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Trouble - Classic arcade fun puts you in command of a

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listing for the the coloured to beat the clock squares using the light gun. Mine Runner — Guide your underground exploration vehicle “I ' ‘ through increasingly difficult levels of E gas==ass=sssaasaaasa obstacles.meandering tunnels and dangerous E Breakin - Fast and E ' furious arcade action in 5 version of the our * classic bat and ball E Breakout. Try your skill game against the different bumper patterns and fatal Break," ghosts.

the classic Othello board

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Light Gun Blaster — The first ever xE games System. Blast

stunning shoot-’em-ups, challenging Tnfzfagzzs and thought p srovoking strategy es alike and a“ §*‘-"'"3“"“

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Experience the nerve-tinglingexcitement of naval thrill and warfare as you hunt the oceans for

Clay Pigeon Shooting— Test your accuracy in our fast-action

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enemy submarines.

Brag - Saloon gambling in the Wild West as you take on three of the meanest card players this side of Dodge City. There may be more at stakerthan just cards.

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All the latest from the ever-changing world of the Atari

September 1988

MANAGING EDITOR.-

Games

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Under the microscope: Compilation Ill, Leapster, Airwolf

and more.

Derek Meakin

Male

GROUP EDITOR:

Beat the men from outer space in this exciting

type-in game.

Alan McLachIan FEATURES EDITOR:

Ken Hughes

ROUIOC Your favourite reSident Atari adventurer dreams of days of yore. .

PRODUCTION EDITOR.-

Peter Glover

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT:

Neil Fawcett

so ftware

SQIUt’ons

More programming problems solved by

our technical Wizard. .

NEWS EDITOR:

Mike Cowley REVIEWS

COORDINATOR:

Pam Turnbull TECHNICAL

X-Word Create your own crosswords with this excellent puzzle generator.

EDITOR.-

Andre Willey

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US products

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brief look at the latest State-side games software releases.

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Get more fun out of lnfocom's Mindshadow with our readers' help.

The complete solution to the fascinating Mindshadow adventure.

All major listings in this issue are accompanied by 0h ecksums to help overcome typing mistakes. For full details of how they work, see the article on page 23 of our November 1987 i35ue_ .

September 1988 Atari User 3

THIS

LAST

TITLE

MONTH MONTH

(Software

PRICE

GRAND PRIX SIMULATOR Code Masters

at the in simulators front of the stays The ultimate field. This can be played again and again.

GREATAMERICAN ROAD RACE Firebird

Ten drivers await in this race crossing the USA. you Beware of the police, your speed and the obstacles.

DAYUGHT ROBBERY Atlantis

From the same stable as Cops ’n' Robbers — a fun, value for money romp on the wrong side of the '

law.

Alternative

and lorries if over cars Great you_enjoy jumping while collecting items from open Windows.

AIR WOLF Encore

Translated from the TV programme. You are with a mission flying a helicopter.

STEVE DAVIS SNOOKER Blue Ribbon

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

ZYBEX

An excellent shoot-’em-up,

LEAPSTER

COMMENTS

House)

a man

worth more than its

Zeppelin

budget price. Good graphics.

SPEED ACE

first release for the Atari. Good use of Zeppelin’s the split screen in this motorbike Simulation.

Zeppelin Atlantis

Good price and clean graphics in this adaptation of a common platform game.

BMX SIMULATOR Code Masters

is Code Masters renownedforits simulations. This one is no exception With nice graphics and sound.

POTHOLE PETE

DESMOND s DUNGEONS Alternative EXTIRPATOR Firebird

Join this little fellow as he struggles to gain points, wealth and safety. Platform games are in this

month

Another release from the British Telecom budget label. No complaints at the price.

LEADERBOARD

US Gald

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comeback cross

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so if you missed out at St

the Atlantic

for this golfing

BQULDERDASH Prism

spectacular. Your chance to play the diamond chasing, rockeating fiend. Add it to your collection if you haven't already.

