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Contents =
FEA TURES
58
64
73
165
172
COMPETITION Take a voyage
through life with Automata.
SCOTT EXPEDITION The
QL travels to the South Pole.
MASS STORAGE We assess
disc systems Tor the Spectrum.
MENU DRIVEN PRO-
GRAMS Basic architecture.
INSB3E SINCLAIR Meet Sir
Clive's software queen.
REGULARS
-I O SINCLAIR SIMON Our hero
■*■ ™* hacks his way to fortune,
■I C GREMLIN Trouble in the ja-
■*■** cuzzi, as Anneka reveals all. We
think vou should be told.
25
31
37
HARDWARE WORLD Kappa
keyboard, AGF interface.
SINCLAIR SURGERY lips to
solve hardware troubles.
SPECTRUM SOFTWARE
SCENE Storm, saga and sidhe
among the latest Spectrum games.
■711 QL SOFTWARE SCENE
* ** Psion's first QL game puts the
rest in check,
122
ADVENTURE Richard Price
comes to terms with reality on a
trip to Hampstead.
-J*>G BOOKS Pascal in Baker Street,
■*■"*' software in the hank.
J OO HIT SQUAD Chris Bourne
A**0 pans for gold and strikes lucky
with the ZX-SL
■I 4Q SINCLAIR BUSINESS USER
X*xiF Stocks and shares, software up-
grades, plus shop window and letters.
-I C*7 EDUCATION A close look at
A*' * the new range of educational soft-
ware from Longmans.
189
HELPLINE Andrew Hewson on
LOAD and SAVE routines.
PLUS
5
9
14
19
29
54
ScHXhcnt Quett, page 64
3D QL classic, page- 79
Last in Scati/iorpc, paf* I Hi'
Geld rush if 'HI. page 138
SINCLAIRVOYANCE Where
is Sinclair going next.'
NEWS Hacking the prince s sell-
ing the Spectrum + .
NEXT MONTH Great free gift
for February,
LETTERS Another blast from
the Sinclair User soapbox.
SUBSCRIPTIONS The best
way to make sure of your copy.
TOP 30 The latest charts of
software best sellers.
83
89
181
191
195
201
CROSSWORD Silicon clues to
tease your brain.
PROGRAM PRINTOUT Set
sail for the New World.
STARTERPACK Bask help
for the novice programmer,
CLUB CORNER Lists of clubs
throughout the world.
SOFTWARE DIRECTORY
The unique guide to software.
HARDWARE DIRECTORY
Spare parts and repairs.
SINCLAIR USER January 1985
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Sinclairvoyance
A YEAR AGO SinclairvoyofKe speculated on Sinclair's
expected move into the business market and the
continuing success of the Spectrum, Events in 1984
confirmed both, though no-one could have anticipated the
eccentric mishandling of the QL and the subsequent caution
with which that machine was to be regarded by manufacture
ers and buyers alike. At the beginning of 1985 it is still
uncertain whether the QL will sell in the quantities hoped
for by Sinclair research; and which will justify large investment
by software houses. The advent of disk drives, expansion
boards and applications software from Quest is just one sign
amongst many that the QL is nevertheless ready for lift-off.
What is more uncertain is
the future of the Spectrum.
Had not the Spectrum + ap-
peared, things would have
looked decidedly dicey For
our old friend. With Commo-
dore, Amstradj MSX and
others prepared to slog it out
in 1985 it is difficult to see
how Sir Give would have
retained his market share.
The Spectrum + might
have changed all that, inter-
nally the same as its little
sister, it is an altogether dif-
ferent beast. In discarding
those putty rubber keys Sin-
clair has transformed a games
machine into an inexpensive
and viable alternative to its
rivals. Programming becomes
faster and 3 once you have be-
come accustomed to the all-
white key legendSj easier.
Sensible word-processing is
within reach. No more feats
of dexterity to sample the du-
bious delights of inverse vid-
eo, no more tugging and
wiggling at that worn power
lead . . .
Even more attractive is the
inclusion in the price or a
slightly different version of
the Spectrum Sis Fack } intended to always accompany the
Spectrum + , something which Sinclair did not make clear
when the machine appeared. That software is worth more
than £50.00 and consequently the £179.95 price for the Plus
is not as exorbitant as it seems at first glance.
That leaves the old 48K, minus the now-discontinued
software promotion, looking rather sorry for itself and it is
inevitable that many potential customers will buy the Plus in
preference. Sinclair Research hopes of course, that it has not
merely split the market share it already has but in addition
stolen some from Commodore and chums as well. Any price
reduction in the 48K is again likely to increase that share
without reducing sales of the Spectrum + to any large extent.
In other words, Sinclair has covered all the bases and is
simply waiting for the away team to pitch. It can't fail to
score.
Sinclair has further tricks up its lab coat sleeve. Whispers
abound that the Plus might be further upgraded to take
onboard the Interface 1 and even a cartridge slot. The basis
THINGS
TO COME
Tor that speculation seems to be little more than the fact that
the Plus was codenamed Thurukrtird^ and, as the ageing ones
amongst is will know, there were five Thunderbird craft in
the TV series. Nigel Searle has kicked that one into touch by
explaining that the designer was a Ford Thunderbird fanatic,
though he hasn't ruled out the possibility of upgrades.
Sir Clive too has been unusually garrulous on the shape of
things to come, waxing lyrical about a portable in the
pipeline. The portable micro will be battery-powered and
incorporate microdrives. It will also have a flat-screen display
— but then he said that when the QL was in planning.
The Spectrum Plus Handle* or the QL Jvlinus> will retail
at about £300. But don't hold
your breath waiting: Sir Give
has said that it will appear in
1985, probably late 1985 -
well, possibly 1986. Or
even . . .
Despite all the carping
about Sinclair's achievements
there is no doubt they are
rock-solid in the final analy-
sis. One company to recog-
nise that is ICL, and in
announcing its OPD execu-
tive toy has signalled a new
departure for Sinclair.
The OPD - One Per Desk
— is a nifty combination of
monitor, keyboard, micro-
drives and telephone handset
which is the ultimate busi-
nessman's tool. It offers all
the QL software and an
amusing built-in speech
synthesiser with 200 words
for leaving rude messages on
your telephone. It can do
much more besides, but what
interests us is the presence of
Sinclair chips, microdrives
and Basic in the design. Not
only is the OPD an innova-
tive approach to desk-top
computers but it is the first
time that Sinclair has been
product from another major
company.
Lest you feel that in reaching for the business sky Sinclair
Research might have neglected its down-to-earth home users,
rest assured: it seems that the Spectrum + has been bede-
villed with the kind of teething problems Sinclair followers
have come to expect and fondly treasure,
Some units have 'slipped' through Sinclair's QC net and a
few fortunate users have discovered that not only are the keys
a great improvement on their plasticene predecessors but are
detachable as well. Some machines arrived with assorted
keys scattered around the packaging like so many Scrabble
tiles.
Middle Eastern carpet weavers used to incorporate delib-
erate flaws in their designs because only Allah could create
anything perfect. Perhaps the distinctive Sinclair bugs and
design faults are Sir Give's errors of humility — his
personal, desperate attempt to avoid hubris.
Bill SwtJtitg
heavily involved with
SINCLAIR USER January 198S
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IF YOU WANT to com-
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The ZX Broadsheei covers
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Plus teething problems
THE SPECTRUM+ is only or add a millionth of a milli- Boots, are moaning because
going through some minor
'teething problems' accord-
ing to Sinclair Research, de-
spite the fact that on some
machines the keyboard falla
to pieces^
Julian Goldsmith, of Sin-
clair Research, says;: "With
any new products there are
bound to be problems. The
suppliers are AB Electronics,
Thorn EMI and Timex. If
there is a problem and we
hear complaints then we just
talk to the suppliers and get
them to make the glue thicker
meter to the clip-on part of
the keyboard. We have had
complaints about the key-
board and of course we will
take note of them."
Should problems occur
with your Spectrum + you
arc advised by Sinclair Re-
search to take it back to the
place of purchase. "The main
responsibility, of course, is
with us," Goldsmith admits.
"Most retailers do their own
QCing and we leave it to
them to spot faulty machines.
Retail stores, such as
Sinclair admirer
THOSE microdrives have
gained one ally in the form of
ICL which has launched a
computer called One Per
Desk.
The machine, uses the QL
circuit board, w r hich includes
the Sinclair ULA, with mi-
crodrives and includes a mo-
dem, terminal emulation
software and monitor.
ICL is taking the Sinclair
Research lead and supplying
ihe Psion XChange software
suite, with upgraded versions
of Quill, Archive, Abacus and
Easel, on in-built ROM in
[he package which is to sell
for £1,200.
Sinclair Research is
pleased that ICL has deliv-
ered its w r ell-timed pat on the
back for its pioneering stance
in computing. A spokesman
for the company says: li It is
nice to see that other people
are endorsing our tech-
nology,'"
Supporting role for Quest
A NEW RANGE of QL
packages from Quest Auto-
mation turns the Sinclair ma-
chine into a powerful
business microcomputer.
The software is headed by
a 6SK version of the CP/M,
specially designed for 68000
processors. The 28. 5 K oper-
ating system is supplied ei-
ther on 5 1 in floppy disc for
£49.50 or microdrive car-
tridge for £79.50. It includes
an assembler, co-resides with
QDOS and will support 3in,
3Un, 5i'm and Sin floppy
discs. It can also be used with
a Winchester disc unit.
Quest is also supplying a
range of disc drives on which
CP/M can be run, Those
range from a 200K floppy at
£249 to a range of Winches-
ter discs, minimum storage
7.5 megabytes, which starts
at £995.
If extra internal RAM is
required Quest can supply a
range starting with 68K Rm
£99 to half-megabyte at £499.
AH the equipment can be
stored in an expansion con-
sole costing £109.
To support its new system
Quest has released two busi-
ness packages, collectively
called Tally.
The software is compatible
with the Psion packages sup-
plied with rhe QL which
means that data can be trans-
ferred from the Quest pack-
ages to the Psion programs
and vice versa, Quest says
that it is a deliberate ploy
which will be continued.
they cannot get enough of the
Spectrum-*-. All the company
would say is, "they are sell-
ing very wel!' 1 .
WH Smith is also not get-
ting enough of the machines.
A spokesman at one London
branch commented that de-
spite the slow start they had
no problems with returns.
They wished only that they
could get a few more ma-
chines.
The tale at Smiths was re-
peated at The Buffer Micro
Shop. Michael Howard, own-
er, says: "The only problem
we have is getting the Spec-
trum +. We were late in or-
dering by one day and chain
stores such as Smiths got all
of them 11 , That was the first
delivery made and, at the
time of writing, there had not
been another one.
If you are still in a dilem-
ma about what to do if your
Spectrum + keyboard falls to
bits then Sinclair Research
has had a suggestion passed
on. Stan chewing a lot of
gum.
Wildest dream
is fulfilled
SOMETHING you would
never have thought of in your
wildest dreams is renting
software on a nightly basis.
A new company calling it-
self Wildest Dreams came up
with the idea whilst discuss-
ing the problems of produc-
ing and distributing software.
The games were to be avail-
able for rental in video shops
nationwide from November,
for the princely sum of
around 50p per night.
The games are all new and
will be for rental purposes
only.
Asked about the subject of
piracy, the company says,
"Piracy occurs because
people are loath to pay
around £7.00 for a games
tape, whereas 50p is a low
enough margin to discourate
piracy."
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Hacker's lese-majeste
IF THE Duke of Edin-
burgh's Prestel Account can
be broken into, think what
fun a hacker could have with
the Stock Exchange prices.
The latest exploit to reach
the national newspapers and
make Prestel tremble in its
shoes is that of a hacker
claiming to be a freelance
writer of Micronet 800 — an
information database and s
ironically, part of the Prestel
system,
Prestel received a tele-
phone call recently asking
staff to look at Page 1, Pres-
to's index page, accessible to
only a few members of the
Prestel team. INDEX was
spelt IDNEX, The hacker
had broken in.
Breaking into the system
via one of the Prestel Devel-
opment computers he found
the identity number and pass-
word of PrestePs Assistant
Editor. With that infor-
mation he had enough ammu-
nition to break into the
system, call up anybody's ID
and password and access any
page on the database -
He decided to aim for the
top, accessed the Duke of
Edinburgh's Prestel account
Professional
QL compiler
THE FIRST true compiler
for the QL has been launched
by Bristol-based software
house Metaeomco.
The compiler runs BCPL,
Basic Combined Program-
ming Language, which is
widely used as the systems
programming language on
many different minis and mi-
cros.
BCPL is ideal for writing
utilities, applications pro-
grams and even games. The
package also supplies rou-
tines which will make the QL
graphics and window facili-
ties easier to use.
Metaeomco is to sell
BCPL for £59.95 and is also
releasing a version of LISP
for the same price.
and had the time of his life
sending messages from
people who, at the time, were
fast asleep — it being the
early hours of the morning.
One message was sent from
the Duke of Edinburgh to the
General Manager of Prestel
congratulating him with,
"The household is very im-
pressed with your work."
Another area cracked was
Home link — PrestePs home
banking system where users
holding accounts at the Not-
tingham Building Society
and the Bank of Scotland can
access accounts from home.
Two weeks after Prestel
was bugged, Homelink sent
out a message reassuring its
customers that though Pres-
tel had been hacked, the Ho-
melink database was.
unreachable. "Rubbish",
came back the reply, "the
Homelink database was
broken into". It was signed
by The Hacker using the
Bank of Scotland ID.
Two weeks after the Pres-
tel incident Homelink still
had not changed the ID num-
bers and passwords.
Prestel got the message im-
mediately and has made all
the necessary security
changes. One wonders,
though, when and where the
hacker will strike nest.
Nordic cleans up
NORDIC KEYBOARDS,
the company which has ac-
quired the Fuller range of
products after it went into
liquidation a few months ago
is trying to make amends to
frustrated customers owning
Fuller keyboards.
John Gray of Nordic Key-
boards says he is delighted
with the opportunity to mar-
ket the products and adds,
"but we aim to offer our cus-
tomers a better deal and to be
faster on both service and
delivery."
A problem has arisen over
faulty keyboards returned to
Fuller before they went into
liquidation.
"It is a knotty problem,'
them."
On a more optimistic note,
Nordic have launched The
FDS Executive, a replace-
ment keyboard for the Spec-
trum. The Executive allows
the user to plug his Spectrum
straight into the keyboard
without having to unscrew
the Spectrum case and at only
£.59,95, Nordic believe it will
be a winner.
QL sales
variable
THE QL has been greeted
with mixed reactions by the
retail trade . While stores such
as WH Smith and Boots are
pleased with sales, smaller
outlets are not so happy.
A spokeswoman for WH
Smith says: "The QL is sell-
ing out fast. We are having
no problems with the ma-
chine but would like to see
more software for it."
The same is true of Dix-
ons, Dave Gilbert, a spokes-
man for the company, says:
"We can't get enough of
them. It is selling very well.
We have had no problems
with orders and we get all
that we need."
Smaller shops are having a
limited success with the QL.
John Arundel of The Silica
Shop in Kent says: "We have
the QL and some people have
bought them. They are slow
to move though,"
Michael Howard of the
Buffer Micro Shop reports a
similar story. "We are getting
all the QLs that we need.
They are not going in vast
numbers but we are selling
them. 1 "
Sinclair Research is confi-
dent that the slow start will
turn into a rush when more
people realise that the ma-
chine is in the shops,
A spokesman says; "Deal-
ers are happy with the QL,
Word is out that it is in the
shops now and sales will in-
crease accordingly,"
Joysticks recall
says
Grav,
'because of
Fuller's records. We have a
lot of keyboards awaiting re-
pair but without any attached
documentation. As we come
across keyboards with the
owners' names and addresses
we'll repair and return
AGF are anxious that some
early customers who pur-
chased Protocol 4 joystick in-
terfaces may have sub-
specification pre-production
units.
The problem with those
units is that they have an
erratic or unreliable Kernp-
ston operation mode and the
way to check this would be to
type in the following pro-
gram line with the Protocol 4
attached to the Spectrum, its
mode switch in the down po-
sition and with the Kempston
card inserted: Print IN 31,
press ENTER.
If anything other than is
printed, the unit should be
returned to AGF for a free
replacement. The address for
returns is: AGF Hardware,
FREE POST, Bognor Regis,
West Sussex, P022 9BY.
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THE WINNER of the Doom-
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October Usue of Sinclair User, is
Pluiip Middlewood of Great Bar-
t'nrd. Bedfordshire.
The 25 second prize winners arc:
Chris Herbert. Fraiing, Esses; fas&
KcILcy, Penicuik, Scotland; John
NorthclUT, Adwick-upon-Dearne,
Doncaster; Martin Dowie, Cupar,
Fife; Matthew Stent, York; Stephen
Traylcr, Wimborne, Dorser; P Mills,
Coventry; F W Camp, Cowley, Ox-
ford; RLhard TayLcir, Lichfield,
SialTcrdshjre; Howard Davies*Carr 3
Stoke Bishop, Bristol; Kev Cro-
combc, Sheffield; David Finch, Bar-
mmCh, Gwynedd; R K.err, Blanme,
OlSftgow; Sheridan Pyncs, Batey-
heath, Kj«ii; Louis Clement, Rich-
mond, Surrey; Kevin Mullowney,
Brest on, Leeds; P D Tidy, New-
bur}-, Berkshire; T A visa, Hadlcigh,
SuSbtt; C P Sempers, North Fer-
riby, Nonh Humberside; Stuart
Johnson, Sunderland, Tyne and
Wear; J Rogers, Oldbuiy, Wsrley;
Mirk Walla, Bkywtrdl Heath, West
Sussex; Janclle Fowler, Grange-
mouth, Central Region; Paul Mala-
kiioga, Yeovil, Somerset;
ChriHQpher Ambrose, Stockport,
Cheshire.
The 25 runners-up arc; A G SLm-
son h 1-ondon SW9; Alan Rowlands,
Telford, Salop; B White, Marlow.:
Buckinghamshire; Glen D Brock,
Cheney, Oxfordshire; J Ellis, PaigTi-
10m Devon; Andrew Edwards,
Leicester; Alex Hughes* Solihull,
West Midlands; Ian Morris, Bowj
Tracer, South Devon; Ben Wharton,
London,, NWfi; Michael Park, Scar-
borough, North Yorkshire; M H
O'Connor, Crediton, Devon; Jean-
Yves Rouffiac, London, NWI; S
Stanwav, Trentham, Staffordshire;
C I) Sheldon, Swansea; Elane David-
son., Dumbartonshire, Scotland;
Russell Keyie, Southampton; Ian
Clark, Edinburgh; Have Freeman,
Purley, Surrey; S L Brasingion,
Rhyl, Clwyd; Chris Boom, G«pOCt,
Hampshire; G C Taylor, Crossford,
Fife; Ian McVicar, Mount Blow,
Clydebank; G Walton, Wilkiihall,
West Midlands; George Turnbull,
Leeds, West Yorkshire; Alan Gousrh.
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Piracy policemen
A FIGHTING fund has been
established by the Guild of
Software Houses which will
be used against piracy.
Contributions to the fund
will initially be made by the
group's 34 members but Paul
Duffy, General Secretary of
GOSH, states that anybody
can put money into the pool,
"We would also like to get
publishers and other people
connected with the industry
involved."
Duffy went on to say that
GOSH wants to bring a
major case against a software
pirate. "That involves a lot of
money, perhaps as much as
£100,000. Even if we lose
that will give us good
grounds to go to MPs and say
that Ehe law does not stop
piracy.
"We axe writing to local
councils telling them that if
school equipment is used for
piracy then we will hold the
school responsible and pros-
ecute them."
The comrades'
conundrum
A £25,000 prize is being of-
fered to the first person who
can crack Eureka!, a five
part arcade/adventure game
for the Spectrum
The scenario for the ad-
venture, featured in Software
Scene this month, was
penned by games wizard Ian
Livingstone and the product
is being marketed by Do-
mark, a company run by
Dominic Wheatlcy, grandson
of the novelist Dennis Wheat-
ley, and Mark Strachan.
Domark claims that the
game was the result of 10,000
man hours by a Hungarian
programming team behind
the Iron Curtain. The team
of 20 includes four graphic
artists, two musicians, a pro-
fessor of logic and an Oscar
winning cartoonist.
The competition ends on
31 December 1985 and Do-
mark believes that it could
take 15 months to solve.
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Gremlin =
dive's dive
REPORTS begin to filter
through of strange happen-
ings at Sir Clive's London
residence earlier in the Sum-
mer, While the final details to
the refurbishment were being
carried out^ the basement
flooded. Workers carrying
pot plants to the roof garden
were stuck in the lift. To cap
it all, Sir Clive's Jacuzzi
wouldn't work. How galling
it must be to come home
from a hard day dealing with
QL complaints only to dis-
cover your hi-tech bath is
bugged as well . . .
We cannot imagine Sir
Give relaxing in his Jacuzzi
without some form of mental
stimulation. As a tamer alter-
native 10 dipping Acorn big-
wig Chris Curry in the pool
as a substitute for mother-
hood? . . .
Talking of mothers, Fer-
rari-lover Bruce Everiss,
former operations director of
Imagine, has been holding
forth to any journalists still
prepared to listen to the 'true 1
story behind the downfall of
Imagine. In the interests of
simplicity, Everiss omits to
mention such obscure events
as the bugging of Colin
Stokes 1 telephone* the dawn
raid on his house, the accusa-
tions flying around that
Imagine went so far as to hire
private detectives to report
on the plans of other software
companies. The Gospel ac-
cording to Bruce now has it
that Imagine's directors were
simply young, green, and
MARK FfDDIAN of recently
launched Slrcttwis* Micros trte* w flog a Spectrum + to Topo the
redundant robot. N«t month, when th* organisers finally per-
suade Tape to turn the black bo* upside down, we shall cxpe-ti
further news on what happens when all the keys full on the ftcwr.
— as reported in Microscope
— he might enjoy reading
the first issue of Micro Ari$,
The foreword of this ex-
tremely pretentious magazine
was penned by one CHve
Sinclair, and contains a lyri-
cal exposition of the thera-
peutic qualities of hacking.
"It is the Computer personal-
ity who dares face change
without feeling the sense of
loss that goes with the depar-
ture from the womb" ram-
bles *Clive\ We know he
wants to abolish doctors and
schoolteachers in favour of
computers, but the Spectrum
foolish enough to actually be-
lieve all the harmless un-
truths — sorry Bruce, totally
justifiable marketing hype —
that St Bruce was telling
about the company . . -
Next, according to Bruce,
is the possibility of a book
about how the games indus-
try works. Readers are invit-
ed to send in their ideas for
the title — 20,000 unused
copies of Schizoids for the
best entries. . .
Liverpool hype is not the
only hype around. Haresoft,
producer of the intensely bor-
ing Hare raiser competition/
WA1.LV WEEI of Alice-mania
and Pyjamarama embarrasses his Mikro-<itn pall In
bad taste pic of the month, WalJy Is peeved that the universe due*
not think hi* games arc better than Jet Set Willy or Kokotoni Wilf,
and wants readers to vole an the matter. Wally is the one on the left.
game, has informed a
stunned world that a clue to
the puzzle was revealed by
TV personality Anneka
Rice in Harrods one Satur-
day. Vt'ho, if anybody, was
there to hear the golden girl's
words of wisdom is not stated
on the press release, but if
anyone did perhaps they
could let us know what the
clue was and we can pass it
on to whomever, if anybody,
has bought the game. . .
A further item from the
prolific Haresoft PR people
sheds light on the decision to
release the game in two parts:
"To make it fun and enable
competitors of all ages to par-
ticipate." Bet you thought it
was just to make more mon-
ey. . .
What with hackers infil-
trating Phil's Prestel account,
it seems the Windsors are
getting plenty of free public-
ity from the micro-world.
Mow comes news of Di's
Baby, a new game from
Bad Taste Software.
Gremlin will report further
as soon as a convenient bed-
room window is left open r . ,
Great news for Spec-
trum + owners. Cheetah,
flushed with success at abol-
ishing everybody else's joy-
sticks with the toothless
infra-red RAT, has an-
nounced that all its software
and hardware is compatible
with the new Spectrum. Not
only has the company
achieved full compatibility
incredibly quickly following
the Spectrum + launch, it has
even managed to do it with-
out spending so much as a
penny on the operation —
excepting of course the cost
of writing the press re-
lease. . .
Brazen Backslappers 1
award for January must sure-
ly go to Hewson Consul-
tants, The company has
presented a gold cassette —
no, not Alchemist with the
game wiped off — to its own
programmer Mike Male for
selling 100,000 cassettes of
his games Nightflite II and
Heathrow ATC. Mike has
made so much money out of
the games, we are told, that
he has been able to buy his
own aeroplane. . .
Finally 3 to prove we can
play the game as well as any-
one else, hot news from the
Turkish desert via the back
pages of Computing maga-
zine . Apparently one of the
paper's correspondents was
on holiday in the remote east
of the country and seeking an
English newspaper to read
over his curd cheese and ol-
ives. The only paper avail-
able in the whole town was
Sinclair User — copy upon
copy. If you know anything
more about the great yearly
migration of computer maga-
zines along the caravan routes
to the mystic Orient, please
write to: Gremlin, Oasis 37j
The Road to Samarkand, Ba-
bylonia. . .
SINCLAIR USER January 1985
15
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The ingenious Japanese?
The fashionable French?
lie acquisitive Americans?
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Yet, despite its amazing
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Use and Abuse.
In several recent surveys,
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micro use and abuse were
revealed,
It was discovered that the
micro is hopelessly under-
utilised, If you're already a micro
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well confirm this unhappy state
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Letters =
Irate women bite back
I FELT I HAD TO com-
ment on the news article en-
titled 'Computer machismo*
in the November issue.
As a woman who has been
working in the microcom-
puter industry for a number
of years I loo am extremely
concerned about the lack of
female interest in computers.
I do not, however, agree
with the view of Ebury Soft-
ware that publishing software
under the Good Housekeeping
title is going to do anything
to help generate more inter-
est. This is an extremely pa-
tronising attitude for Ebury
to take, and one which will
only help to further alienate
women from computers and
increase the sexist attitude of
software publishers.
What Roger Barrett does
not include in his — typically
male — list of 'positive, tradi-
tional skills women haye h is
creativity. My own personal
view is that just as soon as
Languages like Logo gain
more recognition throughout
the industry and begin to go
into homes many women will
find that most of their fears
about computer program-
ming are nonsense.
The important thing about
Logo as compared to pack-
ages such as the Goad House-
keeping type is that it gives
people an outlet for creativity
as well as programming or
learning about computers.
Creativity, which for many
women has been lying dor-
mant for a long time, will
remain buried forever, if
companies such as Ebury
Software have their way.
Christine Roberts,
London NW1.
the utmost accuracy in all
aspects of programming, yet
in all publications, the num-
ber of mistakes which occur
is appalling.
In addition, although
much of your income is de-
rived from advertising, some
of the advertising material
verges on downright deceit.
Keyboards are a prime
example. Most adverts state
Tive minutes and a screw-
driverV Yet we then read re-
views where screwholes
won't lineup, casings have to
be cut and other horrors.
Some advertisers would sure-
ly have difficulty in explain-
ing their blurb to the
Advertising Authority, and
not just on keyboards either.
Why can't we have maga-
zines which don't have mis-
takes and advertisers who get
a linle closer to the truth
about their products?
A J T Longhurst,
Desborough,
Northamptonshire
Peripheral
round-up
I AM getting a ZX Spectrum
this year for Christmas and
after reading every advertise-
ment for joysticks and inter-
faces in your magazine I
would like to know which is
the best to buy,
Chris. Wilcox,
London NW6.
• The 1985 Sinclair User An*
nual has an up-to-date round-
up of the best joysticks and
interfaces manufactured during
the Ian year.
Accurate
Adspeak?
IT WOULD APPEAR that
the whole publishing indus-
try dealing with magazines
and books really needs to ex-
amine its methods more
closely, Computing requires
For ZX-8I users who
would like to do the same,
type in a line (e.g. 10 REM
COPYRIGHT) and press
NEWLiNE; Type in POKE
16510,0 and NEWLINE;
Press NEWLINE again and
you will see '0 REM COPY-
RIGHT;
That line cannot be edited
and cannot be erased by typ-
ing in and then NEW-
LINE.
Andrew Fox,
Ipswich, Suffolk.
Sabre Wulf
king deposed
I WOULD just like to say, in
reply to Des Clay pole's letter
in the November edition of
your excellent Sinclair User,
that he has now abdicated.
He claims himself to be the
Sabre Wulf king but I fin-
ished on an earlier date than
June 7 on the very day that I
bought the game, I consid-
ered it so simple that it
wasn't worth writing in
about. So I now claim to be
the mega-supreme Sabre
Wulf emperor.
R Worden,
Preston,
Lancashire.
Protective
software
THERE WAS an article in
the September edition of Sin-
clair User about how to pro-
tect your programs from
software pirates. The article
showed several ways of doing
That for the Spectrum includ-
ing making a line with the
number 0.
Clamp down
on pirates
I READ with interest the let-
ter from Mr Dickinson —
November, Sinclair User —
who mentioned how he had
to clamp down on the abuse
of his school Spectrums for
tape-copying.
There can be no doubt that
a great deal of piracy goes on
under the aegis of schools,
and that some-called com-
puter clubs are little more
than mutual copying circles.
That is not only a disaster for
the software business; it is an
educational catastrophe too,
as witness the letter on the
same page from Colin Baxter
who can see nothing wrong
with making a copy of a tape
which he cannot afford to
buy. That can only be be-
cause he has not been taught
to.
What happens outside the
school is not the school's con-
cern, but it is the responsi-
bility of the schools, as much
as of parents, to teach com-
puter-owning youngsters not
to steal copyright work, and
if they do not computers will
do more harm than good to
those who are given them.
Andrew Turek,
London NWU.
Beat Daley's
world record
My friend and I have recently
bought Daley Thompson's
Decathlon. We played for 1
hour 45 minutes non-stop,
and reached the final score of
1,181,160, and cleared 27
sheets containing five events
in each sheet on day one.
Kirk Green,
aged 14,
Paul Bush,
aged 15,
II ford, Essex.
Sick CUBs recalled
CALLING all CUB QL-
compatible users.
A supplier's component
fault is suspected on model
numbers 1451/DQ/3 and
1451/MQ/3 with serial num-
bers between 85692 and
103517.
To enable us to rectify the
situation, therefore, I should
be grateful if readers with
such models telephone David
Kaye on Bradford 726500 so
that we can make arrange-
ments Tor the collection of
their monitors for the neces-
sary up-grading to be carried
out.
The cost of this operation
will be borne by Microvitec
PLC. Tony Fall,
Marketing Manager,
Microvitec.
mo*e biiers on page 29
SINCLAIR USER January 1985
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Letters
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Getting the
printer blues
I HAVE just spent a day in
Exeter unsuccessfully trying
to buy a printer for my Spec-
trum.
I was told that the ZX
printer is no longer available:
"We don't stock them any
more, they gave us too much
trouble,"
I found that the Alphacom
32 had leapt up in price by
£20 or so. "That happened
when the ZX printer was
withdrawn."
No supplier could show
me a printout in black ink on
white paper.
No supplier had a printer
linked up to a computer so
that I could see it working.
As the blue printout as seen
was not good enough, and the
black ink was not to be seen, 1
came away without a printer.
I ihink that shops are tak-
ing a casual view of the cus-
tomer, riding on the crest of a
wave of sales. Maybe they
feel that there is no need to
bother with demonstrations.
Considering the price of even
the cheapest printer;, it seems
odd that they don't make a bit
more effort, shoe shops take a
lot more trouble to sell a
much less expensive product.
Bill Robinson,
Dawlish,
Devon.
Printing
at midnight
1 AM writing to say how I
feel about the Beyond Soft-
ware Lords of Midnight
competition. I for one can
complete the game but have
no printer and cannot enter.
Ii annoys me greatly that a
printer is necessary to enter
the competition because it
means spending more than
the £9.95 that the game costs
Gareth LayzetL
Stanmore,
Middlesex.
9 Many readers have com-
plaints of a similar nature.
Beyond Software be warned!
Fanfare for
the ZX-81
RICHARD Rrooker - No-
vember — is right to ask for
more ZX-Sl cover in Sinclair
User, I believe it is important
that vou do more for users of
this excellent little computer
— and always bear in mind
that it is still selling.
Furthermore 1 would like
to make a point about your
software reviews. It could be
that you underate some of the
programs for ZX-81 thereby
dissuading potential buyers.
For example, I thoroughly
enjoy playing Racing
League, a strategic game
concerning the Sport of
Kings, Your review said the
game was 'slow'. Even the
highly successful Football
Manager — Gilbert Factor
only 7! — is slow on the ZX-
31 but it remains a great
game!
T G Bell, Winlaton,
Tyne and Wear.
• Racing League vms de-
scribed as slots because the bulk
oj it was written in Basic, not
machine code.
Speechless
Spectrums
I RECENTLY made a
speech synthesiser unit
which operates quite well on
my 43 K Spectrum. Unfortu-
nately, it suffers from a limit-
ed vocabulary. It operates on
the Allophone system from
the SP0256-AL2.
I would appreciate infor-
mation on how I may obtain
words together with their Al-
lophone equivalents from
other readers.
Dec Ian Grady,
Cullion Road,
Letterkcnny, Co. Donegal.
C64 slips
past censors?
I FEEL that I must write and
express my deep disappoint-
ment and annoyance at
finding a Commodore
advertisement in the October
issue. It may have escaped
your notice but your maga-
zine is called Sinclair User!
If you keep this up you will
have lost one loyal customer.
J S Shaw, BlackJleld,
Southampton,
• Rob Cameron, advertise-
ment manager replies: In the
long run ii is product quality
and service which counts and if
Sinclair's rivals feet they can
do better who are we to censor
them from saying so?
50 of the best?
YOUR TOP 50 Software
Classics — November, Sin-
clair User — is a classic
example of the way your
magazine seems to be head-
ing, One war game men-
tioned, no management or
strategy games that 1 could
see. I know you have re-
viewed such games as Con-
quest and Fall of Rome but
can you do more?
Peter J Beard »
Market Rasen,
Lincolnshire.
I MUST congratulate you on
your excellent magazine, it
goes from strength to
strength. November's issue
must have been the largest
yet and the top 50 games
booklet was a great bonus.
However, I was amazed that
Scuba Diver by Durrell
wasn't included. It has to be
one of the most addictive and
graphically superior games
around. John Meads,
Rainham,
Kent.
Programming for more cash
A FEW errors have crept into
program listings of late, for
which we do apologise.
Domewars t in the Novem-
ber issue, should be amended
as follows;
Line 340 should read:
PRINT AT 19,3; INK
6; ; INK 5;" + ";AT 20,3;
INK 7;"."; INK 3;"/"
We should also point that the
program does not use User-
defined Graphics in the con-
ventional sense, but changes
the character set instead.
That appears to have con-
fused some readers.
Home Accounts in the
November issue is lacking a
few lines of the last DATA
statement. It should read:
9800 DATA
'WtV'b'MOOO,
2000 J "d" 3 3000,
V,8900, , T*,8&S0,
"g",8980,* I h" s 8990,
"A" s lO,"B'y00G,
1< C ,, ,2000,' i D' T ,3000 J
"E" S 89GQ,"F",8950,
G ,t ,S980,"H",S990 l
In Home Accounts, the
bank statement section is
there purely for reference and
will not be used by the
monthly forecast.
Finally, The Right Stuff
in the October issue also suf-
fered from gremlins. Make
ihe following amendments:
1 GOTO 500
479 IF q hi THEN GO TO
9301
507 RUN 600
630 FOR f=0 TOT
9234 LETq = hi
Now for the good news.
From now on we shall be
paying £20 for each program
published, and £50 for star
programs. Details of how to
send programs can be found
on the Contents page. Please
make sure that your pro-
grams are accompanied by a
letter describing the game,
your name and address, and a
cassette or cartridge contain-
ing the program.
We try our best to send
back programs we cannot
publish as quickly as poss-
ible, and will make special
efforts with cartridges.
20
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Transparently tacky
THE replacement keyboard
for the Spectrum from Kappa
Keyboards is a curious mix-
ture of new and old ideas. It
uses a. style of key that was
popular among DIY emhusi-
asis a few years ago and yet it
has 14 single key functions, a
recent innovation in key-
board design.
The keycaps are of trans-
parent plastic and you are
supplied with a sheet of
paper on which the legends
are printed. That has to be
cut up and the legends placed
under the caps*
The extra single key func-
tions are Edit, Delete, Com-
ma, Full Stop, Dollar,
Times, Graphics Mode and
Caps Lock which toggle on
and off, four shifted Cursor
keys and True and Inverse
Video. The last six are par-
ticularly useful with Tas-
word II, using the cursor
keys to move around the text
and the video keys to move
one word at a time — an idea
reproduced on the new Spec-
trum +. In addition there are
extra Caps Shift and Symbol
Shift keys, but, there is no E
Mode key, a major omission.
It is supplied as u replace-
ment for the top half of the
Spectrum. You remove the
five screws holding the Spec-
trum together, disconnect the
keyboard leads, insert the
new leads and screw the case
back together. The new leads
are, unusually, ribbon cable
with half the insulation re-
moved, and so they will not
stand repeated insertion.
With all the extra keys and
the limited space available
the keyboard is very
cramped. Despite that Kappa
still manages to find space to
bring the Address and Data
lines to the top of the key-
board via two IC sockets
placed either side of the keys.
The company sells an ad-
ditional adapter which con-
verts them to take a joystick.
The left hand socket simu-
New COPY causes corruption
A NEW full-sized Centronics
printer interface for the Spec-
trum has been launched by
Cambridge Microelectronics
Ltd. Called the Print-SP it
allows the user to redirect the
LPR1NT and LLIST com-
mands to the printer or to
copy the screen.
As with many of the popu-
lar printer interfaces the soft-
ware needed to run it is
supplied on tape. That sits in
the now unused printer buff-
er which has the advantage
that it is compatible with
software which uses memory
above RAMTOP. It also has
the disadvantage that NEW
or COPY will delete it.
The software can be confi-
gured to give up to 80 charac-
ters per line and to give an
automatic Line Feed (LF)
after a Carriage Return (CR).
The COPY routine can be
configured for the Epson and
Seikosha 100/250 types of
printer and is called by a
RAND USR call.
Also supplied on the tape
is a text processor program
called SPWRITE. This is a
Basic program which effec-
tively DIMs an array of up to
500 by 64 characters and then
allows you to fill each ele-
ment.
On the plus side the inter-
face is inexpensive at £31.25
including cable and, due to
the case design, is easily fitted
to a full-sized keyboard.
However, it does not have a
through connector for other
add-ons and there are many
programs, such as Tasword
11, which use the printer
buffer making it incompati-
ble. If Camel was to include
software which sat above
RAMTOP and dispensed
with SPWRITE, which is of
limited use then the interface
would be a good buy. As it
stands there is little to set it
apart from the others on the
market.
The Print-SP is available
from Cambridge Microelec-
tronics Ltd, One Milton
Road, Cambridge CB4 1UY.
lates 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the
right hand one 6, 7, 8, 9 and
0, as used on Interface 2.
For £48,00 the keyboard
has much to offer in faeiliites
but it falls down badly in key
layout, feel and looks. If it
used better keys and was
housed in a bigger case then
it would be one of the best
keyboards on the market.
There may be, however, a
solution to the problem.
Kappa can also supply a
small electrical package at
£14.00 to which you can wire
your own keys. That allows
you to have functions which
normally require a shift key
to be replaced by a single key.
Further details of those
products can be obtained
from Kappa Keyboards, 14
Pauls Mead, Portland, Dor-
set DT5 1JZ.
Spectrum
switch
THE BEST things arrive in
small packages and the Spec-
trum Switch from TEC is
one of the smallest pieces of
hardware we have had to re-
view. It is an on/off switch
which fits into the power
socket of the Spectrum. The
lead from the power supply
plugs into the back, and there
is a small rocker switch on
the front. The unit is held in
place by double sided tape.
It is a good idea to have
some form of switch on the
power supply as repeatedly
pulling the plug will eventu-
ally weaken the socket* The
Spectrum Switch is pleasant-
ly styled and, provided the
Spectrum is still in the origi-
nal case, a useful addition.
The only problem is the
price. While the cost of the
component parts is reflected
in the price of £4.95, if you
arc able to use a screwdriver
you could add your own in-
line switch for a fraction of
the price. If you would rather
take the easy u r ay out the
Switch is available from
TEC, 24 Victoria Road,
Bromsgrove, Worcs.
mere hardware on page 2?
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Compatibility cure
AFTER a slight hiccup AGF
has now relaunched its Proto-
col 4 progammable joystick
interface for the Spectrum,
The original version was not
compatible with all Kemp-
ston compatible games but
thai has now been cured,
A novel method is used to
program the interface. You
are supplied with five small
plastic cards, four of which
are already set up. Those
cards contain a series of holes
which represent the Address
and Data lines as used by the
Spectrum keyboard. Small
rubberised pads are then in-
Boxing
clever
REGULAR readers of the
computer press may remem-
ber a bright idea sent in by a
reader some time ago for stor-
ing microdrive cartridges. He
suggested that some types of
photographic slide boxes
were just the right size to
hold a dozen cartridges.
Not the son of people to
Set a good idea go to waste,
Kappa Keyboards t whose ad-
dress is given elsewhere in
Hardware World, obtained
wine slide boxeSj printed its
logo and an index on the top,
and the Kappa Keyboards
Cartridge Box was born. For
£0.99 you get just that — a
slide box with a printed lid.
If, however, you do not
wani the priming and only
want to spend a fraction of
that amount then contact
your nearest photographic
stockist.
NW2
serted in the holes, one per
line per key, according to a
chart supplied, until the four
directions, and fire, have
been programmed .
The card is then inserted
in the interface so that the
rubber pads press down in a
membrane, similar to that
used on the Spectrum key-
board. The four prepro-
grammed cards simulate the
5 3 $, 7, S and keys, the 1 , 2,
3, 4 and 5 or 6, 7, 8, 9 and
Interface 2 keys. The remain-
ing card simulates the Kemp-
sron standard.
That process may appear
rather complicated but it only
has to be done once. AGF
supply ten reference cards on
which you can note the posi-
tions of the rubber pads and
can supply additional plastic
cards so you can keep a stock
of preprogrammable cards.
The cards can be changed
while a program is running,
if you are careful not to joggle
the interface, and the key-
board is not disabled.
On (he pre-production ver-
sion tested, the expansion
port had not been carried
through to the back of the
interface, but AGF plans to
do that on later models. It did
have a useful reset button on
the top of the interface and
the ability to use joysticks
with the Auto- Rapid Fire fea-
ture.
There are, however, some
reservations about the inter-
face. A membrane has a
limited life. Also the cards
sometimes fail to locate prop-
erly so that only two of the
four directions worked. That
could be cured by being
heavy-handed when inserting
them but should not be nec-
essary. The greatest problem
is the speed of response.
When the keyboard is simu-
lated there is a delay between
moving the stick and some-
thing happening. When play-
ing a game that could mean
the difference between get-
ting zapped or living to fight
another day.
Overall, the interface has
much to offer but fails to
deliver. For more details con-
tact AGF, 26 Van Gogh
Place, Bognor Regis, West
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Plug for memory pegs
ONE of the more unusual
add-ons for the Spectrum is
the Games Board from Mar-
vie Marketing. This is a well
made plastic cover which
neatly clips over the keyboard
with holes Over all the keys.
Pegs can then be inserted in
the holes which, when
pressed, press down on the
key underneath.
The idea behind it is that if
you put pegs over the only
keys you need to play a par-
ticular game then you cannot
inadvertently press the incor-
rect key, or forget which keys
you are supposed to be using.
To help you in that you are
also supplied with sticky la-
bels to put on the pegs with
such useful legends as Bomb,
Laser, Start, Pause, Hyper
and Fire as well as a number
of arrows to indicate direc-
tion.
If you are completely ab-
sent-minded then this is the
add-on for vou. If not then
save your money and buy a
joystick.
The Games Board is
priced at £9.95, from Marvic
Marketing, Arndale Centre,
StTttford, Manchester M32
9BB.
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Chronic hardware headaches?
Don't suffer in silence —
write to Sinclair Surgery.
Sinclair Surgery =
Readers' feedback on
crash prevention
THE OCTOBER issue of
Sinclair Surgery provoked a
number of readers to write in
with useful hints. Most con-
cerned mays of stopping the
computer crashing if an add-on
was joggled. Charles Ron/bot-
tom of Am side, Cumbria sug-
gemt'd cleaning the edge
connector with Switch Clean-
ing Fluid, while W R Corbett
of Wigan had a useful POKE
for Spectrum owners. He be-
lieves trashing is caused by the
NMI line being disturbed
which can be cured by POKE
23728,1. That is a new one to
i if it works then the best
0/ luck to you.
Charles also pointed out that
a Stereo tape deck can be used
provided that both channels are
used for recording and play-
back, ff you do this you must
make sure that you do not
leave the EAR lead in while
saving otherwise the feedback
could do nasty, expensive
things to your deck.
If you have any comments
regarding out replies or tips of
your own then let us know.
You could save someone a few
sleepless nights.
Sticky
problems
1 HAVE a complaint. Why
do a lot of the Spectrum key-
boards come away from the
computer. That has hap-
pened to the computers of my
friends and is beginning to
happen to mine. What should
I do about this?
David I.yalJ,
Moary, Scotland.
• The part that is coming ttn-
uusk is simply the metal cover
plate on which the legends are
printed, which fits aver the rub-
bet key mat. Thai was a com-
mon problem with early
Spectrums until, after a num-
ber of complaints, Sinclair
changed the glue for one that
did fiat melt due to the heal.
The solution is to simply glue it
back into place with a suitable
glue.
Racing
wheels
CAN you answer a question
concerning Chequered
Flag from Psion? I have
heard that a steering wheel
was available with early
copies to promote sales.
Carl Ritchie,
North Harrow,
Middlesex.
• The only steering wheel we.
know of was produced by Spirit
Software, I Pembroke Mews }
London W78, in conjunction
with its Formula One racing
game. We have never seen one
of those wheels but would be
happy to hear from readers* or
Spirit Software, if it is still
available.
Sickly
sticks
I RECENTLY purchased a
Ram Turbo Interface and a
Quickshot It joystick. A
problem has occurred. Fre-
quently the joystick will not
respond to upward move-
ment; I usually have to adjust
the joystick cable and some-
times it will work. I am un-
able to return both items as I
purchased them in Boots in
Liverpool.
Rory Canavan,
Bray, County Wlcklow,
Ireland.
• /f something you have.
bought does not work then the
only answer is to send it back.
It should be possible to ex-
change it through your heal
branch of Boots.
Continuous
firing
OWNING a 48K Spectrum,
I now wish to purchase the
Quickshot II joystick with
the auto-fire feature. I won-
der if you could advise me on
which programmable inter-
face to buy as some of them
crash if you use this joystick.
I cannot afford more than
£30,00.
Mark Wright,
Rugby,
Warwickshire.
• This month in Hardware
World we review the AGF Pro-
tocol 4 joystick interface. As
far as we know that is the only
interface which allows you to
use the features of a standard
Auto-Fire joystick and is priced
at £29.95.
Solder
onwards
STEPHEN Neal, November
Sinclair Surgery, had a prob-
lem with his keyboard. The
information you gave to him
was correct^ but it was not
practical, I would bet thai the
problem lies in the cheap rib-
bon cable in the Spectrum. I
can't really see the matrix
giving up the ghost, not un-
less the user is hamfisted.
If you're handy with a sol-
dering iron read on.
Carefully open the Spec-
trum to reveal the ribbon ca-
bles. Pull them out of the
sockets. Unscrew the circuit
board from the base.
With a suitable desolder-
ing tool take out one of the
two ribbon cable sockets. Sol-
der one end of a new piece of
flexible ribbon cable into the
circuit board at the same
place where the socket came
from. Then solder the socket
to the other end of the ribbon
cable.
With a pair of scissors, cut
back the original cable so
there is a kink-free length of
cable to slide into the socket.
Do the same thing to the
other cable if needed if not,
make sure that there are no
shorts when the computer is
put together again.
Wasn't that nice and sim-
ple?
Brian St Rose,
Bford,
Essex,
• This is correct if you know
what you are doing but we
would not recommend that a
novice attempt to solder any-
thing to the Spectrum circuit
board.
Addressing
te*
byt<
WITH reference to your No-
vember issue I was a little
surprised to read the advice
you gave to D Williams and
to Carl Williams concerning
their problems as I would
have thought that the cause
of D Williams' problem, in
particular, was pretty obvi-
ous. He or she was trying to
dimension a numeric array,
A(40Q0) on a ZX-81 with "a
I6K Rampack. Numeric var-
iables — as nearly every
schoolboy knows — require
five bytes for each address in
the array. Thus 4000 =20K
which will not go into any
I6K RAM.
I regret that the advice
which you gave Carl Wil-
liams was also slightly adrift.
A file can be moved directly
from one microdrive to
another using the MOVE
command.
John Hale,
Newport Pagnell,
Buckinghamshire.
SbH>
• —J I SINCLAIR USER January 1985
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COMMODORE
Spectrum Speech Synthesizer!
The dk'tronics synthesizer, like all their other peripherals is hoth Spectrum & Spectrum plus
compatible, it uses the popular SLO/256 speech chip and has an almost infinite vocabulary. It is supplied
with a text to speech converter for ease of speech output creation. Everything you wish to be spoken
is entered in normal English, without special control codes or characters, it is therefore extremely
easy to use. The voicing of the words is completely user transparent and the computer can carry on
its normal running of a program while the speech chip is talking.
Although there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, letters have a totally different sound when used in different
words, For example. The "a" in Hay is much longer and softer than in Hat. When you speak you
automatically make adjustments because you know just how a word should sound. Not quite so easy with
a computer. After looking at other speech synthesizers we decided that it was essential thai the dk'tronics
Spectrum Speech would offer a simple system that would enable the user to produce realistic speech that
was instantly recognisable.
The solution to the problem was extremely complicated, it required hours of programming to enable the
computer to look at the individual letters that make up each word and compare there relative position to
each other before deciding on the appropriate sound,
[ am delighted that we have now perfected what I consider to be the best Spectrum Speech Synthesizer
on the market, one which has achieved my aim, within the limitations of the allophones, of producing realistic
speech.
At only £24.95 the dk'tronics speech synthesizer
represents remarkable value for money. Naturally it is
compatible with their other peripherals which can be used
via the rear through connector
Available from department stores and good computer
shops everywhere or direct from
dk'tronics. Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 3AQ. 1SU
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■ Economically designed
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■ Positive rocker action
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■ Ideal tor resetting rom
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microdrive
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THE PUNTERS' PAL
COLLECTION
STARTER'S ORDERS: The original and best horse race
predictor. (f>7% winners on top tips with very good SP's]
Whilst the vast majority of punters had a bad flat season.
Users of STARTER'S ORDERS enjoyed over £150 profit to a
£1 level stake on each day's nap' (Compare this to news
paper tipsters). Already after one month of the NH proper
the program shows over £40 profit on naps' to a £1 I
stake.
All the computer need know is the name and 6-figun
of each horse in a race [Found in any daily newspaper)
USt one program to predict on both NH and flat
No experience of horse racing is necessary to use the
program.
No tedious updating of databases.
The only horse race predictor with a brand new dual and
straight forecast and tri-cast facility, In three months corn'. !
tri-casts have paid 360-1, 211-1, 105-1, 102-1 plus many
others below 100-1
ONCE YOU HAVE THIS PROGRAM, THE ONLY THING
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HARE'S RUNNING; a successful and easy to use as
STARTER'S ORDERS but for use on greyhound races.
If In doubt of the authenticity of the above, telephone on
Boxing Day and every Saturday (till the end of January)
between yam and 1pm for the day'^ best bet plus the TV
Nap.
HARE'S RUNNING £5
STARTER'S ORDERS £6
BOTH PROGRAMS £10
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Here comes the chopper!
THE VIOLENT scenario of
TLL has been replaced by an
altogether more humanitar-
ian mission in the sequel, Cy-
clone. Rather than provide
you with a swing-wing Tor-
nado, Vortex has obtained a
nippy little helicopter, and
your task is not to bomb the
bases but collect vital medical
supplies in the face of a colos-
sal hurricane.
The playing area is large,
an expanse of ocean dotted
with islands which are being
evacuated. A map option
shows the overall picture,
and charts the centre of the
cyclone, which can move
around with frightening
speed.
While the graphics are
based firmly on the very suc-
cessful TLL, with 3D-style
landscapes and small houses,
they are not as pleasing to the
eye. The game has several
new factors which, however,
more than make up for the
deficiency,
There is more animation;
villagers on the islands wave
at you, and the helicopter has
a hook and line with which to
winch up the crates of sup-
plies. The rugged terrain of
the islands may cause you to
crash, but far more dangerous
Eysenek, the shrink
PROFESSOR Hans Eysenck
is one of the gurus of modern
psychology, renowned for
outspoken and often contro-
versial views on the nature of
human thought.
