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But time IS runnlng out for computer snoops...
Computer hackers have been given awaited anti-hacking Bill has failed to make it through the House of
Commons. Tory MP Emma Nicholson has been
lobbying Parliament for months trying to outlaw the hackers via her special Pri-

served its purpose, if, as | :'oe --e -r-. ernment accepts its conced[ a-r: -ai,= a place for early legislaton-' Although the Government :FJ_, to take action it does not {ee :e:r-e s lFce right. Douglas Hurd and the will want to have all the fac= r. them this September befut :r=-3 -ane

Bill may not survive

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irt i any moves. lf they do ce:'- r 3c

ahead they hope to move

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Computer hacking has beby the influential CBI (Con1e:r-.:r d -'E Business and lndustry) as British Computer Society, the r:TrE C

s*.1

rrr:ec

rel -

a last

minute reprieve

Even

so, the

Government

has

the

long

endorsed the notion of criminalising computer hacking. Home secretary Douglas Hurd has said that the Government is

"The Law Commission are looking into the question of whether the law needs to

Chartered Accountants, Sc-.a-i =d and a number of big narr,e -avre

manufacturers.

be changed, and, if so, how. We

will

seriously considering legislation

own to tackle the problem.

of

its

need to consider their report carefully but quickly in order to decide how best the law can be mobilised to deal with an
undoubted mischief." Even be{ore her Bill was to be presented to the Commons, Nicholson admitted that it stood little chance of survival. lt was placed eighth in order of debate on
July 7th.

vate Members

Bill

She wanted to

impose a ten year prison sentence on

serious offenders. However, her Bill wasn't even deemed important enough to be discussed in the Commons last Friday.

The Home Office is waiting for the Law Commission's report on hacking before it takes any further action. That should be ready in September. Hurd said: 'We welcome the valuable work which Emma Nicholson has done in researching this serious problem and bringing it to public attention.

:a computer systems. That a6ret s clearly being rgnored by the 131 :- -h

Those against legislation

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hacking is useful since

it expcse eear

companies which have backec 's-oson's Bill and will surely bacx '-:-re
Government legislation.

The MP for West Devon and Tonidge and former ICL programmer said: "My

Nicholson and her supporters aEJe that hacking is not only costing Br'iar-. millions of pounds but could also ccst
lives.

Upstanding Citizen
-Citizen last week launched a low dost 24-pin printer which it hoPes will catch the imagination of home
and small business usersr' The Swift 24 is a followon to Citizen's 9rin budget offering, the 120D, which scored considerable success in the UK. This model weighs in at an impressive 1389. It boasts a printing speed of 192 cps and can be upgraded to colour capability for f.38. Also, the printer sports a neat LCD front panel controller. Citizen reckons more than 60,000 Europeans will be buying its printer within the next nine . Suift takes offt 2{-pin
cheapo

To boldly g0...
These impressive graphics are com-

ing to PC owners later this year

courtesy of Mindscape. The game for the new Star Irek film, it is promised, will feature graphics and
hitherto unreachable. All the famous members of game, which the crew will feature in the

personal characterisations

puts you in Captain Kirk's over lage

chair. Mindscape boasts: 'Sitting in front

of the computer is like looking

into the movie screen."

direcdy

months.
I 5 JULY 1989

It's not the first time we've tcad thd claim but judging by this (onty orc d ifp title screens) it might have a Star Irek V : The Final Frcxrtjer v) be out on the Amiga and Mac

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UK.

for

chine would be stm ar in all the facts belore they make that dect- that the appearance the .Japanese verson. Sion," said NEC's Jim lVclvven "And

new

to computing

we

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The latest on US software publisher Sottware Toolworks

sion standards, the rmporters need

amend the machine's internal

workrngs

to for the UK, although it's

hard

to say

gamtng graphics

when a decision will be made or when

t sold nearly haif a millron withrn the frrst month rn.Japan '

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An adventure game based on Shakespeare's best loved plays is to be launched by Topologika.
Avon uses plots, puzzles and problems lrfted from the lrkes of Macbeth, Hamlet, The Merchant of Ventce and A Mtdsum. mer /V/ght's Dream But, says the publi:her, you don't have to be a Shakespeare buff to get through the game

wntten rn the style of the Bard, which adds a lot of

atmosphere " It's available on the PC, PCW,

Freehies for 1040

Astute ST buyers might be tempted by a new offer on the 1040 ST.
Trade distributor Parkfield rs sh pping its dealers a 1499 1040 pack whrch fea tures f220 worth of free software Thrs includes Hyperpatnt, Hyperdraw arganiser, Frrst BAS/C as well as a

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Pornographic bulletin boards are
fast becoming a thing of the past. Whilst lhe modem worid was awash
with pornography a year ago, much of its proponents have given up This appears to be a direct consequence of a strrng of national newspaper and lelevision exposures highlighting what was
becomrng a blot on the comms world The I ondon Underground's Brran RriDin. son (who used to feature porn) told Express: "l don't bother wrth rt myself but

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Brain-like chip arrives

Hi-tech leader lntel launched
"brain-like" super chip last week.
It's capable of carryrng out an astonish, ing two billion calculations every second a

been recognised as the way forward, although previous efforts have been badly flawed they farled to store data
after the power was switched off lntel's baby contains an amazing 64 processing elements, all connected to

points That adds up to 8,192

n e

intercon

cPc

Amiga ST PC Spectrum 64

ctton s

and is clarmed

to be 100 times

faster

than the best conventronal chips

As is often the case with new techno o gy rt's gorng to be used by the mtlltary frrst The US Navy wants to rmplement rt

Neural network technology has long

each other, as well as

64 data

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NEW COIiIPUTER EXPRESS

15 JUIY

1989.3

New Computer Express readers are a bunch of wallet wavers when it

comes to computing. According to a survey con-

ous software and J34 on games This clearly proves that Express readers are
amongst the most committed

months. I3 per cent want an Amiga whilst 12 per cent will

proving that the notion

be getting an ST

clear division

The

and active punters

computer industry
tionnaire:

PORN AGAIN?
Porn is on the way out of bulletin boards, it

ducted last month, readers spent an average of 1144

over the past two months on computer hardware And you spent 146 on serio
ad"d

in

the

by 8 per cent Surprisingly, the next haghest is the SAM

Coupe at 3 per cent

Archimedes is being targeted

Still, 12 per cent use their micros only for games and 5 exclusively for seri-

is

of

nonsense

A few results of the

l::

...,

ques-

seems. More and more system operators are closing those sections of their board because it's just too much trouble to keep them going: not enough interest from the

O 84 per cent of readers

O 15 per cent of readers will buy a PC within the next 12

use their computers for both seri-

ous and leisure purposes

(6

hi):.:

\r:4.n,.?,

users, far too much interest from the

media, and boring practicalities like those meaty graphics taking up too much room on the board that could be used for more interesting things like PD comms utilities. h's a bit like newsagents taking girlie mags otf their shelves; the stutl is still available if you know where to look, but it looks as if something is being done. Real. ly, nothing's changing. Computer games deal in stereotypes more and more, the adverts are as dreadful as ever and the proportion of women using computers at home is still extremely small.

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6;

O 86 per cent ol readers are over 16 the highest single age bracket is between 25 and 34 (30 per cent) but it's fairly even gradations up to
the over 60s

titles of bygone times

on a new budget label
called Pocket Soft.

More cheapo 16.bit games }N$_ CRA ing its popular

French software house lnfogrames is re-releas15-bit

O Most readers spend between five and trventy hours a week on their computers (63 per cent) Frve per cent spend riore, fian thtrty
hours a r,ieek aornputrng O Two thrrds 3i :eade.s use computers at ,1a.i ritcabng a high levei .I -:rp::er l[eracy

The first game to be repackaged is Captain

8/ood

UK ENGINEERIilG?
NEC is considering a UK version of the PC Engine, the games console cunendy avail.

ed scr-fi arcade adventure - for the ST and Amiga,

the highly regard-

priced 19

99

The firm

able only through firms which import it trom Japan. While many games players would welcome this, a console is not
assured of the success in the Britain that it's had in America or Japan, where it is as essential an item in the home as the video. There are several arguments against"it. First is that America and Japan have no

hopes to cash in on the increasing number of ST

and Amiga owners looking

for good games at

ward
games.

low

Scanner in the works...

Kempdo.l to ib

pflces Such users can look for-

to an
;

h6 ur*d a Lwmde rariEpad4r Daacar

increasing

number of publishers turn-

rng their hand

to

alongwitraffisczr*rg
devicewih a
per irrch
two

Caled Daaasczr

Ptr I

cooBs

cheapo

l6-bit games market

unlike Britain,

(fi] ei a rzr

rcsdind&dob
peed of

where the ST or Amiga can be used as a

games machine. Second is that America and Japan are more affluent economies where a higher proportion of income is
spent on electronic equipment.

First Blood: lnfogrames'initial bargain

certirEEs errf secud. h cosb f219 hr erdg usrs can p** it l+ tor t6

Thhd, and perhaps most interesting, is

that we're so used to sottware piracy

Hushing up the fans

the noise of the cooling fan on your
It PC drives you com.

even just giving your mate a copy at work

or in the

playground

that

uncopyable

cartridge games rflouldn't have a chance. 0f course, the fact that perhaps six small companies make a living importing Japanese PC Engines reveals a definite

cut down the noise pollution. No-Noise cuts down the speed of the fan until it matches the surrounding

requirement. Fitting the device into the back ol your

PC is a

COMPUTER
FA
Security's massive

pletely up the wall there's a solution.

ESL has come up

bit ditficult

and takes about half an hour. lt costs More on 01 542

market there. But NEC will

probably

i75.

decide that the risks are too great.

with a small device which it claims can

temperature and the PC's cooling

8101.

comput- fn the depa.:-e-: :: leet the erisation program has cost costs. Tl,, x --, r;, crafted taxpayers fl billion more tn to pre!e-: :-: - - s3 hav.

The Department of Social \make dras:: :_.= :searhere

Covet picture from House ol Commons Public lnformation 0tfice photographic collection
EDITOR

than expected, it irras

revealed last week. The programme stood to be Europe's
computensation plan

ing

Rob Ainsley Colin Campbell

NEWS EDITOR

only have cost 1713 million (Parlrameni soeak for comBut alleged mismanagement pletely appalirng) and called has meant bills totalling for a hghtening up of the

- should ation -mcst

largest

under- An all-ca6, :l.nmrttee

[,4Ps last ,r,eer

Parliament

to g3 ::, - nund '0. ::.e iunds

to of

.aited the situ,jnsatisfactory

I1,749

million

PRODUCT]ON

EDII0R

Rod Lawton

manual At one polnt, the ministry system dealing with 24 million admrtted it was paying a conpeople and comprises sultancy firm l5I2 a day tor 33,000 computers in 1,300 work which did not need to be

It

replaces

filing of

organrsatr0n

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[iIANAGER lVark Salmon

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15 JULY I989

Xenon the art of game maintenance

Fledgling publisher lmpressions

been forced

to

make graphical f?4.gg..

has

able on the ST and Amiga and.costs

changes to its new game Chariots ot Wrath.

The small firm has amended background graphics after

protests from Mirrorsoft that some of it resembled Xenon 2. Mirrorsoft ltlas alerted to the similarities after

Of

|/l/RAIH

charting
the

PC.

just Mage first flow program for

has

speculation amongst the gaming

press that that the two games

looked the same. Publicly, lmpressions is calling it

Windows such as search and to replace. GEM - the program pro- The progra is convides a full library of flow trolted via a erres of
Microsoft's answer
diagrams

soft

Running under

Micro-

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cur. the mbols can n five sizes can add text,

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done by. Clearly,

feels hard lmpressions

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would not have been able to atford expensive legal shenanigans with a major power such as Mirrorsoft.

