & Electrical ЕА 53 Shearwater Crescent, Barrow-in-Fu ELECTRONIC ARTS * Cumbria LA14 3JP. Telephone: 0229 44753/29109 Home Computer Software Hours: Mon.-Fri. 105.00

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l good games eventually spawn imitators, and Thun- Software guide dercats is pretty clearly derived continued from that ultimate slash'n'hack feast, Nemesis the Warlock. Program Cops 'n' Robbers Type However, rather than simply Arcade Price 51.99 Supplier At- hewing your way through screens lantis, 28 Station Road, London full of platforms and ladders, SE25 546. here you have to keep moving, running through parallax hori zontally scrolling backgrounds Commodore while you do your bloodthirsty C16 work. ‘Thundercats is licensed from а Program Survivors Type Arcade cartoon series, but don't lets Price $1.99 Supplier Atlantis, 28 hold that against it. Tidily pro- grammed, colourful, and accom. panied by one of those insistent weebly music tracks, it's a fine example of what the Commodore kill, and another if you complete get hit by a flying raven and you 64 is good at. You play the heroic a level in time. Bonus levels give do а most NemesisJike backflip Liono (can you believe that?), you one chance to rescue a caged and keel over. leaping chasms, jumping over pussycat; fall, and it's back to Fine, then, apart from a few obstacles and slashing down the main game, very obvious similarities to the grdes of Molemen on your way You can pick up time bonuses, otherwise less sophisticated retrieve the Eye of Thundera and extra weapons such as fire wW. from the wicked Mumm-Ra (stop balls, along the way. Here the John Renwick this, it's getting too silly). resemblance to Nemesis is stron Leaping to catch shields of gest, as you must decide whether Program Thundercats Type power, ducking to cut down teeny to use sword or fireball to get out Arcade Price $0.95 Machine little moles, and keeping an eye of tough spots. In a pinch, you CBM64 Supplier Elite, Anch оп the timer, Lion-o speeds to the ean sometimes leap over your House, Anchor Road, Aldridge, rescue, You get а bonus accord. enemy and do him in from be- Walsall ing to how many enemies you hind. Collide with а moleman or

Деве tany вата tee clues, which you must collect by cheese boosts your energy and at least this time it's from examining objects while avoiding allows you to make longer leaps, Commodore 64 Disney, which gives it something the rodent henchmen of the evil and mousetraps can be collected of a pedigree. Despite the cutesy Professor Ratigan. Only five of and later dropped in front of the Program Survivors Type Arcade animal tag, Basil is a pretty good these clues are genuine, but you henchmen to paralyse them. Price $1.90 Supplier Atlantis, 28 example of the platformsand- won't know which to keep and Here's a clue which will gain Station Road, London SE25 БАС. ladder - arcade - adventure which to discard until you have you access to hidden sections of strategy genre. You're a mouse filled all your Clue Pockets, and the game; letter boxes are made Program Knight Ore Type Adven. detective, spiritual descendent of can activate your magnifying for jumping in ture Price $14.95 Supplier Rain. eat Man of Baker Street (or glass. The larger single colour graph bird, Wellington House, Upper St Weu could be an actual descen When assembled, the clues will ies are very stylish, nicely de. Martins Lane, London WC2H 901, dent - old Sherlock had some also indicate the way ont of the signed and perfectly masked to funny habits . . .), and your task level and onto the next. The three avoid all colour clashes with the Program Radius Type Arcade is t0 rescue your kidnapped levels depict the seedy water- detailed backgrounds. Price $1.90 Supplier Players, Mer partner, front, the sewers, and finally The only annoying aspect of сшу House, Calleva Park, Alder Each scene contains eight Ratigan’s hideout. Finding the game is the plipplip-PLIP. maston, Berks RG7 4QW plipplip Basil makes every time he jumps, which can become a tad tiresome. m Otherwise, Basil is excellent, in fact the best programmed Spectrum game I've seen for some time. I hope the enjoyment lasts long enough for me to complete the quest. John Renwick

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two touching triangles. In the top down window this looks like a rectangle with a. diagonal line through it. In the other two Shapely Creations windows the image is a single horizontal line since these are edge-on views. This process sounds complicated and time consuming and in the early stages it сап be both, However, once you get used to Peter Worlock reviews Sculpt 3D -а the method of working it does become quicker, The main thing to remember is program which will allow you to create that edges can only be created by connect- three-dimensional images. ing two or three points. If all objects had to be created like this Sculpt 3D would be a very tedious program to use. Instead, it provides quick and easy tools for creating a variety of shapes. From Ci graphics has followed a clear- familiar plan views and elevations used in а menu selection you сап add cubes, ly marked path of evolution from the architects’ drawings and blueprints. spheres hemispheres, cones and other character-based displays of machines This can take some getting used to since shapes and solids to your image. like the Commodore Pet and original Apple you have to visualise your objects from 1I through low resolution pixel graphics on these three viewpoints and as you create Creative facilities Spectrums, Amstrads and Có4s to the very an image in one window it is rendered from Moreover, there are a number of other high resolutions possible on the Amiga and the appropriate viewpoints in the other useful facilities to make the process of ST. two windows, building 3D shapes easier. One of these is w And as the hardware facilities im- Objects are created by defining points in the extrude tool which takes a 2D image proved, so did the software, Paint and 3D space (called vertices) and edges link- and then builds it up layer by layer. This is üraw programs for producing two dimen- ing these points. Once again, this is not a a quick and easy way of making three sional images are now commonplace. But natural process for anyone used to draw dimensional lettering for example: Sculpt 8D, the latest. graphies package for and paint programs. To create а square Once your image has been created you the Amiga, represents another step for- face (a tabletop or a wall for example) then have a number of options of how to ward on the evolutionary path: full three requires the following steps. view it. Helpfully, these options are pre- dimensional image processing. sented in a way that lets you treat your То date such software has been confined Method objects as a film set. First you can position to dedicated graphics workstations or large First select one window, say the top down your camera (called the observer) any- mini and mainframe systems. Of course view for a tabletop. Holding the left mouse where in the scene and specify а target there have been many 3D wireframe button down you move the cursor to the which governs where the camera is graphics programs for older 8-bit comput- desired location and then with the left pointed. ers but Sculpt 3D goes well beyond this to button still down press the right button to Next you can light the scene with one or handling solid filled objects in full colour create the first point, Repeat for the other more lamps hanging these in different and as icing on the саке adds ray tracing positions to cast shadows and to illuminate facilities too. three corners. areas that would otherwise be unlit Ray tracing is something of a flavour of Finally, you can specify the lens on the the month thanks (0 the well known imaginary camera, using another from a graphies demos Juggler on the Amiga and telephoto wide angle to a fish eye. Shiny Bubbles on the Atari ST (in fact So you've created your image, positioned Sculpt 3D was written by Eric Graham your camera and lighting but you still creator of Juggler). Sculpt 2D is a very haven't seen anything except the three 2D powerful program and will allow you to windows. Sculpt 3D creates the full scene create your own sophisticated images but on a separate screen in one of five sizes there are some major drawbacks. tiny, small, medium, full and jumbo, Start things going and sit back. And wait and Features wait and wait. The program comes on a single 34” disc The quickest image is wireframe in accompanied by a 96-page laser-printed which only the edges are portrayed, Next manual, The dise as supplied is close to full is painting in which visible faces are filled with the program file and several demo in solid colour but there is no shading or files and therefore lacks Workbench or a shadows and no difference in texture. CLI boot routine. To load Sculpt 3D you Next, you have to select only two or Third up is snapshot which adds crude therefore either have to load Workbench three points to create the edges. If you shadows and some difference in texture, separately or create a CLI boot disc. select three then click on the edge-building Finally there is photo which reveals your Once the program has loaded you are tool you create a triangular face with three image in all its realistic glory. presented with the main work screen edges, ie, half of the tabletop cut diagonal- Apart from the increasing time needed which comprises three viewing windows ly. Then deselect the first three points, to calculate these images they carry an and the Amiga's usual hidden menu bar. select the fourth plus the two adjacent increasing penalty on memory overhead ‘The three windows show a bird's eye view, ones and then click on the edge building (more on this later). the view from east to west and the view tool again. So much for the basics, there's a lot from south to north, corresponding to the This creates a rectangle composed of more. For example. you can change all of.