His recent book of person-
ality tests, published by Pen-
guin, became a minor
bestseller, and the tests have
now been released in the
form of a computer program.
It must be emphasised that
the tests are not supposed to
have any clinical value, but
are simply an entertaining
questionnaire of the type that
appears in glossy magazines,
but glorified by the authority
of the good professor.
The questions include all
the things that you might ex-
pect, such as 'Have you ever
wished you were dead?' or
'Do you feel you are a fail-
ure?'. In amongst these de-
pressing interrogations are
more intriguing queries, such
as 'Do you eat your meals
faster than everybody else?*
or "Would you like to watch a
pornographic movie?'
Each test comprises about
200 questions. There is a fa-
cility to SAVE the data from
each completed test so as to
produce a grand display of all
your faults and virtues in one
soul-destroying blitz.
Taken as entertainment,
which is Mirrorsoft's pur-
pose in releasing the pro-
gram> Know Your Own
Personality is good enough
fun. One should not, how-
ever, believe everything the
program says, Eysenck may
be a leading authority, but
even he cannot be expected to
get it right with a silicon
cushion between him and his
patient. Chrit Bimm,-
KNOW YOUR OWN PERSON
ALITY
Memory; 48K
Pries- £9.95
Gilbert Factor 6
are the other aircraft on the
flight lanes between the is-
lands, and the cyclone itself.
While producing no apparent
effect on the landscape, if you
stray too close to the epi-
centre it will buffet you this
way and that. You will be
lucky to escape with your life,
let alone with sufficient fuel
to make it to a landing pad.
An extra bonus is the op-
tion to view the landscape
from both North and South.
The crates of supplies will
only be visible from one di-
rection, so you must explore
the coastline carefully to find
the boxes. The minute dan-
ger threatens it is all too easy
to forget which way you are
heading and fly straight into
the eye of the storm.
While offering less oppor-
tunity for flashy aerobatics
than its predecessor, Cyclone
presents more problems and
is more satisfying to play.
The graphics are still effec-
tive, if less complex, and the
concept of batrling against
the weather as well as your
own cackhandedness is novel
and welcome. Chris Bourne
CYCLONE
Memory: 48K
Price: £6,95
Joystick; Sinclair, Kempston.
Prat**
Gilbert factor: 8
On a level
with Ted
CHIPS , chips, everywhere
and not a bite to eat. After all,
who wants to eat the silicon
variety?
Kewson Consultants obvi-
ously believe someone might
like a byte and have launched
Technician Ted. It is yet
another platform game bear-
ing startling similarities to
Jet Set Willy.
You play the part of Ted in
a silicon chip factory. It is a
massive place and to get his
meal of chips, Ted has to
complete various tasks allow-
ing him to pick up a glass,
knife and fork and so on.
The graphics are highly
coloured and scroll smoothly
— transition from one screen
to another is well oiled! Ted
almost waltzes round the fac-
tory to the Blue Danube, a
rousing number even when
played on the Spectrum.
Technician Ted is guaran-
teed to keep avid arcade ad-
venturers happy for a few
days. However, if you prefer
something with more zap,
don't go anywhere near the
silicon factory. Clan Bdgtky
TECHNICIAN TED
Memory; 48K
Price; ES.95
Joystick: Sinclair, Kempston
Gilbert factor: 7
Time for bed, said Zebedee
IN The Magic Rounda-
bout, from CRL, Dougal
and the gang are still playing
happily in the Magic Garden
where Dougafs aim is to
build a house of sugar before
bedtime. He has to collect
lumps of sugar dotted around
the garden and dump them at
the Magic Mushroom — re-
sembling a deformed flower
— where a train will appear
to transport them to his
house.
Sprite characters make up
the graphics and although
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they are a faithful copy of the
original characters the move-
ments are jerky and slow.
Not a game to start the
adrenalin flowing — in fact it
will continue to course slug-
gishly through your veins —
it is great nevertheless to see
that Dougal and friends are
still around, even if they have
been incarcerated in RAM
for posterity. Clare Edgeity
MAGIC HOUNOABOUT
Memory: 48K
Price: £6.95
Joystick: Protek. Kompston
AGF
Gilbert Factor: 5
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37
The tales of
Viking Eric
BASED on the book by Ter-
ry Jones, Erik the Viking,
although published by Mosa-
ic, has been programmed by
Level 9. The advemure does
not simply rehash the origi-
nal but uses extracts from it
to provide background and
cluss for a new saga.
Erik has settled down to
become a prosperous farmer.
While his sons go a-viking in
ihe summers he prefers to sit
by his hall fire and hear their
tales. His contentment is
short-lived and one day, as he
snoozes under a tree out on
his pastures, his farm is raid-
ed by strange creatures from
the out lands. He wakes to
find his family and wealth
have been taken.
The game begins at this
point and Erik's task is to get
his ship and crew together
and then head down the Fjord
to the open sea. Appalling
danger and powerful magic
await him.
The program is attractive-
ly presented and the location
graphics are well made, giv-
one oorit h to the stio«e f eetst
to -the set unci &n& south to
nocks.
trli at now 7 E
Euik is ire the settles. The oreLy
exit is vest to the beach.
Luik ccire see o stow.
Illicit imp'
mg a fair flavour of the
period. They take a little time
to draw but can be removed
by entering 'words'. The sce-
nario is imaginative and full
of event. There are en-
chanters, goddesseSj sea mon-
sters and vicious enemies.
The puzzles appear to be
quite complex, as we might
expect from Level 9, and
Erik's journey is full of
practice to get it right.
The game is well written
and includes all the elements
of skill and coordination that
make an exciting . program.
There is one irritating aspect.
If you repeatedly fail to clear
the eight car stage s the game
will end and start again with
At one with the elements
The flight of the BMX biker
EDDIE KIDD may have
found it a doddle jumping 14
buses but in Jump Chal-
lenge it is not so easy.
In the official Eddie Kidd
version from Martech
Games, you are given the
chance to beat Eddie's world
record jump — secure in the
knowledge that every time
you fail your bones remain
intact.
Pedalling furiously on
your BMXj you warm up
with a gentle jump over a
mere 18 oil drums. It is quite
easy — complacency sets in.
On graduating to motor
bikes there is a relatively
small jump over eight cars for
starters! If, as the instructions
state, you land with your
back wheel on the ramp you
should be all right.
The game calls for a large
combination of skill, luck and
the ability to judge speeds
and distances. The speedo-
meter and rev counter are a
help but the main idea of the
game is to teach the player to
'get the feel' of the bike.
The position of the rider is
critical during the flight as he
controls the angle of the bike.
Making him lean backwards
or forwards alters the bike's
trajectory so that a safe land-
ing can be negotiated. You
will need to put in a lot of
The BMX warm-up. When
you are itching to get Eddie
into the air, that stage seems a
waste of time. Clan Ba
JUMP CHALLENGE
Memory: 48K
Price: £6.95
Joystick: Not specified
Gilbert Factor 6
choice and decision. Even
setting ofl requires a lot of
forward planning.
The interpreter does not
seem to have suffered too
badly from the space given
over to graphics though there
were times when it could
have been more helpful. In
general, though, Erik the Vi-
king is entertaining, complex
and very good to look at.
Even with a few minor criti-
cisms Level 9 games are well
above the normal standard of
most adventures and this one
is no exception, a blend of
heroic adventure and detec-
tive story. Richard
ERIK THE VIKING
Memory; 4BK
Price: £9.95
Gilbert Factor: S
ZENJI is a strange game but
one which has become a cult
in the United States, It is an
Activision import which has
been hurriedly translated to
the Spectrum.
In order to become a mas-
ter you must rely on your
intuition to feel the forces
flowing through the game's
maze. Your playing piece is a
face which revolves as you
move the joystick or the key-
pad defined on the keyboard.
It starts at a central ele-
ment and you must move it
round the corridors and con-
nect it to other elements
which lie at the nodes of the
corridors. If you hit a connec-
tion then a power wave is
started between the original
and new element and a link
established. Part of the maze
lights up with the radiance
that those sources give ofT
The higher levels of the
game involves mazes which
fill the whole screen and crea-
tures which will only be too
38
happy to feed on the energy
that propels your character.
If you bump into one then
you will lose a life.
You will find that you will
get better at the game and
reach the higher levels but in
Zenji experience is gained
through insight and not men-
tal reasoning. There is a way
to beat the game at all its
levels using logic but thai
spoils the excitement and we
do not intend to reveal the
answer*
Ultimately, Zenji is a test
for two players. When yoa
have enough mastery over the
mazes then you should find a
friend to pit your wits
against.
John (iilh-r!
ZENJI
Memory: 48K
Price: £7 99
Joystick: Programmable,
Sinclair, Kempstorv Cursor
Gilbert Factor: fl
SINCLAIR USER January
Bargains are bootyful
IN A BID to capitalist on the
computer gaming scene, Brit-
ish Telecom has recently en-
tered the market with their
Silver range of games —
priced at £2.50.
They are a mixed bag.
BT's claim that the games are
worthy of a five pound price
tag seems to be applicable to
only two of the games re-
newed here. The remaining
two would be expensive at
any price over £2.50.
In Booty, you play the
part of Jim the Cabin Boy
why finds himself aboard the
infamous pirate ship — the
Black Galleon. One night
while most of the pirates are
sitting down to a steady
drinking spree Jim creeps
round the levels of the ship to
steal their loot.
However, life is not always
a game and Jim finds himself
in the suds when he realises
that not all the pirates are
drunk — some have been left
on guard. To get into their
cabins, he has to steal the
keys from under their noses.
The graphics are excellent
with half the game portrayed
in the increasingly popular
style reminiscent of Sabre
Wulf and Pyjamarama.
Viking Raiders is a dif-
ferent kettle of fish. It is a
strategy game set amongst
warfkring vikings back in the
s of King Canute-
There are four armies,
each headed by a Viking
chief. The aim is to defeat the
other three armies and be-
come victor and ruler of the
area. Dirty tricks abound and
your catapults can be used to
devastating effect.
The graphics are sparse
and biisic. Each army takes a
different colour which is hard
on the eyes. Bright blueSj
Bikers out of control
ONCE they have fathomed trols but, all told, the game is
how to choose the game con- exciting and quite addictive,
trol options budding BMX
star-warriors should have a
pretty good time with Star-
hike, a fast arcade produc-
tion from The Edge,
You must steer your star-
bike across the planet's sur-
face to rescue friendly droids
and return them to the safety
of your lander module via a
teleport located in your sec-
tor.
Large numbers of hostile
■lien objects swarm over [he
screen and will eventually
wear out your shields and
send you to wherever it is
deceased BMX star-warriors
are supposed to spend eterni-
ty-
There are a number of con-
trol options and you can
choose from several joysticks,
the Fuller Master Unit, In-
terface 2 and Currah micro-
speech. Working out how to
select those requires a couple
of A Levels.
It may take you some time
to get used to the thrust con-
ST A RBI KE
Memory: 48K
Price: £6.95
Joystick: Kempston, Fuller.
Protek. Sinclair
Gilbert Factor: 6
pinks and greens may look
nice in the programmer's
imagination but they look ter-
rible to the player who has to
squint to see what is going
on. However^ there is enough
appeal in the game to detract
from these basic graphics,
The remaining two games
are The Wild Bunch and
Exodus. The Wild Bunch is
an adventure set in the wild
west. Framed for a murder
you didn't commit, you are
out to nail the Wild Bunch.
The game resembles a su-
perior multiple choice with a
selection of options given to
you at every move.
Adventures written in that
Style are rarely as exciting as
those written in the more
conventional mode — they
rapidly become tedious.
Billed as a graphical adven-
ture, The Wild Bunch has a
few scenes dotted around the
adventure which are well de-
picted. For the most part
though it appears to be most-
ly text.
Exodus is your average ar-
cade game packed with char-
acters cloned from other
games. Mutant llamas
abound, hower mowers, gal-
leons and TV sets lurk and
assorted aliens merely wait to
get you. The game lacks ex-
citemenL) the graphics flicker
iind the sound is fairly aver-
age,
dare EJgeley
BOOTY
Memory 48K
Price E2.50
Joystick: Kemps ton Sinclair,
Programmable
Gilbert Factor: 7
VIKING RAIDERS
Memory: 48K
Price £2 50
Gilbert Factor: B
THE WILD BUNCH
Memory: 48K
Price: £2.50
Gilbert Factor: S
EXODUS
Memory; 48K
Prict: £2,50
Joystick. Cursor. Kemp si on
Gilbert Factor 3
Under starter's orders
AS A RESULT of the tre-
mendous success of Track &
Field in the arcades in ihis^
the Olympic year, a number
of companies have jumped on
the bandwagon to produce
clones for all micros.
The latest to enter the
great race is Melbourne
House with Sports Hero.
Crammed into the Spec-
trum's memory are four
events — 100 metre sprint,
long jump, 1 10 metre hurdles
and the pole vault with a
choice of three levels.
Under starters orders —
BANG — and the runners
were off, haring through the
streets past grafiui covered
billboards proclaiming 'Brix-
ton Rules'. No time to recov-
er — on to the next event.
If you qualify in all four
events you will go onto the
next level where you will find
yourself running for the uni-
versity team.
The game is played in the
same way as Track & Field
where you have two run but-
tons and a jump button —
necessary for hurdles t pole
vault and the long jump, Tn
order to run you will have to
press the run buttons rapidly
and an indicator will chart
your speed.
A few small grouses —
there isn't any sound except
for a bleep from the starter's
pistol. The game would be
greatly enhanced if you could
hear the sound of feet pound-
ing up the track.
Sports Hero is a one player
game so you do lose the com-
petitive aspect when playing
with someone else and there
are only four events a) heir
over three difficulty levels.
Programmers are stretching
the Spectrum to its limits —
more events would have add-
ed a welcome variation.
Ciart Hdgeify
SPORTS HERO
Memory: 4BK
Price: £6.75
Joystick: Sinclair.
Progra mmable
Gilbert Factor: 6
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Action through the ages
EUREKA!, Ian Living-
stone's package, from Do
mark, contains something for
everyone. Each of the five
sections is prefaced with an
arcade game which builds up
the character's strength, or
vigor> but tires the playing
fingers.
In the prehistoric maze
you are represented by a little
figure, the size of a character
square and difficult to dis-
tinguish from its background.
You must guide it around the
maze, picking up roast chick-
en legs while avoiding flash-
ing squares which rush at you
and jumping on those which
try to run away.
All those antics have a
Strange sort of logic to them.
If you want to keep your
sanity, however, it is best to
pick up the nearest kg and
make a dash for the exit. If
you are not quick enough on
the fire button, for this game
surely requires a joystick,
more chicken legs are scat-
Heroics for he-men
THE USUAL Ian tern- jawed,
muscle-bound hero adorns
the cover of Tower of De-
spair from Games Work-
shop. A swift reading of the
background history reveals a
plot and setting not too far
removed from Lord of the
Rmgs — the hellish and very
nasty sorcerer has resurfaced
and OrCs are abroad.
The Wizards' Council is
extremely worried and has
summoned you, the warrior-
mage of Castle Argent and
part-time weight lifter, to re-
move this Malnor chap and
his demonic legions.
To do that you must find
the Golden Gauntlet, cur-
rently in the possession of
another elderly ex-hero. Jour-
ney through the wilderness,
survive many perils, find (he
Tower, rub out Malnor. So
much for the plot.
The adventure contains
two complete sections. The
program is written on the
Quill and is text-only, though
the character set has been
changed to a pleasant medi-
eval script with the occasion-
al illuminated capital.
Naturally enough there are
assorted monsters to over-
come and care will need to be
taken with the magical arti-
facts you encounter.
D & D devotees will prob-
ably fee! at home in the land
of Aelandor but more reluc-
tant heroes may find they
have been there too many
times already,
Richard Price
TOWER OF DESPAIR
Memory: 48 K
Price: C7.95
Gilbert Factor: 5
tered around the maze.
Once through the finger
punishment phase one of the
adventures may be loaded.
Those take you into a series
of time slips through which
you have to travel to find the
pieces of a talisman first dis-
covered on the moon by
Apollo XVII but later shat-
tered and lost in time.
First stop is the prehistoric
age in which you can become
breakfast for a dinosaur^ dis-
cover hidden pitfalls, and be-
come lost in one of the many
forests which dominate the
land.
If, after that, you are in-
clined to travel further you
can load the next program
and slip back to Ancient
Rome where the slaves are
revolting and the lions raven-
ous. Livingstone's long asso-
.mtion with role-playing
games ensures that full myth-
ology value is injecte'd into
the scenario.
The mythological strain
continues with a trip to Celtic
Britain where you have to
rescue the wizard Merlin and
meet the crew of Camelot.
Once you have got those
pieces of the talisman you can
travel to the two final seg-
ments of the package which
take place in the near past.
Despite i he combination of
arcade and adventure games
the package is disappointing
as it offers nothing new,
The package is good value
however, especially consider-
ing the £25,000 prize for the
lucky winner.
John Gilbert
EUREKAf
Memory: 4RK
Price: £14.95
Joystick: Kemps ton. Sinclair
Gilbert Factor: 8
Conquer Kent, crush Kabul
ALTHOUGH there have
been many attempts to pro-
duce wargames on the Spec-
trum of comparable quality
to the boardgames of the mid-
seventies, few have managed
to match their ancestors.
Lothlorien has attempted
to rectify that with Confron-
tation, a system which al-
lows players to define their
own maps and forces for plav.
The system suffers from
being a two-player game> rel-
egating (he computer to the
role of the umpire.
Battles are modern in style 3
with armoured and foot in-
fantry, aircraft and artillery.
The mechanics are of the
move-fire type, with mobile
units moving first and each
player moving in turn.
The graphics are attractive
and easy to follow. There are
no confusing figures to inter-
pret.
The Confrontation pack-
age includes a simple scenar-
io to start you off. Lothlorien
has also released a cassette of
scenarios based on 'real'
events, which cannot be used
without the original program.
The scenarios are bold in
conception; Egypt vs Israel
u row the Sinai desert is an
exercise in chess- 1 ike preci-
sion of communication lines.
An Angolan scenario in
which Unha defends coastal
strongpoints against Cuban-
trained forces introduces the
possibility of South African
reinforcements.
Operation Sea Lion enters
the world of alternative histo-
ry with the German invasion
of Kent s while the fourth sce-
nario has a Soviet column
attempting to force a passage
through the mountain passes
of Afghanistan.
All of the scenarios, as well
as the main program, are
well constructed and repre-
sent challenging problems for
keen wargamers. They will
welcome the series with en-
thusiasm. But those who can-
not claim to be avid armchair
generals are less likely to find
a sometimes frustrating busi-
ness enthralling enough to
justify the investment,
Chris Boumf
CONFRONTATION
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Memory ; 48K
Price; £7,95
Gilbert Factor; 7
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Memory 4flK
Price: £5.95
Gilbert Factor: 7
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An audience with Machiavelli's Prince
DUPLICITY, cunning and
self-interest are the keynotes
of the 1984 Cambridge
Award winner, The Prince,
written by John Sherry and
published by CCS. The title
is consciously derived from
Machiavelli's handbook of
politics and is designed for
four players.
Set in a gloomy renaissance
fortress the game is a combi-
nation of strategy and adven-
ture formats. The aim is to
become Loremaster and chief
counsellor to the Prince, rul-
er of this land, and each char-
acter must get to the top by
any means possible —
whether it be theft, kidnap or
mayhem.
After engaging the services
of henchmen — who can 'hit'
other castle servants and
characters — and spies who
can report on the actions of
other people, each player
moves around the fortress
giving instructions to his staff
and trying to secure the to-
kens which will ensure ad-
vancement. Goods can be
bought and sold from the cas-
tle trader and a banker will
ajrange transfers of cash.
Each player has a passcode
which will allow him to take
his turn — other players are
Code of the warrior
BEFORE your very eyes the
bestial forces of the Dark-
lords have destroyed your
monastery and friends. Re-
venge is in your heart but you
must first reach the capital
and warn the king of the im-
pending onslaught. War and
danger will bedevil your ev-
ery step.
Flight from the Dark is
an overlay is provided for the
purpose — this could have
been made more solidlv,
The graphics are animated
and you are shown walking or
riding through the locations.
If you encounter an enemy
there is a very clever combat
sequence which allows you to
thrust, swipe, chop and parry
with whatever weapons you
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the computer version of the
Arrow single role-play book
and the program is packaged
with it for double enjoyment
and references. The program
contains new situations but
follows the original plot and
the screen display will show
if you are dealing with a sec-
tion of the book by indicating
the relevant paragraph.
Options are scrolled up be-
low the graphic display and
the choice is made by a key-
press. Other actions are also
controlled by single keys and
currently hold. This is in real
time and can be a nail biting
experience as your survival
will depend on the fighting
skill you have built up in the
course of your travels.
Addicts of the book version
will find the program every
bit as demanding and excit-
ing. The general quality of
the graphics enhances that
pleasure, Riekatd Price
FLIGHT FROM THE DARK
Memory; 4fiK
Price: £fl.95
Gilbert Factor: 8
not supposed to observe this
but are sure to try.
Life is not simple since any
of the spies and henches re-
cruited may well be working
for other player-characters
and information may be
bought and sold.
The computer keeps track
of your money and posses-
sions and informs you of your
current position at the begin-
ning of each turn. Input is in
standard verb/noun combina-
tions and there is a hidden
vocabulary besides the prede-
fined commands for control-
ling your gang.
The Prince will involve
you in much bargaining and
chicanery with the three
other human players. Alli-
ances may be formed and
broken, lying and deceit will
be the most normal interac-
tions. An audience with the
Prince himself is possible but
he is temperamental and will
brook no impertinence.
Ten inputs are allowed for
each turn so you must plan
your strategy carefully. Pic-
tures of the people you are
talking to arc shown on-
screen and the character set is
a mock-gothic script.
The game is we II -con-
structed and, since you only
ever have a partial view of the
goings on, is full of the unex-
pected. Diplomacy addicts
will feel quite at home here as
the web of treachery spreads
through the palace and it is
easy to become utterly ab-
sorbed in your character.
Richard Prise
THE PfllNCE
Memory: 4SK
Price: £7 95
Gilbert Factor: 8
Willy in armour
IF YOU OWN a 16K Spec-
trum and have felt left out
since Manic Miner and Jet
Set Willy were produced for
the 48 K machine then Sir
Lancelot, from Melbourne
House, may take away some
of the heartache.
Although the author does
not equate the game with the
best-selling Willy series there
are some obvious parallels.
As the fabled knight in shin-
ing armour you must investi-
gate 24 rooms through which
have been strewn treasures,
including keys, crowns and
gold, and seven different
types of monster. They move
mechanically up and down or
across the screen and your
task is to develop a strategy to
defeat them and retrieve the
treasure.
The solutions to the trea-
sure quests on each screen are
made harder when the objects
seem to be out of reach. How-
ever, each screen contains an
answer and it just takes prac-
tice to get to the next one,
Sir Lancelot is a 48K game
crammed into a I6K machine
and as such the author should
be congratulated.
John Gilbert
SIR LANCELOT
Memory: 1G/48K
Price: C5.9S
Joystick; Kempston, Sinclair.
Cursor
Gilbert Factor: 7
rnvrt software <nr page 48
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Celtic quest
of Cuchulainn
OTHER programmers will
find it difficult competing
with Tir Na Nog from Gar-
goyle. Until you have loaded
up you may think thai the
booklet's boast of a 'com-
puter movie' is pushing it a
bit. Not so — this animated
graphics adventure is bound
to become a classic of Spec-
trum programming and por-
trays the travels and
adventures of the hero Cu-
chulainn through the Celtic
afterworld, Tir Na Nog.
Cuchulainn strides tall,
clear and purposeful along
the paths of his world. Fore- 3
middle- and backgrounds
scroll independently behind
him, giving a convincing like-
ness of real movement. The
camera angle can be altered
so that he can be seen from
four viewpoints and the sce-
nery changes accordingly.
The clouds roll, smoke bil-
lows, birds flutter.
Other characters are shown
in equal detail and live their
own lives whilst Cuchulainn
obeys you in his search for
the fragments of the Seal of
Calum.
Not that you have to pur-
sue the quest. You may
choose to wander the roads
and explore the intricacies of
the world or follow secondary
objectives that may well need
to be completed before the
major aim can be accom-
plished. Other characters
may lay tasks on you too and
events may force you in a
certain direction at times.
Beware of the Sidhe s those
powerful, dangerous and
magical beings who also use
the pathways. Combat may
occur if all else fails and Cu-
chulainn can thrust with any
weapon he may have found.
To progress and survive vou
will need persistence, lateral
thinking and good luck —
though of course you cannot
be killed, merely returned to
the beginning
The game is not designed
as a text adventure and uses
the keyboard for movement
and initiating various actions.
Do not be misled by this into
thinking that it is an arcade
game — the program scope is
vast and the world it depicts
is alive and full of atmo-
sphere. This is a full adven-
ture and, with no single or
simple solution, may keep
you occupied for a Jong, long
time. Highly original and
stunningly presented
Rkhatd Price
TIR NA NOG
Memory 4BK
Price: £9 95
Gilbert Factpr: 9
Grasshopper's leap
BECOME a master of the
ancient oriental art of Kung-
Fu without dislocating your
back or having the wind
knocked out of you.
Kung-Fu, from Bug-Byte,
is described as a totally ani-
mated combat game for two
players or one player and die
Game for the turtally warped
CLAIRVOYANTS should
have a ball with Turtle
Timewarp from Softstone.
A brief examination of the
cassette blurb reveals nothing
about the game apart from
the loading instructions.
After a nice loading screen
information appears offering
redefmable keys, joystick and
start options. Fine, you say,
and punch the start key,
thinking that enlightenment
will arrive before the game
gets under way.
It does not. The only refer-
ence to the aim of the game is
the brief 'save all turtles in
this amazing game' on the
back end of the insert.
The screen depicts a small
2D maze with quest ionmarks
in the dead-end portions. You
manoeuvre a turtle round the
maze into the questionmarks.
Sometimes that results in the
creation of unpleasant insects
to add to those already chas-
ing the turtle.
Sometimes a house is ma-
terialised which blocks off
corners and makes life more
difficult for the biting bees. If
they get you, you lose a life.
Once you have managed to
explore all the questionmarks
you move up a screen.
With no game concept to
latch onto the business seems
singularly pointless, though
the graphics are reasonably
fast. The competent render-
ing of Fur Elise was more
gripping than the game and
the choice of questionmarks
as symbol very apt. A crystal
ball could come in handy if
you have one. Ritkard Prw
TURTLE TIMEWARP
Memory 48K
Price: £2.99
Joystick: Kemps ton
Gifbert Factor: 4
41
computer.
Each player controls one of
the Kung-Fu fighters which
must approach each other in
a very inscrutable way before
bashing the hell out of cadi
other. Bug-Byte may enthuse
about the graphics and crow
about the cleverly designed
fighters but, although the dis-
play initially looks impres-
sive) movement is jerky and
action slow. The fighters
move as if they are robots.
Much emphasis is put on
the techniques which the
fighters can use when in ac-
tion. Such moves are fairly
authentic but the movement
between a standing pose and
making contact with the
other player could have been
made more realistic.
If you are going to play
Kung-Fu with any kind of
agility then you will need a
joystick. You will then at
least get some enjoyment out
of it and not get whitewashed
by a computer Ninja,
John Gilbert
KUNG-FU
Memory; 46K
Price; £6,95
Joystick: Programmable
Cursor. Sinclair,
Kempston
Gilbert Factor: 6
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Snowbound
in Eden
DOWN to earth at last, Kim
Kimberley, secret agent ex-
traordinaire and saviour of
the starship Snowball, has
been framed for an act of
sabotage. Fleeing the wrath
of the woken colonists she
steals a straroglider and en-
ters the atmosphere of Eden,
the Snowball's destination-
Condemned to death she has
only a short time to hide in
the luxuriant and bizarre un-
dergrowth of the planet. The
ship need only turn its en-
gines towards her to fry her
to a crisp.
So begins Return to
Eden, another brain scram-
bling adventure from Level 9
and sequel to Snowball, The
presentation has changed —
the game includes location
graphics, yellow word display
on a black background and
'write ahead'. That feature
allows you to input text in a
continuous flow without
waiting for the cursor to reap-
pear.
There arc around 250 loca-
tions and Level 9 claims that
the use of graphics has not
adversely affected the amount
of description or the general
quality. Initial exploration
Space^ the final
THE AGE OLD game of
Star Trek has been resur-
rected to bring to your
screens New Cylon Attack,
from A 'NT Software.
Following the successful
BBC version of the game,
Mew Cylon Attack now
boasts improved graphics and
payability.
The storyline is familiar
and brings to mind scenes of
a portly Captain Kirk at the
helm of the Starship Enter-
prise. You are pilot on board a
supply ship carrying rein-
forcements to a distant plan-
et in a war-torn galaxy.
The game portrays the
sights of your laser gun in the
middle of the screen with
moving crosshairs. By mov-
ing these you are able to pin-
point the Cylon s as they fly at
the mothership.
As well as the radar scan-
ner there are a few other in-
struments which need
constant monitoring includ-
ing fuel situation, the state of
your lasers and shield
strength.
Your tanks may be re-
fuelled during the game,
which involves wandering
round space looking for rhe
mothership to dock on to, No
fun with empty tanks and as
often as not your fuel will run
out just as she is in sight.
The graphics aren't as-
tounding and the sound fairly
average. New Cylon Attack is
not The most original game
but it is by no means the
worst. Clare Edgeley
NEW CYLON ATTACK
Memory: 4BK
Price; £5.75
Joystick: Kempston
Gifbert Factor: 5
seems to back that up. If you
find the graphics too slow
they can be switched out.
Once safe in the jungle you
must head out for the robot-
manned city in the east. You
must survive amongst the
beautiful but lethal flora and
fauna and avoid the robot
devices which protect the
city.
Problems and puzzles
abound; this is a world un-
known to humans and many
plants or creatures have odd
properties. Just trying to sur-
vive ten minutes is difficult
— Level 9 keep rolling those
heavy dice on you but give
you a few resurrections be-
fore finishing you off.
Exhausted compulsives of
the firm's other works may
just as well admit to them-
selves now that they probably
won't be sleeping much for
the next few monihs. Atmo-
spheric and original.
RETURN TO EDEN
Memory: 4SK
Price: £9.95
Gilbert Factor: 8
A better Basic
BETA BASIC, from Beta-
soft, has already established
itself as the standard ex-
ten ded Basic for the Spec-
trum. The launch of version
1.8 confirms that view with
routines added to support In-
terface and microdrives.
The new language adds 30
new commands and 20 func-
tions to Sinclair Basic and
makes use of the structuring
commands which are avail-
able for machines such as the
BBC Micro and the Commo-
dore SX-64
The language is so much
better than the Sinclair Basic.
As well as the structure com-
mands such as DEF PROC
which creates procedures
similar to those on the QL
there ;iu- .dso programming
aid utilities, graphics com-
mands, easier access to the
memory of the Spectrum and
a real time clock which even
has an alarm.
The utilities include an
AUTOline number com-
mand, a command which
TRACEs the number of a
line as it is executed in a
program RUN and a horizon-
tal screen SCROLL which
behaves in a similar fashion
to that on the ZX-81. There
is also a ROLL utility which
will scroll the screen vertical-
ly in any direction.
The 20 new functions in-
clude a PEEK which looks at
I fi-bit words, decimal to bina-
ry and decimal to hexadeci-
mal converters, a SCREENS
command which recOp
both ordinary and user de-
fined graphics and a function
to convert a number into a
different format such as thai
of decimal currency.
It is a great pity that Sin-
clair Research has not
brought out a version of Beta
Basic on its new Spectrum +
either on board the machine
or as a microdrive cartridge
or ROM. Betasoft turns Sin-
clair Basic from a good ver-
sion of the language to a
fantastic one. >*" G&m
BETA BASIC
Memory: 48K
Price; £11 00
Gilbert Factor; 9
mare nyftzuire t»i /'.,
SINCLAIR USER January 1985
As Technician Ted you clock in for
work at the strangest factory -
even getting in can be a problem 1
Vou have -a numder of important tasks
to perform, but most days there just
don't seem to be enough hours in the day
to get all your work completed
See if you can get through 50 screens of
varying complexity, but watch out for the
most unhelpful workmates you ever came
across! There s the Fire Extinguisher that
seems to have gone beserk! Some very
unfriendly faces, and even the boardroom
, ' chairs aren't always what they seem I
What's more. Technician Ted incorporates
a unique animated loading screen and
perfected collision detection,
Colourful and detailed graphics coupled
with smooth actron and continuous sound
are likely to make Technician Ted 1 985's
top game,
Clock in with Ted now'
For the Spectrum 48K- £$.95
For the Amstrad CPC 464. £7.95
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publisher Computer Re-
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streets in the form of a compi-
lation of 12 popular games
from companies including
Bug-Byre, Quicks ilva, Anirog
and Ocean.
They have been released
under the collective title Se-
lect 1 and the company
claims that if every game was
brought separately the player
would have to pay about
£70.00. Quite a saving.
Some of the games are an-
cient but in the same package
you will find more recent ti-
tles which include Hunch-
back;, Mr Wimpy, Missile
Defence, Pool, Denis
through the Drinking
Glass and Moon Buggy.
In Denis through the
Drinking Glass, the idea is to
help Denis Thatcher stagger
to the Gravediggers Arms to
revitalise the parts that Mag-
gie cannot reach.
In this Quilled adventure
from Application Software,
Denis is at his wits end —
there is not a drop of booze at
No 10. Escaping from Mag-
gie's loving clutches is no
easy matter and apart from
the worry of being caught by
the wife he has to negotiate
sundry personalities as Mary
Whitehouse and Ken Living-
stone en route.
The player has only ten
moves in which to find the
elusive flask of gin which
makes up Denis' breakfast.
Without it he will fall into a
stupor and the game will end.
Delirium tremens sets in if at
the ninth move Denis still
hasn't had a swig.
How to make a touchdown
Arthur's unoriginal adventure
REMEMBER the old dino-
saur mazes? Moving along
one square at a time you
could turn right or left to
enter side passages, King Ar-
thur's Quest uses a similar
type of movement system,
though the countryside and
rooms depicted are not
bounded in the same way.
The wicked Morgana Le
Fay has put a spell upon the
land. The world is slowly dy-
ing and you must save it from
the Enchantress and her mag-
ic. You begin in Merlin's cot-
tage and must examine the
grids to collect useful objects
or meet the various charac-
ters.
There are nine basic ac-
tions each carried out by a
single key press — a rather
flimsy overlay is provided to
show the relevant keys.
This is not a normal text
adventure, given the very
limited range of input, and
may consequently appeal to a
younger age group. The
graphic displays aire suffi-
ciently pleasant, though un-
original in style, and the
response time is fast. There is
a microdrive transfer facility
but if you are killed during
play you must reload.
Richard Ptict
KING ARTHUR'S QUEST
Memory: 48K
Priee: £7,95
Gilbert Factor: 4
Denis through the Drink-
ing Glass gently mocks the
Iron Lady and her retinue in
a game which can be great
fun.
Missile Defence from An-
irog is based on the classic
arcade game where you have
to protect your city from a
murderous alien attack. The
game is quite fast, but your
bomb sights move too slowly
to contain the aliens on the
higher levels.
Moon Buggy, also from
Anirog, is a poor representa-
tion of the original game.
The graphics are sketchy
with an almost unchanging
background, and the aliens
are almost non-existent.
However the package is
very good value especially as
a Christmas present. You
may well have most of the
games but even the three or
four games which are new to
you will make the package
worthwhile. Ciart Ettgtky
SELECT 1
Memory: 48K
Price; £12.49
Joystick: Available for some
of the games
Gilbert Factor: 7
FOURTH down and three.
Will you run or pass?
If that means little to you
then you are clearly no fan of
American Football. Recent
television coverage of the
sport has aroused an interest
in Britain, and Argus Soft-
ware has responded by releas-
ing a simulation, American
Football.
The game is a strategy ver-
sion, in which you as the
team coach select your style
of attack or defence from a
menu, and the computer, or
another player, selects a re-
sponse. The results are dis-
played on the screen with
animated graphics rather in
the style of Football Man-
ager, with small figures
moving into various positions
and working through the se-
lected plays.
American Football Lends it-
self well to computer simula-
tion, as the real game is
played as a series of tactical
set pieces where the object is
to gain as many yards from a
single play as possible, before
scoring a touchdown by tak-
ing the ball across the oppo-
nents' goal line. Since the
game proceeds in fits and
starts, the computer version
does not lose so much realism
as comparable versions of
Soccer or Basketball.
Those who are not familiar
with the sport are neverthe-
less unlikely to be enthusias-
tic about the game, as it only
really becomes fun if you al-
low your imagination to vi-
sualise what is being
simulated.
For those who do know
something of the game, the
program is much more fun,
and can be heartily rec-
ommended. Gkria Bourn*
AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Memory: 48K
Price: £9 99
Gilbert Factor: 7
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Deus Ex Machfna is a total experience. The game takes you through seven stages of
life, as you struggle to maintain your humanity against the forces of control. Superb
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magazine in our special wordsquare below.
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Scott's last journey to the South Pole.
Sid Smith asks why they want a QL.
Pole-star QL on
Southern Quest
A BRITISH team is planning- a
year in the Antarctic and the
first walk to the South Pole since
Scott's 1912 expedition — and is taking
a QL.
The five Britons are about to set ofF
on one of the world's worst journeys,
They will camp on the Antarctic ice for
at least a year in temperatures down to
-60 Centigrade, and then two of their
number will attempt to walk almost 900
miles to the South Pole, pulling ah their
supplies behind them on specially de-
signed man sledges.
Throughout their stay) a Sinclair QL
will be solely responsible for the man-
agement of scientific data, for the pro-
duction of a book about the expedition,
and for the logging of day-to-day radio
contact with the two men on their
solitary, 85-day journey.
"We chose the QL because it was
much the most exciting computer avail-
able/' says expedition manager William
Fenton. "Because it was small, because
it was powerful for its size, and because
we thought we'd take something adven-
turous. And because we liked Clive
Sinclair."
Their expedition. In the Footsteps of
Scott, grew from a desire to retrace the
historic journey of Robert Scott to the
South Pole seventy years ago.
However, the five men have no desire
to repeat the ultimately fatal outcome of
that earlier trip, and are counting on the
best of modern technology — including
the QL — to see them through.
"The difficulties of walking 900
miles across the Antarctic are almost
insurmountable," says Mike Stroud,
the expedition doctor who will be using
the QL more than anyone else, "It's
only by sticking to a most rigid diet, in
the form of calories per ounce* and by
using the strongest and lightest modern
materials for the equipment, that the
men can hope to get through."
Their acq us it ion of the Sinclair de-
vice is only part of the £750,000 worth
of sponsorship they have already man-
aged to raise. Products as diverse as
Shell oil and Bernard Mathew's turkey
breast rolls have been supplied as a
result of the highly professional market-
ing of the expedition, and are now in a
warehouse packed with equipment in
London's West India Dock.
"Everything here has been given to
us," says Dr Stroud, waving an arm
over mountains of low-temperature
clothing and two years 1 supply of food.
"We started out with nothing. Now
we've a ship and all these stores and it's
all come from Letters and phone calls,
and gradually increasing credibility."
In return, the expedition has been
able to offer their sponsors the benefit
of the most rigorous field testing which
any product could ever wish for, and a
huge amount of highly desirable free
publicity.
"We had a major press conference
here a couple of weeks ago, with six TV
channels and about fifty newspapers
from all over the world. We've had
Princess Anne down here on the ship,
and we've been on News at Ten three or
four times."
What about the QL? The expedition
members are already making plans for
spin-offs they can market after they
come home. Apart from a film of their
epic journey and an exclusive two year
contract with Neurs at Ten, they have
also acquired a £50,000 advance from
publisher Jonathan Cape for a book
about the expedition. That book will be
written on the Sinclair QL.
"Unfortunately," says Dr Stroud T
"none of us have a clue about comput-
ers at the moment. But we're counting
on the QL being easy to pick up and
use, even for a beginner."
The machine will stay in the expedi-
tion's base camp and therefore will not
be exposed to the hazards of sub-zero
temperatures and 100 mph winds.
Dr Stroud explains the scientific uses
he plans for the computer. "I have a
whole series of observations to perform
on the effect of Antarctic conditions on
the human physiology.
"Obviously, I'll be looking at the
changes which take place as a result of
low temperatures, but I also want to
examine the way the human metabolic
rate adapts to changes in the amount of
daylight. As the Antarctic day changes
between perpetual day and perpetual
night, I'll be using the QL to record and
manipulate data about alterations in
body temperature, in food intake and in
sleeping patterns."
Many of those alterations will depend
on the effects of the special food and
clothing which the expedition will be
taking, particularly for the two-man
push to the South Pole.
"We've learned a lot from the records
kept by members of the disastrous Scott
expedition. One of the worst tortures
they faced was the way in which perspi-
ration from their bodies passed into
their clothing and sleeping bags and
then froze, so that they were eventually
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carrying many pounds of ice, locked
inside the goose down which was in-
tended to protect them, 1 '
The expedition hopes to get round
that problem through the use of a va-
pour barrier inside their insulated suits
and sleeping bags. Most of the body's
moisture will be trapped next to the
skin by this barrier, thereby preventing
the build-up of ice in their clothing, and
helping to prevent dehydration in the
arid Antarctic air.
"We'll probably get a bit sweaty,"
says Dr Stroud, "but that's certainly
better than the alternative."
Dr Stroud won't be one of the two
men pulling sledges to the South Pole.
That dubious pleasure is reserved for
Robert Swan and Roger Mead, who
between them have clocked up an im-
pressive list of qualifications for the job
— things like solo bicycle rides from
Gape Town to Cairo j the circumnavi-
gation of the Icelandic ice-cap, and a
winter ascent of the north face of the
Eiger.
Unlike Captain Scott, they will not
have the help of ponies and tractors for
any stage of their journey, nor will they
be able to rely on periodic stops at pre-
arranged supply dumps. Instead, they
will make the entire 683 mile journey
from base camp to the Pole on their
own two feet, pulling behind them two
sledges containing every ounce of their
supplies.
They will also be uncomfortably
aware that since Scott's time^ nobody
has attempted a walk to the South Pole,
and that not one of the Scott party got
back alive.
'No, we've got no desire to imitate
the Scott expedition too closely/' says a
member of the present enterprise with a
smile. "We've all heard the story of
their last days and of Captain Oates who
walked off into the snow rather than
slow up the expedition.'*
Nevertheless, their awaren^s of the
tragic precedent for their walk to the
Pole is very apparent to an outsider;
constant references are made to the
superiority of their equipment over that
of the 1912 party, and in the galley of
the expedition's ship some mordant wit
has deliberately mis-spelt the label on
their porridge container. "OATES" is
what it says.
Even the presence of a Sinclair com-
puter on board owes something to Cap-
tain Scott. "Dundee was the big
connection here," says William Fenton,
"Scott bought his ship there, and we
found out that many of the parts for the
Sinclair machine are made in Dundee.
So we had to get a QL,"
The long walk of the two modern
explorers will differ from that of Scott
and his party in one large way and in a
number of small ones.
The large difference is that, unlike
Scott and his party, they won't have to
walk back. Instead, a ski plane will fly
to the South Pole and collect them for
the return trip to base,
"For a large part of Scott's walk he
was floundering along, sinking to his
knees in snow. He did have skis, but
they were primitive things which kept
falling apart. On our walk to the Pole,
though, we'll have the best modern
composite skis."
As an insurance policy, each of the
two sledges will have enough supplies
for both men — in case one or the
sledges is lost.
The five men of the expedition will be
camped on the Antarctic for a year,
much of that time spent isolated from
any outside contact. Whai will they do
if their QL breaks down?
"We'll be scuppered," says Dr
Stroud,
"No, it won't be as bad as that,"
laughs William Fenton, "We'll be able
to manage by keeping written notes and
by using a calculator. We'd certainly be
disappointed, though,"
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The Spectrum is seen by many
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having a cassette interface. The BBC,
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That delay caused a number of manu-
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accepted by software houses as a stan-
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The Beta system from Technology
Research was first reviewed in Sinclair
Um in March 1984. Since then it has
undergone a number of improvements
and is now the best selling interface on
the market. SPDOS from Watford Elec-
tronics has been released recently; it has
the backing of a company which has
made a name for itself by designing and
selling interfaces for the BBC.
Both interfaces will accept both 5}in
and 3in drives in 40 or 80 track, single
or double-side format. SPDOS can also
accept old 35 track drives. Up to four
drives can be used but each must have
its own power supply as the Spectrum
does not have any spare capacity. Many
of the drives advertised as suitable for
the BBC do not have a power supply
and that can cost another £30,00.
The most popular system is Si in and
discs cost between £1.75 and £3.00
each. The amount of information they
can hold will vary according to the drive
and the system used to record it. Both
interfaces use a form of double density
recording; Beta divides each track into
1ft sectors of 256 bytes per sector,
whereas SPDOS uses 10 sectors of 512
bytes. A 40 track, single-side drive,
allowing one track for the directory,
gives I56Kand 195K respectively.
The speed of a system depends on
several things, including the speed of
the drive. All discs spin at 300 rpm, five
revolutions per second — but the time it
takes to move from track to track will
vary. Both systems can work at a num-
ber of speeds, from 6 ms to 30ms for
SPDOS and 6ms to 48ms for Beta. The
Beta also incorporates a one second
delay, if the drive is not spinning, to
allow for older, belt-driven drives to
reach operating speed.
Another factor is the method of read-
ing the sectors; Beta follows the usual
practice of reading alternate sectors, so
the disc has to make two revolutions per
track, and SPDOS can read the sectors
one after the other and so should be
quicker.
The Beta interface, unusually, lies
flat from the back of the Spectrum,
consequently it is compatible with all
full-sized keyboards. It has a through
port for other add-ons and is compatible
with both the Kempston E printer in-
terface and Sinclair Interface 1, On the
right is the connector for the disc
drives, which follows the same standard
as the BBC and has been successfully
used with a BBC drive. To the left is a
socket for the Spectrum power supply.
On power up you are presented with
the copyright notice and an invitation to
enter a password. This is the only sys-
tem which uses passwords, which can
he any combination of characters j if you
are forgetful you could give all your
discs a password corresponding to the
ENTER key and so you need only press
that in response to the prompt.
You are then into the DOS — Disc
Operating System — and presented
with:
A>
to remind you that you are in the DOS
and that the default drive, the one to
which all commands will relate, is the
A, or number 1, drive. You can now use
any of the DOS commands directly or
enter Y to RETURN to BASIC, You
can return to the DOS at any time by
entering RAND USR 15360 but that is
rarely needed.
All the normal Spectrum tape com-
mands, apart from VERIFY, can be
used by the disc: the command is sim-
plv preceded by RAND USR 15363:
REM:. If PRINT USR or LET variab-
le = USR is used then the number re-
turned will be the error message, 0,
meaning no error. Calculated param-
eters or variables can be used as with
the tape command.
There are only two variations: by
adding a third parameter when saving
CODE it can be made to auto-run, and
then RUN, rather than LOAD, must be
used to auto-run a program. That ap-
plies to both CODE and BASIC. When
LOADing and SAVEing if the second
character of the file name is a colon and
the first is A, B, C or D then the
command is taken to apply to that drive,
That is a useful way to avoid changing
the default setting.
The commands that relate only to the
drive are ERASE, which will erase a
file, CAT, to obtain a catalogue, USR,
which can be used to change the pass-
word on the disc and NEW, to change
the name of a flit. MOVE has a special
use, When the system saves information
to the disc it is stored, in the interests of
speed, in successive sectors; when files
are erased gaps are left and MOVE
simply moves the files up to fill the
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Pens, pencils, tinge mails- even a fbur-
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drive, it can jam your drive. Ruin your drive
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space. PEEK and POKE can be used to
randomly read information from, and
send it to, the disc. To change the
default drive *"x: ,h is used where x is
the drive. AH those commands must
have the usual prefix.
The utility disc supplied with the
system contains two other commands:
FORMAT, to format the disc, give it its
password and an identifying name; and
COPY to copy a single file or the whole
disc in one go. If you have only one
drive then prompts are given to swop
the discs.
The instruction booklet gives exam-
ples of each of the commands and is
written with the novice in mind. Details
are also included on how to use the
system from within your own machine
code programs. The assembly listing
included for that contains an error,
having the line LD (nn),nn f which must
be changed to include a register. The
index at the back lists the commands,
error messages and pin-outs.
The SPDOS, unlike the Beta inter-
face, sits up vertically from The back of
the Spectrum. It has a through port for
add-ons but is not compatible with In-
terface 1, The lead for the disc is con-
nected on the right hand side, using a
disc connector onto the PCB, like the
TRS80. On the top at the front is a
LED and a reset button. The lead for
the power supply has to be threaded
through a hole in the interface. It will
fit most full-sized keyboards, the only
exception being the Transform which is
rather high at the back.
Powering up, or pressing the reset
As with the Beta all the normal tape
commands can be used in the usual
way, apart from MERGE which will
always auto-run. To make them relate
to the disc thev must be preceded by
PRINT #4:.
The commands that relate to the disc,
which must also use the PRINT #4
prefix, are: CAT, to obtain a catalogue
— this can be followed by a string so
that only those files containing the
string are listed; CLEAR which per-
forms a block delete; ERASE to erase a
file — this includes a wild-card facility
where A can stand for any character;
MOVE renames files or can be used to
copy them,
SPDOS supports sequential files and
a number of commands are used for
that: OPEN # and CLOSE # are used
to open and close files; PRINT # sends
information while INPUT # and IN-
KEYS # are used to read it back. To
use FORMAT the original system disc
has to be in the current drive. That
gives the disc its identifying name, Un-
like the Bera system errors are rerurned
as a Basic error message.
The system disc contains two other
system utilities. The first of those is
"copysys", a program which will copy
the system, except for FORMAT, to
another disc — necessary if you want to
use CAT on the other disc. The other
program is "minidos", a stripped down
version of the system which does not, as
far as is apparent, include the sequential
access commands. Also on the disc is a
simple address book program which
shows the use of sequential files plus
three commercial programs, T as word
button, automatically loads the operat-
ing system into memory. If a program
has been saved with the name
"AUTO", in upper case, then that will
also be loaded. If the program is in
BASIC and was saved using LINE then
it will auto-run. CODE will auto-run
from its first address.
II, Masterflle and Omnicalc 2.
Those have been converted to use the
system and include demonstration data.
Choosing between the two systems
will depend entirely on what you want
to use a disc system for. Both are very
quick; using the same test program as
last month that is,
1 TO 30
Ctest'VSTR$n)
CODE
10 FORn =
20 SAVE
32000,200
10 NEXT n
— and changing line 20 to suit the
system, SPDOS took 58 seconds in
savings 23 loading and 29 erasing while
the Beta took 55, 33 and 47 respective-
ly. Formating depends on the number
of tracks and sides; with an 80 track,
single side disc SPDOS took 2 mm 43
seconds and Beta 1 min 10 seconds.
If you only want to write your own
programs then SPDOS with its over-
lays, sequential access and faster load-
ing times has the edge.
If you also want to put your favourite
commercial programs on disc then the
Beta system is more suitable, unless you
are into machine code. The system oc-
cupies just 1 12 bytes of memory below
the Basic program area; it also uses the
printer buffer when loading code but
when doing so it saves the buffer to the
disc, carries out the command, and then
reloads the buffer.
Both systems allow for a large num-
ber of director^' entries, Beta 128, and
SPDOS 144, With the latter you have
more space per disc. Both require addi-
tions to the commands, the syntax for
SPDOS being slightly easier to enter
from the keyboard. Both sell for similar
prices, Beta £99,00 inclusive, SPDOS
£99.00 plus VAT.
The winner in the contest between
the disc drives will be the one which
receives most software support, Both
companies claim to be talking to soft-
ware houses. In the meantime more
systems are due to be launched. Next
month we look at those, including the
new system from Thumell Electronics,
priced at only £150.00 for both inter-
face and drive.
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Henfordshire. Tel, 0923-40588
Technology Research Lid, Unit 18, Central
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irn^i,- |S II MONITOR
Developed in conjunction
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Psion Chess: Queen of
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QL. CHESS is the most pow-
erful game available for the
QL and, not surprisingly, is
produced for Sinclair Re-
search by Psion.
The most remarkable attri-
bute of the package, accord-
ing to Psion, is its three-
nsional representation of
board and pieces. Although,
on first sight, those graphics
seem complex the 3D repre-
sentation has been created
with the minimal amount of
effort by putting the board
into 3D perspective, When
one piece takes another it
moves in front of it but when
the knight, for instance, ad-
vances over a piece it moves
behind.
The display is effective
and watching the computer
play through a demonstration
will show you what can be
achieved by a programmer
who is more than competent
on the QL,
QL Chess also has the at-
traction of being one of the
fastest computer chess pro-
grams on the market. In Lev-
el Zero Novice Mode, for
instance, it can make more
than seven moves in less than
a second.
