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Wafadtive.'Microdrive/Oiscovery
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3 ZX COMPUTING OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1985
Editor:
Ray Elder
Editorial Assistant:
Cliff Joseph
Group Editor:
Wendy J Palmer
Software Assistant:
John Gerard Donovan
Sales Executive:
Alice Robertson
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welcome
CONTENTS
6•online
Alan Giles plugs into Micronet once more
(I'd hate to have his phone bills).
16HO-Com Modem...28
At last! The modem system that nearly
didn't make it.
Come in and see Ray's holiday snaps.
Laser 62
'Do you still review keyboards?'
asked. Yes w e do, and yes we did.
1 8 H Light Screen
Designer
they
30
You've heard of Noah's Ark? This issue
w e give you Toni's Arcs.
Seikosha GP50S .. 33
A dot
matrix
printer
for
SpectrumyZX8 1 for under £ 7 0 .
the
Shoptalk
10
Leonardo
It took a while, but Creative Sparks
finally released their new graphics
utility.
. .
Spectrum Lessons 34
Some educational software.
Sinclair Saved, QL Slashed.
. .
it's been
a busy couple of months for Uncle Clive.
Competition
35
ASP FIGHTS SOFTWARE PIRACY
M u c h H m been M i d and written In condemnation of
software piracy but f e w have tsken a positive at and
against rt ASP la among thoae f e w that have taken
action to help curb the grave problem of home
copying of commercial * o ft ware
ASP haa already taken step* to eliminate
advertisement* In our magazfaiea w h i c h relate to
tape duplication for piracy purposes W h * e It la
appreciated thai kidlvtduaite may take 'back-up'
CO plea of their o w n program*, h ahould be noted that
It la
ILLEGAL
to copy commerclaly avaiabte
software for other than personal uae.
Software piracy la coating the software Industry
huge eume of money w h i c h la detrknantal to the
future development of the Industry. K Is In
averytKXty'a Interesta to dramabcaly reduce the
level of »o ft ware piracy primarily because firms need
fun da raised from software sales to plough back Into
research and development of n e w product*. This
means that the standard of software products can
only Improve.
ASP hopes our action will help combat this
serious problem In order to maintain and Improve the
high standards of the UK software Industry. Wa are
asking
you
to do the same by refraining from
duplicating or copying commercially available
software for anything other than personal use.
Win a copy of Melbourne House's Z80
Reference Guide.
After The Games .36
A took at some rather serious uses for
the Spectrum.
The Artist
22
. . .
at which point Softek also released
theirs-
Clocking On
40
Across the Pond. . 24
Mark Fendrick looks
computer books.
at
some
USA
A n excellent machine code utility that
provides you w i t h an on-screen digital
clock.
A visit to Melbourne
House
26
ZX pops along to say hello to the nice
people at Melbourne House.
4
ZX
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Mirage Micro-
Mirage have produced a simple, easy to
use device for making microdrive backup
copies.
Readers' Reviews . 68
A look back at Level 9 and Taspro.
Spectrum
Disassembler
A
handy utility
programmers.
for
machine
code
Mindplay
We review
Adventure.
the
sequel
to
70
Classic
Competition.. . . .45
Win a copy of QL Caverns!
Fish
Go fishing w i t h your Spectrum.
100
Bookshelf
Simulation
Software
Sappro
. .46
. .48
52
David Harwood takes over
our book
reviews.
First
Steps
Machine
Code
The final part
series.
of
our machine
in
72
code
Tortoise-wise.... 77
Some more philosophical musing on the
computer generation gap.
Ray takes a look at some of the different
types of simulation around.
Pluto Adventure .78
An adventure set beneath the surface of
the pianet Pluto.
An outer space strategy game for the
Spectrum.
Ask Me Another .103
A quiz program for the Spectrum.
Problem Page...
107
Help!
we The Jury
Lots of software reviews.
5
OL Characteristics 86
David Nowotnik delves into the QL's
character set, and comes up w i t h a
version of Lunar Lander.
Attack of the Mutant
wallies .
;
108
What can
I
say?
Microdrive
Adventures ..
. . .62
How to use your microdrives to write
bigger and better adventures.
Twenty One
Try your luck on the ZX81
11a
117
118
peripheral
Problems
90
. .90 • D e b u g g e r
ZX81 Chatterbox
6 6
B^dRace^^^^i™
ConversionTips
The ZX81 takes to the roads.
John Wase is set upon by a load of add
ons.
Help w i t h those programming problems.
We welcome Software Farm's Julian
Chappie to the pages of ZXC.
How to convert ZX81 programs for the
Spectrum.
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