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   1 with                                                                                        10 INPUT #4; LINE a$                                                        changing streams                                                                    PRINT   statements   may   also    containinformation for several streams at a time.The following program will print "one"  onthe screen; "two"  to  a  Microdrive  filecalled "digits" in Microdrive  1;  "three"to station 1 on a network (see chapter 7);and "four" to next line on the screen.                                              10 OPEN #4;"m";1;"digits"                 20 OPEN #5;"n";1                          30 PRINT "one";#4;"two";#5;                  "three";#2'"four"                      40 CLOSE #4                               50 CLOSE #5                                                                         setting colours                                                                     After  using  a  channel  other  than  thescreen, you ma
   1 then the C flag is setto 1.  Other  bits  indicate  whether  theresult of a  certain  operation  was  zero(the zero flag), or was negative (the signflag), or  overflowed  the  register  (theoverflow flag). These flags are common  toall the  machines,  though  they  are  notnecessarily in the same  position  in  theflag register. And there are  other  flagsthat are specific to each  machine.  Flagsare used in  conditional  statements
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   1 ineverything  from  household  budgeting  tointernational finance. For an  example  ofsuch analysis, type in these extra lines.                                                                                                                               400 FOR n = 1 TO 6                        410 IF a(n) > 3 THEN PRINT a$(n),a(n)     420 NEXT n                                                                          These lines PRINT a  list  of  corners  atwhich  more  than  three  accidents   haveoccurred. In our example of  six  corners,these are BROOK HILL and ROWLANDS. If  youchange the 3 in Line 410 to 5 and RUN  theprogram again, ROWLANDS is  PRINTed.  (Anynumber greater than 6, the largest  value,would cause nothing to  be  PRINTed.)  Theinformation stored  in  the  arrays  couldjust as easily be a list of families in  atown, together  with  statistics  such  asnumber of  children,  income  bracket  andnumber  of  cars.  Once  these  have  beenentered, they can be sorted  into  groups.You can even
   1 in both of which eachdata word has a check sum included so thatthe receiving equipment  can  tell  if  anerror has crept into the transmission. ARQstands for Auto Request, meaning  that  ifan error has been detected, the  receivingstation transmits  signal  to  the  senderasking  for  the  last  character  to   betransmitted. This  is  quite  complex  andrequires the user to  have  a  transmitterand a  receiver.  The  other  system,  FEC(Forward Error Correction) is simpler.  Ittransmits everything twice and if the  twoversions disagree, the receiver only  usesthe  correct   character.   Software   anddecoders for both ASCII  and  TOR  systemsare beginning to appear on the market.                                                         CAPTURING A SATELLITE                                                    With receivers that work  at  much  higherfrequencies it is even possible to receiveand display pictures taken by the AmericanNOAA   and   Russian   Meteor   satellitesalthough   at   present   interface
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   1 but  ithas to do this quite quickly,  of  course.It usually takes a little time and troubleto get  the  system  set  up  properly.  Acommon problem is  interference  from  thecomputer itself. The  first  thing  is  tomake sure that the aerial is as  far  awayfrom the computer  as  possible.  If  thisdoesn't cure the  problem  then  you  willhave to shield the computer electronicallyby lining the case  with  alum-inium  foiland wrapping all the cables coming out  ofit in the same material. The  foil  shieldcan then be connected  to  the  ground  tostop   the   interference   signals   fromescaping. Ano-ther technique  is  to  givethe inside of the computer's case  a  coatof zinc paint and earth  it  in  the  sameway.                                                                                                                                                                                                              