Aeon has used

spreadsheet . Chariots of Wrath: Amendments

The multi-stage game is avail.

symbols are placed. Cells are highlighted so you're

of cells in which the

like matrix

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ten games on a CD whrch can be

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a custom-made rnterface That connects the micro to

the CD, Walkman or stereo
system via the headphone socket, Each game can be
loaded in 30 seconds Dubbed the 1st CD Edition, it includes well loved hits such as Dropzone and /mposslb/e

loaded onto the C64 using a standard player together with

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Rainbow Arts is also hoping

to develop a similar system for the ST and Amiga The firm's Mark Ullrich told
Express:

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won't be out

before Christmas These are

very hard to develop " It is understood that a lead-

ing British firm is also planning such a scheme

which should be ready for
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Prisoners banged up in Avon's Leyhill Prison are being given the chance to learn computing.
The prison has installed a Bull XPW100 mini computer so convicts can prepare for employment
at the end of their sentences

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lnmates will learn software development programming

and

The long running 'simulation'

titles will be appearing on a number of packs later this year along

techniques, "Soon they wlll be UNIX experts and l'm sure they new computer will ensure they go

with full price games such

Rock Star.,.

they leave," said a spokesman ,

.

on to find worthwhile jobs

when

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NEWCOI/IPUTER EXPRESS

15 JULY

1989.

Amstrad has slashed between f50 and tl50 off the price of its 2086
machines.
The market leader in low cost

PCs

is

aiming

to

increase its

firm Romtec to be 48 8

already substantial share of the pickings - reckoned by research

per

cent (8086 sector) Whilst the entry level machine

will remain at J599 all higher models will be cheaper from August lst A PC 2086 single

drive 14 inch colour

display

A complete STOSser
Student Simon Cook has scooped a f5,000 prize lor lis etrort on he SI0S games writing competition. His entry Cartoon Capers incorporates martial arb agdrd a Iom and Jetry type scenario. The game u,as rvritten on Mardarhi garEs creator prtogram SI0S for the ST. CadoonCapers will be released laterhis year on tre ST ild fudga at

to 1799
to be
phony.

model will drop from !149 lo 1699, a dual drive with 14 inch display goes down from 1899

and the hard disk model goes down I150 to f999

All the machines will continue bundled with integrated business package Lotus Sym"We've seen the PC2086 take more than 14 per cent ol the

fl9.95.
.
PC2086: Cheap and cheerful

months of production, and this

in the face of price

tor

Malcolm lViller

"Those

8086 market in the first

six

slashing frqm lBM," said marketing direc-

manceuvres have had only a marginal effect The time is right to offer people a tremendous incentive to buy our 2086 models He added: "We're giving

"

away an added value of 1550

on every model
"

Amstrad walked all over the low end PC market nearly three years ago when it launched the cheap PCI512, lt has continued stomping on competitors with

the 1640 and, to a

lesser extent, the PC2000 range which were launched last September Meanwhile, bullish Amstrad is cutting between 150 and f100

Cartoon Capers: ST0S generated

off its range of printers. The entry level DMP 3160 goes
down to f 149 whilst the upmarket LQ 5O0O dips to 1399 ,e

SNIPPETS'. SNIPPETS O SI'iIPPETS

a
Samsung has introduced "hot
line

support" for buyers of its PCs Anyone wantng to find out more about Samserve should call 01 935 0993

Am$rad Castie C;r::i:': Ladbroke Computing nternalo"a and Silicon

Vrsron,

Commodore's footie mad

Football crazy Commodore is to sponsor a new soccer maga-

o
a
Erght c0mputer companres have been include

Accolade's ocourar Goif srmuation

Jack Nrcklaus Greatest as yet

]8

Holes os to

hauled up by the Advertising Stan-

be converted to the Amiga No prices

dards Authority These

zine using its

cy.

own

computer technoloThe firm has put its support behind Free

What's in a name?
Newcastle computer dealer Brian Dixon has finally decided to change the name of his shop after months of protests from high steet giant Dixons. Dixon's Computer Centre will be called Micro-Tyne from the beginning of

new weekly football mag with an

expected initial circula-

Kick,

tion of 80,000 lt will be given away at fool

ball grounds all around the country,

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}-^[players Each
the and

*, *ds
month's will Amiga
a

next month. Last February he rvas threatened with injunctions by Dixons because he was using their name (which aho happened to be his own) on
the shop front. Although he has stood his ground for months Oixon admits the name was a pain. "The sort of people I wanted in he shop were lust walking past,' he claimed. "They want an independent dealer t0 sort out fteir problems.' Dixon himsell is moving premises and has decided that the time is right to change his name. Newcastle boasts two Dixons stores both of which sell similar computing kit to Brian.

Football mad: Commodore loves it

Commodore

will

be the

responsible for a week-

Rankings. These will be carefully analysed data

favourite charity.

ly
6

feature called

Commodore Computer

concerning all league's teams

top ranking player

be gven an

Commodore already sponsors first division

Chelsea.,i;

which he'll donate to

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Do you thrnk games reviewers could actually add to the problem of prracy? MegaSoft spend I50,000 on a game developrng tt, advertising and marketing tt etc, and tt takes a year to wrrte After they have finished it, they send it to a magazine to be reviewed, where tt gets a bad review The reviewer totally slags the game, the programmers and the company off, and generally extracts the urine Fine, but what rf the game was lust not his cup of tea and he just hates it? There may have been thousands of peopie out there who would have lrked the game and bought it but declded not to because of the revtew As a result, the game flops and l\4egaSoft lose a lot of m0ney Undeterred, Mega Soft release another game that again cost them a lot to develop, thrs tirne tt's a success and everyone loves it Trouble is, because they lost so much on the first game they have to charge t24 95 of {29 95 Ior this one So everyone copres it trom John up tl'e road So, Mega Soft go under and another company goes to that great liqurdator rn the sky However,

geat game when the copy you've got was given to you free (probably wih a tew fieebies like l-shirts tool. 9ut how many games can you really aflord to buy a year? A dozen at most probab,y. So any game you buy has to be a real corker this

incredibly addictive, groud-breaking, graphically stunning and so on. We lhink we can tell a good game lrcm a bad one withoul personal prejudice, which is why we only reconmend ilrc games we really think you'll be playing in No yearc and not rcgrefiing the outlay - and il a company gets upset because we slag ofl their atrocious game, well that's tough. lt they bring out a good one we'll give them the praise it deserves.

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Your correspordert Nerr Barnes (Express 33) exaggerates when he says You tend to read any review with a prnch of salt if software revtews were read with "a prnch of salt" then there are several magazrnes whrch would cl0se tomorrow and several more stuck on the shelves of

perhaps rf the reviewer had not slagged off the frrst game and lust presented the bare facts then the entire story could have been a lot happier Now, l'm not getting at Express because I thrnk your revrews on the whole are pretty factual and to the pornt, although I nolrced Fielding lVellrsh gettrng trappy rn the STAG revrew (Express 30) so perhaps you could tell hrm to shut up and lust grve us the bare facts Perhaps games revrewers should realise that they have a lot of power when they review a game and can derer.nrne a game s or even d conpdn) s
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newsagents Some magazines are dedicated to games revtews - that's therr lob and that's why people buy them! OK. so advertisrng and packagrng may be hyped but we can usually see through that What better way of purchasing something than when it's recommended? Who better to recommend it than a revrewer who at least has tried the oroduct ard nas based his/ her opinron on a standard criterra of attarnment? for one wrll continue to read the rev ews especrally those rn Express as would hope that the same honesty and rntegrity rs used on the revrew of software as is usual throughout the magazine Keep up the good work KG Ashberry, Cheadle, Cheshke
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Mark

Will

s, Shrew sbury, Shropshrre

Gosh, thanks very much.We're onty doing our job.

t doubt very much that a single good or bad review makes that much diftercnce to sales. Maybe if a gane gets slagged ofl by every magazine then it might llop, but tten its the softuare house'staultlor releasing such a nall game (as it alnost ceftainly is il
everyone junks it). ll anything, I think that reviewets on most magazines ma,|' games tat too highly ft's

closed rn such a poor manner, lnstanfly destroyrng the true purpose of hrs letter I have no rnterest in piracy debates, but I do have an interest rn martral arts Computer magaztnes already portray us as thugs (Express s certainly not the brggest culprrt) without people like Mr Partis contrrbuting to the rmages raised by "beat 'em up" games Although he should not have made such a comment, Express should not have prrnted t either Computer magazrnes already get bad pubiicity too because people belreve they glorfy sex and vrolence to young people Thrs hasn't put me off Express rt's strll the best general mag around P Boc1, Derby, Derbys

Soueauc oRorHER
There is a bug rn ST owners' brarns wh.cl- rrakPs lhem lhrnk tha( thetr computer s better than anyone else's Thrs also aflects Commodore, Spectrum and Amrga owners Anyway, my BBC +8086 co processor is better than all your computers Only lokrng - l've got a Dragon, Spectrum, Amrga Laurence Sheed. London

Maybe plated tn the bug in AMTGA owners' brains which makes them write the word AMIGA and the NAMES of any GAMES they own in CAPIIAT LETTERS.

Maantt ttw
Concernrng Mr Partrs'letter (Express 34) and hrs implred challenge to pirates to fight t out with hrm, I am an ex. programmer and rnartial arttst too l-lowever, I do not degenerale arguments rnto machismo breast-beattng contests To be fair, hrs letter was both ConvrnCrlS and artrC urate Hrs op niOn

He,s couptETEly
HITSTAIVD
i write to you rn a state of desperatron am a twelve year old puprl at the Henry
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Well, we make no apotogy for printing the letter - the ,etters pages are tor people

lo give a game 90% when you know he company's adverlising the same game in he same issue, and easy to recommend buying
easy

to express their opinions, regardless ol how much you or I may disagree with then. Anything that's libellous, boring, rcdundant or just plain silly gets ignored, bul we try to include al least something fron as many letters as possible fhence the 'snippets'
sectionl. ln Gary's detence,l think his implied invitation to pilates to cone and fight it out was tongue-in-cheek, though like you l'm uneasy about people waving these sod ot qualitications around like a gun - it does tend to reinlorce the stereotype.

was sound and he spoke from experience lt rs a great pity that he

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Lately we've had a few 'top tens' of people's indrvrdual drslrkes about computrng Here are our most unf avourrte things, as voted by the Express team - Andy Storer, Rrk Haynes, Colin Campbell, Jerry Glenwrrght, Rod Lawton and Rob Arnsley Programs rn whrch you can't count the words n a document wrthout usrng the spell

Gotch Schoo (Kettering)i and am totally mad on computers I am desperate to find someone lrke-mrnded to talk about any[h ng and everythrng to do with cornputtng I am drivrng my family nuts, rambling on about computers twenty four hours a day Are there any computer user groups in my area? Paul Sobey, Kettenng, Northants

3. 4.

