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T h e Light Touch An attractive
alternative to keyboard or joystick
control, we explain how a light pen
works and review three packages.
Valerie Buckle
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Our monthly update on what's
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Missives P a g e 11
A helping hand from the author
for those afflicted with the jinx of
the Joystick Jam listing! You tell
us a thing or two.
Talkin• 64 P a g e 88
Would you buy a used droid from
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M achi ne Code Tutor (part 4)
Our definitive machine code
programming course explains how
comparisons are made. Andrew
Bennett
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M achi ne Code M aster No
machine code programmer should
be without this all-in-one assembler,
disassembler, monitor and machine
code loader! Adam Harrison
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Choice 20 P a g e 14
Seems you can't keep a good
game down — International
Painting by Num bers Why
bother with paintbrush and canvas
when you can paint masterpieces on
your 64? We survey five graphic art
packages. Keith Bowden
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m u st be won!
Just tell us what
you like about
this low-cost
alternative to a disk drive,
and you could win yourself one.
Footballs back in at number one!
Your chart, your choice 20.
Action Replay P a g e 49
Radioactive dogs, halls of things,
terrorists — Steve Malone gets to
grips with a bumper selection of
new games releases and reports
on the best a n d worst!
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KeyboardKapers P a g e 76
Three short games ready to tap in
and run, and a little extra
something for granny! Y64's
games listings.
Z axxo n versus Havoc! Play
Havoc with Zaxxon in the battle of
the supergames!
Which one flies
higher?
Ross
Holman
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Learni ng Curves The great Logo
versus Prolog debate! Harvey Meliar
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interactive software a joy. Dave
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Stones contains clues to
reach a million pounds_
the locations of 41
This would mean selling
diamond talismans
two million packages to
scattered around the
an estimated 700 000 UK
island. The ultimate
64 owners — and foreign
object is to find The Great sales are not going to be
It had to happen. We've
Wight Eye — the largest
that extensive since you
had newspapers queuing of the talismans
need to be pretty fluent at
The software, an
up to give away a million
reading English to solve
pounds of their readers'
arcade game based
riddles in the language!'
around a 21-screen
money in bingo games,
Commodore's press
and software houses
scrolling map of the Isle,
release included one
offering a cash prize of
contains additional clues
additional clue, and I
to the riddles in the book.
the first person to
don't see why you
succeed in completing
shouldn't have the benefit
One refreshing aspect of
of it:
their games. Now
the hunt is that you don't
Commodore has
need to actually visit the
announced that it intends Isle of Wight: if you think
'A hidden lock reveals its
to give away a million
you know the location of a ward
pounds of its customers'
diamond, you can submit
When keys be turned as
money in a diamond
a postal claim to
fruit that's cored
treasure hunt.
Commodore.
Where two I miss upon a
Spirit of the Stones is a
line
For every E15 package
book and software
sold, Commodore is
The letter's afterthought
package based around a placing 50p into a trust
be mine
children's story by John
fund_ This fund will be
But heed indeed the
Worsley. Set on the Isle of closed either in
joker's laugh
December 1993 or when
Wight, the book,
He may have lied or
Win a million, when to cry for help, the free repair shop, another synthesiser and
the meaning of life.... want to know more? Read on!
Commodore
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as Robert
Maxwell?
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Commodore seems to be
cornering the market in tv
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persuading
artists. After
Rolf Harris to endorse its
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Picture Builder program
(issue 4, page 5). the
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company has now talked
Tony Hart into doing the
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for Art Master,
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Magic Voice is Commodore's own speech synthesiser for the
64. The phoneme-based cartridge allows other cartridges to be
plugged into it, suggesting that Commodore intends to produce
cartridge-based software with speech. Commodore didn't
know either the price or launch dale at the time at writing i n
fact when we first got the cartridge Commodore was still deny-
ing that it existed — but I would expect it to cost around E50.
Speak to Commodore on 0536-205252.
Master has so many
features that il should
challenge the imagination
of any Artist." (I worry
about people who spell
art with a capital 'A*).
These features include
in-context help, where
pressing the space-bar
brings up a menu of
commands available
during the current
operation, a magnified
'window' of the area
programmers, allowing
you're working on, and a
you to design screen
second screen —
displays for use in games
allowing you to try out
and so on. Art Master is
radical alterations before
primarily intended for
designing pretty pictures doing it to the original
picture.
for their own sake.
Art Master is available
Completed pictures can,
on either cassette or disk
however, be loaded into
priced at El 1.99. Further
other programs.
details on 0536-205252,
According to Hart, "Art
published late last year, is the fund reaches a million
very obviously based on
pounds, whichever is the
Masquerade t h e Kit
sooner. The fund will then
Williams book that
be divided equally among
contained clues to the
the finders of the
locations of a golden hare talisman.
and had not a few readers
I'm sure Commodore
rushing off to
will forgive me for saying
Bedfordshire with spade
that I don't for one minute
in hand! Spirit of the
believe that the fund will
blown the gaff
And longer shall the
riddle remain
Greater then the final gain
I just hope the content is
better than the scansion.
Spirit of the Stones is
available on either tape or
disk from Commodore
stockists
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