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'The plot has everything an adventurer could want
and the graphics are amazing if you have to buy
one game, this couid get my vole (PopCompWkty).
Your hero is 56 pixels tail You explore, hau
waving m the wind, douds moving in the sky, buds flying • absolutely beaut Jul animation
NO STICKS
(Gargoyle) £9.95
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"HILARIOUS (and very difficult) school romp
l 3 I l V / \ / l j l i / n U U
highly original game, which looks set to become
another monster hit'' (Clash)
Latest from the WHEELIE' people has you lobbing the school
safe to get your Report catapulting the masters, avoiding the school bully and it's all in very
well-drawn graphics indeed The most fun we've had since schoci STICKS Kempsron.
Interfaced. Cursoi
I Microsphere) £6.95
D l T ^ f ^
A T C
For fans ol'Johnny
and all historical adventures
A C i l / l / V i l X M
Graphic wargame as you fight 5 battles in the
Ameticar. Wai of Independence. Choose your battle, even customize the armies Unique
LOAD your own battles feature, too. 9 skill levels Endless entertainment NO STICKS
{Lothlorien) £6.95
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THE FIRST ANIMATED PERSONAL COMBAT GAME
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For 1 or 2 players Faithfully reproduces the movements and
blows of Kutig Fu using very large, cleverly animated fighters You can replay each bou: •
which helps you to leam A great change and beautifully executed STICKS: Kempston
interlace!
(Bug-Byte) £6.95
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T U D A T T T
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'As addictive as any race game on
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U u L
A n i \ U
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X u C l
the market a hair-raising version
of the Grand Prix bOOcc TT Racer" (Sinclair User) Totally amazing., the animation ot the
bikes and the perspective FX are quite brilliant" (Big K)
Choose put citcun from 9) as you
prepare to iace your Grand Pnx bike. Choose your Saps Then take on the field Total realism
STICKS Kempston. Interface 2, AGF
(Micromega) £6.95
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'Animated graphics and video-style split-screen techniques
E i U A u t l i l •
make EUREKA' a visually interesting game as well as an
entertaining adivnture" (Comp&VidGames)
250K of ptogtam
1
Solve 5 adventures and arcade
games and woid-and-picture puzz&s (fuil-cotour manual) to find the secret phone number and
win £25.000 (II no-one wins by Xmas'85, everyone shares the prize
1
) STICKS Kempston
Interface2
(Domark) ON1Y £13.95
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think you'll bnd it's the best £7 70's wonh you've ever
spent" (ZX Computing)
Even a child can use this Paintbox but adults can get amazing
results, too DEMO Define up to 84 User Definable Graphics 2-speed hi-res drawing program
Drawing board, sketch pad. 28-page manual STICKS Kempston.
(Print V Plotter) £7.70
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have a Spectrum and wish to do word
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processing or, it. you could hardly do tetter than to
useTasword2
simply excellent'(PersCompNem) 'The number of on screen prompts
together with the excellent manual, make
it
ideal, even for an absolute beginner"
(PersCompWcrld)
Pnnls 64 characters per line on you: screen and drives most printer
interfaces Text printed as you see it on the screen Useful Taswoid Tutor included The
classic Spectrum word processor NO STICKS
(Tainuw) £13.90
TIR NA NOG
'Sophisticated tich in atmosphere and
amazingly detailed SHERLOCK is a game which no
Spectrum owner will want lobe without a great adventure' (MicroAdventuret)
Does lot
Conan Doyle what 'The Hobbit did for J R Tolkien -and it's written by the same programmer
800 word vocabulary and graphics, toe! NO STICKS
(Melbourne Houw) £14.95.
'Try as! may I can't think <h< a belter
arcade game tor the Spectrum ' (PersCompNews)
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the longest single-load program ever written for the Spectrum 256 sectors of
Claims to b
galaxy to fly around zapping 6 skill levels And CUSTOMISE feature STICKS Kempston
Interface, Cursot
(De«gn Design) £7.50.
