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•Kokotoni WIIf is an arcade adven-
ture whose undisguised intention
is to steal the title of "best arcade
adventure program bar none' from
Jet Set Willy'.
As Kokotoni Will you must
recover all the pieces of the legendary
Dragon Amulet (which has been scattered throughout time f o r
your master the great magician, Ulrich.
Throughout the quest Wilf comes up against many dangers
fro m huge lumbering prehistoric dinosaurs to hostile alien
robots, but the reward for recovering all the pieces warrants
the risk
The 48K program features a
number of major advances over
Jet Set Willy. The games designer,
Elite, stresses that each of the
games 60 plus screen settings is
genuinely high resolution, as opposed to
k 1 0 o u ' r e looking at. Furthermore, the sprite characters are
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Editor: TONY TYLER. Assistant Editor: RICHARD BURTON. Art Editor: IAN STEAD. Features: NICKY XIKLUNA. Cont ribut ors : ANDY
GREEN; KI M ALDIS (Technical); STEVE KEATON: RICHARD COOK; RICHARD TAYLOR; BERNARD TURNER; DAVE RI MMER; JOHN
CONQUEST; NIGEL FARRIER; PAUL WALTON; TONY BENYON; TREVOR SPALL. Publisher: BARRY LEVERETT. Publis hing Director:
JOHN PURDIE. Group Advertising Cont roller: LUIS BARTLETT. Adv ert is ement Manager: ROBIN J OHNSON (01-261 5119).
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You may have noticed that we're a bit late this month. Our apologies. The
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reason was a reappearance of that perennial Bug in The Great British 0
ating System — an Industrial Dispute. This caused a wholesale crash wit
the IPC mega-network, and affected hundreds of magazines, not just BIG K.
However, by dint of late nights and unbelievable amounts of tepid coffee we
got it together — our largest issue yet.
If you find a bug or two d o n ' t call us. We already know about it.
We've also cleaned up (by popular demand) our Reviews Ratings system
(see page 18-30). We hope you'll approve.
This month's Cover Story concerns the long-predicted disaster that's over-
taken two archetypal computer/games companies — one American, one
British (see page 43). In America some pessimists are saying It's All Over. We
don't think so — though it is clear that we're going through the end of the
First (or is it Second?) Age of Personal Computing. On reflection, it was
probably necessary to shake out some of the old assumptions, so that the
survivors can clean up their acts.
A great example of what lies just around the corner can be found on page
90. In our view, this a n d not just more games — holds a clue or two to the
computer future. May it arrive sooner rather than later — , one hop
without any more tragedies and disasters.
Editorial Address: BIG K
IPC Magazines Ltd., Kings Reach Tower,
Stamford Street, LONDON SE1 91._S•
Telephone: 01-261 5818/6249
Advertising: 01-261 5660
CONTENTS
LASER DEFENCE for ORIC
COMMODORE OPEN for CBM 64
HANG GLIDER for SPECTRUM
STORM for BBC
RIVER for ATARI
CROSS FIRE for VIC-20
ALARM CLOCK for BBC
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Amstrad Review.
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Ikon Ultradrive
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Computer Magic
Vive le Computing!
Interhack
Hands-on With the Maharaja
Joystick Round-up
Micros and Movies
After the Crash
A.I. is Coming to Get You
Back in the LISA
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27
34
37
43
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A f f a i r Smoulders On
THE BBC has renewed its contract
with Acorn Computers. This puts
an end to speculation that Auntie
Beeb might make a new partner of
Uncle Clive, or even (long shot)
Cousin Commodore. The BBC
micro, as we know it, stays for
another four years.
The Corporation also has plans for
a new TV computer series, as well
as new books and software.
Although Commodore have been
selling hardware like hotcakes in
schools, of late, they've still a long
way to go to catch up with the
mighty Beeb, which claimed
three-quarters of the total
computers bought by schools last
year.
Nice to have friends in high places.
Acorn ABMS
-First
Sighting
WITH RUMOURS of the long
waited Acorn business micro
growing stronger each day,
BIG K believes it has uncov-
ered phot ographic proof of
t he ex is t enc e of t he n e w
wonder mac hine, Th e pic -
ture s hows the ABM under-
going fi nal evaluation at a
top secret Acorn 'safe house'
s o me wh e r e i n E n g l a n d .
Industry obs erv ers wi l l b e
quick to note the revolution.
ary look of the ABM wit h its
slick. executive styling which
will undoubtedly ease trans-
portation of the unit from one
location to another. The most
exciting features are the four
massive disc drives, one on
each c o r n e r o f t h e unit .
Obviously c ompat ible wit h
no other system currently on
the market, t he capacity of
these driv es c an o n l y be
guessed at. Speculation sur-
rounds the ABM's rearward
c onfi gurat ionwhic h s o me
have said must be a massive
heat s ink , o r m o r e o mi -
nously, a possible dreaded
Sinclair-type dongle whic h
may be done away wit h at a
later date. The ABM operator
has a custom-designedwork
area built int o the centre of
the unit , bet ween t he s ide
ROM a n d R A M p a c k s .
Unc onfi rmed report s indi-
cate t hat limit ed protective
clothing may be required to
extract t he f ull potential of
the unit. Onething, however,
is certain. Wh e n t he A B M
finally makes its appearance
it wi l l re-defi ne t he wh o l e
concept of computer design
as we know it,
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Spedrum
TURNED ON by Teletext? No? Pity.
Because if you were— and if you also
happened to bee Spectrum owner—joy
could be yours much° pronto since OEL
have now produced a Teletext adaptor for
the Little Black Box From Cambridge.
Priced eta cool Ele15, the TIX 2000
131104YTESIGN
ROBOTHAM
VETERAN SCOUSE software
house Bug-Byte have
successfully negotiated a deal
to produce computer games
based on TV's 'Automan'
series. Currently being
storyboarded, the first game
in the series will be in the
shops (Spectrum 48, CBM 64)
early next month.
NB: Although a successful
show in the UK, 'Automan'
has reportedly bombed out
badly in its country of origin,
the United States.
plus all vital bits is available from OEL Ltd.,
North Point, Gilwilly Estate, Pendth,
Cumbria. CAll 9BN.
Credibility Note: OEL are also the
designers of the award-winning
Prism VTX 5000 modem.

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