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SUPER GAME DISSECTION

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Frontlines 5

Control centre of the Spectrum

universe — hard facts, soft

speculation and Projects.

Top 20 Games 15

This months chart as voted by

you the readers.

Forum

ILl HE BENCH

11 'ATLRES

Your Flexible Friends

Stephen

Joystick Interface DIY Adding

Sinclair-type 'sticks to the buffer

shown in YS I —details from

Stephen Adams.

Points, programs and

petulance. from the postbag

Routine Stuff 21

For arcade addicts — window

on a maze. More magic code

from cite supremo. Toni Baker,

Spectrolysis 26

!an Beardsmore mulls over

adding RAM chip select and

suggests what to do with your

Stack Error Pointer.

Adams

explores two

ways of going

ﬂoppy on the

Spectrum —

with the MI

and Viscount

drives.

Synthesiser Control

Sam and

Simon

Goodwin wire

up their

Speccy to a

Casio VL-I,

with some

surprising

results!

Subscriptions 28

Don't waste time kicking the

'Sold Out' sign, take a sub.

Spectrum Soft 52

Thanks to the Bangor

Computer Club for judging this

month's batch of 'newie'

games.

Rumbles 5 8

Durrell attacked over violence:

nothing from Quicksilva:

Rabbit's in The Pit; Camell's

adventure plans. Ron Smith

reports.

Jet Set Willy The complete room

plan for Matthew Smith's latest

thriller, plus playing tips from

Sue Denham and dirty tricks

from Hacker Pennell.

CAL USER

Paper Data 67

Peter Jackson — our

'Attenborough" of Speccy

derring-do — looks at some

adventure programming books.

Adding Zip — Part Two Simon

Goodwin pours out the complete

listing of his ZIP Compiler.

Program Power 78

The name's changed but the

game's the same — the YS

annotated key-tapping service.

Circe 8 8

Paul Walton tackles Imagine

— with the assent of Everiss

Dumps of Distinction A natty

screen dump from Andrew Pennell

that simulates colour with shading.

Quentin Lowe ﬁnally gets a

chance to take the QL for a spin —

on a day trip around Cambridge.

Take a look at its power. precision

and performance.

3D Plotting — Part Two Damir

Skrgatic puts symmetrical ﬁgures

into perspective on the Spectrum.

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Cover photoqraphv

by Ian McKinnon

Editor Roger M untord, Managing Editor Bruce Sawford: Deputy Editor Tina Boylan: Editorial Assistant Peter Shaw Editorial Consultant Andrew Pennell. Soft

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Cons ultant Gavin Monk, Contributors Ian Beardsmore. Ron Smith, Stephen Adams, Damir Skrgatic_ Simon Goodwin. Toni Baker. Peter Jackson. Dilwvn Jones. Paul

Walton, Andrew Pennell. Max Phillips, Art Editors Jemmy Egerton. !laze! Bennington, Art Assistant Steve Broadhurst: Group Advertisement Manager JetT Raggett.

Advertisement M onager Shane Campbell: Advertisement Executive Jason Wood: Typesetting Manager Derck Cohen. Typesetters Beverley Douglas. Maggie Kayley,

Velma Miller. Production Manager SOnill Hunt. Group Art Director Perry Neville: Publisher Steve England: Distribution Manager Colin James, Published by

Sponiscent Specialist Press Ltd. 14 Rathbone Place. London W1P IDE. Company registered in England. Telephone ( all departments)01-631 1431. Telex 8954139

itunc hG. Reproduction Graphic Ideas, London, Printed by Chase Webb Offset, St Austell, Cornwall: Distrihution Sey

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Telephone°, 7334444. All material in Your Spectrum 4

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your Spectrum is a monthly publication.

3D BAT ATTACK An all action. 3 dimensional

maze game where you gather up blocks of gold, at the same

time pitting your wits against vicious vampire bats whose

only purpose in life is to locate, hunt and kill you.

4 levels of skill. At each level the game gets faster and

more complicated, and the vampires more dangerous.

FOR SPECTRUM 48K

CONQUEST

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CONQUEST A tactical game which even veteran

players will ﬁnd both challenging and rewarding.

Mediterranean Europe is divided into grid squares. Your

aim, as Emperor, is to gain 100 squares of territory as quickly as

possible — at the same time dealing with Barbarian counter-

attacks, plagues. civil war and rival Emperors.

5 levels of skill, plus a continuous 'Conquest game where

all the difﬁculty levels are thrown in together.

AFTER THESE

THE REST IS KIDS STUFF

So don't play unless you're ready

to play the game for real. Because you'll

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CheetahSoft: Soft we're not.

£6.95 at all

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Are you ready for CheetahSoft?

There's only one way to ﬁnd out.

But be warned: these vampire bats know

a good meal when they see one. And our

friend with the

scythe has had years C heetahSoft

of experience

ACTION

RAINBOW'S SPECTRUM

PROGRAMMABLE

JOYSTICK INTERFACE

WITH SOUND

NOW IMPROVED

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SPECIAL

PERMIIONS

* The keyboard is NOT disabled when using the Joystick,

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PROGRAMMABLE - AanYia any loyslick position to represent any key on

the Bo a rd - m th o u t Ave & o r b e a r% o r la p e s

, nables use ot ALL Software

tern al micratrup ampliﬁer boosts Spectrums

beep with simple connection to ear or miC socket

All joystick posrlions are programmed simply by

selecting loystrok position pushing desired key On

spectrum releasing toystick. and then the key

ADAPTABLE - Accepts diagonal positions

This graphic adventure allows you to pick

your own specialist team. Evade the German

patrols in order to locate, photograph,

penetrate and eventually destroy a germ

warfare research centre, stealing the top

secret cultures on the way

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