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2 d*"5CODEb" 2 d*"5CODEa" 2 Telford"," 2 8 out of 10 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 which not only has a long name but is an excellent `4 re-issue.It's an isometric 3D arcade typeadventure which coes complete with excellent graphics and goodgameplay. The 1 thankyou.",""," 1 reminds me of those old sliding puzzle games and is justas infuriating. The graphics arenot the most important part of the game but they are adequate in any case. It is difficult butnone the less is probably the pick of the puzzlers. 1 d*"ALCHNEWS5" 1 cost `1"," 1 after title 1 `1.50","20 programs 1 Write to the usual address, withSAE & blank tape 1 Woodhouse"," 1 Wiltshire BA14 0NW",""," 1 WORKSOP 773684 1 Until next time, Stephen Mullen 1 UT34 Encoder/Decoder (108) 1 UT33 DLS (see pg 107) 1 UK TELEPHONE: 0742 697644"," 1 Trowbridge"," 1 This natty piece of code alters the edit system to that like the128 mode of editing lines. The code is at 65023 and 120 bytes long. To turn it on, RAND USR 65123 and bring up a long line into the editing window. Now, as you can move left and right, try moving up and down and you will find it moves up a down a line in that particular line. Unfortunately, when EDIT is on, the clock goes off and vice versa.","`" 1 The Last Word",""," 1 That is also the address for thePD packs.",";","`" 1 Tech. Sec.","","150 1 Summer prices still apply! Theseare as follows...","","Each program 1 Still no contribution from Doctor Dark yet, so it's up to me to do this bit."," 1 Stephen Mullen 1 SpecSupport","1 Northolme Close","Grays","Essex","RM16 2NX"," 1 South Yorkshire"," 1 Software Reviews","","140 1 Silvianu Marin 1 Shropshire TF7 5RJ 1 Shropshire 1 Set Clock"," 1 SPECSUPPORT 1 SHEFFIELD"," 1 S13 7LN"," 1 Roy Musson 1 Quest Software"," 1 PRESS ~X~ TO COPY 1 PIN SIGNAL LEVEL 1 PD PREMIER. Send it to us forPD but recieve 50% of all sales of it. It would retail at about 50p", 1 Or, if you want to create a new million seller but have no ideasthen give us a call as we have lots of plots and scenarios for you. Write for more detals. 1 OUTSIDE UK : +44 742 697 644" 1 ON - 65123 1 OFF- 65133 1 Neil Currie 1 NOVEMBER 20th 1 Multiface Matters"," 1 Most of this section will be inconjunction with the AlchemistInto Europe section, to benefit our Romanian counterparts 1 May I welcome you to the sectionof A.N. devoted to bringing you news of what's been happening inthe world of Spectrum games." , "Since AlchNews 4, full price releases have been thin on the ground. There was the European football tie-in Gary Lineker collection which featured four second rate footbal games not exactly setting the market aliht! Some relief was provided by old stagers, Gremlin with a decent shoot em up called SpaceCrusade.",";","`" 1 Market your Program"," 1 Main Menu","","101 1 Madeley"," 1 M1 LOADING 1 Joyce Cook"," 1 It's such a shame that there aren't more utilities for the multiface. It's 8k RAM is plentiful for utiliies like fontcreators etc. 1 If you'd like a FREE advertisment page then just write down the wording and send it in. No big names please if you can afford a two page spreadin a daily newspaper! 1 Hi to Allie, Dave L, Dave B, ZATall the writers, all the Romanans, all customers of APD and all connected with Alch Res. 1 Great Britain", 1 Graeme Souness SoccerManager 1 Games from 50p POST PAID!","`" 1 GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG 1 GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG 1 GA08 Santa Claus (Blitz) 1 Front Ends & News","","110 1 FO14 Moon Runes (hobbit) 1 F. Shillito, 64 Pennyholme CloseKiveton Park, SHEFFIELD S31 8PT 1 Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters 1 Don't forget, if we don't have it, ASK! I can make up any font you require and don't forget about the Adventure Service, formore details see the Adventue section.","`" 1 Don't forget the FREE font and character set service! 