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COMPUTER USER

Hewson conjures

up another hit

with Ranarama

Arnor strikes back

with Maxam II

Starglider: The game

that spans the systems

Head over Heels:

Pokes and mega map

Win modems from Pace

and footballs from CDS

Ofﬁcial Amstrad Home Computing Magazine

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What a trerrtendous game! The graphics are

superbly designed. the characters perfectly

animated. the garneplay so addictive yousli never

want to switch off. There is plenty of variety and

an abundance of humour Head Over Heels is set

to become a classic

Beauti ful l y-deﬁned characters

that glide around the screen

without a glitch Should grace

the shelves of every PC owner

Hi' My name's Mr. Head Some say I m the one with the brains but I don t think my ﬂat footed friend would agree

I m a real sharp shooter, but without my pal Mr. Heels Id get nowhere fast , or slow' I can jump like a ﬂea

and even glide but Heels is the Daley Thompson of the two of us - he $ FAST' Together. if we can ﬁnd each

other, we really do make an awesome twosome, and that s the only way we can overcome the emperor

Blacktooth The last time we entered Castle Blacktooth we found the crowns of THREE of the supressed

Ringdoms but by that time Id run out of doughnut ammunition and my buddy was lost somewhere in the Safari worid

- it was the closest we had come to defeating that rapscallion - we were jumping for joy. splitting out sides, dying with

laughter we were Head over Heels'

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CONTENTS II

27 Maxam II

Arnor's long awaited assembler

sequel is expensive and CP/M+

only, but it is slightly super.

Peter Green runs some code

through it.

5 News

11 Letters

14 Gallup Chart

17 Seek and Ye Shall Find

62 Hairy Hackers Haunt

32 Motor racing -

games

As the racing season moves into

second gear it's time to see if

you are a budding Piquet. John

Baker test drives the appropriate

software.

36 MSP 10E review

A new version of Citizen's best

selling printer. Grahame Davies

takes a look.

44 Ranarama

Hewsons frog program. We are

convinced it is a major

contribution to toad safety.

39 Justin's scroll

Smooth operators will make

your text slip along the bottom

of the screen like a rocket slid

on rails. Justin Garvanovic shows

you how.

70 Assembly point

Peter Green looks at triangles,

and ﬁnds that they are not as

simple as they ﬁrst seem.

56 Three Stargliders

Rainbird's award-winning space

" game spans the CPC, PCW and

PC. Do you know your Juno

cannon from your Egron battle

tank?

83 Software reviews

June has been a bumper month

for software, as Nigel, Colin and

Liz found out.

55 Football compo

CDS offers a load of footballs.

All you need to do is know the

game. There are copies of Brian

Clough's Football Fortunes to be

won.

61 Modem

49 Head Over Heels —

The Map

The deﬁnitive guide to castle

Blacktooth, exactly 300 rooms

full of puzzles.

Win a Linnet. Not one, not two,

but three of Pace's super dooper

Hayes-compatible, smart

modems to be won, but you

need to be smart too.

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COMPUTER USER

The ofﬁcial magazine for ell

user s of Amstrad computers

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New software

for the summer

The software industry must be one of'

the few which hopes for a miserable

summer. If the weather is poor then

you are more likely to be indoors poun-

ding away on the keyboard. All the big

names in software have a packed

release schedule:

Gremlin Graphics has released

Auf Wiedersehen Monty, the last-ever

Monty Mole game, the small rodent

now being over the hill.

Next up is the Samuri Trilogy, then

we will see a game the editor is eagerly

awaiting, The Spring Bounces Back, in

which the bouncy binary blob has to

turn off the computer within the toy

goblin's lair, keeping yourself well oiled

and avoiding many spritey perils. It

may be out before the summer, perhaps

in the spring,

Convoy Raider places you in charge

of sea defences, choosing the right

weapon, a strategic wargame. Nimrod

may sound like a very expensive

aeroplane but it is the name of a Biop-

ton, a friendly alien race. Nimrod has

been alien-napped by the Cratons, you

have to rescue him.

Bounder II and a yet to be named 3D

tunnel game with vector graphics con-

clude the schedule.

Mastertronic appears to be as prof-

ligate as ever, Chronos is a good racy,

spacey shoot-em-up, to be followed by

Strike, Jackie & Wide, Masterchess,

Ballcrazy and Galletron.

Ocean has clinched a two-year con-

tract with Spanish software suppliers

Dinamic. The ﬁrst two titles are Army

Moves and Game Over. With the excep-

tional strength of the Amstrad in the

Spanish market you can expect some

top-notch games, as the screen shots

show,

Later in the year we'll see Freddy

Hardest, an astral playboy's search for

a spaceship, Basket Master, a sports

simulation and the morbid sounding

After The War,

Mark pays the price . .

Covent Garden conﬁnes.

Meanwhile Mark Eastman suffers

the punishment which should befall all

over-optimistic publishers and pro-

grammers.

Caught! A software house which

promoted a game before it wits ready.

They Sold A Million certainly looked

ﬁnished when ACTT saw it last year,

but only now has it escaped Ariolasoft's

Mark Strachan

(blonde) and

Dominic

Wheatley

(brunette)

celebrate the

launch of

Trivial Pursuit

— Baby Boomer

Edition by

returning to

Flower Power:

"It's great

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Follow that

Cheetah

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A leopard may not change its spots. but

Cheetah has moved its lair. The com-

pany which brought you the Amdrum

and other similarly noisy products is

now at Norbury House, Norbury Road,

Fairwater, Cardiff CF5 3AS,

Amstrad User June 1987

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