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July 1987

COMPUTER USER

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DKT's Time Machine

REAL T I M E C L OC I L ,

Hail Hewson: The

hitmakers at home

ZTB: The smoothest

shoot-em-up ever

Plus: News and views,

listings and reviews

Driving your discs

Ofﬁcial Amstrad Home Computing Magazine

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What's so special about

the Mac, the Atari St, the Amiga,

Windows and Gem?

It's no surprise that nearly all new 16 bit 'state of the art'

micros now come with a Mouse and Wimp environment

(Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers) as standard.

With the AMSTRAD CPC you already own one of

the classic micros and by simply adding AMX software

you can achieve the same ease of use, freedom and

versatility of much more sophisticated computers.

The A MX Mouse and compatible software —

it's what you and your AMSTRAD micro have been missing.

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ART AND MOUSE OPERATING SYSTEM

AMX MOUSE PACKAGE Tape and 3" Disc f 69. 95

There's not much joy in a joystick and keyboards can be all ﬁngers and

thumbs. Acclaimed by the press as 'the best input device', already over 50,000

micro users have adopted an AMX Mouse. The Mouse comes with fantastic Art

Software and AMX control which enables you to create a Mouse environment in

your own programs. Available for Amstrad CPC 464, 664, 6128,

GRAPHIC DFS FRONT END

MAX 3' Disc E 1 9 . 9 5

MAX provides an easy to use graphic based front end to your computer's disc

ﬁling system including a comprehensive set of disc management operations such

as cataloging, copying, deleting and re-naming, also included are disc utilities

such as sector editing, recovering erased ﬁles, formatting, verifying and faster

tracking. You can also run programs from within MAX. Available for Amstrad CPC,

464, 664, 6128_

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DESKTOP PUBLISHING

AMX PAGE MAKER 3" Disc E4 9 . 9 5

Produce professional documents and newspapers with text and graphics,

supplied with 16 variable typefaces it has many graphic functions including cut,

copy, paste, etc, Available Now.

EXTRA! EXTRA! 3" Disc

300K fantastic clip art, over 25 fonts_

Available February 1987. For use with the Amstrad CPC 6128, CPC 664 (+ 64K

min add on Ram), CPC 464 (-I- 64K min add on Ram + Disc Drive)

AMX MAGAZINE MAKER 3" Disc E l 29.95

A combination of AMX Pagemaker and the Rombo Vidi-Video digitiser. Using

any video and the digitiser, images from a camera or TV can be converted into a

graphics screen with Pagemaker to illustrate magazines or newsletters_

There is also a growing list of AMX support software including: AM X 3D Zicon (3" Disc) £24.95 with Zicon you can transform vector data into on screen graphics.

Printers and plotters are fully supported, AMX Ublities (3" Disc) £19.95. Utility software for the original art program supplied with the AMX Mouse.

A Mouse and interlace (only) can be purchased for £34.95 direct from AMS using the order form enclosed in MAX, AMX Pagemaker and AMX 3D Zicon.

Thes e superb products are available from all good computer dealers or direct by cheque, Access or Visa. All peces include VAT and post and packaging.

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CONTENTS

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5 News

8 Gallup Chart

11 Letters

24 Seek and Ye Shall Find

59 Hairy Hackers Haunt

82 LSB

18 Hewson:Soft-hearted

software

They've achieved the impossaball,

and a lot of other programs too.

The fastest growing independent

software house get a visit from

Jerry Muir.

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31 Assembly Point

High score help. Add this routine to

your program for an instant store

of your high score.

36 Operation clean-up

Launder your listings with a

program to ﬁlter out all those nasty

control codes. Paul Jenkins

entertains.

40 Mission Genocide

preview

Firebird's new game, originally

titled Z.T.B., promises to be a better

budget buy than Thrust. Simon

Rockman saw it ﬁrst.

28 DK'Tronics clock

Time your action with the latest

peripheral to hail from Great

Yarmouth. Rupert Goodwins is

watching the clock.

42 Computer Journey II

What makes your disc drive? That

simple add-on needs a lot of brains

to keep it under control. Join us on

a second silicon skimander,

50 Printers in parallel

In the wide carriage race it's speed

which counts. Amstrad and Star

come under starter's orders.

22 Parrotry

A dynamic drawing package from

Treasure Island Software put to the

Jill Lawson test.

47 Survey

Let observation with extensive

view, survey mankind from China

to Peru, tell us what you like to do,

and we'll improve your ACV.

61 Games reviews

AMSTRAD

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The ofﬁcial magazine for all

user s of Amstrad computers

Covet p h o t o M o rt yn H o w le t t

Editor: Simon Rockman

Advertisement Manager: Jane Nolen

Advertisement Assistant: Lorraine Day

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Amstrad User July 1987

MASTERFUL HI

FOR THE AMSTRAD CPC 6128 (ALSO CPC 464/664 WITH DK 1

TRONICS

FIRMLY ESTABLISHED

ALL THIS POWER

MASTERFILE III is now ﬁ rmly established as

THE ﬁling system for the CPC6128. It has received

rapturous reviews and we could paper the walls of

our new ofﬁces with our customers' letters of

appreciation.