1 Dedicated to the memory of John 1 DON'T FORGET THE TAPE & SAE! 1 Copy screen to Printer","`" 1 Check out the recent S.U. for the ~FUSSLOAD~ program. It needs a bit of modification to make it run on the Disciple multiface (Version 3C), but it'snot bad."," 1 Bytes Free"," 1 Ayrshire KA15 1EL 1 As you will know, AlchNews is only available on tape, but can but can be very easily modified to your disk type by altering the syntax in lines 9998 and 9999. But soon, we hope to be able to provide A.N. on 5.25~, 3.5~ and microdrive. 3.5~ +D owners can either get their tapefrom me as usual or buy it on disk from the AlchNews +D Disk Editor: 1 Any old Quills?"," 1 Also available is a program scrambler which can encode upto 5k of basic into a machine code file which can only be unlocked to basic with the decoder program. It costs `1 from the usual address and usual postal conditions apply. The duo available are VERSION ONE. V2 will be available soon and feature a password system to decode correctly and will be FREE to owners of V1.","`" 1 Alchemist Research"," 1 Alchemist PD","","115 1 AlchNews back issues 1-4 are available for 20p each. Just write Alchnews (issueno.) when ordering.",""," 1 Advertisements & Contacts","","159 1 Adventures","","130 1 Advance 10 pages"," 1 AV10 Test Card 1 AN5CB T 1 AN5CA y 1 ALEC CARSWELL 1 ALCHNEWS5 !j 1 ALCHNEWS AUTUMN 1992 1 ADVENTURE LINK"," 1 A.R. in Europe","","120 1 A very big thankyou to everyone who has bought some programs from Alchemist PD. We have beenonly open a month and the response has been marvellous, especially from new readers who are subscribing to AlchNews for the first time. If you are new,then join the other readers and make a regular subscription to AlchNews and send a tape and SAEto s now! 1 ;"PRESS ~ENTER~ TO CONTINUE.": 1 ;" Bytes free left **": 1 ;" ";(65536 1 62 Tithe Barn Lane"," 1 3D angle is a welltrodden road but still works as well as ever. The object of the game is simple-",";","`" 1 33 Dursley Road"," 1 20p","10 programs 1 20 GOTO 10 1 16 Montgomery Avenue"," 1 103 Chiltern Gardens"," 1 10","","and finally 1 10 Westerkirk Drive"," 1 10 PRINT ~HELLO~"," 1 0742 697644 1 .The difference between this and the other millions of its type is that you must have asoft perm and moustache to play!Only joking(or am I?).",";","`" 1 . David is also on the lookout fornew adventures to market.",""," 1 ,avariant of the Tetris genre.Thisis one of the better efforts.It is based on a very simple theme which involves moving various symbols around a screen in the hope of matching the symbols.",";","`" 1 , a new software producer which is due to launch its' first title. The proud prop. is Robert Frosdick who also sells PD game packs at very reasonable rates. The firstcommercial release is a businessgame in which you could either make a million or end up totallypenniless. They hope to be able to commission and release games for the Spec and are willing to pay `50 for promising software",";","`" 1 , a great user to user modem transfer package. Connectup two Spectrums with VTX5000's.Load up Dialsoft on both machines. Switch the switches to TX and dial your friend! It communicates with the other at 1200 baud. Thats 150 bytes per second to us! (Or 1k every 6 seconds). Chat or send progs upto 48k to each other. A full 48k woud only be about 15p localcheap rate call! Saves on post and all that time waiting! PD programs are available via Dialsoft if you want them quick!","`" 1 , which was all in Romanian! I would like to thank all for writing to me! If you would like a contact in Eastern Europethen read on for more detals...",";","`" 1 ** SET CLOCK** 1 ** SAVE / LOAD ** 1 ** NEW EDIT ** 1 ** CHECK MEM ** 1 * SPECIAL OFFERS"," 1 * PROGRAM MARKETERS & PUBLISHERS"," 1 * PD SOFTWARE"," 1 * MEMBER OF ~ISSUE~"," 1 * IDEAS SERVICE"," 1 * GLOBAL CONTACTS"," 1 * FREE