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Spec trum/QL T h e Missing Link?
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DESPITE "official" denials, Sinclair
Research looks s e t t o announce a n
addition to its family of computers —
the Z X Spectrum+.
Your Spec t rum h a s uncovered
enough d a t a o n t h e soon-to-be-
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The Shope O f Things To Come: A Spectrum in QL t Clothing?
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Spectrum 48K or
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graphics. Brilliant music and sound effects add to the excitement.
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• As part at the • Eureka!' pack, you receive a full-colour illustrated
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booklet, containing cryptic riddles and mysterious illustrations. Using
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full colour, static and
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OCTOBER 1 be despatched by post on the 31st night across the world. So
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IAN LIVINGSTONE
The sloryhnes tor 'Euretiar are by Ian Livingstone,
whose 'Fighting Fantasy' books hove sold over
2,000,000 copies lies dreamed up some rather
nasty tricks and twists for you in this Epic, because
he has also devised the cryptic clues and
conundrums in the booklet Mot goes with the
program lies the one who knows the answers.
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REGULARS
FRONTL1NES
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From The Hip, Rumbles,
concurrent Affairs and
Hacking Away, alongside all
the latest happenings...
FORUM
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Readers' revenge! Hints,
harrassment and humble pie
SPECTROLYSIS
6 7
Jan Beardsmore dips into the
problem postbag...
INPUT/OUTPUT
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Your ohance to sell and swop,
and make a few friends into the
bargain.
CIRCE
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Sue Denham tackles Cohn
Stokes of Software Projects.
SUBSCRIPTIONS 2 8
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Readers poll their fave raves
Will nothing knock Sabre Wulf
from No. I position?
JOYSTICK JURY 5 9
Check out the verdicts of our
panel on the latest software.
PR O G R A M PO WER
OCEAN DEFENCE 7 5
Save your home base by
dropping depth charges on the
submarines lurking beneath the
waves. Danny Sheehan
TURN-UP
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A new implementation of an
old classic. A board game
you'll never get bored with!
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A scoop for Your Spectrum! From
the hallowed halls of Sinclair
Research, the word is that the
Spectrum's in for some radical
changes. Turn those pages f a s t !
Roger Munford
F E AT U R E S _
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VS MegaBasic
The First Tutorial — Part One
An in-depth study of windows and
character sets — as well as the last
minute inclusion of a Front Panel.
Mike Leaman
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Manic Mimicry What have
Frank N Stein, Astronut and
Monty Mole all got in common?
Find out inside R o s s Holman
and Dave Nicholls
PROGRAMS
Spectrum Spooler YSprovides the
missing link between the Col, and
Z X Spectrum. Simon Goodwin
HARDWARE
WIN A CHEETAH RAT...39
Over ES00 worth of prizes
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A 'Venture Into The Unknown A
regular page for adventurers. We
take a look at Lords of Midnight
and Sherlock, with helpful hints for
Hobbiteers.
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Spectrum Speakers You want
your Spectrum to talk to you?
Owning a speech synthesiser could
be one of the first signs of madness
—check it out. Henry Budgett
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Contributors Ron Smith„John Torofex. Dr DC Threlfall. Roger Willis. 1)avid Lester. Ian Beardsmore, Ross Holman, have Nicholls. Clive Gifford, Mike Leaman,
Henry Budget'. Simon Goodwin, Sue Denham; Art Editor Hazel Bennington
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the launch of Radio I s
Chip Shop which makes
up part of the Saturday
morning Mark Page
Show.
The Radio 1 Ch ip
Shop will be broadcast at
7.33 am on Saturday
morning, starting on
September 29thand will
be presented by David
Freeman. Free Basicode
software will be
broadcast on Sunday
morning at 5.55am and
repeated at the same
time on Saturdays.
