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WIN200 prizes of
Outback a newgame from
Paramount ;;must be won
Softwarereviews for:Spectrum, BBCDragon, SordMS
and Texas
Three fun li
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PLUS:programs to type
infortheCommodore 6d,Oric and Dragon
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letters, softwarecharts for sixcomputers...
Computers orSomesayers?
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conclusion in a report b
people about their kmof, and altitude* to.
computers.It predicts thai an oil
Ttic studj was drawn u|
Market, ng Direction,conjunction with Gall .
Graham Tillotson. managing '
director of Market' '
Direction, said: "We !
found lime and imu- .n],nn
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Black boxhits pirates
.alt piracy.
Microdcal, the Cornwall-based
Symes said the bos.. COMunmarked chip-, rlnjiit
Ihc Dragon's jowick podc encrypted the game.
days on it anil then told
•Forger it.'"
Mr Symes said Nan h eraSoftware Consultants hid beenworking on the key I
August and the design cost
into five figures.
Microdcfll's games us
cost about 18, but [iuuardwill be priced ar £9.95. 1
then, said Mr Symes, Microdcalwas losing money comparedwilh ils other products.
He said: '"The industry »die wiihoui something like th
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with them."William l\icl. chairman, JAms.,11.
omputer makers said iXKollhcf.dkolRAM was use-
SfuslnJ'ihe'&s'x 5;
able !v, iheindustrs standard BASK".:;.ia:.: .:;'-i!::iCL!
coi!,:,allbl,fhel and extension* lor graphics andsound. A version of HiSolYs Pascalked ah.. LI liiis.
Mr Sugar said: "In was available, alone with an as
J to eel a look ill. eiriKer disassembler and machinecode monitor.
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aT'SS^Peripherals u ouidincludcapairot
ROMs and a modulator to allow theHe contrasted Ihe success of Sin- uscol'lelevisions instead oiAimlrad's
computers with tho c From Japan. The CPC 464 has three display
:md a crapin.s unidois can he usedSound: Ihe C»C4M uses a soun
from GemAY8" 10 family, it si
mwIim for K<i Belt. S.Jnini socket liir
power supply.
wide. 10mm high and 170mm deep
S> stems.I and 4 in Ihe ranee will have
and Loco. Ihe educational laricuaec.
built in. as well as a single .'in dise
drive, claimed to hold about 1S0K on
Monitors: both ihe green screen
model(GT 64) and the colour model
'The keyboard unit and monitors are
made ink rci lli
i in I mmand power suppk -n.idulat.ir is made
Gameplayers?
From from page
Idle-class paren
i of people mi
"Theybecause ihcy believe thai ii will
«ive dicir L-liildrcn an advantage
in life.
"Bui we also know thai what
actually happens is thai ihe
child — usually a boy — ends
3 using ii solely for playing
He said: 'Tor ihc firs: lii
we have a large installed li
f home computers in
ethew in theHint' nu> iic i
wall lor nome computers,
The survey also showed lhal
only half of Ihe peoplequestioned could name a single
home computer brand, despite
an est ima led 07m spent last
Sinclair and Commodorewere, as expected, at the top
with BBC. Aiari and Applenest. Brands like Lynx and Oi;.
were virtually unknown.When prompted, Atari •
name shot ahead of Sinclair's -
people's minds. The theory Is
although the company
m.l-11 k nforits games pi aye i
Mr Tillotson said: "There is
Still a tremendous ignorance
about home computers."Spontaneous awareness of
brands is low. brand imageshave barely formed andpeople's awareness and know-ledge of even quiie commonlyused jargon is at a low level."
Respondents were shown a
friendly". The highest aware-
pets figure for any of them was55 per cent, and that was the
percentage of those who knew
Mr Tillotson said: "Wedidn'i do anything clever in [his
people to define the words they
claimed 10 know — if they said
they understood the meaning of
""If, ii
""fact, e of tl
telling the wholi
then the level of understanding
out there is much worse ihan
the figures show."Lasl year 1.7m computers —
total cost £300m were sold at anaverage price of £170.
Markeiuiii Direction's study
is called the OB Markei for
Home Computers, GeneralAltitude Study, which is carried
out each year. The companyalso has a more frequent study
called the Personal Computerand Video Games Users Survey.
Marketing Direction, 6 HighStreet, Thames Dillon, Surrey
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Black BoxFrom front page
letter from a boy who said hewas paying a pound lo a groupfor copies of games."Mierodeal had placed an
initial order of 25,000 of [he
applied for.
