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THE U N I V E R S E ' S B E S T- S E L L I N G S P E C T R U M M A G I
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fellows_ WSJ should not be able to hear this message
as it is designed to be covered up by a tape. This
tape I am reliably informed contains the spook
French ganr Captain Etiood 128K and, to protect
from the r i ng tide of International Communism. has
been taken Into protective custody by the proprietor
of this very newsagent. Retsieve this tape at all
costs! Even though its tree, or something This
message will self-destruct in 127 years:
They' S W o y i n g everything in
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new Speccy hardware rolls in
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Editor Dennis Nast). Art Editor Dennis
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Power, Dennis Shopper. Classic Dennis.
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Dennis Woodwerking, Dennis Music,
Dennis D Formal and Cross Dennis ate all
slightly embarrassed to associate with VS.
alutations. Spec-chums, and welcome to
another friendly issue of YS. Sharp-eyed
readers will already have noticed the
absence of Tipshop. This is because Linda was
taken seriously ill this month. It was a bit hairy
at one point, but everything seems to be okay
now, and it's lust a case of wailing for our
beloved ex-Ed to recover. Apparently she's
already getting through about half a box of
porridge per day, so things must be looking up.
I'm sure you'll all loin us in a hearty
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Get well soon, sausage!
If you read the newsliash below, you'll see the
rise and fall of what I have little doubt would
have been a dandy Speccy game. The decision
to drop it is excrementally bad fortune, as
we've seen a demo and it looks and plays
rather damn well. Tragically it looks as if you'll
not gel the chance to actually buy the game –
particularly ironic when two of our reviews this
month are of SAM programs. I'd welcome your
letters on the subject.
This month sees Input Output clearing its
monstrously large backlog of reader ads in one
three-page spectacular. Guess who had to type
out the whole thi ng? Yup. Anyway, enough
wibble. As Screaming Jay explodes Into the
Shed, it's time to head for the rest of the mag
Happy trails.
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Publishing, a company founded lust seven
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computer magazines than any other
publisher fri Britain We offer
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written by the best in the business.
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M t Y OUR SINCLAIR J ul y 1993
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REVIEWS
30 Commando
9 D o c t o r Wh o — Dalek Attack
11 S A M E- T racker (well, it's sort of
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31 Sw o rd s and Sorcery
31 W W F
TH E R EGU LA R S
34 Back Issues
4 B e a u t Box
26 Dial H a r d
25 Er nie The Psychotic M a dm a n
22 Input Output special
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prime classifieds, plucked from the
ripest bunches and presented to you on
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extremely strange_ Capt ain Blood is no
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the Odd brothers of Ilfracombe, who were
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dimension bearing not a small resemblance to
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entirely the wrong angle, with the result that
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Blood was cloned. To cut a long (but
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somehow. YS2 anyone?) story short. Blood
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(called Numbers ) and re-absorb them
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to replenish and stabilise his slowly
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interstellar travel and small talk, with
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Blood, and has actually
magnanimously agreed to
starter hints, seeing as h
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good at
it as horn (he says)
'The real skill behind Skiixiis your
interviewing technique. Whenever you
speak to somebody, always ask about
the Numbers. Teleport (11 they agree.
they're undoubtedly friendly). Co-
ordinates (t1 you're lucky, they'll reel off
a nice list of other inhabited plants), and
Ondoyante (everybody fancies her)
'Certain characters are a bit tricky to get
along with Giving everything away would be
a bit pointless, but here's something to go on
with. Yoko, the unspeakably nice lzwal, has
had his pater kidnapped, but blubs so much
you have trouble getting a word in
edgeways. So as a fine, upstanding, sneaky
Captain Blood player, you should lure him on
your ship with promises of help, take him to
an uninhabited planet, and drop him off He
scares easily, yrsee. and lets fly with all sorts
of useful info. Than you can nuke him, or
whatever.' (Boo! Hiss! Thousands of soft-
hearted readers)
'Er, sorry, starters.
a bit of mass destruction throw in. You have to
zap around the galaxy tal Hydra on the trail of
the Numbers, stopping off at planets
and questioning the inhabitants who,
being generally self-serving sorts of
characters, will probably send you off
on a mini-quest before they let you in
on what they know. Tch Bl ood's ship,
the Ark, is controlled by a bio-
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Wood's Ark.
2. Fridgitortum.
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Flying through M e fra cta l sce ne ry of that emollItely-
named planet, e t. 132-002. Yoko the I lwa t la a l kite end of
this canyon, but don I bothe r e niting that down because
the co-ordlna t•s change with e ve ry new game N e i
consciousness called Honk. Honk, in an effort
to keep the ailing Blood alive, has been
replacing his organs with bio-mech supports,
but things are reaching a critical stage. Blood
cannot bec ome a robot, and needs to re-
absorb the Numbers to survive.
As the game progresses. Blood's
hand will get shakier as his fluids
thin away, This is quite normal. Do
not panic. Then again, it is a visual
reminder that Blood is dying, sp
perhaps panicking might be a good
idea. (Yikes,1
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Antenna Simple creatures. the Antenna are
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really very friendly. Maybe too friendly.
