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the Electron in direct that they've since made Editor can be made on
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YS, issue 2. Having used 64K couldn't go wrong enquiring at problems getting any speech
CPC, 194 North Road, synthesisers to work with his
chips to allow it to be used as Preston, Lanes PR1 IYP. computer — so far, he's been
a memory add-on, he found After all, Sinclair Research through ones from Currah,
that the finished article Vox and Datel Electronics.
wouldn't work! use the company, so it should
Whew!
Well, my solution isn't be good enough for you! Methinks the fault lies with
Good luck, Jim.
perfect — in that it only gives Patrkit Kerr had the the SP80 decoder as it
32.K RAM without an external operates each time an I/O
misfortune to connect his
refresh chip — but here goes! memory map access is made.
Swop A7 and A 14 Speccy to a faulty 32K RAM
Each time you use it, the top
connections and disconnect pack, only to find the -5V and
+12V rails were disabled. of memory (32K) which
pins 13 and 14 from the edge contains the machine code
connector, and connect them Restoring transistors TR4 and
to zero volts. This will give TR5 restored the voltage rails, stack swop pages — this totally
but caused the screen to flash destroys the Basic ROM's idea
you the SoftROM because A7 and a continuous beep to of what it's doing. Removing
is always binary zero during the decoder should allow it to
you're having hassles with refresh. I'm afraid, as sound.
your hardware, get in touch The problem could be the work. One thing, though. I
with DIY demon Stephen suggested in a letter in YS, transistors across the VIDA thought the Cunah speech
issue 4, this circuit can't be device only worked with 48K
Adams, Your Spectrum, 14 which decodes AO for the
used to provide an extra 32K models?
Rathbone Place, London to a 16K machine — this ULA — and I'm afraid they
WIP IDE might have blown. The other Well, that's it for another
would require 2552 (32K) month. I'm here should any of
alternative is a little worse
chips, or 4164s with the you need any advice with any
decoding altered so that the t h e RAM chips or the CPU
Well, if I can say it's nice to CAS and ROMCS only i t s e l f could be damaged by the hardware problems, be they m
hear from you all, without operated when A15 is binary l o s s of power (while the +5V t h e Spectrum itself or one of
sounding like I look forward one. To get hold of the bits r a i l was still running) which i t s many peripherals. Don't
to hearing about all your you'll need, contact Maplins w o u l d have put the address or r i n g , I don't work in the
troubles, I will! Keep sending Electronics, PO Box 3, d a t a lines permanently at o f fi c e s , but write to me care of
your letters in a n d I'll Rayleigh, Essex SS6 SLR. b i n a r y zero. I would suggest t h e Your Spectrum offices at
answer as many as I can On a more enthusiastic y o u take it along for a 1 4 Rathbone Place, London
through this column. note, Jim Colbum wrote in to professional repair. W 1 P M E . And, please, don't
ask where he could get Our next worrier was James sen d any damaged gear to me
My first query came from Cridiand who's the proud p e r s o n a l l y I can only give
Mr Newby of Kendal, who supplies if he wanted to set
himself up as a repairer of owner of an issue one 16K a d v i c e — rarely carry a
seems to be having problems
Spectrum gear. I'd say you Spectrum. He's having s p a n n e r around with me!
with the SoftROM project in
 EDUCATINGTEACHER!
The Hi-*Fechnology and
Computers In Education
Exhibition, held recently
at the Barbican Centre in
London, attracted many
teachers to its stands. As
Mr Robert Dunn. NIP
responsible for the MEP
(Microelectroniccs
Education Programme)
pointed out. "the idea is
to educate innocent
teachers into the
complex realities of what
the micro market has to
offer them".
To say the micro
industry turned up in
force would be an
understatement, But
MP Rober t Dunn patr oni si ng (si c' the Hi -Te c h
e x hi bi ti on.
GO-FASTER
then, considering that
over .E100 million has
ADD-ONFORC5
already been blown by
various government
schemes to introduce
computing at all teaching
levels (from Primary
schools up to
Universities and
Polyteehnit) it's hardly
any wonder that the
major manufacturers
and suppliers are all Look Mum , tw o w heel et Whi ch Oilre?'s Willis has a
hungry for a piece of the s m a s hi ng ti m e
action! Well, it had to happen! As or Sir C's technical
- Someone had to take a chappies have pointed
theI event was so great POKE at Sir Clive's out, the actual result is a
that at one point, even "new power in personal burnt-out motor rather
thebseminars were transport", than a souped-up go-
e
turning people away! Exploiting the Sinclair chart. So, here's a
Thep stands weren't too Research accessory offer warning for all those
crowded,
u but the 'No of an educational battery parents out there
under-I8s admitted' sign to double the effective thinking of purchasing
didbseem a little range of the vehicle, one of Sinclair's 'less
l
incongruous u n t i l , of certain sources are than finest' — if you sec
i
course, you noticed that marketing thoroughly your young sprog
there
c were so many illegal wiring kits that zipping round the
adults
r indulging their promise to double neighbourhood at
childish whims, there effective speed. Trickery frightening speeds, it's
e
wouldn't have been any is apparently based on worth checking to see if
room
s for the under- I 8s series battery the Hoovermatic's been
anyway!
p connections_ looted for more traction!

HACKING (where 'x' is the number

lives up to 255). The only
problem is cramming in too
o
off with is for varying number
of lives — POKE 55711,x n
s
e
of
many divers into the boat t on-
screen. o here as direct commands. Once following way. Load the
If you're playing an
opponent, POKE 45696,0 will
ensure your opponent's clams
take a considerable time to
open — that should mean your
opponent runs out of air pretty
quickly and you end up
winning (heh, hell!). Of course, 31175,0 — and if you want to
be sure to have your turn
before entering the POKE —
you wouldn't want the plan to
backfire, would you? Andy
also found a bug in Scuba Dive recommends a maximum of
All the POKEs and more!
that occasionally results in the
Send your hacking hints to diver being reprinted in the
Andrew Pennell, Your Status chart; as a consequence, you can choose the number of
Spectrum, 14 Rathbone our diver gets towed along like
Place, London W1P a water-skier when the boat
Hello, and welcome once again moves off. Has anyone out
to the back street hacking shop. there fixed it yet?
'Those with brains less withered Moving on to one of my
than mine will recall the 'in personal favourites,
depth' treatment given to Quicksilva's Fred, Paul
Scuba Dive a few issues back Margetson claims to have
(My, how time flies! Ed ). found the ideal solution for all
Well, Andy Orchard has cheats. It requires a little work
written in with lots of tips on to enter because of the loader
how to muck around with it. program. Paul says that his
First off, to get the POKEs girlfriend gave him 'invaluable
in, you've got to load the help' in finding the information then?) and they are: POKE
program as usual, choose the given here. But, without
LOAD option offered and, elaborating any further as this
after confirming it by pressing is an (almost) respectable
the 'Y' key. press the Break magazine. let's get on with the
key. You're now free to enter hacking.
the POKEs and, to finish off First off, type 'LOAD
the loading process, type 'G o CODE 26384' and play the
TO 2' and press Enter. tape. That done, type 'SAVE
The obvious POKE to start "FRED" CODE 34500,
6
22650' and save it to an empty rival. To redress this
cassette. Now, to load your
newly-created game,
'LO AD "" CODE 24500'. It
won't autoRL1N anymore. so
type
imbalance. Micky Quinn has
gone to the trouble of dropping
rue a very useful letter
To begin with, you'll need to
you can enter the POKES given stop the program in the
you've modified it to your program as usual with 'LO AD
requirements, enter 'PRINT " " , but as soon as the first
USK 30285' to start the ball section of code has entered and
rolling the PAPER colour turns green,
Getting back to the POKEs, stop the tape and don't rewind
you can make your last unit of it_ Next, reset the Spectrum
power everlasting with POKE and enter:
10CLEAR24100:LOAD CODE:
vary the amount of Power, RANDOMIZE USR 65100:LOAD
POK F. the number of units you CODE:POKE 43742,0:POKE
require into addresses 30418, 42177.2: RANDOMIZE USR
31592 and 44696. Paul
41200
240 units and, using these, he RUN the program and then
mentions that after level six start the tape up again. The
P0KEs above can be altered to
nastie,s in the mazes that follow. suit your taste. The first gives
By the way, he recommends infinite lives, but you can
the Mark 2 version of the change this to POKE 4.2214 to
Picturesque monitor (which he give you an option on the
used for hacking away at Fred). number of lives if you don't
Entering the jungle world of want to make it too easy. The
Sabre Wulf, I remarked a other POKE simplifies matters
couple of issues ago that I by changing some of the sprites
couldn't find the- necessary to red so that they don't kill
POKE to keep Sabre Man you on contact. And to show
permanently cyan. Well, Nigel that there's no bias on this
Salt has come up with the page, I'm able to report that
goods (who's a clever boy Nicky prefers to use the
Dk'Tronics Distron 48
44685,186; POKE 44676,255; monitor. So there!
and POKE 44677,80. Many Finally. Richard Glass came
thanks Nigel! up with a good challenge for all
Kokotoni Wullhas been you hackers h o w about a
hyped as being better than our POKE or two for The Hobbit
of friend .LS'Iitthough it's so that those who can't finish it
revealing that, up until now, it's (myself included)( Me tool
never had a mention in this Ed.) can take a look at the final
column — unlike its illustrious screen.
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 GOFOURTH!
Mi c r os c ope 's Guy Ke w ne y
talk!
Channel 4 has taken the
plunge a n d come up
with a computer chat
show called 4 Computer
Buffs. Geddit?
Produced by the
Database team, C4 calls
it "a weekly news and
current affairs
programme for serious
computer users". Back
in the early days of
computing, Edward
Barnes, the then head of
children's programmes
at the BBC, said that
computing shows were
"looking through a glass
darkly". It'll be
interesting to see if C4
has managed to break
KEYBOARDKAPERS
Nordic, the company
that bought up all the
Fuller stock in the
liquidation fl urry of last
year. seems to have got
itself in the same mess
at its forerunner —
perhaps the disease is
catching!
Ex-Fuller man, Neil
Roberts, told V.5 that
Nordic has laid of all its
staff and gone into
voluntary liquidation.
Here at the VS bunker
we were hardly
surprised to hear the
news. Ou r very own
Tony 'Slim' Samuels
wrote a program for
Fuller early last year,
the idea being to fully
demonstrate the
p i c k up thy m i cr o and versatility of the Fuller
Master Unit. But, as
the mould, and produce Fuller never officially
a show that's actually bought the rights to the
worth watching! But, o f program, Tony got
course, we'll all just decidedly twitchy when
have to wait and see .„ he saw Nordic using it
C4 also announced at the first — and last —
that it's launching an Microfair the company
adaptor for the attended.
Spectrum Apart from the
(manufactured by OE L ) threatened court
allowing users to injtinction from our
'download' programs friend Tony. ex-fuller
from it's own 4-Tel MD Roy Back house,
teletext service. also stepped forward to
Channel 4 will be remove the copyright of
happy to tell you more the FDS keyboard from
about the adaptor and Nordic — which
the new 4 Computer effectively meant that
Buffs show on 01 -63 1 Nordic wasn't able to
4444, make any more of the
units. No product equals
no t u r n o
Nordic
ver in the
proverbial
a n d
t Further
bad news
h i
comes from scouser
sNeil. The word is the
l e
so-called 'ultra-
timproved'
t version o f thc
FDS keyboard is
actually no different
from the Fuller unit —
apart from the logo
sticker, and it still didn't
work with Tasword
Two.
The moral of this sad
and tearful tale? Well,
apart from the clear
realisation that it's not a
wise idea to mess with
our large Mancuncian
friend, if you're going to company. then take a
pay good money for the good look at what
rights to a crashed you're actually buying.
Nor di c on a good day! ti t w as a Tuesday, w a s n't i t?
Ed.)

sections of the code that

gear... hut I certainly couldn't

HUNITNEWP
Major problems this month
with those moody
Microdrives. Simon Goodwin,
Mr Z IP himself, phoned and
asked me if I knew why his
'drives should suddenly have
begun whirring round in
spontaneous fashion — taking
no notice at all of lord and
master!
Well, I too have had the
odd 'runaway' — usually with
important YS material on-
board! — and I've traced the
cause down to the simple fact
that the TV (or another such
interfering piece of
equipment) is sat too close for
comfort to the 'drive. By
moving everything as far away
as possible, you'll probably
find that the erratic devices
will work as they were
originally intended. Obviously,
Troubleshootin if this fails to do the trick, then
the next move is to go back to
Reporting...
1 P ete
your dealer. Alternatively, it's
Pete's phone lines are open been suggested that you jump
from 10am-1pm and 2pm- into your C5, drive (very
5pm on Wednesdays and slowly) to Cambridge and
attack the 'bearded one'
Fridays. Ring him on 01-636
- personally with your duff
2 11
condone such irresponsible reduce lives (or whatever) and
cancelling/changing/adding
action!
An interesting chap by the the necessary POKES, A good
book to start you off on
name of Roger Freedman
called in this month with a machine code is either our
own Toni Baker's Mastering
query that will probably strike Machine Code On Your ZX
a chord with those of you who
have been impressed by the Spearwn (published by
Interface Publications), or Ian
hacking hints we give in the
Logan's Understanding Your
mag. Roger expressed himself
quite taken by the whole Spectrum (publishe,d by
Melbourne House); the latter,
business, and wanted to know
how best to take the plunge by the way, as the tide might
suggest, is an essential user-
himself.
guide for readers of this
Hacking is a developed
technique, and although there illustrious rag. Actually they're
are no short cuts as such, both very good books, written
there's a formula which, if you by two of the top Spectrum
follow it correctly, will put you gurus in this country.
Finally, may I repeat the
on the right path. What
hackers actually do is learn plea that I am not in the least
'hacking literate'. Phoning me
Z80 machine code as though
it was their second language — with problems of that ilk is just
a waste of your hard-earned
they're then able to read
through assembler listings (like cash. AU you cheats would be
the ones we print in YS far better advised to drop a
machine code features) and line to Andy Pennell (who
understand them as well as the pens our Hacking Away
written text of a book! column) and tell him
In simple terms, though, it's personally of your deviousness
and deceit!
just a case of locating the
 that's what Dolphin has
got in mind.
Throughout the
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places as Beaconsfield,
Cobham and
Crowthorn, Dolphin's
holiday camps offer a
wide range of 'things to
do'. On the computing
side, you can learn
'basic' programming and
what's called the
*advanced' course. There
are also activities such as
swimming, horse-riding.
surfing and so on,
Prices for the week's
stay at a Dolphin
computer camp start at
around L144 + VAT.
For more details, and a
chance to ogle the
pictures in its glossy
RIPPER brochure, phone (0444
458177.
TAKESTWOTOTALISMAN
Claiming that it had 'the
first ever interactive
multi-player arcade
adventure'. Games
Workshop launched the • • •V• • • • • m
roltelL
Spectrum version of its • ; lo
fantasy game. Talisman.
The program, which , • •r • .
can involve up to four d
players in any one game, i
is said to be the true l
successor to Valhalla, l
Talisman is a race to a
reach the 'Crown of
i
Command* and control
W
the destiny of the world
— of course! A horrific i
M r s Tal l sm an— Val hal l a's fol l ow -up?
array of deadly creatures As. att the time of Try looking out for
are out to stop you in writing, Awe at YShaven't Talisman in the usual
your task, including actuallyrseen the game., outlets at £795 — but if
those that are controlled t
we can only ask you to you have any problems,
by the computer and the
other players.
believe iwhat Games
Workshop e arc letting on.
give Games Workshop a
bell on 01-965 3711

FLIPPER MOREFROMCHEETAH
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Dolphin Adventure
Holidays is yet again A t a time when several Boasting not only a games for the Spectrum
offering its world of home computer new joystick interface, a and Spectrum+. ( The
excitement to the under- manufacturing 56-way extension cable Spectrum+ too! Now
18s this Summer. companies seem to bc for the Spcccy's user there's a thing. Ed.)
If you're planning encountering all sorts of port (for under 5:10) and And that's all Cheetah's
your Summer holiday financial problems, a two-way aerial adaptor giving away at the
this year and you'd like a Cheetah Marketing has for computer/TV input moment, But if it's more
mix of outdoor/indoor released details of a (for under E2), the details you're after, ring
activity, interspersed product that it's going to company's also Cheetah Marketing on
with a smattering of be launching over the screaming about an 01-833 4909.
Ma tc hi ng Jum per s at
Spectrum computing, Dol phi n. ( Ifuchl Ed.) coming months, entire new range of

For more details, write to disk at E49.50. The equivalent

Digitex at 4 Amwe ll House, Microdrive cartridge, complete
The Woodlands, Isleworth, with assembler, which co-

