AmstradComputerUser42-0588.pdf

E1.25

May 1988

:1 111 1

m IIHIH 11

1"1

111

I II

;:;:ist tt;tits III

11 '

11111111

1111111111111ﬁlimm:Itillimmilloilig:::1011111111111111mtmomms

in t g r a t o n fs 111111111111111111110511111111§1111111111ii11111111111111111111iii;;1

•

• 1

•

•••••••,--

*1-0

[I ti

j jrjouru

ur I

Plus-. Basic 'tutor, Adventures,

1-1 GatileS reviews, Programming and more

..1.1Li LiV i i_J

The Ofﬁcial Amstrad Home Computing Magazine

Norway NOK 20_00 Spain 300 Phis Turkey 1650 IL Demos* itr. 3330 kaZZealand 142$4_9S Rpc

RENIGADE

the kn O t• CIPP

wo rl d 0 1 th e ktg itte n e

th an e rsn atilme I la

te kt, n o h o e ID th o k -

lOok

-u t

RAMPAGE

1 he so me wO rm Ph

, ,ce d o n g e l

kkw

Grt l b rh o ' Weh

1 th rO u

Ch e e tO .Mme h te p te g o

an d lu mp O m San /me e t

Three in d e scn b ab is

t h au lms/sr...th e n

re rn ad o tM e We tn e ss Ids

Cu ad h l ts an d War-Man re te h mkt ED

send th e m o n e re .h

encheing 150 d o rs

dustup

kr r

Ihrle to d n

' Yo u

encounter th e

nuts re tard ware n

on IL 5 to sp le tte mate th e

man o n e arth wh o d are s

On OKAY,' the annheI

al l

If In ittle att_ PIL AY asile ard

'cat Se ra-Co p 'rtf

one e ate e e in e r " vain !

•Comrnosiccs L ste rt

7 au

tm so ;

troll

ﬂ

1,1,1tPeeketbitr o f th e

delweted to

a Ch amp io n

loseetwohost ﬂO L E to d e te st ﬁrs d e n e te rc g u ard

Pr reekh MIL be reseased. Ff155 the NI55

LSI

151.15.1s

Ho n k. Co me t d O u ﬂ k

rn p srr

vo te d n 3 Ns b ro ad swo rd wttn

Can h e u wate sh tn e TO , es se ' Dario

PI S SPR I N T

had helm Man Game s d rag o n s

OPRY YO U CAM

rh o o te rsm n n n g

op, one O f two Wo o l',o n , p e te h e ad to h e ad c.a.g IlL acste lln g e n C

1 kWh DI VIM d e ft h h ke e t th e h kie n t I e n d ke n e CI fu tle n

Mbh can be L e ad e d so f tre h iste e n h an d n g cu sto m car *Mu re s th e ke n To

Sup et g n u s,. With cle tasn d rn alie n an d

sound e le ct, h ap e r n t b tIn g t th e b e lt

Ci th i n g Me tte sn e n t CIA5f ID b e

taO crIsFiC.ﬂ 1 WO W CO Mth o lttri•

IS C. FJAi 00.1

•

Al ILI. 5rfrnfr if

affvfrﬁ

ONLY

.01

REVIEWS

AMUR;

The ofﬁ cial magazine for all

users of Amstrad computers

Digital Integration's

departure from accuracy

produces

PROGRAMMING

REGULARS

which crosses the

arcade and strategy

boundaries. You get to

shoot things and then

think about it afterwards.

Energy Warrior

Mastertronic try and fool

us by making the writing

on the inlay card really

small, but this cannot

disguise a zappy, scrolly,

shooty game.

Tour de Force

Bicycle race, where the

race in question is the

Japanese. But if they do

silly things on telly with

Clive James why should

Gremlin argue?

News

Amstrad proﬁts up (worra

surprise), new products

from Arnor, Brunning and

Ram. CP/M in Rom. Virus

lie.

Basic Tutor

ON, .GOSUB means

never having to say

IF...THEN too often.

Effective code is better

than efﬁcient

programming.

Adventure

Writing

Pat Winstanley adds to

her Basic adventure

program with some plot.

Add an evil lord and

water for instant

adventuring.

Polar

Brian Round takes you

for a trip around the

freezing ice caves with a

really cool typing treat.

FEATURES

Letters

Lance Davies, he of the

barbed crayon (we won't

let him near anything

sharp), sorts out your

correspondence.