26/POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY 13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 the colours in an image using the full 32- colour palette from the Amiga 4096 shades and different faces be painted different colours, Moreover each face can be a different texture ranging from dull through shiny to mirror, There is also glass texture which features varying degrees of, transparency and reflection depending on the angle from which it is being viewed. You can also add a sky and а chequer- "board ground pattern stretching away perspective towards the horizon. automatically The software aid calculates handles shadows from your lamps, too The really clever stuff and the most impressive visually is the ray tracing (and facility, indeed which reflections will calculate, in refléctions) reflections on surfaces defined as glass and mirror. This is realism. what gives Sculpt 3D pictures their What all this means is that you can Pereate on your Amiga something like the following, a town with roads, streetlights, shopwindows Windows as glass and texture office blocks. and put Define some lamps inside the buildings and Sculpt 3D. will realistically draw all the shadowing and reflections and the varying light levels. Next position your observer within the model, generate a finished image and save this to disc. Move your observer and generate a new image, Save this one to disc. Repeat umpteen squillion times. Write a batch file to successively display these speed problem is why computer generated points rather than edges but for us humans images and bingo, you have an astounding animation is largely confined in mega edges are a more natural reference point, ly realistic computer-generated cartoon of mainframes like the Cray used for The A line drawing facility with rubber band- someone moving through this solid-looking Last Starfighter. ing would make Sculpt 3D a great deal world, А very simple image can take 10 to 15 easier to use. This kind of project is possible but - minutes calculation in photo mode assum: Another improvement would be the here we come crashing back to reality. А ing you have the memory to accommodate. ability to correct drawings by specifying large project such as the one just described it, Complex images will take hours and co-ordinates for points, There is a co- possibly days to develop. ordinate system in the software, but trying ‘would ful though be a the lifetime's Amiga work is itis because a dinosaur power- at to adjust using the mouse can require a this kind of application Conclusions great deal of trial and error, Typing in a couple of numbers would be a lot easier. Problems Sculpt 3D is an incredibly powerful pro- Most importantly, however, the memory gram which can create truly astounding problems do not appear to have been The first problem is that the kind of 3D displays, Provided you can get to grips with properly catered for. Usually if Sculpt 3D images Sculpt creates require an awful lot the system of using points in three sep runs out of memory it simply tells you so of memory to calculate. On a 512K Amiga rate windows and the problems of visualis- and lets you carry on working but on one you won't have room to do anything except ing 3D objects in three 2D windows it is оссазїоп it threw me back to Workbench he crudest scenes of simple blocks and relatively easy to use, trashing the image I was working on and a spheres and no reflections either. On a 1МЪ Unfortunately on a 512K Amiga it is second time it simply crashed. system you can go further but 2 or 4 little more than a curiosity since you Anyone seriously interested in solid megabytes is preferable. (Once the image cannot do more than create the most basic modelling and ray tracing will jump at is created, of course, it сап be stored on images. To fully exploit the software you Sculpt 3D but you should be prepared to dise, occupying only the memory required will need a massively expanded system pay for the hardware expansion you'll for the sereen display.) with a megabyte or more of RAM and two need. The rest of us will probably stick to Secondly ray tracing involves unimagin- disc drives or a hard disc. Deluxe Paint. a able numbers of calculations and not even Apart from these limitations of the Peter Worlock the Amiga’s 68000 processor can rattle hardware (not the fault of Sculpt 3D) these off at anything like a sufficient there are one or two snags with the speed. A maths co-processor might help software. Least among these is the lack of Program Sculpt 3D Micro Commodore but there's no mention of this in the а line-drawing tool. 1 suppose there's a Amiga Price £79.00 Supplier The Amiga manual so I imagine it isn't supported. This good reason why the software works in Centre.

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The very good program. them do not exploit the full capabili- tracks are where you place the effects and ties of the machine, especially in games there are four different ones for back- software, However, in the business/ ground, foreground, music and control on DELUXEPRINT creative section and primarily, graphics the video script, For each scene on the DeluxePrint is an easy to use printing packages, the standard is much higher. video, there is a separate scene script just program, enabling you to design greeting. Two such programs, DelureVideo and like the main screen, complete with more cards, letterheads, signs, banners, posters DeluxePrint, both from the makers of tracks and effects. The tracks on each and calendars. Upon loading the program, Райи, Electronic Arts, combine power scene allow background, foreground, con- you are presented with the main format with ease of use. trol, picture, object, sound, text line and menu, from which you choose one type of polygon text effects. design. Choosing one of them with the Selecting a picture track will load in any mouse will display the blank page, occupy- DELUXEVIDEO IFF picture and the ability either to ing about half the screen for greeting cards DelusceVideo is а powerful graphics display immediately or to fade in the and posters and half the area again for manipulation tool which combines static picture. One restraint is that DeluxeVideo letterheads or banners. On each one, you pictures, moving objects, sound effects, only uses eight colours and the pictures are given the choice of selecting a border, music and various graphic effects such as will be displayed in the best or current images (small pictures) from the library of rotations, colour cycling, move to, fade palette. However, the display is still quite clip art or placing text on the page, in a. in/out, strobe and resizing. good. Objects are selected in the same way variety of fonts and sizes. The package comes with three dises and and can be loaded in on the video and made Selecting a border from the range of а fairly large manual, The main disc is to appear, disappear, move, shrink and designs on the disc is the first thing to do. called the Maker disc where you put expand. Any brushes made in DPaint can There is a good range available, in any together your videos, together with a be used as an object. colour. Once you have selected a border, Player disc and a Utilities disc. 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Mark Jenkins ends his series on music software for the Commodore 64, with a look at two more programs in the Sonus range of music packages.

Т: ве of you who do not own a Commo- from SuperSequencer. Alternatively, notes overlap before being considered as a single dore 64 will be beside themselves with can be placed on the screen using a cursor, chord, a staccato function which definesQ" glee to hear that this is our last look - moving on to the next note with the +/— minimum rest length, and the chosen key for the moment - at the Sonus range of keys. with up to 7 sharps or flats, You can also (64/0128 musie packages, SeoreTrack can hold 69 patterns each transpose the whole display and alter the The packages, which include two with 16 tracks, so theoretically you can colours of the display sequencers, an event editor, a Yamaha К store 1,008 short musical passages. There ScoreTrack uses two linked cursors, one drum machine librarian and a Yamaha РУ is а 255-position Song Table, and it is showing the current note, one the MIDI synth editor/librarian will run on most possible to mute tracks on some passes зо a event which created that note. The F5, 6, 7 MIDI interfaces such as those from Datel passage need not always sound the same, and 8 keys move the display to new notes, SIEL, Jellinghaus and the fortheoming ScoreTrack gives out MIDI clocks when and а change in any Note On time will model from Cheetah, although it would be playing so you can synchronise a drum automatically be matched with a change in as well to check out the interface you machine or other sequencer, and you с the appropriate Note Off. intend to use before purchasing. quantise your performances to exact divi- You can delete and insert notes with the Prices for most of the packages are very sions of notes, Inst/Del key and delete and insert more reasonable, and the last two we have to specific MIDI events (pitch bends, patch look at are ScoreTrack, a musie notation. changes and so on) using the Event Editor package, and Sonic Editor, a sample editing section. After-touch is not recorded as it package available for the Ensonia Mirage uses up too much memory, although you (or its rack-mounted version) and the !ScoreTrack is about the can insert it using the Event Editor section. Sequential Prophet 2000 or its rack-mount- cheapest notation package On the Note Editor page, pressing P will ing version, the 2002/2002 Plus. We will available on the market at print out the whole screen display, апд. cover Sonic Editor as soon as we can get Epson, Panasonic and Star printers ar our sticky hands on the appropriate the moment, and having its currently compatible. There is also a samplers. own sequencer built-in makes routine on the disk to set up ScoreTrack for ScoreTrack will convert files from the it unmatched if you need to other printers as well. Sonus SuperSequencer and Studio 1 pack- score out your music without ScoreTrack is about the cheapest nota- ages into conventional musical notation tion package on the market at the moment, and allow you to print them out. The file having the budget available and having its own sequencer built-in convertor is on the reverse of the master for a professional music makes it unmatched if you need to score disk and you must save the routines copyist."" out your music without having the budget needed for your particular printer onto the available for a professional music copyist. front side of the disk before replacing the If you intend to use other players who write protect sticker. read, or if you want to copyright any of ScoreTrack comes with a large and If you choose any recorded track and your compositions, ScoreTrack could be fearsome-looking anti-copying dongle for then press "E" for "Edit", ScoreTrack will invaluable. the User port - this can be replaced for do some calculations and then display the Also included in the Sonus range are the 395, but only if you have already registered passage in musical notation. This could be MIDITech System Exclusive Librarian ав a purchaser. ScoreTrack displays treble а pretty slow process if you have used (860), The Sonic Editor ($60), the basic and bassclefs with unlimited polyphony, many tracks, but the relative cheapness of Glasstracks sequencer ($47), the RX drum notes down to 1/32nd notes, double sharp the package can excuse this. machine Librarian ($80), and the Double and double flat and other less common The way notes are displayed on the Banked Librarian/Programmer ($60) for pieces of notation, all rest values, and key screen is subject to the chosen quantisa- the Yamaha DXT/TXT. ScoreTrack costs signatures. 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13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY/33 ; SOFTWARE Pump That Base

David Lester looks at the more serious side of computing and compares three database pro- grams for the Amstrad CPC 6128.

