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1 ;'''"SUNGLASS SAM GOES ALPINE SKIING!":
1 ;"~Q~ TO STOP OR ANY OTHER";
1 ;"no. 6 to DEAL and Q to RECALL."
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1 ;"WRITE THE WORDS TO";
1 ;"WORD TOO LONG":
1 ;"WITH QUESTION RESET.";
1 ;"WINNINGS=";bet:
1 ;"WINNINGS=";bet
1 ;"WIN A GREAT PRIZE!"
1 ;"WHIZZ QUIZ";
1 ;"WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO";
1 ;"WELL DONE LADS!";
1 ;"Use nos. 1-5 to DISCARD cards,";
1 ;"Use No. 1 To Go Lower,";
1 ;"TURN TAPE OVER";
1 ;"TOTAL ";
1 ;"TO YOUR OWN CHILDS";
1 ;"TO TRY ANOTHER"
1 ;"TO REACH CAMP. GREAT";
1 ;"THIS ONE IS MADE FOR BUDDING BEETHOVENS! A DOUBLE SIDED TAPE WITH A PIANO, A COMPOSER, AND A FUN MUSICAL QUIZ FOR GRADE ONE"
1 ;"THE PUZZLE WITH A BILLION MOVES SEND US TWO SOLUTIONS AND ENTER OUR GREAT COMPETITION. BAFFLE FLUMMOX AND PERPLEX"
1 ;"THE ARTS";
1 ;"TEL: o1-437-0626"
1 ;"TEACHES LETTERS AND NUMBERS THE FUN WAY,BY GAMES AND RHYMES YOU CAN EVEN BLOW OUT THE CANDLES ON THE CAKE!"
1 ;"SUNGLASS SAM IN"
1 ;"STRAIGHT"
1 ;"STOP THE TAPE";
1 ;"STILL LOADING"
1 ;"STAR TRUCKER";
1 ;"SOFTWARE REVIEWS"''
1 ;"SILICON CHIP LUDO! A GAME OF SKILL AND CHANCE THATS A REAL CHALLENGE. FOR 1-4 PLAYERS."
1 ;"SHIPSHAPES";
1 ;"SET THE QUESTIONS";
1 ;"SCIENCE";
1 ;"SAMS SAFETY";
1 ;"SAFARI PARK CHASE.";
1 ;"ROYAL FLUSH"
1 ;"REWIND AND PLAY":
1 ;"Power Graphics and Typesetter";
1 ;"PRESTEL REVIEWS"''
1 ;"PLOT 80,42:DRAW 100,100,625":
1 ;"PLOT 80,42:DRAW 100,100,4125":
1 ;"PLOT 50,60:DRAW 100,100,425"
1 ;"PLOT 100,50:DRAW 100,100,525":
1 ;"PLEASURE OF MAKING";
1 ;"PLEASE WAIT";
1 ;"PARTY TIME";
1 ;"PAIR OF ACES":
1 ;"OUR SPACE SONG";
1 ;"OR ASK AT W.H. SMITH OR ANY";
1 ;"No. 0 To Go Higher";
1 ;"NUDGES:";N:
1 ;"NUDGES:";N
1 ;"NO. 1 GOLDEN SQUARE,";
1 ;"NEW HIGH SCORE!!":
1 ;"Mount Florida,";
1 ;"MORE ABOUT CLEVER CLOGS";
1 ;"MICRO-DRIVIN from Softel";
1 ;"MAY/JUNE ISSUE
1 ;"LONDON WIR 3AB.";
1 ;"LOADING":
1 ;"LEADING SOFTWARE RETAILERS"
1 ;"JUNGLE JUMBLE";
1 ;"Insecurity Complex":
1 ;"IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW";
1 ;"How do you like my ""
1 ;"Haddington";
1 ;"HYPER SPACE HOLDS NO FEARS FOR THOSE WHO GET THE ANSWER RIGHT. STRATEGY AND TACTICS TAUGHT THE FUN WAY."
1 ;"HIGH SCORE=";hi;" by ";d$
1 ;"HELP TEACH SAM ROAD SENSE AND SAFETY- WHICH IN TURN WILL MAKE YOUR OWN CHILD AWARE OF ROAD SAFETY."
