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Software charts .

• Spectrum software reviews — all that's new• can you beat your Spectrum in our game of logic?

• how to throw your voice and control your Spectrur• chess game for the ZX81

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watch out,Europe!

Sinclair is soon to hit Europe.The company has plans to

establish operations in Frank-furl, West Germany in June,

and Paris. France in ihe

mn. This is Ihe firsr step for

Sinclair into the Europeanputer mark«i. The

company is concentrating onImplementing local languagesoftware, which Sinclair

Charles Col ion, Sinclair's

overseas business manager,said: "'Our strategy aims 10

consolidate our leading position

in the European markets andincrease both our sales andmarket share!'

Sinclair is also doing very well

report by independent marketresearch companv Audits ofGreat Britain (ACB) whosurveyed 25,000 households.

Sinclair reportedly scooped43 percent of the market for Ihe"

si quarter 1984. Total Sinclair

quarterly sales through all'

is was 215,000 with ihe

Spec!rum remaining the mostliar model and taking a 36

per cent share.

AGB's findings are also

mirrored by the latesi GallupMarketing Direction quarterly

:y of 10,000 people over the

age of 16 in the UK. The total""

iclair base now stands a! 2.35

llion units, which is 10.7 perit household penetration.

Sinclair Research, 28 StanhopeId, Coniberley, Surrey

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music while loading, a

>, and the possibility to use

t joystick port. Price:

ice. Choice Buildings, 75

Belfast Rd. Camckferzus liT.VI

BPH, N Ireland

Hev Con:[ for

the Dragon 32, Thi.

Seiddab series complete for the

Dragon, and the Spectrumsion of 3D Lunattack is

ortedly the most successful

modified its Heathrow ATC for

the Commodore, and added

Concorde landing. Both gamesst £7.95.

v/son Consultants, 56blion Trading Est, Milton,

•ingdon, Oxon OXI4 4RX

Queue

And Mr King, who has beenwith Rumbelows for 12 years,

said Ihe fact that the computerincluded a monitor was a big

selling point — buyers did not

need the use of the family TV.

ifara.

left "illCheshire

Container ships are on the

Dixons, Boots, Comet and mail

Amslrad's sales directorDickie Mould said; "The initial

interest at the lime of Ihe launchperhaps, predid able. But

i hi- I,

n called every day by

supplied.

-Our initial run of 200,000units for 1984 is already under-

reassessing our budgets for

peripheral will be a dot matrixprinter, made bv Seikosha andcosting £199.

Amstrad Consumer Electron-

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Essex CMI4 4EF

PiracyFrom front page

Member companies include:

IBM, Hewlett-Packard, \V. H.Smith, Virgin Games and Wcb-stcrs, the software distributors.

FAST hopes to have the samelegal success as the FederationAgainst Copyright Theft, set uph>- the \ideo industry.

Ranald Robertson, a memberof FAST's management group.said that as well as pressing for

legislative change. FASTwanted to publicise the legal

protection that already existed.

Mr Robertson is the legal

advisor to the CAP group,which spceiali

being r

paiticiilarlv h\ hinkulikci.

Clue Dijibv- Jones, secret;

of the Guild of Soft*;

director of Websters. said: "1

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consideration for publication.

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which Kanga leaps aboutscoring points by bouncing onbonuses. Our Kanga throws a

good punch too, and he scores

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Kosmic Kanga features

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Available now for the 4SKSpectrum at £5.95, theCommodore 64 version will

Make use ofyour micro

Moder-80 is now out for the

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assembler and a disassembler.

Seven Stars claims it's Micro-

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symbolic assembler. It also

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The disassembler can output

to screen or printer, according10 Seven Stars, and the non-

svmbolic assembler accepts all

standard ZSO mnemonics plus

DEFB, DEFW and DEFW for

I data. It c

decimASCII in simple expressions.

The package comes with

manual and costs £6.95.

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Audiogenic's Burnin' Rubberfor the Commodore 64. You'rea tough character: your one aim

indestructible Tank Cars anc

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you're quick enough, you car

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£6.95

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and I reel ii locks the

itmenl [ho! makes some

CuberDragon 32 £8

gives you a handy bonus score.

There are discs alongside the

Tom Mil, 41 Truro Rd, Silurriuin (Micros). 2 GlensSl, Leeds LS9 9.JJ

option of joystick or keyboardI and whilst both are

Austell, Cornwall PL 25 5JL-Three levels of play: at the

start you are shown graphically

lirM thing you notice aboui

game is the sion in? miisi. The

A machine code arcade game in

which you must help Cuber hopdisplay of Cuber hop pi ng around

is the.

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lotting, which is made so pyramid 10 chongc Ihem into thea mini pyramid.The instructions on Ihe inserl

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and speed and fu

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from...Yes, here are more programsfor your tried and tested oldfaithfuls. They've all been

checked over by our regularreviewers

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>u take the idle of a knight from ihe maze is that the forestjir. Nige oa a quest tor the has trees, not walls, randomlyteal Stone, stolen by the ?ok placed around the screen.

sord MS E5.9SCGL, CGL Hse. Goldings Hill,

Lough! on. Essex IGI0 2RK

You are the pilot iif a plane., ,.

Your height is decreasing with...toss the

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buildings by bombingYou"vc probably t calised this

is an MS version ofarcade game. Altl

program is written h i liA-,1'. -1.

the sound is salisfyii igly differ-

the screen

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and 1 found Ihe gai

least for the first few (iocs. Sice

instructions and va

thought has gone inn ih,:A:^i-.

but ultimately il mtthat this is ihe type of gamepublished in rnagari nes within

two weeks of a newlaunch. It would ne< or be raid

commercially for the more

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the MS and you must fork outr.lthcT Si

BASIC game in sin d of just

typing it in. S.S.

instructions 50".

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WEEKLY 3 July I9B4

COMMODORE 6a PROGRAM

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250-2*0 plate ffl

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211 ML,rl

:'i.--.i.m ,

f .;jytTL-^l -,Snaker, as the

involves moving a make around[he screen, eating pills andavoiding everything else.

There's a 30-second time

limit to clear each screen andthere are more and more pills to

each and every screen.

Scoring is on screen and a

record is kept of ihe high score,'

' h is displayed on the title

included in the program.

watchout

as youguide asnakeabout

• We have inserted REMs in

the program as a guide to [he

Commodore control characters.

These need not be entered.

You've got just

30 seconds toclear thescreen in thisfast andfurious gameby Eric Liddellfor theCommodore 64

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0:ROKE I, 160:fl:P0KE I, 160 1

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COMMODORE 64 PROGRAM

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COMMODORE 64 PROGRAM

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