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around with several experimental food additives and have they caused trouble. Of

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scrolls from left to right. By splitting the screen into four parts and moving them at different speeds the prohas given the grammer game a feeling of depth. your The an 50 areshiphis t e orlglnadesigndof enemy craft one of them reminded me of a flying whale. ifound the graphics quite presentable and the sound effects rather good. The title musrc is a superb, Jelly piece and really got my foot —

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your lasers vessels.

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after only a few goes. Little Devil is a character trapped in Hades. The only way he can escape everlasting torment is to release the lost souls which are floating around in a state of limbo.

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to create

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game. The graphics are well implemented and the sound effects reasonable. When first released at full price several companies banned it. I can't see why, and I don’t think it has any links with the occult or horror. The final game is Laser Hawk. Basically this is a

helicopter shoot-'em-up

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If you cast your minds back to last month you’ll remember I said I was going to talk about a game called lnfiltrator. It’s a stunning graphical adven— ture which is currently only available in America — even though versions on other 8 bit micros have been here since the early part of 1987. The scenario revolves around the exploits of Johnny McGibbits, super

NE'L FAWCE'l-r takes another look at the products avallable for Amerlcan 8 blt users _

LOOKED last month at American hardware and the problems of importing it into the UK. This time want to concentrate on the difficulties you can face when trying to get good quality games for your Atari

Red Rat, Activision and Alternative spring to mind immediately. Luckily most of these software houses have decided to continue producing games and they are waiting for Atari’s new support for the 8 bit. This is coming in the shape of a large number of ST game conversions due to be released very soon. Atari’s plan is to once again flood the market with superbly written games just like in

8 bit.

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Infiltrator.

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month's mixed bag of technical and not-so-technical queries, ranging from screen output redirection to disc storage problems. Let's start off with a letter from Mr A.H. King from Rye in East Sussex, who writes: On a recent trip to the USA I spotted a bargain I thought too an 300)“, XF557 disc good to miss drive and XMM302 modem _ all for the equivalent of £104. / didn't want the modem, so the store kindly swapped it for a Flight Simulator // cartridge. Because ofthe difference in TV systems, / also bought a shopsoiled colour monitor for £40,

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My problem now is compatibility. Our famj/y already has two 800XL and 1050 drive systems with which we are all extremely satisfied. My new American hardware, which uses a 170V transformer, works better than either of the British machines. For example, the arti?cial horizon display on Flight Simulator l/ is ill-defined on the UK system but shows a nice crisp blue and green instrument display on the US monitor.

lboughttheAmericansystemsolely for the XF551 drive, thinking it would work with my UK standard 800XL but it doesn't. The opposite does work though a UK 7050 drive with the -

240v-110v converter. As you know, the

two.major problems with imported equipment are the differences in

mains voltage and frequency and the fact that America uses a different television system called NTSC — which is not compatible with our own PAL versnon. One th'ng

Wthh might help is to buy separate UK 240V transformers from Atari UK, or order them through your local dealer, in the unlikely event that your problem lies with the mains .

itselfThis W0U|d allow you tO plug the American DFOdUCt — With the excep-

supply

tion Of the monitor directly into a normal UK mains socket. Other than that, the drive should work fine with a British 800XL. contacted the people at Atari on this one in case they had come across any difficulties, but the only comment they could add was that the drive’s operating system rom chip should really be replaced with a UK verSion for timing reasons. —

—

I’m a little puzzled by this one too. From your letter you seem to have done everything right bought an —

NTSC monitor and used all the American products with an additional

trace or single-step the machine code program using the TandScommands on the resident debugger. Since so much information is supplied for each instruction it would be much easier on the eye iflcou/d monitor the various registers via the printer instead ofthe screen—ratherlike havingacommand SUCh 35-'

or.

If this is not directly possible, a routine to allow me to dump a full screen of information to the printer would suf?ce. Do you have any ideas which might

help?,

0 Thanks for your letter

and I’m glad

Recently I have started learning 6502 assembly language programming on my 800XL with the old Atari Assembler/Editor Cartridge. When using the assembler, and

to say there are in fact two fairly simple ways to print out the text from the Assembler/Editor or indeed any other language. Firstly, if you happen to use SpartaDos with your disc drive you can just type PRINT P: from the main Dos prompt. This will cause all screen text to be sent to both the screen and the printer—orto whatever device you specify. After entering this at the Dos level, just type CAR and you're back in the assembler, with echo mode still activated. Alternatively you can divert all the computer’s output to the printer. This

having alreadycreatedandassemb/ed a program, there is a useful facility to

T"’" to Page 20 >

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American 800XL. Another peculiarity is that my Flight Simulator 1! discs — originally purchased in the USA will not run on my American system, although 99 per cent of our other programs work ?ne. I’m very confused!

prObIems

W|LLEY

A SSGmbler pr'ntOUt-7 Next

letter from Gerry Bowles from

Athlowe lreland.

'”

County Westmeath,

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October 1988 Atari User 19

Programming

4 From page 19 such as all output text prompts, listed lines, trace output and

means

—

so forth

will not show up on the screen, but are sent to the printer instead. Your own entries via the text editor will still show up on the screen, but suspect that this won’t worry you. To accomplish this, first enter the debug mode by typing BUG, then look into the OS at location $E430 bytyping D E430. The last two hex numbers on the ”he Wi” be CA a”? FEfO' —

necessitating four separate files and four fi/enames for each page, which is rather cumbersome. Is there any way to savea full screen of text as one file, or am lapproaching the problem in the wrong way?)