1 ;"HACKER'S HANGOUT"
1 ;"Glasgow"
1 ;"GET THE LETTERS RIGHT";
1 ;"GENERAL KNOWLEDGE"
1 ;"GAMBLE";
1 ;"EVER WANTED TO CREATE YOUR OWN UNIQUE ZOO? NOWS YOUR CHANCE! ANSWER THE QUESTIONS CORRECTLY AND THERE IS YOUR PICTURE."
1 ;"E.Lothian"
1 ;"Dear Ed,"
1 ;"DYSLEXIA BEATER from Dunitz";
1 ;"DUCE YOUR CHILD TO THE";
1 ;"CREDITS:";credit;
1 ;"CONTACT:-";
1 ;"CONGRATULATIONS!"
1 ;"COMPETITION !";
1 ;"COLLECT";
1 ;"Bill McIntosh";
1 ;"Bill McIntosh":
1 ;"BLOCKBUSTER";
1 ;"BET:";bet
1 ;"BANDIT is loading";
1 ;"BANDIT by A.Flinn"
1 ;"And P To Stand ."
1 ;"ARGUS PRESS SOFTWARE LTD";
1 ;"APPLE JAM from Dk'tronics";
1 ;"ALSO JOIN IN THE GREAT";
1 ;"ACME Two Pronged Trivet":
1 ;"A.LONG";
1 ;"A PROGRAM TO LET YOU SEE AND UNDERSTAND SHAPES THE EASY WAY BY LETTING YOU DRAW AND CREATE THEM USING SIMPLE AIDS."
1 ;"600 QUESTIONS ON EACH TAPE, DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE AND STIMULATE. LINKED INTO SCHOOLWORK THEY KEEP THE CHALLENGE GOING BY FEEDING INTO THE CLEVER CLOGS GAMES"
1 ;"23 West Rd";
1 ;"17 Stanmore Rd,";
1 ;"1, 2, or 3 to Hold - C to Cancel"
1 ;" You have `1 to start off with":
1 ;" TITLES AGE 9+ "
1 ;" TITLES AGE 7+ "
1 ;" TITLES AGE 5+ "
1 ;" TITLES AGE 3+ "
1 ;" START THE TAPE "
1 ;" SECONDARY KNOWLEDGE PACKS "
1 ;" S to START "
1 ;" Q to Quit or any other to Play "
1 ;" Q to QUIT or any key to Rerun "
1 ;" NEWS FLASH "
1 ;" LOSE ":
1 ;" Dr. Franky from Virgin";
1 ;" CLEVER CLOGS ";
1 ;" BROKE AGAIN "''
1 ;" BEAR BOVVER from Artic";
1 ;" ALPINE SKIING "
1 ;" 27 WAYS "
1 ;" 1,2,or 3 to Nudge- X to Cancel"
1 ;" STILL LOADING - LET TAPE RUN "
1 ;" PRESS ANY KEY TO TURN PAGE "
1 ;" STOP TAPE - PRESS ANY KEY ";
1 ;" Press any key to turn page"
1 ;" Press any key for next page"
1 ;" Press P for a printout, or"
1 ;" G to Gamble - C to Collect "
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1 ''''" You have lost all your money"'''" Press Q to Quit or any to play"
1 ''''" Wizard Prang Presents-"''''" The EXPLODING SCREEN WIPE"''" Amaze your friends- Confound your enemies- Perplex your psy- chiatrist with Prang's latest easy-to-steal M/code zap, (for private theft only, not to be resold!)"''" Press a key to explode the page"
1 '''" Suddenly all our letters are from Scotland. Notice how we only 'print' the complimentary ones? There's a lesson there foreveryone!"''" Once again we are awarding theStar prize to both letters. The Editors indecision is final. Ten"
1 '''" POKER By Kevin McCallion"''''" First round is Draw Poker (Aces or better to win)"'''" Second round is High or Low"''''" Starting stake `100"
1 ''" Press 'S' to SAVE the code, Or 'W' to wipe again, Or 'M' for the next article"
1 ''" PRESS ANY KEY TO PLAY "
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1 "you could use it to send us one of BT's nice birthday cards. If you are not on, you might want to know some details. The Prism VTX5000 costs about `100. If you don't have one of BT's new style phone jacks, it will cost about `25 pounds to put in. That is all you need to pay, for hardware. The subscriptions"
1 "you a membrane (my neck is way out, here). Fitting it is a mat-ter of prying off the metal part(with the rainbow in the corner)then sticking the new bit where the old one was and gluing down the metal again."