T: CPC 6128 was promoted by Amstrad take an awful long time. For a start, and memory. While it is nowhere near as ав a serious personal computer for the cannot simply load it up and have a look at powerful as something like DBase II or Ill, home; more recently, though, Amstrad а few sample databases. It works under it does not aspire to be. It stands up well, have instead been pushing their newer CP/M, and because it consists of several though, in comparison with other cheap IBM compatibles, and POWs, to the serious separate programs (to set up the keyboard, database programs, including those on home user, and the serious side to the CPC define a database, and use a database), view here. micros seems to have tailed off. your dise-drive will be working overtime Other points of note include an excellent After a wordprocessor, a database is from the word go. Having a second drive screen editing facility, and a large capacity probably the most frequently used serious will make things considerably easier; not (only limited, in fact, by the capacity of software package їп the home, and despite that that is mentioned in the ads, of your disc). the trend away from serious software for course! You even need to go through the Indexes are used to put files in a. the OPCs, there are several available to the entire initialising process just to look at the database into order; normally, you need to 6128 owner, Each, of course, claims to be worked examples! constantly update these index files as you the ultimate in databases = with the most On Page 1, the manual makes a point of alter your records - At Last scores highly power and yet easy to use. How do these explaining that there are no short cuts to by doing this automatically, saving pre- claims stand up? In this short piece we aim reading the manual in its entirety and cious time. It is also very flexible in terms to reveal the relative strengths and weak- working through all the examples. For of how to print any information reports nesses of three packages. anyone who has read a database before you might want. The disadvantage to this Databases are basically great for access- this is infuriating, since much of what is flexibility, though, is that even for simple. ing information in all sorts of different said is pretty basic. It is, though, excellent reports, there is a fairly lengthy process ways, far faster than could be done for beginners; especially since things are you need to plough through prior to manually, But before you can manipulate spelt out in painstaking detail. A concise printing, the files, you have to install them. You reference section would have helped a lot Yet another disadvantage is that At Last need to set up what form you want to store here. does not allow you to perform calculations your chosen data in terms of what informa- Still, At Last offers some tremendously on any arithmetical data you may have tion you want for each record (name, powerful features for a program of this stored, This means that you could not use address, ‘phone number, ete) and how price - its search commands being of the database to, for example, keep track of much space you want for each entry. This special note. Being more specific, At Last is any savings or investments you might have requires substantial planning before you а true relational database. For the unini- (as you could very easily with professional actually touch the keys. It also means that tiated, this means, in short, that it сап programs). а successful database needs to be easy to "relate" data between more than one file, Campbell Systems’ Masterfile Ш is, in operate, so that you spend your time using ie, that you do not need to repeat the same contrast to At Last, a sheer delight to get to the data, rather than working around the entries on several files, saving both time know and use. Menu-driven, the package is limitations of the software. easy to learn how to use, and is extremely Tt is this which is to my mind the biggest versatile. It, too, comes with а comprehen- disadvantage of At Last, by Rational Solu- sive manual, which is well-written, and tions. It comes on dise for both the СРС easy to follow. One key difference is that 6128 and the PCW computers - useful if this is designed so that you do not need to you have both, or at some stage wish to “

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disc out of the box, and load it up there and lity software, it is very user-friendly. And require the extra storage of At Last, the then; you can load in the example files simpler, too. I do not mean this in a power and compatibility of Masterftle III, which come as a tutorial, and learn by derogatory sense; compared to At Last it is or the simplicity and speed of access doing in a very simple and easy-going way а positive advantage. It is much easier to provided by Random Access. It makes a Not using CP/M also has the added bonus use, and more clear. But one cannot deny pleasant change for a reviewer to be able that you can adapt the program for your the lack of power relative to the first two to conclude that all three packages work own needs, from BASIC, This is well packages, not only by not being a relational well. It merely remains for you to sort out described in the manual, and adds huge database, but also by virtue of its having a your own priorities, and choose Potential for you to tailor the program to smaller storage capacity, and having cordingly exactly how you want it. simpler search commands. If the old adage that the customer is Masterfite has the relational facility Ав suggested by its пате, this package always right holds true, Masterfile wins touted by At Last, and is second to At Last uses a random access system to reduce the the day by outselling the other two by only in terms of capacity. With two dise time taken to find data, this is important quite a large extent. It offers the most drives. At Last has a much higher storage unless you have time to waste. This works power for the least effort, and is to my capacity. One less obvious advantage well, and is a very useful feature mind far preferable to At Last, But 1 which Masterfile Ш has is that it has It allows you to use BASIC to customise cannot deny that there is always the other almost become the standard for СРС it to your own needs, like Masterfile, and hand... n computers; which means that relevant provides more arithmetic calculations than software such as spreadsheets and word- the other two. Furthermore, you can processors tend to be compatible with it incorporate your own feel to it by designing Whereas they may not be with some of the the “record cards” on which you will s PROGRAMS EVALUATED: others. your data to include graphics and boxes, Minerva Systems, despite having a lower and even different sizes of characters. 1) Database Manager (At Last) profile for their Random Access competi- (Quite how useful this is depends upon 528.95 from Rational Solutions Ltd. tor, make some pretty strong claims for it what you are using it for; I confess to not ("the most powerful ever for the price"). needing that feature at the moment, but 2) Masterfile III Perhaps, you never know . .!) Like Masterfile, it uses Amsdos so that. Which really brings me to the crux of 339.05 from Campbell Systems, it is tailor-made to fit the CPC, rather than the article. There can be no one outright happening to run on it via CP/M, which winner in terms of features, power, or ease makes it significantly easier to start to use. of use. The three packages tested are 3) Random Access Database ‘And its emphasis is different. As part of clearly very strong in their own ways, and 330.05 from Minerva Systems. Minerva’s almost unique approach to uti- it is for you to decide whether or not you