Mr Symes said: "We will
Wehopefully, be ordering moreand hope to bring [he price
down."It would also be offered lo
oiher software companies. AndMr Symes said it would bepriced to Ihcm al a figure whichwould recoup Microdeal's
He said: "After all, while
people are playing othercompanies' ripped ofr gamesthey aie not buying ours."
Anil he said that Hu//ard
Bait had been chosen for the
test because it was the best ofthe 4] being released. Theotheis, which include a small
the Commodore r>». Atari,
Dragon. Aquarius. Spectrum,
Unc, Electron, BBC. TandyColour and ViC-20.
demand was [here. As ii used[lie joystick port, it would onlywork on some if Ihcy had ajoystick interface.
He explained thai the key,
packed wiih ihe cassette in a
routines, each of which cross-
checked with another before
running the game. A differently
programmed key was neededforeach game.
managed lo
p the g:
Mierodeal, 41 Truro Rd, St
Austell, Cornwall PUS SJ£
TWO MEN'S VIEW
why settlefor BASIC?
ig used BASIC. Pascal. Forth. Lugo and various i
tages, we fail to see why people settlefor BASIC, whic
feel is one of the most complicated.
Pascal and Forth, for example, are much easier Ic.
because nf proper programming structure* which removi
need for complicated jumping. It is much easier to understand
WHILE hungry, EAT than 10 IF hungry THEN eat: GOTO It
One version of BASIC which comes very close to being
structured is BBC BASIC However, it totally misses theft
What is the point in having procedures, functions
constructs like FOR... NEXT and REPEAT UNTIL wher.
still has to jump over a procedure (with GOTO) lo stop il I
inadvertently executed? Also the commands GOTO and
GOSUB — the defame •tits ol structured programming —- are in
the language when they should reads he redundant.
Normally there is no provision in BASIC for named
procedures or subroutines, so programs begin to get totally
unreadable when there are /um/h and subroutine calls to
And BASIC has no data type declaration facilities like Pascal
and Forth. Programs tend to use variables of a very limited type.
Admittedly, some BASIC variants can predefine variables to lu-
string, real, integer or double precision. But with most popular
home evmpuwrs. such us the Atari. Commodore 64, VIC-20,
Spectrum and BBC. ihis is impossible.
For mosl tasks integer arithmetic will suffice, and is usually
much faster than real arithmetic. Bui the BBC requires a per
cent sign after variables lo denote integers, so making programs
even more unreadable, with ihe.se per cent signs scattered al'
over the place. The Spectrum doesn't even have integer
Another thing that adds to imreuda'mliiv is the us
numbers to represent commands, as in 'FX, VDU. PLOT and
ENVELOPE on ihe BBC and the confusing use of POKE tc
control Ihe graphics on unexpandea i imtmudorc computers.
What is wrong with .simple English commands?For Acorn to encourage the use of BBC BASIC in schools
is totally naive, it is senseless lo promote a language which is
both BASIC and non-standard. Why not teach Logo or Pinstead? What is this fascination with BASIC? Why don't
people see Ihe light?
We own Epson HX-20s and Jupiter Aces andfor the Awe have Pascal, Forth and the excellent assembler from
Transum. To be honesi, we have hardly used BASIC for
months.
Our suggestion to you is to think very carefully about
buying a decent language tor whatever computer you own.
really is easy to use proper ianguuges provided you have an o)
, [jindon W1B3AB
MING WfcTKI.Y 17 April 1984
COMPETITION
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threat fromswagmen in
Paramount
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KfkMOUNT
ChOCky Eggby
Dave Carlosand
Jon RevlsWhich came first, the chicken
ir the chocolate egg7 This is a
question which has puzzled
scholars for centuries now.le well known Cadbury
group believe il was the
chocolate egg while any farmer
will claim the chicken was first.
This program tries to solve the
deadlock by making
! first. For
without worms there are nochickens to lay eggs and no eggs
to become chickens.
The aim of this program is to
see how many worms youpeck before you run ouchickens in the coop. If
l peck five
from the 10 that com<surface each day then you get to
lay your chocolate egg andupon its haLching get another
The final hazards to ourmodern-day chicken are the
buried radioactive rocks which
do rather strange things to
n passing - -
immediately turned into a
radiation beamwhich, yes you guessed it, kills
chickens.