IVS-DOS (AS)

Sexrst nature of the rndustry (RH)

5. Sycophantrc 18 year old games revrewers (CC) 6.

Macrntosh dialog

boxes that say thrngs like 'About to erase hard drsk' and offer you the single
optron 'OK' (RL) 7. Cowboy frrms and rnflated hardware and

that s powerful enoLrgh for your needs, but do not be tempted to spend too much money on one that ollers porver you will not use'etc etc - not a prrce, model name, or any other hard fact rn
srght!) (RA)

We don'tknow of one speciticalty in Kefteilng, but if anyone would like to get

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10. Bearded columnrsts in PC publications who

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years
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checker, which takes LocoScript and

MacWnte for example

2. People who say'stop this argument about whrch computer rs best' and then go on to say 'everyone knows the ST is best because '(JG)

software prrces (RH) lThat's two thngs - Ed ) 8. Products announced months or years before they're ever released SAM Coupe, the Parsec board, the Stacey (JG) 9. Freelance cornputer journos who write to length by padding rt out wrth utter waffle ('Make sure you buy a printer

What are your most hated things? Write to Top Ten, New Computer Express, 4 Queen St, Bath BAI

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The ancient martial art of bruteJorce programming But using karate isn't the answer to

NEW COIII1PUTER EXPRESS

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Ouesrtor rtue
am very p eased to hear that .vour magazrne s free from artfrcra addtves and all that stuffl I a so thought that the snrppets b t r,^:as funny (Express 34) I When rs Shoot'Em Up Construct on Set comlng out on the Amrga? 2 When are pr ces of 1 6 brt games comrng down? 3 The Commodore 64 rs much better than the Spectrum +2 sn t rt? 4 | am th nkrng of gettrng a cheap Amrga sound drg trser s the Tr og c (stereo versron) that bad? would lrke Amrga nvaders from publrc

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Tnme w,rtDs
ln May I bought your magazrne and saw an advert I wrote to the company and pard I12 95 for therr book t wasn't what requrred so I returned rt to them

askrng tor a retund I have not recetved rep y from them Can you tel me wh ch tradtng

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standards assocrat on I have to contact to take the matter further G Pendred, Barnsley, Yorks

Aaeuutxt l,aout
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CIRCLE, RECTANGLE & ELLIPSE and boasts such

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advantage of the power each machine has When I lvrote Arct st for the Arch medes that was totally n BASIC and rs fast enough due to the
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Arch medes BASIC s fast and powerfu enough to do the lob You wouldn't use go d to make baked bean cans rryhen an alloy would do the lob lust as we For my full t me lob I use mrnstre work statrons with Mega BASIC to write EPOS

Microsoft BASIC s 'undoubtedly more fr end y (eg nrce little commands like
CiRCLE) and is fatrly standardrsed" Standardised on what? The Dragon, an ext nct 8 bit computer The PC wh ch has mosl other languages avarlabie for rt as well, ncludrng BBC BASIC, so that's not saying much The Am ga, whrch has an extreme y s ow and awkward versron And rf any Microsoft BAS C program uses the partrcu ar facilities of a certarn machrne. then rt will not run on another verston on a drfferent machine BBC BAS C, however has been comp ete y upward y compatrble - a program

made to rrn as fast as and often faster than, 8 bit machrne code, espec ally rf the BBC BASIC re ocatable module s transf erred to RAI\4 (Archie enthus asts like myself w 1l know what that
meansl) Coup e these faciirtres with the speed and power of Archimedes R SC 0S, whrch s easrly access ble form BBC BASIC vra star (') commands, and you have the ultrmate BASIC t rs easy to learn and program for begrnners, and s powerful and fast enough for professiona s to enjoy usrng All har Arch medes BBC
BAS CI

systems

Th s

provdes

the BAS C to use what ever words you want for functrons us ng the a as command so you cou d set up all sorts of commands lrke Dotted line
etc He seems to be pulling BAS C down OK, so we a

know t was christened begnners' all purpose symbolic nstruct on code but that was made many years ago with only crude bas c commands The modern day BASIC is a very powerful language and should be known more as somethrng lrke 'best' all purpose symbolic nstructlon
ode BBC BAS C on the Archrmedes rs mpress ve rf a the mach nes used Microsoft BASIC OK, you
c

setup that a ows more than one user at a time, dozens of programs n memory al one trme, and by ustng bas c we can qu ck y modify or add to the su t of programs a customer may have So let's hear less of this slagg ng off of BAS C by snobs who do not know the new powerlul BASICs weil (or maybe they have spent a ong t me learnrng another anguage and feel they must tustrfy thrs t me spent) Dorr't get me wrong All languages have therr values in the rtght p ace Jt's lust a case of frnd ng the rrght place and unashamed y using tt Nrge/ Stuart (Mrcrotech Computer Servrces EPOS Progr ammer ). W arrin gton,
Lancs

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\,r'rtten for the BBC Model A compute runn ng BBC BASIC versions 1 wrll work perfectly
on ARIV BBC BASIC version 5 on the Archimedes As for

Joel Grounds chmede s enthusiasU) Llanfaufechan,

(Ar

CPC Centre (Express 34)

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IVicrosoft BASIC being more fr end y, I would like to potnt out that BBC BAS C 5, as supplied in R0tr4 on all Arch medes computers, also has n ce little commands like

While not wishing to get into a my -language-is-befter-

an-y our 1 an gua ge debate, I' m very pleased to see 8AS,C becoming a legitinate

language again. Maybe

it

doesn't have the kudos of C but

it su/e does the job

asks about odd uses of thrs "computer" Well, apart from the amazrng trme actually saw one be ng used, I did see one on Paul.Daniels' pathetic show Every Second Counts on 3Oth .lune, when they described it as a "top of the range computer" I thought rt was a repeat from several years ago but no, Paul was almost totally bald When wrll you cease to be "New"? Or does the "New" brt refer to the Computers, in which case why are you

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Quite a few months ago I bought the brilliant "Kick Off" for my ST. One thing that disappointed me was the

I savt
Our recent readers' questionnaire asked what you disliked about Express, and how you thought the magazine could be improved. Most of you were quite pleased with the way it is. We can't please all of the people all of the time, but we'll try our best. Here's a quick sample of some of your comments: . "There's no sex
and violence. You never mention Aston Villa." . "Everyone at my school reads it because it is so thing! Like PC Plus,

Ihe 'New'in our tide is to distinguish

he computet rctail oudel in London called'Computet Express', who have no conrectiofl wi6 us loher fian trcir back
us fuom

page adverls). lnterestingly, it seems from the recent

rcadet su'rey we did 6at most of our

readers have just bought a computer, so maybe he name'rvew Computer'Express is apuopnaae, il not meant that way.

representation of the goals - just a few white lines However, in Express 34, saw a screen shot on the "Kick Off Competition" page, of what looked like the ST version, complete with goal nets, and also clearer ptch markings. What's going on? Have you got a more recent version? Will Anco swap my old one with
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Express has exactly

the right mixture of

humour and interesting articles. Why don't you go into partnership withYiz

a new one? Dave Wilks, Cambridge, Cambs

Ah,'tftidnot.The picwasfromfrrc

Amiga uersion, which has proper goalnets and pitch surrounds. Maybe the C64 version, out soon, will just have coats tot goalposts?

. "Cut outthe cheap, juvenile humour." . "A lot of adverts and items seem biased to Atari and Amiga machines." . "Could be improved by concentrating on 76bit and 32-bit machines." . "l dislike the amount of space devoted to games reviews." . "Most games reviews I find too short and don't always say enough about a game."
"Very cheeky towards the PC. Get rid of Rik Haynes

comic?"

more interesting." . "The person who edits the letlers page - fire him!" . "Just add one extra page of readers' letlers!" . "'Si//y'ietters. Would like a bit more on 'serious' aspects. "

. "l dislike the way it sme//s of vinegar! (Well ny copy does

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"Make Ken Mosley

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arttcles on all

brilliant." "Loads to read for 58p! I used to read

aspects of computing - Al, graphics, music, military, education

Popular Computing
Weekly. "

etc. Also. more

inte,-vieu,sl' . "l think it shouid be /eft as it rs . "Not enough on 'Your Format' A whole page vvould be

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But could Paul Daniels turn the CPC into a state-of-the-art computer? That would be magic...

"The mag could in no way whatsoever

Anco would be pleased to upgrade your ofl disk to give you better graphics but the Amiga disk wouldn't work in your ST

Kick

be improved, except the price could go back to 48p." . "Athoroughly interesting magazine - worth tvtrice the cover price!" . "Costs too much should be 10p." . "Don't change a

because of his extremely biased reviews against

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"'Hitman Haynes' should be made

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from the South East.
P/ease. /et's have

beller."

editor."
"The PC column is absolutely boring the QL column is far

more adverls from the South East."

fop rcx
Another version of the Ten Worst Things About Computing The Amiga W modulator which fits like a pick in a bucket and whose design means that you need a 3' wide

7 The controller for the iaser pr nter which plugs into the hard disk port on the ST but must be drsconnected when not in use or else it corrupts the appearance of files on the iesk top (even when it is off), makrng ihem
unreadable. 8 The ST diskcopy message "destination is not the same type as source" which means that you have to use the far more tedious frle copy routine, after all there should be no reason for being unable to copy single sided disks to double srded - or vice versa as long as the dest nation disk has enough room 9 Advertisers who don't nc ude VAT andlor delivery in their prices and those who promise speedy (courier)

bench/ shelf/ desk to use it on? 2 The Atari ST,zMega ST monitor system: why - if you need two different monitors to view all the resolutions have not Atari provided two monitor

sockets?

3 Commercial software which comes

up with the message "this disk is a copy - press a key" (and then promptly

resets to the desk top) when it plainly is not a copy (ST) 4 Atari UK Ltd for not even bothering to contact me in the Iour months since I returned my copy of Arkanoid (which was bundled with the machine) because it came up with the message in 3
above

5 Software which comes on more than

one disk but doesn't recognise the fact that you have more than one active
drive

delivery and then take several days to clear your cheque l0 The lengthy hyping of games many months (years?) belore therr release (often due to lenglhy delays ,n their release - tryrng to generate interest?) only to find that the game is a complete Turkey (F0FT/T|mes ol Snore
etc)

6 Atari SLM804 laser printer, which

Mark Mclean, Fareham, Hants

in

the four weeks since I purchased mine it has spent hvo weeks on the floor looking pretty but refusing to work and the last two weeks being repaired

Anyone else want to send us their

ten worst things about computng? We'll give a prize lor the best ones.

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PORNOGRAPHY

he great pom bu.lleti.D board scandal had our dear natrona.l newspapers and TV stations ia a right old lizz. Something, they
postured, has to b done ln exposing a few of the seedy boards they've com-EeDdably prompted the majority of computer ponrsters to scuttle back to whatever stones they crawled from But there are a few diehards sti]I dabbling in what can only be described as childish smut. Much of the material is adolescent and laughable. Tbartru]]y, disEurbing material is a rarity. Express spnt many man-hours tryi[g to coax pom operators to talk- Messages were left on certain boatds which, strangely, went off Iine immediately afterwards. Despite being met with nearly a dozen blarl wa]Is we ended up talking to the head of a board based in the South London area. He absolutely refused to ta.lk if we named him or his board. This then, is the pornster's argument...

The recent media palaver might make you believe bulletin board porn is dead easy to access. But if you're looking yoa'll ftnd an introverted and closed off world suspicious of strangers and attention. Even so, the persistent will Iind a seedy den of schoolboy fantasies and squalid sexual references. Colin Campbell talked to the head of one bulletin board whichfeatures porn and asked him - why?
It should rea]ly only be about five or six of us in
theory, but in practice, well, you is out of order
I'11

thlow it off. I mean, if it's a bit

or

knoq the word

of a laugh that's OK but anything horible,

gets out and more people come on board.

