Computers and Video Games - July 1983

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LISTINGS FOR THE ATARI-ATOM-BBC-SHARP 

DRAGON • SPECTRUM • ZX81 • VIC-20 -TEXAS.

ZX Spectrum 

and VIC 20 

Featuring- 

• Hi-Resolution Graphics 

• Sensational Sound Effects 

• Authentic Arcade Action 

• Machine Code Thrills 

ANY GAME JUST Including \ V.A.T., 

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JULY 1983 Vol II No 8 

GAMES NEWS 16 

Teach your Spectrum 11,000 words and 

then lot it beat you at Scrabble. Mad 

Man ha resurfaces in what promises to 

be computer gainings longest-running 

soap opera. 

VIDEO GAMING .... 20 

Up lo four pages with a feature on Atari 

soccer. Joystick Jury reviews and much 

more news kicking off with a rundown 

of the new Supercharger range of 

cassette games 

ARCADE ACTION 30 

How do you rate agai.nst the world's 

video-craziest nation. We chart some 

US high scores for reference and look 

at Tip Top Donkey Kong in 3D. 

REVIEWS 136 

T.I. s Parsec talks itself into our columns 

and Ultimate have come up with arcade 

winner m Jetpac. 

NEXT MONTH 140 

There's news of our Summer Holiday 

competition launched Next Month with 

£5.000 as first prize 

There's a new look to Video 

Screens this month. For a start 

we've changed its name to Video 

Gaming and we've boosted it up 

to four pages. 

There you'U find news, competitions, 

a full page of reviews 

and a different feature every 

month: kicking off with the tale 

of the tail-less joystick. It starts 

on page 20. 

Pure computer buffs won't be 

losing out though as we've 

added extra pages — 32 of them 

— devoted purely to listings, to 

keep C&VG the best listings 

magazine you can buy. 

Donkey Kong and the brilliant 

3D labyrinth will brighten up 

Spectrum owners' lives; there's 

3D Road Race and Trogger for 

T.I. owners; Short Circuit on the 

Sharp and a host of other games 

for other computers. 

DONKEY KONG JUNIOR 32 

Son of Kong comes to the screens m glorious Spectrum colour in 

search of his big daddy captured by the unscrupulous Mario. Can you 

stand the suspense! 

SHOOTOUT 36 

If you like taking potshots at those bobbing ducks at fairground 

shooting galleries you'U love (his game. 

SPIKE ATTACK 44 

YouH have to get the point of this game quickly if you want to survive 

the deadly alien spikes. For Dragon owners who enjoy a touch of 

acupuncture treatment 

SQUONK 

A battle of wits within the corridors of a lethal ma2e 

GHOST TRAP 

102 

You play a dangerous game when you go hunting the man-eating 

ghosts But it's*fun attempting to lure them into your deadly lasertraps. 

A haunting experience for Vic owners. 

ZAXV 104 

Mystery and adventure on a planet time has passed by. Can you 

discover the identity of the double agent sending secrets which could 

undermine the Spectrum ZX8I federation? 

PLUS GAMES EXTRA 63 

48 

A game of 

strategy and quick thinking for two players with joysiicks. Plus the 

"best title display" our reviewer has seen on an Atari 

METEOR 52 

And now for the weather forecast. Meteor storms will be moving 

across the country towards evening. You are advised to stay inside 

and defend the city on your Texas II 99/4a. 

CATCH 98 

Why not take a day trip to the stars and drop off at a friendly planet? 

That's what they said at the travel agents What they didn't say was 

that we'd have to drop off by parachute. I hope you BBC A owners are 

ready with the nets! 

MAILBAG 1 

Editor with one-track biased mind 

shock! 

COMPETITION 10 

CHESS 27 

Botvinmk: a human chess champion 

turned computer master. 

BUGS 28 

Aqua antics as the Bugs' programmer 

gets his hands on Sub Commander 

SOFTWARE FORM . . 58 

SCIENCE FICTION 112 

Sa-Fi author David Langford is back 

with an unlikely tale of Galactic Camels 

SOFTWARE DISASTERS 

116 

A new column which gives readers the 

chance to hii back at ihe industry 

WARPATH 120 

Sioux chief or Cavalry General? The 

final part of Ron Potkin's wargame 

deals with combat. 

MACHINE CODE 122 

Ted Ball delves deeper into the mysteries 

ot Machine Code 

SEVENTH EMPIRE 126 

It's back The Seventh Empire rises 

again with more tales of stellar gold, 

pirates and space treachery 

PUZZLING 128 

Trevor Truran sets some more brainteaaera 

ADVENTURE 130 

Two pages or Keith Campbell as he 

checks out hobbits. 

GRAPHICS 133 

How computers see" the real world 

Editor Tarry Pratt. Staff writer Eugene Lacey Editorial uiiitui Clare Edgeley Reader services Robert Schdreer,. Art editor Linda Freeman. Designer Lynda Skerry, 

Production editor Tun Metcalfe. Advertisement manager Rita Lewis Advertising executive* Louise Matthews. Mick Cassall. Advertisement assistant Louise Flock hart. 

Publisher Tom Moloney 

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THE W. H. SMITH SPECTRUM TOP TEN 

Chosen from our vast range of software for the Sinclair Spectrum 

with particular reference to presentation,challenge,excitement 

and value for money. 

Title Producer KRAM Price 

Vu-File Sinclair 16 £8.95 

The Hobbit Sinclair 48 £14.95 

Flight Simulation Sinclair 48 £ 7.95 

Vu-3D Sinclair 48 £9.95 

Hungry Horace Sinclair 16 £5.95 

Horace Goes Skiing Sinclair 16 £5.95 

Chess Sinclair 48 £7.95 

Jet Pac Ultimate 16 £5.50 

Penetrator Melbourne House 48 £6.95 

Sentinel Abacus 16 £4.95 

COMMODORE 64 

Larger branches of W.H. Smith now also stock the Commodore 64 

together with a wide range of the latest software. 


SOFTWARE 

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PLAYING 

BY MAIL 

Dear Sir, 

Due to being unbearably 

bored during the last couple 

of weeks, I have decided to 

take part in a play-by-mail 

game. I would be grateful if 

you could give me the 

addresses of people I should 

contact to get further 

information. 

Steven Mill. 

Broughty-Ferry, 

Dundee. 

Editor's reply: There are 

several games you can 

play, Steven. Star lord by 

Mike Singleton, 1 Rake Hey 

Close, Moreton, Wirrai, 

Merseyside, Vorcon Wars 

by John Nicholson, 71 

Juniper, Birch Hill, 

Bracknell, Berks. Or for 

free you can enter our own 

Seventh Empire play-bymail 

game in the July issue. 

LOW COST 

SPECTRUM 

Dear Sir. 

I have just read that the ZX 

Spectrum will be going down 

in price. Does this mean that 

it will now be cheaper to 

convert my 16K Spectrum to 

48K? 

Simon Gill, 

Bellbroughton. 

West Midlands. 

Editor's reply: The price of 

the Spectrum goes down 

from May 2 1983. A 16K 

Spectrum will cost £99.99, 

making it the first under- 

£100 colour micro to be 

available. The 48K model is 

reduced to £129.99. The cost 

of an upgrade to 48K is 

reduced from £60 to £40. 

Orders for a Spectrum 

placed by mail order after 

April 7 were frozen, so if 

you ordered a Spectrum 

after that date you should 

be receiving a refund. 

Please drop us a line at: Computer and Video Games, EMAP, Durrani House, S Herbal Hill, London EC1R 5JB 

DEFENDER 

DEFENDED! 

Dear Sir, 

As a proud Atari 800 owner I 

must complain strongly on 

your review of the Defender 

cartridge for this machine. 

According to me, the 

graphics are spectacular for 

the 16K program and equal 

to those of Acomsoft's 32K 

Defender program 

(Planetoids) for the much 

over-rated BBC in every way. 

There is no question of 

which is easier to play 

because playing with six 

keys at once on the BBC 

keyboard is impossible. 

Lastly, on the question of 

the best quality software, it is 

known in every home 

computer selling nation that 

the Atari has the most and 

certainly the best quality 

software of any available 

computer and it does not only 

come from Atari Inc. but from 

a variety of companies. 

It is not like the BBC where 

you are restricted to 

Acomsoft software if you 

want programs of any 

reasonable quality. 

Paul Ippaso, 

Barrow-on-Soar, 

Leicester. 

Editor's reply: Thanks for 

your comments Paul, but as 

a keen Defender fan I can 

only defend my reviewer by 

saying that I also prefer the 

BBC version of Planetoids. 

The action is more 

reminiscent of the arcade 

original and the screen 

scrolls more neatly. 

Also you don't mention 

the fact that Atari's 

Defender is much more 

expensive than Planetoids. 

Still, perhaps we have all 

been spoilt by arcade 

Defender anyway. 

SPECTRUM 

STICKS? 

Dear Sir, 

Can you get joysticks for the 

Spectrum? 

M. Law, 

Sutton Coldfield, 

West Midlands. 

Editor's reply: There are 

many companies selling 

joystick interfaces for the 

Spectrum. Try Fuller, 

Kempston or AGF 

Ward ware. A Spectrum 

Joystick review soon. 

LOCATIONS, 

ROUTINES... 

Dear Sir. 

I am writing to tell you about 

some useful memory 

locations and routines which 

may be of some value to 

those of your readers who 

own a Sharp MZ-80K. They 

are listed below. 

POKE 10167,1 removes the 

PEEK protect from Sharp 

Basic. 

Type SG when you switch on 

and a beep will sound when 

you hit a key. 

Type SS and the beep will 

stop. 

POKE 59555,0 will blank the 

screen whilst retaining 

anything on it and POKE 

59555,1 will reactivate the 

screen. 

PRINT AT X,Y; can be 

simulated by POKE 4465, 

X:POKE 4466, Y:PRINT 

"character". 

POKE 4464,1 will go into the 

small alphabet mode without 

having to press smLCAP. 

POKE 10682.1 before saving a 

program will cause the 

program to run automatically 

after loading. 

The location of the 

keyboard buffer is 17828, but 

this only holds the ASCII 

number of the key being 

pressed if GET is issued 

before hand, thus GET 

AS:AS-CHRS (PEEK( 17828)) 

can be used m a program so 

that movement of your ship 

or whatever is continuous. 

Finally to make a security 

copy of Sharp Basic, simply 

load the Basic and type POKE 

10167,1: USR(33): USR(36) and 

hit CR. 

Ian Clarke, 

Stoke on 

Trent, 

Staffordshire. 

REVERSI 

REQUEST 

Dear Sir, 

I think it was in the March 

1982 edition that Gordon 

Stevens gave us an excellent 

Reversi (Othello) program for 

the ZX81. 

However, this used some 

machine code and peeks for 

which there does not seem to 

be direct Spectrum 

equivalents. 

Any chance of a Spectrum 

"conversion kit" for this very 

good program? I want to try 

to beat the swine!! 

G. N. Thome. 

Welwick, 

Hull. 

Editor's reply: I suggest that 

you try and get hold of a 

ZX81 manual with all the 

system addresses in. Most 

of the variable names are 

the same as those for the 

Spectrum, and it's simply a 

matter of replacing the 

locations. 


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INTERTON 

INTERFACE 

Dear Sir 

1 own an Interton VC4000 

video games console 

marketed in the UK by 

Hanimex Ltd. Could you 

please inform me whether it 

is, or will be, possible to in 

some way connect (via an 

interface or other means), the 

console handsets to the 

Sinclair ZX Spectrum which I 

have just purchased, 

Gary Wilson, 

Colchester, 

Essex. 

Editor's reply: Most of the 

joystick interfaces sold axe 

sticks with two 

potentiometers inside. If the 

Interton sticks are this type, 

then its just a matter of 

making sure that the wires 

go to the correct pins. 

Details should be provided 

with each interface. 

ATTACK ON 

ATARI! 

Dear Sir, 

After reading your current 

issue I find myself with 

enough material for four or 

five letters. Til try and cram 

the lot into one. Lucky you. 

BBC v Spectrum. All your 

well heeled correspondents 

with Model Bs seem to have 

missed the point of the 

original letter which was — if 

£399 is all you have to spend 

then a Spectrum plus 

peripherals is better value 

than a BBC with none. 

I believe the letter then 

went on "and ITV make the 

best TV programs in the 

world." 

Actually the best TV 

programs on ITV are shown 

on Channel 4. Draw your own 

conclusions. 

Atari v Colecovision. When 

Atari were flinging writs at 

Activision, their excuse was 

that software was where the 

money was and they wanted 

to protect their markets. 

I would have thought the 

Coleco/Atari adaptor was 

extremely unlikely to detract 

from Atari's sales. 

One therefore concludes 

that they have a vested 

interest in keeping their legal 

dept. overworked. 

Incidentally, if the pioneer sof 

record and film had adopted 

the same attitude as Atari, I 

very much doubt if there 

would have been any Bros. 

Warner to own Atari in the 

first place. 

Atari v Imagic. Atari must 

be daft if they think we can't 

tell the difference between 

Demon Attack and Phoenix. If 

there is any similarity then it's 

probably because they can't 

fit arcade Phoenix into the 

Atari's memory. 

What's more, Tm getting 

sick and tired of Atari 

chucking writs at everybody. 

If they don't cut it out, I'm not 

going to buy any more of 

their products. Intellivision 

cartridges are cheaper 

anyway. So there. 

Interesting bit of news that. 

Just one thing. Didn't I write 

and tell you about them six or 

seven months ago? 

Deke Roberts, 

Temple Cowley. 

Oxford. 

Editor's reply: But we had 

to wait until they were 

about to come out Deke! 

Still, thanks for your views. 

WE NEED 

REVIEWERS 

Dear Sir, 

I have recently upgraded my 

Spectrum from 16 to 48K and 

am now ready to take on the 

gaming world. 

Being a regular reader of 

your magazine, since long 

before I ever persuaded the 

powers that be to buy me my 

first computer, I am writing to 

see if you need any more 

help in compiling your 

reviews section or testing 

games. 

I have a printer and will be 

pushing for the marvellous 

microdrive as soon as it 

appears. 

Rebecca CaJwell, 

Edgeware, 

Middlesex. 

Editor's reply: Yes Rebecca, 

we can make use of your 

talents we are still finding 

we have more tapes than 

our current resources can 

cope with on four 

microcomputers. These are 

the Spectrum, Vic-20, 

Dragon 32 and BBC. If 

anyone out there is 

interested please write with 

details of the equipment 

you own. 

GORILLA 

GRIPES 

Dear Sir, 

I am writing to you 

concerning the letter you 

published in your May edition 

from Iain Reddick of 

Kirkaldy, Fife, about C Tech's 

Krazy Kong. 

I would just like to say that 

I totally agree with him. I also 

believe that the advert is 

meant to be misleading. 

Sometimes I find it 

impossible to load the 48K 

version, but when I do I 

never seem to be able to 

reach the final stage as every 

time I complete a stage 1 lose 

a life and, I assume, return to 

the beginning. Could this be 

a bug? 

The game is very very fast 

and definitely unplayable. I 

too waited for over a month 

for my copy to arrive and 

have also decided to return it 

to C Tech with a letter of 

complaint. 

M. Yates, 

Ilkeston, 

Derbyshire. 

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OVERPRICED 

CARTRIDGES 

Dear Sir, 

I am writing to complain 

through you to some of the 

large Atari 400/800 software 

producers. I have had my 

computer for about nine 

months and have only been 

able to purchase two games 

cartridges due to the really 

high prices that are charged 

for these items. 

The price for a cassette 

game for any other computer 

such as the Vic-20 or ZX 

Spectrum is about £5-£10 

which seems very fair, but 

nearly all Atari cassette 

games are nearer or over the 

£20 mark which I am sure 

many other Atari 400/800 

owners think is extravagant. 

One of the reasons I 

bought the Atari computer 

was for its graphic 

capabilities and I now find 

that I can't afford games at 

these prices. 

Have you or any other 

Atari 400/800 owners any 

views on the matter? I think 

the Atari computers have 

been out long enough for 

games prices to be lowered 

considerably. 

Eddie 

Mitchell, 

London, 

NW9. 

Editor's reply: Thanks for 

your comments Eddie. I 

agree that Atari software is 

not so superior to other 

micros that it justifies these 

large prices. Perhaps other 

Atari owners will give us 

their views. 

AMPLIFIED 

SPECTRUM 

Dear Sir, 

I am an owner of a ZX 

Spectrum and find that the 

sound or lack of it irritates 

me more than anything else. 

But now I have discovered a 

way of amplifying the sound 

through the cassette 

recorder. The sound coming 

from the computer is still 

present but additional sound 

comes from the cassette 

recorder. 

To amplify the sound 

through the cassette 

recorder, the Spectrum's ear 

plug should be plugged into 

its socket on the machine. 

The other earplug should be 

plugged into the MIC socket 

of the cassette recorder. 

The cassette recorder is 

then set to play and, then 

PAUSED via a pause button 

on the cassette recorder. The 

sound output from the 

cassette recorder can now be 

controlled using the volume 

control. 

This ability to increase the 

Spectrum sound improves all 

games where sound plays a 

prominent part and at times 

can even improve scores. 

Sarbjit Cidda, 

Spondon, 

Derby. 


COMPETITION COMPETITION COMPEl 

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FT VP* G O T i D E N given the chance to prove itself. And finally the Game of the Year. 

^ ^ A C&VC Golden Joystick will be The most coveted Golden Joystick 

JOYSTICKS awarded in five categories and awarded to the game which most 

~. . . , , announced during the Brainwave impresses the judges. 

Five Golden joysticks are tne trea- consumer electronics exhibition in Initially we are leaving the judgsured 

prizes which British software November ^ to ^ wam |Q teU ^ 

houses will be competing for this The five ]oys[icks ^ ^ your normnatlons m any or ^ of the 

autumm. awarded as follows: categories. Don't feel you have to fill 

Computer & Video uames is Best Arcade-style Game goes \o the in a category where you have not 

sponsoring the Golden Joysticks cassette Qr cartndge whlch proves seen ^ worlh 

Awards which we hope will be- ^ ^ mQst addictlve ^ For the title Software House of the 

come the Oscars of our games thnlUng game ^ 1983 ^ we ^ check ^ yQur ^ 

industry. Hfe Best Strategy Came is the title gestions with the dealers and also 

This is your chance to nominate h bestowed on the finest casset- set some devious tests on the sera 

company which has given you H te Qr to test the mind ^ce Slde for the ^ contenders. 

good service or earn due recogm- V rather than the ^gger.finger. And while the other Joysticks can 

uon for a game wtucn nas provided H The Best Qriginal Came Idea 

is only be won by British-based comhours 

of enjoyment. B, ^ award close to the heart of panies, we are leaving this category 

We feel our industry is crying out H anyone who has w^nen as open to overseas distributors, 

for quality garr.es to be rewarded • many Pacman reviews and We want your nominations in as 

and hope it will give our software -ggLacg^ news dories ^ : have. I quickly as possible. So please cut 

houses something to aim i o r ^ ^ ^ ^ * ^ hope the award ^ Qut ^ form below fm m those 

when they feel they have spires companies categories where you feel strongly 

come up with a winning g to introduce new that a company deserves an award 

^ ^ ^ H H I ^ f f H i M V ideas. and send it off to: The Golden Joy- 

In America the Software House of stick Awards, Computer & Video 

Awards tend to go to US soft- the Year goes to the Games, Durrant House. Herbal Hill, 

I — — — company which has won itself the London EC1R 5JB. 

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TlriON COMPETITION COMPETITION C 

THE 

ELECTRONS 

ON FOR 

BUG-BYTE 

If you'd seen as many space invaders 

come and go as oui Bugs have, 

you too would be longing for a new 

kind of game. 

They've been haunted by the 

ghosts of long dead Pacmen until 

they were sick of power pills; 

swooped on by untold Galaxians 

and Scrambled more craft against 

mountainsides than they care to 

remember. 

At a recent meeting of the League 

of Blasted Bugs, it was unanimously 

decided to get right to the heart of 

the problem of original computer 

games ideas by asking Computer & 

Video Games readers to write in 

and tell us about the games they 

would like to see on their computers. 

Give your ideal game a title 

and that all-important theme. 

Explain how the game would 

run, the objectives and where 

the skill comes in. 

And who better than Bug-Byte, 

one of Britain's best established 

computer games companies to act 

as patrons for this foray into unexplored 

gaming territory. 

Liverpool based Bug-Byte are so 

keen to pave the way for a new 

breed of games that they have 

undertaken to put up an Electron 

computer — the long-awaited new 

offering from Acorn Computers — 

as a prize for the best idea. 

They will also throw in any attendent 

software which accompanies 

the proposed July launch of the 

Electron. 

Acorn's early promises for the 

Electron include: BBC Basic, compatible 

with the BBC computer; a 

standard typewriter keyboard; 32K 

of RAM memory; eight colour 

graphics; two character ranges of 

either 20 or 40 characters per column 

down 25 rows; a screen resolution 

of 320 x 200 pixels for detailed 

graphics; and a fully programmable 

sound generator. 

The prize goes to the writer of the 

best new games idea we receive 

into the C&VG offices by July 16th. 

An added bonuse, if any of the top 

20 entries are considered good 

enough by Bug-Byte, is that they will 

produce and market the game, 

paying royalties to the authors. 

As runners-up prizes, five entrants 

will be offered two software 

cassettes from the Bug-Byte range 

of BBC, Spectrum, ZX81, Oric and 

Vic games. See the panel below for 

details of how to enter and the 

competition rules. 

ARTIFACTOR 

COLLECTS 

Arkrai the artifact collector was the 

winner of the free C&VC play-bymail 

game of Starweb. 

The game came to a close this 

month when Arkrai went above the 

desired number of points to claim 

victory over the 14 other empire 

builders, berserkers, pirates, 

apostles and merchants that peopled 

the Starweb galaxy. 

A full report from one of the 

vanquished next month on C&VGs 

competition pages. 

HOW TO ENTER OUR ELECTRON CONTEST 

To Win Bug Byte s Electron, send 

your games idea in with a title and 

the themes. 

Let us know what sort of game it is 

and go into extra detail il it doesn't 

fall into the usual categories. 

Remember we are looking for originality 

so try to give your game a 

new twist. A picture of the screen 

display might help our judges to get 

a better idea of the game, but it isn't 

necessary. Please don't skimp on 

the detail, the more you explain how 

it works on the computer the better. 

Send it to: The Electron Competition, 

Computer & Video Games, Durrani 

House. Herbal Hill, London 

EC1R5JB. 

All entries will be the property of 

Bug-Byte and they reserve the right 

to develop and market the idea on a 

royalties basis. No employees of 

EMAP, Bug-Byte or their relative 

may enter the competition. The 

judges' decision is final and no correspondence 

can be entered into. 

The closing date is the 16th of July 

and please ensure that all your 

pieces of paper include your name 

and address. 

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GETS THE 

BIG VOTE 

GENERAL ELECTION 

Will she won't she? That's the 

question being debated over 

lunch, dinner and tea at Westminster 

as 635 MPs try to work 

out when Maggie will call the 

General Election. 

Some say June, some September, 

and others believe she'll 

hang on to the New Year. 

Whenever she does decide to 

go to the country one thing is 

clear. Spectrum owners will be 

ready for her. 

This latest game for the Sinclair 

machine enables you to experience 

some of the excitement 

of the great contest in your own 

home. 

Choose your favourite party — 

either Labour, Conservative, 

SDP, or Liberal Communists, 

Ecologists, and Official Raving 

Loonatics need not apply. Once 

you have picked your party you 

are ready to play this computerised 

board game. 

As you move around the board 

you land on squares which represent 

key constituencies in the 

provinces. Depending on how 

you place the important issues in 

order of priority the seat will be 

won or tost — with the computer 

measuring your answers against 

the correct formula stored in its 

memory. 

To help you plan strategy the 

computer also has a series of 

opinion polls and charts which 

can be called up to show you 

your standing with the electorate. 

General Election runs on the 

48K machine and is available 

from Bug Byte of Liverpool at 

£6.95. 

If taking on the Iron Lady in a 

tussle at the polls is not enough 

excitement for you then Bug 

Byte's other Spectrum release 

this month will take you to hell 

and back. 

Styx challenges you to get 

safely across the river of the 

underworld, rendevous with a 

mysterious monk, and get back 

across the river again. As you 

travel you will have to do battle 

with monsters of land and sea. 

The games runs on the 16 or 48K 

machine and is in the shops now 

at £5.95. 

Also in the Liverpool pipeline 

is a new game for the Spectrum 

called Manic Miner, Spectrum 

Pool, and an original game for 

the BBC 32K called Sea Lord 

SOME ANIMAL 

MAGIC FOR 

THE BEEB 

CAROUSEL 

Animals are the main characters 

in Acornsoft's June releases. 

There are ducks and owls for you 

to take pot shots at in Carousel 

— a simulation of the fairground 

air rifle stall. 

Take pot shots at these feathered 

targets as they bob and 

weave in front of your gun barrel. 

Frogs also jump into the picture 

in Hopper — a Beeb version 

of the popular arcade game. 

For those of you unfamiliar 

with the game you have to get 

your cute little frog safely across 

a busy road and swirling river. 

Both games run on the Model B 

and are in the shops now at 

£9.95. 

A minimum of two games a 

month have been promised by 

the premier Cambridge-based 

games people. 

THEIR LIVES IN 

YOUR HANDS! 

RADAR CONTROL 

The universal appeal of flight 

simulation programs has resulted 

in an increasing number of air 

traffic control programs being 

released. 

The BBC model B is the latest 

beneficiary of one of these 

games from Software For All of 

London. 

The game enables you to try 

your hand at one of the most high 

pressured jobs of all — controlling 

the landings and take-offs at 

a busy airport. 

In Area Radar Controller you 

are responsible for two landing 

strips. You must give information 

to the pilots on altitude, wind 

speed and other landing conditions. 

Any slip-ups will be punished 

with the sack so you will need all 

the concentration you can mus 

ter if you want to make the grade 

at this tough job. 

The game is available now 

from the Romford firm at £7.95. 

Software For All are also tooling 

up to write games for the 

Dragon and have launched their 

range with an Othello program 

HONEYMOON 

WITH A MAD 

WOMAN! 

MARTHA'S RETURN 

Remember the night poor little 

hen-pecked Henry flipped and 

blew the housekeeping on a 

night of gambling and drinking 

one of the local sin bins.- 

His bossy wife — 

Mad Martha — didn't 

like it one bitl Last 

we heard she was 

siil! chasing after him 

with an axe But now 

we know how the 

domestic story ended. 

Happily you'll be pleased to 

know. 

After a lengthy session with 

the marriage guidance councillor 

both parties agreed to forget 

their differences and now marital 

bliss has been restored to their 

happy home. 

For Henry's part he has 

pledged to spend less time on 

the golf-course, less money in 

the bar, and never to darken the 

doorway again of the Blue Lady 

Casino. 

Martha has also made a promise. 

To increase Henry's pocket 

money and to restrict the usage 

of the family axe to the chopping 

of fire wood. 

To cement the new bond 

Martha and Henry are off on a 

second honeymoon to Spatn 

where, according to C&VG's 

Spanish correspondent, Martha 

has a half-brother called Manuel 

who is a waiter at the hotel they 

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dre booked in (or the holiday. 

But does Martha know about 

this estranged member of her 

family? Will Henry be able to stay 

out of the Spanish gambling 

dens 7 And has Martha packed a 

precautionary axe amongst her 

stays and corsets? 

Will Mad Martha and Henry 

become the Ken and Deidne of 

the computer games world? 

All will be revealed in Mikro- 

Gen's sequel to Mad Martha 

which is lined up for release in 

July. 

The company are not sure 

what to call the game and a price 

has yet to be decided, but it is 

likely to be around the £6 mark 

for the 48K Sinclair Spectrum. 

REVVING UP 

FOR THE 

RALLYCROSS 

MOTOR MANIA 

Rallycross comes to the screen 

of your computer in the shape of 

this driving game for the Commodore 

64. 

You must drive your car as far 

as you can along motorway, B- 

road and dirt track sections, 

avoiding the various hazards — 

which include broken glass, 

potholes, logs, avalanches and 

other traffic. 

A full dashboard display is 

produced on the screen with 

speedometer, fuel gauge and 

mileage. 

Motor Mania runs on the Commodore 

64 and is available from 

Audiogenic stockists at £8.95. 

Also released this month by 

Audiogenic for the 64 is Renaissance 

— 8 version of Othello and 

a chess program modestly called 

Grand Master. Renaissance is 

available at £8.95 and Grand 

Master £17.95. 

JOIN THE 

ARCADE 

JET SET 

JET PAC 

A team of ex-arcade game 

designers from Leicestershire 

have come together to form a 

brand new computer games software 

house called Ultimate Play 

the Game. The company's first 

offering for the Sinclair Spectrum 

is a game called Jet Pac. 

You have to assemble the 

three sections of the rocket and 

then fuel it and blast-off to the 

next plant. 

Jewels and gold are also to be 

found on the planets and can be 

picked up to score extra points. 

You have a powerful jet pac on 

your back and can fly all over the 

screen searching for the various 

bits of the space ship. 

Two ledges, apparently suspended 

in mid-air, make a good 

resting place for your little man 

as he continues his search. 

No space game is complete 

without a nasty tribe of aliens 

out to get you and Jetpac is no 

exception to this. 

To protect yourself you are 

armed with a powerful laser gun 

which can fire left or right. 

I played the game using the 

keyboard but it must be much 

better and easier to control the 

action, with a joystick. 

The game runs on any Sinclair 

Spectrum and is available from 

Ultimate Play the Game of Ashby 

de la Zouch, Leicestershire, at 

£5.50. 

FRANTIC FUN 

WITH 

MONSTERS! 

PANIC 

Don't Panic! Just keep digging 

holes for those monsters and 

watch them tumble into the 

traps. Then bonk them on the 

head with your pick axe and you 

are safe! 

