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MONTH MONTH

Removed from its number one spot by Zybex, this month sees its return to the pole position.

GREAT AMER'CAN ROAD RACE Silverbird

10 drivers await you in this race crossing the USA. You can read our review in this issue.

ZYBEX

An excellent

shoot-'em-up, worth more budget price. Good graphics.

The Telecom Birds are doing well this month with two of their Silverbird budget range in the Top Ten.

SPEED ACE

first release for the Atari. Good use of Zeppelin’s the split screen in this motorbike Simulation. screen game, but this time ’em-up. Nice music. Reviewed this issue.

Another split

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Atlantis

This one starts difficult to play and rapidly becomes impossible as Gormless Gary avoids the bats.

SPOOKY CASTLE

Atlantis

Geff Minter's long-awaited sequel to Revenge of the Mutant Camels. As strange as ever.

REVENGE 2

Mastertronic

Another new budget title from Atlantis. An enjoyable stroll around the links. Fancy a round.

PRO GOLF

A?antis

Alternative

This re-release of an old title has prayed very popular. Coming down the charts, but still fun.

STEVE DAVIS SNOOKER Blue Ribbon

Re-released to coincide with the last snooker championships; good for its genre and hasn't dated.

ROCKFORD

Mastertronic

Returns to the chart this month — your mining little friend is well worth adding to your collection.

AlR WOLF Encore

Translated from the TV programme. You fly copter with a mission to complete.

ATAR' ACES US Gold

This compilation ?nds its way back into the charts. Good value and a chance to see some old friends.

SOCCER

One of many types of football games around. At the price there can be little said against it.

RlVER RESCUE

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BOLD initiatives that will take Atari UK into the 1990s i" asome “ndisPUtted ave een compu ing Lea“; revealed by general manager Bob Gleadow. He sees his company breathing new life into the 8 bit market and leavin its competitors trailing begind.

Gleadow unveiled his viSion forthe future during a visit to the Atari User offices in Adlington, Cheshire. "The XE console will carry the Atari flame in the 8 bit marketplace. It will be closely followed by the VCS

2600”, he said. ”Already the US games market has burst into life

ALL the signs from America are thatAtari is on the verge

ofa newandprosperousera fuelled by a games systems revival. At the summer Consumer Electronic Show in Chicago the impressive Atari stand was built around the 2600, 7800 and XE machines.

Lower priced consoles and software, and an open-

arms policy towards third who party developers have responded with growhave ing enthusiasm placed Atari firmly in the US computing spotlight. It has happened within four years of the company having been virtually written offas computing history following its disastrous slump in fortunes when the bottom dropped out of the —

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video games market. But now everything has changed. A report in Marketing Week said: "Comebacks are part of the American way and games software’s return to glory is right up there with Lazarus. “A resurgence in video game sales has pushed Atari into the golden circle of Fortune 500 companies”. The UKcomputerindustry

newspaper CTW is forecasting: ”It ought to be an Atari Christmas—it has managed to release 50 new products

recently and

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showawards than anyother company”. Atari UK spokesman Peter Wa/kerto/dAtari User: ”The reports speak for themwe’re very conselves fident about the future”. —

with them and entertainment is a fundamental aspect of western civilisation”. The Atari boss is currently —

considering a major project that would shake the world of software retailing. His plan is to set up a dedicated Atari Games Centrein 30to40 of Britain’s biggest cities and towns, where games players could 90 and try out the new releases for themselves. “The centres would mainly be based on existing Atari retailoutlets but would be unique in that the customer would have a real choice of what to buy”, said Gleadow. To supply the increased demand for entertainment software that would stem from such a project, Atari is encouraging all software houses to port ST games to the XE system. in the meantime more and more

major outlets

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being persuaded to carry XE games. Among them are Smiths, Comet—and maybe Dixons to according Gleadow. While he was in Ad-

Iington, Gleadow quashed

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pleased with the obvious success of the spring Atari User Show and are committed to making Database Exhibitions’ Novemberevent an equally impressive statement of Atari’s presence in the UK market”, he said.

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MAY marked the third birthday of Atari User, an event which we celebrated with Atari and Tynesoft in a birthdav competition with over

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ATARIUserwill be readyfor the massive boost to the entertainment scene that will be created by the revitalised VCS 2600. The September issue will

contain a comprehensive guide to the games system which took the computer industry by storm when it was originally introduced and which has now sold _

the yes 2600

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But first of all, Atari User reviewers will be running the rule over the best of the existing games that have helped sell more than 150

million rom cartridges to date. With Atari founding father Nolan Bushnell now writing for the machine, and leading UK supplier Palan Electronics promising no less than 18 new titles, the VCS 2600 looks set for in stunning return to the forefront of computer gaming. And it will all be reflected in the pages of Atari User. -

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BRITISH software circles have welcomed a crackdown on games piracy in two Scandinaviancountries as “a step in the right direction”. But in Europe, particularly in the Mediterranean countries, piracy of entertainment software remains rampant. Several cases have recently been before the in Sweden and courts Denmark where an estimated 65 per cent of all games bought are pirated. The prosecutions have been inspired by SUS, the Union of Software Distributors and Retailers active in Scandinavian countries. It has been investigating cases of piracy and putting pressure on governments to enforce the copyright laws. Swedish computer maga-

zine editor Christian Martensen says: ”Piracy is being driven underground — people are starting to be nailed”. He estimates that Scandinavian sales of legitimate games — mostly imported from the US and

UK could increase threefold if the pirates are forced to curtail their —

activities. The UK anti-piracy organ-

isation, the Federation Against Software Theft

(FAST), said the news from was most

Scandinavia “heartening”.