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ment, by quite a long way on the column screen (but only with а against loss of data if you use them би. monitor 1 suspect) and has a better in this way. What is also usually When buying second hand, the keyboard. Since most 64 games will possible is for a DD disc first and most obvious thing is to run in 64 mode, I would think it read a SD disc in SD format. This is set-up the machine and see that it better to save up the extra money easy since the read/write head of works. While it is running, rattle and go for the larger machine, On the drive simply jumps two steps the power leads around to see if the other hand, you might be able ага time to access every other there are any faults in them - not to get a second hand non-Commo- track effectively, halving the num- usually too difficult to fix but you dore machine for around the same ber of tracks. may reduce the price a little. price as the 128 - this is worth ‘The 8000 series of PCW comput- Check all the keys on the keyboard considering. ers uses one drive of each type ie, a to make sure that they work, and. SD as A and a DD as B. This daft take a good look at the display to arrangement means that the B make sure it is steady. It's a good drive, which is usually used for idea to take along a game that you storage only, has twice the amount know and run it. Something that Confusions of space as the A drive but needs makes use of all the machine's M 1 Armstrong, of Welton, Lin- higher quality discs. Since DD facilities including the joysticks, сот, writ dises work easily with SD drives, Time for a the graphics and sound. I all these. I have just purchased an most POW users will end up buying are fine then the machine is proba- Amstrad 9512 and would DD discs all of the time. change bly in good shape, like to ask a couple of The ‘almost’ you mention presu- Minmy Grubb, of Carlisle, writes: If you have chance with either questions about the disc system. mably refers to the compatibility Tam at present the owner of of the machines, leave it on for 20 The first is: what kind of disc of software between the two ma- а 016 with which I use a minutes or ко, and then touch the should I use, the СЕ or CF-2DD? chines. Not being a great expert on 1541 disk drive, a great power supply casing. If this burns I read in another publication either, I can't expound a great deal little machine, little referring to your hand then its reasonably comments referring to the use of оп the subject. However, the best the memory. In the near future I likely to pack up in the next few discs from the 8256/8512, both thing to do when acquiring soft intend to upgrade to either a C64 months. If it is only warm then it A drive (SD) and B drive (DD) ware for your system is to make or C128, Lam in my thirties and should be OK. There are two types. which I find confusing. Could you absolutely sure that it will run ie, completely self-taught about of supply for the 64, the old green perhaps explain which you would get some kind of guarantee from ‘computing I am finding the C16 a shoe type, and the newer black recommend and why? the dealer. This then p bit restrictive but with money a ribbed box. The latter is better and I also notice the caveat the position that if something does little short, I will be purchasing should give much less trouble over ‘almost’ used with monotonous go wrong, you can take steps to Second hand one, во 1 wonder if the years to come. Apart from the regularity with reference to the rectify the problem st someone you could clear up a few points above tips and a good look at the use of 8000 series software on else's expense. for me? bodywork, 1 cannot think of much the 9512. Could you perhaps From the look of the 9152 (I've 1) What advantages and disad- else to suggest. In general, comput- enlarge upon this? never actually used one). I'd say vantages the C64 has over the ers are fairly reliable, and only the Finally, page 25 of the manual that it is possible to fit an extra 128 and vice versa? moving parts ever get a chance to mentions the possibility of add- drive in the slot to the right of the 2) When buying second hand, wear out. Obviously, if the ing an extra disc drive, specifi- one thatis already there. Judging are there any simple tests I could machine is looking battered then cally the FD4. Is this an integral by Amstrad's usual marketing carry out on either computer to second thoughts might be in order drive or simply a bolt on addition strategy, they will produce either check for faults? (unless, of course, its very clean). and would it involve changing the an upgrade or, more likely, another 3) What are likely to be the Where faults are concerned, I'm type of discs used ie, single or machine that uses both slots. main faults with either not a great expert on the C128 and double density? Tm afraid | have to admit computer? so, 1 cannot say what they may be. (again?) that I know nothing about 4) A friend reckons that only The 064 however, sometimes There are basically four the FDA; however, I'd guess that it about. 75% of C64 software will suffers from bad power supplies types of disc which can be is an external drive. The best way work on the 128 in 64 mode, why and knackered VIC and sound split into two groups: single- to find out is to look for expansion is this, or is he wrong? chips. Leaving the machine on for sided (SS), and double-sided (DS). slots at the back of the machine, If 5) I have, at present, got Lazer an hour or so will turn up th Each of these can be either single one of these is labelled disc drive Basie (Disk), Simons Basic (Cart) faults and, as 1 said above, running or double density. The CF-2 ap- or even PDS then you have the and in future was thinking about a well-known game also helps: pears to come in the double-sided answer, As to whether it is single the Phanton add ons. Will these As far as I know, the compatibi- category and can be either single ог double density, 1 suggest you work on the 128 in 64 mode or lity between the C64 and the 128 in or double density (SD or DD). SD contact a dealer and ask. not? 64 mode is about 99%. Most 64 dises normally have 40 tracks per Your help will be greatly ap- software that has been written side giving approximately 360K of preciated on this matter. I see since the advent of the 128 will run storage whereas DD dises have 80 that second hand 64's are rough- in 64 mode, Older stuff is not tracks giving roughly twice the ly 880-8110 wheras C128's are guaranteed to, but it should. You storage with 720K. The 9152 is Keyed-up 5140-5200, is it really worth may have problems with car- quoted as having 720K of storage Pearce Jameson, Clapham, Lon saving up the extra? tridges and interfaces as the 128 оп its drive and so must be using don, writes: has different hardware that is not DD discs. As you probably know, the As far as | know, the 064 completely 64 compatible. I cannot The way in which dises are Atari ST keyboard is ac- doesn't have any advantages го into details since 1 don't have manufactured means that after cessed by way of an exter- over the C128, since the 128 any, but. most, if not all, Commo- testing, those that do not qualify mal processor (Hitachi 6301). includes a 64 mode. The 64 is dore peripherals should work. for DD status are sold as SS and The problem I have is reading physically а smaller machine but As to which you should buy, if those that don't make that are multiple keypresses from it. It that’s about all. On the other hand, depends on what you want. The 64 junk. However, it is possible for a appears to only reveal the last the C128 has a number of advan- is great for games and game pro- DD disk drive to read a SD disc in two keys pressed, if you hold tages, larger memory, better Basic, gramming (machine code) but is a DD format since, most of the time, down any more, they are ignored. three machines in one (C64, C128, little naff when it comes to word the discs are of quite a high What I would like to know is how and (P/M), and a better keyboard. processing. The 128 on the other quality - the only drawback being to read more or alternatively, Basically the C128 is an improve- hand is capable of running an 80- that they are not quaranteed since I can read the ROM of the

36/POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY 13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 KENN CARROCH- RE TES EE E ae A TY SEE) 6301, obtain a data sheet for the the Commodore 1701 monitor. advertising, and secondly, not hav- magazine in English and also re- processor so that I can disassem- This would require an RGB to ing used them, I don't know of any. plies 10 queries in English, al- ble the commands and see how it ‘composite video converter. though they can be a little slow works with a view to changing Secondly, I require the oppo- about it. things round for multiple keys. site, composite video to analogue Games master Suggestions for loading in the Obviously, the best answer RGB, to use my Commodore 64 very long program start off simply would be to recommend a book with my NEC Multiscan monitor Geoff Salter, of Dinas Powis, with trying CLEAR 65585 ro re- that explains ‘in detail” how the which I use with my Atari 1040 8 Glamorgan, writes: move the UDGs. keyboard system operates. As ST. Town a Toshiba T300 com- The explanation for the problem. far as 1 can see from my re Does any company supply puter and wonder if you or is that the Discovery allocates a searches, there are no published these RGB - composite con- any of your readers could small amount of space below the details on the subject. Гат at my verters? Also, does any company help with the following points: Basic program (blocks of 198 wits end ~ can you help? sell a TV Tuner that I could use 1) Where could 1 get the bytes) before saving or loading, with my RGB monitor? Graphics Package 1 from? giving it back after the operation. Mmmm this is a hard one - в 2) What software will my Since the program was very long A you say, there doesn’t appear 1 must say first of all that I machine run ie, games? (41K), running the program allo- lo be any details on the know of no-one selling such At present the system is fine cates variables and saving the subject. AIL I can find is a list of devices - which doesn't mean for the reason I bought it, name- program saves these as well, Due the Intelligent Keyboard Command that there aren't any. Considering ly COBOL programming but, as I to the increased size of the pro- Set in Anatomy of the Atari ST but the number of different video for- wish to begin writing games, I gram, the Discovery is unable to these are of no use with this mats, such devices would be quite need to find the answers to the allocate enough work space al- problem, It would be quite useful useful and, as far as 1 know, there above questions. though it was able to save, On for games programming to be able is no technical reason why they trying to load the program back in, to poll the keys as on other micros; cannot be built. Unfortunately, 1 have never the header on the disk tells the owever, I'm afraid Т don't know If any Popular readers know of heard of the 7300 let alone Discovery that there is not enough Son it's done, If any reader's know а company which supplies them or acquired any software for it, RAM ie, the program was too large the details, please send them to who knows how they are designed, However, if you want to begin to allocate the work space, and Peek and Роке so that I can let then please write to Peek and Poke writing games, the two main pack- then load it in. The answer to this everyone in on the secret, with the details, I need all the help ages you will need are an assem. is to doctor the header so that the Т can get. bler, and, as you mentioned above Discovery thinks that there are no graphic package. Probably the best. variables present, thus reducing Load of... place to look is in the various the size of the progam, The best H Spencer, of Wirral, Cheshire, Stubborn computer magazines and their ad- жау to do this is to get hold of the writes: revolutions vertising pages. l'm sorry I can't be Opus Disk Manager from Bradway 1 faye heard rumours that of more help, perhaps our readers Software of 33 Conalan Avenue, there are some problems А D Bishop, of Sidmouth, Devon, know more? Sheffield 517 4PG. writes Other solutions are to make sure internal with disk games drives that use on the 1 have а 1541 disk drive that no channels have been opened 520STFM. The rumour says that (CBM) which is refusing to Discovered ie, #8 for the printer, before load- some games will not load, is there rotate the disk most of the ing the program in the 48K Spec- time. I believe that the central Gerry Fisher, of Duffield, Derby. trum, use random access on the any truth to this, and if so, what hub which looks like a segmented shire. В Manning, of Kiddermin- file - or а copy of the file - to is the problem? plastic ring which mates with ster, Wores. L W Dewhurst, of produce a shorter version of the Apparently this rumour is another receptor ring and grips Leaington Spa, Warwickshire. file which will load. Other possibi- true, some of the software ‘the disk from the inside edge - is And others. lities are to edit the file and cut off houses have used a form of worn. Do you know anyone who the last line or so instead of the protection that involves accessing сап fit another clamp ring or My thanks to the above, all line ending with chr$13, termina- rack numbers above 40. This is where I can get one please? who wrote in with solutions tion can be achieved with chr$128. Useful in that validity information to G Thibaudeau's letter in With а 128K Spectrum, the Dis- can be held here that will not The best thing to do is look the 9th October issue of PCW covery RAM disk 6 can be used, normally be copied by disk copiers. through the adverts at the concerning the Opus Discovery MOVE the program file to disk 6 However, the problem arises that back of the magazine and disk drive problems. First of ali, and load it from there ie, some (perhaps many) of the inter- find a reasonably priced repair two user's clubs for this gadget MOVE lj"program" TO mal drives cannot cope with read- service. Make sure, if you сап, that are: ing these extra tracks, and so the. payment can be made via credit Mr D Lilley, LOAD #6; "program" disk looks like it's а copy, As far as card (this has numerous advan- The Spectrum Discovery Club, ‘The Discovery normally uses a I'm aware, the problem has now tages over а cheque). 8 Rayham Crescent, 256 byte buffer (equivalent to one been acknowledged and the soft- After looking inside my 1541, it Black Hill, disk block) whereas the RAM disk ware houses are using other forms seems more likely that there are Keighley, only uses 32 bytes, The 224 bytes of protection. If you have any problems with the motor or the West Yorks that are saved should release suffi- software that causes problems and drive belt than with the clamp. and, cient memory to load the program. won't load, send it back to the To check the clamp, try a disk Mr Mike Kuklewsky, ‘Once loaded, it is a good idea to software house and complain, with hub supports (usually a white The Discovery User's Club, shorten the program by VALing - making sure you have receipt and ring in the middle) and then one Urkwal 92, use GOTO VAL"1234" instead of proof that it is an original. without. The supports make the 1824 HR Almere, GOTO 1234 as this save 3 bytes. -- hub a little thicker and should The Netherlands, When saving CLEAR will delete improve the grip. If there is no Mr Dewhurst says that the first the variables and shorten the file, Link up difference then the clamp is proba- is quite helpful and the second can remove REM statements and join bly OK. It is well worth getting the supply (presumably to members lines as this save 4 bytes each J Bentham, of Thornton, Black- drive completely serviced and re- only) а dissassembiy of the Discov- time. pool, writes: aligned, especially if it is getting егу ROM in English. This costs 18 Finally, thanks to all the people Firstly, my friend has a old. l'm afraid that I cannot recom- Gilders (about $6) and covers who have written in on this sub- mono Amstrad CPC 464 mend anyone in particular since versions 21, 22 and 222 of the ject, hopefully Mr. Thibaudeau which he wants to use with this would, first of all, be free ROM. The club also produces a will be able to fix the problem now.

