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AUGUST 1986

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AUGUST 1986

• Star Quality 1 3

Eric Doyle gives you the low down on the Star NL

VOLUME 2

NUMBER 11

1 0 printer_

• Making Music 2 4

The voice of Commodore's Music Expansion System.

• Americana

Budget games from across the Atlantic.

• Print Shop 4 3

Letterheads, banners and birthday cards from Precision.

• Art on the Amiga 4 6

The graphics capabilities of Commodore's newest machine.

• Word Processing on the Plus/4

Editor:

Stuart Cooke

Assistant Editor:

Marie Curry

Advertisement Manager

John McGarry

Plus/4 cassette users take heart - tips galore.

• 3 in 1 Editor 5 4

Ultimate graphics designer for your Commodore 64.

• Exhibitionism

Advertisement Copy

Control:

Laura Champion

Group Editor:

Dave Bradshaw

Inside info from the Commodore Show.

Group Managing

Editor:

Wendy Palmer

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Managing Director:

Peter Welham

Origination:

Ebony Typesetting

• Welcome to the Machine

Sharpen up your machine code with Allen Webb

• Chip Chat

Design:

Argus Design

The chips are down with Eric Doyle.

• Programming the C-16

Editorial & Advertisement Ofﬁce

No 1 Golden Square,

London W1A 3A8

Telephone 01-437 0626

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More useful advice for C-16 owners.

• Froggy 8 0

Leap to the ﬁ nishing line, Daryl Bowers concludes his game.

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• Sense of Adventure

InGAMES & UTILITIES

• Fast Formatter

Get your disk drive in a spin.

• Dimon 128

Get to know your disks with ME Catley's utility.

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Les /yive

STATEMENTS

CRL's budget table, Alpha-Omega.

has recently launched a new Commo-

dore title, let Strike Mission. The game is

a combat ﬂ ight simulator where your

task is to avoid enemy air and ground

attacks and seek out and destroy the

target. The price is14.95. Yes, it is on the

budget label.

Head 11111

THE SOFTWARE MARKET IS NOW EN-

tering the quiet season of the year, but

having said that, there are still a lot of

interesting products ﬁnding their way to

the shelves of your local computer store.

FOREIGN SOFTWARE IS ALSO ARRIV-

ing from across the channel.

Infrogames, a big French software house

IS soon to release Mandragora The date

for launch is, signiﬁcantly, 14 July,

Bastille Day.

The Mandragore package includes

two cassettes to accommodate the 260K

program, an instruction book and a 10

chapter book of hints and tips. It's a role

playing graphic adventure and there

are hints of a trip to the south of France

for a few lucky players. Look out for

more details.

NEXUS the much heralded arcade

adventure from new software house,

NEXUS, is now available for the C64. At a

cost of E9.95, it involves you in an

attempt to crack an evil drugs ring. Only

the NEXUS team can supply you with the

information you need to complete your

mission.

A new scenario for a computer game

comes from Ariolasoft with the release

of Standing Stones on the C64. This is a

new graphic adventure set at Stone

Henge, where you must recover the

Grail, Mithril Chain Mail and other

fabulous treasures from ancient

folklore. The treasures lie hidden deep

beneath the ancient monument. les

E14.95 on disk,

The long awaited Japanese

adventure from Virgin.Shogun, has now

been released and Virgin hopes it will do

as well as the book and TV series which

preceded.

The game is chock-a-block with 40

characters and you may choose which

one you wish to be. Each one has a

personality and life of its own and you

must learn to manipulate them. Shogun

is 19.95 on cassette and 112.95 on disk.

•

ut otkiA!cades

Going Cheap_

BUDGET SOFTWARE IS ON THE UP

and up. Firebird has recently been

proud to announce that it is the ﬁrst soft-

ware company to have its products sim-

ultaneously at number one in the UK

(Gallup) and the Staes (Billboard).

The two products which helped to

achieve this acolade are Thrust, a game

in the Firebird silver range, and the now

famous title, Elite which has at last made

it to the top in the US at the reasonable

price of a mere $29.95.

Firebird has now announced a new

set of budget titles, which, it is claimed,

"are available to every confectioner and

newsagent in the country". These

include one game for the C64/C128,

Caves of Eriban, and two for the C-16,

Runner and Shark.

Another Firebird offer is the Silver

Club, which enables you to purchase a

11,99 game of your choice arid with it

you receive a package of goodies and a

newsletter.

Not to be outdone, Mastertronic is

releasing some new games for Com-

modore machines.

In the 11.99 range are two titles.

