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FEBRUARY 1982
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A tully -hedged. fully expandible. computer with large typewriter
style keyboard. programmable function keys. PET compatible
Gives 24 colours and sound. Ito the degree that ri can be used to
compose music) H igh resolution graphics module available as
extra Spe a ks BASIC Ea sy-to-use e ve n tor beginners Ne w
VIC-20 material is available and more is on the way Supplied
with easy-to-read easy -to-use manual. suitable Ion beginners
and children Progra ms can be stored on optional ViC tape
recorder Commodore approved supplie r.
Texas Instruments 1I -99/ 4
(PAL colour TV compatible)
Usable literally within minutes of unpackrng Anyone can use e
without previous computer expenence or programming
knowledge Powe rful I SK BASI C language Spe cia l features
high resolution graphics let you create ananated displays.
charts gra phs built-in music synthesizer allows you to build
noreS and chords. equation calculator for maths solultons
Designed /Or home management. educational and
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CONTENTS
MAILBAG
GAMES NEWS
COMPETITIONS
CHESS
How do computers recognise good chess positions?
Max Bramer explains
Atari*. Asteroids fills the Best Sellers spot and all
the new cartridges for T.V. games centres
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Your views aired and your problems answered
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Ful fil Napol eon's dr eam or l and a j umbo jet. A r undown
of the latest games for your computer
Me and my Templ ate. Or 10 ways to ill-treat a
piece of plastic
VIDEO SCREENS
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LaT gamesa much are successful over there tend
EISURE is which bigger pastime in the U.S. and
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to cross the Atlantic six-I2 months later. In Our next
issue we report back on the latest toys and games to
find their way onto the American scene.
H L ARDCOREn in-depth look a t the Acorn Atom.
L we take a changes its format next issue when
With a n exhaustive lis t of the companies whic h
supply games software a nd peripherals for it. A ll
you ever wanted to know about the Atom but didn't
know who to ask, next month.
OLDLY go where no man has gone before in our
Startrek game next month. Startrek 111.4 offers a
few extra features. on top of the usual Klingons.
starbases and stars. Octadraw. Entomb and Yaht-
zee also feature in our games listing section.
Editor Tony Pratt
Assistant editor Elispeth Joiner
Editorial assistant Susan Cameron
Des ign Linda Freeman
Othello by any other name. Tom Napier offers some
guidelines for a simple program
Author David Langford starts an irreguLar column on tow
ISCOU O fiction can serve computer gainers
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Snag jar. shows his expertise at Adventur e
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COMPUTER DOODLING
THE BUGS
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Puckman revisited. Two improved versions of the popular
maze-chase game
ARCADE ACTION
DOGFIGHT
NIMBOT
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Grab a joystick and do battle on the Apple airway.
A challenge to shoot the last Nascom robot
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Track down and trap an alien on your Acorn Atom
Thrills and spills on the Tandy racetrack
ALIEN HUNT
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GRAND PRIX
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The famous explorer is lout in the depths of your Sharp
Ten ships to land on a constantly moving ZIE8 I platform
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BAD KING JOHN
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Advertisement manager Simon Teager
Advertisement executives Rita Lewis. Neil Wood
Advertisement assiettmt Louise Flockhart
Publisher Tom Moloney
Editorial and advertisement offices: Durrant House, 8 Herbal Hill. London
EC IR SIB. Telephone E dit orial 01-278 6556. A dv ert is ing 01-278 6552
Rule over a Pet ki ngdom. But, be war ned, the peasants are
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Two pyramids to explore. Keith Campbel l offers some more tips
ADVENTURE
KIT KORNER
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Peripherals in kit form. Keith Mott gives his views
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SOUNDS
David Annul POKE. some sounds out of the quieter micros
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AND VIDEO GAMES can be mailed direct from out offices each month to
any address throughout the world. All subscription applications should be
sent for processing to COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAMES (Subscription
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By us ing the s pec ial Pos tal Subs c ript ion Serv ic e, c opies of CO MPUTER
GRAPHICS
How to handle the high resolution graphics facility.
Garry Marshall has the details
Converting games from one machine to another.
Ted Ball has some practical advice
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PRACTICAL PROGRAMMING
WHAT'S IN STORE
REVIEWS
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We unravel the mysteries of Dark Tower — the
electronivboarci game set to fill next Christmas' stockings
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Published and distributed by EMAP National Publications Ltd
Printed by Eden Fisher (Southend) Limited.
Computer & Video Games Limited
ISSN 0261 3697.
Other i l l ustr ati ons by : El phi n Ll oyd-l ones, I on Davi s. Dor i a n
Cross and Terry Rogers,
Cover: Illustration by Steve Weston
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Enter the Hops of Death — but watch out for Mummyl
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BRAINWARE
Moira Horde shows how Lady Luck can influence c o r o
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Two bottles of champagne and lots of kudos to be won
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SOFTWARE GLOSSARY
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HARDCORE
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Isn't it about time you
took out a subscription
to Computer and
Video Games?
Whether your idea of a
worthwhile challenge is saving
Europe in a war game.
sharpening your chess strategy.
or landing a 747 on a dark
night, computers can make it
possible.
Computer games are
reaching new levels of
exhilaration, realism and
imagination. They can already
test your intellect and dexterity
to its limits, in the
not-too-distant future there will
be no limits to the excitement
they can simulate.
Computer & Video Games is
the monthly magazine designed
to make sure you get the most
out of your computer.
It brings the best
entertainment out of all types
of computer. from personal
Sinelairs, Ataris, Tandys, VICs,
Apples and PETs to viewdata
and arcade machines.
Every issue's packed with
pages of games programs for
YOU to key-in to your machine.