13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY/37 -PROGRAMMING Ground Control to Major Kenn

In the first of another Kenn Garroch series, this time on interfacing, Kenn looks at the two basic input/output systems to use on home microcomputers.

0: the next few weeks I will be Connecting things up to this is reasona; - looking at how to connect computers The 280 bly easy, but nowhere near as simple аи to the real world, and make them The 780 (8080, 8085 ie Intel /Zilog) employs using a VIA chip where the address control and sense much more than simple а different format for its i/o. Instead of decoding is automatically taken care of. keyboards and video screens, which is all using up valuable memory space for i/o Looking at the system bus of a 280 they normally do, and data a direction registers, the miero- machine (Fig 2), the lines that are impor- All home micros ean be connected to the processor chip has an extra output that tant are the address bus lines A0-A15, the outside world, some far more easily than informs the system that the information on data bus lines D0-D7 the RD (Read), WR others. the address and data buses refers to i/o (Write), and TORO (Input/Output Re- ‘The two main processors in use today, and not memory. quest). Note that the last three have lines the 6502 and the 280, show the two main The INP and OUT instructions are used or bars above them denoting that they are methods of input/output (i/o) control, The for the access and hence the i/o section active when low (zero volts). 6502 (also used in 6800, 6809 and 68000) does not appear on the memory map, There system is simplest and relies on the fact аге similar chips to the 6522 VIA that work Logic circuit that the i/o controller is part of the with this extra line known as PIO's memory тар, (Parallel Input/Output) but they are sel- Some simple electronic logic circuits are A set of memory locations are directly dom used. Instead, the whole of the system needed to make some sense of these connected to an i/o chip such as the bus is usually available at the back of the signals, basically, because, i/o ports use commonly used 6522 VIA. This has a machine as on the Spectrum and Amstrad the same address and data buses as the machines. memory but are not active until an i/o number of registers that can be directly request is made. written or read as though they were any То see how the decoding is done, the other memory location. The most impor- basics of logic circuits have to big tant of these is the i/o port itself. understood. There are three basic forms of circuit, Input/output port the simplest being NOT or invert, then An Мо port usually has eight lines (see Fig come the two standards AND and OR. NOT 1), one corresponding to each bit of the takes its input voltage and reverses it ie, 5 memory byte. “ДИ home micros can be Volts at the input gives OV at the output, Each of these can be either input or connected to the outside and OV at the input gives 5V at the output. output, in the first case, voltages placed on AND and OR are a little more complex, them can be read simply by looking at the world, some far more easily however, but their operation сап easily be memory location eg, with PEEK. than others . . . in this seen in the diagrams in Fig 3. AND and OR In the second case, values written to the series we take a look at how gates can have two or more inputs, and the memory location set up voltages on the to do this, and make them operation is performed on all of them, output pins of the i/o chip. As with all The tables in Fig 3. show the two inputs computers, the only values possible are control much more than with all their possible states and are zero or one, corresponding to the voltages simple keyboards and video known as truth tables, OV and 5У ie, off or on. screens, which is all they Simply stated, AND gates show OV at The direction in which the signals travel normally йо.?? their outputs unless all of the inputs are 1 lie, for input or output, is set up in another (БҮ is usually denoted as 1 and OV as 0). OR register of the chip, usually an adjacent gates show 1 at their outputs unless all of memory location, known as the data direc- the inputs are zero. tion register. A bit set in this register tells This may make them sound opposites the chip that the corresponding line is an which, after careful examination of the output, zero defining in. truth tables, is not the case. The inverse of 38/POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY 13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 PROGRAMMING- bi

sv bor | [ | sy | Le sy oreg [т Тоа [1 [о То 1 То | mis tere []vTeTo Ts Jot To per 7 “Once contact with the Lay outside world has been pe achieved, what can be done with it? . . . the only limit is your imagination, Reading i/o reg gives 00110000 microprocessors can control DD (Data direction) sets in and out anything." "

Directly addressable memory

FIG 1 the ‘in memory' type of i/o.

WRIT + -)2V. RESR А10 SB 12V E | MI 8 ШЕ Т E RT в ja an КО A? 5 ROMS #9

AND OR NOT an AND is known as NAND (NOT AND) and is an AND gate with a NOT gate after ia ib | out іа ib] out Та | out it, the inverse of OR is NOR, 9 0 [0 0 0 То 1 То Logie gates can be connected together in к Out се 0 Q0 (M 1 1 0 1 sequence to obtain the required function КТ 1 Фа 1 and forms are and available chip packages. in a number of different Тһе andard symbols (or rather the | lel $4 & }-™ it + S = t А J>et symbols 1 shall изе) are shown below to their truth tables, Once contact with the outside world has been achieved, what can be done with it? Attaching such things as ADCs (Analogue + Means invert (NOT) to Digital Converters and their comple- ments DACs (Digital to Analogue Con- verters) allow reading of varying voltages from sensors such as thermometers and microphones, The switchable outputs can control relays that can switch things on and off. In fact, the only limit is your imagina- tion, microprocessors can control anything. a Fig 3 AND/OR/NOT/NAND/NOR truth tables and symbols