HELP"," 1 * FREE FONTS"," 1 * FREE ALCHNEWS"," 1 * FORTHCOMING B.B."," 1 * DIALSOFT SUPPORTED"," 1 * DATA ENTRY SERVICE"," 1 * COMMS. SPECILITY"," 1 (TP+H)+" ": 1 "hobBIT"," ","The magazine is A4 size and printed in colour. It caters mostly for Spectrums but there is the odd Amiga ad, PC review and a couple of pokes for the C64. It's excellent value for money and even though it's in Romanian, you can figure out theM/C listings and pokes with ease! There are a few technicalsections, including a section called 1 "ZAT"," ","THE Sam / Spectrum fanzine. It'sthe only one I read! Full of news, reviews, features, techhieadvice and my columns! ZAT comes out every two months and has hundreds of readers. Write for prices to:",""," 1 "WANTED"," ","Alchemist PD have a few adventures, but we'd like more, not only for PD, but to publish at full price. We can offer three ways of production:",""," 1 "WANTED"," ","+D interface for Grey Spectrum +2. Will buy or part exchange for BRAND NEW VTX5000 Modem, all communications software, and Spectrum 128 keypad type device ~Magic Button~. Ring 1 "The Spectrum Scene.."," ","All Romanians seem to have 48k Spectrums, and a VERY mixed variety of games which they depend on from here. The games can be as new as Terminator 2 and as old as the Magic Knight series like SpellBound and Finders Keepers! Both are as popular as each other! They call their magazines 1 "TOP TEN PURCHASERS"," ","The bulk buyers of the month are"," 1 "TECH SEC."," ","In this issue...",""," 1 "Spectrum Video"," ","Many users write to me complain-ing about bad video signals. The causes are vary varied, but the common is poor quality leadsand leads tangle together. The co-ax should be as short as possible and should NOT be near electrical cables. It should bethick, lo-loss cable and I suggest cleaning all metal contacts. I suggest using cablemade for satellite connections and use gold phono & UHF plugs if you can get them",";","`" 1 "Spectrum Video (2)"," ","Also, if you can, put your cable from the computer into your video recorder. The video processor inside the video should ~clean~ the signal.","128 owners have the chance to switch to a monitor signal. If you don't have a monitor, just connect it into the VIDEO IN on your video recorder and switch on the video and select your ~video channel~. Wiring connec-tions are not so easy, but I'll give ful details next time. Until then, I'll leave you a pin chart.",";","`" 1 "Spectrum Scene (2)"," ","Post takes about 7 days to reachthere and a first class letter costs 28p. A small 1/2 A4 size parcel with cassette and five page A4 letter would cost 61p, but beware as small packages sometimes need customs examination so you have to declare on a little label whats in the package.","The exchange rate is about 685 LEI to `1. Their stamps vary from 10-70L and 1 "SPECTRUM SOFTWARE HIRE"," ","Sick of being ripped off by software houses who secretly snigger at Spectrums? Want to play a classic game? Want to review the latest games & utilities for AlchNews without actually buying them? Yes? Then join the Spectrum Software Hire Club. Send an SAE for the new catalogue to:"," 1 "SPECTRUM BB"," ","Hopefully, when I get my +D interface, I'll be setting up a small scale bulletin board for Spectrum & Sam users, running atV23bis (1200/75) so all you VTX'ers can use it! It will probabally be viewdata and should have 832k of memory, using the 48k of RAM, 64k Ramdisk and 720k of +D disk. I could even struggle and get 8k out of the multiface and 16k from the +D, making it 856k!More details soon!","`" 1 "SPECTRUM +2 MONITOR SOCKET"," ","7 6 8 3 1 5 4 2",""," 1 "QUEST SOFTWARE"," ", "Run by my old friend David Ledbury who actually took me under the wing of ZAT! David runs a Sam/Spectrum adventure software house with such games like the terrifying 1 "PROBLEM"," ","Every so often, you will find that in the top 1/3rd of the screen, the