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2 ;"(AMANDA)" 2 23637+256* 1 |BY]YB|ETRZY] 1 udg routine 1 support scene 1 pfn print routine 1 index page 1 imensions of a multiface, the Specdrum could be"'"plugged into most modern hi-fis direct or an adaptor could be used to put it through professional sound gear."'"The software was clearly laid out and learning to program"'"the sounds into song patterns took no time at all to grasp. The samples themselves were very crisp and easily comparable with dedicated drum machines costing ten times as much." 1 heading routine 1 Y`]`N`N`D` 1 Select font (9881-9888) 1 Q@Q@J@J@D@ 1 Initialise PFN routines 1 Get length of f$ in p 1 EW@U@VFWEUD| 1 @_P_@~@_P_@ 1 ;"|Utility Software|" 1 ;"|Support Scene|" 1 ;"|Publications|" 1 ;"|Letters Page|" 1 ;"|INDEX MENU|" 1 ;"|Features Index|" 1 ;"|EDITORIAL BIT|" 1 ;"|Classified Adverts|" 1 ;"|Classic Software|" 1 ;"|Classic Hardware|" 1 ;"row of rectangles running down the middle of the screen."'"With a little more depth this sub-game would have stood"'"up pretty well as a program in its own right! Maybe some"'"programmer did rip this idea off although I must say the"'"bells are not ringing on that one. The aim of the grapple"'"was not only to disable the droid but to steal all its useful bits and pieces to turn your robot (name of KLEPTO, how"'"sweet..) into a veritable war-monster!" 1 ;"many a bedroom into mini recording studios. The hippies"'"and musos from the musicians union were up in arms with"'"their luddite fears. Releasing a single or an album was no"'"longer the corporate secret held for so long by the big"'"business record companies. It seemed like everyone was either in a band or thinking of forming one." 1 ;"You may gag at the then asking price of `23 for what was essentially a single cassette in a natty display case, but the GAC was launched as a commercial programming utility. Titles such as Winter Wonderland, Football Frenzy and Legend of Apache Gold were all written and released using it."'"In the early to mid-eighties you had three choices if you"'"wished to write and market Adventure games. There were"'"two utility programs; The Quill and Dungeon Builder." 1 ;"YOU CAN CHOOSE BETWEEN FULL, HALF OR"'"QUARTER SCREEN BOXED DISPLAY ADS WHICH MIGHT INVOLVE GRAPHICS ETC. SIMPLY SEND US A SCREEN$ FILE OR ALTERNATELY WE COULD"'"DESIGN IT FOR YOU."''"DISPLAY ADVERTS ARE OBVIOUSLY MORE SUITED TO PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARIES, REPAIRS AND"'"SPARES ETC (memory permitting.)"; 1 ;"Write to:- SINCLAIR CLASSIC"; 1 ;"Within the promised 6-7 days my jiffy returned. All the"'"programs loaded first time and very good they were too."'"My only gripe being that the 48 FILE COPIER didn't seem to want to work on my +2 but this may all be totally normal! The HEADERREAD programs are recommended. Most of the Demos mentioned in YS are available from Prism too and I'll be ordering those myself quite soon!" 1 ;"With great dismay I'd taken back my fourth copy of D&H's Football Director 2 to the fourth different shop I'd bought"'"it from and still it didn't work. Yes I had got the right +2"'"version thanks very much! If anybody has a working copy of this game please sell it to me....So with a refund slip in my"'"hand I studied the shelves for a replacement. Match of the Day? Hmmmm, Zeppelin have put out some crap in the past." 1 ;"When typing in these programs you can imagine yourself"'"sitting in some evening class in Esher being taught computer Basic by some twat wearing a loud christmas jumper."'"Each listing is so devoid of character and humanity that"'"you just hope to God that you will never ever meet"'"Lawrence at a party (that's strange, Amanda has the same"'"fear about Richard Swann.)" 1 ;"When the computer programme Micro-Live demonstrated a"'"Spectrum operating a drum unit, our chins hit the floor!"'"Being in a band myself at that time and working for the"'"NHS, a digital drum box was beyond my means but a 48+"'"I did have! Needless to say I rushed to the shops and"'"bought one as soon as they hit Boots in Lewisham!": 1 ;"When I dusted this off and loaded it all the others started fighting as to whose go it was next. That either goes to"'"show bad manners or the fact that this forgotten gem of"'"a game is still as addictive as it ever was.": 1 ;"West Bridgford"; 1 ;"Well, its not as big as we wanted it to be but at"'"least we finally did it (and cutesome 48K Specs"'"didn't get left out.) We thought for a minute"'"that you were going to miss out on the cartoon"'"but thanks to the MIKROPOL screen compressor"'"its here in all its ... eh, acerbic glory."''"Having had to compromise on this debut issue all subsequent SC's are going to be 128K only. Well"'"it's either that or irritating multi-loads." 