Cj^/^fN^^ A NEWSFtELD PUBLICATION £1.50 COMPUTER LEISURE ENTERTAINMENT TX:021 AUGUST 1989 The Most Exciting Game in Town... The At3fi Hand-held is here! See page l ^ ^, "ttie^tro^ |a^3jg|%^ jFfiioyable _ .V .' '^ftgraphies'^&f lick, the acttoifl^ n , f.. tough. .^.^e^jgnedtj&^k^p you 1^ glued to your stick". la popular m0v\e license bdlpkedlipf-j ^ J 'by great game-pl^^., 3^ unbeatable ' formula -^ peed! ess to Say^ Td buy it 4«n version to th^ |iome compiite r" . The Com es Mac hine coming back ftir more'*. / / _ ■ ir $$ ♦# t» •WJWi ST>» «"^£&M AMIGA *. ATMAN t;t' 1 ■» 4. sSMaV^ii^eS* S^iikMJMSiMkSl^' m2 sns :• ••a "^^ B 13 %i ^ ^ \* y. I f4 »a .^ *^«« (^ L *» ' *» -^X ■it: I3SD. "FKJlislied In every aspect - From the IfiMnorous siof yline to the end of the blufeting". • * • The Ckimes MacfiJne Top Scare • I 4 i^Mi^as. ^1 Special I^J| pro^ammed the game arid have done a great job. recreating the ^ character of theoriginals with a "Hintof humour". "The (fharacters ^ful . bacKjgrounas are strming- eacharesuperlathre-the ^ >^pi^fQd^ureS}asout}dtrdfKiT^i glorious remixed stereo" . familju*^D.lio\irs of aft^orWrif jfhay - you ame it. Voyager's got it. And that's notiyj: kean throw in. a cassette soundtrack wTiftrh has to l^one of the most mf^lblowing pieces of music J've ever heard '. « *.ff//t0Sirl^^rt.l tl It II O O @ Hf "... sc rolling fDgraphtcQi^ the mo^ ^ impressive I' ve seen on the ST ... a great arcade forri^a^al>d clever graphics iS'an j arcade forriwla^a^id clever graphics IS'an ^^^d^BV srAci; r — -w-t^-.'* M <UI 11 fl VI ^Fi^'^'ras! I*- ^^H ROBOCOP . BRAGON-NINJA VOYAGER ATARI ST - CBM AMIGA t1^J(^ht)he(06n/8S£ M3I« i[iEIG«jFM0S1 Ej<4l06l# <> <. • K V) U Q TGM NEWS AND PREVIEWS Stuti that hapiwned — stuff that wilt, plus the definUfve Batman preview: Ocean s game, Burton s film ROBIN CANDY'S PLAYING TIPS Everything AND the last part of Zak McKracketr CENTRE BYTES II moves. And gets bigger! State-of-the-arl with Arnica dlgilising, In-deptii repon on 16-tiit wordprocessors pJu$ printer^ at a budget. Fafnous iKirror novelist Ramsey Camipt>ell on coping with word processing. The New Yorif Expo, plus aJMhe usual Bytes Bits. PLAY BY MAIL RETURNS ttohn Woods (the 2nd) explains lite rules THE ADVENTURE COLUMN An expanded Paul Rigby checks out (heexclttng range of exportware' and the latest big adventures, strategy games and computer RPGs REVIEW CATALOGUE A It' format games hit the definitive Uactiine hotspot HAND HELD AND LCD An Hxc!uslve report from Chicago on the new revolu- tion in hand-held games consoles, plus Sam Tramiers future vision for Atari and the role of LCD games CES REPORT Marshal M Rosenthal catshes up with the Batman and other assorted super- ho roes at Chicago's big computer showcase THE DANGERS OF VDUs Um a computer? Listen 1o Mei Croucher. M's a fright when it comes to the diseases you can catch FANTASY GAMES John Woods (the 1>s1) gets into Games Workshop's RuneOuest and slays perps in the Judge Oredd HPG AN IDIOT'S GUIDE TO... Program mefs have planet- sized egos, says Rulh Pracy in this first of an irregular series which takes the Jid Off the computer world in a light-hearted way POCKET VISION Met Croucher's run down on the range o1 mln) TVs and pocltet video players you can find in Tottenham Crt Rd OUR MAN IN JAPAN Up-to-date specs on consoles and software from the land that gave us cutesy chsractefs, Sliogup and Shusi --!■' CENTERING THE BYTES Th« traditional summer software stump is well and truly with us this month. Even the 16-t>it sector, more than lively of latiS, has slowed to a trickJe, but nonetheless, in this expanded TGM, you'll find more leatufes Ihan ever before, For a start, we've moved Back Bytes to the middle of the magazine, so main features can take advantage of some Qolour — in this case a TGM Lab report on Amiga dtgitising and vid«o applications. Games are important, but with the access of greater (and cheaper) memories on i6-brt machines and highly improved sohware at reasonable prices, users are seeing wider horizons for their oompulers and leisure time than zapping errant alien hordes We also take a lool< at wordprocessing and printers, the first stage toward using DTP applicatiorrs (a futbire TGM Lab exercise to watch out for}. Obviously enough, with it in the centre we can't calf il Baclt Bytes' — Centre Bytes it is then, and if llhal smacks of Cenobites, you'd better t>e prepared tor some real tech- nical hell-raising in (his and future issues... But on the games front, all the hardware action recently has been in the States, centred on the Computer Eiecironics Stiow in Chscago. We have two reports: one general; one on the developing hand-held mactirne war, and the relevance It has for us here in Britain in what is still really a pre-Nintendo era — will they ever make the move? WIN! AN INDIANA JONES OUTFIT us Gold havea fedora hat, bullwhip, Indy-slyle leather Jacket and sweatshirt (no gun!), the game and poster, plus copies of the game arKi the Last Crusade book — [ust (or you! S»« page SB Check out page 72 because vif«'v« got Ar»otK«r £1,000 prix« far you this month on the TCM Hotline! just incredible! Yours for a phonocAll... Are you going to b« the lucky one this month? You could be.,. TGM TX 021 :8-89 § we AovfMTtme sEsms wmeh hick DAM^enom st/fsn ftcua amp paut nme hamp couscTon is m mnt pimt ahmmb amy wtw ms rttusTY stx SH&onn, a men amd soMi nfMAmiu, tack cftAsa urns soMewH§Ri m soinn AMititcA. ww LOH^ m CAN SVttVIVi tS UP 70 YOV. mCMPAM^noUS tSAVAtLASLi fOn SPfCTItUM AHO AMSTHAtf, CASSiTTt AUtf OtSK PfUCt £995, £t4.95; COMMOPOH $4, CASSfTTf AHV QISK PRICE £995, £1295, ATAUt ST. COWMOPORf Amt^A AHP /9M TO/Cf £24.95. PtREBfRia ft i Vf ^t999€9niPUtQfia9. .IRDUNITIHAMP. CiOS TEL 0&66 50433& RIAL ESTATE, TETBURV, NEWS PREVIEWS A PARADOX ARCANA wouJd like all TGM readois to xmderstand thai Mars Cops will not be avail atole tim month. But. it's not their fault' Unfortunately, the program- mer has done a bunk and walked Out On the Bnstol- bssed oranpany, just two weeks before the game's release. Don't worry, though. Mars Coi^ is now planned for an early September release. And if you're really desperate you can travel abroad and buy rt at tiie end of August. Now 1276 th@ Future U Fmadox. Elecinc Dreams produced the original film, bm snU don't Know wbetbez tbey'U do tbe sequels (both Bacfc to ihe Future U and Ul are being filmed at the sam<e time), AJt the other major Olm releases have already been picked up. Indeed, the Aciivision/Elecftric Dreams partnership have great potential with Ohostbtisters U and Alien m. for which they produced the original games. Die Hard. licensed by Activisjon last SCORE 12^967 SHIELI 424S A touch late: you may Just refnernber this prvlew picture kom I Two of TGM — Afcans's Mars C^ps was fscJwfwd to be neariy ready' there's a paradox. TaUdng of paradoxes, it is still uncertain who wiU pick up the licence to the new Michael i Ft^ fi^ Back to CtaiiBtmas is still not out It seems as if the Mediagenic household are waiting for the video release — aren't we aU, Talldng of fUms. The Gaioes Foxed: Michael J's back afiafn, but wt computer...? wuh two ■equflls n&one's y«t vying (or the licence, not even Electric Dreams who produced the first game Machine recently attended a special preview showing of Indiana Jones and ihe Last Crusade {the computer games are coming bom US Gold and Lucasblm) and a pnvate showing of the new Bond film. Licence to Kill (out now bom Domarkji, at studio 007 in Pine wood Studios Tlianks go to both companies. However, Ocean, who have probably the most eagerly awaited licence of the year, probably won't have a Satmaji preview at all. It seems as if Wamer Br<^ don't want any pre-viewing of the film. So it looks as if you'U see a lot of tired out journal- ists in the queues when it opens on August 11. ParSec packs pixel punch And after Mais Cops, another of those stories that almost got away As promised in TGM007, all these years ago, Elmtech Computing have desifjned a revolutionary graphics boaid for the Alan ST (to released m the end oS August), to make it mto the super oom- putei Atari promised it wouMbe. But Ehntech aren't limiting themselves to the ST, The ParSec Graphic Inteiface will also be availabte for the IBM PC (September/October}. Amiga (November]! and pos- sibly for the Apple Madintcsh. We'll be having a full review next month. Sorry, taut like over a year ago, there are no pictures yet. Until then here's a bn of the specification to whet your appetite. The ParSec Graphic Interface comes in ewo forms; the 4768 (£460) and the 8768 (£920). Resolution of 1024x768; ootour palette 4096 (model 4768) or 16,777,216 (mode! 8768 — honest!); maxmium colours onscreen 4096/196,608: and memory (video RAM) of 76eK on both models. It's supported by lots of utility software includmg an an, CAD/CAM, DTP. ray trac- ing and animation packages. Ttwce wlU also be some 'Tecssation software*. Elm- tech also have plans for a Genlock device and a digitis- ing module. Can't wait. Arcade action for UK Everybody wants to do it but nobody ever does it What are we talking about, software houses and arcade games, of course. Somewhere amongst every software company s future plans is a section enti- tlMl arcade development. Very nice if you can get it. And it finally seems that after Ultimate turned mto flare t^ produce the Razz board for arcade machines, everybody else is following suH. American giants Micro- Prose, recently announced their intentions to form a sub- sidiary company called MicroProse Games (MPG). dedicated to producing arcade products. MPG plan to design and produce their own hardware as the equipment presently available is just not up to the power of the games they are trying to develop MPG hope to release their first game in autumn of this year. It will most likely be a combat lUghi sunulator, creatmg 60,0(XI polygons per second. An arcade fUght simulator, devel- oped from the leseaidi used In F-19 Stealth Fightei. is also planned More blood money On our side of the Atlantic. Psygnosis are also planning to get into the aicade act — and the consoles and hand- held markets. After their recent agree- ment with First Star, Psygnosis are now able to develop for all the formats you can find First Star games on — including com^ps That means Psygnosis may soon also be seen on the Sega. Nintendo and even the new Game Boy. With more than 30 special- ists, the Uyeipool-based oom- pany hope to fltorm the con- sole market m 1990, which they believe will realty oome into its own'. TGM 1X021:8-89 7 News Fun School 2 not left wing enough Top-seJlmg Fun School 2 ttom Database has run into a bit of political pressure The reooid- breaicmg school package — the &rst piece of educational software to enier the Gallup chart — has apparently been given the coW shoulcier by left-wing educationalists who refuse to use the program as part of lh«ii teaching courses, So mfunated was Tameside teacher Shelly Gihson that she decided to put pen to paper and ask Minister of Education. Kenneth Baker, to 'hit back against the bias of left-wing educationalists', Shelly, from Poplar Street pFiisary School, Audenshaw, wrote in nud-June to ask Mr Baker to include Fun School 2. released ui January of this yeai; m the natiooal teaching cuTTicuhnn- As yet no reply has been received from the DoE- But what are the objections na Fun Schocd 2? TArtial they dont like about tt — apart from it being based on the 3Rs — is that ii involves an element of com- petition/ says co-author Petei Shelly 'Gibson s«n>d9 H^afith Bikit 3 copy of Fun $chioM 2, tRit mota* In th9 govaf nment haven't rvsctad yst... Davidson. 'One official in Greater Manchester consid- ered it old-fashioned- But what can you expect from an authonty where children at one school are required to play bongo drums duiing maths?' But why's it so popular? What do the users think o( it? 'The children love it/ says the prunary school teacher. 'They aie not Only learning but hav- ing fun at the same time,.. The national cumculum states that more use should be made of Infonnation Technology and that's eitactly what Pun School 2 does renuirkably well' And of Ktimeth Baker? Well, the ball's in his court now, says Shelly. Fun School 2 is available on BBC/Electron. Amstrad. Spec- trum and C64 at C9.95 cass, £12.95 disk, and on the Atari ST, Amiga and IBM PC priced E19,9S, Ctieap -thrill The recent Atari ST Show held at Alexandra House (June 23-2SCh) was a virtual treasuie trove of bargains. Recently ralessed garner were going for budget prices, while you CDuld pick up a 520STFM for as little as £200. The soon to- be-withdrawn Multiface ST was alto twavily discounted (new oopyrigbt laws come into force next month). New products launched included a new range of utilities from Hi -Soft. K' Spread 3 a spreadsheet from Kuma and The Creatoj. a cartoon generator from Signa Publishing. Atari were conspicuous in their absence perha ps biding their time until the launch of the romouied STE. Undoubted star of the show was Elmtech's soon-to-be-reieased ParSec graphics sifstem (see ParSec packs pine I punch). For more details on new ST products see Toolbox (page SO}. Barbar's back smi V. Central computer show The first ever computer show to be held in Shrewsbury. Sluopshiie, lakes place on September 1-2. With more than 30 exhibitors from all over the Midlaruls and Wales, 'There are only a handful of stands left,' says David Pletts, bom of The Computer Room, sponsors of this new event. 'In the past people in this area have had to travel to Birmingham, Manchester and London. This is very mconve- nient, particularly for those who live in Wales, Now, for the first tiroe, they're getting a computer show on their own doorstep.' The Shrewsbury Computer Show will feature games. s«ii- ous software, and home and business computers. The SCS will also be showing computer hardware and software for the handicapped, with demonstra- tions. S(^ adinission in Che Music Hall. Shrewsbury, is free. Contact David Pletts on f0743,) 231172 for more information. 8 TGM TX021 :8-89 HAMing it up From Imagiewotks comes DDT. a zany game set on the planet Shooalc waggle Here t profitable ptotes^i^jn that of Dynamo: Debugger (le f\ of the variety bugs that Sh-'-"' -vaggle). h ith a oork ! champagne bott! uum cleaner, a I : and battery you n tackle ten world- ed with a Vi. pests The Amiga vt is one of the first, ii THE first game to exploit (te, arumate and scroll) the Hold And Modify mode, with over 4000 oolourB on screen* VJ^trV. out for DDT year when ii ..i.i t^-- available on Amiga. Aiar: ST. C64 and PC. (Am!q;i Screen li -I Compilation corner Summer's heie, The^ sun's beating down, and who wants to pJay a computet game? No many people it see'ms, ioj summer is notori- ously the worst time of Lhe year for sofrwaie sales. However. Hewson have turned the concept on its head wtth the release of their latest compilation Heaiwai^e. Theii latest package is designed in postcard form, oomplete with stamp (of approval?). The compilation also features the new Hewson logo fjeatwai^e, available foi C64. Spectnim and Amstrad at the end of July priced £12.99 cass, £17,99 disk, con- tains; Nebulus, FiTBhrd, Ranaiama, Netherworld. Zya&ps, Impossgibail (Sp, AiQslf and All^ykat (CM}. Also coming out with oom- pilations lately aie Elite, They recently announced their iiitentiona to stop producing 8 bit games, to oonoentratie on coiiipUation^i. 16 t>Lt prod- ucts and — like everyone else — consoles. Their latest anttiologles are entitled The Story So Far. Volume 1 (16-bit): Beyond the Ice Palacs. Buggy Boy, Ihaii Warriors and Batileships. Volume Z (S-bit): Space Karri Bf, Live ajid Let Die, Overlander. Beyond the Ice Pal&ce and Hoppin Mad Volume 3 (16'bitJ; Space Harner, Live and Lei Die. Bombjack and ThundBFcats. Volume 4 (B- bit): Ghostbusters. Aliens, Wonder Boy. Eideion. Sack to the Future and OuarteL Volumes t and Z are now available for £19,95 and £14 99 respectively. Volumes 3 and 4 are expected in eaily Septen±ier. More news from Elite \s that CommaiJdo and Paperboy are almost ready for their 16- bit debut. Okay, Elite, enough of the old stuff, how about some great NEW games, like in the good ol' days. French quest InfogTames jump on the comic conversion bandwagon vfith this stylish game by the programmefs of Passengers In The Wind. The Quest For The Time-Bird comic has won numerous awards, and takes place on the planet Akbai whera magi- ciaris, dragons and witches still eidst. The computer same fea- tures a knight, a witch- prmcess and a 'stranger' attempting to recover the Gonche Of Time from the evil monster Ramor, Available on the Atari ST. PC and Amiga nowj Paradroid on the Amiga Star programmer Andrew Brayisrook is letuming to well-trod den territory to produce the smash hit classic. Paradroid, on the Amiga, Apparently Bray brook is taking six months to pro- gram it, so it's not going to be just a straight port across. Despite GraftgoEd leaving Hewson for Teleoom Soft, it seems that the Abingdon based company have picked up the rights to publish the sequel to their Christmas of 198S hit More nevtfs when we get it... More tennisU WIMBLEDON wiU be long fin- ished before Passing Shot is I ei eased, but this tennis n iiTiP licensed from & Sega promises to be a win '••A hmageworits {just taki» x)k at the arcade sciet n lassing Shot will offer an impressive array of playlncj options along with the obtjtj l tory line judges, ball boys eui TGM TX 021 :6-89 9 Tht Nan with f he Hafisl»ackl La«tC#iisa u HUJt t4«»r% IRtlM VUtClU^ IC»U41 ^' "n""^!0 11,^'^il^: 1^1 ?/.'/' \:il^S [ ;^ ■*--n *i J 0- r» ' Jy irj |»^7 Available in ilte Autumn for aU major forinats, we pcomise not to let John McEnioe any- wher<e near it. In a German prison... Kayden Garth is a prison planet oontroUed by an orbii ing space station. But ona day contact with the station ts lost and chaos threatens to . rivelope the world. You oon- r:a| fouj characters in a tltis intnguing fantasy toloplaying game from Germany-basod EA3. Out now on tho Amiga (pictured: aix>ve, nght), vuHh an ST version tc follow soon. Get the Vette Created using the singulation itjchnoiogy that brought you Falcon, Spectmm Holobyte are set to release Weice onto the Amiga. Atari ST and PC later in the year. So jam a rac- ing helmet on your head and choose one of Uie three 'orvettes on offer as you pre- i>are to race through the com- pletely accurate streets of San Franasoo. {PC screen.} Bowled over Shock horror, Dr Slimms (a brilliant female scientist) has been kidnapped' Call in Captam Frontier, a retired secret service officer- Apparently Dr SUmms was miniaturised and hidden in a mysterious world withm one of the laboratory's lerraiiums (smaU glass contamers for plants), Your job is to rescue her and return to the real world- Terranum, pron grammed by SpUnter vision, is available on the Amiga, Atari ST and PC on the imageworks label in Aulumxi. (Amiga screen-) Flight fantastic The flight sim fanatics among you vi^ be pleased to know that F-%B ComiJat ?noi will finally be available for the Amiga (pictured) from Digital Integration now-ish A TOM Top Score on the ST, the Airiiga game should have improved somes but other- wise be very similar So those of you who fancy puUlng some fancy aerobatice or blasting seven bells out ol a vanety of enemy Largets with the awesome weaponry at your corarnand can start queuing now. The story so far.» You play the pan of EUtred the Brave, son of Kmg Eldred the Good- Disaster strikei when the King i£ poisoned by a spiteful wizard called Zfindor. Now ycu must battte your way Uuough Zander's evil mimons to gsiin the anti- dole and so save your father Released by Delphine Software. distnliuced by Palace, Castle WainoT wiU be available in July for Amiga and Atan ST. (Amiga screen-) Previews THE LAW Officer Sob is tbe long sxiffer ing star of APB, a hilarious oops and robbers game which will be the latest con- version to appear on the impressive Domark/Tensen label in a mattet of weeks, il not days. This triendly poUce- man's task is catch a daily quota of criminals, ranging from tralfic offenders to mur derets. (Atari ST screen.) Officer Bob roare off in hia car in APB (top), while In b inort fantasy world. Teirhum's attractively shaped screen can be 5e«n immediatelv below. Below that is a screen fionr Digital LDte^ratJODS F-16 Cambat Pilot, and at the bottom of th« pSQe. Eldred the Brave tigbtl for his father in Castle Warrior. L«ft page, bottom: great gnpfajcs from Spectnua Holobyie's Vette. 7x2'' *- ^ t-v' \t M^ A^ w. m S^f^^ 'H- ^4 IV — [Z3^. k-.i ■tf ^ r. \ 1' •' \ ^^' ' m r mL ft -11 '^ 4- 4-. 4- 4- il:. -. 9 Vhitdoiens ofiocjtions not seen in the tno»e. f Over too s.o\ind effeefi ... plus mo^ie thfme musk, • Comes with Hefffy /ones due pjtcked Gmi Dury, And this time He's l»rinqin« his Dad! AMRIST&CIMAA1IGA04.S9 • IBMPC&COMPATtBlES£29.!» •ivr US^E&M (iea; tor a Balman moifte bawflliMn ditulsting lar nine ytari or mwt. with dire dons stich d$ Steven Spjelberti showing inter- est in a project whtcl^ has been boin a Thirties period piace antf a t]jg - budget cDiTiedy $tan-ln;i Bill Murray wnen Ihe nim actually started produciion many lett t^e latter concept was still on, with Michael Keaton replacing 81 II Murray. But thank- fully, on the smh anniversary Dt the comic hero's creation. Warner Bros have ^one back to the 8a I mam's ominous roots Ttre Batman originatect with sketches tiy Bob Kane depjciing a hero mora demonlG than angehc. The man In the baisuEt. Brute Wayne, had no superpowsfs ~ merely intierttetf wealth ^nd a iiuming ottsB^sicn lo fight crime born ot witnessing his parents gjnnecE down by a muggef at Ihe age qI seven. Serious commentators see the Dark Kniglil as a product ot the limes: Amehi::a was only liisi recovefing trom the Oeprfisslon, a fHiiati Ql terrible poverty w*""* vldlenl criminals litce Baby f Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, anif Capons were regard^ed as^ heroe£ tiy many. Tine Batman was as rutlilBss. shadowy ar"^ virliially as violent as sucli criminals In till purstilt Dl vigif ante-style jus- Uce, While supporting aulfiortty wtien many pestioned ii. his characier bordered on the fascist . Hence ttie esriy sloriei emphasised the relentfess de(" tive side ol lus character. high-lech gadgets and brutal vio- lence. Comics ai the time were oltert eitraordinarily violent, evenluetly leading to a backlash vlilcli lorceil b sweeping code of lelt censorship an Ihe industry tn 1954. Dubious characi«r$ inch as Batman were gulled la become lianai goodies, in Itie fate Sixties Wi Ginractef was gloriously sent uji in the fani>ous TV series, Devotees ot the original style CPU Id oitly groan as IJie once intriguing, morally dubious vigi- lante was maite an internalianal comedy hit by Adam Wasl. Since tlien comic books have outgrown Ihe sefr-censDr$hip ol Ihe Rtiies and in 1986 one at llie most innoualive writer/aftlsls. The summer of 1989 sees Hollywood dream factory cranking out big-budget movies almost by the dozen — indtana Jones Jll, Ghostbusters i^ Star Trel( V, The Abyss and Lethal Weapon II. The first two smashed records for first week box office takings, records which have. In turn, just been broken by 1989's hottest film: BATMAN. Stuart Wynne looks at the phenomenon of The Batman. Prank Miller, produced Hie Dai Knight Returns (£7 95, Titan). This graphic novel has sold over a mllllen copies and finally made people outsliie the comics world aware of how grown-up It can be. Appropriaiely anougl^i Ihe slory begins with The Batman in retire- ment, bul an outbreak in crime caused by a vicious itreel gang, and the release of rehabltitated' toes like Ihe Joker and Two Face, brings llie Capad Crusader back into aclion. Prom pi ly I hereafter the new police commissioner iss4ies a warranl for his arrast as a vigilante. crtptwrlter for the Itas Batman film, Sam Hamm, h a comics bull and some it1 Ihe dia- logue m Ihe movie li Inspired directly by Dark Knight. The core story, however, seems to owe most to Ttie Killing Joke (£1J^. Titanl by Alan Walctimen" Moore Her^ the Joker is a mir- rof-imsge at tha Batman: one is ttedlcstei) to justice, the other lo crime, but botti are mentally unbalanced and scliifophrsnic. Indeed ai ttie Jokers brand of crime created, In some sense, the Batman, so the Batman s vigi^ tantism in pan creates ttre Joker. In Ihe final film, the dubious and most fnteres:ting parts ol 'nte Batman 5 character have moslly stripped away la Hamm's dis- pleasure. S2S million inspire caution, espectally when director Tim Beeilejuice Burton casts Wiciiael Keaton as Salman. Tli« overatt lone of Ihe picture remains disturbing howevsf, with JacN Michotson making Ihe Joker B mesmerising portrait ol evii. And the Balman is certainly no grinning. Superman-like uphold- er ot The American Way. In one ol his tirst meetings with a Gotham City criminal he gruffly announces; I'm nol going to kiil you... I want you to do me a favour ... I want you ttll iill yotir Irlends about me.. I m Salman.' Just as in Ihe comacs the Batman sets out to terrorize his pmey. The film deals with Bruce Wayne's return to Goltiam City, and his decision lo become ihe Baiman who will, inevitably, kt lotted in a spectacular con- trontatlon with ihe Jotter. One ol tite many Gothamites itirealened by this contronlalion is Bruce's girlfriend — reporter Vicki Vile (played fn fine form by Kim Basingerj. Another star at the pictort is Gotham City itsell. The largesi outdoor set since Cteopaira. this is 3 breathtaking vision of an iirbaTt hell. Production Oeslgner Anton Furst has described the city as Thirties vision of a city at tha Eighliet. II It Itttly to rival the Los Angles ol Blade Runner H cinema's most aslonishiflg vision ol an alterasitye world Ttien thert s all Ule Sal devices, Including Ihe ominous Batwing and 22 foot Baimoblle with tlicii- ering afterlitinier and pop-up Brawn ing machine guns. Tim QuMan has been ott-qHSl- ed about ttie lour moit rtcof- nised symbols In the woftd, these being Coca Cola balUt. Mickey Mouse, Ihe swastika and ttie Batman logo. Thai logo Is now being used to sell a whole hpsl of nterthandising, already mare ticences have been sold (or Balman: The Movie products than any other singl^e lifm And Ocean, ol course, have the computer game licence. Balman: The Mavia will be Ocean's Itiinf Batman game The first was way ba^k in May tgSB 12 TGM 1X021:8-89 W*^ I V* -^'Z-. OtililllVK'^ ^jAiJiUJ-i Michael Keston (opposite page) storrns Jn a$ Ihe new imn-mLis- cl^ O^Hc Knighl lacked in bat- tie wllh hts arch-erjemy The Jokef (Jack Nicholson, bottom right, in superbly evil fOfm)^ who is after Batman s girlfriend V^ki Val6 ([>layed by Kim Basinger top, with Kesion). Also pictured Iwo screen shots from Ocean s forth coming game: the Atari ST versian ~>~^v« and Ihe C€4 beJow. - ^,v/,JL'A. mt wm nian and Bemle twist on the Krvight Lore-styte isometric arcade adveitture. De^pite the fsct the main cfiarac- ter was perhaps inarie fatman tlian Batman tti^e game was a massive CDmnnerciai and critical success- Head Ow«r H«els. the progirammtrs' next game, dra- maticatty impraved the game- styte but lacking Ihe Satman ii'i,-:ii"j,:ii ttarled that a Batmatt fnovfe was attaut 1o be maite Ocean thus knew better titan most the value ot the licence. A meeting was arranged with M\e head of Wari^er which convefli^ntiy enougtr jjwns DC Comics Wilt] one successM Batman game already released. Oceaii won the licence tor not 1 but Bha anottier game based purely^ oi^ tt>e c^smilc. Dc«an entrusted the taller protect to top programminQ team Special FX. Ilickscfeen technique to suggest Ihe panels qI a c^imlc book. Batman: J^e Gaped Crusader was another big bit. Qlvan the tiype suitoundtng the tjtm Batman: The Movie coutd well emulate I^oboCi^'s recordlireaking slay a1 tfie lop of the ctiarts. Accofi^ingly, the design of ilie game l^as l»een entmsled with Mtk-e Lamt} ^hit Dawn Drake, the team responsi- ble lof Itie Spectrum/Amstraij RobeCop game Following Ocean practice since the groundbreaii' ing Platoon, ttie programming/grapjiic artist learn has sought to la How Ihe plot and reel of Ihe lil^m as ma^h as pesst- ble, rather than simply changing the graphics nt an e$tabll$hei} Mike Lamb and Dawn Dratia game-style. Film tans slieuld be warned that reading abottt the game's structure rtViSllt ft tot aliQuI the til m tool Batman: The Movie comes In "— separate parts Level one place in the Axis Chemical ry where Batman must battle both cops and rebbers in his pur- suit ai Jack Napier (tlie Jokfi-to- be). The batarang can be fired te ^tng iatman above his loss Bfonie Comma niiortyte The itext level has Batman pairoEling Gotham In his Batmotiite. men giving chase to the Jokers van. Then it's back to tlie Batcave w^ere ihe woirtd's greateft detec- tive does some chemical analy- sis. Level four sees Ibe Batman fly- ing down a street in the Sa hiving, in a Zaixw-style scene he must cut ttie repes hrmg batSooits la parked trailers without burning them. Tba linal section is the Batmsn/JofeSf canlrontalion in a cathedraF. Tfie Cbi version is cur- rently being coded by Zacti Tawnsend and Andrew Sleigh, Hhe program ming/orapbie artisJ learn previously responsibte Ittr Piatopn and Renegade lit. IB-bil conversions should be underway as you read ttiis, programmed to best exploit ttie host machines. All versions should be released by September at the normal Ocean prices, and reserving advance copies mighl be a good idea toifowing the example ot tickets to tfie supertt movie Batman: The Wo vie opens In the UK on August 11. The With Nintendo's Game Boy storm- ing chainstores all over the US and Japan, Atari rushed their announcement of their hand- held toy for the CES in Chicago (see report on page 21). With a full colour LCD screen it shook the pillars of the Game Boy stand. Marshal M Rosenthal, our man in the West, found the near- est saloon and wondered if Nintendo had met their match... The Stranger enters th^ (own, dusty as rhe dm-filled stra«t beneath his feet. Hts poncho slaps bac(( and forth against his c^est as a CO(d wind bkMr$ &vb smoke Irom his chsfool up and away. Th© townspeople stare — he has a lean and angiy ksok. The fat slienft goe$ inside, botts tJ» dow and hides The Stf anger enters the satoon. He walks to the tiar and oirders a drink. A greasy, uiQly man In a gar- ish shift comes over and spins the Stranger around Who do you think you are., 10 come in heie like you own Itie town? Yov must pay respect to our leader!' Time Leader sifs in a Qomef — oblivious to what j^ {lOfng on. IHi$ ears are plugged up witti head- phones, his eyes ^iued to the tiny black and white screen of his Game Boy system. Yeah — siKM some respect ot we'll cul you up.' bellows anoiner. The Stranger shrugs off the hand upon him. and walks slowly Ofver to ihe Leader The Leader lakss Off his headphones, and looltE up. So wtx3 are you. ttw Man With No Name'^ Laui^ier and guffaws atiQund throughout l^e bar — untit '" Stranger slaps one hand down 1, waist. Ouiet. The Leader stands and laoes ttie Stranger Siilence hangs in the air ' " log You can hear it>e dtock on jtfall - iidn. loch, lick. lock. Two hands nse up as one. The Leader is flushed with easy victory, ijniti he sees the Atari Portabte Entenainment System in the Stranger s t\and. The Leader fails back, defeated — his Game Boy dropped to ttw floor. An aura ot respect envelopes th* bar as the Stranger lurr» and goes back oui in 10 the street A voice is iward to call after him — Hey Mtster. where can I get rrra oneT Et wasn't quHe a bar- room scene, and the oompetitkjn wasn i invited, but Atans sfiil unnarned Color LCD Portable Eniertainment System made the impad of a ten Don weight striking an egg A hunled press event called af ehte CES in Chicago br<oughi in 20 30 people to listen to Atans President, Sam Tramiel, expound on bnnging the gaming business back to America- We haven! t:»een sitting back. waiching profits go offshore tQ manufacturers wtK} are totally unrfr alistic about offering oor\sumers value, Tramiel begins 'ii wouldn't have dor>e the consumer any good il we had simply brought out anoth- er grey screen that ont/ offers sim- ple, sk}w. flat graph k:s, People want and deserve more Tramief'S 14 TGM 1X021:8-89 Pre We w Feature rema/4(s sasm in defiance to the fear of God thai big N has hekJ over the gaming comrfiuftity these East few years. But defiance ccmes easy wfien you're hiolding AcBB. and the System is impressive {ii shoui<i be r>oted that It was designed by a team of experts at Epyx software), Weighing abokJt a pound and no terger than a VMS video cassette, a 3 5-inch diagonal color LCD screen stands out. Easy to view and with a resolution of ieOx-t02 pixels A buitiin speaker outputs (our -channel sourKf. and there's also a headphone jack A rocKer- pad on ono side perforins direc* ttonal functions, while A-B buttons oo the othter take care of the activa- tion/Hring modes, Sbit technology (6502 microprocessor) is gtven a big push through a 16 hAHi clock — running at least three times faster than other units- 16 coEours onscreen are selectable from a palvtte of 4096. wHh game car- tridges ranging from one up lo 1€ megabytes. Multiple player games are possiible since the system can be interlinked with up to e^ht other units using a connecting cable (and just one game card). A nice touch is that the entire screen can Ije rotated 1 SO degrees lor left-handed players (which Is what the second set o* A-B buttons are for), and there s a Pause button as weiJ, Six penlight batteries power the unit, which can also run off a car's CiQiafette i'ighter of an AC adaptor. The units are turrted over to our greedy little hands, and we start playing. Tfw SySteiT) fits nicely in our hands, the size and weight working to gilve it a solid and secure feeling. The gan^e cart tias a Califomian motif (more on that later), and is fun to pitay — although my in- Be guy i^eeps falling off his si^aleboard. Hey, these are FIEAL — no wires leading to VCR players under a table, and we walk around with them witfiout noticing any horrified looks from Atari. It's ti^ to malte a decision based on Just a few minutes of use, but action onscreen was i^kk, entertaining arKJ very colorful. Mot rnuch more 10 ask than that. We turn our attention to two offljeat-lookirtg guys wearing Epyx sweatshihs and hangir>g out In the cor- ner. These two are prodding ind poking the units like they were hand puppets In a Punch and Judy show, Its okay, were toW — ttieyre the sys- tem s designers. Jhe tall, thin one with the stare tike that of Jasofi from Friday the I3th, is RJ Wical — software engineer extraordinatrf^ His partner (noi as tati and ti&jo ediy more normal' looking) is Dave Needle, wizard at hardware design These are the two guys who creat ed the Amige (we knew that the 4096 ookiur pafette sounded famii iar!}. Getting them to hokj sti^tt lor a few questions Isn't easy, but an electric cattle prod works won- ders... Mical seems the more vocal of the two He pulls out a Tor Our £yes Only' notepad and states All engineers are jerks'. Needle fakes umbrage with that, and corrects his partner, All engineers without exception are Jert^'. Asked |o explain what that means gels the gjiswer that hardware designers constantly UNDERRATE what can be <^rte with their products, But wa feel that this project will allow great ihings. notes MucaL and they both agree that iheir device has great potential, since it takes many of the problems away from the sofl- wafe — lreeif>g the creative pro- cess. For instance, perspective afid size changes are trandted automaiically. with each player t>aing provided witii a lirst person view of Ihe acUon (when two uniis are hooked up m tandem). An example would be a race game. Each driver views his per- spective only, so when a second car approaches the lead car, the lead car becomes larger on the sec- ond player's screen. H the second player should then pass, the first player then sees the other car ahead of him. Noting that the Rrst senes of garries will come from Epyx, we try to ask a few more questions, tjut Mica! and Needle can't sit still. Besides, Aiari^ personnel is teanng aher them trying to recover two of the game units that they've stucih in their pockets! Speaking of Epyx, ttiey have the inside trade to the first series of game carts lo be released (makes sense). First up will be Monster DemoUtion — which enables vou and another to go on the rampage (tad pun) through- out the country. Impossible Mission has you trying to save the President's daugh- ter from a band of terrorists, who are protecied in a lonress complete with iniilef drcids, explosive traps and elect rilied floors. Bfue Lightning places you In Ihe cockpit of a Supefsonic tight er jet — taking on all-comers Tb«i M«r»hiil gats his fnen Ail cnain««rf are Jertts... claim th« men who created the Amiga {ii^p l^ft): Marshal M Rosenthal with aytems deilgnari 0«ve tiMdIe < left) and nj Mical (centre)^ Oelow; 'People want ■trd deserve more...', ■ays Aiarf's Presifd«flt Sam Tramiel at a CES Kress conference, ^hal s h& talking atiout? The Atari Portable EnlE>rtainment System (I mm ed lately ainove), witti Its brilliant colour graphics on games such as Biutf Lightning. Caiitornia C0mBs iind Monster Demolition, pictured in order on the letl. TGM 7X021:8-8915 while Hying to reach the target (Ihwe's even a. warbling tone lock on' tor Ihe <ire cantroi), Tim» Quests and Treasure Chests is an advenlure in dark dungeons, filled with mean and ugly characiers. Survive this and then tfv to handie being thrust into Outer Spaco — all HI pursuit of the Star Gem. a stone ttial bnngs the owner eternal life. The Gates of Zendocm chaJtenges you 10 fly a stoten spacecraft as you attempt to wipe out the cruel aliens (some 50 types of them), It helps that you're armed with a destructor shield, photon bombs and neutrino laser Finaliiy. Cafitornia Games »S a muHiptayer treat that takes you on a whirlwind touf of the Golden State, Try your hand at such sunny sports as sori- :ing, skateboarding, foot bagging and BMX bike race (this cart is included with ttw system). Other con^panies are keeping a low profile tor the moment, tnjt the talk under the tabies is that those now gearing up to develop for the Game Boy will also be dipping into Atari's Well, 6ul lor right now. it does seem thai discretion is the only pan of valour being oonsid ered. The rnint-party is winding down. Marketing people dan lo and If o — recovering gaiTte units from pur- naiisis who are trying to wa!k ihiem out of the meeting room. Referring to a Cjuole trom a competitor that Atari's producl is like using itie Ferran to get to the corner grocery Store, Tramiet retorts; "I'd rather dhve a Ferrari to the corner grocery store. Who wouWn't rather have a Ferran than a Toyota"? But our price is no) ttiial comparable to a Ferran.' Tramiel sums it up by not- ing ihal It (the Portable Cotour Entertainment System) really is US technology at its best.' The Atari Portable Colour Entertainment System will retail in the United States for $149.95 (around COO). Below: the two-toot- lall After Burner hand- held machine, with (to the right) a typical gam« screen and another from Outrun which can [» played on ^slmiiarEy'Sized hand' held Handle with It all started with the Game and Watch systems of the Seventies. Then, the hand-held games market went quiet, till now. Last month we introditced you to Nintendo's Game Boy — with interchangable cartridges. This month Marshal M Rosenthal looks at the phenomenon that's sweeping America, and is now taking off in the UK: dedicated hand-held games... Everything seems to be electronk: this y«ar. and hartd-held LCD qames are very hot, both in saeen size and popularity, We know that there's a wt^ole new adventure with interchangable canrkjges tor the Nintendo Game Boy and Atari Portable Color Entertainment System ^ but small, inexpensive ■pocketablQ" LCD games still com- mand attention. Wrestling is one US sport that can't be explained. Suffice to say that you either love It or hate it. Those who love it will also love Acclaim's hand-held verskjn of that great American spod (?) WWF Wrestfefnania featuring hfuik Hogan, The LCD screen enables you to rassle' your opponent, while avoiding being hit by his chair- wielding teammate. Other lavourites include Airwott, wttefe you go atler missile launchers and enemy aircraft, and Rambo New ones in the works tqr Ihe holiday season include Rodiy and Wizards And WamorB (t>ased Oh Nintendo s own cart trom last year}. Tiger Electronics wont disflf}- poiint you either Their line Of LCD games include Double Dragon, Simons Quest {which displays four different stages), Gauntiei and Hea\^ Barret — and even video adaptations o1 computer garnss like World Games. Plus screens based on new leies^ision sliows: Poiice Acachmy — Ti^ie Series being one. Great sight and sound is enhanced by auto shui-off and a special memory leature that keeps the high score Intact when it>e power 4S switched olf (as supplied by two penlight battenes). For serious lun, try Afterburner 16TGMTX021:8-89 Preview Feature - — r Over two feet tail it featur&s a Full- size ioysTJch and 18 levels. Great sound and wamfng alerts make tfHS ttie one to fly, Th«n oool down on the open road wilti Out Run. Shaped like a sports car, this baby has a realistic steerrng wlieel, shift lever, and five races to master. Both have targer-than-avwage LCD screens. ar>d keep your high- est score in memory (bit heavy on the batteries, though). Pnobably the neatest from Tiger is Sugar Ray Leonard's Talking Boxing, it even looks like a boxing ring" 12 exciting LCD rour>ds — tfiere minutes to pummel your foe into submission — with a talking handed joystick controls combine with buttons to let you do it all — just remember to watch out tor that uppercut! Maybe it's not technically a hand-held, but Video Tek's Electronic Taking Battleship Co^nmand is really Somethir>g. Based on the popular board game, each of the two consoles react with a talking nanator' who keeps score of the game. As on the board, you position your navy, but by using a keypad to punch in their location. Then it s time to try and defeat your foe by guessing where they ve placed their ships. Sound and light effects highlight the action — so sini^ your opponents fleel Ijefore fie gets yours f One of the first soiind chips to really show its smarts came a long time ago in the Mattel Intellivision game. Wave come a long way since then, so say twilo to the Hitstruments from Nasta. Hit Stix 2 follows the success of last year's niodel. Two bright yellow drum- sticks trail wires that attach to a smaJI speaker boK dipped onto your beit Beat the sticks in the air {or against a walbiriend) and out comes the sound of a snare drum. Change a setting on the left stick and now it's a Tom-Tom (or a Bongo)- The tone control on the right stick varies the timbre tor dozens of sounds. Rather a piano? Don the two mit- tenlike pads and finger the keys I referee to announce every move that occurs. Score points with jabs, body punches, and left a>xj right hio<^, while weaving, ducking and dancing away from being hit. Play against a human, or let if>e com- puter do its thing — start off against the third- ranking contender and work up to the champ. Two- on Hit Keys. Ten musical tones will resuit. and the speaker box can svtritch from piarto to organ in a flash. Or how al>out Hit Guitar, the free-Styte guifp One hand wears ttie 'neck',\* le dip- on speak er hias a pao A funky coiled wire keeps yoi. gers talking to the speaker. Let's end with some unusual high-tech: Hkte N' Seek from Worlds of Wonder. Now what was a simple game becomes high adventure, as the seeker uses his device to home in and locate the hider' units. Light p>anels on the speaker device sync with beeping sounds when within 50 feet of a hider. You can't turn off the hider unit either — thai can only be done tty touching it to the seeker unit. One seeksf and two hider units come in a kit. ar»d all are powered by a 9v battery- Most of tf>ese types of gan>es are now available in high street stores like Dixons, and small inde- pendent chains (ranging from £10- E20). Check em out to see wf^t should be in YOUR hands this summer. Game Boy gaming In all !he excitement we mu^n t for- get Nintendo's Game Boy fas fea- tured in TGM last month). The Game Boy is available in Japan for aljout £55 (so expect grey market imports at atiout £tOO). Games should appear over here soon, pfObably at around El 2. Ttie Game Boy already t^as a large amount of third party sott- wafe support from tlie likes of Kemco. Bandai and Coconut Japan, plus Ninterxto, of course. Games currently available indude Tennis {two-player option, with two machines), which brings back mem- ories of Psion's Match Point Baseball (also with two-player option); Teths, the arcade puzzle game (which t$ on every single for- mal imaginable): and the inimitable Super jWano/and (a real classic]. Over tfw next few months expect Mickey Mouse and Hyper Lode Runr^er (both arcade/pu22l6 games): PwibaW and Pachinco Time (conversions of table-top games): and Golf ami F-i Rac&- It youve seen our feature on Alan's handheld this month (prew- oos pages), don 1 be put off buying one o1 these (remember, you'll have to wait till 1990 for thatl), The Game Boy is a real 'hartd-hefd'. with super sound and smooth graphics, and all the games are VERY addictive (although I dread to think what Mel Croucher woukj have to say about that screen!