spaces in the text are filled with funny charactersNope- I don't know why either. But, if you do and you have a cure, then drop me a line and get `1 FREE credits from our PD library. I think its just a quirk from the clock and edit routines merging with the font. The SPACE character should be at 64248 to 64256.","`" 1 "PRINTER"," ","Thanks to Stephen Mullen for theidea of a PRINT command to printpages out to your printer. I'venow included a line which COPYs to the ZX Printer, but if your printer is different, put your relevant line to copy the screento printr in line 1019","","If you have to add machine code,then Alchnews code starts at 63999 and is 1145 bytes long, so try and fit it between the end of BASIC and there.","`" 1 "PRINT ROUTINES"," ","If you look around, you will find plenty of them. The most common are 64 column ones. Thereare even a couple in Alchemist PD. Owners of AlchNews 1 will see a 42 column one used there. In fact, that could produce 16, 32, and 42 columns. I also havea 128k only 42 col. print routine. Most 40/42 printers have the BBC font, available from APD. There's also a proportional print routine, which sets the spacing between letters, so you could only have 32 M's on a line, but 128 i's!",";","`" 1 "PRICES"," "," 1 "PD PROGS WANTED"," ","If you send us any PD programs we will offer two of ours back on your tape FREE. Just send your contribution on a tape withSAE and your preference of two programs. But, PLEASE don't send us crappy"," 1 "Our Address"," ","Please mark the top of your letter for the relevant department. Eg: AlchNews, APD",""," 1 "Next Issue"," ","We HOPE to have some work from our own Mystic Dweller, Alec Carswell, who is busy with Adventure Link and his other projects. Until I hear from himagain, the position for a Adventure editor/writer is OPEN.Just write to me and you can have the job.","`" 1 "New Entries"," ","Some new entries into APD are asfollows..."," 1 "NEXT ISSUE"," ","The next issue is scheduled for 1 "NEW RELEASES"," ","you must simply travel to some far flung planet, rescue a few hostages and a professor who hasbeen kidnapped by a dastardly emporer while destroying the enemy- simple! The whole game's well put together and is a stealat this cheap price. 1 "NEW RELEASES"," ","The new products are coming fromthe people who produce budget orre-releases. This means that a lot of good games are available at a low price 1 "NEW RELEASES"," ","Basically, there is nothing thatthis game offers you that the others cannot. Granted, it is byno means the worst manager game but others have done it better. I suppose if you do not own one this is as good as many, but howmany people don't own one?",";","`" 1 "NEW RELEASES"," "," 1 "Multiface Matters"," ","Not much for the multiface a lately. The only big news is that Multifaces are cheap. If you don't own one then I urge you to get one while you can!"," 1 "More Ways To Sell"," "," 1 "MINUTE (0-59)? ";G: 1 "INPUT"," ","If you have ANY tips or hints for Quill, GAC, Illustrator or PAW then please send them in so I can send them on to Romania as they are mad on pokes and tips. I think that when they get a new game over there, they all go to the computer club and mass hack it! We had a pro- gressive history of games and loaders, they have recieved it in no order. From hyperloads to LOAD~~CODE!","`" 1 "How to get in touch"," ","Romanians are very big on computer clubs and very mature, even the young teens! So if youlike mature computer penpals I'dstrongly recommend a Romanian! I'm currently lining up a contract to bring some East European software in to publish over here. If you want a Romanian contact, send an SAE to my usual address and I'll give full details.","`" 1 "HOUR (1-12)? ";G: 1 "GAMES NEWS"," ","There is good news, however in the shape of 1 "GAMES NEWS"," ","So, if you think you've written the next blockbuster, why not drop Robert a