Well — not quite safe, as 

some of these monsters are 

tougher than others. The easy 

ones can quite easily be buried 

by making them fall through one 

level. 

The really tough old boots will 

lust gel up and walk away if they 

only fall through one level and 

must be made to crash through 

several. 

Sounds familiar? Arcade fans 

will recognise this game as the 

early classic coin operated game 

— Alien Panic. 

The game has now been con* 

verted for home use by Sinclair 

Spectrum owners. 

Spectrum Panic is the latest 

game from Hewson Consultants 

— the authors of Nightflite. It 

runs on the 16 or 48k machines, 

and is in the shops now £4.95. 

Also new from Hewson for 

confirmed computer pilots is an 

air traffic control simulation 

which enables you to try your 

hand at the nail biting job of 

controfling the comings and 

goings at a busy airport. 

Adventure enthusiasts have 

also been included in the latest 

batch from Hewson in the shape 

of a 48k graphic adventure called 

the Quest. The program is available 

now at £7.95. 

ORIC AT A 

LOSS FOR 

SOFTWARE 

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Alas poor Oric — your software 

is thin on the ground. Not much 

to choose from yet on the space 

invading, ghost gobbling adventure 

seeking, alien blasting front 

yet for this new computer. 

Despite the shortage two 

games have arrived on the 

Games News desk for this 

machine. And although they 

don't involve blasting aliens the 

games will make you think' 

Awari is a computerised version 

of the ancient African pebble 

game. Several levels of play 

enable you to play against a 

friend or, if you're feeling confident, 

you can take on the computer 

at Witch Doctor level. 

For those unfamiliar with 

Awari, it is based on a tribal 

strategy game of moving pebbles 

around a series of bowls 

Another strategy game makes 

up the second Kenema offering 

Othello, dealt with in our columns 

as Reversi, the counter capturing 

game of skill, which computers 

are particularly good at. 

The games are available from 

Kenema Associates Ltd, Worle, 

Avon, at £6.50 tor Othello and 

£5.50 for Awari.

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ON THE RACE 

TRACK IN 

THE DARK! 

OVERDRIVE? 

Switch into overdrive with this 

racing simulation for the Sinclair 

Spectrum. 

The game is still on the drawing 

board but we can reveal that 

you race a car through the night. 

Red cats-eyes mark the borders 

of the road. You control the car 

using the keyboard, and lace the 

challenges of the race track. 

The game is available from 

Abbex Systems of London at 

£5.95 although a final decision on 

the game's title is yet to be made. 

Also new from Abbex this 

month is a deluxe version of 

Galaxians for the 48K machine 

and a 16 48K version of 

the popular arcade 

game — Scramble. 

Abbex have also branched 

out onto other computers 

with their first game for 

the Commodore 64 — a flight 

simulator at £7.95. 

STICK 

YOUR HEAD IN 

THE SAND 

JOUST 

In days of old when knights were 

bold they rode around on 

ostriches. Yes, ostriches. What's 

that? You've never seen a knight 

riding one of these bad-tempered 

birds. 

Well, just look out for this 

latest conversion of hit arcade 

game — Joust 

You play the part of the good 

knight on his trusty ostrich armed 

with a lance and doing battle 

with the dark lords on their buzztrds. 

The Dark Lords are no easy 

opponents as they have been 

programmed to predict your next 

move and lay traps to ensnare 

you. 

Softek have also looked to the 

arcades for the idea behind their 

second new game this month. 

Called Firebirds — it is a shoot 

em up hybrid of arcade 

favourites — Phoenix and Firebirds. 

An assortment of aliens have 

to be wiped out before you get to 

their home base 

Joust and Firebirds run on the 

Sinclair Spectrum in 16 or 48k 

and are available from Londonbased 

Softek at £5.95 each. 

Dragons meet Monsters in 

Softeks first release for the firespitting 

micro. The idea of the 

game is to get your little man 

safely through several levels to 

the bottom of the screen and 

pick up a power pill. Take this 

safely back to your craft before 

your oxygen runs out or you get 

nabbed by one of the monsters, 

Monsters is based on the 

arcade game Panic, where you 

have to dig holes for the monsters 

with an ice axe In this 

Dragon conversion the pick axe 

is replaced with a laser gun. 

The game runs on the Dragon 

32 and is available now from 

Softek at £7.99. 

KNOCK SPOTS 

OFF YOUR 

SPECTRUM! 

Put on your cloth cap, clogs and 

moleskin trousers and toddle off 

to the Dog and Ferret for a game 

of Dominoes. 

Or, if its raining, stay at home 

and take on your Spectrum with 

this latest game from brand new 

software house — Micromega. 

The computer deals the dominoes 

and plays the double-six to 

start the game. 

Normal rules apply and you'd 

better not cheat as the computer 

has been programmed to spot 

any dubious moves. 

There is a strong flavour of the 

casino in Micromega's other releases, 

including a Roulette cassette 

and game called Monte 

Carlo which features pontoon 

and a version of the American 

gangsters dice-rolling game — 

Crap. 

The games run on the Sinclair 

Spectrum in 16 or 48K and are 

available from the London-based 

firm at £5.00. 

MARIO MEETS 

THE MAD APE 

- AGAIN! 

DONKEY KONG 

Mario and the ape are at it again. 

Fighting for the hand of a blonde 

starlet. 

If you've read Games News 

before, you should know the 

story-line backwards by now — 

ape kidnaps girl, takes her to top 

of steel fortress, gallant Italian 

carpenter comes to rescue 

armed with mallei. 

So what's new? A version of 

the game for the BBC model B 

that's what. 

This version of Donkey Kong 

from Micro Power of Leeds has 

four screens and many of the 

features of the arcade original 

including barrels, fireballs, custard 

pies and moving elevators. 

Other arcade game conversions 

for the Beeb include a 

game called Painter which is a 

version of the loony Amidar 

with pigs, painrollers, and fierce 

tribesmen. 

Scramble fans are also 

catered for in the shape ol Moon 

Raiders. This scrolling shoot em 

up has six sectors which must be 

flown through, complete with various 

obstacles — bomb and fire 

and keep an eye on your fuel 

gauge. 

The games are available now 

from Leeds-based Micro Power 

at £6.95 plus VAT running on the 

BBC model B 

JOIN TRON 

INSIDE 

THE MICRO 

ESCAPE MCP 

Tron is back inside the computer 

— but this time it's not a fictional 

machine but none other than 

your Vic-20 

Escape MCP is based on the 

Walt Disney feature film and 

challenges you to find your way 

to the Master Control Program. 

To slop you doing this the 

MCP is patrolled by robots who 

do not need to lollow the mazelike 

route of the silicon chip that 

you have to follow — but can 

zoom straight towards you. 

If battling it out with the com 

puterised baddies of the 21st 

century is not enough excitement 

for you and your Vic why not join 

the Paratroopers. 

In this game you have to stop 

a commando style raid by the 

enemy who are dropping their 

crack regiment into your territory 

from helicopters. 

A batch of new games are 

being released this month by 

Rabbit including a Pacman-type 

game called Pakacuda, Matter 

Splatter — an original arcade 

style game which challenges you 

to shoot barrels falling out of 

holes in a wall, and a driving 

game entitled Race Fun. 

The games are available now 

from your local Rabbil stockist at 

£5.95 for the unexpanded Vic. 

Escape MCP, and Pakacuda 

are also available for the Com* 

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The Supercharger plugs directly into the cartridge slot ol your Alan VCS to increase its some 

playing power With special digital electronics, it multiplies the VCS RAM memory by 49 

times, from 128 to 6272 bytes. The Supercharger is unique, in that it can accept programs 

that have been recorded on standard audio cassetie tapes. These are easier and less expensive 

to develop and market than plug in cartridges and cost considerably less 1 The Supercharger 

is supplied with a standard cable and lack plug which will plug into the earphone socket of 

any domes lie cassette tape recorder. Supercharger lets you play games with high resolution 

graphics, faster action, and far more complexity. With the extra memory provided by the Supercharger you will now be 

able to play superior games which could not normally run on an unadapted Atari VCS because of its memory limitations. 

MULTI LOAD GAMES - For added complexity and depth 

Cassette tape allows Starpath to offer unique Multi Load games. Games like 

Dregoiwomper and Escape from the Mindmaster include several loads' on 

one cassette. When you have finished the first part of a game, you can then 

load another program giving a different screen or type of game play, thus 

continuing the game in several distinct parts. This feature is particularly 

useful m adventure type games. Multi Load games offer complexity and 

depth that no conventional ROM cartridge game can currently compete with, 

FREE CASSETTE • Phaser Patrol (Two screen qame) 

The Supercharger comes with a highly acclaimed and award winning Phaser 

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MUTANTS 

FROM SPACE 

Single Load action from Starpath. iust 

as soon as you begm this game you 

well be under attack. Your task is to 

vapounre the mutant warriors before 

they overrun your home planet. Up 

to four can play and the screen keeps 

track of the highest score. As well as 

having nine difficulty levels and two 

speeds. Communist Mutants trom 

Space lilt full title), has got several 

features which make it an exciting 

game cassette providing a variety of 

options. The real skill in this game 

however, is winning without using 

the special features that n offers you' 

Price:£ 14.30+VAT ®£ 16.45 

SUICIDE MISSION 

Your mission in thu game is to shrink 

down, smaller than a speck of dust, 

to do battle with a deadly killer virus 

deep within a human body. Equipped 

with a microscopic submarine, head 

for an infection, perilously close to 

the heart, and towards a fight where 

you are heavily outnumbered. This is 

arterial warfare at it's finest Fire at 

one of the many germs, and it divides 

into two. Fire again and the numbers 

increase once more. A 1 ot 2 player 

game featuring protective shields and 

two different shooting stylet. Suicide 

Mission has thiee difficulty options. 

Price: £14.30+ VAT-£16.45 

FIREBALL 

You are a juggler, and able to iuggle 

anything from china plates to daggersl 

Your task in this Single Load game is 

to smash wall after wall of blocks as 

you juggle with red hot FIREBALLS) 

When the ball comes down from the 

top ot your screen, catch it, and then 

release it back at the wall ot blocks. 

You can score up to a million points I 

And. 11 you get to proficient at one 

pattern of blocks, there are another 

four to choose from I Up to 4 players 

can take part in this game end up to 

6 fireballs can appear on the screen at 

once. Be sure you don't get burned I 

Pr ice :£ 14.30+VAT = £16.45 

DRAGONSTOMPER 

Diagonslomper is one of Starpath ^ 

Multi-Load cassettes. An adventure 

game, you've been swept through a 

time tunnel, right back to the age ot 

wailocks and wizardry. Your mission 

is to find the Amulet of the Druids. 

There are clues, but not all easy ones. 

There are peaceful lakes and forests 

as well as deadly perils and lurking 

somewhere is a very vengeful dragon. 

There are many rewards along the 

way. but few will reach the final goal. 

The MULTI LOAD feature gives you 

THREE seperate game segments, for 

longer, more challenging game play. 

Price.£16.91 + VAT = £19.45 

PHASER PATROL (FREE!) 

Phaser Patrol is a tingle load game which is FREE with 

the Supercharger unit. A space game, it has two screens, 

one featuring the mtergalactic battlefield, (below leftl, 

and the other showing a Sector Map (below right). The 

game begins when the devious "Oracons' launch a sui prise 

attack and you belong to the force which must prevent 

them from reaching eenh, The sector map enables you to 

warp -hop from one sector to another and it also fells you 

in what areas the Dracon ships are. so you will need to 

refer to it before you go into battle As well as telling you 

the location of the Dracons. the map shows you when 

your star bases are. these can bail you out if you gel into 

any trouble. When you have decided on the sector of 

Dracons to attack.you can go on to the second screen, the 

battlefield. On this screen you have a view of the vast 

galaxy ahead and a control panel to 

keep you informed of your position. 

A one player game, Phaser Patrol n a 

highly detailed action packed cassette. 

KILLER SATELLITES 

You are the only test pilot of the one 

rocket ship that can protect the earth 

Irom an alien attack of molten matal. 

The invasion has started, have you 

the courage and skill to save mankind? 

A Single Load game. Killer Satellites 

ii for 1 player featuring 2 difficulty 

settings M wen as a 'rapid tire' mode 

Other features include, a fuel level 

indicator; a laser overheat monitor 

which indicates the temperature of 

your gun; a global radar scanner and 

an energy barrier, which can be used 

to protect you from some ol the all an 

projectiles , . , but not all of theml 

Price:£ 14.30+ VAT = £16.45 

V v A Multi Load cassette, your task m 

this game is to escape trom the alien 

ESCAPE/MINDMASTER 

Mindmaster\ laboratory, where he 

has held you as a specimen for study 

To win your freedom, you must past 

through six 3-D ma/et. with each of 

them being more complex than the 

last. The first 5 mates have problems 

to sol ve and tome surprise intelligence 

tests The sixth ma/e is something 

special 1 As this game is too complex 

to load into your Atari at one time, it 

loads in FOUR different sections, a 

feature ot the extra play power of 

the Starpath MULTI LOAD cusettet 

Price:£ 16.91 +VAT-£19.45 

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In a tail moving market like video games, it is difficult to keep up to date with all the 

developments that take place. With new programmes and accessories being introduced at 

a fast rate by several different manufacturers, it is impossible to gel all the information 

you lequire from one manufacturer alone. It is for this reason, that vw have sei up 

owners clubs for the more popular video games and home computers, to keep you fully 

up to date with what is going on with your particular machine. As far as we know. Silica 

Shop are the only company to offer such clubs, but that is not surprising since we are 

the specialists We currently have FREE clubs for the Atari VCS, Atari 400/800 home 

computers, and Mattel Intelliviuon. Soon we will have clubs to' Colecovision. Aquarius 

and Vactrax. So it you own one n( these machines, fill in the coupon opposite, and we 

will enrol you FREE OF CHARGE m the club relevant to your computer or video game 

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SUPERCHARGE 

AND LOAD UP 

FROM CASSETTE TAPES 

The Starpath Supercharger is an 

expansion card for the Atari VCS. 

It does more than the standard 

rol, Dragonstomper, Killer Satellites, 

Communist Mutants From 

Space, Fireball, Suicide Mission 

home computer Ram-pack as it and Escape From the Mindmaster. 

also enhances the graphics and 

colour quality of the 2600. 

More games are in the pipeline 

from Starpath and the com- 

The expander plugs into the 

games port on the VCS. A lead pany are busy drumming up interest 

in the Supercharger on the 

connects the supercharger to a 

cassette recorder and the games 

are loaded from tape. 

Only tape-based games can 

part of some leading American 

games firms. 

Don't expect miracles from the 

be loaded via the supercharger Supercharger. Graphics and colour 

are undoubtedly better than 

and the expander does not add 

anything to existing cartridge on some of the earlier VCS titles 

games. 

— currently being sold off for as 

The really exciting possibility 

opened up by the Superchargeris 

the prospect of a new range of 

cheaper cassette-based games. 

little as £10 — but some of the 

excellent colourful new games 

currently being released — (Pitfall, 

Vanguard and Ms Pacman) 

The Supercharger itself comes compare favourably with it. 

with a free game — Phaser Patrol, 

The Supercharger also enables 

which features impressive 

Star Raiders type action. more moving characters 

on the screen than were previously 

Six games are so far offered in 

possible on the 2600 

the Starpath range: Phaser Pat- 

though you would have to look 

long and hard to notice this extra 

capacity during game — play. 

The most impressive feature of 

the Supercharger is the multiload 

facility. This enables several 

games to be stored on one cassette. 

They can be played separately 

as one-offs or, can be played 

in sequence, as part of one 

larger game. 

Again in the Supercharger's 

favour it uses a quick automatic 

load system. Each of the games I 

tested, loaded in seconds first 

time. None of the hit-or-miss 

problems of loading cassette 

games into some home computers. 

The best example of the multiload 

facility is to be found on 

Dragonstomper — an adventure 

trilogy. 

The first part of the game is 

called, The Enchanted Countryside. 

You are a traveller in this 

land. Your objective is to build up 

sufficient power and magic to 

get into The Oppressed Village 

In order to do this you will need 

to vanquish the ghouls, spiders, 

warriors, snakes and serpents in 

the employ of the evil Dragon. 

Gold is awarded for each successful 

encounter with one of 

your adversaries When you 

have built up all your resources 

you can attempt to get over the 

bridge into the Oppressed Village. 

If you are successful, the 

second part of Dragonstomper is 

then loaded and you find yourself 

in the Oppressed Village. 

Dragonstomper is the best 

game in the current Supercharger 

range and looks like becoming 

a good seller as the penchant 

for adventure games gains 

momentum. 

The main drawback with sinking 

your cash into adventure 

games is that once you've solved 

STAR WARS 

SWORD 

MASTER 

May the force be with you! You'll 

need it when you enter the Jedi 

Arena. 

This latest release from Parker 

Video Games for the Atari VCS is 

based on the forthcoming addition 

to the Star Wars saga called 

Revenge of the Jedi. 

You take the part of a Jedi 

knight battling the deadly Seeker 

and an opponent of the Jedi 

Arena. The Seeker is a remote 

controlled ball-of-tricks which 

sends out beams of laser fire. 

Usually this laser fire is controlled 

by the participants in this 

fight to the finish — the two Jedi 

knights, face to face across the 

arena, blasting away at each 

other in a bid to break down their 

opponents force-field defence. 

The knights guide the laser 

blasts from the Seeker using 

their Ughtsabres — the Seeker's 

blasts go in the direction the 

sabre is pointing. 

But the Seeker tends to go 

"wild" occasionally — zipping 

around the arena sending out 

lethal beams of energy that 

neither of the knights can control! 

Then it's every man for himself. 

You can either take on a computer 

controlled enemy, or fight it 

out with a friend using the Atari's 

paddle-controllers. 

Jedi Arena — the latest in 

Parker's cartridges based on the 

Star War movies — will be avail 

able from March and will sell at 

around £29.95. 

BACK FROM 

THE DEAD! 

Dracula is alive and well and 

living in the Intellivision Video 

Games Console. 

The long fanged phantom from 

Transylvannia has been haunting 

the programming department of 

(magic Games — and now he 

has bewitched them into preserving 

his grizzly memory for 

ever in silicone. 

You can bring him to life by 

plugging in this latest cartridge 

for the Mattel Intellivision video 

games centre. 

The idea of the game is to sink 

your fangs into as many helpless 

victims as possible. Points are 

awarded according to the number 

of pints of blood you can 

consume. 

Just as in the old films, Dracula 

can f ake on the form of a bat 

as well as a human. This is a 

useful facility in this game as it 

enables you to move faster than 

your victims. 

It is not all in Dracula's favour 

though, as there are still some 

good characters left in this godforsaken 

city. The constable 

armed with a wooden stake, the 

white wolf, and the vulture that 

can successfully attack Dracula 

when he appears as a bat. 

Ice Trek challenges you to 

dodge a stampeding herd of caribou, 

cross an ice-filled river, and 

finally to melt the ice palace and 

set free the Aurora Borealis to 

light up the sky. 

You play the part of Vali the 

Avenger and your arch enemy in 

Ice Trek is Kaltron the Terrible. 

You will also meet in the course 

of your adventure the Wildlife 

Queen who fires her arrows at 

Vali if he is forced to kill a 

caribou 

The third game in this trio of 

new releases from Imagic for the 

Mattel Intellivision games centre 

is Tropical Trouble — a |ungle 

adventure. 

The idyllic holiday island turns 

into a tropical nightmare when 

your darling Dons is kidnapped 

by the Beach Bruiser 

In order to get her back — and 

prove to her that you're not the 

clumsy Clarence her mother always 

said you were — run 

through the jungle to find her. 

Dodge the boulders, coconuts, 

falling lava, and hurled rocks as 

you go. 

Dracula, Ice Trek, and Tropical 

Trouble are in the shops now at 

around the £25 mark. 

LAUNCH 

DATES 

PUT BACK 

Atari's new super-system, the 

5200. has had its launch date put 

back due to Atari setting up a 

new production plant in Ireland 

The bad news for would-be 

purchasers is that it is now uni 

COMPUTER & VIDEO GAMES 20

them, there's not much incentive 

to play them again. 

Dragonstomper's three games 

in one should be enough to keep 

even the most skilled adventurer 

occupied for a very long time. 

The multi-load facility is incorporated 

in another of the 

highlights from the Supercharger 

range — Escape From the Mindmaster. 

Its rare to see anything 

new these days among the 

plethora of new video games 

hitting the shops. Mindmaster 

provides the best evidence that 

the designers' ideas haven't 

dried up. 

The idea of the game is to 

outwit the mindmaster who has 

trapped you in a maze. A number 

of intelligence tests — such as 

fitting shapes into their right 

holes will be presented and you 

must get them right to proceed. 

The maze itself is very impressive 

— drawn in 3D with a 

convincing simulation of depth 

as you penetrate its corridors. 

If you master the first maze the 

multi-load device will then load 

your second tougher test. There 

are four mazes altogether on the 

tape. 

Two other reasonably good 

games are Killer Satellites — a 

scrolling shoot 'em up where you 

have to protect a city being bombarded 

by an assortment of alien 

bombs, ships and satellites. 

The second game in the 

reasonable category is Fireball 

— a break out type game with 

five versions to choose from. A 

nice development of the basic 

idea is the replacement of a bat 

with a little character at the bottom 

of the screen who must first 

catch the ball and then throw it 

back at the wall, aiming at the 

brick he wishes to dislodge. If 

you fail to catch the ball a large 

hook on an elongated arm comes 

out from the left hand side of the 

screen and pulls your hand off. 

In the not-so-hot category are 

Suicide Mission and the ridiculous 


Space. 

Suicide Mission is a version of 

Asteroids — and a none too 

impressive one at that. The colours 

were watery and the screen 

flickered constantly. The saucers 

moved far too slowly and there 

was no hyperspace button. 

The scene-setting blurb for 

this game tries to align the plot to 

the film Fantastic Voyage — 

pretty silly as anyone who plays 

the game will know its supposed 

to be Asteroids. 


Space is a dull shoot 'em up. I 

cleared screen after screen on 

my first go. 

C&VG verdict on the Supercharger 

— at £39.95 for the expander 

plus Phaser Patrol a definite 

yes. Once you've got the 

thing itself Dragonstomper and 

Mindmaster will also look like 

very attractive buys at £19.95 

each. Fuller reviews will be included 

in the Joystick Jury columns, 

at a later date. 

likely to be in the shops until the 

winter. 

Another delay is anticipated in 

the VCS keyboard add-on which 

turns your VCS into a home computer. 

Andrew Swanston — 

Atari's marketing and sales 

director, told C&VG that the firm 

would not be launching the 

keyboard until there was a good 

range of software available for it. 

COSMIC 

CREEPS 

Jawbreaker sounds a far too apt 

name for a Tigervision cartridge 

but you shouldn't conjure up pictures 

of creatures with mammoth 

fangs. 

The jaws in question belong to 

you. 

Tigervision is an established 

name in video games in America 

where they have launched 

several titles — the best known 

of which is the climbing game 

Miner 2049'er. 

The first cartridges compatible 

with the British PAL electrical 

frequency are King Kong and 

Jawbreaker. No prizes for guessing 

what King Kong is — but for 

newcomers to video games the 

main characters are an ape, a 

girl and a gallant little chap who 

tries to scale the skyscraper to 

rescue her. 

Jawbreaker brings back the 

subject of food to the screen of 

your television with a notion 

which should appeal to every 

youngster. 

This is your chance to run riot 

in a sweet factory eating away to 

your heart's and belly's desire. 

You control a pair of chomping 

teeth on a mission to clear the 

screen of sweets. A quick brush 

of the old fangs and your ready 

to tuck into another screen full. 

Yet more video game nosh to 

be found in Fast Food but this 

time for the savoury rather than 

the sweet-toothed. There are 

burgers, hot dogs, and French 

fries just waiting to be chomped 

in this brand new Telesys game. 

Telesys second new game has 

the wonderfully idiotic title — 

Cosmic Creeps. 

The idea of the game is to 

rescue the Cosmic Kids from the 

doomed planet before the Cosmic 

Creeps can get their nasty 

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COMPUTER & VIDEO GAMES 21 

little alien paws on them. 

The games are available in 

compatible PAL format from 

Electronic Leisure Products of 

Limerick, Ireland. They cost 

£22.00 plus VAT. 

SEGA RANGE 

FOR ATARI 

Leading Japanese arcade game 

designers Sega are launching a 

range of games for the Atari VCS. 

Sega are best known to 

videogamers for the hit arcade 

games Zaxxon and Frogger. 

Their first offerings for the 

VCS, which have been launched 

in the States, are Tac-Scan and 

Sub-Scan. 

Tac-Scan may have been 

spotted by some of you in your 

local arcades but for the uninitiated 

it is an extremely tough 30 

shoot 'em up. 

The three dimensional effect is 

created by a never ending series 

of concentric hexagons. You 

control three Tac-Scan craft 

flying through space which are 

set upon by a deadly superfleet 

from Ahm. 

Also on the way from Sega is 

Sub-Scan which is described as 

a battle of wits on the high seas. 

No date has yet been set for a 

UK launch for the home video 

games though they are bound to 

come into the country sooner or 

later as Sega already have a very 

strong foothold in the country's 

arcades. 

Sega are likely to provide hot 

competition for the leading video 

games manufacturers as the 

Sega designers have a reputation 

for producing hit games 

which is the envy of the industry. 

So arcade titles which are likely 

to make winning conversions 1o 

home systems may not be up for 

grabs by the targe firm's licence 

hunters. 

• The copyright case Alan had 

pending on Imagic's Demon 

Attack cartridge (see the April 

issue of C&VGI has been settled 

out of court. The result a stalemate. 

And the court battle over the 

Colecovision VCS conversion 

module is settled too. With Coleco 

paying Atari royalties. It 

should be in the UK by September.

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DRATS DRIVE 

YOU CRAZY! 

Crazy Chase must have got its 

name because it drove Phillips 

Videopac testers crazy. 

You control a little blue disc 

called the Munchkin which you 

steer around a maze attempting 

to eat segments from a snake's 

tail. 

You are pursued by a couple 

of Drats who can cause the 

Munchkin to shrink away to nothing 

if they catch it. 

Points are awarded for each 

segment consumed but if you 

want to score really highly you 

will also have to eat the Drats. In 

order to do this you have to 

catch them during the brief few 

seconds they have changed colour 

after you have eaten a segment 

from the tail. 

If that sounds easy then just 

you give it a try. As you play, the 

snake — or Dratapillar to use the 

correct zoological term, gets faster 

and faster. The effect of this 

is that you lose your speed advantage 

and have to rely on sharp 

cornering and planning to catch 

the odd segment. 

There are four Pac-Man style 

escape tunnels which you can 

run through to get to the other 

side of the screen. But be careful 

as the Drats can follow too. 

This game is so tough that 

high scores deserve a reward. 

So if you've scored over 500 on 

Crazy Chase send us a photo of 

the screen with the score and 

our friends at Phillips will send 

you one Videopac of your choice 

from the current range. 

Only the first five entries to 

reach the Computer and Video 

Games office will win prizes. 

Send your high score photos 

to our Herbal Hill address which 

you will find on page three of the 

magazine. Please mark your envelope 

Crazy Chase Competition 

and state the game you would 

like to receive should you be a 

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THE VERDICT 

A tough, addictive game and definitely 

on the must get' list for 

G7000 owners. Proof that Phillips 

can make em just as good 

as anyone else. 

Action: 1111 

Graphics: 11 1 

Addiction: 1111 

Theme: 111 

COOKING UP 

A NIGHTMA 

The chef's nightmare comes true 

in 8urger Time as his ingredients 

grow to life size and set off to eat 

him. 

The Intellivision action takes 

place in a series of seven mazey 

kitchen designs that will never 

find their way into the Ideal 

Home Exhibition. 

As a fried egg, several tomatoes 

and — later on — a pickle, 

leap out of the frying pan and 

start looking hungry, you have to 

guide the chef around a maze of 

platforms and ladders trying to 

make burgers. The ingredients 

react to your every move occasionally 

despatching one of their 

number to head you off but 

usually following close on your 

heels. 

More docile ingredients, like 

burgers, buns, lettuce and tomato 

slices lie ready for cooking 

on platforms. As you run over 

them they drop down a level, 

pushing the next ingredient down 

below them and gradually settling 

to form a completed burger 

at the bottom of the screen. Complete 

all your burgers and you're 

onto the next screen. 

If the more active ingredients 

get too close you can turn and 

"pepper" them with a shake from 

your pepper jar, putting them out 

of the action for a while. You can 

also squash them under dropped 

buns for 100 points each or, for 

even more points, tempt them 

onto a bun behind you and then 

drop it by stepping off. An additional 

bonus is that the bun will 

then drop two levels 

French fries, coffee, ketchup 

and ice cream appear on the 

screen occasionally and can be 

gobbled for points and extra pinches 

of valuable pepper. 

Burger Time is still a popular 

arcade game and this Mattel 

cartridge captures much of the 

flavour of the original. It's harder 

than it looks. 

The key to good arcade games 

is that while beginners can survive 

long enough to learn the 

game, experts have early opportunities 

to show their paces and 

boost their score: Burger Time is 

a marvellous example. 

THE VERDICT 

The balance is just right and the 

theme makes it a real winner. A 

challenge from the word go. 

Action: 1111 

Graphics: 1111 


Thome: 11111 

GREAT BALLS 

OF FIRE! 

Things are hotting up on the 

games front with a fire breathing 

dragon to contend with in Imagic's 

latest release. 

You play the part of the brave 

prince who is attempting to get 

into his father's castle to rid it of 

the evil dragons. 

In order to get into the castle 

you must first dash across the 

bridge and into the treasure 

MACHINE MANUFACTURER 

1 Phoenix Atari 

2 PacMan Atari 

3 Frogger Parker Brothers 

4 Invaders Atari 

5 Pitfall Activision 

All the above cartridges are prac 

games centre. 

room. 