Applications

Advice

Brainstorm pokes,

technical tips and helpful

hints from the ever user

friendly David Foster.

U Simulator

A game with no skating,

no rock and no

simulation. Otherwise a

perfect name for this

silentish skateboarding

game.

Hairy Hackers

A cold doesn't stop Vax

from cheating at Buggy

boy and Anarchy.

Goonies and Arkanoid,

Editorial and Advertising ofﬁ ces:

169 King's Road, Brentwood,

Essex CM14 4EF,

Tel; 0277-234459 (Editorial):

0277 234434 (Advertising)

Telec om Gold: 72:MAG02?

Published by Avralite Ltd, Adlington

Park, Adlingtorl, Macclesﬁeld WO 414P,

News t ra d e d ist rib u t io n : D ia m o n d -Eu ro p re ss Sa le s

& Distribution Ltd Unit I. Ourgess Road, lvyhouse

'vine. H a st in g s, Ea st Su sse x T N 3 5 4 N R .

Tel: 0 4 2 4 4 .3 0 4 2 2

Editor: Simon Rockman

Assistant: Elaine Rawlins

Advertisement Manager;

Julian Harrion

Advertisement Sales: Virginia Cheke

Amstrad is a r ews ter ed tr ade m ar k . and wth the

title Am st ra d C o m p u t e r U se r, is u se d w it h t h e

permission o f Am st ra d p lc ﬁ lo p a rt o f t h is

publication m a y b e p ro d u ce d w it h o u t p e rm issio n ,

Wh ile e ve ry e f f o rt is m a d e t o e n su re t h e a ccu ra cy

of a ll f e a t u re s a n d list in g s w e ca n n o t a cce p t a n y

lia b ility f o r a n y m ist a ke s o r m isp rin t s. T h e vie w s

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 Am 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 only accepted on an all-nobts basis.

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 .

.pA v r elita Ltd 1988

Gallup Chart

OK pop pickers, the Top

Twenty looks a lot

different from last

month with US Gold's

Ferrari slowing down

but still in the lead.

Cage Page

Electronic letters

transferred from the

glowing screen to our

pages thanks to Ian

Hoare.

ABC

63,69g

Jen-June Ige?

Pixel Prowess

Jill Lawson shares her

Art Studio secrets in a

Mode 1 magical art

lesson. Sorry no nudes.

Adventures

Bill Brock's bumper

bundle: Kingdom of

Hamil, Book of the Dead,

Slaine the King,

Werewolf Simulator and

Countdown to Doom.

U Budget

Who are the mysterious

men with ﬁsh in their

ears from the cold

North? Norman Doyle is

some the wiser.

Cov er phelogr oby

bv M ar tm Hewett

Amstrad User May 198,9

Page 3

ralicroliDk

Link your Amstrad CPC to the outside world with...

When you join MicroLink you've got

the whole business world at your

ﬁngertips — 24 hours a day. You'll

have immediate access to ALL the

facilities offered by Telecom Gold

and a great deal more besides.

Electronic mail The cheapest

and fastest form of

communication possible. It costs

the same to send a message to

one mailbox as to 500!

Telex Link up with 96,000 telex

subscribers in the UK and 1.5

million worldwide. You can even

send and receive telexes after

ofﬁce hours or while travelling.

I II

Telemessages Type in your

message before 8pm and

delivery is guaranteed by ﬁrst

post the next day (except Sunday),

anywhere in the UK and USA.

All you need — apart from your Amstrad— is a

modem, which plugs into your telephone wall

socket, an RS232 interface and suitable

communications software.

We have provided a list of possible combin-

ations (left), ranging from the very cheapest to

ones which can automatically dial the Micro-

Link* telephone number and connect you

directly to the service — all you have to do is

type in your personal security password.

Whichever equipment you use, you will be

able to call MicroLink, open your mailbox,

save to disc any messages waiting for you,

and disconnect in as little as two minutes

Tele-booking — Reserve train and

theatre tickets, check ﬂight details

worldwide, or order from a vast

range of products — from ﬂowers

to ﬂoppy discs.

I I

Advice — on a team of pro-

fessional, legal and ﬁnancial

advisors as and when you need

them, for both business and

personal problems.