FOUR GREAT GAMES Micro Value

Superb value especially as it includes Phantom and Rebound. Not one to be missed.

HENRY’S HOUSE

If you haven’t already got this platform game add it to your collection; stunning graphics.

Mastertronic

Making

Anne's

Masterstronic

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

Atlantis

impossible as Gormless Gary avoids the bats.

REVENGE 2

DECATHLON Frrebrrd

MATI'A BLA'ITA Firebird 4 Atari User September 1988

Exercise without leaving your chair with multiple events to choose from in your quest to head the ?ew-

Fallen from last month, but Firebird is holding its own in the market with four games in the chart.

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Centres begin to open up throughout the country. Atari plans to set up

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A BLOCKBUSTER illustrated adventure game based on the legend Of King Arthur is shortly to be unveiled by Level 9~

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leading softpublisher has guaranteed a further supply ment with

FRESH waves of 8 bit enter-

will software. . soon be pourmg Into the shops as a result of new

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tainment

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of titles in the New Year. The deal will result in at least 20 programs being ported across from the ST. on the The new titles will initially be Atari label released for the XE with 2600 versions to come later. The ST conversions will

Atari initiatives.

At least six games among batch under development at Atari UK headquartersare very nearto completion, the a

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company’s software chief, Bab Katz, told Atari User. And a licensing agree—

run right across the board XE, 2600 and 7800. “These should be ready for release at the start of next year”, Katz said. “I can't give you details of the deal just yet except to say that a major publisher is involved. ”But can promise that some of the titles involved are very big —

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CHICAGO based Reeve Softwere (0101 312 393 2317) is

promising to open up

whole new world for Atari XL/XE users with the release a complete of Diamond graphics operating system. rather An envrronment than a program, it allows the Atari to use the icon-based point-and-click menu systems that ST owners already have at their fingertips. Features include a mouse cursor that can be operated by keyboard, joystick, touch tablet or mouse, drop-down —

menus and desk accessories

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system

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system with a mouse, then shaped or moved. Dialogue boxes and WIndOWS are also easily manipulated. The package includes

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Desktop Software which is designed to keep keyboard use to a minimum. Desktop is compatible with

Diamond

floppies, hard drives and

ram discs as well as with most disc operating sys-

tems. Price $29.95.

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Arthurian saga”

"The ',e gen d 5 0 f K'mg Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are known to all” says pete ”but it isa sad fact that most modern interpretations seem to owe nothing to the original tajes “Most people will have seen software programs with Arthurian titles which turn out to involve Merlin lumping from platform to platform while zapping orcs with fireball spells.

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which can be called up from any Diamond-based program at any time. Icons can be activated

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Lancelot is the second title to be released by the Specialist software house under the exclusive Mandarin label, the first being the Time & Magik trilogy. The game closely follows Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, and traces the legend Of King Arthur from the founding of the Round Table through to the successful conclusion of the search for the Holy Grail. Pete Austin of Level 9, himself an authority on King Arthur, insists that this is “the best game to date" from the company that is the acknowledged world In adventure

than 60 000 words of text interspersed with high qual't|ygrap h'|cs. P rice £14 95 -

INGRID

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sequel to the successful Gnome Ranger from Level 9, lngrid’s Back is on schedule for release in October. It features the same accident-prone heroine as the original. This time she’s tasked with thwarting Jasper Quickbuck, insider-dealing lord of Rid/ey's Manor who's planning to steamroll the gnome belt for a Yuppie Homes development. Price £14.95 on tape, £19.95 on THE

disc. September 1988 Atari User 5

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MOST modern Epson and compatible dot matrix printers have a download capability which allows you to replace the standard characters with ones of your own design. You could go Gothic for example, or produce a sans serif font similar to school script. You could also design special purpose characters, such as Ordnance