The program supports a
normal, birds-eye view, re-
presentation of the chess
board. Psion has made the
format of the display similar
to the one used in its suite of
business programs for the
QL. The options and com-
mands are shown at the top of
the screen, the conventional
net) of the board at middle-
right and a list of moves
which are scrolled up middk-
ieft. The list of moves can be
output to a printer which will
then keep a hard copy of the
game as it progresses. In that
way you will be able to see
where you went wrong in a
game or, in demo mode, how
to improve your standard of
play,
As our copy of the pro-
gram was a preview version
there were bound to be some
disappointments. The major
one involved the 3D screen
display where the commands
and options were not listed. A
good memory is required if
you do not want to keep mov-
ing back to the overhead 'flat'
representation. Psion could
have made the board smaller
and incorporated a command/
option panel at the bottom of
move within the time last
made by the human player
and Infinite Time lifts all the
restrictions of the clock.
There is also a Wait option
available to the human player
which suspends the game,
That wili be useful if cheat-
ing on the clock is required.
Once you have set up the
display and level to your sat-
isfaction you can start a new
game by pressing S. All the
pieces are put into their ini-
the screen which would have
made switching between op-
tions easier.
There are 1 2 levels of play
which can be interchanged at
any lime during a game, ex-
cept when the computer is
thinking about a move. The
first level is Zero and has
tial positions and the clock
starts ticking away.
Movement on the normal
and 3D boards is accom-
plished in different ways.
During 'flat' representation a
cursor is moved, using the
cursor keys, to a chosen piece
and the ENTER kev is
been designated for the nov- pressed. The cursor is then
ice by the authors. It pro- moved to the new position of
but robust
its opening
fraction of a sec-
duces a simple
game and makes
move in
ond.
Any beginner will be more
than flustered by the speed at
which moves are made. Psion
has come close to the preci-
pice of unplayability. We are
sure that the game could hold
a record as one of the fastest
chess games around.
The other levels range
from one to 11. Level One
plavs at two minutes a move
and Level 1 1 at a maximum
lime limit of four minutes.
Above those levels Equal
Time makes the computer
the piece which is then de-
posited on the square.
The 3D representation
provides a cross-hair which is
shifted using the cursor keys
and which acts in the same
way as the 'flat* cursor.
Movement could not be easi-
er and the list of moves is
tabulated in algebraic nota-
tion. No need to enter those
long formulae when you want
to make a move.
If you make a move of
which you are not proud you
can take back the piece before
the computer makes fun of
your folly. There are other
ways of cheating- The first,
and simplest, is to use Him
which wilt tell you the move
the computer would make in
your place. It is also possible
to make the QL take back the
best move it can make and
substitute the next best. In
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forced to play a second-rate
game and you could come out
on top.
Psion has also built an op-
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the* QL is taking. The Analy-
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which the computer considers
before making its final choice
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of the patterns being created
in the game.
QL Chess is likely to take a
well- deserved place in the
history of computer chess. It
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The QL is an ideal chess
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European Chess Champion-
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interested in chess is undeni-
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Psion has also thought of
the beginner. There is a full
set of Help routines within
the program. These should
answer most queries of a
technical or general nature.
If you own a QL then QL
chess should certainly occupy
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at double the outlay-
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instructions are provided Fitting is easy and there is no sobering.
The 5P48 carries our full warranty and all our customers enjoy the
benefits of our renowned product support,
And you get a free copy of Beyond Horizons, and educational
program which has already enlightened thousands of 48k Spectrum
owners about the inner workings of their computers.
48/80 FORTH
This compiler and editor is last becoming recognised as the most
professional and highest quality implementation of the FORTH language
on the Spectrum. FORTH gives you the speed of machine code without
the tedium of machine-code programming.
All ihe Spectrum's excellent graphics commands are retained
including DRAW, PLOT and CIRCLE Real arcade quality sounds can be
produced using BEEP,
Mare advanced FORTH programmers will find that 48/80 FORTH
p-ovides a complete implementation of FIG-FORTH, including the
sophistications of BUILDS. DOES and CODE
Each 48- SO FORTH cassette includes a separate FORTH editor
which uses part of RAM as if it were disk The 48K Spectrum allows a 16k
RAM "disk', while leaving nearly 20k of dictionary space A comprehensive
user-manual is atso included, which covers both compiler and editor, and
has a lucid beginners introduction.
Extensions lo 48/30 FORTH will shortly be available to existing
customers at a nominal charge. These wiEl include floating point arithmetic.
and microdrive handling
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ZXWORD
by Henry
Howarth
ACROSS
6. The wrious sounding micro (6)
8, Famous school gtvi hard disc dnvr (10)
Confusion &v*r fin in a variety of laraglttr >
Screen speed OF what [he writer ait apparently
(5.4)
Ten operaiUvn* between hart!". 1 1,1)
Little pi*« of caid punched Out in Africa (4>
A f eal pan of memory (4)
Stiiall cathode fay rube? {3}
Methodical shrink employed lit the B Mnpu BE
industry? (7,7)
Slang, perhaps;, underload by more than one
computer (M)
Rush in execute a program 0>
Synchronization in The beginning (4)
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Make this Christmas realty
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ideal present to add to
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27, Basically, keep the program (4)
2H. Have real fun, initially, on iht auwavea. (2)
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12. Move the ediroi when moved on screen (7)
34. DelenTliFWiioTi needed 10 produce 2>f (JO)
35. Sounds like we Set f*cu on BBC (8)
DOWN
!. Interference « lilt telephone (4,5)
Pieces, of binary (4)
See information on Prrstel, for example (B)
Are they addicted to computers? (5)
Rcki or otherwise refresh. (7|
Or gale* designed for rnernofj 1 (7)
Training organised by The CIA? (1)
13, Occasion to reveal etlculaior company (S)
15. Language used with, incomplete apple 0)
Room I'fiT invader* (.5)
Fetching— like gutt degSJ* (°)
A capital mnal oxide sennttinducHjr O)
A memorable, place for filming,, possibly Its)
Vivid description of display? (71
Ace computer company tram another plane! (7)
All go crazy abow this language < 5)
Garbage in, garbage . . stumped! (3)
t'.ai card* and paper ta P c i*)
Solution i»» pan* 192
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SPECTRUM BEEP BOOSTER
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TELESOUND is a tiny electronic circuit
which considerably enhances the sound
volume and quality of the Spectrum sound
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TELESOUND provides added realism and
excitement for games players and security
for programmers. No cutting, no soldering,
just connect.
TELESOUND gives you real sound for only £9,95 inclusive of
post, packing etc. Please state vour computer when ordering,
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A wealth of free information is yours for the
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You can store Teletext pages on
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BY DAVID CRANE
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Yes. Ghostbustere is a computer game, too.
The game play follows the film with incredible
|acturaty. Even down to the chart-topping music score.
Your task is to rid the world -and in particular New
! City- of a cataclysmic plague of ectopia smic nasties.
Play it well and we give you a Ghostbustere franchise -
[with your own secret account number. Use this number and
» money it brings you, to buy the same ghost busting gear
ey had in the film. (Don't worry - we'll give you some
oney to get started)
You will have earned it. And you can use it to go to
ndreamed of levels. Don't try to use someone else's
umber, well find out.
E'Mttfii.-Vi »
From then on, it's you against the ghosts. All the way
to the Temple of Zuul.
Where the final battle begins ...
Designed by USA's David "Pitfall II and Decathlon"
Crane and running on Commodore 64 cassette and disk
and Spectrum. Coming soon on other systems.
"T^cIiVisioH
Your computer was made for us.
AVAILABLE FROM SELECTED BRANCHES OF BOOTS, WH SMITH, JOHN MENZIES, LASKY'S, SPECTRUM, RUMBELOWS. WOQLWORTH
AVAILABLt fKUM >tLi*. tu ^ ^^ coMPUTER SOFTWARE STORES EVERYWHERE.
See the pack- see the screen- see the game.
See the difference the moment you pick up one
of the games from Firebird's new Silver Range.
The difference is that our packs show the high
^quality you'll see on the screen when you play,
tL Jifcso vou know exactly what you're buying.
Here's a sneak look at three of the NEW games :
^ WMfrW? ■ T ■ J, - J. - M ■Fl
RUN BABY RUN
RUN BABY RUN is a demanding cop
chase around five derelict locations.
You, the getaway driver must dispose
of six pursuing police cars and elude
the seventh car's fire power to make
good your escape. It's not as easy as
it sounds..
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BOOTY
Well shiver me timbers and splice the
mainbrace and pass the grog, me
hearties Here be the greatest pirate
adventure of them all, aboard that
scourge of the Seven Seas - the dreaded
Black Galleon. Feast yer eyes on the
BOOTY- (uJ treasure stored in 20 holds.
There be pirates, parrots and fun galore.
If you don't like it, matey we'll hang you
by the highest yard-arm!!!
CRAZY CAVERNS
Ten Crazy Caverns, ten hungry mouths
to feed Line up the Crunchy Cubes
and cannon them into the Craving
Craw V\fotch out for the Crazy Crashers
coming to convert your (ittle Cubey
Crammer into a Crushed Crisp. It's a
cracker!
Look out for these games in the FIREBIRD silver range at selected high street stores.
SPECTRUM: THE WILD BUNCH BOOTY MR. FREEZE TERRA FORCE VIKING RAIDERS MENACE EXODUS RUN BABY RUN CRAZY CAVERNS BYTE BITTEN
COMMODORE 64: BOOTY MR FREEZE EXODUS HEADACHE ZULU GOGO THE GHOST
VIC 20: SNAKE BTE ■ MICKEY THE BRlCKY
BBC MICRO B: BIRD STRIKE GOLD DIGGER ACID DROPS DUCK! ESTRA THE HACKER
The same high standard applies to all twenty
games in the range and all are available at the
remarkably low price of
£2.50
HTTEM
SOFTWARE
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The new range from British Telecom. Xl^ You'd better believe it!!!
RREBIRD SOFTWARE, WELLINGTON HOUSE, UPPER ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON WC2H 9DL TEL: 01 -379 6755/5626
Firebird and the Firebird logo are trademarks of British Telecommunications pic.
Available for BBC, Model "8 ".
Electron, Spectrum and Commodore 64,
Espionage is available from all leading
High Street Stores and quality Computer
Games Specialists.
£6.95
Retailers contact Mr. Len Fisher on
our telephone hot-line (0642) 227223.
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OUTWIT the guards of the
notorious Colditz POW
camp and win your free-
dom in an exciting multi-game pro-
gram by Pet«r arid Tim Bennett of
Leicester,
First you must escape from your
cell, then negotiate a booby-trapped
corridor. There are locked doors to
get through, searchlights to avoid,
and even when you have escaped
from the castle you must still make
vour way back to England. A series
of different games simulate all
those problems. Some are easVj
some are difficult, but to win them
all in sequence is for the truly great
escapers only,
Colditz runs on the 16K ZX-81.
Do not be confused by the effect of
Line 2 on Line 1 when you run the
program: it is a simple security
measure.
GRAPHICS
INSTRUCTIONS
Instructions for graphics characters are printed in Lower-case letters in our
listings. They are enclosed by bracket s and separated fay colons in
distinguish i hem and the brackets and colons should not be entered.
Inverse character* are represented by ihe letter "i" and graphics
characters by "g". Thus an inverse W would be represented by "iw", a
graphics W" by "fa", arid an invert graphics W bj "igV,
Spaces are represented by "sp" and inverse space* by "lap". Whenever
any character is to be used more [hart once, the number of times it is la be
used it shown before it, together with a multiplication sign. Thus "6'isp"
means six inverse spaces and "(g4:4*i4:g3)" would be entered as a graphic
four, followed by an inverse Tour repeated four times, followed by a
graphics three, Control codes appear with cc before the appropriate key.
The are obtained by pressing Caps Shift while in Branded mode,
Where whole words are to be written in inverse letters they appear in
the listings as lower-case letters. Letters to be entered in graphics mode on
ihe Spectrum are underlined.
Inverse characters may be entered on the ZN-SJ by changing to
graphics mode and then typing the appropriate characters and on the
Spectrum by changing to inverse video and lyping the appropriate letters
Graphics characters may be entered on the ZX-8 1 by changing to graphics
mode and then pressing symbol shift while the appropriate characters are
entered. On the Spectrum graphics cfatxacftn may be obtained by
changing to graphics mode and then pressing the appropriate character.
User-defined graphics will appear as normal letters until the program has
been RUN.
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1370 IF POS«C0OE
310
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1510 LET B*COOE
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1540 LET r m*
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2050 GOTO 210
2060 ?Tor
2070 S0SU6 53BB
2072 CLS
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2074 GOSiJB SOBO
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2110 IF SKILl=2 THEN LET 0»25B
2180 IF SKXLL-3 THEN LET DaEBB
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1560 GOTO 1720
1678 FDR Pie TO
1SS8 PRINT RT 10 IS
1S81 PRINT RT 10 15 "1SBB"
1600 NO' R
1700 G05U8 5880
1718 GOTO 1910
1720 C-DTO 20^0
J'3B LET BjInT PM&*5I+1
. 10 CLS
1TSB IF RoB 'HEN GOTO 3S0
1756 CLS
IF A=B THEN PRINT
URS UATTING FOP OU.
TMflOUN BHC*- INTC
i^RTCH BUT
HflNC-ED SO
SECONDS. "
£14-8 PRINT
2158 PRINT
RNt> PICW
NNING OUEB
2160 PRINT AT lfl .
USE THE CURSOR I\EtS
UP THE PERMITS BV RU
THEN,
5178 IF INK.Ei J =
2188 CLS
|190PRIK^^^^^
22B0 FOR U=2 TO 1?
2210 PRINT AT N.l ;
B'
2220 NEXT N
■--■0 cjii,- A' 20 :
': "PRESS tin rE
THEN GOTO £178
' ¥
m
. = 50 PRINT RT IS. 5.
iSAO cpiNTflt 17, s,
.• •.'' gfilhtT RT If 7
££i OPf^NT RT IS . 9
d23P PRINT AT 14-7,
£300 PPrN^BT 13, a,
£310 PRINT RT 12 .9.
23£0 PRIMT HT 11 . c
■ ■■ ^ii"
£333 PAINT RT 10 , 7
tf
2240
PRINT
■
PWIMT
AT
ft,7j ■
■SO
RT
a, a. "i^HI
--•!',-
7,9. '■
J07O
PRINT
AT
S . £ . ''■>■ 1
Hs?
PRINT
It
AT
5,0; '■ ■
■ M
2 -9B
BJr
t. s, "9 ■
■ "
PftXNT
RT
HT
3.3. "I ■
5JS
PRINT
■ ■
PRINT
HT
3,*, "*"
£430
p R j NT
RT
0,3; " + '
2 + t0
PRINT
f*T
16 ,3J "•"
2450
PRINT
fir
IS ■ IS: ■ *"
24-Bfl
PBINT
AT
lS,E3j ■■*"
24-7B
P£ INT
AT
8,20; b #"
Z43S
PGINT
HT
£ 2!
2*90
let s
«S0
2S00
^ET H
=e
2S1B
^ET T
■A
£S£0
FOR H
=0 TO
a 530
LET GlaG
£5+3
LET HlmH
2S50
LET
*S4
liNKBYi»"B
■ ■ >
'HELICOPTER T
/OUR UR.
the
5TE
13
TO COW
1 THEN GOTO 2730
■helkoptep
in* z-
2560 LET H=H + < INKEY* = "a"") - (XNKEV
5 = -5 I
2S70 PRINT RT ei.m,
2S30 LET I=PEEK lB3S6 + aS6+PEE- -
c357+l
SFop LET POSaPEEi' i!+33*G+HI
8009 IF P03=COC.E ' '*■ THEU LET T-
aeie IF postcode ■" then let &=
£630 IP PO5=C0C"E ■" THEN LET Ni
hi
c6 6 L_^
£630 FPIItT I-"
RE" s; '= = = = = = = = = =
£630 PRINT HT £,e. ON
HOME Bf HELICOPTER OL' SEE
ULL " BRITISH ?EHh£N.
i ARE IN TrtE SEA AND i"nf
Rll OF THEIR TORPEDO LHUNCt*
SRRDURLLY D-ISflPPERRIUSt
0L> ML'5T PICI" THEM UP TO . >
FINALi_. 0ET HOME"
, >ee print
£^10 print
£7£0 PRINT PRESS AN . r.E
TIHUE"
£.730 IF INrE-l:
£7*0 CLS
£750 FOP N,»l TO
£760 LET L*10
^7?e let c»aa
2730 LET w|=
5 790 LEX D*INT RM
23Btf C L 5
£303 PRINT fl T 10
TREi lO; "iiiKiviiis ~
= 310 PRINT AT IB,?
nrr --i :-i "--*
25£0 IF R««"' THEN PRINT AT .
. ■ B"
2330 IF INKEY*«"7" *Nf L«i?
C«*-l ThEN LET Aj-
2S*.fl IF flj= HMD L»B THEN GOTO
saaci
2350 IF L-1S THEN GOTO 290O
2360 LET C =C + I If J I- E < % = " &" ' - ' It*»> E •
£37B LET l=L+ iINKE^ »» ,, 6" ' - 1 XNKEV
* =
23S0 PRINT HT 9 , : Rt
£890 GOTO 2S00
55BO PRINT "CRH^H"
5 910 QOSUS 5000
S911 CLE
2912 PRINT VOU IPflSME^ IN ~-lE 5
EH flwD HRye BEEN f : 1 — EO"
£913 GOTO 2960
292B NEVT N
£9'3B GOTO £940
i£9+B CL5
2L9AB FOR RsO TO IB
^95ffl PRINT AT IB 4-. CONGRRTULRTI
RT L,Ci
1 PRINT AT IB -4.
5630 PRINT ST S.ri,"H'
k6*B IF "3=£P AND M = 6
N GOTO £P73
£n50 NEXT H
^EfeB SOTO 196B
2670 GOSUfl S^iJ^
se?a cls
PRINT
THE PERMITS"
£67* SOSUO 5k>00
fliND T=~' THE
YOU FOUND
ON J
in
29?4- HEJfT R
2968 PRINT RT 7 ,«
PLR\ HGIN PP£f:
T PHES5 "-N
^970 IP INKEVfs'N
2S75 IF INKE 4^
£37p SOTO a970
B9B0 RUN
= :330 5TOP
5000 fob n±a to is
S01B NEUT ft
5B30 (RETURN
9933 5RUE ' rOLC'TTg-
3999 RUN
7= fOU gftNT T
IF NO
THEN =T1P
THEN RUN
Jusi because you get eight draws on ihe Pools does not necessarily mean
you scoop the jackpot. If you do one of those complicated systems with
iots of different lines to check you may only end up with a handful of
fourth dividends for you pains.
Touch Line Plan 32 by L M Cook of Oldham in Lancashire will not
predict a winning choice but it will take out the drudgery of checking all
those lines. The plan works on Littlewoods, Vernon and Zetter Pools
coupons and runs on any Spectrum.
You must enter your selections according to the points they scored — 3, 2 }
1.5 etc — and the program will then run Lhrough the 72 combinations and tell
you what dividends, if any, you have won. Although it will only work for the
specific plan, it should be possible to adapt the program for use with other
systems.
2B BDRDEjR 4t PAPER 4: INK B
M PRINT fit 15,11; FLASH ] 1 "ST
DP TAPE"
4B PAUSE 250
50 DIN a*Cl8,72)
60 LET -f»t-B: LET »nd=B: LET t
hd»Bi LET lor-0J LET *ir=0t LET
SIX'S
7B LET ptm-0
00 DIN at IB)
90 REN Touch Hi* plan 32 DATA
IBB LET a*(l)* >, H km k kkXKK x
X H XXXM xXHXMXXX
MXMXMXKX "
101 LET a*(2}="'xK m X wxxxx
xx x xxx kxxxxx* m
kmxkiimkm"
1BZ LET **(3» = "jfxx km x kxmkx
XX X HI KKXHXX KK
XKMKXKX K"
103 LET a*(4>-"xx)tx xk x HkMHM
kx x H HKICXX xkx
KKKXKHX X "
104 LET ■*(3)-"Xk»x* xx x xxxx
■ XX H »««* ttXMX
KXKXKH ■ X "
105 LET **(4J=" KXMMH XX x xxx
MM XKX KKXXXKHK
KXMHMtt «l"
cnnunued jrom page $1
IB& LET **(7)«"k mkxxk kx
K MM H XMKMXX MMMKXX
KttMKX »»«"
107 LET s*C8)»" H KXMXM HK
MH MM K KM* XMXXKXX
MKXXK XX*"
IBS LET a*(9l" B X K KMOtN X
KXK MM X MX KXMXMKXK
kkkx mux"
IBfl LET **Uai-""" x xmkxk
KMKX X* * X *K
MKHKHK KKXM MKXX."
110 LET a*<ll>>" MM M KXMXM
KXKMX XX X KM
KKXXM XXKX XKXMK"
111 LET s*<12)-" MM X xxxxx
XKMKM xx x xx
XKMK MX XMM "KXXX"
112 LET **(i3>«" x x
■IKK XX X XXXKX XX XX
HXK KXMHX XKXIHK"
113 LET e*U*>«" «
MXMKH XX K XXXXX XX XX
HK XKHX MX XXXXKX"
114 LET a*U5)»" k X
XXXII KM X XXKXX M XM
x hmkxkx kxkxkkk"
115 LET **116)=" MX
X KXXKK KM X XXXXX MX
KKXXXK X XMKXXKX"
116 let mmilJi-- *«*
X XXKXX XK X KXMXX X
IKlXIXX XXXXMKKX"
117 LET **(1S1-" *
X M KKXXX XX X XXXXK K
XXXXKMX KXXKXXMx"
20B CLS
210 PRINT "CHECK YOUR COUPON Fl
RST. "
220 PRINT
tct ions
hould be
ardni) to
'Score dntn "i
'Scare draws? "jstdi
■flny column u* 18 Bel
with A goa-d chirtCl •
ftottd is fall DM*:
List «Lh result KC
the value of thtpain
ts. numbered! to 10. FDR EXAMPLE
230 PRINT »1. 3
2. 1.5
3. 2
4. 3 and SO on- "
24B PRINT "Sn that the computer
G*n calculate tha highes
t possible points, first inter
the number of score draws, no-s
core dr#MS and aways fro* the c
□upon « '"
250 PRINT "When prompted, enter
the points from yOUr list."
260 PRINT "AHY KEY TO CONTINUE.
270 IF tNKEY*=
THEN GO TQ 27
280 CLS
290 PRINT
300 INPUT
PRINT scd
310 PRINT "Na-scora draws ■' ;
33® INPUT "No-sccxre dr arts' 1 " ; ns
d: PRINT nid
33B PRINT "Aw*ysi " f
340 INPUT "A ways'? H |WMt FRINT
•MB
360 IF scd>=8 THEN LET pts=24;
BO TQ 430
370 LET pt»-scd*3
3FJH IF scd+n*d>-a THEN LET x-0
-acdi LET y-x»2i LET pts-pts+y>
GO TD 430
390 LET x=nid*2l LET pt*«pts+x
400 IF sed+nsd+awsJ-G THEN LET
x-8-(scd+nsdli LET y-xti,3i LET
pts-=pt»+yt BQ TO 430
410 LET M~imi~l Ht LET pt»=pts+
x
420 LET x-B-(mcd+nsd + W«h LET
pts«pt»+K
430 PRINT 'MAX POINTS - "|pts
440 DIM d(6)
450 IF pt*<;24 THEN GD TC 470
46B LET dCll-24t LET q<2)«23i L
ET d (3) "22.31 LET d(4>»22i LET d
(5) =21. Si LET d(6)=21i 00 TO 53B
47B LET d(])>ptl
480 LET d(2>-pfes-.5
490 LET d!3)-pts-l
SOD LET d<4>=pt»-l.S
51 H LET d<5>-pts-2
320 LET d(6)->pt*-2.S
53H PRINT N ANV KEY TO CONTINUE.
H
S4« IF INKEY*--" THEN GO TO 34
350 CLS
560 PRINT "Enter paint* on winn
ingt?) line,'
57B LET x-1
5O0 FOR n-2 TO 1*7: PRINT AT n,3
|hi LET x-x+li NEXT n
5*0 FOR n-1 TO 18
ABB INPUT "Selection points "|(
nl i " "|ltn)
61B PRINT AT n+ 1 ,9f # <nl
£.20 NEXT n i PAUSE 20
63B PRINT "ARE THESE CORRECT? 4
Y/N>"
640 IF INKEY*-""* THEN GO TD 64
65B IF IMKEY#-"n" THEN GD TQ 6
90
67B IF INKEY*-"Y" THEN CLS ■ G
TO 73H
63B GO TO 640
690 INPUT "Sslectn. No. for Car
tn. ";nui
700 INPUT "Correct pts. "ia(r
I
71B PRINT AT ruiiS+1 1 9> H * | AT n
ue+1 , 9j*<riLU"l
72B GO TD A40
730 CLS
74B FOR x-1 TO 72
730 LET points-B
7hB FOR n-1 TO 10
770 IF aStnMx TO x)-"x" THEN
LET pnints-pol r>ts*s (n)
77H NEKT n
7BB PRINT KlTftS 3gpolntS|" pts"
I POKE 23692,235
790 IF points>-d<6> THEN GO BU
B 020
SBB NEKT x
BIB BO TO 890
£20 IF pqints-d«ll THEN LET fs
t-fst+1
B30 IF points-d<2) THEN LET sn
d-snd+1
S40 IF points-d!3) THEN LET th
d=thd+l
050 IF paints-dl*) THEM LET ta
r=f or+1
068 IF points-dlS) THEN LET fi
f-ti*+t
870 IF point>°d<6> THEN LET si
■•11K+I
ase RETURN
B9B PAUSE IBB
900 CLS
91B PRINT AT 0,1 Jl "DIVIDENDS"
920 PRINT AT 2, Oi "First "t<JCD
1" "sfst
930 PRINT AT 4, Of "Second " | d 12)
I" "jsnd
■?4B PRINT AT b, 0) "Third "|dC3J
;" "pthd
950 PRINT AT T Sj "Fourth "id 44)
!" "i+OT
960 PRINT AT 10,0) "Fifth " j d 15
) ; " ")f if
970 PRINT AT 12,8* "Sixth "[d(6
980 PRINT AT 14, Of "PRESS **' T
O CHECK ANOTHER LINE"
<nil PRINT " Press "S' to 5
t up"
1BB0 IF INKEY*="" THEN GD TO 10
BB
1010 IF INKEY*-"r" THEN GO TD I
B4B
1020 IF INKEY*="s" THEN STOP
107.0 GD TO 100B
1040 PRINT "ANY FURTHER WINS 141
LL BE ADDED"
1050 PRINT M ANY KEY TO CON
TINUE": PAUSE 10
1060 IF 1NKEY*="" THEN GO TO 10
el
107B CLS : GD TD 70
1
I
I
It
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ics with quite simple procedures, but if you are
nor used to them you may find the commands a
little confusing,
QooL Graphics by Neil Sampson of Oldham in
Lancashire provides a series of routines to draw a variety
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commands to produce pleasing effects on the screeen.
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order to compare the different effects of stipple colour-
ing in the program.
intro
DEFine FROCedure intro
WINDOW l ,51 2,256,8, H: SCALE 2BKB t , B > PQPDER 4, 2: PAPER
INK BlLSIJEE 3,1: CLS
t- I -TRIANGLES"
F2-C1RCLES"
F3-L1NE5 FRdfl CENTRE"
F 4 -LINE 5 KANIM3M-
F5-&LDCK EFFECT"
SHIFT+F1-MDRE CIRCLES"
5-STDP"
21
22
23
SB
31
PRINT"
PRINT"
B PRINT"
9 PRINT"
te PRINT
II PRINT
13 PRINT
13 choose
14 END DEFine intra
15 DEFine PRQC^cJure choose
1 6 4-CQDE [ INK EV* (-11)
17 SELect a
16 -?32i Triangles
1^ =236:Circles
=244: lines "
■JtfJllMf fit
■=234 i ape
~ REMAINDER : choose
25 END SELect
26 EHQ DEFine choose
27 DEFine rflOC#*jr» hnn.E
2B CLSiFILL B
2? REPeat loop
IF fNKEV*='-t": intro
INK RNDEZ33>tLINE 150, 1« TO RND < 7-B0 > , RND 1 2B0 1
32 END RE Peat loop
33 END DEFin* UflMJi
34 DEFine PROCedur »~Ci r C I e*
33 CLS
36 REPeat loop
37 IF INKEV*--»-tir.tru
39 FILL It INK HMD ( 255) : CIRCLE RND<300),
&ND 42011), RND <3«> I FILL
3? END REPeat loop
40 EM) DEFine Circtft*
41 DEFine PRCCedure line*
42 CLS: FILL
43 REPeat l4op
44 IF INKEV*= "*■': intru
4= [NK RNDCZ55)iLINE TO RND [ 300 ) , RND I 200 >
4b END REPaat loop
•7 END DEFine liniS
48 DEFine PROCedur* Triangles
4? CLB
50 REPeat loop
31 IF ]NKEV*«"s"s intro
32 a-fiNDt3afl} itj=RND(2B8>
53 FILL 1:11* RND < 255) i LINE *,b TO RND< iflBJ ,RND<200) TO
RND (300> .RND12BB) TO *,bi
FILL
54 END REPeat loop
53 END DEFina Triangles
56 DEFine PROCedur a ba4f*ct
57 CLS
iB FOR r-24B TD STEP -2; BLOCK r*2,r ,9.B,r
5? PAUSE -liintrn
6fl END DFFmi? beffect
61 DEFine PROCenure c2
62 SCALE 10B,0,B:CLS3«-0
A3 FOR r=0 TO laa
64 INK x NOD 7:m=k+1
65 IF lNk£Yf*p-a- , i intro
66 CIRCLE 8B,30,r
67 END FDR r
69 PAUSE -1: intro
69 END DEFine c2
70 DEFine PROCedur m » pc
71 SCALE 1BBB,H,0;CLS
72 POINT 750,500
73 FDR t=0 TD tHBH
74 PENUP: POINT 750 , 5B0 1 MOVE * : TURN t : f E.NDQWN
75 INK RND12351 >F1LL 1 : CI RCLE_R , , B, I00i F ILL
76 IF lNKE¥*="s":intrii
77 END FDR t
7B PAUSE -1 J intro
7? END DEFine spe
1 BORDER 4: PAPEfl 4: 0L5
2 GO SUE 7000
3 CLS
4 GD SUE 6000
b REM *^ARIABLE5«
119 LET K = 1S
Z0 LET y = 20
30 LET ra=lB
48 LET 2=8
45 LET «creen=B000
50 LET dam=0
&0 LET check=200B
70 LET time-B
BO LET bonus=B
90 LET d=.Ol
92 KEM *DRAW SCREEN*
<?& GD BUB 79(30; GO SUB screw
fB REM * CONTROLS*
100 IF INKE¥*= M u" THEN LET i"I
-1: IF :>B THEN LET z-8
110 IF INKEV*-"p" THEN LET S-S
+ll IF J=f THEN LET 1-1
120 IF z=I THEN
Q TO 200
130 IF 1-2 THEN
O TD 200
140 IF- 1=3 THEN
O TD 200
liiB IF 2=4 THEN
a TO 200
60 IF 2=5 THEN
D TO 200
70 IF 2=6 THEN
□ TD 200
180 IF 2=7 THEN
D TD 200
190 IF z = B THEN
O TD 200
20H REM *EEARS*
202 IF INKEY*="1"
B
21 B IF tNMEV*** H 2 <a
1
220 IF INKEV*="3'-
230 IF INKEY*="4 ,,
235 IF m=0 THEN
240 FOR n=0 TO ra:
+ .01: NEXT fl
250 BEEP .01 ,-20
30Q do to 100
1000 REM *5KID RUUTlNl-
1002 LET i"INT tRND»7)+l
1010 BEEP .1,60
1020 PRINT rtT y,ki'.."i PAUSE 2:
BEEP .1,30: PRINT AT y,*l" "l PA
U5£ 2i BEEP .1,40: PRINT AT y,*j
■■ E " 1 PAUSE 4 1 PR I NT AT y , k ; " G " :
PAUSE 2: BEEF 1 .1,50
1030 F'RINT AT y > K;" e=.": PAUSE 2:
PRINT AT y,*|"L ": PAUSE 2: PRINT
AT y,«j-'f- ": PAUSE 2l PRINT AT y
,k;"H'": PAUSE 2
1040 LET i»-30
1050 RETURN
2000 REM « CHECK, RQUTINE*
2002 LET a*=SCREEN# ly,*)
2010 IF **="E" OR d*= M %" OR a* "
50 SUB 4070:
THfcN LET m=l
THEN LET m=l
I HI N
LET
m=5
THEN
1 1 1
m*0
GD TO
241
LET tisiw^time
I" DR J*-■'T■ , THEN GD SOU S100:
LET scrBHn = scrft(*n*200: LL 1 tKXHIH
=bDnui+lOB0t GD SUB 77001 GO SUB
tcrtim GD SUE* 5400
2B20 IF ATTR <y,nJ-i3 THEN LET
ri#m-d*m+li GO SUB 1000
2030 IF ATTR ly,x)=37 THEN (10 B
UB 1OB0
2050 IF ATTR ly,n>"34 THEN LET
dUm-dam+Zi FOR n-5 TO -25 STEP -
3l BEEP . 05,ni NEXT ni BO BOB 79
00
2033 IF ATTR (y,K)-35 THEN LET
d*fli"d»m^,2i LET banu»»bornj»+ 10B i
FOR r, = 30 TD 40t BEEF' . 025,n: NE
XT n
2060 IF d«n»10 THEN GD TO 3000
2100 RETURN
30O0 REM »END OF GAME*
3003 CLS
3007 PRINT AT 3,10l FLASH Ij SRI
GHT If "END OF GAME" i FLASH Bi BR
IGHT
3010 PRINT AT 3,1 ("TIME TAKEN -
"j INT tin*
3020 PRINT AT 7, If "BONUS SCORED
« "t bonus
3O30 PRINT AT 9, It "DAMAGE SUSTAI
NED - "I INT dam
3035 PRINT AT 11,1 ("SKILL ATTAIN
ED = "ilNT (bonus/time)
PAUSE
GO SU
PRINT
3040 PRINT AT 12, I; "BELOW 100 P
OCR , (l&**p> ABOVE 150 GOOD"
3045 PRINT AT 20,9) "PRESS ANY KE
V
3050 GD SOB 5300 t PAUSE 0:
0: GO TO
3<7<?B REM *BUGGY DIRECTION*
4000 LET k*m+1i LET y-y-lt
B check: PRINT AT y,Kf"H"l
AT y-i- 1 ,*-!{" tip) u t RETURN
4010 LET m=m+1: DO BUB check 1 PR
INT AT y,»i"i "J PRINT AT y»M-l;"
<*p} H1 : RETURN
4020 LET x-M*ll LET y=y+l: BO BU
B check: PRINT AT v ,k;".--| PRINT
AT y-l,K-l j" (ep)": RETURN
4030 LET y = y+]= GO SUB chKh! PR
INT AT y,n;"E.": PRINT AT y-l,«r
<=p)": RETURN
4040 LET h=k-1: LET y=y+l: GO BU
B check! PRINT AT y,xt"l"l PRINT
AT y-l,x+l; " tsp) "i RETURN
4050 LET m=m-1i GO BUB check: PR
INI AT y p K|*l "1 PRINT flt y^K -I:'
(sp}"= RETURN
4060 LET k=m-1i LET y«y-h GO SU
B check: PRINT AT y,s|"» "i PRINT
AT y+l,K+l|"<«p) ": RETURN
4070 LET y = y-l: GO 5UB check I PR
INT AT y,X«"n"| PRINT AT y+l,***
(spl M : RETURN
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50B5 DATA .2, 2,. 2, 7,. 2, 2, -2, 5,. 2
,2,-2,4,. i ,2, -2.0, -5, B
5010 DATA . 2, 2,. 2^7,. 2*2 ,.2,5,. Z
,2,- 2, 4, .1,2, -2, a, .5,0
5015 DATA .2,2,,2,9,.2,5,.2 T 7,.2
,14, .2, 7, .2, 19
5016 DATA .2, 2, .2, *?, .2, 5,. 2, 7, .2
,14, ,2, 7, .2, 19
5B2B RESTORE IB
5030 FOR n=l TO 32
50*0 READ d
5050 READ p
506B BEEP d,p
5070 NEXT r,
SOBO RETURN
51BB DATA . 13, 9,
51 IB RESTORE 510B
5120 FDR n=l TD &
5130 READ i»
5140 READ p
515B BEEP d,p
5160 NEXT n
5170 RETURN
5300 DATA ,2, 14, ,2, 2, -2,7, .2, 2,.
2,7, .2,14, .2, 17,. 2, 14, 1,19
5310 RESTORE 5330
5320 FOR n=l TO 9
5330 READ d: READ p
5340 BEEP d,p
15,11,. 15,9,,
13, 9, .15,19
15
5330 NEXT n
5360 RETURN
3400 DATA 0.1,12,. 1 ,9,. 1,7, .1,12
,. 1, 9,. 1,7, .3, 19
5410 RESTORE 5400
5420 FDR n=l TD 7
3430 READ d: READ p
5440 BEEP d,p
5430 NEXT n
5460 RETURN
6000 REM *TITLE*
6010 PRINT A I 4,13l FLASH 1; BRI
QHT 1| INK 0;"'*BUGGY* ";AT 5,12;
FLASH 1: BRIGHT li INK 0| '*BDNKE
R5* M
6«2B BRIGHT 1: FLASH 1: INK 0: P
RINT AT 3, 14{ '■*»*»*"; AT 6,11;"**
*•*•#*•«": BRIGHT Os FLASH B
6023 PRINT AT 9,3; ■'CONTROLS' 1 ; AT
9,3; OVER 1;" "
6030 PRINT AT 11 ,3; "ROTATE. BUEibV
LEFT. . .KEY Q"; AT 13,3; 'RDIATE
BUGGY RIGHT. .. KEY' P 1 "
6040 PRINT AT 1 5,3l "GEARS- - " 1 ' , '
2 - , '3 1 .AND^ 1 , ARE UN
THERE RESPECTIVE KEYS"
6050 PRINT AT 20,9; FLASH 1 ; "PRE
SB ANY KEY": PAUSE Ol CLS
6060 PRINT AT 2, 3; " INSTRUCT IONS'-
;AT 2,3| OVER 1|" . "
6070 PRINT AT 4,3; "HITTING ROCKS
MEANS A
OF 1 . HITTING
. MEANS A
OF 2 , PLUS
TART THAT
E DAMAGE
E THAN TEN
IE FINISHED .
' IS HIT, YOU
A VIOLENT
HIT A FLAB ' I I"
I !» VOI IK DWttSI
DAMAGE FACTOR
THE BARRIER '
DAMAGE FACTOR
HAVING TD RES
STAGE . IF TH
FACTOR IS MDR
THEN THE RACE
I F WATER ' i I
ARE SENT INTO
SKID . IF YOU
THEN IT REDUC
BY B.2 . "
60SB PRINT AT 20,5; FLASH 1 ; "PRE
SS ANY KEV TO START": PAUSE O
60 B5 GO SUB 50B0
6090 RETURN
6100 REM *U. U,ii- »
7000 DATA 0,90,90,24,24,96,126,9
O , 90 , 1 26 , 90 , 24 , 24 , 90 , 90 , , , 230 ,
64 , 254 , 254 , 64 , 230 , B , , 103, 2 , 1 27 ,
1 27 , 2, 1 03 , B , O, 1 26 , 64 , 1 24 ,64 , 64 , 1
26,0
7010 DATA 216,200,35,155,220,14,
52 , 48 , 1 2 , 44 , 1 I 2 , 39 , 217, 1 94 , 19 , 27
,27, 19,196,217,59, 1 12,44, 12,4S,5
2,14,220,135,33,200,216,126, 19B,
151,217,91,110, 10B,6B,6,110, 127,
233,255,233,63,57
7020 DATA 4, 7B, 223, 254,254, 231 , I
96 , 0, 224 , 1 20, 76 , 1 03 , 127 , 64 , 64 , 64
, 1 95 , 255 , 1 89 , 255 , 1 95
7025 RESTORE 7000
7030 FDR n=0 TO 1B4: READ at PQK
E USR N a"+n,*i NEXT n
7040 PDKE USR "n"+B,BIN 11 11111 I
n"+l ,BIN 01000010
n"+2,utN BOieeieo
n"+3,BIN 11111111
n""l,HlN I 1 11 1 U 1
7090 PDKE USR H n"+5,B1N 00100100
710B PDKE USR '■n^fc.BIN 01000010
7110 POKE USR H n"+7,B1N 11111111
7120 RETURN
'900 REM #SCREEN BORDER*
7905 CLS
7910 FDR n=0 TD 31 i PRIftjt AT 21,
ni INK ZlXkpF* NEXT n
7920 FOR n=0 TD 31: PR I NT AT 0,n
; INt: 2;"(.q3!T: NEST n
793B FOR n-0 TO 21 1 f-RINT AT n,0
; INK S-^e)': NEXT n
7940 FOR n=0 TO 21: FRINT AT n,3
l; INt- 2;'T^SC*: NEXT n
7950 PRINT AT 0,0; INI 1 ; "inhl'
7960 PRlNt AT 21,31; INh UsVj 5 )'
7970 PRINT AT 21, 0; INK 2;"t.$ll"
7960 PRINT AT 0,31i INK ?!"{«)"
7990 GO TO scram
7999
B0B0 REM *5TAGE 1*
B0B3 FOR n=21 TO 15 STEP -1: PRI
7050 PDKE USR
7060 PDKE USR
7070 PDKE USR
70B0 POKE USR
NT AT r»,l2;
B01B FOR n-
NT AT n,l3;
B02B FDR n=
T AT 10, n;
B03B FOR n =
T AT 15,n;
B040 FOR n
f INK 2; "i
B05B FDR n
3; INK l h ; "
S060 FOR n
,n; INK 2;
B070 FOR n
,ns INK 1\
B08B FDR n
31) INK 2}
B085 FDR n
26; INK 2(
B09B PRINT
8095 PRINT
II*. 2;"n": NEXT n
21 TO 11 STEP -ll PRI
INK 2;"«P: NEXT n
IB TD 5 STEP -ll PRIN
lUi 2; " l j"! NEXT n
12 TO O STEP -It PRIN
INK 2; "I i": NEXT n
TD 23t PRINT AT 5,o
1 : NEXT n
■5 TD 10: PRINT AT n.2
J": NEXT n
23 TO 31: PRINT AT 1 1
': NEXT n
19 TO 26: PRINT AT 16
i i": NEXT n
11 TO 21: PRINT AT n,
': NUT n
14 TO 21: PRINT AT n,
n H i NEXT n
AT 20, 13; " (5*gfal "
AT 20,27; INK 0; EXIT
S100 PRINT AT 14,13i INK 3f H hi_*j
AT 8,19; INK 5;"k !_";AT B,4l INk
I; -.," S AT 14,24; INK 1; " I"
8120 LET x = 15: LET y=20
0130 LET z«B
B15B PRINT AT 13,3; INK 3;"fi";AT
13,21; INK 3;" M"; AT 9, IBj INK 3
. .. M -
S160 PRINT AT 18, 19] "STAGE 1"
B 190 RETURN
8200 REM *STAGE 2*
S21B FDR n-31 TO 6 STEP -It PRIN
T AT 7,nf INK 2; "I*": NEXT n
B215 PRINT AT l,27t INK 0|"<4*ig
4J "
0220 FOR n-26 TD O STEP -ll PRIN
T AT 2,n; INK 2l"N"l NEXT n
B23B FOR n = B TO 2; PRINT AT r»,26
; INK 2l"M"l NEXT n
B24B FOR n=«i TD 31 ( PRINT AT 16,
n; INK 2; "N": NEXT n
8250 FOR n=»7 TO 16* PRINT AT n,6
; INK 2:"M n : NEXT n
B24B PRINT AT 1 7 ,30; "E "| AT 16,30
("X"|AT 19,30; "I" ;AT 2O,30;"T"
8270 PRINT AT 5,20; INK l|" i";AT
4,15? JNI I; J AT 7, 4 1 H* l("
■■"j<U 17,10; INI 1 ; " "lAT 19,15;
INI t|" '■
B28B FRINT AT 19,2; IN* 3|*l I "
8190 PRINT AT 18,20; INK 5;"i l. "
B30O LET yr»ll Ltl *-2Bl LET e-4
II'.IO PRINT AT 5,16; IN* ' : " ;AT
1^,17; INI, If* » (ci
8320 FOR n=7 TO 14: PRINT AT n,2
; INI L'; " I"* NEXT n
8330 INK 0: PRINT AT 8,1;"S";AT
9,1;T"!AT 10,ll"A"tAT 1 I . 1 ; (j 1
AT 13, If "2" : INI 2: PRINT AT 7,0
J " I l! l" ; n f 14 ,0t "in"
B35B INI 0: RETURN
B400 REM »STAGE >
8403 FOR n=5 TO 31: PRINT AT 7,n
| TNI- 2|"N"l NEXT n
8410 FOR n=0 TO 27: PRINT AT 16,
nt INk- 2| "(■■"* NEXT n
8413 FOR o-17 TO 201 PRINT AT n,
1; INK B;"(ig6>": NEXT n
9420 FDR n=l0 TO 16s PRINT AT n,
10; INK. 2f "i i": NEXT n
B430 FDR n=16 TD 15 STEP -1: PRI
NT AT n,5; INK 2f"N"l NEXT n
B440 FDR n=7 TO 12: PRINT AT n,5
; INK 2; "f ;'■! NEXT n
S450 FDR n=B TD 13: PRINT AT n ,2
3; INK 2; "I l"l NEXT n
B460 FDR n=16 TO IB STEP -I: PRI
NT AT n,lB; INK 2§"M"l NEX1 ,
B470 INK B: F'RINT AT 1,30;"E";AT
2,30; X;A1 3, 30; " I " ; AT 4,30|"T
■| INk 2: PRINT AT 5, 30; " ! I" ; AT 6
, 30 ; " i ■ " ; AT 6 , 22 i " '
0475 FOR n=22 TO 29: PRINT AT 5,
n; INK I;"(i": NEXT n
B4B0 PRINT AT 19,4? INK S; 1- * .";ft
1 1B,1B| INK It" '"tAT 18,23; 1 l»i
ll
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B49B LET w-ll LET y=19: LET z"2
3500 print at 17,201 ink 3;"i-r;A
T 14, Si INK 3i"M";AT 3,28* INK 3
S "i "; AT 5,20s INK 3j"t->": INK
I
IE 4-
LET **3e LET V=2
TO 4: PRINT AT rt,it
NEXT n
TD 21: PRINT AT 5,n
NEXT n
TO 7* PRINT AT 12, n
NEXT n
TO 121 PRINT AT n,B
NEXT n
TO 25!
NEXT
TO 21
NEXT
TO 16: PRINT
NEXT n
tD 7: PRINT AT 14,n
!■ | ■
RETURN
B6H0
REM
*STA<
B4.03
B615
INK
B6-50
LET
FOR
Bf"l
i ::.i.:
2=2:
n=B
i INK 2; "
B&40 FOR
i j":
n=B
S INK Zj'
8650 FDR
1 i";
n=a
i INK 2| "
Ci£fc,0 FDR
1 J"l
n = B
n; INK 2t
B670 FOR
"u"l
n«=l4
a; INI 2s
h£B0 FUR
"■ j":
n-14
- : INI _■;
B4<?0 FOR
n-3
PRINT fiT 17,
PRINT AT n.
n
AT n.