Bob Hay, FAST’s coordinator of anti-piracy enforcement, told Atari User: ”We widely welcome the Scandinavian initiative and are in touch with SUS, offering whatever help we can.

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software piracy remains primarilyasouthern European problem with Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece the —

main concern.

”The situation is particularly worrying in Greece the only EEC member country that doesn’t even recog—

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puter software”. Anne Creasey, export sales managerfor Mandarin Software a major UK supplier of games to continental markets said: “The Scandinavians have taken a step in the right direction, but the problem is so widespread in Europe it almost defies description. —

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HOW many times have you been playing your favourite shoot-'em-up and ran out of lives as you neared the last screen? Or have you ever wished that you could resurrect that dead mega-hero who was killed by the 40headed killer squirrel? From this frustration spawned a utility which has allowed me to complete many games that long

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0 Check byte should equal: This is the value that the check byte should be before any modifications are made to it during the game. If, however, you haveto set the check byte to —1 setthis to —1 so that the check will be ignored. 0 Byte base: This the first byte in the

sector to be changed. 0 Next you have to entér the number of bytes to be looked at in the sector. They can either be changed or skipped over, and this is done by the data which follows it. If a byte is set to —1 then the item is skipped _over, but any than —1 WI“ Change the gumber e SGCTOTyte In t r(])the|' To clarify this rather complicated I process let 3 take a look at Ilne 2000 of the program'

RETURN

350

F=1

FOR

DISK

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270

NBYTES

DCF)=-1

360

370

DSCBYTE+F-1,BYTE+F-1)=CHRS(D(F)):N

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255 —change byte 9 to 255 (hex FF) —1 — skip the 10th byte —1 — skip the 11th byte —1 — skip the 12th byte 255—change byte 13to 255 (hex FF) ~ ,

LINE=”;LINE

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PRESS

690 ? CHRS(253);CHRS(253);CHRS(253):? "STOP! STOP! THE INFORMATION IS NON IN HEHORY! PRESS RETURN FOR HENU." 700 ? ”REHEHBER TO SAVE THE PROGRAH TO DISK';:INPUT 03

’D:FILENAHE.EXT’

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400 ’! CHRSC125);"O.K. ENTER THE FOLLON ING DATA":? :? "SECTOR NUHBER:";:INPUT

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730

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D$:IF

DS=’X"

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410

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420

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SEC

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1000

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D(F)=D

470 NEXT N$='

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2007,Ultila char3

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580 590

620

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500

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DATA

ilities

1027

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440 7 '# OF BYTES:”;:INPUT NBYTES 450 FOR F=1 TO NBYTES:? 'DATA ';F;’:"; :INPUT D:IF D>255 OR D<0 OR D<>INT(D)

1.“

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430

characteristics on disc. They can be in decimal, hex or low and high byte, and finding them is just a matter of trial and error. Once you have found them just run Cheat and away you go.

If at this point you find yourself tolta||y confused, don't worry, you gan stlll use the program Wlth the eXlstlng cheats. In the near future we will lnclude more for you to enter. Th f f. d' th t sectoer$0532? is a III‘ttlleng'lJnVOTVggrgiii can take some getting used to but here

710 GOTO 60 720 ? CHRS(125);"SAVE GAHE

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Games programmers use several different methods of storing your

Data:

670

THEN

NOT

usually find the values you want to edit very close to it—often in the same. sector or at the most one or two either

Number of bytes:

770" :? "IGNORE THE ABOVE ETURN RAPIDLY’ 680 POSITION 0,0:END

350

380 HC$(19,19)='H':GOSUB 760 390 ? "O.K., IT HAS BEEN CHANGED.':? PRESS <RET>”:INPUT DS:RETURN

Byte base:

are a few general hints and tips. Using a sector editor search for your character’s name on the disc. You will

byte: 65—the Ascii for

Check

660

HINE!!!":POSITION 0,0:GOTO

Sector to edit: 2 Check byte number:

CHRS(253):?

