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TUG's assisiant managing "" News 5,7,9,10 'in Phillips. 2.1, "It's ihe JJntFvt us. scene 6 "As to not being officia the only thing in which we at not official is that we are ni Best sellers 7 recognised by Ihe manufactun Software charts: Dragon, V1C-20, ZX81, Spectrum One Man's view 10 y day we gel dozens of itions from Oric owners flicking up vary quL-klj. Letters 13,14
gel on side by side, i Software reviews 17 gal a bank on his h.ai
20 i TI-99/4A program 18 monthly newsletter, 50 per cent devoted to the Oric, which included programs to ik we need 10 sake any ac- type in. Four software packages
i. i*e already have ihc rota Profile: Psion 23 £5.50-£6.50 ion. Can he provide what »e iight
A spokesman for Oric Pro- Mr Cros . launch Spectrum/zxai program 27 ducts said there had been no of- : or July Can crack the code? ficial agreement with Mr Cross and thai, although you decision was unlikely generate "a degree of revenue" and a before Oric executives relumed for MCI, it would act in- bbc program 31 dependently of Oric Prod u els in Son out your software with an index representing ils members. She said: "They've bee He planned to hire more talking, but nothing's bee slarf and to offer membership vic-20 software reviews 35 signed, sealed and delivered." at £5-£B through mailing all Games for action
Apart from initial help i setting up the group, Oric di leaflets inside Oric packaging. Spectrum software reviews ..39 involve itself - There would be a news sheet, it plan i totally independent starting as a bi-monthly, and a offers like inexpensive soft- ware. He was also iniending to Dragon program 41 Tangering Users' Croup, I talk to Paul Kaufman, head of Hunt and destroy the subs Marlborough Drive, Worie, Tansoft and editor of a new magazine called Oric Owner. Avon BS22 0DQ Computers Incor- TUG was formed by Mr Classified ads start on 44 Micro porated, 5 Watford Road, Sud- Green for owners of the Wembley, Microtan. Mr Green was unable bury, Middx day with his wife. Vera, the Honestly, croup's administrative director. As well as Mr Phillips, there is a officer fourth staff member, Colin You can break mos
Noweil, who looks after soft- ii-.i' laws with Hazai Atari game from Allrian. It smash through Mr I Hips explained how allows you to brush, leap ponds and drive on
- machines around iwo wheels. Price for Ihe cassette
it available for them is £21.50.
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FORTH FOR THE DRAGON 32 DRAGONFORTH' is an implementation of Rg-FORTH for the 'DRAGON 32' microcomputer but with a difference. As well as the enormous power of the FORTH language, DRAGONFORTH' can also execute BASIC statements. This combines the superb DRAGON sound, graphics and Floating- Point commands with the tremendous speed of FORTH to produce an unparalleled hybrid. You can write a whole program in BASIC or a whole program in FORTH or any mixture of both.
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DEALER ENQUIRIES Continued front ft mammers, could have hac Eugene's more expensive BMW. - ilu- Spec- driving Mr Everiss said: " would but him something j He ie use th( ambition single, due a lot more. Our insurance £11.15. the loaded into the computer from a record player's headphone of the partners in copied onto tape and One Image Software has just Liverpool Imagine, Dave oaded. -based bought Escort XRls for four Lawson. delivery of a Fer- najor takes staff, but Eugene, just 17, will rari Mondiale, worth around
have to wail. He takes his test £34,000 with the I next month. New general manager The other partner, Mark Random Records. 3 Moorside it was House, Oakleigh Court, Bruce Everiss said that if Butler, drives a BMW 735i not for his age Eugene, who Equipment and Mr Timperley, Cheshire WA IS Special 6UG heads [magine's team of pro- Everiss has a Ferrari 308 GTS. — Explaining t Chris Sievey "Weai
22-year-old i dynamic industry s> Same printer, well be less than Tandy charges. Winifred Slack, who looks after Irive dynamic cars. An The printer uses six special 4M, and 3 '/2 -year-old different o look after people." ballpoint pens — three black and Asher. And a friend, Mike name one each of red, blue and green Doherty, plays the drums. One's printer will almost certain- — at £1.69 for three, and 4V4in Chris said the idea of using ly be the £149 Tandy colour wide plain paper, costing B.99 le B side for programs came lo printer/plotter with a different for three rolls. him after he boughl a ZXB1 two HLL.H-C or: [lie front. It will print at up to 80 Microfair monlhs ago planning to use ii lo After looking at several characters per line. put titles on a video tape of a moves models, Oric Products is believed group called Freshies. ' to have settled on the one Oric Products International, Ally Pally "1 used the B side to marketed by Tandy and made in Coworth Park, London Road, because they are disposable — Singapore. And the price may Ascot. Berks SL5 7SE Visitors lo the June 4 people are sold on the A side of Microfair will find the cot
tions a lot less cramped tl In fact, he says this is his ' las: lime. The f;' c held ISth single since he started at London's Alexandra Palace 1976. tl recording in Just — the 'city's third largest exhibi- otheb. m of t) tion hall, with c p 100. intending his personal space of the previ st -seller, which sold 40,000. Organizer Mike Johnston Love with Girl called I'm in the is however hoping the e: the Manchester Virgin room will be filled up I Mcgastore Check-Out Desk. larger crowds — there were ( He said he was having XX) copies of Camouflage Microfair — and move stan pressed, under his own Random Once again, the show Records label, to start with. feature a computer drew n After leaving school, said Chris, he went to art college to study film making — for three days. He said: "I arrived on my first day with all my scripts and
I found it was going to be 18 months before they put a camera in my hand. 1 couldn't
Since then he reckons he has had 20 jobs, mostly sweep- computer -co inpalil ing up. packing, serving in recorder, the 3T27, which will shops and working as a silk be on sale from this month for HOME ACCOUNTS PROGRAMME £6.50 een printer around £25. After 14 record! wasn't il 1800 current transactions, ISO standing orders (18K) v.noMiiiri,' numihly lenciii of orders Automatic inserts of orders on specified dales Chris said' "I'm not deter- red. 1 love doing it. And I think increased the chances because there are two markets. Bui if i( Thorn EMI Ferguso, Cain- flops I'll move onto the next bridge House, Great Cambridge iy [.ricesler LES 3FT Road, Enfield, Middlesex EN1
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U.S. SCENE Fun and games with the TI-99/4A and others
Ifyou own a Texas Instrument 99/4A and you want to have Mallei hasJust announced its ZSOA-based Aquarius computer with
tg game 10 you. it is tailed a $200 list price. Among other things it offers CP/M compatibililv, Henhouse, available it indue Kirtti and is from Funware has 8K of ROM, 4K of RAM expandable to 52K with add-on Inc., 405 N. Bowser Bldg. hindsoii Texas ~508l 1214) A memory cartridges, a49key "regular" keyboard, upper and lowei case. 256 character graphics, 40 x 24 display. 320 x 192 graphics When ihe game starts, a graphics screen displays a resolution, and 16 colours. henhouse m the right center of the screen with several duties. At Optionally available are ih Ihe bottom oj ;iie screen is it tanner (you. the player). recorder, The fun starts us the hens begin to ius cays. If it chute Jills program c, and a 40 column tip. yon have lit catch the ccps before they hit the around anil 1 13 in by 6in by 2 in and weighs a bit over 41, break. That is easy. Usury, two of the keys m the remote control a good deal offered by a company whose m unit you can act the farmet in ran buck and forth. generated by toy sales as well as their own video in the plot thickens wolf and human poacher arrive A a ie plover. badfor the first time out.