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Buggol Beings with a particular social
behaviour, being obsessively democratic. All
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belong to Yatanga, which is the only political
party, whose aim is to defend democracy as
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is not fixed. As soon as a
of office
Buggol attains a majority, he is elected. Since
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all are eligible for high office, Presidents tend
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to change very frequently, sometimes every
five minutes Al the time Captain Blood takes
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place, a Buggol remains on Rosko He can't
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be elected, due to the shortage of electors.
He would need two more votes to become
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President of Rosko. An impostor, Yukas, who
doesn't even live on the planet has fixed the
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election and become President, with the
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result that Rosko is in political upheaval.
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almost human. Very cultured, but humble
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Masters
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r e paks Ridiculous creatures who smoke
tromp tails (supposedly aphrodisiac) and eat
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pills. Not very smart. Rumour has it they
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inspired the early Pacman games.
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great travellers. Highly intelligent, they carry
U news around the galaxy. Excellent
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negotiators. Their slyness is legendary
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Numbers Blood's clones. There are five of
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them: Number One, Number Two. Number
The Ark is incapable of a planetary landing.
Instead. Honk gives birth to (don't ask) and
Three, Number Four and that (Whoops! Ed)
Number Five
Ondoyantes Originally from the planet
Ondoya. these are dream creatures They
appear beautiful to those whom they like, and
ghastly to those they detest. This way,
everyone knows where they stand.
Robheads Long ago, Hydra was invaded by
bionic armies of android combat-robots with
orders to lake charge i0( a few thousand
years. When the Hydraris got fed up with
them, things went hideously sour for the
robots. A few decapitated units managed to
keep some systems functioning They are the
Robheads. They're just robot heads with a
few memory zones still working Completely
harmless, they just he there They can't even
reproduce. unless some passing geneticist
takes a hand
Sinox Hardworking and Intelligent, the Sinox
are the technology whizzluds of the galaxy.
Tricephals Very interesting genetically
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. hese being have three android heads, each
of which is equipped with an amazing tongue
(it says here).
Tromps inoffensive creatures, if somewhat
stubborn Their hair is highly prized by the
Sinox as snuff
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. ubular Drainers The only race so far
known to have tubular brains. Their
intelligence is quite particular and difficult to
grasp Inscrutable, that's the word.
Vukas Belligerent and underhand characters.
No class at all. Little is
known of their customs.
creeping towards
each other across the
screen. To avoid
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It's a right old game. this ca nt, , n la rk. Sort of like
Tenon In Spa ce . re a lly. You know, lots of M e Blood gre a l
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Number. Ot t . and Yo u Ja ne '. of course . (Not re a lly.l
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xterior vision/control panel mode Click on mouth icon is still moving, it has more to say.
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Click on the mouth to reveal the next
exterior vision icon to enter that mode, or
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icon (ie, the eye is closed) to
sentence. When the mouth has stopped, click
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on your icons to make a sentence, then click
turn to the
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being can choose to break off the
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Universal Protocol of Communication) comes Teleport When you transport beings aboard
the Ark, they are put in suspended animation
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in the fridgitortum. The icon will not be active
munication using icons. The icon
unless they have agreed to be teleported
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utions, one rapid (click on the bar just below Cremate being Once in the Indgitonum.
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icons) and one slow (place Blood's finger beings am be disintegrated. If the being is a
the bottom left or right of the screen). Honk Number, Blood will recover some vital fluid.
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Other beings' fluids are incompatible with
II translate an icon as you move Blood's
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Blood's biochemistry.
Inger over it, though with practice you'll be
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the being's vocabulary, that icon will be
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anked out, (This gives you a good idea of
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Oorxx destroy mission A crack nuclear
suicide Oorxx zaps the planet irretrievably.
Dorxx geophoto mission In order to
determine whether a planet has defences,
you can teleport an Oonot into low orbit to
collect aerial pictures. Click on the icon once
for a medium altitude scan and twice for a
altitude scan.
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sends down Oorxx, a sort of space fish fitted
with biomissiles and sub-radio links. You have
to control the Oorxx as it zips across the
planet surface. An arrowed blip shows which
way you should steer, and when the bhp
flashes, you're directly on course. It there are
planetary defences, t wo arrows will start
them meeting and
blowing the Oonot up,
fly as low as possible.
When you reach the end
of the canyon. you'll find
either a being or. et
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stays on the planet, so if you return there, you
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can o t h n that flying around, Phew
a Captain Blood is, or, a captainy big game.
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a l l a time limit of 45 hours, a galaxy of
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32.768 planets and a cast of about 50. Good
O save option, eh? (Actually, this in itself 1
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old o
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worthy of a mention - you can only load a
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saved game before the clock reaches five
minutes, otherwise you can only save, •OnN
sneaky types and defective clones save the
game after every action! You're neither of
those, are you?' grins the manual. Well, we
liked it.) Oh, and before you start sending in
tips about who's to be found where, the game
generates all the planet co-ordinates randomly
at the beginning of even/ game.
Have fun, and don't let the
Migrax grind you down. The fate
of one ethically unsound
computer programmer
is in your hands.
c
ONTROLg
, Sinclair or Cursor
or keys. CI - up, A - down,
P r i ght, SPACE - select.
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