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4 Where Are They Now? "
1 ~The Priz~ explained!","%","
1 ~Sounds too good to be true!~#","
1 ~Rather Fine~","%
1 ~Oh, shut up.~","*"
1 ~Neighbours~ when he wrote the episode.","*"
1 ~Name ~;a$,~Word Count ~;w:
1 ~Let's turn to the next page straight
1 ~Bit obvious, isn't it?~","*"
1 yourself out of a corner with a huge
1 your tenner. And you might get some extra limited edition things as well. Possibly.","*"
1 your own music.","
1 you take a pair of crap black plastic
1 you could translate a fairly hefty prog
1 you START THINKING FOR YOURSELF?","
1 world. ","Play spot the sample. ","
1 with glasses (Number 47, if I recall)
1 will be whisked away before he can follow.","*"
1 whole system and has a love for crap music","*"
1 whoever from Delta 4 wrote the Sceptical
1 whatever we are trying to achieve is
1 whatchemacallems.#","
1 was charged earlier today with infringing the right to privacy of an individual or
1 uniform and say ~Spook~ a lot","*"
1 transcendental rhythms.","*"
1 train and, two turns before one leaves,
1 together a body from these old casings.
1 to try to break Number 6 once and for
1 to say the phrase, and much enjoyment has been derived watching each other
1 to make my code go faster.#","
1 there's still nothing more enjoyable than finding new ways of killing off the
1 them, we've come to the conclusion that
1 them to your wardrobe. ","
1 the undisputed champion,","Of sound and sprites and interrupts","And stack manipulation."," ","
1 the underworld who's in league with the
1 that utilise their processors,","I expend all my energy
1 terrified if he actually did stand out
1 tell you a story that happened not long
1 takes him off to confront Number 1.","@","Now read on...","*"
1 t$="6031769"
1 switches!","
1 supporting characters. There follows a
1 sunglasses and poke out the crap black
1 subsequently forming the backbone of many a top-ranking essay, it never fails to
1 stand up?","*"
1 something) have just discovered that if
1 some profit-obsessed main office dictates a policy of uniformity to avoid
1 some of their remixes. Except the
1 simple-minded trend-follower who'd be
1 sentence=(w/4):
1 sentence. So best forget it, eh?","*"
1 self-respect?","
1 selection from our forthcoming book,#","%","@
1 saying and everything!","
1 robbing the Wells Fargo Stagecoach Co.","*"
1 reincarnated as a guinea pig","%
1 ready to hit the streets.","
1 pulls the stump over after him time after time after time! (Wipes eyes.)","*"
1 programmer of Count Duckula 2. Despite
1 program, no clue has yet been found as to the identity of the coder responsible for the worst Speccy game ever.#","*"
1 program runs on an ST, and it's a bit of achore to keep transferring stuff back and forth.#","If you know 68000 machine code and feel
1 probably be dead before you finish the
1 possible opportunity.#","
1 plastic lenses and put the glasses on, you
1 packer written by those clever chaps at
1 ourselves#","(","@
1 one of these books right now. They really are marvellous stories.","*"
1 once heard, it's very difficult not
1 of conformity. You're no more than a
1 o,w;P$;" "
1 o,o;"P";p;"
1 news articles. Please make the following
1 name-badge. Shout it out: I AM NOT A
1 nails and takes it in his stride, killing Number 2 in the process. The bald bloke
1 n'y a pas longtemps.":
1 n'y a pas longtemps."%A
1 move masters with its blend of tense,
1 look exactly like Eric Morecambe.#","All together now:#","@","
1 listen to them on your personal stereo at the top, and become at peace with the
1 likes to think he's pricking the balloon
1 just been camping with Jim and Doug from
1 itself falsely as a self-employed
1 ithink? All comments,
1 into Z80, drop us a line at the YS2
1 interrogative, doodads and
1 individuals.#","In his defence, Formby claims to have been~just cleaning the windows~ but was unableto explain to the arresting officer why heshould be carrying a banjo at the time.","*"
1 individuality-crushing blandness of
1 genuine organic Egyptian teabag, !