1 "wipe code"
1 "vailable at power-up. It is veryeasy to use, with facilities forsaving and printing Prestel pag-es, downloading software, and preparing mailbox messages off- line, and all menu driven. It makes the Spectrum one of the cheapest and simplest ways to"
1 "using rodent with a nice line inhelp files and revelations. So that I don't get lost, I shall concentrate on the Micro- computer interest in the rest ofthis review, but don't forget that there is much more on tap.":
1 "to lose weight, which means rat trouble anyway. However, you cansquash the rat by catching him under the lift (yech, what real-ism), and you can poison him by getting enough points. Just as you think you have the rat sort-"
1 "time on the free pages, and pro-vided you move about by menu se-lections, you always get advancewarning of costly pages, but be-ware of direct page no. entry. Cancer Research did rather well out of one 'try page x!' notice!":
1 "tape can be put on another. Theyhave tried hard, too, and are losing much more to piracy than the software producers."'" At this point the MOD steps into confiscate a recording systemfor which quite shattering "
1 "say they have fixed this, but they really shouldn't let us seea bug, 'cause we blab. The otherthing was a straight pinch of a LINE 1 REM routine from Wizard Prang, in their instructions."
1 "right order. If you get one in front of the truck you're stuck. You get four levels of music on this, from constant through occasional to off. Wonderful to have a choice, or several.":
1 "reviews2"
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1 "program onto tape as if it were a program in itself."'" Alan's routine is written in m/code (of course) and, like allthe best of such things, it is relocatable or position indepen-dent or whatever words to the effect that it will run in any"
1 "piracy is a sickness. Of course it goes on and it is certainly wrong, but a `200 schoolboy col-lection of pirated games doesn'trepresent `200 lost sales. Wherewould he have got `200 from if he hadn't been able to pirate?"
1 "perception without boring drill. The game in our snap is a minefield, which you cross using thecursor keys. Looks easy now, buton the next level the mines are invisible, and you have to rely on the detector. Things persue.":
1 "on the journalist's crib sheet. Two features that we discover-ed may be missing from the ver- sion you buy. One is a bug that causes a crash if you use singleletter inputs, sometimes. Softel":
1 "of modem going. The system is onringback, which means let the phone ring once then hang up anddial again to get the computer to answer (otherwise a human mayanswer). When you get the tone, switch on as with Prestel and"
1 "of a cassette port is already putting software houses off the QL. The microdrives may be pro- tectable, but the media is rare and costly. So what is left? Break-proofing is a bit of a joke on cassette software, but it helps a bit, as tape-to-tape"
1 "not remove the current items, and you can travel backwards in time through the earlier news like a newspaper's archives. Thesame applies to the letters, nowupdated twice a week by popular demand."
1 "non-subcribers can use to get into the free software on Micronet(the 'nets routing management being somewhat flaky at best). Viewfax, and to a lesser ex- tent Micronet, give more space to Acorn computers than the sizeof their user base can justify.":
1 "might want to put the routine elsewhere. You can do this most easily by changing the address assigned to the variable named 'oneline' in line 1000. The routine is in DATA state- ments in the subroutine at line 1000, and GOSUB 1000 will load the code routine into whatever"
1 "key ENTER a few times. You may be rewarded with an interesting contrast to Prestel, but bear with it if things don't work outas this is an enthusiasts free service, and Roger is still tun-ing as I write!"
1 "ity interest on what started outas a service providing city newsand information for travel agen-cies (still a major threat!). There are supposed to be hund-dreds of thousands of pages on Prestel, even Telecom probably":
1 "it takes if you make it clear that you are a powerful and in- fluencial magazine editor pre- pared to give them a black eye, who knows how long the peasants have to wait)."
