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FEATURES

APRIL 1986

VOLUME 2

NUMBER 7

• C-16 by Gremlin Graphics

A selection of software from Gremlin.

• Data Errors: Locate and Destroy

We help you sort out those tiresome errors.

• Telephone Exchange

Editor:

Stuart Cooke

Big communications program for your C64.

• Money Management

Assistant Editor:

Marie Curry

A detailed look at Commodore's budget Planner.

• Databos

Advertisement Manager:

Mike Segrue

A database for your C128.

• Testing Ground 7 0

The Basic Testing Systems helps you write better programs.

• Memory Juggling

Advertisement Copy

Control:

Laura Champion

Group Editor:

Dave Bradshaw

Get more from Basic memory.

• Making Light Work

.,:roup Managing

Editor:

Wendy Palmer

Amicron's light pen faces the Eric Doyle test.

• Two for the C128

Sieve Carrie brings you two utilities for your 128.

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Soft in the Head

GAMES SOFTWARE HAS ALWAYS MAN-

aged to cover the most weird and

wonderful themes and the latest new

releases are no exception.

There are two new ﬁ lm spin-offs just

released on to the market and the ﬁrst,

from Electric Dreams Software, is based

on Steven Spielberg's recently highly

successful fantasy movie - Back to the

Future. Rod Cousens, Electric Dreams'

MD, makes great claims for the new

game. "It is a strong game in its own right,

designed to complement the ﬁ lm - we

haven't just taken the name of the ﬁ lm."

Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the

new game is that it features teenage

romance and even an on-screen kiss!

Back to the Future closely follows the

storyline of the movie in which the hero,

Marty, arrives in the 1950s and ﬁ nds

himself having to engineer a romantic

meeting between his parents, Lorraine

and George. Certainly not your average

zap-em-up! To enter this coffee bar world

of teenage dreams will cost you a mere

9.95 and you only need one qualiﬁcation

- a C64.

Still on the subject of ﬁlms, it's classic

horror this time. Remember The Phantom

of the Opera, that ghastly hunchback

who roamed the Paris sewers at the turn of

the century? He's now been resurrected

for the fourth time only the screen's a bit

smaller this time round. There have been

three ﬁ lm versions of this chilling tale, in

1931, 1943 and 1962. 1986 sees The

Phantom's big revival with not only a

computer game, but also an Andrew

Lloyd Webber stage musical.

This one's also a love story but in an

entirely different vein. A horribly dis-

ﬁgured musician falls for a beautiful opera

singer. Not exactly an ideal match

because she's not in the least bit

interested. Not deterred by her revulsion

the Phantom takes the bull by the horns

and abducts her. From there it's a classic

damsel in distress style rescue plot.

Popular opera themes bring a touch of

class and author John Ransley calls it

"Hunchback in evening dress". If you've

got a C64 you can ﬁnd out for yourself.

Melbourne House recently

announced the release of the epic sequel

to The Hobbit. This of course is the Lord of

The Rings Part I. Because of the enormous

size of the program, the game has had to

be released on two cassettes and the

package also includes a copy of the paper-

back, The Fellowship to the Ring., plus an

extensive instruction booklet.

Melbourne House claims many out-

standing features for the game including

its ability to understand Inglish - let's

hope its spelling isn't always that bad!

With Inglish, apparently, you can now say

almost anything you want because the

computer can recognise intelligent

sentences up to 128 characters long,

pretty impressive. There is a large degree

of interaction with the other characters,

you can answer and tell them what to do.

There are over 200 locations, a vocabulary

of 800 words and even a multi-player

option. It's available on the C64 on both

cassette and disk, t15.95 and £19.95

respectively. If you're really into the

Tolkien cult then you might also be

interested in the Lord of the Rings

hologram offer. Each hologram features

the image of a Nazgul, or ring wraith -

commonly known as a Black Rider. A

small hologram - 5" x 4" - costs E29.95

including p&p and there is a limited

edition of a large version - 100 copies only

- for a staggering £149.95.

English Software has just released two

new titles which are as far apart in concept

as is possible. Knight Games is a medieval

tournament type game where you

compete in seven ancient and very violent

events: Sword ﬁghting, duelling axemen,

archery, quaterstaff bashing, crossbow

shooting, ball and chain ﬂ ailing and

pikestaff contests. Deﬁ nitely Daley

Thompson with a difference.

The other English Software release is

Elektraglide, a fantasy racing game

featuring tunnels, hair-raising bends,

scrolling graphics and a rock music

soundtrack. These excursions into the

future and the past are for the C64 and

both will cost you E8.95 on cassette.

Elektraglide is also available on disk at

[12.95.

Mastertronic has launched itself into

the new year with a ﬂourish. After a very

successful 1985, there are several new

releases on the way which Mastertronic

hopes will continue its success in the

budget software market.

There are three new Mastertronic

games for Commodore machines - two

are for the C64 and one for the C-16. Kane

is another wild west adventure, which

seems all of a sudden to have become a

popular games genre. Mastertronic says:

"It makes High Noon look like a 12

o'clock lunch break."