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the tanner can shoot. No wfor afew software announcements and game reviews. HI I niinttma/ely. the farmer a and catch eagi, nt the decent word processor for your VIC-20 or Commodore 64? Try sometime, which means th, shetl be/are •o back to the Quick Brown Fox selling for $65 from the company of ihe sail more eggs caught. can be name, 548 Broadway, New York City, 10012. (212) 925-8290. If yon drop six eggs ii ihe wolf to get into ihe Submarine Commander in ROM cartridge for the Atari 41 ; the game ends. Otherwise von accrue points fur 800 and 1200. Marketed by Thorn: EM! (I guess you might ha shoottnv birds till each), shooting poachers (2110 each), Itiadiiiv. heard them), $4.95. Excellent graphics, game plan, and an egg into the buck (20 points/, anil tot evert 51)01) points you of sustained interest. Works with joystick and keyboard, requires accrue you get credo fin tine 'maker. egg It teiiliv is a fun game — the first I have ever played im the TI. minimum of I6K RAM. As commander of a ICH-'II sub, you try to Il costs about $40 over here, and I believe may be sink all enemy ships in the Mediterranean. Good Luck. distributed through Uenieisofi over vmir way. These same Escape from Vulcan's Isle, on disc for ihe same machines as people also market (or will soon/ the tollowine. games. Rabbit abos'i: Marketed by Epvx. 1043 Kies Ct.. Sunnyvale CA 94086, Trail, in which help the rabbit holes you crawl through and (408) 745-0700, $39.95. Excellent graphics and game plan, above coiled carrots white irytits to escape assorted natural enemies on average sustained interest, forks with joystick and keyboard, seven different screens. Ant Colony, in which vim as an requires Atari BASIC cartridge and at least 40K. An above-average exterminator, descend into Ihe colony arm d only with adventure gome whose goal is trying to get a ship wrecked sailor off gun (as a frustrated gardener (his gives i e nightmares): and an island while avoiding various creatures, such as demons, sat (..use L reatttres. wherein vou gel a laser to i before they encircle or have an opportunil and Med Flies (made in California, of course) who are all ben
These games range in price front abo t SMini :iht It $43, destruction. One of the best features allows you to interrupt the and will all he available on the TI by the e id of July. game, and save it on disc for resumption later. Video Vermin, on cartridge for VIC-20. Available from UniiedMiciownve Industries. Inc.. 3503-C Temple Ave., Pomana CA 91768, (714) 594-1351, $49.95. Minimum resident memory and Here s a gamefor you VIC- 20 users. It is call joystick required. This game offers excellence in all three o.si.s comes on cassette tape. t ?.:v So, and
,' : : .-.: . ;:. :.::' :. : ; >. this siirtiifi'aiiif'mviilvinei mnp/exdu/ieentis. assorted "dragons" :n , if.: 0, ;. :cj(i"U ; :::,,:. -...: and have a few rut-Ins bee. you will enjoy one of the lies! games of very very difficult, and it lives up to its promise. Some of the its type available on any machine, fins, one nets four stars in all difficulty lies in trying to press the two fumy, buttons while Irving to navigate. It also offers formidable obstacles to fly around. An excellent effort from a new company. One of the better games CXXXT available for the Atari machines.
The Japanese haven't been idle. Sanyo showed it 99-rlullar computer guile similar lo the TI-99/2, using a Z80A chip. Although three wrslons were shown, only two will be released here. They are the two advanced models, the PHC and 25, both with Tiny BASIC buill in. The 25 also has special fttneiion keys, graphics capabilities and a i UNNG WEEKLY i: Together the ORIC-1 Micro and UK Software bring you the dawning of a new era...
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ONE MAN'S VIEW sound of the J.C.B. says the manual Dark cloud Dragon's roar shows how users can program their own sound effects, useful Dragons now blow can raspber- for those with knowledge over ries and sound like a piano, says the J.C.B. (Microsystems! which has brought out a plug-in Sound Ex- micro tension Module costing £34.95. Ihroughanew BASIC command called MUSIC or by using pre- market programmed effects, like explo- Everyone is talking optmusneullv aboui the growth of the ink sion, gunshot, machine gun, car Came for market, but an ominous /loud liuirji over the scene; I continuing bad news about delayed deliveries, faulty equipmei abet after-soles service. photon ,
publicity, front the c rs oncerned, the dealers ' complaint passing, crash. Microtnega at £4.95 e;
til the public can 't fail to nolici munch and raspbt f then ' Mailable. In e't J.C.B, says that setting up a games on the same consequences The in is of loss of public confidence are three-note chord needs jusl one onealsoincludcsav m forth. till t, :. But if t as important to look into the MUSIC command and that up to 16KZXSI. behind the problt 28 separate PQKEs would be re- The titles are Roulette, Most potential purchasers of hi quired to do the same without I he Dominoes, n-ltti and Blackjack and wouldn't know ti hit from a oyie. us re new module. Craps on a tape called conclude, then, thui price will lie the mum fuel: Monte i"i,^i/lt li'jh'i /teeutiiee 'iiir./i muehine in buv, wi Carlo, Brainstorm, which in graphics without slowing down eludes Puzzler, and Sped run The fact that etapun.um to a fully contprehei the screen display. and ZX81 versions of Gulpman may mwi/i lite asl uj the computet i/selfo, /.le,'ey, slage, even if the possibilities I'm expansion un particular machine's aitrucitons. Home micro owm dfor expansion the html wnv. after a period ,>i wrestlaiv with eas;,tt, , and imhtutv lor possession ni tin- family TV. Micro companies mas led thai there is no point building met'] the less obvious — ' leaiitres such as ability you could be disk drive — into their machine, because n appreciate their importance anyway. But less h more obviously ailruetive leature;. such as a sine, on our the of display i homier:,, tie even pages number may include/! ttumxh bump up the price. Behind such dubious elioice; lurks the suspicion that sum e micro specification:, are dialled by people who dim reall: ;/ntLrsiund the need' ill the home computer user. It , PROGRAMS should, if possible, be computer lalullv easy for a company to set up a basic computer syster printed to a width of as characters (use a [y slandaoi new ribbon) and/or sent on cassette. Check developing the system to a marketable form. Research carefully that they are bug-free. Include practical aspects of the new micro may be limited by lac details of what your program does, how it '.apital, or the specification may even be fixed befon works, variables you have used and hints on utictieubiltiy lias liecu ilemonslrated. conversion. The best way fur companies to amid trouble is to pro with caution, a\oitl adventurous and innovation in the t ARTICLES on using home computers should stages. Il may appear thai a brand new process will avoic be no longer than 2,000 words. Don't worry i to pay royalties mi copyrielit material, but the saving about your writing ability — just try to keep companies dear. to the style in HCW. Articles most likely to be In my view, the basic cause of the problems now affei published will help our readers make better o manufacturers Is an over-confident approach coupled use of their micros by giving useful ideas, limited capital resources uiul „ limited understanding ofth, possbibly with programming examples. We will convert any sketched illustrations into thro field are m finished artwork. nth existing mo. TIPS are short articles, and brief a ili.nr.v/miiei! nur, die programming routines which we can put industry •s .lull potential. Poor together with others. Your hints can aid performance in 01 will pre iiidice progress m other computer users. " the others, competitive rates are paid. Don IMUMHI Systems ! n sinter Keep a copy of your submissions and Include an SAE if you want them returned. Label everything clearly and give a daytime and home phone number if you can. APPLE FAMILY from Namal