13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY/39 -PROGRAMMING: ST Film Show D Eaton Next PX his GPA Basic program is a Degas picture Loop show utility. When the program is run, Procedure Ех1 after being debugged, all files on drive A асо1 with the extender „РП will be shown one after For T%=0 To 50 another in ten interesting ways. As can be seen Bmove S+(160%T%) ,Physbase* (160KT7) , 160. from the extender, this program is only suitable Bmove S+( (50%160) +160%T%) ,Physbase*( for displaying low resolution pictur п (508160) +160%T%) , 160 Bmove S+((100#160)+160%T%) , Physbase+( (1008160) +1604T%) , 160 XKf** degas low res picture show program ##к&# Bmove S+( (1508160) +160ЖТХ) , Physbase+ X***** written by David Eaton 29-Sep-1987 %#%4%% (0150160) +1608T%) „160 Start: Pause 1 Rez%=Xbios (4) If Rez%=2 Next TX System Return Endit If Rez%=1 Procedure Ек2 Void Xbios(5,L:-1,L:-1,W:0) ӘСо! Endi f For T%=0 To 100 Hi dem Bmove S+1608T%, Physbaset 160877. 160 On Error Gosub Fixit Bmove (8+52000) -160ЕТУ, (Physbase+32000) For T%=0 To 15 -1возтх, 160 Setcolor T%,0,0,0 Pause 1 Next T% Next TX Deftext 1,1,,52 Return Text 15,50, "Degas Picture Show" Procedure Fx Deftext ‚0 2со1 Text 75,105, "Written Буг" Р (0) =0 Deftext ‚1 Р2(1)=0 Text 70,160, "David Eaton" РХ (4) =0 Poy РЖ (5) 50 Dim 8%(5),0%(5›,РЖ%(В› For X%=0 To 320 Step 3 Мате PX(2)7XY aGet_dir PXGYEXX/1.6 PUG) =X% P%(7)=X%/1.6 Bitblt 820 ,DZO, PXO To Fix Next x% @Get_pic Bmove S,Physbase, 52000 Pause 175 Return S=Varptr (A$) +34 Physbase-Xbi os (2) Procedure Fx4 5%(0)=5 acol Su For T%=0 To 200 Step 2 5702. Bmove S+T%#160,Physbase+T%#160, 160 5705) 2320/16 Pause 1 зи (4 Next T% 5%(5: For TZ=1 То 200 Step 2 Bmove S+T%#160,Physbase+T2#160, 160 Pause 1 Next T% D%(3) =320/16 Return DZ(4)-0 DX(5)-4 Procedure FxS P*.CO| $Col For Т/=0 To 200 РУ (2) =3520 Bmove S+T%#160,Physbase+T%#160, 40 PAG Втоуе S+80+T/%160, Physbase+80+T%8160, 40 Vsync Next TX For T%=200 Downto 0 Bmove S*40*TZK160,Physbase*404T74160, 40 Bmove S+120+TZ#160, Physbase+120+T% Оп Num% Gosub Fx1,Fx2,Fx3,Fx4,FxS,Fx6, 4160, 40 Fx7,FxB,Fx9,Fx10 Vsync lumi Next T% If Numz-ii Return Numi Endif Procedure Fxé

40/POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY 13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 PROGRAMMING: ST- т

aCol PZD =Y% For T%=0 To 201 Step 2 PG) Bmove S+T%#160,Physbase+T%#160, 160 PD Bmove 5+ (201-ТХ) #16О,РһузЬаве+(201-Т%) РХ (5) ¥160, 160 Pause 1 Next T% Return Procedure Fx7 Color 0 Bitblt SZO,DXO, For T%=0 To 200 Next TX Line 0,T2,320, TX ' Bmove S,Physbase, 32000 Vsync Return Next TX acol Procedure P. For T%=200 Downto 0 Setcolor 0,7,7,7 Bmove S+T%#160,Physbase+T%#160, 160 Setcolor 15,0,0,0 Pause 1 Return Next TX Return Procedure Get dir Dim D$(512) Procedure Fx8 Fiz=0 Color 0 Sudz-o ф For T%=200 Downto 0 Sdirs-" epii” Line 0,T4,320, TX. Pths="\" Vsync ‘Sdd%=0 Next T% Fu=0 ӘСо1 Pu=1 For T%=0 To 200 While РХ0 Bmove S+T%#160,Physbase+T%#160, 140 Buf #=Spaces (45) Pause 1 Pth$-Sdir$ Next T% Евъз" "Аг "+Sdir$+"%, E" «Chr$ (0) Return Dec PX Procedure Fx9 Attry мно $Col Get. first For Ти! To 3000 Whi Ax=0 X%=Int (Rnd (0) #510) 9Get next Y%=Int (Rnd (0) £190) мепа PLC) =X% мепа PLG)SYX Return РИ (2) X10 Procedure Get_first PLCS) =VL+10 Void Gemdos(kHia,L:Varptr (Buf$)) РА (4) =X% Ax=Gemdos (&H4E,L:Varptr (Ев?) , Bt tr) Yu 1€ A%=0 =x%+10 зка вие 7)=ҮЖ+10 Endit » Bitblt SXO,DZO,PXO Next T% Return Bmove S,Physbase, 32000 Procedure Get_next Return Void Gemdos(&H1A,L:Varptr (Bu£$)) Аў=бетдов (&HAF) Procedure Fx10 If _A%=0 2со1 ƏRd_buff хж=о Endif (о)=хх Return continued next week. PROGRAMMING: C64 you're armed likewise, with a solitary missile. However, the enemy sometimes has shields UFO2 which make him impervious to your fire, so watch out! Steven Pattullo ‘The game will be presented over a number of weeks, in a number of parts. Simply type in reade action and graphical splendour in each listing and save More details on level Steven Pattullo's successor to UFO, The two next week, but i Уой can't wait and you objective is to fly to the end of each level. want a copy of the game with excellent ‘and shoot the thingy that floats down. graphics and fast moving sprites then send 52 On level one, one of the enemy fighters will (turbo-load tape) or $3 (disc) to 34 Birchfield try and shoot you down, so it's a good job that Road, Widnes, Cheshire WAS 7SU. о continued on page 42 ye 13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY/41 ‘PROGRAMMING: C64

