, e„A^',© POPULAR oOnly40p. Vol 3 No 46 Confusion New One micros over owe Ptoducls Intemanonal StiatOE (see Popular Compu- It will have a Centronics img Weekly, Sepl ember 30) is Coleco port, built-in compuleis in Spnng 1985 — to be called the 10164 in this dem and a disc two in the under £500 pnce cQuntiv. The 10164. which, like conQoller, the Almos will use the 6303 "It will be lOOtt software The three comprise a £350 chip, will have B4K Ram. but no compatible with the Atmos," Atari CorpoiatiDn (UK) that it successor to the Almos and internal Rom, Instead language said Oric'i canridges can be plugged into machines — one a £400 desk- two Rom cartridge akjls provi- pull out of t he markel. The Alan top model. !he other a £3000 ded on the machine. Dr Logo portable micro. from Digital Research and Mi- "Coleco — ihe nearest rival to Atmo crosoft Basic will both be bun- the r-> Alan's best seUing 3600 Video of died - h the n h had a Computer Syslem — are with- drawing from the market pbce Problems for Amstrad's CP/M leaving Atari as the unchallen- rr looks aa though Amstrad amount of space," said Chns Ban7 Muncaster, "It will still be owners who wish to run CP.-M HsU of Locomotive Software, known as the Siialos on the piogiama with the disc drive, which designed the Amsltad continent, and we're hoping to ' 13 could have when il released, CPC646 compulei. Most CPM launch II in France at the end of problems. January. In the UK il will be Once the CP/M operanng launched around March or Apnl and the price will be in The IBM-compatible desk- top machine will be available in sevcial model will have 33K video Ram, demed that said Philip Gibbs. sales mana- ger at Meal Toys, "It is very much Elill there in the markeL Colecovision is also now very competitively priced vuith ihe Alan 2600 Jr and It machines. We recently made a dramatic leducQor in price down to 149,99 — the same pnce as the 2B00]t." CQiulaiiBd on page i» | INSiPE)NEWREADERSCHART— V0TEF0RY0URT0P6AMES )| U\HftDEOLANDS(0 PURE JVIAUIL! Join A/lce in hef jOumey through waeoland - an enchanted plsce populaipd tiy stfange creacutei such as Btead-and- Dutterflies and pipe smoktng caierpillars; where tittle gfris change size and flamingos turn into cropuet maflecsf Alice in WdeolarWisarewluciorarynewconcept in enienainment tor the CoinrrKxtofe64jrKorpDrat(ngsorrwor the finest graphitis ewer seen on anyjiome[amputef,accoinpaniec(£)yacharmcng musical score Iherearetourdifferentgamescenes iriwlved,a/xlyi^rperforrTiance In earfief ones wiJIaffectyoui-atJili^to get through later ones and determine )«utewntual *•"* - Stunning title One page graphics give way to the first game scene as Alice falls into the rabble's warren. Score points for collecting ihie objects to be found there - including keys to open doors, bottles to make her smaller, cakes to make her bigger I Scene TWO -Out in thegardenthe Cheshire cat looksonasAlicemeecthepipe-smokingcateipilIat Help her to catch the bread-and-Outterflies and the rocking-horse tties that change into the balls used in the croquet game m the last scene! Scene Three - Alice Is a pawn In the chess game where her opponents are the Jabberwocky and Tweedledum and Tweedledee Help her across the board by protecting her with >our \Miite ICnightsI Scene -The Four most biiarre croquet game evefl Help Alice hit the balls through the playing-card-soldier hoops before the Queeri of Hearts stonps on themi Alice in Wdeoland is iiwailable for the Commodore 64 on disk - £12.95. and now on cassettt - ES.95. Alice in Wdeoland features giaphics created with the Koala FSd. P.O. BOX 88, READING, BERKS, E COLOUR CATALOGUei ' )View No 46 H — fonrerly B^'< s piepared to nka risks anymore, Auvomaia's ouiaanding Deus ex Machine in Ihe chaiu foi the nisi time. ThiE Christmas will see some of Ihe most innovative saftmare } Piesents... software which News > 064 music keyboard tackles the biggest challenge add depth, Star Game >A version of the classic game Battleships for the Amstrati CPC 464 3 the blobs Street Life > Christina Erskine talks to John Sutherland at Titles blie Gargoyle Games' Acorn Video 14 Tit Na Nog. Like Deus a is an in Wheels npt lo produce an mterac- Software Reviews > Wheeling and dealing New tilm, but the results are John from Automata > Bill Stickers in Poster Paster 17 enliiely original. Hather in die for the alyle of an adventure, you Hardware Reviews > Microsight Video Digitiser control the brilliantly piogram- CBM64> Turboprint/GT from Norbrain Micros 22 it 1 central chacacler as The Page > Malcolm Davidson shows OL rttwvwl^*'^ r*-X*;wtw;*i you how to beat the system 26 s quality iiaa r Spectnun > Load