'.’ HE

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630 IF F/20=INT(F/20) THEN LINE=LINE+1 :? CHRS(30);" ':? LINE+1I00;’ DATA ’; 640 ? D(F);','; 650 NEXT F:LINE=LINE+1:? CHR$(30);” ”:

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290

320 HC$(19,19)=”R":GOSUB 760 330 IF CHKB=-1 AND CNKT=-1 THEN 340 IF DS(CHKB,CHKB)<>CHR$(CHKT)

can be

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2027,AUTODUEL SIDE B

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1029

2029,DROL

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1030

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1031

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1032

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255 LIVES!!! 2032,BELLUH BELLUH 99 LIVES!!! 2033,HEDIATOR HEDIATOR

1999

DATA

0,*END

2000

DATA

2|01

DATA

2002 2003

2,1,65,9,5,255,-1,-l,-1,255 2,1,6S,10,5,255,-1,-‘l,-1,255 2,1,65,11,5,255,-1,-1,-1,255

DATA

2004

DATA

2,1,65,12,S,255,-1,-1,-1,ZSS 555,17,255,1S,1,255 2005 DATA 555,17,255,19,12,153,153,153 ,153,-1,-1,-1,153,153,153,153,153 2006 DATA 555,17,255,83,12,153,153,153 ,153,-1,-1,-1,153,153,153,153,153 2007 DATA 556,17,255,19,12,153,153,153 ,153,-1,-1,-1,153,153,153,153,153 2008 DATA 556,17,255,83,12,153,153,153 ,153,-1,-1,-1,153,153,153,153,153 2009 DATA 10,97,0,57,34,153,153,153,15 3,153,153,153,153,153,153,153,153,153, 153,153,153,153,153,153,153,153,153 2010 DATA 153,153,153,153,153,153,153, 153,153,153,153,153

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Turn to Page 12 V August 7988 Atari User

4 From Page

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35 POSITION

8,1:7

”SIDEREAL

SET

TIME CALCU

LATOR”

8,2:? "-------------------

36 POSITION -----”

:? "ENTER

DATE

01/01/88 )";

50 INPUT DOBS 60 TRAP 40:D=VAL(DOB$(1,2)):M=VAL(DOBS TO

MONTHS

DAYS

70 IF D<1 IF M<1 90 IF Y<30

CONVERT

YEARS

D>31 THEN 20 H>12 THEN 20 Y>77 THEN 20

OR OR OR

100 REM mcm 110 IF M=1 THEN 120 RESTORE

130:FOR

NEXTUjF:X=A+D:REM

F=1

JAN.

H-1:READ

MANY

HON

DAYS

FOR

A: MON

THS

130

DATA

31,59,90,120,151,181,212,243,

273,304,334

Y/4=INT(Y/4)

140 IF

THEN

LP=1:REM

LEAP

YEAR?

15I IF LP=1

THEN

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ADD

D=29 THEN

X=X+1:REM IF YES

CHE

AND

M>3

DAY

FOR

LEAP

YEAR

160 IF

H=2

AND

29TH FEB,ADD A DAY 170 GOTO 190 180 X=D 190 RESTORE 280:Q=30:REM CK

FOR

EAR

STARTING

200

READ

GET

DAYS

1930

A,B:IF R=Y THEN GOTO 230:REM FIRST 8 LAST DAYS OF BST,IF YEAR 0 F BIRTH 6010 NEXT SECTION 210 Q=O+1:GOTO 2I0 220 REM COMPARE DAYS IN YEAR HITH DAYS IN BST,IF EQUAL THEN BST OR DBST APPL IES 230 IF X>=A AND X<=B THEN BST=1 24I IF Y=45 AND x>=0 AND X<=290 THEN D BST=1 GET

250

Y=47

AND

X>=75

AND

X<=306

THEN

DBST” 260

AND

Y<=44

72 Atari User August 7988

****DATA

FOR

BST

DATA

:? "ENTER

"(i.e.0215)";:INPUT

TIME

BIRTH

640

TRAP

or 3.5)”; 620:INPUT LON:IF

>79

THEN

620

650

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660

THEN

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EAST

LON<0

LON

HEST";:INPUT

LON$<>"E”

LON$<>'H”

AND

THEN

670

LON$="H"

680

IF IF

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690

70I

REM

710

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1HUACALC

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THEN

HRS

MINS***

720 HR=HR+H:HIN=HIN-(H*60) 730 IF HR>=24 THEN HR=HR~24 740 ? :? "SIDEREAL TIME IS ";HR;" MIN

TIMES

330:HR=VAL(TIHE$(1,2)):HIN=VA

750

IF HR<0 THEN 330 37I IF HR>23 AND MIN>59 THEN 330 380 IF HIN<0 OR MIN>59 THEN 330 39I HR=HR-BST:HR=HR+6 400 RESTORE 450:Q=0:REM GET HINUTES

"(i.e.1

630

OHS

L(TIME$(3,4))

END

YEAR

A:IF Q=Y THEN 6010 430 420 O=Q+1:GOTO 410 430 MIN=MIN+A 440 IF M=1 THEN GOTO 530 450 REM “DATA FOR YEARS** 460 DATA 41,40,39,38,37,40,39,38,37,40 ,39,38,37,40,39,38,37,40,39,38,37,40,3 9,38,37,41,40,39,38,41,40,39,38,41 470 DATA 40,39,38,41,40,39,38,41,40,39 ,38,41,40,39,38,41,40,39,38,41,40,39,3 8,42,41,40,39,42,41,40,39,42,41,40,39 480 DATA 42,41,40,39,42,41,40,39,42,41 ,39,42,41,40,39,42,41,40,39,42,42,41,4 0,43,42,41,40,43,42,41,40 490

