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Missives P a g e 11
More support for an upgraded
64, a whole host of games hints,
the Jet Set Willy bug ••• you said
it.
Choice 20 P a g e 14
Ghostbusters is new in at
number 10, but International
Football is still at number 1!
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Getting Your Word's Worth
If the advertisements are to be
believed, a wordprocessor will
improve your produc t t y , make
writing a pleasure instead of a chore
and allow you to create professional--
looking letters and documents.
But what exactly is a
wordprocessor and how do you
Choose the right one for you? Y64
examines six best-selling packages,
comparing features, ease of use,
quality of documentation and value
for money. Don't buy a
wordprocessor without reading this
first! Valerie Buckle and Keith
Bowden
Compunet vs. Micronet
Everyone seems to be
getting on-line these days,
but which network offers
more to 64 users? We put
Micronet and Compunet
to the test. Allen Webb
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C o m p e t i t i o n Ghostbustin' makes
you feel good a n d so should our
competition 'cos we've got 100
copies to give away! Not to mention
a 1541 disk drive and other goodies.
Nordic wars, practice a
spot of social climbing
in Hampstead, steer
clear of the Dungeons of Ba and, well.
Di's Baby could only have been
produced by Bad Taste Software
Steve Malone
Why is that man Minter so
obsessed with small furry
animals? Y64 talks to the man
behind Llamasoft.
Back Issues P a g e 19
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Raid Over Moscow Nuking
Moscow might not be the most
tasteful plot to a game, but it
certainly wins in the playability
stakes.
S c r a t c h p a d Add medium-
resolution plotting to your 64's
graphics capabilities with our easy to
use listing! Also the rest of the demo
routines for last month's scrolling
routine. Mike Hart and Brian Rushby
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Keyboard Kapers Exercise your
grey cells with our 3D noughts and
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five g a m e s i n o n e p a cka g e f o r
just C9.99.
And n o t j u st any old games,
but really outstanding, exciting
and u n u su a l o n e s
No o th e r
games collection
comes anywhere
near t h e 'Fa n ta sy
Five.' Each game
is u n i q u e a n d d e -
mands very different
talents of the player.
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Round Up' you ca n
see how you'd have
made o u t a s a
shoot off his horns, eyes, nose, ears
and s o o n while h e continues t o
dance. D e fe a t t h e m o n s te r , a n d
you'll b e astonished b y h i s tr a n s -
formation into,..?
Then you can
don y o u r sh i n i n g
armour and rescue
your true love from
her evil ca p to rs'
castle. 'Save M e
Brave Knight' is full
of e v i l m o n s t e r s
and fi re-breathing
dragons, and i s
exceptional i n i t s
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be b o th skilful and
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where aliens make
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into th e desert.
Then you can te s t your skills
'Save Me Brave Knight'
in th r e e unique variations o f t h e
traditional g a m e o f billiards, w i th
'Spatial Billiards.' It's billiards in 3-D
your galaxy. A s th e Supreme
Commander you mu st capture their
Mo th e r Sh i p . I t ' s a stra te g i ca l l y
demanding g a m e w i t h a u n i q u e
laser-shooting s e q u e n c e u s i n g
refl ectors. Tricky!
in a gravity-free room!
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In 'Dancing Mo n ste r' a g a m e s me a n s th e y will ma ke th e
wicked wizard has c a s t a spell on v e r y mo st of your Commodore 64's
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Commodore
Cruel To
Elephants?
Move up to warp 5 with MPS's high-speed disk loader, Spiderman drops in,
Commodore ad gets banned, make backup copies of your favourite games
with a datasette-to-datasette copier and look Out for more computerised
break dancing i f it's happening to the 64, it's in Open Access
Commodore's rather
ridiculous tv ad, the one
with a boxing elephant
representing a 64, has
been banned o n the
grounds of cruelty to
elephants! The RSPCA
made a complaint to the
Advertising Standards
Authority and the ASA
Black Thunder — the first of two by Tony Crowther to be distri- asked Commodore to
withdraw the ad.
buted by Ouicksilva
Yes, 64k is worth
bombed by passing
aircraft. And finally
shouting about if you're
after machine code
Ouicksilva proudly
announces that it has
programmers, but what
bought the marketing
about the quality of the
rights to Crowther's
graphics? Or the fact that Speaking as someone who couldn'tcare less what Frankie says
or where he goes, ii's with a certain resignation alai I pass on
Black Thunder, a game
the 64 is one of the few
the news that Ocean Software has signed a deal wilh the pop
Tony Crowther, author of where you have to
home machines with a
Monty Mole and Potty
control a train racing
decent keyboard? Or the •band Franke Goes To Hollywoodlo produce a 'Frankie• game.
In an apparent attempt to win the 1985 Award for Meaninglul-
Pigeon, seems to be
along tracks while getting range of software
Sounding Gobbledygook, Ocean director David Ward says that
making a career out of
bombed by passing
available? And the poor
he hopes the game will "bring together isolated industries as
selling different versions aircraft. Even the screen
old SID chip. easily the
information technology changes the way data is accessed to the
of the same game to
displays are all but
most sophisticated music
different software
public." er, yeah. Me too. Ocean is on 061-832 6633.
identical. Come to think
chip in any home micro,
houses.
of it, Potty Pigeon is a
doesn't even get a look
First come Loco, a
game where you have to
in.
game where you have to control a car racing along
If the 64 can become
control a train racing
the road while getting
the world's best-selling
along tracks while getting bombed by passing
computer advertised by
bombed by passing
pigeons. I think Mr
boxing elephants, it
aircraft. Next was
Crowther has invented a
makes you wonder how
Suicide Express, a game new form of plagiarism.
well it would sell if
where you have to
Commodore bothered to
I also think somebody
should tell Ouicksilva (on point out what a good
control a train racing
along tracks while getting 0703-20169).
machine it is.
Third Time
Lucky For
Crowther's
Trains?
Armchair
Break
Dancing
Hits Town
Armchair break dancers
now have a choice of Iwo
games to break to. First
we have CBS's Break
Dance and now
Li H
Interceptor's Break
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Fever. Interceptor's
version provides you with
musical backing in the
form of an electro funk
single on side B of the
tape (played by a 64.
naturally). I got confused
when the instructions told
me to ''move the joystick
left and right
simultaneously." Ask
Interceptor to explain the
technique on 07356-
71145.
Your 64 March 3
I m pe z S oftw a r e 's XiFtt: Atar i com pati bi l i ty for the
C-1 6 a nd P l us / 4
Impex Plugs
Into C-16
and Plus/4
As predicted in last
month's Y64, a third-
party company has
produced a joystick
adaptor allowing you to
plug ordinary Atari-type
joysticks (like those used
on the 64) into the C-16
and Plus/4, Impex
Software's XR1 Joystick
Interface is the first that
we've heard about. Each
interface costs E2.45.
Make your connection
with Impex on 01-900
0999.
Y64 will shortly be
presenting a DIY
interface as a project.
Adventure International has released the second in its Guest-
probe series of Scott Adams adveraures. Spiderman. It's a text
and graphics adventue with what Al describes asa lull sentence
interpreter. When I tried it, it didn't recognise "N", ''GO N" or
"NORTH" but insisted on Mehl!! "GO NORTH". Apparently lull
sentence interpreter' means it only interprets lull sentences. It
also didn't recognise "AGAIN" or "RETURN". though it did at
least admit to being stupid for not doing so. Find out il
Adventure International only understands lull sentences on
021-359 0801. Spiderman costs E9.95 on tape only.

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