Pije a HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 17 April 1984
We have also pthe listing after
word. These are
necessary and can be left
you wish. They arc there for
clarity only (this also applies to
the REMs).The program has been tested
on the BBC Model B and
Electron the progress
slow but the game is actually no. .: r. If the BBC has discs [hen
you should include the line in
listing 1 which sets PAGE 10
&I200.The program has few
REMarks in Order 10 save
PROCedure names arcsupposed to be self explanatory
and should help you to see whatis happening.The use of strings .
both graphics colours and.... : around tin
little unusual. They were used* e it easy to print the
multi-coloured characters,some of which need 10 actual
characters to he printed. This
technique can save a lot ofmemory if used wisely.
You will also search in vain
for the program title. It is held
in AC11 codes and READ into
the tS. Greatest care needs to betaken over typing the DATAlines. A single mistake here canbe very hard to find and canhave highly unpredictable
The use of an absolute
(ABS) to lest li
the chicken, and of the rocks,
to the worm is also a tilde
unusual. The technique is based
on the idea [hat if they are close
:n subtracting the «
fairly imaJI answer. We arc notreaily interested in whether the
direction is left or right so theABS function
There arc (wo initialisation
for the "hole program (iniil)
irything
(inil2).
The funtion FNrock tests to
scif the worm is close to one ofthem. If it is then the value - 1
(true on a BBC) is returned, if
not then is returned and the
accordingly.
The other interesting thing
about the
putting the worms into an array
(wormSfO) and wormS(l)} wecan print either from a single
line of BASIC Then by onlyallowing fl^i to have values ofand I (which i» what the MOD
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490 sun plots sun anc
ens left in henhom690 (ills (Xt'o.Wii)
910 plot (Nf>
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HOME COMPUTING WEEKLY 17 April 1984 Page 9
Allen Falloutby
Shlngo Sugluraare the sole defender of The
;t Gorgon. All ihe others in
poqiior, have been wiped
s. How long can you
:,. -.\\
. ider the name ALIEN andthen type in Listing 4 and SAVEit under the name FALLOUTjust after ALIEN.
If your system is tape based it
it vitally important that youSAVE FALLOUT before you
'*e itself
o type it
However, once you have
typed it all in — and provided
it's correctly entered — the first
program will automatically
reset PAGE to the appropriate
value and CHAIN in the second
When the i
loaded a brief i
will appear a
ii program is
it for
jss the space bar.
te screen will clear andee the aliens at the lop
with your tiny ship at the
bottom of the screen.
Press Z, X and shift to moveleft, right and fire respectively.
lg the surface
sc(\) array of scores
When your spacecraft is
destroyed and your score is in
the top eight you will be askedto enter your name and the hall
of fame wil] be displayed.
The sound can be switched
off or on at any time during the
game by pressing Q or S.
Note: When you type in the
program it is essential to enter
the £ sign, in line 1280, as a
hash symbol. This is broughtabout by the fact that the
ASCII code for hash on the
BBC corresponds to the code
i *l\31(>.
i *FX2I0
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A quality programmefrom Paramount.Any VIC 20. Joystick.
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1000-112(1 prints the sloi
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THE NAME IN VIDEO GAMES
super Dartsby
Mike Stranger
It's e for oplayers,
for [he players lo
.... The normal rules of
dans apply, and [he dans are
supplied (electronically, ofcourse) in sen of three.
~o aim each dan, [here is a11 aiming circle al [he top
righl-hand corner of [he screen,
ft [lashing do[ can be moved by
!he cursor keys to the point
where the player wauls the dart
When ready to "throw", youDress zero, and a dan appears
a board, which
But, as nobody is a perfe;
dans ihrower, there is
lie dan will
ihe board exactly where
aimed il. How like ;cz. dje achieved by:onfirmed by
scoreboard, with appiopaccompanying beep', and
programsffter your
adds a transflctign
converts numeric aalo zero-filled right-al
responses, transfers c
00 adds a tegular uansa37U0 deletes a regular
centre of [he circle is first of all
multiplied by a factor of ih
Before applying this to
full-screen board, a random
calculations at this stage(nobody's a perfect dansplayer!) Then the dan is primedon the main board as a c
enclosed in circle (end-view
The position of [he dart
relative to the centre of the
main board is now re-defined in
terms of its distance from the
centre and (he angle from the
*£%r<
"ttfc
three o'clock position.
The angle enablescomputer lo decide in i
scoring segment t'J
situated, and th
enables it to decide whethera double, treble, outer or t
miss, for that matter!)