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For all the news and
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with John Torofex!
ART FOR ART'S
SAKE?
Not content with Q L Easel,
companies like Talent, CP
Software and Eidersoft are all
releasing graphics packages;
and, of course, all are claiming
that their product is by far the
best on the market!
The one from Talent will
apparently be based around
the Commie 64 package
Panorama, one that's quite
amazing considering the 64's
awful pixel resolution. So
what, one wonders, are we
going to get on the OL front?
UP Software is still working
on its advanced graphics
package and wouldn't be
persuaded to divulge details.
But Eidersoft's package Q L
A rt is already released and will
set you back .E14.95. I
wouldn't want to sound mean,
but I'm not too sure if it'll
stand up to what the
opposition has planned, but if
you'd like to phone Eidersoft,
the company is on 01-478
1291,
STOP TH E SQU EEZE
Isleworth-based Digitex
Computer has launched
another of those ever-useful
utilities, this time one that
allows you to make more use
of your Microdrive cartridges.
The package is called STOP
(STorage OPtimiser to you
and I ) and it squeezes
programs down to roughly half
their size. when stored on
'drive. No t only does this
mean all you micro misers can
avoid shelling out hard cash
quite so often, but it also
opens up possibilities for large
databases to be stored on a
single cartridge.
Digitex is also promising the
appearance of a Winchester
version. something which
should have you shuddering
with anticipation at the storage
possibilities.
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Q L + Limited has produced a
handy plug-in device which it
describes as, "the fi rst product
to transform the Q L into a
true business computer" (So
what was it before? Ed.). The
card plugs into the OL's main
expansion port, allowing it to
run CP /M-8 0 software. It
contains a 780 chip and 64K
of RA M and also offers two
eight-bit ports with 64K o f
print buffer space.
Seeing that W1-1 Smiths is
apparently transfering the
extensive CP / M-8 0 software
library on to cartridge form
for QI, Microdrive use, at
£199, this gadget might just
make a worthwhile investment
for that businessperson we
keep hearing about,
TH E QU EST
B U SIN ESS
Quest Automatic has a new
range of packages for
converting the QL into a
'serious' business machine.
The main item is a 68K
version of CP/ M and the
28.5K operating system is
available on 5
1
resides with ()DOS is E79.50.
Quest also has a range of disk
drives for the CP / M, from the
200K floppy at E249 to a
selection of Winchester disks
starting at £995.
It can also supply extra
internal RA M from 68K to a
cool half-megabyte and the
whole caboodle can be stored
in an expansion console for a
mere E109. Two of the new
business packages are also
compatible with Psion's QL
packages, so data is
interchangeable — an
advantage Quest cleverly
intends to continue.
PLU GOLA !
Y'S 's own Peter Shaw has been
busy recently (
Tchange!
h a i Ed.) writing two
m a kthat'll
books e sbe available by
the time you're reading this.
aOne is Games For
Your Qt.
(published by Virgin), which
at £2.95 just about scrapes
into the 'value for money'
ratings. The other is Games
QL Computers Play
(published by Corgi/Addison
Wesley). Anyone still
wondering why the I'S Editor
bikes into work while child
prodigy Peter Shaw drives a
gold-plated CS?
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CODE BUS TE RS !
I've just this minute put down
Terry Bulfib's Codebusting
article ( YS, issue 11) and I'd
like to add my fivepennyworthl
He describes a protection
system that only works if you
avoid the use of GO SUB in
your programs. Actually, GO
SUB — and all the other
control structures, such as
WHI L E -WE ND and
RE P E A T-UN'rI L — are
simply fancy ways of dressing
up the GO TO command.
Therefore, any lavy
programmer can jump about in
a program without wreaking
the kind of abuse possible with
a naked GO TO statement.
It's quite easy to simulate
GO SUB in the following
manner:
10 PRINT 'Start ol program"
20LET return =30: GOTO 100
30 PRINT -
40
Ba STOP
ck
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s Listen. we'll have less of this
100uPRINT b -
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110GOTO
ow return
ti in n e
YOUCAD use the subroutine at
"s u b r
line 100 from anywhere in the
o u t i changing the value of
program,
'return'
n e " as appropriate at each
call to make the program jump
back to the correct part. If
you're nesting these GO SUBs,
you'll have to use different
variables — returnl, return2,
and so on — so that you don't
RE TURN to the wrong place
or overwrite a nested return
point.
Of course, it's easy to
simulate all the other so-ealled
'structured' commands
mentioned above. A ll you need
is a condition in the right place
and a bit of self-control,
Peter Green, Chingford,
!Amnon
HMM, that name rings a bell
Anyway, Pete, thanks for that
—and a plea for any other hints
and tips any of you lot out there
might want to give us regarding
Terry's article. Ed
S P E CT RUM +
S NAG!
I'd just like to warn all readers
who've just purchased a
glorious Spectrum+ that it's no
use looking to get hold of the
Kempston joystick interface. It
just won't fit! You'd be much
better advised to check out the
Pro joystick interface — the
three port holes lay flat a n d
the device fits just fine.
Stuart Free, Canford Heath.
Dorset
A bsolutely right. Stuart! OK,
Is there something you're not telling us? Don't
miss out on the chance to win a bundle of free
Spectrum software for each month's Star
Letter! Write to Forum, Your Spectrum, 14
Rathbone Place, London W1P 1DE
BROTHERLY LOVE
With reference to Alastair
McIntyre's letter, published in
Forum, YS issue 11, I too have a
Brother M-1009 Printer, and I
have successfully connected it
to my Spectrum and Interface I.
I have drawn a diagram
RS 2 3 2 Conne c bons for Cabl e
INTERFACE 1
All the corrections are shown from REAR of PLUGS
Kempston, what are you going
to do now the original
Spectrum design's been shelved
by Sinclair Research? We await
your latest interface with bland
enthusiasm Troubles hoot in'
Pete.
S CANDAL!
You better start taking some
notice of Forth in your
magazine, or else I shall be
forced to sell the photographs I
have of the Editor of YSand
you know who!' to the Sunday
papers. I shall then make
myself enough money to be
able to buy all the rights to
Your Spectrum and sack you
from the position you now
hold.
And if I'm feeling really evil,
I'll make you play Jet Set Willy
non-stop for two days!
Mr 'T , Newry, Co Down
Oh boy, we don't half get 'em
on this magazine! I realty don't
know what to say... yes Ida —
clear off. schmuck! Ed.
— MY THE ORY
IS...
In the article Machine Code
Commands ( YS, issue 11),
there was a mistake in the
machine code listing. Three
lines before the 'B A CK ' label.
17
Hip ' — YS issue I I , he warbles
on about copying a one line
loader down on paper if it's got
a line number zero.
Line number zero cannot
normally be used, and as it
stands it cannot be edited
either. To change line zero to
another line number. do the
following:
POKE(PEEK23635+256• PEEK
23636)+1,x
Where 'x' is the number you
want the line to be. It's then
possible to edit the line as
normal, instead of all that
writing. If you wish to use the
wFiat knouid be of some t o p line zero in your own
M r M C I SI M I I , ,
programs, then put the line you
conn
4 oCWnis riccessir be t e c x want at zero at the start of the
Sh O Win g
the
t Interface I po n ef program, for example '1 RE M
Orother connect
t,
Ha (c) MICK', and then POKE as
before, but replace 'x with
-t
Stevenage. HerN zero. Line I then becomes line
iV i
d
zero — good, eh?
tt
d e Where can I pick up my
P bronze Trainspotter award?
Mick,
o
o Wolverhampton
e violence if you don't mind — I
, get enough aggrevation of the
-
BROTHER M-1009 earlobe from the Ed You're
' right though, hav e to admit it
—once again! Maybe it was my
over
Christmas
- period that made me
you've printed an instruction forget
ind that particular method
'1,1423613), Ht.'. This should A
ulge
have been 'LD(23613), SP' so ncontent to achieve a mere
that when an error occured. the bronze
n c e standard Trainspotter
daward — what about silver and
HACK address is POPped off o
and executed. w
gold? Still this is all immaterial
v
It would also be nice if you h'cause you're not getting
e r
could include, in your Joystick ynothin' anyway.
Jury section, whether or not the ,tTroubleshootin' Pete.
games you review are easily h
modified to work with I
e
Interface 1 and Microdrives. a
R BI B& Carrickfergus, N sEVERY P I CTURE
Ireland
kFirstly, may I congratulate you
on a superb magazine; you
Thanks for the correction. As mhave successfully produced a
for your suggestion for Joystick ygood mix of games versus
Jury — yes. we'd love to be able sprogramming,' peripheral
to suggest how you modify earticles with just enough light-
hearted comment to make it
games so that they'll work on
Microdrive, but it seems that we lvery readable. And while I'm
could be liable for prosecution fhere, can I make a couple of
if we did! The copyright laws ,points arising from articles in
are a bit confusing as regards athe December/January issue?
software, especially as there's In answer to Richard
r
yet to be a test-case. In the Harrison's letter (Forum, YS
meantime, take a look at our eissue ID) transferring
ankle, Microdrivin', in this ycommercial programs on to
issue —just 'cause no-one else oMicrodrive for ease of use,
in the industry's supporting the uTroubleshootin' Pete suggests
Microdrives very much, it that including a 'Microdrive
doesn't mean we're going to SAVE' option in commercial
ignore them! Ed. programs is the obvious
solution, but that there's no
real gain to software houses.
Hah! Wrong Pete o u r
S OM E ONE POKE Assembler and Monitor
PETE! programs contain this option,
Will someone please give and I feel that the good-will
Troubleshootin' Pete a swift thus generated outweighs any
kick in the user port. piracy problems, especially as
In his column, Fro m The full Microdrive compatibility is
essential for such utilities,
With regard to the various
versions of the Interface 1
ROM highlighted in Andy
Pennell's article (Interface
ROMS — The Inside Story, 1
i1ssue 10), both our Assembler
and Monitor are compatible
,S
with versions I and 2 of this
ROM (detection of the ROM
type is automatic). As the hook
codes are not sufficiently
flexible for the needs of our
software, we have had to
CALL routines in the
Mierodrive ROM, bypassing
thc hook codes. So, complete
compatibility is possible with
all Interface I ROMs a n d
don't let anyone tell you any
different!
Martin Ridout. Picturesque
Couldn't agree more, Martin_
Since we began the final stages
fYS MegaBasie, one of our
major concerns was to make
sure it was Microdrive
compatible as well as
operational with all the
Interface I ROMs Sinclair
Research could throw at us,
How the would we be able to
complain bitterly about
software houses treatment of
the Z X M icrodrives, if we did
the same thing ourselves? Ed
THE CRUE LLE S T
CUT OF ALL
Someone in their great wisdom
has placed the YS MegaBasic
coupons so that they back on to
pages of text, and I'd like to
know if you'll accept other bits
of the magazine in their place.
You don't really want me to cut
your fine produce, do you?
Kenneth Hardacre, Yorkshire
A photocopy of the coupon will
dojust fine o r if you wait a
couple of issues, you'll be able
to take your pick of the coupons
as there'll be one in each! The
artist responsible for the
ghastly error was threatened
with having to work on one of
the other computer rnags — so I
don't think we'll have any
trouble from that quarter
again. Ed.
KE Y BOARD
COWBOY S ?
Could you please help us
regarding Fuller Micro Systems
of Liverpool? We've tried to
'phone the company
unsuccessfully on five different
numbers about my son's
keyboard which he saved for
out of his paper-round
earnings. We have written to
Fuller asking why the order has
not been fulfilled, but we have
never received a reply.
My son is most upset over
this as it's a lot of money for a
young boy.
Mrs Spring,
Stockport, Cheshire
Unfortunately, as you will have
probably realised by now,
Fuller has gone into liquidation
Sc) I'm afraid the chances of
your son getting his money
back look bleak. We've also
just heard rumours that the
company who took over Fuller,
Nordic Systems, have also gone
bust! Quite where this will
leave customers who've
ordered keyboards, w ell just
have to wait and see. Sorry not
to be of more help at the
moment b u t as soon as we at
YS fi nd out what's happening
up there in Liverpool, you'll be
the first to know!
Troubleshootin' Pete.
AV AS T YE
P I RATE S !
I have a master plan for the
total annihilation of software
pirates as we know them in
Britain — well maybe not, but
it' still a good idea.
Instead of all this fast loading
headerless rubbish, what about
a totally pirate-proof system
for about 1.1-L2 above the
normal cassette price? Sounds
pretty good, huh?
Well, here it is — dongles!!
No, I'm not swearing at you,
I'm talking about a relatively
cheap piece of hardware that
would plug in the expansion
bus. It would be about the size
of one of the small Sinclair
Research games cartridges, and
there would be separate dongle
for each commercially
available title. The small
dangle would bc plugged into
the interface each time the
software was to be used — and,
if the don& wasn't there, the
program would crash.
But the use of the dangle
doesn't stop at just protection
— it could also be made into a
simple sound synth, or a beep
amp, or even a joystick
interface.
Although this would
probably be only of interest to
the larger software houses (and
may raise the price of the
cassette by a couple of quid)
this is surely a better price to
pay rather than the havoc
created by software piracy.
Chris Hall,
Belfast, N Ireland
non gles are not exactly new.
Companies like Microdeal
have already tested the market
with them. Unfortunately,
dangles add extra cost to the
package purely to protect the
manufacturer and they aren't
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totally pirate-proof anyway!
However, your idea of building
a practical use into the dongle
sounds quite good and could
provide the incentive for
shelling out the extra cash.
Troubleshootin' Pete.
MI S -RE AD?
I feel that it is time to set the
record straight. In his reply to
the letter 'MIS-TIMED' in YS
issue 9, Troubleshootin' Pete
got it right. (It's not often he's
right, so please put this in big
print!).
John Kinory, on the other
hand, got it wrong when he
claimed that TP's answer to
Patrick Fox's letter on the Ian
Beardsmore article was wrong.
Pete said that "The
Spectrum doesn't do a normal
NEW, it performs a system
reset", in which he is right. But
Mr Kinory seems to have mis-
read the article when he tells of
how the NEW is not a system
reset, just as Pete explained.
There — one piece of
pedantry over. (And one point
for our team! i n
Next — in YS issue 10, Mr
Beardsmore listed his base 255
numbering system. Well, while
it is indeed a useful system, it's
not base 255. Take my word
for it, it's base 256!
Still, I like the mag — it's
nice to see a computer
magazine that's not aimed at
I 4-year olds!
Alan Potter, Glasgow
h's nice to have someone stand
up for me now and again — and
while we're proving John
Kinory wrong, I had a word
with Ian over the timings in
Spectrum ('rash Theory and he
told me that his measurements
were taken with an Issue 2
Spectrum with a coakroach. So
Ian was right, you're right and
(wo wee!) I'm right too!
Troubleshootin' Pete.
GRE E TI NGS FROM
AL P HA
On behalf of the entire
population of Alpha. Centuri,
may I inform of Captain
Critical ( VS issue I I ) that we
saved ourselves from the black
hole over six months ago, and
we don't want any interfering
busibodies unbalancing the
delicate equilibrium of life we
have going up here. Got that?
Anyway. I must say that we
got a big shock up here on this
distant planet when it appcarcd
that you were going hi-monthly
(it's logical thinking from the
Dec/Jan issue). 'Ibis would
have been disasterous to Our
economy! The newsagent
industry would go sharply
down-hill — the Alpha Centuri
Culture Council has made VS
compulsive throughout the
whole planet — but with only
six issues a year, the
consequences would be
unthinkable!
Zrable Greenspam, Member
of the Generall Un c o -
ordinated Joystick Club,
Alpha Centuri
RGB
ADAP T AT I O NS
In your Dec/Jan issue, you
mentioned the RGB interface
for the Spcccy from Adapt
Nectronics. I thought that your
readers might be interested in a
few details.
Fitting: it plugs into bus, but
it doesn't have an expansion
port. So, if you have other
goodies, like joystick interfaces
without through ports, then
you could be in for a spot of
bother. As I only bought the
interface, I didn't have this
problem!
Setting up: the RGB socket
on the side of the interface has
a pinout compatible with that
of the BBC Micro, so you
should have no problem
obtaining a monitor lead, My
monitor, an Electrohome
had been previously used with
my One, so for me it was just a
quick job with a hot soldering
iron and a DIN plug and 'away
we go'
A little hole in the underside
of the black box allows access
to the trimmer, which you may
have to adjust to obtain the
best results, I also had to adjust
the horizontal hold on my
monitor to stop the top line
bending over a little — but now
I have a perfect picture.
Summary: well, you lose the
effect of BRIGHT 'cause
everything appears as
BRIGHT I — but this problem
is easily outweighed by the
brilliant colours and superb
picture. No dot crawl, just good
pictures. I'd recommend it to
everyone.
Fly the way, on a completely
different topic, as a Sinclair-
orientated magazine, do you
know how many miles the C5
does to a packet of Persil?
The Doppel-Ganger,
Dodworth, Barnsley
Thanks for your comments on
Adapt's excellent interface. If
anyone out there wants to get
hold of Adapt and find out
more details, then give 'em a
buzz on 04,-504 2840. Oh, and
I believe the C5 runs better on
Bold 3, unless, of course,
you're talking about the New
Formula Persil Automatic
Troubleshootin' Pete.
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into a fully operational
tprofessional
r a n s f omachine.
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• 6 0 keys including fullsize space bar •
• S o f t • La r ge ENTER key
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• O n• off switch with LED
• Easy installation - no soldering required I

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• Bla c k anodised case
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£2.00 p&p "i n price of 1159 95 reflects the kind of use to which
it will be put but iris certainly the top keyboard a r
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This program is for use on micro-drive only. The
▪ Th:s
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ogrdiffer
am will
ent enable you to enter
subheadings. Statemdebits
ents pr ogr am will pr int an invoice using a built-in
include totals of all subheadi ngs. price list and post the invoice to your customer's
account. Will also pr int price lists, statem ents,
labels etc.
▪ Sales Day Book E1 0 .7 5
For dit your i r !voi cs. this pr ogr am will enable Tasmerge £ 1 0 .9 5
you to prepare statem ents of outstandi ng
Allows you to transfer data fr om Master fi le i nto
1111 invoices. Program will also calculate VAT, Tasworri enabling you to use Taswor d for mail
Purchase Day Book E1 0 .7 5 merge. The pr ogr am allows you to specify line
and column'D
Inu
mof each field. For use on micro-drive
Keeps a com pl ete record of all your pur chases
under 17 differ ent subheadi ngs. This pr ogr am
also calculates VAT. Superlile £ 1 4 .9 5
This is a ne w database pr ogr am that stores
Business Pack f2 5 • 9 0 pages of text 64 columns x 22 rows. The pr ogr am It is possible to connect your Spectr um to Poth
includes w or d pr ocessing and full search BlackGr een and com posite Video m onitor s
all the above programs. using hi gh r esolution m oni tor s are particularly
facilities.
Stock Control f1 0 , 7 5 useful with pr ogr am s like Tasworcl that use 64
Omnicalc 2 E1 4 .9 5 colum ns. We supply com plete instructions on
Handles 900 jinns, i ncl udi ng details of supplier, This is the l ong•aw ai ted micro-drive version of how to connect monitors to both Issue Tw o and
Program has full search facilities enabling you to omnicalc com pl ete with histogr am s and m any Issue Three Spectrums. These monitors can also
search and update all lines fr om one supplier. other features. be connected to your OL.