}. It you see one, GET IT! GanrkA* equality With Sugar Ray Leonard Boring (left) even iacty players $l4nd a chance of succeeding in the pugilistic art, while Ihumping is not always reslrtcled to amasning opp{)n««il3 tn the lace as the Hitstrumen1& (below teh) prove with funky force. Mot to b« outdone In the hand-held slakes, Nintendo are releas- ing a host of LCD games for their Came Boy. including Basebati pici u red beJow. 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Th* Marnhal g«ti his m«n Apprehended by all-American hefoss (above) for being a amanly dressed New York Joumo, Marihal URosenthfii Can r«tte<ct trpm ihe \e'i$KiT0 ol his Gotham Cily call on the sprawl of I he Chi'cago Consumer Electronics Show (HghiK Us relevance to the British market (5 one ol 1xiture»; from fN$ international showcase, expect to see moat of tha prod- ucts fealyr^d In lhl$ a nict<» appear In our highstreets soon. The Consufner Etecironlcs Show is unique among the trade shows, because (here is hardly ever any vaporware; that's pfoducls that &m shown artd discussed but never make it 10 the store down ihe block. CES is an opportunily to see amazing devices, some costing just a bit. wtille ottiers ars proto- types ntnning tnto thousands ot dollars The hand-hild gamtng end is heating up like mad. We're all familiar wtlh Game Boy now — the LCD black and whHe screen com- bing with stereo sound and Inter- changeable cartridges. Atari's Portable Colour Entertalnn^ent System {no name lor this yet] is a strong contender fof this rrwr^et; with its lourchannel sound, 16- colour 3,&*ineh iCO soreer^ ar>d i@ MHfz cksck speed isee Atari feature on pa^e 14). hlany of the gaming companies will be putting out car- tridges tor both these systems — itll be interesting to see what hap- pens next- There's even talk of Sega getting into the act. Staying in ttie game area brings up soFTi© interesting devices. Strike Force Navigator (Advantage Ace) is a navigational device that albws the user to move trimseit around wnh absolute accuracy. Designed lor vehicle simulations. It's made of ctear plastic with a handle and a 360-degree navigation compass printed on the lace. As the handle bends, it can be used with a vidao screen — makirbg it a valuable tool for all computer and video enter- tainment systems, since most of the simulations come with maps ot the theatre of action {with your starting location noted) Camerica caontinu© then' theme ot remote control for the Nintendo with The Freedom Stick — a cigarette pacitsized unit that con- nects to any joystick alf#ad|y owned You plug the hwo iDQBttldr, and Stick goes into cordless action (you can hang it around your neck or use (he attached belt clip). Stic^ runs on penlighi batteries, artd has automatic and manual lire switches for turt)0-t<re capabilities Just stay in line [up to 35 leet) ot sight with the receiving unit that has tieen attached To your game machine Designed spedtically for ihe Nintendo rrtarftel, Acclaims two person controller is very similar to their Individual one of early this year. The two pads woftc together with the receiver so as to let two^ player garrtes go on simultaneous- ly. It s the erxl of passtrtg that con- troller back and forth, Interactive Vision (View Master Ideal Group] challenges the user through an inlertace ol video and computer graphics It consists of a handhekj remote unit with colour- coded selection buttons and a muHi directional joysticK The video processor looks a bit like a enlarged Lego btocK. and is attached to a standard television and VHS vWeo reooftier (which you supply). What hapipens is thai graphics appear at strategic points ot the tape, and require actions to tie per- fofnwd. This "overlay' ts handled quHe well, and ttte results are very pleasling. No cartridge or program is nedded, the video tape contains all the data neoeesa«y to access the system, The first set of tapes oonsist of children's titles, such as Sssama 20 TGM 1X021:8-89 Hew Products Street ar>d Disney cartoons. Future applJcation& could become quite e»(citirig ^ we'll have tQ wait and see. {Rumour has it that the graph- ic system was designed by Cinemaware) Riighl next door can be found the ultimate home robot, Newton. Syn Pet's mechanised creaiJon is not a toy — rwt with features that indude a 20Mb hard disk drive artd two mtcrocompuiers- Appiicaiions are accessed on an IBM XT/com- paiit}ie while alf the interna! func- tions are dfiven by a realtime one. Standing Z2 indie$ tail Newton can both speak and understand voices — and be programmed to respond on command. He can team about his location, and then patrol it — keeping a lookout tor trouble. An tnlernal telephone links up with the one m the house, and enatiJes hirn to iAKe messages and respond to cal>-in commands from his owners. You can even have him control lights and olh&r eJectronics using a BSR X-10 interface (this line of unris work through the houses wiring), Newton runs on rechargabfe batteries and knows when its time to dock with the charging unit lor a quick Tut' of the C3td AC. The lovable robot has a bri^ and oojourful appearance (sorry, no laser gun accessory). arxJ could certainly make an impression the next time you're try ing to 0Bt nd ot those pesky house ffiests. Om of the hot items right now is ^^iHATideo — point and shod cam eras that take a picture which is recorded onto a ti^mputer disk. The image can then be viewed on a conventional television or moni- tor. Sony's MavK:a has a fixed lens. auto exposure — In fact auto everything, It's the Brownie of today. The disk holds 50 images, which can then be played bacit on an aooessory devi^ (the camera itself is small and compact). Canon's Zapshot goes one better with an LCD read -out and a built-in playback! device. Both systems can record up to 300 line^ of resolution, with a playback of 400 (Super VHS limit}. Uses tor these i(ind of cam eras include digitising and comput- er graphics work, pius the safety of non-tilm (a phnt can always be made with one of the thermal or cofour printers from Kodak, Canon, etc) Goirtg one better is Toshiba s prototype IG Card Camera. Similar in size to the Zapshot (arxf needing a vrewsr like Sonys model), iC Card Camera actually records its itnages ori, a pof>-tn card — no disk. Bieing looked at as a device for security and high-tech applica- tions. IC Card can store some 13 images per card, and has a resoiu- tion of 400 lines. An optional elec- tronic 'album' can be used to store some 1600 images for viewing (tiasically a record' play bad< unit using DAT (Digital Audio Tape) technology). Let's have a bit of fun with Voice Over ^ The Personal Sound Studio. It's a walkman-si^ed device that inserts between your portable radio/cassette player and special headphones with a mike attached. Voice Over adds echo and depth to your voice as you sing along with the music or speak. The results make you sound pretty good — certainly better than in the shower, and now other peopJe can hear you as welt. MicroProse are out to grab some ot the lucrative coin-op mad^et. They plan to design and produce machines with ail-new hardware featuring 3D graphics which will draw on polygons for the multi- dimerfsional e^ect. This is not new. but the average coin-op today draws some 12.000 potygofis per second. MicroPros* plan for their system to generate up to 60.000 ot ttiese little teikws. This will be cou- pled wr|h a screen- refresher rate of 30 frames a second The tnck will be to get all this going without sac rif'icing speed. And iet's not forget that the coin -op needs to be a fun and challenging gan>e too. Speaking of coin -ops. check out the Battietech Center. Parts loc^ familiar; gaming boxes to dimb into, with controls, video screens and joystick handles. But the dilfer- ences are pronounced. The idea behind the Center is to create an interactive, sophisticated simulation for the player — one enveloping him in a total environment. Recreating a Star Base, each Battletech machine is irvierconnect- ed; you're fighting against a real person. In other words — no artifi- cial intelligence, just the nastiest, deadliest carnivore In existence You I And it requires both concentra- tion and quick reflexes, The screen above you is the window to this world, filled with hostility and dan- ger< while the lower secondary screen displays radar and vehlde status. And we're not talking about one or two buttons here. Try duaf loystidfs With tngger buttons, weapon selection displays, ihrottte control directional pedals, ceiling m^sage centre, arid radio controls to communicate wrlh teammates. Enough? More information: BATTLETECH CEMTIR; ESP Corporatton.'FASA. 1026 W.Van Buren Street. Chfcago. illmofS 60607 FREEDOM S'nCK: Camehca Lfd. 230 FiHh Avenue. New Vonk. New York 10001, Price $39.95. INTERACTIVE VISION: View Master Ideal Group, 200 Fifth Avenu«. New York New York 10010. MAVICA (MVC-Ct): Sony Corporation. S6S0.D0 MAP*T1 Playback Adaptor. $a4&.95. NEWnrON: SynP«i 7225 FranWin Ho3d. Dept P. Boise, tdaho 83709. STRIKE FORCE NAVIGATOR: Advantage Ace, Ann Arbor. Michigan. Tel 0101 313 677-0732 Price $8 95. VOICE OVER: Vopos Over Mart^eting. &055 North Unooln Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60659. ZAPSHOT RO250; Canon, $800.00 Ninlendo's stand tor The G@mc Boy (left) was a popular venue, and so wa$ Interaclive VHltto's {far leti, this page), wher$ visitors could ptay with a victeo antt compute graptiics interface unit Robots Abounded. lUfs the lovabte and brl9htly cc»lounHl Synpel {abDvi}}, but some visitors pfelcr their pels 1o ba aa muicular as Michael K*alor> — «*en above In a cardiward form morm auHMl to thfi cHaractod«tfc« of the TV series t hflfi (he n«w f)tm. TGM TX 021:8-89 21 Nbw Products Softwaiv C^ As wtlh our own PC Show, the ceS often promises whal it will <}e liver in time for Ctirlstmas, profnlses I me the 3-0 so ltd graphics, text and action adventure Of Star Trek l'(rlgtTl), which M4ndscaf>e say wtfl have all the characters from the TV show and new movie. Somewhat more complete )s Epyx's California Games ti (beiow], with some exciting new skateboard «Ctlon. Eadh Banietech machine itses three proprietary computers lotailirig over 32 megabytes o< RAM, ar>d capable of displaying 200 3-D objects in reaHime (using a maximum of 64,000 odours onscreen at onoej. The units are linked up ^a a tocai area rwtwork — with groupings of esght machir^es possible m teams of lour. Unlike a pay and pray' machir>e, these simulations are designed fof set periods of time {30 minutes) Scenarios can be changed, so an m battle today, could turn inio fighting giant robots tomorrow, Of course that aJso means tfial the vehicle being controlled can t>@ altered — sl^ycraft becoming sub' marines. The two environments aJfeady created are Banietech. game set in the year 3050 wnii huge manlike Batttetechs slugging It out, and Renegadft iegion — a garne of starfigihtW oocnbai irr the year 6000. Battleiech Centers are sched- uled to pop up along thte US and Canada in 19d0. with the first one (in Chicago) designed to open in 9w next few moriths, Theiy w4ll fea- ture a tola! environment tfwi sets tfie mood — with a tobby area resembling the deck of a giant star- shtip. Combat Infonration Centres and embarl^ation halls leading to the launch area, vtriiere you gel into your maiclTirw, It becomes some thing to do with your nuales. ar>d rTKire ©njoy^le than just watd^irig someone else fiaving all the fun. — The Software Did you ever wish on a star? Carry moonbeams home... enough of that! Who needs to make wishes, when there's the Consumer Electronics Show to go to? EVERYTHING that eats electricity can be found there. tA/ith that in mind, we turn the page over to TGM's American correspondent, the one and only (once again...) Marshal Mllosenthal. Ready to go? Better lake big steps, because there s a lot of stun at ttre CES. Epyx presents CaHfomia Games ft. Participate in four events- bodyboardJng, jet shilng. skateboarding and snowboardJng (Ihink you II gel tsoard?). Less events mean more to do in the four presented. Ready to Joss your cookies over a monster wave? At the Electronic Arts booth, Defuxis Vkieo 2 \& displayed — promising greater control and added features. SSi previews Cur^e Of Ttie AzufB Bonds, the sequel to Pool Of Radiance. Your party of adveniurefs awake to dis cover strange azure-blue markEngs on their slun. which take over c^xi- irot of ttieir bodres when ttwy glow (checkout adventures on page 70), Then there s Interstels Dragon Force which places you in charge of a seven-man elite strike force that taikes on toddies ai\ over the L^ji^'^K* workj, Moving a king to MastertroniC linds their Megagames — Amiiga games featuhr>g tfve same graph- k^. animation and sound as found in the afcades (and requinng 1 Megabyte). First out will be Rick Davis'$ WpfUl Tropf}/ $0CCer. fol IovwkJ by Magic Jotjnsons BasHetbaff But what Im wailing lor is Wew York Warriors. Then there's Mediagemc host ing a suite for theif line of affiliated companies, Infocom's texl^graphic Afthut — Tfie Quest For Excalibur Features such added goodies as onscreen mapping, and Merlin's crystal ball (which reveals hints as Moving forward a few fi*»ousand years takes us to the worki of (nfoooms BattteTecf^- AfeofiwamOf drops you into the cockpit of a 30 toot tall, lethal combat robot. Strategy, action, war — ail this arid more as you earn bkjod money, while trying to buiW a lance (family of four) ol Mectts. At least this is one picnic where you're too big to be bothered by ants MJcrotliusions is goirtg Hanna- Barbara crazy Sctx^y Do tets you range among the characters — move Sa>oby ansund or follow after Velma ^ the garig s all f>ere in tour mysteries to solve, each based on a cartoon episode. Rajsed 3D perspective, arcade sequences (hey — lei s ali run from the abominable snowman), even a Scooby Snad^ feature. In the world of Tfie Jetsons. you most Keep George from being fired by that creep of a boss. S{»c^. Complete!y mousednvert, win- dows pop up with information, and you can look instde of Qb)ec$s and col led items for use. Text interac tk>n ot ccurse. Vabba Dabba Do That could only t>e Fred The Flmtstones stresses the essence of Fred — so there S no teihng whal wtll hapoen next (the screen evr/i' ^,■■. Age TV to turn on). Mufttpte advan- tures mix wrth large characters that give off a true cartoon fe^ng. JusK point and clidt on what you want to do — but never, ever, ever make Fred have to give up ttowling just because Wilma's mother is around f Johnny Ckjest com- bines the feeling of adventure with action and mystery Jotn Johnny and Hadji (and Bandit, too. of course) as they search for lt>e stolen Splinter of Heaven. Text display is combined witti combat sequences, icon oorv tro^s, and ttie full cast Irom the cartoon. The ActivlsJon pot is tjubbling rticeiy. Tongue Of The Fatman is a tulufis- tic har>d to hand oombat game wtth a sense of humour — and charac- ter anjmatKsn ttoriienng occasional- ly or> \be obscene Human arxl alien lite forms of ail kimls take on each other for the ultimate reward — COW cash I Then there s G/Njsfttuslerf it Onve the famous Eciomobile through the streets ot Mew VorK, destroy ghosts, and generally have a great time blast' irug ail ttiose suckers The game is affcade-orientated. with iots ol action and almc^ no strategiy whatsoever! Die Hard also continues this theme of action, bul the toes are ail too human Take ooe off-duty New Yorit cop combine liberally with ter- rorists holding his wife and otf>ers htostage in a modern skyscraper, and ttie result is pretty messy Digitised scenes from the film nink the arcade sequences togethier, and you've only so long before tfie terrorists break ttte seven access codes to the computer twhfing their ptunder- to-be You shouW get over- time for tfWB. Retummg to tfve show, we duck into Mmdscapes booth lo see a tew minutes of Sfaf fra* V — sIjII under development The program promises 3D solid graphics, iex\ and action adventure, plus all the characters fnjm the TV show and new niovie. There ahead is the HUGE MicroProse boothi^audntorium. F- 15 Strike Eagte 2 is almost ready to be released More action orientated than the first. Strike Eagle 2 will feature intelligent help 10 mahe if easier to fly ar>d f^ht. Enemies react intelligerrtiy as well (aargh), and oorr4>3l takes ptace in four regiors of the worfd: Lybia. the Pefsian Gulf. Vietnam and the Middle East. It's time to leave — Hk stx>w iS dosing down for [he day Anyor>e know a good chtropodisf 22 TGM 1X02^:8-89 COeflASOn'aslhoughlol ever^iJwfl I Thanks to tw pleasure MURDERS IN VENICE has the latent ID be a„ undents lo* asped Gfaphics. Sound - TET to usuii a *t«i9 W or ci)- ^ serving 3SclD« 90*** tetcAvm and we gutJe «^e igciirtC^iwB conceiwdft uri seduca !f» la^ 0I Miss Marpte. Mler UBJRTflES EN SER€S THE ATlWfTlC andWEURTBES A GIWKOE VITESSE (Highspeed lluKWhOTOonwsMUROERSiN VfMCE B i «» neceesajy to Sw tiaJ BetrandBRDCABD ^ lis stefl have cr*^'** ^ ^** A«mark*te*aN^*wawrif -^ ■ i . . *k K *- III VM »«T« be »«™»si. MURDERS IN VENICE teft us irtef3»y b«a- corn saee<is. Qeoious «d » *Qp evefyfiing and dh* iwnwa- lety into fie inwesfigaliw ! 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ENl 2RQ ■ • i I 1 d'Veiitse L i^jVnttf tfTPTTtftTTTtllTT ■llllllitifJH!!J lEM^i mil** fiiuin «» ..^ '"=* -^^^^..=.BFJ- 'kV il3BaaB^||L_ A didoctrc look at Visual Display Units and what they con do to you, from Me! Croucher "The number of spots on your face pfus your need to wear glasses is in direct relationship with the time you spend using youf compute^ I ahMays resented the fad tnst my schoolboy skin fooKed like a pizza and my eyes resembled what hap- pens to snow when a dog pees on it- More recently, I was still amazed thai I could grow facial Wemishes and Z4is of the Elephant man and go bald at the same time I tried changing my diet, gelling married, living by the soa, washing more often, growing a beard, but nothing seemed to work Then, after all these years of looking like the dark side of the Moon. I discovered an explantion tor my afflictions, and having met thousands of spotty four-eyed computer maniacs in my lime, I rechon it's time ( shared my research. So take heart, my legion^^ the pocked and biinded, get that paper bag off your heads ar>d prepare lo face r wortd again. V Heres my theory, lets call it Mel's Law. and it goes like this: S+G s VDU x (T-D). Or to put it into words, the number of spots on your face p<us your need to wear glasses is in direct relation- ship With the lime you spend u^ng your computer and ffie distance you plonk your face from ttie screen Ar>d if you thrnk I'm kid- ding, take the trouble to read the fallowing facts. Back in 1982 a doctor named Nilsen wrote a three-page refx>rt calM Facial flas/ies in Visu^ Dispiay Unit Operators. As this was published in an obst^re jot^naJ catM Contact D^rmsatis. hard- ware manufacturers never got to read it. Then In 1985, two Scandinavians called Wahlberg and Urxlen noticed that in spite of good diet, pfenty of heatttiy exer- ctse ar>d enlightened sexual atti- tudes (which had all been previ- ously offered as remedies for rotten shin) young people who played with computers and used VDUs suffered from an abnormal rate of zits and bad eyesight, Bui they didn't know why, Was It because spotty bespectacled Mk were natu rally less sociable, and went in for soF^ary habits such as computef games? Was it because computer users were Jess interested in Iheir real personal appeamnce and more interested in living out Iheir fantasies via their screens? Or was ■it just ooinckaence? Thgrg are none so bfind as tfwy who wiit noi $de ' (Old Engllttt proverb) If a mart destroy the eye of anoth- er man. they Shalt destroy hi$ e/a in return. ' (Hamitrabt, 203{IBC> 'Men seldom m^ke passes af gifts who wear gtas$0$.' (Dorothy Parker. 1942) After great wodges of research the OOiricidence theory was bkjwn sky high. Some of you may have read my lasi brt of scare- mongering {in CRASH) about oompuler screens causing cancer, aborlion and delor- mity (I know several ioumaiists dkJ, because they've been repeating the facts m their own magazines'}, well, it has now been proved that your screens are zapping skin and eyeballs too. Last year, the University of California Eye Clinic came itp wi^ the worrying tact that the favounle atfltctkjn suffered by all computer users is eye damage, ar>d I mean real damage There was plenty of Ityack strain, ftnger delormtty, headaches ar>d epileptic fits too, but a loss of aye focusing can»e out top of the problem league by a mile. People who play wrth comput er screeins can lose the ^lity to focus properly up to 30 years before nofmal. The next lump of data listed the skin diseases caused by computer monitors and close contact with TV screens, it s a very nasty lisi indeed and the winners are: Rosacea (which ranges from a slight blushing of ttie cfieeks. all the way to turning your face into somethjr>g that k»ks tike a boiled strawtieny) Acne {puss-tiUed ztta whicti tiave a habit of latving craters and scafs) Setx)rrheic Oermaiitis (inflamed skin caused by glands produang greasy gunk m huge quantities.} Poikiioderma (llakey zits caused b^ abfxsrrnal temperature chariges in ttie ^n) Paraestt>esta (itciiy, burning inflamed skin which often starts two or three hours after using a VDU.) Now that ytm've buried your moni- tor under tfie nearest mattress and rusfved to the bathroom mirror to examine your boat-race, I il leil you exactly how all these ghastty dis- eases can be caused by your machines Unlike the lethal radia< lions thai can delorm unborn bab»es and knacker body tissuWi skin problems are caused by fli»o< irostatic fiekls. These energy fields are presen around most TVs. VDUs and monh tors when the atmoflfthere is dry and they tend to vanyi at highei humkiily when there is more mois ture in the air According to the British medica journaJ The Lancet skin problem] suffered by computer users hap pen most often in hiodhftm Europe during the winter months. an< that's not because we play comput er games more in the winter, bu because the water in the air (rela five humidity) is less than 40%. Bi the drier tlie air the more you screen pumps out charged air borne particles, and they're th^ or^^ thai warn to zap your skin. 24 TQM ■f union arKl environmental groups call ~&afe' levels, and th^y afnl mudh good lor playing games on. And as for the popular garnes machines. I won t make any com- rnents but I wilf pass on the infor- matfon thai the Friends ol the Earth London office had stuck a Bio- Hazard' sign on their Amstfad! But don't despair, you need noi spend a fortune on fancy screens or cover ■ ^our face with gunk, because IMel's [Lew can be fought oft if you follow I »my advice: . B Don't use your screen (of ' longer than two hours at a lime. TaKe a break for at least 20 mirh utes between bouts. ' • 1^ Sit as far away from your fi^een as you can, and never do®- JBirthan tour feel, I II Cfean off the surface of the fsyeen every time you use il. Arxl I ,n#an every time, i .;* Don t touch the screen with yfur fingers (or any other part of I /our anatomy come to think ol it*). i . « Try not to finger your face or your eyes while you are mm- iter gaming or ftddlir>g your com- j^terrsedaccounts- - If you suffer from' bad skin tions, ask your friendly non-pfi- tjsed doctor for some Ouodenn' Of a similar blocking cream. Yoy nmght even tell tier atiout this arii- |;ie. ■ Every chance you get, demand that hardware manufactur- '^ Slop ignoring the FACT that Jtkk machines are hazardous to ^'Dur health, because only by doir>g T ^1 will we force them to clean up ^ their adt ■i^ Don't pick em and th^'ll get a lot bettef (dangerous machhiM AND zrisl). "If you suffer from bod sktn eruptions, ask your friendly non-priva- tised doctor lor Sonne blocking creann" B!ushing is the colour of virtue. ' (Dtog«n«« tht Cynic, 400aC) 'Out' Oiitf Damn spot!' (Lady Macbeth) 7/1 ,5n ugly worfd. the rictjest man carf isuy nothing tut ugliness.' (Q*org« B^mtrd Shaw 1903) IHHI^HIIIIMIIilllllllllllllHIHHMHIimilHI^HHI Many temate operators have noticed that tiny particles of their make-up get deposited on their screens during the working day. and I bet thai if you run your finger over your screen now [go on. do It) you'll get a film of electrostatic deposit, This Is a similar effect to the trick of rubbing a balloon against a woolly Jumper and charg- ing it up with enough static to sticK It up on the wall all by itself. Oka/, try and work out how many times you wipe your rtosB. mb your eyes, rest your chin on your hand, mop your bnow or simply touch your face every hour that you use your computer. Again. I bet you finger your face every minute, and cf you don'i you are ve^ unusual. If you work or play any dosar ttran four feet from your screen, you are depositing these charged particles ail over your face simpty by sitting there, but if you touch your face you are concentrating the dose. For those of you who have the habit of touching your screen as well, you are upping the pfob- lem by a factor of up to 1 0OI In the United Stales, computer users have started to use a skin- cobured 'sun block' type cream containing 2% titanium dioxide with iron oxides, This has two effects: firstly it stops a lot of skkn contact with the deposited partiolss, and secondly it soon cures you touch- ing your screen because of the stichy fingermarks you plonk all over It! Some spotty Norwegians have begun using antistatic floor cover- ing to cut down on the charged particles, and most ot Northern Europe (except Brfiain) is already wridely using electrostatic shiehjs attached to the front of the screen. Ttiese aiiminale the stattc Held (or a whsfe. but they lose ihetr effect after a month or so, and its an experksive busir^efis rep{acir>g them For anyone thinking atmut c^kanging their machines. I dont have much good news to repon. Only Olivetti and Compaq come anywfwre near what the trade Mel Croucher Is a regular con- trfbutor to Tlie Games Machine ^ And we have just heard that as a result of two Mel Croucher fea- tures In sister magezfrw, CRASH, a major TV company (and we don't mean Sky I) has asked the old foo^ to make a pilot TV programme on the Seamy Skje of Computing. Full details as soon as we have them! Illustrstkxts by Robin Evans TGH^ TX 021:8-89 25 ZAK McKRAKEN I his is my third ^ m&nlh as Playing Tips editor and i*m pieased to say that the tips are roiling In more tiran ever. Compel ft ion is hot for the ESQ software prire, so I'm joolting for those extra speciai tips — just like this month's winner's who's lieen working hard on if Popuius. And remember it's not just tips that win prizes, t've yet to receive many maps, and POKEs for I6<bit machines are ithin on ttie ground. . {M\ Formats — (lie tinai soiution) Use IhQ crayon on the wailpaper map. Read the strange mark- ings on tiie wall and not© ihem down (call ttiis diagram 3) t4ovt using the Sphynx map prinled in TGM020. n^ke your way out of the Sphynx and go to the air- port. Use the reservations termi- nal and buy a ticket to Kinshasa, Walk lo the plane. Walk through the jungle till yoj gat to the vttlage. Go inside the Shamen's hut. Give the yeHow crystal to the Shamen. He shows yoy how lo use it. You are now outskle the Shamen's hut. Use the yellow crystal. The wallpaper map appears. Click on Egypi You are leleported to a $ec:ret room at th« top of the pyramid. Walk to the left and pull the lever on the side of the wall. Switch to Anrite. Make yoor way oul of the Sphyr^x Walk left to the to the pyramd and go through the door. It's very dartc in ihere SO use the WHAT \S command to find the door. Go through the door and go as tar left as possible and use the WHAT IS command again to find the stairs Go up them, You're now in the same room as Zak, Pull the fever on the wall. Switch to Zak, Walk to the centre ot the njom and use the gtowing objeci on the base. Walk away from the machine and use Ihe yellow crystal. ClfCk on Lima. Pick up Ihe candelabra. Use l^e yellow crystal and dick on Egypt. Walk MARS FACe CHAMBER secftET ' DOOR t SECRET ooon ■-■ ^ I MAP ROOM GENERATOR ROOM Exrr TO _ GREAT CHAMBER I mnn I fsl c InS SECRET OOOH to the machine and use the can- de^bra on the glowing object. Put on Ihe wetsuil and the o.Ky- gen tank. Use ihe dud tape on the fish bowl. Put on tt>e tapped fish t>owl You are now wearing a space suri. Walk awa^ from the machine and use the yellow crystal. Click on the Mars Face chamiwr. Use the crayon on the strange markings and reproduce 1t>e markings from diagram 3, The three doors at the back of the room open. U5« the Mars Face map and make you way to it>e exit. You have to use the lighter to find your way because the doors are coloured. Walk iefi to the landing site and switch to Melissa Put on the hefmet, pick up ihe boombox. open the dcxir and go outside Switch to Zak and enter the spaceship. Close the door. Now lake on the taped fish bowl and the oxygen tank. Use the oxygen valve tt^sn switch to Melissa Walk right to the huge (ace, Enler the great chamljar and walk to ihe first large door (it should be open^^, Walk lo the pedestal. Switch to Leslie. Make your way out ol the Map room using the Mars Face map. Then llnd file exit from the maie Give the DAT and vinyl tape to Melissa. Use the ladder on the pedesial ihen switch to Melissa. Use ihe vinyl tape on Ihe DAT ihen use Ihe DAT on Ih© boombox. Turn on the boomtfox, Clk* on record aivd switch to Leslie. Ptck up the crystal sphere then switch to Melissa, Walk to the second large door. Turn on the boombox. Click on ptay and tt^e door opens Go ihrough the door and use the WAHT (S command to fifkd another exit. Go thrchugh this door. Use the Ankh on tt>e panel. The torcelieW dtsap- pears Push the button on the machine and you receive a message. Pick the gokJen key and walk back to the great chamtier. Go back to the landing site Keep walKir>g lefl lill ycu gel to the monolith. Use the cash- card on the slot and you get a token, Switch to Leslie. Go to the monolith. Use the token on the tram and wail tor her to gel into it, ihen swrich to Metissa. Use the token on ihe tram and wait You are outside the pyramkJ. Take both Melissa and Leslie to the pyramid 26 TGM TX021 :8-89 dittranca. Switch to LasGa and use ihe broofn alien on the pile erf sand. Switch to Zak. Put on the oxygon tank and the taped fish bowl, open the door and go outside. Walk left to themondnh. Use tine cashcard on ihe skrt, use !he token in the trs^n. Wiidrt ytnj arrive at the pyramid, waJk ta the entrance. ike the bobbypin sjgn in the key- hole, onm the door. Use WHAT @ to find the exit. Go thf oi>gh ti^is door. WalK as far left as you car, fr«o switch to Melissa, Enter the tSoof and use WHAT {S com- mand to find tlie other exit, go tlnroygh it, Go as far left as you can. Switch to L&slie, Enter the door. Use the ilashlight to reveal the other exit. Go through this. Walk to the Sarcophagus feet afKi push if>em. Swtich to Zak. Walk lo the stairs which should be directly in front of hwn. Switch to MeJis.EA and weJh to the stairs. Switch 10 LesNe and walk away from the feet. Switch to Zak and stand him in front of the white crystal. Switch to Melissa and walk to the tx>x on the wall. Use the golden key on the box. Push the button. Switch to Zak. Quickly get the white crystal and use the yellow cryst^. Qick on Egypt, Take off the taped fish bowl aid the oxygen tank. WaJk to ihe machine. Use the yellow crystaJ on the candelabra^ Use the white cfystai on the candelabra. Walk to Ihe switch on tfie right of the machine. Turn on the switch. Switch to Annie. Tom on tfie switch — iftat's iti XENON (Spectrum) A quick cheat from Mark Dow of Wolverhampton maltes bat- tling ifw^e aliens a bit easier. Start the game as usuaJ and then pr&ss the break key to pause the game, hcdd down keys T.I,N and V ar»d yoor ship becomes irvJestructtbte. POPULOUS (ST/Amiga) Bryan from Toltesby is this month's Star Tips win- ner for hia complete tist of level codes from Electronic Arts's excellenl Populous. Level 999 is a bit weird — complete ii and see what happen a. 2:X)SAMAR 3; TIMUSLUG 4:CALDEHK.L S:SCOOUEWET 6: SWALTER 7:KILLPEHMG 6: E0A07OR0 9; BURWILCON IQ: MORIMGH.L ir.NMtHIlL iZ;e)LCEMET 13 RJWGMPED 1* WEAVHIPHAM 15 W.POLITOND 16; 9ADAC0N 17: luumsiiLi, IftHOeOCTOflY iSBUaaUEEND 20;SHADTED 2VC0RPEHAM 22; BSWOZCHVO 23: sAowmow 24 LOWlMGiCk, 25 QAzrroRy 26: VEHYIitEND fS; FliTOtJTBOV 90 SllZALOW S1:D0UUSK;K 32: SHtDIEHCXE 33;HUHUOPLAS 34 JIXTWE »:TMPfOLD »:CW.OZSCiV 37: SCOWILDOR 3a SWAiNGPAL 39 KILOHOLE *0-EOAMELAS ^' BURMPAL 42 MORHIPPIL 43 HMOUTJOB +4 5ILMXJR 45: RiNGGBmL 4«;W£AVINPERT *7 ALPIOPOLTT 4a;aADTAL 49: ilMMPEPLSO: HOeOZJOB 51:BUGWIL1IN 52; SHADOGOOON S3:COROPCF[T S4;EtMMEOyr SS: SADMPT 56 LOWHtPBAR 5? QAZOUTER S3 VERVE UN S9 MiNGBDON GIO:HAMiNMAR ei FUTLOPtyG 62 suzn 63 DOUPEBAR 6* SH02ER 6S.HURTKEING 66 JOSOGOCSflO 67:T4MOMAR ea CALMEIUG 69: SCOMPHILL 70. SWAH(PM£T 7l:K»LLQAZED 72;EOAE)NG 73: BURGBORD 74:MORINO0W 7S: NM.OPILL 76: BUTHKJ. 77: RMGOXMET 7S: WEAVEAED 79; ALPIKEKAM BO BADOGOOMO Bl:MMOCON 62 HOBMEILL B3; SOGMPTOftr Bi; SHAOKOPEND BS;COflQAZME Be: BtNEHAM 67: SADGBOND && LOWIMOW 69: C^ZLOFCK 90: VERYVTORV SVMJNOXENO 9S: HAMEAWIE 93: FUTJKEOLO 94: SUZOGOeOY SS: OOUOLOW 9e: SKIkdCK 97: HURTDIHOLE 96: JOSKOPLAS 99: TIMQAZAL 100;CJM£010 101 ; SCOGBaOV 102:SWAINOOR 103; KILL SOOPAL tO^EOAYHOLE 1(H:BUR0Ja-AS 106: MOREAAL 107; NIMIKEPJL 108 BfLOGOJOa 109 RiNGiJDOR 110: WEADEPAL 111. ALPCM PERT 1t2 BADKOPOUT IT 3; IMMOAZT 1ti:HOeEPJL 1lS;ftJGGajOa 1t6;SHA0ASL[N n7;COfiSODDON 11B; BtNVPERT it 9: SADOXOUT 120: LOWEAT l2t:QAZIKEBAR l22:VERYOUEEfi 123;M'IWULiN 124;HAMD£DON i25:FUTOlfc*AR ^»: SUZkOPLUG 1?7:EXX>QAa"IILL 126 SHIEBAR 12J HURTCEER 13&:JOSASt!y<3 I3r TIMSOOORD 132: CALYMAR 1^: SCCXIXLUG 134; SWAEAHILL 13S; KILLD(EMET 138: EOAQtlEED 137: BU RUING tsa: MORDEORD 139: NMOCON 140: Bfl-KOPILL 141: RING INGTORY 142;WEAV!MET 143 ALPCEED 144; BAOAS.HAM 145: IMMSODONO l*S;HOeYCON M7;BUGOXJLU 1 48; SHADUSTORY 149;CORDiEENO lSO:BlNCKJEME 151,:SAOiJKAM l52.LOWOeC*]D iS3:QA70iL0VV 1S4: VERVWILICK 1£S. MINIt^HOLE 156 HAMIEND l57:FLfTCEME 158: SUZA SOLD 1 S3; DOUSODBOY 160: S><IYi.OW 161: HURTAICK 162:JOSUSHOlE 163:T(MDIELAS ie4:CALQUEAL 165:SCOU&LD 166 SWADEK3Y 167 KILLOZDOR 168; EOAWUPAL 169 BURINGPERT 170: MORPLAS 171;NJMCEAL 172;0fLASPlL i73:RlNGHrPXiB 174;WEAV0UTL1N 17S: ALFAPAL 176;BADUSPERT 177:IMMD<EOUT 17fl;H06QueT !79:8LIGUPH. laO; SHAtW^EJOB 18l:C0R02.lN 182:B1NWILD0N 183:SADIKIGMAR T84; LOWKX/T 185: QAZCET ia€:VERY»ifPQAR 187;MINHIPER 188:HAMOLmNG l89;|:UTAlX>lSr taQ:SUaJSWAR 191;OOUDIELUO 192; SHIQUE HILL 193 HURHBAR 194 JOS PEER 195 TlMOZtNG l9©:CALlAflL0RD iS7; SCOJNGCON 198: SWAILUG ISO: KILLMEHILL 200- EOAMPMET 20reURH»PED 202 MORCURHAM 203 NINWORQ 204 8ILUSCOW 20S; RIMGINILL 206 WEAVLOPia RY 207: ALPTIJtT 20B: BAD PEED 209: IMWOZHAM 2iO:HOBWILOND 211:BUGlNGLOW 212:SHAOOILL 213: CORMETORY 2l4-BllMMPE)Sfl:i 215: SADHIPME 216: LOWOinOLD 2l7;QAZAOND 216: VERYGSLOW 219: MiMlNiCK 220: HAJULOPHOLE 22i:FUTTEND 222 SUZPEI* 223: DOUO^CHD 224 SHrWILBOV 225: HUdTOGODOR 226: JOSOICK T[MM£'HCL£ CALMPLAS 22&: SCOHIPAL 230 SWACXITPH. ZJ':KILLEBOY 232 E0AG8DOR 233 BURINPAL 234: MORLOPPERT 235: NIMTIAS 236: BILPEAL 237 RJNGEAPH. 239^>EAVlKEJOB 239: ALPOGOLIN 24C:SAOOPAL 241; IkWME PERT HOBMPOUT BUGHIPT SHADQAZaAR 245 CORE JOB 2A6: 6INGBL \H 247 SADINPON 2*B: LOWLOPMAR 249 QAZTOUT VERYOXT MINEABAR 2^:htAM0<EER 253: FUTOGOIMG 2S4:SUZODON 255: DOUMEMAR 256 SHiMPLttG 2S7:HUftTKOPH«t 2Se, JOSOAZMET 259:TIMEER 260: CALGBiNG 26i;SC01NORD 262; SWALOPCON 263: KtlLYLUG 264; EOAOXHIL 265: BLfREAjytT 266:M0fllKEED 267; NIMOGOHAM 268 BilOOORD 269: RINODECON 270: WEAVDIILL 27l;ALPKOPTOHY 372; BAOQAZEND 227: 228. 242; 243 244 250 251: 273: IMMEED 274: HOBGBHAM 275: BUGlNOrCl 276: SHADSOOLOW 277: CORYH.L 278: aiWOXTORY 279; SADEAEIO 280: LOWJKEME 28t OAZOGOOLD 282 VERVUONO 2S3; MINOELOW 384: HAMOIICK 285; FUTKOPHOLE 266: S^ZQAZLAS 287 DOUEME 288: SHtGBOLD 269; HURTASEOY 290:JOSSODOOR 29T TIMYJCK 292 CALOXHOLE 293 SCOEALAS 294 SWAIKEAi 295 KILLQUEPIL 296: EOAUSOV 297 BUftDEOOfl 298 MOROIPAL 299 NIMKOPPERT 300 BILQAZDUT 301 RINGIAL 302: WEAVCEPIL 303: ALPA5JOB 3D4:aADSODL)N 30S: IMMYf^L 306: HOBOXPERT 307: BllGEAOUT 308: SHADOlET 309 CORQUEBAR 3lO:eiNUJC» 31l;SADQ€LIN 312;LOWDIDON 313 QAZKOPMAR 314 VERY WGLUG 31 5: MNIT 316 HAhCEBAR FUTASER SUZSODING DOUVtXJN SHIOXMAR HURTUSLUG JOSDIEHILI TIMOUEMET i CALUER ,: SCQOEir*3 k SWADIORO ': KfLLWfLCQN I:E0A1NGILL ): QuRlHiLL ^: HjClRCeMET : 44IMASED I 6U.SODHAM I RINGOtJTOND . WEAVACiSN I ALPUSILL I BAODIETORV 337 IMMQUEENO 338 HOeUED 339 BUGDEHAM 340 5HM)QZa<ta 341 CORWILLOW 342 BINNING lOK 343 SADITORY 344 LOWCEEND 34S;OAZASME 346; VERVNtPOLD 347:MINIOUTBOY 34e:HAMALOW 349 FUTUSCX 317 316 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 3£7 326 329: 330 331 332 333 33i 335 336 350: SUZDIEHQIE 35i:DOOOUElAS 3S2:SHIUWC 353: HURTPtOLD 3&4:JOSOZBOY 355: TliMWILCnR 356; CAUINGPAl 357: SCOIHOt E 358: SWACELAS 359; KILLMPAL aeOEOAHFPPIL 36i:BUROOTJOB 362; MORADOR 363; NIMUSPAL 364 BIlDlfl PERT 365: RiNiGLOPClUT 366;VV£AVTAL 367 ALPPEPIL 368: BAIDOZJD9 369: 1MUWILLIN 370 h»OBlNG0ON 371 BUGIPERT 372: SHADWEOUT 373: CORMPT 374;SINHIPBAR 375;SADOUTER 376 LOWALIN 377:QAZUSOON 376; VERYINMAR 379; MINLDPIUG 380 HAMTT 381: FUTPEBAH 382 SUZOZER 383: OOtJWtLING 384: SHIJNGORD 385: HUftTOMAft 386 JOSMELUG 387: TIMMPHIUl 380: CALH1PMET 389 SCOOl/TEO 390 SWAAIHG 391 KILGBORO 392: EOAINCOW 393: BURLOPlLL 3&4.MOfnHtLL 395 NIMPEMET 396: BiLOZf D 397: RINGIKEHAM 398: VVEAV& GOOND »B ALPOCON 400 BADMEH.L 401 IfcMMPTORV 402 HOBHIPEND *ta BDGOl/ThE 404; SHADMEHAM 405 CORGfiOMD 406: BiNJNLOW 407 SAtXOPiCK 406 LOWTTORV 409 OAZPEEND 410 VERVE AME 411 MINIKEOLD 412 HAMOGOeOY 413 FUTOLOW 414: SUZIUEICK 415:OOUMPHOt£ 4lG:SHIHlPLAS 417 HURTQA7JU. 4T6: JOSE CXD 419 TIMGBBOY 420 CAHNDOR 421 SCOlOPPAL 422 SWATH0L6 423: Kfl-LOXLAS 424 EOAEAAi 42S: SURIKEPIL 42e: »«)RQGOJ0B 427: MIMOOOtl 426: B4.MEPAL 429^ Rt*GDIPEttT 430: WEAVKOPCXJT 43l:ALPQAZ? 432;BADEP«. 433:IMMGaJ0e 434 HOeWLIN 435 BUGLOPOON 436: SFiAOVPEHT 437: COHOXOUT 438; BfNEAT 439; SAOIKEBAR 440 LOWOGOER 441 QAZOLIN 442. VEHYOEOON 443: MINOIMAR 444 HAMKOPLUG 445: FUTOAZMILL 446 SUZEBAH 447:DOUGB€R 448 SMilNING 449 HURT SOOORD 450: JOSYhtAR «5t: TIMOXLUG 452;CALEAHLL 453 SCOIKEMET 454; SWAOGOED 455: KHIUING 456: EOAOEORO 4S7: ^RI^tCOM 458; MQRKOPUl 459: rUMQAaTORY 460;BllEJutT 46i;fUNGCEED 462 WEAVASHAW 463 ALPSOOOND 464 BAOYOON 4GS IMMOXILL 466: HOeEATOnV 467 ;ffiJGft^£t4D 468: SMAOQUEME «69; CCRU^tAM 470: BIWCCDNO 47 T SADOILOW 472 LOWKOPICK 473 OAZQAZnae 474: Vf RYlErC 475 MINCEME 476 HAMASOLD 477: FUTSOOeOY 47B SUZYLOW 479 DOUOXCK 480 SHIEAHOLE 481 HURTCWELAS 4a2,jOSOUEAL :TiylUOLD :CALOEBOY 5COOIOOR SVWAKOPPAL KllLINGPERT 488.EOAtLAS 489: BURCEAL 490 MORASPtL 49t. NIIUGOOJOB 492; 81LYDCW 433: RINGAPAi 494 WEAVUSPERT 999;KILLUSPAL 4^: 484 4SS 4de 487 TGM TX 021:3-89 27 Playing Tips MILLERNIUM 2.2 (AtarlST/Amiga) Having problems defeating the Martians? Fret no longef, Manlisw Pegs from Milton Keynes knows a trick or two. 1. Don't establish loo many bases or you spend all your time cte!ending them from the Martians. It's possible to finish the game wttti only three. There's no point in establish! rig a base somewtief© that doesn't have vitat resources. Tt>e most usetui bases are Cailisio, Titan and Triton. 2. Tnton is the only p^ace thai has Chrofnium — and you need that later on in the game. Since lis far away it's a good id^ra to send a probe arxj estabtist> a t>a&e there e^riy on in the game. 3. II a base (ose« all Els colonisis. dismantto one o1 the Can-acks or Waveridefs and thrs crew oan fepopulate ttie base. 4. New bases n^sd at least one fighter an Ofbital laser and a solar battefy. Send these in a Carrack because Vt&amitimt aren't able to trati^XKl Oio neoessa/y eqwpmem for some planets. 5. SuoCTSsfui Manian attacks lend to destroy your most powerful eolaf battery. Sto^e themi in the ho(d of a Carrock or in the bunker tor safety. 6. You will have to turn otf your re*nery (o get enough power to build a fleet carrier. 7. As soon as you slart converting your fleet earner your moon base wBI be totally destroyed. Unlortunately. there s not much you can do about iL Just repopulate Hhe base and store a battery as above. 6. After Ehis your ooJonies start dsdving Independence Again ttiere s not mudi you can do about it. Any ships you land on i-nde- pendgeant colonies are lost. Jusi make sure you get as many resources to lf>e moon before this hapf>ens. 9. H you're stuck for materials for tf>e earth base dismantte all your S^Hps arxl use their raw matenats. THUNDER BLADE (Sesa) One of the trickiest stages ol the ^ame ts undoubtedly the oavem eecllon. However, Andrew Hop<<insfrom Stapenhill recommeiKJs this strategy.,. STAGf 2 LEVEL 2 ■When the caverns first appear on screen press both fire but- tons rapidly ar>d the garrye sk>ws down mahir^g tf>is tridty seck>n a lot easier Wtien you emerge from ttw first cavern, go down to ' the bottom nghthand comer of the screen straight away and slay there and none of ttw plar^'s missiles will hit you- ^f you lose all your lives pish the pad down then right and press tKJtton 2 to Stan the game from wf>ere you le^ off. Andrew SmaEes sent me this 'ofllclBl' ch^at 10 help Inexp*' rlanced ninjaa gel started. Switch otl the machine Switch back on. Hold down RUfM and SELECT together Let go of RUN and push up once. Now release SELECT and push up three times. Push right six times, down twice and leH three limes and ask lor Melissa fnikay Inrgel the lap' hi! ^ it EMYLYN HUGES INTERNATIONAL SOCCER If you're a poor loser, try Danny Anderson's Itttte cheat to guarantee victory. You re in the lead during a game and don t want 1o lose, so kick ll>e ball off lor a throw in or goal_kick Ihen press P, @, ' and J togalfver The game quits, but your score remains. Danny adds that if you wish 10 attempt this in the fir^ half, you may have to press the keys more than once lo achieve the desired effect. DRUNKEN IIASTER (PC Engine} Mlcromedia s very own you can remember aii that, an option screen is revealed where you can cfvoose tf>e number of lives and make yourself invir^- tXe. WORTH OF SOFTWARE MUST BE WON! Each month the t^st set of tips, hints, POKEs or maps will earn its sender £50 worth of software (your choice), plus a TGM T'Shirt. Send em to Robin Candy's Playing Tips, TGM. PO Box m. Ludlow. Shropshifff SYS fDB SUMEY'S MINE (FireliN) No) OMaclly a cheat or p tip, this item from Hobart Sharp of Batiey may interest fans of the game'B sound samptsft. When the game loads, press the space bar and hold it down. Let it go after a while and a rat a tat sour>d shoukj be heard. You can rww replace that sound with any of the samples from the game by pressing the oorrespondirtg key: Commodore Key — Bomt Left Shift — Gel Readyl Right Shift — Aargh! CRSR Left/Right — Vou are here! Z — Drum Sample X — Go! Hlml C — Owwl V — Uurghf B — Screen Cleared! N — Gopher! M — Sertlef c->^ Snore > — Scream /— Game Over! Say. for example, you wanted some drums; press Z and rt piays the drum sample, but press Z five times in rapid suc- cession and It repeals the sam- pte in blocks of five. Thts is use- ful for arranging a tune wfth tfie samples (you can also add them to the existirtg Me track!} 20 TGM TX021 ;8-89 rfS^'S" J HI J m J^' m \ % ,^: %%m T^'9'3 ^ UVj I I I L V . . 1 1 I V Ih.-il I it)l In* hiJlii.1 I.' ' \i\\ IL k S* Tof °e(i'i*\A^« " \ icii iicLeMi>. IS f>l. iliTitXPils k Will l>e teh MJi At n , ./- vtiA .11.. , .A) L->y k, will \u\\ im l<L>ili To enter our competltfon please send your warranty cards of TARGHAN and complete the foHowJng: |1f k« the game Targhart because Sefvdyour entri« to- UNtT 1 (Rear of 7J, WELUNGTON ROAD, JANOHUftST. SUR]{£V6U17 SAW «([0ZS2) £77431-879718 • F^k; (0253) 877431 0(»trvg ddt« September U I9S9. -["'-r||j|ltJ|li — iMnpin- i#)li-iil iHi ni.inkirKr^ ffc^tfui Ikm By SoftStorm Devebpmenls ^ nr/^Tn I r I J ^^^^^^^' ^^.99 11dbnHjsJSabimBou«,aJleyAPirk,Al(kntust{Mt,Sefis^ jPLL I KUM Diskette: £12J9 J A moody Tawny KItaen in hi-res above and HAH mode below Who sa»d shc'9 & h^m? Bui con sh4^ rem^mbcF 1h^ film in which IJM tpptflrp d " Title pk; Jack Nicholson Mt iShm tipple Is he g oing l o Cofce"? In aur very first TGM Lab Report^ Franco Frey achieves some startling results with a video camera, Oigiview and a colour Rank Xerox printer. You coultf too. Whais Ihis Ihen? A joumey into movieland? Recognise where itiese pictures (xime from? Yes foiiks. ihy (irst Itire© readers lo pal the right picture to the right pictures i sorry, movies, will get an inhjet pr'miQut of Michelle Pfetfter, wowie* Bui ^ Ihis only ar>othef (abukius comfje' tiiion'' No. this IS itte rambfing o1 one \Arbo has made the big step ot entering ttie workj 04 digitising, drop his lavounte computer, the Speccie. buy an all-singing. aJl danc- ing, sometimes all crashing Am^ga SGOO. Spend anotiier a?upla liundred quKi on the all imporlanl DiGiVlEW digitiser and graph- ics editing software (see product listing box), then make tile decision to spend El 250 on the wor>der{u( RANK XEROX 4020 inkiet firinter artd to tlien declafe him- seif completely and utterlv ioco and br o*^e, Woftin it? You bet. every penny, or sjiouid that be pounds^'' Alright. weVe all seen the standard reviews in computer mags praisirig the excellent DIGIVIEW dtgitiser and the RANK XEROX 4020 printer, we've ail seen the usual demo pictures (remember oW Tut or Itie Newtel^ ^dy in wool?), but these poor reviewers never have the tin^ to seriously get lo grips with their review machines, tjetore they have to be returned to the asylum f and the machines to the manuiaciurer or distributor). So, what's it like to use this ALSO IN THIS MONTH'S CENTRE BYTES... WORPPROCESSING . sfyMng you atways wanted to Know about wordproces&ors but ware altaid it was too expensive to asi( TGM Lab tested, we put ail it% popiriar pad^ges through their paces. There's a ion of informa- ' ;jn on w^ial lo lool4 out tor. ttow to get the beet out of it. and where to 9tit It from PLUS Horror novelist Ramsey CampbeJJ as a WP guinea p<g. and pnnters to see the results on. • PaQe36 SOCIETY OF SOFTWARE AUTHORS page 44 HEW YORK EXPO page 45 REPAIRS „.......