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November 1984 fl^^^^^^^^^V

Vol 3 No 47

Desk-bound
ICL has now launched ils OL ility is hnlied lo a buil!-ui
technology- based One Per speech synlhesisei lo piovide

The machine the first message facility auloitiaacally

device to mcorporaie a corapu- records mcoming daia. OPD
lei and mlelhgent lelephone also feamies a built-in caicu-

available m a numbei ot confi- One Per Desk will b

guranons with the base mode! lable in januaiy.
costing El 195,
One Pet Desk (OPD) has
been developed from a modi- Oiic rights
fied OL and
It, ICL va go to
Tansoft
llbyO ePo-
ULTIMATE'i laleal game for the Spectnun —
Euighl Lore —
3D giaphjca and is available on eaxiette
features impressive
Psion's Xchange suue of so: palii Compulmg Weekly, ^o- priced at £9,95,
twaie IS also available as a
opuon (£160) on a plug-in Roi cros planned for nen

QL
i

carthdge. The company has given e

OPD includes a built-in tele

sel and software

rectory, capable
auro-dial d
marlcanng nghis ol al
pioducts - includuig
mos - IQ Tansoft.
i

{
No. 2
planning to launch
a second OL model in the
spiuig of next yeai.
The machine - pilched running on any or all ol the
slighily up-market from the packages can be tun concur-
ntOL- rently. The exchange of daia
it imll have a redesigned between the four packages is
quicker. Finally, because Ihe
date Psion's Xchange software is provided in five

Som chips (160K in al!) the fuU

I2SE of Ram is available as

buili-m extension ot Ihe The Psion XcJjajtge Roms m

Ihe new QL model will be very
Having Ihe packages bi amulai lo Ihose provided in
m this way oRers a numb ICL's new One Per Desk pro-
ject launched last week (see
packages is simpler and e
they no longer need i The Horn versions are fasiet
kiaded from Microdrive

INSIDE) READERS CHART WKK 2 )(H lANGUACES )

 ^H Sd yoD're hardly stumped
You simply choose your
colours and characters, then
build up' your picture. Just like

any other artist.

^H With 'Art Master' you

again get a choice of 121 colour

^H Sut this time you can

draw whatever shapes you like,

creating your very own high

resolution masterpiece from a
blank screen.
It is even possible to draw

recall a back-up picture -

PKTURE which IS more than you can do

with other graphics programs.

I^H Everyone. Irom the six

YOURSELF ON DL
We're not Lht; only pKOpI^^

Master' and
UiR best computEr graphics
ynu have ever seen.
r old right up to thn
Art Master' and
ti6 ycnr

who think 'Ar-t old, will enfoy

'Picture Builder' are two quite ^H Anywhere. 'Picture Builder.'

exceptional computer graphics ^1 The pictures are drawn ^H Like all of our software,
software programs. using either the keyboard or they have been specifically

WKM Tony and Rolf do, too. a joystick, and can be stared designed to get the best out

^ commodore
Otherwise either tape of CornmodncB hardware.
they'rt neve
Ct SOFTWARE
COMPUTER SOFTWAI disk. That's why you can't

have agreed ) put their With 'Picture Builder' you choose better.

them are presented with a palette ^^M Commodore software;

H
to it

With both 'Art Master' of 151 colour shades Irnare costs no more, even though

and 'Picture Builder' you can than enough for any budding there's more to it.

create full colour pictures on Michaelangelol.

your own TV. screen. ^^ And a collection of

And believe us when we charactersets totalling

say those pictures will match over 250 shapes.

11 euiiiiER ON cnssmi. xni mrstes n CASstnc di :n eii9.

Dh natmd spoclaculiirly

) Presents...
News > Imagine sale

Stai Game > Arcade action in a two-

player game Porter for the Spectrum 48K

julot Micmdealei, John Gibson -

Streetlife > Christina Erskine interfaces with the i

me o! Imaguie'G lop pic Compunel

— has ronred a new ci
^emcn Deaigna ^ Tog Software Reviews > See the film...play the game with
other former Imagine
^ighT
Ghostbusiers> Mysterious adventure in Wrath of Magra
QL Languages > Pascal, BCPL and Lisp foi the Qh appraised
by Adam Denning
Competition > Youi chance to design a
top arcade game . read on!
. .

Commodore 64 > If you have the ques-

[oi Suiclui. They u tions,then Dominick Devhn has the
reponcdii' hefty re answers.
Sincldii being p^d lo
Dragon > Part Two of oui machine-code scrolling routines by
Roger Walton 33
Amstrad > Finish getting organised with Pan Two of Microfile
by Peter Fatten 36
BBC & Electron > BafSed by ballistics? Not after Projectiles by
P Whitehurst 40
Best of the Rest > Letters 7 > Open Forum 44 > Arcade Avenue 44 >
Microtadio 45 > Baud Wald 46 > Book Ends 49 > Music Box 51 > Adventure
Comer 55 > Peek & Poke 37 > Adventure Helpline 65 > Top 10, Diary, Readers
session of puUBiriani iu Titsotvei Chart 66 > New Releases 67 > This Week 67 > Puzzle, Ztggurat, Hackers 70
cy Bill eimed el Tighiening Tt

)Futiiies...
^
Astrocrash next week's slai game on the Commodore 64, ..get rid of the
bugs in the QL Rom

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please
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22-28 NOVEMBER 198*

WILDEST DREAMS
Just a couple of questions for the coxnputei gamer
1. When did you buy your last computer game?
2. How often have you played it?

n 4# t^ ^y 5ii_»,

XI Ar'v-

A?)

Buying software can seem a pretty bad deal when you pay £5.99 for only a couple of
hours play.
Well,now you can visit the Circus, help King Olive in his dungeon, beat the computer
on your Lazei Byke, exploTe deep space, eat your way through a cheese warehouse
and get totally infuriated by the Mazeball. all for less than the price of one new
cassette.

How? well, iE you go down to your Video dealer today, you're in for a big surprise. He
can hire you a Wildest Dream rental cassette lor your Spectrum or Commodore 64,
featuring one of these games, at a very reasonable price (say about one tenth the price
of a good recent game ...)

And its not somebody else's old stock were trying lo hire you. These are all brand new
gameslhalyou'veneverseenbefocein the shops -and you won't see them in the shops
later.

Only through your local Video dealer can you hire W ildest Dreams rental softwar e.

CONTACT:- Chris Kilburn

WILDEST DREAMS
P.O. BOX 84,
COVENTRY.
Tel: (0203) 663085

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 New Acorn pro- Second QL

Operalions Manager ol the fa

led Liveipoo^ba^ed soflwai
company, Imagine, has be«
ducts at Compec lerais)
Xchaage
than the
suites for the
drac-bi
IBM
synthesiser itself costs £199. Apricot and others hec;
ber of new products for its BBC Two languages were on show instead of being written i

of the nem-look Tansoll,

"rve always fell Ihal Ihe Al-
and Electron machine's at this — ISO Pascal, available now, the packages have been h

iros was lei down by lack of year's Compec Show, held last and Logo available m Decem- coded in machine-code
week.
markenng." he commenied
"At £150 with a proper key-
The PliiE 3 add-on for Ihe Qh u expected t

appa-
board u knocks (he socks off
3'v^ch single-sided disc drive rently intends to nrni
the Electron/' His appointment
and interface package, provi- parallel with the present £399
as Tanaofl managing director
ding 3iXIK of storage. The Phis 3
follows a recent shake-up ai
is available now, price £339. An available now. Its long-awaited Ad Tor export, it seems likely
Tansoft wluch saw the depai-
R543Z commuiucabons inter- 33016 33-bit second processor that Sinclair will concentrate its
face for the Electron is also option was also shown. Bun- efforts on the new QL model.
Kakilmann, and the appoint-
planned. dled with five languages - Sinclair may weU launch the
for the BBC micro. Aconi BBC Basic C, Fortran 77. Lisp more expensive OL model in
launched its Music EDO music and Pascal —
the whole Ihe US m the New Tear, in
synlhesiser and optional add- package costs £899 and will be preference to the present ver-
Moderate on music keyboard. The available in early 1985.

turnout Going, going...

still going

rale ciowds but few exhibwors,

show Sinclair was offeiing a

free ZX81 with every OL
bought and by the end was
knocking £20 off Ihe QhS E399

December 10 an
In conn 5[ surpn-

Dragon and Tandy owi

Roscoe Street, I

(051 71)9 4005).

attracted large ciowds.

Adventures for ! Eict I — based Slow start for retailers

CBM64 The mclude software
titles
MAJOR retail chams. bolh in
bastid on Rendezvous wilJi Ra-
the UK and m ihe US are
ma by Arthur C Clarke,
lop science-ficnon authors FalaenhsU 4S! by Ray Bradbu-
Ray Bradbury and Arthur C ry, Dragonword by Preiss and
In the US, sales ol the
Clarke are soon to be available Reaves, Airnzon by Michael
Commodore 64 are apparently
Crichion and Shadowkeep by
down between 10 and 30% irend has certainly slowed
from last year's figures. doum EO far this year, but vuith
Alan Dean Foster.
All are disc based CM titles
The Commodore 64 TV advenismg Irom a number
ts for m Holal
Commodore, think Ihere will
!

Its only competitors are the be B big surge in December."

Alan flOOXL, which has only At W
H Smith, George Bradbu-
shovim a slight sales rise after a ry added 'The market is la-
ted in the UK by WHS
Distribu-
price cut dovim to 1179, and a while get going, but
tion,a subBidiary of H Smith,W Coleco'a Adam, for which sales
to

and will be available [rom the

All three commented ihi
end of this month.
C16 and the Spectrum +
currently selling well.
Atari price cnt
Views on MSX macl
in US
ATARI Corporation in the I o, salesare not much up on
Styear. Peter Frost, of Boots
further reduce the cost o( its imputer buying department, between this Christmas," said
BOOXL computer by almost a Dave Bryant. "The Toshiba is
Ihud, from 1179 to 1120 (about hether the market will deve. selling, but, frankly, not very
£100 J. p aa n did last year. 1 don't well," added Peter Frost,
EMPIRE ™S!

POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY

Mfji/j/^
Cry from a 1 would )usl hke to thank PCW now abound thai Psion mighl
add Ihe facility lo save Loa-
Commodore for it's Amsttad Page. lis good
dable Basic progmms from
Ouiflinlhehituie,butI think its
own a CBM 64, and oa my magazine devote so much
main priority should be to cut
I own behalf and ihal of my space to thiswonderful ma-
out the overlays, speed il up,
feUow 64 useis. I would like to chine. Keep up the good vrorkl
Rab Baxter and make il more secure.
ask il Uliimaie are bringing
SO Millon Grove
Whalley Range inieresled in a Sprite Designer

MancheBlar or an Assembly Language Tu-

tor lor Ihe QL ihey can write to
me c'o Populai (or details.
Copy Richard Snomdon
comment Co Dmham
Tirith respect to the Ziggu-
Wrat article by Tony No more
Kerdle about applyittg CP/M to jobs
thehome computer market, it
Watered IS wonh pointing out thai with
down Rocky CPr'M, Lt is fairly easy to copy the magazine, also thought of
I
progtams, using PIP. the method he suggested but it
lead with uiterest the News CentralLondon Youth Project's
I Desk Item legarding CRL's qualms about copying a £3 Micro Traming Prograrnme.
mlonded computer gams ver- game, many of which are We would like to point our
sion of 'The Rocky Horror highly prelected, how will they U the E usquole
Show' (PCW B- 14 Nov) and tell fee! about a £300 word- OuiU (fBcil). myself by unpiymg lhal fi
moved to make the following This means thai before wn- such as Esso, IBM and the CLC
Andrew Siminons tuig letleia'documents using will oHer jobs lo young people
Clement Chambers, CRL's Demon Software Oiiiil. a new printer driver must
MD. Slated that he intended his 3 High Street be installed using inslall bas, year. This is not die case —
game to derive its appeal from DiYbrook Installing a printer driver is Esso, IBM and Ihe CLC have
the shows 'strange envuron- hke wailing for a No 9 bus. oRered five week work expe-
When I wrote the nlihty, rience places to our young
descnbes as 'the elements of which works with all versions people during
dubious taste' in the show,
Scribble iheii year's trai-
of Oui/J todate, I first used ftipuf separate £i
Come oti Mr Chambers. update /ichan to access Ihe ^e, which leques
Wiihoiil wishing lo seem m any was very fast, but if a Lne was

your head m Ihe sand these last

X ihe flmstrad wnlten by encountered which was more Dawn Charies
Brian and David Lewis in the than about 120 characters, a General Studies Tutor
few years! The show has en- Cenlral London Youlh Projeci
Oclobei 33 issue is good bm
joyed a quit following for preci- ted. So, I had lo make use of 99-103 Long Acre
ihe cursor can occassionally
sely these 'dubious' reasons. InkeyS (#chan, Rumours
disappear. -1), London WC2
Theot inihe
If Lines 1 10 lo 14D and Line
s undoubtedly Frank'n
370 are amended as shovni il

g Mad S
ably portrayed m
the original
show (and movie) by Tun Cur-
vriU solveIhe problem.
Win a ZX Spectrum +
ry,And ol couise, the one song ist m
case you missed last week's issue we are offering i

torn the show (o become an liance lo win a brand new ZX Spectrum complete with its sL i ,

endunng favouiite, and to stay I idled software packs wonh £17S.9E. —

Jl yoL have lo iio ia cotrealv idonoly the eight software ptogram
in most people's minda is
'Sweet Tranavesiite (from n^belovi (I (o 'Sini
TransGitual Transylvaraa .)' , ,
Veelflf, 13-13
Remove these eletncnts and ::h us no laler than midday on Friday, Dei^einhe^
you might as well jusi produce
H KeJsm'ci Drive
d the Idea for a new Sinclau giunc
ii lo a vast fomineyou have tolind
Please, Mr Chambers, don't
A ponrait distrihuiod around ai
let 'Rocky Horror' lans do»™
Don'tremove the teeth Irom the
beast! 'Rocky was suggestive, Quill
yes, bu! never, never offensive, continued AclOress ' ' 3 ^

lauunenl,

It's
and il v»ould

name on a pioduct which

be a
W£ e ^ ^

ways of editing OL programs

usmg Quill.
Before 1 wrola the udlity lor

!2-3e NOVEMBER 1Sa4

Hardware Review
picmre although admittedly with good teso- rut-picking. Lines arc finely dravra. Only the
brightness control on the TV
affects the
First-rate bench and make up a RGB lead a little screen image, colour and coniraai have no
more tricky this one and Ferguson do list effect unlike when using the composite
one as an optional extra. Life would be video input from the Specnum, In facl, after
Hardware Ferguson TX Portable Co- chaining through a few programs from disc.
easier if one had been in stock.
lour Monitor Television Price £229.95 Ihe colours ajid screen display, as might be
However, plug everything in and irv
Snppliei Thorn EMI Ferguson, Cam- RGB
*W., up comes V/ordwiae nice aiid clear L 1

bndge House, Great Cambridge Road, The top line of Editing mode was half out of
Entield. Middx. Eight so escape to menu and type •77255 I,eaving both computers running. Ihe only

After peering closely al my TV adiustmenl needed when switching

load a lom file, the acid test being what a between RGB and video is to turn the
sciipl on Taswoid ot having lo page of text looks like in preview 80 column brightness down for RGB and up for video
bring home a heavy monilot lo use the mode. Mode 0/3. The result wias most
school BBC B at home, 1 decided lo give the pleasing, a clearer unage than the standard In conclusion the Ferguson TX RGB
new Feigusor TX wilh EGB a inal, isfFUe M.,.. v.... monitor at school. The resohi- a Drat rate performance and vnll not be
Beiore using Ihe Spectrum wilh the sBi 1 going back lo the shop tomorrow. Anyone
needed to hi a video output adapter then [ nejil tried a graphics program that want lo buy a two year old 14inch colour
draws in Mode 0. A large arcie hae a slight portable?
sell a suitable adapfer with clear inalruc- distortion towards the lop but that's being
David Cal«

phono and a 240 degree din plug (the

cnnneOionB are ahown on the baol! of the

e left s<

Ucaily),
Trying Border, Paper ,

settings revealed thai the colours were

clear and bright. Tha image is generaEy

I tried the moiutoi out on a few

new
games. WiUy jumps and marcheB
Jelsel
through the sparkling halls ot his mansion
wilh 3 cnspness not seen before. On to
Valhalla and alter a linle fiddle with the
variable capacitors CI.CS. the small figures
are sharp and steady and bottles and nngs
are recogiusable. The only bull being
grocn, blue and yellow

have everything. 1 shall be reluctant to take

this set back to the shop.
Usmg Tasword vnth a blue paper, while
and mageniB border lo define the right
text
hand margin clearly, found I could read
I

textfrom two yards away.

Trying ii now wilh the BBC, the composite
video Dulpat only provides a grey scale

It con^stB of a short length o you may connect up with the standard

Essential item Phono socket at one end an Spectrum lead, but connectmg lo the
attached to red and yellow moniloi win require another lead for the
other. ]i is neatly finished. composite video input. These are available
The step by step filling i Iiom Adapt Electronics (£3.50 -
£4.00).

Hardware Spectnun Video Adapter clear and nghlly suess the need to lake We first tried Ihe adapler with a BBC
Price £3.45 Suppliet Adapt Eleato- care when opening up your Spectrum lo IZ inch green-screen monitor Tasv/ord's 64
nics,20 Stalling Close, BuckhirrsI Hill, make ihe necessary connedionB, No solde- character screen could be zoomed to fill the
Essex. ring is required. Diagrams are included for monitor screen and the clarity was unpro-
'

issue 2 and issue 3 SpeclrumE. Fitting takes ved by PoJceing the Paper and
1 person wishing to conned their ZX less than five minutes if you include looking black and while respecdvoly
L SpBCtnimtoamonJ >r that requires a foryour screwdriver. The new socket is left
hanging out ol the back ol the Spectrum
to do are available from Tasivord). Thi
this
rasulting display was professional, and
nmpoEiiB video signal.
The adapler amvea in a small poly-bag case nem lo the EAR socket. A lilUe untidy, I after two hours of letter vmling and file
was able to improve the filfing vrith mote manipulating vrith masierfile, eye strain was
1 of insulation tape (Ic space available mmy Fuller Keyboard case. definitelyreduced A useful purchase.
David Cole

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Computer games for people

who hate computer games.
Give your j(}ystick a rest, and your brain a chance
with these family favourites.

Software by...

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Porter
Iwo-playet games which both and also has the ta toici the succeeding poner ic

Few in
side of the! ir.The Hitting Ihe opponent so
have been designed tor the ^lecdimi suitcases for the blue porter slarl on the left shooting, but missing is

(with one or two notable exceptions), and have to be earned across to the right; Dropping a i

and vice versa for the red porter. In order to s Ihe nimiber ol pomts
despite iheir advantage of gereialing grea-
ter variety. In any game played against the pick up a suitcase the porter must be
computer the strategy ol ihe machine, Jocaled diieclly above it.
however complex, is ol cotirae piedetenni- Each player m the game has three lives,
tied and wiU gradually be leaml by the and the game ends when one player has lost
player. Against human opposition, on the all three lives. The winner is the player with

other hand, a player wrill meet a wide range the higher score al that moment.
of diflerent atialegit's. Different opponents You shoot in the direction in which you
willtend to play in. say, an aggressive or are lacing, and shots have a bmited range. U
defeniive [aehion, and even a single oppo- you hit a porter who is carrying i

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strategies at different times.
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adventures plus four character analysis
programs
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complex and fniriguing webs oi
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Voices in the wilderness

Christina Erskine walks in The Jungle and tramples
through MUD. all without getting her teei wet
. .

mm Ian Cairrachael, head of Compuner sivo as possible foi Ihe user. The first year's
jCripUon is free, and membership ar-
s aiuomalically with the purchase of the
Commodore CommuiucaQons Modem at
£99.93, "What has acnially happened is Ihal

net there is plenty of scope foe talking to Commodore ispaying ue ihe £30 for each
other Conqiunet users, whether through the person which the yearly subsEnpiion
is

usei's sofivrate 'market'. The Jungle, or Calling up Compunel during off-peak

playing Multi User Dungeon with up lo IIXI phone limes — s/let 6pm and all weekend
— IS also free, apail from the Sntish
I went to talk to Alan, and Graham Telecom phone charge of course. Users will
CTaigie, general manager of Compunet only have 1o start paying Compunet when
TeloserviceE. at the company's newly using the facilities —
there is no charge for
just fHcldng through the pages and seeing
Compunei was originally sK up as a loint what's on offei,"
venture between Commodore and ADP Subscribers to Compunet have an ac-
Network Services, to provide a network count opened for them. Every time they
database specifically for Commodore 64 "buy" anything, the cost is automancaliy
owners. Both Alan and Giaham were for- recorded and the subscriber is billed
merly al ADP. and uivolved with Compu- accordingly.
net's development from the very beginning. The Earf Facility, which comes as part of
"ADP decided on a major strategy review the modem software enables pages to be
earlier this year, saying il would only compiled whde oll-line, before being mpul
into Con^unet on-line, this saves money from Maths (o Health Education," said fl
Compimet wasn't one of ihem?" explained "We're planning lo add about ten new i

Alan. "Graham and myself left the company on-line, and then browse through them al each month lo The hsl The library of
educational programs is a ph^d posses-
the commitment to develop the system. sion of Commodore's - it was put together
"While ADP still suppLes the network inCanada m the days when the Pel was Ihe
Itself which Compunet runs on. it is no menu permanently travelling along the leading education machine, and a lot of the
programs have since been converted lot
now a separate company owned jomtly by necessary commands: "Up-load", "down-
Commodore and Reactive Technology." "buy" s A more conuolled and conlroUaiile— —
The interaction between users particu- How many Comroodo version of The Jungle, Software Park, is
larlyconvinced Alan and Graham thai going to get deeply m\ administered by Compunei. This sec
Compunet was viable, "We felt, and still do (Tompiinet? Neither Presl. comprises commercial programs, which
fee), thai people don't jusi want to retrieve have amacled as many cost money for the user lo down-load.
inrorraaiion from the big databases. We onginally hoped (Micronet hai Micro is just one of Ihe companies wl
wanted 64 owners lo be able to participate 15,000 subscribers),
more. They should he largely deciding "I think networking is set lor
what goes into it." the next year." said Alan, "Wi
Hence The Jungle, a section of Compu- going to appeal to a lairiy : are protected, in that the user's
nei, where, says Alan, '^isets are pretty number is encoded into the progra
a price barrier has now 3n broken. Three
months or so ago. moaems were costing
EIBO to £170. Ours, at jUBi under £100, comes resident journalist, keeping al

with all the software necessary lo plug in abreast of events m a highly j;

and get gomg straightaway. chatty style.