'Ten out of ten for a
program which surpasses
everything on the market at the moment'; SinclairPtogs) 'The computer equivalent of Pink
Floyd's THE WALL • you must take a look at it." (C&VG)
Load the program, the:-, load the sound
cassette which synchronises music with your playing Stars Jon Per twee, Frankie Howerd,
lan Dury - and Mel Croucher' STICKS Kempston. Interface.
(Automata) £15.00.
"AN ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL
IDEA ARTIFICIAL HACKING'System
15000closely mimics a vast number of different databases and you have to hack your way
around discovering passwords " (PopCompWkly) '1 recommend you piay this game il you can.
It could become a cult game in years to come.' (YrComm)
NO STICKS
(Craig)
£9,95.
SHERLOCK
DARK STAR
DEUS EX MACHINA
SYSTEM 15000
"THE BEST MACHINE-CODE TUTOR no serious Spectrum programmer should learn
machine-code without it "(Crash
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) "Simple to use the lessons are comprehensive enough to
help even the beginner an excellent introduction to assembly language very user-friendly '
(Sinclair User)
Over 70K of data loads in 4 parts from 2 cassettes Helpful manual NO STICKS
(New Generation) £14.95.
COMPLETE MACHINE CODE
NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW!
At prett-tlme, we have jiut received the following programs which look great.
No review* yet - but they're all in stock.
ZAXXON (US Gold) £7.95
VALKYRIE 17
(Ramjam)
£10.00
GHOSTBUSTERS
(Activision) £10.00
DOOMDARK'S REVENGE (Beyond) £9.95
KNIGHT LORE (Ultimate) £9.95
RUNES OF ZENDOS (Dorcas) £7.95
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welcome
Sinclair News
CONTENTS
Spectrum Lessons 24
reviews
of
yet
Mike
Edmunds'
educational programs.
Book News
for
64
those
Our b e l o v e d Editor i n t r o d u c e s
another tremendous issue.
Choose some good reads
long w i n t e r evenings.
10
is
under
Quicksoft
A
gathering of short reviews.
28
Gencalc
A useful spreadsheet p r o g r a m
those tricky financial problems.
67|
for
Beach Attack . . . . 1 2
Take cover
the beach
a t t a c k . Make for the dunes!
competition
'Oodunnit
Glossyairy
A n hilarious computer glossary.
- Musical
MIDI . . . . . 7 A
35
40
ZX C o m p u t i n g take
musical controller.
a
look
at
the
Light Screen Designer 16
Part 5 of
program.
Toni
Baker's
graphics
A matter of m y s t e r y and suspense
—
can y o u deduce ' o o d u n n i t ' ?
Tower of Hanoi . . 76
A game of logic for Z X 8 1 o w n e r s .
Battle of the Giants20
Stand
back
commence. .
.
and
let
battle
ASP FIGHTS SOFTWARE PIRACY
Much has been said and written in condemnation of
software piracy but lew hava taken • positive i t a n d
agamst ft. ASP I* among those f e w that hava taken
action 10 help curt) (tie grave problem of home
copying of commercial t o ft ware
ASP ha* already taken steps to eliminate
advertisements In our magazines which relate to
tape duplication for piracy purpose*. While ft is
appreciated that Individuals may take 'back-up'
copies of their o w n program*. It should be noted that
It i*
ILLEGAL
to copy commercialy avalable
software for other than personal use
Software piracy Is costing the software industry
huge sum* of money which I* detrimental to the
fuiure development of the industry. ft t* in
everybody'* interests to dramatically reduce the
level of software piracy primarily because firms need
funds raised from software sates to plough back into
research and development of new products. This
means that the standard of software product* can
only improve
ASP hopes our action will help combat this
serious problem in order to maintain and improve the
high standards of the UK software industry We are
asking
you
to do the same by refraining from
duplicating or copying commercially available
software for anything other than personal use
Netherwallop Golf
Course
42
Regardless
enjoy
a
golf.
