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GAMES PROGRAMS
e (page 60-61) prize is a real At ari
BLITZ for BBC 12 Bat t leione Arcade machine —
EGBERT tor SPECTRUM 3 4 a
MICROPEDE for BBC 4 0 r the game that brought vector
LOAD UP WITH LOOT for ZX81 44 graphics, real tank steering and
HUNT THE RAIDER for ATARI 48 i panoramic feel to armoured
BUST! For °RIC 6 4 , 65 d warfare. There's never been
SAVE THE CHICKENS for SPECTRUM 6 8
c any t hing like it.
• 24, 25,
! SOFTWARE REVIEWS ! 26, 27, o r
28, 29
Pete Shelley reviews Music Progs 66-67 r u
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HARDWARE I
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Wonderful Widgets 18
Atari 800XL Review 36 a
A Big Hi To The Wonder Chip 59 n
Goad Your Code /6
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FEATURES
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Say No To Your Neighbourhood
Tapeworm 14
This Mik e Is All Male 22
Modern Living Special 48 MODEM LIVING (page 48) is
Art Fot A(r)tari s Sake 84
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!REGULARS'
On line News 3,6, 11
Charts 15
Classic Games Of Our Time 42
Zip Code 62
Arcade Alley 72

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Soon h a v e t o s u b mi t t h e i r
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cial Cens or — if a P a r l i a me n -
t ary B i l l g o e s t h r o u g h a s
ex pec t ed nex t mo n t h .
This is happening because of
prov is ions i n M P G r a h a m
Bright's Vi deo Rec ordings Bill,
designed t o deal wit h so-called
Video Na s t i e s B r i g h t ' s B i l l
makes n o dis t inc t ion what ev er
between computer programs and
movies on video
"I inc orporat ed t h e s of t ware
clauses in the Bill," he told BIG K.
"as a res ult o f s ome obs c ene
videos import ed b y a Clac t on
company las t y ear. ' • Reminded
that t h e s aid v ideogames were
never ac t ually pros ec ut ed f o r
obscenity — a n d t hat t hey had
been cleared by HM Customs —
he said: ''That 's as may be. Just
don't let anybody else try it all the
s a me '
The Tory MP was also appar-
ently u n a wa r e t h a t c omput er
programs c an be t rans mit t ed in
int o t h i s " ! , b u t r e l u c t a n t l y
conceded that his Bill has made
no provision for this at all.
So, i f y ou'v e a penc hant f or
writ ing naughty software, pass it
along as a BASIC listing. BIG K
fancies t h a t s o me int eres t ing
legal argument s might pres ent
themselves were a program list-
ing — itself containing no actual
obscenities — t o be prosecuted
for Filth. In the meantime, we're
looking f o r wa r d t o s eeing t h e
Cens or s p e n d i n g h i s d a y s
tapping i n a l l t hos e lis t ing fun
Co mmo d o r e B A S I C? ) t h e
mischievous mi g h t s u b mi t f o r
"approv al" wh e n t he Bright Bill
becomes t h e Gloom Ac t . B e a
way of stitching up the system,
TARRANT RIDES AGAIN
wouldn't it
A f urt her disturbing note: t he YOU RAVED about Tiswas, you rioted about OTT, now revel in Chris
Tarrant again as h e presents The World' s Greatest Comput er
Video Recordings Bill treats Sex
and Violenc e as equally t o b e Games. a n e w video cassette f or sale or rent f rom TVC Video.
Twenty of the most we/ I -k nown c omput er games (Manic Miner.
deplored. What about t he v iol-
ence involved in offing lots of little Valhalla et al) are s
his
green me n i n spaceships? Will h ofriendly
w c a srugbye d shirt make the whole thing very cosy. TVC hope to
make acomputer
Chris' series outcassette_
of this title and have Volum
that apply? We'll keep you posted i n
non
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l r eTarrant
a d y as yet). i Chec
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skills may soon find themselves
being appr oached b y s ha dy -
looking types in pinstripe trous-
ers offer i ng sums of money in
exchange for their talents. This
is because as of August 1 t he
Labour Party is renting itself a
piece of Mi cr onet with a view to
using the database's facilities to
communicate between various
party HO's.
"We'r e a lot more with-it than
the other par ti es, " cl ai med a
Labour Party HO spokesperson,
"They would say that,w ouldn't
they?" scoffed an SDP-Liberal
lady, w ho went on t o confess
that a l t hough t h e Al l i a nc e
woul d dearly like t o try some-
thing of the same sort, the lack
r i s
of centralisation mi ght hamper ody clever enough to do that
a
things. scoffed the Labour man. Prob-
n a t S m i t h Squar e t h e
Over ably t r ue . B u t t he y ' v e g o t
Toriesd ar e al r eady moder atel y money, haven't they?
computered-up, w i t h a mai n-
frame or two handling pinstripe
data on a secur e landline. N o USEYOURIMAGINATION
opportunities her e for a little and think up some
constructive sabotage. network names th a t
The pi ece o f Mi cr onet t he
Brothers h a v e r e nt e d i s , o f the p o l i ti c a l p a r ti e s
course, locked and secure. Sure might adopt if they were
it is. Meanwhi l e Labour have no
all t o g o on-net. N O
fears that Tory hackers will bust POLITICAL P A R T Y
into Br other Net ( or whatever
it's called) and lay a few eggs or EXCLUDED! (But don't
acquire interesting data (all of go over the top — keep
which w oul d be illegal under it printable.)
new Tory proposals which have
Labour backing). CASHFORTHEBEST—
"The Tories haven't got anyb- THEBINFORTHEREST! A

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HOW MANY manufacturers have

IFFY not spent s omnambulent night s

searching f o r t h a t es s enc e o f
t hrill-power t hat mak es a game
The III-feted Vectrex shift f rom the shelves like Kaolin
tablets a f t e r a n i g h t o n t h e
THE VECTR EX video game system is no more i t has bitten the Big Vi tide too?
One, gone to that Great Arcade In The Sky.
And h o w ma n y s oc iologis t s

MOVEOVER
Launched in the UK barely a year ago, the unique, self-contained have not felt compelled to !et fall
system Ithe only game system to use vector-scan graphics) came the odd treatise on how vicarious
late to a video game market already under heavy siege f rom the video violence maybe linked wrth
s nowballing computer phenomenon. Although computer-upgrade a rising c ome rate? Cornish soft-
add-ons we r e promis ed f rom it s launc h mos t of t hes e nev er
appeared and Vectrex remained exclusively a games system. Iron'.
cally, the only move away from the games scene came earlier this
year wit h t he appearance of the VectreA Light Pen, A case of too
MAGRITTE ware c ompany Mic rodeal hav e
tried to grasp this walnut of life —
they have had the brilliant idea of
little too late. asking games f ans t hems elv es
64 OWNERS wi th the tai nt of what motivates their interest
In America, Vectrex parent company Milt on Bradley has stopped paint i n thei r bloodstream can Microdeal dis t ribut ed 2 , 0 0 0
production of the system and is dumping redundant stock at low now get daubing with the aid of a questionnaires in shops. obtain-
prices, I t has , howev er, promis ed t o c ont inue servicing unit s new gr aphi cs pr og, Pai ntpi c, ing a 25% ret urn rate. Respond
already sold.
brought to you courtesy of Kuma ents were asked to list a series of
As of going to press BIG K could get no concrete information out Computers. characteristics of games i
of MB' s Brit is h operation. Vectrex Sales Manager J ohn Garner Pain(pic uses multi-colour bit- of
would only confi rm that the system had been discontinued in the n pref
o r erenc
d e r e. M o s t p o p u l a r
m a ppi ng t e c h n i q u e s a n d attribute was ' A Genuine Chal-
US but as far as MB UK goes " W e ' r e reviewing our marketing requires no, repeat no extra hard- lenge'. Sec ond c ame 'Lif e-Lik e
s t rat egy ware Pai nti ng modes c a n be Graphics', t hen 'Dramatic Sound
- John Arundel of The Silica Shop, one of the first Vectrex outlets Brush, Pen a nd Text; you can Effects' I n sum, it seems that a
in
w thea scountry, was sorry to see the system go "I t 's a shame it didnt have curvy shapes (box, parallel. truly great g a me mu s t hav e a
take off," he said. "But it came in at too high a price" laround1149 logram), senable colour patterns,
a l l strong sensory input — and must
- a variety of moves — point and be d e ma n d i n g wi t h o u t b e i n g
Atari's
h e VCS at below the 1100 mark , "
a block - - a nd a hos t o f sel ect (quite) impossible.
' So d the videogame fi eld is now left to the old, established, still- features such a s SAVE, GET, Strangely enough, 'Out let f or
n
selling At ari 2500, t he add-ons-for-everything ColecoVision and MIX. etc.
s Aggression' c ame a dis mal last
d is-it-alive-or-iset-dead Philips G7000 Videopac.
the
a Fifty pee less than twenty quid on t he list. This doesn't surprise
t Deliberately lef t of f this list is Intellivision. Supposedly 'dead' buys you the entire package — us at BIG K, but it might disap-
(hyO n something sorely needed by the point a f ew sociologists. And who
the
-e. corpse is still thrashing cares about t hem?
fast-growing number of 64 types
Lmi Mattel
n have sold the Intellivision part of the company off to the with ambitions to be hung (in art
managers who used to run it I t remains to be seen if they will be galleries),
ea , to rnake a go of it or not.
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gumshoes and the Mickey Spil- best p r o g r a ms s ev eral ' b u g s ' Ono owner s add t he f ollowing COMPUTER S U M M E R Ca mp s
lane la lingo— Dan Diamond's back managed t o c r e e p i n t o t h e lines t o t h e lis t ing f o r p u r e are now an institution For better
in town!
al Salamander Software's 'system o f BIG K issue 1, Mos t happiness: Or worse? Is the accepted picture
sleuthing
tr superstar slips stealth- we spotted after it was too late to 330 PRINT PRINT "To do this, the (of happy, well-scrubbed teenage
ily onto the Spectrum scene on do anything, a n d severely beat buildings below hav e got t o be puterists ec s t at ic ally t a p p i n g
ee
September when all three of his ourselves about the head Ot hers demolished." away on I BM pc's) true? Or is it
sa
lingamous adventur es ar e put we heard about v ia doz ens of 355 PRINT:PRINT "Press 'Cursor more a case of a few sulky prison-
out t on one cassette, complete good-natured phone calls. If you Down' key to release a bomb. " ers m o o d i l y t h u m p i n g o n
withd a bumper illustrated case- were one of those callers — well, And t y pe i n t hes e corrected clapped-out PETs in a Nissen hut
r
file.y lines:.
howdy doody. While s o me wh e r e a t a p i s
dripping?
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Dan's debut was on the Dragon 520 J K + 1:G7 X f
Herewit h a l i s t o f goof s ,
in anpe eerie offering called FranA- glit c hes a n d g r o a n e r s t h a t THENRETURN We here at BIG K would be just
lin'soTomb. Solving that provided occurred in issue 1: 530 I FS CRN( G . J ) 7 fascinated to fi nd out.
clues e 9 1 Which is where you c ome in
rn to help with the next part of +1
the series, Lost I n Space, Fishy Brilliant Bodge s (p. 75). T h e O This mont h. a n d ov er t he nex t
te
Business wr apped up the first 640
address t o s end of f t o f or t he R . . 1-1+ 113 1 3 + 1 dozen or so weeks, a great many
DanssDi amond Trilogy you mean Eprom P r o g r a mme r k i t s w a s 730 D A T A 125, O. O. 0, 62, 31,
-62, of you will fi nd yourself in one or
there's going to be more?). Each missed out Thos e still hot for a S 0, 0' another o f t hes e plac es — i n
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adventure ran in text only but had 'Cheapo Epro' should address all COT0530 many cases willingly. All we ask
ra Contents 1;11), Demon Drivel
location illustrations supplied in their enquiries to BIG K (EPROM), R is, wh e n you get home, writ e to
ob case-file booklets.
special KING'S REACH TOWER, STAM- Commodore
- f o r 64? Well, no. As it us and t ell us all about it. We' ll
N ( o n t he lis t ing it 's f or t he
says
Diamond
ml h a s gone o n t o FORD STREET, L O NDO N SE1 publish a selection of the best a
Dragon.
G , little later on in the year
becomeA a n al most-cul l fi gur e 9LS. Send n o money, y ou'll be Writ e to:
amongsti adventure fans and gets . .
m notified as to availability. Save t h e Cit y (P.58,59). Let ' s
fan mail
s sent to his unmarked box 1 1 it f or our Star Goof! We had
hear What I Did On My Holidays.
at Saleh amander 's Br i ghton HO. Reviews tp.30). The prices for the Big K Magazine,
lots
- of calls f rom confused CBM ,PC Magazines Lid,
BBCr and Ono owners can now two Imagine games, Alchemist and
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animated. A complicated, demanding game which I can't see losing its appeal for a long time. Krakatoa is both addictive and —
hard to play It takes ages to get any good and the scope for getting better scores each time is enormous — very good, highly
recommended. Game of the month, " C r a s h Micro"
An amazing piece of programming, a great program. A year ago we would not have believed it was possible to do this. —
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'Speech is effective a n d Flight Simulation
must be at the limit of spec-
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are excellent and anknation
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superb. A cornbiriaboh o f
hazards a n d det ail, 2 0
graphics adventure maz e
and chase games makes different analog and digital
this an unusuai. fascinating controls rev iewed b y a
and addic t iv e p ro g ra m pmfessional pilot as is very
which must rank among the enjoyable and challenging
spectrum classics. diversion which will test the
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YOUR EYES bulge, y our puls e
races, s weat coats t he steering
wheel like an oil slick, Four chan•
nets of sound blast into your ear
drums like pistons. In front of you
three (count 'em) full-size, hi-res
colour s c reens dis play o n e o f
eight int ernat ional racing circuits
whic h you are desperately trying
to keep y our car on. Ot her cars
whizz by and your head involun-
tarily t urns left and right in t he
direction of the sound.
One t hing's f or sure, if you're
experiencing t h e abov e s ens a-
tions you're sure as shootin• not
playing t h e lat es t Spec t rum o r
Beeb of f ering. W h a t y o u a r e
doing is sitting ins ide TX-1, t he
newest arcade zap f rom Atari.
Three s c reens g i v e W r a p -
around action', providing a pano-
ramic s c enario as t he cars race
through c it ies , deserts, mo u n -
tains, t u n n e l s a n d mo r e . Th e
steering delivers actual feedback
so t h a t w h e n y o u g o i n t o a
skid , you go int o a skid!
TX-1 leads a pack of new Atari
arcade r e l e a s e s d e s i g n e d t o
gobble cash and dispense thrills.
Space Age is a laser disc based
cartoon arc ade game f rom t h e
creators of the phenomenonally
successful Dragon's Lair. Space
action takes the place of Mediae-
val ac t ion and Disney-lookalike
characters o n c e a g a i n r o a m
arcade screens_
More o n a l l t hes e games i n
upcoming Arcade Alleys. Wat c h
for 'em.
TIL.I Co mm Maws

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11 ooretutir • ****ota w w k i l y
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eat t hree! -41111Ell old creep and imagine for a
second that such a derelict

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By The S hadow
KEYBOARD HIGH STREET Censorship Dept.
f ollowing up a whis per that
SKILLS NO 2 : K-Tel's It's Only Rock 'n Roil
THE BLUNT game had been rejected by
I NSTRUMENT everybody's favourite
newsagent (on account of
Supposedly tasteless lyrics), The
Shadow got on the case, only
to be told that the chain store
concerned operate no
censorship policy "as Such"
and that the K Tel prog had
been deep-sixed on account of
its supposed crash-proneness;
K-Tel have now brought out a
CBM 64 version of said prog
anyway — and yes, t he string
data store HAS been cleaned
up „ Fu n n y , that
Congrats t o Ac orn for the
current series of ads they're
running in the Qualities — The
Shadow particuarly likes the
one where arrogant Etonian
types pose coolly in front of a
row of Beebs while a gowned
TONY BENYON Quelch fi gure hovers in the
background, only trouble is,
computers? B y the by, any
punters out t here who have
The Goods on the real state of
computers-in•schools should
get in touch wit h The Shadow:
anonymity guaranteed
Whoever was minding the
British Mic ros stand at the
recent BBC Elec t ron Users'
Show was certainly no expert
at Mak ing Friends - t hough in
is own way he was quite
effective at Infl uencing
People T h e Shadow has
feelings, too, you k now A n d
speaking of feelings, MP
Graham Bright - the man
behind the new wave of
censorship — was easily twice
as unpleasant on the phone as
our story (page 3) makes
out
On a more cheerful note,
mucho thanks for kind words
about our fi rst issue to J o h n
Conques t at rime Out, J ohn
Peel, and The Sunday Times,
The Shadow wis hes to inf orm
the above that any scam he
may have been holding has
now been binned Out of sheer
gratitude and brotherly love
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You've flattened cities with jets and fast WWII bomb-

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by flattening a city with a vintage biplane — the dis-
cerning me troc ide 's e quiv a le nt o f the London-to-
Brighton run. Switches off! Contact!

