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GAME OF THE MONTH
No.8October 85p
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New Spectrum Basic!
The CURRAH I.:SPEECH is ready to talk immediately on
power-up, has an infinite vocabulary and outputs speech
and ZX Spectrum sound through your TV speaker There
is no software to load with ASPEECH — sophisticated
Gate Array technology means you can just plug in and
start constructing words and sentences like this:
LETSS = "spteelk r m II oo1 (ee )ell" will say "speak no
evil"' Further commands control the "voicing" of keys as
they are pressed, and an intonation facility allows you to
add expression to the speech.
p.SPEECH is fully compatible with ZX Interface 1 and
may be used with the CURRAH gSL0T Expandable
Motherboard. allowing easy expansion o f your ZX
system. t/SPEECH and kt.SLOT will also be compatible
with the CURRAH tLSOURCE unit when it arrives later
this year. allowing you to write Assembler and FORTH
statements directly into your BASIC programs!
Top selling games like ULTIMATE'S Lunar Jetman
feature p.SPEECH voice output — watch out for other
titles from Bug-Byte, CDS, Ocean. Ouicksilva and PSS.
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ASPEECH is available from C O M E T , W.H. SMITH,
WOOLWORTHS, GREENS. BOOTS, JOHN MENZIES,
SPECTRUM STORES and good dealers nationwide —
or use the form to order the CURRAH ASPEECH —
winner o f the CTA 'Product o f the Year' award 1984
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STORY
DOUBLE HEIGHT
REGULARS
FRONTLINES
Catch up on on the latest
software and hardware items.
as well as From The Hip,
Rumbles, Sinclairwatch, QL
Affairs and Hacking Away!
TOP 20
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October"s fave raves — all your
software favourites charted for
success.
FORUM
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Postbag petulence, hints and
tips, and software solutions.
Write on!
SPECTROLYSIS
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Ian Beardmore tackles the
turtle graphics of Logo,
exploding a few myths along
the way.
KRAZY KROSSWORD... 57
Prof. Brainstavem's back
with software to be won in his
krazy kompetition.
JOYSTICK JURY . . . . . —.59
Giving the software verdict this
month is the Saltcoats
Computer Club.
12 HEIGHT
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PROJECTS
Paging Your Spectrum
Ever thought of multi-tasking your
Spectrum? With a simple
modification to its innards, it's
possible to expand the memory to
4096K! Yes, it's true — see inside
for details Stephen Adams
MegaBasic
Providing QL-style windows,
named procedures, different
character sizes and fonts, sprites, as
well as a stack of new commands.
Mproudly presents MegaBasic —
the amazing software sensation for
the Spectrum. Mike Leaman
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REVIEWS
The Language Barrier
Paper Data takes a look at books
on programming languages in
general, and Pascal in particular.
Simon Goodwin
F E AT U R E S
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Project 3 Revisited
Many of you came up with the
correct solution to our 'bugged-up'
fill routine — but hands up those
who understood it! Penny Page.
Art For Ad's Sake?
Graphic toolkits claim to turn the
Spectrum into a 'true' artist. Find
out whether these left the drawing
PROGRAM PO I‘ ER 7 8
Arcade action all the way with
this month's offering from
Mark Roberts— a 100 per cent
machine code game called
Stampa bout.
INPUT/OUTPUT
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Classify your ads for free. Sell
it, swop it, or just make some
new friends — it's up to you'
board too soon P et er Freebrey.
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Running Repairs
If you've ever lost data on a
Microdrive cartridge, don't panic!
We're on the way to solving all
your problems, allowing you to
examine those suspect sectors.
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TLL
Flying high is Vortex's Tornado
Low Level. Don your flying suit
and turn to our review and full
hacker's guide. Ross Holman and
Andrew Pennell.
Dave Nicholls.
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Sue Denham tackles
Quicksilva's Mark Eyks and
comes up with some interesting
insights into the philosophy of
selling software.
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BACK ISSUES
lAitur Roger Munford, Managing Iclitor Bruce Sawford, Deptity Editor Tina Boylan; Technkal FAitor Peter Shaw, 141 lorisi Consultant Andrew Pennell: Software
Consultant Gavin Monk; Contributors Ron Smith, Leon Heller, Stephen Adams, Or C Th rel tall, Simon Goodwin. Peter Freebrey. Ross Holman. Dave Nicholls.
Mike I eaman, Bill Shaw, Penny Pdge, The Saltcoars Computing Club, Mark Roberts, Sue Denham; Art Editor Hazel Bennington: Art Assistant Steve Broadhurst;
Group Advertising Manager liii Harris: .Advertising Shane Campbell, Nik Saha. David Ba s k e t
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E M M O NS .
Spcctruii owners Imagine what
great use you could make of all
these components. Rotronics have
integrated them all into one
attractively styled, compact unit All
the power and convenience of
floppy disk can now be yours, but at
a fraction of the cost
ectrum Interfa4
Acomplete package
Wafadrive is extremely
versatile. Five major components
are housed within this one unit—
the micro interface, two 128k
&Res. RS232 serial and
Centronics parallel ports. Also
included in the package are a blank
wafer and Spectral Writer - a
superb word processor program.
