1SD0D3. Tandy price rise as oric Programs to printer is type in for: VIC-20, THE Spectrum, TI-99/1A, BLACK ZX81 HOLE Software A NEW DIMENSION -.,:.• reviews for Vr..- •:,- i : I'li: up hc IN SPECTRUM SOFTWARE i:i.l'. '.]! : < irii Spectrum, UlllJ 'illi -i-_- BBC, Ace, To be released this month ASK FORQUESTSPECTRUM charts for: SOFTWARE AT TOUR LOCAL Spectrum, SOFTWARE RETAILER ~ ZX81, Jagon Vote for Home Computing Weekly 1 The TI 99/4A Home Computer - '.' resolution guphi: i!9?- ?.'. :.. : ; .•J-,i- !,;> il'V . .;.. j'l iiiera 1 Software are jbouii.OW Prajnra I » b i|,: l;i; j' ' ~" HlPT J |;,r.;v,>V S ,, j [j ! f ^ VR J^.;-t:!M Siii.tJ.-ifvi-'V--:.- *!f.: LmguajBS (PASCAL n. I 030 ASSEMBLER! TI99/4A for just £149.95 TWO SPECIAL OFFERS WHEN YOU BUY SIX WHEN YOU BUY A TI 0FFERS END JULY 2nd 1983 SOFTWARE MODULES 99/4A HOME COMPUTER TEXAS INSTRUMENTS WILL ^^—^^ TEXAS INTRUMENTS SEND THE SOLID STATE ZI ^ WILL nglWUTBI speech tZZM send SYimj_ESISEH YOU UmjjJM J I >l> 2 ItllMI- CllMI'l list May ii-June 6, 1901 Ho.is something Spread out for everyone News 5,6,7,9,11,13 PracliCalc, a spreadsheet pro- gram for the VIC-20 and Com- modore 64, has jusl been One woman's view 7 brought out by Marketing seven programs for to Micro Software at£24.95 on irum. There are also tw< Tor rhe ZX81. and ihe ; Markeiing Micro Software, Goddard Road, M'hitehouse In- dustrial Estate, Ipswich, Sitf- Two of the programs are lor the chess enthusiast. Spec- LATE NEWS trum Chess II is. according tc Election special: Spectrum, Artie's Richard Turner, "a vasl VIC-20 15 improvement" on Spec Chess. Instead of skill levels, yon ti-99/oa program 19 simply set the time you want the computer to think, from tc both of its horns computers. 999 seconds. It is priced £9.95. The Atari 800, with 48K Chess Tutor, price £6.95. Profile: Kiltdale 21 of RAM, is reduced by £100 plays in three levels as well Getting it taped to £299.99. acliiciu iwginners. Ni well as a £10 price the i As prices of Artie's old games have vic-20 Software reviews 25 reduction to £149,99, the been cut bv a pound each. Spec 16K Atari 400 now includes Chess now costs £8.45 and a limited offer of a free pro- £8.95. Voice Chess costs Atari programming 26 grammer's kit worth £50. It For the arcade game fans, consists of a BASIC cartridge, Improve your screen play Cosmic Debris (£4.95) Ihere is reference manual and teecri- and 3D Combal Zone (£5.95). And Artie is aiming at the Spectrum software reviews ... 51 Producl manager Peter thinking games player with 3D Hradek said the price cuts Quadracube (£4.95) and Adven- were part of its marketing ture E — The Golden Apple software reviews 53 rather than a react- (£6.95). Finally, SYS 64 is a strategy program to convert your Spec- game galena for Ace, ZX8I. BBC, Spectrum trum into a 64-column machine. It costs £6.95. ZX81 program 37 ZX8I owners arc not left M« Squirm the worm political Lynx out. For them, there is a version of Rcversi with four skill levels Camsoft's programmers have (5.95), and Raider, a Scamblc Letters «0,4i rushed out Election Analyst, lookalike (£3.95). What you've been telling us one of the first programs for This is Artie's first soft ware release for three months the Lynx, In time for the Richard Turner said: "We'n big day. aiming to bring stuff out everj According to Camsoft month. But we try to maintain I the program will "turn Lynx high standard with out soft owners into instant election ware, and we're not jusl goini pundits". By feeding in previous crease our range regardless of election results, opinion poll figures, boundary commission changes and your own factors you can predict the winning Available from branches of Laskys and Spectrum. Election Analyst will cost around £9.99. 1 FREE GAME WITH EVERY PEN! Please rush me ANSAPHONE SERVICE I I I I COMPUTERS l 24 HOUR sales & services jOgAhhgftM, UwrpoollTC 051 777-7767 1 L'TINCi Wi.l.K] V .1] May IW power supply with the Tani Both use liny ballpoint pe in black, blue, red and green prim ill 1 2 characters per v,™ and for graphics. They prim on paper t'A wide at 40 or 80 character:, in [c ETSOflWi One' which can be wiilibotrMSK aridity com- :rs, is lOMin wide, 6Min deep and slopes forwared from 2/iin [be back and I '/:inat the front. With an eye to exports, Oric says it will also work in 110 volts ' America, after a minor adjust - the Oric MCP40, as it is called, can also be used on any ler printer providing ttie same Micro show Darrell's Mr Russell said: "We knev that Oric was bringing out thi hits the gremlins Wedon't normally worr .