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ISSUE No. 115 APRIL '95 £2.99 • Software at a snip! Grab yourself a CPC bargain • Get the most out of your Vidi Digitiser! • Latest PD news and reviews! *ODUu 0i 3 What's happening CPC news. Also, 'at home' with AA and AA readers on the Internet. 4 Reaction Letters, even the odd sentence. 5 Serious action! We've got it taped. For you. 7 Amscene Directory The AA guide to who's who and where. Want to be in the know? Start here. 15 Classifieds You've got it, someone, somewhere, wants it. You want it? Someone's got it. 20 Competition! A BrunWord Elite Mark II ROM Module needs a new owner. Could it be you? 24 Back issues Indispensable and inexpensive. If you missed out the first time all is not lost. Serious stuff K> Basically BASIC File fiesta. Three types of CPC files. 16 Assembly line Richard Fairhurst goes loopy - all in the interests of CPC research, of course. 19 Hardware You can screen and screen until you're sick, using a VWi Digitiser. Richard Wildey calls the shots. 21 Techy torum Is the heat on? Richard Fairhurst can advise. Need to improve your connections? Richard can help. 6 Public image Does Finger Print make its mark? Do Rambase v4.6 and Dave's House count for anything? Keith Woods is the judge. 9 Further reading News and reviews from the CPC 'zine scene. Also, 'A Rough Guide to Pictures' AA116 on sale: Thursday, 20 April 1995 ABC 15,168 Mertxr olIfeAirfit Butaj d Crojlrtai APRIL '95 ISSUE 1 1 5 BrunWord ROM On y< ipe The Ultimate Sprite Searcher Graphically challenged? Show what you mean by adding pictures to your plots. Designed for disc users but tape types can use it, too. Whether you have 128K, 64K or the multiface 128K or 6K versions, no matter! Make your programs action-packed and image- - j infested with t" ^^ TUSS! Turn to page 5 now! RtititittijmiM nsfe. Spaghetti Western Get a Clint in your eye when you turn sharp shooter in an all-time classic. Never mind pumping iron, it's bullets you need to shift! Cyberboy An a-maze-ing race wasting ghosties and popping pills in 'probably the most difficult Pacman game you've ever played.' Can Aah . n , t ^ you handle it? Don't bo foolod. http://Wivw.futurefiet.co.uk/ this is the front page of the Future Publishing WWW site with inks into the home pages of all the Future magazines. You can also find your way to the home page of AA reader K.E.WThacker at httpy/Www.cm.cf.ac.uKAJser?K.E.W/Amstrad or that of AA fan 'bhip'. (If you are bemused by the above information refer back to 'Get the message'. AA105.) H Hard core? Hard stance _ _ _ Worried about the proliferation of AUbUlktfO pornography among PD libraries or commercial software outlets? Then ask if your library is a member of Watchdog-8 or PSD (Professional Standards -or Distribution). Watchdog-8 is a new voluntary scheme for the software industry, it is run by the people at Prism PD but is 'unbiased' and independent of that company says a spokesman. It is based on the P$0, the largest official watchdog for the all format computer industry. The PSD works alongside Trading Standards and with the computer crime divisions of county constabularies and with New Scotland Yard. "Rie PSD aims to remove the spread of pornographic software in tv/o ways: to make sure that mail orcer companies clearly label material that isn't suitable fcr children so there are 'no unpleasant surprises i-i the post* said a spokesman; and to pass to the police, details of companies suspected of dealing in child pornography, for example. To join Watchdog-8 software companies complete an appVcation form. If all is in order, the company making the application receives a logo to use on its stationery. PSD John Dudley k 01621 778778. Watch dos-8,13 Rodney Close. Rueby CV22 7HJ. FUTURE MUSIC'S •BiaHHll WACCI for free CampurSoft is offering a free copy of WACCt to new The SOUnd of music*** customers buying software. No minimum purchase Wait to make music, sweet, sweet music? Then is necessary, come along to MEMS billed as: the ultimate event to leam what's hip 'n' happening in the world of music DES yOU Or DEStt't yOU? and sound technology and an ace place for CampurSoft is offering two free MS prograns to computer fans, too.' DES ROM owners. Send a (Ssc, SAE/jiffy 8ag and At MEMS, you'll find demos and displays from state whether you want the screen grabber Camera the workfs leading kit manufacturers and also from or the tracking sector editor Disc Editor. (The latter the distributors. is very powerful and isn't suitable for beginners.) B are Friday, 21 to nl and the place. No Waiting %'Wm ion. Tickets cost The eight socket (ycu can upgrade to a 15 socket or £8 on the version, later) ROMbox