: INK 2;"i /': NEXT n
B700 FOR n=17 TO 21 1
25; INK 2: "U" 1 ! NEXT
6710 FOR n=13 TO 31l
,n; INI 2»"H"l NEXT
9/20 FDR n=? TO 12(
PRINT AT
n
PRINT
n
PRINT AT n, 1
AT 12
2; INK 2|"f'"i
B730 FDR n=l2
NEXT n
TO 31 S PRINT
AT 9,
100
AT n,25
ni INK 2; " l"l NEXT n
B740 FDR n-5 TD 9: PRINT
I INK 2j i I NEXT n
0730 PRINT AT 9,3| INK 5| ■ > L" I AT
2, I9j INK S|*KU"|AT 3,27( INK 5
t"r L "(AT 7 t l5| INK 3i"rU"|AT 14,
13i INK 5i"ku m |AT 13,2i| INK 5|"
KL"
a7fefl INK li PRINT AT 20,30|" .." " | A
T 3,B|" J'"|AT 2,12] "-"I AT 4,26]''
"jAT 7, Ht", '"I AT 14,10) '-.."i AT 17,
20 F "• '"( INK
B770 INK 3( PRINT AT 4 ,2Bf " i 1" I AT
6,201 "H ,l |AT 7,4)"n ,, iAT 9,2t"M ,, |
AT U,2|"M"|AT ll,4r' i '"lAT 9,61"
ii "I AT 13,6("m<'|;AT 13,5jMr' t AT 13
,4; |AT 13,3|"n"lAT 13,Zr'r '(A
T lS f 2r"M" ( AT 17,3* -i i"(flT 10*4|"
rT'jAT 16,&| M M«i INK
0780 PRINT AT 20, 2b t "EK I T"
07B5 PRINT AT IS, 13] INK 0; ■ B r AG
E 4-jAT 20,l2t INK B; "BONUS RUN"
B79B RETURN
REM •STAGE 9*
LET if =4
LET *«29t LET
FDR n=B TD 14l
r 20t"r. M : NEXT
PRINT AT 1,29}
BH0B
BOB4
seas
SB IB
}AT
BBIS
A)"
Buva
y=2
PRINT
n
INK
INK Hi " (2»1Q
FDR n=fa TU 24j PRINT INK
NEXT n
TO 21:
i NEXT
TD 24:
i NEXT
TO IB:
I NEXT
TO 19,
: NEXT
FDR n=19 TO 21 1 PRINT
n, 19; "i .") NEXT n
PRINT AT 2H,2t"HIGH SPEED
i AT h , n\ " m " i
BB3H FOR n=fa
f AT n , 24 s " ' "
BB4B FOR n-6
(AT 15,ir;"U"
BBSO FOR n=B
j AT 12, ni "' i I"
B660 FOR n=B
(AT 19,n f "f:"
01/ 1/1
2iAT
RACK "
B090 INK 5:
T 10,201"! l
0900 I NK 1 :
10,4s V ■; AT
: INK
B910 INK
T ll,23t
S"l -i"
0930
B93H
VBHB
«?H04
9BB5
2i*T
901B
AT n
PRINT INI 2
PR INI INK 2
PRINT INK 2
n
PRINT INK 2
n
INK
PRINT AT
" 1 INK
F'RINT AT
0,141"-"
4, IS
3,6s
*A
I AT
!™|AT
13^;
3:
PRINT AT lB,2Bt "i i"| A
AT 13,ll| "m"(AT 14,?
jAT 17,21! "ii": INK
PRINT AT 2B„20I"EXIT-'
RETUKN
REM *STASE fe*
LET *=2B= LET y*2s LET z *4
FDR n«14 TO 31: PRINT [Ml
19,ni"ii": NEXT n
FOR n*0 TO 7: PRINT II* 2;
, IB; "J I - ' : NEXT n
9015
9020
l-l.-INi
FOR fl>
AT
IB
1, 191" Unghl
TO 25: PRINT
1 NI
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SINQ AIR USEE
103
A 96K PURE TEXT MACHINE CODE ADVENTURE FOR
THE 48K SPECTRUM (IN TWO PARTS)
A large build up of Soviet troops is forming on the South Eastern
Pakistan border, with probable hostile intentions. Troops and
supplies travel the fragile Eastern Kabul road through unoccupied
territory. Your role is to disrupt these troop movements, harass
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You have British Paratroopers; ground to air missiles for attacking
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9090 FOR n-13 TQ 31; PRINT
2;AT 12,n; " I J" : NEXT n
9100 FOR n-9 TO 21 1 PRINT
jAT n,B; "j": NEXT n
9118 FOR n-B TO 25: PRINT
j AT 15,n; " n " : NEXT n
9120 FOR n-19 TO 21i PRINT
2;AT n,13; *N"l NEXT n
9138 FOR n-B TO 2s PRINT
AT n,B;" r; 11 ; NEXT n
9133 FOR ri»B TO 2: PRINT INK 2}
AT n,23; '" u" s NEXT n
914B INK 5: PRINT AT Z,5f - h L^fAT
5,23|-<t i. "(AT 17,12i"f l "i INK B
915H INK 1: PRINT AT IB, 1 6; " J" I A
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";AT ll,6»-*-.'"fAT 12»10t w -J B i INK
■
916B INK 3: PRINT AT 9,2B; "[ l"; AT
9 t 1S| "M ,k iAT 4,16j h n"iAT 2,14; "m
";AT 16,6; "n H ; AT 16 ,2B } " r-«" j AT 16
,29("n»t INK B
9170 PRINT AT 20,15; "LOW SPEED T
RACK "
918B PRINT AT 2B,9; "EXIT"
9198 RETURN
920B REM -»BTAGE 7*
9205 INK 2i LET k-1Bi LET y-ti L
£T z=4
92 IB FOR n-0 TO Bl PRINT INK 2)
AT 2,n; "U": NEXT n
9215 PRINT AT 1 ,9( INK Bt"[4*ig6
>"
9228 FOR n*B TO 2l PRINT INK 2t
AT n,B; "M": NEXT ri
9230 FDR n=8 TO IB: PRINT INK 2
! AT 9,n; ' : NEXT n
9240 FDR n=0 TO IB: PRINT INK. 2
; AT n, 13; "I I": NEXT n
925-0 FOR n = 4 TO 13: PRINT INK 2
1 AT S^nj "u"! NEXT n
9Z60 FDR n=3 TD 13: PRINT AT 13,
nj (cei*ll NEST n
9270 FDR n=H TD 9: PRINT AT lB,n
: "' l"i NEXT n
928B FOR n=18 TO 21: PRINT AT n,
9; H ii'-i NEXT n
9298 FOR n = 4 TO 21 3 FKlNT AT n,l
7i"u": NEXT rt
9300 FOR n=B TO 17: PRINT AT n,2
i|"N"l NEXT r\
931B FOR n-4 TO 21; PRINT AT n,2
5; "fl"s NEXT n
932B FOR n-B TO 7i PRINT AT n,29
i ■' I i": NEXT n
933B FOR n = 29 TO 31 t PRINT AT 7,
n : - I J " : NEXT n
934B FOR n=12 TD 21: PRINT AT O,
29 J "Kl"l NEXT n
9350 FDR n=29 TO 31: PRINT AT 12
, n ; " j" : NEXT n
9360 INK 5: PRINT AT 19,20; "h L." ;
AT t6, : ; "i I "
937B INK 1: PRINT AT 20,11;" i";A
T 11,11;- ■; AT 2 , 1 7 ; " J';AT 2,2154
: INK
93HB INK 3: PRINT AT 6,1; "M"; AT
18,15i"M"!AT J0 # |9j ,, ii" I AT 18,244
"M"; INK B
9390 INK B: PRINT AT t,l f "TRACK
7"; AT 19,3) -GEAR"; AT 2B,3j M l — 2"
;AT 8,30; "E"; AT 9,3B;"X";AT IB ,3
Bfl'-iAT 1 1,301 -V
9399 RETURN
9480 LET K-lt LET y-10i LET i-2
94 IB INK 2: FOR n=B TD 2: PRINT
AT 12,ni"rii u i NEXT n
942B FOR n-12 TO 21 t PRINT AT n t
2|"N"I NEXT n
9430 FOR n=H TD 6: PRINT AT 7, fit
"N"l NEXT n
944B FOR n=B TO 7l PRINT AT n,fet
"ti" : NEXT n
945B FOR n-B TO 25l PRINT AT 2,n
|"N"l NEXT n
946B FOR n=8 TO 23: PRINT AT 7,n
|"r;"t NEXT n
947B FOR n-2 TO 7l PRINT AT n,B|
"N": NEXT n
94BB FOB n°2 TO 7a PRINT AT n,25
;"m": NEXT n
94S5 FOR n=B TO 7: PRINT AT n,27
; "i I" l NEXT n
9490 FOR n ' W " L : W<tM( M 7,
i ; ' '" : 'II ' T
■ i 1-. 1"o iOt Mill
"i NIK I .,
9510 FDR n = 27 TO 51: PRINI A1 I.'
,i ; - ■: NExl ni Ini in
9520 INK 5: FDR rv 8 10 ^B: H-INT
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953B INK 11 FOft n-B nj 2B SIEP ^
: F'RINT AT n,J4; jAT n,l9j'
NEXT n
954B INK 3: FOR n = 9 TU IB I rEP id
t PRINT AT n,14(" l"|A1 n,19i"»l")
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PRINT AT n, 1; " iigib)": NEXT n
957B RETURN
959B REM •#• serpen 9 •#*
96O0 LET k=1: LET y=lB: LET x ^7,
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AT fl,iS|"N"lAT n,26;" I": NEXT n
962B FOR n=12 TD 15: PRINT AT 7,
n;"ii";AT 12,nJ ,- ii"i NEXT n
9638 FOR n=7 TO 12: PRINT AT n,l
2|" i"t NEXT n
9A4B FOR n=l2 TD IB: PRINT AT n,
ISj "r j-'i NEXT n
965H FDR n=13 TO 2B: PRINT AT IB
,ni"N"i NEXT n
9660 FOR n=lB TO 31: PRINT AT 15
,nt"M-( NEXT n
9670 FDR n=3 TD 15: PRINT AT n,l
B|*N"I NEXT n
96BB FOR n=23 TD 31: PRINT AT 13
,ni "N"l NEXT n
969H FDP n=3 TQ 13* PRINT AT n ( 2
3; "N": NEXT n
9695 FOR n=tS TO 22t PRINT AT I,
R| "i I" I NEXT n
9?B8 FOR n-26 TO 31 t PRINT AT B,
n;"li" : NEXT n
9705 FOR n-B TO 2i PRINT AT 12,n
; M": NEXT n
971B FOR o-12 TO 21 ■ PRINT AT o,
2j"ri": NEXT n
9713 FOR n-B TO 6i PRINT AT 7,*m
■N": NEXT n
972B FOR rt-3 TQ I2t PRINT AT 4 t n
i"rj": NEXT n
9723 FOR n-4 TO 13t PRINT AT n,9
; "n" : NEXT n
973B FDR n-7 TO
e "n"
IB; PRINT AT n t 6
PRINT AT lB.n
12; PRINT AT 15,
NEXT n
9735 FDR n=h TD 9:
1 h <j": NEXT n
974B FDR n=9 TD
n;~Tj"i NEXT n
9745 FDR n-13 TO 21( PRINT AT n ,
12; "N" I NEXT n: INK B
973B FOR n=B TO 1 1 i PRINT AT n , I
; " (iq6) "| NEXT n
9755 PRINT AT 13,1; 'S'; AT 14, 1 i "
T";AT 15,11 M A" 5 AT 16,l|*Q h ;AT 17
,1|"E"|AT 19,lj"9-'
976B PRINT AT 3, 1 9; " DEAD" • AT 7,1
9; "SLOW %
9765 PRINT AT 1 1 , 1 9; "BEAR' ; AT 13
,19t "1.-2"
977B INK 5t PRINT AT 9,|6; ,- i i ";A
T 16,22| M h l_";AT 4 f 3|*Ki-*| INK 8
9773 INK 1: PRINT AT 2,6;" i " ; AT
2,9;" i"iAT 2,12; lAT 13,4; " _ - j
AT IB,7*"..J" ( AT t7 t 13( » .J"i AT 13 t l
4 f ".'";AT 19 ,18; "J"; AT ll,17("U-|
AT 19, 22| *._>■! AT 28,23r' -";AT 9,2
Si ; AT 1 ,24: : INK B
97BB INk 3( PRINT AT 2,3i h M";AT
2,8; "m -j AT 2,11; "ii" [AT 19,27|"ii"
tAT 9,11; "m"iAT 16,4;"M"t INK B
97B5 PRINT AT 9, 3B| 'E' : AT 18,3Bi
X'jAT ll,3JBi '1'; AT 12,3Bi"T"
979B RE 1 URN
9798 REM *•» icrMr IB »#•
9BB0 LET K-l! LET y>Ui LET z=2
9B1B INK 2: FOR n=8 TD 19t PRINT
AT n,18l "n": NEXT i>
9B28 FDR n»B TQ B: PRINT AT n,26
; "N«i NEXT n
9S3B FOR n=27 TD 31 ; PRINT AT S t
n: " J": NEXT n
9S40 FCJ* n = TD 10, PRINT AT 8,n
J "II": NEXT n
9B50 FOR o=0 TD Zj PRINT AT 13 ,n
| "j": NEXT ei
9B6H FQR n-13 TD 21 1 PRINT AT n,
3; "i i": NEXT n
9S7B INK 1: FOR n=l 1 TO 2t,t PR IN
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i ■' ■ i";AT lb.n; " ■■; |sJEXT rn
9BBB FOR n*=ll TD 14i PRINT AT n,
llj' ";AT n,12f "-■"lAT n,25l" '(A
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9898 INK. 3: FOR n-14 TO 23i PRIN
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n;"n"|AT I4,n; u lj" l NEXT n
9988 INK 0: FOR n=11 TD 25l PRIN
T AT l,ni-' fg6) " ; AT 2,ni - (g6i " ; AT
3,nj H fg6) "i NEXT n
9918 PRINT AT 1,13; "FINISH"; AT 2
,2; 'STAGE' (AT 4,3j "18"sAT 6,2i"G
EAR. .2"
9915 PRINT AT 2,1^1 INK B; BRIQH
T 8t ■EXIT"
99 2B RETURN
9999 SO TO 3B0B
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[05
Take ship for the New World
and found an empire in a
thrilling simulation of the
struggles of European nations to
compete for a share of America's
riches in the 15th Century,
Columbus, by Nicholas Holgate,
was a runner up in the 1984 Cam-
bridge Awards competition. The
game is for two to five players, but
should prove entertaining for one.
Enter listing 1 firsts and SAVE it
with SAVE "col" LINE 10. Then
Enter listing 2 and SAVE with
SAVE "Golumbus" LINE 3, Then
the first listing will automatically
RUN and LOAD the second. The
program runs on the 48K. Spectrum.
Each turn begins with a financial
statement, following which you may
choose a number of options.
Ships allows you to explore, build
ships and improve their design, it
also allows you to engage in piracy,
invade an opponent, or seek to block-
ade his ports if at war, A further
option is to protect trade or move
troops in convoy.
Soldiers gives four options. You
may explore, attack or defend in the
New World, You may also recruit
new troops.
Spies allows you to examine cer-
tain details of your rivals' progress
and plans. *
Crop changes allows you to in-
struct your colonists on what pro-
ducts they should aim to send home.
What you decide will depend on the
type of land colonised.
Tax changes may be used to
increase revenue, but high taxes can
deter colonists.
War allows you to plot an attack
on a player the following turn. A
declaration of war will only be an-
nounced on that turn.
The different types of land are
colour coded. White indicates tundra
or desert, of territorial significance
only. Yellow is plains, the best for
growing crops. Green is forest pro-
ducing timber thus cutting ship-
building costs. Purple may produce
silver or gold.
Some land is inhabited, and you
will have to deal with the natives
there. You can trade with them or
oppress them.
\t the end of each round, all
players may see a report on the
outcome of trading and wars, along
with an indication of who is winning.
The game ends when one player has
achieved colonial domination, but
that player may not be the overall
winner.
'umbus uses out special abbrevia-
tions for graphics characters, so please
read the instructions on the first page
of Program Pritiiatit.
$m:ys)$m
Listing 1
3 PRINT AT 9,5; FLASH 1; "Plea
sb stop th« tap*.": BEEP .5,. Si
PAUSE 200: CL5
5 GO TO 90
25 BEEF .5,. 5: PRINT AT 21 , 19 j
■'Try again 1 ": RETURN
90 LET f=B: CL.5 : PRINT AT IB,
til INK 1; INVERSE 1 ; " COLUMBUS" :
GO SUB 9000
100 INPUT "How many players 7 t
2-5) "|Kt
103 IF CODE x*<,50 OR CODE H*>93
THEN BEEP .5,-5: GO TO 100
104 LET p=VftL x*i POKE 65471, p
123 LET f**=" SPAIN PC-RTUGALHDL
LAND FRANCE ENGLAND "t DEF FN Q
* <n* T x J=n*<9*x-7 TO w*B)
126 FOR K=l TO p
123 IF CODE fi»(k»B-7)-32 THEN
PRINT AT 10+*, 6; INK x,n*ie»x-6
TO S*x>j" Lf playing"! 60 TO 13
129 PRINT AT 10+jt,4, t INK K|FN Q
t(n*,ji)i" it playing."
130 NEXT H
131 PAUSE 20B
135 CLS ; PRINT AT 10,2; FLASH
]j "Start tap* running pL»a*e."
140 LOAD "Columbus"
150 STOP
9BB0>DATA 1 i 9*170,22 1 ,255, 119
, 1 70 , 22 1 , 255
9001 DATA 0,16,120,60,120,147,25
4,0
9002 DATA 25, 26, 60, 60, 56, B8, 24, 2
4
9003 DATA 2H, 20, 28,42,42,42, 42,1
9004 DATA 0,6,30,60,10,201,127,0
9003 DATA 0, lb, lis, 126,233,66,118
,11B
9006 DATA 16, 16,36,36, 124, 10B t 23
S,23B
9007 DATA 24,126,122,223,126,24*
24,24
9008 DATA 132*88,60,60,28,26,24,.
24
9010 DATA 255,129,129,129,129,12
9 , 1 29 , 255
9012 DATA 102,102,126,126,126,12
6, 126,126
9013 DATA 24,24,60,60,60,24,24,2
4
9020 LET n-12i FOR ««-l TO n#8
9022 READ p
9024 POKE 65167+x,p
9025 NEXT M
9030 RETURN
Listing 2
3 LfcT p=PLLK 65471: LEI x *-8T
R* p
A IF p=0 THEN INPUT "How man
y players ? (2-5>";k<: IF CODE x
*<50 OR CODE «*>33 THEN BEEP .5
, . 5 : SO TO 4
3 LET p*VAL k*: GO TD 90
7 LET amft+ll RETURN
10 INPUT "Fr«55 ENTER to COOtl
nul.'lJii: RETURN
13 INK 01 PAPER 7 i RETURN
20 LET i»=m+l: LET x*=STR* k! 1
F k<0 THEN INK 2
21 IF m>21 THEN LET m^21
22 PRINT AT W.30-LEN **} PAPER
7;"' (spl" : PRINT AT m,5J-L6N x»;
106
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23 IF LEN x*=M THEM PRINT AT
*,2B| FLASH 0; PAPER 7% ■<■!*} *
24 RETURN
25 BEEP .5,. 5: PRINT AT 21*19;
"Try iqiirp "I RETURN
28 LET a=B
29 LET b-21
30 FOR *=a TO b: PRINT AT >,1B
i"(U**p)"t NEXT k; RETURN
35 INPUT "ChSIC* (.number) ? *\
n$
40 IF CODE X*<48 OR CODE xf>4B
+n THEN BEEP .3, -Si GO TD 35
45 RETURN
50 LET e-INT < (a lb, al / 10-INT (
*lb,a) /1B1)*10+.S) : RETURN
55 LET b(q,3t»=INT (hfq.il^ll
RETURN
60 LET k=l+INT (RND*4p-.5) >1 R
ETURN
63 LET c=INT (a(b,a) /10+ . 2) i R
ETURN
75 LET a=a-m: LET b"b-r*s RETUR
N
90 LET +=1: GO SUB 72B0J GO SU
B bbbb
1 85 LET co=0: LET ffHBl LET f=B
110 LET nb=H: LET cr=7i LET I nt
= . 1: LET *1«2501 LET m2=10: LET
t=l4B8: LET h=l«0: DIM e*lp,300-
p»20) i DIM btp,BB)
112 LET i*="5PHFE"t LET «*""Sp*
r» I *h C 3« fip * Por tugjeseDu t c h I 5*s p ) F
rench <4*4p>Enql imh <3»*p) "
115 LET s*="l5p)subBit(^tspHN(
2**p J *l ly <2*sp Iwith <2*sp ) trade h
i th (2*sp}mistrust (1*5p) attack 43*
sp ) " } LET ht>"t>tplare invade (2*5
piblockadBpiraty (2«mpl convny ( 2*5
pi patrol (2*splbu± Id (3*sp) dMl go (
2*sp) nothing lap) "
120 LET p*=""5 FOR k-1 TO p; LE
T p*=p*+CHR* Ck+4B): NEKT k: LET
p*=pS(pl+p*t TD p-1)
125 LET n*=" Isp) SPAIN (2**p> PORT
UGALHDLLANDt2W5p J FRANCE ENGLAND t
■pi"! DEF FN g* ■ j-s * , -tt J =n*<S*q-7 T
D S*q)
127 DIM q(12,5); FOR k=i TQ l2l
LET q4k, 11 -INT th*RND)+3: LET q
tk,2)=l+RND/5s LET q(k,3)=. 1+RN&
+RND: LET q<k,4I>INT £RND*h)+l:
NEXT k
12B LET q(B,4)=INT (250-h*RND):
LET e< 9,4) -INT <175-h#RND)
13B DIM e*<21,4): FDR k=l TO 21
1 LET »*(k>=CHRS <k+64H-CHR* 4 97
+25*RND)+CHRt <97«-23*RND> +CHR* <
97+25*RND>: NEXT k
133 LET + *-' H CQr-n4 4*sp)Fish<4»sp
) Furs (4»sp J Hi des ( 3»£p) T 1 mbw < 2**
pi Sugar I 3*Sp> Tobacco Gold(4*sp)5
i lver 4 2* sp) Cot ton (2*sp>Cof t »4 2#
■ i 1 1 ) "
14B FOR k=l TO p: LET btk,6i"IN
T (RND*2BBB+105B0) : LET btk,l2)=
3+ INT <4*RND>I LET b<k,21«-INT <
h+RND*h): LET b4k,24)=INT ( 2B+RN
D«2B)/h: LET b(k, 231-1
145 LET b 4k,29J=3BB+[NT < 2BB»RN
D> : LET b(k,32»-INT <h+RND#hlI L
ET b(k,56)=5B: LET blk,57)=50i N
I X I I
2BB LET kkk=B: LET t=t+4: FDR k
=1 TO pi LET btk # 9)~b4k,5) : NEXT
k
205 LET p*=p*(2 TD p)+p*(l)
210 LET kkfc=kkk+l
215 IF kkk=p+l THEN SO TO 7000
220 LET q=VAL p*tkkk)
222 IF CODE c* 4q , 1 K >32 THEN I
ET ta4q,2B)=b4q,2B) +b(q,21>
225 LET b(q,/4>"lt LET b<q,75!=
B: LET blq,76)=Br: LET w=lNT 4h +
RND-h+5»lt-14961+b(q,H) *4) : LET
b4q,21)=INT <w-b<q,24> *w> t: FOR
y-1 TO 3l LET b Cq ,28+5*y ) =3: LET
b (q , 27+3»y > -b < q , 27+5#y ) +b < q , 2?+
5*y) : NEXT y
230 LET ch-Bl IF b<q,731.'I0 THE
N LET b (q ,251=b(q,25l +. 1
233 IF bfq,73J>h THEN LET b (q ,
251=b(q,23J+. 1
25B PAPER q: INK 7: FLASH 1: CL
S t FLASH Ol PRINT AT 9 ,12] FN gt
tn*,q);AT 12, B; "The year is H ;t:
GO SUB IB
255 GU BUB 15
3BB CLS : BORDER q: IF q<>3 THE
N PRINT AT 3,9|"Vour Majnty T"
3B5 IF q=3 THEN PRINT AT 3,B( 1-
Fell oh burghers ?"
310 PRINT AT 6,2;™Th« Tr«*«*jr-f
begs leave to";AT 7 , 12; "report .
"I GO BUB IB
312 IF b(q,4K (-4BBB- (2BBB*RND)
) THEN GO SUB 4BBB
315 CLS : PRINT &T 1 , 12f INK q;
FLASH IjFN g*{n*,q?
320 LET *-3* PRINT AT 2,29[ I NV
ERSE l;"£-fAT 4 , 1 ; "Funds" ; INVER
SE 01 ■' C'tt-4) ,,1 "t LET H-b(q,6>i
GO SUB 20
325 LET sh=B: FDR k=l TD 7: LET
th-»h*b!q,l]H.)j LET b(q t il*fc> =
B: : NEXT k: LET b(q,12)=sh
330 LET m=7i PRINT AT 7,i t RAPE
R 5; "Plus": PRINT AT 8,l;"TaKes'"
335 PRINT AT B, IB; PflPER i; " ( " ;
b(q r 241*h^'X ,, 5 ") ■' : LET k=1NT b(q
,7B) : GO SUB 20
337 IF b(q,lB)<0 THEN LET b(q,
101=9
34B LET «=11: PRINT AT 11,1; IN
K 7; PW>ER 2;"Minue"a PRINT AT 1
2,lt"Fl**t ("| PAPER Siftht PAPER
7\ PAPER 7;" old + ■' ; PAPER 5;b
(q,19>[ PAPER 7i H ntH)"i LET «-I
NT ( <b<q,19>#fl<l<?B} /4b Id, IBl-MB)
+b4q,731+=h»ml> : GO SUB 2B
342 LET b<q,12!=btq,12>+b(q, \Hi
I LET to-b tq,32)+b (q, 37) +b (q, 42)
345 PR TNT AT 1 3 , 1 ; "Sal di ers" ; AT
13, IBf ■'•■'( INK 2t INVERSE l;so;
INK B; INVERSE B; " ) " : LET K=m2»
so: GO SUB 2B
■-,\!\ IKINl AT 14,1; -Crop subsidl
•*~I LET wab(q,69): GO SUB 2B
355 PRINT AT 1 5 , 1 | Spies" i LET
x-btq t nt BO BUB 2B
357 IF biq,6XB THEN PRINT ftT
16, 1; H Int»r«at"| AT 1A,1B; PAPER
fet , '4 H Tint»h; -X) " : LET it-INT <lnt
»-b!q,i>): LET b tq ,6 J =b (q,fe> -« :
LET k*-STR* k: PRINT AT 16,31-LE
N k*:k*
3tB LET b(q,6?=INT (b(q,6>+blq,
7B) -sh»ml-Cb<q,l9) »ml*2B/ (b<q, 10
1 + 10) ) -5Q*m2-b4q,i9i -b (q, I 1 - b<q,
7313 1 LET b4q,l91-ei LET b4q,73>
-0
362 PLOT 2HB, 26 j DRAW 4B,B
365 LET m=lB: PRINT AT 19 f l| IN
WERSE 1; "Funds"; INVERSE 0; * f;
t|") H l LET D-falq^l; BO SUB £0
366 LET b(q,69)=ai LET b(q,D-0
37B GO SUB IBs BORDER 7: CLS
4B0 FOR y-1 TO 21 i PRINT AT y, 1
| PAPER Si INK 7; " A AA A AA AAAftArtftfl
AAA": NEXT y f IF ^-10 THEN RETU
1ST
4B5 PRINT AT 0,21 | INVERSE 1;FN
q* ( n #,q)
410 IF COPE ct(q,l)<>32 THEN L
ET z=q: GO SUB BSOOt BO TO 420
415 PRINT AT 3,19; "No colonies"
J AT 4, l9;'+ourtd#d yet,": GO SUB
IB
417 LET *-3l LET b=6: GO SUB 30
420 LET m=l: INK 7: PAPER 5: PR
INT AT 2, 19; "Fleet " : LET jobCq.l
2) t GO SUB 20
425 INK 7:: PAPER 2: PRINT AT 3,
19; "Army": LET K=*p; GD SU» ?B
430 INK ?: PAPER 4e PRINT AT 4,
19; "Did settlers"; LET oi^4s LET
x-b(q,20) t BO SUB 20
432 GO SUB 15
433 LET j»-6j PAPER 6t PRINT AT
6, 19; "New settlers"; LET *=btq,2
1): GO SUB 2B: PAPER 7
4SB GO SUB 2B: PRINT AT IB, 19;"
Which da you";AT U,|9:"mi-.m to
ua*)7"
455 PRINT AT 13,19; INK t I "1 Sh
ip«*
456 PRINT AT 14,19; INK 2; "2 So
ldi»r»"
457 PRINT AT 15,19; INK 3; "3 Bp
lM"
45B PRINT AT 16,19; INK 4; "4 Cr
op change"
460 PRINT AT 17,19| INK 3; '5 Ta
x change"
461 PRINT AT IS, 19) INK 2; "6 Ma
r"
463 PRINT AT 19,19l"7 Nothing"
470 LET n-7: GD SUB 35
48B GO SUB 2B
4S5 GO TO (LODE x*-4B)«h+4BB
5BB IF ch=l THEN PRINT AT 13,1
9|"AU don«."i SO TO 450
5B5 PRINT AT 9,19j"What do you"
;AT 10 t 19;"wi«h to tta'>*
510 LET ™=11: FDR y=l TD 9; PRI
NT AT 11+y, IBjy; "4»pJ ";(N g*(h»,
yii IF y<B THEN LET x=btq,12*y)
: GD SUB 28
512 NEXT y
313 LET n*9: BO SUB 35
522 IF f=15 THEN LET *-0i GO T
332
525 LET s=VAL x*i IF B-9 THEN
GO SUB 2Bs GO TO 333
527 IF s=B THEN GD TD 550
53B INPUT "How many fchips 7 ";k
*3 LET h=9: GD SUB 4B: LET ch»l
532 LET i=UAL m: IF »-7 AND i. >
10 THEN LET 1=1BBBB: GO TO 333
333 IF B=7 THEN LET b4q,]9>>tl
LET »=17; LET *=iu GD SUB 20:
LET 1*0; GD TD 515
535 IF i>b<q,12> THEN BEEP .5,
.5: PRINT AT 21,18; FLASH 1; Tao
ni*nylZ»*pl"i GD TD 530
54B LET b4q,l2)-btq,12>-Lt LET
b<q,*+12)=i: LET m=lB+s: LET K=i
1 SO SUB 20t LET m-n LET M-b<q,
121; PAPER 5: INK 7; FLASH 1; GD
SUB 20 s 00 SUB IS l FLASH
545 IF b!q,12) >0 THEN GO TO 51
5
547 IF b(q,l2K-0 THEN GO TO 3
55
550 INPUT "Ho« much money 7 "i*
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552 IF CODE X*J4B AND CODE x*<3
y THf.N LET b<q,73}-VM r.*-. LET
«s|B: LET k*VAL x*: GD SUB ^Bs P
RINT AT 19,3b- INT LEN **l"£": GO
TO 545
555 FOR k=13 TD 16
55b EQ SUB ^Bi IF b(q,k)=B THEN
NEXT kt GD TD 45B
L57 PRINT AT k- 1,2 Is FLASH UFN
jt Ch*,k-12)
55B IF k-13 THEN GD SUB B6BB
SAB IF k=14 OR k*17 THEN GO SU
B 67BB
595 NEXT k
596 GO TO 45B
hOB LET *»15l EQ SUB 29: LET g-
7( PRINT AT 14,2Si ■Hwn'V: LET m=l
5: FOR *=*! TO 3= PRINT fiT 13+z , §
9; "Force ";n LET *"b <q ,27+z*5) :
GD BUB 2BJ NEXT z
ABS IF (=5 THEN LET 4=0: EQ TO
653
i>a6 FDR y=-l TO 3i PRINT AT 15*y
,25t INVERSE 1 ; y: PAUSE 50! JF f
f=H AND b(q,23+3*y> =B THEN HEX
T y: GO TD 65B
607 LET *»b(q,25+5*y) : LET b-b <
q,2b+5»yl: LET y*-"^."t PRINT AT
j.bjy*: PAUSE h: IF ff-1 THEN L
ET g=«: NEXT y: LET **=fl: LET q=
qq: 60 SUB IB: GO TO 7BB
ABB LET g»7t LET «=2: GO SUB B6
I7t IF «*="*" OR b<H,2e+S»y!<:=B
THEN NEXT y : BO TO 65B
6lB IF a<b,a)=B THEN PRINT AT
i,b( PAPER 7j INK 5;"_ft": PRINT A
T n,2B; -M*-S GO SUB 75: GO TO
MB
fa 12 GO SUB B«ia
62B GO SUB 5fl: PRINT AT a,bf PA
PER c;y*
&25 LET b(q,2B+5»y)=btq,2S+5#y)
-1: GO SUB tiS: IF C-0 THEN GO S
UB ©436
63B LET b{q,25+3*y)"a: LET b(q,
26+3»y>=b: IF b (q , 2B+3#y ! <-B THE
N NEXT yt SO TD A5H
A35 GO TD 6BS
65B LET a-Bt GO SUB 29: LET **S
i GD TO ABB
653 FOR y-1 TD 3: PRINT AT 15+y
,25l FLASH l;yl IF y>l THEN PR I
NT AT 15+y~l,25; INVERSE l|y-l
INPUT "Recruiting hoH many
f ";«*
66B IF CODE kK48 OR CODE x*>57
THEN BEEP .5,. 5: PRINT AT 2i,l
9} "Try again": GO TD 655
663 IF WAL se*>5BB THEN LET x* =
"*": GD TD 66B
67B LET btq,29+5*y> =VAL **J NEX
T ¥
695 GO TO 45B
7BH PRINT AT 9,22 t PAPER 3; INK
7f SPIES"
7B5 LET a=lBt BO SUB 29: PRINT
fiT 1 J ,19; "Spy an who*?"
71B LET *-ll FDR m = 1 TO p
712 IF x=q THEN NEXT HI GD TO
718
714 IF CODE n*!**B-7)=32 THEN
PRINT AT 12+m,2B; INK «iiti"(sp)"
jn*(B*K-6 TD B»k): LET m=m+ 1 : NE
XT hi GD TO 71B
715 PRINT fiT 12+HH,2Hj INK M | X J "
(*p)";FN g*Cnl,it): LET m-m+1
ES*^
717 NEXT H
71S PRINT AT 12+m,2B;p+l; " ( 2*sp
) "J "NOBODY "3 IF f«6 THEN PRINT
AT l9,l9| h tOnm only! "
72B LET n=p+l: GO SUB 35
73B LET Z-VAL «*i IF z=q THEN
BEEP .3, .91 GO TO 72B
735 IF z-p+1 THEN LET f-Bc GO
TD 45B
736 IF *-A THEN LET b<q,5)=z:
LET f-Bi GO TD *3B
74B LET a- 111 GO SUB 29
742 LET b<q,l>=b(q, 1 I *h
745 PRINT AT 1 1 ,2B| "Far what ?"
75B PRINT AT 13, 2B; INK 3| ■ 1 Fi
nmcB5-;«l J4.2B| INK 4; "2 Colon
ili'gAT 15, 2B; INK I [ "3 Ships";A
T 16,2B| INK 2("4 Troops"; fiT 17,
2B; INK 4; "5 Cropa"fAT 18, 2B; IN
K 2 J "6 War plans"
752 LET n=6: BO SUB 33
733 LET a-11: GD SUB 29
76B LET a-VAL K*I IF *<>5 THEN
PRINT AT 11,21; INVERSE 1 I FN g*
(n*,*l
762 IF c=l THEN PRINT AT 13, 19
;"Fllnd»l£"l LET m=12: LET x = INT
(b<z,6)<Hl+RND-HNlJJ ) 1 GO SUB 2B:
PRINT AT 14, 19; "Ta* (*>"* LET K-
INT Cb<*,24)#n+RND/2B-RND/2B) : B
BUB 211: GO SUB IB: GO TO 7BB
763 LET -f-Bl IF a=5 AND b(z,ll>
>B THEN LET *«2
765 IF *=5 THEN LET n=9: FDR o
=1 TO crtf: PRINT AT 9+n,l9jFN g
f(tf,n)i LET K-b(z,55+n): GO SUB
2B: PRINT AT ■,3i|, , *X*l NEXT n:
GD SUB IB: GO TO 7BB
77B IF 5-2 THEN 00 SUB 85BB: G
TO 7BB
775 IF 5=3 THEN LET »™I4t PRIN
T AT 13,19; "Fleet": FOR n-1 TO 7
: PRINT AT 14+n,19lFN gtlht.n):
LET K=b(z,12+n): GO SUB 26: NEXT
n: GD SUB lBl GD TD 7HB
780 IF s=4 THEN LET qq=q! LET
q=z: LET M-Il 60 TD ABB
7B5 IF 5=6 AND bCz,5>Ofl THEN
PRINT AT l3 T 2is'Pl*"P tt3";AT 14,
21l "attacl^'^AT 15,21; FLASH 1; I
NKblz,5)|FNgl(ii(,l)(z,5)li PAU5
E 2BBi GD TD 7BB
7B7 IF *»6 AND b(z,9>OB THEN
PRINT AT 13,21; "Attackl ng" J AT 14
,21) FLASH It INK b4z,9l;FN g*(n
t,b<z,9>): PAUSE 2B0: GO TO 70-8
79B IF 5,=A THEN PRINT AT 14,21
; "No plans": PAUSE hi SO TO 7BB
BBB LET t=B: PRINT AT H,19i PAP
ER 4; INK 7» "CROP CHANGE-
BBS IF b<q f ll>>B AND cr=7 THEN
LET t=2
BBS LET a=lH: GO SUB 29
BIB LET m=9* FOR y"l TO cr+f: P
RINT AT 9+y,19;FN g*(f*,y): LET
x=b<q,SS+y>l GO SUB 2B: PRINT AT
9+y,31; , 'X ,, : NEXT y
B15 LET *t-Bl FOR y-l TO crH: P
RINT AT 9+y,19; FLASH 1 ; FN g* C f *
,y>l IF y>l THEN PRINT AT B+y, 1
9jFN g*(+*,y-l)
B16 IF fy=S DR y=9) AND b(q,ll>
<=B THEN LET b(q,55+y>=#t GD TO
B35
B 17 IF y-3 AND t.£q t lBX=B THEN
LET b(q,6H)=0: GO TO B33
82B INPUT "What perceataqe ? '■ ]
x*: LET n=9: GO SUB 4B
822 LET I-VAL k#i IF z >h THEN
BEEP .5,-5: PRINT AT 21,19; "Too
much"! GO TO 820
B25 IF z>bCq,55+y) THEN LET b(
q,69)-INT t tbCe|,69)*Ci-b<q,55+yi
)*b (q,BJ )*b(q, 241*21
B 30 LET #myt*xt LET t. tq,55+y ) =z j
LET w=z: LET m=B+y: GD SUB 2fl
832 IF w=h THEN FDR w»y+ 1 TD c
r+f : LET x=0! GO SUB 2B: LET b(q
,33+t*)=B: NEXT HI PRINT AT 21,19
?"A11 don*, "s LET y-cr+f
B35 NEXT Y
84B LET y=0: FOR K-l TD 1 2t LET
y«y+b(q,55+x) : NEXT x
S45 IF y>lBB THEN LET a-9t SO
SUB 29: PRINT AT IB, 19| "Your pi a
nrved'lAT U, 1 9; "output la"; AT 12
,19; "above IBB*. "tAT 14, 19; "Try
again 1 ": PAU5E 20B : GO TO BHB
S95 PAUSE h: GO TD 45B
9BB PRINT AT 9,19| INK 7) PAPER
3; "TfiX CHfiNGE"
91B PRINT AT 12,19; "Old rate":
LET K=b<q,24>#h: LET ™=11: GD SU
B 28: PRINT AT 12,31 I "H"
915 PRINT AT 14, t*| *NlM rata ?"
;AT lfa,17,-"(Setneen 1B";AT 17,19
; "and 5B 7.)": PRINT AT 14,31 j "X"
92B LET n--9t GO SUB 33
925 LET x=INT vAL x*: IF K >5B D
R k<1B THEN BEEP .5,* 5t BO TO 9
15
93B LET b<q,24l-K/hl LET a-13i
GO SUB ZH
945 PAUSE h: GO TO 45B
1BB0 LET blq,5)>Bi PRINT AT 9,22
; INK 7; PAPER 2;"WAR"
IfllB IF b(q,9)>B THEN LET y-b<q
,9): PRINT AT ll,19;"Vou dn now
"iAT 12,19; "attackiog"tAT 13,I9|
INK y; FLfiSH 1 ; FN q*(n*,y): GD
TO 1B2H
1B15 PRINT AT 11,19;"Voij are nat
M ;fiT 12, 19;"atta, kii, tJ . ";."H 13,19
; "anyone. "
1B2B PRINT AT 15, 19; "You mrm bai
nq" ;AT 16, 19; "at tac ked by"
IB25 LET ip- 17? FDR k-l TO p
1B27 IF b(k,9)=q THEN PRINT AT
m,19; INK k| FLASH IjFN gitn*,k»
: GO SUB 7
1B23 NEKT k
1B3B IF »-17 THEN PRINT AT m , 19
; "nobody. "
1B35 BO BUB IB) LET a-lli GO SUB
29
1B4B PRINT AT 9,19f H N«Ht turn,";
AT IB, 19; "do you pi an"; AT 11,19;
"to attack"! LET t-6s 00 TO 7lB
12B0 GD TD 21B
'iBBB BORDER /; PRJIfl 111 Vil.t,; t L
ASH 1;FN gf<n*,z); FLASH B; " has
h: ii i ' "
5B1B COPY I GO SUB IB
5B2B CLS t LET fMBt GO SUB 4BB
5B3B PRINT AT B,3; INK 1 ; "THE NE
U WORLD"! FDR i-l TO pi GO SUB B
SBB: NEXT z
5B55 GD SUB 9 1 BB
5BAB CDPV t INPUT "Praa« any k*y
4 or rematch! ";x*
5B7B CLEAR ) RUN
60BB IF *Cb,a>(5B THEN GO TO 61
BB
AHIB LET aa=a: LET bb=b: LET a=l
Si GO SUB 29
AB12 LET c=INT ( a 4 bb , aa ) / IB) -5
6B13 [F d(c,q)=l THEN GO SUB 60
5Bl GD SUB iBB5: RETURN
6015 PRINT AT 15, 19 ["You tl"tl;n
T 16, 19; "the "; FLASH l;e*(c)
6B28 PRINT AT IB, 19s "Will yOll"|A
T 19, 19;." I Fight"; AT 28, 19 j "2 Tr
ada"
6B25 INF'UT "Strateqy (l-2t 7 ")kI
AB3B IF CODE k*<49 DR CODE «* -50
I HEN BEEP .5,. 5 1 GD TO 6G25
6B32 LET a=lB: LET b=21: GO SUB
3Bl LET d=*VAL n*UJ
6035 IF df{c,q)=0 THEN LET d«C,q
)=»IWT (2+3.4*RNDJ
604B LET a=aa: LEI b=bb! IF d»]
THEN LET d(c,q)=5
6B45 IF d<c,q><:5 AND y*- "jj- THEN
LET a=a-m: LET b=b-n
£.058 IF d(c,qK3 THEN PRINT AT
19, 19;." They"; AT 2B,lB;s*!d(c,qt»
12-11 TO dtc,q,) #12) [AT 21,l9;"yrj
u": PAUSE 5B: RETURN
6BAB PRINT AT 18,21 | FLASH 1[ J BA
TTLE1": IF y*="Cj" THEN LET v=b (
q,27+3#y>/<dlc,6)+lJ
6BA5 PAUSE h: IF y*= "Jj" THEN LE
T v=b(q,k) #23/<d!c,6)*D
iB7B LET d(c,fi>=INT (d(c,6)-v*d(
C,6>)I IF d(c,6><:-B OR vl IM1N
PRINT AT 19,21? FLASH 1; "VICTOR
Y": LET d(c,q)=l: PRINT AT 20,19
; "Land and" [AT 21 , 19) "* Laves tak
en": GD TD 6BB5
6B75 PRINT AT 19,21; FLASH I I "DE
FEAT!": IP y*- u £« THEN LET b (q ,
27+5»y) =INT (b(q,27+5*y) * ( .9-RNB
/2)>i LET a-a-«t LET b-b-m RETU
RN
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LET b<q,
LET hh=
'Van hdv
vag*nt
banker 5
ionitnutd from page 10S
&ase if biq,i3)>i then
k)=INT tb(q,13)>,91
68B2 RETURN
6065 LET a=aa: LET ta=bta: LET b <q
,Z2)=bfq,22)+lNT <30B»RNDI: LET
a(b,a)=a(b,ai-lB*c: 60 SOB B636
fca™ RETURN
6105 GO SUB 65: IF c=q THEN R£T
URN
61 IB IF cOblq, 1 ?) AND y*» "^_" THE
N SO SUB 75* LET m=B: LET n=B
115 IF c<>b(q,9) THEN RETURN
jU7 IF y*"* 1 ^" THEN RETURN
6120 LET g=l: LET k-qt LET r=btq
,91 i 00 SUB SS43
6125 IF g«2 THEN PRINT AT 20,19
; "Enemy" ; AT 21 , 1<?j "at t ttked": LE
T b<q,2B+5»y)=B: RETURN
6127 SO SUB 50! LET a(b,a)=c: LE
T g=5: LET v=hiq,"?): SO SUB 0636
I SO SUB SSS7t LET g=B
6130 RETURN
65BB PRINT PAPER 6) 'N.fi. In All
cises, players must occupy I In-
lands a-i submissive natives to
control then. ■
6518 PAUSE ht LET nb-=t; RETURN
6700 LET mm=B: FOR k = l TO p; LET
b<k,B)=B
6710 LET z=l: IF CODE c*!k,n-32
THEN SO TO 6750
6715 LET b=VAL c*(k,i TO Z+-U* L
ET i=VAL c*<k,Z+2 TO z + 3>
6720 GD SUB 5H: IF c>6 THEN SO
TD 6722
6721 LET b(k,8)=b (k,8»+L
6722 IF CODE c* <k ,1+4) < >32 THEN
LET Z»Z+4t BO TD 6715
6725 IF z >24B-p»2B THEN
1
673B LET b<k,7J=z
675H NEXT k
676B RETURN
6BBB CLS t PRINT AT 3,B
■ been rerklessly extra
and owe your Italian
"t INK 2}"£*';-INT b(q,fb!
6BB5 LET H"7
68 IB IF b(q,19>>2 THEN PRINT AT
m,B;"They rtfUM to pay for ha]
+ your new ships": LET in=m+3: LET
z=19: GO SUB 55
6613 IF b(q,32>+btq,37)+b(q,42) >
480 THEN PRINT AT m,Bs"They rm*
uae to pay your army: desert io
n is ri(B,"i LET 2=32: GO SUB 55
! LET z»37: GO SUB 55: LET z«42:
GO SUB 55: LET n~m+3
6S25 IF n>9 THEN PRINT AT 2B T 0j
"With friends Ilk* these ..."
&83B SO SUB 18: RETURN
"/BOB LET *=B: BORDER B: PAPER 6:
CLS : PRINT AT >?,2;"A11 deciftlO
rim have been made. Their enn-se
quences mi I 1 now be reveal ad
7BB5 60 SUB 10
7007 LET y=B: FOR k-1 TD p: IF b
(k,91 >B THEN LET y=I
7008 NEXT k: IF y=B THEN GD TD
7IOB
70 IB PAPER 5: CLS I PRINT AT 1,1
3; INVERSE 1 S "HARS"
7B12 FOR k=l TO p: PAUSE hi CLS
7815 LET r=b(tc,9)i IF r-c-0 THEN
NEXT k: GO TO 7 1 BB
7017 LET r»btk,<*>: IF r-J THEN
PRINT AT 3,0; FN qflnf.lclj" is at
war with "iFN g*<n*»r>
7B1H LET m=4: IF b ( k , 1 4 ) < =a THEN
GO TO 7032
7B2H PRINT AT 4,B;"- invasion by
wa"
7B21 PRINT AT 21, 0; PAPER 4;" (10
*«p)"j INK 5; PAPER 7 ; " flflflAAflflfi-fl
ftAAflAflflflAflAAA " : PRINT AT 2B,RND»
3; INK 6f l2*ig3l ■' l PRINT AT 20,
RND#3; H H" ; AT 2B,2+RND»3; "' "
7022 LET y*-"E^ E_ MUttpi"! FOR
k*5 TO I5i PRINT AT 28,32-f-*; I
NK 2;x*(l TQ x>: PAUSE St NEXT «
: IF + -7 THEN LET *-B: RETURN
7025 IF b(k,14>/'(b(r,lB!+li<2 TH
EN PRINT AT 2B, 1 1 f INK 1|"E 6»j
PRINT AT j»,17j uti bittlt't LE
T n=k: LET k=14: LET y=r : LET im
IHi SO SUB B9O0I SO SUB 7
7B27 IF b(k,l4><-0 THEN FDR 1=1
TO 3l IF b t k, 27+5*1 )=-l THEN L
ET btk,25+5»l)=0i LET I "3
702B IF b(k,14l<=B THEN NEXT 1:
GD TD 7H5B
7038 BO SUB 7: PRINT AT m,2i "for
C* landed": LET f=7: GO SUB 7022
i PRINT AT 20,8) INK 2 S "II": GD
BUB 7
7B32 LET q-0i FOR y-1 TO 3
7033 BO BUB BB5B
7B34 NEXT y
7835 IF 6lk,l5X=B THEN GD TD 7
B5B
7B37 LET +=7; PRINT AT *,B;"- bl
ucladB": GD SUB 7B21
7848 LET w-fct LET h-15: LET y=n
LET z=l8: GD SUB B8BB ; SO SUB 7
7B45 IF 4ml THEN LET f=B: LET w
■Cb (r, IS I +3) / (b(k, 15) +5) : IF MCI
THEN LET b (r,74>-bO,74)*w
7858 IF lilk,16X=B THEN GO TO 7
B 95
7855 SO SUB 7t PRINT AT m.B;"- p
iracy H
7B6B PRINT AT 28, 0t " ( J2*sp ) " : PR
INT AT 21, 0| INK 5; PAPER 7; "(32
•£l h i LET K*="(*pl^£4»i FDR x
1 TD 12i PRINT AT 2B,K| INK l; K t
I NEXT HI PRINT AT 20,22; INK ?,
7863 LET M=k: LET K"16i LET y=n
LET z=17: GO SUB BBBB: GO SUB 7
7B7B IF 4-1 THEN LET f-8i LET w
= Cb<k,16l+5W lb(r, 171+51 : IF *♦>!
THEN LET b(k,75>=w 1; IF b(k,7
51?-. 4 THEN LET b <k , 751 = . 3+RNC/ 1
a
7000 p AUSE h
7B95 NEXT k
?1B0 GD SUB ISi LET *-B: LLb : P
R1NT Al !,ti INVERSE 1; "COLONIAL
PRODUCT I 0N M 1 PRINT AT 2,101" («
in pi rj^dml *'
/1B1 GD SUB b780
71B2 FDR k«l TO p: LET b a , 2J =e
7183 IF INT b[k,Bl>B THEN BO TO
71 ia
7105 LET b(k,2!=(b<k,2a>+2*bU ,
2)1/ (b Ik, 8)1-1 J t IF b(k,2)<l THEN
LET b(k,2)=b(k,2)*b*k,B) : GD I
O 71 IB
71B7 LET y=0; FOR K-l TD INT b(k
,2J| LET y=y+I/xt NEXT k : LET bl
h,2>=b(k,S>>yt IF bik,l|) B AND
cr=7 THEN LET f -2
c tmlmued on page IN
SINCLAIR USER January IMS
II,
continued from page 113
7109 IF bfk.fcS) ,kN0*5B OR b<k,fc4
) >RND*h THEN LET b Ik f 21 «b (k ,2* •
t .9-RND/3)
7U0 NEXT k
7120 FOR X-i TO crH: PRINT RT B
+x,B;FN a*<+*»JC)| NEXT MI FOR x =
] TIJ pj PRINT AT 5,5+(lB-p>+x; I
Nk y;it!>:): NEXT x
7125 FOR k = l TO p: FDR 1=1 TO cr
+#| LET k*=5TR* (iNt (,5+p(k,2)»
bikt ,55*1 J/h) I : PRINT AT B+l,*j+(l
0-p)*k-LEN HljUi NEXT 1: NEXT k
7 13B GD SUB IB: LET g>0
?132 LET l=B: FOR k = l TO p
7133 IF blk,74 + g><' >1 AND b<k,74+
g! OB THEN LET 1=1
7134 N£*T kl IF 1=B THEN GO TO
715B+g
7135 IF g»i THEN GD TD 7151
713A PRINT AT 1,4( INVERSE 1 ! "LO
5SES THROUGH BLOCKADE "
7137 FOR k=l TO p
7138 IF b<k,74K.l THEN LET b(k
,741=. l+RND/10
7140 NEXT k
7142 FOR k-l TD p* FDR 1 = 1 TD cr
+*: LET k*=" "+STR* (INT ( tb < k ,
2)*b(k,55+l ) -b (k,2) *t*lk«55+l )*hl
k,74U/hUi PRINT AT B+I„6+(10-p
!»k-LEN k*;x*e NEXT It NEXT k
7145 GD SUB IB
715B LET Q»ll GO TO 7132
7151 IF 1=B THEN GO TO 7180
7135 PRINT AT 1,2; INVERSE 1 ; "GA
INS /LOSSES THROUGH PIRACY"
7137 FOR k=l TO p
7153 IF b<k,73J>.24 THEN LET b(
k ,75J=.2+RND/2I
7165 LET r»b(k,9)
+ f
7lfa6 IF r=B THEN
71fcB
7167 LET x=b(k,73t*b(r,2)*b<r ,55
♦I )Jtb(r,741
7168 LET btk,7il=B: LET y-Bl FOR
m=l TO p
7170 IF m=k THEN GD TO 7172
7171 IF b<m,9>-k THEN LET y=y+b
(■,73)
7172 NEXT m
7175 LET b(k,7fe)=y: LET «*■" "+S
TR* INT ( i„-b<k„2>*btk,55+l H»y! f
hll IF LEN x*=2 THEN LET K*«" "
+x*
7)76 IF VAL k*>B THEN LET xSll
TD >-« + "+■* (2. TO >
7177 PRINT AT 8+1 , 6 + I lB^p) *k-LEN
x*;xSi NEXT li NEXT k
7178 GD SUB IB
71 BO CLS i FOR k=l TD p; LET b(k
,2>=b(k,2)«btk*741 #(l-b(k,7d) ) i
NEXT k
71B5 GD BUB l5t PRINT AT 1 , 9 ; PA
PER U INK 7; "SALES IN EUROPE"?
PRINT AT 1.27ft!: PRINT AT 3,7; 1
F#: It "Total "; AT 4,7; "s*I •*" i AT 5
,A; - (load*)": PRINT AT 4,13; INK
2;"Price";AT 3,14|*«£»*l PLOT 1
35, 1 03 I DRAW B,-a*(cr + f)
71B7 PRINT AT 3,22| INK 3;"Mjrke
t*;AT 4,2Bs"Share CX?"; FQR x = i
TD cr + fi PRINT AT B+J,8;FN q* < *
* f x): NEXT Ml FDR X-l Tp p: PR I N
T AT 6,16+3*x: INK M}i*lK)l NEXT
x
7168 FDR k = l TO ps LET b(k,7B)=B
: NEXT k
7190 LET x = 0: FDR 1=1 TO srH: F
DR k=l TO pi LET K=w+INT C.5+b(k
,2J*b Ck ,55+1 ) /t\t
7192 IF b<k,*5i>B THEN LET x"H + l
Nl 1.3+tl (b(tc,«?> ,2) »b*btk,9S ,55+1
FDR 1=1 TO cr
LET x-Bt SO TO
LET q (1 ,
Ufcl q<l
PRINT A
J*b(k T 75)/hf
7193 NEXT k: LET q(l,5>=K: LET x
f=STRf Kl PRINT AT B+1,12-LEN X*
;:<*: IF x = THEN LET q(l,4}~qU
,41+INT <RND#5>
7 195 IF x >H THEN LET q f 1 , I > =q ( 1
,ll-q(l,2)i LET qfl,4l=INT (q ( 1 ,
4) + (q(l ,1)-k) /q tl , l)»q<l ,3H : LE
T q<l , t l = (q(l ,1)»3*-kJ/4
7196 IF q(l,4)CBB THEN
4l=l+INT I5.3*RNT3>
7 197 IF q(l,4J 5QH fHEJJ
,4j=lMr :4tfU + RN£J"Ji )
720B LE f x*=ETR* q(l,4):
T 8+1 , 16-LEN x»)X*
72B5 FOR k=l TO pi LET y-INT <.5
+b (k,2)»b(k T 35*l ) /hi
72B7 IF b(k,9l>B THEN LET y-y+I
NT (.5+b<btk» J ?» 1 2)«b<b(k, , ?f ,53+1
)*b(k,75)/h)
72BB IF *,rfl THEN LET v=INT (h*y
/x+.5): LET b tk, 7B) =b Ck , ?B> +INT
(y*q [I ,41+q!l T 5)»b(k,24|i/h>
72 IB IF y>0 THEN LET k*=" "+BTR
* y: PRINT AT 8+1 , I7+3*tk-LEN X*l
It*
7212 NEXT k
7215 LET x=B: NEXT 1
722G9 COPY : GO SUB 10
7225 CLS : PRINT AT 1,5; PAPER 4
; "NATIVE TRADING/LDDTING" : FOR k
= 1 TD p: LET bCk,2MBl NEXT k
723H FDR x=l TD 21: LET y=B: FOR
k»l TO p
7235 IF d(x,k)=l THEN LET btk t 2
(-b(k,2)+d(s<,7)
723£> IF d*K T k)*2 OR d(x,k>-3 THE
N LET y=y+l
7240 NEXT k
7245 IF y=B THEN 80 TO 7233
7247 FOR k-t TO p
724B IF d(x,k>=2 DR dtK,k)«3 THE
N LET btt(,2J-b<k,2>+INT (dlx ¥ 71
/y)
7230 NEXT k
72AB NEXT x
7Z70 PRINT AT 7, IB; "Value af-fAT
4, 14; "native trade (£>": FOR K>
1 TO pi LET y-btx ,2)»btK,74J*li-
b(x,76)): LET b <x , 70 ) =b (k , 70) +IN
T (y*fcKx,24l): PRINT AT A+2*K ¥ 2;
INK xfm*U0#x-9 TO 10*nt= LET vs.
i=STR* INT b(x,2>: PRINT AT 6+2«
k,23-LEN xi|Htt NEXT ki
7275 SO SUB 10
7277 LET f=H
72BB CLE i PRINT AT 1,10; INK 7;
PAPER 3; "How to him."; PRINT AT
4,1] "The game ends when one pi a
yer has about -l ; INVERSE t|A0-
p*5( INVERSE 0s" blacks o« land.