• Invoicing E1 5 .0 0 Projector 1 E 1 3 . 9 0 Phillips black and green E 7 5 , 0 0

This pr ogr am will pr int out invoices. calculates
discounts and VAT. The pr ogr am will calculate
totals from uni t prices. Up to 50 accounts with
250 outstandi ng invoices.
Word Processing by Tasman £ 1 3 .9 0
• Taswor d Tw o is a pow er ful w or d processing
Program that will per for m all the functions
Business graphics pr ogr am that will hel p you Kaye/Taxan black and green E 9 9 _ 9 5
present your cashfl ow, sales expendi tur e in Sanyo Me d res for CIL E 2 7 3 . 6 0
m any differ ent ways including pie line, and
Printers
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Use this pr ogr am with Taswor d Tw o to pr oduce All the softwar e w e supply r uns on full-size
5 differ ent fonts on a dot matrix printer.
printers (unless you are using interface 1l you
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give yoL 64 characters per line on screen_

Masterfile by Campbell Systems £ 1 5 . 0 0
-
Enables
full-size
P r
you to set a pr int for m at for your
printer w i thi n masterfile S uppl i e d
com plete with m aster t le for 0 9 . 9 5 .
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uses the graphics characters to set printer codes
as in Tasw or d and prints a doubl e size screen
•
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i ni s is one of the best database pr ogr am s
available for the ZX Spectrum. This pr ogr am has
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Blank micro-drive cartridges
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 Announcing the most annwing, stupen-
dous, phenomenally fab Th a t 's enough
superlatives! Ed) program, designed to
take your mind off into the land of play-
ing cards. It's a neat little slab of machine
code ( v en, quite a long piece really)
which enables you to actually print pic-
tures of playing cards on-screen. But the
really cunning bit is that you can Write
your own card games program in Basic
while letting nay machine code get on
with the hard work of drawing it

PICTURE THAT!
The nice thing about this program is that
once you've entered it into the Spectrum,
all you have to ek) to call a deal up on-
screen is to use a single line of Basic like
Card games written in Basic suffer from very slow graphics on- this:
screen b u t if machine code's not your speciality, what do you
do? Relax — the answer's here! Machine code magician, Toni PAINT USA CARD, y co-ordinate.
x co-ordinate, card-number, suit
Baker presents an amazing program to draw playing cards
anywhere on-screen j u s t like that! An d thiit•s it! When the Spectrum tries to
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U w e have be e n m any publ i s he d in 8200 80 BF F9 01 FD FD F9 F8 8480 FF 80 8C 9E BF OF OF BE
pr evi ous i ssues ril YS) — or be tte r s ti l l , . 8208 2F Zr FF FF FF FF FF FT 9488 FF 03 61 FO FO F8 F8 F8
m oni tor pr ogr am t o ty pe this l ot in. Note 8210 C6 98 EO 81 87 9F FF FF 8490 FF BA BA 82 7F 40 7C 40
tha t the da ta He x c ode star ts at 8 0 0 0 Hex. 38 2 1 8 6F EF E7 F7 F7 F7 F7 F7 8498 FF ED EB 08 E8 57 55 55
8220 66 OC 89 83 80 80 84 BE 8440 FF 88 82 67 4F 8E1 13 IC
and is fol l ow ed i m m edi atel y by the criMn 82261 7E FE FE FC 01 01 21 71 FF FD FD
8440 01 05 OD 90 DO
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8080 9 2 AA ED EB ED OF FD 17 8330 BE 99 81 83 87 BE 91 85 8580 FF 7F OF 4F 95 E5 F9 FE
8088 F l F t F7 F7 F7 F7 F7 F7 8338 Fe 30 01 83 C7 OF IF 9F 8588 FF FF FF FE 52 53 4F 7F•
8000 FF 8 0 8 0 8 0 at e t 8 3 8 3 8340 7C FC FC FA F7 EF DF EO 8 5 C0 FA E9 46 9C 78 FA FF F8
8008 FF 00 8 0 8 0 CO CO EO EO 8348 CO 00 Fl 03 47OF FF 00 B5C8 05 85 4F 25 2F 39 29 29
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 execute it, nothing will be PR INIed on- machine code (the ignorant hoards can move CH_A bD and evaluate the exper-
screen except for the desired card a n d ignore this paragraph). the program is ience at the same time.
that c an appear anywhere y ou want actually a wee bit clever (preen, preen). The s y ntax o f t h e c ar d pr inting
(hence the need for x and y co-ordinates That's because. all those other numbers statement has to be exactly as I've speci-
—as in the PRINT AT command). Note (which can, in fact, be variable names or fied. It can be a real turn-off if you get it
that printing cards does not in any way expressions lik e 'X-1-1') after the word wrong because a line whic h has, f o r
affect the normal PRINT position. PRINT are not actually PRINTed — example, the suit number out of range —
Actually, the program will allow a few quite for tunate r e a lly because y o u or too many items after the word USR —
variations on this theme. For example, if wouldn't exactly get ecstatic over a load can still be entered into a Basic program.
you make the 'card-number, suit' value of silly numbers cluttering up the screen. You won't find out if it's wrong until you
equal to '0,0', you'll get a playing card The reasons they're ignored by normal try to run it.
face down printed up on-screen; try '0,1' Basic are: fi rstly, because the machine The only other point worth mention-
and '0,2' if you want to see a red and code routine begins with a load of POPs ing (which is actually quite important!) is
black Joker card. respectively. which have the effect of making the poor that any program using the routine must
Apart from the above paragraph, you ol' Speccy 'forget' what it's supposed to have somewhere at the start of the listing,
select cards to be printed on-screen as do after the word PRINT (but you do the line;
you'd expect — card-number ' 1' repre- have to have exactly the right number or LET CAIW- 36102
sents an ace, '2' a two, and so on, up to else it freaks out); and secondly, the sys-
'13' for a King. The numbers represent- tem variable C H _ A D D is adjusted so The cards printed are eight character
ing the various suits are ' f o r diamonds, that it points to the end of the statement squares across and ten characters squares
'2' for clubs, •3' for hearts and '4' for — allowing the next statement to be car- down — so you can print them anywhere
spades. S'easy really! ried out without any hassle. The program on-screen that's handy!
allows a couple o f R O M routines t o Have fun with the routine. As I keep
For those who k now anything about
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87FG 5 F EO 13 FC 8 3 7F AO DF 8 A7 8 00 00 0 0 00 00 00 00 00 60 FOR N- 1TO 13
8800 FF BE F6 9E A6 FD 25 DD 8 A0 0 00 00 0 0 00 00 00 00 00
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8810 98 88 8 8 9 8 E7 CO 81 Be 8 A9 0 00 00 0 0 00 00 00 00 01 80 NEXT N
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8830 5 3 811 BB F8 0 2 FC D8 F2 SABO 00 00 GO 00 00 00 00 00
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8850 FF 8 3 47 2 F 9E FF FF 55 BADO 69 DD E 3 E2 E2 9E 9E 7E
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8860 FF 0 6 04 78 FO E O CO 40 BAEO 03 03 0 3 07 07 07 06 06
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8870 8 F BE 9 0 81 8 3 8 7 80 80 BAFO 58 IF OF Al 83 CS E2 78
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8880 5 5 55 55 5 5 5 5 5 5 55 55 8 B0 0 El E7 8 7 84 FB 74 34 BB
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8890 4 0 CO 4 0 CO 4 0 4 0 40 40 8810 00 00 0 0 00 00 00 00 00
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88C0 80 80 BE BE 3 D F B F7 F7 8 B4 0 00 00 01 03 07 OF IF 3F
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8CEC 3 E 0 9 LD 4 , 0 9
OCEE 9 0 BDC8 7 8 LD A , E
SUB 8
BCEF 4 7 BDCC 8 7 ADD A , A
LD 0 4
BCF0 0 E 0 7 BDCD 8 7 ADD 4 , 4
LD C . 0 7
BCF2 D 5 PUSH D E BDCE 8 7 ADD 4 , 4
8 CF3 C D 5 E 8 C CALL 8 C 5 E BDCF C 6 8 8 ADD A , B 8
8DD1 5 F LD E . A
BCF6 D i POP D E 801)2 1 6 8 8 LD 0 , 8 8
BCF7 0 1 0 1 0 1 LD B C , 0 1 0 1 8004 0 6 0 1 LD 8 , 0 1
BCFA 0 0 3 6 0 0 0 3 LD ( I X 4 . 0 0 ) , 0 3
BCFE C D 7 F 8 C CALL 8 C 7 F 8006 CDD7 8 C CALL BCD7
saying. don't panic just because it's all 8001 C l POP B C 8009 2 1 0 4 0 1 LD H L , 0 1 0 4
EIDDC D I POP D E
been done in machine code. If you're not BDO2 0 4 I NC 8 8DDD 4 7 AND A
too sure how to c all the routine front 8 D0 3 C 9 BET BODE £ 0 5 2 88C H L , D E
8004 C F 0 9 AST 0 E 1 / 0 9 80E0 2 0 3 5 JR 8 2 , 3 5
Basic in your own program, have a look 8006 1 1 D 8 1 F LD D E , I F D 8 EI0E2 0 1 0 3 0 8 LD 8 C , 0 8 0 3
8009 E l POP H L
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article. I look forward to hearing what 0008 E 1 1 5 2 BBC H L , D E 8DE 9 0 0 3 6 0 0 0 0 LD ( 1 X 4 - 0 0 ) . 0 0
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you've managed to do with it in future GOOF 0 5 PUGH D E
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8 0 F0 0 1 0 6 0 1
Forum columns. Bye for now! 8010 3 E O F LD A , O F 8 0 F3 C D 5 E 8 C
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EI012 F 0 9 6 3 1 SUB 1 1 Y 4 -3 1 1
8015 F 5 PUSH A F EI0F6 0 1 0 3 0 8 LD B C , 0 0 0 3
8C49 0 3 I NC B C 8016 C D 4 C 8 C CALL B C 4 C BDF9 1 1 8 0 8 4 LD D E , 8 A 8 0
8C4A 8 4 ADD A . H 8019 C l POP B C EIDFC 0 0 3 6 0 0 0 9 LD 4 1 X 4 - 0 0 1 , 0 9
8 C4 8 4 8 LD C , 8 MIA B e CP B 8E 00 C D 7 F 8 C CALL 8 C 7 F
8C4C O F PST i s 8019 3 0 E 7 JR N C E 7 8E03 0 1 0 4 0 4 LD 8 C , 0 4 0 4 4 0
BC4D F E 2 C CP 2 C 8010 F 5 PUSH A F 8E 06 C D 5 E 8 C CALL 0 C 5 E
8C4F C 2 8 A 1 C JP Nz,ice4 801E C D 4 C 8 C CALL 8 C 4 C 8E09 0 1 0 1 0 1 LD 8 C , 0 1 0 1
8C52 E 7 RST 2 0 8021 F E 1 9 CP 1 9 BEOC 1 1 E 0 0 8 LD DE , O BE U
8C53 C 0 F 8 2 4 CALL 2 4 F B 8023 3 0 D E JR N C O F BEOF D D 3 6 0 0 0 0 LD ( I X 4 - 0 0 ) , 0 0
EIC56 C D D 5 2 D CALL 2 0 0 5 OD25 4 F LD C , A 8E13 C D 7 F 8 C CALL 8 C 7 F
8C59 3 8 0 1 JR C , 0 1 0026 F l POP A F 8E16 C 9 RET
BC58 C 8 RET 8027 4 7 LD 8 , 4 8E17 7 4 LO A 0
8C5C C F 0 9 ROT 0 8 / 0 9 8 D2 8 2 1 0 0 0 8 LD H L , 0 8 0 0 8E18 F E O B CP O h
8C5E 2 A 4 A 8 C LD H L . ( 8 C 4 A ) 80211 C 0 6 7 8 C CALL 8 C 6 7 BE1A 3 8 2 E JR C , 2 E
8C61 C B O C RRC H 8D2E 2 2 4 4 8 C LD 1 8 C 4 4 ) , H L BE1C 8 3 ADD A . E
8C63 C B O C RRC H 8031 0 5 PUSH D E EIEID 8 3 ADD A , E
8 C6 5 C B O C RRC H 8032 CD4 C8 C CALL O C4 C BE I E 8 3 ADD A . E
8 C6 7 1 1 2 0 0 0 LD D E , 0 0 2 0 8035 F E O E CP O E BE I F 2 1 C 0 0 0 LD H L , 0 0 C 0
BC6A 0 4 I NC B 8037 3 0 C B JR MC C B 8E22 5 4 LD D , H
BC68 1 8 0 1 JR 0 1 8039 F 5 PUSH A F 8E23 5 F LD E , A
8C6D 1 9 ADD H L , D E 8034 C D 4 C 8 C CALL B C 4 C 8E24 C D 4 9 3 0 CALL 3 0 4 9
BC6E 1 0 F D DJNZ F D EID3D F E 0 5 CP 0 5 8E 27 1 1 8 0 7 5 LD D E
8 C7 0 0 9 ADD H L , B C 8 D3 F 3 0 C 3 8E24 1 9
JR N C , C 3 8E 28 E B •ADD H L , D E
8C71 5 D LD E , L 8041 4 F LD C . A EX D E , H L
8 C7 2 7 C LD A , H 8042 F l POP A F 8E2C 0 1 0 6 0 4 7LD 5 8B 0
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8 C7 3 E 6 0 3 AND 0 3 8043 4 7 8E 2F E l POP H L
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8 C7 5 F 6 5 8 apse 8044 E l POP H L 8E30 0 0 3 6 0 0 0 0 LD i l X 4 - 0 0 1 . 0 0
8 C7 7 5 7 LD 0 , 4 8045 C 5 PUSH B C 8E 34 C D 7 F 8 C CALL 8 C 7 F
BC70 C 8 0 4 RLC H 8046 O C I NC C 8E 37 0 1 0 1 0 5 LD B C . 0 5 0 1
8C7A C 8 0 4 PLC H 81347 O D DEC C 8E 34 0 5 PUSH
8C7C C 8 0 4 RLC H 8040 3 E 3 9 LD 4 , 3 9 8E 38 C D 5 E 0 C CALL 8DE C 5 E4 1 1
EIC7E C 9 RET 9044 2 8 0 7 8E3E D I POP D E
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8 C8 0 4 1 LD B , C 8D4E 2 0 0 2 JR 8 2 , 0 2 8E40 0 1 0 6 0 4 LD B C , 0 4 0 6
EIC81 E 5 PUSH H L 8E43 0 0 3 6 0 0 0 3