Firstly, a volleyball simulation entitled,

Bump Set Spike - Double Volleyball.

Attributes of the game include!: crowd

applause, professionally composed

music, choice of courts (beach or

indoor) and nine difﬁculty levels.

Those who are interested in sampling

the high life of the professional gambler

may like to go for Vegas Poker, also E1,99

and for the C64.

Two titles now available on

Mastertronic's 12.99 MAD label are

Countdown to Meltdown and Ice

Palace. The former involves the now

tragic scenario of an accident at a

nuclear power plant and the latter

enters the land of fairy tales to bring you

face to face with the wicked Ice queen.

A NEW VERSION OF POPEYE, THE

computer game, has been released at

0.95 by Macmillan Software. The game

deals with the classic situations which

the spinach munching hero daily

encounters in his attempts to protect his

rather ineffectual girlfriend Olive.

Popeye has recently returned to the

public eye on TV-AM every day and

Woolworths is about to launch a new

range of Popeye clothes, If you want to

join in this new exciting craze maybe

you'd better get the game tool Endear-

ingly entitled I Yarn What I Yam.

Bug-Byte, now under the wings of

Argus Press Software, has begun import-

ing software from down under for

release in this country. 0/10 I and II -

First Mission and Final Assault is the title

of the Aussie game arid was in the Top

Ten in its home country.

Claims made by Bug Byte for the

game are as follows: stunning graphics

and sonics, two games in one with four

separate sections each, and a ridiculous

level of addiction_

OIL

And the Rest

Touch Line

Firebird: Wellington House, Upper St

Martin's Lane, London WC2H 9DL. 01

379 6755.

Mastertronic: 8-10 Pali' St, London EC2A

4Thi. 01 377 5569.

Alpha-Omega: 9 Kings Yard, Car-

penter's Rd, London E15 2H0. 01 985

6877.

Macmillan Software: 4 Little Essex Street,

London VVC2R 3LE_ 01 836 6633.

Bug Byte: Liberty House, 222 Regent

Street, London W1 R 7D13. 01 439 0666.

NEXUS: DSB House, 30 High St, Beck-

enham BR3 1 AY. 01 658 5723,

Ariolasoft: 68 Long Acre, Covent

Garden, London. 01 836 3411.

Virgin Games: 2-4 Vernon Yard, Porto-

bello Road, London VV11 2DX. 01 727

8070.

for under 16s and PARENTAL

DISCRETION is advised.

Have you a little Vic sitting in the

cupboard under the stairs and gathering

dust? Well, now it's time to let it see the

light of day again!

Llamasoft has come to the aid of

languishing Vic-20 owners with the Viva

Vic collection. Games such as Abductor,

Cridrunner, Traxx, Andes Attack,

Laserzone, Matrix. Metagalactic Llamas

Battle at the Edge of Time and Heligate.

It is now available in 8K or 16K

expansion and costs E6.50.

Touch Line

ACTIVISION HAS WANDERED INTO

the world of psychology to give you the

chance to live out your life over and over

again - how horriﬁc!

The new game is called Alter Ego and

it delves into every aspect of your life,

from birth to old age. The program

processes and tracks the player's input

to develop the alter ego's experiences,

status and personality.

A status report shows the player

which type of responses inﬂuence his

alter ego's skills in several areas: social,

intellectual, emotional , phsyical, familial

and vocational.

Because of the nature of the program

there are different male and female

versions.

There is also a warning which comes

with the game. Because of the nature of

some of the material used it is unsuitable

Activision: 23 Pond Street, Hampstead

London NW3 2PN. 01 431 1101.

Llamasoft: 49 Mount Pleasant, Tadley

, Hants. 07356 4478.

But Seriously 11M

OPERATION ALIGNMENT, FROM

Global Software, is an offspring of

Operation Caretaker, a product re-

leased last year. The new package con-

tains just the alignment tape and screw-

driver for adjusting tape heads and is in a

smaller wallet. The price is smaller too at

E5.95.

Kuma Computers is entering the

Amiga software market with an Editor/

Assembler/Debugger entitled K-Seka_

The package includes an Editor, Dis-

assembler, Linker and Machine Code

Monitor and operates under Amiga

DOS.

K-Seka is available now and costs

f 79_95.

OPERATION

ALIGNMENT

THf 4AGNETT PROGRAM

Off CCMIMENtliO RV UNNI3 ,4

AND SOFTWARE muss.

Touch Line

Global Software: PO Box 67, London

SVV11 -

IBS,

Kuma: 12 Horseshoe Park, Pangbourne

Berks, 07357 4335.

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