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   1 You will have opened stream 4  and  linkedit to channel S. Now enter                                                          20 PRINT #4;"This is a Spectrum computer"                                           Again, the line will appear on the screen.                                          (It is not advisable to OPEN to streams 0,1 or 2 as the results are unpredictable.)                                                                                                      Chapter 6                                                                    DATA AND THE MICRODRIVE                                                                                             Opening and naming a data file                                                      When you store information in a  cartridgeyou keep it in a files. You also give  thefile a name so that you can find it  againlater. The statement that opens and  namesa data files always takes the  same  form.For example try entering:                               
   1 You have, at the last count,  3  differentaccounts  of  what  actually  happened  atRoswell in those early days of July.                                                By default, only one of those accounts canbe true, or they are all true and  upto  6craft crashed (1 + 2 + 3 craft), with upto24 alien bodies (4 + 8 + 12) - all in  onenight!                                                                              The real story  about  Roswell,  the  realtruth about  Roswell,  is  that  we  don'treally know what went on there that  nightin 1947.                                                                            The only thing we do know for  certain  isthat something crashed, and the local Armyairbase  decided  to  issue  a   statementinforming  the   world   that   they   hadretrieved a 'flying disk', but  these  arethe only solid facts  about  Roswell  thatcan be substantiated.                                                               The rest  of  the  evidence  tends  to  behearsay, 'my f
   1 The address of the beginning of  the  sub-routine is then written into  the  programcounters.  As  each  instruction  in   thesubroutine is executed the program counteris incremen- ted in the usual way until ithits a return It instruction. Then data atthe top of the stack is pulled  back  intothe program counter and incremented in thenormal way.                                                                         This explains why, in BASIC programs, eachnested  subroutine  must   be   completelycontained  in  the   one   preceding   it,otherwise the  wrong  departure  addresseswill be on the top of the stack. Now  thatyou have some grasp of the more  importantconcepts behind machine code pro- grammingyou can find out how they  relate  to  thechips in your computer.                                                             There  are  21  user  registers   in   theSpectrum and ZX81's  Z80  chip.  They  arecalled user regis- ters because  they  canbe controlled by the user, or  programmer,of the machine
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   1 On the other hand,  he  hadn't  wanted  tomove  to  St.  Louis,  either,  when   thefederal government moved out of DC.                                                 The sun was hot. He turned and  went  backto  the  elevator,  waving  at  Jorge.  Heentered the community library on the firstfloor and logged on to the public terminalfor his mail. The house sysop was  nagginghim  for  his   vote   on   the   contractnegotiations for  house  maintenance;  thecontract  was  up  for  renewal  and   theowners' group was supposed to vote on  theproposals. Although he was mildly  annoyedat   the   Chinese   program   which   hadobstinately refused to learn English as  afirst language, he voted for it  over  theIsraeli program. He really didn't like therigidity of  their  literary  program  andtheir  restrictions  on  access   to   theinfoweb. His contacts at the Bureau  stillholoimaged  him  regularly,  and  he   wasactive in many informal discussion groups;restricted access would cut him  off  fromthe world.    
   1 Manic Miner PC V0.5                      -------------------                       By Andy Noble 1997                                                                                                First the legal bit.                      --------------------                                                                This game is released as  FREEWARE  and  Iexcept no responsibility  for  any  damagecaused  by  using  this   programme.   Theoriginal game is (C) 1983 BUG-BYTE Ltd andSOFTWARE PROJECTS Ltd.                                                              Please  copy  on  to  anybody   you   knowproviding  you  do  not  charge  for   theprivalage and this  file  accompanies  thegame.                                                                                                                                            Info.                                     -----                                                            The game was written over a 3 week period,on a night, after work. It 