•i PRINT AT 4,lt"Pl*V«r5 store"
72B5 PRINT AT 9,3f PAPER Sf " 10BB
"f PAPER 7% H points -far each are
a ai land";AT 13,3;"and";ft
T 16, 3l PAPER 3("l B i PAPER 7; " p
□ l nt -lor each pound in th*
Treasury (or "f INK 7f PAPER 2;
"-1"S INK B; PAPER 7I 4 " p»r
pound of debt > , "
72B6 IF 4=1 THEN PRINT AT 20, 0[
"(The map for this game is being
generated.)": RETURN
7287 GO SUB IB
72?B CLS s PRINT AT 3, 17; "Points
7Z<?2 FDR K-t TO p
7395 IF CODE nt<K*B-7)=32 THEN
PRINT AT 5+2#w ,A; INK K;n*(8»x-fi
TD 8#k) ! GO TO 73BB
72961 PRINT AT 5+2»x,6fFN g*ln*,M
)
7300 NEXT k
73B2 LET *-ll LET yy=-lBBBB: FUH
k=1 TD p: LET y-b C« , 7 1 »25B+b Ik ,
AJ+b!x, 7B)
730i IF y>yy THEN LET i^m LET
yyaiy
7320 LET x*=5Tft* INT yt PRINT AT
3+2*H»23-LEN m*;m*: NEXT x
733B PRINT AT 2B,ij FLASH 1|FN q
*<n*,ft; FLASH 0;" is winning »"
734B IF ww=l THEN GD TO 5BBB
7330 CDPV : GO SUB IB
7430 PAUSE hi CLS J PRINT "EVENT
B"l PRINT " ": FOR k-1 TO p
7432 LET z-1
745B LET n=b ( k , 8 ) ( I b ( k ,7 I + XI I IF
x<.6 THEN LET x = . h
7432 IF *>!,! THEN LET n-l.I
7455 LET b(k,20l>lNT 4b1k,20)«J<)
7437 FOR yl TO 3; LET hfk,27 + 5*
y)=lNT Cb tk,27+3»y! *k I t NEXT y
7460 LET b(k,22J=INT (b Ik ,22t * (h
-.2))i IF X-.2<.4 AND RND^, 7 THE
N PRINT "Epidemic among ";m* lk#
1B-9 TO k*101 j ■ *l*v«-
747B FOR *=I TO 21
7472 IF dt*,k>=B THEN GO TD 74B
5
.'•-» /: ,111 y [ Ml I RNL« 1 . * f..ND» 1 . ■) I
748B LET w=d ( x , k ! : IF yOV AND -
+y<6 AND H+yvB THEN LET d(H,k)=
M+y: PRINT "The ;**<*>(»* (d <*. k
) #12-1 1 TO d(x,k)«12> jFN gtfnt.k
I: IF dtH T k)-l AND nbOt THEN G
D BUB fa5B0
7485 LET dlx»7)-INT (d!x,7>#tl-R
ND/3+RND/31 ) : NEXT x
749B NEXT k
73BB PAUSE hi CLS I IF RND>-B5 T
HEN CLS : PRINT AT 9,0; "The POP
E proclaims peace bet ueenChr i st i
ins. No wars are allowed newt tj
m <eitc«pt against the natives
.1*1 FOR k=l TO pi LET b(k,Si*Bt
NEXT k l GD TO 79BB
7515 LET w=B: FOR k-1 TO p
7516 IF bCk,lli>l THEN LET w=l
7317 NEXT hi IF M-l AND cr-7 THE
N LET cr=9
7320 IF RND>.9 AND cr >a AND cr<l
1 THEN LET cr-er+li CLS i PRINT
AT 9,0[FN g*lf *,cr) ; "is introdu
ced into th« Naw world. ** GO TO
79BH
7340 GO SUB 601 IF blk,A))-h AND
RNO.B5 THEN PRINT AT "7,1; "Pro
duct* from the East Indies dis
ru.pt demand -tar your goods, "i FO
R 1=1 TD cr: LET q(l,l)=qll ,ll»(
1-RND/2J; NEXT 1 I GO TO 7900
7S8B CLS : GD BUB 6B: IF b(k,t)/
RNDHth AND btk,24J>.25 AND RND>,3
ri«"N FOR x = I TO p: LET b(x,70)
=bfx,7B)»M-b<K,24n t NEXT xt PR
INT AT 9,B;"A11 itttH are affec
ted by tan tVHIon, (sane more
than pthcrslhut savage penalties
eniurt thattt is a short-lived
phenamennn. '" : QO TO 7850
76BB CLS : GO BUB t,B: IF b(k,6)>
RND»h AND RND>,5 THEN PRINT AT
9,lf"Vaur ! mercenary) farces dem
and A pay rill,"t LET "2-INT <H
2*1.2) : PAUSE 3BB
762B LET wit FOR k»l TO pt
7622 IF b Ik, 231 >*b(w,23) THEN L
ET w=k
7625 NEXT ki IF b(w,25)-l THEN
80 TO 7900)
763B CLS : IF RND>.6 THEN PRINT
AT 9,Bl«*(l0*w-9 TO IB'mIi" shl
p design bonsts";AT IB, 0; "recti p
ts from entrepot trade. "t FOR k m
1 TO p: LET b «w,70) =b ( w, 7BJ + I . 1 •
blk T 70)/b(k,24) >
790B GO BUB IBi GO TO 200
B8B0 Dill at 17,21 »
8BB5 LET m=2+RND«4i LET n="RND«5-
RND#3+3
8B1B FOR x=l TO 21
8013 LET m-»+RNP*3-RND*3i LET n-
n+RND»4-F*IDs4
8B20 IF m>6 THEN
8023 IF M<0 THEN
8B3B IF n<0 THEN
B035 IF n>10 THEN
3
8037 IF K-21 THEN
LET n-2«RND
8040 IF m>B THEN
LET aI7-k,K>*U NEXT k
8045 IF n>0 THEN FOR k-1 TO ni
LET a<fc+k,*)=li NEXT k
8030 IF K<21 AND n<6«RND THEN L
ET a(B+n,x)=l
8B55 IF n<7«RND AND RND>, 7 THEN
LET *<9+fi,x}-l
81360 NEXT h
BB65 FOR y«l TO 21 i
LET e-6-RND*2
LET e-RND*3
LET n-=RND*3
LET n-10-RND*
LET n-4*RNDa
FOR k-1 TO ■■
FOR x=l TD 1
BB78 IF alx,y>=B THEN GD TD BB9
5
8873 LET *<K,yl"INT (3+RND«4.S> i
GO SUB B9BB
easa if k-i or y-i then bo to b
BHS5 IF RND>.6 AND a(x,y-l)>l TH
EM LET ttn t y)-l(x,y-l)t BO TO B
B95
BB9B IF RND>-7 AND a<K-l t y)>l TH
EN LET .lM,y>=at*-l,y)
a IBB NEKT xi NEXT y
9Z0B DIM d(21,7): FOR k-6 TO 26:
LET n=B
B21B LET *=1+RND*15: LET y=l+RND
• 19
6215 IF ■(K,yJ=B DR a<x,y)j-7 THE
N LET n=n+l: IF n<E THEN 50 TO
BZlfl
8217 IF n>=5 THEN 00 TO 8258
BZ2B LET »< k , y ) =a (* , yl + lB*k: LET
d<k-5 1 6>=99+lNT ERNDMBGB): LET
d(k-5 T 7l-RND«2B0a
8225 IF a(H+l ,y>< >B AND *<*+!, y>
7 THEN LET a (x + 1 , y >=a (m+ 1 , y ) + k
•IB
8227 IF «<1S AND INT Uln+I.yl/I
B)=k THEN IF llK+2,y)OII AND at
K + 2,yK7 THEN UET a(K+I,yl=a^ +
2,y>+k«lB
B23B IF ili.y'DOB AND al*,y+ll
<7 THEN LET a (« , y+1 > -a (m ,y+l ) + k
• IB
B235 IF y>2 THEN IF *(K ( y~l><>0
AND a(x,y-l><7 THEN LET a(x,y-
15=a(w ,y-l)+k*lB
8250 NEKT k
BZdiB RETURN
64 IB BO SUB 5B: IF jCb,*>>57 THE
N PRINT AT a,b; PAPER c ; " Q " t GO
sue t.aaa: return
B412 IF *tb,ai<.=57 AND alb,a)>7
THEN PRINT AT i,bi PAPER c;i*CI
NT •ia rb,*> /IB) +. 1 1 : EC BUB 6B8B:
RETURN
B420 PRINT AT a,b; PAPER £t"(»p>
'■i IF y*="C." THEN GO SUB 3636
843B RETURN
B5BB LET m*l! IF CODE C* fa, 1^=32
THEN PRINT AT 13,20; "No tolom
«": PAUSE hi RETURN
B518 LET b=WAL c* (z ,<* TO m*l>l L
ET a=VAL ct(i,nt2 TO m*3>
B513 GO SUB SB: PRINT AT *,b| PA
PER c;itlzl: GO TO 8323
B525 IF CDDE C* ( i , m+4 ) <>32 THEN
LET m=m+4: GO TO 83 1 8
H55B RETURN
S60B LET g=0: LET y*""^." ( PRINT
flT ]4-q*2 t i7jy*
6605 LET ll=Bi LET 1-8: LET a=14
-2*qi LET b*=17
6615 LET f-1
6617 LET m=B: LET n-Gi PRINT AT
15-9,19; "HhWi 7 "iflT 16-g,l
9j-Ent»r n,5,e"jAT 1 7-g ¥ 19( "or w
"i LET K*-INKEV*t IF f-2 THEN P
RINT AT lB-g, 19j "Or X for otxt"!
AT 19-g,l9|"*orc»": FOR z = l4 TG
21l PRINT AT z , I"?; " < l2**p> "l NEK
T 1
6618 IF x*= N " THEN GD TO 8617
B62B IF CODE k*=UB THEN LET m=
B621 IF CDDE *f-U5 THEN LET m =
B622 IF CDDE n*=101 THEN LEI n =
1
6623 IF CODE k*=119 THEN LET n=
-1
S624 IF f=2 AND CODE x*=12B THEN
RETURN
B6.25 IF <m=B AND n = VH DR a+mtl G
ft a + raS-21 DR b + n< 1 OR b+rt>l7 THEN
BEEP .5,. 5: BO TQ B617
B627 LET b=b+oi LET **»+(■! IF f =
2 THEN RETURN
863B IF i(b.*>=0 THEN LET 1=1+.
B4-(t-l492J ZIBBB: F'MNT AT a,bjy
ti PRINT AT *-m,b-n; PAPER 3| IN
K 7 J " k:. " i &D TO B66B
9635 LET ll=Il**25i BO BUB 8418:
PRINT AT 19,19; "l9»BpJ ";AT 2B , 1
9; "Land ahOy""lAT 21 , IV; " < 3**p ) "
: IF a(b,*>>7 THEN GO TQ B655
6636 LET M *»STR* b: IF LEN *(*■ 1
THEN LET w*="B"+m*
6637 LET z*-STR* a: IF LEN I*-l
THEN LET i*="B"+z*
864a LET d"b<q,7Js IF k-13 THEN
LET tj<0,2B)=b(q T 2B>*INT lb(q,21
1».9): LET x-b<q,2BJ: LET mm=m:
LET m»*: INK 7: PftPfiff 4: 60 SUB
2B: LET b<q,2D-B: PAPER h: LET
rti*6( LET k=B: GD SUB 28l GO SUB
15: LET rt«mm
6642 IF a<b,a>>B THEN LET c* (q)
=c*(q, TG d>+w*+z*
S644 LET d=b(q,lB)i IF *<b,a>=4
QR a(b,j>=3 THEN LET b<q,18)-d+
If IF a(b,a)=3 THEN LET b(q,lB>
=d: LET b(q t UJ=b(q,ll)+l
8645 GO BUB 5B: IF a<b,al^B THEN
LET atb t *)-c+lB*q: LET b<q,7>-
b<q,7J+4
8638 IF *=2 DR -f=3 THEN RETURN
B655 LET a =#-11 LET b=b-n
8637 IF 1 1 >RND THEN PRINT AT IB
,19; "Ships r»tum": PAUSE h: PRI
NT AT a,b; PAPER 5; INK 7|"hV': R
ETURN
6668 IF 1 >RND AND b(q,13)>l THEN
LET b<q,13)=b tq, 13)-1: PRINT A
T 18,1?; "Ship loaf! PAUSE h: PA
USE h: PRINT AT 1 B, 19 ; " (9*4pl "
8665 IF 1 >RND AND b<q,13><=l THEN
LET 11-2: GD TO 8637
B67B BC TO 6615
07BB IF k=17 AND b<q,7>=H THEN
RETURN
B7B2 IF k=14 AND bfq,9)-8 THLN
RETURN
B7B3 INPUT "Which «dr» I 1-3) or
8 7 "ik*
B704 LET n=3: GO SUS 48* LET E-V
AL K*: IF z=H THEN NEXT k
B70-5 IF btq,27+3#I> ,D(q.k)*5B TH
EN LET b<q,27+5*zl=b(q,k>»5B
B715 FDR m=1 TD 21: PRINT AT m,B
1 INK ItCHR* (>+96>: NEXT m
B72B IHFUT "Which com f ( .a-u J ":
-At
B723 IF CODE H*<-97 OR CODE h*>ll
7 THEN BEEP .5, .5l GO SUB 25: G
TD G72B
B73B FDR k=1 TO 17l PRINT AT &,*
1 INK 1;CHR* tx+96): NEXT x
B735 INPUT "Which column i*-q) 7
B74B IF CDDE y*<97 DR LODE yf > I 1
I THEN BEEP .5,-5: GO SUB 25: G
O TO B730
8743 LET b GOW yl <T>h- .t: »*C0»
E «t-9d
8747 IF a!b,*>=l» THEN PRINT AT
lB T 19s "That 5 5ea ,,- jAT 19,19("Tr
y again.": GO TD S72B
Q738 IF a+l<-21 THEN IF a(b,a+l
>=a THEN BO TO B76B
8751 IF »-l>-l THEN IF a(b,a-l>
=B THEN GD TD B76B
8752 IF b*-KIB THEN IF a(b+l,a)
=B THEN GD TD B76B
9753 IF b-l>B THEN IF a(b-l,a)=
B THEN BD TD B/hVS
6755 PRINT AT IB, 1 9 ; " There is no
";AT 19,19; "sea route. "i SO TQ B
728
876B EC SUB 65: IF k=)7 AND cOq
THEN PRINT AT IB, 19; "Nat a ml
any.": GD TD B72B
S76S IF k-14 AND c<>b(q,91 THEN
PRINT AT 13,19; "Nat an enemy.":
GO TO 07ZB
B7BB LET b (q, 25+5»i ! >JI LET b(q r
26-t-5»z>=b: LET b ( q ,2B+5»z ) =Ba PR
INT AT *,bl"j_"J IF k-14 THEN LE
T b(q,28+5*z)=-l
B79B RETURN
BBBa LET -f=B; GD SUB 7: LET v=(b
<m , k > *b *«*, 231 + 1 > / < b ( y , z 1 »b ( y , 25)
+1 >*! 1+RND/2-RND/2 )
8818 IF v< 1 THEN PRINT AT m,2;"
attacker defeated": LET b(w,XJ"I
NT (b(H,Kl 7i6(y,U/v)
8813 IF w>=l THEN LET f»l( PRIN
T AT i»i 2t "def ender defeated": LE
T b(y,z:l-=INT <b ( y ,1 » -v/2*h ln,x ) )
B82B IF b(H,x)<-8 THEN LET b<«,
M>-8
B822 IF b(y,z><=B THEN LET b<y,
6825 RETURN
BB43 LET w-a: LET x=tt
BB47 IF b(q,9>-8 THEN RETURN
B848 GO TO BS51
BB5B LET q=B: LET W"t> Ik , 25+5«y) :
LET x-b<k,26+5»y)
BB52 IF **"B THEN RETURN
8855 LET u=B: FOR 1-1 TD 3: LET
co=0: LET n=b(r ,23*5*1 1 : LET u=b
lr,26+l«5)
BB6B IF «=0 AND n-u THEN LET cd
-1
BB62 IF q-1 AND ca=l THEN LET 1
«3l NEXT 1: LET g=2i RETURN
BB63 IF EO'l THEN GD SUB BB/B
SB65 NEXT 1: IF co-B AND INT U(
x,w)/l8)-k THEN RETURN
5866 IF cn=B THEN LET <"3» GD T
a BB82
8878 PRINT AT m,B;"- 1 *nd battle
"s LET v"<blk,27*5»yJ+l J / tb(r ,27
+3#l 1 *l)»!RND/2-RND/2+n
BB75 IF v>l THEN PRINT AT i>,17 t
"attacker wins": GD SUB 7 1 LET b
(r T 27+5«l 5-INT (blr ,27+5»] i-iv/2
*b (k,27+5»y! * ) i LET f *3t IF b(r,
27+3«l><-8 THEN FOR z=l TD *: I
ET b<r,24+z+5»l }>=Bi NE)!T j:
B8B0 IF v<. = t THEN PRINT AT m, W
j -defender Mine": GO SUB 7; LET
l> C 1 ,27*5*y>=lNT tb Ck ,27 + 5*y ) - <2/
v+bir, 27+5*1 it > : LET f-2t IF b(k
,27+3*yl^-a THEN FOR z=l TD *l
LET b(k,24+z+5»y) a8t NEX.T z
BBB2 LET *-Ml LET h= K : IF f=2 TH
EN LET q=r
8BB3 IF f-3 THEN LET q=k
8884 IF INT (a <b , a! / IB) ; - q THEN
GD SUB 663b
8B85 IF q=r THEN LET v-kl GD TQ
BBB7
8666 IF q=k THEN LEI W-T
B8B7 LET *=>U IF CDDE c*Cv,li>32
THEN LET blv,7)=0: LET bW,B) =
B: RETURN
90BB I F VAL ztlv,l TO 2 ) =b AND V
AL t*tv 1 3 TO 4)=a THEN LET C*W
,1 TO l=ct(v,z+4 10 C(v,71); GO
TQ 8892
BB90 I F VAL cilv,! TD i * 1 J =b AND
VAX r*(v,z+2 TO z+31«* THE-N LE
T ct(v,l TD t-Ct?(v,I TD z-ll+ctl
v,z+4 TO b(v,7l)
869? IF CODE C**V t Z+4) 32 THEN
LET I"* +4: GO TD BB9B
BB93 LET b ( y , 7 I =b W,7J-4t SO SUB
SB: LET ti=b(v,l»S: IF c-4 OR c
= 7. THEN LET b ( v, IB) = 1 1- 1 : If C
3 THEN LET b(v,]ffl)=ti: LET b<V,
li)-blv,ll)-l
BB97 RETURN
S9BB IF a(t,,y>-3 AND RND>.5 THEN
LET a( K ,y)-4
B91B IF *(K,y)=5 AND RND>.4 THEN
LET a(k, y )-b
B915 IF a(«,y)=5 THEN L£T l(K,y
J -3
B92B RETURN
91BB LET +=B: LET e=.75
91B1 LET a=.5*e: LET b=.25»«i LE
T c-.375*»t LET d«. 123#*
9 IBS BEEP b,9: BEEP *,12i BEEP b
,14: BEEP c,16: BEEP d,17s BEEP
b,lfc: BEEP a, 14: BEEP b,ll: BEEP
c,7: BEEP d,9: BEEP b,ll: LET f
■f+1: IF +=2 THEN GD TD 9112
7187 BEEP a,12t BEEP b,7l BEEP c
,9: BEEP d,B: BEEP b,9: BEEP a,l
It BEEP b,9t BEEP *,4l IF 4-3 TH
EN GO TD 9115
91 IB IF f=l THEN GD TD 91B5
9112 BEEP C,1Z: BEEP d,li: BEEF
b,9i BEEP c,B: BEEP d,i: BEEP b,
B: BEEF (a+b),9: BEEP b,9: PAU5E
(b*5ai
9115 BEEP !a+b>,19: BEEP c,lS>: B
EEP d,lB: BEEP b,16: BEEP a, 14:
BEEP b,ll: BEEP c,7» BEEP d,9: B
EEP b,llt LET f-f+1
9117 IF f=3 THEN GO TO 71B7
9125 BEEP c,12: BEEP d,ll: BEEP
b,9: BEEP c,B: BEEP d^: BEEF b,
Bi BEEP (j+h),9: BEEP a, 9
913B RETURN
t
I
GHASTLY
GONZO
Arch-criminal Gonzo has bust-
ed out of jail and is after
Lvour gold. The only way to
stop him, according to Michael
Cronin of Northampton, is to drop
rocks on his head.
Whether or not you can think of
more desirable methods of dealing
with burglars. Ghastly Gonzo
runs on the ZX-81 in 16K, and
demonstrates how clever use of the
character set in Inverse mode can
juice up a game's graphics consid-
erably.
X
:fC IF SmIOE then p oh f»s tc -t
_^ IP G«i0a THEN PC INT RT P
. '#-;flT F.y+j ■
:f G=iPC THEN NEXT P
19B 7F RANObi THEN LET : '-=;-lf
3.9)9 _£~ I 0PE«INT RNE *?
sei if DOPE«i the r ^t
£ttl<= DOPE-i THEN LET . = -;
■ DPE«H THEN PRINT i~
■ a
AN
i IF D
~ -
■: ?c
r =0
''E5 ;
:
OPE-S THEN uS~ ■ +a AN
■16 fiHC - : *N then LETT
IXT«18©(5 THEN PRINT AT 1
5Ei. : = :■.!•
MM
: - : .
-;„
• -
. niT
3 IP h* IT =1000 TrtEN PAUSE 100
£j.£J IP HlTjlBae 'fiE'i PRIWT AT 1
24-i 3' -:~-Lsa<3 '"hen let se-=5c +
50
Its i- -:::.::; then let lifes*
2 A3 LET Fofl
IfC LET HIT*8
i = l IF ^~ = C = =e> th£n 9QTQ 30^
;.-i if s-iaa -•■: hit .c-az theu
_E T LIFES«LIFE5-1
j5S5 PPInT hT ;~ '.-1 '■ AT 16,
if?*'.
AT 15, N ■
- B.RRNl S »"
:-:c let HlT=fl
i~e _Ff : .c
ZZiS HEX' i.
;3C --- ' - IS
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Escape from the
modern world
Wi
Richard Price
looks at some
contemporary
adventures
'HEN YOU are on the hunt
for a new adventure what is it
you are looking for?
You will naturally escpect the game to
have payability — that combination of
technical factors most of us take for
granted when we buy commercial pro-
grams. You have a right to demand a
decent vocabulary, good response time
and a flexible interpreter which comes
across with some son of personality
during play. You will assume the writ-
ers have devised carefully designed puz-
zles set- into a coherent structure.
Those are the requirements of any
good game but it is fair to say that an
adventure's success and the satisfaction
it gives you will be decided mainly by
the quality of its plot and the atmo-
sphere it generates.
All of us want an escape into other
worlds at times to savour the pleasure of
being someone or somewhere else. That
fantasy is the core of the appeal of
computer adventure. Fantasy, though,
is fragile and, whether you prefer her-
ioc, modern or futuristic scenarios, the
setting you make your journey in must
hold your belief right to the end.
Quite often people will say that fanta-
sy works by suspending your disbelief.
Tolkein himself did not think that was a
convincing explanation of the way the
mind handles fantasy. In Tree and Ltaf,
his short work about fairy stories, he
put forward the idea that the writer —
or games designer in our case — creates
a 'secondary" world which your mind
can enter. Once inside it you believe the
general setting, the characters and ac-
tion are true — meaning that they all
obey the proper laws of their own
world. The spell held over you may well
be broken by some jarring intrusion
from the real world or simply because
The characters behave in a way that is
out of killer with the logic of their
surroundings.
Far too many programs feature plots
which, for instancCj ask you t to rescue a
princess, find the scattered bits of some
talisman or simply slash your way
through a monster- infested cave riddled
with rising damp and littered with trea-
sures which no sorcerer in his right
mind would leave lying around.
You may not be too happy to be
regularly cast as a Conan-clonc whose
fist is bigger than his brain. That must
be desperately aggravating for female
adventurers who are expected to under-
go a mental sex-change before powering
up their Spectrums. If software com-
panies are going to survive then they
had better start looking for games which
will appeal to a much wider public than
is currently the case.
To be fair, there is a growing variety
of styles and plots in the adventure
genre but games that use real story lines
are still pretty thin on the ground. The
concept of bookware, though, seems to
be taking off. Creating computer imple-
mentations of successful stories has
some obvious advantages as the books
have already proved that their 'secon-
dary* worlds can hold people's attention
and imagination. It still does not mean
that the program will necessarily match
up to the excitement or invention of the
original but if the programmers are
sensitive about the adaptation there is a
chance of a good fit. Of course, the
memory size of home micros also im-
poses rigid boundaries and limitations,
If you arc an amateur programmer
searching for a theme there is nothing to
stop you turning your favourite pulp
fiction into an adventure for home con-
sumption.
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SINCLAIR USER January IMS
If you are bored with magic and
monsters history can provide equally
exciting themes. Your heroine or hero
could attempt to infiltrate the lair of the
Old Man of the Mountains, the original
master of the feared Assassins at the
time of the Crusades. Deserts, strange
nomads, wild mountains and grim for-
tresses guarded by fanatical killers all
have their place in this adventure.
There are some programs which meet
all or most of the criteria for successful
secondary worlds and yet mirror the
preoccupations and paranoias of our
own times. They reflect di fie rent angles
of life and often carry some sharp social
comment.
Urban Upstart from Richard Shep-
herd Software depicts the grim empti-
ness of inner-city life. Imagine any
decaying ex-industrial town in Britain
and you will have an idea of what it is
like to live in Scarthorpe. No jobs 3 no
money, nothing to do. No one will
wander the streets. Thuggish skinheads
and paranoid police rule here.
You must comb the town and find
the means to escape. Your own charac-
ter is pretty suspect and not above theft
and fraud to raise much-needed cash.
The mean streets are depicted in loca-
tion graphics but the format is tradition-
al text adventure and tricky at that.
The game may not seem like escap-
ism and it is not difficult to recognise
parallels with Cut Throat Alley or
Grime Street. Definitely a slice of social
realism with a gritty, dangerous, feci to
it, though not without flashes of hu-
mour,
If you are one of those gamesters who
thinks adventures written on the Quill
cannot match the real thing then
Hampstead could provide a cure for
your scepticism. The technical presen-
tation may be defined by the utility but
the subject matter and approach is new
and genuinely funny.
There you are, stuck in your nasty
smelly flat somewhere in the wilderness
of north-west London, parked in front
of 3-2-1 on the telly. The only way is up
— so you think — and you nip out in
search of the dole office to get your giro.
Outside the back yard, gleaming in the
sunlight, is a sign pointing to Hamp-
stead. Nothing can stop you now, so
you cross your personal Jordan and
pedal towards the Promised Land only
to find you cannot attain Hampstead
simply by going there. You will have to
change your style and your gear, read
the right books and do the right things
with the right people,
continued Ort page 124
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Up here on the Enkash Moors winter
comes early and the wolves have been
howling around the fence these last
fm weeks. The Dancing Ogre is in a
lonely spot but the southern caravan
route passes close by and a steady
trickle oj travellers and adventurers
will overnight here — especially in
this cold season when the nights are
long and the beast! of the wilderness
grow leaner and hungrier. The tap
roam is full of talk and argument and
I hear tall tales that get taller by the
minute, after a few cups of Krean
wine.
Time after time 1 meet those who
have travelled without success in the
icy wastes of Valhalla, the after-
world of the northern barbarians. A
map in my possession may kelp Shei-
la from the township of Cambridge —
she seeks Drapnir the ring of power.
There are Pits in Hel and if she
journeys east from there to a cave she
will be able to jump to another part of
Hel. North of here lies Despair.
North once more will bring her to the
ring.
Another lady, known only W me as
By ford the Fair, has faced similar
problems in that chill place; let us
hope she finds solace in this news.
Few women pass by the tavern —
more's the shame. I would like to
know why they go adventuring and
how they fare in a trade dominated
by men. More power to their sword
Lirttist
Deep in his ale one night, Robert
the Nailer^ from Devises Town, con-
fessed he had been searching for the
fabled land of Hampstead over
many weeks. Though he had boarded
a train and met a trader in antiques
caller Perrier, he could get no further
and was spurned by this odd creature.
In my youth — before I worked as
a mercenary for Prince Janga in
Maru — I visited the place myself.
Set in a maze, amongst the filth and
fumes of orcish factories, there it a
great treasure. Perrier will be eager to
buy this artifact. Robert should thus
find his way open, though final suc-
cess will still be a long way off To
find the secret of the maze he will
have to drop his belongings one by one
and make a map, for the place is
small but tricky.
My thanks to Mark Talbot, an
initiate of great skill from the temple
of Surclaif ai Loughborough. He has
sent me the map to Scarthorpe, that
forbidden city of despair. Other stu-
dents of Urban Upstart should take
note — if you do not carry a book on
the art of flying with you you will
never escape from this dismal place of
ruins. The key will also be necessary.
Philip James of North Wales has
been examining the intricate and se-
cret codes contained in System
15000. He has found a number at-
tached to the name 'KP Codes ' but
can't grasp its significance. It is easy
to become lost in this strange ritual
but it is always wise to return to earlier
contacts. If Philip uses this number
at Kingsdown he'll discover much w
his advantage. Also if you wish to get
information from Sclera you must
always place a message on the board
first — enter 'Sclera* fallowed by the
name of the organisation.
There are still those who brave the
Third Continent on the trail of the
Black Crystal. Hammerfm Pelaez
from London dropped m not two
moons ago, tired from his struggles in
the Shoggoth 's lair. Although he was
refreshed by a side of bacon and a
st cup of mead I was unable to help
him merer He seeks the location of the
Shoggoth y s treasure chamber and the
way out from its prison.
If you pass by the Ogre cohm in
and talk with me — perhaps you haw
some advice to give htm. Whether you
need aid or can give it you 're welcome
up here on the Moors. Safe journey ta
you all.
Gordo Greatbelly, Landlord.
1/ you have a tale 10 teli, or are in nttd cj 4
htipirtg hand, write to the I.cmdtoTd of the
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SINCIJUR USER Jomuty 198S
121
Adventure
cammutd from page 123
Not being totally stupid you will lie,
cheat, even steal to get to this Nirvana
of NW10 but you must avoid violence
it all costs. The game is not merely
about finding the right objects — it is
also about attitudes as you must work
out ways of making the correct deals.
The answers are devious.
This is good situation comedy from
Melbourne House and the game is at-
tractively presented with a hilarious
handbook. It is arguably one of the best
Quilled adventures to date.
From this comfortable tweedy fanta-
sy we descend into a shifting s threaten-
ing underworld of conspiracy,
espionage and fear. A series of audio
messages are recorded on your answer-
ing machine. Their growing urgency
and the sound of a final shot leave you
in no doubt — Valkyrie 17 is active
again, a cell of neo-Nazis whose deadly
tentacles stretch around the world.
Thanks to the dying gasps of your
agent you know their ruthless leader is
holed up in an exclusive Austrian skiing
resort at the Glitz Hotel. Your job is to
seek him out and neutralise him. Take
care; one foolish move and you will find
yourself face down in the snow rapidly
becoming a member of the great ma-
jority.
The level of paranoia is pumped up
by ringing phones which, if answered,
threaten you and make it clear that your
cover is already broken. Everything a
good thriller needs is here — locked
safes, haif-overheard conversationSj
blood on the crisp snow of the piste.
Valkyrie 17 is produced by the Ram
Jam Corporation, a new outfit, and
features detailed atmospheric descrip-
tions. The location graphics are interac-
tive and will change to show the results
of significant actions. No help is given
and you are absolutely on your own in a
race against danger.
Isolation and danger are also the
major themes of System 15000 from
AVS. This is no standard text adventure
but it is definitely one of the most
gripping and compulsive Spectrum
games so far. A brief note informs you
that Comdata Company has been
ripped off for a cool million or more
bucks in a computerised bank fraud.
Lurking behind the heist are the mob,
ominous and menacing. Your single
lead is one phone number.
On loading you will find only the
user screen of the 1 5000 network and
the basic instructions on how to operate
it. From that beginning you must pene-
trate the files of the other computers
which use the net to uncover the twist-
ing threads of the plot. The giant main-
frames of the international banks are
well protected against intruders and
police data protection squads will shut
the system down temporarily once they
get a sniff of what you are up to. Stay
cool and keep dialling — piece by piece
you will edge your way towards the
truth and attempt to restore the Corn-
data lost millions.
Your only input routines are phone
numbers and an occasional cryptic note
on the message board. There is no need
to take on any role — this is you against
the network in the here and now, deep
in the loneliness of the long-distance
hacker.
After hours of tracing leads you will
find yourself cheering in triumph as
you enter the files of the Reserve Man-
hattan Bank with its glittering stars and
stipes logo or you will curse in frustra-
tion as yet another faceless machine
informs you that your data is bad. You
will begin to sense the network as very
real, a vast jigsaw of numers, names and
details. System 15000 is utterly absorb-
ing and compelling and recalls the at-
mosphere of the BBC series Bird of
Prey. Absolutely recommended.
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Case of the Pascal puzzle
THE INFLUX of different
versions of Pascal for the
Spectrum and QL has cer-
tainly made the language
more popular with micro-
computer enthusiasts and a
good book on the subject is
essential. Surprisingly
enough, one of the best books
was written two years ago and
creates a novel approach to
the language.
Elementary Pascal, by
Henry Ledgard and Andrew
Singer, may seem an unin-
spired title for a book but the
sub-title, Teach Yourself Pa-
scal by solving the mysteries
of Sherlock Holmes, gives
some clue as to the tack that
the authors follow.
After a brief preface in
which an old manuscript con-
taining some forgotten notes,
written by that eminent GP
Dr Watson, are discovered,
the book launches into the
first escapade involving Sher-
lock Holmes. He discovers
the Analytical Engine, which
we would call a computer,
and shows Watson how it can
be used by a criminologist to
collate facts and render clues
more helpful.
Holmes does not see it as a
miracle machine which can
solve cases but as something
that will be useful in proving
that his conclusions are cor-
rect, *'Of most interest to me
is that it will provide a way of
expressing my logical
methods in a rigorous form,
and perhaps be useful in com-
municating to others my
modest attempts at formulat-
ing a Science of Deduction".
Indeed it does. The expla-
nations given by Holmes, fol-
lowed by the notes of the
authors, combine to produce
an excellent, stimulating and
amusing text which provides
at least a basic grounding in
the main Pascal sub-set com-
mon to all versions of the
language.
The main section of the
book is used by Watson to
discuss four cases in which
Holmes used the Analytical
Engine. The first, Murder at
the Metropolitan Club, deals
with algorithms and shows
how ideas for programs can
Taking the QL to task
FEW PUBLISHERS have
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When taking the first steps
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be written down in the sys-
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tions until one clue fits with
another and the villain is
found.
The remaining cases build
on the knowledge of Pascal
that the first gives. In the
Adventure of the Bathing
Machine^ Holmes enters data
about sea tides in order to
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accident prone potential pro-
grammer learn the language
which is growing more popu-
lar all the time. The book's
style is somewhat similar to
that of Conan Doyle and
Holmes is a reasonable coun-
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on the BBC Micro and the
Commodore range of ma-
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The next section, choosing
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Harding lists the types of
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WHEN the QL sales finally
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For that reason the two books
QL Quill and QL Easel are a
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QL Qutll was written by
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puterate audience.
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hook, which takes you step by
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Quill, the word processing
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The book not only teaches
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sary ingredients for prelimi-
nary action before starting a
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One tiny quibble comes at
the beginning, when you are
warned "Don't ever plug in a
monitor when the computer
is switched on, or you could
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not in bold characters but lost
in i he text which preambles
setting up the computer.
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the instructions for Search
and Replace. If you follow
the book the procedure does
not work; simply follow the
screen instructions instead,
QL Easel, written by Ali-
son Spottiswoode, who is as
well qualified as her sister in
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similar vein. There are more
examples based on Harold
and Joyce. The power of the
program is readily accessible,
and by illustrating that power
the author has made it ex-
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area and the pitfalls involved
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actions have to be carried out
in a chronological order",
Harding goes on to explore
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should be incorporated in ad-
ventures, such as syntax de-
coders, and how they have
been used in famous pro-
grams such as those written
by Scott Adams.
It is a change to find an
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ware writing as a business
and not as an art form. His
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ware makes big bucks. Cre-
ativity is a consideration, but
as in any other business mon-
ey has to be a prime concern
or you will be bankrupt be-
fore your first program has
been accepted.
Harding's reasons for writ-
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grammers get the most out of
publishers when he runs such
a company, might be regard-
ed as suspect. The reverse is
true, however, for two rea-
sons. Publishers will wel-
come the book because it
shows programmers what a
company requires for a quick
turnover of material Gone
will be the days of endless
dross sent through the post
on bad-quality tape or as list-
ings.
For the programmer the
book provides all the an-
swers. It might deter some
from writing software but
those are likely to be the ones
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Fools' gold from the
funny farm?
Chris Bourne digs
into the past of
ZX-81 specialist,
Julian Chappell
MAKING a living out of the
ZX-81 seems an odd thing to
attempt in times when most
software houses treat the machine as if
it were carrying typhoid bacteria. Some
retailers would prefer to see a rabid dog
on their premises than a ZX-81 game.
But such has been the success of Julian
ChappelPs Software Farm that not only
is the company a going concern but it is
even planning to expand inio new and
bigger offices.
Julian was born in Hounslow of no-
madic parents in 1956. "My
father was an oil depot
manager, so we kepr^^^
and did a control system for the local
nuclear power station. Unfortunately
we couldn't throw it into critical to test
the system. I don't know whether they
used it in the end."
Before you heave a sigh of relief at
the thought that nuclear devastation
may after all not be under the control of
the undoubtedly zany Julian, it is cer-
tainly true that a British Steel blast
furnace is being monitored by bits of an
old ZX-81, courtesy of the Chappell
brothers.
*tx provides a printout of the tem-
perature," says Julianj ^^^
"monitoring safety levels. Of
course, it doesn't
crude as what 1 was doing myself at the
time. Only nutcases had ZX-80s. When
the J 81 came out I thought Vd find out
about this wonderful Basic language.' 1
His first impression of wonderful Ba-
sic was that it was painfully slow, even
when number-crunching. He wrote
some games for it in code, a Pacman and
Asteroids game, which were later mar-
keted as Asteroids and Gobblers.
"I wrote them for fun. It was a
busman's holiday really. Then I bought
Sinclair User and saw that only about ,
10 per cent of the ads were ^^^
for machine-code _^^^
games. They
il
moving to new depots.
" Eventually he retired to Weston-
super-Mare and ran a sub-post office. 1
started work behind the counter when I
was eighteen,"
Julian had an older brother, Paul,
who was an electronics graduate. Paul
was setting up his own business con-
structing control devices for industrial
processes. Julian was dragooned into
learning machine-code programming in
order to help write the routines to
control the chips.
"Eventuallv we went high-falutin*
^^look like a ZX-81, We put it in a
uiKv hox to make nut: ofthttL"
Machine-code expertise came hap-
hazardly. "Paul would say, 'I've got this
cheap chip we could bung in it' and half
the time I had to hunt through the
libraries for a list of mnemonics to
program it. Sometimes there were only
two registers and an accumulator."
Eventually the brothers fell out. "I
wanted to do something on my own,"
Julian admits. '*The business was un-
steady, so I left him to go bust on his
own. It was all very friendly,"
Having drifted almost by chance into
the world of micro-electronics, Julian
had already acquired a ZX-81 of his
own. "I was mildly interested in the
ZX-80," he says, "but it was almost as
talked about it as if it
was something amazing and
mysterious. I realised that I might as
well jump on the bandwagon,"
Together with his girlfriend Sarah
Green, Julian took out a quarter-page ad
in Sinclair User and began to sell his
games. The two of them worked from a
back bedroom, saving the games direct-
ly from the machine and doing the
labels themselves. Sarah herself is far
from being just a convenient envelope-
licker, but a business programmer in
her own right, having written for the
Sirius, Apricot, "and IBM, yeuckk!"
"The response kept us up at night,"
Julian continues, "and we started mak-
ing money. The problem, which still
exists, was that the business side inter-
feres with programming time."
Thus the Software Farm was born,
Julian's parents had left the post office
by now and had bought a small farm in
South Wales, which became the busi-
ness address, as Julian and Sarah were
living in rented accommodation and
138
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could not use if commercially.
"We were aware of the genera) atti-
tude of fear towards computers, particu-
larly among older people, so we thought
calling the company a farm might help
them relate to us. Originally we had a
vegetable Pacman but eventually wi
decided on the cosmic cockerel."
In between long bouts of
duplicating and letter- ^^^
posting Julian
Finally
Eventually Software Farm decided |
what few software companies dared
to consider: to remain with
the ZX-81 in spite of
the new
machine. ^^
managed to
write a new program,
Super- Scramble, Instead of
the usual missiles and neutron bombs
Julian used bats and a witch at the end.
"It has very imaginative graphics
even though they are not hi-res," inter-
jects Sarah, supportively. The game
was released for Christmas 1982 but the
manual duplicating was becoming a
major problem.
"At that time all the support agencies
were in their infancy," says Julian, "but
then we started getting information
through the post- It was a godsend to
us, even though it was still tape-to-tape.
Only now, and only with big compan-
ies, can you get loop bin duplication
systems."
Julian and Sarah took Super-Scram-
ble to the very first ZX-Mierofair just in
time to see Spectrum fever hit the trade.
"We were deserted,' 1 says Julian
"We sold enough to break even, but it
was a great disappointment. We made
no trade contacts. Everyone wanted
Spectrum games, and that has contin-
ued ever since."
Being left out in the cold did, how-
ever, give Julian a different perspective
on what was happening, "We could see
everybody was going bonkers. The soft-
ware was all rubbish, with ten new
companies a day. It was blatantly obvi-
ous that the market was flooded from
day one."
"Although everyone was going
stir-crazy, all those ZX-8ls were
5j not going to evaporate. We
thought, let's do something clever and
different with it. With any luck every-
body else will leave us with the ZX-81
on our own/'
For six months Software Farm lived
off the dwindling profits from the origi-
nal games, while Julian set himself to
work Out how to turn the ZX-81 screen
into high resolution.
"It took six months to develop the
system and three months to write the
first program, Forty Niner. All the
while the money was getting less. There
was a sense of risk. If we had it wrong
and the ZX-8Is really were gathering
dust then we would go bust."
The crunch came at the Your Com-
puter Christmas Fair in 1983. At that
time, the company was at rock-bottom.
Forty Niner was launched, and took off.
The gamble had worked.
Forty Niner was designed as a show-
piece for the new graphics which give
the same resolution as on the Spectrum,
It is a digging game in which you must
persuade the snakes to eat the giant rats
or some such nonsense, Julian hit on the
idea of projecting it as the first in a
series of hi-res games, each one of which
is to be on a distinct theme.
"It's like free wotsits in cornflakes
packets," says Julian. "If you get one
then you want the whole set,"
The second game. Rocket Man, is a
levels and ladders game in which you
must collect diamonds while avoiding
the man eating bubioid. If you get past
the third level you
become a vulture and must eat
legs of lamb to keep your strength
Selling the games to retailers was
difficult.
You could hear the voice at the
other end of the phone drop as soon as
they realised it was a ZX-81 game" says
Julian. "We had to offer them sale or
return terms, but once the mtdia was on
our side it changed. Now they keep
badgering us for more,"
The new game will be called Z-
Xtricator, and will be of the Defend-
er type. "It's not a vehicle for the
graphics, otherwise we would have
done it first. We are also going to do a
hi-res utility so people can design their
own garnet
Z-Xtricator is not intended to be the
last in the Software Farm hires series,
but one thing you should not eJtpcCt is
any form of adventure game. Julian
hates them.
"Normal adventures bore me to
tears. You are in a dark hole. Something
ferocious is approaching, Then you
wait for twenty minutes while nothing
happens , , , On the other hand, I have a
hankering for a truly animated adven-
ture, not a pretend one. If we did it, it
would probably have to be on the Spec-
trum. The Software Farm," he adds,
portentiously, "being innovatory, will
do it properly/'
Sarah is anxious to dispel ideas that a
Spectrum game would mean leaving the
ZX-81. "Every letter we get says keep
up the good work. We got one cute one
which said the writer had written to
fitn'H Fix It because he wanted to meet
Julian."
Software Farm is certainly proud of
its following, *As long as consumers
continue to buy the product we are not
continued on page 142
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going to drop the ZX-81," says Julian.
"We'd get lynched if we did,"
The company even runs a software
club for enthusiasts with a regular
newsletter containing letters, hints and
tips, program listings and a series of
articles by Julian on machine-code.
Perhaps it is the company's recogni-
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""All the support industries base
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think they can make that on the ZX-81,
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money. Then they think they are bein.
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offers hints and clues on how to do it.
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Designed exclusively for the ZX
Spectrum, Protocol 4 brings you game
control customising in a way that no other
interface does. It can accept all commercially
standard joysticks, including the Quickshot II with
'rapid fire' or Trackball controllers, and is compatible with
ALL Spectrum software, operates like fixed
OPTION INTERFACES OR CAN BE FULLY HARDWARE PROGRAMMEE
The flexibility of Protocol 4 control is achieved by a specially
designed CustomCard' system. CustomCards are easily
programmed to suit all types of games.
Simply clip in a programmed card for immediate customised
control. With preset cards supplied Protocol 4 can emulate the
following control standards; AGF/Protek, Kempston and ZX
Interface 2 - both players. You can change or re prog ram blank
cards ( 1 supplied } to get the responses you want — even on
games without joystick options.
Utilising Hardware Programmed technology you have the benefit
of automatic eight direction control, no power-down
programming loss, guaranteed conflict-free operation with other
peripherals, including microdrives, and no extra software to load
or awkward joystick movements and key presses to make each
time you load another game.
The keyboard remains fully
operative at all times.
It is also perfectly possible to connect up to five Protocol 4's on
one Spectrum, each programmed separately, for multiple player
control — only possible with the hardware programmed design
Incorporated into the design is a computer Reset button for
clearing the computer memory between games without pulling
the power plug out!
Fully guaranteed for 18 months, Protocol 4 comes supplied with
five CustomCards, ten Quick Reference Programming Cards
and complete instructions.
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As the firs! fulry hardware programmed joystick interface, this product
has become well established over the past year and will accept ALL
standard joysticks or trackballs, including Qulckshot II with rapid fire',
for use with ALL Spectrum or 2X81 software — not just those with a
joystick option.
* No Software programming required,
* Programming is oof lost when power is disconnected between games.
* Eight way movement — with or without the fire button pressed — only
requires setting of the four normal directions.
Compatibility is guaranteed with ALL key reading techniques —
machine code o r BASIC .
* Several interfaces can be separately programmed and
fitted to one computer for multiple player games
Keyboard operation is totally unaffected by this interface,
as with all AGF add-ons. and will never conflict with any
other device fitted at the same time,
Twelve months guarantee, key programming information
and a pack of Quick Reference Cards, to speed up
setting of the clips, are supplied with
full instructions.
INTERFACE II
The AGF Interface II represents the best low cost introduction
to joy stick control.
The AGF' control standard is now offered by over 100 games or
utility programs for use with any joystick or trackball,
Any game which is controlled by the cursor movement keys (5,6,7,8) or
has a Protek option is also compatible with interface II,
A rear connector ailows other peripherals to be connected at the
same time.
This product is available for either the Spectrum or ZXBi, is supplied with
full instructions, a 12 month guarantee, and a 12 '4% discount voucher
against further AGF mail-order purchases.
The new AGF RomSlot is designed for anyone
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the keyboard to control games, and would like to add the facility of ROM
cartridge software to their system.
RomSlot will accept the Sinclair range of instant loading games and will
also be compatible with the new releases from Parker Software —
exciting new games only to be available in ROM format.
This system allows instant play. Your computer memory size is not
important and you will be able to play games that could ordinarily
require more RAM,
RomSlot incorporates an extra feature called 'Restart', This allows you
to instantly resfartthe ROM game.
RomSlot is guaranteed for 12 months and has a full width expansion
connector to accept joystick interfaces, speech units and pnntersetc
QUICKSHOT
The Guknkshot joystick is an excellent value game controller
incorporating suction cups for sure-footed precision with a comfortably
contoured handle offering a convenient top firing button as well as one
on the base,
QUICKSHOT II
Quickshot II has improved styling with a trigger type firing button as well
as the top firing action, with a broader base for greater suction stability.
It also has a unique Auto-Fire' facility which at the flick of a switch
provide s a constant rapid firing act ion simulating a fast trigger finger
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£69.95
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Business Software
Business 8*nk Aceo unt £ 1 .75
I This program will enable you to enter debits
I under 17 different subheadings. Statements
include totals of all subheadings.
I Sales Day Book £10.75
For all your invoices, this program will enable
you to prepare slate m ems of outstanding
invoices. Pro-gram will also calculate VAT.
Pureh »se Da y Bo ok £10 75
Keeps a complete record of all your purchases
under 1? different subheadings. This program
also calculates VAT,
Business Pack £25.00
Including all the above programs.
Stock Control £10.75
Handles 900 lines, including details of supplier.
Program has full search facilities enabling you to
search and update all lines from one supplier.
Invoicing £15.00
This program will print out invoices, calculates
discounts and VAT. The program will calculate
totals from unit prices. Up to 50 accounts with
260 outstanding invoices.
Word Processing by Ta s ma n £ 1 3 .90
T j sword Two is a powerful word processing
program that will perform all the functions
available on large processors The program will
give you 64 characters per line on screen
Master? ile by Campbell Systems £15.00
This is one of the best database programs
aveilablefortheZX Spectrum. This program has
many uses m a small business.
Dl«n by Campbell Systems £7.95
Use your Spectrum to sell your products. Olan
will display messages in up to 11 different
typefaces Will scroll text in any direction.
64 Column Generator by Tasman £5-50
You can use this program within your other
programs lo display 64 columns on screen.
Payroll by Byte One £19.95
This payroll program will handle up to 40
employees and will calculate NIC, PAYE, super-
a n n u a ! i o n a n d m a ny other deductions . Th i s > s a
very user friendly program and extremely good
VI :.p
The Transform Keyboard transforms your
Spectrum into a fully operational
professional machine.
e Will incorporate micro-drive interface
and power supply
• 60 keys including fullsize space bar
• Large ENTER key
• Full stop, comma, semi-colon, colon,
single delete and edit keys
• Onoff switch with LEO
• Easy installation - no soldering required
• Black anodised ease
• Now with 3 colour printed key tops
• EM00E key
"Its price ofE89. 95 rgflects tha kind of we Ft* which
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the moment. '
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NEW
Monitors
Sales/Purchase Ledger Invoicing £25.00
This program is for use on micro-drive only. The
program will print an invoice using a built-in
price list and post the invoice to ygur customer's
account. Will also print price lists, statements,
labels etc.
Tasmerga £10,95
Allow* you to transfer date from Masterfile into
Ta sword enabling you to use Ta sword for mail
merge. The program allows you to specify line
and column of each field. For use on micro-drive
only.
Superfile £14.95
This is a new database program (hat Stores
pages of text 64 columns x 22 rows. The program
includes word processing and full search
facilities
Omnicaic 2 £14.95
This is the long-awaited micro-drive version of
omnicaic complete with histograms and many
other features.
Projector 1 £13.90
Business graphics program that will help you
present your cashflow, sales expenditure in
many different ways including pie line, and
histogram charts
Tasprint £9 90
Use this program with Tasword Two to produce
5 different fonts on a dot matrix printer,
IMF-Print £6.95
Enables you to set a print format for your
full-size printer within masterfile, Supplied
complete with masterfile for £13,95,
Trans Express £9.95
Micro-drive utility program which will enable
you to backup all your micrO-driye cartridges.