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ama/itigl; fast and ir Get et right Letters, ~ " Send your letters to ig is a pain. Now thai Thank you for reviewing by Home Computing weekly, 145 lir has dropped its prices, 2). 1 program ET (April 26-May )ric has lost the marginal just like lo make a few Charing Cross Road, London would (but solid) hardware lead it WC2 OEE. Don't forget to name iginally had, your computer — the best A final point - the Na- tional ZX Users' Club hi i- i>ul> intended lo be used on letter could win £5 worth of oall] u ZX 10 give you lhe idea of I software. Queries cannot be game. You have the choice answered on this page loading Ihe main program. The maze is twice the size o conclude, a Pac-Mai of the screen so that when you John Shiali, London move to the edge of the screen, aderivt the maze scrolls across Ihe that only fire in screen (I have not seen any lethe mem "you can moving" other program use litis method Ihe same. No colour, jusi black the direction you are and white. 1 tried this machine on is not a program fault at all — il Computing — several of my neighbours' TVs is a feature of Berserk. by post 1 really do noi understand oppor- Grundig, but still no colour. the comment about unrespon- ZX Exchange offers tunities lo informal postal So the next day I relumed to sive movement. Although 1 will make got back. that the playing keys are Contact with other ZX8I ownei skill levels, and I very much Ihe shop and my money admil in the UK and abroad, and doubt that the reviewer would No I am looking for an Atari 800 a little difficult 10 master. I
found the program exlremely especial I v relevant lo your reade; be able to get through Lhe — better luck next time. 1 hope! responsive. remains live in rural areas, or wh Asteriod Bell stage at skill level Wayne Swift, Bradford Tobor one who Riva Could, of Computers, said: of the best programs in my col- have no local user group. objective of ZX The program also has the "Though there were some colour The main
I would like to add that ! Exchange is to promote self-help facility to save and reload the problems with the very early whatsoever amateur program -wri lit Hi-score and Hi-scorers name. models of lhe Lynx, these have have no connection and Exchange Nigel Stuart, Altrincham, \iiili Ellin Software! Members of ZX Cheshire Raymond Blake, Rayleigh, receive the periodic newsletter ZX Broadsheel. For furtht formation, contact me at the ad- here lo help, and nil our dealer have a hotline lo Computers It " My Lynx's deal u-ith queries like this. one has lost colour bar its edge problems
On Ihe 27th of March I bought I You win An interesting some — Oric-l I have read have been addition quickly caught r convinced it will wipe lhe floor l read with interest Anic Com- with ihe Spectrum. Not so, I As a new 48K Specirum owner puting's letter in issue No. 8, myself have a 48K Specirum, I've found your magazine to In
bill recommended a friend lo most helpful and interesting that very bug was spoiled by iho i>iuild not load. buy lhe Oric. Afier using it, he I was particularly pleased Ray Elder in his review of Ship find s When 1 pulled the cassette decided io lake it back and get a to compound mien lead out of the back of the Lynx Specirum instead, all hough he program is issue number foi to Congratulations Mr followi the protective black coaling came gave it ihree chances land ex- and have found ihe Elder and your magazil lines useful for a serio off the socket, and 1 noticed that changed ii three limes). more is far a a wire was unsoldered. So I rush- The Oric's operating application: .- llolL'fd I ed the Lynx back to ihe shop the system is better, especially the 409LETn-5 INPUT "for same day and they fixed it for famous sound channels, bui il is 430 ten ye dard of your reviewers, ant That night, while I was u more difficult to program. .hall certainly lake note of I lhe Lynx, I noticed thin bar There is no syniax checking. fulure reviews von publish. purple shooting I the t 432 I II'u-t + 10 John Lllis. Bristol So lie g than 433 CLS 2, 0; si day and tried it 452 PRINT AT "YEAR"; The tape lead supplied had AT 2, 10; "AMOUNT" a three- pin DIN socket on 453 PRINT AT n, I; II AT n, either end instead of jack plugs. 12; a . . . you lose No I ape recorder could be 454 LET C = 5 + e.lre some 455LETn = n + l
1 feel 1 must correct the great ii ended up rebuilding a DIN 456 IF t u THEN GOTO 440 "" r 458 IF 1NKEYS wapped ii for a by your socket with jack plugs. THEN
So ft w i verify CLS: 460 On this one tnere were i R.H. The Orice has no GOTO ars, but no colour either — jt command, and you have lhe 459 GOTO 458 Watford, lack and while. So I look il hit Andrew Osmond, -byth ictheas Herts
UOML COMPUTING WEEKLY 17 May IS LETTERS
1000 61 Copyright CODE EB2IF6 E5 2A > replaced Fast work by Tl IF62E5 2I000C3FF3E the Bomber game with a confusion In these days of long delays ar 1010 REM "program name" After the recent arguments bad service by some companies 1020 CALL LCTN 11000), versions has been replaced with about the copying of cassettes i to their customers, I would like LCTN (WW) a dual load version for 16K or it to be known that there is 1030 REM "program will run 4SK AND an additional three another aspect of the copyright company at least who look a compulsive games are included their customers — namely "Save your program by us- ing RUN 1O20. The program is Last week I phoned Tl n contained in line 1010. To load ed in my full page adven in the - re-sell the cassette without ask about loss of colour on nr the program, use MLOAD first issue of Home Computing 11' ' T199/4A. publisher's permission. ' Their technical program name '. The program Weekly and is sold as a 'value Bui while reading the diagnosed this fault as a faulty for money" cassette. modulator, and within line following that twmiiriini: the This new Venture cassette magazines it is noticeable that days a new modulator had CALL LCTN. is available from several com- the computers are nearly always by Securicor Parcel "This program will appear puter shops in north of England ' ' nith some software. Surely Servici in the next edition of the Lynx and sells reasonably well with a the software adds to the amount What for owners newsletter, which is fair percentage being sold on of money the seller is expecting available free to everyone who 'recommendation' of friends. for the transaction. This is in One major difference with Ven- fact selling the program which ture is that the pictures on the is illegal. from of the cassette sleeve is Since people spend up to honest in that it shows actual £100 on software it seems unfair