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   1 In short, as  you  have  probably  alreadyrealised, all the syntax  used  within  anordinary cassette interface (explained  inchapter  20  of  the   BASIC   programmingmanual) applies also to the Microdrive.                                                                                       Erasing programs                                                                    Suppose you have just  finished  with  theprogram Squares. To erase it, enter:                                                        ERASE "m";1;"Squares"                                                       (As before "m";1  simply  indicates  whichMicrodrive you are using.)                                                          During the ERASE statement the border willflash.                                                                              If you BREAK while saving a  program  thenyou will have  an  unclosed  file  in  thecartridge. You  cannot  LOAD  an  unclosedfiles, and an attempt to do so  will  givethe report 'fi
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   1 2.00 post and packing(USA $25 including air  mail  delivery)  -order from:                                                                                       Enrico Tedeschi                         54 Easthill Drive,                             Brighton                               BN41 2FD, U.K.                                                                                                  Sir Clive Sinclair has sent the  followingletter (extracts)                                                                   Dear Mr.Tedeschi,                                                                                                             ... I would like to say how astonishing  Ifound  your  book.  It  is  so  remarkablycomplete and will be a great  help  to  me...                                                                                 Best wishes                                                                         Sir Clive Sinclair                                                           
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   1 1 per title PD idea    AN17,30 IEBA (8BIT) (Re-)Launched         AN18,2  Programmer Chris Pile Jailed      AN18,2  How Basic programs are stored     AN18,5  128 BASIC bugs (iii)              AN18,7  Fountain PD Introduction          AN18,9  Logic Gates                       AN18,12 Metric Day Madness                AN18,18 The Garden, appropriate poem      AN18,31 Coding a demo, Chris Taylor       AN18,33 Programs from other machines      AN18,41 Putting Together Pascal (i)       AN18,53 Classix game finder service       AN19,3  Finding game passwords            AN19,10 Putting Together Pascal (ii)      AN19,11 Fountain PD, revised information  AN19,17 Video tape repair                 AN19,21 Jet Set Willy returns             AN19,22 Media Prices at March 1996        AN19,24 Paul's Rantings, with game        AN19,29 Impact PD information             AN19,32 CD Snapshot file Searching        AN19,40 Speccy world records              AN19,52 Express Software launched         AN19,67 Possible Spectrum fair   
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   1  message  willbe displayed. If the data is  in  "String"form then it is necessary to enclose  eachone in quotation marks. Two  examples  areshown below. One is using  Numerical  DATAand the other string DATA:                                                                                                                                                                                          Numeric Data               String Data                                               10 READ                  10 READ a$       20 READ b                20 READ b$       30 READ c                30 READ c$       40 PRINT a               40 PRINT a$      50 PRINT b               50 PRINT b$      60 PRINT c               60 PRINT c$      70 DATA 10,20,30         70 DATA "TOM",                            "DICK","HARRY"                                          Numeric and string data can of  course  bemixed and the following is an  example  ofthis:                                                                               
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   1  210 FOR n= 1 TO 6                         220 PRINT a$(n), a(n)                     230 NEXT n                                                                         Lines 210 and 230 loop through  the  list,while line 220 PRINTs out  the  names  andnumbers stored in the arrays. If you  findyou've made a mistake then correct it now.When you come to analyse  the  results  ofthe  survey,  you  will  want  to   answerquestions such as 'How many  crashes  werethere in all?' and 'Which are  the  safestcorners?'. The lines  to  find  the  totalnumber of accidents might look like this:                                           300 CLS                                   310 LET total = 0                         320 FOR n = 1 TO 6                        330 LET total = total + a(n)              340 NEXT n                                350 PRINT "Total number of                accidents: ";total                                                                  Imagine how useful  the  few  lines  abovewould be if yo