Only if you'ne doing it right

It',s

Why do you feature this material on your

board?

but it's not the same as featuring atr innocent

messages service. Again, why do you do it?

fine to say it's just another part of the board

It's just part of the board. Just another service really. I have it for the same reason as I have
everything else on it.
Such as?

The usual stuff. Run of the miII public domain,

messages, erm, stulf like that pomogEaphy? Very little. Insignificant As a percentage? I don't lmow. It's tiny.

How much of your board is taken uP

bY

How many people are aware that you peddle

pomography?

make any money out of it if that's what you're trying to say. For some sort of sexual kick then? No, absolutely not. I don't do it for kicks or cheap tfuills or anything Iike tbat. It's iust like having a laugh down the pub with your mates. Where do you get the materid? I don't want to say that From here and there... Some the material on your board has beetr less thatr savoury. Do you ever draw the liae? I don't lf,row who told you that. It's not perverted at all. I occasionally have a look and if something

I don't

illegal, I won't have it. It's iust at the level of pub talk with your mates. Iirhat about all the youtrgslers who use cornrns and are likely to come aeoss this stu.ff? That's a complete myth. No way The only people who have access to tiat secrion of my board are my friends. I lnow their first Dames ald their telephone numbers No-one could get in without the password. It's impossible. I guarantee it What do you think of operators who don't take
such measures?

I don't lmow if it's all that bad. I've seen stuff that could ma]<e your hair cuIl but most youngsters come across that in school pl,aygnoulds.

"Porn King Exposed"

Why dou't you iust close it dowtr? Because there's nothing to be ashamed of. You

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15 JULY 1989

newsagent.
a.bout.

could buy this sort of pom in a high street I don't know what all the fuss is

you're not ashamed why the secrecy about your name? "You know what the media is like. If someone got the wrong idea they'd be plastering headlines all over like "Porn King Exposed" like they normally do. But it's iust a laugh Nothing more. people just believe everything they read jn the papers and they wind up with the wrong idea. Do you log onto other pom boards? "Not often. I only know of half a dozen or so Do you speak to the people who run them? "We're not running some nationwide porn network if that's what you're trying to say. I don,t meet up with them or anything. Does your board run graphics, or text, or both? Some graphics but mostly text Are you a pervert?

If

No, definitely not I don't practice kinky sex, that's disgrusting You're obviously just going to make me look as if I'm sick in the head or
something You've got the wrong idea

The tedium is the message

board could be bought at a high street newsagent. Let's not get into any tedious debates over the rights and wrongs of pornography The point is, what we have here is a bit ola headcase.O
Despite his protestations it's hard to believe some of the explicit hard core material on his

(Rightl Some people are camera

$y- hrt

computer

pornsters have a particulare dislike for publicity

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future machines After all, the power of an Amiga would have needed a fair sized room jam-packed with electronic gadgetry back in the 50s, so what
2019?

sort of power could you have in your hand in

Obviously Atari has taken note of the handheld's popularity, because it's due to release two hand-held machines this year the Atari Folio

launched

the as yet unnamed games hand-held, unveiled at last months Consumer Electronics Show in
Chicago (Express 31 and 32) The Folio brlngs the power of a PC to your pocket, while the world's first colour games hand-held is the tueam machine for any gamester, giving you the chance to play Ou, Run on the Tube, in the park or in the bathroom If Atari delivers these decks at the right time, and for the right price, it'll make a

at this years Birmingham based Which? Comprter Show lExpress 16 and 17), and

killing - and deservedly so too

Desktop death
Meanwhile, at the cutting edge of power portable

computing, leading PC manufacturer Toshiba recently announced its plans to introduce a

portable micro based on Sun Microsystems' minicomputer workstation technology within a year Other advances in Smart Card (shattering complexities in on-board processor and memory facilities regularly announced), display (colour VGA PC portables from top Japanese firms later

in the year and a

display system called Pnvate Eye being developed in the States) and input device (constant neural computer voice and sight

revolutionary new headset

Just how much power will portable micros yield in 2000? Is the end of the desktop micro in sight? Will the notion of hand-helds,. laptops und portables even exist? Rik Haynes holds out for hands-on 21st century
experiences...

recognition miniaturisation) technologies mean portable computers will make desktop micros redundant by the end of the century Or more Iikely, the perception of portable and desl(op micro as totally separate machmes will vanish into obscurity as you transport and use your portable deck in the home on the road, and back in the office - with no fuss and no hassle It's already starting to happen - iake a look at the Compaq SLT/286 PC portable for example

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the or. Lhe 70s the birth oI the integrated circuit and the Bos the rlse of the micro - will the 90s see the dominance of the poftable computer? There's no doubting the ever increasing popularity of the portable micro, especially in the field of battery-powered Pc-compatible machines Once the development of quality backlit LCD displays had been mastered with the release of the zenith 2-787 PC portable in 1986, PC manufactures quickly forged a new market out of the likes of the salesperson who needed to use PC when miles away from head office The notion of the business executive pushing PC keys while travelling on the London to New York night-flight certainly has purchase appeal, if not desrrable functionality Which probably explains why everybody's getting in on the portable action, from good old Sir C5 Clive with his journalists' dream machine - the 288 laptop -

sor saw tne appearance oI -", the 60s the emergence of

rne

Who needs a portable anyway?

On the other hand, if cyberpunk novelists' sci-fi predictions become 21st century reallty, the need for a portable computer may not even exist A global communications anci computer network,

with terminals placed in every

conceivable

With Atari's as yet unnamed baby, to solution t0 your every gaming need is at hand

Iocation from restaurant to train carriage, would negate the benefits of carrying such cumbersome equipment as a portable computer around wlth you The ever-expanding financially-inspired world network of inter-linked card cash machines is already paving the way for the introduction of such a system In operation, all you'd need to carry with you would be your personal Smart Card which would act as your liJeline to the real world, able to store your every transaction, and a dumb terminal to act as display and input device Needless to say, faced \.rith such a concept, many people will ask the question of whether this networking techno-culture offers true

luggable version of its ST workhorse Unfortunately, the price paid for today's flexible computing portability is overpricing and under-performance when compared

to Atari, with a

personal freedom

or a Big

Brother's Seventh

heaven? We'll have to wait and

see

to the desktop decks

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micros,

manufactures also brandish computers that fit snugly in the hand Undeservedly perceived as mere executive toys or yuppie upgrades for the

ailing Filofax, hand-helds such as the Psion Organlser oi the Sharp IO could be pointers for
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home and small business computers, Tandy pursued this new avenue of profit with a range of home machines fihe TRS home computer - with the exception of the Dragon - was the only machine to use the 6809 microprocessor as its CPU), several IBM-PC compatibles and laptops. Although a little expensive, the PC compatibles are well-made, usable
machines.

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through the head magnetising a small portion of the medium.

A.Z

Available in many guises for fue years, new copyright laws ftreaten sales of Mulliface

Q-DEX (G): Successful strategy game

for the Commodore 64 from software
house Thalamus.

assessrng program "How much money can I claim?" and it would reply with questrons like 'How many children do you have?' and "Do you do any work?"

. Tandy's bosses take

a bow

ROM (T): ReaGOnly Memory. The ROM is composed of a matrix of diodes which
represent binary digits. By destroying selected diodes in the matrix (applying a large cunent in the 'wrong'direction) the ROM is made to store a 'program' which can be read and acted upon a computer. The blowing of the diodes is performed at the time of manufacture and cannot be done whilst the device is in situ rnside a computer (hence'readonly memory').

UK software house who market a range of advanced

RAINBIRD (CO.):

QL lGl:

The summit of Sinclair's

computer endeavours, the QL featured state of the art architecture in the form of the 68008 CPU (a 32-bit processor with an 8-bit data bus) and a groundbreaking price of 399 Unfortunately, the machine suffered severe setbacks in availability and by the time supplies were plentiful the punters were looking elsewhere. Today the QL enjoys a hard core band of dedicated supporters but mainstream interest has moved on

QUME (CO.lr Printer manufacturer which enjoys internattonal status for its range of daisy wheel printers, currently the industry standard OWERTY (MtSC.l: The standard layout of computer keyboard keys. The QWERTY arrangement takes its name from the frrst six keys (left to right in the first row) QWERTY was originally devised to slow the actions of fast nineteenth century typists who constantly jammed the levers of their rnachines Several alternatives to the QWERTY keyboard have been marketed - notably Dvorak - but have remained obscure, With many millions of QWERTYtrained typists in the world, no.one is prepared to change. OUICKSILVA lCO.):
Originally

adventure games featuring complex parsing technrques.

RAM {Tl: Random Access Memory. Siilcon scratch pad for computers. RAM chips are used by the computer as a temporary storage area for programs

OUATTRO (SS!: Popular spreadsheet from wellknown software house Borland lnternational lnc. See Eorland. QUERY LANGUAGE (L):
H.igh-tevet

language similar to English which allows unsophisticated computer users to interrogate computer systems. An interface program acts as an interpreter between the user and the machine translating the query language instructions and responding wrth the desired action. You ntight ask a benefits

owned by Activision boss Rod Cousens The company was sold to Argus Press Software for an enormous sum The company had many successes in the ZK81 software market. . Just eight 0f 6ese lMbit chips will give you
and data. lnformation stored in RAM is lost when power to the chips is

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ROMAT{T|C BOBOT (cO.l:

lnfamous gadget company which began with 'freezing' and copying devices for

removed. After a significant fall in the price of home and small business computers in the mid 80s, a sharp rise in the cost of RAM chips has instigated large price increases for the machines they inhabit. See also ROM

RAIIDOM ACCESS (Tl:

The

process of reading and writing data from backing storage in a manner independent of the order of storage. As a result, any piece of data can be accessed as quickly as any other piece of data. Contrast with sequentia,

access.

American alias of computer manufacturer and general electronic components supplier Tandy Corporation.

RADIO StIACK (CO.f:

The company has been resident in the UK for a number of years selling

BEAD ,ITRITE HEAD (Tl: ln order to store information on magnetic

storage media such as disks and tapes, a metal readlwrite head is passed over (or close to) the surface of the medium, and a tiny electrical charge passed

consumer electronic gadgetry to an increasing audience. With the advent of

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the program is run but help to remind writer what that particular part of code does, lor

the 8-bit machines and is currently enjoying notoriety with the Multiface ST, a piece of hardware which stops ST software running then allows you to examine the code and make back-up
c0pres

example

the a the c

pictures.
al graphics workstations y thousands of pounds (notably Sun's baby) are used to create displays such the Channel 4 logo.

will perlorm that task immediately 0 master of the Universe". Today, robots are all around us doing everything from building cars to cleaning up nuclear power stations in a meltdown

RGB (Tl:

Colour computer monitors and televisions have three 'guns' (red, green and blue hence 'RGB') used to fire electrons at the phosphor coating of the inside surface of the screen The phosphor is made to glow and the result is a picture To achieve a colour picture, different combinations and intensities of the red, green and blue guns are used Although all computers contain a 'clock'(usually a quartz crystal oscillatrng at several thousands of times per second) which drives the system at a defined rate, the time emanating from the clock does

RESOURCE (Tf:

All

peripherals attached to a computer, i e the bits that constitute the'system' part of any computer system, are known as resources Software and even computer personnel are also labelled thus.

ROUTINE (Ll:

Any module of code designed to perform a specific task, usually independent of the objectrve of the main program, is referred to as a routine.

Programmers keep libraries of routines

to do such things as writing to screen,

sorting items into alphabetical order, colour changing routrnes and so on.

REAL-TIME CLOCK (Tl:

REVEBSE POLIS}I NOTATION (T): A form

of mathematical notation in which the operands are placed before the operator, For examole, a simole -(y+z/ would be . One of the more well-known examples of a computer resource equailon x expressed using reverse polish notation thus xyz +., REM This The ease with which reverse polish rhe vAT on rhe notation can be represented in a computer is the key t0 lts wlde-scale RESEARCH MAGHINES use Computer manufacturer responsible a range of moderately successful 8-bit CP,4vl-based machines in the RING NETWoBK (Tl: Although which had a large user base early attempts at local area nehvorks schools and used the Ethernet topology (a straight

RPG (Tl: Report Program

Generation

not normally pertain to the 'outside wodd' ln order that a computer can ttmestamo files, and time control applications etc, it must be provided with the realworld time every time the machine is switched on, To overcome this, many peripheral manufacturers market add-on boards which contain a digital clock and the means of relaying the time to the computer Otherwise, when they're switched on, machines such as the PCW and PC think that time always starts again at midnight on December 15th 1982 or some such date,

'

is a high-level, fourth-generation language (4GL) used as a sophisticated business oriented programming and query language, which allows users to learn a relatively simple series of commands and perform complex tasks with them

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RS232 (T): The 'techiest' phrase of them all, Shouted out loud by computer gurus wishing to impress. The term even inspired the television program Spitting
image to write a song in the mould of an 'A' blues scale obsessed band who shall remain nameless (Status Quo) sending up the device Basically, it's a protocol to allow serial communrcatrons between two devices,

early'80s amongst colleges I featuring

REscuE oN FRAcraLUs

RELATIOl{AL DATABASE lT):

relational database is one in which the information from one type of record refers to some of the rnformation in a.t entirely diflerent type of record For example a relational database may consist of a stock inventory and customers who have made purchases from that inventory, The relational database allows complex relationships between data to be defined allowing questions of the 'what if?' type to be answered and a greater Ilexibility of data
retrieval

RELOCATABLE CODE (L):

When

programming in assembly language it is necessary to specify the exact memory addresses lor loops, subroutines, jumps etc, within the program For example, a program may be directed thus: JMP #CFF9 dtrecting program execution to a line of code stored at the memory address CFF9
(hexadecimal) Obviously, if the code is relocated and the line to be executed no longer resides at address CFF9 there's going to be a spectacularcrash Relocatablecode makes provision for the movement of code modules by using variables to represent specific address ('JMP DUCK_PIC', where DUCK_PIC stores the relevant address) and employing relative addressing techniques ('jump forward six hundred bytes' and so on) When writing programs it is seldom obvious what a particular section of the listing is doing, making it difficult to find the [nes causing problems when the program runs Many languages such as BASIC allow 'remark' lines which are ignored when

lnnovative 3-D flrght simulation and shoottechnology quicklyiecame a big seller em-up from Lucasfilm ;,,^;: .-':.-.:; ,:, due to its rehabilitv. 'i '" " graphics and a depth breathtaking fractal t: *t- :'" of ptay rarety encountered in un suggests - a ring of cable with computer game terminals 'hanging off' at various stages around the ring A variant is the'Token RESOLUTIOI{ (T}: Term used Ring', A signal (the token) is passed to describe the amount of which can be displayed on a computer each machine to co-ordinate monitor or transmissions See also LAN, novel The smallest addressable screen poinl is known as the pixel (a combination ROBOT (Tl: A computer-conkolled the words Plcture and ELement). device fitted with sensing equipment, home computers had a very orosrammed to oerlorm one or more resolution ability; for example, the ir#;. '"n.it", selling Sinclair ZX81 had a '"" . t... romantic than their sci-fi ":' resolutron ol 64 x 64 prxels. imace of foflowtng brylllbthilltoT: improvements in processing power mentally unhinged professor wiih balding custom graphics chips, machinei aie able to display complex temples and a goatee beard, sayrng "l

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LES CRANE
hy would a man
who's , hosted an American TV chat show, won a Grammy

Universal's books and singlehandedly ch-anlged the style of radio broadcasting be

completely converted to the loys of computing? Les Crane's substantial bank account probably

and an Emmy, been an actor

on

answers that question The last three quarters have seen his company's revenue surging by 104 per cent, 257 per cent and 211 per cent. Softwdre Toolworks expects to sell $20 million worth of software this year Despite Crane's multi-coloured and impressive media career he's now happiest dreaming up software programs to knock your socks off

their air-conditioned working hours

Toolworks' 21 full-time programmers spend

changing Crane's off the wall ideas into top-selling programs This rs no idle puffery; in its four year history, Toolworks has put together a portfolio of eclectic programs which have consistently shot to the top of the pile

t
Plumped beneath the sickening smog of Los Angeles is one Software Toolworks. It purports to be the first of the new generation of software houses and is run by the excessively Californian (and totally rich) Les Crane. Colin Campbell dropped in to find out what this strange man thinks he's playing at...
pretender steamed in with a controversial style
He descnbes hrs TV nattering days as "excltmg

When Les nrakes fitone

Gimmicky games, highbrow teasers, PC produc-

tivity programs and utilities, education

affairs

and business packages. You name it, Toolworks has picked, chosen, fussed and come up smelling of dollars Golden boy Crane has yet to screw up "We won't release anything until we feel it has pushed the technology that bit further If we can't be on the cutting edge of technology then what's the point? We're just not interested " There are few companies tn the world which won't claim to be 'state of the art' or 'at the

cutting edge' etc etc But by all

accounts,

which, though entertaining, didn't give Carson

any sleepless nights

Toolworks does have the edge It has featured in countless American newspapers and computer mags, partly because of crane's background but mostly because of his line-up of unusual and

and terrifyng" but he's happier now prodding programmers and keeping up with his cosy line
up of computer programs

task of toppling Johnny Carson as the

successful programs In the 1960s, Crane was given the unenviable

US's

number one late night talk show host The young

interviewed the llkes of Spike Milligan, Bertrand Russell, Bob Dylan, Malcolm X, Peter Cook, Sir John Betjeman and "just about everyone else" He even coaxed Lee Harvey Oswald's mum onto the show who was interviewed with a mike shaped like a shotgun

During his four years as host,

Crane

Life and Death, a new 3D game based on Afuanoid, the best selling chess game
Back Up Prc

These include the bizarre medical simulation

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LES GRANE
There's also a sideways printing program for

tutorial and America's top selling integrated business pack The Secretary Blrd In the US,
Crane's shelves.

spreadsheets, entitled Twist and Shout, a typing

Toolworks is responsible for The Hunt For Red October. You won't find any Defender clones on

"We've always wanted to differentiate ourselves from every other publisher of our size. We don't want to be entertainment or educational or personal productivity We're all of that. "

Dont rcck the boast

Sitting with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and dressed in entirely unconventional business attire Crane is very comfortable talking about himseU, his company, his products, and how wonderful they all are. "Wherever we go in the world we conquer," he boasts Testament to this is Chessmaster 2000 arLdthe follow-up 2100. That is claimed to be the biggest selling chess program in the US. It's certainly a smart number, consistently winning the US Open Chess Championship. "It's the strongest and has the best algorithm and the most powerful chess playing brain," he drawls Now comes "the world's first 3D game" along with tacky glasses Crane admits it's not realiy the first but pours scorn on previous efforts (which weren't much cop anWvay) He works on the premise that if something is successful in other areas of the media then why not with computers Take .Life and Deatll- "It's an interactive medical movie. It's a game but it's absolutely accurate I've always felt that such a program would be a success because medical entertainment has always been popular "Doctor Ktldare, Ben Casey atd General Haspital were all successful on television so I felt

Crane: Ihe one-time TV host isn't all talk

ln earlier days: Gunning for fame

But why has this media junkie turned his attentions to computers? "I bought a computer

the "two way radro" style of talking to listeners

on au

and booted it up and said: 'This is really exciting' This is the new wave of interactive communication which is what interests me It
exercises the mind in an appealing way. Soon the

installed base of computers will be bigger than

VCRS More and more people are using

using it for entertainment, education

computers at

work Getting one for the home and

and

personal productivity. Prices are coming downWe're moving toward a standardisation of PCs or its variants The future is limitless "

there was room for a medical program

on computer " Life and Deattr has sold 60,000 copies in its flrst few months and has just landed in the UK Indeed, most of Toolworks programs are available here via Mindscape IIK

Go placidly amongst the noise...

Apart ftom his TV days Crane also won
a

"I've been in software all my life " (Crane is 50) "When I did the TV program for ABC that was software for the television Desiderata was actually software for the stereo system We didn't in fact call it software but that's what it is. Video tapes are software "I haven't changed businesses at all The only thing that's changed is the hardware Now it's computers as opposed to stereos or videos." Toolworks is also one of the only software companies in the world which does everything in-house The software is written there, the packaging designed and printed, the disk

dupiicated. Everything "It saves money and males life easier It's al] done at home and so we
have complete control." not one of Crane's strong points a . Enquiries to Mindscape tIK on 044486 545

Grammy award for his rock version of the old poem Desiderata He ciaims to have invented the Top 40 format for pop charts and to have started

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BOOK REVIEW covered. Style notes, compiler variations and a

glossary wrap up this hefty insight into C's

facilities. Ironically, the only drawback to the book is a technical one Pedect binding isn't the best way of binding a book desigmed for constant desktop

reference

easier to use

ring-bound guldes are infinitely

the

C is arguably the most popular language of the eighties after you can always browse through it in bookshelves before forking out the readies BASIC, and the mainstay of the Unix operating system. Andy ****
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C: A DABHAND GUIDE. MARK
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C source code is iargely to most people - and often to its own authors - this is no bad
incomprehensible

Iollow the order of the chapters But rather than get heavily bogged down in dense theory, the guide's littered with practical example programs ranging from one-line functions to multi-page

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Amiga, ST, Archimedes, PC and BBC Master and utilising WIMP environments

This makes it perhaps the most flexible of all languages and, when combined with its
compactness,

the C compiler, reserved words and

After kicking off with an introductory look at

rival

its drawbacks though the problem is in striking a balance between

Conciseness does have

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powerful.

Ianguages, the guide dives lnto the nitty gfltty of functions, types and declarations, parameters,

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AJter the phenomenal success

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oeation system S?0S, the good news is that we haven't Iong to wait AMOS, as it wil be called, is a complete Amiga-ised BASIC prograrDrning toolkit that desigmed specifica.lly for the creation of games, and is

is

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Atari's UK head, Bob GIeadoW ufolmed me that the Mega t has been desigmed to meet the increasjng business demands made

Pirate Power
0h no, get down, get down, get down Powel Computing has bombarded the pirate scene wilh its latest device A dodgry disk-copier appropiately named B.irtz after the German war eflort or at least I presume that's where it got its name - it's capable of just as

on the 1040 In Germany the 1040

is

promoted pr.nalily as a business machine, a fate sealed by the release of Calamus By splitting the 1040 into a main computer unit with a separate keyboard a:rd renam[rg it, Atari believes is providng a low-cost serious machine Either that or it's a sneaky

it

URGEN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ATARI ST OWNERS

B

much damage

It was beng distributed by Power at the recent Atari show, and amidst all the hype there was one thing which the mouthy Power men were quick to point out: "lt'l] probably be banned within a month, so buy now' Along wrth rhe wealth of disk copying software such as Prccopy and the recent spate in Multilaces from Romantrc Robot, B]ifz is the latest to wandel down that bumpy road towards Government legislation With the perfect selling line, queues were quick to purchase this suspicious f20 lead

litZ is a remarkable new disk to disk.

backup system for the Atari ST that will backup virtually any known Atari ST disk
(single ordouble, protected or Llnprotected)

it out The Iead compises three connections one goes into the prnter port, one goes lnto the pofi for the ST's second drrve and the third goes to an external floppy drsk drive Unfortunately, you need the Atari second drive ior this to work since it's the only drive to have an external
without bothering to try
rnput port

in roughly half the time it takes any other copying device!