Survey or electronics symbols, or draw your own dungeon floor plans complete with traps and treasures. Another idea is to define icons men, so that cars, ships and so on complex statistical data can be presented in pictorial form. Understanding how to do it though

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unfriendly, especially when they’re written in Japanese English. Epson manuals

are better than most, but it a lot of time, effort and

still takes

background knowledge to get the download system working, especially

since

will

none

of the sample

programs

correctly in Atari Basic. Even when you've managed to decipher the instructions and are aware run

of all the strict rules on syntax and character shape limitations, the job’s only just begun. You’re still faced with a tedious and error-prone task involving many binary-to-decimal conversions. And the shape you produce on the drawing board may bear little relation to the character printed. Also different print modes enIarged, condensed, emphasised and so on —can change the appearance of a character, so you really need to see it in all modes before finaIiSing its —

shape. This

utility program overcomes all ofthe fundamental problems. It makes character designing as easy as playing a computer game and the results can be printed out in various modes as part of the editing process. When you’re satisfied, the character data can be inserted into

short Basic program

which willdo the downloading foryou and can easily be incorporated into 6 Atari User September

7988

your own software. The new characters will then remain available until you switch the printer off. Before we examine the Editor Program lI—in detail, Iet’slook at some of the principles involved. If your printer can download new characters it possesses two independent memories rom and ram. The rom contains the standard character shapes or fonts, which the printer normally uses. Like the rom inside your computer, its contents cannot be changed. The printer’s ram, on the other hand, is easily modified. Most printers use this chunk of memory as a print buffer text is loaded into it at high speed, then released one character at 3 time at a rate the printer can handle. As soon as yourtext has finished loading into the buffer the computer can be used for other things, even though the printer may still be chattering away. To download a new set of characters you must first take control of the buffer ram. Usually this involves —

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one or more DIP switches inside the printer your manual will

setting

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referto disabling the buffer,or it invalid.

advance, so you won’t be able to use the computer until virtually all the file has been printed. The other thing to remember is that

downloaded characters of this kind will not work in NLQ modes. However, you can use them in all other styles pica, elite, enlarged, condensed, subscript and so on. Usually you will want to change only a few characters rather than installing an entire font. This is a three-stage process: First you copy the standard character set from rom to ram, next download all the new shape data and finally tell the printer to use the ram character set instead of its —

usual rom one. The necessary instructions are sent in the form of Ascii strings always starting with CHR$(27) — the Escape

code. The printer recognises these strings as instructions, not as text to be printed. For example, the Ascii codes which will copy the entire character set from rom to ram are: 27,58,0,0,0. The Epson manual suggests this way of sending

them to the printer:

making

Once the new switch pattern has been set the printer will be able to store only one or two lines of text in

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CHR$(27);":”;CHR$(E);CHR$(W)

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the specified block, otherwise you’ll get peculiar results. Line 110 instructs the printer to use the character set in ram instead of its usual rom set. Line 120 prints out the re-defined characters. When you Run Program I you will get a Greek letter Mu, the Ordnance Surveysymbolfora church with spire, a small man and the circuit symbol for an NPN transistor. Each character pattern is made up of 12 numbers, the first of which contains attribute data. This specifies whether or not a below-line descender

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Almost any block of characters can re-defined so long as you steer clear of the essential printer control be

codes: 7to 27, 127, 135 to 155 and 255. It's most convenientto usetheinverse character set, especially if you're designing an entire font. But there’s nothing to stop you re-defining noninverse characters say by changing the a and iinto school-script form, or putting 8 Copyright symbol on the Cl? key. Lines 40 to 100 in Program I send the new character data to the printer. You must provide exactly the right amount of data — twelve numbers a character — to replace everything in —

If you try to position a dot illegally, the computer will refuse to do it and you’ll get a polite beep.

