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An Argus Specialist Publication

MARCH 1985

YOUR BEST INDEPENDENT COMMODORE MAGAZINE

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Features include 'Hi-Score table, two

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This month in our special m

games issue the editor asks qg

fair play It

PLAYING GAMES HAS HAD RATHER A

bad press. "Stop playing games with me,''

we are told and recognise at once the

accusation of deviousness and

dishonesty. People who play games either

meet deservedly sticky ends or they

become the scheming heads of multi-

national oil companies, like jR. And

someone shot him.

Take the play, Sleuth, for example.

Now I can't remember the plot exactly,

but I can recall that there are two

characters (or was it three?) who keep

playing games with each other. First, one

has murdered the other one's wife (or was

it his mother?) who in turn (him, not his

wife) dresses up as a policeman (or was he

one all along?), then someone is shot (or

was it stabbed?) but it's only pretend (I

think!). All in all there's a lot of confusion

and not just on stage.

So, playing games is either sinister or

it's something which we are supposed to

grow out of along with short trousers and

spots. Sport is different, of course. It's

O.K. for a grown man to spend an hour

and a half on a Saturday afternoon knee

deep in mud chasing after a funny shaped

ball while trying to avoid ﬁ fteen even

more fully grown men intent on

separating his head from his body. Games

are for those of us who haven't grown up!

Well, what about darts or snooker?

Surely, they're games? Afraid not. The

deﬁ nition of a sport is an activity practised

by men who are too big to argue with

(darts and anything done by Geoff Capes)

or if it's on the telly (snooker, darts and

Geoff Capes). I will admit that dominoes

and shove-ha'penny are two games

played by grown men. However, they

usually take place in the back rooms of

pubs so ﬁ lled with smoke that it's

impossible to tell what's going on.

Unfortunately, some of these attitudes

have rubbed off onto computer games.

How often have you heard, "I'm a serious

programmer. I don't play games." Or "I

didn't buy you a computer just so you

could play games." It seems that if you're

take a long time for you to crack it. Like all

such games it teaches one of the most

important truths about education, that

practice is the path to improvement.

Programming is, of course, important

and Your Commodore is doing its best to

encourage it. Games are the best

examples of good programming which

are easily accessible to all of us. It seems to

me, therefore, that if good programming

is to be encouraged then the best way of

doing it, is to show people exactly what

can be achieved on the computer.

Software houses should do this by

producing the best possible games for the

machine, ones which use all of its

capabilities to the full. We are doing it by

letting you know which games are the

best and by printing some excellent

examples ourselves. Cherry Picker in this

issue is a long listing but for those of you

with the patience and perseverence, this

is a game worthy of any software house.

You will also learn a lot about good

programming just from typing it in.

Finally, games are entertainment. They

are meant to be enjoyed. I hope that all

you read in this issue will entertain you

and perhaps even encourage you to start

producing your own games to give

pleasure to others. If you become good

enough you'll be interested to read the 3

article on getting your games marketed by

a software company. Or you could send

them to Your Commodore and share your

talent with all our readers.

'serious' about computing, then you

don't play games; if you bought your

computer for some fun then you feel

guilty about playing them and if you are

under a certain age then you're not

allowed to play them.

Well, I like playing computer games

and I refuse to feel guilty about it. The

good ones don't bypass the brain and

even the bad ones are no more mindless

than a weekly mud bath which leaves you

with lungs like those of the ﬁre-eater who

sucked rather than blew. No one who has

been following our Sense of Adventure

series could possibly argue that computer

games are not intellectually stimulating.

The good adventure combines all the

imaginative power of a novel with tests of

reasoning and logic to stretch even the

mathematical genius.

recently researched an article on

computers in schools and was surprised at

the number of teachers who told me, "Of

course, we don't allow anyone to play

games." It may be preferable to get the

class to run the 200 metres or do the high

jump rather than waggle the joystick back

and forth to make Daley Thompson do it

(though I have my doubts). But there are a

lot of games which require brainpower as

well as manual dexterity. Take Impossible

Mission (and if you win our competition

this month you'll be able to do just that).

Here is a game which is immediately

attractive with brilliant graphics and

speech but of such complexity that it will

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FEATURES

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What have sheep, llamas and chart-topping

computer games got in common? The answer is,

of course, Jeff Minter, the king of the hairies_ He

is the subject of this month's special interview.

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NUMBER 6

MARCH 1985

Editor: Wendy j Palmer

Deputy Editor: Kevin Cox

Editorial Assistant: Alison Hjul

Advertisement Manager: Mike

Segrue

Advertisement Copy Control:

Laura Champion

Chairman: Jim Connell

Origination: Ebony Typesetiing

Design: MM Design

Oasis Software have recently released three

software development packages for the

Commodore 64_ They are Basic Lightning,

White Lightning and Machine Lightning. We

hope you'll be struck by our reviews.

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WAFERDRIVE

The Entrepo Waferdrive professes to be a tape

storage device which is much faster than the

standard tape? How true are these claims and

what are its other capabilities? Read our review

and ﬁ nd out.

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including all articles, designs,

plans, drawings and programs

and all copyright and other

intellectual property rights

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STUCK IN THE MUD 86

MUD, standing for Multi-User Dungeon, is a

multi-user adventure game on Compunet. To

ﬁnd out how it works, get stuck into our article,

COMPETITION

SPECIAL FEATURES

SO YOU'VE WRITTEN

A GAME

How to get your games marketed or published.

GAMES CREATORS 62

Cheating could add a professional touch to your

games.

THAT'S

ENTERTAINMENT

Stateside software from CBS Software and

Ariolasoft.

COMPETITION

It's happened! American software has hit the

British market in a big, big way. And we're

offering you the chance to be amongst the ﬁrst

Commodore owners to add one, or maybe

more, of the top American games to your

collection. Enter our great competition and you

might be the proud owner of a CBS Software

game - Impossible Mission, Breakdance, Pit.

Stop are just some of the prizes to be won.

SERIES

GAMESMANSHIP

This month we show you how to speed up your

BASIC games.

PROGRAMMING

PROJECTS

the second

REGULARS

Creating crosswords made easy in

instalment of this series.

46 DATA STATEMENTS

THE BASIC FACTS

Improve your programming style with our

advice on subroutines.

The latest happenings in the world of

Commodore.

MASTERING

MACHINE CODE

SOFTWARE CHART 16

Gallup has supplied our list of 64 and VIC chart-

toppers.

Exploit the full potential of your machine with

this series.

SENSE OF

ADVENTURE

Runecaster wrestles with arcade adventures.

SETTING OUT ON AN

ADVENTURE

Our new series helps you create your own

adventure games.

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