0 By the

sound of it you have slightly misunderstood the way the file handling system works on an 8 bit Atari. assume your output routine looks something like this: I

operating sys800X_L,hbut|mod1ified tems IS. mlg tatert Anyway, whatever the final two

numbers are, you need to place them into locations $346 and $347. You must make sure that you dothis using just one store instruction, or the com.. puter Will try to use a half-modified a ddress and will most p robabl crash. Y In the case of the assembler/editor the .

a/termemorycommand is C, standing for change memory contents. For example:

m ”9

OPEN

#1,8,0,“D:F1Lsi.txr #1;“ 120 “m M

byte string .|n_thisr|1l$ri's a t e t e taining "i360 ormation from cornscreen. Infact, Will send 960 bytes this °f “mm the We bl” your Pf9b'em really lies With the INPUT routine. If you try to list the file Via Dos — by selecting File_Copy and copying the file you have just created to E: you Willsee that it is allthere. So why cant, t it back n t 0 th e 3 t ”ng usmg mlgugl'e#1,A$ ? .

Th 3 answer l'"35 '” t h '"p“" b U ff e' area used by the operating system. In order to use INPUT the file system _e

E430

must transfer

This will display the contents location $E430 m the form: -

bytes of data into a looks for a carriage return character to tell it the

temporary buffer while it

YOU

should then enter:

GET

13”

FOR

hOpe one Of these that. methods WI“ solve your problem.

Simple

Te)“ scree“ save:

Slightly simpler Question from Mr J_ Doherty from London who asks: have a 703XE with a 1050 disc drive and have written a lengthy

‘l

word

processor

program

after

teaching myse/fAtari Basic. The objectofmyprogram is to runa club newsletter, prepared using my wordprocessor—in 40 columns—and to save screens as pages of text on disc. These would then be mailed to

members for re-loadingandperusal. It would also serve as a simple word processor for fun use. lneed to save a complete screenfu/ of text, 960 characters, as one page and as one file on a disc. However, it seems that with PR/NT #7;A$ you can only save abouta quarter ofa screen, 20 Atari User October 7988

168

READ

BYTE:

DATA

104

see

104 104 170 32 I 86 , 228 ’

132,212,160Z0,l§2,2i3,9g 100 LET CHAN=1: LET SIZE=960 110 LET ADDRESS=ADR(A$) 120 OPEN #CHAN,4,i/i>:FILEi.TXT" 139 CIOBASE=832+(CHAN*16) 140 LET COHHAND=7 153

ADDHIZINHADDRESS/ZM)

16“ ADDLO‘ADDRESS‘ADDH1*256 170 312111= INT(SIZE/256) 135 SIZLO=SIZE-SIZHI*256 190 POKE CIOBASE*2,COHHAND

20. POKE CIOBASE+4,ADDLO 210 POKE CIOBASE+5,ADDHI 22g poKE CIOBASE+8,SIZLO 230 POKE clOBAsBLSIZHI 240 ERRCODE=USR(ADR(MCS),CHAN*16) PRINT "2550 Fl'Ol‘ IF"EERRT§(C)gIEE>1E11T:EN : ; 260 BYTES=PEEK(CIOBASE+8)+

290 PRINT

I REM

HCS(I,I)=CHR$(BYTE)

”Early End-Of'FT'le": 28' CLOSE #1

1:1 T0 960 #1,CH: A$(I,I)=CHR5(CH)

150 PRINT A3:

to divert output to the printer. It's

“us

PEEK(CIOBASE+9)*256 27“ IF BYTES<>SIZE THEN

igabég5i$iifii?,"nzmet.txr' 11g 125

—

“QM“ smng ”p

”1

RE" Line

zgt?ozé?jpigei;

BUG

"55W” W DI” “WW: 2!A$(1)e"“: “WWW the 3?

PFObab?Y

This is slightly more because you must first find the memory ADDRESS of the string, which must already have space for 960 characters. Program II shows how this can be done, and the machine code routine could easily be used for other applications of CIO data transfer. memory.

complex

the results

END

gzzzrge?iztzgtes grlioigh?s’73eéld

Program I: Reading 960 characters using the GETcommand

current string is complete. Unfortunately this buffer area is located at $580 and is only 128 bytes long. In some cases this will extend another 128 bytes into page 6 — up to $67F but this stillwon’t be enough for your program and you’ll receive an Error —

137—Record truncated. There are two solutions to this problem. The first is rather slow, and involves using the GET command, which reads a single character at a time for each of the 960 characters, storing each as the next character in a string. This method is shown by Program I. The alternative is to use the Binary Get command, which is not directly supported by Basic and so requires a small machine code routine. This will allow you to read 960 bytes of data from a file directly into

usmg

If you haven’t yet worked out how to get all 960 bytes of data from the screen itself into the string, you 03" use the LOCATE command for eaCh Of the 40 by 24 character positions. Each then be placed (”to the character can string and finally PRINTed to disc. I've written a simple example of this technique as Program l”-

1“ 2“

iii

”I”

A$(960) 0: PRINT "TEST

GRAPHIES

SCREEN"

if);

5:3 T0 23 129 FOR X;0 To 39 130 LOCATE X,Y,BYTE 11.| A$(1,1)=CHRS(BYTE) 150 LET I=I+1 160 NEXT x 17“ NEXT Y 18“ POKE 82,0: RE" Left 19“ GRAPHICS 0: PRINT As

2”

”all!”=B

END

Program

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A October 1988 Atari User 27

“?

his BaS|c by showmg you how to your programs correctly

LEN GOLDING series

structure THIS month we bring together all the

learned

far, techniques complete Basic game. To show how it’s done, we'll dissect the arcade shoot-'em-up listed on the following pages, which incorporates a joystickcontrolled missile base, a randomly moving target and two types of so

contmues

background pattern of dots to prove that the objects can move across a playfield without disturbing it. You can easily replace

subroutine

with

one

this that draws a

more inspiring background, using PRINT#6; COLOR and PLOT. Just

remember to keep the gun track horizontal line 19—clear. Line 40 draws the gun at its central position, then line 50 calls a subroutine to print the initial values for HITS and LIVES, which were set at line 20. Line 60 jumps into the target —

missile.