1 "in the buffer too, for now. All you have to do save a linefrom your BASIC prog is get the EDIT cursor to point to it, ei- ther by poking the system vari- able E PPC (at 23625 and 6), or just moving it through the list-ing with the cursor keys. Then"
1 "from Prestel, but one or two arebeginning to offer Prestel com- patibility as well as the usual 300 baud. One of these is CBBS Cumbria, operated by Roger Drew,who is working hard to get his system to respond to every kind"
1 "fair, the one person I have spo-ken to who claims to have seen this particular scheme in actionwas completely convinced, but sowhat? If it works, we won't get it back. If we do get it back, then it doesn't work."
1 "explodes"
1 "ed out, a wasp appears from no- where and if you aren't hiding inside the sauna you are a dead graphic. Big wasp."'" This would seem to be a rare example of originality, owing nothing to the arcade machines.":
1 "easily avoided by calling after 6 PM etc., but will cost you 5p per minute otherwise."'" Some pages also cost from 1p to 50p just to look at them, butthat is optional, too. This all goes on your phone bill, and theitem which will end up costing most is the phone time itself."
1 "e.lothian"
1 "don't know how many, as new ser-vices join weekly, such as the home banking service, Homelink, and the shopping based Club 403.These, like Micronet, have some public pages but are mostly re- stricted to their own members."
1 "copying only works up to about the third generation. That is, a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy probably won't work, due toaccumulated noise. Most break- proofs also incorporate tricks to foil the 'cloning' programs."
1 "claims have been made. If the military are interested, it mustbe the business, right? Well, no, they would snatch any patentapplication in which the words 'data encryption' appear withouttrying it out first. We may knowtheir opinion by 1990. To be"
1 "bulletin boards for penpals, hobbies, and clubs. Computer in-terest areas also have small adssections where you can place no-tices to buy and sell, or just acry for help in the dungeon."
1 "bandit 3"
1 "bandit 2"
1 "are `20 per year for Prestel and`32 more for Micronet (optional)plus time charges if you call upduring office hours. These are":
1 "and Viewfax have stopped allow- ing small ads even for software 'originals' due to fears that people are selling the originalsafter making a copy to keep. I reckon they've been got at. Thisobsession with sales lost to "
1 "address you make 'oneline' equalto. It is already resident at 23320 in the printer buffer, butrather than provide a menu dri- ven demo, I'll let you break in and move the cursor about to suit yourself."
1 "address you care to keep it in. It does, however, require the first 17 bytes of the printer buffer as workspace, regardless of where the routine itself is placed, so I have put the code"
1 "accused had to post up to ten thousand pounds bail in order toawait the court's decision on this subject without suffering the concomitant imposition of official hospitality in the in- terim."
1 "access Prestel, and it won't be long before Micronet's 7000 odd members are overwhelmed by, say,1% of a million Spectrum users.":
1 "a RANDOMIZE USR oneline (23320 just now) will SAVE the line pointed at."'" The SAVEd one-line program is given the name LINE, which is the Sinclair key-word, CHR$ 202,and not four separate letters."
1 "What is your name?";d$
1 "WIDTH 1-"+W$;B
1 "This is because the Beeb's comp-uter got it's modem first. This imbalance is rapidly being put right as the Spectrum users taketheir rightful place at the top. Early Beeb modems were acous- tically coupled and hence prone to interference. The Spectrum's Prism modem is direct coupled with the software in ROM and a-"
1 "Spectrum Computing's free plug didn't give enough details. A membrane costs `1.20, the rubber mat `2.17, and the metal plate .93, but there is a mini- mum of `3 plus VAT but including`1 carriage, so `3.45 should get"
1 "SORRY ALL YOUR SKI'S ARE BROKEN"
1 "PRESTEL6"
1 "PRESTEL5"
1 "PRESTEL4"
1 "PRESTEL3"
1 "PRESTEL2"
1 "PRESTEL1"
1 "Of course, I've been wrong be- fore. You notice how it doesn't stop me sticking my neck out? Relatively simple to look at and with only two controls, leftand right, it is surprisingly tricky to play. Fast too. I did not get very far, scorewise. "
1 "Mailbox. This is only available on the London computer at the moment, which is an expensive phone call for us country folk, but by the end of 1984 the localPrestel computers should be set up to forward your Mailboxes to other users nationwide."