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8 C8 2 C 5 PUSH B C 8051 3 D DEC A 8E47 C 3 7 F 8 C 'JP EI C7F
OC83 E 5 PUSH H L 8 D5 2 3 C I NC A 8E44 E l POP H L
8C84 0 6 0 8 LD 8 , 0 0 8053 1 1 1 8 0 0 8E 4B 7 8 LD A , E
LD D E , 0 0 1 8
BC86 I A LD A O DE) 8056 0 E 0 A 8E4C 8 7 ADD 4 , 4
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8C87 D D C 8 0 0 4 6 BI T 0 , 1 1 X + 0 0 / BE4D 8 7 ADD 4 , 4
0058 0 6 0 6 LD 8 , 0 8 8E4E 8 7
8C08 2 8 0 0 JR 2 , 0 6 8054 7 7 ADD 4 , 4
LD 1 H L / , A 8E 4F 8 7
8C8D 4 F LD C A 0058 2 3 I NC H L ADD 4 , 4
BUI E 3 E 0 1 LD 4 . 0 2 0E50 8 7 ADD 4 , 4
1 8D5C 1 0 F C DJNZ F C 8E51 C 6 2 0
8C90 C B 1 9 RR C EID5E 1 9 ADD H L , D E ADD A . 2 0
8 C9 2 1 7 RLA 8 D5 F O D DEC C 8E53 6 F LD L , A
8 C9 3 3 0 F B JR N C , F B 8E 54 2 6 8 8 LD H . 8 8
006.0 2 0 F 6 JR N Z , F 6 8E56 E 5
8 C9 5 7 7 LD ( H L ) , A 8062 2 A 4 4 8 C PUSH H L
LD H L , ( 8 C 4 A ) 9E 57 2 1 1 2 8 C
8C96 D D C B 0 0 4 E BI T 1 , C I X + 0 0 ) LD H L 8 C l 2
81)61 0 1 0 8 0 4 LD B C , 0 A 0 8 BE5A 0 6 0 0
8C9A 2 8 0 2 JR 2 , 0 2 8068 1 1 0 0 3 0 LD 8 , 6 0
LD D E
8C9C 1 8 DEC D E 9060 3 E 0 4 LD C , D
GC9D 1 8 DEC D E 9LD A , D 4 5D 1801 JR 0 1
806D 0 D 2 1 4 9 8 C LD I X . E 1 C4 9 09
8C9E 1 3 I NC D E 301 0 30X - 1 - 0 0 / 0 ; o ADD H L , B C
8D71 0 0 7 7 0 0 LD
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EIC9F 2 4 I NC H OD DEC C
8074 C D 7 F8 C CALL 8 C 7 F
8CAO 1 0 E 4 DJNZ E 4 8E61 20FC JR N Z F C
8077 0 1 0 1 0 1 LD B C , 0 1 0 1 i 63 1E00
8 C4 2 0 0 0 8 0 0 5 6 BI T 2 , ( I X + 0 0 ) ; 8074 CD5E8C CALL 8 C 5 E LD E , 6 0
BCA6 2 8 0 4 JR 2 , 0 4 : 7E LD A ( H U
9070 D I POP D E
SCAB 7 8 LD A , E 66 FE50 CP 5 6
8D7E I C INC E :
BCA9 0 6 0 8 SUB 0 8 68 380C JR C O C
8D7F I D DEC E
SCAB 5 F LD E , A /4•6 I NC
EID80 2 0 0 9 JR 8 2 , 0 9
BCAC E l POP H L 8082 0 1 0 6 0 8 LD B C , 0 8 0 6 14, 88E6C
E68 I D DEC E
BCAD 2 3 I NC H L 2000 JR 8 2 , 0 8
8085 1 1 F 0 8 8 LD D E , 8 8 e 0 64BE6E
BCRE D D C 8 0 0 5 E BI T 3 , ( I X 4 - 0 0 ) JP EI C7F E 3 EX C E I P ) . H L
8088 C 3 7 F 8 C
8 C8 2 2 8 0 2 JR 2 , 0 2 8089 7 4 5I 8 E 6 F 011F00 LD 8 C . 0 0 1 F
LD A , D
C8
BCB4 2 8 DEC H L E72 0 9 ADD H L , B C
8DBC 4 7 AND A
8 C8 5 2 8 DEC H L 8E73 E 3 EX 1 8 P ) . H L
BMW 2 0 2 8 JR 8 2 , 2 8
8C86 C l POP B C 8E74 1E03 LD E , 0 3
EID8F 0 1 0 6 0 0 LD B C , 0 8 0 6 8E76 I F
OCB7 1 8 c 8 DJNZ C C RRA
8 D9 2 1 1 0 0 8 9 LD D E , 8 9 0 0 8E77 I F
8C89 E l POP H L RA
8095 D D 7 7 0 0 LD ( 1 X - 4 - 0 0 ) , A FJE70 I F
8C8A 0 1 2 0 0 0 LD B C , 0 0 2 0 RRA
8098 C D 7 F 8 C CALL 8 C 7 F 8E79 1 F
BCEID D D C B 0 0 6 6 BI T 4 , ( I X 1 - 0 0 ) 8090 0 6 0 0 RRA
LD 8 , 0 0 0E74 E6OF AND O F
BCCI 2 8 0 3 JR 2 , 0 3 0090 1 1 5 0 3 E LD D E , 3 E 5 0 BE7C 4 7
OCC3 O I E O F F LD 8 C , F F E 0 8DA0 C D D 7 8 C CALL B C D 7 LD 8 , 4
8CC6 C B O C RRC H BE7D 7 E LD A O H L )
8043 1 E 7 8 LD E , 7 8
8CCS C B O C RRC H BE7E E6OF AND O F
8DA5 C D D 7 B C CALL B C D 7 8E80 4 F
8CCA C B O C RRC H 8048 1 E 5 8 LDE,Nsi Buil 2 3 LD C . A
INC H L
EICCC 0 9 ADD H L , B C 8048 C D D 7 8 C CALL B C D 7
8CCD C B 0 4 RLC H BDAD 1 E 2 8 8E82 DD7300 LD ( I X + 0 0 ) , E
LD E . 2 8 8E 05 E 3
BCCF C B 0 4 PLC H 804F C D D 7 8 C CALL B C D 7 EX ( 8 P ) , H L
RLC H 8E 86 D 5 PUSH D E
BCD1 C B 0 4 8082 1 E 9 0 LO E , 9 0
BCD3 C l POP B C 8084 C3 D7 E I C JP aco7 BEB7 E 8 PUSH H L
8CD4 1 0 4 9 DJNZ 4 9 8DB7 E 5 PUSH H L 8E88 CD5E8C CALL BCZE
BCD6 C 9 RET 0008 0 5 8E88 D I POP D E
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mm BCD7 C 5 8 D8 9 8 7 ADD A , A
8CD8 PUSH B C EIDBA 6 F 8E8D 010202 LD B C 0 2 0 2
LD L . A 8E90 CD7F8C CALL 111C7F
BCD9
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BCDA 0 E 0 0 LD C , 0 0 8D8D 1 1 E 6 8 8 LD
C
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ADD H L , D E 8E95 E l POP H I .
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5 0 1 POP D E EIDC1 5 E 0 0 E O HLI
LD
BCE0 0 1 0 1 0 1 8E96 C 5 PUSH B C
LD B C , 0 1 0 1 BDC2 2 3 I NC H L 8E97 1 5 DEC D
EICE3 D D 3 6 0 0 0 0 LD 1 I X + 0 0 1 . 0 0 EIDC3 5 6 LD 1 3 . 1 HLI
8CE7 C D 7 F 8 C CALL O C7 F 8E98 2008 JR N Z , C 8
8DC4 0 6 0 0 LD 8 , 0 0
8CEA 1 8 DEC D E EIDC6 C D D 7 8 C 8E 9A E l POP H L
CALL B C D 7 8E98 C 9 RET

23
 SOMEWHEREDEEP INSIDE
YOURSPECTRUM IS AN
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
TRYING TO GET OUT...
You will be able to access the 'brain' of your computer
with programs which learn and reason, or those which will
talk to you, obey you and advise you.
This book will guide you into the fascinating world of
Artificial Intelligence . . where science fact interacts with
science fiction.
Can a machine really think?
What is the nature of intelligence?
Will a machine ever be built to
harness that nature?
Deep inside your Spectrum a n d
deep inside this book are the answers and
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After a hard day's night with Heroes of Karn and Curse Of The
Seven Faces, Clive Gifford dials the VSAdventure Helpline for the
lastest tricks 'n' tactics.
Well, whenev er I c a n ac tually g e t
through on the Adventure Helpline to
chat to our Master adventurers (it's that
busy!), it seems they've received calls
from all over Europe! They've even had
the odd call from frustrated adventurers
working on oil rigs in the North Sea.
First, off, let's hear from Rich F if t h -
WO in Sweden. He can't work out how to
get skiing in Valk y rie 17. OK, Rich, it's
like this — ty pe i n ' R E A D BO O K,
WEAR SKIS' and make sure you've got
those ski poles handy, and away you go!
Don't break a leg, Rich!
Another problem that's cropped up in
Valkyrie 17 is how and where to obtain
money. We ll, f o r a start, y ou c ould
always naff off down to the village and
pawn that necklace that's lying around!
'There are a few adventures that I'd
have expected to create floods of frus-
trated callers — namely, The Hulk and
Hampstead Needless t o say. y ou'r e
being very quiet on both of these — which
means you've finished them already (Not
a hope! Ed.) or you're still trying to crack
them. In the event o f the latter, here's
some advice. Type 'GO DOOR' in The
Hulk and y ou'll get out o f the Chief
Examiner's Room. and all you have to do
to find the credit card in Hampstead, is sit
and wait on the bench o n I Iampstead
Heath. That'll do nicely!
Level 9 adventures seem to keep most
of t h e adventuring nation awak e a t
nights. Dave Deals of Sunderland can't
get the can of paint through the air-lock.
Aha, Snowball, I hear you say. Well, the
answer is to put the can into the tool-box
1
'VENTURINGOUT.
HEROES OF KARN
Interceptor Software £5.50
In great contrast Imperial Software's
Curse O f The Seven Faces (the other
adventure reviewed here), this game is a
highly professional affair, even though
it's a straight conversion from an original
adventure on the Com modore 64.
The scenario isn't particularly original
or even interesting, but the story on the
back cover of the cassette is told with
such flair that all but the most hardened
adventurers will sit up and take notice! I
won't go into all the sordid details, save
to say that it involves you saving a king-
dom from the shadow of evil. The usual
stuff!
RIITINEARENTIES
The hallowed halls of Castle Rathbone
echo to the sounds of Green Goblin Peter
Shaw, piecing together another in a series
of adventure subroutines,
ROOM1
Z(1)4,2.0,0
ROOM4
Z(4)-0.5.0.2
and carry on as normal. Another prob-
lem with this adventure game came from
Mr Tarn of Wallas!" who wanted to know ROOM2
how to use the screen. Try wearing your Z(2)-1.3,4,0
visor, Mr Tani!
•
Another well regarded Level 9 game,
Lords O f Time, prompted two questions .
from Sam Whittak er o f Twickenham.
So, Sam, y ou can leave the Invention ROOM3 O N , ROOM 5
Room by saying 'James Watt' and you Z(3) ' Z(5)-4,0,0,0
can open the door on Z one nine by ,
dropping 'Hope' (the milestone). -2,0
There was also an anonymous caller
who couldn't climb the broken ladder in A si .m5pl. e0 r oom pl an, her e to Hex your
Phipp's Colditz Hmm, not an easy one a dv e ntur e pr ogr a m m i ng.
this — but try asking the prisoner to l'his month, I'm going to be looking more
you up after you've fed him and y ou at the structure of an adventure — and
should do alright. the result is not really a routine, more a
On the several adventures set in the concept that you should bear in mind
'classic quest style. Artic's Eye O f Bain once you get the programming itch!
hasn't attracted quit e t h e interest i t When you're got a rough idea of what
deserves, but we did have a question you want the room layout to look like in
from Richard Ellis of London. He's hav- your adventure, you can start allocating
ing tr ouble freeing hims elf fr om t h e variables; in the example we'll be looking
strong pole in the hut near the start of the at here, array Z ) is used to represent the
adventure. Oh boy, Richard! Try lifting various locations.
the pole a n d do call again if you've got The diagram shows the aerie' view of a
any more problems. very simple adventure — you'll not find
In Adventure Quest, a number of peo- any unfriendly dragons to kill — there are
ple have confessed that they're having just five rooms, and that's it! Now, get-
difficulties sorting out what to do with the ting back to the array Z( ). our task is to
egg. Obscene suggestions aside, try going dimension it so that we can store all the
South from the Glowing Coals and depo- necessary details. Say we dimension the
siting the egg in the nest. array:
DIM Z(5,4)
VS ADVENT URE HIELPLINE
England mid Wales: Gary Smart (0264) This gives us five by four elements in the
594M and Peter Marment 0264)66660. array Z() to fi ll. Bearing in mind the for-
Scotland: Neil Mackintosh 041-332 2.216.
mula Z(N, S. E, W) — where 'N', 'S', 'E'
and 'W' indicate North, South, East and
On starting the. adventure, you're
greeted with a splendid picture; in fact
many of the locations have accompany-
ing graphics that appear instantly and
add greatly to the whole atmosphere.
However, the descriptions are often too
short, particularly where there's no pic-
ture to feast ynur cycs on.
Despite fancy graphics and a few
other innovations, an adventure stands
or falls by the strength of its purzlcs, and
the flexibility and quality of response to
your, hopefully, imaginative commands. I nte r c e ptor 's Her oes O f Ka m - a
Heroes Of Karn is a definite success in puz z l i ng a dv e ntur e tha t's de s ti ne d to
this context. The responses arc varied be c om e a cl assi c?
and entertaining, and the ptwles are Although Heroes Of Karn supports a
tricky and, i n s ome cases, rather Few commands five or six words long, it's
obscure! F o r example, I eventually predominantly a standard adventure.
managed to get past the Barrowright by However, I'd recommend it to anyone
attacking it with a Bible — which didn't fancying a crack at a 'classic', especially
seem the most reverant thing to do at the if you've got a few long evenings to spare
time! while you try and solve it!
25
 CURSE OF THE SEVEN FACES pher e r atmosphere! (See what hap-
Imperial Software/E8.95 pens when you play too many adven-
tures. (i'live? Ed.) )•E

As the software industry becomes domi- The actual story line is pretty unorig- i t* .• o p . I n t h e
w i t h t h e I" I s ; '
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nated by the larger houses, many adven- inal — you've got to rescue a number of th:t i s .
:E a Ftr
turers welcome releases from individu- magical items (wands, cloaks and so on) - c '
als and the like. Often the 'smaller' from the forces of evil. Much o f the ;t R e t c h e sf A t t e d n fc tlec ine
s e e t g
" l .;1 ,
releases can be much more original and adventure's quite playable, with some 4# "
reasonable if uninspiring puzzles. How- ")I GE4I O7L L4. 1 d
thoughtful than products churned out by .* r f
'big boys'. Sad to say, this isn't the case ever, the error-trapping is very poor. •

with Curse of The Seven Faces. Good adventures should have a number Vo n
,
a f t f •

The cassette comes with a photocop-
ied inlay card which is just fine! OK, it's
not flashy paper, but who cares? But
someone could have corrected some of
the spelling mistakes — I mean to say.
someone's even mispelt the name of the
game! Anyway that said, you begin your
life as a 'poor pesant', which I suppose is
a humble version of a 'peasant'. I don't
mean to go on about the spelling and
grammatical errors, but they're there in
every location. Believe me, its difficult
to get into the atmosfere I mean atmos-
of responses to wrong commands —
some to aid the adventurer and others to
entertain; needless t o y , this adventure
fails at both!
Once you've read Y o u Cannot Do
That' and 'Nothing Exciting Happens'
for the umpteenth time in a row, you
begin to believe it — nothing ever excit-
ing happens! O f course. you can have
some limited fun with this kind of pro-
gramming — I typed in some commands
ordering a hero of the piece to eat a slab
of rock! And guess what was flashed up
-
A pe r fe c t e x a m pl e el a ba d a dv e ntur e .
•Nothi ng E xci ti ng Hor m one !
on thc screen — yes, you've guessed it —
'Nothing Exciting Happens'. T r y i t
yourself sometime a n d see if anything
exciting happens to you!
But whether you decide to chew rocks
or not, it's hound to be more exciting
than this collection of bytes. One to be
avoided