54-

background scene without disturbing it and the program includes sound, colour and explosion effects, with full

-"3

£5

Yes

to move the

“We”

‘

‘2'.’

either target or gun is hit you get a full-screen explosion which wipes out any missiles still in flight. Because of the homing and dodging features, you have to keep moving to stay alive and stand any chance of hitting the target. If

move 9“" " ”New”

apd

Move target '

_ '

Launch orrnove

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Let’s look at the game in detail. Line contains four labels names which are used to replace numeric constants. All four labels represent COLOR num-

Take Did

—

“re

Yes

am"

GREEZHE?

bers, which identify a particular coIour/character combination. For example: 42 is an orange star and 118 is a yellow exclamation mark. The advantage of a label is that it makes it easy to experiment with alternative values. For example, if you’d prefer the target to be a blue cross, just change the label’s value from 42 to 171. Whenever the program encounters a reference to the a

°"'

?x?éj E‘é’ ,~1

“time

other.

target, it will now use

-"_~

*z'-'~;Zf LE

on-screen scoring. Your missile base — gun for short — moves horizontally along the bottom of the screen under joystick control, firing missiles at a target that appears and disappears randomly. The target also shoots at you and if the two types of missile meet, they will destroy each

felo-

’4‘

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Launch PPM"? 9“,,",:",‘;§:‘.':¢,35

Take

Yes

3,323.3",7, anvthing’

am"

blue cross.

This is a

major advantage over raw numbers, and meaningful names are a lot easier to follow than cryptic figures. The table overleaf lists all the labels and variables used in the program together with their functions. Lines 20 to 60 set up the initial without a text screen, in Graphics

Any

@l B

\’

N°

k'§

window. Most of the work is done by subroutines, which break the task down into simple blocks. This keeps the main line code uncluttered and much Slmpler to understand. The subroutine at 780 draws a

/ .

—

22 Atari User October 1988

Figure

the ma’" Simpli?ed flow chart showing

l°°p

5‘

fie/£4 4 a” ,

_ .

‘

————————P subroutine, skipping the

movement

first two

ition until it hits you. This means that the various movement routines have to be interwoven. To do this in mainline code would

lip

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r/ .

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Calculate new Slanliig position

Enern No

Start subroutine

missulein ?ight?

Calculate posilion home in on (gun’s 20urremposii“ ion j

Yes ~

Charac'e'

next D ni'such

'“

ll COf‘Cf-lals

Launch new enemy missile

—

‘

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—

ttha'ctkginggmg

‘

—

new

during initialisation.

“pf-t\\'l ?f-;"?i_. A a}

..“

is a

V-

. t

The line ment reads

we saw

target, as

—

‘

’

0° ,‘

plotting the original background

character over it. Then it prints

(

' .

Q\ (

next statement in our main loop 90 jumps to the gun movesubroutine at line 280. This the joystick and uses a Boolean routine to calculate the gun’s next position. We’ll be talking about Boolean expressions in detail next month, 80 jUSt treat line 300 as a “black box” for now. Line 130 moves the gun along its horizontal track. Since this is an otherwise blank line, we don't need to waste time checking and storing Turn to Page 24 b

ing at line 190. This produces a short bleep and erases the current target by

simplified flow chart showing how the main loop works in principle. Decision points are shown as diamonds, and unconditional actions appear in rectangular boxeS, as we’ve explained previously. Subroutines are indicated by a new a box with double lines for symbol its vertical borders. Line 80 starts by decrementing

—

makes it much easier to add extra fea-

tures. Figure

move more or less simultaneously you’ll want to dodge the missile while it’s in flight, not be stuck in one pos-

‘

COUNT to see whether it is time to re-position the target. lf 80, the target movement subroutine is called, start-

calculates a random value for COUNT, which determines how long it will stay at that spot. When initialisation is complete we can startthe main loop—the section of code which moves all the objects around on screen. Everything has to

31317».

complicated and difficult to de-bug. instead we've adopted the subroutine approach again, which means that the main loop occupies just five lines, from 80 to 120. If anything goes wrong now, we can easily isolate the faulty section of code, and the use of subroutines be

lines because we don’t need a bleep, and there’s no previous target to erase. This routine draws the target at a randomly determined position, and

rogrommlng

B Yes

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/ it's

abgutvioariii

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EMFLAG

' ‘

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bl .

Qt;

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DO explosion effect and Update

_, 1

)

Set EMQt h backgrcunz chi-?ame, is concealed bv gun s l’nlssde Wh'Ch

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;

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\i"\\

character aiekgrounz It: IS concealed by gun (always 0)

yi'

EMQt

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Cancel flight of both missiles by tt'

scores

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tozero

, 55

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a \

,\§\

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Plat the baCkgmu'“, Cha'aCter concealed by the object that was hit by the Enemy missile (QUn's missile, or gun)

Plot enemy missile at next position

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Has

Dosmon

been dessiroyet?

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ll. Flow chart Figure showmg the enemy m/ss?e movement routine .

October 1988 Atari User 23

_—————————Programmi ?