board — and write "Initially, we think Compunet will appeal Also on the go. is MUD, the Multi User
taiy or otherwise, ) the t buffs Dungeon at present the showpiece o

from other Jungle L While on other hackers. Thai wiU Compunet. This Dungeons and Dragons
a fixed price is,
B-6D00 users. But after thai, as it develops, styleadventure was set up and developed
charged by Compunei for taking advantage largely by I^chard Banle for students a
of the lacUities, m the Jungle, software < Urn : Its il

providers can charge their own price for Al Ihe moment. Compunei is still in the Compunet is the fii

their efforts, adventure has been easily available lo the

"Obviously, with something uncontrolled of the services available. Currently up and public, "ft seems to be lalong off quite w
like this, some people may abuse the running is Commodoie's own Vicsoft libra- loo," said Graharn, "1 logged in about th
system and users are free to make ry of education piogiams in the section days alter it was fiisl available, and already
complaints. It we come across anything entitled The Study —
most of wliich are free
really dreadful, like piracy or obscenity, to dovirn-toad.
"There are about 60 diflereni programs
Compunei is designed to be as inexpen- available al the moment covering subjects X will be announced this monlh this

POPULAR COtHPU Til

 will
EI^ISSM
be very much consumer ocienlaled.
advice on how lo gel loans, whal son of
Willi
insurance people need and so on.
"The idea is \o iimoduce sometliing new

nagaiine — no, I can't ic

— is going lo become av;
at as well as appearing cc
tionally
TTie eslale agency service, vaunted in
CompuneT's pjre -publicity rctcases, is on
Compunei, but not yet available to public
users, though it will be within the next few
monlhs.
"National Property Link do a computet
networking service for esiaie agents and
offered to do this via Compunei. At ihe
moment i! is marketing direct lo the agents,
but II will be thrown open to Ihe public m Ihe
not-too-distani tulure."
Also, m
mcked away a comer ol Coi
net 1ean inleresting page, wluch gives
explicit insiniclions for accessing Prestsl
through the Commodore modem.
Isn't this a somewhat sell-deiealing i

cise? "Not al all. II people want to s.c

Prestel. then they're gomg to End out ht
access Prestel. whether we tell Ihem he
ompun.
th both Of B. anyway, s

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 behaviour —
630 lo be exact,

Me? Who? divided uiio ihiee groups, so il

alJ takcJi time and [here's lots or
Pot shot
dalaieading. Then, ii\ less dme
PioOiam Know Yoar Own Per- iJian it lakes lo spell psychoa- Ptogram Party Pigeon Micio
sonalily Micro Specimm iSK it produces a Spectrum 4aK Price ES.SS Snp-
Price £9.8S Supplier Mmoi- Gremhn Graphics, Alpha
irtiet

1, Holborn Circus, London your characteriBiics.

!
House, ID Carver Streel, Shef-
Bui, Worried, you ask me li neld
this is scieWifically sound. The Wliai are pigeons besl
known for? That's
accompanymg booklet makes
certaui initial high sounding
tighl - gathering games this retiuires caielul

claims, but lest you worry loo

worms lo feed Iheir young. lumng and fast leacliDns. Per-
! appiosch. Whsl should I do?
That's your mission as Percy, haps less strategy ihan usual is
- Worried. much when you Find it says thai
the Pony Pigeon
Dear Worried —
Could il be you should be locked away, 1
Your all space is as crowded have disposed of the plallorm
thai you have a personality would suggest thai ihete are
too many
variables involved.
as fog-bound Heathrow
problem? In this qase I have a
though, and Ihe worms appeal nowadays. In tact. Pony Pigeon
computer program, based on a An unusual addilion to any
self-seeking Habitat hi is a joy graphically, humo-
si selling papeibaok by Pro-
rously and is sinoolhiy anima-
isoi Hans Eysenk and Dr
ted and highly detailed
Now what else are pigeons Sad ID report than that the
known far? Laying eggs. . . at keyboard control is not good,
least 1 Ihmk they're eggs! Whai- owing to an odd selection ol
keys and a joystick is necessa-
ry. 1 also wonder aboul ilB

; youi wuigs regularly y

ready to Cy the worlds fii

'^ig'^

Take two The objective of the game is

10 rescue Ihe Elfni Princess
Edora, and kQl the evil niich
Progiajn WiatJi olMagia Mi-
Magra.
cro Specimm 43K Price £12.30
Snppliei Mastervision, Park
The first epistxie is set m a

Lome, in Park Road, London

phics. The screen display m-
H^Z Tion, a slams display indicating
110 metre hurdles, long jump

Also ran and pole vault, Unfartuaniely,

WiAih of Magra Third
third of the
is ihe your strength, both physical
and spiriiual, your combal abi-
the finals never happened, so the ConUnenl series ol Lty. the lune, Ihe phase Of ihe
best you can do is 'ciualily'. The games, originally released hy moon (imponani in spell cas-
CameL Software, and now pul ung) and so on. The tov»er part
out in an improved, speeded-
Ueyard House, CasUeyard, up form by Maslertronic under instruclbns, and command en-
the Maslervision label. try. episode
This follows fairly
achieve speed by pi standard adyonlure format,
omebody oughl to lell Mel-
«|
keys m quitdt si bui it's well worlh il you get — with a few deviations, liems
faster you press, the quicker three games, detailed instruc- present in a location wiH only
^Olympics have finished
Spans Hero is so obviously a tions, anda 158 pago tome. The be listed a command and —
The hurdles and pole vaull
Book of Shadows, which gives e lliini
IE released a few months
iale, II you've played Athlete,
you the history behmd ihe >e Uieri
judge when lo make jump
Ihe
hen you will find linle new m to clear the hurdles and the
dudes a list of spells 'vou car lain things can »; lound, and
pons Hero There are good pole is easy to bieak, with diie
inimaied graphics and smooih
ruiuUng action as you ailempl
:o qualify for the finals of the
consequences, when vaulting.
There are three levels of diffi- i^BHiJ
each wiih its own detai-
culty,
1^

u
[our events: 100 metre spnnt.
led background graphics. ''ilS:,i|l
Different, and certainly ap-
peaimg 10 armchair athletes,
bill 1 don'l Ihuik the
be loo worried )ue1
AAA
yet,

Simon Sprijuged
will
i?
V^
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POPtiLAfI COMPUTING Wl
 lyou also IS really iust as good as the him,
)ii aie tight In ihe fioo' of 'I doii
I doing this], r.
II isn't the most testing arcade
(ample, v" ™ll nol bt aland' gets verywearing. but — game in the vrarld. neither is
at deadly lughlsh these minor complaints aside complains, "He slimed me
wing, t — ii IS a very challenging The speech synthesis is v David Crane has produced is a
package. good mdeed. M
this is doni game ihal is incredibly good
MosI of Ihe ilems collecled in Mastertronic should be than- fun to play and Is faithful to Ihe
Episode aic :ipell compo-
1 ked by all adventure fans for becoming r

nents which yon need in Epi- lescuing it from the wreck of very catchy.
sodes 2 and 3, Camell Software. They also Why the early release? Be-
These laiiet lwo secuons are rescued Stuart Calloway and cause Chosibusrers the game ^^'iC-'jC- sCiC
presented in a slightly dilTctenl Roy Cornell, who created the
format from Episode instead I ; Third Continent series and we
of a graphic depiction of yotir shotildbe seeing g Useful
1 from
laos!) The S!ep opnon
Mastervision ovc
Program BBC Micro Ulililies 30 line by hne ihiough
Price £6.95 Micro BBC B Snp- IB-code program and
I>tier5hiva Software, E4 Welsh

iCfciCgg Row, Nantvnch. Cheshire

produced lias Two iurlher menu options

of book are JVfeiiuncre lo shill code
imbly language pro- from one place lo another,
gramming on Ihe BBC micro. though you should avoid &EDO
Piogiani Ghosibiisiers Micro Now tlus cassette offers Bee- to WIFF where Beemon iiself
Commodore fi4 Price £10 99 useful mamtor program, resides: and FiU which lets you
SnppUer Acnvision, 15 Harley and 17 of the longer machine-
House, Marylebone Road, Re- code routines from his book with various characters Final-
ts Park, London MWl, BBC Micro Assembly Lan-
guage which is available sepa-
rather s i 10% I , 10% rately from Shua ai £7.95,
ducts riding on the hack of stralegy, B0% i
fleemon allovra you to smdy blocks of code.
a staning sequence you are
given JIO.ODO wilh which you Fram its opening menu a disas-
buy your ghostbustmg equip- sembler option translates
Ihinlcuig bt menl. Then the fun slHits. machme-code into Ihe frien-
There aie three main se- dlierassembler fcim and even a lot of typing Time.
The film quences. The city map display shows Itie ASCII characteis fl useful and sensibly psv
sad in Ihis country) is amazing shows you where tlieie is a concerned where apptopiiale. package.
... so why have Adivision psychic disturbance, and you Dave and Ian Waller
launcfied ih^ game now, -ins- trace a path there from your
lead of waiting lot Ihe buzz that £;«:«£; ic
amewhere in the diElanco, three-lane highway en rome
icidenlally, some radio be- which gives you an opportunity
gan to play the G/iDsrbiisfers hit to catch roammg ghosts, Role-play The game la a fantasy s
theme. Catchy linle lure. 1 did a where the object IS to ]0I
Piogiam The Secre! River and drink from a mag
coming from my Commodore! ^dvenlure One w rhe Riinema- green nvei wfuch is guarded
Synchtoiused with the music. wilh a ghost (or shmer) whiz- gic Senes Price £7 95 Micro by trolls. The usual tasks
; words WGie being d£s- zmg aioimd outside. You drop BBC B Supplier Tnffid Software prcsomed —
Ending and using
lyed, together with a little your trap and position your Research, Cullwood Lane, As- various objecls on the ioumey:
bouncing white ball lo lell me crew so the slimei is confifled hley, New Milton, Hams fighting and casting spells.
u to sing. I was invited to above the trap, then Ore. However, ihe outcome of Bghls
press tlie space bar, "Ghosl- "Ghostbusiersl" the machine and dangers will bo affected
by the skUls and weaponry of
your character; and his or

When you &

newly developed skills ar

talents, pul them ihrough ll
character generator agam ar
Elan afresh with a highei level
of spending and abilities.
Dave and Jan Waltera

The money can be used

la.