as you have never on the Speclium. loaded before wih Tony Dexter 30 Another lust-class package entry system for the BBC B IS Ghoslbasleis from Aclivision BBC and Electron >A keyword lor Lhe Ca4. This adds depth by by Richard Snowdon 34 'spinning oIT from the excellent > screen printing writhout control charac- comedy movie of Ihe same Commodore 64 On 38 ters? Peter Graves shows how. fimstrad > Throw away that filing cabinet and stan typing in 40 MicrofUe by Peter Paton count . and ol Chart > New feature . make your vote . look at il, it's a supeib piece Readers 66 programnimg. It remains true lo the film's plol and its version of the Reel > Letters 7 > Open Forum 44 > Arcade Avenue 44 > of the Rav Parker Jr hit theme Best Microradio 45 > The Music Box 46 > Book Ends 47 > Adveniure Comer 53 > tune and itE speech is a terific > iclikeyc Peek & Poke S6 > Diary, Top Ten 66 > New Releases 68 > This Week 67 Puzzle, Ziggural, Hackers 70 ware. It's just that for the tnoBl pan, 11 la the newer cotnpanieB Ivat are now shining through. All that is being proved is ) Futures... Think you could design a great game? Prove it — enter our competition next week to story-board the sequel to JiLOiofoni' Wilf, sRing the law ul cnpyrtghi id txipy programs XI tempted Accuracy Popular Compuvng publish although we will always Ity en.-'— I progmma we Computer Traito Asaocialior ia-2IN0VEHBEB REAL ARCADE ACTION! FROMJETSOFT 06ITf50333 POPULARCOMPUTINGWEEKLY Keyboard for C64 intimate parncuiar room in the caslle releases cauldron. The objects must e Italian Commodore 64 sounds m playing then be deposited in the caul- and Ihe olhsr lakmg voice/ 3D adventure professional quali- information liom a sepa- produced a sound ULTIMATES loUow-up lo the By lught the player turns into for ty music keyboard add-on rate keyboard, a werewoll. After forty playing the CommodoTB 64. Siel intends iLS Commodore derwurJde is now avaiiabie, days, il Ihe playei lias nol The keyboard caj\ also be 64 keyboard to (orm the basis entitled Knigl\! Lore. collected ihe objects, the game used in conjuncuon wiih Sid's o( a deveLoping system. There The game uses three dimen- is lost, as theplayei becomes a MIDI inteifaceen^luigil lobe are plana [or a separate sound sional graphics of oulslanding werewolf peimanenijy. With generaloi, a low cost MIDI fjuality, and comes very close the weiewoU persona, travel in oihei MlDI-eqiupped insau- enpandei to allow a number of ihe castle is difficult and dan- lo be ditferem sound nacks gerous. developed at once, and addi- ShigJit Lore is available on sotwrare for sequencmg liona] the Spectrum, and priced at and composing. The basic package, cansis- of Wales tinci of the hill-size 49-nole Versatile plotter a finalist ui the Ptmce keyboard and software on Awards. eiifiet casseilB or disc is ex- from Penman Application packages are pected to retail at £125.00 and three-colour prinier.'plotter, November. has been launched by Penman BBC B, Apple II and IBM PC Products, A unique feature of AmstradCF/M Penman — which costs E 199 — is its mode of operation- Up lo three pens are carried en a Penman Products, 8 Ha- drive is i remote robot unit, wluch is zelwood Close, Pominion Way, micro - ihe CP/M is a bonus. connected to the coniiol uiut Worthmg, W SusseK. As far as individual CP.TiI tillen via a flexible nbbon, and are concerned, it depends on Ihe drawing sur- Ihe type of program as to moves around vrhether il will Fit. 1 don't know of vast numbers of programs there vnll be restrictions. "We ettvisage people using CP,'M on the Amstrad more tor design has e; Star enable 64 Beyond to market which markets other First products in the UK, such as the Preslel and Viewfax 2SS Spy vs. Spy Asao Crash and Flip and Fhp. networks and ailow contact FIRST Star's spy vs£py game IS Explained Staleaoft's John between Commodoie users eiQstmg CP.'M pro- SB! for release m the UK next Fletcher, "First Star did otter us and Spectrum and BBC users. grams lo fit on to the Amstrad, week. Beyond Softwue is to Spy vs Spy. and while vre Details from Prism Micropro- Original wriiers, too, may vrell ducts. market the game m the UK, considered it, we didn't feel we Pnam House, Wia Mora modify the ptograms if there is Spy vs Spy is based on Ihe could dj justice lo it." the demand." American comic stnp of the Spy vs Spy wiU be iniliaUy 155. Amsoft iiseil will be relea- same name from the magazine released tor the Commodore •Bob Denton has resign sing packages, un- direct two CP/M MAD. "It can be played either 64, 31 £9.93 tor the cassetlH group managing der the title Classic BusinesE by two players, or by one version and £11.96 on disc.