And you don't have to be a
computer expert. Each month
there's reviews of new
computer and video games,
regular pages on chess,
adventure and kit-building.
Learn to program or improve
your programming skills with
our regular features on the art
and fi nd out how to add
graphics and sounds to the
games you invent yourself.
There's also regular
brain-teasers. prizes plus hints
on how to beat arcade video
machines.
Computer and Video Games
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people to get fun out of
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4 COMPUTER & VIDEO GAMES
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Dear Sir,
1am about to buy a BBC
Microcomputer (ANB 01)
and I would be pleased if
you could let me have
sources of directly (or
readily adaptable)
av ailable games software
suitable for 32K RAM.
Cohn Lindsay
Chorley
Lcmcs
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Dear Sir,
My main question is if I
could somehow get a copy
of what I think must be
your November issue.
That's the one I fi rst saw, a
friend had it.
I got down to the loc al
newsagents as fast as
possible, but they already
had the December issue.
and thus had already sent
back the others. After
searching all over I found
Editor's reply: At the
the s ituation was the same
moment the only fi rm
Do you have any views or comments on Computer & Video
all over. So I tried
known to be producing
Games? II so we would love to hear from you. We will also do
convincing my friend to
games software for the
our best to find answers to any queries you may have or solve
sell me his copy, but no
BBC Microcomputer is
problems you might be experiencing with your computer. Please dice.
Acorn. the fi rm mak ing the drop us a line at: Computer & Video Games, (MAP, Durrant
So as a last resort I'm
hardware.
House, 8 Herbal Hill, London M R M I If you have already sent
contacting you. Since I
The latest word is that
in a letter which has not yet been published, please bear with
don't know how much it
Acorn is in the process of
us as we have been overwhelmed by mail after our early issues. would cost for you to mail
converting some of the
We will get around to your query as soon as possible.
me a copy, I couldn't send
games currently on its
the money along. But if you
books to run on the BBC
can save me one and wr ite
machine, but these are not that if my computer
decided to "Shuffl e off this
and say so and how much.
expected to be r eadily
mortal c oil", then Premier
I would happily send the
av ailable until March at
money.
the very earlies t. I'm afr aid offers a computer repair
I love your magazine and
system. If I ever become
you w ill just have to s it
lost w ithin the ROMs.
think it w ill do very well. I
Dear Sir,
tight. or get to grips with
RAMs, address buses,
only have one suggestion.
programming and work on
Modifi cations to allow your
clock pulses or software
Although you can't take the
November Acorn Atom
some of your own games
suggestion of B. A. Moore
listings, then a quic k
Colin. Good luck.
Dodgems program to run
(December Mailbag),
phone c all, dur ing offi ce
without fl oating point
hours, or the use of the
maybe you could put
ROM:
comments beside the
customer phone-in service
A) 11125: remove
not-so-obvious parts of the
w ill put me on the right
"COLOUR 2;"
programs to ex plain
track quic k ly and
11250: remove
effi ciently.
exactly what they do. Then
"COLOUR 1:"
Dear Sir.
people could translate the
So, if on the very rare
B) 20, 40, 60, BO: in each
occasion that one of
games into whatever
I was surprised to read
alter
Premier's products fails to
language they are work ing
your comments on the
"S - S + SGN (T-S);"
Premier Public ations
in. That way only one set
work correctly, then s imply
to GOSj: S=S+K; and of comments would be
software. Ship of The Line, contact Premier, You w ill
add
needed, and in only one
page 83, issue 2 of your (or fi nd them the most helpful
30000j K=T - S; IFK=0
language, Englis h! I hope
and friendly people and
is it my) magazine.
MR
you can get me that copy.
I cannot speak
easily Britain's, if not the
30010 IFK -0 K=1;13
Colin Garrett
World's, best software
personally of this game or
30020K- -1;f1
Northcourt Avenue,
any other M I software as company, without another
C) Dur ing debugging. - Reading.
I own a U.K. 101, but I can company nearing the
remove end of line
standard of their produce
tell you of the service
or service.
10000 from 1
offered by Premier.
Editor's reply: We have
(Inclusive).
had several enquiries
To date I have brought
Stephen Wood
16= .
about back issues. These
Tom Boyd
five games, up-rated to the Sth. Croydon,
. "
can be obtained from
excellent monitor,
Surrey
Holmbury St. Mary,
EMAP National
Dorking, Surrey.
"Cegman", added the new
Publications Limited.
D) 11125 should be
Basic ROM, "Basic 5", and
Editor's reply: We had
CLEAR Z. not 3 —
Computer 81 Video Games
have joined the "OSliU.K.
suspected that this may
have been an is olated
Congratulations on an
Circ ulation Department.
User Group", a ll thanks to
Premier. I als o receive a
otherwise•high standard of Reader Service. Bretton
case. Stephen, but felt
Court. Bretton,
there was no excuse for
free newsletter which.
bug-free code!
Peterborough. PE3 8DZ.
sending out a tape whic h
apart from describing the
latest additions to the
On y o u r other p o in t,
has people ac tually talk ing Dodgems author
Co lin . we a re p ickin g o u t a
range of games. ROMs and on it. The author of Ship of John Dyson replies:
the Line has since sent us
hardware, als o offers hints
Thcmkyou for your
couple of p ro g ra ms each
modifi cations for running
issue a n d g iv in g a
and tips on how to expand another copy of the game
ru n d o wn on the va ria b le s
and we look forward to
and how to get the best
Dodgems on a mac hine
and whic h parts of the
giv ing it another try in the
without the fl oating point
from my machine. I am
ROM.
also comforted to know
near future.
p ro g ra m d o wh a t .
DDES
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PREMIER'S
NO.1 FAN
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