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Basically Basic

This month we take you through the mysteries of

ARRAYS - what they are, why they're useful and how

they can help you to create your own game!

Techy Forum

Richard Fairhurst steps on to the ward of the insane

CPCs, practising his bedside manner and attempting

to diagnose all manner of techy problems.

The old 'Lefs ditch the covcrtapc'

debate rages on, and there's news

about

Amstrad Action's

new on-

sale date.

Amscene

Directory

All the company names, pnone

numbers and addresses you could

ever want...

Cover

feature:

Dear

Santa...

Fed up of fluorescent socks, cheap 'n'

tacky aftershavo and ugly porcelain

ornaments? Woll, check out our guide

to the ultimate CPC software and

hardware - we guarantee you'll have a

happy New Ye;

Year!

Back Issues

Is your collection of

Amstrad

Actions

missing that one essential

issue? Well, you know what to do,

don't you? Yep. trip along to the

Back Issues page and get yourself

a bargain!

LEISURE Z O N E

Cheat Mode

With more POKEs than the

average pig, these pages are

the place to be for all would-

be game

champs.

Review:

This huge, playable

Super

Bomborman

clone receives the full

•• review treatment this month.

Don't miss itl

MegaBlasters

David Crookes talks to

WACOI's new controller Paul

Dwerryhouse, and discovers

why the group is still going

strong after eight years.

WACCI Talk

I 5

Interview:

Public Image

More Public Domain reviews than you

can shake an extremely large stick at,

plus the future of Europe's Public

Domain scene. Ifs all here!

Reviews:

Check out w h a t ' s

on this month's

covertape...

CPC's a n s w e r

to Windows!

I f s taken

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Minesweeper

This is o n e of the best computer g a m e s

of all t i m e . Try to f i n d Hie bombs

concealed b e n e a t h the tiles without

g e t t i n g b l o w n up. Tricky, but fun.

If y o u ' r e o n e of

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C o p y

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Even m o r e PD puxxling action.

p r o g r a m , because

DOS Copy

m a k e s

it e a s y to t r a n s f e r f i l e s b e t w e e n the

t w o machines.

A PD v e r s i o n of

Breakout,

Breakdown

would you

b e l i e v e ? And d a r n e d g o o d it is t o o .

LETTERS

I thought I would write concerning the article in

issue 109 about 'getting shot of the covertape.'

I, for one. would be glad if you kept the

covertape, as I enjoy many great hours playing

the games and learning from the software on

each tape.

I'm a relatively new reader of A

(since

April this year) - I didn't know there was an

Amstrad magazine available before that. I

think it's a very good mag, and am pleased

that someone is still writing about the old

faithful Amstrad.

Reel fun!

days of trying every

method I've ever

heard of. Why

mess around with

tried and trusted

methods of disc

transfer?

full-time things should get back to normal. So,

expect to see us on the news stand during

the last week of the month. Well, for the

next couple of months, at least. Karen

R Plumb, Hayes

Mr B Stant, Moreton-

in-Marsh

Ah. yes. If you recall, there v/as due to be a phone-in

on Thursday 29 September. You know, the one

where you were supposed to register your votes

about whether the covertape should stay or go. But.

as a lot of you found out. there was nobody manning

the phones that day. Sorry about that. The mix up

came about because Dave had moved off the mag

by that time, and I still hadn't been appointed.

But from the letters we've received so far

(complaining that they couldn't get through), the

general opinion seems to be that you want the tape

to stay. But not everybody's happy about the state

of the tape, as the following letter shows... Karen

Oops, sorry about that.

R. The reason the disc

transfer system changed was

because we started using different

people to create the tape masters. There were a

few teething problems, but these have been sorted

out now. Touch wood!

As to the

Turbo the Tortoise,

look out for a

listing to ail your woes in an up-coming Techy

Forum. Karen

Oh dear.

Amstrad Action

110. Smaller

again. And what has happened to the

quality of the paper on the cover? You

try getting the tape off without ripping it.

It's a shame to see

go this way.

especially when features like the education one

start to make an appearance. It shows the CPC

still has a place in a world stuffed full of

overpriced consoles and PCs. Good stuff!

Pity the adventure column is so stuck in a

rut, though. If the magazine is supposed to be

leaner and meaner' get rid of boxes that say

the same thing every month and put in some

reviews of newer adventures. They do exist,

you know.