buy weapons, spells and

Here
nour. i jCSTjc:

iBNOVEMBER19B4
KSS3!!S getting lost (last seen heading
south down Leatherhead High
Street).
The whole thmg is madde-
ningly frustrating, 1 suspect it

could weQ have stumped the

real Holmes.
Personally. I reckon Major
Percival Ffoulkes did i1. but
then so does Le^ade, and he
ishmited to "Tell me your alibi", never got it right m the books.
Leslrade telis me not to be silly Christina Erskiiie
when 1 attempt a reasonable
discussion, and Watson keeps tefefeS;

push you around (although this

Frusfrating itself can be fatal il you are
PiDgram Hoi Slice Mlcio MSX
Price 15,95 SnppUer Edipse of cotoured discs. These discs pushed off the bubble of volca-
Software, Longman House, nic gas you are travelhng up a
Euinl Mill, Harlow, Essex. counting up, towards 7. Al this
Spectrum 4BK Price £9.95 Snp- shaft on. and consaquently
stage ihey Dash and become pUei Ultmiflie-Play-thB-Game. plummet down four levels lo
permanently red, thai is crin-
The Clean, Ashhy da la Zouch, your doom).
cal. If all Ihe discs (all righ! This is what I found so infu-
then, reaclor corsEl reach ihis Unde.w„rlde is eve- riating, t can take being shot to
rything you expect from bits in Elile.1 don't mind being

an Ulnmale game. Tech- dissipated in 71/ Wa Nog. But

!i does take n p this bom happe- nically excellem, with an inge- you try being pushed around
raping from disc lo for the best part ol the evening
implemented game concept
a 'core' its number is reduced that is fiendishly diificult. Ifyouhaveaweaponyoucan
by one. On teaching lero. they So why do find playing the
1 kill themoff easily enough, but
turn green. Stray 'atoms' hinder game so annoying? Not chal-
you m this lask by jumping lenging . , . just a pam. you oil ledges and generally
around the grid, draining yotu: The game itself starts with
eneigy on contact. You need youi nicely animaled persona even tempered bloke, but th
3U are Dan the Atcrruser this energy tor jumping around in a multi-levelledcomplex of Spectnim came llial close t

the grid, zapping atoms and on caves, connected by natural being thrown out the wmdov
Man who, aa usual, is charged
—
higher levels, detemng a robo- shafts and chimneys. You move promise you Kiiighl
with the task o( saunig the
Universe —
[his time from an tic adversary. aroimd by jumping and to tra- tore
big —
exploding Reactoi. Okay then. Ha
Shoe isnt vel up you can hitch a lift on Having said thai, it's

going to puisuade anyone to UadeimiiMe lias al least 250

In Ihe hist scieen. you ma-
swap their Spectrum for an gas. Your task . . delibera locations by my reckoning —a
noeuvre ycui spaceship iefl-
MSX. but lor fust tune buyers it lot ol people are going to buy It,
nght across the bottom of Ihe
screen, avoiding on-coming should prove enleitaining. weapoi and quite right too
asteroids (yawn). Crashing into
around the complex (an axe. a And it's going to be a bum-
sword and a bow, think) then 1 per New Year for Specinmi.
one will drain youi energy,
'^^^^' go on lo fight the devil m his
which you will need in the next
lair'. can promise you, this is
[

not gomg to he easy. You are

constantly attacked by various

Mystery well designed Qoi ZV^v:

igram Slierlock Mic
Commodore 64 Price tH.
SuppUer Melbourne Hou£ never going lo reach King's
Castle House, Castle Yar Cross at all unless he remem-

cab first.

"W: Melbourne House's

allcvis for some fairly
'Inghah'
sophisu-

phics and reams of text scroll

up smartly as required. How-
although our public transpoil ever, because the game is

system seeme unnecessarily played in 'real time', you need

complicated these days." 10 gel all the relevant move-
Sherlock has now reached
the 61. though ihe conversion
nup at

cenamly hasn't maile Walson

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5 WINNING CLASSICS FROM
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ultimate 30 program - the multi-
screen mission to save the dying
crawler crew trapped at Braxx Bluff. Undock
and land, walk in search of the crawler, drive it through
the marsh, fhe ruins and the desert — one Irach wrong and you
are dead' -
skim the rocky seas at top speed the natives are . , .

your energy, but caulion costs time and the crew are dying.
alter
There never was a cockpit-view mission like the one to Braxx Bluff I

molorcycle. You can choose to I

race on any of ten of the
world's lop racing circuits. As
a newcomer, you are started at
the back of the grid in a field of
40 bikes. You have the
best bike in the race, but thai alone will not
help youl
/ J

is mankind's last hopei The

fw)AT
desperate plan to place in the mind of a
teenager the combined tactical skills of
all the planetary leaders in Itie solar

system. Now your mind is fwlATs

mind. Take control of the USS Centurion Battle
Cruiser and Tactical Commarrf Centre to control the planetary
defence fleets against the Myon attacks in MISSION ALIEN
TERMINATION,

3D as you have newer seen before on

your Spectrum! e:6.95 will put you
right on tfie saddle of the Big Bike!
Ride deep into the forest through day
and night, chasing itie ertemy riders.
,.=

\ j[
-S^
^
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'

Weeve through the trees

atbreakneck speed and watch
out for helicopters and tanks —
the greatest prizes of all I

Where netherix^asl Grako is building his power. There's much

to discover and dangers abound. Free-moving agents may
help you or hinder, but might be befriended ways can be if

found. The alchemist lore-work was false and a failure, but

renders good service in different vein, vanquished
aggressors might be your protector. In perilous places of
dark, deathand pain. Of devious problems and magical task,
this song is a warning, a riddle, a clue. To Caraland's saviour
it offers a little, So mark well its lines lor the saviour is
The QL Page
separately then this situation could change.

Beyond Basic 10
The short example of the language in
action (see listing
read ui
1) simulates a procedure

a decimal number firom the

Adam Denning takes a look at three new language current inpul davice. The program is an

for the Smclair QL example of how programs written in BCPL

packages might be converted lo Pascal. From the
same example given later m BCPL it is easy
\t be working overturn; to back up supporting almost as many languages as the to see not many people would care to
W Sinclair's assertion that ihe OL is a BBC micro, and also make il a much more

or asEembleis, a BCPL compQet, a Pascal who have previously been wailing In the
compQei and a Lisp inlErpreler wiih pro- winga, wnndenng whether the OL is gomg
mises o[ a tuU ISO Pascal and Lallice C lo to be worth supporting o. not.

QL BCPL by Melacomco is the most

Pucal from Canpnler One. CDrnpnler defaulls to that drive. This means that to useful language currently available for
One. Science Pam, MUton Road. Cam- compile a program called, say, mdvS- the OL, It compileE to true E800 machine-

bridge CB4 4BH. Price £39.95. (estpiog-pas, one has lo type only lestprag code and IS written in such a way that the
lot the compiler to find the Heandaclonii. programs can be run as mdependent
iphe lust JangiiagE package lor the QL — Running ihE program follows the same pbs— they will multi- task with whaiever la
Xapail from SupeiBaSic was a Pascal going on elsewhere ui the machine.
compilet from Computet One, This Theeditor is invoked from menu option 1 The syslem comes supphed with the
and will accept any !orm of filename, so it necessary compiler files, a hnker and a
mictodrive cartridge compleie with a res- could he used to edil almost anything.
peclably long manual. It is not a true
cornpUer as the time-honouxed system of form bemg only a very basic screen editor
compiling uilo a compact code which is which does not have repetitive or block
than mterpreted at run Qme is used. This commands, h does have Iwo vuTues,
though. Starting a new line will cause the
cursor lo be positioned directly under the
but il is of course slower.
The Pascal package r

system in its own nghl rather Lhain as a More usefully, il a Pascal program is
development environment as the compiled compiled with errors, these errors are
programs cannot be run outside of the introduced into the source flie at appro-
package. The Pascal program is started by priate points. Subsequent editing of ihiE file

the normal auto- boot process and this saves makes debugging a much simpler process,
as the errors themselves cannot be edited
out but are removed by the compiler when
they are no longer a true representation of
the error.
the whole Pascal system fi ti miciodrive The language itself is an extremely odd
versbn of Pascal with many standard
This stage is tepreseiited by a menu with fealujes and an awful lot of non-slandaid
eight options, from source editing to Sle ones. The code is by no means portable —
deletion.The operation most likely to be no olher system could support the added
undertaken grsi is the compOaiion of the features, yet almosi every program written
example programs given. These range will mam to lake advantage of them. The
from the Towers of Hanoi problem to a
microdrive back-up ulihty, using decidedly this system allows is great for the budding
non-standard Pascal access the ODDS
to systems programmer, but Ihe whole object destined to be
I

ttap routines. To be accepted by the the most used editor on the QL as almost
compiler each source file must be termina- program can run on its every product tcguuing an editor, inclu-
ted with -pas and the object code produced words Ihe piograms alw-,,. ding those Item rival compames, is sup-
13 given the -ijipexlenaon. standing for 'OL executed in the Computet One Pascal plied virilh it.

environment- If a commercial software BCPL b a very unusual language which

All the examples compile, of course, but house were to develop programs using diis has sadly lieen neglected by the home
only the back -up unllty can be described as package il would find impossible to
it computet user but which is used eslensive-
useful. The compilation process is rather disltibule the product as there would have ly hi the development cl commercial sol-
slow, perhaps because the compiler IS ilsell Iware by many Cambridge based compa-
written m
Pascal and thetelore has to be Computer One Pascal compiler! nies. The language is the grandfather of C,
interpreted. Whatever, the resultant code is So, ^ne's, whole understanding of why now very much ui vogue for software
uiunediately executable simply by selec- one should purchase a Pascal compiler is development, BCPL still retains its unique
hicned upside down by this Computer One Davoui though with two major concepts.
niename in response lo the prompt. This There are no data types in the language —
higtUighls one of the more useful aspects of guage and writing utiLties for individual use no mtegers, Qoats, teals, booleans or
on ihe OL, but aa a product development whatever. Eveiythmg is lepresented by the
the Pascal sy mdvlil system it doesn't enter the ruiuimg. If BCPL word, wltich in this implementanon is
~
it the source and resultant Computer One could be pe '
33 bits wide. The word can hold any data
distribute the '
type, be It a machine address, a number or a

