YourCommodore21-Jun86.pdf

JUNE 1986

CIA

YOI B

M ZINE

DELVE IN

YOUR COMMO

AMIGA —

The detailed story

US Gold

Kong la Masters)

must be won

of to

IEVENTS

141"g"

16/PLII

'Compete in the six

thrilling events -

Biathlon, Bobsled, Ski-

Jump, Slalom, Down

Hill and Speed Skating.

The events start with open-

ing ceremony accompanied

by thrilling music. One to four

players can select the country

they wish to represent. The events

with some of the most stunning graphics

seen on C16/PLUS 4 provide a perfect back

drop as the chase for medals progresses.

TURBO LOAD ensures that you don't get a

chance to cool down between the events.

A QUALITY GAME

FOR C16 AND PLUS 4 OWNERS E7.95

Trade Enquiries:

C16-PLUS 4 CENTRE, ANCO SOFTWARE,

85, TILE KILN LANE, BEXLEY, KENT, U.K.

Telephone: 0322 92513/8

Mail Order: Payment by Cheque, P.O., VISA or ACCESS

24 Hour Credit Card Service: 0322 522631

JUNE 1986

• Chip Chat

Eric Doyle begins a new series on chips,

• Amiga - the Detailed Story

VOLUME 2

NUMBER 9

We show you what the Amiga can do.

• 3 into 1

Utility special — Stuart Cooke reveals all.

• Reader's Survery

Editor:

Stuart Cooke

How you can help us to help you.

• Data, Time and Memory

Assistant Editor:

Mar i e Curry

Hints on memory to save you minutes.

• Stateside News

Advertisement Manager

John McGarry

The US computer scene.

• Business on a Budget

Advertisement Copy

Control:

Laur a Champion

Low price utilities from Argus Press Software,

• In Print

Group Editor:

Dave Bradshaw

Hardware review - the Ibico

ikAlt SERIES 111

• Top Draw

Group Managing

Editor:

Wendy Palmer

Managing Director:

Peter Welham

Graphics tricks from Allen Webb.

• Welcome to the Machine

Origination:

Ebony Typesetting

Another part in our machine code training program.

• Froggy

Design:

Ar gus Design

Add more touches to our arcade game

• Language Lab-C

Part one of an in-depth look at C.

• Programming the C-16

Editorial & Advertisement Ofﬁce

No 1 Golden Square,

London W1R 3A8

Tel ephone

Yet deeper into the complexities of the C-16,

• Programming the 1541

Tel ex: 8811896

Your Commodore incorporating

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• Sense of Adventure

• Action Replay

• Software for Sale

• Sprite Ideas

• Listings

• Game of the Month

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• Teacher's Pet

• Scratch Pad

• Communications Corner

• Program Submissions

MPETITION

• Database 64

Type in our C64 Database.

• Professional Packaging

Smarten up your tape collection.

• Better Matrix

Power for your MPS

• Budget 64

Get your ﬁ nances under control.

Soft in the Head

SHOPPING FOR SOFTWARE? LOOK NO

further than these pages. This month it

seems as if there's never been a wider

choice of program available and you have

to congratulate the software houses in the

ingenuity of their staff.

Ariolasoft info

Ariolasoft is making headlines and movies

this month. Did you ever think that you

could play at being Steven Spielberg

with the aid of your C64? Movie Maker

allows you to do just that. You can create

your own animated pictures with the aid

of this program. You probably won't

make as much money as the great

directors but you should have some fun.

Claims for the program include:

mixing text and graphics, creating tracks

of up to 30 frame each, and combining six

of these in a single animated sequence.

There are also hundreds of built in

pictures, ready for use plus the power to

create your own. There are numerous

animated greetings cards and a music and

sound library. You can videotape your

efforts and bore your friends with them -

if you feel that way inclined.

It's on twin disks and costs E16.95.

Two other newies from this Covent

Garden based house- they've just moved

- are Starship Andromeda and

Panzadrome.

The latter is a futuristic war game set

on a robot inhabited island. The Robots

are tanks and hostile, of course, and you

must build a better one in order to defeat

them. Look out for mines and mortars.

Panzadrome costs f8.95 and is a

product of the programming and design

skills of the Ramjam Corporation.

Starship Andromeda sees you battling

the evil tyrant Alana, who wears a crystal

around her neck which just happens to be

the security key to the great computer

which controls the galaxy. A tough

situation - especially since the only thing

that will free the crystal is a Proton lance.

Get the lance and get the crystal. Easy,

huh?

