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June 1988

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The Ofﬁcial Amstrad Home Computing Magazine

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FEATURES

Creeper

Bugs and slugs and

poisonous mushrooms.

It's dinner time for the

hungry snake.

CP/M strikes

back

Graduate Software

thrust the much

maligned alternative Dos

back into the limelight

Aloxo

How to use Artiﬁcial

Intelligence to teach

your computer to never

lose at tic-tac-toe.

The ofﬁcial magazine for all

user s of Amstrad computers

CONTENTS

REVIEWS

Driller

Solution

Pat Winstanley travelled to

Mitral to ask Lesleigh

Skerrit how he did it. All is

revealed.

June 1988

REGULARS

Friendly

Composer

First Byte's Micro-Music

Creator is the easy way

to add music and sound

effects to your games.

News

Win a potty €100, Driller

sequel details, new

releases galore.

Nebulus

Hewson's towering

triumph is the best

platform game ever.

Letters

Dyslexia group

discovered; Trivial

Pursuit extra questions

on disc; extending

monitor leads;

programming and

language advice.

Gothik

Druid in disguise

Arkanoid

Revenge of Doh

Top marks are given for

this excellent sequel.

The Xtra that

shouldn't be

Rodos is an excellent

program, but is this

extra disc asking for too

much from the paying

public?

Adventures

Bill Brock goes to the

Village of Lost Souls,

L.A.Swat

Tedium for sleepwalkers.

Acherton and Giant

Killer are reviewed.

PROGRAMMING

Cybernoid

A game that uses the

CPC's graphics

capabilities brilliantly.

Hairy Hackers

In a small corner of the

jungle that he calls

home, Vax hacks away

but cannot escape the

postman.

Auntie John's

Machine Code

The easy way to learn

assembly language is to

tap into the machine

code that Amstrad

supplied with the

machine. AJ shows you

how.

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Adventure

Writing

The series ends with

advice on tidying up the

screen, adding a ram

save/load facility, and

not adding pictures.

Applications

Advice

Business beginnings for

youngsters; printer

problems, printer

problems, and more

printer problems.

Basic Tutor

Boolean logic is the

lifeblood of your

computer. Jeff Walker

shows you how to

express yourself clearly.

and o p in io n s e xp re sse d a re n o t n e ce ssa rily t h o se o f

Am st ra d o r Arn so f t b u t re p re se n t t h e vie w s o f o u r

many re a d e rs, u se rs, a n d co n t rib u t o rs. M a t e ria l f o r

publication is o n ly a cce p t e d o n a n a ll-rig h t s b a sis.

We re g re t t h a t Am st ra d C o m p u t e r U se r ca n n o t

enter in t o p e rso n a l co rre sp o n d e n ce .

Amstrad

Espionage

Life in the fast lane

Ct A wak e Ltd 1988

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by M ar tin Howatt

Amstrad User June 1989

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Our ﬁrst visit to the fabulous

Great Hall at Alexandra Palace

was an OUTSTANDING success.

So for our May show

there'll be .

* More stands (lots more to try and buy)

More space (a much bigger ﬂoor area)

More savings (special offers galore)

THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

MAY 26 MAY 27 MAY 28

10am-6pm 10am-6pm 10am•6pm

Help celebrate Amstrad's 20th

anniversary at the lOth Amstrad

Computer Show - the biggest event

of its kind ever held. This is the

show where both beginners and experienced users can

ﬁnd the answers to all their questions. A Computerised

Product Locator will give visitors an instant guide to

which stands have products they want to see. An Expert

Advice Centre will be staffed by some of Britain's top

computer professionals. And Demonstration Areas will

enable you to see the very latest software in action.

Bring this coupon to the

Show to get 50p per

person off the normal

admission price of E3

(adults), E2 (children).

NIV

10am-6pm Thursday, May 26

10am-6pm Friday, May 27

10am-6prri Saturday, May 28

A great day out for all the family!

The NEW Alexandra Palace is at the heart of a vast leisure complex, with a

magniﬁcent panoramic view ovet the capital. While you're at the show the rest

of the family can enjoy the wooded park, the boating lake, the cruldten's play

centre and zoo, and the park's own garden centre. And new facilities completed

since the last show include a large, fully-licenced restaurant, bars and snack

areas, and the tropical Palm Cowl leisure area with its exotic trees and foun-

tains. There's extensive cat parking too - and all of it is free.

Alexandra Palace, London N22 A416

st4

Bites

not

bytes

VAMPIRE's Empire, starring

Count Dracula and his

bloodsucking cronies, is the

new game from Magic Bytes.

You take on the role of the

vampire hunter Van Helsing

whose ﬁrst task is to locate

the divine light ray which he

must reﬂect and deﬂect

through the underground

caverns and hallways.

Not only must Van Helsing

deal with his surroundings,

but he must also avoid the

vampish Sybille who is just

aching to give him a deathly

love bite.

Adorned with his trusty

crystal ball and string of pun-

gent garlic he must locate

and kill the count before mid-

night or it could be all over

bar the biting.

The game features a host

of grisly characters wan-

dering around over 400

rooms, plus gameplay which

constantly takes a comical

twist.

Vampire's Empire will cost

£999 on cassette and 04.99

on disc.

Doughnuts

dambusters

THE Power House has con-

cluded a deal with Canadian

software company Sydney

Development Corporation.

SDC responsible for

Dambusters and Desert Fox

on the CPC, is based in

Vancouver but has ofﬁces in

Los Angeles, New Jersey,

Toronto, Nottingham and

London,

The company, as it now

stands, was formed in 1978

but had previously been

under different ownership

when it was ﬁrst into mining,

and then a doughnut factory.

Dambusters and Desert

Fox have now been re-

released for the CPC on The

Power House's 11.99 budget

label.

Win MO and a potty to

put it in

ARE you potty enough to

solve Videoworld, the highly

original text adventure from

Gonsoft, and win pots of

money?

Any registered purchaser

of Videoworld will be eligible

for the competition, and the

ﬁrst person to send in the

complete solution to the

game will win £100 plus the.

unique, hand-crafted Gon-

Dream

of fear

Potty award.

As a chamber pot plays an

important role in Video-

world, Gonsoft thinks it

would be appropriate to offer

a 12in diameter one to the

winner.

Further details from Gon-

soft on 0603 484426.

THE latest release from

Cascade Games, Frightmare,

comes from beyond your

darkest dreams.

The game will take you

into your subconscious as

you ﬂoat from screen to

screen collecting the ances-

tral dreams and fears that

Son of

Mask hero

kidnapped!

VENOM have kidnapped

Scott Tracker and are

holding him hostage in their

moon HQ, Miles Mayhem

has demanded the surrender

of Mask in return for Scott's

life.

Unable to agree to this,

Scott's father, Matt, has set

out alone to rescue him.

As none of the Mask ve-

hicles are capable of space

travel, Matt will have to

hide in the aeepest parts of

your mind.

Even Grotbags of BBC TV's

Pink Windmill Show thinks it

is truly frightening: "Just like

me," she says.

Frightmare is due for

release on the CPC very

shortly priced £9.95 cassette,

f14,95 disc.

penetrate Venom's Earth

stronghold to steal a moon

rocket. This will alert Venom

to his rescue plan.

Venom Strikes Back, the

third game in the Mask series

from Gremlin Graphics, is

available now priced at £9.99

on cassette and 04.99 on

disc.

Amstrad User June 1988

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