RESTORE

500

READ

Q=M

THEN

GOTO

CAJ

(H)

CAK

(3) (V) (4)

CAL

CAN

10 6311 20 UVL 30 UDO 35 U3R 36 7U4 40 38P 50 VRJ

550:R=2

A:IF

100 CUS 110 TFJ 120 GAK

58,1076,1199,1317

130

90 D9J

560 RESTORE 590:Q=2 570 READ A:IF O=D THEN GOTO 610 580 Q=R+1:GOTO 570 590 RH! ****DATA FOR DAYNM 600 DATA

4,8,12,16,20,24,28,32,3S,39,4 3,47,51,55,59,63,67,71,75,79,83,87,91, 95,99,103,106,110,114,118 62I

NIN=HIN+A ? :? "ENTER

LONGITUDE

(C)

(4) (D)

(J) (V) (1) (E) (P)

60 DY8 70 6GL (H) 80 6KH (K)

520

510 R=O+1:GOTO 500 520 MIN=MIN+A 53I IF D=1 THEN GOTO 620 540 REM ****DATA FOR MTH**** 550 DATA 122,232,355,473,595,714,836,9

610 Y>=41

1.10 READ

180:REM

GOTO

360

551m

SECTION

REM

350 TRAP

(4,5)):Y=VAL(DOB$(7,8)):REM

103,278,109,277,108,276,99,28 1,112,280,104,279,110,278,108,276,100, 275,106,323,56,366,124,222,95,221 300 DATA 94,227,93,261,92,196,104,279, 103,222,74,305,93,303,106,295,105,294, 111,300,109,277,101,276,107,275 310 DATA 113,281,104,279,110,278,109,2 77,101,276,85,302,84,301,90,300,82,299 ,80,297,79,296,78,302,49,366,0,365 320 DATA I,365,0,304,79,303,77,301,76, 300,75,299,81,298,79,296 330 340

"(i.e

BIRTH ":?

gata et direction of your birth Cal CU”16 atelongitudeand and pm“ Your sid erea | “me '” hours and minutes

270 BST=BST+DBST 280 290

USER

AND

Data used in

calculating BST Get your time of birth culate the ”Umber of minutes for and that y eca ar Data f°T years Data fOr months for day -

DOB$(8),LONS(2),TIHES(4),HR(2),

COLOR

320

‘440

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OTO

in d e 9 rees

SIDEREAL TIME CALCULATOR DAVID BALL

—

450 — 480 540 ‘ 580 590 620 — 70° _ 750

Longituge Day of lrt_h Month of blrth Year of birth

variables

of birth and convert it into gslSYOrtTJTF ' 0"date S and years for use m the Sidereal time for m“ a Calculate whethe“ your date of birth IS Or DBST BST .

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280 330

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British summertime

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DGE

310 320

EAP

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(0) (F)

600

(D)

YO9

(V) 620 KMS (P) 630 773 (9) 610

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640 650 660

112C

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recommended. So where does that leave the owner of the Atari User Toolkit which is in itself an Autorun file? Wouldn’t it be nice to be ableto load Dos 2.5, install a ramdisc, load Toolkit and run a Basic menu program, all on power-Up? A as Well. It can be don?program user friendly as Toolkit wouldn t leave out such a useful feature. The necessarV 0°C“? ‘5 but“ ”“F’ the pmgram an." a” '3 requ'red,'s a key "umber '” that the to mVOke the Aumrun T'ght place Where our Short pro-

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channel to update the Toolkit file, use the POINT statement to position the file pointer to the correct position and write the key number to make Toolkit Autorun a program. Every time you boot the disc in future this customised version of Toolkit will print a Ready soon message while it is loading and running the first Basic program it finds onthe disc. The only stipulation is that the Basic program’s filename must contain the .BAS extension. The Load’n’Run program from the June issue offers a greater scope for creative introduction screens, where 1

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ter set W’” be completely but _

heartless, every other lower case character is available in any of the four colours. YOU can ?ip between upper and lower case character sets at any time use POKE 756,224 to seiect upper case characters, or repeat the USR call at line 50 tO insta“ the new iOWer case set. This can produce some intriguing effects 0" screen.

;

to LOCATE: Wh'Ch

_NOW back

W'”

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arcade games. AS YOU

have

might guessed, when the computer is in Graphic modes 1, 2, 17 or 18, the LOCATE returns the letter/colour command code, "Ot JUSt an ASC” number. See Table ii last month. For example:

x=?