   1   theequivalent of IF . . . THEN in  BASIC.  Inthe machine  code  equivalent,  you  writeinstruc- tions which will make the machinejump or branch if the  sign  or  the  zeroflag was set, say.                                                                                                                             THE STACK                                                          Another register is the stack pointer.  Itholds the address of  a  memory  location.And like all pointers this  address  marksthe  end  of  an  area  of  memory.   Thatspecialised area of memory is, of  course,the machine stack. This is aquick-  accessarea  where  information  can  be   storedtemporarily  and  recalled   without   thenormal addressing procedures.                                                       The stack is  like  an  ordinary  pile  ofpapers. Then you want to  put  informationinto it, it has to be piled  on  the  top.And when you want to take something out ofit, you have to take it from the top.  Therule  is 
   1                  TUNING IN                                                          That's the system - what do you listen to?It can be fun just tuning around the  dialrandomly,  but  beware.  It  is   actuallyillegal  to  receive  some  transmissions,with a very heavy fme if you  are  caught.You are allowed  to  receive  the  amateurtransmissions which are a found  on  thesebands:                                                                              3.58 to 3.62 MHz                          7.035 to 7.045 MHz                        10.140 to 10.150 MHz                      14.080 to 14.100 MHz                                                                Books that  give  comprehensive  lists  ofpeople using  RTTY  are  the  World  PressServices     Frequencies      ConfidentialFrequency   List   and   Guide   to   RTTYFrequencies.                                                                                        READING OUT                                                         When  everythi
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   1                                           TRADING POST                              Victoria Road                             SHIFNAL TF11 8AF                          (Spctrum +2a / +3 hardware and spares     UK supplier of SINTECH games)                                                                                                 ZENOBI SOFTWARE                           26 Spotland Tops                          Cutgate                                   ROCHDALE OL12 7NX                         (Leading adventure software house)                                                                                            ZX FILES                                  Paul White                                30 The Rowans                             WETHERBY LS22 5EB                         (The best Spectrum magazine around!)                                                                                          Z88 Emulator                              Jeroen Van Den Bilt                       Keteldiepstraa
   1                                           SINCLAIR 128 KEYPADS FOUND UNDER NEW GUISE                                          The Sinclair 128 keypad has always been  asubject  of  conversation.  To   stir   upinterest in it again I thought  you  mightlike to know that I've found them  in  useunder a new guise.                                                                  A  company  called  HYDRAFEED,  based   inMilton Keynes in the UK  is  using  a  sixbutton  device  with  the  usual  six  way'telephone' type connector on one of theirproducts: the Multifeed Short Magazine BarFeed type ML-1.                                                                     Although the pad has only six buttons, thecase of the unit has provision for nine.                                            This  will  mean  nothing  to  anyone  whodoesn't  know  anything  about   precisionengineering, but the device feeds  lengthsof bar into a computer controlled  machinefor turning into machined components.                   
   1                                            SINCLAIR ZX INTERFACE 1 and ZX MICRODRIVE                                          Designed  and   prepared   by    CambridgeCommunication Limited                                                                                                         Note: The  name  ZX  Microdrive   and   ZXInterface 1  are  trademarks  of  SinclairResearch Limited Stanhope  Road  CamberleySurrey  GU15  3PS Tel:  Camberley   (0276)685311                                                                                         THE ZX INTERFACE 1...                                                    incorporates   the  three   functions   ofMicrodrive controller, local area  networkand RS232 Interface.  Connect it  to  yourSpectrum and you can control up  to  eightMicrodrives,   communicate   with    othercomputers  and  drive  a wide   range   ofprinters.                                                                                       THE ZX MICRODRIVE...                        