Note: Capitals in PRINT st
GRAPHICS mode.
n by allowing you to
sr the form used in ordinary
sofl BASIC and
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Gives details of all regular
transactions which currently
apply
nment (up lo 15
g. name of payee),
o £99,999.99) and
listing 3 — Accounts
• Delete a u
* Enquire oi
for an account. Both nentered and regular tr
— inserted by the program -
are displayed
automatically added to the
database.
The SAVE facility caters for
i cycle of three tapes (numbered1-3) to safeguard against loss of
cacti account ari-.i r.lu- ii:
ji account. Consists of dayof the month (01-31), comment
to 10 characters), amounto £99,999.99) and whether
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PROGRAMS
SPECTRUM PROGRAMS
tper Darts is available on cassette tor £3.50.
"ing postage and packing. Send a cheque or
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SOFTWARE REVIEWS
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recoEiisinK 'he corcharacters as you type in
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sound Effectsby m. serbert
Here are a few sound effects 1
use in my hobby, writing
adventure games. I would like
to sec what other readers could
Each sound is then general!
in a separate subroutine so th
:an be used individually.
rwaril, short loopslinly voice I. The sound!
nerated by POKEing values
high frequency voii
_. low frequency voir.
H3 high frequency wft
lisling I — Moon Lander
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40 CLS: PRINT: PRINT "»**»*»**«*«««PAIRS*•****»****«**"50 PRINT:PRINT"IF YOU NEED INSTRUCTIONS PRESS 'ENTER'ELSE PRESS ANY KEY.
"
60 A*=INKEY*:IF A*="" THEN 6070 IF A*=CHR*<13) THEN 680B0 DIMP(li,6) ,B ( 1 1,6) ,C< 11,6) ,CC(50) ,TT(50) ,P*<2> ,G(2)90 CLSB100 CLSsPRINT: INPUT"FIRST PLAYER'S NAME";P*I1)110 PRINT: INPUT"SECOND PLAYER'S NAME";P*<2>120 RElHHHHf»*INITIALISE»*»#**»*130 S(1)=0:S<2)=0:N=1140 FOR X=l TO 6150 FOR Y=l TO 11
160 READP(Y,X>170 NEXT Y,X180 FOR X=l TO 6190 FOR Y=l TO 11200 READB(Y,X)210 NEXT Y,X220 CLS5230 FOR X=l TO 6240 FOR Y=l TO 11
250 POKE P(Y,X»,B(Y,X)260 NEXT Y,X270 FOR X=140B TO 1535280 P0KEX.143290 NEXT300 PRINTe3B4,P*(l)''S":PRINT@405,P*<2) , 'S"j310 PRINT@417,"SC0RE"S1:PRINT@43B,"SC0RE"52;320 FOR X=l TO 50:READCC(X>:NEXT330 SDUNDB9,2340 FOR Y=50 TO 1STEP-1 : R=RND < Y> : TT < Y) =CC (R> : CC <R> =CC (Y
):NEXT350 S0UND145,2360 FOR X=2 TO 6370 FOR Y=2 TO 11
3B0 C(Y,X)=TT(N) :N=N+1390 NEXTY,X400 SDUND178,2410 REM#****»»GAME STARTS»*»»»»420 FOR B=l TD 2430 PRINT@45B,STRING*(11 ,143) : PRINT645B, P* (6> '"S";440 PRINTH490, STRING* (9, 143) ;: PRINTS490, "FIRST GO";450 A*=INKEY$:IF A*=""THEN450460 IF A*<"A" OR A*>"E" THEN GOSUB940: GOTO450470 A=A5C<A*)-63480 A*=INKEY*:IF A*="" THEN 480490 B=VAL<AS>:IF B=0 THEN B=10500 IF A*<"0" OR A*>"9" THEN GDSUB 940:GOTD450510 IF PEEK<P(B+1,A>)=207 THEN GOSUB940: GOT0450520 POKE P(B+1,A) ,C(B+1,A>530 PRINT@490,STRING*<9,143);:PRINT@490, "SECOND GO"?54B A$=INKEY*: IFA*=""THEN 540550 IF A*<"A" OR A*>"E" THEN GDSUB 940: GOTO540560 C=ASCCA*)-63570 A*=INKEY«! IF A*=""" THEN5705B0 D=VAL(A*>:IF D=0 THEN D=10590 IF A=C AND B=D THEN GDSUB 940:GOTO530600 IF PEEK(P(D+1,C) >=207 THEN 6O5UB940: GOT0540610 POKE P<D+1,C),C(D+1,C)620 IF C(B+1,A)=C(D+1,C)THEN GOSUB 740:GDTO430630 FOR X=l TO 2000:NEXT640 POKE P(B+1,A) ,191:P0KE P (D.+ l ,C) , 191650 SOUND240.1
Kcmfand
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this is really a test or memory.Firry cards are displayed face
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o turn over two cards which are
een by both players.
