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A NEWSFIELD PUBLICATION
No.10
August 1986
MONTHLY SOFTWARE REVIEW FOR THE
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ATLANTIC CHALLENGER once again
attempt to win the coveted BLUE RIBAND
title for Britain by crossing the ATLANTIC
OCEAN in the record time of 3 days and
10 hours.
Virgin Games brings you the VIRGIN
ATLANTIC CHALLENGE GAME. This arcade
game is a fun simulation of RICHARD
BRANSON'S part in this exciting and
dangerous event. You must guide Richard
at BREAK-NECK SPEED from one piece
of equipment to another to keep the
boat ON-COURSE and in good time and
take vital MONEY-MAKING (or breaking)
decisions that are telexed to him from
all parts of the VIRGIN EMPIRE.
AMSTRAD CPC 464/664/6128
COMMODORE 64/128
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Available from all good Software Retailers or directly from Virgin with the tear-off slip below
Please rush me my copy of the Virgin Atlantic Challenge Game!
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Please make cheques and postal orders to VIRGIN GAMES LTD and post to the address below Please do not post cash.
VIRGIN GAMES MAIL ORDER.
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ISSUE 10 AUGUST 1986
Publishers Roger Kean, Oliver
Frey, Franco Frey
Editor Malcolm Harding
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Assistant Editor Lee Paddon
Technical Editor Anthony
Clarke
Art Director Dick Shiner
Production Controller David
Western
Amtips Julian Rignall
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Adventure/Strategy Sean
Masterson
Software Reviewers Mark
Peters. Dominic Handy.
Catherine Rees, Ben Stone.
Peter Lewis, Michael Dunn.
David Hawkes
Contributing Writers Jon
Bales, Roy Jones. Graeme
Kidd, David Paul. Garth Sump-
ter
Production Matthew Ufftndeil,
Gordon Druce, Tony Lorton,
Cameron Pound
Advertisement Manager
THE MAIN HEADINGS
5 EDITORIAL
Matey welcomes a veritable host of new AMTIX!
people
6 ON THE SPOT
Your letters get aired and answered
TOP GAMES FOR AUGUST
14 CAULDRON II
Palace do it again with a lively new sequel and get
an Accolade
18 HARVEY HEA0BANGER
Firebird's budget bash em up with a difference
makes an alchoholic Accolade too
31 AMTECH
Educational LOGO, Meddler, Memory Boss, Brun-
word, Toolkit and others all queue up to be looked
at
46 AMTIPS
Julian Rignall offers up help to the needy and nee-
dles to the helpless with more playing tips plus a
map of HEAVY ON THE MAGICK
92 NODES OF YES00
The famous platform seek and destroy game from
Odin hits the Amstrad
62 ADVENTURE
Three loot four of mystical power, Leapin' Leprec-
haun Masterson reviews some new adventures
and arcanes a bit
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Roger Bennett
Advertisement Assistant
Nick Wild
Subscriptions Dentse Roberts
Mail Order Carol Kinsey
74 NEWS
The team check out the last London Amstrad
show and find few games but loads of interest
77 STRATEGY
Growing a fraction taller to look more menacing,
Sean Masterson espouses on how strategies
should be written
AUGUST SPECIALS
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39 SPOILT FOR JOYCE
Our special Joyce section kicks off this month
with some news of the astonishing growth of
software for the machine, plus an in-depth review
of MONEY MAKER
54 SPLINTERS OF MAGIK
Sean Masterson talks to the Austins about Level 9
82 CHARTS/HI SCORES
&0 COMPETITION RESULTS
95 THE TERMINAL MAN
Cross and the wrecked Arcadians continue their
quest for understanding
83 BUDGET SPECIAL
The reviewing team ask whether budget games
are all they're cracked up to be by reviewing sev-
eral new offerings
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COMPETITIONS
45 TOLKIEN BONANZA!
Melbourne House celebrate LORD OF THE RINGS
and THE HOBBIT by offering a Night Raider holog*
ram and copies of the games
; 53 EQUINOX
Join MIKRO-GEN in this exciting comp and win,
j win, win!
61 JEWELS OF DARKNESS
£200 worth of jewellery could be yours, courtesy
; of Rainbird and Level 9
The next issue of AMTIX! goes on sale from 21st
August, and if you think things are hot at the
moment, they'll be a lot hotter if you aren't at your
newsagents to buy it!
79 A MINION'S REVENGE
Help a deserving cause with BEYOND in our
DOOMDARK'S REVENGE comp
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THE BIG
NON EVENT
ing to see how many software
companies climb on the Joyce
bandwagon and convert existing
games to run on the 8256or 8512.
Ocean have wasted no time and
their version of
Batman
is very
good indeed as is reported in the
Joyce section of Amtech.
Everyone thought it would appear
at the show bul it didn't! Doesn't
make sense unless you know that
IT is Amstrad's IBM PC compati-
ble machine. It's common know-
ledge the company had originally
intended to launch the new micro
either at the June Amstrad Show
or the PC User Show in July but
technical problems have delayed
the machine's debut. Even so it is
believed the PC will be available as
scheduled in September.
The general opinion is initial
machines will use Digital
Research's Gem graphics running
under the Dos Plus operating sys-
tem but it appears there has been
some problem compressing Gem
down sufficiently.