from CampurScft enacts tad Action have instant access to your program/programs so not give away to only does it save yoj time but it reduces wear on readers!. your hard drive, too All you have A ROMbox is a program encoder on a chip so to do is tell us you only need to access your disc when saving or which tube line loading a particular datafrie. p |8 §| Olympta is on. Note that to work with a ROMbox 311CPC Plus But hurry - machines require a peripheral adaptor (not available to get the from CampurSoft). Price £35 pSus £2 ' winners' tickets CampurSoft 10 Mcintosh Court. Wellpark. Glasgow to them on time G31 2HW 0141 554 4735 Fax * 0141 227 4486 receive your 3-incll discs for Sale answers by Original Maxell and Amsoft 3-inch d;scs for sale, £25 Monday, 10 (incl p&p) for ten discs. CampurSoft has received a April- new consignment. Numbers are, however, limited to Ticket hotunc: ten discs per person. From CampurSoft. n oi369 707888. (For contact information see above.) Coming to a _____ PC near you fa^lgig World Wide Web is the ; liveliest, trendies! place to Hr^W^MI be on the internet (that W^^JjA-^ source of information and W T ijuf jj opinions that disbelievers y^^^U treat with the scepticism some doctors reserve for HSBEfiS complaints of PMT or ME.) While you can't access 11 • i! with your CPC the floods — "^=1 of e mail 'cceived since we I li5«" pubSshed tfce AA Internet I I ' • address stow that marry of IV you use college resources to taxi along the j Informatics Superhighway, aa u on The oftoal AA site is at now ^ httpV/Vrtw.futurenet.co.uk/ n«H See computing/ 'Coming to amstradac ion.html. a PC near Howeverjf you start at you', left. Contributions are only accepted on the basis of full assignment of copyright to Future Publishing AH letters submitted are assumed to be for publication. We take caro to ensure that everything wo publish is accurate, but cannot be liable for any errors or omissions. No part of this publication may bo reproduced In any form without, written permission. Amstrad Action recognises all copyrights contained inthin this issue. Where possible we have acknowledged the copyright holder. Please feel freo to contact us if we have failed to recognise your copyright - He mill be happy to correct any oversight Ad Sales Executive Rob Bennett Publisher Simon Stansftcld Joint Managing Director Greg Ingham Chairman Nick Alexander Production Clair Booth/Jaync Owen Ad Design Cherry Coad Circulation Manager Jon Bicktey Amstrad Action Future Publishing, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2BW » 01225 442244 Fax 01225 446019 E-mail aa@futurenet.co.uk NOTE: Please do not ring the office for ( advice. We can only answer your questions through the pages of the magazine. Please send written enqwries to one of the addresses above. © Future Publishing Ltd 1995 Amstrad Action is an independent publication. The company producing it has no connection with Amstrad pic. We cannot guarantee to return material submitted, nor can n enter into personal correspondence. We . . . - . • f. . M - . * - . . • J. 'la || ij m - 11JW w oie niyn w co^t any numidi vwnaiTO in reasons of space and clarity. Editor Karen Levell Production Editor Rebecca Lack Art Editor Rob Pengilley Printed in the UK by WiSam Gibbons and Sons Ltd. WBenhA West IKdbnds WV13 3XT. April 199S AMSTRAD ACTION Compo winners I want a same winner|$) are: Dave at Demon PD; Jordan Low. Angus; I Russell, Inverness; Stephen Rich. Harpenden: James Pinnias. Spitsby. | Sorry James, had a few problems with your writing!- Ed) Richard Fairhurst wrote Fluff and he also writes for Amstrad Action. The Image Conscious winner is E Johnson.Tamworth. The answer is BARRY. The Alternative Competition winners are: (15 titles) P Adams. Bristol; (5 titles) J Slater. Peterborough; (5 titles) Alasdair Stewart. Ardler by Blairgowrie: (5 titles) Gary Andrews. La'ne. LETTERS Write to us at: Reaction, Amstrad Action, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2BW or you can e-mail us at aa@luturenet.co.uk putting 'reaction 7 in the subject line. Web feat I wrote to you suggesting you create your own AA home page. Now you have and I've had a look at it {see 'Coming to a PC near you', page 3 - Ed). I think it is very good, quite amazing, in fact. Especially all the pictures. So how about covering the following topics • ftp-sites with amstrad epe-software, • information on how to link a epe to a pc • information on the newest and best cpc-emulators and their use? blup@ezinfo.vmsmail.ethz.ch Slowly, slowly please. I was rubbish at fceign languages at school and this looks nothing like English to me. All those letters without vowels, the ampersand Seriously