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Issue 1 FRONTLINES Battle of the Tapes (16/48, Spectrum Computing) (letter) SPECTRUM & QL NEWS SinclairWatch Interface 2, Issue 3 Spectrum, Microdrives, Flat screen TV, ZX84 SOFTWARE REVIEWS Spectrum Soft Bugaboo, Chequered Flag, Escape MCP, Galactic Abductor, Gridrunner, Manic Miner, Missile Defence, Quackers, Race Fun, Slap Dab, Smuggler's Cove, Traxx, Velnor's Lair, Wild West Hero, Woods of Winter, Xadom. (letter) SOFTWARE FEATURES Go-Faster! - Courting Compilers - Flirting with Forth HARDWARE FEATURES Talk to Me, Oh MicroSpeech! (letter) DIY Spectrum Keyboard Buffer (letter) PROGRAMMING Machine Code Breakout! YS scoops a little bit of computer history with Toni Baker's machine code RESET. (letter), (letter) Moving Graphics of the Horizontal Kind MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES "sp(ee)ki(ng) of spe(ck)t(rr)ums" The software engineer behind the Currah MicroSpeech unit, Mark Anson, explains the 'i(nn)s and (ow)(tt)s' of speech synthesis. Broadening Your Communications Spectrum READER'S PROGRAMS Play Power Sir Clive (Michael Scott), Showdown (Artic Computing), Gnashers (Gavin Monk). (letter) BOOKS Paperdata Computer Programming Course, Design and Memory, First Steps with Your Spectrum, ZX Spectrum and How To Get The Most From It. INTERVIEWS David Potter (Psion) ODDS & ENDS Advertisements |
Issue 2 FRONTLINES Pimania, My name is Uncle Groucho (Automata) Spectrum sales Spectrum software on audio discs Your Spectrum to go monthly SPECTRUM & QL NEWS SinclairWatch Atari releases for Spectrum, Profiteering Rumbles Matthew Smith moves to Software Projects, Carnell Software problems, Death Chess 2000 (Artic) SOFTWARE REVIEWS Spectrum Soft Alien Swoop / Domain, Apocalypse, Apple Jam, Barrel Drop, Brain Damage, The Crypt, Doomsday Castle, It's Only Rock'n'Roll / Tomb of Dracula, McKensie, Mr Wimpy, Paint Box, Pat the Postman, Robber, Special Agent, Spectrum Safari, Urban Upstart, Xark. HARDWARE FEATURES Rummaging in the ROM Taking iron to solder, Mike Lord unveils the SoftROM. (letter) Spectrolysis: Tuning Up Your Spectrum (letter) Those Moody Microdrives Getting Into Print ADS Centronics i/f, Kempston Centronics i/f, Morex Centronics/RS232 i/f, Hilderbay Professional Printer i/f, Euroelectronics ZX LPRINT MkII. (letter), (letter) PROGRAMMING Take a Running Jump Machine codeist Toni Baker improves your arcade games by leaps and bounds. The Protection Racket Variables on a Theme - part one READER'S PROGRAMS Play Power Stock Market (Peter Young), Road Racer (Danny Sheehan), Clock This (Ian Turtle). (letter) BOOKS Paperdata: Cracking the Code The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly, Introducing Spectrum Machine Code, Learn and Use Assembly Language on the Spectrum, Mastering Machine Code on your Spectrum, Spectrum Machine Code Made Easy, The Spectrum Machine Code Reference Guide, Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner, Supercharge Your Spectrum, Understanding Your Spectrum. INTERVIEWS Sandy White - The Antman Cometh (Quicksilva) Nigel Searle (Sinclair) ODDS & ENDS Forum Ant Attack map QL USER Sir Clive makes the Quantum Leap On Balance Kewneat Emptor |
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Issue 3 FRONTLINES Fuller rumours Pacman (DJL Software) Prolog (Sinclair Research) Spectrum emulator for CBM64 (Phoenix Software) Trashman release (New Generation Software) SPECTRUM & QL NEWS Rumbles Melbourne House release schedule, Mugsy (Melbourne House), Hype (Virgin), Quasimodo's Revenge & Gilligan's Gold (Ocean) SinclairWatch QL delays, Motorola 68008 chip, Advertising Standards Authority SOFTWARE REVIEWS Spectrum Soft 1984, Alchemist, Cavern Fighter, Classic Adventure, Dinky Digger, Fred, House of the Living Dead, Hunchback, Jumbly, Magic Meanies, Naanas, Nightflight 2, Oh Mummy!, Pi-Eyed, Pinball Wizard, Robot Riot, Skull, Snooker, Spectron, Super Snails, Xanagrams. SOFTWARE FEATURES Wet Screams Unarmed but fearless, explore the watery depths of the ocean with Mike Mepham - all without getting your feet wet. Scuba Dive. HARDWARE FEATURES Tower of Power With the odds stacked against him, SQ Factor pulls through with a comprehensive review of the Basicare system. Sexing Your Spectrum PROGRAMMING Extending Basic Toni Baker is about to explain the procedure by which new commands can be added to the Spectrum vocabulary. Plotting in 3D - part one: Graphics & Mathematics ZIP Compiler (letter), (letter) Variables on a Theme - part two MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES Misfires of the Year READER'S PROGRAMS Play Power Flat Cube (Colin Young), REM Remover (Andy Wright), Hopalong (Richard Archdeacon). BOOKS Paperdata: A Touch of Class 40 Educational Games for the Spectrum, Educational Programs for the Spectrum, Educational Uses of the ZX Spectrum, Learning to Use the ZX Spectrum, Learning With Your Computer, Programming for REAL Beginners - Stages 1 & 2, Spectrum in Education. INTERVIEWS Grahame Daubney (Prism) ODDS & ENDS Forum YS Top 20 QL USER QL News While rumours abound, QL User checks out the truth behind the add-ons currently being advertised for the QL. Around the Houses Soft Sells Holy Structures ... it's SuperBasic |