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business. Soon, say some, tape piracy wi l l have done what no
self-respecting parasite does and bumped off its host. And then it'll
1 1
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kicked int o being by a
weighty, slightly pond-
erous b u t w i t h o u t a
doubt s e r ious -m inde d
e 'Round R obin' recently
n dis pa tc he d b y t h e
o mighty s c ous e r s
u Imagine Softwa r e a nd
s a ddr e s s e d t o ' T h e
e Media'. i.e., us, and our
m competitors.
o The subject was tape piracy.
a 'A cancer eating away at the
n heart of the industry' raved the
Imagine d o cu me n t. 'S e ve n
i illicit copies for every one sold!',
n User g ro u p s g e t i t , r i g h t
g between the eyes. 'Min i produc-
_ tion lines stealing as many as
2000 copies o f successful titles
4 at o n e g o ! ' i s h o w th e y're
1 described, I t is, you might say,
. a wrathful screed,
b Almost — b u t n o t quite —
simultaneous wit h the Round
y Robin was an announcement to
T the effect that Imagine would
O henceforth cu t th e ir prices to
N 0,95 per — certainly a useful
and co n stru ctive a n ti-p ira te
Y move.
T OK, it's perfectly too easy to
Y adopt a glib, laid-back position
and say, yeah, well Imagine are
L ,Wen ll,o s. u r e l y a l l t h e s e
always ma kin g t h is b ig deal
E about how much cash they've
R got, rig h t? What was it Ma rk
Butler said i n th is ve ry ma g
last month? "The biggest prob-
lem I have is in spending the
money"? So a few fatcats lose a
few hundred thou off the top of
their legendary millio n s? So
what?
Profit
Shortsighted, M urg a troyd,
very shortsighted. Y e s, i t ' s
perfectly t ru e t h a t Imagine's
ultra•high p ro fi le with regard
to p r o fi t (" We ' v e j u s t g o t
Eugene a Lotus Esp rit') makes
sh rill complaints about loss of
profit look a bit, . . superfluous.
But re a lly t h e i r success, o r
style, has nothing whatever to
SAYNOTOYOUR
NEIGHBOURHOODTAPEWORM
I'm n o t g ivin g a wa y a n y
secrets here; nor am I condon-
ing a n y so rt o f rip-off, I t ' s a
well-known technique and —
considering t h a t e ve ryb o d y
wants b a cku p s o f h i s o w n
progs — n e ith e r ille g a l n o r
contemptible,
It's when you have the same
smart-ass. knocking o u t copy
after copy of the same game via
his Spectrum that you have the
beginnings of' a problem,
And w h e n y o u h a ve a n
Arthur Daley figure sitting in a
Stepney basement, smoking a
fat ceegar wh ile h is custom
duplicator r o l l s o f f T H O U -
SANDS o f copies of' a Hot Hit
, • t h e n yo u h a ve a RE A L
problem.
Unlistable
OK, games i n B A S I C a re
getting f e w a n d f a r between
these days (and a good th in g
too). Machine code progs are
quite s imp ly unlistable, a n d
therefore, to the home copyist,
uncopyable.
Aren't they? We ll
copyright-detection d e vice s
wot we hear so much of must be
useful? Yes they are — but it's
almost always only a matter of
time before some attic•ridden
hacker shatters th e mid n ig h t
calm of suburbia with a scream
of "GODDIT!" — and another
e le ct ro n ic e q u i v a l e n t o f
Chubb's safes h a s bitten th e i
dust. tri ta ti --
•,.,0••• n , Lc be.*
tioos'
Why bother? 'Because it ' s -Lia,is
e
there', says the ice-cool hacker, S
,. vo v. 5 f 3 6 (.0
choosing t o regard what. h e O-0
does as a sort of challenge, like ss-
t .' 1
getting lost on the Cairngorms „4. t
in midwinter_ t
-• z :
'I only made that one copy for 10
v
Wally!' says t h e aggrieved De.ar v o i c o t
, ti o r r GKI,11,-,--.
COMPUTE? a s ' VlOACY
Grange Hill Tyke — the kind of " d
lad who carries razorblades in a76l l 8i l p e c i a l l s t o i a
•:-,-,1 s ent t o V .
his Spectrum, " Wa lly wouldn't le t t •,.0_ Li, o,atinq 1 Ow r Y eac t a
have bought that one anyway." Ole ly rA mt . vaccvc-F, • st
et " . et
(It's for sure Wally won't buy 0 0 t V e a t C .
.

do with the substance or other- it now.) ' 0 -

wise of their case.
Have they got a case?
We think they have.
Despite the fact th a t (when
you co me t o t h in k about it )
nobody c a n p o ssib ly k n o w
exactly how many pirate copies
circulate, or form anything but
a rough guess.
And despite the fact that the
Round Robin urges u s media
types to get our weight behind a
c a mp a i g n f o r ' h a r s h e r
penalties',
Despite all this, yes, they still
do h a ve a v e ry substantial
case.
LET'S F A C E i t , co p yin g a
program writte n in B A S IC is
not only easy, it's a vita l and
necessary f e a t u re o f e ve ry
microcomputer. A l l you do —
sorry about this, Mark, Bruce,
David a n d I a n a n d a l l a t
Scouse Ho u s e — i s p re s s
BREAK (o r ESCAPE o n th e
BBC) and then SAVE.
'Pirate? Me?* says the base-
ment A r t h u r Da le y. a s h i s
custom d u p lica t o rs r o l l o n
through t h e n i g h t . ' W e l l ,
maybe you have a point. Nice
little earner, though.'
What can be done about it,
anyway?
Bringing t h e price down i s
constructive (even i f Imagine's
competitors howled like stuck
pigs), Continuing research into
ever-tougher copyright protec-
tion devices is another useful
road, with short-term benefits at
least.
Imagine wa n t a whole new
slew of' laws, though. And the
trouble with Tough New Laws
is th a t th e y have a h a b it o f
ca tch in g o n l y t h e e a s i l y
catchable. I mean, who wants
to see our Grange Hill tyke —
immoral little cherub tho' he is
— arraigned before the Bloody
Assize and transported for life
(probably to Liverpool)?
And d o we re a lly wa n t to
- ,
en
ef
discourage t h e kin d l o f inge-
niousness t h a t leads„ experi-
menters to devise ways round
protection devices? Yes, t
and
no. o
And yet something ,most defi-
nitely has to be done. n_ if those
Imagine figures are anything
i (The Software guys need a ll
like rig h t, th e n t h e •software
industry is bleeding to death.
The first. t h in g is t o ma ke
sure all commercial listings are
in machine code; th a t wa y a
majority o f copyers s i mp l y
have n o t th e wherewithal t o
copy. Unless they have ghetto
blasters with twin tape decks —
THE N you need the protection
devices,
Magazines s u c h a s o u rs
should — mu st — begin t o
refuse ads for copier programs,
These products are ingenious
but have ve ry fe w bona fi d e
poOr :..ly 0 4 lo, s t' f y do6 u w 1...arl
., . * t hny emerge. s tiv e
'.,mhzo h65. c re a t e
-- -
Uses.
A th ird — sadly — is those
Tough New Laws, with cutouts
built in to protect the GHT from
penal servitude in Liverpool on
account o f t h a t o n e a lf f o f
Alchemist he made for Wally.
the Wallies in the UK to stay in
business-)
What you can do:
DO N'T b u y u n ma rk e d
cassettes.
DISCOURAGE y o u r u se r
group f ro m wholesale piracy,
Be sniffy about it if you have to.
DON'T rip anybody off. And
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'glue on' Second Processors ft T
BROUGHTYOUTHE the BBC f or s ome t ime now. o r
BEEB,• ,THE Marc h one fi nally arrived. o r
MEGABEEB There will ev ent ually be t b r e
models: t h i s o n e ( t h e 6 5 0
,01
second processor), a Z8 0 w i r e
CP / M a n d a 1 6 0 3 2 megaerk
gme.
41 By far the most interestinIA
will be t he 1 6 0 3 2 machine, b e t
we' ll hav e to wait a while untlsc
we get Our grubbies on that.p

main BB
Wit h a Csecond
c omput er only gel ro
processor,
useda f or the laborious and t i r n i )
sc ons uming tasks like talking t
dis
o c drives, reading th,
keyboard
vil a n d d r a wi n g o n t h
screen,
oar while the extremely f a i
add-on
m proc es s or does all t i m
hard
e
, work : arit hmet ic and s h o l
fluing c c numbers . This s haring c
tl he w o r k l o a d m e a n s t h a
graphics, f or example, will w o r
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m h f as t er, bec aus e a s t b
rBBC i s d r a wi n g a d o t . t h
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graphics device surfaced some
Now ROBOCOM. maker s On
the Bits tick. have bought out alb
ANDWE'LLZOOMIN time l ast y e a r i n t he Slates,
running on an Apple 11. I t was a
Ac or n b a d g e e n g i n e e r e &
version for the BBC micro Mi r
ONTHEBIGTIME sort of glorified Joystick with a
control on the shaft that you can
second processor. The softwat
was al r eady excellent ( on M
twist t o c h a n g e t h e t h i r d Apple).
t I t j ust got a whol e k t
dimension.
better.
o
n O .
Critics c l a s pe d i t t o t he i r
collective bosom_ Problem was, You g e t s i x t e e n ' c ol oun
like all Apple gear, it was a little (actually
th grey scaling) on Moe
expensive ,1. and
,
the most amazing cur se
we've ever seen. Most systems a r
"anything near the 'prolessionau
level suppor t RUBBER BANC
M G. the ability to fix an o r i e
e
and
l use the cursor to define tha
endpoi
. nt of a line — but mai '
a
s ystems onl y l e t y ou r ubbed.
,band a L I N E ! Bi tsti ck
c
r ubber band t a nge nt cur ves'
circles y o u name it!
At the Acor n l aunch demon Pr
Oration, w e w e r e s how n , t h
picture of an ocean liner. Usin!S
Bilstick. we then z oomed in arse
the prow — where we could remsy
the s hi p' s na m e . T h e n • API
zoomed into the porthole next 113
the name, revealing a cabin wit'
some cups and a stamp si tti l c
 THINGS TH A T PLUG I N I N THE
N IG H T a r e usually called
'Peripherals'. That' s w hy w e call 'em
'widgets'. A N D Y G R EEN and TO N Y
TYLER investigate the new est crop o f
hopeful bolt-ons.

promisincimproved by about 50%.

ocessors to! T h e s e c o n d p r o c e s s o r
ime n o
rrived.
w. c o m p a r e d wi t h 2 Mh z i n t h e
II l lr c
yo(the 6 5 0 2 Co mmo d o r e 6 4 ) a n d 6 4 K o f
n t wit t mernory . Not e that 16K of that
a 280
b
a imegaen• n 64K i s ' nic k ed' t o h o l d t h e
e
sinterestirq BASIC interpreter, but you still
iachine,
ta bulget left wit h 44Kof memory t o
h while untittise, even in mode 2.
f
;r on that. A l l i s n o t Ro s y i n Ac orn' s
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t and time. OSBYTE and ° S WO RDS calls
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0remely fast. hardly a n y g a me s s o f t wa r e
.Desc all
ia t t heT meets this c rit erion --- t hey all
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will work processor and do a hard reset,
n as R t h e though, t o us e t h e programs THIS DISC JUST SLIPPED I N
tY
h r T the
zin be wo r k i n
h
ztext
H d i
,o r mIone j T h e 6502 version will set you WHILE 'UNCLE C l i ve pursued his own solution to the problem o f mass-
i r e Ga l l y .
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j storage l e ss co stl y th a n th e original co mp u te r, e n te rp ri si n g fo l k e l se -
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b a c k where (actually Macronics Systems) gritted th e i r teeth and settled fo r an
frf
m orthodox d i sc drive. N o w it's arrived.
l. o9 9 , 0 It's heavy and solid, black, and comes in two pieces — the interface box
a
0
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nmakers a l on a table, We then zoomed into and t h e a ctu a l d r i v e u n i t, w i th t h e u su a l co n g e r-e e l o f ri b b o n ca b l e
—
ide ght out an the stamp , and so on. connecting th e tw o . D ri ve mechanism i s a Sh u g a rt SA200 w h i ch o rg a -
A
gglx ee ere d
G micro with F l a t b e d nises your data into 39 2816-byte tracks and 1 d i re cto ry track. Starting-up
K t
.hr software The system can be made very automatically boots the operating fi rmw a re into the top end of RAM, and
1 (on the accurate — more than enough
aawhole l ot reserves space fo r buffers and reserved variables.
ps
for dr aughtmanshi p u s e Access t o d a ta i s enabled b y u se o f th e L E T c o m m a n d a n d th e F$
0,01mm, though you would need
pp'colours the flatbed plotter opti on — at reserved variable (e.g. L E T F$ ="fi l e n a me "). Fi l e n a me s ca n b e u p to 6
e)eon Mode the moment it will only print out characters long.
ning on the Acorn sparkjet. By using Now for the shaming confession. We h a ve n 't — so far g o t our heads
e cursor an overlay of variable spaced
systems at
sd
ofessional dots (which can be 'transpar- down w i th regard to this one, ( We could h a ve cobbled to g e th e r so me -
t .R BAND- ently' laid out at any angle) the thing but it wouldn't have done the widget justice). So a full review of
oYan origin whole system can be made very what promises to be a highly promising p ro d u ct in n e xt mo n th 's BIG K.
kdefine
o the accurate, since the cursor will
'latch onto' the nearest dot. But we thought you'd like to know about it all the same. — T.T.
nubut most There's more: a graphical disc
u r ubber
oSick c a n directory, object scaling, shear-
wI cur ves, ing. filling (the fastest colourful
tit! I've ever seen) I f you've ever
considered using a computer tor
hh demon- professional gr aphi cs g o s e e
ashown a this system. You've lot to have a
tner. Using BBC B, dual disc drives, 6502
med in on second processor, the Bit:slick
could read system and a sparkiet printer or
Then w e Molter touse the Bitstick — you
ole next to should be able to gala complete
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insantiy — of m e
the
bolt-ons
cabin with set up for under £2000. Some
There's nOthing sets our pulses tingling here at 131G K s o Much
mp sitting comfort, — A.G.
as a really Terrif Periph, The ingeniousness, the variety
riotous inventiveness — the builtshe e l s e awidget, gizmo, peripheral,
leaves us aflame with admiration.
If you've heard of — or
n a rk ot 8 ware fororallanything
attachment, enhancer we care)else
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YES, we know the thing isn't strictly c CO MP UI E R COIsICEPI.S, t D I %
our province, but the widget is so h people Who are responsible al newt or l ' I e l l i i S
Wordwise, the BBC wordproces- a l l I a n c l . • •
scrumptious, so absurdly wonderful t SOT,h ra e
v el e a s e d sever w
(and we like ours so much) that if we l programs o v e r t h e p a s t f e
didn't get it in somewhere we'd have a months, but their most uset ul isthe a
new PROM c alled Disc Doc t or
to give it back! And that would never t Like Wordvose, I t fi t s int o
do. stcleWays ROM area ot t he BBC
micro and its var ious C o commands
o r n
So f o r the discerning tape pir- are called up by use f the -
ate who operates from the back of a Mand Line Interpreter Idle ' furic •
Tranny and yet yearns to keep his lion in BASIC). Unlike Wordwise.
however. the 'HELP d ing
o a lis
command t t is
correspondence tidy, we present the fully s uppor t e. giv e r s t a
Brother EP-44 electronic typewriter. keywor ds the PROM u n d n d s
and the syntax does. of each, i.lst like
Also th e Brother EP-44 computer the OF S
printer. All in the same package. I h e reason that l'iriv,iriting this
1-lEX and A S O of what s on the
Typewriter-wise, it's a dream. Al- review is that I'M currently writ-
a spe m
tng c i a l Compiling system - disc at t hat point . 'iou can edit the
legedly dot-matrix, it produces su- called GJItion. A bug in the co data 'in ASCIl Ithe A S O code of
the c harac t er y ou t y pe o n t he
perior letter-quality type on thermal piler l l guess we' re all hurnan) the
keyboard is used), I-lex, Dec imal
vvrotes someit u f f s to cd over the
or ordinary paper, with a whispering catalogue t rac k . rendenng hope and Binary, I his Is neat, easy to
use and well thought able out
to work out
quiet th at puts even Epsons t o disc useless There was no
I was quic k
. but %Neill Don't l f ecallreading e
shame. You can type either directly about a new
PROM
? .,.
a d
that
l the catalogue
q
onto paper, or phrase-by-phrase Eventually l f ound t he CC been
y o corrupted,
n and t —
to rectify he error
u .
quickly
t h — e e v
store-and-print, o r you can create and rushed to t-Orld011t0 buy one.
a had I
ner o en taster
\Athen ; returned. on l discovered to d i s been
text (up to 4000 characters) directly OW horror thatDoctor n
would've
been the o w f o a Disc
pa l User's
Disc d 0 c ommandsF S I c
Guide. but I refuse t y l Acorn's
into memory, printing th e whol e ebased o f h a -
t worked
h e on the non-standar v
thing out later. And yes, the mem- d prices o f which, Disc
lalk ing on -Doctor
s omeis
dwas i usIngl
s c NNorst
- of all, the DFS
ory is non-volatile. vvas advertised tend I quote) as also - - in my opini t h e pro
what overpriced at 130 .The 2164i
You can also use the EP-44 as a -compatible wit y hoall uexisting BBC
etoo, LVLI
V
IkO
EPROM used to contain -
printer via its RS232 interface port, Gibbering, l rus hed ov er t o a gram costallless t hat f 4 each nof
and as a communications terminal. friend's house and swapped the
sof tware''ill s e d the
even s m q u a n tManuit ies , o
andu lMed
OFS A t lastil I frenziedly checked packaging and a l . bot h
It costs around E240. lets y ou whic h a r e q u i t e good, c
through the manual and u
OZAP c ommand. This hardly c os t 1 2 a t ime, leav ing
scroll up and down a 'vvindoiti on about 3/4 of Me pric e as overall
the screen in steps of 1 byte, 6 profit.
(2 ) bytes, a sector at a time Of a track
at a time•Thevvindow displaysthe
 HELP
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Just answer as many of the ques tions below as you can by tic k ing the boxes, then send the
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1 D o you personally own a c omput er? 8 . Fo r whic h of the f ollowing would you like to see more features,
(10) p r o g r a m lis t ings etc. in Big K? You may tick more t han one.
Yes 0 1 (23)
No . I use s omeone else's at home 0 2 Spec t rum/ D(81 D 1
No — I use one s omewhere else o 3 Commodore 6 4 / V i c - 2 0 0 2
No D 4 BBC 'B', / Electron 0 1
Atari 0 4
2_ I f you, personally, do not own a computer, are you planning to Dragon 32 0 5
buyo n e ? Oric / At mos 0 6
(11) Other (WRI TE I N)
Yes O 1 1 2 4 )
No O 2

9 I n f ut ure issues of Big K. whic h of the f ollowing would you like to

3. When you buy a c omput er game, what do you go for? Write in 1 see?
for first, 2 f or second. 3 f or t hird, etc. (25)
Good * t i m e (12) More program listings in BASI C 1
Good graphics (13) Less program lis t ings in BASI C 2
Smoot h mac hine code programming (14) 3
Lots of c olour; sound Program listings in ot her languages
(15) Ut ilit y programs 4
(16)