<From Pagez3

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Va?"~egg-t

background characters—their COLOR

number is always 0. To move the gun we first erase it by plotting 0 at its current position (GPOS,19), then re-print it at its new position (GP1,19). The gun can't collide with anything when it moves, so there's no need for any hitdetection code. Back to the main loop, and line 100 calls the complicated subroutine which moves the enemy missile. This routine is shown pictorially at Figure ll, so you can trace its operation. To keep things tidy we've used severalvariables as flags. These carry on/off information from one part of the program to another. GMFLAG holds the current status of the gun’s missile reached

—

if it’s in

TARGET

"Umber

3”

F’EOduces

eXp.'°s'°”

not happy With the effect, just play around with this subroutine it won't affect any other part of the program. how understand Once you everything works you can startwriting

sound.

you

—

GMH GMV GMQ

f”

gun’s missile

TGH TGV TGQ

OUS

mum‘es and.te°h"'q“es

Ofllour

'" games

Holds 1 if gun’s m'lSSile currently in ?ight ' Otherwise holds 0 Holds 1 if enemy m' .

EMFLAG

Othemise holds

GFLAG 8 ROW

H0lds1ifgun has

l”Outine

TARGET

REM

150 POSITION

SHOOTING GAME

can use them to Simulate

mands

which Atari

possess. 24 Atari User October 7988

few com-

Basic doesn't

'-'

be pressed

g?régggrzéo I140LZgEGL§T=42:GUN=9A:GMSL=1:EMSL=118:RE 20 LIVES=3:HITS=0:GPO$=10:REM

180 REM TARGET MOVEMENT SUBROUTINE: 190 50000 0,60,10,8:REM Start the shor t bleep 200 COLOR TGQ:PLOT TGH,TGV:REH Erase t

Variable

30 GRAPHICS 17:608UB 7801REH Draii scre en background 40 COLOR GUN:PLOT GPOS,19:REH Draii gun

in initial

position

‘

1Tn'lt'lil T‘ln ?ring : arge a scores. 23 2333333:23: nitial position 'l

MAIN LOOP STARTS

arget by restoring background 210 TGH=INT(RND(0)*2|):TGV=INT(RND.(0.)* 10):REH Calculate Target’s new DOS'ltlo

220

courii=couui-1‘:ti counr<0 19mm Re-position Target

50503 requi

THEN

when

moveme

nt GOSUB

520:REH

Gun’s

Missile

ycle, if

THEN .

any

130

REM

11,0

POSITION

END

ooro 80:REll Next

left “HE:

230 COLOR TARGET:PLOT t Target

6,5:2

#6;"GAHE

new

backg

pOSiti

TGH,TGV:REH

Prin

240 COUNT=INT(RND(0)i30)+30:REM Calcul ate duration of this Target 25“ SOUND MMLEtREH End the short bl

OVER"

RETURN

270 REM GUN MOVEMENT SUBROUTINE: _ Read Joystick 280 S—STICK(0).REH .

lives THE

Store

328 LIVES>0

TGH,TGV,TGQ:REH

moveme

n 110

LOCATE

round character at Target’s

HERE:

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120

flight '

explosiOn

90 GOSUB 280:REH Gun lioveiiient 100 GOSUB 350:REH Enemy missile

0 Next month we’ll look at Boolean techniques, and explain how these very versatile expressions can replace many lines of complex /F...THEN .

curren?y

Current vaIUe retUrnscT h't'.°therViSe holds 0 bYJOVStick LOOp v ar'ab'es used in drawin9 b “Wow" Loon Variable us e d to Vary Voiume in e"DiOSion routine Loon Variable usgdt 0 set delay in

}

COL V

lSSlie

red

GMFLA G

REM

OW" deslgn-

HOME

Concealed

Current horizontal pos'ltlon of target Current vertical Dosit' Of target COLOR number of c araCte’ Concealed by target Current horiantal Do Of Current Vertical poSit-s't'on enemy missile Of Enemy missile COLOR number of cll?" araCte' COncealed by enerny missile I"ion-Zontal position of gun, When e?emy misSlie is launched

EMH EMV EMQ

3:1; ?zgr‘é‘égs?;syzzirng‘t’hénvzer 70 .

representing the gtm's

GP1

week' and

if?)

enemy Duration of target at it Number of targets de 3f current Desition royed Number of lives left Current horizontal pos'm0" Of gun Next horizontal'posm Current horizontal on Of gun Do of gun’s missile CUrrent vertical posit'smon Of gUn'S COLOR number Of missile c araCte'

UVES GPOS

(12225323125 iriltahsehSVSaytcvg gollroursl',‘

“

The §0LOR number re missile — a yellow ’V’ presentmg the

COUNT HlTs

the top of screen, been destroyed or hit the target. This flag can be read, or altered, at any point in the entire program, so an the subroutines can keep in touch with each other. EMFLAG monitors the enemy missile’s status, and GFLAG holds temporarily when the gun has been hit so that line 490 can take appropriate action before returning to the main loop. Now we’re back to line 110, which calls a subroutine to move the gun’s missile. The flow chart is almost identical to that in Figure II, though the labels and variable names will be different. If the target is hit, this routine sets COUNT to 0, so that line so will draw a new target on its next pass. Finally the main loop, line 120, checks to see if there are any lives left. If so, it re-cycles back to line 80; otherwise it drOps through to the end-ofgame routine at line 140, which is described in the REMs. The explosion subroutine at line 680 is Ca||ed if a gun's missile hits the or .. enemy missie

0 if it has

flight,

COLOR

The

mlsSiie—a Yellow'l'

EMSL

i‘ I

The COLOR number 3" Orange w representmgthe targetThe COLOR nUmber an Orange m representing the gun _