Issue 4 FRONTLINES Games for Girls (CCS) Lords of Midnight, Psytron, Spellbound (Beyond Software) ROM cartridge games (Parker) SPECTRUM & QL NEWS SinclairWatch QL delivery problems Rumbles Westminster (Mr Chip Software), Wrath of Magra (Carnell Software), Harrier Attack (Durrel Software), Channel 8 Software, Quicksilva, The Pit / Vortex (Rabbit Software) SOFTWARE REVIEWS Spectrum Soft 3D Seiddab Attack, The Adventures of St Bernard, Ballooning, Bear Bovver, Car Journey, Devil Rides In, Dragonsbane, Eskimo Eddie, Ghost Town, Hard Cheese, Killer Knight, Labyrinth, Micro Drivin', Oligopoly, Rider, War 70. SOFTWARE FEATURES Jet Set Willy The complete room plan for Matthew Smith's latest thriller, plus playing tips from Sue Denham and dirty tricks from Hacker Pennell. (letter), (letter) J.S.W. - A Hacker's Guide (letter) HARDWARE FEATURES Joystick Interface DIY Music on Spec The program shown here allows you to connect any Spectrum to the light-pen port of a Casio synthesiser, giving you a versatile new peripheral. (letter) Your Flexible Friends Stephen Adams explores two ways of going floppy on the Spectrum - with the FDI and Viscount drives. PROGRAMMING Through the Square Window Toni Baker takes you one step nearer creating the perfect arcade game with another riotous routine. ZIP Compiler Dumps of Distinction (letter), (letter), (letter), (letter), (letter), (letter), (letter), (letter) 3D Plotting - part two READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Header Reader (Alexander Livshits), Noughts and Crosses (Mark Burton). BOOKS Frontlines: A Guide to Playing The Hobbit Paperdata: Novel Adventures Computer & Video Games Book of Adventure, Creating Adventure Programs on Your Computer, Creating Adventure Programs on the ZX Spectrum, Exploring Adventures on the Spectrum 48k, Spectrum Adventures. INTERVIEWS Bruce Everiss (Imagine) ODDS & ENDS YS Top 20 Forum QL USER Steering to Success: The QL Roadtest |
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Issue 5 FRONTLINES Anti-copying system banned by MoD (JCL Data) Marvel Questprobe adventures (Adventure International) Virgin Games Centre opens WH Smith open new Computer Shops SPECTRUM & QL NEWS SinclairWatch QLs finally arrive, Misleading advertising, Price changes Rumbles Star Trader & Twin Kingdom Valley (Bug-Byte), Humpty games (Artic), Combat Lynx (Durell), BC Bill & 'megagames' (Imagine), Highway Code & Tripz (CRL) SOFTWARE REVIEWS Spectrum Soft 3D Star Wars, Arcturus, Atlas Assignment, Bubble Trouble, Caesar the Cat, Colditz, Fantasia Diamond, Knight Driver, Millypede, Night Gunner, Olympimania, Orion, Pedro, Two Gun Turtle, Zig Zag. SOFTWARE FEATURES Thrills from The Quill (letter) HARDWARE FEATURES The Luck of the Draw For all you Hi-res artists, Henry Budgett looks in general at the state-of-the-art and, in particular, British Micro's Grafpad. Interface Zero PROGRAMMING Spectrolysis: Channels and Streams A Chance Encounter Toni Baker puts back the 'random' in RANDOMIZE. ZIP Compiler MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES ZX Phone Home Computerised bulletin boards are the next 'big thing' claims SQ Factor - find out how to get hooked up to a phone fast. READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Peter Shaw invites you to tap in his latest masterpiece, Katapilla Krazy. (letter), (letter) BOOKS Paperdata: Hard Lines 20 Simple Electronic Projects for the ZX81 & Spectrum, An Introduction to Digital Logic, An Introduction to Microcomputers, Easy Add-on Projects for Spectrum, ZX81 & Ace, Interfacing Microcomputers to the Real World, Sinclair Spectrum and ZX81 Add-ons, Spectrum Hardware Manual, TTL Data Book. INTERVIEWS Jan & John Peel (Legend) ODDS & ENDS Top 20 Games QL USER A Process of Philosophy The difference between the Z80 and the 68008 processors is one of philosophy, contends Simon Goodwin, and not just a matter of a few extra bits. QL News Spectrum emulator for QL, Delivery rumours, 4QL peripherals (Quantum Leap Systems) |
Issue 6 FRONTLINES Earls Court Computer Fair shrinks Guild of Software Houses & software protection (GOSH) Jet Set Willy 'The Attic' bug fix (Software Projects) Quicksilva sells out to Argus Press Group Sinclair Research gives Fair Trading assurance Trans-Express program copier (Romantic Robot) SPECTRUM & QL NEWS Rumbles Jet Set Willy sequels (?), Cylon Attack (A'n'F Software), Bandersnatch (Imagine), Jolly Roger (Rabbit Software), Crusoe (Automata), A Question of Sport & Junior Kong (Interstella Software), Hyperaction (Silversoft). SinclairWatch Psion software problems, SuperBasic errors, QL manual errors. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Castle Blackstar, Defenda, Defusion / Worms, Disco Dan, Fire and Ice, Glug Glug, Grid Bug, Infernal Combustion, Laser Warp, Moon Buggy, Mummy, Mummy, Sorcery, Specgraf, Trashman, Trom. Talking of Toolkits Master Toolkit, Super Toolkit, TT-S Gamma, ZX Toolkit, ZXED. SOFTWARE FEATURES Hacking Away All is revealed! Everything you wanted to know about hacking into Jet Set Willy. (letter) Cry of the Wulf The new Ultimate game, Sabre Wulf, gets the YS treatment - with tips, hacker's tricks and a full map plan. Hacking at the Wulf PROGRAMMING Bang Goes Your Code Graphic Definitions (letter) All Change! Ever wanted to rename a Microdrive file? Providing the code to create the necessary new command, [...] ZIP Compiler READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Ground Attack by Antony Crawford and Connections by D R Tose are the offerings for you to tap in and play. BOOKS Paperdata: Games People Play 20 Programs for the ZX Spectrum, 49 Explosive Games for the ZX Spectrum, 60 Games & Applications for the ZX Spectrum, 60 Programs for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Creating Arcade Games on Your Spectrum, Games for Your ZX Spectrum, Games to Play on Your ZX Spectrum, Instant Arcade Games for the ZX Spectrum, Over the Spectrum, The Spectrum Book of Games, Spectrum Spectacular. INTERVIEWS Nick Alexander & Steve Webb (Virgin Games) ODDS & ENDS Top 10 Turkeys The YS Top 20 QL USER QL News QL User: The Complete Dossier, The Sinclair QL Companion, Demise of the QL 'kludge'. The Psion Writers |
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Issue 7 FRONTLINES Imagine Software goes bust ROM Interface 2 software (Parker) Sinclair's new TV ad campaign SPECTRUM & QL NEWS QL Affairs 68K/OS (GST Computer Systems), Spectrum emulator (Joe the Lion), PRINT VER$ command. SinclairWatch Clive Sinclair promoting Sinclair Research & on Spitting Image TV programme, Imagine's fall, Microdrive prices. Rumbles Hampstead / Sherlock (Melbourne House), Hover Bovver / The Dan Diamond Trilogy (Salamander), Starbike (Softek), Superchess 3.5 (CP Software), Daley Thomspn's Decathlon (Ocean), The Magic Roundabout (CRL). SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury 3D Bat Attack, Antics, Buffer Adventure, Bullseye, Carnival, The Fall of Rome, Kosmik Pirate, Metagalactic Llamas, Millionaire, Pac-Man, Psi-Spy, Psytron, Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes. SOFTWARE FEATURES Rapscallion Rap YS takes a look around the newest multi-screen graphical adventure from Bug-Byte - Rapscallion. PROGRAMMING Smooth Moves Relax ... let things slide with Simon Goodwin's cure for jerky graphics! Basic at a Stretch Well, saddle up your Interface 1 unit and let Gavin Smyth demonstrate the practice of adding up to 26 new commands to your Spectrum. Spectrolysis: Channels and Streams (letter) MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES Suddenly, it's the 64K Spectrum! Have you got 64K of usable memory inside your Spectrum, just waiting to be set free? (letter), (letter) READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Business Graphics on your Spectrum by John Tydeman and Chip Chat by Stephen Stratford. (letter) INTERVIEWS Sinclair Research 'Putting the record straight' on the QL, Sinclair Research meets with the press at the Carlton Tower Hotel. ODDS & ENDS Top 10 Turkeys The YS Top 20 Forum |
Issue 8 FRONTLINES The Edge is formed - Psytraxx, Starbike Eureka! (Domark) The Great Space Race (Legend) Holographic s/w protection logo (Elite Systems) SPECTRUM & QL NEWS SinclairWatch QL and flat-screen TV in shops, 'Kludged' QL upgrades, Errors in QL User Guide, BBC drops QL, GST/OS for QL. Rumbles Quest for Knowledge (Channel 8), Unnamed Mikro-Gen 'Treasure Island' game, Software Projects to convert Sierra On-Line games, Hustler (Bubble Bus). QL Affairs QL technical docs, QLUB newsletter, Using RGB colour monitor, Metacomco programming packages, Terminal emulation utility, UNIX on the QL. ADVICE Hacking Away Eskimo Eddie, Hunchback, Chuckie Egg, Manic Miner. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Beaky and the Egg Snatchers, Cavelon, Clever Clogs Star Trucker, Dartz, Dungeon Builder, Les Flics, Mr Wong's Loopy Laundry, Mugsy, Space Command, Spoof, Stuart Henry's Pop Quiz, Temple of Vran, Turbo Chess, Worse Things Happen at Sea. Art for Art's Sake Computer Aided Designer, Drawmaster, Melbourne Draw, Paintbox. SOFTWARE FEATURES TLL: Tornado Low Level TLL: Hacker's Guide HARDWARE FEATURES Paging on Your Spectrum (letter) Running Repairs Hands up those who've lost files on a Microdrive cartridge. Well, for goodness sake, don't throw it away because Andrew Pennell's beginning to solve the problem. PROGRAMMING MegaBasic (letter), (letter), (letter) READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Arcade action all the way with this month's offering from Mark Roberts - a 100 per cent machine code game called Stampabout. (letter) BOOKS Frontlines: Good Programming with QL SuperBasic Paper Data: The Language Barrier Learn Pascal on Your Basic Micro, Pascal for Micros, Programming Languages for Micros. INTERVIEWS Mark Eyles (Quicksilva) ODDS & ENDS The YS Top 20 Forum |