though, blup (that's gotta be foreign or you'd be Herbert cr Rodney), thank you. Though I'm afraid it's Rob, the Art Editor who takes credit for the pctures and the Futurenet On-line Editor who put it on to the Web site. if you icofc at the Amscene/Directory on page 7 you'll see we have added a new section with information about ftp-sites for cpc-reiateti issues. If anyone knows of any more, please write in. AA Perhaps blup can help with the next one - the ch at the end of his e-ma '. address tells me he's in Switzerland which is 'abroad' so German-ating ideas? I go to Germany every summer for my holidays and it would be nice to buy some German games. If you do get games abroad do they still use the name Amstrad? Alasdair Stewart, Dundee It's okay, we're covered Why not lose more AA-produced pages and replacc them with sample fanzines photocopied on to A5 paper and included as a supplement? This would result in a decent-sized magazine, provide free advertising for fanzines and user groups and reduce AA's production costs. I prefer the covertape in its current form - a complete game plus demos/utilities more than justifies the £2.95 cover price. Mark Payne, Redditch Mark, thanks for your concern about our production costs! V.'e are happy to publish details of fanzines and user groups - in fact, any useful CPC info - in our Directory on page 7 which readers can help keep up-to-date by notifying us c; changes or omissions. And. Mark, you asked where to find to buy cr swap games. Our reader ads slo: is the place. This month it's cn page 15.You could probably trade your mother, not just your Music Maker package! Though if you go to MEMS (see page 3) you might be insp'ed to Keep the MM package. Can't vouch for your mother, though! AA Going up I buy your rad mag when I get the money. I've got a 6128 and a GX4000. And I've tons of questions to ask you 1 AA is IR£4 here in Ireland. Will this pricc be going down? 2 Is Trading Post the best place to get carts from? They only have 10. 3 Do no software houses make games any more? You didn't review any in AA112. 4 I missed a few good issues. Have you had the hardware project so the GX4000 can be plugged up to a cassette recorder? 1 You may have the best beer and very sexy accents but you also have 21% VAT on magazines (zero-ratec in the UK). Anyway. Peter you've been bending the truth. I am reliably informed that AA costs IRf.3.92 not 1R£4. Shame on you! And as for going down. Sorry. From this issue AA costs more (wherever you buy it) - 4p in the UK. so around 7p in Eire. 2 Carts are hard to get hold of. Try Wizard and Computer Cavern (see Amscene Directory, page 7). 3 It's down to independent stuff. I'm afraid. 4 AGGGGGGHG: AA (01257) 421915 O.J. SOFTWARE Fast Friendly Service (01257) 421915 STRATEGY/SIMULATION Cass .Disk Offlsi. 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UNO ro O.i.SoiiwAti, 273 Mostr Lia Road, Wkiomtinotom. mb Wioam. Unci wh6 9«h. roinoi;- unhid kihoooh, otoiti ovck CS.OO roil r*tt (ototit unoii CS.OO add 5Or). rosTAt}t:- ovi«ma» (Ai«) add Cl.OO m itim sorrwAit (patmint camk d«a»t/ctiwr ca*d) ntAst w«rrr o« wow ro* uiht met nil (iNiwuniOMi/rAX outsidi nowai noun) CK«« Egg Oiry Vog^o-d IrtWCW© WW 11 MSi^flvi V/MOI» t Co-'nwiTol Ci'CW Ctojh'o Oroow C->VJtn Aw V See- Oogfck 3 Tutkai V.V,¥ V.V«S» April 1995 AMSTRAD ACTION SjOlff^m iMilYWi Tether your horse and hold on to your Stetsons as sharp shooting Richard Fairhurst explains this month's AA tape. SPAGHETTI 3 ltS/ n8ht "'' You8etttie lAVECVEaKJ BM general idea. WW fca* • fclCiM W 9 ^^ To jump (handy to avoid bals I Zeppelin Software Ift 1 ^ 8 Rpref-";^ thrown at you), move the joystick I Do you feel lucky, punk? JEsagXraiSfttM U P in thc opposite direction I This month, its your chance to the way you're walking. So if I to be Clint Eastwood m you're going right, move the Spaghetti Wesfer/fcigame •jUj^Ml^K^H joystick up and (eft. I mag Commodore Format. So ____ _ _ __ plug in your joystick, limber up that trigger firmer CTBERBOT and get re^dy to pump bullets through the Sheepsof*/STS Software outlaws - which, unsurprisingly, is the general Pacmarc old hat, right? Move around the maze. aim of -his game. avoid the ghosts, eat the pills, collect the bonus If s not quite that easy, of <— points. No problem. course. Objects of ail sorts are "." Z^ZJLJLZJL ' " " Today's CPC generation thrown at you, which sap your - " - demands something energy on contact. And even on - • - more. Cyberbo/s level 1, the outlaws have a knack - - - • • programmer, Paul of taking pot shots at you and • Fairman, came up with ducking behind windows only to mfflffiiHilj • • the following twist from be replaced by an |L - 1 - - f* - the