1 "LINE 0-"+W$;D
1 "If the number in E PPC is that of a non-existent line, after a line deletion for instance, the routine will stop with a 'State-ment Lost' error message. Remember that using the print-er will wipe the buffer, so you"
1 "INPUT A SHORT WORD-";Q$
1 "HEIGHT 1-20 ";A
1 "Finally can I just say good luck in the future with
1 "COLUMN 0-"+W$;E
1 "COLOUR 1-255 ";C
1 "C15 computer tapes to each Scot,Chris. Oh, very well, I'll send them then. (Chris Palmer is sav-ing his strength for 'The Satur-day Show', as usual.)"''" -Ed."
1 "And never mind the stories of 16year old millionaires. Would yourather that Boy George got your money? Spectrum software is verycheap compared to that for many other computers. We owe it to ourselves to stay honest with the people who produce it."
1 "8";"ALADDIN'S CAVE"''" Press 2 or 3 for pages or"'" Hold S for
1 "7";"From Buttercraft";
1 "1001, together."'" For those who would rather useit as a piece of code, you can SAVE it now by pressing 'S'. Thecode is relocatable and will runin any address, and is just 84 bytes long (considerably shorterthan this sentence)."
1 ""NEW"" a program type RAND USR 0 instead "
1 "" version of Prang's Scroll?.I have found out some very interesting things about the
1 " SPECTRUM COMPUTING - ISSUE 7 MAY/JUNE
1 " Q$ can be set up as ~A~ and thefirst graphic will be printed onthe screen when the program is run."
1 " Gambling again ""poker"" Software reviews ""reviews2"" Letters from... ""glasgow"" And... ""e,lothian"" Hacker's Hangout ""hack"""
1 " Editorial next page One armed ""bandit"" Prestel Reviews ""reviews1"" Wizard Prang ""explodes"" Sam goes ""skiing"""
1 " 3) That the Spectrum can be used to draw high resolution geometrical patterns-some examples follow"
1 " 2) To find out how much memory has been used by a program type ""PRINT USR 7962"" this will give 24044 bytes at switch on"
1 " 1) To save the 9 volt socket from wear ,instead of taking it out every time you want to
1 " You must avoid not only the ghosts (departed spirits whose bits went to construct the mon- ster), but also falling bricks and the trolley at the top. You can collect a hammer which aids you in climbing the maze.":
1 " You may wonder why you would buy here rather than downtown. Well, it's cheaper and almost instant, and there is a good se-lection. Dktronics, Bug-Byte, Anirog, CDS, even the Hobbit arestocked, and all at a pound or more off shop prices."
1 " You may have noticed when the program loaded, the enlarged screen prompt which was actuallyproduced using this program."
1 " You can even get onto some of the amateur Bulletin Boards, as a few will now cope with the 75/1200 baud rate. Now if only one could get the phones to work...":
1 " Wups! What's this got to do with computing? Well, it's greatfun to poke around in what ev- eryone else is up to (in this case, hanky-panky), and, while those of us with stable rela- tionships may regard Heartsearchwith amusement, there are other"
1 " Welcome to our seventh issue."
1 " We have a guest hacker with usfor this issue. Alan Cummings was so distressed by the awkwardway we suggested readers try to SAVE a Wizard Prang routine in aline one REM statement in issue two, that he wrote us a routine to SAVE just one line out of a "
1 " Valentines are supposed to be anonymous, and this one goes onebetter, as we don't really know who it's to, either. 'Computing Today' is the senior magazine around here and gets its name oneverything, but that is our box number too. If you're on Prestel"
1 " Um,how to begin? You have to eat the apples and the jam, as they fall, or the rat will get them and grow big enough to comeafter you, but if you get too fat you have a fit and use up one of your pills, so you have to spend some time in the sauna"
1 " To expand user graphics you need to alter two bytes in the program ie 32035 and 32036. These bytes make up a character pointer which acts exactly like CHARS in the system variables. I have found that an easy way touse them is to poke them with 520 bytes below the start of theuser defined area.":
1 " This tape will be of limited interest to most of our readers,but it is good to see worthwhileeducational material for the Spectrum. It's no PENETRATOR buta playable trio even for kids without reading difficulties.":
1 " This magazine is made up of a number of articles and programs chained together in a manner similar to the 'HORIZONS' tape that came with your computer. Itwill not work with microdrives."