The prince can be made to 

crouch by pulling back on the 

joystick. Depressing the fire button 

makes him jump. For best 

results run into the jump with 

precise timing to clear the fireballs 

and gam extra ground. 

Once safely into the treasure 

room, you have to clear the 

screen of diamonds, crowns, 

goblets, jugs, harps, helmets, 

lamps, and candelabra to score 

points. 

When you have collected all 

the treasure you can make for 

the escape exit at the top lefthand 

corner of the screen. 

But don't expect to take a 

leisurely stroll around the treasure 

room. There's a fire breathing 

dragon in there as well, 

who is programmed to track you 

and fry you with fireballs. 

There are seven dragons to 

get past in order to master this 

game and every time you clear 

one treasure room you come up 

against a tougher quicker dragon 

in the next. 

Dragonfire scores highest on 

graphics. Those dragons look 

pretty mean and their fire breathing 

movement is impressive. 

We tested the game on the 

Atari VCS but the game is also 

available in Mattell Intellivision 

format. 

The game is in the shops now 

at £24.30 plus VAT for the Atari 

version and £27.34 plus VAT for 

the Mattel 

THE VERDICT 

A tough, addictive game at the 

first sitting. A slight question 

mark over the game's lasting 

appeal. Once you've beaten that 

seventh dragon what then? 

Action: 111 

Graphics: 1111 


Theme: 1 1 1 

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MACHINE MANUFACTURER 

6 Donkey Kong Coleco 

7 Defender Atari 

8 River Raid Activision 

9 Demon Attack Imagic 

10 Bercert Atari 

prodt, ced for the Atari VCS home video 

LOOK 

MUM, NO 

WIRES! 

The trouble with playing video 

games on the conventional family 

TV set is that the console has 

to sit on the floor beneath the set 

in the corner of the room. 

To play you either have to sit 

on the floor in front of the screen, 

pull your chair up in front of it, or 

make the wires stretch right 

across the room to the sofa. 

One attempt to get around this 

problem is Wico's extension 

cable which simply adds length 

to your joystick wire. Although 

this enables armchair play, it increases 

the Spaghetti Junction 

of wires. 

Now there is a real solution to 

the problem in the shape of the 

world's first remote control joystick. 

The Cynex is the brainchild of 

Sandy Goldnar who is also president 

of the American-based firm. 

The heart of the new joystick 

is the world's first radio chip 

which enables objects to be 

moved on screen at up to several 

yards distance. 

The stick has been on sale in 

the US for several months now. 

The large video games manufacturers 

have also been quick to 

spot ihe potential of the remote 

control stick and Atari have now 

signed a deal to get first buying 

option on any of Cynex's new 

products. 

Now that the radio chip has 

been developed it will be a relatively 

short step to include the 

controls inside the games system 

itself and this is now the key 

project for Cynex. 

The remote control joystick is 

imported into the UK by Dynavest 

of London and will be in the 

shops in June at around the £50 

mark. For this you get two remote 

control joysticks plus the control 

box which connects to the Atari 

VCS. The system is also compatible 

with the Vic 20. 

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There are five Burgertime cartridges awaiting the most 

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Burgertime brings a whole new meaning to the term 

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Artist Phil Littler has come up with his interpretation of a 

super burger which would dwarf any of the varieties to be 

found in high street outlets. 

We want you to come up with a name for this beefiest 

and brightest of burgers and write in to tell us what it 

should be called. 

Please send your .best suggestion into the Biggest 

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The entry must be with us by July 16th and the five 

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WHERE NO GAMESTER HAS GONE BEFORE 

You can enjoy travelling the 

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The UK importers of the 

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THE RUSSIAN 

GRANDMASTER 

The most celebrated participant in the 

computer chess field is undoubtedly the 

Russian grandmaster Mikhail Botvinnik. 

Botvinnik was world champion from 

1948 to 1963 with two one-year breaks, 

when he lost the championship first to 

Smyslov and then to Tal, only to win 

back the title in a return match a year 

later each time. 

Botvinnik was born in 1911 in the 

Ukraine and until his retirement a few 

years ago was a noted electrical engineer 

as well as a chess grandmaster. 

He attained the status of Soviet master 

as long ago as 1927 and first won the 

championship of the Soviet Union in 

1931. He became well-known in the 

West with his joint first place at the 

Nottingham tournament in 1936. 

Botvinnxk's career provides a bndge 

between the almost mythical days of 

Capablanca and Alekhine, 50 years ago 

and the computerised chess of today. 

THE PIONEER 

, Since his retirement from active play 

10 years ago, Botvinnik has concentrated 

increasingly on the latter, preparing 

his program which is known as 

Pioneer However, his interest goes 

back much further to a time when he 

was still a leading active player. As far 

back as 1968, Botvinnik gave a lecture in 

the Russian town of Vladimir in which 

he described a chess master in terms 

which have a strong computing flavour. 

"A master in his play has two functions. 

First of all he functions as a calculating 

and solving mechanism because he has 

to consider the possible moves and 

analyse variations ... A second function 

is also very important — one's ability to 

program oneself, to perfect one's individual 

program... to modify it in a 

constant research for improvement and 

perfection. One can consider a player 

who gives due attention to this aspect as 

guiding himself by a definite program 

or algorithm." 

Botvinnik saw the development of an 

"artificial intellect" — an electronic 

machine capable of playing chess — as 

a major problem. If it could be 

achieved, he said: "I foresee an unprecedented 

period of popularity for the 

game. When an electronic machine has 

started playing chess and played it successfully 

this will be such a momentous 

event that every schoolboy will want to 

know about it. In world history, it will 

perhaps fall not far short in importance 

of the discovery of fire." 

Botvinnik's book. Computers, Chess 

and Long-range Planning, also 

appeared in 1968. It is a very complex 

mathematical representation of chess 

introducing a number of ideas such as a 

"generalised exchange" between different 

kinds of advantage (such as material 

and space), the attacking path of a 

piece, the intangible value of an attack, 

and the position estimate of a chess 

position (which indicates when a positional 

sacrifice may be advantageous). 

Although the original Russian title of 

this work meant literally "An Algorithm 

for Chess", the text is far more of a 

blueprint for a lifetime's study than an 

algorithm. 

CAPTURED SKILL 

In April two years ago Botvinnik 

came to London to speak at the 

Advances in Computer Chess conference 

at Imperial College. (The next 

conference is scheduled for April 1984). 

In his lecture, Botvinnik stressed the 

need for a program to examine only a 

small number of positions at each turn 

(preferably only one) and to restrict the 

analysis for each move to approximately 

SO-60 well chosen positions in all, if 

master play were ever to be achieved. 

Thus the emphasis should be on selecting 

the positions to examine and evaluating 

them properly — exactly the 

opposite approach to BELLE. Many experts 

believe that if Botvinnik's method 

of representing the master's positional 

and evaluative skill could be captured 

in a program, this would be a major step 

forward for computer chess. 

Sadly, after many years of development, 

Botvinnik's Pioneer has still not 

appeared except in experimental form, 

and it must be doubtful now that it ever 

will. Perhaps grandmaster chess is too 

complex a problem for the current state 

of the chess programmers' art certainly 

much more tangible success has 

been achieved by programs like BELLE 

which search huge trees of variations 

but understand almost nothing about 

them. 

As an example of what Pioneer can 

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1 shows a famous position which Botvinnik 

(white) reached against Capablanca 

at the Rotterdam tournament of 1938. 

White to move can now choose between 

two strong-looking options l.N- 

RSch and 1.B-R3. Botvinnik's analysis at 

the time looked at 28 positions in total, 

with an average branching factor (number 

of moves considered in each position) 

of 1.13. Pioneer's analysis of the 

position looks at 40 positions with a 

branching factor of 1.05 and find the 

vanauon: 

1. B-R3, QxB; (If 1. ...Q-Kl; 2. Q-B7ch 

is strong) 

2. N-R5ch, PxN; 3. Q-NSch, K-Rl; 

4. QxNch, K-Nl; 

5. P-K7, 0-B8ch; 6. K-B2, Q-Q7ch; 7. K- 

N3, Q-K6ch; 8. K-R4, and now 

White wins in all variations, e.g. 

8... Q-K8ch; 9. KxP. Q-K7ch; 10. K-R4, 

0-K8ch; 11. K-R3, Q-K6ch; 12. P-N3. 

It is easy to believe that BELLE would 

also have found this variation, but it 

might have needed to examine tens of 

thousands of positions to do so! If you 

want to know more about Botvinnik's 

method, his 1981 conference paper is 

published in Advances in Computer 

Chess 3, edited by M R B Clarke (Pergamon 

Press, 1982) — but beware, it is far 

from 

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U.S. STARS 

ARCADE HEROES 

No tips or UK record breakers 

this month but they'll be back 

next issue with Donkey Kong 

Junior and Mr Oo planned for 

coverage in the near future. 

Instead we're breaking away 

to please readers like Mark 

Lawrence from Dundee and 

Trevor Billstead from Witham, 

who both wrote wondering how 

our charts compare with the 

greatest video games playing nation 

around — America. 

So we're printing the charts as 

taken from a U.S. magazine 

Video Games so you can compare 

them with the lop scores in 

your own arcades. Don't be surprised 

by the size of some of 

them; record-breaking feats are 

encouraged in the U.S. and 

arcade owners are often persuaded 

to stay open so that a 

local champ can make his bid for 

national fame on a favourite 

machine. 

I don't like to ask about the 

problems involving going to the 

lavatory but can only assume 

that the Missile Command and 

Robotron scorers mentioned 

below must have cast-iron blad- 

Berzerk 

119,340 Joel West 

Kirksville, Mo. 

Centipede 

15.207,353 Darren Olson 

Calgary, Alberta, Can. 

Dig-Dug 

3,462,260 Brian Doyle 

Santee, Calif. 

Donkey Kong Jr. 

949,200 Matthew Brass 

Ottumwa, la. 

Frenzy 

4,737.820 Rik Kelly 

Kenosha, Wise. 

Galaga (level O) 

12.753,570 Mike Lynn 

Durham. N.C. 

Gorf (six men) 

704.590 John Chandler 

Hobbs. N.M, 

Gravitar 

4,722,200 Raymond Mueller 

Boulder. Col. 

ders or very understanding 

arcade owners. 

Another way around the bladder 

problem is to beat the game 

on a rota basis, as did five lads at 

Stevenage Bowling Centre. 

Simon Revill, Gary Murphy, Paul 

Carter, Alan Stagg and Mark 

Taylor recently battled their way 

AMERICAN HEROES 

Joust (level 5, 20,000 bonus, 

new chip) 

1,553,600 Joe Malasahe 

Ottumwa, la. 

Kangaroo 

754,400 Sam Middleton 

Panama City, Fla. 

Millipede 

785,827 Eric Ginner 

Mountain View, Calif. 

Missile Command 

64.696,720 Jeff Stueve 

Dayton. Oh. 

Moon Patrol 

577,480 Eric Ginner 

Mountain View, Calif. 

Ms. Pac-Man 

286,410 Mike Lepkosky 

Houston. Tex. 

Pengo (4 men) 

369.450 Mark Robichek 

Durban, South Africa 

to 4,330,640 on Missile Command 

before the machine was turned 

off. 

Not quite in the U.S. class but 

we'd like to hear of any similar 

attempts. Please write to: 

Arcade Action, Computer & 

Video Games, Currant House, 8 

Herbal Hill. London EC1R 5JB. 

Q'bert 

3,007,035 Richard Wilson 

Woodbridge, Va. 

Rally X 

238,910 Joel West 

Shelby. N.C. 

Robotron 

202.457,650 Mike Zack 

West Bloomfield. Mich. 

Start] ate 

70,283,000 Oscar Iglesias 

Concord. Calif. 

Super Cobra 

198,470 Matt Brass 

Helena, Mont. 

. Tempest 

4.706,540 David Plumer 

Regina, Saska., Can. 

Tron 

4.036,171 Rick Maldanado 

Westland. Mich. 

Zaxxoo 

2,138.650 Eric Burch 

N. Palm Beach, Fla. 

JUNGLE 

REVENGE 

i IN 30 

TIP TOP 

Donkey Kong in three dimensions 

is the fascinating idea behind Tip 

Top. 

The game features a mischievous 

gorilla with a nasty line 

inpracticaljokesandadetermined 

explorer out for revenge. 

The explorer begins Tip Top 

asleep in his tent when the gorilla 

creeps up and sets fire to his 

toe. Enraged, our stubborn hero, 

pursues the creature through 

four screens of |ungle terrain, 

over lakes and rivers, up hills and 

over bridges 

Screen one sees the gorilla 

stomping about on top of a cliff, 

while at the bottom the explorer 

begins his climb up to enact his 

revenge. Like Donkey Kong's 

Mano, he has the power to jump 

or climb but his climbs are far 

slower, scrambling over the next 

parapet. 

Small monkeys frolic around 

the screen — seemingly harmless 

— and ihe gorilla gently rolls 

coconuts down the slope in timehonoured 

fashion. 

Across a bridge above a 

water-full, down a slippery slope 

and jumping over a ravine, the 

hunter is now close to his rival. 

But watch those monkeys. 

If four or more grab hold of the 

explorer they lift him up and hoist 

him over the nearest cliff. If, 

instead, he finds the gorilla's 

hideout onto the next screen. 

This features snakes and narrow 

strips of land by a lake 

While screen three takes place 

in a blue plain filled with small 

holes and rampaging rhinos. The 

holes are haunted by a cuddly 

(but none-the-less deadly) critter 

who may grab you as you dive in 

to escape the rhino charges. 

The final screen offers up a 

large river full of logs, crocs and 

hippos a vastly superior Frogger 

with the hippos also travelling 

across the river as well as up 

and down it. 

On this screen the gorilla finally 

gets his come-uppance as a 

handy fire brand is set beneath 

him. 


Our appeal for top pinball scores 

brought a prompt reply from 

Keith Hatton of Liverpool. He sent 

us a detailed rundown of his top 

scores on all the electronic 

machines manufactured since 

1976/771 They are all there — 

Baity. Williams. Gottlieb. Stern 

and Zaccana — an amazing list 

of over 40 machines played at 

various locations around the 

country. 

There are too many top scores 

to list here, but Keith reckons his 

best scores include 7,241,510 on 

Bally's Fathom, 5,352,050 on 

Medusa, also from Bally. Keith 

racked up 7,421,770 on Gottlieb's 

Spirit, 2,536,200 on Stern's Seawitch, 

7,104,690 on a Williams 

Jungle Lord and 20,421,210 on 

Zaccana's Pinball Champ 82 at a 

Liverpool arcade. 

Keep the top scores coming in 

please. 

Meanwhile on the new pinballs 

front Bally are bringing out 

a baseball theme game called 

Grand Slam. This can be played 

by a combination of two or four 

players — but other information 

from the pinball giant about this 

new release is thin on the 

ground. 

On the American scene Zaccaria 

have introduced Pinball 

Champ, a game which follows 

the trend for personal hi-fi by 

including a headphone plug 

which allows players to listen to 

comments from the machinel 

Pinball Champ has an elevated 

main ball runway which allows 

an enlarged playfield within a 

standard size cabinet. 

The machine also includes a 

spinning target alley where highspeed 

shots collect high score 

values. 

Remember keep those high 

scores coming inl 

BEHIND ENEMY LINES 

Behind enemy lines and armed 

only with a gun and a few grenades. 

your mission is to force 

the opposing generals to surrender 

from their fort HQ. 

You are, of course, singlehanded 

and will have to take on 

whole platoons of enemy snipers 

and several crack panzer divisions 

. . . It's enough to make 

John Wayne think twicel 

You start off on foot firing at 

the enemy. You can hide behind 

bushes as you battle your way up 

the screen. 

The opposition are also armed 

with guns and grenades, they 

make good use of bushes for 

cover and they greatly outnumber 

you. 

Landmines are deadly and 

have to be avoided in your rush 

up to the panzer ranks. 

Now your gun is useless and 

you have to lob grenades at the 

tanks and avoid their fire. 

To put yourself on equal terms 

you can make use of the odd 

blue tank which the opposition 

generals have carelessly left 

lying around the battlefield. 

Tanks come in two varieties: 

small and speedy or large and 

well-armoured. 

The larger tanks also offer 

greater artillery fire but you have 

to beware of grenades thrown 

from fox-holes or the other tanks. 

Two hits will disable your tank 

but you can jump clear before 

the final explosion and look for 

your next tank. 

When the fort is in sight, you 

know your mission is nearly over. 

Leaving the tank you can storm 

the enemy HQ and try to lob a 

grenade over the walls and into 

the general's conference centre. 

If this is achieved, a wounded 

general appears on the battlements 

waving a white flag to 

acknowledge your victory. 

Front Line has been out for a 

while already but has met with a 

cool reception from arcade 

players because it is initially 

difficult to get past the snipers. 

This is a pity because the 

action really takes off when you 

climb into your tank, worth 

persevering with if you do get the 

chance. 

AWAKEN 

RUDELY! 

BUCK ROGERS 

Buck Rogers, frozen in space for 

half a millennium, wakes up to 

find himself ranged against the 

forces from the Planet of Zoom 

You can chronicle his adventures 

as he tries to battle through 

to take on the enemy source ship 

in the first of a possible series of 

video games. Buck Rogers and 

Planet of Zoom. 

It's space warfare as seen 

from behind the twin jets of 

Buck's ship with you at the 

controls. 

The battle begins in a heavily 

armed channel of an artificial 

planet, reminiscent of the Death 

Star in the Star Wars saga 

Enemy ships hurtle towards you 

and the Buck Rogers in you, rises 

to the challenge as your ship 

twists away from Zoom's alien 

ships, firing and dodging. 

A two-level speed control, a 

pilot's joystick and a fire button 

are at your fingertips as the 

scenes change to deep space, 

the formidable smasher tunnels 

and the spires of Cosmic City. 

The enemy ships come in all 

shapes and sizes 

Anyone who has enjoyed the 

TV series will be interested to 

see just how it converts to the 

video screen! 


DONKEV KONC JHR. 

Surprising how heroes suddenly become villains in the arcade 

world. Take Mario for example. There he was in Donkey Kong 

playing the gallant knight in a boiler suit racing to save the lair 

maiden from the clutches of our favourite giant gorilla. 

But here in the sequel to that memorable battle of wits Mario 

has become the villain. He has caged poor old Kong and refuses 

to let him go. So little Kong Junior sets out to rescue his dad. 

Donkey Kong Junior has to climb vines to reach the cage and 

rescue his illustrious father. But there are nasty jungle creatures 

called Snappers which dash around attempting to knock 

little Kong off. Kong can jump over the Snappers as long as he 

is facing them. Then there Is the nasty bird which will also 

attempt to prevent Kong completing his mission. On the second, 

third and fourlft levels fruits appear. Kong can leap at these and 

send them plummeting to the jungle floor—- H they hit a bird or 

a Snapper then 100 points will be added to your score. 

The number of Snappers increases each time Donkey Kong 

Junior manages to rescue his dad. To climb a vine you must 

position Kong Junior right beneath it, and move ft. You cannot 

leap on to a vine. 

Control keys are: "5"=left, 

'7"=up, "V or "N" = jump. 

'8"=right, 

HS-high score 

S-score 

C-if 1, fruit hit bird or snapper 

BIRD 1, BIRD 2 — bird positions 

LIVES—lives left 

H—direction of man 

COUNT—Screen number 

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USR (71) __ Stops the sound 

USR (62) — Emits a short beep 

USR (3494) — Stops some of the 

screen noise when laser is fired 

POKE 10167,1 — Switches off the 

peek protect on Sharp Basic to allow 

Peek (17828) 

PEEK (17828) — Returns the AbU 

value of the current key being 

pressed (for continuous movement 

of laser) 

List of main variables 

TL — Time limit of game in seconds 

Y — Random position of blocks 

p Target poke code 

T — Position of target 

X — Position of laser gun 

P1 _ Movement key input 

Tl$ — Internal timer 

F — Position of laser bullet 

H — High score 

F$ Message which is flashed on 

screen 

If you like taking pot shots at those 

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this game. The object is to shoot down as 

many targets within one minute as you 

can. Each target is worth 100 points — 

and if you shoot down all nine you'll be 

rewarded with a 500 point bonus and 

another crack at the game. However, each 

time you win an extra go the time limit 

gets shorter. The targets are represented 

by the numbers 1-9. They appear at 

random among a "battlefield" of blocks. If 

you hit a block with a blast from your 

laser gun instead of a target number you 

will lose 10 points — and valuable time. 

Once one target is hit another appears to 

take its place until you have destroyed all 

nine. Your score and the high score are 

displayed throughout the game. 

You'll be hooked from the moment you 

start blasting away — those targets have 

an annoying habit of avoiding you! 


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The do's and don'ts of the new CGL M5 home 

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this full graph.es wargame, lor 1 Of 2 players is set during the American Civil War and is played entirety on a 

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39900 298.oo 

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the top layer of a 20 level 30 NEXTI 

110 RETURN 

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130 PM0DE4,5'SCREEN1 - 1 

140 S-S+C20-R2 >* 

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150 K-K+l'IFK-3THEN K-0 ; D* 

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160 L-L+.2 

170 

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1 RY a 

190 

ready to blast the spikes using a 200 

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joystick controller. When you are 210 return 

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220 

Points are scored for each 230 

spike shot — more points are 240 

PRINT PRINT"ABOUT 

DIRECTLY ABOVE R SPIKE" 

awarded for a rapid destruction 250 PRINT : PRINT" WHEN 

of a spike. Once shot they fall 

260 PRINT PRINT" 

FIRE !" 

>Y' TO SHOW GRID RND START" 

270 PRINT•PRINT'PRINT"PRESS 

back to the centre to start rising 

290 IPINKEY»"Y" THEN 280 

up at you once more. 

290 

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ATARI 400 with 16K RAM

It's hard to know which set of figures is more 

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upgraded by an astonishing 32K and reduced by 

£100, will have its admirers. 

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our computers feature by feature. 

The Family Computer. 

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who was actually going to use them. 

One day our computers might be playing 

games; next, they're wrestling with household 

budgets; teaching geography to an 8-year-old; or 

printing letters. 

In other words, we designed our computers 

and software for as many applications as a 

family has ideas. (Now the ATARI 800 Computer 

has48K RAM, there's even more memory for even 

more applications.) 

Next we built in high-resolution graphics. 

Inside our computers, we have a microprocessor 

whose only job is to operate our graphics. 

(All told, you can choose up to 16 different 

colours in 16 intensities, which gives you a 

spectrum of 256 different shades.) 

In fact, our computers divide the screen up 

into 60,000 tiny points, each one of which can 

be changed without affecting the other. 

A friend not a fiend. 

We also looked at ways to make computers 

rather friendlier. 

On the ATARI 400 Computer, we've incorporated 

touch-sensitive keys with ridges, so fingers 

won't slip; on the ATARI 800 Computer, we have 

keys much as you'd find on a standard typewriter. 

You can talk to your computer in a choice 

of languages (five for the Atari 400, nine for the 

Atari 800), including ATARI BASIC, using 

software which you load in on cartridge, cassette, 

or disk. 

For our computers, we have one of the 

largest software libraries in the world: 

thing from speech synthesis to sophisticated 

data management. 

No doubt you know all about our 

famous games such as PAC-MAN, SPACE 

INVADERS T and STAR RAIDERS winner 

of the 1982 Game of the Year Award, 

However, we also boast home 

and office application software as well 

Atari 400 and 800 Home Computer 

Technical Specifications. 

ColourCapabilities:Choose from 16colours,and 16intensities 

(up to a total of 256 shades). 

Sound: Four independent sound synthesisers for musical tones 

and games sounds.Three and one half octaves. Variable volume 

and tone for each voice. 

Display: Three text modes: 24 lines of 40 characters, doublewidth 

characters, or double-height, double-width characters. 

Nine graphic modes: from 40 columns by 24 rows up to 320 

columns by 192 rows. 

Memory: Includes a built-in 10K Kead Only Memory (ROM) 

Operating System with 48K Random Access Memory (ATARI 

800) and 16K Random Access Memory (ATARI 400). 

C.P.U.: 6502B M icroprocessor0.56 micro-second cycle. 1.8M hz. 

Special Features: Three customised integrated circuits. 

Extended Graphies Functions: High-resolution graphics. 

Multi-coloured characterset. Software screenswitching. Mixed 

text and graphics modes. 

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colour registers. Smooth character movement. 

Peripherals: A range of peripherals and accessories that are 

available now. 

as educational programs to satisfy the most 

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You can learn French, Spanish, German or 

Italian on our computers and through our 

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language and learn it the way you learnt your 

mother tongue. (Other computers will leave you 

speechless.) 

You can teach yourself touch typing, 

compose and play your own music or teach a 

child the alphabet. 

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money; while yet another program will answer a 

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"Where does all my money go?r 

At the same time, the outstanding VisiCaic* 

program is available for the ATARI 800 Computer. 

Write your own programs. 

As if all that isn't enough, through Atari's 

Program Exchange (APX), you can have access 

to a wide range of the most imaginative programs 

written by our users. 

( Or you can learn to write your own 

of the___ programs progi with the help of our invitation to 

every- I H I Programming' Progi 

series, using our unique'sound 

cated I H I through' system. 

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SlK 

through a small library of manuals to do so, 

since most of the series is on software, 

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IN days of old gladiators fought ft out in a vast arena. 

In lite future they will battle it out within the confining 

walls of a vast maze. 

Once one lucky gladiator finds the power pill that 

is hidden in the maze he will be able to shatter 

walls with a single blow. 

This is a two-player battle set in a maze. The 

players start off at opposite corners and the all 

i m p o rfa nt power pill is in the centre. On touching the 

pill you can move faster and walk through the red 

walls which appear randomly throughout the game. 

X 

5 GOTO 160O 

9 REM **PLAYER MOVEMENTS** 

10 S=STICK(0):S1=STICK(1) 

15 IF S=15 AND Sl=15 THEN 

19 

16 SOUND 1,60,12,12 

;=y-l : B=USR(UP,PMBAS+102 

19 IF S=14 THEN 

4+Y) 

THEN Y1=Y1-1:B=USR(UP,PMBAS+ 

20 IF SI=14 

1280+Y1) 

c 

c 

1130 D0WN=ADR(D0WNC0DES) 

1140 FOR I=DOWN TO DOWN+20:READ B:POKE I 

, B:NEXT I:RETURN 

1150 DATA 104,104,133,204,104,133,203,16 

0,10,177,203,200,145,203,136,136,192,255 

,208,245,96 

1499 REM **GRAPHICS DISPLAY** 

1500 GRAPHICS 7:COLOR 3 

1501 ? "LIVES LEFT=5 LIVES LEFT 

=5" 

1510 RESTORE (1520):FOR Z=1 TO 15iREAD A 

, B, C, D: PLOT A, B: DF;AWTO C,D:NEXT Z 

1520 DATA 54,4,54,12,14,36,14,44,54,68,5 

4,76,104,68,104,76,34,28,34,44, 104,52, 12 

4,52,54,44,54,60,54,20,54,36,24,44 

1521 DATA 24,60,24,20,24,36,104,44,104,6 

0,144,36, 154,36,134,52,134,60,94,4,94, 12 

,94,60,94,68 

1530 FOR Z=1 TO 24:READ A,B,C,D,E,F:PLOT 

A,B:DRAWTQ C,D:DRAWTO E,F:NEXT Z 

1540 DATA 34,12,14,12,14,28,84,12,64.12, 

64,28,124,12,144,12,144,28,124,2B,114,28 

,114,36,104,36,104,28,94,28,94,36 

1550 DATA 84,36,84,28,44,28,44,52,34.52, 

14,52,14,68,34,68,64,52,64.68,84,68,124. 

68,144,68,144,52,54,20,54.36,74,36 

1560 DATA 94,20,74.20,74,36,94,12,104,12 

,104,20,114,12,114,20,134,20,124,36,134, 

36,134,20,54,44,74,44.74.60,94,52 

1570 DATA 94,60,74,60,44,12,44,20,24,20, 

24,60,44,60.44,68,84,52,84,44,104,44, 1 14 

,44,144,44,144,36,134,60.114,60 

1580 DATA 114,68,4,4,154,4,154,76,4.4,4, 

76,154,76 

1590 GOTO 900 

1600 CLR :POKE 752, 1:DIM D*=0 OR STR 

IG(1> =0 THEN 2O00 

1660 NEXT I:POKE 77,254:GOTO 1600 

1670 REM 

1680 GRAFHICS 23:SETCOLOR 0,O,0:SETCOLOR 

1,0,14:SETCOLOR 2,O,0:SETCOLOR 4,0,0 

1690 COLOR 2:FCOLOR=1 

1700 RESTORE (1820) 

1710 READ D*:IF ASC(DS)

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20 REM 

30 NEXT I 

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90 DATA 330,880,330,988,330,784,330,392,990,58^ 

100 CALL CLEAR 

110 INPUT "DO YOU WANT INSTRUCTIONS?"!Qi 

120 IF SECi(Qi,l,l)-'Y" THEN 140 

130 IF SEGi(gi,l,lK>"N" THEN 110 El 

140 GOSUB 4050 


160 gosub mo 

170 GOSUB 3220 

180 TS=0 

190 MET=0 

200 SHDÔ 

210 HITS=0 

220 DEAD=0 

230 CALL SCREEN(5) 

240 CALL C0L0R(1,5,5) 

250 CALL C0L0R(3,16,14) 

260 CALL COLOR(4,16,14) 

270 CALl COLOR(13,16,1) 

230 CALL C0L0R(14,9,1> 

290 CALL COL0R(9,2,16) 

300 CALL COLOR

'0000303V 

1.' 