4. About how much money per month, on average, do you spend 10, Whi ch other computer magazines, i f any, do you ever buy?
on software? (26)
(17) Comput er and Video Games 1
Less than E5 0 1 Personal Co mp u t e r Games O 2
Between f '5 and f 10 L i 2 Games Comput ing L i 3
More than £10 0 3 Your Comput er 4
Personal Comput er World 5
5, Whi ch of the following, if any, do you understand? Personal Comput er News 0 6
(18) Other (WRI TE I N)
BASIC 1 (27)
Another high level language 2
Assembly language L i 3
No c omput er language L i 4 11. Wh e n y ou open c omput er magaz ine such as BIG K. whic h of
3 the f ollowing do y ou t urn t o fi r5t?
(28)
6. If you had a sudden windfall of 1'200 to spend on computer Program listings 0 1
equipment, whic h of the f ollowing would you buy? Tick one only. Technical features 2
la) (19) General interest features O 3
to The best mic ro you c ould af f ord 0 1 Sof t ware rev iews o 4
A disc drive f or y our existing mic ro 0 2 Other (WRI TE I N)
A print er D 3 ( 2 9 )
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 HE W R O T E ONE.
HEAVEN, FOR many con-
noisseurs of the cathode ray,
will consist o f an eternity
spent in a darkened room
staring at a VDU of hideous
complexity. Throw in a real-
time Panic Situation, load
the shoulders of the screen-
gazer w i t h a w e s o m e
responsibility — and you
have a vision of paradise
devoutly to be wished. By
some.
Certainly Mike Male enjoys his
work. His full-time, 'real' work,
that is. As an Air Traffic Control-
ler a t London's Heathrow air-
port, he is one of the geezers
whose "Roger Delta Bravo hold
flight level one-zero-niner and
turn left on to heading two-fiver-
sixer" — type patter keeps the
airways over southern Britain
relatively free of falling aviation
debris.
The games he writes in his
'spare' time, mind you suffer no
such inhibitions.
Male is 29, looks like long-lost
pop star Dave Clark (of the Five),
and has been an ATC for ten
years. "I wanted to be an airline
'I don't go in for tiltin g
horizons. I'd rather have
g o o d daylight graphics.
But the mo st imp o rta n t
thing is instruments.
pilot, really," he says, with barely
a trace of gloom. And as such he
trained, only to fail the course at
a late stage.
Flying, however, is one of
those occupations that holds
you for life. Male flies a great
deal in his spare time; works as
an ATC; and is shortly to pur-
chase his own aircraftAre ATCs
paid that much, then? No. The
cash for the plane has come from
the proceeds of the computer
flight simulations Ma le has
written over the last two years
for Hewson Consultants: namely
Pilot (fo r ZX 8 1 ), Ni ghtfl i te
(Spectrum and BBC), Nightffite
2 (ditto) and now, natch, Heath-
row Air Traffic Controller.
Male started on the ZX81 and
wrote Pilot in BASIC — which
now appears to fill him with
embarrassment. He made the
inevitable simultaneous pro-
gression to Spectrum and ZBO
Assembler; started from scratch
again with the original Night-
flite; and has now recently dis-
covered the Acorn BBC machine,
which has — needless to say —
an airspeed indicator — digital
readouts are OK, especially as
constructing a workable and
readible d i a l i s v i r tua l l y
impossible."
The other main flaw (accord-
ing to Male) in most flight sim-
ulator programs is the difficulty
of building convincing daylight
graphics — "this is the thing I
want to do most o f all. The
Microsoft program" (for IBM PC)
absolutely hate
Adventures. An d I've
never had a mb itio n to
writ e anything like an
arcade game. Flying's my
thing.
"is the best I've seen in this
regard."
Has he ever wanted to try his
hand at other genres of com-
puter games?
"I can't STAND adventures —
THISMIKE IS
just not my sort of thing; and
I've never wa nte d t o write
arcade games." They're not his
sort of thing either. In fact,
ALLMALE
except in one respect — his tan-
gible success — Male doesn't
really conform to the rapidly-
growing stereotype. No glasses.
No zits. No manic unsociability.
He's just a guy who loves flying
and aeroplanes and knows a
HightSimulation great deal about them; and who
has put all of what he knows —
writinghas its own well, nearly all— into a progres-
problemsand sion of specialist "games" of
very high quality. And with the
specialities.MIKE ever increasing popularity of
MALE,Air Traffic flying simulators — one newie
per fortnight is our estimate —
Controller,brings you can see how a bloke on a
experience to the civil service pay grade can now
afford to buy his own plane.
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If you've got the blood of the
O Red Baron in your veins and
reckon you can handle this
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revolutionised his program- real flight — the player feels he most demanding o f pro-
ming. Upwards.
Y
What, in his view are the opti-
has had a realistic experience." gramming skills i f your
Male tends to reject the clas- horizons tilt and your instru-
T
mum requirements for a suc- sic programming conundrum of ments work i f you know
cessful fl ight simulator — a the Tilting Horizon ("it never
the difference between an
Y
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gressing sub-genre of computer centrates on atmospheric views
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"game"? ("enough objects on the ground sandwich i f your name
to enable pilot orientation") and happens to be Biggles i f
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real piloting — is the artificial
gram so that when the natural — FOR ANY MICRO. SEND 'EM
horizon; without this you can't
climax is reached — which is do any instrument flying at all. IN. SOONEST. WE PAY. OVER
always the landing, as it is for You also need an altimeter and AND OUT.
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THE DI MI NUTI VE Ct •Bert 's t ri- A s you might imagine the pyr-
angular s t omping ground is the a m i d s o o n b e c o me s mi g h t y
lat es t l o c a l e f o r AUt OMatYe a' S cBr o yw d eway
ubiquitous hero, the
the lit t le horror is busy causing
t rouble f or t he hapless Bert as
he h o p s me r r i l y about . c are-
lessly c olouring the great Pyra-
mid of Pi.
The gameplay is, o f course,
pretty familiar stuff. However, it's
set apart f rom ot her Spec t rum
CI •Bert c lones by s o me t r u l y
s plendid graphics. Bert has been
skilfully drawn and his army of
as s ailant s a r e s mo o t h l y a n i -
mated. Alongs ide Pi-nose y ou'll
have to contend wit h the Bounc-
ing Ball brothers, Sid the snake
and Jas and Col (the authors?).
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M a k e r : AUTOMATA UK LTD P r i c e : S.D8 00
M a c h i n e : S P E CTRUM 4 8 K R a t i n g : K K
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TURBO BREAKOUT
THOSE WHO'VE considered
Atari's Super Br eakout the last
w or d i n . bat a nd bal l games
woul d do well to check out this
visually striking variation
Starpath. The massive memory
of t he Ster path Super char ger
has enabled a number of artistic
changes to be made. The humble
bathes been transformed into a
hi r es juggler and his balls (sic)
are now red hot.
Like other Br eakouts there's
room for 1 to 4 players (no big
deal there) but here you're given
five n e a t g a m e v a r i a t i ons
,including t he frantic Ca s c a de
which features no fewer than
five cavities, each with their own
eager -to-escape ball, a nd the
frustratingly difficult Mi gr ati ng
Bl ocks whi ch boast a ridicu-
lously effici ent sel f-r epai r i ng
wall. Whe n y ou mi ss a bal l ,
d . of a breat her you can
in-
hop Bert ont o one o
Ring discs whic h'il return him to
the peak of t he py ramid. This
provides t he mos t spectacular
graphic routine in the game. Bert
s pins , i n f u l l p e r s p e c t i v e ,
maiestically t hrough the air. It's
genuinely impressive. At the end
of each bash y ou're giv en y our
score ov er a drink in t he Aut o
-mata bar, a nice fi nishing touch.
Writ t en i n mac hine c ode (unu-
sual f o r Aut omat a) t h e g a me
of f ers q u a l i t y a r c a d e t hrills .
Hardly original, I k now, but cer-
tainly entertaining, —
m a t : cassette
which is quite frequent consid-
ering you can have up to seven
onscreen a t t he same time, a
l ong pur pl e cr ook snakes on
from stage left and drags your
man off by the throat,
It's all very nicely done. How-
ever, m y curvy Br e a k out con-
noisseur reckons that despite all
these visual niceties the games
r emai n pr e t t y easy-peasy as
there's no variation of ball speed.
An astute obser vati on I think.
Even so the smart audio visuals
and competi ti ve pr i ce m a k e
Fi r ebal l a notabl e entry in the
fave old game stakes. —
Game: FIREBALL
Ma k e r : Starpath Corp.
Ma c hi ne : Ata r i VCS w i t h
Starpath Supercharger
For m a t: Cassette
Price: £9.95
Ba ti ng: KK
DAWSON? SELL!
INTERESTING ATTEMPT to style a board game for the Spectrum.
In Ci ty you get to chomp on a stogie and play property developer
with land hungry for urban decay.
Starting wi th a bank balance of some E200,000 you must
develop a city (what else?) and try and make a million. This isn't
too easy as the computer quickly assumes the guise of a rival
company and callously attempts to sabotage your constructions.
It's a deceptively complex game_ You can erect a variety of
buildings such as banks, shops and factories all of which effect
the relative values of each other. This necessitates much stra-
tegic planning. Prinstance the property value of your spanking
new apartment block can be severly shaken should your cunning
opponent build a smelly ol d pub directly opposite_ Deci dedl y
snobby don't you think?
Each months rents are calculated, overdrafts totalled and pro-
fits assessed Ther e's provision for up to 4 players a nd a jail
routine for the mor e shady developers. I've always found the
desire for micro board games somewhat curious but this attempt
works surprisingly well. The game is both original and demand-
ing. I wonder if they'll do a boar d version... — S.K.
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UNEXCITING 'graphic adven-
ture' (I'm growing slowly to hate
that term) set upon the crudely
etched planet of Zyro. Appar-
ently one of your patrolling
survey ships has been downed
by a mysterious salvo of alien
laser fire, Miraculously, though,
an android has survived this
attack, and he now stands amid
the wreckage of the craft await-
ing further instructions.
With what transpires to be a
particularly limited vocabulary
you must try and guide the little
tin man about the surface of the
planet and attempt to solve the si "'
riddle of the hostile blast. ,
The subsequent action (I use
17
the term loosely) is then enacted
display
, 7 S.K.barely warrants a men.
across a static map with your hon.—
android artfully represented as a
4
white punctuation mark. Just Game:
nudge your marker around the E k e r :SPACE
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ISLAND
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Yawnsville dad. . c hi ne : 48K ZX
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I suppose it was inevitable The Electron is a new micro on the scene
lectrum. and so a ripe new market for all the familiar game themes that have
tveloper already saturated the older and more established machines,

F' That said, Kamikaze is an early entry in the 'Galaxian clone' area

Js
ni must for the Electron. The space scenario has been replaced by a more
his isn't 'down to Earth' setting, Shapes approximating planes and helicop-
if a rival ters dive at a seagoing fi ring base. Other than that, play is virtually
ictions. identical to Gaiaxian.

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:h effect speeds. Graphics are average and sound is poor. It must be the first
0
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panking P Control is adequate wit h two choices of keyboard layout (oh fora
cunning
nidedly
ame: c r r y
J joystick option on the Electron!). Instructions are sparse but there is
a good high score table that rates you from Novice to 'Superman'.
An OK game for the arcade freaks but I'm sure there is better to
come. — R .8.
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6' Hmm, THI S i s interesting. a n
emasculated slice of vice for out-
card trick. The game's a doddl e
to play and the visuals are quite
Nurse
the
of-pocket gamblers. Or, t o be neat, w i t h t he 'puter speedily
more precise, a l ow key double unvei l i ng y our ha nd a s y ou
bill featuring that indefatigable
old pub dog, the fruit machine
bravely twi st. Unfor tunatel y,
though, there's no option to alter
Screens!
and a v e the stakes. A l op wager is man-
game,
r Blackjack. datory — not much hel p for us A FANTASTIC drold voyage,, no less! In this new offering from
The
s i on former boasts all the fea- str ategi c pl ayer s. Not that i t Softek you become a miniscule brain surgeon incarcerated within
tures
o f you'd expect from a qual- woul d have made much differ- the bug-ridden bonce of a not-so-super-robot. These bugs are
ity Fruit such as nudge, hold and ence anyway as I'm sure the deck busy sabotaging the poor o r droid by ripping up his plumbing.
t h
gamble but it's cursed wi th a was rigged. Those smarmy 'You As resident micro surgeon you must skate around the 12 sectors
e
cluttered scr een l a y out a nd of the damaged droid and clean up the mess.
Bust!' pr ocl amati ons wer e far
s a men- p o poor animation. Those al l-
some too frequent to be kosher. Still I You'll need to repel the bugs with your stun balls and repair
p u
importa It reels refuse to scroll guess it's cheaper than a Grey- the dripping pipes before cumulative damage causes the poor
l a w ra
the hound to Vegas... — S.K. old thing to collapse into an undignified pile of nuts and bolts.
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merely
y c ha nge i n fl i cker i ng Then, if you get the damage level down to around 12%. you're
sequence.
ra e e It's far t oo cr ude a Ga me • LAS VEGAS transported to another dodgy robot. Some reward, huh?
display to really satiate the dis- M a k e r : TEMPTATION The concept behind Microbot is refreshingly novel; unfortu-
lr s
cerning punter. SOFTWARE nately it's rather shafted by some sluggish gameplay. Your little
d h
s
The Bl ackj ack pr ogr a m i s M a c h i n e : S P E CTRUM 4 8 K micro surgeon can only trundle about in first gear and conse-
o u F o rma t : cassette
marginally more interesting. As quently the ensuing bug-battles are somewhat unexciting. A
l d Pontoon (or 21), the idea is
with P ric e : .S5.95 shame. Still the graphics are very good indeed and there's a
. break the bank wi th a five
to Ra ti ng: K wonderful selection of bugs to avoid. —
T Ga me : m i c n o m y r F o r m a t : cassette
h Ma k e r : S a rrE K P r i c e : £5.95
e M a c h i n e : S P E CTRUM 4 8 K R a t i n g : K K
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CASTLE
HASSLE
Uninspiring t ex t adventure t hat
dares you t o venture int o a dark
old castle in search of the legend-
ary Staff of Gomora. The program
boasts 120 locations but whether
you'll feel inclined to visit them all
after y our init ial tentative steps
across the drawbridge is another
matter. I mean, there are so many
faults wit h t his t hat it almos t
becomes depressing listing them.
A text adventure stands or falls by
its literacy. Locations s hould be
clearly described and messages
interesting. A f t e r a l l t h e mo r e
evocative the text the more enjoy.
able t h e adv ent ure's lik ely t o
become. Unfortunately 'Location:
An allure i s not my idea of an
elaborate des c ript ion, but it 's
typical of Castle Adventure. Not
only is the text brief but it s pep-
pered with meaningless arch itec-
I.
tural jargon. I mean, what ' s an
Allure f or Gocrs sake? (Sounds
like a loose woman.) Even worse,
you a r e unable t o ac t i n a n y
satisfactory way wit hin t he pro-
1 gram. Try s omet hing interesting
and y o u ' l l g e t t h e inev it able
response ' E h ! Wh a t ? Pardon?'
Highly e n t e r t a i n i n g . S u d d e n
death also abounds. For noappar-
ent reas on y o u ' l l t r i p ov er a
cassette recorder and break your
neck. What is a cassette recorder
doing in a gothic adventure? Why
are you given no indication of its
presence? Th e wh o l e t hing i s
exceptionally tedious. This is one
quest mos t defi nit ely not wort h
girding your loins for. An Allure!
Pshaw. —
Game: CASTLE
A DV E M I M E
Ma k e r: VIRGIN GAMES
Ma ch in e : DRAGON 32
Fo rma t : cassette
P rice : ,f76.95
t i n g : none
or
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Hackers Against the Bomb
Interesting
guise strategy
of a bomb game offi
disposal that hasAs
cer. you
is donning
your luckthe s omewhat
y ou'v perilous
e been called to m
defuse one of those old wa r t i me devices t hat are dug up wit h such
alarming reg ularity. Even wors e it's not one that yo u've seen before and
so you'll require all your skill and ingenuity to defuse it. Hairy stuff! J ustil
choose the correct it ems f rom y our t oolk it and dec ide what course to •
take. The program enables y ou t o v iew t he unex ploded device f rom
three angles before choosing f rom a menu of actions. Will you lift the
bomb upright wi t h t h e hy draulic jac k o r c lout i t wi t h t he c opper
hammer? Nerves of steel are a necessity. Should you manage to make
any headway at all a help rout ine bec omes av ailable t o guide you 11
t hrough t he trickiest moment s . I mos t c ert ainly will not be taking up •
bomb disposal work f ull t ime. Almos t every move I made resulted in a
loud raspberry whic h rat her s y mbolic ally denoted my premat ure end.
St ill for those of a met hodic al (not to ment ion suicida I) nature this mig ht
well provide amus ement . —
Game: UXE
Ma k e r: V IRGIN GAMES
Ma ch in e : DRAGON 32
Fo rma t : cassette
P rice : oi;6,95
E a tin g : RIC
Yet another winner from the daz•
zling digit s of Ken Kalis h, who
almost s inglehandedly has ele-
vated the standard of Dragonsoft-
ware to arcade stature. This latest
release features all of his usual
trademarks — exceptional hi-res
graphics, ex c it ing s o u n d and
invigorating gameplay.
There are three screens to sur-
vive. Th e fi rs t f eat ures manic
vampire batswhodrop bombs and
divide int o t wo if hit by your laser!
fire. Knock one of these smaller -
bats out and its t win wi l l come
screaming down to ram you. It's
rat her l i k e a t u r b o - c h a r g e d
Demon Attack only less forgiving.
Clear t wo screens of these and
you'll be rewarded wit h a robot
attack! L i t t l e t in-plat ed terrors1
Perhaps one of the more curious game adaptations for the home micro is stomp d o wn t h e c ent re o f t h&
that of Pool. Decidedly non-violent wit h nary an alien t o be seen, t his screen disgorging death and des-
pot-bellied perennial works surprisingly well. The pace is relaxed, lightning truction a t ev ery t urn.
reflexes are most defi nitely unnecessary, and the skill level pleasantly There aref lye skill levelstoplaw!
high. The rules are also refreshingly simple. Just pot all your colours and Should you be foolhardy enough •
sink the eight ball before your opponent Incidentally you will actuallyhave to risk the upper levels there's a!
to collar an opponent as thisPool has nocomputer player option.The actual fair chance t hat y ou'll meet old; •
game is cleverly simulated. Once you've selected the angle of your shot Nick h imself (hence the title). Trusi
using the joystick, acue ball is displayed at the top of the screen along witha to f orm he'll wreak havoc wit h A
power-bar indicator. This enables you to select not onlythe strength of your brimstone bombardment t hafi ll
strike, but the amount of spin that you want to put on the ball. Master this rip u p your starbase somethingl .
and you're well on your way to becoming a top hustler.
rotten Dev ilAs s ault is a feast of A
Although visually less exciting than some of the versions around for the game fo r those wit h a n itchy
Spectrum t his f eat ures convincing s ound effects a n d s uper s moot h trigger-fi nger. It's superbly exe-
movement. My only real gripe is wit h its failure to display a score during cuted and breathtakingly smooth
play. Most of the usual Pool rules apply and I dare say regular players will — S,K,
find this a welc ome supplement to their usual fix. — S.K.
Game: DEVIL ASSAULT
Game. EIGHT B A I L Ma k e r: MICRODEAL
Ma k e r : MI CROD FAL Ma ch in e : DRAGON 32
Ma ch in e : DRAGON 32 Fo rma t : cassette
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en called to An ndyGreen ANOVEL twist on the familiar As-
wit h such SteyveKeaton teroidsthemewhere in your trusty
before and spaceshipsuffers a radical refitand
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y marine.This is just as well as the
evice f rom I
you lift the l scenariohaschangedfrom outer to
the c opper innerspaceandthose hurtling aster-
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guide y ou r sumingvirus, intenton infesting the
taking up heartofyourbelovedVCS.Definitely
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oddsare againstyou,Theenemyis
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after their initial cr op of certified stinkers D t Fr anky seems
prettydamntough. hit themainviral
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c positively glowing. Mar ti n Wheeler's game manages to remind colonyand it'll divide into asub-col-
r you of several arcade prototypes without drawing too-closely on ony,strikeagainand it'll shrinkdown
T any one. into a creeping crawling amoebic
H
E The task is to manoeuvre the inane, bespectacled doe through sliver.Ugh. The graphics are very
- various dungeons (nine screens in all), each abrim wi th grim- good indeed, with the globular
u faced ghouls who obliterate him on touch. He can also be topped amoebasbeing convincingly de-
s by falling brick walls or run down by what looks like a miner's picted,and the sound,while mod-
t
t
caboose but if he manages to pocket the white phial on the top estlyused,is quite effective.There's
left of each screen and get it to his dozing monster he can move Sounds very scientific. But, lik e
a
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on to the next stage. no'hyperspace' facility (or equiva- Ocean's r a t h e r mo r e play able
t A simple three-key control lets him gol eft right or jump — and lent) but you'reblessed with a very Trans version, t h i s s wipes t h e
since every screen is a maze of potholes and trapdoors our man handytrio ofshieldsand two shoot- design idea o f Gridrunner a n d
often goes on a kind of ingenuous hopscotch. The monsters are ingstyles. adds different mechanics.
pretty smart, though, and the 'magic hammers whi ch dot the Puristsmaywellblanch,but) rather I gnoring t h e l o w- b u d g e t
screens are seldom of any use. Sparse sound and detailed, i f preferthis'medical'Asteroids to the Moorc oc k -s t y le s y nops is t h a t
adorns o n e o f Hews on's us ual
rather familiar, graphics m a k e official Atari conversion.There'sno
counterpart) an amusing if unremarkable proposition. — R. C. awf ul packages, y o u r fi n g e r s
- garish colours t o contend
Game
t h i s DRs c FRANK
i e n tYi&fiTHE control a s mall f ellow wh o zips
m the daz- c Parmat: cassette with j u s t veryheavyaction.Neat over a variety of patterned grids
dish, wh o MONSTER
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Maker: collecting crystals and (you hope)
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Ib you. It's score off, and the whole game —
f ait hf ul can of spinach whic h he
-charged
s can c h o mp a n d g a m s ev eral playable really only wit h a joys-
forgiving. "Well b l o w m e d o wn , Oliv e.
a s ec onds o f B l u t o • s o c k i n g tick — is very difficult, of f ering
hese and What kind of a mesh has I got s r M a k e r : PARKER power, plus a f e w ot her tricks little incentive t o bec ome more
n
h a robot mesell i n t a t h i s t i me ? " Th e 'GM a c h i n e : COLECOVISION
up his sleeve. expert.
d t errors answer, Popey e, o l d c art oon I NTE L L I V I S I O N
a The wh o l e game takes plac e Addictive i n a pointless way.
re of t he chum, i s a pret t y neat v ideo Format:
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r Price: 1;34.50 each over three different, beaut if ully Piffl ing sound and a hall of fame
and des- game, bas ed o n a h i t arade are minor extras. - - A . C.
aBating: KKK( No w also out rendered scteens and has more
game.
features than you could shake a
flstoplay. Those of us wit h long enough Iefo r Philips Vicleopac system, Game: DurrEmm LIFT
me mo r i e s c a n r e m e m b e r : 34.50) Goon at and whic h make it very
y enough ,P addictive. Ma k e r: EMWSON
there's a "Popey e" as one o f t he bes t CONSULTANTS
Of the t wo versions Out f rom
meet old animated cartoon s hows on TV O b o t t o m H e does t h i s b y Machine: SPECTRUM
the Parker so tar, t he Colec ollis ion
itle). True (and I ' m t alk ing about t he TV racP ing a l o n g p l a t f o r m s a t edit ion c o me s c los es t t o t h e rorznak oassette
cc wit h a showings of the original 1940's E P ri a m 617.95
various lev els , c o n n e c t e d b y arcade o r i g i n a l B l u r ° , e s p e -
nt t hat ' ll cartoons, not the banal modern stairs, ladders. etc. Pat in * K
Y cially, i s ex c ellent ly c harac t e-
)mething dross t hat s t ill appears). Th a t EBlut o (t he s t upid ins t ruc t ion
feast of a rised Colec o' s s ound system is
quality o f a n i ma t i o n w a s a manual insists o n c alling h i m mot e than up to the task of belt-
an it c hy feature of the arcatle game and, 'Brut us ') c o n s t a n t l y c h a s e s ing Out - r=.m w " r
rbly ex e- thankfully has not lost muc h in after Popey e t r y i n g t o k noc k , :rminn
(smooth. IM' amn " whenev er our one-ey ed ...
translation t o t he v ideo game him o f f the plat f orms int o t he 1 .
medium hero
P o downs p a can o f spinach, n to w 7 1 7 0 n 1 1 1 6 , 1 1 r m
sea. The Sea Hag appears occa- Intellivision owners wo n ' t be 1
The game has Kong-like over- sionally t o h u r l bot t les wh i c h e g , y4 *
ILT dis appoint ed wit h t heir version % r a
tones in that Olive, at the top of Popeye has t o punc h Out of the y e
either. I t ' s c o l o u r f u l a n d f as t
g- m n im••7
n k htnva: i rr :d: i r e • n
the screen, is t h r o wi n g d o wn way or be k noc k ed of f his feet. t(would h be more if not f or those au 1
hearts, notes and cries f or H-E - Vultures have to be t ac k led in a e
not orious c ont rol discs).
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Automata'sunloveable Pi-Man
- stumblesdown a high street full of
BRASS 1
trafficandinto asmanypubsasyou
candirecthim,wherehehasto man-
MONKEY oeuvrebetween pool players,crisp
TIME t packetsand other drinkers in order
to slurpdownall the pintsonthe bar
Game: EsiamoiEDDIE
(actuallytheydisappearwithaping).
Thenhe totters fromthesaloonback
ofway but the precept of thegame
Ma k e r : OCEAN
m 48K
Ma c h i n e : SPECTRUM
onthe streetanddoes it all again.
Andagain.This isapub crawl with-
is(according to taste) either perni-
For m a t : rassetta outend. ciousormerelycoy. It certainly isn't
Pr i ce: £5. 90 m muchfun to playandis ratherunres-
Rat i ng: K Youstart off with1000pointsand ponsiveonthe keyboard.—
i theseare removed —penalties for
barginginto othersoaks,stepping in
Game: PITYED
Ma ke r: AUTOMATA
barslopsetc until you'redown to
Spectrum programmesn
Ocean are particularly good at honing arcade originals to polished Ma ch in e ' SPECTRUM 48K
— their Kong and Hunchback are about the zero,when you're told how many Format: cassette
best of their type — and Eskimo Eddie is a skilful metamorphosis of jarsPi•Manhasmanagedtoconsume, Pr i ce: S,,6 00
i
Pengo int o a playable small-scale version.
It's wellanimatedinamodestsort Ra t i ng: K
There's a kind of 'preliminary run' to pass t hrough before the
main part of the game: you , send Eddie past ice floes and polar bears
to pick up t he penguin, a rescue whic h has to be effected three
(Imes before moving to the game proper
. This is actually a dubious bonus, f or it's tedious le have to go
through this unexciting stage each time a life is lost. But the bears
at least are beautifully animated.
As for the rest, it is to my mind based on a singularly obtuse and
brainless original — for some reason Eskimo Eddie's rather shape-
less monsters always seem especially bland — and a glossy layout
merely masks action whic h is smooth but eventually uninyolving.
A perky us e of t he c omput er's limit ed s ound and a general
attention to detail hallmark the craftsmanship by which Ocean has
commendably stuck by, and it must be admitted that this is the best
Pengo version around. — A
C.

