Compute_Gazette_Issue_84_1990_June.pdf

SPECIAL RESOURCE ISSUE!

June 1990

COMPUTERS

FOR

USERS

C"* r) /I rJ II

June 1990 Vol. 8, No. 6

Starburst Graphics

Bob Masters

EDITOR'S

CHOICE

Features

Into the Crystal Ball: Software Leaders'

Outlook on the 64

Mickey McLean

40 64

158J Path

Randy Delhman

43 64

Playlields

Richard Penn

EDITORS

CHOICE

18 '

46 64

Commodore Computer Shows:

How lo Get the Most Out of Them

Robin Minnick

Electronic Billboard

Edward Swierk

EDITOR'S

CHOICE

50 64

22 *

A Guide to Commodore User Groups,

Part 2

Liz Casey

Departments

Commodore Clips:

News, Notes, and New Products

Mickey McLean

24 "

Reviews

Search tor the Titanic

Sieve Hedrick

2 *

The Editor's Notes

Lance Elko

4 *

62 64

Letters to the Editor

6 *

FaceOff!

David and Robin Minnick

62 64

Diversions:

Highways of the Future

Fred D'lgnazio

Batman: The Movie

Ervin Bobo

9 *

63 64

Spanada 128

Ervin Bobo

Feedback

Editors and Readers

11 *

64 128

Bug-Swatter: Modifications and

Corrections

Games

Mudfrog Math

Cuilen OVay

53 *

Horizons:

Design-a-64 Contest Winners

Rhett Anderson

29 64

IBC *

Spheroids

Kevin Dixon

EDITORS

CHOICE

34 64

Typing Aids

How to Type In COMPUTEl's

Gazette Programs

Programming

BASIC for Beginners:

More on Timers

Larry Cotton

55 *

The Automatic Proofreader

56 128/64

MLX: Machine Language Entry

Program for Commodore 64 .... 57 64

Advertisers Index

13 64

The Programmer's Page:

Printer Spooling

Randy Thompson

56 *

15 64

Machine Language Programming:

Split Screen

Jim Butterfield

16 64

64 Commodore 6J 118 - Conmodore 128. * -General

Cover phoro Dy Mehael Rogalski (See ' Horiions1 ]

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COMMODORE CLIPS

EWS, NOTES, AND NEW PRODUCTS

Edited by Mickey McLean

Colossal Compilation

Virgin Mastertronic (18001 Cowan,

Suites A & B, Irvine, California 92714)

has announced the release of Mega

Pack for the Commodore 64 and 128.

The $34.99 package includes ten orig

inal games previously available only

in Europe.

The ten titles developed by

Gremlin Graphics are Bulldog, Cosmic

Causeway, Future Knight, lack the Nip

per II, Krackout, Monty on the Run,

North Star, Rebounder, The Thing

Bounces Back, and Trailblazer.

Mega Pack is distributed under

Virgin Mastertronic's new Virgin

Games brand of arcade titles.

Video Value

Now you can live out your Indiana Jones fantasies on both your computer and

television screens. Lucasfilm Games (P.O. Box 2009, San Rafael, California

94912) is offering a special promotion in conjunction with the release of the

movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on videocassette.

[f you buy one of the games—The Action Game or The Graphic Adventure—

based on the hit movie, you can purchase the VHS video for $10.00. Buy both

and you'll receive the video, which retails for $24.95, for free.

To qualify for the offer, you must have purchased one or more Indy games

from a participating retailer between February 1 and June 30, 1990. The Action

Game is available for the Commodore 64, but The Graphic Adventure has been

released only for the Amiga, Atari ST, and IBM PC and compatible computers.

Details concerning proof of purchase and other requirements are available at

participating retailers throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Picture This!

The accompanying picture is just a

sample of the downloadable Commo

dore 64 and 128 graphics available on

QuantumLmk, The graphics software

library found in the Commodore area

of Q-Link contains more than 6400

graphics files, including some anima

tions. The public domain files were

created on a 64 or 128 with 64K video

RAM capabilities.

To locate the Commodore graph

ics area on Q-Link, access the Com

puting Support Groups on the

Commodore Information Network

and call up Graphics. Pictures are

stored in both the 64 and 128 sections

of the software libraries.