West respectively — you should begin to
understand the numbers I've included on
the map alongside each room. For exam-
ple, take a look at Room 2 — it has an exit
North. South and East, so its part of Z()
would look like this:
2(2)112 34
211 340
This itdicates that from Room 2 you can
go North to Room 1, South to Room 3
and East to Room 4; a zero element in
the West indicates that there's no exit in
that direction. Geddit?
So, once you've fi lled the Z.() array
with all the data necessary for the compu-
ter to understand your map, you're ready
to move around. O K, imagine you're in
Room 2 and you're contemplating mov-
ing West — let's assume for this example
that mS holds the command you've just
typed in, and the variable '11' is the room
you're currently standing in — a line of
programming w o u l d pr obably l o o k
something like:
IF r r 1 5 =
"THERE
- ISNOEXIT WEST"
WEST "
A N
Of course, not all maps will look like ours
so you'll also need a line like:
IF mS="WEST" ANDZ I p,4)< >0 THENLET
12(p,4)
This will see if there's is an exit to the
West and, if there is, the program sets the
value o f 'p' to the same value held in
Z(p,4),
Next month I l l be look ing at a short
program c ombining a l l t h a t w e ' v e
covered so far in adventure programm-
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author, Mike Leaman.
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What we have for you this month is a
small demonstration listing for users of
YS Mega Basic to test-drive their new- the
found Basic. Virtually each line of the
on-screen in seven oitterent colours, three different fonts
and six different stipp,es Line 1070 shows hoo
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Line 16 C.,,e,;•s nu, ; statement, chasitcler codes 3 and 4 change the sue of
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inslead of a double-line feed. Line 1100 homes the cursor,
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listing has been described in detail so that -' 17 REPEAT
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Linel7ma•, , I t ie beginning of the main program loop. 1130 P RI NT A T 2 1 , 0 ; O HRS 3 1 "
If you check out the screen shots given 1 s 'REPEAT-UNTIL
1Thi 1 limo makes the demonstration
by M i k e Le a m a n 1 9 8 5 ' s
and read through the listing, y ou'll see nepeat
1 Itself
,
that short though this program is, it 'll 5 20 I NTRO Line 1130 Prints a message di the bottom tot the screen in
a double-height c
provide you with first-hand experience
of the various character fonts, sizes and Line
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effects and a whole lot more! O f course, , • •4,0 G RAP HI CS Line
c o1140 n to f f the Interrupt Sound Generator
when you type it in you'll be able to sort IISG) and prootes another kind of sound effect using the
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If you haven't yet succumbed to the 1 s "i
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isn't going to put you off! Try writing the 1,if d message once the demonstration program's n 1145 Colours the bottom two lines of the display to
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.an e to the more common 'REPEAT-UNTIL FALSE' Lines 1150-1160 Set op two windows ovet Me blue strip at
for you to ogle over. Next month, for loop
isi e •you'll • roi Ofind
n •n other Bases the collo cn nit 'ne screer
instance, we'll be showing you how you nl ,1000 t • •oi :&IWNTRO
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major disaster on your hands and you h 1 2 2a0 C1-IANGE_56,13sP
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trum, Your _Spectrum's going to be one of •EPIO c o l o
the only places you can get your pro- u r s .
grams published and get some help on its VSPICO, 4 ) E P I I 0 b
mastery. So, keep watching these pages! PE
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I D EMO y
And if you haven't yet joined the thou- NEGAIMIC D EMO y x
sands of VS Mega Basic users w h a t are ,
YSPIEGO' T - D EMO r c n
you waiting for? n s VSNEGABASIC D EMO i n g
' T H E CURS E OF THI NG S ZX ! VSNEGABASIC D EMO M
It had to happen! O ut plans t o have fe.'i• i S..W 4 L . 1 0 0 C e
Megallauar• ready f o r public c ons umptit in P
;by January 1st, 1985, were scotched at A
,,everri turn. I lere at Y.C, we 'd lik e t o P
r.1113010giSe to all wh o rec eiv ed KS" Ma k i ng use of all the avai l abl e c ha r a c te r Y ou c a n have up to te n w i ndow s on-
fonts a nd sti ppl es, the de m o's ti tl e Ec r e e n at any one ti m e, all of w hi c h c a n
s
• MegaBas ic a f ew days late — t hank s f or s c r e e n i nc l ude s m usi cal R c ontr ol l e d I nde pe nde ntl y thr ough
be
having patienc e wit h us and we hope y ou a c c om pa ni m e nt fr om VS Me ga Ba s i c 's si
c m pl e VS Me ga Ba s i c c om m a nds . At thi s
thought the wait wo rt h wh ile ! Needles s t o 'S O UND' a nd 'P LAY ' c om m a nds . Thi s s
o ta ge of the de m o, four w i ndow s ha v e
say, all deliv eries of K S Mega Rasa pa r t of the pr ogr a m is di s pl a y e d in M ode be e n c r e a te d a nd VS Me ga Ba s i c is
lscr ol l i ng e a c h of the m , pi xel by pi xel , in
-under
a r ec ontrol,
n o vO if •course, there wo n 't he 4, w he r e e a c h c ha r a c te r is 16 by 16
pi xel s; the r e 's al so good use of the o ffe r e nt di r e c ti ons via the P A N '
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 Investing in a Microdrive is a relatively easy process — using it is another matter entirely! AJ Unwin
offers tricks and tips on how to get around a number of seemingly insurmountable hassles
experienced by Microdrive users.
Hands up all those of you who are disillu-
sioned w i t h t h e ir Microdrives,
promises of faster access times and re-
liable storage are often not enough to
encourage investment, and the expected
support from the major software houses
has proved non-existent.
However. Spectrum owners are well
used to having to make do with what's
available — and, to tell the truth, the
Microdrive isn't a bad piece of kit at all
you just have to know what you're doing!
FIRST THINGS FIRST
Our first task here is to gain some insight
into the complications of shifting com-
mercial and home-grown software from
slow-loading cassette, across to the faster
access Microdrives. Commercial prog-
rams available for the job are not too well
reckoned and, in fact, claims of a 60 per
cent success rate may be a little high —
especially when you consider that most
of the commercial attempts use a low RA Mtop too lo w f o r a Basic loader
RAMtop address in the programs, and
program (or even Microdrive functions);
any C L EAR statement with a number and the type of program that uses cas-
below 23610 makes it nearly impossible sette-based SAVE and LO AD routines.
to u s e a n y M i c r o d r i v e f u n -
ction at all! In general, if the code uses all the space
available above RAMtop, and RAMtop
Later on in this article, we'll be looking is lower than 24610, then forget it! This
at a few of the shortcomings of the Mic- code cannot be moved easily without
rodrive itself and investigating areas that resorting to machine code access of the
could be improved. Finally, it must be Microdrive.
said that our thoughts here are directed I Iowever, since most of the programs
towards the 48K Spectrum rather than of the first type can be transferred with
the 16K model; most of the programs the help of a few tricks, that makes a good
that would benefit from the Microdrive's place to start. Most of the software on the
higher access speeds are those o f the market contains a Basic loader and a
longer variety. But, having said that, the main section of machine code t h e r e -
16K machine can s till use most of the fore, to be able to save the program to
techniques described here. Microdrive, we need t o know both the
start and length of the code. We also need
DOUBLE TROUBLE? to find out the address from which to run
There are two types of program that are it; look out for the •L'SR xxxxx' in the
particularly hard to convert for Micro- Basic loader program!
drive: those that use machine code with a The start and length o f a particular
program is not so easy to fi nd, so we
resort t o a versatile cassette header
reader like that given in this article. With
these three vital pieces of information,
it's a simple process to load from cassette
and then save all the necessary codes to
Microdrive using a line of code such as:
LOAD "" CODE: SAVE* "m":1; "name''
CODEstart, length
Where 'start* and 'length' are taken from
the header reader program.
A word of warning though. Some pro-
grams use the areas required b y the
Microdrive system itself. For instance,
addresses 23734 to 23813 are used for
the system when no buffers are present
but, as soon as a Microdfi ve access is
made, another 595 byte block is needed.
If the command *PRINT 23734; " to" ;
PEEK S T K E N D P E E K
(STKEND+1) • 256' gives the range
which will coincide with the code, then
the system could be overwritten.
However, in general, if the Microdrive
block is going t o be overwritten, the
answer (if memory space will allow) is to
load the code into a different area o f
memory a n d save i t f r o m ther e —
remembering, of course, that the loader
will need to be altered accordingly to:
LOAD "" CODEstart2: SAVE'
m";1:"name" CODEstart2, lengih
Now, all you have to do is create a loader
program with the minimum information
necessary to re-load the code parts.
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Owners of 16K games can make use of
the fact that the top 32K in the 4 8 K
machine is effectively redundant — so
you can ignore the ' C L E A R 23610'
statement in the loader and keep RAM-
top above 32K. For this case, use a loader
of the form:
10LOAD • "m";PI/PI:"name" CODE
20RANDOMIZELISR VAL "xxxxx"
Where 'xi000t' is the address the program
starts ex ec ution f r o m . S t u d y t h i s
program for a minute or two and y ou'll
see some weird looking statements in the
loader. These w ill be explained more
fully later on, but in short they're here to
save memory since in most cases spare
memory w ill be a scarce c ommodity
indeed.
TWO UP
The second type of program is the one
using the cassette L O AD / SAVE rout-
ines from within the program. With most
program loaders, these LO AD / SAVEs
are done from within this Basic program,
with calls to the main code; therefore,
there's no reason why it should be diff-
icult to change all these to Microdrive
versions. The code, however. may be sitt-
ing in a very low position and may need
the area above for tile data — tr y and
keep the R AMt o p as low as possible.
This imposes large memory restrictions
on our Basic program. If you're going to
write a program that still incorporates all
the original S A N
to
, pull some memory saving tricks out of
the
T / bag!
LO ADs ,
Take a look at the program line 'LET
yA- 10'.
o uHere,
' l you
l can see five bytes and
hthere aare six
v bytes used to store the float-
eing point representation of the number.
(Check out page 122 o f the Spectrum
manual if you don't believe me!) As these
all consume excessive amounts of mem-
ory, we'll take advantage of two ways of
saving space when using numeric values.
First, make all numeric constants into
variables if they're used a lot during a
particular program. F o r example, i f
'LET A l ' is converted to 'LET A—P1/
PI', y ou'll save three bytes the first time
round: then if 'a' is used to replace all the
appearances of the digit ' I ', you'll save
five bytes each time. T he 'overhead',
however, is that you've now got a var-
iable 'a' using up precious space in the
VA RS area of memory.
The next area of conservation is when
dealing with numbers that appear less
frequently — for instance, if you convert
RANDO MIZ E U SR xxxxx t o R AN -
DO MIZ E U SR V A L "xxxxx", y ou'll
save three bytes each time y ou use it.
Have a look at the table included in this
article, providing a number of ways to
save memory space.
CONSERVATIONTABLE
Number Equivalent Form B y t
0 NOTPI
1 PI/PI
10 VALlOr
n<255 CODPASCHOW
The c ons e r v a ti on of by te s is i m por ta nt if y ou'v e got to l ow er RAM t op befor e Mi cr odr i ve
c onv e r s i on can take pl ace. Mer e ar e a few 'tr i cks of the tr ade* to ge t you goi ng.
Another very useful tip that I've not
seen many people make use o f — hut
which is good for extra clarity and space
saving — is the idea of using labels instead
of numerical references in G O TO and
GO SUB statements. This not only aids
reading a program but is also useful when
writing/debugging since all labels are set
up, say. in the first line and can then be
used in assocaition with the LIST com-
mand; it ' s c ertainly muc h easier t o
remember a label than some obscure line
number!
Anyway, us ing jus t some o f these
methods, y ou'll fi nd that, by changing
only the Basic bits of software you want
to c onv ert t o Mic r odr iv e operation.
you'll save enough room to allow it safe
passage on to cartridge.
THAT DARNED CAT!
One of the greatest problems with Micro-
drives is their lack of filetype descriptors
in the catalogues produced when using
'CAT D'. However, by clever use of the
10-byte filename allowed, the problem
can be alleviated to quite a reasonable
degree. The method suggested here is to
adopt a name and extension to indicate a
filetype ( BASI C , C O D E, D A T A o r
PRINT. f o r example). So, t o store a
program written in Basic, y ou'd use a
filename such as 'MATHS.BAS'; a code
file would be stored as 'MATHS.CO D'.
Other extention types that can be used
are: ' X V I " for any textual files; ' P R ! "
for any PRINT files generated using an
OPEN # s tatement; %DAT' for data
files; and '.T MP' f o r temporary fi les
that'll only be stored for a short while.
The only drawback t o this is that the
name part of the descriptor is now res-
tricted to a mere six letters, but this is a
small pric e t o pay i n relation t o the
information provided on-screen.
OPEN ACCESS
If you're the proud possessor of more
than one Microdrive, you may well have
come across the following problem. I f
you load a Basic program that autoruns
and subsequently loads another lump of
code from a different drive to the one it
was saved on, you'll fi nd yourself in all
sorts of trouble. The reason this causes a
problem is because the loader program
makes explicit reference to a particular
Microdrive and then tries to access it,
%vhether o r n o t it ' s t h e Mier odr iv e
required.
However, there's a simple solution to
this problem — and it involves the fol-
lowing routine:
LET d-PEEK 23766
LOAD • "m":d:"name " CODE ( any type of
file)
Watch out though! The PEEK statement
e s Saved
4 2 4 0 0 S TO P 8 R E M S u b r o u t i
2
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must not be embedded in the load state-
ment; i f you do, y ou'll get the 'Invalid
drive number' error message flashed up
on-screen. The reason this happens is
probably due t o the fact that the old
ROM lin e scanner is not in use and
hence, the line scanner in the Interface I
ROM is not able to cope properly. The
actual value being PEEKed here is the
new system variable D S T R I; this is
normally a two-byte variable, but when
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2 2 1 0 C A T E l O pds R E M C a t t o d r y .
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Thi s is an i m pr oved CAT pr ogr am , al l ow i ng
you to pr i nt up to 40 fi l enam es up on-
s c r e e n at the sam e ti m e.