depths of his rather « innocent civilians whom Qhwtly » trnmrnm^r^ ' war P edmind - you're not meant to goings on in __ __ _ | n this game you can 2 shoot: partly because Cjfccrboy. _ til jsli get out your laser and. • you"" be penalised for it. s well, waste the ghosts. and partly because you'll waste valuable Despite this, it's still probably the most difficult HTB ammo. iAJlnnstrc or wot? - Ed} Pacman game you've ever played. Control is by Your stock of bullets is displayed at joystick of redefinable keys. IWJ the bottom of the screen, as a bar JgM representing your current energy level ufl and a count of just how much cash your THE ULTIAAATE I "fistfulofdotars'contains. SPRITE You gain the dosh by shootmg J J Jf"_ _ a^E outlaws and. oddly enough, picking up SEARCHER I the bags with a dollar sign on them. Sentinel Software 9B Whie, to pick up an object, press Fire! Programmers are programmers, and graphic itijjH ar>d move the joystick down - there are artists are graphic artists, and never the twain "EE bombs and new magazines (no, not like shall meet. Which is a bit of a problem when AA) full of ammo to pick up, too. you've finished your latest eight-level scrolling Moving the joystick left moves your player shoot-'emup and the spaceship is still a capital still firing full stops at the aliens. Using TUSS. as it's more commonly known, you can get around this by, er pinchhg graphics from other people's programs. I here are four versions accessible from the TUSS loading menu: 128K, 64K, and the special p-** 128K and 64K for cg^- Mutliface users. So firstly load the program from which you want to pinch some graphics into 55"55"ST memory which is option 2 on the program menu in the normal versions. However, if you have a f^ultiface you can select one of the special Multifece versions and then load a game in the normal manner, Press»ng the red button at any point then kicks TUSS into action. Next, you need to search through memory for some graphics. To do this select the screen mode in which the game plays and then select option 3. Cursor up and down to move through memory. When you come across something that looks like lumbled-up graphics rather than a complete mishmash of game data and code, use cursor left and right to get the right width. Use the SHIFT and cursor keys for final adjustment, and then exit to save the sprite using option 9. There are tons of other options for you to play about v<ith and even an RSX spnte driver so you can use the graphics easily in your own programs (to reprint the TUSS manual would take up the whole magazine). It's designed for disc users, but tape folks can use it. Load a Multiface version from the TUSS menu (press a key immediately that you see 'Press PLAY then any ke/j. or load an unprotected game file first, followed by a special version of the program such as MEMORY &17FF: LOAD "game ftJenamc M ,&1800. Insert side B of the covertape, wind it to near the end, and type: LOAD "TUSSS800.64K",&8BOO: CALL 48B00. J Get sussed with TUSS. COVERTAPE lowboy iluej and allows. PUBLIC DOMAIN Keith Woods turns brickie, moonlights as a drug dealer and offers a suggestion to the guilty among you - if you are expecting the cops to call, encrypt your data! without needing to sort the whole file. EDUCATIONAL Dave's House By Tom Noill (Dwarfsoft) Dave's a builder, but God only knows how he got the job. because he can't even remember how many bncks he needs to build a house. Thankfully, however, you can help him out by sotv*ig a few simple sums. Basically all Dave's house invokes is getting your child to solve a few simple addition problems. As they get them right, they watch Dave's house reach for the skes, but if they get one wrong Dave can't finish the ;ob and loses his cheery grin And. erm. that's it. No. there are no different skill levels, no, you can't do anything other than addition and no, there are no other challenges for DAUE•S HOUSK SERIOUS Rambase v4.6 By John Farlio and Barrio Snoll (1 28K only) According to the most recent AA information, today's most typical Amstrad Action reader is male, between 30 and 40 years old, and runs a business on his CPC. At the back of his wardrobe is his old 7ffs tux which he sti thinks looks good on him and which he'd wear if only his wife would let Km* If you're one of the multitude that fit this description (well, maybe apart from the tux bit), then one of the programs you're most likely to find useful is a good database. Unfortunately, commercial databases (like everything else) are hard to come by. but it probably won't surprise you to know that Rambaso v4>6' full ©I footvros^ !?