Any single sided disk 35 seconds Anv double sided disk 68 seconds
Don'ttake ourword for it!Atthe recentAtari show 100's of this incredible product* were sold to amazed customers, including competitive copier producers and software prOfgssionalS! t Blitz not required to run backups

A simple piece of software comes bundled with the lead, and this allows you to copy disks from drive A to drive B The whoie
setup sounds decidedly suspicious but whej

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Yuppies frcm Outer Space ln one hand

alc

blalk disk m another youll be surpruec ::

find tha[ even sophlstrcated copy-prorecaol
can be overcome

',';al cf Eabbng more dosh fiom people who cii: i see that they're ber,lg conned Either '.','ai I lr.ked the machine so much that I Doight one I d have bought the company as ','re: bul Bob couldn't remember what he'd

icie

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a game to beat Dungeon Master was about as li.kely as catchng a member of the 'v'egetarian society on a hunting safari but it

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pubhcarion about Atan's new' ra:l.-:.: .s it the STE, the ST+ or somerl;.g

l:or;:s

Bloodwch has been imrnersed

ln

ad

:::l; different - a Sinclaf C5 u[i a::-

campargns and hype for months now so it ysas something of a miracle that I managed to calch sight ol an almost completed copy Iast
rnonth

t25
e20 e18 e90

2-5
10+

perhaps? One new machine whlc|- :os :=49 a recent appearance on the ST sca:e -s

Bloodwch rsn'L just another advenlure, rt

Mega 1 Basically its a 1040 ST sho;ec j::l the casing of the standard Megas It ccnes priced at [589 (including software b,;-ndie; which is [90 more than the curreni price ol rhe 1040

:e

iales the whole adventure scene a stage i,rther A rwo-player optiol rn the game allows you to play with a fliend, which
means that you can comline skills or work

Blitz with 3.5" NEC Drive

agajnst each other Either way,

it's

brilliantly addictive challenge The objective is to wander a castle in search of

crystals

and wlth a

good

communication system between characters and the obligatory spells, it quickly excites

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Bloodwch has been writlen by Anthony Taglione on an ST

using Derpac 2 It is his first ST project and, just to provoke more controversy:in the great ST vs says of Amiga war, progranmr,lg on the Amiga: "You get a lo[ of programmers I know who descnbe the Amiga as the

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There are many occasjons when you need to

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I went for a 25MHz 386 machine wrth 2Mb of 60ns RAM, a 70Mb, 28ms hard disk, ,hre e floppres (more of whrch next week), excellent

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than before

produce

random selection

withn

compurer program The mosr obvious use is in a game, but there are also educational

tests and quizzes Introducing a random element ensures that the player or student
can't learn the order of play or the required answers, but has to ktow the sublect instead It's irdtating to play a quiz which by chance comes up wtth the same questions time and again, and it can cause a child to ]ose interest
in a computerised test that does the same Using BASIC as an example lmagine you want lo pick the letters of the alphabet in

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random order: DrM r,ETlER$ (26)
FOR COITNT$=1 TO 25 r,ETrER$ (CoUNTt)

A friend indeed
One of the nice Ieatures about the DSL 386 machine is that [he motherboard comes with an AMI BI0S BIOSes are funny things; they IBM of compatjlility What one BI0S will run quite happrly, another wlll not The big names have always been Pheonx ar:d Award with AMI a compalative newcomer on the scene I have to admit I a]ways thought the AMI BIOS came out of a sweatshop ra Taiwan and stood for somethrng like Ahso Miamichi Industries But it turns ou[ the mitials refer to American Megatrends hc (yes, reallyl) The BI0S is very sophtsticated and Ior most purposes can be left to lts own devices (sic) It wrll automatlcally deted the size and t)?e of ddves connected to the machine, the standard,

all claim to be compatible with the

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Although the new proglam segment involves an array and three counting loops it does provide a solution, as all the letters are stored just once and it's only their order which is randomised

number and tlpe of ports and the screen display. You can set these tfuough a full
screen sel.up display but it's rather unnerving

to find that the BIOS has already

selected

Coming clean
While writing about Datamation I have to let the cat out of the bag and say that the

evelything for you the first tt'ne you run it

We set

WordWizard the task of solvins some complex anagrams (lumbJed wordi) See what happened

Watford tuies 386 has gone back Nice machine, but had some problems with compatibility. This could well be due to the

CLUE Eggs Unto a Star Steroid

Easter Tom Cruise I play alJ the ABC
+

Segregares Astronaut Editors/Sortied

St

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odd things I've been asked t0 review recently, which many peopLe would probably not come

across Anyway, Watford was very good about it and offered a full refund, so full
marks there

Costumiet Alphaberically

oried/Triodcs

One of the setup displays (the simplestll from the AMI Bl0S

The replacement machine came

competitive prices

from

Times trere rccorded on an Apn.or VXAWS (80286 pmce\\or)

Datamation, which is a small company, but one which deserves to grow fast if only for its

and depth

of

More than thN, though, ls the facrlity withir the BI0S to prowam all kinds of things within the hardware The NEAT chlpset ol
most current 286 and 386 machines (NEAT
stands for New Extended AT, by the way) has options for a lot of fancy extras, nearly all of which can be programmed from within the BI0S setup, thanks to AMI You can, for instaace, speciJy that the BI0S ROM images be copied into a section of faster RAM and where that section should be n the memory map All in all, I'm only just beginring to scrape the surface of what it can do Simon Williams

PC

instance you \iere stuck on a g-letter word, but knew that the second ietter was O. the lourlh uas D rnd lhe ninth wa. L, you uould pul lhul data inlo Worrl\\ izard and receive the [ollou ing Lwo possible solulron,;

WordWizard also makes short work of difficult crossword clues.

Sav for

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thet

complete range Datamation has a policy

]'OADSTOOL Ir is

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shopping around

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offer The company can put together

machine

to your own

specijication from a

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There seems a strong possibility that this is the end for the Multiface, a bit of kit used by thousands of CPC owners The reason fol this untmely demise is the 1988 Patent, Desigm and Copyright Act, which becomes law at the beginning of Augxst One of its primary purposes is to prevent the copying and pirating of software, or the selling of devices which enabie it

'

An idea worth stealing

Activrsron has set up a hotline something

The problem is, however, that

no-one

other software houses should copy immediately So ii you want the price of a
game, irllormation on how to pick up Slimer :l fleal G,hosrlusters or what the Activision
Christmas releases are phone Joanne Byford, the grandly l:'ied 'Consumer Relations Coordina[or ' on L.734 310003 If it's an]thing [o

The urbane and

seems very clear about the effects of the law chalmrng Sacha

Goldscheider of Romantic Robot, which markets the Multiface, has taken legal oprnion on the subject - which amounted to lrttle more than: "Er, don't know to be honest, gmv. My bill's in the post " It seems we may have to wait fol a test case before
we can be sure where we stand The hfuliating thrng about this situation of course, is that the Muitrface has a number of perfectly legitmate purposes - namely to transfer tape games to disk and to make a back-up copy of software you've jusl spent

do with Actryrsion Joanne will know, or be

able to Iuld oui :or you

[15 or more acqurring And f

stluggli:rg through level

youre

of Wizzywaagers, the ]ast thing you want is to Iose your last ]ife and have to g0 through the

t[ee

whole bally game agaia With the MultiJace you car save the game at the point you ve got to, and start from there when the 38tt sheet of aliens finally get you Furthermore, the Multiface is little use as a piracy tool since you need to have Jhe dei']ce plugged ia before you can use backed-rp

copies It looks as if, frankiy, ths Aci i throwng the baby out with the balh'r,'a:e:
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Brian and Ron Cavers the brotherly partners behtnd Outlet magazine (SAE to 605 Loughborough Road, Birstall, Leicester, LE4 4NJ for details) sent their version along with another source of CDs They found it in

il

The Spectrum Hailwarc Manual, which was wntten by Adian Dickens, published by

Mehourne House and has the snappy

ISBN

number of 0-86161.115-2

Seriously now
to see a brand new software company s[ep brave]y into the breech with clutch of spectrum tttles, particularly when said company isn,t just another Code Masters clone, but
Good

uti.lity and application programs

much minodty interests

owning circles

ains to make rts moolah by sellilg - pretty

in

Spectrum Garner

The

company's

called

Designs, and has already got tfuee releases out now They arc Desktop, wluch provides a professional MMp env[onment on your +3, winpy, a utility which lets you snazz up your own
programs with a TVIMP Easy Load, supposed to out of +3 disk loading And if that wasn t plenty more h,red up for
Like display and take the hassles

of converting games to the Coupe much

easier and therefore improve the prospects
for software support

enough, there,s Iater in fhe year and nol a Slmulator amongst them These include Disk Copier, Hamony "an rrtegrated buslness program suite ', and Viewbase, H!?ertext-style data-base Th,row away your Macl For prices, versions and more detai]s ring carner Designs on 10582) 472067 Wi[h any luck I'l] be having a closer look at them in the near future and telhng you my verdict

If anyone out there is not familiar with Mr Jangeborg I need only point you r,1 the d[ection of one of the nicest ]ookng Speccy games in lxstory Failight and, more appropriately, what m my opnion is the best Spectrum art package bar nolle - I]le Artist ]l With a track record like that, hopes must be high Ior a spec-stretching and altogether

OK Brains In be[ween gruelling

co]umn-writlng

sessions, the thing which always seems to be loaded on my Speccy is Graldslam's excellent

impressive software debut for the Coupe

Manual labour
I've got some more dlvulging to do which is sure to whip you up into a frenzy 0f excited
expectatlon Those nice people at MGT have lust sent me a delightful Llttle coffee [able book which made for a ripping bedtme read It's the first draft of the SAM Coupe technical manual, and practically bursttng at the seams with circuit diagrams, memory maps, screen mode layouts and generally all other related information which is usually kept away fiom the Iowly public

arcade-adventure Thundebi ds I'm a brt surprised at the hold thls has over me at the amount of gameplay lurking inside the mild-mannered cassette with four separate rescue missions that include some really devious puzzles Naturally I haven't got anywhere yet but I blame it on the Tiunderblds soundtrack tape

racluded

in the package It's obvjously a

deliberate ploy by the publishers to nlake sure no-one completes the game - Iistening to rt at full volume is not an aid to concentration I can tell you AI in a.U I lke it Grandslam has managed to capture the spiit of the Iicense perfectly. Truly FAB Now who's going to do the
honours with a solution? Robin Alway

36.