1 ;"We've been told by our lawyers (ha ha) to say that we have no personal connection with Prism or any of the services"'"that we will be featuring in subsequent Support Scenes."'"So if we say that your service is shoddy crap you can sue"'"us if you like... well you can sue our mate Richard Waaaah"'"if you prefer because he owns a house and loads of records and stuff. We've got sod all. Honest."; 1 ;"WANTED- SCRABBLE 128, SIM CITY, CARRIER"'"COMMAND, ACADEMY, LEMMINGS, EDD THE DUCK, ROBOCOP 2, MCODER 2, DLAN DISPLAY, JACK"'"THE NIPPER 2... any unwanted soft/hardware"'"considered. Please send your lists for my quote."'"Write to Dave at Sinclair Classic." 1 ;"WANTED- FOOTBALL DIRECTOR 2. Must be fully"'"working and reliable copy for my grey 128+2."'"I'm going mad to find one that bloody loads."'"Please write to AMANDA at Sinclair Classic." 1 ;"Two main things were shaping the British music scene during the early eighties; the rise of affordable technology available to the general public and the continuing influence from the punk revolution which had swept aside the seventies rock"'"dinosaurs and their accompanied mega-star elitist attitudes."''"At the forefront of this 'technological revolution' were the"'"four-track portastudio and drum machine which had turned": 1 ;"This utility program was featured on a YS covertape (Jan92) However, due to the speed-loader it refused to work on my +2. As luck would have it I discovered a boxed original copy"'"in a London second-hand shop. It came in a very plush video sized gatefold case and a handsome twenty seven page"'"manual. Suffice to say the YS instructions leave alot to be"'"desired.": 1 ;"This utility came with the SU July 92 covertape and is"'"certainly the best character set designer I've ever seen. You may find it in a PD library somewhere as I don't think it was ever released commercially. You can store your char-code"'"anywhere in RAM and all POKE info is given. Ace! (DAVE)" 1 ;"This seems to be one of those mid-eighties games put into"'"the drawer marked 'forgotten for no good reason'."'"Quazatron is an addictive arcade strategy struggle where"'"you control a robot whose task it is to clear the city of"'"hostile droids. Being of the same basic design you can inter-"'"face with them and enter an internal grappling match." 1 ;"This rather excellent idea involved firing pulses of electricity along a wiring diagram in order to change the colour of a": 1 ;"This issue we try out PRISM PD" 1 ;"This is one of the cheapest joysticks you can buy; the basic design has been the same for many years. I'm currently on"'"my fourth 125+ spanning a period of two years. Seeing as"'"how all severe joystick waggling games are banned on my"'"computer this could be bad news!"''"Each 125+ I've owned has had a different feel to it. The"'"first was perfect but the others all suffered from sticking"'"fire buttons to general poor diagonal response." 1 ;"The usual power level trap plays quite a large part in the"'"gameplay but with plenty of sockets to plug into and robots to pilfer you shouldn't fair too badly in that direction. You can also log into consoles to access maps and droid info"'"libraries; useful for finding out whose got what hidden up"'"their metalic kilt. Some awkward menial sod robots have"'"disrupter shields! the audacity of the lower order indeed..." 1 ;"The stick is covered by a twelve month guarantee but I still would'nt like to recommend this piece of kit. I can well do"'"without the hassle of sending that through the post. At the end of the day it seems you will either get a good one or a dodgy one and that just isn't good enough."; 1 ;"The levels are big and a certain amount of jerky scrolling"'"has to be put up with each time you reach the edge of the play area. I'm afraid the title tune is one of the worst over-loud beepy git songs ever commited to our beloved Z80."'"It starts off with your hands clasped over your ears and"'"then quickly degenerates into a pseudo-classical phantom of the opera type cacophony. Its worse than stale cake." 1 ;"The game loaded first time and presented a pleasing menu."'"Being up to date it was nice not to be faced with Newport County again but it seems Aldershot were still with