50310 DATA осо, оса, ооо, оор, ооо, 000, 00O 50320 DATA 084,000,001,153,000,001,155. 50330 DATA 064,006, 166, 144, 023, 085, 050 50340 DATA 206, 154, 164, 006, 056, 084, 001 sesso DATA 117,080, 001,253, 128,001,117 50360 DATA 030, 006, 086, 084, 006, 154, 164 ARS THEM Ef="ERROR. . CHAI NO 50370 DATA 023,085, 050, 006, 155, 144, 001 SCREEN AT SAME AODRESS" GOTO 50000 50380 DATA 155,064,001, 153, 000 , 000, 054 40 IF_INT(SCREEN/16384 )-IMTCCHRRS/16584 THEN 50390 DATA ооо, ооо, ога, ооо, 200,000,000 60 50400 REM "ERROR. «CHARS AND REEN NOT IN THE 50410 DATA 200, O00, 000, ооа, 000, 000, 000 AME BANK" :сото E0000 50420 DATA 009, 000, 000, ооо, ооо, ого, 000 WeINT(SCREEN/16384 ) 50430 DATA 040, 064, 000,170,085, 000,170 645/64 50440 DATA 085,000, 171, 085, 000,175,086 ва. Z=(CHARS-X#16354)/ 1024 50450 DATA 000, 151,050, 000, 254, 106, 000 30 IF Zc54 AND 226 THEM 50460 DATA 250, 170, 000,234, 170, 000, 170 1800 PRINTCHRE(147 "HANG ABOUT THIS WILL TAKE 50470 DATA 170,000, 163, 171, 194, 165, 175 A COUPLE 0 50460 DATA 234,143,131, 170,085, 254, 163 11@ POKE 56534, 50450 DATA 085,250, 165,085,042, 143, 084 120 POKE 1,PEEK(1)nND251 50500 REM 130 FOR I-0 TO 2047:РОКЕ CHRRS«I,PEER(53248«15 50510 DATA осо, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, ооа NEXT 50520 DATA ооо, ооо, 000, 000, 00A, 021, 106 140 POKE1,PEEKC130R 4 50530 DATA 240,085, 171,248,086, 175,232 150 POKE 56554,PEEK(S6354)0R1 50540 DATA 030, 191, 160, 106, 128,000, 170 150 POKE 56578,РЕЕК(56578 ОВ 50550 DATA ово, 000, 171 , 00, 000, 175,000 170 POKE 56576, (PEEK(S6576 УАНО: 50560 DATA 000, 191,170, 000, 254, 153, 000 180 POKE 53272,14 50570 DATA 250, 165,000,234, 128,000, 170 190 POKE 645, ЗСБЕЕМ/256 50580 DATA 900, ооо, 170, 000, 000, 165, 000 200 PRINTCHR$CL47);"DOME" 50530 DATA 000, 165, 000, 000, 148, 000, 000 60000 POKE 44,4:POHE 1024,0:MEH 50500 REM s0510 DATA ого, ооо, оса, ооо, ога, гоо, 000 READY. Sacco DATA ооо, 008, 000, 000,000, 221,106 50650 DATA 168,085, 170, 170, 086, 170, 170 50540 DATA 90, 000,171, 104, 000,047, 168 Sesso DATA 000, 063, 165, 000, O63, 158, 000 50560 DATA 052, 163, 000, 053, 165,000,042 READY. 50670 DATA 168,000,042, 165, 000,042,172 5 PRINT "дананс ABOUT READING SPRITE DATA!!!" 50650 DATA 000,041 , 131,000, 165,255, 170 10 б=57344 50630 DATA 143,254, 170,085,055, 163,084 20 FOR М=і то 19 50700 REM 30 FOR Р=@ TO 62 50710 DATA 200, 000, 000, 000 200, 000,048 40 READ X:POKE AFF, X:NEXT F 50720 DATA 000, 000, 048, 000. 200,253, 170 50 6464: МЕХТ М 50730 DATA 250,118, 171,234 122, 175, 170 50000 REM 50740 DATA 106,130, 170,010. 134,176,011 50010 DATA 000,000,000, 000, 252,000,003 50750 DATA 134,240,015, 131,224,014, 131 50020 DATA 255;000,015,250,192,015,251 50760 DATA 160,010, 130, 16@, 010,194,160 50050 DATA 128,063,234, 160,063, 174, 150 50770 DATA 011,194,176,015,130,240,014 50040 DATA 252,048, 088,252,032, 154,250 50780 DATA 131,224,170 175,163, 170,190 50050 DATA 186,148,254, 223, 148,250,233 50750 DATA 165,170,250 149.171.234.088 I 50060 DATA 084,224, 000,020, 163, 156,148 50500 REM 50070 DATA 042, 169,030,042, 101,080, 005 50510 DATA 900,000, 000, 008, ого, 000, 000 50080 DATA 095, 064,005,085, 064,001,085 50820 DATA ооо, ооо, ооо, осо, ооо, ооо, ооо 50090 DATA 000, 000, 064, ооо, оде, 000, 000 Sesso DATA ооо, 000, 000, ооо, 020, 000, 000 50100 REM 50840 DATA оро, 000, ооо, 000, ооо, 000,000 50110 DATA ооо, 000, 000, 000,252, 000, 003 DATA 900,000, 000,000, 000, 085,055 50120 DATA 255, 000,015,250, 192,015,251 50860 DATA 065,170, 170,170, 160,002,126 50130 DATA 128, 063,234, 160,063,174, 160 50870 DATA 160, 002,126,000, 000,000,255 50140 DATA 255,186,088,252,032,164,250 Sesso DATA 195, 132, 000, 000, 000, 002, 130 S0150 DATA 186,148,254,222,148,246,000 sesso DATA 126, 170, 130, 128, 085) 065,064 50160 DATA 084,224,204,020,162,002,148 50900 REM 50170 DATA 042, 169,050,042, 101,060,005 50510 DATA оро, 000, ега, 200, 000, 000, 252 50180 DATA 085, 064,005,085,064,001,055 50320 DATA 051,000, 195,051, 000,130,054 50150 DATA 000, 000,054,000, 000,000,000 50230 DATA O00, 136, 042, 000, 123,001,000 50200 REM 50340 DATA 123,001 , 000, 984, 021, 000, 000 50210 DATA 000, 000, 000 , 000,252,000, 003 50952 DATA ооо, ооо, ога, ооо, 000,055, 065 50220 DATA 255, 000,015,250, 132,015,251 50960 DATA 985,170,170.170,160,002,128 50230 DATA 128, 063,234, 150, 063, 174, 160 50370 DATA 160,002, 125, 000, 000 , 000, 255 50240 DATA 252, 048,085,252, 032, 164,250 50350 DATA 003, 132, 002, 000, 000, 160, 002 50250 DATA 186, 148,254,001 , 148,249, 204 sesso DATA 128, 170, 130, 125, 085, 065, 064 50260 DATA 084,224,204, 020, 163, 000, 148 51000 REM 50270 DATA 042, 137,080,042, 101,080,005 51010 DATA оро, ооо, ооо, ооо, ооо, ооа, ооа 50280 DATA 085,064, 005,085, 064,001,085 51020 DATA 009, ооо, 000, 000, 000,000,000 50230 DATA 000, 000,054,000, 000, ооо. асо 51030 DATA ооа, 000, ооа, ога, ого, ооа, ова 50300 REM 51040 DATA 200,909, 000, оро, 200, 000, 000

42/POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY 13-19 NOVEMBER 1987 PROGRAMMING: C64- ааа a a БАЛИ OE TS SN, HS ETE