Now in stock
Blank micro-drive cartridges £4.95
Continuous paper ,., £12.99
Printer ribbons from ,.... £3,50
Centronics Interface ., .„,, £39.95
QL Dust Cover £5.00
Transform can supply a wide range of
printers, monitors, and leads for the QL.
For further details send 5.A.E.
It is possible to connect your Spectrum to both
Black/Green and composite Video monitors
using high resolution monitors are particularly
useful with programs like Tasword that use 64
columns. We supply complete instructions on
how to con n ect m on itors to bet h I ssue Two and
Issue Three Spectrums, These m on itors can also
be connected to your QL.
Phillips black and green £75.00
Kaga/Taxan black and green ..... £99.95
Sanyo Med res for QL £273.60
Printers
All the software we supply runs on full -sue
printers (unless you are using interface 1) you
will require an interface to connect your
Spectrum to a printer, The interface we supply
uses ihe graph ics characters to set printer codes
as in Tasword and prints a double size screen
dump.
Centronics RS232 Interface £45.00
Dot matrix printers
Brother HR5 £132.00
Srother M1009 £163 00
Star Gemini 10x £199.00
Epson RX80 FT £229.00
Epson FX80 £324.00
Daisywheel printers
Smith-Corona TP t £159. 00
Silver Reed EXP500 £284.00
Brother HR15 £349.44
Please add £5 M delivery plus VAT to the price
of printers and monitors. All software prices
include VAT, post and packing,.
jgi TRANSFORM LTD. <Dept. SU) 01-658-6350
' 41, Keats House, Porchester Mead, Beckenham, Kent.
Contents
More from our postbag be-
low., and on page 1 50 Mike
Wright takes a took at new
improved versions of old
software,
SINCLAIR
January 1985
USER
Excommunicated!
I TENDED to feel, at first,
i hat Mr Simmonds — Octo-
ber — was a little harsh when
speaking of Vu-Calc. In
practice, however, the pro-
gram is little more than an
unmitigated disaster.
The program can be diffi-
cult to bad, often will not
respond to commands, fre-
quently crashes and inevita-
bly loses all one's hard won
data,
I use the program in con-
nection with the local church
accounts and ! dare not lose
any more data or the Vicar
will excommunicate me.
For my part, the theoreti-
cal facilities are adequate but
the appalling unreliability
and continual loss of data
even in a simple spread-sheet
have rendered the program
unusable and caused me a lot
of embarrassment. It is far
safer to do things the old,
hard way by hand and,
strangely, it is much faster,
Can anyone tell me is Om-
nicalc is any more reliable? 1
don't care about extra facili-
ties
\V L Simpson,
Wimborne,
Dorset.
Proportional
spacing
REFERRING to your an*
swer to Charles Lane, Sin-
clair Business User November
1984, as I understand it the
term 'proportional spacing'
has now come to mean one of
two things: (i) words can be
moved to square up lines of
text so that there are equal
gaps measured in units of less
than one character space; (ii)
it is possible to specify exact-
ly how much space is to ap-
pear between each letter i.e,
an 'm' will take more space
than an *i*.
I have been using a Juki
6100 Daisywheel printer,
with Tasword 2 as the word
processor program. That
printer supports proportional
spacing of type (ii) above. I
wish to print, as Mr Lane,
justified right hand edge pro-
portional print — to look the
same in your magazine — but
as yet I have not found any
program which will do it
using the Spectrum.
Dr R M Megit,
Hastings, Sussex,
Transform
warning
FIRST, congratulations on
an ever-improving magazine.
Looking over back issues it
certainly would appear that
your editorial staff do take
note of valid criticism — and
the result is less trivia, more
interest, in your letters pages.
Next, a warning to poten-
tial purchasors of the pro-
fessional keyboard from
Transform. I recently or-
dered one. It didn't work at
all. To the company's credit
they sent a replacement PCB
and connectors by return
However, having tested
the keyboard for response, I
then assembled it; loading
from tape was all right but
programs crashed on run-
ning, the UDGs were cor-
rupted, and other lines.
Microdrive loading was
even worse. Apart from pro-
gram corrupt on, the machine
commands — SAVE and
MERGE — were interfered
with, and the microdrive
would not stop.
Transform is obviously
aware of those problems, as
enclosed with the keyboard is
a letter admitting that, offer-
ing an add-on buffer at £6.95.
If the problem is so well
known, why isn't the original
board modified to include the
buffer?
L S Delby, Shefford,
Bedfordshire.
Software in
the toolroom
I OWN a 48K Spectrum, and
I wish to know if there is a
software house which pro-
duces a program on the skills
of carpentry and joinery,
J Mitchell,
9 i : live Avenue,
Crayford, Kent.
Shop Window
SHOP WINDOW enables you to publish details of programs
with limited markets once only in Sinclair Business User, at
no charge* If readers would like details to appear regularly they
can advertise in Sinclair Superman.
Mozart. Three 48 K programs giving details of the Kochel
catalogue of Mozart's music. Program i) deals with the
complete catalogue, and programs 2) and 3) with instru-
mental and vocal music respectively, Each costs £5 from
John Halsall, 18 St Michael's Close, Exeter EX2 8XH,
Cub Pack Record. A record system for Cub Scout
Leaders, with analyses, promotion and proficiency tables.
48K Spectrum. Roger Missing, 16 Kedlestan Drive, Orp-
ington, Kent BR5 2DR, Price £5,
Hair Defenders. Program 1 deals with knowledge of
hairdressing, programs 2 and 3 with scientific aspects of
hair care. 48K or 16K. John Lyons, 6 Queens Road,
Camberky, Surrey, GUI 5 3AN. £5.75 or £15.00 the set.
Organic Chemistry. Draws ring-containing structural
formulae, from simple compounds to steroids and anti-
biotics. Handles heteroatoms, stereochemistry, bond types,
and substituent groups. 48K, M Davis, Dept of Chemistry,
La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic, Australia 3083.
Survey II. Analyses questionnaire data. Generates full
frequency distributions, histograms, cross tabulations, chi-
square statistics. 48K Spectrum, from Lobos Software, 10
Randall Place, Bradford BD9 4AE. Price £10.00.
Curtain Estimator and Receipt Printer, 16/48K. Cal-
culates all curtain requirements from bare window mea-
surements, and prints a receipt of details. Plushscale Ltd,
14-16 Little Walk, Harlow, Essex CM20 IHY. £24,99.
SINCLAIR USER January 1985
149
Track down
share-outs
Mike Wright finds
how to keep stock
of your shares
AT THE TIME of writing a major
f-\ advertising campaign is being
X. Arun to persuade as many ordi-
nary people — in other words, you and I
— as possible to buy British Telecom
shares and so start dabbling in the stock
market. For those of you who have got
vour feet wet in the sea of shares owner-
ship VA£TRACK 2 from Morley Da-
vies Associates may be of some interest.
It is a share portfolio management
system for use by chartists — those who
believe that share price movements re-
flect the relevant information and that
the analysis of those movements leads to
correct decisions on buying and selling.
The original version was developed for
the ZX-81 but was never made commer-
cially available.
VAiTRACK 2 is supplied with a 22-
page manual which tries to explain not
only how to use the program but also
something of the philosophy of buying
and selling shares. It is one of the best
written and easiest to read you are likely
to come across. The program is record-
ed on both sides of the cassette with a
file of dummy records also recorded on
the first side. It is loaded using the
command CLEAR 64500: LOAD lk ".
The basis of VA£TRACK 2 is a list
of weekly share or index prices over the
last half year and that your portfolio
comprises shares from some of those.
Share values should be updated weekly
from the Saturday edition of the Finan-
cial Times and that copies of the last 26
weeks' issues are kept in case you need
to add data for other shares. Alterna-
tively;, Morley Davies will supply ad-
ditional history tapes which give 26
weeks' prices for specified shares.
The program has facilities for listing
the records to the screen or printer,
adding new records either manually or
from additional history tapes, doing a
weekly or an interim update of share
prices, valuing your portfolio as well as
loading and saving Hies. Options are
also available for generating test records
or examining the postures, or trends, of
all or part of the records.
Five postures are used based on com-
parisons of the five and thirteen week
moving averages and last week's price.
The large amount of calculation neces-
sary for posture tracking makes the
process painfully slow, The manual rec-
ommends that you make a cup of coffee
afer selecting this option but a three
course meal may be nearer the mark for
a large number of records*
Individual records can be put under
the microscope by selecting option
from the main menu. After entering the
record number a subsidiary ten option
menu is provided that lets you analyse
the last 13 weeks* data in either raw
(unadjusted) or adjusted (price changes
are smoothed by reducing all move-
ments to less than 10 per cent} form. In
both cases Jive and 13 week arithmetic
and exponential moving averages are
you with horror (aren't computers sup-
posed to save time?). However it is
difficult to sec how those operations can
be shortened unless it is by the use of an
optical character reader or modem and
bulletin board.
The posture tracking takes an age to
complete but to say it is slow does not
take into account the large number of
calculations involved or the time it
would take to do it by hand.
One very pleasant surprise was the
way in which you are protected from
yourself. Selecting an option from a
menu requires only one key stroke and
invalid options are ignored, Typing er-
rors which in most programs would be
fatal, such as entering characters when
the program is expecting numbers, ei-
ther result in being asked to input again
nr jumping to (he date screen at the
start of the program. It would be nice if
some of the larger software houses paid
the same attention to detail,
VA£TRAC:K 2 is most definitely for
use by the dedicated stock exchange
dabbler — others are likely to find the
amount of work necessary to get a
return an inconvenience. If you are
considering it then remember ii is only
a tool — the interpretation of results
and the decisions made on them are
displayed together with the posture and
the slope of the last five weeks' prices. A
range of graphs showing the raw or
adjusted data, the slope or a comparison
with another share or index, can also be
produced.
Reading the manual makes you very
aware of the time and effort involved in
using VAiTRACK 2. The suggestion
of keeping 26 week*s copies of the
Financial Times is frightening (aren't
computers supposed to cut down paper-
work?), and the thought of spending an
hour and a quarter entering details of a
mere 20 shares or even fifty minutes on
a weekly update of 200 shares may fill
yours alone.
Morley Davies say that VA£TRACK
3 should be available on microdrive or
cassette and will apparently be cheaper.
It will also feature more analysis and
will cope with selling shares tint owned,
In order to include the extra features the
maximum file size will be reduced from
200 records.
Morley Davias Associates, 1 1 Denham
Lane, Chalfom St Peter, Bucks SL9 OER
VAETRACK 2
Memory: 48K
Price: £48.75
Gilbert Factor: 7
SINCLAIR L'SER Jamary 19X5
Sinclair Business User
Something old,
something new
A survey of extras
UNLIKE GAMES software
which, in general, achieves vol-
ume sales rapidly before virtu-
ally disappearing, applications software
tends to sell steadily and have a much
longer life. Many applications programs
are developed and improved during
their life. With the Sinclair Business
User section just over a year old ii is a
good time to look at the updates to some
of The programs we have reviewed.
The very first review in December
1983 was of the OCP Finance Man-
ager for the 48K Spectrum. That has
been upgraded to include microdrive
compatibility, allowing both the pro-
gram and data to be saved separately to
face. That set up routine is only used
when loading from the original tape.
Saving the program — to tape or
microdrive — also saves the printer
interface codes to give a personalised
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cartridge is not included.
The +80 version of the program, for
use with full-sized printers, has had a
further refinement added. Previously
the program could only be used if you
bad the Kempston Centronics interface,
now it has been programmed to offer a
choice of 15 different interfaces — ten
Centronics and five RS232 — or to set
up the codes for any other printer inter-
any microdrive attached. The program
is supplied on casette and still includes
a facility for saving to tape. Although
the program can now be run from
microdrive and data files loaded within
version for subsequent use. The print-
out for the + 80 version shows the date
of transaction, the account, the details,
separate columns for debit and credit
and the balance. That compares with
the date, account, amount and balance
on the ordinary version.
OCP has upgraded its other pro-
grams in the same way. According to
Francis Ainley the good news Tor QL
owners is that he is working on an
enhanced program allowing a class
heading, in addition to the account and
description, to be used with the transac-
tion. The program is Hkely to feature
some sort of windowing.
Upgrading to microdrive compatibil-
ity was not possible with the Transform
Sales/Purchase Ledger/Invoicing
package as it was designed to run using
twin microdrives anyway. Instead, im-
provements have been made to the Ac*
counting program. Previously it was
only possible to produce an overall total
figure for all, or some, of the accounts
by loading each account separately, not-
ing totals and adding them up. Now a
series of extra menus allows the list of
accounts to be displayed and any combi-
nation of those to be selected and to-
talled. Accounts can be erased from a
cartridge as another option. The pack-
age was reviewed in the November is-
sue.
The Kemp Stock Control program
was reviewed in the August issue and
version 3.0 has been released recently.
Like any other programs which have
been improved Stock Control is now
microdrive compatible but the improve-
ments do not end there. It now has the
option of selecting a full-sized printer
and a 64-COlumn printout.
If a full-sized printer is to be used and
your printer interface needs software to
drive the printer then that must be
loaded each time before the program.
The option of a full-sized printer must
also be made every time. Although the
resulting printouts are more widely
spaced they are no more informative
Lhan those on the ZX printer.
Other improvements include making
the length of the stock numbers and
descriptions user definable. The stock
number can be up to ten characters long
while the stock descriptions previously
20 characters, can now be set at any
length between 4 and 30 characters. Of
course, the more characters used for
those fields the less room there will be
for the records,
Another improvement now allows up
to two decimal places to be used for
stock quantities. With those improve-
ments this is now the most flexible stock
control program available on the Spec-
trum.
1 1 is difficult to imagine many im-
provements which could be made to
Tasword II, the word processing pro-
gram from Tasman Software. Instead,
Tasnian has released its equivalent of
Wordstar's Mailmerge program called
Tasmerge. The program is designed to
operate with Tasword II md the Camp-
bell Systems MasterfUc and allows you
to insert names and addresses from a
Masterfile database into a standard doc-
ument produced using Tasword II.
Now that it has a mailmerge facility
Tasword II is once again streets ahead
of its nearest rival, although the Softe*
word processor for the Wafadrive will
be a strong contender if rumours of a
database and a mailmerge facility are
true. With Tasword II and Masterfile
included as part of the microdrive/inter-
face 1 Expansion Pack Tasmerge has a
whole new market.
Speaking of Masterfile, that has been
improved since it was reviewed last
February. The latest version — version
nine — comes in a smart plastic case and
now includes MF Print which allows
Masterfile to print to full-sized printers.
That is done by allowing the user to set
up and save the outline report exactly as
it is to be printed. The blank report
must then be loaded before printing out
the selected records.
Unlike the ordinary report formats
for the ZX printer only one report can
be held in memory at one time. Others
must be loaded when needed. In addi-
tion numeric data can be printed in a
variety of formats including integer*
two decimal places, with commas show-
ing thousands and prefixing any charac-
ter such as a currency sign. With those
improvements the best database for the
Spectrum is now even better
Mike Wrifkl
Campbell Systems, 15 Rous Road.
Buckhurai Hill, Essen 109 GBL
Kemp Ltd, 43 Muswell Hill. London
N10 3PN,
OCP Ltd, 4 High Street, Ctialfont St Peter,
Buckinghamshire SL9 9QB.
Tasman Software, Springfield House, Hyde
Terrace, Leeds LS2 9LN.
Transform Ltd 41 Keats House, Porchestor
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TASWORD TWO
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CRASH June 1984
"The number of on-screen prompts,
together with the excellent manual,
make it ideal - even for an absolute
beginner, "
PERSONAL COMPUTER WORLD
September 1983
"Without doubt the best utility I have
reviewed for the Spectrum T
HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY
April 1984
Your Spectrum becomes a professional
standard word processor with
TASWORD TWO. Sixty-four characters
per line on the screen is just one of the
many features of this versatile
program. The cassette also contains
TASWORD TWO TUTOR. This teaches
you word processing using TASWORD
TWO. Whether you have serious
applications or simply want to learn
about word processing, TASWORD
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TWO is readily adapted for the
mi crod rives to give super-fast saving
and load i ng of both prog ramand text ,
PRICE
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TASCOPV
The Screen Copier
Screen copy software for ZX interface 1 ,
Print high resolution screen copies (in a
choice of two sizes), and also large
"shaded" copies with different dot
densities for the various screen colours.
Tascopy supports all eight pin dot
matrix printers with Epson type control
codes, e.g. Epson RX-80 and FX-fiO,
Shinwa CP-80 r Mannesmann Tally MT-
80, Star DMP 510/515, Brother HR5
PRICE
£9.90
TASMERGE
The Mail Merger
Transfer data from MASTERFILE to
TASWORD TWO! Letters and forms
typed on TASWORD can be printed
with addresses and data taken from
MASTERFILE. The mail merge facility
allows, for example, multiple copies of
a letter to be printed, each containing a
different name and address taken from
your MASTERFILE data. To use
TASM E RG E yo u m u st h ave one □ r more
microdrive-s as well as TASWORD and
MASTERFILE by Campbell Systems,
(version 9 or later).
PRICE
£10.90
TASPRINT
The Style Writer
A must for dot-matrix printer owners!
Print your program output and listings
in a choke of five impressive print
styles. TASPRiNT utilises the graphics
capabilities of dot-matrix printers to
form, with a double pass of the
print head, output in a range of five
fonts varying from the futuristic DATA-
RUN to the hand-writing style of
PALACE SCRIPT, TASPRINT drives all
dot-matrix printers with bit image
graphics capabilities and can be used to
print TASWORD TWO text files.
TASPRINT gives your output originality
and style f
PRICE
£9.90
TASWIDE
the Screen Stretcher
With this machine code utility you can
write your own Basic programs that
will, with normal PRINT statements,
print onto the screen in the compact
lettering used by TASWORD TWO, With
TASWIDE you can double the
information shown on the screen!
PRICE
£5,50
TASMAN PRINTER INTERFACE
Plug into your Spectrum and drive any
printer fitted with the Centronics
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software. The user changeable
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With TASWORD TWO The cassette also
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SOFTWARE for Epson, Mannesmann
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Colour Graphic {in colour!) printers.
Compatible with microdrives and ZX
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Now Trashman is a great British success
he's ready for international stardom - and you can
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order task of cleaning up every major litter spot around the
globe. Scooping up flowers thrown into the bull ring by matador
fans in Spain, collecting the tissues of the faithful as they sob by
Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, picking up coconuts from a palm beach in
Samoa and collecting the empties at the German beer festival
(Trashman still likes his tipple!) are just some of the challenges that
make up Trashman's task.
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Education =s
Theodora Wood
assesses a new
range of software
WITH THE plethora of learn-
ing programs available for use
in the home, it is difficult for
the prospective buyer to sort the wheat
from the chaff. Comparisons are odious,
but can be very useiul as a guide. The
recently released range of programs
from Longman can serve as a yardstick
to measure the value of some offerings
in this field. The Longman Group hav-
ing published educational texts for
many years brings a wealth of experi-
ence to software publishing.
Software aimed at the under- 11 age
group, has to provide a certain degree of
entertainment. Programs with a major
undisguised element of sustained skill
learning arc unlikely to be popular with
children at home.
The Mr T range of programs from
Ebury software, under the Good House-
keeping label, was a minor breakthrough
in early learning. The programs covered
numbers, shapes, measuring and the
alphabet, all superbly presented in the
form of games designed to appeal to the
pre -school age group. They provided
good graphics and an educational strat-
egy which would not be out of place in a
primary school New titles include Mr
T in the Mystery Maze, which shows
a move towards problem-solving skills
for seven plus.
The Longman range for that age
group includes Hot Dog Spotter,
ABC . , , Lift Off and Countabout.
Those are standard programs which
feature arcade routines as part of the
action and have proved just as popular
as the Mr T programs. The new Long-
man program, Postman Pat's Trail
Game, based on the books and TV
series, encourages thinking and memory
skills as well as the use of the cursor
time at the more difficult levels. For a
four-year-old Postman Pat Rules!
SuperTed is a similar program, ex-
cept that this time our hero has to try
and catch the villains and put them in
jail before a bomb goes off. Quite de-
lightful. A format of nine mazes is the
playing area and the positions of the
villains are shown on a small grid at the
top of the screen. Speed and accuracy of
movement round the playing areas re
quire care, though the speed is rather
too slow. It would have been useful to
have a selection of playing speeds. Both
programs benefit from joystick control.
Longman's middle range of programs
for the 7-11 age group has nothing in
particular to recommend it. That is not
to say that the programs are not good,
but merely that they are on a par with
SuperTed
keys. Postman Pat — such an inoffen-
sive character — has to follow the trails
left by various characters in the story
clutching a letter or parcel. He then has
to find his way back to the Post Office
without help from the tracks. Greendale
is pictured on the screen complete with
sheep, hedges and bridges, as well as
cows which block the road from time to
Score: 832
Me must get to Sam .
Posritmn Ptii's Trail Gun?
others. Robot Runner, a tables tester,
Wild Words, a spelling tester, and
Sum Scrunch* r all bear the Longman
stamp of drill mixed with arcade rou-
tines. Numerous other companies pro-
vide similar programs, notably
Mirrorsoft's Qliickth inking, Sinclair's
Castle Spellerous, and Stell Soft-
ware's Maths Invaders.
Other new titles for the Spectrum
from Longman feature programs aimed
at the family, capable of supporting up
to four players. In Riddle of the
Sphinx you have to build up words on
one face of a pyramid, always starting
with the letter that finished the previous
word. Word Wizard asks the players
to make anagrams out of a specified
number of letters. To play Snaffle you
have to use letters as they appear on the
board and build a word out of them, as
well as snaffle an opponent's word to
make a new combination. If a word is
not in the dictionary the players can
verify that such a word exists. Snaffle is
the most interesting game but also the
most expensive or the three.
continued on page 159
SINCLAIR USER January J 985
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It will hold 20 Microdrive cartridges (enough to store 1.6
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The Microdrive Storage Box is fully interlocking and will allow
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Education
CORtiTWted frvm page 157
A new company. Hill McGibbon, is
set to be a rival to Longman for this age
group. Formed by three ex-Heinemann
people it brings long-standing experi-
ence in publishing to the field of soft-
ware development. Hill McGibbon
policy is to produce games of high
entertainment quality in themselves,
but which have an underlying edu-
cational content. New games for the
Spectrum include Run, Rabbit Run, a
board game with strategic possibilities
and Friend or Foe which is similar,
both priced reasonably. The catch-
phrase, 'games to stretch the mind'
could set the tone for software in the
future-
Longman;, however, has in First
Moves a program to teach chess for
eight -year-olds upwards. Chess is surely
the greatest strategy game of all time,
and any program which smooths the
way to understanding of the complex
nature of the game must be useful. The
program concentrates on the chess
pieces and their moves, and comes com-
plete with a full colour poster for handy
reference.
A joystick is a great aid to moving the
pieces, otherwise rather a complex ma-
nipulation of the numbers one to eight
is required.
The main disadvantage is that the
screen board is tiring on the eyes. Long-
man does not help by using green and
magenta for the board colours, and even
with the colour turned down there is a
certain amount of drift.
The program takes the user through
all fhe moves of the pieces before start-
ing any games, although you can go
straight to the games if you wish. The
games start with few pieces: level one is
the King and his castle, going on to an
almost complete game in level six using
one of all the pieces with accompanying
pawns. A Help key is available to show
where each piece can be moved when it
is the player's turn.
Self study is becoming a topic of
serious consideration for schools, pro-
viding the chance for a student to learn
at his/her own pace, and Longman is
uniquely placed for this, The revision
package French O level and CSE has to
be considered the best of its ivpe.
ChalkRoft's Eiffel Tower is a French
vocabulary tester providing 20 word
lists in two programs for £9.25. fhe
Longman program has 29 word lists in
two programs which have comprehen-
sive testing facilities. Sulis Software has
produced a package to revise French
irregular verbs, at £9,95. The Longman
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package contains a program which en-
ables the student to revise the same.
As well as those two facilities the
Longman program has a composition
tester, where the user has to remember a
short piece of French prose and then
ENTER it, and a map-based program
highlighting the regions and towns of
France. The price is £7,95, which must
be considered a good buy under the
circumstances.
The revision program Biology
shows a similar range of activities.
There are five programs, Text carries
nearly 400 references over the subject,
and the student is advised to make a
note of those on his/her syllabus, and
pay particular attention to those marked
with a star. Skeleton is a word game
which asks questions and builds up a
picture of a skeleton with labels.
Heredity covers just that, but in an
interactive way. It tests knowledge of
the principles of heredity by asking the
student to forecast the outcome of a
particular mating in the form of a per-
centage. You are also able to set up
breeding combinations and see what
happens. Kingdom is an exploration of
the main types of creatures and plants.
A specimen or example can be identi-
fied by its characteristics.
It is also possible to compare the
different types of life form. This is an
excellent way of coming to grips with
all those long Latin names as well as
gaining an overview of the main classifi-
cations used.
Food covers the major components
of nutrition and tests knowledge of the
same.
Both the French and Biology pack-
ages appeal within their limitations, and
represent reasonable value for money;
they also help with revision strategy and
organisation of time by pinpointing
areas of the subjects concerned with
precision.
Overall, the Longman range for the
Spectrum seems particularly strong in
the rule and drill and revision depart-
ments but lacks a variety of strategy >
problem-solving games and adventures.
First Moves excepted. That is probably
a result of the company's involvement
in educational texts which leads it to
concentrate on those formats rather
than enter what might perhaps be con-
sidered a more creative use of the Spec-
trum.
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Memory
Price
Gilbert
Factor
Postman Pal's Trail Game
48K
£5.95
7
SuperTed
4SK
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48K
£7 95
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Riddle of the Sphinx
48K
£7.95
6
Snaffle
48K
£995
7
French
48K
E7.95
8
Biology
48K
£7.95
7
Run. Rabbit Run
48K
£6 95
7
Friend or Foe
48K
£6 95
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The appearance of a w --
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—A tures and, in my household, a signal
V for the cat to hide under the bed for the
duration against the inevitable moment
when i go ramoagmg through the flat, a wild
look in my eyes muttering ferociously about bri
birds nudist beaches and the like Since Return to Eden
the seauel to Snowball is out, the cat may be in
hiding until Christmas
You don 't need to have played snowball
to get into the sequel as ewer, there is
ample documentation with the tape
which in my Commodore W version
lit is also on the Spectrum, Amstrad
and bbci is turbo -loaded it starts
with you. agent Kim Kimberly, having
been framed for sabotaging
the coionvship snowball, In a
crashed stratogiider
on the planet Eden, For
the moment your mis-
sion is to survive the
misplaced retribution^
by your own people,
but life gets very
much more
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provided, but 1 can t|
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what could t» ;
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Menu Driven Programs
FOR ANYONE who wishes to use
a Spectrum for other purposes
than playing games there is a
wealth of literature aimed at teaching
the Basic language. Many who have
mastered aspects of that find themselves
directed towards writing games pro-
grams rather than more serious applica-
tions. The main reason for that is the
lack of direction in the literature to-
wards developing business or edu~
eat ion a I type programs.
We can b however develop a technique
for writing non-games type programs
which is both simple in concept and in
widespread use already. The resulting
programs come under the general cate-
gory of Menu Driven Programs,
Many who have decided to delve into
the Basic language quickly become dis-
illusioned because of its apparent un-
structered nature. That means the
majority of programs are difficult to
break down into definite sections. They
are like a book with only one paragraph
covering several pages.
It is possible to write a program in
Basic as a series of sections each of
which can be RUN as a separate pro-
gram without necessarily relying on all
the other sections. That is exactly how a
menu driven program is constructed,
with the menu section forming the skel-
eton from which other sections are ac-
cessed. Many commercial programs for
large computers are menu driven as the
operators are not programmers. From
the programmer's point of view the
advantages of having se parate sections
Alan Pratt cooks up a method of
organising program structure
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or loaded from tape- G"no, l = ycs.
a = 0, H = I, e = ?; those frequently uwd
numbers are Stored in variables which are
then used in place cif the numbers to save
memory,
menu = 204) (defines the line number 200).
n$(fO) contains I he name of" the character
(used in LOAD/SAVE to tape).
w$ bf. a frequently used comment-
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the screen -
d{8} used in she binary converiion loop.
c<24,4) holds the numeric values of each
byte in the character.
a(24,32) holds the contents uf the full
screen 1 = Tilled in square, 0=cit)piy
square,
L, j, k, m are temporary variables.
J4 is a temporary string.
i and is are used in Fill aS(T to
reconstruct the full screen display from the
numbers in l-().
r and c are used to define the pen tip on
the screen a* row and column numbers.
rl and el are temporary values of r and c,
p determines if the pen is to rubout or
draw: - 1 = rubout, I = draw.
4 jiid w are used to detect which of the
cursor keys arc being pressed. These are
read using IN statements.
Taible 1. Variable list for Program 1.
is lhat each can be made error free
before the next is written.
The main section containing the
menu displays a set of options available
to the user with some means of selecting
between them. That can take various
forms but the simplest is to number
each option. All the user has to da b
press the correct number on the key-
board. It is the options which consti-
tute the independent sections.
We will develop a program which is
menu driven whilst describing the tech-
niques used and how they apply to any
program of that type. The program is a
graphics character generator which al-
lows you to develop a large character
composed of 12 normal-sized characters
arranged as three rows of four columns.
The large character is drawn eight times
full size on a grid occupying the full
screen with a 'pen' which is capable of
both drawing and rubbing out. The
final large character can be displayed
full size and saved on tape for future use
by Program 1 and Program 2.
The second program uses the charac-
ters to illustrate the letters of the alpha-
bet and is intended as a teaching
program for young children. It ts also
menu driven to further illustrate the
techniques.
You will probably have met a menu
driven program on the second side of
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the Horizons tape in the form of *' char-
acter -1 which is also a graphics character
generating program. In that case only
one screen display is used with the
menu occupying the lower portion of
the screen. Options are selected by
pressing the appropriate letter keys.
Before describing Program 1 it is
worthwhile looking at some general
practices which can, be adopted when
writing any program. Those result in
the program lines 10 to 150 and are
arranged as follows. Lines 10 to 30 are
REM lines which contain the title, and
a copyright notice enabling the program
to be easily identified by the first few
lines. Frequently used numbers are as-
signed to variables in line 40. The
screen colours are established in line 50
whilst all the arrays arc DIMensioned
in lines 60 and 70. The POKE in line
100 is a useful means of setting CARS
LOCK on.
Lines 120 to 130 read in the neces-
sary data for the user defined graphics
and array d < > with line 1 10 remind-
ing yau where to find the first data line.
Line 140 contains g frequently used
message which is held in wS.
The most commonly used GO TO
statement, at the end of each option
section, refers to the start of the Main
menu. To assist in identifying those the
variable 'menu' is set equal to 200,
which is then treated as a line number
in the statement 'GO TO menu\
The variable 'new' in line 40 is used
to detect if a character has been gene rat-
new; detects if the data associated with tht,*
program has been changed. 0=no, 1 =yes.
a = fl, bs],t = 7; thcK frequently used
numbers are stored In variables v^hich are
then used in plate ad he numbers to save
memory.
menu ■ 200 (defines tlie line number 200),
nS(lft) contains the name of the character
(jsed in LOAD/SAVE to tape).
i% and sS arc frequently used question*,
cS(32) used ro blank out a full tine on the
screen.
1, J, Urn are temporary variables.
w = address of the bytes for the character
selected in ROM.
t"*addrcfl of the graphic character in the
data.
xsize and ykLec define the magnification
of the character printed by the subroutine
at line 7000.
wpos and ypos are the v and y coordinates
of the character primed by the subroutine
■t line 7000.
Tabic 2. Variable* ff>r Propram 2.
ed and prevents you using options 4, 5
or 6 before you have selected I, 7 or 8.
Now to the main program section
which contains the menu. That occu-
pies lines 200 to 390 and starts with a
REM line to identify the section. It is
good practice to use as many REM lines
as possible when writing a program to
make it easier for others to understand.
The fully developed program was writ-
ten to run on a 16K Spectrum which
still has enough memory to support an
adequate number of REM lines.
You will notice the use of the PRINT
AT function in all the following lines in
order to produce a screen display which
is both tidy and easy to understand.
Whenever I write a program containing
screen displays I always sit down with a
5O80 OO TO icnu
<?3BB REH USB Sav*
331B BORDER 5: CL
=•. BRIGHT b; "Use
■ r "
"3 "INPUT EtUf
«UirfJ ";ji#
B33B PRIr*T RT 11,
„ Tiding " ,n*
23*5 PRINT RT 13,
Sttrt ine
33SB LOflC r.*CODE
3 3BB BORDER * .' PR
_"' ,n •
d CKf
ft ■ PRIMT RT 2,
a saved Cb tract
'.(it Nan* \mm-
6. BRIGHT b; "
FLHSH
'in-r hi" "jIH; "
kJ79 f»P- INT RT 13,
Slop tht tap*
33BB brjmt RT IB,
J FIGHT bjtfl
H2 3S REM Fill c ( )
£'4-93 LET •»
J> FOR k a* TO 1
ljj FOB * =b TO *
.•■■-■ :.ET C f J + i,i)
6; INK. 2;
tape
UftR "a"
INT RT 11,6,
Loaded "
ft; PRPER *, ■"
BR
ilNT
THEN PRINT
ft STEP &
FOR J-b TO e
*PEEK IU5P "a"+
= ,J.O LET » =■ +1
3 4-S0 NEXT j NE>.T
= -l$0 REM Fill a * l '
MEXT k
£*.?$ FOR j =to TO 24-. PRINT Fit 1,1
■9— B
5 > f'OR j - b TO *
£ie<? let tJt'.'i , j )
LET I*
■ - -•
i*3B FOR *«b TO ft
:;bb i* i>«d(H> then let tiim =
l ■ let i - 1 - d f l I
I51C NEXT H
i-Sao LET <|ii,Jt9-T TO ,.#St«'. I
i53B NEXT j: NEXT It
354B WINT RT IS , S , * J
-7=t3 go sue bibb- let n-tk-b
£?ee eo sub seas
£576 SO TO ktnu
ioee rem usa uritung chn
3S1B POHDEH &: CLE PRINT RT £ ,
3: BRIGhT fc , 'Use ex i fc t i ri9 tiTJPhi
: ChifJCtefi Fi,B C . D E,F,S,H
1 , J,K L
i6li CD TO 23BB
■. ■.SBS? BEM End
H'^iei BORDER 4,.- CL! . PRINT RT 8,
Id; BRI6HT b; " THE END " , RT IB
.. IB, "BYE FOB NOW"
.?32B GO SUB Sioa
2S3B 5TOP
300B REM Iffff
3D18 BORDER 2: CL5 . PRINT AT 10
t- ; BRIQHT bi Thtri iz no exist j
IB ChlflCl.f 1 '
JftSfl PRINT RT 15,5, BRIGHT b;"Rt
far to Intlructioni"
?s*3B bo Sufi sees
^■■a+6 go to Menu
lOBO REM Redraw
4 010 CLS
4BSB FOR i «b TO aS
.1.B30 FQfi J at TO 32
; mb ir » j ( i , .j i = e- THEN PR]
lOBB IF ai(i,Jj«-
*B6B NEXT j NEXT i
iCTO FOR i "&3 TO E*
+BBB FOR j-b Tp 32
1L*90 iF a*U,J)-"a" THEN PRINT tt
e,RT i -33, J-i; "3";
-IBB IF li(l,JJt-r THEN PRINT tt
3,RT i -S3, j-1; "T" .
*11B NEXT j; NE.KT i
•aeo REM Rtict varitbll*
-210 (,ET T"*, LET c =f : LET P=-l
L23B LET rimfl LET clif; LET out
= r
;^3B GO TO 4 4.6U
taSB REM LOOP
iS60 PAUSE URL "*"
A27B IF INKEVJi'X" THEN LET ou t =
1 ■ QD TO 4-9SB
4-aOB LET «)clN E3+Sb LET w , IN Bl
138
4rS9B IF <t 1 1 93 THEN LET q ma +6+
+ 3BB IF »dfla THEN LET v>«a>64
4.3 1& IF ».'B-IMT (»/2) =# THEN LET
P"-p FOR j =b Tp *: NEXT i: GO
FO A4B0
4 3SB IP 4-SSS RN& »^S3 THEN GO
TO *EEB
4.34B IF >t<SSS RHr> (t>* THEN LET
- 1 =- c - b
135fl IF m-2Bl OR It a S4-3 OR »*33B
J »N» C r 331 THEN LET [l°ctb
*3B6 IF (»>339 OR *>S3S) HND r<>
S3 THEN LET r 1 = r + b
4378 IF (U=e4,7 OR w »3*3> HMD f < f
3 THEN LET rjifufc
+ 3-9P REH Stt array
**BB IF r<£2 THEN PRINT RT r,C;i
4.41B IF r.>ai THEN PRINT »B, RT r-
9a, tan
iS SEC ^ Rlphab«l Learner
3P REM Prill lOB*
*0 CLERR 30090: LOAD ""CODE
.JEEP 1 , IS fc '
=0 LET ■■*: LET n«»., LET b-1
6B PBPEB 1 : INK a : BORDER * : B
'SIGHT a
w ^S*EI M * n * ria> olM «t*»«1 pok
*G LET !*■" StltCl * LftUr f
,SS h£I **»SH*ct WPur opuon"
lae LET lenu^pe
IrOSI REH Hmu
LilO BRJCHT » BORDER •; CL3 P
-?IMT INK c, PAPER b, ORIQHT bj "
__ RLPHRBET LERRHER
-SS° C OR » =b TO 3: BEEP .B3,3: B
■■it" .»6,b. NEXT i
»3g PRINT RT S,«; BRIGHT 1,**
S4.B PRINT RT ll,c;" Instruction 9
A6B PRINT RT 13, ft, "Learn by Pie
39B PRINT HT IB, ft, "EXllim E3 L A
S7B PRINT RT 17, ft, "Load in. nil
m; turti "
3BB PRINT RT 19. t, "End IK« frft>9
E9B LET J =-11: LET Li»Bf>! QO a«jB
43BB
4.BB REN Sort oul Ct-iOiCft.
4-1B GO TO i tSflB
500 REN lnstrur.li on a
SIB CLS : PRINT RT » , O, BRIGHT
b, IfiAlruc t i on* "
Baa PRINT '"'flLPHH- l* a teach
:.J rrcgran IOh*lp UDuni Ch, Idft
n Itarn tht Letter* o? tht R(,p
B3S PRIMT ""Sllicl OP lien S lo
Obtain a lir;e utmgn or a
■j latter idithan limciitij Pitt
ltc . "
e.4-e> PRINT ' ' "Thft Picturit art d
:.un with tht hllp Of the progr*
« 'PJG gen and then Loaded in
■d HLP+1R' by icusurij option +
5^0 PRINT
Program 2.
Uhmivir m< pictu
32 by 24 grid rej n^ the lull
screen and plan tht: layout with u pencil
and rubber before attempting to v
any program lines.
Following the title and the instruc-
tion 'Select your option 1 which are both
highlighted, the various options are
spell out in short titles which arc in-
tended to be self explanatory. As with
all good menu programs there is a
choice titled 'Instructions' which will
enable the first time user to understand
4*ae let s*ir+i ( c*u -■■■-
**!*? IF p " h THEN LET **ir+l,n..li
4-4-4-Q LET rmrll LET del
++5B IF out THEN BO TO +5O0
4-4-5B LET j*a"S": IF p =*> THEN LET
i *«"T"
4.+7B ir rtaa THEN PRINT RT r ( i;
SRISHT lilt; DUER b, CHRf B*'+"
4.4BB IF D|l THEht PRINT B«,fff r-
22, C, BRIOHT b; i I, DUER b,CHR| B
*+*© go to taee
4-BBB REH C* I tulitl
*?** 6 OROER E PRINT RT 11,18, B
RIGHT b, FLASH b," CflLCULflflNB "
4B3B FOR i =b TO 3+
J-S + B FOR J«b TO S5 STEP B
iSHB LET ( li , I j*7) ^BJ .LlflL ("BIN
♦fill.j TO j+7) )
ABBS NEXT j: NEXT I
J.6BB REM FilL Qflthici
dBlB LET a^-a
J.B3B FOR k^i TO IS ftTEP B
L6 + FOR i =b TO 4.
4650 FOR j =b TO B
-1&6B POKE USR "*"+m, C <_■■»-*> , i >
1.678 LET ■=»4-b
J-E>ea NE>T j NEXT I : NEXT *
A 6 SB GO TO 14- BB
5«BB PRINT ttB,BT b,a, FLASH b, " P
ritt anv H*W to continue". PRUBE
SO 10 RETURN
5 100 FOR i "E TO 31 STEP +
5 110 PRINT HT 7,irHDCD",ST B,li
CF'GN'JRT 9,i,"JJKL"
"Sia0 NEXT i
5 140 RETURN
6O00 ORTR ISO" , IBB" , - lH" , 13B
" , "iae" , -lao", ■■iaB" jL - , flBE"
6018 ORTR "laT" , " IS - ?" , " IS?"' " Is?
■■ , " la?" , ■■ ia7- , " ia7- , -i-
7Q0« PEN Save progrit
7B1B SRUE "BIL5 GEH"
7BBB BEEP l,li: STOP
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Iinu
BRIGHT
LET
r»s, are loididyou Will *»■ *f*ed
to re-rt«rd thi* progr;
see go sue seea : go Tf
laaft REM Ltirn
jib CL3 PRINT AT *,B,
b," Ltirfi by PI Ctur«*
1110 BRIOKT bj CLS ink a
11SO LET ».1B36S+ii8
11*0 LET tiP-a: LET- KP&4-77.
ODQ3 alA?
1150 LET »iit>S, LET v »iIt«X4il
il6B GC SUB 7BB0 ' INK 4.
1330 LET *=15J6atii+3a]iB
1240 LET J!p8i-93: LET yr<04-79
isbb go sub 7000; ink J.,,,. ,_ r
1300 PRINT INK a; AT S, IB, A* for
133B LET «>(i -B5J t»+3BlB»
134B LET Li*-ll: LET xpos*lSR: L
ET y pe* = 79
1353 LET XI1IK3: LET US.tf'Ml
13SB GO SUe 7000 __
1*00 LET ^Bfgg+'i-g 5 '* 90
i*lB CO SUB +1® B - S N -£ D b i
144B FOB i *S TO 6 STEP *
;JE0>PR1NT AT i ,ai;"flflC&_ flOCO";
HT b + i ,ii;"HFOH erFGH',RT S + i.si
, " IJRL UKL"
lite NEXT i : INK •
lAfta go sue seav so to urtu
1586 REM E*»lint __ .
1516 BORDER Or CLS PRIN t P T b '
6, BRIGHT bJ "6* ■» i nc old Picture
1BS0 PRINT RT 4,8, E* ■ * J 7* 1*',, ^
relint pictures asSOdHed * J
15S0 PRINT HT B,ti BRIGHT b, £*
15B0 PRINT AT li,i;"EKMine Did
l5BB U PfiINT AT 13,(i"Rtlurn to ma
i&00*let j-is. let ita-a go sus
4 304
1&S0 IF i-a THEN GO TO nenu
1 780 CLS : PRINT AT a .B; BFJQHT
fa, "Prtitnt Pi elUfE ■
171(j SD SUB 4*00 „„
17*B LET t =30100+ ti-e5J *SE
175B PRINT PT l!,a;t»
09
1776 PRINT BRIGHT b; AT £B,l*,;;flES
CD", ST 11,1*,'TFGH",PT }2,l*;"rj
1790 SD BUB 50«0: OO TO I3i0
ISSS BoRDEr": CLS : RRX^T AT fe,
6* BHI6MT t, "*-Did in NeW p.tiurt
'Change the ex
assoe i a ted Hi
BRIGHT t>- '- *
"Load new pic
Rt turn tfr ■ *
GO SUB 4-1
30sa print ht *,a;'
is t i OS pitturts
i h The Lllttrt."
seee print st b,«;
s««b print at ii,*
aaee print st i3,t,
£100 LET Jail. LET Ui«3 ED SUB
4300
2150 IF i «fl THEN OQ TD ItflU
Saaa cua : PRINT AT a ,en BRIGHT
1, "Lold mm Plcturt"
jilO luPUT "H»t Of new pitlUft
aaiS*PPiNT brSOUT b;RT io,t,"uo*
jajj PRINT INK a, FLASH bjRT IS
el- atirt the tap*
8840 LORD nfCODE U5R " a -
2§5B PRINT RT lB,l,C|;fiT 14-,*,
2368 PRINT PRPER 4 , RT 12,t," 5 1
2S7B LET K -3B1BB+ tCOOC n*,ri>-6BJ
OB GO MJB 4OB0
£800 PRINT AT ll,»i <f. BRIGHT b,
AT 10 , 14 j "HBCD" j RT 11,1*; "EFGH"
HT 12,1*, "UW." __ „„„„
229fl GO 5US S00B : GO TO SB1B
2SOB REM End
35 IB IF fit* THEN GO TO BOC0
Ssae border 4 cls print rt 10
£ 10; BRIGHT b, " THE END "
8«*B PRINT RT 1B,1B, BRIGHT b, "P
YE FDR NOU"
25SB STOP
4BBB REM Transfer 1
4B10 FOR i -* TO 95
40S0 POKE li*t),PEEK IU5fl "■"*»)
4030 NEXT i : RETURN
410B rem Transfer a
4 110 FOR i =« TO 95
4180 POKE 1U5R "■■■ + > 1 , PEEK (i+l)
J.13B NEXT i : RETUfiN
4300 REM Input 1
4 3 10 LET i <CQCE INKEY»-*E. IF U
RND l<Uti THEN PET URN
i3£8 OH INT INK t.AT . j , S , N-0*VS
*33B LET i»j,+2>- IF j»Li»*a*9 THt
isSil^PRINT INK t;RT j,2. 1 J-9WS
case go to 4310
4400 REM input, S
4410 LET j-b PRINT ST iSi 6 ! 1 !.
4480 LET i >CDDE INKEYI, IF ( 'B*
RND i (91 THEN RETURN
14 3B PRINT BRIGHT b ; RT lB,j+B,lf
tii.B LET j=J+b IF J-B0 THEN LET
445B PRINT «T 15, j+5,i*[j'
*46B GO TO 4420
SBBB PRImt aa,flT b,3; f-fiS^S;"?
rets my nsy to (tntmut". PAUSE
9
SB1B RETURN
?3BB REM Big Print
7B1B FOR d=a TO Lin
7BSB FOR q=a TO *
"^03:0, LET vlliPEEH l»+d*# + 11
?| S | ^ R vSre a T?NT (V*^a. THEN F
or tub TO ylilt PLOT ^Df-Hfti
II ,Uf>Ol-q«Ulilt-t: DHRU b-Vf.iI««
« NEXT t
78**3 LET vil-INT (Vll/8)
?B7B NEXT * : NEXT q,
7BBB LET »POl.xpeit*SiI«»»
"■OQB IF 0=3 OR (1*7 THEN LET "pdl
'-rJ.SS LET VP DS =UP0l'V»iztt9
•100 NEXT d
7110 RETURN
S00B REM S»ve ffCfri* „„-_ u -
SO 10 CLE PRINT HT 10,0, BRIGHT
1; "Th« progril • U » t b£ rt-recor
eSai SRUE "PLPfifl" LINE IB BEEP
1 IS
6030 SRUE "RtPh* code "CODE 3B1BB,
£496 : BEEP 1 , 14 ; STOP
how to use the program.
The final choice allows the user to
stop the program without reverting to
using the BREAK key or pulling the
plug out.
After printing all the titles the pro-
gram needs to identiiv each option. In
this case the numbers 1 to 9 art: printed
down the left hand side. That is done
with lines 360 to 3S0 which may appear
complicated but the effect produced is
of a flashing band travelling quickly
down the numbers and reminds the user
the machine is waiting for a choice to be
made.
Line 390 completes the program loop
which is another essential part of a
menu program. The lines 350 to 390
are repeated endlessly until a valid key
is pressed which identifies a menu op-
tion. Line 350 is used to detect when
that happens by looking ,n the contents
oflNKTYS.
In Appendix A of the Spectrum M
ual is the ASCII table which gives the
code for each character. The codes for
the numbers start at 43 and go CO
hence by subtracting 48 from CODE
INKEYS a number corresponding to
the key pressed is obtained. That is then
tested to see if it falls within the range
of the options, in this case 1 to 9, and if
it does the machine jumps to line 400.
Line 410 directs the machine to the
correct program section using the Spec-
trum capability of GO TO a variable —
or in this case a formula using a variable
— which is treated as a line number.
Type in the program lines 10 to 410
and 6000 to 6020 and save ihem on
I i|u RUN the program and you will
obtain the menu on the screen with the
numbers on ihe left flickering in se-
quence. Try pressing any key except the
numbers 1 to 9 and nothing should
happen. Now press a number between 1
and 9 and the report OK, 6020:1
should appear. If it does not you can
correct your mistakes and RUN the
program as many times as you like until
it docs what it is supposed to do. As all
programmers realise writing a program
may seem easy but getting it to work
and do what you intend is something
completely different. By allowing the
program to be broken into separate
sections the whole program need not be
written at once.
The menu section is relatively easy to
write and you can copy lines 100 to 410
of this program with changes to the
titles for your own menu program.
Although each option section is
ideally independent of all the others,
there are always some routines which
are used by two or more sections. The
best example in Program 1 is the rou-
tine which returns the machine to the
Alain menu and consists of a subroutine
at line 5000. In general all common
routines should be separated from the
option sections and written as subrou-
tine neai the end of the program.
As well as using subroutines the pro-
gram also contains two routines which
are used by two option sections but are
entered at different points by each sec-
tion. The first of those has been taken
out of the option section and located
between lines 4000 and 4690- That is
the main drawing routine and is itself
separated into sections by RKM lines
which identify entry points. It also con-
tains its own subroutine at line 4600
which changes the characters in aS . I
array represents the full character using
'0' for an empty square and *1 T for a
filled in square. The drawing loop, lines
4250 to 4490, is repeated until the
character is complete and key *C* is
pressed.
The second routine is associated with
using either a SAVEd character or the
existing graphic characters USR "A" to
USR "L "\ It contains two routines for
tilling the arrays c< > and aS< > and
is located within the section associated
with option 7. The other option, 9,
enters the routine at line 2380.
When developing the program the
drawing routine was written after the
main menu section. To check its oper-
ation it was necessary to include an
option section to access it. When devel-
oping your own menu program you will
probably follow the technique adopted
of writing each option section and then
testing it before proceeding with the
next. Rather than use that approach
now, type in the whole of the remainder
of the program. Note the letters S and T
in lines 680, 4OS0, 4090, 4100 and
4460, and letters A to L in lines 1450
and "> 1 10 arc graphics characters*
Once complete RUN the program
again and press key 2. That will pro-
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Menu Driven Programs
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duce a set of ins: ructions to enable you
to use the program. Option 9 will allow
you 10 stop the program and correct any
mistakes in options 2 and 9 before
continuing. Once you are happy RUN
again and select options 4, 5 and 6 in
turn, in each case you should be told to
select options 1, 7 or 8 first since the
variable 'new" ■ 0.
Now select option 1 to test the draw-
ing routine. After initialising a set of
instructions will be displayed. Memor-
ise those and then press a letter key.
The screen will now fill with a grid of
black lines defining 32 by 24 squares
with the top left square highlighted
containing the ' + ' symbol. That is the
tip of the drawing pen r Check the oper-
ation of the £ 0' and cursor keys to draw
a shape before pressing the C key. After
calculating the program will automata
cally select option 4 and display three of
the characters full size and a further five
joined together.
Once options I and 4 work properly
select option 3 and your character will
be reconstructed on the full screen line
by line. The keys used in option I again
become operative and you may modify
the character and view it full size before
returning to the menu. Now select op-
tion 5 which produces its own instruc-
tions followed by a list of the numbers.
The options 6 and 7 allow you to save
a character on tape — by saving the
graphic characters USR "A" to USR
"L"+7 — and recall a character from
tape. Generate a character using option
1 and then select option 6. You will be
asked for a name which is entered in
capital letters automatically — do not
change the cursor to lower case letters.
Instructions will be given on starting
and stopping the tape and I suggest you
record the characters on the second
side.
Now select option 7 and enter the
same name you used in section 6. Re-
wind the tape and again follow the
instructions on the screen. Once loaded
the machine uses two routines to fill the
arrays. Lines 2390 to 2450 are used to
fill c<> and lines 2460 to 2530 use a
relatively quick method to convert the
numbers from array c< > into binary
and insert the result in a$< > .
The last option, 8, allows you to use
the existing graphics characters A to L.
Ii is intended to be chosen instead of
option 1 when the program is first
RUN and allows you to use characters
from another program which are pre-
served when NEW is used to delete that
program.
Once you are happy with the pro-
gram and all the mistakes are corrected
type RUN 7000 and press ENTER.
