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The beam of light from your cross is sufficient tokill the ghosts but this also blows out your walls."; 1 ;" STILL LOADING - LET TAPE RUN " 1 ;" HALL OF FAME " 1 ;" CARNIVAL from Eclipse"; 1 ;" STOP TAPE - PRESS ANY KEY "; 1 ;" Press any Key (Q to QUIT)" 1 ;" Press P for a printout, or" 1 ;" POGO from Ocean"; 1 ;" AND THEN PRESS ANY KEY " 1 ;" JET SET WILLY"; 1 ;" PRESS A KEY" 1 ;" "; 1 ;" " 1 ;" ": 1 ;" 1 : ";s;" "; 1 22222222222222 1 222222222222 1 22200222GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG22200222GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG22200222GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG22200222GGGGGG 1 2220022222222222444444442222222222200222222222244,,,,,,4422222222220022222222244,,,,,,,,442222222220 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%% 1 00000000000000000000000000000000022222222222222222222222222222200222 1 .i.i.i+k+i+k+i.i.k.i.i. 1 .i+k+k+k+k+k+i.i.i. 1 +k+k+k+k+k+k+k. 1 *i+k+k+k+i. 1 (k/;/k/;/k( 1 (i/;/k.3.k/;/k( 1 (i/;/k.3.k/;/i( 1 (i/;/i/;/i( 1 (i(i(i(i(i(i(k(i(k(i(i(i(i( 1 (H(F)+50000 1 '''''" Press 'R' to read again or any other key to LOAD the next section." 1 ''''" PRESS A KEY TO START" 1 '''"Tired of your inadequate height?"''"Do you have difficulty catching other people's attention?"''"Does the wife tend to squint if you try to show her something?"''"Does it even make your head acheat the end of a long day?" 1 '''" Software contributions to:"'' " ""Spectrum Computing"""'" 1 Golden Square"'" London"'" W1R 3AB"''" We pay for programs published and make you slightly famous. Oryou pay us and we'll keep your name out of it!" 1 ''" Movement Keys are:"''" Q to T for UP"'" A to G for DOWN"''" CAPsSHIFT to V for LEFT"'" SPACE to B for RIGHT" 1 ''" TOMATO CATCH-UP"'" By David Frere-Smith"''" The only way YOU THE GLOBOID> 1 '"Wizard Prang no longer suffers these social disasters, and you too can now benefit from his new spell for increasing height!" 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG%%% %%%GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG%%% %%%GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG%%% %%% 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%% 1 %%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 1 "won't crash, you'll just get a '?' for the unrecognised codes. The routine will work with alternative character sets in usual way, but not with UDGs or block graphics, which print '?'." 1 "voices nagging you about the seatbelt. That's just a poshed up fairy light. No, real useful stuff. Once a computer is con- trolling your ignition and fuel systems, it's no extra trouble to give you a constant check on" 1 "two screens (you shoot bears be-tween screensful of ducks), is more in the 'Invaders' mould than anything else."'" That makes it old-fashioned, perhaps, but the fairground im- agery is suitably nostalgic.": 1 "to cater for, the rubber buttonscope all right. There are 6 lev-els of difficulty, and we could not get to the bears even on theeasiest setting, so the chal- lenge is there." 1 "that can actually land the spaceshuttle, are feasible now. So far it's cheaper to use people, but not for much longer. OK, so where does the motorcy-cle come in? Well, we are about to get a boom in computerised vehicle systems. Not just more" 1 "tallcode" 1 "reviews1" 1 "nons mode to a more fuel-effi- cient but still powerful touringmode, while you are on the move. This makes it the worlds firstprogrammable motorbike. An exam-ple of an automatic system whichgives you more rather than less control over the machine." 1 "miles-per-gallon and estimate your time of arrival."'" The big 6-cylinder Kwacka has a little box under the seat thatcontrols the fuel injection. It has sensors for engine and air temperature, throttle opening," 1 "maze (a hundred, I reckon) to the end without a rest stop. He reports that this game, as well as being fast and infuriat-ing, has the interesting proper-ty of having been produced in compiled BASIC.": 1 "draw a line on a piece of paper (remember paper?). Don't worry about the length of the line. Concorde can just about struggleacross the WIDTH while the com- puter rotates its accumulator." 1 "ders four other rooms unusable. This is presented in the pub- licity handout as if it was pur-poseful, but I say it's a bug. Trouble is, you don't know wherethe Attic is 'til you get there,whereupon entering the kitchen,": 1 "can confuse it. This happens when the lower screen causes theupper to scroll half a line, butit shouldn't crash unless you press both shifts after scroll." 