lem if they couldn't sell it Fighting This is unlike the majority me way and without the talk of cassenes which are blatantly Tl progam To al breaking the Trade Descriptions power Act by showing pictures which who don't deliver bear no relation to the actual author thai they do not gel the content. 1 for here's my advice. one am not tions for an excellent magazine. chance to sell their cassettes to prepared to splash pictures of Persevere. Ring and ring Having bought all six issues so the buyer and they do, 1 would rocket ships until they get sick of the sound space men & on a far, I've found that think, lose money. Home Com- sleeve unless actually con- of your voice. If they offer or game puting Weekly is worth every The selling of software on- send your money back, tell tains the graphic thus shown. penny. adds to the contusion which they are breaking the G.A. Booker, G&J Bobker. them con- I myself own a TI-99MA. ists in the copyright law and tract (because that's what it is). and the series of graphics > about lime it's looked at | Say that if they don't pull their ain and made more clear to Our apologies to Bobker, socks up you will issue writs Mr puter has given me a lot of help in against them. my own games programming. he reviewed exactly what he was It works — I've tried it. I Many thanks to David Gray who sent. Clearly one the old ver- was order number 5 with Oric of "~yje [he series. sions Venture must have International, and I waited of Please keep up the good turned almost five months for mine. up in the office k — and more competitions somewhere. Still, Ven- Save my But after sending them the draft nothing name ic\ies please! variables! of a letter "expressing my ion Dawson, Workingior views", which was to go to a computer magazine, they got can explain to me why on such a worried and after 2 days, there comprehensive machine as the was my Oric, Lynx you cannot save variables? My last word is don't give A question I realise that you can savethe in, and if need be, stop all programs you actually write, but of character Alteration payments (if you use a credit isn't lot if write 12- altercation this a of use you a In your magazine of 1 S April card| until you get it. Good luck personal banking program, data with the jrguing... 'iih redefiner K. Whitfield, Chelmsford, by Marc Freebury. I additional data needs to be saved generating prograi variables. in the form of gram and loaded it into my (Letters, issue 8). While Mr
May I say I think Lynx have Atari 800. 2005 is indeed a print error,
misrepresented their product. 1 It worked OK, except for think he will find that line 10] think you will agree if you read renders his other corrections bot their leaflet that you are led to Out with the printed blanks, Howt in necessary and inefficient. believe you can save programs on old In with the traced the problem to lin 3030 Mr Casson has als the Lyra just as you can on say new and 3070. [f the COSUB 6200 is >verlookcd the fact that the pre k Spectrum or Oric. changed over, it works perfect- gram is for designing charades, P.E, Lawrence, Orpington, Kent ly. changing them. The reasoi
I hope this will be useful to for (his becomes all tool obviou Long, Joe of Computers, said: you change characters ii
"'the fotlon-ing short routine can tunately it would appear t this hobby in February this n [lie screen, in partialis tied lo any Lynx program as your reviewer relied on p year, and find it very satisfying. '. which product- jmu-im
knowledge of a much older i Incidentally, 1 am over 60. legible displays. sion of this cassette. H.G. Woodman. Wembley, Gram Privell, Wallham Cross For well over three mon Midi
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The books assume absolutely no knowledge about computers and the reader is shown even the most fundamental operations such as "switching on" and " loading a program". The books lead the reader through simple programming and then on to graphics, with several programs which show how to achieve pictures and evei
The user-friendly approach is consistent throughout the text- not only are program listings clearly shown, but in many cases, a photograph is included to show what the program looks like when actually loaded and run!
All books in the series are £5.95
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Learning to Use the One 1 Computer lApril) Learning to Use the Commodore 64 Computer (May) Learning to Use the Lynx Computer {June) READ-OUT
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Eyes down for reaction a selection of Skyhawk Damper/ the latest VIC-20 Clooper games to speed £7.95 16K ZXB1 up your ea.95 reactions — and your heart rate. star Skyhawk is a defender -iype game in which you pilot a plane ratings and 1 didn't find the blurti fur (his pro- and try to protect a town from gram very helpful in understan- comments enemy fighter bombers. Your ding the game, in spite of from our team plane can travel both left and right at one of three speeds, and game itself was belter. of reviewers takes off vertically. Damper puts you in a city on The action takes place over an alien planet; mysterious black a nicely-drawn town which blobs are attaching themselves to the power cables, moving around the grid and sapping the city's
power supply. Your job is to move a grid runner around the wires, damping down the power while
The game loaded and ran with no problems; there are op- tional instructions displayed at the start of the programme. There are five 'dampers' for
roa must replenish you to avoid; they move in an ir- regular wave up and down the
ding stages. But the grid, and if your timing is not
try to destroy the precise it is very easy to gel caught its before you can The graphics are dear and the he aim of the game controls are quick without being survive and destroy
'lives' (plus bonus if you become good at the game| and the speed increases as the game progresses. Scores are displayed, and at
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I found Dampers a straightforward game, without
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everytime I thought 1 had the
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payability payability mmvaJue for money value for mor
HOME COMPUTING V. TI-99/flA PROCRAM Bank on your micro to check on your cheques
How much is in your bank account? Don't wait for a statement, Anthony Cray's program for the TI-99/4A will tell you straight away, and help your budgetting
Keep an eye on your with my bank account
for the TJ-99/4A. It al initial balance and a
The amount is entered a?