ENTER THE CATACOMBS

HUNT THE TREASURE •
AVOID THE TRAPS •
DemBones
WATCH OUT
FOR SKULL! DemBones
Just goes to show that there's still life in
anold idea treated right. Skull's yourbasic
3Dmazegamebut gussiedup with a whole
lot of glossy touches that make it more
than halfway decent.
Gameobject is to negotiate an infinite-
levelmaze collecting treasure without los-
ing lives.,so racking up the highest score
possible. Out to stop you doing this are all
manner of hazards; pitfalls, trapdoors,
portcullises and, of course, skulls.
These giant, creepy effigies (rendered
in superb hi-res graphics) lurk round car
netsand will suddenlyappearin yourpath.
If you hold one or more crosses the skulls
will have gems set in theireye socketand
youcan obtain these byploughing through
the skull. But beware the skull with the
empty eyes confronting it will bring
yourquest to a swift and bloodyend.
What sets Skull head and shoulders
above other3Dmazes is the attention to
detailGamesMachine have lavished on
the game. Like the plan view of the whole
maze that appearsonscreen at the start of
eachgame, showing where the treasure
liesandthe skulls lurk, only to frustratingly
disintegrate before youreyes after a few
seconds. It canbe called backagain at any
time but will cost you25 points.
Othernoteworthy featuresinclude save
andload facilities, printing out of screen
imagesandaunique option to 'merge' high
store tables,
Graphically Skull is very slick. 100%
machine code.Randommaze generation.
Stunning screen wipes. The whole pre-
sentation smacksof professionalism. (Other
software housesplease note.)
Avery credible first effort fromGames
Machineand hopefullyamark of the stand.
ard we can expect from future releases.—
H.
G a me : SKULL
Ma k e r - GAMES MA CHI NE
Ma c h i n e : SPEUFRUM 48K
F o r m a t : cassette
Price: ,if,6•95
Rating: ICK

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nAN730MPLJTER G A M E S 0 VIDEO G A M E S a C O M P U T E
kMPHIBIOPHOBIA
mon everybody — l et's ge t
it t he r e a nd squash t hos e
ogsl We'l l show those Egyp-
'ans that 20th Centur y vi deo
•mers k now how t o handl e
agues of frog sl Plagues? Well,
seems that way wi th Parker
livening thei r arcade super.
ar t o every video game and
imputer system imaginable.
ColecoVision and Atari Home
omputer owners are the latest
roups t o get versions of the
a m e - t ha t - s pa w ne d- a -
iousand-tadpoles. Fr ogge r .
those of you who've been
icationing in Belgium for the
last 2 years, involves stoppi ng
Fg,Mala
frogs getti ng across a road and
a river to safety by running them
under a s m a n y vehi cl es a s
possible.
Of the two versions on offer
here, the Coleco Vision Frog get
takes t h e t r ophy . Excel l ent
sound, gr a phi c s a n d c ol our
combine to make gr eat game.
play that is only let down by the Atari's edition is also graphi-
system's naff hand controllers. cally good and has the edge in
Extra touches i ncl ude cr eepy the s ound depar tment. G a m e
looking snakes a n d a m os t action i s gr e a t a n d be ne fi t s
pleasing effect whenever a frog from t he large variety of joys-
gets trashed in the road. II hate tick controllers that can fit the
frogs — had you noticed?) Atari system. 21
. R . B .

game
Derm- This is that rarity. an excellent
r tsn't a nd s i m pl e i de a br i l l i antl y
inres- executed. i t seems t o ha v e
provide a difficult extra
,. gr own out of the jetbihe chase On l ater Ones a t a r g e t ;
in Re t ur n O f T h e -fedi a n d tank l umber s
s ,00nderously along the horizon-
rush Of excitement.
u Darkness
further SOMatiftles Provides a
hazard.
mThe player controls a mean i o n so s so fast. the at/die
machine of which only a pair of
m tT p
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s Shower Of shrapnel tha
destroy a coupl e o f renegade a
bikers
a w ho come a7t0 view on every
c explosion.
yourself pro t H ri e e
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s T h e c ha s e i s ' t
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becomes
m mogr essi vel y m or e g a
densely wooded until, by screen Easily pi cked up t h e game
i
five (of eight), it's as hard dodg- gels ferociously demandi n g ta
l trees as it is blasting the
quarry. its top levels. but nO co
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Onr the early screens a • few p r o g r a n n t o t r a ns l a t e
2 chopper takes off d i s t a n t
'hesepicsno i l arcade fury directly to
l and lands to trum. Abs o t h e Spec-
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y lutely outstandi ng,
p
:ome wit me to re Casba. No? Well, it sounds a bit more
han 'take a t rample t hrough the tomb', whic h more accurately
describes T atankha
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Stop the presses! Hold the front page! Hi-res graphics on the ZX81
m.The theme: familiar maze t o :KingTu T h e
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wit hout any addit ional hardware! Oh gosh, oh wow. Lik e t ruly
task: plunder the t omb°, its treasures, find keys u n l o ckthe doors e awsome, man!
between levels. Your role: a gun-totin' archeologist, The opposi- r Seen on any ot her mic ro Forty Nine, probably wouldn't excite
tion; various scorpions, cobras, bats and ancient Egyptian super • s much c omment but what we have here seems t o be a genuine
natural creatures. Your defences: one hand pistol tNot iring left and
i break-through in games software for the venerable 1X81.
right only plus a devasting but very limit ed 'laser flash' that can
n Forty Miner is your basic digging game where you, a miner, are
clear every creature off the screen witnd hpursue
one blast.
you wit h an almost
t of screen The object. then, is to survive as long as possible. e a s y when g t unnelling about for gold nuggets. Giant rats are on your tail threat-
ening each of your three lives. You have t wo main weapons in your
nergerhigh creatures pourticism.forthfrom 'nests' a t to n e x t
religious fana arsenal. You can cause small cave•ins to block t heir path or run
You must get the key in each section in order to get t h e over a snake's nest, releas ing it t o get t he rats (a game where
lick, 100% snakes are on y our side, what ev er next?). Meanwhile, on t he
level; everything else in the way of treasure is pure bellOS and Can
)elleration. surface a nasty Gremlin is gradually working his way towards your
be ignored if need be — lik e when you have to bolt f or the exit
edible pre- chased by a horde of hell-s pawned weirdos. There are secret tunnel entrance I f he gets int o the mine you're fi nished!
OthEr Collect enough nugget s and an ent ranc e opens t o t he next,
passages to get you f rom one place to another quickly but these harder level.
must be used iudiciously.ntly comes i n thr ee versio ns for the video
amGames Tutankham curre c r e a t What is, of course amazing is that t he whole game appears on
thestand- screen wit h graphics that wouldn't disgrace the Spectrum. All the
gamer The Coleco edition wins hands down for graphics, s ound
lases.— and action. The play field is superbly detailed and the u r e s look elements o f t he game are rendered i n detailed, rec ognis able
good sound
real mean. Intellivision has good graphics but is painfully and
slow and shapes and move in relatively smooth, fl icker-free action. The rats
has lousy response from the controllers. At ari comes off worst in scurry, t he snakes s quirm and t he miner runs and climbs. You
the graphics department but inakes up for it wit h I almost expect colour and sound as a mat t er of course!
EINE incredible speed. This one needs r ajar •sharp reflexes. t is also the Control is, well, all you can expect from ZX81 keyboard. But you
48K can re-defi ne your own control keys. — R
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computeri is the natural
successorf to the chunky,
• to u g h 8 0 0 w h i c h h a s
served thIe company so
well fo r so long. As the
medium-range t model in
the all-new X L series —
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with th e 600 (16K) a n d
the 1 4 5 01 XL D a t e i th e r
extreme — i t l i n e s u p
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CBM 64/Electron p ri ce
b ra cke t. A
A c tu a l co st:
£249.99. K
What do y ou get for the
money? More impor tantly ,
how does it compare with its
immediate ancestor?
To begin with, the case has
been slimmed down, and var-
ious little items have been ti-
died up. There is no longer
any second c ar tr idge s lot;
more importantly, the Atar i
BASIC is built-in to the ma-
chine, obviating the need for
the original BASIC ROM cart.
Joystick ports are reduced
V E x tr a R OM
w a ste d w i t h
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BASIC b u i l t - i n
MINUS P O I N T
Ata ri p e r i p h e r a l s
only
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from afour to two, and moved
from the front to the side of
c chine. T h e pow er
the mac
e is now a t the hack,
switch
alongpwith
t the remaining pe-
ripheral
e ports.
The k ey board has been
d in various subtle and
changed
pleasing ways. The Atari logo
key remains, but. is relabelled
with an anonymous graphic
this key is used for s hilling
into and Out of inverse video).
More i m p o r t a n t l y , t h e
capsflowercase system of the
old 400.800 series has been
PLUS P O I N T
Fu l l c o m p a t i b i l i t y
w i th e a r l i e r
A ta r i c o m p u t e r s
Thesleek800XLis the latest machine to be
launchedbyacompanywhich,yearsago,
becamealegend in its own lunchtime, Is it the
right product too late?TONYTYLERreviews
scrapped; the new arrange-
ment resembles the BBC ar-
rangement— though an LED
to show when caps lock is on
would have been a good idea.
Otherwise the touch is light.
sensitive and positive, w ith
the keys falling nicely under
the hand.
The much publicised HELP
key is, of course, merely an
addition to the row of func-
tion keys; these, in brushed
aluminium, a r e ar r anged
v ertic ally down t h e r ig h t
hand side replacing the old
MINUS P O I N T
No R GB m o n i t o r
o u tp u t
yellow plastic gobstoppers of
yore. There are now four such
keys, all of which can be pro-
grammed via a PEEK 53279)
to achieve effects desired.
So much for externals. In-
ternally the circuitry has been
re-designed, though i t s t ill
owes most of its structure to
the earlier 800) chip choice
and lay out. Mos t ev ident
change is in the size of the
ROM, which is now consider-
ably larger in order to accom-
modate the BASIC — though
why Atari had to go and throw