GUN GMSL

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EARLIER this year a computer magazine published a complete list of benchmark results covering a range of micros and languages. The Archimedes came out on top, but coming a close second was the ST. No real surprise there, but what language gave it this turn of speed, Fast Basic, ModuIa-2 or C? It was none of these. A public domain language called Fig-Forth took the honours. Atari 8 bit owners will be pleased to know this fast and versatile language is now available for their machines. It may not be able to match the speed of the ST version but it can knock spots off Atari Basic. Fig-Forth is one standard of the language Forth as defined by the American Forth Interest Group. Other standardsinclude Forth-79, Forth-83 and ponForth, the former being implemented on the Atari as Go-Forth. All are similar to each other in being COLIN BLACKBURN very different to most other Ian— guages. Two features central to its takes a IOOk at a design are the use of a stack and the idea of the word. The stack is the route for all process-

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it’s a last in first out data structure which will be familiar to machine code programmers. You can think of it ing

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pile of numbers with only the top one being accessed at any one time. as a

ca re

However, Forth provides various

ways to add, remove, do arithmetic on about these numbers verv and jiggle qunckly. The word is the basic unit of instruction, the core words of a Forth

system

are

normally defined

machine code but most other Words

are made UP themselves. _0f W°fd§ A program '" Forth ls merely a word

which performs the desired function and is built from words which in turn are built from other words which in turn We" perhaps YOU get the general drift An example of_ a word is shown in Figure I. If used it should be added to one of the editor screens. it Will automatically list the next screen —

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to th? one last listed.

Th'5 extensrbility makes Forth very powerful, as it allows the user to build his or her own language to suit a particular set of tasks. have already mentioned that FigForth is traditionally a public domain language, in fact versions are available in many PD libraries for just a couple of pounds. However, Pulsar Software is selling its implementation for £14.95. So what do you get for your money? A manual is the most obvious benefit, but there are also some useful extensions to the basic language such as a mouse handlerfor

standard ST mouse.

The language comes on a doublesided disc, the first containing the Ianguage kernel in an AUTORUN.SYS file and all the DOS 2.5 files you need. The second side contains 134 Forth screens, each taking up 1k. Most are empty but a few contain word definitions for the various extensions you require. Those of you with mathematical minds will have worked out that the disc is formatted in enhanced density. This is tough on 810 owners, myself included. initially thought this may just be a quirk of the review copy, but after I

40 Atari User October 1988

receptly Ofexpanded Forth,

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formerly avallable only a_s a pUbllc ‘

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borrowing a 1050 drive realised the language was designed with that device in mind. For instance, the disc copier, which is part of the extensions, copies 134 screens rather than the 90 which would be found on a single density I

disc.

This can be altered fair|y easily, but it is short-sighted on Pulsar’s part as the disc will not even boot on an 810 drive. The A4 format manual is 45

of duplicated typescript bound

sheets

one of those plastic slide-on spines_ it hasn't been written as a guide for the beginner, but is simply 3 systematic list of all the Forth words with a few appendiceson error messages and the like.

with

Rather hard on

beginners

I would have preferred a little more detail in some of the word descriptions, but the author has recommended a couple of excellent books which will help the novice get to grips with the language. I will repeat the recommendations for those of you who would rather read about the Ianguage in detail before buying. They are: The Complete Forth by Alan Winfield (Sigma Books) and Starting Forth by Leo Brodie (Prentice Hall

Books).

Although Forth can be used in an interpretive way, directly entering new words at the keyboard, for any real applications the words need to be saved to disc thus allowing them to be compiled. This means an editor is required and one is provided as one of the extensions. It is fairly simple but will allow screens to be entered. Unfortunately, the Forth wordsland

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R are redefined by the editor; in practice this makes testing programs which use them difficult. The editor

can be altered to get round this, and at the same time it can be improved by adding a few extra commands. But Pulsar should have provided a more comprehensive editor in the first place.

The screens have mentioned are made up of 16 lines of 64 characters each. This 1k block conveniently fills a screen on an 80 column system, but the Atari’s 40 columns make _full screens untidy Since the lines Ioodk wrap aroun One solution is’ to restrict lines to 32 characters, but this means that half the disc space is wasted. PMS?” I

programming practice is followed. Forth normally contains in-Iine assemblers for time critical definitions. Fig-Forth has the necessary words but contains no hint as to how the code should be entered. A small chapter in the manual would be very welcome since the textbooks on standard Forth are not usually machine specific.

Mouse or mice? The most interesting extension to the core of the language is the inclusion ofa mouse handler which r -

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Fig-Forth WP'Th buying? language Forth ls °?fta'"|V worthwhlle. Its speed, versat|I|ty and extensibility make it an excellent Ianguage for many applications. However, there are other versions avail— iztillgg'itzig’r’r ”Lid/[rivfnteolsuaslelselftlg able for the 8-bit machines. The ublic mouse._ Unfortunate/y thedocudomain Fig-Forth’s may notphave merrtatlon Wh'eh accompanies n ’,e manuals, but the discs tend to be a and ’f aren t ”the Spéfsef crammed with documentation screens you familiar W’th Forth you W’” have and useful—and not so useful—extenproblems. sions. I founf’ the mouse handler an On the other hand, commercial but £24‘9.5 Interesting Forths are also available.Go-Forth is a feattire out. However, 'f seemsalottopay 79 standard with numerous extras, you buy Forth and the handler for two advancededitors and a including package seems to give very technical manual costing around £315the

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complete Fig-Forth implementation with the necessary Atari-specific words added. Graphics, sound commands and disc I/O are all supported, but annoyingly there are no words for sending any output to a printer. The appropriate words could be added by anyone with some knowledge of IOCB commands, which are covered by the language, but a beginner may run into problems. There are a few minor bugs in the language. Occasionally the system seized up when deliberately tried to

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The colon begins all word de?nitions, N 5 he. name. The number one 's put on the top Of the stack. This variable holds the current screen number.