©• bugs. there's a program m the PD which is almost as good as any that will set you back, say. £20. Rambase was first released many moons ago as a fairly ordinary database. However, over the years various users have been adding features to overcome problems they've encountered, to make Rambase one of the most fully-featured and bug-free programs available in the public domain today. As well as all the usual data handling features which you'd expect to find in any reasonable database, Rambase includes very powerful sorting, searching and field management opbons. Most powerful is the sorting option, which allows you to sort any part of the file you want on any field. Where to go Get Rambase v4.6 from King Arthur's Domain, Brympton Cottage, Brunswick Road. Worthing. West Sussex BN11 3NQ "/fax 01903 206739 April 199 S AMSTRAD ACTIOIU Almost every imaginable field management option ts included, gwng you the ability to add. delete, change or even combme fields with the minimum of fuss. Added to this, you can choose where to insert new records in a field, merge files or tabulate the file to produce a compact table with a variable column width. To take one example of Rambase r s frightening versatfcty, there's an option that aSows it to double as a label printer. Within this you find another large range of options which offer you a chcuce of output sizes, ines and typefaces. Clearly, if you can think of a useful feature for a database, chances are somebody's already included it. The wonder «s that with the addition of all these extra features. Rambase has still managed to maintain its ease of use. Everything seems to have been added with practicality alone in mind. Hence the program doesn't look very exciting, but though it lacks any fn«s, it's got all the thrills imaginable (if entering and sorting data can be thrilling). The only big problem with Rambase is that because it's written in BASIC, it's very slow, especially when you use the sorting option. However, if you've got the patience to put up with this, youl do wen to find a better database than Rambase v4.6. Finger Print By The Twins The great thing about the PD. I always say. is that it caters for all sorts of rrwionty interests through programs that wouldn't be commercially viable. aua thMvil<iiou for ouir »»•»!»» . Play In <V/N> Finger print: a data encryption program. Finger Pnnt caters for one such section of our community - criminals. Finger Print is like any other decent address manager, except for one slight difference: it saves your data in code so, as it prowSy proclaims on the title screen, if the cops call they won't be able to access your underworld address book To decrypt your data, you enter a special code' The encryption service won't be much use to most people (we hopeO, but the actual address book itsetf is about as good as any. The house that Dave built - with your holp. your offspring to meet. All this little "game does is to pock two numbers between one and 30 and ask the child what their sum is. Even this is of little use, as the game is only really testing them, rather than teaching them. The kids either get the sum right or wrong - there's no try again' option. What Dave's House sets out to do it does beautifully. Trouble is, it does so little ifs hardly worth bothering with, GAMES Drug Baron and Doom By Tom Doan (Impact) Tom Dean's long standing disczine Impact has never been the most popular of CPC magazines, probably because some of the prose it contains won't suit most tastes. It does have one notable distinction, however, which is that the Editor. Tom Dean writes much of the free software which is included himself. Drug Baron and Doom are two of the more interesting games Tom has produced recently Doom The CPC has traditwnaly been supported by many good quality PD adventures from the likes of Simon Avery or Rob Buckley, but unfortunately this is no longer the case. Doom will do little to cheer up poverty-stricken PD adventure fans, as >fs everything an adventure The future of this program looks bleak. jm game shouldn't be: the parser hardy seems to exist, the storyline fails to excite, it's written in BASIC (so it moves Stowty). and the room descriptions are approaching Gertrude Stein-like minimalism. Rus. Tern's, erm, unique sense of humour makes the odd appearance, with the game taking to ca'img you a creep! We'., if that's your attitude. I'll play something else Who are you? If you think this is slander, turn to pages 18 and 19. We're doing another survey to find out who reads AA and what (is it possible to improve on brilliance?) wc can do to fill It with what you want to read about. You could win a lot of software but you have to take part in the competition, first, of course? Drug Baron _ Drug Baron PUBLIC DOMAIN Q 3g Tan Beam jumu: Murrain lTTlPflCT Flat, no sparkle, just like the coke. If you have aspirations to become a criminal and do devilish things like using Finger Print, you m:ght like to practise your cfirty des'-ngs with this management simulator. The idea is you start off with a load of money which you use to buy either cannabis, heroine or cocaine. You then sell your weed to your local students through your dealers with the long btor.de ha r. and hope you make a profit. Unfortunately, it's all a bit too easy. All you need to do is buy the right amount of each drug and use the right number of dealers and then watch the mcoey flow in. It's hardly that easy in the real world (is that the vwee of experience? - Ed). This game might be more fun if you had vendettas with other barons, or were on the run from the cops. As it is though, it'll hardly keep you NEXT MONTH: I In the last few months it seems that all of the PO's most prominent games programmers have moved on to other ventures. One man that's not going anywhere else, though. Is Britain's David Hall, who, with a bit of luck, will, next month, herald the return of the famed (ahem!) Public Image mini-interview with news of his latest production. Look out also for reviews of the most recent monitor programs for techy freaks and the latest production from the croators of Ghoul's Writer. In short: don't miss it! amused lor more than ten minutes. And. oh yeah, and remember, that winners don't use drugs. Just say no! Doom Drug Baron Amscene Cotrob PD • 9 Avieraoro Road, Hemlington, Middlesbrough JapeortyPl) Unary. - 42 Overton Close, Hall Green, Birmingham 828 9NA. E-mail: davc lcechb.demon.co.uk 3.!xcft &'<-i ov.sttbir. United Amstrad Uxor Group (UAUG), 26 Uplands Crescent, Farcliam, Hants P016 7SY - 01329 234291 Genesis, the 8bit generation comp.sys.amstrad.8blt (tewigroup) e-mail: roussindgcncsis8.frraug.fr.net (BBS wth CPC soltwjre existed Otto6e< 199-t 24 l.o of PfORwns KWudng CPCEMU and CPE enwtotws ion PC .xxi Arrig.iJ. « 0033 1 39 SO 54 11. 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Pacific Software - 37 Trimingham Drive, Bury, Lanes BLB 1JW Jechac3tym«»i \x\it*. Radical Software, Brympton Cottage, Brunswick Road, Worthing, West Sussex BNT1 3NQ o/fax 01903 206739 SD Microsystems ? 01953 483750 Sentinel Software 41 Enmore Gardens, East Sheen, London SW14 8RF c.mail: cs94rrw«38runcl.ac.uk " SIS titfci and a tew original pioducts Siren Software o 0161 7965279 Mail Order Trading Post = 01952 462135 Trojan 015S4 777993 Wixard Games n/fax 01723 376586, = 01723 503299 Merlin-Serve, Brympton Cottage, Brunswick Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 3NQ -/fax 01903 206739 Games for sate from 50p. Svraps VIM bay urw anted CPC stuff Software suppliers OJ Software " 01257 421915 Computer Cavern n 01628 891 101 STS • 298 Holton Road, Barry, South Wales CF6 6HW «r 01446 700730 Tronics North <x OIO 6177 253 766 • PO Box 7419, GarftuH, Oueonsland, Australia, 4814 I .urc '-itptcr of software .nd CPC My Upgrades/ 47-49 Railway Road, Leigh, Lanes WN7 4AA 01942 261866 Crystal X - 11 Vki Vicarage View, Rcdditcb. Wore. B97 4RF UAUG (United Amstrad User Group) »01329 234291 WACCI n 01244 534942 April 199 S AMSTRAD ACTIOIU the internet magazine Get wired for Sound Your complete guide to rock 'n' roll on the Net - Miss it and your ears will never forgive you > pius: Behind the scenes at Hackers, the new nternet movie, and the answer to the ultimate Internet question: is God on the Net? t&iwwM FANZINES David Crookes thumbs the pages of another fanzine and thumbs his nose at its prose, presentation and and purpose, and advises on clip art. AW, to another place. Sadly. News The fanzine Another World ("the ultimate disczine for serious usersT has closed its doors because, according to its editor. Richard Avery, it took too much of his time and not many people bought it anyway. We never actually saw a copy but. by all accounts, it was good, which makes it all the worse that sales were low. However. Richard reassures us that he hasn't left the CPC scene and will continue to write PO programs. Richard Avery. 35 Marlborough View. Cove. Famborough. Hants GU14 9YA. Derek Payne of CPC Manna fame has asked us to give his 'zme a plug. It costs £1.50. Derek Payne CPC Mania. 