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The functional and tidy rear end. Of the Atari 800XL
nd lame:800X1. Colours:up to256
.gn laker: Atari from the top down, with only placement._ T he 800XL has
Sound: five octaves,four certain shapes being accept- • nothing comparable to either
i e m o r y : 64KiPavailablein channels able). Mind you, the screen — just a short guide in four
Price:E249.99 editor is a piece of cake to use languages and a connect-up
US POI Ni freeRAM) (i.e. it's unchanged), and the booklet. N o memory map.
nodel led line inter pr eter whacks in None of the simpler PEEKS
PS L OC K white (address 14) block in the with ERROR signals when- and POKES. No colour chart.
5tem middle of a ric h blue back- ever y o u r s y n t a x g e t s No music register. Nothing,
ILLIS POIN T ground turned out yellowy- everywhichway. in short, of any real use.
pink. Not as precise as Atari Existing programs for Atari Peripherals a r e d a is y -
ii have accustomed us to expect. computers w ill all run — so chained from the single out-
educed to 2, Carping c ritic is ms over,
- far as I k now; though ma- put socket; this system i with
loved t o s i d e this is really an excellent ma- chine code programs require 810 disc drive, cassette re-
' chine: and for games writers. use o f the OPTION k ey t o corder and 1027 letter printer)
I have to say (personal opin- load. worked per fec tly . T h e iio
s ion i it's the best. 256 colours A particularly nice facility socket labelled 'Monitor' con-
t fi ll t h e lar ges t palette i n
micro-dom. In the GTIA chip 'This is really an excellent machine — the best for
i modes 9 through 15 — up games. I only wish they'd cleaned up the BASIC'
c to 16 can be placed on the
screen i n any combination.
k LLIS POINT The excellent At ar i Player- of' the old 800 which thank- fusingly handles, no, not RGB
p x tr a ' He p ' ' Missile gr aphic s a r e u n - fully has been retained is the output (pity), but your Com-
changed. I could only wis h use of the RESET key to get modore-style T V o u t p u t .
ounction k e y they'd seized the opportunity into direct mode and clear the There is also a mysterious
to clean up the BASIC. screen without affecting the
r RAM. For keeping track of the
parallel bus.
In conclusion: t h e At a r i
t Standard state of variables during de-
bugging this is particularly
800XL is not, a vast improve-
ment over the earlier 800; it
s Tread carefully here. Atari useful. is a slight improvement. Bet-
BASIC is nowhere near as But there are some annoy- ter styling, a better keyboard
unfriendly as Commodore's ing things, too, Example: the and rationalisation of the iit)
version. Wit h its American 800XL runsoffa new, bulkier ports are pluses, as is the pro-
spelling (COLOR., etc), and its transformer, which unfortu- vision of an extra function key
abundance o f POKEs and nately has no socket — as did and the built-in BASIC_ Es-
PEEKs, and its hash-marked its predecessor — f o r the sentially it's s till the same
device numbers, it looks like power supply to the dedicated machine — b u t as the 800
what i t is : s tandar d U .S. cassette recorder. Nor will the was, and is, such an excellent
grade two Microsoft, neither or iginal (8001 trans former micro, I'm not surprised that.
remarkably horrible nor par- mate with the 800XL. Result: Atari took this decision. All
In the pretty but meaningless ticularly useful. Color, sorry you now have to have a trans- in all,- the integration of an
ie and totally useless 'Self-Test'
facility beats me. In fact, al-
colour, is eas ily accessible former for each peripheral you outs tanding design in t o a
either through SETCOLOR use (though I personally made whole family of computers is
1 though the machine is adver- parameters or (much easier) use of a 6v battery with the an advance.
tised as possessing — and in through POKEs. SOUND pa- cassette recorder's power jack At .E249_99 the 800XL is
theory possesses— 64 Big K's rameters are defi nitely eas- sellotaped to the terminals — significantly pricier than its
?rs of of memory, what you get from ier t o m a n ip u la t e t h a n such is the hi-tech life we all direct competition, the CBM
such typing PRINT FRE( 0) is 37 Commodore's o r especially lead1_ But the worst. problem 64 and the Electron. Is it suf-
pro- and a half. Acorn's (and the sound itself is the documentation. ficiently better than these to
3279) Generally speaking — as a no w h it less good i n sub- It beats me, it really does, justify the extra bucks? De-
dedicated 800 user — the op- stance). B u t n o R EN U M- why Atari have had so much pends what you want_ It. is
5. I n - erating system does have a BER? N o R E P E A T • problem g e t t in g a decent. easier t o program and has
been different feel. The RESET key UNTIL? None of the nuances manual together_ O riginally better colour than the 64_ I t
still (actually a 'warm start', non- of 's tr uc tur e' whic h hav e the 800 was s old w i t h a
re to has more memory than the
destructive fac ility ) tak es slowly been creeping into all dreary, maths-obsessed v ol- Electron. I should say, my -
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dent self, that the price is just over
the SOUND statements pro- ception of Commodore's ). Cir- BASIC boringly taught by an the top.
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corn- superb micro based on tried
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ough bleed — not up to snuff by 800 via the cumbersome all-put'- (for the better( to Bill Carris' indefatigable ancestor. Will it
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o f any s o r t I h a d w i t h
"c omputer " w a s s o m e
t ime a g o n o w , w h e n a
f r ie n d tent me an I n t e lli-
v is ion system w it h a few
r andom c ar tr idges .
It wa s late; and outside the
windows o f m y sma ll ru st ic
dwelling t h e w i n d h o wle d
fitfully. Onscreen a small deter.
mined figure stalked manfully
through a labyrinth of endless
branching corridors, b o w i n
hand. MI was silence save for
my o wn increased breathing
and t h e occasional f a ra wa y
rumble of a sleeping Dragon —
and, of course, the wind,
A b a t appeared, fl a p p in g
repulsively around m y head.
Maddened, I s h o t i t . T w o
a rro ws l e f t . A n o t h e r b a t
appeared. I fled. precipitately
— stra ig h t in to the la ir o f a
giant rat, which made for me,
squeaking wickedly. Fumbling
in fear, I shot that too— hut not
before my little man had turned
red with h is own gore, having
taken a severe wound from the
oversized and malign rodent.,
The Giant Snake got me just
around the next corner. Hiss-
ing like a Fury, it came at me
with t e rri f y i n g speed. O n e
arrow — m y la st — had n o
effect. I fled. Too late. I n my
terror. I messed up my exit
and the serpent was on me.
A ferocious g ru n tin g a
convulsive stru g g le a n d
what was left of my (vicarious)
mortal soul went up in a coil of
steam.
Shuddering wit h tension, I
set. out wit h a new expedition
member. Surely he could make
the Clo u d y Mountain, c la im
the t w o lo s t h a lve s o f t h e
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himself
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o wHe didn't. N o r d id h is one
remaining pal.
n I eventually g o t t o bed a t
-Ioa.m., having totally failed to
f
crack Adv anc ed Dungeons and
Dragons on any level, even the
K (axe, boat, key) which you will
easiest.
i need to complete the journey;
If this was the standard o f
n sureness of touch with the disc,
video games, I to ld myself, I
g since
was going t o enjoy th is new
diversion. A l a s , i t w a s n ' t
s Preventing you fro m ca rry-
'though
, I came to enjoy th e
diversion anyway). In fact, as I
a realised
soon — and was later
ton have confirmed b y personal
d even when you ru n fo r it the
experience (as we ll a s others'
opinions) — t h i s p a rt icu la r
d Bats fl a p a n d ma k e y o u
game
e ca rtrid g e , cra fte d b y
some a n o n y m o u s M a t t e l
c you lit t le h a rm. Shoot these
keyboard slave for the Intellivi-
l only
sion ma ch in e , w a s , a n d
remains,
a in a class of its own.
r For the uninitiated, the game
places
e a three-man expedition
at the far side Dia Middle-earth-
like map — different every time
— made up of mountains (both
passable a n d imp a ssa b le ).
forests, ri v e rs a n d f o rt re ss
walls. The mission o f the team
is q u ite simp ly t o cross th e
landscape f ro m le f t to rig h t,
reach the fabled Cloudy Moun-
tain, e n te r i t , a n d fi n d t h e
halves of the I,ost Crown.
To d o t h is yo u steer yo u r
team towards suitable moun-
tains, ta kin g the obstacles as
they come and choosing your
own route. I f a mountain i s
enterable (i.e. crossable) it will
change colour; if not, it won't,
and you have to find some other
way.
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No2ANDDRAGONSMATTEL
Once inside the mountain the
screen changes wit h a nerve-
stiffening 'whoosh', Y o u a re
inside t h e t u n n e l s y s t e m,
armed wit h three (count 'em)
arrows a n d y o u r wit s. T h e
adventurer stays screen centre,
while t h e la b y rin t h s c ro lls
o mn id ire ct io n a lly. A s h e
advances, the tunnels light. up
and st a y l i t iso yo u can te ll
where you've been before). Your
object is to find one of the tools
you can find more arrows in a
quiver. You will also need to
find the way out (a ladder),
ing out these reasonable tasks
are bats, spiders, g ia n t rats,
giant snakes, blobs, demons
and dragons. T h e y a re a l l
extremely nasty,
panic but can otherwise cause
when you have a generous
surplus o f a rro ws. S p id e rs
crawl slo wly a n d a re e a sily
avoided, though i f they touch
you they will claim an arrow for
(7 1 e
- l
each contact. Blobs move very
slowly indeed, and can — must
— be avoided, since one touch is
instant death and they cannot
he shot. Rats can be offed with
one a r r o w — b u t sn a ke s, But when you finally do cross
demons and dragons take two
all the mountain harriers and
(winged dragons, which appear reunite the two halves o f the
only in the last mountain, take
Crown t h e n t h e re ' s a n
three). T h e y a l s o m o v e
immense feeling o f satisfac-
extremely fa st and will chase
tion, considerably enhanced by
you. Ever tried shooting while a vast, reverberating chime of
running? Ca n 't be done. You
solemn c e le b ra t io n w h i c h
must flee, find suitable terrain almost outdoes t h e fa mo u s
(long st ra ig h t co rrid o rs a re long-distance chord a t the end
ideal), plant your feet, aim care-
of the Beatles A Da y M
fully, and let the beastie have it. Life.
as it charges. Keep your nerve Adv anc ed Du n g e o n s a n d
and don't be ashamed to run for
it. Dragons is an eerie, astonish-
ing game, a piece of program-
Additional touches emerge ng w i z a r d r y a n d a n
as you get into the game. Mons-
absolutely superb example o f
ters will wake and make some
noise o r o th e r i f they a re
overall game design (not at all
the same thing). In the heydey
onscreen (wh e th e r visib le o r of Intellivision's fortunes in the
not), t h u s a llo win g y o u t o
US (say, a ye a r ago) i t wa s
deduce wh e re t h e y mu st b e
rarely out o f the ROM charts;
lurking. Monsters will pursue over here, its virtues are known
you f o r a su rp risin g ly lo n g only t o Intellivison owners (i
way, n e ce ssita tin g absolute
remain o n e o f these, f o r the
sake of this game alone).
these corridors twist and Unfortunately this situation
turn a lot; a hangup when some
is n o t n o w like ly t o change,
foul creature i s closing fast., Mores the pity. The system has
bellowing, i s ce rt a in death.
been overtaken b y events and
And, o n t h e mo re d if fi cu lt
by technology —and fashion —
levels o f play (there are four), but i t re ma in s a v e ry good
video game system indeed; not
Things run faster than you. On so much an account of the hard-
-
ware (which, the disc apart, is
HDemons and Snakes, in partic- excellent), but for the remarka-
ular, attack with such devastat-
e bly high standard o f the soft-
ing sp e e d t h a t i t b e co me
r ware. An d o f the latter, few
absolutely essential to have a
think w i l l a rg u e i f I cla im
o
good suss on where they a re
Premier all-time place fo r the
before
' advacing. Th e n shoot Jewel in Mattel's Crown
into the dark_
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PROGRAM NOTES F0T0 1 * 1 , BASE* 9 1 FOO D E - 1 T 1 O 9 0 9 EXT D F I BASE
.DOAS E .I I N E X T COLUM N

I f you achieve screen 2 you will sight

KOnig at a range between 15000 and
20000 yards. Estimate range and fire
wi th the fire button, correcting the fall
, of shot with the aid of spotting
reports. koni g will narrow down the
r ange in a similar fashion; but once •
she finds it she'll hit and keep on
'hi tti ng till you're sunk. War ni ng: once
the Konig's range is found (straddle),
71 weave by 100 yards in either •
ion.

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APLOT S P 9140 L O N G ( 1 ) =I N T I R N D 1 0 1 4 3 9 1 1 L AT I I I .I N T 4 9 I F HUN=5 THEN L ONG4 1 1 L ON0 1 1 1 -1 12160 SOUND 1 . 0 , 0 . 0 0 S O U N 0 2 , 0 , 0 , 0 1 :SOU N D
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R Ay...2 .OA . 9146 H I 0 E . 3 T 1 1 1 .L 4 / 4 1 :4 1 12200 7 " 4 " 1 " 3 0 L L Y WEL L D O N E ! "
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h a Modem and how
doe d i f f e r from a chees
burger? Is 'Acoustic Cou-
' l i n g ' something rude do
t high volume? RICHE -
NEWMAN steers us throug
e Telecommunications
jungle
Communicate! It's the latest
craze w e re told) and every-
body's doing it — so get out
there and do it too.
What for? You may well
ask. With who? Why? And —
more to the point — what's
in it for me? Or slightly more
positive— how?
How? OK, you just con-
nect your micro to the phone
line b y using a modem.
Simple. Well, almost simple.
The truth is that there are
several different types of
modem at several different
types of price. The price, in
fact, can vary from around
E50 to well over E200, so it's
worth w o rkin g o u t fi rst
exactly what you aim to do
with t h e modem (w ithin
reason) and how much you
can afford (or alternatively,
who you can touch for the
cost).
The word 'modem' is an
abbreviation o f modula-
tor/demodulator. The gadget
itself translates the signals
coming out of the micro,
(which are digital) into ana-
logue signals, which then
travel serially d o w n t h e
phone wires and back again.
So by using the telephone
network, a modem and your
micro, you get to communi-
cate with other micro users,
as w ell as vast databases
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held o n m a i n f r a m e
computers.
There are two basic types:
acoustic and direct-connect.
Acoustic m o d em s h a v e
tended, t o d at e, t o b e
cheaper than the direct-con-
ned variety. They are shaped
into rubber or plastic sock-
ets into which you jam your
telephone handset ear and
mouth pieces. A word of
warning here — if you have
a Trimphone, a Mi ckey
Mouse phone, or any other
weird telephonic instru-
ment, then your chances of
successfully stuffing t h e
handset into an acoustic
modem are pretty slight —
or more accurately, impos-
sible, So, you have to have a
standard British Telecom
issue phone, called a series
700, for a kickoff. But other
than that, any micro with an
RS232 or equivalent serial
interface port is on its way.
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(If your micro doesn't have
an interface as standard, fear
not, the gap has been spot-
ted and plenty of sterling can
be made by manufacturing
and selling interfaces for the
likes o f t h e Drag o n o r
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trendy! Spectrum).
he latest There is a wide variety of
d every- acoustic modems on t h e
get Out market which, despite vary-
ing considerably in price,
ay well don't n ecessarily v a r y
?And — equally considerably in qual-
what's ity. Among the more expen-
tly more sive (and some say the best)
are the A211 and X.131 1 from
St con- Anderson Jacobson. T h e
e phone
odem.
simple.
ere are
ypes of
efferent
price, in
around
•so it's
ut fi rst
m to do A211, cost E229, has rotating
(within rubber cups (!) which can be
uch you moved into different posi-
atively, tions to accommodate dif-
for the ferent shaped handsets (still
no Trimphones though), as
' is an well as allowing both full-
odula- duplex (which means that
gadget two-way communication is
signals possible simultaneously)
micro, and half-duplex (where you
to ana- can only communicate in one
h then direction at a time). T h e
n the AJ311 costs E279 and comes
kagain. with extra features, includ-
ephone ing something called 'echo'
nd your which t o n e s d o w n
mmuni- unwanted noise on the line.
o users, Thereby hangs another
tabases tale. One of the major prob-
lems for acoustic modems is
noise, whether it's on line, or
simply i n t h e ro o m yo u
happen to be in (so don't sit
in t h e kitchen w i t h t h e
washing machine on or near
anyone who's taken to drill-
ing holes in t h e plaster-
work). Noise, unfortunately,
interfaces with the signal
transmission, and you can
end up with considerable
amounts of garbage on your
screen.
At t h e low er end, cost
wise, of the acoustic market,
modems include the Net-
working Interlace from Prism
Technology Holdings a t
E60.10 and the build-it-your-
self acoustic kit from Maplin
Electronics, at E50.
Variations in price, how-
ever, are not the only differ-
ence between modems. No,
sir. There is also such a thing
as a baud rate — the fre-
quency at which messages
are transmitted t h e higher
the frequency, the faster the
transmission. There are two
most commonly used rates:
1200175, which means infor-
mation is sent at 75 baud and
received at 1200 baud; and
the 3001300 rate (work it out
for yourself). The former is
the one used by Prestel to
communicate with its enor-
mous database, w hile the
latter is most commonly
used to communicate from
one micro to another, or to
the everg rowing number of
micro bulletin boards around
the country. So, for instance,
the Networking Interface,
which has a baud rat e of
1200/75, is great for getting
into Prestel and its attend-
ant services like Micronet
800 or Viewfax 258 — but no
use at all if you want access
to other micro enthusiasts,
via t h e bullet in boards.
Whereas the 300/300 baud kit
from Maplin presents you
with the problem in reverse.
On top of that, once you've
built your modem from a kit,
you have to trot off and get
it approved by British Tele-
com — because if you don't,
chickadeess you're breaking
the law. (This is to make sure
that the correct signals are
sent down the lines, other-
wise i t could b e p ret t y
dangerous).
These regulations, baud
rates and duplex modes also
apply t o direct-connect
modems. In their case, they
are connected directly to the
phone wire, usually via a jack
socket w h ich B T h as t o
install for you (cost around
E25-E28 —they don't take
kindly to people hard-wiring
their kit into BT lines). Direct
connect modems tend to be
more expensive than their
acoustic c o u n t e r p a r t s ,
though the price of every-
thing connected with the
micro market is dropping so
fast that who knows what
will have happened by the
time this is published? Direct
connectors do, how ever,
have the distinct advantage
that they don't suffer from
noise interference as they are
plugged directly into t he
lines.
Scicon has just zapped into
the market with its Buzzbox
(they probably took months
to come up with that name)
which for E69.50, gives you
direct connect on 300/300
baud. (You'll have to cough
up an extra E9.50 fora mains
adapter if you don't just want
to run it off the batteries,
though.) Prism pops up again
in the direct connect market
with a range o f modems,
including t h e VTX501:0, at
E99.95 (specifically designed
for Sp ect ru m ) a n d t h e
Modem 1000 at E69.95 inc vat
(for a n u m b er o f o t h er
micros). The Prism direct
connect modems, like t he
acoustic, operate at 1200/75
for access to Prestel and
other private viewdata serv-
ices. The modems do have a
switch which allows you to
change from 1200/75 full
duplex t o 1200/1200 half
duplex t o communicate
direct user to user b u t , so
far, Prism haven't come up
with the software to allow
you to do this.
So now you've got your
modem and your software
and it's all suitably approved.
But in buying it you'll have
had to decide what you want
to access with it. So it might
be best to read this article in
reverse, ' co s h ere' s t h e
'what's in it for me' section.
There's Prestel, for one. A
vast database that was look-
ing pretty shaky till the micro
boom livened things up a bit.
As well as its own informa-
tion — covering most things
from airport flight depar-
tures and arrival-times to
prices on the stock exchange
— a number of 'Information
Providers' also offer their
wares o n Prestel. T h ese
include Micronet 800 which
offers telesoftware (both free
and charged) which can be
downloaded from the screen
into your micro, it s ow n
mailbox f o r exchange o f
messages (beware, they are
censored) and an electronic
magazine on the computer
industry. For micro users, it's
actually a pretty good serv-
ice, though it will cost you
E32 a year to subscribe to
Micronet, plus E5 a quarter
for Prestel. (Plus the phone
bill). There is also Viewfax
258, an open database which
offers software, and views
and n ew s o n t h e micro
scene, and is the home of the
infamous MicroGnome who
is no respector of anything.
Now for the 300/300 baud
lot, which really means bul-
letin boards. They are all free
and provide a forum f o r
messages and notices, often
of particular interest to the
micro hobbyist covering kits
for sale, programming hints,
general tips, personal mes-
sages and libraries of free
softare. Bulletin boards are
not just limited to the UK. As
most of Europe uses t he
same telephone frequency
standards set down by the
Consultative Committee for
International Telegraph and
Telephone (CCITT
had t o explain), bulletin
.
boards i n Sw e d e n , f o r
— b u t a r Ie a t y o u r
instance,
s t i l l
disposal.
The USA however, is no
good.
Let me re-phrase that. You
can't access U S bulletin
boards because they use dif-
ferent frequencies.
Clear now?
 1../MODEM LIVING O D E M LIVING/VIODEM LIVIM
The f ollowing ill -written doc ument was
dis c ov ered in t he baggage o f eKploret STAN
LI VI NGS TONE (no relation). t wo week s af t er the
int repid hack and amat eur Sc out mas t er vanished
int o t he f oet id labyrinths of Prestel. We
reproduc e as muc h of it as is legible.
4-
REPORTS OF the fabled re a lm o f Micro -n e t had been circu la tin g a mo n g st the co mp u te r-lite ra te f o r so me time . People
;Wee said expose
and t o havethe
discovered
myt h as ita lie.
had myste rio u sly disappeared f ro m society. I wa s d e te rmin e d to fi n d th is legendary place
LDAY
Left bas e c amp f ull of opt imis m and good
cheer. Ca r r u t h e r s w a v e d f a r e we l l a n d
wished me luck. The Spectrum felt good in
my h a n d s , t h e Pris m VTX5000 mo d e m
nestled comfortably underneath it — the key.
I was told, t o the gates of Mic ro net,
Reached the appointed spot and turned on
the Spectrum. The modem's built -in ROM-
based s of t ware reques t ed input o f my I D
number. Fe d i n t h e c ode Carrut hers had
supplied Couldn' t believe eyes. The screen
flashed INVALID ID at me Des perat ely tried
several c o mb i n a t i o n s o f t h e n u m b e r
Nothing. Th e barrier bet ween my s elf a n d
Micro-net stood fi rm I had been given
the wrong ID!
Returned to camp in a foul mood. cursing
Carruthers.
[DAY2
Set Out again, t his t ime armed wit h all t he
necessary codes. learrut hers learning to live
wit h his disability well.)
Reached the spot and repeated yesterday's
procedure. I D accepted t his t i me and t he
Screen flashed PHONE COMPUTER. I dialled
the s pec ial p h o n e number. Ringing t one,
then a high-pitched sound. I was in contact!
Flipping the switch on the front of the modem
brought a green LED. I replaced the handset;
the VI X5000 was now directly linked to the
dis t ant ma i n f r a me . A s c r e e n d i s p l a y
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entry code. I gav e it Suddenly t he barrier I was in a Jungle of menu's, fl ashing signs
and indicators advising me to •
cleared a n d y elling t he t radit ional hac k er
war-cry o f - that
G O page
T O where
t h I i would
s find exciting things
legendary
I 'M database o I ventured
r into Micro-net a f ew pages at a
Nothing could have prepared me for what I time. I found a wealt h of information; news,
I N I!t "was, vast I realised t hat t he fabled reviews, technical help, classified ads, letters
saw
I from natives. I f ound a list of s of t ware that
Micro-net was merely one s mall part of a
much
p l might
u er database, called, in the local could be downloaded. Muc h of it was free,
but s ome had charges that would automati-
tongue,
n g e ' Pres -Tel' . H o w c o u l d s u c h a n
awesome ent it y hav e remained undis c o• cally be plac ed on a native's account Was
d amazed to fi nd such f amiliar items as Manic
vered for so long? Access to all this lay before Miner and The Hobbf ( available f or down-
i t hrough
me n my humbl e Spec t rum. I h a d
loading a n d inc redibly c heap pric es lfIB
discovered
t o a n e w , unt apped s ourc e o f
Knowledge. f orThe Hobbit ). Th e nat iv es had certainly
t set themselves up well.
Ahead of me was spread over half a million
h It was get t ing late. Carrut hers would be
pages of information, each wit h a dozen or
e
more branches trailing off into the unknown. worried. Calling up the menu I 'logged off'.
On my return Carruthers congratulated me
Wit hin Micro-net — 40,000 pages on its own
— I c ould s ee databases around m e f or on now owning British Telecom. I patted him
sympathetically on the head wit h my croquet
explorers f r o m o t h e r mic roc omput ers . I
decided t o stay on that trail called Sin-Clair.
I wa s a wa r e o f activity, lot s o f it . Th e
mallet and explained that most calls to Micro-
net were charged at the cheap rate from most
parts of the country at off-peak times.
natives were constantly communicating with
each other or wit h Micro-net. Muc h trading
was taking place with all manner of goods on
[DAY3
sale t hrough devices k nown as 'response
Woke early to spend as much time as possible
pages' Thes e Operated through the input of a exploring Mic ro. net. Carrut hers still asleep,
personal code number. The inf ormat ion was
my breakfast not ready. Gent ly rolled his
then fl as hed t o t he trader who despatched
the goods to the native. Incredible sleeping bag into the lake to wak e him up.
Returned to the database and set off boldly
By far, t he mos t sought-after c ommodit y through the pages, fi nding the menu-driven
was software. Micro-net held large stocks of
this whic h could be downloaded into an indi- routes easier to follow. Each page I came to
vidual's mi c r o o n reques t . Silic on B u s h could hav e as many as 2 6 sub-pages, or
Telegraph. branches s plit t ing off. Whole sections had
been rented by various companies to adver
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Returned t o c amp. dejec t ed Carrut hers
seemed a mu s e d a t m y predic ament b u t
;fling signs sights:

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iT0' this or A gathering place f or v arious c omput er of my mission weighed heavily on me. foot '
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ing things clubs c alled - Entered Mic ro-net5 t hrough t h e by n o w _N
pages at a
ion, news,
mammoth
C l u b s strategy.
p o tactical game f or up to familiar rout ine Coming to t he main menu
page I struck off onto ‘the route marked 'Pres-
[DAY 5
t1,000
" . players, each feeding their moves into
Nis. letters
tware t hat T
natives D
Micro-net via t heir c omput ers A group of
h forming a -
,
Tel' by keying in a number
Seconds later I was into the main P r e s
Back i n t he land of Pres-Tel. Af t er muc h
consideration I had, i n t he parlance of t he

r
was free, e
movement.
C o m p u A t en rasd v e n t u r e g a m e HE L P database.
- 'Awes ome' hardly described it. At computer-literate, 'Cracked if Caref ul study
automate section. of the system manual had s hown the secret
to Thear popular mailbox service whic h
-
sF myTfiengertips
l lay a staggering half a million
aunt Wa s enables of t h e S p e c t r u Ms S Y MB O L SHI FT a n d
as Manic rP e t natives to leave messages for each
a c ereview of the new Sinclair
pages of inf ormat ion and services Almos t
ENTER keys.
other. A damning every conceivable human need was catered
Far down- o
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prices I f 6 for — f rom fi nding a plumber to playing the

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flashes.
f And so much more. stock market. number they enabled me to get to that page
certainly
would be
A
a I had had the foresight to bring my printer
along and, us ing t he 'Print f rame opt ion,
made good use of it printing out many of the
Nervously I v ent ured forth, c hoos ing my
routes carefully. This was not easy because
even t he indexes had indexes'
from any where in the Pros-Tel system So -
(then
I ENTERl' wo u l d immediat ely z ap me
back to Pres-Tel main menu from wherever I
gged of was

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these astounding sights II had to have proof The wealt h o f dat a almos t boggled my
ulated me

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of my discoveries. My only fear was that my mind wo r l d news , business, travel, ent er- I now have the key to deep exploration of
oiled him paper supply would not hold out.) tainment, int erac t iv e games , g o o d s a n d the Pros-Tel and Micro-net databases. Incre-
croquet Late in the day I bagged my fi rst piece of services tor sale — and that hardly scratched dible wonders lie ahead of me. The c limax
; to Micro- the surface.

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software. I selected an easy target, a f ree of my distinguished career has begun. I set
from most game Finding the appropriate page I called I found that t he natives had formed tribes off full of hope. I may never return!
nes

r
up t h e Do wn l o a d e r m e n u ' f r o m t h e called IPs or 'I nf ormat ion Providers* E a c h
VTX5000, keyed a number and t he game tribe had established its own territory wit h
came hurtling down the wires into my Spec- large bloc k s of pages devoted t o dif f erent
trum. Th e wh o l e operat ion t o o k a f e w subjects I t was here I c ame unstuck. E d i t o r 's Not e, ' -
;possible minutes as the program was t rans mit t ed a Following t h e menu-driv en rout es wa s I
ill asleep. 1
—
page at a time, 35 in all. I saved the game onto easy while there were 'signposts' back tot he I s t on
- tape and ran it. Not bad qualit y at all. ( HI main Pres-Tel index. But as I wandered Into I Th i s was the last heard from S t a n Living-
ohim up. make a good trophy for the den walk ) traceethe (nof ollowing
retation). day
He vanished
m wit hout
IP territory the signposts changed, leading (not easy, consid-
ioft boldly All the while I was exploring Mic ro-net I only back to the particular tribe's main menu
lu-driv en was aware of the vast territory called Pres- or entry point. All the landmarks I had noted ering that there was 16 stone of him), His l'
lI came t o : f ait hf ul assistant Carrut hers r
TO surrounding me on all sides. I k new I vanished. The realis at ion s uddenly hit me
e
3ages,
:ions
d
or
had
to adver-
would sooner or later have to face a. I decided
a would be tomorrow. Logging off Micro • net I
, I was lost!
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L
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basm ateronic
icnamp loyally
s jungie.
a tholding out hope t hat ,'

h returned to camp and slept fi tfully. escape route — I logged off the system. s
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_._/110DEM LIVING/MODEM LIVING O D
NOT EVERYTHING t hat glisters
is gold, nev er mo r e t rue t han
when y o u s c rut inis e t h e s up-
posed security of telecom unica-
tions s y s t ems . I f t h e Bank o f
England's gold reserves were as
well guarded as t he det ails on
mos t o n - l i n e dat abas es t hen
we' d all be very poor.
British Telec om' s Gold elec -
t ronic ma i l s y s t em a p p e a r e d
more t han a lit t le t arnis hed on
making its live TV debut on BBC's
'Mic roliv e' special one Sunday
morning last aut umn. The Hack-
ers h a d s t ruc k ! They ' d appar-
ently bloc k ed legal access b y
OWL001 i n a s t unt whic h really
spoiled the show.
And, on Horizon 'In The Wires'
programme a f ew mont hs later,
an American 'hackette o r female
hacker des c ribed h o w she was
offered large sums to crack data-
bases holding details of Princess
Di's s pending on a v is it t o t he
States — b y Brit is h pres s men
anxious t o fi nd out what s he'd
been buying_
No w t h e r e a r e t wo b i t s o f
jargon here that need defi nit ion
— the first's about talk' ng to who
you like in the world using y our
personal c omput er , and t he
second is a k ind o f elec t ronic
eavesdropping.
Rod O'Connor f rom the mult i-
national c hip s upplier Mot orola
also rec k oned t hat get t ing int o
those wires is cheap — all the kit
y ou'd need t o crack t he mo s t
s ophis t ic at ed t elec ommunic a-
tions systems, say those used in
banks, " w o u l d c os t les s t h a n
$1,0011"
A 'live' ex ample of how easy it
C Wit hout break ing t he c ont rol
is t*o hack open electronic mail
—K perhaps t he fi rst-ever on TV
— ec a m e w h e n t h e h i g h l y
improv ing Beeb had Acorn man
r Coll, ot herwis e k nown as
J ohn
r
OWL001, t o dial-up the BT Gold
c omput er's central database. He
y t hey we r e o n l y j u s t p l a y i n g w a n t to offer me enough money
tapped in in his Abs olut ely Pri-
vate s And Confi dent ial pas s word
.
("BBC") to be greeted, not by the
81 fGold logo b u t by a fake
"I llegal Access Warning! ", and a
.
great deal of deris ory bleeping
K the BBC micro he was using
f rom
at the time.
e Gold/electronic mail), called the m e m o s e x c h a n g e d b e t we e n
Well! Mic ro-buf f Guy Kewney
r
has s inc e r e v e a l e d h o w t h e
r stuff really hit the fan: "I n
brown
the ysubsequent inquest, the BBC
accused
P Gold o f doing it as a
publicity stunt, Gold accused the
BBCaof doing the same thing, and
t wocs us pec t ed p r o g r a mme r s
were k bumped off the system for-
ev er, h a v i n g t h e i r i d e n t i t i e s
e
'devalidated.' " Array processor" (a hell of a long w r i t t e n f rom s omebody in Gold,
r a l l t his bec aus e s o me -
And
body, played a joke? The author-
ities, especially in the States, are
i
apt to get very heavy wit h hack-
ers .i n o r d e r t o dis s uade t h e
y ounger
e a n d mo r e disaffected
element in the personal comput-
.
ing fraternity f rom ever trying to
break Hinto any system. Of course,
a
c
k
BEAKERRY*FORFUN,PROFIT
ANDAFIVEYEARSTRETCH
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abandoned, b u t t h e pas s word
T
may
h s t ill be v alid. A n d on t his
file, y ou are likely t o fi nd t hou-
i
Higgins? They've been in sands of old letters, on s imilar
s
again! subjects," according to Kevvney
— i wh o is quot ed here not by
way d of example, but to warn just
how e easy it can be to have y our
electronic
n mail opened and read
by tany half -int elligent Tom, Dick
or Hacker!
i
Hacking's a s erious business
t
— as the BBC has amply tried to
y
demons t rat e t hrough bot h doc-
umentm ary o f h o w i t has been
done a unt o ot her — and a liv e
y
experience o f it s o wn . B u t a
c r ibmi n a l of f enc e? I f y o u g e t
caught t ry ing t o ent er a bank's
the net result has been just the jus t f o l l o we d t he mo s t bas ic e
opposite: hackers are now a sub- telecoms s y s t em t h e n i t ' d b e
c o mmo n s e n s e r u l e s — l i k e l
cult across the Atlantic. considered attempted robbery in
changing t he pas s words regu- o
Dr Charles Wood of the Stan- larly , " reckoned Americ an c om- America, t hough the pos it ion is
n
f ord Research Institute, at one of puit er s e c u r i t y c o n s u l t a n t less c lear t hrough lac k of any -
the hi gh- power ed Univ ers it ies body g having done it over here
Michael Nye.
which produced a majority of the or at least being caught!
One f emale West Coast hack-
people n o w work ing i n Silic on At t he s t art o f 1983 Lloy d's
ette, Susan Henley —apparent ly
Valley, is s t udy ing the phenom- Bank, H o l b o r n b r a n c h w a s
using a nif t y 32-bit rig f rom t he
enon: ' ' We' re enc ouraging t he rat her a p t l y - n a me d Fo r t u n e robbed o f s e v e r a l m i l l i o n
numbers of people who now call pounds , uns pec ifi ed depos it s
Systems — said that getting the
themselves hackers by t reat ing password was normally a "piece and s o m e g o l d , De t e c t i v e s
t hem as if they were c riminals , ' work ing o n t h e s t ill uns olv ed
he said_ of cake:" She'd call up the orga-
niz at ion wh o s e dat abas e s he case l a t e r f o u n d t h a t a GPO
Dr Wood described how what want ed to crack "and just ask for leas ed l i n e b e t we e n L l o y d ' s
the Ca l i f o r n i a papers d u b b e d c omput er centre and the branch
t he c o d e s , s a y i n g I ' m a n
"The Hackers Trial" last year saw had b e e n t a mp e r e d wi t h _ I t
employee, u mmh , a n d I 'v e er,
several "juv enile systems hack- y 'k now f o r g o t t e n t he pass- appeared as if a gang of thieves
ers, plain, ordinary middle-class of a b o v e av erage int elligenc e
word, And mos t of t hem give it
had int erc ept ed t h e c o mma n d
line to the bank's vault!
'alarm' c irc uit t hes e high-t ec h
kids f ound guilt y of a f elony — o u t without even asking who you t hiev es h a d o b v i o u s l y mo n i -
they, or their parents, ended up a r e , or why you want to k now, "
pay ing $250, 000 in d a ma g e s s h e said. tered the electronic pulse whic h
the computer centre transmitted 4kit
since the systems entire operat- D i d she hack open the Ameri- the
to the branch every morning to
ing systems had to be regener- c a n Express database for British open t h e s ix -inc h t hic k s t eel ge
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IF S I L I C O N c h i p s c o u l d
choose their Micro p ro ce sso r
Un it IMPU) they would prob-
ably vo t e f o r t h e Mo t o ro la
MC68000 — as has S ir Clive
Sinclair. And Steve Jobs. And
his p e o p le a t Ap p le in t h e ir
latest machines (Sinclair's Qt.
has the 68008, a me mb e r of
the general 68000 family).
Wh y is there all this sudden
interest in the 68000?
Firstly i t i s n o t a su d d e n
interest. The 68000 has been
around f o r so me t ime ; i t is
only n o w that machines are
leaving th e d ra win g b o a rd s
to reach th e adverts (I h a v-
en't g o t m y QL ye t ! ) wh ich
means that it is o n ly a sh o rt
time (Real Time , not Sinclair
Time ) b e fo re I ca n g e t m y
grubby b ig h a n d s o n th o se
beautiful 'd o u b le ' e ig h t reg-
isters and accelerate into the
corners o f p o ssib ilitie s n o w
ma d e a v a i l a b l e b y t h e
MC68000's fl exible address-
ing modes.
You m a y re a lise b y n o w
that this write r thinks a lo t of
(ABig Hi to the WonderChi
the 68000. You're dead rig h t
— but I also realise that it is
not the M PU to end all MPU's
At this point a brief survey
of the wonder chip is in order.
The 68000 is a MP U th a t
co n ta in s t h e f o l l o w i n g
registers:-
8 Data Registers (all 32 bits
wide) Named Do to D7
9 Address Registers (all 32
bits wide) Named AO to A7
1Program Counter (PC) (32
bits wide)
1 P ro ce sso r Status Wo rd
(PSW, 16 Bits wide).
You m a y b e w o n d e ri n g
what happened to the stack
pointer — d o n 't wo rry , it ' s
Address re g iste r 7 (A7). The
68000 has in fact TWO stack
p o in te rs; o n e o f t h e m i s
called th e S u p e rviso r Stack
Pointer (SSP); th e other one
is t h e U s e r S t a ck P o in t e r
IUSPI. 'V e ry nice' (you say),
'but why two?
Deviates
You'll ve ry often fi n d that
all machines that can be truly
called Co mp u t e rs r u n t w o
programs at th e same time .
One o f t h e m i s n o r m a l l y
'your p ro g ra m; th e o th e r is
the Op e ra tin g System.11 i s
therefore a good idea to keep
these p ro g ra ms' stacks sep-
arate t o m i n i m i s e e r r o r
possibilities.
In the 68000 the two stack
pointers (USP and SSP) a re
separate. B o t h c a n b e
accessed when in the Super-
viso r Mo d e — b u t o n ly th e
USP can be accessed in the
User Mo d e . Th e Su p e rviso r
Mode is signifi ed b y the 'S'
bit being set in the PSW. (In
User Mode the 'S' bit is clear).
The d if f e re n c e i s t h a t i n
S u p e rviso r Mo d e yo u a re
allowed to execute all o f the
68000's i n s t r u c t i o n s ;
whereas in Use r Mode there
T h e m i g h ty M o to ro l a 6 8 0 0 0
ser i es of m u l ti -b i t MPII's has been
sel ected for the QL (b y S i n c l a i r )
an d the M a c i n to s h / L i s a (b y
Ap p l e ). I t's sai d to be capabl e of
a n y t h i n g except gi vi ng change.
We asked BERZrAlt1) T U R N E R to
gi ve th i s chi p the Big Suss.
H e l i kes i t.
are a few instructions that are
privileged (ma in ly those that
are possible means of enter-
ing S u p e rviso r Mo d e l). S o
the only method of entry into
Supervisor Mode is through
wh a t a r e k n o w n a s
'Exceptions'.
Computers
Exceptions, in the case o f
the 68000, a re t h o se o cca -
sio n s wh e n th e p ro c e s s o r
d e via te s f r o m i t s n o r m a l
processing, e .g . in t e rru p t s,
Errors (h a rd wa re a n d s o f t -
ware such as bus errors o r a
divide-by-zero.).
Don't ever try to divide-by-
zero.
The 6 8 0 0 0 a llo ca t e s t h e
fi rst kilo b yte o f me mo ry t o
'E xce p t io n V e c t o r s ' , i . e .
me mo ry lo ca tio n s that co n -
tain p o in t e rs t o a d d re sse s
that are themselves the start
of ro u t in e s t o h a n d le t h e
E xce p t io n s t h a t h a v e
occurred. (Still with me?) This
a llo ws you to p ro g ra m yo u r
ma in p r o b l e m w i t h o u t
having t o w o r r y t o o mu c h
about p r o b l e m s s u c h a s
b u t t e r o v e r fl o w a n d
a d d re sse s w i l d l y O u t o f
range.
The 68000's instruction set
is p r o b a b l y t h e b e s t t h i s
write r has seen in any micro.
The o b je ct codes (wh a t th e
micro actually runs on) have
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This is It. The Motorola 68000 chip. Blown up big.
been w e l l e x c e p t i o n a l l y
thought out in terms of com-
pactness. Versatility and ease
of u s e a re o t h e r v irt u e s .
Coming fro m the 6502 side I
can appreciate its simp le yet
co n ve n ie n t a n d p o w e r f u l
approach to this business of
mode a d d re ssin g , a llo win g
complex data structures to be
implemented. Fro m it s Pro -
g ra m C o u n t e r R e l a t i v e
Addressing Mo d e it is dead
easy to construct code that is
re lo ca t a b le ( a b o o n t h a t
many 8-bitters wo u ld fancy)
so that th e y could lo a d and
execute p ro g ra ms anywhere
in me mo ry that they wanted,
possibly having two or more
p ro g ra ms s imu lt a n e o u s ly
resident in me mo ry ready to
run.
Attention
Talking of me mo ry . t h e
68000's address range is 16
Me g a b yte s, w h i c h i s 8
MegaWords (a wo rd equall-
,
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ing 2 bytes;. This range could
be i n c r e a s e d b y f u t u r e
mic ro Co mp u t e r d e sig n e rs
(NO T M i c r o P r o c e s s o r
Designer) i f h e designs h is
Micro wit h attention t o th e
p ro ce sso r's st a t e a s in d i-
cated by the Function control
pins (FC0-2). The 68008 has
only a 1 Me g a b yte range —
its ma in difference f ro m the
68000 ( a p a r t f r o m b e i n g
p h ysica lly s m a l l e r a n d
having an 8 -b it data b u s a s
opposed t o th e 68000's 1 6 -
bit bus).
Still with rue?
Sure you are.
Many p e o p le th e se d a ys
are a rg u in g a b o u t wh e t h e r
one particular 68-thou MP U
is 8-16- o r 32-bits. F o r m y
money the 68008 is a true 16-
bit processor ma in ly because
of it s lin e a r a d d re ss ra n g e
(s imila r t o a n 8 - b i t s 6 4 k
range).
In fu tu re a rticle s I w i l l b e
tackling t he 68000 from a
p ro g ra mme r's point of view.
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place. We keep comi ng up wi th all this really neat stuff — televi-
sions, video games, VCRs, computers — and then we do everything
in our considerable power to muck it all up.
Just a coupl e of years ago, the video game field was goi ng like
gangbusters. Ther e wer e at least four different systems — Atari,
Mattel, Bally and Magnavox (Phillips) — and all of them had a shot
at the brass ring.
Today. Bally and Magnavox are out of the field, and Mattel has
sold off its electronics division. Its long-range success potential has
been politely described as "remote".
Today, there is still a variety of formats — Atari has three — and
newcomer Coleco Industries bl ew most of its competition out of
the box wi th its Colecovision. But both Atari and Coleco spent the
• b u l k of 1983 throttling the geese that laid their golden eggs. Coleco
directed i ts attenti on t o i ts compati bl e hom e computer named
"Adam", and Atari developed an endless array of new computers
while floodi ng the shops wi th games for its original VCS system
(renamed the 2600),
What Atari failed to recognise was that they were their own worst
enemy. Whi l e peopl e wer e chosing between t he 2600, Mattel 's
Intellivision. and the Colecovision, Atari came out wi th a souped-
up VCS named t he 5200. Wi th a cl umsy joystick a nd a limited
selection of games, initial reception to the 5200 was, at first, quite
cool.
Atari also was faced wi th a ton of software competition. By the
spring of last year, there were at least fifteen different companies No 5200s please, we're British! Atari's 5200 'super VCS'
making games for the VCS. Even Mattel and Coleco were making system re ma in s a rare.. U S - o n l y product. Will it e ve r
water ed-down versions of their popular carts. But Atari continued 'emit? home?
to flood the stores as if they had it all to themselves. They spent a
for tune on licensed games—. ET., Raiders of the Lost Ark — and on
heavily pr omoted original games like the Swor dquest tetraology. But all is not lost in the world of home video games. Many garners
Only Atari was surprised when they bombed. have "gr aduated" to personal computer s wher e compatibility is
The trouble wi th Coleco's Adam was, it wasn't wor th the wait. secondary to function. And whi l e thi s field, too, has seen some
Billed as a powerful home computer with built-in word processing prominent casualties — Texas Instruments, Timex/Sinclair. and the
and a printer for $600.00 ($450.00 if you already owned a Colecovi- Mattel Aquarius to name but three t h e r e is clearly a bright future
sion), what consumers got was a home computer with almost no ahead. A future dominated by some real heavy hitters: IBM. Apple,
software and a truly r otten printer — very, very slow, very, very Radio Shack, maybe Commodore, and, possibly Atari.
noisy. The free game cart — Buck Rogers' Planet of Zoom — paled Particularly Atari. Whereas Wall Street woul dn't be the least bit
before the company's own Colecovision carts. surprised to see parent-company Warner Communications sell off
The Adam came out months late, in very short supply, at a much or even close down this money-losing operation, Atari Just might
higher price. All the while, the company gave very little attention to have the best chance at succeeding in this end of the market.
their original game system, releasing few carts and even fewer How is this possible? We'll tell you next month.
good games.

