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BRITAIN'S LEADING MAGAZINE FOR THE AMSTRAD CPC 464 • 664 • 6128 EXPOSED! The truth behind Forgotten Worlds AND Stormlord AT LAST! \ Your best J book guide \ Hardware projects, tutorials, programming, technical help, Type-Ins, buyers guide, The Look, Helpline - and much more! [...]... Afterthought Then you can put mots i§ Action Test (there's an average of ten games reviews per moatfc Not a lot is it?} awl more Cheat Mode.m I also think readers would be interested in a new section entitled Arcade Action, where t l ^ c a a ^ j'J mmzmMMMmmMM their conversion lor the CPC A.A Trieu (14 and three quarters ~note the initials!) Holkjway, London mmm mm AMSTRAD ACTION Anyway, in short, is there... Freescape game with 666 levels? Id AMSTRAD ACTION Amstrad have definitely discontinued the guide to the CPC's - Scft968, the Firmware Manual This doesn't have an ISBN, and so doesn't, really qualify as a book Nevertheless it was (and is, to the lucky people who have a copy) an indispensable book for e machine code programmer's The firmware ca.ls were carefully set up by Amstrad to be available at any lime... and you could earn yourself £20! Send entries - together with a short note telling us which art package you used, and an SAE if you want the pictures back - on disk or tape to: AMSTRAD ACTION Pat McDonald's The Look Amstrad Action Future Publishing 4 Queen St Bath BA11EJ siMji • 'C'mon g u y s send in you LOOK entries!'says Roger Rabbit, excellent f a i " |y depicted by Paul Fong of Liverpool ... and (if possible) the ISBN Send them in to Pat McDonald is a nana Amstrad Action 4 Queen St Bath B A 1 1 E J disks when you get a disk drive) a v e the lucky contenders here On the other hand, if you don't mind reading a non-CPC specific book, there are an inordinate number covering every language under the sun The only snag is that the Amstrad implementations are often slightly different to the 'standard"... switching it to (he other position • Mr Lawson, hating every minute +Aaarrgh-Type I thought I'd write to Amstrad Action to see if any of your readers had experienced similar pioblems as I have with the disk version of R-Type Firstly not a problem really, just a gripe the instruction book makes no mention of the Amstrad in its loading instructions or the keyboard/joystick controls Secondly, when I plug the joystick... programmer of CPM+ rather than the naive user Amstrad Book 1: Starting Basic b y S e a n Gray a n d Eddy Maddix G l e n t o p P u b l i s h e r s Ltd ISBN 0 9 0 7 7 9 2 39 1, £ 4 9 5 Amstrad Book 2: Sound, Graphics & Data Handling b y S e a n Gray G l e n t o p P u b l i s h e r s Ltd ISBN 0 9 0 7 7 9 2 40 5 £ 5 9 5 Well written they may be, but t h e Amstrad manuals, for many people, lack detail... can b e highly recommended amstrMB Using DR Logo on the Amstrad b y Martin S i m s G l e n t o p Publ Ltd ISBN 0 9 0 7 7 9 2 56 1, £8.95 feel that much could b e done w i t h Logo if more people k n e w about it T h e Amstrad manuals explained a fair bit about the lang u a g e , but the presentation and scale of this book is so much better The Amstrad Disc Companion by Simon Williams S i g m a P r e... SOFTWARE VOUCHER for one lucky winner every month! So get scribbling - or printing - to: Reaction, AA, 4 Queen St, BathBAl IE J But no SAEs, please: we really and truly are too busy to reply personally to correspondence Steve AA PS Address all mail order and subscription enquiries to: Special Offers, Amstrad Action, The Old Barn, Somerton, Somerset TA117PY We can only pass on your letters, changes... the other as a Silicon disk A MS TRA1 D ACTION \Wmm / X BOOKS In Print N e e d a m u s e t o h e l p y o u o u t ? PAT M C D O N A L D h o l d s forth on the CPC book scene Although i t ' s true that t h e b e s t w a y to learn a subject is from a t e a c h e r w h o is experienced in the subject, books are a very important source for hard information on the Amstrad. These days though, there a r e problems... wearing our mag with pride and thrusting ii into someone's face and smiling a: the same time Please print this - not so that you'll lose readers, bur so ths: you don t end up like Computing with the Amstrad Amstrad Computet User and finally Auilix! You need to be a: the top and unfortunately i:i my eyes, and prob ably other people's too you're not! Carl Harrison, Hengoed, Mid Glamorgan AA: Well Cari what . Jenny Reid Christine S'.acey. Amsirad Action, The Old Barn. Brunei Pre-cinct Somerton, Somerset TA11 7PY » 0458 74011 Clare Bates, Amstrad Action. , The Old Barn. Brunei Precinct. Somerton,. on the Supreme Challenge compilation. In my opinion, it is an excellent game mm AMSTRAD ACTION msm /X REACTION • Elite- one of the classics with ultimate realism and game- play. but alas,. STORMLORD Cecco is back, hotter than ever! THE ACTION BEGINS ON 38! FRONT END NEWS-LETTERS Hot off the press - all the news that's fit to print! REACTION Outrageous! Page after page of your