89 Wolverhampton Road. Codsall, Wolverhampton WV8 I PL REVIEW Eliminator Price: SOp EDITOR: J R Naylor ADDRESS: 14 Station Road, Riccall, York, North York* Y04 6QJ How can you eliminate a fanzre reviewer m fewer than 20 seconds? Without using forceful means? e You publish a fanzine with only ten. single-sided pages and fill them with nothfig Dut rubbish. • You proudly clam that your fanzine is "better than the rest" and justify this by saying it is brilliant because "our graphic capabilities are good" (which means they use some pretty pictures which should make the mag worth, ooh, hundreds of pounds). Not only this but you emphasise the 'act that you have bts of fonts and reckon that this statement means the fanzine is so priceless that it should appear on the Antiques Roadshow in a few years time. • You include a cheat page and decide not to prmt any cheats. And. get this: the reason why this page is. we8, empty m our review copy (we've been assured there will be cheats in the reader copies) is that the Ehnvnator crew think AA nick them. Right. To make a good impression on a reviewer, you don't insinuate he's a thief, do you? If Eliminator were anything but a fanzine, it would be a self-destructing bomb. A bomb with a time limit of around half a minute and that definitely doesn't mean that the mag is dynamite. So you turn the page to take a gander at the contents and what do you find? An impressive hst of articles and a promise of "ultimate pleasure." Well each to their own, I supoose. Anyway, to the reviews There are three scmtillatmgly, superlative pieces of opcuon on Trtus The Fox, Street Gang Soccer and Cavemama. AM the reviews are Some fanzines decide to have wall to wall text as opposed to brightening things up with a few pictures. However, if you do want drawings then this is where clip art is an absolute god and the reason why some fanzine editors worship this sort of pics. The balance between clip art and text has to be struck to avoid an excess of one thing over another. Like a lot of other 'zines. Eliminator, (reviewed on this page) has too much clip art and this has an undesirable effect because it smacks of laziness. Anybody can produce a fanzine like the one below left in under an hour and people begrudge paying for something like that. But how do you go about making your own clip art? Ifs easy. All you need Is a good art packagc and a copy of Powerpage. Draw your image in MODE 2 using your art package and. once you're happy with the result, save it as a screen file. Load this screen into Powerpage and. using SHIFT and COPY, draw a box around the area of the screen you want to be clip art. Don't press SHIFT and COPY twice, though, as this will permanently keep the box on screen. Once you have a box around the image, you need to call up the Block menu and choose the clip art option. The program asks you for the name of your clip art and then saves it as a .CUT file. Hey presto! A piece of clip art ready to use. CHEAT PAGE! T>« C>«*rs >*» VT afSX "»*£* tocu TV* AA mtvww S51X AS MS TM«#< THAT VOUWU M« TMM «t 90 FBOWOT THAT TW S »AOf '.VU K MO(t3 WTOI ©«AT» IS TX *fA3C* tssw eliminator makes claims ELxnxwRTDR FRMZXWE! FOR YOUR AMSTRAD CPC f msvon/mwemi hxs/xm-ht fOUGHT BACK /710M THE NEVER ENOWS PfTSOfDOCW *t HAVE R£VKW5. CHEATS COUPETrf/CHS THE CHARTS ruTOfitAlS ASOULKHUUCHUOW BETTER THAN THE REST/ short and teJ you hardly anything pieasuraWe or •worth reading. Then you turn to the only other page of any real note, the news section. This just tells you why proves to be a 'cheatscape', and doesn't deliver. Eliminator closed and subse<}uently reopened (makes you wonder why they did the latter, though). That's it. I'm afraid, besides a competition, a survey and something about Starting a letters page (which wfl end up Ml of complaints, I'm sure). And despite the lavish claims of a good-looking 'zine, the editor has only produced an average offering. Lots of fonts are used but unfortunately this just creates a scrappy effect. The size of the text is far too txg and this forces the amount of words to a page to zoom down rapidly, decreasing the value for money. Still, if you're virtually blind, at least you'll be able to read it. The dip art is of a very good quality, though. Shame if s used only to waste space. On the other hand, the 'zme's blank sides come in dead handy for scribbling notes on, but, save your 50p and go halves on a lottery ticket because then at least you've got a chance of gaming a Mtte "ultimate pleasure." Content: 10% Appearance: 45% Overall: 35% A rough guide to pictures April 1 995 AMSTRAO ACTION BASIC TUTORIAL •sically FjCL KM r* m Are 'files' a) something you send prisoners in a cake? Or, b) a method of storing information? Angela Cook and Rob Buckley answer in a multiple choice format. There are three types of files on the CPC: • programs written in BASiC or Machine Code. v\4iich are normally called by using the RUN-FILENAME' command: • bmary data, which is just a long list of data in byte format. This is normally used to save: (1) the Guatemalan spotted tree frog, or (2) graphics and game in-'ormation. An example of this is how to load and save a screen. To save a full screen out type: SAVE "FILENAME',b.