   1                                               ONE IN THE EAR FROM CLIVE SINCLAIR                  by TOM STANDAGE                                                       British inventor Sir  Clive  Sinclair  hasgone back to his  roots  with  his  latestinvention - the Sinclair X1 Button  Radio,the size of a 10p coin. The X1 weighs halfan ounce and is worn in  one  ear.  Tuninginvolves   pushing   tiny   buttons   that"search" up and down the VHF spectrum.                                              "It will enable  you  to  listen  to  yourfavourite station wherever you are, and sodiscreetly that even the  person  next  toyou will be unaware  that  you  are  usingit," says Sir Clive. He talks of more  newproducts  in   the   pipeline,   includinganother radio, a cordless phone and a  newkind of portable computer. "We've got someexciting  new  technology   that's   quiteradical in  design.  My  feeling  is  thatportable computers at the moment  are  toomuch of a compromise, so we're looking  atways of achiev
   1                                                UFO's and the Occult Reich by TAL                                                From: Nevada Aerial Research Newsletter      P.O. Box 1701 Rock Springs Drive              Las Vegas, Nevada 89128.                                                                                             Many civilizations with  "flying  saucers"exist, and are hidden inside this  planet.Beings which generate  out  of  their  ownthought, various craft are among us. Thereare also the UFO craft that are  built  bysurface cultures.  All  these  are  linkedtogether in  various  ways.  Most  all  ofthese are OCCULT (hidden)...and  most  are"messengers of deception".                                                          In  1867,  Wentworth  Little  founded  theEnglish Rosicrucian  Society.  He  was  incontact  with  the  German   Rosicrucians.Little recruited his followers, up to  144people,   from   the    ranks    of    thehigher-ranking "Freemasons".  One  of  hisdisciples was 
   1                                                 Man to ride Zike across Thames                     on tightrope                                                                         Chris Owen                                                          Evel Knievel jumped 13 London buses  on  aHarley  Davidson;  Eddie  Kidd  leapt  theGreat Wall of China on a Honda CR500.  NowAdam Harper aims to cross the Thames on  atightrope using a Zike - "baby brother" ofthe Sinclair C5.                                                                    As the world agent  for  the  much-deridedC5, the brainchild of Sir Clive  Sinclair,Mr. Harper hopes to wipe the smile  off  afew faces when he uses the inventor's Zike- a zero-emission bicycle - and raise  theprofile of electrically-powered vehicles.                                           The Kent cycle shop owner  demonstrated  apractice rig for his latest stunt today topromote Kensington and  Chelsea  council'sEnvironment Day.                                        
   1                                                 Back in time with Arnold Yates.                                               I thought for our stroll back in  time  inthis issue I would pass on a few  snippitsof information as  regards  the  good  oldSpectrum that hopefully will be of use andinterest to you, and maybe give  you  foodfor thought of other ways  to  change  theSpectrum for the better. Right lets  crackon and get started.                                                                 First what is the  diffrence  between  thethe +2 grey 128k and the +2a  black  128k,and why were there so many incompatibilityproblems..?                                                                         Well the +2 grey is really the  old  styleSinclair black 128k, thats  the  one  withthe heatsink on the outside, to the  rightof  the  keyboard,  this  was   the   mostcompatible  of  all  the  spectrums.   Theproblems started  when  amstrad  in  theirwisdom rewrote part part of  the  ROM  forthe other Spec
   1                                                 ARRAYS - THE INFORMATION STORES                      Dick Ward                                                          Arrays  are  the   computer   programmer'smethod  of  handling  large   amounts   ofclosely-related information - for example,long lists  of  club  members  with  theiraddresses   and   subscriptions,   complexfinancial  records,  and  even  lists   ofcharacters, weapons  or  treasure  for  anadventure game. To store individually eachpiece of information in such a long  list,you could enter a massive  number  of  LETstatements. But this would create  a  longprogram and a  lot  of  typing.  What  thearray does is to store the information  ina far more compact form. Instead of havinga different  variable  for  each  item  ofinformation, you use a  common  one,  say.And to differentiate  between  each  item,you merely  use  a  figure  (or  sometimesletter) in brackets. So the first item  iscalled A(1), the second  A(2),  the  thirdA(3) and so on
   1                                                 *******************************           *                             *           *     THE ALCHNEWS INDEX      *           *    (Covers issues 1-24)     *           *                             *           *******************************                                               To help you find your  favourite  articleseasier, or make a preferred choice of backissues, this index gives  details  of  allprimary articles in  AlchNews.  There  aremany extra articles and snippets  of  newsin the magazine,  not  listed  here.  Thisindex  is  being  constantly  updated   toprovide   a   full   cross-reference    ofinformation. For example, Tasword 128 tipscan  be  found  under  128k  and  in   theWordprocessing sections.                                                            Articles are classified into the followingcategories:                                                                         ADVENTURES: Games, tips, hints,  adventurecreator techni