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Issue 9 FRONTLINES Anirog drop Spectrum development The Chip Shop radio program (BBC Radio 1 & 4) Forth on MicroSource ROM (Currah) SPECTRUM & QL NEWS Rumbles Automan (Bug-Byte), Crystal Caverns (Dream Software), BMX Racers (Mastertronic). Concurrent Affairs QL sales at PCW show, LISP on QL, New bug in QL 'JM' version, Sinclair software duplication, New QL products from: OE Ltd, Computer One, GST. ADVICE Hacking Away Lunar Jetman, Sabre Wulf, Tutankhamun, Tranz Am, Kosmic Kanga, Cavalon, Jet Set Willy, Wheelie. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Alcatraz Harry, Automania, BC Bill, Crusoe, Full Throttle, Hyperblaster, Humpty Dumpty Meets the Fuzzy Wuzzies, Madhatter, The Perils of Bear George, Pi in 'Ere, River Raid, Terrahawks. Spectrum Adventures: A 'Venture into the Unknown The Hobbit, Lords of Midnight, Sherlock. SOFTWARE FEATURES Manic Mimicry Ross Holman examines three new releases - Astronut, Frank N Stein and Monty Mole - and draws the inevitable conclusion ... Hacker's Guide Codebuster Dave Nicholls examines the major problems experienced by designers of the ever-popular 'platform' games, discussing the methods of program storage that make this kind of multi-screen adventure possible in just 48k. HARDWARE FEATURES The New Spectrum - The Shape of Things to Come? More than just a rumour ... Your Spectrum's Roger Munford gives you a sneak preview of the latest addition to the Sinclair Research range of computers - the soon-to-be-released ZX Spectrum+. Spectrum Speakers Fuller Box/Orator, Currah MicroSpeech, DCP S-Pack, Cheetah Sweet Talker, Timedata ZXS Speech Synthesiser. PROGRAMMING Spectrum Spooler YS MegaBasic: The First Tutorial - part one READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Get set to type in two great games for your Spectrum: Ocean Defence (Danny Sheehan), Turn-Up (Adrian George). INTERVIEWS Colin Stokes (Software Projects) ODDS & ENDS Forum The YS Top 20 |
Issue 10 FRONTLINES 8th Day text adventures (8th Day Software) Cambridge Award winners Firebird label launched (British Telecom) Jasper (Micromega) Ocean buys up Imagine's assets Software Sales Service (Bug-Byte, CBS, Quicksilva, Virgin) Stuart Henry's Pop Quiz MS donation (Bellflower) Swords & Sorcery (PSS) The Wrath of Magra / See-Ka of Assiah (Mastertronic) QL NEWS Concurrent QL Affairs High street sales, Simplex Data 256k RAM extension, QL enquiry analysis, QLUB News delays, Quarterly Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence, Serial port problems. ADVICE Hacking Away Chuckie Egg. (letter) SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Beach-Head, Beatcha, Braxx Bluff, Combat Lynx, Dragonfire, Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Delta Wing, Enduro, Eye of Bain, H.E.R.O., Hustler, Hyperaction, Kokotoni Wilf, Kentilla, The Prize, Psytraxx, Pyjamarama, Trouble Brewin', Zenji. Spectrum Adventures Avid adventure fanatics Peter Shaw and Dave Nicholls get to grips with Eureka, Hampstead and Peter Pan. SOFTWARE FEATURES Deus Ex Machina Hacker's Guide HARDWARE FEATURES Spectrum+ Awesome Secrets of the QL PROGRAMMING Spectrolysis: Your Number's Up Even Ian Beardsmore can be bitten by the games bug - and memory's no problem when you use his base 255 numbering system! Breaking and Entering Everything you always wanted to know about the art of hacking ... but were afraid to ask! YS MegaBasic Tutorial - Procedural Practice Sprite Designer MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES Interface ROM: The Inside Story Andrew Pennell discusses the changes made to the Interface 1 ROM. READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Message Mover (Martin Evans), Tips for the Top (Gavin Monk), Xmas Card (Tony Samuels), Lunar Buggy (Robert Stockton). (letter) INTERVIEWS Nigel Searle (Sinclair Research) ODDS & ENDS Your Spectrum Top Turkeys YS Top 20 Chart Forum |
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Issue 11 FRONTLINES Espionage (Modular Resources) Ghostbusters (Activision) Hareraiser offers £30,000 prize (Haresoft) The Ket Trilogy (Incentive Software) Skool Daze (Microsphere) Nordic takes over Fuller keyboards stock QL NEWS Concurrent QL Affairs Sinclair freebies, Delayed QLUB News, Metacomco releases BCPL Compiler, QL-Forth & QL-Pascal. ADVICE Hacking Away Jet Pac, Pssst, Zzoom, Cookie, Atic Atac, Lunar Jetman, Freez Bees, Pi-Balled, Moon Alert, Psytron, Frank N Stein. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury All or Nothing, Battlezone, Chinese Juggler, Danger Mouse in Double Trouble, Dark Star, Eddie Kidd's Jump Challenge, Flip Flap, Fred's Fan Factory, Freex, Kung Fu, Jasper, Noah, Sir Lancelot, Turmoil, Zombie Zombie. Spectrum Adventures Clive Gifford dials the helpline, and Dave Nicholls cracks open Valkyrie 17 and Tir na Nog. Snowball, Planet of Death, Knight's Quest, Velnor's Lair, Golden Apple, Digital Fantasia, Colossal Adventure, Lords of Time, The Hobbit. SOFTWARE FEATURES The Ultimate Adventure: Underwurlde Hacker's Guide HARDWARE FEATURES Touch and Go! There've been several digitisers on the market for the Spectrum, but only the Touchmaster claims to be a keyboard replacement. PROGRAMMING Heading for Trouble Continuing his codebusting theme, Terry Bulfib delves deeper into the loading methods used to 'protect' commercial software from the prying eyes of hackers. This month, he takes a look at programs claiming to be 'headerless'. Routine Errors John Durst has come up with an interesting piece of code that'll use the error handling routine in ROM to give control to the user's program in the event of overflows, keying errors and the like. Every Picture Tells a Story Anyone can be an artist on the Spectrum - it's just a matter of co-ordination. Machine Code Commands Being able to access Basic commands from machine code is not always as easy as it sound ... Join David Threlfall as he rummages around in the Spectrum's ROM. READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Magic Numbers (M Loftus), Mode Music (Maurice David Wood), Protector (Pat Donnelly). BOOKS Frontlines: Practical Spectrum Machine Code INTERVIEWS Mike Johnston (ZX Microfairs) ODDS & ENDS The YS Top 20 |
