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0oh, Sourcey! Boot up our new machine code series • Pump up the volume - Di Puff's Volcanic Caper struts its stuff via Cry baby! CAM turns on the Waterworks • Killer Kolumn Extra - Sylvester McCoy questioned • Scream for cream - it's a double helping of Public House • Paging Spec Tec a Cracked special. Lummocks! Drive on to page 47, my good m k•arilagellit x A Et IC t 40,648 Obi

Editor Linda Barker V Art Editor Andy OunsledV Stall Writer Jonathan Nash Editorial Contributors Craig Broadbent. Dave Golder, Tim Kemp. AIN r I I Simon Cooke. Rich Pelley VS, the magazine that puts the Art Contributor Phil McCardle H 'Mmmm' in, erm, magazine. This Cover Artwork Paul Kidby 1 e 1/Sales Senior Executive Jackie Garford month we've got another brill covertape Production Co-ordinator Charlotte that'sl absolutely bulging with goodness. BrockV Production Technicians lFor your delight this month, we have two- Chns Stocker V Scanning Simon oplayer Rebelstar and The Very Big Cave • never knew there Windsor, Jon Moore, Simon Chittenden lAdventure Part One, plus the usual was so much in it! Publisher Cohn Campbell andW POKE& Inside the mag, we start a Promotions Manager Tamara Ward new series which will probably teach you Group Publisher Greg Ingham e Circulation Director Sue Hartley lmachine code (it says here). Your Sinclair. Future Publishing, 30 c This has been quite a sad issue for me, Monmouth Street, Bath. BA1 28W, Tel coso its the last one I'll be editing. I'll still 102251442244, Fax (0225) 446019 bem popping into the Shed and compiling Managing1 Director Chris Anderson V thee Tipshop and probably poking my nose HEAD404IEAD REBELSTAR: COMPLETE GAME Printers1, Riverside Press, Gillingham, in to lots of other pages too. (If they let KerilV Back Issues Future Pubhshing t me!) Jonathan will be taking over as Ltd, Somerton, Somerset TM 1 7BR, o Editor, so next month he'll be talking to Tel (0458) 74011 Si Future t Publishing 1992. No part of this you from this little box. h magazine may be reproduced unless I've loved working for VS (which is why you can prove to us that you are in tact I'lle still be throwing in my ha'penny's • the Dalai Lama. Photographic evidence worth!)l and it's been a great two-and-a-bit I COMPLETE GAME! ACE, ERG!, ADVENTURE! is permissible I/ ISSN 0269 6983 a Your Sinclair isn't adverse to the years. The magazine will be the same N LIGHT CYCLES A-GO-GO. A occasional tumble with Commodore qualityt blend ot techy stuff, reviews, T e E Formal, Amstrad Action, Amiga smart covertapes and irresistible fun that pius R Format. PCW Plus, PC Answers, itss always been. I'd lust like to say thank i M SHAMELESSLY .qRA r — Mega. Super Play. PC Plus. Sega N yout to you all and goodbye. (Sob!) im Power, Amiga Power, Amiga Shopper, A i Lots of love, i D Classic CD, Needlecraft, Cycling Plus. T s E Mountain Biking UK. Patrick Moore Linda * I Monthly, PC Format, ST Format, Total!, s M O Caravan Plus. Good Woodworking, u O N Camcorder Plus, Future Music, Mac e , Format and Cross Stitcher A o i . L . f SUPERSFK ,m)FITS 'Your guarantee of value' I I T This magazme comes from Future CHA IL I_ ENOC IF A Publistwig, a company founded lust sot K years ago, but wtsch now sells mcre N Fresh from Richard and David DarlingsB onyx-legged and computer magazines than any other A publisher m Brgain. We offer silver-trimmed office desk comes aO collection of sporting D Better advice. Our titles are packed with games to toughen your reflexes andX TO s uggestiorts and explanatory features, steel your nerves. There are five I written by the best in the business PP N games here, but which ones are theK StIeltgar reviews. We have a castiron G oohicy ot editorial ridecendence best? Well, you know where to look...E M E Clearer design, Our designers highlight E bey e le m e n t s b y userg ch a rt s, d ia g ra m s, R V Surnmany hoes. annotated photos, etc RA E Greater relevance. At Future, editors S R )perate under Mree golden rules m • L lo d e rst a n d yo is re a d e rs' n e e d s Y • Satisfy them A B • Think once, think tw.ce, think bike A I More reader Interaction, We draw N strongly on re a d e rs ro n t rit xt rm s, G in t h e I rve h e st le t t e rs p a g e s and t h e b e st C reader bps &Nog one al our magazine r, ake p in in g a n a t io rrio d e u se r g ro u p A V Better value for money. More pages, ',env •1110: E , M Top q u a lit y st a p le s. On ly t h e ve ry b e st , , I I X , T dotine u ure s 00111111 U yo R u E Mt YOURc SINCLAIR April 1993 ; a n tr us t. ZOINKS1 L0011 •••••••• THOSE GAUL., I 1 ein ri:441 dr 1 REVIEWS j 1 11 •••• 13 DJ Puff's Volcanic Caper .• 14 Supersports Challenge 16 Toy Bizarre 16 Spy Vs Spy 3

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