line at-"," 1 "GAMES NEWS"," "," 1 "Features of Alchnews"," ","Built into Alchnews is a small suite of utilities which can be easily grabbed for your own use.The next few pages tell you exactly where they are and how to use them...",""," 1 "FRONT ENDS"," ","102 Built in Features","","103 Clock & Font","","104 Edit Routine","","105 Copy to Printer Routine","","106 AlchNews on Disk","","107 Alchemist DLS","","108 Encoder / Decoder Program","","109 Our Address","`" 1 "FOR SALE"," ","Magic Button Devices. Plug into128 keypad port. Feature on/offswitch, power on light,two inputdevices (LDR,switch,Infra) and two output devices (lamp, meter,buzzer). Costs around `10 to build. Buy ready built or kit form for `8 from the address on page 109. Custom built devices also. Write for details.","","Device can be INTERRUPT DRIVEN to act like a multface. Also accessed by simple Basic OUT calls. Works in 48 & 128 modes.USES NO MEMORY!","`" 1 "END"," ","Well, thats all again for this issue. It's a shame we've been reduced to 60 pages, but becauseof lack of support, theres no contributions to fill up the extra pages. If you would like your own section, then write to us. It's a great addition to a CV, saying that you're a writer!",""," 1 "ENCODER / DECODER"," "," 1 "EDIT"," "," 1 "DOOMSDAY"," ","Next Time I'll be doing an in depth feature on Doomsday, the chilling futuristic adventure for the 128k Spectrum by QUEST SOFTWARE. It will also feature an interview with the author andDavid Ledbury of QUEST.","Not to be missed!","`" 1 "DOOMSDAY SPECIAL"," ","Next time, the adventure sectionwill feature a special on the teriffic game, Doomsday from Quest Software. More details on page 139.","`" 1 "DIALSOFT"," ","Still available from us is 1 "DATA ENTRY & IDEAS"," ","Don't forget, if you don't own an adventure creator or have no idea how it works then you can supply the map, plot and ideas of a game and we can inputit for you and save you the trouble. We can also market the finished product (see p125).",""," 1 "Coping With GAC"," ","When I recieved a letter from 1 "COMING SOON"," ","In future columns, I hope to be able to review some homegrown software written by enthusiasts.This time, the game reviews werebrief but I promise they shall get longer. I just need some newreleases to review that aren't aimed at young kids! If you havewritten a game then please send me the details at the main A.N. address. This also applies to any game news or reader reviews.I hope to read your reviews soonso get writing!"," 1 "CLOCK"," ","The clock is at 63999 and is 248bytes longs. It is called by RAND USR 64001 and is 48k mode only as it's interrupt driven.",""," 1 "Buying British"," ", "As I stated earlier, the due to the exchange rate, my guess is that it is only profitable for Romania to export in Spectrum data. If 685 lei is 100p and a 30 page magazine costs about 10pthen surely a weekly wage is small. Anyway, Ive given the address of Gilsoft to hobBIT, so hopefully GAC will be abandoned in favour of Quill or PAW and look forward to some good software coming this way!","`" 1 "Begging Bowl!"," ", "If you have Quill, Illustrator or PAW and you don't want it, then it would be a great idea tosend it off to Romania. I don'tknow what the copyright situation is over there, but if it's anything like the Unified States (USSR) then it's legal tocopy anything. So one copy of Quill could be in thousands of Bucharest homes! I have sent off a PD Quill program to them to show how good a Quilled game can be!","`" 1 "Back To Me"," ","Many Thanks to Stephen for the reviews. He, as well as all theother contributors gets access to the Alchemist PD Library for his troubles. Hopefully, if I get the stuff back in time, I'llfill Stephen's hands with lots of games and programs from Romania, most of which will be free or available very cheaply from us at the usual address. Maybe we could even fob Y.S. offwith