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AN ARGUS SPECIALIST PUBLICATION

OCTOBER 1987 £1.10

GUIDE TO

COMPUTER

COMMUNICATIONS

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THE TERPORPODS

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BARBARIAN

Can you become Hegor the famous

dragon-slaying, monster-mangling

Barbarian?

Are you the warrior who can enter

the fearful realms of the underground

world of Dorgan, a world terrorized

by the evil Necron)

Can you handle the adventure, the

frenzied attacks, the hidden traps, the

gruesome death dealing monsters/

Your quest, to destroy the lair of the

accursed Necron. Your prize; the

kingdom's crown.

Your task is awesome! You must live

on your wits. conquer your innermost

fears, use every skill and weapon

available to you.

Hideous perils await. Can you

survive?...

Are you Hegor the famous dragon-

slaying, monster-mangling Barbarian?

512k colour versions available for Atari

ST and Commodore Amiga colour

monitors only.

TERRORPODS

Its been a long watch.. As the sun

disappears over the horizon, the

uninviting, grey bleakness of Cohan

becomes apparent. Following the

intens e heat of the day, the onset of

night adds the bitterness of sub-zero

temperatures to an already hostile

environment, and the stark interior of

the 0.5V appears almost homelike

Deep melancholy is suddenly smashed

by the shrill scream of a siren The

status panel has gone crazy, an

extrordinary array of lights ﬂash

uncontrollably. Good grief. what's

happening?

Frantic ally , you turn to look at the

command scanner, hunting through

the mass of information before you, in

a desperate attempt to decipher what

has happened

Your whole being freezes., _It can't be!

The Terrorpods...

512k co/our versions available for Atari

ST and Commodore Amiga - colour

monitors only.

II- BARBARIAN f 24. 95

TERRORPODS E24 95

DEEP SPACE L34. 95

BRATACCAS £34.95

P. ARENA E29, 95

P. ARENA BRATACCAS £34.95

rk ARENA

The classic sports simulation

BRATACCAS

Become Kyne the earth scientist

accused of genetic fraud.

DEEP SPACE

The ultimate interstellar war game

512k colour versions a

vailable

Psygnosis

FREEPOST

Li ver pool L3 3AB

Uni ted Kingdom

Tel. Nos.

051 647 8118 (Daytime)

051 227 4800 (After hours)

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Atari

ST and Commodore Amiga - COW('

monitors only

BEL!

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CONTENTS

VOLUME 4 NUMBER 1

• Combat Simulations

• Data Statements

For those of you who want a game

that packs more than a punch.

• Contributions

How to write for Your Commodore

• Bothersome Basic 14

All you need to know about Basic.

• Computer Communications 18

A straightforward look at the

world of communications.

• Games Reviews

• Freeze A Jolly Good Fellow 23

Back-up programmes.

• Using an Epson type Printer 26

The combination of Easy Script

with an Epson type printer.

• Shadow Boxing

How to improve your Basic

Storage space.

Star Patrm

• Pirates

Game of the Month.

• Code Comfort

A look at the 6502 assembler and

Z80 compiler for the C64.

• I.Q.

Intellectual games playing.

• Competition 7 4

Win a trip of a lifetime on Concorde.

• Personal Choice Collection 47

Handy home packages for the C64.

• Software for Sale

• Arcade Action 5 2

Produce your scrolling messages on screen.

• Listings

How to type in your programmes.

• Back Page

• Adventure Kit

106

The art of adventure writing.

• Making Music

This month we look at playing tunes

on your C64.

• Link Up

Connect a short-wave technical receiver

and C64 to a Transceive interface.

• Sprite Grabber

Use other programme's sprites for

your games.

• Hook Ups 8 2

Using the BBC as a disk drive interface.

• Rebound

Program in an old fashioned favourite.

• Tech. Troubles

100

• Hide-It

Tim Arnot will guide you through the

technical maze.

Protect your Basic programmes.

YOUR COMMODORE oetober 1987

THE PARALLEL DISK TURBO SYSTEM

EVERY 1541 WANTS!

pﬁtEl PHANTOM

NOW WITH ADDED POWER!

• LOADS 240 BLOCKS IN lsecs

• LOADS H4 BLOCKS IN 2secs

• SAVES 84 BLOCKS IN 4secs

• FORMAT 35 TRACKS IN 20secs

EVERY PbUi,

screen on, with

FULL ERROR CHECKING

i txtt,

s pket dses the Phantom

haldwate to recreate bd by

-thi co

a doo‘lcate at htthecto

uncopyabW disks.

• FORMAT 40 TRACKS IN 23secs with TRACK by TRACK VERIFY

• EXPERT COMPATIBLE — PROGRAM THE EXPERT IN LESS THAN 2secs.

• SPEEDS UP ALL DRIVE FUNCTIONS

• FULL ERROR CHECKING RETAINED — ESSENTIAL FOR RELIABILITY

Other systems sacriﬁce this CRUCIAL FUNCTION to achieve speed

increases but are in fact. NO FASTER only LESS RELIABLE.

Buy their systems and you'll ﬁnd out the hard way!

• 8 FUNCTION KEY COMMANDS FOR MAJOR FUNCTIONS.