At the bottom of the Edit screen see a menu of options, any of which can be selected simply by typing the initial letter. Erase clears all dots from the grid. Fill puts a dot in every cell — but not on any lines. Toggle replaces every dot with a space and every space with a dot, oreating an inverse image. However, dots on lines will not toggle correctly so they are erased and only the dots in cells are inverted. This is to ensure you don't end up with an Illegal pattern. The Convert option Presents YOU with a second menu, asking whether you want a descender and whether proportional data is to be included in the attribute byte. Once you’ve supplied the necessary information the twelve numbers describing your character will be worked out and

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they

screen.

manuals

internal limitations, you can't'putadot

on a vertical line if either of the adjacent cells is occupied — and vice versa.

written

in .

Japanese EngIISh ’ The remaining 11 numbers all specify shape data. They are treated as binary numbers and your printer manual should contain a diagram showing how they are translated into print-head patterns. You don't need to understand h.°W it works though, because the editor will work out all the numbers for you. Now let’s look at the editor program itself. When you Runit, there isadelay of about five seconds while the machine code routines are initialised. Then you'll see a grid and a crossshaped cursor displayed on screen. Use a joystick to move the cursor and press the fire button to place dots where you want them, or to erase existing dots. The cursor can be speeded up or slowed down by increasing or decreasing the value of SPEED in line 10. A dot can go in any cell or on any of the vertical lines, sothe grid isin effect 11 columns wide by 8 rows high.

However, because of the printer’s

tinlinegagct)’ $0leSgitgsecnzac?eioieiéega conjunction with other letters. Line1100 controls the print-out and you can easily change it to suit yourse|f_ After printing you get the chance to try the same character in a different mode without having to repeat the whole conversion process. When any menu is displayed, pressing the Escape key will return you to the Edit mode, with the re-designed character intact. All the likely errors the menu system makes are trapped, it hard to crash the program which is designed to be as user-friendly as posits own and in

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When you're satisfied with your artistic efforts, the new character data can be inserted into Program replacing or adding to the examples already there. Just make sure that you have exactly the right amount of data 12 numbers a character —to replace everything in the specified block. The new routine can now be incorporated into your own Basic software, are so that the new characters downloaded at the start of your program and can be used like the standard character set. I

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called Henry Leapster bent on getting to

schoolboy

school on time. To do so you must travel

across the town, through the missile base very and strange town this is the graveyard. When lwent to school only got the bus. must have been missing out on something when was a —

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function key pressing it again will restart the game, Select will turn the sound effects on or off and Option will toggle the title music on or off. The graphics are —

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exploded. On mission twol flew into a cloud and blew have clouds suddenly up become man's adversary? Enemy gunsfire bouncing strategically positioned bombs. When they reach the edge of the screen they deep within the enemy don't go past, but just installations—will allow you bounce down again yet to descend into the heart of another miracle of modern the base where the scientists are being held. technology. The cassette inlay boasts It's not an easy task and found this game rather diffi- the game has frantic arcade became cult to master although it action built in. frantic trying to figure out has a certain addictiveness. The graphics disappoint— why all the laws of nature had suddenly changed. being rather dull and The sound effects are colourless. don’t think the have ever absolutely terrible. A bleep programmers here and a hoop there are all heard of Display Lists or not a great deal Vertical Blanks. Versions for you get other micros are vastly when you consider that the Atari has four sound chanbetter. nels and not a keyboard There were also times when couldn’t figure out speaker like the BBC Micro. Airwolf is playable just why my helicopter

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lion dollar helicopter Airwolf, the latest in hi-tech kilIing machine.