   1                                                  Converting files between the               PC and the Commodore Amiga                                                                 Lloyd Garland                                                                                                  On the face of it, it seems very difficultwithout some form of cable linkage via theserial ports, but there is a  simpler  wayprovided  that  the  files  you  want   totransfer are not too large.                                                         There is a disk available  in  the  publicdomain called "MessySid  V2".  This  is  aprogram that will both read and write 720KMS DOS disks on your Amiga.                                                         MessySid  has  restrictions,  but  it   issimple and reliable in use, and is similarin  many  respects  to  X-Tree  Gold  -  aprogram that many PC users have  used  andloved for years now.                                                                The restrictio
   1                                                   GETTING TO THE HEART OF IT                                                  Computers have memories.  But  they  do  agreat deal more than just remember things,because they are also able  to  manipulatewhat they memorize.  The  manipulation  isdone by the Central Processing Unit (CPU),also   called   the   microprocessor.    Amicroprocessor looks like any  other  chipbut it is very different from the  others.They  are  passive  devices  that   simplyremember what they are told  to.  But  themicroprocessor is intelligent. It can add,subtract, moveinformation from one  memorylocation to another and shift  and  rotatetheir  bit  patterns.  And   learning   tomanipulate  and   communicate   with   themicroprocessor is what machine code is allabout.                                                                                       THE HEART OF THE MACHINE                                                   Everything that happens in  your  computeris  under  the
   1                                                    MORE SPECTRUM SQUABBLING                                                   Just when you thought things  were  quiet,up springs yet another war of words.  Thistime between BOB BRENCHLEY of  FORMAT  andour old fiend MARTYN SHERWOOD of  servicesunknown.  A  reader  of  Format  made   anever-so-slight  comment  about  Prism  andthat prompted a scathing attack of lies byMartyn Sherwood. You will all  be  pleasedto hear that Mr Sherwood believes that theSpectrum  groups  are  either   scared  ofAlchemist Research, at our feet or in  ourpocket! Mr Brenchley's reply was  just  asscathing, he said:                                                                   "If Mr Sherwood spent more time actually  doing somethig  constructive,  and  less  time  inventing  new  titles   for   his  business ventures and wasted  less  time  designing very o.t.t. letterheads and so  called fact-sheets, then  just  possibly  people would take him more seriously."                 
   1                                                     THE GREAT GIANA HOAX ?                                                    CLASSIX  fanzine  can  exclusively  revealthat the much sort after Spectrum softwaretitle , THE GREAT GIANA SISTERS, was NEVERin fact released on this format.                                                    After many  years  of  searching  Spectrumowners must now face the reality that  thegame which has become more prized than theGremlin  Games  rarity,  Nigel   Mansell'sWorld   Championship,   was   stopped   inproduction and never hit the  high  streetshelves.                                                                            Breaking the news exclusively to  Classix,software  collector  and  Spectrum  expertextrodinaire ROBERT CHILTON, told us  thatthe game was stopped in its  tracks  aftersoftware  giant  NINTENDO  started   legalproceedings against the game's  licencees,US GOLD.                                                                            Nintendo were 
   1                                                      TUNE IN TO THE WORLD                                                     They  say  that  nothing   is   new.   Theinformation revolution didn't  start  withthe coming of the home computer, but  whenGiglielmo Marconi  made  his  first  radiotransmissions across the Atlantic way  bakat the start of the twentieth century.                                              The real revolution is not  the  existenceof the technology, but it's sophistication-  and  this  is  what   the   informationrevolution  owes  to  the  micro.   Today,microelectronic control technology doesn'tonly regulate the  washing  cycle  in  yorwashing machine,  it  has  also  begun  tochange  the  face  of   world-wide   radiocommunications and this  is  something  inwhich   the   home   user    can    easilyparticipate.                                                                        Short wave radio has  the  ability  tosendand  receive  signals  at  extremely  longdistances, and
   1                                                      INFORMATION ARTICLES                                                     Emulating the keypad functions    AN3,p163Hisoft Basic and Compilers        AN3,p170New instant 42 column system      AN6     Cleaning computer and tape deck   AN6,p120256k RAM?                         AN6,p12832 column system, even faster     AN7     Open letter to dodgy PD libs      AN7,p102Establishing special user clubs   AN7,p150Forth User Group                  AN7,p154Rasputin & Propac PD close        AN8,p104Soapbox: Unscrupulous cash ins    AN8,p106IEBA (ZAT) launched               AN8,p110Using Fax paper on thermals       AN8,p135Clive Sinclair picture            AN9     New AlchNews header and selector  AN9     Specialising libraries idea       AN9     History of Computing (i)          AN9     Computing Terms (i)               AN9     Pascal User Group                 AN9     Elite: Adding a new font          AN9     Elite: Hacking game and files     AN9     Wrath of God p