For more information on the Q-

Link Commodore graphics files, con

tact the Pickfest Q-Unk Graphics

Support Group at 521 North Street

NW, Warren, Ohio 44483.

Bank on It

Computer Craftware (17966 Arbolada Way, Tustin, California 92680) has intro

duced ^jBook ($34.95), n personal electronic check register for the 64 and 128.

The program uses a single-entry system to record 17 different types of

checking transactions including automatic payments, deposits, withdrawals,

electronic transfers, debit-card transactions, interest, monthly and yearly fees,

service charges, ATM transactions, overdraft repayments, and balance

adjustments.

With a printer, you can generate eight types of reports such as transaction

registers, payee reports, daily balance reports, daily balance charts, categorized

transactions, and overdraft history reports. You can also print checks.

A utilities program is included with ^JBuok that supports the 1581 disk

drive. In addition to directory displays, DOS commands, headers, file copy, and

backup utilities, it provides functions that let you create and access partitioned

subdirectories for as many levels as will fit on a disk.

The program disk contains both 64 and 128 versions. The 128 version re

quires an 80-column RGB monitor to run in 128 mode and features pull-down

menus, double-processor speed, and utilization of the 128's additional RAM for

sorting and disk copies.

2 COMPUTE'S Gb«M(o June 1990

COMMODORE CLIPS

NEWS, NOTES, AND NEW PRODUCTS

Japanese Import

Direct from the Land of the Rising Sun comes Curse ofBabylon, an arcade-

action game from Kyodai Software Marketing (58 Mitchell Boulevard, San Ra

fael, California 949D3). Curve of Babylon includes some role-playing, but it

doesn't require you to learn or memorize any complicated scenarios.

The $24.95 game places you in the role of hero, and it's up to you to save

the world of Babylon from hordes of monsters including zombies, rock crea

tures, and giant blue lizards.

Features include 12 increasingly difficult levels with over 150 rooms to ex

plore. Seven different soundtracks accompany the action on the screen.

Kyodai games are distributed in the U.S. by Brederbund Software.

Big Production

With Screen-Pro ($24.95), from Accu-

Tome Productions (36 Myers Court,

Medford, Oregon 97501), you can

quickly create menus, displays, game

backgrounds, cartoons, and video

credits on your Commodore 64.

This complete screen-and-anima-

tion production system comes with

two disks, various drivers, complete

documentation, plus sample screens

and animation sequences. Screen-Pro

is written entirely in machine

language.

Graphics Translator for 128

Starfollower Productions {4224 Bakman, North Hollywood, California 91602)

has released Ante Up ($19.95), a Basic 8 graphics translator that converts 40-

column graphics from GEOS, Koala, Doodle, ComputerEyes, and The Print Shop

into 80-column Basic S-compatible pictures.

Onscreen features include the ability to change 80-column cell sizes, and

the Basic 8 functions allow the changing of colors or the cell size, or the flip

ping and negating of pictures and brushes. All translations are performed in

machine language and take seconds for conversion. Anle Up requires 64K of

video RAM.

Data acquisition and control interfaces

C64&C128

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Original Ultimate, Interface

Universally applicable dual 6522 versatile interface adapter board.

Model 64IF22 $169. Additional $149.

16-Channel, 8-blt analog-to-dlgitai conversion module.

Requires model 64IF22. Model 64IF/ADC0816 $69.

Interface boards include extensive documentation and program

disk. Manuals available separately for examination. Call orwrite

for detailed brochure.

TURBO MASTER CPU™

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times faster disk Load and Save.

■ Software actually runs four times as fast. Basic, word-

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software.

1 Jiffy DOS compaiibillty option available (by Creative

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1 Why upgradB when you can enjoy dazzling performance

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Resources forSerious Programmers

• Symbol Master Multi-Pass Symbolic Disassembler. C54 & C128. $49.95

• FTD6510 super-powerful Symbolic Debugger. C64. $49.95

• MAE54 6502/65C02 Macro Editor/Assembler. $29.95

• C64 Source Code Book. Kerna! and Basic ROMs. $29.95

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