Slimfast plan

Why does every issue of

Amstrad Action

seem

to come out later and later each month? At this

rate, it'll soon go on sale in the month it says

on the cover!

Make a date

Andy Grey, Sevenoaks

Pete Simmons.

Doncaster

No-go Turbo!

The tape, which used to be quite good with its

easy-to-use menu for transferring the contents

to disc, is now useless. The last three did not

even come up

(Eh? - Karen)

and

Turbo The

Tortoise

wouldn't transfer at all, even after two

Oh no! Not more apologies - what have I gotten

myself into here? The trouble all started when Dave,

the previous editor, decided to leave. He was a bit

hard to replace, you see (rumour has it, Bristol Zoo

was all out of chimps during September). Seriously,

though, there was a period between Dave's leaving

and my joining. This meant it was a bit of struggle to

get

out for a while, which subsequently meant a

few issues went on sale very late. But now I'm here

You think the number of pages is small now? Have

you seen the number of staff recently?

Seriously, the mag may be a mere shadow of its

former self in terms of size, but we are still

committed to producing the best magazine we can

within a very tight budget and time scale. So any

practical suggestions on the direction the mag

should take would be welcome. Are the regular

features (The Examiner. Basically Basic, Cheat

Mode, etc) the most important things in the mag? Or

would you prefer more features and reviews?

Let us know - then we can bring you the

mag you want' Karen

Alas poor Oric.*.

I've been reading your mag for a few

months now, and generally find it to be

Y « Oric? Hah,

very good

(Generally?

- Karen).

that's long

However, you seem to have been

dead, mate.

suffering from delusions of grandeur

recently, and have been making some

very unwelcome comments.

Many of the people who still use their

8-bit computers are enthusiasts and own

more than one make of machine. Dave's

attempts to relate computers to pop

groups was most offensive. If you'd said

the Spectrum was the Beatles, then it

price war. Commodore and Atari introduced

might have been fair to compare the Oric to the

better graphics. K was only after the other

Monkees. The attempted comparisons ki the

manufacturers had set the standards that

mag were, however, widely inaccurate and

Amstrad introduced their home computers.

another miserable attempt to make the CPC

I own both a 464 and 664 and find them

appear to have more prestige.

both to be very good machines. They have 29

You just don't realise that a lot of us were

colours, which is very nice. My Oric Atmos only

around when the whole computer thing was

has eight, but it has the best DOS I have ever

taking off (it did not start in 1985). It would be

seen on an 8-bit and has a better keyboard

nice if you could give other machines the credit

than most. My Einstein (the first home

they deserve.

computer to have an internal drive) runs

extremely fast, has loads of ports and can run

Sinclair's machines brought computers into

BBC BASIC. The Commodore 128 has great

the home. Oric was largely responsible for the

sound facilities and a form of BASIC that

is far better than the 64. Are you getting

the picture yet?

Please stop writing such puerile

garbage and get on with writing about

the Amstrad.

Steve

Marshall. Edinburgh

Oh, come on. Of course we champion the

Amstrad. This is

Amstrad Action,

after all.

Having said that, though, I should point out

that the comments made about the other

machines were intended to be tongue-in-

cheek - and, let's face it. we're never exactly slow to

lake the mickey out of Amstrad and CPCs as well.

Loosen up, Steve - we do love the 8-bits. even the

mo'e obscure makes.

We also acknowledge the part they played in the

home micro revolution. But you have to admit that

some were bigger players than others - the

Spectrum certainly deserves its place in the history

oooks. But the Oric? Hmm. not convinced about that

one. Yes, Is keyboard's scrummy. but it was hardly

revolutionary material. Anybody know how many

were sokJ? Have you got enough fingers to count

them?

Karen

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transferred it. though, you can

use the cursor keys to move

the pointer around the screen,

using Enter or Space to 'click

on' (that's techy talk for

select) an icon or menu.

What's missing? Well,

there's no ROM access feature, most

of the File menu options are

unselectable, you can't verify or copy

a disc, and you can't format to

either of the high-capacity

ROMDOS/ParaDOS formats.

However, you can still use

D.E.S.

as a simple way to run programs -

including

D.E.S.

applications.

