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| Frontlines | 5 | No news is good news - except here. All our news is good! Has Maxwell's silver hammer fallen? Are you for the chopper? Have you set your sights on a Gunshot? Will you be completely MUDdled? How magic is Wizard? Whose Zoid are you anyway? Find out in Frontlines!
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| Advice | 6 | Microdrivin' Shadow ROM 'Nonsense in BASIC' error when loading non-auto-run program from another, How to resolve the 'unstoppable tape' problem, How to replace loose tape, Some cartridges produced with oxide on wrong side. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Hacking Away Prepare to POKE where you've never POKEd before! Don't hide your hacking hints - hurl them at Andy Pennell ... Airwolf, Planetoids, Booty, Ah Diddums, Orion, Zip Zap, Hidden messages in Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Psytron, Bug Eyes, Fall Guy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | From the Hip Dec/Hex converter in If.1 ROM, Displaying a variable in an INPUT statement, Miner Mania keyboard problems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Hard Facts Having hassles with your hardware? Steve Adams will rush to the rescue if you tell him your troubles. Write to him at Hard Facts ... Stylus for Sinclair printer, Zeus Assembler and Kempston i/f incompatibility, Loading errors, How to transfer DIMensioned strings to/from Beta disk drive, Connecting Spectrum to video camera, Connecting Brother printer to If.1, Using Dragon keyboard on Spectrum, Fitting ZX81 printer to Spectrum, VTX 5000 modem crashes with If.1. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 64 | Hack Free Zone Meet the scourge of the hackers, Hex Loader, with tips a-plenty on Knight Lore. Ger-reat! A big hand for our child of the computer age, Hex Loader who's commandeered the column that beats the cheats. Over to you, Hex ... Dun Darach, Avalon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software Reviews | 41 | Joystick Jury It's all change again this month as we say goodbye to the irrepressible Roger Willis - you haven't heard the last of him though, you can be sure of that - and welcome Dougie Bern in his place. He joins the other two joystick jurors, Rick Robson and Ross Holman as they pass judgement on all the latest games.
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| 38 | 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. Here are two new offerings from the pioneers of the adventure game. Peter Freebrey checks 'em out to see if they're still ahead of the field.
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| Software Features | 17 | Fist Fight Pain is the name of the game. And the game is The Way of the Exploding Fist from Melbourne House. Dougie Bern has been playing it for kicks! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 24 | The Big Bang Pssst. Hey, you. Wanna become a hundred per cent real person? NO, this ain't no jibe. Peter Shaw and Louise Cook welcome you to the Pleasuredome to talk it over ... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 32 | Road Runner Beep, beep! Vortex's new game, Highway Encounter goes on the road. Join Ross Holman as he follows the Highway code ... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 35 | Hacker's Guide There's always someone digging up the road. Well, this time it's Dave Nicholls who's taken the tarmac off and started roadworks on Highway Encounter! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Programming | 26 | Sprite High, No Limit Calling all loony tunesmiths! Chris Wood is gonna show you how to create cartoon sized sprites and get 'em moving. Well, he's smarter than the average programmer ... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 48 | Movin 'n' Groovin Lights, action, music ... Our own top of the pops programmer, Andy Pennell, has brought to light a spectacular all-action program that'll knock your eyeballs for six. All you have to supply is the music! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous Features | 36 | Second Opinion So, you used to be indecisive, but now you're not so sure, eh? Fortunately, Chris Somerville has come to your rescue with a program that'll help you reach some more definite conclusions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reader's Programs | 52 | Program Power Kitchen Chaos - What's cooking then? It's a high-calorie caper in the kitchen from Christopher Hardy. So, if you're hungry for a great game, this one certainly has the recipe for success! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 55 | Opportunity Knocks Macroids - Who's that knocking on the door? It's Stuart Jamieson with an amazing version of the arcade fave, Asteroids. Prepare for piles of fun ... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Books | 13 | Paperdata
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| Competitions | 21 | Saga Keyboard Compo - 101 Uses ... There must be 101 uses for a rubber Speccy keyboard. Come up with just one and win a Saga keyboard. There must be a hundred and one uses for a dead Speccy keyboard - well, they're not much cop when it comes to the job they were designed to do. Now's the time to put your thinking caps on and bounce a few ideas in our direction. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Odds & Ends | 3 | YS Supersavers Cut the coupons, cut the cost! Save over £80 with these great YS offers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | Forum Hurrgh ... ergh ... it's yer postbag, mate ... eeeghaaah ... Make a postman unhappy! The writing's on the wall. Just peel it off and send it to Forum ... And there's a bundle of free software waiting for this month's Star Letter!
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| 22 | YS Softwares You wanna save more money. Then buy your software through YS. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | Go for Gold & All Time Top 10 Chart It's the mug-shot slot for YS high scorers! On your marks, get set ... Go! The race is now on to find the YS Champion Gamesplayer of the Year. Join the fun and strike out for the YS Games Gold Medal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 | YS MegaBasic Beef up your Basic with the YS Miracle MegaBasic. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||