FOR

60 INPUT N:COLOR N:PLOT

Getting °f safficzra‘irgarcati'éris‘

one of the new text modes. Use POKE 756,224 to select the lower case set and POKE to return to 756,?26 upper case. But theres a snag. Try this:

themtothesame background SETCOLOR colourasthe the trick. The hearts are 2,0,0 will do still there, but now you can’t see them and any other orange characters will disappear too. However all the yellow, blue and violet characters—includinghearts—remain available. The second method is to character set, replacing the modify the heart with a blank space. Program will perform the necessary cardiac surgery for YOUit uses machine code, SQJUSt treat it a as black bOX routine WhiCh can be incorporated into easriy your own Basrc programs. Line 60 is there simply for iiiUS' tratlon—it lets YOU type 0 to 255 and prmts the numbersfrom corresponding character on screen. It also keeps the communication channel preventing the program fromopen. by i" a Of course, ending. line 60 should feii e 05°F“? e ete After running Program your charac-

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What happens? The screen fills up with orange hearts. This could be the end of a beautiful friendship... Actually, your computer is not to blame — it's simply following instructions to clear the screen by space at every position. printing a Unfortunately, when the lower-case set is selected, the space character turns into a heart. There are two ways round this. The first is to make the hearts invisible by turning

command

MOST of the keyboard characters you need for drawing dungeon plans, terrain maps and other works of art are locked away in the lower case Characterset and setting atthemisa bit difficult. it’s easy enough to between upper and lower caseflip sets while you’re in

10 GRAPHICS

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will store in Q the letter/colour code for the character which is currently residing at screen co-ordinates 5,8. if it's a yellow symbol a torpedo, maybe? 0 will take the value of one. if you're using lower case letters and the character at 5,8 is a blue diamond, then 0 will contain 192. You should have no great dif?cuny converting our previous joystick control routines for use with Graphic Modes or 2. However, there are g

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works. The screen boundaries set XMAX, XMIN, YMAX, YMlN are if need changing will and line 20, at you want to use a different graphics —

—

4 From Page 15

REM

over

4mm

mode. The moving character’s initia| p05of X ition depends upon the values is routine This 20. and Y, again at line

192FOR COLU

ROU=0

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movemen

Program 2: 8-directional a background

COLUMN,ROH:NE ' 'X'_9_Y _19.‘Y M I N-O-

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O=70

THEN

220 GOTO

230

BOMBS=0

THEN

”GAME

130 Y1=Y+((S=5

YMAX))-((S=6

S=9

OVER";:END

S=10

OR OR

S=13)

S=14)

AND AND

150 LOCATE

X1,Y1,Q:COLOR :X=X1:Y=Y1:GOTO 100

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260

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X1,Y1

330

RETURN

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and destroy game

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order of prefgives erence, regardless of price. The order is based on personal choice after extensive play testing. This is a highly subjective assessment, so in an attempt to be a bit more scientific we devised some programs to put a figure on aspects of performance.The first two measured how many times we could press the fire button or wiggle the stalk in 10 seconds. The third test recorded how precisely we could control a moving cursor to trace the path of a wavy line. I

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The first thing to emerge was that joysticks are a very personal thing. We all agreed that some were good, but there were others that one person liked but another didn't. So to get a broad opinion four testers took part, all comments are a consensus, and

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with and without autofire. All are operated by either leaf switch or microswitch. There is another type of switch found in joysticks, the sort that looks like a metal bubble. These were quite common at one time, but they are not very robust and none of the sticks had this type fitted. The leaf variety is a piece of spring steel pushed against a contact, while

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erence. We think this is due the fact that the sticks which performed better had greater potential than is required in most games. Also, when playing, a lot depends on comfort and feel, though how you quantify that we

Another possible reason is that when performing a test the tendency isto concentrate on the stick, whereas in a game you concentrate on the screen and your joystick control becomes less self conscious.

micro switches are a proper self— contained switch unit. In general

micro switches are more expensive, last longer, and give better feel. Long term durability is hard to test. Common sense says that a steelshafted microswitch joystick should last longer than an all-plastic leaf switch one, but in our experience unless you give a stick rough treatment this only shows up after a very

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Of use, by Wh'Ch tlme advances in deSIgn mlght make you want to upgrade anyway: Ofcourse yourflnal ch0lce would be mOd'f'ed by how much money you want to spend, whether you prefer a handheld ortabletop model,and your liking for the ball-on-a-stlck type or those W'th a moulded grlp.

long

period

Ram Delta

Angular styling and gear~lever type stalk distinguish Ram’s offering. A rubber bush around the shaft provides justthe right amount of resistance and springiness. Precision is very good, and the overall feel is very smooth.

mark of a good design that you don't have to pay much attentionto the stick when you first use it. Of all the models on test, this one felt the most robust, though we can’t say if the impression would be borne out after a lot of use.

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scores with it. It needs to be fixed to a surface for best results and doesn’t make any concessions to hand

holding.

Euromax Elite

Konix Speedking

This is purely a hand-held device which has been carefully designed to fit your hand. The action is fairly short traveland very precise. You are forced by the shape to hold the base in your left hand, and move the stalk with your right. It,s a pity a left-hand version isn’t available. The only other quibble is that for

some people the base unit is a little on the large side, and the unaccustomed position of the ?re button might make your hand ache slightly at first. However after a couple of days you’ll find your grip strengthening, and the Speedking then becomes a very efficient tool indeed. We were very surprised it didn’t do better in the speed and precision tests because we got some impressive scores with it. -

shape fltted_ some hands well while others found it not to their taste. In play the Elite feels qute good and we’ve had one khOCklhg 3P0Ut lh the office for the past year. h is used regularly and has StOOd Up to some The unusual

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We didn't have to take this one apart to look at the construction because it’s got a sexy see-through case- is very like the Euromax Professiona if except for a rubber bung round the stalk to give better response. The one complaint with the review model was that if pushed hard against the stop, the stalk squeaks against the

switch casings. Perhaps the switches aren't mounted with total rigidity, but having used this stick for several months it hasn’t given any reliability problems.