• SO ADDITIONAL COMMANDS INCLUDING:

• HU LOCK & UNLOCK

• WRITE PROTECT IGNORE — NO NEED TO NOTCH DISKS

• SET DEVICE NUMBER • SCREEN ON'OFF

• G01541 — REVERTS TO STANDARD 1541

• MANY OTHER USEFUL COMMANDS AID COMPATIBILITY.

lOisable function keys. disable extra ram etc.i

• DRIVE MONITOR COMMANDS INCLUDE:. DISASSEMBLE,

FILL. COMPARE, HUNT. ASSEMBLE, EXECUTE ETC ETC,

• COMPREHENSIVE 40 PAGE MANUAL ILLUSTRATED FITTING GUIDE

• COMPATIBLE WITH MOST COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE

• RELIABLE DOES NOT CORRUPT DISKS UNLIKE RIVAL PRODUCTS.

• SWITCHAB1E KERNA1 REPIACEMENT INCLUDED FOR 64 OR 128 :64MODEI

• BRITISH DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY FROM TRILOGIC

• UPGRAOARIE — DOS. KERNAL 8, COPIER UPGRADES WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON TO GIVE

EXTRA FEATURES FOR A NOMINAL SUM.

OPTIONAL EXTRAS

PRICE

r DRIVE COOLING KIT 2.

PRICE

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• SAVES PROGRAMS IN ONE FILE — (xcl. multipart ones)

• COMPACTS PROGRAMS used by leading software houses.

• RELOADS. DECOMPACTS & RUNS ANY PROGRAM WITHIN 35 secs.

• THE EXPERT IS NOT NEEDED FOR RELOADING.

• COMPATIBLE WITH THE PHANTOM & ALL CBM64,

128 DISK DRIVES.

WITH THE NEW V2.10 SOFTWARE SUPPLIED,

THE EXPERT CAN DO ALL THIS AND MORE.

PROGRAMME PARALYSER

Stops exeo the most heavily protected programs

and defeats All s'anti freeze tchrboties.

TAPPOISK, • DISKITAPE. • DISCOISK,

• TAPEITAPE Transfers memory resident

programs whether loaded 'from disk or tape

SPRITE EXTRACTOR & IMMORTALISER

HIRES SCREEN GRABBER

CHEAT MACHINE

CODE INTERROGATOR

THE ONLY PROGRAMMABLE

CARTRIDGE

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NEWS

ETFITEI1ENTS

Electronic Arts in the UK

What Book to Buy

Electronic Arts, one of the top US

entertainment software companies

have announced their plans to launch

a U.K. subsidiary, and are looking for

new talent. 'We are looking to support

U.K. software artists designing high

quality software', comments Mark

Lewis, Director of European

publishing. 'We are in discussions with

a number of software developers and

are happy to talk to those who believe

they can offer creativity and quality

program ming.'

Following the success of the 'What'

range of computer books, I-1 & D

Services have decided to go national

with their second volume. A major

factor in the marketing of the books is

that they will be sold only through

independent retailers, This provides a

natural link with United Software

Distribution Ltd (U.S.D.) who will he

presenting the book to major

independent computer retailers in the

U.K.

U.S.D.'s Managing Director Andy

Wood commented, 'these publications

help the consumers gain more

understanding of the software that

they buy. The books also prolong the

longevity of software and they help

solve sonic oi the queries that haunt

consumers, retailers and software

houses alike.'

The 'What' range are available

only from computer retailers and

include 'What Now?' which is a

handbook for adventurers, packed

with hints, maps and solutions. Also

'What Poke' which comprises hints,

maps and pokes for arcade type

games.

Touchline:

Electronic Arts Ltd: Langley Business

Centre, 11-49 Station Road, Langley.

Sr. Slough, Berkshire SL3 8 YN. Tel:

0753 49442.

Touchline:

H D Services: 1338 Ashton Old Road,

Higher Openshaw, Manchester MI!

liG. Tel: 061-370 5666.

Shades for 'Free'

All Micronet members are now eligible

for ﬁve hours free play on Shades— the

multi-user adventure game. Shadists

as Shades players like to be known!)

can use their live hours anyway they

want — in one block of ﬁve hours for

one person or spread out in smaller

blocks. The offer stands for all

Micronet members regardless of

whether they've played before or not.

Touchline:

Micronet: Telemap Ltd, Durrant

House, 8 Herbal Hill, London EC1R

5E1. TeL 01-278 3143.

Computer MIDI in Action at Show

New Labels

One of the big crowd pullers at the

forthcoming PCW show will probably

be Electromusie Research (EN1R) with

their live computer-controlled music

demonstration. EMR's range of

computer MIDI software and

hardware covers most home and

business 8/16/32-bit micros and new

recording, sampling and seorewriting

products will be on display. The

special offers will include an EMR

recording system which connects

MIDI-keyboard and computer, for

E69.

So follow the sound of music, and

you're assured of an entertaining time,

not to mention the odd bargain or two.

(Jo! is a new high proﬁ le and

performance software brand from

U.S. Gold which claims to release six

major software products between now

and December. Although Go!

products will dovetail into certain

sales, marketing and distribution

policies of U.S. Gold, they will operate

in the main as a separate company in

terms of advertising activities and

European distribution.

Touchline:

Electromusic Research (EMR) Ltd: 14

Mount Close, Wickford Sussex 551

81IG. TeL 0702 335747.

YOUR COMMODORE october 1917

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