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July 1988

Pius: News, advice, programming,

adventures, pokes and reviews.

The Ofﬁcial Amstrad Home Computing Magazine

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REVIEWS

The ofﬁcial magazine

for Amstrad CPC users

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sequel to Druid.

Stairway to Hell

Jaunty ladders and

platforms game from

Power House.

REGULARS

PROGRAMMING

Reﬂections

Fast ﬂipping on the CPC

with Cy Noble's reﬂecting

Rsx.

News

Mandarin launch success;

CPC prize freeze; computer

conservation; all the latest

CPC news.

Auntie John's

Machine Code

What's in the ﬁrmware

to help you read your

keyboard?

Letters

Disc copiers defended;

moans and groans about

ACU; SD Microsystems

angered by Small Trader's

Pack review.

Ro Fruit Machine

OL Simulator

Basic Tutor

Jeff Walker turns his

attention to the ﬁrst of the

CPC's graphics commands.

Code Masters reap the

scrolling fruits of success.

Pirates!

Avast ye landlubbers and

belay the shoot 'em ups

while we take a peek at

Microprose's nautical

diversion.

FEATURES

Adventures

Time and Magik, The

Bard's Tale, Dark Sceptre.

3 1 Three in One

I Bill Tomlins reveals the

bare facts about the latest

version of Brunword.

Applications

Advice

David Foster writes about

DDI-1 interface problems,

a KDS printer port patch,

and much more.

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Editor: Simon Rockman

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Rim Writer

The man responsible for

the Amstrad conversion of

Rimrunner describes how

he survived without sleep

and learned to hate the

Commodore 64.

Hairy Hackers

Ninja, Inﬁltrator,

Flying Shark and North

Star hacks; Print Master

patch; Cybernoid map.

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Sneak look at the

speciﬁcations for the

Amstrad Eurocomputer.

Motion Carried

Alastair Scott ﬁnds out

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Mandarin

launch

LEE Ho look, in the heart of

London's Chinatown, is per-

haps the premier Chinese

restaurant in the country. As

such, Mandarin Software

could not have chosen a

more delicious — we mean

prestigious — venue for its

launch.

The setting was a large

split-level sideroom off the

main restaurant; the upper

level accommodating a

selection of micros running a

selection of software and

demos, the lower level

accommodating the really

important things like food,

drink and the Amstrad CPC

machine_

Spread liberally around

the proceedings was the

Mandarin team looking more

like the cast of Fu Manchu

meets The Wolfmen than a

complement of software

marketing executives.

Chinese moustache dan-

gling beneath a hat that

could shelter half a small vil-

lage from rain, Chris Payne,

Mandarin's marketing man-

ager, told us excitedly of

Mandarin's plans.

No less than ﬁve well

known software houses have

linked up with Mandarin," he

said, "Level 9, Bubble Bus,

Powerhouse, Red Rat, and

Jawx International of Paris".

They intend to release no

more than ten to a dozen

games a year. But these

releases, Chris says, will be

of the highest possible

quality.

Amstrad CPC owners can

already judge this quality for

themselves. The Level 9

team have put together a

Time and Magik trilogy of

adventures that consists of

enhanced versions of Lords

of Time, Red Moon and The

Price of Magik.

Mandarin classes the CPC

in the "established" group of

home computers. Although

Mandarin's Peter Ho/me, Mike Cowley and Chris Payne at their ,.nscrotable best

told* Amstrad Computer

User: "It is because the CPC

is selling in such large quan-

tities that we have been able

to keep down the cost to the

end user. ''We have no plans

at present to increase the

basic price of CPC machines,

but should the dram

shortage get worse we

will have to review the

situation".

the vast majority of releases

will have been developed on

other computers, CPC con-

versions are promised.

Manchester-based Red Rat

is currently developing Rally

Run, which looks to be an

excellent car rallying simu-

lation and the ﬁrst Bubble

Bus game for Mandarin is

Starquake, a rip roaring

explore and shoot-'em-up•

The next adventure off the

Level 9 assembly line will be

Lancelot, a game based on

past ages of chivalry when

men were men and women

got caught by the dragons

and screamed a lot.

41111011

New wide

carriage printer

CPC price

on hold

the many users of stationery

up to 16 inches wide, the

L05000 DI readily accepts

paper in fanfold, cut sheet

and roll paper format.

It is fed either by the belt

tractor drive or friction

feeder,

Both a serial and a parallel

interface are included in the

E399 + VAT price tag.

THE latest in the fast growing

range of Amstrad printers is

the IBM and Epson-

compatible LQ5000 DI. It is a

professional 24 pin dot

matrix printer which

produces output in the best

letter quality at 96 cps, and

draft quality at a rapid 2

cps.

Designed speciﬁcally for

FEARS that the world

shortage of dram chips

might force up CPC prices

appear to be groundless — at

least for the time being.

Although Amstrad has

increased the retail cost of its

PCW and PC computers

there are no similar moves

planned for the CPC range.

A company spokesman

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