You have been recruited by the Firm to undertake a dangerous rescue mission. Five important US scientists

have been taken hostage and are being held in a subterranean base beneath the Arizona desert. You must guide Ainrvolf through enemy defences —

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of land dotted rubble is quite still, save for a distant clanking which soon becomes a crescendo of straining gears, of giant treads crushing rocks into dirt. These are the pride of Germany’s armoured force the dreaded Panthers. THE expanse

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background—afeaturethatl really like. As to the game itself, imagine that you cut a tennis court, in half along the net, then place one half at the top of the screen and the other at the bottom. You

have a bat at each end moving left and right. Add a ball and build the sides of the court up so the ball can rebound off them and there. you have it. _

There are three levels of play. The first isjust right for the novice, but don't try level three unless you have the speed and reactions of Boris Becker. The object is to score

points, or goals, accomplished by making your opponent miss the ball seven

so it passes his bat. The game has all the features needed to make it a winner were it released as a

full price game. As a budget offering it’s wonderful value fOT money.

Next comes Phantom. play the part Of a professor Of astrophysics in interested psychic phenomena. You just happen to be in possessron of a nuclear accelerator. You arrive at Ye Olde Inn,and are met with a YOU

view that looks

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music press Return to switch it off. The sound and graphics are superb. Coupled with the overall addictiveness this budget game is a defii nite winner in my book buy it. Neil Fawcett

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four tools you require in the correct order and disarm the bomb before the timer reaches zero. However the TP1 is still roaming around and if it __

coupled with the wonderful background music add a splendid feel to the game. Phantom is also well worth buying on its own. Now on to the two new games on the compilation pack—-Countd0wnand Cannibals. The former is based on the exploits of Commander Zakarius Fitzwilliam — played by you.

Apparently, an American 852 bomber has lost one of its AZ Stratohawk bombs. It

has been located but unfortunately its casing has been damaged and it is leaking

radioactive particles. You have already sent

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Note the neat little trick which writes DOS.SYS to the disc. Unfortunately, this does not work with the DUP.SYS file. The graphics fill option is slightly more involved, but all will become clear when you understand why certain actions are necessary. The easiest way to explain this is to describe Turn to Page 20 > 10 REM PROGRAM 11 2g REM SOFTHARE SOLUTIONS 35 MM x10 COLOUR FILL DEMO 1,9

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use Plot and Position to indicate the and bottom left points of the Shape, it does not matter if the left edge is not pre-drawn on the screen. Similarly, since the colour fills from left to right, any existing bottom edge will be overwritten by the X10 process.

what happens when the Atari is told to fill a pre-drawn shape with colour. Colouring begins at the top left corner of a shape and continues horizontally until it hits the right hand boundary of the shape. it then drops down a line and, beginning at the left edge, repeats the process until it has finished colouring the last line. Before we can begin colouring we must tell the computer where on the screen tO start and where to stop, and which colour we want it to use. These three instructions should be executed in the correct order to avoid unpredictable results: 0 De?ne the top |e? point by using the Plot command. . D 3. f' ”‘e th 9 b .°. tt 0 m e ft p°'” t b V usmg the Posmon command. 0 Define the fill colour by poking the colour into register number in the form Poke address 765

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4 From Page 37 will produce an adequatevoltage and will last about 20 hours before they need recharging. Even a 9v PP3 type will give several hours continuous lis-

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reverse these connections, nor to let them touch each other when your gadget is plugged in to the computer. With this method you will need to de-couple the power supply, otherwise all you’ll get is an unpleasant

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Apparently they feel the market isn't profitable enough for them to continue supporting. So, where does that leave the average 8 bit owner? HOW can he get the games

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NEIL FAWCETT takes a look at how American 8 bit users are farmg compared to thelr UK counterparts

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ately wants? To whet your appetite et’s ta k e a look at some hardware and software products available in the USA and where possible give addresses and phone numbers of the distributors. Some problems arise when buying hardware from the States and the major one concerns the voltage of US electrical equipment. In the UK we employ a 240 volt system, whereas the Americans use 115 volts. So if you buy an lndus GT disc drive as a replacement for your old 1050 you'll have problems. Also the British mains frequency is 50Hz but in the US it’s 60Hz, which can upset timing circuits. Luckily it’s not too difficult to modify, or scratch build, your own power supply. And if this is too com— plicated a local electrical shop could do the job for a small fee, say around

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if you’ve bought the new XE Games System you will have received a free cartridge containing Flight Simulator ll. Now Sublogic, the master of aircraft simulations, has brought out several new scenery discs which add to the enjoyment and playability of this superb program. You have a number of choices, so I recommend you write to the Sublogic

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For a cost of $89.95 (around £65) you get a small white box, headset, connecting cables, program disc and documentation. Also included on the disc is a game of Blackjack — or Pontoon as we call it which uses voice recognition to understand your commands.