   1                                                       QL EMULATOR ARRIVES                                                     Ole! The QLAY emulator by Jan  Venema  hasarrived for the PC.  It's  DOS  based  andcomes with extra utilities and  the  Psionutility  software  suite.  It's  availablefrom ALCHEMIST EMULATORS on DD or HD  diskfor just one pound and runs well on a  386with around 16Mb of RAM.                                                                                                                   BEWARE OF CRYSTAL                                                      Bob Dickson of RDS contacted  us  a  shorttime ago. He'd been approached by a  Dutchgroup called CRYSTAL and they  wanted  hisservices to convert games to the  Spectrumand  also  remarket  his  software  -  nowowned by us and distributed by  ASW.  Theygave big promises and Bob  contacted  themto obtain more information, but  got  verylittle. He asked us to find out  more.  Wedid. We found that they were  claiming  tonow  own  The 
   1                                                       Handling cartridges                                                     Every cartridge comes in a protective box;and should always be kept in its  box whennot in use.                                                                         When you take a cartridge out of  its  box(being  careful  not  to  touch  the  tapeitself) you will see that it has  a  labelon the top and another on the side.                                                 Push the cartridge firmly into the slot inthe front of the  Microdrive,  making surethat the label on the side  faces upwards.This will leave the top  of  the cartridgeprojecting by about 1/2cm.  The Microdriveand cartridge are now ready to be used.                                             When   you   have   finished   using   thecartridge, pull it carefully  out  of  theMicrodrive, and replace it immediately  inits box. But remember...                                                            NEVER  TAKE  T
   1                                                        Z88 Hints & Tips                              Part One                                                                           J.E.Lawrie                                                                                                         1) Securing leads on small plugs.                                              Small plugs of the type which are used  toconnect the PSU to the Z88  are  prone  toearly failure because of  flexing  of  theconnecting wires.  There  is  no  suitableanchor provided. But, you can make one!                                             After making good soldered joints, wrap  apiece of soft wool around the ends of  thewires and the joint until you have  enoughon to make the cap  a  fairly  close  fit.Unscrew the cap, smear  the  wool  with  alttle glue and re-fit the cap. If you havedone a good job you will have a  "moulded"connector which will give long service.                                                           
   1                                                         BACK TO BASICS                                Part 3                                                                            by Ken Beer                                                                                                   A Program having  been  entered  into  theComputer is lost as soon as it is switchedoff and therefore some permanent store  isrequired. So the first  thing  I  want  todiscuss is how we SAVE our programs. We dothis on a cassette tape just as you  wouldrecord   a   music   tape   but    certainprecautions are neccesary                                                           SAVING A PROGRAM                                                                    The first thing required is  a  good  taperecorder to avoid  the  disappointment  offalse loadings. A stero tape-recorder  canbe used but it may be necessary to connectboth left  and  right  channels  together.This will provide a stronger input  signalto the recorde
   1                                                          TRADING POST                             **************                                                        Please enclose a SAE with your enquiry  toall services. If purchasing from a privateindividual, make confirmation the  articleis still for sale and try not to send cashunless a premium delivery service is used.                                                                                    SERVICES REMOVED:                                                                   IMPACT SOFTWARE: Closed down.             EMILY SOFTWARE : No longer manufacturing. SOFTSELL / SSH : Closed down.                                                                                                 If your group isn't listed, please get  intouch and we'll add your details.                                                                    * * * * *                                                          ADVENTURE WORKSHOP                        36 Grasmere Ro