„ .....page 46 COMMUNICATIONS........... page 4a I ^V ~ ^^K^BS 4'^% 4i4l 11 I«4-I-I-I'««»»>l ■«•»»■»*««*■' •■•-■■i**»l-l-i«*lFt'll-k«*^h i^ci pflrQiD hFC CLASSIFIED ADS ..p*ge S4 CONTROVEnSY ...page 58 READERPAGE »...page 60 MEL'S TRIVIA vuamEMuvrm ,. .^.jmmm eqit'^)menl and software, and are the resuUs as good as the demos wouVd indicate? Well judge for youi'self ofi these pages. The originals have come from various sources. DIGIVIEW is not a full colour dtgitiser, bul in comtMnation with a cotaur filter wheel in from of a normal black & while video cam- era it wifl scan ihree base colour planes (fed, green, blue — or RGB) and combine these to a full colour picture in any of Ihe Amtga s forrrYats, KJeally in HAM mode or in high resolution inter- lace, When to use ome mode or the other' Quite sini:pJe, tf y&u're looking for best colour rer>dftion. select HAM to give you 4096 dif- ferent shadings, but with only 320 X 256 resoluttofi. If you're looking tor best resolution, choose hires interlace to give l^ou a usetui @40 n 5^2 pixels across the screen, but with only 16 colours If your picture has a multitude ol prime colours (red. green and blue), choose HAM, othenwise you will tind DIG IV IE W selecting an idieal palette or 16 colours, but urmbie to cover sorrw »mportarvt Shades in the picture. The result is a removal of bright red lipstick froin leading ladies and other wetrd discolourations. But (ton t lorget, ^ digittsed image is not only necessarily good when it apjxoaches the ortginial in tone and hue. you may lind improvements on ttie Ofigmal by making use ot these inefficiencies and create, rather than just digitise, images, Newtek suogasi it>e use of tiuorescent K^hiting for their new titter wheel and witt^out going too technical, you need baf anced lighting with the cofreci colour ternpefature Iri practice. this means seleciing either mini- fluorescent strip lighting from your hardware sto/e or minia- ture htak>gen lighting. As long as the you're not imposing too much of a ooiour tint Irom yoiir light source, you can corrad the hue within DlGlVI^W It you re warned about expenrnenting, '■ V the speaat copy stand and . =Dr>g with your DIGIVIEW and vicleo can^ra, A good investment is also DIGIDROID — the motohsed lit- ter wheel, which selects the cor- rect colour filter under fuli pro- gram control and lets you mai^e a perfect, undisturt>ed cup of tea during full colour scans. What video sources can b& used with DIGIVIEW The answer is any. You can enperi ment with colour camcorders, mono carneras, video recorders or direct from TV, But there's a snag DIGIVIEW is onty equipped to harxjle a mono video signal. So you need extra equipment- Even it you're not worried about the colour ete- ment in the ptclure, you will need to hlter out \b& cokiur mod- ulation in the composite video signal, II you don't, you get a diagonal pattern across ttie digi- tised image. So if your colour Camcorder or video recorder doesn t have a colour kill tsutton, yov wilt have to improvise, More ol this in a future rssus It you re more audacious, you Will want to digitise colour images from your cokxjr cam- Qprder Or home video recorder. Tfiis means replacing tf\e ok} mechanical filter wheel wfth an electroriic setup, wMch splits the colour composHe signal Irom the vidieo source into separate RGB signals ar>d combines them with The compete sync signal and feeds them on demarxJ 1o DIGIVIEW Complicated.- ? You bet. So don't worry, a number of prod- uds will appear goon to (at you do this — at a price, tn tact, one such product is already avail- aiM. arv AMIGA COMBINER RGB whicti only works in oon- junction with tt>e professional RENDALE genlock, so be pre- pared to spend in excess ol £800, Of wail tor less expensive product to appear. The pidures on these pages were t^en mostly Ifom slides and kom a digital video recorder fed ttirough a very early prototype of a colour splitter video manager Irom FREL Ltd More of this product m the near future. Video recorder and cam- corder images pose another major probfem to DIGIVIEW, The scanning of an image can take several minutes and mufii theretoce be frozen for \h6 dura- tion ol the scan. That « obvicnis ly not a protJ^em with a still image such aS a colour slide or artwork, but it you have live action — say from a TV « film or home video movte — . tNs must be hailed and reialmed with a good quality and steady image. VBfy (ew video recorders have a petfaci still frame capa- bility due 10 the dynamics of storir>g inuges on magnetic media. The only useful solution lies With the new digital video recorders. This does not Impiy Left' a dithering Susan Sarandon, is she getting the righl vibesf Imset left; you shouldn't have said that about his mum — Sylvester Stallone over(rejiacting? Above, right: on the fly,., iteeie trsme vJdeo image dighlsed using a new prototype colour splitter video manager. And below it, a taste at things to come — Xorox print version, but what's the film? Inset right: Steve Outtenbero meets his match with Darryl Hannah in one ol her better mromenls in,..? Far right; a sweet looking Jutianne PhllNpB in.«.7 Centre Bytes of 3tiC dtgn^ recording onio madia as itnlh CD disks, but dtQital rerer& to Ihe freeze- frame pfindple — trm lape is rut physK::ally hatiad on these mactim^. The picture is grabbed and digitised into RAM memor/ in the video recorder and output instead of lt>e moving" pfclure. In other words, a cornplete frame grab ber within the video recorri- - OiGlVlEW is to fecord An already digrlised image' Expertswe? Yes, bui don't forget if >rou're already fanting a video recorder, you're only^ looking at C&ntre Bytes I I 1 :\ \ i I ! I I CRAB IT COMPETITION Send in your list ot film titles and the firi^t three out of the bag who gel at least three tilms right will receive B XEROX print of ttie lovely MJcheMe Pteftfer (pictured left). Please also stale what digitising equipment you alrwdy have or would like to purchase. Send ttre entry to GRAB tX The Games Machine. **0 Box lO. Ludlow Shropshire SVS The Products (All prices are RRP inclusive of VAT) DIGIVIEW GOLD V3.0 (Newtekf £129.95 WV>4tO CAMERA WITH 8.5MM LENS [ Panasonic] £263.82 OtGiDHOtO (Newtek) £59.95 COPY STAND FOR D1GIV|£W (Newtek) £59,95 AMtGA COMBINER RGB (Pure GraphicsJ £172.50 AMIGA GENLOCK 8806 i A?000) (Rendale) £750.00 XEROX 4020 INK JET PRINTER (RanK Xerox) El 437,50 STARTER PACK (includes all necessary consumables): C146.68 A fuM list ot products and suppliers will be published in the next issw or TGM ai^ Centre Byles. Watch Ihis spaoel Michelle Pleltfer (above) isn't wicked, but shie also isn 1 ftdverliaing a hair ahompoo la .-7 War isn't always a picnic (below) In, ..7 the rental upgrade difference. Thtere are a number of digilai VHS recorders on the markeL so try them out t>etore you buy or fsni Selection of a cam- corder can aiso be tricky. Tlie probiem heie is fesoiulion, or fack of it! Your average VHS, VHSC or VIDEO 8 camcorder provides a resolution of 200- 240 Una*, whicti is about ha>f {\\% image resoiutton of the PAL TV system you tiav© at home To obtain good results wtien digitising in HAM (320 x 256) Or in hires mteriace mode (640 x 512) this IS insulfidenft and Newtek advise ttie use of 9 mono video camera, as ttiis provides resolutions in excess oi 400 lirjeSn The only other option is the new SUPER VHS format which provides a similar resolution in cotour, and reach es the limll of the PAL video format S^ai- Again, be pre- pared to pay somelliing in the region of E 1 400 for this type of camera SUPER VHS formal records and outputs the luminance and cliromi nance element of the video signal separately, so you need an adaptor or colour split- ler/RGB-comtJine which lakes care of this, Perhaps you're best off following Newtek's advice after all. At under £3(X> a mono video camera ts good value for money. But tieware ol Its HmHations. Unlike modern camcorders there's no user- friendly macro facility, in fact you need a screwdriver to adjust the foca^ length range, a must tor slldie digitisirkgr t just hope the screw <s built to last, Anott>er niggly poinl is ttie Choice of the 8,5mm lens Check th« edge of itie scanned image and you find massive distortion. The ceintre area of the ima^e is lengltiened and the perimeter areas shorter>ed, Foftunatety. anyone you show the results to won't usually be able to compare original and digitised image &.ide by side, but the distortion can cause probiems on sorr^e geomeU'ic inrtages, Previewing is another prob- lem on olGlviev^ Untonunaie- ly Newtek have r>oi provided a monitor output for previewing and focusing' centering of the image. You musi purchase a video amptrlier with multiple outputs or wart for the new colour sp^itter/yideo managers which incorporate switchover between computer activity dis- play and video input monitor- ing. Who said digitising was simple? In the next issue I'll be dis cussing tt>e various compo- rtents in more detail and pro- vide son>e useful tips on t>ow to digitise slides — a chapter in itself Further there will experi- ences to report on RANK XEROX 4020 printing and anal- ysis of printing «jsls In ihe meantime t^e a k>oK at wicked witch Susan Sarandon in full Inkjet glory. 34 TGM TX021 :8-89 I GUIDE TO WORD PROCESSORS & PRINTERS Anyone who has to do a loi of writing wUI soon realise the bnutauons of a tvpewritet — if you make any major mis- takes or just want to jnake a few changes ihe entire □aga bas to ba re typed Obviously a word processor is a mxxst for iJiy writer whether you're wntmg magaaina arudes, bust- naas reports, novels or just letters. Eaity word prooessors weie very basic text editors. Spelling mimifcwi and typing errors could be rectified, paregraplis could be changed, ten could be moved or inserted to another part of the anide and words couJd be replaced automatioally with oth- ers However, word processors have come along way Whie many stUl retam these basic features they've been expanded upon For Instance many aUow t^ct to b« cut and pasted berween two files: multiple documents to be worked on at the same time; niajl merge and macros Some even alk>w graphics designed on an art utility to be included m a text f tie. So what then is the difjArenoa between a word processor and a deslctop pubhshing (DTP) package If truth be told very little Generally a word processor features better text editing focUi- tiet such as spell checkers and fmd and replace options, while DTP packages are best suited, for layout aiid graphic work However, the dividing lines are becoming increasingly tiluired tpute often word processors duplicate many of the options of a DTP padtage while lexi edltmg factHcies on DTP packages are beconung more sophisticated^ Wben purchasmg a word processor it's Inuporiant to consider what you want it for and what facilities you need This may tOttOd obvKnis but it lb poindess spending money on an expen- dve package when all you want to do is write letters Another eoosicteration is youi printer, Colour graphics import facilities are foie if you've got a colour printer but a bit pointless other- wise; also don't forget to check to see if youi printer is compat- QAt With this m mind read through the TGM guide to IS bit woid processors to fmd the package that suits your own pnce raoQe and needs. GLOSSARY ASCII American Standard Code for Irformation Interchange. A file format where just tbe basic codes for pnnimg the characters are saved -- le. all printer codes are srtnpped out Word proces- sors which Support ASCQ can eixetiange files with other ASCn compatible programs (and sometimes other com^* puiers. via serial ports or simi- lar disk formats) DOCUftHiNT Any file created in a word processor, can con- tain graphics and text DOCUMENTATION A bnef de^cnption of the manual Is it easy to understand? Or does it fail to highlight potential problems"? FONTS Types of character sets If your printer doesn't support a particulai font it won't be sSjle print it regard- less of whether the software can EASE OF USE What It's like to work with ORAFHICS Some word proces- sors offer the facility to include graphics in a text file However, few allow for muiu ooiouied images to be includ ed and will often reootour the graphjr. INTERLACE A screen resolu- tion mode on the Armga with a vertical resolution of 400 Lnes MACRO A user-defined oper- auon A word can be tAdigned stnngs of frequendy used instmctlona which wiU be performed when ever this word IS entered, MAIL MERGE ITseful for pro- ducing a series of documents which differ only slightly from each other The most common use is to producH multiple letters with different names and addresses on each but the same body of text MISMATCHED WOltO Any word not found m a spell ctwc^wr'e dicuonary A mis matched word may not be misspelled it just isn't in the flictionary !f this is the atse most spell checkers aliow you to include it in the dictionary for future use MULTtTASKiNO The capability to run more than one pro- gram at a time The Armga TGM 1X021:8-89 35 has Lhis facilitv buUtin. Many word processors allow thm usci ID edit several docu- ments at once and cui and paste between Lhem. ftOlHifTERLftCE A Scte&O. modis wiih a vertical resolu- tion of 200 lines POltn SIZE A unn of ineafiure- ment used by typesetters and printers lo measure font size Theie are fZ points per inch Common sizes include 8, 10 and 17 point PRINTER Whai prmtois the packaae will output to. Check to see if your pnniei is coin- patible with any oi those list- ed PRODUCER Who to contact if you'ie iiUMested m any par- ticular program REQUESTOR A box thai apj^ears m a window as rL'sponse to a choice made on a menu requesting additional information to complete the command . SCRE^ The screen re^tu- tton This IS particularly umportont on packages that can miport giaphics. Higher lesolutjons allow Tor more detailed graphics. S4ZE5 Font sizes measuied m ixsint sizp SPEC I AC FEATURES Any addl- tioaal functions not nomtaUy featured on a word piocassQT. SPELL CHECKER/DiCTIQ- NARY/THESAURUS Details on sp«U cor t BCtion facilnie^ includmg the size of the mbuilt dictionary and any ChesaMrus functions. STYLES Alter nativF© ways of representmg the same font, Useful for hiQhlighung sec- tions of text SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Mmtmum hardware and soft- ware tequif ements to get the package up and runnmg. The moref powerful programa operate more efficiently with two disk drives and memory expansions for dicttonartes lAB GUIDE Our TGM Lab Roport at a glance overall appraisal of the piDgrani tak- ing m to oonfiideration ease of use, functions and pnoe WIMP Windows, icons. mouse and puU-down menus V.' Windows, icons, mouse ;i:irl pointer, which some iiq-iit^ was the original inter- ii o( the acronym) ,^^. are selected by point- ing to the desired function on a pull -down menu The stan- dard working enviiOrunent for most word processors WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get Documenta appear on screen exactly as they wlU be printed fvery use- ful I— saves reams of paper' ) However, it relies on screen resohition and can be quite misleading at times. WORD PROCESSOR PACKAGES KCKAQE: Prowrite SYSTEM REQurRtiMCMTt: Amiga. &12K HAM, iticHsuijt I.?, oi later SCREEK: In ordi?i lo display pjic- tutes artd lejtt in th& same pro- portions ttial they will be pruited, Prowriio operates m high fesolu- Ltun mode. El you done owii a high resolution cnonitor Uie scT&^n will nickel. Kpwever, an addiuonal medium resolution v<<rswin is supplied on disk H,egardli«is ot which version is used both vtfiU ptmi in lughres, WVSIWYO; Yes. ut higit resolution only POWTS: Diarncmd, Emerald. Garnet, Opal, Ruby, Sapphire, TopaJ STYLES: Plain, Bold. Italic, UnderiinQ, Superscript, Subscript. SIZ»; n. 2G. QXUkPfKA: Lmpons normal IFF pidurea such as Uioso creaied on the Ovtuxe Pauit series of art util ities as w^U as Hold And Modify (HAM} pictures. Although the Amigs is capable of producino 4090 colours, most colour printers can only produce seven colours. When a muitl-oDlour picture is printed ihe printer produces an approximation of the on screen ooloure using a ditheruig tech- nique This works by printing two cxilours clc^e together to cre- au9 Che illusion of a third colout. For instance to produce dark blues the pnnter alternates between prmtmg blue and blaclc dots. Howevei. this method doesn't always produce satisfac- tory results. Prowrite attempts to rectify this by showing the dithered picture on screen along with options to control the degree of ditheruig Alternatively a graphic can be convened into a monochrome image. Pictures can also be resized both vertically and horizontally. Very close to a DTPpadcage MAIL MERGE: V^s PRINTER: Epson. CBM MPS 1000. IBM, Xerox and compatibles ASCU WTPUft Yes SPEll CHEC KER/DtCnONAR Y/THE- SAURUS: Mismatched words are highlighttid in a special re^jue^or where they can be ignored, changed or added to the 95,000 word dictionary A suggest o(>tion Will diiiplay a lit^t ol simi' larly spelled words m a list bpx- Corrected words will automaii- cally replace mismatched words in the docuinent DOCUMENTATION Very detailed. The manual assume the user is familiar with WIMP environ- ments and Worktiencb hut never fails to explatn any option m suf- ficient detail for inexpenenced computer users. By the end of the tiist chapter the user is famiUai with spell checking, cut and paste, and basic document edit- ing functions While subsequent chapten show how to get moie out o( ihesf itrii! oih«r options. SPECUU. FEATURES: Supports AxiUQa mulu lesking. You can open sevi^ral documents simulta- neously in seve]fai windows and cut and paste between them EASE OF USE: While the manual gives detailed explanations of ail the program's functKins, anyone fanuMar wtth word prooessotrs will experience very few prob- lems using Prownte without it. Most of th« options are self explanatory and a little expen- mentation soon reveals the pur pose of those that^aren't. 1fGMQuiOE;?ncedat£95 PiuVt'i lie can't be grouped witfi the budget word processor $ not, IS it as expensive as some of the lop-end Amiga padtages. As such it tails in a shadowy middle ground which is fiequenily over- looked by many potential buyers Which IS a real shame because it Is a manreilous package — pow erful yet easy to use. PfMCE: £85 PftOOVCER; N«w Hohzoas Scdtware Availahlfl in the LTK from HBM,<iikfltma, Brooldyn fioua*. 22 The Green, West Dravton. Middlesex UB? 7P0 Tel: (OaSSil 444433, PACKAISE: Trnmira^tpl SYSTEM REQUtREMENTS: Amiga, bl2K KAM SCRSN: Low resolution, mter- laoe and rvon interlace modtti. wmWYH: There's a video pie- view option which allowB you to view a t' ■ •■' '■ :t ofthe actual I tjowevsr. you can ijijiiy v;i,'W tno document in ihlfi mode you can't edit it, FONTS L TapAl. STYtES PUnn, Bold. Italics. Undflilme. GRAPHICS: l4o graphics support MAIL MERGE; Yes. PRINTER: Any of Uwse featured in the Preferences directory on Worktscnch ASCII OUTPLTT; Yea SPELL CHECHER/D»CTIONARY/TNE- SAURUS; SfK:L!! ch^n-kmo i.-s rtone by a sepatatc> ].iEr.i>g[.uin cmU'ti TranapeEl Individual words oi entire documeitts can he apeHed chodned, Mismatched woids can bo corrected m a special reguesior and will be automau- cally replaced m the doaimenl. ignored oiT added temporanjy to the dictionary AKonauveiy, guess ■pi?llmrr wiU open & requesr words that are close in , , The default dic- tionary consists of 90,000 words. Woids can bo added lo it tern- poraitly but they wiU be lost onc» the Amiga has been switched off, unless a new dictionary is saved Tr.fds;;k DOCUMENTATtON: There are always itKssf users who wish to 36TGMTX02l:e-89 WP HORRORS! It'a all very well TOM lecturing yvu on whafa the tMtflt way to proc«e« your words and what •iqutfifnent to buy, bui how do ihe profess^en- Mte fio about lh«ir word processing days. Androw Ritson spoko io top horror writer, flaniAey Canipb«ll on the joros and cons of word pfbCftssing,., Ram««iy Campbcil) (author o! Ttie Hungry Mxyr, At^d&« tm^m and Oemows By Oayi^gin) is Hie raaponsibie owner of an Aprjcot 266, It's the diary of his night and daycares. The master ol horror s<t5 htirx^eid in his eh&lf, a green ilght biatlun^ his face in a ghosiiy gan^t) shiidii. Hfo computer lie* dorn^ant, t&s\mf} Its weary CPl^ (head), before b«ing isoughed into action by Its hideous owner. It's, ool R bad cgnipiiter,' he siiys,, proudly pSH ting hts WoFdstar 5 padiage. which he re^rds wiih high esteem, Preitty much uniik© tfie tnla- nious Amstrad manual' h& laughs with a conta^ giout smirk. Did you know Ihofe's even a best- semn^ book callad How Ta Uf^dsmmd Y^r .^VrisffVKf?' CampbeP t«gan ct^rriputing as an ignorant. Thie leap from the pneumahc-dnllir^ typewrttor to She word pfocessw began five year^ ago, Cornpulei Sp«ciaits1 Jtian Hill introduced hJm lo Ihe meiaf-kind. wiiri an invrllnfl hand. >ie y'are; Bhfli sakl one day, come piay on ihiev He natural- ly datit^ed with Ihe ccnlnoos Keyboard and look an immediate dislike lo it Hie r«$ponse7 GhHiairiy The phrase 'lata! Ofrof' crdpp«>d up and sonie- thtng disappeared off scra«^n. Most o0d inde^id. Hnwevef , since ibai shock 04 a bmp Bftd Qruni from the fxHitputer g metal gui, he's b«en ha^fiy with hlf newest con^panlon; ihe Aprtcot In conv paii&on has boon ever bo user-frw*dty, Oampbeli's Apncol is his closesi companion, Carelully, he cAr«>&e«& its mivtiry face with a iov«f $ totidi: speaking lo it m a lar greater pa^ than the printer prints. The most useful thing about this buio is that (t chfick? repeiilion. A diclKsoary ii> ihere for use, wNch i& extfemety powerful Qm comical occurence of the new system happengid whwi h« added tbe words grtj^some' ar>d 'o/ota^ue' lo Its literary banks. The computer's response^: Ceiitra Byt0B WORD PROCESSOR PACKAGES itL?e suaigbi into a piogiam with- out readtng the releva^i details fiist A tidtoriaJ early on in the nMnual is design^ied W3th them in toind pro^vjdmg a simple example of how to create, edit and save a docuo^Eit. G^eraUy Uie docu- nvstatjoit is One with aJI lelei- enoes to word prooesscfi jaigon d^rly explained. SPICIAL FEATURES: Designed to work with the DTP package ftclessional Page, EASE OF USii Virtually all fmc- tioas can be carried out with only afewkpy presses. LAB Oil IDE: Excellent text edit and layout Eacilities. Clearly aim^d at the senoufe user and at a baigain price Lack of graphits sup-port may be disappotdting but at such a cheap price it is easily imegiated in a low cost DTP set up. PmCES; £25. PflOOUCEHi Gold DiSk- Distiibuted in the UK by HB Maiiieting, Biooklyn House, £2 The Green, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7PQ. Tel: (0895) 444433. MCMGE: VVotdFerfect SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Amiga, 51 2K RAM SCREEN: The text window can be set to ahy size using the usual wukJow resize prcx:edtires. Operafes in mediuin lesolutioii. FQfrrS: Many. SITLES: Plain, Bold, Underline, [talics. SupersciipiL, Subscript. Overstrifee SI2E$: User<lefined BRAPfllCS: No graphics unpo^t Jaolities MAIL MERG& Yes ntiNTER: A separate disk oontrols an printer configuration opttons, Mftst dot-mauuc and mafly otfter types of printer are catered lor. ASCII OUTPUT: Yes SPEIX CHECKER/D<ICTIONAffY/THE^ SAURUS: A ^'iepafato disk takes care of the spell check, dictionary and thesaurus hmctions. Mismatched words are highJight- ed along with a list of simllaily speLed alternatives. Other correc- tion options include the Phonetic option which produces a list of words which sound stmiiai to the mismatched word. Any correc- tioDs will automatJcaiEy appeal in the document Dictionaries can be set up loi specific purposes such as business or computing. Not only can words be added to the dictionary but they can also be deleted when you feel they are redtmdant. WordPerfect features a fully developed thesaurus Option. Once activated, woids are easily selected usmg the cursor The program then pioduces a list of possible alternatives Should you decide va setea any of Oiese ihe old word will be substituted in the docuinem for tfte new one. DOCUMENTATION: A huge 600 or SO page manual. Incredibly daunting and incredibly detailed. The size of the manual makes it difficult to locate exact informa- tion quickly and quite often sev- eral pieces, located in different sections of the manual must he- cross referenced to fully under- stand a function. However, a cam- prehensive tutonaJ section helps teach Biajiy of WordPerfect s fea- tures. SPECIAL F^TURiS: Sequences of insEnjctions can be assigned ic MACROS EASE Of USE: I>efin:tely not for beginners Basically it's difficult to use because ttieie are so many faalEties to master, Some options ajre not immediately aooessable and a fair amount of documenta- tion reading is necessary before you can start using the program adequately Fortunately, a tutorial disk 15 supplied and a help option provide a quick keysLioke relei- ence guide. If you're still prone to getting lost (which is likely for a good whUe} a template with a fuJt li£t of key functions fits over Lbe Amiga keyboard. LAS GUIDE: WordPerfect is gener- ally legatded as one of the best word processors available for the Amiiga and quite rightly so. The editing and layout features are everyiliing you could want in a word processor and more. However, the price is rathe? pro- hibitive and only worth the outlay if you're really serious about word processing or DTP PnCE:£2Za. PftOOUCIA: WPCorp Products Supplied in the UK by EleOric Distribution, Meadow Lane. St Ives, Huntingdon, Cambs PE17 4LG. Tel (0490H9^89. PACKAGE: Tlisfs Vi^rite SYSTEM REQUIREMEIfTS: Atari ST. 5i2K RAM. SCREEN: Medium resolutioa. WYSIWYG: Yes RHfTS: Pica. Elite. Times York. Rods, Helbo, Greek. STYIES: Plain. Boid. Underlmet Double UndetJined, Stnke Through, Italic, Superscript, Subscript, Symbol. SilSSt Varies aoootding to font and style. (JHAPHICS: No graphics support, MAIL MERGE: Yes. compatible Willi some database packages such as dBMan. PIHNTER: Most 9-pin and 24-pui dot -matrix printers also the Atari laser 5LM 804 ASCII mjfmjti Yes. 5PO± CHE€KER/0lCT10NAnv/THE' SAURUS: Fast spell checker The dictionary ts kept m RAM when- ever possible. Also one of the few programs to suEqxm foreign Ian- Horror author RAmsey Csrnp&eti Do jrou reauy want to add 'i^me *wrtfe? CarripbelL laugfis giiigedy, his heart tkiting like an old graFidfatf^ec dock. Ca<TipbeJT was a latecorrwr to wrord processing Howevaf, hd agm&6 Hs us&g&s are ^ntihfi A cornptel^ly differarrt pntrrf-s^t oomes into pla^f ofwe 1 switch irom longhand to scfeen, Cfeative enefgy 'i% ust^aliy usurped on paper, and revision on acreen, I can rww ^tm oomptele r eOundancies o* lej(t on se^ng a pnnfed page, i guess the thtfig which coftvinc0di nn* of WPs' advantages was ttmif abifrty Id cut here and ther^e. without scfew' ing up pieces ol p^ies afKi hsvittg io etari ^abi/ Canpbefl begirm his daily wmiriQ shift at 7;30am* Tho morntr^ is swaKcnraid up by thinHtng jmagtn^d>v0ly. Cf^tivity is an eadjf nx>rfiir>g pdort- ^. Whting noft-ficBon, whkc*i he r^gard^ as b&tng rrx^fs laierat, can be don« straigM onto screen wUhOirt (hd us© of 1+19 mrahty swwd — frw pen. Has he any r^&t£ of t^i&m#ss to vent ^^aih^Sl (tje computer ifKlystrv aJ iaf^? Yes, h« ^ues <tefiafi!^, flaying £3,000 tor a system and b^^ tokf to simply go away and use k is nol my ktea of s^^sman^ip.' Ha adds: "Wa once had a prcWem — the compufsi' rsfused to conmu&d m page 38 guages |cunenUy German and Dutch, others available on request J, OOCWIiNTATION: Concise manu- al wrineii with beginne/s in mind. SPectALFEAIUflES: Font editor for user-dehned character sets includmg logos aod other sym- bols EASE OF WE; ViHT simpte. As any key oa Che keyboard caii be assigned its own maao you can efitectively customise the pro- gram to Suit your own wntmg and layout habits. Selections need never be nK»e tfian a key- press away LAB GUIDE: A reasonable woid processor with a wide setecHon of fonts {n»re sie available) which slK»uld appeal to those who wish to vary the appearance of their text. The font editor proveiS 10 be very useful for adding a personal touch to a doc- ument in the form of a custom kjgo PfltCE; £129 PHODU^R: Cavendifih Distributors Ltd. 209 Tottenham Court Road, London W1 9AF Tel (Ol) 323 4761 PACKAGE: K-Word 2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Atan ST. 5i2itfiAM SCRGEIt: Medium resolution. WYSIWYQ: Yes. FONTS; Just the one. STTLEfc Plain. Italic, Bold. Underline. SIZES: Non -changeable. GRAPHICS: No gmptUCS support, MAIL MERGE: Yes PB*NTEH: Includes a printer con- figuration program which can be adapted to tami popular makes of printer The configuFatKin rou- tines also work wiUi other soft- ware application i^ckag^:. ASCII OUTPUT; Yes. spa± CBECKER/DfCTlONARY/lHE- SAURUS: K Word does not lea- •.^■.. ^:., :,peU checker, theSBunu or dictior^ary options of its own. However, it is fuUy oimpatitda with K Spell and KRogei (also from Kkima} which provide exten- sive docuovent correction facih- DOCUMENTATION; SmOe tiUs Jsnt a pa; ' omplex word pro- cessor ,rLuai isn't overly long Shouldn t pose any ptoi> iems for anybcxly SPECIAL FEATURES: Frequently lonsorwojds any one of ^e r . t-.L-ya EASE OF k^E: Operates m a wiMF envtronroent wtthoitt hordes of windows to clutter up the soeeiv twy easy to use Aii the editing functions are- easily accessed with just a few clicks of the mau*e. There's even a hetp option which provides bi lel explanattDns q( some of the pro- gram's funaions just in case you get lost. The document editing TGM 1X021:8-89 37 WORD PROCESSOR PACKAGES \ I ili'.i-^^. including cut and. pa<td :u..i ;.:jlanclteplacp at^n't (developed tQ A p nh <f*0t«'butaiet' : > ■- nent rm everyijay use. LAB OlflDC; Aimed very much at Uie first umeuser The pfogiain IS preseDtod m a Donansaiue nuuum witbout tiefty manuals or ovflf comptex meriiui While Eoost otMr ST word procesBors are moic- 50pliixticatecl (and expen sj.vej It's wionh askintf yoursoil d^ you need reaios of functtons'' K- Wofd 2 L£ tutly compatihte with the IC range of applicaiian pack ages iiam Kuma Prissently these include a speU cbeckejt. a the- saurus, B documectt lEdffiCing sys- tem and a spreadsheet By mat irtg the program modulai you can adapt It to suu your own needs without paying for functions that ','1!] won't uso Lack of ij^rsphics h ..pport Is disappointing but si VQU cin3y want a word proc^sor to wnte weU ptesent«ci l«tt«{$ K- Wofd 3 IS more than adequate. PfliCE:C39% PfiOtHlCEfl: Ktuoa Cotnputers 'iorseshoe Park' itne, B«r)tahue Rea 7JW Teik 07357)4335, PACKAGE: Protext (v«T^idil 4.2) . | SYSTEM »£WIIRCMENTS; Atari SI* or Anuga with minimum of SIZK RAM SCREEN: Medium resolulioii WTfSlWTfl: Yes, FONTS: Just one STYLES: Plain, Bold. UiidfflrLin«, Italics. Condensed, DcMJhle Strike Pica Suiwo-jpi SupersT] SIZES: Standard ttv^ ST or Amiga WUPMCS: No graphira Impart faciliiy. However, simple line bosrrs can be drawm. MAJL MERGE: Yes PfnNnit; E{son. Diablo, HP Laseqet and oompatihles Otlwi makes of printer are easily con- hmnt^ for us« with Piotexl. ASCII OUTPUT: fes SPfU CHECKER/OlCTIONAflV/THE- SAUAUS: Bujll m 70.000 wotd die- tkinarV' Mismatched words can b« kgnored or added to the dicito- naiy There's also a speU check while typ ingjac tmy OOCUMPfnulOM: The manual on ^ailier vfrtaton^ wm rather mud- died; it was often difficult to locBld exactly what you were JooJEinofar ThanlduUy m the lat est version itus has btieo improve SraOAL FEATURES: CompatiMe With sooie other woid processors indtiddig Fust Word on ifie ST EA$C OF USE: GeneiaUy straight forwatd Initialiy verv easy lo use but some ol the more complex functtona cah be a bit Ult^ to irtaater However, the new improved inanual is a ODftsldei- ableh^ lAI ttJiDE; A popular word pro- cessor for both the ST and Amiga and oonunual revisions ensure good aft«f safes support perhaps 4 little ovmirioed m view o( the lack of gtapbk:s ooimmainds Nevertheless an ostcellenl word processor PRICE: £dd 95. Owners of earlier vi^riiioas can purchase an upgrade at a disoouitt WOOUCEII: Arnoi, 611 Lincoln 8oad, Pet«thoroi*gh PEI 3KA Tel J07U) £8909. PACHACE: Tlrst Word Plus {Vet8lcMl3.14) SVITEM RCQUIRGIIENTS; AVU\ ST. 51 2K EU^M. SCRC0i: Htgh and mediuin rma- lution modieit are supported. Foi high les you'll need a spectaf mono momtor Medium les works wall With TV£, although diatin guishing a comrna and a lull stop la difficuii oa smalto seta, WVSlWVO:¥es. RMTTS: Pica, Elite, eitpandsd aiul condensed STYLES: llahc, uilderliilied. SUptiir- script. suhsCTipt can he com ^ fjined and presented in bold. mediu m or Ught. smfc Ju5t one. GRAPHtCS: FWF OOEDM vtnth a S[ifi|jstH>i: acceaaory vtttich can Snatch any pictures Created by a QEM based package and jMSta them ml,., d document Theresa alao a DegaSnap for use with Qo^as and Degfat Eiiie HUM. MERdE: FWF oomes with Flint Mail ^ a maS meiige pack- aga sold separately fof £14 9S Bes,ides FWP dataliles you can use f!Qes ttom H&D Bas«, LaverBase. DB Master One and dBMAN to Croats form letters pmNTEn: Brother HH datsywbeei series (exrept HB t) DiablQ CMiplieFI. fnxR prB¥foM pnnT out It &at tliere glumly convimc^d It was about to do somelhing, but Ft didn't We rang Aprioof — Ihey said il was a software iaan. Vte rang the soft- wtrv pioducQfs: ihtii response — wait in a queue and be paOenl' Thankfully, Jesn Hill performed QfMft-t)eflri sufgery and solved the praoem. The flrily jM^wftv — stoaptess nJghte. Woutd CampMll be interested in toOowtng CUve Baffcjef, aiTd seeing his name on ihe computer gan^e shelves? WoiJid ifie Idea ol ruwe^ conversion ID screen anracs the yourqw generaiion? "Oh undoUHedy YES \ think H whM he greet fun. Lefs hope 50ftie scttwere housei apf>rpaehes me!' Campbell's househokj doesn t cofiiair any addic- bve computer games. He does bravety admit to often whilkng away tfie hdurs sitting in a spacepod simulator down at the tocal arcade. Sitting iig^tiv m a enit and weaving yourself in betweer) an astaraid Shower is tun. he gleams, but addtchon admittedly tt frtghienirtg. Fortunately, my children haven't ool itwiir miiile^ into the danws martinet, althoogn I wouHdnl dtoeoufogtthem.' Campbell's most recall viefiture inio Itie apoc^ oiypOc (tihire was The Hungr/ Moon (available on Amw Boo^s) — a podrayal of the sh«k>wy era of posl-nudear war- Is he afrajd of nuo^ar l8ChrKjk> fly' Of course, yee. Sut i! is usages whict% are dan- gerous PrimanJy its us«h$ are economK: ^ cfieaper goods ai a fasier rate. Bui the drawback is the old Freudian idea — once you learn to db something, yog cant undo iil Csrt you? Dependence is als« dangerous,' Rom darkrwsa to Hghi, Campbell add^esaes Hie comtaa! side of . compuiing 1 dont know wtwthar this is true >n Bniain, but *n Amenca, there s a com* puier game whereby if you feed in the wrong eigit, your whole system wifi be fused-' A bjl Hue f)us$iao^ Roulede? Ves, he hatils L»napo(ogetic^, His pastirrws include watching re- runs oi Tron — the computer -generated film Will he t>e employing the sefvices ol a robot cleaner shoukJ ora land on ftis doorsiep? Emtrmm.' he cowls, I'd have toi examine H pretty carefully. &ui it sounds fun doeent VI? Of course, a maJfunction woukl be something else. The conversation ended abn^Jtty iMHh the mva- sKjn of a hum His computer bfinked ar»d yswned Are you talking about me 7 it bleeped. daisywtieel, Epson FX. RX, JX 8 ooAour printei, LX and LQ. IBU Petaooal Graptucs prtntar and Pft>f3ffinter, Juki 6100 daisyvfbod. Star. Qume Sprint daisywheel series (except IC), Atari SMM804 and oimpatlblas. There's also a Standanl ASCII printer driver and a cuvtoroise printer driver option ASCH OUTPtJT: Y« fPEll CHCCItEII/tHCTIONARY/TMC' SAURUS: ^0.000 word dictionaiy With opuon 10 cnole auppiamen' taiy dictiooadai whi^ can be mauitaload tepaiaiely. or owged with the main dictionarv wtuch currently takea lew than a tninu^ to load. Docunienta aiay be spell diK^ed all in one go. or continuously with a beep announcing each misspelling ai u'a input dOCtiMfifnTtiON: A sturdy rii^ binder talws both FWP and First Mall mainjctions. Both are well laid out aitd oompr^wnsive (FWF uaehiUy aq^ilaua whyoany pilntars have protema with NLQ Mabcal. the indexes could be bet teitlioi^fh. tPRlM. fUnMOi mab'b«Hd Scn^ file and a spill faattue which expfoiu a hard disk lo aUow bigger documents EASC OF USEt FWF takes the basic First Word WP roost people wdl tie faniiUar with and oat. oiity adds addlHooal laabina but improvoi eadsttna doea (le putting beadar ban on file seiec- tors ao yvu can tM whetbei ibe menu is fof daliTtftg at edaing files] Also weteonta are stadatlca (words, remaining disk/BAM 9pa>»), Save and neaunu and backcpround priiuirm wtule edU- ung In sbotl an ekttemaly usBT- iriendly [Htigrwn IAS dUlDE; FWP IS one Of the most powerful CEM-besed word processors around and the natu- ral choue (or upgfadug First Word users. PRICED ai 9S PRODUCER; OST SoHwaie QisLributed ui the UK by Elactilc Distribution. Meadow Lane, St Ive9. Huntmgdon. Cambe EtEt7 4La Tel (04801 496789. PACKAaE: Worrt Wciier ST SySTEM REQUtREMENTi.* Atari ST. 513K flAH A RAM ffitpeniiion ts lecomiaeflded to make eflec- tiva uve of the spell checker SOim; Win work in high or medium tea modee, but not krw Jim WYSlWYd: YeS- RWrS: Just one 3eTGMTX02t;a-89 Centre Bytes vdlirf. WORD PROCESSOR PACKAGES Cff ) «' SUES; Jusl one ttVLES^ iLaiicB. bold. tii^. siib- Ktipi and superscttpt inay be mixed and maiched as usual OUPMC&No. MM. WERQe: Y€S. Can draw dais frm TSmeworlLS Swiftcalc St and D«a Mdnagei ST FRHITER: A wide range includmg Alan 804, Brother HR senes, Ciujsen P35, Conm^t. Epson. Juki, NEC 3550. Paoasoiuc. Diablo. Toshiba, Seilio. Star. Ctume, Transtar, OkunGMje and dompatibl^s ASCi OUTPUT: Yes (vja printer firivef) 9KU CHiCHER/DlCnONARY/TTiE' UUfltJS: SQ.OOO EngLsh dicUp- tuai amd 60,000 hey woid the- rautiis Untoriunateiy on a stan- dard 520 STFM the size of xhB dictionuy meati^ you re unabte to spell cbeck dociiment$ at more than a couple of pages withciut ronning out of rnemorv. D{>CUMENTAT10N: Geiwn% 0OO4 except for the allimpoitaiit print- er section which is rathei small and noi verv mfomiatitfe. SPEClAt FUTURES: A USeftf] 'Integrated OutUne Processof' which uses a Mielied series of labs to help with planning out essays etc, EASE Of US& Sp«ll Checking doc- uments Is one of the most tedious WP functions, and if you've got a megabyte of memory or more the 90,000 word dictionary is exuemely attractive, [n addition □Dce ytiu chcxise to i^ote a woid on a S|ieU check sweep ail further occurences of the word ate ignored as weU The Lhesaurus is reasonable as well, though a disk access is reqiwed for each word yoti warn to find synonyms (or Wdfd Wriiei ST is comp«kiLbie with both First Word and FWP LAa OUIOC: A suponor speil checli. bold menu headings and QuicIk Kgy system make ijus a senoits nvaJ to FWP in many respfjcts PRWE: £79.95 PRODUCER; Tuneworfcs AvailobEe ui the UK liom Electric Distribution. Meadow Lane. St jves. Huntmacion, Cambs RE17 4LG Tel r(MaOM9€7^. PACKAGE: Word up SYSTEM REDUmEMENTS: Atan ST. 5i2K HAM If.^U iioeded for giaphics import options and some pnnteis. It's also advisable to h^ve either a douMe skied disk dnve or an additional drive SCREEN: Medium or high resolu< tjoD- Smaller fonts would piwe dif- ficulties on most TVs. WYSfwVO; Yes. FONTS: Swiss (like Helvetica^ Dutch (like Timee), Typewiltai: Sm£S: Piatri, Botd, LiOhl. Skewed, Outline, Underline, Broken Underhne, Double Underline, Sirtkethrough, Superacnpt, SuJ:>s€ript. «IZE3:8. 9. 10. 12. Z4 GRAPHIC^ Imports graphics &01It Vvgiis Elite, Neochiome and m OEM miage format However, ooloui graphics are automalicallv converted to moncKhiome images and some adjustmenLs may have to be made to Uie graphic to ensure ihat tl]e colours remam Uieu origmal mtensities Graphics can be resijied eilher manually or with aspect' latio scahng options to maint^n the origma! width and height ratios MAIL MGnOfi: Yes PmNTlR: Epson FX/EXJJX/LQ. Atari ShTM804. Star Gemini lOX and SG series. CiLizen Tribme 224 nnd compatible pnnters. ASCII OUTPUT: Yes SPCU ChECKfS/OlCTfONARY/IHE' SAUHUS: NOTj'.' DOCIiMENTATION: Good, with a nice Ouidt-Start mini-manual. But the pilnier section ooukl ve been more substantiaL SPEiCtAi. FEimMES: IndividDa] words can be tei>laood with Uocks of text usmg the Gkissary (qMJon. For insianoe there misy he a partjculav pteoa of text that you use trequeoity. Instead of typmg UUs time and time agaki it can be asfiigaed a ksywofd of your choice. When ever this word is typed into a document it wHl be naptaced with the relevant blodt oftem EASE Of USE: To begin wttti the disks must be backed up in a Jflfigthy process, and Uicn old First Word files must be cofivert- ed to ASCn fall codes stripped out} to be read by Wordup Otioe past all this Wordup ts reasombly uaer-lfiendlv LAB GU40E: Wordup ts a powerful tool as regarcis the final prmt-out, offering a wide- range of opttona from fonts to texi size, but lacks both a spell check and Fit-«t Word compatibility PotenLal buyers must decide for themselves Wbtttber the pros outweigh the signifiQant cons. P«IC£: i:5<l 9S. PfHMMiCEIh Neotton. Available from HB Marketing. Brooklyn Houjse, 22 The Green, West Drayton. MkHtleflex UB7 7PQ. Tel; (01^5)444433 ATTENTiON NEC PC ENGINE ANNOUNCEMENT, NEC Corporation, NEC Honne ElecHronics Ltd, and NEC (UK) Ltd (collectively 'NEC hereinafter) have r«c«ntfy become awara that the PC engine ts being offered for sale in the United KingdOfn. NEC believe that it is important that UK fOnsunierS Should be awar« of the foUouvIng informatkHt. 1. The PC ENGINE is a product mijntrfartured by NEC Nortme Elettrpnic) ttd for ui# with the NTSC transmit»on systcfn. tt Is not compatible with tfie UK PAt transmiision systefli' nof any other non NTSC tranimttsiort syttem. For tftll reason. NEC Corporatkxi docs rfot market the PC ENGINE in Itw UK or in any other lEC countriei. 