The aim is to remember'here the cards arc in order to
urn over two cards which are
me same.
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660 NEXT G670 GOTO420680 CLS:PRINT:PRINT" FIFTY CARDS ARE SHOWN, FACE DDWN.THE OBJECT OF THE GAME IS TO PICK MATCHING PAIRS.690 PRINT" THE PLAYERS TAKE TURNS TD TURN OVER TWO CARDS BY KEYING IN THE ROW LETTER , FOLLOWED BY THE CDLUMN NUMBER. THE CARDS ARE DISPLAYED FDR A SHORT TIMEAND THEN TURNED BACK.700 PRINT" IF THE PLAYER IS SUCCESSFUL IN CHOOSING A PAIR,ONE POINT IS ADDED TO HIS SCORE AND THE CARDSAREREMOVED FROM THE SCREEN.710 PRINT:PRINTSTRINGS<6,159)"PRESS'ENTER'TO START"STR1NG*(6,159);720 A*=INKEY*!lF A*=""THEN 720730 IF A*OCHR*<13) THEN 730 ELSE S0740 REM*******WIN ROUTINE******750 PLAY"T12L404DCDCD"760 SCG>=S<G>+1770 IF G=l THEN PRINT@423,5(G) ; : G0T0790780 PRINTS443,S(G);790 P0KEP(B+1,A> ,207:POKEP(D+1,C) ,207800 SOUND240,1810 IF S(l)+S(2)=25 THEN 840820 RETURN830 REM******END ROUTINE********840 PLAY"T5L403GABD4L4. . C03G"B50 CLSs IFS(1>>S(2> THEN PRINT8230, P* < 1
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INT@230,P*(2> " WINS"B60 FOR X=l TO 1000;NEXTS70 CLS:PRINT@230, "ANOTHER GAME?(Y/N)"880 A*=INKEY*:IF A*=""THEN880890 IF A*="Y" THEN RESTORE : GOT090900 CLS910 PRINTS194, "GOODBYE " ; P* ( 1
)
920 PRINTS258, "GOODBYE ";P*C2)930 END940 REM*******WARNING********950 PLAY"T10O2CG"960 RETURN770 REM#**»***LOCATI0NS********980 DATA 1024,1027,1030,1033,1036,1039,1042,1045,1048,1051,1054990 DATA 1088,1091,1094,1097,1100,1103,1106,1109,1112,1115, 1
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234,1237,1240,
298,1301,1304,
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he lop o! the league Inhte <>: home computer makers. Last,
il has 37 per cent nj market — shipping mil over a million
computers — ami this year'; prediction is for }6 per cent.
Atari was second with In per cent, expected to improve20 tier cent litis war. lexas. which has now pulled out of the
market, was nest with 14 per cent.
Then there was limex 'nine per rent) which has sloppedselling micros after a lack of success with U. S. versions of rite
Spectrum and 7X81. Tandy was fifth with eight per ct-
tpredietion: l.< tier cent/ ami then there was everyone else.
Next year Cnleco. if it is lucky, will command a whoppingSix per cent. How's thai tor son,;- educated guessing? We'll see.
Even though the number of computer retailer: dnuiiled last
year— and the ma/ke; tins year is cvpected in rise to S.'.'i billion
from I.'.J billion — one of America's largest retailers got othe business.
J C Penney, which had been selling Atari. Coleco and 77,
claimed inadequate profits!
The IBM I'l. "jr. is nor going tt> be a sigmliiam factor in the
home compute/ market place since must of them sell forover • I.tintiuiul houiefimpuicr: arc defined here as costing less
than SI, 000.
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doing the same thing but via phone lines anil modems. Colecuand American telephone and l'eie::rupl\ have also announced a
similar system using the phone lines.
Pluyctible, a cable 71' company, has been offering gamesfur the Imellivision system for about three years now.
( 'nforitihutcly, ii is about to be left high and dry as Mattel is
likely io pull nui of the video game business at any rime.
Thai's adfor this time. See you next week.
Fairfield, Call forn la
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