Euromax PrOfess’ona’

At first this one seems unremarkable, but we all turned in some respectable scores with it. Perhaps it’s the hall-

Cheetah Special Something of

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joystick technology. As the normal direction and fire in

well as controls, the stalk can rotate slightly. Inside is an extra pair of switches which respond to the rotation. For this to work you need a two-joystick adapter to take the second plug. You also need a game that is specially written to take advantage of the feature (we don't know of any) or at least has definable keys. Unless this idea catches on in a big way we can't see software houses writing games 50 Turn to Page 20 > August 7988 Atari User

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The contradiction is that for a joyStiCk being billed as a break'thrC’UQh there isn't a microswitch in sight. In all other resF’eCtS it feels llke Cheetah's 125+, so you’ve got to decide whether

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the 125+ would have made more of an impression. As far as scores went, we were no worse off with this one, and iven that it’s cheaper than all the rest 9is probably the best value for money

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On the face of it the pistol style is a good idea, and holding it in your hand before tackling a game it feels good. However, after 10 minutes in action the fire button is not we werOlIind for repeated use and we p ace dthat all got sore hands. Eventually your hand might strengthen sufficiently to but this still leaves compensate, another problem: We found that the narrowness of the grip made it easy for the stick to twist slightly in the hand and it was difficult to judge exactly which direction we were pulling the stalk. This often led to the onscreen movement being not what we expected. -

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thumbs down. Overall it doesn’t feel as good as more conventional sticks,

and it is not easy to play well with. Taking into account the price, this is the only one of the bunch we’d definitely avoid. 20 Atari User August 1988

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CONCLUSION Terminator and Phasor One shouldn't be dismissed out of hand because they might suit .

some people, but do make sure you spend 10 minutes with them before stabbing your piggy bank in the back. The Cheetah 125+ is well worth considering if money is right. it has a very light action and can’t quite match the feel of microswitch models, but it’s

cheap, has a working autofire, and is certainly competent.

Whether it’s worth paying extra for the Special which has much the same feel is open to question. For the same price you could have one of the microswitch models. Eurdmax Elite

and Professional, gnd CW'S?" are good reliable pieces of kit, and you won’t be disappointed _

with

them. We thought the Competition Pro had a slight but

edge, there isn’t much in it and you might think differently. The Ram Delta was that bit better again. For us, though, Cheetah Mach 1+ and Konix Speedking‘ were top of the heap. The choice is down to your preferred type, and how important autofire is to

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dealing with the art of navigating using the Sun and stars, which was developed by ancient mariners. Print outs are easy and Planetarium works With the Atari XMM801 printer or any Epson-compatible. it was here found the only error in the manual. It states that you have to press Control+P for an Epson and Shift+P for the XMM801. Don’t, it's the Opposite way round. Dumps usually take around five minutes to complete and .come out around A4 size. The back ofthe manual houses numerous tables, future astronomical events, mathematical equations and places all over the world to experiment with. Did you know that there I

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sea

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Designed for two-player or solo mode, your vessels must be rigged, manned and armed just like the real thing. And they handle in the wind exactly the same

you would expect from of the great wooden warships of years ago. Due to its size and as

one

complexity Broadsides is disc only. Loading is straightforward. Remove all cartridges from older Atari micros, or hold down the Option key on newer models. Then switch on, remembering to place your After the loading sequence—whichis accompanied by a superb highresolution picture of a the options warship —

snipers to

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read the player's manual fully before attempting to do so—it can get little involved. All naval combat is dis-

screen is displayed. You can choose whether you want to useajoystick or the keyboard, the skill level of the gameplay or whether you want to play an arcade or tactical simulation.

played on a colour, highresolution graphics screen which depicts speeded up

The first offers a faster and more exciting game with fewer decisions to make. Those preferring a

the on-screen

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the Atari micros. Overall Broadsides is one ofthe best simulations from SSlandisapleasure to play. Helen

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As with allSSlgames,you are greeted with a menu screen from which you must enter a number of variables that affectthe coming battle. Available only on disc, the game can be loaded by removing all cartridgesfrom old Atari micros, or holding down the Option key and. switching on with your

game disc in drive one. Once loaded you choose your options and away you go. lfound it great fun to let

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IT has been six years since you took on the alien armada single-handedly in an attempt to save the universe. You managed to destroy their asteroid bases and turned the motherships

into expanding clouds of

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to play.