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 The QL Page
pointer, and groups of words code. This m ram meatis very difficult id spo
can be idenlilieil as a vector which is the wnlten in BCPL on Ihe OL will run on aiy OL OL Lisp IE supplie
closeai BCPL gels to an anay This lack of regardless ol whether the end user has a numerous examples and a reasonable ma-
data types means that the language is nual, describing all the built-in functions
luibelievably Dexiblc but a does make the The BBC micro version won! allow this and variables and explaming how to use the
programnier totally responsible lor any withoui the purchase ol an additional Lisp system. Apart from the multi-taaking
nodnal meaning of a woid. The idea of a
capability the similarity to Acomsof! Lisp is
vector IS fundamental to the second impoi- considerthat all of Metacomeo's new QL obvious, so all your kvourite predefined
lanl BCPL concept - ihe global vector. packages are wrileen in BCPL using its own Beeb functions can be trarulerred across to
This is an area ol stoie devoled (o holding BCPL program. the OL and used in Ihis new environmenl.
such thuigs as the addresses of pioceduies The example program of BCPL in opera- The major difference belween the two
and lunctjons. Ihe vahies of variables which uon shows the ReadN procedure. Lisp versions is the full iiirtle graphics
may be changed by the whole system and package supplied with Ihe OL Uap, allo-
any oiher data which the programmer wing easy graphics routines and ihe addi-
wishes to make global. tion of many o( the funchons which were
As Ihe global vector is always at a defmed 'inissmg' from Acomsoft Lisp, such as
point within Ihe lun-tune system il is a very Append. File handling, although superfi-
simple process lo mlioduce
overlays — section of code which can be
program
OL Lisp is another Metacomco
agam selling al E59.9S. Most of the
product,
cially Ihe same, somehow comes across as
being more natural on Ihe QL Preparing a
loaded during a program run, linked mto development was carried oul by Dr Arthur
source file with the suppUed editor and then
Ihe global venor and used, then unlinked Noiman and iP Filch, who worked on Ihe
using the Rd/function to read in seems the il

and removed. Consequently programs Acomsoft Lisp product on ihe BBC micro
obvious thing lo do. Functions such as Ihis
m
which total would be much larger than Ihe and Electron. For this reason OL Lisp is
make Lisp program development that much
itiachme Ram available can be compiled susbslantially sunOar to Ihe Acorn product
and aucceasfully run. but has Ihe added virtue of being two years
Lisp has been freguenlly
BCPL: younger and Iherefore ralher more versa-
the natural language lor expon systems
mands include wnlmg, bul its by no means
capabilities are
WbOe-Ualil, Sepea!...WhJs and Repea- Neverlheless. anyone considering
limited lo that area. The eitample shows (not
(...Kuil. All the more popular constructs buying il as a Lisp tutorial aide would be
necessarily very elegantly) thai Ihe lan-
available in C all have then origins here — well advised lo buy the Acomsoft book USP
guage is also capable of Ihe mote basic
Ihe conditional expression, the common on tfte BBC micro by Arthur Norman and
compulational requireitients. In theory at
Sarr (main in C) procediue and aeciion Gillian Canell. Every example in that book
least, most appticalions could be ?iritten in
brackets. which does nol use functions specific lo the
Lisp. This is unfikely lolie a good idea as the
BCPL IS very easy to learn and surprisin- BBC micro wiU work on the QL impleraenla-
gly easy to read, il is a well thought out When 512E is available for the OL and
mixture of high-level and low- level ideas, so
Metacomco fulfills its promise of a hill
it IS ideal for the systems programmer. 11 has
Cambridge Lisp tor the machine, then
been used lo wnle editors, assemWeis, perhaps Lisp can be used more seriously.
compilers, interpreters and almost anything
else you could think ol. [t has
clear only really useful as a teaching aid, bul al
inpul'DUtpul handling and the abihty to Ihal il performs admirably
inierface machine-code routines with
ease through the global vector. Compulei One Pascal: Unl ess you're d espe-
BCPL tor home micros was first seen on
the BBC micro, where a highly sophislicatsd
rale, wait for the full
Melacoaico BCPL:
"ISO Pascal compiler

system inRom can be bought for a rather guage so Tm a lit Ihe

high price
programmer woi
The Melacomco OL implemenUuon is useful purchase
Metacomco Lisp: If you warn lo learn Ihe
Ihe diffarence m
data sizes and channel language or are capable ol ihlnlong up
opening condiuons. programs wrinen on some do with
things to il, then Ihis package
one machine will successhilly compile and IB probably tor you. be Ihe best
It's likely to
run on the olher. OL BCPL lacks a fevj of the Lisp for the QL undl Metacomco brings oul
more esolenc procedures supplies vrilh
flconiEoft BCPL, but the two packages are
similar enough lo show the miiversal nature
of BCPL. OL BCPL also includes numerous
rouhnes to take advantage of the OL's
facilities such as windowing, as well as a set
of superior lloaiing-point procedures.
II Ihe Acomsoli A Lisp variable is an idenlilier which
mote comprehensive at first sight this is
only because il is supplied as a language [such as A. 'O or 43) or a list, which is an
Rom mtended lo supplant Basic, while the
OL system is intended lo augment QDOS for a possible hsi being the
those piogrammers who reqmre the facili- nuu lisls. It IS more difficult to describe T.ic
p
ties available to them from BCPL. The other succinctly than other programming lan-
major difference between Hie two version is guages, so perhaps the example listing of a
I
that Acorsofl's BBC BCPL is compiled inlo a Lisp program sliown here helps. It performs
compact interpreuve code called Cuilcode essentially Ihe same function as the Pascal
while the OL compiler produces pure 68000 and BCPL examples, but the similamy is
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Commodore 64
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Togethei wilh his answers and ihe coirecl

Question time answers, In addition to the dittetences

3U\omaiically ignored, no accounl will be
taken, for enample, of hyphens or biackets.
The testes miBt be lold to piess Renim to
A testing lime lor 64 owners with the Question and Answer
see each question (Lire 30).
Module byDominick Devlin quesi
and colour/cuisor keys elc {even n will be displayed [Line 40). Also shown b
Oueelion and Answer Module a la
The
leady-madecomponemtoraneduca- value is giealer than 1381. as what might appear or Ihe screen in Ihe
differences between vippet and lo' second round.
nonal program in which a leslee is
With Poire 353,^8, mOEI puncniai The answers input by the teslee have
asfcad a sel of quesiions or can choose
beiween several sels. The ubsi ptogiams been maiked with 'AAA'. This extra inpul
h then ai hi addition, the programmer can gel the was not seen by the Module, If the teslee's
accept, lor example, both
programmed
Module to
"encyclop-aedia" and "-edia" by pulling, in :otheendof Iheai
lets the testes input his anawer, checks if it
up ID the symbol from le Module
and displays the resuU. Each tlie place of the hyphen, the aymJxil produ-
i

13 light
aiitomaiically numbered. ced from the i5 hinc*on key, I shall come stops comparing and displays answer is
question is

The Module, a machine-code routine, can back to Ihe fS key in a moment ngW. The fS symbol was used in Lmes 5040
Ss soon as the Module reaches a line that and 5060 to allow for the French spelling of
bo entered by means of the instructions
does not begm with 'q' or 'a it ejdtfi and the
',
Cameroon.
mstructions reached are handled as Basic To break out of the quesuon and answer
nal program should preferably consist ol
Two pieceH of information are routine, insert the symbol " 15" ui the top left
two sepsrale parts, Ihe fust part containing uismiction.
the inEinictiona foi the Module, followed by left in locations 233 and 354; Peek (253) for comer of the screen and press Renun.
d and run the second part the number of queslions answeied correc- The Module itself is perched at the top of
actual questions and tly and Peek (S54) for tiie number of the area SCBBO to CFFFiiSlSZ to 53347 in
decimals), most of that area being available
Study the example program. The ques- to hold the lestee's answeis. The whole of
The questions ai

like hnes of print placedin 3 space m the Commodore

instead of the i

letlBi 'q' [or a cpiesni

10),lhetesteeiElo
dialely followed by its B. In Ihe second lound (se

PRESS RETURN f- .r- e-ach lu.estlo

line;ii: rputa
e, Altemi :oi.i.ntrii is Vs.ou,

lines.The symbol - will be understood as a cams-roi.i-Vi flflfl

carnage return. The symbol from the f7 key 3,Ti5-we'- Is >rl9ht<

will be replaced by mverted commas.
Before the first 'q' hne is reached, the
Module must be called. This is done by Ihe
le of the countries
uisiruclion Sys 49152, placed at the end of
iTidochii
the preceding line. Before thai instruction,
the Module needs to have some intormaDon Viet-H3,m f^RR
poked into kicalions 251 and 252: 251 shouU a-nswer is Kampuchea
be poked with B.loiS (or only flor J when
the Module is first called),
(formerly Cambodia?
a will allow tiia teslee to see tha quesUons also Laos
questii ,
It will wipe also >ri9ht<- Vietnam
I given. 'I'is
same as 8'ejtcept that each ar :rwiU
!
>3<i.Who wrote'
immediately checked, and the t
told the result (uicluding thi
"For east is east
west ii. west
Ri-id
'3'allowa Ihe testee to see the questiotiB findnever the twain ihall Meet.
again, together with his previous answers. <two word5>
The answers are checked and the teslee is

n 35,
e of tf

programmer can increase the intalhgence

of the Module so that it recogruiea an Mf=IRKS- : out of 3
answer as right, even if it is not exactly the
same as Ihe programmed answer. With 33 N.S. > .<. indicates
poked into 252, the Module ignores apace
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30 RERD P;POKE P. D NEXT EHD :

100 DflTR 1S0. 0- 132, 233. 132, 254, 132, 90, 169, 33
11? nfiTR 133, 93.. 169, 193, 133, 96, 133. 94. 140, 47
120 IiRTfi 193, 140, 43, 193, 140, 49, 193> 173, 0. 4
130 BflTR 240, 23- 160, 3, 177, 122,. 133. 37, 206, 177
140 DRTR 122, 133, 53, 209, 177, 122, 201, 65. 240, 125
150 DRTR 73. SI, 203, 1, 197, 96, 240, 51, 230. 254
160 DRTR 133, 96, 165, 251, 41, 2, 243, 3, 32, 207
170 DRTR 255, 162, 2, 139, 47, 193.. 41, 15. 56, 233
130 DRTR 9, 105, 58, 176, 2, 369, 4S, 157, 47, 193
190 DRTR 202, 144, 236, 162, 23, 32, S, 193, 1S5, =30
200 DRTR 24, 191, 93, 144, 2, 230, 94, 133, 33, 16CT
210 DRTR 5., 200, 177, 122, 208, 2, 169, 141, 201, 34
220 DRTR 240, 245, 201, 95, 208, 2, 169. 13, 261, n6
230 DRTR 208, 2, 169, 34, 32, 210, 255, 201, 141, 203
240 DRTR 226, 160, 2, 170, 177. 122, 136. 20S 2-ig, l^a .

250 DRTR 249, £, 134, 123, 136. 132, 122. 76, 27, 192
2m DRTR 32, 207, 255, 145, 93.. 290, 201, 13, 209, 246
270 DRTR 32, 210, 255, 208. 32, 132, 91, 160. 3, 132
280 DRTR 92, 166. 56. 240. 4, 162, 11, 208, 20, 239
290 DRTR S6.- i65, 251, 41. 2, 240. 21'S. 177, 93, 3^^
300 DRTR 210. 255, 200. 201, 13, 298. 243, 132. 90, 165
310 DRTR 25t. 240. 134, 32, 8, 193, 162, 16, 230, 91
320 DRTR 164, 91, 177, 122, 240. 30, 201, 133. 240, 26
330 DRTfl 154, 92, 41, 127. 197, 252, 144, 23i=; 133. SS
.