2. There are no authoriied distributors of the PC ENGINE in the United Kingdom at present. Therefore, if you are offered a PC ENGiNl wt^ch is said to be compatible w'tHh the PAk tyjtem or any tranimission system oAer than NTSC, you should be aware that it will have been modified by a third p4rty. This modification is made withrout NEC's permlsfioo or approval. In tfic event chat a defect should arise in any modified PC ENGINE you must contact the dealer from whomi ywi purchased the product. NEC cannot Iw held responsible for any defects tn any modified PC engine nor be involved In any disputes between purchasers and sellert of luch products. In particular, NEC (UK> Ltd cannot respond to service calls in respect of any modiffed PC ENGINE, Please note that the guarantee provided with each PC ENGINE Kitd In Japan by NEC Ho<me Etectron»» ltd extends only to the use of the unmodified PC ENGINE in Japan and thefefore NEC cannot assist you if you purchase a modified PC ENCINE in itm UK. Any othet i|uarantee pro- vided with a PC ENGINE in ttw UK is not an NEC guarantee. Finally, any modified PC ENGINE'S sent to NEC (UK) Ltd for servicing will lie returned to the lender. MC CsrpordUon HH Mom* ItmXrtHtia IM. HtC |UK) LU. SEC TGM TX 021:8-89 39 Centre Bytes PRINTERS TGM LAB GUIDE TO PRINTERS For anyone mtereswd in word processing, desk- top publishma or other applications (fiom music to spreadigheei^) a pnntST mav be Uie singlo^ most expensive Item you buy loi vour oompui- er Obviously dyoum atoui to part wuh a tidy some of money you want to know exactly whoi u> look for; diodf out UiG glossary for a full e^cplanation or prmter jar- gon Tlie fust thing lo decide is piecisely what you want youi priiiier for — different types of printer are suited to different funrtions Then decide how much you've got to speDd end take a took through the TGM guide to printers Daisywheel printers are greet for word processing ot any package where you requue quality output^ However, there MB a severaj diBWt^cks They are often expensive iwe couid only find one below £500), prmtuig is slow, they orJy come with one font and they can't print graphics — so they're not a lot of use with DTP softwere. Chances are you'll want use your prmier with severaJi padtages and print graphics as weU Bs text. U you're on a tight budget its best to go for a dot-matrix printer. These aie the mcst popular type of sub-£1000 printej and can cope with any type of output. Tlwf e are two mam types of dot-matrijc printers; 9'pm and NECP2300 24 -pin. Provided you're not after high quaLty output a 9- pin printer is fine, they're often cheaper tool Itik'iet and laser printers vyUJ probahly be outside the budget range of most TGM readers and are only neces- i^ry where extremely high- tiuahty output is necesseiy — desktop publishmg for exam- ple However. TOM did find one inlC'jet prmter below £1000- The prices quoted are the manuiacturets own reoofn- mended retail pnc^ Generally these prices are artihciaily increased due to EEC levies on Japanese print er imports which make up 80% of the dot-matrix printer market However. H you're prepared to shop around you should find some reftsonable discounts The only hktden msi to watch out for lg the prtntei lead, the caible needed to connect the printer the oomputer A suitable lead can cost anything from £& £10 Printer manuf actuiers usually make their own lange of accessories including replace- ment nbbons, buffer expan- sions and sheet fevers Contact the manufacturet for relevant pnoe lists. Finally iJ your prmiei should break down after the warranty has expired TGM Centre Bytes features a full list of indepen- dent repair services which repair various makes of print- ers. GLOSSARY BUFFER The pnntei s own memory Computers serid teirt to theprinter much faster than it can pr^mt, so the pnnter needssomewhere to tern- porariiy store the incoming information Alimitcd amount Of information can be stored in the buffer. Information that can't be immediately placed m tbe buffer wUl remain m the computer until it can be sent; effectively locking up the computer until theie is sufficient space in the buffer Therefore, large buffers allow you lo return to using the oomputer quicker bemuse the printer can temporarily store the inforrnation in its ovro memory Jusi like computer memory buffer size la mea- surett m kilobytes (K). CARRIAQE This physical part of the prmter handles the p^per OBVIOUSLY larger car- riages can handle (aiger ptPtes of paper CHARACTER Any letter, num- ber or printed symbol. COUHWi Wtcmi The number of characters that can be printed on onehne: deter- mined either by caniage width or software. COillESPOmiCNCE A pmt mode liHiween draft and NLO DQT MATRIX A kind ol printer that produces characters as a senes of dots in vertical lines The most popular type of home computer printer. Suiiablie for priming graphic DRAFT The quickest and low- est ctuality print mode Suitable for printmg rough drafts. CPS Print speed measurecf in ctiaracters per second DPI The prmt resolution mea- sured in docs per inch. Higher resoluliDns produce better quality prtn!. FONTS The number of cyp^ iPSOii COMntrtfiLE Epson largely ptoneered the fiek] of low-cost dotmatrut printers with tJie Epson FX-K3 Printers that are said to be Epson oompattble will work With software which works With the Epson series o( printers — which mdudes most packages. LQ Letter-quality: a high-qual- ity pnnt mode Envolving two printer bead passes — usual- ly a quarter of the tpeed. MODE Different print modes produce different staiidards of output Modes are usually selected by switches on the printer, or via software codes. The highest quality modes (SLQ and LQ) prmt at the slowest rate NLQ Near-tetter quality. On the lower cost printers this is usually the highest quahty print mode PiMS Dot-mainx printers pro- duce each character by draw- ing a series of vertical lines Pins refer to the the number of dots in each vortical line So 24 pin printers produce better quality prmt than 9-pin pnniers 9 pm printers have largely been iuperseded by 24-pins printers and can often be bought at reduced pnoes. SLQ Super -letter quality Found on some makes of Star pnnters this pnnt mode reputedly produces 48 -pin quahty output usuig 24- pin technotogy. Some of the widely populai Stai prtnten 40 TGM TX021 :8-89 lop Quality 2nd Drives for the Amiga and Atari ST at lowjpw prices ' FuU comptilblllt^ with all ktmri ■KdrLs \m\ti* 500 & Ainlgi IMO ' Top qu^lily Ciitun ('rive ' OtK inetabi^le unfDnnilted U|udljr ' EktcTftAl ptUR In PSU (Alart ST) ' T|m>kighporr (Aml^) 'StaUnedaliii ' Caiour Dialchctl Is «itit|Hilrr ' LMi abl« for locAtion tteber side of comptiter ' tan 12 m«ntM guars nt** ATAR! 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NLO 76cps 136 cotunrun version of tho E|Kon FR- 10 24- pin dol-malnx draft 240 cps, LO BO cps 7K BK 1SK t3-6K 4K 4K 7K 31 K 27K 3K 1 NLQ 6LQ 2 NLO 1L0 8 NLO 1 NLQ 8L0 16 NLO 4SiLO, 25 NLOLQ J DPI COLSl I 96 1 80 240 to 240 00 240 f36 240 m 240 eo . 80 _ i« Epson^rafnpaUjIe Epson CO Epson cornpatibie Epson Epson csFnpOtJblB Epson oompatiWe ColQur kit avsitabtetor £S7 Epson compatibtb 7-coKiur pnntina hit avaiiatile tof ESO &0 * eo 60 ■ 80 - 136 • 90 136 - 13S 240 60 240 3S0 240 136 50 SO Epson compaltbki Epson compMbl* '"*""" """ Ej:isori comp. taK truffer BKp available) Epson coKUpBtibia Epson compatiWo (32K buffer exp av^aitatito) EpsfH-i fsotipajtt* (32K txjfhif Bkp, awaJiaUt) Epson compatit5te (32K buffer exp. available I Epsofi oompatibtfl t3i2K buftef exp. avai'l^ita) One of Itw most poputl^r low coi&i Ffrtntors, Widespread support (butfar expandable to SOK) (txpandable to 39K) (buttsf exp 10 1 59K) T-ooJotif priming M avsuatnia lor SM C642 £7$S £320 £460 £527 £688 £395 £e4s £251 £309 £454 U» £626 tZS3 £343 C4sa £498 E527 case II PRINTER EXTRAS ACOUSTK; BON Cutdowaoa pilntesf noise with tfus padded foam &£o\.istic bo;T which also dOuUdfr «S q printer stand PitCWi Stan train O^ 3!ii depending an pruiEei. 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For ib» fum lun« ever, prograjn- ■nera have thetr own orgarusa- tion to look afier theii own very speciiie mle jests (»nd I'm not iiist talking money), CbBliman ol Che soul body ts Jon Dean, a pfogranuner and developei at Konix Assistant Chatrtnan and mntTvatoi is Mev Dine Mev IS a. tongUme ZBO pro- gramme; and is currently in ttuB pfooesB of publishing his tiljfst game thiough his own company Vivid Image. Also helpmg out are Dr David Pringle, head of Oxford Digital Enterprises, who have just signed an exclusive deal with EntertainiQent International to produce games on then own label, Empire Alao volunteermg then experleitce is Jacqui Lyons. Jacqui's a prograinmers' agent at Marjaoq MiOo, represent- iim ebe Uhes of Argonaut (SiBrglideT H). Steven Dunn (Spectrum Staighdei. U. Virus and Vivid Image's first game}. Aicher MacLean (Dropzonen IK Plus), ajKl David Braijen {Eiite. Vitus]. Hod Cous0])s, Activtsiion suprenu). is helping out with the ftmdraising He's ptrevknisly helped with cash on Soft Aid and War On Want Have you had a lot of coopera- tion from the software pub- Ushers^ Obviously it's very difficult, tjecause primarily wie re trying to represent the development oommunity. and at the same time we wanted lo work closely with the pubUshers- It's very difficult to achjevp something as important a^ standard contract. There aie suJl a couple of points m the contract that we haven't resolved. Hut we do have a draft contract for people to look at and get an idea of what were trying to do, and see the prot^ms we're trying to tadf- What are you trying to achieve with a SSA contract? In every other industry they have proper contracts 1 still {eel our irtdustry's younQ, but we have been arouitd long enough to get our act together and become more profession- al Its true for both the pub- lishing and development oom- mumiy Our idea is something similar to the ELPSA ja new body set up for the software publishers) idea, and that's good. But you don't have to use the contract. it'$ just there if you want it — as a guide So it's not fijte a union? Mo. not at all We'll be giving free advice lo people, and gen- eraJly being at the end of the phone for consultation, What son of respohse have you had? We've had a Very good response Usually with new organisations people just say. oh we'll wan and &ee. and join later'. But we've got a oonsti* tuuon and aims, so we've had a real response, and it's grow- mg all the time Where's the fundmg coming nease send nte more Information on the Society of Softwaie Authois. Vn Jt^iCVjCi-' I : I ■ ma ■ iTii^A BVilii ■■■^■■■^■■■■■k*rBiBii«4rki-lM'il:a HI**m-»-m»H^^ «4t<>lrl-ilb«i iC»lll«*.ii««-l I *««■■■«-<« <•>■•■ ADDRESS ..,.„,.. ...^ ,r.....,,..,„ ...„„„ POSTCODE t am a professional (i^ease tide): Programmer Q Musician LI Graphic Aitiflt Game Deisigner O Send to: Depi TQMi02t. Society of Sofiwafe Autbors. 6 CaUow Croft. Burbage. Wiltshire SNA 3TB. Long-time Spectrum programmer Mcv Dmc turns anociation founder from? It's mainly seif-funding. with the profits being put back into t2ie Society. But. obviously we'll try to gel hipding from organisations and groups wnen we can We're non- prof- it-making. We have a oonstitu tion and bank aocxrunt to sup- port that. How much do people have to pay to jom. then? Full membership is CiSO a year Obviously we're offering a lot of services, and we require somebody lo look after the Society full-time So far we've all been doing it tn our spare time and it's i>een very difficult to get everyone together at the same tiine, Hopefully, once the member- ship IS there, at the hist AQM they U be able lo vote in who they want. At the moment it's completely voluntary, but we're eventually looking to employ someoDe to look after the Soaety's interests with a helpline etc.* So bow will the Society help people? Is it }u&t there to help programmers get money out of difficult software houses? ' That's one way in which we can help people. Maybe, we can work towards bemg some Bon of arbitrator. We could get members from the publishing community as well, to sit down and son out problems, get advice and, hopefully, some sort of result. If these are common probJems, we can highlight them. But we're not a unjicm, so it wouitd be ditficuljt- to approach a publisher and say stop this or else'. But the publisher in question would know that there is an organi- sation out there they'U be more careful Similarly, the same is true of programmers, if they mess around with publisheis, We can do quite a kit for publish- ers in that respect. Do the ^ftware houses think It's a good idea? The ones we've spoleen to so far do Obviously there's always going to be a conflict of mterests, unfortunately. But they feel it is going to be good for the whole industry, and we need the publishers. We want to miftkie the indus- try more professionaL Apart bom advii^ and a stan- daid contract, what do devel- opers get for their subscnp- tion fee? We'll be providing a quar- terly newsletter, padced with prograimnifig hints ajid advice The SSA will also iMl producmg some fact sheets, about things like VAT and other buainea* a$peas that most programmers know fitlle about We're trying to get accountants and lawyers to get matenal that we can pass onto our members And we already have a helphne. which David Pnngle will host — he's got ejqpenence m pub- lishing as well as develop- ment. £150 stUJ seems quite a large amount Well, we think we have some valuable experience in all fields We're also trying to obtain some haictwaie/aoft* ware discounts fof our mem- bers. But that doesn't mean we're a union, we think of ourselves as a dub, whose membets get together. eiit^axiga ideas and support each other. That's not hap- pening with programmers at the moment There are so many tatooted people out there, it would be nice to tveip them Obviouslv, program- mers don't tell each other what ttiey earn, bo they don't know if they're being eapkiit- ed= We'll be able lo give peo- ple a guide of what they Continued on p»ge 62 44TGMTX02t;&-e9 Centre BytBS NEW YORK PRESENTATION EXPO , TGM*5 always-on-the^pot American correspon- dent, Marshal IV1 Rosenthal, walked the aisles at the recent Presentation Expo In New York. This ts THE place to be for jmaglnatlve Innovations on the PC and Amiga, Although, don't forget, most of these items can aiso be accessed via efnular tion devices. (Which just happien to feature prominently in next issue's Centre Bytes.) Macintosh) with the adde^ji {lovtst of an inira-fed remote featuiing highlighting, drop- down menus, and special fiftects lihe fades and wipes. Black and white dispJay can be changed to blue and yel- low, and there's s memory module that 'eoaks up' 100 images so that the PC can be left behind Pushing LCD technology to the wall brings ua to Sharp's immmem 100 -fool, colour, LCD proiection sys- tem Similar in concept to conventional front pro)etn,ion units, the still -unnamed unit uses three LCD panels to separate the source beam into highly accurate red, green and blue components which are then recombined and projected onto the screen. A zoom lens selects the image s\ze (from 40 to 100 feel), and the picture, which is qxnte clear and sharp, hes a resolution of 300 lines (input is des'tgned for a video source] Price has yet to be finalised, but expect this baby to hit somewhere in the 35000 (£3000) zone. And it looks kind of like a cannon from an old scifi film of the Fifties. The Amiga booth was bu$tling with activity — mcluding desktop pubh^h- mg and video apphcations. Seen for the first time was JmageLink -- a software package that converts images between many of the formats used by Amiga software (IFF. Sculpt 4D. Digiview. QallgariJ and the world of ISM (GIF and TIFF, among others). Expandable There ait iii.jj:y wiiys to get pe($te's atteniion. You can become a rock ^ar Wear a futmy (ace. Or show them Gomethlng interesting and unique Part of the fun m having arid using computers is that they lei your imagi- nation soai. You can create graphics, cartoon anima- tions — do things that just can't be in reahty. The drawback is usually m try- ing to show what you've done to someone — it's hav- ing to drag them in front of the 12-inch monitor or TV ficieen and make them watch The tJew Yoik Pieseniation Expo deals wtlh this problem, and in a big way. Talk about high- tech to the Max' It's the only platee where wails are stAckftd with syncronized colour monitors, and any saeen smaller then 37 inch- es is 'cute'. The Expo bridges the gap between creating amazing video and graphics, and getting them ouc where they can be seen by audiences. 'Create A Lasting Impression' is this year's theme, and how can you miss with the assortment of &lectromc goodies beinr: displayed? Take the humbJ- overhead projector: boring. It's b&en turned into, a turbo-chaiged umt thjough the addition of PCViewer, a high- res 640x430 LCD unit thdl mis on the glass top Of the projector PC Viewer transfers images directly from the computer (ail types of iBM compatibles and modules turn Commodore's whiz into an image coovei' sion workstation that even lets you talk to Macintosh PICT and PICT2 [24 buj tiles No rr^odems or hook ups between computers — all is done on the Amiga using an Intuition-based user inter- face (the ARexx language can also be implememed}. Enc Lavitsky of Video Airts was showing The Cable AdViSion System on the Amiga. This is an extremely professional: package designed for controlling a television station — com- plete with digital tranaitions. and full ficheduUng control of program output (it will even yanh out expired ads once theii air time is complete). This is one heavy duty pro- fessjonal software package. Expect TGM TV when the Government deregularises television in 19d2. Digitising pads aren't new, but how about cordless oper ation? Wacom's SD-Senes creates a link between the pad and you by installing a transmitter in the pen that is used on the drawing surface. Electromagnetic resonance elinunates many of the kmks found in other pads, and the pen itself is so pressure sen- sitive that functions can be programmed onscreen to relate to it [in the draw application being shown, dif- ferent colours snapped on depending on the pisssure being applied, and pressing harder on the pen made the Une thicker) The RS232C port is used to receive the information from the pad {which comes in varying sizes), and there's an option- al IZ-button, 24-function cur- sor unit — aJso cordless. This one's fun, Silent Partner (PreBentation Electronics Inc) is ^ hand held remote that allows you to control your PC/XT/AT from across the room, It can learn tt key or seqtience of keystrokes and then access them with a single press Non -volatile memory remem- bers your programs — it even comes with stick -on overlays for your tiied brain. The receiver unit connects to the keyboard or serial port, and has a ready light that blinks when a oomntand is executed. Of course it wasn't all walking, there were also semmars to participate m. These ranged from how to show slides effectively to speaking with confidence (you can't avoid themt) One, for the Amiga, took all dtny. delvmg into applica tions for video and print. But It WAS mostly waJking... Until you bump up against Ultrawall This consiats of multiple monitors separated by only a hairhne eighth of an inch, and towering some 16x16 feet with sharp, clean Visibility from any direction. Computer control ensures syncronization between multiple video projectors, while a dedicated nucroprcK cessor constantly checks performance and does fine- tuning as necessary. Internal controls for multiple special effects are easily accessed as well Advertising types say 'Sell the siz;!le, not the steak' The Presentation Expo shows that even sizzle is computerised today MOKE INFORMATION {all addiesses are US) Imag«LI]ik: Activs Circuits, 106 U.S. Highway 71, Suite 101 Honsquan. New Jeissy 0B736. PC Viewer: In Focui Systems, 7649 Southwest Mohawk Street, TuataUn, Oregon 97062. SD- Series Cordless Digitisers: Waoom, Country Cfub Plaza/West 115 Ceintiiry Road. Box 6. Paramos, New Joisey 07652 Silent Partner: MedlsNet, 305 Madison Avenue, Suite &64. New York, New ¥ofk 10017. TGM 1X021:8-89 45 REPAIR No msttcf tKiw much you care 901 m mmputsr, eventually MmwtMng flOM wrong. And you can bet your hta nil happen attor the euarantee has expired, so you can fc<rget about sending it bach to the manufacturers- In nnost cas^s. thfly won't want to kfiow. Before packing your oompuit- er off to a repair ftrm, check to see if yt)uf local con^puter (leai- cr can re<:ommen<J a local repair putfrt. pnorw the company you choose and try to gel a rou^ guide of the cost of The repair, how long tt wtll take — and wlwiher they ft give a warranty to do H again for frae rf the repair do^n't work. Make aura that ttw quotpil price deludes parts, labour VKT. arxl return postagis. When sending your computer tjy poat. pach it carefully — pftferably In the original bo*. AJways include a letter with your name, addre&s. artd tele- phone number and the ef fe'Cts of the fautt. Send the whole package by recorded defivefy *— juat 24p on top of the Stamp coart — and pay the extra cash for en advice-of Oeiivef y slip {25p H you ask for it when you post the package, 65p if you leaM i1 titl later). . That way you know it 'a got there. ■ Al Cofnpifter Servlcet. Unil 9. pTtririock Mount Olftt'L's, Dawley, Telford, Shropshire Tt4 3PR (01952 J 602737, COMPUTERS REPAIRED 'ViTtUflllv any coinpuior' — tocludmg Spectrum. C04/128. SBC, 16-bttg. C16, Vic20aild Plus 4 PERIPHERALS REPAIRED Prime IS, ai^olull djsh dinve service for £25. PRICES Mostly CZS-C30. but Ciaa IS LiZ.BO. WARRANTO Three monthB- ■ AC£ (^ep«ln. Outways Faira, PeJimi, Looe. ComwaU. PL 13 2NW (0503) 20232. COMPtTTERS REPAtREI} Ma}or [[lakf'M except Atari ST PERIPHERALS REFAlRgO Sinclmi liiLsffacti 1 and h^icrodiive, Amstrad disk dnves and printers and Cpminodore disk drives, print- ers anddatacorders. PRICES From £15 upwards depending on fault WARRANTY Six months, IKIFORMATION Sinclair, Am^iiiid uiid Commodore spares and leads. ■ Ampowar Vitfeo ami Cornputem, IbA Alcester Rd, Siudley. Warks. B80 7AJ (0527) 853374 OOilPUTERS REPAtREO AJI B- bttend 1G-bi[ machines PERIPHERALS PtidIbib. motli- lois disk drives etc PRiCC Phone for mformaiion. WARRANTTY Three months m BGL { Hfl«t ComiHItll* Ltd). Galaxy Audio Vtsufiil. first Hoot, 230 Tottenhftm Courl Road, London WIA 3AP (01) 631-On9oT!SQO-f5640 COMPUTERS REPAIRED All B- bit and J-Gbil mduding PCs. PERIPHERALS REPAIRED AI3 PRICES A typical small repair would cost ElS-Cao. WARRAKTV Silt months. INFORMATION Free estlmAtes Gal^jxy Audio Visual also seU micros a CambrtdB* Micro Surgery. Unit 4. 377B ClietJV Hmton Road, Cambridge CBJ 4DH (0223 > 410234 COMPUTERS REPAjHeO Spectrum, CG4 lilW. Amstrad, PCs PERIPHERALS AiPAlflEO Printers, monitors, disk drives etc, PRICES Cheapest is 4aK Spectrum at £13.9B plus cost Of parts; others from £23 50 WARRANTY Three months INFORIVtATION Wiil provide annual maintenance for huBi- TiBss micros, on a contract basia. ■ The Computflr Factory. Analytic Engmedring Ltd, Unit IflA, Grainger Road Industrial Estate. Southend SS2 5DD(0707)61B455 COMPUTERS REPAIR! AH mapr models fxitii; Aiari. PERIPHERALS REPAIRED DISk dnvofi -ind primer:!, PRICES E7-E40. WARRANTY ThrOO months, INFORMATi(}N Free esuinates. ■ ElectrQjnle A CamputVf S«fv|««S. lOQO Uxbridge Road, Hayes > lUliddlesex UB4 DRL (01)573-2100 COMPtlTERS REPAIRED The full range of hnmi^ trnm [niters -^ that includes all the well* known Sbit and 16-blt machiiiiea. PERIPHERALS REPAIRED Eiuctionie & Computer Services will repair some peripherals, but write or j3hone for details in case yours isn't included. PRICES According to thte prob- lem Phone lor a quote WARRANTY Write Or phone for details. The warramy only covers the problem repaired, not the whole computer INFORMATION Turnaround vanes, depending on the prob- lem, from two {^ays to a weelt Electronic & Computer Services also sell spare parts. Again, writs or phono for details ■ Hlndlvy Electronlct. 97 Maiket Street. Hindley. Wigan, Lancashiie WN2 3AA (0&42) 522743 COMPUTERS REPAIRED .■sl^H-Ttr'jni. mfi-lvl Vir':JO,CPC. PERIPHERALS REPAIRED Some PRICES Set price for each machme, ranging from £17 (4SK Spectrum) to £25. 1&41 disk drives £32 &0 WARRANTY Three months. INFDRMATIDN Average two- day turnaround — well quick- er than the average ■ HS Computdf S«rvlc«s. Unit 2, The Orchard, ti^arton, Pireston, Lancashire PR4 tBE (0772) e326B6. COMPUTEI^ REPAIREO All Specttums PERIPHERALS REPAIRED PhortP PRICES F[om EU.S&. WARRANTY Three months ■ Hytek Computer (Rental*) Unit 4C, Veovale Industrial Estate, Lapfor<j, Crediton, Devon, (03635) 604 COIMPUTER REPAIRED Major makc><^, including Acorn, PERIPHERALS Most major iriaKos. PRICES Fixed price lisi avail - abts on request. WARRANTY Three months ■ Ladbfakv Computing lnt«matlQA«l. 33 Ormskirk Road, Preston. Lancashire PR1 20P (0772)21474 or 27236 COMPUTERS REPAIRED Mainly At fill PERIPHERALS REPAIRED Pnntors and disk drives PRICES According to machine — tor example ST C34.50, XL/130 XE C23 fthesi;? prices WARRANTY PJioruj toi inJorma- ijon ■ MIcrDtwh CemiMrter S*rvlca*. 216 219 Cotton Exchange BuUdmg. Old HaU Street, Liverpool L3 9LA (061)236-2208 COMPUTERS REMIRCO ST, Amiga, BBC, Amstrads PCRIPHCRALS REPAIRED Prmters, monitoia, aliso^lec- tnc typewriters and other office equipriu>nt PRICES Ktiirt Jftjm £30 — call Mike Lopez at Microtech for a quote WARRANTY Three months. ■ MP EJadronlcs. Wendliiig, Dvtuham, Norfolk NR19 2LZ(0362>8732?. COMPUTERS REPillfllEO Spectrum. C64. BBC B, PCs — in fact all major makes except ST and Amiga PERIPItfltALS REPAIRED Printers, ptottQ?^. monitors, disk drives etc PRICES All inclusive prtcea for most machines - 48K Spectrum ElB. 1Z8K Spectrum, BBC a and Cei4 £27 50. PCs From£20-£100t These rates cover all faults except those caused by other people's liotched repairs' WARRANTY Phone (or information INFORMATION Free estimates £20 repair and overhaul sar^ vice for 4dK SpectiuiQS — MP Electronics replace sockets, keyboard membrane etc and will repair any faults that develop withm six months of overhaul. ■ OrtH Mloro CemiMitem, ORC GKC ITEC, GEC Switch Gear, Piairibution Division. Higher Openshaw. Manchester Mil IFL (061) 301 2210 COMPUTERS REPAIRED All hoiue iiucroa and ?(>■ PERIPHERAU REPAIRED Printers, momtois and disk drives. PRICES Depends on fault — phone for details WARRANTY Throe months ■ PM EnfilnMring. Unit S. New Hoad, SI Ives, Cambridgeshire FE17 4B0 (0490) 61394 COMPUTEftS REPAIRED Ail home LX.ini[jiixt'[!i PERIPHERALS REPAIRED Printers, monitors and disk drives. I Attention repair firms - H you would llk« « nvHitlort In Hhe OKki BytH repair pugm, p li MB awid the raltywit details to BMh ftytee* TQM, PO Box 10, Ludlow. ShmpeMie SV8 lOB. Ifi«tudlrt|£ ■ phtHM HMltor and tit* tiMiMiftr't «MMa Ifof our Mas). 46TGMTX02t:8'8S Centre Bytes ^ il PHJCES Ptione. Tht ; repair pnce for eacJ ■'•-■ 61 regaf dJess of the (au)t aivd indudingMJ parts and labour. WrtRHANTY Thiee nronlftfl, ■ RA EI^BtfDntes. ; 33 London ^oad South. LmvestOft, SulfOli!. NR33 DAX COMPUTERS REPAIRED All Sp^rtituriiH: PERIF^HEAALS REPAIRED PRICES Spectnim iSK £14, 5p«Ct;un) l£eK £20. mpORKUnxm IIA Electronjcs also sell components, ■ fteebifcl[ Des|0H. Victory Works. Birds Hill. Letchworth, Hertfordshire SG€ IHX m&2) 480723 Qt 490S29 lOYSTlCKS REPLACED Roebuck Designs run A clever loysiick-replacement service whicli oIlMS faster turnaround than a repair rirm might. Send in your broken joystick — any mcKtel — and they'll send bac'k a second- liand but workirLg stick oi the same model Later, they repali your& and pass it on to anoth- er customer PRICE £4.50 including return f"isiag& ■ ■ TtlafanrMt. trilby Bridge. Wigston, Leicestershire LES ITE 10533) aaCM45 01 813606, CONSOLES REPAIRED Atari VCS2600. Coleoovision. !ni.e!bVjSJor5. Sega PERIPHERALS REPAIRED Phone tc a.sli PRICES VC52600 £17 95, Coleoovtsion C14 95, tnteUlinsJon £19 95, Sega £14 95 WARRANTY 90 days. INFORMATION Telegames piomise tD leturn the console to you ]tist three days after Lhev've received jt They're also the official UK repair cen- tre fur Sega and Colecoviaion ■ Vttnn MIcrtHMalfitenwice. Alba.iv Park. Frimley Road. Canib^rley. Surrey GUI 5 2PL (0276} ee266 COMPtJTrRS RimUflED Spectrus, Amstrad. Cmunodoie PPHPtSRALS REPAIRED Punters, tnonnois PRICES Range from £V9 95 for Specuum to C9& for Amstrad PC1S12 mFDRMATlON Established six years Approved by AmEtiad. « VMM Vault. 140 High Street West, Glossop, Derbyshire SKI 3 BHJ 104S74) 66SS5 COMPUTERS REl^AIREO Most PCRiPH£RALS REPAIRED PhtMie, PRICES From £19.95. acoonl- mg to machine. WARHAmr Tbiee months INFORMATION While-youwait service in Manchester ■ VSE Tflclmtcal Servtce*.^ Unit 6, B Nursery Road, London SWgaBP (01) 738- 7707, COMPUTERS REPAIRED All Spectfum, Annttad, Atan and Commodore models PERIPHERALS REPAIRED Opus Discovety drive { pa npei Ian Veudrey is official repairper- son for the Smclair Discovery ClubJ PRICES Each model has a set price which covers all repairs exii^pt very major ories like keyboard or diak-driva repilaceibent. Spectrums range from £12 90 to £17.90: C64 is Ci9 90. ClZe £24,OT; CPCs range from £21 90 to £24.90; aUPCWs are £31.90, Pans. Labour, vat and return postage wllhm the UK are ail included. WARRANTT Four months. ■ Wl£ht Computing Koma Micros. 122 High Street. Eyde, Isle of Wight P033 2SU (0983) 69978. COMPUTERS REPAIRED Most. PERIPHIHALS REPAIRED Printers and monitors, but check first that the service is available for older models. PRICES According to the problem. WARRAWTY 90 days INFORMATION WLght Computing will also check. Clean etc computers which are not obyiously faulty. fl WT5 Etectiwiln, Studio Master House, Chaul End Lane, Luton, Sediordshire LU4 SEZ (0582) 491949 COMPUTERS REPAIRED AU home oomputers PERIPHERALS RSnUREO Printers, dish drives, modems etc. Wiices Very (^mpeaiive on alt models." WARRANTY Three months INFORMATION ',VTS Electronics promise to complete the repair within one week from the day they receive the machine Authorised Amstrad/Sindeir repair finn. ■ Wyntvr Eta^tronlM. Unit 3CF Alias Village. Oxgate Lane, Staples Corner. London WW2 THU (Oil 452- &660 COMPUTERS REPAIRED Spectrum, Commodore. BBC, Atwn.PCs PERtPHERALS REPAIRED Phone for details PRICES £18 upward, depend- ing on machine WARRANTY Three months. INFORMATION Repair done in one week CESSATION OT SBtVICE ■ swindioti rnc, 6 Oppembeinwr CttOfze, Qteenbfidge Rood, SwlDdoa 3N3 300(0793) 61 1803 lAnfonunately UEC have bad to dove down tbeu computer lepa^semce. 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PRICES INCLUDE V,A.T AND NEXT DAY DELIVERY ^Our disks are cheap | but they are top quality - LIFETIME quArakteed HARDWARE OlSTRIfiUTlON 19 DIVISION STREET SHEFFIELD S1 4GE Tel : 0742 726485 TGM 1X021:8-89 47 Centre Bytes COMMS Doctor Do Little tdst month, Zog MD (Doctor of Modomology) answered a few questions from worried patients. This month the doc sees If ail that well-researched advice has done them any good, and are they now afflicted with Modem IVIadness... Since you may by now hAve gi^spBd ihe basics ol a goad nUDdem, and can man- age to get on-line to a friend, leave messages on a Bulletin Boaid {H tap into the Pentagon command netwotk, then perhaps a furtnei com- ment or three about i;^em would help you on your way. FirsUy, w^mg to your tDodem, Here are a few of tlie ttxm commonly used com- mands which youj friendly Hayes-compaiitile should understand, when in the oor- cect mode, of course, AT Precedes ALL Dnnan Dial :.lie telephone nvimber nnnn. Only the digits 0-9 are recognised as num- bers to dial, 30 you can hai^- pi!y \ks& brackets spaces and hyphens m your nmntier. For example, the command ATD {DD 9^-9119 wLU dial the Gods BuUetm Board and MUG system in London from elsewhete m tl^e country The modem should atso accept oertam other charac- ters which may be mixed in aj needed T,P and R specify the type of diallmg to be ear- ned out - T for lone dialling and P for puise dialling The letter R is u,5ed when dialling an 'Ofi0nate only' nrodem and specifies a reverse dial mode (the modem uses reversed signaliing frequen- cies) A comma m the dial strmg spe<3fiies a pause or delay (usually of one second), whidh can be used for. such purposes as waitmg for your dffioe phone to give you an outside line Finally, the semicolon is used at the end of the string to force the modem bad( to command mode after dialling. Hn n*0 Hang up {drop thehne) n - ! Sieze the phone line. Return online from command state. Sn> Return the current value modem register n, Sr - n Set regtster i to value n. Hayes-type modems are quite clever beasties and all of the setting's that you can tweak are stored in regis- ters, which you can ej^amine and change. Amongst other things, they control which speed the modem is going to work at tS26 to S3Q, preset to SI 8 automatically), whether the modem is m autoanswer mode or not (SO, nuinber of rings before modem answers), and the character used by the modem as the escape code (S2, value in ASCH). The default escape sequence. Your modem oper- ates in one of two modes: Local Command state and On-lme state When first switched on, your modem v\^l be in Local Command state and will sit at the end of your H5232 lead waiting for you to teU it what to do Once It has dialled a number for you (without a ■;■ character at the end}, or answered the telephone (if in autoanswer mode), the modem will switch into On-line state, and merely pass data up and down the phone line. To force the modem back mto com- mand state so that you can change a register or hang up, lor example, you must enter a predefined sequence of char- acters By default, the escape character is the '+' character. Because even three '*' char- acters oonld be present in normal d ".a, the modem has a second condition which must be satisfied before is will change modes. This is known as the guard time (register S12, m units of 1/50 second). The guard time is the nunimum period ^jetween the last character of data being transmitted and the first character of the escape code. Therefore, with a default guard time of one sec- ond, to get the modem to speak to you requires that you do nothing for over a sec- ond, type ' + + * ' (or whatever your escape code is), and then wait at least one more second. The mctdem iiiO'iiicJ respond with some form of acknowledgement, such as an 'OK' . It wdl remam on-lme for you. so to get back to your communicatmg you can type ATD': alternative! y> to bang up, type "ATH' mstead Error-correcting Error -CO: iemsare modem-s i) clever-^ er. and b) much more eiepen- sive than yer average bog standard modem They only work if the modems at both ends are enor- correcting (and use the same error-cor- rection standard}. They sneak extra hidden characters tnco the stream of data which they are passuig so that the modem at the oiher end can taMe them back out again, tn other words, the process is invisible to the user at either end, The purpose of the exua characters us not so much to slow the whole process down, although this is the penalty that you pay for error correction, but to allow the receiving riKxiem to detect whether the data is the same data that was transmitted to it. This is usually cleverly done with multiple Cyclic Redundancy Chet:ks and suchlike, so the modem can often detect which part of the data is corrupted and convert it to the proper value before passing it on. If not. it can send a request back to the trinsmitting modem for a retransmi^ion of tJie last chunk of data again. And again Andagaun .. Error correctmg modems are especially usehil over noisy lines {BT has this annoying habit of providing a free ran- dom-number generator to your line) and at high speeds . of operation. However, they add a layer of complexity thai most communjcciuon^ pro grams already allow for, using a protocol such as Kerrmt or XModem for error- oorrected file transfers. Getting baud? The twua rate of a modem is the moduLauon rate That is; the number of times per sec- ond that the earner frequen- cy IS modulated to transmit bits of information Sinoe a single character consists of an 8 bit word fbyie). with a Stan bit in front and 12 stop bits afterwards, a low se^ Imk such as 300 baud will actually transmit somrethmg like 30 characters per second (300/10). This modulation is done using Frequency Shift Keying (or FSK) So far this is all pretty logical and sensi- ble. However. FSK requues something Uke t .5 times the baud rate as the nolnimum channel bandwidth Over normal 6T phone lines, the bandwidth is about 3100 M:s Thus there is a limit lo how fast you can send data, whtcli LS quickly reached, The solution is to use a dif- ferent form of nKxtulation for speeds greater than 1200/76 baud With either DPSK (Dilferential Phase Shift Keying] or QAM (Ouandreture Amplitude Modulation ), you get to oon- fuse everyone by encoding two bits per baud Therefore, data sent over a Imk running at UOO baud fuU duplex is actually being modulated at 600 baud, even though you are sending 120 characters per second in both duections when at full speed' And If you think that's con- fusing, then wait till you see what I've got prepared tor the next installment of Zogs Guide to Life, the Universe and Modems, 4a TGWI TX021 :8-S9 ii "I f? 6tifrtt«X.SiO' M. rt I semen IS are legaK decentH honest a nd tmthfuJ A few a re not , J nd. li ke you , we wa n I th*rn stOpp<?<l Jf t-oii would fiKe 1:0 know more about how ro make complain[£. please send fbr our booKJct TTie Do's and Donts of Complain jrigf Its The Advertising Standards Authority. 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Tel: (0386) 7G5500 FLIGHT SIMS Flight missions Fans of Minorsoft'H flight sim- ulation Falcon will be pleased 10 know that a nevir mission disk is availal^le- Costing £20 The Mission Disk features 12 new scenarios. Minorsoft; Te] (01) 928 1454 ATARI ST Spread 'em The new updated version of the Kuma's spreadsheet K- Spread was recently launched at the Atari show, Some of the new improve- ments include install on desktop, save/load Lotus for- mat liles and macios (a shQrt cut to canning out often repeated tasks} It also fea- ruies Lotus style commands, security files and multiple worksheets, K-Spread 3 (ver- sion 3 &) costs C39 95 but is available free to bwners of other versions of K-Spread 3. Kuma Computer Ltd: 12 Horsehde Park, Pangboumef RGS 7JW. Tel: (07357) 4 335 AMIGA Video art Design 3D (£79 95) has just been released in the UK by KB Marketing. A 3D Design package for the Amiga it exploits all of the Amiga's graphic modes. Shadows can be constructed from four sep- arate Ught source® to give your designs a realistic appearance and a perspective view option allows objects to viewed from different angles H6 Marketing also distribute. Video wipe Master (£63.95) and Video Generic Master (£69-95) for Uie Amiga A wipe is an effect used in TV to bndge the gap between two scenes. Video Wij>e Master contains more than 20 professional wipe effects. It's fully compatible with most art packages so you can design your own effects Video Generic M^^ter is a video titler package which pro- duces up to 300 Lines of scTOLUng messages in 3 differ- ent cwiours HB Marketing Limited: Brooklyn House, 22 The Green, 'West Drayton. Te): (0895) 444433 OXFAM Soft aid Oxfam started their Special Computer Promotion selling jjeriod on June 27th. Just take along any old software pro- grams, preferably games. DISK DRIVES Call it new technology Miles Gordon Technology have finally launched their Lifetime disk dnve f£199). Wbai makes this drive so dif- fetent bom others is that it is oompatibiA vnth the Amiga, ST. most ?Cs. BBC. Speciium and QL; a suitable interfaioe will be needed for tlie last three computers. So if you upgrade your computer you neednt change your drive To connect the drive to your com- puter aU you need is the lale- vant lead (supplied) then cor- figura the sue switches situat- ed at the bach of (he drive to suit your particular oomputer and away you Q&. Vou may have to make a few changes to the □ompuiei's disk operat- mg system to mlorm it Oiat you are using a Aoppy disk drive or a s0cond dnve bui otJiei than thai it s ail perfectly simple Watch out for future TGM Guides on diek drives. Miles Gordon Technotogiy: Lakeside, Phoeni* Way. Swansea SA7 9EH. Tel: (0792} 791100 Laid back drive sale« fn>m MGT which wii old through the charity's cham of shops. Alternatively pop along to yotu neai est CMam and see if you can pick up any bargains. MUSIC Music maestro For one day m September the thousand-seat Logon Hall m London will be packed with keyboards, computers, lasers, video projectors, musicians and dancers for the 7th Annual Festival of Synthesizer, New Age and Computer Music. Every per- former at the show has^been oomposmg usmg either the Alan ST or the CBM 1 28 and much of the live computer graphics shnw will be per- formed by a banh of Commodore Armgas. The show is set to take place at THe Lgon Hall. 20 Bedford Way. London WCt on ^tufday September 23rd. For hill ticket and travel details oontaa AMP Records, PO Boot 337, London N22 6SF Tel (01) 386 5665 COMPUTER BOOKS Manual dexterity Finding the appropriate com- puter manual can be difficult Sometimes you may vnsh to Isarn about a particular appU* cation or language but dont where to go to find more information How about Computer Manuals Ltd? They stock books on mc^ makes of home computer as welt as programming languages, application packages, graph- ics and music Computer Manuals Ltd: 30 Lmcoln Pd. Oiton. Birmingham B27 EPA Tel: (021)706 6000 ATARI ST More STOS STOS ovmers can now impove the sound of their games thanks to the newly launchM STOS Maestro Sound Library Presently the library inciudas samples of Porsche 1 1 Turbo engines, Suzuki 7'BO Isle of Man TT racing bikes as well as hundreds of others. Our 50 TGM TX02 1:8-69 etifre aim is to buM up the woilds largest hbiaxy of sampled souJiids', says Mandarin's Chris Payne We've tieen out mm Che field to record the types of sounds ihat we beiteve will add Lhai extiar toucb of professionalism lo any aicade-style game' The sound library will be put on ^ks and availaljle as ptibhQ dotaam software, Mandarin Software: Europa House, Adlington Park, AdJmgton, Macclesfield SKIO 4NP, TeJ: {062S} 878886 ATARI ST Settling old scores Anyone m need of producing niusic scores should take note of Be^ Musjc Publishing {E333) from Take Control ffs a brand new professional pub- Ushuig system for composers md music copyists It features the full tange of music s;ym- bols (such as sharp, flat and afpeggio), notes and staves, loserta. cut and paste oom- mands help ediUng Once a score has been perfected it can be output to a variety tit pnnteis indudiiig Epson FX and IQ Hoompattbles. Take Control: Jonic House. Speedwell Road. Hay Mills. Bumingham BZ5 8EU Tel (021) 70S 6085 ATARI ST Birdie song At the tecem Atari ST show The Bath Computer Shack were showing off thei; stereo sound separation device The Tweety Board (£49 95) trs a small circuit board wtuch is installod inside the ST After that it's just a matter of con- necting the sound leads to stereo monitor or Hi-Fi Bath Computer Shack BE Chelsea Road. Lower Weston, Bath. Avon BAl 3DU Tel: <0225J 310463 GAME HELP Help is at hand Electronic Arts are now sup- ptytng a rangie of duebooks for the Bard's Tale series. Deathlord, Mars Saga. NeuTomancer. Sentinel WoTlds, StarHight, Wasteland SHARP IQ Sharp strike back Just days after we biusbed our assessment of Psion's new Organisers {the LZ and I2&4) last month {Toolbox TQM020) what should amve in the TCM Labs but Sharp's latest hand-held organiser. The size of cheque book, the new Sharp IQ (11189.99) is a toucb larger t2ian the Psion Organiser (about an inch all round). However when dosed the new [Q is just over half the thickness of Psion's hand'bekL Where Sbaip's Ofganiser scores over Psion's is in Its layout. The screen has two modes of display: 16 characters by 3 lines and 12x4 {Psion's is 20x4 J. The keyboard is also easier to use with 65 keys, and eight mode keys Modes include calender display, diaxy, calculator, adidiesses and tetepbone nmiibeTs. notepad, and world tunes The 10 also features a very useful password system. There is the usual overall password and also a secret function which aliowi; you to mark a piece of information (such as youi bank card PINs) D0t to appear unlasa another password is entered. Where Slmrp's IQ fails down is that its a kn haidet to become familiar wtUv oompaied to the Psion NoUtmg seems logical, and (surpnsinglyji there are loo rrfany keys You tend to end up thinking Now is this function on the keyboard or hidden away m a menu ffi:tnie where?, whereas the Psion IS totally menu-driven. Also the lO doesnt seem a;s robust as the Psion orgajuser {which you can ihiow around like a filofax) It is alfio worth noting that the 10 is — unhke the oSganiser — not pro^ grammable. It is also limited to 32K, afthougfa sKtiaJK^ cards a/e to be released soon, so the only way to save your data reconis at the mcsnent is onto cassette (yes. CAS- SETTE!). Expansion-wise the SSiarp is just behind Psion, vintb a PC Imk (instead of sav- ing to cassette data can be sent to a PC and «tved lo disk) aiKl thermal prmter (£109.99). Software support, due to its sboft and hmitad availability, is not as good yet l)ut Sharp promise to remedy this shortly Current IC cards {whjch slip m lecter/poetboac fashion) include a Tione Expense Manager (£59 99), %■ Language Ttanslator (£49.94 — very useftd with 1 992 com mg up} and a Thesaurus (around £79 99) Looks are definitely Uie Sharp IQs sQong point, rd feel distui- guished using an IQ, howev- er, rd he mote at home using the Psion Organiser Shaip Electionics Sharp House, Tborp Road, Menchestei MiO 9BE Tel: (061)205 2333 J and 6S8 Attack Sub Each is available for only CS, Electronic Arts: Langley Business Centre. 