Mastertronic is also going for this

year's oddest game title award with

another C64 release, dozily entitled Zzzzl

Hopefully it's not a game guaranteed to

send you to sleep.

The C-16 game is called Big Mac and

that's all we can tell you at the moment

because Mastertronic has labelled it top

secret. Should be a meaty one though, so

look forward to it with relish! All three are

in the £1.99 range but they're not all

edible.

Hewson Consultants have ofﬁ cially

changed their name to plain old Hewson

and are sporting a new image for the new

year. Spearheading Hewson's new

releases for 1986 is Uridium, the sequel to

Paradroid, which is reviewed in this issue

of Your Commodore. Turn to our Action

Replay section to ﬁ nd out what we

thought of it.

There's also a very high-tech setting

for Beyond's latest title Quake Minus

One. A terrorist group called the Robot

Liberation Front are trying to sabotage the

Titan Power Station which is situated in

the depths of the Atlantic Ocean and

supplies all the world's industrial nations

with energy. There are ﬁve computers

down there and four of them are in the

hands of the RLF. That's what comes of

putting all your eggs in one basket. You've

got to regain control of the electronic

installation from the hands of the metallic

malefactors. It's on the Monolith label at

£9.95 and is also featured in this month's

Action Replay.

Also from Beyond, this time by Denton

Design, is Enigma Force, the C64 sequel to

Shadowﬁre. Five members of the Enigma

team - all with totally unpronounceable

names - are escorting the evil General

Zoff to face the consequences of his life

of crime. When war break's out, the

spaceship crashes and the Enigma Force

are faced with the daunting task of killing

Zoff, ﬁnding the only spaceworthy ship

on the planet and escaping. Will it be too

much for even their awesome powers?

Spend £9.95 and ﬁnd out.

Activision has now released Mind-

shadow on the C64. It's a graphic

adventure which will be a nightmare for

amnesiacs. You awake on a deserted

beach with no memory and an uncertain

future. If you decide not to take a quick

holiday by the sea, then you should go in

search of your identity. There are logic

puzzles for experienced adventurers. SO

screens with detailed graphics and some

with animation, an on-screen adventure

tutorial for beginners and a cheat book if

you get stuck on the hard bits.

Touchline

Mindshadow, Koronis Rift: Activision, 5/7

Forelease Rd, Maidenhead, Berks SL6

1RP.

Enigma Force, Quake Minus 1: Beyond,

3rd Floor, Lector Court, 151 Farringdon

Rd, London EC1R 3AD. 01 837 2899.

Paradroid: Hewson, Hewson House, 56B

Milton Trading Estate, Milton, Abingdon

Oxon 0X14 4RX. 0235 832939.

Big Mac, Zzzz, Kane: Mastertronic 8-10

Paul Street, London EC2A 41H 01 377 6880.

Knight Games, Elektraglide: English

Software, 3rd Floor, 1 North Parade, Par-

sonage Gardens, Manchester M60 1BX.

061 835 1358.

Lord of the Rings: Melbourne House,

Castle Yard House, Castle Yard,

Richmond. 01 940 6060.

The Phantom of the Opera: John Ransley,

3 Berry Close, Telscombe Cliffs, East

Sussex BN9 7DW. 07914 88360.

Back to the Future: Electric Dreams, 0703

229694.

Space Doubt, Causes of Chaos, Nu-Wave:

CRL, CRL House, 9 King's Yard,

Carpenter's Rd, London EIS 2HD. 01 533

2918.

Max Headroom: Quicksilva, Liberty

House, 222 Regent St, London Wl. 01 439

0666.

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Koronis Rift is another in Activision's

series of Lucas Film games. It's about a

wandering technoscavenger who

discovers the legendary Koronis Rift - a

weapons testing ground of the ancients,

presumably a latterday Bikini Atoll. It's

littered with valuable junk which is yours

for the taking, provided that you don't get

wasted by the ancient guardians - E9.99 on

C64 cassette.

Now a couple of quickies from CRL -

there are two new C64 games out, Space

Doubt and Causes of Chaos, both are on

sale now at f 8.95. There's also been an

ofﬁcial leak from CRL to say that a Nu-

Wave label is to be established which will

feature alternative software. The release is

in March and will be entitled Darkness at

Dawn. What's new about it? It's all sound

and no graphics. Most odd - deﬁnitely

different.

And for Max Headroom fans - the

game based on the ﬁlm of the birth of the

ﬁrst computer generated TV presenter

will soon be appearing on your computer

screen. The game is from Quicksi Iva and

plots the creation and subsequent career

of sarcastic Max. It'll be out on the C64.

Hard Lines

HARDLY HAS THE GLUE DRIED ON A

row of C128s emerging from Commo-

dore's production lines than the

Commodore 128D hits the streets.

Launched at the Which? Computer Show

in Birmingham in January, the C128D is a

standard Commodore 128K multi-

processor micro-computer with an integ-

ral 1571 disk drive.

According to Commodore, the

package is aimed at the business user

looking for a competitively priced entry

point into computing. It features a single

industry standard 5

sided

disk drive built into the processor unit and

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