340 DRTR 230, 92. 177, 93. 41, 127, 197, 252, 144, 22s
330 DRTR 197, 88, 240, 228, 208. 3. 32. 9. 193, 230
360 DRTR 253, 76. 109. 132, 139. 20. 193, 32, 210, 253
3?e DRTR 232, 201. 32, 209, 243, 96, 141, 65. 78, 33
330 DRTR 87, 69, 02, 160, 73, S3, 32. 65. 76, S3
390 DRTR 79. 32.. 18, 32, 73, 71, 72, 84. 146. 58
400 DRTR 32. 13. IS. 0. 0. 0, 146, 46, 32. 13
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k best-ever Spednjm at least85K bytes of data or prog- At your local Sinclair stockist-today!

1 programs, on Microdrive rams (thafs 30 pages of A4 text). And The ZX Spectrum Expansion System
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I
This software alone would files per cartridge, identified by titles Spedmm and Spectrum + computing,
I normally cost you over f 50. of your choice. At £9935 it's supertj value too.
I
Yet the Sinclair price for Every cartridge comes in its own To find out more, call in at your
the complete ZX Spectrum protective case. Simply remove the local Sinclair stockist now!
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You'll find full details of its contents and ifs ready to use.
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/mfDSAms
SPECTRUM 48KCBM64
1-437 0626 ^A
A swing to the right
ortSinates as
and
shown in Ihe Basic listings 2
3. The code is stored al diffeteni

addresses, so that they can boih be u

together m a program.
The second of three machine-code routines for the Onco Ihe Basic programs have been
Dragon 32 by Roger Walton the machine-code can be stored by using
the Csavem cotiunand. An example wi '

^his week's anicle gives Basic lisiuigs scroll does noi.

s [he fuU widlh of the screen Csavem •Rscioir, SHTEC2. SH7E5E. &
L HcroU the PMode 5 E H7EC2
and upwaids. The ngl area may be set by the user. Ihe third
the upwards T[us is doni by Pokmg ihe two Y-co- of Ihe rou

150 ' This program scrolls PMO

100 ' LISTING 2 DE 3 graphics right
iXO' *«*********t***ttt******t** 160 ' across the screen, with
120 'SCROLL PROGRAM, R. Walton, wrap-around built in
170 'The section of the screen
140 '150 ' Thi s program scrol Is I
to be scrolled
PMDDE 3 or 4 up the screen 1 60 180 'is defined by it's X and
170 The section of the screer
' V coordinates which should
to be scrolled 190 ' be POKED into ?<H7EC9 and
S-H7ECA before EXECing the mach
ISO ' is de+ined by it's 1 ower i ne code
and upper Y coordinates which 200 CLEAR 100,S<H7EC1
shoul 210 FOR L0C=S<H7EC2 TO StHTPSE
190 ' be POKED into 5(H7ES0 and 220 READ P*230 Pt="?^H"+Pt
8<H7E81 before EXECing the
240 P=VAL(P*)250 T=T+P
machine code
200 CLEAR 100,5tH7E7S 260 POKE L0C,P270 NEXT
210 FOR L0C^*<H7E79 TO S<H7EC0 200 IF T016932 THEN CLSsPRINT
220 READ P* "DATA ERROR":STOP
230 Pt-^"&H"+Pt240 P=VAL<P*) 290 CLS: PR I NT "CODE LOADED."
250 POKE L0C,P260 T=T+P 300PRINT"EXEC 8.H7EC2 TO"
270 NEXT 310PRINT"CALL RIGHT-SCROLL"
2B0 IF T07951 THEN CLSiPRINT 320ST0P
"DATA ERROR": STOP 330DATA16,00,OB,06,00, 1D,FF,00
290CLS:PRINT"DATfl LOADED" I
340DATfiOO,00,00,00,00,00,86,20
300PRINT"USE EXEC ^H7E79 350DATAF6, 7E, C9, 3D, C3, 06, 00, FD
310PRINT"T0 CALL THE SCROLL i360DATA7E,C5,a6,20,F6,7E,CA,3D
320DflTA 16,00,06,06,00, ID, FF. 00 I
370DATAC3,06, IF, FD, 7E, C7, BE, 7E
330DftTA BF,a6,20,F6,7E,80,3D,C3 !3a0DATAC7,7F,7E,CB,31,8B,El,
340DATA 06,00,FD,7E,7C,Sfc,20,F6 I
390DATABF, 7E, CE, 7F, 7E, CC, A6, 84
350DATA 7E,ai,3D,C3,06,lF, 1F,02 400DATAB5,01,26,27,85,02,26,2E
360DATfl 31,A8,E1, 10,BF,7E,7E,EE 410DATfi64,a4,64,B4, 1C,FE,30, IF
370DATfl 7E,7C,A6,88,20, A7,S0,BC 420DflTABC,7E,CE,25,05, 17,00,2
3G0DATA 7E,7E,26,F6,4F,10,BE,7E 430DATA20,F2,A6,Ol,BA,7E,CB,BA
390DATA 7E,31,A8,20,10,BF,7E,7E 440DflTA7E,CC,A7,01,BC,7E,C5,22
400DATA fl7.a O,BC.7E.7E.26. F9. 39 450DATAC8, 20, 39, 34, 02, 86, 40, B7
Ustisg 3
460DATA7E,CC,35,02,20,CE,34,02
I

470DATA86, 80, B7, 7E, CB, 35, 02, 20

lOO'LISTING
110' *t***»t*1tt**t****t*t1l*1it*t* 480DATAC7,C6,40,F7,7E,CD,C6,02
120' SCROLL PROGRAM, R. Walton
490DATA IC, FE, 64, 84, 25, OD, 34, 04
130' *lf***************t»***t****
500DATAC6, 80, F7, 7E, CD, 35, 04, 5A
140' ,510DATA26,EE,39.A6,01,BA,7E,CD
|520DATAA7,Q1,20,EA,39
!B NOVEMBER 1984
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Thisis one ofthe fastest, most flicker-freegames
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# Fabulous animated graphics
Try itforyour^elf. Adventuring will never quite * 1BdiKerent types of alien
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THE HORSE LORD

An entirely originol arcode gome by Jonathar
STARFINDER Griffiths, outhorof Snapper.
Sforfindergivesyouallyou need to begin You ore Aldric Ibe nob/emon undertolcing a
astronomy. messenger's ride fo get to the castle.
4= Computer progromdisploys star mops for any You have to survive water jumps, enemy
time, dateand place on Earth.
horsemen, footsoldien and ambushes.
^ Unique 'space probe' enables you to identify sto
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* Print'OUlfacilityforslarmops.
^ Accompanying book by hieather Couper eiplair t Full sound effects
everything from block holes to constellations. ^ Joystick or keyboard
£1295 ISBN07126057I i £7.95 ISBN 0?} 26 0645 9
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To load an eioElmg data dile. follow the
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Continued from last week parltwoofMicrofile by Peter Patton
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1
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must use seven fields, as blank field names blank then simply press &iret- and you will searches are set up in such a way as
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prompts and your file vnll be saved lo
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speed: the pio- The secrelofthe routines' shonness is ihe

Scrolling gram scioUe rhe whole screen left or rghl use of Ihe much underused BCD roiaiion
fom pixels in jusi 3B bytes ( 19 bylea for each instructions in [he ZBffs mslruction ael: RLD
an Spectrum routine). The code itself is posUion- and HRD. In elfecl, Lhe rouune Heals each
uidependeni, bui when using the Basic line of the scieen as a 33 byte long BCD
Inrumetable scrolUng louline! loader (see listing), the screen ie scrolled number and roiwes il left oi nghi, hence
puhliBhed. many of them for ll Isflusing Randoniise UsT 64000 and right appearing to move Ihe line left or tighl by 4
This one probably is the besl in terma of using Randomise Use 64020. pixels.

1^3 3B ; l^Taii is; 3S

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Arcade A venue
have long had that real space graphicaBy, 1 must talc it as the a vecior graplura' space game
flight, and especially space most lasting game in my collec- where you are faced with an
combat, is so complei, diso- tionm terms of addiclivily. interstellar flight of brealhla-
nenlaling and frustrating ihal king speed worthy of a place in
it'sbast left to ihs battle compu- now been released lot Ihe any alien basher's collecdon.
CBM 64 with the addition of a The concept of user deSnad
wilh plflymg Calsxion. sound and the welcome
little keys has also been stretched to
Anyway, for those wilh grea- option of user dBfined keys lis limil With most keys defi-
'
capacity and deler- and joystick control. ueable to perform any game
ete is a tip Ihal was Otherwise, the game is an
almost exact copy of Ihe Spec- functions that you may wish.
is by any iTjm origmal, even dovjn to lhe Finally, for those who think
ir piece of program- the space station- Find Ihe simulated Spectrum loaduig horrendous spelling gaffes are
3. By combining its point S' that is halfway on the screen. An Amslrad version is the prerogative of Tony
iTcade programming line between the planet and Ihe also underway. Bridge's adventure games lake
atanon. Rotate to make the line Design -De sign have also a look al Ihe adverts for Soft-
AcDinsail has produced • horizontal <uid cut engines ware Projets's new game Hee-
when Ihe station is square with ihai their newigame, DarkSlai bie jeebies where "you play
olosesl simulation of whal the lhe aide window. Then rotate Ihe roll of a spider". In next
space age could look like tha lo point directly at is thai sprite-based machines week's column 1 will be playing
Ihe SI e till tl like the MSX range are limited I centipede.
IS fixed hke rectangle in m Iheir graphic capabilities by
view. 1 hope that means more to
Beeb owners Ihanil does lo me. company hi leten
llescne, and a hilly three- One ol the most popular
dimensional Right simulator (1 games of lecenl years amongst iware, hke Halls, where the
know all Qight simulators are some of the PCW staff was programming elforl has
supposed to be 3D bui in space Crystal's (now Design-Design concKntrale on writing soft-
you can fly al any angle you Software) HaUs of Ihs Things. ware, like Halls, where the
chose wiEhouI worrying about a Personally. 1 have to agree with Dark Star is Iherefoie
Tony Bridge's high eslunation completely devoid of cule
Tound), Ontoil oi Ihis game because allhough shapes wilh names like Rotten
Il IS now looking a bit dated Ron and Betky Bill, hut is rather

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J r LETT Mfl£S.L 3

and Rim Ihe pcogiain. 1 Load jnd Rim i

Now lype in Weivand enier in your lisLing program

normaily.IIbyaccidenlyoiidotvpeuiWew 2 Type in New
1 CBM 64 while enrering in your Ufiiing.follnw QUI Slep 3 Load in a Basic piogiam and li^

ogram wiU lei you 'luinew' 5. ^ Now lype in Wen" and then List

icprogram. Before you slan To lest out the memory relneve piogiam 5 Now type ir

nagajuie listings cic. Load do the following: original progn

5B DATA16'3,a.l50.1 -H^.i:
60 DWTfi3?.5I .165.163,34
72 DRTfll33.145. 133.17. [3--
SB D'^Tn4G.!S5. 35. 133.1b
i'HFNr'RINT"Qi=iTfi 30 DPlTfll33.143.133.'il3.'je

ti\ujwj^}'fjni
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lo node with eniremely high
Integiiiy.
cy has developed as the regu-
lar packel frequency in the would he very grateful lo

