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SPRITES ALIVE TURBO-CHARGE YOUR AMSTRAD WITH GLENCO SOFTWARE /X REACTION •Fantastic plea Please help me! I urgently need Fantastic Voyage on disk! M Segar 18 Ladyewood Road Wallasey Merseyside L44 9BS This year like any insane person I went to the PC Show As I own an Amstrad I popped off to ye olde Amstrad stand to ask a few questions: Q) Why does the Speccy have a... see that Amstrad has scotched rumours about the CPC being scrapped Nice too to have to eat my words! Last month I complained at Amstrad for not promoting the CPC, but I learn now that the company is to invest £600,000 in a nationwide advertising campaign Broadley Brickbats If you've got anything to say about Ms Broadley s column, or the opinions therein, write to: Broadley Brickbats, Amstrad Action, ... the show's thunder by finally showing its Console/Home entertainment system - once rumoured to be on Amstrad' s shopping list Although the machine itself arrived a day late and was strictly off-limits, it was still quite a head-turner The word on the street was once AMSTRAD ACTION 17 SHOW REPORT that Amstrad was backing this little baby, but the recent revelations about Mr Sugar's own plans for a console... determined to think is contracting, we were rather pleased Suit yourself, though •Raving mad In the October Reaction pages, Derek Wong from Surrey said that your Raves and Mastergames are rarely successful in the Gallup charts Firstly, this is not true Treasure Island Dizzy and AMSTRAD ACTION 11 /X REACTION CRUEL BEAST I must be one of the people Judge Maxton (AA49) would want to put away for excessive cruelty... manufacturers Established firms such as Amor and HiSoft were in attendance, but the newer companies on the whole shied away - possibly because of the multi-format, multi-purpose nature of the show 16 AMSTRAD ACTION Amstrad the usual star of the show, took a back seat while others stole the limelight Apple, for example, unveiled its new Macintosh portable in an uncharacteristic display of glitz The new machine... claimed, was not intended to insult the punters, but was a gesture of dissatisfaction with the show's organisation Amstrad was more than furious with the recent totally unsubstansiated rumours of the CPC's demise To prove the point there was a positive pride of CPCs on display, backed up with talk from the Here now, then, Amstrad boys about is the AA guide to a new promotional who was selling campaign... Command in tape version for the Amstrad Wouldn't it be better for all us readers if mail order companies were allowed to only advertise games they actually have in stock?" Yet we now know that this game is not being released for the 464 or tape machines at all Yet these companies saw fit to advertise that the game was available for the 464 There must have been 14 AMSTRAD ACTION Good point Mr Hall, and... Double Dragons Rainbow A S is returning to T the CPC fold, and while its stand had little on display there was plenty being promised for later in the year Rainbow Arts produces Amstrad software solely for export because of 16 AMSTRAD ACTION With Continental Circus and Shinobi as openers Virgin could hardly have asked for a better start to the games industry's silly were first previewed last Christmas) Skateball... your first program The package requires that you draw out • Pac-mania! A basic framework of the Atari classic is included AMSTRAD ACTION 11 It's when you do this that you realise just how powerful Sprites Alive really is A relatively short BASIC listing produces a great deal of action Most of the processing is handled by the extra commands with your BASIC program just serving as a means of linking . the lads on Amstrad Action will be doings our damnedest to clean up the mail-order scene. 14 AMSTRAD ACTION AVAILABLE ON CBM 64/128 CASSETTE & DISK SPECTRUM CASSETTE AMSTRAD CASSETTE. text". & > AMSTRAD ACTION 11 /X REACTION CRUEL BEAST the keyboard chip because the effect was like someone randomly hitting the keyboard. Pretty, but useless. The Amstrad Kwik-Fit. Australia AMSTRAD ACTION 13 Broadley Brickbats If you've got anything to say about Ms Broadley s column, or the opinions therein, write to: Broadley Brickbats, Amstrad Action, 4