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An Argus Specialist Publication
June 1986
£1.50
FOR ALL SINCLAIR USERS
AMSTRAD:
what next
for Sinclair?
Competitions:
REVIEWS:
Specdrum QL software
Tantalus
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SOFTWARE REVIEWS
REGULARS
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NEWS 5
Pyracurse from Hewson, budget games from U.S. Gold.
•HARDWARE 22
A Great Little Printer, joystick, and back-up maker.
•ACROSS THE POND 54
News from America.
•CROSSWIRES 61
The ever helpful problem page.
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CROSSFIRE 64
Readers' letters.
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COLUMN 67
• W i l l the QL be bought from Amstrad?
Heavy on the Maglck
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SPECTRUM
Reviews begin 10: Bounces 18, V 44, Heavy on the
Maglck 42, Quazatron 50, Staretrlke II 66
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MINDPLAY 88
Our adventure Troll looks at a couple of budget titles.
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PAGE 81
The page for '81 owners.
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FEATURES
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Amstrad/Slnclalr: the latest news. 8
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CES Show: report on April's show. 20
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Never Mind the Keypad; an alternative to the 128*s
keypad. 26
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Checkmate: a look at micro Chess programs. 30
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Random Memory. 32
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OCP Offer: three games for the price of one! 34
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Realms of Interaction: create your own adventures. 35
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Quazatron Extra: Steve Turner reveals some of the
game's programming secrets. 52
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Faster Basic. 56
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Mlcronet: the country's most popular micro network. 58
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Beginner's Guide to Printers. 62
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Mlcronet Offer: Incredible value special offer for ZX
readers! 65
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QL SuperBaslc. 74
COMPETITIONS
• W i n
a Specdrum or Cheetah Joystick! 29
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Bounces:
over a hundred prizes to be won! 40
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Tantalus: games and joysticks up for grabs. 63
V3D
Slime and Graphics utilities for the QL. 73
Tantalus
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Build Your Own Bulletin Board. 92
PROGRAMMING PROJECTS
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Light Screen Designer: the final episode. 46
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Javelin: sporting fun on the QL.68
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One Day Cricket: Ian Botham on the QL.70
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Halloween: a Spooky Spectrum game. 79
^Underworld: a special adventure for the Spectrum. 82
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Art Studio Artist: new cartoon strip 98
Editor
Bryan Ralph
Assistant Editor
Cliff Joseph
Consultant Editor:
Ray Elder
Advertising Managers:
Peter Chandler
and
John
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1986
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B-VOtiflo Tq
"10 levels of fun make this torture excellent value
for money. Nova rating. Definitely one of those
'just another go" games. Game of the month
February''
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Computer Gamer
"The most compulsive game I've ever
played. If you don't buy it you'll never
know what you've missed." says Gary
Penn. Zzapl 64. Gold Medal Award.
97% overall.
CBM 64/128
5PECTRUM48K
€9.95 £12.95
£8.95 £13.95
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CASSETTE
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TechniQL
While you can search high and
low (or a decent arcade game
on the QL. graphics packages
tor the machine have been
popping out all over the ploce.
Talent were one of the first to
produce such a utility, with their
GraphiOL package, and they
have now produced a compli-
mentary program called
TechiQL lor use
with
their earlier
program.
T e c h n i Q L Is a C.A.D.
package which allows you to
produce drawings many times
larger than a single screen
area. It can be menu or
keyboard controlled, otters
'rubber banded' options tor
shape drawing, and allows you
to superimpose up to eight
layers of drawing on top o(
each other or to view them
separately, as well as many
more features (which you can
find out about from Talent on
041-552-2128), all lor
the
price ot
£49.95.
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Product plug
The national grid must be feeling a bit wobbly these
days If the constant stream of plug like devices Intended
to protect your computer from fluctuations In mains
voltage Is anything to go by. The latest device for
controlling the "spikes' In the mains Is the Powerclean
from Masterploce Products.
This could actually come In handy as It also acts as a
multi-socket adaptor allowing you to plug up to four
Items Into It. The Powerclean costs less than £20" which
we assume means £19.95, but you could always ring
Masterpiece on 0743-660512 and prove us wrong.
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Action
reflex...
QL Fortran
Mikronox
Mlkro-gen have announced
the r e l e a s e of two new
Spectrum game* Equinox and
Stainless Steel. Equinox is a hunt'
Ihe radioactive waste game set
on
a faraway
asteroid used as
a
dumping ground for the
earth's green
and
glowing
refuse All the humans have
understandlbly legged it from
the planet and you are a
disposable drold who must
dispose of radioactive can-
nlsters before they
turn
critical
and devastate the planet, you
must protect the mining com-
plex and rich seams
ol
minerals
from annihilation.
The cannlsters are scattered
throughout the mine
but
you
cant change levels until you've
secured level passes and to do
this you have to figure out
how
to use a variety of tools and
machines left by the miners.
If you fancy saving the earth.
Stainless Steel, gives you the
chance as Ricky Steel, the teen-
age superhero struggling lo
defend
the
world
from the robot
troops controlled by
the
Immensely evil Dr Vardos. Ricky
has a
|et car
and when
In flight
Mlkroaen say, "you have the
capability to spin and fire
double barrelled anti-matter
plasma bolts In 16 different
directions."
Mikrogen add the "the
game boasts the fastest and
smoothest two directional
Inertia scrolling yel seen on the
Spectrum,"
Is the name ol the next game from Mirrorsott, once they've gol
Biggies out of the way.
The game has you guiding a lennis ball around four
obstacle course* each course containing 25 screens. Along
the way their ore crushing machines, magnets, monsters and
bottomless pits all waiting lor you to make a wrong bounce
Then of course there's the clock that counts down as you go
around the courses and deducts points from your score all the
nexl time.
Reflex Action will be bouncing your way for |usl £7.95.
Prospero Software, a
company specialising In
language software for nome
micros, has produced a Pro
Fortran 77 package for the
QL. Aimed primarily at
professional computer users
ttie package will cost £99
and Is available directly
from Prospero, who can be
contacted on 01*7414531.
It's for
you-hoo...
Now lhat
Beyond have Joined
Telecom they've started playing
around with the phones Doom-
dark's Revenge, the second in
the lords
of
Midnight trilogy, has
been
turned
into an 'excillng
dramatisation'
that
you can
dial up
and
listen to ovef
the
phone
The
Doomdark
drama
is
playing between now ond mid-
June in twelve three-minute
episodes, Each episode can be
heard on a separate phone
number
Episode one is on 00771-1101
and
the following
episodes on
00771-1102 through to 1112.
Commodore
and Amslrad
owners will
be
getting the full
version of the dramatisation on
cassette when they buy the
game though ol course the
Spectrum version was out long
before all this got started
However Beyond may be con-
tinuing
this
trend
with
Eye ol The
Moon, the final episode In the
trilogy
which
should be com-
pleted
later
this year.
Changes at Beyond
Those wacky types over at Beyond have gone and gotlen
themselves a new bos* Francis lee (the not very wacky one with
the glasses) and also announced their next two games to follow
on from Bounces Dante's Inferno based on the mega-poem
by Dante himself. It's produced by Denton Designs who were
also responsible for Bounces, and will be followed In July by
Dark Sceptre trom Mike Slnglelon (and why isn't he hard at work
on I. Of The Moon?). Both games will cost £995.
ZX Computing Monthly
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June 1986
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