-5
' — One example of the naing
interest is a letter io Microradio
area and the program is sprea-
ding across the country as
anyone elae who can update
tins report with news of other

from Treaor Tugwell G6T|T o( Packet groups de-

oltiei local Packel groups. [ would very
much like lo see a circuit
Stevenage, Herts, Trevor
writes in to say that several In addition, local amateurs diagram or a prototype of the
people in the Hertfoidslure have been expenmenbng with terminal board, so 11 you have
the Anaieur Packel Standard any inlonoation, please write in
Packel Radio smce the begin- AX.25 which they have running
nmg oi Ihe year enperimenting at around 1200 baud vtith very piomoiBd
Packet Radio
,

with various protocols. They good reGulls. Already they are ihEideaofPacltf in Ihe UK as
have rinaUy aelUed by standar- capable of running live or six the best sotulicn
many of us, Packel
To Radio slill aeems the besi
bel in Kadio Corapuring,
dising on a program wrinen by
Peler Robinson CeGK tor the
simultaneous independent

il is a form of commurucaiion BBC Model B, cy chanuGl.

used in Amateur Radio in
ihal is This t ! prov It is this economy of spac-

Canada and the United Stales, popular mainly because of Uum space that is the great
ease vnth which it can ue appeal of Packet Radio on the Trevoi Tugwell can be rea-
and sbwiy. becoming more
implemented, not reguiiing crowded amateur bands. The ched at 1 1 The Dell, Stevenage,
popular in ilie United Kmgdom.
any modems or mterlaces and AX.SS protocol is implemsnted Herts SCI IPH.
majiifold, it all input and outpui is via the byth Ray Bciry GW6J]N

The program has limitations Ham and Rom

muhaneously; it moans that d baudr. !of3Q
I works effectively.

surely even in To this end there is a regular

about 20 Packet Radio net every Mon-
times faster than RTTY and day evening at Bpm on dumb terminal
l«.67EMHe which covers the gram capable of sending ASCII
AMTOH- When a neiworlt ol
Herts, Beds and Nonh London information through its serial

data can be routed from node areas This particular trequen-

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UFO Aaack is an inleresBng game for UFOs
attack the with missiJeE.
imexpandod Vic 30 the object oFthe gam Fiogiam Notes
10 destroy as many ol the UFOs ass possible
possi Lines 1 \o 30 Sei up variables
foil aiB in Lines 21 lo 30 Main program li

eainh and Lines 81 to 103 [nstnictions

Baud Walk

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Uiucom leckoived
modem
clauned 2000 sales a month,
then they must be making fat
Well I would love to gat
profits.
that
nianuJacliiiera
if Modems

£135 plus.
offering similar capa-
bilities currently sell for

Software for the

around

BBC micro is
only £63.S5 having dropped
[loin £99.95 and again from
£79.95 in some slores.
modem is lEOO.^S 1200/1200
Mud and has u.'Mr-to-user sofl-
The

,
-if
^''^1 Jil
H hold of a Unicom they've
promieed to send me one — so
rently by Commodore 64 and
Spectrum, although the Spec- viewdata software. Call 01-353
that I can see exactly what trum's lack of an HS232 part 2277 lor details.
Robin WiUdDion
how theyVe managed tc build tly the Unicom is at the moment
It lot airound £35, assuming (he ui for BT approval which lakes
pnce isnt there because they anything from three to six

Unicom say they have only judgement until Ive acnially

used it. Whie lo 20 Orange
TW forecast has reany set Street, London WC2 for more
the database world alight. En- number of difteienl companies detaib.
Anolher sign of the times —
AMD the Prisms VTX5000 modem
dancing modem for hobbyists
at a neat £57, iJlhough don't
the 9610 chip which 1

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J quile carried away. He has dug a trough
Fred
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wile) (or a game of light cycles. Edna wasnl
Ull Vie 21) very pleased. Waich out lor the deadly gas. Draws border
3 a a two player game for the unexpan-
The unlikely scenario. ..Fted Connols: Edna— 'M left. ',' - nghl. '. = Moves Edna and Fred
i Vic 20.
n Iron on video, and has got down. ':' -
up Fred — 'C = light. Messages

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book illustiatmg t awesome- looking but as yel
unfinished. The Work to
commercial designs like Ifie

Channel Four logo.

its a coffee lable book real-
ly,rather than a serious educa-
tional tome —
although the lejn
grams here. Quite a good surrounding the lavish illuBiri-
book, but fairly expensive, loo. tions is mleiesling, if not dee-
All things considered I Graham Tarloi ply analytical. Personi
few boolcs on the Amstrad
computer. Considering the To make full use of Geoff
OL PhiUips' book yon will need to
mad rash to get boolrs out,
Ihe Amatrad. which was wall know not only what machine-
received and appeazs 1o be
doing well, is shunned as
though it has a social disease,
.ThisIS an introducUon to llic
Kuma, who have been sup-
ponmg the Amstrad with Boft- internal workings of the two
ware, have now produced one completely ignored; there is a One machines. Graphics,
of the iitBt books for it, II is in towards the end o" sound, Hom. keyboard reading
the 'general guide' style cove- book which covers games and and more are dealt with, and
ring sunple piogiamming m Now here's a book Td like to
mentions a few favounies like several routines to be used
see stuffed into my Christmas
and Commodore's wKh Basic fsuch as a Trace
Bawc and toying briefly with — Cieauve Computer ValJjaJ7a
Btocking ulility) are listed.
Graphics is a large lorniat book random and some My fear is tfiat possibly the
There are five broad sec- pictures
chock full of illustrations of book contains too much lor Ihe
Hons covering baeic semng up,
graphics created by compu- sake of clarity, and lacks an
using music, graphics, assem- Psion'sOL packages arc des- il

bly language and endmg with cribed as fiemg on the Spec-

The book aims to show jusl owner keen to use Ihe machine
the construction and analysis of neverthcless
what is currently l>eing achie- Christmas present. to its lull il is probably worth
ved in computer graphics from uivestigallng.
counting program. There are
films like Tion and Ihe Oraham TajrloT John Minson
other programs Ihioughout the

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mterfaces or somethmg similar ADCs good enough lot audio amplified. The BBCe ADC re-

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aspects ol micros and music.
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A wo.d of explanation is in Any nwdais with eipenence
Q.dei —
MIDI is a senal inter- buili-m ADC, I hear you say. between and S volts. Suitable making oi
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penphcral interface) in which
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Tony Bridge's Adventure Corner
ieam iiow lo] Try Rear*nq the Book! UnsBap (or Drop) Parachmc.
finally

Pclei also asks: "There musl be oih Now, 10 llic Beeb. Phil Rnrunor has a Bee
inagaziiies wotth buying thai have adve ui lusBeeb about this, and says 'Please
reviews and give help 10 don't forget that the BBC users also en]oy
like r
certainly can, Peter since The Grand Elf adventures on your page." 1 know, Phil, thai

slatted the Advenluie Comer some IB

months ago, most computer magazines Snowball

have a page devoted to diis rapidly-
giowing pastime. Most oJ them are pretty
awhil, but Keith CampbelTs column in
Video and Computer Games Monfh/y is one
that 1 always read with great interest, as is
the weekly page in Personal Campulei
News, written by the Gettard Brothers and
Bob Chappell among others.
1 mention these m the cause oi imparliali

ty, as the one that I would recommend to you

Far and distant is our sister magazme. Micro j^dvennuer

which, as ils name suggests, is devoted to

lands
A bit closer lo hiane is Noordwijkerhoul.
m The Netherlands. This is where Mr P
Woodhouse hvBs, and he writes asking for
some advice m a couple of well-loved
FItei our of Ihe a leMer from
bag was "How do I pass the Troll without
adventures.
Malcolm Schmidt, of Kelsin in South Africa. losmg one of my treasures? And, in Mesne
He wrote to me some wseks ago aboul Zork Mouniam (by Phipps Associates), how do I

I, but has since solved Iho adventuie. cross the Chasm?" To pass the Troll withoul
Thanks very much, Malcolm, loi Ihe detai-
led map on Zork I and Planetfall fm sony
paying, you must, first of an, acqmie the
Golden Eggs ihen go lo the SW side of
Level 9 Computing
thai you haveni had much luck with The the chasm. When you try to cross, the Troll
Cornel, but please lei me knovj about your will Slop you, and you will then Ihrow ihe
experiences vnilh Enchanlei, which I'm sure Eggs to Ihe TrolL get back, you must
To
Caslle of Riddles, which is one of the
you'll enjoy. have the Bear with you (make friends with
adventures giving Phil a problem "How do 1
In the same post. The Giand EU received him Qrsl!) and then throw him at Ihe Troll. As
gel out of the Black Maze?" Once in the
a lellei Eiom Peter Graven ol Blairgowrie, in for Ihe Chasm in Magic Moiznain, tust of all. — this
Maze, WaTOlhe Black Kod Brill give a
Ihe Transvaal, also m
South Africa. Peter Is a get the Stick, which can then be used to
puff of cotoured smoke. If you move so thai
newcomer lo our hobby and has just Reach Rope. With ihis, you can Swing
the smoke is coloured according lo the
finished The Hobbil, with a score ol ()7.S, as
colours of ihe rainbow.
well as Incd Ciase and SnowbaU. As ior Back now in Brilam, Mr J Jenkins of
— Bicester vmtes: "My son is having trouble in
Now 10 die adventure from Chaimel B,
Planer ol Death lo gel pan the Fotcefield
£scape torn Ritear 7. Phil is stuck in the
(which, incidemally, is the problem that an adventure called Espionage Island, by
very opening: "I cant gel out of the first
gives everyixxJy a hard time!), fire Laser Artie Computing. Mis problem is getting past
three rooms how many objects are
twice (very urJair, this one, as there is really the lust task, parachuting from the plane.
hidden in these rooms?" This adventure
no clue at all) and then Dance, bearing in R:om what 1 have observed in magazines m a Social Room, ui which is a
starts off
mind what you are hearing on the transistor. such as yours, it would appear to be not so couch. On Ihe couch aje a Mole and Key,
You'll need the boots to wade into the much the instruction but rather Ihe way il is
and moving Ihe couch reveals a Hod.
lake flVearSoo/s, Go Lake). Here you'l! find Movelng objects in many adventures,
a coin, aridyou need may this H you're Yes, Mr Jenkins, this can be the most
panicularly Channel 6's. vnll often uncover
thrown into jaiL The gloves you'll need to truauatmg pan of adveniunng. Personally, 1
useful Items. Proceeding Soulh into a CJabin,
open the door to the computer room. In think that Ihe puzzle should be the diliicull
Close the Door, which uncovers a Pillow on
Urban Upstan. give just the Uger lo Ihe a Bunk- Go lo the Bunk and move the PiUow,
football Ian ~
you'll need the fiver lo gel
thus finding another object now return to —
into the airport. The Small Key will, mdeed, the Social Room and Co West to the
start the plane, but to (ly it, you'll first need to
Bedroom. Cfe to the Bunk, Exonane Bunk lo
find an air vent, which is your route lo other

Adventure Helpline
you aie slucK an This sehes ol atWes is destgned lo. novice
Going bananas? II in

— week Tony Bridge wiH be kx*ing at aflfefEM

dospali help is al hand.
Fill in the coupon, explaining youi pioblam.