us."'"I wondered how much extra memory was needed to include a team/name editor. In 48K then and its taking me ages to"'"click onto the right icon as the highlighter is jumping two"'"at a time (not very logical). Oh and the transfer market"'"doesn't seem to be working at all." 1 ;"The former lacked graphics capability (unless you also"'"bought The Illustrator and The Patch - pushing the cost"'"towards `30) and the latter (although cheap) required a"'"great deal of brain-work to get it to do what you wanted"'"it to. The third option was to program the game yourself"'"from scratch. An ominous task for most." 1 ;"The architecture of the cities is very impressive, beautiful"'"even with sheer walls, banked slopes and precarious ledges."'"Imagine if you will an isometric 3-D Elephant & Castle"'"shopping centre simulation. Once you get to know the levels and which lift goes where you will soon be whizzing around"'"Quazatron like nobodies business searching out those big git Battle droids with their turquoise you-know-whats." 1 ;"The Working Spectrum"'"by David Lawrence 1 ;"The Spectrum now has quite a healthy PD scene which"'"seemed to spring from nowhere. One of the biggest at the"'"moment is Prism who recently merged with Total PD."''"The deal is you send off a blank cassette, disk or microdrive plus `2 to cover expenses and you choose up to 12 pieces of software from the extensive list. Various utilities, music and graphic demos, clip art, digitized pictures and even arcade"'"games are all available." 1 ;"THE SPEC-DRUM"'"by Cheetah Marketing"'"Released: Xmas 1985 1 ;"THE GRAPHIC ADVENTURE CREATOR"'"by Incentive Software Ltd"'"Released June 1986 1 ;"Subtitled 'A library of practical subroutines and programs'"'"this book contains twenty one programs for you to type in and use as you will. Programs include two files, financial"'"organizers, graphic designers, quizzes, various routines and some games."''"Each program is presented in a style that I imagine all BBC"'"programs to look 1 ;"So I re-load the game in 128 mode with my flag at half mast and await developments. Oh look, there seem to be funny"'"moving lines over everything. The game is working properly"'"now but I think this screen corruption could get a football"'"fan down after a while. I then loaded the game with various interfaces, joysticks and finally standing on a chair with a"'"slice of spam clenched between my bum cheeks and it still"'"didn't work as it should." 1 ;"Roaming around shooting the robots with items of lesser"'"weaponry is something of a specialised art seeing as how"'"most of them move like greased lightning with the runs.": 1 ;"QUAZATRON (48K)"'"Hewson Consultants"'"Released 1986 1 ;"Nottingham NG2 5DL" 1 ;"Not being a great fan of Adventure games I soon found"'"them more fun to program than actually play! I also gained a great sense of acheivement having a stand alone game"'"that computer illiterate me had written!": 1 ;"Maybe it was because this game was a conversion of the C64 hit Paradroid that it failed to ignite the Speccy world in"'"an original between the eyes sort of way... but who needs"'"boys and chocolate when you've got Quazatron."; 1 ;"Issue 2 is well under way and is already boasting"'"four extra items: Adventures, Technophobia, Q+A"'"and an interview section. Most pages will feature graphics and brand new PFN fonts." 1 ;"I'm not quite sure what sort of person wants assorted"'"digitized pictures of East Enders and Neighbours characters (or quite what you'd DO with them) but PRISM has a few..."'"I much prefer a game called BasicBing! With a title like that"'"its just got to be great!." 1 ;"I settled for FM3 as the previous two versions had been"'"pretty enjoyable in their day. On the bus home I kept"'"thinking how long it had taken this program to get into the shops. It had been demoed as far back as YS Sep 91. Back"'"home I loaded it up in 48 just like the instructions said and"'"the old anticipation level remained high. The 'manual' was"'"tiny and the bytes title over-wrote the loading screen." 1 ;"I later bought a dedicated drum machine which we could"'"confidently use live and I swapped my 48+ and Specdrum for a bass guitar. I often wonder whether Cheetah sold millions of units or maybe it was just seen as a technical curio."'"I certainly used it as a serious piece of sound gear and for `30, it was a pretty amazing piece of hardware." 