Coleco's Adam co mp u te r: Proving that all that glitters

isn't gold?

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Reporter: RICHARD COOK M a i

AS VOCALIST, guitarist and leader of Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley put a

lit t le romanc e int o t he attack of the Ne w Wav e whic h s hook rock
mus ic in t he mid-70s. His love songs channelled the power of punk
into a form which laid groundwork for much of today's pop: beguil-
ing music that was as fresh and energetic as any of the system-
smashing ambi ti ons of his contemporaries in The Jam and The
Clash.
After the demise of Buzzcocks back in 1981, Pete embarked on a
solo career which has taken quite a different track. His starry-eyed
songs are now set to music made primarily thr ough synthesisers
and sequences that show one of the most imaginative approaches
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to instruments otherwise commonplace in today's charts. Am
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And alongside this interest in new sounds Pete — along wi th a deti
few other s we know — devel oped a fascination wi th computers: in a
the last track on his most recent LP was a program for Spectrum!
ing
Pete started wi th a ZX81. Now he has two Spectrums, a Com- ring
modore 64 and a BBC 'B' as well. Al though he's hard at work in the see'
studios recording his third LP for Island Records, Big K asked him to cap.
take some time off to check out a handful of programs designed to Inte
help write, practice or maybe just fool ar ound wi th music. Can a any
stab
micro assist you in making for tune and infamy in the pop world? s ho
We set up the machines; Pete flexed his fingers; and here are the
verdicts. "I n
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channel sequencer, can define up to 16 instruments and save
and play pieces. It's menu-based, with a detailed editing function l
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that permits notes to have different attack levels, durations and a corr
tonal qualities. A piece can be played right thr ough or broken
down into a verse structure. The display consists of a numerical s iser,
layout that details the various facets of the music at it's being a ing
that
composed. There is an additional 'Auto-Composer ' programme
that gener ates tunes automatically wi th a mi ni mum of user
R boa]
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'Well, I've been on it half an hour and not writ t en a not e yet! , o pe!
There seems to be lot s of numbers on the screen, lists and lists ing c
it doesn't look muc h like music, There's no stave any where, tune
and it's pointless having a graphic capability if you're never going m or
to do anything wit h it. The BBC has good sound channels whic h sor I
are diffi cult to program and s omet hing like this should mak e it a a ral
lot easier. The instructions are concise — in fact they read like a ronc
program themselves, you can't skip t hrough them. It's good that mac
you c an put the notes in wit hout play ing t hem in real t ime but Xmk
then y ou can't hear them as you're put t ing t hem in. It gets to be -disp
like a counting exercise, and tracing back faults at the end would desk
take time.
"ThE
"I think you'd have to k now a bit about computers t y p i n g in s om
numbers — and a bit about mus ic as well to get muc h out of it.
actu
I'd say on balance it's the best so far for s omeone who want ed a
s emi-prof es s ional aid to writ ing mus ic . " ing.
kind
Prog: BBC MUSI C Ma c h i n e : BBC MODEL B havE
SYNTHESI SER Fo r ma t : cassette but z
M a k e r : BUG-BYTE Pric e; 1;9 50 -artifi
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SID.Sound
A mus ic -writ ing program whic h
has features very similar to those
detailed above, all neatly laid out
in a very long and rather confus-
ing manual . Wi t h effects l i ke
ring-modulation incorporated it
seems designed to s how off the
capabilities of the micro's Sound
Interface Device chip more than
anything, and again there is no
stave in the display — tunes are
shown in graph forms.
"In the book it says it does a lot,
and t here are s ome int eres t ing
rhythms — o n e f ac ilit y o f t he
program let s y ou us e t he c om-
puter like a rhy t hm box. But it's
very hard to get it all to work for
you and it doesn't seem too use-
ful as a t ool. It does n't do any-
thing whic h I can't get but want
f fi ngers ! "
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tSome light relief. This is a strat-
hegy game t hat allows you to try
and crack t he charts by leading
eyour own group. Monthly turns
oallow your band to write songs,
tplay gigs, go on expensive tours,
hpush y our manager int o fi x ing
special deals and ac quiring sta-
etus symbols a n d e v e n t u a l l y
r— mak e a rec ord. I f y o u ' v e
pavoided bank rupt c y , c o r r u p t
rmanagement and the apathy of
the fickle public i n t h e mean-
otime, that is. Three skill levels in
gwhat's bas ic ally a t ex t game,
r though t h e r e is a c hanc e o f
aseeing the group play live;
m school! It tells you what you need
s 6 4
. ever and the way it teaches you
program designed to make the
computer operat e as s y nt hes -
iser, 4.track rec order and edit .
ing desk. It boasts 30 f unc t ions
that work directly f rom the key-
board: 10 pre-defi ned pit c h and
amplitude env elopes o f f e r a
possible range of 100,000 envel-
opes, and f our-c hannel rec ord-
ing can be simulated to enshrine
tunes of up t o 1, 950 not es —
more t h e long-play ' compres-
sor facility is used. There's also
r orange of sound effects, a met -
ronome facility and three ready-
oth•;•0 'lade files (Bac h, S o u s a a n d
o Xmas Carols). The basic graphic
m-a display is akin to a studio mix ing
desk layout.
%roi'
The preset tunes just s how off
111 some flash envelopes. I t nev er
actually shows you what 's play.
11 rig. It sounds passable a s the
hind of thing Walter Carlos would
ye dreamed of 20 years ago —
)Jt a lot of the effects sound like
artificial warbles and tweets. For
anyone who want ed t o use the
trogram as a t ool f o r mak ing
A sbon.lselmo
The Superior System
Averyclearmanualexplainsthatthisone will write 1,2 or3parttunes
whichcanbeplayedorstoredontheBBC.16pre•definedenvelopesset
upthesoundcharacteristicsforeachnote buttheseenvelopescanbe
Prog: I TLTI SYNTH extensivelymodified;trebleandbassstavesareshownonthescreen,
Ma k e r : QUICKSELVA andthecursorkeysareusedtoselectnotepositions.Tunescanbeloaded
Ma c h i n e : COtEMODORE 64 fromdiscsandthere'sa256notecapacityforeach.
Fo r ma t : cassette
Price:1;14.95 1should point out that I've beenasked to write tunes for this program
although I haven'tactually written any yet It's well laid out. It actually
"It's diffi cult to write sound on
givesyouapicture ofthesoundfrequencyyou'vechosen,though there's
nothingverytutorial aboutit— it'saimedatpeoplewhoknowwhatthey're
computers, and in a way these about,asaserioustool.Butyourcontactwith it isn'ttoocomplex.
"Youcanapproach it fromwhateverdirection —asacomputeruser,
are all fi lling in s omet hing t hat
s hould be present on t he c om- musician or soundengineer a n d I think it's veryeasy to understand.
puter anyway. Probably the ideal Youcanplaybackanypart ofatune during the editmode,veryuseful—
t hing wo u l d b e t o hav e a pro•
gram that converts the keyboard the attitudes of the programme is to be helpful at all stages.To letyou
hearthetunebuildup.Themachinegivesyouasmuchcontrolaspossible,
into a 'proper' keyboard, playing
on line, wat c hing t he notes ap- andit's verygood for getting the 'feel' ofmusic.Onedrawbackis thatyou
pear on screen as you play them canonlyseeoneline ofmusicatatimeeventhoughyoucanhearasmuch
and print ing it out af t erwards :
and there's nothing here like that.
ofapieceasyouwant.
"It's interesting that they've all "It's certainly the bestmusicprogram for theBBC,and theBBCis the
taken different approaches. The bestmicro for this sort ofthing. It's Justashameyou can'twrite verylong
only one that really teaches you tuneson it."
about music is the Musicmaster.
But they s hould all be easier t o Prom MUSIC EDITOR
use. It should be a fun thing, not Ma k e r: SYSTEM SOFTWARE
s omet hing y ou hav e t o plough Machine: BBC MODEL B
t hrough huge manuals to under- Format: cassette/disc
stand. You should be able to just Price: ,S9,00 (each)
pull t h e mu s i c o u t wi t h y o u r
KINDLYPAYATTENTIONCLASS!
A much simpler pr ogr am: t he process s o it's very user-friendly.
"A mu s t f or any body who' s rudiments of music theor y are Presentation is excellent and the
ever picked up a guitar, I 'd say! explained onscreen i n ei ther a display is very clear."
If there's a f ew of you play ing it stave or keyboar d mode using
Prom MUSICMASTER
s hould be f un — I alway s fi nd step-by-step i nstr ucti ons on
these games better when there's Ma k e r: SINCLAIR/
pitch, ti me etc. Tunes are then
a f e w people gat hered r o u n d constructed, pl ayed and amen- INODGNITO SOFTWARE LTD
calling out what to do. I like the did or stor ed as one wishes. Machine: SPECTRUM 48K
pace of if — it moves fast enough There are no special FX to the Fcreraat: cassette
to keep y ou interested. A n d it's pr ogr am a n d t he m a x i m um Price: £9.95
not t oo easy either, ev en i f the l ength for a tune is 1000 notes.
real thing is harder l"
P r o t : MS ONLY ROCK'N'ROLL
"It's all t here on t he screen —
you don't need to keep looking
1
M a k e r ; K-'rEL at the manual, which is good. THESHELLEYCHART
Ma c h i n e : SPEOTHUM Shame it's for a machine where 1. System Soltware's ilnusic Editor
48KCOI VI the sound is so poor. I like it a lot 2. Spectrum Sofhvare's Musicmaster
F
- o r m a t : cassette it's very good refresher stuff
on a ll the things you forgot at 3, Bug-Byte's 68C MusicSynthesiter
Price:
M O D O£6.95RE 4. Guicksilva'sgr Music Processor
to know about notes o r what- 5. (Wicks' Iva's Uttisynta
about each part of putting music SPECIAL MENTI ON
together is very clear. You can (Light Relief Department)
music it's good in a sort of roun- go straight to any part o f the K-TEL'S It's Only Rock 'n Roll
dabout way wit hout s howing or
telling y o u mu c h a b o u t wh a t
A
y ou're doing, There' s a heav y
onus on the user,
" No t v e r y u s e f u l f o r t h e
professional mus ic ian, and f o r
s omeone w h o want s t o learn
about mak ing mus ic it's not too
clear — y ou don' t see any dots
or scales anywhere. It seems like
there's a lot there, and it c laims
to p r o d u c e c o m p l e x m u s i c
quickly a n d eas ily — but t hat
can't be done wit h a k ey board
operat ing in real t ime—and that
seems to be all you can do wit h
it. There's no visual record of the
notes you've played. Good bit of
programming b u t I t hink y o u
have t o be able to play to make
it work for you. It's harder than a
piano key board. "
Prog: BBC MUSI C PROCESSOR
M a k e r : QUI CKSI LVA
Ma c h i n e : BBC MODEL B
F o r m a t : cassette
Price: i;14.95 •
 ForanySpectrum B y R O N R I D G E
Embarrassing storyline, great game. There's these chick-
ens, see, and for some reason (don't ask) you're respon-
sible for steering the little feeders from the coop to the
henhouse. Avoid the white rabbits (this goes for real life,
too). Give the foxes a miss. Try not to fall down a hole
(this also goes for real life). Tap on.

