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1 ;"|SOFTSELL - SOFTWARE HIRE LIBRARY|"''"Long standing commercial software hire library, featuring"'"games and rare utility software. PRICE: Variable (all postage paid). Joyce, 32 Dursley Rd, Trowbridge, Wilts BA14 0NP"
1 ;"|OUTLET - +D / +3 DISC MAGAZINE|"''"Monthly disc based magazine that has been running since"'"1987. All issues contain stand alone programs and articles."'"PRICE: `3.50. Chezron Software, 34 Saltersgate Drive,"'"Birstall, Leicester LE4 3FF"
1 ;"|NEW RELEASES|"''"WONDERFUL LIFE / The Knights (UK)"'"PANDORAS BOX / The Knights (UK)"'"WANKER / The Fudgepacker (UK)"'"BATTLETRACKER / Technium 220 (UK)"
1 ;"|IN PRODUCTION|"''"BEYOND HELP / United Minds"'"DIGITAL REALITY 128 / Triton"'"DIGISYNTH 3 / K3L Team"'"UNTITLED MEGADEMO / Technium 220"'"EXPERIMENTS IN MIND CONTROL / Convention"
1 ;"|FORMAT - A5 PAPER MAGAZINE|"''"Monthly magazine aimed at the serious programmer that has been running since 1987; coverage shared with Sam Coupe."'"PRICE: `1.50. Format Publications, 34 Bourton Rd, Gloucester GL4 0LE"
1 ;"|CRASHED - A4 PAPER FANZINE|"''"Excellently designed on Apple Mac, currently the most vibrant and sussed fanzine going; bi-monthly. Shares coverage with Sam Coupe. PRICE: `1. Allan, 16 The Avenue, Leeds LS15 8JN"
1 ;"|CLASSIX - A5 PAPER FANZINE|"''"Fanzine that specializes in selling original Spectrum games at very cheap prices (no pirate copies). Also includes collectors articles/research material. PRICE: 40p. James Waddington,"'"11 Finsbury drive, Bradford BD2 1QA"
1 ;"|8 BIT - A4 PAPER FANZINE|";''"An all formats zine covering Spectrum, C64, PCW etc. Also"'"home to the Independent Eight Bit Association. PRICE: `1.50. Brian Watson, 39 High St, Ely, Cambs CB6 2RA"
1 ;"{L9882 |NEWSLETTER 1 MAY 96|";
1 ;"{L9882 Welcome to a new style of FPD newsletter. This"'"'magnetic' format has been introduced to cut out the cost of printing a paper newsletter."''"Every month you can read about the latest utility, games and demo releases, plus tasters of soft-"'"ware currently in production/testing."
1 ;"{L9882 Please send a SAE when requesting details of"'"services; most are non-commercial ventures."
1 ;"{L9882 Not mentioned? Drop us a line sending a sample of your service. All advertising within this newsletter is available free of charge. Adverts are accepted on a strict 'quality of service' basis."'"Personal Wants/Sales ads are also accepted from individuals."
1 ;"{L9882 LC240 EPROM is a program to adjust the settings"'"of the internal Eprom of the STAR LC printer to"'"the users choice. A full range of customization is possible and the help notes go to great length to warn it's non-use on other printers! Might be fun to see what happens!"''"Programmer: Carl Murray (UK)."
1 ;"{L9881 |ALCH NEWS - +D DISC OR TAPE MAGAZINE|"''"Massive quarterly magnetic magazine covering all aspects of the Spectrum scene. PRICE: `1 or FREE if disc/SAE supplied. Andy Davis, 62 Tithe Barn Lane, Sheffield S13 7LN"
1 ;"experiences so that others can share in them. The best letter received every month will be given 50 free credits."''"I do intend to keep this newsletter within the limits of 20 to 30kb; this ain't no Alch News!"
1 ;"The chart has actually been compiled since"'"February. Anyone who wants copies of the"'"previous two charts just send a SAE."
1 ;"The Top 40 is compiled at the end of each month"'"from orders received. Issue 1 catalogues were"'"sent out with more and more software on them"'"depending on when you requested it! This has"'"meant some programs got a slow start in the"'"popularity stakes. Catalogue 2 is now being sent"'"out to all customers and will remain un-altered"'"until September. Addition sheets will appear from time to time listing new/old/rare stuff."
1 ;"Please send your letters to the usual address."''"If you do not wish the contents of your letters to be featured here, please mark your text 'Private'. Contributions can be hand-written or using any"'"popular Word Processor format (if it isn't popular, please tell us which one you used!) Letters may"'"be edited for length."''"Fifty free PD credits for the best letter printed"'"every month."
1 ;"If you can spare the time please do contact those mentioned in the Adverts section; all the services listed are very highly recommended and will"'"enhance your enjoyment of the unique Spectrum"'"'underground' scene."'''"Dave Fountain, April 30th 1996"
1 ;"FPD has been granted permission to distribute"'"SCENE disczine in the UK. Issue three has just been released and features articles (all written in"'"German!- well it is from Austria), demos, animationand the FFONT volumes 1-6. Programmer Tigers"'"Claw is also putting the finishing touches to his"'"new game, LEGACY OF THE ZER EMPIRE."
1 ;"Datel have finally run out of the +D system, and"'"are not undertaking anymore repairs. Systems still under a year old should be covered by the guar-"'"antee. The Datel bloke to hassle is called Mark!"
1 ;"DROP OUT is a new utility that may be able to"'"restore a Screen$ file that has been stored on a"'"dodgy tape. Tape level drop-outs usually mean the file is lost forever but give this util a spin."''"Programmer: Graham Collier (UK)"
1 ;"DESKTOP is a brand new package aimed at simple yet attractive Desk top publishing. Designed by"
1 ;"Creepy Crawley man Phil Peacock -the Tape/+3"'"version is out now with the +D version to follow shortly. MPRINT is the dedicated print routine that comes with it but can be used on its own as a"'"handy Screen dump utility."
1 ;"Awards of 50 credits to FPD are offered for a"'"lend of the following original games. We will need to copy them, convert them to take out the pro-"'"tection etc. but your tapes will be treated with"'"great love and returned un-harmed!!:"''"GRIDRUNNER, FLUNKY, SPAWN OF EVIL, MAZIACS,"'"BLOOD VALLEY, SUPERSPORTS, DARK FUSION,"'"ALTERNATIVE WORLD GAMES."
1 ;"Andy Davis has negociated with Andrey Remic,"'"better known as Psychedelic Hedgehog software. Nineteen games are currently being hacked into"'"standard Speccy files. Most of these games did"'"feature on Crash and SU covertapes, but include rare titles like Not the Lord of the Rings, Intern-"'"ational Cricket manager, Land of Falanor and"'"Green Sonja. Availability as soon as poss."
1 ;"Andy Davis again, this time with rights to MANIC"'"MINER, JET SET WILLY 1+2, plus the unofficial JSW3. The WILLY game editor is also being worked on"'"(but it's taking ages to type it in!)"
1 ;"A newsletter was planned from the beginning,"'"but as FPD was started from scratch, there was always something else that needed sorting first."'"Hopefully the Letters page will become a PD dis-"'"cussion 'arena' so please send in your views and"
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