the number of pence — £
negative number is a debit and a
"':. Dates are entered in the form dd/mm/yy and are check- An entry is specified by its item
number (I, 2, i. , .) The cheque numbers and When you want to change an :tails are arbitrary strings of entry, thai entry will be ] to 15 and 56 characters displayed along respectively: extra characters appropriate : discarded. This means two ter for tht nsaciions can always fit into When yes or no answer press V or y When the program is run for yes and N or n for no u are asked for the data and The program has been designed the following menu of options lo be as robust as possible, is displayed, chosen by pressing however, rors with tapes which c; detected and prevented,
t New date and/or new
determine the new Balance after transactions Input details of an account from a cassette file Output. Save details of the
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Candlce He by in home software which employ Goodwin talked to managing freelance programmers working at home, all 16 of Psion's director Dr David Potter and learned the secrets of Psion's Then in September 198!. Joined by his "right hand man" and success former Imperial College col- league Dr Charles Davies. I Dr David Potter, Psion's started developing the label. As well as the dcvclopmcni nder Psion vita! part of creating a committed facility in London, Psion has a team. He said: ''So far, nobody factory in Telford which deals has ever left Psion. It's not the with all its tape duplicating and money — though we pay very production well according to company But less welt-equipped soft- industry standards — but a ware companies can take heart from the fact thot. in terms of everybody being involved. the home software market, "The atmosphere's terrific. 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Please note that we CANNOT supply it ari Stockmarket, for example. t it out and send it (o: ng Cross Road, London WC2H 0EE .. tapc(s) of the following prograi ASP Software Adventure Series 1 The White Barrows G> £6.50 ei Debit m y Access/Bare la year J (delete a necessary) Conquering Everest & £6.50 m Combined tape ( P.gc 30 HOMI: UlMt'UTINC VvLLKLY 17 May 1983 ( BBC PROGRAM Find that program with an index The screen display a for 21 items (L%> in the list, be for Having trouble remembering which should enough ; a your recorder has a tape C60 cassette. It may be helpful iter — and mosl or (he just where you saved a certain lo add the index program at the loner-priced models haven'u program? waiter Reed's full end of the casset 10 your problems, To add you program will come to your fast rewind times in tl may have forgotten what is on ran of the DATA St e cassette anyway. rescue You may want to keep the My index program for the JC micro, if SAVEd at the tinuous use. Providing the pro- beginning of your cassette, will only 2K of RAM, but further gram to be selected does not tell you just what the cassette is memory savings could be made take up too much memory, then holding — plus any other com- by taking out the REMs and tape is gradually moving fast; PAGE boundary may be reset ts that you wish to record. colour characters, and using towards the end of the cassetlt toPAGE = TOP +&100 before It also lets you locate the right shorter PROC names. and while experimenting us CHAINing the new program. program without the need for a To set up the index times, •CAT: instead of CHAIN i the easiest method is to enter line 130. redisplayed and a further selec- dummy DATA tion obtained simply by re ing PAGE- AEOOand RUN. switched to Fast Forward, and wind it on automatically to the ;hl place on the tape. As well as programs, the program could be used to index ;, housekeeping and so on. The procedures that it is made " can be used separately, by merging them into your own programs for daia selection and tabulation. The digital count- in clock could be used in lab programs. 10REK NDEX 1 P -os am y T VO t»r 30MODE7 46PR0C. ntro 56PRGC ..antra s6PR0O_ 30IFyftL inaext X. 3TH P 90PROC. elect 10BIFYK •Y'THEN S8E SEUDU7: ILS U3PR0C. 12BPR0C. lay I3SCHAIN noexj'fl .Ft 140END 139 170DEFPROC_ir>d«>- 18eCLS:P INTTABf .1 <"HR 130 MBF t*0PORIS 9T0LX 280PRINT ABC3. 12 3)CHR* 31 I Xi 210FOP.JX*0TO2:PRINT ftfit .IX+ 1 . T 220NEXTJ :PRINT 230NEXTH;:PRINT 2S0PSINTTAB<0. 24 CHR*13 ;CHR*157iC SELECT ITEM I Z7SXFAX HOMi; COMPUTING WEEKLY 17 May \< 1 i BBC PROGRAM 28BENDFR0C *B0DEFPROC_select *10CL5:PRINTTA8<0, 1 2) CHRS 132 1 CHR* 15? ; CHRtl35;A?:; 420FQft.j;S'=0TO2 *30PRINTTAB((JX+l)*ll,12)index« <-.40PRINTTfiBlB, 14ICHRS131 i CHR* 13? * CHR( 132 ; 'Pleose confirt s «BY* = GET* •40ENDFROC *?e 703OEFPROC- countdown 7iePRINTTAB( 0,18)'Set tape ta F/FUD 5 press any key- 723Yt=GETS:UDU7: *M. 730VDU23; 11,B;0;0 7*3tiBie = TIME/lBa + UAL ' " 112BPRINT' 'CHRS132; CHR* 1 57 i CHRS 1 35 ; fire you REflOV then. 1133Y0U23i 11 . 233i0;3;0 11405OUNDI.-1B.8?. 19: SOUND 1 ,-10,77.10 1150SOUND1.-13,41 , 10 1160PRINT' CHRS130;CHR*157;CHR*135> ' Set tope to 'PLAY',. 1178PRINT' 'CHRS131iCHRS157iCHfi*132F " Press spacebar to 'C llS0IFINKEY(-??)*-lTHEN1190ELSE1180 1198 ENDPROC 1200DEFPROC_intro 1210LX-2B 122BDIh"inde>it iL2,2> 1233ENDPR0C 124B 1300DEFPROC.dQtn I31BF0RIX-BT0LX:FQRJJ>BTO2 1320REflDir>de*S(lX, J%) 133BNEXTJX: NEXTIX 1340ENDPROC 13 56 2B00REM Index or TDK D66 2913REM BUGFIX * INDEX head tope 262BDATS INVADERS , 15EE- h 2333DATfi VOYAGER ,0097 28 20*aD0Tfl MOONLANDER.086B 36 3958D0TA PTERAGON ,093? 42 204BDOTA BLAST - B809 5B 2070DP.TA DAMBUSTERS.07E4 40 2B8BDATC OBSTACLE .34B3 70 239BDATS SQUISH ,0740 86 21BBDATA MORSE , 0CEB 90 2110DATA VOYAGER ,0A?7 103 2120DATA 30-SURFACE, B24B 110 2130DATA ELLIPSE ,0336 120 21400ATA MOONLfiNDEP,0S6B 133 2130OATA POLYGON ,0152 1*0 216BDATA SQUARE ,0135 150 2170OATA CHORDS , B23E 140 21B0DATA SPIRAL ,0327 18B 2190DATA INVADERS , 13EE 190 22B0DATA B , 6 IBB 221BDATA 3 , 3 100 222BDATA DUMMY , 99? 223BREM SET PAGE-TOP+S40B TO RESERVE SPACE FOR INDEX BEFORE 'CHAINing' HOML COMPUTING WEEKLY r 1 FOR ANY SPECTRUM SIMPLY THE BEST M 'I are using universe through .__...,..„._.J: To uphold the defer long as possible while Inflicting the maximum damage on alien forces. ^x osltlve and Negative Ion Guns are deadly at any am Is bent by the massive gravitational field of ti- er Is equally deadly but has only limited r offence craft against you In reaslng Intensity, In deadlier ai long can your fleet of ships survive? many enemy craft canyou destroy? ..J....