For the beneﬁt of newcomers to the CPC machines:

MASTERFILE III is a powerful and ﬂexible data

ﬁling and retrieval system. All "database" systems

require that your data is organised into ﬁelds and

records. Unlike most, MASTERFILE does not

commit you to ﬁeld lengths or formats, since ALL

data is variable-length and optional. Files are not

pre-formatted, and only used bytes are saved to

disc. Also, unlike the rest, MASTERFILE allows

multiple user-deﬁned ways of viewing/printing

your data. And unique in its price range, MASTER-

FILE offers RELATIONAL FILE options, where-

by common data can be entered just once and

shared by many records. Maximum ﬁeld size is

240, maximum ﬁelds per record is over 50, and

maximum ﬁ le size is 64K. Room for 1,000 full

names and addresses, for example. Only one disc

drive is required. It is menu-driven throughout, and

comes with detailed illustrated manual, and exam-

ple ﬁles.

This is no toy thrown together in BASIC and half-

tested, but real machine-coded computing power

professionally constructed. We have had IBM and

Apricot users beg us for a MASTERFILE for their

machines — when they had seen the earlier CPC

MASTERFILE. All this power is yours for

£39.95.

For those who already have an earlier MASTER-

FILE, we offer updates; please telephone for

details. You will be amazed at the performance

improvements and extra functions.

Irk* PCW users: be patient, MASTERFILE 8000

will be ready early in 1987 ilintror

MASTERCALC 128 SPREADSHEET

We also have one of the fastest and friendliest

spread-sheet programs around, MASTERCALC

128. Its unique features include: individual tailor-

ing of column widths and precision; relocatabie

formulae; split-screen option; automatic cursor

advance; text output to printer, or to disc for

interface with PROTEXT or TASWORD; hi-res

graphic histogram of any three rows. MASTER-

CALC 128 runs on CPC6128, or CPC4641664 with

DICtronics RAM. The price is just £33.00.

SO VERY VERSATILE

Just about ANY kind of information can be

handled by MASTERFILE. You can EXPORT the

data to other systems (e.g. PROTEXT/MERGE and

TASWORD). You can even merge your own USER

BASIC to MASTERFILE for customised ﬁ le

processing, or build new ﬁles from other computer

sources. The speed of SEARCH of MASTERFILE

is second to none. Records can be sorted ascending/

descending, character or signed numeric, even

embedded keys such as surnames. Other functions

are ﬁeld-to-ﬁeld calculations, and several-across

label printing. We simply don't have room to list all

the features; give us a call if you are still in doubt

of the power of MASTER FILE III.

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service. ACCESS/VISA/MASTERCARD welcome,

written or telephoned, quoting card expiry date.

Make cheques payable to "Campbell Systems".

Our normal response is return of post, 1st class.

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The greatest

show in town

The scene is set for the most extensive

machine speciﬁc micro exhibition ever

held. When the Amstrad Computer

Show opens its doors for three bonanza

days on July 10, it will mirror the com-

pany's continued dominance of the

market.

For the latest statistics reveal

Amstrad increased sales by 127 per

cent to 1,750,000 units in the UK and

Europe during 1986.

And the show will prove conclusively

that the level of support is still growing

to ensure the Amstrad bandwagon

keeps on rolling.

For 25 per cent of the companies at

the event will be ﬁrst time exhibitors at

an Amstrad Show, a clear indication

that ﬁ rms are still rushing into the

market sector. Yet another clue from

the show to the company's continued

wellbeing is the move from Novotel -

the location for the ﬁrst seven shows in

the series - to Alexandra Palace, so

providing an additional 50 per cent of

exhibition space.

"It will not only be bigger but better

than ever before in that it will reﬂect

the escalating excitement surrounding

Amstrad", says Derek Meakin, head of

organisers Database Exhibitions.

Better late

than never

nu,

Arnor on

the move

Arnold owners with a good memory

more than 32k) will remember the

Amsoft catalogue published in January

last year. This contained a host of

exciting new games based on Sega

arcade machines. They may not be new

now but they are still exciting, and

what ACU has seen of them is really

quite impressive. All the titles are

being released on the Amstrad Gold

label.

There will be three releases. The ﬁrst

will be a compilation of Up 'n Down,

Buck Rogers and Congo Bongo. The

second will be Spy Hunter, Sega's

famous driving game, and last up is

Zaxxon, the fab scrolling space game.

In keeping with Amstrad's policy the

discs cost only E2 more than the E9.95

tape.

The Croydon-based software house who

brought Maxam into the ACU ofﬁce

well over two Years ago is to feel the

Peterborough effect. Ten of the 13 staff

are leaving London. Due to the rapid

expansion of the company, which

expects to turn over more than Lim

this year, the need is felt for bigger

buildings.

The next product will be Protext for

the PC, for which the company has

high hopes. In addition to the Peter-

borough ofﬁ ce, Arnor is invading

Europe.

Arnor Deutschland is the new

German ofﬁce, run by Nigel Holcroft.

Future expansion into France and the

US is being considered. The new

address is Protext House, Wainman

Rd. Woodston, Peterborough PE2 OBU.

Amstrad User July 1987

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