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MARCH 1986

• Music Master 1 0

A superb C64 music program from Tony Crowther.

• Disk Delving

VOLUME 2

NUMBER 6

An insight into storage on your 1541.

• C-16 - By Mastertronic

Editor:

Stuart Cooke

The pick of Mastertronic C-16 titles.

• Say Cheese

Assistant Editor:

Marie Curry

Have a nibble at the MS2000 mouse.

• A Tale of Two Turbos

Advertisement Manager

Mike Segrue

Two fast loader cartridges under the microscope.

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Our new software service begins this month.

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• Programming the C-16

The return of this very popular series.

• Welcome to the Machine

Machine code on the C64 - from scratch.

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An extended Basic with built-in assembler.

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Add colour to your disk directories.

• Gridsearch

A game to test your powers of deduction.

• Datamaker 5 1

Machine code to Basic - with Mike Robert's simple listing.

DATA

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STATEMENTS

Ariolasoit goes wild

Soft In The Head

circuit. It's for the C64 and costs i9.95 on

cassette.

Martech has also been looking around

the toyshops to ﬁnd an idea for its latest

release. The game is called Zoidzilla and is

based around Tomy's range of Zoids.

You'll ﬁ nd yourself on Zoidstar in the

middle of a war between Blue Zoids and

Red Zoids, Zoidzilla, the blue leader, has

been smashed into eight pieces all of

which are scattered behind enemy lines.

You're the unfortunate little Zoid who has

to go and retreive them. Look out for Red

Horn, leader of the enemy forces!

Zoidzilla costs f8.95 on the C64.

Virgin has brought out a follow up to

Now Games - appropriately called Now

Games 2. This tape contains such popular

If you'd prefer something a little more

cultural, why not take a look at Global

Software's Old Scores. It's an adventure

set around London's South Bank arts

complex and features The Dice Waltz

(one of Mozart's little gems. There's also

a voucher in each game which entitles the

purchaser to a free guided tour backstage

at the Royal Festival Hall.

Now on to a different track with the

computer version of Scalextric from

Leisure Genius. Produced under licence

from Hornby Hobbies the game incorp-

orates many of the features of the popular

Scalextric sets. You can design your own

tracks using straights, curves and chicanes

and each player has a 3D view of the track

ahead as well as a plan of the whole

THERE'S A VERITABLE EPIDEMIC OF NEW

software in the shops at the moment, so

let's go on with the news straight away.

Remember the Alamo? Ariolasoft

does. The latest game from this proliﬁc

software house is called Wild West and

has all the traditional features of a classic

John Wayne movie. Big Nose Bill and his

boys have captured Fort Snake and you're

the hero who has to liberate this outpost.

On your quest you'll encounter such

well-tried western hazards as a bank

robber, a shoot-out with the sherrif and a

wild stagecoach ride. It's for the C64 and is

available on cassette (19.951 or disk

1E12.951.

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titles as Airwolf from Elite Systems, Tir Na

Nog from Gargoyle Games, Cauldron

from Palace Software, Chuckle Egg 2 from

A&F and World Cup from Artic. You can

get the lot for 18.95.

As reviewed in Your Commodore

(February 1986), you can now purchase

Rainbird's The Music System. According

to Rainbird, there's nothing like it

whether you're Heaven 17 or a two ﬁnger

pianist its out now on cassette (114.95)

and disk 1117.95).

If you're one of those people who's

always talking about life, the universe and

everything, then you'll be happy to know

that you can now play The Hitchhikers

guide to the galaxy in the safety of your

home, courtesy of SDftsel. This is only one

of the games in a new range of Infocom

Classic Titles. The other four are Zork 1.

Seastalker, Planetfall and Deadline. The

prices of the games have also been

reduced so you can hitch around the

Milky Way for a mere 124.95 or try any of

the others for only 119.95.

If you enjoyed Hewson Consultants

Paradroid then you'll be pleased to here

that a sequel is at this moment winging its

inexorable way to your local shops.

Named Uridium the game is a fast arcade

style shoot-em-up. It will be available at

the end of February and there is also a plot

afoot to put both games on disk.

US Gold is still producing new titles

like there's no tomorrow. And there's

good news for C-16 and Plus/4 owners.

For 17.95 you can now buy yourselves a

copy of Beach Head.

Tony Rainktird makes music

Level 9 has added a third title to its

Silicon Dream series - The Worm in

Paradise. The two previous games in the

trilogy were Snowball and Return to Eden,

The Worm costs 19.95 for the C64.

Fed up with playing other peoples

games? Perhaps Activision has the answer

to your problem. You can now buy

Gamemaker: The Computer Game

Design Kit. Using a joystick you can select

commands from a menu to produce and

animate characters, draw backgrounds,

create sound effects and compose

musical scores. The cassette costs £9.99

and the disk version is 114.99 including a

free blank disk to save your games on,

Supersoft has also come up with a

helpful program for the creative bods

among you. Flowcharter is a machine

language program ,which will display or

print a Basic program after it has been

written. When something goes wrong

with your latest program all you need to

do is call up a ﬂowchart and you'll be able

to see what your program is doing. It's

112.95 on tape and 114.95 on disk and it's

Out now.

Mastertronic, the UK budget software

house, has launched itself into the

business world with a word processing

package called Ski Writer, The package

was originally released in the USA by

Prentice Hall but now world rights have

been jointly acquired by Mastertronic

Limited (UK) and Mastertronic Inter-

national Inc (USA). It's available on

cassette and disk at 11195 and 114.95

respectively. A special version for the

C128 is on the cards and will be released

shortly. It is hoped that it will use all the

extra capabilities of the C128.

Back into space we go to look at CRL's

latest game, the title of which is probably a

standard for,

word

software processing

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