51050 DATA 200, 000, ооо, ооо, OO, 055, 064 51730 DATA ога, 000, 000, ога, 000,000,000 51060 DATA ооо, 170, 125, 000, 160,000,000 51800 REM 51070 DATA 150, 000, 000, 000, 000,000,255 51810 DATA оса, 000, 000, 000,000,000, 000 51050 DATA 132, 000, 000, 000, 00, 002, 123 51820 DATA ова, аго, ого, ооо, 000,000,255 51030 DATA 000, 170, 135, 000, 085,053, 000 51830 DATA 080,015, 255,240,063, 255,252 51100 REM 51840 DATA 063,255,252,255,255,255,255 51110 DATA 282,000,000, 000,000,000, ова 51850 DATA 255,255,255, 255,224, 255,255 51120 DATA 000,000,000,000,000,250,163 51860 DATA 255,255, 255,255, 063,255,252 51130 DATA 085,000, 000, 000, 062, 170, 085 51870 DATA 063,255,252, 015,255,240, 000 51140 DATA ооа, 200,080,000, 000,000,000 51580 DATA 255,000, 000, 00, 090,000,000 5115@ DATA 000,000,062,178,035, 000, 000 51530 DATA ого, ооо, 200,200, 000, ооо, ооа 5116@ DATA ооо, 200,080, 000, 000,000,000 51170 DATA O62, 170,085, 000, 000,000,250 READY. 51180 DATA 165,085.000,000,000,000, 200 51130 DATA 280, 000, 000, ооо, 000,000,000 51200 REM READY. 51210 DATA 200, 200, 000, ооо, ово, 000, 201 51220 DATA 085,000, 022, 166,064, 126,154 51гз@ DATA 144,021, 085,084 ,@01,163,215 190 FOR Ме51480 TO S12504(5478):RERD А:РОКЕ 51240 DATA O06, 170,095,026, 055, 153,024 м, в: NEXT 51250 DATA 050, 163,027,254, 183, 024, 050 1000 DATA 255,255,213,213,213,219,213,213 51260 DATA 163,026,058, 153, 006, 170,093 1002 DATA 255,255,85,85,85,85,85,85 51270 DATA 001,163,213, 021,055,084, 126 1004 DATA 255,254,86,86,86,86,86,86 51280 DATA 154,144,022, 156, 064,001,085 1006 DATA 213,213,213,213,213,213,213,213 51290 DATA 200, 000, 000, 000, 000, ооо, 000 1008 DATA 56,56,86,86,86,86,86,86 I 51500 REM 1010 DATA 213,213,219,213,213,213,234,170 51310 DATA 200, 000, 900, 001 , 298, 000, 023 1012 DATA 85,85,85,85,85,95,170,170 51320 DATA 064,000,122, 144,000,022, 060 1914 DATA 56,86,66,86,86,86,170,170 51330 DATA 000, 091 , 100,000,000, 105,000 1016 DATA 85,105,125,85,85,105,125,85 51340 DATA 000, 025, 050, 005, 005, 164, 026 1015 DATA 128, 128, 128, 128, 128, 128, 128, 128 51350 DATA 083,217,111, 170,093,111, 170 1038 DATA 170, 170, 149, 149, 143, 143, 145, 143 51360 DATA 093,026,089, 217,005,006, 154 1040 DATA 170, 170,85,85, 85,85,85, 85 51370 DATA 000, 025,080, 000, 105, O00, 001 1042 DATA 170,171,87,87,87,87,87,87. 51380 DATA 100, 000,022, 080, 000, 122, 144 1043 DATA 0,126,70,74,86,102,126,0,0,8,8,8, 51339 DATA 000,023,054, 000, 001, 008,000 24,24,24,0 51400 REM 1044 DATA Q, 126, 66,2, 126,96, 126,0, 0, 124,66. 51419 DATA 200, 000, 000, 021, 030, 000, 126 30,6, 70, 126,0,0,124,68,68,66, 126,12 51420 DATA 164,000,022, 153, 000,001,030 1045 DATA 0,0,126,64,126,6,70,126,0,0, 126 51430 DATA 264,001,070, 144, 006, 145, 144 64,126,70,70,126,0,0,124,4,4, 12, 12,12 51440 DATA 027, 165,084, 104, 223, 165,096 1046 DATA 0,0,50,36,126,70,70,126,0,0,126 51450 DATA 217, 153.111, 154,109,096.217 66,66,125,6,6,0 51460 DATA 183, 104,229, 165,027, 165,084 1447. DATA 149,143, 149, 143, 143, 143,143,143 51470 DATA 006, 145,144, 001,070, 144,001 1048 DATA 149, 143, 143, 143, 143, 143, 191,255. 51480 DATA 030,064,022, 169, 000,126,164 1050 DATA 85,85,85,85,85,85,255,255 51430 DATA 200,021 , 060, ога, 000, 000, 000 1052 DATA 27,87,87,87,97,87,255,255 51500 REM 1054 DATA 87,87,87,87,87,87,87,87 51510 DATA 200, 000, 000, ога, 000, 000, 000 1966 DATA 3,3,13,13,53,53,213,213 51520 DATA 000,000, 000, 000, 000, 000,255 1068 DATA 213,213,53,53,13,13,3,3 ще DATA 000,015,255, 240,063, 255,252 1070 DATA 86,86,68,88,36,36,128,128 51540 DATA 063,255,252, 255,255, 255,170 1072 DATA 128,128,26,96,88,86,66,86 51550 DATA 165, 106,157,290, 224,170,167 1074 DATA 85,85, 106, 106,106,106, 106,106 51560 DATA 234,085, 035, 055,021,085, 084 1076 DATA 85,85, 170, 170, 170, 170, 170,170 51570 DATA 021 , 085, 084, 005, 085, 050, 000 1078 DATA 106,106,106, 106, 106, 106, 106, 106 51560 DATA 085, ооо, ооа, ооо, ооо, 000, 000 1050 DATA 170, 170, 170, 170,170,170, 170,170 51530 DATA 900,000, 000, 200,000,000, 000 1082 DATA 283,253,253, 253,253, 253,85,85 51500 REM 1084 DATA 255,255, 255,255,255, 255,85,85 51610 DATA ооо, 200, ода, одо, ооо, ооо, 000 1986 DATA 253,253,253, 253,253, 253, 253, 253 51520 DATA 009, 000, 000, 000, ооо, 200, 200 1088 DATA 255,255,255, 255,255, 255,255,255 51630 DATA 200, 000,200, 200, 000, 000, 000 1050 DATA 255,254,214,214,214,214,294,170 51640 DATA 000, 000, 000, поо, 000. 000, 000 1092 DATA 255,285,213, 222,222, 222,222,222 51650 DATA 290, 000,021, 196, 188,000, 000 1054 DATA 255,255,85,65, 121,121,121, 121 $1660 DATA ооо, 200, 000,000, воо, воо, ого 1036 DATA 222,222,222, 222,222, 213,234,170 51670 DATA ога, 000, 000, 020, еее, 000, ооо 1098 DATA 121,121,121, 121,85,85, 170, 170 , 51660 DATA ооо, 000, 000, 220,000, 200,000 1108 DATA 0,126, 160, 104, 30, 230, 230, 230 51690. DATA 000, 200, 200, осо, ооо, O00, 000 1102 DATA 230,230,230, 90, 104, 150, 128,0 51700 REM 1194 DATA 170,170, 190, 174, 142, 130, 174, 142 51719 DATA ооо, 090,000, ога, ога, ого, 000 1106 DATA 170, 170, 251, 186,56,251 , 186,56 51720 DATA 202,000, 00, 000, 000,255,255 1105 DATA 170,171,239,235,227,239,235,227 51750 DATA 900,003,255,192,015, 255,240 1110 Сата 190, 174,142,190, 174,142, 191,255 51740 DATA 063,255,252,255,255,255,182 1112 DATA 251, 186,56,251, 186,56, 255,255 51750 DATA 218,170,182,218.175,182,218 1114 DATA 233,235,227, 239,235,227, 255,255 51750 DATA 170,035,035, 025, 021,035, 054 1415 DATA @,2,0,0,0,0,0,0 51770 DATA 205,085,030, 001, 055,064,085 51780 DATA 285, 000, 000, ооа, оса, ова, 000 READY.

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CITIZEN CITIZEN OVERTURE 1200 £199 10 CITIZEN LASER PRINTER LSP100 £260.35, өй 50 GLASGOW AUSTRAD месте ВИС XU £508 CENTRE SCOTLAND мома Commodore Business Centre COMPUTER CENTRE AMSTRAD MOHTINGALE Ро CARD a MODEM COMSTARE V21V23 129 £168 Amiga Specialis since 1885. Atari appointed dealer. Amiga А500 and A2000 пон maii. and Service Contre i КАЗУ TEE M сагс in Atari ST Computers = WE'VE MOVED ТО: £189 FOR MODEM, SOFTWARE. LEAD ETC! AS es flint Suse live’ pe 122 WEST MAIL STREET WE HAVE MUCH, MUCH MORE ғоя vou CALL [я FREE итн Ен! Зям fe! GLASGOW G1 207 Tel: 031-557 4242 (24 hrs.) | ВАРНА SOFTWARE: МЕС AMSTRAD, SAGESOET. GEMINI, ста. TEL: 041-552 1522 im Н ‘SANDPIPER, GEM MIGENT, CAXTON, ACORN ETC, (COMMENT No Business Like Micro Business М: computer pricing policy has involved in building a reasonably efficient provide the items the consumer wants at a М virtually unchanged system around a micro which cost probably price he can afford, since the launch of the ZX8I in well under $200. The computer is pre- Pricing policies must be reviewed before the dim and not so distant past. dominantly master and all peripherals are the end of the decade if this faction hopes The majority of new micros have alw; merely servants, or so one is led to believe. to survive the dramatic changes which, 1 been launched with an almost mandator; ‘To make an analogy, imagine a company feel, the industry is about to experience, substantial price tag. Once the company director, he is the decision maker and the technology takes another leap forward. has recouped enough to offset its initia delegator, and therefore is normally the With the price of electronic component investment, the machine suddenly drops highest paid, thus the most expensive steadily decreasing in tandem with the £100 or so in price. Why? Because that's asset. When we look at computer systems extensive automation of the produetion business. we find that this is not necessarily the line it is only fair that a percentage of the Although computers have tended to case. increased profit margin should be passed follow this trend, many of their associated This facet appears inherent throughout on to the end user. peripherals have not. Disc-drives, printers the computer industry, Look at the intro- In an area as volatile as computing the and notably monitors, admittedly costing duction of the cheap PC clones. Many of peripheral manufacturers must strive to than they did a few the existing PC software packages were, in counter each new move adopted by the remain on a relatively high, yet static several cases, more expensive than the major computing companies. With in- price plateau, Why? machines they were destined to be used on. creased sales they could provide a larger One reason may be that not enough When the existing user-base decides to turnover, some of which could be invested. units are sold in relation to the number of upgrade many users will be turning their in advanced research and development computers to enable peripheral prices to be attention to the 16-bit market. This means technology. lower. But, by the same token, if the prices that they will be paying, roughly, the same The software sector, at least, has begun were to drop, would not more people price for a 16-bit machine now that they to realise that by adopting realistic pricing, consider adding these peripherals to their would have paid for an §-bit machine a levels their continued success and profit- system? couple of years ago. Features which cost ability is greatly enhanced. Many home computer users must соп- the 8-bit user extra at the moment eg, a If radical changes are not forthcoming tend with the tortuously slow, unreliable mouse, disc-drive ete, are included in the in the very near future, the dependants of and often frustrating cassette filing зу price of the 16-bit machines. -bit technology will only succeed in си tems of their micros simply because a When will the third party support ting their own throats as well as inflicting faster and more efficient dise filing system manufacturers realise that they must take serious subsequent damage on the rest of is out of their financial reach, stock of their position, They have a the micro-computing community. o I (and Т am sure many others will agree) responsibility to take an objective view of find it difficult to justify the expense their industry and should endeavour to STUART LOW HACKERS

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