1 ;"I duly choose twelve titles (mainly from the utility section)"'"and sent off my tape and `2 in a good old jiffy bag.": 1 ;"I don't know about you lot but these are not very good"'"signs of a quality program as far as I'm concerned."'"I started feeling just a little uneasy in the gut dept.": 1 ;"Font Designer"'"by Richard Roe" 1 ;"Extra kits were available to load in or combine individual"'"sounds into your own customized kit. A nice touch. The"'"Electro drum sounds were a fair copy of the Simmons kit"'"but the Latin samples were a bit on the pointless side."''"Using the Specdrum live would have been a nightmare! An"'"unknown band rarely gets five minutes to soundcheck let"'"alone set up a spike sensitive Speccy and a monitor! We used backing tapes instead." 1 ;"Endless cross reference seems to be the key here with loads of seperate lists containing all your verbs, nouns, objects,"'"room descriptions and control codes."''"I'd recommend GAC to anyone starting out in Adventure"'"writing. The graphics side is a little hard to get your head around at first but a little slice of application will go a long way. You are stuck with the Sinclair char set unless you get hold of The Finisher by Essential Myth." 1 ;"Drawbacks were few but frustrating. The sound level of"'"each sample was not adjustable. This wouldn't have been a"'"problem if the hi-hat hadn't been so high up in the mix. You could record each drum track seperately using the in-built"'"sync to tape facility but this was very time consuming"'"(especially in a `20 per hour studio!). We always left them"'"off altogether and over-dubbed real hi-hat." 1 ;"Do they still make them and are they 128+2 compatible as I"'"know they didn't used to be...oh and I want another one!"; 1 ;"Digital drum computers and sampling in general had been a"'"big technological breakthrough and the pop worlds new"'"'stars' like the Human League were quick to adopt Fairlights and LinnDrums (four figure pieces of equipment). Prices did"'"eventually come down as smaller models were developed but a digital drum machine was still going to cost you at least"'"three hundred pounds." 1 ;"Did Addictive release a game that didn't look finished or"'"work on certain Spectrums? Does it work on any Spectrum? And does Kevin Toms still have that stupid beard?" 1 ;"Cymbals were also a problem in that the Specdrum didn't"'"have any. A decent sample would require at least 4 seconds, clearly not on for the 48K. Again, these could be put on"'"afterwards without too much hassle.": 1 ;"Cheetah 125+ Joystick"'"by Cheetah Marketing 1 ;"By far the best weapon to nab was a Disrupter... ooohhhh, lovely word that... DISRUPTER! It sounds really electrical and wonderfully painful doesn't it (well it would if you were a"'"pooftah robot.) The enemy robots in Quazatron varied from humble utility drones to mighty ST programmers, whatever"'"they are/were/is. The high class Battle droids were the ones to go for with their sexy blue DISSSRRUPPTERRRSSS (get on"'"with it - Claire)" 1 ;"Banker looks fairly promising until you realise it doesn't"'"carry forward a balance to the following month. Pretty"'"useful stuff or what? On the plus side each section of Basic is explained very well but will you get past the first program listing without falling into a coma first?"''"If you see this book in a library, try to burn it."; 1 ;"Amanda's Diary" 1 ;"ALL SOFTWARE MUST BE ORIGINAL BOXED VERSIONS AS"'" PIRATE BOOTLEG COPIES LOOK VERY CRAP ON OUR SHELF." 1 ;"8 - Classifieds" 1 ;"7 - Features"; 1 ;"6 - Letters"; 1 ;"5 - Publications"; 1 ;"4 - Utilities"; 1 ;"4 - Main Menu" 1 ;"3 - Hardware"; 1 ;"3 - Cartoon strip"; 1 ;"2 Belvoir Road"; 1 ;"2 - Support Scene"; 1 ;"2 - Software"; 1 ;"1 - Editorial"; 1 ;"1 - Amanda's Diary"; 1 ;"...We could make some up as this is our debut"'"issue but I can't be bothered. Your letters would be very welcome on whatever topic you saw fit"'"(hopefully with some sort of Spectrum flavour). Comments on this fanzine would be appreciated"'"more than anything at this precise moment in"'"time!. We also need some sort of swotty boffin"'"know-all smart alec to run a techy programming"'"column. (Please God no R.Swann types - Amanda)" 1 ;"(DAVE)": 1 ;"(CLAIRE)" 1 ;" YOU CAN PLACE AN ADVERT IN THIS"'" FANZINE AND IT'S TOTALLY FREE!!" 1 ;" SINCLAIR CLASSIC was written + programmed by"'" 1 23638-624": 1 23638-152": 1 .mind numbingly boring.": 1 R.R.P `9.99" 1 R.R.P `5.95"'"Published 1982 by Sunshine Books" 1 R.R.P `22.95" 1 R.R.P `8.95p" 1 R.R.P `29.95p" 1 Dave, Amanda and Claire - June 1993"'" Programmed with PFN PRINT + ICON GRAPHIX":