1 " This is where Prestel becomes exciting for me, because, vast as it is, it will respond to youand you can contact the other users who, invisibly, inhabit the place with you. The numbers in the notices are not for phon-ing but for electronic mail, via":
1 " This is free to you, but coststhe information provider 3p. As you are generally doing him a service or ordering goods, it ischeap enough. You can also spendmoney without a response frame, by downloading software perhaps.":
1 " This is another feedback area,as users are invited to send in news stories of their own. I check the news pages daily, of- ten reading about a new product launched days before Chris gets around to forwarding the press invitation in my post!"
1 " This is a much sincerer form of flattery than mere imitation,and has raised the old boys spi-rits somewhat (he's been miffed because Prestel won't give him his own directory entry- said his name is silly!) Anyhow, theymay or may not have removed it."
1 " They also supply other genuineSinclair stuff like ULAs and manuals, in German if you want. Our final item is for those ofyou who have a Prestel modem andare looking for fresh fields. Most amateur bulletin boards operate on a different standard"
1 " These two graphics utilities enable one to quickly produce a pretty stunning display, and youdon't have to do any programmingto use them, either. They are interactive, producing results immediately on screen using cur-sors and one-letter commands."
1 " There doesn't seem to be any object or goal to this game. Therats and apples just keep comingand you survive as long as you can. There is always just a bit more going on than you can han- dle. Remarkably similar to real life in some respects.":
1 " There are lots of screens withroad junctions and towns, and cryptic clues to help you find whatever it is you are looking for. Getting underway in the first place will be a real test of your cunning, as I have no intention of revealing the clues"
1 " The third game involves flyinga rocket ship around barriers inthe required direction while a- voiding meteors and trying to meet up with fuel dumps as well. There are three skill levels, from fast to very fast, and a high score feature. You can playany of the 3 games at any time."
1 " The text is set up in Q$ and the codes for the characters arepoked one at a time into memory and the program run."
1 " The simple and cheap cure is anew membrane from:"'" Combined Precision Components 194-200 North Road, Preston Lancashire"'" Better yet, phone them on Preston 555034 and complain that"
1 " The question of copyright as it applies to software became anefficient generator of contro- versy the moment that computers and their programs became consu-mer products. Perhaps this re- flects on the nature of the con-sumer, but that's all of us."
1 " The idea is to get to the top of the dungeon, collect the vialof monster reviver and take it to the monster. Each time you dothis you get another screen, of which there are nine, (it says here, I didn't get past two.)"
1 " The easiest way to use it is to go through the articles in sequence, following the prompts.However, there is a table of contents on the next page, for those who wish to go straight toa particular article or program."
1 " The controls for left, right, and jump are 1, 2, and 0, with no option to change keys or use a joystick. The layout works ok though, as there are few keys. The features offered are a bit limited for a 48K program, with no high score table or interme- diate screens."
1 " The controls are not user de- fineable but you can select fromseveral sets of keys or use Sin-clair, Kempston, or Fuller joy- sticks."'" This general sort of game has been seen before, but this is a most stylish version.":
1 " The consensus of legal opinionis that the copyright acts will be found to apply to software when someone finally persues theissue to a judgement. That's whyeveryone settles out of court asif it were already decided."
1 " The code is in a REM in LINE 1001 (not LINE 1, that's the 'stop tape' siren) and the ad- dress is found in LINE 1000 by PEEKING the system variable, NXTLIN. If you don't know what that's all about, forget it, just use both lines, 1000 and"
1 " The VTX5000 can be used for other things besides Prestel. Itwill link you to other Databasesusing the same standard (there are some), and you can exchange data or programs over the phone with other VTX5000 users, thoughit is not covered in the manual."
1 " The Gnome is Viewfax's colum- nist, specializing in Acorn newsof the unofficial kind. We are reproducing one of his more in- nocent screens as Acorn are sucha litigious bunch. The Gnome hasalso revealed page numbers which"
1 " Speaking of the QL and its lack of a cassette port, I just saw Microdrives for sale in W.H.Smiths. 'Great', I thought, now I don't have to wait a month to get the cartridges from Sinclairby mail order (that's how long"
1 " Silly business, but somehow I can't summon up the necessary emotional commitment to get any-where with this one. Refueling amonster seems like a bad idea inthe first place, and I can't help feeling that the ghosts have a prior claim."