   1                                                           Hove Books                           Products and Services                                                                                                          SINCLAIR ARCHEOLOGY.          The complete  photo  guide  to  collectabl                   models                                                                                                     - 130 pages / A4 format                   - more than 300 pictures                  - written by a collector for collectors   - backed by 35 years experience           - publisher HOVE BOOKS in Brighton        - author Enrico Tedeschi                  - ISBN 0 9527883 0 6                                                                THIS is not the usual kind  of  book  thatyou read and then put aside, never to lookat again.                                                                           IF  you   are   interested   in   obsoleteelectronics for historical reasons or justplain nostalgi
   1                                                           Grey Fox                              by Sarah Stegall                                                        Fox Mulder woke up from a dream about DanaScully and lay looking at the  ceiling  ofhis room.                                                                           It took longer and longer to  marshal  histhoughts now; the days when he could  leapout of bed clear-headed  and  sharp  as  atack were more than a decade behind him. Aphotograph fades with age, he  thought  tohimself. Surely a photographic memory doesthe same, eventually.                                                               Carefully, bracing for  the  pain  in  hisarthritic neck, he turned his head to  thebedside table to look at  the  photographsthere. They were always the  first  thingshe saw in the morning and the last  thingshe  saw  at  night,  the  only  invariableritual in his life.                                                                 The photograph
   1                                                            INDEX (1)                                                                                                    AN25.0 : This file.                                                                 AN25.1 : THE DEFINITIVE SPECTRUM MANUAL.           A book no user would be without.                                           AN25.2 : NEWS. Happenings in the  SpectrumAN25.3 : World.                                                                     AN25.4 : REVENGE OF THE  SINCLAIR  KEYPAD.         The editor finds one - in the             engineering industry!                                                      AN25.5 : THE GREAT GIANA  HOAX.  Was  this         game    ever    written.    James         Waddington thinks not...                                                   AN25.6 : THE SINCLAIR RADIO. Sir Clive  is         back sellin  tiny  radios  again,         going full circle back  to  where         he first began.                                
   1                                                            CREDITS                                                            Greatful appreciation must go out  to  allwho helped in the production of this  finepublication. Notable thanks must go to:                                                                                       Editor:               Andy Davis Bsc      Sub-Editor:           Desmond Tyler       Sam compiler:         Ferry Groothedde    AlchNews tapes:       Michael Harrop                                                                                          Original Programming: Dominic Morris      Later Programming:    Andy Davis                                United Minds                              Paul Howard                               Miles Kinloch                                                                                           128K Music:           Agent-X                                   Chris Taylor                              United Minds                      
   1                                                              NEWS                                Latest Happenings                                                                                                               SORRY ARNOLD                                                         Unfortunately we forgot to include  ArnoldYates's BACK IN TIME section  in  AlchNews24. Normal service is resumed and a  largeslice of humble pie for the Ed, please.                                                                                                        C5 ADVICE                                                          Still with Arnold, he  suggests  to  avoidany  Channel  five  interference  and   toimprove the  Spectrum  screen  display  byusing a monitor. He uses a Microvitec  Cuband  Amstrad  CTM-640  monitor.  For   thelatter you can pick up a  lead  from  yourlocal  TANDY  store,  or   contact   LloydGarland at Alchemist  Software  who  makesleads to order.                                         
   1                                                                                               -Alchemist on the Web-                                                        http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/            communion/5/rbenson.html                                                   ------------------------------------------                                              DB2 PLUS THREE DISC BACKUP UTILITY                    (KOBRASOFT)                                   ` 2                                                                                                       My name is Roy Longuard, the goverment is lying to you, History as we know it, is a lie to hide the truth...                                                                                                                Roys Trouty Wibble Page                   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>                                                   Some brief reviews that I've been meaning to get around to doing...                               
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