The routine in lines 7000 to 7020 has
been included to automatically SAVE
the program for you.
One final word of explanation; you
will notice extensive use of PRINT in
this program. That allows printing on
the two lines of the screen normally
rved for input and messages, en-
abling a grid of 24 lines to be drawn.
BIS GRAPHICS GENERATOR
Unci your option
1 OrjH a n«# Chtrtctir
2 initnjeuons
3 Redraw Existing cjuncttf
+ Display the Character
Q Displan thft Nuibin
s Save the Character
7 use a Saved Character
a list Graphic* ft to i_
9 End ^ht program
Display the Characte-
■irfi iVn if"-*n **■" * *"
■TTff . If I . ¥,W¥.
Program 2 is an educational program
which illustrates the leriers of the alpha-
bet with graphic characters. If you have
used Program 1 to generate and save
some characters on tape, you will be
able to load those characters into a block
of data associated with this alphabet
learner program.
You will recognize the initialisation
and title section in lines 10 to 100. Line
40 contains CLEAR and LOAD state-
ments which allow the data associated
with the graphics characters to be held
in memory from location 30100 on-
wards. The saved program will auto-
matically RUN itself when loaded and
all the data is then loaded as a single
block of numbers.
The main menu is located from lines
200 to 290 with the options listed in
lines 240 to 230. It is. similar in layout
to the menu in Program 1 and could be
adapted to any requirement simply by
changing the words. Line 290 contains
a GOSUB 4300 statement which han-
dles the INPUT of a valid option num-
ber, The reason for using a subroutine
is because two of the main menu op-
tions also contain their own menus
hence a common routine can be used.
Remember that any common routines
should be separated out as sub routines
and placed near the end of the program.
The variable 'j' is set to the row number
containing the first option and Mim' is
the number of options.
Each menu option is defined by a
REM statement as are the subrou
at rhe end. Once again the program will
fit in the 1GK Spectrum.
For those of you who do not have any
characters saved on tape a load program
is included in Program ? which will
illustrate the letter; A to D. It is limited
to letter D since a longer listing would
be laborious to type in and there is more
enjoyment to be had in creating your
own characters. This program should
be typed in before Program 2 and
RUN. Once complete type NEW which
will delete the program but preserve the
numbers in high menu:
If you do not wish to use the loader
program you should type CLEAR
30099 and press ENTER. Now type in
the program "ALPHA" listing in Fig 2.
Note the letters A to L in lines 1450,
1770 and 2280 are graphics characters.
Once you have corrected any mistakes
type GO TO 8000 and follow the
instructions for saving the program and
then the data. After VERIFVing the
tape copy type RANDOMIZE USR
to reset the Spectrum. Now type LOAD
"ALPHA 11 and load in rhe program.
Once loaded the main menu will
appear and I suggest you select option 1
first. Now you can load all those charac-
ters you saved on tape and begin to
teach your children the Sinclair ch.i
ter set.
10 rem Pet* Loader
90 REM tf H. Pratt 1SS4
?0 REM
*0 CLEAR 30099
SB FOR 1*301 90 TO 35463
60 READ vai. POKE I.VIl
-0 NEXT i
ae stop
lea drtr e,e,B,e, a. 0,0,1,06, 46
37,19,7,6, 118,251,60, 199,36, IBB ,
LSB. 134,0,36,9,0,126, 128 . . 0, ,
110 DflTH 3,7,7,15,15,31,31,31,8
S3 , ass , aee , ±65 ,355,355,255, 255 , 1
90 . 266, 255 , 255, 256, 255 , 255 . 255 ,
,0,0,136,126,192, 193 .192
120 DflTB 15,15,7,7.3,1,0,0,255,
255 - 255 , 255 - 255 , 255 , 125 , 24- , 255 , 2
59 , £55 , 255 , 254 , 252 , 246 , 122 , 128 , 1
IB, 0,0, 0,0 , 0,0
130 PftTfl 0,0,31,63,98,96,95,95,
3 ,0 ,255. 955,5,105 i 105.40,0,0,295
1*0 DHTfl 12?, 127, 127.127- 127 ,fle
. 70 , 1 IB, SB! , 255 , 265 - 255 ,256 , B , 10
* , 104. , 255 .269, 356 , 2*5 , 256 , 32 , 3fl ,
3B,S54 , 25+ ,26*, 254. , 25+ , 146, 1+B , i
150 E.RTB 66,127,133,119,111,111
0,3+ ,856, 253, 59, 56, 3*7, 5.1, 1+5 .2
*2,i*8,2i0,23*,HeIi3a;i2e
168 DflTfl f ,l*,lS,7,S,+,4,*
170 data +,+,*,+,+,4-i+,*.+a,ai
, 12 ,5,2,2, 1,0,0. 120, 120,6*,, 160,5
?,47j 156 i B-, 32, 32, 32,33.240,24 5,1
i 2 ' SiS ' '°' 7 9i L 6l J .31-15.rfi,40,26,
1 ?Ai*2jti s7 ' 24-6. 352 , S6 . S . 170 ,252
190 D^Tfl *. 6 1.132.1* J, 252,16573
. ,0,0 .2 , 0,0,240,2^5 . t" ,9, 14,0
. , 192 ,»-.■, ,~
= §* 8.^*3;* " ,!»!,. 121.127,127,63,
FH .25, 127, 169,239,2*7,65, 143, 127
255,255 ,255 , 2SS , B5+ , 253 25 1 , 35 1
|2| , 3*5 , 252 , 25+ , 355 , 253 \ 249 ' 2+9
210 DflTft 7,6,18,34., 16.3i.lS a
i&!«5 »'»-* +-S **,11±, +5.16,16; 16?
I'ro^r.im 3.
168
SINCLAIR USER January IMS
Match Day is no ordinary
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action, total animation and
automatic camera scan
are Just some of the
intricate techniques
which make
Match Day
the league
leader of soccer
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Now follow the
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striker
traps "the ball from
a perfectly placed corner-kick
takes on the defender and dribbles
neatty round him making space to
his powerful hatf-
voiiev rattles the cross-
bar, the ball returns,
floating menacingly
above the
penalty
area
and your star
X I.
X
striker seizes
this
lis half-chance W V^
chip in a teasing
*> cross-ball to his
advancing
team mate
in the
n
to head the ball
decisively
J n to the
back
i of the
Inel
'COAL! j.
«
/
\
M
f?n«1BI
six-yard box. There
is no time to control
the ball, your player must commit himself
to a snap shot on goal.
V Match Day Is as compelling as
\ soccer itself. You will marvel at
M^^l the depth of play and ball control
JXWk offered only in MATCH day
*-^^^"^^ Shoot to win 1
9
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Alison Maguire is the
force guiding Sinclair's
software strategy.
Theo Wood discovers
the principles that lie
behind the product.
Sinclair
m
SINt:i..-\IR I'SER January I9£5
Inside Sinclair =
Alison Maguire is one of the more
Z-V successful women in the com-
X Aputer industry, and as software
director for Sinclair Research has seen
her department grow from scratch to
worldwide proportions in the two years
since she joined.
Things were very different on the
software scene then, back in January
1983. The Spectrum had been on the
market for seven months and Sinclair
had been involved in software at a
marginal level only, with very few titles
available. People who bought Spec-
trums around that time will remember
only too well the level of software pro-
vision — certainly nothing in compari-
son to what is available today,
What, then, are her main consider-
ations as software director? "I'm basi-
cally concerned with software
publishing but in fact there is an overall
responsibility to ensure that our hard-
ware doesn't fail to sell for lack of
software. At one end of our involvement
we have a commitment to software for
its own sake. At the other end we
encourage companies to develop soft-
ware which we might not sell ourselves,
but which would make the hardware
more attractive to a particular market/'
To begin with the Sinclair involve-
ment with software was limited to ob-
taining a licence to market software
which was already being sold,
On arriving at Sinclair Research Ma-
guire concentrated on familiarising her-
self with the Spectrum and the ZX-S1,
as well as the various titles which were
available. Her main task was to take
account of the market and the products
and then to define a software strategy,
although as she says, "It's very difficult
to define an overall software strategy as
we are really a hardware manufacturer.
For example, when it comes to deciding
to bundle software, I lose part of my
product line, but if we sell another
50,000 computers because of it then it's
very worthwhile.''
The QL is the first computer which
has seen activity on the software front
from inception, exemplified by the in-
clusion of the 1'sion packages in The
hardware product. "Since the launch in
January, about 300 companies have
written to us, asking for a variety of
assistance with both the development of
software and peripherals. That puts us
in a very nice position for identifying
products we are interested in."
That also generates feedback of ideas
and Maguire's department is in the
front line of liaison between the labs
and the various companies who apply
for assistance. Those companies pro-
vided an early testing ground for the
QL, and indeed some were paid to do
that work. Such an arrangement is an
advantage in that any bugs whicn might
exist can be eliminated at an early stage
with full cooperation between the labs
and the software house concerrted.
Since the early days things have
"People in Britain
don't want to be
educated at home.
Most parents want
to buy something
that amuses their
children.
* r
changed a great deal. M3guire now
oversees a department comprising of
two editors, a software engineer, two
secrctarial/PA people and a software
product manager responsible for mar-
keting and to a certain extent produc-
tion as well.
'This size of team is pretty new; in
June 1984 I had only a secretary. There
is now a greater commitment to soft-
ware. The aim is to go into software
publishing for the QL and to take ad-
vantage of the fact that we are the
hardware manufacturer."
Although almost half the Spectrum
sales are overseas, the Spectrum + will
have a further impact on those markets.
The new user guide will have been
translated into 19 languages by Christ-
mas 1984 and software sales will pre-
sumably follow hardware. How does
Sinclair Research intend to take advan-
tage of that?
"There are various ways in which we
are tackling it. Wherever we've got a
new branch office — as in Germany,
Italy or France — we have local soft-
ware managers already appointed. I will
meet them regularly so we have infor-
mation (lowing back and forth. We are
looking at a variety of arrangements for
getting English software translated,
though it's not always appropriate to
translate software."
In recent months large foreign pub-
lishing companies have approached Sin-
clair as to distribution rights. If local
branch offices agree Sinclair may deal
direct especially if the company has a
sound background. "Up until now it's
been only titles in our catalogue for
which we have discussed foreign rights.
There hasn't been anyone who has had
the time to think carefully about foreign
rights, because we have been so busy
setting up the new depart ment and the
QL. We are now thinking about it and
it's occurred to me that as with the
expansion pack, which is totally non-
Sinclair, it may be lime to offer non-
Sinclair suppliers a chance to get at our
distributors. I'm considering ways to
invite people to do so. In some foreign
markets it is very difficult to make
money out of software but we still need
it to be there. If we can provide an easy
route for the software to be there legally
then we will make it less easy for the
pirates."
There has been a lot of talk about the
education market overtaking the games
market. "Last year we were talking
about schools and the Dot scheme, in
which the Spectrum was involved. We
published some titles in association
with Macmillan and I wanted Sinclair
to be involved with a respected long-
standing name in education because I
thought we were viewed possibly as tly-
by-nights,
"However, that market has been dis-
appointing. 1 think that whether or not
all the educationalists would like it,
educational software has noi wild well.
People in Britain don't want to be
educated at home, unlike in The States.
The idea was ahead of its time, but it
may happen soon because educational
software now is more entertaining than
before. The difficulty is deciding who
are you selling to, parents or children.
Most parenrs are indulgent and want to
buy something that amuses their chil-
dren."
Hdutainment? "I loath that word.
Although the extraordinary thing is I
sometimes wonder whether our view, as
adults, about what children should en-
joy, is wrong."
Maguire was recently sent a program
which was a simulation of property
dealing and rent management and her
two daughters of nine and 1 1 spent a
whole day playing with it.
"They said it was the best program
they had ever played, and at the end ol
that time they knew what a balance
sheet was and something about the rela-
tionship between managing people and
making profits. 1 was amazed at this; it
wasn't the zap-it-up game which they
usually like. Nevertheless it's difficult
to sell that type of game to retailers."
What does she feel about the current
image of computers, dominated by
games which appeal mostly to boys?
comtmiud fi pogi "^
SINCLAIR I'SIiR January I9S5
1 1 1
AVON
Bath- Boots, I Marchantt, Piisajp,
Southa*.* Tel: 0225 §4402.
Bristol, Boots, 59 Btoadi-nead,
Tel: 0272 293631.
Bristol. John Levi*, HorwfajE
Tel: 0272 29100.
Bn.iol. Usky*, 16-20 ftnn Street
Tel: 0272 20421.
Keyitiham. Key Computer Systems,
42b Hujt. Street. TeL 02756 5575.
We*ton-*u per Mare, K fit K
.<u*t», 32 Alfred Street
Tel: 0934 419
BEDFORDSHIRE
Bedford. Bouta, The Harpur Centre.
Harpur Street. Tel: 0234 56231.
rXimttbli. Dormaiis. 7- 1 1 Broad
Walk. Tel: 0582 31302
Lcighlon Buzzard. Dataainc.
S9 KiKnh Stn^iTVI: 0525 374200,
Leighlon Buzzard, Milton Keynes
M'-iut St Computers, 17 Bndge
Street. Tet: 0525 382504.
Luton. Hubbyte, Unit 16,The
Amdale Centra. Tel: 05*2 457145.
Lutein. LasJiys, 190-192 Arndale
CentreTei: 0582 38302
Lulon. Terry More, 49 George
Street. TefcOSBZ 2'
BERKSHIRE
Heading. IlrtJaa, Broad Son
TcL 0734 559555.
Ke.diruj, U*ky*. 1I8-119 Friar 5t
14 595459
Slough- Data Supplies.
lemptewrjqd Lane,
Famham Common. Tel: 2 820004.
Slough. Laskv^, 75 C^iittiiinicri
Centre. Tel- 0753 78269.
Slough- MV Ciiirne*.
Righ Street. Tel: 75 21594,
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
-ompulcT
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Blrtchley RAMS
Tel: 0908 64 7
Cheaflajn. Reed Photo &
Computers. 113 High Street
id. 0494 7*3373.
Millon Keyne*. John Lewia,
] I Mad Walt, Sccklow Gate East,
let 0906 679171.
CAMBRI DGESH IRE
Cambridge. Boots, 65-67 Sidney
Si reel and 28 fttly Curry Street,
let 0223 v ; .
Cambridge, HeFfcjs Stationers,
19 Sidney Street. Teh 0223 35824L
Cambridge. Robert Sayle,
St Andrew* Street.
Tel: 0223 612929.
PtelertKJnjugh. Roots,
+0 -42 Bodge Street, Queenagate.
u\ 073365352.
Peter-be rough. |, ihn Lewis,
QueenBgateCcnlre.Tel; 0733 44644.
: : SHTKS
Cheate* Boot*. 47-55 l-Oreieitc
Street. Tel: 0244 28421.
Chraier. Computer Link, 21 St
Wrrhui K h Street. Tel,- 0244 316516.
Cheated Laakyi, 7 The Forum.
Northgat* Street. Tel: 0244 31 7667
Crewe, AS Wootton & Sum,
116£dtat<un Road
Tel. 0270 214118..
Crewe. M idshircs Computer
Ceruse, bS-78 Nantwie h Kiuxl,
Tet 0270211086
li]]«incrc RftrL R] R1V& Audio,
1 rboltown Road. Whitby.
Tet 051-356 4150,
Hyde, CTech Computers,
IB4 MjAti Street,
Tet 061-366 8223.
Macdcaficld, Camera Computer
Centre. US Mill Street.
23 27468.
Maeelesiield. Computer Centre.
b8 Chestersaic. Tel. 0625 61BB27.
Mrupte. M.irple Computer Centre.
30-32 Market Street.
Tel- 061-427 4328.
Stockport. National M iemCentte*.
36 Si tWracate. Hi 061-429 8080.
SuKkrMin. B toekfWrt Micru
Centre, 4-6 Bmn Street.
Td: 061 -477 0248.
Widnea.GMnputerCiLy,7S Victor*
Road. Teh 051420 3333.
Wiimaiow. Wil rtuJtiw '■ '
Centre, 62 Gum 9mA
TeL 0625 330890.
CLEVELAND
Middlesbrough- Boon,
88-90 Linthurpe Reed,
The Cleveland Centre.
Tet 0642 249616,
CUMBRIA
Kendal, The Kendal Computer
Centre, Stramongale.
Tel: 0539 22559.
See Micronet 800 in action.
Whitehaven. f>l> Hendren,
15 King Street. Tel: 0946 2063.
Workinjfiun. technology Store.
12 RnaJe Street. Tel: 0900 66972.
DERBYSHIRE
AJfncton, Gordon Hamvood,
69-71 High Street
Tel: 0773 836781.
Chesterfield- Boots, 35-37 Low
lavement, Market Place,
let 0246 203591.
Cheater-Held- Cumputer Stores.
14 Stephenson Place.
Td: 0246 208802.
DEVON!
Exeter. Boots. 251 Hi«h Street-
Tel; 0392 32244.
Exeter. Open Channel.
Central Station, Queen Street.
Tet 0392 218187
Plymouth. Syntax, 76 Cornwall
Street. Tfet 0752 28705.
Sealon. Curtis Computet Service*.
Seaujri Computer Shop,
51c Harbour Road. Tel: 029722347
Tiverton, Act ron Microcomputer*,
37 Bamptnit Street.
Tet 0884 252854.
DORSET
litiLLmr mouth, Brook Computers,
370 ChaiiHniHter Road,
Tel: 0202 533054
Bournemouth- Lansdowrie
Computer Centre, 1 l^nadowne
Creacent, Lancdowne.
Te3 1 1202 20165.
I X.rchertet The Paper Shop,
KingaRcwd l-.-i (Mi i.i b45(>4
ESSEX
Chelmifard. Waxton Hayman,
5 Broi>irhlWUL Hciad.
Tefc 0245 354595,
Coleheiter ■ ■ Lion Walk.
Tel; 0206 577303.
Grayi. 1 1 KwnoJda, 28a Southend
Road. Tel: 0375 31041.
1 IbHotw. LaikySv 19 Tlie Harvev
Centre. Tel: 0279 443495.
Homchurch. Comptel Comptiter
Svetemt, 112n North Street.
Tel: 0402 446741
Word. Boon. 177 -185 High Read
Tel: 01-553 21 1(.
Southend on-Sea. Comptitrramd.
Bft l^imltin Road.
Tel: 0702 335443.
Soulhcnd-on- Sea. Compun- 1
Centre, 336 Lottdofl Kiud
Tet 0702 J37161
Soulhend-on-Sea, Eituary
IVrstinal Computers, 3 IS Chart well
North. Victoria Circus Soopplnit
Centre Tel: 070 2 614131,
GLOUCESrEK
t Ihi-Jt.-nlnun. J jBky^. 206 High
Stieet. Tel: 02 42 570282.
Oleltcnhajn, Screen Scene.
144 St George* Road.
Tel: 0242 528974
Gloueealet Bcota, 3rS-4h EaatraU-
Si reel. Tel : 0452 423501.
HAMPSHIRE
Hasingimkc, Kihera. 2-3 Market
Southampton, Duamesa
MicrurnaKic At Alkina,
7 Civic Centre Road.
Tel: 0703 25903
Southampton. Tyrrell & t iiften.
Above Bai; Tel: 0703 27711
HEMIfOKJ)
Hitchln, County Computer*,
13 BucklesburjtTelr 0462 36757.
Hitchin.CiK Htiot^raplLi;- Si
Computers, 6B Hermitage Road.
Tel: 0462 S928S,
Portent Bar. The Computer Shop,
High Street, Tet 0707 44417
Stevenage, O] Computt-t :„
II T<iwn Square, Tit 04 3B 65501,
Watford. Lasiyi. 18 Cherter Place
Tel 0923 31905.
Watford. SUS MunisyiWma,
94 The Parade, High StreeL
Tel: 0923 2hW12.
Watford, Trewi na, Queeeu Kciad.
Tel: 0923 44266.
Welvk-yn Garden City [>J
ComputcrE, 10 Frelhcrnc Road,
Tel: 96 28444.
WclwyTi Garden Citji
Wdwyn Depajtrneot Store-
Tel; 0707 323456
Beverley. CynipuIi«K Wi-rlii,
10 Swabys \ard. Dyer Lone.
Tel 0482181831
KENT
Bee ken ham. Sup* Computet^.
425 Croydon Road,
Tel: OJ-650 3569.
Bexleyhetth. Laikys.
15-16 13roadway Shopping Centre,
T-l: iU-301 3478,
Bromlevv BocrtA, 148-154 Htgh
£tr«et. Tel: 01- 460 6688.
Bromley. CuiojiutemToday.
31 Mitrlan Square.Tel: 0h2905652.
Bromley l-arkyt, 22 Market
Square. Tel: 01-464 7829.
Brfirtiley: W.i li«;ri Gomputera,
Army & Navy: 64 H t^lv Street,
Tel: 01-460 9991.
Chatham. flooU, 30-34 Wilmott
Square, Perttaunn Centre.
Tel: 0634 405471.
Sevcnoaka. Ernest Fieldet
Corrtpt3tcrr, Llorae-t Street,
TM 0732 456800,
SittxngbtHjrnc. Computet Pl-ius,
65 HiSh Street. Tel; 0795 25677,
'lunbiidge Weill. ModaLa
Compo-.ii Centre 28 In St Johns
Road. Tel: 892 41555.
LANCASHIRE
Bttekburri, It-mpo Computers.
9 Railway Road.Tei: 0254 691333.
Blackpool. Blackpool Ctimpiiu-:
Store. 179 Chureh Street
Tet; 0253 21'.
Burnley IM( > fiu*inei5 Systems,
39-43 St andiflh Street.
TW; 0282 54299.
Preaton. 4M.it ( j>inpuiin«,
67 Hrianjate-Tcl: 0772 561952.
Preaton. Lak>3. 1-4 Guildhall
Arcade. Tet: 0772 2455S.
Wiflan. Wildings Computer
Centre, 11 Mesruts Stii-i-i.
Tel: 0942 44382.
LEICESTERSHIRE
Leieeatec Boon, 30-36 Galluwtrec
I .it. Tel: 0533 21641,
Market Harborouoh. Kurtiorough
Hr^tic Cumpuleta, 7 Church Street.
feL0B5 8 03050
London
Wl . Compu tera ol' Wi^iYiore
Btiect lii4 Wiamore Street.
■186 0373.
Wl. ( IMV, 363 Oxford Street.
T«l <i[-629!240,
Wl, John Lewis, Oxford Street,
Teh 01-6297711.
Wl. Laakys, 42 Tottenham Court
Road. Tel: 01 636 0845,
Wt.Uon Ht.iu W , 227 Tottenham
Court Road, Tel: 01-637 I60J,
\\ L Roths l';inn."ra£,
256 Tottenham Coun Road
Tel: 01-580 5826.
WL The Video Shop,
IS 1 1 1\ '.-Minim Court Road,
Tel: 01-580 5380.
Wl. WjM.-raComputcriiDH Evans
Oxford Si reel. Tel: 01 -629 8HH 10,
WC1, Traniam Micro Systems,
59-6! Thegbeldi Road.
Tel; 01 105 5240.
W5.Lajiy*,l8-|9Ealinf!
Uroiulwav Shopping Centre.
Tet 01-567 +737
W8. Walters Computers, naiki-n,
KirnsitiKloii Ffiajh Street.
TeL 01 937 3432, _
SW I, rVte i Jones, Sloane Square.
Tet 01-730 3434,
SE9. Square Deal.
373-37.3 Footacray Road,
New Eltham. Tel: 01-859 1516,
l_j™,iih # m. Laskvs, 164 Higti
M. 01*852 1375,
SEI3, Walters Computers, AimyJk
Navy, 33 and 63 Hj^Ii Street,
Lewisham Tel 01-852 4321.
SE15. Ca-stk-liurat l<td, 152 Rye
Unc, Peckham, Tel: 01-639 2205.
EC2. 1 "■.-■. i ■ t . I :. inuHitci Centre,
I 53 Mptrote. Tet: 01-638 3339.
N7. Jones BrfHhera, KoUDwey
Reed Tet: 01-607 2727.
Nl*. L.ugK- Sale», I" The Bourrw,
The Broadway, Snuthnste.
Teh 01 -882 4942.
NW1 Mayei-alt Mn-tw.
53 RoffsJvn Hill, Hampetead,
Tel: 0T431 1300,
NW4, Davinci Computet Stole.
112 lirtrnl Streclt Hendon.
Td. Hi -202 2272.
N W7, Computers Inc, 86 Golders
Green. Tel: 01 -209 (H01 .
NWIO.Tcchnomatic. 17 Burnley
Road, WOTbfey Te l m 2.0S1177.
MANCHESTER
Mancheatcc Boots. 32 Market
Street. Tel: 061-832 6533,
Manchealer, Laakva, 61 Arndaie
Centre.Tel:061-S33 9l49,
Manchester, Ljal.vs. 12-14 St
Mmv. 1. ;.il lit 061 833 0268.
Manchester. Mighty Micro,
SturruLijcid Centre,
268 Wilmalfiw Road, FUk wSdd
Tel: 061-224 SI 17.
Manchestec NSC Computer
Shops. 29 HanamR Diich.
Tel: 061 -832 2269.
Oldham. Home & Business
t iuritJutens. 54 Yorkshire Street.
Tel: 061-633 lti(W.
Swinton. Mr Mi.
Lane- Tel: 61 7 28 2282.
MERSpySBM
Hemnll. Tln-11 njjuard Computer
Systems, 46 Peniby Ruad.
Tel: 051-342 7516.
Liverpool. George Henry Lee,
Baanett Street Tel: 051-709 7070
Liverpool. Hargreave*.
7 Warbreck Moot Walton.
Tel: 051-525 17S2
Liverpool. Laikys, Dale Si reet-
Tel: 051 -2Hb 324-8.
LivTTpool, Laakya, St Johns
J'i.-uriLt. I i- 1: 05 1 -708 5871.
St Helens. Microm.m Computera,
Rainfoal Industrial Estate, Mill
Lane, Rainford. Tel. 0744 885242.
Southpc-Tt Ontral Studios,
3SEartbankStrw , Tel: 0704 3 1881-
MIDDLESEX
Enfield. Laskys, 44-48 Palace
Garden Shopping Cenl M
Tel- 01 363 6627.
Harrow. Camera Arts, 42 St Anru
Road. Tel: 01-427 5469.
Hounitaut Boots, 193-199 I !
Street. Tel: 01-570 0156.
"Ieddington. AndreviB,
15=1^1 Si. wi. Tel: 01-977 4716.
Twickenham. Twickenham
Compuler Centre, 72 Heath Road.
Tel; 01-892 7896.
Ukhridge. J K I . Computers,
7 Windao r StreeL Tel: 0895 51815,
NORFOLK
Norwich. Bonds. All Saints Green.
I- 0603 24617,
NC7TTTNGHAMSHIRE
Sutton in Ash field. H N & LR»hrr,
S70.jtr.«ii Sir,vi lei; 0623 54734.
Nottingham, leaaops. Victo-na
Centre Tel: 0602 4IBZ82.
Nottingham, Laakya 1-4 Smithy
Row Tel: D602 113049.
OXPORDaniRE
Abingdon- Ivnr l-iclds Computcn,
21 Stert Street. Tel: 0235 21207.
Bajlbury, Computer Plus,
2 Church Lane. Tel: 0295 55890.
Orford, Science Studio, 7 Littk
Clarenden Street. Tel: 0865 54022.
SCOTLAND
Edinburgh. BootE. 101-103 Fnncea
Street. Tet 031-225 83
Edinbursh, John Lewis, Si jame*
Centre. Tet: 031 -.156 4121.
Edinburgh, Laskys, 4 St J ;unt*
Ctmre.TVl:tl31 556 IB64.
GlasBpu'. Bunts, 200 Satichiehall
Street, Tel 041 332 1925.
Glawov,', Boots, UiLiiiK Stumi .,.,. I
. Si red. Tel: 041-248 7387.
SUKtH-STlIKI
Ttlford, Telford Electronics,
38 M all 4 Tel: 0952 5049H
STArTORDSIIIRE
Newcaitte-under- Lyme.
Compute Cabin, 24 The Parade.
Silverdate. Tell 0782 63:
Stafford. CpntpviKrama,
59 RH-egale Street . Tel: 0785 4 1 S9" .
Sujke-ott-Trent, Compulerama
II Market Square Areadc, Hartley,
fej 07822685 24
SUFFOi K
Dun- St Edmunds. Bouts,
11-15 Curnhill. Tel: 0284 701516.
Ipswich, BtaiUwflueMkcfo*.
24 Crown Stree t. Ti
SLJKHl\
Croydon. IstAy* 77-^1 f<i.rth End.
Tel; 01-681 S443.
Croydon. Mlir Vision Store,
96-98 North EndTef: 01 681 7539.
South Croydon, Comctse
Compuier Con.iuli,::ii.- I < 1 1 h. r ,
Road. Tel: 0! 681 '■■
Epsom, Tli, Mi: 1... Wi .rkslmp,
12 Station Approach.
Tel: 0372 721533.
Guildford, Walters Computers,
A 1 iny Si Navy 105-11 1 Hieh Street.
Tel; 0483 68571.
Haalemere. H tidemete
Compuecis, 17 Louver StreeL
Tel: 0428 54428,
Wellington, SurTey Mil ro Synwrn*.
53WoodaiteR™d,
Telr 01^47 5636.
We4ditBj. Harpers:
71-73 Commercial Way.
Tel: 0486 225657
SUSSEX
BcxhLll-ort-Sc*. Computrrwane.
22 St Leonards Road.
Tfl. 0424 223340.
Brighton, Boota, 129 North Street
Tefc0273 270B8.
Brighton. Gamec 71 East Street.
Tel: 0273 728681.
Brighlon. j .nkv* 151 152 Weatem
Road. Tel: 0273 7 25625-
Ci-iwltTL Ualwick Computwa,
62 The t3oulewiKt Tel: 0293 37842.
Crewlcy. Laakya, 6-8 Queer»i>*y
Tek 0293 544622
TVNElWLtK
N ewcaadc-upon-Ty ne,
Bajn.tirid«>, hldon Square.
•■2 325000.
Nev,caade-u|Xin-Tvne. Boots,
Eldon Square. Tel: 0632 329844
Ney.euilE-upon-TyTie. Lukys.
6 Northumberland Street
'2 617224.
Newciatle-iLpon-Tj-ne
RECumputina, Itlesmond Road,
Teh 0632815 5 Kt J
WALES
Abcrdare, Inkey Ci ■ ■ - ■ 1 - 1 1 1 ■ r
Service*, 7f ) M 1 1 1 St rcet.Tfie Square,
Trecynon.Tel 0685 881828
Ah«ry»fwylh, ;\berdau ji
Gallo*aya. 2 i Pi.-t Street.
Tel: 0970 615522.
CarditT. Boot*, 24 Qurens Street
& 105 Frederick Street.
Teh 0232 31291
Cardiff. PA PComputeia,
41 The Hayes. Tel: 0222 26666.
Swansea. Boots. 17 St Mji-ym
Arcade, The Quadrant Shopping
ire Tel : 0792 43461.
W.\« VHCHJHPtC ~
Cover.tr>'. I !, M r,:r' f Mil!" Ceilt.e,
Goahird ,Si
Tel: 0203 58942
Coventry.JBC Micro Service»,20O
Earladon Avenue, Nonh Eajrladon.
Tel: 0203 73813.
Coventry; Laskys. Louw Prectnct,
Teii 0203 27712-
Leamington Spa. IC Computers,
-•sell Street. Tel: OJ26 36244.
Leajningtoji Spa. Leaminetun
Hobby Centre. 121 Refltnt : : .'
'Fl-I 092629211.
Nuneaton, Mum Cits la Queens
Rrjjtd-Tel : 0203 3 82049.
RugbyiOEW ( :.:inio..ji(-rSyiterna 1
9- ifReg^t Street TeL 0788 70522
WEST MIDLANDS
Birmingham. Elutiii.tliiy Centre
Houtt, 16-17 New StreeL
: 643 7582.
Birmingham. I askj.'S,
19-21 Corporat.ori Strrrt
C-i I 1 ■ . ■ 1 5326303.
Dudley: i. :,nti*l Computers,
15 ( 'I'm chill Precinct.
Tel 0384 238IG 1
Slourbndi
Syatirani I
Teh 038 I
\Vi1hJL New Honam, I Gr.xl.ill
Street. Tel: 0922 24821,
We« Bromwich, I> S fVakman.
ratSsjuare.Td 021-3237910
Wolverhampton, l^tkyi,
2 Wulirum Jvjuara
Tel I >'» ■ J. V I 1 -1 1 ,8.
IDRKSHIHE
1 f, •■TIM I
dge, Walter* dwnpuler
I ., Hiiuley Road,
1 370811.
Itrmlford, Boots, II Dariey Street.
Tel. 0274 3' X
Lt-t-di. Boota, I u Albion .Arcade,
Band Street Centre.
Trl: 0532 33551.
Sheffield. Cole Bmthrra.
linkers FboJ. Tel: 0742 7851 1.
Sheffield. I.ukvv 5S 1 ..-, ,th ,|.. I
iStttet Td; 0742 750971
VorjV. i.'ii ' .< ■[..piLter ( \-ntre,
7 Stoneuate Arcade.
Tel: 091)4 f>4 1 W62.
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"Obviously, when we look for soft-
ware here we try to discourage violence
but if we apply that kind of rule rigidly
we would be turning down half the
games. I think perhaps that zap- it -up
games are becoming a little bit old hat.
But then for every group of people for
whom it is old hat there's another group
coming up,"
Maguire sees big growth ahead in the
tertiary sector of education — that is,
the universities and polytechnics as well
as abroad. She would like to concentrate
on titles which showed the machines to
be something special, as rule and drill
programs are scarcely likely to dis-
tinguish Sinclair machines from any
other. A computer which may be an
intelligent work station for university
students would sell in large quantities at
corporate level. Sinclair is hoping that
the QL will fulfil that need. The BBC
micro has been the mainstay of this
market, and the QL will have to work
hard to beat it.
What plans are there for QL software
in the next six months? "Our first titles
were announced in QLub news in Octo-
ber. A lot of it is development software,
things like compilers which have a roll-
software coming out before the end of
this year. We've got the Psion chess
program toOj but I must say games are
not the major emphasis for the QL 3
although the chess program is import-
ant as it shows what the QL can do
visually. We'll be launching titles every
month now for the QL,"
A number of people are, however,
working on games for the QL and Sin-
clair has bought an option on the Imag-
ine me gaga me Band ersn arch. Psion,
too, has games under development.
Talk of that kind could lead easily to
the idea that Sinclair had now forsaken
the Spectrum in favour of the QL, and
many Sinclair users must feel this way.
Does this mean that the Sinclair in
volvement with Spectrum software n
the U.K. will be limited to carrying ill.
present titles?
"Oh no. Not at all. The Spectrum <
is an indication that we think there's
lot of life in that little horse yet, W
published seventeen titles for the Sp
tmm in the autumn. They are all *edu
cationals*, fifteen from Macmillan and
two from Psion and ASK.. There's .
tremendous mileage in the Specrun
and we J H certainly be looking for moi*
software for it, although when there*'
out of a new game for the Spectrum,
which is not going to sell any more
Spectrums, and making a piece of soft-
ware available for the QL which is
going to sell the QL to a whole new
market, my emphasis has to be on the
latter,"
It is clear that Sinclair is now poised
for overseas expansion, and the ground-
work for a large multinational company
is being laid. No doubt when the QL
production lines have satisfied the de-
mand in the U.K., that too will follow
in the steps of the Spectrum. Just as a
Coke can be found in extraordinary
places, intrepid travellers may find a
■ rum where thev Um- i
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Starter Pack
GLOSSARY
Basic — Beginners 1 All-purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code. A pro-
gramming language resembling
English which is used by beginners
because most popular microcom-
puters have it as standard.
Bug — an error in a program.
EPROM — Erasable Programmable
Read-Only Memory. Semi-
permanent storage, information is not
erased if the power is turned off in the
computer. Programs can be erased by
subjecting the memory chips to ultra-
violet light. The memory can then be
re- prog rammed using an electrical
device called an EPROM blower.
Interface — RS232 and Centronics.
A device which enables other com-
puters or add-ons, such as printers, to
be connected to the computer. It con-
verts non-standard signals from add-
ons to the standard signals of the com-
puter in use.
Kilobyte — (K.). A measurement of
memory si m. Most machines use J6K.
as a minimum but 43K. is gent. "ally-
agreed to be necessary for serious work.
Machine code — an electronic pulse
code used by the computer to perform
functions and communicate with
memory and other devices.
Mnemonics — abbreviated instruc-
tions — for example LD for Load —
used in machine language programm-
ing.
Motherboard — an external printed
circuit board which is used like a
multi-way plug planner It enables
other printed circuit boards, such as
graphics boards and colour boards, to
be slotted-in.
Port — a link to the outside world
which can be used by programs and
the computer,
PCB — printed circuit board. A
board which has on it the electronic
circuits of the computer,
RAM — Random Access Memory, In-
formation and programs can be stored
in this type of memory as electronic
pulses which conform to a set of
numbers — machine language — in
which programs are represented in the
computer, When the power is turned
off the information will be lost.
ROM — Read Only Memory. Infor-
mation stored in this type of memory is
not lost when the power is switched off.
Software — programs which control
the operation of the computer.
Syntax error — a bug caused by in-
correct use of a programming
language.
Our easy-to-follow guide for new owners
The basic route to a
habit- forming hobby
BUYING a Sinclair machine can be
the start of a life-time's obsession
with home computing. It is easy,
however, to become discouraged if
everything does not go according to
plan from the beginning.
For those with only a little knowledge
of computers and their capabilities, the
best way to approach the machines is to
abandon any ideas for special uses. While
the QL computer is big enough for use
in small businesses, the Sinclair com-
puters are not really suitable for major
uses. It is better to become accustomed
to the many facilities and then decide
how you wish to use them.
Begin by unpacking your machine,
overcoming your surprise at its size and
weight and, following the manual* set up
the system. If you cannot get the K on the
screen, check that everything is plugged
into its correct socket and re- set the
machine by pulling-out the power plug
for one second and try tuning-in again. If
still nothing appears, check the power
supply unit by shaking it, If it rattles,
return it. If it is satisfactory, check your
system with that of a friend.
If you have a Spectrum you will have
received an introductory booklet which
explains what the computer can do and
giving detailed instructions on how to set
it up. Also included is a fault-finding
guide.
Once the K appears you are ready to
begin learning about your machine. It
can prevent family arguments if you can
afford a separate television set for your
system. It also makes life easier if you
find somewhere to leave your equipment
set up permanently. You will find that a
few power sockets are needed and a four-
way block connector on a short length of
extension cable will help to tidy trailing
leads.
When using a Spectrum, a television
set has to be more finely-tuned than when
using a ZX-81 because of the added
dimension of colour. If the set is not
tuned properly, the colours will look
hazy instead of sharp and clear. If no
colour can be seen when it is switched on,
the power supply or the television set
may be at fault.
Some users have experienced some
difficulty with some television sets,
which include Hitachi, Grundig and
Toshiba, Sets which many people have
found compatible include the Sony
Trinitron, Fidelity and Ferguson, Re-
cent changes in the ULA should make
more sets compatible.
The manuals are written in great detail
and are reasonably easy to follow. Some
of the chapters may not seem
immediately relevant but it is worthwhile
reading them as yOu might miss
something important.
Patience is needed at that stage to learn
the ways in which the computer will
accept information. It is tempting to try
to enter programs before you are ready
but that is likely to lead to errors. For
example, words like AND, THEN and
AT should not be typed-in letter by
letter.
By the time you have reached chapter
11 in the ZX-81 manual and chapter l°in
the Spectrum manual you should have
accumulated sufficient knowledge to be
continual ttH page 182
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able to type- in other people's programs,
such as those in Sinclair User and Sinclair
Programsi without too much difficulty.
It is important when using the
ZX-81 that it is not jolted, Some of the
connections can easily work loose and
everything which has been entered will
be lost.
The manuals are not to everyone's
liking and if you find them difficult to
follow a number of books on the market
can help you. Find the one which suits
you best.
As a way of relaxing you can buy some
of the growing range of commercially-
produced software. That can be loaded
directly from cassette but make sure that
your machine is big enough to take the
tapes you buy.
For the ZX-S 1 there are a few tapes for
the unexpended IK machine but the
majority require the 16K RAM pack.
Similarly on the Spectrum most
companies are taking advantage of the
possibilities provided by the larger 48K
machine rather than providing cassettes
lor the 16K.
The tapes can vary in quality and it is
advisable to read the reviews in Sinclair
User and use your judgment to find the
best.
An alternative method to learn about
both the ZX-81 and the Spectrum is to
plunge in at the deep end and see what the
machines will do. Refer to the manuals
when you have difficulties. You can
ignore the functions and calculations
initially and experiment with PRINT
statements to obtain the feel of the
machines.
You may already have heard about the
problem involved in SAVEing and
LOADing your own cassettes. The
manual gives detailed instructions but
many of the early ZX-Sls would not
accept tapes from some recorders. That
problem is said to have been overcome
but there can still be difficulties.
Usually they occur when LOADing
by other people, One
to overcome this is to
to the middle of the
program and type LOAD " " followed by
NEWLINE; then increase the volume of
tapes recorded
simple method
wind the tape
the recorder slowly with the tape running
until the television screen shows four or
five thick black bands. If you then re-
wind the tape, the program should
LOAD normally.
LOADing and SAVEing on the
Spectrum is much easier and faster than
the ZX-81, One difference is that when
SAVEing on the Spectrum the LOAD
lead must be disconnected either at the
recorder or the Spectrum.
Finally, a health warning. Apart from
any practical uses, computing with
your Sinclair machine can be a very
entertaining hobby and is almost
certainly habit- forming. You may easily
find yourself crouched over your
machine, red-eyedj in the early hours of
the morning thinking that in another five
minutes you will solve the problem, Try
to break that habit by getting into the
fresh air and meeting other Sinclair
users.
By obtaining a Sinclair computer you
find that you have joined a not very
exclusive club with many thousands of
members, many of whom would be only
too happy to adviie you if you bsrve
difficulties,
Make sure of your regular copies of
Sinclair User and Sinclair Programs and
you can be guaranteed many happy hours.
AVOID THE SENTIENT slime trail for as long
as you can in Slime by Henry Braun of London.
Eventually you will come to a sticky end bur skill
and cunning may keep you alive longer than you would
think. The program runs on any Spectrum, and uses the
cursor keys for movement.
Slime uses our special abbreviations for graphics charac-
ters, so please read the instructions on the first page of
Program Printout before typing in the program*
Lines ^—10 Sel up the inilial values for ihe variables used
Most are because nothing has happened yet, but
kI and y I art given ihc co-ordinales for the
starring point on the screen,
[..mc JO The beginning of a Loop containing the game.
Where if] Jrtd y] Were the ra-ordinaies for the
skme traitj x.2 and y2 will be your position, k and y
arc to hold (he new position, bm iirM it Lhetks to
set that move vou make.
Lines 40-50 It would be easy to read the keyboard with a Lint
like IF TNKEY1- . . THEN . . . but rhat to I
ilcw and utekgutf way nf doing it. Ff there are
several options you need a line lor each one,
[mr.ead Henrv uses, Iojjli. <fpeiaiinn<.. The exprev
sion (INKKYS=j"ft' r } is given the valiie I if trite
5 LET hi=0
10 PAPER 7: INK 0: BORDER 2: C
LS = LET 5=0s LET x=l: LET y=0:
LET xi^20: LET yl=30
30 LET x2=x: LET y2=y
40 LET x=^:+<I^a<EY*="6 ,, )- tINKEY
*="7 M )+{x<l>-<x>20)
50 LET y=y+CINKEY*= ,, B M )- (INKEY
*="5" ) +■ (y< 1 ) - ( y >30)
lx,y) =■■#■■ THEN
55 IF SCREEN*
GO TO 1000
60 PRINT AT x2,y2; " tsp) "; AT x
y; " <cc9,ig6,ccB) "
65 LET x3=xl: LET y3=yl
67 IF RND>.5 THEN GO TO 80
J 82
SINCLAIR USER January 1385
*
Line 55
t.lMt fid
and if false. The statement as s whole in line 40
means: "If you arc pressing 6 then add one to s n it'
you are pressing 7 then take one away from x, and
if x U smaller than one add one and if i( is bigger
than 20 subtract one." Those lasi rwo ensure you
never go off the edge of the screen,
SCRF.KNt is a function vhk'h looks ar the
characters held in the screen display. This line
checks ia see if there is slime where you arc about
to move,
The new position is blank so ymi can move there,
and the program prims a flashing graphics charac-
ter Lhere, cc9 is an abbreviation for a control Code,
in this case the one which produces the flashing, ll
is produced by going into extended mode, then
holding down CAF/s SHIFT and pressing the
appropriate key, in this case 9, Nothing will
appear on the acrccfli but the next character will
flash.
Duplicates the position for the slime-
To introduce an element of luck, the slime moves
partly M random,
Compare your position in x and y with the position
of the slime and alter it accordingly. The random
feature ensures the slime does not always make the
most efficient move toward? you,
Having survived one move, your score is in-
created.
Sends you back for another move. The facr there is
no line 20 is irrelevant, the next instruction will be
line 5U.
li a rather peculiar safety measure. If the program
skipped past line 110 it is sent back there,
The game is over, and yemf score is displayed.
If you have the high-score you are told so and a
new high score is displayed.
Lines 1030-1070 Ask if you want to play again. In those lines (he
keyboard is re*d with IF statements instead of the
earlier logic operations, as there would be little
gam to the more compressed method.
Line 65
Line 67
Lines 70-50
Line 100
Line 1)0
Line 120
Line 10O0
Lines 1010-1020
70 LET xl-xl+(x>xl)-tx<xi)+ (xl
<l)-(xl>28)
75 IF xl<>x3 THEN GO TO 90
80 LET yi=yH-<y>yl>-(y<yl) + <yl
<l)-<yl>30)
90 PRINT AT Xl ,yl ; " fcc4,i#, tzclB
) "
100 LET s=s+l
110 GO TO 20
120 GO TO 110
1000 PAUSE 50: CLS : PRINT AT 0,
0; "You stayed alive -for ";s;" mo
ves. "
1010
IF
S>*1
i THEN
LET h
i=ss PRI
NT :
PRINT
"You got the
highscor
e"; INPUT "
What is
your
name? " ;
ft*
1020
IF
hi >0 THEN
PRINT
"The hi
-score is "
;hi ; " and was
l (6*sp) ac
hieved by "
;a*
1030
PRINT
s PRINT
: PRINT : PRI
NT "Another
r game'? (y/n) "
1040
IF
INKEY*^'" THEN
GO TO 10
40
1050
IF
INKEY$="y"
THEN
GO TO 1
1060
IF
INKEY*="n"
THEN
STOP
1070
GO
TO
1040
ffappif Daif a
THE QUAINTLY-NAMED Happydays is a
calendar program which will tell you the day of
the week for any given date, as long as it falls
after the introduction of the Julian calendar. That will
almost certainly include all of our readers 1 birthdays, so
the program h a good opportunity, to discover if you are
merry and gay, or work hard for a living, according to
the old rhyme.
Enter the day and month as figures, and the year in
full, e.g. 1985. Happydays was written by Hsieh Min
Hon of Singapore and runs on the ZX-8I in IK.
10
PRINT "DAY?"
20
INPUT D
30
PRINT "MONTH?"
4-0
INPUT H
SO
PRINT "YEAR?"
60
INPUT Y
70
LET K = INT C.6+C1 -'M- >
30
LET L=Y-K
90
LET- Q=M*12*K
130
LET P=L, 100
110
LET Pl = XNT iP/41
120
LET B = INT »:P)
130
LET C = INT i '5*L* /4>
140
LET E=INT Ci3#(G + ll/5J
150
LET Z=E + C-B+A+I>-1
160
LET Z«<2-t7*INT (2/7) V) +1
170
print d; •'/" ; H; "/";y; '■ IS A
130
IF Z=l THEN PRINT "SUNDAY"
190
IF Z=Z THEN PRINT "HONDflY"
200
IF 1=3 THEN PRINT "TUESDAY"
£10
IF Z=4 THEN PRINT "UEDNESDA
Y
220
IF 2=4 THEN PRINT "THURSDAY
2 30
IF Z=E THEN PRINT 'FRIDAY"
240
1 1
IF Z=6 THEN PRINT "SATURDAY
250
STOP
Sinclair user January iws
161
IT IS POSSIBLE to produce
quite complex line drawings on
the Spectrum but many begin-
ners are put off by the somewhat
long-winded commands and the need
to use co-ordinates.
Easy Draw by Frank Oliver of
Knottingiey in West Yorkshire takes
much of the sweat away by allowing
you to simply use the cursor keys.
You can also draw diagonal lines
automatically and use all the colours-
Block graphics can be included in
the picture.
The program runs on any Spec-
trum, and instructions are included.
The program uses our special abbre-
viations for graphics characters so
pkase read the instructions on the first
page of Program Printout*
20 PAPER 71 CLE
3B PRINT AT fl, 11; "EASY DRAWS A
T 2,2t"8Y P. OLIVER"; AT 4, IBs "IMS
T RUCTIONS"
4« REM INSTRUCTIONS
SB PRINT AT 6,0; DRAW KEYS = I
TO a (1-4 di agonal 5-B *■ cursor
*] ■
6B PRINT AT B,B; "COLOUR KEY5=Q
WERTYUI (unt ordsras keyboard)"
7B PRINT AT 1B,B|"K£Y 9 = BRIG
HT*
BB PRINT AT 11, 01 "KEY B = FILL
IN CURSOR RUN <wi thdesired colo
ur whan finished) "
9B PRINT AT 13, B; "KEY F=PR1NT
i KEY a=STOP PRINT"
JOB PRINT AT 14, B; "KEY A * BLOC
K GRAPHICS (f la*hingcur*ar po«it
110 PRINT AT 16,B|"KEY S - HI6H
RESOLUTION GRAPHICS <x ,y plotted
)-
12B PRINT AT IS, B; "SPACE KEY -
RESTART*
13B PRINT AT 19, B; "KEY D-DOUBLE
DRAM SPEED tdisablescnl our G +spac
■,9,B,0-P-NORHAL} "
14B PRINT FLASH 1;AT 21,12) "AN
Y KEY"
15B PAUSE 5BBB
168 PAPER 7: CLS
17B REM SCREEN SET
190 PRINT AT 3, 6; "SELECT BORDER
COLOUR™
19B LET
GO TO BBB
2BB PAPER Ct CLS
PER 7i CLS
21B PRINT AT 3,6] "SELECT SCREEN
COLOUR"
22B LET C-Bl
Z3B PAPER c :
240 REM PROGRAM VARIABLES
Z5B LET b»lt LET C-7t LET
LET f-2* LET h-Bi LET x = 10;
¥■15
2fcB REM CURSOR RUN
27B FDR g-1 TO 32i PRINT PAPER
CiftT 0, hi" <5 P )";AT 21,ht"t«pJ"!