The demo requires 128K -

although should you decide to buy the

ROM version from Campursoft, that'll

work on any machine.

cursor keys to move the highlight bar.

and ENTER to select. When it comes

to copying files, move the bar on to

the file you want to copy, and press

SPACE. Repeat this for as many files

as you want to copy, and then press

ENTER to do the business

DOS Copy

is a shareware

program, so get your shillings out and

pay Andreas what he's due.

players (none to two), how many

games youll play m a series, what the

squares look like, and what sort of

game youTI play (whether you have to

cover the entire board, wipe out the

other player, or simply have the upper

hand after a set number of moves). All

of which should keep you happily

puzzled for the next three months.

JE,

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COPY

Logistic

is shareware, so if you

like the game, the author asks you to

send him a few Deutschemarks.

By Michael Beckott f o r

Campursoft

This is a cut-down version of the

acclaimed graphical user-interface

(front-end to you and me) from the

Glaswegian indie software company.

Campursoft. The first thing we should

point out about this demo is that you

need to run it from disc Once you've

Get

yourself

a smart-

looking

desktop

with

D.E.S.

Everything is menu

operated, so you shouldn't

one of the most popular games on computers

have too much trouble

worldwi de. It's easy to see why - it's one of those

finding your way around. Use

By Andre Schroeder

infuriatingly simple and addictive little ideas that'll keep

This is an absolutely excellent German PO

Breakout

you thinking for hours.

game. The aim is the same as in every other

Breakout

You start off by selecting one of three differently

•

game - batter down the wall by bouncing a ball off your

sized grids. These grids are made up of tiles that

bat, which you can move left and right.

conceal eithe

a bomb or nothing at all. Your aim is to

There are a few differences, though. For instance,

put a bomb marker on tcp of all the tiles concealing a

•

this particular version contains tons of fun power-ups,

oomb. while uncovering a I the tiles with nothing

40 levels and a level designer

which enables you to

underneath - without gett'ng blown jp in the process.

load and save your levels for future use

and all in all.

The only way you have of knowing what's where is

it's as good as any commercial clone you'll see.

by looking at the tiles with nothing underneath - they

Breakdown

requires a joystick.

contain a number that shows how many of the adjacent

tiles are hiding bombs.

Use the arrow keys to move your cursor, press

COPY to mark a tile with a bomb symbol, and press

ENTER or SPACE to uncover a tile. Do it as quickly as

By Richard Fairhurst

you can and you might get on the high-score table. But

Since Microsoft included it with their Windows graphical

be warned: uncover a bomb and it's game over!

operating system for PCs.

Minesweeper

has become

By Andreas Stroicxek

Better known as Face

Hugger,

Andreas's utility is possibly the most

useful PD proggy you'll ever come

across in these days of PC world

domination. But. as with

D.E.S..

you

need to transfer it to disc in order to

— • j

run it. In bnef, DOS

Copy

• H

enables you to copy files

K f l

between PC <ind CPC discs.

You'll need a 3-inch and a

3.5-inch drive.

Easy so far. Now. if one of the

adjacent squares contains three coins

belonging to the other player, making

one of your coins overflow on to it will

turn all of those corns into yours. And.

of course, if one of your coins

overflows on to a square with four

coins already on it, it will set off a

chain reaction that makes that square

overflow as well...

You can use joystick or cursor

keys. The menu (SPACE to start)

enables you to configure which

controls you use, the number of

By Froggle of MOPS

This is one of the finest offerings from

the unchallenged kings of the puzzle

game, Germany's MOPS group. You'll

be playing another human or the

computer on an eight-by-eight board.

You place a coin down on any

square, and the other player will do

the same (your coins are of different

colours). Each square can hold up to

four coins of one colour only. Try to

put a fifth on. and crash... the corns

are distributed over the four

immediately adjacent squares.

Dave must have been going quletiy

insano during his last few months

what else could explain the strange

statement that there are no more discs

left? Ablex has an ample supply of

discs, so if you want a disc version of

this month's covertape simply cut out

the coupon below, chuck It in an

envelope along with your name and

address and a cheque or postal order

for £2 made out to Ablex Audio Video,

then send the whole lot to:

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our covertapes work property, but If

your tape isn't loading properly, pop it

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and a brief description of the problem)

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