1 games, GAMES!","*"
1 games! Leave the products to the
1 games as games? Can you actually remember what you're selling? Let's talk about
1 from the crowd.","
1 frightening the tourists. Have you no
1 freaky to spook your family into thinking they've taken over your mind with the
1 extensive questioning and hacking of the
1 expression of individuality. Why don't
1 explosion.","*"
1 escafe Inst
1 driver we nicked (oops).#","
1 discovered that,
1 devil and has been accidentally
1 desperately trying to avoid it.#","
1 dedication. It's about 40 minutes long. ","
1 d*~~+a$+~.rev~
1 d*"ys2-all.c"
1 d","?3",".13","%
1 criticism, articles, whatnot1
1 criticism, articles, whatnot and malarkey should be directed at#","(
1 computer as I instructed?","
1 completed them, hacked them and debugged
1 comic needs all the help it can get. "," ","%
1 chest or Beorn's cupboard.","*"
1 catchphrase which he uses at every
1 c/o Your Sinclair
1 business jargon! Shout it out: Games,
1 burger with extra-thick shake.","
1 brother Alan or Marjorie, the Ms Big of
1 bricklayer living with its parents.","*"
1 breathe life into my creation! Throw the
1 be reviewed by a piece of chipboard being cut in half lengthways with a circular
1 away!~","*"
1 average student, ie he's against the
1 at the trapdoor...#","
1 and then machine code programming,","I stand before you here today
1 and soon became proficient in,","The art of writing BASIC games
1 amendments to the stories.#","For ECHO read FOUR HUNDRED AND TWO#","For LAMPREY read IPSWICH#","For PLAGIARISM read A BIG HELPING OF JELLY#","For FUTURE PUBLISHING read FUTURE
1 all. Of course, Number 6 is as 'ard as
1 all-revealing final episode by Steve","%","
1 all Z80 assembler,","I write routines for other teams
1 ago~.#","Sort of ~a funny thing happened on the wayto the exam room~, really.","*"
1 address. (See page 200.)","*"
1 a vole.#","
1 a modern Spectrum programmer,","I'm fluently conversant with
1 Zucchini!","*"
1 You will need:
1 You don't have to do this just because
1 Yes; do you have a personality?","
1 Yes; could you tell me about your games?","
1 Yes; could you tell me a joke?","
1 Yes master.","
1 Yes - and so have 50,000 others. Great
1 YS2. DRJ 1/4/93 0157
1 YS2","%","?1","%
1 YS2 c/o Your Sinclair","
1 Y-Not Software are Jonathan, Steve and
1 Would you like fries with that?","
1 Win an organic Egyptian teabag compo!","%
1 Will the author of this routine please
1 Wilf Lunn","*"
1 Why are you mentally unable to refer to
1 Who wrote the song 'Tea for Two'?","%A Irving Caesar and Vincent Youmans","B Julius Caesar's Toga Trio","C Me#","
1 What? But I've got all the Prisoner
1 Wey-hey! Little Ern!;","%
1 Well, we have a new range of product
1 We've recently got hold of a new code
1 Watson. Try waiting at the station for a
1 Use their information service to get lots of wonderful free postcards and stick
1 Top Five Other Orb-Related Activities","%
1 Top Five Orb-Related Activities","%
1 Today's special is a jumbo mega-whopper
1 To win a genuine organic Egyptian teabag, simply answer the following question:#","@","
1 To the tune of 'Modern Major General'.
1 Tired, tired and, er, tired. DRJ 1/4/93 0235
1 Thu 1 Apr 93
1 Thousands of new games for Speccy","%~If only there were thousands of new gamesfor the Speccy,~ teased the Y-Nots earliertoday.","*"