&COCO.&3FFF. To call it back on screen, LOAD'FILENAME'.B.&CCOO • another method of storing data - in a more ordered and readable form than a straight bloc* of data, an j that is what this article concentrates on. Over the past few months you have been usrng: 1 Oxyspot cream. Or; 2 strings and variables, and seeing how these might be used in a database, word processor and even an adventure game. However, once the computer is switched off you have lost all the information. Thankfully, the CPC being as fantastic as it is, gives you a saving ability. Try typ ng this - though be Nine reasons NOT to be a programmer 1 You arc contractually bound to wear a Mctallica T-Shirt. 2 You must grow your hair really long (What's wrong with that? - Simon). 3 Your jeans develop holes within days of you learning Assembly language. 4 All programmers must blush when ttie opposite sex are mentioned. 5 When you go to parties, everybody avoids you. and you have to sit in the kitchen telling anybody who passes about your latest compression routine. 6 Everything you do becomes revolutionary. For example, 'It's a brand-new way of going to the toiet!' or 'It's a new style of parking I've designed. Officer? 7 Your face erupts like Mount Vesuvius. 8 Old ladies take pity on you and offer you their seat on the bus. 9 You must make up a meaningless programming pseudonym for yourself sure to have a disc or tape to hand (with both the 1 stop. Or: Record and Play buttons pressed down). . 2 do the hoovering. April 1995 AMSTRAD ACTION Type righting Check the program is correct using TypeChecker. SeeAAll3, page 17. 18 IKPOI'Wiat is your nane";NaneJ 28 OPENOUrNane.INF":PRINTi9,N»nef :CLOSEOUI Run this, and when the ready prompt appears, reset the machine (for a 'soft reset' hold down CONTROL and SHIFT, press ESCAPE), remind the tape and type: 18 0PENIN"Nm.INF*:inputl9,fi4net:CL0SEIN 20 PftINTf3,Nanef All you have done here, is to save a piece of information. However, you can store whole lists of information all in one file, and then can them back when needed, though you need to call them b3ck in the correct order. For example: 18 0PEN0UT "DAIA"iPRINII9,NAMES,ADDRESSt,POSTCODES,RECORP; CL0SE0UT 20 OPENIN "MIA" :PRINI«9, POSTCODE*, RECORMANES, A5DRESSS: CLOSEIN When you run it, this program causes an error, since you have tried to: 1 bounce on the keyboard. Or; 2 read back the data in line 20 in the wrong order. In other words, the INPU~a9 in line 20 should be followed by the same data format: string, string, string and number. The correct line is: 20 OPENIN"DAIA":INPUII9,NAMES,A5DRESSS, POSTCODES,RECORD You may notice that if you enter a line wheh has used a comma. (,) whatever came after it has been lost. This is due to the way that BASIC handles inputs, and to get around this, you have to replace both PR!NT#9 and INPUT with new commands. Firstly, replace all PRINTS9 with WRITE*9, NPUTS9 and INPUT with LINE INPUTS9 and LINE NPUT respectively. This s demonstrated in the short listing below. •8 OPENOUrHeno" 28 HRIIEI9," {This is a simple line, with a comma in iff) 30 CLOSEOUT 40 OPENIN'Peno" SO INPUIt9,AS:PRINT Al fO CLOSEIN TO OPENIN "Deno" 88 LINE INPUII9,AS:PRIhI Al SO CLOSEIN Here's a small program that lets you enter a name and telephone number, and continues until you tell it to: 10 OPENOUriele" 20 LINE INPliriUne";NaAeS:LINE INPUI"Telephone Nunber";TeleS 30 HRIIEII9,Nines,Tele! 40 INPUT'Enter another <Y/N)";<t>:if qS="y" or ««:•«• then 20 58 CL0SE0UI Once you have entered all your names, ycu can use this little program to search through and pick the right number, by entering the name required. 10 OPEHIN-Tele' 20 LINE INPUT"Please enter nane";HS:NSrllPPERS<NS) 30 IF EOF THEN PRINT"N»ne & Nunber no found":CL0SEIN:END 40 LINE INPUTS,NAMEIJELEt SO IF NS:UPPERS(NaneS)THEH PRINT" The nuiiber required is ";TeleS:CL0SEIN:END 60 GOTO 30 In line 30 you use a function called EOF, which is short for End Of File. When this becomes true it means you have read the last piece of information in the file and you close the opened file and end the routine, k Note that trying to read past the end of a file results m an error. NEXT MONTH How to write your own ecologically-incorrect * game How about International Seal Cutting' or 'Super Badger Baiting? Now that's worth £3 of anybody's money. All that's left to say. is that the first person to send in the correct answers to the above questions, will win: 1 an ad-expenses paid trip to the Caribbean. Or: 2 nothing. [...]... 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