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October 1987

COMALITER USER

Amor C reviewed

Firebird's fortunes

Hands-on guide to MAX

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In the knife-edge world of the vigilante there is no place

to rest, no time to think-but look sharp - there is always time to

their path-the Renegade_

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CONTENTS

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5 News

10 Gallup chart

11 Letters

23 The Hairy Hackers Haunt

36 Adventures

74 LSB

15 MAX factor

Can your micro handle WIMPs?

Rupert Goodwins looks at MAX from

AMX, the system which provides a

graphic interface, and a good deal of

jargon.

19 Precision printing

Speedy printing at a lower cost than

ever before. But how good and how

fast?

44 Arnor C

53 Killabells

Oh I do like to be beside the C. The

trendy programming language for

CP/M Plus is the latest offering from

Amor.

Can you control the mad ball? You'll

need to, there are dots to eat.

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25 Cage Page

A dip into the letters which appear

daily on Micronet's 'Amster's Cage.

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28 Solomon's Key

US Gold's coin-op conversion with

panache, the best game we've played

for a long while.

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40 Firebird interview

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57 Software reviews

Sunstar, Wonderboy, Quartet, Game

Over, Convoy Raider, Exolon and

Basketball all pass through the

reviewers hands.

Jerry Muir takes to the streets, in this

case New Oxford Street.

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68 Goodies, and no baddies, to make

your Arnold feel better.

47 Win a golden sovereign in a

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Freescape: A new technique unveiled

IT is not every day that a software

house claims a major breakthrough in

programming techniques, it's actually

about once a month. And about once a

year the software house is actually

talking sense and has done something

clever. This year it seems to be Incent-

ive. The ﬁ rm has actually been honest

when claiming all the guff that soft-

ware houses usually claim

Freescape is a programming techni-

que which centers around space and

shapes. A model universe is built inside

the computer and you are free to

wander around buildings and explore.

You can have one of two views, either

from a tank or a plane. Because the

views are calculated, not stored, it is

possible to have thousands of billions of

views.

All this processing takes time and

will slow things down a bit, so games

will have to be designed with the limi-

tations of Freescape in mind. The ﬁ rst

title will be Driller and should be avail-

able towards Christmas.

The good thing about Incentive is

that they have always produced good

Amstrad versions of their programs

and Freescape is no exception. So when

Freescape appears in the shops it may

well be on a CPC before anything else.

I n locom adventures, Plundered

Hearts and Beyond Zork.

Activision's sister title, Electric

Dreams, will model it's stand on motor

racing as it will be showing Super

Sprint, the excellent Atari overhead

view motor racing game, Super

Hang-on the motorcycle racing game

from Sega, and Firetrap from Data

East.

The motor racing theme is continued

over on the Martech stand, where has

been tied up a deal to produce Nigel

Mansell's Grand Prix. The game will

put you between the wheel and engine

of the Honda V6-powered Cannon

Williams FM/11B formula 1 car which

looks set to win the constructors cham-

pionship this year.

The game can be played at two levels,

either a simple racing game like 3D

Grand Prix, or a fully planned race

with fuel limits, tyre changes and a

computer link to the pits.

The second new licence from Martech

is for Slaine the King, the 2000AD cha-

racter. This will be released under the

new Creative Reality label. Bargain

hunters should seek out the Martech

stand for discounts on current titles

like Nemesis the Warlock.

Valley is a fantasy ﬁ ghting adventure

based on the Duelmaster books. You

play a character trapped in a world

peopled by evil warriors. Your aim is to

escape, and when you ﬁnd out that this

has been programmed by Mark Smith

and Jamie Thomson, who did The Way

of The Tiger, you get the idea that this

is not going to be easy.

Compendium is a novelty title. Up

to four players take part in a game feat-

uring the bacchanal Tiddly Wink and

his wife Mavis, where the games of

your childhood come to life. Alterna-

tive Games is a country fete simula-

tion, wellie wanging, sack racing and

pole climbing. A game for the fete-

hearted perhaps. Rounding off the

Gremlin goodie gathering is Masters

of the Universe - The feature

movie, the game in which you take on

the role of He-man, to out-wit and out-

ﬁght the unbelievably evil Skeleton

Activision plans quite a splash. It'll

be showing Rampage, the arcade

game where you play a king kong-like

monster and get points by demolishing

buildings, Predator a game based on

the Arnold Schwarzenegger ﬁ lm, and

Bangkok Knights a Thai boxing simu-

lation from System 3, plus the two new

New games

at PCW

The PCW Show at Olympia is the place

to see all the new products which soft-

ware houses are lining up for Christ-

mas. Heading the line-up are Gremlin,

who have seven new games. Gary

Lineker's Superstar Soccer is a mix-

ture of strategy and arcade games. You

play the centre forward but. have to

select the team as well as train and

decide on tactics. Mask II the sequel to

Gremlin's current game based on the

TV series. Divided into four missions

which rely on your using a mask to best

effect. Basil the Great Mouse Detec-

tive, is not based on a Siberian

hamster (Is no rat — Mr Fawity), but

the Sherlock Holmes-like character

from the latest Disney ﬁ lm. Blood

Amstrad User October 1987

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