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T H E SLAVE
I f you ever wondered why it was so diffi cult to buy an adventure creation system for the
ATARI computers, wonder no more. TH E SLAVE is here. Now look at what The Slave has to
offer and start to wonder again - about how all these features can possibly be available in a single
package...
Your adventure games are written in almost plain English using a truly v as t range of
commands, incorporating ev ery thing you could possibly want or need to use now or in the
future. Save your game in whole or in parts, then use the c ommand c ompiler to reduce
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May/June 1986
Editor & Publisher
Les Effingham
Correspondence
PAGE 6 Magazine
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TRA I N CRA ZY by Cohn Faller
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USER SUPPORT?
think everybody would agree that Atari is now a totally
different company from old but curiously there are some
things which Atari seems to want to carry over. The 'old'
Atari were renowned for their lack of support and concern
for their customers and one would think that the present
company would want to change that. Not so, it seems. Atari
have recently announced its policy regarding the long
awaited ROM upgrade to the ST. Anyone who bought a
machine after lst January will receive their upgrade free of
charge but those who bought before 1st January will be
charged £25. Now think about that for a while. The vast
majority o f people who bought machines before 1st
January were people like you and me, who trusted the Atari
name, who wanted to support Atari and most probably
have been loyal to Atari for some time. "fi t wasn't for these
people who bought the early ST's, Atari may well not have
made it into 1986. So who deserves the rewards, those who
trusted and supported or those who doubted and waited?
Atari seem to think that those early purchasers are not so
important. To add insult to injury, a batch o f machines
produced last autumn have a Glue chip which is not
compatible with the ROMs so what do Atari do? Give you
one free? No, they charge you £18 on top of the cost of the
ROMs! That's appalling.
'Thanks for the support s u c k e r s !'. Is that really what
Jack is trying to say?
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T H E SURVEY
Thought you might like to know a few details about the
readership survey now that the long task of analysing it is
complete. Firstly, equipment. Not surprisingly, the majority
of you own an 800XL - over 57%, but a surprising number
own more than one machine, 34% in fact! The old 800 has a
healthy following of 22% whilst the 130XE, despite its lack
of publicity, is coming up with 20%. 16% have 400's and 99
600XL's but only 3% of readers have less than 48k memory.
STs? Very few at the time of the survey, but 26% say that
they intend to buy one this year. Who says that the UK is a
cassette based market? An amazing 75% have disk drives
and 13% do not even own a cassette. Are you listening,
software houses? Telecommunications are still not popular
here with only 62;
43% own printers!
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programmers with the remainder split between 48%
intermediate and 43% beginners. That's a lot of advanced
programmers, how about some contributions? Finally, the
actual readership. PAGE 6 sure gets passed around with as
many as 12 people reading one copy in some cases! Overall
the survey indicates a readership of just over 10,000 which,
combined w i t h t h e level o f dedication, i s h i g h l y
respectable.
Conclusions? Well i f everybody who actually reads
PAGE 6 would subscribe and i f each of those 'advanced'
programmers would send in a program or article we would
have no problem in bringing you a top quality monthly
magazine! But then, these things don't normally happen.
Or do they?
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NEW MA C H IN E S
Announced at the Atari Show was
anew word processing package based
around the 130XE and prompted by
the success o f Amstrad in this field.
Initially based on the 130XE w i th
NLQ dot matrix printer, floppy disk,
80 column card and word processor, it
will retail at £349. Later in the year
Atari promise a brand new 8-bit pro-
duct designed specifically fo r th i s
market.
M OR E F R OM A R IOL A S OF T
Ariolasoft have recently released Archon II with different battlegrounds
for earth, water, air and fire and 12 different coniurable monsters. On disk
only at £12.95.
Movie Maker is another 're-
release' from Ariolasofi via
Electronic Arts that has been
around for a few years but
was never easily available in
this country. Movie Maker
allows you t o create fu l l y
animated cartoons, or movies,
on your Atari and will give
hours of fun. It comes on two
disks with several demons-
tration movies included and
retails at £16.95.
Also from Ariolasofi comes a new range of home productivity programs. The
programs have in fact been available for some time on import but have been
re-packaged and re-priced to represent excellent value for money. Two from
Batteries Included are PaperClip, one of the mostly highly rated word pro-
cessors for the Atari, which will retail at £4495 and Homerak, a combined
word Processor, database and communications package that will sell for
£34.95. The third program comes from Electronic Arts and is another word
processor retailing at £24.95.
HALLEY'S
COMING?
From Firebird comes Th e Comet
Game launched to coincide with the
space probe Giotto's closest approach
to Halley's cornet. An arcade/strategy
game i n which you must save the
Earth from the deadly effects o f the
comet's tail, it involves several levels
and many difficulties, including re-
pairing the coffee machine! Price is
0.95 for 48k or more Atari's.
INFOCOM TAKE OVER
Infocom, who were rumoured to te in serious trouble last year following
the failure of their attempted move into the business market, have been taken
over by Activision. Adventure addicts who might fear that this means the end
to Infocom's unique style should have no fears as the Infocom team will
retain its separate product development and marketing operations but be
able to take advantage of Activision's worldwide distribution strength. This
should mean that all those classic Infocom adventures will be even more
easily available in the UK and, hopefully, at lower prices. In another take over
bid, Activision have acquired GAMESTAR who have produced some of the
finest computer sports simulations. Gamestar products have never been
easily available in the UK but hopefully this will now change.
NEW ST's
Atari's replacements for the 520ST (so soon?) - see page 19 for details.
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