1 This month, a new recording of
1 Thirty-six. Ha!","*"
1 The trial","%Ongoing battle that we have every day justto survive#","(","@
1 The trailer","%Erm...#","(","@
1 The story so far... Number 2 has decided
1 The rocket","%Blimey, is that the time?","?5","
1 The other Y-Nots
1 The butler","%Average, ordinary, everyday sort of personwho will just follow anybody with power","*"
1 The Story Of The Stone -
1 The Sentence!","@","6031769","%Translated literally, it means ~let me
1 The Programmer's Song","%
1 The Programmer's Song (continued)","%
1 The Hobbit","%","Thorin is your main target here. Try...
1 That was rather funny. Thank you.#","
1 That comedian who used to wear a convict's
1 Tchaikovsky's ~1812 Overture~ by the
1 T-shirts with that ~I am not a number~
1 Supporting Characters In Melbourne House
1 Sunglasses","%","Total!, that wacky bunch of funsters (or
1 Strange cloaked bods","%Unseen people who influence everything in life#","(","@
1 Still to the tune of 'Modern Major
1 Squeak.#","
1 So, what do you think? All comments,
1 Sitting French? What you need is the YS2
1 Singing bloke","%The rebellious youth, much like your
1 Sherlock","%","Not much scope for violence here, sadly.
1 Shadows Of Mordor","%","There's really nothing to touch this...#","
1 Set fire to your parents.","Oops, meant to say ~Try and get hold of
1 See you next month! Possibly.","*"
1 See them live.","
1 Sample their drum loops and use them in
1 STUMP. CLIMB DOWN ROPE~ and watch as Sam
1 SAY TO THORIN ~JUMP~, THROW BARREL, JUMP
1 SAY TO THORIN ~HIT THORIN~ repeatedly...
1 SAY TO THORIN ~DRINK BLACK RIVER~...
1 Ring your local radio station and get themto play the whole of The Blue Room as a
1 ROPE TO SAM. SAY TO SAM ~TIE ROPE TO
1 RET","@","
1 Price of the toy is included in the meal.","
1 Please, please, please send as much money as you can to Your Sinclair. This
1 Personally, I think Patrick McGoohan had
1 Permettez-moi je vousraconter une histoirequi s'est passe"+
1 PUBLISHING","*"
1 PUBLISHING
1 Oo-er.","*"
1 On a sunny day, climb up a hill and
1 Oh no. The self-righteous buffoon who
1 Oh dear.","*"
1 Number Two","?2","%
1 Number Three","?2","%
1 Number One","?2","%
1 Number Four","?2","%
1 Number 2 reincarnate","%Seemingly innocent person with ~a past~#","(","@
1 Number 1 = Number 6","%Quite obviously our main obstacle in
1 Now I merely insert the drive... so!","
1 No, I mean your games.","
1 No, I mean it. I'm really depressed.#","
1 Next month, ~Einekleinenachtmusik~ will
1 NEWSFLASH"
1 NEWS HEADLINES","%111 George Formby arrested#","112 Thousands of new games for Speccy#","113 Count Duckula 2 programmer sought#","114 Future Publishing ~stole plans~#","115 Future Publishing ~robbed company~#","116 Future Publishing ~defrauded Council~#","117 Future Publishing ~worried sheep~#","118 Errata","*"
1 My creation...! It's alike! IT'S ALIKE!","
1 Mix lustily in
1 Mike Oldfield one, it's crap~ but it came out all wrong.","
1 Matthew Smith","*"
1 March 1993
1 Lord Of The Rings","%","Er, at the rate the game runs, you'll
1 Look, it really does exist, okay?","*"
1 London Philharmonic Orchestra as conductedby Sir Benjamin Thrope is reviewed by
1 Kit","%You will need:","Some guns","At least one bomb","A plot (optional)","Some jokes","A background story#","Mix lustily in a paint pot and write
1 June 4th.","*"
1 Jonathan has recently coined a new
1 Incredibly Impressive Opening Sentence.
1 Incident At Sanctimony Central&
1 Incident At Sanctimony Central","%
1 Incident At PR Central","%
1 Incident At Fast Food Central","%
1 In fact, it's all rather fi
1 I feel depressed now.#","
1 I am so#","(
1 However, you can have fun confusing
1 House adventures. Having played them,
1 Ha ha! Raise the platform! Let Nature
1 Good morning sir, can I help you?","
1 Good evening sir, can I help you?","
1 Good afternoon sir, can I help you?","
1 Go to the tree stump. BECOME FRODO. GIVE
1 Go straight to page 200, that's our advice#","%Two authors and a week to write in - what",".10","do you expect, miracles?","*"
1 Go on, display some individuality.","
1 George Formby arrested","%George Formby, the popular entertainer,
1 Gentle Plug On","
1 General'. (More or less.)"," ","I started at the age of ten
1 Future Publishing ~worried sheep~","%Future Publishing today admitted to havingbeen an unruly fox terrier called Opal andwas destroyed by the local vet.","*"
1 Future Publishing ~stole plans~","%Future Publishing today admitted to havingstolen the plans of the American Air
1 Future Publishing ~robbed company~","%Future Publishing today admitted to havingdisguised itself with a black mask and
1 Future Publishing ~defrauded Council~","%Future Publishing today admitted to havingdefrauded the Council by registering