some rubbish we don't want!","`" 1 "Adverts & Contacts"," "," 1 "ALCHVENTURES"," ", " 1 "ALCHNEWS5" 1 "ALCHNEWS ON DISK"," "," 1 "ALCHNEWS AUTUMN 1992"," ","100 1 "ALCHEMIST PD"," "," 1 "ALCHEMIST INTO EUROPE"," ","Over the past six days, I had had no fewer than SIX letters from Romania, all in Bucharest to be precise! The letters wereall in perfect English, and the jewel in the crown of them all was a magazine called 1 "ALCHEMIST DLS"," ", "Last year I started writing a new, simple to use, front end menu system for any disk syntax.Well, last week I dug out the program and modified it and generally souped it up. It allows you to put in filenames and loading names onto the menu and features many extras. It's available for `1 from me or sendan SAE and tape for a demo. Theutilties section resembles the multiface operation and featuresdouble height text and a font!","`" 1 "ADVENTURE LINK"," ","From the brain of Doctor Dark (who should work for me more!) comes the tapezine, A.L. It features, news, info, letters, competitions and reviews in the original Doctor Dark Experience!Last price was `1 but write and check beforehand to:",""," 1 ","rubbish, or don'r expect your tape back! Send your programs to 1 ","One such example is 1 ","Another, but originalnew budget release is 1 ","Also newly rehashed is 1 ","","This is at 64248 and is 768 bytes long. To show, POKE 23606 ,248 and POKE 23607,249","`" 1 ","","Send in your work to us at the address on page 109, marked ADVENTURE.","`" 1 ","","Prize of `1 credit for ALCHEMISTPD to the best explaination of what key 1 "** ALCHEMIST RESEARCH **"," ","In a nutshell:",""," 1 "","^"," PRESS ~ENTER~ AGAIN PLEASE.","`" 1 ~APD CONTRIBUTIONS~ 1 whose address is in the contacts area. 1 who wanted to buy 1 which is disassembling the Multiface 1 loader, whih must have been smuggled in via a copy of a gamefrom over here!",";","`" 1 or write to the address on page 109","","Microdrive & Interface One wanted working. Ring 1 or write to 1 my PD programsbut sadly forgot to enclose any money! Ho Ho, sorry Alec, but I'm not THAT cabbage looking! Also, thanks for the takeover bid, I'll look into it VERY carefully.","`" 1 does in AlchNews! Winner and explaination next issue! (Dec. 1st)","`" 1 costs 70L- about 10p!!!",";","`" 1 at the address on page 109.","`" 1 and he told me that GAC was the only known creator program in Romania, I was shocked! I began to tell him about Quill and PAW and all our other creator like LASER BASIC, Scope2 etc. No disrespect to Incentive Softwarebut GAC is showing it's age and nowadays, text only adventures are most common now, and the best text processor is Quill or PAW",";","`" 1 and from now on, all issues will probabally tri- monthly until support rises considerably to make is monthly or bi-monthly. Please Could allcontributors have their submissions in for 1 Want to RUN this section?"," 1 Tips & Hints wanted"," 1 Services Offered"," 1 PD. Send it in to our PD libraryand reciev two free programs in return.",""," 1 Malcolm Gent 1 FULL SALE. Send it to us and we'll advertise it FREE in Alchnews and review it as well as sending out information and/ or demos to all our customers and contacts ALL OVER EUROPE. We can help sell it or you can deal with that yourself. We can help you arrange a price or you can set your own price. 1 Coping with GAC"," 1 Buying British"," 1 Adventure Link"," 1 1 Composite PAL 1.2V 2 0 volts - 3 bright TTL 4 composite sync TTL 5 vertical sync TTL 6 Green TTL 7 Red TTL 8 Blue TTL 1 and the hobBIT magazine is the best i've seen since the ZX magsover here turned sour.",";","`" 1 Wanted"," 1 Spectrum Video"," 1 Spectrum Video (2)"," 1 Spectrum Software Hire"," 1 Spectrum B.B."," 1 Next Issue & Competition"," 1 Monitor Socket Wiring"," 1 For Sale"," 1 Alchemist Research"," 1 Advance one page"," 1 ** "; 65536 1 ALCHNEWS AUTUMN 1992 n 1 with A.R."," 1 COMPETITION! 1 FONT.