-T.M' ,. *l. ! 1- ..I • . M.,1 -.1. ' I..'-'. of the year. We.will then publish a list of the top 1000 can find out Just how good you are. HOW GOOD ARE YOU? Take up the "BLACK HOLE" challenge NO\X/and find out. Send £5.50 to QUEST, 1 19 THE PROMENADE, CHELTENHAM, G LOS GL50 1IMW to receive your copy of "BLACK HOLE" by return first class post together with nbership'numberentltlfngyou to discount on our forthcoming blockbusting radccnquiricswcrcomc A MEW DIMENSION excellent terms available IN SPECTRUM SOFTWARE I- ( UMI'l riNti VEF-.til V f ! :Defender-for the BBC model 8 eight? re, 'Han II costs' were the orders fro ... Here's your chance to prove It Not just another shoot st me more than I bargained for! Even with the 'em up game, but the ultimate in hit 'em fast, and hit 'em fighter in the galaxy! live got to hang on... keep hard games- but this is no game... your life is at stake! must fight ... but™for how long?..." Fast action machine code game, which calls for a the federation Pla: laton fuel dumps from the steady trigger, and nerves of steel, 10 levels of difficulty, alien battlefleet. Use your joystick controlled gunsight, high res graphics and ind hyperspace to destroy sound. "Smart" targets!! Game design and dragonware: R, Lawry hter in this iser has been invaded by the evil full feature fruit machine game. Based o a real 20 race known as the acneans- even worse, you are alone) symbol per reel machine, this superb simulat on displays In a micro-instant you realise the task that faces you is excellent high res colour graphics and real one of spine-tingling terror - you must risk all to save random hold and nudge facilities, with the me earth from a horrific destiny. Can you avoid the blood vicious gamble feature in the west! withou doubt, the dripping, plasma curdling mutoids and activate the ship's most compulsive addictive fruit machine on self destruct computer - do you have the courage? Can Specifically for people with deep pockets an 1 money to you save mother earth??, can you save yourself??? the answer is surely ... how??? Superlative graphics and Game design and dragonware: R. Lowry sound make this game by Phil Woodrow, the ultimate All of these superb games £6.50 each, inc first class post, Soft Joe's is the one for please me, rush me 1 packing and VAT, Aonean Mutoids 1 For BBC Bandit For All orders within despatched 24 hrs of receipt. Cosmic-. Defender | Model B nSniper Dragon 32 1 enclose cheque Dealership enquiries I Soft Joe's Software, E jsiness Centre. Claughton Road, Birkenhead, Merseysi for VIC 20, Commodore 64, ORIC, VIC 20 SOFTWARE REVIEWS Mllll Our panel look W at new games, action—with at a range of SSbE prices, for your vic-20 the vic-20. This is what they Laser zone then out of your normal lire- think of them... field. Vou musi either turn a ship vic-20 plus 8K to fire diagonally or hope there's £6 just one more Electro up ihe test of coordination skills, and fun for all, it will The aliens have landed, they're perhaps be most appreciated by - _: to gel you what can those who take their games you do? Bludgcn them wiih an seriously. We,oour Electro, or swing your Plasma Sound is effective, graphics ne(y Cannon with speed and finesse and pick them off. Give me (he monochrome). I biudgen any day, but supplies of bugs or loading difficulties. I lie Electros arc severely limited . . . program has plenty of features, "Your objective: simply to 31 skill levels (plus training model, and comes with par- can before you are yourself ticularly full in) Mil rendered into your component which you DlviI. Vou alsn atoms", says author Jeff Minter good joystick and, lik Si raighi forward enough, considering you control two spaceships armed with those mm Cannons. Snag is. the aliens that evade Tossfire lo reach the c 5^ataA^M HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY I - VIC-20 SOFTWARE REVIEWS Chapter three is somet The wizard else again; a three dimensional and the maze of great complexity and Princess size. The program note sug- gests that you draw a map as (he E5.95 labyrinth is explored, and a Melbourne House, Glebe Cot- good idea this is. The maze is tage, Glebe House, Station very difficult to solve even so. Road, Cheddington, Beds LU7 but enjoyable all the while. Chapter four lapses into mediocrity with a hunt for a . i program I shov blob (or "monster", as the pro- gram has it) in various rooms of possibilities for the VIC 20, (he wizard's castle, and the pro- both in terms of graphics and in gram goes out on a low note terms of going beyond the with a very uninspired "poke memory limitations of the stan- (he (roll in (he midriff" game. dard machine..." Thus begin Good use of program the notes accompanying this defined graphics is not enough! five-part "adventure". For- Only the 20 X 20 maze redeems tunately the program itself is Krazy Kong (his adventure, but redeem it it does. Melbourne House is clear- VIC-20 plus In chapter one you wander ly aware of (he great marketing slowly through some pretty 16K potential of adventure games a countryside, looking for (he £6.00 present, but competition is stiff wizard's castle. It is rather hard Gardens, and standards high. Higher Anirog, 26 Baleombe Horley. Surrey than this. T.D. rewarded with a "Press shift run-stop" message: on doing so you are propelled into chapter play ability two. Here you are expected to for money In case you haven 1 play This is a purely graphical the arcade game, it works li adventure, in which you use the this: You take the role of asm keyboard lo control a lit lie man distributed throughout the alien searches pyramid for who a ship. Using either joystick or kidnapped maiden from the giant keyboard, you must wander His quest takes him into a through the ship, find the The gorilla is lurking at it secies of maze-type screens in top of a series of plai forms linked which are various nasties who lock and reassemble them. by ladders, and your man delight in sapping his strength. There arc a number of try to get to the top. Instant death also lurks in the He also has to avoid being of different traps. form robots and space spiders in the crushed by barrels rolled down rooms, all