1 Force Stealth Bomber.","*"
1 Feed him all of Elrond's lunches...
1 FOLKESTONE
1 Excellent! I have already stitched
1 Errata","%We regret to say that a number of factual inaccuracies have appeared in our recent
1 Ernie the Psychotic Madman",".19","
1 Elrond's lunche
1 Eight Skilled Gentlemen","%Trust me, you'll love 'em. Buy or borrow
1 ESD. The only problem is that the packer
1 Down, down, deeper and down","%
1 Do-it-Yourself",".8","
1 Do you know both Z80 and 68000?","?1","%
1 Did you bring the disk drive of a dead
1 Developed over several months and
1 Dangerous Manuscripts","
1 D_OUR HUNDRED
1 DRIVING TIPS","?1","%","@
1 Credit Time","%
1 Count Duckula 2 programmer sought","%A nationwide hunt is underway for the
1 Come out of your room looking really
1 Come on! Tear off that patronising
1 Classics Today","%
1 Chorus: You wish.","*"
1 Chorus: He expends all his energy to make his code go faster.","*"
1 Cheer up! You know what they say -#","Some things in life are crap,","While other things are crap,","In fact, quite a lot of life is crap.","
1 CONVENIENCE FOOD FRANCHISE TILL OPERATIVE,I AM A HUMAN BEING!","*"
1 Buy as much as you can on vinyl. At least you feel you're getting something for
1 Bridge Of Birds -
1 Between us, we've got all the Melbourne
1 Behalf Of","
1 Bath BA1 2BW#","%
1 Barry Hughart"
1 Bad day.",".8","
1 BOARD TRAIN. LEAVE TRAIN.
1 Answers to the YS2 address (page 200) by
1 And it's only 14 words long!#","
1 An in-depth examination of the
1 An in-depth examinat
1 Amelia Earhart","*"
1 Alternatively, shut him in the treasure
1 Ah, you mean our product line.","
1 Adventures","%","
1 AAGHH","*"
1 32768,revlen",
1 30 Monmouth Street","
1 23:58, Wednesday 31st
1 200 Epilogue#","(","
1 190 Zero#","
1 180 Zilch#","
1 170 Nowt#","
1 160 Nothing#","
1 150 Newsflash
1 140 Television
1 130 Education
1 120 Adventures
1 101 Funny Ways Of Killing Off The
1 1 - THE M25
1 ...","?3","
1 -O QSDRINK BLACK RIVER~
1 ,"%INGREDIENTS:","Nescafe Instant Coffee","Fergus McNeill#","METHOD:","Grate Fergus McNeill into a mug.","Add coffee.","Add boiling water.","Sit back, sip, and enjoy!","*"
1 ,"%","@The everyday story of a dead detective andhis mad crippled Nazi transvestite twin
1 ,"%","@ Count Duckula 2 'coding gang' caught","%
1 ,"%"," ","@
1 +3KENSTEIN","%
1 (Sort of.)"," ","I am the very model of
1 (Number Sixteen)","%",">13All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy","*"
1 (Lightning strikes. Power surge. Sparks.)","
1 (Crack of lightning.)","
1 (Clap of thunder.)","
1 (Clap of critics.)","*"
1 "@Pass French the YS2 way!","%
1 "@",".14","
1 "?6","(",".6","@
1 "?2","ing~,~corking~,~astonishing~,~snazzy~,~terrific~,~mindboggling~","7000
1 "?17",".33","
1 "6")+w;t$(
1 "(","@
1 "(",".9","@
1 " ","(","@
1 ~Just for a laugh,~ say 'Ultimate Four'.","*"
1 ~COFFEE A LA FERGUS~
1 Y-Not Software","*"
1 March 1993#","%","@
1 COMIC RELIEF "
1 (Etc.)","*"
1 Don't take it.","*"