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ass the balance. According to the tape
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e universe and chromatic harmony in
to bring light perception to the sensitive
universe. According to Leonard Sasquatch.
f_trocia's milkman, I s 3D ping-pong with loads
of weird obstacles. We're inclined to believe
Lenny. mainly because he'll cancel Linda's
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your friends round and pretend it's Level
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blocks that leave you about six
inches of space to squeeze through T
can't actually be harmed by thrumming
these obstacles (come to that, neither
you) but it the ball rebounds from one and
reaches the back of the screen, you'll lose a
lite. Caramba. ell?
To help you, there are bonus icons dotted
around the place. The pattern on the icon
gives you a good idea of what that particular
power pill does a tor example. the one with
hay* argued
two lines on gives you another bat to control:
end yews
the one shaped like an L gives you an extra
life, and so on. (In other words, the
instructions didn't list them so we don't
know either). But that's not the best of al
• f f you find yourself criticising the
i .,., c or r i dor s as you blurt down them,
.s ne e ring at the pitifully easy traps and
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for a packet of oatmeal) the funniest parody of
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all (as demonstrated by this bit of blurb taken
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straight from the inlay). (Cough, twiddle tie,
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adopt pnnt equivalent of a hammy radio actor in
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he far rractics of the rysz, to the d a r o / 1 care,
thc 41.4, the awesome power of the great TOng uus
knoWn. Even in the Shire home of the frtirry-looted &Holt,
Titre thi Jet hoggis chum. he made merry, undistuettel by
its evii was _Imre& k n e w °fi t. ail tkcept fordo aggist.t.
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the ascent appearance of tail, hooded nders with fl aming red
eyes. jound 'uniting unusual' in it. such was his stupidity.
A ll he knew was that there was going to be a parry_ And
t io t h e i meant l o o t
game's not terribly difficult (though a knowledge
of Tolkien's books might come in handy) and all
in all it's a lovely taster for the considerably
tougher (and even funnier) Part Two,
which will be on the tape next month.
Beware of the trees'
Your k e y b o a r d
brown l a u g h in
and a
Good. eh? Basically, you're Fordo. and
you've been given the task of destroying the
Great Ring. In Part One you have to get as far
as the Gate of Dormor in one piece, collecting a
party of fellow adventurers on the way. The
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of Sexton Blake, famous Holmesian
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icons, or whatever. Easy peasy,
eh? I'll even lend you my truncheon
to wallop the villains with, Wallop
wallop wallop' it goes Then I have
a bit of a rest Then it's wallop wallop wallop'
again. (Don't ever let this woman near
my magazine again. Ed)
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Sergeant Seymour. He merely rid/Listed hks tie, pueed el
the bottom or his ticket and grinned cheekily.
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truncheon
ava f r o m W a r e h o u s e for
only E9.99 CIEs the best truncheon I've
ever needlessly thumped a suspect
with' - Constable Rasputin Wheelytil
'I laughed until my head fell off' -
Loony, Evening Chronicle)
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COMPILER
using machine code, every vertical blank. So,
the simplest BASIC program you can use to
play the music is:
10 CLEAR (compiled address)-1
20 LOAD "songname" CODE
30 RANDOMIZE USA (init_song)
40 LET a$=INKEYS: IF " T H E N
RANDOMIZE USA (init_song): STOP
50 PAUSE 1; RANDOMIZE USR (play, song):
GOTO 40
Incredibly simple, eh? Just press SPACE to stop
the music (as they say). And that's that
(as they say).
tape. When the song has loaded, choose the
Delay Rate (le, the speed of the song - usually
six) and Compile it to the memory address that
most appeals to you. (Try 32768 if you can't
think of anything else.) If you're doing something
extremely clever with machine code, you can
now save the music file to tape (or 41) disk) and
fiddle with it to your heart's content. Otherwise.
select the Merge Play Routine option, This adds
the bit of code that plays the music. (The reason
for being able to save a compiled song without
the play routine is that you can play loads of
songs using lust the one chunk ot execution
code. thus saving memory.) You'll now get a lot
of numbery information on the screen. Grab a
piece of paper and write it all down, then Save
the complete file.
Right again. You're now ready to play that
funky song. Quit from ST Dampier CLEAR the-
address-you-compiled-to-minus-one and LOAD
your compiled song. Glance back at that bit of
paper. The Init_Song address is the routine you
have to call In order to set up the sound
channels, (If you call it a second time, it turns
the music off.) The Play Song number is the
address you call every TV frame, or, if you're
Don't t o
t h e Device to taps
before you start. And, while you're
allowed to use Soundfracker songs in
your own programs, please credit 1321
and his utterly amazing creation. It's notI
1
a lot to ask. Is it?
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