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Corporation, 713 Edgebrook Drive, Champaign lL 61820 for more information on its products. If you’re into sport simulations you’ll love World Karate Championship from Epyx. An excellent piece of music accompanies the superb graphical representationof the oriental martial arts. Fighting in several locations around the world you have to defeat your opponents in a flurry of moves before you can be crowned champion of the world. There is a similar game already available—internationalKarate—but it doesn't appear to be the same as World Karate Championship. The music is different and don’t remember international Karate having as

m The games market in America seems as strong as ever. Over the years l have played several chess simulations on myAtari, but never havelseen one as good as Chessmaster 2000 by Electronic Arts. It offers a superb 3D perspective of the board and plays a really mean game. As you can see from the screen shots, it's graphically superior to any other chess game you’ll see on any 8 bit micro today. Packed with a multitude of features it will keep you happy for months. Priced at $25.99 (£19) you can get it from CMO - same address as for the lndus GT disc drive.

many locations.

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at $18.99 (around £12). That’s knockout value for a game of its quality. MicroProse has put together a trio

its

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the Atari. Top Gunner gives you allthe excitement of Hellcat Ace, Mig Alley Ace and Air Rescue. The first two are familiar to me but the last is a mystery. Apparently you take the part of a chopper pilot who has to rescue a team of trapped archeologists in North Africa. Atwo dimensionalthirdperson view is used to display the

treacherous underground labyrinth. For more information write to MicroProse Software, 120 Lakefront Road, Hunt Valley, MD 21030 or telephone

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When contacting the companies mentioned above please tell them you read about the products in Atari User. You should allow up to a month for delivery of anything you order over—

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——————-—Moilbog THANK you for the superb article in the June 1988 issue ofAtari User about the foreign language tutorial programs for the Atari 8 bit. Unfortunately, they are only available on tape and I only had a 1050 disc drive. after paying my lose, SQ Atari dealer a VISlt, [bought an XC' 12 cassette deck together With French and aGterman languaiele coursesf priceo averyreasona

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the classified section of Atari User about somebody sellin Atari hardware, I went found to see them. I was interested/"n buying the PR Connector by 109 becauselwas in the process of bu in g a Star LC—10 printer.y As well as this the adverriser was selling the AtariWriter Plus p,ro 9 ram and Print Shop, I '

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titles I had never seen before. My dad gave me an extra £3 to go With my pocket money and I bought a pack of four games for £5. So, all you other Atarians out there, gist down to the

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Back’ng

. ,30 an, ts brilliant, stupendous but unfortunately under. . rated. It has been demeaned for its poor 388”: and for the . . lack of support it has had over the years in the UK. Usually when entering into a conversation of this nature with another computer owner — you know the types, — BBC Micro, Commodore, Amstrad and so on —I beintol as em y tm e pe r. g But no more. I have recently obtained Turbo Basic — readily available in the public domain — and I am very impressed with it. Not only is it a correctly structured programming Ianguage, it also has a compiler program which will compile TB ?les and old Atari Basic programs as well. So with Atari backing the games scene and such a wonderful program as Turbo Basic available free, the future looks healthier — doesn’t it? — Stephen Pratt,

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games

be the start of better things for the Atari 8 bit micro. And maybe it will be given some credit for its quality and ahead-of—its-time design. As to your reference to Turbo Basic, we at Atari User are interested to know how many of our readers have this superb programming language.

console and the re-

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