The micro interface forms the nerve
centre of Watadrive, controlling all
its major functions. The dual drive
configuration and the ability to
connect standard peripherals
directly provides professional
system flexibility. All this without a
mass of separate components and
vulnerable cables. Wafadrive
transforms your Spectrum into a
very powerful system
Data transfer rate is approximately
2K per second. Access time is
proportional to capacity.16K wafers
are ideal for program development,
with the larger capacity wafers
being more suitable for general use
and archiving of completed
programs and data. Mechanical
longevity is assured by the use of
high grade materials throughout
and full interchangeability between
machines is guaranteed.
Extensive software
applications
Wafadrive p r o
file handling and rapid access to
iu e s
data. iProgram development and
n t e l l i g
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applications can be
performed with ease. Start word
processing immediately with the
specially developed software
package included with VVafadrive.
Or battle with a spectacular
interactive games program
Whatever your mood. you'll find the
sophisticated Wafadnve software
challenging and rewarding Future
versions of Wafadrive will be
available for most popular home
micros, so software back-up will be
comprehensive.
For further information
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Speed, reliability and
capacity
The wafers contain an endless
loop of specially developed
magnetic tape driven at high speed
past a read/write head. The result is
fast access without data loss.
Three sizes of wafer are available
w i t minimum formatted
capacities of 164K. 64K
and 128K. The 128K
wafer costs £3 95,
brochure.
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Oh for the days when
computer peripherals
weren't named after
vermin! Yes, the RAT is
here (Remote Action
Transmitter to you!) and
it's a new product from
Cheetah Marketing.
Basically, it's a remote
control, touch-sensitive
joystick which interfaces
—from a distance —
with a standard looking
peripheral box via infra
red transmission.
In use, the case of the
box made it pretty
difficult to get a secure
connection on the
Speccy's expansion port,
but after fiddling around
it is possible_ In
operation, the joystick is
For those who
sensitive, but there's a
wouldn't touch some
marked delay betwen
touching the controls
games with a barge pole.
and something
now you won't have to
happening on-screen,
— you can play from
THERACEFORSP
ACE
Following on from the
close-ups of the various
success of Valhalla,
Legend has recently
announced details of its
latest package, The
clear across the room.
For further details in the
E29.95 RAT, call
Cheetah Marketing on
01-833 .1909.
Great Space Race.
Simultaneously
launched, for both the
Spectrum and
Commodore 64.
Chairman John Peel
reckons the program's
development has soaked
up well over a quarter of
a million pounds —
reputed to be the largest
amount ever spent on
the development of a
single computer game.
In many ways, unlike
its predecessor, The
Great Race Race does
use a similar (though
upgraded) operating
system — Movisoft 2 —
which is said to feature
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bandwidth and a
Microvitec has just
medium resolution tubt_
announced a new OL
which makes it suitable
compatible monitor —
an eye-catching design at for use with Sinclair
graphics. It's got 85-
an eye-catching price.
Available with user
column text capability,
controls concealed
and the price is E275.
If you're interested,
beneath a neat flap on
contact the Sales
the front of the moulded
black QL-matching
Department of
cabinet, the CUB, code- MiCTOViteC plc, Futures
named 1451 /DQ/3, is
Way, Bolling Road,
Bradford BD4 7TU or
an ROB /T IL input
device with an 18MHz
telephone 0274 390011.
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VICTOR
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The pace of measures to
"technical effects never
before seen in home
computer software"
Talking of the graphics.
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protect software
companies against
counterfeiting continues
unabated. Following the
revelations of the
Imagine saga, other
companies are becoming
determined not to fold
under the pressure of
unscrupulous pirates_
Elite Systems Ltd, a
company launched on
August 1st, is employing
anew protection method
against counterfeiting.
All its products will carry
an inch by half inch
hologram of the
company's logo on the
cassette inlay cards.
These holograms
are obtainable from only
one source in the world,
which means that any
Elite product that
doesn't display the
stickers — once the
system gets going — will
probably be counterfeit.
The first Elite
software with hologram
stickers attached should
be in the shops by mid-
September- Look out for
their first offering
entitled Kokotoni Wilt
Peel states, "we have
finally achieved true
solid 3D graphics which,
under the control of a
computerised 'camera
director', create the most
realistic and spectacular
pictures ever." There'll
also be full facial
animation, with detailed
characters taking part_
Legend's first foray
into the wilds of space
involves players taking
part in a two-phase
adventure — the first
being the pre-race
drama, in which
characters wheel and
deal to amass the fastest
spaceships. best
personnel and suitable
weaponry and the
second entering the race
itself; this 'anything
goes' battle of wits
engages you in mortal
combat against time and
natural obstacles, as well
as all the other
competitors!
Instead of the
traditional 'left', 'right'
and 'fire' commands, an
option generator is
provided which allows
other characters in the
game to offer you
various choices based on
the current situation.
Says Peel, "the pressure
is maintained by giving
you only a few seconds
to make your choices."
The race is now on
either check it out at
your nearest micro shop
or give Legend a ring on
01-524 8324/5.
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