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CONTENTS

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5 News

11 Letters

19 The Hairy Hackers Haunt

27 Adventures

47 Gallup chart

74 LSB

25 Survey report

You are male, read Amstrad User

regularly, own discs and a printer,

use Mini Ofﬁce ll and play games.

You are a typical ACU reader. Have a

look at your other foibles in our

survey results.

33 Cage Page

Electronic exchange of Amstrad

User's views. Paul Needs referees as

users advise on macros, non-Amstrad

monitors, corrupted discs and more.

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38 LC13500 Review

Amstrad Computer User's exclusive

review of the long awaited 24 pin dot

matrix printer. Now you can have

quality and speed without paying a

48 Gryzor

Imagine's latest arcade conversion is

splendid. Simon Rockman took a

sneak preview of the Konami-to-

Amstrad conversion.

51 Applications Advice

David Foster continues his clinic on

sensible software with advice on

Masterﬁle and a review of the

Qualitas package which offers high

quality print on Epson-compatibles.

42 RoDos

Jeff Walker looks at an alternative

disc operating system for the CPC. If

you want bigger discs, random

access or hieratical directories then

RoDos is for you.

56 Assembly point

Peter Green's regular column for

machine code maniacs looks at disc

formatting. You need never worry

about the state of your discs again.

63 Software reviews

New games reviewed. This month the

excellent Mask from Gremlin tops the

lot,

68 Goodies, and no baddies, to make

your Arnold feel better.

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Amstrad User November 1987

How to be a

igOMPLETE

Game

Ade is the sort of person who loosens the screws from the handles of disabled persons' toilets or markets

Space Shuttle Jigsaw Puzzles.

In the game he has successfully gate-crashed a yuppie party on the posh side of town and to succeed as

The Complete Bastard he must incapacitate all the guests by the end of the party and light up each letter in the

phrase COMPLETE-BASTARD. He must also build up as many Bastard Points as he can by extremely offensive

behaviour.

Now you can play Ade and be a Complete and Utter Bastard in this arcade adventure with split-level screen

that's crammed full of absolutely tasteless humour.

'Anything this horrible is bound to sell millions.' Sinclair User.

Based on the book of the same name fdr1986 L

HOW TO BE A COMPLETE BASTARD s avadatVe frj in all daring software

retailers, or directly from us under plain brown wrappes.

Please make crossed cheques or postal orders payable to Virgin Games Ltd

and send to Virgin Games Ltd, 2.'4 Vernon Yarn, Portobello Road, London

Wit 2DX.

PLEASE DO NOT POST COINS OR MONEY

Commodore 64128 IE9.95:

_ Spectrum 4128 (€7.95I

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AMSTRAD

NEWS

New machines are

key to prices

ous rivals. The Commodore 64 is to

have its price cut, and the Atari ST at

E299 is perilously close to the 6128 -

although that does not include a moni-

tor. Don't expect any major CPC

announcements this year though.

On a more positive note, Amstrad

has launched two new printers, the

LQ3500 and 1_,Q5000, both 24 pin high

quality. See our exclusive review on

Page 38.

There have been major moves on

Amstrad's part to make the company a

major world force. Until recently dis-

tribution in Italy had been a little

patchy. Now Amstrad Italy has been

set up. This is owned by Amstrad UK

and will take on Olivetti at home -

what's the chance of Amstrad following

the Italians with a Formula 1 racing

car? Probably nil.

Equally exciting is the purchase of

Vidco, Amstrad's American distributor.

Until recently Video has performed a

stalwart job of selling Amstrad PC com-

puters.

ACU suspects that Amstrad will

build on this success by using its sub-

stantial ﬁ nancial clout. The takeover

cost Amstrad E5 million, coincidentally

the same price as Amstrad paid for the

Sinclair properties. So if you want to

sell out to Amstrad it seems that E5

million is to Amstrad what E299.95 is to

IN a move which gives Amstrad cus-

tomers a choice of' more than 20 differ-

ent machines, the company has

launched two new models of PC. Two

machines which are no longer

mentioned are the 10 megabyte hard

disc models, which have not sold par-

ticularly well and are expected to be

discontinued.

The restructuring of the range leaves

Amstrad with six PC 1512 models and

nine PC 1640s.

As a result there will be some

changes in the prices of most Amstrad

computers.

The price of the PC 1512 has been cut

by about E50, back to the level the

machine was launched at one year ago.

Two new versions of the PC1640

have been introduced, the PC1640 MD

and the PC 1640 CD. They have been

available in the USA for some time and

it makes sense for the improved mono

and colour machines to be sold here.

They will, eventually replace the PC

1512.

Moving down the range, the

PCW9512 has been launched at E499.

The PCW 8256 is to carry on for the

forseeable future, but with a price cut

of E100 making it a bargain at E299.

The PCW8512 drops to E399 - all prices

plus VAT.

Moving to the bottom of the range,

the Spectrum Plus 3 has been criticised

for being overpriced, despite a number

of bundling deals. The price has been

cut from E249.95 to the magic E199.95.

All this must leave us wondering

what will happen to the CPC 6128. It is

the machine which ACV expects to

maintain its price, although anything

which encourages more people to buy

CPCs must,be seen as a good thing.

The CPC464 and 6128 will be

bundled with a joystick and 17 games -

including Trivial Pursuit and Seawolf.

ACU hopes that Amstrad will con-

tinue to produce the machine for the

next year at least. The French market

is strong enough to justify that, if noth-

ing else.

However there are a number of seri-

"This deal will give Video the means

to become highly competitive and at

the same time have the resources to

capitalise on the market's potential.

"It was clear that Video was

unable to support the inventory levels

to achieve the penetration of the

market we require.

"We have learned that the US

market is very competitive and.

frankly, there seems no room for a

middle-man distributor".

- Amstrad chairman Alan Sugar

talking about the Video buy-out.

computer buyers - the right price.

Rumours have been circulating

about the formation of Amstrad Gmbh.

Schnieder currently sells Amstrad com-

puters in Germany and to a number of

other European countries. Now it

appears that Amstrad intends to take

over this marketing, after becoming

unhappy with the way Amstrad com-

puters are selling over there. This has

not been substantiated.

We are the Champions

to assess the circulation of most

of the major publications in the

country. Until now ACU has not

been ABC certiﬁ ed. Now we

have it in black and white that

you like us best.

But Amstrad Computer User is

not going to rest on its laurels.

There are some super new fea-

tures coming up. Thank you for

making ACE/ the country's

favourite Amstrad magazine.

We'll ensure it stays the best.

IT's ofﬁcial. Amstrad Computer

User is the best selling Amstrad

magazine in the country. And

it's all thanks to you.

The Audit Bureau of Circul-

ation has conﬁ rmed the maga-

zine has a circulation of 63,599

copies every month. This is very

nearly twice as many as our

nearest rival.

The ABC is an organisation

paid for by publishers and

advertisers who act impartially

Amstrad User November 1987

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