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For example: SCR=SCR+1

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take the top number off an empty stack. When the stack is empty an error should result if attempts are made to remove a value from it. This doesn't always happen with Fig—Forth. Also, screens with blank first lines

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dropped from the disc to make space for your own words. The screens containing these words are scattered over the entire disc, and it would have been better to have them all clumped at the lower screen numbers, allowing the rest of the disc to be used more easily by the programmer. Finally, the disc has some of the words necessary to turn the language into Forth-79. This is not complete and omits the word J, but again, words such as this are easy to add once you have got to grips With the language.

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Th|s month NEIL FAWCE I I casts a critical eye over several game cartridges

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IN the first part of this series took a detailed look at the VCS 2600 and explained what it was. Now that you are all familiar with its workings and have decided whether or not you I

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THIS excellent rom cartridge from Epyx gives you the chance to compete in a series of seven exciting winter sports. Designed to be played by up to eight people it can be turned into a truly international contest with each individual representing a different nation, but no two people can choose the same nationality. You can compete in pure speed events like skating or in speed-andcontrol events like the slalom, bobsled and Iuge. If these don't appeal you can 42 Atari User October 1988

test your digital dexterity on the ski or hot dog skiing. The nation that scores the highest points will take home the coveted gold medal. Once you have selected the number of players and their nationality you choose the event you want to compete in: Slalom, bobsled, ski jump, biathIon, speed skating, hot dog or Iuge. The object of the slalom is to make the best time down a course while weaving in and out of a set of gates marked by a pair of flags. Pressing the fire button starts your skier down the slope and you control his motion by moving the joystick left or right; this turning action can also help slow him down. Each time you miss one of the 36 gates you incur a three second time penalty. Avoid hitting any objects or persons — especially the trees, which hurt — or you will be slowed down considerably. All time penalties are added at the end of a run. As with the slalom, the two-man bobsled is a speed game. The idea is to negotiate a winding, twisty course in the fastest time possible. Don’t go too fast though or you will end up crashlng. You can control your sled round the tight, banked corners by mOVinQ left and right. To speed up the sled you have to bob the joystick up and down in a constant rhythm. You can_ monitor your sled speed by the speed indicator at the bottom ofthe screen—the wider the bar the faster you are going. The ski jump will demand your fullest concentration if you don't want to break your skier’s legs. A splitscreen shows your position and the

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mixing cross-country

must shoot as quickly as possible.

five second penalty is added for each target missed. Speed skating is the simplest of the seven events. Rattle yourjoystick from left to right in rhythm to build up speed

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points are awarded for the most original and complicatedjump made.l and

rattled the joystick like a madman in order to perform several sommersaults in a matter of seconds. The final event is the Iuge, basically a one man bobsled event. You have three tries to make it quickly and safely down the chute. The graphics and sound effects are — for a 2600 game — very good. What makes this cartridge great value for money is its playability. If you like Sport simulations give this one a try.

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AS with winter games, up to eight players can participate in this competition. Each can choose a different nation to represent. The seven different events are hurdles, swimming, skeet shooting, 100 yard dash, swimming relay, gymnastics and rowing. First comes hurdles, where you

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he is marked. Rememberthat you can move the hand that is in the air, so time your movements very

course

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carefully. The final event is the rowing. As with most of the other events you waggle your joystick from left to right to gain speed. This is another superb sport simuIation from Epyx. All the events are a pleasure to play and i spent hours to win a attempting — and failing gold medal.

like the hurdles, is a race against time. You gain speed by hitting the fire button on each down stroke, just as your swimmer’s arm reaches the water. Turn quickly at the end of the pool by tapping the joystick

left before you hit the wall. Time your and turns well and you'll splash home to victory. The 100 yard dash is another speed event. Runners line up on two parallel tracks, as in the hurdles event. When the gun goes, press fire and away goes your sprinter. By waggling your joystick from side to side you can keep strokes

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special sequences during his routine. The initial screen shows your gymnast ready to start his run at the pommel horse. Press the fire button to start your man running towards the he nears it press fire horse, and _as 39am to lnltlate a mount. Once mounted, your gymnast holds the pommel horse bars and circles the horse's axis in a -

rhythmic motion.

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YOUR assignment is very simple — annihilate the enemy and destroy all their vehicles. When you get to the mega fortress you must battle your way inside and blow it up. The main screen display is split into a number of sections. At the top is your score and at the bottom, running from left to right, a tally of grenades and lives remaining plus the level you

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quickly as you can. When you have done this the megafortress will be destroyed and you'll go on to the next level. Having completed all eight levels you start back at level one, but things will be a lot harder. At the beginning of a game you have three lives and an extra one is awarded for every 10,000 points. Although the graphics aren't very good the game play is outstanding. I full y en'o ’ ye d P la y in g Commando and recommend It to lovers of a good

shoot-’em-up.

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from Atarl World, mm Cartridges available 2600 6 h of! Here is a list of some Tel: 061—834 4941. Manchester M4 3DU. 11 Fennel Street, mania The Kid’s Controllerlhardwafe) frigate, H.E.R.O smurf ET. M ster River Raid Freeway Kung-FuAttgck Demon Ski” D_’Ve' Fife F’gh’,” Laser blast Atlantis Grand Prlx Enduro B ,n d 500 Beamridef 5);ng (”Jag/00m Ghostbusters Carnival Keystone Capers Seaquest Cosmic ark Moon Patrol Dragster Cent/pads Midnight Magic Pro-Wrestling California Games Nightmare Chopper Command Munch .