930 CALL a 

840 CALL 

850 CALL 

860 CALL VCHARt20, 31,99,5 >| 

970 CALL ^(12,2,12,4) 

890 CALL ycû2,w ; aV>l 

1040 CALL CHAR(134 ( "OOOOOCOC'«) 

1050 CALL CHARH37,"000000003030") 

1060 CALL CHAR(138/'OOOOOOOOOCOC") 

[070 CALL HCHAR(24,6,48,4) 

1080 CALL HCHAR(24,25,48,3) 

1090 M=0 

890 CALL VCHAR( 16,2,15) 

1100 FOR X=28 TO 5 STEP -1 

900 CALL gCHAR(lA,32, 1> 

910 CALL 

I UlO CALL SOUND 

(-500,250,30,500,30,1000,30,~8,X+2) 

:h 

fV 

920 CALL VCHAR(n,32 lH) 

930 CALL VCHAR(15,3, 04 

940 CALL ÂR(15,V05 

P50 CALL 

960 CALL ^HARU6,4,107) 

970 CALL VCHA»(15,30.^; 

990 CALL VCHARI V ^ ^ 

990 CALL ^HAR(16,30 ; 1> 

VOOO CALL VCKARU6,31,1U> 

1010 REM METEOR 

U20 FOR 1=134 TO 137 STEP 3 

U30 CALL VCHAR(29-X,X,T) 

1140 NEXT T 

1150 HY=29-X 

1160 CALL KEY(0,K,S) 

U/0 C0DE=1 

1480 IF 5=0 THEM 1210 

j 1190 IF K=48 THEM 1200 &SE 1210 

; 1200 GOTO 2680 

, 1210 CALL VCHAR(29-X,X,32) 

| 1220 CALL GCHAR(30-X,X-I,D> 

I 1230 IF IK96 THEN 1460 

1240 IF D>98 THEM 1440 

1250 8EAD=DEAD*100 

I 1260 G0SU8 4200 

1270 IF D=97 THEM 1310 

I 1280 CALL VCHAR(30-X,X-1,130) 

1290 CALL VCHAR(30-X,X-1,117) 

I 1300 GOTO 1370 

1310 Y=30-X 

1320 Z«X-1 

1330 IF ((Z=9)it(YU>» 

THEM 1350 

| 1340 GOTO 1290 

1350 CALL VCHAR(Y,Z,130) 

I 

1360 CALL yCHAR(Y,Z,98) 

1370 CALL SOUND(-800,-7,0) 

1380 FOR DELAY 0 I TO 200 

1390 NEXT DELAY 

580 CALL VCHAR(20,14,97,3) 

590 CALL VCHARt20,15,97,3) 

600 CALL VCHARt 15,18,97,8) 

610 CALL VCHAR(15,19,97,8) 

620 CALL VCHARt18,21,97,5) 

630 CALL VCHAR(22,22,97) 

640 CALL VCHAR(22,23,97) 

650 CALL VCHAR=METEOR THEN 3420 

1520 X=IMT(28»RND) 

1530 IF X

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1420 CODE-2 

1430 IF S=0 THEN 1710 

1440 IF K=48 THEM 1450 ELSE 1460 

1450 GOTO 2680 

1440 IF K-49 THEM 1470 ELSE 1480 

1670 GOTO 2410 

1480 IF K=50 THEM 1490 ELSE 1710 

1490 TS=TSU 

1700 GOTO 2970 

1710 CALL VCHAR(Y,X,32) 

1720 CALL GCHAR(Y+1,X,D) 

1730 IF D114 THEN 1740 

1740 DEAD=DEAD+300 

1770 GOSUB 4200 

1780 GOSUB 4200 

1790 GOSUB 4200 

1800 GOTO 1840 

1810 CALL VCHAft(Y+l,X,130) 

1820 CALL VCHAR=22 THEN 3640 

1930 GOTO 1970 

1940 CALL SOUND(-300,-7,0) 

1950 CALL VCHAR(Y+1,X,130) 

1960 NEXT Y 

1970 NEXT F 

1980 H=0 

1990 FOR X=5 TO 28 

2000 CALL SOUND(-500,250,30,500, 

30,1000,30,-8,31-X) 

2010 FOR T=133 TO 138 STEP 5 

2020 CALL VCHAR(X-4,X,T) 

2030 NFXT T 

2040 KY=X-4 


2040 C0DE=3 

2070 IF S=0 THEN 2100 

2080 IF K=49 THEN 2090 ELSE 2100 

2090 COTO 2410 

2100 CALL VCHAR(X-4,X,32> 

2110 CALL GCHAR(X-3,X+1,D) 

2120 IF D98 THEN 2310 

2140 D£AD=DtAD+100 

2150 GOSUB 4200 

2160 IF D=97 THEN 2180 

2170 GOTO 2210 

2180 Y=X-3 

2190 Z=X+l 

2200 IF ((Z=23)*(Y=22))+(((2=24) 

•(Z=25)>«((Y17))) THEN 2240 

2210 CALL VCHAR(X-3,X+1,130) 

2220 UALL VCHAR(X-3,Xtl,119) 

2230 GOTO 2260 

2240 CALL VCHAR(Y,2,130) 

2250 CALL VCHAR(Y,Z,98) 

2240 CALL SQUND(-800,-/,0> 

2270 FOR DELAY*1 TO 200 


2290 IF (X-3>=23 THEN 3440 

2300 GOTO 2340 

2310 CALL SQUND(-300,-7,0) 

2320 CALL VCUAR(X-3,X+1,130) 

2330 NEXT X 

2340 C :: 10*RND 

2350 N=0 

2360 MET=MEf>l 

2370 IF KET>=HETEOR THEN 3420 

2380 IF C127 THEN 2840 

2770 IF R>127 THEN 2860 

2780 IF (l+LXMT THEN 2790 ELSE 28101 

2790 TEST*1 

2:100 GOTO 2840 

2810 IF L=1 THEN 2840 

2820 NEXT L 

2830 h=H+l 

2840 TESr=0 

2850 ON CODE GOTO 1210,1710,2100 

2840 CALL SOUND(-500,-6,0) 

2870 CALL HCHAR(L,15+L,130,2) 

2880 CALL HCHAR(L,15*L,32,2) 

2890 IF TEST=1 THEN 2830 

2900 IF L*1 THEN 2830 

2910 HITS*HITS*1 

2920 GOSUB 4090 

2930 M) 

2940 MET=HET+1 

2950 IF HET>=HETEOR THEN 3420 

2940 ON CODE GOTO 1470,1970,2340 

2970 IF nS=10)i(SHD=0) THEN 

2980 ELSE 2?90 

2980 CALL S0UMD(-500,1000,0) 

2990 IF TS>=11 THEN 1710 

3000 CALL HCHAR(11,3,122,29) 

3010 SHD=SHD+1 

3020 IF SHD

3040 PRINT • SITUATION— YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF YOU 

R CITY DEFENCE SYSTEMS." 

3070 PRINT ' MISSION TO DEFEND AGAINST A METE 

OR STORM." 

3080 PRINT " CONTROLS-- PRESS •1* FOR LEFT SILOiPRES 

S'O' FOR RIGHT SILO!PRESS '2' FOR SHIELD." 

3090 FOR DELAY=1 TO 3000 


3110 GOSUB 4050 

3120 PRINT " EQUIPMENT 

1. 2-LASER CON 

TROLLED NUCLEAR MISSILE SILOS (KEYS Oil)." 

3130 PRINT "2. MAGNETIC SHiaD ABOVE CITY (KEY 2>." 

3140 GOSUB 4050 

3150 PRINT " LIMITATIONS- 

1. ONLY 1 HISS 

it 

ILE CAN BE LAUNCHED AT EACH HETEOR. 

3160 PRINT "2. THE SHIELD CAN BE USED (IF AVAILABLE) 

FOR 10,3SEC. BURSTS(MAX)." 

3170 PRINT "3. A DIRECT HIT ON A METEOR MAY NOT ALWAYS 

DISTROY IT- MISSILES ARE SET fO EXPLODE." 

3180 PRINT "NEAR THE METEOR FOR MAXIMUM DESTRUCTIVE PO 

HER." 

3190 PRINT "4. IF THE CITY FOUNDATIONS ARE PENETRATED 

THEN ITS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WILL EXPLODE." 

3200 RETURN 

3210 GOSUD 4030 

3220 PRINT "SELECT LEVEL 1,2 OR 3 1-LIGHT STORM! 

I12-MODERATE STORM!!13-HEAVY SrORH." 

3230 GOSUB 4050 

3240 CALL KEY(0,K,S> 

3250 IF S=0 THEN 3310 

3260 IF K=49 THEN 3350 

3270 IF K=50 THEN 3370 

3280 IF K-51 THFN 3390 

3290 IF K51 THEN 3240 

3310 FOR S=0 TO 30 STEP 2 

3320 CALL S0UND(10,iI0»(S+l),S) 

3330 NEXT S 

3340 GOTO 3240 

3350 METE0R=50 

3360 GOTO 3400 

3370 HETEOR^lOO 

3380 GOTO 3400 

3390 HETE0R=150 


3410 RETURN 

3420 PRINT "THE CITY IS SAFE-GOOD WORK!" 

3430 CALL COLOR(8,2,l> 

3440 CALL C0L0R(3,2,1) 

3450 CALL C0L0R(4,2,1) 

3460 PRINT 

3470 PRINT "PEOPLE KILLED!I";DEAD 

3480 PRINT 

3490 PRINT "METEORS INTERCEPTED!!";HITS 

1500 PRINT 

3510 PRINT "PERCENTAGE HIT!I";HITS*100/METEOR;"X" 

3520 PRINT 

PRESS 'T' TO 

3530 PRINT "PRESS 'S' TO START 

TERMINATE" 


3550 IF S=0 THEN 3600 

3560 IF K=83 THEN 40 

i COMPUTER & VIDEO GAMES 56 

3570 IF K=84 THEN 3980 

3580 IF K84 THEN 3540 

3600 FOR S=0 TO 30 STEP 2 

3610 CALL S0UND(10,U0*,S> 

3620 NEXT S 

3630 GOTO 3540 

3640 FOR R=1 TO 10 

3650 CALL SOUNDUOO,200,0,- , 0 

3660 CALL SOUNDtlOO,400,0,-1,10) 

3670 NEXT R 

3680 CALL SOUND(4000,-7,0) 

3690 CALL SCREEN(5> 

3700 CALL C0L0R(9,2 I 2) 

3710 FOR DELAY=1 TO 90 


3730 FOR X=7 TO 10 

3740 IF X=8 THEN 3800 

3750 CALL C0L0R(9,X,X> 

3760 CALL C0L0RU1,X,X) 

3770 CALL COLOR(lO,X,X) 

3780 FOR DELAYS TO 90 


3800 NEXT X 

3810 CALL CX0R(8,16,16) 

3820 CALL COLORS, 16,16) 

3830 CALL C0L0RC11,16,16> 

3840 CALL COLQRUO, 16,14) 

3850 FOR DELAY 8 1 TO 90 


3870 CALL SCREEN(16> 

3880 CALL COLORU, 16,16) 

3890 FOR T*0 TO 30 STEP 2 

3700 CALL SOUND(-500,-7 f T) 

3910 NEXT T 


3930 CALL C0L0R(8,2,16) 

3940 CALL C0L0R(3,2,16) 

3950 CALL COLORU,2,16) 

3960 PRINT "YOUR CITY HAS 

BEEN DESTROYED" 

3970 GOTO 3490 

3980 FOR S=0 TO 30 STEP 2 

3990 CALL SOUND(-50,230- 

4070 NEXT A 

4080 RETURN 

4090 CALL GCHAR(24,27,S) 

4100 IF S=57 THEN 4130 

4110 CALL HCHAR(24,27,SM) 

4120 RETURN 

4130 CALL GCHAR(24,26,S) 

4140 CALL HCHAR(24,2/,48> 

4150 CALL HCHAR(24,26,S+1) 

4160 IF S=57 THEN 4180 

4170 RETURN 

4150 CALL HCHAR(24,25,49> 

4190 RETURN 

4200 CALL GCHAR(24,7,DD> 

4210 IF DD=57 THEN 4240 

4220 CALL HCHAR(24,7 t DD+l> 

4230 RETURN 

4240 CALL GCHAR(24,6,DD) 

4250 CALL HCHAfi 

4270 RETURN

LLflmflSDFTii 

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LLVM \SOFT 

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FROGGER (Tl 99/4a) 64 GROW (Acorn Atom) 79 

3D ROAD RACER (Tl 99/4a) 66 MUNCHERS (Sharp MZ-80K) 80 

SPACE DODGE (Vic-20) 70 SHORT CIRCUIT (Sharp MZ-80K}... 83 

KRAZY KONG (Spectrum) 72 DEFEND (BBC) 86 

WORM CHASE (Dragon) 75 GOLF (ZX81) 88 

3D LABYRINTH (Spectrum) 76 ZIG ZAG (Atari) 89 

BOMBER ATTACK (Dragon) 78 DRAUGHTS (Atari) 90 

NIVEK'S INVADERS (Atari) .....92 

i 

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BY 

 

280 CALL HCHAR

37 a CRLL SPR1TE

FOR RIGHT" 

360 GOSUi": 5£0 

370 R=11 

380 MS= 'TO DODGE THE DM COMING T 

RAFFIC" 

390 GOSUIJ 5£u 

400 R=13 

4j0 

M 

M$= AFTER YOUR VIEW IS SHOWN 

4£0 GOSUB 5£0 

5£0 C=16-L J am /£ 

530 FOR -l JU LEN CMS) 

5^ 0 CALL H ;:HAF. (k ? C+1 ? 3 CO 

0 CALl. HGhAP 0> 

590 RET MR j 

600 CALL CLEAF 

610 RAN.")Dill r 

6£0 X=6 

630 CALL j>KFN 15 s 

6^0 FOR TC 16 

650 CALL COLOR' CI ? 15* 15' : 

660 NEXT 

E 

680 CALL CHKR 1 43 »"FFFEFCF8FDE0C0 

30") 

690 CALL LHhlR 0 0 0 0 0 


00 0 'IF 0 OS OC 5 C 03F33F3FFFFCFC 0? 

OCFC CCCFFFFFF.'i ! J 

840 RES "ORE y:?0 

850 FOR TO 155 

S60 REAl.) Hi 

870 CALL CHAR 'X.* A$) 

880 HEX" C 

890 REM 3 * car chars 

900 FDR nsh.5 TO 70 

910 READ Fit 

9c: 0 CALL CHRR -> -> -:« 

— 

1270 PRINT " *****+ 

s" 

1280 PRINT 00001 RQQR 

-ar 20000" 

1290 PRINT 0001 STTS 

ts 2000" 

1300 PRINT 

I UVVIJ 

Km 200" 

1310 PRINT 01 

2 0" 

1320 PRINT 

1330 PRINT 

ooo 

D'-'O 

11 

1340 PRINT 

fi 

*«J 1 O 1 

t' t 

1350 PRINT 

IJ i'I A t"j 

1 * 

I.I J_i J_I 

1360 PRINT 

V W W W ' " 

1370 

1380 

1390 

1400 

1410 

1420 

1430 

1440 

1450 

146 0 

1470 

1430 

1490 

1500 

1510 

152iJ 

1530 

1540 

1550 

1560 

1570 

1530 

1590 

1600 

1610 

1620 

164 U 

1650 

1660 

1670 

168 0 

1690 

+ 

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h 

h 

h 

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HHHHHHHHXXX8888 

HHHHHHHHXXX8888 

I .» K J I. •' W«L J • W 1 * .»I W 'V W W W W 

PRINT 

PRINT 

FOR S'KY= 1 TO 6 

CALL HCHAR

t r . r ^ » ^ 

£550 

256 11 

£570 

2590 

£600 

£610 

2620 

£630 

2640 

2650 

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2670 

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£73 0 

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2810 

2820 

2830 

2840 

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£860 

CALL COLOR

BY ALAN HALL 

Space Dodge challenges 

you to get your craft back 

through a maze of shifting 

meteors to the mothership. 

The object of the game is 

to get yourself to the home 

"H" marker which represents 

the mothership 

before your 35 second time 

limit runs out. 

On the way you can pick 

up as many bonus points 

in stellar fuel as you like 

but don't leave it too late. 

Avoid the meteor asterisks 

and when you conquer 

one phase you move onto 

the next. 

Each phase is more 

difficult than the last. 

TIME LIMIT 

The time limit is 35 

seconds and after 25, a warning 

will appear in the top 

right-hand corner of the 

screen. If you still fail in 

your quest the game stops 

after 35 seconds and a bell 

sounds. 

FUEL 

You start with 200 units 

of fuel on board the ship 

but it gets used up quickly. 

Each move costs 5 points, 

smart bombs take up 40 

units and Hyperspace 

takes up 25. On hitting a 

bonus, 20 units are lost but 

more are gained. 

In indicator in the top 

left-hand side of the screenl 

warns when fuel is low. 

SCORING 

When you eat a stellar 

fuel dump, a score of 10 

points is notched up and 

you add 20 points of fuel to 

your reserves. 

To get a bonus score you 

must land on a "O" and as 

you can only see this when 

you move it is difficult to 

add to your total in this 

way. | 

and right movement as the 

When you hit the bonus I arrows indicate. It takes 

you add a random score to ' some practise to utilise 

your total and this flashes these controls easily. The 

up in the top of the screen i space bar works as a smart 

and the same amount of 

1 

bomb and the " = " sign is a 

fuel units is added to the 

tanks. 

Hyperspace. 

HOME 

Home is randomly 

placed on the screen and 

only flashes up when you 

move to make life more 

difficult. If you reach 

Home before the time limit 

is up then you move onto 

the next phase. 

CONTROLS 

Movement and control of 

the smart bomb and 

hyperspace features is on 

the keyboard. The ship can 

be moved up and down, 

left and right and 

diagonally. The diagonal 

controls are the easiest to 

find on the keyboard and 

are self explanatory as "A", 

"S", "Z", "X". Shift combined 

with the cursor keys 

allow up, down and left 

SMART BOMBS 

You only have three 

smart bombs in each 

phase controlled by the 

space bar. It clears the 

space around you by blowing 

up asterisks on every 

adjacent square. And 

hyperspace allows you to 

leave your present position 

and move to a new random 

position on the screen. But 

beware when you use it, 

you may land on an 

asterisk. 

TIPS 

Make sure you know 

where Home is at the start 

of the phase so you can 

find it quickly when time 

falls short. Don't aim for 

mammoth scores each 

phase but leave yourself 

with something in reserve 

to get out of trouble. It's 

very hard to destroy all 20 

power pills in one phase, 

don't risk it. 

As soon as you see the 

reversed "T" head for 

home. Don't over-use 

hyperspace it will result in 

a nasty end. Landing on 

the screen border results in 

instant hyperspace as well. 

A good score to aim for is 

200 points but the author's 

high score is 1,255 points in 

five phases. 

0 CLP: P -1^5 P0kE36879,l2 PC'! £36^71,11 F0KE6S0,255 P020C •••OSUBH90 

! Y=& F-l 

J n-r$iJ: H=0 1*42 FL»200 

5 PPIHT n 3 

10 r 0FL"tf TO R 

It *«;•0 POKEB 42 NEXT 

to FuR >0 TO20 

ro r32 

1*0 IF THEN Fi=H+ 1 00TC114 

165 IF fil=' II" THEN Fl=FHl jO'JIN 

lib IF 

THEN H«FI+:3 G0T0114 

167 IF Hi="Pi" THEN ftafl-23 GOTO 114 

"ST" 

FOPT®0702000 NEXT FL=0 GGT020& 


- 

Its IF 

THEN A=A-21 00T0114 

ire IF Hf-"2" THEN 30T0114 I 

188 IF A*=*T THEN A=A-22 GOTO 114 I 

185 IF **="«" THEH A=H+22 GOTO 114 1 

r 

190 IF «r=* THEN GOTO 600 

192 IF Rf=' THEM GOTO 690 

JUIO 138 

198 FORT-255 TO 128 STEP-! P0KE36377.T FORI=OTO30 NEXT I NEXT P0KE36877,1 

199 FORU=0TO200O NEXT POKE 3607?.0 

200 POt EA 42 POKEfl+1 32 POKEA-I . 32 FOKEfl-22 32 POKEA+22,32 P0KEA+21 78 POKEA-21 

78 

201 FOKEA+23»77 Put EA-23•77 

202 FOPT=255 TO 128 3TEP-1 P0KE36877 T F0RI-0T030 NEXT I NEXT POtE 36877.123 

203 FORU=0TO200O NEXT POKE36877,0 

206 POKER, 32 POKEfl+1 32 POKEfi-l 32 FOKEA-22 32 POKEA+22,32 F I* Efl+21 32 POKEA-21 

32 

207 -Oi Eh+23 • 32 POt Efl-23,32 GOSUfclOOO FORT«0TO2000 NEXT GOT0212 

200 POt 25 rr:NT""«!»»»• > T or run. ' GGT0213 

212 POKE 3637?. 25 Ft? I NT",'11W WL GOT PLONN U 

21: PPINT"**HARD LOCK" 

:i4 PFINT 1 CORE ' V "POINTS" 

215 PRINT"'WOU LhiTEL THROUGTH 

220 PF INT ' '>HIT FtNV > EV" 

230 POtEl 98,0 WAIT 198,1 

240 GOTO O 

• F "PHASE' S V 

290 FORT 3 128 TO 255 F0tE36875.T NEXT FOKE36375.0 

255 f0RT=0T01O00 NEXT 

300 PRINT 'riCMfMBF:ILLIRNT" 

30^ P*P+1 

310 PR I Ml "WVOU HAVE lltiliE IT 

320 PRINT" »*WELL DONE" 

330 PRINT"f«TIME WAS " FIGHTJ TIME* 

340 PRINT rmcORE" % "POU ' 

350 PRINT 'JSMi'OU NOW GO ONK 

351 FOt El98 0 

360 PPINT »HIT ANS KEV FOP 

370 POt E198-0 WAIT198.1 

380 GOTO 4 

400 V=V+10 FL=FL+20 GOTO 130 

PHH'IE 

SECONDS" 

m iP 

FHHSE" .F" R-R+Ul 

490 FORT=0 TO 50 PGt£36876-55 POFO-0TOJO NEXT FGKE36876.0 NEXT POKE36876.O 

491 TO 1000 NEXT 

500 PR1NT^«W*W^3U HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME" G0T0213 

600 IN7680+INT

I 

7. Z 

JSR CHR$ f Z : BEEP 

. NEXT n. NEXT f 

3© PHPER 5; INK 0; CL5 BEEP 

.5,1© PRINT RT THE USER 

DEFINED GPRPHIC5 HRUE BEEN 3ET 

JP. NOW LORD THE GAME." 

100 DRTR 153,9G,36,60, 

4- . 6P . 1 S5 , 195 195 . 1 95 

, 1 9 5 ^ 2 5 5 , 1 9 5 , 1 2 9 , 1 5 9 , 1 9 5 

. SSS, 104 , 120, 4-3 , 52 , 63 ,15,7,3., 24 , 

IDS,66,153,153,66,102,24,24,24^1 

255,24 ,216, 166, 12,24,24, 123,255 

, 24 ,27,21,46.63,66,66 1^6 24.120 

.72,12,24,24 .12,24,24.1,255,24,25,255,126 

, 1 ,255,24.. 25, 255, 126 

^24,24,126,265,24,152,255,1,1,2, 

4., 6 . 4S, 64 , 135, 4 , 32 .79, 137 . 9, 75, 7 

LET C-3 i_E ? J-b. IF TH 

3.72,72,146.151 143,130,212 151 

EN GO TO .'300 

144.144 

110 DRTR 72,64,65,,114,4,1, 1 I PRINT RT 4,24.BO;" ";RT 0, 

5, 

32 ,0,0,0,0, l - =• c ; RT 0.17 ;J)J;HT 0,29; IS. I? b 

*, L'0 , £'3 , fc.«3 , 0 , , li'4 , 3 =0 THEN L-O TO 7000 

214.254.233,69,123,0.0,0,0-240,2 24 GO SUB 100 

48.252.252,57,125,125,59,3,0,3,7 25 IF INKEY $ — "S" THEN GO SUB 1 

, 255 ,219, 255 , 25S . 255 =_ 0 . 135 . 195 . 

156 . 190 , 1 ^0 , 220 , 2 92 ,0, 29ir , , 22 

THEN GO SUB 1 

.30. 13 . 124 .252 .240.224 . 192 

X LET hi =0: LET H$=* GO SU 

3 6500 

2 LET = c =0: LET le-0. LET l i = 

3 

3 GO TO 7100 

5 LET ni =«!• LET f = =6: LET n=3. LE 

T e=0: LET r=2. LET t 1. LET bo= 

3000. LET P=0. LET 0=41. *_ET V =4 

3; LET h' -110. LET 1=40. LET 1-12 

0. LET J =S 

C5 LEI il=6: LET f2 = l l ; LET f 3 

-14: LET f i =17; LET bl- ID: LET b 

2=7; LET b3=lS: LET b4=l4 

10 G0 TO 360 

12 BEEP .0003,20: BEEP .0006,1 

5; RETURN 

13 BEEP 0003,35. RETURN 

14 BEEP 001.15. RETURN 

15 IF fiTTR (a +1, b> =40 THEN PR I 

NT RT 3 + 1 , b ; INK 1,"B" 

16 IF RTTR fa-l,b.>=40 RND RTTR 

f 3 -2 , b.1 43 RND RTTR fa-2,b> 4 

7 RND RTTR (a-2,b) 110 THEN PRI 

NT RT a - l . b ; INK 1;"D" 

2 7 RETURN 

LE * i-2e. LLJ b 

2: GO SUB 90 

26 IF INKEY$s"8" 

2: GO SUB 92 

27 IF INKEY $ = " 7 " RND RTTR r a -t 

, b.1 =C THEN GO SUB 13 

26 IF INKEY $ = " & " RND RTTR C a + t 

,b)=0 THEN GO SUB 14 

30 LET a f INKEY$=» "S" RND a

w 

35 LET b = b +IXNKEYJ="8' 

2U - f INKEYSS'P" PND b»0J 

4.0 PRINT RT C , d ; " " 

42 IF b = d THEN PRINT RT a 

INK E;"G" 

4.4 IF b>=d THEN PRINT RT a b; 

INK E;"F" 

45 IF a < > C THEN PRINT RT 3 b; 

INK "H" 

4-7 IF RTTR 

(d -1 . b) < >4-1 

3 THEN GO TO 

46 IF RTTR 

TO 

53 IF RTTR 

X ( a -1 , b +1) =4-1 

+ INK L; "B" 

55 IF RTTR td+2,b-1'=41 

^ : a - l , b - U - 4 1 THEN PR INT 

~1, INK 1 ; "B" 

60 GO SUB as 

70 IF INKEY $ = " 0' 

300 

50 

300 

©9 

LET bO = bO —10 ; GO 

90 IF RTTR (a +1 , b +1.1 

3RINT R - 3+1 b +1 , INK 

p =p + 1 : LET SC-5 c + 100 

91 RETURN 

92 IF RTTR f a + 1 , b - 1.1 

=>RINT RT 3 + 1, b -1 . INK 

p =p +1 LET S C=£C+100 

93 RETURN 

100 

INT 

LET 

120 

130 

140 

150 

160 

LET 

170 

T RT 

_ R5H 

OR 

(3+l,b)=40 RND RTTR 

RND RTTR ( a -2 , b) 4 

700P 

(a +1 , b) =4.7 THEN GO 

LI+^/B+IL =41 LIW RT T 

THEN PRINT RT a,b 

OR 

RT 

RTT 

3 , FC> 

THEN GO SUB 7 

IF I.N«EY$ = "1" THEN GO 3UO 7 

TO 20 

= 110 " 

7.; *• " 

HEN 

LET 

LET b5=lNT J R ND *3 Y 

C RND * 3) : LET B7 SINT 

b8=INT IRND *3 > 

IF bS >1 THEN LET bS=-l 

IF b6>1 THEN LET b6 = - l 

IF b 7 M 

THEN LET b7=-l 

IF b3>I 

THEN LET bS = - l 

LET bl=bl+bS. LET b2=b2+b6 

b3"b3+b7, LET b4=b4+b 

/ bl; 

190 

T RT 

_RSH 1, E . LET b2 = L>2 + c6: IF b2 > 

= 6 OR b2

CONTINUED 

7030 FOR X=t TO URL '•15(3": PRINT 

RT a,b; INK r ; "I?" . NEXT X : LET 

li s l i - 1 ; IF ti>e THEN GO TO URL 

*" 3 " 

"7032 PRINT RT URL "13" ( UflL "11"; 

"GOME OUER" : INPUT INK e; "HIT TO PLRV RGRIN. . .";K$: IF £ 

C>hi THEN LET hi =SC: GO TO URL " 

7050" 

7035 GO TO r 

7050 CL3 : PRINT RT URL 

"6"; "CONGRRTULRTIONS —YOU flRE", RT 

URL "ID",f;"TODfiY'S HIGH SCORER 

! PLEASE";RT URL "12", f; "ENTER V 

OUR NAME (3 LETTERS) "; : FOP x=T 

TO URL "30": BEEP URL ".1",RND*U 

AL "4.0": NEXT X: INPUT H». LET H 

$ =H$(1 TO 3) : GO TO r 

7110 BORDER 4-: PRPER 4: CLS : PR 

INT RT 8,15; INK 2;"KL";PT IS; 

" MN"; RT 10,14.; INK 6; "A",AT 11,1 

4.; INK 0; " DPQ" ; RT 12,14.;" ST " ; RT 

6,13; "KRAZY " ; RT 14,13; "KONG I " ; 

PRINT ttl;" HOU HIGH CRN YOU 

TRY 7 

7130 BEEP .4,-5. PAUSE 3: BEEP . 

2 , - 3 BLTP .3,-3. PAUSE 3: BEEP 

2 

PR USE BEEP .2,0; PHUSE 

Si BEEP -3 PRUSE 4.: BEEP 1. 

3 

714.0 PRUSE 250: 

7302 PRINT RT a, 

7305 FOR y=T TO 

GO TO 4. 