NEW COI4PUTER EXPRESS

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Maybe they're only rnterested in games, but il it goes the same way over here, then what a sad state of aJfairc

Computers

Pokes
Many readers wanted a split which could do text to bitmap or colodr to coloul oI even multi-colour to hires, which could be used for scrollng the top half of the screen in pr,tels while having the bottom still for the score or whatever. To cater for all the readers' S0S calls, we have collected together a few

Half way there

Robert Hende$on fiom Wa]es has sent in some pokes, but where's the sys calls Rob? If anyone has the missing halJ then please send it in we[, anyway, at least they'll be handy iI you've got an Expert cartridge: PoKE BuDbleBobble P0lG Slayer zamzara POIX

pokes

wl[ch could do exactly what

you

POKE12322,773

1240,189 6924,189 12303,173

wanted. These pokes must only be enteled while the program is not ruming, otherwise it will crash Runstop restore before poking These first pokes are for multi-colour to hires sgeen:
POXE 24599,24:POXX 24611,08

5076,165 Po[X 13506,173

POIX

zaBzara
Black Camp
Cobra Dragon's Lair Dragon's Lair

POIE 24601,22:POXX 24613,22:SYS 24576 Screen colour to colour:

P0XX24599,00:P0KE 24611,06
POKE 24601,33:POXE 24613,33:SYS 24576

Po[x

4069,165

POIX 4112,165 POIX

Po[X

POfr4227,773
Our best pal

44416,0

29034,189

II

Bitmap to screen:
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Zytux
Robocop

Typhoon

One more

little extra is the y

co-ordlnates

Have you noticed when you're watching an American proEam over here that it look aI misty? This is because of the differenc between television transmission standards ours is called PAL, and the Americans' is
NTSC

on both rasters: POXX 24594,Y:POXX 24607,Y (second y must always be greater that the first y)

Now I bet you're wondering why I'm talking a-bout dilferent TV standards lt's
because these differences hit the C64 in a big

way, Vfhen prograrnmers write software for the European market they have no womes about what they put into it, usually including accurate timing to achieve the best results for speed, and clever tricks ljke opening borders aad raster splittlng But one of the biggest problems for most prog'ra.mmers E fixing the program for the American market because, believe it or not, they have 56 ra.s'ter Iines less That's lrke throwing the bottom border away, ald this is an awfu.l amouni of speed gone So if you used aly of ths your program would just die, bcause with all ttre timing out etc, your ruce garoe lust iums uto

a slow,

flickering mess

Thanks to Commodore, [he AE]ga mJ work on both NTSC and PA-L perfrtly. as it
has a built-in converter

Coming soon
a
Street Cred Football: Coming very soon now from Players/ Premier lt's written by WoW! software, so it's got to be worth a look
at [2 99

saw the film the other day - it's ful of humour ald adventure We just hope it's oDe of those games that totally mrresponds mth the fiJm, Do you remember Tie Goonie.9 An
addictlve game that used to be our favourite hdrana Jones should be out at the end of
Jnly.

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Console
There have been rumours that in America the

8-bit machines have totally died off, with

people going console crazy instead Consoles

it big over herc, but the only recognised ones nowadays are the Sega and Nintendo Is this because the Americans are very naive when it comes to computers? The thiag is with a console machine that it is only useful for games You can't go out and buy a word prccessor or a CAD prog[am, cal you? So why do people buy them when you have machines like the C64 and Amiga, which also have a wide range of software
have made
support?

And...
0n the subjeo of
gTeat

spLits, Iook out next week

as Sector 64 reader Nlgel Myers has another

Iisting which involves splits all the way. Ian + Mic

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YOUR FORMAT
Up the Poll
,PID\,
Glasgow notes with evident glee the recently reported virus implanted in the poll Tax computers in Scotland (it reputedly removes legitimate names from the list and replaces them with
children or dead people) But, he asks, could a virus be written for the PCW and iI it could, is his company,s data, wiuch N all stored in his hard disk, at
risk?

Cameron Taylor

of

Summing

up,

Lightnjng produces

substantial increase in performance, and is good value at [29 95 Digital precision are on

,/

01-527-5493

Design of the times

DTP aad Eaphics proEam looks like it could be the best yet - just the thing for puttmg together your handbills, club or

out This

Creatrve Technology s Mrcro Desigms is now

I've seen demonstration viruses at work on the PCW but have never heard of one in real

Lightning strike
When Sinclair developed the OL, it had a lot

life

The reasons for this are:

of

trouble shoe-horning ODOS

and

or parish magazine Creative's Don Taylor says they,re shrft]rrg ,,a hundred a week - all hell has broken loose!,,. We're expectlng a review copy any momenti
mearwhile details on 0889 567160 The Plogram costs f59 95, or fgg 95 with a
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company newsletter,

1) PCW owners are not destructive types

and don't Iet viruses loose

2) PCWs are rarely networked or connected to a modem, mealhg a virus planter must 3) PD software, that notorious breeding Eound for viruses, is virtually non-existent
for the PCW.
So

SuperBASlC into the ROMS, and went for compact code, rather than code optimised for speed. Lrgirning wntten by Steve Sutton (he subsequently wrote Dp,s DOS emulator,

fie

introduce it physrcally on a drsk ald

haldling, graphics and maths, by routines

optlmised for speed After making a back-up, trig.hf&ng has to be insta.lled on a disk, or an existing one. This process uite straightrorward, and the new Lrgitrung routtnes can then be

Quanta Doings
Ouanta is holding a w Cambildge on Augxst Tebby of OJump wili be doubt conduct one of his popular question ard answer sessions Tony tells me he might have a major new piece of software to demonstrate - I can't release any details at

Win a copy of LocoFile! Yes, sunmer :n -compu[:trg mears

competition tlme (because there,s nothrng
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you're sale from viruses, I reckon l4trat shame the Poll Tax records are not on

PCWs

ne is

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system

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What is the service adverttsed?

Stick

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the version

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of scr

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oSaipt you have (it,s when you start up )

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the screen text enhancements (this is the default when the system boots), _lngOFF disables them, _lngGMF controls the graphics enhalcements, and _lngpRXC

SuperBASlC. Por instance, _1ng0N enables

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Ttus allowed me to get further into the game

one odginal feature is the use oI bubbles to carry you up the screen You camot die by falling off a height, somethrng I always hated
about games like ManrcMrner

be sent to New Dimension Software, Postbus 247, 3840 AE Harderwiik,

Nederlands. Tel 03410-26017 Write or phone for prices -

Superior again

won't mention the other parts of the

package here, except to pont out they are far

,r

fr
,::

more than just makeweights,

Zalaga by orlando,

particularly

wilch

is a fme game

again Sarn 10 \PI/^S 10) plonked onto my doormat recently, so here is a whNtlestop Play

it

Strategic punchase
It/irite Magic on the 4th Dimension label is an unusual strategy cum action adventure The game has you controlling a team oI four adventurers who smply have to try and sunive Th[ty two levels ful] of deadly dangers have to be endured before victory is possible The four chilacters are Kaldor the Leprechaun, Moriana and Warrior, Cheysul the Titan and Mandjake the Enchanter. As the names suggest they all have dilfering ab[ities You control only one character at a

Four of the best

If you read the news rn issue 32 Express,
you'll already know that VrginA{astertlonic plans to release four titles for the MSX For those who didn't, the games to be released arc, Xenon, Double Dngon, Road Wars, ald Terrorpods Ail are due for release around mrd July, and are on tape, priced [9 99

tour of

Superior's latest The usual four games are included Re-released arc Zalaga, 3D Dotty, Repton TIru ?rme aad a new game called owak! The best game m the set has to be owakl Designed and coded by Jamie Woodhouse it rs very addictive arld Eeat fun The object of the game is to jump around a screen, collect keys and leave via a door An old ldea maybe, but the implementation rs perfect The graphics are smoothly animated and the controls are responsive Good use of colour makes for "cute"charactels I found the Electron version more playable than the BBC because it is slightly slower

time A press of a button and a

transformation will tum the present character into another one This is quite a
complex game, nlth the accent on strategry rather than action, although there is a lot of the latter

magical

Now how about some of you softwarestarved MSXers parting with some cash ald actually purchasing some of these games If VirgwMastertronic sees that demand for these games is great enough, maybe they will release many more titles on our format

MSX2latest (againl
- one week you hear the MSX 2+ is now in doubt, the next week you hear that the opposite's true and the new
Stmnge, isn't it

Serious stuff
Good news

machines will definitely be launched n Europe this autumn The latter news comes
from a reliable source in Germaly and seems true, as I now see many titles labelled as compatr.ble with the MSx 2 and 2+ II anyone wishes to see an MSX 2 rn action before they commit themselves, by the time this edition of Express is printed Abbysoft, of The MaIl, Abbey Passage, Spalding, should have some MSX 2s on display. It also hopes to be the first retailer in the Ui( to take orders for the MSX 2+s, and will hopefully have one on demo later this year I have heard that the games for the MSX 2+ are superior to ST and Amiga offerings, so I can't wait to see one of
these machines myselJ

for

serious MSX software

Selle/s malket
Semnd-hard Beebs are always populal,
largely because of

though

if you are plannhg to advertise

magazines

durability. Be careful in I've found some a bit keen to

thet

chajge Trade rates for an ordinary small advertisement just because I gave my office
address

A]ternatively, there's always Express

Classrf.ieds

see page 46 for a

form Andrew Brown

hun[ers I have just received a circular from a Dutch company called Activideo Although I can't read Dutch, it appears that many of the utilities come with English instructions A few of the trtles on offer are as follows Borland Turbo Pascal for the MSX 2, AshtonTate dBase for all MSX machines, MSX DOS Utiiities, Version (1 03), ald lemf, the colour character editor for the MSX 1 and 2 The above titles are supplied on 3 5 inch disk, and are sold by what appears to be subsidiary Activideo, called New Dimensron Software, and all enquuies should

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Rememler I said that it might be a good idea

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origiral, Eaphically excellent - ald, fun! Your Vallryrie fighter flies smoothly and the

own Its

Frontiel, as it says rn its letter, had some stateside silicon imports, but with the exceptjon of the Iatest version of spartaDos (which was reviewed Express several

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r To increase the speed of your machme by up to 30%, poke the locatton 559,0 to turn the Antic chip off Don't do thrs while g'raphics
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fighter is
well equipped to deal

wih any
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Iooks aJfer the $aphics

lt's really

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15 JULY 1989

4I

Yffi ffi YXPS

Problems with yout computet? Express's Agony column has the answeh Write in strictest conlidence to Uncle Techtip. Best lrlps win a trcebie - so don't lorget to tell us yow address and machine
.1.N0

Monitoring quality
As a reader of your magazine since December 88, I wonder if you could help me. I am about to upgrade my C64 to an Amiga so I went along to

lnstead,

it is of the new square

design. Other than the obvious pin differences, could this lC be used in the Amiga and if so, what are the pin-outs? Also, would any games be noticeably speeded up? Thank you for any help you may offer.
David (little Tommy) Atkins, Poole,

my local computer shop and had

Double drive
I read in your magazine about one of your readers who wanted to buy an additional disk drive for his PC200. He
had dilficulty in finding a supplier. I am sure there are a number PC200 owners who may have the same trouble. I wrote to quite a few firms to find out if they could supply one at a reasonable prtce. One lirm quoted 1200 for one. Three firms told me that it was not possible to fit a 3 5 inch external drive to the

2. Not yet The company is in the

process of putting the board together 3, As its name suggests, the paperwhite display is simply a monitor which displays text as black characters on a white background (take a look at the ST's mono monitor) Some users like this arrangement, others don't. lt's a matter for personal choice All part of life's rich tapest...oh shut up!

demo with the transformer program for running MS-DOS programs. lt seemed to do the job I had in mind for transferring WordStar text files from my work's PC computer so I can work on various text files and

Dorset What do you mean apart from the obvious pin differences. "? The pin

"

differences are everything. Are you thinking of building your own mother board? 0K, I know it's possible, but if you

then transfer them back.