11 49, Station Road. Langley. Berkshire EL3 8YN. Teh (07&3) 49442 PC COMPATIBLES Get knotted Anyone who remembers Tit Na Nog, Sweevo"s World and Lightforce will be familiar with the iwork of Greg Follis and Roy Carter, the progiam-^ mmg team behmd Gargoyle Games After a sjnsiderable break from the home comput- er scene they're back but not with a state of the ait game but a Personal Data Manager for the PC. Applications pack- ages tend to take themselves very seriously and can be rather alienating to new users Carter FoIlis Software promise that Executive Knot is intended for the non expert user as well as the seasoned campaigner'. Executive KNOT (E91) is an ail purpose organiser featur- ing diaries, things-to-do lists, phone- letters meetings :r minders, work and home mdex files More importantly it Is supplied with a laige in- built database which indudes a Gazetter of Britain (inoorpafating a very useful route-planner), a literary ooniJ)anion for presentation and speech writing (which includes several hundred Shakespearean quotations), world time map, disk-directo- ry doctor and an on-screen calculator Many of these fea- tures would cost more than the overall package if bought separately. An extended ver- sion of the package, t^Hed The Professional KNOT will be released m the auiunui, containing several e?rtra fea- tures. Watch Out Eor a future Centre Bytes review. Carter Follis Software Ltd : Sedgley Boad, Tipton, West Midlands DY4 7UJ. Tel: (021) 557 2991 JOYSTICKS Sticking with the competition The popukr Competition Pro 5000 his been remodeled and di^bed the Competition Pro PO^oy stick The new ClB 9S stick IS styled In a two-tone giey colour scheme and is suitable for the Amiga. Alan range. GBM 64 and Amstrad computers Dynamics Marketing larnitfid: BD Com House. New Com Street. Royton. Oldham. Lancashire 0L2 6JZ Tel (061)626 7222 TGM TX 021 :8-89 51 Centre Bytes INFORMATION DESK Look, don't stay at home wondering whether you can push Nintendo Game Boy cartridges into the PC Engine. Write to the Centre Bytes <Aew on Info DbsU. — they Itnow the answer to ^erything (it's 42 by the way). This month, the oracies of wisdom solve a whole range problems froiti some very cortfused readers... Slave to the rhythm Lihe Mr Murphy {mtormatioii desk TGM 18) I'm intsres^ted in setting up a low- cost music studjo. However, I own an Amiga and there seems to be a leaJ lack of %ppropiiate soft- ware. What software/hard- ware would 1 need to ni;i my Yamaha keyboard from my Anuga. I am also interested in purchasing ^ recording aind mixmg desk ; I know that Amstiad market such a prod- uct for £300 but is n any good? Finally when, is STos BASIC gomg to be available foi the Amiga Sam FtaiLagaji, Homcastla TGM and Centre Bytes in par- uculen &re aJxnit to undergo some tathcaJ chAng&s. These include a new fonnat legulBi music cohmn featming hints, ups and guides on setting up low-cost home studios. In the meantime, you wUl need a MIDI inteiface to get yom Amiga talking to your key- iMa/d (iiyour keyboard doesn 't have any MIDI pons then there isn't leally any- thing you csn doj, Trifogjc produce one lor £29 99 MIDI ieads can be purchased torn most mnsic baidware stores foi a few pounds While the ST dominates the music software scene the Amiga is rapidly smpioving. Steinborg and Dr T fegaided as two of tite to}> ST music soitware producers, have reoffnily started converting some ol their poputaf utles to the Amiga — gtve UB Marketing a call for more detaits. Muiti track home recording machines aren't essential far producing your own ||omo cassettes. If your only sound source is a synth Unking it up to your hi'fi will produce a reasonable quality demo. However, if you also want to record vocal and guitar trackB a muiu-track tape machine is a must, A muSti'irack tape recorder allows you to record ditferent instrumeuts onto separate tracks on the same tape. The advantage of this is if you've recorded a hassline and a guitar lead and decide that the bassUne isn 't good enough you can rerecord it without interteiing with the guitar lead. Generally you don't need to spend that much money to produce a reasonable <iuality denao, oar- tmnly no more than £500 unless you m fanaticat about racoiding. Ttie Amstrad hi-ii cum recording studio didn 't receive rave reviews in the music press. However. TGM's guide to mufti trfldr home recording machines (TGM 003} reoomme/ids die Tascam Porta 0&. at £329 n represents ^emandous value for money Amiga owners eagerly awaiting STos for their machine will be pleased to know that Mandarin Software wiU be reieasmg AMos in early September. HB Marketing: Broohiyn Home. 22 The G/een, West ' Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7FQ. Tel: (0395} 444433. Mandarm Software: EuTOpa House, Adlington Park. Adlington. Macclesfield SKIO 4NP, Tel: (Q62b} 878383. Tritogic: Unit i. 253 New Works Ro&d, Bradford BD12 OOP Tel (0274} 69} n5 What difference does it make? t am thinKing of upgrading to either a PC Engine or Sega Mega Drive. However, I've fust, heard that the NEC Turbo Grafx 16 has Just been launched in America. How doea this machine differ from thf> PC Engine? . Matthew Bauer, Rochdale Exact details on the Turbo Grafx 16 are stiU a bit sketchy but as far as we are aware it is the American version of the PC Engine with a redesigned biack OOSe. InademaUy tbeMega Drive has also undergone a name change. In the States it is now jmown as the Genesis. I still haven't found... A friend has lold me about an arcade machine called a 'PCB'. He said ii, cost about C200, 1 would appreciate any information on this cheap arcade machine Sitnon Oliver Somewhere along the luie you or your friend has got a little confused A FCB (Printed Circuit Board) is the etBctionic guts of an arcs^e rriachine which iTKlude the actual game program. The r^se this is housed in with the saeen and joys^A is known as the cabmet Some ^Heads' machines allow you to install a new PCB without having to change the oabinet. For instance you can insiah an Etnpire Strikes Bach PCB m a Star Wars cabmfit The advan- tage of buying PCBs is that you aniy have to own one cab inet to piay a selection of games Unfortur\.i: "fiis no cabin et wtuch ■. . v j th all games — you couldn't piay Out Rur) on a Detend(}r machine Costs of PCBs and cabinets vary acoordmg to the game you want to buy For all intommtion regarding buying arcade machines contact Coin Skit 2 Daltry Street. Oidham, Lancashire. Tel: {081} 624 3687 Tell me what 1 J Which is the best out of the current and forthcoraing consoles? 2) In TGM 19 you stated that the Sega Mega Drive wouldn't be available until 1990 yet some companies are selling them now and you carried reviews and game hints. 3) Is the PC Engine capable of producing graphics iden- tical to any arcade machine? 4) What is the acjvaiitage of a console being iSbit. I thought that the games car- ried their own memory? Stephen, Kingsbury J) The general consensus in the TOM office is that the PC Engine and Mega Drive are the best consoles to date. However, we've yet lo see the Konix Console, 16- bit Nintendo or the Atari hand-held carisole. 2} The Sega Mega Drive won 't be officially released in the UK untii early 1990 when the Virgin/Mastertronic group will be handling marketing. In the meantime a few com- panies are importing the Mega Drive from Europe, and adapting it to suit British TVs. It was one of these imports that TGM reviewed. It 's afso worth . noting that the PC Engine isR t 'o//JaaUy ' a vax/4iiie m the UK either 3} Generally no, although it depends what games you're comparing it wrtjfi 4} 16 bit refers to the con- sole's (or computer's) central processor not memory Basically the more bits there are the faster the processor can carry out the complex maths involved m software The end result is faster and more complex games Dithering over diak drives? Surprised by sprites? 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Mat.* <:Ft*qu»LfO« pfribtt to iofTiWf ri Crty. n*AU Mid ll*]!) fof cott «rvd puki^infi on bU ofrftn undw Cf .00; Dvtniai ofiliri add f 1.H ptt lt*«n, Addr*tt IChtOFTWAPll CItV, ) LlCHniLDPAiUlC(,MK>LVERHAiyVTON WVt WI PnHluce Ihit idv-in ttt ftcMvi 1h« ibnv* dintounli. 10*^ off HRP on mrtf Killwiri fie4 Ifitid ^^ -; CALL US ON: 0785 4t899 0922 J4821 0902 25J04 ACCESS VISA r^ ^t V o*> ^ Centre Bytes CONTROVERSY Nothing in life is free Software freebies — have they gone from bad to worse over the years? Nick Roberts delves into the desks of TGM writers to find out the truth. It's a w«U stated fact Uiat life as a software reviewer tor a oomputei magazine is an eKtension of homely interests, and B nghc knees-up is had by aU 'AU yciu do is play Oaines. isn't it?' Everyone heie fcnows how untrue thai siaiemeni is Hov/evBi, Like any other industry, the com- puter softwaie world has its fair share of freebies But there are some people who aien't affected by endless gift-giving on the i^oftwaie bouses' part. CRASH'S Nick Roberts IS one of tbeoe reviewers, he took an unbi- ased look at the changing state ol the software freebie . What has happened to soft- ware freebies^ One of the highlights of working in the magazine industry is (or was) the things software oompa- nies send out to promote tbeir Latest releases AoooTding to many people at Newsfield {who wiU remain , nameless for fear of victimisa- tion) they have gotten gradu- allv wors« over the years, Bui the quality of the games has improved And that's what matters, isn t it? We've all seen the mass maiket freebie distributed by the liMes of US Gold, Ocean ojid Gremlm, but there's much more to the world of freebies than a flood of T- shirts, badges, pens and posters. These perishables don't leave the reviewer virith a long lastmg impression MicToProse are well known for the lavish goodies they have distributed amongst the press Not alE have been material goods which you can keep for ever — although the tailor-made leather flymg jackets went down a treat! Over the past couple yews, the American giants have given away Highls m heli- copters and stunt planes, plus a very tasty trip to the States Exotic tnps are popular with many compames {System 3 have one lined up lor their Tusker release this year, which vnll take Hogei Kean to Africa), but amongst us lesser mortals — read that as reviewers — it's what you can show that counts. However, if you've got any serise. you show them to everyone then take em home quickly (jtis!: as well with those Spitting Image slippers) More often than not. it's the stranger gift that proves popular Weirder freebies include umbTellas. bach robes, pool balls, match books that turn into calcula- tors, fruit baskets and varied inflatable animals! Many of the freebies seem to be alcohol based, especial ly around Christmas time. You begin to wonder whether software companies are uying to get you drunk so that your vision will be impaired when it comes to reviewmg their product. Mind you, no reviewer would say refuse the odd bottle of champagne It has to be said that the latest batch of freebies to come our way have been a little poor. If you were won- denng why the TGM staff have been looking a bit pon-^ ly of late it is because they have been led a steady diet of sweets From 'a packet of Chewits for Gremlms Muncher to « stick of rock promoting. Jaws, of course! Hewson are also getting into the tacky freebie game To ppomoie Space M'A^X", then latest PC sb'ategy game, they sent each magazine ONE lol- lipop in sherbert powder (outs was cherry), called, Oil He's pinching our hard earned fieebie't. stiangely, Spltshl? And there was also a dteap- looking (although we'^re assured ii was very expensive!) Pierre Cardin pen ~ they admit they were disappointed with the pens, too Free uipa to the dentist would be a good idea (or the next promotion All reviewers look forward to a new oonvortiian of a hit film It IS essential that the reviewer pre-views the film (prelerabiy m the Empire. Leicester Square) if he is to appreciate the game (it u, jione.5tlyj — RoboCop from Ocieain is the classic exampie The latest films to come our way aie the new Indiana Jones and James Bond movies, lets hope Warners allow a showing of Batman — Uimgs do not kx>h good at the moment Back to T shirts, though As a mite portly chap myself. I must protest at this 'one size fits all' claim. Even lot a normal' person, T-shirts ate always either too big or too small. The colours of some of them are also a bit much Seen a Thunder Blade one recently, or a Motor Massacre (Gremlin) lop down your area' Thought not. Any streetvmse reviewer avoids them hke the plague {espe- cially when going to someone else's press launch). However, J it wasn't for these I'd have nothing to wear whilst cleaning my bike on Sunday afternoon. Bamaby Page is one exam pie of a magazine writer who took the freebies and ran The ex-TOM member received {with thanks): a Leisure Suit Larry towel , an IBM puzzle- toy, trips to Madrid, f'rankfurt and Amsterdam, some Ocean wine {although this was donated via CRASH), an Oracle propelling pencil, a US GoM puzzle, a fake Filofax, a bottle of tomato ketdliup, some green slime (Gilbert), an Electronic Arts watch, a shoulder bag and mountains of T-shirts t The sad thing ts that some people can get very attached in these free gifts Baxnaby comments: "1 don t know what 1 would do without my Gremlin Coconut Capers T-shirt It's so good I can't bring myself to take it off I* 'But what of us punters?' I hear you cry. Sadjy. the buyei IS probably the last persoiv to receive a gift. However we take our Indiana Jones hats off to System 3 who included a Uee throwmg star m Last Ninja n. Now then. Where's my Qacnes Machine T-shirt' 58TGMTX021:8-e9 FANTASVf HORKOR AND SCIENCE FICTION Now monthly Britain's Best* Magazine of the Dark! •Or rrwy the goblins eat us... Due to popular demand from readers who rould not get enough news, reviews and fiction from the otherworld of horror, fantasy and science fiction FEAR now creepily provides a monthly dose of all that is full of dread. But wanting ^o spare everything but your souls, the price of FEAR has plunged to a pitiful £1. 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What right have they to censor such fantastic work?'* ...writes Chiistophei Hester, complaining aiDOUt the censorship of Astaroth's artwork by high street chainstores. He wins this month's £50 worth of software Censorship^akf"*"'^"'" I was leading TQM019 vrhsn I came across what I thought wQ£ an axnazing' piece ai artwork used for an advert. Over the years I've taben ta cutting out the best adverts ajid pastiBg them fnta a scrapisook — the Pgygiioaie and Thalarous adverts aie usually the best, yet here v/as an i^veit fronx Hflwson for Astaroth — The Alltel of Death which ifbpressed me c^insiderabSv The woman featuied with h«f winged hands and m99ctoid figure was siictple stunDing Jusi look at the Cities in the backgiound, l9ttiTig in light troin a webbed canopy 'Gieat.' i thought. That'll really iook good on the sheJve^when the game is released,' How wrong 1 found 1 was, for the cover of TGM020 boldly stated Hewson's 'iisky package' liad been censored Censored? Tm incensed < I canjiot tinderstand ihe niotivee fox banning this bnMiant aitwoElE Is Use woman too 'naked' for the ceneoTS to deal with? Too 'pornographic'? I feel not- There aren't even any offending nipples. The woman's body is almost like a ooetume. wonderfuUy depicted in a moody alien style. To ray mind, only someone with a warped mind could possible be offended by it. or even shocked- It JS not a picture of a naked woman at aU. but a picture of a creature, the Angel of Death. What anjgers me more is that J have seen tax more erotJcaUy suggestive covers used for ganae^ in the paM that were never banned at all. Take Defender of tJi© Cn)wn for example, with tlie woman'G oversized breasts; or Sliadowfire. There axe dozens more, Who do the hjgh street chains think they are in refusing to slock Astaroth with the artwork on the cover' What right have they to censor such fantaatk; work? The box for Licence to KiU showing James Bond holding Pam Bouvier is infinitely more 'seiry and seductive', with ita gotd«n flesh tones, than the brovyms used in Astaroih, The shops are censoring a work of an, 1 only hope this bad pubLidiy for Hew$>on ends in added sales for their game, and that the artwork appears Inside the box, if not allowed on the cover. Finally, I like the nefW coloured lettering TGM is achieving with its computers Thesunrays used in tite Coiu^oie Dawn (TGMOaO) feature are a delight to look upon. But why do you keep changing the lettering on the spine? TGMQl 9 uaed f aner teict and now TOM020 has changed typeface altogether! When I put my copies of TGM in a neat pie on the shelf, they now loc^ messy, and not one of the sputes match, Can't you line them up T,he same eac^ month? Having said that. I'm glad to see tlie return of an adventure ootuitm at last to TGM and let's hope it grows ii: strength — and pages f ChrtAopber Hester, VioBt ybrksblre. Well, at Jeasi we've one guaianzeed reader who'U be happy with the 175% incxsass in advsDttir0 space. As to the cBjisarship of Asmroth, you U be happy rohear tbatH&wson are tndudlng a poster of The Ang&i of Deatt} m the patScsge. and iUusttatJons tii xtw manva} are very iweatkig... sorry, artiscicf Silt (lon't you think thai covers like Asi&rotti 's coukd BtiU prove oSensive, or even Trigbtenmg. to very youjiff chiitUen. Perhaps tt is these sofiC ware buyers the cbamsttites are trying io protect? AAei aii. this women w The Angel al Death Is the woman too naked for the cenBoiv to deal with? 50 TGM TX021 :8 89 entrB Bytes Sell your MSX (please!) DearTGM As I own a popular 3-bit annputer {Amstiad CPC} I think It's only '^ ti you print this letier on behalf of other 8- bit owners m reply to tha anony^mous MSX owner, Fusily why did you bother printing a letter fioni somebody who clearly is unable to give oonstmctive CTitictsm on tbe three most popular oomputers in Britain Saying a machine has graphics liise blocks of ice (?!} is hanUy a mature statement, if he's going to say the tnenthis almttst extjuGt. I novw s«e these machines or their software being sold in the high street and there is nothing aiound to make me wantons The majority of people would rather own a Spectrum with tons of varied ENJOYABLE games than a macbine with capabUities which are never exploited to the fuU and are person should state facts uiBtead of silly UtUe sentences. I can't understand anyone bving in the UK who Sllll Owns an MSX. rt may have excellent graphics but it's been around for quite a while and is hardly going to pick up over the next year, software support :s UiiQd. Why don't MSX iiSeis look into the future. Clearly the machine isn't even putting pressute on a Cl6 lei alone other 8-bits. so sell up and get a machine that is well catered lot or one which looks as though its got a bright future: you'U be a tot happiei and you won't have to write a siUy letter tryirHl to get more usera to tKiy a machine that died many years ago. M Tbacker. Leicester I sold my ST! DearTGM I bave three computers, A Spectrum +2. Electron and a plus 4 I used to have an Ataii ST but got fed up with ii so I sold It. This is becau^ the keyboard is rubbish, the graphics are good and cxiknirful but things look flat the games are too expensive and the joystick/mouse ports are m a stupid place which makes changing joysticks really annoying. The BASIC isn't buiit in and Uie one 1 got free with the ST is so naff I wiped the di^k and used if for saves on adventure gam^. 1 sun u^ my Plus 4 regxjlarly. AdifaaBetU, TamwoitlL TQM only recommends computers, we try not tos^y DONYBUYTHSS'.as someone somewhere will always buy it and folly wajj enjoy using iL Hoises for courses. DaaiTGM With reference to your oompetltion on Page 35 TGMCi20 1 enclose my entry to the competition ► The only three groups beginnuig with the letter 'z' I can thuik of are : Zeno. Zodiac Mmdwarp and the Love Reaction, and ZZ Top. Pl^tee oould you pac± my oomflake cai efuHy a& I would not want it to get daii»ged in the post U. however, the cornflake proves to be uDavailable I win accept Barbarian n on di^k for the Amstiad 464. Or a twenty quid note Ta very cnuchf Paul Berredoth, Cardiff J>rd w&ssY groups? 1fl% maanr GOOD groups f How much are cojrnCIaJIreff worth rn your necJr of the woods, snyway'^ Just plain bad luck Deal TOM 1 have purchased every ZZAP! since Issue 3. and all THE GAMES MACHINES and have entered lUSt about every competition available, yet t haven't won a ihmg Ironically, 1 have only bought ACE once, sent it a better, and won £25 It also sedrnji: unfok that a TGM reader wins twa competitions m the same month (lam 3 Etyder Silkworm and Fiieiord comps) Tlus is eiUier unfau. or just p^m bad luck on mv part! Grant Hobson, Henf rew»htre It 's the luck of the draw — bonestf There's a reederover the page who has won mo/e Chan once and' on occasion twice from the same issue. But we'll uy haider for you next month Gran; Less violence DearTGM Ever smce I started to read Crash way back at Issue 1 1, a KewsfieM article or letter has never prompted me to put the proverbial pen to paper, but Michael Hughes' letter in TGMOIS was such nonsense that I feel I have to write, Mkhael, when darling ftambo kills a 'commie' It is MURDER! Yte. I know it's only a film tor a game..,) but the act of talcing human life is miirder I'm not talking about technioUities of war where it'a 'OK" tcy kill, but about plain reality. Now, I'm not so short- sighted to believe that all violent games are 'mind- damaging' or 'influential' (I ffl^^eU enioy a good, bash at Star Wars at even Batman) but I do think a hne must be diawB, Geoies like Operation IVoff are so blatantly pro- Amencan gratuitous dnvel I do think they should be banned. There vs a difference between a pbiel spaceship expkxting with a bang and a pbcel soldier dying with a sampled scream, Non-violeot games can be ftm and horribly addictive — Like adventure games such as The Pawn and Guild ot Thieves I hate to be a whmgmg old whatever, but Jer Set WiMy was amaziRg (you really had to be there , ,) People do need to gea. nd of theli tension and anger but there are a multitude of ways to do this Perhaps you could take up yoga, Iviichael.. H you are to criticise, in' to come up with a better argument than Rambo is a good wholesome Amern^ati who only kills commies.' Graphics are becoming lifelike FACT Sound is becoming more realistic; FACT. Some day there will be a computer game-related killing FICTION? Matthew Pbs«, Wokingham. Amazing: Jet Set Willy — addictioD without violence TGM TX 021 :8-89 61 CBntre Bytes Forget the spec spec DfieiTGM Look, excuse rae very miich and all that, but let's not beat around the bxtsh. Some p©o* pite are just not being very Tiks to the Speccy lately and I tJiinlt il s pretty danuied iginorant. Three people slagged the lovely Speocy m TGM019 ReadeTpage, just because they hauent got one they automatic^y ihmk that they're crap. Well they're not, so ttore. Oh. STs land Aimgas etc are all very well tf you can afiord them and If you want to pey up to E30 fw a game, but for us lesser monaJs with S-bttfi. we {or most of \is) are quite content with what we've got, I for one don't go rouiiid saying Ooh, the Amiga's got reaily crap sound' fcoe it hasn't, I knowl so why should otheis slag the 3p«c7 Just be(miise it's got coIout clash. Blame Sir CUve! The Speocy's graphics are not 'rubbish', they range !tom 'decent to ooh lovely' {most ot the time) I have playe<l several ST games, and what's the differ eijoe between one pt those and a Spec game*^ Graphics. Wa aU down to graphite My 128^ 2 '5 sound easUy inat<:b- es the ST's (when progiain- mecs bother to use it), and I personally think my Speocy giames play Tar better. Admittedly all machines have their daasics. and in time 16 bits v^ develop vast- ly better ^ames, but for now just leave \is atone. If we wanted 16- bits, we'd buy 'em. tucA al a -bitters are poor! TOM is also obvioualy roovtog towaids le-bit moieand more, and wiU eventually leave B-bits behind as the 16- blt market grows. But for now you provide good coverage for all popular fonnats, so let's all keep our snide comments to ouiselves while it lasts. l«igb 'Attribute problems don't matter when tlia gameplay's fab' Loveday, West GlaniiDioan tU wU yoR something, Wli&a CRAS/i covemroLinCed the ^^seotTy classic Moon Cie«:ta, everyone Jkim TGM was fdaying it for days {when we could get it loBdedt). We stjli haveni s&en a version of MoboCop on any coiQpucej^ tliat's AS good as the Specimm version. And as foe the CommodOFe, when the Zzap Sizshrs compdation came in EVERYONE on TGM was plsying Dropzons at iunchiiwe and aftei work. Nuffsaid. w ^sr am ^m* ^wr va f^ »i « f^,* P,« »«> f^l f.t 9,-* f,'* •,'• ., p ,-3b .71 »> .7- ."f» *t* ^' •;■' kCMD t«* Iff •> »iw »«t »?• ,«% »•;:* ;7^ ^', ^ « ton «tt .Bt «V -ft. COPT oJM <:oiit <s.m *C*it '*'"' '^'"•^ I %z9 %x» «►€» *¥* %»' ^N* *«' .^ K'=^ ^4 ^i Lucky in luck Dear TGM Am I the vrortds luckiesst TGM reader^ 1 was reading TGM 01 & back m Januaiy look- ing (ot my name in the com petition results page alter US Gold told me I'd won a prize. 1 scanned the results and couldn't believe my luclt when I saw t was runnetrup m tba Elite oompeUtion too. Me... Twice in one magazine^ But thai s not ail Look in TGMQ20 and on the results page there I am again Twice I One prize for the TGM ques- lionnaire, and a runner-up pnze ui the Silkworm compe- tition. Am I the only reader to appear twice in one issue on two separate oocasione? I buy inany different com- puter mags and have every issue of TGM, I've bad a com- puter since [ was about 13 (six years ago) and have always bought c»mputef magazines. However 1 only started to enter the competl- lions about eight months ago afier a friend won three prizes m three consecutive months. Mark Shaw, CaniMwic. No, it's only luck, Maik — and oddly enough, seveiai peopfe win twice in the same month Braying about MSX... again Dear TGM I am back to say more about 8 -hit machines and my name i£ anonymous Ti^re IS Something I want to say and that js Denaris on the Commodore E4 looks good and also got a good mark {torn TGM But on the other side the MSX 64 got a good marlK for the Nemesis 3 which. Looked UNBELJVEABLE for an S-bit machine, Well the point 1 am trying to maice is that ! have played both of them, WeU, Denaris is OK but Nen3»sis 3 is just TOO MUCH in sound, colour, graphics, shades and many more other styles. But don't get the feeling that ]ust because I own an Con&nued iiom page 44 should get paid, depending on experience etc What about the fiituie of the SSA, are you loohing to expand? Were hoping to heooine international, and invite European and American devel opers And once thai happens, it's going to be a lot easier for UK developers ovei^as — and XbSti'B very unportant for us. The success of organisations liKe ours helps the suc^»^ of tiie whole industry — ft adds credibility so that wa can get leaHy established En the future, we hope we'll be here u> help the Govenunent on copyright problems, ooroinunl' cations, data protection and oontTLbute to their discussions. Perhaps, when we're estab- lished we'll have guest mem- bets — from Parliamattt — to add oedlbiJity, WeU-knowfi progranuners who are already Diembers of the Society ut Software Authors include Jez San, Steven Dunn and Raffaele Ceoco U you're a developer involved m any part of producing software, fiU in the form for more details. All enquiries are totally confiden- tial, and mvolve no obligation MSK 1 am saying that Nemesis 3 is Izieiter. 1 mean just check it out for yourself and decide betvtfWD your- selves about which is better. But just remember Nemesis 3 has- a) 2Mb ROM b) Arcade sound effects c) LSI custom sound t^p mounted djf New eight voice polyphon- ic chip Anonymous icff again Poor old .^ J .nous's letter had to be hacked down and conected quitoa bit but we think you know what he's trying to say,., don't you? ^^^ iJR^ ■ I - I WORTH OF SOFTWARE MUST BE WON! 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By Lasers are common as niuck these days, but whfjre did the name LASEFI come from? 6) What TV cf ime- buster series has escaped the Ocean and gone over The Edge? 7) What is. an Ari^Asm? 8) What happanad to the notOTfous German hacker Karl Koch in June? 9) True or lalse, tele- phones can damage your disks. tO) Unscramble these two celebfiiy endorse- ments, GAO^ SKINNY HELL and MOUSE HOB KNOfe. It) What IS a hand- held Game Eloy^ a] Nintendo s low-end machine, bj the lead story in next week's Sunday Sport? 12) Whuch^sthe gr&ater threat to the computer games industry, ignorance or apathy"^ 13) Duf(ng which three years were the original Star Trek episodes first shown, and how many ! episodes were there ^ 14) What's ttve differ- ence tietween the Konix games console and haemorrhoids? 15) The first calcuFating machine was the aba- cos. Where does the word abacus come from? 16) Which of the foL lowing is the author of Phobia , Met Crowther, Tony Crowther, Leslie Crowther? 17J WhatistheDC4 computer system designed to track down? IS) What IS the highly appropnate name of the Frer>ch software house responsible for Emmanuelle? 19) What's the diHer ence between Captain Crumble arul Captain Crunch? 20) RSI is a computer hazard, !f it doesn't stand for Rod Seems Invisible, what does il stand for? 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Ten runners up also receive five Capcom games of their choice. Raheii Mehdi, Cleveland TSS 70H; D Fowler, Glasgow G20 SOZ; Miciiael de Ruiter. HOLLAND TP500771; Dominic J Carr. Nortti Humberside HU19 £Pf: Stephen RoQalson, Blfmingham B3S 8AD; CectI Dyer, Lorvdon E7 9HS: Nathan Hill. Woking GU23 7AN; Guy Hopkins, Merseyside L37 tNX; Jason Rust. Kings Lynn PE34 3HL; Miss P Stevens. Lofidon S£5 7Na I WANT TO BE A MIXMASTER Software Horizons Issue 19 Kevin Patton of Kernel tHempstead receives a Master Sound Sampler and a £50 Sharp Stereo radio cas- sette recorder. Ttie ten runnersup wtio get a Master Sound Sampler are Mr N Taft, South Wirrai L65 9EN: C B Sfnxxse. Nontiants NN16 9RN; P R Taylor, Oakham LElS 7AU; Alex Coles. Devon EX22 70R; Mr John Sheanng. Godstone RH9 8NE, Pairtch White. Shrewstiury: David Jackson, Preston PRt 8HX; L Levett, Kent DA1G 1DS: Mr C Kaye, Wirral 162 3NQ; Mark Crajg Davies. Kendal UVd 6LF. TECHNICALLY THOMPSON l^ue 18 Alain Ptre Irom March In, Belgium, wins a £20 software POWERFUL PLAY Powerplay Issue 1 9 Craig Klrfc and David Goorney take along a friend each on a free day out at Powerplay. heip make a limn ed edition loystick, and spend Ihe afternoon at Alton Towers. The five rt>nners-up who each receive a Crystal joystick are - Howard Thorpe. SOI 8AX Jason Dwighl. HPl 2PR Barry Parsons. GU27 tPj Manin Clittord. LSeS 5AF Rot>ert Wright . 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The prt^iem (S Iha! after a white you master the computer (^n^gram $0 tt^ game gei% lell to collect dust Now imagine such a wargam© where instead ot pitting your wits against a machine. youVe ijiattlirtg rl Out with a hundred other players' That's when things start to get difficult. Not only wij) you be corK:erned with sound tactical dect&ionis. you II also need to r^e^oiiate alliances and watch out tor the fear&ome backstab Power games wary m compJestity. detaJJ and settjngs: with mosi tieing run at ieasl partially by computer tnodera- tion (a computer dectdes your late!) ROLEPUYING GAMES Many of you will have tried out the delights ol Dungeons and Dragons, and stmtlar bbletop roleplaying gafrtes (RPGsji Many people are quite happity filling In little sheets of paper every week, in the hope of pushing their forces to the end of the universe before some- one else (somewhere in Europe) does it first. We all have a rough idea of what Playing By Mail ts, but how does tt really work? John Woods giwes a begin- ners' guide to PBM.„ These are indeed great fun, but suttw certain limitations since there's only one Games Master (GM) and a group of around six pfayers. The group generally hhas to stick together, and its very difficult to have many secret ptots going on |eg. the thief cajis the GM outside, so everyone automattcaUy checks ttieir pockets') In P8M there isn t this pfoWem — your char- acter IS tree to interact in any way he/she wants, and with hundreds of other players the po5ShbiNt)es are very exerting. £ach turn you give your char 66 TGM 1X021:0-89 acter detailed mstructionsH and the reply will usually be around 1.5 pages of storyline detaihng how things went- Most of these games are hand- moderated (fel)ow humans decide yc^ur fatef) although there are excep- tions SPORTS GAMES Most spon PBMs put you in the role of a team manager com- peting in league and cup oom- petrtfons with varying degrees of contrd- The mam task is to pick your team each game, although the tietter games also inctu'de tactical decisions as well as linancial controls on the club. Most sports have a PBM simulation. There's footttall. cricket, rugby, ice hockey, snooHer... you name ttl Most sports games are computer moderated. So what actually happens in a PBM game? You start oH, logi- cally enough, by tKiying a start up This includes rulebooH(s) ar»d your first tumsheet- The 'osi of these vanes irom noih- <ng up to about £10 — tfianktul- ^ rrwst are no rriore than £5. Each turn you s&nd ofl a turn- sheet and receive t>ack a reply sheet whK^ details how your actions went, >tou may also receive messages from other pJayers. newsletters and so on. Turns again vary in price from 80p a turn up to atxxjt £4 PBM doesn't work oui to be very expensive — in an average game you may be spending £1,30 a turn (tortmight) — less than a pin of beer, m Lorsdoo anyway (and I have plenty of those!). So enough of introbuctions. tet's now take a look ai some of the better games on tt>e mar- ket- Continental rttt Continental Rails is a new release fiom' Sioth Enterprises The game is set in Amenca m the middle years of i-ast century Each ol the is players takes the role of a railway tycoon. With his tew initial assets he mtist attempt lo carve out a finarKjal empire, and become number one honcho. Ttie game is divided into two parts, ^fore the ctviE war comes the $|ruggle- tor the railways of ihe east, as players attempt to build a sound finar>daj base. When the war f^nist^es th>e race is 10 link California with the east, and open up the farther Ircntiefs of Play By Maii the tiewty &slablist>ed United States, Start up lor TGM read er^ is. free, and fufttier turns £2 SO Conlaa: Sloth EntefpriSK. Freeposi, SOlrthafnptori S09 1BH Isles style The hJes IS a. sirtgle character foleplayrng PBM sei in a fanta- sy land You piay the role of a recently released outcast wito has irttte o** rw hope of stirviv^i urUdss you join or>e of the tour guilds The guilds are ot Weapons. Stealth, Wtlda and Third Eye. As your character progresses fthem are ski its lo (flam, and plenly of adwnlgres t& keep you busy. Turns are wofd processed and streich lo ai least a sid« ol A4 Costs are lo* ai CI .50 start up and 90p Sjs SAE) lor turther turns, ntact: Wyvem Games, 34 Arnside, Staptefwrd, iSkjtts NG9 FEY Puck stuff Tactics have recently launched Slapslxrt. an ice hockey stmu- Laiion The ptayers are a>achQ9 arxj make tactteal dedsions as well as coping wtth injuries, training and pi^yw trades Start up IS quite expensiH^e ai £5 (£4 (f you mention TGM) with lur- ttier turns at C2. The game is runi tjy Math, Walton who is a real ice hod(0y Ian. so much detail and realism has gone inio the game Contact : Tactscs, £5 Lotw Friar Street. Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear NEl SUE. Lone crusade Crusade is a century (100 per man unrtj level oorresponcfenoe wargame where intr)gue and diplomacy are an imporiarit and integral part. There are 15 play- ers in each ganw, with three fadions Crusaders. Muslims and Neutrals Each with their own factional and tndividuaE vic- tory conditJCMis The Crusade follows the historical events fairty acajrately The njletXK>k Is quite attractive and the game destgn well tested sjrice it's been running in the US lor sonw lime. Set up costs £2 with further turns being Z2.50. Unlike many of the games oi rfiis type there are no hidden Charges'. Contact: WhiteGoid Garnes. PO Box 47, Ayr KA7 4R2. Dlskovering PBD A new idea Ive recently heard alxiut IS Play By Dish Micro- Ger>esis are offenng Itiis oppor- tunity to owners ol Amiga, Atari. Spectrum, Commodore and I8M compatiWes. The game, Ranch Wars, is a 30- player wargame in which each turn's resurts are in ttie (onrt ol arwnated graphics and digii- ttsed sound. Start up is a bit steep at £^t.4S (inching one free turn) wiith lurtt^er turns a more reasonable £1 ,73. Contact: Micro-Genesis, PO Box 1 , Cropwell Bishop, Notts NG12 3GT All together now One or the lun things about PBM IS meeting new friends. A great place to do this iis at con- v&ntons, and H ju&t so happens that a couple have just taken place The British PBM A 4th Lorxknn Convention was hek^ on June 3. and well attended and enfoyed by all They had demonstrations ol live roleplay ing. PBM debates plus a well- stocked har On the morning), The second convention called Fiasco was held In Leeds on the June 17, Although billed as a wargames corivention, they had almost 20 PBM stalls Both events were really cheap to get in to, so watch out lor news ol the next tew events. Another popular activity lor P9Mefs is attending pubmeets There are several across the Country of varyir>g Sizas Bnd regularly A pubmeel is an opportunity for players to chat with other players ^n their games, arid perhaps gel some hot tips, Ttte biggest pubmeet IS the monthly Lortdon meet- Around 50 players attend including a numtief of GMs. The event ts held on ttie lifsi Frtday of every month at Ttie Leicester Arms, To get tfwfe, go lo Ptcadilly Circus, then down itie Ittlle road t^y the Wimpy, ar>d its on ttte comer at t*ie erid. I'm there every month — so come and say hi' Head all about H For those who would like to know much more about PBM there are a couple of really good magazines available PSM Scroll IS written and produced by yours truly, so don't expect an unbiased review I tslow on its ninth issue. PBM Scroll Piae proved itself to be the most regular publication in the PBM market, This 'ssue stretches to 6B A5 pages and inckjdes a very up-to-date news section, reviews, offers, a readers chart, pen pals comer, interviews with top play$rv, company profile (thal's enough — Ed) plus late tots more. At just £1,25 per issm or £4.50 (Of a year (four issues) it's pretty good value Ch«oues payatiie to John Woods and sent lo 9t Wandte Rd, Morden. Surrey SM4 6AD Flagship is the most profes sional kx^king magazine for Vw fvobby. tt's usual^ around SO A4 pages and i» a v«ry welt written read. The reviews are always very oomprehenstve. tut the news ofteo suflers from t)eir>g out of dale, and there's also a tair amount of ooverage of US gam^. Also the reviews of new games generally take a k>ng time lo appear, it's per haps a little prt»y at £2 25 an issue {£8 a year) tuA well worth tl oonsk)efing itie depth ol cov erage. Cornai^: Flagship. PO Box liZ AJdrldge, Walsall West Midlands WSa OTJ It you've any »uggc4tJOiM^ or eonimvfifs on the PBMi wortd then drop me a line. Rememtxsr, it s the poettng that keeps ■ column going; so If you don'i want lo see me disappear WRITE NOW! T1i« «fclr«M la PSM! U|idit», TOM. PO B&i to, Ludlow, StifOfMtilr* SY9 10B, W* need your supportt CONTINESNTAL it Lh» n««r tttnr from SLOTH ENTERPRISES Pl«)r-kf'!ll<iU Company ntthr j<-«r I Q86-(17-IUI. Aln uty *tlti • f idi t rnllnvinigin ihr t^SA. CONTINENfAl MILS liFV«k*iii-~ lfLtvU\fi ffff Llrklkpli t'IkT -t>;) -tlilJ In lh« ymm* T<"> talc* the rola of M^n hliterfcHl Jlvur* twomi (ba prtat •nlrapvanaurlal anpa vf 1h* Mmarlcui rallraada. *^1ar|lptp tallil aIiIiL^ rniJL. iLikii m \c^ fikfirrp, ill tliF www ia^i]f\f4 ili-ftiii tflidlh-*^ '^nk|1CHil^ rtirli [ilph It ■Jlm»|>t> m rmt*r i^ul mi LnduBtrlal *Hil flnknc 1*1 • inplr a . In « raga to richa* atruBgla Biepea« tha tanvUi and bt aadlli of ilia tlA. 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You can catch Dr Jones in (he US Gold Action Game (programmed ^ by tlertex); the Adventure {programmed by Lucasfilm); ihe new Harrison Ford film, indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: i and in the budget buy release of if^e second Indy film. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doomat 43.99 from CIC Video. US Gofd are jubilant about ail this Indy action, and have toads ot goodies to literally give away I The first -prize winner will receive (deep brealli): a fedora hat (just like Indy's), a whip (also like Irxly's), Indy-style jacket, lr>dy sweatshirt, Indy game, and a massive Indy film poster A real coUectors' bundle] FIFTY ninners-up will receive a copy of the game and a Last Crusade book. To stand a chance of winning any of these collectables. just answer the two questions below. Along with your compuier for- mat and nan>e and address > send your answers to I'M BACK FOR MV HAT COMP, TGM. PO Box 10. Ludlow. Shropshire SY8 1DB. Entries must reach us by August 17. normal ruies app»y. 1 Name the three female costars in the three irxJiana Jones movies. 2 List the three Indy movies (n chronolog- j c a f order. &e TGM TX021 :8 89 DREADING THE DAY Judge Dredd — The Roleplaying Game Hardbacfc. 220 pages. E12,gg Publtstied by Games Workshop I Iter a period ot Gnmes Workshop concenlrat- Ing on irs lantasy ant) si^tence-IJclion battle < systems. H s good to ' S«e two new ralepf^nfrng games Upm ihe Nottinghnm- based company, Followinq on from Ih0 recent Warharnmet fantasy Roteplsy soltback frdttlofi. Gamo* Workshop have now repackaged two other lavourile roJeplay^mg games systems in compcti- , tiwly -priced formats. [ Each offers a complete sys- tern suitable for virgin role- players and experts alike, conveniently housed In a sirr- | {jie volume and re|>resen1lrvg vxcelleni value lor money. Judge Dtedd is. ot course. the roleplaying game of crime-fighling in Mega -City One. Ba&ed on the famous 2000 AD comic strip, the game lets pfayers lake on the role of rooKte Judges pal ro (ling the ultra-mean MgrJsNc streets. As such, they are fesponsible lor trachlr^g down, capturing and sentenc* ing criminals (or perps — perpetrators} o( every kind. CDpiJig with crimes ranglrvg trom murder to tobacco smoking. The chunky hardback rule- book is divided into two sec- tions. one for ptayef s and one lor referees. The players sec- tion starts by introducing the basics of the game, and describes (tie sirnple process ot creating a new Judge char- aclof- The players a^e then introduced to the various Hams of equipment they II nieed to use in the line of duty; from the familiar {hand- cuffs arvd personal radios) to the ultra- sophisticated nnrMn Lawgiver {a Judge's gun. capable of firing anything from knockout dafts lo HE grenades) and Lawmaster (the uitra-powertul, heavily- armoured Judges bike, brlBfltng with armaments). Now the Judges are fully fttiuipped, the book moves on lo I he most important part of their duti^es — making arrests. In spite ot all the tire- power they pack, Judges must atlow any perp, however dangerous, the chance lo surrender. A nice touch in the rules Is that players are encouraged to Issue suitable ctwttenges to wrong -doers they come across. So Hall or I shatt rire? might jusi Impress a hardened crtminal. but Hold it right there perp, or you II be wearing your hal on the wet end of your neck!' stands a better chance. It the perps refuse to come quietly, the players' section in etudes full del a lis of I he combat rules. These arc quite simple but comprehensive, allowing for the use of all soris of weapions In various situa- tions^ The Game Master section of the book goes into more detail on Ihe running oi adventures in Mega-City One. There is a chapter on Itie geography of the ciiy. in elud- ing instructions tor designing your own 248-floor city block. Then comes a section enti- tled People, Places and Products which gives more useful tjackgrownd Informa- tion Including a list of famous individuals ^Judges, inform^ ers and perps) lor players to meet — those featured Inctude Judge Dtedd himself ilwith a truly impressive set of abilities, of coursef} and the four Dark Judges — the evil twinge from another dimen- sion. ConcliHlIng the Game Master'^ section are chapters on equipment, giving all the necessary details required by the referee lo datermii\e effects ar^d abilities ot Judges' weapons, vehicles and other gadgetry. and also • ahort introductory adven- ture. Also inetuded wilh the book are a sheHet of cut-oul cardboard figures represent- ing Judges, perps and bystanders, and a large colour map sheet containing floor plans for use in the introductory adventure. Thp rules system ot Judge Dredd is simple taut effective, allowing a fast -moving game that doesn't get bogged down in details. It's an rdeaf system for beginners, and will appeal to experienced players who enjoy a fasi- movlng, act ion- pa eked game with an eiement of humour The game captures the atmo- sphere and tone of the comic extremely welt. Any roieptay- er who enjoys Judge Dredd's adventures should get a lot Of fun out of it. RuneQuest Fantasy Roleplaying Game Soriback. 95 pages. C4.99 Published by Games Workshop uneQuest Is an old : favourite of mine. It's a fantasy rolepfaying system that has seen several incarnalions, the most recent of which is j the Third Edition, published in | the Slates by Ave Ion Mi If. Games Workshop originally released a UK version ot this in the form ot a series ot hard- back books. Now the first of I these is back In prim in the ' new, low price softback tor- mat. Purchasers get a lot of game tor their live pouiKis. Is extremely comprehensive and allows players to devel- op characters with highly detailed sets of atei lilies. For example, characters have not fust the usual Hit Points, (describing Ihe effects of injuries) but also Fatigue points, which keep track of how exhausted they become through their exertions. Characters who wear heavy armour will find themselves rapidiy running out of pulf in a prolonged battle! In spite of the high ievei of detail, the underlying rules system is In TGM TX021;8-89 69 use In p\9f, seMom requking reference lo charts and tables. As woll as rulc!