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ers display a ll t h e ir n e w g a me s: d ist ribi u t o rs a n d a rc a d e
owners roll up in force to try them out. al "You've got to be picky about i your site s," reckons Manzi.
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round t he c orner might be an abs olut e s t ink er. "
on offer are most likely to get the coins popping i in over the year i
to come. Or is it simple? Inevitably, one game f becomes the star And it's not even as simp les as that. Some games do well on
inviterl of the show. When there'snotime toget toknowa i game, quality some sites, but not on others.t -
graphics are usually the lure. Butqualitygraphicsm
alone do not a says,
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successful game make and, almost as inevitably, the star will new
f games
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turn outto be a turkey. In 1983 everyone wentf orA stro-Biaster. c o Fight),
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"We're dealing with a fashion industry,"mshrugsFrank Manzi, Here's h o w it works. A company r like Regent buys a machine,
co-director o f Re g e n t A u to ma tics, a dol ist rib u t o r f o r f r u i t puts it on a premises and then splits l the takings with the owner,
machines, juke boxesand pool tables aswell It used to be 5 0 /5 0 but it's increasingly 60/40, with the larger
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share g o in g t o t h e d istn b u to ' r. A s t h e g a me s g e t mo re
And a seems like it always hasbeen. In the i late '70s, when the s s
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last primitive "paddle-bat" games like Ping-Pang and Breakout must
o th e d istrib u to r's share. S o me are to o expensive for a
came on to th e market, th e games industry m
leapt on them. company like Regent to operate at all_ With a laser game like
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want la
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make any money. This means the site wouldn'tmake enough to
the industry of video games altogether. - When Space Invad-
ars first came out, the trade just d id n 't- want to kn o w. Then i
Space invaders took o ft There was, Frank - Manzi re me mb e rs s Usually, though, a site whoafterall aren'tpayinganything for
LONDoN with a smile, "an a lmig h ty rush". - a tmachine, willb e happy withwhat theycanget. Adistnbutoron
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overheads. people to empty the machines,
On the crest of this sudden wave, all sorts of new companies i
came sweeping into the business. Most of them went broke. It
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it all 16anweeks.
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hada an Asteroids m machine for three-and-a-half years.
Model B) corner ca ft" Manzi smiles. "That's maybe thirty grand's worth e
of machines when you wouldn't have bought the whole calf for in t t ia lf y they're all great, but you don't know hovv long they'll
d People poo-pooed/1//rDovvhen it first came out. In fact I sent
last,
live grand."
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Pad th e backing o f t h e ir o u tle ts a n d provided a range o f ones,
t If they're too clever, though. they'll do!"nothing at all. Like
Gray/tar th a t's a bloody intellectuals g a me
equipment. Re g e n t w i l l p ro vid e a p u b , sa y. w i t h a l l i t s h
"You know," he sighs, -
equipment and th e ju ke boxes and fru it machines and pool
tables kept th e m going through the time wh e n video games theyepublic
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BOTH THE BBC 'B' and the One,
in c o mmo n w i t h mo s t o t h e r
home computers, us e a display
system k n o w n a s M e m o r y
Mapped Graphic s . Th i s means
that t h e v ideo hardware us es
information t hat t h e processor
puts i n a s h a r e d c h u n k o f
memory to f orm the display.
If t he screen mat rix is formed
by 240 by 200 pixels, as on the
One's Hi-Res mode, a n d eac h
pixel can be whit e or black, then
the status of each pix el c an be
represented by the contents of a
single bit. You'd need 48,000 bits
to defi ne t h e s t at us of all t he
pixels, or 6K bytes (8 bit s t o a
byte).
So if each pixel can be any of a
number o f colours, t h e n mo r e
bits a r e needed t o defi ne it ' s
colour. Comput er manufacturers
always choose 2, 4, 16 or even
256 c olours per pix el because
numbers of bits needed that are
factors of 8 are easier to design.
For example, on the BBC mode
2 s c r e e n ( w i t h 1 6 pos s ible
colours t o eac h pix el) a quic k
glance at table 1 s hows that each
pixel needs 4 bits. Wit h 160' 256
resolution, that's a total of 40960
pixels, a n d at 4 bit s per pixel.
you're going to need 40960•4 -
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20K
So m o r e colours per pixel in
nice, but it s ure munc h up dat
memory Not e also that because
you need to push a large chunk of
memory about t o c reat e large
shapes on t he screen, memory
mapped graphics are inherent ly
slow. Sprit es , a s us ed i n t h e
Commodore 64. MS X and MTX
micros get rid of t his hassle by
having a s pec ial c h i p wh i c h ,
wh e n g i v e n c o - o r d i n a t e s ,
displays a s hape in t he approp-
riate place wit h no further orders
from t he processor.
Movingdot
Here's a lit t le background on
how TVs work:
The T V c o n t r o l s a s i n g l e
moving dot that scans in a repeti-
tive, set pattern, changing colour
as it moves to form the piccy The
dot mov es s o fast t hat we are
fooled i n t o s eeing a c ons t ant
image Fi g u r e 1 s hows the scan
pattern used to move the dot over
one c omplet e screenful or fi eld,
and fi gure 2 s hows h o w eac h
individual line is scanned. After
312-odd lines, the scan is pulled
back up to the top left ready for
the nex t fi eld. Eac h line i n t he
field is k nown as a scan line.
As y o u c a n s ee, a l l t h i s i s
happening pret t y quic k ly — a
field i s c omplet ed 5 0 t imes a
second, so you can imagine how
fast that dot mus t be moving!
Let's recap on t he vital statis-
tics of the BBC's mode 2 display.
It's 1 6 0 b y 2 5 6 pix els , e a c h
pixers c olour being defi ned i n
four bits. There being 8 bits to a
byte, you can define two pixels in
each byte. Sinc e at t wo pixels a
byte 1 6 0 2 5 6 pixels will take up
20K (-8i5000), if the screen ends
at &BOO° it must start at &8000-
&5000 & 3 0 0 0
Figure 3 s hows the placement
in the screen memory of around
the top-left pixels at 843000 for a
BBC in mode 2. Not e that each
pixel is one scan line high.
Mshapesecrets
You e v e r n o t i c e d h o w s o me
games hav e got really s moot h
graphics wh i l e ot hers s eem t o
jerk and shuffl e about?
Yeah? Here's how they get the
smoothness M o v e e a c h
mshape eit her lus t onc e ev ery
field {i. e o n c e ev ery 1
second)
. 4 , o t h or once
o f every other field.
The n e w pos it ion c a n only be
a black, Put your cursor over where
seen once during a fi eld, s o it's
pointless was t ing t ime moving it
more t han once. ' FX 1 9 on t he
Beeb wi l l wait unit ' t he start of
the next field, so if you move all
the stuff that needs moving, do
an •FX19 t o wait unt il the next
Field. and loop back to move allthe
stuff again, your graphics will be
very, very slick and smooth.
The Mshape generators in List-
ings 1 and 2, for the BBC and Oric
respectively ' alt hough bot h r u n
on the BBC) enable you to create
rnshapes of up to 16 by 16 pixels,
and store these on disc in the file
SALE. These mshape defi nitions
can t h e n b e u s e d i n y o u r
programs, as s hown later on.
Type in the appropriate listing,
then t he following:
?&3000
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to
0: •set up an empt y shapefi le
Now RUN t h e program, a n d
S A see the main menu. Option
you'll
V iEs us ed t o a d d o n a n e w
'A'
mshape,
S F a n d it ' ll as k y o u t wo
questions about t h e ms hape' s
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size. Wh e n it asks "Nu mb e r of
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Bytes across", remember that on
3 BBC t here's 2 pixels t o t he
the
byte,
0 on the Om. 6.
When y ou'v e responded, t h e
0 number. Ma k e s u r e t h a t t h e
screen c lears and presents you
0 h a grid and a cursor, whic h
wit
you c ont rol wi t h Joystick One
Wit h t he BBC version, mov e the
cursor down to the row of colours
TABLE 1
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N o t e tW h a t shaded e n t r i e s a r e ha r d f or
h a r d w.a r e p e o p l e t o i m p l e m e n t b e c a u s e
num be r o i b i t s n e e d e d i s n ' t a f a c t o r
A
8.
and pres s t ire t o select a n e w
colour, t h e n mov e i n t he grid,
pressing fi re to 'drop' a colour in
the right place.
On t he One version. pus hing
fire w h e n i n t h e g r i d s imply
changes blac k -whit e and whit e-
it says "ex it " and hit fi re when
you're fi nis hed
Option B enables you to edit a
particular ms hape. Th i s s imply
takes you back to the editing grid
as in 'A' Not e that the mshapes
are n u m b e r e d f r o m z e r o
upwards
Option C i s u s e d t o delet e
mshapes Not e that of you've got
four ms hapes , a n d y o u delet e
s hape 1 , t h e n s h a p e z e r o
remains t h e s a me , s h a p e 2
becomes s hape 1, and shape 3
becomes shape 2; wat c h Out.
Option D s i mp l y s av es t h e
current mshape confi guration to
disk
Option E enables you to copy a
certain ms h a p e i n t o anot her.
Note y ou mus t fi rs t create t he
'recipient' shape The first shape
number requested is the source
shape, a n d t he horiz ont al a n d
vertical o f f s e t s repres ent s a
displacement that will he added
while moving. For example, if a
horizontal offset of 1 and a verti-
cal offset of 0 is used, t hen t he
copy will be made one pixel to the
right of the original, The second
request f o r a rns hape n u mb e r
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spraying shapes on the screen —
simply pulling t he ms hape data
out o f a t able a n d s t oring i t
straight i n t o t h e appropriat e
piece of screen memory, or doing
an exclusive-OR wit h the original
contents first.
Wit h the fi rst method (used in
Snapper) o f t w o s hapes t h a t
overlap, t h e las t t o be sprayed
Will cover t he disputed territory,
rubbing out its unfortunate fore-
runner as if it had never existed.
It t ak es t wo c alls t o t he s hape
sprayer t o get s uc h a shape t o
move a pix el r u b out the old
shape by spraying a blank in its
place, and spray up the new one
in the next position along
Spraythosepixels
Wit h n o r m a l Ex c lus iv e OR
(hereafter EOR) -ing, it still takes
two sprays to move something a
pixel, but in not quit e the same
al
Is
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the s ame pos it ion t wic e, us ing
EORing, after t he fi rst spray the ul
mshape will appear, and after the th
second s pray t h e ms hape bE
disappear! More accurately, after or
the second spray the pixels that St
we r e c o v e r e d d u r i n g t h e ca
inshape's fi rs t appearanc e will in
return t o t he colours they origi-
nally contained. Okay — EOR the
shape i n once, it appears: EOR Pal
the s a me s hape i n t h e s ame
place again and it disappears. mi
If t wo mshapes overlap, using be
EORing, then in the overlap area an
the colours go wrong B u t EOR rig
out one of t he shapes, and the Ac
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there's
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So, by way of example. I f we Execute t h e BBC v ers ion b y Whenever a nes t le runs int o
our V e r tu :a l
want ed s hape 0 at 179,127), i e
around the middle of the screen,
pressing 14, wit h Shift-Break t o
exit, a n d t h e ORI C v ers ion by
your deflector, it turns at a right
then we' d angle, whic h way depending on
re trace
typing HI RE S CALL14600, t h e how you've deployed the deflec-
'reset' key to exit back to Basic tor, whic h can be in any of four
To t he ex ample game, Ma e l - directions.
LOA e79 "s et the X co-ord to 79 strom, then Th e dot matrix is on Now: a w o r d about Vic ious
STA X
the wall, as I've of ten said before, Nestles. Arc ade g a me play ers '
LDA # 1 2 7 s e t t he Y co-ord t o for s i mp l e o n e o r t wo-s c reen hands are stained wit h the blood
LEE In tl t h e T V s c a n s a w h o l e
fi e l d I s starte d
fi e l d . A n e w"
e v e ry 2 0 0 e o r o n ce e ve ry STA Y
127 games such as Space Invaders. of a h u n d r e d A l i e n hues . I n
1 The only exception to this comes another plac e, c y borg c oolant
, LOA /7127 s a t t he Y co-ord t o in t he f orm of Sonistar. A deep
5 127 fl uid s pills pumping t o t he dry,
resonant voice echoes out of The thirsty alien s oil as each robot
0 IGU A k STA Y
t Machine: 'Behold! I Live!' As you utters i t s l a s t met allic c roak ,
h LDA 0 " we want shape zero try to peg off into a corner to hide before, er, croaking.
o
f JSR SDO n o w spray the shape from t h i s night mare, i t chases
a you taunting 'Coward! ! '
S
Sinister compensated f or t he
Backgroundscene
e
c Note t hat t he top-left pixel of fact t h a t s i mp l e z ap-t he-alien
o the s h a p e w o u l d a p p e a r a t theme gets boring if the premises
n
d
(79,127), t h e res t appearing t o are static. If you read a lot of SF, then it's
. the right and downwards of this Another way of getting around okay t o hav e a f ut uris t ic back-
point. the familiarity breeding contempt
After t he SDO rout ine is INIT ground story Ot herwis e forget it.
problem i s regularly c hanging Try fi t t ing it t o a 'c ut e' real lif e
(short for mit ialis at ionl wh i c h is t he g a me p l a y b y i n c l u d i n g
where t he program starts f rom scenario l i k e Fr o g d e r a n d
several parts. Arcade games are Pengo. There are 'quite enough
when y o u ex ec ut e i t A t t h e
A h o rt ro n t al r e k r a r e o c c u r s a t t h e r I g h t already mut at ing i n t o a s ingle Buxom Blondes being carried off
rod e d g e o f e v e r y t i n e t o r e t u r n t h e ' J u t moment there's a little program title c ov ering s ev eral dif f erent by l e e r i n g g r e e n Humanoids ,
IC t h e l e f t h a n d S t a r t i n g p o i n t o f t h e
A. T h e d o t i s a l w a y s t u rn e d O f f d u ri n g
to test the SDO routine. To use a, screenS thanks. S o m e o f Cluic k s ilv a's
, i s,
make shape 0, then create shape This probably being y our fi rst
1 one byte longer in the X direc- cassette inserts have been quite
home made arcade game, Maeli- good (they put little stories on the
colourS on t he remaining shape tion. Th e y c opy s hape 0 I nt o Strom won' t tax y our brain t oo
wit hin t he ov erlap area go OK back, writ t en by themselves) but
shape 1 us ing opt ion E. wi t h a heav ily . A s y o u w i l l d is c o v e r ,
again E O R i n g i s n o n - horizontal offset of 1 and a verti- others have been a load of crap.
the gameplay occurs on a cross- Anyhow, wit h eight shapes all
destructive c h e c k out fi gure cal offset of a This makes shape grid. S e v e r a l N a s t i e s o f
4. hurt ling t o wa r d s t h e w r o n g
1 t h e s ame as shape 0 but one various shapes and sizes erupt
Big fl aw in the above methods: pixel to the right. symbols, and you can only deflect
from t h e edges o f t he c ros s a n d one at a time, it's going to be fun
flicker. Fo r a lit t le bit of t ime, Now use option F to EOR shape rush i n w a r d s , Y o u c o n t r o l a n There's a l s o renegade s hapes
during and alt er we r e blanking 0 wi t h s hape 1 t o get a one-
the old shape•s position. there's axial defl ec t or ()argon alway s that hav e t o be lef t alone, and
shotter f o r mov ing horiz ont ally welcome here) that you can move Attractors t hat mov e t wic e t he
no sign of the shape at all on the into s hape 1 S a v e t he t able t o about the grid. At the end of each speed but must be touched.
sCreen. If the TV happens to have disc, a n d as s emble t h e t e s t
scanned this area before you can 'roadway' is a symbol, and you've Next time we start on the game
program b y c h a i n i n g ' A ' got t o re-rout e t he Nasties int o proper!
get y our s hape back in it s next
position, i t dis play s t h e blank . FRAIRE 3

— Sureshotshapes 0 1

a304 & w e h 3 a i o
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it shot' s p r a y i n g m e t h o d t h a t 0300:
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First you gotta create an 'origi- & 4 .A 1 3 10 3 0 1 6
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In the basis f or t he 'one-shotters• H A 3 2 A 3 ?
la t Take a Space Invaders style laser .1328i I A 3 Z i 1 9 I 3 I E l e stg o t h e o ri g i n a l / N o w c r e a t e sh ap e 2 .
sh ap e fi r s t , u s i n g wh i rh w i l l b e t h e o n e
led base, f or example This can only 1 . A .2: o p ti o n A . sh o t ' F o r m o v i n g s h a p e 1
1
— .- 9
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to t h e l e f t o r r i g h t .

re- you illytterite slobs out there), so 0

S h ap e o t o s ( t i e I p i x e l
an d e r t h a n s h a p e I .
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R u a re i n A two ro i n r mo d e :
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OR by the program. 9 I E
1 - wh o t e . O i b l a i k . t h e W a d e ' I
hSu re e n i s t i l a c i 4 . 0 t a n d y o u L I M a
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ig a also given. I t contains t he SDO O 0
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0 2, o ffse t b y L 2 to g e th e r t o f o rm t h e
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IArS i d w i t h t h e r e c o s t h a t w e c e
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p in and Oric, which, given the X and uI , i g i n a l l y t h e r e _ I U M n al .

t' h e r e f o r e t h e c i r c l e a v m a e c s . i t
aing Y co-ordinates, will EOR a partic- t r i e d t o E P A t h e .4 1 1 .. c i r e l e
the ular shape onto the screen, wit h tu t h e S am e p l a c e a p a k t , t h e I ' S
the the top-left pix el o f t he s hape
T h at N a l l . t i p t h e c i r r i , t e m p l e t s
. . . I d m atch u p w i t h a l l t h e I ' s
will being placed at (X, V). The X co- in t h e scre e n a l r e a d y ; I F O R taU .
WHAT ON FOR TH
itter ordinate you want the shape at is
so t h e c i r c l e i s r e p l a c e d b v
I. it N o e , ,
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t he called •X•, wit h the Y co-ordinate fl o o r . a n . a n d N . t r i e d t o E i l k

will
rigi-
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up with the index registers X and
CD th e sh ap e i n a b . m i l k t h e
l o ft
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OVER THE nex t f
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of t h e v arious aspects o t h e
graphic s c apabilit ies o f t h e
Atari. Thos e o f y o u w h o are
fortunate enough to own one of
the new XL range will not have to
pay t oo t ruc h dttentiOn CO dis-
ulav lis t s and t h e screens, ie GRAPHICS 0, 1, or 2,
they are easily ravailables onA Modyour
tiC
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machines. Most of these articles
are aimed at the owne o f
old f ait hf uls , the At ari 400 and
• 8 0
0 colours a n d luminos it ies I t h e
. THE G RAP HI CS
M ACHI NE
- - -
Because o f i t s games play ing
background t h e At ari mac hine
has been geared to creating some
phenomenal g r a p h i c s ef f ec t s
wt ih mult ic oloured play er: mis -
siles, h i g h res olut ion graphic s
and scrolling in every direction.
Although this is normally done
rt for it(r)tari'sSo
Y o u don't have to
amputate an au ricle to
get next to some of the
best graphics around.
N I G E L F A R R IE R lays
down the lowdown . . .
by machine code for speed, even
the beginner c an c reat e s ome
very good v is ual effects on t he
screen f rom Basic. The first deci-
sion to make is what GRAPHICS
mode you are going to use
If you are going to have text on
the screen then you would proba-
bly be using one of the three text
not then you will be using one of
the graphics modes from 3 to 11
IS if you hav e an XLI. Each of
these modes has a different reso-
lution and a different number of
brightness lev el) t hat are nor-
mally available to you.
Figure 1 is a table whic h gives
the different resolutions etc f o r
each of t h e Graphic s modes. I
have also included the amount of
RAM used in bytes for each mode
as t his may be import ant when
designing a program t o fi t int o,
say, 16K
Ir t he f ourt h c olumn you will
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2
see t hat t here are t wo possible
confi gurations f o r c o l u mn s x
rows The upper figure, if there is
one, is f or t he graphics screen
wit h a t e x t wi n d o w a n d t h e
bottom for no text window
In the graphics modes which do
have a test window yori canget rid
of it by adding +16 to the graphics
mode wh e n ent ering t he corn•
mand. For instance, s hould you
require an entire screen of GRA-
PHICS 8 without the text window
at the bottom you would enter
GRAPHICS 8-16
or more simply
GRAPHICS 24
which h a s ex ac t ly t h e s a me
effect
PLOT and
DRAWT O
In o r d e r t o g e t s omet hing t o
appear o n t he graphic s screen
you are going to have to use the
•add 60-110 to achievethis. Clever, huh?
terms PLOT and DRAWTO. These
terms are s elf explanatory Th e
PLOT statement will plot a point
on the screen at the given coordi-
nates DRAWTO will draw from a
given p o i n t t o anot her. Thes e
Commands take the form
PLOT X, Y
a ncl
DRAWTO X1 , Y1
X and Y are the coordinateson the
screen B e careful that the com-
puter does not t ry t o PLOT or
DRAWTO out s ide of it s normal
limits ot herwis e y o u r program
will stop and an error message
will appear
DRAVVTO will draw to points X1
and Y1 f rom the previously PLOT-
ted point or the last point that was
drawn to. This c ommand actually
draws a phy s ic al l i n e o n t h e
screen T r y t h e f ollowing lit t le
program and try to see what each
command is doing
fi
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h - - 209X 12 4 2 0
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number and h i m it s brightness
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Unfortunately these numbers do •8
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numbers u s e d i n t h e COLOR 29030 FOR J=0 TO 7 If y ou wis h y ou c an adapt t his
statement! J us t to be confusing slightly s o that t he text appears
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29050 HP is not very fast it is writ t en i n
colour register number to gel the
,+J Basic. The more experienced pro-
number y ou wo u l d us e f or t he
COLOR statement. 29060
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