On the subject of the show it
was quite amazing just how much
serious software there was on sale
lor the PCW8256 and to a limited
extent also for the fat Joyce.
Of the 80 exhibitors at the show
at least 20 had only recently
boarded the Amstrad bandwagon
and between them they actually
launched 120 new products.
It is also quite amazing what
some people will do to get public-
NEW FACES FOR AMT1XI
The AMTIX! Team has grown
enormously in just one day. Mon-
day dawned as usual in AMTIX!
Towers, sticky and coffeeless, and
then this horde just walked in off
the street, headed by someone
calling himself Lee Paddon.
Behind him trogged and thin bes-
pectacled young man who turned
out to be Anthony Clarke, and
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behind him was Richard Eddy.
Who are they?
Gary Liddon in the Tea Room).
Gary Liddon has left Newsfield to
become Technospert for News-
field's new software house
Thalamus. As a result, he's not
allowed to write reviews anymore!
m PAPPQM
Lee hails from somewhere south
of the biggest smoke, London,
where he was (until this particular
Monday) Deputy Editor of
Your
Computer magazine,
a steamed
organ for which he has worked for
some years. Mr Paddon takes over
as Software Editor for AMTIX! and
my bath chair attendant. It's
important to know what people are
about, and when asked Lee said.
' I have a wife and Siamese cat to
support, as well as a drink habit.'
When pushed he admitted that
Elite
was probably his favourite
game, but a few weeks at AMTIX!
should soon cure it (the drink habit
I mean).
I hope everyone will settle in
quickly because there's another
issue of AMTIX! to get off fast, so
it's down to serious work NOW!
Malcolm Harding
GAMES REVIEWED
ADVERTISERS' INDEX
Biggies Mirrorsoft
Dr Who Micropower
Ghosts 'n Goblins Elite
Green Beret Imagine
Harvey He ad banger
Firebird 18
Kung Fu Master US Gold 28
Night Gunner Digital Integration
91
25
26
17
22
AMTIX! Subscriptions
94
a
m the national press. Derek
AMTIX! Shirts/Binders
81
Ariolasoft
23
aakin, director of Database who
organises the show, made one of
the tabloids when he revealed that
his decision to re-arrange the
show for Friday the 13th of June
had resulted in no less than 13
mishaps. According to Mr Meakin
his run of calamities started with
three key members of staff break-
ing their legs in separate incidents
within seven days. Then two tele-
phonists went down with flu; a
cashier had to cancel plans for the
show because of family illness;
one of the show drivers lost his
license in court; and the replace-
ment got stuck on the motorway
for five hours when his van broke
down. Never mind, Derek, It's
much more fun than running a
magazine!
Originally the show was to have
been a two day event, starting on
May 31, but such was the demand
for space that it was extended to a
three day show on two floors.' I'm
not normally superstitious, and at
first I laughed it off, but now I am
starting to think that maybe it does
pay to believe in the super-
natural.'he said.
Anyway despite all the mumbo
jumbo about superstitions the
show proved to be another huge
success and no doubt the next
three day event, planned in
October will be equally successful.
In the meantime it will be interest-
Beyond
65
Cascade
89
CRL
57
Design Design
42
Gremlin Graphics
4
Infogrames
20
Nodes of Yesod Odin
92
Level 9
100
AOTIIOIIY CLARKE
Has until this particular Monday
morning, been a regular con-
tributor to Amtech pages, churn-
ing out the stuff on his trusty
typewriter someplace to the left of
Nottingham. Now he's resident at
the Ludlow Wail Trust House
along with half the rest of News-
field employees. Anthony (18) is
taking over as Technical Editor,
which is just as well because he's
clever with machine code, hex and
decimals which no one else knows
anything about. He also writes
games,"but we don't hold that
against him.
Powerptay Arcana
12
Ocean
10,11
Room Ten CRL
13
Palace Software
49
Sal Combat Mirrorsoft
21
Quicksilva
24.60
Shadowfire Beyond
16
SJB Disks
35
V Ocean
27
US Gold
29.99
Virgin
2.30
BUDGET GAMES
Barchou Central Solutions 90
Classic Invaders Bubble Bus
THE MONTHLY
SOFTWARE
STAR FOR
YOUR US GOLD
CALENDAR
A
US GOLD
AMTIX
86
Darts Blue Ribbon 88
Kane Mastertronic 86
Molecule Man Mastertronic 88
Radzone Mastertronic
90
Snodgrts Sparklers
85
Spiky Harold Firebird
87
Voodo Range Antartic
87
Wild Bunch Firebird
85
RICHARD EDDY
Comes from Cornwall, which is a
long way off, and since the com-
muter fare was more than his sal-
ary we asked him to move up to
Ludlow. He's also 18 — just (hav-
ing got the job by lying about his
age, the sort of lad who would
have joined up for the war before
histime). and Richard (or Dick Edd,
as he's already called) will be part
of the in-house reviewing team,
with special duties in replacing
ADVENTURE
Acheton Newstar
63
Blacks tar CRL
63
Hunchback Ocean
68
Nocturne Alpha-Omega
64
QOR Maltdale
67
SAS Raid CRL
62
Wrath of Olympus Alpha/
Omega
64
5 AMTIX August 1986
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