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,
• mum if the access is made in the first pass
used with Microdrives it usually contains
a single byte reference to the particular
Microdrive in use (since the last Micro-
drive used will do the same, you can use
this bit of programming in your loader).
I think I petered it wnen hE was acicioted to glue
Although t h e loading t im e o f the
Microdrive is, in general, very fast - in
fact, of the order of seven seconds maxi-
- it can be speeded up still further by
utilising the technique o f saving more
than one copy of the program on the car-
tridge. You can do this by POKEing the
system v ar iable C O P I E S ( addr es s
23791) w i t h t h e number o f copies
required; this number is normally set to
value '1'; and will be reset to this after
you have made however many copies
you require. The command to carry out
the saving is shown below:
POKE23791.10:SAVE •"m";1:...
The above command would be used to
save ten copies of the program specified
later on in the expression. This proc-
edure will be useful when the tape is fairly
empty and it's taking a fair time to access
the data.
To give you a bit of further help using
the CAT command, you'll fi nd a listing
that prov ides a n impr ov ed double-
screen version of CAT. What you'll get is
a catalogue of the Microdrive's contents
listed in two columns, thus giving up to
40 names on-screen before the 'Scion?'
message pops up. This will mean you'll
be able to see clearly what's on each
Microdrive b u t the program's been
geared t o read only ASCII characters
and not tokens; the tokens can s till be
read, although they might slightly upset
the display format.
Well, that's it for now. Using the tech-
niques outlined here, you should be able
to make much more of the Microdrives.
And if you've got any more hints and tips
for those attempting Microdrivin', let's
be hearing from you w e have the tech-
nology, but there's still a fair way to go
before the Microdrives come up to the
usefulness of disk drives on other home
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All you have to do to uncover the missing
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for a few seconds t h a t ' s meant to hap-
With the compliments of the season, Dave Nicholls and pen!) When you get the 'Insert Jet Set
Sue Denham set out to track clown the missing room in Willy master and start tape' message on-
screen, don't just sit there — get on with
Jet Set Willy. Won it! The JSW game will load as usual and
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how to POKE this and that in Software months o f codebusting before Dav e
Projects' J et Set 1171t4% An
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only Nicholls eventually cracked the code that jects gave us to cure the Attic bug and
that, but IS W has been? a consistent con- would expose it to the Woad! And that's solve the problem of reaching the prize
tender for the number one slot in the VS what we've got for you here.... under the Conservatory Root have been
Top 20. In fact, we get the impression Of course, being a 'c lev er clogs', included already in the listing given, so
you likethe game. So much so, that we've Dave's not telling us where it is! We've don't try and add them again. Of course,
decided to break one of the biggest trade been searching found the rooms for the if you want to add your own POK Es (in-
secrets in the software industry a n d tell past week or so and no-one in the YS finite lives and so on), you can do this
you that, as many suspected, there is offices can fi nd hide nor hair of i t O f between lines 320 and 380 b u t don't
another room in Jet Set Willy! course, sneaky or Dave Nicholls keeps leave anything out from the listing.
popping his head round the door, asking And that's it! Don't forget to tell us
WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS! if anyone's found it yet. It wouldn't mat- where the missing room is. And make it
The missing room A p r i l Showers - - ter so much, hut he doesn't even try to soon i t ' s driving us mad trying to find
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epic verse. But
monsters can be honked on the bonce.
It took the 'real' Ulysses a fair few
h m years of frenzied and fantastic fisticuffs to
m of stupendous and stirring stanzas into fight his way home to mum. Try to be a
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t 1 lost and cultural dilution occurs on the plug with boredom, as I did. There again,
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On-screen odysseys involve hopping up I
Ross: it says on thc cassette insert that it
takes a week on average to complete.
hummocks and dodging dangerous Well, it didn't quite take that
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inside the mountain. Erratic keyboard Dave: There's some very nice, thoughtful
Melbourne House/11.95
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screens in this game but, overall, I'm not
Roger: Re-enacting the trials of Ulysses"R
through the good offices of arcadia M
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sneaking past terminal minotaurs by
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sure there's enough here for a
hit. 2 /5
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this!
flying saucer! Th rills S
As we tear pages off the calendar and
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Sure, you can get them good ol' rocks save for our toupees, the plot thickens in
1 off zapping orbital thingies, totalling heli- both senses. 3 D graphics, programming
1 somethings and body-swerving round the complexities and fanciful story lines may
occasional radiation-storm-in-a-teacup prolong active life like any reasonable
or, er, was it another orbital saucer? Yo u r dog's dinner, but it's still the same plot
space/ground attack vehicle may well be and you've got to be thick
splatting robotic mutant Lurgons with the if you haven't noticed. 215 MISS
1 . E photon laser or Xion phaser equivalent of Ross: This one's a bit like a cross between
1 FR a knuckle sandwich but, in the final Star Wars and Time Gate. Not a had
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analysis, you will still be playing Space 'shoot 'em up' game, but not
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In twders. And that, if you remember, is worth going 'gold' about. 3/5 HIT
BUGGYBLAST
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where we all came in. Dave: The graphics are really nihy but,
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eventually to you guiding your blaster-
Roger: Now as years come and go, the few
4
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remaining hairs get torn from my
1 craft down a 3D tunnel. But then it's just
up for the game itself — it's
just not original enough! 3 /5 MISS
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matter serves. An d it was a lot better whatever they're called, it's 'orrible!
than this! The whole game's just a rip -o ff of
There I was, togged up to the nines Zaxxon anyway, so if you don't mind
ready to go off blasting at the Hun in ver changing your surroundings to the wilds
typical Wo rld War I dogfight — and my of outer space I'd plump for
on-screen jalopy looked a bit like a C5 one o f them. Bally
Ocean! MISS
'killer' with wings! Once you've got the , b a d2 /5
hang of it, bombing factories and bridges Ross:
l u cA kvery
, old game that offers little
relieves a few minor frustrations, but I that's new. The attribute problems don't
reckon the whole game's based around exactly help the graphics and there
trying to land your plane and take off doesn't seem to be a lot going on. Let's
again. Well, it's the only bit that gave me
any real trouble! O f course, it might have
hope other US Gold offerings
turn out better than this. 115 M
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had something to do with having a
propellor with a single blade!
Dave: Why has my plane only got half a I
propellor? O r is this just an excuse for my
USGold/E9.95 They tell me that the reason the score? O r is it that I fell asleep with S
Roger: I've seen this one before — on the screen's such a mess is something to do boredom? (Answers on a MISS
Atari and Commodore 64 if the ol' grey with things called 'attributes', Well, postcard E d ) . 115 S
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of budget emulsion was never like this.
Bristles is about painting and decorating.
a subject which I sincerely doubt is close
to anybody's heart, but manages an
appeal to lovers of quick-fire arcade
activity through a sort of covert
complexity.
A t first sight, simplistic graphics
representing the eight houses to be
attacked by brush — with a choice of skill
levels and the odd bit of trickery stirred
in to give it gloss (sic, sic and sic) — arc
enough to make anybody fall asleep on
the job. Its speed and scoring system just
BRISTLES about save the day, however. Climbing
up the skill levels introduces any aspirant
Statesoft/E7.95
Roger: Toshing out the crumbling walls of tosher to the delights of working with
clear varnish or doing it in the dark.
the Willis ancestral pile with half a gallon
and has whacky graphics!
As Brian (the Viking), you have to slog
rizitc, Ac through some 104 screens ic an attempt
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fact, the game's a 'Jet Set* look-alike, but
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t and some are very large indeed. They'll
BRIANBLOODAXE not kill the instant you touch, but each
contact reduces your energy level.
The Edgeit7.95
Ross: Brian Bloodaxe is the first game to You can use the graphics to assist your
feature 'Primary Imbalance'. t imm — progress on-screen — by hopping on and
presumably that means it's really zany off them! The game is not as precise as
been recruited to help your friend
Richard recover S I.5m taken from him
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got some real nasty criminal connections!
The money has to be returned to
Richard's company account at the
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Midminster bank, and to help you in your
quest. there's some sophisticated
communications software (called 'System
15000') that's so advanced you don't
even need a phone!
Another friend, Mike, has supplied you
with some initial information and a phone
number to get you started — but from
SYSTEM 15000 here on in, you're really on your own.
Wo rk your way methodically through the
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various passwords and phone numbers as
Dave: System 15000 is a hacker's dream
and British Telecom's nightmare! Here, you go — and later, rather than sooner,
you get to play a happy hacker who's you'll crack the game, to the stage where
that I can actually manage without
theoretical hospitalisation — that came
Later! Crashing programs on my own
high-mileage equipment or. even worse,
Peter Shaw's much-sabotaged and hybred
in-office recyclable Specey was far more
frustrating than launching Cyclone's
rescue chopper in its urgent hunt for
pain-relieving drugs.
This moderately three-dimensional
saga requires pilotage of the aforesaid
whirlybird in and around a seascape full
of islands — don't worry, there is a map
— to collect a vital five crates of medical
CYCLONE supplies before the nasty cyclone upsets
Vortex/6.99 accident statistics, particularly those
Roger: Whoopee! A game that starts with relating to, er, helicopter pilots. Do n 't be
bored by the meteorological overtones,
a helicopter take-off sequence and flight
45
A ll sorts of graphical oddities get in
your way, banishing you back to the start.
There are also elevators that can
transport you all over the shop. However,
having this info lodged in-brain did little
to help me on-screen!
Why, playing this game could be just
like serving an apprenticeship without
getting magnolia all over HIT
the carpet. 2 /5
Ross: The graphics are pretty awful, but
the game was certainly fast. It gets really
frustrating round about the
sixth and seventh levels! 2 /5 MISS
Dave: Colourful, if crude, graphics —
shame about the tunes! The sort o f game
that gets you asking that all-
important question. Why? / / 5
MISS
IS W but it does offer something rather
different,
Some screens repeat, which suggests
there may not be 104 unique locations in
total. On the other hand, that's more than
made up for by the wide variety of things
Brian is able to do. This one is HIT
worth a go! So, go for it! 40.45
Dave: At first sight I thought 'Oh no! Not
another platform gamer. But I was wrong
— there's much more to do than usual,
and the some of the graphics HIT
are superb! 4 /5
Roger Another ,ISW clone, but who needs
it'? I certainly don't — I want one where
you ride a motorbike on-screen g o to
it, you Edge
people! 215
HIT
you'll actually believe what you're doing:
the 'ringing' and 'dialling' sounds and
engaged tones make this a very realistic
experience.
System 15000 is a sort o f cross
between adventure and strategy that'll
obviously appeal to hackers everywhere.
But it's also a novel idea that's worth a
look just to see what Prince Phillip could
be doing if he had a
mind to! 4 / 5 HIT
Ross: An unusual idea this, and one that
should appeal to all those would-be
hackers that can't afford BT's MISS
telephone bills. 2 /5
Roger: Half the time I couldn't tell if the
game was working or not — a game for
those who like looking
at blank screens! 2 /5 MISS
though. because we're not looking at
weather forecast yawn quotients — this is
what I call action!
Unoriginal it may be, but as one
disaster area playing in another. I can
only claim to have had HIT
a good time 3 / 5
Ross: This is rather too similar to 7 1 L ,
offering very little that's new. The playing
area is more dispersed and there's some
extra shading to show the cliffs. There arc
also some planes flying about.
but so what! 0 /5
MISS
Dave: Good use of the graphics
techniques developed for I L L . but there
doesn't seem to be enough going on to
give it a really lasting
appeal. 2 /5
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THEGREAT SPACERACE
Legend/El 5
Ross: When a prograni's been hyped as
much as The Great Space Race, it'd have
to be something really special to live up
AIRWOLF
Elite/E6.95
Ross: How d'you fancy being in the role
4)1Stringfellow I lawke in Elite's officially
GIFTFROMTHEGODS
Ocean/E9.95
Dave: This one comes in a large box, withh
a fairtv comprehensive instruction sheet
GALAXIAN
Atarisett/E749
Dave: I'll always remember the day I
walked into my local pub and discovered
that the Space Invaders machine had
to the expectations.
Based loosely on the *space trader'
idea, the object of the exercise is to
deliver consignments of a wicked
alcoholic beverage called Natof to space
stations spread around the galaxy. You
start by choosing up to four racers to
carry the Natof, and you decide which
weapons you'll use to arm their ships. All
potential candidates then present
themselves and state their price; you see
large pictures of them on-screen, and
their faces smile, wink or grimace
according to your choice.
The screen splits up into three parts
during the race; the top part displays a
menu of options and allows you to
communicate with your racers, while the
lower shows textual reports. -
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licenced version of Airwolfl The plot for
those who don't know, is that five
important US scientists arc. being held
hostage in an underground base and
Hawke alone will rescue them.
The game is only Kempston compatible
and, although the keyboard controls are
very responsive, they're not laid out as
well as I'd have liked. But the helicopter
graphic is drawn very well indeed and
certainly behaves realistically; it tilts as
you fly forward and falls under the force
of gravity. In fact, all the graphics are
very good, and there's clever use of
shading to produce depth to the
backdrops and a variety of colours.
The first obstacles to stand in your way
are bands of anonymous blocks and these
containing the storyhne. The tale
concerns several strangely-named people
and seems to have been written to
confuse potential players so that they
don't realise that this is just another
'move about in the maze, collecting things
and putting them in the right place' game.
the object of this extravaganza is
basically to collect the six 'Euclidian'
shapes and place them in the Guardian's
chamber. You're hindered in this task by
the nasty Demi-Gods, as they've created
lots of fake shapes to confuse you; you
also have to make sure that your mother
doesn't kill your sister.
Graphically, the game is very good
with large sprites and several different
types of 'nasty' all well animated. II also
been replaced with soinething called
Galaxians• The shock was so great that I
had to have a drink pretty quick
medicinal, of course, you understand!
I soon recovered and spent many
happy hours (and 10p pieces) learning
the movement patterns of the aliens, until
I could almost play the game just by
listening to the electronic blips and
butzes that accompanied you through the
leVelS_ Now Atari has brought out the
home computer version for the Spectrum.
To be fair, though, there have been
several other Gataxian variants produced
for the Spectrum, some of which were
very good. But Atari's is the first to
include all the elements of the original,
such as the movement patterns that I
struggled so hard to learn. The only real
47
section is used for graphical output — for
example, the racer you're talking to, or
the space station that's approaching.
The problem with TGSR is that it
doesn't involve the player. There may he
some subtle character interaction going
On, but it doesn't appear to make much
difference to the player and it certainly
doesn't justify the
ludicrous price tag. 015 MISS
Dave: This is simply a souped-up
Dictator-type game which gives you the
impression that you're not really needed
anyway T G S R seems to play
happily on its own. 0/5 MISS
Roger Ugh! Wen, compared to a party
political broadcast it's great (in MISS
other words, it's dross!). /15
must be destroyed quickly. allowing no
time for their replacement. The trick is to
rapidly move the •copter up and down
while blasting away furiously. This is the
best game yet from Elite and it's pretty
difficult to play.
Definitely one for the HIT
masochists. 4/5
Dave: Pretty graphics. but not a very
interesting game. It seems to be written in
compiled Basic, and my combination of
RAM Turbo interface and Ouickshot 2
rapid fire crashed it
wonderfully! 2/5 M
Roger: This must be one of the most
I
frustrating affairs I've ever had with the
Speccy! Good, but too difficult
to hold my attention. 3/5 SHIT
S that
boasts an 'intelligent' joystick feature
stops you having to press loads of
different keys; movements of the joystick
(or keypresses) do different things when
you're in certain locations!
Unfortunately, G if t from the Gods
didn't really hold my interest, as there
really isn't much to do beyond fi lling a
large piece of paper with
a map of the Labyrinth. 215
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this is all they can come up with for a gift.
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bores, but one that does S
contain pretty graphics. 1/5
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that's about it really! Hah, it's
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difference between this and the original is
in the way the meanies re-appear
top of the screen.
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OK, so this version's overpriced.
it's still one of the best 'shoot 'em up's
around! If you want a trip down Memory
Lane then buy it — but don't expect
too much of the old
fella , 4/5 HIT
Ross: Another very good Atarisoft
offering that seems to have all the
features of the original. The sound is
good, the action fast and it plays
superbly. Well worth collecting, if only
for the nostalgic
value. 3,.',15 MISS
Roger Very close to the original. The only
thing missing is the pub that
used to accompany it! 415 MISS
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you could go up in flames!" So says
Atarisoft on the cassette sleeve of Pole
Position. A ll the features of the arcade
original are in the Spectrum version, from
the qualifying lap to the vicious left-hand
bend that appears just when you think
you're doing so well. A ll the joysticks are
supported and the controls are nice and
simple l e f t , right, brake and change
gear.
To qualify for the race you must first
complete a lap within 73 seconds — and,
once you've made the grade you get
allocated a grid position.
POLEPOSITION Immediately the starting light turns to
Atarisott/E7.99 green, the other cars go speeding off —
Ross: "Atari puts you in the driver's seat! leaving you to do the best you can. The
Pass cars like they're standing still, but car accelerates automatically, leaving you
watch fo r those curves! One mistake and to change into high gear at about
a Skyranger, your task is to fl y your
jetcopter around the city, ambushing the
Watchers and blasting them into
smithereens with your ultrasonic pulse
generator.
The screen has a large window at the
top left which allows you to peek outside;
it's surrounded by various instruments
that show speed, height. fuel and the
position o f your foe.
The view seen from the window is one
of tall buildings, drawn in 3D-style vector
graphics and through which you have to
manoeuvre. The 360-degrees radar shows
SKYRANGER the relative position o f the Watchers and
Microsphereit5.95 allows you to zip through the maze of
Ross: The 'Watchers streets on an intercepting course. I f you
l-assaenforcers o f the rather over-zealous manage to get in line with one, check
kind
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— and they your altitude and range, then blast it. O f
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invaded by 'you know who'.
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that the crew have their own ideas (that
is, they're terrified!) and won't necessarily
, obey all orders. Also, if you've seen the
film, you won't be surprised to find out
that one of the LTCW is a 'company'
1 android.
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100mph. You soon start catching up with
the other cars, though. and you'll get a
satisfied feeling as you coast past them.
Each time you complete a lap you're
given a time bonus and the end o f the
race comes when you run out o f time or
complete three laps: you'll see a little
chequered flag at the finish.
For my book this is the hest Atarisoh
game yet. It's also the best racing game
I've seen on the Spectrum and
it's eminently playable. 4 /5 HIT
Dave: With the possible exception o f Fu ll
Throttle, this has got to be the best racing
game yet b u t it's far
too expensive! 3 /5 HIT
Roger: OK, I'm smiling! This is a great
game b e t t e r than any race
game yet. Buy it! 5 /5 HIT
course, all the time you're moving your
fuel is running out.
If you manage to destroy enough
Watchers, you're given a code that allows
entry to the next level. Overall. I have to
express disappointment. The program
seems technically proficient but it lacks
playability and I found myself
getting bored with it. 2 /5 MISS
Dave: Nice graphics — shame about the
game! Useful practice for the th y when
all cities look like New York and
everyone owns a helicopter. I
think I 'll give it a miss. 1 /5 MISS
Roger: Very pretty. very clever a n d
what's the point! The only thing
managed to kill was myself — all in all, a
very unsatisfying
experience. 3 ,5 MISS
All in all, a very different, and difficult
strategy game that takes some time to get
into hut is well worth the effort.
Remember in your bedroom, everyone
can hear you scream — so keep
it down a bit! 4 / 5 HIT
Ross: Very much an adventure game, but
one that uses graphics to show what's
going on and a joystick to investigate the