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FOR some time now it has been almost impossible to beg, borrow or steal _ let alone buy _ a disc drive of any sort to plug into an 8 bit Atari micro. This has left many new XE system owners wondering whether they made the right decision in buying Atari. Fortunately this is about to change with the arrival of the new XF-551 floppy disc drive from Atari. The very fact that itis available at all bodes well for the survival of a thriving 8 bit market, but it’s even more exciting when you take a closer look at the specifications, Outwardly the XF-551 is a sleek grey unit, similar in size to an old 1050 drive, but matching perfectly the colouring and styling of the XE system.As alwaysthere is yet another external power supply to clutter up your desk, but that’s a problem users normally learn to live with. Inside the casing is a very much more powerful engine than the old faithful 10508 we have come to know and love. Not only is the new drive capable of operating in true double the 180k mode previously density available only with a US Doubler chip but there is also a installed completely new format available: Double sided, double density. This new mode automatically gives 180k on each side of a floppy, a grand total —

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Of course there’s always a catch and in this case it’s that good old Dos 2.5 wasn’t designed to be able to access more than 130k of data, so YOU'” have to SWitCh tO a new DOS to get the most from the drive. Despite this, XF-551s have been shipping in the States for some time now, packed with Dos 2.5 and a very comprehenSive Dos 2.5/1050 instruction manual. This gives a step-by-step guide to using Dos 2.5 and is packed with which is rather sample programs ironic as we have been waiting two years for such a manual and as soon as it becomes available it is obsolete. Atari UK has decided to hold shipment of the drives until its brand new Dos-XE is complete, and it is this which has been holding up delivery for so long. was lucky enough to obtain a sneak preview copy of Dos-XE,andwhile it performs its tasks do have a few reseradmirably, vations about its ease of use. In order to pack everything in, Dos-XE uses a bank-switching technique to store large parts of its code underneath the operating system rom which unfortunately means that it won’t work with old 400 or 800 miCros. The advantage is that, once it’s loaded,you won't need to re-insertthe Dos master disc because everything —

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memory. When you load up Dos—XE without Basic you are greeted with three menu options: File access, Machine language access or System function. If you have come from Basic or some other language cartridge you will also see an Exit to Basic or Exit to Cartridge option on this screen. Pressing Escape at any time will return you to this top level menu, which is quite handy. Each ofthethree sub-menus may be accessed by pressing the highlighted firstletter and hitting Return,although why the much more elegant singlekey entry mode was not employed completely baffles me. Each menu covers a specific area of a disc user’s requirements, basically to avoid cluttering up a single screen with too .

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BOXES.BAS.

The three menus are laid out as shown in Figures I, II and Ill and provide every feature that was avaiIable on Dos 2.5 plus quite a few extras. Probably the most notable is the facility to initialise the disc in any one of four formats. 810 mode, 1050 —

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for example. While it’s impractical to

and they are a powerful way to automate often repeated tasks. There is a batch facility available from the menu system which enables you too, to enter the various commands and

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the intricate levels to this wonderful graphical adventure from Datasoft. The game features excellent graphics and sound effects. But above all it has that all important factor needed to tremendous make a game

playability.

Because a map isn’t Of mUCh use 0" its own we are also offering some help to kiii Volta and his evil Oh how mlnlons.

this one. Just kill the hawk creature that attacks you and make your way to the tOD. Level TWO! A bit Of pixel—perfect leaping is needed 0” this level. Jump from the castle battlement to the tree, then to the ground- Collect the key from the niche in the wall and jump over the river. Cilmb up the ladder, gO through the door, on to the next ladder and go down the next ladder to the branch marked A. Stand with your back to the tree, take one step and jump to the other tree. Any slight mistake and YOU W'ii end up in the stake Pit- When you have passed this, go through the locked door and into the cave. 0 Level Three: Go down the ladder and, avoiding the scorpions, use the transporters to get to the jewel. Take .

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a sword and it will hit the bolt on its way back, turning it into a jewel. You must then place it into the holder — which is easier said than done. The bouncy thing at Z gets you back to position Y. When you have collec-

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Programming

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Let's start off this month with a couple of questions from Carlos Jorge Sousa, who unfortunately didn’t provide his address.

I’ve been told that my 730XE hasn'tgota voice synthesiser, but

I'm not so sure. My doubt occurred while playing the budget game ETPhoneHome, and after/had col/ected all the pieces of the phone / heard him say ”ET Phone Home” twice, and the game would proceed. Is there now

real/ya voicesynthesiserincorporated

in my Atari machine, and if so could you please tell me how/use it? Secondly, is it possible to create more than two colours ona Graphics8 screen by using machine code? I ask

because/sawaphoto inarecentissue of Atari User of the title screen to Gauntlet, and there appear to be about

colours on it. thought the only mode which allows 16 colours was Graphics 9, but I'm sure that the Gauntlet screen can’t be using it because the picture seems too highly detailed. Modes 7 and 15 which give more detail — can only display four colours. Could you explain how these 16

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screens are

created?

problems solved by ANDRE WILLEY

programming

The sim Ie answer to the first part of your lettFer is that your information is

correct. The Atari quite dont have a bunlt synthesrser.

bit micros

speech

There was a period when Atari developed several new machines which contained extra chips to per? form various tasks. The 1200XL, which was never released in the UK, did have a speech synthes‘iser built into it. But the 130XE

doesn’t have

one.