The program includes 12 arcade/

strategy games and 10.000 locations. It's

also E9.95.

Not content with these launches,

Ariolasoft is entering the Amiga software

market with a collection of Electronic

Arts' utilities.

Deluxepaint is an incredible graphics

program which allows the beginner to

explore the Amiga's capabilities whilst

giving the more experienced user an

excellent tool. Features include tools to

create lines, curves, shapes and textures.

There's also split screen zoom enlarging

and colour cycling to create animation.

DeluxePrint is a sister program with 15

formats for easy customisation of print

outs - in colour or black and white. The

formats include greetings cards, business

cards, stationary, calendars, letterheads,

• • sters and many more.

A6 Amiga range from Ariolasoft

Ar i ol asol l , Electronic Arts and the Amiga

News

DeluxeVideo brings another

dimension to computing. Make video

slide shows, animation, business present-

ations. Find out about wipes, fades, and

dissolves. Also compression of images,

control of the foreground and back-

ground and much more.

Ariolasoft's Ashley Gray said: "The

Deluxe series of Amiga programs are the

most powerful, integrated, creative tools

ever released for a personal computer."

Maybe you should try them when

you've saved up for your Amiga?

Activision — Out of Time?

WANTED - DEAD OR ALIVE! SAM

Harlow, that's you, a marked man. Your

past has caught up with you, punk.

They're out to get your - but you don't

know who they are. Check your ﬁles, Sam,

you need to prevent your own murder,

and it's one of those bums who you've put

away behind bars during your auspicious

career.

Interested? Activision's latest

adventure - Borrowed Time - puts you in

the position of both hunter and prey.

There are 20 serious suspects who are out

of your blood. Track the murderer down

before it's too late.

Perils including getting shot at,

burned, anaesthetised, beaten up, strung

up, sentenced to life imprisonment,

bopped on the head, ripped to pieces by

mad dogs etc.

If you've got £14.99 and want to die

horribly then you know how to spend it.

AMMO MIN

• sioet tam gams

• see the totehrlal

Cumana claims that they are totally

reliable and durable and are unaffected

by electromagnetic/electrostatic condi-

tions, extreme temperatures, humidity

and minor scratches. It is also an added

protection against software piracy.

Adaptors for the cards will be available

for the CM and C128.

Cumana has proposed a host of

applications for the new card: Memory

for telecommunication devices; identiﬁ-

cation for security keys, bank accounts,

computer input and cashless shopping;

speech for vending machines, language

labs, measuring and sensing warning

devices; instructions for robots and other

automated equipment; personal identity;

applications and ROM software; portable

memory for hand held micros,

programmable printers, process control,

alarm systems. And this is only the tip of

the iceberg. Look out for them.

Gone are the days when zappy games

had zappy names. Rino's new release is

for the CM, priced at £2.99 and is

unabashedly entitled Shoot 'Em Up.

Generally Speaking

IN THIS HIGHLY TECHNOLOGICAL BUS-

iness, the Japanese are still the people

who are often ﬁrst with the newest ideas.

Now Cumana has brought another

Japanese invention to this country in the

form of the Astron IC card.

Physically, the card resembles a credit

card but contains integrated circuitry

which enables it to be used as a solid state

memory device. It has a 38 pin connector

which plugs into a cheap (about E2) socket

and does not need a magnetic or laser

reader.

There are four different types of card:

ROM, Masked ROM, EPROM and RAM.

And the Rest

IF YOU'RE AN AVID WATCHER OF NOEL

Edmond's ridiculous Late Late Breakfast

Show, then you'll know the background

to Mr Puniverse. Now Mastertronic has

jumped on the bandwagon yet again to

bring you Big Mac - 2 which features the

character immortalised in this hilarious TV

spoof. It's on the C-16 and is in the £1.99

range of course.

Halley's Comet fever has now hit the

software industry with a release from

Firebird to mark the approach of the

space probe Giotto to the heart of the

comet.

It's one of those games in which, once

again, you play the part of an intrepid

spaceman coming to the aird of the entire

human race. This time the danger involves

germ bags from the comet which are

threatening the health of the world.

The game has three phases starting

with the launch, followed by controlling

the ship's computer in its ﬂight to the

comet (the spaceman is in suspended

animation at this point), and ﬁnally the

destruction of the germbags so that they

won't reproduce and infect the globe.

f 7.95 on the CM, and available now.

Rino Software is taking the bull by the

horns in its decision to call a spade a spade

- or more accurately a shoot 'em up a

shoot 'em up.

The Astron integrated Circuit Card

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