which are determined Ihe plalforms by ihe gorilla, i text on- criticised for the use of to slop you succeeding. As you smash them using small malic ly. [ must criticise this game for he picks up on the way. He ci — the the converse only time also win extra points by collecting test is used is when your death baskets or umbrellas as he g is I would have lik- announced. This is a faithful copy of the have seen simple messages ed to original and, bearing in mind the telling you what the objects i Of t VIC, they could for were and what do The search starts at if excellent muliicolour graphics. Secondly, whereas in most you look and you arc returned there If you reach the top of tl adventures can anticipate a you if you are captured by or screen, a new configuration c avoid hazard and sometimes it, the opposition. K9, (he robot platforms is drawn. Screen (hrce are in Pharoah's Tomb you dog of Dr WHO fame, will help included an elevalor which, due liable to be bumped off at any (0 a bug or my ineptiiude, 1'r time. Instant death without The game sure which, I was unabi warning frustrating — is so graphics and is fast ami tra mourn. So beyond this sen especially when you have a long A high degree of agility can 'i comment, Animation is smooth and Very good multicolour fast with either joysticl mode graphics, but overall keyboard control. A standard ather hall of fame is available for high plavahiliiv associated with arcade games. ;ila>ahi!i:\ Ycu are the pilot of a space graphics ship which has been captured by laluc tin in an alien craft. Your ship has been dismantled and the pieces KMXM3 KXXX3 E C'OMPUTINCi V. MACHINE CODE SINCLAIR ZX81 Two Great Games on one ci seite cleverly written in machine code, stretches you computer to the limit. Both have flicker free graphic , unbelievable speed and m CYCLONTRON: can become addictive. -".: .:: • JUMP JET r» MIRAGE: You are flying a Harrier multi-roll aircraft, your to bring the deserted city to the ground, with e creasing speed your task is anything but easy. FORMULA ONE Try and keep your A formula one car on SCREEN SCORING. the track. As your y Fully compaiable with kill irii.Tea.ses so does 1 IK and 16K machines. Both for the i iclusive Price of £3.50! 16K SPACE RESCUE Play this 16K 2X81 version of the popular Arcade game and save the six remaining survivors from Mooi Base Alpha. For the inclusive price of £4.95 We'll help you do better. ^ Texas Instruments SOFTWARE AT NO! DISCOUNT PRICES Ext. Basic If you see an advertisement in Speech Synth. Joysticks The Count Wars Savage the press, in print, on posters Car Island Chess Oldies /Goodies or a cinema commercial which Add/Sub 1 Begin Basic you find unacceptable, write to Also Large Range Cassette SoI'iwuil us at the address below. (TV WLK Marine .uppiied on Subscripl and radio commercials are dealt with by the IB A) / All Prices Include VAT and Postage. Send sae for full list or send cheque with order or phone using Barclaycard or Access. The Advertising u Standards Authority. V ASA Ltd, Brook House^mngton Race, Lorxlon VC1E 7HN. s6ALAXY[ ! ORIC • ORIC • ORIC CASSETTE .35 DUPLICATION SERVICE ;; SOFTWARE No order too large or too small. 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HRICHIUS B ieJtt HOME COMKM'INO WEEKLY r , SPECTRUM SOFTWARE REtflEWS Rats, spiders, ghosts and androids — the latest spectrum releases Catterplllar You face a fearsome set of foes Orbiter £5.95 in these new games, on sale now £5.95 for your Spectrum. Our CDS Systems. 10 West field Clow. reviewers return from the fray Tickhill, Doneaster, South Vorks. to hand over their star ratings DNU9LA avoidable purple killer rat drops iieh recusals: A blue spider, a green flea, a red Cyber Rats down to add variety. sion of L he popular purple scorpion and a caterpillar E5.95 No problems loading, and cade game. Orbiter incorporat are your main foes in this game. you can play either from the many of the features of the Try to destroy the caterpillar a seg- keyboard or from an AGF or ment at a time as it descends on Kempston joystick. One or two Mutants, and the small scale you through a field of mush- In this derivative of our old friend players can take part, each display or the overall battle; rooms. If it touches your gun, Centipede, deadly rats advance on you player's turn ending when he/she Since these features are dead. you from the top of the screen. If loses a life. The highest score is not mentioned in the brief in they touch Each time the caterpillar you, you losea life (you recorded, but not the player's lions, it was only after con! touches a mushroom it moves one have three to stair with). tion with a confirmed Defender stage lower — and if the mush- The rats appear at the top interesting, Reasonably but fan that the full scope of the ga room is red, it drops si raiglu unite right and top left of the screen, u ii memorable graphics, and lack- was understood. travel across until and they reach ing the addictive qualities that It then emerged as qi the other side or encounter a tuft have similar made games so suc- entertaining, if slightly frustrating of grass. At this point they jump cessful. Disappointing for the game, notably in .i Ivl.v.,. score message kept changing col- right, up clearing the mushrooms from the i our, and in some colours was i bollom of the screen. If it suc- and down, and fire at the rats as unreadable. i Itey advance payability , the flea comes hurtling (you use the key for The Defender fan remarked graphics that it was difficult, if not impossi- mention). If you manage to clear value for money ble, to position the defending ship ;d for destroy- them all, a larger swarm appears... so that attacks from the rear could ing anything on the screen except Every now and then an easily be detected in time to lak yourself in this highly complicated action, but that could bi arcade game — which could be Muncher some feeling of achievement. A highly enjoyable too, were it not high score is recorded, but not the The program loaded without llic I imitations of the Spectrum E5.95 name of the high-scoring player, difficulty, though the instruction keyboard Muncher is let down by its in- to CLEAR 25102 before loading Ajoystickisamust foragame structions, which give the wrong this, but the program doesn't control keys: S starts a