1 "but you can use apostrophes to move down lines. (PRINT'') Com- mas don't work, but colons and semi-colons are as normal. If you use any of these things, you" 1 "atmospheric pressure and RPM. Iteven has its own fairy light to tell you when it's gone wrong! But most interesting is the little switch on the handlebar labelled 'cruise'. This enables you to change the state of tune from full snort, charge the can-" 1 "West of kitchen, cuckoo's nest, or base of the East wall makes the program crash."'" Never mind, the game is loads of fun anyway, and must be the only program that ever sold for more than list price, when the first copies were fought over." 1 "However, the BASIC keywords are expanded as usual, so listings will look normal except for any graphics or in line colour high-lighting of REMs, etc." 1 "A"-1 CLEARED 1 " SPECTRUM COMPUTING - ISSUE 8 JULY/AUG 1 " Editorial next page Scoot and ""shoot"" Software Reviews ""reviews1"" Light Exorcise ""ghosts"" Prang Stops Short ""taller""" 1 " Catch Up Quick ""tomato"" Software reviews ""reviews2"" Letters from... ""wokingham"" And... ""winchester"" Guest Hacker ""disassembl""" 1 " You must pilot your ship past obstacles and enemies in search of 'pods' needed to get to the next level. You have a laser andcan destroy anything that shootsat you, but some hazards, like 'Crushers' must just be avoided." 1 " You have to bounce diagonally around the steps, changing theircolour, while avoiding the fall-ing globes, the snake (who comesat you intelligently), and the wandering lobsters (who don't).": 1 " You don't have to be clever touse it, because the routine can take care of itself. You just use PRINT and LIST as usual. Thebottom line remains at single height, and CLS returns you to to normal on the main screen." 1 " You can SAVE the code right now (press 'S') or get the pro- gram to put it elsewhere first by changing the variable in line1000 and running it again. Any other key to turn the page." 1 " Willy's success has prompted the use of a coloured code card to reduce piracy. You have prob-ably already seen schemes to de-feat this offered in small ads. It is a pity, but the best soft-ware is the most often stolen." 1 " Well of course it all depends on what sort of megacycle you have in mind. I was thinking of a Kawasaki 1300. No one actuallyknows how fast it will go, be- cause the sort of guys who try to find out have absolutely no grip on reality." 1 " Welcome to our Eighth issue." 1 " To use the routine, you must call the code with RANDOMIZE USR(address) to switch on double height. This USR call must also be used to clear the screen, as CLS returns you to short mode." 1 " Thus endeth the reading of thethe runes, the signs, portents, forebodings of disaster. Press 'R' to read again, 'L' to LIST or any other to sally forth." 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 certainly the only shooting gallery I've ever seen where the ducks get out and eat your ammunition, but you have toexpect unusual ideas from a firmthat names itself after a blot- ting out of the Sun." 1 " This is Eclipse's first entry into the software maelstrom, andlike many such, it would have been a big hit if it had come out a year ago. Single screen arcade numbers are starting to pall, and this one, while quite intricate and actually having" 1 " There is continuous music too,which can be turned off from within the game by shooting the musical note in the little box over on the right. I don't thinkthat you score anything at all for doing this but it is extra- ordinarily therapeutic.": 1 " There is also a competition. Nothing to do with your game score, just some text questions.Send in the answers and maybe win a graphics input device. You can use Kempston, Fuller, or ZX Interface 2 joysticks, butwith only left, right, and fire" 1 " There is also a charming bug. When you get a high score, in- stead of typing your initials, press Caps and Symbol shifts to-gether, then press Enter three times and your high score will be identified by three dinky Pogoes instead of letters!": 1 " The routine will ignore TABs ATs and colour commands. It useswhatever colours are already on the screen, and it won't OVER orINVERSE either. You must pad outwith spaces to format columns," 1 " The routine does not work withLPRINT or LLIST, so you must useCOPY to get double height print. SCROLL works as normal, but ifyou use a command with more thanone line in the lower screen you" 1 " The other thing that disables the routine is the 'automatic' listing that you get when you enter or edit a BASIC line. Use LIST to get tall listings." 1 " The only bit missed from the coin-fed version is the incom- prehensible (Japanese?) cussing when your bouncing thing gets caught. The rest of the sound effects are good and the speed and graphics are a near match tothe original." 1 " The keyboard controls are the four corner keys, and that workspretty well."'" There are 16 levels, varying in difficulty, with double col- our changes and extra hazards onthe later screens." 