Bneounlef, So, II you have an Advonlufayou

wnt* lo: Tony Brtdga. AOvanlure Comer,

PcfMv CompuVng Weekly. ia-l3 UWb
Newport SlFBal, London WC2R 3LD.

22-28 NOVEMBER I9B4

HERE'S WHAT YOU'VE
SAID
"The standard of the programme is far, far better than
we were expecting" ALAN daire.

"Eureka! superb. It's marvellous to have computer

is

software of such high standard from Ian Livingstone"

CAROLE SKAIFE.
"It's taken over my life - 1 only have three hours sleep a
night. I hated adventure games before this but Eureka!
is brilliant!" ANONYMOUS caller.
"Congratulations on producing such an entertaining and
stimulating package" J. goodenough.

"I would thank all involved for making such an

like to
interesting game, especially the riddles"
NORMAN SCOTTER.
"
Please give
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CHARLES COOPER.
(Sorry, Charles)

"Ihate this game. I seem to be missing all my favourite

TV shows" ADAM BOWLES. (Poor old Adam)

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK.

Peek & Poke
ATheie is absoluiely no rea-
son why you caimor add
an exira 32K lo a ISK Speclrom.
Ths problems aan when you
try and use die exlia memory. to First Division fame and glo-
The ZaO is only capable of ry. AH you need to do is lo Run
addresEirg 64K ol memory; le, the program, obtain the famous
the 16K in Rom and Ihe 4eK in
Array
Ram. Withoui Ihe use of some playing you get the oppor-
loim of memory swilching turufy to
until
Save the game.
sum
diLioi othi3&
jCan yon help nw wil
|-|Ca
F.M. for you), on T 'CBM B4 Basic pnblt
cassette. TPiia)
II you Dud that you cannot gat
10 ?caittiii?>
the program to restait, after
10 INPUT "^iliiyloimoMlh-wn
table, and would also reqmre correcting the error, try Goro
10 INPUT "Tax paid ihli
special Loading and Safeing 6S60. That should solve eve-
nimlh-vrpm
Joliii Maitin ot Nicosia, Cyprus. techiuques. 1 suspea thai by rythmg. If my advice doesn't
now you are beguuuitg to ap- work, please write lo me again,
preciate why there has not enclosing a listing (il poEsiblel
QI am a regular raadei o( been a flood of people buying of the affected pan of the
PCW. which 1b always program, so that I can cfieck il
A3 -
SI) + S(2) - ill) + U*) -
available hers In Cypnu. bul aS) '
SIfl) «7) r S(8) - 5(9) +
al twice the UK price, and Program S(1D) ' »1I) ' S(12) <lc, or l>
always look foEward lo yaiu
problem Screen
Perer HUls of BaUs. Net load A This (oUowing gives you
the sum of both arrays (in
AS and AT), which Tou could
then prim at the end olyoui For
%I am a Spedm am writing a prograu)
nth a loading screen,
want to save Ihe whole
Football Manager by Addic- ;
ie, loading screen pins
program. Conld yon tell
All the olhet programs in lo that It Pools
ay library give no trouble at
all But with Football Mana- prog
/Xhave
•e microdiives on your
ger, right al the beginning
machme, i£ you don'l have diem P Edwards of Mid C.
berore the first match HThe
and you are IhinJdncr of buying
highligbti are playad, it itops XXach
iliem ai some poirl, then my
advice would be lo gel the new Qplaase wonld yon let m
Waladiivc from Robotionica. n.Aiie* know whether II Is worth
I will mention at this point
which enables the use of Iheir below. The n
'

doing Che pools from a

that the tape will load and behind Ihe loader program
ex cell em word processing i
compnter, as I have a ptO'
play perfectly on my friend's to control the loading of al
program (probably the besl gram and the most scor*
SpectnuD using my (ape re- other software inio the compu
Tve seen on a SpecUum). draws it will Had la betwMn
corder or [heirs. ter lor one program. For ins
If iha IS loo expensive, then [onr and flve a week- As I
Listing line G5G0 shows
Tasword H, which I have used,
that on my machine instead
own a CBM 64 yonr
is an extremely useful pro-
of having LET a(l) —
etc, I
comments wonld be most
giani.
sents
and Bt the price repre-
good value lo! money. I
gel LET all. ?????) —
etc. The
welcome.
Apnrioufl full slop and five machines like the CBM Si this
have noi used Specrejw myBBlI,
(piestiaii martci are impos- technique IS called Bootstrap-
sible to remove, Ihey can be pmg. The loader program
edited oui, bnl wlU reappear
when Ihe program is Rim
More
BORDER
ram 20 CIS. A

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quite a common problem
Isthere anything about your computer you don't
; Spectrum, h seems
Qb there any
itWDDldbeJi
«a.
always cause trouble on a par-
understand, and which everyone else seems to take
(or granted? Whatever your problem Peek tt to Phil
Rogers and every week he will Poke bach as many
increase the Ram of a 4eK ticularmachine, vuhilst loadmg
answers as he can. The address is Peek S Poke,
Spectmin by adding one of perfectly well on another
PCW. 12-13 Little Newport Street, London WC2R
the advertised 32 K add-on In your case the solution to
your problem is quite stiaighl-
3LD
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Someume ias[ year, around a glass and allempl <o decipher Sotlwaie Projecls have, in iode
inonih or so befote ValHalla the nines around it. Ruanei. provided a game
was finally issued, Dorcas is- which IS designed lo be
sued a program caLed Oiacles hackable. You are positively
;h teamred an anuna- s, runs, fighls and climbf
layouts, baddies and just about
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Wilhout redesign what you get
IS a pretty unexciting version of

4ppJe Panic; run along plat-

IZ glasses lorm 12 connecled, forms, climb ladders, collect
but separalely playable, ad- blobs.
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your own screen layouts of
duimg ajiy game. platfomiE and ladders, placing
Graphically it's [au. bul baddies and goodies wherever
be compared wilh (he Uket you want. Thus rather like all
pleasing BBC like character scl
Tir Na JVog; nevertheless those Manic Mjiier redesi-
tremendously playable : and has been very Thoughtfully
gners. you can make the thing
should take ages to so planned. The mark of a clever
as easy or difficult as you wan
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Supplier Dorcas
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excellent graphics. It's way
beyond the usual left, tight
pummeling feamred in Hyper
Olympics and Ihe rest. Here
CARTOONESQUE
t would be a shame il Pa Ihe real Oavoui of training and
Wam'or ihe new ofteting moving up through the ranks is
trom Beyond - - mas complele- apparent — ruruung as tactile Knighl Lore is quite simply the
!V overshadowed by the immi- raihei Ihan keyboaid bashmg,
A large nicely animated game Ultimate have ever relea-
Revsniie, even ihough Oiey are
sprite seen fiom behind is your sed, graphically it makes eve-
lot difleranl machines.
rylhmg else (encepi maybe Tir
You are Ihe very nicely am- computet coniiolted. You need
iiialed Psi Wamoi. gliding to control speed and move- a Zasxon
along Ihe various colourful
ment, and left and tight. my M like.e
early attempts resulted in me
ssion to do batUe wiih and ctashmg across the tracks and
siioy The Source, who is
Ecriously oonsideiing Qie le-
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action of the Human Race lo
fast as possible all the lime •1 Ulli-
indless hulks. (Someone
either,energy is fuule and il UEual iradilion gives
should have wld him Corona-
you push too hard at the begin- nothing away on Ihe box what,
non Srreer has clone it already,
soever AU I know is thai your
hmceaweekfonhelast 30-odd
objective is to stop yourself
years).
from turning into a werewolf by
Descending though the Silo
HndiTEg a potion . .

you must trap PSI and Id crea- The graphics ate master-
tures before they gel you,
increase your own memal po-
and pieces of design Ultimate —
filmauon
must be employing as many
weis at Iheii enpeiise. Then allow (or much greater free-
graphic designers as ptogtam-
you can teleport, levilale. be- mets these days. There ate no dom of action, making Ihe
colour resolution problems by
game that much more en-
view your way lo viciory. joyable.
(he simple eiqjediency [like Tir
Looks like il CDuld be worth a Na Nog] of making everything I would stick my neck out

try . plus there's the now obli-

two-colour 1 think it actually and say thai this must be one of
adds lo Ihe atmosphere. the live best Spectrum games
Some rooms conlam baddies
some Ultimale games, whilst
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lunar
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the finish. And [here are results suspect thai Kidghl Lore is
going lo prove veiy addictiva
boaids, world record altempis,
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response games. Tower of
the filrn of the record. Chos-
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divided inlo iwo IBK Quillsd
good gsmB, ii has what must be
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the best music ever heard on a
Ouill can be used lazily, bul
computet game. Using the
ace to be iound After driving here ihoughtfiil touches such as
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nmated letters (iUuminated
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redesigned character sels
must be napped and blasted.
ensure there is no sense oi
enough 10 have the entire office The gi^hics a

and indeed all of Sunshine tly E

Rather like the Salamander
Towers bopping around the
Can Diamond senes, the pro-
is with an illustraied
Not only do you gel i
If Ihmgs go really badly you
bul using some very rufty digi-
get to use nuclear weapons,
tal techniques you also •}•
speech, fls the music playi though this coats you a penalty
of ottc political point That's
press ihe spacebar and you gt
a very dear and slightly hysii
all!? The game is extremely
CHOSTBUSTERS! sophisticated; faclors like poli-
ncal shout of
more than an tical opinion and morale are
The game is

FAMILY FUN?
Now here's the simulation to
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people who Ends that the
Commandei you gel to defend whole idea of European
the tree world from uttprovo-
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perience
subject tor a computer game. U
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German b( s! Fun for

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Progiaa Nmo Commapder
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spoken languages are often known as
languages, and with natural Ian.
'natural'
Electric shock
msM
giiages the rales are often nol enpUcil, as
they have lo he wilh compuler languages.
Natural languages are not planned; they
"lust had ihB olacuic hUL" ha raplled in

t consider ihat one Important leason why

so many computer programs are badly
wiiiien is thai lhe programmer oflen uses
thesame approach lo writing programs as
he does in speakmg his native language.
Inverted Manual language is noted For its ability to
tudga, and lis lack of precision, which Is

snobbery acceptablein a spoken language, but is

poor technique when programming a
siirted
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backoli .oad ! old (unk In Idd. the mm lio
lhe elect
Mosi speakers produce nongrani-
mabcal utleiances (wilh varywg
The mcoherence of many programs, is nlh his head dangling over the end.

Erequency), but even so Uiey are

related —,_ ao I believe — lo a genera]
vrelched ihuig"
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ujidersTcxxl
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of precision, the desire lo lake the easy readUie
wiih compulei languages, because il aji
utierance (say a line of progiaml is ungiam-
rome — the 'never mmd lhe spelling, feel 69801 m
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s (in Languag
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a^ that lhe first charai
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which is nol shared by the person who
lock, knock' joke depend
cannot spell. Sympathy for the ilhlerale Is
uiuerled snobbery from those who are not
meaning out of the sanie ultciance.

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of the
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