^ for combat and day^o-day skNIs like TracMng, Climbing. Swiinrning and Flrsl Aid. Ihere is also a large section of the rule&OOk given over 10 magic. There are three types of magic in Run&Onesl: Sorcery, which is like ctassl- cat wizardry; Spirit magtc. which laps the power of t tie ettrerea! world: and Divine Magic, which is carried out with the help of the gods Itwmseives. Mot all types ot ma^ic fiec«ssarity exist in a given fantasy world, but the Itiree sets o( rules allow (or «lmosi any possible type of magic to tie fitted Into tile garrvc syslem. The book Is atmost entirely given over lo rules — the only background material inclu<ied is a section on mon- sters and non-human races tor pJayers lo cncoynler. So this book by itseil isn't enough tor a compiete game. A referee must add back- ground detaifs ol a suitable laniasy setting for his or her campaign by borrowing from other games or getting hold of one of the imported RuneQu^st background packs. Sadly these aren't cur- rently available in UK edi* lions, and subsequently not as competitively priced as the rutebook. Hopefully Games Workshop will retease at least some of these add-ons in a low -cost format. That limita- lion in mind, this is an ideat purchase for any GM who Is kwking^ lor a realistic, sopbis- iicated and playable system oi rules lot a fantasy cam- paign. TO TGMTX02 1:8-89 Civilised Outstanding amongst the recent board game releases ts a new British production of the classic strategy game CiviifssUon (published by Gibson Games, about £13). Covering the period from the dawn ol history until about 25<JSC, the game recre- ates the birlh of Western civil- isation as the various fiJlediterranean tribes struggle for dominance. But this is no dry historical simulation! Players each take the part of a single tribe and must expand their population to control more terriiorv, con- struct cities lo generate wealth and survive many nat- ural and man-made disasters. Combat will inevitably take place as rivaf cultures cEash overmuch-needed land, and huge armies w)H be raised to sack opposing ciltes and shatter the enemies economi- Ic base. There is also a Cdoperalive side to the game. Players must trade with one another to generate wealth which can then be used to purchase Civilisation Cards, the acqui- sition of enough of which is the ultimate aim of the game. The cards cover the various cultural, technological and artist accomplishments that are available to the various nations. These range from humble crafts such as pottery and clothmaking to the ulti- mate heiights oF law. philoso- phy and democracy. Many Civitisation Cards also provide an immediate benefit to the owriing nation. For instance, a player with pottery can store grain, there- by reducing the effects of famine. The nation that can survive all the inevitabie setbacks and be the first to reach the pinnacle ol civilisation wins the game. The gante works best wlilh l>etween five and seven players, but can be played wfitti fewer. CMtiaation is an unusual and compelling boardgame wrth the added adVfintage of an ahraclive and fynctional presentation. The simple rules and the complexities of the play, with both competi- tive and cooperative ete- ments, should appeal to tjoth t>o9rdgamers and wargamers alike. A worthy addition to any games cupboard. AM programiTtei^ have EGOS. And these egos are not just large, they are planet-sized. Every program- mer is The Programmer. His programs are not just good, they are the best that have ei^er been written. Does hJs scroll jerk? Not his fault. It is IMPOSSIBLE, watch my lips, IMPOSSIBLE to get a smooth scroll given the limitations of this crap machine' he has to work on. The animations aren't right? Speak to the Graphic Artist, matey boy, riot The Programmer. There's a bug in the sprite routine? Never! Your hardware's up the f— ing spout. This is The Programmer's game you're talking about. So go f— yourself. Jt shoutd also be noted that most programmers have IVs— Interesting Vocabularies. PROGRAMMERS TYPE #1: The Unbearably Enthusiastic Distinguishing Maries MALE — Aside from the Ian an- cai light in his e/es, tliene is very ftttle about the UEP lo alOft you to the horrors in store for you if you enooumer him These will become hideousE/ apparent Within iwo seconds of hfm open- ing hrs mouth. Once started, nothing will stop liim tafl^ing, stioft of a blow v^ith an extreme- ly heavy object — preferably a meat cleaver. If you have any- tiling a{ aft to do with the game? software industry you are advised to carry one FEMALE -The UEP has not yet been able to ifififtrale the femafo of ttie species, but HE'S WORKING ON IT. Habitat Wherever there is a computer, you Willi find a UEP. Unable, as yet, to master Ihe an ol rising above nonentityism. the UEP is always employed in a ^^f<f. very junior eapaciiy. Freelance UEPs are kept chained Ig their Key- boards by desperate parents, who can be instantly recognised by rheir naunted expressJoris and severe nervous ncs Ttw company UEP (every company has onei) will be found in the broom cupboard, or it a broom cupi)oard \& not avail atTle. in a room full of peopl^e who have developed a sucMen. pathological and total deafness. tncidentaiiy. it your broom cupboard has a spider, ral of cockroach problem you wiif fif>d ihai the UEP makes an excel- tent pest controller. Beliaviouraf Patterns Wi!h !he emotional oeveiop- ment of a twoyear-old. the UEP brings a new m^anirKo to the work monomaniac. He Uves, .•IL--A- -- 1 PirogFmmming Idiot's H may ' h n idfot' Ttothe Guide fdiO^^ Software In^jstry BY RUTH PRACY ^\ PART 1 : The Programmers breathes, eats, ^eeps and dreams progfamming. and indeed, he is capable ol noth- ing eise. Failing a human audi- ence, he wiU dt&cuss his new routines wrth carpe^ts. d^sks and The small Idi is of green ftuff !tha! grow between his loes The mundane Things ot life. IrHe survival and personal deanline^ are totally beyond his ken Unless helped, he wiFI noi eat, sleep or blow his nose. His bed ts The tloor beneath h»s Keyboard and hiis home, if he ever had one. vs something that is rxofoundly grateful to be rid of him. If he stitl HAS a home rt will undoubtedly be making strenuous eflorts to get rid of him. His heattng will mal- function , his taps seize up, his fridge putrity ar^ hrs parents will long since have be«n removed to the security of a nice mental hon>e for I'epeaied attempted assaults wilh a meat cleaver. (One of 9mb rrrast annoyir^g traits of the liEP IS that he leads a charmed life.) There are those who wiii say thai these maltunciions occur because the UEP is so dedicat- ed that he does not have Time for ttie routine thir>gs ol life. Anyone who has ever met one. how^vet, knows differently. Even inanimate ob)ects and parents have a sense of self- preservation. Other Remarks It you see him — RUN ill PROGRAMMERS TYPE #2: Mr Universe solitary splendour resaarchirtg new and esoteric metfKtds of pfogramming I hat are poiential- iy dazEtingly lucrative. Here, His every need ts attended to by a bevy of suitably subservient (aciieys who mahe His cofloe, and Itsten with f erven liy bowed heads to the pearls oi coding wisdom that tall from H<r lips, Beltaviourai Patterns Mr Universe kriows His worth, and expects others to Know tt too. in His beneficence. He realises that the tower orders,, wtiose brainpower ts not ol The greatest, need constant remind- ing of thiis simple fact, ami. duly He so reminds theiti. He walks tafi better to iook down on the wortd and remind it ol Its proper position m Hts scheme of things He has many, many friends, all of wfiom main- Distinguishins Marks RiALE — Mr Uni'verEe is the Best of the Best. th« Creme de la Cfeme, the Greatest the Woi-kj Has Ever Seen In a world of geniuses He is The Genius; tt>e Ullirnate Zenith. You know this because He has saiid so, and His wofd is Law, FEMALE — No Ms Universe. He knows the way to succeed in tNs business At puberty He saw the blinding vision ol His glittering future and decided it was not enough Accordingly. He programmed a best-seller at tfie speed of light and invested tain the suitable distance from l^iim and come only vyhen sum- moned {It. tfiey keep out of hts way). AM are eager to please Him, and express iheirgDOciwill by leaving Htm to itie solitude He so chenshds. He fs far too taiemed to stay with any one conpany for tong, and theretom tries to grace a» many as possible with His pcKence. so that all n%ay have ttie iMK^efit of His great talent (ie. he gets fired a lot} So thai up-and-coming lesser souls may gain tfre maximum advan- tage from His presence. He always leaves His oarnes untrn- ished when He moves on, tfiat ThHy may have the chance to ' i'n trom His code by com piesing it He is magnanimous in ihe ojntreme He has had 20 bestselling jgamss to date.* -t^Ay^^-^ the proceeds in a sex -change operatton, emefging as Tfw Mosi Wonderful Person The World Has Ever Seen {see al30vej. Habitat As a Ireeiancer. He has a t>eaii- tlfu* maison <n a rtghteous sub- urb that He bought when He was 1 7. wfier e He lives m tuMury surrounded by His checish^d machtnes. and where His every need is attended to by a bevy Of ravishing maklerts. fn -house, He has the largest office (the MD, of course, lakes second place), where He sits in TX 021 8-89 71 Pfo^ramming other Remarks ^or those ot you nai au fah wtlh computer world technospea^, the foJIowfng iranslations are provided : ■ 'beautiful matson' ,— "Mitf- Victorjan Terrace' luxury -^ SQualor bevy ot ravishing maideos' — mle' tot 'motfuer') largest otfice' — 'standard desk' 'his ev«y need is attertded (o — ignored subservient lackeys' — aniag- onlstic colleagues' pearls of wisdorr — crap 'Divrde by ten and lor best- selling' read nniid -chart entries' PROGRAMMERS TYPE #3: The Laid Back So Laid Back he's horinint?) Distmguishing Marks MALE ~ TT« LBP i» no4 so mudti a person as an experi- ervce Conversaiiorts with him are best oonducfed through t5 metres of ttte kirxl o1 reactor shielding Chemobvl lad<.ed, or faihrig that, a space suit This te laigely due to the inter&sling aroma ihai accompanies tmti wTwever he goes Never let tt be saiki he doesn't wash: he does. . . whenever he can be bothered Oaperjding on how Laid Back he is, this could be onc^ a month or once a year: you can gauge h\5 Laid Backness by the depth of the h-fvn^ - trail of grease he leaves behind him on his perambulations. Theae are tre<!uent, and the path beiween his desk and the coffee pot is jsuaJly only nego- tiable by Otympic-standard skiisrs or small chikjren who missed the snow last winter. A really laid back Laid Back Programmer can produce enough grease from a srngle foilide to keep a medi urn-sized McOoneld'^s supplied with fries and lishiburgers all year round FlWAte — No. surefy. there oxjldn 1 be, ojukJ there? Habitat One out of every 1 5 program- mers is an LBR This means that every company ar>d club (n the oouniry has one. You'll find him lurking m a darkened corner surrounded by half a ton ot da.n- dfutf arKf a moimtan o1 half chewed and excitingly lungoidal sandwiches, rolls and empty crisp packets Gas masks are usuaJfy hung t>y the entrance to his domain for use by those brave enough to entef . along with a sh£>vei or two to clear the track to his desk. Like many programmers, the LBP has no home When nol hunched over his keyboard multenng strange oaths in an arcane tongue, he can be four>d under his desk, resting his head on a pile of old beer cans o^^ dis- carded Risia papers ar^i tobac- 00 shfeds. depending on exact- ly what he uses to keep hiimsell Laid Back His keybo^ is always missing at least three keys, its cover having tong since gone where ihe dead crabs go. His desk is supported by two lags, a stack of paint pots (half full, cor^aJed) and prayer. 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L Television has been around longer ihan you think Whan HG VV^fEs pc^ictMl pocket vvteos m 1903. he was loeh- tng inio me pi^i as wati as gamg nto vm tutum Wty tucK in fBI? a Sviredtsti boffii^ namt^ 8er7eliu5 iransmittM iOhM of tight over distances, and as tar bach as 1 639 radioactivQ Edmuixl Bscquengl m$ ising the eJectfo cJiemcai effects oi light The pho^ns^tive seleniyin ceN vras up and running in tS73, and prototype TV &ets we^e canstrudfld m 1884 !t>y Paul NipkoiAf using scan^ mng discs Five years later an attemativs system was btiilt by Lazare tetter uSing revotvmg mt* irors ^iedhfif of thsin could ampily tfieir images, 'But tMtiai ateud Baod^ I hear my Scottish isidefs cry. Sorry Scotfand, but John Log« Basird didnii iFwent latevtston on 11 Apni i925 a& The T«iieG woutd ham il ha didn i even conie cioee T«(encion HAS mvenMI by a Russian Jew naned Bon$ Rosung,^ the year was 1907 artd m stjccsssfully loed catfioda ray tubes connected to r$vofvim mifrored dmms, Fojf years lat&r Mr CampbeM Swtnion ncked tr« Ktea, afid ijied to maitja a portable mactune Welt, it was on 3 ' Batbad iT'OI^. but it s tne thoi^gtit that coufits So hcmv did we get trorri there to pocket vison^ By 1923 two Vanl«s named Jenftuns and Moore were happ<iy sending shadows dtmn wires, and Behri' and HohVOcK were doing the same thing mnihout wteb ffiiough the French air- waves TTte same yter artotf^r l^iAann. Vtadimir ZnKvyHin. cfactoJ rt. and too't out a p»ini for an electromc t^^/ision system He uns bought out I3y a hnie outfit m the StatBs caMed EMI. Ttwn, and only tfien. comes Bvrd- Wm JOhmy Qawd ^so tooli out a patent in 1S£!, based on the oid Sp*nn«ng dt$c idea In Sapiemtwf 1929, the youthful BBC ^ar»d txptpfotmi broadcastirtg us^ng his system, and at 330pm on Morxlav. ? Ncventher 1^6. ine mf^Ki first tetewsion servi<^ was launched hwn tie Ally Pally London, H was oap In lact the 240-brte pdure quatiiy vi^ $0 dire t^al the whole system was scrapped after itiree months Meanwtiiile badu >n the states Zworykm, now a refugee l^om (he dreaded Boi^neviks. had roped! tn me raiO*o pioraer Marram as wetl as EMI, and tjy 1^* ihty had a system wttich would be easity reragnized today 405 lines, 50 n«[)daced ftwnes a second, giwing 25 coir^ilMe "^aoes a seam). They had eteciiorK amm&. 'S and receivers. i4moh by Hmch u,<iL'. a.<d white screens reraiiing at around eighry <Tuid, and just like Rwperi Murdoch 5 Sky cha/HMis tfuy had no aud«nce because Ihey tiad no programs Tfie Beeb took or^ belied look at the system arid the rmt. »& they say. is history Apart from a load 0^ old gimmidts, nothing niuch changed m tlw world o( portabte televis»on untit the Seventies, The scifi OuNs *ere way ahead Ol the field, as th«y aiways are Pulp mags ot Bie Forties and low budget SF fitms ot ihe Fifttee rsgulorty featured' the next televisual revo- Mion pefsenaJ tv Wnst- watch TVs. po<*ei reoeivers. perfect images com?ng from iiny flat screens W^hen the Japanese actually produced a wrist waich TV m t97t nobody was the least bit surprised, and when Undo Chve threw Ne mof>D 2(nch screen Sinclair mio the maritet place a decade later, ttie ortiy reaction was wtiai kept htm so king, and why do the battenes keep rufininoout. From !97i onwards, portable miru TVs were available to anyone in Britain wMi a bn of nxmey and a fet 0! musde. The RikorxiM ffOffl the USSR being chunlty. meialtc. cheap and wei^ ing a ton the ubtquitous Japar>ese brands bang tussy plastic, overpriced and also weighing a ion But, and slop me if you've heard this one before, after Sinoair paved the way he was bkjwn Out by competrtors wrtfiin a cotipie of yea^s, and miniteilevtsNHi started to take off OuTftis like Casio produced very sexy pet^onai receivers, like ttieir 3-inc^ model costing £96, we<ghi!ng a few ounces, and folding down to a 3- trwh by 4indi packa^. The image was tMadt and whrie. and receded onto a thp-up mirror The genefat pybltc was sceptical!, put the yi^]p«JS bough) them by #ie thou»nd. T^ are now buymg cotour portables |ust as eagerly, MirH^lure televi$iOri screens wHI soott b$ &s Gpidemc as canned mi^sic The Germans are alreedy fittirvg an imeradive auttevisual unit mio car (toshboantte as a navigation systern Tnnee West German cities have been sprinkled with information nodes and the entire country wilt be etectronicaUy mapped by 1 994 Back home, Wgin's Richard Branson, has ordered over three miHion quid s worth ol 5- inch LCD colour screens, to tit on the bacn of all his airlirw seats Passengers can choose between ten ifldao channel, they can ofder boo», grub and duty frees off screen They can also play a seiectton of silent [\\ video games including che$s. by using tfTtsfactwe pads burtt into theiir food trays Not to be outdone. Pfybps and VVvner Bom have joined torces m a jomt venture called Airvison First cifitomer m Brmsh AtnArays who are titling out Boeing 747s with back- ot seat 3- inch LCDs Passengers wiH have access to six diannels and can watch Airplam 2 m living colour, |u$t as the jxk^t anrtounces the traditional emergency landtrvg for real When n comes to personat mrmvision. science- ftcticn « already fact. So here s my guide to what s r^ew and cur- renUy available PERSONAL TELEVISIONS (Olmensioos in inches^ BOOTS (own brarxJed) MTV-S. E70 SiHxS. 5incn rngfto tuom mdims Of adaptor Cheap and nasty ri« little cube, tM it » porUtHe JusL CASK>TV'500,£d9 2Sx4i\.S. 2'nct> LCD ootour scmm banseries imdudBdi car bghter sodtet or m«m abatttm {C^ IS Birtrei In g wgrd abnkMty bkndy niarv«^ iMmi il weigrq less ifian (weiw ounoet. ffw pciura « pin sharp You can use the thing as 1 video or cam- cgrder monftcr it's got an automatic channel leartft tor bom VHF .and UHF lr«queflci*ft, and K ihi tele- scopic afUnma isn t good enough (or you, (here's an e<lamal fack lor any ottw source el signal Eat yow hean out dwe S^nciair. BOOTS (own branded) CTV>5B. CieO 6kS):9 $-in^ cokjur lube, mans ol adaptor **«. so dn^ tt tttt Boots MTV-5, but |ui) IS n««ly ptntc bust Mflh dreidlUI pictwe and leuonatate sowA For ClQft you get a FM>ly(W fAto ««fadBe SEISHO CTV'^S.S, £160 7x7x10, S5-<ncn csfcur tutH. baiOBry, mm. car- lighter adaptor Oaons o«n-brand machra indbdec an FMMW mto^ and qtMMie ai t HemiBfiw « fw peiiabilty sattes. Pieiu» tfuafty i$ surprieingly ciaer, arv9 v\6 sound isnt bad «ther Beats me Boots oppO' iition hands down, FERGUSON PTV02 A, t3M 4x41,2. 3 !n<:h colour LCD s^wn. rnaifis {if inclusivir rediargeable battery A tr^e pochet inacJiirie, with a frusiraiNng; hour or SO ol waldlaOAty u«ing the bonery pad( <a[^ugr> it ooe$ have a betttry-eaving auth- ority taiiure wtwh s en emezin)|^ n^ tonoept (or a televWer^ saiv WMghino in at orily 350 green, and wi|h an active matrn hi-ra$ sorein, the image is exotent, the aound m poiy as youd aitpea The opuoiial hgh^iapecity baiieiy pack « recommertded if ftkff Httiei can stand ii l^e, camcorder moum is pancUady use^ lor tocaiion rnantsims. end tw Witrple ere pertsd lor a pa-kat mactww. menibtaM nw i tehea you eaiM hnoefc Oiem off superb product F^NASONIC TC-L30 Minivislorv, ir32t 4Kg)tZ 3 mti) cotour LCS screen, matns. battery or asa«Mor. Loohmg H« e commurticator Nun tfu 0$$ Ento^risa. this hand-held has a huge advantage over itiofi rmnivtsktn setr 4 works anywtMfiB n Europe AH ^ou have to do is mneh to the appropT' aia syiflfltn and rtapbDn vw rhe letascopc a^nal rt unsurpassable Absolute ttaie-ot thtari wafer-vwi screan, i^mpnsing over 100.400 piHels. each fidmd- idHy controRed. Ine aud« n erummy, «id a decerii ear^lwie is needed to gM anythtng approadwig deosflit sound Thelt^upacreensaemivery vutner- able and prorie 10 gMtmg iisall fheand off, and tor this son of pnce t$Q wmeflwig more lobustf ooik ibuctttd wouid seem 10 be r order Bid 'Sht butt pic- lurt I have evtr eipenenoid. whch 4 quit Uine- th*^ (rom a getuiiie Mwh. Mers Reeofiifneiitfetf Best Buys In personal TV CAS«0 TV'500. EW FERGUSON PTV02 A, E2» 76 TGM 1X021:8-89 TechnQlogy sradio star PERSONAL VIDEOS I Have soir* dfffiiaiiy wKtefstan*rig the whote oon- cept of portable mini video systems. Isn't tfie whoUe poml aiawn personal TV to enabte tfie viewer to wWr\ Ml (he hcxjf? So wtiy Ume-shift on ffie more w+ten you cart do it at home? Obviously th« manufac- Curefs tiave re$earch«4 itie* globaJ maritjelptaGe, but wilti poce t^ *« tfwse I rernajn irt»fi«ncsd. A personaf wdso is not a camoonjef. twt a mireaiMsed VCf^ pKiS monito'. ollefi witt a racfio fiecetvieT ixMigfltl in. to doubt these mactiHrh&s are pnecursofS to the in«vrtjyble global pocM ctommuncator 'ealiinng TV, VCn. VKteo letephone. personal organiser, computer and data£)3S8. Shalt we ^ tuif 19^? I ^wk we shafl- CANON Canovisior^S Svidged version of the Sony Video Walkman, TV.'Video-e machine (SM betow} SONY GV-d VidM WsKcman, Etb« 4i8x2. VtdeO'B lotmai, 3'H>wi colour screen, battery, ma^n; adajytt}r. Sony are so conficteni about this product thai rh«y tiave iaur^cned 400 prerecorded titles to go .With *t. beautifully produced, robust, ^e*h, |iusi wiiat you'd expect from tihe markel teaders tad mst\iOtt of ttie originaf Walkman Excaltsni soirrtd via headphores. but !he live' picture was a iiTlie dts< appwnting Prerecorded V«deC'8 tapes eave excel >ent 'esi^, tMt off-air homQ- recorded ta^pes $uHer trom the ftarujitiap of time limitation, TMs can t>e exiftrtded by usiflfl M-min-uta (apes in lor*g-piay mode WTw> It was. launched m TfJvfQ il cost We equivaiertt o( £570 Biit the UK laurich is rumoured to be pftce<J at a horrilN; CQOQi iQhedt with reiariersn) PANASONIC NV-1 S-VHS-C, £840 tex6*3 VMS C formal, S-mcn LCD colour screen, mairts- rKJiargeable power pack. # truly amajing rriaci^ine. and &o >i ^houkl be at this price BnllianI picture, nme heads using the mim-VHS system, hi-ii souiKt. tHiilt'in radcD, lonq-piay option, and all m a gsnuHuly ponabie paci^age i^eighirii^f t 5k(). The accassones are verging on th« insane., w^th a micro camera costrr^ £440 and weighing 349g ttial you war on a headband (£40 e^ctralf t can see those Japdn#s« tourists already, wt^ich is jugt as wel* cos I don t tnow any Briis who can aftord gnrnos like tftis. CASIO VF-3000, £558 3.3-indi LCD colour screen, slarkdard et2e VMS (or- mal. mams, adaptot or power pack The two MIO uwiglit IS |ust aix>ij.r acceptable, bui the image $eemG £omew^t washe<l' out unless iigtiting conditions are perfect Obvious advantages with the standard VMS cassetifls ttik and maichinp w<^ home- based sys- lerrts, but disappointing that Ca&io have not opted for lioensing the new, rmproved- thifd generatiort Super Of HO VHS. Ths ts not for reasons of picture quaMy bwt because ot frw hombie sound that VHS pro- duces. arKJ the Iremer^docs socind i^jaMy of other Casio lyoducts HITACHI VT.LC5, Etba i6j!6x2, 5-incfi colour LCD recefirtWi'monitor plus VHS fecoiider , mains or battery II you tfm* that over ttviw and a hatf k»los counts as yiy portable I man'X dis- agree, bet tuand-hew this m]. TT» hqutd cfystai image is superb, and itie funge-up screen reveals surprisingly robust CorttroSs and assorted gfmmnits Tn* d'esjgn is remirnscent of ttie sta^ike miiac osn- VBS Of lti« eariy SevenDes, and already tooics Idte a inuseum pieoe. but e a <isttf»ct altem^tive to the dwarf Slack sysiems on ofler. S0HYEV-DT1 r900 6!t9Kt2,t- .-,:■.„„: •.., .^ - .c^-jo^ formal,. mains. 1Z24V adapter-. I^leady snx Idos m«ke this one a Lap lop. and 01% thofi if you're r^ consideiiing retroduc iiQfl. Classic layout of monitor sitting ontop ot VCR Hitti twin lelescopii; ani«imae kjokifiQ |ust liiie a hvts dtawtng of a Ma^tMn. One (or the lujtmry cafupBf r^^i^nsng bngade, and the de^ Th« sound s appafnp amd an nfrusive cootaig £an cuts m eve^y Bme me damn tftrng is SMtci^ on Other Uian tHat no ownptainits at alt BeatrtifuMy- r.^.-,..n..^ ,^f, ev«ry ^mmicfe imagiriaibte tuiA '^ :hs tan t reoonl arrytfitng except ttie ctn^ine: yOu ib wstehtng. what tfie bioody ti^snkff Nlet^ Recommended Best Buy in persona t viAett SOMY GV-£ VtOEO WALKMAN M CSK eiighity less of a waste of mwwf ti^ ttw i«l, but th£ prtc« hike fqr^s ma to say w«^ ■ yew Of two detofe popfiing a video in your podtet A playback^only tm6ti wM soon be at a irun redistic price. 6f Itisti Airways an* Inslalling (tie Skyvlew System. Passengers simply pull up a screen on )heir armrest, plug in a headset and load one at the avaiiatiie video 3 cassettes. Volume, briQlil' nesa, tint end colour can ofli be «diM«t«d. Above. icrlockwisG' from Itie lof^ left; The Ferguson PTVOJ, wllti 3-inch LCD screen, the Sony EV-DT1 with 6- inch acrc*iii. Ga&iO TV6500 ol 27 inches, and the amazing Sor^y GV-S Video Walkman with a 2* incfi $crQ4}ni. The appliances ahi>wr> are not in scale with each other! TGM TX 021 8-89 77 h I ' TGM^s Japanese correspon dent, Shintaro Kanaoya, gives the lowdown on Far Eastern news that dire StaJtorie mofvue, te. in tact based on a comic. The Cobra of the stoiy is an hsroc space pirate A long ihme ago, he had his left ami surgicaity j'smovt^d with ^n axe, and n^gw p<»5e5ses a Psycho-Gun titere instead Being a Japanese game, ^11 ttie women wear shoelaces as cosluines and do ard say provocative things, Hudson uts desigr»fs) are txinginig out an evtefnal Banery Back-up Sysiem Thrs save- game idea hias proved' to be a hiu0e success on thns Nmtencb. most notaWy on RPGs, where prevHOusty long pa&swcrds haid to bo entered. With a press ot The button, ttie garrw is saved to memory, powered by a sm^l battery whrlie the computer is Welcome 10 a new regular column that will try to uphold Iruih, justice and the Japanese wa/ ol piaying oomputef garnes. Each month 111 be brrnging you the latest news, views, gossip and lotaliy unconftrmed rumouffi in the hope ihat one of Ihem wiff be true. I If primaNiy be covering com- pulers arti software but il some- thing catches my eye, or ear. HI try to menlion It here, Most Japanese machines will be loohed ai. from the Nintendo to itie FM Towns, from itie PC Engine to the MSX (well, maybe the MSX). From time to time itiere may be the odd Up Her© s two On \n& Ergirws CD ROM, il you play an audk^ CD witti the Systems Card in, yoo have access to a Gu menu witti lunc- tions such as Fade Out and A-B Repeal, And did you know thai you can run an unconverted Engine on a monitor with only the loss ol colour? However, I'll leave the game tips to Robin Candy. Natura%, rrxist of the things mentioned won't be available her© for a while, apart from PC Engine goods which are now (instantly entering Britain But most ttiings will probably gel over here eventually — ar>d TGMs liere to prepare you. Now, firstly, I he ev^ergrowing PC Engine Twin Cobra which was mentioned last month as both a ROM card game and a CD ROM game is in fact two games I haven't seen the ROM version but Ih© CD version, just called C&bra. and not based on Astafoth has nothing on this, t bought the gams on a Monday evening. Tuesday e:00pnn it was completed* Yup, C!^ira is pne rnean game Although it's lass ol a graphics and sound demo than Dragons Lair, it sti^lf looks, and mostly sounds, like a CD-ROM denro. Oh and it's an adventure — in Japanese, of course I One game that Im especially looking oul for is Aiter&d 6&3Sl This could prove to be a testing point between the Engine and the Mega Drive . Qraphkaily the Engines actually not up to the Sega machine, but playability is the Engines strong point, In fact, Sega's games are appear- ing quite regularly on the tngine: Oul Run, Shinobi. Afterbumm, Thurttier Bfade Blc Staying wiih the Engine. off. (Ell Ilka add-on Because of Ihe size ol the Engine's media (the ROM card}, this metfKK) had nol been used before. Hudson s sysiem ins on th$ expansion port at the ttack of Ihe machine so there may be a problem with some Engines over here. Howeveir. Micrp Media toll m© that they r© looK ing into producing duel expan- sion ribbons for PAL TV users What about CD ROM' Well no, it protjably woul<in t lit into the CD-ROM, but the CD-ROM has got its own back-up systeni in the RAM interface land nol a tot ol people Know that). Looks like RPGs can finally make it to the Engine (Boo, ) hate Japanese RPGs. after all, wt>en did you iast see a cutesy zotn- bie^)- A qupcH tip toT Engine 78 TGMTX02 1:8-89 A ^% i^^f-^j^% owners kxM out for Dsmis, rt looks sat to nvai R- Type Orio other machines., Th« NtnterKio 8 bit has. once again, gone ipio Dragon Quest manta. This fouhfr one wiM pitibatily have hJds KjlJrng their parents (of cash to buy it. You hrtow Japanf TTm last one had^ kids bunHJng SCtWOJ on Ihe cJ^y i1 wbs released, arxj adults rtoi ^oing to «ofkl I cam see wtiai the tiBs's about, Though Also on the Nintendo front, prepare yourseH tor the oommg oi another baseball seasor^. Although the real season has alread)^ started, the games are GtHI fn their starting blocks. This year tliere are i4 ol ihe damn things coming out Japanese ecscentncrties... i guess itiey bal- anoe out the hard wotlk. global monetary doitiinalion, aTiid the desiructton ol the motorcar and ttke industry Nyah Nyah Oh, ar>d Hostages will be coming out in November (or the N^nter>do, The Maga Dnva has. Out Of fiowtiere, brought out Daimakaimufa. Ghouts 'n Ghosts to you- And i1 k)oks awesome. The graphics are oF pure arcade quality and com- paring them to the arcade ver- sion seem* pomiless: you won i spot any dftfwence, As for how it pleys. we'll all have to wait until August. Also coming out for the first of the two 16-bils is Supsr Hang-On and Super Masters Remember Super Thunder 8ia(fe? I'm beginning to wonder about Sega and all the«f Supers. Afso, watch out for Wo^ Cup Soccer ar>d Fist of the NofJh Star — the comic has just come out m Britain, com plete with appalling translation and lots of blood, Fists pre<ie- cesser appeared on British Segas as Bhck 8^t And fmaiiy, following last month s Garne Boy storyn Sega ar»0 Atan are laur>chinQ hand- held machines. The Sega machine has gone right back to Bhe Game * watch roots ot one machine, one game, no Car- tridges. Still, they only cost about £15 so that's not too bad a price and cheaper than mosi Amiga games. The games are Out Run F'1. SutfftisrifJs Wars and SDI, And you may even see Ihem nn the Virgi^n Megastores, ttianks to Richard Branoons importir^ig console ^af With Jap>an. TiJI next month, sayonara. ai| TQM 7X021:8-89 79 STAR-SPANGLED SOFTWARE Paul Rigby takes a took at the phenomenon of American imports. TGM's regular columnist tells alMirt shadow software, what's out, and where to get it from... The ADVENTURE STRATEGY ROLEPLAY Column t Pick up any compuler magazine with a leisure soltware section and you w<l4 encounter sudi names as Ocean and US Gold, American-boBed companies such as MicroPfos« and Eleclronic Arts, a spfin- ktinq o1 European and Antipodean software houses and the Japanese console ph&- nomenon, While bafiking in this corvfortabie state ot familiarly ytw may ba surprised to learn that, within foreign shores. Ihere is another large, thriving sohware industry producing quality, inrxivairue and sometimes revolu- tionary prnDducis Yei you have probably heard litlie r>r nothing atrout Ihem, The principle country which houises this 'shadow' :software mafhei is the USA. However, Itrere are other countries, such as Japan H who have an increasing E^hadow home marViet {an-d I am not referring lo con- soles here}. But for the rncmenl all Sudl products terw* to fitter towands the more mature Antofican arena. When I describe these home markets as \ *stiadoW mar kets what mean is that the said protfucts are, m ihe main researched designed ar>d mar- keted (at least ini- tially) for the home market (a possible UK parallel being home- product adventure games) With national economies and the large number of com- puter literate users in the USA and Japan, the shadow software market does very well thank you There is no pressing need to export Itie products to the liKes of Europe. In Ihe case ol the USA this js amptified by several con- tritxitory factors such as the USA having a long history of senous. disK-b^ed software with a higher shell ble Thus shadow software houses tiave twen able (o survive Ctie lurbuienr and periodic market slumps by bemg able to lall hack on the steady, rrtature software buyer That is, the person wtx? purchases disk- ba^d adverltures, RPGs and strategy games. In this country and. in fact. Western Europe as a whote we are only now seeing seri- ous attenlion being paid to the latter software categories by the Itkes of US Gold and Ocean. Conpanies who have t>een harnpered by the popu- larity of tape-based soi^vare But what Ibrm does the shadow software take? The shadow unveileij Well, you may have heard of several exam- ples filtering through as imports from obscure sources. One or two popular and familiar titles used lo be obscure, import- ware The Ultima series is a good example, made popular with MicroProse s baoktnfi. I brought two pieces of importware to the notice of the UK gamesplay er when I recently reviewed (elsewhere) two games c a N e d Breach and Patadtn from a US shadow software house called Omnitrend. Both of these games have been snapped up arvd will now be distributed by Artronc Other cases have occun^ed where a Eurr^wan distnbiM tor has grasped, with txiih hands, a pc^si- bly jujcy piece of shadow software. So you may find a piece ol shadow software being monitored (for good or bad reviews, sales perlormance. etc) by oiitside sources lor a shon period before any lormal approach is mecte to the shadow software house But this IS all rather general. Lets look a little more ckisely at a few of Ihe piayefs in tfte game whose teams atways play ai tiome. Simulations Canada, or Sim Can to the streetwise, are. as you may have guessef}. t>ased in Canada, They deal largely k\ war^mes No sufpnses so tar FiOe — but how many computer based wargames have you played wilfVHit graptiics? Sim Can's whole gaming po*tcy revoives around the prir>ciple of the much-heated subiect ol tt» Fog of War Which, basically, means {Ptat the player, as the commanding ofricef,r is sevefety restrictsd in his supply ot intefU- gence regarding the enemy (your oppo- nent's strength and location, for exam^], as well as having hmited observaition about what the enemy is up io and having more than youf fair share ot bad luck. In other words, a true simulation d military combat 80 TGM TX021 :S-99 Adyeniurc/Strmtegy/RPG \ no ftMn» ri rt -c. Cit^ '*^lt« ^ Siar^apan^td: Uaswrplsy's Star Sagi: Ori*£*di(J{eifn£r {f^ft), thirst Row s urtusuil OtY TV show ganv. Prime Hme, ffov^A •'*<' SimulBiions Canada's Grand Fkwt As Sieve Newburg, PreskJeni of Sim Cart has said: '.when your carefully planned anack goes wrong, weksonve to ihe real world Do you really want to know sverylhing about youf forces and the erjemy s' tf 50, why are yoo playing a'com- puier game? Etoard games are greai ai <et- ling you know pretty much everything and Ihey COS! a loi less. Which IS vii>y Sim Can games are, lafge- ty, t^xt-based, Feeding you a variety o' reporls from your offcers, recce ai/craft snd so on. You iry yoor best to keep iradt of all the movemenls by using the Included map and counters (or laminated map sheets and pencils}, Sim Can gama« are a bre«d apart arx) are, ^ndrdily, an acquired taste for all of those sirategy players so used to graphic-based wargames. Rjoleplaying games too The dedicateo American RPG player waits wrtlh bated breath tor the ne>!t in the series of two wedHnown products. The lirst is the tatesi Ultima game The second is the next Wizafdry RPG. Sir Techs Wixardfy may be fsmillar to one or two of you out there. They did try to Introduce Ihe series to the UK many years ago but biigh jorioes amd bad timing let them down, so they retreated to the USA However Wizardry is recognised as one ot the top RPGs in the field — rank- ing along Utftma tor sheer playabcFfly arid qtiaJrty of gameplay (even though the graphics are refnble]. The senes has d ready reached Wnardry V on the PC while C&4 conversions are catching up ~ Wiiafdry fH havtng jusl been releaseid. One of Wizardry^ mairt contrtouting authors, Andrew Greenluerg, recently formed his own company, known a& Masterplay. TTieir first product |ust happens to be extraofdinarv. Star Saga: One is, probabfy, Ihe very first multiplayer comput- er RPG Each player lakes control of an individual character {a maj<^imum ot six playing) within the same game world Each character has h»is own quest and rt is possible to travel the game work] and never see another player Although cooper- ation soon plays a pan between players Star Saga One is, in a word, revotutionary. In fact Greenberg has termed it as PartioipatKvi Drama to $ei it apart from other RPC^. Koei are arxither sfwdow sottware house. inA this time from Japan. It )S Strange to think of serious sottwam ema- naling from this source. (However, Koei |%ave gone down a storm in their t\Q(ne oountry. as well as ttue USA. lor their series ol strategy game« which alkiw trie player to take economic, diplomatic and military decisions. All of their creations are based upon t^ie historical East, Scenarios include the second century Japan and sixteenth century China. Para^jn Sohware are about to step out of tt>e shadows. Having previous^ pub- lished Ihejf aidvemyre games m the USA. Paragon have been picked up t>y MicfOProse So a European debut canrvoi be far away Two titles figure in the deaf. at ttie nfKxnenl Ttie lirst. Tw^tght's Ransom, involves you on a frantic search lor your girifriervd who tias been kidnapped by terrorists. The second. Guardians of fniinity.: To Save Kennedy, is an adventure full of seaet agents, tin>e travel and JFK, The latter adventure was written m the adjticial mielligfirtoe language, Prolog (ttie first of its kltvi to my knowl- edge], so it has the capability 10 wipe the tioor with Infocom — we shall see. There are many other shadow software companies and games which i have not had Space to mantron. But, if the above makes your mouth water, you will be pleased 10 learn that I will be taktng a regu- lar look at the reams of importware avail- able, as well as news ot new products. As you may of guessed. Ih© one drawback with fmpoftware is the high price. However, many ol these games are worth it. But which ones, you askl^ Stick with The Games Machine to llnd out. ■ Wf>efe can you buy these weihj and wonderful games' Well, you can txjy direct Irom the USA However, there are a small number of dedicated UK outtets who spe- cialise in [tits (orm ot soltware, coniaci; Strategic Pliia Software. PO Bok 8, Hampton. Middlesex TWt2 3XA. Tel:(0l)979 29&7. Computer Adventure World, Bank Buildings* 1 A Charing Cross, Birlcenhead L4t GEJ. Tef: (051)666 1132. Software Circus, The Plaza On Ovford Street, London W1. Tef: (01) 436 2811 I do know that Strategk: Plus and Computer Adventure Workf have a catalogue (includ- ing updates) bul Software Circus, at Ihe time ol wntmg, do not. However, please gi\^e them a rin§ to check. LARRY'S BACK! Gofng over tt» your friend's hotii« to se9 hit latest game can be fun — btrt think how great It Is when you're visit- ing Sierra On-line In CatifOftli. Marshal M Rase n thai, looKs at their Mwnt gdmes — iflcluding Leisurt tittUrrf3. Cokimi's BeCftiost begins anoth>er 3-0 ar^ maied adventure, o<ne crsllsdi by Robena Wiitams of Chiesi lame. Take p&i\% ol Mel Brooks and Agatt^a Chnstve. and the result Is a 1 920s muriler mystery set on a plwUh Iron mansion deep in the Bayou Of nIbw Orleans There s a mmour of Civil War treasure, and perhaps a kJtier to discover — lei s t>ope young Laura Bow is up to the task. A new feature is ihat the game r^jne In real time — events occur wheA^er youVt there to witness them or not. Jim wails leaves the police scene lo bring us Codename ice Man. Play Ihe part Of ,k»hnny WesHand, one ol tm ekte US Navy SEALS (SEa, Aif. Land Service). Your mission is to rescue tf>e Aimbassadof wTios held hostage in North Atnca. The hpew Sierra Command intertaoe (SCI> gyves this animated adventure great musK and double the gra|)hic resoicftKKi of belofe (a teaiure that can tie found now m ^ e( Slefras new products) A new wrinkle hat beeci aidd«d — srmulaiion Part of your mission wtll reqiire piiohng en aitvancad nudear submanrie to your dealihetion. aivQiding detectuHi and destroy ir^ eno mieB. Ae a bit of change ol pace, there b Hojfte's Book Ot Games. Qlve a go at crazy ei^^ts. c/ibbage, soAaire arxt tive other tavourttes. Wlh a drffarence, cjf course, because you're pJayir^ agamst three eKtremety animated opponents Your point of v^tew is that of sittif^ <lown el e card Labia, your harxl face Up (everyone B^se has their cartas face down). And don I take too long to make a rnove, or one ol your o$)por\ents will give you a VERV dirty took! The cafds. by the way. are not quHe as inanimate as you might think. King Arthur And The Search for The Maty Qmii is an animated adventure that draws h«a^ on Hie le^vnd. There's Arthur, his sword Excallbtir. Guinevere, S^ tjjicelol anid Merlin Plus p^my of troubte. as Arthur's quest takes him throughout CamekM and the Holy Land Designed by Chnfity li^arx and Peter Lodger {a husband and wife te^n), Arthur titenefils from thetf expenef>oe and expertise as writers and cartoon animators. Finally (I know you've been waning for Ihisj there's Letsure Suit Lmry 3, Info here is sketchy, but it appears that poor Lany's marriage Is on the rocks, A new character, Passionate Patty, makes her debut — and she li be figunng pretty heavily in the action, in fact, you II be controlflng her some ot the time rather than just okl Larry (a good opportunity to see tt^ womani point of viewj. How lo describe PR? i ve heard itiai she's a (shudder) female Larry. All gamee are oul in the Stales \hts Autumn, so eicpect a Ctvnstmas UK release TGM TX 021 8-89 81 Bniure/SirBtBgyMPG T't I Launch Date 1 August Adventure Helpline TELEPHONE: 0898 338 933 jsgp (HPf min i'tjik Tliiif If MW dufl't Rcrd U^ IWH. Think nf Ihf limt^ um'^f iwrdrd hrlp, KKKI'lHiSMMBKR Ratings — The Whole Story Over the page the reviews start; Paul Rigby explains the ratings... Dim Iq luck of space lasl mofith, I was unabte \t> expfaln wttat on *eanh tti« rat- ings meant. I now hop« lo reclJfy (he sit- ualion. As Ihls column covers adven- tures, strategy and RPG9 (three game Cfl'tegorles with fundamental differences) I thought II vi^ould be foolish to give itwanfngless general ratings, t have, therefore, adopted a dtfferent ratings for- mat tor i^ach category. More complicate e>d? Mayt>e- However, ihey wKl provide more Information than a simpter QrspliJcs' Of 'Sound rating. ADVENTURE RATINGS ■ PrttMntation: graphics (qualrty. rele- vance, aimosptiere conveyed ), packaging. plu£ things liite: itoes Ihie adventure have a wtKjppirig graphics window so there's onHy room lor one line 0I lexf? ■ Interaction: encoonleirs wittn other char- aclers and the parser quality Atmosphere L quality of the storyline, Does it make you leef invofved'? ■ System: puzzle quanty. How the whote giame hangs together. Does the game con- sisi o! hours of boredom wilh a tew rninutes 0I excitement? Bug- ridden? Spelling mis- takes^ V Overall: taking all the above imto account, plus the price RPG RATINGS ■ Attributes: character oompleKilies GhOKie of diHerenl races? Arnouni of sktte avaiEahie. ■ Pre«enbitlon; graphics, interest ot giame worfd. orgartisalion of onscreen in^oiTTta- tion ■ rmef action: quainy of pafser, it any Depih of inieraction with char^^iefS ■ Atrnosphere: involving storyline ■ Engagement: combat system, magic system. ■ Overall; taking all ttte above Into account, plus the price. STRATEGY RATINGS ■ Presentation packaging, graphics, organisation of screen rnfo ■ At: quality of artificial inieiligence. Atmosph^iQ Involved^ Good ttistofy ot scene setting information ■ Efigafgement: quality of combat system. ■ System: does ihe game have you on the edge ot youf seat' Bugsl ■ Overslh taking a" the above into account, plus the pfice Computer j^bbenture l^orlb ADVENTURES-FANTASY-WARGAMES-STRATEGY LA TEST FROGHAMMES INCL UDING IMFORTED PRODUCTS: S£Vt£Wti? riliSJ^JiUJL STAK JAG A 1 tliM.. ib'J .rKiMt 1 JMIC ST/ AMtO A .. liii iO .NOKIittRN FLtET ST/t&M .. £35 B« fA\>MSiM CANADA UK ANI> FLEliT: W Wl « A V AL COMBAT:M AN t iJCtNARIOS I'LUS DESJGH OWK ST B, IBil .... C35-0D MOSCOW CAMrAlCHiOKRWAN CENTftAL Ab-SAULT OH RUSSIA IN WW M ST. IBM & C64 .,., E35 00 KlIKSKiUtE lUiiGEST AkMOKtl> BATrLfc IN IttiJTORV.WWIl EAST FRONT STJ BM &C6I ..... £35 00 OrXRATIOH OVERLOKD.TUi; ALL1E[> INVASION OF EUROPE IN WWU in-JBM S. C64 E35-*0 HOMIiAEL AlCAitALA: FLtlll) MECHANIZED COMBAT IN Ktl> AFRICA WWII ST.I B1W.C64 .... £35 Ofi SEVtNlH FI.EeT:MODEltN NAVAL CUNf kOKTATlOH USA V USSR IN PACIFIC ST & IBM .... 13i 00 jlMCny,-DeSiGN.COMSTRUCI ANO ADMtNISIRAfE YOUR OWN CITY IN THIS FASC1IIATING CAME AMIGA ,... C35Qfl FIHE KING , Ifl. FAN! ASY GRAPHIC H F'C^ADVEHTtlR E FROM SSG: LOTS OF COMBAT AND ACTION CM ., IW 00 MIGHT IbMACJC H ... liXCEH.fiNT t-AKGf: SCALE Si COMPLEX FANTASY GRAPHIC RPC.MANY QUESTS IBM ....... 135 00 LECENO . FANTASY GRAPHIC WARCAME:b4 ARMY T YPES.SEIGES.ASSASSINS fr MORE:N 2 PLAYER ST. ..... tU 50 UORODINO,. REALISTIC N Ami EONIC MULTISCREEN WARGAME.REAL PERSPECTIVE BATTLE VFEWS ST tJt 00 WiMRDRY SERIES.- CLASSIC DUNGEON GRAPHIC RPG. HIGHLY DETAILED & EXTENSIVE MAPPING REQUIRED; PARTY OF t: PARTS I.H & 111 AVAILABLE ON CM;rARTS I TO V ON IBM & APPLE^EACK E3^^0 SJiS^AAnM£/f/m£ SARiJA/HSL LATEST TITLES KINGS QUEST iV OX SPACE OtIEST 111 OH THE IBM EACH .,, £W 50 MANHIJNTERNEW VUHK Of^ POLICE QUEST OX SPACE QUEST OX COLD RUSH ON ST, AMIGA 8. IBM EACM ,.,.,. £15 00 i JifKSTtWFiClAL ' iliJlI_30QKS^ ULTIMA V . £^ OR III / IV EACH .. £& ; DUNG EONM ASTER .. tS : POLJCC QUEST .. £7 KINGS 0UE5TiJI OX m EACH . £7 : BARDS TALE l.ll OX III EACH . £6 50 : MAHS SAGA .. ES ; MIGHT fc MAGIC I .