LET h=h+lt NEXT gf LET h-ll FOR
g-1 TD 2Bi PRINT PAPER c;AT h,
Bi"(»p)"jAT h,31i"(Hp)"t LET h-h
+ li NEKT gi IF d=B THEN LET h=€
2BB LET c=Bs LET d"l
Z9B REM X,Y TRACK II NG
3BB LET x*-173-fB.3333333*x>
31B LET yy=a.225eB£5«y
320 REM DRAW VAR I ABLES, CURSERS,
X,Y PLOT
=0: LET c-B: LET d=0:
I BORDER ci PA
LET a=
CLS
1: GD TD 800
LET
II t
MAN
350 IF x*=
360
THEN LET * = 1
IF «*■="□" THEN LET f«B
37B IF x*="B" AND h = fHEN
TO 27B
3SB SO SUB BIB
39B [F h=B THEN PRINT PAPER B
; INK 7; AT h,Bj ">";Ar * , 3 1 ; '■ '. " s A
T 0,y;"^"
4BB IF h=B THEN PRINT INK B;
PAPER 7; AT 21 ,4f "x-"l INT ** ; '( 5 p
)'-;AT 21, 23; "y="; INT yy;"(sp>"
4 IB LET **-lNKEY*
42B IF x*="p" THEN LET +=2
43B IF a=l THEN 00 TO 62B
440 REM HIGH RESOLUTION GRAPHIC
LET y-y-1
LET x-x+1
LET x»x-l
LET y=y+l
4SB IF x* = "a
44B IF **e'-l
: LET yy-yy+l
47B IF x* = "2
: LET yy=yy+l
4BB IF x* = "3
: LET yy=VY — 1
49B IF n««"4
: LET yy=yy-l
3B0 IF m*-"3
51B IF **=5"fc
S2B IF x* = "7
53B IF x*-"B
THEN
rut n
LET e=l
LET XX=XX+1
THEN LET xx=xx-l
THEM LET kx =
THEN LET xx=xx+l
THEN LET yy=yy-l
THEN LET xx=xa ]
THEN LET xx=xx+l
then let yy=yy+l
S4B IF XX>167 THEN LET xx=l£7
55B IF xx<8 tHEN LET MX-B
560 IF yy<B THEN LET yy=B
570 IF yy>247 THEN LET yy=247
3Ba IF f=*l THEN PLOT BRIGHT 1
; INK c;yy,«K
59B IF i>% THEN PLOT INK c;yy
£,00 GO TD 33B
6 IB REM BLOCK GRAPHICS
£.20 IF x*="h" THEN LET a-B
63B IF h-B THEN PRINT PAPER 7
*AT x ,0j " (sp>"|AT x,31» M C'spl ";AT
B^^'imp)'"
£>4B IF x*="i" THEN LET k*x-1:
LET y-y+1
i5B IF x*="2" THEN LET K-x+lt
LET y=y+l
6fa0 IF xt=
LET y-y-1
£70 IF xt=
LET y-y-1
6BB IF x*-"5" THEN
69B IF x*-"i" THEN
7BB IF x*="7" THEN
7IB IF x*="a M THEN
720 IF M<t THEM LET tc-1
730 IF K>2B THEN LET x=2B
74B IF y<l THEN LET y- 1
7SB IF y>3B THEN LET y-3B
7faB IF f-1 THEN PRINT BRIGHT
IS PAPER triAT x T y;"(*p)"
778 IF f>l THEN PRINT PAPER c
jAT K,yj"C«pJ "
7B0 GO TO 3BB
79B REM COLOUR LOOP
BB0 PRINT AI 10, 12; "Q=BLUE";AT
11 T 12;U=RED"' ; AT 12, 1 2) "E'MAOENT
A" I AT 13,12; "R=GREEN"s AT 14,12;"
T=CYAM" 8 AT 13,12i"Y-YELL0M-|AT 1
h, 12j"U=WHITE";AT 1 7, 1 2 ; M 1 =BLACK
1 TD IBB: NEXT k
"q" THEN BEEP .5,Bi
"w" THEN BEEP .3,2, B
"e" THEN BEEP .5,3,8
"r" THEN BEEP .5,4. f
"t" THEN BEEP .5,7.0
"y" THEN BEEP -5,S.B
"u" THEN SEEP .5,lB.
"i" THEN BEEP .5,12:
"tap) - THEN SO TO 2B
THEN RETURN
THEN GD TD BIB
THEN GO TO 23B
THEN GO TO 2BB
HB5
FDR k =
BIB
LET x*;
B2B
IF
x»=
LET c
= 1
S3B
U
K*-
39 t LET
c = 2
S40
IF
x* =
Ai LET c=3
S5B
IF
x*=
8l LET C-4
B6B
IF
x*=
2l LET c-3
B7B
IF
M* =
4l LET c^fe
BBB
IF
M*=
BBl LET
c-7
B90
IF
x*=
LET
r. -0
9BB
IF
H* =
91B
IF
d-i
92B
IF
C = B
930
IF
a=l
94B
IF
c<B
154
SINCLAIR USER January 1S85
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Quick to learn, easy
MINI OFFICE marks a lung
•waited breakthrough in dram
aticaliy reducing ihe cosl of
pergonal computing.
For the firs! time il makes
available to everyone an easy
to operate version of four of the
most popular business comput-
ing applications - and at a price
an\one can afford.
Never before has a word
processor been sold Tor anything
as low as £5.95. Nor a database
manager. Nor a spreadsheet.
Not a graphics program.
Vet Mini Office contains Lhem
all.
So how was it done?
h nil started with a proposal
that a package should be written
that would give home users ;i
gentle introduction to the kind of
software that businesses were
running on their computers.
At that stage there was no
intention that it should be an
ambitious package. Just a simple
program that could be sold at a
very low price.
First* experts in business
software programming were
called in and were told what was
required. Their enthusiasm was
immediate.
to use, that's . .1
had been turned into a full scale
suite of programs covering all
four applications.
In fact the Ofllj part of the
brief that remained was the
original insistence that the
package should be quick to learn
and easy to use.
And despite all the extra
sophistication that had been
written into il, it was decided
that the price should still be kepi
at the very low figure original K
fixed.
So how does Mini Office
operate?
Using the Word Processor is
simplicity itself. There are none
of the cryptic coded instructions
thai had to be mastered by
people learning the early word
processors.
You start by selecting the size
of type you prefer - either
normal or double-size. The latter
is a feature that you cannot find
on any other word processor.
It is particularly suitable for
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The word processor — with double size characters
Bui what happened next was
total t\ unexpected. For the a I
came up with ideas that Mould
considerably expand their
original brief.
In the end what had been
planned as little more than a
beginners' guide to word
processing, database manage-
ment, spreadsheets and graphics
the partially sighted - in many
ing them their very first
opportunity to use a word
processor.
This means they can use a
Spectrum to compose a letter.
using the double-size mode, and
then print it out using normal
size type.
For many people this could be
the first time they can send out a
perfectly typed letter without
outside help.
Primarv school teachers are
already making great use of the
information. It can be retrieved,
in its entirety or just the pans
jfOtl require for a particular
purpose, whenever you need it-
Ihe operation is so simple
figures tm the spreadsheet can produce a bar chart
double-size function, both on the
screen and on hard copy printouts-
While you are using the n or J
processor three useful pieces o(
in To nil a lion are displayed across
the lop of the screen.
They tell you how much time
has elapsed since you started
using it, the number of words
you have written so far, and how
many characters you can key in
before the Spceir urn's memory is
full.
At any time you can press a
key which tells you your typing
speed. This is a most useful
function, and can play an
important part in increasing
your efficiency at the keyboard.
You can also decide the size of
the margin, (he line length and
the tab positions. Text can be
copied from one part of the
document to another.
At any lime you can preview
the text to see how it would look
when printed out.
As with all the other programs
in Mini Office, your work can be
saved to tape and loaded
when you want to use it again. [I
can also be printed out.
The Database program can
be used to store a mass of
that a useful database can be
created in minutes raihcr than
days - and you certainly don't
need any computer experience to
set it up,
Ihe search facility is very
easy to use. You can search for a
particular word or part of a
word. Or you can order a
numeric search - such as telling
the computer to find all the
numbers greater or less than ihe
one you provide.
You can carry out multiple
sorts. For instance, if you
have built up a mailing list
containing a list of names,
addresses, telephone numbers,
occupations and ages you can
ask ihe database to provide you
with a list of records in order pr
occupations and ages,
One powerful option allows
you to replace anything on the
'database without having to go
through the whole lot making
amendments your sell.
You could, for instance.
instruct it to find each reference
to "teacher'* and replace il vtith
"* lecturer*'.
The Spreadsheet is a new
version of ihe program ihai
marked an important milestone
'
in business computing -
. ale.
It is often pointed out that this
one program alone has helped to
sell more persona] computers
than any other.
Certainly Visicalc and its
derivitives have never been
iiiaken from their position at the
top of the list of best selling
business programs.
Yet the concept is very simple
- a giant worksheet of rows and
columns, only part of which can
be seen on your screen at any
one time. Into any position on
the sheet you can put numbers,
labels and mathematical for-
mula.
And when you alter any figure
its effect ripples through the rest
of the sheet, changing any totals
as may be necessary .
The Mini Office version is
ideal for home finance, provid
ing you with an effortless means
or keeping tabs on your income
and expenditure - and enabling
you to work out your own
budget.
In the Spreadsheet program -
as well as in the Database - a
sample flit has been provided so
. . . or a pie charf
that you ean experiment with il
before entering your own data
One feature that has been
included thai does not exist in
■it) other spreadsheet is a
warning device to prevent you
accidentally erasing formulae -
j \cry useful precaution.
Send for it today
The Graphics program uses
the standard business graphic*
line- Hyr and pie charts. This is
something not always available
on far more expensive
spreadsheet packages
The program uses data you
have already prepared on the
spreadsheet. You have to iden-
tify which sei of information you
require to see in graph form -
such as by indicating which row
or column and then which of
the graphs you require.
The graph is then auto-
matically configured exactly as
i require il. If you have a
pr inter capable of producing
graphics you can also print out
hard copies for a permanent
record.
Because the original intention
was. to produce a package for
people new to all these appli-
cations it is accompanied b> a
fully detailed, easy to under
stand manual.
This 32 page free booklet
gives clear instructions about
how to use all four programs wd
in itself forms a Concise
introduction for first lime users.
If you want to start doing
more with your Spectrum than
just playing games, this package
is your ideal introduction to the
four most popular applications
for professional computers.
f least send nifr
cop^'copies of
Mini OHice lor Speclium 48k
D I enclose cheque mide payeble iq
Oiiatiesc Putliceuaris Ltd
fBf £
I wish la piy by
□ Aeeess
Signed _
Name
MAtH
U Visa Ha.
Pdsi [q Mm: Office QHer. Database Publ ice nans,
6fl Chesier floid. Hutl Grave. Slockpen SKI 5NY
The Key To Success !
Now, with the new S^onechin Spectrum Keyboard th<» >^e>r h?s n" wrrv "f damaging the Spectrum
itself as improved designing enables it to fit the case perfectly
Assembling the case is simple *f it consists rt f »wo halves, the top half containing the keyboard, with
a small printed circuit board, arched by ribbon n^ble, plugging into the re^r of the Spectrum. The
lower half fits prensely around The Spectrum, thus preventing any risk of damaging through
movement.
Your Sinclair guarantee need not be invalid ■ the Spectrum rines not require removal from
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"T SOMETIMES happens that an
item in this column rings a bell with
.many readers and triggers a flood of
letters on the subject. My piece in
Sinclair User November 1984 had that
efTect because it included a short section
on SAVEing and LOADing headerless
files on the Spectrum which interested a
number of correspondents. I shall ex-
pand on the theme this month.
First i though, I must correct an error
that crept in and was brought to my
attention by Martin Carre of Guernsey)
amongst others. It occurred in a table
included in the piece which listed two
machine code routines for SAVEing
and LOADing the screen in a header-
kss file. The routines had been written
as if the Spectrum display file and
attributes file were together 6192 bytes
long whereas they are in fact 6912
byres. As a result the routines omitted
to SAVE or LOAD the latter part oTihe
attributes file. Apologies to all those
who were lead astray. The correct ver-
sion of the routines is given in Table 1.
Repeating the routines gives the op-
Headers
examined
Andrew Hewson examines
headerless files and
block line deletion
the same values into 23311, 233 12j
23314 and 23315 respectively.
The routine will be of use to Mike
Hughes of Epsom who writes: "I have
written a cataloguing program
which requires me to SAVE three
character arrays but it is a nui-
sance waiting Tor each one to SAVE
in turn and then pressing a key
before the next SAVE. Is there any
way of by -passing the 'start tape
then press any key' message?"
The best way of tackling the problem
Decimal
Assembler
CooMwai
Ifi7
AND A
Clear ■.■urn
62 25i
LP A.2SS
Load A with 255
221 »0H
LO IX.I6M4
SAVE Twin 16384
17 27
LD DE.6SH2
Length 6912
205 IM 4
CALL 1213
Call SAVE routine
201
RET
Return
59
SCF
S« i ■
«2 2ii
LD A^53
Load A with 253
221 310 64
ID IX,.I6M4
LOAD at 1&33+
17 27
LD DE,6?S2
Length ftu 1 i
205 Su 5
CALL Libft
i ..ill LOAD routine
201
RET
Return
Tabic 1. Two Specuum romtotf it. save
and LOAD the screen display 16 tnd fnun a headerles-i
file.
portunity to answer Warren Milbum of
Ryton who asks; "Please could you
tell me how to alter the start ad-
dress and bytes length in your rou-
tines for saving and loading
headerless files?"
The start address is passed to the
routines in the ix register pair and the
length is passed in the de register pair
and so to adapt the routines to your own
purposes you must alter the values
passed. Assuming you know the start
address and number of bytes that you
wish to SAVE or LOAD and that the
routines are stored consecutively in the
printer buffer, then the procedure for
LOADing is as follows:
POKE 23301, START-256MNT
(START/256)
POKE 2J302, INT (START/256)
POKE 23304, LENGTH -2 56* INT
(LENGTH/256)
POKE 23305, INT (LENGTH/256)
To modify the SAVE routine POKE
would seem at first sight to be to SAVE
the contents of the variables area as a
CODE file. It is quite easy to calculate
the starting address and length param-
eters required for the SAVE w " CODE
command — the starting address would
be the value held in the VARS system
variable and the length would be the
difference between VARS and the
E_UNE svstem variable.
The method would work well for
SAVEing all variables but problems
would occur on re LOADing because
the starting address, length or arrange-
ment of the variables area might have
changed in between the two events. The
starting address would have changed,
for example, if a mkrodrive had been
brought into use so that the mkrodrive
maps occupied more space lower down
in memory thereby causing the Bask
program, variables and other items to be
shuffled further up in RAM,
The length of the variables area
would change if a new variable were
brought into use or if a pre-existing
array were reDIMensioned, The ar-
rangement of the variables area would
have changed if new data were written
into a pre-exist in g string because the
Spectrum handles this task by creating
the string afresh at the top of the varia-
cwninutrf nit page ISO
Decimal
A"nnMir
Comment
Id til, (23641)
E.LINE to hi
4}
dec hi
Backspace Id bvte cOrtllJding 12S
217 91 71 92
Id de, (2 3627)
VARS ic de
167
and a
Clair c sir,
237 82
ibc hl.ilv
Calculate lennrh of variable* uea
2J5
ex 4*. hi
Transfer length lo de
66
Id b,d
Copy length to be
75
Id c*
197
push bo
Save be on the stack
221 -42 t5 92
Id is ,(2 162 7)
VARS fie addr«4 n SAVE ffom) to is
62 355
Id .1,255
Signal aatnt main Flic
205 194 4
cull 1218
Call ROM SAVE raucine
193
pop he
Ret neve length from 51 ait
217 67 *I
id I232*6(,bc
Store Length. at beginning of buffer
201
Jtl
Return
Table 2. A Spectrum
routine to SAVE [he
variables area as a headerless file.
SINCLAIR USER January 1985
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bles area before deleting the old version,
which is generally lower down in mem-
ory.
Thus the reLQADed CODE file
would often end up incorrectly placed
in the Spectrum memory or in the
correct place overwriting the wrong
things.
The safest solution, which although
not ideal ensures that the data that is
reLOADed does not corrupt the pro-
gram, is to SAVE the variables area
using a short machine code routine as a
header less file. On reLOADing use
another machine code routine to ex-
ecute the following steps: 1 — delete all
the current Basic variables using the ■
ROM routine for recovering redundant
memory; 2 — create a new variables
area large enough to hold the incoming
data using the ROM routine Cot creat-
ing space in memory; 3 — re LOAD the
ful because they look after all the rel-
evant system variable pointers no
matter whereabouts in memory that the
space is to be deleted or created,
The delete routine can be used to
deal with a problem raised by Jeff Sims
of Wigan. He writes: I sometimes
wish to delete large chunks of an
existing program in order to create
a new version which shares some of
the original subroutines. Is there a
way of doing so which is more con-
venient than deleting each line?
I have described a technique pre-
viously in this column for deleting large
chunks of a Basic program by manipu-
lating the hidden pointer which the
machine places after each line numher
to tell it the length of the line. It is
comparatively straightforward to
POKE a new value into the pointer in
the first line of the chunk to be deleted
so that the machine thinks it is dealing
Decimal
Assembler
Cmhbbcm
42 S9 92
Id hi, (2*64 1 I
. [KEianl
«
dec hi
Backspace to byre confining 128
Z17 91 75*2
Id it, 123627)
VARS lo de
205 229 25
1429
Call ROM routine W> delete all variables
12 73 92
Id hi, (23627)
VARS tc hi
237 75 91
Id be, (23296)
New sire far variables urea to be
205 85 22
f7l7
Call ROM routine to create space
«
■rf
Sel e§jrrj
62 3
td b^S5
Siajnal caoette mans ilk
221 42 7 J 92
IJ ix. 123427*
VARS to ix
2)7 910 9]
Id de, {2&WJ
Length m de
205 86 5
call 1366
Call ROM routine tQ LOAD v*fiib!es
201
Tabic 3. A Spectrum
routine to delete all current variables and replace (htm with data from
HMCtlC,
variables using the routine for LOAD-
ing header less files.
Two routines to perform the tasks are
listed in Tables 2 and 3 and as usual the
decimal codes are listed so that readers
without an assembler to hand can loud
the routines into the printer buffer
using the decimal loader in Table 4.
The first routine is an adaptation of
the SAVE routine in Tabic 1. Notice
that the length of the variables area is
saved in the printer buffer at address
2 5296 so that the load routine can
reference the value when it is required.
The user can also PRINT the value by
invoking the routine using the PRINT
USR command — because it is left in
the be register pair at the completion of
the routine — so that the value can be
noted for future reference.
The second routine makes two ROM
calls. The first recovers the space lying
between the addresses pointed to by the
dep and hi register pairs thereby delet-
ing all current variables. The second
routine creates a space of length be at
the address pointed to by hi thereby
creating room for the new variables.
Those two ROM routines are very use-
with one monster line. The monster
line can then be deleted in the conven-
tional way by entering the line number.
The routine listed in Table 5
achieves the same end in a rather more
elegant fashion, The user POKEs the
first and last line numbers of the section
he wishes to delete into the first four
bytes of the printer buffer as follows:
10 FOR I -232 WTO 23551
20 INPUT J
30 PRINT I J
10 POKE ]J
SONBXI I
Tahtr 4. A simple decimal loader tot Pllkl--
inn machine code into the printer buffer
starting al address 232»H.
POKE 23296, LINE1 -256'INT
(LINE 1/2 56)
POKE 23297, INT (LINE 1/256)
POKE 23298, LINE2-256MNT
(LINE27256)
POKE 23299, INT (LINE2/256)
The routine checks each number in
turn to ensure that it is non-zero and
then calls the ROM routine at 6510
which returns, in the hi register, the
address of the first of the two lines in
RAM. It calk the same routine a second
time to obtain the address of the byte
following the end of the second line.
The difference between the two ad-
dresses is checked to make sure that it is
positive and if so the ROA1 routine at
6629 is called to recover the space
thereby deleting the lines.
Finally I have been taken to task by
Alex King of Bristol who writes: Why
do you persist in using decimal in
your machine code listings when
almost all other sources use hexa-
decimal?
It is true that hexadecimal is the most
common means of identifying numbers
in assembly language programs but 1
feel that the majority of readers are not
familiar with hex. Those who prefer
hex are probably adept at conversions
whereas the converse is not true —
those who dislike hex probably find
conversion confusing. Decimal is a
compromise.
• P/fdSf addtist ptobiemi art J ftMrw to Andrea.'
Hevaon, tidplme, Giaham Ciost, Bit:
Oxford'hirf,
Decimal
Assembler
Comment
«0*1
Id hi, (23296]
.Fetch first line number
124
ida.h
Hcmrti if both h
IKI
or 1
and 1 teajatcjj
ret 7
ate zero
237 41 2 91
Id de, (23294)
Fetch rertind line number
122
Id a,d
Ret urn if bof b A
179
or e
and e register*
200
iel 2
ate Jem
213
push de
Save de on the siiit:
is no 2^
oflWIu
Fetch address of lirst Lint inrn hi
227
ex (spt.hL
Stare hi and recover de
35
inc til
tncKffltm number of second Line
205 110 25
...II *5I0
Fetch add-ress of end of second line
not
pop de
Recover lire! addies*
167
■mil a
Oar arty Hag
2J7 82
sbe hl.dt
Calculate Sefiiph to be recovered
200
ret, i
Return if ztra
3 It
ret c
Recti m if negative
25
add hl.de
Rebuild address
205 229 n
ljII 6629
Recover spate
201
r«
Return
Table 5. A Spectrum
routine in delete all Bask: lines lying between twt> line number* piucJ to the
routine in the printer buffer.
m
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Insiders
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Hug-lisle
Gavin Barker
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Automata
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Marogs
Micro Mouse
Namllr Raiders
Night Gunner
I'll! -tllljll
Hockri Man
Sabotage
Sin < .lines
Space Raiders
Space Rimrue
Space Trek
311 Monster Maze
Tbfee (james Cassette
Zuckman
f.X Invasion Force
ZX Panic
ZX-31 IK Games Pack
ZX-SI Pocket Book
Business
Aci'riunls (limited rumpany
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Spectrum Soper Toolkit
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Pitman Seven
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Crystal
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Artie
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Sabre Wolf
CHimalc
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M*d Martha
Mlkro-Gen
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Mad Martha II
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Account* 1 Limited
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Creative Sparks
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Mum in; Mummy
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Foundry System
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6
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5
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5
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5
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7
7
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6
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9
8
8
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9
9
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4
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6
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7
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9
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Spectcxt
MfGraw Hilt
Practical
Sheenwnlfc
Virgin
1
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MiiFiil
Altronumrr
CP Software
7
Special Operations
l.nlhnriea
1
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Hildifha*
Beam.sran
Bramvcan
9
Speclmla
Run,-.. >li
4
Slock Control
Kemp
Computer Cookbook
Bug Byte
5
Stir Trader
Bug-Byle
i
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Transform
Cricket Average*
Spartan t.'C
7
Slnnkcrs
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9
1 liword
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Did
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Super-league
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Uiei Mazier
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6
Tradewind
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1
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SD Micro
Dietician
KfYlllfl
4
W ar 70
CCS
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Word ProceMor
Mjcrol
Engine Diagnostic
Speclrunfl
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Warlord
1 idhltiri. 11
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Word Processor
QukksaKi
Kirsl AW
Fuvlmrad
4
W'hodannil
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ABC 1 jI1ii.1I
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Football Ponls
Harlknd
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Willed 11k Hairy
Microbyle
2
Longman
Chalksoft
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ICWag
PersoaaJ Reminder
Spectadraw 2
Star C-iu*r
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Mi'diiinc
Vffa-Tlbtr
WorW Info
Puzzle
h.i^imead
Salamander
Sirtus
!^D Micro
Mc Alley
CHL
Ijstmead
6
7
4
Traditional
ArctMita
Vkkus
T
Aaglr Turner
Aalro Mn uii
Blockbuster
Castle
Caslk of Dmu
CasUe SptlfeftMU
Arnold Whraton
Scisofl
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Widgit
Sinclair
7
6
7
7
7
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Brag
Bridge Masler
Bridpe Player
Bullseye
Derby Day
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CP Software
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7
7
7
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6
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7
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8
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7
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Firm Tower
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6
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Worts Force
I
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FhA
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7
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I
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6
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Com ran
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Mind Gamrv
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7
Treat* ii Fun
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3
Orijtiiial SuperclKM
CP Software
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French Mislrrss
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Jutnhly
db'lronlcs
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Ponluoa
Coalratl
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French V or fesl
Tutorial
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Mancube
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Raraopoly
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German iv Fun
CDS
1
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Hcllflower
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Buffer Micro
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1
Highway Code
1 earning System*
A
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SupeiTheu ill
CP Sohwaf*
9
HolJJiw
Chalkwft
5
Crirket Caplaln
Allansun
A
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Humply Dumpty
Widgel
8
Fighter F'iI.h
IMjtllal Inlegnitiun
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Voke Chess
Arlic
9
Inkosi
< halkniFl
5
Flight SimukiEion
Sinclair
f
Yahtll
Wort Force
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Jungle Jumble
Clever floggs
Full Tkroitle
Micromega
a
Valzee
CP Software
S
Jungle Mil hi
MMA
G*aT
dk'IruRks
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ZX Draughls
CF* Snf Iware
7
Learn to Read 1-5
Sinclair
GtK
Virgin
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ZX Revcrsl
Cf Sofiware
7
1 *»er* and Number*
InniJins
Harrrainer
Hari'SHifl
3
ZX-Chess II
Arlk
1
Linkword
SihtTKlll
Htiw*ill
Wyvera
1
Utility
Look Sharp
Ml rrorsoft
batoi
Ckilkioft
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Migneti
Sinclair
Match Poinl
Siaclair
9
Allsort S 1
A Firmiagrr
7
Make-a-{ hip
Sinclair
New lUrkdik
Hormbf
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Asscmbkr
Arlic
Mansfield Park
Sussex
fMympki
CRL
6
Beyond Bask
Sinclair
I
Mlfbtkiftl II
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Koyal Hirkdale
Ouan
1
Huildinfc Price
J Redman
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MDA-PCSS
MDA Assoc.
Slrike Allaek
Mirromart
4
C.artuon Aaimalion
Fowkr
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Model Malhi
Jive
Super Sower
Wmm
4
Character Grnentor
ISP
1
Mr T't Measuring Game*
Ebury
Test Match
Copjip, Rtatali
1
Cotnplkr
Softck
i
Mr Mm
.Mirror
The Portal
Phipps
7
Composer
(onlrasl
2
Muucmaslrr
Sinclair
6
TrWM
Hornby
1
DlaAN
Campbell
*
Miwitfiiih C. England
S|I«fl
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CCS
4
FP Compikr
Sofiek
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C> Leiei (.'hemutrY
Calpac
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World Cup Football
Arlk
7
(iames i)v^i£ner
IJllllkilhu
7
O Level l'h» "ii -i
Think Tank
Strategy
HURG
Mrlhiturni- HOUH
1
Panic Time
C. Tulor
Keyword Exieaslon
1 imedala
1
Pathfinder
Widget
AirliW
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7
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Firm*
1 halksitfl
AB|ler
VhrgHi
6
Informalioo Handbag
McGraw HiU
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ApruraJyp.w
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WD Micro
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Sequences
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CCS
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Buffer Mkro
1
Spanish (inld
Cbalksoft
Batik of Britain
Micromanic
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Melbourne Draw
Meibounsc House
1
Speak and Spell
S and C
Brewery
CCS
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Sincilk
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Sinclair
British Lowland
CCS
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Music Mahtf
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J
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Image Sy»ltms
Caribbean Trader
1 . Midland
7
Fainibox
Prlnl A Plollrr
1
Mar Reader
Scknfi
Conflkl
Mark't'h
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Prim I'tilitie*
Sinclair
7
Turlru.Ltr
Wldrjd
LonqufM
Cfeeelalunfl
6
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Gabaft
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B Funis:
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CCS
9
Screen Machiaw
ISP
7
Tense F rrneh
Sulis
Fall of Rome
ASP
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CP Software
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Time Traveller
While*
Foolball Manager
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7
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Arlk
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Sort Cottage
GalU) t rinflkl
Martcch
1
Spec. Compiler
Soltek
7
Whizz Kid
Comp. Tulor
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CCS
1
Sprrlrr Mac 'Moo
Data
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Bejaafl
Galrcrasher
(juicksilva
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SpcCl rt-sirri
Shiva
4
Wordi and Picture*
ChaJkwft
Genenl F.ktiloo
Bug-Byte
1
Speclrum F,wtendtd Bask
CP Software
7
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Picture suae
7
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He&iel
Frolek
7
9
Speclnin Sprilca
SfK^lrUrri Super ToolkJl
ISP
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Melbourne House
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Kiel
5
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7
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7
Iriim EspnrSS
Romantic Robol
1
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Hisofl
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Mugty
Melbourne Home
S
VbJO
Sincliik
a
Logo
Sinclair
9
New V (iRlurv
Fakun
4
While Lightning
Ouois
9
Mkro Prolog
Sinclair
S
MM
Incentive
7
Znl* Assembkr
Sinclair
9
Pascal Compiler
Snail Lugo
Hl-Soft
CP
1
OHfopoly
Plunder
CCS
CCS
7
1
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Spec. Forth
ZX Forth
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9
198
SINCLAIR USER January 1985
Software Directory =
Software
Publishers
A A F Software, Unit 8, Canaiside Industrial Estate, Woodbine Street
East, Rochdale, Lancashire OL16 5LB
Abacus Software, 21 Union Street, Ramsbonom, Nr Bury, Lancashire
Abbex, 20 Ashley Close, Manor Hail Drive, London NW4
Abcraoft, 7 Maesfallen, Bow Street, Aberystwyth, Wales
Addon Ete*tronicfl, Units 2,3 & 4, Shire Hill Industrial Estate, Saffron
Walden, Essex CBll 3AQ
Addictive Game*, 7a Richmond Hill, Bournemouth BH2 6HF-
ADS, S Bronchurch Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire PD4 SRY
Allans* n Computing, 77 Chorley Road, Adhngton, Chorley, Lancashire
PR6 9LH
Alligata Software, I Orange Street, Sheffield Si 4DW
APS, I Golden Square, London Wl
Arcade Software, Technology House, 32 Chislehurst Road, Orpington,
Kent BR6 ODG
Arnold Wheaton, Parkside I -arte, Dewsbury Road, Leeds LSI 1 STD
Artie Computing, Main Streei, Brandesburton, Driffield Y025 &RG
Automata UK, 27 Highland Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire P04 9DA
Azb, 71 Brookfield Avenue, Loughborough, Leicestershire LEI I 3LN
Beau-Jolly, 19A New Broadway, Ealing, London W5
Bellflower Software, 6 Rosewood Avenue, Greenford, Middlesex UB6
7QP
Retasoft, "2 Oxford Road, Moseley, Birmingham BB 9SQ
Beyond Software, 8 Herbal Hill, London EC1
Bridge Software, 36 Fernwood, Marple Bridge, Stockport, Cheshire SK6
5 BE
Bridicmtiur, Sandymou[h, Beeches Road, Farnham Common,
Buckinghamshire SL2 3 PS
Buffer Micro, 310 Strcatham High Road, London SW16
Bug-Byte, Mulberry House, Canning Place, Liverpool H 8JB
Calpmc Computer Software, 106" Hermitage Woods Crescent, St Johns,
Woking, Surrey
Campbell Systems, 57 Trap's Hill, Loughron, Essex [GID 1TD
CCS, 14 Langton Way, Blackhcath, 1-ondon SE3 7TL
CDS Micro System*, Silver House, Silver Streer, Doncaster, South
Yorkshire DNl 1HL
Century Communications, Portland House, 12-13 Greek Street, London
W1V 5LE
ChaJasoft, 37 Willowsiea Road, Northwick, Worcester
Channel 9 % 51 Fishgate, Preston, Lancashire PR1 6EH
Chectahsoft, 24 Ray Street, London EClR 3DJ
Clever Clogs, Argus Press Software Group, 1 Golden Square, London
WIR 3AB
Collin*, 18/20 Stephenson Way, North Cower Street, London NWI 2DX
Compusound, 32/ J3 Larigley Close, Redditch, Worcester B°S OET
Compuututor, 3 Thalia Close, Greenwich, London SE10 °NA
Contrast Software, Warren Road, Lis*, Hampshire GU33 TDD
Corahill Software, 2 Penrith Way, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP21
7JZ
CP Software, I Glebe Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex UBS 3RD
Craig Communications, PO Bon 46, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Creative Sparks, Thomson House, 296 Farnborough Road, Famborough,
Hampshire
CRL, 9 King's Yard, Carpenters Road, London E15 2HD
Cross Software. 36 Langford Crescent, Barnet, Hertfordshire EN4 9EH
Crystal Computing, 2 Ashton Way, Hast Herrington, Sunderland SR3
3RX
CSP System*, 113 Stainbeck Road, Leeds
D Pinch. "2 Norwood Crescent, Coldbrook, Bany, South Glamorgan
Digital Integration, Watchmoor Trade Centre, Watchffiuor Road,
Camberiey, Surrey GUI 5 3AJ
DJL, 9 Tweed Close, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 3FU
dk'troaics, Unit 6, Shire Hill Ind Est, Saffron Walden, Essex CBI ! 3A
Domark, 22ft Munster Road, London SW6
Dorcas Software, 3 The Oasis, Glenfield, Leicester
Doric Computer Service*, 3 The Oasis, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8QS
Dunks, 154 Camden High Street, London NW] ONE
Durrcll Software, Castle Lodge, Castle Green, Taunton TAl 4AB
Dymorid Software, 22 Hospital Road, Annan, Dumfriesshire DG12 5HP
Dyaa vision Production Studio, PO Boa 96, Luton LU3 2JF
East London Robotic*, St Nicholas House, The Mount, Guildford,
Surrey GU2 5HN
Eascmead, Eastmead House, Lion Way, Camberiey, Surrey GUI 6 5EZ
Ehury Press, Humphrey Bull & Barker, 62 Dean Street, London WIV
5HG
Electric Abacus, Oakland! House, Solanron Road, Farnborough, Hani*
Elite Systems, 55 Bradford Street, Walsall, Wfat Midlands WSI 3QD
Elm Computers, 59 Bareman Road, East Leake, Loughborough,
LtsQMtBObiK LEI 2 6NN
Fantasy Software, Fauconberg Lodge, 27a Si Georges Road, Cheltenham
Fawkes Computing, 41 Wolftldge Ride, Alvcston, Bristol BS12 2RA
Felix Software, 19 Leighlon Avenue, Pinner HAS 3BW
Fulwood, 20 Templestowe Hill, Whirkifk, Leeds LS1S 7EJ
Game* Machine, 40 Fretherne Road, Welwyn Garden City,
Hertfordshire AL8 6NU
Gamma Software, 12 Milvcrton Road, London NW6 7AS
Gargoyle (James, 4 North Western Arcade, Birmingham BS 5LH
Gavin Barker, 12 Feming Field, Station Colliery, County Durham DH6
Gemini Software, 18a Littkham Road, EKmourh, Devon EXB 2QG
Gemtime Software Division, 16 Ben Ledi Road, Kirkcaldy, Fife KY2
5RP
Gilnoft, 3fl Hawthorn Road, Barry, South Glamorgan, South Wale*
Gouldstone, 45 Kurkigh Avenue, Wallingtoo, Surrey SMo 7UG
Granada Publishing, ft Grafton Street, London WIX 3LA
Gremlin Graphics, Alpha House, 10 Carver Street, Sheffield SI 4FS
Griffin & George, Frederick Street, Birmingham Bl 3HT
Haresoft, PO Box 365, London NWI
Harlequin Software, 43 Osprey Park, Thornbury, Bristol BS12 ILY
Harrland Software, 32 Ivor Place, London NWI oDA
Heath Computing, 7 The Meadows, BackwelE Heath, Buckinghamshire
HPI0 9LX
He idem a nn Computer Education, 22 Bedford Square, London WClB
am
Heiset, 15 Lythan Court, Cadweli Crescent, Sunningdale, Berkshire
Hestacrest, PO Bos l Q , Iveighion Buzzard, Bedfordshire LU7 ODG
Hew»nn Consultants, 5oB Milton Trading Estate, Milton, Abingdon
HUderbay, 8fl0 Parkway, Regents Park, London NWI 7AA
Hilton Computer Services, 14 Avalon Road, Orpington, Kent
Hisoft, 180 High Street, Dunstable, Bedfordshire LU6 1AT
Hudder A Stoughton, FO Bos 6, Dun ton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent TNI 3
2XX
Homestudy Ltd, Treleigh Woods Farm, Treleigh, Redruth, Cornwall
TR16 4AW
Hornby Software, 21 Fenfold Hill, Leeds LSI 5 0FW
Image Systems, 34 Lynwood Drive, Worcester Park, Surrey KT4 7AB
Incentive, 54 London Street, Reading, Berkshire RGJ 4SQ
Inform Software, 3 Treesdale Close, Birkdale, Southport PRo 2 EL
InteratelLa Software, S2 New Forest Drive, Brockenhurst, Kent
ISP Marketing Ltd, Crown Hill, 3BB High Street, Godalming, Surrey
GU7 idz:
JK Greye Software, 16 Park Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2TB
JRS Software, 19 Wayside Avenue, Worthing, Sussex BNI3 3JH
K-Tel International (UK), od Western Avenue, London W3 0TU
Kemp, 4 3 Mutwetl Hill, London NI0 3PN
Keysoft, 6 Bruce Grove, Tottenham, London N 1 7
Koimoa Software, I Pilgrims Close, Harlington, Dunstable, Bedfordshire
LU3 6LX
Kuma Computers, 12 Horseshoe Park, Pangbournc, Berkshire RG8 7]W
Learning Systems, 1 1 Warwick Ccmri, Princes Drive, Harrow, Middx
HAl 4UB
Legend, PO Box 435, London E4 7LX
Lerm, 10 Brunswick Gardens, Corby, Northamptonshire
Level Nine, 229 Hugenden Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
HP13 5PG
Logic 3, Unit IB, Wye Ind Est, London Road, High Wycombe,
Buckinghamshire
Longman, Longman Group, Longman House, Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE
I mhlorien, 5oa Park Lane, Poynion, Stockport, Cheshire SK12 IRE
Manor Software, 24 Manor Gardens, London SW20
Martech Games, 9 Btllingburgh Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN20
SLY
Mastertronic, (at for Mastervision)
Aiastervision, Park Lome, 111 Park Road, London NWS 7SL
Me Alley, I Cowleaw, Chinnor, Oxfordshire OX° 4TD
McGraw Hill, Shoppen Hangers Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire
Medidata, PO Box 26, London NW9 9BW
Melbourne House, Castle Yard House, Castle Yard, Richmond TW10
6TF
Meincomco, 26 Portland Square, Bristol BS2 SRZ
CGtttinutd on page 200
SINCLAIR USER January 1965
m
Software Directory
continued from page 199
Micro Dealer UK, Unit 6, Marlborough Road Trading Estate, 1-attimorc
Road, Si Albans, H efrfb rd ifl irt
Micro Wish, PO Box 15, Colne, Lancashire BBtf 9DB
Micro-byte, 19 Worcester Close, Lichfield, Staffordshire
Microcaam, 68 The Glade, Clay ha IK Itfbrd
Micromania, 14 Lower Hill Road, Eps.om, Surrey K.TI9 BLT
Mlrromega, 230/236 Lavender Hill, London SWII
Microsphere, 72 Roseberry Road, London NIO 2LA
Mikro-den, 44 The Broadway, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 1AG
M matron Computing, 34 Ptnewood Close, Wesibury on Trvm, Bristol
BS9 4AJ
Mirrorsofl. PO Box 50, Bromley, Kent BR2 9TT
Monitor Software, PO Box 442, London NW7 2JF
Mosaic, 18? Upper Street, London Nl IRQ
MW GamMiorid, 12 bwnswtwl Avenue, Chasctown, Walsall WS7
8YD
Myrmidon Software, PO Box 2, Tadw&rrh, Surrey KT20 7LU
Naigram Soft wai-e, do Soho Svnth House, 1 6A Soho Square, London
WIV SIB
Nectarine, 837 Yeovil Road, Slough SLl 4]H
New Gene ration Software, FREEPOST, Bath BA2 4TD
Ntwwft, 12 White Broom Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
NTD Software, 19 Radipole Road, London SW6
Oasis Software, 9a Alexandra Parade, Weston-Super-Marc, Avon BS23
IQfT
Ocean Software, o Central Street, Manchester M2 5NS
OCP, 4 A High Street, Chalfont Se Peter, Buckinghamshire SI -9 9QB
Orwin Software, 26 Brownlow Road, Willewien, London NWIO 9QL
Penguin, 536 King's Road, London SW10
Phipps Associates, i 72 Kingston Road, Ewell, Surrey
Phoenix Publishing, 14 Vernon Road, Btishey, Hertfordshire WD2 2JL
Picturesque, 6 Corkscrew Hill, Wesi Widtham, Kent BR4 9BB
Pnoler Games, 2 4 Pars Iocs Avenue, Dagenham RAi Q 5NX
Poppysoft, The Close, Common Road, Headley, Newbury, Berkshire
Positive [mage Software, E24 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow
Postern Software, PO Box 2, Anderovers Ford, Cheltenham, Gloucester
GL54 5SW
Print 4 n" Plotter Products. IS Borough High Street, London SE1 9SE
Protek Computing, la Young Square, Brucefieid Ind Park, Livings mi.
West Lothian
PSS, 452 Sroney Stanton Road, Coventry CV6 JDG
Pulmonic, Warvkft Distribution Ltd, 3 Standard Road, Park Royal,
London NW10 6 EX
Quest International Computer Systems, GiLlinghani House, 18-44
Gillingham Street, London SW1
Quickailva, Palmer stone Park House, Southampton, Hampshire SOI ILL
R and R, 34 Burton Road, Gloucester GL4 OLE
RAM Writer, 3 Vumba House, 2 Cedar Gardens, Sutton, Surrey
Ram top Services, 5 Rue D'Anois, T5Q08, Paris, Fiance
Red Shift, 12c Manor Road, Stoke Newington, London N16 5SA
Romantic Robot, 113 Melrose Avenue, London NW2 4!
Rnmik Software, 272 Argyll Avenue, Slough SLl 4HE
Rose Software, 148 Widncy Lane, Solihull, West Midlands
Runesoft, Chaniwood House, Crossgate Drive, Nottingham Nti2 Tl.W
Salamander Software, 27 Ditchiing Rise, Brighton, F-asi Sussex BN'l
4QI.
Scisoft, 5 Minster Gardens, Newthorpe, Eastwood, Nottingham NG16
2AT
SCR Adventures, 19G Shelnourne Road, Tottenham, London
SD Microsystems, ° Cadwell Court, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG4 OAQ
Scire Software, 37 Councillor Lane, Cheadk, Cheshire
Serinn Software, Kresposi, Dept SU7, PO Box 163, Slough, Berkshire
SL2 3YY
Shards, Suite G, Roycraft House, 15 Linton Road, Barking, Essex
Shepherd Software, Elm House, 23-25 Elmshott Lane, Chippenham,
Slough, Berkshire
Shiva Publishing, 64 Welsh Row, Nantwich, Cheshire CW5 5BR
Silversoft, Leaden House, 271/273 King Street, London W6 91.2
Sinclair Research, 6 Kings Parade, Cambridge
Soft Cottage, 19 Westficld Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire LEI I
SQJ
Soft Tech, 1] I.ampits, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
Softek International, 12/13 Hen: eft, Covent Garden, London
WC2E 8LH
So lie], 5 Durward Drive, Glenrothes, Fife KYS 2LB
Software Farm, 155 White Ladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BSB 2RG
Software Profrcis, Bear Brand Complex, Allcrton Road, WooltOn,
Liverpool, Merseyside L25 7SE
Spartan CC, 29 Felrham Avenue, Ea&i Moseley, Surrey KTS 9BJ
Spectadraw, I Cowleaze, Chinnor b Oxfordshire OX9 4TD
Speetrasoft, Capital House, Market Place, London W3 6AL
Starter-soft, 32 Parkfields, Chippenham, Wiltshire
St ell Software, 36 Umefkld Avertuc, WTialley, Lancashire BB6 9RJ
Stratagem Cybernetics, 2S6 Corbin Place, 2E, Brooklyn, New Vork
11235
Sulis Software, 4 Church Street, Abbey Green, Bath BA1 1FP
Sunshine Books, 12/13 Newport Street, London WC2
Sussex Publication, Townsend Poukhot, Devizes, Wiltshire 5NID ISD
Tasman Software, 17 Hartley Crescent, [-ceds I-Srj 2LL
Temptation Software, 27 Cinque Ports Street, Rye, East Sussex
Terminal Software, Derby House, Derby Srreet, Bury BL9 ONW
Texgate, 14 Brook Lane, Corfe Mullen, Wimhoorne, Dorset
Think Tank, 35 Wellington Road, Wimbledon Park, London SWJ9
Thor Computer Software, Erskine Industrial Estate, Liverpool 1.6 1AP
Timed a ta, 16 Hemmells High Road, Laindon, Basildon, Essex SSI5 6ED
Transform, 41 Keats House, Porehestcr Mead, Beckenham, Kent
Tutorial Software, 'Vilands', Glasllwch Lane, Newport, Cwcnt NPl 3PS
Ultimate Play the Game, The Green, Ashby de la Zouche,
Leicestershire LE6 5JL"
Unicorn Micro Systems, 312 Charminster Road, Bournemouth BHS
9RT
University Software, 29 St Peters Street, London Nl
US Gold, Unit 24, Tipton Trading Estate, Bloomfield Road, Tipton, West
Midlands DY4 °AH
Vega Space Systems, 21 Watford Road, Si Albans AJ.l 2AJ
Virgin Games, 2-4 Vernon Yard, London W 1 1
Visions, 3 Feldgate Mews, Studlands Street, London W6
Vortex Software, 280 Brooklands Road, Brooklands, iManchester M23
9HD
Widget Software, 48 Durham Road, London N2 9DT
Wilcox Software, Station Road, Walsall WST 6JZ
Winters, 24 Swarming! on Close, Canllty, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Woosoft, 5 Andrews Close, Robertsbridge, Sussex TN32 5PB
Workforce, 1 40 Wil.tder) Avenue, Luton, Bedfordshire
Wyvern Software, 2 Princes Building, George Srreet, Bath BAI 2 ED
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Daley's Decathlon £6.45 Full Throttle [6.45
Maiiv MdIp £5.45 Sabre Wiril f8 75
Beach HeaO E7 45 Tornado L.L. R45
Fran* H Stein E&.45 Hatchpoint f 7,45
Rapscallion FE.45 SciahNs f 15 45
Dangcrmouse in DT [6.45 Crusoe £5.45j
Knkcimn. Wilf £5.45 Twin Kingdom Vail EMS
Automata E6.45 Lords of Midnight IB. 75.
Pyjartiarsma E6.45 Mugs? ES.45
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HardwgE^pirectory
Sinclair spares
and repairs
IF, LIKE .MANY other Spectrum
owners, you find one day that your
computer has died, you will have a
major problem on your hands. Phoning
the Sinclair Research customer relations
department in Camberley will not help
very much either.
If your electronics knowledge is
limited, then you will decide to send
your Spectrum to one of the companies
who specialise in repairing computers.
If you have a good working knowledge
of electronics: then the addresses listed
below should en-
able you to obta
most replacement
parts to repair your
computer, Some of the
simpler repairs, such as
those involving keyboards
can be undertaken by those
with limited knowledge.
If your computer is under
guarantee then it is important that
you do not invalidate that guarantee
Talk to the customer service division at
Sinclair Re-
search and they
will tell you where
"to send it. When returning
the computer put a note in
describing the fault as briefly as
possible, as this will speed the repair
process.
Suppliers of Sinclair parts:
Ad Apr on and Ellmuaalora, 14 Thame* Street, Louth, Lincolnshire.
(050782) SOU. Spectrum and ZX-Sl power supplies.
ASTEC (UK), 16 Albury Close, Residing, Berkshire, (0734)51067. Supplies
modulators for all countries PAL, NTSC, SECAM.
CPC, 1 94-200 North Road, Preston, Lancashire, (0772) 555034. Supplies alt
pans for Spectrum, ZX 8 1 , ZK printer, ZX RAM pstfk including all case
pan>, power supplies and keyboard parti- Probably the best place uiget ULA,
ROM. case parts and keyboard.
Fcrnoti Semiconductor*, Computer Road, Hollinwood Avenue, Oldham,
La ncashire {06 ! ) 682 6844 , (06 1 } 624 05 1 5/666 1 . Supplies Spect ru m and ZX-
81 ULA.
Maplin Electronic*, Southend on Sea, Essex. (0702) 552961- Supplies
general components and data jnd technical books.
Nation*! S*m!conductwf* (UK} Ltd, 301 Harpur Centre, Home Lane,
Bedford. (0 234) 4 7 1 47 .. Suppli cs Spectrum RAM/74LS series TTL; LM 1 8B9
video chip.
NEC (UK) Ltd, Block 3, Carfin Industrial Estate, Motherwell. (0698) 73221,
Supplies Specirum ROM and RAM/74LS TTL; ZS0A,
Sinclair Research Ltd, Camberley, Sumy. (0276) 68531 1.
Tcxn loatruments, Manton Lane, Bedford. Bedfordshire. (0234) 223000,
(0234) 21 1655. Supplies RAM 41 16, 4532, 4164, 741.5 TTL (Spectrum).
TLmex Corporation, Camperdown Plant, Harrison Road, Dundee, Tay-
side- (0182) 819211- Makers or Spectrum, ZX-61, Printer, Interface one,
Microdrive*, RAM Pack. Repair and service for Sinclair.
Verran (Cwmputcrflx), Units 2H St 2J, Albany Park, Krimley Road,
Camberley, Surrey. (0276) 66366. Repairs Spectrami and ZX-81,
Zilog (UK) Ltd, Zilog House, 45-53 Moorbridge Road, Maidenhead,
Berkshire (0628) 39200. Supplies ZSQA,
Component companies
SOME OF THE large companies mentioned above do not like
dealing directly with the public. The following is a list of
component companies which should be happy to deal with
you. Most will have catalogues available and will supply data
sheets for their products on demand.
These firms are only distributors and they do not make
components. If you have a problem with a particular device
contact tne manufacturer as listed above because not many of
the distributors can answer technical questions; RS Com-
ponents, Famdl, Ambitt and Hawkes may do. Anyone need-
ing NEC parts should phone them direct and ask for some
distributors dealing with them.
Abacus Electronic*, Kennel House, Pembroke Road, Reading. Berkshire.
(0734) 33311. Make* dealt with; National Semiconductors, SGS.
Access Electronic Components Lid, Austin House, Bridge Street. Hit-
chen, Hertfordshire. (0462) 57244. Makes dealt with: National Setniconduc-
tors.
Alpha EJetfxpnic Component* Lid, 66 Wilbury Way, Hitchin, Hertford-
shire- (0462) 57244. Make* dealt with; National Semiconducmcs..
AM La*l Distribution Lid, Nevill Street, Middleton Road, Oldham,
Lancashire. (061) 652 0431. Mikes dealt with: Motorola, Mostek.
Anzac Components Ltd, Burnham Lane, Slough, Buckinghamshire.
{05286) 4701. Makes dealt with: Hitacbi-
Axion Electronics Ltd, Unit F, Turnpike Road, Conn Industrial Estate,
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. (0494) 442181 , Makes dealt with: Motor-
ola.
BA Electronics Ltd, Millbrook Road, Yale, Bristol. (0454) 315824, Makes
dealt with: Texas Instruments.
Celdl* Ltd, 37-39 Loverroek Read, Reading, Berkshire. (07^4) 585171.
Makes deal! with: Motorola, Mosiek.
CrerlJon Electronics Ltd, 360 Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire. [06286) 4434.
Make:, dealt with; Motorola, SGS, Zilog.
Dialogue Distribution Ltd, Watchmore Road, Camberley, Surrey. {0276)
682001. Makes dealt with: Hitachi.
DTV Group, 10-12 Earnest Avenue, West Norwood, l-Ottdon SE27. (01)670
6166. Makes dealt with: National Semiconductors.
Fame II Electronic Components Lid, Canal Road, Leeds. (0532)636311,
Makes dealt with: Hitachi, National Semiconductors.
Hawke Electronics Ltd, Amotex House, 45 Han worth Road, Sunbury on
Thames, Middlesex. (01) 979 77M. Makes dealt with: Motorola, Texai
Instruments. Will answer technical queries.
HB1 Electronics (NI) Ltd, 290 Antrim Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland,
Makes dealt with: Mustek.
ITT Muhlcompflnenta, Edinburgh Way, Harlow, Essex, (0279) 442971-
Makes dealt with: Motorola, National Semiconductors, SGS, Texas Instru-
ments and Hitachi,
Macro Marketing Led, Burnham Lane, Slough, Berkshire. (06286) 44:2
Makes dealt with: Motorola, National Semiconductors, Zilog, Texas Instru-
ments.
Quamdnn Electronic* Lid, Slack lane, Derby. (0332) 32651. Makes dealt
with: Texas Instrument*.
5TC Electronics, Edinburgh Way, Harlow, Essex. (0279) 26777. Makes
dealt with: Motorola, National Semiconductors, SGS, Texas Instruments and
Hitachi.
Computer parts
ZSttA; /.Hog, SGS, NEC (Spectrum/ZX-61).
.ULA: Ferrari (Spectrum/ZX-8 1 ).
ROM: Hitachi, NEC {Spectrum), Mostek, Motorola (ZX-81).
RAM: 4116 type — NEC, National Samkoaductors, Texas Instruments,
ITT (Spectrum)- 4532 type - Tcsas Instruments, OKI (Manhattan Skyline)
(Spectrum). 21 14 type - Motorola, NEC (ZX-81), 41 IS type - Mostek i/X
SI), 2K iype — Mostek, Toshiba, Motorola, Texas Instruments, NEC (ZX-
31).
LM1B&9: ICI4 — National Semiconductors (Spectrum)
TTL; 74LS0O/74LS32/74LSI57 - Texas Instruments, SGS* Motorola,
National Semiconductors, NEC.
The following are all used on the 48K Spectrum,
Regulator: LM7B05 +5V Reg. - SGS. NEC, Texas Instrument, Motor
ola.
Crystals, Capacitors, Resistors, Diodes, Socket*; available through
general component suppliers.
Modulator: UMI233 Asrec (UK) Ltd.
Leads: available at most TV/electrical ibapa
Case parts; Sendale Plastics,
Keyboard: CFC.
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demonstrate imagination on trie v»
programming skills -
Beach Head
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include sP^™^ "^ drive arOU nd
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road ahead. nr anhics N V°u
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