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Arnold artist

Jill Lawson offers advice

on the paint packages.

Hum,

Star Wars

Domark has launched the

game which shook the

arcades ages ago.

Educational

software

There are valuable lessons

to be learned from

educational software — but

not always what the

manufacturers intend.

REGULARS

News

AMS Meets HRH, new

software and a clean head

60 Jet Bike

Simulator

Codemasters' most

expensive game to date

still justiﬁes the price,

Dan Dare II Map

The essential guide to

playing Virgin's new space

sizzler.

g Gallup chart

u Christmas changed the

chart: Ten new entries.

Dan Dare II

The pilot of the future

takes a second romp

around the innards of your

Arnold.

COMPETITION

Views on

simplicity; letter

duplication.

11 Vine Le

PROGRAMMING

17 Win E 0 O

expandexpand your Arnold — he'll

love you for it.

1 Q Adventures

Treasure Hunt

A fun LizTing from D. L.

Lau.

id Bill Brock meets Ingrid

Bottom low, looks at the

second ﬂight of Passengers

on the Wind, gens up on

his nursery rhymes and

ﬁghts the Sorcerer Lord.

REVIEWS

Basic tutor

Jeff Walker explains how

to write a parser.

Pascal review

It may call itself Pascal, but

even at a bargain price this

rom is not Wirth buying.

Applications

Advice

Help with Mini Ofﬁce and

Printers.

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Dare you play the game

which might probe your

character a little too

deeply?

The Hairy

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Vax and Justin present

useful aids to getting high

scores.

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Oh No — Not Another

Magnetic Scrolls Adventure

Yup. Sorry. The team that gave

you The Pawn and The Guild of

Thieves weren't satisﬁed with

international acclaim, the best

graphics in the business, and a

parser so smart it'll understand

every word even you type.

"Let's improve the system' they

said, "Let's do even better

graphics' they said. "Let's have a

crazy fairground and a cloud that

thinks it's a World War II ﬁghter

pilot, and a peculiar bloke in a

herringbone overcoat, and a

railway disaster, and a plot to

destroy civilization. Oh yes —

let's not forget the World's

Strongest Beer. Right?"

"No," we said, "calm down. Take

it easy." But would they listen?

Jinxter. Maybe now they'll be

satisﬁed

\ Following hot on the heels of the international award winning adventures The Pawn

and The Guild of Thieves comes Jinxter, a sophisticated and immensely bumourous

\ adventure from Magnetic Scrolls-

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The same,

but

cheaper

for CPC users as well as

offering a large selection of

bargains.

School Software — famous

for its educational packages

— will have continuous

demonstrations of its Maxi

Maths, Maths Mania, Better

Spelling, Chemistry, Geogra-

phy, and Physics programs.

Siren Software is launch-

ing three new products for

the CPC — Hack-It, a utility

program for hackers, Micro

Design, a page makeup DIP

package, and a mouse

interface with software.

In addition to the launches,

Siren is promising ''tremen-

dous software bargain

offers".

One of the biggest attrac-

tions will undoubtedly be the

Amstrad Theatre — so

popular with visitors to past

shows that it has been en-

larged to meet the demand.

As at previous shows, lots

of bargains will be available.

A NAME which makes a fre-

quent appearance in the soft-

ware charts, but otherwise

does not make much noise,

is that of budget specialist

Alternative Software. The

company often repackages

hits from the past, and Roger

Hully, the MD is seen here

being bitten by the Piranha

A PPC for HRH

ON a recent tour of the Mid-

lands, The Prince of Wales

was presented with an

Amstrad PPC by Alan Sugar

as part of a charity package.

Amstrad is usually reluc-

tant to support charities,

taking the view that there are

so many worthy causes that

simply administrating which

charities to give to makes the

whole process a nightmare.

This means that when

Amstrad does give to charity

it needs to be an especially

deserving organisation. Such

is the charity BiC IBusiness in

the CommunityI, which aims

to give the unemployed in

the Midlands a high-tech

springboard. Amstrad has

donated a number of PC

1640s, a cash grant and

some computer training.

Wash that

dirt right

outta your

bug as he celebrates the

imminent release of that

company's older titles for

C1.99.

First Out will be Trap Door

and Po peye, soon to be

followed by Rogue Trooper,

Strike Force Cobra and Nos-

feratu,

head

IT's been a long time

corning, but at last there is a

way to clean the heads in

your Amstrad disc drive. RS

has launched a disc and ﬂuid

and for £9.95 you will be able

to clean the drive 15 times.

It looks like a standard

3.5in disc but contains a felt-

like fabric. You wet the

cloth with the "specially

formulated cleaning ﬂuid"

and run the disc in the drive

for 30 seconds.

Having not had any trouble

with dirty heads for three

years, ACIJ doubts the need

for this. However, profes-

sional cleaning is very

expensive and losing data

potentially crippling.

PRETTY IN PRINT

The show

that grows

the 6128's banked ram and

has a number of features

which are sure to make exis-

ting owners want to buy the

new software,

Three fonts can now be

stored in memory, tables of

up to 16 columns can be set

in proportional fonts, the

font editor has been

improved and there is direct

access for the top bit, which

means that all the characters

which appear on the screen

can be made to print.

It costs £19.95 on disc or

E12.95 on tape: For more

details 'contact Seven Stars

on 06284 3445,

OUALITAS is a program

which produces a higher

than standard quality of

output on a dot matrix prin-

ter.

It has been a popular

product with many Amstrad

owners for quite a while

now, but there are some

unfortunates who have prin-

ters which are incapable of

producing a high enough

resolution to work with it.

Now more people will be

able to use Oualitas, because

Qualitas Plus is available.

Compatible with Shinwa and

Epson double density

modes, it makes more use of

THE scene is set for what

promises to be the most suc-

cessful Amstrad Computer

Show ever in the Great Hall,

Alexandra Palace from Feb-

ruary 4 to 6.

Response from exhibitors

has been so enthusiastic that

already extra space has been

booked to cater for increased

demand for stands.

The show — ninth in the

series — will stage a number

of exciting product launches

Amstrad User March 1988

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