B; PRPER G, " " 

16: PRINT RT Y,B 

": NEXT Y: FOR 

J =17 TO 20. PRINT RT Y , N I ; INK N 

;"CCCCCCCCCCCCC": NEXT Y 

7310 L E Y = S : LET X=15: PRINT RT 

Y , x -1 ; "OPO " ; RT Y + T , x -1, "RST•• 

7315 FOR S=T TO URL "10": PRINT 

RT Y +1 ,x + T; " ";RT Y + T , x -1 ; " ";RT 

Y , X + T ; " U " ; R T Y , x - T ; " D " : BEEP UP 

L " . 0 8 " , S ; PRINT RT Y , X + T , ' O " ; R T 

Y , x - T ; " O " ; R T Y +1, x + 1 ; " T " ; R T Y + T 

. X - T ; " R " : BEEP URL " . 1 " , S - U A L "1 

3": NEXT £ 

7320 FOR £=T TO URL "11": PRINT 

RT Y , X -T ; "DPU", RT Y + T , X - T ; "DSU" ; 

LET Y =Y + T: PRINT RT Y - r , x - T ; " 

": BEEP URL " . 2 " , - £ : NEXT £: BE 

EP T,URL " - I S " 

7330 PRINT RT HI ,8; INK N; " H H B 

J W W E A — " ; RT 8, IS, INK 7;"A". 

LET 3=8 FOR B=© TO 14-: PRINT RT 

A,B;"F": PRINT RT A , B - L ; " ": GO 

SUB 12: NEXT B 

7340 PRUSE 150 PRINT RT 1 3 , 1 2 ; " 

YOU WIN": PRUSE 100 PRINT RT 13 

, 1 1 ; " T H I S TINE": PRUSE 100. PRIN 

T RT 13,8; FLASH T;"NOU TRY RGRI 

V. 

7350 PP-USE 500: LET SC=£C+bO; LE 

T l£ = le+t: GO TO n 

7820 IF B > 27 THEN RETURN 

7825 IF RTTR »*A+T,B)=U> THEN PRIN 

T RT A +1 , B; INK S; " ": LET P-O + T 

LET SC==C+100 

7630 BEEP . 1 , 1 5 : LET A=A-T: LET 

B = B +1: PRINT RT A + T , B - T ; " ": PRI 

NT RT A,B, INK E ; " I " : BEEP . 1 , 2 0 

IF RTTR (A + R , B > =TC< THEN PRINT R 

T A , B; INK S; " " : LET P =P + T : L 

ET SC=S£+100 

7835 IF RTTR 0 , b - T ) = 0 OR RTTR ( 

S+R,B-T> =0 THEN PRINT RT A+T,B-T 

; INK T;"B" 

7840 LET B=B+T: PRINT 

PRINT RT d , b ; INK e ; " I " : 

P .1,25: IF R TTR (A+ R , b.s -ik" 

PRINT RT a + r , b ; INK S; 

=P + T : LET £C=£C+100 

7845 IF RTTR IA+T,B-T>=0 AND 

RT a,b-1; " 

BEE 

THEN 

" : LET P 

R TA + R O O THEN PRINT RT 

-1 ; INK T ; " B " 

7850 LET A = A + T : LET B=B+T; 

RT a - t , b - t ; " " PRINT RT 

NK E;"F": BEEP 1 , 15 

7855 IF RTTR (a B-T:. =0 AND 

RTT 

3 , b 

PRINT 

A , B; I 

RTTR 

r a + r , b - i ) < >0 t h e n p r j n t r t a - 1 , b 

- t . INK X . " E5 

7C52 IF R=BL AND 3=RL OR B=b2 AM 

2' 3 - F 2 JR B = BO AND A = R 3 DP O=C-4 

-9ND a - f ~ THEN GO TC 7£i00 

7860 IF A=14 RND B >28 OR A=11 AN 

> B >26 LR A =O ANO T* 2-3 "HER. - O 7 

D 7030 

7830 GO TO 20 

7310 IF B

IMA BOH 

BYS. MURDIE 

Can you get Willie Worm 

into the safety of his hole 

before hissing Sid Snake 

catches him and invites 

him to join him for lunch. 

Willie is on the menul 

Willie has to get back to his 

hole using a series of 

ladders - but slippery Sid 

can do without these and 

pursues the weary worm at 

a frighteningly fast speed. 

In dire emergencies 

Willie can call on his 

amazing ability to teleport 

out of harms way. But the 

number of times he can 

use this talent is limited - 

so they must be used with 

care. 

Can you keep the snake 

from the worm's door? Or 

is Willie doomed? 

Full instructions are 

included in the program. 

So worm your way out of 

this one if you can! 

WORM 

^ 

I* REM HURM CHHSE 

EO REM BY STEVEN MURDIE 

REN KOR DRAGON 32 

40 REM ALL REMS CAN BE DELETED 

30 REM SET UR GRAPHICS ARRAYS 

Dinnc-< 103. 103 5 P6ET,BF 

260 IETO0,90)-( 110. 1 IB ), P.C 

270 ffer RESET SCORE to ZERO 

2H0 

SCORE-0 

/90 PM0DE3 • 1 PCLS 

108 REM DRAW LADDER 

J10 LINE'0.0>-C0 20 >• PSET LIN£< 20 0 >-< 20 20/.PSET 

I20 F0RT-3T013 STFCH 5 

J30 LINE(0,T )-,PS£T 

G 

J60 pMODE3.1 C0LUR2-1 PCLS•SCREfcNl , 0 

3'0 REM SET UP PLPY FIELD 

FORT-0TO190 STFCP 40 

3YE LLNT-,P$£T.BF 

400 NEXTT 

410 FORT-20 TO 170 STEP 40 

420 PUT< 150 T)-< 170.T*20 >,L UR 

4 10 NEXT T 

440 REM DRAW HOLE 

430 CIRLL£,3 3 

460 PRINT?3,110 1 3,3 

470 PUT(K,YWX*20 Y+20 ) . A OR 

400 LINE(0.30)-(0,S0).PSET 

4*0 CUL0R3.1 

300 REM-SETS KEYS TO UPPERCASE 

31^ P0KE329-233 

•520 A»"1NKEY» 

330 IF 1" AND X>0 THEN X-X-10 

340 IF H»-"3" AND X130 TMEN Y-Y-10 SOUNO200.1 

360 IF A»-"0 M AND K130 ANL> YRL70 

THEN "-"YAH* SOUNDS, I 

3/0 IF INKERS" '?" FIND TE'3 THEN "'•RND'20 J»10 

Y-RND'17>«10 TE.T£*1 PLAY "12V3103. 

1.2.34 3(6*7,8,9, 10; Hi 12' 

180 REM CHECK TO SEE IF YOU'VE WON 

3*0 IF x-0 and Y-100 THEN PLPV T1202V31,1 3,4,3. 

1)3(43,1)3 4^.3 1.3.l' SCORE 

-M.ORE*1300 CLS2 COTU730 

600 JFY.2 J 

B30 REM MOVE SNAKE 

640 IF YB THEN B-B*3 

6«>0 If X>A THEN A»A*3 

6,'P IF Y"B AND X'A THEN B-A-3 

REM INCREMEMT SCORE 

6^0 SCORE-SCOPE*10 

700 REM CHECK TO SEE IF YOU PRE CAJGHT.IF 

YOU PRE PLPY DERTH MARCH 

tP IF K-A Anc> frnf) THf-.N RLR' , "0IV3lT2L4G'J.8GGL4B-OAF;'iF.&- 

CLS0 GOTO730 

20 GOT0470 

7

BY M. BEATON 

Baffled, bothered, 

bewildered? Then you 

must be trapped in the 3D 

Labyrinth. Even more puzzling 

than the Hampton 

Court maze, more difficult 

to get out of than the Barbican 

centre and more 

addictive than Dallas, this 

game has everything - 

except clues on how to 

escape! 

I 

At the start of the game { 

you are asked to select the 

size of the maze. It is 

always organised so that 

one exit is at the top left on 

the map which you can 

call up for advice. You start! 

at the bottom right. 

Screen presentation is 

simple but effective. The 

maze is always displayed 

from the back of the cell 

you are in - and you can 

see up to a maximum of 

four cells in front. You'll 

soon get the hang of the 

graphic display and be 

ready to tackle the 

mysteries of the maze. 

Commands used are; 

F - forward one cell. R = 

right 90 degrees, staying in 

the same cell. L = left 90 

degrees etc. H = Help! 

Returns you to the map of 

the maze showing your 

position. 

3D LABYRINTH 

5 FLHSH 0: BRIGHT O; OUE.R 0: 

INVERSE O BORDER PRPER 2. IN 

< O CLS ; PRINT RT 7,7, "3-.0 LAP 

VRINTH";RT 9,10;"1982 - M.BEfiTON 

7 FOR i=0 TO 7: POKE U5R 11 a" + 

i ,2ti : POKE U5R "b"+i ,2t (7-i) : P 

OKE USR " C " + i / 1 : POKE USR "d"+i., | 

12S. POKE USR "e"+.i,0. poaC u:-r I 

• •"+1,15: POKE U5R f '9 +i - 252 PO I 

K E USR " h " + i .0 POKE USK i *+i,6 

3 POKE USR " j " + i P O K E USR 

"*" +i,129. POKE USR "T"+ I,£43: P > 

OKE USR "m"+i,207: NEXT i 

10 POKE USR "e"+7,255. POKE US 

P "f "+7,255. POKE USR "i>",£SS. P 

OKE USR "J"+7,255: POKE USR "K", 

126: POKE USR "k"+7,126 

IS DIM « (11.16) . EIH ail) : DIM 

i $ 11) : i_. • i m f l K S P B H I " 

: LET c»=" 

20 INPUT "Length (2-16)?" LE 

1 

T u =INT U. IF u IB THEN G I 

O TO 20 

EN LET a =1 

4-0 INPUT "Width (2-11) 7" , \ : LET 1 560 GO SUB 2200 

t=INT t. IF t l l THEN GO ' 610 IF a=0 THEN GO SUB 2300: GO 

TO 4-0 

TO 700 

50 CLS . PRINT RT 8,1,"PLERSE 620 LET a«=0: IF w >0 RND u« < t RND 

IniRIT WHILE I CRERTE THE"; TRB 11, Z >0 RND 2 THEN LET b » . 

"LABYRINTH" 

GO SUB 2000: IF xl=x2 THEN LET a 

110 RRNDOMIZE : LET x = INT 

= 1 

; LET y =INT (U/2> : LET »(X,y)=5 640 IF Z>0 RND 2 THEN LET b =J» 

120 LET b = 0: IF x1 THEN IF ra(X,y-l)=0 T N LET b =» (tf,y) GO SUB 2000. IF 

HEN LET b=b+l. LET a(b)~4 

X1=X 2 THEN LET a =1 

1B0 IF b(>0 THEN GO TO 230 

710 LET b=m(i y): GO SUB 2000 

190 LET b=» (X ,y > : GO SUB 2000: IF X1 = —X 2 THEN LET a=l 

LET x1 = —x1: LET yl=-yl 

720 IF w>0 RND W = q HND (. 

>1) T 

TO 120 

HEN GO SUB 2900 

230 LET b =a ( INT (RNDib) +1.< . GO 740 GO TO 1101 

SUB 2000 

750 LE'f q=y+y2*3: LET V =X -y 2 

263 LET X=X+X1: LET y=y+yl; LET I ET z=x+y2 

» (X ,yj -b: GO TO 120 

760 FOR i=y TO q STEP y2: LET s 

34-0 LET l=t+l: LET frt=U+l: LET X J =4-fi-y)*y2: GO SUB 3100 

= t ; LET y=U: LET X2=-1. LET y2=0 * 770 LET tu =i +y 2 

: BORDER 1: PRPER 4 ; C LS : GO 5U 800 LET b=» IX , i .> ; GO SUB 2000. 

8 4-000 

IF x1=y2 OR i y 2 =1 RND x = l RND i 

350 PRINT RT 1,11;"GOOD LUCK!", 1) THEN LET 3=1 

RT 18,10;"PRESS RNY KEY": PRUSE 810 IF V >0 RND V =i+X2 

430 LET b=»U,y>: GO SUB 2000: 

IF y1=-x2 THEN LET 3=1 

440 IF v.>0 RND V 0 RND RND 

V > 0 RND V

(V,i): GO SUB £00© 

EN LET a =1 

370 IF a =1 THEN 

330 GO SUB 2300 

900 GO SUB 25O0 

IF yl--y2 TH 

GO TO 900 

GO TO 

930 LET a=0; i_E I b=n> (X,i J ; GO S 

UB 2000. IF X 1 = -y2 OR ( y £ - -1 AND 

X -1 AND j=1> THEN L.CT 3=1 

950 IF Z > 0 AND Z0 RNO b> 

t»=r,> 

THE 

GO 

BND 

Z>0 AND Z0 AND Z 

t z , a GO SUB £000; IF yl=-y2 TH 

EN LET a =1 

1010 IF a =1 THEN GO TO 104-0 

10£0 GO SUB 2400. GO TO 1060 

104-0 GO SUB 2SO0 

1060 GO SUB 3000 

1070 LET 3=0 IF V >0 AND W0 AND =q.< THEN GO SUB 2900 

1101 IF x < > 1 OR y < > 1 T HEN GO TO 

1107 

1102 

; "J 

IF ,x 2 = -1 THEN PRINT RT 

• "; RT 1,12;" IEXITI " ; RT 

0,13 

2,13 

1103 IF y2 = -1 THEN PRINT RT 5,26 

: "OUT >" 

1107 IF X=t AND y=U THEN PRINT P 

T 7,5;"YOU RRE RT THE START" 

1110 RESTORE . FOR j =1 TO 4-. PER 

D xl,yl: IF x 1 -X2 RND yl=y£ THEN 

GO TO 1130 

1120 NEXT i 

1130 INPUT "tvhat i s y o u r » o v e 7 ' 

, i S. GO TO 1143 

113S INPUT "L€ft,Rjght,Forward o 

r He ip ?"j a $ 

114-0 IF i $ = " r " OR i S - " R " THEN LE 

T i«i+l. GO TO 1190 

1150 IF i$="t" OR JS-'L• THEN LE 

T i =i -1: GO TO 1190 

1160 IF iS = "t>" OR l $ ~H" THEN GO 

SUB 4000. GO TO 1130 

1170 IF j* = "/" OR i it - 1 F" THEN GO 

TO 1320 

1130 GO TO 1135 

1190 IF i=S THEN LET i 

1200 IF i =0 THEN LET i =4- 

1300 RESTORE : FOR i=1 TO RER 

D X£,y£: NEXT i 

1310 GO TO 370 _ 

1320 LET x =X +x£ : LET y=y+y2 

1330 IF X 

000 

134-0 IF X < 1 OR x > t OR YU 

THEN GO TO 1430 

1350 LET 3 —0 

1360 IF y2 =0 THEN GO TO 1400 

1370 LET t>~m (X , y J ; GO SUB £000: 

IF y1=y£ THEN LET a=l 

1380 LET b=J» iX,y-y2): 

0- IF yl=-y2 THEN LET 

1390 GO TO 1420 

1400 LET b=»(x,yJ: GO 

IF X1=X2 THEN LET 3=1 

GO SUB 

a =1 

SUE- £000: 

1410 LET IX-X£ > y > : GO SUB 

0: IF X1=-x£ THEN LET 3=1 

1420 IF a =1 THEN GO TO 370 

1430 LET X =X-X £: LET y=y-y£ 

1440 PRINT RT 7,4;"YOU CAN'T MOU 

E THIS URV" 

1450 GO TO 1130 

2000 LET xl=0. LET yl=0 

2005 IF b = 1 THEN LET xl=l 

2010 IF =2 THEN LET >; 1 -1 

£020 IF b=3 THEN LET y 1 = 1 

2030 IF b =4 THEN LET y 1 = -1 

£040 RETURN 

£100 FOR J=C TO d 

£110 PRINT RT 21-j,j;"/": IF 3=0 

RND J-9 > —1 THEN PRINT RT j-9,J, 

2120 NEXT j: RETURN 

£200 FOR j=C TO d 

2210 PRINT RT Si-j,30-J,"V : IF 

a=0 RND j —9 >-1 THEN PRINT RT j-9 

i30 — J j " / 

2220 NEXT j: RETURN 

£300 LET n =d-c. FOR k= e TO f PR 

INT RT K,c;b*< TO n j ; ' l " : NEXT k 

: RETURN 

2400 LET n = 30 -d: LET P=d-C. FOR 

k =e TO f: PRINT RT * . n ; "JB*> b$» T 

0 P.* ; NEXT k; RETURN 

2500 PRINT RT f,c;' |"ia-d 

+ C TO ) : FOR J = e TO f-1: PPINT R 

T j , d ; " J" : NEXT J 

2510 IF d-C > O THEN LET j=26-( (d- 

C) /2+d) -1: LET n=d-C: FOR k = 11- J 

TO J: PRINT RT K,c;b$< TO n ) ; "ft 

": NEXT k 

2520 RETURN 

2600 LET p =30 —d: PRINT RT f,p; "1 

" < TO d-c+l.i . FOR j=e TO 

f -1: PRINT RT J j P ; "I " : NEXT j 

2610 IF d - C > 0 THEN LET j = 2 0 - ( ( d - 

C ) sB+d) —1: LET n~d-C. FOR k=ll-J 

TO j: PRINT RT k , p , "II"; b S < TO n 

): NEXT fc 

£6£0 RETURN 

2700 FOR J =e TO f. PRINT RT j,di 

" J" : NEXT j: RETURN 

2B00 LET r=30-d: FOR j~e TO f. P 

PINT RT j , r ; "J " . NEXT J : RETURN 

2900 LET n =d +1: LET p=29-d*2: FO 

R X=e TO f: PRINT RT K,n;b$< TO 

P.> : NEXT K : RETURN 

3000 PRINT RT f+1,d+1;C3< TO 29- 

d : RETURN 

3100 LET 3=0. LET C=16-£tS. LET 

d =16-21 is-1) -1 

3110 LET f=£0-d. LET e=0. IF d-B 

>-1 THEN LET e=d-B 

3120 RETURN 

40I3O CLS . LET r=9-INT (t/2' ; LE 

T P =15 — INT

IMABOH 

BY G. BECK 

10 OR R-< N1, Ml >,B.C 

1S0 CUL0R4.1 DP RU BM50.50 i R 7D 7L 7U7" 

1*0 PRINT< 53.53 > > 4.4 

i-aa C0L0R2.: DRflw"BM^^,î;JR3E>^Lû^F^• 

,X,G 

2^0 PCL83 

*52 

THENN-0 • Nl-15 ' M-M+7 < Ml-hi+7 

1 Q 

-N+3'QJ-QI+7 

340 IF Ml>190 THENGUTO910 

.i30 

J60 

IFN-0TMEN420 

IFPPOINTC Nl + 1,Ml>< >3 THENGOTO440 

370 PUTt N.M >-( N11Mls.B-PSfcT 

300 PLRY"T25502BC" 

390 FORK-1T075 NEXTK 

400 JFINKEYX>""THEN PLRY"T25503RB" 1 GOSUB380 

410 CUTO320 

420 

430 

440 

LINEC 240.M-7)—t 255,Ml-7 >.PSET BF GOTO330 

'»*CRRSH*» 

FORT-1TO100 

450 X-PNOC 3 

.460 COLORX. 1 LlNE-( RND< 255 >, RNIX 190>>,PSET 

14 /0 PLRY"T25903001C" 

480 NEXTT 

,490 CLS'PRINT"HRRD LUCK YOU CRH3HE0" 

• 500 PLRY"T402L40LBDDL4DL6FLBEE0DC£L2D" 

310 PRI NT"YOU MRNRGED TO SCORE 1 jSCJ"POINTS" 

520 IP SOHI THEN HI-SC 

530 PRINT"MIGH-5C0RE">HIi"POINTS" 

540 PRINT"RNOTHER GU " 

550 B»-1NK£Y«'IFB»-""TMEN550 

560 IFB»"N"THEN GOTO90 • ELSE P0KE65494, 0 END 

570 '**DROPPING OF BOMB K CONTINUED 

MOVEMENT OF PLRNE** 

580 PSETC Q,01 •J > Q-0 Ql-QI+7 IFQ1>190 

THfcNQ-N+7'Ql-Ml+l RETURN ELSElPPPQlNr

BY MARKUS JACOBSON 

1 * " v / 

I 

f 

• * 

f 

It was just one of those 

days. Nothing about it on 

the breakfast-time weather 

bulletins of course, but I 

looked up at midday and 

the skies were black with 

alien postmen all ready to 

deliver. 

Well it looked as though 

some huge galactic sorting 

office in the sky had only 

just discovered Earth and 

we had several eons of 

backpost as yet 

undelivered - and they 

were about to put things 

right. 

Laser bases are of little 

use when the skies are full 

of cartons from mail-order 

firms. 

Luckily a new idea, just 

shown on Tomorrow's 

World, for a mobile black 

hole which can cope with 

three on any well-known 

breakfast cereal, looks like 

coming to mankind's 

rescue. 

In this game for the 

Atom you must thwart 

their plans and prevent the 

boxes from landing. If you 

fail to do so they will 

gradually grow into piles 

until one reaches the top of 

the screen. Once you allow 

this to happen you might 

as well pack up and go 

home for the game is over. 

Your only means of 

defence is a mobile Black 

Hole that will eat 

anything. This is moved 

from left to right by means 

of the Shift and Repeat 

keys. Should you collide 

with a Box side or hit a 

Pile, your hole is moved 

upwards thereby limiting 

your ability to stop the falling 

Boxes. 

For those who like 

experimenting, the sound 

effects can be altered by 

poking different values 

into f81. 

GROW 

w 

1REM MRR.KUS JRKOBSSON 

2REM 3LST0RP 5=57 

3REM S-24021 L\DDEK\PINGE 

4REM SWEDEN 

5P.S12" GROW" " "LEFT - 

SHIFT"'"RIGHT - REPT 11 ' *' 

7IN."LEVEL 1-5"U;IFU>50RU 

P.tll;LI.#FE22-G.7 

9U-5-U 

10DIMRR4,P-l;L*#B002;P.$21>C 

20 RR0 LDRL;LDY#81 

30 RR1 LDXJ80 

40 RR2 DEX;BNERR2 

50EORG4 >STfiLj DEY;BNERR1iRTS i1; P. $6 

60Q e 0 

70P.$12iF.I=0TO31;I?#81E0=#FF;N.; 

A«15>B-12>C=9;O«0 

80F -ft. R. '^32 i G*R. R. H200;G=-G j N=fl.R. V.90+G+30 

90?#E1=0;P." 0"Q 

280GOS.3,C*C-1;GOS.d 

202IFU-5.G.210 

204F.I=1TOU;URIT;N. 

210F. I«lT0U;G0S.a,iH. 

290G.200 

300iD?#8000=32;D?#8001=32 

305 IF?#B001 &#80=0 > GOS. b 

3l0IF?#B00280,R=R-l R. 

3401FC< 0R.B >4;B=B-1;C=10;J=10;K»20;M«3;G. e 

345R. 

350cO«fl+2+(B*32 >;IFO?#8000=32R.R< 30,R=R+1.R. 

360G.340 

370eF.l-J TO K S.M^#80=I >LI.RP0,N. ;G0S.*-R. 

380dF?#8000"32;N?*3000-32 

381G 7 #8000=32 

382IFF?#8020=255;F 7 #8000*255;GOS.f;G.k 

3831FF?#8020=76; F=R. R. *32> GOS. 9 

384IFG?#8020=255iG?#8000«255;GOS.f,G.1 

3851FG?#8020«76> G a R. R. V.32 /GOS. 9 

386IFN?#8020«255;N^#3000=255;GOS.f;G.m 

3871FN?#8020=76;H=R.R.5:32 >GOS.9 

390F=F+32;G-G+32;N«N+32 

400F?#8000-79i G?#8000=79; N?#8000-79 

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BY C. STANGROOM & 

I. MACNAUGHTON 

IN27K 

No gomes supplement 

would be complete without 

that little denizen of the 

mazes. So here he is - 

renamed and revamped for 

the Sharp MZ80k! 

Guide your little 

Muncher around his maze 

home eating up points and 

the Munchers favourite 

snack called "Gulps". 

These "Gulps" are 

extremely important as 

they guard you against the 

attentions of those nasty 

ghosts which also haunt 

the corridors of the maze. 

If you manage to gobble 

down 20 "Gulps" the ghost 

which is chasing you will 

turn white with fear and 

runs away. If you catch 

and eat the ghost while he 

is in this fear-stricken state 

the score is given and you 

get a new restocked maze. 

Avoiding the ghost is a 

difficult task and there are 

several surprise features 

built into this program 

should you manage to 

chalk up a high score - 

which are best left for you 

Ito find out! At the end of 

each game the top ten 

scores are displayed. 

To move your little 

Muncher around use the 

W, A. D and X keys as in 

many MZ80k games. 

m 

' 

If you find the game too 

difficult then a useful tip is 

to change the value of the 

variable P9 in line 420 

which specifies the 

number of "Gulps" that 

must be munched before 

the ghost turns white. 

The author has 

managed a high score of 

258,000 - so that's the target 

for all you maze fans out 

there! 

Variables: 

206, 207-different ghosts. 

46-fullstop. 202-man. 

208-grey walls. 

191-"Gulps". PEEK 

(17828)- address contains 

ASC code of key passed in 

GET routine. 53248- screen 

address (TOP LEFT). 

The author says that 

conversion to a Pet is easy 

using the above variables. 

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NEX7 T : P O K E N , O : N E X T N : U S R ! P O F E 5 3 5 7 3 , u : G 0 S U B 5 3 0 0 : P 0 K E 5 3 5 3 3 , 2 0 7 : G 0 G U B 5 ' 0 0 

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676, 700, 695,595, 4 

DATA 764,765,498,418,41:4,516, 1071 ,785 

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T T 

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DATA 3, 3.1.4.1.4.1.4.3.1 

DATA 3, 4.4.2.2.1.4.1.4.2 

DATA 1 . x , • , , y , i , < * a. i j 

DATA 1 . 1 . 4 . 4 . 1 . 3 . 4 . 2 . 3 

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DA rA. 66,69, 71 , 74 , 78,93,94,97,98, lOO 

REM **** FINISH **#* 

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REM **** VARIATIONS **** 

REM 

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F0RN=1 TOINI < SC/40000) 

PQKEH < N) ,46 

NEXTN 

REM * NUMBER OF PUDS * 

0=P(INT =T < N > THENU=207 

NEXTN 

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PR I NT-OICSSCORE - " : SC+ I I #1000000 

USR(71):ST=0 

PGKE4466,23:PRINI"ECPRESS ANY KEY." 

GETAS:IFAt=""1HEN507U 

USR(62):GOT 0130 

FOR NN=55 10 1 STEP-1 

ST=ST-1 

FOR N=255 

POKE 4513, 

TO 1 STEP -ST#2 

N:USR 

NEXT N 

NEXT NN 

SC=SC+10000+X9:F I = 1:GOTO 5047 

REM * START POSITIONS * 

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E(N)=1NT(RND+l 

FORI=N-1 TO1STEP-1:IFE

BY S. WIDER 

t>3 

? 

tt 

In Short Circuit you are 

charged with repairing a 

silicon chip from the inside. 

Your mission is to help 

Fred the Repairman to rectify 

a short circuit in the 

wall of the chip. 

This is done by picking 

up the pills of silicon chip 

repairing vitamins which 

Fred's hazardous task. And 

the author's highest score 

is 1,980 so try and beat that. 

Next month we publish 

the seguel to this game 

called Repairman's 

Revenge. And the author 

has speeded up his sparx 

and armed Fred with an 

energy gun. . . don't miss it 

Sharp owners. 

can be found on the edge Fred must not touch 

of screen. 

anything on his way up to 

Fred must be guided the vitamin pills or he will 

through the chip using the be instantly fried by 10 

keys: 

billion volts. He must also 

Up-7 

beware of the Sparx which 

Down -J 

wander around the chip. 

Left-Y 

A nice display awaits 

Right -1 

you should you complete 

SHORT CIRCUIT 

1 GOTO 

9 6 0 0 

2 GOTO 

POKE lS?27.1- 

4 PRINT"6":F&R TEMPO 7 

A=l 

5 = NEX T T 79# r> > "sETVx 0 1 X = I N T < 49 *KND< 1 > , : 

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saw 

460 PRINTTAB(33)J "WIDER" 

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462 MAN=S6935-40 

463 A-207 

464 C=1 

500 GOSUB 1000 

520 GOTO 500 

1000 GET fit 

1001 POKE 4514,255:USR(68) 

1010 IF PEEK (17828 J-55 I HEN 

I HEN 

THEN 

THEN 

1020 IF PEEK(17828>=73 

1030 IF PEEK=89 

MAN.O:I1AN=MAN- 40 

MAN,O:MAN=MAN+1 

MAN,O:MAN=MAN+40 

MAN,O:MAN=MAN~1 

1042 USR(71) 

1050 POKE MAN,A 

1051 GOTO 5000 

1052 IF A=206 THEN GOTO 

1G55 IF 

>0)THEN 

10 *0 I K (PEEK (HAN 1 > 

1080 IFt PEE I (MAN + 4O) 0)THEN 

1090 IF(PEEK(MAN-40) CO THEN 

1100 RETURN 

1956 IF A=207 THEN GOTO 10J 

3000 FOR B=206 TO 207 

3001 POKE 4514,200:USR(68) 

3010 POKE MAN, fc! 

>025 C=C+1 

3026 IF C>50 THEN 3040 

3030 NEXT B 

3035 GOTO 3000 

:u40 POKE MAN-1,227:POI t 

3045 F'OK E MAN •1 , 227: POKE 

3050 POKE MAN.166 

POKE 

POKE 

POKE 

POKE 

A=206: 

3060 POKE MAN+40,238:POKE MAN-40,2>8 

•06'5 POKE MAN+SO.238*POKE MAN-80,238 

3072 POKE MAN-1,0:POKE MAN-2,0 

3073 POKE MAN+1,0:POKE MAN+2,0 

3074 POKE MAN,0 

3075 POKE MAN+40.OrPOKE MAN-40,0 

3076 POK E MAN+80,0:POKE MAN-80,«> 

3090 FOR VC — 1 TO 255: POf E 451 4, VC: 

USR(68):NEXT VC 

3091 USR(71):FOR VB=1 T 0 

3092 IF SC HS THEN PRINT 

done' ' Please enter your 

IF SC HS THEN INPUT 

HA-I EN( X*> S IF AA 10 

IF SC HS THEN HS=SC 

3094 

3095 

3096 

5097 

3098 

3099 

"YES" 

3 1 0 0 

3 1 0 1 

3500 

THEN 

GOTO 3000 

O) THEN GOTO 3000 

GOTO 3000 

GOTO 3000 

MAN-2,22 7 

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3030 

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51 lo 

6000 

6001 

6002 

6003 

6004 

7000 

8000 

800 i 

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8003 

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80

• :- 

BY J. McFARLANE 

ON MODEL A 

• i 

Arcade action for Beeb 

space captains with an eye 

for the aliens. This is a version 

of that all-time arcade 

classic Defender. Flying 

over the mountainous 

terrain of your planet you 

come upon an alien 

invader swooping in for 

the attack. 