You'll need a Basicode
K it for this though.
costing /3.95 from
Broadcasting Suppcirt
Services, 2 Cater Road,
Bristol BS13
If you really can't
stand the thought of
getting up so early on a
Saturday morning. you
could always tune into
Alk
c a n ' t d o
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As w e a nnounc e d In the Jul y ne w s of VS. Adv e ntur e
I nte r na ti ona l ha v e si gned up a deal w i th the Mar vel
Com i c s G r oup, and at last the s oftw a r e is avai l abl e.
The fi r st pa c k a ge is The Hul k w hi c h shoul d be in
your shops r i ght now . II S pi der m an's m or e your
type of S uper her o, you'l l ha v e to w ai t unti l
Nov e m be r for the r el ease of tha t one. Both
pa c k a ge s r etail at £ 9 . 9 5 each.
T A HMANO THEMOVE
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Not content with
cleaning up the streets in
sunny Suburbia, New
Generation's hero,
Trashman. is off on a
plane to de-litter the rest
of this mucky planet.
The Chip Shop on Radio
4 at the slightly more
reasonable time of
4.15pm though you
won't get the software.
Barry Norman
broadcast his second
show of the series 'live'
from the PCW Show on
September 22nd this
year.
Travel with Trashman
The BBC Radi o s ta nd at The P CW S how , w he r e
Bar r y Nor m a n br oa dc a s t the s e c ond e di ti on of The
Chi p Shop live!
BBC Radio kicks off
with a double-helping of
computing this Autumn
with Barry Norman re-
opening The Chip Shop
on Radio 4 and Radio 1
listeners getting their
(i n corn puler sht pw with
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Mosaic Publishing has
come up with a new fully
illustrated text adventure
based on the book 'The
Saga of Erik the Viking'
by Terry Jones of Monty
takes you to 13 countries
around the world
collecting a whole host
of items apart from the
usual rubbish. In
Germany. for instance.
Trashman has to collect
the empties at a beer
festival, whereas in Paris
he devotes his skills to
newly-released frogs
outside a café!
TWTis available for
the 48K Spectrum and
costs a mere 15.95 from
'the usual stockists'.
'Dirty' phone calls
should be made to 0225
316924.
Python fame. This
package has been
programmed by Level 9
Computing and is
designed for all ages
from eight upwards.
'Ferry Jones himself
P r ote k 's fl exi bl e link m ode m can be us e d w i th j us t
thinks it's pretty good
a bout any old phone e x c e p t the Tr i m phone •
stuff and says. "It's a real
Protek device is battery-
Protek Computing has
extension of the book,
released their 1200
powered and completely
not a re-telling of the
Modem recently.
portable with a flexible
acoustic link Good news story p l a y i n g the
providing a computer/
game. even I don't know
for those with a fear of
telephone link which
what's going to happen
they claim is four times
the phone is that you
to Erik n e xt
as fast as any of its
don't need to adapt the
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The Saga of Erik the
system at all.The price is a
competitors.
.Viking costs 19.95 and
The modem is
competitive 159,95 and
comes with a 20-page
further details are
compatible with any
booklet including
RS232/243 computer — available from Protek
extracts from the original
Computing on 0506
although driving
book.
software is required. The 415353.
If the Aticr odr ives are dr iving you to delir ium , w hy
not take a l ook at the Wa l a dr i v e — an al ter nati ve
t a pe - ba s e d s tor a ge system for the S pectr um . The
devi ce us e d tw o s tr i ng/ fl oppy car tr i dges (cal l ed
Wafer s, w oul d you bel i eve?) w hi c h can each stor e
up to 1 2 8 K; the r e 's al so a Ce ntr oni c s and R5 2 3 2
I nte r fa c e lur king a r ound s om e w he r e as well.
Wafer s ar e avai l abl e at the r e a s ona bl e pr i ce of
£ 3 . 4 5 (16KI , £ 3 . 6 5 164K) and £ 3 . 9 5 1128K ), and the
w hol e bundl e will set you back C129.99_ P e r ha ps
the be s t ne w s is tha t the r e 's al r eady a r ange of
c om m e r c i a l s oftw a r e avai l abl e on Wafer . Cont a c t
Rotr oni c s on 0494 4 5 2 7 5 7 .
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