1 " Reviewing adventures is trickyas almost any revelation spoils the readers enjoyment. Perhaps just a little one. I found that if I tried to leave the car, I went snowblind or summat. Had togrope my way back. Maybe you need a lamp after all.":
1 " Prestel has been slow to take off, in fact, some say it hasn'tstarted yet. However, the adventof the Prism VTX5000 modem for the Spectrum may at last bring the mass user base for which thesystem was originally conceived."
1 " Please note that some files load in an unusual fashion, but they all auto-run and tell you when to start and stop the tape."
1 " Other, more practical, methodsof stopping the copiers meet with limited success, at least as far as cassette software is concerned. As the music businesshas already discovered, anythingthat can be put on one piece of"
1 " One of the great advantages ofnetting is the up-to-the-minute micro news. The net is ahead of all the mags, even the weeklies,and to symbolise this, I have chosen an item I fully expect tobe still current by the time youread it!"
1 " On the other hand, the 'condi-tions of sale' appearing on manycassettes which prohibit resale or lending of the cassette you have purchased would probably beconsidered unreasonable under the relevant consumer protection"
1 " Of course, you use your own cassette to save the program af-ter downloading, and you don't get an insert, so it will look like a pirated copy. This would make it hard to sell if you got tired of it, but both Micronet":
1 " Of course, you don't have to buy software, some of it is freeto Micronet subscribers. Some ofthe free stuff is very good too,but the best costs, as always. Downloading costs something in phone time, too."
1 " Not one but three games, each especially designed by Doctors Terrell and Hornsby to provide apainless, indeed fun, way for word blind children to exercise their visualisation of spatial relationships."
1 " Never mind that the producers are making money now, there's a shake-out coming. Never mind that they are themselves accusedof ripping off board games and arcade machines (and each other,and even our own Wizard Prang!)"
1 " My illustrations do not demon-strate all the facilities of either program. Of the two, Pow-er Graphics is perhaps the more interesting, as it actually putsyour 'interactive' drawing into PLOT and DRAW statements for youto MERGE into other programs."
1 " Most of these opportunities totake part do not use Mailbox but'response frames', which are a- vailable on all the Prestel com-puters. A response frame is justa page that lets you write on itand then tranmits itself to the information provider concerned."
1 " Most of the 'Information Pro- viders' have a 'what's new' pagelisting their recent additions. On Micronet this includes new software, letters and updates ofregular features. Updating does":
1 " Mind you, break-proofing does not keep everyone out. Our resi-dent wiz, Prang the Egregious, has not yet found a single tape he can't get into, and lots of people make a hobby of breaking and entering, just for fun."
1 " Micronet is not the only area of Prestel to be devoted to the micro. Viewfax is a similar sortof thing (eek! flying brickbats)but open to all, whereas Micro- net costs `8 a quarter on top ofPrestel's `5 subscription."
1 " Micronet is just a part of thePrestel system, and has been in operation for only a little morethan a year, but already Micro- net claim up to a quarter of the'accesses' totted up by the hugedatabase, around 3 1/2 million in January. Not bad for a minor-"
1 " Maybe you're not interested inthis subject, but you should be.If the people who supply your software don't make money, they will stop supplying (the reason there is is so little good edu- cational software is that teach-ers think copying is alright)."
1 " Marvelous Disney-like title screen on this one, tempted to put it in the review instead of the game display. That is nice too, though. Very smooth motion and carefully worked out detail,but there is no way to eliminatethe clash when objects collide."
1 " Mailbox is free now but may becharged for later. Users who re-gister for it can also send Tel-ex messages from Prestel, but these do cost."'" Most charges on Prestel can beavoided, as you can have a great"
1 " Lots of people are starting totake the lids off of their Spec-trums now that the guarantees are running out, and many have problems with the keyboard mem- brane 'ribbon' connector break- ing after a year of being cookedby the heat sink."
1 " In the second game you must build a bridge across a river bycatching the correct letters as they fall from above, the let- ers having been chosen for theirconfusability."