Line the attacking ship 

up in the sights of your 

laser-blaster and fire away. 

If you score a hit the alien 

craft will explode into a 

million small fragments. 

Those alien ships will keep 

on coming until you have 

wiped out the entire fleet - 

and you have just three 

ships to complete the task. 

There are three skill 

levels to master - but do 

not move above the first 

until you have mastered 

the controls. The program 

uses the ENVELOPE and 

VDU commands to provide 

realistic sound and 

graphics. 

There is on-screen 

scoring and you get an 

extra ship at 1,000 points, 

as well as a high score 

facility. 

The author's high score 

is 1,500 on level three - can 

you better it) 

DEFENDER 

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250 GCOL4 ,3 :M0VEA%,B%i PRINTAJf: 1 FZSf=" »ANDEX=0 ANDALIEN=0 G0T03 

270 ^ D P R 0 C + 3 2 A N D A % > C % ANDB%*)6D*>-3 2 THEN570 

280 C° — 1 200 : D%=RND ( 500 )• ] 00(RETURN 

290 1 200 : D%= RND ( 500 ) +1 00: RETURN 

300 C0SUB3 20 :M0VEC%,D%! PR INTCHRjf 23 5;CHR#236 i RETURN 

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D R A W A ^ 4 

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380 EGCOL4,3.MOVEC% fD% tPRINTB?:IFRND(FR%) = 1 an D C%> A% THENPROCA 

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500 ENDPROC 

510 DEFPROCTERR 

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6(•() 

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*fX15,0 

6 8 0 EX = ) i F0RN%= 1TOS t M0VEC%,D%!SW=RND{ 50) + ] 30i PR 1 VTCHRSf^w»i r u i •> 

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0 9 0 P R O C Y O U : N E X T : A L I K N = , : EX=0,OCOL4 .0 ^ O V E C ^ ^ . P H J N T C H R ^ S W : END 

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750 VDP1: PRINTTAB ( 6 , 1 ) ;S%. VDU5: I*JDPRC"' 

760 DEFPROCHISC 

770 * F X 1 5 , 0 

780 PRINT' 'TAB(10) ; " H i - s c o r i ' ! ! " 

790 PRINTTAB( 3 , 1 4 ) ; : BB#=STRjf ( LFV%) : I N P U T " P l e a s e e n t e r vour n 

• • AAJf t IFLEN (AA#)> 4THENAA#=1.EFTJ?( AASf 4 ) 

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810 * FX 15,0 

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820 SOUNDO, 2,4 , 50 : F0RN%= 1T050 :HOVEC%+ ]fj t R%-16 : DRAWRND( 1 2 8 0 ) , 

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Whose lousy idea was it 

anyway to go exploring 

burnt out volcanoes in 

Sicily. 

"Oh - so its my fault is it 

that the volcanoe should 

blow, I suppose your idea 

was better was it? - our 

tenth year in Bognor with 

your mother and those 

three mangy cats that she 

just couldn't possibly leave 

with the neighbours like 

everyone else does." 

"Thats right, bring my 

mother into it - as soon as 

something goes wrong its 

somehow always attributable 

to my mother." 

Funny isn't it - how 

people can argue about 

mother-in-laws when their 

being chased down a 

mountain side by 3,000 

tonnes of molten lava. 

Their fate lies in your 

hands now as you control a 

small man desperate to 

escape. 

There is a safe zone 

beckoning at the far end of 

the screen and you must 

guide this survivor to that 

zone before time runs out. 

If you make it to the safe 

zone you go on to the next 

level. 

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126 IE D-3 1 HE N X=»X-1 

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16" IF P >0 fHEN GO 10 2000 

1 70 COLOR 2 : PL01 X,Y: COLUR 1 

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24 PLOT 16,39:DRAW TO 12,39:DRAWTO 1 2 , 4 1 : AND A< >25 AND A < > 2 6 AND A27 THEN X(A) 

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25 PLOT 16,48:DRAWTO 12,48:DRAWTO 1 2 , 5 2 : 140 NEXT A 

DRAWTO 16,52:DRAWTO 16,50:DRAWTO ! 2 , S 0 

145 FOR A=0 TO 1 4 : X ( A ) = 9 : N E X T A 

26 PLOT 12,57:DRAWTO 16,57:DRAWTO 1 2 , 6 1 150 REM * **ACCEPT PLAYER'S MOVE**« 

90 COMPUTER

154 FOR CH=15 TO 63:IF X(CH>>0 AND X(CH) 

< >9 THEN 160 

155 NEXT CH:? "YDU LOSE TURKEY 1 •'":GOTO 

lOOOO 

160 PRINT "ENTER MOVE";: INPUT A*:" 1 A*;" 

TO"!:INPUT B*:IF LEN(A*)c>2 OR LEN(B*> 

2 THEN GOSUB 6O0O:PRINT "MOVE NOT ACCEPT 

ED":GOTO ISO 

161 GOSUB 7500: GOSUB 2010: IF X2 AND X(P)2 THEN GOSUb 6O0O:P 

RINT "CAN'T MOVE BACKWARDS' NO KING AT " 

;AS:GOTO 150 

163 IF ABS(P-Z)=6 THEN JF )/6 

INT ( '.ABS (P—Z ) / 6) ) THEN GOSUB 6000:GOTO 1 

50 

164 IF ABS(P—Z)~7 THEN IF (ABS(P-Z>)/7 

INT((ABS(P-Z >/7)) THEN GOSUB 6000:GOTO 1 

50 

166 IF X(Z)< >0 THEN GOSUB 6000:PRINT B*; 

" OCCUPIED":GOTO 150 

169 IF ABS(P-Z)>7 THEN 171 

170 GOTO 179 

171 IF X(P+((Z-P)/2)>>=0 THEN GOSUB 6000 

:PRINT "NO PIECE TO TAKE":GOTO 150 

172 X(P+((Z-P)/2>)=0:TE=):F0 

R TEST=1 TO 192 STEP 6: IF TE=VAL(M1 *(TES 

T,TEST +1>) THEN 175 

173 NEXT TEST 

174 GOTO 179 

1 7 5 S1=VAL(Ml*(TEST+2,TEST+3)>:S2=VAL(Ml 

$(TEST+4.TEST+5)):COLOR 1:A=S1:B=S2:GOSU 

B 2o00:G0T0 179 

179 X1=ASC(A*< 1, ! ) ) :X2=ASC(B*(1,1)> 

180 

190 

) 

200 

210 

220 

230 

231 

30O 

X1=X1-64:X1=B(XI):X2=X2-64:X2=B(X2) 

Y1=C(VAL(A*(2,2) > >: Y2=C (VAL < B* (2, 2) > 

A=X1:B-Y1:COLOR 

A=X2:B=Y2:COLOR 

X(Z)=X :X(P)=0 

1:GOSUB 

2:GOSUB 

2000 

2000 

IF Z >59 AND Z< 64 THEN X ( Z > = 2 

GOSUB 7O0O 

GOTO 300O 

2000 FOR UN=B-4 TD B:PLOT A,UN:DRAWTO A+ 

4,UN:NEXT UN:RETURN 

2010 FOR WX=1 TO 12B STEP 4:IF A*=CH*(WX 

, WX + 1) THEN P=VAL(CH*(WX+2,WX + 3)):GOTO 2 

040 

2020 NEXT WX 

2040 FOR WX=1 TO 12B STEP 4:IF B*=CH*(WX 

,WX+1) THEN Z=VAL(CH*(WX+2,WX+3)):GOTO 2 

050 

2045 NEXT WX 

2050 RETURN 

3000 FOR CH= 15 TO 63: IF X(CHXO THEN 300 

8 

3001 NEXT CH:PR I NT "YOU WIN BUSTER'":GOT 

0 10000 

3008 C=0:N=15 

3009 IF X(N>>=0 THEN 3370 

3010 FOR M=1 TO 2:IF X(N>=-2 AND X(N-M(M 

))>0 AND X=0 THEN 3360 

3048 IF X(N+M(M))=9 THEN 3360 

3350 IF X(N+M(M)> >0 AND X(N+2*M(M)>=0 TH 

EN 3390 

3360 NEXT M 

3370 N=N+1:IF N=X(N):X(N)=0:X(N+C)=0 

3430 FOR A1=1 TO 192 STEP 6:IF VAL(Ml*(A 

I, A1 + 1 )> =N THEN H1=VAL(M1 *(A1+2,A1 + 3)):H 

2=VAL(Ml*(Al+4,Al+5)):GOTO 3450 

3440 NEXT A1 

3450 COLOR 1:A=H1:B=H2:GOSUB 2000 

3451 FOR A1=1 TO 192 STEP 6:IF VAL(M1*=0 THEN C= 

M(M):GOTO 3650 

3520 IF X(X)=-2 AND X(X-M(M))=0 AND X-M( 

M) =W THEN HI=VAL(Ml*(Al+2.AI+3)):H 

2=VAL(Ml*(Al+4.Al+5)):GOTO 4000 

3950 NEXT A1 

4000 COLOR 3:A=H1:B=H2:F=H1:M=H2:GOSUB 2 

OOO 

5000 IF W>14 AND W72 OR ASC (B*) >72 OR VAL < 

A*(2,2))>8 OR VAL(B*(2,2))>8 THEN PRINT 

"COORDINATES DO NOT EXIST''":GOTO 150 

7510 RETURN 

9999 END 

10000 ? "PRESS START TO REPLAY" 

10010 IF PEEK(53279)6 THEN 10010 

1OO20 RUN 


JMM 

BY P. PHELBY 

WITH EXTENDED 

BASIC & JOYSTICKS 

a few other laser bases J 

were watching our Space J 

Sector quarter finals of the 

Intergalactic Cup when, 

two minutes before the 

end, the sky above the 

stadium was completely 

blacked out by a swarm of j 

Niveks spitting missile fire I 

down on to the pitch. 

The refdroid appealed 

for a cease fire over the 

telescanner but the Niveks 

weren't interested in the 

Laserball anyway - it was 

sheer violence they were 

after. They could be the 

death of that game. 

So as you enter keep one 

finger on the CTRL charac- 

ter keys marked below. 

Why is it that every time I 

go for a spin in my laser 

base hordes and hordes of 

aliens start bombarding 

me with missile fire. 

Last week it was the 

Galaxeroids, before that 

the Solar Saucers, and now 

its the blasted Niveks. 

And there's the Space 

Skins and the Pluto Punks 

- not that I mind them too 

much - they dress a bit 

weird and are hooked on 

Martian mushrooms but 

apart from that they keep 

themselves to themselves. 

No - its the likes of the 

Niveks that annoy me - 

mindless space vandals 

each and every one. Last 

week, for example, me and 

fe 6 

* 6 

w 

NIVEKS INVADERS 

0 REM K.GOULDING COPY RIGHT (C> 

235 IF B;>32 THEN POSITION A*2-3,0:? " 

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6/6/82 

1 GOSUB 3000 

240 POSITION O, A+ I : ? 

2 S=0 

250 IF RND(0)>0.95 AND I 6 THEN 2000 

3 L=3 

260 IF STRIG(O)~0 THEN GOSUB 500 

10 GRAPHICS 0 

W 

265 V=h+l 

11 SETCOLOR 2,10.4 

270 IF STICK

to 

to 

^ to 

^ to 

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to 

^ to 

^ to 

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1OO0 

1010 

1015 

: 020 

1030 

1040 

1050 

1060 

1070 

d. " 

lOSO 

REM INVASION 

GRAPHICS O 

SETCOLOR 2,0,0 

L=6+PEEK ( 74 1 ) +256*PEEK < 742) 

POKE L+2,7:POKE L*5,6:P0KE 752,1 

POKE 764,255 

POSITION 0,2 

7 "YOU'VE BEEN INVADED'" 

POSITION 26,4:7 "the earth i » doome 

POSITION 

0,6:7 "YOUR SCORE IS "!S+S 

1 

1090 POSITION O,B:7 "DO YOU WANT ANOTHER 

GO (Y OR N)" 

1110 GET #2,A 

1120 IF A=89 THEN RUN 

11*0 IF A : >78 THEN 7 INPUT ":G0 

TO 1110 

1140 GRAPHICS O:END 

2000 REM SPACE ATTACK 

2010 N=INT * 13 > * 3:N1=N:M=3:M1=M 

2020 R=1:P=32 

2030 COLOR R:PLOT Nl.Ml 

2035 IF M=19 THEN 2200 

204O LOCATE N, M, F': SOUND 1,M*10. 10,B 

2050 COLOR 42:PLOT N,M:N1~N:M1=M 

2060 M=M+1 

2070 N=N+INT 38 THEN N=38 

2095 SOUND 1,0,0,0 

2 1 0 0 GOTO 260 

2200 FOR V=19 TO 22 

COLOR 42 

2 2 1 0 

2220 

2222 

2225 

X 

2230 

2235 

2240 

2250 

2260 

2265 

2270 

2275 

2277 

2280 

3000 

30 lO 

3020 

3030 

3040 

THE 

IF N34 THEN 22B0 

PLOT N-(V-19),V:DRAWTO N+(V-19>,V 

FOR X=1 TO 5:SOUND 1 , X*9,10,8:NEXT 

NEXT V 

SOUND 1,0,0,0 

FOR V=19 TO 22 

COLOR 32 

PLOT N—(V—19),V:DRAWTO N+(V-19),V 

FOR X=1 TO 10:NEXT X 

NEXT V 

PLOT 0,O 

IF D>N-5 AND D'N+3 THEN lOOO 

RÔ:GOTO 260 

REM RULES 

GRAPHICS O:POKE 82,0 

POSITION 12,3:° "NIVEK'S INVADERS" 

POSITION 12,4:"? "" 

POSITION 0,7:^ "DO YOU WANT TO SEE 

RULES < Y OR N)7" 

3050 OPEN #2,6,O, 'K: " 

3060 GET #2,A 

307O IF A=78 THEN RETURN 

3080 IF A89 THEN 7 "INPUT (Y OR N)":GO 

TO 3060 

3090 GRAPHICS 0 

31O0 7 " THIS GAME IS LIKE SPACE INVADER 

S BUT THERE ARE SOME "; 

3110 7 "DIFFERANCES.YOU HAVE TO SHOOT A 

LL THE 'w' SHAPED INVADERS"; 

3120 7 " BEFOREYOU GET DESTROYED" 

* 130 ? :7 "THERE ARE 2 WAYS TO BE DESTRO 

YED' " 

3140 7 :7 "1. GET HIT BY A '*'" 

3150 7 "2. GET INVADED" 

3160 :7 :7 "WHEN THE GAME STARTS, THERE 

IS AN ARROW" 

3170 7 "AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN.WHEN IT 

REACHES"; 

3180 7 "THE " THEN YOU WILL BE INVADED' 

i •• 

3190 7 "THE ARROW MOVES CLOSER TO THE " 

EVERY" 

3200 ? "TIME A HIT'S THE SIDE OF THE 

SCREEN" 

3210 ~> "AND CHANGES DIRECTION" 

3220 7 :? "THE '* REPRESENTS THE EARTH" 

3230 7 "THE •>' REPRESENTS THE INVASION 

FORCE" 

3240 7 :? "PRESS SPACE BAR TO CONTINUE" 

3250 GET #2,A 

3260 GRAPHICS O 

3270 7 "THERE ARE SOME LARGE ' ' NEAR THE 

TOP" 

3280 ? "OF THE SCREEN.THESE ARE THE MOTH 

ER SHIPS" 

3290 7 "THEY ALWAYS KEEP OUT OF YOUR RAN 

GE" 

3300 ? "AND IT IS THESE SHIPS WHICH INVA 

DE YOU" 

3320 7 :7 "THE 'w' ARE WORTH 10 POINTS" 

3330 7 "THE ' ARE WORTH 100 POINTS" 

3340 7 :7 "BEFORE YOU CAN SHOOT THE INVA 

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200 IFF" K >THEN3=22 00T0240 

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230 IFOvVCK)THENR=-l G0T0240 

240 IFFEEK32fiNI>PEEf +S+R>O60THEN360 

245 C-P=0 

250 IFPEEK+X+3+R>«32THENV»V+R X';K>:«K> 

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THE TIME MACHINE 

CIRCUS 

From Channel 8 

Software Limited 

51 Fishergate, 

Preston. PR1 8BH. 

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Another great game from Microdeal 

the first of a new generation of fasL 

action, talking arcade games. A 

At the start of each frame the 

computer warns the androids 

of an intruder 'Intruder jf 

Alert"!! Now you can either 

run for the nearest doorway, 

escape and be called a JHk ^ 

"Coward','or chase,shoot and 

try to wipe out the androids, I 

however, if you hit one it will wf 

turn into a GHOST ANDROID, 

capable of wandering thru walls 

— which of course are electrified 

with a fatal effect on 

you when touched!! Should 

you clear the screen the 

computer sneers 'I'll get 

you next time". Will it? J 

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If you want to know which 

computer to buy ask your expert. 

You knew it would happen 

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What you didn't expect 

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THE FIRST FAMILY 

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So what will this young 

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DRAGON 32 

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SOUND 5 octaves. 255 tones. 

AUTOMATIC CASSETTE 

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MPUTEK & VIDEO GAMES 111

Short of ideas for games? 

Then why not try to pick the 

brains of science fiction 

authors. C&VGs very own 

sci-fi author, David Langford 

is back in action this month, 

suggesting books which might 

provide ideas as well as 

coming up with an unusual 

Tandy listing. Read-on as, 

through the customary Langford 

humour, a stellar horror rears 

its ugly head in the . . . 

Attack Of The 

Galactic 

Looking at computer games from the 

weird and twisted viewpoint of a science 

fiction writer has now resulted 

in a camel. Why a camel? Ahh. be 

patient, be patient. 

SF authors are traditionally fond of 

mathematical or scientific tricks and 

games — anything to baffle and 

amaze the readers. In the last year 

I've had an overdose of the traditional 

physics of space travel and supernovae 

and black holes, thanks to writing 

reams about these things for two 

novels. But you don't see so much 

pure mathematics in SF. 

Of course there are exceptions. 

Rudy Rucker's White Light is a novel 

all about mathematical infinity, full of 

peculiar number-theory jokes. At one 

point the hero has to open a combination 

lock whose code number is pi, 

and he stands there entering the digits 

3.14159265358979 ... and so on all 

the way to infinity! 

Piers Anthony keeps sticking 

mathematical ideas into his oversized 

SF novels — the worst outbreak being 

in OX, which tries ineffectively to use 

the game of "Life" as a plot device, to 

the bafflement of most readers. And 

writers like Barrington Bayley and 

Jorge Luis Borges are very fond of 

boggling you with strange mathematical 

philosophies. 

Borges' The Book of Sand features 

a book with an infinite number of 

pages, while Bayley's The Radius 

Riders proves conclusively that 

there's more space inside the Earth 

than there is outside. 

Some mathematical problems are 

deceptively simple. The famous fourcolour 

problem was to prove that any 

map you draw can be coloured, using 

no more than four colours, so that no 

two adjacent countries on the map are 

coloured the same. Sounds simple. 

The 1976 proof ran to 900 pages and 

112 COMPUTER

needed 1500 hours of computer time! 

But why a camel? I'm coming to 

that! Another simple-seeming puzzle 

is known as the travelling salesman 

problem: you can vary it from country 

to country but it's usually put like this. 

A salesman wants to tour the USA 

by the shortest route which visits the 

capital city ol every state. What route 

should he take? 

This one tends to surprise people 

by erupting into much bigger numbers 

than expected, and you find that computers 

would require endless years to 

examine all the possible routes. (My 

calculator says 3x10 64 routes for 50 

cities. Work that out assuming the 

computer considers one a second, or 

one a nanosecond.) 

However, you always knew you 

were brighter than a computer, and 

this is where the camels come in. 

When you key in this simple game 

program, camels start appearing about 

the screen, and by use ol the 

arrow keys you steer a rather disgusting 

caterpillar-like ship into collisions 

which wipe out the galactic camels 

one by one. 

If your lightning brain is up to it, 

you should be able to pick efficient 

camel-destroying routes which waste 

minimum time. For every second you 

waste allows more camels to appear 

from the sinister depths ot the hyperspatial 

deserts. 

Naturally, as this is a cruel universe 

we live in, it doesn't stay that 

easy. From time to time. Galactic Pest 

Control checks up on you to make sure 

a Spectrum, but when I poked the keys 

it felt just like squashing small dead 

sea creatures, and I fled screaming.) 

It doesn't have to be treated as a 

perfect and polished program, and 

can be tinkered with as much as you 

like. 

A Jew examples: Prefer boring old 

space invaders to my fresh, exciting, 

vibrant camels? Then alter the 

graphics in line 40 — say to 

CHRS(166) + CHRS(167)+ CHRS(132). 

Want the camels to appear less 

frequently to begin with? Give KC in 

line 110 to a bigger value. 

Want Galactic Pest Control to check 

up more often, or less? The 0.03 in 

line 370 is the probability that wiping 

out any given camel will trigger a 

Galatic Pest Control scan. 

Want to alter the Permitted Number 

Of Camels Left On screen? The current 

figure allowed is the 12 in line 2060. 

Do the camels eventually start coming 

too ridiculously fast for you? The 

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Have you ever bought a program that failed 

to live up to its promises? 

Worse still a computer which defied the 

advertisement copy and refused to reveal 

its secrets...even refused to turn up for four 

months. 

Computer people are traditionally slow 

to complain, they expect to be kept waiting 

and they've been reared on promises and 

launch dates that turned into "early production 

difficulties" and distribution problems". 

But the C&VG postbag is gradually 

swelling with complaints from readers and 

the feeling is that while most computer 

manufacturers are now making an effort 

not to mislead prospective purchasers, 

some software houses are still not living up 

to their promises. 

Sooner or later the wheat will be sorted 

from the chaff but to speed that day along, 

C&VG is going to come down hard on 

cassettes and cartridges which are not up 

to standard. 

8u1 we need your help. If you have 

bought anything from the computer industry 

which has really made you angry then 

put your thoughts on paper. 

The column is tilled "Great Software 

Disasters" but you can write in about 

computers {as Keith Ollett has done this 

month) peripherals, computer books, or 

anything which has angered you. 

For further details on how to make your 

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It may sound as though Great Software 

Disasters is going to be the most destructive 

page so far unleashed on the computer 

industry. But my hope is that it will be 

welcomed by. those software houses who 

are striving to keep quality htgh. 

Those who have confessed to me in 

quiet corners that they do release the odd 

bad game because they know some unscrupulous 

rival would make a fortune from 

it if they turned it away. 

Those manufacturers who believe bad 

software or peripherals reflect on their 

computer. 

And those of you who have suffered. 

Aeilric Bloodaxe is a delightful way to 

start off this column, because it tempers 

some hard-hitting criticism with humour 

and the feeling that Keith is going to end up 

very close to Aeilric in the end. 

Oric too deserve credit for their positive 

response to the piece and the help they 

have since offered Keith. 

If you have a genuine grievance about 

any computer industry product write in to 

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We can only publish your comments if 

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Blooding 

Of 

AEILRIC < 

BLOODAXE 

OR 

LEARNING 

TO LIVE 

WITH AN 

ORIC 

Ernest Peabrain was a ZX81, he lasted 

about four months, changed his name 

to Beanbrain when he was expanded 

to 4K and is on permanent sabbatical 

leave giving novices Hands On Experience. 

I never ask what he gets out of 

it. 

Jezebel came next, a 48K Sharp 

MZ-80K, she has lasted about 16 

months. Hers is the keyboard I know 

best, for all its clatter. At the last 

count, I had about six Basic dialects 

and three Forth. Jezebel has everything 

I want from a computer except a 

decent keyboard, colour and three 

channel sound. 

I admit I was beguiled by the Oric 

ads, the teaser articles in the computer 

press merely heated my ardour. Be 

still my dancing pulse! So, in late 

October, I ordered one. Well, the 

royalties Jezebel had earnt me would 

pay for it. 

tn calmer moments, I mused on the 

long and honourable pedigree of 

Tangerine, no new hot shot outfit this, 

sound expertise I thought, sound 

financial backing, I thought. 

By now, your ears will have been 

filled with the woeful tales of those 

who are Waiting for Oric. The sleepless 

nights, the phone engaged for 

days on end, the bedwetting, the eternal 

promise of delivery next week, the 

damnable "Fur Elise" everytime the 

Oric switchboard put me on Hold 

Friends jeered at me in the street, 

"Has Eric arrived yet?" I lost my appetite, 

stopped shaving, wore the same 

tie two days in a row, my work was 

suffering. 

On February 19th, Eric arrived. The 

time since then has not been dull. 

Because of the placid and predictable 

nature of the Oric Extended Basic 

(v 1.0}, Eric was soon changed to 

Aeilric Boodaxe, somehow the name 

seems more appropriate. 

It is my firm opinion that those who 

produce user manuals without indexes 

should be smothered at birth, or at 

least debarred from the company of 

honest and trusting folk. Compassion 

for the less privileged forbids me from 

offering an opinion on those who 

punctuate manuals with infantile and 

unhelpful cartoons. Two sheets of 

errata accompanied the manuals. 

The machine itself is a sturdy thing, 

not unpleasing to the eye, which 

makes it both useful and decorative 

The keyboard has an unique feel (tactile 

feedback) and is optionally noisy; 

sadly, some keys are marred by a 

tendency to remain depressed. 

From cold start or power on or 

whatever, you eventually get a little 

message that tells you that you have 

ORIC EXTENDED BASIC V1.0 and there 

are 47870 BYTES FREE; if you enter 

PRINT FRE

PLOT is a viper of a command which 

will creep into your tent if you let it. 

It is not easy to predict in which of 

the eight colours it will print a string, 

unless it is numeric, then it will be any 

colour you like (as long as you like 

green). 

The STRS command is a joy and a 

delight. Get it to produce a string from 

an integer between t and 9 and it will 

produce a string two characters long! 

The first character being the deceitful 

CHRSI2) and the second your precious 

number, even if you prune off the 

deceitful CKRS, you will still turn green 

when you PLOT. Could a mere BEEB 

boast such sophistication? 

Getting Aeilric to produce all eight 

colours of foreground and background 

AND use double height and flashing 

characters is a challenge to the intellect 

perhaps equalled only to playing 

Towers of Hanoi while blindfolded and 

wearing boxing gloves. 

Incidentally, the Oric does not boast 

the full Teletext Alphamosaic character 

set. WARNING: Teethmarks on the 

casing may invalidate the guarantee. 

The SOUND, MUSIC and PLAY commands 

offer great scope for investigation. 

The Sound chapter of the manual 

is one of the more Byzantine chapters, 

omitting'to give any examples of the 

SOUND command. 

Although there are three music 

channels spanning a magnificent six 

octaves it is not easy to get each 

music channel to do something different 

to the other two. Well, actually 

you can get it to do this once or twice, 

but you might be better employed with 

the screen display or playing Towers 

of Hanoi than attempting a three part 

arrangement of Jesu, Joy of Man's 

Desiring. 

Which is a pity, as I was looking 

forward to it. The on-board loudspeaker 

was very loud and turned the 

screen into porridge whenever it 

ZAPped or PINGed, sadly it turned 

dumb after three days, but it still blasts 

away through the Hi-Fi and I can 

control the volume on that. 

There is a current fashion for neat 

pot Basic {i.e. Structured Basic) as 

opposed to shambler Basic (what I 

write). There is a whole chapter devoted 

to this in the manual. Somehow 1 

feel they would have been better employed 

compiling an index. Structure is 

fine if you have a BEEB or an MZ-80K 

with Hudson MegaBasic, but if your 

line length is restricted to around 80 

characters you will be hardpushed to 

produce a sizeable program which is 

truly structured and running efficiently. 

I still maintain that the most useful 

programming tool is a large piece of 

paper and a pencil with a rubber on 

the end of it. It will be interesting to 

see the promised BBC-type Basic, will 

it be a true Structured Basic or just a 

less hastily produced Microsoft type 

perhaps with WHILE WEND. 

There are a number of reserved 

words buried in the Basic but not 

mentioned in the manual, one begins 

JO and an INVERSE lurks in there 

somewhere. 

The omission of VERIFY is almost 

criminal, given Aeilric's unreliability 

when saving programs even at 300 

baud {super safe), and the lack of file 

writing reading commands will surely 

place immense restrictions on its applications. 

I am frankly disappointed in the 

Oric. Its Basic seems a hastily produced 

thing, as is the manual. The 

advertising and brochures have been 

misleading and at times dishonest. The 

telesales staff have had to 

spend months covering for 

this ill-conceived product 

by promising delivery 

soon. 

'A/ie 

I could not in 

honesty recommend this 

machine to a beginner and an experienced 

user would be better 

advised to buy a more thoughtfully 

produced and supported product, even 

if he or she would have to buy a 

decent keyboard, or save up for something 

further up market. 

CRI OS CO EUR: Is there a manufacturer 

of popular home computers capable 

of honest publicity and realistic 

delivery dates? 

Dear Mr Ollett 

. innprt i 

Ym glad to say that things hav^hang* 

since you wrote your piece about Ae. nc 

no delivery problems and the manual is 

Improved Voo (not l e a s t by the addihon of 1 

'"oX'taw asked us to suggest that the] 

b e s t o f deaHng-ith the problem,^ 

are experiencing is to make an appointment 

to see sales director Peter Harding., 

Now that they have closed down. the mall 

order operation, you'll find iI toi chMl« 

play getting through lo them, 

just In case you need reminding 

the number is Ascot 27686 

or 27575. n, . 

II anyone else has One problems. 

please send the machines back | 

,o Oric (» purchased from the^ for ser-, 

vicing (PO Box 162 Cambridge CM 1PH) 

1 obviously this only applies to 

mail order customers. Anyone 

with a fault on an One bought in | 

a shop should sent it or take it 

back to where It was purchased 

with the request that it 

is tested by that company s 

experts and, it necessary, 

•returned to Oric via them. 

Our thanks for cheering 

* up post-opening time. 

Mr Ollett we do hope 

you come to love and 

enjoy Aeilric Bloodaxe. 

Judith Patten 

On behalf of Oric.

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RULES OF COMBAT 

Prior to combat, the attacker and 

defender are awarded points. 

1. They are allocated points as 

described in Part 2, including points 

for being adjacent to the General. 

2. Pieces behind a boulder are 

awarded an extra point at the three 

hex range. 

3. Pieces close to a boulder which is 

not exactly between the attacker 

and defender may or may not receive 

an extra point. 

4. Garrison walls are similar to boulders 

and provide the same cover. 

COMBAT TABLE 

To determine the outcome, the 

computer selects a number from 

one to six for the attacker and for 

the defender if he is returning the 

fire. If he is not returning the fire, 

the defender is given one point. To 

these scores are added the points 

awarded above. The outcome is 

shown in the table. 

DEFENDER ELIMINATED: Attacker scores more than S. 

ATTACKER ELIMINATED: Defender scores more than 5. 

DEFENDER RETREATS: Attacker scores 4 or 5. defender scores less. 

ATTACKER RETREATS: Defender scores 4 or 5, attacker scores less. 

BOTH MISS: 

Any other scores. 

OUTCOMES 

A-RET:- The attacker is forced to 

retreat 1 hex away from the direction 

of the defender. The directions 

in which the attacker may move are 

shown at the bottom of the screen. If 

none is available, the attacker is 

eliminated automatically. 

If the combat was at 1 hex range, 

the defender will flicker "ADV". If 

"Y" is pressed, he may move into 

the hex vacated by the attacker. 

The following rules apply with 

regard to the Flag: 

1) If the attacker occupies the Flag 

hex, he must retreat without the 

Flag. 

2) The defender may advance into 

the empty Flag hex. This must be a 

winning condition since only an Indian 

may advance into the Flag hex. 

3) The General or a Trooper may 

retreat into the Flag hex; Indians 

may not. 

4) The man occupying the Flag hex 

may advance with the Flag. 

A-ELM:- The attacker is eliminated 

and removed from the map. The 

defender may advance as described 

above. 

BOTH:- The attacker and the defender 

are removed from the map. 

D-RET:- The defender is forced to 

retreat as described above and the 

attacker may advance. 

D-ELM:- The defender is eliminated 

and removed from the map. The 

attacker may advance. 

This completes the rules. 

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HE Happy Hunting 

Grounds or Boot Hill get 

ready to receive casualties 

when the computer 

goes into its combat 

routine. In the final article in this 

Warpath senes, we look at how the 

computer analyses a battle. 

Last month I left you halfway 

through the combat sequence and 

slightly up in the air. 

Prior to that, you had always been 

able to type in the code and at least 

be able to check it by running the 

program. Last month this was not 

possible. 

The search routine is called in 

line 1230 and it may be wise to omit 

the statement K9=USR(0), while you 

test the rest of the program. 

When writing the routine I had to 

set up very elaborate routines to 

debug it. 

Normally, these consist of first, 

getting the code under control — 

that is, looking for the silly errors 

that clobber the whole of memory 

— and secondly, ensuring that the 

logic is correct. 

It helped a great deal to write the 

code in Basic first and then translate 

it 

Note that the attacker is given 

subscript 1 and the defender subscript 

0. First, Y is set to 1 and all 

attacker information is saved. A 

similar set is then prepared for the 

defender i.e.: 

Having decided whether the de- 

Attacker 

Defender 

m i ) KB(0) IBOARD location 

KS(1) KS(0) Video location 

KT(1) KT(0) Character type 

G(l) G(0) Character 

KV(1) KV(0) Memory location 

KCXD KQ(1) "Man in Flag hex" flag. 

The figure below describes the 

lines within the Combat sequences. 

Follow this through with the coding. 

Lines 1320 to 1500, however, require 

more explanation. 

Once an attack has been determined, 

a table is set up (see lines 

180 and 50). 

fender will (or can) return fire, the 

combat points are calculated (See 

line 280), N(Y) accumulates the 

points. RANGE (in Basic) is used to 

test whether a trooper is next to the 

General for an extra point. 

Note also how Y is used to calculate 

who gets the benefit of cover. 

Ron Potkin takes to the Warpath for the last time and deals with the rules of combat 

(left) and the final piece of programming. If you have had any problems with the series 

please write in. 

Figure 1 

740 : Clear attack flags. Obtain location of each piece in turn. Gosub 

COMBAT. 

1230 40 COMBAT : Display WINDOW. Put Index in SK, SP into SS and BL in 

SB and call XS(16) — RANGE, it there are no attackers, return for next piece. 

Calculate K7 — number ol defenders at 1 hex range. If zero and man is a 

tomahawk, attack is not possible — return. 

1250 80 LETTER : Print letters against defenders, but make sure tomahawks 

only fight at one hex. 

1290 AUTO : If there is only one attack at 1 hex (variable L2) combat is 

automatic so prompting is not necessary. Goto TEST. 

1300 1310 WHO : Flicker for decision and check input. 

1320 TEST : Test input some more and set up table. 

1330 REPLY : If delender has already fired or he is a tomahawk being 

attacked at greater than 1 hex range, he cannot reply. If distance is 1 hex, 

others must reply. 

1340 50 RTN : Prompt for return of fire. II he returns, determine his defence 

points and set attack flag in PTABLE so that he cannot reply again. 

1360 : Calculate attacker's points. 

1370 ODDS : Calculate result using C4 — the ODDS table. 

1380 : Remove letters from screen. 

1390 : Whatever will be will be. 

1400 : Update BIGSCREEN and return to line 740. 

1410 A-ELM 

1430 A-RET 

1440 MISS 

1450 D-RET 

1460 D-ELM 

14B0 BOTH eliminated. 

1500 ADVANCE: If 1 hex range, winner may advance. 

Finally, line 300 prints the points on 

the screen and adds to N(Y) a random 

number from 1 to 6. 

We can now calculate the result 

using the ODDS table, C4, and print 

it on the screen using the routine at 

1700. 

The elimination in lines 1410, 1460 

and 1480 are handled by subroutine 

170. Retreats axe carried out by line 

1510. These are again controlled by 

Y=0 or Y=l. 

This is the seventh and last in the 

Warpath series. When you have entered 

this month's code, you will 

have a working game up and running, 

ready for you to take over 

either the cavalry or the indians and 

lead them to victory against your 

computer. 

You will also have a complete set 

of rules and hopefully a full knowledge 

and understanding of the 

workings of this program. 

Warpath has been in such detail 

so you can convert it to your own 

machine and you can take elements 

of the listing and use them in your 

own war games. 

It has been fun writing this series 

and I hope you have enjoyed following 

it. 


MACHINEl 

CODEi 

CALLING ALL 

THOSE GOSUBS! 

Planning a series of GOSUBs which 

call one-another up is usually one of 

the first lessons and early thrills of 

Basic programming. 

But how does a machine code 

program find its way through the 

GOSUBs and RETURNs which still 

make up a large chunk of every 

program? 

Last month I looked at the idea of 

using the subroutines built into the 

computer's ROM. This article will 

tackle assembly language instructions 

associated with subroutines 

and the mechanism used by the 

microprocessor to keep track of 

subroutine calls and returns. 

The instructions for subroutine 

calls and returns in machine code 

work similarly to Basic but the call is 

to a memory address instead of to a 

line number. 

Executing a subroutine call 

makes the microprocessor continue 

execution with the instruction at the 

address specified in the call instruction, 

and a return instruction 

makes the microprocessor go back 

to the instruction following the subroutine 

call. 

The 6502 has only one subroutine 

call instruction, JSR, which can be 

used only with absolute addressing, 

and a corresponding return instruction, 

RTS. 

The 6809 has three subroutine 

call instructions; BSR and LBSR, 

which are used with relative 

addressing and take one-byte and 

two-byte offsets respectively; and 

JSR, which can be used with extended, 

direct page, and all indexed 

addressing modes. The return 

instruction is RTS, but there is 

also another way to perform a return, 

which we will look at later. 

The Z80 subroutine call instructions 

all use absolute addressing. 

The instructions available are: 

CALL address (call unconditionally) 

CALL NZ, address (call if Non- 

Zero, i.e., if Z flag set) 

CALL Z, address (call if Zero, i.e., 

if Z flag set) 

CALL NC, address (call if No 

Carry, i^., if C flag clear) 

CALL C, address (call if Carry, 

i.e., if C flag set) 

BY TED BALL 

CALL PO. address (call if Parity 

Odd, te., if P/0 flag clear) 

CALL PE, address (call if Parity 

Even, i.e., if P/O flag set) 

CALL P, address (call if Positive, 

i.e., if S flag clear) 

CALL M, address (call if Minus, 

i.e., if S flag set) 

When you use the conditional 

CALL instructions the subroutine 

will be executed only if the relevant 

condition is satisfied, otherwise the 

processor will skip to the next instruction 

after the CALL instruction. 

The Z80 also has a similar set of 

return instructions: 

RET 

RET NZ 

RET Z 

RET NC 

RET C 

RET PO 

RET PE 

RET P 

RET M 

STACKING IN 

STRUCTURE 

In order to be able to get back to 

the right instruction after executing 

a subroutine the microprocessor 

has to save the return address 

somewhere. The 6502, 6809 and Z80 

all use the same principle for saving 

the address, but the details differ. 

The method for saving return 

addresses uses a data structure 

called a stack, in which new items 

are always put onto the end of the 

stack and stored in the order they 

were put, or pushed, onto the stack, 

and items taken, or pulled, from the 

stack come in the reverse order to 

which they were pushed. This 

allows subroutine calls inside subroutines 

to work properly, with a 

return always going back to the 

instruction following the last subroutine 

call executed. 

The terminology for a stack can 

be confusing; the last item pushed 

onto a stack is called the top of 

stack, but the three microprocessors 

add to the stack downwards 

in memory, so the "top of 

stack" is actually at the lowest 

address. 

When a subroutine call is executed 

the microprocessor stores 

the return address in the two bytes 

at the address referenced by the 

Stack Pointer register (SP in the 

6502 and Z80 and S in the 6809), and 

decreases the Stack Pointer by two. 

A return instruction does the opposite, 

increasing the stack pointer by 

two and putting the two-byte return 

address into the Program Counter. 

The three microprocessors also 

have some instructions that may be 

regarded as special types of subroutine 

calls. 

The 6502 instruction BRK (Break) 

saves the return address and the 

status register on the stack, and 

jumps to the address stored in 

addresses $FFFE and JFFFF. 

The 6809 has three "Software Interrupt" 

instructions, SWI, SW12 and 

SWI3, that save the return address 

and all the processor registers except 

Stack Pointer S on the S stack 

and then jump to an address stored 

in high memory. SWI jumps to the 

address stored in SFFFA and 

SFFFB, SWI2 jumps to the address 

stored in $FFF4 and $FFF5, and 

SWI3 jumps to the address stored in 

SFFF2 and $FFF3. 

The Z80 has the "Restart" instructions 

RST 0, RST 8, RST 10H, RST 

18H, RST 20H, RST 28H, RST 30H, 

RST 38H, which are equivalent to 

CALL 0, CALL 8, etc., but use only 

one byte instead of the three bytes 

for a CALL instruction. 

On ROM based computers the 

addresses used by these instructions 

will be in the ROM and will 

have been set up by the manufacturers. 

To use the instructions you 

will have to find out how they have 

been set up, either from the manual 

or from books and magazine articles 

on specific computers. 

As well as the stack being used 

automatically to keep track of subroutines 

there are instructions that 

allow you to push the processor 

registers onto the stack and pull 

from the stack into the processor 

registers. 

The 6502 has PHA, which pushes 

the accumulator onto the stack, PLA 

which pulls the top of stack into the 

accumulator, PHP which pushes the 

status register P onto the stack, and 

PLP which pulls the top of stack into 

the status register. 

The 6809 has two Stack Pointer 

registers, the hardware Stack Pointer 

S which is used for subroutines 

and interrupts, and the User Stack 

Pointer U. The push and pull instructions 

are PULS. PULU, PSHS, 

and PSHU, and the mnemonic must

e followed by a list of the registers 

to be pushed or pulled. Any combination 

of registers except the 

stack pointer for the stack being 

used may be pushed or pulled in 

one instruction. For example, we 

can have 

PSHS A 

PULS CC.PC 

PSHU PC,Y,X,DP 

PULU A,B,Y 

The order the registers are 

pushed onto the stack is PC, U or S, 

Y. X, DP, B, A, CC, and they are 

pulled in the reverse order. 

Although the assembly language 

allows you to list the registers in a 

push or pull instruction in any order 

the actual push or pull order is 

always the same. 

Note that including PC in the 

operand of a PULS instruction to 

pull a subroutine return address 

into the program counter does exactly 

the same as a RTS instruction, 

and this programming trick is often 

used to save putting in the RTS 

instruction. 

The Z80 push and pull instructions 

all work with two bytes at a 

time. The instructions are PUSH BC, 

PUSH DE, PUSH HL. PUSH AF, PUSH 

DC, PUSH IY, POP BC, POP DE, POP 

HL, POP AF, POP DC, POP IY. 

When you are using subroutines 

and push and pull instructions you 

have to be careful to balance the 

number of bytes pushed and pulled 

between the execution of a subroutine 

call and the execution of the 

return. For example, if you begin a 

subroutine by pushing two bytes 

onto the stack and pull four bytes 

off the stack before the return, the 

extra two bytes will be the return 

address and when the return instruction 

is executed the processor 

will jump to whatever address happened 

to be in the two top bytes of 

the stack before the last subroutine 

call. We can now go back to last 

month's "print a message" routines. 

These routines were not written 

to be used as subroutines, so if you 

wanted to print several messages in 

a program you would have to repeat 

the whole code every time. As well 

as changing the routines so they can 

be used as subroutines there are 

other improvements. 

The 6502 and Z80 routines last 

month were rather complicated as 

the 6502 does not have any 16-bit 

registers and the Z80 does not have 

any 16-bit compare instructions. 

The routines can be made much 

simpler by marking the end of each 

message with an "O" instead of providing 

the length of the message. 

With these changes the "print a 

message" routines, where the message 

may be of any length, become: 

6502 

Calling sequence: 

MESSHI = MESSGE/256 

MESSLO = MESSGE-256- 

* MESSHI 

LDA MESSLO 

STA MESSAD 

LDA MESSHI 

STA MESSAD +1 

JSR PRMESS 

"Print message" subroutine: 

PRMESS LDYO 

NEXTCH BEO DONE 

JSR OUTCH 

INC MESSAD 

BNE NEXTCH 

INC MESSAD+ 1 

JMP NEXCH 

DONE RTS 

Z80 

Calling sequence: 

LD HL.MESSGE 

CALL PRMESS 

"Print message" subroutine 

PRMESS LD A, (HL) 

RET Z 

CALL OUTCH 

INC HL 

JR PRMESS 

6809 

Calling sequence 

LDX MSSGE 

JSR PRMESS 

"Print message" subroutine 

PRMESS LDA ,X+ 

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Before call imtruction 

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tddretsn 

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MACHINE 

C O D E 

BNE DONE 

JSR OUTCH 

BRA PRMESS 

DONE RTS 

There is another point that was 

skimmed over last month. We 

assumed that the routine OUTCH, 

which prints the character whose 

code is in the accumulator will not 

change the contents of registers. 

This is true in many computers, 

but not in all. However, we can 

ensure that none of the registers are 

changed by saving the registers on 

the stack before calling the ROM 

routine and restoring them afterwards. 

If we call the ROM routine 

that prints the accumulator PRINTA 

we can write OUTCH routines that 

preserve the registers as follows: 

6502 

OUTCH PHP 

STA TEMP PLA 

TXA 

TAY 

PHA 

PLA 

TYA 

TAX 

PHA 

LDA TEMP 

LDA TEMP PLP 

JSR PRINTA RTS 

Z80 

OUTCH PUSH AF 

PUSH BC 

PUSH DE 

PUSH HL 

PUSH DC 

PUSH IY 

CALL PRINTA 

POP IY 

POP DC 

POP HL 

POP DE 

POP BC 

POP AF 

RET 

6809 

OUTCH PSHU Y,X,DP,D,A,CC 

JSR PRINTA 

PULU CC,A,D,DP,X,Y 

RTS 

Note that we do not need to save 

S as the ROM routine must leave S 

unchanged after a subroutine call 

and return, and that we can put D in 

the push/pull list instead of A and B. 

Attar ciR 

initruction 

Two byie return nJdreii 

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CHECKLIST TABLE 

Compare new star to the star you left 

MOVE Does it belong to a friendly empire 1 

Is it 1 square away, either vertically, 

horizontally or diagonally 7 

TRADE Does it belong to a friendly empire 7 

RAID 

RETURN 

Is it 1 square away, either vertically, 

horizontally or diagonally? 

Is it a different star type? 

Is it 1 square away, vertically or 

horizontally bul not diagonally 7 

Does it belong to an alien empire 7 

Is the lleet Returning to a star belonging 

to the tame empire as it left on the first 

movement phase 7 

Is it 1 square away, vertically or 

horizontally but not diagonally 7 

Moving orders 

Is it the first movement 

phase 7 

Is >t lollowed by a Return 

order* 

Is it the second movement 

phase 7 

Does it lollow a Raid 

older 7 

ATTACK Does it belong to an enemy empire 7 If it's first movement 

phase, is it followed by a 

Stay order 7 

Is

STATE OF THE 

GALAXY 

A new galactic map has been 

formatted by the Computer & 

Video Games computer ready to 

act on your orders. The map 

includes fleet positions but no 

trade index until you have started 

your new trading missions. 

But before you launch your 

seven revitalised space fleets 

back into the fray, digest the new 

information given below. 

The Raid Penalty for this turn 

is 1 and that should be put into 

your Raid equations. 

The Diplomatic Diagram, given 

below is as we last saw it in the 

April issue. Those empires joined 

by lines are at war with one 

another and where two empires 

are not joined, fleets can trade 

and travel peacefully between 

them. For example: D'Taan's 

empire is at war with only the 

Water Empire and the Pirate 

Empire this turn. 

We have also included a reminding 

diagram of the Star 

Types and their trade values. 

The form for the first turn of 

the second Seventh Empire 

series is included bottom right 

and please remember that we 

can only accept entries sent in 

on that form — not photocopies. 

¥ 

Star type 

FOZUZ 

o 

280 0 

VIZAX 

o 

LARUB 

• 

2*2 0 

239 0 220 0 

BAROV 

* 

DALIX 

¥ 

ERAK 

* 

QIRUS 

• 

WIDAN 

* 

23* 0 

OLEX 

¥ 

257 0 

225 o 2*6 0 

FADIS 

* 

KOVEP 

• 

VI BET 

• 

2B1 0 

HAZAN 

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?h6 

RURUS 

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250 0 

TASAT 

¥ 

?»•> 0 

USUG 

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?6T 0 

515 0 J4S 0 2543 0 

JADEG 

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53 0 

IXIP 

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S1DAL 

¥ 

NUVEX 

¥ 

232 0 2DI 

CIGF.R GAZOR 

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rtl 0 25? 0 

PIRAD 

¥ 

24 0 

JAXEL 

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FUNUS 

¥ 

VEPOZ 

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¥ 

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DITUG 

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ENAK 

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FAGIL 

¥ 

56 0 

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VIZET 

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EDIB 

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WUPIV 

¥ 

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KOLOL 

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Orders in Block Caps please 

Code No: Telephone No: ... 

FLEET 1 

YANOK 

¥ 

HEZOD 

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RIVEV 

* 

TOXAZ 

• 

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m 

UGON 

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YODAZ 

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CIXAN 

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POROV 

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XUGOD 

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o >40 0 P60 0 

HAKUB 

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55 0 

RORUL 

¥ 

271 0 

TUXUX 

o 

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236 a 

APEL 

• 

MEDEN 

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¥ 

>17 0 

PULUD 

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1st Movement phase 2nd Movement phase 

AT ACTION STAR ACTION STAR 

ISOX 

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SUXEK 

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¥ 

NABOK 

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GOTEG 

¥ 

JINIS 

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¥ 

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UTmu'I 

Umpire 

Ocad 

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FLEET 3 

FLEET 4 

FLEET 5 

FLEET 6 

FLEET 7 

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Empire 

The Diplomatic Diagram 

t 

I wish to move the Empire's Imperial Ship from to 

Please notify us separately of any change of address. 

II 

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4

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c u s t o m s " ! 

ANYTHING TO DECLARE? 

These two passengers certainly havel 

Among the rather weird collection ol items in each suitcase there are two which 

definitely do not belong with the rest. Can you deduce which pairs should be 

removed for inspection by the Customs Officer? Perhaps, too. you can state how 

these four contraband items are related to each other. 

QUICK WEIGH IN MATRON 

Quite early into a recent hospital visit I 

was surprised by a request to hop on the 

scales and be weighed. I had duly hopped 

before I had even begun my mumbled 

reason for being there — a desperate 

atlempt to unload about a tonne of unwanted 

Re s D****t into the ENT 

waiting area. 

And that explanation was cut short by a 

fearsome matron who burned me to a crisp 

with her acid enquiry as to whether I 

always weighed myself with an overcoat 

on. 

H was some hours later that I realised 

what I should have done — dismounted, 

carefully taken my coat off, folded it over 

one arm and stepped back onto the scales 

againl 

As it was I discarded the tonne and fled, 

taking some small consolation in sending, 

anonymously of course, this picture. If I 

have read her correctly it will take her 

some lime to work out just how many 

TRIANGLES are needed to make the third 

pair of scales balance. Which should delay 

the processing of my sample for a 

week. 

Readers of this magazine, however, are 

only allowed thirty seconds to complete 

this simple operation. 

THE LOWEST 

DICE ROLL 

Summer is now recognised medically 

as the most dangerous season for us 

members of the new species, fanaticus 

computicus. It is the time when those 

mere mortals we live alongside feel the 

urge to remove a large quantity of their 

outer clothing and leap about shouting 

"thirty-fifteen", "Howzat Umpire" and 

"Mowed the lawn three times today!" 

A strong urge comes upon us that we 

should also be doing something energetic 

and that the entire population is 

becoming fit around us. 

But take heed ... it can be fatal to 

kick the chair back and join in. A violent 

bout of croquet can ruin that typing 

finger. So here is a gentler way to move 

a few muscles, stimulate the brain, and 

so aid digestion. 

Copy our diagram, making the 

squares large enough to accommodate 

whatever size die your Monopoly set is 

supplied with. Place the cube in the top 

left square so that the 1 is on top and the 

2 is facing you. In all standard dice the 3 

will now be on the right. (Note: dice 

other than standard are not allowed!) 

A move is to roll the die by a quarter 

turn into an adjacent square, across or 

up or down — spinning diagonally over 

a comer is forbidden. After the move Gil 

in the line you have just crossed with a 

pen. 

128 COMPUTER

X 

As you proceed on this rolling tour of 

the board you will gradually complete 

the sides of the squares. When you 

draw a line which finishes a square put 

a number in it — that number being the 

value showing on top of the die at the 

time. 

The square just completed will either 

be the one the die is in or an adjacent 

square — occasionally you can complete 

two squares in one move; in which 

case enter the top die number into each 

square. 

There is only one restriction on movement: 

if possible you must roll so that a 

new line is drawn — you may only roll 

over a previously drawn line if there is 

no other choice. 

The exercise ends when you have 

completed every square and your effort 

can be measured by the sum of the 

scores tn the 12 squares 

j. + r 

r 

The challenge is to find the path 

which scores the lowest total! You may 

record your moves by noting the initial 

letter of the direction you move the die 

each time: Up, Down, Right, Left. 

Entries should be written in the form 

of a list of moves and include a copy of 

the diagram with scores entered, and 

the total claimed. Usual rules apply and 

the editor's decision is final! 

SEVENS UP 

The solution to each of the following 

clues is an anagram of 

five consecutive letters. When 

you have found the twelve 5- 

letter words, enter 

them in the grid in 

such a way that the 

seven first letters and 

the seven 

end tetters 

both 

form 

R 

O 

D 

O 

A MANGLED MATHS MESS 

When Paul Tutherwon gained his hatrick 

of detentions in one week 

(awarded for his believed frivolous calling 

out of 'friangte"when asked to name 

one kind of angle) it was decided to 

make the punishment as ingenious as 

his classroom answers. 

He was given this word sum which is 

so obviously correct that little development 

seems possible. 

But, since there are ten letters being 

used and our counting system has ten 

Buck, 

show. 

words when read 

from bottom left to 

top right. The first is 

done for you. 

or doe, in an alfresco 

OR DOE = RODEO 

Consumed regularly by teenagers. 

Complies, on demand, with decibel level. 

Bored Roman legions in part command. 

Taking third place in entitlement. 

So may we deck the poor lieutenant. 

One may have remarked upon such a detonation. 

Restrain passion until the wedding, please! 

Strike a light! It's out until further notice. 

Quite material consequence for an awful telephonist. 

The strange ritual of a jungle inhabitant. 

Introducing a new cosmetic. Oil of the rose leaf. 

By 

Timeshrinker 

digits, 0 to 9, he was asked to replace 

each letter by a digit and convert the 

diagram into a calid addition sum. 

As always, the same letter stands for 

the same digit each time it appears and 

there are no leading zeros allowed. 

Supper is in half an hour and fish 

fingers feature on the menu. Can you 

give the erring but likable lad a hand 

and tell him which letter represents 

which digit? 

By Roger Myers 

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SAD IN MY 

SPACE SUIT 

Rescue at Rigel appealed to me as a 

title, so I sent off for it, looking forward 

to an exciting sci-fi Adventure. 

When the game arrived I waited with 

eager anticipation for the cassette to 

load, entranced by the illustration of a 

scantily clad lady manacled to an alien 

machine, being menaced by an overgrown 

ant. Just behind the ant, blaster in 

hand, was Sudden Smith, our hero, clad 

in a space suit. That would be me, I 

thought. 

In the box with the cassette was a 32 

page booklet. A quick perusal soon 

revealed that here was something very 

similar to Hellfire Warrior, (see C&VG, 

April '82), a Dunjonquest game. 

A list of single letter commands was 

given, and a background story describing 

the objective — explore a hollow 

asteroid base orbiting Rigel, and rescue 

human prisoners by pressing "T" to 

teleport them to a waiting space ship. 

How exciting! 

In play the rooms were drawn on the 

screen in slow motion, and movement 

across the rooms, by hitting keys 1 

"thru" 9 plus L and R, had all the urgency 

of a slug on the attack. 

To the right of the graphic display, if 

that it could be called, being entirely 

symbolic, were the usual fatigue and 

wounds statistics, with a couple of new 

ones indicating power in the power 

pack, and blaster bolts left. 

The aliens, although looking like 

crosses, were actually a race called 

Tollahs — the superior ones being High 

Tollahs. Probably an American attempt 

at satire. If so, it left me cold, as did the 

rest of the game. 

If you like Dunjonquest games, fine, 

but don't, like me, expect anything 

different in this game. I got the distinct 

impression that the intricate background 

story in the book was written 

around an existing formula to give it a 

new lease of life. 

/fescue at Rigel, costing over £20, 

runs on cassette on a 32 K Atari or 16 K 

TRS-80, and on disk on 48K Apple, 32K 

Atari, or 32 K TRS-80. From Computer 

Magic. 

DWARVES WHO SPEAK ENGLISH 

The parallel I drew a few months ago 

between an Adventure game and a 

story is exemplified in The Hobbit from 

Melbourne House, which runs on a 48k 

Spectrum. 

The game is presented very much 

like a book — the "front cover" with full 

colour illustrated title is displayed whilst 

the program loads. 

The game is a fairly close representation 

of the book, which is itself supplied 

as part of the package. The action of the 

game takes place in over 50 of the 

locations described in the book and 

depicted on the map of Middle Earth. 

On the first visit to a location, a full 

colour picture of the surroundings unfolds. 

adding to the impression of a 

story-book game. 

But the player should beware of gazing 

at the attractive pictures for too long 

— another feature of the game is "Ariimaction", 

whereby the various creatures 

go about their business inside the 

computer. 

Messages appear spontaneously on 

the screen from time to time as a result 

of this background activity, which has 

130 COMPUTER & VIDEO GAMES 

i 

an effect on the course of the game. 

While you dither, don't be surprised to 

see Gandalf or Thorin, up and leaving 

either. 

The possible commands are very 

flexible. A language recognition program 

called "Inglish" is incorporated, 

and "ATTACK THE TROLL CARE- 

FULLY WITH THE SWORD" is recognised 

as easily as "RUN". 

The game is linked to the story by a 

16-page booklet which explains the 

grammar and vocabulary of "Inglish", 

the split-screen mode of display, plus 

hints and tips on playing the game. If 

you are a Hobbit fan then you will enjoy 

playing the book and reading the 

game... I think? 

The cassette costs £14.96 as it is sold 

with a paperback version of the Tolkier. 

classic. If you don't know the story of 

Bilbo, Gandalf, Gollum and the dwarves 

and their epic journey across Middle 

Earth, it will provide a few clues to 

playing the game. 

BY KEITH CAMPBELL 

MUCH MISERY 

IN SCOTT'S FUN 

HOUSE 

OK — I might as well admit it — I'm 

beaten! I have tried Scott Adam's Mystery 

Fun House on and off for over a year, and 

still haven't solved it, despite a recent 

concerted attack. 

Readers have been writing to me 

desperate for help — and I have deliberately 

delayed answering in the hope I 

might find the solution. But now I feel it is 

time to come clean ... I can't solve this 

mystery. 

In Fun House, the first problem is to get 

inside, a devious ploy typical of Scott. The 

clues are all there, and so with a selfcongratulatory 

pat on the back I entered 

the house. 

After being chucked out a couple of 

times by a bouncer, found how to stay 

inside. Round I went pressing buttons and 

pulling levers — all in search of the 

missing plans! 

I shot clay pigeons, met up with a 

mermaid, got deafened by a calliope, and 

unlocked the secret of a trampoline and a

YOU'RE NOT ALONE IN THE PADDED CELL 

It is comforting when stuck in an 

Adventure lo know you're not alone! 

Many readers write in desperation for 

help. 

The interesting point is that their 

problems are fairly similar and tend to 

revolve around a small number of 

Adventures. 

Perhaps these are the games intriguing 

enough to worry about! On this 

page help with these sticking points is 

often at hand! 

I would like to help my mystery 

correspondent, recognisable by his 

distinctive notepaper, who writes 

variously as Bilbo from Bag End, and 

Oesperate Adventurer from A Padded 

Cell! 

Turn the page upside down Bilbo, to 

discover how to cross the river. And 

please reveal your true identity next 

time! 

Many thanks to Geoff Phillips of 

London NW9. who has enabled me to 

re-exist in Philosopher s Quest. For all 

those readers dying to know — it's 

really quite simple — just think like a 

philosopher! 

Geoff also mentions that he feels 

five seconds is a more realistic response 

time for an Adventure, since 

one cannot physically travel from room 

to room instantaneously. True, the first 

time around this is acceptable — the 

player is busy thinking ahead. But what 

about the poor devil trying from scratch 

for the 99th time, who knows his way 

into the middle of the game like his 

twice times table and hasn't saved a 

suitable version? Any views, Adventurers? 

How often do you save your game 

at the crucial moment? 

Troubled readers requesting help 

this month include two Bedlam players. 

Richard Jones can't get past a 

guard dog and Simon Clarke wants to 

know how to get the green key from the 

electro-shock room. 

G. Keen from Down Under, has designs 

on the demise of a gargoyle in 

Tandy's Raaka-Tu. Can any readers, 

through me, help these troubled explorers 

to reach their goal? 

And perhaps when you are similarly 

stuck one day. someone else will provide 

the clues to help you move on to 

the next room. 

strange pair of spectacles. But what about 

the second bolt? And how do you get your 

fortune told? 

Alistair Miller of Richmond can answer 

the first question, but is still stuck, and 

complains that the hint sheet doesn't help 

either! This is borne out by Simon Clarke 

from Harpenden, who is not quite so far 

into Fun House yet. He strongly recommends 

not bothering with hint sheets 

whose usefulness he describes with a 

four-asterisk word. 

Another Fun House sufferer is the Rev. 

Dave Byrne of Kings Norton, trapped at the 

bottom of a tank without even a mermaid 

to coiflure! 

So we're all stuck at different places — 

and apparently all face insoluble problems. 

Surely if we're each capable of 

ocercoming some ot the difficulties which 

others thought impossible, it is within 

each of our capabilities to reach the end? 

Just a matter ot perseverance! 

Back to the keyboard. Adventurers! And 

il I have any luck — I'll let you know! 

Fun House runs on TRS-80, Video 

Genie. Atari, Vic-20, Apple and Sorceror, 

and is certainly one of Scott's most addiclively 

aggravating Adventures! Buy it if you 

want a real challenge. 

• If you are struggling with an adventure 

and feel that you will never find a way 

around the problem, then my own small 

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adventure players may provide the 

answer. 

Write in to: Keith Campbell Adventure 

Helpline, Computer & Video Games, Durrani 

House. Herbal Hill. London EC1R 5JB. 

If I don't know the answer then I can 

alsways throw it open to the readers. 

Please don't pick up a pen at the first 

sign of a problem. You will only get a full 

sense of achievement from a completed 

adventure II you have solved every problem 

yourself. So before you write in. give 

yourself a chance to solve the problem or 

find another way around it. If you can't 

succeed and half the adventure is never 

played because you cannot find a way 

round one particular problem then is the 

time to write to the Adventure Helpline. 

SOME TIPS ON 

WIY HINTS 

A few months ago I wrote some coded 

tips, and a decode p r o g r a m A numbe 

'of readers had trouble wi h this. 

should have mentioned that the £ «•» 

the printer's way ot depicting a hash. 

° r Some machines didn't have aUthe 

Jres used and a CLEAR 1000 statement 

was needed tor a Tandy. 

^To avoid such problems in future I 

will show clues upside down. Don t 

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with Hobbit. Adventureland and Savage 

Island. Pari 1. 

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MAKE SENSE OF WHA T YOUR MICRO "SEES" 

2. From this array of numbers find 

another array giving the differences 

between adjacent numbers both 

horizontally and vertically. This 

array will show differences in intensity, 

which is what we are using 

to detect edges. The new array is in 

this case 

3. Join adjacent entries with similar 

values in this new array. The lines 

obtained in this way should give 

edges in the original scene. In our 

case the following lines are 

obtained 

figure J: took no edges but a recognisable 

A computer can make sense of 

what it is seeing when it is presented 

with line drawings of simple 

three-dimensional objects. It can 

run a program that automatically 

determines which edges jut outwards 

and which go inwards so that 

the three-dimensional shape of an 

object can be worked out from a 

two-dimensional drawing of it. 

Unfortunately, when the computer 

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not see line drawings but. rather, 

more or less what we see. 

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scene containing three-dimensional 

objects to a line drawing. A method 

for doing this can be explained with 

reference to figure 1. 

An examination of this figure will 

prove that the image shown in it has 

no drawn edges. Yet the human 

observer has no difficulty in detecting 

its edges. Edges are perceived 

wherever there is a sharp change in 

the shade of grey. 

A computer can be programmed 

to detect the edges in a picture 

using the same idea. An image of a 

shape. 

scene can be turned into a line 

drawing in the following way. 

1. Convert the image into numbers 

by measuring the shade of grey in 

each square of a grid covering the 

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array of numbers. 

This can be done by measuring 

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the following array of numbers 

when it is covered by a grid with 5 

rows and 5 columns. 

10 10 2 2 2 

10 10 2 2 6 

10 10 2 6 6 

10 10 6 6 6 

10 10 10 10 10 

Light into numbers. 

This gives the arrowhead junction 

of lines that occurs in the part of the 

object that we examined. 

In this way a computer can be 

programmed to see by running a 

program to extract the edges from a 

picture of a real-life scene and then 

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In a very general way, this is what 

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JETPAC 

Building your rocket and fuelling it is the 

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The tape loaded successfully first time 

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title screen was displayed. 

The game starts with a rocket ship in 

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picking up each of the pieces in order and 

dropping them onto the base segment 

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of the screen. 

Once the rocket assembly is complete, 

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craft. 

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Jetpac is very playable, addictive and 

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The choice of movement keys is well 

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Escape from Orion is the first Donkey Kong 

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Hopesoft are to be congratulated 

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Although it gives you four screens of 

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Whenyouhavecompletedscreen one 

you do not automatically go on to screen 

number two. but must go back to the menu 

and select the next stage. Effectively it's 

like playing four separate games. 

The next gripe is either as a result of a 

bug or bad design. You cannot go up the, 

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can only descend to the bottom of the 

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to the bottom of certain screens you are 

trapped through no lack of skill on your 

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on the third screen which has two lifts 

connecting the floors. 

Graphics-wise Escape from Orion is 

adequate though not impressive. Your little 

man arrives in his space craft and must 

then run down the ladders collecting the 

spanners which are dotted around the four 

levels of play. 

Every so often a green cat-like alien 

appears at the side of the screen and flings 

an object at you. These are easy to dodge 

and they don't track you down the ladders 

as do the barrels in the arcade game 

To dodge objects press the space bar 

to make your little man hop over the 

obstacles. 

You also make him jump up to collect the 

various items which he will need to make 

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I played the game with the keyboard but 

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This could quite easily have been a good 

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You are Trentor a space merchant and 

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Petrochem is a liquified mineral with 

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Gold is now of little value and used as an 

anti-corrosive plating. 

Raw fuel is the radioactive ore scattered 

over the surface of Gamma. Refined and 

liquified for hopper fuel. 

All these prices are randomly generated 

including your fuel so you must keep a 

check on what you buy and the price you 

pay, as you have to sell at a profit. 

Trader is a game of fantastic graphics, 

colour, with some nice tunes thrown in as 

well, 

The game is made up of three separate 

16K programs which are played one after 

the other. 

It is supplied with a 16-page booklet, 

which sets the scene for the game and 

provides instructions. 

Trader is now being marketed by Quicksiiva 

and is available for three computers: 

ZX81 plus 16K, 48 Spectrum, and the Vic 20 

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The games are available from Quicksiiva 

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SAVE RILL THE 

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SUDDEN DEATH 

MINED OUT 

Your mission (should you decide to accept 

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enclosure on Level 7 of the minefield. 

Well, I've played minefield games before. 

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novel approach. It is slickly presented on 

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Each level is slightly different, but the 

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The first two levels show the players 

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A nice feature is that at the end of each 

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actions. I liked itl Available from Quicksiiva 

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BLADES OF BLACKPOOLE 

Blade of Blackpool is one of those adventure 

games. 

You know the sort I mean. After travelling 

a couple of moves North, South, East, 

or West you come up against something 

that you just can't shift, get past, kilt, cajole 

or bribe. 

In the Blade these objects come in the 

shape of an ugly man-eating plant, a boat 

which cannot be rowed, sailed, or paddled, 

a landslide which you cannot climb, tunnel 

under, or walk around, and a patch of 

quicksand which is determined not to let 

you cross. 

That's as far as I got. Heaven knows 

what lies beyond. 

So why can't you sail the boat? I'm sorry 

I can't answer that. 

All right then, so why can't I climb the 

landslide. I'm sorry, I can't answer that. 

That's about as much advice as this 

reviewer can offer on penetrating Blackpool 

so I may as well tell you about the 

plot and the graphics. Anyway, even if I 

knew secrets, I wouldn't tell you. 

Plot is strong. You are searching for the 

magical sword of Myraglym. Rumour and 

legend talk of a secret chamber near 

Blackpoole in which the sword is said to 

lie. Discovering the blade is only half the 

banle. It must now be returned safely to its 

rightful place on the alter from whence it 

was stolen. 

The lost blade is the source of great evil 

in the world as men have taken up arms 

against their fellow men in the quest lor the 

blade, their rightful vocations in the world 

neglected, with the serpents and maneating 

plants allowed to extend their evil 

over the kingdom. 

Fine, but who am I? I'm sorry, I can't 

answer that. 

Graphics are reasonably good. The 

game uses the window picture system at 

the top of the screen with the text flashing 

up beneath. 

Tolkien-esque, with large expanses of 

land, shrub-like trees and sparse vegetation 

— the illustrations enable you to easily 

lose yourself in the mythical land of 

Blackpoole. 

I liked this game, even if my novice's 

lack of adventures know-how stopped me 

getting very far into it. The important thing 

is that the game captured my imagination 

sufficiently to keep me coming back for 

more. 

Blade of Blackpoole runs on Atari 800 

with 48K. It is available on disc from 

Calisto of Birmingham, at £28 95 

• Getting started 8 

• Value 6 


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THE WOULD-BE 

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Another variation on the Missile Command 

theme for the Dragon, but different enough 

to be interesting. The player has a central 

base from which he aims his defences 

against beams gradually creeping down 

the screen at angles, each aiming for one 

of six cities also at the bottom of the 

screen. 

By moving his joystick, the player moves 

his sight, which he must accurately place 

on the end ol a moving beam and press the 

button to destroy it. 

Beams hitting a city will destroy it with a 

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suitable noise, beams being put out of 

action reward the player with triumphant 

music and points. 

There are four levels of difficulty which 

varied the speed at which the beams 

descended. I found that only the easiest 

level gave the player much chance. 

This was because the defence sight 

consisted of a flashing square which 

seemed to be invisible more often than 

seen The joystick required only very slight 

movement to control the defence sights, 

and overshoot was far too easy when the 

sight was invisible. This made playing very 

much a matter of guesswork. 

An interesting game, but the weakness 

in control spoiled it. The game is available 

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A compendium of ten simple games for the 

Dragon 32 including noughts and crosses, 

and, would you believe — computer controlled 

musical chairs) 

My first reaction to this tape was that 

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Anagram too complicated to control with a 

time limit, and Snap was basically a sequence 

of numbers which required the space 

bar to be pressed if two of the same 

number appeared consecutively. The 

matches were so few that I nearly fell 

asleep. 

However, the rest of the tape had Pin the 

Tail on the Donkey, which required a blindfolded 

player to operate the joystick, 

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Chairs controlled the cassette player, into 

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As some of the games seemed fairly 

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in the Dragon, I felt it was a pity that a 

number of games were not merged into 

fewer separate programs, to be called up 

from a menu entry. This would have 

avoided frustration whilst the favourite 

game was found on the tape, or while each 

was separately loaded. From Shard Software 

of Brentwood, Essex, at £6.75. 


• Value 6 


ALIENS WILL GET 

YOU IN THE END 

SPACE SKIPPER! 

tf you enjoyed Scramble then you'll love 

Parsec from Texas Instruments for the TI 

99/4a computer. It's an all action scrolling 

game on a solid state cartridge with 16 skill 

levels which should satisfy even the most 

demanding Scramble ace. And it talks to 

you! 

You control the Parsec patrol ship and 

are confronted by a series of nasty aliens 

— all of which want to do you harm in the 

worse possible way. 

You blast away at the aliens as they 

swoop past and some of them have the 

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There are six types of aliens, ranging 

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the really hateful Bynites, with a iew 

Saucers thrown in along the way for 

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Once you have wiped out all waves of 

the alien ships — no easy task this — then 

you must face the dangers of an asteroid 

belt. You must blast a path through with 

your overworked laser cannon. Oh yes, a 

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laser weapon. Should you think you can 

fire away with gay abandon then you've 

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can overheat and destroy your craft as 

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Then there's that synthesised voice 

which warns you of attacking ships or 

when your fuel is running low. The warning 

often comes in handy during the more 

difficult levels ol the game — especially 

when your joystick hand starts to seize-up 

on the rather uncomfortable Texas joysticks. 

However the game will work without 

the speech box. 

Talking about refuelling. This is done by 

guiding your ship through a refuelling tunnel 

on the planet's surface. 

Second level play is similar to the first 

except that alien ships have to be hit twice 

to be destroyed. Also in level two the 

Bynite ships become invisible when hit 

once — but continue to fire at you until you 

succeed in hitting them again. The voice 

box comes in useful here too — it tells you 

when a laser blast has hit the target! 

Things get faster and more furious as 

you progress through the different levels 

making Parsec a challenging space shoot 

out. The game will be available at Texas 

dealers and will cost £31.00 

• Loading 10 

• Value 7 


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4 Arcadia (Imagine) 

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6 Wacky Waiters (Imagine) 

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9 Skramble (Rabbit) 

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2 PacMan (Atari) 

3 Galaxians (Atari) 

4 Zaxxon 

5 Qix (Atari) 

6 Miner 2049 er 

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B Astro Chase 

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6 Chess (Psion) 

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8 Avenger(Abacus) 

9 Asteroids (Silversoft) 

10 Mazogs (Bug Byte) 

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HOME COMPUTERS 

AQUARIUS 

AQUARIUS: The brandnew Aquariui 

Perioral Computer it pert of Mattel 

Electronic* leteit development* in 

advanced technology and offer* lull 

home computing faeilitiet, a* well « 

extensive gam« play. using a very 

wide range Of plug in cartridgn 

Since Aqueriut u a Mattel Electronic* 

product, it benefit! by the company'i 

wide experience of producing high 

technology equipment, at well at their game programming expertise which it evident 

from the advanced game* which have been produced lor the Intellivmon. Aquanui coiti 

£79 end comet with microsoft banc built in. It it to nmple to use that youH be writing 

your fir*t program! within minutei ot taking the machine out of Its box, You can even 

record the progremt on your own cassette recorder at home, so you can use them again 

at a later date Most available domeit>c tape recorder! are compatible with the Aquarius, 

A POWERFUL 

For all its simplicity, it i* alto very tophnncated. tt ha* a 

Z80A processor and 8K of built in ROM at well ei 4K of RAM, which it uter expandable 

to 62K It ha* a display of 40x 24 character, and a graphic resolution of 320x 192 with 

a total character tet of 256 (including the complete ASCII set with upper and lower case 

letters, numbert and additional graphic tymbolil. The keyboard hat 49 full stroke 

moving keys, unlike tome ot the cheaper mechinei which have membrane keyboards 

The site of the machine (excluding any ol the additional peripherals), is 13"x6"x2". 

PERIPHERALS It is very easy to increase the capabilities of your Aquanut at all the 

peripheral! plug itraight into one another. You can add a Primer, a Modem, a Data 

Recorder. Mim Expander and other item*. All of the peripherals are very eaty to install 

and what u more, they're eaty to ute. Bui the bett newt of all it, they're eaty to afford, 

CPM OPERATING CAPABILITY: The Aquanui is capable ot being expanded to 52K 

RAM and later in 1983 a diik drive will be available for It, with the commercial CPM 

business operating system This ml) allow you access to one of the largest software 

libraries In the world, with literally hundred! of program* available tor you to ute. 

CARTRIDGES: Various sophisticated programs will be launched on plug in cartridges 

tuch ai a Vmcalc type tpreedtheet and a word processor. In addition there will be 

dozenj of garnet and utilities and alternative languages tuch as I 

Logo, which combined with the built in microsoft basic gives an 

unbeatable combination of high quality programming ability 

MATTEL AQUARIUS - £68.70 + VAT - £79 

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ATARI 400/800 W.th the Atar. Personal 

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SPECIFICATIONS Both the Atari 400 

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each with 16 intensities They have four 

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tunes/game sounds, giving four octaves 

with variable volume and tone control on 

your T.V.'s speaker The display graphics 

are of amazing quality, having a detailed resolution ot 320 x 192, comprising 24 lines of 

40 characters. Atari personal computer! have a standard 10K ROM operating system. In 

addition the standard Atari 400 (£149) comas with 16K of RAM. and the expanded 

version with 48K If 1981. The Ateri 800 rd' 

OVER 500 PROGRAMS AVAILABLE: The Atan computers are supported by well over 

600 programs available for your use. a larger selection than you will find on any other 

television game or home computer! The wide selection put! Atari way ahead of the 

competition. Jutt fill in the coupon and we will be pleased to send you a full price list 

which gives details ot our range of software available for entertainment, home education, 

programming and home office ute. We think you 11 agree when we say ifi quite impressive 

100 FREE PROGRAMS FROM SILICA SHOP If you buy your Atan Home Computer 

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100 programs including gamat, utilities end demonttrationt A 16 page booklet giving full 

detail! of all of these programs it available on request If you have already purchased 

your computer eltewhere you can buy the tet of 6 cassettes 'or (30 Whet't more. Silica 

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VIDEO GAMES 

COLECOVISION 

HI -J-'. iV/fcrT'i' nS IWE SYSJEM; The CBS Colecovition 

*.rijr«. . ) \ n*—. • - I U offer! new itanderds in video game 

play. The excellent graphics are well 

implemented with arcade title* tuch 

as Zaxxon, Lady Bug, Gort. Wi/a'd 

of Wor. Carnival, Moute Trap and the 

lovable Smurft. The console comet 

supplied with a three icreen arcade 

quality version of DONKEY KONG. 

Parker and other companies have also 

announced range! of eartridgei for 

Colecovision, to lurther enhance the 

wide range of quality titles available 

for this new television games machine. 

THE CONSOLE: The CBS Colecovision video games system hat advanced technology 

which produces superlative graphics resolution and excellent sound effects. The styling 

of the console and hand controllers has been carefully researched; the console it designed 

to complement modern hi-tech equipment, and hat clear feature! for easy operation. 

The hand controllers allow fingertip control via the 8 direction joystick, and feature 2 

independent fire buttons. The push button keyboard it used tor game selection and for 

game control with tome cartridges The hand controller* are detachable and are connected 

to fx feet of telephone cot I cable, storing neatly away in the console when not In use 

ATARI EXPANSION MODULE: The Atari converter module allow! Atari VCS software 

cartridge* to be played on the Colecoviiion console, allowing owner* the freedom to 

purchase from the extennve range of Atari compatible cartridges. It also meent that 

existing Atari owner! can buy the CBS Colecovinon games lyitem without discarding 

their lottware library. Silica Shop olfer part exchange facilities ll you with to upgrade 

TURBO EXPANSION MODULE. The Turbo Driver Expansion Module allows you to 

actually drive "the vehicle that appears on your T.V. screen. The module consists ot a 

steering wheel, dashboard and accelerator pedal. One hand controller I* mounted on the 

dashboard to provide a gear change unit. The module comes complete with a Turbo 

Driver cartridge, the lirtt ot several cartridges to make use of the module, which provides 

all the action of sitting m the driving seat. This facility Is unique to CBS Colecovition. 

HOME COMPUTER EXPANSION MOOULE: The Home Computer Module scheduled 

for late 1983. allows conversion of the games unit into a 

tophnticeted Home Computer Thit flexibility o< dengn 

i* an important feature ot the CBS Colecovision System. 

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THE SYSTEM: Vectrex is a totally unique Home 

Aicade System, which has been exclusively designed end 

engineered to duplicate real arcade game play Complete 

with its own monitor display Vectrex won't caute any 

argument! over the use of the family's television beceute 

it has iti own built in screen 

THE SCREEN: Vectrex does not ute ordinary duplay 

techniques, instead it use* vector scanning to control the 

images on the screen With this scanning method, the 

gun only updatesth* areeof the screen that has changed, 

whereat a normal T.V. re-transmits the ENTIRE screen 

50 times a minute. It ii thu that gives Vectrex its ipeed. 

and meant that very little computer power it required 

for tcreen control, and the rnulti provide very fast 

responding and clear imaget Theie 'Vector Graphic*' 

ere uied in teverei arcade games such at Asteroid! and 

Battlezone, to give you inciedibly high resolution and 

quality. Vectrex bringi all of this from the arcade right 

into your living room. The Vectrex tcreen it capable of 

ditplaymg 80 columns by 40 lines, which is significant 

to the extensive development! planned for the system 

EXCITING SOUNDS AND ELECTRONICS; Vectrex has an advanced microprocestor 

with more speed and power and exciting effect! than many home video games tvttemt 

REAL ARCADE CONTROLS: Vectrex hat a unique control panel, nmiiar to thoea used 

•n many real arcade games, with 4 concave action buttons and • full 360" self centering 

loytlkk. This control panel hat a 4 foot detachable cord for maximum player freedom 

REAL ARCADE GRAPHICS: Vectrex hat us own 9 inch vertical icreen and unlike a 

conventional ~T~V icreen. uses advanced display technology to achieve brilliant, high 

resolution imagery and superb geme play never before possible The Vectrex duplev 

provide! tpecial effect! too. such aa 3-D rotation and zooming m and out. which a 

regular T.V cannot match Using a black and white monitor, each Vectrex game comes 

supplied with its own coloured plastic tcreen overlay to add to the excitement of game 

play. The range ot Vectrex cartndget t£21 9b each), gives a good selection of arcade 

game* tuch as Berzerk, Scramble, Rip-Off and Bomber Attack. Vectrex comet complete 

with a last paced "Minettorm' game built into memory 

VECTREX: Vectrex hat an advanced ttete-of-the-art 

microprocessor with more speed than other T.V. games 

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ATARI: The Atari Video Computer Syttem known at the Aterl VCS or the 26DO h*« now 

become the T.V. game brand leader. In the U.K. there are over 700,000 owwri of the 

VCS with access to a range of over 300 different plug in cartridge*, each having a multitude 

of different variation* and difficulty level*. Every system come* complete wtth the main 

contole, two individual toystick controller*, a pair of paddle controller*, aerial fitter, 

main* adaptor and a 27 game Combat cartridge. It give* you bright criip graphic*, realistic 

tound effect* and even ipectallv designed circuit* for the protection of your Television Set. 

SECONDHAND GAMES; We currently have teveral tecondhand Aterl VCS unit* in nock 

which we are telling for only £49 fine VATI. Thi* price include* the Console, with Combat 

Cartridge and all the accettoriet. at well a* a 12 month guarantee 

We alio have stocks of several secondhand cartridge* many al half 

price (all with 12 month* guarantee!. We will normally buy back 

tecondhand units end cartridge* at one third of our itandard price 

EXTENSIVE CARTRIDGE RANGE: The Atari VCS I* to popular that In addition to 

Atari'* own cartridge*, there are over 160 compatible cartridge*, produced by at least a 

dozen different third party manufacturer* Silica Shop hat one of the largett cartridge teleclion* available in the U.K. Our range of 

over 200 titlet (printed either tide of this column), includes Items In stock now, as well as many of the new releetet for later in 1983 

SILICA ATARI Ctyp: Silica Shop hat over 20,000 Atari VCS club member* regittered on our computer A* e specialist company 

we are able to obtain advance information about new development* and tend detailed catalogue* to all of our club members, enabling 

them to evaluate new product* before they boy Thu it a totally FREE service, to receive your copies complete the coupon below. 

SERVICE CENTRE: Atari International IUK) Inc ha* recemlv appointed Silica Shop ai an authorised Atari Service Centre. Thi* 

mean* that we can now tervice your Atari VCS or 400/800 (under guarantee if applicable), whether or not you purchased It from ut. 

VCS COMPUTER KEY80ARO: A keyboard will toon be launched to convert the VCS into a fully programmable home computer 

For further detail*, toin our club by completing the coupon below. We will then let you know when further Information it available. 

STARPATH SUPERCHARGER. The supercharger plugs mto the cartridge socket ol your VCS and expands i« RAM almost 50 fold, 

from 128 to 6.272 bytes Thu increased memory add* vivid high resolution graphics capabilities and significantly lengthens the game 

playing time. Supercharger hat a rang* of multi-load games (at £19.45 each), these offer the facility to play a 

game in leveral distinct part* (great for adventure*), the next section being loeded when you have completed 

the previous one, thu* enhancing the game play For further Information please complete the coupon below. 

ATARI VCS CONSOLE With Combat Cart & Accessories £68.70+VAT = £79.00 

We stock a wide range of accessories for the Atari VCS and 400/800 perional computer*. 

The tame accessories can be used on the Commodore VIC range of computer* The Wico 

range can alto be uted with the Te«a* Instrument* computer* on purchasing a tpeciei 

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Works on all existing software — regardless of which 

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ORIC 

MUNCH 

Our best arcade game yet Can you tight off 

the ghosts eat the power pills and catch the 

elusive fruit An exciting game that will keep 

you amused for hours 

£7.95 inc VAT and 40p postage and packing 

48k 

ORICMON 

A complete machine code monitor including 

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move and verify, trace and slow-motion run 

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£ 15.00 «c VAT and 90p postage and packing 

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A set of new exciting and challenging games 

Hangman. Moonlander. Substnke Roadrace 

and 30 Noughts and Crosses 

£6 90 inc VAT and 40p postage and packing 

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If you were baffled by Zodiac you will be 

temfied by House of Death Can you discover 

the secret of the haunted house and escape 

with your life 7 

£9 99 inc VAT and 40p postage and packing 

48k 

ORIC BASE 

This is a database system used for the 

maintenance of personal and small business 

information It is supplied on cassette with a 

comprehensive manual A sophisticated query 

language is used to manipulate data and allow 

reports to be printed, data to be sorted or 

moved about and running totals to be kept A 

Macro command facility allows the creation of 

application specific command strings which 

can be used easily by non-technical 

personnel Requires a 48k machine 

Price £ 14.50 including VAT and 90p postage 

and packing. 

ZODIAC 

A traditional adventure game in which the 

player has to And the 12 cunningly hidden 

signs of the Zodiac which lead him to greater 

treasures The player manipulates objects 

through simple sentences which the program 

can understand and can ask for his score at 

any time A save game feature is also 

included Requires a 48k machine 

Price £9 99 included VAT and 40p postage 


ORIC-CHESS 

Using high resolution graphics to display the 

chess board this package will play a 

challenging game of chess with five levels of 

skill The computer looks ahead for its own 

moves plus its opponent's The skill level 

dictates how far the computer looks ahead 

although at the expense of more time All 

chess rules including Castling and En Passant 

are obeyed Requires a 48k machine 

Pnce £9 99 including VAT and 40p postage 

and packing 

ORIC FORTH 

This is a cassette-based implementation of 

FIG-FORTH, the language distributed by the 

Forth Interest Group in the United States It 

has been extended to utilise the graphics and 

sound capabilities of the One It is supplied 

with an editor and a full Forth assembler 

A 96-page manual is included m the package 

A demonstration music program is also 

supplied Requires a 48k machine 

Price £1500 including VAT and 90p postage 


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