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real-time, so once an order's given, hear me screaming for
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1 you're free to go and 'talk' to someone more! 5 / 5 HIT
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n • IMMIX written by Sierra On-Line and are only moved faster, the package would
o , licenced by SP, and to be frank I'm not certainly be worth another look b u t
o t • • HUM really sure why it bothered. There are
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g • xx pattern matching and counting. While the games helping anyone very much — true,
a mx programs would no doubt do that if they they might even be entertaining b u t
m kept the child's attention, in their present they don't seem very
e form they soon become boring because of educational. / /5 MISS
I the overlong pauses between games and Roger: If you're having problems making
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them out played each game only once to send 'cm
Dave:
e At first glance Learning with
Leeper seems to be a very nicely before he wandered off to do something to sleep! 1 /5 MISS
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adventure — Mighty Magus! Then, if some classic software! Go for it e• •
YOUcan answer four simple questions
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TH E P LOT
In the game, you get to play the part of
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adversary — the giant dragon that
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If you're one of those people that don't
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SCRE
Calling all those of you who are contemplating adding graphics
to your adventure programs. Chris Wood has devised a couple
of screen compressor programs that'll t c rungef those screens
and save those precious bytes.
What we're talking about here is a two-
in-one 'screen scrunger' — o r screen
compressor, if you prefer - that's fast,
relocatable and short (less that 50 bytes
each!). Using either of these routines, or
a combination of both, you can 'scrunge'
most screens down to at least half their
original s in and, with a built-in relocat-
able screen scrunger saved as standard
with each picture. you can have between
10 and 15 screens stored in memory at
any one time!
Adventure writers only require the top
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got a couple days spare sometime
Suffice to say that what you see on-screen
is no more than an area of memory that
we can see and, as far as the Spectrum's
concerned, it's nothing but a jumble of
binary figures.
In the meantine, here's some informa-
tion on how the scrunger routines work
and why you need two of them! Take
a look at a few SCREENS pictures and
you'll see there are quite a few large areas
of the same colour — from which you'd
summisc that the same value is popping
up in memory quite often. Yo u ' d be
right!
Thus, our first routine dives through
the screen memory counting the number
thirdorwofeac hs c reens av ed,wIlic his of times a particular value pops up until a
why the program included does this . different value is found. Once another
and even lets you move bitsofthescreen value has been found, the Spectrum res-
around. The only restriction on saving ets its internal counter, stores the data
parts of the screen is that attributes have
to b e compressed separately; this is
because the program can only handle SQUEEZE ME!
continuous chunks of memory.
ON
At
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even more clever, it's also programmed To make use of the 'scrunged' screens
to take out the 255s that occur in solidly- saved by the program, call the machine
filled blocks of the screen. You'll be glad code from the same address at which you
to know that the Lunar Jetman screen load the code; each pic ture saved is
and carries on looking through the rest of mentioned earlier is scrunged happily accompanied by a screen decompressor
the screen memory. For example, the fol- down to around 4.5K!
lowing data '1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3' routine at its start. For example, if you
But don't start worrying which rou- want t o put y our 'scrunged' screen at
in screen memory would be scrunged and tines you're going to have to use with address 40000, y ou'd get it back on-
stored as ' I *6,2*4,3*4.
each screen, as the Basic program (the screen b y ex ec uting ' R AN D O M I SE
As the routine allocates a single byte to two routines are provided in the data USR 40000'. Happy serunging. my dear-
store the internal counter, if there's more statements) tells you which 'scrunger' is los! 111W
than 256 occurances of the same value
the counter resets its elf and the nex t
value is treated anew. For example, a row
of 400 twos becomes ' 2 '
a
1 zero value denotes '2 5 6 ),
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0 , 2 'MY NEXT TRICK
1
The first routine v•rill suit most screen-
' 1 4 4 ' (requirements,
scrunging w h e but very com-
plex
r escreens with few repeated values can
trip the routine up. For example, a block
of memory that originally look s lik e
'1,2,3,4' becomes 1 *1 , 2 *1 , 3 *1 , 4 *1 ,
and four bytes is transformed into eight
— not a good method if complex illustr-
ations, such as the start-up screen in
Lunar Jetman, can grow to around 7.5K
instead of the usual 6.5K!
And this is where the second routine
comes in. Complex visual screens, such
as Ultimate's, require a routine that just
takes a ll the free bytes (th a t is, a ll the
zeros i n t h e background) a n d ju s t
squashes all the rest of the data up. Using
this method, you can't help but make a 'It's this great new computer game where you have to copy all the
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SPIRLIR
'integer out of range' error message, you'll have to start the pro-
gram up again with 'GO TO 20'.
Do persevere with the program — it's not too long to type in, but
some may find it a bit tricky to end up with a decent drawing first
time out. Have a look at the sample inputs given a n d then experi-
BY COLIN BARNSLEY ment a little. You'll probably find you create your best designs by
Wi th s ha de s of the accident — but that's life!
S pi r ogr aph
de s i gni ng tool , this
OPTION ACTION
pr ogr a m al l ow s you start The position on the circumference of an
t o cr eate som e fi ne
te c hni c a l l y imaginary circle from which the very first arc is
a c c ur a te gr aphi cs drawn: for example. '0 starts at the top, '270' at
a nd som e pr e tty 9 o'clock, and so on.
one s too! Tr y som e
of the e x a m pl e degreeswing The number of degrees turned through — from
i nputs w e 'v e gi ven the imaginary centre (x,y) of a circle — in one
you a nd the n arc: thus, '60' gives a six-pointed shape, '72' a 1.1
e x pe r i m e nt w i th
the m . P r acti se five-pointed shape, and so on
m a k e s pe r fe c t, as x,yposition This gives the imaginary position of the centre of
the y says ashape in pixels; the co-ordinates of the screen
centre is about (128,87).
Hands up all you budding Dabs and Da Vincis who, having spent
hours with the latest graphics packages, stand back from that flick- plots The number of full drawings that'll be completed
ering screen, wiping bloodshot eyes, only to come to the conclusion in the final design.
that you should have stuck to textual programs? And how about x,y slide The number of pixels to be added or subtracted
those tasks the Art tutor used to set using a piece of string and an from the imaginary centre after each complete
eccentric cog that just didn't seem to, well w o r k ? drawing.
Well, here's a nifty little program that'll create amazing graphics circle radius The pixel radius of an imaginary circle in which
for you — all it requires from you is a few numbers! the shape is drawn
The Squirtermakes use of the INKEYS command, and the cur-
rent state of the variables are displayed in the menu; INKEYS is circle squash The percentage reduction in size (per lull
used because, although it takes you longer to type this listing into drawing of the shape) of the imaginary circle's
radius: thus, a 'cir squash' of '5' reduces the full
the Speccy, the time taken to execute the program is reduced con-
siderably. Another point to note is that the Spectrum calculates its drawing of the shape by five per cent
angles in radians and the program store bend The number of degrees through which the
radians
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u c quantities
h to work with, all the angles are direction is changed in one arc of a 'degree
displayed in degrees. swing'_
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h o w take
on-screen; e va looke rat the, options you're offered in the table complete drawing of the shape) to accomplish
a
given. Onces you've entered some figures, the program determines the required 'bend'.
how many arcs it's going to need to draw before your masterpiece is degree revolution The number of degrees of turn needed to end up
completed. Then, once all the values have been written into tem- at the starting point; thus, when n> 1, 'cir
porary variables f or manipulation (without destroying their
original values), plotting begins on-screen. On a final note, if you
choose a variable that results in the Spectrum kicking back with an plot D r a wI s the final design,
s
S O M M E R EXAMPLE INPUTS q
CIRCLE START DEGREE PLOT BEND DEG REE C I R C L E BENDu X POSITION X SLIDE Y POSITION Y SLIDE
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Limpet Shell 80 0 40 30 50 4 5 0d 90 2.5 87 0.
' b 5
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i n a fl u r r y o f i n s p i r a t i o n . . . • P RI NT " n . . . n o . pl ot s m s TAB 15s " r . . . de g r e v ' n
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cq=03 L E T b a = 0 1 L E T c r = 8 0 1 L E T b r i = 0 o L E T b 7 0 P R I N T A Td 1 '3 , 1 5 ; " N = " s x l i T A B 2 3 s " x e d =
=Os L E T n=O s L E T x 1 = 1 2 B s L E T y 1 = 0 7 m L E T t = 0 pt s
BO P R I N T A Tg 1 4 , 1 5 r y = " s y l i T A B 2 3 1 " y s d =
usec n We proqram
9 0 P R I N T ATi 1 3 , 0 ; " c i r c " t c r e P R I N T " s t a r t
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br i 9 ht "1 P RI NT " s . . . s t a r t ' I T A B 1 5 1 "d. . . de g s d s
w i ng" Lines20-100
40 P RI NT " x . . . x p o s n " I T A B 1 5 ; " X . . . x s l i d e s a tne r ious menu opliols i s e e the tiptions
Display
P RI NT " y . . . y p o s n " t T A B 1 " N o . . . s l i d e " tables) and the current state of the variables. Note that the
5 0 P R I N T " q . . . c i r s q u a s h ; T A B 1 5 ; fl a . . . b e n d variable -
a dd" p itself stores this quantity in radians.
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The DATA PEN lightpen enables
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'0 2 0 0 I"UF h a w " q " T H E N I N P U T " c i r c s q u a s h "pe c t s 4 but, onc e you've
GO TO"T 2 0 U u kkk, ::1 gr e s pe d the
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2 4 0 IT"F h a w " n " T H E N I N P U T "n " i n t G O T O 2 0 I PC* 4 2 .
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1 TO 1 1 0
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Lines 105-270 U p d a t e the variables as the program is RUN.
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310 1 LUE T w w x / d i I F I N T P. 88 THE N G O T O 3 5 0
, 320 L T E T z r oz +3 6 0 1 I F 2 ) 7 2 0 0 THE N G O T O 2 0 played this game before; ifs better known as Blackbox.if such pas-
1 6 1 3 0 GO TO 3 1 0 times have managed to elude you then settle down for your first
1 lesson in cultural awarenessl
0
tines 300-330 Dc 7 e Mystery Box is one of those games that takes quite a while to get
- the grip of but, once mastered, is highly compulsive. The basic idea
3 5 0 L E T c s qui c q / 1001 L E T x•nc t i L E T y w y l . I L E T
rcni rn e behind the game is that you can shoot lasers into the box and, by
t- h e carefully noting where they reappear, you have to deduce the posi-
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w cu350m Mbo ev e s Pe parameter values to the temporary variable set tion of the pegs in the box. A laser can either bounce off the corner
r of a peg, be reflected back to the same position it started from or be
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ut 3 6 0 C L S e G O S UB 6 0 0 totally absorbed in a head-on collision.
3 7 0 FO R r w 0 T O n— l e F O R s t 0 T O w - 1 The aim of this highly complex game is to find the pegs in the
l L 3 8 I0 L ECT r a d w ( r * t - t m t s d i - s ) / 1 8 0 * P I t L E T r a d 2 * ( r a
StE. i . ( a + 1 ) * d. i m ) / 1 0 0 * P 1 fewest number of laser shots. In the YS office this game kept us
pT' 3 9 0 L E T s i n - ( S I N r a d ) a c i r e L E T • i n 2 ( 8 I N r ssi i going for quite a while and we managed to get the score down to 96
2)tsci r over the five rounds you have to play.
ri b4 0. 0 p L E Tl c o m ( C O S r a d ) * c i r s L E T c os 2 . . ( CO S r a d You can choose whether the Speccy will hide four or five pegs
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and, from our experience, beginners would be best to start on the
f—4 1 t0 h P LOeT x * m i n , y * c o s t DRAW s i n 2 — s i n , c o s 2 — c o s
, bd four peg option. An d , now, on to the play itself
b You move the laser around the outside o f the box on-screen
Lines 360-410 Begin the plotting on screen. Calculations are made to find using the '9* key; when you want to fire the laser, press the zero key.
the value in radians that the shape should be turned through If you think you've found one of the pegs, press the '0' key and use
for the start and end of the swing, and a line is drawn
the cursor controls to guide a graphics question mark around the
between the points.
screen until it's flashing over the position you think the peg is in,
420 I F I N C E Once positioned, press the 'P' key and the marker will be placed. If,
- at any time, you think you've made an error in your judgement, you
Line
Y 420
I P < C h>e c k s for the 'exit' !outine. It a call las been made to go to place the peg by the same process, but this time press the 'LI key to
the - remove the marker.
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exi When you think you've got all the hidden pegs out in the open.
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o Gr b ( 1—C11110r oL E T bsimota / 180* P I the right position and update your score.
O
Line u t Once you've completed all five rounds, the Spectrum will report
I 430 A d j u s t s the slides and squashes once the shape has been
plotted
i n your overall score and ask if you'd like to indulge in another game.
D Press the 'Y' key if you're feeling brave
e ,
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1 ) 0" t
4 5 0 L E T I Nh K E Y • I F h i " . " s" T H E N G O T O 2 0
406 0 I F hi s* "1. " T H E N P R I N T AT 2 1 , 0 ; " 1 R E M T H E MY S TE RY BOX
e " G O S UB 6 0 0 1 COPY s G O T O 4 4 0 2 RE M P s t s r J S i m m ons
1, 470 GO T O 4v 5 0 10 FO R f • O T O 4 7 1 R E A D a s P O KE LAI R " A "
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g e n you've finished creating your design on-screen, 0 , 2. 44 ,.04, 1
0 ,11 6 , 5 6 , 8 4 , 1 6 , 1 6 , 1 6 , 0 , 0 , 8 , 1 3 , 1 3 , 4 2 , 2 8 , 8 ,
ryou're given the option to either re-draw the BORDER or 0
Copy.
a 1
5 0 0 P R I N T rA T 2 1 , 0 1 " M o n u ( m ) c o n t C c ) ' p r i n t Lines
0 1-20 S e t up the user defined gragnics.
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25 L E T I s * 1 0 0
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l "I G O S UB 6 0 0 . G O T O 3 8 , 4 0 P AP E R 7 1 I N K 0 1 BO RDE R 71 F L A S H Oe O V E R
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60 L E T r = 0 8 L E T t s = 0 . L E T s c = 0 5 9 0 L E T n1=1. 8 L E T d e f = d e f * I 8 S O T O
80 CLE1 I G O S UB 2 0 0 0
Lines 500-590 C h e c k thei i ove'111
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round - the sibroutine to print the snore and controls 1 s h o - t
b
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s c o W r I AeT 1 5 , 9 ; . M " 6 2 0 I F 4 = 0x 4 ) T H E N G O T O 1 1 0 0
tL 6 3 0 hI F c. m10e AND ( y ( . 4 ) + 1 = a O R y 1 4 ) - 1 = a ) T
100 FO R 4 = 7 T O 1 4 1 P R I N T P A P E R 0 1 I N K 7 ; A T
v 4 , 9a1 "r M i aA b M l "8 NE X T 4 LET r 1 = 1
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T 650 I F a - 1 = y ( 4 ) THE N L E T s 1 =1 .
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125 L E T d e 4 = - 1 9/ 6 8 5 L E T c = c + I s I F c < 1 8 THE N G O T O 6 1 0
n 120 GO BUD 1 0 0 0 1 R E M P i c k r o n d o s p o s i t i o n g
86 6 9 0 L E T e l s ol s L E T d e f = d e 4 + 1 1 B O T O 1 3 0 0 1
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140 I F I N K E Y S = " 0 " T H E N B E E P 0 . 0 5 , 2 5 8 G O T O cE 0 1 2 0 0
250 =X 8 2 0 I F w l T H E N L E T a = c 8 L E T c = b t L E T w i t O e
150 I F I N K E Y S < > " 9 " T H E N G O T O 1 3 0 1T GO T O 4 1 0
Lines 130-150 9 e a d the keybo, 0f GO8 3 0 I F s l T H E N L E T b = c o L E T c = a s L E T 81.1.04
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- 155 P R I N T A T a , b ; " 8 4 0 I F n 1 T H E N L E T b = c 8 L E T c = a 8 L E T nI AN01
160 JI Fn d
,1 -i • = 6 THE N L E T b = b + I s L E T b $ = " d " GO T O 5 1 0
a (170 I FJ =o1 9 nTHE N L E T s = a + l o L E T b $ = " 4 "
b 850 I F s 1 = 1 THE N L E T a = c 1 L E T c =b8 L E T • 1 = 0
ISO I F 88=15 THE N L E T b= b— l s L E T b i t = " c " 8 G O TO 6 1 0
a 190 n I Fy b = 1 0 THE N L E T a = a — I 8 L E T b S 8 1 "
S 195e yI F p a =r 6 eAND
s bs = / 0 T H E N L E T b = b + l o L E T b e = Lines 810-850 S w o p the V& ues of ‘'atiabies Li and 'c'• Variables i. s
e s •nr and 'el' represent directions West, South, North and East
2 0 0 P R I N T F L A S H l f I N K O gAT a , b g b e s B E E P O . in relation to the box,
05,-40
2 1 0 GO T O 1 4 0 900 LE T u=7 8 L E T v = 1 1
905 LE T a S a "
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- 910 P RI NT AT u, v pa S
. 1213r5. 1L E T a 1 = 0 . L E T r 1 = 0 A L E T n1 . 1 0 8 L E T • 1 = 0 8 9 1 5 L E T c S = I NKE Y S I I F c e " T H E N G O T O 9 5 0
LET • l = 0 8 L E T w1=Oi ss L E T s = 0 8 L E T p = a s L E T q = 9 2 0 I F c e = " 5 " AND v > I l THE N L E T v = v - 1
. bi L E T i = p s L E T k=s4 9 3 0 I F c e = " 6 " AND u < 1 4 THE N L E T u = u + 1
1 2 6 0 I F 48=6 THE N G O T O 3 0 0 9 3 5 I F c e = " 7 " A N D u > 7 THE N L E T u = u - 1
2 7 0 I F 1:1=19 THE N 3 0 T O 4 0 0 9 4 0 I F c S = " B " A N D v<113 THE N L E T v = v + 1
280 I F a = 1 5 THE N G O TO 5 0 0 945 LE T A I W A "
2 9 0 I F 1:8=10 THE N G O T O 6 0 0 9 4 7 I F A T T R ( u , v ) = 4 8 THE N L E T a i e = " b"
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970 I F I NKE Y S ="p" THE N P R I N T ; A T u , v 1 " b " 8 8
t 3 1h 0 FOeR 4. 11 T O n p 0 S UB 2 0 6 0 8 RE TURN
315 I F c+1<>19(4) T H E N G O TO 3 7 5 980 I F I NKE Y S ="u" THE N P R I N T A T u , v 0 " 8 G O
320 I F b = x ( 4 ) THE N G O TO 1 1 0 0 SUB 2 0 6 0 s RE TURN
3 3 0 I F c = 6 AND ( x ( 4 ) + 1 = b O R x ( 4 ) - 1 = b ) T H E N
LET r 1 = 1 9 9 0 GO T O 9 1 0 m i l m i i
3 4 5 I F b - 1 = x ( 4 ) T H E N L E T 881=1 Lines 900-990 Position a peg in the box, by moving a lashing Question
350 I F b + 1 = x ( 4 ) T H E N L E T w 1 =1
mark '? around the screen using the cursor control keys.
3 7 5 I F f = n p AND r 1 = 1 T H E N G O T O 1 2 0 0
3 8 0 NE X T f Looking at lines 960-900, key 'I' returns you to the game
3 8 2 I F e l O R w l T H E N G O T O BOO screen, key 'P' positions a peg On-screen, and key 'Ll'
385 LE T c = c + 1 1 I F c < 1 4 THE N 8 0 TO 3 1 0 removes a peg
390 LE T 5 1 =1 8 L E T de 4 =de 4 +1 1 G O TO 1 3 0 0
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1445 I F w r < > 0 THE N G O TO 1 4 7 0 2050 P RI NT AT 3 , 2 3 1 "KE Y S " 1
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1480 P RI NT F L A S H 1 ; A T 1 , 1 ; " C O R R E C T " ; A T 2 , 0 g "
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this amazing feat w e l l we don't — but you do!
A number of programs aresubm hied for publication from read-
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you - Your Spectrum is your magazine so make use of it. You're
one of two million Spectrum users — don't just sit there, write us a
program anti be famous!
All we're looking for is a bit of originality, a sense of humour and
some competent code. (Have a look at Gavin Monk's program in
YSissue 10 if you're looking to nick some ideas to 'pretty up' your
programs.) All we ask is that you don't type up a program from
another magazine or book as we always find out in the end and your
MUM will be mud throughout the industry.
(Remember the game, Gro u n d Attack in Y,S' issue 7? We ll the
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and E e e ria llo r 'sabre ;I ' Of and War o f
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HARDWARE • Nearly new I okstik tor swop with intertace
2. Tel. Nelson 695240 and ask fo r Andrew. d
•r Rainbow Electronics programmable joystick
linterface
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v i eiaatimy (0743)65355 and ask for Tint. •-n Swop software -- send lire your hni (I have
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and Saga Soundbi ant sin irth 122, yours for ask for C Reanstaik,
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a l for e mine to Sean Flood. I I 7 Melt brim
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h ,Wolar Waal, Horace for
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software. An y offers. Tel, 01631)10107514 and various software including H t lR G, Ad , Ajar, Dk'Tromes
s light pen for l ° M a r t Te l . ( 0884) 2 6 t i 5 2 latter Cipm) and
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as 1140 Te l 01-599 0915 and in k fa r Siam in 1111Micrndrive and Interface I . boxed. On ly six some advanced Basic programming teats
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tramths old and mill in perfect working order. Wr ite to M r Fr ed 111141nm N a n c y ' , I and I1I Swop any o f 'L ib ya n ; TSW M a n y Muter,
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171. l e l (06145) 70796 and ask fo r Paul. 7Wheelty
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and ask for Matthew Miner At ic Atac and Lunar Ferman for r-Snooker, Pit f a ll 2, Match Day and others for Sfrartgeloop Scuba !h a y We r W o r l d s glue
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/ d egames. •I el. (0254) 61824 (after Hydrae, N ig h t Gunner, Cade Name Man, for
r r aCheetah Sweet Talker for ZX Printer Xcnipston 5000 joystick. Tel.(0334)1154156
and ask foe 'Bucket'.
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arty
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Krugholore, la ck arid the Beanstalk or (Jia n a
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k• 4illK Spectrum, Interface 1, Fu lle r keyboard, lir my Spectrum.1 will m y Fuller LNightlife
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two o Alphacorn printer, Beep gamesbox in return. Ian Carroll. 4 ,
swop for Ourrah MicenSperch T e l (11473) •d Swop LI 50 worth of games software for
f a 22.574 and ask fo r t ler iffr v .
amp,
r t Prima,' it and Kerripstori litter fibeet. Tr e n d a ta tk e A v enue. H a r tl e p o o l . Clev eland T as w a r d 2 , W W I I
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and M i e r a M o t Te l .
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programmable interface in any serious interface. Cassette recreder and I (104- pieces Caarftm. Kokotoni B r a n Bluff. Booty, linimsgrove
t a r e 75342 and ask lo t Ken.
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software An y offers of software, S.190 Te l 061-773 4 0 2 and ask WTHA Slot •u Ever wondered how lung you w ill live / lif e
o o nSteve Hackett
for (02357)65 152 and ask for Clive.
ask
,o Tl oet lG Dm 1 is hy
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o swith Inter fac e 2a A l l r eas onable i d l e r . l'olossal Atherefore fin Untie rwurlde_ Lade a
Micradrive. Write to M r G Edwards. l9 T b c
Printer.
)ffor Paul. 6 M in t work. Tel.1(16)15)711796 and ask tRunner,
e r Hermit*
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k Te l. (0253)6 5 0 0 l
Mailings, Hanlon Bridge, Kings Langley,
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d Dorset. • Spectrum high quality lis ting, - 1 5 p per
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including n ilanchhark 7 keylaran) with s par e bar and ex teal !1irS S hift •p Willa swop any of Loretta, Valhalla, Hobbit. screenfu I Send cheque and cassette, SAE and
l b l l a n
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n i gand h rmore.
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e . sell for 1220 ono. Te l. key. Tel. 041-9596125 and ask f o r M r owe.
p eLord,- of Time. n ig h t Lore, instructions to S o f
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U1-639 2928 and ask f o r Antonio. o D o
P o p ! MacGregor. rUndersawide,
g of. . Skool Daze. Pyymmatarria for Bradwell
- Village, Milton Keynes. Bucks M K 13
(• Intelliv is ion console plies I 5 Cal it idgcs. S ell •a I n a v r e w a y p r o g r am m ab l e i n t e rl ac e p i l l . any Kosmic Kanget. Lode Runner. Houbler 9
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i c t I oS Wand
r i a Manor Muter for !scuba tarme
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Philip or Cankte Also Speed that for An c Afar of
games. Te l , to 222) 691674 and ask fo r Paul
2 d 0110.Tel. (0272)7157 11 and tisk fo r Tony n d
I nAlson n o ,rm e goes Skungand Hungry
(after
3 eipm). (after
w 6.30pm 1. •l Swop Hobbit, la m e s Designer and Scrabble Pool.
111Flight Link joystick wanted, will swop foe • For sale. A quar ius c tim puter , over 1 8 0 .him Carina MicoaSpetch. Tel. (0457162388 Horace fur Trarhman or Stop the Express. I d
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Kempstrrn inter lac e. Te l . 4'(1205)82011 I and worth — vi tura for mmlv E 1 (after Opm) and ask for Nigel. St.Albans 62472 (after 5pen land ask for
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Spectrum Clare,
9 r m a software/hardware.
o o r Tel.011344) • Swop hyena% L la m a Designer and Hobbit
•2 Vukan joymick plus Kempsion interface. 53732
h
$ w u r
and ask for Chris. (on other s ) for I ur r ah M ir r oS peec h Te l . 0 6 I • • Swop either Cntierwurlde nr Sabre Witiffor
6
Excellent condition. St ill under guarantet.117 •s Spectrum EDS keyboard, near perfect 'Pal 2759 (weekends o r after timin) aad ask fo r Knight Lore, or Fighter Pilot for Mussy. Tel,
Itiabom Waltham Sa25 and ask for f u r Colin, 0 6 4 2 ) 7n3447 taller 5pm) and ask for Neil
3 cpondition C a m b r i d g e joy s tic k inter lac e
Tony.
1 plus
a tape 115. Sara Deane, 76b Loveridge • Strop any three at Peri,.PIPSI1j011, Combat • Satrap (.'DS Po o l and Ship of the I. melts-
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fined. ( ) w e ' l l ° of software includina Aa r • Spectrum 1.X P r inter fo r sale. A bar gain at Hero, An ricsfo r White L nritinmg anti
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A ttac k . fi ltr bbiland A n d r o i d 2, Wo r th 1220, fle o Fr e e pos t and pac k aging l e t I I 1-4154 instructions. Write - • Have you got Jasper. Cyclone. F'ciarlane.
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will f a r 11 20. Tel, 01742)69501 1 and ask 6747
b arid ask for ND Pendrev. Norton
t a l o aM. a lin , I ore 1 4 9 5 Lisboa, Worse Thongs Happen at Seam (thenthysteml
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sBlue Thunder. ,Vawontik H u n g r y MicroSpeech
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Florace and Horace goes Skimg kir Slack Pail:mamma, Monty Mole, Pole Position and Hunter • Swop lim g le Trouble, Death o f the Deep,
k . d a 12 Summer Avenue, Haskayne, N r Hungry Harare, Mamma's in Hello!
Light-Rifle plus two tapes. Te l. (0264) 6 I 5a1 loads more (swop). 'Tel. 01-699 7093 and ask Eaves,
.
and ask for Ian ha 'on-the-rocks' Richard. Ormakirk,
: u r e t e r ,Lanes L39 ? HZ. lot
. AI Lr Lc .aPytamaratria.
d i a Ad Astra, Jasper or
Android T e l (1)670) 715106 mul ark for
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, ANL 3 D Combat Zone AA theititon,
and
it• M Voyage
e t trarr she Unknown tor Currah
Z : , u • r q
MicroSpeech I n 1.11-399 9217 (evenings:
and ask /or Max
WANTED
• Interlace I and Mren Ulnae. Will swop Fuller
Sound Synthesiser and 12 good 4hle games
Write to Mt CA Purcell, 14 Cathkin View,
Carmyle, Glasgow 1112
• 4.111(Spectrum with /without extras. Also o
portable colour TV. Tel. Bird ie ' 4.117 (after
3.30) and ask foe NM I'orhet.
• Currah MieroSpeech M u st he able to
deliver or live in 'a n a id g e area. Good
condition and inginal packaging please Te l
(07131 h1 192 and ask fro Viv Shadbolt
• Interline I and Microdove, Will swop £9'
,plus software inclading I.114', Scrabble and
heaping Jack. I el (02641 6 I 581 (h-apm
weekdays onlv)and ask for lan-
• Final plea! Will swop issue 8 o f )'Sto r Jamie
2 Wilt pay £2 for complete issue. Tel.4112572)
76171 and a_sli fi n Marlin.
• INRie 7 - w ill pay double pnce f o r complete
issue_ Write E Skiltseek, 14 Wranghani
Drive. Hunmanhy„ N Utley. N Yorks_
• Spectrum wanted. Aiso The complete
Spectrum Aron l i
, ktorlerve. Top utility software tri swop.
Vieth
a l s etomMbr Al yPorter.
,
• ithira. London 511Y.
lir I Inirchbury Road,
M a u
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e rlity h e i r Write to Mr •IF Raven. 57
(myth
V
Cunninghamo w Close. Shoeburfness, Essex.
•, Your swops list hie mine I has•e tons of
software
Z to
, swop. Send an SAE to Mark
Pantry,
V 12 M ill Common. kinds Magor,
Newport. Gwent.N1151.1.1
• bisne 2 w i l l pay L./. Tel 01-998 2561.
• Arpharoldn 12.Printer. Will swop ZX
Interlace 7. CaSielle recorder. t i l l softwate.
Bromwich S53 5324 and ask foe Phillp.
• Someone to swop okas for programs. All
letters answered. I have over251.1 tines Write
to Andrew Davies_ 1 y - l i r a i g . Crynant,
Neatly
• Help to transter to Mierodene. Especially
Underivarkle. Starstrik tam! &m e a t, Dash ol
ma popular games. Please write to James
MeMultren, S Woodvieve Pinecroft Grange,
Douglas, Cr1('ork, Fire.
• Second-hand software_ Wore to A Marshall,
41 o d e rs Green. Eastheld Scarbotough. N
si ricks-
• Issues I and 2 of 1 5 , with A ar A :tack
pester Will pray 1$ per more if in good
condo ion Writ e to Paulo Cambram.
Ilenfica 5 2 3 4 ( 1511111 isboa. Piterugal.
• I)L Kludge_ If you kept yours and will sell it .
Tel 40494) 257 lO (weekends land ask for
Ted.
• Wa n te d M a n t r a ] trot ( ;ar ties Des tatter hy
John Hollis. Te l 1044'2) 7051 71 and ask for
Chris Hernbrough
• Picturesque A asetr, hie and •••or Aforliror
Preferably Micyodrive mimputiNe VerSd003.
la ir price pad. 'rd . (I1-616 It 761 t a f t
and
e r ask
7 p for It Gmege.
•mIntact issues 2, la n d 7. Will pay £2 per ;nag.
tel D o ve r 211k
•), I XS 1
swim
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with
d joystick and interface Please write
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se r details
k to M r Hayden Dawkins_ 2
Lombard St. Urtiosby, S Humberside DN 34
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•wCWanted
o r
o h rorigendy! I S issues I and 7. Will
ri kmiser
si . p r e for issue I , and II Sp for issue 7
pay
ind .g01-193 50Sh and ask for Dominic.
•o Swim yintr list of gamey for my list of 61.1
Spectrum
r tapes. Wore rir M Tang. 194 Central
Road, Hugglescoh, Coalville. L e n s
n
• A new Currah MicroSouree. Tel. 111-699
7093.
o
•t Issue 3 of I S Will pay £ I. 54
1Wo r Tel s wGuoid fo
p rd 66248 (after 4.31Ipm)
and ask lot Matthew.
fi o e
•l I need a -
Willing
tl r a c e to pay i t for hest otter (also coin of
tape
-b and p &p ) Send offers to David Rvnell,
248 Greenosmr Road. Nitric/non. %irks
pu rIno7 FP
CV g Taylor, 1981 Stephens I )rive. Aston. Sheffield.
•ry44I a KmSpectrum and cassette reoarder,
to o
Kempstoo Pro Joystick Interface and joystick_
44)
rr games to swop for CBM C 2 N and
soft
4 ware if poss. Tel. 01-241 1936 and ask for
Norman.
8 Greece. e
111Good copy of I r Stowe 2. complete with An i
K id poster. Tel. (09214.5169K11 (after
Am
4.S115pmp p and ask for Ady,
•e Uurrah c MieroSpecch or ZX printer Willin g
tot swop r for software inehrding Match Day
Combat
u m L ynt M atch Porn& M a n .. Miner,
Lunar
. lemsan Tel. (0606)41819 and ask for
Andrew_
• I lism ie s 2 and 3. Will swils for two recent
original games. I El.40948.9 65416 a ll
and ask for David.
e
•y hiscrodirive
6 p m and Interlace I in working order
Will pay good price. Tel, 061.223 7857 and
ask to. I ...thy.
• ES issue., 2, 3 and 7 wanted Wi l l gladly pay
1 .5 0 p e r co p y p l u s p o stag e . W r i t e k r 6
fr Stanley Floosie First Street, Harare,
Zimbabwe.
• Spare Spectrum softwaie much appreciated
tor ft ve-ye•r physically handicapped boy
Educatumal material preferred Please send to
Nathan. 5 N tin pusk er Read. r ernes..111
MESSAGES
• F have FS issue 3: What Wets? Send SAE
with your huh. to Mark Gu lle t, 29 Woodland
Park. Black rock. CO Dublin, Erre
• Here's a measage Lir anyone who can put
Gbostbrmaers n a le y's Decathlon. K argArlore,
(pc/one, Jasper, Da rk Star. Mtatty 41ole etc-
im to M a l rWTIYe p le a se tell me h o w l El.
01-699 7093 and ask for Richard
I Are we, 'Rare Frerprency'. the first
pop.. rock group to see tri Six/arms on and off
stage (connected through an effects box it
sounds quilt. amazing!).*I his message is snorts
for p u
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CLUBS&EVENTS
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• Der neugegrundete Sinclair User Club "IMS deserves a pat on the
Schsveli saran Mitglieder (Moen). R e m o
wrinseht Cr Kontakt not ale ichgest anten Clue*
in Deutschland and Osteereich Te l. 0 1 i 241 19
back for this attractive and
otter 111.'44800 2A.
• National Z X Spectrum User Club. Bi-
monthly newsletter Contains it a n d tips on
well made program.".
Haste it iij machine code, plus all the latest
news and • mauves.Gay Fullalove, SINCLAIR USER February 1985
'Woodiximes% Cimset Park. Meopham, Kent.
• Softare exchange club seeks new members.
Swim your used p i t
Owing to the strange attitude of distri-
Spectrum/
- Dragon periodic decimal titters
butors to non-arcade software, we regret
Join (he biggest and best! SAP' fo r details,
0 0 ) 1 M S.
LIKSEd• ( 1.3), I S Ttmwell Graeae, Shethe Id
F vc,r4
s‘ r e e to say that for the present this game is
m e m h e only available direct from IMS.
PENPALS
r s h i p
Telephone: 01- 567 6288 and order now
IMS Software
• Pen pal wonted ..
music
1 • and I animals_ Ned Short, 10 lielasterman
Place, ad iddlettal-m-Teesdale. Barnard Castle,
l i Durham
Cu k e DI .12 OST.
•g I'vea Just
m maned
e splaying t h e Hobbiranci
p l like
would a ,ypert i pal to play with. lan Smith, 8 143-145 Uxbridge Road, London W13 9AV
n
llo ckg ley,Rorad, Elramford Fatale, Cosky, West
Midland& Wit 14 917,
• Pen pal wanted to swop software and hacker
hints Under 12s please Te l. 4 0 3 5 3 )1
an d as k f o r H e n M i l n,
1
• male coraIN ref nut wishes to mem female
77 4 1 2
computer nut age IN h ir friendly' relationship.
Phrao essential. I Emden fir ea. t e l. 01 -24 I
I916 and ask lo r NOHOW) I rerrire•
• Pen pal wanted to swop .p e s. etc. I'm 14
and like golf, badmintira, video games, punk
music and arcade computer software. Graham
Grunt, 43 West brae ('resent, Torriff,
MK A M
Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
• I have the America,' equivalent of the
Spectrum. American st ift ware is useless.
Would anyone he in edelted in swopping
gamestrams- Alinntsc7 Situation desperate. N il
Carle, 1 I akewind Road, New Canatus,
CO n tl e cti e l d 1 1 6 8 4 0 . U S A .
• Female pen palon the I ondon area wanted
fur 14-year old who enjoys hacking (software
rind people). Intelligent, witty, nice and sery
modest. Paul O'Connell, 114 The M a ll. Renton,
COMPUTER REPAIR SERVICE
Harrow, Midst* 14A 3 STD
• Pen pal wanted. My' name is I rm Wreford,
l'm 14 and I would like someone male or
Female to share programming tips, I ' ( * Es, F you want a professional repair
games. ere. Tiro Wre lord. 74 Duke Street.
WindSor
•, ,13-yeas old pen pal wanted. Te l. AshwateT
21
THEN LET ushelpyou
B 194
e r kand ask foe Mark.
•s Bored
h i r ! T e m Mierialmver with moat' We don't charge a fixed rate —
knowledge of machine code and meaabytes of
e .
games seeks preferably female sufferer la
similar er Imbrium Te l. (11 -699 71193 and ask you only pay the cost of YOUR repair
tor Richard.
• Pen pal wanted to swop rapes. hints and rips
on adventures. etc. Jeff Rogers, 26 Harry Price e.g. FAULT: BLOWN U LA 11'22.391
0
• Pen pal H wanted. I've just giid a441K FAULT: BROKEN KEYBOARD MEMBRANE 1E17.651
Spectrum a and would like to hear from anyone
also wouldr like to help me to program. etc.
You must he fernak and about 17 An it a ABOVE PRICES INCLUDE P & P:
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South 'Yorks Sit
• Pen pa: e wanted lo r exchange of ideas.
C0411Mtib timatron and swoppine programs. More
Maximum charge (excluding abnormal damage) E30•00
than 31inuprograms. Noel Denikarias,
I Immopoulou 64. 1 8 7 5 7 Kerinsini.
OUR RATES FOR PRINTERS & ZX 81's, ARE JUST
r
• Pen pal wanted. I S years old_ Spectrmo
R L OM . hacking, Se-Fi. Jerre.
AS FAIR: PLEASE PHONE US FOR QUOTES.
router, Into
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peace, CIFIVrn Mel-:,.'an, 13 Clifford Rood.
Se t h Berwick,
a East Lothiart. Sr,1ltnd EH34 Send your ma c h
-4PP d ,
s y mptoms , or bring It tO
• Wanted, , female two N I Sr.share Innis, tips.
t own a 434 ne w i t h
O
games K la m e s t itigarty. 3A Beverley Road,
l
We can y supply
o u r you with M i c r o m e n d
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• J're, Andrew I desperately want a Imitate
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n printers
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pen torridbfor exchanging hints on games Also Tasman e Software
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a n
aminter 'elation
u controls of : 2 . Please write for details T E L (0532) 742858
d a d d
1You io UM r like Speer nims. Tel Ta n e y 61142
and ask l fori Andrew Rollinas.
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Out on the fringes of the computer world, there are all sorts of people producing peripherals that Sir
Clive never bothered about. Kevin Cox sparred with David Heelas of OkTronics at the recent ZX
Micro fair — this is his blow-by-blow account
You don't have to be in the
Speccy or have you exhausted
company of David Hcelas for its possibilities?
too long before it becomes "We're certainly not going to
clear why he had the idea for a desert the Spectrum, but we
Spectrum game called Minder. shall be broadening our base
He and 'Ferry McCann have a on to other micros. For the
lot in common. They've both Spectrum we're releasing
been around a while and seen a tit Source .an Assembler/Forth
thing or two a n d neither 'on-board' ROM — another
pulls his punches! product we nabbed from
Beginning my interview in a Currah.
rather inauspicious way. I " Of course, what we really
asked him what he was doing need is a product in our own
before Dk'Tronies? 'I can't
right. We're going for micro-
remember!." he replied. processor based consumer
Fortunately, his convenient products — the first is due this
attack of amnesia passed and year. I can't tell you exactly
he soon became forthcoming what it is but it will be
about his time in the 'biz'. connected with music and will
"I started four years ago just have a screen and a music
prior to the launch of the keyboard, all for about £100.
ZX8 1. Our first product was a "It's come about from some
16K expansion pack for the work we're doing for
ZX80. It was just me, then Mcmotech. We're designing a
part-time, and I got interested music peripheral for
because of my interest in Mcmotech to co-incide with its
electronics. The stupid thing big sales push behind the iron
was that I could see the market Curtain. I•shall probably be
growing hut not to the extent it going to Russia later this year,
has: although the ZX8 I and from that project will come
created the interest, it took the a similiar peripheral for the
Spectrum to take it the Speecy with a half-size music
distance. keyboard for about 0 0 .
"I went full-time with the "We've also got a slant on a