Issue 12 FRONTLINES Rumours of new portable micro (Sinclair Research) Sinclair C5 electric car launched (Sinclair Research) Tony Crowther signs deal with Quicksilva QL NEWS Concurrent QL Affairs QLUB membership complaints, Quest disk drive problems, Simplex Data memory expansion, QL Plus add-on range from PCML, CST disk interface & memory expansion. ADVICE Hacking Away Mr Wimpy, Modifying Ultimate's loader, Jet Set Willy, Defenda, Moon Alert, Cavelon, Maze Death Race, Horace Goes Skiing, The Crypt. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Air Traffic Control, Beamrider, Booty, Bridge Player 2, Cylon Attack, Knight Lore, Match Day, Ms Pacman, Mutant Monty, Skool Daze, Son of Blagger, Starstrike, Strontium Dog - The Killing, The Witch's Cauldron, Word Games with the Mr Men. Spectrum Adventures Eureka!, Valhalla, Valkyrie 17. Doomdark's Revenge, Ghoulies Into the Music? Music Maker (Bellflower), Music Maker (Malan), Music Typewriter, Play, Type and Transpose, Spectune SOFTWARE FEATURES Hey, Anyone Seen a Ghost? When Ghostbusters - the movie - began its successful sweep of this country, Activision launched a version of the eponymous game for the CBM 64. Now, after the 'Ghostbusting' thrill has died down a bit, the Spectrum version of the game has appeared - (letter) Hacker's Guide PROGRAMMING Tuning Up Compose yourself for the musically illiterate's guide to writing music ... Multisearch Multisearch might be somewhat smaller than its predecessor but, as a fully relocatable 'search and replace' utility in just 255 bytes, it too is dedicated to the art of speeding up your Basic programs. READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Mac Man (Stuart Jamieson) - One hundred percent machine code madness - the idea's old, but the program's gold! (letter) BOOKS Paperdata: Machine Code Sprites and Graphics INTERVIEWS Joey (Bug-Byte) ODDS & ENDS The YS Top 20 Forum |
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Issue 13 FRONTLINES Sinclair C5 illegal power-up Moon Cresta (Incentive Software) Talisman (Games Workshop) 4 Computer Buffs TV program (Channel 4) Dk'Tronics acquires bankrupt Currah Micro Products Ket Trilogy competion winner (Incentive Software) Nordic goes into liquidation Spectrum 16k/48k original models phased out (Sinclair Research) QL NEWS Concurrent QL Affairs New graphics packages (Talent, CP Software, Eidersoft), STOP Microdrive compression utility (Digitex), CP/M-80 card (QL+), CP/M packages & RAM expansion (Quest Automatic), New QL games books. ADVICE Hacking Away Scuba Dive, Fred, Sabre Wulf, Kokotoni Wilf. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Alien, Airwolf, Blue Max, Brian Bloodaxe, Bristles, Buggy Blast, Cyclone, Galaxian, Gift from the Gods, The Great Space Race, Hellfire, Learning with Leeper, Pole Position, Skyranger, System 15000. Spectrum Adventures After a hard day's night with Heroes of Karn and Curse of the Seven Faces, Clive Gifford dials the YS Adventure Helpline for the latest tricks 'n' tactics. Valkyrie 17, The Hulk, Hampstead, Snowball, Lords of Time, Colditz, Eye of Bain, Adventure Quest. SOFTWARE FEATURES Return of the Heroes Sequels Kong Strikes Back and Hunchback II have been two years in the making. Was the wait worthwhile? April Showers Dave Nicholls and Sue Denham set out to track down the missing room in Jet Set Willy. HARDWARE FEATURES Microdrivin' A J Unwin offers tricks and tips on how to get around a number of seemingly insurmountable hassles experienced by Microdrive users. PROGRAMMING Big Deal! Machine code magician, Toni Baker presents an amazing program to draw playing cards anyhwere on-screen - just like that! MegaDemo 1985 is the year of YS MegaBasic! And here for your delectation is a demonstration of its capabilities, courtesy of YS MegaBasic author, Mike Leaman. Screen Scrunger READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Here's a double helping of listings to satisfy your appetite for good Spectrum programming, courtesy of Colin Barnsley (Squirler) and P J Simmons (Mystery Box). INTERVIEWS David Heelas (Dk'Tronics) ODDS & ENDS The YS Top 20 |