-ii the Saturday. 10am to printer. Teenager Darrell Et he ring! on Midlands the Sunday. Entrance is too much about the com petit ior an ' author of Krazv Kong, has writ particularly at this one is being £2 (free if y< ten ,i novel game for the VIC-20. an OAP), b J off if >uld for i he One. It is called Slap Dab a you apply to "We sell ours without . due for release at the Com- aiding a lead because people The Birmingham modore show on June 8-1 1 at the variety ci Computer Show is organisea dv them on a wide of Cunard Hotel. Haininevsmiili. jters. In fact the demand ASP exhibitions, pan of Argus great that we have b Specialist Publications, :en so gremlins by "painting" a spuare publishers v. on stock so we have increased softwan of Home Computing hardware and in such away as to isolate them. Weekly. Anil Gupta, partner i "Owners of the BBC mil ASP PdtihitHHts. 145 Charm An irog. which is bringing out th in particular, have silaked up Cross Road, London WC2H 0EE .locks and there is now a £35 il The show will also feature d I'Vi erface for the Spectrum computer advice centre, run by independent experts, which will Kraiy Kong costs £7. Wand offer answers to burning Fun to learn Slap Dab, for the unexpanded ic Products is mounting questions like which micro you VIC-20, is £6. ler promotion from July should choose, and why you're Anirog, 26 Bateombe Gardens, civing jbji d-Scpicuibci\ ha-, iiig srou We loading programs. Horley, Surrey software with eyery com- You could also win noi one puter sold. Four tapes, worth ing fun have been launched by "'0, ' will be included ' Applied Systems Knowledge. writing K model, costing f i The company was founded on the 64 And four casst into by Tom Stonier, professor of wiliieOli.w i aw wiili Pop u> science and society at Bradford Simple Software has re-wrilt : :hc shops the PIP5 club University, who said the range, its Simply Write word proce: 5. The free nowtotalling 10, was aimed at ing program — on sale for cs will h'eiw Sord. who Tokyo-m : MS children to use PETs since 1981 — for t h foreducali id the h< encouraging computers for more than Commodore 64, and added m n'ness. The I6K tapes will be started a UK club for users of its home adaptation-; of programs for the PIPS software. The company- just space games. features. games, which Colour and function k 48 K model. says that PIPS, which stands for The new c Products International Pan Information Processing need SK or I6K RAMpacks and Lumlim Kimtl. vonh Pork, from retailers, eluded in the program, which System, is an easier language to vl, Berks SL5 7SE and £46 leam and use than BASIC. Seek, graphic costs £40.25 on cassette Ttimtr Corporation, Tamewa\ It is also available for the ~ w. Bridge Street, Walsall. VIC-20 and BBC micro, as .< Ihi* WS1 ILA as all PET/CBM model,. bingo and noughts and Simple Software I Orics for Japan to teach arithmetic; and Shape Simply File for 64, a database Up, to help the very young learn program, is also ready am ol Japanc-c hu%e ioiiiiU the shapes of numbers and let- be on sale after the mam Oric Japan to make and completed in three to the Oric in Japan, plus selling in Applied Systems Know/edge, South East Asia. They expect London Mouse, 68 Upper Rich- sell 120,000 in the 12 mom mond Road, London SWI5 from July. HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY Jl 1 ' NEWS Radio one's vote with prize the ZX81 call in with the soli program in the program. Predict the balance of power the election results come in Radio One is planning to broad- cast a computer game — with :e the ct with a 16KZX8I. prizes tor the winners. Impet Portable Sofiw; Chris Sievey's record, noi The idea came up when has rush -released a program out at £1.15, has a song called Chris Lycett, producer of (he called Swingometer which, it Simon Bales Show, heard of Camouflage on the A side. The a says, will do just that. It firsi ol'ilictlireeprogr; newly-released single which has side £10.45, including postage, by a song nn one side and three pro- B displays the lyi sinni she grams far the ZX8I on the B and other tw and IK versions of a game called V .Sri;; mi Flying Train.