1 " In fact you can get wonderful-ly lost. Adventure lovers will be in their element. A few key- strokes could find you on the page where Pan-Am don't print the un-printable jokes, or alt- ernatively with MICROMOUSE, key 'S', who is a gossipy 'Speccy'"
1 " I'm pretty sure there is only the one screen, but the graphicsare nicely designed, with cute little touches here and there, like the blood soaked lift when you get a rat."
1 " I would like to close now by running a demonstration program to show clearly what the programis capable of and to say thanks to SPECTRUM COMPUTING for a veryinteresting and informative mag."
1 " I shall demonstrate by placinganother High-Res screen on page three. This was drawn by tracinga picture onto a plastic sheet (supplied) which was then stuck on the screen as a guide.":
1 " I haven't been terribly im- pressed by the offerings of Vir-gin Games so far, but this one is a cut above the others I've seen. While not incredibly ori- ginal (bit like a vertical Pac Maze), the graphics are good andthe action fast."
1 " However, those of you with an inherent tendency to necromancy and goulishness will no doubt find many happy hours here, withno great danger to the public.":
1 " However, none of this has any impact on the main offenders, those individuals who make a copy or two for friends, and whoare not worth prosecuting, even if their activities are jointly much more damaging than the workof the commercial pirates."
1 " Hardware based protection, by which software is supplied on media which is difficult to copysuch as ROM cartridge, founders on cost. Well protected but ex- pensive software has been the bane of the Atari, and the lack"
1 " Guarding the batteries are a trio of bovver bears and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, I think. One touch is IT, but you get a practice mode (for ba-by bears) to learn on invulnera-bly. Big bears get time bombs."
1 " Dropping batteries on the per-suers also works, and they dis- appear in charming little puffs of points. Further points are gained by reaching drinks that pop up from time to time. There is a high score table, too."
1 " Confusion between right and left, and up and down, on the printed page leads to difficultyin distinguishing, for instance,p,b,d,and q, or n,u,h and y. In this trilogy the player must usethe directions to play the game,which is meant to improve word"
1 " But no, my local Smith's 'had the cartridges on order, should be one or two weeks.' Ah ha ha ha ha, I didn't have the heart to tell him."'" When the QL arrives, it is supposed to have four blank mic-rocarts with it. Take good care of them, and remain patient!"
1 " Being one of these unfortunatecreatures myself I decided to use this fact to good advantage to let the world in on my large letters program."
1 " Before you do that, though, I have a couple of addresses of a different sort for you. The first is in the nature of a Pub-lic Service Announcement, (they wouldn't buy an advert!)"
1 " Appearances are so deceptive! This is not an arcade racing game,but an adventure. The scen-ario is a treasure hunt island auto rally, and wits rather thanreflexes are required. It makes a change from the sword and lampsettings usual in adventures."
1 " Anyone who still believes thatcopyright does not apply to pro-grams merely because they were not specifically mentioned in the relevant acts of Parliament had best take warning from the recent arrests in which the"
1 " Anyhow, as a guest on the 'netI didn't download any pricey progs, only some free ones, and I was pleasantly surprised. Morestuff is being added here daily,especially for the Spectrum. It might appeal more to people who don't get sent review software.":
1 " All ladder climbing games havethat problem. Can't tell what's ladder and what's bear."'" The object is to get the bat- teries to run the truck to the next screen. Walking past a bat-tery will drop it one level, buttake care to drop them in the"
1 " The program has been written in machine code and has been putin memory from 32K and is about 300 bytes long. All the print parameters are set up in a data statement and poked into memory at the appropriate addresses."
1 " One of the great things aboutsending programs to a cassette type magazine is that you don't have to laboriously type out lists of program, a fact that isespecially exciting for those people who don't have printers."
1 " CONTENTS - SIDE TWO"
1 " CONTENTS - SIDE ONE"
1 " by Chris Morrison"
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1 "legislation, and hence void. Theconsumer laws on conditions of sale are quite different from those governing business con- tracts. Software publishers mustaccept libraries, just as book and music publishers have done."
1 " The board operates between thehours of 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM daily. Please keep to these hours and the ringback system tohelp Roger in his good work. Thenumber is 06992 314."'" This article now loops back tostart anew."
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