Issue 14 FRONTLINES Gyron (Firebird) Avalon completed (Hewson Consultants) Nordic says they're still in business ADVICE Hacking Away Pyjamarama, Sky Ranger, River Rescue, Zaxxon, Sir Lancelot, Zombie Zombie, Manic Miner. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Attack of the Empire, Bruce Lee, Halaga, Moon Cresta, Project Future, Psychedelia, Raid over Moscow, Sam Stoat, Stay Kool, Subterranean Stryker, Technician Ted, Toy Bizarre, Viking Raiders, Wizard's Lair, Wriggler. Spectrum Adventures Confidential, Emerald Isle, The Illustrator, Talisman. SOFTWARE FEATURES A Space Oddity Yes, Alien 8 has arrived, the new megagame from Ultimate, and shock, horror, it looks almost identical to the last megagame from Ultimate, Knight Lore - Hacker's Guide HARDWARE FEATURES Patching Up the 'Drives Andrew Pennell shows you how to recover unloadable files from that Microdrive cartridge that's giving you hassle. Speed Trials Kwikload, Sprint, Microdrive, Wafadrive. (letter) PROGRAMMING It's a Cracker The true hacker enjoys the battle of wits with the protective programmer. Terry Bulfib tips the scales your way. READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power You can place a safe bet on A M Grant's version of Patience and B Hobson's Powerman won't be shuffling off just yet! (letter), (letter) BOOKS Paperdata: The Spectrum Operating System INTERVIEWS Tim Hartnell (Interface Publications) ODDS & ENDS The YS Top 20 (letter) Forum |
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Issue 15 FRONTLINES Falcon Patrol 2 (Virgin Games) The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Mosaic Publishing) April Showers competition winners ADVICE Hacking Away Monty Mole, Horace and the Spiders, Horace Goes Skiing, Stop the Express, Arcadia, Frank N Stein, Adventure Quest. Hack Free Zone Everyone's a Wally. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury A Day in the Life, Brian Jacks Superstar Challenge, Bug Eyes, Death Star Interceptor, Dragontorc, The Dukes of Hazzard, Fantastic Voyage, Finders Keepers, Formula One, Grand National, Mighty Magus, Ski Star 2000, Spy Hunter, World Series Baseball. Spectrum Adventures Gremlins. SOFTWARE FEATURES Painting by Numbers The Artist, Leonardo, Lightmagic, PaintPlus. Interior Decorating OK, we'll come clean - we did know where the extra room in Jet Set Willy was. Space Ace Master the techniques of time travelling in Starion, the stunning new 3D space game from Melbourne House. Hacker's Guide HARDWARE FEATURES Hot Heads If you're not that flush, but you need a printer, stay cool and go thermal. Alphacom 32, Brother HR-5, Epson-40, Floyd 40. PROGRAMMING Pic 'n' Mix Pick up a handful of your old screen pics and mix them together to create some stunning new visuals. Snap, Crackle & Pop Prepare to have your ears pierced by L A Privett's program on the MegaBasic PLAY command. MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES Mastermind READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Arcade addicts'll go headlong for the Gold Rush (M Rai) and Shooting Gallery (Adam Leonard), and all you clever clogs'll want to Drop Out (B Herivel & M Rapps) and TasCount (Malcolm Paknadel) is one utility that'll have you out for the count! BOOKS Paperdata The Hacker's Handbook (Century), The Hacker's Handbook (Longman). ODDS & ENDS Go for Gold & All Time Top 10 Chart |
Issue 16 FRONTLINES Interface III (Evesham Micro Centre) Jet Set Willy 2 (Software Projects) Quackshot (Creative Sparks) Superman / Rockford's Riot / Quake Minus One (Monolith / Beyond Software) Dragontorc completed (Hewson Consultants) Your Spectrum DigiTape ADVICE Hacking Away Pinball Wizard, Finders Keepers, Atic Atac, Lunar Jetman, Jet Set Willy, Wizard's Lair, Microdrive conversions. Hack-Free Zone No hacks please ... only gamesplayers can go for it. Plus our shock, horror, probe on the Rocky Horror Show! Alien 8, Knight Lore, Dragontorc. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Archon, Arnhem, The Biz, Chaos, Chuckie Egg 2, Confuzion, Flak, Give my regards to Broad Street, Gyron, Icicle Works, Jonah Barrington's Squash, Komplex, Snaffle. Spectrum Adventures D'you keep suffering death by misadventure? Help's here. Plus full reviews of Funhouse and Ashkeron. Lords of Time, Mountains of Ket, Snowball. SOFTWARE FEATURES Firefighters Light the blue touch paper and stand back for ... Shadowfire, the new firework from Beyond. Hacker's Guide PROGRAMMING 3D Daze Mr MegaBasic, Mike Leaman shows another side to his talents with a program that'll transport you into the third dimension. (letter) Flash Moves Chris Somerville takes a look at loading screens and shows you how to turn them into moving pictures. READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Miner Mania (Freddie Lewis), Copy Right and Edit Key (Peter Featherstone & Kevin Swift) BOOKS Paperdata: The Century Programming Course for the Spectrum ODDS & ENDS Go for Gold & All Time Top 10 Chart Forum |