The

salesman said to get the best out of an Amiga, I would need to buy the monitor as well - a Philips 8833 - | said I had got a Ferguson TX with RGB and composite inputs which the C64 uses. The salesman said that I

it you'd be writing these answers. Bung an ad in Express classifreds, offload onto some unsuspecting reader and use the
could do

it

resultant moolah to buy yourself a game. -:

PC200

can assure you and your

Fast archie
lf you want the Archimedes to go faster (l just want it to go cheaper - Uncle Iechtip) with BASIC just use RMFASTER EASIC with RISC 0S and BASIC will be put into a relocatable module. lt is not as

would not get all the colours and

Rich ar d Jeff r ey,
Ca

Pi

{,::' i,i-,i.i=

readers that if they contact

sharpness on my ,W. ls he correct in saying this?

stle Donnington, Derby

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I
own an Olivetti PCl with twin 3.5

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They can supply either 3.5 or 5.25 inch external drives for the PC200. At 595 complete with metal case and leads

using 0S_UpdateMEMC,64,64 as you said, the ROMs become hot with that command Kev Urquhart, Bath, Avon

The Ferguson TX televrsion will work perfectly with the Amiga and although there may be a slight degradaiion in picture quality when compared with the

valuable hands-on

primary schools to assist me with records etc. and to give the children
experience.

use

in

local

for the Philips a dedicated monitor purposes you suggest it will be fine

the machine included a word processor, shape

Programs which were supplied with

to fit the PC200. The

is excellent I ordered mine on the Monday

service

ffii'fThe chips ane down

by Access and it arrived on the following Friday - it works well Neil Hirst, Tupsley, Hereford

use an Amiga 500 mainly for games, word processing, an etc,

and have recently obtained a 68010 processor. The problem is that the chip does not come in the standard dual-in-line package of the 68000.

children's matching program and drawing board. The bundled software works well and the children have been very keen to use these programs, but as the age range of the children is from 5 to 7 years old the novelty wears quite quickly. The ideal of

off

Sound and vision

I have three
about the PC. questions

Mffifu

course, is to have lots of primary age educational programs (...and more than one book between lour

to ask you
$rir*

1. Are Mandarin planning to make a version of SfOS for the PC? 2. Has Coktel made its add-on

'm'-611 .ss- J* S

card which has the Amiga

quality yet? 3. What is paper-white VGA? M J Pitt, Runcorn, Cheshrre

sound

Want to make your Archie even taster? Kev

Urquhart knows how...

42.

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15 JULY 1989

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HELP

kids, 15 to a crass, and a larger

salary for teachers, but l'm atraid in the current climate even Uncle Techtip has his hands tied) to choose from but as I finance the

i#a"fq# lnvisible rnan

There is a bug in the CPC version of Emlyn Hughes lnternational Soccer. Players are often seen to disappear

disks I found that the mouse operation

A mouse thrcugh the looking glass

Here's a couple of ST posers for you. Any and all help greatly appreciated.

returned
minutes.

to

normal after about 30

computer, printer and softruare cannot afford the PC programs that

l'd like to buy for the children. I have

in a rather mysterious and

access

to many school

programs

disturbing manner. Also, the goalkeeper has been known to

indulge in the same activities. This whilst being very amusing can also be very infuriating when he chooses

1. Every now and then and for some strange reason most often
when using a word processor, the
mouse directions become reversed (up becomes down etc.l ls there a fault in the machine? lf not, how do I stop it as it is very awkward when

written for the BBC B (usually written in BASIC). lf I had any method of accessing these programs on my PC it would be an enormous advantage to the children and of course to my
purse!

the precise

moment the ball is headed towards goal. I have no

Simon Hancock, Kenlworth, Warks

Alternatively, you can rid your disks of infection by purchasing a proprietary virus killer such as Atari ST Vius Killer from CRL. Call them on 0l 985 2391 2. Spel/ ltlA spelling checker from GST the software house responsible for J st Word is cheap (approxirnately 120) and works perfectly with the PD version of lstWord Call GST on 0954 61258.

clues at all to where they go!

using program like lstWord+? I usually ond up rebooting the

for the PC or is there any commercial service available that may be able to help with the
problem?
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ls there a BBC emulator available

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machine from scratch, which often cures the problem. 2. Do you know of a decent word

processor

lt'd be so easy to get really cross and launch into a stinging denunciation of the education funding cuts, but what the hell? I know of no Beeb emulator Ior the PC (if

text space free for use on

unexpanded 520STFM?
something

built-in spellchecker that leaves around 60K need advanced for my

a

with a

ST specs l. Can Spectrum software

how?

#&s v;

be

converted to run on the ST and if so,

any Techtippers can help, call your

Uncle) but what I would suggest is that

you have

rummage

in the

public

thesaurus, selectable tonts and graphics facilities would be very useful. Or perhaps you know of an
accessory program to use with the PD version of Ist l/yord that would do
the job.
P Bocij, Derby

work so exUa features like

fairly

an

2.

Can early software be made compatible wlth disk systems? 3. How can I get tape software onto
disk?

domain, which contains some excellent

You can of course convert to ST BASiC but as the one is as bad as the other, there's not
Sinclair BASIC much point.

. I

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No

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free (just the price of the disk).

programs whose authors

The public domain is made up of

have

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explarn

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(and 3). Yes Break the copy protection and copy the resultant liles to disk. Unfortunately, it's not quite as simple as that. Copy protection is devised so that you can't break it, but
fortunately,

2.

there are

commercially
which

available copying programs

needs, they'll be very pleased to helc

Pkyers in Emlyn Hughes dont wait to be sflt otl - hey disappear of heir own accord

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the cult horror "B" movies of the Came from the Desert is the latest "computer movie" from US software developers, Cinemaware, the team responsible for Defender of the Crown, King of Chicago and Rocket Ranger Out shortly on Amiga, with ST and PC
1950s,

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Domark is hawking this Atari coin-op conversion as its Christmas Number 0ne contender, due for release in November on Spectrum, C64, CPC, ST, Amiga and PC This early pre-production ST screen shot looks as though Domark may just be successful in converting the brilliant racing sim to the humble home micro

At last, the classic 8-bit

vertically-scrolling shoot''em'up, Commando is here on the ST and Amiga well almost, as it's due for release later in the summer. Originally a Capcom coinop, Commando did particularly well when it was released on the C64 back in Christmas '85 - but is it past its sell-by date in 1989?

DffiAGON Tengen/ Domark

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Warsaw Pact forces fheatre Europe is already out on Spectrum, C64 and CPC Conflict Europe is out soon on ST, Amiga and PC

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PREVIEW

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O Okay Mugsy, there's this punk on the Ulest Side (see), and he needs sorting out lseel, take Hefty, Handy and Horatio and give him a seeing to (seef. Right boss, no problem boss, anything you say boss. But, er, sorry boss, why do we have to rub this guy out?'Gause someone's got to stop Cinemaware releasing King oJ
Chicago A.

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King of Chicago: Pity

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Roller

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You, Prince Agar of the forgotten Kingdom, have to rescue the Princess and rid the world of the evil Baron etc etc in this shoot-platform-breakout-todeathJem-up.

Cinemawarel

GRAPFIICS AHD SOUNS The game

consists of still backdrops, large characters with a little animation for facial expression, and a few animated action sequences The siill graphics are great - very reminiscent of the Amiga visuals. Unfortunately, like the
Amiga, the animated characters leave a lot to be desired Where ST King of Chicago really falls down is in the audio department - the snatches of 3Gesque jazz are appalling. To add dramatic effect, the odd sound spotcffect is produced at various points in the game.

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King of Chicago, another Cinemaware 'computer movie", has finally reached

caMEPl-AY As 1930s gangster Pinky Malone, you'll have to use all your cunning
andl or brute force to become the top dog
on the West Side of the Windy City,

is it an offer you can't refuse?

Gamewise, you control your actions via "thought" bubbles. Usually you have three options at each stage. Each option will aflect the other characters differently, and the

results are then played out

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Stage 3: parallax scrolling yertical shootJem-up

to

you

the charm and

predecessor. King

OTIIER VERSIOilS Out first on the Amiga, and better too, mainly due to superior audio quality. We never saw the PC excursion. EXPRESS VERPICT While Amiga King of Chicago certainly wasn't perfect, at least it offered something new and was good fun for a couple of plays the ST version lacks all
atmosphere

of

its
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Occasionally, an action sequence will pop up, like gunning some mug down or blasting a rival's speak-easy.

of

Chicago remains

expensive interactive demo

Rik Hrvnes

. lbs folks, its Arkanoid all over again on Stage 2

L Y You progress through several your mission, each from various genres: a Ievel, then a shootrern-up level, then a platform
and so on. Continuity? Er, well, you zoom round in ship from level to level there's your continuity.

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rules apply like picking up shields, energy and firepower pods. All cosy iamiliar stuff, if nothing
catch the eye.

approprrate and perfectly adequate backdrops. Again, well done and fun to play but nothing to write home
about. verston.

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Spot effects

where

new ground, nor does it repackage existing ideas in a stunning way. As a sort of one-game compilation of genres ifs well put together and pleasant to play, but it's not the sort of thing that will amaze your friends.

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G64 . 8.99cs, 812.99dk Also on ST, Amiga

shoot-'em-up

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hell though ST Phobia just adds colour and (marginally) better parallax scrolling... EXPBESS VEnnlGY When we see a new C64 horizontally-scrolling shoot-'em-up, we want to play a

Hokey cokey peeps, it's horizontally-scrolling

time again, thanks to the latest release from Tony "Son ot Blagger, Suicide
Express, Black Thunder, Gryphon, Fernandez
Must Die" Crowther.

Bob's your knocked opportunity, you've summed up Phobia's visuals No surprises in the sound FX
department, either.

game that's superior in some way to previous horiz high+ankers like Deita, Armalyte and Denaris. We certainly didn't get this with Phobia; it's out of daie in terms of both gameplay and audio-visuals, frustrating to play, and would sit more comfortably as a budget
release.

STid

VEmSTSH$

The Amiga adds colour, stereo

sound and better parallax scrolling

it's still boring as

**

Rik Haynes

. lt iust

goes to show you can get a natf game on the C64, Amiga and ST... don't toiget

hat

VIC-20 game {see textl $ough!

Rik Haynes gets up.to.date with new versaons of games previously reviewed in Express

MILLEI{IUM 2.2
ELECIN'C DPEII'S

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SEGNACTIVISTOT{ AMIGA . t24.99DK . SPECTRUII

vERStOl{ REVTEWED tlr EXPRESS 7/8 . ALSO ON C64,

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BEVIEWED
EXPRESS

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Was it really worth the six month delay, when the only difference from the ST version is the marginally superior sound quality? Amiga SDI is good for a few games, but it's perhaps a little too easy

IlI

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oit sT
A Star taken off for not including an EGA or VGA
option, PC Millenium 2.2
still has that workable blend

of adventure and strategy,

as you strive to pick up the pieces after a cataclysmic planetary collision.

****
NAVY
MOVES
DTNAMiC

F'NEB,NDN,/CAOPROSE ATIGA . EI9.99DK . GPC VERSIO}I REVIEWED II{ EXPRESS . ALSO O}I

SAVAGE

. c64

ST. ft9.95Dt(

SPECTRUil, 064
A great motion soundtrack

VERSTON

BEVIEWED IN EXPBESS 31 . ALSO ON SPECTBUM, CPC, AMIGA, PC

interlaced with crisp samples mixes superbly with bright and colourful visuals. lts a pity the gameplay's so tired. Savage isn't that bad, its just not that brilliant either.

remarkably sharp sampled

soundtrack and colourful visuals fail to hide the fact thai lVavy Moves is repetitive, and not all that original. We probably over. rated the C64 version (Yes! We do sometimes make mistakes...

we're only human after

except of course for Mellish).

all,

**
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