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because it is one of the most amusing children's games available. There are 10 levels of play designed to accommodate children Of all ages. In the first six games the child takes the role of Cookie Monster. Using the four arrows and cookie symbol -— which are printed on the overlay card — you must traverse a garden maze looking for cookies to eat. Eventually the mazes get harder and you have a time limit in which to complete them. After level six the child is the Cookie Kid, collecting cookies for a surprise party for the Cookie Monster. Unfortunately, every time he sees you pick up a cookie he will jump the garden fence and chase you. What you have to do is get to the cookie jar and place your cookie in it. This sort of game can be helpful in a

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”...thescreams ofthe crowd?gakethe arena as the title belt contenderscircle one another. Mad Dog makes the ?rst move smashing his fists into Skin Head’s chest who gasps for air, then retaliates with askin—cracking kick. “Mad Dog growls and grabbing from behind drags Skin Head across the ring whipping him around in an airplane spin. Letting go he ?ys into? the ropes and bounces back to meet

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1710 1720 1730 1760 1750 1760 1770

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POKE

HP2,0:RETURN POSITION 16,23:? #6;"GAHE OVER"; IF PEEK(53279)<>7 THEN RETURN IF STRIG(0)=1 THEN 1750

137,201 1900

17,208,239,96,0,206,8,6,2/o,1 65,19,106,176,6,238,8,6,238,8,6 1910 DATA 238,7,6,24,165,19,106,176,6, 206,7,6,206,7,6,238,9,6,24,165 1920 DATA 20,201,128,1AA,6,206,9,6,206 ,9,6,173,7,6,32,21+7,137,141,7,6 1930 DATA 173,8,6,32,247,137,141,8,6,1 73,9,6,32,247,137,141,9,6,96,201 1940 DATA 200,208,3,169,199,96,201,45, 208,2,169,46,96,169,0,162,0,157,0,148 1950 DATA 232,208,250,96,169,0,162,0,1 57,0,149,232,208,250,96,169,0,162,0,15

RETURN REH

DATA

FOR

BIRD ANIHATION

1780

DATA 104,169,7,160,195,162,136,32 ,92,228,96,238,148,137,173,148,137,205 ,13,6 1790 DATA 240,3,76,98’,22~8,174,0,6,189, 136,137,170,142,172,137,~169,0,141,148, .

137 1800

173,4,6,201,1,208,26,169,0,1 33,203,169,1A8,133,204,172,10,6,173,7 1810 DATA 6,141,0,208,174,172,137,32,1 49,137,238,10,6,238,0,6,173,0,6,201 1820 DATA 6,208,5,169,0,141,0,6,173,5, 6,201,1,208,26,169,0,133,203,169 1830 DATA 149,133,204,174,172,137,172, 11,6,173,8,6,141,1,208,32,149,137,238, DATA

DATA

1960 1970 1980 1990

DATA

2050

GOSUB

2060 2070

0,I#128,14,10

0,0,”

I:SOUND

1280:POSITION 16,23:?

"; COL=COL+1:IF

COL=12

0,150,232,208,250,96

ALL BIRDS HIT POSITION 16,23:? #6;"BONUS!!";

EL=4

2110 2120 2130 211.0

SPEED,5-LEVEL POSITION 6,23:? #6;LEVEL; COL=COL+1zIF COL=12 THEN COL=1

POKE

POKE 704,(COL*16)+10:POKE 705,(CO L+1)*16+12:POKE 706,(COL+2)*16+14 2150 POKE BIRDO,1:POKE BIRD1,1:POKE BI 3 RD2,1 2160 RETURN

2170 2180 2190

REM

2200 2210 2220 2230

RETURN

INCREASE SCORE

SCORE=SCORE+10 POSITION 33,23:? #6;SCORE; .

LEVEL/START

CHANGE

REM

GAME

LEVEL=1:HIT=0 POSITION

0,23:? #6;”LEVEL

2240

SCORE=SCORE+(LEVEL*100)-10:GOSUB

2250 2260

COL=1

THEN

POKE

IF IF

CONSOL=6

THEN

RETURN

CONSOL=5

THEN

LEVEL=LEVEL+1:D1

=10:GOSUB

1280

2270 IF LEVEL=5 THEN LEVEL=1 2280 POSITION 6,23:? #6;LEVEL; 2290 GOTO 2240

Transdisk

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6,173,6,6,201,1,208,26,169,0

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1840

DATA

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four

bestofthem, gamesandthe anium, didn’t even get a screen shot—pathetic! However, lam glad to see that Atari User is getting more game-biased with regularhints, tips andmaps. I think you should also includeahi-score chart, best music chart and have many

lot you ot off our chest, wasn't igl? Neal/Iv all the games you have mentioned have been reviewed in Atari User. And those that haven’t are too old for us to take a look at. If we dedicated more pages a month to games reviews we would lose out on pages for utility and And game programs. according to our reader survey, most of you use your com uter for ro ram-

ming anz otherpsegrlious

tasks. We try our best to keep up to date with reviews,and we can safely say that our

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end Up

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User.

And that WOUId upset an anUI l°t Of readers. As to our Involvement lh .

Atari games, W? do our best mu m the end “ls up to the software houses to make the" m'hds up whether or h°t a program IS gonng to be

SEE from several letters and news reports in Atari User that Atari UK is planning to SUPport the 8 bit

computer proper/y. / feel that Atari has left it a little late to help the lifespan of

the XL/XE micros. It is and always will be the best 8 bit computer to be sold in the UK. This may well be a bold statement, but you only have to take a look at the last 70 years to see

what/mean.