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Issue 17 FRONTLINES Polyprint multilingual interface (Cambridge Microelectronics) Bobby Charlton's Soccer (DACC) (letter) GLASS (Quicksilva) Komplex City (Legend) Ocean's new releases - Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Daley Thompson's Supertest, Street Hawk. Style graphics package (Saga) The Great Space Race offer (Legend) Robert Maxwell interest in Sinclair Research ADVICE Hacking Away Monty Mole, Android, Ghostbusters, Mutant Monty, Cavern Fighter, Black Hawk, River Rescue, Sky Ranger, Zombie Zombie, Giant's Revenge, Halls of the Things, Mugsy. Give Us A Clue Sherlock, Gremlins, Valkyrie 17. Hack-Free Zone Plus a hag-ridden review of Cauldron. Cavelon, Pyjamarama, Shadowfire, Knight Lore, Dragontorc, Bruce Lee, Evil Dead. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury 911TS, Battle for Midway, The Bulge, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Don't Buy This, Don't Panic, Fahrenheit 3000, Falcon Patrol 2, Herbert's Dummy Run, Match Fishing, Nodes of Yesod, Pipeline / SOS, Tapper, Video Pool. SOFTWARE FEATURES The Generation Game Games Designer, HURG. (letter) Celtic Ranger Prepare for a blast of the blarney from your man in Ireland, Chris Cockayne as he casts an emerald eye over Dun Darach, the new wan from Gargoyle Games. I Spy ... Bond is back - as if you hadn't noticed! And now he's making his software debut in Domark's latest game based on the new film, A View to a Kill. Hacker's Guide (letter) PROGRAMMING Just a Tick Toni Baker's back with a program that lets you have up to sixteen interrupt routines running at once. (letter), (letter) The 3D 3 There's a turbo-charger for extra smoothness, an on-screen 3D sprite designer plus the promised conversion to YS MegaBasic. MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES Escape from Castle Rathbone READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Ding-dong! Quazzi calling all you computer campanologists (R C Coombs). BOOKS Paperdata: Winning at the Races Using Your Computer ODDS & ENDS Go for Gold & All Time Top 10 Chart |
Issue 18 FRONTLINES Hypersports control pad (Konami) The Goonies (US Gold) Red Moon (Level 9) Rupert the Bear (& the Toymaker's Party) (Quicksilva) Zorro (US Gold) Clive Sinclair in Jane comic strip (The Mirror) Gyron competition winner (Firebird) ADVICE Hacking Away Manic Miner, Defenda, Project Future, Ad Astra, Jack and the Beanstalk, Road Racer, Invasion of the Body Snatchas, Chuckie Egg 2, Astro Blaster. (letter) Give Us a Clue Urban Upstart, Hampstead, System 15000. Hack-Free Zone Plus the mad, mad world of Spy vs Spy! Beach Head, Starion, Dun Darach. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Buck Rogers, Frank Bruno's Boxing, GLASS, Go to Hell, Hyper Sports, Knockout, Metabolis, Nick Faldo's Open, Nonterraqueous, One on One, Paws, Poker, Quackshot, Rocco, Tales of the Arabian Nights. (letter) SOFTWARE FEATURES Will Meet Again Jet Set Willy 2. Dam 'n' Blast Now you can join the valiant airmen of 617 Squadron in US Gold's new game Dambusters Intelligence Test Peter Freebrey takes you into The Fourth Protocol the adventure based on Frederick Forsyth's novel. HARDWARE FEATURES Bits 'n' Pieces A/D and D/A boards, EPROM blower, Input and Output ports, MicroSlot, Printer interface, RGB monitor adaptor, Sound board, SP ROM uploader, VTX 5000 modem. PROGRAMMING The Ghostwriter Have you made good your Escape from Castle Rathbone yet? Either way you probably never noticed the ghostly presence of the code that created the adventure. Hidden Extras If you reckon you know all there is to know about Z80 machine code, prepare for a shock. As well as the documented instructions, there are over a hundred that have been hidden away. MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES New ROM Antics Ever since the new Interface 1 ROMs appeared, there's been a lot of confusion over converting from the old to the new. READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Program Power Get Organised! - We've pulled out all the stops to bring you this real time organ program, Recorder (Keith Bowden). Opportunity Knocks For Eric Verland, opportunity has knocked. His game Bounzai leads us off on the YS search for six of the best. Now follow that! BOOKS Paperdata: The Spectrum Shadow ROM Disassembly ODDS & ENDS Go for Gold & All Time Top 10 Chart |
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Issue 19 FRONTLINES Interface 007 program copier (ZX-Guaranteed) Mikro-Plus / Shadow of the Unicorn (Mikro-Gen) Astroclone (Hewson Consultants) Ballblazer (Activision) Blast BASIC compiler (Oxford Computer Systems) MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) on-line (Firebird) Starquake (Bubble Bus) Copyright Amendment Bill becomes law Robert Maxwell pulls out of Sinclair deal ADVICE Hacking Away Airwolf, Planetoids, Booty, Ah Diddums, Orion, Zip Zap, Hidden messages in Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Psytron, Bug Eyes, Fall Guy. Hack Free Zone Meet the scourge of the hackers, Hex Loader, with tips a-plenty on Knight Lore. Dun Darach, Avalon. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Abu Simbel - Profanation, Action Biker, The Covenant, Dynamite Dan, Juggernaut, On the Run, Pole Position, Popeye, Red Arrows, Roland's Rat Race, Southern Belle, Super Pipeline 2, Talos, That's the Spirit. Spectrum Adventures Give Us A Clue for both hapless and hardened adventurers. Witch's Cauldron, Gremlins, Erik the Viking. Plus a double dose of games reviews. Mordon's Quest, Red Moon. SOFTWARE FEATURES Fist Fight Pain is the name of the game. And the game is The Way of the Exploding Fist from Melbourne House. The Big Bang Peter Shaw and Louise Cook welcome you to the Pleasuredome to talk it over ... Frankie goes to Hollywood. Road Runner Vortex's new game, Highway Encounter goes on the road. Hacker's Guide PROGRAMMING Sprite High, No Limit Chris Wood is gonna show you how to create cartoon sized sprites and get 'em moving. Movin 'n' Groovin Andy Pennell has brought to light a spectacular all-action program that'll knock your eyeballs for six. MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES Second Opinion Fortunately, Chris Somerville has come to your rescue with a program that'll help you reach some more definite conclusions. READER'S PROGRAMS Program Power Kitchen Chaos - What's cooking then? It's a high-calorie caper in the kitchen from Christopher Hardy. Opportunity Knocks Macroids - It's Stuart Jamieson with an amazing version of the arcade fave, Asteroids. BOOKS Paperdata: Spectrum Wargaming ODDS & ENDS Forum Go for Gold & All Time Top 10 Chart |
Issue 20 FRONTLINES Art Studio (OCP) The Artist II (Softek) Blade Runner (CRL) Dr Who in the Mines of Terror (Micro Power) Hacker (Activision) I, of the Mask (Electric Dreams) Melbourne House releases Mikro-Plus games (Mikro-Gen) Old Scores (Global Software) Thunderbirds (Firebird) ADVICE Hacking Away Gyron, Jetpac, Monty Mole, Cosmic Cruiser, Digger Dan, Spectral Panic, Sam Spade, Push Off, Wriggler, Manic Miner, Jack and the Beanstalk, Road Racer. Hack Free Zone Dun Darach, Herbert's Dummy Run, Wriggler, Highway Encounter. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Bounty Bob, Bryan Robson's Superleague, Cluedo, Codename MAT 2, Convoy, Cylu, Daley Thompson's Supertest, The Evil Crown, Macadam Bumper, Monopoly, Monty on the Run, St Crippens, Street Hawk, Superbrat. Spectrum Adventures Adventure hints'n'tips plus reviews of Robin of Sherwood and The Secret of St Brides! Sherlock, The Hobbit, Valkyrie 17, Red Moon. SOFTWARE FEATURES Elitism But the rest of you should join Commander David Bishop as he battles his way through the infinite variety of Firebird's Elite. Doomtown Rats YS Pied Pipers, Peter Shaw and Penny Page, have joined The Rats race ... Gothic Horror Fairlight is a land of mystery and magic with a castle that holds as many secrets as Castle Rathbone. Hacker's Guide Two games in the three dimensions - Fairlight and Nightshade. Deadly Nightshade Plague and pestilence, death and destruction. You'll find them all in Ultimate's newie, Nightshade. PROGRAMMING Play It Again, Sam Tony Samuels, has composed a zippa-de-do-da of a music package that'll set your Speccy buzzin'. Shrink Wrapped A YS MegaBasic program that'll shrink your screens and then print them onto a ZX Printer. Out Of All Proportion Normal Speccy printing is ugly, ugly, ugly and boring, boring, boring. Here's shaped crusader Tony 'Slim' Samuels with a pretty neat alternative! READER'S PROGRAMS Opportunity Knocks Shoot Out - Alan Trevartha's machine code revives the traditional shoot'em up down at the OK Corral. BOOKS Paperdata: Z80 Reference Guide ODDS & ENDS Forum Go for Gold & All Time Top 10 Chart |
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Issue 21 FRONTLINES 128k Spectrum launched in Spain (Sinclair Research) Bounces / Enigma Force / Spy vs Spy (Beyond) Costa Capers / Gerry the Germ / Rasputin / Runestone (Firebird HOT) Robin of Sherlock (Silversoft) Scooby Doo in the Castle Mystery (Elite) The Way of the Tiger (Gremlin Graphics) Operation Caretaker azimuth alignment kit (Global Software) Your Spectrum to be replaced by Your Sinclair ADVICE Hacking Away Fairlight, Pheenix, Jet Set Willy, Jumping Jack, Birds and the Bees, Glug Glug, The Empire Strikes Back, Herbert's Dummy Run, Gyron. Hack Free Zone Dun Darach, Pud Pud, Pyjamarama, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Dragontorc, Fairlight. SOFTWARE REVIEWS Joystick Jury Astroclone, Big Ben Strikes Again, Critical Mass, The Custard Kid, Fighting Warrior, The Great Fire of London, Grumpy Gumphrey Supersleuth, Hacker, International Rugby, Marsport, Maze Craze, Orm and Cheep - The Birthday Party, Riddler's Den, Rupert the Bear and the Toymaker's Party, Starquake, World Series Basketball. Spectrum Adventures Erik the Viking, Eureka, Sherlock, Warlord, Gremlins. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Terrormolinos. Better, Bigger, Faster Blast, Colt, Mcoder III. SOFTWARE FEATURES Impossible Dream US Gold's new blockbuster ... Impossible Mission ... Rasputin Rambo Beyond Midnight Sorderon's Shadow is a major new epic, complete with a cast of thousands and glorious landscaped sets. HARDWARE FEATURES The Spectrum With No Name The 128K Speccy hits the streets in Spain this month but we still don't know if and when we'll see it over here. READER'S PROGRAMS Opportunity Knocks Blast off to the 21st century with Conor O'Neill's entry in the Opportunity Knocks fame trail ... The Grid BOOKS Paperdata: Advanced Z80 Machine Code Programming ODDS & ENDS Go for Gold & All Time Top 10 Chart |
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