. .
of the w e a t h e r , y o u
challenging
round
can
of
Connections
A ZX81
version
Connect 4 game.
of
the
52
popular
Across The Pond .60
Our regular letter f r o m America.
;ill.
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Spectrum Arcade 61
Arcade gatries reviewed,
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ZX COMPUTING FEBRUARY/MARCH 1 9 8 5 Z
ZX
Computing is published bi-monthly
on the fourth Friday of
the
month. Distributed
by
Argus Press Sales &
Distribution Ltd. 12-18 Paut Street, London
EC2A 4JS 0 1 - 2 4 7 8 2 3 3 Printed
in
the UK by: Garnett Print. Rotherham
and London
The contents of this publication including all
articles, designs,
plans,
drawings
and programs
and
all copyright and other intellectual property rights therein
belong to Argus Specialist Publications
Ltd. All rights conferred by the Law of
Copyright and Other intellectual property fights and by virtue of international
copyright conventions are specifically
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to
Argus Specialist
Publications Ltd.
Any
reproduction requires
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prior w n t l e n consent of Argus Specialist
Publications Ltd.
p;
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Ltd 1
9 8 4
Stranded . . . . . . 951 1 Music Micro, PleasellS
Get
involved
in
an
Adventure w i t h your Z X 8 1 .
exciting
Music
program
reviewed.
and
peripherals
Saga 1 Emperor K e y - 1 Green Boing
board
97
Spectrum o w n e r s get
A review of yet another
for Sinclair computers.
keyboard
116
120
a chance t o
help that persistant frog on his w a y .
Debugger
Great tips on debugging programs.
101
Sampler
An
attractive
program.
graphics
demo
Problem P a g e . . . .79
Some of your sticky problems answered.
Rotronics wafadrive • Conversion Tips 126
Review
105
W e help convert Z X 8 1 programs for
Another means of data
w e give our impressions.
storage
the Spectrum.
Key To Success . . .80
We review
keyboards.
the
Mancomp
and Ricoll
Bandit
Your money or your computer!
.106
Please note that
Sinclair
ZX. Z X 8 0 . ZX81. ZX
Spectrum, ZX Microdrive. ZX Interface. ZX
Net.
Microdrive, Microdrive Cartridge, ZX Printer, and
ZX Power Supply are all registered trademarks
of
Sinclair Research Ltd
Subscription rates UK £ 1 2
70 including postage
Airmail and other rates
upon dpplication to
ZX
Computing. Subscriptions.
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House.
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Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead.
Herts HP1 1 BB STel: 0 4 4 2 4 8 4 3 2 )
ZX Computing
is constantly on
the
look out (or
well w r i t t e n articles and programs, If
you think
that your efforts meet
our standards, please feel
free to submit
your
work
to us for consideration for
publication
All submitted material should be typed if
possi
ble;
handwritten work will be
considered, but
please use your neatest handwnting. Any
pro
grams submitted should
be
listed, a cassette
of
your program alone will nol be considered All
pro
grams must
come
complete w i t h a full
explanation
of the
operation
and. where relovant,
the strut
ture. Spectrum programs
should
be
accompanied
w i t h a cassette of the
program
as
well
as
the
listing.
All submissions will be acknowledged
and the
copyright in such works w h i c h will pass to Argus
Specialist Publications Ltd will be
paid for at com
petitive rates. All w o r k
for consideration should
be
sent
to
the Editor at our
Golden Square address
Software News . .81
We take a careful look at some of the
current s o f t w a r e around.
Hardware News .110
All sorts of
computer.
goodies
to
add to
your
Patience 4
Chess Clock
Seconds o u t . .
now begin.
.84
.88
can
First Steps in Machine
Code
.111
Part
2
of
David
instructive series.
Nowotnik's
Part 4 of our Spectrum card game series.
the chess game
Tortoise Wise . . .114
David
parent.
Stewart
as
the
ignorant
Readers' Reviews
90
You the readers w i t h your v i e w s
some of the available s o f t w a r e .
of
ZX81 Soft
Selection
A perusal of Z X 8 1 s o f t w a r e .
.91
5
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