newgame, needed with other machine code provide for one. Matters aren't not 5, and M, not N, moves vou programs. Seven control funi iproved by the keys chosen for down. lions were available, each coi . With a the Fair graphics, especially con- (Tollable by a separate group of : other on the sidering how small the ghosts etc keys in the keyboard matrix. worn row Tor firing, you could arc. An addictive game, and a Basically a good game, w : yourself in knots once the ac- good introduction to the "race, would nevertheless benefit from >n hots up. A good game, let chase and gobble" brigade. But slight revisions and an adequate ™n 1>> it. hardware. Each lime you clear the with so many similar games on the riergy dots and redraw the maze, market, I would have liked to see N.W. au and the ghosts speed up. A D.T. pljisiihihrs The program loaded every and the difficulty levels pro- gress smoothly, so that even a smer to the game can get St., WH1-.K1.Y 17 Mai 1'IS.l i world's greatest arcade games" for- ZX Spectrum and VIC 20 Featuring: Hi-Resolution Graphics Sensational Sound Effects Authentic Arcade Action Machine Code Thrills COSMIC INTRUDERS ROAD FROG ROCKET COMMAND MONSTER MUNCHER The original and best Guide Froggy the Speed across the planet Chomp the apples in the intruders game with son road, then the river ana surface to defeat the aliens - - new twists - how long a finally home - but beware and save the Human race eat you ifyou can swallow you last? the Evil Monster! smart bombs and hyperdrive the boosters you might even ANY GAME JUST Including, VAT, post & pack and OUR NO Any ZX Spectrum Any VI QUIBBLE REPLACEMENT Please Monster Muncher £5.50 GUARANTEE rush me Rocket Command a copy Road prog " Cosmic Intruders a SPECTRUM GAMES SPECIAL OFFER - SAVE ON TWO - SAVE £2.00 ON ANT TWO GAMES - PAT ONLT f. FREEPOST MANCHESTER M3 8BB cheque/P.O. for £ please debit my Access Card No. 061-832 9143 Dealer enquines invited . . DRAGON 32 PROGRAM Let your Dragon loose Subcha.se puis you in charge ol Hints on conversion with a mission to hum su with depth its and destroy them wi This program isn't easy tc conven as it uses high-resolution charges if graphics. So you don'l own a Dragon or a Tandy Colour Com- : key the depth @ drops puter, 1 suggest you completely re wrilc lines 200-340. 360, 440, 500, rearmed v.ith indcpih Not enough Dragon 32 l». charges and if you drop one and Forth o attempt a miss ihal deplh charge is, of programs are being mil. hen: t. Bui if you in the sub published, said Ian you r charge is replaced sellman. So he sent in his GET and PUT lakes : back a depth charges once you've own simple Subchase game anywhere on the screen destroyed L(! submarines. ;e [he game The PRINT nlsat any of 512 points on the ii randomly changes speed. ecu, which iMiiads'iipol ;i 32bv Jnlike many games of [his lisplay. when you drop a charge [he How il works The Dragon doesn't require — ,i slightly hailed does slow — so i LET, so if your Ihis has to be taken into account When Ihis appears you see 10-130 title pages you will have to in- while playing. the sub moving at Ihe bonom of Entering the listing should the ocean. The ship doesn't ap- m cause many problems. The in- pear until you move it, then ii ASCII codes 8 and 9 a oduciion and end I shows cm- may need randomly on ihe surface. codes for the cursor keys ( The game ends when you run Dragon. out of depth charges and there's a 540-710 commeni on your score. Average This program takes u| is!0-20subssunk. 720-840 over 12.5Kofmcmory,bui ofihisisusedbytln'ji!-,!pliii HOMLCOMl'iniNCi WL-.LKI V 17 May LH83 Page 41 3 D DRAGON 32 PROGRAM 10 REM*SUfc!CHHSfc**:6V I , C, SELLWflN* 20 CLS 30 PRiNTfil0,"SUbCHHSE" 40 PP.INTtE42j "===«==kis" 50 PRINT896. "YOU HRE THE CRPTHIN OF l=l NRVY SHIP. YOU HHVE TO DESTROY RS NRN Y SUBMARINES RS YOU CRN. YOU STBftl WITH TEN DEPTH CHARGES RNO LOSE ONE EVERYTIME YOU MISS H SUBMHRINE. BUT YOU RELIEVE TWO Eft') Rh CHHRkES i-un EVERY TfcN " 60 PRIN7ii320,' l S!jBr-lh.filNb YOU DESTROY" ?e PRINT«44B J "PRESS ANr KEY I'D CONTINUE" 80 IF INKE¥**""THENBS 96 CLS 100 PRINTG8,"SUSUHP,Si- C'JHTROLS" ll@ PR.INT«4»j "-«— ««-«' 120 PP.INTS126. "TO MOVt RXGHT FRESS '_>'• 130 PRINTCi224,"T0 MOVE LEFT PRESS <<_'» 140 PRINTG384, "TO DROP CHHRi^t PRESS '#"' 150 PCLERR8 160 X1-RNIX2205 170 DIMH', 15, 95 160 DIMSHIPUS«9> 1.9B 0IMB<27,B> 200 B'tMCC£7j&) £10 PM0DE3-l^PCLS'00.-ORa,3 ?-'.. 220 L I NE< .. 5ft iSSfc- , 50 >, PSE1 238 PRINK Bj 51 ,>.3,3 210 [JRHW"BMe.'ti.. ce;S4C 260 PHIN'rCie5 i 9S')*4,4 £78 PftINT 290 HEU21..20)-c6..in J SHAP..L 300 PUK21..2W>-(.6,ll>,fl..FSE'r 310 GET<3y,3i:>-'.. liio., IBB ^BjG 3^0 PUT(yB,32>-< UiS, 100 ?• C PSET 338 SCREEN!, 340 R=10 350 M=10 360 PORX-10IO220STEPR 3?0 PUTCX, 18e>~ 1 430 PUT ; XI , 40 >-< XI + 15, 49 ), ft. PSET 460 IFAB6 500 IF MO10 THEN M=n+2 > MC=0 310 PUTOtt.4B?-CXl+15,49>,SHIP>PSET 320 NEXTT >-<. 330 PUKX, l&U k\+-£' , IoS.'jCPSET 340 NEXTX 550 L.OTQ360 S60 IFL'1 = 1THENRETURN 570 tfl-l SBB DE*K5 5i70 X2=X1 600 RETURN 610 CIRCLED X2+5.DE 5, 3^4 6£0 PR*NKK2-H5,I?E>,4,4 Jk 630 FORR-lTOlB'NEXTfi ^V 640 CIRCLE! X2+5, DE J, 5, HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 17 May 1933 ' . . " t>50 PHiNi"!:*;e+5.-DE>,3,3 660 DE-DE+10 670 IFOE< leSTHfcN RETURN 66-w FORD*0TO27 620 IF X-XZ-D THEN GQTQ730 ?@y NEXTD P20 D1=0:RETURN ) PUOPY1T05"-'Cuky2 106 : PGUP'r^TOr". PC0PY4T, 1 F'(10Dfc:.-.5 : SL:Rt.ENl,tf ! FORP-iiOIW « MjRR=9T01 I SCREfc.Nl,fl 1 SOUNDlBfcs,*: I NEXTR.P < POLS 1 S-S+i I MG-ftC-H i PftOOEo, i'SOKtT.ENl,0 i H=ftNiH40>+iB I Oi=@, RETURN ) CLS 070 PRINT&-128, 'YOU HBv'E KUN OUT OF DEPTH CnHI^Eo, SUNK ' "SUBMARINES i IF S<6 THENPRINTIKgse, "YOU DONT DESERVE TO BE CAPTAIN" 390 IF S>5 HUD S< 1 1 THtNPKIh i eiiijo, "YOUR Shit-' *UNK LESS SIJbrlflKiNt.S THAN ANY OTHE R SHIP IN THE FLEET" sm if s>ia and s<2i then pri urease, your performance was only rverrge" 918 IF S>20 HND S<.31 THEN PRINTB2S6, "YOU DID WELL" 9e!0 IF $>3U THEN PRINT8a36, " YOUR SHIP SUNK MORE ::>UB-"1HR i Nty THHN ANY OTHER IN TH E FLEET" i, 920 PRINTS443, "WOULD rOU LIKE ANOTHER G0< Y-'N >" i INPUTMS ' IFM*="Y THEN[iOTtiig0 lYiironcoucDtz NUMBER 1 1 HLKUDi iiCKc MICROSPHERE COMPUTER SERVICES LTD ONE FOR 71 HOSViit'.RYROAD LOflDOH HIO 2LA TELEFtlOHE 01-883 94! 1 THE EVOLUTION (48K Specirum: DRAGON! 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