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launch of the 1X8 T h e new idea in connection with
business was all mail-order British Telecom. The short and
then, but I was getting a very curlics of the matter is that
good response. I had to do we're going for a US / M listing
everything myself — in 1986 and we need to
manufacturing, packaging, strengthen our base. The shine

selling and posting — and I was
working in my bedroom, my
garage, my shed (Shades of
Arthur Daley's lock-up! Ed.)
— anywhere there was room!
But by the end of '81, I had
four employees, a range of
products including a keyboard
for the ZX81 and new
premises!"
What was your reaction to
the Speccy? You must have
blessed Sir Clive for that
rubber keyboard!
"As soon as we got hold of
the Spectrum, we re-vamped
the ZX8 I keyboard and
brought Out a version for the
Spectrum at £45. Frankly, I
didn't really think people
would pay it, but it just shows
you how wrong you can be,
We've sold 80 to 90.000 of
them to date. Fuller was doing
the same thing but approaching
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it all wrong — the product was
OK, but the customer service
was appalling."
No punches pulled here!
Tell us about the recent take-
over of Currah. Did you have
your eye on the company ?
"No, we had no intentions of
buying Currah whatsoever! But
circumstances change and now
it's done, it seems that taking
the company over is a logical
extension of our product range.
We'd thought of doing a
speech synthesiser but Currah
had the market sewn up.
Apparently, there was an
article about Dk in the
computer press last November
which prompted someone
quite high up in Currah to
phone me for a job. Something
was obviously up, so I began
talks with the company's
chairman. Next minute, the
receiver's called in and we're
offered the whole company!"
So, how much did Currah set
you back?
'Let's just say it was an
undisclosed but substantial
five-figure sum."( Whatever
happened to 'No comment?
Ed.)
Do you intend to keep
adding more and more to the
has definitely gone out of the
computer market."
Have you completely
abandoned software?
"We made a lot out of
software, especially in the
period between 1982-83. But
we decided that it was too
much of a rat-race. When we
started, a game lasted six
months, but now you're lucky
if it's around for six weeks!
there must be around 300
companies chasing an ever
diminishing market, and that's
without considering piracy.
Too much hassle all round!
Still, we're releasing Pope ye—
it could have been out now if
the programmer hadn't done a
runner on us — and, of course,
there's Minder." David Heelas
supped the last of his pint.
"And that's not an easy subject
to capture."

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