However,

cheated and used some machine code trickery to get more colours from a Graphics 15 screen than you can normally obtain. The first thing they did was to use a character screen, like Graphics 12 but without the blue text window at the bottom, and convert the picture into little'blocks the size of a single character — a total of 40 blocks by 24 for this type of screen. Each block was then converted into colour character information and stored just like an ordinary character set would be. When displayed side by side, they make up the picture once more rather like putting a jigsaw puzzle back‘together. This method has the advantage of

it does

contain a very powrful ‘music and sound chip called POKEY, and this can be used to great effect in producing

voice-like sounds.

What happens is the voice or any other sound required is first played into a microphone attached to the Atari’s joystick port. Then some machine codews‘oftware scans the incoming signal and records it as a series of digital numbers representing tiny snapshots ofthe sound wave—in —

—

much the same way as a compact disc

created. The quality of the final recording depends on the number of samples the greater the number, you make the closer to the original sound you get. A compact disc, for example, makes tens of thousands of samples every second and can thus reproduce the original sound very accurately. The Atari can’t work quite that fast, and even if it could you would use up the whole of your memory to store a single second of recorded sound. So a compromise must be reached is

—

rate of perhaps a couple of thousand per second will have been used. Once a sound has been digitised in this way it can be replayed by the POKEY chip which uses the sampled data to create a digital version of the and

sample

sound.

Obviously this requires some very complicated software, but you can

buy an interface and the necessary programs from 2 Bit Systems. Its called Replay, and you can use it to record, playback and even adjust real sounds inside your Atari. Now on to the second part of your letter and multi-coloured graphic displays. This one is a little trickier as the programmers of the game have

allowing four maincoloiursgpliisjhe background one as opposed to the usual three plus backgroundgiven by Graphics 15. They then use another machine code routine to create the amazing scrolling colours effect which you will no doubt have seen used in

other games. 80 the answer to your question

really that you CAN’T get that many colours on a normal graphics screen — but it's amazing what a bit of hi-tech cheating can do.

Strmg array problems Finallythis month,aproblem from Mr. Sydenham in London“

K. Richards of Lower '

/ am in the process of writing a program which requires many names to be entered into memory. I am using a FOR...NEXT loop to enter

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Programming ’

zero starts at position 1, element one starts at position 16 — (15*1)+1 with element two starting at 31 — (15*2)+1 and so forth. Since ML varies from 1 to 15, you should change line 10030 to the

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Theprob/em arises when/try to print them out again. Whenever/ try to do this, either in order or as they were entered, lcan only get the last name /

entered. Your assistance be

would

much appreciated.

Your problem is quite a

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common

100

which gives each entry a unique number between 0 and 100. This number should be used to tell your routine how far into the string it must go before storing the entered text. The first name will be stored in elements to 15, the next in 16 to 30, the next in 31 to 45 and so on. You will note that each start position is in fact one greater than fifteen times the element number — thus element

one,

from the fact that Atari Basic does not support arrays of strings in the same way as it does for numbers. You have got most of the code correct for making your own pseudo and

This Wm now place each entry into the correct point in the long string and you can print them out again by altering the relevant routine in the same way. Simple really well, almost! I O Thats it for another month. As always, we are Interested to hear from our readers old and new —_ who are experiencrng problems With the” Atari.

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WOULD like to make a comp/aintaboutyourmagazine. Why is it that you are I

up to date with your software reviews? In the June 7988 issue you only reviewed three games when there were at_least 10 never

avallable? You could have reviewed Ind oor Sports (Databytel, Spy vs Spy III (Databyte), new ones were

Speed Run (Red Rat), Space Wars (Red Rat), Jackal

(Konami), Scorpion (Tyne-

Freeway (Activision) and Cybernoid {Hewson}. Why not rewew more games for the readers and stop being Allan l_’orter, Spallazy? ding, meolnshlre. . Well Allan, let's take a .

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close look at the games you

mentioned. The two Databyte games are available in the USA but aren’t over here yet.

hasn t been by Red Hat and

S peed Run

completed

F'RS , GE, YOUR GAME.

it’ll be a few months before it arrives on the scene. The Hewson game that you mentioned is for the ST only

we at Atari User. M ay 1988 BSUG ° f n.t Atar/ User we took a look at

ACF'QS'“ mOI‘f‘el‘t‘ e n.“ 0" “gha Chan: .' “81K m? re e.

Wth Pee “page

mareffing F" actua I?y'a game.

atproure tsruc and ST for the gramm'W esngned Amstrad CPC com uters Konami hasn’t enadelits mind up about bringing

mentioned Scorpion. Tynesoft shelved the idea of bringing this game out over a year ago and never pub—

lically said it was going to appear. David Croft, head of softwere development at Tynesoft, IS very curious how you got to hear about .

time. After having to type it in twice, due to my clumsiness, / got it working. It was at this point I decided I would like some printouts of my b'o’hyth'" eye/35 As ’

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l RECENTLY bought Winter Olympiad ’88 from Tynesoft Software. Unfortunately, l had some loading problems with it. Aslwasgoing to the

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to take it with me and see Wha‘theV WOU’ddoabOUt'tWith no questions asked they happily replaced it and I returned home very con— tent. However, I had prob[ems loading this copy as we” so I phone‘j them 0"

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