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 difference is that Willy may now find his way from room to room in many different ways, instead of the fixed sequence ofManic Miner. It doesn't say on the insert card, but there are some 60 screens. It also doesn'tsay that visiting the Attic ren-" 1 " The code is presently working in address ";tallcode;",but you can putit anywhere you like and it willrun without any modification. Itwill even work with Microdrives." 1 " The Spectrum runs at nearly four megacycles per second, but it needs four cycles to execute a simple m/c instruction, such as copying one register into an-other, so it takes a whole mega-cycle (at least) to do anything." 1 " The Pilots don't have time forthis, they are too busy enter- taining passengers on their oncein a lifetime visit to the Mach Two cockpit while the autopilot flies the plane." 1 " The COPY command does not turnoff the tall print like CLS doesbut do not put the 'taller' codein the printer buffer, as using the printer would wipe out the routine, leading to a crash." 1 " The 'Willy' saga continues, and if it is all very much in the same vein, then that's not at all a bad thing. This time itis claimed that Willy is engagedin a graphic adventure rather than an arcade game." 1 " The 'Prize' in question may beas much as `5000, provided that Arcade sell 25,000 copies, as they are putting 20p a copy intoa fund. Deadline January, so there's plenty of time. You haveto win the game and send in a photo of the final screen." 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 " Perhaps when, burnt out (or even cured) at the age of 24, Matthew and Eugene go after a daytime job, Ford will hire themto write the urban cycle opti- miser for the 1990 model." 1 " Our Wizard Prang takes as muchinterest in multiple zeroes as anyone (though as a notorious cheat, he is not eligible to en-ter) and, pausing only to award himself unlimited lives, he shotright through the multi-screen" 1 " One helpful hint, (close your eyes if you don't want to know!)You can jump through the stair- cases if you hit the right spot. Oh all right, it may have beenobvious to you, but I wish some-one had told me.": 1 " Nothing else you can see (thuscleverly excluding other elec- tromagnetic phenomena and sub- atomic particles) ever travels anything like as fast. To see how far Concorde moves in the same period, at full chat of course, take a sharp pencil and" 1 " Kempston, AGF, and Quickshot joysticks are suitable, and you will want them unless you're an ace on the cursor keys. The mazewalls are not deadly and you caneven ram your foes, (some of them), but you won't need that camera right away!": 1 " In that speck of time, how farcan something really fast move? Take light, which travels three hundred thousand kilometres in awhole second. Divide by a mil- lion and you get three hundred metres, or three soccer pitches,more or less." 1 " In fact, the compiler is stillin there, and still usable, if you know the right numbers! Un- fortunately, we cannot reveal the details, as there is a com- petition at stake, and we don't want to spoil anyone's chances." 1 " I hope I'm still around to ferret out the POKE that will disable the top speed limiter and pass on the info to you. In the meantime, keep reading the LISTings!"'',"ED-" 1 " Given the sensors, manipulat- ing equipment, and software, a Spectrum could fly Concorde while totting up the takings of the duty free sales and BEEPing 'Come Fly With Me' in pseudo- random keys." 1 " Diagonal movement means that joysticks, mine anyhow, don't work too well, full of false neutrals. Kempston, Protek, and Interface 2 sticks work, but youaren't told this on the package,only in the program. Tut." 1 " But there is a link to the other megacycle, the one that bats about in the confines of Uncle Clive's range of little black boxes, and to a selection of other speedy items, like Con-corde and the space shuttle." 1 " As chips get larger, the indi-vidual elements get smaller, andthe signal no longer has to zip back and forth for 300 metres todo one little thing, but only, say, 100 metres, and your compu-ter is three times as fast. As if it needed it. Really sophis- ticated autopilots, like the one" 1 " A faithful copy of that great little florin gobbler, Q*BERT, down the arcades. Some how beingchased about the screen by nastyitems always seems more true to life to me than blasting hordes of aliens, and this is one of the more humourous of the genre." 1 " CONTENTS - SIDE TWO" 1 " CONTENTS - SIDE ONE" 1 " * SHAZAM! *"'" Wizard Prang's height enhancernow controls your screen."'' 1 have taken over": 1 have got you 1 has been exorcized": 1 from within the game by shooting the musical note in the little box over on the right. I d 1 WATCH OUT 1 ATTACKS"; 1 APS LTD 11111000000 1 GOLDEN SQUARE LONDON W1R 3AB TEL. 01-437 0626 EDITOR IOLO DAVIDSON " 1 11111000000 APS" 1 10 POINTS + 5 BONUS 1 - RIGHT, 1 1 POINT": 1 the SOLDIER GLOBOID> 1 ~ 1 1