£10-50 I. E I SURESUIT LARRY I .. £9 : SENTINEL WORLDS I .. t^ : QUEST FUR CLUES' 50 OETAtLED SOLUTIONS ONLY .. 1 1 2-« \S£ND A4 SIZE :^P STAMPED ENVELOPE FOR FR^ CATALOG S: V0UCHER\ POSTAGE : UK IS PREE : PER GAME EUROPE £2 00 OR ELSEWHERE C4HW : SENT Itt CLASS/ AtR MAIL PAYMENT: VtSAMASTERC ARD/ACCESSUK CHEQUE OR POST AL ORDER EUROCHEQU EREC'D CASH Computer gitibenture B^orltJ Bank Buildings, 1 A Charing Cross, Birkenhead L41 6EJ Telephone: 051-666 1132 02 TGMTX02 1:8-89 THE COMPILATION E X C E L^t E N C E OUTSTA GAIHES ilN ^ ONE . SPECIAL PACK pc«^«i Softv^vdit! LimiltMJ 6 CenlMt Street _^ IQA ATA R I ST 4.99 IAN5C Fax. 061 834 0650 The ADVENTURE STRATEGY ROLEPLAY !■ Column ijm Amiga £24.99 ZORK ZERO Infocom TTie Greal Underground Empire is being evacuated, the intiabitanis are fleeing in terror and the Royal Family have all but been disposed ol. This is the resuti ol the dreaded curse issued by Megab&i the wiz- ard. Although The cur^ has been delated by the Rojfal magicians it cannot be removed Mo-one el$e has been abUe to banish the curse artd ciainii the reward offered by Wurb Flathead, the current occupant of the throne. You are the fast chance. Yet whai can a peasant from an obscure village, in 3n outnat-lbe-vifay province, do to save the Empire before Curse Day arrives? Well, maybe the scrap of parchment that one of your ancestors found, t»elongirbg to Megalwi himself, could be of sorne use After aauaily playing the said ancestor dunrtg a t>riei prologue (good idea thai) duhno which you witness Megaboz cast the curse, the game fast foiwards to the day of the cunse. You awahe from the CasUe floor and iitimecdately notice that everyone has fled — everyone, that is, exoepi lt>e Court Jester This chap pops up when you least expect him, giving you dues and riddles to aid your progress but also slipping in a tew deadly trid^s to keep you on your toes. Although Adjvision have classified Zorif Zero as an Intocom Graphic', it's more of a text adventure with the occasional picture thrown in for good measure. The adventure is big. However, onscreen mapping is avail- able to ease your search of the area. As well as the usual puzzles, and the unusual riddfes provided by the Jester there are gra|}hical puzzEes which provide a touch of variety. The tei^t side of the game benefits from Infocom s improved parser adopted by Intooom's other recent adventures. The additior^al contents of Infocom adventures fiave always achieved a fasci nation for many devotees, in Zorfi Zero you are given the infan>ous scrap ol Megatwz's parch- ment, a Flathead Calendar for ^3 {which osHitalns one or two clues) ard a set of phase two blueprints for the Rockville Estates. Zofk Zefo is, frankly, superb. The adven- tufe is a py to play and. while being enter- tained with Steve Meretzkys unique humour and tiecoming lotally absorbed by the game's atmosphere, you will expen- ence a range of excellent puzzles which vary widely in difficulty I must say that I have been totally impressed by Infocom's feceni releases They have been going through some shaky times recently but they are rww loolting like the Infoooni of old. Atari ST, Amiga C9.95 DUNGEON MAS- TER EDITOR sot.ex The DungeoT} Mbs^bt Editor is. basically, a cheat program for FTL's Dungeon Master Features include being able to create new doors and passages in walEs. remove secret doofs, open doors without a key and print out the plans in all dungeon levels, in addition to this is a stxid hints artd tips sec- lion. The whole pack arrrves in a re-seal- able plastic bag, complete with a single disk and a 20-pag@ manual, The difference between the ST and Amiga ve*^sicns is generally one ot screen presematron. The Aimioa having the better p^eseniation than the ST However, they both do ihe job. Right that's ttie facts, now the comrrtents. When t first heard about this program I was none to pleased. How anyone can cheat theif way through an excelleni game, such as Dui^geon Mastar, and then honestly say that they have finished fl is beyorKJl me. Why spend your cash to buy the game In the first place? By all rneans, consult hints and tips to guide your way around any diffi- cullies But chealir^g? What's the point' Anyone who acuially enjoys playing flPGs will noi bijy this program. Anybody else will probabty not buy Dur\geon Master in the firsi ptace. Unless they revel in some sod of egotistical delusion of ttefeaiing the compuier My advice'' Save your moiiey for the sequel. The overall mark's for the few hinis and lips. UTILITY Overall 15% Atari ST, Amiga £24,99 DEJA VU II Mindscape/ICOM You're up to your neck in debt. Troubfe is, the debt collectors are the hulking great cronies of Tony Malone — mobster eKlraof- dlnaire. You ve got seven days lo find the cash. However, Malone s boys sire watch- ing your every step SO you don't get any kjeas of skipping town, DOfa Vu //comes with a 14 page manual and a reference card. The ST version comes on two disks while the Amiga an^ives on one. The difference between the two is that they both have a slightly differ- Deja Vu? MugaiHt by the orfglr^af on itt0 streets &t the At^ri ST version 84TGMTX02t;8-89 Aduentute/StratBgy/RPG your village Iroin th& evil pres' ice. firaptilca mm quite good wtth ritkrrw snlnwtion. So ft you sal tli« bar or the D09 & O09 aixl I nothing, life would revolve ittnaie?} around )fOV. ttem* — be pk:l(«d up ffom th« _ t whtte open doors actual- Open onscreen. EMteris4ve use Ihtrelore, made ol th« «»e. The ST ((ive di»Ka> and ilga (three dttks> veftJont ar ^ Y similar bul the Amiga h^s V better graphics and I. While Itw system to fkret^ good, (tie acluat adventure is ily so-io. The game apfiears f Ificrwsslngty ahaHow rhe longor you play it. Horror sol r havfr ^t poteriejal. and Personal Nightmare a good development game. How«v«r, If MiH tunre to ifi^ove the garr^play ent scfeen presentation whila the Amiga has improved sound effects, Deja Vu U )s enjoyable but rather linear However, my ona big di&appoHntmer>t i& that 4 COM did not se* fit 10 impfov© their system. It can be extremely trust rating as there are so few comrriarKJs to choose from. An impatient train conductor wants your Chicago ticket fare in the unimproved Deja Vu II on lite Amiga PC £24.99 STEEL THUNDER Accolade Steel Thunder oorrkss witti two disks, two keyboard overlays for both PC keyboards, a 4S-page manual arKt an anri- piracy code she«t, You take command of one of four armoured vehicles (Abrams, M60, M48 Patton and the M3 Bradtay The lattef bein^ a welcome irvclusion), There are 24 day and night minions based in either West PC £29.99 (also on C64 £24.99} THE ULTIMA TRILOGY Origin Germany, Cuba or Syria. Selecting your three crew is important as each man has his own skill gradii>gs whch directly aftect your performance. The screen i& nraostly filled with the partic- ular crew station's instrumentation. The view to the world outside is restricted to a small barnd along the top of the screen Graphics, while not staggering, do the job well While not a true simulation, Steei Thunder is still fun lo f^ay. The choice of vehicles and the variety in missions ensure lasting interest. Good ghel, this one bnngs back some memories. The ftrst oompuler RPG that I ever tackled was ifltifDa i, bach in the days wh«n people responded to computer RPGs with either a sneer or a vacant expression. Origin are giving you three lor the pftos of one here. UHima t. which is displayed In glorious EGA, and theCGAonly Ultima HI are familiar to many. However, il i^s the appeararKe Of VlliftiS U whic^ may interest roiepiayers Rymours abounded that Richard Garriot (Lord QritiiSh himself I was disappointed with the original Ultima II {which was d&veloped by Sierra On- Line, of all people} and thai he was going to re- design it for general release (I have only seen Sign's s Uitifm it on the ST). This ver sion may be Ihe re-signed version. However, if it iSn why is it In old-fashioned CGA'' 111 gel back lo you on this o<ie. when the fog clears. The pack comes on four disks, a tOO- page manual a qujckstad leaflet, a player s guide and three colotir maps. One tor each game. Beginners could not find a better inifo- ductior^ into tt»e world of computer RPGs. Even if you are an experienced RPG piay- er, and have missed any of these games — Ireat yourself to an interactive history les- son. It is worth it just to play Ultima it — \ know I will. Primitive tt>ey are but tfie Tritogy is nostalgia at its best FUTURE SHOCKS! I must say (tiat I have never been happy with SSI's Pool ol Radiance. Their first AO&D game appeared, to me, to be more akin to the basic D&D. Wany character dasses were unavailable (sudh as Paladin) ar>d many of the spells were missir>g (such as raise dead). However, I have been playing through the Beta Tesl version of the second in the ADSD series. Curse of tt)e Azure Bonds (CAB), srrl (t looks like these criticisms have been allayed ; extra character classes, 20 extra high-level speUs and a bunch of new monsters make CAB a very promising product. It is possible that I will have a full review ne!(t month. Slay tuned. Stayirig w»th SSI I have atso had a glimpse at their laie^ strategy game Storm Actoss Europe. SSI have taken a Colonial Conquest/ Risk-type pre- sentatksn to give the player a strategic wargame covering the whole second world war in Europe Each turn covers one season, beginning In Autiif,'i , t939 With a userlntedacs thai looks deddedly tor etgn 10 SSI — friervdiy. Storm Across Europe is another promising release ► Slick and slinky action: th^ aiiur- tng paekaaing tor SSi's Curse of (he Azure Bonds TGM TX021;a-89 85 Take th<^ hrrnicdll^ bron/ed HAWKEYE thfuuKh I J IndivkJujIK lojdni Ipvek uf nf»n-Mo|) -COfnblt Mlion, fi^dlurifiK tvdi pjtjMjiK ■■1 txdtiiti, duzKfift Kr4phf( -^ And sound declined tof;iv« ATARI ST & AMIGA mm An Addictive And heAutifutty presented §hoot 'em up of the highest calibre! cold medal zzap! 64 CBM 64'l2fl Cut^i-.*^ H : REVIEWS 94 ■ CITADEL Electric Dreams lvav« done il eg^n. Last month Wicked r&caived a well deserved Top Score ac^olad«, now Martin Walker's latest game (his iasi waa Hunter's Mo&n) appears in ail its glory. So power up your Monitor refnole device and prepare to battle your way through a ci^ty lull of defence drones and gun emp^ace* ments. or atiemativeiy the not so brave can read the review. 88 ■ DOMINATOR Pinner's prHJe and joy have been out of the limelight for a whJle, Dominator is System 3 a latest offering. Sot in the guts of a graedy alien creature the brave advenlurer must destroy it twfoire it noshes Eanh Fantastic voyaging la How intenstinal enzymes. 1Q2HXYBOTS Major Rock Hardy and Captain Ace Gunr> afa the clean-cut hero types chosen to defend Earth's honour against the Xytnt overlords and their n^inions in this famous split'screan actioner from the eicados Join the battle of the century thanks to Tengen/Domerk. STAR UPDATES Son not IQ eorvMe, lltfWftri &m* w«f« Hvtte txeeitent updWN inu Twrtti. rmie 4}ui|* made iti* Star Update iev«4Wt Mserty iwM ih« erid of ttv lUTim*' lattwaiw tlump . AiiSA ANxan Raidart 96 CoiosiLn Chess 10 101 OomifAtor 88 HnhSwe^ lOt Uemotlom . IPC UcroPmta Soccer 1 03 Navy Moves 97 Phcbia 104 Shweeli 107 TheCtwnp 106 Time Scanner 97 Xyttots 102 ATARI SI Afncan Raidere ,96 jiUiarofri Ill Buffalo Btl s W»ld We« Rodeo Gan>e« ,ff2 Drwt Atwactions , 107 Oarield A Winters Tail .97 Oominaiar. HATE - toi G.Niut Jawfs Licence To Kill Navy Movet Saiifage ^IniniUili 'J'^TffWBIW r . I Skylosit Steeping Gods Ub Time Rjrvter.. Xytoti 112 69 ,100 ,97 9S .107 101 &e T12 102 COMMODORE 64nZ8 Bad .69 Citadel , 94 4am. Lioefiee To Ki tOO Phobia 104 Red Heat 102 Rock Star Ate My Hamster 97 Spherical 107 Super Scramtste Simylator M3 AMSTRAO CPD r 103 , t07 Super Scramble Simulator . .113 The Qafnet-Sumrner Edition 107 Time Scanner .97 Xybots lOa SPECTRUM Jawi «.»«4*w*f*»*«^av Kenny Dalglish Seeca Manager _., 109 RodHeat 102 Super Scrambw Simulator 113 The Games-Summor Edition .107 X^ts ,,,102 IBM PC Atncan Raiders 96 Cirojs Atlracfioni i07 PC EMGINi AJnn Cruih . 94 Son. Son 11 TO TGM 1X021:8-89 87 Reviews Greedy guis eats something thai disagrees with him DOMINATOR J¥^ System 3 rl amed lor Ihwr highljf successful ori- ' enial beat-em up ganies (narrwly fnterrtshonai Karaie. SK* and Last Nm}3S i and //). Pinner's |jride and joy now tell a terrible laie ot orfible planet' munching monsters and very expen- sive spaceships which will probably be pranged into passing asteroids by the Fool- ish playor. You re the brave vxalunteer chosen to bat- tle a vast alien wtw — probably through no fault ol his own. it was the way \\& was brtjught up — devours ptanets lo keep up h^ strenglh {a btl like the Galacius charac- ter in Marvel comicsji- But there's a sinister purpose 10 this planet noshing, Mr Alien wants to become the rT>ost powerful being in the universe. Now Earth is in danger of being gt)bbled up, so iea^iri^ into your spacecraft you twad into batile Dominatof consists of four levels, with each path leading to an anatomical part of the beast to be destroyed, Bui don t think it's that easy, the galactic gourrr^et ain't too dhufted to have his culinary plans dis1urt>ed by a meddler li+(e you, so as you zoom through ih© diWer eni guggy bits of organic matter various horrors attadt without mercy In se<^on one you're battling your way you to continue. tt$ here that the Comtmodore 64 and Amiga versions diverge slightly (due lo the fact thai itray were programmed by diHerent learns). On the C64 Level Two boasts a mid-tevei frog who spits ma^ots. and a vast honeycomb area tilled with vidous bees and t>orne!s. with the Una) obstade being a large yellow nodule. The Amiga's Level Two has mushy laces, large slinging tentacles and a huge £9 99 cass, £14.99 disk The UBualty blocky C64 graphics are surprisingly well defined here. We also lound that the C64 game waa lilghtly more playable than the Amiga vefs^on. but whichever format you own Dominalor li welt worth the asking i pric*. siudga, victory is almost at harvd because the fourth arxj final level has been reached, This IS the Amiga s metallic' level, with a myriad of metal monsters preventing you from reaching ttte Nnai challer>ge — a gigantic toad Similar problems are faced on ihe C64. with particularty vidous atwns tir^cluding furry aeatures resembling TnbWesj trying to siamp your card on the way to disintegrate the bram residing al [heertd of a long and harrowing foumey. On both madimes playabilrfy is high — at first trustratingiy so — but once the alien attack patterns have been teamed {rest assured this will lake a lair few games) the joystick is difticuU to put down Ship control The Commodore 6J snd Amiga versions differ from each oih4v in game' structure. Herm. CHI the Amtga, an intenstmai tritct rivals honeycombs full of ar^fy *ntS vicious Iwes. Up a vertk^lly scrd4ing screen KanKed by the creatures ribs, and from all angles nasty aliens bombard you. Bonuses are present {you need them) in the Form of extra points, limited Invincibility, smart bombs ar>d extra lives. Extra weapons are handy, too, and rear mounted cannon, autofire and a pulse cannon {among others) can be picked up to make mincemeat out ot the icky hordes. Al the errd of level one lies the creature's heart, and th^s must be destroyed to enable be& as its obstacles Level Three on the C64 is the 'metallk:' level. Here, large gun turrets, tortuous mazes guarded by mobile guns ar>d Ihe occaskjnal asteroid siorm try destroying ihe battered ship as it attacks the end-of-level generator. On the Amiga a toothy problem faces you, Apad from the obligatory aliens there's a row of teeth perfectly capable of giving a dentisi cardiac arrest. Bui once Ihe end-of-level brain Is reduced to a messy Prosentatiort Is damn near faultless, wUh graphics that are disgusting ly reallatic backed by great sounct effects. We ve seen It all before, but rarely so well Implemented. OTHER FORMATS Available on most popular tomnats, Dominalor should be available by the , . time you read 1hls> i 80 TGM 1X021:8-89 COMMODORE 64^28 Baal update 0*1 ^<» IS ffisportEive, scrolling is smooth and ihe en«my am vicbiis swine wlio fling out the builets mercilessly. Buy DofninatOf toda/. Math Caie needs ihe mon^y to keep his saa>nd Farrari on the road. A giant frog acts as an snd-ot'ievel mon- ster somewhere in the depths ot a plsnet- ^0ting 0tiBn. Only y^u snd th^ DaminatOf can save Earth from a feast worse than death No, it Still isn't safe... JAWS Screen 7 ■ hough released way bBdk m 1975, Jaws still stands as one of Spwlbergs rrtosl popular and suc- cessful movies, a great translation of Peter BenchSey's original novel. It Sve its name lo an early Spctmm ganw in ( days before otiical Icences were thOMQM of. but Ihis one ts based on ttve film's plot, You're Brodie, chief ol police in the tounst town ol Amity, played by Roy ScHeider tn The film. Aboard the ttawler Orca, with its ownef. Quint and Hooper, an ooeanograptw: expert, status panels above and below ttie Orca graphic (Xinirol much ol the pames act«n. Tfwjugh the mam objdctrve is to kill Jaws. Brodie has 1o keep his job by keep ing the deaitt toll dkswn arxj as many beach e$ Open as possible To this end, tf>ere's a map, tennperature.^ weather gauge, 'Maytxrofneter', artd swimmer death «)unt. Tfwse are given lo keep track of Jawss actions as weattior chanfjes: usirig a map screen, beaches are opened and ctosed at wtH and the Mayor's reaction to deaths and ensures measured on Ihe Mayorometer — if it reaches the top Brodie s sacked. Other than Quint and Hooper, Qrodie also has the help ot three divers The spe- cial weapon required to kill Jaws has been spirt into four pieces and lost amid a reef One-by-one, the divers — aboard sub merstoie cratt — e^iplore the flidtw^een ufKJersea mazes, in search ol the weapor< parts and arrwno. Nasty aquatic creatures are destroyed with a gun, flashir^g ones mVh mega- bullets, some leaving behind pieces of equipment (see bon), Ultimately, with the special weapon assembled, Brodie. Ouint or Hooper laces Jaws, with four me§a bullets and 80 sec- onds in which lo kill tf>e monster. Screen 7 have ctx>sen a big name for tfieir first release, but ttie flesh-eaiing name is virtually all there is to H. Much of the gan>e consists of exptorir>g a maze, shoot- ing enemies ar>d locking out for specisi items to colled — an aged format, and though Jaws is a passabte game of the type. If hasn't been done partkiuiarfy well. The strategy' ot ck3Sir>g.''opening beact^es is little more than a titler to make it seem more substantial — keefwng an eye on the dis- plays he^ break up Itie shoot- em - upmaze action but it's limited, dull and — excuse the pun — lacks bue. WL £14 99 disk Though maze lloora and walls are's iyeliow/green cyan patchwork, there's a nice spread of colour amongst the undervrater crealif-- "^^ey're com- pactly drawn, wel -d, and mill oboui busily. Cieaoiy programmed, Spedrum Jaws (pIcluriKl right) Isn't at all bad but the machine's had more Jaw3 mfSses the mark on thB Alan ST A nice Intro sequence — In • itie Screen 7 logo sfMne as the famous pace-gathering Jawe music builds up, and a swimmer is swallowed in a bloody 9ulp — leads lo B|>rite and bock- ground graphics which are badly drawn: undetailed, lacking in cotour. with simple animation and overall cru- dity of design. Sour>d mokes no attempt St getting something oul of the ST. iffM £9 93 £14.99 disk The CommOKiurr- utissHfa wuf status and map screens, leaving )ust tlie maze shool-'em-up. apparently due to memory re<^Tricisnns — strange %% there's nolhinf; '<cated atiout dte game. Title rtiu^c warbles Irriial: ^Hly and sound effects are bleep s and OTHER FOftMATS Amiga (£' TQM TX 021:6-89 09 Reviews A load of monkeyshine SONSON II Hudson Soft Che eitact intricacies of the plo! are unknown io US {wb really musi gel around ID learning Japanese some- time), bill Sanson tf follows ih© usual orienlal scroJJing ptatlorm gaiTiepian in ihat the beros tfiends have been caplured by a con'upt magical beast and must be feturnBd to saloty. There's a difference, ^nh ihe iyp»cal sickeningly ouie good Quys here though: they're based on the wild, wacky and hon'endousiy dubbed characters of the television series, Monk&y (bmadcasi a few years bad<. on BBC2}. Yup. you get to play at being Monliey himsetf, the overly-yellow guy with a pfediiection lof tlymg aroLir>d on a nice ca/np ptnk doiid ^nd beating people about Ihe head with his size-changing stick. His weapon plays an trnportani part in ttie garne (rvo commenl) — jabbing il forward irtto Ttie stomachs of the minions sends them raptdly away. The stidt atso smashes pols tt»t. like ttw bad guys, raveaj fruit and veg oollectsd lor various point values Al intervals thfotigh the levels shops are found where a woman kindly s*aps Zenny — money gained along wrtfi points — for helptuE items such as extra lite and magic afwrgy The laTtef is needed for the tamed Monkey Magic which powers his fying doud As progress is made through the lev- els, Monkeys friends are rescued and numerous bad guys, ir>cluding ever- st/onger and more resHient end-of -level creatures, are beaten to a pulp till V^e mys- terious ultimate enemy is faced Gaining sofr» inspiration Irom Super Mano Brvs — hitting the pots to gain tnirt )S a martiai als s^ni on the bnck head buttu^ of "Mario — Son^on /' has its deve; hidden bonus^ features and devious ptai- form layouts Shops, magic, many col- lectable items and tough adversaries to bsad up at) help expand a very used game siCj/te in the consoles market, but can't dis gi^ the riin, jump and collect that makes ROM card £24.99 As befitling the game design, Sonson U Is highly colourful, wtth bright. bo?d backgrounds and cartoork-like S'prites. They m^y be too aweet and cuddly for some pecp^. but you must admire the deiAil packed into the (generaliy) small characters. Animation is quite simplis- tic but. apart the occasional mild jerki- n«3»judderli^g (unnottceabte while involved in a game}, the multidirection &crol(ing Is smooth. Obvious Jingly sound effects and happy kiddy music suit the game, though not necessarily the ears. up the majority of the gameptay. Sonson it is one ot the more playable works of ttie Maria/Shinobi school of game design, with ihe added bonus' ol cutesy caricatures of Ihe silly ovef-thetop Monkey characters so people lucky enough (what?!) to have seen the programme are likely to get more involved in the game. Ex- perienced gamers may soon yawn at Sonson's cliches but most will find it a fun and highly enjoyabie Japanese romp, WL MtHikty'9 magic? 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SllU!UllHIII«Sai»bllQII«|lftto liuiiiiiCUiirilnifeiifHi''s newAINLliiui becGune Qfllcer Itott' SBur 7 dii^ bft his action podteidn iHiiisulllt of CQfflmiQni ll&wbfeaiteisanidl Htaa^^ gritnikiate. TEIMGEIM T/fe New Name in Coin -Op CotmrsM IMtCrtb«tc4bT llCff flJ« CUM il«h99 U9M EEtM fcfnlfow.LK^IaMl.loNdH&WlSirt Ol.7»01J]4 Reviews Forward to the past Electric Dreams he ominoLis deserted cities of Wartin Walkers latest c/eation have been on the drawirtg board for many months now. a fact known only too we^ll by readers of hfs pfo- grammer's diary in our sister Fnaga^ine, ZZAP!, Now. though, alt's well, arid the du?t-cover$ have been pulfed off it>e play- er's remote vehicle — MONITOR. A smaJI, riKidesi and apparently dead planot. so insignificant that it hadn't even b&en named, has been discovered to be more than anyone bar^ned tor. t4em Atenapool, faint signals from the planet were pwiCKed up by chance and subse- que^itly investigated by a remote prot*. The probe never returned- However, it sur- vived long enough to beam back pictures of the entrance to a silent city and the earlier chambers of tfie vast underground com- plex. Ancient, almost prehjstorical, but technically in line witti ttie day and still humming with energy. Still alive. The togicaj assumption made by the Council elite (hal 1^« cily complex had elimi- nated I he probe led ihervi io forbid any hunian(-old) to approach ii. But the untold secrets of the city aroused their curiosity, especially what vastly aged yet advanced devices could be held ai it>e botiorn oi the arcane complex. Yog will be the on« who discovers tfw truth. Ffom your distant and cosy control centre, you view Monitor, a Hoverdrone Mark IV remoie device This floating vehi- cle can move in the four main compass directions and has a bu^-in multi dprection canrxjn and capture probe — and ol course all its functions can be utilised with a joystick thousands of miles away and vieWed on a vid screen via a search probe above Monitor, Ai ttie entrar>oe to the fir^t dty. Alien, it>e aifft (sanre fOr all eight citi€isj is simply to firtd the exit. This, in itseH, is not too diffi- cult; despite the dlies each having two lev els — linked by lifts — they're fairfy simpie mazes. They're also mazes packed with traps, set off by r>earby moving objects — Hoverdrones. fm example. SorT>e traps are jusi gun emplacements Arhich fire vertically and honzgntally or diiagortally. but others are generators fof various mobiles These have different char actenstics in speed firing and movement: watchers mdl around Monior bul don't atiack, aggressors move in fast and dose beiore finng, cyions move slowly but take a lot of beaiing, arXJ so on. Its not al! for the bad. though. Launching your capture probe and targetlirtg n on a mobile allows you to take it over, providing you have enough energy. Tfte energy required h shown on a mmi-so'een In the centre of Monitor (next to the letter C) and that amount is deducted from your supply shoukj you deode to capture the mobile If so, It follows your movements arvd fires like a drone,' multipte. till its energy is e)tper>ded. The mobiie can be iod*ed into a particutar position relative to Monitor with the space bar (useful for certain assault tactics). Some traps are reaily quite frierK^y — see Monster pinball for masochists ALIEN CRUSH Hudson Soft Domputensed (oonsote-ised?} pinbaii has never really caught on. with just a few games of that ilk released over tfie years — its quite a coinci- denoe tfiat the long-overdue conver- sion of Sega's Vm^ Scanner synrhesised pinball was reviewed last Issue {updated in this} In an oldie of the pixelised flippers, Siamb^tt (rereteased on Americana a few years baci<), the ball was a Smiley charac- ter trapped inside a monsters stomach, which jusi happened to be formed like a pinball tabie Alien Cnish is 0l Ihe same nature in it^at the table is of organic compo- sition and features monsters ol various descriptions affecting the life of the ball, A squid'like creature projects Ihe ball up into the arena and from then on the player has two sets of flippers to keep the ball in play on the two-flick screen table. Art>ongst the usual bumpers and targets, giving points and score muflipliers, those adjacent to the lower flippers are eggs which hatch scampering spidery- legged amphibians (much tike Aliens' Face Muggers); luckily, they don't eat fhe ball However! Tfiere are a number of hungry mouths af eitt>ef aide of the arena. Some jusI chew the ball thoughtlully before spit- ting it oui- Others lead lo a bonus screen where different types oi monsters — skulls, snakes. Obese frogs — are killed with the ball. Ttie longer you keep the tiall in ptay, ttw nxire bad guys get hit by the ball and the rrxjre bonus points are scored. Aden Crush adds lo the genre wiiti ris bonus screens and. most importantly, is unustial and ongirtal graphic design Expect ihe unexpected: its obvious wt>en tf^e aneirnne will sieze the sphere but Ifie split- ting of the brain and hatching of the amphibians is an unpredictable and surpris- ing event. Alien Crush is dutMoua value foi rT>oney {aitf>cugh you can ihop around a little for Engine cards) as there's no real variation in 94 TGMTXOa 1:8-89 .99 disk II shed altraet se<;uence. show- ires and elefnents of the game ck«d by a dramatic Waliter Ke. are a taster for lh« highly pro- ionat and detailed graphics. Silky- oth mul1!-direcUon scrolling of a ' »ly of cities, ail drawn with a con- s^ng metallic shee«> that |Hits bas- . ,. gf In It* place. Colour is brlHi 'uiied on spfttos so that » ^graphic area Ihey <•.- j,o J^c and robotic looking. Monitor HKaa nice littte touches, like the the appropriate thruster ports flap fit moves and Itta hatches which over thf ■"""' -Yitni-screen when not In use. ; s backed by a aaiacUon of great sound effects Inehiding some vefy atmospheric ctiy sound* in the t>ackgrourKl. A must tor i owners. Martin WalkBr'$ high' iy professionml graphics are 9#f off by fUky smooth scroiiing in a shoot-'em-up requiring rather rn0(^ ot the player than the average 9 0091- trosslv^ Not every trap Is an dggrossh rottor some can be quite help- ful, though only for a limited period: (F> Extra firepower gives rapid, 2-way, 3-way or burst tire. (E)An energy pod recharges your supply (S) A switch opens <or closes depending on its state) a '^ force bear III Mil iiH m^ m :-*'> --' -nin' 1 The trietMHy bail, hesitant to siip tief*e*n your f tippers, means that it tvcii is with you Alien Cruffh can become a bit Msy gameplay (the bonus rounds help bt. rapidly liscome an integrated pui<1 <yi the game) and pirtball 'tt a simple game any- way. With only one tabte layout, it soon beoomes familiar and tt>en a little boring, but its certainly fun arxj worth playing. WL n IH^Mi ROM card £24.99 Estxos should be posllively green with envy. The graphic daslign Is so classi- cally alleit tfiat It iHits Captain Blood, Purpis Saturn Day et a I to shame. Various types of monster are drawn with ciever shading and brilliant use Of colour. The best graphics are I he eyes in the middle of Ihe tabie whlc^ Hick open menacingly when hit. The ball moves well though its often strangely reluctant to fall down the escape chute); it's just a shame that the gaitte is flick-screen rather than a •cf oiling creature table. Most music competent but forgettable Japanese ditty, but there are arcade quality spot effects and one of the bonus screen .|tines is briliiantty melancholy, with a ly echoing lead sound. the panel We revjewers hare at NewstMd axpeci- ad C/tadef to be yer average {though not sverdayj fast shoot- sm -up. but we've been very pleasantly surpnsed Its aclually a shoot-'emup wh»ch requires thoi>ght. intei ligence artd plannir>g The tatter quality is possible due to the norx^ajant traps wh^ch generally only fire or move whan you rnove or fire yourseH; (Is bes\ to move only one or two squares al a time tt's even mere Itke a board ganw when you consider, die&s like, the Firing and moving patterns of traps. A captured rnobiie is a k>i more than a simple multiple. As well a^ foilowing Monitor around, it can be used as an out- board direciabie gun, a battering ram, a shj«ihj, and with use of ths k>cked position fadliiy. a tacttcal assassin Unlike the vast majority o1 shoot-em- ups, CitadBl isn'\ a game you can gel straight into — irear it like a mindlasa blaster and game over witt com« much sooner than expected M takes a good whil« to get to know its ins and ouis and for !t>e first hour or so of play you II find it lough going. Patience reaps its own reward, though, ar>d il's playab^lity comes sfUning through. The ditfculty level's set }ust rigtn so you get a little furlhef each game, ensurmg you become well ar>d truly hooked ar>d don t rest until youVe completed the OlBdBl comptex. Even ttien. there's plenty ol game left there s an opton which sets the tfap layout at rarKk>m SiO the cities never repeat themselves. For once. CHadei is a shoot -em-up whidi breaks new ground, adding puzzles and strategy to blasting in an addictive package. A dassic combination of styles, CHad&iiS a game you shouldn t miss WL OTHER FORMAT Bonversions are under consideral ■- tor both 8- and 1&-bils — butj wm plans have t>eeii made as yi B^i ATAftI ST Savage p- - ....... Machine update 58% TGM 1X021:8-89 95 I Reviews And not a drop to drink... AFRICAN b Tomahawit JH^ he 1/24tti scai'O remote control rac- ^r ing cars that speed around the park ■ scaring the wits out of Irttle old I ladies and sending dogs into a mad ■ frenzy were tfanslated into pixels in Rare's BC Pro- Am for ttie Nintendo — the first ever TGM Star Player (TGM014). Now French -originated Tomahawk have decided to put you ar the controls of the reaJ thing and race against the type of trucks and tHigg^es that the models are based upon, r^thing so conventional as the Paris- Dakar rally, the five-slage rout« \ak9s you from Tunis to Dakar, taking in such African Sights as in Salah and Ouagadougou (well, lois of sand and dust and some more sand, actually, ttien thefe's itm odd grain or two of sarvd. but you can t have everything). Viewpng the player s buggy from behirxt, barreis rrtark oyt the course \n the sand Notmal racing control convenuon applies except il^t the buggy has a reverse gear. The status panel irxlicalfls gear, two- or four-wheel drive, speed, distance coveted and fuel remaining, While the obvious thjf>g to do is to follow the marked course, rt's possible to drive off the sand track and take a short cut across the. sand (thought that d surprise you) To this end. there's a compass (an electronic one, no less) and a mini screen, which gives ^e current and last grid square num^ t5ers visited, allowing a course to be faJ- lowad on tt^e map indudsd in the package ir>g, Tf>e mini-screen can also gfve the time arxJ position ot competitors. ShoukJ fuel run out, Itie player get k>st, get trapped in quicksand, ruin the geart>ox, get sand in tt>e engine, or wtvatever. a res- cue helcopter can be summoned — but that's the end ot ttte race. Which is Ithely to be something of a relief Following the track is a chore and going off it, by accident or design, results in long £19.99 ATM ST 53% Thti helicopter sample ts badly edited, so there's a clicking sound where it's looped, and screen update is a little jerkier than the Amiga« but otherwise its virtually identical to the 16-bit Commodore. That includes the barrels which, when hit fly high up into the air never to be seen again and the bag of wfmnimm' sample when the buggy't asfit afitnriJf>g« minutes of rolftng along an empty plain, wth an occasional sandy hiltock and sonrvetimes an opponent trufKiiing along just ahead. The manual suggests ft^t a frierid shcxjki keep an eye on th« map arxJ the headlmg, acting as a navigator, but kmwing where Sand, sand, sand — evmi wiren it's blue and white on the PC (below) — is mostly what ytiiJ i^^ when raiding Atrics The obvious thing !a to follow the course marked by barrels, but if you de deviate, thwtf's ptmity ot sand to see — ST sctvtn you're going doesn't Kwlp the dich«d rac- ing. If you've a sand fetish by all mear^ take a k>ok. but others are most likely to find ri mikty more interesting than counting grains of the stuff. WL £19.99 The Intro sequence of a hetlcopler hovering over a hastily serviced buggy ts perhaps the best pari, although the game staris from there whether or not you've touched the controls. The sprites are neat as are the occasional 'roadside teal urea, but sand thrown up by vehicles' tyres is a bit over the top — some appear from the distance from within a huge dusl cloud. Vou can guess what the b»ckgrour>d graphics are like. Yup» sand. But still. There's some nicely ahaded hllfs and iunea In ihe distance. The engine sound groans Irritatlngly and lurning response Is sluggish. £19.99 CGA is used badly. The grourui la white wllh dark blue pinstripes, hills are pink and blue.-- cotour is generally used in an ugly way and definition Is thick and lacking in detail. Screen update, particularly when turning Is lerky, though speed In Itself Is line. ^ OTHER FORMATS No a~btl versions planned. Though there might be a bit more sar>d. 96 TGM 1X021:8-89 1 A tabby tail to tell GARFIELD WINTER'S TAIL The Edge OrtcQ again ifs timd agaifi lo hide your food, dog and tedd;^ bear in a safe piiace because has back. GafHeki — Winter's Tait starts wHfi our Feline hefo catdiing a few zzz's aher a fiard day tidyir>g out Jon's refrigera- tor (with fDOSt ot th« contents linding iheir wa^ mto his stomach)), snd he's dreaming of Five exaring game levels: skiing, a lasagna factory, a chocolate factory ar^ the lake Four levesl can be visited tn any aim is to re-route the chocolate (using junc- tkms in tile p^pes) to Ihe cfiidtens. Thts causes thaiti to lay dioccy dggs, Onc« they're all at it. he can tace ckwn ifie chck- efi that eats them all. But the leathered felon has fkiwn tfie coop so Garfield chases him across a frozen lake and into the Swiss Village,., arvj on it goes. QarfiBW — The Big Fat Hairy Deaf was too strategy orientated. Gsrtiefd — order, the *iftti onty aftef c^mpleiing the other four. in skitng Garfteld dreamlngly visits the Alps and participates In the death defying sport of hurlJing down a heart -stopping sfope avoiding the many obstacles in his path. Contact with the objects littering his path gradually walte our tiero up. Thts can be avoided tjy eating food offered by the occasional spectator, but watch out for Gadiekj's oldesl enemy, Odte the dog jTipps down the slope on wtiat looks like a (^usitHn ltd He attentpts to nab the food before you. If ifve firval obstacle is successluiiy jumped Garfiekl firtds hintself crashing through the roof of a lasagne factory. The idea's simply lo eat as much lasagne as possible by rapidly waggiirtg ttre joystick back and forth till Oldie informs you its dessert time (ie time lor the next screen). The Chocolate Factory is where Garfield starts hjs search for the chicken thai eats ttra chocolate eggs. In the many corridors that make up the Chocolate Factory Gadiekj comes across r^ p^p^s. carrying liquid chocolate to several mechanical chickens scattered around the maze. The Wmter's Tail is mudi more aciion packed, V¥i'th ttie fat hairy one partici paling (probabfy for the ftfst time in his life) tn some strenu- ous exercise... mind you this is just a dream. With four subgames in one package GarfiBid — Wmter's Tail provides a fairly stiH challenge- MC £19.99 ATARI %T 80% Th0 graphfcs are cule and cuddly and Garfield is his usual canine-punting, lasagne-gobbling self. Its attractions are more aimed at a younger audience. bul it probably remains a game tor anyone. OTHER FORMATS Expect an Amiga version to be avail- able by the time you read this, &-Bit owners should see Garfield on their computers soon. AMIGA aftMSTRAOCPC Time Scanner ACTtVlSlON 1&-bi1 £24. is a^iit 1:9.95 csas. Ell J5 dl«l( Alaf. ST 70% — 1GM020 Taken fron^ the Sega arcade game, the Amiga version boasts very pretty graptv ics and some impressive tunes. And n also features the same wikjiy anarchte ball which seems at times to have a mirfcd of its Own. Tht© Amsfrad game obviousiy lacks the graphical capabitt- tiefi ol the 1€-bit gart^e. but is rather rdespite this. Overall if you are after a pinball game take a look, but the genera! Machine feeling is that Alien Crush on the PC Engine provides a stifler challenge. hivchlfw update: Amiga ^6*^ AmstradCPC e4<^i» CQMMODOBE e/im Rock star Ate My Hamster CODE MASTERS £9.99 CM* £1 2.99 disk 5p«clfurn 74% — TQMC^l 7 With 50,000 quid in the bank, Cecil and Clive have just one year to make them- selves and their rock stars milllonairas Although the sound has t^een improved, the graphics are very similar to the Speccy version and ihe action' is rather stow and grows repelJlive quickly. Machirw Update GO<^ ATARI ST n AMtGA Navy Moves DtNAMIC Atari ST a 9.95. Amiga £24.95 AmaV-iiB CPCt;-. TGM019 On both formats the hero garns plenty ot chances lo practise both his com- mando and Jacques Cousteau tech- niques on a variety of enemy troops. Graphics are good, especially when he gets his hands on a (famethrower. Sound is also good, with a lively title tune ar>d apl sound effects, Navy Movffs is tough but worth the effort. Macltin* upd»t0i Amiga T<4-*^ AtaHST 72«/^ 1 ,'T, V V \ 3 -^' *j* ' ' -r. -Ti y ■'- i i ' iUi ■- *j • ■ TGM TX 02 1:8-89 97 Reviews The henuty of sleeping SLEEPING GODS LIE Empire SJeeping 9«ajty m©e!s RPG and ToUtien In this Empire release, wrth ytxj as ths hero having to awa^n a slumbering prone {and hon^sO god, N'Gir This lantasy wofkJ of Tessflfa was Created thousands upon thousands of year^ ago by the old gods, but most of them got bored with it {well you krnw how it is: if you ve created one planet teeming with life you've created em aii). N'Gir ts the only remaining god (presumably bMiuse he w$$ a^eep when iha others tell) and so is the on*y being cat>abie o1 preventing a tfs- astrous future for Tessara Recent years have seen the nse of the archmage. ctiief wizard to the emperor. He's hardly a faithlul wiz, though, because he graduatly took over power fro^n ihe ever- wnnklirn amperar and rK>w holds him cap- ita wra» maintaining power with an army Ol Itesh eating deiTkons Other things in these limes aren't exactly going swimmingly, e<ilher recent harvests Kave gtvflfi low yields and the poor of Ihe world are being sirucl< down with a mysteri- ous illness. N Gka was expected to awaken but still lies in peacelul slumber, l-lowever. a dying follQwer of the gods, the Kobboid Old Way, 4>ss tntrusted you with a device that ahoukJ fouse The Sieeper. Its noi a simple )0b. ffGira rests in an unknown location an a dtotani kingdom and only the old hermit can give you the clues you require. Beginning m your humble home {very humtjie — your household possessions are a chair and a bowli), Ihe quest is &pread across eight 3-D perspective kingdoms, afi of which are happily angular in shape. MlagiC barriers >ie Iseiween them so portais must be used for imerkingdom iransporta- lion, In true adventuring style< objects are found, used and exchanged, and many creatures encountered- These range from varkHJS humans to weird monsters, but ol course many of Ihem are inciined to hostili- ty, To this end, provided you have the ammunition or magic power, there are a rBng^ ol weapons at your disposal: from bare hands, through heavy crossbow, to the hefty (understaterT>ent) Ring ol Annihilation. Adventure'RPG meets Freescape here, bul as Sf&epsng Gods Lie mostly consists of open landscapes, rl's Isiss vieuaiiy impres- sive liian Incentive's 3-0 games. Steeping Gods Lie has ils own spectality: characters and objects are bit- mapped m 3D perspec- tive, giving different approach angies. in gameplay, combat can easily be fatal. To get anywhere i<n the game, a good set of armour, fast reactions and a healthy trigijjer fir>ger are needed, the latter two essential, initially, to combat (no pun intended ) the dif »old ptec«s. Adventure RPG meets Freescape, wilh bit- mapped 3-D graphics, tn Sleeping Gods Lie, providing some Intor^ting eharttctttrs ficulty level. Sleeping Gods Ob cornea into its own with the depth and overaK complex ily of the puziles and actions that are required to get anywfiere. CompleiJng a kingdom is task enough in itself, bul it wiil take many, many hours of piay (and tactical game saves) before N'Gnir has his cornflakes. Though most suited to RPGe^ (and adventurers}, the arcade elements of com bat and exploration open up the involving fantasy workj of Tessara to action freaks also. Would I lie to you? C24.95 Though not perfect, the 3-D moven^nt of scenery Is good — amocth and swift — especially with the added ref- erence points within rooms. The char- acters you meet are often deforme<f (small legs, severely rounded shoul- ders) but olhera are neatly done and some are brllUant In the Imagirialjve' ness ol theif design. The storage and display ol character graphics results In Ihem being blocky when partlculsrty close (o the viewscreen, and they're also Indistinct at a distance. Sound is MOR, but the game's size makes up for lis aesthetic lautta. OTHER FORMATS Amiga very soon and PC shoi £24.95. 98 TGMTX02 1:8-89 i IPS ^-S^^^Bi ^ >^*ii ^■^^ fimSS^ THE CHAMP Endorse b^ the WORLD BOXING COUNCIL, THE CHAMP Is simpJv the mosi realistic boxing simulatton ever written for the computer; - wm the original 'nodty* ttieme tune - - More than 1300 Frames oi anfmation - ~ One or two player mode - A Booklet with the htstlry and rules oi bosting - - Keyring with mini boxing gloves - and 3 lot more- No surprise that everyone Is enthusiastic about it: TILT HIT in France, SMASH GOLDMEDAL in 6er- 1 many .,. a great simufation Now available for Amlgi soon out on Atari ST, €64, Amslraif and Spectrum SKATE OF THE ART The crazy game tor all Skateboard tans Out on the Amiga trom mid July. Don t miss it., OtsMiuied Ely SOmVAHESyCCESS MARKETING LTD Alban House 243 White Pit lane Rackwellheatti Nr High Wycombe Byckingham shire HP10 9HR UNEL Products MERIMFElt Ltd Am Sohragen Weg 2, 9490 Vaduz Principality of Liechtenstein Tel: 01041 75 283 68 Fajc 01041 75 206 5e Reviews Domark's Btintl licence is revoked 1 ^ , Til km 41 -^i^S^ >. ^ F :■::;:. b;ii;. ■„jr-;-.