Typical comms packages

A Cirkit: Acoustic V23 modern 4

R5232 interface I

, tape

di sc

comms software 1(35.40)

KDS: Minimax V21, V23

autodial modem -0- RS232

interface -4- comms rom ((99)

C Pace: Nightingale V21, V23

manual dial modem i- R5232

interface 4- Commstar tom

((159)

D Pace: Linnet V21, V23 autodial

modem 4- R5232 interface •

Commstar rom ((213)

I k

Company Obtain facts about any

British limited company in

seconds, and fully analysed

ﬁnancial information on over

100,000 companies.

More than

90 per cent

of subscribers

can connect to

the MicroLink

computer at

local call

rates.

Translation — Access the biggest

and most up-to-date

multilingual dictionary

in the world, with

over 380,000 words.

News Use the powerful search

commands to pinpoint vital

business information from the

world's leading news services,

newspapers and periodicals.

AMR-,

11,1k

Please send me full details about MicroLink, and information

sheets about the following hardware and software options

'please circle):

Radiopaging — If you also have a

pocket radiopager you'll be

alerted each time an urgent

message arrives in your mailbox.

So you're always in touch.

TO FIND OUT MORE

Fill in the coupon and

send it to the address

below. You will receive

full details of services

and costs, together with

an application form.

Complete this and

within days you and

your Amstrad will be

able to use all the

services of Microlink

and Telecom Gold.

ABCD

Name

4Ftalti

Address

Gateways — Get through to New

York in just ﬁve seconds — or key

into the EEC computer in

Luxembourg, which links you to

600 databases throughout Europe.

Postcode

Send to Europa House, Adlington Park,

Adlington, Macclesﬁeld SK10 4NP.

ACUB

Amstrad

rally

AMSTRAD's proﬁts for the

six months to December 31

1987 were E90.1 million, This

beat the most optimistic City

expectations of E85 million

and triggered a rally in the

share price,

In his report Alan Sugar

talked about the success of

home and business com-

puters, which were hindered

by the lack of availability.

He spoke well of Amstrad

France and promised rapid

expansion from Amstrad

Italy and Amstrad Spain.

The report took a more

cautious view of the USA,

which Amstrad plans to

penetrate "mistake free".

New divisions of Amstrad

will be set up in Germany las

predicted in November's

ACV, Belgium, Holland and

Australia.

The report failed to shed

any light on what new

products might be in the

pipeline. Popular rumours

include the possibility of a

cheap fax machine and a

video camera.

HEWSON's latest is also

Hewsonrs greatest, A new

game from Raffaele Cecco,

famed for producing ExoIon

and Equinox, is every bit as

pretty and playable as the

games which sired it.

Cybernoid puts you at the

controls of a spaceship

which can call one of ﬁve

weapons to its defence --

Exolon•style bombs, mines

Cybernoid arrives

for aliens to run into, boun-

cing bombs which wreak

havoc all over the screen,

homing missiles which seek

and destroy alien emplace-

ments, and shields which

protect you from all hazards.

You can pick up a rearward

facing gun and swinging

missile. The game had the

editor hooked instantly. Look

out for a review soon. It is

available on tape for E9.95

and disc for E14.95,

the best way to help them is

to return to the present and

prevent the war.

You take the role of Robin

in the text and graphics

adventure.

It is a game in which the

personalities of the com-

puter-generated charac-

ters matter, so every game

should be slightly different.

Every effort has been

made to put the story before

the effort of playing an

adventure.

Mindﬁghter is based on a

book by Anna Popkess and

has been programmed by

Delta 4's Fergus McNeill with

help from Anna Popkess. It

will be published by

Activision.

Pictured left are Fergus

McNed, and Anna Popkess,

who don't know about not

putting muddy shoes on

seats.

Blowing

your

mind

Delta 4 is the software house

responsible for things like

Bored of the Rings and

several other off-beat adven-

tures. The serious side to

Delta 4 is Abstract Concepts

whose ﬁ rst release is

Mindﬁghter,

The game features Robin,

an 11-year-old boy with

exceptional psychic powers.

As a student of parapsy-

chology he is capable of put-

ting himself into a trance.

This state leads him to wake

Soon he realises that evil

forces are at work. A fascist

system is exploiting the

survivors. Robin realises that

up in a post-nuclear hol-

ocaust world, From this pos-

ition he has to help survivors

re-build their lives.

Amstrad User May 1988

Page 5

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: