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Editor on Amstrad Action for an amazing four years Ollie has probably the greatest artistic bent since John Inman Paul Tudor • Art Assistant Paul is the most recent member on the Amstrad Action team and, quite frankly, he thinks we are all quite mad Since he is, after all, an impartial, objective observer, we are inclined to suspect he may be right Elaine Brooks • Ad Manager Elaine is Amstrad Action' s... you?) Name Address Send your payment to- Amstrad Action Cheat Mode Book Offer Freepost Somerton TELEPHONE HOTLINE Somerset If you simply can't wait for the post, you can order your copy of Cheat Mode II by credit TA11 7BR card Simply phone 0458 74011 • /X COMPETITION Amstrad Action' s mega This was a tricky one How on earth do you top something like the Amstrad Action Fourth Birthday Competition we ran... t Amstrad going bust? My friend and I both own Amstrad CPC464 computers My friend's computer has just been sent for repair,, but he was told that they cannot get the parts need because Amstrad are not producing any more parts or computers To make it worse, he was told that we won't be able to buy software and anything else by the new year as Amstrad are going out of business ing across the room] Amstrad. .. will be a cover-mounted cassette The reason I am writing is that when Amstrad readers have asked you if you could put a cassette on the front of Amstrad Action you said that if you did this it would take the price of the magazine up to around £2.95 Commodore magazine with cover cassette for £1.95 and if you did the same for Amstrad Action it would cost us £2.95? Keith Grimsditch Reddish, Stockport A... 2 Your address (well, just as important really) OK, and now for the Amstrad Action questions (a) Guatemala Yup, we want to make sure you know all about (b) Raisin And don't forget that the closing date is October Britain's best Amstrad mag: (c) Marrow the 18th (d) Sultana 3 Which of the following has NOT been an (e) Iguana Amstrad Action editor? (There may be more than one.) PLUS The sixth winner... off the face of the earth After editing Amstrad Action in its early days, he moved on to co-editing ACE with Steve Cooke Since then he's become a man of mystery Bob Wade has taken up pin-selling at Bath Spa railway station Bob turned his back on the glamourous world of publishing when he realised that the pay was virtually non-existent Andy Wilton was Amstrad Action' s first Tech Ed Later on he too moved... Gilham has been Art Editor on almost every single Future magazine since his days on AA He now resides peacefully on Commodore Format AMSTRAD ACTION 19 /X BIRTHDAY GAME Magmania - the official Amstia Your job is simple You have to put together an entire issue of Amstrad Action, and get it past the publisher's office The first player to do it wins • Your issue has to consist of one Games Review, one Tips... buy one - Just remember, for all the latest and best cartridge, tape and disk reviews, programming tips, game cheats, hardware news etc, Amstrad Action' s the one you want! skill has since been honed to the point of nonexistence and he may well become one of Amstrad Action' s most valuable assets, possessing five A-Levels (true!) and a three-legged gerbil the CPC He has been responsible for such epic... cassette-based system, and feeling left out 28 AMSTRAD ACTION pass on copies of programs that contain original, copyrighted sections of code This encompasses demos that include the the music code from commercial games This means that legal action could be taken against any individual or library that began distributing copies of these demos The type of action taken could range from a simple warning... failing to back Amstrad computers is their maker Amstrad Amstrad, why have you forsaken us? Simon Griffiths Romford, Essex AA: Many publishers already publish 'two versions' of a game The software will 'sense' which machine it's running on and adjust accordingly Domark's Klax, for example, features additional backgrounds on the 6128, and other games offer 128K-ers extra features As for Amstrad 'forsaking' . on Commodore Format. AMSTRAD ACTION 19 /X BIRTHDAY GAME Magmania - the official Amstia Your job is simple. You have to put together an entire issue of Amstrad Action, and get it past. with the sales of the 464 Plus and 6128 Plus. Most of all, though, Amstrad Action will contin- ^j^v ue to cater for all Amstrad owners. That means CPC owners, Plus owners and console owners. . CARTRIDGE? The software houses give their reactions to the new Amstrad console and Plus machines L ast month we broke the news about the long-awaited new Amstrad computers - the GX4000 games console,