^:,. ::.'o^3n the failed George Lazenby and eyebfow-twrtch- ir>g Roger Moore. to the fresh-faced Timothy Dalton. Bond <n the movies has, always been eJegant. intelligent. madTo. womanising and very Britt&h. This, despite the Scottish Connery, American Laienby and Irish Daflon. The computer game translations of the 007 films {A Viaw To A Kill. The Living Daylights and Live And Let Die) have t»een less consistent, In both design and execution, but nc3w Domark are set to change all that with Licence To KUt. Operating independently from Her Majesty s Secret Service, Bond has a score to settle with notorious big-tirDe drug smug- gler Sanchez — this time it's personal. In the first scene Bond is piloting a hdi- copter. aided by US Inend Felix Leiter. dodg- ing buildings and bullets to shoot oul the gun emplacements which protect Sanchez's home in Cray Cay. This is similar to stage one of Thun^f Blade, bui withoirt the multi- layer 3-D buildings. TlTen, pursuing the smi>ggleT on foot, gun- ttfting Bond runs, Comms/jcfo- style up iha screen, collectirtg ammo to replace that used on the Sanchez henchmen and land vehides, Picked op by Felix in tne ctipter. Bond dangles from a rope in an attempt to grab onto the tad ol Sanchez's light aircraft and climb aboard. f^T. rrupting a smuggling transactfon in ii-it^rib two. Bood has to escape from boats and divers Bond must swim under the sur- face to avoid the boats' tire — wtlh a knile as hts only \Areapon against divers. Cottecting dr\>g caches are a mild consola- tion tor his predicament. Once the drop seaplane arrives, 007 hooks onto r| with a harpoon and waters^is barefoot behind it While making his way tQvirard the plane. Bond has to swing rrom side to Side to avoid the catamarans intent LICENCE TO KILL Domark Top two: bombing Cray C^y and Cessna hooking (ST). L^n: water skiing behind tha f>lan» (Amiga}, and, atove, the tanker tinato (Amigaf on hjs capture. A leap forward in tirrte for the third and flnait scfine: Bond has destroyed Sanchez's drug tactory but the smuggler has evaded him yet again, Sanchez has taken the lead ol a comvoy of 18-wheeler petrol tankers fitted with drugs Bond is at the back and £19.99 The titte screen shows a great Del ton port rait, apparer>tiy tSigiU^ed, backed By a Interesting rendition of en aJler- natlve Bond theme, strangely using pan-pipes (or similar) as one of the main voices. Ttia graphics are very arcade-liike — Iota o< colour and detail — and scrolling is very smooth, over- ilaid with stylish, fasl-movlng sprites. A few appfopriate. but unoriginal, gun- fire and explosion samples (It's a shanw thvre's no vocal ones) nutch Um gamaptay nicely. must force them oft the road or U^l them out of the way Once all the tankers have been destroyed Bond comes up against the evil SarK^ez — ^kopefulJy for the last time. Determined to improve on the standard of their previous three Bond games,^ Oomarit hiave designed Licence To Kill on a grand scale, with the package consisting of six dif- ferent svb-gamss. Thoogh they're all firmly in the aciioaarcade mokj tfiey follow the fHm quite well, albeit wnh scenes simplified to shoot- em-up and dodge games, htone of the sub-games are partvcujairty good but they're all attractive and playabie in their own r^hl: and when corttbined form an action -packed f>tgh- value produci. Ucenc^ To Kitf is a tun and challengir\g cornputer transiaiion of a lively {as ever] Bond movie, and shouk) be snapped up by anyone who lik^ ^eir games fast and funous, WL £9 99 cass, 14.99 disk £19.99 Barely dtlferent Irom the Amiga, grap}tllC8 are a little smaller an<l merglnally (ess colourful, end scrolliftg slows down for a momenl occasional- ly, though Ihls Is hardly perceptible within (he game, Sound effects and music are standard ST fare and jolly everything aiotig. A stirring game from Domarlc. With Its &-bit srsphics. the Cwninodore slllt has the prolessionat arcade almosphere, with colourful and well-drawn backgrounds and sprite*. The buildings of scene one, part two» being particularly good. The man ^Sprites in this stage of the game are |reminiscent of those from Sensible Software's Parallax — compliment enough — and scrolling, as with every sceoe. is smooth, Spdtea move around quickly and neatly, effecia are loud and lively, and Licenoe To Kill proves itself (o be a great Bond game. OTHER FORMATS PC (£24 99). Spectrum end Amstrad {(XA prices} should also be out now. 100 TGMTX02 1:8-89 Hi -ho, hi -ho, it's off to work we go... HIGH STEEL Screen 7 Quikl-'n'-dodge games hark bach from Ihe earfffif days of computer games, boi there's be-en so litHe ftiade of them in recent times that High Ste^t — which is one — appears quit© Iresh. Your pb of oonstruct- mg bui Wings, each of a repuifed number ot floors. IS made ditticult by sites infested wittn all manner of cuddly but dtsruptive mon- sters artd further still by a time limil imposed by the coritractcH; A friendly cran« lowers both girders afKf floor Bagments onto a pre-buin base. Tfte vefticai girders are picked up and locke(irH to place 041 a dear piece of base segment and then they can be dimbed to place a floor segment on lop followed by a segment to either stde. Al (east two girders arid five connected segmertts are needed to make lipatkxx. Small bouncy gremlins unloch segrrNsnts afkd stun you if ttiey land on you; ttiay also drop bricks and slippery banana skins. Mothers artd crawlers have different move- mem patterns, but both are fatal to the touch and killed by throwing spanners at them. Spitters grow out of girders and are fatat, but the acid glotJuEes they ^t aren't so dangerous, Energy lost to gren^lins. britcks. banana skins and globules can be restored by coi^ letting sandwiches and Thermos flasks. Thefes no mo'f to M (han pickir^ things Old-slyl9 ganw end graphics proves pinyjbfo on ttfc Amiga fig. 99 ^^^ The well drawn title screen (a con- struction worker looking distraught on a girder) is twcked by a basic mono- phonic ditty. Sonics Improve in the game itself, but graphics become quite simple. Though short on colour, (be sprites' style, complete with black out- Nr>e. makes them very carioon-like. Animation Is merely average, but the characters move in an amusing way titling to their jokey definition. Backgroijr>d8 ere either non-existent or crude outtines of buiidings and skyscrapers, sometimes with thickly drawn detair. SiK>t effects are a mix- ture of ftttjng samples, from loud, clumpy footsteps to tweeting birds as stars revolve around the buttder's head. up from one place and pi/Tling them down elsewhere, while avoidi^ nasties, but the simple fun can tie qurte al:>sorbing. Unfortunately Iheres always a pite of seg- ments at the Stan of a level, preventing a girder from being locked Itiere. and just as you shift a segment, more oHen than not the crane puts a new segmenl right back in Its place I Frustration may soon develop, from tfw Inendly bul capricious crane aS much as the monsters and time limit, so thai it com bats the jnvofving and playable etements of Itie game. Probably best avoided uniess the gamep4ay particuiarly appeals to you WL OTHER FORMATS Atari ST (Cld.9d), PC (t24.9d{ and €64 (caes E9.99, disk Et4 99) by the end ol Juty. Spectrum and Amstrad {C64 prices) to (oUow, 1 s!/^/i£*i£Wi Conimoifor«P/l2& GREMttN GRAPHICS V:9.9i cass, El 4.99 disk Spwtmm 80% — TGW019. Amstrad C(=^ nrtt — TGMffiJO The graphk^^s are small and bkx^y. whilst the dilficuiiy level posed by enemy ships is painluily high Th© 'jump back a screen wt>en you die" which proved an annoyance on the Spectrum where it came into eMaa on the third level has tieen taken lo a ludicrous degree here where it starts on level one. With this and xenophobic aliens pumping biitiels into your craft your first few ^an^s are very short Machine update SO'^^b ^ !^ " ' ' 1 ! _^--. r5<r^ T* C)«1ir<Cni • s i^^^W ATARI ST Skyfox II ELECTRONIC ARTS £9.99 Commdgre 64 e&% - rGM004, PC 77% — TQM0&9 Just over a year after the 3-D aerial blasier (ammsd onto the C64, ST own- ers can battle the despicable Xenophoties at a (for the ST) budget price. There are plenty ol opportunities to slaughter ttie enemy in the ten m^ skins available. But pott\ap$^ too much time has slipped past, tot &adty Skyfox tt dKJn t thrill us a great deal — perhaps the game type is getting a little long in the tooth. At ten quid this may give Star R&it^^rs lans a happy few hours, but long term playab^lity is lacking, mm Colossus Chess 1 CDS U4.»3 ST%-^TQMCS0 Nothing much to add to the ST review of last month, Since appear ar>ce arxJ playing are kiantical, swept to reapeat that CDS have provided probably the very best computer cfwss game of the moment, with a manual kind enough to take chess tyros through the early stages. Machin« update SSP^i^ TGM TX02t;9-89tO1 RBvlews Rock 'artt robotics XYBOTS Tengen/Oomark Way back in TQM003 (February 66. where Pfatoon was the top re^i^iawed game), our then'resi* dent arcade expert Robi.n mad scienl(^' Hogg @nthj$ed in nng- <ng Wessfi tones over ihis high tech maze game (is laheo a long lime in the conver- sion but now, lollowing anticipation, DomarK have come up ^ith the goods, It s hardly a dazzitng aixl in-depth ph>i, though an army of fobots and cytjorgs caJied tt>e Xybots have invaded a nearby moofi and constructed a vast, nvuttilevel base The heroes. Major Roc* Hardy and Captain Ace Gunn (trying to itve down itioir parents* herrencious taste in names), have volunteered to mtiJtraie the base and eliminate the Master Xybols, thus trans- forming the Xyt^ots into an unorgani&ed rabble and preventing system-wide iriva- sion Designed as a two-player game, a sin- gle person can select a chafacter and ptay on itieir own. The screen is spilt into tlire« main parts. The upper half gives the score, lives, bonus attributes arnd so on for both players, ptus a map of th« maze level. The lower half is divided vertically, tooth seciions independently showing a 3- D isometTK; view of the nrtaze-iike corridors from behind the appropriate player charac- ter. Rock and or Ace move (arvd slide strangely) around the maie and can shift their viewpoint through 90 degrees A standard blaster takes care of tt>e Xybots (some more easily than others] and a Um- Jted-energy Zapper can freeze ihem for a wtiile: damage taken from then^ is restored by collecting pods Keys open up previ- PLAYER ously inaccessible areas. In between levels, extra equJipmient is bought with coins p<K;keted from the corri- dor floors (the lift apparently doubling as an international armoury). Increased shot speed and power, laser cannons, guard monitor lor the map, e)ttra speed, stronger armour and increased Zapper energy can all be acquired if you have the necessary cash. At intervals tietween the ever more diffi- cult and complex mazes, a due] with a Master Zybot is a tough and unpleasant experience Not bealir>g around the bush. Domark have produced a highiy accurate conversion of a playable coin-op. The game is approximately a 3D Gauntlet {but adds^ the futuristic robot- blasting of oldie Tough men Maior Rock HArdy and CapTairt Ace Gunn h^we 9 flno 0(kl time, each In ttielr own screen on the 3T, above. Spectrum, below, and Amiga, right. The Amstrad screens look very similar to those on the SpActrMm w«r«lon Befzark). with the advantage in the two- player version that you can both do what- ever you like rather than the reslrrcftve fol- lowing ol one another — although team work can provide fun itsell The 3-0 environment adds tension amd realism to the rniii;e game rormai; Gauntlet was exciting but being able to £9.99 cass, £14,99 disk Monochrome has been thoughttulty used to differentiate the player areas — Rock's In while and bfue, Ace's white and red They and the rot>ots move about neatly and the coin -op's section-by -section update means the conversion isrt't a strain for the Spectrum. The controls need getting used lo- and very average aound won't set the world on flre, but It's 9 pretty nffty conversion a1 that. RED HEAT Ocean 0rnie Schwarzeneggers ba<* as CaptaJn Ivan Danko, a top Hussian cop teamed with his American aqurvafeflt to track down Viktor RosiaviJi. a Soviet at ihe head of an intemaikinal doig ring. The Yartkee cxip doesn't take pan m ttiie game, it's just you oontrolting Amie 9^ his musctes through four tevels. Beginning in 1 Russian sauna, his upper torso fie* ttifough scrolling screens, punching and headbutting cnmmals and dUK*ing their bbws. A gun ar>d ammo can be coHected but are best spared for the toughest thygs. The game progresses 10 a hospital, then a. hotel, and finally a goods yard wfvere Rostaviti is itxind. Each levef has a sub- game, from a nxH-crushirig wag^e in level one to a $l^ioot-out scene where gangsters appear une)(pectedly Irom t>ehtnd cbsad 102 TGM TX021 :8'e9 doors. That, as they say, Ib all there \£ to Jl ... Red Heat is a simpJe beai-'em-up. Reading the instructions, the very real limi- tations n'lake themselves known: a tnem two offensive rnoves and one defensive severely limit control freedom In playing, it's a case of crawling along each level KO'ing villains with the same joystick move — not exactly designed lo mstil wiki excrie- ment. The sub-games ftd^ a little but only ts^ up a small amount of piaying time. It's a tough game; even picking up energy capsules, positioned at intervals through each level, two or three screen lengths are the limit for a beginner. Certainly, practice £8,99 cass. £14.99 disk Monochrome has been taken a bit too far — black and white lor the whole screen — but there s plenty ot atten- tion to graphic detail, bar the odd plain wall or skyline. Arnie and the bad guys ore semf-caricatures of real people end are almost cartoon- like. S9& who and what was goiriQ to attack you, and when, provided no surprises. Though it's clich6d in coricept ar>d fairly Sifttpia m SKecuikin, Xybots generates a £19.99 ArUAlST ^ 85% In the arcades Xybots wasn't exactly amazing visualty; neittier's the ST con- vefsion. Walls have few coloLrrs and darkefi uti realistically as they recede, and the maie is updated section by section . The Ace and Rock sprites are very nicely done, though: nol over- whelmmg in colour but with an am us- ing matily swaggsf as they jog atong. The Xybols themselves aren't so endearing but are certainly ad&quale. Spot effects are warbles, bleeps and btasts and title music grumbles along Placability is what countSr though, and wtven the mlldy aiwlcward controls have been mastered, Xybots has bags of ihis. alkmrs greater progress through the game but rto tncentrve is giv&rt for the effort that requiffis. Only tseat-'am-op addicts need apply. WL A marginal Improvement over the ST graphically — more shades are used In the corridors and ttie look Is smoother overall. When few charac- ters are on the screen the Amiga Is noticflably faster than the Atari, but vrith a few Xybots on-screen it slows considerably, though thankfully not enough to spoil gameplay. Spot effects are sampled and add a loud, lively arcade atmosphere — particularty the vocoded Intruder alert!' good atmosphere and its gameplay ib addictive, it s a bit tricky (sometsmes trus- tiaiingSy soj but it's the sort of direct action which has you coming back again and again. Sven it you're no Gunn or Hardy, go and grab hold of this — before the XytMts grab you! WL £;9.9g cass. 50% £9.99 cass, £14.99 disk The graphics (plcluredh wflh a long cinematic strip, against which real Is* tic, muscular men move. limpreSs. and the restricted colour palette has been used well to shade the sprites. The very average backdrops scroll stowly by and It's infuriating to be sent back to the start when a life is {osl. OTHER FORMATS Alari ST (£19.^) and Amslrad (C&4 prices) avaitabie as you read thts. Amiga (£24,99) to follow. 99 disk Disappointingly similar to th«i Spectrum *n terms of colour restric- tion. Black corridors are patrolled by stngle-colour robots and explored by likewise plain Rock and Ace — it's a g.reat shame Mode 2 wasn't used. Though definition is good enough, the two adventurers hobble along the block-scroll corhdors as if deformed (or at least with blistered feet), Sound effects and title music are the usual CPC coifeclion of drones and l^eiches. but Us the control response that's thfs version s Achflles heel. Sometimes the hero turns when you don't want him to and at others he WON T turn when you DO want hfm to. Luckily, ptay ability si ill comes lf>rough. OTHER FORMATS ^ PC {£19.99) and Commodore &4 (cass £9.99, disk £12.99} were scheduled fof early JuJy release. mm MicroProse Soccer MICBOPROS6 £24.95 ■iitnrTioooTe aJi 99% — TGMO15. Sooclrum %. ST %. A"-iStrMj • „ — IGMOaO FA rules and Anifencan S!.x-a sjob are the two games featured in this package trom ttie people more accustomed to MACH speeds, sidewinder missiles and nriultimillioriHdollar aeroplanes The Amiga game, trarling t>ehind the other fomnais, is not lardy in its presentation, however, and is just as playable as the others. With all its frills 'n' fun. one o' the best action football ^ames arour>d Maiohin« updal* 80^^ SPECTRUM Kenny Dalgltsh Soccer Manager COGNITO £7.95 casft, £14.95 disk Amiga 64% — TGMOT& Yet another famous footy player has discovered that he can make more money andorsing a computer game than booting a sphericaj air-flTled cow Madder up and down a nicely mown pitch Kenny Oalgiish is the gsnt in question, and ilor the Spectrum) many games of this type have appeared since its birth, but sad to say this one barely manages to mahe ii out of the training camp Machine upiiate 62^4* AMSTRADCPC Silkworm VIRGIN GAMiSXf).9« cass, £14.99 disk Ara'isres" '■iri^ee%— tgmoi7.gs4 75%. Speclcum ??% — TOM0£0 Tfw Amstrad version of SUkwotm is oolourfuL hectto and very tough Okay tf>ere are times when itm action slows down to 3 pace thai a snaft could man- aige. but on the wtKnle it's saiisfyingly- isst Bnd fuhous, making this ar>othier quality version of a hiigihfy enjoyable same Machine uf»dste 79*^ iiifii.fijii nt.tn iiriutMi im H,. vitt utiui:- ^ E^l ^m-^-^' ® © IHHi wmrnm^ tit p. - p. unuK ni TGM TX021:8'fl9l03 Reviews iNuiu, ten, never sleep again. PHO Imageworics For a complete reversal Of the usual role of shoot 'efTT-up piot' characters. tti« Galactic Errtpieror in Phi^a i& a good guy. And fi^'s altowad hlmseli IQ be caplurfltd by someone wUh the ludicrous name of Phobos — so he musi be a bit dirri, too Natch, you re the one who must save tfie Emperor. He's being heW m the sun a1 Itie heart ol Phobos home system (a physical impossi b^ity but we didnl write llie plot), a. location far too hoi iof your humble one man ship. Parts of a protective st>ie]d are he4d on nir>e of the planets orbiting the sun. Collecting all of these prevents your ship from becoming a tump of molten metal arid plastic as soon as il gets within a few hundred thousand miles of the sun. Before the game gets underviray, a pianet 10 be taci^led is seiecled from a networ)^ ol 15 You're m for a shock on each horizon tally-scroll tng planet/levsl as the nasties mmmmmm^^i^'^^^m M^^' ^r^9^9ff^9 \ ^^9 ^^< --*;< ** ^9^^^r^r^i^^rw^ 1 'm^m^^m^ TfttTitrrit i< k [1:1 and landscape features are all based oo ptwbias {now the reason behind the game titfa becomes clear), Spiders. snaKes, decapitation, dentists' chairs(iK all manriec of vife creatures; the stuff ttvat nightmares are nriade of. As well as your average laser canrxxi, blasted bad 9uys leave behind icons to b& cxMeaaA for the ubiquitous add on devices: h»ph-pQwer engines, bombs and ext^a lasers. The ^od news is there is also a drone ship. The bad news is that, unlike those in most st>oot -em-ups, it's as vulner abie as you are. Arid with Phcbia't difficulty lovei in mir>d. itiat's an ertremely unsafe sHuation to be in. It has to be said that it's a loughy {some lime's maldng Sartxton: The Spectrum fimtix kxA raitief tamalj. with many arxJ diverse enemy spfites swarming towart^ you while awitward scenery, often with arii mated elements, restricts your flight possi bWkM, WMft gamepiay has all been seen before, the design of ttw levels and their sprites are inost ur^usual inspiration strud^ £19.99 Naturally. 16-bii pixels allow both greater detail and more colour to define the pHobla&. but unfortunately not enough has been mede q^ them to make the graphics es horrific as they CQutd be. Sc: rotting Is smooth, but rather than being in parailax the bach- ground pattern flows lowefd the cetitre of the screen, almost as If the ship Is moving away from the background. Phobta also allows hi-res mode to b« switched on so that the playing area Is compressed into a small area In the centre of the scfeen, a la Dragon s Lair. This makos playing flddfy but is good for showing off to non-Amiga owneral With adequate sound and dl^flculty a lltlts lower than the 64, Phobia ie a great blaster on bolti Commodore machines. tViitr Crowth6f'$ graphics worHdna bmttar on the CG4 (top) than the Artitga (ibov9 ^rni !eU}. Phobia 's a game m^te fft>m th0 stuff ot nightmares veteran programmer Tony Crowrther when he decidad to base the games leveis on fears ar»d nightmares Phobias levels range from the bizarre to the sun'ealistic — you're not I lately to have seen a game Itke this before and ft's its wetni graphic desagn which heips keep you playing ExperienHijed shoot 'emup players will warm greatly to Phobia, a game wiwe your worst nightmares re^)pear as greai sprite- Wasting dreams. WL I £8.99 80% £12.99 disk Typicelty lor Crowther, graphics are bright and colourfgf: f>ere originaf eme- mies and upper lower background graphics ate supptemenled by smooth mulfi iayer parallax scrolling. Definition Is on the blocky side in ptai::es but nothing's acluaify bad. Spot effects are unspectacular but mesh ^n well with the action, ar»d the syncopat- ed beat on the title pages Is sirangelv comfwlllng. OTHER FORMATS TTie ST version (£19.99} wifl be released soon and is sure to t>e dose in appearance to the smooth AmJ||i. T04 TGM TX021 ;8-89 CAPTAIN Wfm A S£VBR£P£RSQ^AUry f^OBLSM fS TRme TOOBSTRoy AU WE GAMBS SaFTVIARS' n^i *- O^ ^OLP it RIGHT THERE jSCRBWBAUi DESTROYER y WANNA PLAY SAME£ SaChfERSj HAWfHAWfHAWf NO MORE FUN MEATHEAP^/ 'S6^/. r . a\ >'■ f/i 1] CAPTAfNUGHT m%% YOU BRAINLESS WiMF/ SOfTWASA^/T BeiowwesELz WHOCARESF ONLY TROUBLE fS, HE'S PESTROYEPALU TUE SAMES SOFTWARE. HEY, WAiTA SECONP THERE MiGHT 00 ONE SUMMER OF HOPE. , . <^0*W^ LtMtdanWIMiAB ^\ Mom* 1 fNClOSI ft 0€OUi/F0StAl OMOEI . Undv Vi trA fd b* Ddlm«l«d «n Nit L ^ 2ftt, 3Mt ond 29#i S t tH ii iM ii w *m« ftw*MMtv4«arv Undv Wi lOiH CREDIT aRD HOTLINE: 01-741 BW SWITCHED ON FOR LEISURE The P^ionai Computet Show <i presented by A?f jotioJ Ccwiipufw Wottd Mogo/iw o VM U publtccition Orgonpsfrs WnnfhuiW t(d ff MorKh«lef Square, tondbf> WlM 5Afl # ^A ^ I o ^i^ } ■~T i1 ^ neratjon ade Action AMIGA -£24.99 ATARI ST- £24.99 IIMPRESSIONS Mail Order: please send cheque to: 6. Dykewood Close. Bexley. Kent DAS 2JN I'retty in pink SKWEEK Lorld0ls/US Gold Skweez Land was once a peaceful and pleasant world... ThaVi along came Pitark. an evil villain if ever thefs was one, With his accom- plices — Ihe Skartfs and Ihe Schrkofeuls — ^ Pitartt infecied Skwee; Land hi a dar>geroys, blue skweeticide. lordng •^ SKweez&E to flee their planet and sei up home on Reluznoid- Many years later Ptiark and his not-so- merry followers died off. bi/t the Skweezes lltes in an atlempt to turn them pinh again. Th$ Sk9rk$ come in various guises: includ- ing small furry bundles, gtvostiike crea- tures, and some even donning trats. Watch yo<i don't toucti or>0 of them or Fall diowr^ a (rap; doinq Itiis fssuHs in a toss of life {as well as face]. FaWng oft ihe edge of piai- forms Of failing to beat tt^e timer also results in death, Sitwe-ei^ s not totally detenceless, though. He's comes armed vvith an infinite supply ot lur baJJs to throw at hm opp<ressors, Vou c^n also pick up bonus objects, tties© inctude: power up weapons, shields, shoes (to stop you sliding on )c») and teddy bears (ootiiQct atl four and you wilt be awarded five extra lives and get warped to the ne^t continent) There are also BOOM tiles; the green ones act as smart lx>mbs. but b^ue tiles disinie grate a ring of tttes around you. And. don't sUfi remembered their ncmefand and vowed to return. However, the 99 continents tttat make up SHweez'Land are still infected and it needs one txave voJunleer to decontaminate them. This is wtwre Skweek comes in. But the SItarks haven't complieie^ lorgotten their battles, so getting around the pjaoe is goir^ to prove a mite difficult for our cuddly {r»end. You Stan the game on a platform far above ti>0 ground, and nnusi run over all the £19.99 Acceptable ST title Iraek, although too repetitive, with many In^ame effects- Graphics are very colourful, with smooth scrolting and animation. Attractive screen ttackgrounds 3nd tore- ground graphics speak of » game wtnch 4oesn't rsfy on violence tot effect forget, your pals are countirig on you. Its nkij© to see a game thai doesn't con- tain loo much violence. The main character walks around ttie mazes in a highly amus- ing fashion, with some very weird baddies chasing him, Although instantly attractive, the addictive may not last too long for older teenage ptavers. MC £9.99 cass. AMSTFtAD £14.99 disk £19.99 Looking exacdy ttw samt Aft ttw ST version, Amiga Shwoek ta only aonlcail- ty Improved. Out goes the scroitlng. replaced by the more anrioymg flick screen tachnique (yoit'we no idea what s coming). How iw , (he Mode 2 garish colours &tm 9V0n more annoying. Sound is almifar to the ST — not very good. OTHER FORMATS A PC version priced £:fd,99 isavaMabte IKiw. C64 and Spectrum versions are not expected at this time. AMSTRAD CPC ■ SPECTRUM The Games — Summer Edition EPYX Spectrum ZB.m case, CI 2.99 4tElK; CPC £9.99 ca««, ti4.m disk <^i 66%, PC 76% - TGMO 1 3 On both formats the game is very playable, the Amstrad version is the most colourful of the two {though the Speccy isn't all monochromatk:). The list of sports games itiat have appeared over the years is almost too long to read, but Epyx are still producing Ihem. and very wetl loo. Machlrts updal*: Spactnim T3^*a Amatrad CPO 7t% COMMODOUE &4/128 Spherical RAINBOW ARTS £9.99 casa, £12.99 disk Aisjri S r 73% — TGM020 The wizard with the i^at is back {but he hasn't brought his dad). Sphertc^iori the C6^ IS graphically good with soimd to match. Playabidty is high, mainly because a lot of thought is needed to escape, so if you lii<e piatform shoot/collect-'ern up games talcB' a (ook. •teeMfka updat* 74^ ATARI ST ■ PC Circus Attract tons GOLDEN GOBLINS RAINBOW ARTS El9Jft Cwrmodof* 64 67% — TGMOZO Automaficalty sensir^ EGA or GGA, the PC version of Circus Attractions is defi- nitflly attractiva — on either version, wilb tf^e ST looking stmilar to the EGA Both versions fvave good soundtracks, and both are as difficuii as the 064 ver- sion — tough, The fun elemenis are all still there, maic^ Circus Attractions a muHievent extravaganza on all ver- Esons Machirt« LlpdBt«: PC 83*=^ AUH 5T aSS^ TGful TX021:8'89T07 ot*7 J^ j' • U\/ i-li.m [Kit and pjckini! AMIGA 500 PLUS DISK DRIVE AMIGA 500 + 1084S [n!»lnjciion Manuals. EKlra tJi^k, \\nrkt>cnfh 13. CTITDIT/^/ The Very First Tutorial , T, V , Mottulaiar, Photon U> 1 IjKIjU/ PainL Mouse PLUS additional Amiga Compatible /^/\f /^TIIJ HJH^MfTrtD Disk Drive and m Blank Disks. 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Receiving muNipie blowa to the t and body isn't a plaasant exptrrt ence — boxing isn't the sort of sport TO take up on a whim, as Line^ advise in their packaging. Producing an accurate boxing game so that compulor owrters can enjo^ the spoft without \h& bruises is also sometl^tng the Swiss sott- ware bouse doesn't take ffghtlir: The ChBTTp is endorsed by the prestigious WofW BoKing Council and the Rod*y il^me music is officially licensed I Once your nanw ha& been entered, either Iromi th© keyboard or — if youVe played before — from a disk holding the name and its associated records, you are launched irito a match. If tf^ts is your first 9ame under thai paniojlar name. yov1l find yotirseM in a seedy alleyway — ^though. Strangely, three-minute rourt^ aie still used, marked by a mysterious unseen 1^11. In the beat- em -up tradition, joy slide moves, with or without the fire button, pro- duce delensive, oftonsive or lateral rrwves. Energy bars tor both boxers are suppfe- rnented by a round timer and points, award- ed for winning rounds, knocking down 1h& opponent, and so on. ^ iHopefutty your fists won't go unnoticed for )ong and a tramer wiii adopt you. The first frufts of this are tt^ use of a gym. Upward slick moves make you jump whili^ skipping, but mistimimg spends you sprawl ir^ in a tangte Of rope. The trainer shows him$eH fof the sandsack. He punches llie sack in combinations of different blows, than lets you repeal the sequence. A cor- rectly copied blow is shown by a blue light. WTorig by a red. Left and right stick moves are made In time with your graphic fists professional matches, with a proper rJr>g anA poitly referee, follow, allowing pnDgress up (he world rankings, Ttie ranking table can be viewed or reset in-between bouts, and & high score table called up. Eventually, with many fights under your belt, you may find yourself numtier one THE CHAMP Linel contender and gel a shoi ai being World Champ. Getting to that championship fight Is a lot sasber than you'd imagine. First bouts mB often ridiculously easy — hali-a-dozen killer pur'iches {as the manual calls them) and your opponent s fiat out on the floor, He instantly springs back up but then one or two killers' flatten htm again. This goes on, the iToxer sometimes being knodced over a dozen limes in the same round, until he ory test and skipping seems lo trip you up when the computer feels like ii. The Champ is enjoyable in as much as the masochistic knock-down, spring- up tx>xers and sometimes silly movements of tfie sprites are laughable ai first. Ultimately, playing is a boring: s'ug-out, the two^ayer one-on-one bemg httie improvemeni over the computer's championship. Something of a self-inflicted KO lor Linel? wu finally runs oul Of energy: a trifle unrealistk:. ( think you'll agree I Once on the prolesslonal circuit things toughen up and some skill is required, but even tf>en tf>e computer doesn't put up much of a fi^ht (sorry) and a little luck is all yourwed. The training events' are nofriing to write home about, although the punchbag ta quHe tun. Sandsack Is more a Simon mam- Eia.M Tfie Introductory sequence wtiere A boxing MC announces the game Itien The Champ logo appears, acciimpA- nied by (h# Rc^y theme, Is probably tha best pari of the game. Oe spile flat faces, (he boirers look okay and are weii-anintated — despite their sirange felled-tree falling movement, stranger knock*ovef recovery and downright stupid victory jump. The ref is a Jolly round fella who walks sideways and whose cries of 'Boxf . Break!' and knock-out counts are cteanly dlgtNted. There are also some sampled grunta and on»>ns but fo« some reason there's ahirays the (extremely repeti- tive) sound of machinery in the back- ground and an occasional dog bark of « car horn. OTHEn VERSIONS Atari ST version is planned, afthough no release dale has t>een fixed. 110 TGM 1X021:8-89 It's all in the mind i • 4i ''.V V'*l»"v V m Hewson staroth is the name gtwn to TJw Ange* of Death, And evw since her conception, shes been beni on destroying afl in hw way It « your . fate. ^ the tHave Ozymandids. to entef Ner domain wrthin the catacombs, and contr&rn hsf face to lac© However, youf mina ts not yet pf&pared tor such an encounter On your travel you must pick up nine mind poweis wtiich are to be found in targe bei tars (see box). With tt>ese you can bflMle. ce« lor orfl, againsi the Angel of Death. Astaroths vicious minions patrol tt>e dank caves Waich out lof Jmpaders, Bludgeon Beasts, Harp»es and Tortufed Souls {Ihe remains ol p-revioys adventurous souls lihe yourself). Until you cofteci a m^nd power, its best to avoid them (unless you approve of ttie brain drain! ^ Jump the prolilerating traps, and keep kx>K>ng tor mind powgfs thai will gel you past ice and stone walls, acid drops, and axes and spears which si&a idrop from the oeUmS' Once past all ^se obstacles, your nine mind powrers really come into use as you (ace ypu Final otisiacie -- Asianotti Its mind againsi mind, so keep your wiis aboui you, As^oth »s certatnly a tough game to play, the enemie* take their jote very sen- ously and its often very hard to get goirrg (even alter a few hour^) We were very split on wt>eihef Asiaroit} was original enough to ^ successtui However, everyone agreed it was well programmed and VERY DIFFf* CULT! ^to £24.99 Graphically Astaroih Is terrific, Ozymandles is a very smooth charac- ter, and Asta roth's minions carry out Iheir duties vvilti great zeal. Extremely disappointing soundtrack, trylrtg to be atmMiriwric'. MIND POWERS Telekenesls: Move otj^ects with the power of your mind Pyrokerieilcs; Create fire Telepathy: Read othar people's minds Shape Shifting; The ability to change the shape ot your body Levltatlon: Defying the laws of gravity Transmigration: Hyperspacing Cryokenetics: Freezing objects Night Vision: Seeing in the dark Meditatton' RelaJtiri^ the body and mind to refresh yourself OTHER VERSIONS An Amiga verslion is imminent. Same prtce, same game — same sound) 021 :8-89 11 SOFTWARE SNAX TIME RUNNER Red Rat Sottware ■ Atari ST Price TBA (probatily £19.99) Teezles areni ciangeroas, we're lold. but They are small, yellow, very ugly and very, very misdiievous. A gang of them liave escaped from ihelr cages and are now hav ing a good lirr>e in the Tirrve GOffidOfS {which means troubles lor everyone else) Enter stage left the very unJIke^ hero ol TTme Runner, Captain Crumble — «x-star fighter pilot wIto keeps the Time Corridors bdy in Ws capacity as Janitor. Pausing only to don a jei pack, grab his trusty sonic smasher and a Teezle trap, the good Captain heads into battle. There are SIX Teezles to capture on each level, but the danizens of rhis netherworid aren't too chuffed at his actions, so as he zipps afour>d the various rooms and corridors of the Time Zones, ghosts, shulls, skeletons and a host of nasty creatures belt him in an attempt lo knock down his energy meter But whether Captain Crumb^ sav^g the Time Coffido<s from the rampaging Teezles is a matter o1 how long you can stand play- ing ttus slMfHndudng game. Graphicairy limis Huraneris good, but the whole shoot ing match Is brought to a grinding halt by impossibiie character control. Some of the gaps Crumble has to squeeze through (without touchir>g} are ridiculous, and the anr>ount of baddies chasii^ him give Irttle chance to surviva their onslaughts. |l«chin« rating A^*^ G.NIUS fnfogrames ■ Atari ST £19.95 Ahh this IS the lite, sitting with a can of oil courrting the robosheep as they leap over the laser mesh fence. Oh sofry I was just dozing off there, I am G.oius the robocom- mander of this interstellar cargo ship on its way to trade with alien civilisations, What was thtat?. H $oun(ied like an Acturan Mega-€lephant breakdancing, Oh dear it was worse. A huge asteroid has honourable thing and leg it before the damn thir^ goes BCOV^ Ur>forturtately various Obstades stand between rrve and freedom — the maintainance robots ft instance, they were quite friendly little chaps yesterday. Thay obviously suflered a nasty bang on ^e t»nce in the cfash because they se«m more intent on des^royir^g me tfian filing the ship. Extra energy, shields and amrrx} can be collected by destroying the mamtainance robots, tNJt sunwal is the main considera tjon so I C^n't stand and rtatter any longer as the ship's about to disintegrate. | G fifus- is admittedly rattier confusing at | |l sma;iii*.fd into the side of tfw ship, so 1 have programmed the auto pilot to take us to the r»aresi pfanet for repairs Ah. here we are Looks a bit of a dunnp. Never mind, we can't be c^ioosers I sup- pose. We're coming in too fast, lire the retro rociutG you fool... Well were down I sup- ptiM, let's have a teok at the damage. The ship s too badly bashed about to do wtyS^ about U, %a I'm Qoing to do tfia limes (although mappers amor^g you will be annoyed to dtscover ^iai putting pen to paper is useless because tf>e room layoum change from gan^ to game). But a little practic» soon sets our robo hero on the right path to freedom A game worth corv siidering if you kke blasting j^mes requinng a bit qI thojght, MAcMfw nrtlnt 73*9^ BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST RODEO GAMES TYNESOrr £24.95 « Atari ST This is the gamie that soris out the men from ttie boy 5- Take part ifi Buftak> Bill's own antfKJfogy of wild west tough tests. Six eiv»nis must be successfully eKOCUied. and ytNir reward being that of fanw and glory, Old a high score! KNIFE THROWiroa You face your beautHul ass'stanl revolving on a target. By throwirtg kmves at her you 112 TGM 1X021:8-89 iijji r94 tCKCi BBHIBPI Obtain points. Ttie nearer you throw, (he higher your score. (Hitting tier results m her death — obvtousiyf) THICK SHOOTING Consisting o! two sections. Trick SfXKiting first sees you shooting targets as they pop up from the ground. Avoid hitting innocent bystarders as they deduct points The sec ond part is much iMa dangerous as you shoot tlying iDotHes thrawn Inb the air by a (now male) assistant, BRONCO RIDINQ Here your reputation as a rootin toottn cowboy is at stake, so take ahoki of what nerve you have left and leap onto the ■■ tjack How on lor dear life, as Bie _; ,.^' Throws you all over the place SUPER SCRAMBLE SIMULATOR Gremlin Graphics ■ Spectrum, Commodore 64 C9.d9 cass, £14.99 tfish No, thts isnt a computer reproduction of a s«qu&l 10 an tnfamous bomb and laser scrolling shoot-'&nnLip (and H c^nainly i^n't frofn Co<Je Masters), but a sim of cross country niotorcyde trials. Its undoubtedly irispiredby BBC TVs K(Cfr5fart programme (tTosted by hairy Dave Uee Travis), espe- cially as It was created by Stiatin Souttiem. author ol C64 Kik Start and Kik Start U. As this is a computer game, the oompeti- tion you are taking part in is Itie uitiitiate ctialieng^ {it always is). IS testing courses — arranged into five sets of Itiree — await you. with nasty steep slopes and otistactes sucfi as bga. cars, water hazards and lor- ries. A plan view ot fhe current section oi Vhe current course is displayed toward the tioflom ot the screen. Each course is against a time timit so care should to be taken to avoid stalling , Precious secxMxls are also tost if the b*e laryJs iincorrectly from a jump. Immediately itiis is seen as a(nother) sequeJ lo Ktk Start same sport, same view- point, Ttiere is in fact less vahety of obsta- des than m K^ Start II and there's no con- struction kit. The ability to steer left and right has been added — though this has tinle etfecl — and Its a simulation in as much as it's possible to stall ttie bike, and laiKling incorrectly can damage suspension. The benelifs ol this dep>ends on your potnt of view. The game isn't all-out race and jump [it would be a )ott and a shudder if you inedj but the restraint of driving the bike carefully and properly can have its own rewards On the Amstrad the biker hunches over tils small-wh^ed cycle and trundles along a juddery-scrolling course. Detail is ade- quate if a intle sparing, but piay elements {bike, rider, scenery) are each in two colours — tieTter than monochrome but fair ly btand. A boppy numi^r plays qn the title screens but In- game sound Is the usual engine drone. In a similar awk^ ward position, the Spectrum rider and whole playing a^ea are in the same two colours, but scrolling is smooth ar>d anima- tion IS quite realistic in the way the biker bobs around as he passes Over obstacles and bumps. Jingles (usually of condo- lence) break the silence. A bit btodty and wfiite on the C64, itie bike and its rider are adequately drawn, and thougfi the oolqurs are gaudy, bushes are well shaded, Scrdting's fine but the title music drones on — though not in sucb an irritating manner as ttie jingles af>d engine noises. Gameplay requires too much discipline — and has too iiffle fun — for miost people, but if the kJea appeais to you. try before you buy. Atari ST and Amiga (El 9.99) ver- sions will loiiow {provided they don't stall, land on their front wtteel, hit an obstacle, run out of time...) Machlf>» ratings: AmMrad 40^!^ ComiTiQdors f»4 5 -I *^ Sp«ctruin 5S*^^ STAGE COACH Once out oi hospiial you hear that the stage coach is t>air>g attacked by indians, so you race to the rescue. Watch out tor ttve lug- gage being ihrown off the coach by a very unobliging mdian, ihen clamber on tK>ard, A good punch in the face is what that darned Indian desen^s, and you must dish out what s due CALF ROPING TaKe your lasso in one hand and aim pre- cisely to get the calf under your control. STEER WRESTLING The tinal event is ttie toughest ot all. Tame ttiat anarchk; animal and become the won- der of ihe west Graphically and sonically Buftak> Bill's Wild West Rodeo Show is very good, especially on the sialic displays between events. Tho50 of you wtio have ever dreamed of being a cowboy shoukj try this game, but watcti out for tftemi varmits. Machine rating 82^^ THE ZZAP! SIZZLERS COLLECTION: VOL I us Gold/ZZAP! ■ Commodore 64. £12.99 cass, £14,99 (]jsk The nammg of this five game oorrpilalion is a little deceptive as our $tsler magazine didn I awan:! Sahmon's Key a Siz^ier. a!tfxM>sh it stilt stands as a great arcade puzzle game As a wi?and. you have to ooi {ect treasure as you make your way through a maze of cav^ns, magical^ form ing and destroying Nocks and avoiding monsters. Impossible Mission H aoain has Agent 4125' @}<plorlng rooms lor clues and codes, avoiding various types ol robot and hoping to preveni Ejvin Atombender from world domlnatk>n. For a more reiaxing time, the sun beats down while competitors p^ay in the siK -event CaiiiorniB Games, involving such pastimes as surfing. Frisbee throwing, and BMX racing, The fantastic play ability ol Capcom's shooting, swinging coin op is reproduced nicety in Btonic Corprrrando, where a cyborg hero must fight through five soldier Infesled levels. Finally, Dropzofre is another misfit — it was awarded a Gold Medal, and rightly so Tl>e jet-packing spnte patrols the suriaceot Mars's moon, lo, saving scientists while lighting oH waves ot aliens. Inspired by coin ops Siargate and Detmder. Dropj[orw is a fast, furious and thoroughly addictive blaster that no ComnKidore owner should be without. This package is good value Just on the strength of Bior^ic CommarMto and Drop^one. but together with the other three high quality games, ZZAPi Siz^lefs is a compilaiion well worth anybody's money Machine rating &A*¥v WL THE CRASH SMASH COLLECTION: VOL I us Gold/CRASH m Spectrum E12.99cass, £17.99 disk Like ZZAFf Stizlers, CRASH Smash&s isn't exactly accurate 720 — the fab Alan skatetx>ard coinop — wasn t a Smash, but it deserves to be here. Bionic Commsrjdo, from the Capcom coin-op, is an extremely addictive plaifarf game. Equipped with your bionic arm, you must climb to the top ot each level m s tx3pe to advance. Great graphics and very playable. Spy HofJtffr, from jhe S^ga ooift-Qp, is a classic not lo be missed. Jump in your car viewed from above, and race through iar 1 and water blasting al) and- sundry. Next comes impossibi^ Misston II More super graphics, with excellieni anirrtattor The game'fi very tough, a real chaltenge icf puzzle fans. And rir^ally we travel to snoA > slopes and prepare for pienty ol wnst acti«» in Wmt&r Games. With a doubts loa(tot on 48K machines, its tough to decide which four of the eight to play. All the games may be old. but they're all real dassics, A super compilation — great value for money, Madilne updat* d2<^ MC TGM 1X021:8-89 113 ■ DAVID CRANE SPEAKS After years of silance, ihe programmer of probably the BEST-SELLING computer game EVER, Ghostbusters, speaks in an exclusive interview to TGM. David Crane talks to us about everything imaginable, plus a few plugs and pictures for his lat- est game entitled Ths Boy and his Btob. An inter- view NOT to be missed... PLUS, in Centre Bytes ■ EMULATION Ever wanted a Macintosh but could only afford an Amiga? Ever wanted the massive software support of the IBM PC without forsaking your STs MIDI ports? Since the dawn of lime, every computer has had its pros and cons but now — thanks to the Centre Bytes investigative team — we solve all those urges to buy another machine by revealing all about the world of emulation. ■ TGM GUIDE TO DIGITISING Without a hint of He'Wra/ser anywhere the Centre Bytes crew take to the TGM Labs for the definitive guide to getting video and TV pictures pixeiated. This month was just the tip of the icetierg... ■ COMPUTER SYSTEMS GUIDE It's back. After many many requests from readers, the TGM Guide to Computers returns. All Ihe specifi- cations on all the popular and not so popular, com- puters available today in the UK. All this, plus the usual up-to^ate news, reviews and previews, and much much more in the next issue of The Games Machine. AT YOUR NEWSAGENT FROM AUGUST 18. EDlTORiAL OFFICE 17 Gfltvifl Mill. LUftW Strops. C-S-'^j '.!.■ -^:^.v: EililQfili Allllllll VryVc- :■ M nffi«r^ji jSAv John tkaHn 4 John Wotxtt PMOOU^TtOM Fe«tuf4« t^ttof. 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