Since the first day the old 400

computer appeared in the High Street stores it has never had any advertising

behind it. Atari has never advertised the 8bit micro in any trade magazines or on War even in Atari User. Yet the com-

puters have still sold. Now why is this? Could it be that

the word soon spread about how well made theyarePA/llknow is that Atari has never lifted a finger to support the 8bit in the UK. So. here we are in the late 79803 and all of a sudden Atari is saying whata great little computer it is, let’s open some game centres for If this new

advertising

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happy

it. I have owned my old 800 for nine years now and I plan to own it for another nine. To finish off with l was

saga Of that Dadgy DOS .

New sectlon

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[THEM/E. a am the long ogg_ing sognething

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wondering if you can help me with a little bet / have witha friend. After looking through all the Atari specific publications / have come to the conclusion that you are the biggest 8 bit Atari magazine in the world. My friend says that you aren’t. Are you or aren’t you? — Kimberley

Jenkins, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. 0 Well Kimberley, you

masnu acéL/ire‘t hardwire. the it?lglewhgtappears nee 2,077 o access sevei/olu screens to perfoarm$77,755; the op

it.

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released.

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every month we would look at them all. NOW 0” to the other points you made. lf we included a best hi-score chart and a best music chart

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You_

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grammers.

review at least six games a month and give them a full page with loads of screen A

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on my

recent issues had so few as two or three reviews? There are many more games available than you

review. I have never seen reviews of International Karate, Eido/on, Scooter, Bel/blazer, Spellbound, Amaurote, Chimera or Koronis Rift. You should

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Choice Software cal/ed Commander. The tape has two games on it Tank Commanderand Submarine —

Commander. They are both very good games and / enjoy playing them very much_ My problem is that nearly every time

Itry to load

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. Unfortunatew Mark ' there isn t a definite solution to your problem. All we can .

recommend is that you have the heads of your tape deck cleaned. Also keep your serial I/O cable away from any mains leads. You couldtryfast-winding through your tape and then re-winding it to make sure the tape '5 tensmnedUnfortunately, tape decks are a unpred'mb'e med'um for storage more“Theey are use 3”? 3:9 e worse they get when it comes to |Oadln9-

THEREsa term over here ’” Australia for the Eng/”h, whinging pomm/es. Coming from Eng/and myself, / have always argued against this, _

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WAS very pleased with the article in the June issue Of Atari User abOUf US/ng HFM data ?les 0” word process— ors. Ilearneda lot about the way the Home Filmy Manager program is structured, and because Of this i have sent in $9776 modi?cations to 0 ”03 “ms Progfa/Tg grading/teal 10 ta 3 Info account for the marked I

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Budget-priced games

zeppell” hits the s p at IN the March 7988 issue of Atari User there was a superb article about _Zep_pel/n games. After reading It I prompt/y went out and bought them — Zybex and Speed Ace. They are two of the best games I have ever seen on the Atari 8 bit, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank Zeppelin for its great programs. Final/y, could you please .

tell me if it is planning to release any more games for . . the Atari.7 Kevm Cartlldge, Anlaby, Hull. —

Q We got in touch .

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Brian Jobllng — head of software development at Zeppelin and author. of the two games you mentloned—and passed on your kind comments. He told us that the company will be producing as many new games as possible for the 8 bit Atari. The next release, due any time, will be called Draconus see the article on Page 28 of this issue. —

THIS

LAST

TITLE

MONTH MONTH

(Software

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

GAUNTLET lex

Now re-released at a budget price, it is well worth the money. A classic with a Deeper Dungeons tape available.

AIR WOLF Encore

Translated from the TV programme. You are With a misston flying a helicopter.

ZYBEX

An excellent shoot-'em-up,

SPEED ACE

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

From the same stable as Cops an’ Robbers — a fun, budget-priced romp on the wrong side of the law.

GRAND PRIX SIMULATOR Code Masters

Theultimate in

LEAGUE CHALLENGE

As the football season gets into full swing you can take the role of the manager of a series of teams.

A Itantis 1

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Players PLATFORM PERFECTION US Gold

car simulators at stays the.front of its field. This can be played again and again.

Highest new entry this month from the company famed for Chuckie Egg. Well worth it for a simple blast ’em. in the kitchen sink, this drama has you drain while collecting a dubious bounty of goods. Based

avoiding the

of four oldish games originally released under the Datasoft label. Good value.

A compilation

QUARTETGOLD Red Hat

Another compilation but this time from Manchester based Red Rat. Includes Space Wars, Dreadnought, Little Devil and Laser Hawk.

SKY SKIPPER

An American game making its debut over' here, Watch out for the reView of this one in Atari User.

Parker

another budget title, but like most for the Atari nice, clean and excellent value.

ATARI SAFARI Illusions

Yet

MATTA BLATTA Firebird

can read Pie-released by Firebird you our reviewers opinion of this one in this issue of Atari User.

LEAPSTER

Alternative

if Great you.enj.oy jumping over cars and lorries while collecting items from open Windows.

TRANSMUTER Code Masters

Scrolling shoot-’em-up which is one of the very rare games written by a girl, Maureen Copeland.

TALLADEGA Top Ten

you love car games this is not the best of the bunch — budget quality With a price to match.

MONKEY MAGIC Alternative

Based on the TV programme Monkey —with you as the lesser deity who must succeed in his mission in ancient China.

DIG DUG

Originally an arcade block buster, has been available on rom cartridge for some years.

Atari

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than its

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